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Obama gambles on Syria

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Move delays action and could backfire if Congress rejects his call

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Saturday he will ask Congress to approve military strikes against Syria’s government, a risky step likely to delay action for at least 10 days that could signal broad popular support but also could end in rejection by the legislative branch. Obama’s surprise decision to go to Congress, and his somewhat defiant way of explaining it, were likely to ratchet up the tension in Washington and the nation, where Americans are skeptical about the mission. As he delivered his 10-minute statement in the White House Rose Garden Saturday, chants of protesters outside the gates could be heard. And even as Obama made the move toward engaging the people and their representaAP photo tives in Congress, the White House said the president would not rule out President Obama, with Vice President Joe Biden standing by, makes a statement about the crisis in Syria in the Rose Garden at the White House acting on his own if Congress fails to Saturday. The president abruptly announced he will seek congressional approval before launching any military action. give its consent. Congress is not scheduled to return to Washington until Sept. 9, and its debate is likely to take much of that week. Most lawmakers have refrained from taking any position on Syria but have been unusually unified in demanding more information and a chance to debate. Many members of the House of Representatives and Senate hailed JUAN A. LOZANO Assad this month that killed more than Obama’s move Saturday, though a few and RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI 1,400 people. But Obama said he wants Associated Press staunch supporters of intervention in Congress to debate and vote on whether Syria criticized the president’s willingto use force, and has said any possible ness to wait for a congressional debate. HOUSTON — Protesters around the strike would be limited. Obama announced the decision after world took to the streets Saturday to In Houston, which has a large Syrianexplaining his insistence that Syrian protest for and against a possible U.S.- American population, about 100 people President Bashar Assad’s regime face led attack on Syria, as President Barack lined up on opposite sides of a street in an consequences for any use of chemical Obama announced he would seek congres- upscale neighborhood to express opposAP photo weapons. sional approval for such a move. ing views on a possible U.S. attack. Rachel Lee Richards of New York “I have decided that the United States stands with opponents of a U.S. miliObama said the U.S. should take action “We want any kind of action. The world against Syria to punish it for what the tary strike against Syria as she and U.S. believes was a deadly chemical attack others protest Saturday at Times See SYRIA | 13A Square in New York. See RALLIES | 13A launched by Syrian President Bashar

Possible attack spawns rallies on both sides

Remember that lofty goal of all public school students being proficient in reading and math by 2014? Fuggedaboutit. Technically, the goal applied to students in grades three through eight and 11 — the ones required to take annual state standardized math and reading tests, but the rhetoric made it sound like it applied to all students, literally. The name of the law that set the goal was “No Child Left Behind.” Yet with the wave of a pen, or more exactly a federal waiver granted to Pennsylvania, all that disappeared last week. Ten years of chasing “Adequate Yearly Progress,” or AYP, ended, even if all the testing continues. When the state makes it’s annual public release of test results sometime next month, there will be no mention of AYP. The 100 percent proficiency goal is likewise kaput. Signed in January 2002 with bipartisan support from President George W. Bush and liberal icon U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, the law mandated annual testing nationwide and required the percentage of students scoring “proficient” or better rise steadily until hitting 100 percent in 2014. States could devise their own tests and decide what the percentage goal was for each year, but the feds had to approve. See NO CHILD | 14A

Luzerne County court system struggles to translate justice for all Court administrator: Three interpreters far from enough for caseload SHEENA DELAZIO

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District Judge James Dixon has seen an increasing number of Spanishspeaking residents pass through his office in Hazle Township each day, and he and others said more interpreters are needed to make court proceedings run smoother.

“It’s difficult, to say the least,” Dixon said. His observations have not gone unnoticed. Though there are 30 documented languages spoken in Luzerne County, court Administrator Michael Shucosky said, there are only three state-approved interpreters serving the county’s 300,000-plus residents. “We need qualified interpreters. There isn’t enough in the state,” said Shucosky, adding that at times English seems to be “a second language in

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Say what? District judge’s office bridges the language barrier

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District Judge James Dixon in Hazle Township accesses an interpreter by phone when there is a language barrier in his courtroom.

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HAZLE TWP. – Every day, District Judge James Dixon tries to overcome the language barrier. With a growing number of Spanishspeaking immigrants in the Hazleton area, Dixon typically needs translators on a daily basis for criminal and civil hearings. But, interpreters aren’t always available and the resources he has to use at times cannot be used for Comics 11B, 12B SPORTS: 1C Outdoors 12C BUSINESS: 1D

lengthy proceedings. Dixon, who was elected to the office in January 2012, said a majority of the cases he handles in which language is an issue — whether they be criminal charges, a landlord/tenant dispute or non-traffic citation — are Spanish. But Dixon has had hearings in which parties have spoken Polish, Ukrainian and Yugoslavian. Some district judges in the area,

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Area youth group gives hope in Florida Members volunteer at a nonprofit organization aiding children with life-threatening illnesses JON O’CONNELL

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SHICKSHINNY — The Town Hill United Methodist Church wants everyone to know about a fantastic Florida destination. But it’s not the one with the big-eared mouse. The Town Hill youth group in June volunteered for a week at Give Kids the World, a nonprofit organization helping children with life-threatening illnesses. “One of the families said how they love coming here because no one looks at them differently because they have a handicap,” said youth group member Sarah Shaffer who went on the trip with her parents and brother. She said there was a sign in front of every resort villa that

read “welcome home,” greeting families as they arrived to their lodging for the week. Give Kids the World is run almost entirely by volunteers and ranked by Charity Navigator as one of the most efficient nonprofits in the country, boasting it uses only 8.3 percent of donations for administrative costs. It was founded in 1989 by hotel magnate Henri Landwirth who spent most of his teen years in Nazi concentration camps. The resort, called The Village, is situated between Disney World, Universal Studios Florida and SeaWorld. Families from around the world, identified by groups such as the Make-A-Wish Foundation, stay free of charge and get free tickets to see the

nearby amusement parks. Town Hill Church Pastor Bethany Wood said she found The Village while looking for volunteer opportunities near Disney World, hoping to answer the question “How do you instill in people a desire for service?” The Florida tactic worked, she said. Three non-church members volunteered with them. “The whole thing is to teach them … that if you do small things, it’s going to change someone’s life,” Wood said. Shaffer is a sophomore studying to be a teacher at East Stroudsburg University. For her, the trip went deeper than simply stirring oatmeal and serving hot pancakes in the morning. It opened her eyes to human resilience and people’s desire to be happy despite the

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Faith Rierson, Mike Pawlik and Kelby Truchun listen as Sam Shaffer talks last Sunday about his experience volunteering at Give Kids The World, a nonprofit resort that fulfills the wishes of children with life-threatening illnesses and their families.

worst possible prognosis. “It was almost like these kids knew that this could be the last month of life,” she said.

“They’re the more happy ones because they have to enjoy everything they can before it’s gone.”

Take the cannoli, and have some fun Festival-goers line the sidewalk Saturday morning at the La Festa Italiana in downtown Scranton. The annual event gave Courthouse Square the flavor of Little Italy once again, starting on Friday night. Food, fun and all things Italian could be enjoyed. And if that wasn’t enough, a 5K run was held Saturday morning and fireworks capped off the night. The Festa continues today and concludes on Monday with a cannoli-eating contest.

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POLICE BLOTTER DORRANCE TWP. — Butler Township Police Officer Timothy Jacobs was injured late Friday night when a police car was hit as he and another officer were about to leave a traffic stop on Mountain Boulevard, state police said. Jacobs suffered a severe head laceration when he was struck by the mirror of a Kia Sedona that sped through the scene, state police said. Jacobs, 42, was treated and released from Hazleton

General Hospital. According to state police: Officers from Butler and Wright townships and Freeland were clearing the scene of a felony vehicle stop. The police vehicles had on their emergency lights. Jacobs was standing at the driver’s side front of a Wright Township police car as officer Michael Marshall had the door open to get into the vehicle. The Kia driven by Pragnesh Pathak, 52, of Mountain Top,

allegedly came through the area at a high rate of speed and struck the door, knocking off the Kia’s mirror that hit Jacobs in the head. The Kia fled the scene and was later stopped, police said. No charges have yet been filed. WILKES-BARRE — City police report the following: • A West Ross Street home was reportedly burglarized around 3 a.m. Saturday. The victims told police the unidentified thief or thieves took an XBOX 360 and

PlayStation 3 video game consoles, cash and a black duffel bag. • Police say they discovered Grant Collins, 41 of Coal Street, was wanted for failing to appear in Luzerne County court for a simple assault charge. Collins was transported to Luzerne County Correctional Facility. • A white 2001 Dodge E150 with a license plate number HTW-1461 belonging to Catholic Social Services, was reportedly taken around 11:30 a.m. Saturday

from a parking lot at the organization’s office near Academy Street. • A Plains Township man was arrested on DUI charges when officers found he was too intoxicated to perform field sobriety tests around midnight Friday on East Main Street in the city’s Miners Mills section, police said. Matthew Klem, 34, was driving a car that hit the curb, police said. Officers say they found him standing near his car, which had been left in the roadway.

PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS The following real estate transactions were recorded in the Luzerne County Office of the Recorder of Deeds for the week of Aug. 26: • Howanitz Family Trust to Andrew D. Reilly and Tanya L. Gilbert, 574 Rutter Ave., Kingston, $215,000. • Charles Oliver to 146 Charles LLC, 146 Charles St., WilkesBarre, $53,500. • Dolores Strish, Leonard R. Gawelko and Marilyn Morio to Joseph M. and Faye A. Kirkpatrick, 1484 Murray St., Forty Fort, $110,000. • 3 Springs Water Co. to Capa Holdings LLC, 1800 Pine Run Road, Laurel Run, $600,000. • John and Karen Thomas to Gaurang S. and Jaiminiben G. Patel, 55 Alexander Blvd., Rice Township, $295,000. • Joseph and Mary D’Amico to Thomas Buckler and Michelle D’Amico, 17 Law St., Pittston, $180,000. • Fred M. and Patricia M. Yamrus and Mary E. Carey to M.A. Carey Realty LLC, 147 Division St., Kingston, $95,000. • Estate of Eugene A. Centi to Caroline Blanchette, 26 Antrim Road, Yatesville, $112,000. • Maryann Theresa Bonsavage Baltes to Judith A. Barone, 534 Dennison Ave., Wyoming, $124,500. • Betty B. and Sally L. Miller

to Anthony S. Bevilaqua and Denise S. Luikart, 408 Wyoming Ave., Wyoming, $112,000. • Estate of Nettie Buchola to Amy Andrejko, 26 Wilson Drive, Wilkes-Barre, $75,000. • Nancy and Dale R. Campbell to Marlene and David S. Kluger, East 42nd St., Dallas Township, $190,000. • Estate of Donna M. Sakowski to Melissa L. Smith, 1230 S. Main St., Hanover Township, $53,300. • Estate of John B. Petrovich to Ronald J. Minnick, 222 W. Keifer Ave., Hazleton, $124,500. • Estate of Bernard S. Zavaskas to Sterling Kratzer, 147-149 Old Ashley Road, Hanover Township, $70,000. • Timothy J. Muldowney to G & J Brothers Realty LLC, 178-180 Austin Ave., Wilkes-Barre, $74,000. • John E. and Linda L. Mihalaki to Paul J. and Nichole M. Bielecki, 55 Schwingen Road, Rice Township, $165,000. • Shivkrupa LLC to MOI Enterprises LLC, Sullivan Trail, Exeter Township, $300,000. • Estate of Mary E. Murphy to Langcliffe Presbyterian Church, 901 Main St., Avoca, $60,000. • Cindy Phillips to Ronald A. Czerniakowski Jr., 128 E. Saylor Ave., Jenkins Township, $56,500. • Landtec LTD to William J. and

Charlene Poulos, 8 Mara Lane, Plains Township, $189,900. • Travis L. and Carly L. Sterner to John Nebzydoski, 4 Sandys Way Lane, Dorrance Township, $155,000. • Wells Fargo Bank to Robert J. Altavilla, 38 Abbott St., Plains Township, $105,000. • Betty Johnson to Gary Farr, 2108 Slocum Road, Slocum Township, $130,000. • Estate of Marjorie I. Haueisen to Jeffrey J. and Lisa A. Gaydoscik, 4 Crest Road, Hazle Township, $147,000. • Dorothy A. Shamany to Joseph R. Boretski, 211 Shayna Drive, Hazle Township, $205,000. • Kenneth S. and Shelley E. Buntz and Robert J. Ritz to Philomena D. Simeti, Hanna Street, Black Creek Township, $309,900. • Luzerne County Sheriff and Jacquelyn M. Nicholson to R & A LLC, 315 Bluebell Court, Exeter, $76,700. • Anthony M. and Carmine Carrato and Ann D. Shastay to Rogelin Medina Pena, 911 Peace St., Hazleton, $135,000. • Matthew Ford and Shannan Hosler-Ford to Jennifer Dryfoos, St. John’s Road, Butler Township, $119,500. • Estate of Julie Ann Tafuni to Michael J. and Susan E. Ritsko, 200 Oak St., Freeland,

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$112,500. • Luzerne County Sheriff and Ravinder Singh to R & A LLC, 27 Sunnyside Drive, Butler Township, $135,000. • Mary M. Delucca to Justina Lorenzo, 500 Allen St., West Hazleton, $115,000. • Healey Development Company Inc. to Matthew J. and Mary Ann Shugdinis, Westminster Road, Jenkins Township, $260,000. • Anthony W. and Stacey L. Delayo to James Bond, 221 Cannery Drive, Larksville, $205,000. • Estate of Richard L. Grivner to Michael J. Nace, 179 Lawrence St., Wilkes-Barre, $79,787. • John E. Figler to Mary Jayne Pikas, 24 Maple Drive, Swoyersville, $127,000. • Wells Fargo Bank and Homeward Residential Inc. to Marc C. Nespoli, 513 E. Second St., Salem Township, $74,498. • Federal National Mortgage Association and Fannie Mae to Dawood Al-Salem, 1108 Susquehanna Ave., West Pittston, $105,000. • Susan Callaway to Steven and Mary Beatty, 541 Woodland Road, Bear Creek Township, $115,000. • Robin A. Sorber to Scott Danouski, 66 Rood Ave., Harveys Lake, $129,000. • Samuel T. and Melissa M.

Smith to Anthony Coletti and Holly May, 4 Harris Pond Road, Ross Township, $155,500. • Locust Real Estate LTD and Richard S. Cohen to Rare Hospitality International Inc., Bear Creek Blvd., Wilkes-Barre Township, $838,000. • Dominic J. Cusatis and Deborah A. Rolland to Monzeretta Meyer, 852-854 N. Church St., Hazleton, $80,000. • Carole A. Anstett to Daniel J. and Barbara J. Casey, 204 McLean St., Wilkes-Barre, $64,900. • Fannie Mae, Federal National Mortgage Association and Phelan Hallinan LLP to Adam Hauze IV, 7 Pershing St., Foster Township, $60,500. • Donald H. and Donna F. Anderson and Michael A. Kellam to Glen Kellogg, 298 Main St., 303 Main St., Dupont,

$159,000. • Janet L. Baker to Darrell R. Mayhue, 303 E. Grand St., Nanticoke, $100,000. • Joseph S. Amodeo to William and Linda Kondratick, 18 Harris Hill Road, Kingston Township, $107,800. • Deobrah Lynn Saylor to John H. Diel Sr., 689 Rear Westminster Road, Jenkins Township, $129,900. • Ermete J. Bernardoni and Nancy Gilhooley to Kevin J. Majeski and Renee MajeskiMiller, 214 Anthracite St., Exeter, $123,000. • U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo Bank to Joseph Timothy and Jade Ann Cotter, 312 Everhart St., Dupont, $125,000. • Catherine R. Truscavage to James J. Norris, 111 S. Highland Road, Jenkins Township, $198,000.

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Councilman sets summit on crime

Luzerne County Council will hold a “Security Summit” on Wednesday to consider a coordinated respond to crime in the municipalities. The by-invitation meeting will take place between 3:30 and 5 p.m. in council chambers, according to an email from Councilman Harry Haas seeking confirmation of attendance from municipal representatives, state lawmakers and others. Those attending the summit are asked to bring ideas that can be implemented by county council at no or low cost within a brief time and demonstrated to be proactive.

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Civitas Media, The Times Leader’s parent company, is committed to serving its communities and providing relevant news and information through multiple channels. With this in mind, on Monday Civitas Media is launching www.myownwilkesbarre.com and other sites, which are interactive community websites. The site features hyper-local news and information generated by community residents about area happenings and events. The MyOwn Wilkes-Barre website is part of a larger effort to deliver commu-

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www.myownwilkesbarre.com www.myowndallas.com www.myownpittston.com www.myownscranton.com www.myownclarkssummit.com nity-driven news throughout the region. MyOwn Community websites for Dallas, Pittston, Scranton and Clarks Summit also will launch Monday. “The MyOwn Community website is based on the town square, or public square, concept,” said Michael Bush, Civitas Media’s president and CEO. “As an amateur historian, I am intrigued by

how communities were influenced by the interaction that took place in the town square, or community center, and how important that type of interaction still is today.” The MyOwn website is a communityspecific news, information and engagement platform driven by the most important individuals in Wilkes-Barre: its citizens. “The MyOwn sites can revolutionize the way neighbors connect with each other and their communities,” Bush said. “With today’s busy lifestyles it has become more and more difficult for individuals and families to easily maintain the level of daily interaction that keeps a community vibrant,” said Walt Lafferty, The Times Leader’s general manager. “And as the leading source of news and

information in Wilkes-Barre, we felt we should find a solution to keep community members involved and active.” The MyOwn website is an innovative way to find out about and participate in what’s going on near you. The site has been built so that you have plenty of opportunity to share photos, videos and stories, as well play online games, post upcoming events or just see what your neighbors are doing. “The MyOwn website is the solution the community has been looking for,” Lafferty said. “The MyOwn site will strengthen our community and improve the lives of its residents, but we can’t do it without everyone’s support.” Wilkes-Barre’s MyOwn website is now available at www.myownwilkesbarre.com. Log in today and see where community comes together.

Artists make their mark on area tattoo fanatics

UGI-Penn natural gas to purge pipelines

The natural gas utility has scheduled a tentative pipeline purge as part of a gas main project along Nicholson Street from 10:30 a.m. to about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. Inclement weather or other factors could alter the scheduled purge. As the gas is released into the air, neighbors for several blocks around the project should expect to hear a hissing sound and smell the natural gas odor additive mercaptan, which smells like rotten eggs. UGI-Penn Natural Gas advises that anyone concerned about the smell of leaking gas should call 800-276-2722. The utility work could slow traffic.

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Meeting planned on armory sale The state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs will hold a public meeting Thursday to discuss the proposed sale of the Watres Armory. The meeting will be held from 5 to 5:45 p.m. in Scranton City Council chambers, on the second floor of City Hall, 340 N. Washington Ave. Department officials will answer questions and provide information about the sale of the former Pennsylvania National Guard Armory located at 900 Adams Ave. For more information, visit the DMVA website at www.dmva.state.pa.us and click on featured topics.

Brian Murphy of Third Dimension Tattoos and Ron Russo of 570 Tattoo work off a picture to paint a large collaborative acrylic painting during the NEPA Tattoo Arts Festival Saturday afternoon.

The NEPA Tattoo Arts Festival, being held in downtown W-B, draws 50-plus tattoo artists

WILKES-BARRE — Joe Senderoff looked pensive while lying on his stomach with his chin resting in his fists. Below, tattoo artist Jay Cutliffe finished an outline of Abraham Lincoln’s mug, forever engraving the 16th president’s face in Senderoff’s calf. The NEPA Tattoo Arts Festival was underway Saturday, and more than 50 tattoo artists from northeast states converged at Genetti’s Hotel and PLAINS TWP. Conference Center to put their permanent mark on shoulders, hips and souls of tattoo fanatics. “In your life, you make decisions and you can’t really change them,” said Volunteer actors and actresses, age 15 Senderoff. “You can either cover them to adult, are needed for a variety of roles up or burn them off and that’s the idea in the annual Gravestone Manor haunted behind the tattoo.” house fundraiser. All profits from this event Senderoff, 22, of Philadelphia was benefit United Way of Wyoming Valley. getting his fourth tattoo and Cutliffe, Auditions will be held at 7 p.m. Monday who owns Bone Daddy’s Tattoo near and Tuesday. Applicants will be asked to Philadelphia, is his regular artist. read from a prepared script. Non-speaking Senderoff traveled to Wilkes-Barre to acting roles are also available. Volunteers have the tattoo done at the three-day are also needed to serve as ushers and to festival. assist with box office duties and backstage Honest Abe is a role model for technical support. Senderoff. “Through a lot of adversity, Gravestone Manor is located inside he persevered,” he said, explaining his the Trion warehouse (next door to The inspiration for the presidential body art. Woodlands Inn & Resort) at 1095 Highway Steve Gulbin, a body piercer by trade, 315. For more details, email [email protected] or visit www.facebook. com/gravestonemanor.

Auditions scheduled for Gravestone

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Rally to focus on birth practices On Monday, Northeastern Pennsylvania families will join an estimated 12,000 parents, health care providers and advocates at Labor Day rallies around the country to call attention to what organizers are calling a crisis in American maternal health care. The 2013 Rally to Improve Birth will take place in more than 170 U.S. cities at 10 a.m. local time. Supporters will call for safer, evidence-based birth practices that put women and babies before profits, convenience and liability concerns. A listing of all rally locations is available at www.rallytoimprovebirth. com. The local rally will be at Hugh B. Hughes Funeral Home, 1044 Wyoming Ave., Forty Fort. Organizers say Pennsylvania’s Caesarean-section rate is too high — more than twice the rate suggested by the World Health Organization — and the rate for area hospitals is even higher. Research points to “physician factors” as the driving force, not health conditions of mothers, organizers say. They also say the United States has the highest maternity care costs in the world, but ranks 45th in maternal safety.

IF YOU GO The NEPA Tattoo Arts Festival continues from noon to 6 p.m. today at Genetti Hotel and Conference Center, Wilkes-Barre. For information, visit www.nepatattoofest.com. is part-owner of the Marc’s Tattoo franchise. This is the first festival he coordinated with Ron and Gena Russo of 570 Tattoo in Wilkes-Barre. “We wanted to bring a new excellence of tattooing to the Northeast,” Gulbin said. Gulbin, covered from wrist to neck with his own tattoos, said these sorts of artists’ gatherings push the practitioners to get better at their craft. He expressed confidence tattooing will continue to grow more popular and be a viable occupation for creative types. “I cannot even imagine what tattooing is going to be like in 10 years,” Gulbin said, adding that tattoo artists will never be replaced by technology. “This is something that robots and machinery cannot take away from us.” Angie Redmond, manager for Long Street Collective Tattoo in Columbus,

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Mike Robertson of Let it Be Tattoo in Hazleton tattoos a Frank Sinatra portrait on Robbie Generose of Lattimer on Saturday afternoon at the NEPA Tattoo Arts Festival held at Genetti Hotel and Conference Center in Wilkes-Barre.

Ohio, watched her company’s artist, Andy Johnson, work on a shoulder tattoo. Tattoo acceptance is undoubtedly growing, Redmond said. She’s a graphic designer at McGraw-Hill publishers and said, recently, the company changed its policy to allow employees with visible tattoos. “To me, that’s a sign of the times,” Redmond said. Redmond believes getting a tattoo should be a thoughtful experience that marks an important idea or milestone. She held out her own well-inked arms and said each of her tattoos, many of them flying birds and open eyes, has a

long story. On Friday, Redmond said, to her surprise, a 60-year-old woman got a tattoo at their booth. The woman’s mother recently passed away and she wanted to commemorate her life with a daisy, Redmond said. She sees now, more than ever, people of older generations undergoing the procedure. Bee-like buzzing filled the room Saturday as busy artists applied ink to skin in just about every vendor booth. The only booth not seeing so much action was the tattoo-removal service handing out informational brochures.

Event aims for understanding addiction Luzerne County DA says focus on intervention and recovery crucial

GERI GIBBONS

Times Leader Correspondent

WILKES-BARRE — Stefanie Salavantis, who lost a sister to alcoholism, spoke on Saturday about the impact addiction has on families. She said it is important to separate the disease of addiction from the person suffering, never giving up hope of recovery. Salavantis, Luzerne County’s district attorney, was attending the second annual Overdose Awareness Day observation at Kirby Park, not only in her official role, she said, but also as a family member wanting to make a difference in the community, to reach out to those suffering from addiction and their family members. “I am one of you,” she said, “and you are not alone.” Salavantis also noted the link between addiction and crime in

our area. A focus on intervention and recovery benefits both the addict and the community in the long term, she said. She credited county specialty courts with providing intervention and treatment for those in the criminal justice system. Carol Coolbaugh, coordinator of the event, told attendees the stigma attached to addiction is unnecessary and unproductive. “Addiction is a disease in which family members often feel shame,” said Coolbaugh. “Gatherings such as this provide support for those still suffering and hope for the future.” Coolbaugh’s efforts are in memory of her son Erik, who four years ago lost his battle with addiction. Michael Donahue, former administrator of Luzerne County Alcohol and Drug Services, encouraged family members gathered to honor loved ones lost to addiction by reaching out to others. Now a drug and alcohol consultant, Donahue recalled the loss of a member of his family,

and said it increased his determination to educate and inform the community, to help addicts and their families understand that recovery is possible. Attendee Dave Magdalinski, in recovery for more than 20 years, stressed the importance of structuring one’s life and of self-care to make long-term sobriety possible. He also emphasized the importance of family support and personal effort. Darlene Magdalinski, community activist, addressed attendees, sharing a poem that reinforced willingness to sacrifice and purposeful gratitude in the lives of our young people. “We need to be as excited about other people’s success and recovery as we are our own,” she said. “We need to come together as a community.” One highlight of the event was a balloon release, as the names of those who had lost their battles with addiction were read by family members. As the purple and white balloons ascended, many attendees took

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Ashley Williams writes a message on a balloon as her daughter Autum rests beside her at the the Second Annual Overdose Awareness Day Wilkes-Barre’s in Kirby Park on Saturday. Williams says she has lost both family and friends from drug overdoses.

the opportunity to reflect on the lives of those lost, with both sadness and gratitude. Locally, an organization known as GRASP, for Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing, provides support to families. Overseen by

Coolbaugh, the group meets twice a month and welcomes new members. Information about the organization is available by calling 570991-7199 or visiting its website: www.grasphelp.org.

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Officials are excavating bodies from a notorious Fla. reform school in hopes of learning how they died

BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press

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The self-anchored suspension of the new eastern section of the San FranciscoOakland Bay Bridge is seen at left next to the current section that is closed to traffic. When traffic flows across the new stretch of the bridge for the first time next week, it will do so nearly a quartercentury after a deadly earthquake during the 1989 World Series collapsed two 50foot sections of the old structure. The Bay Bridge failure, one of the temblor’s most memorable images, prompted a $6.4 billion rebuilding project.

MARIANNA, Fla. — University of South Florida researchers began exhuming dozens of graves Saturday at a former Panhandle reform school where horrific beatings have been reported in hopes of identifying the boys and learning how they died. The digging and work at the site will continue until Tuesday, with researchers hoping to unearth the remains of four to six boys before resuming at a later date, said Erin Kimmerle, the USF anthropologist leading the excavation. After work began Saturday, relatives of one of the boys

believed to be buried at the school held a private prayer at the grave sites. The family has provided DNA in hopes of finding a match with Robert Stephens. School records show he was fatally stabbed by another inmate in 1937, but his family hopes to confirm how he actually died through the exhumation efforts. If his remains are found, his family says they will be reburied in a family plot in Quincy. “That will be a great sense of homecoming,” Tananarive Due said. The boy was Due’s great-uncle. She was at the site Saturday with her son, father and husband, and said she hopes that other families will also be able to locate relatives buried there. “Their families never had a proper opportunity to say goodbye to their loved ones. In a lot of cases children just disappeared,” said Due, who

lives in Atlanta. Former inmates at the reform school from the 1950s and 1960s have detailed horrific beatings in a small, white concrete block building at the facility. A group of survivors call themselves the “White House Boys” and five years ago called for an investigation into the graves. In 2010, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement ended an investigation and said it could not substantiate or refute claims that boys died at the hands of staff. USF later began its own research and discovered even more graves than the state department had identified. USF has worked for months to secure a permit to exhume the remains, finally receiving permission from Gov. Rick Scott and the state Cabinet after being rejected by Secretary of State Ken Detzner, who reports to Scott.

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A team of anthropologists from the University of South Florida began exhuming suspected graves on Saturday at the now-closed Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Fla.

“In these historic cases, it’s really about having an accurate record and finding out what happened and knowing the truth about what happened,” Kimmerle said of efforts at the school, which opened in 1900 and

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Dense smoke from a wildfire burning Saturday in and around Yosemite National Park in California hampered both suppression efforts and the prized views sought by holiday weekend tourists. For the first time since the blaze broke out in a neighboring forest two weeks ago, smoke obscured Yosemite Valley, home to the park’s most popular landmarks, spokeswoman Kari Cobb said. Meanwhile, firefighting aircraft remained grounded because of low visibility caused by the smoke, U.S. Forest Service spokesman Mark Healey said. The blaze had scorched 343 square miles of brush, oaks and pines and 11 homes, as of Saturday. Of that total, 94 square miles of wilderness have burned in the northern section of Yosemite, up from 75 square miles a day earlier.

Followers of televangelist Kenneth Copeland were not vaccinated against the disease JAMIE STENGLE

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shut down two years ago for budgetary reasons. Kimmerle said the remains of about 50 people are in the graves. Some are marked with a plain, white steel cross, and others have no markings.

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Addison Hunt, 2, and her mother, Rachel Hunt of Nazareth put their toes in the sand in Belmar, N.J. Business was down in some Jersey seaside communities in the first summer following Superstorm Sandy.

Business sluggish at recovering Jersey shore In first post-Sandy summer, many residents pleased to have any kind of tourist season at all WAYNE PARRY

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MANASQUAN, N.J. — No, it wasn’t a great summer to do business at the Jersey shore. But considering the damage Superstorm Sandy did to the region last fall and the Herculean effort to get large swaths of the coast ready for tourists and residents by Memorial Day, many say they are grateful they had any kind of summer season at all this year. “What hurt us was there are a lot of residents who are still displaced by the storm — people that I see all the time, whose children I’ve watched grow up, who I’ve seen maybe once or twice all summer,” said Matthew Riccelli, general manager of Gee Gee’s Pizza, which has been a fixture on the Manasquan beach walk for three decades.

The business and an adjacent arcade were wrecked by the storm, which filled the 8-foot-high basement with 6 feet of sand, shattered doors and windows, and flooded interiors. Riccelli said business was down by 30 percent this summer because of the lingering effects of the storm on tourism but also by an exceptionally rainy first half of the season. A carwash his friend owns also is down about 30 percent this summer, he added. On the Belmar boardwalk, the Exit 98 Boutique reopened in a steel shipping container for this summer. Foot traffic was about the same as last year, but profits were down, said longtime employee Kathy Ferrara. “Every last thing had to be replaced, from the first piece of clothing to the last paper clip, every hanger, every rack — Wite-Out! Stupid things like Wite-Out we had to replace,” she said.

Gov. Chris Christie, who has based much of his re-election campaign on the state’s recovery from the storm, said no one expected a normal summer this year. He spent the first week in August at the shore with his family, sitting on the beach, playing miniature golf, strolling boardwalks and dining out every night. “We knew that this summer was not going to be like the summer of 2012; I said that right from the beginning,” he said. “There’s no doubt that business was going to be down all over the Jersey shore because a lot of people, having seen the extraordinary devastation, didn’t believe we’d be able to be up and running in time for summer. They turned out to be wrong, and I think we’ll get them back next year. But it’s a lot better than people in November and December thought it was going to be.”

Youngest Delhi gang-rape defendant convicted ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press

NEW DELHI — An Indian juvenile court on Saturday handed down the first conviction in the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a moving New Delhi bus, convicting a teenager of rape and murder and sentencing him to three years in a reform home, lawyers said. The victim’s parents denounced the sentence, which was the maximum the defendant faced. The family had long insisted the teen, who was 17 at the time of the December attack and is now 18, be tried as an adult — and thus face the death penalty — insisting he was the most brutal of the woman’s attackers. “He should be hanged irre-

spective of whether he is a juvenile or not. He should be punished for what he did to my daughter,” the victim’s mother, Asha Devi, told reporters after the verdict was announced. Indian law forbids the publication of the teen’s name because he was sentenced in a juvenile court. The attack, which left the 23-year-old victim with such extensive internal injuries that she died two weeks later, sparked protests across the country and led to reforms of India’s antiquated sexual violence laws. The government, facing immense public pressure, had promised swift justice in the case. The convicted teen was one of six people accused of tricking the woman and her

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Delhi police officers escort a juvenile accused in the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a moving New Delhi bus. He was convicted Saturday and sentenced to three years in a reform home.

male companion into boarding an off-duty bus Dec. 16 after they had seen an afternoon showing of “Life of Pi” at an upscale shopping mall. Police say the men raped the woman and used a metal bar

to inflict massive internal injuries to her. They also beat her companion. The victims were dumped naked on the roadside, and the woman later died from her injuries in a Singapore hospital.

NEWARK, Texas — The teachings of televangelist Kenneth Copeland and his family focusing on the virtues of trusting God to keep healthy are under scrutiny after a cluster of measles cases linked to his family’s North Texas megachurch revealed many congregants hadn’t been vaccinated against the highly contagious disease. Kenneth Copeland Ministries has won supporters worldwide through television programs, crusades, conferences and prayer request networks. He was a pioneer of the prosperity gospel, which holds that believers are destined to flourish spiritually, physically and financially. Although church officials were quick to act after the outbreak — including hosting clinics in August where 220 people received immunization shots — and have denied they are against medical care or vaccinations, people familiar with the ministry say there is a pervasive culture that believers should rely on God, not modern medicine, to keep them well. “To get a vaccine would have been viewed by me and my friends and my peers as an act of fear — that you doubted God would keep you safe, you doubted God would keep you healthy. We simply didn’t do it,” former church member Amy Arden told The Associated Press. Health officials say 21 people were sickened with the measles after a person who contracted the virus overseas visited the 1,500-member Eagle Mountain International Church located on the vast grounds of Kenneth Copeland Ministries in Newark, about 20 miles north of Fort Worth. Of the 21 people who contracted measles linked to the church, 16 were unvaccinated. The others might have had at least one vaccination, but had no documentation. Symptoms of the measles, which is spread by coughing, sneezing and close personal contact with infected people, include a fever, cough and rash. Those infected are contagious from about four days before breaking out into the rash to four days after. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that children get two doses of the combined vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella, called the MMR. The first dose should be given when the child is 12 to 15 months old and the second at 4 to 6 years old.

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the District of Columbia have adopted the standards, which critics decry as tantamount to a national curriculum. Supporters counter that the standards are necessary to ensure that high school graduates are ready for college or career. DRESSED AND EQUIPPED FOR SUCCESS In some households, it is a tradition that children get a new outfit for that first day of school. But the cost is just a fraction of what parents pay to get their children ready for school. The National Retail Federation estimated that a family’s back-to-school spending for elementary and secondary school in 2013 would average about $634.78. That’s down more than $50 from the previous year. For college students, there’s a higher cost. The federation said back-toschool spending for a college student would average $836.83 this year, also down from 2012. JUMP START ON COLLEGE More than 2 million students took 3.7 million Advanced Placement exams in 2012 in an attempt to earn college credit while still in high school, according the College Board, which administers the test. The numbers have increased steadily since the 1955-56 school year, when 1,229 students took 2,199 exams. But the increase in participation doesn’t necessarily translate into an increase in college credit. In 1992, 65.5 percent tests scored at least a 3, usually the minimum grade to earn credit. That dropped to 59.2 in 2012. STICKER SHOCK The tuition and room and board bills already have arrived, and in many cases the due dates have passed. So what does it cost to attend a college or university these days? It depends on the type of school you go to. Two-year, public community colleges will cost in-state students and their parents back about $10,550 this academic year, while the price tag for attending a four-year public institution of higher education averages about $17,860, according to the College Board. Choose to cross state lines to attend a public university? The price tag is an average $30,911. The cost of a private, four-year college or university — $39,518, the College Board said. THAT’S A LOT OF MONEY. WHERE CAN I GET HELP? Most families don’t foot the entire tuition bill, at least right away. According to NCES, 79 percent of undergraduates received some form of financial aid for the 2011-12 school year. Of that total, 59 percent got grants and 42 percent took out loans. Other aid includes veterans’ benefits and federal PLUS loans for parents. Aid on average totaled $10,000, NCES reported. After months of wrangling, Congress averted a doubling of federal student loan rates this fall. IS THE COST WORTH IT? Consider the financial benefits of finishing college. The Census Bureau reports that adults with bachelor’s degree or more earned an average $81,761 in 2011. Those with high school degrees or GEDs earned an average $40,634, while the average wages for workers who didn’t finish ninth grade was $26,545.

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WILKeS-BARRe Fall Session Begins Sunday, September 15, 2013 It’s back to the classroom for people of all ages! Boscov’s invites you to come back to the classroom for the fall session of our Campus of Courses. Check over the courses listed, select the ones you like, then register as soon as possible. Payment is required at time of registration and may only be made in cash, check or with a Boscov’s Credit Card. Registration by phone will be taken only for those who are using a Boscov’s Credit Card or registering for a FREE class.Registration for classes will also be taken at the Courtesy Desk or by mail. Register early – classes are limited in size! Any class that indicates ‘payable to the instructor’ must be paid in cash or check directly to the instructor at the start of the first class. Registration fee covers instructor’s fee – purchase of all supplies is the responsibility of the student. To register by phone for Wilkes Barre classes, please call 570-823-4141 and ask for the Courtesy Desk. AARP Refresher Course Leslie Loomis The refresher course is designed as a 4-hour course for those who have taken the regular 8-hour course in the past three years. Certificates provided upon completion are good for three years and provide auto insurance discounts from any insurance company that writes insurance in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The course fee is $14 per person with a $2 discount for AARP members. Fee is paid to the instructor at the beginning of the class. Class #1 Monday, Sept. 16 10:15AM to 2:15PM, Auditorium Medicare GPS Theresa Hillard, Geisinger Health In this class students will learn the four parts of Medicare, what is covered, deductibles and out of pocket cost, Medicare Supplement plans vs. Medicare Advantage plans. Also included is how to avoid the late enrollment penalties for Part B and Part D. Class #2 Monday, Sept. 16 11AM. Auditorium ................................. FRee Class #3 Monday, Sept. 30 11AM, Auditorium ................................. FRee Handmade Holidays Nancy Gleason Make your own handmade Christmas cards as well as party favors and home decor. Students will take home a completed project each week as they learn various paper crafting and rubber stamping techniques. Class fee includes all supplies. $20 fee to be paid to the instructor at the first class. Class #4 Mondays, Sept. 16, 23, 30, Oct. 7 7PM to 8:30PM

Do You Understand Wills, Trusts and Power of Attorney Forms Michael Vergari & John Beltrami Financial Advisors Are your legal documents and account registrations properly designed to protect your assets? This class on estate planning will provide you a roadmap to create a lasting legacy, not a burden. With a local estate attorney as a guest speaker, we will discuss common strategies to assist you with developing a personalized plan for your heirs. We will cover proper legal account ownership and ways to minimize taxes upon death. Class #11 Tuesday, Oct. 22, 6:30PM to 8PM Auditorium............................................ FRee Did You Know That 85% Of Your Social Security Check Can Be Taxed? Donald A. Galade of GFS Financial Advisors, LLC The average monthly benefit for retired workers is roughly $1,229 per month. Most of those people don’t realize their monthly income could have been substantially higher if they delayed beginning their Social Security even by one year. Get the facts and a free personalized report at the Free Educational Event. Learn Now vs. Later Analysis, Spousal Options Impact of Working in Retirement, Taxation of Benefits, Solving the Income Gap.GFS Financial Advisors and LLC Gfsfinancial.com Class #12 Tuesdays, Sept. 17, 24, Oct. 8, 15 6PM, Auditorium ................................... FRee

401K’s IRA’s Roth IRA’s Defined Benefits, eSOP and Pension Plans Donald A. Galade of GFS Financial Advisiors, LLC Do you really understand them? Are you participating in an employer sponsored PPL electric Utilities e-Powerwise pension plan and really don’t have a grasp Program: on how it works? Did you leave a 401k plan Terri Stocki of Consumer Credit Counseling at your previous employer because you did FREE energy-efficiency education on ways to not understand your options? Have you ever save energy at home and save money on your considered converting your traditional IRA to monthly utility bills. FREE energy kit full of ener- a ROTH? Do you know how much risk you are gy-saving products such as CFLs, advanced taking with your retirement nest egg and do power strip, high-efficiency showerhead, you truly understand what that means? LED night light and more. One FREE energy Class #13 Tuesdays, Sept. 17, 24, Oct. 8, 15 kit offered for qualified PPL Electric Utilities 7:30PM, Auditorium .............................. FRee customers. Please bring your PPL Electric Utilities bill with you. The information session and Roth IRA Conversions the energy kits are presented by Terri Stocki Ian P. Gordon, CFPR of Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Roth IRAs have become popular retirement Northeastern PA. savings vehicles because if certain conditions Class #5 Tuesday, Sept. 24, 11AM to Noon are satisfied, distributions from Roth IRAs are Auditorium completely free from federal income taxes. Is a Roth conversion right for you? The answer is Beginners Crocheting and Knitting a complicated one, and depends on your parDolores Barry ticular situation, including whether you believe What a great way to start getting ready for the you’ll be in a higher tax bracket in the future. holiday season. This class is for you to start Class #14 Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1PM making your own presents by the time you Auditorium............................................ FRee finish this class. You will need knitting needles size #9 or #10, crocheting hook G or H and the AARP Safe Driving instructor will supply the yarn to start. A $20 Leslie Loomis fee is to be paid to the instructor the first This class is designed for anyone over 55 years night of class. of age and who is interested in becoming more Class #6 Tuesdays, Sept. 17, 24, Oct. 1 and 8, aware of changes affecting senior drivers. The 6PM to 8:30PM, Auditorium course will provide a certificate that is worth a premium discount on your insurance policy empowering Women Seminar Donald A. Galade - GFS FINANCIAL ADVISORS, for the next three years. Attendance is required on each of the two days. The class is of totally LLC, Speaker classroom design with instruction, discussion Women typically outlive their spouse by 6 and self-evaluation. We will review rules of years. Many will be forced to live with the financial decisions made by their husband unless the road, self-evaluate of age related changes in vision, hearing, medical condition, driver’s they are involved. Attend this FREE educational event and bring a friend. Learn valuable skill, reaction times, and sharing the road with information such as: Are your beneficiary forms others and dealing with elder friends, family up to date, do you know where your important and others. A fee of $14 is payable to the instructor at documents are the class. Receive a $2 discount for AARP located, do you have primary and contingent Members. Checks are payable to AARP. beneficiaries, do you know what benefits are Class #15 Tuesday, Oct. 8 available to you from the social security 10:15AM to 2:15PM, Auditorium administration, have you initiated important Thursday, Oct. 10, 10:15AM to 2:15PM estate planning documents and more! Auditorium Seating is limited. Class #7 Tuesday, Sept. 24, 1PM Gambling For Seniors Auditorium............................................ FRee Jerry Mizenko, Wyoming Valley Alcohol and Drug Service Retirementology A short video, sponsored by Wyoming Valley Michael Vergari & John Beltrami Alcohol and Drug Services Inc. along with Financial Advisors a presentation about the spike in gambling Would you like to have the secrets for addiction in the senior population. Bring your securing a fruitful retirement from two financial questions on how to curb the addiction, where professionals? Topics such as understanding to get help or any other questions about social security elections, pension options, and gambling addiction. realistic investment returns will be discussed. Class #16 Tuesday, Sept. 24, 6:30PM to 8PM Participants will be provided access to Auditorium............................................ FRee interactive software to evaluate their retirement to see if they’ve saved enough to maintain their Planning your Retirement Lifestyle lifestyle throughout retirement. Conor Malone, CSNA - Financial Advisor Class #8 Tuesday, Oct. 1, 6:30PM to 8PM Here you go – “Today retirement can mean Auditorium............................................ FRee decades. Learn how to develop a plan to make your savings last for your lifetime.” Investments 101 Class #17 Wednesdays, Sept.18, 25, Michael Vergari & John Beltrami Oct. 2, 9,16 - 6:30PM to 7:30PM Financial Advisors Auditorium............................................ FRee Do you sometimes get confused by the financial industry lingo? These two financial advisors Maximize your Social Security Benefits! will provide education on all investment types Michael Dillon, Retirement Specialist from stocks, bonds, annuities, alternatives, etc., 1st Financial Investments, Inc. which comprise a successful plan to reach your Learn how to capture 8% PLUS (+) Growth in retirement goals. Discussions will include YOUR social security benefit and maximize understanding the investments you own, YOUR retirement income! We will show YOU comprehending commissions and fees, practic- how to use ‘GUARANTEED INCOME FOR LIFE’ ing sound asset allocation, along with proper Programs to help minimize taxes on up to 85% balance between retirement and non-retireof YOUR social security benefit. ment assets. Class #18 Tuesday, Sept. 17, 6:30PM Class #9 Tuesday, Oct. 8 Boscov’s Family Restaurant ................. FRee 6:30PM to 8PM, Auditorium .................. FRee Class #19 Thursday, Oct. 3, 1PM, Auditorium............................................ FRee Tax Strategies in Investments and Social Security Medicare 101 Michael Vergari & John Beltrami Presented by APPRISE, Pennsylvania’s State Financial Advisors Health Insurance Assistance Program which With portions of this presentation given by a is sponsored by the Luzerne/Wyoming Area local tax expert, attendees will gain insight into Agency on Aging Covers how and when to some of the possible outcomes and changes in enroll, additional insurance options, prescription the tax landscape for 2013 and beyond which drug coverage and assistance programs. could greatly affect your retirement planning. Class #20 Thursdays, Sept. 19, 26, Oct. 3, 10 Upon completion of this course you will be able to make the proper decisions regarding social 6PM to 8PM, Auditorium ....................... FRee security elections and informed investment choices based on the changing tax landscape. Class #10 Tuesday, Oct. 15, 6:30PM to 8PM Auditorium............................................ FRee

Retirement Income Planning Ian P. Gordon CFPR Retirement income planning is the process of understanding how much income you’ll need during your retirement years to support the retirement lifestyle you want, and positioning your assets to provide that income. While there’s no such thing as a “one size fits all” plan, there are steps you can take to maximize the possibility of a financially secure retirement. Class #21 Tuesday, Oct. 1, 7PM, Auditorium............................................ FRee Class #22 Thursday, Oct. 3, 2PM Auditorium............................................ FRee Seated Yoga For Seniors Theresa Novak, Holistic Therapist Age is only a number. In this gentle seated yoga course you will experience yoga postures, breathing techniques, progressive relaxation, guided relaxation along with imagery and meditation techniques. This course is designed for all ages and fitness levels and is equal in benefits to floor postures. It will improve flexibility, stamina, balance and concentration. It is designed to reduce stress, lower blood pressure and improve cardiac health. Fee of $30 is payable to the instructor at the first class. Loose or yoga clothing. Class #23 Wednesdays, Sept. 18, 25, Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23 - 11AM to Noon, Auditorium Natural Beekeeping Chris Kohl This course will take an in-depth look at the honey bee colony. We will examine topics such as how honey is made, the swarming phenomenon as well as the challenges facing the honey bee today. All popular beekeeping techniques will be covered with a focus on natural beekeeping using the Warre hive technique. Class #24 Wednesday, Oct. 2 6:30PM to 8:30PM, Auditorium ............. FRee Social Security & Your Retirement Timothy McNamara, Financial Advisor Wells Fargo Advisors Social Security – An overview of social security benefits and how they fit into your retirement plan. We’ll discuss your eligibility, the implications of taking benefits at different ages, and some strategies to consider when determining how to use social security most effectively. Class #25 Tuesday, Sept. 17, 11AM Auditorium............................................ FRee Class #26 Thursday, Sept. 19, 5:30PM Auditorium............................................ FRee The ABCs (&Ds) of Medicare Timothy McNamara, Financial Advisor Wells Fargo Advisors Medicare – We’ll discuss the ABCs (and Ds) of Medicare, including what it costs, what it covers, and what it does not cover. Class #27 Tuesday Sept. 24, 11AM Auditorium............................................ FRee Class #28 Thursday, Sept. 26, 5:30PM Auditorium............................................ FRee Ladies’ Night Out Boscov’s Cosmetics Representatives Gather your girlfriends and join us for the newest and hottest trends in makeup, skincare and fragrances. Preview our fall fashions and accessories while enjoying light refreshments. Treat yourself to a hand massage and experience a technique of fragrance layering. Receive expert tips on the trendiest smokey eye looks for your upcoming holiday parties. Learn Clarisonic, the best in sonic skincare! Register to win a deluxe gift basket worth over $250. Every guest who pre-registers for $10 for this event will receive a $10 gift card that evening! Class #29 Thursday, Oct 17, 6:30PM to 8PM Auditorium Retirement Income Planning Timothy McNamara, Financial Advisor Wells Fargo Advisors A discussion about common mistakes people make when planning for retirement and some advice on how to avoid them. Class #30 Tuesday, Oct.1, 11 AM Auditorium............................................ FRee Class #31 Thursday, October 3, 5:30PM Auditorium............................................ FRee Discover Disney Join our Boscov’s Travel Specialists for a fun and informative seminar on what’s new at Walt Disney World – including the New Fantasyland – and everything else needed to plan a magical vacation. For nearly 40 years, we have made taking a vacation to Walt Disney World convenient and simple with exclusive, non-stop flights to Orlando from Avoca, PA and other local airports. Enjoy a great presentation, refreshments and the chance to win door prizes. Class #32, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2PM to 4PM Boscov’s Family Restaurant See the World with Globus and Boscov’s Travel Globus Family of Brands Tours Learn about escorted tours to Europe and the USA, plus exciting river cruises throughout the world. Join Boscov’s Travel and special guest, Doug Brown, from Globus Family of Brands for an interesting and informative seminar. Refreshments will be served and door prizes awarded. Class #33 Thursday, Sept. 26, 6:30PM to 8PM Boscov’s Family Restaurant Getaway with Apple Vacations Apple Tours Enjoy an exciting and informative presentation on sizzling destinations. With a family-friendly or adults-only resort as your base, you can explore cultural and historical sites, enjoy duty-free shopping or simply bask in the sun while resort staff attends to your every need. This event will be hosted by James Reese of Apple Vacations. Refreshments will be served and door prizes awarded Class #34 Thursday, Oct. 3, 6:30PM to 8PM Boscov’s Family Restaurant

Trains, Coal Mines and ethnicity Patrick Conway and John Quinn Pat, a retired D&H/CP Rail engineer and John’s a retired school teacher, have both been doing this program throughout the Wyoming Valley School districts. How did the industrial revolution shape the Wyoming Valley? Where did all of the people come from and how did they get here? You will learn how your heritage started and just what kind of work your ancestors did to make a living and take care of their families. Class #35 Thursday, Oct. 24, 2PM to 4PM Auditorium............................................ FRee

Basic Survival in Swing Dancing Vince Brust Studios Easy and fun, fun, fun is the content of this course! You never dreamed it could be this easy. After just one lesson you’ll feel very confident dancing to tunes you’ve always enjoyed. A $15 per person fee, per class, per day is payable to the instructor at the beginning of the class. Class #47 Saturday, Sept. 21, 2PM to 2:50PM, Auditorium

Surviving Your Wedding Dance Vince Brust Studios It’s only 3 minutes of dancing – but it can Puppy Kindergarten/Canine Basic be great FOREVER, rather than something to Pawsitively Pet Training This class helps owners solve puppy problems forget. This instructor really makes it easy. No one has ever regretted knowing how to dance for puppies approximately ages 8 weeks to 6 months. Course includes attention, socialization at their own wedding. Ladies, drag him in, tow and tips with crazy puppy behavior, as well as him in, or whatever you have to do, but get him here with you and we’ll take care of the rest. focusing on giving your puppy some good He’ll definitely dance by the end of the lesson. Manners and developing a positive bond A $15 per person fee, per class, per day, is between owner and puppy. $20 per class, payable to the instructor. It is advised that all payable to the instructor at the beginning of the class. 5 classes be attended. Class #36 Fridays, Sept. 13, 20, 27, Oct. 4 and Class #46 Saturday, Sept. 21 3PM to 3:50PM, Auditorium 11, 6:15PM to 7:30PM, Auditorium Class #37 Sundays, Sept. 15, 22, 29, Oct. 6 Reiki for Stress Relief and Healing and 13, 1PM to 2:15PM, Auditorium Level I Class Therapy Dog Training/Canine Good Citizen Jeffrey Seymour / the Reiki Co-Optm Reiki (pronounced Ray-Key) is a simple yet Pawsitively Pet Training powerful Japanese form of touch energy work Ages 5 months or older This class is designed to prepare dogs for their that is proven to reduce stress and pain and enhance wellness physically, emotionally and Therapy Dog International Certification and mentally. Traditional Reiki is not dependent on Canine Good Citizen Certification. Some skill, belief, special abilities or complex or invatraining is helpful, but not required. Temperment of dog is key to success. Therapy sive techniques. If you can touch, you can learn Dog International Certification and Canine Good Reiki! Reiki is gentle and non-invasive, and Citizen Certification tests will be held following safe for children. In this class you will witness completion of classes. $20 per class, payable a demonstration of Reiki, learn how to Reiki to the instructor. It is advised that all 5 classes yourself and others, and receive the necessary attunement and knowledge for certification as a be attended. Class #38 Fridays, Sept. 13, 20, 27, Oct. 4 and Usui Reiki Level I practitioner. While Reiki is not exercise, it is advisable to bring water, a brown 11, 7:30PM to 8:45PM bag lunch for the 1/2-hr. lunch break, and Class #39 Sundays, Sept. 15, 22, 29, Oct. 6 socks as others will Reiki your feet. A $50 fee and 13, 2:15PM to 3:30PM payable to instructor at beginning of class. estée Lauder Beautiful Skin Solutions Class #47 Saturday, Oct. 12, 11AM to 5PM Boscov’s Estée Lauder Counter Manager Auditorium Be sure to register early for this marvelous Spanish Uno class! Young, young and younger that is what Alba Castro you have to look forward to by taking this great class. Skin care is it Ladies. Makeup just Learn to speak Spanish and have a lot of fun while doing it. You will learn enough to help you doesn’t work without the proper skin care no converse with your Spanish speaking friends. matter the age. Meet some great new friends while learning Class #40 Saturday, Oct 12, 3PM to 4PM Estée Lauder Counter ........................... FRee a second language. You will need to bring a note pad and a pen or pencil. A $10 fee is to Clinique Skin Care & Cosmetics Workshop be paid to the instructor at the beginning of each class. Held at the Clinique Counter Class #48 Saturdays, Sept. 21, 28, Oct. 5 Boscov’s Clinique Representative Join our workshop featuring new products and and 12, 3PM to 4PM, Auditorium new colors for fall. You’ll learn how to maintain Learn to Sell on eBay a skincare regimen that really works for you Peggy Grant, Publisher of Peggy’s Patterns and tips on makeup colors and application to Topics covered will include how to set up an enhance your best features. Register early; eBay account and a PayPal account, create class size is limited! Class fee is good toward auctions, send invoices, print shipping labels, product purchase. insert photos into auctions, withdraw money Class #41 Saturday, Sept 21, 2PM to 3PM from a PayPal account, view and respond to Clinique Counter 1st Level ...................... $15 feedback and much more. Students will receive printed instructions to take home and begin Color Theory their eBay experience right away. Students are Held at the Lancôme Counter encouraged to visit www.PeggysPatterns.com Boscov’s Lancôme Representative for detailed information about this class. On the You know the general cosmetic rules, but still day of this class, a fee of $35 per student have some questions about enhancing your natural beauty. Why is it so difficult to create a is payable to the instructor to attend this Smokey eye? Why are some colors too childish class. Class #49 Saturday, Oct. 12, Noon to 4PM or over-the-top? Every woman displays her Auditorium one-of-a-kind coloring and contours. Learn which colors complement your own natural Couponing and Frugal living Basics color and shape, just like the perfect little cock- To extreme tail dress! Register early; class size is limited! Molly Rosencrans Class fee is good toward product purchase. Learn how to find hard copies of coupons on Class #42 Saturday, Sept 28, 3PM to 4PM the internet, etc. What does it mean? UnderLancôme Counter 1st Floor ..................... $15 standing codes, organizing and make your coupons work for you. How to stack a coupon, elizabeth Arden frugal living, reward sites, weekly meal plans, Boscov’s Elizabeth Arden Counter Manager Introducing three pillars of skin care: Prevage, grocery store savings and card rewards. Get the most bang for your buck. Take advantage Ceramide, Intervene. Learn how to pamper of coupon stacking, reward sites and savings yourself with some great products offered by cards rewards. $20 payable to instructor at Elizabeth Arden. You will be introduced to the beginning of class. newest skin care available to protect signs of Class #50 Sunday, Oct.13, 1:30PM to 4PM aging. Auditorium Class #43 Saturday, Oct 5, 3PM to 4PM 1st Floor Arden Counter ........................ FRee Self Defense for Women Jason Weston, Guardian Angels Basic Survival in Ballroom Dancing PA Regional Director Vince Brust Studios You’ll be dancing with ease after you learn the Ladies you will learn the basic tactics keeping basics of the most popular steps for dancing af- safe and how to protect yourself in whatever ter dinner, at a wedding or at a nightclub. Vince situation. You will learn how to be aware of your everyday life and take nothing for granted. Brust has taught over 65,000 lessons, so he A donation can be made to the Guardian really knows how to make it easy and of course Angels at each class. it’s fun! A $15 per person fee, per class, per Class #51 Saturdays, Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22 day is payable to the instructor at the begin6:30PM - Auditorium ning of the class. Class #44 Saturday, Sept. 21 1PM to 1:50PM, Auditorium

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With parade,Newtown reflects‘howwe’re healing’ Decision on whether to have event weighed on community CHRISTOPHER SULLIVAN

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NEWTOWN, Conn. — Ten thousand decisions go into creating a big, boisterous parade. No one knows that better than Robin Buchanan, who for years has juggled the lineup at the Labor Day parade that has jubilantly closed out every Newtown summer for more than five decades. But never before had this happened: Calls and emails from regulars, folks who always marched, concerned about the most basic decision of all. “Are you going to have a parade,” they asked her, “this year?” This year. Meaning: After the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, after the eulogies for 20 firstgraders and six educators, amid the drumbeat of news stories across the country and hushed conversations around town, all adding up

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Children hold a flag as it passes down Main Street during last year’s annual Labor Day parade in Newtown, Conn. In the wake of a mass shooting in the town, parade officials struggled to decide if the event should go on as usual this holiday weekend.

— still — to incomprehension. A parade, this year? On an icy evening back in January, barely a month after the shootings, a small group met with sad hugs to

confront that question. It’s always been a daunting task for the Labor Day Parade Committee to map out the two-hour extravaganza — to arrange the vintage warplane flyovers

or get the stagecoach that’s pulled by four matched horses or the ballfield-size American flag, or whatever, to make sure of security and to hash out ways to pay the bills.

But this time, the committee members — two of whom serve out of devotion even though they’re divorced from each other — sat hollow-eyed under the fluorescent lights of a bank conference room. Outside, handmade memorials still fluttered on lampposts. The funerals were still raw memories. How could you focus on a parade? Who would be the grand marshal, a happy honor normally but surely a heavy burden this time around? What would the theme be? Could it be anything but a memorial? But if so, what kind of parade is that? “How’s everybody doing?” someone asked. There were tears as they went around the table, answering. It’s a tight group, and this was the first time they’d been together since “the incident.” Yet they knew that planning a parade is a long process. And they sensed that, somehow, this year it could be one piece of the enormous task facing the shattered town and many beyond it, of finding ways to move forward through grief. So they got going, staying on the mundane issues of assigning duties and making preliminary decisions. “I think we’re all kind of nervous about how we proceed,” said Beth Caldwell, the head of the committee, a petite, hard-

charging real estate agent by day. Through the months ahead, she would work to maintain a delicate balance — “respectful of what has happened and still offering an avenue of celebration.” Often she’d be the one, when discussions turned somber, who injected a laugh or a cold dose of let’skeep-moving reality. “We can say what we want to happen,” she said, assessing the job ahead, “but the parade kind of takes on a life of its own.” A long tradition Newtown’s parade has been a fixture since 4,000 spectators turned out for the first step-off on Sept. 3, 1962. It often falls on a glorious Indian summer day, but even in drizzle, people come out — to see their neighbors march, to catch the veterans’ color guard or the cartwheeling gymnastics team, or just to laugh at parade nonsense, like the grand marshal who once showed up in a gorilla suit and roller-skated the whole route. Parade mornings start early. At first light, you see cars pulling to the curb all along Main Street, and folks unloading folding chairs and blankets that will line more than a mile of lawns. Having staked out front-row spots, they drive away for a quick breakfast. Meanwhile, you’ll see a kilted bagpiper or perhaps a couple of Minutemen in full

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Towns could miss out on Pittsburgh Airport gas drilling bounty FAA rules mean that $500M in royalties could go to airport KEVIN BEGOS Associated Press

PITTSBURGH — A deal to allow natural gas drilling at the Pittsburgh Airport could generate $500 million in royalties over the next few decades, but for now none of that money

will go directly to Allegheny County or nearby townships. That’s because Federal Aviation Administration rules mandate that any revenue generated by airport-owned “mineral, natural, or agricultural products or water” go back to the airport.

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Energy, which paid a signing bonus of $50 million. Officials hope royalties will add $450 million over the next 20 years. Some area residents are wondering how or if local government will benefit. “Will we get any of the money?” asked Barbara Leary, 73, who has lived in nearby Coraopolis for 43 years. If parts of the wells extend beyond the airport and under private property, Consol will

need to sign leases with those people, too. And, indirectly, the townships may benefit in other ways. Consol will need water to fracture the shale rock in the 47 wells it plans to drill — about 300 million gallons total. The company plans to buy that from the nearby townships of Moon and Findlay. If all the water came from Findlay, it would bring in about $2.4 million in new revenue

over the next four years at the current retail rate of $7.94 per 1,000 gallons, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported. “So it’s a very big thing for our authority,” Jason Orsini, general manager of the Findlay Township Municipal Authority, told the paper. Pennsylvania also has an impact fee that provides local government with some revenue from drilling operations.

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dates are Pentecostal minister Max Myers and Lebanon County Commissioner Jo Ellen Litz. State Sen. Mike Stack, of Philadelphia, has said he is considering running. The Democratic State Committee meets Feb. 8 to endorse its primary favorite, something that requires a two-thirds majority vote — a tall order even for a popular candidate. On websites and in public appearances, the candidates are working to define themselves apart from the pack. Schwartz touts her strong recognition in the heavily Democratic Philadelphia media market. Wolf, who briefly ran for governor in 2010 but dropped out, raised eyebrows when he announced he would plow at least $10 million of his own money into his primary campaign. Hanger, who served as a state utility regulator for five years before Rendell appointed him to head the DEP, is emphasizing wideranging policy proposals that include tougher gasdrilling laws, the revocation of state funding for failing charter schools and the decriminalization of marijuana. McGinty’s campaign stresses her governmental and private-sector experience in environmental protection and her Philadelphia upbringing as the ninth of 10 children.

Allegheny County officials have accepted the rule but haven’t given up hope. “We will certainly abide by that,” County Executive Rich Fitzgerald said in an email. “If opportunity exists to utilize those funds to reduce the burdens on the county’s taxpayers, we fully expect to pursue that.” In February, the Allegheny County Airport Authority approved the deal with Consol

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PAGE 12A Sunday, September 1, 2013 DAWN L. JACKSON, 68, of Drums, passed away Friday evening at her home, following a short illness. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced in Wednesday’s edition. Harman Funeral Homes & Crematory Inc. (East), 669 W. Butler Drive, Drums, is assisting the family with the arrangements. DOROTHY ELIZABETH HOWARD, 77, of Exeter, formerly of Pittston, passed away on Wednesday. A memorial service will be announced in Wednesday’s paper. Services have been entrusted to Kniffen O’Malley Funeral Home, 465 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre. RONALD KLIMCHAK, of Waller Street, Wilkes-Barre, passed away in Geisinger Medical Center, Danville. Funeral arrangements are pending from Mamary-Durkin Funeral Service, 59 Parrish St., Wilkes-Barre.

BARBARA MAZUR, 72, of Plymouth, passed away Saturday morning at Manor Health Care, Kingston. Born in Plymouth, she was the daughter of the late Walter and Louise Warkevicz. She was educated in Plymouth schools and attend ed Plymouth High School. She was employed for many years as a production worker in the shoe industry. Surviving are her brother, Larry, Plymouth; cousins, nieces and nephews. Private funeral services will be conducted at the convenience of the family. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to the Desiderio Funeral Home Inc., Mountain Top and WilkesBarre. MARGARET “PEG” CUNNINGHAM, beloved mother and grandmother, passed away Friday evening at the Inpatient Unit of Hospice Community Care, Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre. Funeral arrangements are pending from the Corcoran Funeral Home Inc., 20 S. Main St., Plains.

BARR GARTlEy Aug. 30, 2013

Barr Gartley, a kind and gentle man who lived for his family, lost his battle with cancer on Friday. Barr truly did live for his family and was a fixture at any events involving his children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews. His favorite way to spend time was watching his family, but especially his grandsons — Shamus, Joshua and Ian — participate in sports. He rarely missed a game or match and could always be seen recording the score and information about the event in one of his alwayspresent pocket notebooks. Born in Wilkes-Barre on Aug. 14, 1933, Barr was the son of the late Edgar and Edith (Barr) Gartley. Following his graduation from Coughlin High School, Barr proudly served his country in the U.S. Navy. Until his retirement, he was the longtime warehouse manager for the former Pomeroy’s Department Store chain and worked briefly for Geisinger. He was a member and past master of the Landmark Lodge 442 of the Fraternal Order of Masons. He was also a member of the Polish American Veterans Club and a former member of the Lions Club. In addition to his parents, Barr was preceded in death by his son, Kevin, in 2011; infant sister, Jacqueline; sister, Shirley (Evans); and brother, Edgar. He is survived by the love of his life, his wife of 52 years, Mary (Ward) Gartley; his daughter, Lisa Gartley, of Wilkes-Barre; his sons, Barr Gartley of WilkesBarre, and Scott Gartley and his wife, Tina Gartley, of Plains Township. He is also survived by three grandsons, Shamus,

Joshua and Ian Gartley, of Plains Township; sister, Phyllis Carey, of Wilkes-Barre; sister, Margaret Collins, of Dallas; and many nieces and nephews. The Gartley family thanks Dr. Edward Stachowiak and the doctors, nurses and staff at Medical Oncology Associates and Hahnemann University Hospital for their extraordinary care and compassion. The funeral will be held at 9:30 a.m. Monday at E. Blake Collins Funeral Home, 159 George Ave., WilkesBarre, with a funeral Mass at 10 a.m. in St. Benedict’s Church, Austin Avenue, WilkesBarre. Interment will be in Mount Greenwood Cemetery, Shavertown. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today. In lieu of flowers and to honor Barr’s love of children, the family is requesting that donations be made to Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital, 600 Centerview Drive, P.O. Box 852, Hershey, PA 17033 for the outstanding care provided to Barr’s grandson and great-nephew. Condolences can be sent to the family at www.eblakecollins. com.

Surviving are two brothers, Dominick Steffen and his wife, Olga, Pittston, and Frank Destefano and Joy Wiles, Pittston Township; and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Peter J. Adonizio Funeral Home, 251 William St., Pittston, with a Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 a.m. in St. Joseph Marello Parish, Pittston. Interment will follow in St. Rocco’s Cemetery, Pittston Township. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Online condolences may be made at www. peterjadoniziofuneralhome. com.

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Anna Marie Smith, 84, of the Parsons section of Wilkes-Barre, passed away on Thursday at her home. She was born July 29, 1929, in Clifton, N.J., a daughter of the late Frank and Catherine Farrell. A former resident of New Jersey, she was a professional roller skater in her youth and skated at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Mrs. Smith was an admirer of the late Princess Diana, and she lived her life to the fullest. She was also a fan of the Miami Dolphins. She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard Smith; and brother, Joseph Farrell. Surviving are her children, Elaine Kay and her husband, Robert, with whom she resided; Marie Tomasello and her husband, Thomas; Richard Smith Jr. and his fiancé, Nicole Akers; Evelyn Hopper and her husband, Joe; 13 grandchildren; 16 greatgrandchildren; sister, Katherine Mazzotta; and her beloved cat, Angel. The funeral will be held at

9:30 a.m. Wednesday at E. Blake Collins Funeral Home, 159 George Ave., Wilkes-Barre, with a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. in St. Maria Goretti Church, Laflin. The Parish Bereavement Group will recite the Rosary in the church 30 minutes prior to the Mass. Private interment services will be held at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa, N.J. Friends may call from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Condolences can be sent to the family at www. eblakecollins.com.

KIRTlAND C. (KIRT) WAlp Aug. 30, 2013

Kirtland C. (Kirt) Walp, 79, of the Lee Park section of Hanover Township, passed away on Friday at his home. Born on March 26, 1934, in the Dundee section of Hanover Township, he was a son of the late Carl and Ann Williams Walp. He graduated from Hanover High School, class of 1951, then served two apprenticeships: one as a machinist and one for tool and die making at W.H. Nicholson Co. in Wilkes-Barre. He worked on the oxygen supply assembly to put the first living thing in space in the late 1950s. He also worked on all tooling related to bombs that were used in the Korean War and a project related to Berrillium copper for the non-magnetic land mines. In the 1960s Kirt was employed at Fibrous Products, now called CertainTeed, to build a mold to make a Fiberglas cushion for the first Titan missile launched from Huntsville, Ala. He earned a master’s degree from Penn State in 1972. He began a career in teaching, first at Wyoming Valley Technical Institute, which became West Side Area Tech School and is now West Side Career and Technology Center in Pringle, retiring in 1993. He also taught for Penn State, Luzerne County Community College, RCA Corp., American Tobacco, Kanaar Corp. and others that wanted instruction in blueprint reading, math and measuring tools. He had been offered employment at Williamsport Tech Center and a staff position at Penn State University, but declined in order to stay in the Wyoming Valley. Kirt loved hunting, clay bird and target shooting and was an avid Lionel Train user, not a collector. He was a member of Firwood United Methodist Church, Wilkes-Barre, was active in Blue Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Nanticoke, where he was a 50-year member, president of the Hall Association and served as a trustee. He belonged to Irem Shriners, where he was

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a member of the Stewards Unit for 40 years, on the executive committee for 30 years, and was potentate’s aide for 10 years. Kirt was preceded in death by his wife of 56 years, the former Marion King, on Sept. 2, 2011. They loved to travel and made several cross-country trips, visiting 48 states, took seven cruises, 38 time-share vacations, plus many trips with the Shriners. He was also preceded in death by his brother, William Walp. Surviving are sons, Gary Walp and his wife, Mary Kay, and granddaughter, Carla, Swoyersville, and Wayne Walp and his wife, Donna, and granddaughters, Lauren and Chelsea, Whitehall, Pa.; as well as several brothers and sisters-in-law, nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at DavisDinelli Funeral Home, 170 E. Broad St., Nanticoke, with the Rev. Anita J. Ambrose, pastor of First Welsh Baptist Church, Plymouth, officiating. Interment will follow in Denison Cemetery, Swoyersville. Visitation will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. A Masonic Memorial service will be held at 7:30 p.m. If desired, in lieu of flowers, contributions in Mr. Walp’s memory may be made to the Masonic Hall Association of Nanticoke Lodge F & A M, 210 E. Main St., Nanticoke, PA 18634 or to Firwood United Methodist Church, 399 Old River Road, Wilkes-Barre, PA 187802.

BEDFORD — A secretary to the warden of a county jail has been charged with stealing more than $50,000 going back five years. Sheila J. Suter was charged Friday with felony theft after Bedford County Prison Warden David Kessling allegedly noticed checks and money orders were being deposited but not cash. She was terminated from her job. The money Suter was accused of taking was from incoming inmates and was supposed to be deposited in a local bank. Inmates didn’t lose money because Suter reimbursed them from the bank account, police said. The Pittsburgh TribuneReview reported Suter, 64, was fired in 2001 over a relationship with a guard and for violating a state law against taking obscene material into a prison. Prison officials found a Playgirl magazine when they were clearing out her desk, according to reports. She later won an arbitrator’s decision that she was wrongfully dismissed, and she was re-hired in 2003. Kessling told the newspaper he took over her duties after her recent health problems. “She was handling all the money collected from inmates, but there was really no oversight,” Kessling said. “We’ve instituted a number of changes to make sure this sort of thing doesn’t happen again.”

BARRy ‘CHIp’ WEISS Aug. 30, 2013

A bright light has gone out in Wilkes-Barre. Barry “Chip” Weiss died Friday in WilkesBarre General Hospital. Born Dec. 2, 1947, he was the son of Betty “BeBe” Liebman Weiss Baer and the late Nathan “Sonny” Weiss. Chip (or Chipper, if you’re more into the formal informality) graduated from Meyers High School, class of 1965. After graduation, he began a lifetime of “peddling” as he called it. He began by selling “used horses” and graduated from there to cars, animal feed, auction houses and a host of other consumer goods. For more than 30 years, he was the owner of Main Street Feed, located on South Main Street, Wilkes-Barre. Chip was an avid fan of Indy and NASCAR racing. Surviving, in addition to his mother, are his wife, Bonnie Brown Weiss; daughter, Samantha Wells, Winthrop, N.Y.; son, Neal, Deerpark, Ohio; granddaughters, Megan and

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New york university junior Christina Isnardi and a fellow student started the campus petition that asks the school to refrain from posting unpaid internships offered by for-profit businesses. Elizabeth; grandsons, Joshua and Jason; a sister, Sharyn O’Neill and her husband, Jack, Wapwallopen; niece, Kendra Bevill; nephew, Sean O’Neill; grand-nephew, Jason O’Neill; and a grand-niece, Cameron O’Neill. Funeral and interment will be private and held at the convenience of the family. In lieu of flowers or donations, the family asks that, if you like, think of Chip, raise a toast, say something nice and don’t forget to smile. Chipper would approve.

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ESTHER A. STEFFEN (DESTEFANO) Esther A. Steffen (Destefano), 80, of Pittston Township, passed away Friday at home. Born in Pittston on April 15, 1933, she was the daughter of the late Dominick and Mary Colarusso Destefano. She attended Pittston Township schools and worked in the area garment industry. She was a member of St. Joseph Marello Parish, Pittston, and the ILGW union. She was a loving sister and aunt and will be truly missed. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a sister, Rose Marie Destefano; and brothers, Anthony and Joseph Destefano.

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Florence M. Tedesco, 90, of St. Stanislaus Apartments, Sheatown, died Thursday at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. She resided in Sheatown since October 2011 and had been a resident of White Oak, near Pittsburgh, for many years. She was preceded in death by her husband of 70 years, Samuel J. Tedesco Sr., on June 13, 2011; a daughter, Adrienne Stone; a sister and two brothers. Surviving are sons, Sam Tedesco Jr. and his wife, Marie, Newport Township, and Ronald Tedesco and his wife, Sherri, California; daughters,

Jodie Lynn Strauss and husband, Mark, Pittsburgh, and Debbie d’Happart and her husband, Bill, Dallas, Texas; six grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; a brother, Edward Farrow and his wife, Jay, Ohio; and nieces and nephews. A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Jefferson Memorial Park, Pittsburgh, with Marshall Smith, assistant pastor of Christian and Missinary Alliance Church, McKeesport, officiating. There will be no calling hours. Arrangements are by Davis-Dinelli Funeral Home, 170 E. Broad St., Nanticoke.

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Campaign to end unpaid internships heads to campus Fair Pay Campaign says it will also take fight to White House AlAN SCHER ZAGIER Associated Press

A nascent campaign against employers’ use of unpaid interns is taking aim at what critics call some of the longstanding practice’s biggest enablers: colleges that steer students into such programs in exchange for academic credit. Organizers hope to have mobilizers raise the issue on campuses as students return to school this fall, with a particular emphasis on schools in New York, Washington and Los Angeles. They also want to join up with organized labor as part of a broader coalition focused on workplace issues. The backlash against working for free — and sometimes paying tuition for the privilege— comes after a federal judge in New York recently ruled that Fox Searchlight Pictures violated federal minimum wage and overtime laws by not paying interns who worked on the 2010 movie “Black Swan.” Angry interns have also sued record compa-

nies, magazine publishers, modeling agencies and TV talk show hosts. Leaders of the Fair Pay Campaign, a group organized in 2012 to fight the internships, say they are taking their social mediadriven effort right to the top: they plan to press the White House to end its use of unpaid interns. Getting college credit “is a tangible benefit” of internships, said campaign organizer Mikey Franklin, a 23-year-old British expat who now lives in Washington. “But I can’t pay my rent with college credit.” Franklin said he founded the Fair Pay Campaign when he was unable to land a paid political job after working as a campaign organizer on Maryland’s 2012 samesex marriage ballot measure. “Everybody told me you can’t get a job on (Capitol) Hill unless you’re an unpaid intern,” he said. “The more I looked, I saw it was an incredibly widespread practice.” His allies include University of Nevada-Las Vegas student Jessica Padron, who is trying to defray the $6,500 costs of a four-month Washington internship

for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid with a crowd-sourced online fundraising campaign. At New York University, a petition drive asks the school to remove unpaid internship listings offered by for-profit businesses. More volunteers are pitching in, he said, although he declined to provide specifics about the campaign’s finances. A recent survey reported that 63 percent of graduating college seniors this year had an internship, the highest level since polling began six years ago. Nearly half the internships were unpaid. The expansion of internships comes as President Barack Obama and Congress have been emphasizing the problem of growing student debt. The federal Fair Labor Standards Act sets out a six-part test to determine whether an internship can be unpaid. The internship must be similar to “training which would be given in an educational environment,” run primarily for the intern’s benefit and involve work that doesn’t replace that of paid employees. Defenders of academicdriven internships emphasize the educational benefits of bringing students into the workplace.

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Area lawmakers pleased that Obama seeks approval on Syria JERRY LYNOTT

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Lawmakers representing Northeastern Pennsylvania in Washington, D.C. welcomed President Barack Obama’s decision to seek congressional approval to use military force against Syria for the alleged use of chemical weapons against civilians. The president on Saturday said as commander in chief he believes he has the authority to take military action without authorization from Congress, but will present his case to the House and Senate that

his approach is necessary in response to the deadly attacks and to punish Syrian President Bashar Assad. U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Scranton, saw firsthand the effects of the conflict when he visited the region in April and met with Syrian refugees on the Turkish border, he said. Casey, who participated Friday in an intelligence briefing on Syria as a member of the National Security Working Group, said a debate on Syria policy is “very important and I wish it had started sooner.” “I have no doubt that Bashar

al-Assad has used chemical weapons against his own people,” he said. Casey, co-chair of the Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism Caucus, pointed out that in November he presented a “comprehensive approach to the Syrian crisis” and “called for a more assertive approach to the conflict in Syria,” believing the Assad regime was a threat to the stability of the region and the broader security interests of the U.S. “Every day that Assad remains in power helps Iran and Hezbollah who plot against the

United States and its allies,” Casey said in a prepared statement. “I believe that it is in the U.S. national security interest to respond to this most recent chemical attack. I appreciate the administration’s efforts to consult with Congress about the situation as we collectively assess our response.” U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Hazleton said he applauded the president and looked forward to examining the case to be made to lawmakers before voting on whether to authorize the use of force. “America is at its strongest when proper chan-

should take military action against Syrian regime targets,” Obama said. The president said the mission’s scope would be limited and he was “confident we can hold the Assad regime accountable for their use of chemical weapons, deter this kind of behavior, and degrade their capacity to carry it out.” Secretary of State John Kerry Friday presented evidence that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons in an Aug. 21 attack in a Damascus suburb. The U.S. evidence, Obama said Saturday, “corroborates what the world can plainly see — hospitals overflowing with victims; terrible images of the dead. All told, well over 1,000 people were murdered. Several hundred of them were children — young girls and boys gassed to death by their own government.” The attack, Obama said, “is an assault on human dignity,” and “presents a serious danger” to U.S. national security. “It risks making a mockery of the global prohibition on the use of

rejected participation through a vote of its Parliament.” Earlier in the week U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Zionsville, said it appeared “to be an established fact” that chemical weapons were used and, coupled with Assad’s behavior, there was a national security interest to the U.S. “This calls for an American response, being mindful to avoid a long-term military engagement in the Syrian civil war,” said Toomey. “The president must explain to Congress and the American people the objectives and risks of any action.”

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nels are followed and the nation speaks with one voice,” Barletta said. Barletta said that he wanted to hear what “overriding American national security interests are at stake” to support military strikes. “Rogue nations have threatened to attack Israel in retaliation for any American action,” said Barletta. “There is also the very real fear that al-Qaeda is heavily involved with the rebel forces which would seemingly benefit from our intervention. Finally, it is troublesome that even our closest ally, Great Britain, has

chemical weapons,” he said. “It endangers our friends and our partners along Syria’s borders, including Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq. It could lead to escalating use of chemical weapons, or their proliferation to terrorist groups who would do our people harm.” Congress wants more details, and senators Saturday were briefed by administration officials, the third such briefing in three days. Another is scheduled Sunday for House members, and more briefings are planned during the week. Obama administration officials began writing a resolution — but not a declaration for war — for Congress to consider when it returns. Congress’ role in advising and consenting to war has become murky. Though Congress has the constitutional authority to formally declare war, it last did so at the outset of World War II. Recent presidents have often avoided seeking legislative consent before launching military action. The 1973 War Powers Resolution, approved during the turmoil of the Vietnam War, says a president must consult with Congress.

Obama stressed Saturday that he has done that, and has the authority to strike Syria now. Everything is ready, he said. “The Chairman has indicated to me that our capacity to execute this mission is not time-sensitive; it will be effective tomorrow, or next week, or one month from now. And I’m prepared to give that order,” the president said. But, he added, “having made my decision as commander-in-chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I’m also mindful that I’m the president of the world’s oldest constitutional democracy.” Saturday, House Republican leaders signaled they were ready for a debate, and suggested it would go for a few days starting Sept. 9. “This provides the president time to make his case to Congress and the American people,” the House Republican leadership said in a joint statement. “We are glad the president is seeking authorization for any military action in Syria in response to serious, substantive questions being raised.” However, Rep. Peter

King, R-N.Y., a member From page 1A of the House Intelligence Committee, accused has stood silently and it’s Obama of “abdicating been too long. Something his responsibility as com- needs to be done,” said mander-in-chief” by wait- Tamer Barazi, a 23-yearing for a congressional old civil engineer who carried a Syrian flag and debate. Obama could have a sign stating “Syrian an easier time in Americans for peace, the Senate, where democracy and freedom in Syria.” both Senate Foreign Standing across the Relations Chairman Bob street in Houston’s swelMenendez, D-N.J., and tering heat were those top Republican Sen. opposing U.S. intervenBob Corker, R-Tenn., tion, outnumbering the expressed support. supporters of an interIn addition to the vention. Some carried congressional debate, signs stating “We Don’t Obama faces internation- Want Obama’s War” and al reluctance to back the “Hands Off Syria.” mission. “How would you like country to Russian President another Vladimir Putin weighed decide who is going to in Saturday for the first be the president of the time since the suspected United States?” asked chemical weapons attack. 53-year-old Hisam Saker, Russia is a key ally of the a Syrian-American property manager who has Syrian regime. Putin appealed to lived in Houston for 33 Obama as a past Nobel years. In Washington, as Peace Prize winner. Obama addressed the “We have to remember nation from the Rose what has happened in Garden, anti-war demthe last decades, how onstrators chanted and many times the United waved placards outside States has been the ini- the White House. tiator of armed conflict Across the street, in different regions of the Syrians and Syrian world,” he told Russian Americans who support journalists, according to U.S. action waved flags Associated Press. “Did from their country and this resolve even one shouted for Assad’s ouster. problem?”

“The conflict’s been going on for, what, almost 2 years now. Estimates are 100,000 Syrian civilians have been killed and all of a sudden the U.S. government has manufactured the excuse of the use of chemical weapons in Syria to use that excuse to intervene in Syria,” said Tristan Brosnan, 25, of Washington. In Boston, more than 200 protesters demonstrated in the Boston Commons against the possible use of force. They waved signs and chanted “Don’t Bomb Syria!” over and over again, and at least one speaker said congressional authorization wouldn’t make an attack acceptable. More than two dozen protesters gathered at the Arkansas Capitol to oppose an attack. Some wore T-shirts proclaiming “NO U.S. INTERVENTION IN SYRIA.” “I had friends that died in Iraq, and I don’t want more people to die for nothing,” said Dominic Box, 23, expressing some of the fears of a war-weary public. In downtown Chicago, about 40 people walked quietly in the rain, circling a sculpture in Daley

Plaza. Some carried signs that read “No War In Syria” and “Shut It Down.” “I don’t believe in spreading democracy the way they’re doing it,” said Tyke Conrady, 44, who attended the protest with three friends. In London, more than 1,000 protesters carrying Syrian flags and placards marched to Downing Street and rallied in Trafalgar Square. Some hailed the parliament’s vote Thursday against British participation as a victory. And about 700 people turned out for an antiwar demonstration in Frankfurt, Germany, police said. Organizers said only a “sovereign, independent Syria free of foreign interference” would make it possible for the Syrian people to shape the country’s future. At a protest organized by left-wing opposition parties in Amman, Jordan, Kawthar Arrar described any military intervention as “an aggression on the whole Arab world.” The protesters gathered outside the U.S. embassy, chanting slogans and setting fire to American and Israeli flags.

County, and that the county recently had to locate a Creole interpreter – twice – for court proceedings. In other court proceedings in recent history, the county has had to find interpreters who speak Swahili, Russian and Montenegrin. In March 2012, several Spanish-speaking interpreters had to participate in a homicide trial in which one defendant spoke no English and several witnesses and family members needed translators for the trial and and sentencing three months later. The proceeding was lengthy at times as an interpreter translated a witness’ testimony into English or while an interpreter spoke to the defendant, Rodolfo Hiraldo Perez, of Hazleton. If an interpreter is needed for a hearing and then the hearing is canceled, said Shucosky said, the county must still pay

a cancellation fee. “I can understand that because they’ve declined other work to help us,” he said. Translation issues The state-mandated test often calls for interpreters to translate slang terms or terms that aren’t typically used any more, such as “bailiff,” Shucosky said. Languages such as Spanish also come with different dialects with which an interpreter may not be familiar with. Despite those complications, Shucosky said, he does not think the AOPC testing should be changed or made easier. “You don’t want the misinterpretation of one word to affect the whole outcome of a court proceeding.” The AOPC does provide training and seminars to interpreters, held throughout the year. The testing is done orally and certification is required every two years, according to the AOPC.

als participating in the same proceeding. “Sometimes we have family or friends translate for civil proceedings to make it go easier,” Dixon said, adding a typical proceeding can be extended by many hours due to the need for translators. Dixon knows enough Spanish from his time as a Hazleton city police officer to keep himself safe, he said, but suggested it would only be beneficial to him to learn how to fluently speak the language.

“Right now, with our county budget and shortage of interpreters, there’s just not enough resources (to address language needs),” Dixon said. So far this year Dixon has processed 4,100 cases through his office, he said, and expects to have at least the second-highest caseload of county district courts by the end of the year. His office needs many resources that have been lacking, but language interpreters are among the most needed, he said.

Translate From page 1A in hospitals and businesses. “We’re all competing for a small pool of interpreters,” Shucosky said. Growing concern The county budget allocates $80,000 for interpreter services, a number that might increase next year because a new initiative within the judicial system calls for both criminal and civil proceedings to have an interpreter present if needed, Shucosky said. Currently, only criminal proceedings call for interpreters to be present. In Luzerne County, there is a certified American Sign Language interpreter, Martha Andras, of Hazleton, and two Spanish interpreters: Joussy Olsen, of White Haven, who is certified by the state, and works as an independent contractor, and Thelma Kennedy, of Sugarloaf, who is qualified by the state and is employed by

the county. According to the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, interpreters who are certified are paid between $45 and $60 a hour while those who are qualified receive between $35 and $40 an hour. The county is fortunate to have Kennedy on staff, but her schedule is packed and she cannot do all of the work herself, Shucosky said. The county previously had two other interpreters, but in October 2012 they did not pass the state test governed by the AOPC, which now

requires a more stringent state certification exam than in the past. Silvana Calderon’s language abilities help in her duties as a secretary in District Judge Dixon’s office. “She is a blessing,” said Dixon. “She isn’t qualified by the state, so we can’t use her for criminal proceedings. But she helps in almost every other aspect.” Statewide judicial issue At the July statewide judicial conference in Hershey a major topic discussed among Court of Common Pleas judges

was interpreter services, Shucosky said. “Now, they want to make sure interpreters are available for civil proceedings,” he said. That will spread the minimal amount of interpreters in the county even thinner, Shucosky said, and will require the county to use outside resources more frequently. Both county and magisterial district courts have the option to use an outside company that provides more than 120 language translations by phone, but these can be used only for court pro-

ceedings less than 30 minutes, Shucosky said. The other option Shucosky has is to call interpreters who serve the state to see if they are available to come to Luzerne County. The county employs one person who is in charge of contacting interpreters on a daily basis, Shucosky said. Typically, an interpreter is needed up to six times a week for court proceedings. That number will only increase with the additional of civil matters, Shucosky said. “We have 1,700 new custody cases each year,” he said. “Those alone will call for a greater need for interpreters.” It is difficult to schedule out-of-town interpreters because they aren’t always available when needed and must often drive significant distances to get to Wilkes-Barre. Shucosky said Pittsburgh is the farthest away an interpreter has traveled to Luzerne

provided telephone number to reach an interpreter. Dixon chooses from a list of several languages and waits – sometimes several minutes – for the interpreter to take the call. Then, Dixon and the parties involved crowd around his bench, intently listening to the speakerphone, sometimes shouting over it in heated discussions. “It’s a safety concern for everyone and is sometimes hard to understand if everyone is shouting over each other,” Dixon said.

Dixon’s secretary, Silvana Calderon, is able to assist in some civil proceedings if things become too difficult, but since she is not a state-approved interpreter she cannot help with criminal proceedings. At least 80 percent of the people who come through his office see Calderon first because they need help in Spanish, Dixon said. Dixon also uses a videoconferencing monitor that allows him to dial in to an interpreter at the Luzerne County Courthouse, and

also enables him to reach the county prison, state prisons and locations outside of Pennsylvania. The videoconferencing machine, called Polycom, is typically used for latenight or early-morning arraignments, but Dixon said he has used it once to have an interpreter during a proceeding. “It’s saving tax money and time, keeping police close by and not requiring everyone to travel,” Dixon said. Dixon can use the tele-

phone dial-an-interpreter for short proceedings, he said, but if a preliminary hearing is scheduled for a criminal proceeding an interpreter needs to be present. In that case, Dixon must notify county court three weeks ahead of when he plans on having the hearing to make sure an interpreter is available. “It’s not fair to anyone who cannot understand fully what is being said in court,” Dixon said on behalf of Spanish and English speaking individu-

LANGUAGES There are 30 languages spoken in Luzerne County: Arabic Chinese Czech Dutch English French German Greek

Gujarathi Hebrew Hindi India (not specified) Italian Japanese Korean Lithuanian Pennsylvania Dutch Polish Portuguese Romanian

Serb-Croatian Slovak Slovene Spanish Russian Tagalog Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Yiddish Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Judge From page 1A such as James Tupper in Trucksville, don’t typically deal with a large volume of non-English-speaking cases. “We very seldom need an interpreter,” Tupper said. “But we do have them from time to time (at hearings).” Others, such as Joseph Zola and Dixon, have bilingual secretaries on staff. Typically, for a short proceeding, Dixon uses a speakerphone in his small courtroom to call a state-

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No Child From page 1A Schools also had to hit minimum goals in graduation or attendance rates, and test participation rates. The proficiency goals also had to be reached by “subgroups” of students that statistically do poorly on such tests, including special education, English Language Learners, minorities and low-income students. Hit all the goals and a school was said to have made “Adequate Yearly Progress.” Making AYP became the holy grail for public schools. Missing it created an image problem; missing it repeatedly brought state action ranging from requirements to increase student support to allowing students to transfer to another school. The ultimate consequence: A state takeover of the school. Unattainable standards What happened? Critics argue reality kicked in. As 2014 approached and the proficiency percentage kept climbing, more schools missed AYP. Consider: In 2005, only seven Luzerne County Schools missed AYP; in 2012, only 19 schools made AYP (the number of schools varied slightly over the years as some closed and others reconfigured in ways that meant they were

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not teaching grades being tested; last year the county had 62 schools measured for AYP). As the trend became obvious and the federal government failed to take any action to revise No Child Left Behind (it should have been re-authorized in 2007) the U.S. Department of Education started granting waivers letting states set up alternative systems of accountability. Pennsylvania was late in the game; 41 states already had sought and won waivers. “Essentially they are acknowledging that every kid is not going to score proficient,” Luzerne Intermediate Unit Executive Director Anthony Grieco said. “Take a special education kid who, diagnostics tell us, is functioning four or five years below grade level. It’s not fair to expect him to take the same test as other students his age.” The LIU provides a variety of services to area districts, primarily special education. Along with the state’s 28 other Intermediate Units, it is tasked with helping districts adapt to what will replace AYP: School Performance Profiles, or SPPs, which will report how a school has done in meeting four “Annual Measurable Objectives,” or AMOs. (AYP might be dead; government acronyms are alive

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schools must close the “achievement gap” in test results for all students,though Grieco noted educators are still awaiting “guidance” on what that means exactly. “It’s happening late and the state Department of Education is is really in flux,” Grieco said, noting there technically is no secretary of education and the acting secretary, William Harner, has only been on the job a few weeks. Schools must also close the achievement gap for “historically underperforming groups,” which refers to those subgroups mentioned before. But Grieco noted the new system doesn’t treat each group separately, instead looking at them as one large group. “I think it’s more equitable,” Grieco said. Under AYP, a student could belong to multiple subgroups — a minority English Language Learner from a lowincome family, for example, and a poor test result would count against the school in each subgroup separately. “Now that student only counts once.” The new system will rely heavily on the Pennsylvania Valueadded Assessment System tests, which are designed to measure individual student achievement each year against what that stu-

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A horse and carriage sweep animal-lovers away MARY THEREsE BIEBEL

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When newlyweds Sarah Abrams and Eric Wagner emerged from Our Lady of Victory Church at Harveys Lake on Aug. 17, Sarah remembers wondering, “Why is there a horse in the parking lot?” “I was on cloud nine, and it didn’t even hit me,” she said. “Then I saw a white rose on the horse and thought, ‘Oh my gosh. That’s for us.’” Parents of the bride, Joan and Bill Abrams of Dallas, had succeeded in keeping the horse-drawn carriage a surprise, and it was an appropriate one, considering how much their daughter and new son-in-law love animals. Back when Sarah, 27, and Eric, 26, were both pharmacy students at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, a little dog named Winston helped forge their bond. A beagle mix, Winston was “a malnourished, poor little pup” when Sarah rescued him from the streets. Those streets weren’t the safest place, so when Eric noticed his classmate out walking the rescued dog, he offered to accompany them. “There was a turning point in our relationship,” Sarah said, remembering how she and Eric nursed Winston back to health after he was struck by a car. While the dog was recuperating, it took both of them to carry him up and down stairs, with one person supporting his back legs in a towel harness and the other opening doors. “If we could get through this,” she remembers thinking, “we could get through a lot together.” Winston has died, but the newlyweds have new pets — a 120-pound black lab/bull mastiff named Dakota that Sarah gave to Eric as a Christmas present, and a black lab/boxer named Bella they inherited from Eric’s sister, Nicole, after she died in a 2007 car accident. That was the same year Sarah’s sister, Beth Abrams Finarelli, was recovering from a hemorrhagic stroke and a series of seizures she suffered while pregnant with her son, Mikey. “She’s one of the strongest people I know,” Sarah said of her sister. “She taught me how to fight back against the things life throws at you.” During the wedding, the couple honored both sisters, having Beth serve as matron of honor, and lighting a candle in front of a photograph of Nicole at the church. The couple got engaged in 2011 on the beach at Cape May, N.J., where they were sharing a picnic and bottle of wine. “The reason I picked there (for the proposal) was because it was her childhood vacation place,” Eric said.

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Bride sarah Abrams is escorted into our Lady of Victory Church, Harveys Lake, by her father, Bill Abrams.

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“There was a turning point in our relationship. If we could get through this, we could get through a lot together.”

— sarah Abrams wagner, Remembering how she and her now-husband nursed a dog back to health after he was struck by a car.

“She’d gone there every year of her life.” The sentimental choice was perfect, said Sarah, who had come to believe Eric would be an ideal life partner when she saw how he interacted with his family. “When I saw how he treated his mom, when I saw how he acted with his own family, that made it all clear to me,” she said. See HORSE | 2B

A 5-year-old boy once approached Jeff Steinberg and in the simple, direct way children have, pointed at the hook Steinberg uses to grip a microphone. “What’s that?” the boy wanted to know. “I told him it’s a hook,” Steinberg said. “What do you have that for?” the boy asked. “Because I don’t have any hands,” came the answer. “Why don’t you have any hands?” “I used to bite my fingernails, and I went too far.” Steinberg, who will visit Emmanuel Assembly of God church at Harveys Lake on Friday, said audiences usually laugh and relax when he tells that little story because his humor shows he’s comfortable with what many would see as a disability. A singer and inspirational speaker, Steinberg was born without hands or arms and with malformed legs. He stands about 4 foot 6, much shorter than the 6-foot-8 passerby who once tapped him on the shoulder in a parking lot and asked “Are you driving that red Lincoln?” “Yes,” Steinberg told him. “It’s too big to push.” There’s that humor again. But there is a serious side to Steinberg’s message. “I’m a masterpiece in See LITTLE GIANT | 2B

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Newlyweds sarah Abrams and Eric wagner (seen above left and right) enjoy their surprise post-wedding carriage ride after their wedding.

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what: ‘You’re A Masterpiece in Progress’ who: Inspirational speaker and singer Jeff Steinberg when: 7 p.m. Friday where: Emmanuel Assembly of God, 239 Church Road, Harveys Lake More info: 570-6395858

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CHICAGO — Before reuniting for dinner at their parents’ home during a recent break from touring, the three siblings who make up The Band Perry — known best for their quadruple-platinum hit “If I Die Young” — and their parents — who regularly join the band on tour — agreed to act like a normal family and stay away from talking about music. The result? “We sat in silence for a half hour,” said Kimberly Perry, on speaker phone with her brothers recently, adding that they eventually got back to talking music. “We could not get away from it.” Music has been a big part of the family’s life long before the country trio’s self-titled debut album sold 1.5 million copies and it was nominated for best new artist at the 2012 Grammys. Kimberly was part of a band with highschool friends when she was 15, and her brothers, Reid and Neil, then 10 and 8, opened up for them with their band. In October, the siblings will celebrate the

15-year anniversary of their first show. Once Kimberly’s bandmates moved on, she formed The Band Perry with her brothers in 2005 — which she said was always in the cards. As the story goes, their parents were just waiting for the siblings to get closer in height. Asked if her ex-bandmates regret their decision to part ways, Kimberly said “They all moved on to various, cool jobs” before admitting, with some prodding, “Maybe a couple of them wish they stuck around.” Kimberly and Co. have come a long way from their early shows, which took place at churches, restaurants and fairs. In 2005, they played acoustic shows at Walmarts across the country as part of the New Faces of Country Tour. “We played anywhere and everywhere we possibly could,” Kimberly said. “There were so many shows we played where there were more people on stage than in the crowd. But we were encouraged to play for two people like it was 200 people, and eventually the right people (would) cross our path. And it was true. We did a thousand shows before we had a song on the radio. I

wouldn’t trade that time for anything. The live element is our first love. We’re able to handle whatever comes our way because it’s probably already happened on stage.” (Kimberly suffered bruising and an abrasion to her leg, not to mention a ripped dress, when overly excited fans pulled her toward the barriers during a show last month in Bowmanville, Ontario, outside of Toronto.) In April, the band released its sophomore album, “Pioneer,” which includes the singles “Better Dig Two,” “Done.” and “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely.” All three band members agreed, in unison, that this album, which has sold more than 400,000 copies, was more difficult to make than their 2010 debut. That might explain, in part, why they waited three years to release it. “There were moments when (the album) was our best friend and moments when it was our chief nemesis, but it was always our teacher,” Kimberly said of “Pioneer,” which on our days inside a tour bus and were changed producers during the record- talking about life rather than living it. “We definitely felt a responsibility ing process. “We learned to be creative on the go. We were forced to be inspired to top (our debut album). Having the

opportunity to record a second album is a gift. We rewrote the song ‘I’m a Keeper’ four times. It was really challenging. But in the end, it all paid off.”

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Horse From page 1B So the couple exchanged vows in Our Lady of Victory Church, attended by a large group of bridesmaids, including Elizabeth Finarelli, Elizabeth Hutton, Jennifer Mioduski, Annie Donley, Emily Herman, Bonnie Patek, Natalie Dow, Maggie Randazzo, Courtney Cavileri and Lainee Sensenig. Groomsmen were Stephen Wagner, Christopher Pannebaker, Matt Melott, James Abrams, Michael Finarelli, Christopher Valintakonis, Joseph Breton and Matthew Hagelberger. Jacob Sensenig and Mikey Finarelli

were ring bearers. After their trip to Costa Rica, the couple returned to Mauldin, S.C., where Eric works as a pharmacist and Sarah teaches at Presbyterian College School of Pharmacy. They are both graduates of the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, and Sarah is a 2004 graduate of Bishop O’Reilly High School. EDITOR’S NOTE: Vows is an occasional series that tells how a couple found each other. If you would like to share the story of your wedding, please contact Mary Therese Biebel at 570-829-7283 or mbiebel@ timesleader.com.

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Eric Wagner and Sarah Abrams departed after their wedding in a horse-drawn carriage.

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The newlyweds share a quiet moment before their reception.

Little Giant From page 1B progress,” he said. “I’ve thought about being made in God’s image. What exactly does that mean? I don’t believe my physical appearance is an accident. In my opinion I am created to be just as he imagined. That allows me to say to people, ‘You don’t have to feel sorry for me. I’m not a mistake. Now, what are you going to do with what he’s making out of you?’ “I am really hoping a lot of people come and hear Mr. Steinberg talk,” said the Rev. Lawrence. D. Reed, who invited the speaker to come to the church. “He’s going to touch a lot of hearts.”

Steinberg, 62, likes to encourage people, from church groups to school groups to prison inmates, no matter what sort of difficulties they face. Over the years, he admits, he’s also enjoyed proving people wrong, especially when their expectations were low. His mother, for example, predicted he’d spend his life in an institution. His father told him he’d never be able to drive a car. “I’ve driven too many miles to count,” Steinberg said. “I’m married. I have children. I’m a recording artist. I travel the world.” Steinberg maintains two distinct websites,

jeffsteinberg.net and tinygiant.com, in keeping with two styles of presentations he gives. One style is motivational with a “get-off-the-couch,” “work-toward-your-goals” message appropriate for public schools and other secular groups. The other style includes a spiritual dimension, with Steinberg talking about faith and his belief that, he is, to quote the Bible, “fearfully and wonderfully made.” His local appearance on Friday at Emmanuel Assembly of God will be the spiritual presentation and will include Steinberg singing some songs written for him by his friend Jeffrey L. Rudloff.

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Yearbooks offer more than a trip down memory lane While it’s a bit early tors graduated, or disapin the school year for peared. students to be thinking Where do you find about high-school yearbooks? Beyond yearbooks, genefriends and relaalogists would tives, it’s hit or miss, do well to take a particularly with look into these schools that have bound volumes for been folded into larginformation about er districts. There’s their 20th-century no single repository. ancestors. The Luzerne County Of course year- Tom Historical Society books are a source and various other of really neat pho- Mooney history and genealtos. You’ll see Out on a ogy organizations grand-dad pegged Limb (including libraries) with his nickname have collections of “Romeo” as well as varying sizes. High great-aunt in the trendiest schools themselves might hair style of 1947. have some but generally Here are some of the don’t have organized files. things I’ve found. One Times Leader clasyearbook had a list of all sifieds sometimes carry the boys from the class of ads from a local yearbook 1945 who received diplo- dealer, at modest prices. mas in absentia because Some are advertised they were away, serving online. You can always with the military. Another check out the area’s flea carried youthful drawings markets, yard sales and by a student who later garage sales, which can be became a world-famous treasure troves. magazine illustrator. Upcoming Events: For You’ll verify stories the area’s genealogists, you’ve heard: sewing this year will certainly clubs for girls, “iron man” go out with a bang. Don’t sports teams with no sub- miss these Septemberstitutes, dismissal time October programs: with nary a school bus in Irish Research: Joe sight, student hangouts, Grandinetti will offer long-gone elementary “Searching my Maternal feeder schools. You can Irish Roots – Finding the see exactly when ances- Needles in the Haystack”

You’ll verify stories you’ve heard: sewing clubs for girls, “iron man” sports teams with no substitutes, dismissal time with nary a school bus in sight, student hangouts, long-gone elementary feeder schools. You can see exactly when ancestors graduated, or disappeared. on Sept. 24 at the meeting of the Northeast Pennsylvania Genealogical Society. That meeting, open to the public, is 7 p.m. Sept. 24 in Room 104 of the McGowan Building on the campus of King’s College, North River and West Union streets. Grandinetti, who has visited Ireland several times on genealogical trips, will offer insights helpful to other researchers into their Irish families. Use of Maps: Hank Loftus of the Dorflinger Glass Museum will dis-

cuss “Searching Old Fire Insurance Maps” at the next meeting of the Genealogical Research Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The meeting, open to the public, is 7 p.m. Sept. 18 at the society’s offices, 1100 Main St., Peckville. Genealogy Class: The West Pittston Library will offer a local history and genealogy workshop next month. The event is set for 1:30-2:30 p.m. Oct. 19 at the library, 200 Exeter Ave., West Pittston. Speaking will be West

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The Tolarskis Barbara Ann (Skidmore) Tolarski married Joseph Andrew Tolarski Jr. on March 21, 1963 in Washington, DC. On June 29, 2013, Barbara and Joe celebrated 50 years together enjoying a night of dinner and dancing at Hawthorne Country Club, La Plata, Md., hosted by their four children: Michele Colburn and husband, Jeff; Joe Tolarski III; Monica Cox and husband, Chris; John Tolarski and wife, Kellie. Also, in attendance were their nine grandchildren: Monica and Ann Marie Colburn; Jimmy and Erica Cox; Drew and James Tolarski; and Joseph, Lauryn and Gavin Tolarski. Many family members and longtime friends from Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, North Carolina and Virginia also shared in their celebration. Joe retired from the U.S. Navy in 1975 and retired from the Department of Defense in 2001. Barbara retired in 1999 with more than 38 years in the field of cosmetology as an owner, manager and instructor. Barbara and Joe lived in Pensacola, Fla.; San Diego, Calif.; Naples, Italy; Port Lyautey, Morocco; Paris, France; Stuttgart, Germany; Norfolk, Va., and Washington, D.C., during their military career, and from 1975 until 2005 they resided in La Plata, Md. A cruise to Alaska in the fall is planned and will include a train tour of the California wine country. Barbara and Joe currently live in Terra Vista of Citrus Hills in Hernando, Fla.

The Robinses Donald C. Robins and Rita Brayford Robins of Kingston will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary on Sept. 11. They were married in 1948 at Firwood Methodist Church in WilkesBarre by the late Rev. George Savage. Rita is the daughter of George and Elizabeth Brayford of Wilkes-Barre and a graduate of Coughlin High School, class of ’44, and Wilkes-Barre General Hospital School of Nursing, class of ’47. As a registered nurse, her professional career covered many facets of nursing. Donald is a graduate of Kingston High School, class of ’43, and served in the Air Force during World War II and the Korean Conflict. He is the son of Richard and Hilda Robins of Kingston. He was the owner of Royal Sweets distributing company. They have one daughter, Dr. Georgia Robins Sadler (husband, Blair) of La Jolla, Calif. They have two granddaughters, Noelle Robins Sadler Delory (husband, Quentin Delory) of New York City and Nicole Robins Sadler (husband, Dr. Evan Ransom) of San Francisco, Calif, and a great-grandson, Stellan Delory. They are members of Wyoming Avenue Christian Church, where Don served as a deacon and trustee for more than 60 years.

The Swiecickis Nancy and Stanley Swiecicki recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. Nancy is the former Nancy Savitsky of Plains Township. The couple have three children and three grandchildren. They were married on June 27, 1953 at SS. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church in Plains Township.

The Brandts Mr. and Mrs. William Brandt Sr. of Kingston celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday. They were married in the former Trinity Lutheran Church, North Main Street, WilkesBarre, by the late Rev. John Lindquist. Mrs. Brandt is the daughter of the late Richard and Florence Howe, Parsons. She is employed by Visiting Angels and Wyoming Valley Motors BMW. Mr. Brandt is the son of the late Herman Brandt Sr. and Blodwyn Brandt. He is retired from One Point (formerly Deemers). They are the parents of Deborah Guziejka, Kingston; Bill Jr., Avoca, and Beth Cirilo, Kingston. There also are four grandchildren: Kristen and Joey Cirilo and Jarrett and Taylor Guziejka. An anniversary dinner party was held for family and friends at the East Mountain Inn, Wilkes-Barre.

Langdon,Patrick O’Connor,Feldmann Lindsey Ann Feldmann and Brad Clayton O’Connor were united in marriage on Sept. 29,2012 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Kingston, by the Rev. Paul Metzloff. The bride is the daughter of Jeffrey Feldmann, Wilkes-Barre, and Timothy and Debra Mras, Kingston. She is the granddaughter of Patricia Atherton and the late James Atherton and the late Nancy and Gerald Feldmann. The groom is the son of Clayton and Barbara O’Connor, Wilkes-Barre. He is the grandson of Thomas and Marilyn O’Connor and the late Sheldon and Jean Jones . The bride was given in marriage by her father, Jeffrey Feldmann. She chose her sister Chelsea Feldmann as maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Jill O’Connor, sister of the groom, Nicole Oravic, Laurie Jones, Shana Feichter and Lauren Krutz, friends of the bride. The groom chose his cousin Brandon Walker as his best man. Groomsmen were David Fey, cousin of the groom, Todd Jones, Charlie Krape, Todd Harding and Jeff Carlo, friends of the groom. Scripture reading was given by cousin of the groom, Shelby Foster. An Irish blessing was given by cousin of the bride, Bryn Healey. An evening cocktail hour was held at Oyster Bar and Restaurant followed by the reception in the Grand Ballroom at the Genetti Best Western Hotel. Entertainment was provided by MCR Productions, featuring DJ Hostile-Hersh. A wedding rehearsal was hosted by the parents of the groom at Costello’s Restaurant. The bride was honored with a bridal shower by her mother at Vanderlyn’s Restaurant. Both the bride and groom graduated from E.L Meyers High School and Bloomsburg University. Brad is employed at Herr Food, Pittston, as a route salesman, and Lindsey is employed at Bank of America, Moosic, as an account manager and at the Riverside Café, Wilkes-Barre. The couple resides in Kingston.

Shannon Patrick and R. Neal Langdon Jr., together with their families, announce their engagement and approaching marriage. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Joseph and Christine Patrick of Wilkes-Barre. She is the granddaughter of the late Joseph Stanley and Dorothy June (Wren) Patrick, and the late Eugene Aloysius and Dorothy Mary (Blaum) Burke of Wilkes-Barre. The prospective groom is the son of Dr. Richard N. and Mary Langdon of Bear Creek Township. He is the grandson of Edward and Dolores (Fabian) Langdon, of Wilkes-Barre, and the late William Thomas and Mary Agnes (Cassidy) Emmett of Plymouth Shannon is a 1997 graduate of Greater Nanticoke Area High School and earned an Associate of Applied Science degree in Legal Assisting/Paralegal at Luzerne County Community College. She is employed at Coremark in Hanover Township as an Accounts Receivable Representative. Neal is a 1998 graduate of Lake Lehman High School and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Animation at the Art Institute of Philadelphia. He is employed at c3I in Pittston as a Hardware Technician. The couple will exchange vows Nov. 2, 2013 at the home of Neal’s parent’s at Lake Aleeda in Bear Creek Township, by Joseph Carrelli, mayor of Conyngham.

Shinko,Ecklund Amanda Jeanette Ecklund and Jason Joseph Shinko, together with their families, announce their engagement and approaching marriage. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Robert and Nancy Ecklund of Scranton. She is the granddaughter of Mary Lou Sweeney, Scranton, and the late William Sweeney, and the late Robert and Mary Ecklund. The groom-to-be is the son of Stanley and Patricia Shinko of WilkesBarre. He is the grandson of Anthony and Maureen Muskas, Mountain Top, and the late Stanley and Helen Shinko. Amanda is a 2001 graduate of Bishop Hannan High School and received a master’s degree in physician assistant studies from Marywood University in 2012. She is employed as a certified physician assistant at a private psychiatry practice in Moosic. Jason is a 2003 graduate of G.A.R. High School and received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Lycoming College in 2007. He is employed as a claims analyst at Sallie Mae in Hanover Township. The couple will exchange vows Oct. 6, 2013 on the Royal Caribbean Explorer of the Seas in Bayonne, N.J. A local reception is to follow.

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The Ostopowiczes Richard and Sharon Ostopowicz of Nanticoke planned to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary on Saturday. The couple was married at the former St. Francis Church in Nanticoke. They have a son, Rick; daughter-in-law, Tracy, and grandsons, Tyler and Riley, all of Catonsville, Md.

Flannery,Karcheski Bernoski,Mukerjee William and Margurite Karcheski of Wilkes-Barre announce the engagement of their daughter, Erica Marie Karcheski, to Steven Edward Flannery, son of Kathy Flannery, Wilkes-Barre Township, and Ed Flannery, Laurel Run. Erica is a 2004 graduate of Hanover Area Junior/Senior High School. She is the granddaughter of Shirley and Jay Morgan, Wilkes-Barre, the late Elizabeth L. Norman, Joseph Otway, Larksville, and Theresa Epply, Wilkes-Barre. Steven is a 2004 graduate of G.A.R. Memorial Junior/Senior High School. He is the grandson of Audrey Flannery and the late John Flannery, Laurel Run, and grandson of the late Julie and John Nixon. The couple will exchange vows Sept. 26, 2015.

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From Heaven, Dr. Manju Mukerjee and his wife, Ms. Adeline Mukerjee, (nee Markiewicz) would like to announce the upcoming marriage of their daughter Stefania P. Mukerjee, Glen Lyon, to Mr. William J. Bernoski, Glen Lyon, son of the late Ms. Ida Young and Adam J. Bernoski. Ms. Mukerjee is a singer for Paul LaBelle and The Exact Change band of Clark Summit. Mr. Bernoski is a retired firefighter from Bradford County. After the nuptials, Ms. Mukerjee Bernoski will settle in Margaritaville in Grand Turk, Caicos Islands, swimming with the fishes. Meanwhile, Mr. William Bernoski will be chasing Carnival Cruise ships searching for his favorite deck waiter and hollering out “RAUL, ANOTHER BLOODY MARY, PLEASE!!!!”

Four generations celebrate baptism Four generations recently celebrated the baptism of Abigail Grace Wascavage, the infant daughter of Erin and Timothy Wascavage of Gansevoort, N.Y. Abigail was baptized in St. Clement’s Church, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Her godparents are Gail McMullen and Michael Wascavage. She is shown here with her great-grandfather, Ted Morio, paternal grandmother, Maureen and her father, Timothy. Abigail wore the same christening dress worn by her paternal grandmother, father, Uncle Michael, and baby cousin, Mila Wascavage. The dress was handmade for Abigail’s grandmother, Maureen, by Abigail’s great-great-great aunt, the late Anna Pizont of Nanticoke. A family dinner was held in celebration of Abby’s christening at her home in New York.

BIRTHS Nesbitt Women’s and Children’s Center at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital Rebarchak, Amanda M. and Christoper J. Jr., Mountain Top, a daughter, Aug. 20 McGeever, Jenny, Wilkes-Barre, a daughter, Aug. 20 Saunders, Amy and Ricky Jr., Exeter, a daughter, Aug. 21

Graham, Linda and Bernie, Mountain Top, Aug. 21 Pugh, Adrienne Lynn and Russell Thomas Eyet, Dallas, a son, Aug. 22 Fenner, Christina and Shawn Sr., Larksville, a daughter, Aug. 22 McDaniels, Jennifer and William Jr., Hanover Township, a daughter, Aug. 22 Moran, Kristy Lee and Brandon

Williams, Kingston, a daughter, Aug. 22 Kelley, Amanda Jean and Devin Lawrence, Mountain Top, a daughter, Aug. 23 Dodd, Hope M. and Benjamin J., Dallas, a son, Aug. 23 Sopko, Jessica and Daniel, Plymouth, a son, Aug. 23 McGlinchey, Jessica and Stanley Kotulsky IV, Kingston, a son, Aug. 24

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The Knaubs Marlene and Ray L. Knaub Jr. recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. They were married on Aug. 20, 1988 by the late Rev. Clement Podskoch, CSC, at Holy Trinity Church in Swoyersville. Marlene is the daughter of Bernadine Podskoch, Swoyersville, and the late Raymond A. Podskoch. Ray is the son of the late Carolyn and Ray Knaub Sr. of Windsor. The couple has been blessed with three children, Elizabeth, Ray III and Riley. The couple renewed their wedding vows at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish, Swoyersville. A family dinner was held in their honor.

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Stephanie Marie Gawlas and Colin James Walsh were united in marriage on July 6, 2013, at St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church, Wilkes-Barre, by Monsignor Joseph G. Rauscher, greatuncle of the bride. The bride is the daughter of Stephen J. and Nancy Gawlas, Hanover Township. She is the granddaughter of Helen Amendola and the late Joseph F. Amendola, WilkesBarre, and Theresa Gawlas and the late Robert N. Gawlas Sr., WilkesBarre. The groom is the son of Charles D. and Cynthia Royer Walsh, Northampton. He is the grandson of the late Charles T. and Helen P. Walsh, Whitehall, and the late Bruce D. Royer and Gisella Royer Herman, Coplay. The bride was given in marriage by her father. She chose her sister, Alyssa Gawlas, as her maid of honor. Her bridesmaids were Mary Catherine Kresge, sister of the groom, Alicia Sebastian, Kelly Rose, Therese Stemple and Katie Jones, friends of the bride. The groom chose his friend, Zachary Leonard, as his best man. His groomsmen were Adam Walsh, cousin of the groom, Robert Gawlas, cousin of the bride, Richard Warmkessel, Chad Hoffman and Thomas Gallagher, friends of the groom. Scriptural readings were given by Robert N. Gawlas Jr., godfather of the bride, and Daniel J. Walsh, godfather of the groom. The intercessions were read by Brother James Miller, C.S.C., friend of the bride and groom. Offertory gifts were presented by Sandra Amendola, godmother of the bride, and Nancy Walsh, godmother of the groom. The bride was honored by her mother and bridesmaids with a bridal shower held at Vanderlyn’s Restaurant, Kingston. An evening cocktail hour and reception, hosted by the parents of the bride, were held at the Woodlands Inn and Resort, Plains Township. A wedding rehearsal dinner was hosted by the parents of the groom at Kevin’s, Kingston. The bride is a 2007 graduate of Bishop Hoban High School and a 2011 graduate of King’s College with a Bachelor of the Arts degree in elementary education. She is employed by Loudoun County, Va., as a first grade teacher. The groom is a 2007 graduate of Allentown Central Catholic High School and a 2011 graduate of King’s College with a Bachelor of the Arts degree in psychology. He is employed by Deloitte, as a federal closeout analyst. The couple honeymooned to Riviera Maya, Mexico. They reside in Reston, Va., with their dog, Ava.

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The Stavishes

Walter and Shirley Roskowski of O’Fallon celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary on Aug. 10, 2013. Walter Roskowski and the former Shirley Lee Hedgecock were married on Aug. 10, 1952 in Hoopeston, Ill., by the Rev. Boyd L. Rudd. Shirley is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Preston Hedgecock of Hoopeston, Ill. Walter is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Roskowski of Plymouth. Walt and Shirley lived their early years in the United States Air Force in many states and overseas. Walt retired as a chief master sergeant at Scott A.F.B. after 24 years of service as a flight engineer and served a tour in Vietnam. After retirement, Walt continued a teaching career at the then-Belleville Area College and was the owner and operator of Walts Furniture repair and upholstery. Shirley was the manager of the Belleville Red Shield Store. They are the parents of seven children: Toni Lee (John Kimball) of O’Fallon; Patricia A. Roskowski of O’Fallon; Walter Roskowski of Austin, Texas; Stephen P. (Helen Broderick) of O’Fallon, William C. (Tammy Barner) of Nashville, Ill.; Bruce D. (Tina Bagley) of O’Fallon, and Deborah L (Kevin Potter) of Millersburg, Pa. They have 12 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Stavish Sr. celebrated their wedding anniversary on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013, 50 years to the day of their marriage on Aug. 24, 1963. The double ring ceremony was performed by the late Monsignor John J. Podkul, uncle of the groom, at the former Holy Trinity Church, Wilkes-Barre. Carol Stavish is the daughter of the late Frank and Estelle (Visco) Norkunas of Wilkes-Barre and a graduate of GAR High School. She retired from REVCO Drug and PNC Bank. Robert Stavish is the son of the late Marion and Angela (Podkul) Stavish, also of Wilkes-Barre, and a graduate of Coughlin High School and King’s College. He retired from RCA/ Fairchild Semiconductor and is currently associated with Rose Limousine Service, Hanover Township. They are the proud parents of three children, Robert Jr., CPA, Scranton; Susan, Wilkes-Barre, and Dr. Joseph (Cathy), Lansdowne, and their grandchildren, Michael Robert, Jack Anthony, Elena Marie, John Vincent (JV) and Edward David Stavish. They were feted at a picnic-themed celebration at Keeley’s Ale House, Kingston, provided by their children. They will motor to Ocean City, Md. for an end of summer vacation.

Dr. Colleen Marie Kroll and Dr. Herbert Charles Bressler were united in marriage Sept. 29, 2012 by Father Thomas Burke at St. Mary of the Mount Parish, Pittsburgh. The bride is the daughter of Joseph and Karen Kroll, Allison Park, Pa. and the granddaughter of the late Wilburt and Mary Conner and the late John and Ann Kroll. The groom is the son of Dr. Herbert and Ann Bressler III of Wyoming, Pa. He is the grandson of Rosemary O’Boyle Bernosky, Pittston, and the late Simon Bernosky and the late Herbert and Dorothy Bressler Jr., Kingston. The bride was escorted down the

aisle by her father. She chose friends Dr. Cara Reitnauer and Dr. Jennifer Costales as her Maid and Matron of Honor. Bridesmaids were Lisa Bressler, sister of the groom, Nicole Kroll,sister-in-lawofthebride,Lindsay Campbell, Elaine Miller, Julie Miller, Anna Mullen and Carly Molchen. The groom chose his friend Albert Pisaneschi as his best man. Groomsmen were Joseph Kroll, brother of the bride, Jeffrey Rothstein, John Beberus, Mike English and Dr. John Shields. An evening cocktail hour and reception were held at the Mayernik Center at Avonworth Community Park, Pittsburgh. The bride is a graduate of Hampton High School, Penn State University, and in 2010 earned a Doctor of Optometry degree from the Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Salus University, Philadelphia. She is employed as an optometrist with Irwin Eye Care, Irwin, Pa. The groom is a 2002 graduate of Dallas High School, a 2006 graduate of Penn State University, and in 2010 also earned a Doctor of Optometry degree from the Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Salus University. He is employed by Siegel and Portnoy Eye Care Associates, Pittsburgh. The couple honeymooned in Bermuda and now reside in North Huntingdon, Pa.

Falls Active Adult Center hosts its Western Day celebration

The Falls Active Adult Center recently celebrated Western Day with a special lunch followed by a sing along with Stewart Atkinson on the tenor saxophone, Ron Jackson on guitar and Ed McCabe on piano. Participants, from left, first row, are June Cammerota, Don Jones, Twila Watkins, Stewart Atkinson, Ed McCabe, Ron Jackson and Atsuko McHale. Second row: Loise Lewis, Don Faux, Norene Faux, Marita Zim, Jeanette Martin, Stan Kaiser, Martin Manik and Gayle Bodin. Third row: Warren Keller, Terry Keller, Tom Rogers, Nancy Gorman, Marie Dowse, Pat Smith, Gene Smith, Donna Holeman, Betty Swingle and Phil Culver.

G.A.R.Class of‘61 holds 70th birthday reunion G.A.R. High School class of 1961 held a 70th Birthday Reunion on Aug. 10 at the Wyoming Valley Country Club in Hanover Township. Classmates traveled from all over the United States, including Oregon, Texas, Florida and the eastern United States. Pictured are, front: Carl Meier, class photographer; seated, left to right: Mary Klug Kopicki, Eileen Blecker Feher, Elaine Evans Kukowski, Sandra Capozzi Dickerson, Barbara Nareski Walker, Rita McEvoy Taylor, Sam Baccanari, Mike Burns, Carol Demmeck Anstett, Alice Brennan Palischak, Joe Donnini; standing, left to right: Elaine Benish Gianuzzi, Fred Buss, Joe Pikas, Rich Chukonis, Sallyanne Wiliams Sincavage, John Sod, Rachel Davis Nagle, Rudy Yarnott, Alice Koury Corba, Al Yateshin, Sharon Evans Riotto, Bob Peters, Marlene Miller Linares, Rich Macko, Frank Motovidlak, Jerry Flora, Mike Michael, Eileen Stankowski Kelly.

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A coming-of-age novel to get lost in “It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris,” by Patricia Engel; Grove (272 pages, $25) ••• A young woman on her own in Paris for a year, living in a grand but faded Left Bank mansion-turnedrooming-house, meets a mysterious young man who captures her heart. From the Luxembourg Gardens to the Ile Saint-Louis, they wander the city together, taking shelter in cafes in the rain and spending overheated nights in her tunnel-like room with a balcony that overlooks the garden. As a coming-of-age novel, “It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris” might sound as if its theme is rather well-trod, but the title puts you on notice. This is no saccharine tale of awakening. Rather, it’s a cleareyed recasting of a classic storyline executed with confidence and just enough city-of-lights magic by Miami author Patricia Engel to conjure up something that manages to be familiar and new. This is a novel to get lost in. Lita del Cielo is the daughter of two Colombian orphans who made up their last name — it means “of the sky” — just as they created a different life for themselves and their children in the United States. Their impressive climb to success started with floor-sweeping at night and a kiosk selling arepas by day and has resulted in a global

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see how they measured up with the CDC’s standard. According to the federal agency’s guidelines, intimate partner violence includes “physical, sexual, or psychological harm by a current or former partner or spouse.” Physical violence includes acts such as slapping and choking, while sexual violence entails forced sex acts, often induced through the use of alcohol or other drugs. Psychological or emotional abuse can involve humiliation, social isolation and stalking. The book depicts multiple elements of such abuse, Bonomi said. Additionally, Anastasia “suffers reactions typical of abused women,” changing her behavior to maintain peace in the relationship and, over time, becoming disempowered and socially isolated. For example, the researchers pointed out, she withholds information about her plans to

visit friends and family members and avoids social outings so as not to anger Christian. “That is exactly what we see in women in abusive relationships,” Bonomi said. “The abuser is very good at controlling social connections by intimidating the victim.” Bonomi said also that it’s wrong to consider the book a depiction of a healthy BDSM relationship. In consensual BDSM relationships, partners take negotiations seriously and respect each others’ boundaries, she said. In “Fifty Shades,” she noted, Christian bullies Anastasia and plies her with alcohol to coerce her into sexual acts that she finds uncomfortable. “Consenting BDSM relationships are fine,” Bonomi said. “But the relationship we see between Christian and Anastasia is different. What we see in them is a clear pattern of abuse.” Cris Sullivan, who

researches gender-based violence at Michigan State University and wasn’t involved in the study, agreed, explaining that Anastasia is in the relationship “not because she enjoys it, but because she’s trying to keep the man” — reinforcing a message “that is very pervasive in our society.” “That’s not a message we want to keep sending to women or men,” Sullivan said. “I’m hoping (the study) will lead people to talk and think about the book a little more critically than just a hot little summer read.” The study authors don’t call for the novel to be banned but rather for “a greater societal awareness of the abuse occurring in the book,” Bonomi said. “This is really a teachable moment when we should be talking with young people about what abuse is and what are some of the strategies to prevent it.”

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“The Affairs of Others” by Amy Grace Loyd; Picador ($24) ••• ‘The Affairs of Others,” a debut novel by Amy Grace Loyd, former literary editor of Playboy, has such an intense and heady narrative voice that it recalls those occasions when a substance one has just ingested is a whole lot stronger than expected. One is overwhelmed by the scent of a gardenia, by disturbing sounds from the upstairs apartment, or perhaps by the features on the face of the policeman who has just knocked at the door. He “pulsed past me and roamed feet from me; a wiry man, it appeared, with the city all through him. He had a long bone of a nose on a short face, a smallish cleft chin, a profusion of eyebrows. … I tried not to see so much, not today, not the wave in his thick hair or his sunloving skin and the wide pores there, or the day-old beard coming in what was a field of hard black pushing and pushing.” This is thirty-something Brooklyn landlady Celia Cassill, whose husband

died five years ago, leaving her with a mindaltering dose of pain and enough money to buy a building where she has rented out three of the four apartments to people she believes will keep to themselves. At first, in the imme-

diate wake of her loss, Celia developed Cheryl Strayed syndrome (crazy promiscuity as a result of profound grief, a state Strayed defined in her award-winning essay, “Love of My Life”). Celia stops going to abandoned diners with strangers on

the subway but is obsessed with both privacy and violation, is lonely, fierce and looking too hard at other people’s pores. Also, she has a medicine cabinet full of every drug in the world. Welcome to “Blue Velvet” in Brooklyn. On the top floor of the building is an ancient ferry captain who Celia has been feeding and caring for. He goes missing, causing his daughter to come over and start a fistfight with Celia, who roams the city looking for him. Next floor: a young couple on the rocks, whose life Celia keeps up with by snooping when they’re not home. Above her is a gay man named George. The book opens with a party to celebrate his departure for Europe. Though it is not allowed, he has sublet his place to a beautiful middle-age woman named Hope. Hope is on the run from her marriage, has two grown children, a violent lover and a ravaged erotic intensity that Celia is drawn to beyond hope of resistance. The lost ferry captain and the sexual vortex surrounding Hope are the main elements of the rather modest plot, but though not much happens, Celia winds up in somewhat better shape to enjoy the party that ends the book. Those who look for their experiences of altered consciousness through the legal drug of fiction will be well satisfied.

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“The Dying Hours” by Mark Billingham; Grove Atlantic ($25) ••• British author Mark Billingham’s talent for sculpting intensely dark police procedurals complements his skill at pinpointing believable contemporary nightmares. At the helm is Detective Inspector Tom Thorne, a good cop, an insightful investigator and often a loose cannon, going off on his own hunches. That he often is right still doesn’t sit right with his supervisors. But Billingham uses Tom more as a mirror reflecting the changing times, the horrors that can seep into daily lives when least expected. Billingham also is never afraid to shake up Tom’s personal life and career as he does in his 11th novel in this series. In “The Dying Hours,” Tom has crossed the line once too often and he is put back in uniform—“the Queen’s Cloth”— and demoted to Inspector. The uniform is not a good fit. His depression over being “slapped down” erupts at work and at home where he lives with Det. Sgt. Helen Weeks and her 18-month-old son. Tom no longer has the power he did when he headed a homicide squad. His former colleagues show him little respect, and his cases seem to be routine. But Tom sees nothing usual about the apparent suicide of an elderly couple. He believes they were murdered, but no one will believe him even when he links the couple to other suicides of the elderly. His supervisors dismiss Tom’s theories, saying it is not uncommon for old people to end their lives, especially those who are ill and without families. But each of

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these people was healthy and had loved ones, even if some families lived far away. Tom gets reluctant help from former colleagues Det. Sgt. Dave Holland and Det. Insp. Yvonne Kitson and pathologist Phil Hendricks, but even they don’t believe him. Tom’s new position gives Billingham a heady advantage to find new avenues to explore in this character. “The Dying Hours” forces Tom to work even more as a solo agent, to rely on his own ideas and to re-evaluate his own role as a cop. Tom is accustomed to closing cases, to being “a glory hunter,” and begins to wonder if that is the only reason why he is a cop. He also looks at his role as a person. The murdered people were each mourned by their families. Will his relationship with Helen last? Will anyone care if he dies? The relentless pace of “The Dying Hours” doesn’t slow down until the last word, proving why Billingham continues to be a best-seller in Great Britain.

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Textbook rentals from college stores saved students about $450 million during the 2012-13 school year, the association said. Schmidt said the stores offer other options as well. All sell used books, while some offer free shipping and guaranteed buybacks. More than three-quarters of students still prefer print versions of their textbooks to digital, the trade group said. Textbooks savings tips The National Association of College Stores offers the following tips on how students can save on textbook purchases while purchasing from the campus store. • Become a fan of your campus store’s Facebook page and follow it on Twitter. Stores often give advance notice of moneysaving specials to followers or fans. • Be cautious of hackers, spammers and phishers when purchasing course materials online from outside/unknown

sources. Items might not arrive on time, be incorrect, or not include required access codes. Don’t forget to consider shipping expenses in the total cost of the textbook, and check refund policies. Your local campus store guarantees the correct title and edition chosen by your instructor. • Consider renting print or electronic textbooks. • If multiple books are listed on a syllabus, check with the store to see if there are customized options that the professor, store and publisher have created that is less-expensive and contains only the content the professor requires. • Look into buying used textbooks. College stores strive to provide as many used textbooks as possible, but they can sell out quickly. Shop the store early or buy directly from your college store’s web site to take advantage of usedbook sales. • Know your store’s refund policy, especially deadlines. This way, you won’t be disappointed if you drop a class. • Keep receipts. Most stores require them for returns. Also, textbook receipts are helpful during tax season when filing for the American Opportunity Tax Credit. For details on how to apply for the credit, go to www.textbookaid.org. • Don’t write in or unwrap books until you’re certain you’ll be keeping them. Most sellers won’t offer full credit for books that have been marked or bundles that have been opened. • When buying locally, consider paying cash or by debit card to avoid credit card fees and interest. But use a credit card when buying from online sellers in case disputes arise. • If you have questions, as. Your college store professional is the course material expert on campus. Check out other information from NACS at www.nacs.org.

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Ella Marie Panzik Ella Marie Panzik, daughter of Dr. Lora A. Panzik and Dr. Robert Panzik, Mountain Top, is celebrating her eighth birthday today. sept, 1st. Ella is a granddaughter of Nadine Ebert, Nanticoke, and Wendy Chichester, Terre Haute, Ind. She is great-granddaughter of Ann Guravich, Nanticoke, Robert Panzik and Robert Luffman, Bath N.Y. Ella has a sister, Alexis, 4 1/2.

Misericordia holds white-coat ceremony for physician assistants The first class of students in the Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies program at Misericordia University received their white coats at a special ceremony held recently in Lemmond Theater in Walsh Hall. More than 100 family and friends were on hand for the event. Students, from left, first row: Sagar Naik, Philadelphia; Jennifer Rizel, Kingston; Erin Miller, Allentown; Kayla Healey, Woodbury, N.J.; Becky Jackson, Greensboro, Md.; and Manjula Chava, Hillsborough, N.J. Second row: Sean Domzalski, Nanticoke; Jennifer Corcoran, Shavertown; Jennifer Laskowski, Larksville; Alicia Dill, Scranton; Marnie Cunningham, Palmerton; Alexis Patrick, Lock Haven; Sarah Harvey, Benton; and Laura Weatherholtz, Yardley, Pa. Third row: Jonathan Weiss, Minersville; Andrew Marky, Basking Ridge, N.J.; Kevin Della Rosa, Laflin; Michelle Kostelansky, Plains Township; Dayna Ruhf, Mountain Top; and Matthew Vinnacombe, Plains Township.

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Carol’s Crew raises money for Rainbow Walk Friends and family formed the team Carol’s Crew, in honor of Carol Cruikshank, for the 16th annual Candy’s Place Rainbow Walk in May. The Martin family, Carol Cruikshank’s daughter, son-in-law and grandson, sold more than 200 cancer bracelets to benefit the walk. Carol’s Crew was able to donate the proceeds of $843 to Candy’s Place. Members of the team at the Rainbow Walk, from left, first row, are Ian Martin, John Domanski, Rachel Price, Paul Martin, Dylan Martin, Emma Murtha, Ryan Martin, Taylor Martin, Chase Smith, Kevin Clark and Kaylee Barancho. Second row: Bailey Bauman, Beth Komar, Kim Bauman, Dawn Domanski, Bill Cruikshank, Carol Cruikshank, Brittany Murtha, Cheryl Murtha, Ashley Martin, Lucas Smith, Bonnie Price and Dwight Smith. Third row: Emily Wise, Chris Bauman, Richard Machey, Mimi Martin, Tom Martin and George Price. Fourth row: Sarah Dewey, Connor Murtha, Sean Murtha, Lee Ann Martin, Jay Cruikshank, Annamarie Cruikshank and Lisa Barancho.

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AT LEFT: The Wyoming Valley Falcons Pathfinder Club of the Kingston Seventhday Adventist Church recently enjoyed a field trip to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport. Ron Skamanich, airport volunteer, shared airport and local history with the group while providing a guided tour of the terminal, hangars, operations room, fire house and more. The group shared light refreshments and fellowship following their tour of the facilities. The Pathfinder Club is a Bible-based organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church open to youth ages 10-15. Its sister organization, the Adventurer Club, is open to children ages 5-9. For more information, call the Kingston church at 570-287-6647. Participants, from left, first row, are Emmanuel Tresilus and Micaela Herman. Second row: Shirlee Jones, director, Pathfinder Club; Freddy Herman; Adam McElwee; Shae-lyn Briggs; and Skamanich.

University of Scranton to host 12th annual Conference on disABILITY National experts, policy-makers, professionals and community leaders will share a stirring message of possibilities at the 12th annual Northeastern U.S. Conference on disABILITY “Real Rehabilitation Renaissance: Ignited by Inspiration and Innovation.” The conference will take place Oct. 2 at The University of Scranton’s Patrick and Margaret DeNaples Center. The conference is hosted by the University’s Panuska College of Professional Studies with the support of the Edward R. Leahy Jr., Endowment and is intended for representatives of agencies, organizations, colleges and universities in the northeast United States. The conference will focus on employment, transition and independent living. Janet LaBreck, the newly confirmed Commissioner of the Rehabilitative Services Administration for the U.S. Department of Education, will provide the opening keynote address. The Rehabilitation Services Administration provides leadership and fiscal resources to assist state and other agencies to provide vocational rehabilitation, independent living and other services to individuals with disabilities. Prior to her current position, she served as commissioner of the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind (MCB), where she served in a number of positions since joining MCB in 1985. She also served as an adjunct professor at Assumption College, Worcester, Mass. Another featured speaker, John Ficca, program director of Hands

On Educational Services Inc., who taught hospitality/culinary management, partnered with Hyatt Hotel Corporation and the Florida Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in 1998 to develop a realitybased, hospitality training program for persons with disabilities. Hands on Education @ Hyatt began at one hotel in Florida and now includes 30 Hyatt Hotels in nine states. Ficca will present “Effective Public/Private Partnerships are Like a Good Marriage” at the conference. The conference will close with a 4:30 p.m. presentation of “Handicap This! Stage Show,” an entertaining and inspirational presentation that seeks to dispel misunderstandings about cerebral palsy and other disabilities and underscores the possibilities people possess to overcome obstacles. The performance features Mike Berkson, founding member of Handicap This!, inspirational leader of the Keep On Keeping On Foundation, and aspiring film-maker and novelist, who was born with cerebral palsy. “Fear not. I may have problems. But I have no complaints,” Berkson said on the Keep on Keeping On Website. “I find ways to cope. I never dwell on my limitations. Instead, I ponder unlimited possibilities.” Also featured in “Handicap This! Stage Show” is Tim Wambach, founding member and production manager of Handicap This! and president of the Keep On Keeping On Foundation. He is the author of “How We Roll,” a book describing his relationship with Berkson. In

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Some people create with their hands, others with their bodies, voices and ideas. There are also those who create by building a rich inner life. Their character is their art. You’ll fall into that category today. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You already realize that trying to keep track of what you did and what the other person did and who did more or less of what will only cheapen the value of your relationship. And yet, the score is uneven. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). When your body isn’t looking, your mind flees to a fantasy world from an earlier time. As lovely as this adventure may be, your drive to escape is a sign that your current surroundings aren’t optimal. CANCER (June 22-July 22). Sticking rigidly to your principles might serve you well on some days, and on other days (like today), it could lose you friends and supporters. But don’t worry. You can soften your message without softening your view. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Instead of forcing your views, make room for people to form their own. Don’t bother to explain yourself. When you do the right thing, the ones who did wrong will understand what they did. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You do all you can, and that’s all you can do. Luck plays a part after that. She’ll start by striking up a conversation with you. Listen to what she tells you. Luck likes a good listener. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’re not afraid to say anything that needs to be said, and yet you are mindful of other people’s feelings. You’ll thoughtfully decide on the right approach. You have a gift for perfect timing and wording. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’ll find that you’ve hit the point where socializing has become tedious, especially because the same people are always involved. Break into a new circle to get fresh energy flowing through your personal life. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). What if you found out that the person you want to be is actually who you are now? Would it make you do less or more? Assume that you’re already “there,” and act accordingly. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Your best teachers, for better or worse, are those who are close to you. Both your neighbors and your enemies are worthy of your utmost consideration. By the way, they are probably one and the same person. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’re ever aware that the way people talk communicates more than the words they use. That’s why you’ll respond to the tone of your loved one’s mood and ignore the verbiage. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). The fact is that trusting a person doesn’t make that person trustworthy, but it’s a start. You’re willing to take a risk and hope for the best. Your leap of faith will inspire a person to deliver. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Sept. 1). The observer in you gathers knowledge and collects beauty until the perfect moment to act. The pleasant floating feeling of September will be followed by a flurry of exciting business in October. November heals relationships, and there will be a move, too. January and June are the best months financially. Aquarius and Pisces people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 9, 14, 8 and 50.

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No roughing it: Glamping on Idaho’s Salmon River WILLIAM KRONHOLM Associated Press

SUN VALLEY, Idaho — Stuffed morel mushrooms and braised free-range chicken with fennel puree and blackberry compote. Served on linen tablecloths with a carefully matched wine. Pineapple upsidedown cake for dessert. This is wilderness camping? It was a delightful shock for my wife and me as we took our seats at the table streamside on the Middle Fork of Idaho’s Salmon River, known in folklore as the River of No Return. Both of us are experienced wilderness campers, but we’ve sometimes defined camp luxury as dry socks. Not on this trip. Our host for the six-day rafting expedition was a family-owned company based in Sun Valley called Far and Away Adventures. It has carved a unique niche in the crowded field of whitewater guides on the Middle Fork, one of America’s great wilderness rivers.

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A rafting and ‘glamping’ — glamour camping — expedition on the Middle Fork of Idaho’s Salmon River, also known as the River of No Return, lets participants go whitewater rafting and sleep in tents, but they also dine on elegant meals served on linen tablecloths with wine, and yoga sessions and massages are provided.

They call it “glamping”— glamour camping — and it attempts to re-create the type of experience Ernest Hemingway might have had on a classic African safari.

In other words: No roughing it. No wedging into a tiny backpacking tent for the night. Each couple has a stand-up six-person tent

with cot, mattress and pillow, a lantern on the night table and a rug on the floor. No crawling bleary-eyed from your sleeping bag, hoping someone has hot water for instant coffee. Instead, a guide delivers fresh-brewed coffee to your door with your wakeup call, along with a steaming hot wet washcloth to wipe away the sleep. Need a good stretch to get going in the morning? Join the yoga session after breakfast. Shoulders sore after a hard day of whitewater paddling? The masseuse awaits you at her streamside massage table. Want a hot shower? Just ask; it will be arranged. And the food? Fourcourse gourmet dinners every night, with organic ingredients and a chef’s eye for presentation. Gourmet breakfasts as well. And a hot lunch on the river, unique among rafting companies that usually offer cold cuts. All of this, of course, is only a complement to the

central purpose of the trip — running whitewater rapids on one of the wildest, longest and most remote stretches of river in the United States. The Middle Fork of the Salmon is one of the eight original rivers protected by Congress in 1968 in the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. It runs 100 miles (160 kilometers) through the wilderness of central Idaho, flowing between towering cliffs and forested mountains. Over that 100 miles (160 kilometers), it drops more than 3,000 feet (915 meters), a steeper gradient than the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. It has more than 300 rapids, mostly class III and IV (“difficult” to “very difficult”). Shooting the rapids from top to bottom takes six days. Camping is on sandy beaches or in groves of ponderosa pine. Campsites are assigned by the U.S. Forest Service before departure, so rafters don’t have to worry about sharing a site or not finding a vacant one. They

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can concentrate on the water. And in the prow of a raft, the water is awesome. We plunged through long wave trains of 3- and 4-foot (1-meter) standing waves. We shot through rapids with 8-foot (2.4-meter) drops and standing waves of 6 feet (2 meters) or more that slap you in the face with icy water. We skirted giant whirlpools that stand ready to suck down the unlucky or unskilled boatman. In the short stretches between rapids, wild cutthroat trout lurked in deep turquoise pools. I cast my fly rod from the rear of the raft, and those in the rafts behind cheered as scrappy trout hit the fly. I was on the raft of Steve Lentz, co-owner of Far and Away with his wife, Annie. He has been running this river for more than 30 years, and he knows by heart the most thrilling yet safest line to row through each of the Middle Fork rapids. Still, getting wet is half the fun; we whooped with joy with each icy splash — including the 82-year-old who shared my perch in the front of Steve’s raft. Like most Middle Fork outfitters, Far and Away offers a variety of trips to its clients. There are oar rafts, where a guide sits in the middle and rows through the rapids while the client sits in front and enjoys the thrill. There are paddle rafts, where kneeling clients on each side paddle as a guide in back shouts

instructions and steers; my wife, Joyce, quickly became a paddle raft addict. And there are “duckies,” solo inflatable kayaks that the intrepid can take through some of the easier rapids on their own. Guides make certain that a ducky client does not get over his head — both figuratively and literally. The final 20 miles (32 kilometers) of the Middle Fork flow through the aptly named Impassable Canyon, between sheer granite cliffs. Not even trails penetrate the canyon here, and the only way out is through the whitewater. Then it’s into the mainstem Salmon River and short float to takeout, where a bus will carry us back to our starting point at Sun Valley. Dry socks will never seem like luxury again.

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Careful, now. That’s what Eugene Lewis remembered thinking as he pulled back on his first college touchdown celebration. “You want to get excited when you get in,” Lewis said. “But you’ve got to do the right things in the end zone and make sure you don’t get a penalty.” So his end zone antics consisted of a simple semi-spike. After all, he didn’t need a flashy flurry. It turned out he’d already delivered the knockout punch. The former Wyoming Valley West High School star pulled in a 54-yard touchdown pass for what turned out to be the winning points Saturday in the fourth quarter of Penn State’s seasonopening 23-17 victory over Syracuse at MetLife Stadium. Talk about starting with a splash. “I’ve been waiting for this for a long time,” Lewis said. For a whole year. A dynamic, big-play offensive machine since his sophomore season at Wyoming Valley West — where Lewis lit up the scoreboard with long touchdowns as a wide receiver, quarterback, punt returner and kick returner — he was forced to spend his freshman year taking a redshirt and starring on Penn State’s scout team in 2012. When his first official college season opened Saturday, Lewis was in

“He’s a great kid. He practices every day, he’s durable. He’s a guy who always has a smile on his face. He and I go back and forth in practice, busting chops. He likes a certain type of music, I like a certain type of music. We’re looking forward to coaching him in the future.”

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Penn State’s starting lineup as a wide receiver. “That was something coach (Bill) O’Brien let me know before the game,” Lewis said. “You just want to go out there and show everybody what you can do.” Nobody in the Wyoming Valley Conference needed convincing, after Lewis accounted for 68 touchdowns — 46 rushing and 22 passing while playing quarterback during his final two seasons at Valley West. Neither did O’Brien, who took special delight in watching Lewis snag the first touchdown of his Penn State career. “He’s a great kid,” O’Brien said. “He practices every day, he’s durable. He’s a guy who always has a smile on his face. He and I go back and forth in practice, busting chops. He likes a certain type of music, I like a certain type of music. We’re look-

E A S T RUTHERFORD, N.J. — They turned it over four times. The star receiver got himself benched for the first half. One of their most indispensable defenders was knocked out with an injury. For the 2013 Nittany Lions, it added up to a win. Somehow. Christian Hackenberg starred in his first game for Penn State, Eugene Lewis scored the winn i n g Penn State touchd o w n and the L i o n s Syracuse defense held off a late Syracuse rally for a 23-17 win in the opener at MetLife Stadium. The Lions overcame two interceptions, two lost fumbles, playing the first half without wideout Allen Robinson for disciplinary reasons and playing the entire second without injured linebacker Mike Hull. Hackenberg, the hyped true freshman, didn’t disappoint, throwing for 278 yards and two touchdowns to offset a pair of interceptions. The second score

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Matt McGloin has made it. He has gone from unheralded walk-on to record-setting quarterback to undrafted free agent to NFL player. The former Penn State quarterback learned Saturday that his improbable career will conAP photo tinue as a member of the Oakland Raiders. “Honored to be an official member of the Oakland Raiders quarterback Matt McGloin (14) calls to his team at the line of scrimmage in the second half Thursday Oakland Raiders……………I may walk slowly, against the Seattle Seahawks in Seattle. but I never walk backward,” McGloin tweeted Saturday afternoon.

McGloin was a walk-on quarterback at Penn State who flourished last season under coach Bill O’Brien. He led the Nittany Lions to an 8-4 record last year, setting several Nittany Lion single season records. Despite the strong showing, he was not invited to the NFL Combine and was not selected in April’s draft. He eventually signed a three-year contract with the Oakland Raiders after tryouts with Washington and Carolina. Once in camp with the Raiders, McGloin quickly impressed coaches and moved ahead

of fourth-round draft choice Tyler Wilson on the depth chart. He was Oakland’s most consistent quarterback during the preseason. McGloin wasn’t the only member of Penn State’s recent senior class to receive good news on Saturday. Linebacker Michael Mauti, who fell to the seventh round in the draft after injuring his knee in the next to last game of the season, made the Minnesota Vikings’ 53-man roster. Mauti will join his Penn State teammate Gerald Hodges, a fourth-round pick, on the Vikings’ roster.

Rees leads No. 14 Irish past Temple

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Tommy Rees threw a pair of 32-yard touchdown passes to DaVaris Daniels, a 66-yard scoring pass to Troy Niklas and Notre Dame had three quick scoring drives en route to a 28-6 victory over Temple on Saturday. Notre Dame The 14thranked Irish jumped to a 14-0 lead on a pair of Temple three-play drives on its opening two possessions and appeared headed for a blowout. But when the Notre Dame offense stalled, Temple squandered a pair of scoring chances, with Jim Cooper Jr. missing a pair of field goals. An unsettled feel-

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ing settled in at Notre Dame Stadium when Kenny Harper scored on a 1-yard run to cut the lead to 14-6. The Irish regained control, however, with Niklas’ TD with 43 seconds left in the half. The victory by the Fighting Irish (1-0) was the 200th career win for coach Brian Kelly, improving his overall record to 200-68-2 and at Notre Dame to 29-11. The Owls (0-1), picked to finish ninth in the 10-team American Athletic Conference, fell to 2-76 all-time against ranked opponents. Rees was 16-of-23 passing for 346 yards, registering his fourth career 300-yard passing day as the Irish improved to 11-0 under Kelly in games when they have no turnovers. Although Temple was heavy underdogs, it was still a bit of disappointing start for first-year Temple coach Matt Rhule, a former assistant coach for the Owls who last season was an assistant offensive line coach

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WILKES-BARRE — Like with most adults, life has gotten in the way of running for Bornfase Omurwa. Once a fixture at the top of the podium at local races, Omurwa has had his hands full this summer, committing less time to running than AP photo past years. Notre Dame quarterback Tommy Rees (11) drops back to throw a touchdown Between a marriage, a pass to DaVaris Daniels over Temple linebacker Jarred Alwan (14) during the 14-month son and his busifirst half Saturday in South Bend, Ind. ness studies at King’s College, with the New York Giants, For Notre Dame, though, Omurwa still seems to squeak because of missed chances. the victory was welcome after in a local race or two. And when There were some encourag- a turbulent offseason following he manages to lace ‘em up, like ing signs for Temple, though. an embarrassing 42-14 loss to he did at Saturday’s Wendy’s First-time starter Connor Reilly Alabama in the national cham- Wonderful Kids Half Marathon, was solid, completing 23-of- pionship game. It sets up a big there aren’t many runners who 46 passes for 228 yards, which game next week at Michigan. can catch up to the Dusi, Kenya, was more than the Owls had in Rees, who took over as start- native. any game last season. He also er after Everett Golson was sus“I’m always ready for the marran for 65 yards on 12 carries. pended for the fall semester, got athons and the half marathons,” Rhule installed a pro spread off to a great start, completing he said. “I feel more comfortoffense after the Owls had the his first three passes for 115 able at these races. It felt good fifth-fewest passing yards in the yards and a pair of touchdowns. to be out there ahead.” nation, averaging 121 yards a Omurwa, a resident of See IRISH | 4C Kingston, finished the 13.1game.

mile South Wilkes-Barre course in 1:20:33 to win the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids Half Marathon. Michael McAndrew, of Avoca, finished in second in 1:24:48. Scranton’s Mark Burton trailed with a time of 1:26:15. “After the 10K runners merged off, I was by myself for a while,” Omurwa said. “The guy on the bicycle was riding with me. He kept me company for a while. I needed the mental toughness to get myself all the way through.” With next month’s Steamtown Marathon and the King’s cross country season on the horizon, Omurwa used the half marathon as a precursor to a busy fall. “I haven’t been running for a while this season,” he said. “I just wanted to run at a comfortable, easy pace to see how I’d do. I need to some training for the Steamtown Marathon.” West Pittston’s Deedra Porfirio won the women’s See MARATHON | 8C

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Friday First - $6,000 Trot 1:56.1 2-Judith (An Napolitano) 18.00 9-Streetwise Hall (An McCarthy) 5-Nordic Venture (Mi Simons)

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COLLEGE GOLF PSU Wilkes-Barre at PSU Mont Alto, 11 a.m. Misericordia, Wilkes at King’s, 1 p.m. COLLEGE MEN’S SOCCER Misericordia at Gettysburg, 7 p.m. Muhlenburg at Wilkes, 7 p.m.

COLLEGE WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL Immaculata at Misericordia, 7 p.m. Wilkes at Marywood, 7 p.m.

w h at ’ s o n t v 1 p.m. ESPN2 — NHRA, qualifying for U.S. Nationals, at Indianapolis (same-day tape) 1:30 p.m. FS1 — NASCAR, Truck Series, Chevrolet Silverado 250, at Bowmanville, Ontario 2 p.m. NBCSN — IRL, IndyCar, Grand Prix of Baltimore 5 p.m. NBCSN — IRL, Indy Lights, Grand Prix of Baltimore (same-day tape) 7:30 p.m. ESPN — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, AdvoCare 500, at Hampton, Ga.

11:45 a.m. ESPN — FCS, Florida A&M vs. Mississippi Valley St., at Orlando, Fla. 3:30 p.m. ESPN — Ohio at Louisville 6 p.m. CBSSN — Colorado vs. Colorado St., at Denver

8:30 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, Wales Open, final round, at City of Newport, Wales 1 p.m. TGC — PGA Tour, Deutsche Bank Championship, third round, at Norton, Mass. 2:30 p.m. TGC — Web.com Tour, Hotel Fitness Championship, final round, at Fort Wayne, Ind. NBC — PGA Tour, Deutsche Bank Championship, third round, at Norton, Mass. 5 p.m. TGC — Champions Tour, Shaw Charity Classic, final round, at Calgary, Alberta 7 p.m. TGC — LPGA, Safeway Classic, final round, at Portland, Ore.

MLB 1 p.m. TBS, YES — Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees 1:30 p.m. ROOT — St. Louis at Pittsburgh 2 p.m. WGN, WQMY — Philadelphia at Chicago Cubs 8 p.m. ESPN2 — N.Y. Mets at Washington

MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

Fifteenth - $12,000 Trot 1:58.0 2-Dixie Rebel (Ro Allen) 13.60 10.80 11.00 5-Megabar Lenny (Th Jackson) 4.00 3.60 1-Colonel Lovett (Ke Wallis) 7.40 EXACTA (2-5) $66.60 50 CENT TRIFECTA (2-5-1) $480.80 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $120.20 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (2-5-1-9) $3,326.40 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $166.32

3-Sheknowsherlines (Ma Kakaley)

COLLEGE FIELD HOCKEY Misericordia at Scranton, 7 p.m.

4.80

Fourteenth - $12,000 Pace 1:54.0 2-The Right Move (Ro Pierce) 5.20 3.60 2.60 9-Sunlight Dancer (To Schadel) 23.60 10.60 8-Upfront Magic (Ma Kakaley) 3.00 EXACTA (2-9) $77.00 50 CENT TRIFECTA (2-9-8) $262.20 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $65.55 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (2-9-8-1) $2,193.60 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $109.68 Scratched: I Know Right

Sixteenth - $13,000 Trot 1:55.0 6-Queen Of More (Mi Simons) 3.80 5-Nanticoke Hanover (Ro Pierce)

HIGH SCHOOL FIELD HOCKEY Elk Lake at Berwick GAR at Hanover Area Meyers at Montrose Pittston Area at Northwest

GOLF

5.40

EXACTA (9-2) $32.40 50 CENT TRIFECTA (9-2-8) $985.80 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $246.45 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (9-2-8-3) $3,136.60 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $156.83 PICK 3 - 15% TAKEOUT (3-2-9) $643.60

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Coughlin at North Pocono MMI Prep at Berwick Pittston Area at Nanticoke Tunkhannock at Dallas Wyoming Valley West at Holy Redeemer, 4:30 p.m.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

5.00

Twelfth - $19,000 Pace 1:50.3 9-Four Starz Roe (Ro Pierce) 9.20 5.80 2-Up Front Cruiser (Ge Napolitano Jr) 4.40 8-Mistresstothestars (Ma Kakaley)

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS TENNIS Berwick at MMI Prep Coughlin at Crestwood, 4:15 p.m. Pittston Area at Holy Redeemer, 4 p.m. Tunkhannock at Hazleton Area Wyoming Area at Hanover Area Wyoming Seminary at GAR Wyoming Valley West at Dallas

AUTO RACING

19.60 10.80

EXACTA (2-9) $56.20 50 CENT TRIFECTA (2-9-5) $408.20 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $102.05 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (2-9-5-8) $2,706.40 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $135.32

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS SOCCER Crestwood at Coughlin Dallas at Hazleton Area Lake-Lehman at Wyoming Seminary Meyers at Tunkhannock MMI Prep at Hanover Area Pittston Area at Holy Redeemer

COLLEGE WOMEN’S SOCCER Lebanon Valley at Misericordia, 7 p.m. Penn State Berks at King’s, 7 p.m. 3.80

2.40

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS SOCCER Coughlin at Crestwood GAR at Berwick Hanover Area at MMI Prep Holy Redeemer at Pittston Area Nanticoke at Wyoming Area Tunkhannock at Meyers Wyoming Seminary at Lake-Lehman Wyoming Valley West at Dallas

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Hazleton Area at Delaware Valley Lake-Lehman at Crestwood, 4:30 p.m. Meyers at GAR Wyoming Area at Hanover Area

7.60

4.40

HIGH SCHOOL GOLF Berwick at Dallas Crestwood at Pittston Area, 3:30 p.m. Hanover Area at Wyoming Seminary Hazleton Area at Tunkhannock Lake-Lehman at GAR MMI Prep at Meyers Nanticoke at Wyoming Area Wyoming Valley West at Coughlin

HIGH SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY Crestwood/MMI Prep/Dallas at Crestwood, 4:15 p.m. Holy Redeemer at Coughlin, 4:15 p.m.

4.00

4.40

HIGH SCHOOL FIELD HOCKEY Crestwood at Delaware Valley Holy Redeemer at Wyoming Valley West, 6:30 p.m. Honesdale at Hazleton Area Lake-Lehman at Dallas Wallenpaupack at Coughlin Wyoming Area at Nanticoke Wyoming Seminary at Lackawanna Trail

WEDNESDAY

9.00

EXACTA (3-1) $28.40 50 CENT TRIFECTA (3-1-4) $120.60 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $30.15 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (3-1-4-2) $562.40 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $28.12 Eleventh - $19,000 Trot 1:53.0 2-Biltmore (Ma Kakaley) 12.60 9-War Cry Hall (Ho Parker)

2.40

11.20

EXACTA (6-1) $132.80 50 CENT TRIFECTA (6-1-9) $474.20 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $118.55 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (6-1-9-8) $19,077.80 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $953.89 PICK 3 - 15% TAKEOUT (7-7-6) $349.60 Tenth - $21,000 Pace 1:49.0 3-Lightning Paige (An McCarthy) 17.20 1-Southwind Jazmin (Ro Pierce)

2.10

4.20

EXACTA (7-6) $80.80 50 CENT TRIFECTA (7-6-2) $183.00 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $45.75 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (7-6-2-8) $2,156.80 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $107.84 Ninth - $15,000 Trot 1:54.2 6-Cash Value (Ro Pierce) 5.20 1-Uncommon Night (De Minor)

8.40

4.20

EXACTA (7-5) $70.20 50 CENT TRIFECTA (7-5-4) $397.40 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $99.35 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (7-5-4-2) $5,354.40 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $267.72

2-Traveling Jeanie (Ro Pierce)

8.20

2.40

EXACTA (8-5) $162.40 50 CENT TRIFECTA (8-5-4) $1,377.60 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $344.40 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (8-5-4-7) $3,334.80 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $166.74 PICK 3 - 15% TAKEOUT (7-5-8) $1,279.40

Eighth - $10,000 Pace 1:52.1 7-Miss Old Vines (Si Allard) 10.40 6-Aubsession (Ma Romano)

2.40

7.00

Sixth - $9,000 Pace 1:53.3 8-Taillight Hanover (An McCarthy) 24.80 8.80 5-All The Same (Ho Parker) 12.60 4-Twin B Flirt (Jo Pavia Jr)

4-Blomkvist (An Napolitano)

3.40

3.40

EXACTA (5-8) $142.20 50 CENT TRIFECTA (5-8-4) $400.60 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $100.15 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (5-8-4-9) $2,400.60 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $120.03

Seventh - $11,000 Trot 1:55.1 7-Dream Lake (Ma Romano) 8.00 5-Habanero (Ty Buter)

2.60

6.20

EXACTA (7-1) $62.40 50 CENT TRIFECTA (7-1-5) $149.20 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $37.30 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (7-1-5-2) $647.00 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $32.35 Scratched: Scirocco Caliegirl Fifth - $9,000 Trot 1:54.4 5-P L Eureka (Ma Kakaley)

TUESDAY

15.20 18.40

EXACTA (2-4) $196.20 50 CENT TRIFECTA (2-4-8) $2,099.00 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $524.75 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (2-4-8-1) $6,919.40 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $345.97 PICK 3 - 15% TAKEOUT (2-6-2) $621.20 Fourth - $9,000 Pace 1:54.4 7-A Fiesty X Ample (Si Allard) 10.00 1-Rag Doll (Jo Pavia Jr)

2.60

4.00

5:30 p.m. SE2, WYLN — Pawtucket at Lehigh Valley

MOTORSPORTS 8 a.m. FS1 — MotoGP World Championship, British Grand Prix, at Towcester, England Noon FS1 — MotoGP Moto2, British Grand Prix, at Towcester, England (same-day tape)

SOCCER 8:25 a.m. NBCSN — Premier League, Manchester United at Liverpool 10:55 a.m. NBCSN — Premier League, Arsenal vs. Tottenham, at London

TENNIS 11 a.m. CBS — U.S. Open, men’s third and women’s fourth round, at New York

baseball INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE North Division Pawtucket (Red Sox) Rochester (Twins) Buffalo (Blue Jays) Lehigh Valley (Phillies) RAIL RIDERS Syracuse (Nationals) South Division Durham (Rays) Norfolk (Orioles) Charlotte (White Sox) Gwinnett (Braves) West Division Indianapolis (Pirates) Columbus (Indians) Louisville (Reds) Toledo (Tigers)

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

COLLEGE MEN’S SOCCER Dickinson at Misericordia, 2 p.m.

EXACTA (2-9) $195.40 50 CENT TRIFECTA (2-9-5) $1,621.00 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $405.25 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (2-9-5-8) $5,306.20 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $265.31 Scratched: Rose Run Kurt

LATEST LINE

SUNDAY

POCONO DOWNS RESULTS

W 78 75 72 72 68 66

L 63 67 70 70 74 76

Pct. GB .553 — .528 3½ .507 6½ .507 6½ .479 10½ .465 12½

W 86 76 64 59

L Pct. GB 56 .606 — 66 .535 10 77 .454 21½ 83 .415 27

W 80 69 66 61

L 61 73 75 81

Pct. GB .567 — .486 11½ .468 14 .430 19½

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FRIDAY’S LATE BOxES Dodgers 9, Padres 2 San Diego AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Denorfia rf-lf 5 0 2 1 0 1 .276 Venable cf-rf 5 0 1 0 0 1 .279 Gyorko 2b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .247 Alonso 1b 3 0 1 0 0 0 .281 b-Fuentes ph-cf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Guzman lf-1b 4 1 1 0 0 1 .242 Forsythe 3b 3 0 1 1 0 1 .226 Bass p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 c-Kotsay ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .202 Hynes p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Hundley c 4 0 1 0 0 1 .239 R.Cedeno ss 3 0 1 0 1 0 .255 Stults p 1 0 0 0 0 0 .173 Amarista 3b 2 1 2 0 0 0 .265 Totals 36 2 11 2 1 6 Los Angeles AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Puig rf 5 1 4 1 0 0 .354 C.Crawford lf 4 1 0 0 1 1 .282 H.Ramirez ss 4 2 2 2 0 0 .346 d-Punto ph-ss 1 0 0 0 0 0 .250 Ad.Gonzalez 1b 4 2 2 4 0 0 .293 A.Ellis c 4 1 1 1 0 0 .246 Ethier cf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .274 M.Ellis 2b 4 1 2 0 0 0 .273 Uribe 3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .268 Ryu p 3 1 1 1 0 0 .200 Marmol p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 P.Rodriguez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 a-Hairston Jr. ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .230 Volquez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .118 League p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Totals 38 9 13 9 1 3 San Diego 010 000 001—2 11 1 Los Angeles 022 000 50x—9 13 1 a-lined out for P.Rodriguez in the 7th. b-flied out for Alonso in the 8th. c-lined out for Bass in the 8th. d-lined out for H.Ramirez in the 8th. E—R.Cedeno (1), H.Ramirez (12). LOB—San Diego 9, Los Angeles 6. 2B—Gyorko (22), Forsythe (6), Puig (19), H.Ramirez 2 (22), M.Ellis (10), Ryu (3). HR—Ad.Gonzalez (18), off Stults; Ad.Gonzalez (19), off Bass; A.Ellis (7), off Bass. RBIs—Denorfia (39), Forsythe (16), Puig (31), H.Ramirez 2 (46), Ad.Gonzalez 4 (85),A.Ellis (44), Ryu (5). SB—Puig 2 (10). S—Stults. Runners left in scoring position—San Diego 5 (R.Cedeno, Gyorko, Venable 2, Kotsay); Los Angeles 4 (A.Ellis, C.Crawford 2, Ryu). RISP—San Diego 2 for 12; Los Angeles 5 for 13. Runners moved up—Uribe. GIDP—Gyorko. DP—LosAngeles 1 (Uribe,M.Ellis,Ad.Gonzalez). San Diego IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Stults L, 8-12 5 1-3 8 4 4 0 3 110 3.81 Bass 1 2-3 5 5 5 1 0 34 5.11 Hynes 1 0 0 0 0 0 13 9.88 Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Ryu W, 13-5 6 1-3 8 1 1 1 6 109 3.02 Marmol H, 6 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 2 4.95 P.RodriguezH,18 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 2 1.88 Volquez 1 1 0 0 0 0 21 5.97 League 1 2 1 1 0 0 19 5.55 Inherited runners-scored—Bass 1-0, Marmol 2-0, P.Rodriguez 2-0. WP—Ryu. Umpires—Home, Greg Gibson; First, Jerry Layne; Second, Hunter Wendelstedt; Third, Alan Porter. T—3:05. A—51,769 (56,000). Athletics 4, Rays 3 Tampa Bay AB R H BI BB SO Avg. DeJesus rf 5 1 1 0 0 1 .364 Zobrist 2b 4 1 2 0 1 0 .277 Longoria 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .267 Joyce lf 3 0 0 1 0 1 .257 Loney 1b 4 0 1 1 0 1 .301 De.Jennings cf 3 1 0 0 1 1 .247 Ke.Johnson dh 3 0 1 0 1 1 .248 J.Molina c 4 0 1 0 0 1 .245 Y.Escobar ss 3 0 1 1 1 0 .268 1-S.Rodriguez pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 .244 Totals 33 3 8 3 4 6 Oakland AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Crisp dh 4 1 1 0 0 1 .254 Donaldson 3b 4 0 2 0 0 0 .296 Lowrie ss 4 0 1 1 0 0 .293 Cespedes lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .227 Freiman 1b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .279 Barton 1b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .194 Callaspo 2b 3 1 0 0 0 0 .260 C.Young cf 2 1 0 0 1 0 .189 Moss rf 3 0 0 0 0 2 .250 K.Suzuki c 3 1 2 3 0 1 .400 Totals 31 4 7 4 1 5 Tampa Bay 010 000 020—3 8 1 Oakland 000 030 01x—4 7 0 1-ran for Y.Escobar in the 9th. E—Zobrist (4). LOB—Tampa Bay 8, Oakland 4. 2B—Zobrist (32), Loney (24), Donaldson 2 (29), Lowrie (40). HR—K.Suzuki (1), off Price. RBIs— Joyce (44), Loney (59), Y.Escobar (52), Lowrie (58), K.Suzuki 3 (4). SB—De.Jennings (18). SF— Joyce. Runners left in scoring position—Tampa Bay 4 (Joyce, DeJesus, Ke.Johnson 2); Oakland 3 (Cespedes, Lowrie, Barton). RISP—Tampa Bay 3 for 9; Oakland 2 for 8. Runners moved up—Donaldson, Lowrie. GIDP—Longoria, Callaspo. DP—Tampa Bay 1 (Y.Escobar, Loney); Oakland 1 (Lowrie, Callaspo, Freiman). Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Price L, 8-6 7 6 4 3 1 5 107 3.30 Jo.Peralta 1 1 0 0 0 0 13 2.95 Oakland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA J.Parker 7 6 3 3 3 3 108 3.59 CookW,6-3BS,6-8 1 2 0 0 0 2 27 2.16 Balfour S, 34-36 1 0 0 0 1 1 19 2.39 J.Parker pitched to 2 batters in the 8th. Price pitched to 1 batter in the 8th. Inherited runners-scored—Jo.Peralta 1-1, Cook 2-2. Umpires—Home, Brian Gorman; First, Manny Gonzalez; Second, Tony Randazzo; Third, Larry Vanover. T—3:10. A—15,603 (35,067). Giants 1, Diamondbacks 0 San Francisco AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Pagan cf 3 1 1 0 1 0 .263 Scutaro 2b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .297 Belt 1b 3 0 0 1 0 0 .278 Posey c 3 0 0 0 1 0 .302 Pence rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .278 Sandoval 3b 3 0 1 0 0 0 .270 Romo p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --B.Crawford ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .264 G.Blanco lf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .249 Lincecum p 1 0 0 0 1 1 .085 J.Lopez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --b-Kieschnick ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .222 S.Casilla p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Arias 3b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .275 Totals 28 1 3 1 3 5 Arizona AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

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G.Parra rf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .269 Eaton lf 4 0 2 0 0 0 .270 Goldschmidt 1b 3 0 1 0 1 0 .300 Prado 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .284 A.Hill 2b 2 0 0 0 2 0 .314 M.Montero c 4 0 2 0 0 2 .231 1-Campana pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 .314 Pollock cf 3 0 1 0 0 0 .253 c-Er.Chavez ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .289 Gregorius ss 4 0 0 0 0 0 .259 Delgado p 2 0 0 0 0 0 .217 a-Bloomquist ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .312 W.Harris p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Ziegler p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Totals 32 0 7 0 3 2 San Francisco 100 000 000—1 3 0 Arizona 000 000 000—0 7 0 a-grounded out for Delgado in the 7th. b-struck out for J.Lopez in the 8th. c-popped out for Pollock in the 9th. 1-ran for M.Montero in the 9th. LOB—San Francisco 6, Arizona 8. 2B—Pagan (11), Eaton (5). RBIs—Belt (52). CS—A.Hill (3). S— Scutaro. SF—Belt. Runners left in scoring position—San Francisco 1 (B.Crawford); Arizona 4 (Prado, G.Parra, Pollock 2). RISP—San Francisco 0 for 1; Arizona 0 for 6. Runners moved up—Goldschmidt, Gregorius. GIDP—Prado. DP—San Francisco 1 (Scutaro, Belt). San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lincecum W, 8-13 6 6 0 0 2 2 99 4.38 J.Lopez H, 12 1 0 0 0 0 0 12 1.91 S.Casilla H, 15 1 0 0 0 1 0 13 1.66 Romo S, 33-37 1 1 0 0 0 0 12 2.55 Arizona IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Delgado L, 4-5 7 3 1 1 2 3 98 3.67 W.Harris 1 0 0 0 1 1 21 2.20 Ziegler 1 0 0 0 0 1 16 2.48 HBP—by Ziegler (Sandoval). Umpires—Home, Bill Miller; First, Todd Tichenor; Second, CB Bucknor; Third, Dale Scott. T—2:45. A—24,380 (48,633). Rockies 9, Reds 6 Cincinnati AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Choo cf 5 1 1 0 0 0 .277 Phillips 2b 4 1 2 2 0 1 .267 Votto 1b 3 0 0 0 2 1 .310 Ludwick lf 4 1 1 1 0 0 .229 Duke p 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 Mesoraco c 0 0 0 1 0 0 .250 Bruce rf 4 0 1 0 1 2 .270 Frazier 3b 4 2 1 0 0 0 .231 Cozart ss 4 0 1 0 0 0 .248 Hanigan c 3 0 2 2 0 0 .210 Hoover p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Arroyo p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .080 Simon p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .143 a-C.Izturis ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .179 Ondrusek p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Heisey lf 1 1 1 0 0 0 .233 Totals 33 6 11 6 3 4 Colorado AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Co.Dickerson cf 5 1 1 0 0 1 .274 LeMahieu 2b 5 0 2 1 0 0 .273 Tulowitzki ss 4 2 3 0 1 0 .323 W.Rosario c 5 2 4 0 0 0 .294 Helton 1b 5 2 2 6 0 1 .255 Arenado 3b 5 1 2 0 0 0 .271 Blackmon rf 4 1 3 0 0 1 .274 Culberson lf 4 0 1 2 0 2 .212 J.De La Rosa p 2 0 0 0 0 0 .040 b-Pacheco ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .228 Ottavino p 1 0 1 0 0 0 .111 Francis p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Totals 41 9 19 9 1 5 Cincinnati 010 110 003—6 11 0 Colorado 100 500 30x—9 19 0 a-doubled for Simon in the 6th. b-grounded out for J.De La Rosa in the 6th. LOB—Cincinnati 8, Colorado 9. 2B—Choo (29), Phillips (21), Bruce (36), Frazier (24), C.Izturis (5), LeMahieu (16), W.Rosario (21), Culberson (2). 3B—Co.Dickerson (3). HR—Ludwick (2), off J.De La Rosa; Helton (10), off Arroyo; Helton (11), off Ondrusek. RBIs—Phillips 2 (97), Ludwick (4), Mesoraco (36), Hanigan 2 (20), LeMahieu (20), Helton 6 (48), Culberson 2 (7). CS—LeMahieu (6). S—Arroyo 2. SF—Mesoraco. Runners left in scoring position—Cincinnati 8 (Ludwick, Choo 3, Bruce, Frazier, Phillips 2); Colorado 5 (Tulowitzki, Culberson, Co.Dickerson, Arenado 2). RISP—Cincinnati 3 for 14; Colorado 4 for 11. Runners moved up—Votto 2, Cozart, J.De La Rosa. GIDP—Ludwick 2, W.Rosario. DP—Cincinnati 1 (Frazier, Phillips, Votto); Colorado 2 (Arenado, LeMahieu, Helton), (LeMahieu, Tulowitzki, Helton). Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Arroyo L,13-10 3 1-3 9 6 6 1 1 58 3.66 Simon 1 2-3 3 0 0 0 1 24 3.38 Ondrusek 1 4 3 3 0 1 15 4.57 Duke 1 2-3 3 0 0 0 2 41 8.06 Hoover 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 4 3.04 Colorado IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA J.DeLaRosaW,15-6 6 8 3 3 2 3 97 3.33 Ottavino H, 5 2 0 0 0 1 1 17 2.91 Francis 1 3 3 3 0 0 17 6.83 Ondrusek pitched to 4 batters in the 7th. Inherited runners-scored—Simon 1-0, Duke 1-0, Hoover 2-0. HBP—by J.De La Rosa (Phillips, Hanigan). WP—Francis. Umpires—Home, Jordan Baker; First, Adrian Johnson; Second, Brian O’Nora; Third, Fieldin Culbreth. T—3:12. A—29,415 (50,398). Angels 5, Brewers 0 Los Angeles AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Shuck lf 4 0 1 1 0 1 .295 Kohn p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Cor.Rasmus p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Aybar ss 4 0 0 0 0 0 .269 Trout cf-lf 3 0 1 0 1 0 .331 Calhoun rf 3 2 2 1 1 0 .253 Trumbo 1b 4 1 1 0 0 2 .236 Conger c 4 0 1 0 0 1 .253 L.Jimenez 3b 4 1 1 0 0 2 .250 G.Green 2b 4 1 1 3 0 1 .256 Weaver p 2 0 0 0 0 2 .000 a-Bourjos ph-cf 2 0 0 0 0 0 .275 Totals 34 5 8 5 2 9 Milwaukee AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Aoki rf 5 0 1 0 0 1 .283 Segura ss 5 0 1 0 0 1 .302 Lucroy 1b 3 0 1 0 2 0 .288 Ar.Ramirez 3b 4 0 1 0 1 1 .268 C.Gomez cf 2 0 0 0 1 0 .286 K.Davis lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .298 Gennett 2b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .333 Maldonado c 3 0 0 0 1 1 .171 W.Peralta p 2 0 0 0 0 0 .163 Wooten p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 b-Gindl ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .275 Thornburg p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Badenhop p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 c-J.Francisco ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .236 Totals 34 0 6 0 5 6 Los Angeles 000 100 400—5 8 1 Milwaukee 000 000 000—0 6 0 a-fouled out for Weaver in the 7th. b-struck out for Wooten in the 7th. c-doubled for Badenhop in the 9th. E—Weaver (1). LOB—Los Angeles 4, Milwaukee 13. 2B—G.Green (4), J.Francisco (11). HR—Calhoun (5), off W.Peralta. RBIs—Shuck (33), Calhoun (13), G.Green 3 (6). CS—Trout (5). Runners left in scoring position—Los Angeles 1 (G.Green); Milwaukee 7 (Lucroy, W.Peralta 2, Maldonado, C.Gomez 2, Ar.Ramirez). RISP—Los Angeles 3 for 7; Milwaukee 2 for 13. Runners moved up—L.Jimenez. Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Weaver W, 9-7 6 3 0 0 3 3 104 3.30 Kohn 1 1 0 0 2 1 25 3.48 Cor.Rasmus 2 2 0 0 0 2 33 4.15 Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA W.Peralta L, 8-14 6 4 3 3 2 6 90 4.51 Wooten 1 3 2 2 0 1 13 2.16 Thornburg 1 1 0 0 0 1 15 1.94 Badenhop 1 0 0 0 0 1 12 3.68 W.Peralta pitched to 2 batters in the 7th. Inherited runners-scored—Wooten 2-2. HBP— by Weaver (C.Gomez). WP—Kohn. Umpires—Home, Jim Wolf; First, Ed Hickox; Second, Jim Joyce; Third, Jeff Nelson. T—3:16. A—32,340 (41,900). Mariners 7, Astros 1

Seattle AB R H BI BB SO Avg. B.Miller ss 5 1 2 0 0 1 .267 Franklin 2b 5 0 0 0 0 1 .223 Seager 3b 5 1 1 1 0 1 .275 K.Morales dh 3 2 0 0 2 0 .279 Ibanez lf 3 1 1 0 1 1 .251 M.Saunders lf 1 0 1 0 0 0 .236 Smoak 1b 2 1 1 0 3 0 .251 Ackley cf 5 1 4 4 0 1 .261 A.Almonte rf 5 0 1 2 0 2 .200 H.Blanco c 4 0 0 0 0 1 .153 Totals 38 7 11 7 6 8 Houston AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Grossman lf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .268 Hoes rf 4 0 2 0 0 0 .283 Altuve 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .266 J.Castro c 4 0 0 0 0 3 .279 M.Dominguez dh 4 0 1 0 0 0 .239 Wallace 1b 2 0 0 0 1 0 .226 B.Barnes cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .233 Ma.Gonzalez 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .222 Villar ss 3 1 1 0 0 1 .262 Totals 31 1 4 0 1 4 Seattle 000 230 011—7 11 1 Houston 001 000 000—1 4 0 E—Smoak (3). LOB—Seattle 10, Houston 4. 2B—Villar (5). 3B—Ackley (2). RBIs—Seager (62), Ackley 4 (26), A.Almonte 2 (2). SB—B.Miller (4), Seager (7). Runners left in scoring position—Seattle 4 (H.Blanco, A.Almonte 3); Houston 2 (Altuve, M.Dominguez). RISP—Seattle 5 for 13; Houston 0 for 3. Runners moved up—Franklin. GIDP—B.Barnes. DP—Seattle 1 (Seager, Franklin, Smoak). Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA T.Walker W, 1-0 5 2 1 0 1 2 70 0.00 Capps 2 1 0 0 0 1 22 5.40 Furbush 1 0 0 0 0 1 18 3.02 O.Perez 1 1 0 0 0 0 14 3.97 Houston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Peacock L, 3-5 4 2-3 7 5 5 4 4 103 5.98 Humber 3 1-3 2 1 1 0 3 53 8.54 Zeid 1 2 1 1 2 1 23 6.92 Inherited runners-scored—Humber 2-0. WP— Peacock. Umpires—Home, Dan Bellino; First, Bruce Dreckman; Second, Tim Welke; Third, Mike Everitt. T—3:16. A—13,869 (42,060). Twins 3, Rangers 2 Minnesota AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Dozier 2b 3 1 0 0 1 2 .242 C.Herrmann c 4 1 1 2 0 1 .219 Morneau 1b 4 1 1 1 0 1 .259 Willingham lf 3 0 1 0 1 1 .212 Doumit dh 4 0 0 0 0 1 .241 Plouffe 3b 3 0 1 0 0 2 .232 Thomas cf 3 0 1 0 0 2 .226 Mastroianni rf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .167 Florimon ss 3 0 1 0 0 2 .227 Totals 30 3 6 3 2 13 Texas AB R H BI BB SO Avg. L.Martin cf 3 0 0 0 1 0 .266 Andrus ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .262 Kinsler 2b 4 1 1 0 0 0 .279 A.Beltre 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .326 Pierzynski c 4 0 1 1 0 0 .279 Rios rf 3 0 1 0 1 1 .275 Moreland 1b 2 0 0 0 1 0 .245 b-Je.Baker ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .296 Profar dh 4 1 1 1 0 1 .237 Dav.Murphy lf 2 0 1 0 0 0 .223 a-Gentry ph-lf 1 0 1 0 0 0 .254 Totals 32 2 6 2 3 4 Minnesota 000 000 300—3 6 1 Texas 001 100 000—2 6 0 a-tripled for Dav.Murphy in the 7th. b-struck out for Moreland in the 9th. E—C.Herrmann (1). LOB—Minnesota 2, Texas 6. 2B—Plouffe (19), Dav.Murphy (24). 3B—Gentry (3). HR—C.Herrmann (4), off Darvish; Morneau (17), off Darvish; Profar (5), off Hendriks. RBIs—C. Herrmann 2 (17), Morneau (74), Pierzynski (57), Profar (23). SB—Kinsler (12), Rios (32). CS—Florimon (5). Runners left in scoring position—Texas 4 (Andrus 2, Profar, Moreland). RISP—Minnesota 1 for 1; Texas 0 for 6. Runners moved up—Pierzynski. GIDP—Doumit, Andrus. DP—Minnesota 1 (Dozier, Florimon, Morneau); Texas 1 (A.Beltre, Kinsler, Moreland). Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Hendriks W, 1-2 6 5 2 1 3 2 97 5.13 Duensing H, 13 2-3 1 0 0 0 0 19 3.61 Roenicke H, 12 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 3 3.08 Burton H, 23 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 3.70 Perkins S, 31-34 1 0 0 0 0 2 13 2.22 Texas IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Darvish L,12-6 6 2-3 3 3 3 2 11 107 2.73 Cotts 1-3 1 0 0 0 0 2 1.20 Scheppers 1 1 0 0 0 1 9 2.08 R.Ross 1 1 0 0 0 1 12 2.62 Inherited runners-scored—Roenicke 1-0, Cotts 1-0. Umpires—Home, Marty Foster; First, Wally Bell; Second, Marvin Hudson; Third, Tim McClelland. T—2:45. A—34,815 (48,114). Braves 2, Marlins 1 Miami AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Yelich lf 3 0 2 1 1 1 .262 D.Solano 2b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .247 Stanton rf 3 0 1 0 1 1 .250 Ruggiano cf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .215 Morrison 1b 2 0 0 0 2 0 .260 Qualls p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Polanco 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .250 Hechavarria ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .228 Mathis c 3 0 0 0 0 2 .190 c-Dobbs ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .235 Fernandez p 2 1 1 0 0 0 .159 a-Pierre ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .239 A.Ramos p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Da.Jennings p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Lucas 1b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .240 Totals 31 1 5 1 4 8 Atlanta AB R H BI BB SO Avg. J.Schafer rf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .263 E.Johnson lf 4 1 1 0 0 2 .250 F.Freeman 1b 4 1 2 2 0 2 .309 C.Johnson 3b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .326 1-Janish pr-3b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .133 McCann c 4 0 0 0 0 2 .272 Uggla 2b 2 0 1 0 1 0 .187 B.Upton cf 2 0 1 0 1 1 .186 Simmons ss 2 0 0 0 0 0 .249 Teheran p 2 0 0 0 0 0 .216 S.Downs p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Ayala p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --b-Gattis ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .238 Varvaro p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Totals 27 2 5 2 4 10 Miami 001 000 000—1 5 0 Atlanta 200 000 00x—2 5 0 a-grounded out for Fernandez in the 7th. b-was intentionally walked for Ayala in the 7th. c-flied out for Mathis in the 9th. 1-ran for C.Johnson in the 8th. LOB—Miami 7, Atlanta 6. 2B—E.Johnson (1), F.Freeman (23). 3B—Fernandez (1). HR—F. Freeman (17), off Fernandez. RBIs—Yelich (9), F.Freeman 2 (87). S—Simmons. Runners left in scoring position—Miami 3 (Mathis, Polanco 2); Atlanta 4 (Simmons 2, E.Johnson 2). RISP—Miami 1 for 4; Atlanta 1 for 6. Runners moved up—D.Solano, Hechavarria. GIDP—McCann. DP—Miami 1 (D.Solano, Hechavarria, Lucas); Atlanta 1 (J.Schafer, J.Schafer, Simmons). Miami IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Fernandez L, 10-6 6 3 2 2 2 8 97 2.33 A.Ramos 1-3 2 0 0 1 0 9 3.26 Da.Jennings 1 0 0 0 0 2 16 4.28 Qualls 2-3 0 0 0 1 0 7 2.98 Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Teheran W, 11-76 1-3 4 1 1 3 8 98 3.01 S.Downs H, 5 1-3 0 0 0 1 0 9 0.82 Ayala H, 4 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 1 2.57 Varvaro S, 1-3 2 1 0 0 0 0 17 3.13 Inherited runners-scored—Da.Jennings 3-0, Ayala 1-0. IBB—off A.Ramos (Gattis), off Fernandez (Uggla). WP—Fernandez. Umpires—Home, Mike Winters; First, Tim Timmons; Second, Laz Diaz; Third, Mark Wegner. T—2:52. A—28,255 (49,586).

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auto racing NASCAR-SPRINT CUP AdvoCare 500 Lineup After Friday qualifying; race Sunday At Atlanta Motor Speedway Hampton, Ga. Lap length: 1.54 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 189.688 mph. 2. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 189.021. 3. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 188.539. 4. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 188.533. 5. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 188.053. 6. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 187.983. 7. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 187.939. 8. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 187.519. 9. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 187.487. 10. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 187.475. 11. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 187.424. 12. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 187.196. 13. (47) A J Allmendinger, Toyota, 187.007. 14. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 186.931. 15. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 186.736. 16. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 186.673. 17. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 186.579. 18. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 186.547. 19. (13) Casey Mears, Ford, 186.472. 20. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 186.29. 21. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 186.109. 22. (55) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 185.859. 23. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 185.722. 24. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 185.592. 25. (30) David Stremme, Toyota, 185.399. 26. (33) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 185.331. 27. (14) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 185.238. 28. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 185.065. 29. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 184.886. 30. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 184.732. 31. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 184.523. 32. (78) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 184.499. 33. (35) Josh Wise, Ford, 184.358. 34. (83) David Reutimann, Toyota, 183.728. 35. (95) Scott Speed, Ford, 182.747. 36. (7) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, 182.416. 37. (93) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, Owner Points. 38. (51) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, Owner Points. 39. (40) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, Owner Points. 40. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, Owner Points. 41. (32) Timmy Hill, Ford, Owner Points. 42. (36) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, Owner Points. 43. (98) Michael McDowell, Ford, Owner Points.

transactions BASEBALL National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Optioned C-OF Evan Gattis to Gwinnett. Recalled OF Jose Constanza from Gwinnett (IL). PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Acquired 1B Justin Morneau from Minnesota for OF Alex Presley and player to be named or cash considerations. Recalled RHP Stolmy Pimentel from Indianapolis (IL). Optioned RHP Jared Hughes and OF Andrew Lamb to Altoona (EL). SAN DIEGO PADRES — Activated INF-OF Kyle Blanks from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Anthony Bass to Tucson (PCL). Midwest League QUAD CITIES RIVER BANDITS — Named Bridget Otten assistant general manager of special events and Dustin Miller finance manager.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Placed TE Jeff King and DT Ricky Lumpkin on injured reserve. Released OT Jamaal Johnson-Webb, LB Kenny Rowe, DT Padric Scott, WR Kerry Taylor and LB Reggie Walker. ATLANTA FALCONS — Released LB Robert James, WR Darius Johnson, WR James Rodgers, WR Martel Moore, FB Patrick DiMarco, CB Jordan Mabin, G Phillipkeith Manley, G Jacques McClendon and DT Adam Replogle. BALTIMORE RAVENS — Released WR Tandon Doss, RB Bobby Rainey, TE Billy Bajema, TE Matt Furstenburg, OT J.J. Unga, DL Cody Larson, S Omar Brown, OL Antoine McClain. Placed CB Asa Jackson and S Christian Thompson on the reserve-suspended list. BUFFALO BILLS — Released DE Jamie Blatnick, DE Izaan Cross, QB Thad Lewis, LB Bryan Scott and DT Torell Troup. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Waived/injured QB Jimmy Clausen, S D.J. Campbell, WR David Gettis and S Anderson Russell. Terminated the contracts of OT Patrick Brown, CB Drayton Florence and LB Jason Williams. Released WR Brenton Bersin, OT Garrett Chisolm, TE Dominique Curry, DT Sione Fua, G Hayworth Hicks, LB Doug Hogue, WR Taulib Ikharo, LB Ben Jacobs, S Robert Lester, G Tori Mobley, TE Zack Pianalto, RB Tauren Poole, DE Craig Roh,WR James Shaw and DT Casey Walker.

CHICAGO BEARS — Waived LB J.T. Thomas, WR Terrence Toliver.Waived OT Cory Brandon and DT Corvey Irvin with injury settlements. Waived/ injured Brandon Hardin. CINCINNATI BENGALS — Placed LB Emmanuel Lamur on injured reserve. Placed RB Bernard Scott on the PUP list. Released QB John Skelton, OT Dennis Roland, FB John Conner, TE Bryce Davis, S Tony Dye, OT Reid Fragel, WR Cobi Hamilton, RB Daniel Herron, C T.J. Johnson, CB Chris Lewis-Harris, CB Onterio McCalebb, DE Dontay Moch, CB Shaun Prater, WR Taveon Rogers, WR Roy Roundtree, LB J.K. Schaffer, DT Terrence Stephens, G John Sullen and LB Bruce Taylor. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Terminated the contract of K Shayne Graham. Placed WR Josh Gordon on the Reserve/Suspended list. Waived OL Aaron Adams, DB Akeem Auguste, K Brandon Bogotay, LBJustin Cole,RBJamaine Cook,DLHall Davis,WR Tori Gurley, LB James-Michael Johnson, WR David Nelson, WR Naaman Roosevelt, DL Brian Sanford, DB Jamoris Slaughter and LB Justin Staples. DALLAS COWBOYS — Placed S Matt Johnson on injured reserve. Released QB Alex Tanney, LB Brandon Magee,WR Anthony Armstrong,WR Danny Coale, WR Tim Benford, RB Kendial Lawrence, DB Sterling Moore, DB Jakar Hamilton, DB Xavier Brewer, DB Micah Pellerin, OL Edawn Coughman, OL Demetress Bell, OL Ray Dominguez, OL Kevin Kowalski, LB Taylor Reed, LB Cameron Lawrence, LB Caleb McSurdy, DL Jerome Long, DL Jabari Fletcher, DLThaddeus Gibson and DLJason Vega. DENVER BRONCOS — Released RB Lance Ball, WR Gerell Robinson, OL Ben Garland, CB Aaron Hester, LB Damien Holmes and, John Youboty, WR Tavarres King, OT Vinston Painter, DE Jeremy Beal, C Ryan Lilja and OL Philip Blake. Placed LB Stewart Bradley, LB Lerentee McCray and DE Quanterus Smith on injured reserve. DETROIT LIONS — Placed TE Michael Williams on injured reserve. Released G Rodney Austin, CB Ron Bartell, RB Shaun Chapas, P Blake Clingan, DT Andre Fluellen WR Corey Fuller, CB Chris Greenwood, T Kevin Haslam, LB Brandon Hepburn, S Tyrell Johnson, C Darren Keyton, RB Steven Miller, LB Jon Morgan, FS Martavius Neloms, DT Ogemdi Nwagbuo, DT Xavier Proctor, DT Jimmy Saddler-McQueen, G Jake Scott, S Amari Spievey, LB Chris White and WR Matt Willis. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Released FB Jonathan Amosa, OT Andrew Datko, S David Fulton, C Garth Gerhart, RB Alex Green, OT Kevin Hughes, WR Charles Johnson, C Patrick Lewis, LB Terrell Manning, CB Loyce Means, DT Jordan Miller, LB Dezman Moses, TE Matthew Mulligan, CB James Nixon, S Chaz Powell, LB Donte Savage, CB Brandon Smith,TEJake Stoneburner,WRTyroneWalker,WR Myles White,TE D.J.Williams and QB Vince Young. HOUSTON TEXANS — Placed WR Alan Bonner, OT Brennan Williams and LB Trevardo Williams on injured reserve. Waived/injured NT David Hunter andWR Mike Smith.Released DLDaniel Muirwith an injury settlement. Placed S Ed Reed on the active/ PUP list. Released DE Keith Browner,TE Jake Byrne, CB Roc Carmichael, FB Tyler Clutts, LB Cameron Collins, WR Andy Cruse, G-C Tyler Horn, DE Delano Johnson, RB Dennis Johnson, S Orhian Johnson, NT Chris Jones, RB Deji Karim, G-C Alex Kupper, CB Elbert Mack, OT Nate Menkin, LB Mike Mohamed,WR EZ Nwachukwu and S Jawanza Starling. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Waived-injured OT Emmett Cleary, LB Shawn Loiseau and CB Daxton Swanson. Waived LB Daniel Adongo, S Larry Asante, C Thomas Austin, CB Marshay Green, DE Lawrence Guy, QB Chandler Harnish, FB Robert Hughes, T Ben Ijalana, TE Dominique Jones, WR Jeremy Kelley, LB Josh McNary, DT Drake Nevis, CB Sheldon Price, WR Jabin Sambrano, WR Lanear Sampson, LB Monte Simmons, T Bradley Sowell, NT Martin Tevaseu and OT Lee Ziemba. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Waived/injured G Ricky Henry and TE Tony Moeaki. Released OT Steven Baker, WR Josh Bellamy, S Malcolm Bronson, S Greg Castillo, CB Kennard Cox, DL Marcus Dixon, OL Tommie Draheim, LB Darin Drakeford, RB Shaun Draughn, WR Frankie Hammond Jr., TE Demetrius Harris, DB Tysyn Hartman, DE Austin Lane, LB Orie Lemon, CB Semaj Moody, FB Toben Opurum, OT Matt Reynolds, WR Rico Richardson, OL Rokevious Watkins and LB-DE Ridge Wilson. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Placed G Seth Olsen on injured reserve. Placed FB Jerome Felton and OT DeMarcus Love on the reserve/suspended list. Placed WR Greg Childs on the PUP list. Announced DT Christian Ballard has left the team. Released TE Colin Anderson, RB Joe Banyard, S Brandan Bishop, G Travis Bond, CB Brandon Burton, WR Stephen Burton, DT Everett Dawkins, S Darius Eubanks, CB Bobby Felder, TE Chase Ford, OT Brandon Keith, DT Anthony McCloud, LB Tyrone McKenzie, OT Kevin Murphy, DT Spencer Nealy, DE D’Aundre Reed, WR Rodney Smith, WR Adam Thielen and Collins Ukwu. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Placed S Adrian Wilson on injured reserve. Released DL Jermaine Cunnngham, DL Justin Francis, P Zoltan Mesko, LB Jeff Tarpinian, QB Tim Tebow, DL Marcus Forston, LB Ja’Gared Davis, S Kanorris Davis, DB Justin Green, OL Chris McDonald, DB Stephon Morris, WR Quentin Sims and RB George Winn. NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Placed C Eric Olsen on injured reserve. Waived NT Isaako Aitui, OLB Baraka Atkins, QB Ryan Griffin, WR Saalim Hakim, TE Michael Higgins, FB Austin Johnson, OLB Rufus Johnson, T Marcel Jones, CB Korey Lindsey, G Elliott Mealer,TE Keavon Milton, S Jerico Nelson, WR Preston Parker, CB Jumal Rolle, LB Ray Shipman, G Andrew Tiller and C Jeremiah Warren. Terminated the contracts of CB Chris Carr, S Jim Leonhard, DE Jay Richardson and WR Courtney Roby. NEW YORK GIANTS — Terminated the contracts of QB David Carr and RB Ryan Torain. Waived S Tyler Sash with an injury settlement. Waived/injured OL Selvish Capers. Placed WR Ramses Barden on injured reserve. Placed DT Markus Kuhn on the reserve/PUP list. Placed S Will Hill to the reserve/suspended list. Waived DE Adrian Tracy, DE Adewale Ojomo, DE Matt Broha, DT Marvin Austin, LB Kyle Bosworth, OL Eric Herman, OL Matt McCants, OL Stephen Goodin, OL Bryant Browning, S David Caldwell, CB Terrence Frederick, CB Charles James, WR Kevin Hardy, WR Marcus Harris and WR Julian Talley. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Released G Danny Watkins, TE Clay Harbor, S David Sims, OL Michael Bamiro, LB Travis Long, LB Chris McCoy, WR Greg Salas, WR Russell Shepard and RB Matthew Tucker. 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TENNESSEE TITANS — Waived DT Stefan Charles, TE Jack Doyle, S Corey Lynch, FB Collin Mooney, WR Rashad Ross, LB Tim Shaw, QB Rusty Smith, LB Scott Solomon, OL Fernando Velasco, LB Jonathan Willard, CB Khalid Wooten. Placed WR Marc Mariani on injured reserve. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Terminated the contracts of NT Ron Brace, OT Tony Pashos and RB Keiland Williams. Waived/injured WR Dezmon Briscoe. Waived DL Chigbo Anunoby, LB Marvin Burdette, LB Will Compton, RB Tristan Davis, WR Skye Dawson, S DeJon Gomes, DE Dominique Hamilton, RB Jawan Jamison, WR Lance Lewis, C Kevin Matthews, CB Chase Minnifield, OT Xavier Nixon, TE Emmanuel Ogbuehi, LB Vic So’oto, OL Tevita Stevens and WR Nick Williams.

COLLEGE IOWA STATE — Dismissed men’s senior basketball G Bubu Palo. MICHIGAN — Suspended S Thomas Gordon one game for an unspecified violation of team rules. TEXAS A&M — Suspended CB De’Vante Harris, LB Steven Jenkins, DE Gavin Stansbury and WR Edward Pope two games each for violating team rules.

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TJ Jones had six catches for 138 yards and Notre Dame had 543 yards total offense, with Amir Carlisle running for 68 yards on seven carries. One of the questions about Rees was whether he could beat opponents deep, with even offensive coordinator Chuck Martin saying he probably wouldn’t respect Rees’ arm strength if he were going against him. But Rees threw the pair of long TD passes to Daniels, who didn’t have a touchdown catch last season. Daniels beat Temple cornerback Anthony Robey on both TDs. The first drive started with Carlisle breaking a 45-yard run up the left sideline to the Temple 37, while the second was set up by a short pass to Jones, who broke two tackles, for a 51-yard gain. The Irish drove to midfield on their next possession, but the drive stalled. That’s when Temple began showing signs of life after Notre Dame safety Bennett Jackson was called for pass interference. Kelly signs contract extension

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly has signed a new five-year contract, saying it signifies that he and school officials agree that they are “all in it together.” Athletic director Jack Swarbrick said the school would not provide any details of the contract, but said he was excited that Kelly would continue to lead the football program. Swarbrick said Kelly has “fundamentally changed” and restored the Notre Dame program. Kelly had said four weeks ago that a new deal was “imminent.” Swarbrick had announced in January after Kelly led the Irish to a 12-0 record and the national championship game against Alabama that the school was working on a contract extension. Kelly interviewed for the Philadelphia Eagles job the day after the BCS game in January.

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Texas A&M offense clicks with and without Manziel Texas A&M’s offense was practically unstoppable, with and without Johnny Manziel. That Aggies defense needed all the help it could get against Rice. Johnny Football packed three touchdown passes into less than a half of work for the seveth-ranked Aggies, who beat Rice 52-31 in College Station, Texas, on Saturday. Manziel was held out of the first half because of what the school said was an “inadvertent” violation of NCAA rules involving signing autographs. The sophomore had been investigated for allegedly accepting money for autographs from memorabilia brokers, a violation of NCAA rules that could have led to a much longer suspension. He came in on Texas A&M’s first offensive play of the second half. His first play was a 12-yard run, and the Aggies capped his first drive with a 44-yard field goal. His first touchdown came on a 23-yard pass to Mike Evans on A&M’s second drive of the half. Shortly before that, he got into it with a Rice defender, appearing to mimic signing an autograph while getting up from a tackle. He ended his day by getting yanked following an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for pointing at the scoreboard after a TD pass in the fourth quarter. He was replaced by Matt Joeckel on A&M’s last drive. Joeckel started at quarterback for A&M and threw for 190 yards and a touchdown to help the Aggies to a 28-21 lead at halftime. Manziel was one of more than a half dozen

Eastern Washington 49, No. 25 Oregon State 46

players serving suspensions Saturday. No. 3 Oregon 66, Nicholls 3

EUGENE, Ore. — Marcus Mariota threw a touchdown pass and ran for two additional scores and the Oregon Ducks made easy work of lowertier Nicholls. Mariota, who set an Oregon record with 38 touchdowns last season as a redshirt freshman, completed 12 of 21 passes for 234 yards before sitting after the third quarter when the Ducks had built a 45-3 lead. Mariota also ran for 113 yards for his second career game with more than 100 yards rushing. De’Anthony Thomas ran for 128 yards and two more touchdowns for Oregon in the debut of new head coach Mark Helfrich. Helfrich, the team’s former offensive coordinator, was promoted when Chip Kelly left the Ducks in January for the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles. No. 7 Texas A&M 52, Rice 31

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — After serving his first-half suspension, Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel threw three TD passes and scrambled for 19 yards — ran his mouth a bit, too — as Texas A&M posted a lopsided win over Rice. Manziel was sitting out because of what the school said was an “inadvertent” violation of NCAA rules involving signing autographs. His first touchdown came on a 23-yard pass to Mike Evans on A&M’s second drive of the half. Shortly before that, he got into it with a Rice

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Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel, right, celebrates a touchdown by teammate Ben Malena (1) during the first quarter Saturday against Rice in College Station, Texas. Manziel has been suspended for the first half of the team’s game for what the school said was an “inadvertent” violation of NCAA rules by signing autographs. defender, appearing to good as last year’s version lead the Oklahoma State No. 16 Oklahoma 34, mimic signing an auto- despite losing eight start- Cowboys to a win over the Louisiana-Monroe 0

graph while getting up from a tackle. He ended his day by getting yanked following an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for pointing at the scoreboard after a TD pass in the fourth quarter. He was replaced by Matt Joeckel on A&M’s last drive. No. 10 Florida 24, Toledo 6

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Mack Brown had a career day, Jeff Driskel was efficient and Florida opened the season with a victory over Toledo. Brown ran 25 times for 112 yards and two touchdowns. Driskel completed 17 of 22 passes for 153 yards and a score. And Florida’s defense, which ranked fifth in the country in 2012, looked every bit as

ers and its coordinator. The Gators controlled both lines of scrimmage, opening holes for Brown and keeping steady pressure on Toledo’s experienced spread offense. It was exactly the style of play Florida has become known for under third-year coach Will Muschamp. No flashiness. Few highlightreel plays. But a win in the end. It was Florida’s 24th consecutive season-opening victory, the second-longest active streak in the country. Only Nebraska (27) has a longer current run. No. 13 Oklahoma State 21, Mississippi State 3

HOUSTON — J.W. Walsh threw for 135 yards and ran for another 125 and a touchdown to

Mississippi State in the Texas Kickoff. Walsh finished 18 of 27 after relieving starter Clint Chelf on the Cowboys’ third series. Jeremy Smith rushed for 102 yards and two touchdowns on 15 carries for Oklahoma State (1-0), which piled up 432 yards on offense after struggling for most of the first half. Tyler Russell 10 of 16 for 133 yards before being helped off the field and taken to the locker room in the third quarter after being brought down on a scramble. Dak Prescott replaced Russell, throwing for 89 yards on seven of 17 passing. LaDarius Perkins rushed for 50 yards on 16 carries and caught three passes for 52 yards for the Bulldogs (0-1).

NORMAN, Okla. — Trevor Knight rushed for 103 yards on 13 carries and threw three touchdown passes — two to Jalen Saunders - in his first start and No. 16 Oklahoma beat Louisiana-Monroe. Oklahoma gave coach Bob Stoops his 150th career win, putting him seven behind Barry Switzer on the Sooners’ career coaching wins list. Oklahoma is 5-0 under Stoops in August games and 14-1 in home openers, having lost only to Texas Christian in 2005. Knight became the first Oklahoma quarterback to rush for 100 or more yards in a game since Jason White had 117 yards rushing against Kansas on Oct. 13, 2001.

CORVALLIS, Ore. — Vernon Adams passed for 411 yards and ran for 107 and the go-ahead score with 18 seconds left as Eastern Washington upset Oregon State to become the third FCS team to beat a ranked FBS team. Adams overwhelmed the Beavers in a performance in sure to attract attention around the nation. He threw for four touchdowns and ran for two, completing 23 of 30 passes despite leaving the game twice — once with cramping and a second time after taking a hard hit near the sideline. Adams returned, though, and scored on a 2-yard run to put the Eagles up 49-46. It was the first time a team from the Football Championship Subdivision has defeated a ranked team from the Football Bowl Subdivision since James Madison beat Virginia Tech in September 2010. Boston College 24, Villanova 14

BOSTON — Alex Amidon had 13 catches for 146 yards and a touchdown as Boston College recovered from a slow start to beat Villanova and win its first game under coach Steve Addazio. Andre Williams ran for 114 yards on 23 carries for the Eagles (1-0), who won just twice last season and fired coach Frank Spaziani. Duquesne 35, Albany 24

PITTSBURGH — Dillon Buechel threw for 309 yards and two touchdowns in his college debut to lead Duquesne in a victory over Albany.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Urban Meyer is a perfectionist. His second-ranked Ohio State team was less than perfect. Braxton Miller threw two touchdown passes before fighting leg cramps and Jordan Hall ran for two more scores to lead the Buckeyes to a 40-20 victory over Buffalo on Saturday in the season opener for both teams. The Buckeyes, striving for a crisper start after a lethargic outing in Meyer’s debut in 2012, led 23-0 after the first quarter before the Bulls made things interesting. Joe Licata threw two TD passes and linebacker Kahlil Mack returned a Miller interception 45 yards to make it 30-20 in the third quarter. But after Miller was sidelined a second time with cramps, sub Kenny Guiton promptly tossed a 21-yard touchdown pass to Chris Fields and the Buckeyes were never threatened again. Licata completed 19 of 32 passes for 185 yards and two scores with one interception, with Branden Oliver gaining 73 yards on 26 carries for the Bulls, who were playing Ohio State for the first time. Ohio State was in control after its first three possessions. Miller, who was 15 of 22 passing for 178 yards and also ran for 77 yards on

17 attempts, hit Devin Smith on a 47-yard scoring pass on the fourth offensive play of the season. Then he found Fields on a 7-yard scoring pass. The Buckeyes, who had 10 new starters on defense to start the game, missed a punt block and roughed the punter, then failed on a Hall run on fourth and 1 near midfield. Meyer chewed out his offensive line when it returned to the bench. After Ron Tanner picked off a tipped Licata pass for Ohio State, speedy freshman tailback Dontre Wilson gave it right back on the next play when he was hit by linebacker Blake Bean and Buffalo’s Derek Brim recovered.

long touchdown passes in the second half. Stacey Bedell finished with 70 yards on 19 carries for UMass. Cincinnati 42, Purdue 7

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and threw for another in the first half as Michigan went on to beat Central Michigan. It was the highest-scoring opener for the Wolverines (1-0) since 1905, when they beat Ohio Wesleyan 65-0. They will face a tougher test against No. 14 Notre Dame next week at home in a prime-time game. The Chippewas (0-1) fell behind 35-6 at halftime Saturday. After they gave up five straight TDs, Ron Coluzzi’s third field goal made it 56-9 with 3:12 left in the

game. Gardner was 10 of 15 for 162 yards with a 16-yard TD pass to Jeremy Gallon and two interceptions. He ran for a 22-yard score midway through the first quarter when Michigan led by just four points and had a 4-yard TD on the ground late in the first half.

White added 143 and Wisconsin’s revamped defense pitched a shutout of Massachusetts in coach Gary Andersen’s debut. Gordon and White padded their totals by each running for touchdowns of at least 51 yards for the Badgers, who didn’t stray far from their trademark rushing attack with the defensive-minded No. 23 Wisconsin 45, Andersen now pacing the sideline. Massachusetts 0 Joel Stave overcame a slow MADISON, Wis. — Melvin start at quarterback to connect Gordon ran for 144 yards, James with Jared Abbrederis for two

CINCINNATI — Munchie Legaux regained his job as the starting quarterback and had a solid showing on Saturday, throwing for a touchdown and running for another in Cincinnati’s victory over Purdue — the Boilermakers’ worst opening loss in 17 years. Legaux’s dual-threat performance highlighted a game featuring new coaches and a new league — Cincinnati (1-0) in the American Athletic Conference. The Bearcats were sharp their first time under Tommy Tuberville. Legaux was back at quarterback because incumbent Brendon Kay has been limited by a sore passing shoulder. He was 13 of 20 for 146 yards. Purdue (0-1) got a whole new offense under Darrell Hazell, and it didn’t work. The Boilermakers took their most lopsided defeat since a 52-14 loss at Michigan State in 1996. Northern Illinois 30, Iowa 27

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Mathew Sims hit a 36-yard field goal with four seconds left and Northern Illinois rallied to beat Iowa in the season opener for both teams. Jordan Lynch threw for 275

yards and three touchdowns for the Huskies, who scored 10 points in the final 5:05 to record their first win over the Hawkeyes. Northern Illinois cornerback Jimmie Ward intercepted Iowa’s Jake Rudock with 1:17 left. He brought it to the Hawkeyes 30-yard line, setting up the gamewinning kick from Sims. Rudock threw for 256 yards, a touchdown and two picks in his debut for Iowa, which lost its seventh straight game dating back to last season. Illinois 42, Southern Illinois 34

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Nathan Scheelhaase threw for careerbest 416 yards and two touchdowns to lead Illinois to a win over Southern Illinois. But the Illini had to hang on late to beat the Football Championship Subdivision school. Trailing with 44 seconds to play and fourth down at the Illini 3-yard line, Saluki quarterback Kory Faulkner threw too high for leaping wideout Adam Fuehne. Illinois was up 42-24 with as little as 12 minutes left. The Illini offense was mostly Scheelhaase. He was 28 for 36 and his second-quarter touchdown passes to Jon Davis and Josh Ferguson built a 25-7 halftime lead. Ryan Lankford caught six passes for 115 yards.

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PAUL NEWBERRY

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ATLANTA — Christion Jones became the first Alabama player since at least the 1940s to have two returns for touchdowns, Vinnie Sunseri brought back an interception for another TD, and the top-ranked Crimson Tide overcame a sluggish offensive performance to beat Virginia Tech 35-10 on Saturday. Jones scored on a 72-yard punt return less than 2 minutes into the game, then scooted loose on a kickoff for a 94-yard touchdown that led the Crimson Tide (1-0) to a win that could’ve been much tougher to start its quest for an unprecedented third straight national title. For good measure, the junior receiver also hauled in a 38-yard

touchdown pass late in the third quarter to blow it open against the Hokies (0-1), who largely shut down AJ McCarron and Alabama’s highly touted offense. The Tide had just 97 yards total offense at halftime but were up 28-10. McCarron & Co. contributed only one of those TDs, and that came when they worked with a short field after a wobbly Virginia Tech punt. Sunseri stymied a brief bit of momentum Virginia Tech had after Trey Edmunds broke off a 77-yard touchdown run, cutting Alabama’s early lead to 14-7. The Hokies held on defense, but Logan Thomas telegraphed a pass over the middle, Sunseri stepped in to make the pick and, without breaking stride, took it all the way to the end zone for a 38-yard touchdown.

Virginia Tech’s last glimmer of hope faded after Cody Journell booted a 39-yard field goal late in the first half. On the ensuing kickoff, Jones appeared to be stopped short of his own 30. Then, suddenly, he burst out from a pack of would-be tacklers and was gone. The return left Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer — whose program was long known for its stellar special teams — waving his cap and shaking his head in disgust. Alabama finally put together an impressive offensive series late in the third quarter, capped by McCarron’s scoring pass to Jones. Still, the Tide managed just 206 yards on offense, far shy of its 445.5-yard average last season. McCarron was photographed arriving in Atlanta wearing a boot on his right foot, reportedly

because of an ingrown toenail, and he looked a bit off after being the nation’s top-rated passer last season. There was an interception — he had only three all of last season — and also a penalty for intentional grounding. He finished 10-of-23 for 110 yards. T.J. Yeldon rushed for 75 yards on 17 carries, but the Tide finished with just 96 yards on the ground. While the Tide has no shortage of offensive skill players, the line lost three starters from last year’s championship team. Apparently, there’s still some work to do in the trenches, which coach Nick Saban will surely focus on over the next two weeks before Alabama heads to College Station to face the new Southeastern Conference rival that provided its lone loss of 2012 — Texas A&M and Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel.

Jones’ performance masked the lackluster showing at the Georgia Dome, as he became the first Crimson Tide player since at least 1944 — that’s as far back as the Alabama record book goes — to score two touchdowns in a game on returns. And, for the first time since 1995, Alabama scored three non-offensive TDs in a game. Virginia Tech, looking to rebound from a 7-6 season that was its worst since 1992, also struggled on offense under new coordinator Scot Loeffler. Fifthyear senior quarterback Logan Thomas looked like a raw freshman, completing only 5-of-26 for 59 yards, thought his numbers would’ve been a bit better if not for several dropped passes. Take away Edmunds’ long run and the Hokies managed just 135 yards.

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Alabama running back T.J. Yeldon (4) jumps over the tackle of Virginia Tech linebacker Josh Trimble (32) in the first half Saturday in Atlanta.

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Allmendinger back in Cup with full-time ride PAUL NEWBERRY

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HAMPTON, Ga. — Less than 14 months after a devastating blow to his career, A.J. Allmendinger reclaimed a full-time ride in the Sprint Cup series. JTG Daugherty Racing announced Saturday that Allmendinger will take over

the No. 47 car from Bobby Labonte next season, capping his comeback from a positive drug test in July 2012 that resulted in a NASCAR suspension and losing his job with Roger Penske’s Sprint Cup team. “I didn’t deserve a second chance,” Allmendinger said during a news conference at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

“But I worked really hard to get there.” He went through a NASCAR-mandated treatment program and managed to land a handful of one-off Cup rides, in addition to getting a chance from Penske to drive in a few IndyCar events. Allmendinger competed in the Indianapolis 500, led 23 laps and finished

seventh — a performance he calls “probably the biggest moment of my career.” He also won two road races in the NASCAR Nationwide Series driving for Penske. Allmendinger landed with a one-car team that includes former NBA star Brad Daugherty among its owners, having persuaded his new employers that he’s

improved as a person since a positive test for the prescription drug Adderall. “It’s really not hit me what happened the last 13 or 14 months,” Allmendinger said. “More than anything, I wouldn’t change any of it. I feel so good about it now. It’s taken a lot of hard work to get where I want to be in this sport.”

With Labonte, the 2000 Cup champion, enduring a tough season, Allmendinger was tapped to drive the car at Kentucky and Watkins Glen. He’ll be behind the wheel again Sunday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway and continue to fill in as needed while Labonte recovers after breaking three ribs in a bike riding accident near

his North Carolina home. “Bobby’s pretty banged up right now,” said Tad Geschickter, another of the team’s owners. “He’s got another doctor’s appointment Monday. He may be a gametime decision (next weekend at Richmond), but Bobby Labonte’s burning passion is to drive the car and see this season through the end.”

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Obeng-Agyapong fires up Lions defense

DEREK LEVARSE

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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — On the TV broadcast, the graphic briefly flashed along the bottom of the screen in the fourth quarter. “STEPHEN OBENG-AGYAPONG 54 YARD TD RECEPTION” OK, so it was actually Eugene Lewis, who happens to share the No. 7 jersey for the Nittany Lions this season. But it was about the only thing Obeng-Agyapong didn’t accomplish in front of friends and family at MetLife Stadium. The senior safety was pressed into duty at outside linebacker when Mike Hull exited the game with an apparent knee injury in the first half. A veteran who looked to have lost his starting spot in the secondary instead came through with eight tackles, a sack, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery and an interception in Penn State’s win over Syracuse on Saturday. “My best game ever,” ObengAgyapong beamed afterward. Not the least because he grew up just across the river from the stadium in the Bronx with many supporters in the stands. With the Lions dangerously thin at linebacker this season, the coaching staff asked Obeng-Agyapong to work a bit at linebacker in training camp, preferring to use the 5-foot-10, 205-pounder over an inexperienced group of natural linebackers. It was a contingency plan. And Penn State had to turn to it after Hull limped off the field early in the 2012 opener. Obeng-Agyapong’s performance was better than anyone could have expected. “He really stepped up for us,”

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Penn State fans cheer during the first quarter Saturday against Syracuse in East Rutherford, N.J.

senior linebacker Glenn Carson said. “I mean, when a guy goes down, you’re looking for that guy to step in. That’s what depth is all about. “He’s a kid who works hard. It’s his senior year and it’s really great to see him excel on the field like that.” After a Penn State turnover in the second quarter, Obeng-Agyapong immediately answered for the Lions, ripping the ball free from Syracuse running back Jerome Smith and recovering it himself in the pile. In the third quarter, he took advantage of a poor throw by Orange quarterback Drew Allen for his first career interception. He polished off his day with the biggest hit of the day, coming untouched on a blitz to level Allen. “It was real special,” Obeng-

Agyapong said. “Especially to do that in front of people who came to the game that usually can’t see me. Felt really good.” “He’s a guy that’s just a real team guy,” Lions coach Bill O’Brien said. “It was a great homecoming for him.” Infirmary report

Hull’s injury was certainly a cause for alarm for the Lions, but it likely wasn’t the most serious issue for a Penn State player on the day. Senior tight end Matt Lehman appeared to suffer a serious knee injury in the first half. Lehman was untouched when he tried to make a cut at the top of his route only to have the knee buckle on him. Lehman crashed to the turf and immediately clutched at the knee. He

was quickly carted off the field and did not return. O’Brien said he did not have an update on Lehman or Hull after the game. Hull limped off the field in the first quarter after making a tackle and briefly went to the locker room with trainers. He eventually returned to the field with his right knee wrapped and played sparingly in the second quarter before calling it a day. He spent the second half on the sideline in street clothes. “It’s always tough when you lose a guy like Mike Hull,” Carson said. “He’s one of the hearts and souls of the defense. He’s just a guy that gets after it every time, so it’s tough. But you’ve got to keep rolling with the punches.” A handful of other players missed brief stretches of the game with minor injuries, including Kyle Carter, Nyeem Wartman, Donovan Smith and Jordan Lucas.

Ferguson makes brief cameo

O’Brien told his quarterbacks before the game that Tyler Ferguson would get a shot with the first-team offense on the third series. Things started off well enough for the junior college transfer, who danced away from pressure to find Matt Zanellato for 18 yards. But on his next drop back, the ball simply slipped out of his hand on his windup and Syracuse recovered, turning the fumble into three points. It was the last time Ferguson saw the field. Christian Hackenberg played the rest of the way. “I’m sure he was (disappointed),” O’Brien said of Ferguson. “But at that point in the game, I just felt like it was best to go with Christian.”

Lions From page 1C covered 54 yards to Lewis, the former Wyoming Valley West star, for what proved to be the game-winner. Both were playing in their first collegiate game. “Penn State, we can’t dip our toe in the water,” Lions coach Bill O’Brien said of allowing Hackenberg to throw in all situations. “We have to come out ready to go. We’ve got to take our shots. If we make a mistake, then we play complementary football and see if the defense can hold them there. “We have a lot of improvement to do on offense, but I think everybody can see that there’s talent there — young (guys) mixed with veterans. I just need to do a better job of coaching those guys on offense.” First the youth. Hackenberg was 21-for-32 and his 278 yards were the second most by a Penn State freshman quarterback, behind only Zack Mills, who threw for 280 as a redshirt freshman. Not bad for a guy who just arrived on campus in June and was suddenly playing in front of 60,000-plus in an NFL stadium. “It’s a big change,” Hackenberg said of his sudden rise into the spotlight as the starting quarterback. “The coaching staff has helped me get through this, the team has helped me get through this. I’m just really trying to immerse myself in the team and what the coaches are preaching everyday.” “He’s a very poised kid,” said O’Brien, who revealed that he decided on Hackenberg as his starter two weeks ago, though he never announced it publicly. “He’s got a fantastic demeanor. He’s got great parents and I think that’s one of the things that stood out to me in recruiting. “He’s only 18. He’s got a tremendous future, but we’re not ready to waltz him into the College Football Hall of Fame or the NFL Hall of Fame. We’re just saying he’s a talented guy.” He showed the good and the bad Saturday. His decisive touchdown to

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Syracuse quarterback Drew Allen (8) is sacked by Penn State defensive tackle DaQuan Jones during the fourth quarter Saturday in East Rutherford, N.J.

Lewis was right on the money after Lewis had cleanly beaten the safety over the top. His first career score — a 51-yard connection to Robinson — was set up by a very good pump fake to get Robinson wide open, but the pass was underthrown. Robinson was open enough, though, to stop and haul it in before burning past everyone from a dead stop for the touchdown. Robinson’s mere presence on the field was enough to lift the offense. The junior was benched by O’Brien in the first half — “That’s between Allen and me,” O’Brien said — as the Lions subsisted mainly on a short

passing game filled with screens. They led just 6-3 at halftime. When he took the field in the third quarter, Robinson promptly racked up six catches for 116 yards and a score before the frame was over. “He’s a great player and he made a lot of big plays for us today, as well as Geno (Lewis),” Hackenberg said. Robinson’s score made it 13-3 and Lewis, who finished with two catches for 62 yards, extended the lead to 23-10 midway through the fourth. The Orange wouldn’t go away. O’Brien allowed Hackenberg to throw on third-and-long late in the fourth, and the Syracuse came up

State’s fifth play of the season, a sideline play that helped Lewis shake off some early butterflies. “It’s good,” Lewis said. “There’s always going to be nerves, first game. Getting that first pass calms you down a little, let’s you know you can do this.” He just knew the big, game-breaking play was coming. Robinson took away the Syracuse cornerback on outside while running down the sideline, and Lewis went straight inside for the deep post. “I knew my route was wide open,” Lewis said. “They changed their coverage. It was single coverage on the

inside.” Lewis had one man to beat, and he did — gaining a step on Syracuse safety Jeremi Wilkes and then going high in the air to make the catch. “When ‘Hack’ threw the ball, I was sitting there waiting, (thinking) ‘Catch the ball, no matter what,’ ” the son of Rev. Eugene and Amy Lewis of Wilkes-Barre said. When he came down, Lewis was already falling across the goal line — but stretched the ball across the line with his long reach in an extra effort to ensure Penn State had a quick six and a 23-10 lead with 11:39 on the game clock. That gave Lewis two

with an interception to set up a touchdown that made it 23-17. Syracuse had two shots at driving for a tying touchdown in the final five minutes, but the Lions defense stiffened both times. Sophomore corner Trevor Williams closed it out when he picked off Drew Allen on an underthrown ball down the sideline. The pick came right in front of the Lions bench, and started the celebration to close out a hectic day. “Our team really came together and got a win,” senior linebacker Glenn Carson said. “Now we’re just looking to keep things rolling. We have a really special thing going.”

Lewis From page 1C That future starts now, after Lewis ran a perfect post pattern and snared a beautiful throw from true freshman quarterback Christian Hackenberg for the Lions’ second touchdown of the season. “Lewis did a great job,” O’Brien said. “All Hackenberg had to do was throw it. Lewis did a nice job on that, (wideout) Allen Robinson drew some of the coverage, Christian made a nice throw and (running back) Zach Zwinak picked up a blitzer. Christian had the easiest part of that play.” It didn’t take Lewis long to make the college game look easy for him. He snagged a 7-yard catch on Penn

catches for 62 yards on the day, and he now owns Penn State’s longest scoring play of the young season. “I was making sure I was getting in the end zone,” Lewis said. As he did, the Lions were sure they added another big-play threat to their lineup. “To be honest, my goal was to come out here and do what the coaches tell me,” Lewis said. “Big plays for a receiver are always the focus, they always help your team win. I’m a competitor. I went out there, treated every opportunity like it’s my last.” Chances are, it’s just the first of many.

PENN STATE 23, SYRACUSE 17 New York’s College Classic at MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, N.J. Penn State 0 6 7 10 — 23 Syracuse 0 3 7 7 — 17 SECOND QUARTER SU — Ross Krautman 32-yard field goal, 12:32. Drive: 8 plays, 28 yards, 3:20. Analysis: Bill O’Brien indeed gets an early look at both of his quarterbacks with Christian Hackenberg starting and going 6-for-7 on two drives. Tyler Ferguson gets in for the third drive but has the ball simply slip out of his hands for a fumble that Syracuse scoops up at the PSU 43. The Orange convert a long third down to get into field goal range but the Lions hold from there as Krautman scores the season’s first points. SYRACUSE 3, PENN STATE 0. PSU — Sam Ficken 36-yard field goal, 5:59. Drive: 9 plays, 30 yards, 2:53. Analysis: Penn State gets some life from special teams as a low snap skips back to Orange punter Jonathan Fisher. That gives defensive lineman Carl Nassib — brother of prolific former Syracuse quarterback Ryan — a shot at bringing him down for a loss of 17. Syracuse answers right back, however, as Hackenberg throws his first career interception. Stephen Obeng-Agyapong responds by causing a turnover of his own, ripping the ball away from the Orange at the end of a play. The Lions initially converted a fake field goal on a run by holder Ryan Keiser, but Syracuse holds from there to set up a real kick. SU 3, PSU 3. PSU — Ficken 35-yard field goal, 0:55. Drive: 9 plays, 41 yards, 4:00. Analysis: Penn State begins to assert itself as the half comes to an end, shutting down Syracuse’s work-in-progress offense and getting some traction in the trenches. Tailback Zach Zwinak starts grinding out yards as Hackenberg continues to subsist on a diet of designed screens and short passes. It’s enough to get the Lions back into field goal range, but Bill Belton trips over John Urschel’s foot on a third-down run and Ficken is called on again. The junior converts for his 12th straight make, dating back to last season. PSU 6, SU 3. THIRD QUARTER PSU — Allen Robinson 51-yard pass from Christian Hackenberg (Ficken kick), 11:46. Drive: 2 plays, 76 yards, 0:34. Analysis: It’s pretty simple. Allen Robinson is very, very good. The reigning Big Ten Receiver of the Year sat out the first half for disciplinary issues. On his first snap in the third quarter, Robinson lined up in the slot and took a screen pass 25 yards. On the next play, his man bit hard on a Hackenberg pump fake and Robinson came as wide open as he ever has been. The pass was underthrown, but Robinson still had plenty of time to scoop it up, accelerate to full speed and weave through the rest of the defense for the score. NFL talent on display. PSU 13, SU 3. SU — Jerome Smith 10-yard run (Krautman kick), 11:05. Drive: 2 plays, 65 yards, 0:41. Analysis: Not to be outdone, Syracuse immediately hits its first deep ball of the game on the next play from scrimmage. Safety Malcolm Willis can’t keep Jeremiah Kobena in front of him, and the wideout comes up with a 55-yard catch at the Penn State 10. Smith rumbles off left tackle on the very next play and a stunned Lions defense doesn’t lay a finger on him as he waltzes into the end zone. PSU 13, SU 10. FOURTH QUARTER PSU — Ficken 46-yard field goal, 14:16. Drive: 4 plays, 15 yards, 1:50. Analysis: The redemption of Ficken continues. Though he had that great streak to close out 2012, all of his field goals were under 40 yards. Bill O’Brien shows faith in the junior on this one and he responds with a career-best kick that gives the Lions a slight cushion and prevents the Orange from starting with good field position. PSU 16, SU 10. PSU — Eugene Lewis 54-yard pass from Hackenberg (Ficken kick), 11:39. Drive: 1 play, 54 yards, 0:08. Analysis: A year ago, Lewis may not have made this play. But the improved technique he gained from a redshirt season helped him deftly streak past a Syracuse safety and run under the bomb from Hackenberg, tracking it down at the goal line for an electrifying score. It’s the first Penn State touchdown by a Wyoming Valley Conference alum since fullback Paul Jefferson (GAR) caught an 8-yard score from Zack Mills on Nov. 9, 2002 against Virginia. PSU 23, SU 10. SU — Smith 1-yard run (Krautman kick), 6:58. Drive: 1 play, 1 yard, 0:03. Analysis: Syracuse’s defense gets the Orange right back in it. O’Brien has Hackenberg throwing on third-and-long with the Lions trying to kill clock, and the Orange confuse the freshman with a zone blitz. With pressure coming from the corners, defensive end Robert Welsh quietly drops back into coverage and Hackenberg never sees him as he tries to get rid of the ball. Welsh nabs the interception and jaunts down to the Lions 1, where Smith deposits it in the end zone on the next play. PSU 23, SU 17.

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Barrett shatters Robbins Memorial record ROBERT MINER

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DALLAS — The highly anticipated match up of two of the top runners in the state — Tessa Barrett of Abington Heights and Regan Rome of Dallas — never happened in the Cliff Robbins Memorial Cross Country Races on Saturday at Letterkenny Fields. Rome never ran — due to a groin injury. So Barrett, a senior, scored an easy victory in the Girls Varsity 5K, finishing with a record time, 17 minutes and 26 seconds. She outran second-place finisher, Kaelyn Heineke, a senior from Council Rock North, by better than 2:30. “I missed having Regan to run against,” said Barrett. “She’s such a great competitor — she pushes me and makes me run faster.” It didn’t appear that Barrett needed anyone to push her Saturday. She actually shattered Rome’s course record of 19:07, set last year when Rome defeated Barrett by 35 seconds. But Barrett came on strong later in the season last year, defeating Rome in the 3200 meter run at districts and at states. While the battle between Barrett and Rome never developed, the battle of the two Doms from Dallas did. Dom DeLuca, a senior,

won the Boys Varsity 5K in 16:46, outrunning his teammate, sophomore sensation Dom Hockenbury, by 11 seconds. “Originally, I thought I’d go out conservative,” said DeLuca. “But once I saw the pace (early in the race), I realized I had to go — and set the pace.” “I wished he had (gone out conservative), said Hockenbury. “I tried to stay with him at the beginning but… I began closing on him near the end of the race but… There’s work to be done. There’s lots more races.” Wyoming Valley West eighth grader Jacob Kobusky scored a wire-towire victory in the Boys Junior Varsity 3K, finishing in 11:13. He held off second-place finisher, Franklin Cunningham, an eighth grader from Hazleton Area, who finished 11 seconds behind. “I went out fast right from the start,” said Kobusky. “I just kept increasing my lead little by little. And I worked the downhills really hard, taking longer strides.” Lexi Walsh, an eighth grader from Holy Cross, won the Girls Junior Varsity 3K, finishing in 12:15. She outran secondplace finisher, Karli Moyer, an eighth grader from Northeast Bradford, by 47 seconds. “I broke away from the rest of the field about a

Girls varsity runners funnel into the first turn of the Wyoming Valley Striders 39th annual Cliff Robbins Sr. Memorial High School Invitational Cross Country 5K Race in Dallas Township on Saturday morning.

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Abington Heights senior Tessa Barrett breaks the tape with a time of 17:25 to finish first in the Wyoming Valley Striders 39th annual Cliff Robbins Sr. Memorial High School Invitational Cross Country Girls 5K Race in Dallas Township on Saturday morning.

quarter of a mile into the race going up the hill,” said Walsh. “Then I ran as best as I could the rest of the way.” Note: Runners from 27 schools — from as far away as Bucks County and Wyalusing — competed. Wyoming Valley Striders 39th annual Cliff Robbins Sr. Memorial High School Invitational Cross Country Races results Race No. 1. Girls Junior Varsity 3K Top 25 trophy winners 1. Lexi Walsh, 8th grade, Holy Cross, 12:15 2. Karli Moyer, 8th, NE Bradford, 13:02 3. Anna Brier, 8th, Holy Cross, 13:10

4. Krysten Chaga, 8th, Lake-Lehman, 13:14 5. Abby Sempa, 7th, Holy Cross, 13:17 6. Stephanie Yanochko, 8th, Hazleton, 13:18 7. Ava Baur, 7th, Lake-Lehman, 13:18 8. Katie Retzbach, Fr, Lakeland, 13:28 9. Allison Walsh, 8th, Holy Cross, 13:31 10. Jade Fry, 8th, Lake-Lehman, 13:34 11. Skyla Wilson, 8th, Susquehanna, 13:35 12. Sarah Myers, 7th, Hazleton, 13:46 13. Ella Brown, 8th, NE Bradford, 13:47 14. Olivia Pisarski, 8th, Valley View, 13:58 15. Erica Pica, 7th, Holy Cross, 14:01 16. Santina Burak, 8th, Valley View, 14:02 17. Emma Marion, 8th, Abington Heights, 14:03 18. Stephanie Chaga, 7th, Lake-Lehman, 14:06 19. Krista Hallett, 7th, NE Bradford, 14:06 20. Nicole Welsch, Fr, Valley View, 14:09 21. Addison Orzel, 8th, Wyoming, 14:11 22. Katie Shea, 8th, Scranton, 14:14 23. Atlee Houser, Fr, Riverside, 14:15 24. Rebecca Balara, 8th, Dallas, 14:18 25. Annie Wesolowski, Fr, Abington Heights,

14:21 Field: 132 finishers. Race No. 2. Boys Junior Varsity 3K Top 25 Trophy winners 1. Jacob Kobusky, 8th, Valley West, 11:13 2. Franklin Cunningham, 8th, Hazleton, 11:24 3. Ryan Steiner, 8th, Hazleton, 11:33 4. Matt Hindmarsh, Fr, Wyoming, 11:34 5. AJ Sluko, Fr, Scranton Prep, 11:37 6. Thomas Kerrigan, 8th, Abington Heights, 11:40 7. Noah Donahue, Fr, Riverside, 11:41 8. Aaron Boss, 8th, NE Bradford, 11:47 9. Jack Zandecki, Fr, Dallas, 11:48 10. Louis Rosetti, Fr, Valley View, 11:49 11. Adam Borton, 8th, Dallas, 11:50 12. Nate Mosier, 8th, NE Bradford, 11:51 13. Mitch Rome, 7th, Dallas, 11:53 14. Tarquinius McGurrin, Fr, Scranton Prep, 11:54 15. Ron Sepkoski, Fr, Solomon, 11:57 16. Bryce Zapusek, 7th, Holy Redeemer, 11:58 17. John Savage, 8th, Scranton, 12:00 18. Tyler Devonshire, 8th, NE Bradford, 12:00

Wyoming Area routed by Prep JOHN ERZAR

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SCRANTON — The uniforms were the same, but it became evident Saturday afternoon this version of Wyoming Area football has a way to go to match last year’s championship team. Quite a way. Scranton Prep scored via offense, defense and special teams in routing the Warriors 35-7 at Scranton Memorial Stadium. The new-look Warriors weren’t expected to resemble the 2012 squad that won the WVC Division 2A-A and District 2 Class 2A championships. But the heavy losses to graduation were very apparent and could be tougher to overcome than foreseen. • The 28-point margin of defeat was the biggest Wyoming Area had suffered since losing 40-19 to Pittston Area to end the 2009 season. The Warriors finished 2-8 that year. • The Warriors’ offense never crossed midfield on its own. The team’s only score — a 3-yard run by Jeff Skursky with 8:03 remaining — came after Prep lost a fumble on its 13-yard

line. And after the 35-point mercy rule. • Three Wyoming Area quarterbacks were 2-of-8 for 12 yards and had two interceptions returned for touchdowns. • Wyoming Area special teams fumbled away a punt and had a punt blocked and recovered by Prep for a touchdown. And the returners had a few adventures fielding Prep kickoffs. “First game, we expect to deal with that,” Wyoming Area coach Randy Spencer said. “Especially with the inexperience we had coming in that I talked about in preseason. We have some athletic kids. We have to cut our teeth and get some on-field experience. Unfortunately, some of these lessons have to be learned the hard way.” And on top of all that, starting running back/ linebacker Marty Michaels suffered a right knee injury late in the second quarter. Wyoming Area did make a goal-line stand after Prep moved to the Warriors’ 1-yard line following the fumbled punt. But the second time Wyoming Area took possession trouble struck. Prep defensive back

Pat Timlin cut in front of a pass, returning it 27 yards for a touchdown on the first play of the second quarter. The Warriors went backward on their next drive and were forced to punt. Prep’s Cory Kopicki broke through the line to block the punt and teammate Justin Belardi recovered the ball in the end zone for a touchdown. After Prep’s offense scored twice, the defense found the end zone again on a 46-yard interception return by Kevin Sompel at 3:25 of the third. “There are a lot of things that have to go right in the passing game,” Spencer said. “Our focus is running the ball and in situations taking our shots with playaction game passing. Again, we have to work on it.” Scranton Prep 35, Wyoming Area 7 Wyoming Area 0 0 0 7 — 7 Scranton Prep 0 21 14 0 — 35 Second quarter SP — Dan Timlin 27 int. return (Alex Rieder kick), 11:51 SP — Justin Belardi blocked punt fumble recovery in end zone (Rieder kick), 7:22 SP — Belardi 27 pass from Nick Solfanelli (Rieder kick), 2:38 Third quarter SP — Pat Marino 1 run (Rieder kick), 6:11 SP — Kevin Sompel 46 int. return (Rieder kick), 3:25 Fourth quarter WA — Jeff Skursky 3 run (Danielle Stillarty kick), 8:30 Team statistics WA Prep First downs 6 9 Rushes-yards 36-76 28-84

KINGSTON — Eddie Thomas had four goals and Nick Singer had two goals and three assists as Wyoming Valley West defeated Hazleton Area 7-1 in Wyoming Valley Conference boys soccer play Saturday. Phil Veet scored the only Hazleton goal with the assist from Robert Vitagliano. HIGH SCHOOL BOYS SOCCER Lehighton 7, Hazleton Area 0

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Scranton Prep’s Cory Kopicki is stopped short of the goal line by Wyoming Area’s Ryan Murray during a high school football game Saturday afternoon in Scranton.. Passing yards 12 95 Total yards 88 179 Passing 2-8-2 7-11-0 Sacked-yards lost 2-18 0-0 Punts-avg. 5-41.2 2-32 Fumbles-lost 2-1 2-2 Penalties-yards 6-40 5-35 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING — Wyo. Area, Marty Michaels 8-20, Skrusky 15-62, Kyle Borton 3-(minus-18), Ryan Gorki 4-10, Kyler Higgins 3-5, Ben Steve 1-(mi-

nus-5), Jason Wilson 3-4. Prep, Pat Marino 13-62, Cory Kopicki 4-9, Owen Perih 1-1, Tyler Stafursky 3-8, Mike Terrery 2-5, Kevin Holmes 1-(minus-4), Justin Welkey 2-7, team 2-(minus-4). PASSING — Wyo. Area, Borton 2-5-1-12, Gorki 0-2-0-0, Higgins 0-1-1-0. Prep, Solfanelli 7-11-0-95. RECEIVING — Wyo. Aream Farrad Condry 1-10, Jeremy Seabridge 1-2. Prep, Bannon 1-6, Perih 2-25, Dan Ryan 2-33, Belardi 1-27,Zach Brandt 1-4. INTERCEPTIONS — Prep, Timlin, Sompel. MISSED FGs — None.

From page 1C Mile Race on Friday. “It feels good. I ran the mile last night,” she said. “I wasn’t even sure how I’d feel today.” ***

Wendy’s Wonderful Kids Half Marathon Overall: 1. Bornfase Omurwa, Kingston, 1:20:33; 2. Michael McAndrew, Avoca, 1:24:48; 3. Mark Burton, Scranton, 1:26:15; Overall Women: 1. Deedra Porfirio, West Pittston, 1:29:17; 2. Jenn Swiderski, Kingston, 1:32:41; 3. Jaclyn Shokey, Jim Thorpe, 1:32:49; Male 1-19: 1. Corey Dubil, Wilkes-Barre, 1:44:13; Female 1-19: 1. Maria Gentile, Jefferson Twp:, 2:00:28; 2. Kelsey Hart, Edison, N.J., 2:15:3; 3. Lauren Luginsland, Bridgewater, N.J., 2:15:37; Male 20-29: 1. Marc Honrath, Kingston, 1:29:37; 2. Aaron Griggs, Montrose, 1:33:21; 3. Brian Gibbons, Dallas, 1:45:55; Female 20-29: 1. Julie Musto, Pittston, 1:50:5; 2. Jacki Lukas, Kingston, 2:02:31; 3. Brittany Barbacci, Noxen, 2:05:34; Male 30-39: 1. Christian Tapia, 1:31:17; 2. Mike Adamshick, Dallas, 1:32:05; 3. Brian Hilburth, 1:32:26; Female 30-39: 1. Erin Griffin, Kingston, 1:33:23; 2. Patricia Buzinkai, 1:38:21; 3. Angela Stanski, Easton, 1:43:02; Male 40-49: 1. Gerard Pescatore, Glenside, 1:26:4; 2. Chuck Thompson, Chalfont, 1:28:37; 3. Stephen Housenick, Kingston, 1:32:12; Female 40-49: 1. Lisa Steffes, Hazleton,: 1:36:06; 2. Stefen Yelen, Kingston, 1:44:48; 3. Rose Yanko, Wilkes-Barre, 1:47:1; Male 50-59: 1. Chris Krall, Kingston Twp:, 1:37:56; 2. James Hrubesh, Blakeslee, 1:42; 3. John Sobota, Forty Fort, 1:45:39; Female 50-59: 1. Maryann Gagliardi, Hanover Twp:, 2:00:25; 2. Colleen Morda, Forty Fort, 2:02:08; 3. Jennifer Hopkins, Drums, 2:10:05 10K Overall Men: 1. Sean Robbins, Shavertown, 35:07; 2. Jason Kennedy, Honesdale, 35:44; 3. Earl Marshall, Honesdale, 40:05; Overall Women: 1. Marina Orsson, Shavertown, 37:26; 2. Kelly Ciravolo, Shavertown, 42:23; 3. Megan Kretz, Brooklyn, N.Y., 45:15; Female 1-19: 1.Anah Bozentka, Kingston, 55:21; 2. Joy Zinn, S. Windsor, Conn., 1:02:12; Male 20-29: 1. Matthew Bisson, Ottawa, Ontario, 48;56; 2. Francis Shovlin, Philadelphia, 50:03; 3. Al Martino, Kingston, 53:04; Female 20-29: 1. Rachel Frey, Milton, 48:49; 2. Elizabeth Wyckoff, State College, 53:18;

Caleb Ancharski had 19 saves in the net for the Cougars in the shutout loss to Lehighton on Friday evening. HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS TENNIS Dallas 5, Berwick 0

Ryan Georgetti shot a 37 in the Dallas win over Hazleton Area on Friday evening. Anthony Sidari shot a 42 in the effort for the the Cougars. MMI Prep 193, Hanover Area 202

Sam Harman shot a 44 to lead the Preppers to the win on Thursday. Fred Schiel led the Hawkeyes effort with a 42.

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3. Kari Lavin, Dunmore, 53:37; Male 30-39: 1. Daniel Moore, Drums, 46:43; 2. Craig Eley, State College, 47:17; 3. David Balchum, Wilkes-Barre, 47:29; Female 30-39: 1. Jennifer Moore, Drums, 46:37; 2. Michelle Mariotti, Old Forge, 46:55; 3. Jamie Barker, Mt. Top, 50:30; Male 40-49:

1. Rob Baran, Plains, 41:59; 2. Randy Lyback, 42:34; 3. Cynthia Rachilla, Mountain Top, 59:46; Male 50-59: 1. Michael Kinney, Wilkes-Barre, 41:24; 2. Ed Lipski, Clarks Green, 42:41; 3. Donald Lavan, Dunmore, 45:13; Female 50-59: 1. Libby Moran, Harveys Lake, 1:01.23; 2. Peggy Manley,

Mountain Top, 1:02:34; 3. Jane Colwell, West Pittston, 1:06.25; Male 60-Over: 1. Ron Rawls, Mountain Top, 50:01; 2. Francis Mirabelle, Bel Air, Md., 50:27; 3. Patrick McMahon, Dallas, 54:12; Female 60-Over: 1. Connie Wolf, Clarks Summit, 1:20:04; 2. Nancy Ryan, 1:02.03

Tournament, held on the campus of Moravian College. The Colonels dropped a hard-fought 3-2 decision to Alvernia University, before losing 3-0 in straight sets to Marywood University. Casey Bohan continued to lead the way offensive in the match against Alvernia finishing with 14 kills and three total blocks while Megan Powers led the Colonels passing game with 39 assists COLLEGE MEN’S SOCCER Elizabethtown 1, King’s 0

King’s College fell to visiting Elizabethtown in the second day of the of the annual Labor Day tournament. Mark Labbadia made four saves and took the loss in net. COLLEGE FIELD HOCKEY Geneseo State 7, Wilkes 2

The Mountaineers won Geneseo State all five matchups to shut out the Bulldogs 5-0 in University earned a victogirls tennis action on ry over Wilkes University in the consolation game Friday evening. of the Colonel Classic at HIGH SCHOOL Schmidt Stadium. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Alexis Reed finished North Pocono 3, with 14 saves in the net. MMI Prep 0 *** HIGH SCHOOL BOYS SOCCER Amanda Hall had Wyoming Valley West 7, Hazleton Area 1 Hazleton Area 0 1 — 1 23 assists in the North Wyoming Valley West 3 4 — 7 Pocono shutout win over First half — 1. WVW Eddie Thomas (Nick 3:00; 2. Thomas, 7:00; 3. WVW Mike MMI Prep on Friday night. Singer), Bazadona, 24:00. Second half — 4. Singer, The Preppers were led 42:00; 5. HAZ Phil Veet (Robert Vitagliano), 6. Thomas (Singer), 46:00; 7. Singer, by seven service points 44:00; 48:00; 8. Thomas (Singer), 55:00. Shots — HAZ 3; WVW 26 Saves — HAZ 6 from Paige Darrow. (Caleb Ancharski); WVW 2 (Derek Denman, HIGH SCHOOL GOLF Dallas 161, Hazleton Area 184

Bornfase Omurwa of Kingston was the overall winner at Saturday’s Wendy’s Half Marathon in WilkesBarre.

25. Katie Mullen, Fr, Council Rock North, 21:49 Field: 173 finishers. Race No. 4. Boys Varsity 5K Top 25 trophy winners 1. Dom DeLuca, Sr, Dallas, 16:46 2. Dom Hockenbury, Soph, Dallas, 16:57 3. Nate Morgan, Jr, Lakeland, 17:07 4. Kyle Perry, Jr, Scranton Prep, 17:24 5. Levi Upham, Soph, NE Bradford, 17:27 6. Pat Feeney, Sr, Scranton Prep, 17:31 7. Dave Sadvary, Jr, Coughlin, 17:38 8. Cameron Gill, Jr, Holy Redeemer, 17:40 9. Travis Mattson, Sr, Dallas, 17:44 10. Derek Allabaugh, Jr, NE Bradford, 17:44 11. Zamien Benditt-Parkes, Jr, Wyalusing, 17:48 12. Vinay Murthy, Sr, Holy Redeemer, 17:54 13. Bryce Mattson, Sr, Dallas, 17:55 14. Mark Arzie, Jr, Lakeland, 17:56 15. Kyle Borland, Sr, Dallas, 17:57 16. Jacob Ross, Jr, Abington Heights, 17:59 17. Brandon Chackon, Sr, Holy Redeemer, 17:59 18. Ben Sullivan, Jr, Scranton Prep, 18:03 19. Ryan Burke, Jr, Scranton Prep, 18:03 20. Nick McGuire, Jr, Crestwood, 18:05 21. Brandon Devonshire, Sr, NE Bradford, 18:05 22. Matt Murray, Dunmore, 18:11 23. Jason Heidi, Jr, Valley View, 18:11 24. Mike Lewis, Jr, Northwest, 18:12 25. Mike Harvilla, Jr, Pittston, 18:21 Field: 222 finishers Official starter: Joe Curry. Timing and results: Runner’s High (www.runhigh.com). Back up timer: Vince P. Wojnar. Meet director: Vince A. Wojnar. Meet director’s assistant: Linda Wojnar. Race directors: Don Grose and Stewart Harry. Schedule Saturday, Sept. 19: Scranton Race for the Cure 5K at 8:15 a.m. At Courthouse Square, downtown Scranton. Info: 969-6072.

Thomas’ four goals power Spartans The Times Leader staff

Jump half marathon at a time of 1:29:17. She finished ahead of Kingston’s Jenn Swiderski and Jim Thorpe’s Jaclyn Shokey — who both finished within eight-hundreths of each other at 1:32:4. Shavertown resident Sean Robbins continued his success stemming from his third straight victory at the Wilkes-Barre Triathlon, claming the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids 10K in 35:07 — at 3:50 per kilometer. It was no easy victory for Robbins, who had to leg out Honesdale’s Jason Kennedy by 34 seconds. Shavertown swept the 10K with a win by Marina Orrson in the women’s race. Orrson’s 37:26 time was 2:30 faster than the third quickest male finisher. Shavertown’s Kelly Ciravolo took second in 42:23. Orrson said she was impressed by her performance after running in the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids 1

19. Josh Jarden, 8th, Dallas, 12:03 20. Jay Bittner, 8th, Dallas, 12:04 21. Josh Wyandt, 8th, Dallas, 12:05 22. Joe Healey, Fr, Scranton Prep, 12:06 23. Stephen Postupak, 7th, Dallas, 12:07 24. Kyle Burke, 8th, Abington Heights, 12:10 25. Cameron Jordan, 8th, Scranton, 12:15 Field: 153 finishers. Race No. 3. Girls Varsity 5K Top 25 trophy winners 1. Tessa Barrett, Sr, Abington Heights, 17:26 2. Kaelyn Heineke, Sr, Council Rock North, 20:00 3. Tara Johnson, Soph, Pittston, 20:11 4. Tess Kearns, Jr, Holy Cross, 20:19 5. Lindsey Oremus, Jr, Dallas, 20:20 6. Bryanna Dissinger, Sr, Dallas, 20:21 7. Ally Rome, Soph, Dallas, 20:46 8. Mackenzie Greenfield, Soph, Holy Cross, 20:51 9. Nicole Buehrle, Jr, Hazleton, 20:52 10. Lydia Werner, Soph, NE Bradford, 20:53 11. Natalie Guarna, Sr, Council Rock North, 21:02 12. Zoe Haggerty, Soph, Holy Cross, 21:02 13. Angela Marchetti, Sr, Hazleton, 21:11 14. Jenn Burke, Sr, Abington Heights, 21:11 15. Mickie Kaminski, Sr, Hanover, 21:12 16. Brooke Estadt, Fr, Lakeland, 21:14 17. Taylor Campbell, Sr, Council Rock North, 21:14 18. Claire Traweek, Soph, Abington Heights, 21:20 19. Cassie Papp, Sr, Hazleton, 21:26 20. Nicki Vanthuyne, Sr, Council Rock North, 21:30 21. Allison Kachel, Sr, Crestwood, 21:40 22. Alex Keller, Sr, Council Rock North, 21:42 23. Alanna’s Trombetta, Sr, Wy. Seminary, 21:42 24. Erin Jaeger, Sr, Abington Heights, 21:45

COLLEGE WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL Wilkes loses twice in doubleheader

Wilkes University fell twice Saturday to conclude play at the Greyhound Invitational

Mitch Evon). Corners kicks — HAZ 0; WVW 8. Lehighton 7, Hazleton Area 0 Hazleton Area 0 0 — 0 Lehighton 4 3 — 7 First half — 1. Zach Christoff, 33:36; 2. Anthony Rossino (Dan Baka), 25:24; 3. Rossino, 17:02; 4. LL own goal, 13:49 Second half — 5. Ben Cordova (Anthony Farano), 27:35; 6. Rossino (Joe Marks), 25:18; 7. Farano (James Farano), 22:58. Shots — HAZ 5; LEH 23. Saves — HAZ 19 (Caleb Ancharski); LEH 3 (Nick Hill). Corners kicks — HAZ 2; LEH 6. HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS TENNIS Dallas 5, Berwick 0 SINGLES — Haley Wilcox d. Xiomara Salazar 6-0, 6-0; Grace Schaub d. Kayla Davis 6-3, 6-4; Kajel Patel d. Linda Thelemaque 6-3, 6-2. DOUBLES — Lauren Butrucce/Maddie Ross d. Zoe Zajack/Bennett Lipski; Cailtin Landau/Maddie Jones d. Gabi Popko/Felicia Canouse. HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS VOLLEYBALL North Pocono 3, MMI Prep 0 North Pocono 25 25 25 Home 21 8 10 NP: Mallorie Deschaire 11 kills; Emily Cook 7 kills, 8 aces; Amanda Hall 23 assists. MMI: Paige Darrow 3 kills, 7 service points 2 aces; Kristen Purcell 4 kills , 3 service points, 1 ace, 2 blocks; Maria Carrato 4 kills, 2 blocks. HIGH SCHOOL GOLF Dallas 164, Hazleton Area 184 at Sugarloaf, par 36 DAL (164) — Ryan Georgetti 37; Justin Brojakowski 41; Brandon Ballon 41; Adam Niznik 42. HAZ (184) — Anthony Sidari 42, Josh Provost 45; Brad Evert 47, Adam Grula 50 MMI Prep 193, Hanover Area 202 at Wyoming Valley Country Club, par 35 MMI (193) — Sam Harman 44; Devan McCarrie 47; Charlie Karchner 49; Eric Degenart 53. HAN (202) — Fred Schiel Jr. 42; Matt Kuhl 43; Mike Steve 50; Shelby Monk 67.

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MAjOR LEAGUE ROUNDUP

AMERICAN LEAGUE

East Division Boston Tampa Bay New York Baltimore Toronto Central Division Detroit Cleveland Kansas City Minnesota Chicago West Division Texas Oakland Los Angeles Seattle Houston East Division Atlanta Washington New York Philadelphia Miami Central Division

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New York Yankees starting pitcher Ivan Nova attempts to throw out Baltimore Orioles’ Nate McLouth at first base during the ninth inning Saturday in New York. McLouth was safe at first base on the play. The Yankees won the game 2-0.

Nova’s three-hitter silences Orioles 2-0

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NEW YORK — Ivan Nova threw a three-hitter for his first career shutout and Robinson Cano supplied the offense as the New York Yankees edged Baltimore 2-0 Saturday for their second straight win over the Orioles. Nova (8-4) outworked Scott Feldman in an efficient 104-pitch outing for his second complete game, helping the Yankees move past their division rival by a half-game in the AL wild-card chase. New York entered the final day of August trailing Tampa Bay by 4½ games. Baltimore trailed by four. The Yankees were looking for another big offensive day after beating Baltimore 8-5 on Friday night. But Alex Rodriguez was scratched due to flu-like symptoms and Feldman (4-4) shut New York down allowing a leadoff double to Brett Gardner and Cano’s RBI double in the first. Tigers 10, Indians 5

DETROIT — Omar Infante homered twice and drove in five runs to power Detroit to its third consecutive win. The Tigers stretched their lead in the AL Central to 8½ games over the second-place Indians despite playing without slugger Miguel Cabrera, who was sidelined by irritation of the abdominal area. The team says the reigning AL MVP is day to day. Infante hit a three-run homer in the second and a two-run shot in the sixth for Detroit, which has won seven in a row against Cleveland to improve to 15-3 against the Indians this year. Red Sox 7, White Sox 2

BOSTON — Jake Peavy pitched seven strong innings against his former team, Jacoby Ellsbury had three hits and the Red Sox won for the sixth time in seven games. Ellsbury also scored twice and drove in a run for the AL East leaders. David Ortiz, who snapped

an 0-for-23 stretch with a two-run single in Friday’s win, went 2 for 4 with a walk and an RBI in Boston’s 15-hit attack. Blue jays 4, Royals 2

TORONTO — Brett Lawrie drove in the tiebreaking run with a basesloaded walk in the eighth inning, helping Toronto rally for the win. Toronto batted around while scoring three unearned runs in the eighth against four relievers. Kansas City shortstop Alcides Escobar helped the Blue Jays with a key error. The late rally made a winner of knuckleballer R.A. Dickey (11-12), who allowed two runs and seven hits in eight innings. Mariners 3, Astros 1

HOUSTON — Joe Saunders pitched neatly into the sixth inning for his first win in a month, and Seattle earned its third consecutive victory. Kendrys Morales, Nick Franklin and Dustin Ackley each drove in a run for the Mariners, who had lost six in a row before the series against the major league-worst Astros. They will have Hisashi Iwakuma on the mound when they go for a series sweep. Saunders (11-13) yielded an unearned run and six hits over 5 1-3 innings in his first win since Aug. 4 at Baltimore. The left-hander was 0-3 with an 8.31 ERA in his previous four starts. Matt Dominguez and Brandon Barnes had two hits apiece for Houston (44-91), which appears to be headed for its third straight 100-loss season. Dallas Keuchel (5-8) gave up three runs — all in the first — and four hits in seven innings. NATIONAL LEAGUE Cubs 4, Phillies 3

CHICAGO — Starlin Castro hit a tiebreaking homer in the sixth to lead the Chicago Cubs to a victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. Cole Gillespie drove in two runs with a single and a sacrifice fly as the Cubs earned their fourth

win in 20 home games since the All-Star break. Castro, Junior Lake, Wellington Castillo and Darwin Barney had two hits apiece. Castro drove a 1-0 fastball from Zach Miner (0-1) to the center field batter’s eye for his eighth homer. The leadoff drive through a steady wind was his first homer since July 31 against Milwaukee. Michael Young collected three more hits for Philadelphia, which has split its last six games. Young went 4 for 5 in the Phillies’ 6-5 victory in Friday’s series opener and is batting .588 (10 for 17) in four games against the Cubs this season. Pirates 7, Cardinals 1

PITTSBURGH — A.J. Burnett scattered four hits over seven innings, Russell Martin hit a three-run homer and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the St. Louis Cardinals to regain sole possession of the NL Central lead. Neil Walker added three hits for the Pirates, who improved to 79-56 and moved within three victories of their first winning season since 1992. Burnett (7-9) gave up one run while striking out six and walking one. He received plenty of offensive help only hours after Pittsburgh acquired first baseman Justin Morneau from the Minnesota Twins. Mets 11, Nationals 3

WASHINGTON — Zack Wheeler pitched effectively into the seventh inning and the New York Mets piled up a seasonhigh 17 hits in routing the Washington Nationals. Eric Young Jr., Daniel Murphy, Josh Satin and Juan Lagares had three hits apiece for New York, which scored 11 runs for the second time in three days and won its third straight. The news wasn’t all good for the injury-riddled Mets, though. First baseman Ike Davis left with a strained muscle on his right side after hitting a sacrifice fly in the third.

RailRiders lock up IronRail title

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ALLENTOWN — In a game consisting of mostly defense, Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre managed to defeat Lehigh Valley 3-2 on Saturday night at CocaCola Park. The win gives the RailRiders the first IronRail series championship. The game remained scoreless until the fourth inning when Ronnier Mustelier and Randy Ruiz hit back-to-back solo home runs to put the RailRiders

(68-74) up 2-0. Jose Gil would then score in the fifth inning to give Scranton/Wilkes-Barre the 3-0 advantage. The IronPigs (72-70) remained scoreless until the sixth inning when Freddy Galvis and Cesar Hernandez would both score to make it 3-2, but it wasn’t enough as the RailRiders would go on to win. The RailRiders travel to Rochester, N.Y. to take on the Red Wings (75-67) tonight at 6:05 p.m.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE Friday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 8, Baltimore 5 Toronto 3, Kansas City 2 Detroit 7, Cleveland 2, 7 innings Boston 4, Chicago White Sox 3 Minnesota 3, Texas 2 L.A. Angels 5, Milwaukee 0 Seattle 7, Houston 1 Oakland 4, Tampa Bay 3 Saturday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 2, Baltimore 0 Toronto 4, Kansas City 2 Detroit 10, Cleveland 5 Boston 7, Chicago White Sox 2 L.A. Angels 6, Milwaukee 5 Seattle 3, Houston 1 Minnesota at Texas, 8:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at Oakland, 9:05 p.m. Sunday’s Games Baltimore (W.Chen 7-7) at N.Y. Yankees (Pettitte 10-9), 1:05 p.m. Kansas City (Shields 9-8) at Toronto (Happ 3-4), 1:07 p.m. Cleveland (Salazar 1-2) at Detroit (Verlander 1210), 1:08 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Rienzo 1-0) at Boston (Doubront 10-6), 1:35 p.m. L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 13-6) at Milwaukee (Lohse 9-8), 2:10 p.m. Seattle (Iwakuma 12-6) at Houston (Oberholtzer 3-1), 2:10 p.m. Minnesota (Correia 8-10) at Texas (Blackley 2-1), 3:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Ro.Hernandez 6-13) at Oakland (Griffin 11-9), 4:05 p.m. Monday’s Games Chicago White Sox at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m. Detroit at Boston, 1:35 p.m. Minnesota at Houston, 2:10 p.m. Seattle at Kansas City, 2:10 p.m. Baltimore at Cleveland, 4:05 p.m. Texas at Oakland, 4:05 p.m. Toronto at Arizona, 4:10 p.m. Tampa Bay at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Friday’s Games Philadelphia 6, Chicago Cubs 5 N.Y. Mets 3, Washington 2 Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 0 Atlanta 2, Miami 1 L.A. Angels 5, Milwaukee 0 Colorado 9, Cincinnati 6 San Francisco 1, Arizona 0 L.A. Dodgers 9, San Diego 2 Saturday’s Games Chicago Cubs 4, Philadelphia 3 N.Y. Mets 11, Washington 3 Pittsburgh 7, St. Louis 1 L.A. Angels 6, Milwaukee 5 Miami at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m. Cincinnati at Colorado, 8:10 p.m. San Francisco at Arizona, 8:10 p.m. San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10 p.m. Sunday’s Games St. Louis (J.Kelly 6-3) at Pittsburgh (Kr.Johnson 0-1), 1:35 p.m. L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 13-6) at Milwaukee (Lohse 9-8), 2:10 p.m. Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 10-11) at Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 1-1), 2:20 p.m. Cincinnati (Leake 11-5) at Colorado (Chatwood 7-4), 4:10 p.m. San Diego (T.Ross 3-7) at L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 13-3), 4:10 p.m. San Francisco (Petit 1-0) at Arizona (Corbin 13-4), 4:10 p.m. Miami (Eovaldi 2-5) at Atlanta (A.Wood 3-2), 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Niese 6-6) at Washington (Ohlendorf 3-0), 8:05 p.m. Monday’s Games N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 1:10 p.m. St. Louis at Cincinnati, 1:10 p.m. Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m. Miami at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m. San Francisco at San Diego, 3:40 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 4:10 p.m. Toronto at Arizona, 4:10 p.m. Washington at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

Cubs 4, Phillies 3 Philadelphia AB R H BI BB SO Avg. M.Young 3b 5 0 3 1 0 0 .276 Rollins ss 4 0 0 0 1 1 .245 Utley 2b 4 1 0 0 0 0 .269 Ruiz c 4 0 1 1 0 0 .279 Ruf lf 2 0 0 0 2 1 .254 Mayberry rf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .233 Frandsen 1b 3 1 1 1 0 1 .230 Bernadina cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .168 Cl.Lee p 2 1 0 0 0 0 .146 b-Orr ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .400 Miner p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 C.Jimenez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Rosenberg p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --d-D.Brown ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .274 Totals 33 3 6 3 3 4 Chicago AB R H BI BB SO Avg. St.Castro ss 5 1 2 1 0 1 .242 Barney 2b 4 0 2 0 1 0 .216 Rizzo 1b 4 0 0 0 1 0 .231 Do.Murphy 3b 4 2 1 0 0 1 .282 Lake cf 3 0 2 0 1 0 .295 Castillo c 4 1 2 1 0 1 .269 D.McDonald lf 3 0 1 0 1 0 .208 Gillespie rf 3 0 1 2 0 0 .207 Rusin p 1 0 0 0 0 0 .071 a-Ransom ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .189 Villanueva p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .161 Russell p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --B.Parker p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --c-Bogusevic ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .269 Strop p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Gregg p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Totals 33 4 11 4 4 4 Philadelphia 011 100 000—3 6 2 Chicago 011 011 00x—4 11 1 a-struck out for Rusin in the 5th. b-singled for Cl.Lee in the 6th. c-flied out for B.Parker in the 7th. d-struck out for Rosenberg in the 9th. E—M.Young (9), Ruf (3), Rizzo (5). LOB—Philadelphia 8, Chicago 11. 2B—Ruiz (12), St.Castro (29), Barney (23), Do.Murphy (6). 3B—M.Young (4). HR—Frandsen (5), off Rusin; St.Castro (8), off Miner. RBIs—M.Young (42), Ruiz (22), Frandsen (21), St.Castro (36), Castillo (23), Gillespie 2 (4). SB—Utley (8), Barney (4). CS—Barney (2). S— Rusin. SF—Gillespie. Runners left in scoring position—Philadelphia 2 (Mayberry, Utley); Chicago 6 (St.Castro 2, D.McDonald, Rizzo, Ransom, Castillo). RISP— Philadelphia 1 for 3; Chicago 3 for 10. DP—Philadelphia 1 (Ruiz, Ruiz, M.Young); Chicago 1 (Lake, Rizzo). Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Cl.Lee 5 9 3 2 3 4 113 3.09 Miner L, 0-1 1 2 1 1 1 0 32 3.52 C.Jimenez 1 0 0 0 0 0 12 2.31 Rosenberg 1 0 0 0 0 0 18 3.27 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Rusin 5 4 3 2 3 3 84 2.74 VillanuevaW,3-8 11-3 1 0 0 0 0 21 4.38 Russell H, 19 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 4 3.49 B.Parker H, 7 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 4 2.13 Strop H, 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 2.22 Gregg S, 28-33 1 1 0 0 0 1 12 3.17 HBP—by Rusin (Bernadina, Frandsen). WP— Rusin. Umpires—Home, Jim Reynolds; First, Bob Davidson; Second, Quinn Wolcott; Third, James Hoye. T—3:22. A—36,410 (41,019). Blue jays 4, Royals 2 Kansas City AB R H BI BB SO Avg. A.Gordon lf 5 0 1 0 0 2 .270 Bonifacio 2b 4 1 1 0 0 3 .230 Hosmer 1b 3 0 2 1 1 0 .297 B.Butler dh 4 0 0 0 0 1 .290 Moustakas 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .242 S.Perez c 3 1 0 0 1 0 .279 Lough rf 3 0 1 0 0 0 .287 J.Dyson cf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .253 A.Escobar ss 3 0 1 1 0 1 .237 d-Kottaras ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .180 1-Getz pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 .227 Totals 34 2 8 2 2 8 Toronto AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Reyes ss 4 1 3 0 0 0 .296 Goins 2b 4 1 1 0 0 1 .400 Encarnacion 1b 3 0 2 0 1 0 .275 Lind dh 3 0 1 0 0 0 .282 b-DeRosa ph-dh 1 0 0 0 0 1 .215

Lawrie 3b 3 0 0 1 1 0 .258 R.Davis lf-rf 3 1 1 1 1 1 .264 Thole c 3 0 1 1 0 1 .148 c-Arencibia ph-c 1 0 0 0 0 0 .212 Sierra rf 2 0 0 0 0 1 .200 a-Kawasaki ph 1 1 1 0 0 0 .221 Pillar lf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .163 Gose cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .250 Totals 31 4 10 3 3 5 Kansas City 011 000 000—2 8 1 Toronto 000 000 13x—4 10 0 a-singled for Sierra in the 8th. c-popped out for Thole in the 8th. d-singled for A.Escobar in the 9th. 1-ran for Kottaras in the 9th. E—A.Escobar (13). LOB—Kansas City 8, Toronto 6. 2B—R.Davis (14). 3B—Bonifacio (2). RBIs—Hosmer (66), A.Escobar (45), Lawrie (36), R.Davis (16), Thole (7). CS—Getz (3). Runners left in scoring position—Kansas City 2 (A.Gordon, S.Perez); Toronto 4 (Lawrie, R.Davis, Arencibia 2). RISP—Kansas City 2 for 6; Toronto 1 for 7. Runners moved up—B.Butler, Moustakas, Lind. GIDP—Encarnacion. DP—Kansas City 1 (Moustakas, Bonifacio, Hosmer). Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Guthrie 7 8 1 1 0 4 92 4.08 K.HerreraL,5-7H,17 1-3 2 2 0 0 0 17 3.42 W.Smith BS, 2-2 0 0 1 0 1 0 11 3.04 Crow 1-3 0 0 0 2 1 11 3.09 Collins 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 3 3.86 Toronto IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Dickey W, 11-12 8 7 2 2 2 6 100 4.30 Janssen S, 26-28 1 1 0 0 0 2 24 2.80 W.Smith pitched to 2 batters in the 8th. Inherited runners-scored—W.Smith 2-1, Crow 3-2, Collins 3-0. HBP—by Janssen (Lough). Umpires—Home, Will Little; First, Gary Darling; Second, Jerry Meals; Third, Paul Emmel. T—2:32. A—34,315 (49,282). Yankees 2, Orioles 0 Baltimore AB R H BI BB SO Avg. McLouth lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .265 Machado 3b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .299 C.Davis 1b 3 0 0 0 0 2 .301 A.Jones cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .295 Wieters c 3 0 1 0 0 0 .227 Markakis rf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .274 Hardy ss 2 0 0 0 1 1 .254 Betemit dh 3 0 0 0 0 1 .000 B.Roberts 2b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .248 Totals 28 0 3 0 1 5 New York AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Gardner cf 3 1 2 0 0 1 .270 Jeter ss 4 0 0 0 0 0 .184 Cano 2b 4 1 2 2 0 0 .309 A.Soriano dh 4 0 0 0 0 2 .262 Granderson lf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .280 Mar.Reynolds 3b 2 0 0 0 1 2 .224 I.Suzuki rf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .269 Overbay 1b 3 0 2 0 0 0 .250 C.Stewart c 2 0 0 0 0 0 .218 Totals 29 2 7 2 1 7 Baltimore 000 000 000—0 3 1 New York 100 000 01x—2 7 0 E—Machado (11). LOB—Baltimore 4, New York 7. 2B—Gardner (27), Cano (28), Granderson (7). HR—Cano (25), off Patton. RBIs—Cano 2 (89). S—C.Stewart. Runners left in scoring position—Baltimore 1 (Hardy); New York 4 (Granderson, Jeter 2, I.Suzuki). RISP—Baltimore 0 for 2; New York 2 for 8. Runners moved up—Jeter. GIDP—Markakis, Betemit, Jeter 2. DP—Baltimore 2 (B.Roberts, Hardy, C.Davis), (B.Roberts, Hardy, C.Davis); New York 2 (Cano, Jeter, Overbay), (Jeter, Cano, Overbay). Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Feldman L, 4-4 7 6 1 1 1 5 111 4.18 Patton 0 1 1 1 0 0 4 3.86 Gausman 1 0 0 0 0 2 11 6.03 New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Nova W, 8-4 9 3 0 0 1 5 104 2.88 Patton pitched to 1 batter in the 8th. HBP—by Feldman (Mar.Reynolds, Gardner), by Nova (A.Jones, C.Davis). Umpires—Home, Chad Fairchild; First, Jeff Kellogg; Second, Eric Cooper; Third, Paul Schrieber. T—2:28. A—42,836 (50,291).

Tigers 10, Indians 5 Cleveland AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Bourn cf 4 1 1 1 1 0 .267 Swisher rf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .242 Kipnis 2b 4 1 1 0 0 1 .283 C.Santana 1b 4 1 2 3 0 0 .267 Brantley lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .273 A.Cabrera ss 4 1 2 0 0 0 .242 Giambi dh 4 0 1 0 0 0 .187 Chisenhall 3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .218 Y.Gomes c 4 1 1 1 0 2 .288 Totals 36 5 9 5 1 6 Detroit AB R H BI BB SO Avg. A.Jackson cf 3 1 2 2 1 1 .270 Iglesias ss 3 1 2 1 1 1 .320 Tor.Hunter rf 5 0 1 1 0 1 .307 Fielder 1b 5 0 2 1 0 0 .268 V.Martinez dh 4 1 1 0 1 0 .298 Tuiasosopo lf 1 1 0 0 1 1 .278 a-Dirks ph-lf 2 1 1 0 1 1 .255 Infante 2b 5 2 2 5 0 0 .318 B.Pena c 4 0 2 0 0 1 .313 1-H.Perez pr 0 1 0 0 0 0 .214 Avila c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .198 R.Santiago 3b 4 2 2 0 0 0 .227 Totals 36 10 15 10 5 6 Cleveland 100 010 120—5 9 0 Detroit 040 002 04x—10 15 0 a-walked for Tuiasosopo in the 6th. 1-ran for B.Pena in the 8th. LOB—Cleveland 5, Detroit 9. 2B—Kipnis (31), Fielder (29), B.Pena (10). 3B—Brantley (3), A.Jackson (5). HR—Y.Gomes (9), off Ani.Sanchez; C.Santana (17), off Veras; Infante (8), off Kazmir; Infante (9), off Shaw. RBIs—Bourn (39), C.Santana 3 (60), Y.Gomes (29), A.Jackson 2 (38), Iglesias (24), Tor.Hunter (71), Fielder (92), Infante 5 (38). S—Iglesias. Runners left in scoring position—Cleveland 2 (Swisher, A.Cabrera); Detroit 6 (Fielder 2, Tor. Hunter 2, Infante 2). RISP—Cleveland 3 for 7; Detroit 4 for 11. Runners moved up—Kipnis. GIDP—Tor.Hunter, V.Martinez. DP—Cleveland 3 (A.Cabrera, C.Santana), (Kipnis, A.Cabrera, C.Santana), (Kipnis, A.Cabrera, C.Santana). Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Kazmir L, 7-7 5 7 4 4 2 4 98 4.36 Shaw 1 2 2 2 2 0 35 4.07 R.Hill 1 1 0 0 0 1 14 6.19 M.Albers 1-3 2 2 2 0 0 10 3.63 Allen 1-3 1 2 2 0 1 8 2.47 Rzepczynski 1-3 2 0 0 1 0 12 0.00 Detroit IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Ani.SanchezW,12-7 62-3 6 3 3 1 5 106 2.68 Smyly H, 14 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 5 2.22 Veras H, 4 1 3 2 2 0 0 27 2.98 Benoit 1 0 0 0 0 1 8 1.48 Inherited runners-scored—Allen 2-2, Rzepczynski 1-1. IBB—off Rzepczynski (V.Martinez). HBP—by Shaw (A.Jackson). Umpires—Home, Vic Carapazza; First, Gary Cederstrom; Second, Kerwin Danley; Third, Lance Barksdale. T—3:22. A—41,272 (41,255). Red Sox 7, White Sox 2 Chicago AB R H BI BB SO Avg. De Aza lf 4 0 0 1 0 0 .270 Beckham 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .283 Al.Ramirez ss 4 1 1 0 0 1 .285 A.Dunn dh 3 0 0 0 1 1 .228 Konerko 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .242 A.Garcia cf 4 0 1 1 0 1 .296 Gillaspie 3b 3 1 1 0 1 0 .244 Jor.Danks rf 3 0 1 0 0 1 .255 Phegley c 3 0 1 0 0 1 .211 Totals 32 2 5 2 2 6 Boston AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Ellsbury cf 5 2 3 1 0 0 .299 Victorino rf 5 1 2 0 0 1 .297 Pedroia 2b 5 0 0 1 0 1 .299 D.Ortiz dh 4 0 2 1 1 0 .312 Napoli 1b 4 1 2 1 1 0 .249 J.Gomes lf 5 1 2 1 0 0 .229 Middlebrooks 3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .221 D.Ross c 3 1 2 0 1 0 .195 Bogaerts ss 3 1 2 1 1 0 .333 Totals 38 7 15 6 4 3 Chicago 001 100 000—2 5 1 Boston 101 311 00x—7 15 0 E—Konerko (3). LOB—Chicago 5, Boston 11. 2B—Ellsbury (30), Napoli (32), J.Gomes (16), D.Ross (4). RBIs—De Aza (55), A.Garcia (21), Ellsbury (48), Pedroia (76), D.Ortiz (82), Napoli (76), J.Gomes (43), Bogaerts (2). SB—De Aza (18), Al.Ramirez (27), A.Garcia (2). Runners left in scoring position—Chicago 2 (Beckham, Jor.Danks); Boston 8 (J.Gomes, Victorino 2, Middlebrooks 3, Ellsbury, Pedroia). RISP— Chicago 1 for 5; Boston 5 for 16. Runners moved up—Ellsbury, Pedroia, Middlebrooks. GIDP—Napoli, Bogaerts. DP—Chicago 2 (Beckham, Al.Ramirez, Konerko), (Gillaspie, Beckham, Konerko). Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Joh.Danks L, 4-11 5 11 6 5 1 2 110 4.35 Petricka 2 4 1 1 2 1 43 3.86 Purcey 1 0 0 0 1 0 14 1.65 Boston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Peavy W, 11-5 7 5 2 2 1 4 109 3.91 Breslow 1 0 0 0 0 1 14 2.08 D.Britton 1 0 0 0 1 1 13 3.12 WP—Petricka. Umpires—Home, Paul Nauert; First, Angel Hernandez; Second, Doug Eddings; Third, Dana DeMuth. T—3:11. A—37,363 (37,499). Mets 11, Nationals 3 New York AB R H BI BB SO Avg. E.Young lf 6 2 3 2 0 0 .252 Dan.Murphy 2b 5 2 3 2 0 0 .282 Satin 3b 4 1 3 0 1 1 .294 I.Davis 1b 1 0 0 1 0 0 .205 Duda 1b 3 0 0 0 0 2 .232 T.d’Arnaud c 4 2 2 0 1 2 .194 Lagares rf 5 2 3 2 0 0 .266 den Dekker cf 4 1 1 1 1 2 .111 Quintanilla ss 4 1 2 2 1 1 .221 Z.Wheeler p 2 0 0 1 1 1 .143 Feliciano p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --c-A.Brown ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .276 Aardsma p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --d-Ju.Turner ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .259 Atchison p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Totals 40 11 17 11 5 9 Washington AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Span cf 5 1 3 1 0 0 .274 Zimmerman 3b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .275 Abad p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --b-T.Moore ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .211 Mattheus p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Storen p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --e-Tracy ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .195 Harper lf 4 0 1 0 1 1 .277 Werth rf 3 0 0 1 0 0 .322 Desmond ss 4 0 2 1 0 0 .285 Ad.LaRoche 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .233 W.Ramos c 3 0 0 0 0 0 .274 J.Solano c 1 1 1 0 0 0 .189 Lombardozzi 2b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .256 Haren p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .179 Roark p 1 0 1 0 0 0 .667 a-Rendon ph-3b 2 1 1 0 0 0 .260 Totals 36 3 11 3 1 4 New York 026 000 030—11 17 0 Washington 000 002 001—3 11 0 a-was hit by a pitch for Roark in the 6th. b-struck out for Abad in the 7th. c-grounded out for Feliciano in the 8th. d-grounded into a double play for Aardsma in the 9th. e-singled for Storen in the 9th. LOB—New York 8, Washington 9. 2B—Dan. Murphy (30), Satin (11), Quintanilla (9), Harper (20), Desmond (34). RBIs—E.Young 2 (26), Dan. Murphy 2 (63), I.Davis (33), Lagares 2 (27), den Dekker (1), Quintanilla 2 (21), Z.Wheeler (2), Span (38), Werth (64), Desmond (68). SB—E.Young (33), den Dekker (2). SF—I.Davis, Werth. Runners left in scoring position—New York 4 (Z.Wheeler, Dan.Murphy, Lagares, den Dekker); Washington 5 (Zimmerman, Ad.LaRoche 2, T.Moore, Harper). RISP—New York 7 for 15; Washington 1 for 9. GIDP—Ju.Turner. DP—Washington 1 (Desmond, Lombardozzi, Ad.LaRoche). New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Z.Wheeler W, 7-36 2-35 2 2 1 3 99 3.36 Feliciano 1-3 1 0 0 0 1 6 2.70 Aardsma 1 2 0 0 0 0 21 4.02 Atchison 1 3 1 1 0 0 20 3.89 Washington IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Haren L, 8-12 2 2-3 9 7 7 0 3 56 5.02 Roark 3 1-3 3 1 1 3 5 64 1.19 Abad 1 0 0 0 1 1 18 3.38 Mattheus 1 4 3 3 1 0 18 7.27 Storen 1 1 0 0 0 0 13 5.36 Inherited runners-scored—Feliciano 1-0, Roark 2-2. HBP—by Z.Wheeler (Rendon). Umpires—Home, Mark Carlson; First, Gerry Davis; Second, Dan Iassogna; Third, Brian Knight. T—3:11. A—34,481 (41,418).

Mariners 3, Astros 1 Seattle AB R H BI BB SO Avg. B.Miller ss 2 1 1 0 1 1 .269 F.Gutierrez rf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .260 Seager 3b 3 1 2 0 1 0 .277 K.Morales 1b 4 1 1 1 0 1 .279 Smoak 1b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .251 Ibanez dh 3 0 0 0 1 2 .249 Franklin 2b 3 0 0 1 1 1 .221 Ackley cf 4 0 0 1 0 1 .258 A.Almonte lf 4 0 1 0 0 2 .222 Quintero c 4 0 1 0 0 0 .238 Totals 31 3 6 3 4 8 Houston AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Grossman lf-cf 5 0 1 0 0 1 .266 Hoes rf 5 0 1 0 0 0 .279 Altuve dh 4 0 1 0 0 0 .266 M.Dominguez 3b 4 0 2 0 0 0 .241 Carter 1b-lf 2 0 0 0 2 1 .216 B.Barnes cf 3 1 2 0 0 0 .237 a-Wallace ph-1b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .225 Elmore 2b 3 0 1 0 1 0 .246 Ma.Gonzalez ss 2 0 0 0 2 2 .219 C.Clark c 3 0 0 0 0 1 .000 b-J.Castro ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .279 Totals 33 1 8 0 5 6 Seattle 300 000 000—3 6 1 Houston 000 100 000—1 8 1 a-grounded into a fielder’s choice for B.Barnes in the 8th. b-struck out for C.Clark in the 9th. E—Franklin (9), Bedard (3). LOB—Seattle 6, Houston 10. RBIs—K.Morales (69), Franklin (41), Ackley (27). SB—Elmore (1). CS—B.Miller (3), B.Barnes (8), Elmore (4). Runners left in scoring position—Seattle 5 (A.Almonte 2, Ibanez 2, Quintero); Houston 6 (C.Clark 3, M.Dominguez 2, Ma.Gonzalez). RISP— Seattle 1 for 7; Houston 0 for 8. Runnersmovedup—Ackley,Altuve.GIDP—B.Barnes. DP—Seattle 1 (Seager, Franklin, K.Morales). Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA J.SaundersW,11-13 51-3 6 1 0 3 2 86 4.92 Capps H, 7 1 1-3 1 0 0 0 2 16 5.26 Medina H, 16 1 1-3 1 0 0 1 0 21 2.45 Farquhar S, 11-14 1 0 0 0 1 2 18 4.47 Houston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Keuchel L, 5-8 7 4 3 3 2 8 108 4.77 Bedard 2 2 0 0 2 0 42 4.56 Inherited runners-scored—Capps 2-0, Medina 1-0. HBP—by Keuchel (B.Miller). PB—C.Clark. Umpires—Home, Bruce Dreckman; First, Tim Welke; Second, Mike Everitt; Third, Dan Bellino. T—2:56. A—21,085 (42,060). Pirates 7, Cardinals 1 St. Louis AB R H BI BB SO Avg. M.Carpenter 3b 3 0 1 0 1 1 .311 Beltran rf 3 0 1 1 0 0 .310 Siegrist p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Ro.Johnson c 1 0 0 0 0 1 .182 Holliday lf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .285 Craig 1b 4 0 2 0 0 1 .318 Y.Molina c 3 0 0 0 0 0 .328 Axford p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Salas p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 d-Ma.Adams ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .270 Jay cf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .269 Wong 2b 3 1 1 0 0 0 .182 Descalso ss 3 0 1 0 0 0 .243 Lynn p 1 0 0 0 0 1 .089 a-Kozma ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .214 Maness p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .200 S.Robinson rf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .270 Totals 32 1 6 1 1 7 Pittsburgh AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Tabata lf 5 1 2 1 0 1 .272 Mazzaro p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .167 N.Walker 2b 4 0 3 1 1 0 .262 McCutchen cf 5 0 0 0 0 3 .317 P.Alvarez 3b 5 1 1 0 0 0 .234 Byrd rf 4 1 2 1 0 0 .286 G.Jones 1b 2 1 1 0 1 0 .242 b-G.Sanchez ph-1b1 0 1 0 0 0 .251 R.Martin c 3 2 1 3 1 1 .243 Barmes ss 4 1 1 0 0 0 .217 A.J.Burnett p 3 0 1 1 0 1 .078 c-Pie ph-lf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .308 Totals 37 7 13 7 3 6 St. Louis 001 000 000—1 6 0 Pittsburgh 025 000 00x—7 13 0 a-grounded out for Lynn in the 5th.b-doubled for G.Jones in the 6th. c-grounded out for A.J.Burnett in the 7th. d-grounded out for Salas in the 9th. LOB—St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 9. 2B—P.Alvarez (16), Byrd (28), G.Sanchez (17), Barmes (14). 3B—N.Walker (4). HR—R.Martin (13), off Lynn. RBIs—Beltran (71), Tabata (21), N.Walker (41), Byrd (75), R.Martin 3 (51), A.J.Burnett (2). Runners left in scoring position—St. Louis 3 (Holliday, M.Carpenter, Jay); Pittsburgh 5 (McCutchen 4, R.Martin). RISP—St. Louis 1 for 5; Pittsburgh 4 for 12. Runners moved up—Ma.Adams, Descalso, Kozma, G.Jones. DP—Pittsburgh 1 (Barmes, G.Jones). St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lynn L, 13-9 4 10 7 7 3 4 94 4.29 Maness 1 2 0 0 0 2 20 2.09 Siegrist 1 1 0 0 0 0 10 0.62 Axford 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 4.37 Salas 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 4.50 Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA A.J.Burnett W, 7-9 7 4 1 1 1 6 92 3.09 Mazzaro 2 2 0 0 0 1 30 2.37 WP—Lynn. PB—Y.Molina. Umpires—Home, Mike DiMuro; First, Scott Barry; Second, Alfonso Marquez; Third, Ted Barrett. T—2:48. A—39,514 (38,362). Angels 6, Brewers 5 Los Angeles AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Shuck lf 4 1 2 0 0 1 .297 Boshers p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Kohn p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --D.De La Rosa p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --f-Conger ph 1 1 1 2 0 0 .257 Frieri p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Aybar ss 5 1 2 0 0 1 .271 Trout cf-lf-cf 4 1 1 1 0 1 .330 Calhoun rf 3 0 1 1 1 0 .255 Trumbo 1b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .237 1-An.Romine pr-3b0 0 0 0 0 0 .172 L.Jimenez 3b-1b 4 0 1 1 0 0 .250 G.Green 2b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .244 Iannetta c 4 1 2 1 0 0 .212 Williams p 2 0 0 0 0 1 .000 a-Bourjos ph-cf 1 0 0 0 0 1 .274 e-Hamilton ph 1 1 1 0 0 0 .236 Cowgill lf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .298 Totals 37 6 12 6 1 9 Milwaukee AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Gennett 2b 4 2 3 0 0 0 .347 Segura ss 5 1 2 0 0 1 .303 Lucroy c 5 1 3 4 0 0 .292 Ar.Ramirez 3b 4 0 1 1 0 1 .268 C.Gomez cf 3 0 0 0 1 1 .284 K.Davis lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .296 Henderson p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Gindl rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .263 J.Francisco 1b 2 0 1 0 0 1 .238 b-Aoki ph 1 1 1 0 0 0 .284 Kintzler p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --d-L.Schafer ph-lf 1 0 0 0 0 1 .220 Estrada p 2 0 0 0 0 0 .200 c-Y.Betancourtph-1b 2 0 0 0 0 1 .209 Totals 37 5 12 5 1 7 Los Angeles 003 100 002—6 12 1 Milwaukee 201 000 200—5 12 0 a-struck out for Williams in the 7th. b-singled for J.Francisco in the 7th. c-grounded out for Estrada in the 7th. d-struck out for Kintzler in the 8th. e-doubled for Bourjos in the 9th. f-homered for D.De La Rosa in the 9th. 1-ran for Trumbo in the 8th. E—Calhoun (5). LOB—Los Angeles 5, Milwaukee 7. 2B—Trumbo (25), Hamilton (27), Gennett (5), Lucroy (20), Ar.Ramirez (14). HR—Iannetta (7), off Estrada; Conger (7), off Henderson. RBIs— Conger 2 (19),Trout (82), Calhoun (14), L.Jimenez (4), Iannetta (31), Lucroy 4 (73), Ar.Ramirez (37). SB—Lucroy (6). CS—J.Francisco (2). Runners left in scoring position—Los Angeles 3 (Trumbo, G.Green, L.Jimenez); Milwaukee 3 (K.Davis, Ar.Ramirez, C.Gomez). RISP—Los Angeles 4 for 8; Milwaukee 4 for 11. Runners moved up—Y.Betancourt. GIDP—G. Green, C.Gomez. DP—Los Angeles 1 (L.Jimenez, G.Green, Trumbo); Milwaukee 1 (Gennett, Segura, J.Francisco). Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Williams 6 8 3 3 1 2 80 4.68 Boshers H, 3 1-3 1 2 2 0 0 14 4.70 Kohn BS, 1-1 2-3 2 0 0 0 2 16 3.43 D.De La Rosa W, 6-11 0 0 0 0 2 17 3.34 Frieri S, 29-33 1 1 0 0 0 1 22 4.02 Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Estrada 7 9 4 4 1 8 98 4.49 Kintzler H, 21 1 1 0 0 0 0 12 2.66 HendersonL,3-4BS,4-261 2 2 2 0 1 23 2.15 Inherited runners-scored—Kohn 2-2. HBP—by Boshers (Gennett). Umpires—Home, Ed Hickox; First, Jim Joyce; Second, Jeff Nelson; Third, Jim Wolf. T—3:19. A—28,175 (41,900).

Pirates acquire Morneau from Twins WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Pirates are all-in for the franchise’s pursuit of its first playoff appearance in 21 years. Pittsburgh traded for longtime Minnesota Twins first baseman Justin Morneau on Saturday, hoping the four-time All Star can give the Pirates’

middling offense a needed jolt heading into the final month of the season. The Twins obtained outfielder Alex Presley and either a player to be named or cash after Pittsburgh made its second major move in five days. Pittsburgh sent a pair of minor leaguers to the New York Mets on Tuesday in exchange for outfielder Marlon Byrd and catcher John Buck.

“We’ve got more depth, we’ve got more options than we had four days ago,” Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle said. “We’re a better team. We’re a stronger team.” Pittsburgh entered Saturday tied with St. Louis atop the NL Central with 29 games remaining. The Pirates have been in contention all season thanks in large part to a

pitching staff currently second in the majors with a 3.17 ERA. Morneau’s presence should make an immediate impact on an offense that ranks 10th in the NL in runs. The 32-year-old Morneau hit .259 with 17 homers and 74 RBIs this season for Minnesota and is finishing off a redhot month in which he smacked nine home runs.

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IOC inspectors to deliver clear message STEPHEN WADE

Committee inspectors, led by former hurdles champion Nawal El Moutawakel, will be at work Sunday and Monday. During the last visit six months ago, IOC executive director Gilbert Felli said: “We don’t have any yellow card to send to Rio.” Any such warning this time would be a reminder of the 2004 Olympics in Athens when then IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch issued his famous “yellow card” reprimand to Greek organizers. At least two members of the coordination commission — Richard Carrion and former Olympic goldmedal swimmer Alex Popov — have said things need to

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RIO DE JANEIRO — IOC inspectors are sure to deliver a clear message to organizers of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics when they arrive for a two-day visit: end delays and speed up. For their part, Rio officials are expected to promise that preparations are on course after a late start. Privately, they’ll try to soothe concerns about a slowdown in landing local sponsorships, worries over hotel space and transportation and recent protests over big spending on major sports events. International Olympic

move quicker. “There are games that are better prepared and games that give us a little more trouble,” Carrion said. These games are still three years away and sure to stay off the radar until Brazil hosts soccer’s World Cup next year, giving local organizers room to maneuver. This is a challenging moment for South America’s largest country, which is trying to organize two mega-events and is facing pushback from citizens who question spending so much on sports events, particularly in a country with vast inequality, high prices and a slowing economy. Brazil is spending about

$13.3 billion of largely public money on the World Cup. Olympic organizers are expected to announce their budgets in a few months, but public spending could be similar to that of the World Cup — or higher. Leo Gryner, chief operating officer of the Rio games, acknowledged in a recent interview with The Associated Press that organizers were six to eight months late in starting to build venues. Gryner said that $700 million in public money may be needed to balance the operating budget. This is the budget to run the games themselves and is expected to be as much as $4 billion when it’s announced. He

attributed any shortfall to inflation, the sluggish economy and a struggle to sell local sponsorships. Gryner said the capital budget — a mix of public and private money aimed at building supporting infrastructure for the Olympics — could be 35 percent above the $11.6 billion listed in the original bid. Sebastian Coe, who headed the 2012 London Olympics, is expected to be in Rio this year to brief officials about what to expect the next two years.

“I still instinctively believe Rio will be a really good games,” Coe said. “They will be different. There’s a different level of expectation. With every Olympics, they always get there. Some are probably a little bit harder. The IOC will privately tell you some of those journeys are a little bit tougher.” Gryner singled out accommodations as a top priority. “We will have as many rooms as we need,” he said. Soaring hotel prices are already a problem for the

World Cup. The Brazilian government and the justice ministry reportedly are looking into reports that some hotels are gouging and have raised rates by 500 percent. There are also doubts about Brazil’s airports. The facilities in Sao Paulo and Rio are rated among the hemisphere’s worst, which inspectors have surely noticed traveling through the country. Airports could also face problems accommodating a surge in private jets used by many visitors to the World Cup and Olympics.

Running into the night

Fred Adams | For The Times Leader

Northwest running back Austin Mazonkey run through the Holy Redeemer line during the season opener for both teams Saturday night. A weather delay of more than an hour kept the teams off the field until after 11 p.m. Saturday. The delay was called with 9:56 remaining in the fourth quarter and Northwest leading Holy Redeemer 28-24. For a full recap of the game, see Monday’s Times Leader.

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Pay heed to rules in place By TOM VENESKY

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The thousands of Pennsylvania hunters who soon will be heading off to hunt big game in other states can do their share to slow the spread of chronic wasting disease in the Commonwealth. Those who hunt out of state are reminded that Pennsylvania prohibits importing specific carcass parts from members of the deer family – including mule deer, elk and moose – from 21 states and two Canadian provinces. The parts ban affects hunters who Jake Dingel | Pennsylvania harvest deer, Game Commission elk or moose People who hunt out of in: Colorado, state are reminded that Illinois, Iowa, Pennsylvania prohibits K a n s a s , importing specific carM a r y l a n d cass parts from mem(only from bers of the deer family C W D – including mule deer, elk Management and moose – from 21 A r e a ) , states and two Canadian M i c h i g a n , provinces. Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York (only from Madison and Oneida counties), North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia (only from CWD Containment Area), West Virginia (only from CWD Containment Area, which includes parts of three counties), Wisconsin and Wyoming; as well as the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Pennsylvania hunters harvesting any deer, elk or moose in those areas, whether the animal was taken from the wild or from a captive, highfence operation, must comply with rules aimed at slowing the spread of chronic wasting disease, or CWD, in Pennsylvania. CWD was detected in Pennsylvania for the first time last year, and those hunting out-of-state must leave behind the carcass parts that have the highest risk for transmitting the disease. Those parts are: the head (including brain, tonsils, eyes and any lymph nodes); spinal cord/backbone; spleen; skull plate with attached ant-

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John Oast uses a 13-foot kayak for most of his fishing on local lakes and the Susquehanna river. The kayak offers plenty of storage and allows Oast to access areas that other boats can’t reach.

A better bass boat?

Kayaks allow anglers to get to places other boats can’t By TOM VENESKY

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John Oast loves to bass fish from a boat, but he goes about it differently. When Oast hits the Susquehanna River or a local pond, he needs to gasoline for a motor, no battery for a trolling motor and not even a trailer to haul his boat. Even better, Oast doesn’t even need a launch to get his craft onto the water. All he needs is a path and a paddle. Oast, who resides in Bloomsburg, does his bass fishing from a kayak. Oast took up fishing from a kayak several years ago when he lived in Virginia Beach and the lightweight crafts were popular with those who took part in surf fishing in the ocean. Now, Oast said, kayaks are starting to catch on here as more people realize the advantages they offer over fishing from a bass boat. The first benefit, Oast said, is simply getting to the water. “You can launch anywhere. Just drag it through the weeds and jump in,” he said. “You can launch in places that jet boats can’t get to and you can do it without any help.” Oast said there are kayaks designed specifically for fishing. The main difference, he said, is fishing kayaks allow the user to sit on top of the hull in a molded seat pan, which offers more stabil-

The Pennsylvania Kayak Fishing association is an online group of kayak anglers that was created in Fall 2009. Oast said the group has 220 members on its Facebook page and continues to grow.

ity and also makes it easier to cast from the higher position. Oast’s kayak is 13 feet, while those that are 11 and 12 feet in length are primarily used on smaller water. A longer kayak, he said, is faster while the shorter versions turn easier. Fishing kayaks have plenty of storage thanks to a tank well — a place that can easily accommodate a milk crate — and several hatches for interior room. Oast stores extra fishing rods inside the hull and installed rod holders on the outside of his craft. The cost for a heavy duty fishing kayak is approximately $1,000, Oast said, but plenty of models are available in the $500 to $600 range. Most fishing kayaks weigh between 55 and 70 pounds, and can support at least 350 pounds. Oast believes the relatively

FOr MOrE iNFO To learn more about fishing kayaks, visit the Pennsylvania Kayak Fishing Association website at www.pkfa.org or check out Oast’s site at www.fishyaker.com. Oast also created a magazine devoted solely to fishing on the Susquehanna River, including all stretches in New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Check out the magazine at www. susquehannafishing.com. affordable cost and versatility are two factors behind the growth of fishing kayaks. See BOAT | 13C

I have eyes in the woods at all times. They monitor the area where I deer hunt and give me a good idea of what I may encounter on opening day. Trail cameras are a huge benefit to hunters, one that may replace another “tried and true” method that hunters commonly use to see what’s out there — spotlighting. As a scouting tool, trail cameras are rocketing in popularity and they have many advantages over spotlighting. Trail cameras allow an area to be Tom monitored 24/7. Venesky Spotlighting gives you a brief glimpse and can Outdoors only be used until 11 Columnist p.m. But the cameras, they’re always watching. Trail cameras are more versatile as well. While spotlighting is limited to open fields, trail cameras can be moved around, or multiple cameras can be set over a hunting area, to pinpoint deer activity. Another benefit with the cameras is not only can the location of deer activity be narrowed down, but also the time of day, or night. It’s an effective way to pattern deer behavior before the season starts. With a spotlight, you can see deer feeding in a field at night where you expect them to be, and that’s about it. The popularity of trail cameras is evident by the number of reader submissions I’ve received for each Sunday’s Caught on Camera feature. Each week, more images are emailed, and every single one is fascinating. One reader who operates several cameras told me when he downloads the memory card, it’s like Christmas morning just seeing what the cameras captured. Despite the effectiveness, and enjoyment afforded by trail cameras, spotlighting still has its benefits. With a spotlight, you have mobility. A drive around some country roads dotted with farm fields provides numerous spotlighting locations, and the chance to see a lot of deer. Cameras, obviously, are stationary and while they can be moved around are limited to a specific location. If nothing moves through that particular area for a few days, the camera sits idle. Spotlighting is also a great way to observe deer behavior firsthand. The beam from my spotlight has captured sparring bucks and playful fawns, providing a nighttime show that I always feel lucky to witness. And oddly enough, driving around dirt roads at night casting a light into fields is a great way to spend See DEER | 13C

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CaughT ON CaMEra Since this feature kicked off last October, readers have sent in pictures of mammals, birds and even bugs. About the only thing we haven’t featured are reptiles. Until now. With summer winding down, now is the perfect time to run a few snake photos sent in by readers.

Each set of images are perfect examples of how voracious a snake’s appetite is. The photos of the Eastern milk snake were sent in by Bob Stiff. He shot them in Jackson Township in the summer of 2009, and they are amazing images of the milk snake attempting to swallow a garter snake

of equal size. Note the unhinged jaw in the first photo and the vivid color pattern of the milk snake, evidence that it had recently shed its skin. Unfortunately, Stiff reports that both snakes perished during the ordeal as the garter snake was simply too big for the milk snake to consume.

Eastern hognose snakes love to feast on frogs and toads, as does this one photographed by Leonard Reggie, who found the snake on his driveway in Kingston Township on July 13. The enormous toad simply looks too big for the hognose to swallow, and Reggie doesn’t know if the snake

was successful. Considering the toad is at least three times the size of the snake’s head, it doesn’t seem possible. But the hognose is an expert at devouring a toad, so I wouldn’t bet against it. The nonvenomous hognose isn’t common and is a species of special concern in Pennsylvania.

And while we’re on the subject of predators and prey, Dave Powell sent this photo of a praying mantis feasting on another insect. Notice how it uses the spines on its front legs to hold the insect with a vice-like grip. Powell came upon the mantis eating its meal in his Plains

Township backyard last summer. Capture anything interesting on your handheld or trail camera? A nice buck, bear, coyote or anything unique? We’d love to see it. Each week,we’ll run photos from a reader’s trail camera on the Sunday Outdoors page. Email your photo, along with date and area it was taken (township is fine), and any other details to [email protected].

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“Purchasing a boat is a big expense, in addition to the gas and trailer,” he said. “A lot of shore fisherman always felt limited because there are so many areas in the water they can’t cast to. They may have always wanted a boat, but not the expense. A fishing kayak is a good solution.” Aside from being easy to transport and launch, Oast is quick to list other advantages with a fishing kayak. They’re virtually indestructible, he said, allowing an angler to slide to logs and between stumps to get to where the bass are. When the plastic does get nicked, Oast repairs it with a heat gun, a process he says is a lot easier than popping rivets out of an

A bit AbOut the gROup The Pennsylvania Kayak Fishing Association is an online group of kayak anglers that was created in Fall 2009. Oast said the group has 220 members on its Facebook page and it continues to grow. “When I moved here four years ago there were very few people fishing from kayaks,” Oast said. “For years I’ve been waiting for it to explode and now it is.” aluminum boat. The fact that a kayak can go virtually anywhere on the water also gives them an advantage on

bASS tOuRnAment ReSultS AnD StAnDingS Suskie Bassmaster River Series (Held every Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.) Aug. 28 results (40 anglers, 18 boats, 97.5 percent of the anglers brought fish to weigh-in, average weight of 1.60 pounds): 1. John Centak - 3.41 pounds 2. David R. McGovern - 3.01 pounds 3. Dale Selli - 2.25 pounds Small bass pool: Alan Centi - .84 pounds Big Bass Leader (season): John Centak - 3.41 pounds Top 10 standings (three tournaments left in the season): 1. Chris Ostrowski - 17.07 pounds 2. Chet Williams - 16.94 pounds 3. Dave Searfoss - 16.61 pounds 4. Ed Mrochko - 16.26 pounds 5. Jeremy Miller - 16.00 pounds 6. Frank Slymock - 15.59 pounds 7. Paul Smith - 14.89 pounds 8. John Nealon - 14.49 pounds 9. Ray Jones - 14.40 pounds 10. Rob Rosencrans - 14.33 pounds Harvey’s Lake Wednesday Night Bass Tournament (Held every Wednesday at the public boat launch) Aug. 28 results (45 anglers, 25 fish weighed, 60 percent weigh-in rate): 1. Jonathon Kelley - 3.37-pound smallmouth 2. Joe Zombek - 3.25-pound largemouth 3. Rob Polishan - 3.05-pound largemouth 4. John Niezgoda - 2.85-pound smallmouth 5. Josh Davenport - 2.57-pound largemouth Upcoming area bass tournaments The Suskie Bassmasters and PA Kayak Fishing Association will host an open team bass tournament and CPR (Catch, Photo, Release) Kayak Tournament for the Shickshinny Boat Launch Grand Opening on Sept. 14. Launch for the bass tournament is 7 a.m. with weighin at 3 p.m. Entry fee is $75 and

limit is five fish. Payout is 100 percent. For more information, call Rob Rosencrans at 8811068. The Kayak CPR Tournament will launch at 7:30 a.m. and report-in at 1:30 p.m. Entry fee is $20 and the limit is one fish. Payout is 95 percent. For more information, call John Oast at 441-4606. The PA Bass Casters will hold an open tournament today at Lake Carey. The Suskie Bassmasters host a Wednesday tournament each week on the Susquehanna River through Sept. 1. The tournament will be held at the boat launch in Nesbitt Park. Registration begins at 4:30 p.m. Launch is at 5:30 p.m. p.m. and weigh-in is at 9 p.m. For more information, visit www.teamrosencrans.org. The Harveys Lake Wednesday Night Bass Tournament runs weekly through Sept. 11. The championship round will include the top-30 anglers based on total weight over 12 weeks and will be worth $1,200. The lunker tournament (each angler weighing one fish) will begin at 6 p.m. with weigh-in at 9 p.m. at the launch. Registration is at 4:30 p.m. Entry fee is $15 with a one-time $10 fee to be eligible for the championship round. For more information, call Duke Dalley at 991-0080 or visit www. dukedalley.com. Barney and Bear’s Fall Trout and Bass Derby will be held in Lansing, N.Y., on Sept. 14-15. Entry fee is $20, including lunker for trout only. There will be an 80 percent payback, and the minimum length for lake and brown trout is 24 inches; salmon and rainbow trout 21 inches; and bass 15 inches. Ten places will be paid for trout, three for bass. For more information, call Barney Baldwin at 607-229-9341 or Bear’s Bait Shop at 607-2277512. • To submit results or add a tournament to the schedule, email them to tvenesky@ timesleader.com.

local lakes during bass tournaments. “A lot of the lakes around here have a lot of lily pads. With a kayak you go go right over them and hit the holes that are way back in, while the powerboats are limited to the edges,” Oast said. Perhaps the biggest advantage with a kayak is they don’t produce any noise, or wake, so fish are less likely to be spooked. That goes for other wildlife as well. “It’s so quiet that no one knows you’re out there,” Oast said. “This summer I was fishing the river in Bloomsburg and I paddled to within 15 feet of an immature bald eagle. There’s no way I could’ve pulled that off John Oast with a nice bass he caught on the Susquehanna River. Oast is able to arrange his gear lures boxes, extra rods, so everything is within arm’s reach on the kayak. with a power boat.”

Isner’s exit leaves one American man at Open hOWARD FenDRiCh AP Tennis Writer

NEW YORK — Trying to extend his stay at the U.S. Open, John Isner smacked a return winner, then pointed his right index finger toward the Louis Armstrong Stadium stands and circled his arm overhead, riling up the fans. Two points later, sprinting so far he nearly reached the seats, Isner hit a forehand that closed a point, punched the air and then shook his fists, doing his best Jimmy Connors imitation. Minutes after that, Isner cupped his hand to his ear, basking in the chants of “U-S-A! U-S-A!” The highest-ranked American man finally heard the adulation he’d been hoping for a couple of days earlier, when he lamented that so many spectators cheered so vociferously for his French opponent. What the 13th-

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John isner chases down a ball to return to philipp Kohlschreiber during the third round of the u.S. Open on Saturday in new York.

seeded Isner failed to do in return Saturday was deliver a victory in the third round at Flushing Meadows, meaning only one U.S. man remains of the 15 in the field. Isner even blamed those exuberant attempts to stir the crowd for his struggles down the stretch of a 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (5) loss to 22nd-seeded Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany. The other American man in action Saturday,20-

year-old Jack Sock, was beaten 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-1, 6-2 by No. 18 Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia. So the last man from the United States left is Tim Smyczek, a 25-yearold from Milwaukee who got into the main draw thanks to a wild-card invitation from the U.S. Tennis Association and plays 43rdranked Marcel Granollers of Spain in the third round Sunday. If Smyczek loses — a distinct possibility,

considering he’s ranked 109th and never before even made it past the second round at Grand Slam tournament — it will be the first time with zero U.S. men in the round of 16 at the country’s tennis championship, which was first played in 1881. A loss by Smyczek also would make 2013 the first season with no Americans in the second week of any of the four major tournaments. Even if Smyczek wins, it still would be only the second time there was just one American in the fourth round at the U.S. Open. The other? In 2009, when Isner was the lone one in the second week. All part of the recent decline of American men’s tennis. At Wimbledon this year, for example, no men from the United States even got to the third round. That hadn’t happened since 1912, when no Americans entered the tournament.

Tebow biggest name among NFL cuts ARnie StApletOn AP Pro Football Writer

After a restless night, hundreds of NFL players nervously checked their cellphones Saturday morning, cringing every time it buzzed. Tim Tebow was among those who got the dreaded call telling him to come see the coach and bring in his playbook. Teams had to whittle OutDOORS nOteS their rosters to the 53-man maximum Saturday, and The United Sportsmen’s Trucksville. Camp 271 in Huntington Mills Nescopeck State Park will although his release wasn’t will host a Junior Pheasant host the following programs a big surprise, Tebow was Hunt in conjunction with the in September (For more by far the biggest name Pennsylvania Game Commission information or to register, call among the notable cuts. from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on 403-2006): “I will remain in relentSaturday, Oct. 19. There is not Saturday, Sept. 7 - Guided Bird less pursuit of continuing cost to the hunt. Children ages Walk; 8 a.m. 12-16 that have a Hunter/Trapper Saturday, Sept. 7 - Kayaking: my lifelong dream of being Education certification may Level Three-Brady’s Lake Paddle; an NFL quarterback,” an participate. 10 a.m. undaunted Tebow tweeted. The deadline for registration is Thursday, Sept. 12 - Guided Hike: After being let go by his Sept. 25. Spaces are limited. If Broad Mountain Overlook; 9 a.m. third team in 18 months you are interested, please call Wednesday, Sept. 25 - Guided — and with the season just Nick at 574-0682 or 602-0178 Hike: Skyline Trail; 9 a.m. for more information. To register, Saturday, Sept. 28 - National five days away — the quarplease do so online at http:// Public Lands Day Park Cleanup; terback’s chances of immewww.register-ed.com/events/ 9 a.m. diately catching on with view/35059. Sunday, Sept. 29 - Wild another team seem slim. Pheasants Forever local Mushrooms of NEPA; 1 to 3 p.m. Several other veteran chapter 803, in conjunction The Factoryville Sportsmen’s with the Pennsylvania Game Club will host a 3D archery shoot QBs also found themselves Commission and the Army Corps on Sunday, Sept. 22. All levels looking for work on this of Engineers, will hold a youth of archers and equipment are Labor Day weekend as the mentor pheasant hunt at SGL welcome to this open event. This Giants released longtime 119 on Oct. 12. Youths must be is a “through the woods” course, backup David Carr, the between the ages of 12-16 and presenting 30 challenging Packers cut Vince Young have successfully completed wildlife targets. At the end of and the Bills chopped Matt a hunter safety course to the course, archers will have an participate. opportunity to win cash prizes by Leinart. They are also looking for hitting a hanging egg. Other noteworthy cuts volunteers/mentors with hunting Archers 12 and under can shoot included: dogs. For more details, visit www. for free, and club members will • Eagles RG Danny nepapf.org or call Corey Wiesel at be charged $6. Non-members Watkins 282-6346. fee is $8. Shoot time is from • 49ers LS Brian Pheasants Forever Chapter 803 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Food and meets at 7 p.m. on the third refreshments will be available. Jennings Wednesday of the month at the For more information, call Paul at • 49ers WR Austin Collie Farmers Inn, Hillside Road in 651-3748. • Panthers QB Jimmy

Clausen. • Saints S Jim Leonhard • Browns K Shayne Graham • Chargers WR Robert Meachem Those who made the 53-man rosters had a weekend respite before heading back to work Monday, except for the Broncos and Ravens, who kick off the season Thursday night in Denver. The Broncos held meetings and a walk-through Saturday after final cuts were made. They’ll practice Sunday, as will the Super Bowl champion Ravens, who are being forced to start the season on the road because baseball’s Orioles wouldn’t move their game in Baltimore that night. Among Denver’s cuts was veteran running back Lance Ball, paving the way for the injured C.J. Anderson of Cal to make the roster while the Broncos wait for him to recover from a sprained right MCL. That makes 10 straight seasons that an undrafted college free agent has made the Broncos’ opening day roster. Two teams have longer streaks: Indianapolis (15 years) and Kansas City (11). The Colts kept 27-year-old rookie linebacker Caesar Rayford, a veteran of the Arena and Canadian leagues, and QB Tyler Bray made the Chiefs’ roster. “It’s not an easy day because they all worked hard,” Broncos boss John

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Elway said about the players who didn’t make it. “We just don’t have enough slots for everybody.” Every coach calls this the cruelest day of the year in pro football — even the Giants’ Tom Coughlin, whose birthday was Saturday. But Sunday might prove worse as some bottom-rung players who barely had the chance to celebrate making the team get discharged in favor of

waiver-wire pickups. Teams can also fill their eight-man practice squads Sunday. This could be it for Tebow. Tebow’s last play with the Patriots was a 9-yard touchdown toss Thursday night to rookie free agent Quentin Sims with six seconds left against the Giants. Now Tebow is out of work again and maybe out of chances.

cameras and spotlighting, walking yields some exciting finds. I always get a rush when I find an enormous buck rub in the area I hunt. Even better is an up close encounter with a monster buck. A walk in the woods has been, and always will be the

best scouting technique. But that doesn’t mean I won’t have a few trail cameras keeping an eye on things as well.

Deer From page 13C time with family and friends. The uncertainty of not knowing what’s in the next field until the beam from a spotlight illuminates the night provides a level of excitement. Sure, trail cameras may make spotlighting unnecessary when it comes to

scouting for deer, but there is yet another method that trumps them both. Walking. Despite what technological aids are out there — cameras, lights, etc. — nothing beats simply lacing up a pair of boots and hitting the woods to scout

for the fall deer seasons. While it’s one thing to see trail cameras overtake spotlighting in terms of popularity, it would be a shame to see them do the same to scouting for deer by actually walking. While the cameras are effective, they will never

replace a simple walk in the woods to see what’s out there. A scouting trip through your favorite hunting area is the best way to determine travel patterns, bedding areas, rut activity and everything else deer are doing. And like trail

Tom Venesky covers the outdoors for The Times Leader. Reach him at [email protected] or call 970-7230.

lers, if visible brain or spinal cord tissue is present; cape, if visible brain or spinal cord tissue is present; upper canine teeth, if root structure or other soft tissue is present; any object or article containing visible brain or spinal cord tissue; unfinished taxidermy mounts; and brain-tanned hides. “This is the first time that we’ve entered the fall hunting seasons knowing that we have chronic wasting disease inside Pennsylvania,” Game Commission executive director Carl G. Roe said. “But that doesn’t mean we’ve given up the fight to slow the disease’s spread or make its impacts on our deer herd as minimal as possible. “High-risk parts are classified as such for a reason,” he said. “And while we wish Pennsylvanians luck in all of their out-of-state hunts, we also ask them to make sure they’re following the rules and bringing back home with them only the parts they’re allowed.” Hunters who are successful in those areas from which the importation of high-risk parts into Pennsylvania is banned are allowed to import meat from any deer, elk, moose, mule deer or caribou, so long as the backbone is not present. Successful hunters also are allowed to bring back cleaned skull plates with attached antlers, if no visible brain or spinal cord tissue is present; tanned hide or raw hide with no visible brain or spinal cord tissue present; capes, if no visible brain or spinal cord tissue is present; upper canine teeth, if no root structure or other soft tissue is present; and finished taxidermy mounts. Roe urged hunters heading to a state with a history of CWD to become familiar with that state’s wildlife regulations and guidelines for the transportation of harvested game animals. Pennsylvania detected its first case of chronic wasting disease last year in a captive deer kept at an Adams County facility, and another deer that had lived in the same pen later tested positive for the disease. Since that time, the disease was detected in three free-ranging deer harvested by hunters in Bedford and Blair counties during the 2012 firearms deer season. In response to those cases, the Game Commission has outlined two Disease Management Areas (DMAs) totaling about 1,500 square miles, and special rules regarding deer hunting, the feeding of wildlife and the transport of high-risk deer parts apply within those areas. Maps of the DMAs are available at the Game Commission’s website and are shown on pages 53 and 54 of the 201314 Pennsylvania Hunting and Trapping Digest, which is presented to each Pennsylvania license buyer. The exact rules deer hunters within those areas will need to follow are being finalized and will be announced soon by the Game Commission. However, those who live in a DMA and are successful in out-of-state hunts should know that – like other Pennsylvanians hunting out-of-state – they are permitted to bring low-risk deer parts back home with them. Roe said hunters who harvest a deer, elk or moose in a state or province where CWD is known to exist should follow instructions from that state’s wildlife agency on how and where to submit the appropriate samples to have their animal tested. If, after returning to Pennsylvania, a hunter is notified that his or her game tested positive for CWD, the hunter is encouraged to immediately contact the Game Commission region office that serves the county in which they reside for disposal recommendations and assistance.

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It was a contract that Amazon.com’s business-technology group wasn’t supposed to get. The CIA, an organization whose data is among the most protected in the world, asked for bids last year on a contract to provide the agency Webbased tech infrastructure. Longtime government contractors, among them IBM, seemed likely winners. So when Amazon Web Services, or AWS, won the $600 million contract in January, IBM cried foul. Big Blue argued that the agency did not properly evaluate IBM’s bid, and the Government Accountability Office, which reviewed the contract, agreed in part. Now, Amazon is bidding again for the contract while also challenging in federal court the CIA’s ability to reopen the bidding. Both winning the contract and sparking IBM’s ire are coming-of-age moments for AWS. The division, which Amazon launched in 2006, rents data storage and computer-server time to corporations and agencies to run core business processes. AWS generates roughly $3 billion in annual revenue, according to analyst estimates, by offering services to businesses at a fraction of what it would cost if those businesses owned and ran their own computers. And it’s emerged as the leader in providing Web-based infrastructure technology to customers, a business that’s come to be known as cloud computing. According to a new report from research firm Gartner, AWS is “the overwhelming market share leader,” with more than five times the combined computational capacity of the next 14 rivals Gartner follows. But handling “mission-critical” operations and ultra-secure data isn’t where AWS initially made hay. Some competitors and even some corporate tech buyers still dismiss AWS as technology provided by an online bookseller, suggesting it’s not capable of handling the demands essential to running government agencies and companies in the business of managing sensitive data. So while there are examples of AWS running mission-critical operations, a contract from the CIA could put remaining questions to rest. That’s why the contract is so important to Amazon. If the nation’s top spy agency is willing to rely on AWS to secure its network, surely other customers can rely on its technology as well. “It’s a lighthouse win,” said James Staten, an analyst with Forrester Research. “It will say to other clients that this is safe.” IBM’s challenge is certainly about angling for the lucrative government contract. But it’s also about slowing AWS’s

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San Francisco police officer Gregory Pak, left, talks Navy reservist and Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran John Fornbacher, of Pleasant Hill, Calif., during the San Francisco/alameda Point Military Career Expo aboard the USS Hornet aircraft carrier in alameda, Calif., last month. Veterans from different branches of the military networked at the event in the hopes of finding potential employment.

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Unlike many veterans who leave military service with no idea where their next job is coming from, Star Cazador had it all figured out — what she would do, where she would do it, and how much she would like it. Taking a cue from fellow Marines who sought careers in law enforcement after discharge, Cazador applied to the Santa Clara County (Calif.) Sheriff’s Office. It seemed to her like a natural transition. “There is a huge comfort level,” said Cazador, who served in the Marines from 2005 to 2009 and is now a Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputy. “In the academy, my best friends were other prior military. We knew exactly how each other’s brains worked. We could just look at each other. We didn’t even have to communicate.” Although many veterans feel that law enforcement is a natural fit, some former soldiers resent being typecast. Others say the profession is the least suitable career choice for veterans who are still working out emotional issues from deployments. And some veterans consider a career in law enforcement because they consider it one of the few viable options in a challenging job market. The Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn’t keep precise statistics on the number of veterans employed in law enforcement, instead lumping together the classification with wardens, school crossing guards and other security jobs. But the agency reports the unemployment rate for post-Sept. 11, 2001, veterans was 7.7 percent in July, up from 7.2 percent in June. That’s 0.3 percent higher than the unemployment rate for the civilian labor force. Veterans face challenges that civilians do not. Some are unsure how to express to potential employers how skills learned in the military translate to the civilian job market. Some return with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury and wonder if those conditions will be a deal-breaker

San Jose police officer Norene Marinelli, left, talks with job seekers during the San Francisco/alameda Point Military Career Expo in alameda, Calif.

if they reveal them when interviewing for a job. So the notion of taking military skills to a civilian agency that has a similar structure can be appealing. And that’s a two-way street. In the San Francisco Bay Area, for example, several job fairs for veterans have been held in the past few months. They all seem to feature multiple law enforcement agencies looking to hire. “The veterans we’re trying to reach out to, they have the set of skills, the discipline and the training where they would easily transition from the military to civilian law enforcement,” said San Francisco police Officer Gregory Pak, who manned an information table at a Hiring Our Heroes job fair in Walnut Creek, Calif., in April, and on the USS Hornet in Alameda, Calif., in August. “It’s a win-win.” For Yeffiry Disla, 38, who is preparing for civilian life after spending four years in the Marines and 15 years in the Army, it’s more like a

marriage of convenience. “(Working as) a cop would be my fallback if I can’t do something else,” said Disla, who has served three deployments of 10 months or longer to Iraq and Afghanistan, “simply because I was an infantryman and those are my skills. Anything you want to see in a soldier, you want to see in a policeman.” Others aren’t so sure the gun connection is a logical connection. Army veteran Mike Magpusao works for Project Hired, a San Jose, Calif.-based nonprofit that helps find employment for people with disabilities — including combat veterans. “I could see how somebody would think that would be an easy transition,” he said at a recent jobs fair in Concord, Calif. “It’s familiar. I work with guns, I know how to use them, why not get a job that uses the same equipment? But I’ve spoken with vets. And, myself, I think I’ve experienced enough of that, so I wouldn’t want to relive that type of experience.” And Magpusao said some veterans resent being typecast. “A lot of them get out, they’re intelligent, they use the G.I. Bill to get a degree,” he said. “It’s like, ‘I can do more than pull a trigger.’ “ Jason Deitch, an Army Ranger who served multiple deployments to Africa and the Middle East, has a concern beyond familiarity or pride. “I’m not saying there aren’t lots of vets out there who wouldn’t be extraordinarily good cops,” said Deitch, a tactical consultant to police forces when he first got out of the military and who now works as a veterans rights advocate in Contra Costa County, Calif. “(But) many people who have gone to combat for any amount of time have got some stuff that they need to work on.” Deitch said there is no logical link between the two professions, and he urges caution. “As a matter of fact, there are good reasons to seriously evaluate whether See VETERANS | 2D

People in the working world love to pat themselves on the back for a job well done, even if it turns out the job isn’t finished. It’s a part of the workplace mind-set — we see a problem, we address the problem, we say “hooray!” and we move on, often prematurely. That’s what has happened with diversity in America. There have been great strides in diversifying workplaces — the glossy corporate photographs show inspiring mixes of races and genders, leading some to conclude: We did it. We diversified our workforce. But then your eyes move up the corporate ladder, and the rich diversity fades into a lot of white men. According to the Alliance for Board Diversity, white men filled more than 70 percent of the seats on the boards of Fortune 500 companies between rex 2010 and 2012. And Huppke DiversityInc Best Contributing Practices in June talColumnist lied minority CEOs at Fortune 500 companies: six black, eight Asian, seven Latino and 21 female. “We’ve been talking about diversity for 50 years, yet the progress in the form of representation has not changed very much,” said Tyronne Stoudemire, senior diversity consultant at Mercer, a global human resource and financial services consulting firm. “We admit the issue, we talk about the issue, but the work that’s behind it — people aren’t willing to roll their sleeves up and really get involved. We’re unconsciously incompetent.” He gave a wonderful description of the problem. Imagine corporate America as a glass of white milk. You pour in chocolate syrup, but unless you mix it up, that syrup settles at the bottom and everything tastes the same. “You’ve got to mix it up,” he said. “Organizations are diverse, but the diversity stays at the bottom. You’re not promoting; you’re not advancing.” Frank Dobbin, a professor of sociology at Harvard University who has studied diversity programs extensively, agreed with Stoudemire’s assessment. “We interview a lot of HR managers and top managers at firms, and we ask them how they’re doing on diversity, and they say, ‘Oh, good, 40 percent of our staff is female or minority,’ ” Dobbin said. “Then we ask how promotion up the ranks is going, and they’ll almost uniformly say, ‘Terrible.’ “ Dobbin’s research has found that many diversity programs “don’t have any effect at all or backfire” at a cost of time and money. He highlighted two typical approaches. One is to teach managers about their own bias, an idea most people tend to resist and one that implies that managers are to blame for a lack of diversity. The other is to control managers by implementing strict rules regarding hiring and promotion. Dobbin said managers prefer to solve problems on their own rather than having to conform to specific guidelines. “It doesn’t work to blame managers

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Find Labor Day savings on all your picnic and BBQ needs Today is National Gyro Day and King of Kings Gyros on Public Square is celebrating by offering live music, giveaways and selling regular gyros for $5, a $2 savings. Also, get a king sized gyro for $7 instead of the normal $8 menu price. Go to www. eatmoregyros.com for a chance to win additional prizes but hurry, you must register by 8 tonight. This weekend is also part of the Labor Day holiday so cookouts, picnics and camping trips

are taking place throughout the region. If you waited until today to get the deals, smart move. You’ll have to battle long lines at the groandrew cery store M. Seder but they’ll Contributing be worth Columnist it with the savings you’ll realize. Here’s a look at the top offers:

• Shur Save has Steak-umm frozen boxed burgers buy-one, get-one free. They come in original or sweet onion varieties in twopound boxes. Also on a BOGO sale are all varieties of Doritos chips. • Thomas’ Foodtown has watermelons for $3.99 a piece and one pound packs of Hatfield franks for 99 cents with various varieties included in the offer. • Redner’s Warehouse Markets has store brand family packs of skinless, bone-

less chicken breasts for $1.98 per pound. Also sweet is the sale on locally grown peaches and nectarines. They can be had for 88 cents per pound. • Weis Markets has a plethora of picnic goodies to choose from. On the buy-one, get-one free front, choose from blueberries and strawberries, Lay’s chips, Nathan’s beef or Ball Park meat franks and savings packs of Weis boneless, skinless chicken breast or Swift Premium boneless pork chops or

country style ribs. Check out the Weis circular found in today’s Times Leader for some good coupons, too. Spend $25 at the grocer and use coupons to get free Top Care eight-ounce hand sanitizer, Weis ice cream for $1.49 and a savings pack of 90 percent lean ground beef for just $1.99 per pound. There’s also a coupon good today and tomorrow only that will get you a savings pack of porterhouse or T-Bone steaks for $5.88 per pound with a limit of five pounds.

• Wegmans has its club pack of boneless, skinless chicken breasts for $1.99 per pound. Each pack has 10 pieces of chicken, the perfect grilling amount for a family of five. • If you need cheese for those burgers on the grill, stop at Price Chopper with the coupon in the store’s circular found in today’s Times Leader. Use it to get $2 off a pound of Dietz & Watson deli cheese purchase. If you’re travelling, you’ll need gas. Save

money on that fill up by spending at least $75 at Price Chopper and using the coupons found in the store’s circular. One will get you 25 cents off per gallon of gas with a $75 purchase. The other will get you 50 cents off per gallon of gas when you spend $125 at the store in a single purchase. andrew M. Seder, a Times Leader staff writer, may be reached at 570-829-7269. If you know of any local steals or deals, send them to [email protected] and follow him on Twitter @TLAndrewSeder for deals and news throughout the week.

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Be careful,but honest in describing dismissal Q: I’m having trouble explaining why I left my last job. For three years, I worked in a residential treatment facility for youthful offenders. Everything was fine until I was assigned to the third shift, which lasts from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. Adjusting to this schedule was extremely difficult. Because I could not sleep well during the day, I was always tired at work. I began falling asleep in the middle of my shift, which

was obviously unacceptable. Since I was never able to break this pattern, they eventually let me go. Now, when I apply for a job, I’m not sure how to answer the “reason for leaving” question. If I put “terminated” on the application, I never get an interview. If I tell an interviewer I was fired, I never get called back. I want to be honest, but I also want to be hired. How should I handle this? A: Since you should

never lie during a job search, you will need to be truthful without being selfdestructive. For example, when applications request “reason for leaving,” you might give an ambiguous answer like “shift difficulties.” This is a true statement which can later be explained during an interview. When talking with potential employers, focus on the physiological challenges of third-shift work. For example: “Although some people

Structure and Invariants.” The Tobyhanna Army Depot honored several employees for hitting length of service benchmarks. Among them are: Suzanne Rudat, of Duryea, director, field logistics support directorate with 30 years of service. Stacey Drager, Pittston Township; Jason Orenich, Duryea; Anthony Nardell, West Pittston; and Matthew Bucknavage, Swoyersville; all of the Tobyhanna Army Depot’s Security Division, received a service star pin for five years of continuous service with the Department of the Army. Marion K. Munley, an attorney with Munley Law, has been recognized as one of the Top 50 Women Pennsylvania Super Lawyers 2013 by Super Lawyers magazine. Munley has been selected as a Super Lawyer Munley each year since 2004, a distinction limited to only 5 percent of the legal community in Pennsylvania. Debbie Bell, of Pittston, has been named Employee of the Month for August at Golden Technologies, Inc. in Old Forge. Bell works as a business development coordinator.

BusIness aGenda L e a d e r s h i p Lackawanna: Leadership Lackawanna’s executive program sessions begin on Oct. 15 and will be held for five consecutive Tuesdays until Nov. 12. Sessions will be held at various locations throughout the Greater Scranton area from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. The program accepts applications from public and private sector administrators and professionals in an executive level position who live or work in Lackawanna County. The cost is $795, with a spouse or guest able to attend at no additional charge. Candidates should possess an interest in learning how Lackawanna County functions and a commitment to enhance the area’s economy and quality of life. To apply, visit www.leadershiplackawanna.com. The deadline to apply is Oct. 1. For more information contact Nicole A. Barber at 570-342-7711 or email nbarber@scrantonchamber. com. Manufacturing workshop: On Sept. 11 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. at the Bradford Inn, Towanda, the Northeast PA Industrial

Resource Center hosts a workshop covering each of the four modules of training within industry: Job Methods, Job Instruction, Job Safety and Job Relations. This workshop is intended for manufacturing CEOs and managementlevel personnel. At the workshop, local manufacturing executives, who have implemented training within industry at their companies, will share their experiences. Breakfast is provided. Call 570-819-8966, ext. 110 for more information. Career Fair: The annual fall career fair hosted by The Times Leader will take place Sept. 17 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the 109th Field Artillery Armory on Market Street in Wilkes-Barre. Call 570-970-7356 to reserve a space or learn more. Talent management workshop: This workshop provides and overview of key issues in talent management, emphasizing issues affecting leadership, continuity of supervisors, managers and executives. The program runs from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at Penn State WilkesBarre’s campus in Lehman Township. For more information call 570-675-9253.

tion, this guy either has no management experience or is not very bright. But despite his shortcomings, you might as well make one more effort to educate him before throwing in the towel. In a calm, nondefensive manner, try to help Ron see that the two of you are actually on the same side. For example: “Ron, I understand that we need to accelerate the schedule, and I’m willing to do that. I just want to be sure that

we allow enough time for quality checks. If customers start complaining about defective products, you and I will both be in trouble.” If Ron begins to listen, then perhaps there’s hope. But if he continues to act like an arrogant tyrant, you may want to start exploring other options.

the right thing to do from a fairness standpoint; it’s also good for business, because diversity of workers brings a diversity of ideas. But clearly, we’re still stumbling. Dobbin said his research has identified some of the more effective ways to promote diversity up the ranks. One of the best, he said, is the formation of a diversity task force. (The word “task force” can make any worker’s skin crawl, but hear him out.) “They work very well because they give the job to the managers,” Dobbin said. “If I’m the CEO and I say, ‘I need six department heads to form a diversity task force that will meet once a month for a year and I want to see some results,’ there will be results.” That challenge will lead

to managers who better understand and appreciate diversity and will likely knock down some internal barriers in the process. Another effective program involves mentoring, Dobbin said. Pairing up senior executives with management aspirants of all races and genders works because the senior people will want their younger counterparts to succeed. And again, this breaks down barriers that exist not only between people of different races or genders, but also between people at different levels of the company. This is a tough issue, as evidenced by the fact that we haven’t figured it out. But it’s hugely important. Diverse workplaces

are more productive, more innovative and better reflect the clients they serve. It’s something companies must keep pressing on, if not for pragmatic reasons then certainly as a matter of fairness. “People are looking for this big, enormous ‘aha’ moment,” Stoudemire said. “But it really is about treating people fairly, with dignity and respect, the basic things our mother and father taught us.” You’re bringing a diverse array of people to the tree with the treehouse. Why not show them the ladder up?

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From page 1D and tell them they’re biased or try to control them through bureaucratic rules,” he said. “That doesn’t make them happy, and in the end it’s not effective.” Stoudemire offered his timeline of how the business world has handled diversity. From 1964 to 1988, the focus was mainly on compliance with anti-discrimination laws. From 1989 to 1995, there was a shift to things such as tolerance and sensitivity training. That rarely led anywhere, he said: “I’ll tolerate you, but at the end of the day, I just want you to go away.” From 1996 to the present, more of a business case has been made for diversity. Companies have realized not only that diversity is

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puting that once was the domain of a handful of companies, including IBM, that sold, rather than rented, the hardware and software that demanding customers needed. IBM went out of its way to cite its track record as it reacted to Amazon’s suit, which seeks to block the rebidding of the contract. “Unlike Amazon, IBM has a long history of delivering successful transformational projects like this for the U.S. government,” IBM spokesman Clint Roswell said. “IBM has been delivering trusted and secure cloud services to business and government clients for many years and developed virtualization technologies, which have led to cloud computing.” To be clear, the contract is not exactly the type every customer will get from the company. AWS typically offers its Web-based services in what’s known as a “public cloud.” That’s jargon for services that run on computer servers Amazon owns, delivered securely over the Internet in much the same way that electricity or water is delivered to homes. But the CIA deal calls for Amazon to manage a private data center owned by the agency. There’s no way that the top spy agency would let that data flow over the Web in the same way AWS does for clients such as Airbnb, when it books rooms for vacationers, or Netflix, when it streams videos to customers. The CIA needs a level of security that goes well beyond what AWS typically provides. While neither the agency

nor Amazon will discuss the specifics of the contract, public documents make it clear that AWS was willing to alter its approach to win this contract. The CIA would be the first AWS client to have the servers that handle its computing on its premises, rather than in buildings owned or leased by Amazon. It’s not an idle distinction. Amazon has pursued public-cloud computing with a near-religious zeal. Delivering generic computing building blocks that customers could snap together like Lego bricks and dismantle to meet their needs at any moment has been the key to the division’s growth. Putting any of its technology behind a so-called “private cloud” could undermine that message. To be clear, some of this

There’s a screening process for that, said Jennifer Bice, a Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputy. “Part of the background process is the psychological testing,” Bice said. “(Veterans) have heard

that it’s an automatic disqualifier, and it’s not. It’s a case-by-case basis. We’ve all experienced bad things in our lives and sometimes that happens to us personally without even going to war. So it really depends

on the individual.” The International Association of Chiefs of Police was concerned enough about “transitional obstacles” veterans might face if they pursued a career in law enforcement

Grants still available for small businesses The Department of Environmental Protection has extended the deadline for Pennsylvania smallbusiness owners to apply for DEP’s Small Business Advantage Grants to Oct. 8. Businesses can apply for 50-percent matching funds of up to $9,500 to adopt

Even though “Ron” knows nothing about the work I do, he arbitrarily shortens my project schedules, then interrogates me about why I’m not working faster. When I try to explain, he ridicules me for goofing off. Ron’s expectations are like asking someone to have a baby in four months. I have been with this company for 12 years, and I’m good at my job. But now I’m wondering if I should quit before I get fired. A: Based on your descrip-

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have no problem working at night, I could never seem to reverse my sleep patterns. Since I didn’t get enough sleep during the day, I kept dozing off during my shift. I was never able to adjust, so unfortunately I had to leave.” Of course, this explanation only works if you are applying for positions with regular daytime hours. But I assume there’s no question about that. Q: My new boss is driving me absolutely crazy.

The cLIenT LIsT Among Amazon’s web services customers: • Airbnb: The property-renting marketplace runs most of its Web-based computing on AWS, ramping up its use as its business needs have necessitated. • Netflix: The video-streaming service, which competes with Amazon’s Prime Instant Video, uses AWS to quickly deploy thousands of servers and terabytes of storage as needed to meet volume. • Pinterest: The online bulletin board for people to share pictures, products, recipes and more runs its entire business on AWS. • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: The lab, which focuses on robotic exploration of the solar system, uses an AWS service to process high-resolution satellite images that provide guidance to its robots • Obama for America: The president’s re-election campaign team built nearly 200 applications using AWS, including the campaign website, donation processing, and data analytics to maximize fundraising. • Automobili Lamborghini: The luxury-sports carmaker rebuilt its website with AWS, using its self-service capability to quickly design and implement a new site’s architecture in less than a month. SOURCE: Amazon.com

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is semantics. If Amazon is operating the cloud offering, it might not much matter where it is located. The agency’s request for proposals for the contract referred to the services needed as a “public cloud,” according to an Amazon court filing. But providing those services from a customer’s premises is something new for Amazon, a move it no doubt made to acknowledge business realities. There are plenty of organizations that either won’t or can’t have their computing done from servers run at Amazon facilities, for all sorts of regulatory and security reasons. It’s something the company has recognized. It began to move down this road when it launched something called FinQloud, which it developed for Nasdaq to meet with regu-

latory and security requirements, and GovCloud, an isolated operation that allows U.S. government agencies to use cloud computing while still meeting compliance requirements. For AWS, which wanted both the huge CIA contract and the validation of its services, shifting a bit on strategy was a no-brainer. And that shift may mean that AWS will consider privatecloud deals going forward. “It says if you’re willing to spend $600 million, Amazon is willing to play ball,” Gartner’s Lydia Leong said. “But a potential customer might be able to spend less and still get them to compete for a private-cloud contract.” The IBM challenge to the contract threatens to undermine AWS’ bid to take on traditional suppliers of technology to businesses. Without offering details, IBM contended that AWS’ winning the contract was based on “inaccu-

racies in the government’s assessment” of its proposal. The GAO agreed, which led to new bids that were due Aug. 16. While Amazon is participating in the rebidding, it argues in its July suit against the government to block the process that IBM’s claims were “untimely and meritless.” In that suit, made public last week, Amazon said IBM wouldn’t be able to provide the type of cloud computing the CIA wants. And Amazon said the GAO’s suggestion to reopen the bidding was “arbitrary and capricious” and violates federal contracting law. The stakes are particularly high for AWS. Just as winning the contract was a point of validation for a service, losing a contract it had once won could undermine the perception that its services are capable enough for the most demanding customers.

that three years ago it published guidebooks for veterans and any agencies that might consider hiring them. But those concerns didn’t stop Community Oriented Policing

Services (COPS), an office of the Department of Justice, from offering 220 cities $114.6 million in incentive grants to hire post-Sept. 11 veterans to fill 800 law enforcement positions.

“The benefits that I could see veterans bringing to a police force would be great,” Deitch said. “You are not going to find better leaders. On the other hand, I care about individual people.”

Veterans From page 1D or not that is a good idea,” he said. “You’re going to continue to expose yourself to violence, tension, stress, anxiety. You come back and become a police officer, the potential for retraumatizing is very high.”

BUSINESS

www.timesleader.com THE TIMES LEADER

Sunday, September 1, 2013 PAGE 3D

MarketPulse RISING RATES Expectations are that there will be a steep decline in mortgage refinancing activity as interest rates climb. Mortgage rates have risen more than a full percentage point since May when Chairman Ben Bernanke first signaled that the Federal Reserve might reduce its bond purchases later this year. The purchases have helped keep long-term interest rates low. The Mortgage Bankers Association expects that total refinance volume will drop from $673 billion in the first half of this year to $294 billion in the second half, according to a recent report from Stern Agee.

BOND FLIGHT A rise in rates has led to losses for many bond mutual funds, and investors are continuing to pull their money. When interest rates rise, bond prices decline because investors can purchase newly issued bonds paying higher interest than those issued previously. That can lead to smaller investment returns or even losses for diversified bond fund shareholders, and for investors in individual bonds who don’t hold them until they mature.

Banks with greatest exposure to refinancing activity Mortgage banking as % of total revenue

Bank of America (BAC) Bank of Hawaii (BOH) PNC Financial (PNC) Everbank Financial (EVER) Glacier Bacncorp (GBCI)

5.3% 4.4 5.1 28.0 10.3

Estimated flows to bond funds in billions

2.1 -7.0

7/24

Who he is: Partner at Nigro Karlin Segal & Feldstein Among his insights? Consider the worst case scenario when making a financial plan

Rich Feldstein is a partner at Nigro Karlin Segal & Feldstein, a business management firm with offices in Los Angeles and New York. It caters to rock stars, actors, athletes, executives and other wealthy individuals. He says that when you’re stitching together a financial plan, it helps to assume the worst. A lot of your clients are has-beens by the time they’re 30. So working with them must be different from working with regular Joes, right? I would say it’s a matter of helping them get their arms around reality. The ballplayers typically start being admired when they’re 11, 12, 14 years old, so they’re brought up in a false world of “I’m invulnerable” and “I’m the greatest.” But we have to assume the worst. And there are very few that go on to have productive careers as coaches or announcers. What do they do when they can’t play ball? It’s very difficult to make the transition. Even though many pro basketball players are college grads, they were never career focused. If they’re at all entrepreneurial, we try to introduce them to people that can actually run a business, but who need financing. We try to stay away from restaurants, though. The failure rate in restaurants is extraordinarily high. So how do you want them to think about money? This comes from one of my favorite investment advisers, Ric Kayne at Kayne Anderson in Los Angeles. There are basically two types of investments. There are cows, where you milk the cows every day and you sell the milk and put the money in your pocket. That’s like the interest on a bond or dividend on a stock. You want to have lots of cows. Now if you want to have a sliver of pigs, a pig is an investment that you have to continuously feed and love and take care of, and you hope that you’ll sell it at a price greater than what you have invested. Your first pig is typically owning a home. Do you find that celebrities are more susceptible to being scammed? I think they are approached regularly. But most of my clients are really good about saying, “Don’t discuss it with me, call my business manager.” I imagine the divorces get pretty dicey. Indeed. You also have celebrity goodwill — is your brand really worth something beyond your services? It could be your name, copyrights on the songs you’ve written, endorsement deals where you haven’t yet received the payment. We have a forensics department that would raise all these issues with the divorce counsel. Interviewed by Christina Rexrode. Answers edited for content and clarity.

AP

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Where is the “smart money” investing these days? Goldman Sachs offers insight in its latest analysis of the stocks that appear most often among the 10 largest holdings of hedge funds. Each quarter the investment bank identifies the top The smart money These 10 stocks appear 50 stocks held by hedge the largest holdings of hedge funds. funds that own between 10 and 200 stocks. Top-10 holding As a group, on a (Number of quarterly basis, these hedge funds)^ stocks have outperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500 1. AIG (AIG) 69 index 63 percent of the time since May 2001, and 2. Google (GOOG) 65 have slightly edged out the 3. Apple (AAPL) 50 -6 broader market this year. The three most widely 4. General Motors (GM) 42 held stocks, AIG, Google 5. Citigroup (C) 37 and Apple also topped the list at the end of 2012. New 6. Microsoft (MSFT) 32 entrants into the top 10 7. Charter Comm. (CHTR) 30 since that time are Charter Communications, Hertz 8. priceline.com (PCLN) 30 Global and 21st Century 9. Hertz Global (HTZ) 29 Fox. Nexen, JPMorgan Chase and Qualcomm 10. 21st Century Fox (FOXA) 28 have moved out of the top S&P 500 10. Sources: FactSet; Goldman Sachs

TICKER

Q1 2013

Returns through Aug. 29

^ As of June 30

most frequently among

Total return YTD

Priceearnings ratio*

32%

12

28 59

lost money

52

31

50

32

40

12

16

* Trailing 12 months

t

s

21.6 +26.96

2

4.3

22

2.8

t

s

9.7 +13.37

3

14.6

20

2.7

Amerigas Part LP

APU

37.63 4

50.45

42.50

-1.07

-2.5

t

t

9.7 +6.91

3

12.3

22

7.9

Aqua America Inc

WTR

24.06 6

35.15

30.37

-1.26

-4.0

t

t

19.5 +24.34

2

12.9

20

2.5

Arch Dan Mid

ADM

24.38 8

38.81

35.21

-1.07

-2.9

t

s

28.6 +34.41

2

8.6

18

2.2

AutoZone Inc

AZO

Bank of America

BAC

-2.41

-0.6

t

s

18.5 +16.12

3

25.1

16

...

-0.45

-3.1

t

s

21.6 +77.22

1 -13.3

25

0.3

29.74

-1.11

-3.6

t

t

15.7 +34.43

2

-1.4

18

2.0

11.01

-1.52 -12.1

t

t

-9.4 +7.34

3

23.9

...

1.8

Bk of NY Mellon

BK

Bon Ton Store

BONT

CVS Caremark Corp

CVS

44.33 8

62.36

58.05

0.08

0.1

t

s

20.1 +29.28

2

10.6

17

1.6

Cigna Corp

CI

44.39 0

79.99

78.69

-0.64

-0.8

s

s

47.2 +72.01

1

13.5

14

0.1

CocaCola Co

KO

35.58 4

43.43

38.18

-0.34

-0.9

t

t

5.3 +4.95

4

10.4

20

2.9

Comcast Corp A

CMCSA 33.42 7

46.33

42.09

0.23

0.5

t

s

12.7 +27.66

2

16.0

17

1.9

Community Bk Sys

CBU

25.50 9

34.85

33.24

-1.47

-4.2

t

s

21.5 +22.40

2

11.0

17

3.4

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CYH

26.07 6

51.29

39.26

-1.88

-4.6

t

t

27.7 +46.12

1

2.7

17

...

Energy Transfer Eqty

ETE

41.72 9

68.39

64.33

0.92

1.5

t

s

41.4 +52.20

1

21.3

63

4.1

Entercom Comm

ETM

5.98 4

11.00

7.93

-0.78

-9.0

t

t

13.6 +25.28

2

5.6

11

...

Fairchild Semicond

FCS

11.14 3

15.75

12.21

-0.19

-1.5

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t -15.2—15.91 5

-0.5

...

...

3.71 5

5.15

4.33

-0.22

-4.8

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s

1.2 +2.38

4

-8.5

43

9.2

15.09 7

21.30

19.25

-0.48

-2.4

t

t

24.2 +17.75

3

8.7

24

0.9

Harte Hanks Inc

HHS

5.14 7

10.12

8.30

-0.85

-9.3

t

t

40.7 +24.14

2

-4.2

15

4.1

Hershey Company

HSY

68.09 8

98.00

91.95

-3.52

-3.7

t

s

27.3 +30.46

2

22.4

29

2.1

Lowes Cos

LOW

27.55 0

47.51

45.82

-1.16

-2.5

s

s

29.0 +63.20

1

14.4

23

1.6

M&T Bank

MTB

86.34 9 119.54 113.34

-4.22

-3.6

t

s

15.1 +33.65

2

12.3

13

2.5

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MCD

83.31 6 103.70

0.00

0.0

t

t

7.0 +8.88

3

11.5

17

3.3

Mondelez Intl

MDLZ

24.50 8

32.91

30.67

-0.65

-2.1

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s

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3

10.7

23

1.8

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NBTB

18.92 6

23.25

21.42

-1.03

-4.6

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s

5.7 +5.66

4

0.3

15

3.7

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NXST

8.38 9

39.75

33.57

-2.54

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s 217.0+291.80 1

56.5

49

1.4

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PNC

53.36 8

77.93

72.27

-2.75

-3.7

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s

23.9 +18.97

3

1.7

11

2.4 4.8

PPL Corp

PPL

27.74 6

33.55

30.70

-0.18

-0.6

t

s

7.2 +9.63

3

-2.9

12

Penna REIT

PEI

13.25 6

22.54

18.55

0.01

0.1

t

t

5.2 +22.46

2

2.3

...

3.9

PepsiCo

PEP

67.39 7

87.06

79.73

-0.12

-0.2

t

t

16.5 +13.09

3

5.6

19

2.8

Philip Morris Intl

PM

82.10 1

96.73

83.44

-1.93

-2.3

t

t

-0.2 —2.75

4

12.5

16

4.1

Procter & Gamble

PG

65.83 8

82.54

77.89

-2.12

-2.6

t

s

14.7 +19.39

3

4.7

20

3.1

Prudential Fncl

PRU

48.17 8

83.67

74.88

-3.82

-4.9

t

s

40.4 +42.51

2

2.0

26

2.1

SLM Corp

SLM

15.33 8

26.17

23.99

-1.01

-4.0

t

s

40.0 +55.81

1

8.7

8

2.5

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SLMBP 46.30 9

74.46

70.49

-0.80

-1.1

s

s

33.0

0.0

...

2.9

TJX Cos

TJX

40.08 9

54.66

52.72

-1.72

-3.2

t

s

24.2 +16.27

3

24.6

19

1.1

UGI Corp

UGI

30.15 7

43.24

39.20

-1.15

-2.9

t

s

19.8 +32.19

2

9.9

16

2.9

Verizon Comm

VZ

40.51 5

54.31

47.38

-0.23

-0.5

t

t

9.5 +15.14

3

11.6

97

4.3

WalMart Strs

WMT

67.37 5

79.96

72.98

-0.46

-0.6

t

t

7.0 +3.01

4

6.3

14

2.6

Weis Mkts

WMK

37.65 7

51.92

46.98

-1.05

-2.2

t

s

19.9 +14.31

3

7.3

15

2.6

...

Notes on data: Total returns, shown for periods 1-year or greater, include dividend income and change in market price. Three-year and five-year returns annualized. Ellipses indicate data not available. Price-earnings ratio unavailable for closed-end funds and companies with net losses over prior four quarters. Rank classifies a stock’s performance relative to all U.S.-listed shares, from top 20 percent (far-left box) to bottom 20 percent (far-right box).

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The rise of mobile computing is hitting Intel. Customers are increasingly turning to smartphones and tablet computers instead of the PCs that run on Intel’s processors. Intel hopes that its “Bay Trail” chip makes inroad in the tablet market, but one powerful group of investors is betting that Intel will still struggle: hedge funds. Many are betting that Intel’s stock will fall. After surveying 708 hedge funds,

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Average rates on fixed mortgages declined this past week but stayed close to their highest levels in two years. The rate on the 30-year loan was 4.51 percent. The spike in interest rates in recent months was cited as a concern for U.S. banks as regulators reported on the industry’s record-high $42.2 billion earnings in the second quarter.

Amer Water Works

Genpact Ltd

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46

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Air Products

Frontier Comm

reporting that clients are doing more searches internally

AP

LocalStocks COMPANY

Executive search firms

Source: Investment Company Institute

Hedge fund faves

InsiderQ&A

Rich Feldstein

-2.1

7/31

Source: Stern Agee

Entertainment business

THE JOB SEARCH The latest report on unemployment is due on Friday. Although unemployment remains elevated, the job search process continues to change. The online networking site, LinkedIn, has had a definite impact, according to a recent survey of executive search consultants by William Blair, the Chicago-based asset management firm. In its latest quarterly survey, a larger percentage of search firms reported that their clients were conducting more of their placement searches internally. The number reached 46 percent, up from 34 percent in the third-quarter of last year.

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Baby boomers may have no one to care for them in their old age, a new study suggests. Shifting demographics

mean that aging boomers will have fewer friends and family members to take care of them as they get into their 80s, according to a study by AARP. In other words, even though boomers may be

supporting their own elderly parents, the chances of someone being there for them are numerically diminished. The ratio of potential caregivers to boomers needing care will sink from 7.2-to-1

in 2010 to 2.9-to-1 by 2050, according to the study. “In just 13 years, as the baby boomers age into their 80s, the decline in the caregiver support ratio will shift from a slow decline to a freefall,” according to the study.

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A day off to remember the value of days on Wistful for summer or eager for school? Contemplating stowing the bicycle and waxing the skis? Putting away the white togs and bringing out the autumnal colors? Maybe you’re lighting the charcoal and popping a beer bottle top? Taking one last trip for a swim at a stat park? A farewell tour of the Jersey shore? Yes, it’s Labor Day, taken by many as the de facto finale to summer, the demarcation between childhood vacation and the return to school, the beginning of our annual transition from adventuring outdoors to cocooning inside. It is of course, none of those. The fall equinox, which most consider the true end of summer, is Sept. 22. Most local students returned to school last week. And there is ample opportunity to enjoy the outdoors year round. And while Labor Day may be most famous as a three-day weekend full of store-wide sales, it always behooves us to remember why it was established and what it is intended to commemorate. That would, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, take us back to Sept. 5, 1882, the first Labor Day holiday. Celebrated on a Tuesday, mind you. Established at first in New York City by the Central Labor Union. Proposed by … well, that’s up in the air. It was either Peter J.

McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, who wanted a day to honor those “who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold,” a quote that suggests P.J. McGuire didn’t get out much or just didn’t like natural grandeur. Or it was Matthew Maguire, a machinist, who was a secretary of the Central Labor Union. The who may have been lost in history, but the why should not be lost in celebrations and demarcations. This is about workers. This is a tribute to those who toil daily in jobs profound and mundane, and who, in doing so, contribute to America’s wealth property, strength and, bluntly, very existence. This holiday is about our local and national industriousness. It is about the fundamental American principal of working to build individual worth while constructing community. Labor Day stands unique among national holidays because it celebrates the deep value of everyday effort. By all means, have a family outing, hit the shops and malls, make the most of this year’s last warm three-day weekend. You deserve it. But be sure to pause for a spell and remember exactly why so many have the day off: They worked for it.

COMMENTARY: LEONARD PITTS JR.

Racism isn’t about a criminal’s color

I have nothing to say about the murder of It is, for some people, a foregone conclu- victims of black racism. Christopher Lane. sion that any time violent crime crosses And if all that was meant when AfricanExcept this: racial lines, some kind of racial statement is Americans decry racism is that sometimes The killing of this Australian man, alleg- intended. But violent criminals are not socio- white people do violence against you, then edly by a group of boys who were bored and political theoreticians and violent crime is the email writers and right-wing pundits could think of nothing better to do, suggests not usually a social manifesto. With relatively might have a point. But it isn’t and they don’t. chilling amorality and a sociorare exceptions — we call them hate crimes No, what is meant is that even when viopathic estrangement from the — the fact is, if a thug shoots you, it is not lence is done against you, you may automatisacredness of life. The fact that because you are white, black, gay or Muslim, cally be considered the “suspect” and your these teenagers were able to but because you are there. killer set free. What is meant is that judges get their hands on a gun with So is Lane’s shooting one of those excep- are harder on you, doctors less aggressive to shoot the 22-year-old tions? A case can be made that it is. One of in treating you, banks more apt to deny you, OTHER OPINION: SLUMPINg wAgES which student in the back on Aug. 16 the young black suspects, after all, tweeted landlords less likely to show you apartments, as he was jogging in the small his anti-white bigotry back in April. The hiring officers more likely to round file your Oklahoma town of Duncan, Leonard hashtag: HATE THEM. application. What is meant is good luck hailleaves me embarrassed for my But a case can also be made that it isn’t. ing a cab in midtown Manhattan. What is country — and thankful I am Pitts Jr. Of the remaining two suspects, one is meant is that other people will airily dismiss not the one who has to explain Contributing reportedly white and the other, the alleged the reality of those things, or, as has many to his country how such a thing Columnist shooter, apparently has a white mother. The times happened to me, admit the reality but can happen. prosecutor told the Duncan Banner newspa- advise that you should accept your lot in None of this will satisfy the dozens, per- per there’s no evidence Lane was targeted silence. haps hundreds, of people who have written because of his race and in any event, bringThen in the next breath, those same people Do you feel like you’re in corporate America are me emails demanding (it is always interest- ing hate crime charges is a moot point. In will ask you to empathize with how racially working harder than ever, recording record profits, ing when people think they can demand a col- Oklahoma, hate crimes are misdemeanors; victimized they are. The sheer, blind gall of it but your pay isn’t keep- are a recipe for trouble. umn) that I write about this drive-by shoot- the boys are already facing felonies. beggars imagination. ing up? That’s probably That’s not an appeal for ing as an act of racial bigotry, an inverse of Again, none of this will satisfy those dozLast week, Christopher Lane was killed for because you are — and class warfare. It’s an the Trayvon Martin killing, if you will. There ens, if not hundreds, of email writers, not to no good reason, apparently by three morally it’s not. acknowledgment that is a numbing repetitiveness to these screeds: mention the authors of similar screeds on defective boys. A new study by the current economic trends Where is Jesse Jackson, they demand. Where right-wing websites. What they’re doing is Sorry, but he’s the victim here. White Economic Policy Institute aren’t good for this coun- is Al Sharpton? Where are you? Or as one simple. They are using tragedy to play a cyni- America is not. shows that while the try. subject line puts it: “Why no outrage!!!!” cal game of tit-for-tat: “I’ll see your Trayvon productivity of the averLabor Department data Actually, I have plenty of outrage. Just not Martin and raise you a Christopher Lane.” In Leonard Pitts Jr. is a columnist for the Miami Herald, age American worker show that average hourly the flavor of outrage they would like me to other words, they want to use this tragedy 3511 N.W. 91 Ave., Doral, FL 33172. Readers may write to increased nearly 75 per- pay for nongovernment, have. to validate their view that white people are him via email at [email protected]. cent between 1979 and nonmanagement workers 2012, his real income dur- declined to $8.77 an hour ing that period grew only last month, compared COMMENTARY: JOE BUTKIEwICz 5 percent. w i t h The New York $8.85 a Times inter- The community is year earviewed a cashier filled with people lier. at a KFC in who work with I t ’ s Manhattan who, time to after eight years dedication and com- turn that on the job, earns mitment in their t r e n d The phone rang, the starting bell to the So I don’t know. typed on a sheet of paper. only $7.75 an jobs and careers a r o u n d . week in the office. But I can tell you what I believe. I kept it, figuring that someday I’d underhour. She hasn’t T h i s “Hello, Joey.” I think the answer to our problems as a stand. had a raise since and then devote country’s I recognized the voice. It was George, society is the personal effort each person I think I do now. 2007. Of course, themselves to volc o n s u m - a frequent writer of letters to the editor; invests in his or her life, the devotion to our I also understand some healthy pessimism that’s better unteer efforts. They er-based consistent caller who needles, suggests family and our comabout the ability of than being economy and prods; a reader who is a well-meaning munity. (Include in this area to improve. among the mil- teach and coach, w o n ’ t nudge. community school, Last Sunday my column was full of Detrimental polilions who faced they clean up and thrive “Yea, Georgie, what can I faith-based organiza- optimism about what we can achieve tics continue in our wage cuts or organize, they cola g a i n do for you?” tions and volunteer, school boards and layoffs. u n t i l The call was a welcome surcharitable and social if we try. george was challenging me in our municipal A Wall Street lect goods and raise w o r k - prise to start my final week at organizations that about the possibility anything can be and county governJournal analy- money for causes ers can The Times Leader. Do anycontribute to the changed. I don’t know if he called to ment. sis cited three too numerous to afford to thing long enough and you greater good.) In the short time reasons for s p e n d get to know your customers. Each of us needs to hear my answer or tell me his opinion. since an outrageous wages’ stagna- list. more of George is one of a few people Joe lead a good life with Or give me a parting shot. Maybe all corruption scandal tion beyond the their pay- who speaks freely with me. reasonable expecta- three. ripped through the recession: c h e c k s Familiarity in this case has Butkiewicz tions about material entire community, Economic growth, at on goods and services. bred diminutive nicknames: Executive rewards. little seems to have less than 2 percent for A number of econo- Joey, Georgie. No other read- Editor Each of us needs to changed. Where’s three straight quarters, is mists are suggesting ways ers call me Joey, and I’m not have a willingness to take part. the hope in that? It’s easy to be cynical about too low. Before the reces- to address America’s so casual with others who None of us is compelled to have this per- Luzerne County. sion, it averaged 3.5 per- slumping wages. Among call. sonal responsibility, but I believe we all Well, everything worthwhile requires cent. other things, former “I read your column,” George said. “Do should. effort. Changing the structure of of our govBusinesses are manag- Labor Secretary Robert you believe it? Does this area have a chance?” As examples, failing to be a responsible ernment and the checks and balances of our ing payrolls differently. Reich suggests eliminatLast Sunday my column was full of opti- parent, failing to help a neighbor, and failing court system was easy. Many firms that laid off ing payroll taxes on the mism about what we can achieve if we try. to vote knowledgeably during elections are Changing a culture requires the commitworkers rather than cut first $15,000 in income George was challenging me about the pos- failing your community and yourself. ment of a lifetime. It requires individual wages during the reces- and requiring companies sibility anything can be changed. That’s what I believe. commitment to personal responsibility. It sion are coping now by to spend more of their I don’t know if he called to hear my answer When I started at The Times Leader I was requires more than what we do now. cutting wages. earnings on upgrading or tell me his opinion. Or give me a parting handed a piece of paper torn from a spiral And there will be no cavalry. There is no Globalization continues workers’ skills. shot. Maybe all three. That’s Georgie. notebook with words typed onto the rules: white knight. We are the solution, each of to put pressure on wages. Perhaps more than anyThe truth is I don’t know the answers to “Nothing in this world can take the place us. The Boston Consulting thing, perspectives must such questions. of persistence. Talent will not; nothing I can’t change everyone else. But I can Group predicts that by change. Wage increases Can the problems of the area be fixed? I is more common than unsuccessful men commit myself, and with persistence, maybe 2015, some industries must be seen as invest- don’t know. I’m not a seer; I’m a newspaper with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded influence a few other people. will see only a 10 percent ments. Well-paid consum- editor. genius is almost a proverb. Education will That’s my choice. difference between wages ers make the purchases We gather the news and put it together not; the world is full of educated derelicts. So yes, George, I believe there’s a chance. in the United States and needed to keep the U.S. into a package each day — and throughout Persistence and determination alone are Are you with me? in China. economy humming. the day as we move through a digital age. omnipotent.” — Calvin Coolidge. Long periods of wage Philadelphia Inquirer We get some insight but not that much more I don’t remember who gave it to me. 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CoMMentArY: ChArLeS KrAUthAMMer

Attack against Syria must be worth effort Having leaked to the world, and thus to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a detailed briefing of the coming U.S. air attack on Syria — (1) the source (offshore warships and perhaps a bomber or two), (2) the weapon (cruise missiles), (3) the duration (two or three days), (4) the purpose (punishment, not “regime change”) — perhaps we should be publishing the exact time the bombs will fall, lest we disrupt dinner in Damascus. So much for the element of surprise. Into his third year of dithering, two years after declaring Assad had to go, one year after drawing — then eras- Charles ing — his own red line Krauthammer on chemical weapons, Contributing Barack Obama has Columnist been stirred to action. Or more accurately, shamed into action. Which is the worst possible reason. A president doesn’t commit soldiers to a war for which he has zero enthusiasm. Nor does one go to war for demonstration purposes. Want to send a message? Call Western Union. A Tomahawk missile is for killing. A serious instrument of war demands a serious purpose. The purpose can be either punitive or strategic: either a spasm of conscience that will inflame our opponents yet leave not a trace, or a considered application of abundant American power to alter the strategic equation that is now heavily favoring our worst enemies in the heart of the Middle East. There are risks to any attack. Blowback terror from Syria and its terrorist allies. Threatened retaliation by Iran or Hezbollah on Israel — that could lead to a gunsof-August regional conflagration. Moreover, a mere punitive pinprick after which Assad emerges from the smoke intact and emboldened would demonstrate nothing but U.S. weakness and ineffectiveness. In 1998, after al-Qaeda blew up two U.S. embassies in Africa, Bill Clinton lobbed a few cruise missiles into empty tents in Afghanistan. That showed ‘em. It did. It showed terminal unseriousness. Al-Qaeda got the message. Two years later, the USS Cole. A year after that, 9/11. Yet even Clinton gathered the wherewithal to launch a sustained air campaign against Serbia. That wasn’t a mere message. That was a military strategy designed to stop the Serbs from ravaging Kosovo. It succeeded. If Obama is planning a messagesending three-day attack, preceded by leaks telling the Syrians to move their important military assets to safety, better that he do nothing. Why run the considerable risk if nothing important is changed? The only defensible action would

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would the American people support it? they are justifiably war-weary and want no part of this conflict. And why should they? in three years, obama has done nothing to prepare the country for such a serious engagement. not one speech. no explanation of what’s at stake. be an attack with a strategic purpose, a sustained campaign aimed at changing the balance of forces by removing the Syrian regime’s decisive military advantage — air power. Of Assad’s 20 air bases, notes (retired) Gen. Jack Keane, six are primary. Attack them: the runways, the fighters, the helicopters, the fuel depots, the nearby command structures. Render them inoperable. We don’t need to take down Syria’s air defense system, as we did in Libya. To disable air power, we can use standoff systems — cruise missiles fired from ships offshore and from aircraft loaded with long-range smart munitions that need not overfly Syrian territory. Depriving Assad of his total control of the air and making resupply from Iran and Russia far more difficult would alter the course of the war. That is a serious purpose. Would the American people support it? They are justifiably warweary and want no part of this conflict. And why should they? In three years, Obama has done nothing to prepare the country for such a serious engagement. Not one speech. No explanation of what’s at stake. On the contrary. Last year Obama told us repeatedly that the tide of war is receding. This year, he grandly declared that the entire war on terror “must end.” If he wants Tomahawks to fly, he’d better have a good reason, tell it to the American people and get the support of their representatives in Congress, the way George W. Bush did for both the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. It’s rather shameful that while the British prime minister has recalled Parliament to debate possible airstrikes, Obama has made not a gesture in that direction. If you are going to do this, Mr. President, do it constitutionally. And seriously. This is not about you and your conscience. It’s about applying American power to do precisely what you now deny this is about — helping Assad go, as you told the world he must. Otherwise, just send Assad a text message. You might incur a roaming charge, but it’s still cheaper than a three-day, highly telegraphed, perfectly useless demonstration strike.

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Egypt and limits of democracy The events in Egypt are causing a great deal of moral and intellectual confusion in Western circles, preoccupied as they are with the concept of democracy (after all, ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was elected). Populist sentimentality abounds. I suggest, instead, judging events by the standards of constitutionalism — an ideology that asserts that human beings have tsvi Bisk certain unalienable rights that cannot be taken from Contributing them either by dictator Columnist or by the majority. Fareed Zakaria makes a good case for constitutionalism taking precedence over democracy in his book, “The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad.” Or as Publishers Weekly put it in a review of the book: “Democracy is not inherently good. … It works in some situations and not others, and needs strong limits to function properly.” Better a liberalizing dictator than an elected thug. Morsi was an elected thug; Gen. Abdel Fattah Sisi, the head of the Egyptian armed services and now in charge of the nation, might turn out to be a liberalizing dictator who at least protects minorities and women. Democracy is a mechanism that chooses governments by elections in which the majority decides. But the Founding Fathers were just as afraid of the tyr-

anny of the majority as they were of the tyranny of the individual tyrant. That is why the Constitution was written, separation of powers institutionalized and the Supreme Court (an unelected, nondemocratic body) chosen to adjudicate the constitutionality of laws that might be supported by the overwhelming majority of the population. The 20th century is sufficient proof that majorities can be just as brutal and vicious as tyrants. Jim Crow was supported by the majority; Eastern European pogroms were justified by the majority; Adolf Hitler was supported by the majority; Josef Stalin was revered by the majority. Democracy is only a value when it tends to widen and deepen the constitutionalist protections of individuals and minorities, as it has in the U.S. Blacks and women getting the vote enabled them to fight for their constitutional rights. But Hamas was democratically elected in the Gaza Strip, and the result: fewer rights for women, religious minorities and political opposition. When Americans and Europeans use the term “democracy,” it is shorthand for constitutional democracy; namely, “the will of the people,” limited and moderated by the constitutional protections offered to individuals and minorities, and not majoritarian democracy in which the compact majority (in Egypt’s case, Islamist fanatics) can crush individual and minority rights. How does this relate to Egypt? If you

were a Coptic Christian (40 of whose churches have been burned by Morsi supporters), a Shiite Muslim (four of whom were lynched by Morsi supporters in June) or a university-trained woman (no need to detail her status under Islamist rule), would you prefer Sisi’s military dictatorship or majoritarian Islamic “democracy”? Answer that question honestly and you will know which side to root for. You will also know which side has the biggest chance to eventually morph into a constitutional democracy as it integrates into the global economic reality. The military dictatorships of Taiwan and South Korea gradually evolving into constitutional democracies as a consequence of integrating into the global economic order are good historical examples. Tourism is Egypt’s biggest nonfarm employer and earner of foreign currency. What would be its fate under the Islamists, and how would this inhibit Egypt from integrating into the global economy? From a non-Egyptian point of view, which faction would most likely be more rational and maintain the peace with Israel? Consider the consequences of another Israeli-Egyptian war for the region and the world. Moreover, consider the implications for the region and, indeed, the rest of the world if the Muslim Brotherhood defeats the Egyptian military. It would be frightening to say the least. tsvi Bisk is director of the Center for Strategic Futurist Thinking. He wrote this for the Los Angeles Times

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The Pennsylvania State Education Association has sent outmisleading information to the members of the state house of representatives concerning House Bill 76, known as the property tax independence act. I will point out the false and misleading items in the letter, written by Veronica Biegen, a PSEA spokeswoman who sent it to Rep. Greg Vitali, D-Havertown, to try and sway him from sponsoring the bill. 1. HB76 is not flawed as it has been examined by financial people in both the house and senate and as a result the final draft is now being sponsored by senators and rep. as the best way to provide relief for the middle income and lower income homeowners in Pennsylvania. It does not target working class families as it spreads the school tax burden more equitably and opens the door to economic progress. The small sales tax increase and the small income tax increase used to fund HB76 will be shared by all not a few of our citizens . In addition, people traveling thru our state will als0 contribute.

2. The present system of teacher unions pension funding has put us in debt to the tune of $400 million. This new system Will correct the deficit. Our teachers have the second-highest wages in the nation. While 36,000 of our people are in foreclosure losing their homes. 3. We are 46th out of 50 states in job creation. The sales tax will only increase a little over one percent and the revenue it brings in will increase jobs by out-of-state business coming into Pennsylvania, and this will increase job s for the middle and lower income people. It is a false statement that discretionary income is paying the majority of the sales tax at the present 6 percent rate. Another PSEA omission is the fact of the unfunded school teachers pension of $400 million. This bill will stop the bleeding of our senior homeowners and others who are in foreclosure or very near to losing their homes because they cannot afford to pat the school property tax. 4. If HB76 is not passed our defecit will increase to beyond the $400 million, placing a greater burden on our homeowners and senior citizens who want to stay in their homes. HB76 is a win win for teachers and their retirement.

Please tell all our representatives to sponsor the bill and talk to their other representative to sponsor this HB76 and move forward to greater prosperity and jobs for the citizens of our state. Thomas Dombroski

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Gas boom a boon to country For the greater part of the last 100 years, the United States has relied heavily on foreign sources of energy. Now this dependency is changing. Domestic oil and natural gas development is quickly moving the United States towards energy security. Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation, with an average daily production of 1.2 billion cubic feet (Bcf), is leading this transition. Government data shows that Cabot had 15 of the top 20 producing wells in Pennsylvania in 2012 and since 2008, a total cumulative production of 488 Bcf from just 225 producing wells. Cabot is also proud to champion increased usage of natural gas.

In Susquehanna County alone, Cabot is using natural gas to fuel 60 of its fleet vehicles, power its drilling operations and demonstrating dual-fuel engine technologies during its completions operations. Not only is this an economic benefit for our company and surrounding community, it is a tremendous environmental one as well, helping to reduce greenhouse emission from the air we breathe every single day. George Stark

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W-B Township needs closer look There has to be a full disclosure of all records in the administration building and WilkesBarre Township volunteer fire company. Taxpayer money is being abused and squandered by alleged fire chief thief John Yuknavich and ignored by hapless mayor Carl Kuren and council Now a new position is approved for Tom Zurawski, who is not even qualified. Do a background check on him through the Pennsylvania State Police. He’s going to monitor

the police department and public works department, who both do a fantastic job all year round. Now their performance may suffer because Mayor Kuren is having a hissy fit. The employees have to keep looking over their shoulders. Police and public workers unions - if you are harassed or your job is impeded on, file a lawsuit, and stick to it. Is a performance review officer needed? Absolutely not. There should be someone watching Tom Zurawski and Mayor Carl Kuren, such as all the residents of Wilkes-Barre Township. Young and old, or contact my father Joseph Naperkowski. He’ll contact the proper authorities if need be. The townspeople of WilkesBarre Township have to keep the pressure on this administration. It’s like a Three Stooges skit. In my opinion, Mayor Carl Kuren is a bully, but like all bullies, sooner or later they get theirs. Lydia Naperkowski

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The Republican/Tea Party agenda of repealing the

Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, will deprive millions of Americans of health care. Why are Republicans so scared of Obamacare? The Republican Party has attempted to brand the health care law a “train wreck” and tried to repeal it 40 times now. If the Republicans really believe that the law is inherently unworkable, why not sit back and let it fail. The truth is that Republicans are terrified Obamacare could actually work The law has provided 13 million Americans with rebates from insurance companies that overcharged them and soon insurer’s will not be allowed to refuse service to those with pre-existing medical conditions. California and New York insurance exchanges already offer policies for the uninsured that are much cheaper than expected. Yet states that are dominated by Republican governors and legislatures are still trying to block millions of their residents from finding out about how to sign up for Obamacare, and are doing everything possible to frighten people away from this most excellent new health care program. This seems almost criminal. Ron Lowe

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A game of teenage violence and insanity The reader’s comment read: “And people on MSNBC and liberal media wonder why many white people have a fear of the black community. An Australian murdered in Oklahoma. A baby in a stroller shot and killed in Georgia. A male nurse in Memphis, Tenn., murdered by three blacks. An 89 yr old WWII vet beaten to death by two black thugs. A Dept Gregory of Homeland Clay Security worker with a website Contributing advocating a Columnist war on white people. When and if the black community decides to take some responsibility for these animals they are letting loose on the streets then maybe ‘we can all get along.”’ That fiery rant was one of hundreds on the Huffington Post in response to a recent rash of unspeakable crimes committed by teenagers, mostly black and mostly male. America, we have a problem — and it’s expanding. It’s not just our dirty, little secret anymore. This matter has become global. When Australian baseball player Christopher Lane was killed on Aug. 16 by three

teens — two black and one white — Tim Fischer, former deputy prime minister of the country, said international tourists should consider boycotting the United States. “Just for the record,” Fischer said on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Live” last week, “Australia has had zero gun massacres since 1996, and in the United States, 80 people are killed by guns every single day. So it is another example of murder mayhem on Main Street. Yes, people thinking of going to the USA on business or tourist trips should think carefully about it given the statistical fact you are 15 times more likely to be shot dead in the USA than in Australia per capita per a million people.” Apparently, killing for the sheer hell of it has become the latest sport in the field. It makes you shudder. There is even a name for this game: knockout. The “knockout game” occurs when a mob — usually young people — surround a vulnerable and unsuspecting victim or prey. One person in the circle seeking major “street cred” punches the victim in the face, attempting to knock him out. If he can’t, the other mobsters proceed to beat relentlessly and kick the prey just for fun. When the knockout game is black-on-white, the act is called “polar bear hunting.”

Police said the three teens in Oklahoma indicated they were “bored” and just had to kill someone to relieve that state of mind. Remember, just for fun. They apparently wanted to “knock out” their victim with gunfire, then make a quick getaway. From another reader: “And Obama really thinks we are going to give up our guns so people like this can have them and we don’t??? Yeah, right! RIP sir …” Many Australians, understandably, are livid regarding these horrific developments. And Fischer ratcheted up the rhetoric with his boycott message. The man does have a point. If the United States can’t clean up its act, foreign tourists should boycott the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. This latest dose of horror is also about money; the stakes just got higher. Major tourist attractions, such as New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, would suffer the most. This country would lose billions in tourism revenue. But that’s the price you pay for letting evil fester. Another irate post read: “I hate saying this about my own race or really half of my race, but I’m going to say it.

Until black men stop emulating Jay-Z and all that hardcore gangster rap music, you will always be ghetto trash and second-class citizens. You give all hard-working educated brothers and sisters a bad name. If you want to make a better life for yourself, pick up a book, get an education and be a father when you have a child.” When Americans consider traveling to nations labeled as danger zones, what does the U.S. State Department do? Strongly advise them to avoid the offending country like the plague. Now, what goes around comes around. Turnabout is fair play is another applicable cliche. If Australia feels an imminent threat on the streets of the United States, then what right does America have to disavow that nation’s belief? Especially since the United States has publicized purported — and perceived — threats from other countries for decades. Now, let’s get real here. It’s time to call it what it is. This “knockout game” stuff is essentially domestic terrorism, and U.S. law enforcement agencies should label it as such. These cases, as well as those of gangbangers, should be under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security. But with that comes a few prickly issues. Does Homeland

Security issue warnings regarding young black males traveling in pairs or groups? Are there terror alerts posted with yellow, orange and red specifications? Now, the next $64,000 question is this: What do the Roving Reverends of Recompense think of these disturbing developments? That would be Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. They led the re-enactment of the transformative 1963 March on Washington on Aug. 24 and they often mysteriously surface for white-on-black catastrophes. What about now? Sharpton spouted off on MSNBC last week that he only orchestrates his interventions under two conditions: When he’s called in by an affected party, and when justice is conspicuously absent. His logic being that when the Australian baseball player was murdered, the three thugs were diligently arrested and charged, so therefore no need for him to get involved — unlike the muchdelayed arrest in the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case. Look, we all know that’s a convenient cop-out. We all aren’t naive or crazy. Everybody won’t be fooled by that quick-draw, lame excuse. Here’s another reader posting: “hmmm, I wonder if obama will get on tv and tell

us how this could have been his grandfather. It, afterall could have been; his maternal grandfather is a white ww2 vet.” The first bottom line is this: Sharpton and Jackson never will be fully respected by mainstream America until they equalize and balance their intentions. That is to say, they must exhibit the same amount of noise supporting Christopher Lane and World War II veteran Delbert Belton as they did with slain black teenager Trayvon Martin. The second bottom line: In 2010, there were 31,513 firearm-related deaths in the United States; in Australia of that year, the number was 236. The math is astonishing. The third bottom line: Whether you are killed by Boston Marathon terrorist bombers from Chechnya or a crazed black-teen mob participating in a knockout game or a hardcore gangbanger, the result is the same. Dead is dead. Therefore, the semantics of international terrorism vs. domestic murder don’t matter. Case closed. Gregory Clay is assistant sports editor for McClatchy-Tribune News Service, 700 12th Street NW, Suite 1000, Washington, D.C. 20005. His email is gclay@ mctinfo.com.

YOuR OpiNiON: LETTERS TO THE EDiTOR

Sugar Notch and politics Mark Robbins, photojournalist for the free monthly in Wilkes-Barre, was a must story to cover, as he was charged with trespassing while on posted and restricted, WilkesBarre police department property. Robbins was taking pictures of vehicles loaned to police by LAG Towing. Found guilty by a magistrate, he appealed the summary violation to Commonwealth Court and was found not guilty. All three of the newspapers ran good size stories, as justice was delivered for Robbins. But the Gazette was the only newspaper that covered me when I went before Magistrate Roberts. I was up on two counts of trespassing for leaving a free community newsletter on a porch in Sugar Notch. The Times Leader did print a letter to the editor I wrote about it before the trial. But now I wish to announce, I was found not guilty on all counts. Let freedom ring. The police had sent notice to the press just in time tell the public of my ‘arrest’ on the day before the primary in May, when I was up for re-election to council. I called to rebut the charges, which the police chief countered, and a bigger article appeared on the day of the election. I was not re-elected and the person who charged me, was also a candidate. He did not win then. In Sugar Notch, all is fair in local politics, no matter how much a free press or regular press, sheds light on it. Mario Fiorucci

Sugar Notch

Camp help appreciated The Max and Lorraine Foundation and the American Lung Association would like to express their deepest gratitude to the doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists and all the volunteers who gave their time to make it possible for 46 children to enjoy the camping experience for the 15th year in a row. The Max and Lorraine Foundation was founded in memory of Lorraine Button Tracy and her son Max who passed away at age 40 and

10 respectively due to complications arising from an asthma attack. A special thank you to our Medical Director Dr. Jeffrey Zero, Chris and Elaine Tino, Tony Delonti of The American Lung Association, Lisa Pupa, Marie Anzalone and Mary Dalpiaz for their hours of dedication to coordinate the camp schedule. Great appreciation goes out to Mack McElhinney, camp director and the YMCA staff for their patience and understanding shown to each child. We are fortunate to have Camp Kresge in our locality for all to enjoy. This year we were especially fortunate to have enough former campers return as counselors for all the cabins. Their help was indeed appreciated. The annual Max and Lorraine Foundation golf tournament which supports Camp AsthmaCadabra will be held at Mountain Laurel Golf Club on Friday October 4, 2013. For registration info call 570-474-6282. Max and Lorraine Foundation Michael Tracy Dawn Timmeney Kate Button

playing our country’s flag. The gentleman from WBRE stated they open the early morning news with the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. Fine. Why not the other newscasts? A short time ago I happened to come in contact with a local newscaster. I mentioned to him my request to the station to

display the small flag on the news desk on patriotic observances. He said he didn’t know anything about it. He then looked at the flag pin on my shirt and said he could not wear one while on the air. I asked why not? He immediately poked his finger at his chest, stating when he’s presenting

the news “I want the attention on me.” He repeated it several times. I asked why? He replied, “the flag pin is a distraction and I want the focus on me, me, me.” Inside I was furious. I held my composure and said isn’t the kerchief in your coat a distraction? How about wearing a flashy shirt and tie? Aren’t those

being worn for attention? No answer from him. I further brought to his attention while presenting the news a written caption is moving across the bottom of the screen. Isn’t that a distraction and divided focus? These TV stations will openly display any and all kinds of violence, sexual-

ity, filth, horror, etc., but refuse to display or offer any encouragement to display our national symbol, the American flag. For me, personally, I consider their refusal nothing but shameful. I’m a World War II veteran and proud flag waver. Jim Walsh

Wilkes-Barre

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Bryan E. Martin, DO familiarity with this area and devotion to its residents, who are in fact his neighbors, are an enormous benefit to Wilkes-Barre and the surrounding communities for cardiology care. Dr. Martin welcomes new patients with simple and complex chest pain, angina and shortness of breath. To schedule an appointment, call 570.808.6020 or visit us at geisinger.org/heart. Geisinger accepts most major insurances. Bryan E. Martin, DO Cardiologist

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SPECIFICATIONS: 2-Story BEDROOMS: 4 BATHS: 3 SQUARE FEET: 4,257 ACRES: 4.26 PRICE: $539,000 LOCATION: 75 Janes Lane, Clifford Township, Pa. 18470 AGENT: Melissa Quinn LeStrange PHONE: (570) 650-6742 REALTOR: Realty Network Group

Commercial

Commercial

DALLAS TWP.

HUNLOCK CREEK

Convenient location for your business in high traffic area. MLS 13 645 $169,900 Jennifer Atherholt 903-5107

718-4959 Hanover Twp Parkway Plaza

Sans Souci Parkway Commercial Space For Lease 1,200 sq. ft. storefront starting at $700/ month. Plenty of parking. Central heat & air. Call 570-991-0706

Turn Key and come to this beautiful quiet area with a stream that runs between the properties. Great yard for sitting on the deck & watching nature all for a great price. This place has been remodel and updated. A great place to live. Do not let this house pass you by. This is by appointment only. 24 Hour notice. MLS# 13 2668 $82,000 Please call Pat Doty 394-6901

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696-2468

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Looking for a Place to do Business? A place to start Fresh? This Could Be Your Answer! Two homes, side–by-side; Includes a 3 bedroom home to live in, a store to work out of, an income generating apartment to rent, a two car garage, a product-prep area, and four walk-in coolers/ freezers to maintain product. Perfect for any small business where refrigeration is required. Quiet residential area in Hanover Section of Nanticoke. Priced Right! 301-642-3838 & ask for Russ.

MOUNTAIN TOP VACANT LAND 487-489 Mountain Top Blvd. Commercial property, Great traffic location on Rt. 309 between Church Rd. and Walden Park on R. MLS#13-3194. $80,000 Call Vieve 570-474-6307, ex. 2772

PITTSTON $99,900

PLAINS TWP. 29 Jay Drive 2 story, 4 bedroom, 2.5 baths, on half acre. Fenced yard with heated in ground pool. $250,000. 570-235-1624

BENTON

LUZERNE

SCRANTON INVESTMENT PROPERTIES FOR SALE $65,000 - $110,000 Five (5) investment buildings for sale throughout Scranton, each less than 5 minutes to the downtown area. Each building is priced at a reasonable rate, but can be negotiable. Please call 570-346-3328 or 570-336-8192 for more details and for an appointment to see the buildings.

95 Kelly Street Business Opportunity for this 5000 sq.ft. professional building in high traffic area. Unlimited potential. Includes offices and plenty of show room space. Ample Parking. Call Joe 570-574-5956

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Great investment property. On corner lot. Close to all major highways & conveniences. Bring all offers. 1 unit needs to be updated & you are all done. MLS #13-1983. $155,900 Call Pat Doty at 570-394-6901 or 696-2468

ColdwellBankerTown&Country

$174,000

BEST $1 SQ. FT. LEASES

YOUʼLL EVER SEE! WILKES-BARRE Warehouse, light manufacturing distribution. Gas heat, sprinklers, overhead doors, parking. We have 27,000 sq.ft., and 32,000 sq. ft. There is nothing this good!

REDUCED $99,900 43 Richmont Ave. Near Riverside Park. Motivated seller, make reasonable offer. 3 bedroom, 2 bath Cape Cod, central air, hardwood floor, above ground pool , fenced yard. www.atlasrealtyinc.com MLS 13-789 Tom Salvaggio 570-262-7716

VIEWMONT ACRES All this 2.8+ acre lot needs is your vision for your dream home. Located in a quiet country setting, this partially cleared lot has a great view of the mountains. Septic is already on site and ready for building. MLS #13-1705 Only $65,000 Call Barbara Metcalf 570-696-0883

570-696-3801

Sale or Lease

15EWallSt

12-1:30PM

ClassicProperties

$59,500

Plymouth

3WagnerLn

12-2PM

Lewith&FreemanRealEstate

$69,000

PITTSTON/NORTH&SURROUNDS 2-4PM

AtlasRealtyInc

$139,900

MOUNTAINTOP&SURROUNDS Lot1WoodberryDr

283-9100 DALLAS

DALLAS

Call Larry @ 570-696-4000 or 570-430-1565

Plymouth

Mountaintop

WILKES-BARRE 8 Mill St. (Parsons) **REDUCED** 3 bedroom, 2 bath home. Large yard with 2 tier deck. Spacious driveway, garage, and storage shed. Convenient location for shopping, casino, hospital, school bus stops. Asking $90,000 (NEG.) Call: 570-824-8665

TANNING SALON

KINGSTON/WESTSIDE&SURROUNDS

6BaldMountainRd

Thurs., 9/5 4pm-7pm Sun, 9/8 10am-3pm Well-maintained 2,450 sq. ft. home with 4 bedrooms, 1.75 baths, attached 2 car garage on 1.09 acre. Finished basement with laundry room. Hardwood floors and carpeting. New roof, Guardian backup generator, large wrap-around deck. Located on a quiet cul-de-sac with wooded surroundings. PRICED REDUCED! Asking $230,000 Call 570-357-8126

Houses For Sale

Established West Side tanning salon. Turn key business. Send letter of interest to P.O. Box 1652, Kingston, PA 18704.

1-3PM

4 Marilyn Drive

OPEN HOUSE

A RARE OPPORTUNITY 665 CREST AVE. Make your full or part-time home at beautiful LAKE GANOGA on top of Red Rock Mtn. Truly a gem! 112ʼ of lake frontage with dock. 2700+ sq. ft. of energy efficient living space with open floor plan, vaulted ceilings and great natural lighting. Expansive deck provides fabulous views of the lake. Four bedrooms, three plus baths, fireplace and more. Community beach, tennis courts, helipad and 2000 acres are all available to association member for hunting and fishing or just plain walking. Come see it! #13-1857 $599,000 Carole Poggi 283-9100 x19

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501BirchLn

37-39 & 45 Cliff St. Multi family, 5 units! Great investment opportunity.Duplex and 3 unit sold together. Plenty of off street parking. Directions: Traveling North on Main St., Pittston, R onto Chapel St., L onto Cliff. Property is on the right. www.atlasrealtyinc.com. MLS 13-2970 Keri Best - 570-885-5082

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OPEN HOUSES WhiteHaven

SHAVERTOWN

1-3PM

For Sale By Owner

BACK MOUNTIAN AREA

MOBILE HOME with addition on 4+ acres. 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, nice deck, enclosed heated sun porch. All appliances and washer & dryer included. Private peaceful setting. Located halfway between Dallas & Harveys Lake. $75,000. Must sell looking for offers. 570-499-4150 DALLAS For Sale By Owner 41 Pine Crest 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath ranch, Large living and family rooms, 2 car garage. Large lot on quiet street. $139,900. Call 570-675-0937 EXETER 39 Memorial Street Great location near schools, nice yard, 10 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 2 bath, gas heat, private driveway. Detached 2 car garage. Walk-up attic, full basement. As Is. $69,900. 570-474-0340

Lewith&FreemanRealEstate

BACKMOUNTAIN&SURROUNDS

ORANGEVILLE

GanogaLake/SullivanCo 564RickettsDr

12-1:30PM

Lewith&FreemanRealEstate

$269,900

Dallas

336CountryClubRd

2-3:30PM

Lewith&FreemanRealEstate

$214,900

Dallas

129OrchardEast

12-1:30PM

Lewith&FreemanRealEstate

$117,500

Dallas

11DakotaDr

1-2:30PM

Lewith&FreemanRealEstate

$279,000

1900's Farmhouse 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on twelve acres, with 5 stall run in and fenced pasture. Many up grades. Move in condition. $180,000 570-394-6835 PITTSTON 251 Broad Street 3 bedroom, 2 bath. Cape Cod Home. With many upgrades, finished basement, 2 fireplaces, sun room, pool and deck, 2 car garage. $176,500 570-883-0412

ASHLEY

8-10 E. Hartford Street Well cared for home/investment property. Move in ready. 2 spacious bedrooms on each side with additional 3rd floor living/storage space. Full basement, large backyard. Quiet area on dead end street. Pre-qualified Buyers /Principal Only $56,500 Call 570-287-2073 BEAR CREEK

Newberry Estate The Greens OPEN HOUSE Sun., August 18, 1-4 4,000 sq. ft. condo with view of ponds & golf course. Three bedrooms on 2 floors. 5 1/2 baths, 2 car garage & more. New Price $399,000. MLS# 12-1480

Besecker Realty 570-675-3611 DALLAS

Spaciously satisfying from the open kitchen/eating area, impressive. Fireplace in great room to an expanded family room, you will enjoy life more in this picturesque 4 bedroom in Laurel Brook Estates. MLS 13 1587 $372,000 Arlene Warunek 570-714-6112

570-696-1195

If you are looking for privacy yet close to everything this is the house. Situated on .93 acres the home has a newly remodeled kitchen and bath with granite counter tops. 24 hour notice to show owner occupied. MLS #13-3407 $184,900 Call Brenda Pugh 760-7999

JOSEPH P. GILROY REAL ESTATE 288-1444

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