PERRYSBURG The division of planning and zoning gave several recommendations for renovations and additions during a series of meetings on Monday.

During the Architectural Review Committee meeting, the board reviewed a signage package for Fort Meigs Family Chiropractic. Mark Easterling, zoning inspector, remarked that he found the requested signage to be within requirements. The board unanimously approved the recommendations and a motion for the package was moved forward.

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YAKIMA, Wash. -- Snow fences along a Lower Valley highway are not going to be replaced any time soon.

State Department of Transportation officials were hoping to replace the State Route 241 fences that were destroyed in a range fire last year in time for this winter. But the work is being delayed so engineers can examine the area and determine the best way to proceed, said WSDOT spokeswoman Summer Derrey.

The fences were used to reduce the amount of snow blowing on to the road, a popular connector route for Lower Valley residents heading to the Hanford nuclear reservation and other points in eastern Washington.

This winter, the road was closed for the equivalent of nine days from mid-December to early February as a result of blowing snow.

Derrey said among the concerns are finding a cost-effective material that could survive wildfires like the one that destroyed the original fencing.

"Creating a wooden structure would be pointless, because it would burn," Derrey said.

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Dear Carolyn: My fiancs sister and I have a strained relationship. I see her only at Thanksgiving, Christmas and occasional family events. She does not acknowledge me upon entering a room, her home, or my home. She heads straight to one of her family members without a word even when I acknowledge her. As the event progresses, she may engage me in a conversation, but only about her job, her vacation, her husband, etc. Never a question about me.

I believe this stems from her jealousy of my son and his accomplishments, as her son had the same opportunities, but did not put in the same effort as mine did.

I am not sure how to handle this and every time I see her she infuriates me.

Carolyn says: So your best explanation is your own awesomeness, basically.

Its rare that my sympathies change so abruptly over the course of a short letter. Paragraph 1, Im feeling your pain; seven words into Paragraph 2 Im on Team Sister and googling whiplash symptoms.

To each his own, of course, but if I had to pick one common denominator to human likability, Id choose this: humility, manifest as willingness to look inward for fault when something goes awry.

The alternative is to be the finger-pointer, the one who finds someone or something else to blame for her misfortune, thereby asserting by implication her own purity or righteousness. Those are the off-putting ways of a know-it-all.

This is not to say your fiancs sister is blameless; her ignoring you is bush-league stuff. She doesnt have to like you, but civility demands that she at least throw a hi-how-are-you your way. This lapse could hint at other failings, as well (though mere awkwardness seems possible, too).

But you cant fix what she does. You can only fix what you do and for that you have to be open to the possibility that some of your choices are flawed enough to need fixing. Which means admitting fault.

You give yourself a great place to start in your letter: Admit you are smug about your son and his accomplishments.

Then, admit your smugness could have at least some part in alienating your fiancs sister.

Then use this insight to approach her from now on not as a rude familial appendage, but as your equal in the struggle to be understood and appreciated.

Thats a fine place to start any do-over regardless: shared humanity.

Specifically, make the effort to see her, to see how you might legitimately annoy her instead of focusing only on how she annoys you and to see how you can be the one to disarm.

Im not offering this as some miracle path to friendship. You might just not like each other, and for good reasons.

But your marrying her brother means shes not going away, so doing the hard work to soften your opinion of her will be worthwhile no matter how it plays out; compassion mends what contempt tears apart.

Plus, this is not the last difficult relationship you will ever have to navigate. If you can go into these situations from now on with full awareness that sometimes you are the bad guy, then youll have taken the most important step toward not becoming just that.

E-mail Carolyn Hax at tellme@washpost.com.

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The office of the U.S. Trade Representative recently held a marathon three-day hearing to discuss the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the Trump era. This effectively began the process of renegotiating one of our most important and controversial trade pacts.

To say NAFTA has been a political lightning rod would be an understatement. On the campaign trail, Trump wasted no opportunity to trash the pact, at one point saying, NAFTA is the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, but certainly ever signed in this country.

Unfortunately, President Trump does not appear to be following the same pattern as his predecessor. In addition to taking steps to renegotiate NAFTA, the administration has engaged in several smaller, yet still troubling trade spats that have strained economic relationships in North America.

For instance, frustrations over access to Canadian dairy markets led to the administration retaliating with a hefty 20-percent tariff on Canadian softwood lumber, a key product for home building. This could significantly increase the price of new homes, asthe cost of lumber accounts for about 17 percent of the construction cost of the average house, according to data from the National Association of Home Builders.

Tensions have increased further due to a recent spat between U.S.-based Boeing and the Canadian company Bombardier. Boeing has alleged it is being harmed because Bombardier is dumping its aircraft in the United States. This is a peculiar claim because the dispute centers around a Bombardier airplane in a class where Boeing manufactures no competing products.

Nonetheless, the U.S. Commerce Department is currently reviewing Boeings request for duties and is expected to issue a ruling in September. This could raise the price of aircraft and, subsequently, result in higher prices for airline passengers.

Things are escalating even further now that the Trump White House is reportedly considering hefty tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. The exact size and scope of these tariffs which almost comically are being suggested in the interest of national security remains unclear. Yet, Canada, which is our largest source for imported steel, is far from pleased with the threat and currently pursuing an exemption.

The economic implications of these tariffs are enormous, as steel and aluminum are essential for the manufacturing of everything from automobiles to beer cans. Consumer prices could skyrocket if the administration puts these taxes into effect.

These are troubling times when it comes to free trade, broadly, and our critical relationship with our North American neighbors, specifically. The worsening climate will only make NAFTA renegotiation more difficult. Still, if done properly, this process could be beneficial to all three nations. That would require the Trump administration to approach the process with several key priorities in mind.

First, NAFTA renegotiation must not result in any new tariffs on imports or exports. One of NAFTAs crowning achievements was phasing out virtually all tariffs between the three countries. Moving in the opposite direction would be harmful to American businesses, consumers and taxpayers. Particularly problematic is the fact that import tariffs are almost always regressive in nature, meaning that lower-income Americans would be hit the hardest.

Second, the Trump administration should push to reduce non-tariff barriers to trade. This means working to open up Canadas highly protected dairy market and liberalize Mexicos protectionist sugar and energy policies. These will not be easy tasks and will arguably be more difficult in a trilateral arrangement than they were in the multilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership process.

Finally, its imperative for the administration to recognize the vital importance of a strong relationship between the three nations. In an economic sense, Canada and Mexico are our largest trading partners and 14 million U.S. jobs are directly dependent on these relationships.

Outside the economic realm, Canada and Mexico are important allies in geopolitical affairs. NAFTA renegotiation is about far more than economic growth and job creation. The stakes are extremely high, and its essential that this enormous undertaking leads to a stronger, more prosperous integrated relationship with our neighbors to the north and south.

Brandon Arnold is the executive vice president of theNational Taxpayers Union, which supports lower taxes and smaller government at all levels, and theNational Taxpayers Union Foundation. He has testified on fiscal policy before Congress and numerous state legislative committees, and has appeared on several television and radio networks, including C-SPAN, Fox News, Fox Business, BNN, and Russia Today.Previously, he was director of government affairs at the Cato Institute and a research analyst at the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Follow him on Twitter@BrandonNTU.

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The first act of the play is a swirling portrait of Troy Maxson's life. We meet all the main people surrounding Troy. There's his best friend, Bono, whom he met while in prison. Now the two work together as garbage collectors and sip gin every Friday night. Then there's Rose, Troy's loving and dutiful wife. Lyons, Troy's son from a previous relationship, stops by to borrow some money. We also meet Gabriel, Troy's brother, who suffers from a World War II head wound and now thinks he is the archangel Gabriel. Last, there's Cory, Troy's son by Rose.

Wilson plants all the major conflicts of the play in the first act. Troy is trying to break the racial barrier at work by becoming the first black garbage truck driver. This conflict is actually quickly resolved as Troy wins his battle. We also get strong hints in the first act that Troy is having an affair with a woman named Alberta.

Ultimately, however, it seems that the main conflict of the play will involve Troy's son Cory. Cory has the chance to go to college on a football scholarship, but Troy refuses to sign the permission paper. Troy says he doesn't want his son to suffer from the same racial discrimination that kept Troy from being a pro baseball player. This tension comes to a head when Troy tells Cory's high school football coach that Cory can't play football anymore, which destroys Cory's hopes of going to college.

Things start to go really bad for Troy in the play's second act. When Alberta becomes pregnant, he's forced to fess up to Rose about his affair. Making matters worse, Alberta dies in childbirth. Rose agrees to raise the baby girl, Raynell, but says she no longer considers herself Troy's woman.

Not only does Troy lose his mistress and his wife, he also loses his best friend, Bono. We learn that the two men no longer hang out. This is partly because ever since Troy got the promotion to driver, the two don't work together anymore. More than that, though, it seems like Bono is really disappointed in Troy for having the affair. We also learn that Troy has had Gabriel put away in a mental hospital. Rose accuses him of doing this just to get half of Gabriel's disability check.

The play comes to a climax when tensions explode between Troy and Cory and the two go at each other with a baseball bat. Though Troy wins the fight, he loses his son forever.

The last scene of the play takes place years later on the day of Troy's funeral. We see Cory return home in a military uniform. He's gone out and made his own way in the world but is still struggling with the shadow of his father. He considers not going to the funeral, but is talked out of it by Rose. We're given hope that Cory is on the path to becoming his own man and forgiving his father when he and young Raynell sing a song together in honor of Troy.

The play concludes when Gabriel returns. He tries to blow his trumpet to open the gates of heaven for Troy. When no sound comes out, he does a ritualistic dance and chant. In the play's final moment, we're told the gates of heaven are wide open.

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The Hannibal Jaycees' first pee wee fence painting contest for ages 5 to 9 and girls' contest for ages 10 to 13 were a big success, with 35 children registered in the pee wee and 12 in the girls' contest.

The Hannibal Jaycees' first pee wee fence painting contest for ages 5 to 9 and girls' contest for ages 10 to 13 were a big success, with 35 children registered in the pee wee and 12 in the girls' contest.

Both took place Sunday, July 2, before the National Fence Painting. The national event had only four contestants, including the local and state winners from the previous day.

Dawson Behl, 12, of New London, who won the state contest on July 1, was the winner. In addition to several prizes, he received the governors trophy, which may be displayed in the state capitol for one year. The trophy is to be returned to Hannibal on the Fourth of July in 2018, when Dawson will be a judge of the contest.

Ben Schwartz, 12, of Hull, Ill., whose brother, Henry, won in 2016, finished the national contest in second place.

Corgan Kramer, 12, who won the local contest on July 1, finished third, and Noah Lusk, 10, of Houston, Texas, fourth.

Girls' winners announced

Mollie Ferrel, 13, of Shakopee, Minn., won the girls' fence painting. Hannah Schindler, 10, of Hannibal, finished second, and Nicole Moore, 11, of New London, third.

Hannah, the daughter of Russell and Jessica Schindler, had prepared for her fence painting debut by practicing her technique but not using paint. Her costume for the judging included a bag full of items such as a mouse, marbles and firecrackers.

Three girls competing had been in the Tomboy Sawyer contest on Saturday. They were the new Tomboy Sawyer Rylee Rodriguez, Sophia Vandiver and Savannah Corey, who both also won contests at that event.

Additional contestants were Alana Lemon, 10, Kaite Locke, 12, and Riah Wigfall, 10, all of Hannibal; Brook Doughty, 11, of New London; Delaney Bowie, 11, of Deer, Ark.; and Megan Boteler, 11, of Liberty, Mo.

Natalie Vandiver wins pee wee contest

The pee wee fence painting contest was won by Natalie Vandiver, 7, the daughter of Kristen and Josh Vandiver of Hannibal.

Second place went to Landon Nichols, 8, of Hannibl, and third to Logan Upchurch, 9, of St. Charles, Mo.

One contestant came from Berkeley, Calif. Moses Trujillo, 8, was visiting his grandparents, Jim and Nettie Antoinette of Macomb, Ill. After competing he said he had never painted anything except pictures. He discovered the brush was heavy, then decided, Maybe it was the paint. His family toured Mark Twain Cave on July 1, and his mother especially enjoyed Hannibal's historic homes, reporting, Mostly I love to see the old buildings in the city.

Also competing in the pee wee contest were Hannibal youngsters Keegan Gillmore, Wyatt Terrill, Faith Watkins, Eran Dalton, Carlee McCoy, Tuck Danehy, Nathan Tweedy, Cathy Cothern, Allen Saxbury Jr., Zach Locke, Amara Coffey, Rorrie McCoy, Madison Straube, Bella Hayes, Rhett Hayes, and Kayln Butler.

Young fence painters from New London were Noah Hathaway, Jessica Moore and Thomas Moore. Also competing were Michael Fries, Hull, Ill.; Emma Tate, Center, Mo.; Molly Boteler, Liberty, Mo.; Tyrani Cranmer, Thompson, Mo.; Henry Schwartz, Hull, Ill.; Sophia Lusk, Houston, Texas; Connie Janusz, Sedalia, Mo.; and Rowan McDonough, New Lenox, Ill.

Short fences were provided for the pee wee contest. The Jaycees encouraged the crowd to support the company that provided the fences. This was 2x4's for Hope, which had a booth at the fence painting. Its founder, Chris Lawrence, explained to the crowd that each $3 or more donation for a 2x4 board helps build a tiny home for a homeless military veteran. The agency is based in Quincy, Ill., and the website is 2x4forhope.org.

Reach reporter Bev Darr at bev.darr@courierpost.com.

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Organizers Seek African-American Actors to Fill Cast

DULUTH, Minn. The Lake Superior Community Theatre is planning a production of August Wilsons Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play, Fences.

Fences is the story of the Maxsons, an African-American family in 1950s Pittsburgh.

The director, Paul Deaner, wants the production to be as authentic as possible, which means he needs an african american cast to fill the roles. Deaner knows finding the actors he needs would be difficult up the North Shore.

Duluth is the market we have to talent search for the show, said Deaner, the Executive Director of the Lake Superior Community Theatre. Its a big stretch for us, literally in mileage and in a shift in our dynamic of how were producing.

Fences was adapted into a movie in 2016, starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis. Duluths Helen Davis is familiar with Fences and was the first one to get information Wednesday. Davis, who says she acted in high school, hopes to land the role of Rose Maxson.

Ive watched the movie over and over again and I feel I can have some compassion with this movie, said Davis. It brings us out for our culture and community to act and it brings out more, so people really understand what Fences is about.

Two more information sessions are scheduled. The first is Thursday from 10 a.m. to 7p.m. in the Denfeld High School cafeteria. Another is planned for Friday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Duluth Neighborhood Youth Services Washington Center.

After the information sessions, Deaner will start contacting prospective actors about actual auditions.

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It seems like everywhere I go in Jackson and Josephine counties, I see green shadecloth enclosures and spiffy new wood fences that obviously surround cannabis gardens. To my eye, they are far more offensive to look at than the plants themselves. Are those fences required by law? If not, why do the growers use them? If they are required, what were the legislators' goals in requiring fencing.

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Hey, that's quite a handle you've got, Rogue River Bill. And, yes, we've heard more than our share of complaints about those fences, particularly the tarp fences.

In general, 8-foot fences are required to obscure the view of the plants, though there are plenty of folks, including growers, who think long wooden fences are just plain ugly.

When Oregonians decided they wanted to legalize marijuana, there was much concern about keeping those plants away from the prying eyes of children.

Rules for the recreational pot program mandate that grows be shielded from public view, with one option to accomplish that featbeing the construction of an 8-foot fence.

However, a solid fence isnt required in every case, and growers can obtain waivers from the state,according to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which also oversees legalized marijuana.

If the grow site isn't close to a road, or is somehow obscured from public view, the fence wouldn't be required. Unfortunately, many of these grow sites are located near freeways, highways and other areas. In fact, despite the tall fences, pot gardens can still be seen from certain vantage points.

There has been a move afoot to allow growers to install other types of fences, but legislators haven't signed off on that idea yet.

Growing hemp has also become popular, and because it is an agricultural crop overseen by the Oregon Department of Agriculture, it doesn't even need a fence. Hemp plants look very similar to regular marijuana, but don't produce the high.

The only thing we can say, Rogue River Bill, is that after a few years, those massive fences will weather and hopefully become less obvious.

Send questions to Since You Asked, Mail Tribune Newsroom, P.O. Box 1108, Medford, OR 97501; by fax to 541-776-4376; or by email to youasked@mailtribune.com. Were sorry, but the volume of questions received prevents us from answering all of them.

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SAUGERTIES, N.Y. >> An 18-year-old town resident who ran through several backyards and vinyl fences in the hamlet of Glasco early Thursday, and appeared to be under the influence of some sort of substance, was taken to a hospital for evaluation, according to the police chief.

Quincy McKenzie, of 35 Sterley Ave., was arrested about 5:11 a.m. after police responded to a 911 call reporting a man yelling in the backyard of a residence on Edgewood Drive in Glasco, police said.

When officers arrived, McKenzie ran through several backyards and through two vinyl fences and continued screaming until an officer was able to subdue him, Police Chief Joseph Sinagra said. He said the officer was about to use a taser on McKenzie but was able to control him without it.

McKenzie was charged with the misdemeanors of criminal mischief (two counts), obstructing governmental administration and resisting arrest.

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Sinagra said McKenzie suffered only minor bruises from hitting the fences.

The chief said McKenzie was sweating profusely and officers had reason to believe he was on some sort of a controlled substance. Sinagra said he knows McKenzie and that bizarre behavior was not typical for him, which is why officers took him to the HealthAlliance Hospitals Broadway Campus in Kingston for evaluation.

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