Dayton Daily News back issues from December 2004:
MAC champ will face UConn in Motor City
Dec 01, 2004; ... If the Miami University football team defeats Toledo in the Mid-American Conference championship game on Thursday, the RedHawks won'thave to wait for their bowl selection. The championship game winner will face Connecticut in the MotorCity Bowl, played at Detroit's Ford Field -- ...
More transparency needed
Dec 01, 2004 ... I read with great despair the article, "Pledges required byHomeland Security," Nov. 18, about Homeland Security personnel. It has always been my belief that they were sworn to uphold theConstitution of the United States, not anything or anybody else. Back in the 1930s, a guy ...
Dunbar girls earn tight victory
Dec 01, 2004; ... Shawna Morrow and Lakeisha McLarty scored 13 points each to leadfive players in double figures as Dunbar edged visiting CincinnatiHughes, 61-57, in a Southwest Ohio Public League girls basketballgame Tuesday night. - Stivers 64, Cin. Shroder 34: Catherine Cain scored 20 ...
New I-75 interchange to open soon
Dec 01, 2004; ... VANDALIA -- The new Interstate 75 interchange at Benchwood Road inVandalia will open sometime next week, Vandalia City Manager JeffreyHoaglund said Monday. When the Benchwood interchange opens, the Little York Roadinterchange will close. The opening's exact date will be ...
Courts not place for marriage issue
Dec 01, 2004 ... AYEAR AGO, THE HIGHEST COURT IN MASSAchusetts ruled, 4-3, that thestate constitution required allowing gays to marry. This week, thehighest court in the country decided not to hear a challenge to thatdecision. In the intervening year, wow. The decision was the main spark ...
Greene health district to give flu shots to 200 children
Dec 01, 2004; ... XENIA -- Greene County's Combined Health District will give flushots to 200 children meeting high-risk criteria from 8 a.m. untilthe supply runs out on Tuesday. The children must be Greene County residents in one of thesecategories: - Infants from 6 through 23 months old ....
Network lets Ohio 'light the way' Fiber-optic system may transform state
Dec 01, 2004; ... FAIRBORN -- A powerful fiber-optic information network that allowsresearchers, professors and scientists throughout Ohio to worktogether as if their laboratories or classrooms were next door madeits debut Tuesday. State and federal officials unveiled the Third Frontier Network ...
Evangelicals known for compassion
Dec 01, 2004 ... P ERHAPS MAUREEN DOWD ("REVENGE OF THE nerd," Nov. 13) lives in acountry of her own fantasy. Surely she is not talking about theUnited States when she depicts it as a country now courting primitivism with theelection of George W. Bush. She accuses Bush of being ...
UD's Bennett plays through pain Junior coming of great game, but leg continues to be issue
Dec 01, 2004; ... CHICAGO -- Marcus Bennett was playing soccer at the age of 13 or14 when he suffered an injury that has come back to haunt him. "The goalie came out and grabbed the ball and my leg at the sametime," the University of Dayton basketball player remembers. "I fellover him and broke my ...
TIPS FOR BAKING HOLIDAY COOKIES
Dec 01, 2004; ... Before you start your Christmas baking, heed these tips: 1 Maybemost important: Go invest $5 in an oven thermometer. Oven thermostatsare notoriously unreliable, even when ovens are new, and problems getworse with time. Use the oven thermometer and make adjustments inyour temperature ...
State Senate thumbs nose at consumers
Dec 01, 2004 ... O HIO'S LEGISLATURE IS HAMMERING OUT DEtails of a bill that wouldradically change how civil lawsuits are handled. It's wrong to bemaking such important decisions at the last minute and in the dark ofnight. Less than 24 hours before an expected floor vote -- that ...
Premier doubts pact renewal with Anthem
Dec 01, 2004; ... DAYTON -- With a full-page newspaper ad and a letter to 275employers, Premier Health Partners called it "unlikely" Tuesday thata contract renewal with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield would keepPremier in Anthem's network after Dec. 31. "The proposal they presented us last week ...
Good Stuff
Dec 01, 2004; ... INNKEEPER/AUTHOR AT BOOKS & CO. Sherry McKenney, former Daytonian turned innkeeper, will be atBooks & Co. from 1 to 2 p.m. Sunday to autograph her newcookbook, A Taste of the Murphin Ridge Inn (Emmis, $20). Daytonians who have made their way to the charming getaway ...
Omega Baptist falters on church move, project Community center won't make deadline
Dec 01, 2004; ... DAYTON -- Omega Baptist Church apparently has put the brakes onits plans to move its sanctuary to the Old Dayton View neighborhood,where it was to help anchor a $40 million neighborhood redevelopmentproject. The church-affiliated Omega Community Development Corp. stillplans to ...
Reds grant Wilson's wish with a 2-year deal Pitcher agrees to contract worth $8.2 million
Dec 01, 2004; ... CINCINNATI -- If fans were permitted into baseball parks in theearly afternoon before night games, nearly every day they would see alonely figure on the field clad in shorts and a soaked T- shirt withthe sleeves cut off. He runs the circumference of the playing field, lap after ...
Salary cap may have put lid on Davis' career
Dec 01, 2004; ... There's no reason Butch Davis should have failed as an NFL headcoach. He had been the defensive coordinator of the Super Bowl-champion Dallas Cowboys. He turned around the University of Miamiprogram, making it safe for law-abiding citizens to play there again. But the NFL has ...
Horsmon builds UD volleyball
Dec 01, 2004; ... DAYTON -- Prior to the arrival of coach Tim Horsmon in January 2003, theUniversity of Dayton volleyball team had made the four-team Atlantic10 Conference tournament field in six of the previous eight yearswithout ever winning the championship that provides a berth in theNCAA ...
Tillman carries Beavers Creek senior scores 26, keys 24-2 run
Dec 01, 2004; ... BEAVERCREEK -- Springfield North was faced with two tasks Tuesday:stop Jerome Tillman and score some points. The Panthers didn't do agood job of either. Shooting 15 percent from the floor in the first half, North fellbehind 34-13 en route to a 74-44 loss at Beavercreek in the ...
Mock council debates smoking Harold Schnell students place clean-air act on imaginary ballot
Dec 02, 2004; ... MORAINE -- Clayton Sears, Moraine's 8-year-old mayor for a day --or at least 20 minutes -- had an easy answer as to why he supportedbanning smoking from the city's public areas. "So people can live longer and not get lung cancer," Clayton saidNov. 23 after he presided over the ...
Police review proposal draws fire Examination of West Milton policies unneeded, some say
Dec 02, 2004; ... WEST MILTON -- Mayor Don Hamann's Nov. 9 request that the villagecreate a police review committee has touched off heated debate. About a dozen angry residents showed up at a Nov. 23 meeting tovoice their support of the West Milton Police Department. Hamann asked for a ...
New fire training facility opens Room to be set ablaze repeatedly to teach skills
Dec 02, 2004; ... DAYTON -- This building's hot, hot, hot. The Dayton Fire Department plans to light a fire in the city'snewest building -- repeatedly. The department's new Burn Building located at the fire trainingcenter at 200 McFadden Drive will be used to train Daytonfirefighters, new ...
Water main repairs on tap in Trotwood
Dec 02, 2004; ... Water main repairs, seen here near Whispering Drive (top photo),are almost finished at Stubbs Drive and Trudy Avenue in Trotwood.Chester Banks, a maintenance technician with the Trotwood ...
New city manager settles into role Goals include boosting economy
Dec 02, 2004; ... VANDALIA -- Jeff Hoagland has huge shoes to fill. The last guy who had his job was more than 6 feet tall, with whatone city official described as "rather large feet." Hoagland, who took over as Vandalia city manager in early October,is following in the footsteps of Bruce ...
'Nutcracker' includes area kids
Dec 02, 2004; ... The holiday season wouldn't be complete without Dayton Ballet'sperformance of Nutcracker, and this year, some students from WarrenCounty are involved in the production. Maddie Collins, Grace Milligan and Ashley Blatchford, all ofLebanon, will be performing along with 70 other ...
District to seek bond issue Centerville officials: School enrollment projected to rise 10%,
Dec 02, 2004; ... CENTERVILLE -- Growth in the Centerville/Washington Twp. area willlikely increase school district enrollment 10 percent within years,school officials said last week, and the cost to upgrade facilitiesby 2009 to meet the demand will likely be $62 million. To that end, voters will ...
Kettering kicks of Christmas season Families brave cold, rainy night at Lincoln Park event
Dec 02, 2004; ... KETTERING -- Neither rain nor sleet nor snow nor dark of night candeter faithful parents from giving their children holiday memories. This was evident Saturday evening as scores of parents braved aforecast of cold rain to bring their children to the annual Ketteringholiday tree ...
MAC could land six in bowls Conference 8-2 in postseason since '97
Dec 02, 2004; ... When the Miami University football team hosted Toledo on Nov. 2,the presence of Silicon Valley Football Classic representativesseemed to ensure that the bowl intended to invite a Mid-AmericanConference team. At the time, many seemed shocked that the MAC -- alreadyguaranteed ...
New Ruhle: Reds calling for change-up Shift in philosophy might mean higher ERAs in Dayton
Dec 02, 2004; ... CINCINNATI -- A change in the Cincinnati Reds' philosophy is goingto be the change-up -- an extensive use of the pitch by every pitcherin the organization. Pitching and defense will be the focus when the Reds report tospring training in February, with emphasis on teaching the ...
Stakes high in rematch Miami faces Toledo in MAC title game tonight in Detroit
Dec 02, 2004; ... OXFORD -- All season, members of the Miami University footballteam have worn wristbands saying simply, "Defend what is ours." Thatphrase also stares out from computer screensavers in their meetingrooms. It's a reminder that the Red-Hawks are the defending Mid-AmericanConference ...
Three receive backing for judge Gov. Bob Taft to select Donovan's replacement
Dec 02, 2004; ... DAYTON -- The names of two former judicial candidates and thedaughter of a retiring judge will be forwarded to Gov. Bob Taft nextweek so he may select a replacement for Judge Mary E. Donovan whenshe takes a seat on the state court of appeals in February. Margaret Young, Jeffrey ...
Base defenders keep pushing A bit optimistic, but not arrogant
Dec 01, 2004; ... DAYTON -- Business leaders shaping the strategy to defend Wright-Patterson Air Force Base against a round of military base closuresare optimistic it could grow in the process. But the point man of the Dayton Development Coalition's Wright-Pat 2010 Team refused to downplay the ...
RTA panel challenges budget plan Projections, planning come under close review from committee
Dec 01, 2004; ... DAYTON -- RTA Executive Director Minnie Fells Johnson faced toughquestions from RTA board members Tuesday about budget issues andplanning for the Market Street bus staging area. Board members at a finance committee meeting said the GreaterDayton Regional Transit Authority should ...
Acts of kindness thrill all
Dec 01, 2004; ... With the frenzied holiday shopping season in full swing, theexperience can be a real adventure, and sometimes a challenge. Pat Barcelona of Fairborn experienced what she calls "Christmasshopping good fortune" when she stopped to make purchases at theBurlington Coat Factory, 2212 ...
Simply festive Holiday Cookie Contest winner dazzles judges with entry that tastes complex but is easy to make
Dec 01, 2004; ... When tasters scanned the holiday cookies that readers brought infor final judging of our annual Holiday Cookie Contest, more than onelooked at Donna Tinley's Coconut Cranberry Bars and jotted down theword "festive." When they tasted the cookie, other descriptions came to ...
FINDING THE RIGHT HOLIDAY 'DO Expect to see sophisticated upsweeps, sparkling brooches and soft curls
Dec 01, 2004; ... What's one of the easiest and least expensive ways to add drama toholiday dressing? Consider a festive hairstyle. "It changes the feeling for a special occasion," says DimitriKilavos of Dimitri's Hair Salon in Kettering. He believes people --especially now -- want to go ...
Bengals' ofense on a roll ... but here come the Ravens Cincy has three wins in four weeks but bad history in Baltimore
Dec 01, 2004; ... CINCINNATI -- Downright chatty after a 58-48 win over Cleveland,Cincinnati Bengals coach Marvin Lewis knows points will be harder tocome by this weekend. All those positives -- six offensive touchdowns, 504 total yards,253 rushing yards, 26 first downs and 7-of-11 third-down ...
Annual holiday cookie winners offer sweet treats Readers bake up a festive array of goodies
Dec 01, 2004; ... Michele Mazey has been baking for about five years, and in recentyears developed these chocolate cookies for her "chocoholic family."The double glaze of chocolate on the triple chocolate cookiespromises indulgence. While the two-step chocolate decoration takessome time, this year the ...
What an awful way to do politics The subject that used to be the most avoided is now most fought about
Dec 01, 2004; ... So now comes the political backlash against the evangelicals andall that, right? The Republicans have won a narrow presidential election. Manyobservers have attributed their victory to the fifth of thepopulation that is white and evangelical or born again. That fifthvotes ...
WSU wants another Ball State boost Last year's victory ended skid; this year, momentum at stake
Dec 01, 2004; ... FAIRBORN -- Mementos saved from a basketball game aren't alwayswhat you think they are. Somebody gave Wright State coach Paul Biancardi a basketball witha No. 1 painted on it last year after his Raiders beat Ball State 64-50 for his first victory as a college head coach ....
'Italy' rediscovered A lost painting by a prominent Cincinnati artist is the newest piece of art acquired by the Dayton Art Institute
Dec 01, 2004; ... Along-lost, recently rediscovered landscape by an important 19thcentury Cincinnati artist has become the newest big acquisition atthe Dayton Art Institute and one of its most expensive art purchases. DAI art handlers on Tuesday hung the 8-foot-by-6-foot Dream ofItaly, a dramatic ...
Speak Up: Brief comments
Dec 01, 2004 ... - How in the world can the Dayton Dragons baseball team raiseticket prices when it can't even give us a winning team? - It's about time stores starting banning the Salvation Armykettles. I don't like being made to feel guilty every time I goholiday shopping. - The extreme ...
RegionalHeadlines
Dec 01, 2004 ... MAN CONVICTED IN BEATING DEATH DAYTON -- A Montgomery County Common Pleas jury deliberated about50 minutes Tuesday before convicting a man of fatally beating anotherman in a fight May 23. Larry Neeley, 36, was found guilty of murder for causing the deathof David Reed, 56 ....
'Rules of war' an oxymoron
Dec 01, 2004 ... Let's get real, people. This is a war in Iraq. The talking heads on television, including some high-rankingmilitary people, keep talking about the "rules of war" and theinstructions that are given to our troops before an engagement. Whom are we fooling with such oxymorons? We ...
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FIRE DAMAGES MIAMI COUNTY BUSINESS
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Johnson should hold his tongue
Dec 01, 2004 ... Anyone who doubts Maurice Clarett's claims that college athletesreceive special treatment and do not have to do the required academicschool work should look no further than Chad Johnson of theCincinnati Bengals. It is obvious that Johnson does not know that a sentence is "agroup ...
4 accused of buying ingredients for meth
Dec 01, 2004; ... LEBANON -- Four Kentucky residents were in jail Tuesday, more than200 miles from home, charged with traveling to Warren County to buyingredients needed to make methamphetamine. Travis C. Hunt, 32, Joshua Phelps, 22, Wendy R. McIntosh, 25, andGayla F. Childers, 30, all of ...
Flyers go first, Channel 7 says; 'Rudolph' delayed
Dec 01, 2004; ... Basketball, apparently, is not a reindeer game. Forty years of traditional holiday television programming can'thold a candle to the dedication of WHIO-TV, Channel 7, to Universityof Dayton basketball, so Rudolph and his red nose will be preemptedtonight in favor of Brian Gregory's ...
Luke's being Luke for Miami
Dec 01, 2004; ... OXFORD -- Coach Terry Hoeppner said that around his Miami RedHawksfootball team they have a saying about Luke Clemens: "We just watch some of the things he does, shake our heads andsay, 'Yep, that's just Luke being Luke again.' " Being Luke means, time after time, ...
Notre Dame's move upsets local recruits
Dec 01, 2004; ... The ramifications of Tyrone Willingham's departure as Notre Damefootball coach reach the Miami Valley. Two Notre Dame defensive back recruits -- Chaminade-Julienne'sBrandon Harrison and Miamisburg's David Bruton -- had their futuresaffected. Both verbally committed to the Fighting ...
No mistake was made on Nov. 2
Dec 01, 2004 ... It's interesting that in a recent letter ("Election results raisedoubts," Nov. 23), a John Kerry supporter expressed doubts about theoutcome of the latest presidential election. It seems she wishes to discount more than 60 million votes cast inGeorge W. Bush's name and his ...
HIV testing free today at three sites in Dayton
Dec 01, 2004 ... DAYTON -- In observance of World AIDS Day, the AIDS ResourceCenter Ohio is offering free HIV testing at three sites today. More than one-third of all Americans with HIV do not know they areinfected . New technology has made testing easier, with results that are 99percent ...
Seen & Overheard
Dec 01, 2004; ... SAY WHAT? WHAT'S SO QUIRKY ABOUT NO RESERVATIONS OR CREDIT CARDS? We ran across a fun and possibly even useful travel book the otherday, Best Food in Town: The Restaurant Lover's Guide to Comfort Foodin the Midwest by Dawn Simonds (Emmis, $14.99). Ohio's in there, ofcourse, and ...
P&G seeks support to win approval to sell sex patch While FDA reviews drug, critics urge further study
Dec 01, 2004; ... WASHINGTON -- A federal scientific advisory panel will meetThursday to consider whether to recommend that a skin patch toenhance women's desire for sex should be licensed as a new drug. The Procter & Gamble Co., which is seeking approval of itsIntrinsa testosterone patch from the ...
Speak Up: Brief comments
Dec 02, 2004 ... - Re "Ridge quits as Security secretary," Dec. 1: Who shouldreplace Tom Ridge? Howdy Doody. He's got more charisma. - Why are Tom Ridge, Colin Powell and others allowed to quit theirjobs while we're at war, but soldiers are required to stay and fightafter their release date? ...
FCCLA students answer call to help troops
Dec 02, 2004; ... Phoning home during the holidays just got easier for localmilitary personnel on active duty thanks to members of the Family,Career and Community Leaders of America. In response to an FCCLA state project called FCCLA Recognizing theEndless Efforts of Dedicated Ohio Military -- ...
Genuine Auto Parts stores collect Toys for Toddlers
Dec 02, 2004; ... Toys for Toddlers is a gift-sharing program sponsored by AutoValue Parts Stores and Genuine Auto Parts. This is the fourthconsecutive year that Genuine Auto Parts has sponsored the local toydrive as part of the national Auto Value Parts stores program. "So often we forget there ...
Miamisburg holiday celebration set Dec. 11 Event to kick of with Parade of Lights
Dec 02, 2004; ... MIAMISBURG -- Miamisburg's annual holiday celebration will kickoff with the annual Parade of Lights at 5:45 p.m. Dec. 11 from thestaging area on Third Street. The parade will follow a route fromThird Street north to Linden Avenue, west on Linden to Main Street,north on Main to Central, ...
North Valley likes poetic license
Dec 02, 2004; ... It started out as a joke within the Baker family. Larry Baker ofCelina liked to tell jokes, so he got a personalized plate reading"TEL U 1." His wife, Ann, went along with "TEL ME 1." Son Rick ofGreenville replied with "HEARD IT." The Bakers are far from alone, asshown by the collection ...
'Christmas Carol' performance slated Dec. 9-11
Dec 02, 2004; ... DAYTON -- The Sinclair Community College Children's Theatre willpresent A Christmas Carol Dec. 9-11. Charles Dickens' classic novel has been adapted by KathleenColligan Cleary, Sinclair's theater and dance department chairperson,and faculty member Brian McKnight. The ...
Library to hold fiction writing contest Winning stories to be published in magazine
Dec 02, 2004; ... DAYTON ---- Young fiction writers in the Dayton area now have anopportunity to have their work published. The Dayton Metro Library and Mudrock Press are sponsoring afiction writing contest for students in sixth through 12th grades inMontgomery County. Winners in two age ...
Christmas Home Tour rejuvenated Lewisburg friends offer tour of their historic homes
Dec 02, 2004; ... LEWISBURG -- It has been a few years since Lewisburg had aChristmas home tour, so six friends and their families who live inhistoric homes got together to make it happen again. "We decided to do something for Christmas and to give back to thecommunity," said Judy Cahill of Judy's ...
Landowners eligible for free tree seedlings
Dec 02, 2004; ... Landowners in Ohio's 49 southern counties who agree to plant atleast 5 acres of white pine trees can obtain the seedlings at nocharge as part of a cooperative effort of the Ohio Department ofNatural Resources Division of Forestry and the Ohio operations ofMeadWestvaco. "A 5-acre ...
Dayton resident promoted at Edison Assistant professor teaches technology courses
Dec 02, 2004; ... Five Edison Community College faculty members earned promotionsthis semester. - Leslie A. Spivey of Dayton is an assistant professor of computerinformation technology. Spivey has taught numerous courses in computer informationtechnology since 1999. They include personal ...
Variety of holiday events on tap
Dec 02, 2004; ... Thanksgiving is over, which means we're a week into the holidayseason -- and there are plenty of happenings about town to putresidents of any age into the holiday mood. Several seasonal events will occur this weekend and next. One of those activities is Historical South ...