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I spent some hours this week trying to prevent a deportation. I wasn’t successful. It happens, the law must be followed and sometimes the clock runs out. I get it, and I have mental calluses.
The immigration officer I dealt with in Philly was a truly decent man. He tried, while following the law, to be compassionate and dispassionate at the same time. He did his job, but showed immense respect to the poor fellow who is now a continent away.

AUG. 26, 2017 — Parents of preteens know the dismay that comes with this image: kids flopped on the couch for stretches of time, silent and mesmerized by smartphones. Maybe it’s Snapchat, maybe its Facebook or Instagram — but they scroll and scroll, oblivious to an outside world that beckons with all things tangible and sunny: a pool, a baseball diamond, a bike ride.

CRIDERSVILLE — The Equestrian Therapy Program is hosting a volunteer orientation and training session from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 9, at Fassett Farm, 22532 Grubb Bowsher Road.
Volunteers are needed to help students with disabilities learn to ride horses.

LIMA — The Shawnee Optimists will begin fall meetings at 12 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, at The Old Barn Out Back, 3175 W. Elm St., Lima.

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WAYNESFIELD — There will be a special blood drive in honor of Madison Buffenbarger from 12 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 31 at Waynesfield-Goshen High School, 500 N. Westminster St., Waynesfield.
Buffenbarger, a senior at the school, was accidentally struck by a moving vehicle in July, causing serious injuries, including a broken jaw, elbow and leg. She needed blood during her treatment.

WASHINGTON (AP) — So much for North Korea’s restraint. So much for President Donald Trump’s threats of “fire and fury.”
After Pyongyang’s highly provocative missile test over close American ally Japan, Trump offered a surprisingly subdued response Tuesday, pulling back from his administration’s recent suggestions of a dialogue with the communist country but also avoiding a repeat of his bombastic warnings earlier this month of a potential military confrontation.

LIMA — A jury of eight men and four women heard opening day testimony Tuesday afternoon in Allen County Common Pleas Court in the aggravated murder trial of Ross McWay, charged in the Jan. 15 strangulation death of Wendy Jeffers at her Lima residence.
Assistant Prosecutor Terri Kohlreiser told jurors the testimony they would hear in the coming days would prove that the 38-year-old McWay murdered Jeffers “with prior calculation and design” by strangling her at her residence at 1112 N. Main St.

LIMA — It is not as easy as it once was to find a parking space at Lima’s Joint Systems Manufacturing Center, and that is something U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, likes to see.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — With flag-waving optimism, President Donald Trump answered Harvey’s wrath Tuesday by offering in-person assurances to those in the storm zone that his administration will work tirelessly to help the region recover from the massive flooding and storm-inflicted destruction.
“We are going to get you back and operating immediately,” Trump told an impromptu crowd that gathered outside a Corpus Christi fire station about 30 miles from where the storm made landfall Friday.