http://66.213.69.5/files/original/45885f5e522a7707722199d99c3745cb.pdf 2ad05850e6eae52dc0fceb20fc221b40 PDF Text Text Today in history EDITORIAL s 4 Sunshine, High 48, Low 34 Kennedy award winner WEATHER s 5 SPORTS s 6 C_ZZb[fehjFec[heo"�E^_e Breaking news at mydailysentinel.com Issue 207, Volume 70 Wednesday, December 28, 2016 s 50¢ Court: Synthetic drugs criminalized when carryout owner sold them By Carol Taylor Special to OVP Dean Wright/Tribune In this file photo from April, the Ohio Supreme Court visited Meigs High School in Pomeroy to argue cases as part of the off-site court public program. COLUMBUS — The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that “controlled substance analogs,” such as Spice and K2, were criminalized by statute as early as Oct. 17, 2011. Writing for the majority, Justice Paul E. Pfeifer stated that while controlled substance analogs, or synthetic drugs, were not speciﬁcally included in Title 29, the state’s criminal statutes, when defendant Hamza Shalash was arrested and indicted for selling them in 2011 and early 2012, other provisions of the Revised Code incorporated synthetic drugs into Title 29 at the time. Speciﬁcally, Justice Pfeifer wrote, R.C. 3719.013 states that controlled substance analogs “shall” be treated as a controlled substance for purposes of “any provision of the Revised Code.” The Court’s decision afﬁrmed the judgment of the Twelfth District Court of Appeals. Background Shalash was indicted on May 21, 2012, for multiple counts of trafﬁcking in Spice and K2, both controlled substance ana- logs that have similar effects and chemical composition as marijuana. A jury convicted Shalash in March 2013 for trafﬁcking and engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity for selling the substances from a ﬁlling station in Lebanon, Ohio, that he co-owned. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Shalash appealed to the Twelfth District Court of Appeals, which overturned his conviction and returned the case to the trial court for a hearing. Shalash asked the See DRUGS | 5 W.Va. man arrested following Meigs traffic stop Staff Report TDSnews@civitasmedia.com POMEROY — A West Virginia man is facing drug charges in Meigs County after a trafﬁc stop on Monday afternoon. According to a news release from the Meigs County Sheriff’s Ofﬁce, the Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission’s Major Crimes Task Force of Gallia-Meigs is investigating a matter which began with a trafﬁc stop by a Meigs County deputy. Meigs County deputies, while on routine patrol on Route 33 near the Route 7 intersection stopped a car driven by Justin W. Bradley, age 23, of Alderson, West Virginia, for a moving violation. While speaking with Bradley the deputy questioned him if he had any items that he should know about in the vehicle. Bradley disclosed to the deputy that he had a ﬁrearm in the vehicle and deputies were able to locate a loaded .380 Ruger Pistol in the front compartment of the motor Bradley vehicle. Upon further search of the vehicle a small amount of alleged drugs was located and $7,500 in cash was located in the trunk of the vehicle stored in two separate locations. Task Force Agents along with deputies interviewed the two adult occupants of the vehicle and conferred with Meigs County Prosecuting Attorney Colleen Williams concerning the case. Bradley was arrested on a fourth degree felony charge for having a concealed weapon and was cited for driving under suspension. Bradley was incarcerated in the Meigs County Jail awaiting a court appearance. Task Force Agents also served Bradley and the other adult occupant of the vehicle with an intent to forfeit notice on the ﬁrearm and the $7,500 in cash. Sheriff Keith Wood added that two small children were in the motor vehicle at the time the offenses were committed. The Major Crimes Task Force of Gallia-Meigs is a part of the Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission which is part of the State of Ohio Attorney General’s Ofﬁce. The Task Force was formed in September 2013. The Task Force is formed by members of the Meigs and Gallia County Sheriff’s Ofﬁces, Middleport and Gallipolis Police Departments and the Meigs and Gallia County Prosecutor Ofﬁces. INDEX Death Notices: 2 News: 3 Editorial: 4 Weather: 5 Sports: 6 Classifieds: 8 Comics: 9 JOIN THE CONVERSATION What’s your take on today’s news? Go to mydailysentinel. com and visit us on facebook to share your thoughts. Sentinel file photos (Left) Late Sheriff James Proffitt; (top right) Meigs County Museum; (bottom left) Rock slide in Antiquity. Year in review: Looking back at 2016 January through March By Sarah Hawley shawley@civitasmedia.com MEIGS COUNTY — As we approach the end of 2016, The Daily Sentinel is taking a look back at some of the top stories of the year and what has taken place in Meigs County. The ﬁrst day will take a look back at January, February and March, with each of the following days taking a look at three month segments, concluding on Sunday. January Museum reopens in annex building The Meigs County Museum reopened in the annex building next door after closing in late 2016. Banjos and ﬁddles played, and a bell rang as local residents made a visit to the reopened Meigs County Museum, which is now housed in the annex building next door. The museum closed late last year for maintenance and was moved to the newer building last November. January marked the ofﬁcial reopening, with refreshments, music by Liz and Lynn Shaw, both of Meigs County, and of course, exhibits for all to see. The ﬁrst exhibit of the new year, “Rural Life,” showcased aspects of life in Meigs County (From left) Reitred Meigs teacher Lynn Bookman and Former Meigs Supt. Rusty Bookman; Meigs Supt. Scot Gheen; and the Snow Crow Polar Plunge. from the 1870s through to 1890s. The areas of focus include farming, woodworking and blacksmithing. There is an exhibit on the hearth and home, as well. Some of the highlights include a 19th century travel forge, which was used by blacksmiths and could be transported; letters that date to as early as 1834; and an old newspaper from the area, the Pomeroy Mosquito, which included obituaries and local news. The speciﬁc paper on display, from 1885, talks about a local woman who accidentally ate lye and burned skin off her face and tongue, among other tidbits of local gossip. New warden in town The Meigs County Board of Commissioners announced in January that there would be a new Meigs County dog warden. Coleen MurphySmith was hired for the position and took on the role in February. “I’m just really excited and so happy to be chosen for this because think this is going to be an awesome thing for Meigs County. I’m just anxious to get in there and get started and do everything we can for dogs and people of Meigs County,” she told the Sentinel at the time of her hire. All three of the commissioners voiced their conﬁdence in MurphySmith for the position. “She’s been a fantastic asset to the shelter and we look forward to having her work there full time,” Commissioner Randy Smith said at the time Grammy Award announced for Jorma One of Meigs County’s own was announced to be the recipient of a Grammy Award. Jorma Kaukonen who’s served as a guitarist for Jefferson Airplane since their ﬁrst rifts gave rise to fame in 1965, will — along with his bandmates — were announced as recipients of a lifetime achievement award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Jorma ﬁrst wrote about the achievement on his blog, “Cracks in the ﬁnish,” on Jan. 13: “Nobody I know got into this wacky business for awards … but to be honored by your peers, well … sufﬁce it to say that it is indeed an honor. People often ask, ‘Did you ever think when you got started …’ that this, that or whatever would have happened? First of all, who knew we would live this long? Who would have dared to guess that a little music picked in San Francisco over half a century ago would have such long leg(s) and gained such … well, respectability. Not I, that’s for sure. Fame such as it is, recognition … ephemeral as it is … we’ll take it.” Since the band’s inception in the mid 1950s, See 2016 | 3 �DEATH NOTICES/NEWS 2 Wednesday, December 28, 2016 DEATH NOTICES MEIGS BRIEFS MOORE Editor’s Note: Meigs Briefs will only list event information that is open to the public and will be printed on a space-available basis. DAYTON, Ohio — Charles Moore, 80, of Dayton, Ohio formerly of Crown City, Ohio, passed away Monday, December 26, 2016 at Hospice of Dayton, Dayton. Funeral service will be conducted 2 p.m., Thursday, December 29, 2016 at Hall Funeral Home and Crematory, Proctorville, Ohio. Burial will follow in Crown City Cemetery, Crown City. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Holiday office closures POMEROY — The ofﬁces of the Meigs County Auditor, Clerk of Court (legal), Recorder and Treasurer will be closing at noon on Dec. 30 and will be closed on Jan. 2. The Clerk of Courts title ofﬁce will be closed all day on Dec. 30 for a system upgrade and will re-open on Jan. 3. The Meigs County Courthouse will be closed on Jan. 2, but will be open on Dec. 30. ROTH RACINE, Ohio — Lila M. Roth, 93, Racine, Ohio, died Tuesday, December 27, 2016 in the Overbrook Center, Middleport, Ohio. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Cremeens-King Funeral Home, Racine. CASTRO CHESAPEAKE, Ohio — Madeline Sue Castro, 70, of Chesapeake, Ohio, died Thursday December 22, 2016 at St. Mary’s Medical Center, Huntington, W.Va. A memorial service will be held at 7 p.m., Friday, December 30, 2016 at Christ Temple Church, Huntington. Hall Funeral Home and Crematory, Proctorville, Ohio is in charge of arrangements. Animal Bedding Available MIDDLEPORT — The Meigs County Humane Society will be providing straw for animal bedding during the months of December, January and February. Vouchers may be picked up MEIGS CALENDAR OF EVENTS Editor’s Note: The Daily Sentinel appreciates 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 spaceavailable basis and in chronological order. Events can be emailed to: TDSnews@civitasmedia.com. BEACHWOOD, Ohio (AP) — Fights broke out at malls around the country Monday night sending shoppers, who were looking for postholiday deals, scrambling for the exits. No one was seriously injured in the mall melees, which, during the panic, also prompted numerous false reports of gunﬁre. Police in Ohio told Cleveland.com that ofﬁcers used pepper spray to disperse a large crowd following a ﬁght at an upscale shopping Thursday, Dec. 29 LETART TWP. — The regular meeting of the Letart Township Trustees will be held at 3:30 p.m. at the Letart Township Building. Immediately following the regular meeting the Letart Township Organizational Meeting will be held. RUTLAND — The Rutland Township Trustees will hold their year end meeting followed by reorganizational meeting at 7:30 a.m. at the Township Garage. Friday, Dec. 30 MIDDLEPORT — An American Red Cross Blood Drive will be held from 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Church of Christ Family Life Center, 437 Main Street. BEDFORD TWP. — The last meeting and restructuring of the Bedford Township Board of Trustees for 2016 will be at 4 p.m. OLIVE TWP. — The Olive Township Trustees will hold their end of year meeting t 6 p.m. at the township garage on Joppa Road. 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One male juvenile was arrested for allegedly trying to hit an ofﬁcer during the incident, which police said appeared to have been “loosely organized on social media.” There were similar disturbances at malls around the country including in New York, New Jersey and North Carolina, where chaos erupted at a mall in Fay- etteville and emergency medical personnel were called in to assist someone who had a medical episode while ﬂeeing. In Memphis, Tennessee, police arrested several people following ﬁghts at two malls there. No one was injured and no gunshots were ﬁred, despite reports indicating otherwise. “Somebody yelled ‘gun!’ and youths stampeded through the mall,” Deputy Chief Terry Landrum told The Commercial Appeal. Police in Aurora, Colorado, near Denver, evacuated a mall due to multiple skirmishes. The trouble reportedly began during an arrest when an unruly crowd surrounded the scene. Aurora police spokesman Sgt. Chris Amsler said that as the suspect was being taking into custody, the crowd, which mushroomed in size to about 500 people, advanced on the ofﬁcer and ﬁghts broke out. Five juveniles were arrested. No one was hurt. First Baptist Church of Middleport has begun an in-depth Bible study of The Revelation during the Sunday and Wednesday evening services at 7 p.m. at 211 S. 6th Ave., Middleport, Ohio. If you have questions, please call 740-992-2755 and leave a message. WEDNESDAY EVENING BROADCAST 3 (WSAZ) 4 (WTAP) 6 (WSYX) 7 (WOUB) 8 (WCHS) 10 (WBNS) 11 (WVAH) 12 (WVPB) 13 (WOWK) CABLE 6 PM 6:30 WSAZ News 3 WTAP News at Six ABC 6 News at 6:00 p.m. Nature Cat NBC Nightly News NBC Nightly News ABC World News Rick Steves' Europe WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28 7 PM 7:30 Wheel of Jeopardy! Fortune Wheel of Jeopardy! Fortune Entertainm- Access ent Tonight Hollywood PBS NewsHour Providing indepth analysis of current events. 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Funds support the is appreciated for immunization 4-H program in the county by proadministration; however, no one viding funds for supplies, camp and college scholarships, learning will be denied services because of an inability to pay an administraopportunities and more. To purtion fee for state-funded childchase a Plat Book, you can stop hood vaccines. Please bring mediby the Extension Ofﬁce on Moncal cards and/or commercial insurday-Thursday from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., mail $30 (for book, shipping ance cards, if applicable. Zostavax & handling) to Meigs County 4-H (shingles); pneumonia ; inﬂuenza vaccines are also available. Call Committee, 113 East Memorial for eligibility determination and Dr, Suite E, Pomeroy, OH 45769 or visit the Meigs County Record- availability or visit our website at www.meigs-health.com to see a er’s Ofﬁce in the Court House. If list of accepted commercial insuryou have any questions, please contact Michelle Stumbo, Meigs ances and Medicaid for adults. Ongoing Events PORTLAND — A Bible study will be held on Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. at the Portland Community Center with Rev. Tom Curtis. Everyone welcome. MIDDLEPORT — Pastor Billy Zuspan of the 31 (NICK) 34 (USA) 35 (TBS) 37 (CNN) 38 (TNT) (USPS 436-840) County 4-H Youth Development Educator, at stumbo.5@osu.edu or 740-992-6696. MEIGS CHURCH CALENDAR 30 (SPIKE) Civitas Media, LLC at the Humane Society Thrift Shop located at 253 N. Second Street in Middleport. To receive a voucher you must provide proof of income and pay a $2 fee for a bale of straw. For more information contact the Humane Society Thrift Shop at 740-992-6064 from 10 a.m to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Mall fights send post-holiday shoppers scrambling Wednesday, Dec. 28 POMEROY — A blood drive will be held at the Mulberry Community Center from 1-6:30 p.m. Please call 1-800-733-2767 or visit redcrossblood.org to schedule and appointment. 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TVMA Denzel Washington. TVMA Homeland "The Vest" Brody Homeland "Marine One" Saul investigates M. Jackson's goes to Gettysburg to the unsettling implications of Carrie's Journey retrieve an important item. timeline while she rests in bed. Pt. 1 of 2 �NEWS Daily Sentinel Wednesday, December 28, 2016 3 Official: Progress ‘substantial’ for flood survivors in Clay BOMONT, W.Va. (AP) — Joe and Sherry Fasanelli’s Clay County home is coming along now, nearly six months after 3 feet of water invaded. Earlier this month, they were still sleeping on cots in the living room, surrounded by their belongings in overﬂowing boxes and storage containers. The couple has lived in their home at the foot of a mountain, just yards from the Elk River, for nearly 37 years. The June 23 ﬂood that devastated West Virginia destroyed nearly everything they owned, but it did not drive them from their home. The couple stayed throughout the reconstruction process, which has been aided by a steady stream of volunteer work crews. “You ﬁnd out what you’re made of,” said Joe Fasanelli, 74, a retired mechanic. “You do,” Sherry Fasanelli, 68, 2016 From page 1 the band went on to record seven albums in the span of six years, with famous appearances on “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,” “The Ed Sullivan Show” and “The Tonight Show.” Three famous festival appearances include Altamont, Monterrey Pop, the Isle of Wight and the most famous of all, Woodstock. The band took nearly a 20-year-long break but reunited in 1989 for a ﬁnal album, aptly named “Jefferson Airplane.” They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland in 1996. Jorma became involved in a side project with Jefferson Airplane bassist Jack Casady called Hot Tuna during the time the group was still active, and has also worked on solo projects. In 2003, he was nominated for a Grammy for his album “Country Blue Heart.” Kaukonen is also the owner of Fur Peace Ranch in Pomeroy, which, since its inception, has become a staple in the Meigs County Community since April 1998. The ranch, nestled at 39495 St. Clair Road, is both a music instruction camp and a performance space, according to their website. Alongside Jefferson Airplane, Herbie Hancock, Run D.M.C. Linda Ronstadt, Celia Cruz, Earth, Wind & Fire and Ruth Brown also received the lifetime achievement award. Snow Crow Polar Plunge Plenty of people packed the Pomeroy Parking Lot during the Snow Crow Polar Plunge Saturday, Jan. 30. The event was held by The Los Cuervos (The Crows) Rider Riders Club, and raised more than $6,400. The event, which had 26 people jump into the 38-degrees water of the Ohio River in order to bring awareness. Exactly $4,200 of the money raised went to a local girl named Mady, who has severe Type 1 diabetes. Her family has rescued a dog, Rosie, from the Meigs County Dog Shelter, and are currently training Rosie to become a diabetic alert dog. The $4,200 raised will help the family ﬁnish paying for Rosie’s complete training. Los Cuervos is a group that is nationally sanctioned by the American Motorcyclist Association. February Bank robber sentenced A Meigs County woman who robbed Farmers Bank in Tuppers Plains bank in 2015 echoed. “You ﬁnd out that you can do things that you never thought you could do.” The house’s interior has been gutted and undergone reconstruction over the past few months. They were there without water and electricity in the sweltering heat for weeks after the ﬂood. “You could walk in the house, and it was like 107 to 110 degrees all the time,” Sherry said. “We slept with every window open. And our generator wouldn’t work, it was messed up. So for a long time we was without any kind of electric.” Sherry did ask her husband to consider leaving, she said. But the two are too old to leave, she said. Their desire to stay is only intensiﬁed by Joe’s illness: He’s battled brain cancer for four years. “He looked at me, and for the ﬁrst time in years, I saw tears in that man’s eyes,” Sherry Fasanelli said. “And he and was in the midst of planning another was sentenced to nine years in prison. Amanda Sawyer, who robbed the Tuppers Plains Farmers Bank June 2, 2015, and was arrested July 27, 2015, while allegedly planning to rob the TNT Pit Stop on Route 7, was given nine years in the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction during a sentencing hearing in Meigs County Common Pleas Court. Sawyer was indicted on four charges Aug. 21, with two charges of second-degree felony robbery, both counts one and four, a charge of felony robbery in the third degree, which was count two, and a kidnapping charge, which is a felony in the third degree. Sawyer pleaded guilty to amended charges on Dec. 10, 2015, with count one remaining the same and count four being amended to a felony in the third degree. After sentencing for counts one and four, Judge Dean Evans of Gallia County, who heard the case, dropped counts two and three. Along with nine years in prison, Sawyer has been ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $6,529 — the exact amount she stole from Farmers Bank on June 2. Sawyer, 32, of Reedsville, was arrested July 27 when she turned her vehicle onto State Route 7 in front of Deputy Michael Hupp, according to Williams. Hupp made a trafﬁc stop because Sawyer’s vehicle was missing the back license plate and because she was going only 20 mph on the highway. Bridge of Honor illuminated once again The Bridge of Honor, connecting Pomeroy, Ohio, and Mason, West Virginia, was once again living up to its name after illumination was restored in mid-February. It had been more than a year since the cobalt blue lights had shown on the bridge structure. It didn’t take long for the good news to spread when they returned, however. Social media sites also “lit up” with posts and pictures. “Excitement is in the air within the communities,” said Meigs County Development Director Perry Varnadoe at the time. “The bridge and the bridge lights are the centerpiece of our three communities of Pomeroy, Middleport and Mason.” Work on the bridge lights actually began in March 2014 when they began going off one by one. First thought to be acts of vandalism, it was later found that it was the heat from the bulbs causing the light covers to burst. The bulb heat, said, ‘Will you help me ﬁx this? Will you promise to help me?’ He said ‘I want to die here.’ And right then and there, that was it.” On most Sundays since the ﬂood, the Clay Lions Club has led volunteer work crews at various houses throughout the county, member Ashley Truman said. They worked for several weeks at the Fasanellis’. Truman said the couple has become like family to her. “That’s my Aunt Sherry,” Truman said. Recently Amish and Mennonite groups also have volunteered at the home. Earlier this month, volunteers still had new ﬂooring to put down, walls to paint and wall trim to install. Sherry Fasanelli said the couple could not have done the work without them. “These people don’t have to do what they’re doing, and I don’t think they get near the praise they should — none of on an aggravated arson charge after a ﬁre at his residence. Dennis Persons was arrested on the aggravated arson charge, which remains pending in Meigs County Common Pleas Court. After arriving on scene that morning, deputies received information that Persons had allegedly set ﬁre to his residence when other people were inside. One person who was inside the trailer at the time the ﬁre was allegedly set sustained burns and was transported by Meigs County EMS to Holzer Meigs Emergency Department. Another person inside the trailer at the time was able to escape and had no injuries, the sheriff’s ofﬁce said at the time. Meigs Superintendent Election results mean announces retirement change in local ofﬁcials The Meigs Local Board While Commissioner of Education accepted the Randy Smith defeated resignation of Superintendent Rusty Bookman, challenger Larry Tucker in the March primary for the purposes of retirand Recorder Kay Hill ing, with his ﬁnal day in defeated challenger Huey the position as March 4. Eason, incumbents Col(More on this in March) Rock slide in Antiquity Drivers encountered hazardous road conditions on the morning of Feb. 24 as a result of falling rocks on Route 124 in Antiquity. The Ohio Department of Transportation was quickly on the scene after receiving a report around 4 a.m. that morning that fallen rocks were blocking one lane of the road. As with many towns along the river, Antiquity is no longer incorporated, but the area is still identiﬁed by that name. Situated between rolling hills and the Ohio River, the roadway is the only thing separating the two. which reached in excess of 200 degrees, caused pressure that could not escape because of the covers. This, in turn, caused the lights to break. The problem was heightened because the company that ﬁrst sold the lights went out of business. Because so many of the lights had gone out, the West Virginia Department of Transportation made the decision in early 2015 to simply cut the breaker to them, making the once bright structure totally dark. Because of the estimated cost to replace the lights, and since they were mostly for appearance and not safety, it was unknown as to whether the lights would ever burn again. them,” she said. Like the progress made on the Fasanellis’ home, Clay County and state ofﬁcials say they’re also making progress on the housing needs of all the county’s ﬂood survivors. Rhonda McDonald, chairwoman of the Greater Clay Long-Term Recovery Committee, said, while there’s plenty more work to do, people are at least no longer living in tents. “We have scoured this county looking for tents,” McDonald said. “With the couple of cold snaps that we’ve had, I think if someone were in a tent they would have deﬁnitely reached out by now.” Earlier this month, McDonald said the committee knew of seven families who are still staying in campers. If other people are in campers, they haven’t reached out to the committee for help, she said. and his wife, Lynn Bookman, will ofﬁcially retire on May 31. They plan to remain in the area and help the school in whatever way they can, along with enjoying more time with their children and grandchildren. Rusty Bookman became superintendent on Aug. 1, 2010 after holding other positions within the school district for many years. Lynn Bookman’s passion — and career — has always been focused on second grade students. She began her career as a second grade teacher at Harrisonville Elementary School from August Bookmans retire, 1982 to 2002, when she Gheen hired as Meigs became a second grade Superintendent teacher at Meigs Primary Meigs Local Supt. Rusty Bookman ofﬁcially — the position she’ll hold retired from Meigs Local until the end of the 201516 school year. Schools, while his wife With the retirement also announced her retirement effective at the close of Bookman, the Meigs Local Board of Education of the school year. voted unanimously at its Between them, they had 69 of experience in March 22 meeting to hire public education. Rusty then-Eastern Local Supt. Bookman, superintendent Scot Gheen for the posiof Meigs Local Schools tion beginning on Aug. 1. leen Williams (prosecutor) and Diane Lynch (clerk of courts) were defeated by their challengers. Sammi Mugrage defeated Lynch for clerk of courts and James Stanley defeated Williams for prosecutor in the Republican primary. Two county incumbents ran unopposed, including County Treasurer Peggy Yost and County Engineer Eugene Triplett. While the individuals were not ofﬁcially elected until November, all were unopposed in the general election. Former Sheriff Proffitt dies A former Meigs County Sheriff died on Feb. 5. Former Sheriff James J. Profﬁtt, who served Meigs County from 19771984. The Meigs County Sheriff’s Ofﬁce released a statement on their Facebook page: “Today February 5th 2016 we lost one our own. He wore his Sheriff uniform with pride and taught great work values to many. It’s with a heavy heart for myself and all those that worked for this man. He was a father ﬁgure, a teacher to those at the Meigs Sheriff’s Ofﬁce. James J. Profﬁtt served as Sheriff in Meigs County from 1977 - 1984. Our staff is wearing mourning bands and our ﬂag is lowered to half staff in Pomeroy. In honor of Sheriff Profﬁtt. May God Bless.” March Long Bottom man allegedly sets fire to own residence On March 3, a Long Bottom man was arrested 60696429 �E ditorial 4 Wednesday, December 28, 2016 Daily Sentinel THEIR VIEW What are the 10 most historic events in your lifetime? By Dick Meyer Contributing Columnist The transition from Barack Obama to Donald Trump certainly feels like a historic moment, historically awful for some and positive for others. If it is any comfort, an interesting new study suggests that Americans have more in common in how they view the past than the present. The Pew Research Center and A+E Network’s “HISTORY” teamed up to ask more than 2,000 Americans this question: “Please name the 10 historic events that occurred in your lifetime that have had the greatest impact on the country.” They sorted the results by generation because, obviously, different generations lived through different events. The big headline was that Americans of all generations named the attacks of September 11, 2001, as the most important event of their lifetime by far. This was true even of older people who lived through World War II and the Vietnam War. There wasn’t much variation by age, gender, region or political leanings. African-Americans did put Obama’s election at the top. Historians certainly could marshal many arguments that 9/11 was not, in fact, the most consequential episode in history for the Silent Generation (born 1928 to 1945) and Baby Boomers (1946-1964). But something about 9/11 puts it at the top of historical memories for all generations. Nothing else comes close. The only other events listed by all generations were the election of Obama and the “tech revolution.” This is the top 10 list for Millennials (1981 to 1998): —9/11 —Obama election —Iraq/Afghanistan wars —Gay marriage —The tech revolution —Orlando shooting —Hurricane Katrina —Columbine shooting —Death of Bin Laden —Sandy Hook It’s a sad list for the most part. Millennials tend to see Obama’s election and gay marriage as positive historic moments; the tech revolution, for sure. It is especially disturbing, though not at all surprising, to see three mass shootings so prominent in the historical memory of young people. Generation X (1965 to 1980) produced a similar list but they remember “the Fall of Berlin Wall/end of Cold War” and rank it third, according to the poll. Here’s the Gen X top 10: 1 9/11 “The big headline was that Americans of all generations named the attacks of September 11, 2001, as the most important event of their lifetime by far. This was true even of older people who lived through World War II and the Vietnam War.” —Dick Meyer 2 Obama election 3 Fall of Berlin Wall/ end of Cold War 4 The tech revolution 5 Iraq/Afghanistan wars 6 Gulf War 7 Challenger disaster 8 Gay marriage 9 Hurricane Katrina 10 Columbine shooting There’s a big jump, obviously, to the Baby Boomer list: —9/11 —JFK assassination —Vietnam War —Obama election —Moon landing —The tech revolution —Civil Rights movement —Fall of Berlin Wall/ end of Cold War —MLK assassination —Iraq/Afghanistan wars I’m a boomer whether I like it or not, and I would put Vietnam on the top of my list, no doubt. And I would have ranked the civil rights movement second — as both a triumph and a tragedy. I would have put Watergate on my list and perhaps the Arab-Israeli Wars of 1967 and 1973. I hope I don’t have to add Donald Trump’s election to my list in 10 years. Finally, here is the list of the Silent Generation: —9/11 —WWII —JFK assassination —Vietnam War —Moon landing —Obama election —The tech revolution —Civil rights movement —Korean War —Iraq/Afghanistan wars I ﬁnd it surprising that the civil rights movement wasn’t higher on the list and even more surprising that the Cold War — or the end of it — didn’t make the list at all. More of the items on the Millennials and Generation X lists were very time-limited, headline “news events” that saturated TV for a period: 9/11, Orlando, Hurricane Katrina, Columbine, Bin Laden’s execution, Sandy Hook and the Challenger. This might be a function of age, but it also could involve how the news media and our consumption of it have changed. It is also interesting to see that as the world has grown small and See EVENTS | 5 THEIR VIEW December babies know how to appreciate little things By Dan K. Thomasson Contributing Columnist WASHINGTON — Having been born in December in the heart of the Great Depression (which, of course, had no heart), I learned early not to expect much in terms of celebration, especially when Christmas would be forever just three days away. I was lucky to get ice cream and cake and a movie like millions of other Americans at that time. One either got it on one’s birthday or on the major holiday. I have to say now, unlike many, my family always ate well and had clothing quite adequate to our needs, and my father was never out of work, always in a position that measured up to his college education. But there were few extravagances. One birthday, I got a book from my father. I still have it, and it still has its price tag reading 95 cents. As I grew into adulthood, there were major exceptions on special anniversaries — hitting 21 and then 50 and, of course, 80, all provided by loved ones who at least thought it was best to honor these landmarks or face a similar fate or worse but mainly to thank me for a variety of material attentiveness I always missed when I was their age. That’s being said, believe me, without malice of any sort toward them nor their mother, who made certain nobody forgot what we owed each other even if it was a card that merely declared our love for the recipient and an expression of delight that we still were all together. As the years rolled along, it was the prospect of an additional telephone call that kept me alert and sometimes up late, frequently with the Happy Birthday song performed by the wellwisher. Over the weeks ahead of Dec. 22 this year, however, I received several packages much to my surprise and obviously not the prepaid card to a restaurant or movie theater that frequently is what you give the man who has everything. I don’t, but it’s nice to pretend you do rather than sulk about it. Besides, I like the cards. Well, I happily stacked up the packages in a safe place, eagerly anticipating the morning I would open them. I didn’t even check the return addresses to see who had been so thoughtful. One of the packages came in a priority box from the U.S. Postal Service. “Those are expensive,” I told myself. Another was in a book bag, and I love books, and a third was a large cardboard sent high cost delivery from UPS. The morning came and I was presented with my bowl of cereal and orange juice and my boxes and a box cutter to open them. I ripped open the book bag and found a wellpackaged long box that wasn’t a book. It was a special television remote control from Comcast that permits one to ask for a channel or program without pushing the buttons. Everyone who has arthritis or otherwise mangled or missing ﬁngers gets one, I guess. I don’t suffer from such afﬂictions, but they sent me one anyway because I buy everything else they peddle in an effort to convince myself and friends that I belong in the 21st century. The contents of the priority box held some potential. I was not small and it also had tissue paper surrounding two silver packages that turned out to contain three quarters of a pound of exotic coffee each. In it was a card from my ﬁnancial advisers (yeah, I know how pompous that sounds, but don’t be fooled) with a card that said “Happy Holidays” but clearly was not recognizing my birthday. How nice, but I don’t drink coffee. In fact, I never have had a cup in my life. I knew the big box had come from my youngest son, who calls me often to see how I am, a call I ﬁnd more disturbingly anticipatory as I age. I think he needs money. At any rate, underneath all the packing was a fancy box from one of the elite men’s’ stores. “Finally,” I said to myself, “a true gift.” I lifted out a pair of cotton pajamas that were two sizes too big. “Not even silk,” I murmured ungraciously. He called a little later, enthusiastically asking how I like them. “Great,” I replied, not telling him I sleep in a T-shirt and cheap lounge pants from Costco. We December depression babies know how to react to such things. Dan Thomasson is an op-ed columnist for Tribune News Service and a former vice president of Scripps Howard Newspapers. Readers may send him email at: thomassondan@aol.com . TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Wednesday, Dec. 28, the 363rd day of 2016. There are three days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 28, 1846, Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the Union. On this date: In 1612, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei observed the planet Neptune, but mistook it for a star. (Neptune wasn’t ofﬁcially discovered until 1846 by Johann Gottfried Galle.) In 1832, John C. Calhoun became the ﬁrst vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down because of differences with President Andrew Jackson. In 1856, the 28th president of the United States, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, was born in Staunton (STAN’-tun), Virginia. In 1895, the Lumiere brothers, Auguste and Louis, held the ﬁrst public showing of their movies in Paris. In 1917, the New York Evening Mail published “A Neglected Anniversary,” a facetious essay by H.L. Mencken supposedly recounting the history of bathtubs in America. In 1937, composer Maurice Ravel died in Paris at age 62. In 1945, Congress ofﬁcially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance. In 1961, the Tennessee Williams play “Night of the Iguana” opened on Broadway. Former ﬁrst lady Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson, died in Washington at age 89. In 1973, the book “Gulag Archipelago,” Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s expose (ekspoh-SAY’) of the Soviet prison system, was ﬁrst published in Paris. In 1981, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the ﬁrst Ameri- THOUGHT FOR TODAY “If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.” — Michael Crichton (KRY’-tuhn), American author (1942-2008) can “test-tube” baby, was born in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1989, Alexander Dubcek (DOOB’-chek), the former Czechoslovak Communist leader who was deposed in a Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion in 1968, was named president of the country’s parliament. In 1991, nine people died in a crush of people trying to get into a rap celebrity basketball game at City College in New York. Ten years ago: President George W. Bush, at his Texas ranch, worked on designing a new U.S. policy in Iraq. Saddam Hussein’s lawyer made a last-ditch effort to impede his client’s execution. In Somalia, troops of the U.N.-backed interim government rolled into Mogadishu unopposed, putting an end to six months of domination of the capital by a radical Islamic movement. Five years ago: North Korea’s new leader, Kim Jong Un, escorted his father’s hearse in an elaborate state funeral, bowing somberly and saluting in front of tens of thousands of citizens who wailed and stamped their feet in grief for Kim Jong Il. Turkish warplanes mistakenly killed 35 smugglers and other villagers in an operation targeting Kurdish rebels in Iraq. �NEWS/WEATHER Daily Sentinel Cop guilty in wife’s death assigned to women’s prison PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A former Gladstone cop sentenced to life in prison without parole in the death of his wife has been permanently assigned to the state’s prison for women — despite identifying as a man, with legal recognition, for the past six years. Lynn Edward Benton is housed in a general population mental health unit at the Coffee Creek Correctional Institution, said Vicki Reynolds, a prison spokeswoman. The unit is for inmates with a mental illness who need treatment or inmates who need “easier access to a behavioral health counselor.” Reynolds told The Oregonian/ OregonLive that she wasn’t aware of what factors led to Benton, 54, being assigned to Coffee Creek and said she didn’t believe she could disclose any detailed information citing potential privacy violations. All male and female inmates initially go to Coffee Creek for their intake into the state prison system. Male inmates remain there until COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s prisons agency made about $4.5 million from selling cattle and equipment after shutting down its prison-farm system, according to records from the state Department of Administrative Services. That amount doesn’t include 12,000 acres of state-owned farmland that hasn’t been sold or leased yet, The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit. ly/2hnBwRf ) reported. The livestock and equipment was sold though auctions in the summer and fall. The union representing state prison employees is criticizing the sale of the cattle and equipment and suggesting the state didn’t get its money’s worth, the newspaper reported. “Relatively new equipment sold for pennies on the dollar,” said Christopher Mabe, president of the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association. “Hay was sold at a fraction of its value. The cattle sale didn’t even cover the cost of the recent upgrades.” The prison farming operation dated back to 1868, but the prisons agency decided in April to leave the farm industry, just as ofﬁcials were wrapping up nearly $9 million in improvements to the prison farms. The state either doesn’t know whether the sale was a good deal for taxpayers or isn’t trying to ﬁnd out, according to the Dispatch. Neither the prisons agency, nor the state department that handled the sales could answer questions from the newspaper about taxpayer value. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Director Gary Mohr said that farmlands are often used to smuggle contraband into prisons and that preparing inmates for farm jobs is outdated. “We want to focus more on prison enterprises inside the walls,” Mohr said at the time. From page 4 more connected, global events aren’t more prominent on young people’s historical radars. The war on terrorism, the Arab Spring or the drug wars didn’t make any lists. Mostly what struck me was how similar perceptions of historical events were across generations and our code. Consequently, the Tenth District ruled the sale of certain analog drugs was not clearly From page 1 deﬁned at the time as a court to dismiss the case, criminal offense. arguing the sale of conThe Supreme Court trolled substance analogs agreed to review the conwas not made illegal until ﬂict. December 2012, after he Controlled Substance was arrested. The motion Analogs Deﬁned in Civil to dismiss was denied, Statute and he pleaded no contest On Oct. 17, 2011, to the charges. He was the legislature passed again found guilty. H.B. 64, which deﬁned On his second appeal, “controlled substance the Twelfth District analog” as a substance upheld his convictions, with a “chemical strucbut the court noted a con- ture … substantially ﬂict between its decision similar to the structure and the Tenth District of a controlled substance Court of Appeals decision in Schedule I or II.” The in State v. Smith in 2014. law was enacted as R.C. The Tenth District 3719.013, which states, ruled in Smith that while “A controlled substance laws enacted by the state analog, to the extent legislature in 2011 in intended for human conHouse Bill 64 were clear, sumption, shall be treated the legislature created for purposes of any proviconfusion by not placing sion of the Revised Code the deﬁnition of analogs as a controlled substance in Schedule I.” in the state’s criminal Dick Meyer is Chief Washington Correspondent for the Scripps Washington Bureau and DecodeDC (www.newsnet5. com/decodedc). Readers may send him email at dick.meyer@ scripps.com 8 AM WEATHER Drugs other demographic dividing lines. Obviously, all Americans don’t view these events the same way. But after a year like 2016 and an election like this one, I’m inclined to start the New Year looking for as much common ground as I can. TODAY 2 PM 42° 37° HEALTH TODAY Statistics through 3 p.m. yesterday 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. AccuWeather.com Cold Index™ (in inches) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. yest. 0.21 Month to date/normal 3.61/2.91 Year to date/normal 45.90/42.30 Snowfall (in inches) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. yest. 0.0 Month to date/normal 0.5/3.1 Season to date/normal 0.5/3.9 Today 7:46 a.m. 5:14 p.m. 6:56 a.m. 5:07 p.m. Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Thu. 7:47 a.m. 5:15 p.m. 7:46 a.m. 5:58 p.m. MOON PHASES New Dec 29 First Jan 5 Full Last Jan 12 Jan 19 SOLUNAR TABLE The solunar period indicates peak feeding times for ﬁsh and game. Today Thu. Fri. Sat. Sun. Mon. Tue. Major 10:33a 11:22a 11:44a 12:41a 12:41a 12:41a 12:41a Minor 4:21a 5:09a 6:00a 6:54a ---------- The AccuWeather.com Cold Index combines the effects of local weather with a number of demographic factors to provide a scale showing the overall probability of transmission and symptom severity of the common cold. 0 0-2 Low; 3-4 Moderate; 5-6 High; 7-8 Very High; 9-10 Extreme WEATHER TRIVIA™ Q: What is a halo? SUN & MOON Major 10:58p 11:46p ---1:06p ---------- Minor 4:45p 5:34p 6:25p 7:18p ---------- WEATHER HISTORY Brownsville, Texas, had 2 inches of snow on Dec. 28, 1880. As the storm moved eastward, Montgomery, Ala., got 5 inches of snow. Parts of South Carolina had over a foot. FRIDAY Rather cloudy and breezy AIR QUALITY 0 50 100 150 200 300 Air Quality Index: 0-50, Good; 51-100, Moderate; 101-150, Unhealthy for sensitive groups; 151-200, Unhealthy; 201-300, Very unhealthy; 301-500, Hazardous. Source: Hamilton County Department of Environmental Services OHIO RIVER Levels in feet as of 7 a.m. yesterday Location Willow Island Marietta Parkersburg Belleville Racine Point Pleasant Gallipolis Huntington Ashland Lloyd Greenup Portsmouth Maysville Meldahl Dam Level 12.55 18.07 22.30 12.99 13.03 25.44 12.42 27.03 34.64 12.49 21.80 34.10 21.00 Portsmouth 48/36 500 Primary pollutant: Particulates Flood Stage 37 34 36 35 41 40 50 50 52 54 50 50 51 Lucasville 47/35 24-hr. Chg. -0.21 +0.10 +0.38 +0.25 -0.17 +0.40 +0.06 +0.28 +0.02 none +1.40 none +0.20 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 TUESDAY 55° 35° Some rain and a t-storm in the p.m. Cloudy NATIONAL CITIES Marietta 45/32 Belpre 46/33 Athens 45/31 St. Marys 45/33 Parkersburg 45/35 Coolville 46/32 Elizabeth 46/33 Spencer 46/32 Buffalo 48/34 Milton 48/34 Clendenin 47/33 St. Albans 49/34 Huntington 48/38 NATIONAL FORECAST 110s 100s Seattle 45/38 90s 80s 70s 60s 50s 40s 30s 20s San Francisco 10s 58/44 0s -0s Los Angeles -10s 76/52 T-storms Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Cold Front Warm Front Stationary Front Carol Taylor is a writer for Court News Ohio. 56° 44° Cloudy, rain Murray City 44/31 Ironton 49/38 Ashland 49/38 Grayson 50/37 analog, to the extent intended for human consumption, shall be treated for purposes of any provision of the Revised Code as a controlled substance in Schedule I.’” The use of “shall,” he stated, shows the statute is mandatory and not advisory. He added, “As Chapter 3719 is titled ‘Controlled Substances’ and contains numerous provisions, it is not a secret provision of the Revised Code designed to snare the unwary.” Joining Justice Pfeifer in the majority were Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor and Justices Terrence O’Donnell, Judith Ann Lanzinger, Sharon L. Kennedy, and Judith L. French. Justice William M. O’Neill dissented without a written opinion. MONDAY 47° 42° Wilkesville 46/31 POMEROY Jackson 46/33 47/32 Ravenswood Rio Grande 47/33 48/34 Centerville POINT PLEASANT Ripley 45/33 GALLIPOLIS 48/34 47/34 48/34 South Shore Greenup 49/37 48/35 21 Milder with sun, then clouds McArthur 45/31 Waverly 46/33 SUNDAY Mostly cloudy, snow showers; colder Adelphi 45/35 Chillicothe 45/35 SATURDAY 45° 39° Logan 44/33 Only one of Benton’s three trial attorneys responded to requests for comment. Laurie Bender said she didn’t know about his prison designation but noted she also hadn’t been in contact with Benton since he was sentenced. Bender said she didn’t know what to make of Benton’s placement because she didn’t know what factors were considered. “But I do know that legally, he is a man,” Bender said. Six inmates assigned housing at Coffee Creek are transgender, said Betty Bernt, a state department of corrections spokeswoman. It is not clear if Benton is considered in that tally and it is not clear how many have transitioned from female to male. Bernt said she wasn’t aware of Benton’s case and also said she didn’t believe she could disclose what went into the prison’s placement decision. She cited the agency’s public information that lists Benton as a woman. Shalash argued, though, that Chapter 37 of the Revised Code is a civil, not criminal, statute and only in later legislation, House Bill 334, which went into effect in December 2012, did the law criminalize controlled substance analogs by adding them into the drugoffense criminal statutes. Supreme Court Concludes Differently Shalash argued that no prohibition against trafﬁcking in controlled substance analogs existed before 2012’s House Bill 334. Justice Pfeifer wrote that H.B. 64 and the enactment of R.C. 3719.013 led the Court to conclude differently. Speciﬁcally, Justice Pfeifer stated: “For resolution, we turn to H.B. 64. H.B. 64 also enacted R.C. 3719.013, which says that with some explicit exceptions, ‘a controlled substance 36° 27° Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 0 A: A ring around the sun or moon caused by ice crystals in the sky. Precipitation 65°/50° 43°/26° 74° in 2015 4° in 1989 THURSDAY Sunshine and patchy clouds today. A couple of showers this evening. High 48° / Low 34° ALMANAC High/low Normal high/low Record high Record low EXTENDED FORECAST 8 PM 45° 31° 31° they are assigned to another prison facility for housing. Coffee Creek is the state’s only prison for women. After Benton arrived at Coffee Creek for his intake process, Reynolds said, Benton’s placement would likely have been decided by the Oregon Department of Corrections’ nonconforming gender review committee. The committee includes ofﬁcials from health services and other areas who assess an inmate’s vulnerability, security classiﬁcation, mental health, medical needs and “programming needs,” Reynolds said. They then make recommendations on where inmates are placed. The state corrections department’s online inmate database identiﬁes the former cop as Lynn Edward Benton and female. Lynne Irene Benton, his birth name, is listed as his alias. When Benton was held in Multnomah County jail pending trial, he was housed with male inmates. Charleston 47/37 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. 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Barrett was sacked eight times by Michigan, six times by Penn COLUMBUS – Having State and the offense looked moments of greatness and sluggish most of the Northmoments of collapse does not western and Michigan State make Ohio State’s offensive games. line unique. Ohio State led the Big Ten But being Ohio State’s offen- in scoring (42.7), total offense sive line means all of those yards (479.5) and rushing moments will be seen by more yards (258.3), which ranks people and analyzed, comment- ninth nationally. Center Pat ed on, applauded and criticized Elﬂein was a unanimous ﬁrstmore than with most teams. team All-American and won The good times for OSU’s the Rimington Award as the offense and its offensive line best center in college football. include 776 yards of offense Guard Billy Price was a ﬁrstand 77 points against Bowling team All-American and tackle Green, 669 yards and 58 points Jamarco Jones was secondagainst Rutgers, back-to-back team All-Big Ten. 62-point games against NebrasBut the passing game proka and Maryland and scoring duced few big plays and OSU 45 at Oklahoma. was seventh in the Big Ten in jnaveau@civitasmedia.com Don Speck/The Lima News Ohio State center Pat Elflein (65), one of two first-team All-Americans on OSU’s offensive line, and quarterback J.T. Barrett celebrate a touchdown run by Barrett. sacks allowed (25). In the Fiesta Bowl, the Buckeyes’ offensive line will be going against a Clemson defense that was second nationally with 46 sacks and permitted only one team, Louisville, to rush for 200 yards or more. The Tigers, like Ohio State, were hit hard by players leaving for the NFL. Clemson had nine players drafted last season, second only to Ohio State, and seven of those were on defense. “They have some pretty big boys up front,” Price said. “They’re athletic, they’re big, they’re strong, they’re fast.” Elﬂein says consistency has been a concern and a point of emphasis throughout the year See OSU | 7 The king of 2016: LeBron James named AP Male Athlete of Year CLEVELAND (AP) — LeBron James was jolted forward when the massive crowd swelled from the sidewalks and into Cleveland’s streets, surrounding the convertible that he and his family were riding in. This wasn’t supposed to happen. James looked at his wife, Savannah, their baby daughter and two sons and feared for their safety. “We were kind of afraid for a second,” James said. Then relieved. Scanning the crowd, James spotted people dangling from lamp posts and trafﬁc lights, even a few straddling window ledges to get a glimpse of the champion Cavaliers, who were being honored with a once-in-a-generation downtown parade after their comeback in the NBA Finals. James was awe-struck, and any concerns quickly melted away when he looked at the spectators’ faces and saw only smiles, laughter and tears of joy. “Everybody was just rejoicing in grace and happiness,” James said, fondly reﬂecting on the picture-perfect day in June when Cleveland was transformed into a giant block party. “It was more than I could have ever imagined. It was unforgettable, unbelievable.” And he had made it possible. James, who ended 52 years of sports heartache by bringing Cleveland a championship and used his superstar platform to address social causes, was chosen as The Associated Press 2016 Male Athlete of the Year, an award he won previously in 2013. See LEBRON | 7 OVP SPORTS SCHEDULE Wednesday, December 28 Boys Basketball Meigs at King of the Smokey’s Tournament, TBA OVCS at Ripley Viking Holiday Classic, TBA Girls Basketball Wahama at Hannan, 6 p.m. Sciotoville East at Southern, 7:30 Point Pleasant at Sissonville, 7 p.m. Meigs at Parkersburg, TBA Wrestling River Valley, South Gallia, Warren at Fort Frye quad, 6 p.m. Thursday, December 29 Boys Basketball Wahama at Hannan, 7:30 Meigs at King of the Smokey’s Tournament, TBA Girls Basketball Gallia Academy at Athens, 6 p.m. River Valley at Oak Hill, 7:30 Wrestling River Valley, Eastern, Meigs at GAHS Coaches Corner Classic, 10 a.m. Point Pleasant at Wheeling Park Duals, 9 a.m. Friday, December 30 Boys Basketball Point Pleasant at Eastern, 7:30 Buffalo at Wahama, 7:30 Federal Hocking at River Valley, 7:30 Nelsonville-York at Southern, 7:30 Girls Basketball Riverside at Hannan, 6 p.m. Wrestling Point Pleasant at Wheeling Park Duals, 9 a.m. Joe Signorelli/courtesy photo Mingo Central quarterback Jeremy Dillon (5) rolls away from a pass rusher during the Class AA state championship game at Wheeling Island Stadium in Wheeling, W.Va. Mingo’s Dillon wins 2016 Kennedy Award By Grant Traylor For Ohio Valley Publishing HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — When Jeremy Dillon transferred to Mingo Central before the 2016-17 school year, he came with lofty expectations. Dillon made no secret about the fact that he wanted a Class AA Championship and he wanted to be the guy to lead the Miners to that title. So, when he took a snap and found his way into the end zone with 1:43 left in the Miners’ 32-7 win over Fairmont Senior in the Class AA Championship, there was only one thing going through his mind. “I just know I sealed the deal,” Dillon said with a big smile. That wasn’t all he sealed the deal on. Dillon’s impressive junior season also earned him the 2016 Kennedy Award, given to West Virginia’s top high school football player by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association. “It’s pretty much a dream season — just a dream,” Dillon said. “I want to give credit to God. I can’t do anything without him.” Dillon’s ﬁnal touchdown put the bow on a season in which he put up astronomical numbers. The 6-foot-5, 195-pound dual-threat quarterback ﬁnished with 4,057 yards of total offense and a staggering 61 touchdowns during the 2016 season. In his ﬁrst year playing quarterback at the collegiate level, Dillon ﬁnished with a 63.2 completion percentage (189-of-299) while throwing for 2,858 yards and 37 touchdowns. Dillon was just as dangerous on the ground, rushing for 1,199 yards and another 24 touchdowns for the Miners. While Dillon was a threat any time that he had the ball, perhaps his biggest asset to Mingo Central was his ability to avoid mistakes. In 443 touches on the season, Dillon turned the ball over just ﬁve times — three interceptions and two fumbles. That type of reliability at the quarterback position is what led the Miners to the Class AA Championship. “Man, I’m going to tell you something,” said Mingo Central head coach Yogi Kinder, who rode the championship into retirement. “He’s a good football player, boys.” Dillon had been a twotime All-State selection as a defensive back while at Tug Valley during his freshman and sophomore years, but the move to quarterback prompted Kinder to use him a bit less on the defensive side throughout the year to preserve him for the playoffs. In the playoffs, Dillon was unleashed on both sides of the football and Kinder said the results were evident for the Miners, who yielded more than one score only once in four playoff wins while enjoying a postseason winning margin of 29.25 points per game. “He’s just an athlete, and a tough one,” Kinder said. “It’s hard to get those quarterbacks like that. A lot of guys can throw the ball, but he can run it and play defense, he can punt and he can kick. “If there’s a better football player in West Virginia, I ain’t seen them.” Dillon said that the biggest improvements he made throughout the year were in making the transition on offense from being a wide receiver/ running back at Tug Valley to a quarterback for the Miners. The multi-sport standout and Marshall basketball commit for the Class of 2018 made the switch in the summer. “I’ve only been playing quarterback for three months, but I think it’s my natural position,” Dillon said. While his numbers back up that claim, Dillon added that his gaining respect of his team in a leadership capacity was as big as any growth in his physical abilities in 2016. Dillon said the leadership aspect was something that he and offensive coordinator Joey Fields went over as much as fundamentals throughout the year. “I couldn’t give enough credit to my offensive coordinator, Joey,” Dillon said. “He’s really taught me how to play quarterback for these short three months that ﬂew by, so I want to thank him.” The top three votegetters for the Kennedy Award were quarterbacks. East Hardy quarterback Corey McDonald ﬁnished second in the Kennedy Award voting while Martinsburg quarterback Tyson Bagent was third. Spring Valley standout lineman Riley Locklear and Fairmont Senior quarterback/linebacker Jake Abbott were tied for fourth. By winning as a junior, Dillon returns for 2017 with the opportunity to become just the seventh person in the history of the Kennedy Award to win the honor multiple times. Those doing so previously include George Washington’s Ryan Switzer (2011, 2012), Martinsburg’s Brandon Barrett (2002, 2003), Nitro’s J.R. House (1996, 1998), Magnolia’s Mark Cisar (1992, 1993), South Charleston’s Robert Alexander (1975, 1976) and Dupont’s Danny Williams (1972, 1973). Dillon will receive the 2016 Kennedy Award at the 71st annual Victory Awards Dinner, which will be hosted by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association at 4 p.m. on May 21 at Village Square Conference Center in Clarksburg, W.Va. Grant Traylor is a sports writer for the Huntington Herald-Dispatch and is a member of the WVSWA. �SPORTS Daily Sentinel Cubs’ World Series title voted top AP sports story of 2016 CHICAGO (AP) — Everything changed for the Chicago Cubs on a rainy November night. A century-plus worth of heartache washed away by a wave of pure joy. There were hugs, cheers and tears — and bottles and bottles of booze, sprayed everywhere from Cleveland to the shadow of Wrigley Field. Lovable losers, no more. The story of so many lifetimes is The Associated Press’ Sports Story of the Year. “The burden has been lifted,” manager Joe Maddon said. The Cubs’ ﬁrst World Series title since 1908 is the runaway winner for top sports story of 2016, collecting 48 of 59 ﬁrst-place votes and 549 points in balloting by AP members and editors. The death of Muhammad Ali after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease was second with 427 points, and LeBron James leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to the franchise’s ﬁrst NBA title took third with 425 points. In a year that seemed to be more about what we lost (Ali, Arnold Palmer, Gordie Howe, Pat Summitt, Jose Fernandez and the plane crash that killed most of the Brazilian club soccer team Chapecoense) than the winners on the ﬁeld, the Cubs provided a feel-good moment that warmed at least the north side of Chicago well into the city’s notoriously brutal winter. They drew huge ratings throughout the playoffs, with much of the country tuning in to see if it ﬁnally was the year. It was. “I think a lot of casual fans were initially drawn to the Cubs in the postseason because of the 108year drought and the curse narrative,” president of baseball operations Theo Epstein said. “But when they tuned in, they saw a talented team full of young, exciting players who are also team-ﬁrst, high-character people.” As baseball stories go, the 2016 Cubs had it all. One last stand for David Ross, a retiring catcher who became a key ﬁgure in Chicago’s clubhouse. Loads of bright young stars, with Kris Bryant turning in an MVP performance. An eccentric personality in Maddon, who cemented his status as one of the game’s best managers. There was history, for the franchise and its front ofﬁce, with Epstein helping end two of baseball’s biggest droughts. See Boston Red Sox, 2004. That would have been enough to make it one of the top sports stories of any year, but an epic ﬁnish only added to the luster of the franchise’s third championship. The Cubs dropped three of the ﬁrst four games in the World Series against the Indians, and then rallied to force Game 7 in Cleveland. After Chicago blew a 6-3 lead in the ﬁnale, outﬁelder Jason Heyward got his teammates together during a short rain delay before the top of the 10th. The Cubs caught their breath, and then ﬁnished off the famed Billy Goat Curse with an 8-7 victory that will live on in the bars of Wrigleyville for many years to come. “The players-only meeting during the rain delay was emblematic of this team,” Epstein said. “Instead of lamenting the blown lead or pointing ﬁngers, the players rallied around one another and picked each other up.” Ali was mourned all over the world after his death in June at age 74. President Barack Obama called his wife, Lonnie, to express his condolences, and a public memorial in the boxer’s hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, drew an eclectic mix of celebrities, athletes and politicians. LeBron tion at the Rio Olympics. “To be that dominant in your respective sport, to see what he’s been able From page 6 to do over the years, what Results of the vote by he does in that water, 59 editors from AP memman, it’s tremendous and ber newspapers and cusvery inspiring,” James tomers were announced said. “When you have Tuesday. that type of tenure to be James collected 24 ﬁrstplace votes, beating out a able to dominate, when you know that the entire pair of Olympic legends: competition is gearing up Michael Phelps (16) and Usain Bolt (9), the fastest to beat you — and only men in water and on land you — and you’re still able to come away No. 1 who are not accustomed or always be at the top of to ﬁnishing behind anythe food chain, that’s very one. inspiring.” Chicago Cubs third That James received the baseman Kris Bryant, the NL MVP who led his honor in an Olympic year underscores the weight of team to its ﬁrst World his accomplishments. Series title since 1908, His third NBA crown tied for fourth with was for Cleveland, deliverGolden State star guard ing on a promise James Stephen Curry, last year’s made to a city that hadn’t winner. Cristiano Roncelebrated a major chamaldo, Von Miller and Andy pionship since 1964 and Murray also received had endured many torvotes. turous sports moments James joined Michael since. Jordan as the only NBA James, whose game players to win twice. Jorshows no signs of aging dan won it three straight as he approaches his years from 1991-94. 32nd birthday in a few U.S. Olympic gymnast Simone Biles was named days, came up short in AP’s top female athlete on 2015, leading an injurydepleted Cleveland team Monday. to the ﬁnals where they A rabid sports fan, lost to the Warriors. And James was ﬂattered to be in the same class with although James posted the best statistical series Phelps, the 23-time gold of any player in history, medalist who added ﬁve more to his record collec- his critics were quick to Wednesday, December 28, 2016 7 Big Ten race for conference title wide open By Luke Meredith Indiana (10-2) might have the conference’s most impressive win so The Big Ten might not far, knocking off No. 3 be as good as it has been Kansas 103-99 in the seain recent years. son opener. But the HooBut it sure looks like siers were snapped back the conference title chase to reality with a 71-68 will be interesting in loss to IPFW just before 2016-17. Thanksgiving, and 13thThe conference didn’t ranked Butler beat them have a team ranked in by ﬁve last weekend on a the top 10 in the most neutral ﬂoor. Indiana has recent poll , with Wiscon- the Big Ten’s best offense sin, Purdue and Indiana and leads the league ranked Nos. 14, 15 and 16 in rebounding margin respectively. though, and James BlackTeams like Michigan, mon Jr., Robert Johnson Ohio State, Minnesota and Thomas Bryant will and Northwestern — yes, be a handful for opposing Northwestern — have a defenses. Purdue’s only shot at pushing for a top- losses came against No. 1 three ﬁnish, and Michigan Villanova and 10th-ranked State can’t be counted out Louisville — and big man no matter how banged up Caleb Swanigan might be the Spartans are. the Big Ten’s best overall Maryland is 12-1, Illiplayer by early March. nois has bounced back after losing three in a row BADGER UP and Iowa has somewhat Wisconsin (11-2) has turned a corner after an only fallen to North Carougly start. lina and Creighton, and The title picture is very Bronson Koenig, Nigel muddled heading into Hayes and Ethan Happ league play, which starts make the Badgers dangeron Tuesday. ous on the perimeter and Here are some keys to in the paint. But after consider as the Big Ten opening Big Ten play by gets set to kick off its hosting Rutgers, Wiscon112th season. sin has to travel to Indiana and Purdue before HOOSIER DADDY? hosting Ohio State and Associated Press and it nearly beat No. 12 Virginia on the road. Minnesota (11-1, plays Saturday) has been impressive defensively, but the Gophers have yet to beat anyone of note. NorthUP AND DOWN western’s annual quest SPARTANS for its ﬁrst-ever NCAA Losing to Arizona, Tournament bid is off to a Kentucky, Baylor and good start. The Wildcats’ Duke is understandable. But Northeastern at home only losses were to Butler and Notre Dame by just ? That was puzzling for six combined points. Michigan State (8-5), which has been ravaged by injuries, most notably ALSO-RANS? Maryland has some nice the sprained ankle that wins over Georgetown, forced talented freshman Miles Bridges to the Oklahoma State, Kansas State. But it’s still way bench. But Bridges will too early to project the likely be back by early Terps as a serious threat. January, and coach Tom They’ll open with Illinois Izzo’s teams are famous for ﬁnding their stride in (10-3), which won six in league play. The front end a row heading into league play. … Iowa (8-5) is one of the Spartans’ league schedule is also relatively of the youngest teams in the country and soon easy, but they can’t be could re-emerge as a topconsidered a title threat tier Big Ten team. It likely just yet. won’t be this year though. … Rutgers started 11-1 THE MURKY MIDDLE after going 7-25 in 2015Michigan (9-3, plays 16. But expect the Scarlet Thursday) is holding Knights to struggle yet opponents to just under again in league play. … 61 points per game, Penn State and Nebraska though that’s partly a are proving yet again that result of its extremely they were invited to the slow tempo. Ohio State (9-3, plays Thursday) has Big Ten for football, not hoops. They opened the six players averaging at least 10 points per game, season a combined 14-11. Michigan. The Badgers can establish themselves as the front-runner by the middle of January — or fall behind in a hurry. Additional practices create balancing act By Steve Megargee Associated Press Clemson coach Dabo Swinney knows quite well how teams and players get long-term beneﬁts from the extra practices that accompany a bowl bid. He cites the dramatic rise of former Tiger Kevin Dodd as evidence. Dodd was a backup in 2014, when he capitalized on the extra attention he received during workouts leading up to Clemson’s Russell Athletic Bowl victory over Oklahoma. The next season, Dodd recorded 12 sacks and 23½ tackles for loss while helping Clemson reach the College Football Playoff championship game. He’s now a member of the Tennessee Titans, who selected him in the second round of the draft. So as Clemson prepares for its second straight playoff appearance, Swinney is reserving at least some of the Tigers’ practice time to working primarily with underclassmen who haven’t played much this point out his 2-4 record in the ﬁnals compared to Jordan’s 6-0. The Cavs got a rematch with the record-setting, 73-win Warriors. Led by Curry, the league’s unanimous MVP choice, Golden State was being talked about as potentially the best team ever, an argument that gained steam when it took a 3-1 lead. James, though, wasn’t going to be denied again. He scored 41 points in Games 5 and 6 and posted a triple-double in an epic Game 7 that will be remembered for his chase-down block of Andre Iguodala in the closing minutes — a defensive gem that stands as the signature play of his magniﬁcent career. After the ﬁnal horn, James collapsed on the ﬂoor and when asked moments later about his emotions, the Ohio native who proudly says he’s “just a kid from Akron,” screamed at the TV camera: “Cleveland, this for you!” “At that moment,” James said, “I felt fulﬁlled. To know the history of our sports here and how heartbreaking at times it was for all those years that our fans had to go through, and the circumstances that we season. “We’ve got a bunch of young talent on this team, a lot of guys that haven’t been coached a whole lot since fall camp,” Swinney said. “And so (we) get the varsity out of the way and take this young group with however much longer we’ve got in the season and really try to shorten the learning curve and build a good foundation with a lot of these guys who we’re counting on in the spring.” The trick is ﬁguring out how much time to spend focusing on next season versus preparing for the actual bowl game. NCAA rules allow bowl teams to practice or hold other athletic activities up to four hours per day or 20 hours per week between the end of the regular season and a bowl game. While coaches often refer to the “15 extra practices” that come with a bowl invitation, there is no speciﬁc limit to the number of practices a team can hold during bowl preparation. Teams that don’t reach bowl games are limited to mandatory came back from, it was so fulﬁlling.” James’ journey to his greatest triumph coincided with the passing of another great — the greatest of all — as Muhammad Ali died on June 4. During the playoffs, James watched tapes of Ali’s ﬁghts for motivation. It was in the spirit of the boxing legend and global ambassador that James stood on stage with close friends Dwyane Wade, Chris Paul and Carmelo Anthony at the ESPYs in July to decry violence against unarmed black men and encourage fellow athletes to do more to support local police and improve communities. James later donated $2.5 million for a Smithsonian exhibit honoring Ali, and he’s producing a documentary on the champ. “He’s deﬁnitely a person I’m inspired to be like, to have a social conscience about things,” James said. “What I always saw in Ali was that he was always educated about everything he was speaking about. He was never just talking to be talking. There was a method to the madness. ”Ali deﬁnitely showed me the way.” OSU weight training, conditioning and review of game ﬁlm between the end of the regular season and Jan. 1. They get a maximum of eight hours per week for those activities, including no more than two hours per week of ﬁlm viewing. Coaches agree these rules give bowl teams a major advantage because they essentially get a head start on preparing for the following season. “These 13 or 15 practices can’t be bought,” Vanderbilt coach Derek Mason said. “They have to be earned. And with that, it gives you an extra spring ball.” Learning how to handle that extra practice time can be a matter of trial and error. ESPN analyst and former Oregon coach Mike Bellotti said lessons learned from a 38-6 loss to Colorado in the Cotton Bowl that capped the 1995 season affected his future bowl preparation. For the rest of his career, he devoted at least the ﬁrst handful of bowl practices to developing freshmen and reserves while giving his starters time to rest. on Twitter,” he said. Elﬂein said, “It always seems to fall back on us if the From page 6 offense isn’t doing for the offensive line. well. It’s always “At times we are our fault. Everyone inconsistent. Somewants to look at him times we look like (Prince) but it’s not the best O-line in the just him. It’s all ﬁve country and somepeople being on the times we look the same page.” opposite of that,” he Elﬂein and Price said. have started together Right tackle Isaiah for 40 consecutive Prince, a sophomore games on OSU’s offenin his ﬁrst year as a sive line. That streak starter, has been the could have ended at target of much of the 28 if Elﬂein had chocriticism after being sen to enter the NFL beaten repeatedly for draft after last season, sacks at Penn State but he felt he needed and in other games. another year in colPrice said it got so lege. bad that he and some “I knew I was a of the older players good football player removed Twitter from but I knew there Prince’s phone. was a lot of room for “We took Twitter off improvement and I his phone after Penn could come back here State. We were like, and get better at those ‘Hey, Zay, don’t look. things. I wasn’t ready Give us you phone,” to go early and it paid he said. off,” he said. 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The Browns erased that ugly zero on their record. “It is very freeing,” Jackson said with a chuckle on Monday, two days after the Browns got their ﬁrst win in more than a year, 20-17 over the San Diego Chargers . “I feel better today than I did at any time during this year to be very honest with you.” Pressure has given way to relief for players, coaches, fans, everyone associated with the Browns (1-14), who no longer have to discuss the possibility of joining the 2008 Detroit Lions in the NFL’s exclusive 0-16 losers club. During a festive time of the year, that’s something worth celebrating. “It is a relief, especially for the veteran guys who do not have very many cracks left at this, if at all,” wide receiver Andrew Hawkins said. “You never want to be associated with that — a historically bad season. I was glad I was able to avoid it.” Jackson had spent weeks preaching to his players to keep ﬁghting, that the only way for them to end their misery was to play a complete game. And while Saturday’s performance was far from ﬂawless, it was good enough. When Chargers kicker Josh Lambo sailed his rushed 45-yard attempt to the right as time expired, the Browns had ended a 17-game losing streak stretching to last season and gave their fans an early Christmas gift, not another lumpy loss. When they reached the locker room, weeks of despair, double-digit losses and disappointment were forgotten. The Browns celebrated with cheers and tears of joy. Jackson struggled to address his players, and at one point tackle Joe Thomas, who was selected to his 10th straight Pro Bowl last week and has endured more suffering than any player should have to, wept openly in front of his teammates as he embraced his coach. The raw emotion deeply moved Jackson. “I cried like a baby with him to be very honest with you,” Jackson said. “That was probably one of the moments that I will always remember in my coaching career, watching a future Hall of Famer overcome with emotion because he knows how hard he has worked to help this young team and these players get this victory. “He was very deserving of it, and he did everything he could in that game to ﬁght to make sure that we have a chance to win.” Hawkins said seeing the respected Thomas being so sentimental toward Jackson was poignant and powerful. “People who don’t know Joe, he doesn’t normally have that rela- Ron Schwane | AP Cleveland Browns nose tackle Danny Shelton (55) and Jamie Meder (98) celebrate after a win over the San Diego Chargers Saturday in Cleveland. tionship with coaches,” Hawkins said. “He is someone that every guy in this locker room respects and looks up to. When you see the amount of love and respect that he gives Hue and how much he cares for him, it is special. That is how a lot of the young guys know that was real.” Jackson had somehow kept his players motivated and hungry, a chal- lenge as difﬁcult as any he had ever faced. He knew his team had become a national embarrassment and that some fans incensed over the team’s continuous tumble were planning a parade to rejoice in a 0-16 ﬁnish. The Browns, though, didn’t buckle and rewarded Jackson. “I know how hard this group has worked and I know how hard it has been for these guys to go out every week and give it everything they have and come up short and to be the brunt of jokes and to be talked about and people saying we were going to be 0-16 and there were parades and this and that,” he said. “I just thought all that emotion just came to a head. I was happy for them. It was more about them. It is not about me.” Tomlin may sit stars, but rest of Steelers face Browns title in hand and the third seed in the AFC already secured, running back Le’Veon Bell and wide receiver Antonio Brown could get the day off too. Coach Mike Tomlin, however, has a message for the rest of his team: you better be ready to work. “If they have a helmet on, they need to be prepared to play,” Tomlin said Tuesday. Pittsburgh (10-5) wrapped up the ﬁfth division title of Tomlin’s 10-year tenure with a thrilling last-second 31-27 win over Balti- Local Pride. Homegrown Flavor. Handcrafted Beers on Tap Limited-Release Seasonal Brews Beer tasting flights Growlers to go A New Year for New Traditions NO cover charge on New years Eve! Join us to Celebrate the New Year! Maple Lawn Brewery ��.VMCFSSZ�"WF��t�1PNFSPZ�0) 740-691-5018 XXX�NBQMFMBXOCSFXFSZ�DPN Open at noon more on Sunday, the game-deciding play coming on Antonio Brown’s stretch across the goal line with 9 seconds to go. The Steelers are assured of the third seed when the playoffs begin on Jan. 7 regardless of what happens against the Browns (1-14). Roethlisberger said he hopes Tomlin uses the ﬁnale as a chance to allow some of his banged up teammates to heal up. Tomlin is open to the idea, but only to a certain point. “People like to liken to preseason game or an exhibition,” he said. “The (roster) numbers are much different. It’s business as usual for those that are dressed.” It’s likely Tomlin will sit all three of his offensive stars along with center Maurkice Pouncey. Roethlisberger’s season included surgery on his left knee in October. Bell has averaged more than 25 touches a game during Pittsburgh’s six-game winning streak and missed each of Pittsburgh’s last two playoff appearances due to knee injuries while Brown was forced to sit out a divisionalround loss to Denver last January with a concussion. Pouncey didn’t play a snap when it mattered in 2015 after injuring his ankle in the preseason. “I’ve been in a Super Bowl without Maurkice Pouncey,” Tomlin said. “It’s more fun to do with Maurkice Pouncey.” Tight end Ladarius Green will miss a second straight game due to a concussion. Tomlin said Green, who did not practice at all last week, remains in the protocol. Defensive end Stephon Tuitt and his sprained left knee spent Tuesday undergoing treatment but it’s unlikely Pittsburgh would rush Tuitt back to face Cleveland, which hasn’t won in Pittsburgh since 2003 regardless of who is on the ﬁeld for the Steelers. 60696659 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger might get his wish to spend the meaningless regular season ﬁnale in sweats, watching backup Landry Jones go to work against the Cleveland Browns. With the AFC North Dmitri Lovetsky | AP file United States’ Simone Biles performs on the balance beam during the gymnastics exhibition gala Aug. 17 at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Biles was voted the AP Female Athlete of the Year. Biles soars to AP Female Athlete of the Year By Will Graves Associated Press Simone Biles tried to treat the 2016 Summer Olympics like just your average ordinary gymnastics meet. So what if the stage and the stakes were different? The ﬂoor was still the ﬂoor. The vault still the vault. The uneven bars still uneven. The balance beam still a four-inch wide test of nerves. And the 19-year-old with the electric smile and boundless talent was still the best in the world. Maybe the best of all-time. Over the course of 10 days in August, the biggest meet of her life ended like pretty much all the others in the four years that came before it: with Biles standing atop the podium, a gold medal around her neck and the sport she’s redeﬁning one boundary-pushing routine at a time staring up at her. Not that she remembers any of it. “It’s kind of a blur,” Biles said. Maybe to Biles, but not to the rest of the world. Her massive haul in Rio de Janeiro — a record-tying four golds to go along with a bronze for the dominant U.S. women’s team — propelled her to stardom and rendered her last name superﬂuous. Now there’s one more honor to add to what on Twitter is known simply as #SimoneThings: Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year. In a vote by U.S. editors and news directors announced Monday, Biles received 31 votes out of a possible 59 votes. U.S. Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky, who won four golds and a silver in Rio, ﬁnished second with 20 votes. Serena Williams, who won Wimbledon for the seventh time to tie Stefﬁ Graf’s record of 22 Grand Slam titles, and three-time AP women’s NCAA basketball Player of the Year Breanna Stewart tied for third with four votes each. The AP Male Athlete of the Year will be announced Tuesday. Biles became the ﬁfth gymnast to win the honor, joining Olga Korbut in 1972, Nadia Comaneci in 1976, Mary Lou Retton in 1984 and Gabby Douglas in 2012. It’s company Biles joined while completing a run of dominance that included three straight all-around World Championships, an unprecedented run at the top in a sport where peaks are often measured in months, not years. The teenager from Spring, Texas, hardly seemed burdened by the outsized expectations. If anything, she embraced them. She opted out of a verbal commitment to compete collegiately at UCLA to turn professional so she could cash in on the lucrative opportunities afforded an Olympic champion, a bit of a gamble considering the window is so narrow and directly tied to success at the Games. Yet Biles seemed immune to it. At least on the outside. Inside, there were more than a few butterﬂies when she stepped onto the ﬂoor during team preliminaries on Aug. 7. They vanished the moment she stepped onto the green and cream colored ﬂoor at Rio Olympic Arena as she and the rest of her “Final Five” teammates — Douglas, Aly Raisman, Laurie Hernandez and Madison Kocian — put on a clinic that showcased how substantial the gap between the Americans and the rest of the world has grown. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 12. 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