http://66.213.69.5/files/original/de83fc82bfd658e682a577fbcf5f3d19.pdf 4404f09cedbccfba8ce5973353c967f6 PDF Text Text 29 new cases reported Ohio football underway Pull of Champions NEWS s 2 SPORTS s 7 RIVER s 10 C_ZZb[fehj�š�Fec[heo"�E^_e Breaking news at mydailysentinel.com Issue 165, Volume 75 Saturday, August 21, 2021 s $2 Middleport Council approves retirement of K-9 Officer assigned to task force Staff Report MIDDLEPORT — Middleport Village Council approved the placement of an officer to the drug task force and the retirement of K-9 Bonnie during the recent council meeting. Attending the meeting were Mayor Fred Hoffman, council members Matt Lyons, Brian Conde, Shawn Arnott, Susan Page and Larry Byer. Council moved to go into executive session to discuss the employment of an individual. After returning into regular session, It was recommended by Chief Wood and Mayor Hoffman that Shannon Smith be assigned to the newly created task force in Meigs County and that the canine, Bonnie, be retired, decommissioned and sold to Smith for $1. K-9 Bonnie had been Smith’s partner. A lengthy discussion was held with council members expressing their displeasure over spending several thousand dollars for new kennel, etc. and then not use the dog. Smith discussed various problems which made the use of Bonnie not as effective as when the program was initiated. Council voted to place Smith on the task force. On a 3-2 vote (Lyons and Arnott voted no), council decided to retire and decommission Bonnie and sell to Smith for $1 with the necessary documents to be prepared by Village Attorney Hedges. In other business, Mary Arnold and several other visitors discussed problems which they feel have been created by the new cemetery policies which were recently put into place by council. After a lengthy discussion, it was agreed that Larry Byer would meet with Arnold and others to discuss changes which may need to be made to the policy. Hoffman stated that he still was of the opinion that the paving of the parking lot was badly needed and would greatly improve the looks of the area in front of village hall. Council approved the Mayor contacting Myers Paving to do the resurfacing of the parking lot at the estimated cost of $26,500 with the funds for payment being taken from ARPA funds when they become available to the village. After a short discussion, council approved the installation of a fence between the village garage and Pioneer Cemetery with the project to be paid for from the Cemetery Fund. The mayor gave council a copy of a letter from Mary Wise outlining her dilemma at the Riverbend Arts Council with funding problems caused by lack of funding projects during the past year due to restrictions posed by the COVID problem. After a short discussion, council agreed to use $2,000 from the new funds to help the Arts Council survive the pandemic. The mayor stated that the State of Ohio had reached a settlement in the opioid lawsuit and that, if Middleport wanted to participate in the funding from this, that a resolution had to be passed and submitted by Aug. 13. Tentatively, Middleport’s share of the settlement would be $9,445. He stated this was very preliminary and that uses for the funding could be discussed at a later date. After a short discussion, council passed the resolution to participate in the settlement. Susan Baker stated that the new copier was installed and working well. She was given permission to sell the copier to Pomeroy if they wished to purchase it. Baker stated that she has the application prepared to submit for Sarah Williams leads her horse into the arena. Maddee Bolden walks her horse into the arena for the Meigs County Junior Fair Photos by Sarah Hawley | Sentinel Showmanship competition on Monday morning. Mugrage, Anderson top horse showmen Staff Report ROCKSPRINGS — Darbi Mugrage and Ally Anderson earned top showmanship honors in Monday’s Meigs County Junior Fair Horse Show. The Overall Grand Champion Showman was Darbi Mugrage and the Overall Reserve Champion Showman was Ally Anderson. The Rachael Downie Award winner was Mat- tee Bolden. Horse show results, by participant, were as follows: McKayla Smith – Senior Reserve Champion Gymkhana Showmanship; Shayla Hysell – Senior Grand Champion Gymkhana Showmanship, Reserve Champion Gymkhana Performance; Ally Anderson – Junior See HORSE | 12 Cloverbuds graduating to 4-H By Kayla (Hawthorne) Dunham khawthorne@aimmediamidwest. com ROCKSPRINGS — Cloverbuds graduated on Thursday evening, allowing them to step up to official 4-H members in the coming year. In the 4-H program, Cloverbuds are younger members aged 5-8. Members must be 9 years old and in third grade to be official 4-H members, who are allowed to compete in livestock and miscellaneous projects. This year, the following members graduated: Kaydin Evans, Treyson Mullen, Audrey Dicken, Jayci Davis, Case Dettwiller, Daniel Barnhart, Alana Ridenour, Addalyn Sargent, Kadence Zuspan, Caizlee Wise, Alexis Schaefer, Aubrey Brown, Landon Colburn, Gracy Parry, Sophia Ulbrich Mills, Jayce White and Kayla (Hawthorne) Dunham | OVP Cloverbud graduates pictured from left are Kaydin Evans, Treyson Mullen, Jayci Davis, Daniel Brnhart, Alana Ridenour, Addalyn Sargent, Kadence Zuspan, Caizlee Wise, Alexis Schaefer, Landon Colburn, Aubrey Brown, Gracy Parry, Sophia Ulbrich Mills, Jayce White and Kaleb VanNest. Also pictured behind the graduates are (from left) Extension Agent Nancy Sydenstricker, King Jacob Spencer, Queen Olivia Harris, Livestock Princess Lizzie Parry and Livestock Prince Jacob Fitch. Kaleb VanNest. Graduates told the audience about projects they completed as Cloverbuds with their clubs and what they’re looking forward to in the coming years as 4-H members. Many members said they are eager to take livestock projects next year. © 2021 Ohio Valley Publishing, all rights reserved. Kayla (Hawthorne) Dunham is a staff writer for Ohio Valley Publishing. Reach her at (304) 675-1333, ext. 1992. New pavilion dedicated See COUNCIL | 12 AIM Media Midwest Operating, LLC (USPS 145-966) Telephone: 740-992-2155 Publishes every Tuesday through Saturday. Subscription rate is $208 per year. 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Pictured are Rutland Bottle Gas and Meigs County Fair Board representatives, with Coy in the center. �2 Saturday, August 21, 2021 OBITUARIES/NEWS Ohio Valley Publishing OBITUARIES DIANE M. KNOPP 29 new COVID-19 cases reported in region JUDITH ‘JUDY’ ANN MCCULTY Wilkins, Tiffany VINTON — Oesterreicher Diane M. Knopp, (Danny Bowens), GALLIPOLIS — Judith sister, Jane Colley of Oak 60, of Vinton, Ohio, and Herbert “Judy” Ann McCulty, 78, Hill, Ohio; brothers, Bud passed away Friday, (Nicole) Clonch, 3 of Gallipolis, Ohio passed (Sharon) Erwin of Mount August 20, 2021, stepchildren, R.D. in her home, surVernon, Ohio and Jerry away on Friday, August Knopp, Anthony rounded by family. 20, 2021 at Holzer Medi- Erwin of Vinton, Ohio; Knopp, and Diane was born several nieces and nephcal Center. Trevor Knopp, as well as on December 1, 1960 ews; and special friend Born on October 5, many grandchildren and in Cleveland, Ohio, the and helper, Sonya. 1942 in Gallia County, daughter of the late Mea- great-grandchildren. She In addition to her Ohio, Judy was the loved us all very much. dus and Constance Mari daughter of the late Rob- mother, father, and husServices for Diane will band, Judy was preceded Shank. ert “Bob” Erwin and the be held 4 p.m. Sunday, She was an active late Virginia Walker Wise. in death by a daughter, August 22, 2021 at the member of her church, a Melonie Ann McCulty; Judy married Billy G. loving and devoted house- Waugh-Halley-Wood brother, Ronnie Erwin; McCulty, who preceded Funeral Home with Paswife to her husband, her in death on March 31, and stepfather, Neal Richard, and an amazing tor Randy Parsons offici2012. Judy was the owner Wise. mother, grandmother, and ating. Burial will follow in The graveside service and operator of Riverside the Pine Grove Cemetery. for Judy will be held at 2 great grandmother. Motel in Gallipolis for Friends may call at the She is survived by her p.m. on Sunday, August forty-five years; she also funeral home on Sunday husband, Richard A. 22, 2021 in Vinton retired from Gallipolis from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Knopp and several sibMemorial Park with PasDevelopmental Center. Condolences may be tor Randy Carnes officiat- lings; her children, Mari She was a graduate of Bowens, Angela (Harvey) offered by visiting: www. North Gallia High School ing. waugh-halley-wood.com. Willoughby, Jennifer In lieu of flowers, and attended Elizabeth please consider making a Chapel Church. RICHARD DOUGLAS STRUBLE (DICK) Judy is survived by her donation in Judy’s memson, Billy McCulty of Gal- ory to Elizabeth Chapel lipolis; daughter and son- Church or a charity of CARROLL — Richard of Naples, Fla., Bryan your choice. (Cynthia) of Pinehurst, in-law, Julie and Jamie Douglas Struble (Dick), N.C., and daughter Lori Please visit www.willis- 90, formerly of Carroll, Saunders of Gallipolis; funeralhome.com to send Ohio passed away peace- Hammond of Reynoldsgrandsons, Owen Saunburg, Ohio; sisters Sue e-mail condolences. ders and Jeb Saunders; fully at his daughter’s Tubbs of Syracuse, Ohio, residence on August 1, SHARON JEAN KELP Janet (Bill) Williamson 2021. of Rutland, Ohio, and Dick was born on his Sharon is survived by brother Daniel (Ruthie) MIDDLEPORT — grandparents’ farm near two sisters, Diane (Jerry) Logan, Ohio, on Septem- Struble of Granville, Sharon Jean Kelp, 68, of Fredrick and Debbie Middleport, Ohio, went ber 23, 1930 and graduat- Ohio; two grandchildren (Marvin) Dodrill, stepto be with her Lord, ed from Pomeroy HS. He Martin and Nigel Struble; children, two aunts , two proudly served his counsix step-grandchildren Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, Spencer, Jacob, & Jeremy at Holzer Medical Center, uncles, several nieces, try in the US Air Force nephews, cousins and Hartsock; Jessica HowGallipolis, Ohio. during the Korean War; friends. ington, Trista Fravel, and Sharon was born Aug. and was a mechanic on She was preceded by 3, 1953, in Pomeroy, B-36 long range strategic Sarah Rice; and 10 greattwo husbands, Donald grandchildren; many Ohio, to the late Clarbombers while stationed Nichols and William Kelp, at Fairchild AFB near nieces and nephews, and ence Edward and Hilda a nephew Brian Keith cousins; life-long friend Pauline Wise McDaniel. Spokane, Wash. There, Fredrick. She worked at different he met the love of his life, Don (Esther) Ansel of A celebration of life will Joan Gracie Bell, and the Lancaster, Ohio; friends restaurants as a waitress, formerly attended the Old be Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021, two were wed on June 19, from Shalom UMC, and at 1 p.m. at Bethel Wormany, many others too Bethel Church, Middle1953. ship Center, 39782 State port, Ohio and was a After his service in the numerous to list. Preceded in death are member of Dan Hayman’s Route 7, Tuppers Plains, Air Force, Dick graduated Ohio. Arrangements with from Franklin University his beloved wife Joan, Country Hymntimers. Birchfield Funeral Home, with a degree in electron- parents Clarence & Alice She enjoyed Southern Rutland, Ohio. Online Gospel music and when ics and was employed by Struble, brother Joseph, condolences at birchfield- North American Rockand granddaughter Erin able to attended other funeralhome.com. Weberg. gospel sings. well in Columbus until We wish to thank the 1970. In 1970 he started, DONNA JEAN BAISDEN GRATE staff of Heartland Hosowned, and operated pice for the wonderful his own business, D&J embodied the On August 8, Antenna, with Joan by his care and support they role of a mother 2021, Donna Jean provided during the final side until his retirement and grandmother. in 1992. Dick was a faith- months of dad’s life. You Baisden Grate went She enjoyed being ful and loving husband home to be with her treated us and our father with her family, Heavenly Father. like family; and may God and father, never met a in particular her She was a devotstranger, and was kind to truly bless every one of grandchildren and everyone he met. Dick & you for your labor of love. ed wife, mother, great grandchilgrandmother, aunt, A memorial service Joan were lifetime memsister, and friend to many. dren. She loved visiting will be held on Saturday, bers of Shalom United She passed away away at her grandkids, whether in Methodist Church in Car- August 28, 2021 at ShaBoone Hospital in Colum- person or on FaceTime. roll and loved their Friday lom United Methodist She followed everyone’s bia, Missouri on August Church, 4925 Plum Rd., night get-togethers with 8, 2021. Donna Jean Bais- family pictures via FaceCarroll, OH. Visitation friends for a “friendly” book and Instagram. She but competitive game or den was born in Mingo will begin at 10 a.m., with looked forward to new County, West Virginia. the service to follow at two of euchre. pictures on her newsfeed She was the daughter of 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, Left to cherish his the late Lewis and Grace every day. donations may be made memory are sons GorDonna was a member (Conley) Baisden. Donna to Shalom UMC in his don of Brainerd, Minn., married Charles Grate in of Faith Baptist Church memory. Douglas (Julieanne) November, 1956. She and in Columbia, Missouri. Those left to cherFRALEY Charles raised their family in Patriot, Ohio on his ish her memory are her daughter, Grace “Jeanie” family farm. James Phillip Fraley, 65, of Gallia County, Ohio, (& Charles) Judy, Colum- died Monday, December 28, 2020, with a private She was preceded in bia, Missouri, grandchil- service and later graveside service taking place Janudeath by her husband, Charles Glen Grate , son, dren, Natalie (& Ben) ary 4, 2021. A Celebration of Life to remember PhilBlackmon, Apex, North Keith Alan Grate, and lip will take place from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday, Carolina, Cole Miller, all of her seven siblings. August 28, 2021, at the Green Valley Gathering Place Chillicothe, Ohio, Callie Donna was a lifelong in Bidwell, Ohio. Family and friends are invited to (& Cameron) Volle, New attend. RSVP at margobullion@gmail.com. homemaker. She was a Bloomfield, Missouri, gifted seamstress and Landon Grate, St. Peters- OFFENBERGER quilter. Donna mended burg, Florida, Kacie and sewed for family, Grate (& Ryan Burger), friends, and many othSYRACUSE — Ralph “Junior” Offenberger, SyraGallipolis, Ohio, and ers in her community. cuse, died on Friday, Aug. 20, 2021, at the Camden her great grandchildren, There was no sewing Clark Hospital in Parkersburg, West Virginia. James and Mason Miller, project she could not A funeral service will be held Sunday, Aug. 22 at tackle. Among her many Nora, Savannah, and 4 p.m. at the Anderson McDaniel Funeral Home in Everly Blackmon, Ameprojects, sewing dresses Pomeroy. Visitation will be held two hours prior to the lia Volle, Emma Grace was her favorite. She service. Orsos, and Cambree and made many sewing and Cason Burger. A service quilting memories with her special friend, Hettie to celebrate and honor her earthly life will be Trout. Motherhood is IN BRIEF the unselfishness to care August 26, 2021 at 11 for and put others before a.m. at Salem Baptist Church, Patriot, Ohio. your own needs. Donna CONTACT US 825 Third Ave., Gallipolis, OH, 45631 740-446-2342 All content © 2021 Gallipolis Daily Tribune and The Daily Sentinel edition. All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law. 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 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 Georgia mayors slam governor over COVID order ATLANTA (AP) — The mayors of some of Georgia’s largest cities are slamming Gov. Brian Kemp’s new order that aims to limit local efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic. In an open letter on Friday, the mayors of Atlanta, Savannah, Athens-Clarke County and Augusta-Richmond County suggested the Republican governor was putting politics above public health. The four Democrats also defended masks as necessary during the state’s latest COVID surge. An email sent to the governor’s office by The Associate Press was not immediately returned. Kemp signed an executive order Thursday that says cities cannot require businesses and sports teams to enforce local pandemic restrictions. Staff Report OHIO VALLEY — A total of 29 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the Ohio Valley Publishing area on Friday. In Gallia County, the Ohio Department of Health reported 14 new COVID-19 cases, including four in both the 0-19 and 40-49 age ranges. In Mason County, 10 additional cases of COVID-19 were reported on Friday, according to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. In Meigs County, five new COVID-19 cases were reported by ODH on Friday. Here is a closer look at the local COVID-19 data: Gallia County According to the 2 p.m. update from the Ohio Department of Health, there have been 2,702 total cases (14 new) in Gallia County since the beginning of the pandemic, 162 hospitalizations (1 less) and 51 deaths. Of the 2,702 cases, 2,450 (6 new) are presumed recovered. Case data is as follows: 0-19 — 367 cases (4 new), 2 hospitalizations 20-29 —456 cases (2 new), 6 hospitalizations 30-39 — 364 cases (2 new), 6 hospitalizations 40-49 — 407 cases (4 new), 14 hospitalizations, 1 death 50-59 — 396 cases (1 new), 19 hospitalizations, 4 deaths 60-69 — 330 cases, 30 hospitalizations, 8 deaths 70-79 — 221 cases (1 new), 43 hospitalizations (1 less), 12 deaths 80-plus — 161 cases, 42 hospitalizations, 25 deaths Vaccination rates in Gallia County are as follows, according to ODH: Vaccines started: 11,116 (37.18 percent of the population) Vaccines completed: 10,168 (34.01 percent of the population) Meigs County According to the 2 p.m. update from the Ohio Department of Health, there have been 1,610 total cases (5 new) in Meigs County since the beginning of the pandemic, 87 hospitalizations and 40 deaths. Of the 1,610 cases, 1,484 (3 new) are presumed recovered. Case data is as follows: 0-19 — 210 cases (2 new), 1 hospitalization 20-29 — 234 cases (2 new), 2 hospitalizations 30-39 — 194 cases, 4 hospitalizations 40-49 — 238 cases, 8 hospitalizations 50-59 — 233 cases (1 new), 9 hospitalizations, 1 death 60-69 — 226 cases, 23 hospitalizations, 6 deaths 70-79 — 168 cases, 22 hospitalizations, 12 deaths 80-plus — 107 cases, 18 hospitalizations, 20 deaths Vaccination rates in Meigs County are as follows, according to ODH: Vaccines started: 8,209 (35.84 percent of the population) Vaccines completed: 7,502 (32.75 percent of the population) Mason County According to the 10 a.m. update on Friday from the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, there have been 2,298 cases of COVID-19, in Mason County (2,216 confirmed cases, 82 probable cases) since the beginning of the pandemic and 40 deaths. Of those, 10 cases (six confirmed and four probable) were newly reported on Friday. Case data is as follows: 0-4 — 30 confirmed cases, 1 probable case 5-11 — 49 confirmed cases, 3 probable cases 12-15 — 82 confirmed cases (1 new), 3 probable cases 16-20 — 153 confirmed cases (1 new), 4 probable cases 21-25 — 174 confirmed cases (1 new), 7 probable cases 26-30 — 217 confirmed cases (2 new), 12 probable cases 31-40 — 358 confirmed cases (1 new), 13 probable cases (1 new) 41-50 — 324 confirmed cases, 15 probable cases, 1 death 51-60 — 317 confirmed cases (2 new), 8 probable cases, 2 deaths 61-70 — 276 confirmed cases, 3 probable cases (1 new), 7 deaths 71+ — 236 confirmed cases (2 fewer), 12 probable cases (2 new), 30 deaths A total of 9,518 people in Mason County have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, which is 35.9 percent of the population, according to DHHR. There have been a total of 16,964 doses administered in Mason County. Mason County is currently yellow on the West Virginia County Alert System. Ohio According to the 2 p.m. update from the Ohio Department of Health, there have been 3,783 cases in the past 24 hours (21-day average of 2,263), 146 new hospitalizations (21-day average of 103), 14 new ICU admissions (21-day average of 9) and 41 new deaths (21-day average of 9). (Editor’s Note: Deaths are reported two days per week) Vaccination rates in Ohio are as follows, according to ODH: Vaccines started: 5,968,924 (51.06 percent of the population) See CASES | 3 �NEWS Ohio Valley Publishing Saturday, August 21, 2021 3 Sugary drinks and dental health Most people know certain foods and drinks are bad for teeth. Sugary drinks, such as soda/pop and juice, are definitely on this list. Unfortunately, these are often the favorite drinks for kids. Many adults also tend to forget that their favorite flavored coffee drink or sweet tea has a lot of sugar too! Drinking too many sweetened beverages can lead to health concerns, including obesity and dental problems. When someone has a sugary drink, the sugar latches on the teeth. Bacteria in the mouth eat away at the sugar and then produce acid. Eventually, this acid begins to eat away and weaken the enamel on the teeth, which increases the chances of developing teeth as possible. tooth decay. Using a toothpaste So what can and mouthwash you do? The best containing fluoway to reduce ride can also help the risk of tooth to reduce cavities decay caused by and strengthen sugary drinks is to avoid them Meigs Health tooth enamel. Seeing a dentist when possible. Matters regularly is very Drinking your Juli important, as calories just Simpson well. doesn’t make Here are some good sense, not tips to get your kids to mention the damage (and you!) to drink more these high calorie and water, instead of sugarhigh sugar beverages sweetened drinks: can do to your overall -Pack a cold of frozen health. Make water the water bottle whenever primary drink choice you go out- water is the for you and your family, best way to quench your and make sugary drinks only a ‘sometimes’ drink, thirst, especially when it’s hot outside! if at all. After drinking -Serve the water in a a sugary drink, make fun-looking cup or reussure to rinse with a few able bottle! You can even drinks of water to flush add slices of fruit for the mouth and remove extra flavor. Try freezing as much sugar from the pieces of fruit inside the ice cubes. -Don’t overstock on sweetened drinks at home- make cold water available instead. -When playing sports, encourage kids to drink water instead of sweetened sports drinks. -Water down sweetened drinks for a short time and then start to replace them with plain water. -Serve sweetened drinks in smaller cups and only have them occasionally (not all day/ everyday). Remember to put some thought into your drink choices and take the time to care for your (and your family’s) health. Juli Simpson, RN, BSN, LSN, is the Maternal & Child Health, Program Director at the Meigs County Health Department. TODAY IN HISTORY serving eight years in a military prison.) In 1992, an 11-day Today is Saturday, Aug. 21, the 233rd day of siege began at the cabin 2021. There are 132 days of white separatist Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, left in the year. Idaho, as government Today’s highlight in history agents tried to arrest Weaver for failing to On August 21, 1991, the hard-line coup against appear in court on chargSoviet President Mikhail es of selling two illegal sawed-off shotguns; on S. Gorbachev collapsed the first day of the siege, in the face of a popular Weaver’s teenage son, uprising led by Russian Samuel, and Deputy U.S. Federation President Marshal William Degan Boris N. Yeltsin. were killed. In 1993, in a serious On this date setback for NASA, engiIn 1831, Nat Turner neers lost contact with launched a violent slave the Mars Observer spacerebellion in Virginia, resulting in the deaths of craft as it was about to at least 55 whites; scores reach the red planet on a $980 million mission. of Blacks were killed in In 2000, rescue efforts retribution in the afterto reach the sunken math of the rebellion. Russian nuclear subma(Turner was later caprine Kursk ended with tured and executed.) divers announcing none In 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” was of the 118 sailors had survived. stolen from the Louvre In 2010, Iranian and Museum in Paris. (The Russian engineers began painting was recovered loading fuel into Iran’s two years later in Italy.) first nuclear power plant, In 1959, President which Moscow promised Dwight D. Eisenhower to safeguard to prevent signed an executive order making Hawaii the material at the site from being used in any poten50th state. tial weapons production. In 1986, more than In 2013, an Army 1,700 people died when private now known as toxic gas erupted from Chelsea Manning was a volcanic lake in the sentenced at Fort Meade, West African nation of Maryland, to up to 35 Cameroon. years in prison for spillIn 1987, Sgt. Clayton ing an unprecedented Lonetree, the first trove of government Marine court-martialed for spying, was convicted secrets. (The sentence in Quantico, Va., of pass- for the former intelligence analyst was ing secrets to the KGB. commuted by President (Lonetree ended up Barack Obama in his final days in office.) In 2014, Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the Missouri National Guard to begin withdrawing from Ferguson, where nightly scenes of unrest had erupted since a white police officer fatally shot a Black 18-yearold nearly two weeks earlier. In 2015, a trio of Americans, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Spencer Stone, National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and college student Anthony Sadler, and a British businessman, Chris Norman, tackled and disarmed a Moroccan gunman on a high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris. Ten years ago: Euphoric Libyan rebels raced into Tripoli and took control of the center with little resistance as Moammar Gadhafi’s defenses collapsed and his four-decade regime appeared to be crumbling. Five years ago: Shaking to samba and sharing reflections in uniquely Brazilian words, Olympians and fans said goodbye to the Rio Games with one last big bash inside Maracana Stadium. Earlier in the day, Kevin Durant scored 30 points and helped the Americans rout Serbia 96-66 for their third straight gold medal, capping an Olympics in which the U.S. dominat- Cases ham contributed to this report. © 2021 Ohio Valley Publishing, all rights reserved. The Associated Press From page 1 population, 898,141 individuals have been fully vaccinated. Sarah Hawley and Kayla (Hawthorne) Dun- ed the medal tables, both the gold (46) and overall totals (121). One year ago: Michigan’s appeals court said Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s emergency declarations and orders to curb the coronavirus clearly fell within the scope of her legal powers. Police in Lafayette, Louisiana, shot and killed a Black man, Trayford Pellerin, outside a convenience store; they said he was carrying a knife and ignored commands to drop it. (A grand jury declined charges against the officers.) A spokeswoman for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said he was in a coma in a hospital in Siberia after falling ill from a suspected poisoning. Editor’s Note: Gallia Meigs Briefs will only list event information that is open to the public and will be printed on a space-available basis. Road closures, construction GALLIA COUNTY — Gallia County Engineer Brett A. Boothe announces the following road closures due to emergency bridge replacement: Carter Road will be closed between Little Bullskin Road and Lincoln Pike Road starting Aug. 9 and ending Aug. 24, weather permitting. Local traffic will need to use other county roads as detours. BIDWELL — SR 160/554 roundabout construction. A roundabout construction project begins on July 26 at the intersection of SR 160 and SR 554. From July 26-Sept. 6, SR 554 will be closed between SR 160 and Porter Road. ODOT’s detour is SR 7 through Cheshire to SR 735 to U.S. 35 to SR 160 to SR 554. Beginning July 26, one lane of SR 160 will be closed and temporary traffic signals will be in place between Homewood Drive and Porter Road. Estimated completion: Oct. 1. GALLIA COUNTY — SR 141 is closed between Dan Jones Road (County Road 28) and Redbud Hill Road (Township Road 462) for a bridge deck replacement project. ODOT’s detour is SR 7 to SR 588 to SR 325 to SR 141. Estimated completion: Aug. 23. MEIGS COUNTY — A bridge replacement project began on April 12 on State Route 143, between Lee Road (Township Road 168) and Ball Run Road (Township Road 20A). One lane will be closed. Temporary traffic signals and a 10 foot width restriction will be in place. Estimated completion: Nov. 15. Community yard sale GALLIPOLIS — The City of Gallipolis will hold its annual Community Yard Sale Saturday, Aug. 21 in the Gallipolis City Park from 8:30 a.m. until 3 p.m., according to a news release from the city. There will be no rain date. A non-refundable permit fee of $10 for each section will be charged for this event. Participants must pre-register at the Assistant City Treasurer /City Manager’s office at the Gallipolis City Building 333 Third Avenue, Gallipolis, Ohio and pick your location. Applications will be taken starting Monday, Aug. 2. For more information call the Gallipolis Municipal Building at 740-441-6003 ext. 522 or go to the City’s website at cityofgallipolis.com under Code Enforcement. Storytime resumes Sept. 13 Storytime resumes at all Meigs Library locations the week of Sept. 13. Mondays – Racine Library, Tuesdays – Eastern Library, Wednesdays – Pomeroy Library, Thursdays – Middleport Library. All locations are at 1 p.m. Pleasant Valley Hospital welcomes Matthew Thompson, MD Opthalmologist Accepting New Patients | 304.343.3937 | Call Now! Pleasant Valley Hospital is pleased to welcome Matthew Thompson, MD, RSKWKDOPRORJLVW�IURP�:HVW�9LUJLQLD�(\H�&RQVXOWDQWV�WR�LWV�PHGLFDO�VWD΍��'U�� Thompson is a ophthalmic surgeon trained in the latest technology of smallLQFLVLRQ�FDWDUDFW�VXUJHU\�� “I am a native of the beautiful Mountain State, born and raised in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. 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There have been a total of 3,008deaths due to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, with seven since Wednesday. There are 8,806 active cases in the state, with a daily positivity rate of 9.26 and a cumulative positivity rate of 5.03 percent. As of Friday, statewide, 1,095,600 West Virginia residents have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 (61.1 percent of the population). A total of 50.1 percent of the GALLIA, MEIGS COMMUNITY BRIEFS OH-70249763 ÇąŻƄɷÆĪŵĞĪŊĪÚɷ.Ƨąɷ�ŒŊŻƊŁƄÚŊƄŻɷɷʷɷɷȽɀȻȽɷaąƴąŵŻŒŊɷ�ƠąŊƊąɷɷʷɷɷ—ŒĪŊƄɷ—ŁąÚŻÚŊƄɎɷÇÆɷʷɷȾȻȿɍȾȿȾɍȾɄȾɂ �NEWS/WEATHER 4 Saturday, August 21, 2021 Ohio Valley Publishing 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. Card shower Jean Miller-Fisher will be celebrating her 94th birthday on Sept. 8, cards may be sent to 1470 Orchard Hill Road, Gallipolis, OH 45631. Saturday, Aug. 21 MIDDLEPORT — Middleport Fire Department will be hosting a fish fry with serving starting at 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 23 Manuel Balce Ceneta | AP MIDDLEPORT — Painting with Michele Musser, 6 p.m., Riverbend Arts Council, 290 N. 2nd Ave., project is “Pumpkins for Fall”, call Donna at 740-992-5123 for more information. POMEROY — Tech Class: Smartphone 101 at the Pomeroy Library. Call to register: 740992-5813. RUTLAND — The Meigs County Commissioners will hold a town hall meeting at 6 p.m. at the Rutland Civic Center regarding the upcoming sewer project in the village. President Joe Biden speaks about the evacuation of American citizens, their families, SIV applicants and vulnerable Afghans in the East Room of the White House on Friday in Washington. Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken listen. Biden pledges: ‘We will get you home’ By Ellen Knickmeyer, Robert Burns and Matthew Lee Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is pledging to Americans still trapped in Afghanistan: “We will get you home.” Biden also said Friday the United States is committed to evacuating all Afghans who assisted the war effort — a potentially vast expansion of the administration’s commitments on the airlift so far, given the tens of thousands of Afghan translators and others, and their close family members, seeking evacuation. Biden’s comments at a White House news conference Friday come as the U.S. government struggles to ramp up a massive airlift clearing Americans and other foreigners and vulnerable Afghans through the Kabul airport, rescuing them from a Taliban takeover of the country. Biden is facing criticism for a chaotic and often violent scene outside the airport and crowds struggle to reach safety inside. Evacuation flights at the Kabul airport had stopped for several hours on Fri- Tuesday, Aug. 24 POMEROY — Acoustic Night at the Library. Informal jam session, bring your instruments or come to listen. 6 p.m. at the Pomeroy Library. Wednesday, Aug. 25 SCIPIO TWP. — Scipio Township Trustees will be holding a special meeting at the Harrisonville Fire House to discuss a water project. Thursday, Aug. 26 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. Saturday, Aug. 28 GALLIPOLIS — St. Louis Church, 85 State St., hosts its spaghetti dinner from 4 - 7 p.m., featuring homemade sauce, meatballs, salad, bread sticks, beverage, and a choice of many desserts. Monday, Aug. 30 MIDDLEPORT — The Meigs County Veterans Service Commission will meet at 9 a.m. in their office at 97 North Second Avenue, Suite 2, Middleport. TODAY 8 AM WEATHER 2 PM 68° 84° 81° Fog in the morning; otherwise, clouds and sun today. Mainly clear tonight. High 89° / Low 68° HEALTH TODAY Statistics through 3 p.m. Fri. 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. 84° 67° 86° 65° 100° in 1983 48° in 1953 Precipitation (in inches) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Fri. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date 0.02 4.66 2.65 38.22 30.98 SUN & MOON Today 6:48 a.m. 8:15 p.m. 8:16 p.m. 5:28 a.m. Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Full Last Aug 22 Aug 30 New Sep 6 First Sep 13 SOLUNAR TABLE The solunar period indicates peak feeding times for fish and game. Today Sun. Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. Fri. Major 11:28a 12:20p 12:47a 1:37a 2:26a 3:14a 4:02a Minor 5:15a 6:07a 6:58a 7:48a 8:37a 9:25a 10:12a 0-2 Low; 3-4 Moderate; 5-6 High; 7-8 Very High; 9-10 Extreme POLLEN & MOLD Low Moderate High Moderate Lucasville 88/68 High Very High Major 11:56p ---1:10p 1:59p 2:48p 3:35p 4:23p Minor 5:42p 6:33p 7:22p 8:10p 8:58p 9:46p 10:33p WEATHER HISTORY By Aug. 21, 1888, a massive lightning-induced fire that consumed six billion board feet of lumber in the northern Rockies was finally contained. By then, the fire had claimed 851 lives. Source: Hamilton County Department of Environmental Services AIR QUALITY 0 50 100 150 200 300 500 Primary pollutant: Ozone 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. Fri. 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 12.70 17.05 22.32 12.93 12.91 25.31 12.53 28.88 35.81 12.66 26.40 34.80 24.80 Portsmouth 87/68 24-hr. Chg. -0.13 -1.80 +0.12 +0.02 -0.17 -0.20 -0.23 +1.78 +0.77 -0.12 +3.60 +0.20 +3.50 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021 WEDNESDAY 93° 72° Turning cloudy, hot and humid 88° 68° 86° 66° Cloudy and humid NATIONAL CITIES Marietta 89/66 Belpre 89/67 Athens 89/66 St. Marys 89/67 Parkersburg 88/66 Coolville 89/66 Elizabeth 89/68 Spencer 86/65 Buffalo 87/69 Milton 87/66 St. Albans 88/66 Huntington 86/67 NATIONAL FORECAST 110s 100s Seattle 73/55 90s 80s 70s 60s 50s 40s 30s San Francisco 69/57 20s 10s 0s -0s Los Angeles -10s 77/64 T-storms Rain Showers Snow Flurries Chihuahua Ice 84/65 Cold Front Warm Front Stationary Front FRIDAY Clouds and sun; poss. Humid; an afternoon t-storm t-storm poss. Murray City 88/66 Ironton 87/68 Ashland 87/68 Grayson 87/68 ously blamed Afghans for the U.S. failure to get out more allies ahead of this month’s sudden Taliban takeover, U.S. officials told The Associated Press that American diplomats had formally urged weeks ago that the administration ramp up evacuation efforts. In July, more than 20 diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul registered their concerns that the evacuation of Afghans who had worked for America was not proceeding quickly enough. In a cable sent through the State Department’s dissent channel, a timehonored method for foreign service officers to register opposition to administration policies, the diplomats said the situation on the ground was dire, that the Taliban would likely seize control of the capital within months of the Aug. 31 pullout, and urged the Biden administration to immediately begin a concerted evacuation effort. That’s according to officials familiar with the document who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the internal debate. THURSDAY 90° 67° Wilkesville 88/67 POMEROY Jackson 88/67 88/66 Ravenswood Rio Grande 89/67 88/68 Centerville POINT PLEASANT Ripley 88/69 GALLIPOLIS 89/68 88/67 88/68 South Shore Greenup 87/68 87/68 55 Logan 87/67 McArthur 88/67 Very High Primary: ragweed/other Mold: 1227 Partly sunny, hot and humid Adelphi 87/68 Chillicothe 88/69 TUESDAY 92° 70° Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Waverly 87/68 Pollen: 11 Low MOON PHASES MONDAY Humid with clouds and sun 2 Primary: ascospores Sun. 6:49 a.m. 8:14 p.m. 8:49 p.m. 6:38 a.m. SUNDAY 91° 70° ALMANAC High Low Normal high Normal low Record high Record low EXTENDED FORECAST 8 PM people remain to be evacuated ahead of the United States’ Aug. 31 deadline to withdraw its troops from the country, although the pace had picked up overnight. A defense official said about 5,700 people, including about 250 Americans, were flown out of Kabul aboard 16 C-17 transport planes. On each of the previous two days, about 2,000 people were airlifted. With desperate crowds thronging Kabul’s airport, and Taliban fighters ringing its perimeter, the U.S. government renewed its advisory to Americans and others that it could not guarantee safe passage for any of those desperately seeking seats on the planes inside. The advisory captured some of the pandemonium, and what many Afghans and foreigners see as their life-and-death struggle to get inside. It said: “We are processing people at multiple gates. Due to large crowds and security concerns, gates may open or close without notice. Please use your best judgment and attempt to enter the airport at any gate that is open.” While Biden has previ- day because of a backup at a transit point for the refugees, a U.S. airbase in Qatar, U.S. officials said. However, flights resumed in the afternoon. As many as three flights out of Kabul were expected in the next few hours, going to Bahrain and carrying perhaps 1,500 evacuees in all, said an official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss military. In Washington, some veterans in Congress were calling on the Biden administration to extend a security perimeter beyond the Kabul airport so more Afghans can make it to the airport for evacuation. They also wanted Biden to make clear an Aug. 31 deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops was not a firm one. The deadline “is contributing to the chaos and the panic at the airport because you have Afghans who think that they have 10 days to get out of this country or that door is closing forever,” said Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., who served in Iraq and also worked in Afghanistan to help aid workers provide humanitarian relief. Tens of thousands of Denver 83/62 Charleston 86/65 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. Winnipeg 65/49 Billings 73/57 Clendenin 87/65 Minneapolis 75/57 Kansas City 85/66 Montreal 90/73 Detroit 87/69 Toronto 85/70 New York 82/75 Washington 83/73 Chicago 87/68 HENRI Atlanta 86/72 El Paso 91/72 Today Sun. 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Merkel traveled to Moscow as she is nearing the end of her almost 16-year-long leadership of Germany. Despite deep disagreements, she has tried throughout her tenure to preserve close contacts with Putin, cover for conducting business projects in violation of the law.” Putin also rejected the accusations of a crackdown on Navalny’s allies in the run-up to Russia’s Sept. 19 parliamentary election. As he has before, he attempted to turn the tables on the West by pointing to the prosecution of people who participated in storming the U.S. Capitol in January. Putin also scathingly criticized the West over Afghanistan, saying that the Taliban’s rapid sweep over the country has shown the futility of Western attempts to enforce its own vision of democracy. “It’s necessary to stop the irresponsible police of enforcing its own values on others and attempts to build democracy in other countries based on outside models without taking into account historic, ethnic and religious issues and fully ignoring other people’s traditions,” he said. Merkel, meanwhile, urged Russia to use its contacts with the Taliban to press for Afghan citizens who helped Germany to be allowed to leave Afghanistan. Another item on the agenda was the situation in eastern Ukraine, where Germany and France have sought to help broker a peaceful settlement to end the fighting between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed separatists that has killed more than 14,000 people since 2014. Merkel, who plans to visit Kyiv on Sunday, made clear that she hasn’t given up hope of progress in the coming weeks on long-stalled peace efforts in eastern Ukraine. “I will work until my last day in office so that the territorial integrity of Ukraine can be ensured,” she said. Putin pointed at the increasing number of cease-fire violations in eastern Ukraine and asked Merkel to reaffirm to Ukrainian authorities during her upcoming trip the importance of honoring their obligations under a 2015 peace deal brokered by Germany and France in Minsk, Belarus. “We have not yet achieved the aims we wanted to achieve in the Minsk agreement, but it is the format for talks that we have,.. and we just 15 kilometers (about 9 miles) need to be finished, emphasized that the new pipeline offers a much cheaper and safer transit route for Russian gas supplies to Germany and other EU nations. Merkel noted her desire to see Russia extend its transit contract to pump gas via Ukraine after the current deal expires in 2024. Putin said Russia stood ready to negotiate an extension of the deal but noted that specific details, such as transit volumes, would depend on market demand for the Russian gas in Europe. Other topics the two longtime leaders discussed included sta- should deal carefully with this format so long as we don’t have anything else,” Merkel said. “Every little bit of progress could be important, but the work we have to do is very, very hard, and there have been disappointments of the most varied kind.” The German leader and Putin also discussed the nearly finished Nord Stream 2 pipeline that will carry natural gas from Russia to Germany. The project has angered the United States and some European countries, but the U.S. and Germany announced a deal last month to allow its completion. Putin, who said that P L E A S A N T bilizing Libya, the situation in Syria, efforts to help revive the Iranian nuclear deal and developments in Belarus, where authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has relentlessly cracked down on dissent. Three of Belarus’ EU neighbors - Lithuania, Poland and Latvia - have accused Belarusian authorities of encouraging a flow of migrants to destabilize the EU. Merkel, 67, who grew up in communist East Germany and is fluent in Russian, has always stressed that relations with Russia can only improve through dialogue. V A L L E Y 'BNJMZ�)FBMUIDBSF G a l l i p o l i s - F R E E - Health & Wellness Screening Day SCREENINGS | HEALTHY SNACKS | MEDICAL INFORMATION Friday, August 27 at Pleasant Valley Family Healthcare 995 Jackson Pike, Suite 102, Gallipolis, Ohio Book Your Appointment at 740.925.9035 Due to COVID restrictions, appointments & masks are required. Screenings Include: + Blood Pressure Readings + Body Mass Index Screening + Non-fasting Cholesterol Screening + Non-Fasting Glucose Screening + Prostate-Specific Antigen Testing (PSA) + Vision Screening + Pharmacy Medication Review + Skin Cancer Screening If you take advantage of all free screenings provided, the value is approximately $300. OH-70250404 MOSCOW — German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed their sharply different views of Russia’s treatment of imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, democratic values and other major topics of dispute Friday but vowed to maintain a dialogue. Merkel traveled to Moscow as she is nearing the end of her almost 16-year-long leadership of Germany. Despite deep disagreements, she has tried throughout her tenure to preserve close contacts with Putin, who has been in power for more than two decades. Their meeting Friday came on the anniversary of Navalny falling gravely ill on a domestic flight over Siberia from what European officials would later say was poisoning with a Soviet-developed nerve agent. After the opposition leader was stricken, he was flown to Germany for medical treatment at his wife’s insistence and spent five months there recuperating. Navalny, who is Putin’s most outspoken critic blamed the Aug. 20, 2020 attack on the Kremlin — an accusation that Russian authorities reject. Upon his return to Russia in January, he was immediately arrested and handed a 2½-year prison term for violating the terms of a suspended sentence from a 2014 embezzlement conviction that he dismissed as politically motivated. Speaking after Friday’s talks with Putin, Merkel reiterated a call for Navalny’s release, pointing out that the European Court of Human Rights had criticized his 2014 conviction as “clearly disproportionate is unacceptable.” Putin rejected the criticism, arguing that Navalny’s sentencing wasn’t connected to his opposition activities. “He was convicted of a criminal offense, not his political activities,” the Russian leader said, customarily avoiding mentioning Navalny by name. “No one should use political activities as a Tasha Wyant, FNP-BC �ŒÚŵþɣ�ąŵƄĪƹąþɷDÚňĪŁƧɷpƊŵŻąɷ—ŵÚøƄĪƄĪŒŊąŵ —ŁąÚŻÚŊƄɷÆÚŁŁąƧɷDÚňĪŁƧɷNąÚŁƄĦøÚŵąɷɷʷɷɷɄɄɀɷaÚøĽŻŒŊɷ—ĪĽąɎɷ¡ƊĪƄąɷȼȻȽɎɷFÚŁŁĪűŒŁĪŻɎɷxNɷʷɷɂȿȻɍɄȽɀɍɄȻȾɀ �COMICS 6 Saturday, August 21, 2021 Ohio Valley Publishing Having A Yard Sale? Call your classified department to schedule your ad today! 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Meigs opened the year at Gallia Academy on Friday night, while Eastern, Southern and South Gallia respectively hosted Green, Federal Hocking and Symmes Valley in their Week 1 affairs. River Valley was supposed to be at Piketon, but the Raiders had to cancel due to a coronavirus quarantine. The Mason County programs in the area — Point Pleasant and Wahama — start next week when West Virginia officially begins its 2021 campaign. Due to an early deadline for the Saturday newspapers, details of the local contests will be available in the Tuesday sports editions of the Gallipolis Daily Tribune, Point Pleasant Register and The Daily Sentinel. WVU tries to escape Big 12’s bottom half in 3rd year By John Raby Associated Press Coach Neal Brown pushed for patience as he took West Virginia through a rebuilding first season, then made a bit of progress in his second. The challenge in Year 3 is getting more noticeable results. The Mountaineers are going to need marked improvements on offense in order to challenge perennial preseason favorite Oklahoma, No. 7 Iowa State and No. 21 Texas. Or, in the least, to move back into the top half of the Big 12. West Virginia is 11-11 under Brown and has finished no better than sixth. It’s been 10 years since the Mountaineers have been to a major bowl and five since their last 10-win season. Fans might start grumbling about whether that will arrive again soon. The reality is another middle-of-the-pack finish could be in store, although Brown is hopeful a boost is imminent with an offense led by 1,000-yard running back Leddie Brown and quarterback Jarret Doege. “I think the difference in our team this year is we’ve got a good mix of veterans and youth,” Brown said. “I think that our youth are hungry. “Our leadership’s better, and that’s not a knock on anybody that’s been here before. I just think our leadership has been in our program now for going on three years and they got a better understanding of what we’re trying to do.” The Mountaineers navigated POMEROY, Ohio — More of the same. After posting a 12-shot victory in the opening match of the season, the Belpre golf team cruised to another convincing win on Thursday — this time by 21 strokes — at the second Tri-Valley Conference Hocking Division golf match held at Meigs Golf Course. The Golden Eagles (10-0) recorded four of the five lowest individual rounds on the day en route to a winning 4-man tally of 154, which was 21 shots ahead of runner-up Waterford (8-2) and its final total of 175. Eastern (6-4) was third overall with a 188, while Southern (4-6) placed fourth with a final tally of 200. Federal Hocking (2-8) was fifth with a 211, while Trimble (0-10) did not have enough players for a team tally. All six teams finished in the exact same order of placement as the first round held at Riverside Golf Club earlier this week. Blake Church of Belpre won medalist honors with a 2-over par round of 36. Teammate Jacob Ferrier was the overall runner-up with a 38. Carson Moore and Jacob Smeeks completed the winning tally for BHS with matching rounds of 40. Ethan Short led EHS with a 43, while Colton McDaniel and Logan Bailey respectively added rounds of 44 and 50. Wyatt McCune completed the team score with a 51, while Emma Hayes added a 57. Tanner Lisle led the Tornadoes with a 42, followed by Cruz Brinager with a 54 and Aaron Vance with a 52. Dylan See BELPRE | 8 Alex Hawley | OVP Sports West Virginia football coach Neal Brown checks in with an official during the Mountaineers’ 11-point loss to Texas on Oct. 5, 2019, in Morgantown, W.Va. through some tough circumstances a year ago. Defensive coordinator Vic Koenning left the program in the summer due to player allegations of insensitive comments. West Virginia went winless on the road and its final home game with Oklahoma was canceled due to positive COVID-19 cases in the Mountaineers’ program. A Liberty Bowl win over Army salvaged a 6-4 season. Here are some things to look for from West Virginia, which opens the season Sept. 4 at Maryland: Offensive struggles West Virginia ranked eighth in the 10-team Big 12 last season in scoring and offensive yards. Despite Leddie Brown’s production, the Mountaineers were near the bottom in rushing offense, too. But it was much better than the previous year when the team averaged just 73 yards per game. The running game’s success will depend on development of an offensive line that lost three starters. Tony Mathis, who had only 18 carries last season, is on track to be Leddie Brown’s backup. Doege needs to be more consistent in his second full season as a starter. He couldn’t get the Mountaineers into the end zone in the regular-season fina- le at Iowa State and struggled in the bowl win. Doege finished second in the Big 12 behind Oklahoma’s Spencer Rattler in average passing yards at 259 but threw for just 14 touchdowns. There is a mix of length and speed in the receiving corps. Winston Wright looks to improve on a solid sophomore season in which he was among the Big 12 leaders in receptions (47) and receiving yards (553). Solo stills Dante Stills is going it alone after playing alongside his brother, all-American Darius See WVU | 8 Pridemore tops Riverside senior league Staff report MASON, W.Va. — Kenny Pridemore of Point Pleasant holds 44.5-point lead over the field in the 2021 Riverside Senior men’s golf league, with six weeks remaining in the 2021 season. Pridemore has a current point total of 246, while Cecil Gillette Jr. is second in the overall standings with 201.5 points, and Charlie Hargraves holds down third place with 200 points. A total of 40 players were divided into 10 foursomes on Tuesday. The low score of the day was a 13-underpar 57, fired by the team of Pridemore, Carl Cline, Billy Painter and Jim Collins. Two shots back, the team of Carl Stone, Albert Durst, Jay Rees and Ed Coon placed second. In third place at 10-under par was the team of Jim Lawrence, Bob Humphreys, Phil Burgess, and Dave Seamon. The closest to the pin winners were Randall Thornhill on the ninth hole, and Carl Cline on No. 14. The current top-10 standings of the 2021 Riverside Senior men’s golf league are as follows: Kenny Pridemore (246.0); Cecil Gillette, Jr. (201.5); Charlie Hargraves (200.0); Dale Miller (195.5); Ralph Six (186.0); Albert Durst (185.5) Jim Gress (181.5); Carl Stone (178.5); Carl Cline (165.5) and John Williams (161.5). © 2021 Ohio Valley Publishing, all rights reserved. OVP SPORTS SCHEDULE Monday, Aug. 23 Volleyball Symmes Valley at South Gallia, 7 p.m. Eastern at Nelsonville-York, 7:15 Federal Hocking at River Valley, 7:30 Meigs at Southern, 7:30 Soccer Portsmouth at Ohio Valley Christian, 6 p.m. Golf Point Pleasant at Wahama, 4 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 24 Volleyball South Gallia at South Point, 6:30 Belpre at Meigs, 7:15 Alexander at Gallia Academy, 7 p.m. Rock Hill at River Valley, 7:30 Soccer Alexander at Gallia Academy girls, 5:30 Alexander at Gallia Academy boys, 7 p.m. St. Joseph Central at Point Pleasant girls, 7 p.m. Golf Meigs girls, River Valley girls at Wellston, 4 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 25 Golf Meigs, River Valley boys at Nelsonville-York, TBA Wahama at St. Marys, 4 p.m. TVC Hocking at Oxbow GC, 4 p.m. �SPORTS 8 Saturday, August 21, 2021 Belpre From page 7 Ison brothers win Riverside 2-man best ball brothers to a one-stoke victory in the championship flight. The MASON, W.Va. — Doug Ison winning total was an 11-under Jr. and Dave Ison won the 2021 par 129, with a 62 on Day 1, and a 67 on the second day. Riverside two-man best ball, There was a two-way tie for held on Aug. 14 and 15. second place with the team of Doug sank a 10-foot birdie putt on the final hole, lifting the Cory Hosher and Chris Slack, Staff Report Haye completed the SHS team tally with a 58, while Jesse Caldwell also shot a 63. Gavin Brooker paced Waterford with a 39 and Mason Jackson led Fed Hock with a 41. Matt Reed paced the Tomcats with a 53. Blue Angels second at Chillicothe tri-match CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — There still some distance to make up in regards to the reigning district champs. The Gallia Academy girls golf team finished 11 shots off the pace set by Westfall on Thursday during a non-league trimatch with host Chillicothe at the Chillicothe Country Club in Ross County. The Blue Angels ended the day with a 191, while Westfall posted a winning tally of 180. The Lady Cavaliers shot a 220 and finished third. Maddi Shoults of Westfall won medalist honors with an even par round of 36. Abby Hammons of GAHS was the overall runner-up with a 44. Maddi Meadows was next for the Blue Angels with a 46, while Emma Hammons added a 49. Grace Truance completed the GAHS tally with a 53. Fischer led the Lady Cavaliers with a 51. Defenders fall at Calvary Baptist HURRICANE, W.Va. — At least they are back in action. The Ohio Valley Christian soccer team returned to the pitch after a nearly 2-year hiatus, but host Calvary Baptist spoiled the festivities on Thursday with a 3-1 victory in the season opener for both clubs. The visiting Defenders (0-1-0) never led as the Patriots (1-0-0) established a 1-0 halftime advantage, but Bradley Haley — thanks to a Cash Burnett assist — managed to knot things up at 1-all with a goal early in the second half. CBA, however, caught a break three minutes later as OVCS scored an own goal that allowed the hosts to take a permanent 2-1 edge. Calvary added a successful penalty kick in the 73rd minute to wrap up the 2-goal outcome. Calvary tops Lady Defenders HURRICANE, W.Va. — The Ohio Valley Christian volleyball team took early leads in all three games, but host Calvary Baptist ultimately rallied and eventually cruised to a 25-12, 25-21, 25-9 victory on Thursday in a non-conference matchup. The Lady Defenders (0-1) led 2-0, 3-0 and 1-0 through each of the first three sets, and the guests took their largest lead of the night at 7-3 in the middle contest, but the Lady Patriots (1-0) had an answer each time while rolling to a straight-game triumph. Kenzie Childers led OVCS with six service points, followed by Makayla Anderson with five points and Christina Dong with four points. Madison Beaver and Ava Facemyer also added two points and one point, respectively, for the Lady Defenders. © 2021 Ohio Valley Publishing, all rights reserved. Bryan Walters can be reached at 740-446-2342, ext. 2101. Ohio Valley Publishing and the team of Jeremy Ucker and Sterling Shields each firing 130. Winning the first flight by four strokes, Heath Brownstead and Jarod Patrick shot an eight-under par 132. Jesse Jordan and Craig Roush turned in an 11-over par 151 for a one-stroke victory in the second flight, while Joe Fyall and Denny Humphreys scored 154 for a two-stroke win in the third flight. A total of 43 teams made up four flights. MLB to end 70-year partnership with Topps By Michelle Chapman AP Business Writer Major League Baseball is ending a 70-year relationship with trading card company Topps after signing a new partnership with a rival company. The loss of the MLB partnership immediately scuttled a deal announced earlier this year that would have made Topps a publicly traded company. The special-purpose acquisition company Mudrick Capital Acquisition Corporation II said Friday that its agreement to merge with Topps to take the company public was terminated by mutual agreement after it found out that MLB and the league’s players’ union would not be renewing their respective agreements with The Topps Co. when they come up for renewal at the end of 2025 and 2022, respectively. ESPN reported on Thursday that it obtained a memo from the Major League Baseball Players Association that a company created by the sports merchandise company Fanatics that has yet to be named will be the exclusive licensee for baseball cards once its current licensing agreements expire at the end of next year. The Chitose Suzuki | AP file Major League Baseball is ending its 70-year relationship with trading card company Topps and will instead be working with sports merchandise company Fanatics. Fanatics deal also includes the players’ unions for the National Basketball League and the National Football League, ESPN reported. Fanatics did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The proposed deal with Mudrick would’ve made Topps a public company. Topps, which was bought in 2007 by former Disney CEO Michael Eisner through his firm, The Tornante Co., said in a prepared statement on Friday that it will now remain private. Topps said that it expects to be able to make substantially all its current licensed baseball products through 2025. The company, created in 1938, is best known for baseball cards. But Topps also makes products for Major League Soccer, UEFA Champions League, Bundesliga, National Hockey League, Formula 1, Star Wars and WWE and Garbage Pail Kids. Its confections division has brands including Ring Pop, Push Pop and Bazooka bubble gum. No. 1 Barty defeats Krejcikova to reach semis in Cincinnati By Jeff Wallner regular in the tennis world.” Barty won 84% percent of first serves against Krejcikova and four of eight break points. MASON, Ohio — Top-ranked She had only 15 unforced Ash Barty defeated Barbora errors. Barty had seven aces Krejcikova 6-2, 6-4 Friday to Friday and has 15 in the tournareach the semifinals of the ment. Western & Southern Open. “I feel like I did a good job Barty will next face two-time looking after my own serves,” Cincinnati finalist Angelique she said. “I felt like a lot of the Kerber, who won her quarterfitime I was in control of it. That nal when two-time Wimbledon just allowed me to be more free champion Petra Kvitova retired on Barbora’s service games. during the second set because Overall, I was able to use my of a stomach problem. Kerber forehand and slice effectively.” won the first set 6-4 and was Barty won Wimbledon in July, tied 3-3 in the second. Darron Cummings | AP but two weeks later was beaten Barty beat Kerber in the WimAshleigh Barty of Australia returns a shot to Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech in the first round of the Tokyo bledon semifinals in July. They Republic during the Western & Southern Open tournament on Friday in Mason, Olympics. She appears to have have split their six matches. Ohio. Barty defeated Krejcikova 6-2, 6-4. regained her stroke in Cincin“She’s one the best competinati. deterred by the extreme heat Barty, ranked No. 1 for 87 tors in the world,” Barty said. “I feel like it’s nice to get a and humidity in the morning’s weeks, hasn’t lost a set this “Angie’s never far off her best. week in Cincinnati, a tuneup for first match at the Lindner Fam- couple of matches now here Even on days where she’s not in Cincy,” Barty said. “Each ily Tennis Center. the U.S. Open. playing her best tennis, she match you get to play in dif“It was like a Brisbane sumHer biggest challenge came finds a way to stay in matches. ferent conditions and you get mer day,” Barty said. “The from Heather Watson in the When you play against Angie, more and more used to it. I’m heat’s certainly not a problem you ride a fine line of not press- second round. Barty has since ing too much, but also not being dispatched of Victoria Azarenka for me. It’s nice to play the first just able to adjust and adapt and I look forward to my next and Krejcikova in straight sets. match. You know when your too defensive where she can one, no doubt.” start time is, which is not very The Australian was not move you around the court.” Associated Press IN BRIEF Heat: All employees must be vaccinated against COVID MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Heat announced Friday that all employees must be in the process of becoming fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 1. Exemptions will be available for those awaiting a second dose of a two-shot vaccine or those with “a qualifying medical condition or a sincerely held religious belief,” the team said. Employees who WVU I have to do.” Defensive changes A defense that gave up the fewest points and yards in the Stills, for the past two years on league as well as a national-low 160 passing yards per game the defensive line. This year, lost linebacker Tony Fields, Dante Stills is the only West the Big 12’s top tackler, while Virginia player named to the three other regulars transpreseason all-Big 12 media ferred, including third team allteam. American safety Tykee Smith “It’s definitely different to Georgia. playing without my brother,” Among the returnees are Dante Stills said. “I’ve been playing with him my whole life. second-leading tackler Alonzo Addae at safety and thirdWe lived with each other all throughout college. I know what leading tackler Josh ChandlerFrom page 7 have not met vaccination requirements by that date will not be allowed at work, and if they remain noncompliant eventually will be considered to have resigned. The Heat said in a statement that the “stability and success of the live events industry hinges on prioritizing safety — of our players, our employees, our partners, our fans, our vendors and the media. One of the ways we can substantially minimize the risk of COVID-19 transmission is to ensure our entire staff is vaccinated.” The Heat have not yet revealed their plans for welcoming fans to home games this season. Semedo at linebacker. Some freshmen might be called upon to help fill holes in the secondary. Akheem Mesidor steps into Darius Stills’ spot after recording a team-high five sacks as a freshman. Greener pastures? Fans have been clamoring to see more of mobile quarterback Garrett Greene ever since he took his first snaps a year ago against Eastern Kentucky. He averaged nearly seven yards per carry on six rushing attempts all year. The redshirt fresh- man could step into the role as Doege’s backup after Austin Kendall transferred to Louisiana Tech. Finally, fans As long as the coronavirus doesn’t put a damper on the season, West Virginia is allowing full capacity at its stadium. The home opener is Sept. 11 against Long Island of the Championship Subdivision, followed by a visit from Virginia Tech on Sept. 18. The Big 12 opener is at No. 2 Oklahoma on Sept. 25. �NEWS/CLASSIFIEDS Ohio Valley Publishing Saturday, August 21, 2021 9 Court refuses to end eviction moratorium By Alanna Durkin Richer and Gary Fields Associated Press Greg Lovett | The Palm Beach Post via AP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, right, walks with FDEM Director Kevin Guthrie, second from right, FDEM Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kenneth Scheppke, second from left, and state Sen. John Snyder, left, during a visit to a new monoclonal antibody treatment site in Westgate Park in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Wednesday. Demand for COVID antibody drugs soars in hard-hit states By Kelli Kennedy and Matthew Perrone Associated Press People infected with COVID-19 were captured in a photo this week lying on the floor in pain while waiting for antibody infusions at a treatment site set up inside the library in Jacksonville, Florida. The image has become a vivid illustration of the huge demand for the once-neglected COVID19 drugs in the states hit hardest by a summer surge of infections being driven by the highly contagious delta variant. “They were moaning and obviously in a lot of pain. They were miserable,” said Louie Lopez, who shot the photograph as he waited for more than two hours to receive the treatment. Antibody treatments remain one of a handful of therapies that can blunt the worst effects of COVID-19, and they are the only option available to people with mild-tomoderate cases who aren’t yet in the hospital. They have risen in demand in states seeing a spike in infections, including Florida, Louisiana and Texas, where hospitalizations among the unvaccinated are overwhelming the health care system. White House officials reported recently that federal shipments of the drugs increased five-fold last month to nearly 110,000 doses, with the vast majority going to states with low vaccination rates. “They are safe, they are free, they keep people out of the hospital and help keep them alive,” said Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, a senior adviser to the White House’s COVID-19 response team. The main drug in use is Regeneron’s dual-antibody cocktail, which has been purchased in mass quantities by the U.S. government. It’s the same drug former President Donald Trump received when he was hospitalized with COVID-19 last October. The drugs are laboratory-made versions of virusblocking antibodies that help fight off infections. The treatments help the patient by supplying concentrated doses of one or two antibodies. The drugs are only recommended for people at the highest risk of progressing to severe COVID-19, but regulators have slowly broadened who can qualify. The list of conditions now includes older age, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, pregnancy and more than a half-dozen other issues. With expanded eligibility and skyrocketing caseloads across the country, more people are getting the treatments. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who this week tested positive for the virus and is himself receiving the treatments, said five state-run COVID-19 antibody infusion centers opened last week and that another four would open by Monday. At least 140 providers across Texas are offering the antibodies treatment, his office said. In Florida, where more than 20,000 people a day on average are testing positive for the virus, the rising demand created a scene at the Jacksonville center that resembled an overwhelmed emergency room. At one point, Lopez said staff brought out paper hospital gowns and covered a woman on the floor. It took more than half an hour for staff to bring out enough wheelchairs for people to sit in. “They poured them into the wheelchairs,” he said. “They were just so sick.” After the photo was published Wednesday, Florida health officials said they had increased the number of wheelchairs at the facility. They also said it is open seven days a week and has plenty of cots, as well as ambulances on standby to transfer the sickest patients to the hospital. “None of our sites are having a capacity issue,” said Weesam Khoury, spokesperson for the Florida Department of Health. “We have the resources and if we need more we can quickly get them.” But she cautioned, “This is a site where people are going to be very ill.” That’s why state health officials are urging patients who test positive for COVID to get the antibody treatment immediately instead of waiting until they are extremely sick, which many patients are doing. Florida over the past week has set up about a dozen monoclonal antibody clinics typically serving 300 patients per day, with an online portal for appointments, and plans to stand up more, as Gov. Ron DeSantis has traveled around the state to promote them. Getting the drugs involves a number of steps. A positive test for COVID-19 is required, which must be reviewed by a physician or health professional. They then decide whether to recommend an antibody treatment for the patient, which usually means scheduling an appointment at a local administration site. To be effective, the drugs are supposed to be given within 10 days of initial symptoms. That’s the timeframe in which they have been shown to cut rates of hospitalization and death by roughly 70%. WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Friday said a pause on evictions designed to curb the spread of the coronavirus can remain in place for now, setting up a battle before the nation’s highest court. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected a bid by Alabama and Georgia landlords to block the eviction moratorium reinstated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month. The landlords plan to immediately file an emergency motion to the Supreme Court, said National Association of Realtors spokesman Patrick Newton. “With a majority of the Supreme Court in agreement that any further extension of this eviction moratorium requires Congressional authorization, we are confident and hopeful for a quick resolution,” he said in an emailed statement. In a short written decision, the panel said the appeals court had rejected a similar bid and a lower court also declined to overturn the moratorium. “In view of that decision and on the record before us, we likewise deny the emergency motion directed to this court,” the judges said in the ruling. The Supreme Court voted 5-4 in June to allow the moratorium John Minchillo | AP Gary Zaremba stands at the back entrance of one of his rental properties earlier this month in the Queens borough of New York. Landlords say they have suffered financially due to various state, local and federal moratoriums in place since last year. “Without rent, we’re out of business,” said Zaremba. A federal appeals courts on Friday ruled that the CDC’s moratorium can remain in place. to continue through the end of July. But Justice Brett Kavanaugh — who joined the majority — warned the administration not to act further without explicit congressional approval. The Biden administration allowed an earlier moratorium to lapse on July 31, saying it had no legal authority to allow it to continue. But the CDC issued a new moratorium days later as pressure mounted from lawmakers and others to help vulnerable renters stay in their homes as the coronavirus’ delta variant surged. The moratorium is scheduled to expire Oct. 3. As of Aug. 2, roughly 3.5 million people in the United States said they faced eviction in the next two months, according to the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey. The new moratorium temporarily halted evictions in counties with “substantial and high levels” of virus transmissions and would cover areas where 90% of the U.S. population lives. The Trump administration initially put a nationwide eviction moratorium in place last year out of fear that people who can’t pay their rent would end up in crowded living conditions like homeless shelters and help spread the virus. President Joe Biden acknowledged there were questions about the legality of the new eviction freeze. But he said a court fight over the new order would buy time for the distribution of some of the more than $45 billion in rental assistance that has been approved but not yet used. In urging the appeals court to keep the ban in place, the Biden administration noted that the new moratorium was more targeted than the nationwide ban that had lapsed, and that landscape had changed since the Supreme Court ruling because of the spread of the highly contagious delta variant. The landlords accused Biden’s administration of caving to political pressure and reinstating the moratorium even though it knew it was illegal. “As the President himself has acknowledged, the CDC’s latest extension is little more than a delay tactic designed to buy time to distribute rental assistance,” their attorneys wrote in court documents. A lower court judge ruled earlier this month that the freeze is illegal, but rejected the landlords’ request to lift the moratorium, saying her hands were tied by an appellate decision from the last time courts considered the evictions moratorium in the spring. New England preps for 1st hurricane in 30 years By Philip Marcelo and Pat Eaton-Robb Associated Press BOSTON — New Englanders bracing for their first direct hit by a hurricane in 30 years began hauling boats out of the water and taking other precautions Friday as Tropical Storm Henri barreled toward the Northeast coast. Henri was expected to intensify into a hurricane by Saturday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Impacts could be felt in New England states by Sunday, including on Cape Cod, which is teeming with tens of thousands of summer tourists. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Friday urged people vacationing on the Cape to leave well before Henri hits, and those who planned to start vacations there because of flooding and a storm surge. Thursday marked exactly 30 years since Hurricane Bob came ashore in Rhode Island as a Category 2 storm, killing at least 17 people and leaving behind more than $1.5 billion worth of damage. Bob, which left streets in coastal towns littered with Phil Marcelo | AP Steve Berlo of Plymouth, Mass., watches as his sailboat boats blown free of their is hauled out of the water onto dry land in advance of an moorings, left hundreds expected storm on Friday in Plymouth, Mass. New Englanders, of thousands without bracing for their first direct hit by a hurricane in 30 years, are power and water for taking precautions as Tropical Storm Henri barrels toward the days. southern New England coast. Large swaths of the Eastern seaboard were to delay their plans. “We haven’t been down this road in quite a while and mopping up on Friday don’t want people to be there’s no doubt that we from the effects of stuck in traffic on the Cape Cod bridges when and the rest of New Eng- Henri’s predecessor, Tropical Depression the storm is in full force land would have some Fred. In North Carolina, real difficulties with a on Sunday,” he said. 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Blake Smith Sawyer Bradford Colten Grubb Treyson Mullen Weston Smith Ariana Bland Brileigh Marcinko Layne Hupp �NEWS Ohio Valley Publishing Saturday, August 21, 2021 11 Reports of targeted Taliban killings fuel Afghans’ fears By Ahmad Seir, Tameem Akhgar and Rebecca Santana Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan — Reports of targeted killings in areas overrun by the Taliban mounted Friday, fueling fears that they will return Afghanistan to the repressive rule they imposed when they were last in power, even as they urged imams to push a message of unity at Friday’s prayers. Terrified that the new de facto rulers would commit such abuses and despairing for their country’s future, thousands have raced to Kabul’s airport and border crossings following the Taliban’s stunning blitz through Afghanistan. In one dramatic image, a U.S. Marine providing airport security reached over razor wire atop a barrier and plucked a baby by the arm from a crowd of people and pulled it up over the wall. Others have taken to the streets to protest the takeover — acts of defiance that Taliban fighters have violently suppressed. The Taliban say they have become more moderate since they last ruled Afghanistan in the late 1990s and have pledged to restore security and forgive those who fought them in the 20 years since a U.S.-led invasion toppled them from power. Ahead of Friday prayers, leaders urged imams to use sermons to appeal for unity and urge people not to flee the country. But many Afghans are skeptical, fearing that the Taliban will erase the gains, especially for women, achieved in the past two decades. An Amnesty International report provided more evidence Friday that undercut the Taliban’s claims they have changed. The rights group said that its researchers spoke to eyewitnesses in Ghazni province who recounted how the Taliban killed nine ethnic Hazara men in the village of Mundarakht from July 4 to July 6. It said six of the men were shot, and three were tortured to death. Hazaras are Shiite Muslims who were previously persecuted by the Taliban and who made major gains in education and social status in recent years. Amnesty International warned more killings may have gone unreported because the Taliban cut cellphone services in many areas they captured. Separately, Reporters without Borders expressed alarm at the news that Taliban fighters killed a family member of an Afghan journalist working for Germany’s Deutsche Welle on Wednesday. The broadcaster said fighters conducted house-tohouse searches for their reporter, who had already relocated to Germany. Meanwhile, a Norwaybased private intelligence group that provides information to the United Nations said it obtained evidence that the Taliban have rounded up Afghans on a blacklist of people they believe worked in key roles with the previous Afghan administration or with U.S.-led forces. In an email, the executive director of the RHIPTO Norwegian Center for Global Analyses said the organization knew about several threat letters sent to Afghans. A report from the group that was obtained by The Associated Press included one of the letters, but the AP could not independently verify the group’s claims. Under the Taliban’s previous rule, women were largely confined to their homes, television and music were banned, and public executions were held regularly. But leaders of the movement have pledged more moderation this time. It’s not clear whether the reports of abuses indicate that Taliban leaders are saying one thing but doing another or whether they simply do not have full control over their forces. The scale and speed of their takeover seems to Rahmat Gul | AP Taliban fighters pose for a photograph in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday. An Amnesty International report released Friday said its researchers spoke to eyewitnesses in Ghazni province who recounted how the Taliban killed nine ethnic Hazara men in the village of Mundarakht from July 4 to July 6. have challenged the leadership’s ability to control their fighters. In Kabul, for instance, there have been reports of fighters promising security to major news outlets, but also examples of them intimidating business owners. Amid the uncertainty, thousands have tried to flee the country, braving checkpoints manned by Taliban fighters to rush to Kabul’s airport, where a chaotic evacuation is underway. Mohammad Naim, who said he used to be an interpreter for U.S. forces, has been in the airport crowd for four days trying to escape. He said put his children on the roof of a car on the first day to save them from being crushed by the mass of people. He saw other children killed who were unable to get out of the way. He urged others not to the come to the airport. “It is a very, very crazy situation right now,” he said. A widely seen video shared on social media showed some of the chaos when a U.S. Marine at the airport pulled a baby out of the crowd. A spokesman from the Marine Corps, Maj. Jim Stenger, confirmed that the Marine was a member of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit and said the baby was “cared for by medical professionals.” The baby was later reunited with its father, and they are safe at the airport, Stenger said. It was not clear when the incident happened. The United States is struggling to pick up the pace of evacuations it is running from Afghanistan, where thousands of Americans and their Afghan allies may be in need of escape. American military planes were expected to resume evacuation flights from the airport Friday after an hours-long pause due to a lack of places available to take evacuees. 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But Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles said Friday that its military transport planes are leaving Kabul partly empty in the tumult. “Nobody’s in control of the situation,” Robles told Spanish public radio RNE. Getting to the facility is also a major challenge. Germany was sending two helicopters to Kabul to help bring small numbers of people from elsewhere in the city to the airport, officials said. For those remaining in Afghanistan, concerns are as basic as how to get food. The U.N. food agency said Friday it has been able to negotiate access with the Taliban to distribute aid in one provincial capital, but it has not been able to resume food deliveries to three other provincial capitals it supplies. The World Food Program has said that some 14 million people are facing severe hunger in the nation of some 39 million. A second drought in three years, combined with fighting, had afflicted Afghanistan even before the Taliban takeover of the country on Sunday. As concerns mount about what a Taliban government will look like, the group’s leaders are meeting with some officials from previous Afghan administrations. An Afghan official familiar with those talks indicated nothing would come of them before the last U.S. troops leave, currently planned for Aug. 31. �NEWS 12 Saturday, August 21, 2021 Daily Sentinel Welcome to the Wild West Council From page 1 the village ARPA funds which will be available soon. Hendrickson stated that the asbestos survey for the CDBG grant has been completed and asbestos was found in a small amount in only one house which was good. He also stated that one of the houses on the demo list had burned which will leave a little more funds for demolition of the remaining eight structures. He stated the next step is for the project to be advertised for bids by the commissioners. Conde asked Mike Hendrickson if he had an estimate of how much delinquent property tax exists in Middleport. Hendrickson said that the estimate he has is about $700,000 in delinquent taxes in Middleport alone. Conde inquired if the Land Bank was making any progress in helping with this situation. Hendrickson stated the original purpose of the Land Bank formation last year was to work through procedures which would eventually allow delinquent taxes to be abolished and the properties then sold to individuals who would clean up the property and pay taxes. He felt that the Meigs Land Bank has accomplished little if anything at all and to him it appears that county officials are not interested in pursuing this option to alleviate some of the delinquent taxes in the county. He stated that everyone needs to be on board with the project if it is to work. Conde suggested that maybe the village mayors could send a letter to county officials stressing the importance of the Land Bank to the county. Next regular council meeting is Aug. 23 at 7 p.m.. Photos by Patrece Beegle | Courtesy photos Keeping with the 158th Meigs County Fair theme of Wild West at the Meigs County Fair, 4-H members had a lot of fun turning the 4-H Horse Barn into a “Wild West Town”, including a sheriff’s office, jail, general store, bank, hotel, saloon, blacksmith, post office, and barber shop. The horse barn also recently received a facelift thanks to the donations of many community members and businesses who sponsored stalls, allowing for the purchase of new door latches, bucket hangers, stall decoration and future repairs. Information submitted by Middleport Mayor Fred Hoffman. Horse From page 1 Grand Champion Gymkhana Showmanship, Reserve Champion Gymkhana Performance; Shelbe Cochran – Senior Grand Champion Gymkhana Performance; Darbi Mugrage – Senior Grand Champion Western Showmanship and Grand Champion Western Pleasure Performance; Mattee Bolden—Junior Grand Champion English Showmanship and Grand Champion Hunter Under Saddle Performance; Maveryk Lisle – Junior Reserve Grand Champion Gymkhana Showmanship and Grand Champion Gymkhana Performance; Sarah Williams – Junior Grand Champion Ranch Showmanship and Grand Champion Ranch Performance. Awards from Monday’s Youth Horse Show included hand made, personalized halters and baseball hats made and donated by Knots By K. The Showmanship banners were donated by Scott & Nancy Sydenstricker. Other sponsors of the show were Knots By K and Shade River Ag. © 2021 Ohio Valley Publishing, all rights reserved. Patrece Beegle | Courtesy photo Meigs County Junior Fair Horse Show award winners. 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