Dayton Daily News back issues from February 2002:
DAILY PLAN-IT
Feb 01, 2002; ... GOING ON TODAY * BLACKONOMICS: Jim Clingman, author of Blackonomics, will offerworkshops on that topic as part of the second annual Dayton BlackBusiness Showcase at the Dayton Convention Center, 10:45 a.m. and2:15 p.m. Clingman will sign copies of his book at 12:30. Call ...
STUDENTS BUZZING ABOUT SCIENCE
Feb 01, 2002; ... Centerville to compete for National Science Bowl spot CENTERVILLE - It could be a student's worst nightmare. But 10Centerville High School students have volunteered to sit amid atangle of wires with lights flashing and buzzers sounding while ateacher barrages them with a series of ...
OTHER VOICES; H.B. 386 INCLUDES PRO-CONSUMER MEASURES
Feb 01, 2002; ... Editorial failed to credit positive items in predatory-lendingbill THE JAN. 25 EDITORIAL regarding House Bill 386 (`Predatory lendingbill scams public') did little to describe the significant pro-consumer changes that were made by the Ohio Senate, many of which areexactly what ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Feb 01, 2002 ... Memorial statue should honor truth, not just a photograph Re Leonard Pitts' Jan. 21 column, `Push for diversity withstatue's faces betrays all of us,' and the Jan. 28 letter `Alteringstatue is altering our history': It is my understanding that the New York firefighters ...
DAILY PLAN-IT
Feb 01, 2002; ... EVENTS PLANNER * POTTERY CLASS: Troy-Hayner Cultural Center, 301 W. Main St.,Troy, will offer a pottery class from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Sundays,beginning this week. Cost for the eight-week course is $67, plus an$8 supply fee. * LYLE, CROCODILE: The Gateway Arts Council presents the ...
BOUNTIFUL, ENDLESS WEALTH
Feb 01, 2002; ... STELLA MAYE MILLER WAS an impressive woman - a talented artist whohad a national reputation for restoring art. Mrs. Miller died a month ago on Dec. 30, at the age of 81 after alengthy illness. Her friend, Susan Danis Grossman of Dayton, was intouch to ask if a tribute would be ...
PEACE GROUP HOPES NONVIOLENCE GROWS
Feb 01, 2002; ... DAYTON - Wednesday marked the 54th anniversary of the murder ofIndian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi. April 4 will mark the 34th anniversary of the assassination ofcivil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. For the fifth year, the national A Season for ...
BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENTS
Feb 01, 2002 ... The following are some events scheduled through this weekend forBlack History Month, which begins today. * Interactive dance: Circle of Light Productions African DanceEnsemble will invite audience members to join in dancing and drummingat 11:30 a.m. today in the Kennedy Union ...
PINEWOOD LIGHTS UP BOYS' FACES
Feb 01, 2002; ... AH, THE SMELL OF SAWDUST in the morning. The taste of blood from that Exacto-knife nick. The pine fragrance of sanded wood. The "good tired" from staying up until 3 a.m. to perfect yourcreation. Put all these sensations together, and it can only mean one ...
LENDERS, CONSUMERS APPLY PRESSURE
Feb 01, 2002; ... Sorting out predatory solution not simple COLUMBUS - A political tug-of-war is beginning in the OhioStatehouse, on how to best regulate predatory lending, with thelending industry pulling state senators in one direction and consumergroups dragging them in another. For more ...
GERMANTOWN MAY LIMIT DRIVERS CELL-PHONE USE
Feb 01, 2002; ... Motorists could face fines if edict passes GERMANTOWN - Motorists will have to put their telephone calls onhold if members of Germantown Village Council approve an ordinancerestricting the use of mobile phones while driving in the MontgomeryCounty community. Councilman Terry ...
BUSH SETS ANTI-TERROR GUN ON TABLE
Feb 01, 2002; ... President wasn't speaking merely for effect; expect more U.S.action WHEN A DRAMATIST PLACES a gun on the table in the first act, theastute playgoer knows the weapon will be used before the drama ends. In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush warnedthree ...
MIAMI COUNTY DEATHS AND FUNERALS
Feb 01, 2002 ... PIQUA POLICE Wednesday * Theft of an unlocked vehicle at the Miami Valley Centre, 987 E.Ash St., was reported. TROY POLICE Wednesday * A 63-year-old Dayton woman was treated at Upper Valley MedicalCenter and released following a two-vehicle accident at ...
STANDARD REGISTER TOPS ESTIMATE
Feb 01, 2002; ... Company earns 51 cents per share in quarter DAYTON - Standard Register during the fourth quarter earned 51cents per diluted share excluding restructuring charges and exceededits own quarterly estimate by 6 cents, executives said Thursday. The Dayton-based company also reported ...
FOREIGN-POLICY GAP OBVIOUS IN SPEECH
Feb 01, 2002 ... PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH'S STATE of the Union speech didn't stirmuch controversy in this country. Many Americans came away from theirtelevisions saying he really hadn't said much. But it has stirredmultiple fusses abroad. At issue, mainly, is the president's treatment of Iraq, ...
REGIONAL HEADLINES
Feb 01, 2002; ... Man, 65, charged in lobby crash MASON - A man whose van crashed into the lobby of a retirementhome, killing a resident, was charged Thursday with vehicularhomicide. Sarah Josephson, 87, died Wednesday after she was struck by a vanthat crashed through plate glass doors at the ...
SPEAK UP
Feb 01, 2002 ... * Re the Jan. 29 State of the Union address: I noticed thepresident mentioned nations with weapons of mass destruction as beingIran, Iraq and North Korea. Once we wipe them out, I guess the onlynations left with weapons of mass destruction will be the UnitedStates, Israel and China. Boy, ...
TURNER GETS A LABEL-IN-WAITING
Feb 01, 2002; ... The congressional primary is a whole different sport from cityelections `MIKE TURNER'S CREDENTIALS as a conservative are absolutelyunassailable.' This assurance comes from Republican consultant JimNathanson, who is working for Turner in a pending Republicancongressional ...
JACKSON CENTER EQUIPMENT COMPANY SOLD
Feb 01, 2002; ... Worthington concern buys parts supplier JACKSON CENTER - Lacal Equipment Inc., a international supplier ofparts for highway maintenance equipment, has been acquired by thefounding family of Worthington Industries Inc. Lacal Equipment, 104 Washington St., and its parent ...
LAW SQUADS DESCEND ON DRUG SUSPECTS
Feb 01, 2002; ... Seven jailed, more expected, police say PIQUA - Police aggressively executed nine search warrants Thursdayafternoon across Piqua's south side, after a special Miami Countygrand jury indicted 23 people for drug trafficking. Seven were jailed by Thursday evening. The ...
REGIONAL HEADLINES
Feb 01, 2002; ... Three enter pleas in copper caper MUNCIE, Ind. - Three of four Piqua men accused of stealing copperwires that controlled safety devices along a stretch of CSX railwayin Indiana, have each pleaded guilty to a felony count of receivingstolen property. Joe Herford, 23, was ...
FLU BUG HAS PLENTY OF TIME TO BITE
Feb 01, 2002; ... Rising number of cases in past few weeks The season of colds, coughs, congestion and other flulike symptomsacross the nation has entered its final stretch, and there have beenrelatively few victims in the Miami Valley. But Bill Wharton, spokesman for the Combined Health ...
BRIEF CASE
Feb 01, 2002 ... BUSINESS NEWS AT A GLANCE American Eagle selects Teradata DAYTON - American Eagle Outfitters has selected Teradata, adivision of NCR Corp., to implement the company's first enterprise-wide data warehouse. This agreement will consolidate American Eagle'sdata, currently ...
MIDEAST NEWS SENDS MESSAGE
Feb 01, 2002 ... PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH DID NOT DIScuss the Middle East in hisState of the Union speech Tuesday night. Perhaps this is because it'sa difficult subject to address as confidently and purposefully as onecan address terrorism. This country has made progress against terrorism. It ...
EXPERTS PREDICT REBOUND
Feb 01, 2002; ... Fifth Third group sees profits rising MORAINE - The outlook for stocks is brightening as the recessioneases, but the next bull market won't arrive until corporate earningsregain muscle, according to experts at Fifth Third Bank InvestmentAdvisors. Business profits will rebound ...
SENATOR: ENRON HAMPERING INVESTIGATION
Feb 01, 2002; ... He says company withholding data WASHINGTON - Enron Corp. is hampering a Senate investigation intoits accounting practices by refusing to provide crucial informationabout the partnerships it created to mask debt, a senator leading theinquiry said Thursday. Enron officials ...
MIAMI LAB WORKER CHARGED IN CHILD PORN CASE
Feb 01, 2002; ... FBI helps apprehend New Paris man OXFORD - A 49-year-old laboratory equipment worker at MiamiUniversity was arrested Wednesday by FBI agents on a charge ofinterstate transportation of child pornography. FBI agents, assisted by Preble County sheriff's deputies, Oxfordpolice ...
AK REPORTS NET LOSS OF $76.4 MILLION
Feb 01, 2002; ... Operating profit spurs optimism MIDDLETOWN - AK Steel Corp. saw a net loss of $76.4 million, or 71cents per diluted share of common stock, in the fourth quarter of2001, the company reported Thursday. The Middletown-based steelmaker also reported a net loss of $92.4million or ...
FEARS MAY COST MOUND PROGRAM
Feb 01, 2002; ... Security issues concern DOE MIAMISBURG - Years from now, if a NASA spacecraft beams backpictures of Pluto from the edge of the solar system, nearly 4 billionmiles from the sun, a measure of credit will be due to Miami Valleyscientists and technicians. The question is whether ...
DT INDUSTRIES REPORTS LOSS OF $1.1 MILLION
Feb 01, 2002; ... Systems maker blames slow economy DAYTON - DT Industries Inc., a maker of production systems for avariety of industries, said on Thursday that it lost $1.1 millionduring its fiscal second quarter because of the slow U.S. economy. For the second quarter ended Dec. 23, ...
OHIO TO GET $34M IN BIOTERRORISM FUNDS
Feb 01, 2002; ... Grants to improve public health systems WASHINGTON - Within months, every state will get millions ofdollars to develop a bioterrorism plan and improve the readiness ofhospital systems to deal with attacks, the nation's top healthofficial said Thursday. Ohio is due to receive ...
DEATHS AND FUNERALS
Feb 01, 2002 ... BUTLER COUNTY * JANECEK, Helen M., 82, of Middletown, Tuesday at the WillowKnoll Retirement Community. Mass of Christian Burial 11 a.m.Saturday, Holy Family Parish, Holy Trinity Catholic Church. (Wilson-Schramm-Spaulding, Middletown) * WILCH, E. Gertrude, 100, of Monroe, ...
ELECTED OFFICIALS REPORT CAMPAIGN FINANCES TO COUNTY
Feb 01, 2002; ... Curran enters year with $44,000 and no Democratic challenger Montgomery County Commissioner Charles Curran, who is up for re-election this fall, enters the year with $44,000 in his campaigntreasury, according to campaign finance reports filed with the countyBoard of ...
FAITH-BASED OFFICE TO GET NEW LEADER
Feb 01, 2002; ... Floridian expected to be named today WASHINGTON - A former Florida political insider who once worked aslegal counsel to Mother Teresa will be named today to head the WhiteHouse Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Cox Newspapershas learned. President Bush will ...
EX-CHIEF DEPUTY TARGET OF PROBE
Feb 01, 2002; ... 20-year Greene veteran resigns after rumors XENIA - The former chief deputy of the Greene County Sheriff'sDepartment is the subject of a departmental investigation thatstarted after majors in the office heard rumors about Jeffrey DeVoeand a female deputy, Sheriff Jerry Erwin said ...
SCHOOL PLAN STILL IN FLUX
Feb 01, 2002; ... DAYTON - The future of Franklin Montessori School remained fuzzyfor parent group President Donna LaChance, even after listening toschool officials talk about it for two hours Thursday. "I don't think they know what they'll do yet," she said. "They'restill trying to assess what ...
DON'T GET TOO COMFORTABLE, RUMSFELD WARNS
Feb 01, 2002; ... U.S. could face attacks 'vastly more deadly' WASHINGTON - The United States faces the prospect of unexpectedattacks that could be "vastly more deadly" than those of Sept. 11,Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned Thursday. In a speech on transforming the military - a ...
OHIO FINES AMERITECH $8.5 MILLION
Feb 01, 2002; ... Investigation reveals more service problems COLUMBUS - The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio on Thursdayfined SBC Ameritech Ohio $8.5 million and ordered it to give $1.7million in customer credits as soon as possible. Ameritech must also make high-speed Internet service ...
REPORTS: REPUBLICANS' POCKETS PLUMP
Feb 01, 2002; ... COLUMBUS - As expected, Ohio Republicans flexed their fund-raising muscles Thursday with campaign finance reports that showedthem far ahead of the state's Democrats in campaign cash for thisyear's elections. The most dramatic gap emerged in the governor's race. RepublicanGov. Bob ...
2 TO JOIN ELECTIONS BOARD
Feb 01, 2002; ... Republicans Huffman, Adams to replace outgoing members TROY - Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell has appointedRepublicans Robert Huffman Sr. and Richard Adams to the Miami CountyBoard of Elections to replace two of four board members who resignedor aren't seeking ...
WWII PILOTS FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT
Feb 01, 2002; ... Vets team up again for WSU program FAIRBORN - Surrounded by his colleagues in a hotel reception hall,John Leahr stood in confusion as an unknown man walked toward him.His confusion grew as he felt the grip of a bear hug. "Who is this guy?" Leahr thought. It was Herb Heilbrun, a ...
TURNER BACKED FOR 3RD DISTRICT
Feb 01, 2002; ... GOP endorses ex-Dayton mayor DAYTON - Montgomery County Republicans overwhelmingly endorsedformer Dayton Mayor Mike Turner Thursday night as their choice to runin the newly crafted 3rd Congressional District. Turner defeated Centerville physician David Westbrock, 135 votesto ...
MOTHER TESTIFIES IN LAWSUIT AGAINST CITY
Feb 01, 2002; ... Woman says workers were negligent in '95 DAYTON - Bonnie Agee, of Lebanon, stands 4 feet 9, weighs 100pounds and wears size 2 children's shoes on one real foot and theother, a prosthesis. Thursday, before a Montgomery County Common Pleas jury, the 34-year-old mother of two ...
COUNTY CLEARS WAY FOR CONCORD ANNEXATION
Feb 01, 2002; ... Commissioners find proposal in order TROY - A bid to annex 59.5 acres from Concord Twp. to Troy wasapproved Thursday by Miami County commissioners, who said they heardconcerns about water problems in the area, but had no legal reason todeny the request. The attempt to annex ...
DAYTON'S MONTESSORI SCHOOL PLAN FUTURE STILL IN FLUX
Feb 01, 2002; ... DAYTON - The future of Franklin Montessori School remained fuzzyfor parent group president Donna LaChance, even after listening toschool officials talk about it for two hours Thursday. "I don't think they know what they'll do yet," she said. "They'restill trying to assess what ...
STRUMMING ALONG WITH SENIORS
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A FAMILY TRADITION
Feb 01, 2002; ... Covington's Jarod Meyer meets great expectations COVINGTON - With the clock winding down on his high schoolbasketball career, Covington High School senior Jarod Meyer wouldn'tmind taking the court against a particular opponent one last time. `He won't play me anymore,' a ...
ON A RUN
Feb 01, 2002; ... WEST CARROLLTON WRESTLER DAN WHITE IS 25-0 Joe Mitchell likes to support the members of his West CarrolltonHigh School wrestling team. So Mitchell, whose wife Beth coaches thePirates cross country team, ran the annual Turkey Trot 8K inMiamisburg on Thanksgiving morning with ...
GIRLS BASKETBALL; PEREZ'S DETERMINATION HELPING AVIATORS TAKE OFF
Feb 01, 2002; ... All Vandalia Butler senior wants for program is `respect' Simply put, Abbey Perez was tired of not winning. The Vandalia Butler High School senior - a four-year member of thegirls basketball team - endured three seasons of mediocre basketball,selfishness and no respect. Only ...
GIRLS BASKETBALL; JETS' SPITLER AIMS AT CAREER SCORING RECORD
Feb 01, 2002; ... With just three games to play, Franklin-Monroe junior point guardKatrina Spitler needs 40 points to break the Jets' career scoringmark of 1,079. Before the season ends Spitler will displace mentorErin Gray as the most prolific scorer in team history. And it was Gray who took the ...
HILDEBRAND LEAVING EATON WRESTLING
Feb 01, 2002; ... MANY ADJECTIVES describe Eaton High School wrestling coach LarryHildebrand. Gruff. Intimidating. Stout. But soft? On New Year's Eve, Hildebrand announced to his team that he wasgiving them the next day off. His wrestlers' tongues about hit the ...
GYMNASTICS; BORCHERS FLIPPED FOR GYMNASTICS AT EARLY AGE
Feb 01, 2002; ... Troy junior recently won all-around title against Xenia TROY - Jenna Borchers' reason for starting gymnastics was simpleenough - she and her sister, Cari, wanted to learn how to docartwheels. Borchers, now a junior at Troy High School, wishes thebars were just as easy. `I've ...
VARSITY SPEAKUP
Feb 01, 2002 ... Varsity Speak Up welcomes your comments. If you have a briefcomment about high school sports, call and make your point in 30seconds. No personal attacks. * Call: 463-4636, Ext. 2455. * E-mail: scott_halasz@coxohio.com * The lopsided coverage that the Dayton Daily ...
DIVING; 'CREEK'S NORRIS SHOWS POTENTIAL
Feb 01, 2002; ... BEAVERCREEK - If it wasn't an hour, it sure felt like it. Gazing at the water with mounting apprehension, Erin Norris wasmore than a little afraid, perhaps even petrified. "I spent an hour standing on the board trying to get up the nerveto do a reverse," the Beavercreek ...
BASKETBALL; BOYS TEAMS JOSTLE FOR TOURNEY SEEDS
Feb 01, 2002; ... Top squads already may be set before Saturday's draw The top seeds in all four divisions appear to locked in place evenbefore area boys high school basketball teams meet Saturday for thepostseason tournament draw. Springfield South (13-2) assured itself of the top spot ...
PREP NOTES-
Feb 01, 2002; ... * Carlisle: A 3-on-3 basketball tournament will be Sunday, March10 to benefit the Indians' baseball team. Each 18-and-over team willplay a minimum of six games in the round-robin format. Call DanTurner at (937) 746-4481. * Franklin: Wes tern Brown H.S. retired the wrestling ...
SIWO EASY TARGET FOR OPPOSITION
Feb 01, 2002; ... ROBERT SIWO WANTS TO set the record straight. The 5-foot-11 senior guard from Xenia High School readily admitshe's no robot on the basketball floor. He's got a flair and swaggerto his always creative, sometimes out-of-control game and a 30.3-point average - second best in the area ...
BEAVERCREEK'S WENTWORTH MEETS DEMANDS OF SWIMMING
Feb 01, 2002; ... BEAVERCREEK - Let's clarify something right now. Clarissa Wentworth - junior swimmer for Beavercreek High School -and Chrissy Wentworth - junior basketball and soccer player atBeavercreek - are not related. "We get asked that all the time," swimming mom Pam Wentworth ...
WAYNESVILLE PLEASED BY TEAMS' RANKINGS
Feb 01, 2002; ... WAYNESVILLE - Call Waynesville hoops heaven. The boys and girls basketball teams are threatening to turn WarrenCounty into Orange County. Spirits are soaring in this quaintcommunity (population 2,000) because for the first time both teamsare simultaneously ranked in the state top ...
WRESTLING; BROKEN ANKLE DOESN'T STOP LEBANON SENIOR BUSICK
Feb 01, 2002; ... LEBANON - Like the Little Engine That Could, Nate Busick thinks hecan. In September, the Lebanon High School senior broke his right ankleplaying soccer. The injury jeopardized his wrestling season and thehigh expectations that went with it. Instead of wondering how manymatches he ...
TROY, PIQUA FACE TOUGH PLAYOFF ROAD
Feb 01, 2002; ... A QUICK LOOK AT THE postseason trail for girls basketball teams inMiami County, from Division I to Division IV: * Division I: Dave McFeely has done a good job in his first yearas head coach at Troy. The Trojans are on their way to a possiblewinning season and the top half of the ...
TIDBITS; TIDBITS
Feb 01, 2002; ... * The annual hoopla over Mobil four- and five-star restaurantratings is over, and now it's time to scrutinize the book, which iswhere the lesser one-, two- and three-star ratings are revealed. The guide is as interesting for which restaurants are passed overas it is for the ...
RECORDINGS ON REVIEW
Feb 01, 2002; ... Pop Various artists `ALI' SOUNDTRACKInterscope The Ali soundtrack shifts too many gears to fit neatly in thecategory of R&B. That's not a bad thing, though. R. Kelly's The World's Greatest is as inspiring as the similar IBelieve I Can Fly, his ...
HOW TO RESURRECT A DIVA'S CAREER
Feb 01, 2002; ... Woe is Mariah. Carey was dropped last week from an estimated $80 million, five-album deal with Virgin Records, a subsidiary of struggling EMIRecords. The label will settle with her for $28 million. Poor dear. This caps a rough six months for the singer: She was ...
RECORDINGS ON REVIEW
Feb 01, 2002; ... Country Alan Jackson DRIVEArista Nashville Just in case you miss it the first time, a second recording ofAlan Jackson's hit Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)is included as a `bonus track' on Drive . Version 2 of the song wasrecorded live ...