http://66.213.69.5/files/original/609e57034d4ab32d9e85e20300e7a81c.pdf 9f2c72a37b89bc4da11a0186fa03e59f PDF Text Text On this day in history 8 AM 2 PM 8 PM 54° 59° 62° Spotty showers today. Mostly cloudy tonight. High 66° / Low 55° NEWS s 2 Today’s weather forecast Power Five lobby congress WEATHER s 5 SPORTS s 6 C_ZZb[fehj��Fec[heo"�E^_e Breaking news at mydailysentinel.com Issue 81, Volume 74 Meigs Board of Education approves contracts, resolutions Staff Report ROCKSPRINGS — The Meigs Local Board of Education approved several agenda items during the recent meeting, including administrator contracts and resolutions related to COVID-19. Meigs Middle School Principal Vickie Jones was rehired on a ﬁveyear contract. Meigs High School Assistant Principal Michael Chancey was rehired on a three-year contract. District Director of Operations Bill Ellis was rehired on a three-year contract. EMIS Coordinator Billi Arnott was rehired on a ﬁre-year contract. Aaron Oliphant was rehired on a ﬁve-year contract as the Wellness and Facilities Manager. Julie Randolph was rehired on a threeyear contract. A resolution was approved regarding supplemental contracts which had been impacted by COVID-19 closures and cancellations. The resolution authorized full payment of the supplemental contracts which were unable to be completed due to the pandemic. A second resolution addressed the grading scale for students during the ﬁnal nine weeks/trimester of the school year which was completed while school facilities were closed by order of the Governor and Ohio Department of Health. In accordance with House Bill 197, the board authorized Supt. Scot Gheen to replace the existing grading system with a pass/ fail system for grading in each course or grade level for the ﬁnal grading period of the 2019-20 school year as appropriate. In other business, the board approved a list of graduates for the Class of 2020, pending the completion of all local and state requirements. The board approved the acceptance of a grant from the Meigs County Community Fund which was awarded to Meigs Primary School and Darla Kennedy for a trauma informed playground. The board approved payment of bills, the ﬁnancial report and revised permanent appropriations. The next Board of Education meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 27. Ohio ballot campaigns allowed more flexibility on signatures COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that Ohio must allow groups pursuing voting law changes, a minimum wage increase and marijuana decriminalization more time and ﬂexibility to qualify for ballots amid the coronavirus pandemic. U.S. District Court Judge Edmund Sargus Jr.’s ruling Tuesday ordered the state to allow campaigns until July 31 to gather required signatures and to allow them to be collected electronically. He stopped short of reducing the number of signatures required, as some courts elsewhere have allowed amid a spate of COVID-19-related signature-gathering challenges. Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose, the state’s elections chief, says the state will appeal. The decision is an immediate victory for Ohioans for Safe and Secure Elections, which is proposing a package of changes aimed at making it easier for Ohioans to vote, and for Ohioans for Raising the Wage, whose initiative would raise the state minimum wage from $8.70 to $13 over ﬁve years. Both have already qualiﬁed for the November ballot and were beginning to collect the more than 440,000 signatures required when the new coronavirus hit in March. See BALLOT | 8 AIM Media Midwest Operating, LLC (USPS 145-966) Telephone: 740-992-2155 Publishes every Tuesday through Saturday. Subscription rate is $208 per year. Prices are subject to change at any time. 825 Third Ave., Gallipolis, OH, 45631 Periodical postage paid at Pomeroy, OH POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Daily Sentinel, 825 Third Ave., Gallipolis, OH, 45631. Thursday, May 21, 2020 s 50¢ MHS grads receive scholarships Austin Mahr Karington Brinker Cory Cox Breanna Zirkle Mahr, Brinker, Cox, Zirkle receive Bachtel Scholarships By Sarah Hawley shawley@aimmediamidwest.com ROCKSPRINGS — Graduates of the Meigs High School Class of 2020 have been awarded more that $569,000 in scholarships as they continue their education. A slide show posted to the Meigs High School Guidance Ofﬁce Facebook page on Wednesday morning featured the Class of 2020, along with a listing of the awards, honors and scholarships received by the graduates. The Top 10 for the Meigs High School Class of 2020 are Valedictorian Austin Mahr, Salutatorian Jacob McConnell, Robert Musser, Augustus Kennedy, Easter Swain, Adam Cole Arnott, Cameron Burnem, Cory Cox, Dawson McClure and Breanna Zirkle. Graduates receiving an Honors Diploma are Karington Brinker, Augustus Kennedy, Austin Mahr, Jacob McConnell and Bobby Musser. National Honor Society members from the Class of 2020 are Cole Arnott, Weston Baer, Bethany Bickford, Karington Brinker, Kaitlyn Brinker, Cameron Burnem, Kassandra Coleman, Rebecca Council, Cory Cox, Brittany Gilmore, Valerie Hamm, Aleya Huffman, Autumn Jones, Gus Kennedy, Austin Mahr, Madison Mankin, Brenna McClintock, Jacob McConnell, Kristi McKnight, Bobby Muss- er, Emily Myers, Tucker Smith, Easter Swain, Bailey Swatzel, Danielle Wilson and Breanna Zirkle. Spanish National Honor Society members are Sky Green, Karington Brinker and Haley Smith. Graduate Augustus Kennedy has been appointed to the United States Naval Academy where he will major in Robotics and Control Engineering. Graduates enlisting in the military include: Kyle Ashburn, Marines; Adam Billingsley, U.S. Army; Katilyn Brinker, Ohio National Guard; Zach Dailey, Ohio National Guard; Landon Davis, U.S. Army; Sky Green, U.S. Marine Corps; Christian Klein, Ohio National Guard; Michael Wolfe, U.S. Marine Corps; Tyler Wolfe, U.S. Marine Corps. Scholarships announced by Meigs High School during their virtual Senior Awards and Signing Day included: Cole Arnott — Kyger Creek Science Award, $350; Ohio Promise Award, $4,000 ($1,000 per year, four years); Ohio Success Scholarship, $20,000 ($5,000 per year, four years); Ohio Distinction Scholarship, $4,000 ($1,000 per year, four years); Riverbend Heritage Scholarship, $8,000 ($2,000 per year, four years). Weston Baer — Susan G. Park Scholarship (Middleport Alumni), $800. See MHS | 8 PVH announces intent to sell nursing center Staff Report POINT PLEASANT — American Medical Facilities Management, LLC (AMFM), and Pleasant Valley Hospital (PVH) today announce they are beginning exclusive discussions toward a purchase agreement of Pleasant Valley Hospital’s nursing and rehabilitation center. According to a joint press release on the matter, leadership from both AMFM and PVH are working together to develop the agreement over the next 90 days. Pleasant Valley Nursing & Rehabilitation Center (PVNRC) is a 100-bed skilled nursing center with more than 100 employees. PVH | Courtesy Pleasant Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center According to the press release, AMFM centers are recognized throughout West Virginia and at the national level for quality long-term care services and a great place to work. The press release continued: “Centers have earned the American Health Care Association’s National Quality Awards and employees have been recognized statewide for individual excellence awards by the West Virginia Health Care Association. Ranking 7th on the list of Fortune’s top 50 health care providers in the aging sector, AMFM is on an elite list of long-term care providers in ‘Best Workplaces for Aging Services’ list. Earning a reputation for innovation, commitment to advancing nursing and rehabilitation excellence, as well as long-term care talent throughout their West Virginia centers.” “We are very excited about becoming a part of the Point Pleasant community and welcoming the patients, employees and families to the AMFM Family,” shared See PVH | 3 Health director order closing gyms ‘oppressive’ COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s decision to shut down gyms and ﬁtness centers was “arbitrary, unreasonable and oppressive,” a judge ruled Wednesday in a largely symbolic ﬁnding that nevertheless underscored an ongoing debate over the state’s response to the pandemic. The nine-page ruling by Lake County Court Judge Eugene Lucci applies only to gyms in that northeastern Ohio county. Meanwhile, gyms are set to reopen May 26 under an updated order announced last week by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine. Lucci responded to a lawsuit brought by gym owners that argued Health Director Dr. Amy Acton exceeded her authority when she lumped places to exercise into the nonessential business category on March 22 and ordered them closed. Lucci agreed, saying Acton acted “in an impermissibly arbitrary, unreasonable, and oppressive manner and without any procedural safeguards.” Gyms provide important physical and mental beneﬁts when operated safely, but are also not places where people concerned about the coronavirus are forced to go, the judge said. “Prolonged lockdowns have deleterious effects upon the public psyche,” the judge added. “Humans are naturally social beings; socialization strengthens immunities against disease and beneﬁts psychological health.” A message was left with the Attorney General’s ofﬁce, which represented Acton. DeWine spokesman Dan Tierney said the governor disagreed with the judge’s analysis of the law, but noted gyms are opening soon regardless. In a related development, the GOP-controlled Ohio Senate on Wednesday rejected an effort by House Republicans to limit the health director’s public health orders to 14 days, after which the Legislature would have to review them for renewal. House lawmakers approved the measure earlier this month out See GYMS | 3 �DEATH NOTICES/NEWS 2 Thursday, May 21, 2020 Trump threatens funds for states easing voting DEATH NOTICES RICHARDSON ASHTON, W.Va. — Tina Renee Richardson, 50, of Ashton, W.Va., died Tuesday, May 19, 2020, at Cornerstone Hospital of Huntington. A graveside service and burial will be 1 p.m. Friday, May 22, 2020, at Moore’s Chapel Cemetery in Ashton. Arrangements are under the direction of the Wilcoxen Funeral Home in Point Pleasant, W.Va. WRIGHT COTTAGEVILLE, W.Va. — John Marshall Wright, 75, of Cottageville, W.Va., died Tuesday, May 19, 2020, in Abbyshire Place, Bidwell, Ohio, following an extended illness. Service will be 2 p.m., Friday, May 22, 2020, at the Casto Funeral Home, Evans, W.Va., with Pastor Vera Archer and John Gunther ofﬁciating. Burial with military honors provided by the Jackson County Honor Guard will be in the Blaine Memorial Cemetery, Cottageville, W.Va. Visitation will be from 12 p.m. until time of service Friday at the funeral home. SWICK BIDWELL — Edna Swick, 94, Bidwell, Ohio, died May 19, 2020, at her residence. Private funeral service will be conducted Friday, May 22, 2020, at McCoy-Moore Funeral Home, Vinton Chapel. Interment will follow at Clark Chapel Cemetery, Bidwell, Ohio. IN BRIEF Workers cheered as they enter South Dakota pork plant SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Employees at a Smithﬁeld pork processing plant in South Dakota where a coronavirus outbreak infected over 800 people were greeted at work Wednesday with thank you signs, cheers and waves from about a dozen area residents. “They’re putting their health at risk just like the hospital workers are to continue on with this work, so I hope they feel appreciated,” said Becky Olson, a Sioux Falls resident who held a sign outside Smithﬁeld’s entrance. The plant has instructed many workers to return to work this week as it looks to scale up operations by the end of the month. Masked employees streamed into the factory entrance as trucks carrying pigs rumbled past. The Smithﬁeld plant, which produces roughly 5% of the nation’s pork supply, gave an early warning of how quickly the virus can spread in meatpacking plants that are key to the nation’s food supply. Two employees at the plant have died from COVID-19, along with more than 20 meat and poultry workers nationwide. Karen Pence speaks on health benefits of getting outdoors GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — Second Lady Karen Pence visited Great Smoky Mountains National Park to talk about the mental health beneﬁts of spending time outdoors as ofﬁcials announced the second phase of a plan to reopen all park trails. Pence was accompanied on her visit Tuesday by Deputy Secretary of Interior Katharine MacGregor, the White House said in a statement. Both took part in a ceremonial road reopening at the national park and hiked up a trail during their visit. “National parks offer many mental health beneﬁts and more than ever before, we must ensure that we are taking care of ourselves and each other,” Pence said. The Smokies reopened on May 9 with some popular trails blocked off to visitors after closing in late March. But some are reluctant about that idea during the virus outbreak. Senate panel OKs subpoena in Hunter Biden probe WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate committee has voted to issue a subpoena as part of its investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, a move that met immediate opposition from Democrats who said the panel should be focused on overseeing the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday voted 8-6 to subpoena Blue Star Strategies, a lobbying ﬁrm that was a consultant to Burisma, a gas company in Ukraine that paid Hunter Biden to serve as a board member. There is no evidence of wrongdoing by the Bidens, and Hunter Biden has denied using his inﬂuence with his father to aid Burisma. But Republicans coming to President Donald Trump’s defense during and after last year’s impeachment trial have encouraged investigations of Hunter Biden’s activities, questioning whether his highly paid job created a conﬂict of interest for Joe Biden as the former vice president worked on Ukraine policy in the Obama administration. CONTACT US 825 Third Ave., Gallipolis, OH, 45631 740-446-2342 REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT/ GROUP PUBLISHER Lane Moon lmoon@aimmediamidwest.com EDITOR Beth Sergent, Ext. 1992 bsergent@aimmediamidwest.com MANAGING EDITOR Sarah Hawley, Ext. 2555 shawley@aimmediamidwest.com Ohio Valley Publishing SPORTS EDITOR Bryan Walters, Ext. 2101 bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Matt Rodgers, Ext. 2095 mrodgers@aimmediamidwest.com CIRCULATION MANAGER Derrick Morrison, Ext. 2097 dmorrison@aimmediamidwest.com By Nicholas Riccardi and Darlene Superville for fraud although there is scant evidence of Associated Press widespread wrongdoing. Trump himself requested a mail ballot for Florida’s WASHINGTON — March GOP primary and President Donald Trump he has voted absentee in on Wednesday threatprevious elections. ened to hold up federal While Republicans funds for two election insist that Trump’s battleground states that position on the issue is are trying to make it nuanced and not simply easier and safer to vote an effort to suppress during the coronavirus Democratic votes, the pandemic. David Eggert | AP file president undermined The president’s tweets Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s decision to targeting Michigan and send absentee ballot applications to all 7.7 million registered those arguments Nevada marked an esca- voters in the state for the August primary and November Wednesday morning. Michigan’s Benson lation in his campaign general election has come under attack from President Donald against voting by mail, a Trump, who erroneously tweeted that absentee ballots, not noted Trump’s choice of practice that he has pub- applications, were being sent out. Even though the Centers for states to assail, tweeting licly worried will lead so Disease Control and Prevention recommends mail voting as a back after his original safe option during the novel coronavirus pandemic, Trump has salvo: “We sent applicamany people to vote that opposed the spread of the practice. tions, not ballots. Just Republicans will lose in November. Even though tion by a rogue Secretary tice, a Republican ally of like my GOP colleagues in Iowa, Georgia, the president, said he’s of State. I will ask to the Centers for Disease Nebraska and West Virhold up funding to Mich- not concerned about Control and Prevention ginia.” Trump’s threats even recommends mail voting igan if they want to go On Monday, Republithough his administradown this Voter Fraud as a safe option during can National Committee tion approved mailing path!” the pandemic, Trump Chairwoman Ronna absentee ballot applicaTrump later made a has opposed the spread McDaniel portrayed the tions to all registered similar threat against of the practice. party’s $20 million camvoters in the state. Nevada, which has sent Wednesday marked paign against Democrat“I can’t imagine that the ﬁrst time he has ried ballots to voters for its the president is going to ic efforts to expand mail June 9 state primary. A to use federal dollars to withhold funding in any voting as a principled federal judge recently beat it back. stance. McDaniel said way to West Virginia; cleared Nevada’s deciTrump began by tarshe had no objection to a that’s not gonna hapsion to mail ballots, geting Michigan, with pen,” Justice told report- system like the one Benwhich were sent by the a false description of son announced the next ers. Democratic Secretary of Republican secretary of day because there is a Trump’s threats drew state. State Jocelyn Benson’s difference between senda sharp response from “State of Nevada announcement Tuesday Democrats, who alluded ing all voters a ballot ‘thinks’ that they can that she would send application as opposed to impeaching the applications for absentee send out illegal vote by president for his threats to the actual ballot. ballots to every voter in mail ballots, creating a Trump’s campaign has great Voter Fraud scenar- to withhold aid from the state. pushed his supporters Ukraine if that country io for the State and the “Michigan sends to vote by mail and says did not help his reelecU.S. They can’t! If they absentee ballots to 7.7 its main objection is to do, ‘I think’ I can hold up tion effort. million people ahead of mailing ballots to all vot“Trump has gone funds to the State. Sorry, Primaries and the Geners. Five states that use Ukraine on Michigan but you must not cheat eral Election,” Trump this method have had no and Nevada, threatenin elections,” Trump tweeted Wednesday signiﬁcant voter fraud ing to cut off funding tweeted. morning, That brought cases. California earlier for their audacity to It was not clear what strong criticism from this month said it’d mail not make voters choose Michigan and elsewhere, funds Trump was referbetween protecting their ballots to all voters for encing. The states are pointing out that the November. state was sending appli- paying for their elections health and exercising The GOP-controlled their right to vote,” changes through corocations, not actual balSenate has so far California Secretary navirus relief spending lots. stopped Democrats from of State Alex Padilla, measures the president About six hours after mandating expanded a Democrat, said in a signed into law. his original tweet, mail and early voting statement. “We will not Notably, the presiTrump corrected it to as part of coronavirus allow our democracy to dent did not threaten say “absentee ballot become a casualty of this relief bills, arguing Republican-run states applications.” states should be able to pandemic.” He kept the rest intact: that are doing the same make decisions on their Trump has claimed “This was done illegally thing as Michigan. West own election systems. absentee voting is ripe Virginia Gov. Jim Jusand without authoriza- TODAY IN HISTORY SS Robin Moor in the South Atlantic after the ship’s passengers and Today is Thursday, crew were allowed to May 21, the 142nd day board lifeboats. of 2020. There are 224 In 1972, Michelandays left in the year. gelo’s Pieta, on display at the Vatican, was damToday’s Highlight in aged by a hammer-wieldHistory ing man who shouted he On May 21, 1927, was Jesus Christ. Charles A. Lindbergh In 1979, former San landed his Spirit of St. Francisco City SuperLouis monoplane near visor Dan White was Paris, completing the convicted of voluntary ﬁrst solo airplane ﬂight manslaughter in the slayacross the Atlantic ings of Mayor George Ocean in 33 1/2 hours. Moscone (mahs-KOH’nee) and openly gay On this date Supervisor Harvey Milk; In 1471, King Henry outrage over the verdict VI of England died in the Tower of London at sparked rioting. (White was sentenced to seven age 49. years and eight months In 1542, Spanish in prison; he ended up explorer Hernando de serving ﬁve years and Soto died while searchtook his own life in ing for gold along the 1985.) Mississippi River. In 1991, former Indian In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant was nominated for Prime Minister Rajiv president by the Republi- Gandhi was assassinated can national convention during national elections by a suicide bomber. in Chicago. In 2018, Syria’s miliIn 1881, Clara Barton tary captured an enclave founded the American in southern Damascus Red Cross. from Islamic State miliIn 1892, the opera tants after a monthlong “Pagliacci,” by Ruggero battle, bringing the Leoncavallo, premiered entire capital and its subin Milan, Italy. urbs under full governIn 1910, a year-old ment control for the ﬁrst Jewish settlement near time since the civil war the port city of Jaffa began in 2011. adopted the name Tel Ten years ago: PresiAviv (Hebrew for “Hill of dent Barack Obama Spring”). directed the government In 1932, Amelia Earto set the ﬁrst-ever milehart became the ﬁrst woman to ﬂy solo across age and pollution limits for big trucks and to the Atlantic Ocean as tighten rules for future she landed in Northern cars and SUVs. Citing Ireland, about 15 hours after leaving Newfound- overwhelming evidence that North Korea had land. sunk a South Korean In 1941, a German warship, the Cheonan, U-boat sank the American merchant steamship U.S. Secretary of State The Associated Press THOUGHT FOR TODAY “Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.” — Irving Kristol American writer (1920-2009) Hillary Rodham Clinton warned the reclusive communist state of consequences. Five years ago: Four Malaysian navy ships began searching for stranded boat people in the ﬁrst ofﬁcial rescue operation since desperate migrants started washing up on Southeast Asia’s shores. The Family Research Council said it had accepted the resignation of Josh Duggar in the wake of the reality TV star’s apology for unspeciﬁed bad behavior as a young teen. (Duggar later admitted molesting ﬁve underage girls as a teenager, including two of his sisters, cheating on his wife and being addicted to pornography; those revelations led to the cancellation of the TLC show “19 Kids and Counting.”) One year ago: As directed by President Donald Trump, former White House Counsel Donald McGahn deﬁed a subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee to testify; McGahn had been a key ﬁgure in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, describing ways in which the president sought to curtail the probe. Angered by the empty chair in the hearing room, a grow- ing number of House Democrats pushed for impeachment proceedings against Trump. Sherpa mountaineer Kami Rita extended his record for successful climbs of Mount Everest, ascending the world’s highest peak for a 24th time. Today’s Birthdays: Rhythm-and-blues singer Ron Isley (The Isley Brothers) is 79. Rock musician Hilton Valentine (The Animals) is 77. Musician Bill Champlin is 73. Singer Leo Sayer is 72. Actress Carol Potter is 72. Former Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., is 69. Actor Mr. T is 68. Music producer Stan Lynch is 65. Actor Judge Reinhold is 63. Actor-director Nick Cassavetes is 61. Actress Lisa Edelstein is 54. Actress Fairuza Balk is 46. Rock singermusician Mikel Jollett (Airborne Toxic Event) is 46. Rapper Havoc (Mobb Deep) is 46. Rock musician Tony LoGerfo (Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real) is 37. Actor Sunkrish Bala is 36. Actor David Ajala is 34. Actress Ashlie Brillault is 33. Country singer Cody Johnson is 33. Actor Scott Leavenworth is 30. Actress Sarah Ramos is 29. �NEWS Ohio Valley Publishing Thursday, May 21, 2020 3 IN BRIEF GALLIA, MEIGS BRIEFS Astronauts arriving for NASA’s 1st home launch in decade State Route 325 to Deckard Road for slip repair. Editor’s Note: Gallia Meigs Briefs will only list event information that is open to the public and will Local trafﬁc will need to use other county roads. be printed on a space-available basis. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The two astronauts who will end a nine-year launch drought for NASA ﬂew to Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, exactly one week before their historic SpaceX ﬂight. It will be the ﬁrst time a private company, rather than a national government, sends astronauts into orbit. NASA test pilots Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken departed Houston aboard one of the space agency’s jet planes. They’re scheduled to blast off next Wednesday atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, bound for the International Space Station. They’ll soar from the same pad where Atlantis closed out the space shuttle program in 2011, the last home launch for NASA astronauts. Awaiting the astronauts at Kennedy’s former shuttle landing strip were the center’s director, former shuttle commander Robert Cabana, and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Gyms there were nearly 29,500 cases considered either conﬁrmed or probable. From page 1 For most people, the virus causes mild or moderate symptoms that clear of frustration at the ecoup in a couple of weeks. nomic devastation expeOlder adults and people rienced by many Ohio with existing health probbusinesses as a result of lems are at higher risk the shut-down orders. of more severe illness, DeWine has said he would veto the measure if including pneumonia, or death. it reached his desk. In other coronavirus developments WednesDrive-thru zoo day: Cleveland’s zoo welcomed back visitors on Wednesday for the ﬁrst Latest cases time in two months, The number of conallowing them to get ﬁrmed and probable a glimpse of the tigers deaths associated with and bears by car. Cruise the coronavirus in Ohio the Zoo will be open on has reached 1,789, state Wednesdays through health ofﬁcials said. Sundays until the end The Ohio Department of May. Visitors must of Health said that 61 new deaths were reported stay in their cars while they drive around the in the past day and that overall there have been a zoo. Reservations are total of 5,100 hospitaliza- required and limited to control the number of tions. vehicles. Health ofﬁcials said PVH From page 1 John Elliot, owner of AMFM. “This acquisition will enhance the outstanding services currently provided at the nursing and rehabilitation center. In the coming weeks and months, we will work closely with the members of leadership to ensure a smooth transition.” With this purchase, AMFM will provide longterm care services for nearly 1,500 patients and employ more than 2,000 professionals throughout West Virginia. The release continued: “Pleasant Valley Hospital has a proud 60-plus year history serving the residents of greater-Mason County and was recently honored as the only hospital in the state of West Virginia and in the Ohio Valley Region to receive an ‘A’ Hospital Patient Safety Grade by The Leapfrog Group for prioritizing quality care and patient safety throughout its operations. Pleasant Valley Hospital has been approached by several organizations to purchase the nursing home business in recent years.” “These are exciting and challenging times for all healthcare organizations. This was not an easy decision for us as Pleasant Valley’s Nursing & Rehabilitation Center has been a part of our organization for many years, but our Board of Trustees and leadership team felt this was a tremendous opportunity for both the hospital and the nursing center to meet the challenges that lie ahead. Much thought, prayer, and discussion went into selecting a buyer for the nursing home that we believe would best help us meet the challenges at hand and best serve Pleasant Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation residents, staff, and our community. We believe that American Medical Facilities Management’s vision for the future of skilled nursing services best aligns with our vision of positioning the nursing and rehabilitation center for long-term success. AMFM will be investing $2 million or more in upgrading the facility and making aesthetic improvements. In addition, their track record of quality care and strong employee engagement will make them a solid, long-term community partner,” said Jeff Noblin, FACHE and CEO of Pleasant Valley Hospital. Amber Findley has been the administrator at PVNRC for 18 years and is excited to become a part of the AMFM Family of nursing centers. “I have developed relationships with many AMFM colleagues over the years through the West Virginia Health Care Association. Their nursing centers have a great reputation for quality care and as an employer throughout West Virginia. It is a bittersweet time for me since I am a big part of PVH’s history and appreciate their commitment to our patients and employees. By becoming a part of the AMFM Family, we will receive countless opportunities to grow in long-term care. This is great news for employees, patients and our community,” Findley said. The development of an agreement to sell between PVH and AMFM will provide opportunities for new and enhanced skilled nursing, rehabilitation and long-term care services, based on the needs of PVNRC patients and the community. Information submitted by Pleasant Valley Hospital. Memorial Day observance RACINE —The annual Memorial Day observance at the Racine American Legion will be held at 10 a.m. with refreshments to follow. POMEROY — Memorial Day Services forthe American Legion Post 39 at Pomeroy are being modiﬁed due to COVID-19. After long consideration and discussion the legion has decided not to have memorial services at the Pomeroy levee but will recognize our fallen comrades at the following cemeteries with the times have been changed this year: Rockspring Cemetery at 9 a.m.; Beach Grove Cemetery at 9:15 a.m.; Sacred Heart Cemetery at 9:30 a.m.; Bottom of the Bridge of Honor at 10 a.m.; Pomeroy Levee at 10:15 a.m., only to recognize our fallen Navel personnel with a wreath in the river; Meigs Memory Gardens at 10:30 a.m.; Chester Cemeteries at 10:45 a.m.; and Hemlock Grove at 11 a.m. Banquet canceled PATRIOT — In accordance with CDC regulations, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Southwestern Alumni Banquet will not be held this year. If you are an alumni from the class of 1970 or 1960 your classes will be honored at our banquet next year. “Please stay safe and hope to see you next year Southwestern Highlanders,” stated organizers. For information contact Lynnita Newberry Edmonds, 304-675-4994. HARRISONVILLE — Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Harrisonville-Scipio Alumni Association has made the decision to cancel the May 23 banquet for this year. The ofﬁcers will stay the same through the coming year. For questions call 740-742-3033 or 740-698-0452. Kindergarten registration GALLIPOLIS — Gallipolis City Schools will be holding kindergarten registration drive-ins in early May. Washington Elementary will register students June 3, 4, and 5 and can be called at 740-446-3213 while Green Elementary will regBURLINGHAM — With the uncertainty and concerns that COVID-19 has brought to everyone, ister students June 1-2 an can be called at 740446-3236. Rio Grande Elementary will register the Burlingham Cemetery Association trustees students June 8-9 and can be called at 740-245have decided to cancel their Memorial Day activi5333. To be eligible, children must be ﬁve years ties at the Burlingham Church and cemetery for of age before Aug. 1. Parents are guardians are 2020. CHESHIRE — The Memorial Day Service at the asked to bring a birth certiﬁcate, shot records, Gravel Hill Cemetery in Cheshire, has been canceled social security card, registration packet and proof of residency. Families will be asked to remain this year. GALLIPOLIS — The 2020 Memorial Day parade in their vehicles and a staff member will collect and program will not be held this year due to issues their enrollment packet and get copies of required surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak. With the main documentation. Families are encouraged to call the schools ahead of time. focus on keeping people safe and the difﬁculties of GALLIPOLIS — Gallipolis City Schools Early maintaining social distancing, keeping groups no Childhood programs are taking registering students larger than 10, wearing face masks, and the risks between the ages of three and ﬁve. A drive-through associated with underling heath issues, the Galregistration will be held at Washington Elemenlia County Veterans Service Commission felt that tary between 9 a.m.and 2:30 p.m. on June 15. Rio cancelling the event was the correct decision. This also follows state and federal guidelines as currently Grande Elementary, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., June 17, and Greene Elementary June 16, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 established, per the Gallia County Health Departp.m. Families are encouraged to call the schools ment. to schedule an appointment. Families will need to bring birth certiﬁcates, social security cards, health insurance, shot records and proof of income. Enrollment packets can also be picked up and dropped off at 61 State Street, Gallipolis. If there are any quesGALLIPOLIS — Kriner Road (CR-26) will be tions, call the Gallipolis City Schools Board Ofﬁce closed .5 mile from Neighborhood Road beginning at 740-446-3211. 7 a.m., Monday, May 18 for approximately 75 days ROCKSPRINGS — Kindergarten registration for slip repair, weather permitting. Local trafﬁc packets for the 2020/2021 school year are currently will need to use other state and county roads as a available for pick-up at Meigs Primary School. Packdetour. ets will be in a tote, labeled “Kindergarten RegistraOLIVE TWP. — Mt. Olive Road in Olive Towntion Packets”, on the porch of the primary school. ship is currently closed due to slip repair by Olive You may pick-up a packet at any time. Instructions Township Trustees. to return your child’s registration information are GALLIA COUNTY — Gallia County Engineer Brett A. Boothe announces Woods Mill Road will be in the packet. For questions or concerns please closed beginning Monday, April 20-Friday, June 19, contact: kristin.baer@meigslocal.org or chasity.martin@meigslocal.org. weather permitting. The road is closed from Ohio Service canceled Road closure GALLIA, MEIGS CALENDAR OF EVENTS Editor’s Note: The Daily Sentinel and Gallipolis Daily Tribune appreciate your input to the community calendar. To make sure items can receive proper attention, all information should be received by the newspaper at least ﬁve business days prior to an event. All coming events print on a space-available basis and in chronological order. Events can be emailed to: TDSnews@aimmediamidwest.com or GDTnews@ aimmediamidwest.com. Submittals for approval. ATHENS — The Southeast Ohio Public Energy Council (SOPEC) will be holding a Board of Directors meeting at 7 p.m. via Zoom. SOPEC General Assembly meetings are public meetings and all are welcome to attend. If any public entity or individual would like to attend please send an email to support@sopec-oh.gov, and the teleconference number will be provided. Thursday, May 21 Friday, May 22 POMEROY — A special meeting of the Meigs County Transportation Improvement District will be held at 8 a.m. at the Meigs County Highway Dept., 34110 Fairgrounds Road, Pomeroy, Ohio 45769. The purpose of this meeting to review FY21 Application MIDDLEPORT — The monthly Free Dinner at the Middleport Church of Christ Family Life Center, corner of 5th & Main St. They will have take-outs only again this month. These will be given out on the Family Life Center parking lot with social distanc- ing at 5 p.m. while supplies last. They are serving cheesy smoked sausage casserole, green beans, roll, and dessert. Saturday, May 23 MIDDLEPORT — Middleport Fire Department will be having the ﬁrst chicken BBQ of the year with serving starting at 11 a.m. Lunchroom hotdog sauce for sale also. Thursday, May 28 POMEROY — The Meigs Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors will hold their regular monthly meeting at noon at the district ofﬁce. The ofﬁce is located at 113 E. Memorial Drive, Suite D, Pomeroy. OHIO BRIEFS Wife of minister convicted of tors convicted in the investigation. Cops: Robbery suspect run sex charges sent to prison TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — The wife and stepover by car, still escapes daughter of a former Ohio minister convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl have been sentenced to prison after they earlier pleaded guilty to witness tampering. Prosecutors had accused the two women of abducting the victim and warning her not to testify at the trial of Anthony Haynes who was convicted last year of child sex trafﬁcking and other charges. A federal judge sentenced Haynes’ wife, Alisa Haynes, to two years in prison on Tuesday, while the former pastor’s stepdaughter, Alexis Fortune, received a four-year sentence. Court documents said the women forced the teenager from her apartment, choked her with a cord and told her to take back statements she made to investigators. The victim later testiﬁed against Anthony Haynes. He was one of three former Toledo pas- AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A robbery suspect who jumped from a moving car was run over by the vehicle but still managed to ﬂee from police, authorities said. Akron police saw the man jump from the rear of the car around 9:15 p.m. Monday, authorities said. He was then struck when the car spun around, but he ran off and remains at large. Authorities said the man has been identiﬁed, but they did not release his name. Two other men who were in the vehicle were both arrested on weapons charges. Authorities said three loaded handguns were found in the car, two of which were within reach of the occupants. The driver told police that the man who jumped from the vehicle had been trying to rob him and the other passenger. The matter remains under investigation, authorities said. �NEWS/CLASSIFIEDS 4 Thursday, May 21, 2020 Ohio Valley Publishing DeWine calls on national guard to help nursing homes lot more progress in that area.” Fourteen teams of 10 Associated Press members each will assist the Health Department with testing, with teams COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio National Guard consisting of medically qualiﬁed Ohio Air and units will be going to nursing homes this week Army guard personnel including medics to test for the coronaand nurses, said Guard virus as the death toll spokeswoman Stephanie continues to climb at a Beougher. fast pace among longDeWine’s announceterm care residents, Gov. Mike DeWine said ment came as cases are growing at the Ohio Tuesday. Veterans Home in SanThe devastation from dusky, including the the virus inside the state’s nursing homes is death of one resident. Long-term care ceneven more severe than ters are still seeing a what had been known, steady number of deaths with new statistics despite virtual lockshowing the death toll downs that have restricthas topped 1,000 resied all visitors and Ohio’s dents. practice of deploying That translates to “strike teams” when three of every ﬁve there are outbreaks. virus-related deaths in For more than a the state since the pandemic began, according month, nursing homes operators have been askto updated statistics obtained by The Associ- ing for more personal protective equipment ated Press. and calling for wideDeWine said he’ll be spread testing, saying asking both the guard they should be a priority and the state’s largest like hospitals because hospitals to pitch in of their residents’ suswith testing. ceptibility to COVID-19. “We’re going to push But the state said at the testing as hard as we can in these nursing that time there simply homes,” he said. “And I weren’t enough tests, maintaining a policy think in the next seven of only testing once a days we’re going to be nursing home resident able to report to you a (740) 446-2342 or fax to (740) 446-3008 XXX�NZEBJMZTFOUJOFM�DPN�t�HEUDMBTTJöFET!BJNNFEJBNJEXFTU�DPN HEUMFHBMT!BJNNFEJBNJEXFTU�DPN or staff member shows symptoms. In western Ohio, nearly two months passed between the ﬁrst positive case at a nursing home in Troy and the completion of testing for all the facility’s residents and staff. During that time, 24 residents died at a pair of long-term care centers eight miles apart — a sign of what was to come for the rest of Ohio. “We were absolutely amazed at how quickly it spread through the facility even with proper protocols in place,” said Dennis Propes, the health commissioner in Miami County. At the height of the outbreak, the local health department was pushing to check everyone at the two Miami County nursing homes, but they were told to follow the state’s policy of treating all of the residents as if they had the virus because of the shortage of tests. Being able to evaluate everyone at all nursing homes — not just those that are infected — would be a big step to stop more ﬂare-ups and allow health departments “to see what’s really there,” Propes said. Miami County ofﬁcials are fairly conﬁdent that the outbreak has stabilized in those two nursing homes, but that’s not the case around much of Ohio, which has an older population on average than most states. In Lucas County and Toledo, the number of nursing home deaths during the past month has climbed to nearly 100. As of last week, 1,031 residents of Ohio’s longterm care facilities had died from the virus, the state health department told the AP. Up until now, that total included deaths only after April 15, which was when the state began tracking long-term care deaths by facility. The new total includes 369 residents who died before mid-April, when Ohio recorded only whether an individual had been in a nursing home, according to the health department. Nationally, outbreaks in nursing homes and long-term care facilities have claimed more then 32,000 lives, according to a count by the AP. More testing is crucial for nursing homes, but (740) 992-2155 or fax to (740) 992-2157 XXX�NZEBJMZTFOUJOFM�DPN�t�HEUDMBTTJöFET!BJNNFEJBNJEXFTU�DPN HEUMFHBMT!BJNNFEJBNJEXFTU�DPN IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS GALLIA COUNTY, OHIO Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for the registered holders of Meritage Mortgage Loan Trust 2005-3, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-3 Plaintiff, vs. Heidi Johnson and Brent W. Johnson, et al. Defendants. Case Number: 20CV000031 Judge: Evans, M. Margaret LEGAL NOTICE The Defendant, Brent W. Johnson, whose current address is unknown, will take notice that on March 23, 2020, the Plaintiff, Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for the registered holders of Meritage Mortgage Loan Trust 2005-3, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-3, filed its Complaint in Case No. 20CV000031, in the Court of Common Pleas of Gallia County, Ohio, seeking a foreclosure of its mortgage interest in the real property located at 7669 Bull Run Road, Vinton, OH 45686, Permanent Parcel No. 01800106801,("Real Estate"), and alleged that the Defendant, has or may have an interest in this Real Estate. The Defendant, Brent W. Johnson is required to answer the Plaintiff's Complaint within twenty-eight (28) days after the last date of publication of this notice. In the event that the Defendant, Brent W. Johnson fails to respond in the allotted time, judgment by default can be entered against them for the relief requested in the Plaintiff's Complaint. Carrie L. Davis (0083281) Michael R. Brinkman (0040079) Yanfang Marilyn Ramirez (0074242) David W. Cliffe (0059537) Attorney for Plaintiff Reisenfeld & Associates LLC 3962 Red Bank Road Cincinnati, OH 45227 voice: (513) 322-7000 facsimile: (513) 322-7099 5/7/20,5/14/20,5/21/20 it must be done in a thoughtful and efﬁcient way, said Kathryn Brod, CEO of LeadingAge Ohio, which represents long-term care and hospice organizations. For example, testing staff is challenging since many employees work multiple shifts over multiple days, she said. And despite improvements, some facilities are still short of personal protective equipment. Another challenge is coordinating approaches by the state’s 113 local health departments, and the range of differences between nursing homes, assisted living facilities and other care centers. “We have so many different kinds of congregate care settings across the state, that I think one of the challenges that we have is that everybody wants to have a one-size-fits-all approach, and we just can’t,” Brod said. Ron Kilpatrick has pushed more testing at the Youngstown-area nursing home where his 100-year-old mother moved six months ago. He has no complaints about the care she’s been receiving at the home, where she’s isolated from others and has everything she needs brought to her room. What has bothered him is that her facility, under state protocol, would not conduct testing unless symptoms are detected among staff or residents. At the very least, nursing home staff should be tested regularly since they’re the ones most likely to inadvertently bring the coronavirus into a facility, Kilpatrick said. “It’s just logical to me you’d want to get ahead of this and just test the staff,” said Kilpatrick, 78, of Naples, Florida. “You don’t have to test the residents right away. They’re not going anywhere. They’re not bringing it in.” Last week, the White House strongly recommended to governors that all residents and staff at long-term care facilities be tested for the coronavirus in the next two weeks. DeWine said then that it was unlikely in Ohio, arguing the state had a responsible plan without widespread testing. Associated Press writer Julie Carr Smyth in Columbus contributed to this report. 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In Connecticut, restaurants are reopening with outdoor-only dining and tables 6 feet apart. In Beverly Hills, California, the rich and glamorous are doing their shopping from the curb along Rodeo Drive. And preschools around the U.S. plan to turn social distancing into an arts-and-crafts project by teaching kids how to “create their own space” with things like yarn and masking tape. As the U.S. and other countries loosen their coronavirus restrictions, it’s back to business, but not business as usual. In fact, it is becoming all too clear that without a vaccine against the scourge, the disruptions could be long-lasting and the economy won’t be bouncing right back. In Italy, where good food is an essential part of life, once-packed restaurants and cafes are facing a huge ﬁnancial hit as they reopen with strict social-distancing rules after a 10-week shutdown. Experts warned that as many as one-third of the country’s restaurants and bars could go out of business, up to 300,000 jobs in the sector could vanish, and losses could reach 30 billion euros ($32 billion) this year. “We have to turn upside down all the activity that we did before,” lamented chef Raffaele di Cristo, who must wear a mask and latex gloves as he prepares food at the popular Corsi Trattoria in Rome. “Everything is changed.” Corsi reopened this week with half its tables removed to ensure the mandated 1-meter (3-foot) spacing between tables. Hand sanitizing gel was placed at the entrance, and a new ordering system was installed so that customers could read the menu on their phones instead of listening to waitresses recite the specials. In Connecticut, restaurants that reopened Wednesday for outdoor dining are required to rearrange workstations so that employees don’t face one another, and stagger shifts and break times to minimize contact among them. Markers must be installed to encourage customers to keep their distance from one another. In Glastonbury, Connecticut, the Max Fish restaurant opened for lunch with 16 tables on outdoor patios. Customers ﬁlled about half the tables in the early afternoon, and all the tables were reserved for dinner, said general manager Brian Costa. Friends and retirees Debbie Lawrence and Jill Perry, who often ate out together before the outbreak, enjoyed a meal at Max Fish. “It was terriﬁc. It’s just wonderful to be outside,” Lawrence said. “But I’m still a little leery of going to any stores.” At the Crab Shell Restaurant on the waterfront in Stamford, co-owner James Clifford held up a roughly 6-foot long stick he said he used to make sure chairs weren’t too close together. “I just hope the outdoor people don’t get greedy and they don’t overstep their bounds,” he said. “Because if you can’t get it right outdoors, how can you get it indoors?” In Fredericksburg, Virginia, one restaurant that recently reopened its patio has taken an extra step to reassure diners. The Colonial Tavern is taking staff members’ temperatures at the start of their shifts and posting the results for patrons to see. Some of new rules for dining out echo reopen- TODAY 8 AM WEATHER 2 PM 54° 59° 62° Spotty showers today. Mostly cloudy tonight. High 66° / Low 55° HEALTH TODAY AccuWeather.com Asthma Index™ Temperature The AccuWeather.com Asthma Index combines the effects of current air quality, pollen counts, wind, temperature, dew point, barometric pressure, and changes from past weather conditions to provide a scale showing the overall probability and severity of an asthma attack. Precipitation (in inches) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Wed. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date 1.16 3.79 2.96 21.32 16.45 SUN & MOON Today 6:11 a.m. 8:40 p.m. 5:46 a.m. 7:45 p.m. Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset New First Full May 22 May 29 Jun 5 Last Jun 13 SOLUNAR TABLE The solunar period indicates peak feeding times for ﬁsh and game. Today Fri. Sat. Sun. Mon. Tue. Wed. 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Source: Hamilton County Department of Environmental Services OHIO RIVER Levels in feet as of 7 a.m. Wed. Location Willow Island Marietta Parkersburg Belleville Racine Point Pleasant Gallipolis Huntington Ashland Lloyd Greenup Portsmouth Maysville Meldahl Dam Flood Stage 37 34 36 35 41 40 50 50 52 54 50 50 51 Level 12.99 19.23 21.97 12.70 13.38 25.00 12.39 26.08 34.07 11.89 27.00 36.10 35.20 Portsmouth 64/54 24-hr. Chg. +0.61 +2.00 -0.35 -0.12 +0.47 -0.46 -0.17 -0.88 -0.49 -0.21 +2.50 +1.10 +6.10 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2020 Partly sunny and warm 83° 62° 86° 65° NATIONAL CITIES Marietta 63/54 Belpre 63/55 Athens 62/55 St. Marys 64/55 Parkersburg 63/55 Coolville 63/55 Elizabeth 64/55 Spencer 64/56 Buffalo 65/55 Milton 66/54 Clendenin 65/55 St. Albans 65/55 Huntington 65/55 NATIONAL FORECAST 110s 100s Seattle 90s 58/46 80s 70s 60s 50s 40s 30s San Francisco 69/53 20s 10s 0s -0s -10s Los Angeles 81/60 T-storms Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Cold Front Warm Front Stationary Front WEDNESDAY Rather cloudy and An afternoon Mostly cloudy with a warm; a p.m. t-storm thunderstorm possible t-storm possible Murray City 62/54 Ironton 65/54 Ashland 64/54 Grayson 65/54 France is limiting spaces in its primary schools, giving priority to the children of essential workers and those in need. Some younger students even go on alternating days, while high schools remain closed. People’s gratitude at being able to shop or eat out again is mingling with worries about job security. Business was slow at a Paris farmer’s market with a mixed mood among the masked, gloved vendors. A man selling peonies and petunias said he was glad to get out and see shoppers again, while a woman selling asparagus and tomatoes behind a makeshift plastic screen grumbled that her customers were buying less than usual. British aircraft engine maker Rolls-Royce announced plans to cut 9,000 workers as it grapples with the collapse in air travel. In general, those jobs come with good pay and beneﬁts, and losing them is a sharp blow to local communities. TUESDAY 85° 66° Wilkesville 64/54 POMEROY Jackson 64/55 64/55 Ravenswood Rio Grande 65/56 66/55 Centerville POINT PLEASANT Ripley 63/56 GALLIPOLIS 66/55 65/56 65/55 South Shore Greenup 65/54 63/53 33 Logan 62/54 MONDAY 85° 63° Rather cloudy McArthur 63/54 Very High Primary: elm/oak/cedar Mold: 1029 Moderate Chillicothe 62/55 SUNDAY 80° 60° Adelphi 62/55 Waverly 62/54 Pollen: 11 Low MOON PHASES SATURDAY A shower and t-storm around; warmer 1 Primary: ascospores, unk. Fri. 6:10 a.m. 8:40 p.m. 6:16 a.m. 8:46 p.m. EXTENDED FORECAST FRIDAY Detroit’s Big Three automakers restarted their U.S. factories on Monday after a twomonth shutdown. Education, too, is facing radical changes. Cambridge became the ﬁrst university in Britain to cancel all faceto-face lectures for the upcoming school year, saying they will be held virtually and streamed online until the summer of 2021. Other institutions have taken different tacks. The University of Notre Dame in Indiana will bring students back to campus but redesigned its calendar to start the semester early in August and end before Thanksgiving. In South Korea, hundreds of thousands of high school seniors had their temperatures checked and used hand sanitizer as they returned Wednesday, many for the ﬁrst time since late last year. Students and teachers were required to wear masks, and some schools installed plastic partitions around desks. licans say they are very or extremely concerned about additional infections, compared with three-quarters of Democrats. About 5 million people worldwide have been conﬁrmed infected, and over 320,000 deaths have been recorded, including about 92,000 in the U.S. and around 165,000 in Europe, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University, based on government data. Experts believe the true toll is signiﬁcantly higher. With the virus far from vanquished, the reopenings could prove to be a stop-and-start, two-steps-forward-onestep-back process. Ford temporarily halted production at two of its assembly plants Tuesday and Wednesday in Chicago and Dearborn, Michigan, after three autoworkers tested positive for the virus. Work was stopped to sanitize equipment and isolate who came into contact with the infected employees. 76° 56° Statistics through 3 p.m. Wed. 58° 49° 76° 54° 95° in 1934 35° in 1907 ing guidelines released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They are intended for childcare centers, schools, day camps, mass transit systems, restaurants, bars and other businesses and organizations. For example, the CDC suggests mass transit systems close every other row of seats and limit how many riders can be on a bus or train. Amid the wave of reopenings, many Americans remain wary, according to a new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The poll ﬁnds that 83% of Americans are at least somewhat concerned that lifting restrictions in their area will lead to additional infections. The poll also exposed a widening partisan divide on the topic, with Democrats more cautious and Republicans less anxious as President Donald Trump urges states to “open up our country.” Only about a third of Repub- 8 PM ALMANAC High Low Normal high Normal low Record high Record low Keith Srakocic | AP Bridget Kreider, right, helps her 3-year-old daughter Maggie pull on her protective face covering before entering a store Wednesday in Harmony, Pa. Customers entering stores are required to wear face coverings to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus during the COVID-19 pandemic under the state yellow phase reopening guide. Charleston 66/57 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. 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And what that plan resembles could be complicated further should the U.S. and Canada extend border restrictions to non-essential travel into July, the person said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the discussions are private. The person spoke after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced border restrictions will stay in effect through June 21. This marks the second time the restrictions have been extended since ﬁrst being put into place March 18 because of the new coronavirus pandemic. “I am hopeful that today’s announcement will not have a material impact on our return to play discussions and timeline,” NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly wrote in an email. Though the NHL has left open the possibility of having training camps open as late as early August, it was unclear what effect further border restrictions will have on a league with seven of its 31 teams based in Canada. There’s also a question of how travel restrictions will affect players, many of whom have returned to their offseason homes — including about 17% of players currently self-isolating overseas. In a separate development, the NHLPA’s executive board voted to defer the ﬁnal payment of players’ regular season salaries through the end of May. Players were owed their ﬁnal checks on April 15, before voting to defer those payments for a month. The decision provides temporary relief to the NHL’s bottom line, opening the possibility of players foregoing some or the entire remainder of their ﬁnal checks. The players stand to lose all or a portion of what they are owed under the collective bargaining agreement. Players and owners split hockey-related revenue on a 50-50 basis, with a percentage of players’ salaries placed in an escrow fund. Owners can draw from the fund should their share fall below 50%, which is projected to happen this season. Owners considered the players previous decision to defer payment as a sign of good faith. Daly declined to comment on the latest deferment, saying it’s a decision left entirely to players. The NHL paused its season on March 12, with Commissioner Gary Bettman adamant the league intends to award the Stanley Cup, even it means extending the playoffs into September. The decision on when and how to resume the season is being left with a committee made up of representatives of the NHL and NHL Players’ Association. The topics of discussion include whether it’s feasible to conclude all or a portion of the regular season or go directly into the playoffs. The season was postponed with 189 games remaining and teams having played an uneven number of games. Among the options discussed are an expanded playoff format, featuring as many as 24 teams, and the likelihood of having groups of teams gather and play games in a select number of hub cities around the continent and without fans present. There is no set deadline as to when play must resume before the NHL considers canceling the season. Games could feasibly be played into October with the 2020-21 season potential opening in December or January. OVP SPORTS BRIEFS Rio hosting Jim Marshall Memorial golf outing JACKSON, Ohio — The Veterans Association at the University of Rio Grande will host their 3rd annual Jim Marshall Memorial Golf Tournament on Saturday, June 13, at Franklin Valley Golf Course in Jackson County. The event will begin at 9 a.m. with a shotgun start and the format is a 4-man scramble. The cost is $50 per player, plus mulligans are available for $10 per individual. There is also a $20 skins fee per team, with cash prizes available for skins. Prizes will be awarded, plus breakfast and lunch will be provided. Beer will be available for purchase at the event as well. Hole and tee box sponsorship is available at a cost of $100 per hole or tee box. All funds raised from the event helps Rio Grande honor veterans at the 2020 Jim Marshall Veteran of the Year Award Banquet — an annual event held every year the last Saturday of October. This year’s banquet is slated for Oct. 31. For more information, to register or to set up a sponsorship, contact Delyssa Edwards by email at dedwards@rio.edu or by phone at 740-245-4427. The NCAA Division I Council is debating whether to let a moratorium on voluntary workouts on campus expire at the end of the month as a growing number of college leaders express conﬁdence that fall sports will be played in some form. NCAA spokeswoman Michelle Hosick said the topic was on the agenda for the council for Wednesday, though it was not clear a decision would be made. The moratorium on athletic activities for all sports currently runs through May 31. From Notre Dame to LSU and more, a number of schools have announced plans to reopen their campuses for the fall semester and conferences have begun setting up plans for how to play football amid the coronavirus pandemic. The latest came this week with the Florida State system announcing plans for its 12 schools and more than 420,000 students. Many questions remain, including speciﬁc safety protocols and whether fans would be allowed if games proceed. But the presidents of Miami and Notre Dame said in separate interviews Wednesday they expect the football season to be played. Notre Dame President Fr. John Jenkins told MSNBC he expects to have clarity on how — or if — the football season can happen in the next few weeks. “The team itself, I feel we can manage that one,” Jenkins said. “Then the question is people in the stands. We have an 85,000-person stadium. Can we get 85,000 people in there? That will be a big challenge to do that. But could we get a smaller number — 10,000, 15,000, 20,000? I don’t know.” Miami President Julio Frenk told CNN he hopes the Hurricanes can play this fall and that safety would be the top priority. “They will probably play in empty stadiums, like so many other sports,” Frenk said. “But we hope to have a season and we hope to have a winning season.” Scott Woodward, the athletic director at defending national champion LSU, said his school was preparing to welcome back its athletes after the Southeastern Conference’s closure of athletic facilities to students is slated to end May 31. Susan Walsh | AP file A panel of witnesses, from left, Big 12 Conference Commissioner Bob Bowlsby, National Collegiate Athletic Association President Mark Emmert, University of Kansas Chancellor Dr. Douglas Girod, National College Players Association Executive Director Ramogi Huma and National Collegiate Athletic Association Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Chair Kendall Spencer listen during a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing on intercollegiate athlete compensation Feb. 11 on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Power Five conferences spent $350,000 on lobbying in the first three months of 2020, more than they had previously spent in any full year, as part of a coordinated effort to influence Congress on legislation affecting the ability of college athletes to earn endorsement money. Power Five spend big on lobbying Congress By Ben Nuckols Associated Press The Power Five conferences spent $350,000 on lobbying in the ﬁrst three months of 2020, more than they had previously spent in any full year, as part of a coordinated effort to inﬂuence Congress on legislation affecting the ability of college athletes to earn endorsement money. The Southeastern Conference was the biggest spender, hiring three lobbying ﬁrms and paying them a total of $140,000, according to lobbying disclosure forms reviewed by The Associated Press. Before this year, the SEC did not employ Washington lobbyists, instead leaving the work of inﬂuencing Congress to individual universities and the NCAA. In a statement to AP, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said the conference hired lobbyists so it could be part of the discussion as Congress gets more serious about reforming college sports. “It is important for the SEC to have a voice in this national dialogue,” Sankey said. “We look forward to a constructive exchange of ideas about ways we can further enhance our studentathletes’ educational and athletic experiences while ensuring that any future changes can be administered fairly on a national level.” The NCAA announced last month it was moving forward with a plan to allow college athletes to earn money for endorsements and other activities including personal appearances and social media content. California and other states have passed laws that would that would guarantee that right to athletes with few of the restrictions the NCAA is seeking. Florida could be the ﬁrst to have its law take effect, starting next year. The NCAA is pushing Congress for a federal law that would render those state laws moot and perhaps stave off future legal challenges. Conference commissioners have spoken about a chaotic recruiting environment that would result from a handful of states passing athlete-friendly laws and schools using them to entice the best players. At a hearing in February, NCAA President Mark Emmert said Congress needs to put “guardrails” on athletes’ ability to earn money, in part to protect against potential recruiting abuses and endorsement money being used as a pay-for-play scheme. That argument was met with skepticism by some lawmakers and athlete advocates, who believe scholarship athletes should have access to the free market like any other college student. The NCAA’s lobbyists have continued to press the case for those guardrails, and now they have more help. A document circulated by the Power Five lobbyists, obtained by AP, lists the conferences’ “core principles” for athlete compensation, and most of those principles include limitations. They include: a requirement for “one term of academic progress” before athletes can sign endorsement deals; a ban on athlete deals with “advertising categories inconsistent with higher education”; and limits on who can advise athletes on third-party contracts to prevent “unscrupulous actors.” Each of the Power Five hired the same two lobbying ﬁrms this year, and each of those ﬁrms collected $10,000 from each conference. The ﬁrms — Marshall & Popp, led by ex-Republican congressional staffers; and Subject Matter, led by Democrats — both stated as their objective a “national solution to preserve the unique model of American college athletics” while allowing players to earn money from their names, images and like- nesses (NIL). “In this particular case, the (Power Five) conferences are working together on this so that there’s less confusion, not more, in terms of the messaging to congressional leaders that helps explain NIL and what the concerns are, and how it might work,” Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner John Swofford told The Associated Press. Like the SEC, the Pac12 and the Big Ten also hired their ﬁrst Washington lobbyists. The Pac12 spent $70,000, giving $50,000 to its own ﬁrm and $10,000 each to Marshall & Popp and Subject Matter. The Big Ten paid $20,000 to the ﬁrms working for all the Power Five but did not hire its own dedicated lobbyist. The ACC and the Big 12 each spent $60,000 — $40,000 on their own lobbyists and $20,000 on the Power Five ﬁrms. Both conferences had the same lobbyists last year, the ﬁrst year either had spent signiﬁcant money to inﬂuence members of Congress. 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AP-NORC poll: Americans harbor fear of new infections By Thomas Beaumont and Hannah Fingerhut Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa — Strong concern about a second wave of coronavirus infections is reinforcing widespread opposition among Americans to reopening public places, a new poll ﬁnds, even as many state leaders step up efforts to return to life before the pandemic. Yet support for public health restrictions imposed to control the virus’ spread is no longer overwhelming. It has been eroded over the past month by a widening partisan divide, with Democrats more cautious and Republicans less anxious as President Donald Trump urges states to “open up our country,” according to the new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The poll ﬁnds that 83% of Americans are at least somewhat concerned that lifting restrictions in their area will lead to additional infections, with 54% saying they are very or extremely concerned that such steps will result in a spike of COVID-19 cases. “Oh, I’d like to get my hair and nails done. It’s one of those little pleasures you take for granted,” said Kathy Bishop, a 59-year-old billing specialist who battled pneumonia two years ago. “But I’m just going to suck it up. It’s not worth the risk.” Bishop lives in the western suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, a state where Republican Gov. Mike DeWine is among the state chief executives leading a gradual reopening of businesses such as salons, barbershops, restaurants and bars. But even after nine weeks spent cloistered at home, Bishop is among the solid majority of Americans who support rigorous criteria for economic reopening that goes beyond wearing masks in public places and continued social distancing. About 8 in 10 Americans say that it’s essential to reopening for people to return to selfquarantine if they are exposed to the virus. Roughly 6 in 10 also say having widespread testing for the coronavirus in their area is essential to reestablishing public activities, along with requiring people to keep six feet apart in most places and to wear face masks when they’re near others outside their homes. Nearly as telling as the public’s appetite for rigorous Ballot From page 1 Backers of two marijuana decriminalization proposals are hoping to place their decriminalization measures on more than a dozen town and village ballots across the state. The group failed to gather the 1,000 valid signatures necessary to launch its campaign statewide, missing the mark by more than 800 signatures on March 23. Sargus said he might have agreed, under ordinary conditions, with the arguments of Gov. Mike DeWine and Sec- Concern about consequences of reopening A new AP-NORC poll finds a majority of Americans say they are at least somewhat concerned that lifting social and economic restrictions in their area will lead to additional COVID-19 infections. How concerned are you that lifting restrictions will lead to additional coronavirus infections? Extremely/ Very concerned 54% Somewhat concerned 29% Not too/ Not at all concerned 16% Results based on interviews with 1,056 U.S. adults conducted May 14–18. The margin of error is ±4.2 percentage points for the full sample. SOURCE: AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research precaution: close to half say it is essential that a vaccine be available before public life resumes. Another third say that’s important, although not essential. Taken together, the ﬁndings suggest that while some Americans are anxious to get back to business as usual, most don’t see the country returning anytime soon to what once was considered normal. Instead, Americans largely envision a protracted period of physical distancing, covered faces and intermittent quarantines ahead, perhaps until a vaccine is available. Joe Yeskewicz, of Middleboro, Massachusetts, said he believes a vaccine is a must for his town of 23,000 south of Boston to fully reopen. He’s among the nearly 8 in 10 Americans who don’t expect one to be ready before the end of the year. “It is so novel, so unpredictable and so terribly, terribly contagious,” the 76-year-old retired teacher and college professor said of the virus. “The vaccine predictably could take years because it has to undergo a vigorous testing program for it to be effective and safe. Regardless of the optimism, this is going to take a while.” The latest AP-NORC survey was conducted over this past weekend, before Monday’s news of positive results in a clinical trial of a potential vaccine. It found that a solid majority of about 6 in 10 Americans are in favor of requiring people to stay in their homes except for essential errands, with about third of the country strongly in behind that approach. While still resolute, support for such measures to contain the coronavirus has slipped in the past month — 80% were in favor of stay-at-home orders in April. The new survey found that 69% now favor restricting gatherings to 10 people or fewer, down from 82% in April. Those declines are largely driven by changes in attitudes among Republicans, as Trump and several GOP governors have aggressively pressed for and moved ahead with reopening businesses and public places. Some people in Wisconsin headed straight for the local tavern last week after the conservative-controlled state Supreme Court upheld the GOP-controlled legislature’s appeal of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ stay-at-home order. Just 45% of Republicans now say they favor stay-athome orders, while about as many are opposed. A month ago, 70% of Republicans backed them. Among Democrats, 78% favor stay-at-home orders, down from 91% in April. Only about a third of Republicans say they are very or extremely concerned about the possibility of addi- tional infections if restrictions are lifted, compared to three-quarters of Democrats. Peggy Dullum, a 65-yearold Republican and retired state health care worker from suburban Sacramento, California, said she once supported strict lockdown measures to contain the virus. But she now thinks they have outlived their purpose. “If they’d have opened all retail, it would have spread out social activity rather than congesting it in those few retail locations where people crowded without masks,” Dullum said. “Make everybody wear a mask, instead of making it voluntary, and we probably could have kept the economy moving at a solid pace during the second month.” But Yeskewicz, the Democratic-leaning independent from Massachusetts, shakes his head — including at the small but vocal pockets of protesters, at times armed and brandishing Confederate ﬂags, who complain leaders who back continued safety measures are doing so out of anything but concern for public health. “We can’t just arbitrarily restore privileges simply because people are so desperate they can’t stand it any more,” Yeskewicz said. “It’s not about peoples’ rights being violated. They are trying to keep you alive, you bozos!” retary of State Frank LaRose, both Republicans, that Ohio’s signature requirements are an appropriate qualiﬁer for ballot access. “These times, however, are not ordinary,” he wrote. “Plaintiffs do not argue that Ohio’s signature requirements are facially unconstitutional,” he wrote. “Plaintiffs instead contend that they are unconstitutional as applied to them during this extraordinary time. That is, the COVID-19 pandemic has made it impossible to circulate petitions in person.” LaRose said Sargus’ ruling allows the ballot campaigns to “ignore the Ohio Constitu- tion,” which sets the signature requirements. Both the Ohio Supreme Court and a state court had declined requests to waive them. “Let me be clear, the petition requirements set in the Ohio Constitution and decisions on changing them belong to the General Assembly and the people,” LaRose said in an emailed statement. “Our ofﬁce has already informed Attorney General Yost that we intend to appeal the ruling.” Toni Webb, campaign manager for Ohioans for Secure and Fair Elections, said even this court victory may not be enough to help the effort suc- ceed. 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