PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Sergio Garcia ended the longest victory drought of his career Sunday by making a clutch par putt to force a playoff and hitting the island green 17th on the first extra hole to defeat Paul Goydos in The Players Championship.
It was the first time The Players had gone to a playoff in 21 years, and the first time it started on the most notorious par 3 in golf.
Goydos, the first player to hit into the water when the tournament began Thursday, was the last to find the water at the worst time. His wedge came up short, and Garcia hit his shot on dry land and watched it roll to 4 feet.
He missed the birdie putt, but this time it didn’t matter.
YOUNGSTOWN —Social Action Republica will sponsor its second annual 10 Miles to Cure Thirst race Saturday in downtown Youngstown.
The race will begin at the USA Parking Lot on Commerce Street next to the BW3 restaurant.
The race is designed to raise awareness and funds to build and repair water wells in Africa.
Registration is at 8 a.m., and the race begins at 9 a.m. The cost is $25. Walkers will travel a five-mile loop downtown. Runners will travel the loop twice.
Ten miles is the distance many people must travel in Africa to get clean water, race organizers say.
The cost of building a well is between $5,000 to $10,000, they added.
Social Action Republica is a local non-profit organization and a humanitarian arm of Youngstown Metro Church.
Social Action Republica’s members say they hope to raise enough to build a well when they travel to Liberia in July.
MERCER, Pa. — The Mercer County Vietnam Era Veterans Association will sponsor its 13th annual “Remembrance and Reflections” Memorial Ceremony at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Mercer County Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The event is designed to honor county service members who were killed or are missing from the Vietnam era.
Friends and family of the deceased may attend and be part of the ceremony. This year it will include those service members from the county who died in the war against terrorism.
During the ceremony, each name will be called and a rose will be placed at the memorial on the east side of the Mercer County Courthouse.
The main speaker will be Gary Solander, a retired U.S. Army Coronel who is the Mercer County Director of Veterans Affairs.
CLEVELAND — Today’s Toronto Blue Jays-Cleveland Indians game was postponed by rain and will be made up in a doubleheader on Monday.
Sunday’s scheduled starters, Toronto’s A.J. Burnett and Cleveland’s Fausto Carmona, are scheduled to pitch in the first game beginning at 4:05 p.m. Indians left-hander Cliff Lee, off to an impressive start this season, will face Shaun Marcum in the nightcap.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Atlanta Braves and Pittsburgh Pirates will play a doubleheader Monday after their game Sunday was postponed by rain.
The doubleheader will begin at 12:35 p.m. Jair Jurrjens will start the first game for Atlanta against Zach Duke, and Pittsburgh’s John Van Benschoten will face Tim Hudson in the nightcap.
Duke and Jurrjens had been the scheduled starters Sunday.
The game was called after a delay of 40 minutes. Light rain in the morning developed into a thunderstorm just before the scheduled 1:35 p.m. start. The tarp was never taken off the field.
MESOPOTAMIA (AP) — In a quiet gas-lit farmhouse on a frosty spring morning, two girls in bonnets and long blue dresses wind tape around expired bottles of Newman’s Own salad dressing, and wipe dust off dented cans of vegetables and crumpled boxes of Butterfinger candy bars.
They are picking through the leftovers from America’s supermarkets.
Amish-run salvage stores, a thriving discount industry tucked away in America’s farmlands, sells expired food and medicine dirt-cheap. This shadow economy, run by people who typically shun modern methods of commerce, is drawing a steady stream of non-Amish customers seeking relief from the country’s financial ills.
“We have anything from a Mercedes in our parking lots down to horse and buggies,” said Ray Marvin, general manager of B.B.’s Grocery Outlet, an Amish-owned salvage store chain in Quarryville, Pa.
The customers are after prices resembling those of old-fashioned nickel-and-dime stores — paper towels for 50 cents a roll, salad dressing for 10 cents a bottle.
Some close-out stores also stock their shelves with salvage but primarily sell bulk wholesale and overstocked goods at discounted prices.
“We’ve been amazed, how good we’ve done,” says Rebecca Miller, an Amish woman who opened N&R Salvage with her husband last year on the outskirts of Mesopotamia in Trumbull County. The couple has never taken out an advertisement, she says, but the customers keep coming.
NILES—Three residents have applied for the 1st Ward council seat vacated by the resignation last month of Lee Smith, including former 1st Ward representative David Wilkerson.
Wilkerson, 45, Morris Place, had been appointed to the position by the Democratic precinct committee in January 2007 to fill the vacancy after Frank Fuda was elected Trumbull County Commissioner. However, Wilkerson’s attempt to run for a full two-year term in the May 2007 primary ended when the Trumbull County Board of Elections determined that he had failed to complete circulation statements on his candidacy forms.
Wilkerson, a construction company foreman, later tried to run as an independent write-in candidate but was disqualified by the board, a decision upheld by the 11th District Court of Appeals.
Smith subsequently won the council seat over two other write-in candidates, but resigned after only four months in office citing “very personal and private circumstances.”
The other two candidates are Brenda Claypool, Lawnview Avenue and Thomas Connelly, Gypsy Lane.
Read the full story Monday in The Vindicator and on Vindy.com.
CANFIELD — The Canfield Harness Horsemen’s Association is sponsoring a matinee horse show at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Canfield Fairgrounds.
Horses participating in this event will be either young horses preparing to race at county fairs in Ohio and Pennsylvania or older horses that will be qualifying to race at either Northfield Park or the Meadows racetracks.
A matinee is similar to a scrimmage in sports. This event features free admission to the fairgrounds and grandstand. There is no wagering at this event.
This is an opportunity for the public to watch the behind-the-scenes action as local horsemen prepare their horses to race, according to an association press release.
At the tracks, a license given by the state is required to be in areas that for a matinee are open to spectators.
The horse racing industry in Ohio employs more than 20,000 people and continues to add almost a billion dollars a year to Ohio’s economy.
Many of these horses also will be racing at the Columbiana County Fair in Lisbon and the Canfield Fair here.
Membership to the CHHA is available for $10 a year to anyone with an interest in horses.
YOUNGSTOWN — Lindsey Cerutti was sitting under a tree at Youngstown State University sipping some lemonade at the annual arts festival when she noticed a nearby booth with a sign that said, “Save Darfur.”
Getting some fresh lemonade was the only reason she and a friend came to the festival, but she said she left with an entirely different focus.
She decided to check out the Darfur booth, and what she found had a profound impact on her, so much so that it prompted her to form a YSU chapter of Students Take Action Now: Darfur, or STAND.
Cerutti, 25, now a sophomore social work major from Cleveland, said she bought a wristband at the booth and picked up some information sheets but didn’t read them until she got back to her apartment.
She had heard about the genocide going on in the Darfur region of Sudan in Africa but didn’t realize the extent of the killing until she began reading the information.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, including children who were raped and thrown into fires, she said.
It’s been going on for four years, she said, adding, “That’s the part that angers and frustrates me the most.”
“These people have no kind of voice,” Cerutti said, adding that their own government hasn’t helped them.
Read the full story Monday in The Vindicator and on Vindy.com.
Benjamin Ajak, one of the “lost boys” of Darfur, will speak on his experiences at 7 p.m. Monday in Ford Theatre at Bliss Hall at Youngstown State University.
He is the author of “They Poured Fire On Us From the Sky” which tells of his childhood in western Sudan. He and his relatives walked across the Sudan to a refugee camp in Kenya.
The event is sponsored by the Global Action and Awareness Club of Liberty High School.
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Garcia wins TPC in a playoff
May 11th, 2008 8:27 p.m.
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Sergio Garcia ended the longest victory drought of his career Sunday by making a clutch par putt to force a playoff and hitting the island green 17th on the first extra hole to defeat Paul Goydos in The Players Championship.
It was the first time The Players had gone to a playoff in 21 years, and the first time it started on the most notorious par 3 in golf.
Goydos, the first player to hit into the water when the tournament began Thursday, was the last to find the water at the worst time. His wedge came up short, and Garcia hit his shot on dry land and watched it roll to 4 feet.
He missed the birdie putt, but this time it didn’t matter.
10-mile race to benefit water supplies for Africa
May 11th, 2008 6:43 p.m.
YOUNGSTOWN —Social Action Republica will sponsor its second annual 10 Miles to Cure Thirst race Saturday in downtown Youngstown.
The race will begin at the USA Parking Lot on Commerce Street next to the BW3 restaurant.
The race is designed to raise awareness and funds to build and repair water wells in Africa.
Registration is at 8 a.m., and the race begins at 9 a.m. The cost is $25. Walkers will travel a five-mile loop downtown. Runners will travel the loop twice.
Ten miles is the distance many people must travel in Africa to get clean water, race organizers say.
The cost of building a well is between $5,000 to $10,000, they added.
Social Action Republica is a local non-profit organization and a humanitarian arm of Youngstown Metro Church.
Social Action Republica’s members say they hope to raise enough to build a well when they travel to Liberia in July.
Mercer ceremony to honor vets from Vietnam, terror wars
May 11th, 2008 6:41 p.m.
MERCER, Pa. — The Mercer County Vietnam Era Veterans Association will sponsor its 13th annual “Remembrance and Reflections” Memorial Ceremony at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Mercer County Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The event is designed to honor county service members who were killed or are missing from the Vietnam era.
Friends and family of the deceased may attend and be part of the ceremony. This year it will include those service members from the county who died in the war against terrorism.
During the ceremony, each name will be called and a rose will be placed at the memorial on the east side of the Mercer County Courthouse.
The main speaker will be Gary Solander, a retired U.S. Army Coronel who is the Mercer County Director of Veterans Affairs.
Blue Jays-Indians game rained out
May 11th, 2008 4:48 p.m.
Blue Jays-Indians game rained out
CLEVELAND — Today’s Toronto Blue Jays-Cleveland Indians game was postponed by rain and will be made up in a doubleheader on Monday.
Sunday’s scheduled starters, Toronto’s A.J. Burnett and Cleveland’s Fausto Carmona, are scheduled to pitch in the first game beginning at 4:05 p.m. Indians left-hander Cliff Lee, off to an impressive start this season, will face Shaun Marcum in the nightcap.
Braves-Pirates game rained out
May 11th, 2008 4:45 p.m.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Atlanta Braves and Pittsburgh Pirates will play a doubleheader Monday after their game Sunday was postponed by rain.
The doubleheader will begin at 12:35 p.m. Jair Jurrjens will start the first game for Atlanta against Zach Duke, and Pittsburgh’s John Van Benschoten will face Tim Hudson in the nightcap.
Duke and Jurrjens had been the scheduled starters Sunday.
The game was called after a delay of 40 minutes. Light rain in the morning developed into a thunderstorm just before the scheduled 1:35 p.m. start. The tarp was never taken off the field.
Amish salvage store in Trumbull County thrives
May 11th, 2008 3:29 p.m.
MESOPOTAMIA (AP) — In a quiet gas-lit farmhouse on a frosty spring morning, two girls in bonnets and long blue dresses wind tape around expired bottles of Newman’s Own salad dressing, and wipe dust off dented cans of vegetables and crumpled boxes of Butterfinger candy bars.
They are picking through the leftovers from America’s supermarkets.
Amish-run salvage stores, a thriving discount industry tucked away in America’s farmlands, sells expired food and medicine dirt-cheap. This shadow economy, run by people who typically shun modern methods of commerce, is drawing a steady stream of non-Amish customers seeking relief from the country’s financial ills.
“We have anything from a Mercedes in our parking lots down to horse and buggies,” said Ray Marvin, general manager of B.B.’s Grocery Outlet, an Amish-owned salvage store chain in Quarryville, Pa.
The customers are after prices resembling those of old-fashioned nickel-and-dime stores — paper towels for 50 cents a roll, salad dressing for 10 cents a bottle.
Some close-out stores also stock their shelves with salvage but primarily sell bulk wholesale and overstocked goods at discounted prices.
“We’ve been amazed, how good we’ve done,” says Rebecca Miller, an Amish woman who opened N&R Salvage with her husband last year on the outskirts of Mesopotamia in Trumbull County. The couple has never taken out an advertisement, she says, but the customers keep coming.
Three seek 1st Ward council seat in Niles
May 11th, 2008 3:19 p.m.
NILES—Three residents have applied for the 1st Ward council seat vacated by the resignation last month of Lee Smith, including former 1st Ward representative David Wilkerson.
Wilkerson, 45, Morris Place, had been appointed to the position by the Democratic precinct committee in January 2007 to fill the vacancy after Frank Fuda was elected Trumbull County Commissioner. However, Wilkerson’s attempt to run for a full two-year term in the May 2007 primary ended when the Trumbull County Board of Elections determined that he had failed to complete circulation statements on his candidacy forms.
Wilkerson, a construction company foreman, later tried to run as an independent write-in candidate but was disqualified by the board, a decision upheld by the 11th District Court of Appeals.
Smith subsequently won the council seat over two other write-in candidates, but resigned after only four months in office citing “very personal and private circumstances.”
The other two candidates are Brenda Claypool, Lawnview Avenue and Thomas Connelly, Gypsy Lane.
Read the full story Monday in The Vindicator and on Vindy.com.
Matinee horse show set at Canfield Fairgrounds
May 11th, 2008 3:16 p.m.
CANFIELD — The Canfield Harness Horsemen’s Association is sponsoring a matinee horse show at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Canfield Fairgrounds.
Horses participating in this event will be either young horses preparing to race at county fairs in Ohio and Pennsylvania or older horses that will be qualifying to race at either Northfield Park or the Meadows racetracks.
A matinee is similar to a scrimmage in sports. This event features free admission to the fairgrounds and grandstand. There is no wagering at this event.
This is an opportunity for the public to watch the behind-the-scenes action as local horsemen prepare their horses to race, according to an association press release.
At the tracks, a license given by the state is required to be in areas that for a matinee are open to spectators.
The horse racing industry in Ohio employs more than 20,000 people and continues to add almost a billion dollars a year to Ohio’s economy.
Many of these horses also will be racing at the Columbiana County Fair in Lisbon and the Canfield Fair here.
Membership to the CHHA is available for $10 a year to anyone with an interest in horses.
Summer lemonade leads YSU student to Darfur activism
May 11th, 2008 3:11 p.m.
YOUNGSTOWN — Lindsey Cerutti was sitting under a tree at Youngstown State University sipping some lemonade at the annual arts festival when she noticed a nearby booth with a sign that said, “Save Darfur.”
Getting some fresh lemonade was the only reason she and a friend came to the festival, but she said she left with an entirely different focus.
She decided to check out the Darfur booth, and what she found had a profound impact on her, so much so that it prompted her to form a YSU chapter of Students Take Action Now: Darfur, or STAND.
Cerutti, 25, now a sophomore social work major from Cleveland, said she bought a wristband at the booth and picked up some information sheets but didn’t read them until she got back to her apartment.
She had heard about the genocide going on in the Darfur region of Sudan in Africa but didn’t realize the extent of the killing until she began reading the information.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, including children who were raped and thrown into fires, she said.
It’s been going on for four years, she said, adding, “That’s the part that angers and frustrates me the most.”
“These people have no kind of voice,” Cerutti said, adding that their own government hasn’t helped them.
Read the full story Monday in The Vindicator and on Vindy.com.
‘Lost boy’ refugee of Darfur to speak at YSU
May 11th, 2008 3:04 p.m.
Benjamin Ajak, one of the “lost boys” of Darfur, will speak on his experiences at 7 p.m. Monday in Ford Theatre at Bliss Hall at Youngstown State University.
He is the author of “They Poured Fire On Us From the Sky” which tells of his childhood in western Sudan. He and his relatives walked across the Sudan to a refugee camp in Kenya.
The event is sponsored by the Global Action and Awareness Club of Liberty High School.