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4Springboro Sun,Thursday, February 16, 2012Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. - The First Amendment to the United States ConstitutionOPINION ‘Quote’Pancake breakfast with strings attacheds he Springboro Optimist Club started a strings program in Spring

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Springboro Sun,

Thursday, February 16, 2012
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. - The First Amendment to the United States Constitution

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Pancake breakfast with strings attached
s he Springboro Optimist Club started a strings program in Springboro back in 2002. Twenty five students enrolled in the first Suzuki program. Over the years the strings program grew to over 367 students until school funding a few years ago was cut for the arts and strings was grandfathered out of the elementary grades. Fortunately “That Music Place” owned by Sheila Lairson picked up the pieces and began offering reasonably priced group instructions for the elementary students. A full orchestra in the Jr. High and High School now exists and is growing bigger and better every year. We, the Optimists continue to provide funding for instruments to assist the continuation of this valuable asset. On Saturday, March 10th 2012 we will sponsor a pancake breakfast with all the pancakes you can eat, bacon, butter, syrup, orange juice, and coffee at Max & Ermas on the corner of N. Main St., and Lytle Five Points here in Springboro. There will be two seatings, 7:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. with no one seated after 9:30. The cost per person is $6 with children 2 to 6 $4 and under 2 free. One Hundred Percent of the proceeds will benefit the Springboro Strings Program. Tickets at the door will be $8 and $4. Breakfast entertainment will be provided by the “Springboro Strings” with a five minute set each half hour. Servers will be Optimists, SHS strings students, and parents. A tip jar will be available with all proceeds benefiting the strings program. You can purchase tickets from any member of the strings program or thru the Springboro Optimist Club by emailing me Don Wright at: [email protected] or calling 937-305-3400 I will see

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‘ve never been more normal than I am now. - Adele COMMENTARY

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MERGE WRIGHT By Don Wright
Times Columnist
that you get your tickets immediately or arrange for pickup at a business in the historic district. The First Annual Springboro Optimist Club Pancake Breakfast with Strings Attached…March 24, 2012 put it on your calendar right now and make the call. The March/April edition of “45066” the TV news magazine of Springboro is filming this week to begin airing two weeks from today. In this new edition we meet Maverick Morgan the 6’7” Panther basketball player, meet three strings students and listen to a short violin performance. We check in with the Coffman Y for April/May programs, talk with Lisa at the Library, get the summer scoop for Heatherwoode, talk to Steve Rudisell, VP of the Springboro LaCrosse Club, visit the new GAC Fitness facility on SR 73, check out the green house and flower sale coming up at Warren County Career Center and visit with Roger Hendricks, Pastor of SW Church and tour their new facility that just opened last weekend. Mayor Agenbroad also visits with Terry Baver the former editor of the Springboro Star Press and Springboro Sun who was involved in our community for over three decades. The show will air on Time Warner channel six in the Dayton south viewing area and be available on the internet for streaming anywhere in the world by visiting the Miami Valley Communications Council website: www.mvcc.net Click on

By William H. Wild
Times Columnist

The Affordable Care Act is just the tip of the iceberg
s liberty of any sort, especially religious, any safer now that President Obama has decreed a compromise? Any fair-minded evaluation of the situation suggests that it is not. The problem is not just in the so-called compromise that would allow employees of religion-associated hospitals, charities and schools to receive contraception devices and services “free” from the insurance companies. They aren’t free, and the cost will be built into the policies paid for by the institutions. This is the same governmental edict merely packaged a bit more attractively. The goal of this part of the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) is to make this part of health care services available to everyone without exception and someone, somewhere will be required to pay for it. It is actually part of what a majority of Americans found most objectionable: Everyone will be forced to buy insurance to cover all health costs, or face heavy fines. Perhaps the administration hoped the issue of “women’s rights” would camouflage what actually is a huge outreach of government power. Yet if this power play could succeed, what aspect of our lives could not be likewise invaded? You may have noticed the recent effort to mandate what work children can do on farms. The outcry over this has resulted in a proposal to allow a “parental exemption,” whatever that may mean. It most likely is bureaucratese for “we’ll decide.” The Environmental Protection Agency is famous for its expansive interpretations of rather vague Congressional acts. The result has been attacks on property rights that have long been the foundation (we thought) of our way of life. The Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) is in the forefront of the fight against these abuses. PLF has pending before the U.S. Supreme Court Sackett v.U.S. Environmental Protection Agency which finds an Idaho couple facing up to $40 million in federal fines for starting to build a house in an already subdivided residential neighborhood. They had a county permit to build, started, and then found the EPA telling them they were on a wetland and had to stop. They were told every day they failed to comply with the EPA meant a heavy fine unless they began a series of appeals within the bureaucracy costing more than $250,000. PLF’s pro bono representation is the only hope for their home site now. Religious leaders have now discovered the same heavy hand of government on them. One wonders where their voices were when loggers in Oregon were thrown out of work by EPA edict or ranchers lost their livelihoods along with grazing rights. And the list could go on. It was partly in reaction to all of this that brought the Tea Party folks into the streets. It explains the appeal of Libertarians such as Ron Paul. But there should be a broad bipartisan agreement that big government’s actions such as the contraception mandate are not single issues. They are symptoms of what could eventually be a smothering envelope of quite arbitrary power. We shouldn’t let any fig leaf of “compromise” mislead us. *** William Wild retired from Cox Publishing editorial writing in 1990. He is among those concerned about the public’s appetite for government intervention – as long as it is intervening against someone else.

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archived streaming near the bottom of the page on the right, select Springboro and follow the instructions. Our next edition after this will be the first show of our 11th year having started with the May/June edition in 2002. Pop star Beyonce and her husband Jay Z named their new daughter Blue Ivy. That’s awesome. The kid is destined to stardom. Super star parents, a name like no other screams mega hit offspring. I’m willing to guess that five years from this summer after seeing thousands of pictures of Blue Ivy growing from baby to 5 year old, tens of thousands of kindergarteners will register with the name Blue Ivy. Sean Connery as Agent 007 back in

the sixties produced the millions of Sean’s that we know today. Will other stars follow suit? What names will they select to be different? Here’s my spin on a few names that may come to be in the next few years. Pineapple Lilly, Partridge Pea, Pink Primrose, Ruby Begonia, Mountain Laurel and for the boys Geranium George, Snap Dragon Willie, Timmy Thistle , Peony Pete, and Billy Begonia. I’m picking Snap Dragon to be a lineman for the Bengals and Timmy Thistle to front his own rock band, Mountain Laurel to be selected as the most beautiful model ever, while Pineapple Lilly becomes Governor of California.

Help us make your Sun an even better newspaper
s your weekly newspaper, we at the Springboro Sun hope that we can deliver to you the product that you want. We work hard to do that, but there are times when we need your help, too. Feel free to contact us about an engagement or upcoming wedding, an anniversary, birth or other celebrations that you want to share. Our website (www.springborosun.com) has a forms section where you can simply fill in the blanks and electronically send it on to us, or you can send it directly to me at [email protected]. And don’t forget to add that special photo to make the announcement even more of a cele-

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FROM THE EDITOR
By Doug Skinner
Sun Editor
bration. Schools can also send us their calendar so we can publicize each event in print and online and also try to get a photographer out there to take some shots for the newspaper. Speaking of schools, we’re always looking for those lists of honor rolls, dean’s lists and grad

lists. Send them along! Same thing goes for those social clubs like the Kiwanis, Optimists and Rotary. We know you have speakers at your weekly meetings. Send us a shot and brief write-up and we’ll get it in the paper for you. This also goes for Scout troops. We also take pride when a young person from our communities earns Eagle Scout or the Girl Scout Gold Award. We also want the rest of the community to know, too. Sports teams are also invited to send along their results. Most of the time, we ask that one specific person sends it for the team so we don’t get three copies of results from the same game. We want to

run your results, but not necessarily the same result three times. We’re also looking for other general news items you may have — work promotions, fundraisers, church events or anything else you feel is newsworthy. You send it and we’ll try to find a spot for it in our — YOUR — Springboro Sun. If you’d like to submit, email to [email protected], fax to 294-2981, or “snail mail” it to Doug Skinner, Springboro Sun, 3120-A Woodman Dr., Kettering, OH 45420. I can also be reached by phone at 290-7155. So help us deliver that product you want to see each week. This is your city, your life, your newspaper.

How many DUI breaks do we get? COMMENTARY W By Mike Scinto
e all want to believe we’ll get a fair shake if we ever have to go to court. The lawyers who represent us are there to ensure that. In that process, from time to time a plea bargain comes into play. A speeding ticket issued for 70 mph in a 55 mph zone might be bargained down to 65 mph to save a large portion of the fine. A stop sign violation might be bargained down to a “no points” conviction on your driving record. I have absolutely no problem with that. It keeps the cost down on prosecutions and saves a jury trial which can be costly and timely. What I don’t get are the cases we have all seen in the news. A driver, under the influence, swerves left of center causing a crash that severely injures innocent victims. Then the rest of the story comes out. This clown has seven previous DUI convictions, is driving under a suspended license and has no insurance. Why in the world is this joker not in prison? As I was going over my usual out-of-town papers preparing for

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a show a while back, I saw one case (not in Ohio) where this was the offenders 11th DUI and 23rd moving violation in 10 years. Why isn’t he getting his three squares and a cot somewhere safely away from booze and car keys? The system allows for mistakes. I can even understand (albeit reluctantly) a first-time offender being allowed to drive again. But after that first DUI conviction, there are no more plea bargains, no more driving privileges and a 6’ X 8’ jail cell for life if he or she does it after a third time. I have seen what misery a drunk on the road can cause. Driving is not a right, it is a privilege. When you don’t honor the

responsibilities that go along with that privilege, you lose it for good. And when I am King of the Country (much like Obama) I would also lock up any prosecutor, judge or other enabler in the system who allows it to happen. Enough needless slaughter on the highways! If you do the crime (and we all know better) you do the time. And that could just be life, Under King Mike I. Drive responsibly, for all of our sakes!

*** Mike Scinto is a 35 year veteran talk show host serving locally, statewide and nationally behind the microphone. For the past dozen years he has authored this award-winning column. You may have also seen him offering his unique insights of Fox News Channel. “Friend” Mike at http://www.facebook.com/mikesci ntoshow or visit mikescintocolumns.blogspot.com

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