http://66.213.69.5/files/original/aee3b24927d3e7f62046cca32ccd45e4.pdf 381686b7c7ab972e414a88546f9f802b PDF Text Text 8 AM 2 PM 8 PM 73° 87° 85° Hot today with a stray thunderstorm. Partly cloudy tonight. High 91° / Low 71° Today’s weather forecast H.S. soccer scores ‘In Bloom’ at the fair WEATHER s 4 SPORTS s 7 RIVER s 10 C_ZZb[fehj��Fec[heo"�E^_e Breaking news at mydailysentinel.com Issue 170, Volume 75 Death reported in Gallia County 62 new cases reported in region By Kayla (Hawthorne) Dunham khawthorne@aimmediamidwest. com OHIO VALLEY — A new death associated with COVID-19 was reported in Gallia County, as well as a total of 62 new COVID19 cases were reported in the Ohio Valley Publishing area on Friday. In Gallia County, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) reported 34 new COVID-19 cases on Friday. The additional death reported by ODH was an individual in the 40-49 year age range. In Mason County, 13 additional cases of COVID-19 were reported on Friday, according to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR). In Meigs County, 15 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 ODH, there have been 2,855 total cases (34 new) in Gallia County since the beginning of the pandemic, 178 hospitalizations and 52 deaths (1 new). Of the 2,855 cases, 2,500 BY THE NUMBERS New COVID-19 cases reported on Friday Gallia County — 34 Mason County —13 Meigs County — 15 (5 new) are presumed recovered. Case data is as follows: 0-19 — 419 cases (12 new), 3 hospitalizations 20-29 —471 cases (3 new), 7 hospitalizations 30-39 — 385 cases (4 new), 6 hospitalizations 40-49 — 435 cases (7 new), 16 hospitalizations, 2 deaths (1 new) 50-59 — 413 cases (6 new), 23 hospitalizations, 4 deaths 60-69 — 340 cases, 32 hospitalizations, 8 deaths 70-79 — 231 cases (2 new), 48 hospitalizations, 12 deaths 80-plus — 161 cases, 43 hospitalizations, 25 deaths Vaccination rates in Gallia County are as follows, according to ODH: Vaccines started: 11,370 (38.03 percent of the population); Vaccines completed: 10,307 (34.47 percent of the population). Meigs County According to the 2 p.m. update from ODH, there have been 1,661 total cases (15 new) in See DEATH | 12 Saturday, August 28, 2021 s $2 The art of ‘canning’ By Lorna Hart Special to OVP ROCKSPRINGS — The Meigs County Fair recently recognized winners in the open class canning competition. The results appear below: Canning, Department XII: Division 201: Preserves (any size jar): Class 1, Preserves (name variety), 1st Doris Grueser, Racine, OH; 2nd, Opal Dyer, Bidwell, OH. Division 202: Jams (Any size jar): Class 2, Raspberry, Lorna Hart | Courtesy 1st Donna Jenkins; Class 3, Canning entries are a staple of county fairs, Strawberry, Donna Jenkins; highlighting skills that were necessary for food Class 4, Blackberry, 1st Doris preservation before the mechanization of the Grueser. canning process. Many still find the process Division 203: Jellies (Any enjoyable, and delight in opening jars of carefully preserved produce during the winter months to serve size jar): Class 7, Blackberry, 1st Donna Jenkins, 2nd Opal their family and friends. Dyer; Class 8, Grape,1st Maxine Dyer, Bidwell, OH, 2nd Opal Dyer. Division 204: Spreads (Any size jar): Class 10, Apple Butter, 1st Darlene Hayes, Pomeroy, OH. Division 205: Pickled: Class 12, Dill Pickles, 1st Darlene Hayes, 2nd Ella Bailey, Racine, OH; Class 14, Sweet Pickles, 1st Darlene Hayes; Class 16, 14 Day Pickles, 1st David King, Pomeroy, OH, 3rd Mary D. King Pomeroy, OH; Class 18, Beets, 1st Doris Grueser, 2nd Sandra McKay, Long Bottom, OH, 3rd, Kassandra Lodwick, Pomeroy, OH. Division 207: Sauces/Catsup: Class 25, Catsup, 1st Bill Grueser, Racine, OH, See CANNING | 12 Photos by Kayla (Hawthorne) Dunham | OVP Pictured second and third from right are Raeann Schagel and Caelin Seth, the 2021 Outstanding 4-H Members. Recognizing achievements of local youth Awards day at the fair By Kayla (Hawthorne) Dunham khawthorne@aimmediamidwest. com AIM Media Midwest Operating, LLC (USPS 145-966) Telephone: 740-992-2155 Publishes every Tuesday through Saturday. Subscription rate is $208 per year. Prices are subject to change at any time. 825 Third Ave., Gallipolis, OH, 45631 Periodical postage paid at Pomeroy, OH POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Daily Sentinel, 825 Third Ave., Gallipolis, OH, 45631. All content © 2020 The Daily Sentinel, an edition of the Gallipolis Daily Tribune. 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. ROCKSPRINGS — Meigs County 4-H members were recognized for achievements and received awards last week during the fair. Senior Awards, given to members who graduated high school this year, were sponsored by Busy Beavers 4-H Club and were presented to Dominique Butcher, Logan Caldwell, Whitney Durst, Steven Fitzgerald, McKenzie Long, Kristin McKay, Trevor See YOUTH | 12 Wendi Miller, center, was awarded the Pauline Atkins Award. Pictured are 4-H members who attended the Ohio State Fair project judging. Neighbors Serving Neighbors In-Home Services: Caregiving ࠮ Palliative Care ࠮ Hospice Care Hospice of Huntington OH-70243929 *HSS�VY�=PZP[�6\Y�4HZVU�*V\U[`�6MÄJL�[V�3LHYU�4VYL ��1LMMLYZVU�(]L��7VPU[�7SLHZHU[��>=�� OVZWPJLVMO\U[PUN[VU�VYN��[YPZ[H[LSPMLJHYL�VYN �OBITUARIES/NEWS 2 Saturday, August 28, 2021 OBITUARIES DONALD JAY LEMLEY Donald Jay Lemley went to be with the Lord Monday evening, August 16, 2021. Donnie was born to Anna Elizabeth and Roy Edwin Lemley on November 2, 1955 in Columbus, Ohio. He graduated from Northland High School in 1973. He is survived by his brother and sister-inlaw, Michael and JoAnn Lemley, Jenks, Oklahoma; nephew Christian and great-niece Hanna Lemley, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. He lived most of his adult life in Alliance, Ohio, working and retiring from Robertson Heating Supply Co. Donnie was VP / Branch Opera- tions. His favorite saying was, “What will you do today, that will Matter tomorrow.” Donnie enjoyed all aspects of golf, ﬁshing and cruises. Donnie’s ashes will be spread over a golf course. In lieu of ﬂowers, please donate to one of these charities on Donnie’s behalf: Make-A-Wish Foundation https://www.worldwish.org. ALS Association- Oklahoma Chapter https:// donate.als.org/donate. Contact information for Donnie: mlemley@cox.net. Moore’s Southlawn 918-663-2233 share memories at www. moorefuneral.com. GARDNER GALLIPOLIS — Tammy Gardner, 63, of Gallipolis, Ohio, died Thursday, August 26, 2021. Arrangements will be available at the convenience of the family. Deal Funeral Home in Point Pleasant, W.Va., is serving the family. 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 showers Jean Miller-Fisher will be celebrating her 94th birthday on Sept. 8, cards may be sent to 1470 Orchard Hill Road, Gallipolis, OH 45631. Bonnie Krautter will be celebrating her 90th birthday on Sept. 11, cards may be sent to 1712 Chester Road, Pomeroy, OH 45769. 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. Sunday, Aug. 29 MIDDLEPORT — Ash Street Church will host the West Virginia Couriers singing group 6:30 p.m. 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. Monday, Sept. 6 MEIGS COUNTY — All branches of the Meigs County District Public Library will be closed in observance of Labor Day. Ohio Valley Publishing Bellisio partners with Southern Local RACINE — Bellisio Foods, of Jackson, partnered with the Southern Local School District to help with the summer feeding program and the summer school session. Bellisio Foods also helped area schools during the onset of the pandemic offering food and delivery of food for needy children. In the two and a half months since school dismissed for the summer, Southern has distributed nearly 3,500 meals through a No Child Hungry grant of $20,000 and donations such as those made by Bellisio. Meal statistics include students served during the four weeks of summer school. With the No Child Hungry grant coming to a close in midNovember, Southern is seeking donations to sustain the program, which includes weekend backpack meals for children that need it most. Southern distributes food from the back of Southern High School at the kitchen entrance on Mondays from 4-6 p.m. Meal Southern Local | Courtesy Pictured with the Bellisio banner is delivery coordinator and Elementary Principal Tricia McNickle and Food Service Coordinator Scott Wolfe. bags include ﬁve breakfast meals dents are welcome as well. Because Monday, Sept. 6 is and ﬁve lunches for the whole week. Parents can follow the lane Labor Day, food will be distributed on Tuesday, Sept. 7. around the football ﬁeld past the bus garage to the back of the building. Other Meigs County stu- Submitted by Scott Wolfe. Ida aims to hit New Orleans on Katrina anniversary NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Ida struck Cuba on Friday as a rapidly intensifying storm that could speed across warm Gulf waters and slam into Louisiana as a Category 3 hurricane on Sunday, the National Hurricane Center warned. Residents along Louisiana’s coast braced for Ida to bring powerful wind and rains on the exact date that Hurricane Katrina devastated a large swath of the Gulf Coast exactly 16 years earlier. Capt. Ross Eichorn, who operates a ﬁshing guide service on the coast about 70 miles (112 kilometers) southwest of New Orleans, said he fears warm Gulf waters will “make a monster” out of Ida. “With a direct hit, ain’t no telling what’s going to be left -- if anything,” Eichorn said. He added: “Anybody that isn’t concerned has got something wrong with them.” New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell ordered the evacuation of everyone living outside the levee system that protects the area from ﬂooding. She did not say how many people lived there, but urged residents with medical conditions and other special needs to get out early. Ofﬁcials warned they plan to close ﬂoodgates Saturday afternoon on two highways near New Orleans, increasing the sense of urgency for those planning to ﬂee. “Now is the time,” Cantrell said. The White House said President Joe Biden and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell would discuss hurricane preparations Friday in a conference call with the governors of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, Ida became a hurricane with maximum winds of 75 mph (120 kph) Friday afternoon right before its ﬁrst landfall on Cuba’s southern Isle of Youth. The Cuban government issued a hurricane warning for its westernmost provinces, where forecasters said as much as 20 inches of rain could fall in places, possibly unleashing deadly ﬂash ﬂoods and mudslides. An even greater danger will then begin over the Gulf, where forecasts were aligned in predicting Ida will strengthen very quickly into a major hurricane, reaching 120 mph (193 kph) before landfall in the Mississippi River delta late Sunday, the hurricane center said. GALLIA, MEIGS COMMUNITY BRIEFS SR 160 and Porter Road. ODOT’s detour is SR 7 Editor’s Note: Gallia Meigs Briefs will only list event information that is open to the public and will 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 printed on a space-available basis. be closed and temporary trafﬁc signals will be in place between Homewood Drive and Porter Road. Estimated completion: Oct. 1. MEIGS COUNTY — A bridge replacement project began on April 12 on State Route 143, between MIDDLEPORT — “Saturday in the Park” event Lee Road (Township Road 168) and Ball Run Road will take place Aug. 28, 4-8 p.m., Dave Diles Park, (Township Road 20A). One lane will be closed. Middleport. Music by Brent Patterson, food, ice Temporary trafﬁc signals and a 10 foot width cream truck, caramel corn, vendors, face painting, restriction will be in place. Estimated completion: art demonstrations, Chinese auction. Bring a lawn Nov. 15. chair and enjoy an evening by the river. Sponsored by Riverbend Arts Council. ‘Saturday in the Park’ Road closures, construction 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 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. IN BRIEF RFK’s son favors parole for father’s assassin Sirhan Sirhan learned to control his anger and was committed to living peacefully. Some Kennedy family members, Los Angeles law enforcement ofﬁcers and the public submitted letters opposing Sirhan’s release, Parole Board CommissionSAN DIEGO (AP) — The youngest son of U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy spoke Friday in favor of parol- er Robert Barton said at the start of the proceeding ing his father’s assassin at a hearing in which prosecu- held virtually Friday, where Sirhan appeared from San Diego County prison. tors declined to attend to argue he should be kept behind bars. Douglas Kennedy, who was a toddler when his father was gunned down in 1968, said he was moved to tears by Sirhan Sirhan’s remorse and should be released if he’s found to not be a threat to others. “I’m overwhelmed just by being able to view Mr. SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Fireﬁghters Sirhan face to face,” he said. “I think I’ve lived my life battling a stubborn California wildﬁre Friday near the both in fear of him and his name in one way or anoth- Lake Tahoe resort region faced gusty winds and dry er. And I am grateful today to see him as a human conditions that made vegetation ready to burn. being worthy of compassion and love.” The Caldor Fire has proved so difﬁcult to ﬁght that Sirhan Sirhan, 77, told members of the California ﬁre managers this week pushed back the projected Parole Board at this 16th bid for freedom that he had date for full containment from next week to Sept. 8, but even that estimate was tenuous. “I think that’s going to be assessed on a day-by-day CONTACT US basis,” said Keith Wade, a spokesman for the incident 825 Third Ave., Gallipolis, OH, 45631 management team. 740-446-2342 Burning since Aug. 14 in the Sierra Nevada, the All content © 2021 Gallipolis Daily Tribune and The Daily Sentinel Caldor Fire has scorched nearly 144,000 acres, or 225 edition. All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be square miles, and remained only 12% contained early reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law. Friday. SPORTS EDITOR Winds and temperatures were expected to pick up REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT/ Bryan Walters, Ext. 2101 GROUP PUBLISHER over several days while humidity drops, adding to the bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com Lane Moon challenges endured by crews working in rugged terlmoon@aimmediamidwest.com ADVERTISING DIRECTOR rain. Matt Rodgers, Ext. 2095 Projected containment of fire near Lake Tahoe pushed back EDITOR Beth Sergent, Ext. 1992 bsergent@aimmediamidwest.com MANAGING EDITOR Sarah Hawley, Ext. 2555 shawley@aimmediamidwest.com mrodgers@aimmediamidwest.com CIRCULATION MANAGER Derrick Morrison, Ext. 2097 dmorrison@aimmediamidwest.com More freed in Nigeria, amid questions over ransom MINNA, Nigeria (AP) — Overjoyed parents wel- comed home 90 young schoolchildren who had spent three months held by gunmen in northern Nigeria, though authorities conﬁrmed Friday that one of the kidnapped children had died during the ordeal. Meanwhile, elsewhere police announced that a second group of 15 students taken earlier this month also were freed, raising hopes across the country’s north that other child hostages could eventually be delivered. “The happiness can’t be quantiﬁed,” said Yahya Aliyu Babangida, 54, a teacher whose two children aged 7 and 17 were among those released. Some of the abducted pupils in Niger state were just 4 years old, he said. Several were undergoing medical treatment after their release late Thursday. Panel seeks records from tech companies in riot probe WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the riot at the U.S. Capitol issued sweeping document requests on Friday to social media companies, expanding the scope of its investigation as it seeks to examine the events leading to the Jan. 6 insurrection. The requests were issued to technology giants, including Google, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok, and also to Reddit, Parler, Telegram, 4chan, 8kun and other platforms. The committee asked 15 companies to provide copies of any reviews, studies, reports or analysis about misinformation related to the 2020 election, foreign inﬂuence in the election, efforts to stop the election certiﬁcation and “domestic violent extremists” associated with efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including the attack on the Capitol. �NEWS Ohio Valley Publishing Saturday, August 28, 2021 3 What is Environmental Justice? Environmental Justice is the simple idea that everyone should have equal access to a healthy environment. Environment, in this context, can refer to the natural world or the built environment, such as your home. For example, air quality can be poor for people living next to or downwind of factories that emit contaminates into the air. However, poor air quality can also be the result of living in dilapidated housing where mold, lead, asbestos or other issues exist and contaminate the inside air. Studies have shown that certain groups of people are more likely to experiences these types of harms than other groups. Having a low income will limit the ability of people to afford housing repairs race, income, or to move to and education, another locaamong other faction. As a result, tors. According being from a poor to ODH, “Lowdemographic income people increases your and those without chance of having asthma and/or Meigs Health a high school education also succumbing to Matters struggle with other breathing Dawn many disparities, ailments. The air Keller from poverty and quality examples housing quality to demonstrate how overall health status and the health of a community is affected by the lack access to care.” People of environmental justice. living in Ohio’s Appalachian counties are more Although environlikely to face multiple barmental justice has been riers to health. “Opioid around since the 1990s, government agencies are addition and underemployment” are two barriexperiencing a renewed ers ODH references that commitment to the disproportionately affect process of ensuring it through their policy mak- low-income Ohioans and are exacerbating health ing decisions. The Ohio disparities. The Creating Department of Health Healthy Communities (ODH) recognizes that Program, which is a grant Ohioans face health ODH uses to balance the disparities related to scales of justice when it comes to protecting health, is administered locally by the Meigs County Health Dept. (MCHD). At the federal level, the United States EPA deﬁnes environmental justice as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.” A pilot program designed to educate community advocates on how to be “meaningfully involved” is currently underway in the Dayton, Ohio region. “It’s the ﬁrst academy in Ohio See JUSTICE | 4 Beneficial wellness programs Highland, Jackson, LawEven throughout the rence, Pike, Ross, Scioto pandemic, the Area Agenand Vinton are welcome to cy on Aging District 7 participate. Those who are (AAA7) has been providregistered receive a special ing valuable wellness prokit in the mail with helpgrams over a telephone ful information needed for conference call. These include programs Helping You the class including a book focusing on: Chronic Dis- Age Better they can keep and handouts to help them follow along ease Self-Management, Nina R. through the program. CurDiabetes Self-ManageKeller rently, classes being offered ment and Chronic Pain over the telephone or virtuSelf-Management. The ally concentrate on chronic distelephone format allows our ease self-management, diabetes Agency to connect with and self-management, chronic pain support class participants while self-management, falls prevenhelping them learning valuable tion, and caregiver support. tools to manage their chronic In addition to telephonic and conditions. Calls are facilitated virtual wellness programs, the by AAA7 staff and other trained AAA7 has also been featuring community leaders, with each “Wellness Wednesday” on the program running six weeks, one Agency’s Facebook social media hour per week. Classes are at no page. Each broadcast features a cost to participants. Residents age 60 and older who new wellness topic for discussion which gives the AAA7 the opporreside in Adams, Brown, Gallia, tunity to expand its outreach. This format helps the Agency share information about the valuable programs available to help with chronic disease self-management, diabetes self-management, chronic pain self-management, falls prevention, and caregiver support. The goal is to increase knowledge about these programs and help more people learn to live with their chronic conditions and/or embrace helpful tips that can help individuals live healthier. For more information about wellness programs or to preregister for a class that interests you, please call the AAA7 at 1-800-582-7277 or e-mail info@ aaa7.org. The AAA7 also keeps a calendar of upcoming classes on its website at www.aaa7.org. Nina R. Keller is executive director, Area Agency on Aging District 7. JACKSON GENERAL HOSPITAL The smartest card in your wallet Library announces promotions for National Library Card Sign-Up Month Lately, the most crowded area in stores has been the school supply aisle. Now that parents, students, and teachers have stocked up on paper, pencils, glue, and all that a new school year requires, it is important that they get the most important school supply of all – a library card. September is National Library Card Sign-up Month, a time when Bossard Memorial Library joins the American Library Association and librarFrom the ies nationwide to remind parents, Bookshelf caregivers and students that signing Debbie up for a library card is the ﬁrst step Saunders on the path to academic achievement and lifelong learning. Registering for your own library card is empowering. Through access to books, technology, media resources, and educational programs, a library card gives students the tools to succeed in the classroom and provides people of all ages opportunities to pursue their dreams and passions. Beginning September 1, in celebration of National Library Card Sign-Up Month, children ages 4-12 who register for their ﬁrst library card at Bossard Library will receive a library-branded wallet, while supplies last. This special promotion, in partnership with River City Leather, will provide children a unique way to carry their library card – the “smartest” card in their wallet. The library will also commemorate this special month by distributing COSI Connects Kits to families to support youth learning in the community. These children’s science boxes, available while supplies last, are ﬁlled with ﬁve days’ worth of themed STEM activities and science experiments. Themes of these kits include energy, nature, water, and the human body. In addition to these kits, the library will also distribute space-themed COSI learning lunchboxes through a collaborative effort between the Ohio Library Council and COSI to help make science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) learning opportunities more accessible to children in the library’s service area. Since 1987, National Library Card Sign-up Month has been held each September to mark the beginning of the school year. During the month, the American Library Association and libraries work together in a national effort to encourage children and adults to sign up for their own library card. If you or your child are interested in registering for a library card from Bossard Library, the following guidelines apply: Anyone who is at least four See CARD | 4 Pleasant Valley Hospital welcomes Matthew Thompson, MD Opthalmologist Lucy K. Shamblin, DO %RDUG�&HUWLðHG Family Medicine Accepting patients of all ages! 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West Union, Ohio 45693 937-544-8524 Amish owned - Amish operated - Authentic Amish made OH-70248601 OH-70251034 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\�� ÇąŻƄɷÆĪŵĞĪŊĪÚɷ.Ƨąɷ�ŒŊŻƊŁƄÚŊƄŻɷɷʷɷɷȽɀȻȽɷaąƴąŵŻŒŊɷ�ƠąŊƊąɷɷʷɷɷŒĪŊƄɷŁąÚŻÚŊƄɎɷÇÆɷʷɷȾȻȿɍȾȿȾɍȾɄȾɂ �NEWS/WEATHER 4 Saturday, August 28, 2021 TODAY IN HISTORY Card issuing of a divorce decree. In 2005, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin (NAY’-gin) ordered Today is Saturday, Aug. 28, everyone in the city to evacuthe 240th day of 2021. There ate after Hurricane Katrina are 125 days left in the year. grew to a monster storm. In 2009, the Los AngeToday’s Highlight in History les County coroner’s ofﬁce On August 28, 1963, more announced that Michael than 200,000 people listened Jackson’s death was a homias the Rev. Martin Luther cide caused primarily by the King Jr. delivered his “I Have powerful anesthetic propofol a Dream” speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Wash- (PROH’-puh-fahl) and another sedative, lorazepam (lor-AZ’ington, D.C. uh-pam). In 2013, a military jury senOn this date In 1609, English sea explor- tenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for the 2009 shooting er Henry Hudson and his rampage at Fort Hood that ship, the Half Moon, reached claimed 13 lives. On the 50th present-day Delaware Bay. anniversary of Martin Luther In 1941, Japan’s ambassaKing Jr.‘s “I Have a Dream” dor to the U.S., Kichisaburo speech at the Lincoln MemoNomura, presented a note to rial, President Barack Obama President Franklin D. Roostood on the same steps as he sevelt from Japan’s prime challenged new generations to minister, Prince Fumimaro seize the cause of racial equalKonoye, expressing a desire ity. for improved relations. In 2017, ﬂoodwaters reached In 1955, Emmett Till, a Black teen from Chicago, was the rooﬂines of single-story homes as Hurricane Harvey abducted from his uncle’s poured rain on the Houston home in Money, Mississippi, by two white men after he had area for a fourth consecutive supposedly whistled at a white day; thousands of people had woman; he was found brutally been rescued from the ﬂooding. slain three days later. In 2018, a white former In 1964, two days of racepolice ofﬁcer, Roy Oliver, was related rioting erupted in convicted of murder for fatally North Philadelphia over a shooting a Black 15-year-old false rumor that white police boy, Jordan Edwards, while ofﬁcers had beaten to death a ﬁring into a car packed with pregnant Black woman. teenagers in suburban DalIn 1968, police and antilas; Oliver was sentenced the war demonstrators clashed in following day to 15 years in the streets of Chicago as the prison. Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president. Ten years ago In 1988, 70 people were A suicide bomber struck killed when three Italian stunt inside Baghdad’s largest Sunni planes collided during an air mosque, killing 29 people show at the U.S. Air Base in during prayers. California Ramstein (RAHM’-shtyn), returned the Little League West Germany. World Series title to the UnitIn 1996, the troubled ed States with a 2-1 victory 15-year marriage of Britain’s over Hamamatsu City, Japan. Prince Charles and Princess Katy Perry won three MTV Diana ofﬁcially ended with the Video Music Awards, includ- ing video of the year for the inspirational clip “Firework.” Justice These monies have increased the amount of green space available for public use as well as helped to provide access to affordable healthy foods. In addition, we have also applied for and been awarded more than half a million dollars in Waste Water Pollution and Control Grant Funding with the goal of eliminating sewage contamination entering Meigs County streams and water ways. These are only two of many programs we administer The Associated Press From page 3 years of age who is living, working or attending school in Ohio and anyone who owns property in Gallia County, Ohio may apply for a free library card by registering at the circulation desk or with the mobile services department of Bossard Library. In addition, residents of Mason County, West Virginia are eligible to apply for a free library card. Proof of eligibility is required. When applying for a card, the applicant must provide two acceptable forms of identiﬁcation. One form must be photo identiﬁcation or valid state-issued identiﬁcation and the other form must contain the applicant’s current mailing address, as the library will mail the card to the patron. 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Bossard Memorial Library. From page 3 that will be co-sponsored by the EPA, as well as the ﬁrst Environmental Justice Academy in Region 5, which includes Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota” (epa.gov). All levels of government seem to be taking steps designed to lessen the burden of negative TODAY 8 AM WEATHER 2 PM 87° 85° HEALTH TODAY AccuWeather.com Asthma Index™ Temperature The AccuWeather.com Asthma Index combines the effects of current air quality, pollen counts, wind, temperature, dew point, barometric pressure, and changes from past weather conditions to provide a scale showing the overall probability and severity of an asthma attack. High Low Normal high Normal low Record high Record low 90° 69° 85° 63° 103° in 1948 47° in 1945 (in inches) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Fri. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date 0.00 4.66 3.48 38.22 31.81 SUN & MOON Today 6:54 a.m. 8:05 p.m. 11:25 p.m. 12:57 p.m. Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Last Aug 30 New Sep 6 First Full Sep 13 Sep 20 SOLUNAR TABLE The solunar period indicates peak feeding times for ﬁsh and game. Major Today 4:48a Sun. 5:35a Mon. 6:21a Tue. 7:08a Wed. 7:54a Thu. 8:41a Fri. 9:28a Minor 10:59a 11:46a 12:09a 12:55a 1:42a 2:28a 3:15a Major 5:10p 5:57p 6:45p 7:32p 8:20p 9:07p 9:55p 0-2 Low; 3-4 Moderate; 5-6 High; 7-8 Very High; 9-10 Extreme POLLEN & MOLD Low Moderate High Moderate High Lucasville 91/71 Very High Minor 11:21p ---12:33p 1:20p 2:07p 2:54p 3:41p WEATHER HISTORY So much cool air moved southward on Aug. 28, 1944, that Raleigh, N.C., had a high of only 68 degrees, which is its lowest maximum temperature ever in August. 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 13.08 17.05 21.82 12.88 13.16 25.15 12.84 25.57 34.32 12.66 17.10 34.30 16.20 Portsmouth 93/73 24-hr. Chg. -0.12 +0.40 -0.17 -0.28 +0.10 -0.16 -0.14 +0.16 +0.08 +0.15 -0.30 +0.20 +0.40 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021 86° 68° said he was stepping down because a chronic illness had resurfaced. (Abe was succeeded by his right-hand man, Yoshihide Suga.) Today’s Birthdays Actor Sonny Shroyer is 86. Actor Marla Adams is 83. Actor Ken Jenkins is 81. Former Defense Secretary William S. Cohen is 81. Actor David Soul is 78. Former MLB manager and player Lou Piniella (pihn-EHL’-uh) is 78. Actor Barbara Bach is 75. Actor Debra Mooney is 74. Singer Wayne Osmond (The Osmonds) is 70. Actor Daniel Stern is 64. Olympic gold medal ﬁgure skater Scott Hamilton is 63. Actor John Allen Nelson is 62. Actor Emma Samms is 61. Actor Jennifer Coolidge is 60. Movie director David Fincher is 59. Actor Amanda Tapping is 56. Country singer Shania (shah-NY’uh) Twain is 56. Actor Billy Boyd is 53. Actor Jack Black is 52. Actor Jason Priestley is 52. Actor Daniel Goddard (TV: “The Young and the Restless”) is 50. Olympic gold medal swimmer Janet Evans is 50. Actor J. August Richards is 48. Rock singer-musician Max Collins (Eve 6) is 43. Actor Carly Pope is 41. Country singer Jake Owen is 40. Country singer LeAnn Rimes is 39. Actor Kelly Thiebaud is 39. Actor Alfonso Herrera is 38. Actor Sarah Roemer is 37. Actor Armie Hammer is 35. Rock singer Florence Welch (Florence and the Machine) is 35. Actor Shalita Grant is 33. Country-pop singer Cassadee Pope (TV: “The Voice”) is 32. Actor Katie Findlay is 31. Actor/singer Samuel Larsen is 30. Actor Kyle Massey is 30. Actor Quvenzhane (kwuhVEHN’-zhah-nay) Wallis is 18. Reality TV star Alana Thompson, AKA “Honey Boo Boo,” is 16. that attempt to balance the scales of environmental justice for the citizens of Meigs County. Every dollar we acquire in grant funding not only helps the end recipient but also supports the local businesses and workers called upon to provide services or products. In that way, Environmental Justice is a movement of which we are all a part. Dawn Keller is a Registered Sanitarian with the Meigs County Health Department. THURSDAY 80° 61° FRIDAY 80° 61° Cloudy and humid Some rain from with a thunderstorm Tropical Rainstorm Ida Mostly sunny with a t-storm possible 88° 64° Mostly cloudy NATIONAL CITIES Marietta 90/71 Murray City 91/72 Belpre 92/71 Athens 90/71 Today St. Marys 90/70 Parkersburg 89/70 Coolville 91/71 Elizabeth 92/70 Spencer 90/72 Buffalo 91/72 Ironton 90/73 Milton 91/73 Ashland 90/74 Grayson 92/74 St. Albans 93/74 Huntington 90/72 NATIONAL FORECAST 110s 100s Seattle 90s 75/56 80s 70s 60s 50s 40s 30s San Francisco 78/59 20s 10s 0s Los Angeles -0s 90/66 -10s T-storms Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Cold Front Warm Front Stationary Front WEDNESDAY Wilkesville 91/70 POMEROY Jackson 93/72 91/69 Ravenswood Rio Grande 93/71 92/73 Centerville POINT PLEASANT Ripley 92/72 GALLIPOLIS 91/71 93/72 92/73 South Shore Greenup 92/73 91/72 57 Logan 91/72 McArthur 90/73 Very High Primary: ragweed/other/grass Mold: 3931 Hot with a shower and thunderstorm Adelphi 91/72 Chillicothe 91/71 TUESDAY 91° 71° Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Waverly 89/70 Pollen: 28 Low MOON PHASES MONDAY Hot; a t-storm around in the afternoon 6 Primary: cladosporium Sun. 6:55 a.m. 8:03 p.m. 11:56 p.m. 1:57 p.m. SUNDAY Hot today with a stray thunderstorm. Partly cloudy tonight. High 91° / Low 71° Statistics through 3 p.m. Fri. One year ago Actor Chadwick Boseman, who played Black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown as well as the regal Black Panther on screen, died at the age of 43 after a four-year battle with colon cancer. On Jackie Robinson Day across the major leagues, the Houston Astros and Oakland Athletics jointly walked off the ﬁeld following a moment of silence, draping a Black Lives Matter T-shirt across home plate as they chose not to play. (Other major league clubs had joined teams in the NBA, WNBA and MLS earlier in the week in calling off games while protesting social injustice.) The University of Alabama reported that an additional 481 students had tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to more than 1,000 infections since students returned to campus for the fall. Nevada ofﬁcials reported what may have been the ﬁrst documented case of coronavirus reinfection in the United States. Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, environmental impacts associated with one’s demographic status. In practice, the MCHD frequently references demographic statistics in grant applications, Community Health Assessments and related plans. Demonstrating need is one way we can help secure funding that will ease socioeconomic disparities. We have been administering the Creating Healthy Communities grant for more than 10 years. 95° 72° 73° Five years ago Six scientists completed a yearlong Mars simulation in Hawaii, where they emerged after living in a dome in near isolation on a Mauna Loa mountain. Ryan Harlost led Endwell, New York, to the Little League World Series title, striking out eight and limiting South Korea to ﬁve hits in six innings in a 2-1 victory. Beyonce received eight honors at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York. Juan Gabriel, a superstar Mexican songwriter and singer who was an icon in the Latin music world, died at his home in California at age 66. EXTENDED FORECAST 8 PM ALMANAC Precipitation Ohio Valley Publishing Clendenin 91/72 Charleston 90/70 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. Winnipeg 72/55 Billings 73/50 Montreal 73/65 Toronto 85/72 Minneapolis 86/67 Detroit 90/73 Denver 91/59 New York 75/69 Chicago 93/77 Washington 91/76 Kansas City 93/72 Sun. 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Baldor Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan — American forces working under heightened security and the threat of another terror attack pressed ahead with the evacuation from Kabul’s airport Friday, the day after a suicide bombing at the gates wrote a devastating ﬁnal chapter to the nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan. The death toll rose to 169 Afghans, a number that could increase as authorities examine fragmented remains, and 13 U.S. service members. The White House and the Pentagon warned there could be more bloodshed ahead of President Joe Biden’s fast-approaching deadline Tuesday to end the airlift and withdraw American forces. The next few days “will be our most dangerous period to date” in the evacuation, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said. Thursday’s bombing — blamed on Afghanistan’s offshoot of the Islamic State group, an enemy of both the Taliban and the West — marked one of the most lethal terror attacks the country has seen. The U.S. said it was the deadliest day for American forces in Afghanistan since 2011. As the call to prayer echoed Friday through Kabul along with the roar of departing planes, the anxious crowds thronging the airport in hope of escaping Taliban rule appeared as large as ever, despite the scenes of victims lying closely packed together in the aftermath of the bombing. Afghans, American citizens and other foreigners were all acutely aware the window was closing to get out via the airlift. Jamshad went to the airport with his wife and three small children. He clutched an invitation to a Western country he didn’t want to identify. “After the explosion I decided I would try. Because I am afraid now there will be more attacks, and I think now I have to leave,” said Jamshad, who like many Afghans uses only one name. The Pentagon said Friday that there was just one suicide bomber — at the airport gate — not two, as U.S. ofﬁcials initially said. The ofﬁcials who gave the Afghan death toll were not authorized to talk to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity. The Afghan victims included a news agency founder along with a number of impoverished Afghans who had gone to the airport in hopes of realizing a better life. Details on the American dead — 11 Marines, them “especially abhorrent.” The Taliban have wrested back control of Afghanistan two decades after they were ousted in a U.S.-led invasion following the 9/11 attacks. Their return to power has terriﬁed many Afghans, who have rushed to ﬂee the country ahead of the American withdrawal. More than 100,000 people have been safely evacuated through the Kabul airport, according to the U.S., but thousands more are struggling to leave in one of history’s biggest airlifts. Jose Luis Magana | AP The White House said Families evacuated from Kabul, Afghanistan, walk through the terminal before boarding a bus after Friday morning that they arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va., on Friday. 8,500 evacuees had been ﬂown out aboard U.S. credentials still were U.S. military ofﬁcials a Navy sailor and an military aircraft in the being allowed through said that some gates Army soldier — also previous 24 hours, along the gates. Inside, about were closed and other began to emerge, ahead with about 4,000 people 5,400 evacuees awaited of the Pentagon’s release security measures put in on coalition ﬂights. That ﬂights. place. They said there of their names. They was about the same total In Washington, U.S. included a young Marine were tighter restrictions as the day before the commanders briefed and expectant father from at Taliban checkpoints attack. and fewer people around Biden on developing Wyoming who was on But the chances of plans to strike back at the gates. The military his ﬁrst tour of duty in helping those hoping to said it had also asked the the Islamic State and Afghanistan. join the evacuation are make good on the presiTaliban to close certain British ofﬁcials said fading fast. More Euroroads because of the pos- dent’s vow to the attacktwo of the country’s pean allies and other ers to “hunt you down sibility of suicide bombcitizens and the child of nations were set to end and make you pay.” another Briton also were ers in vehicles. their airlifts Friday, in Biden pronounced the The Pentagon noted among those killed when part to give the U.S. time U.S. effort to evacuate the bomb exploded in the the airport already had Americans, Afghan allies to wrap up its own operadefenses against rocket crowd. tions. attacks and said the U.S. and others most at risk On the morning after The Taliban have said from the Taliban a “worwould keep up manned the attack, the Taliban they will allow Afghans thy mission.” and unmanned ﬂights used a pickup truck full “And we will complete to leave via commercial over the airport for of ﬁghters and three ﬂights after the U.S. withthe mission,” he said. captured Humvees to set surveillance and protecdrawal, but it is unclear The U.N. Security tion, including the use of up a barrier 500 meters Council called the target- which airlines would (1,600 feet) from the air- AC-130 gunships. return to an airport coning of ﬂeeing civilians U.S. ofﬁcials said port, holding the crowds trolled by the militants. and those trying to help farther back from the U.S. evacuees with proper troops at the gates than before. WVUMedicine.org/Jackson Judge blocks Florida governor’s order banning mask mandates distinct minority among doctors and scientists. He also said that while DeSantis frequently states that a Brown University study concluded masks are ineffective, the study’s authors wrote that no such conclusion should be drawn. “I don’t say that the governor has time enough to read a report that thick, but his advisers do ... and that statement is incorrect,” Cooper said. The governor’s ofﬁce said Friday that Cooper’s decision wasn’t based on the law and the state will appeal it. JACKSON GENERAL HOSPITAL Internal Medicine and Pediatrics FOR APPOINTMENTS Holly Hill-Reinert, DO 304-373-0133 OH-70250988 mask mandates at all,” Cooper said during a twoAssociated Press hour hearing that was conducted online because FORT LAUDERDALE, of the resurgent pandemic. “It doesn’t require that Fla. — Florida school a mask mandate must districts can legally include a parental opt-out require their students to at all.” wear masks to prevent The judge also noted the spread of COVID-19, a judge ruled Friday, say- that two Florida Supreme Court decisions from ing Gov. Ron DeSantis overstepped his authority 1914 and 1939 found when he issued an execu- that individual rights are limited by their impact tive order banning such on the rights of others. mandates. For example, he said, Leon County Circuit adults have the right to Judge John C. Cooper drink alcohol but not agreed with a group of to drive drunk, because parents who claimed in that endangers others. a lawsuit that DeSantis’ order is unconstitutional There is a right to free speech, but not to harass and cannot be enforced. or threaten others or yell The governor’s order “ﬁre” in a crowded thegave parents the sole ater, he said. right to decide if their “We don’t have that child wears a mask at right because exercising school. the right in that way is Cooper said DeSantis’ harmful or potentially order “is without legal harmful to other people,” authority.” His decision came after Cooper said. He added that the law “is full of a three-day virtual hearexamples of rights that ing, and after 10 Florida are limited (when) the school boards voted to defy DeSantis and impose good of others ... would be adversely affected by mask requirements with those rights.” no parental opt-out. DisIn that same vein, he tricts that have done so include Miami, Fort Lau- said, school boards can derdale, Orlando, Tampa, reasonably argue that maskless students endanJacksonville, West Palm ger the health of other Beach and others. Coostudents and teachers. per’s ruling will not go DeSantis has disinto effect until it is put missed the recommendainto writing, which the tion from the Centers judge asked the parents’ for Disease Control and lawyers to complete by Prevention that people Monday. Cooper said that while wear masks, questioning its legitimacy and saythe governor and others ing it is not applicable have argued that a new Florida law gives parents to Florida. But Cooper cited numerous Florida the ultimate authority laws and statutes — such to oversee health issues as those covering health for their children, it also care in nursing homes, exempts government actions that are needed to prisons and elsewhere — protect public health and that direct decision-makers to give great weight are reasonable and limto CDC guidelines. ited in scope. He said a Cooper said the state’s school district’s decision medical experts who to require student masking to prevent the spread testiﬁed during the trial that masking is ineffecof the virus falls within tive in preventing COVthat exemption. ID-19’s spread are in a The law “doesn’t ban Morad-Hughes Health Center 122 Pinnell Street, Ripley WV “ I’M LIVING PROOF YOU DON’T NEED TO LEAVE TOWN FOR OPEN HEART SURGERY.” Roger Davis, Parkersburg, WV “ I THOUGHT MY FATIGUE WAS JUST A PART OF GETTING OLDER BUT A TRIP TO THE ER AT CAMDEN CLARK SAVED MY LIFE.” Over the past few months Roger just wasn’t feeling himself. 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CLEVELAND — Baker Mayﬁeld will get a summer tune-up after all. Browns coach Kevin Stefanski surprisingly said Friday that Mayﬁeld and some “select” Cleveland starters will play in Sunday night’s nationally televised exhibition ﬁnale against the Atlanta Falcons. Not wanting to risk injuries, Stefanski had kept his starting quarterback and the majority of his starters on the sideline for the team’s ﬁrst two preseason games. “We’re just making decisions individually based on who needs to get some reps, making those decisions based on these practice reps, based on the joint practice reps, based on game reps,” Stefanski said following practice. “So we’ll hold some other guys out.” There have been a range of methods — and opinions — across the league for playing starters in preseason games. Most teams have played their ﬁrst-stringers at least a little, often giving their starting QBs a series or two. Stefanski did not say how long Mayﬁeld will be in the game or which other starters will see action with him. “We have a plan, but I want to see how it goes,” he said. Mayﬁeld will likely be protected by Cleveland’s starting offensive line, one of the league’s best units. But Stefan- ski was coy about that as well. “I’m not going to go through who’s playing, who’s not,” he said. “I gave you Baker. You’ve got to tune in Sunday night. NBC wants me to keep it a secret.” Stefanski understands the risk in playing Mayﬁeld. “It is football. We try to be smart about everything we do,” Stefanski said. “That is why I think the joint practices are so important because it is a controlled environment where our No. 1’s got close to 60 reps against their No. 1’s in a controlled environment. “It is all part of it. The way you practice and the way you play is similar, and it is all good work is the way I look at it.” Cavaliers getting Markkanen from Bulls in 3-way trade By Tom Withers AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND — Lauri Markkanen was in search of a new team. The Cavaliers needed to add another outside shooter. They found each other. The Cavaliers have agreed to acquire Markkanen, a restricted free agent forward from Chicago in a three-way trade that will send forward Larry Nance Jr. from Cleveland to Portland, a person familiar with the deal told the Associated Press on Friday. Markkanen is coming to the Cavs in a sign-andtrade agreement, said the person who spoke on condition of anonymity because it needs NBA approval before it can be completed. It could be a few more days before the trade becomes ofﬁcial. The 24-year-old Markkanen will receive a fouryear, $67.4 million contract, added the person. ESPN ﬁrst reported the three-way swap. The Bulls are getting swingman Derrick Jones Jr. from the Trail Blazers along with a lotteryprotected 2022 ﬁrst-round pick. The 7-foot Markkanen averaged 13.6 points and 5.3 rebounds in 51 games for the Bulls last season, his fourth with the club. A 40% shooter on 3-pointers last season, he had been unable to work out staying with Chicago, and Cleveland jumped at the chance to get him. Markkanen will join a young Cleveland nucleus that includes guards Darius Garland and Collin Sexton, forward Evan Mobley, the No. 3 pick in this year’s draft, forward Isaac Okoro and center Jarrett Allen. Nam Y. Huh | AP file The Cleveland Cavaliers have acquired restricted free agent forward Lauri Markkanen, left, in a three-way trade that will send forward Larry Nance Jr. from Cleveland to Portland, a person familiar with the deal told the Associated Press on Friday. OVP SPORTS SCHEDULE Monday, Aug. 30 Volleyball Wahama at Ohio Valley Christian, 6 p.m. Eastern at Meigs, 7:15 River Valley at South Gallia, 7:30 Golf Meigs girls, River Valley girls at Alexander, 4 p.m. Southern, Buffalo at Point Pleasant, 4 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 31 Volleyball South Gallia at Eastern, 7:15 Gallia Academy at South Point, 6:30 Meigs at Marietta, 7 p.m. River Valley at Wellston, 7:30 Soccer Gallia Academy girls at South Point, 5:30 Point Pleasant boys at Lincoln County, 6:30 Gallia Academy boys at South Point, 7:30 Golf Meigs boys, River Valley boys at Vinton County, 4 p.m. Williamstown, Ravenswood, Tyler, Parkersburg Catholic at Wahama, 4 p.m. Point Pleasant at Hurricane, 4 p.m. TVC Hocking at Lakeside GC, 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 1 Volleyball Wellston at Southern, 7:15 Golf Point Pleasant at Ripley, 4 p.m. Todd Compston|Jackson County Telegram Gallia Academy senior Seth Nelson (28) tracks down a free ball and looks to deliver a crossing pass during Thursday night’s boys soccer match against Jackson at Alumni Stadium in Jackson, Ohio. Blue Devils burn Jackson, 5-1 Point blanks Winfield, 4-0 POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Thorough, from start to ﬁnish. JACKSON, Ohio — The Point PleasMaking the most of their ant boys soccer team opportunities. Host Jackson produced remained unbeaten and still hasn’t surrendered a more shots, but the Galgoal this year after postlia Academy boys soccer ing a 4-0 victory over visteam nailed nealy half of iting Winﬁeld on Thursits shots on goal Thursday night at Ohio Valley day night and rolled to Bank Track and Field. a 5-1 victory in a nonThe Black Knights (2-0conference matchup at 0) outshot the Generals Alumni Stadium. The Blue Devils (3-0-1) by a sizable 19-6 overall margin, including an 11-2 were outshot by a 15-12 edge in shots on goal. overall margin, but the The hosts also took eight guests posted an 11-7 of the 10 corner kicks in edge in shots on goal — the contest. and the difference was Colton Young started noticeable by the end of the scoring in the ninth the ﬁrst half. minute after receiving GAHS established a a pass from Ian Wood quick 1-0 lead as Evan inside the goal box. Stapleton scored in the 15th minute, then Carson Young made a move to his left and planted a shot Wamsley made a 2-goal into the back post for a advantage with 6:25 quick 1-0 edge. remaining in the half. Nick Cichon-LedderConnor Bolin followed hose stole a Winﬁeld with consecutive goals clearance attempt and at the 3:29 mark and the boomed a shot from 23 2:37 mark, allowing the yards out, ultimately givBlue and White to take ing PPHS a 2-0 lead just a 4-0 cushion into the 11 minutes into regulabreak. tion. Brody Wilt gave the Cichon-Ledderhose Blue Devils their largheaded in a Wood pass in est lead of the game in the 39th minute, allowing the 45th minute as the senior’s goal made it a 5-0 the Black Knights to take a 3-0 advantage into the contest. intermission. Ashton Swann came Kanaan Abbas redirectup with the lone Ironmen ed a Jaden Reed corner goal on a rebound in the 65th minute, wrapping up kick into the net in the 51st minute to complete the 4-goal outcome. the 4-0 outcome. Bryson Miller made Both Sean Wilson six saves in net for Galand Brecken Loudin lia Academy, while Isaac had a save apiece in the Coleman stopped a halfdozen shots for the hosts. victory. Point Pleasant JHS claimed a 3-1 edge in maintained possession for roughly 63 percent of the corner kicks. The game was stopped contest. with 13:02 left in regulation due to lightning and Blue Angels top SEHS, both coaches later agreed notch 1st win to call it a complete LONDONDERRY, Ohio game. — A night full of ﬁrsts. By Bryan Walters bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com Mary Howell and Amanda Barnes-Perotti both added their ﬁrst career goals, and the Gallia Academy girls soccer team won its ﬁrst game under ﬁrst-year coach Teresa Daniels on Thursday night during a 4-0 decision over host Southeastern in non-conference play. The Blue Angels (1-30) — coming off a 5-0 loss to Alexander on Tuesday — received a pair of scores from senior Preslee Reed and produced more than dozen shots in the triumph. Howell and BarnesPerotti are both sophomores in achieving their ﬁrst goals. Waterford led 2-0 and 5-3 early in Game 5, but Eastern broke away from a 9-all tie and ultimately never trailed again en route to the 3-2 match triumph. Sydney Reynolds led the EHS service attack with seven aces, while Juli Durst and Megan Maxon added ﬁve and four aces respectively. Brielle Newland led the net attack with 13 kills and Maxon also chipped in 11 kills. Durst handed out a team-high 36 assists. Maxon and Cameron Barber both made 15 digs apiece in the triumph. Athens tops Lady Marauders THE PLAINS, Ohio — The Meigs volleyball Lady Eagles win team opened league play at Waterford and suffered its ﬁrst loss WATERFORD, Ohio of the season on Thurs— An odd kind of stateday night during a 25-15, ment. The Eastern volleyball 25-23, 25-18 setback to host Athens in a Tri-Valteam won the ﬁrst, third ley Conference Ohio Diviand ﬁfth games to open sion matchup at McAfee league play on a solid Gymnasium. note Thursday with a The Lady Marauders thrilling 25-17, 18-25, (2-1, 0-1 TVC Ohio) held 25-13, 17-25, 15-11 victory over host Waterford leads in each of the ﬁrst two games, but wasn’t in a Tri-Valley Conferable to cling to a pair of ence Hocking Division 1-point cushions as each matchup in Washington set progressed. The Lady County. Bulldogs led wire-to-wire The Lady Eagles (1-1, 1-0 TVC Hocking) never in the ﬁnale to wrap up the 3-0 decision. trailed in the opening Jennifer Parker led game and built a 7-2 edge the guests with two serin Game 3 to restablish vice aces, while Mallory momentum after WHS Hawley led the net attack rallied back from a 13-5 deﬁcit in Game 2 to knot with nine kills. Morgan Denney and Andrea Mahr the match up at a game also added four kills apiece. EHS eventually led 19-6 apiece, with Mahr also providing team-bests of in that middle contest and cruised to a 12-point 27 digs and 13 assists. © 2021 Ohio Valley win, but the Lady Cats countered by scoring ﬁve Publishing, all rights reserved. straight points in Game 4 to turn a 20-17 cushion Bryan Walters can be reached at into a sudden-death race 740-446-2342, ext. 2101. to 15. �SPORTS 8 Saturday, August 28, 2021 Ohio Valley Publishing Pridemore Teammates Reddick, Dillon eye final playoff spot widens Riverside Seniors lead By Mark Long AP Sports Writer phreys, Siebert Belcher and Jim Blake. Two quartets ﬁnished MASON, W.Va. — three shots back for Kenny Pridemore of runner-up honors. Point Pleasant holds a The closest to the 48.5-point lead over the ﬁeld in the 2021 River- pin winners were John Bumgarner on the ninth side Senior men’s golf league, with ﬁve weeks hole and Cliff Wyatt on No. 14. remaining in the 2021 The current top-10 season. standings of the 2021 Pridemore has a Riverside Senior men’s current total of 254.5 golf league are as folpoints, while Charlie lows: Kenny Pridemore Hargraves is second in (254.5); Charlie Harthe overall standings graves (206.0); Cecil with 206 points. Cecil Gillette, Jr. holds down Gillette, Jr. (205.0); Dale Miller (200.5); third place with 205 Ralph Six (197.5); Jim points. Gress (194.5); Albert A total of 52 players Durst (185.5); Carl were divided into 13 foursomes for Tuesday’s Stone (178.5); Bob Humphreys (174.0) and latest round. Carl Cline (165.5). The low score of the © 2021 Ohio Valley day was a 14-under-par 56, ﬁred by the team of Publishing, all rights Jimmy Gress, Bob Hum- reserved. Staff report Plenty of familiar faces playing in new places around NFL DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — There’s one guy Tyler Reddick doesn’t expect any help from at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday night: His teammate. Reddick and fellow Richard Childress Racing driver Austin Dillon are essentially battling each other for the 16th and ﬁnal spot in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. And that makes teamwork at the 2½-mile superspeedway downright tricky, maybe even unthinkable, for the duo. “Anything I do to help him, hurts me. Anything he does to help me, hurts him,” Reddick said. “So we really can’t work together at all, unfortunately. It’s kind of a weird spot.” Fourteen drivers have a shot at the last postseason berth, each of them needing a win at Daytona to clinch. Reddick and Dillon, though, are the only ones who can get in on points without a win. They need a repeat winner – 13 drivers have at least one victory this season – or a win as shocking as Michael Terry Renna | AP file Tyler Reddick, left, doesn’t expect any help at Daytona International Speedway tonight from teammate Austin Dillon. Reddick and fellow Richard Childress Racing driver Dillon are essentially battling for the 16th and final spot in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. And that makes teamwork at the 2½-mile superspeedway downright tricky, maybe even unthinkable, for the duo. McDowell’s stunner in the Daytona 500 to advance that way. Reddick and Dillon would prefer to take all the guesswork out of the equation by winning themselves. And given their history at NASCAR’s birthplace, no one would be surprised to see them in victory lane amid ﬁreworks Saturday night. Although Reddick is winless in 63 Cup starts, he has two victories at Daytona in other series. He won the 2015 Truck Series opener at Daytona while driving for Brad Keselowski Racing and won the 2018 Xﬁnity Series opener at Daytona with JR Motorsports. He took the lead with nine laps to go at Daytona last August in another win-and-you’rein scenario, but seconds later crashed trying to block Kyle Busch. Reddick, in fact, has crashed in three of four Cup starts at Daytona and never ﬁnished better than 27th. “We’ve just got one more hurdle and, unfortunately, it’s a big one,” Reddick said. “One with a lot of uncertainty, not just with who’s going to be running at the end but how much different the car is going to drive with the different horsepower and so many drivers below the cut line that are all out of options and desperate going into Daytona to do whatever it takes to win and lock themselves in as well.” Dillon isn’t ready to panic. After all, he’s been at his best at the birthplace of NASCAR. The 2018 Daytona 500 winner ﬁnished third here in February and won the 2015 Xﬁnity race at Daytona. He has a 10 top-ﬁve ﬁnishes and 15 top-10s in 26 races (Cup and Xﬁnity) at the famed track. “For me, we’re in a little bit of a nothing-tolose attitude right now because we’ve got to gain on our teammate, and if not, we’ve got to win somehow,” he said, citing Daytona as a place his No. 3 Chevrolet shines because of the strong horsepower in the engines built in partnership with Richard Childress Racing and Hendrick Motorsports. By Dennis Waszak Jr. old well-traveled vet will be under center for Washington in Week 1 NEW YORK — Wait — the ninth NFL team for which he’ll start. ... a second. 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New York drafted training camp because Zach Wilson with the of a leg ailment, but will No. 2 overall pick. ... form a formidable 1-2 After getting Darnold, receiving duo with A.J. the Panthers traded Brown when healthy. ... Bridgewater to Denver Green signed with Arifor a sixth-rounder pedW�W\j[h�'&�o[Whi�_d� and he has taken the Cincinnati, where he’s Broncos’ starting job. ... second to Chad Johnson <_jpCW]_Y�_i�ij_bb�]e_d]� in various team career strong and the 38-year- receiving marks. ... AP Pro Football Writer Another earthquake leaves college football teetering The Southeastern Conference is getting bigger and, somehow, even stronger. Three other major conferences have formed an alliance, whatever that means. And the Big 12 is dead man walking. After a period of relative stability, college football heads into a new season wobbling from the aftershocks of another major earthquake. Not even Nostradamus would be willing to venture a guess on how it’s all going to shake out. But this much is clear: the SEC will become a 16-team behemoth with the addition of Big 12 powerhouses Oklahoma and Texas, a move that occurs by 2025 at the latest and probably sooner. The Big Ten, Atlantic Coast Conference and Pac-12 have all dropped back on defense, hoping that some sort of vague partnership will somehow keep the SEC from spreading its tentacles even farther. Which leaves the Big 12 as the odd man out, seemingly destined to join the Southwest Conference and others in the pantheon of defunct leagues, remembered only by those who pick up a history book. The SEC’s motives are clear: consolidate its stranglehold on college football — and, by extension, all of college athletics. But the hastily assembled partnership announced this week between its three most viable Power Five challengers (plus Notre Dame, a quasi-ACC member) must come up with a clearly deﬁned vision if it wants to keep the SEC in check. That’s not an easy task. Consider the unwieldiness of the Big Ten-ACCPac 12 alliance — 41 schools stretching from Boston to Los Angeles, from Miami to Seattle, a hodge-podge of institutions that have little in common other than making sure the SEC doesn’t block all the sunlight. Given how quickly this all had to come together, maybe it’s not surpris- Sue Ogrocki | AP file Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley and his Sooners are bound for the Southeastern Conference, as is the University of Texas. That leaves the rest of college football, including Ohio State, playing defense and hoping not to be crushed when the SEC becomes a 16-team behemoth by 2025 at the latest. goosey commiting that little was Paul ment not to go offered in the way Newberry after each other’s of details. members. “There’s no con- AP Sports Columnist But suppose the tract. There’s no SEC comes snifﬁng signed document,” around Clemson — an Pac-12 Commissioner ACC powerhouse that George Kliavkoff said. has been one of its few “There’s an agreement serious challengers? Or among three gentlemen perhaps Florida State, if and a commitment from the Seminoles can once 41 presidents and chanagain become relevant in cellors and 41 athletic college football? directors to do what we As we know, the SEC say we’re going to do.” usually gets what it Well, we all know how much gentlemen’s agree- wants. The conference has ments and non-contracpretty much been the sun tual commitments are that the rest of college worth in the cut-throat world of college athletics. football revolves around since its ﬁrst major Frankly, we’ll bet a expansion three decades thousand bills to your ago, which blew up the dollar that all 41 schools familiar conference model will continue to focus that had governed the mainly on what beneﬁts them individually, not the sport through its modern existence. collective good. When the SEC poached Heck, they couldn’t Arkansas from the Southeven agree to agree on west Conference (as part what stance they’ll take of an expansion that also on a proposal to expand included then-indepenthe College Football dent South Carolina), Playoff from four to split into two divisions 12 teams (a move that looked certain to happen and set up a conference until everyone hit the re- championship game, it forever changed the look set button after the SEC gobbled up the Oklahoma of the sport. The Southwest Conand Texas like some sort ference crumbled, the of Pac Man run amok.). Big Eight conference “This is not a voting swooped in to pick bloc. We’ve not committed to voting together on through the remains anything,” Kliavkoff said, (becoming the Big 12), the Atlantic Coast Coneach word making this ference grabbed Florida sound less and less like State before the SEC a viable alliance. “We’ve could, and the Big Ten committed to discuss all of these issues, and to try began scrambling for to come up with solutions schools to join its 11th that are in the best inter- member, Penn State. The SEC made its next est of long-term college big move in 2011, swipathletics.” ing Texas A&M and MisOkey-dokey. souri from the Big 12. For now, the alliance’s only real objective seems The Big Ten and ACC to be some sort of loosey- were busy expanding, too, becoming 14-team leagues, while the Pac-10 grew into the Pac 12. The Big 12 shrank to 10 schools but managed to survive by keeping Texas and Oklahoma in the fold. But that was always a tenuous arrangement at best, and it ﬁnally feel apart with word this summer that both the Longhorns and the Sooners had secretly been in talks to join the SEC — pulling the trigger on a lucrative move that has pretty much been on the radar since the beginning of this 30-year-long realignment scramble. Now, there’s no hope for the Big 12 — especially after it wasn’t included in the new alliance arranged by the other Power Five members. All it got were hollow words. “We want and need the Big 12 to do well,” ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips said. “The Big 12 matters in college athletics.” Not for much longer. Iowa State and Kansas could wind up in the Big Ten. Oklahoma State and TCU are possible candidates for the Pac12 (despite the league insisting Thursday it has no plans to expand). West Virginia ﬁts geographically with the ACC. Texas Tech, Baylor and Kansas State might have to drop down to a Group of Five conference such as the American or Mountain West. If nothing else, let’s hope a viable challenger emerges to the SEC. The conference has ruled college football for far too long, claiming 11 of the last 15 national championships and showing no signs of slowing down, certainly not as long as Nick Saban is at Alabama. When Oklahoma — ranked No. 2 behind the Crimson Tide in The Associated Press preseason poll — and Texas come aboard, the balance of power will tip even further in its favor. That’s great for the SEC. It’s not so good for college football. �NEWS/CLASSIFIEDS Ohio Valley Publishing Saturday, August 28, 2021 9 Taliban success in Afghanistan seen as boost for extremists By Zeina Karam there is more receptivity,” said Hassan Abu Haniyeh, an expert on BEIRUT — A few days Islamic militants based in Amman, Jordan. after the Taliban takeDespite the billions of over of Afghanistan, a convoy of militants drove dollars spent by the U.S. and NATO over nearly 20 through the city of Idlib years to build up Afghan in northwestern Syria in security forces, the Talicars bearing the group’s ban seized nearly all of white-and-black ﬂags, honking horns and ﬁring Afghanistan in just over a week amid the U.S. troop their guns in the air. pullout. The fundamenThe celebrations by talist group swept into an al-Qaida afﬁliate in a remote corner of war-torn Kabul on Aug. 15 after Syria were an expression the government collapsed of the triumph felt by rad- and embattled President Ashraf Ghani ﬂed the ical Islamic groups from country. the Gaza Strip to PakiSince then, tens of stan and West Africa who thousands of people see America’s violencemarred exit from Afghani- desperate to escape a country governed by the stan an opportunity to Taliban have been trying reassert their presence. to ﬂee or already have For such groups, the been evacuated in a mamchaotic U.S. departure moth Western airlift. following the collapse “The events unfoldof security forces it had ing in Afghanistan have trained for two decades is a gift, underlining their given jihadi groups and message that Washington U.S. adversaries reason to celebrate, and America’s eventually abandons its allies in the region reason allies, and that defeating powerful armies is possi- to feel anxious,” said Abu ble with enough patience. Haniyeh. “They now feel that America might drop “The success of the Taliban opens the way for them one day, same as radical groups to step up it did the government of Ashraf Ghani.” their recruitment operaThere are concerns that tions globally. It is much easier for them now, and Afghanistan will once Associated Press Ghaith Alsayed | AP Members of the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, a Sunni Islamist militant group, wave the Taliban flags in the city of Idlib, Syria, on Friday as they celebrate the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Radical Islamic groups from Syria and the Gaza Strip to Pakistan and West Africa see America’s violence-marred exit from Afghanistan as an opportunity to regroup and reassert their ideology. again become a base for militants to plot against the West, much like the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that triggered the U.S. invasion. “This is the story that is going to impact and inﬂuence jihadi ﬁghters around the globe for the next decade, the same way as the victory over the Soviets in Afghanistan in the ‘80s inspired the jihadis around the world during the whole 1990s and even afterwards,” said Elie Tenenbaum, director of security studies center at the French Institute of International Relations. In a twist, the Taliban victory also boosted the fortunes of their rivals in Afghanistan — a local branch of the Islamic State network. On Thursday, the afﬁliate claimed responsibility for the suicide attack that killed scores of people outside Kabul’s airport, including 13 U.S. service members. The Taliban now must contend with an emboldened IS, which is challenging their rule with militants that are far more radical. The group’s ranks have been bolstered after the Taliban freed prisoners during an advance through Afghanistan. An editorial in the Islamic State group’s newsletter last week derided the Taliban, accusing them of collaborating with the U.S. “America actually did it. They ﬁnally raised a ‘Mullah Bradley,” the editorial said, using a name it has coined for the Taliban in an apparent reference to the U.S. ﬁghting vehicle. The group also promised a new phase in its “blessed jihad” against the West. Analysts say the Taliban’s success and the U.S. withdrawal galvanizes and gives a motivational boost to America’s adversaries and jihadi groups around the world. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon’s Shiite militant group Hezbollah, said in a speech Friday that what is unfolding in Afghanistan “is a portrayal of America’s full defeat and the U.S. demise and failure in the region.” In northern Syria, a statement by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the al-Qaida afﬁliate there, said the Taliban victory proved no occupation can last forever. The leader of the radical Palestinian Islamic Hamas movement, which rules the Gaza Strip, congratulated the Taliban’s leader on the “demise of the U.S. occupation.” In Pakistan, the leader of Jaish-e-Mohammad, Mohammad Azhur, used the group’s publication to cheer the Taliban victory, saying it will inspire mujahedeen, or holy warriors, “the world over to continue their struggle for Islam.” The group’s ﬁghters took credit for the 2019 attack in the disputed Kashmir region that killed 40 Indian soldiers and brought the nuclear-armed neighbors to the brink of war. Amir Rana, executive director of the Islamabad-based Pakistan Institute of Peace Studies, said the events in Afghanistan could inspire hard-line Sunni groups who are waging sectarian battles against Shiites. The anti-Shiite groups Lashkar-e-Janghvi and Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan have championed the Taliban victory, raising fears they could restart their deadly activities. COVID-19 surge pummels Hawaii and its native population By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher pandemic because of stringent travel and quarantine restrictions and overall vaccine acceptance that made it one of the HONOLULU — Kuulei most inoculated states in the Perreira-Keawekane could country. But the highly contabarely breathe when she went gious delta variant exploited to a Hawaii emergency room. Nausea made it difﬁcult for her weaknesses as residents let to stand and her body throbbed down their guard and attended family gatherings after months with pain. Like many Native Hawaiians, of restrictions and vaccine hesishe was not vaccinated against tancy lingered in some Hawaiian communities. COVID-19. Now, the governor is urgPerreira-Keawekane’s situaing tourists to stay away and tion highlights the COVID-19 crisis that is gripping Hawaii as residents to limit travel, and hospitals are overﬂowing with leaders are re-imposing caps on sizes of social gatherings. And a record number of patients, vaccinations are stagnating and in an effort to address vaccine hesitancy, a group of businessHawaiians are experiencing a es and nonproﬁts launched a disproportionate share of the public service campaign Thurssuffering. day aimed at Native Hawaiians, Hawaii was once seen as a many of whom harbor a deep beacon of safety during the Associated Press (740) 446-2342 or fax to (740) 446-3008 XXX�NZEBJMZTFOUJOFM�DPN�t�HEUDMBTTJöFET!BJNNFEJBNJEXFTU�DPN HEUMFHBMT!BJNNFEJBNJEXFTU�DPN ANNOUNCEMENTS Wanted /DQG SDUFHO �� DFUHV ZDQWHG ZLWK DFFHVV WR UXUDO FRXQW\ ZDWHU FDOO &KULV �� AUTOS Miscellaneous �� -DFR &DPSHU -D\ )OLJKW 6/; DVNLQJ �� FDOO �� vaccine and that distrust was just very real,” said PerreiraKeawekane. She now plans to get vaccinated. 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The theme of this year’s shows,“Summer Activities”, featured designs inspired by Grilling Out, Farmers Market, Boat Trip on the Great Ohio, Yard Work, Saturday Picnic, Gardening, Preserving and Canning, Country Fair Flower Show, and Garden Tour for Senior exhibitors. The show also featured a wide variety of individual horticultural specimens from exhibitors’ gardens. Shelia Curtis and Peggy Crane were this year’s show chairs, and they were encouraged with the number of participants. “We weren’t able to have our Fair Show or our Winter Show in 2020, and we were hoping that a lot of people would be eager to get back into the Fair completion,” Crane said. She added that the shows are about more than completion, they are about coming avid gardeners coming together to share their knowledge and experience, and to learn from each other. “Sometime people are reluctant to join a garden club because they think they have to be an experienced designer or gardener coming in, but what we are trying to do is bring experienced and novice gardeners together.” Both Crane and Curtis took home ﬁrst place ribbons, with Curtis receiving the Creativity Award in the ﬁrst show. “It is exciting to place,” Curtis said. “It is a lot of work not only to create your own entries, but to organize two big shows days apart, but it is also rewarding.” Anyone who is interested in becoming a garden club member is invited to join them at 2 pm at the Mulberry Community Center the third Tuesday of each month, or contact Peggy Crane at 740-9922533. Crane also manages the Mulberry Country Kitchen, and invites everyone to come for lunch and stay for the meeting. “September will be our planning meeting for our Winter/Christmas show,” she said. “Everyone is welcome.” Photos by Lorna Hart | Courtesy Shelia Curtis’ playful design using ears of corn as a focal Melanie Stethem was awarded point in County Fair Flower Best of Show for her design. Show was given the Creativity Award. Pictured are Judge Jean Moore and Co-Chair Peggy Crane. Pictured are Judge Jean Moore and Deborah Mohler. OH; 2nd, Peggy Crane, Middleport, OH; 3rd, Vanessa Folmer, Middleport, OH. Class 4 - County Fair Flower Show: 1st, Melanie Stethem, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Josephine Hill, Long Bottom, OH; 3rd, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH. Section 802 - Invitational: Class 5 - Garden Tour: 1st, Melanie Stethem, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Peggy Crane, Middleport, OH; 3rd, Josephine Hill, Long Bottom, OH. Section 805 - Horticulture: Class 11 - Rose Floribunda 1st, Everett Huggins, Rutland, OH; Class 16 - Gladiolus 1st, Vivian R Huggins, Rutland, OH; Class 18 - Hosta 1st, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Brenda Woodrow, Racine, OH; 3rd, Brenda Woodrow, Racine, OH; Class 19 - Hosta 1st, Brenda Woodrow, Racine, OH; 2nd, Brenda Woodrow, Racine, OH; Class 20 - Green Hosta 1st, Wendi Miller, Pomeroy, OH; 1st, Deborah Mohler, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH; Class 21 - Blue Hosta 1st, Wendi Miller, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Pamela Bailey, Long Bottom, OH; Class 22 - Yellow Hosta 1st, Sheila Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; 2nd, Wendi Miller, Pomeroy, OH; Class 23 - White Hosta 1st, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 1st, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Kinsley Elam, Racine, OH; 2nd, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Brenda Woodrow, Racine, OH; Class 24 - Green Hosta, 1st, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; Class 25 - Zinnia 1st, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH. Class 39 - Red/Green Caladium, 1st, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Peggy Crane, Middleport, OH; 3rd, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; Class 42 - Mixed Caladium 1st, Elizabeth Results from Senior Fair Harris, Pomeroy, OH; Flower Show Department 8: Flowers 2nd, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH; Class 44 - Ground& Plants: Section 801 cover 1st, Sheila Curtis, Adult Artistic: Long Bottom, OH; 2nd, Class 1 - Summertime Sheila Curtis, Long BotVacation: 1st, Melanie tom, OH; 3rd, Vanessa Stethem, Pomeroy, Folmer, Middleport, OH; OH; 2nd, Peggy Crane, Class 45 - Coleus 1st, Middleport, OH; 3rd, Josephine Hill, Long Bot- Wendi Miller, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Nora Pierce tom, OH. 3rd, Kinsley Elam, Class 2 – Gardening: 1st, Peggy Crane, Middle- Racine, OH; Class 46 Basil 1st, Opal Huggins, port, OH; 2nd, Shelia Rutland, OH; 2nd, Sheila Curtis, Long Bottom, Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; 3rd, Melanie StetOH; 3rd, Peggy Crane, hem, Pomeroy, OH. Middleport, OH; Class Class 3 - Preserving 48 - Yarrow 1st, Wendi and Canning: 1st, Josephine Hill, Long Bottom, Miller, Pomeroy, OH, 2nd, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, John Lechler, Rutland, OH; Class 49 - Echinacea 1st, Everett Huggins, Rutland, OH; 2nd, Opal Huggins, Rutland, OH; 3rd, Deborah Mohler, Pomeroy, OH; Class 50 - Oregano 1st, Wendi Miller, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Sheila Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; 3rd, JOH; n Lechler, Rutland, OH; Class 51 - Mint 1st, Vanessa Folmer, Middleport, OH; 1st, Deborah Mohler; Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Sheila Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; 2nd, Donna Jenkins 3rd, Sheila Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; 3rd, Brenda Woodrow, Racine, OH; Class 52 - Monarda 1st, Opal Huggins, Rutland, OH; Class 52 - Monarda (Cont.) 2nd, Everett Huggins, Rutland, OH; 3rd, Laurel 0 Huggins, Rutland, OH; Class 53 - Any Other Herb 1st, Peggy Crane, Middleport, OH; 1st, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Donna Jenkins 2nd, Wendi Miller, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Sheila Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; 3rd, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH; Class 54 - Miscanthus Grass 1st, Peggy Crane, Middleport, OH; Class 55 - Zebra Grass 1st, Peggy Crane, Middleport, OH; 1st, Deborah Mohler, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Sheila Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; 2nd, Nora Pierce 3rd, Kinsley Elam, Racine, OH; 3rd, Brenda Woodrow, Racine, OH; Class 56 - Any Other Grass 1st, Sheila Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; 1st, Laurel 0 Huggins, Rutland, OH; 2nd, Vanessa Folmer, Middleport, OH; 2nd, Everett Huggins, Rutland, OH; 3rd, Peggy Crane, Middleport, OH; 3rd, Brenda Woodrow, Racine, OH; Class 57 - Any Other Perennial 1st, Brenda Woodrow, Racine, OH; 2nd, Sheila Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; 3rd, Sheila Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; , , Section 806 - House Plants Class 59 - Porch Box 1st, Wendi Miller, Pomeroy, OH; Class 60 - Cactus 1st, Opal Huggins, Rutland, OH; 2nd, Brenda Woodrow, Racine, OH; Class 61 - Succulent 1st, Wendi Miller, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Opal Huggins, Rutland, OH; 3rd, Brenda Woodrow, Racine, OH; Class 63 - African Violet 1st, Wendi Miller, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Sheila Curtis, Long Bottom, 011 3rd, Marsha W Nagy, Rutland, OH; Class 64 Potted House Plant 1st, Opal Huggins, Rutland, OH; 2nd, Wendi Miller, Pomeroy, OH; Class 65 Dish Or Fairy Garden 1st, Wendi Miller, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Peggy Crane, Middleport, OH; 3rd, Peggy Crane, Middleport, OH; Class 66 - Potted Herb 1st, Everett Huggins, Rutland, OH Department 8: Flowers First place Sunflower, grown by Wendi Miller. & Plants: Section 808 Adult Artistic: Class 74 - Grilling Out1st, Melanie Stethem, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Josephine Hill, Long Bottom, OH; 3rd, Deborah Mohler, Pomeroy, OH; 4th, Vanessa Folmer, Middleport, OH; Class 75 - Farmers Market1st, Josephine Hill, Long Bottom, OH; 2nd, Peggy Crane, Middleport, OH; 3rd, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; 4th, Alyssa Webb, Racine, OH; Class 76 - Boat Trip on The Great OH; io1st, Vanessa Folmer, Middleport, OH; 2nd, Josephine Hill, Long Bottom, OH; 3rd, Peggy Crane, Middleport, OH; Class 77 - Yard Work1st, Josephine Hill, Long Bottom, OH; 2nd, Vanessa Folmer, Middleport, OH; 3rd, Melanie Stethem, Pomeroy, OH; Section 809 - Invitational Class 78 - Saturday Picnic 1st, Josephine Hill, Long Bottom, OH; 2nd, Peggy Crane, Middleport, OH; 3rd, Melanie Stethem, Pomeroy, OH; Section 811 – Horticulture: Class 86 - Gladiolus 1st, Glenda Hunt, Long Bottom, OH; Class 87 - Miniature Hosta 2nd, Deborah Mohler, Pomeroy, OH; Class 88 - Miniature Hosta 1st, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; 1st, Brenda Woodrow, Racine, OH; 2nd, Brenda Woodrow, Racine, OH; 3rd, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH; Class 89 - Small Hosta 1st, Brenda Woodrow, Racine, OH; 2nd, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; Class 90 - Blue Hosta 1st, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; Class 91 - Green Hosta 1st, Deborah Mohler, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; Class 92 - Yellow Hosta 1st, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; 2nd, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; Class 93 White Hosta 1st, Kinsley Elam, Racine, OH; 1st, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Nora Pierce Class 94 - Green Hosta 1st, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH. Josephine Hill with her reserve best in show design. Vanessa Folmer took home Best of Show and Creativity. Class 95 - Dahlia Zinnia 1st, Peggy Crane, Middleport, OH; 1st, Opal Huggins, Rutland, OH; 2nd, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; 2nd, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH; Class 96 - Cactus Zinnia 1st, Deborah Mohler, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Deborah Mohler, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Brandy Jackson, Long Bottom, OH; Class 97 - Small Zinnia 1st, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; 3rd, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH; Class 98 Yellow Marigold 1st, Opal Huggins, Rutland, OH; 2nd, Pamela Bailey, Long Bottom, OH; 3rd, Sharon Dean, Racine, OH; Class 99 - Orange Marigold 1st, Opal Huggins, Rutland, OH; 2nd, Deborah Mohler, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Deborah Mohler, Pomeroy, OH; Class 100 - Small Marigold 1st, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH. Class 101 - 3 Small Marigold 1st, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 1st, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Deborah Mohler, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; 3rd, Deborah Mohler, Pomeroy, OH; Class 104 - Yellow Sunﬂower 1st, Deborah Mohler, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Opal Huggins, Rutland, OH; Class 106 - Sunﬂower 1st, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; Class 107 - White/Green Caladium 1st, Melanie Stethem, Pomeroy, OH; Class 108 - White/Red Caladium 1st, Melanie Stethem, Pomeroy, OH; Class 109 Red/Green Caladium 1st, Melanie Stethem, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Peggy Crane, Middleport, OH; Class 110 - Red/Pink Caladium 1st, Melanie Stethem, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Melanie Stethem, Pomeroy, OH. Class 111 - Red/Green Caladium 1st, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Melanie Stethem, Pomeroy, OH; Class 112 - Mixed Caladium 1st, Melanie Stethem, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Melanie Stethem, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; Class 113 - Fancy Caladium 1st, Melanie Stethem, Pome- roy, OH; 2nd, Melanie Stethem, Pomeroy, OH; Class 114 - Groundcover 1st, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; 2nd, Pamela Bailey, Long Bottom, OH; 3rd, Sharon Dean, Racine, OH; Class 115 - Coleus 1st, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Nora Pierce Class 116 - Basil 1st, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; 2nd, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH; Class 118 - Yarrow 1st, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; Class 119 - Echinacea 1st, Opal Huggins, Rutland, OH; 2nd, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH. Class 120 - Oregano 1st, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; Class 121 - Mint 1st, Deborah Mohler, Pomeroy, OH; 2nd, Sharon Dean, Racine, OH; 3rd, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; Class 122 - Any Other Herb 1st, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; 2nd, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; 3rd, Pat Harris, Pomeroy, OH; Class 123 - Monarda 1st, Opal Huggins, Rutland, OH; Class 124 - Miscanthus Grass 1st, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; Class 125 - Zebra Grass 1st, Kinsley Elam, Racine, OH; 1st, Nora Pierce 2nd, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; 2nd, Sharon Dean, Racine, OH; 3rd, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; 3rd, Peggy Crane, Middleport, OH; Class 126 - Any Other Grass 1st, Peggy Crane, Middleport, OH; 2nd, Brenda Woodrow, Racine, OH; 3rd, Brenda Woodrow, Racine, OH; Class 127 - Any Other Perennial 1st, Sharon Dean, Racine, OH; 2nd, Brenda Woodrow, Racine, OH; 3rd, Brenda Woodrow, Racine, OH. Class 128 - Zinnia Queen Lime Orange 2nd, Alyssa Webb, Racine, OH; Class 129 - Any Flowering Shrub 1st, Brenda Woodrow, Racine, OH; 2nd, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; Class 130 - Arum 1st, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH; Class 131 - August Lily 1st, Pamela Bailey, Long Bottom, OH; 2nd, Elizabeth Harris, Pomeroy, OH; 3rd, Shelia Curtis, Long Bottom, OH. Results from the Junior Flower Show will appear in an upcoming edition. © 2021 Ohio Valley Publishing, all rights reserved. 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Bauerbach-Let’s Start Cooking; and EmmaKay Cloverbud graduate Taylor-Sew Fun. awards were sponsored The 2021 Supreme by Meigs County Farm Dairy Cow award, Bureau and were presented to: Kaydin Evans, sponsored by the Dairy Farmers of America, Audrey Dicken, Case went to Alyssa Richards. Detwiller, Alana RidThe 4-H Extra Effort enour, Kadence Zuspan, Member Awards, sponAlexis Shafer, Landon Colburn, Sophia Ulbrich sored by Athens-Meigs County Farm Bureau, Mills, Kaleb VanNest, were presented to Treyson Mullen, Jayci Cade Newland, Kristin Davis, Daniel BarnMcKay, McKayla Nelhart, Addalyn Sargent, son, McKenzie Long, Caizlee Wise, Aubrey Brown, Grace Parry and Dominique Butcher, Kamerin Hagaman, Jayce White. Justin Pierce, Shawna Secretary’s Books Joseph, Caelin Seth, Awards, sponsored by Coltin Parker, Corey The Vaughan Agency, Seth, Peyton Bailey, were given to Next Alexis Ingles, Kyra Generation and Meigs Zuspan, Gauge Clary, Creek. Hayden Hensley, ChrisClub of Distinction tin Curtis, Grace Lee, awards, sponsored by Riley Blackston, Ellie Michael R. Swiger, agent, were awarded to: Howell, Clay Buckley, Alana Buckley, Lincoln Vital Ventures, Salem Thomas, Broghan Short, Center Meig O Minds, Jacob Spencer, Kenzie Cowboy Boots and Arms, Hunter Boyer, Country Roots, Busy Taylor Varian, Lydyah Beavers, and 4-Fun 4-H Barringer, Lizzie Parry, Club. Jacob Fitch, Shayla Community Service Hysell, Makayla Smith, Award, sponsored by Norris Northup Dodge, Woody Will and Emilee went to Next Generation Smarr. County Achievement and Cowboy Boots and Award Winners, sponCountry Roots. sored by Farmers Bank, The Woodworking Awards were sponsored The Appliance Man, and Subway, were presented by the Carpenter Local to: Hunter Clary (Rabbit Union #650 Pomeroy Nominee); Caelin Seth and presented by Billy (Veterinary Science, Wells. These awards Beef, Dairy, and Garedwere given to Hunter ning and Horticulture Boyer and Cade NewNominee); Caelin Seth land for Measuring Up(Leadership, CitizenUnit 1. ship and Community Outstanding Project Service, and Personal Interviews, sponsored Development Nominee); by Ridenour Gas SerKristin McKay (Veterivice, Racine Optometic nary Science Alternate); Clinic and PDK ConKristin McKay (Swine struction, Inc., were and Goats Nominee); awarded to: Lincoln Hannah Erwin (Poultry Thomas-Fishing for Nominee); Raeann Schathe Beginner; Maveryk gel (Poultry Alternate); Lisle-Livestock; Tyson Raeann Schagel (LeadHupp-Starting Up: Getting to Know Your Trac- ership, Citizenship and tor; Michael Kesterson- Community Service, and Personal Development Beef Breeding; Weston Nominee). Smith-Market Turkey; Caelin Seth was Samuel Cremeans-Self awarded the State 4-H Determined Music; Achievement Award, Eva Enslen-Market sponsored by Tuppers Rabbit; Cade NewlandPlains One Stop, for garLivestock; Nevada dening and horticulture Johnson-Market Lamb; as the second alternate. Jacob Spencer-Market State Skillathon ParGoat; Braelynn Simsticipants, sponsored by Market Goat; Hunter 3R Industries, Birchfield Boyer-Measuring Up; Funeral Home and Fox’s Broghan Short-Market Death Pizza Den, were Lizzie Parry for lambs and Matthew Garrett Parry for lambs. State Fair project judging attendees were recognized and awarded, sponsored by Parker Corporation, Little Sheets and Barr LLP, Sons Farm, and Home National Bank. Those attendees were: EmmaKay Taylor-Sew Fun and Let’s Start Cooking; McKenzie Sellers-Scrapbooking; Grace Lee-Cake Decorating, beginner; Dana CardCat 2 and You and Your Dog; Shawna Joseph-Cat 3; Gauge Clary-Cavies; Leland Parker-All About Dogs; Kendall SchagelStar Spangled Foods and Explore the Outdoors; Christian HowellComputers; Rachel Jackson-Your Thoughts Matter; Hunter BoyerBeekeeping; Lincoln Thomas-Beginner Fishing; Luke Enright-Fishing for the Intermediate; Hailey Hatfield-Ohio Birds; Broghan ShortExploring Polar Science. Kendall Schagel was awarded Outstanding of the Day at the Ohio State Fair for both Star Spangled Foods and Explore the Outdoors. This award was sponsored locally by D.V. Weber Construction, Hill’s Classic Cars and Montgomery Trailer Sales. The Meigs County 2021 Outstanding 4-H members, sponsored by Charles Blakeslee Family and Farmers Bank, were announced as Caelin Seth and Raeann Schagel. These award winners are eligible to attend Citizenship Washington Focus this year. Volunteer Wendi Miller was awarded the Pauline Atkins Outstanding Volunteer Award, sponsored by Simmons, Musser and Warner Ins. and the Hunter Family. Caelin Seth and Hannah Erwin were both given the Leland Parker Family Scholarships for $500. The Edward “Tate” Werry Memorial Scholarship was given to Emily Pullins for $500. Caelin Seth and Jacob Spencer were announced as the Jr. Fair Board Outstanding Members. Caelin Seth and Kristin McKay were given the Jr. Fair Board Scholarships. DHHR, there have been 2,398 cases of COVID-19, in Mason County (2,304 conﬁrmed cases, 94 probFrom page 1 able cases) since the beginning of the pandemic and Meigs County since the beginning of the pandemic, 40 deaths. Of those, 13 cases (12 conﬁrmed and 88 hospitalizations and 40 one probable) were newly deaths. Of the 1,661 cases, 1,506 (1new) are presumed reported on Friday. Case data is as follows: recovered. 0-4 — 30 conﬁrmed Case data is as follows: 0-19 — 224 cases (5 new), cases, 1 probable case 5-11 — 59 conﬁrmed 1 hospitalization cases (3 new), 5 probable 20-29 — 240 cases (3 cases (1 fewer) new), 2 hospitalizations 12-15 — 84 conﬁrmed 30-39 — 200 cases (1 cases (1 new), 4 probable new), 4 hospitalizations cases 40-49 — 246 cases (3 16-20 — 161 conﬁrmed new), 8 hospitalizations cases (1 new), 5 probable 50-59 — 237 cases (1 new), 10 hospitalizations, 1 cases (1 new) 21-25 — 180 conﬁrmed death cases (1 new), 8 probable 60-69 — 235 cases (3 new), 23 hospitalizations, 6 cases 26-30 — 223 conﬁrmed deaths cases (1 new), 12 probable 70-79 — 172 cases, 22 cases hospitalizations, 12 deaths 31-40 — 376 conﬁrmed 80-plus — 107 cases, 18 cases (3 new), 14 probable hospitalizations, 20 deaths Vaccination rates in Meigs cases 41-50 — 336 conﬁrmed County are as follows, cases (1 new), 19 probable according to ODH: cases (1 new), 1 death Vaccines started: 8,340 51-60 — 330 conﬁrmed (36.41 percent of the popucases, 9 probable cases, 2 lation); Vaccines completed: 7,593 deaths 61-70 — 281 conﬁrmed (33.15 percent of the popucases, 5 probable cases, 7 lation). deaths 71+ — 244 conﬁrmed Mason County cases (1 new), 12 probable According to the 10 a.m. cases, 30 deaths update on Friday from Daily Sentinel Photos by Kayla (Hawthorne) Dunham | OVP Pictured far right is Emily Pullins, the recipent of the Edward “Tate” Werry Memorial Scholarship. Also pictured is the Werry family and 4-H advisors. Pictured are award winners of the Outstanding Project Interviews. Pictured in the center is Caelin Seth, who received the Jr. Fair Board Scholarship and Outstanding Member award. Pictured are Extra Effort 4-H Members. Pictured is Caelin Seth, recipient of the Leland Parker Family Scholarship, with the Parker family. A total of 9,667 people in Mason County have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, which is 36.5 percent of the population, according to DHHR. There have been a total of 17,221 doses administered in Mason County. Mason County is currently orange on the West Virginia County Alert System. On Friday, Mason County Schools’ COVID-19 Dashboard reported the following current conﬁrmed active cases (includes both staff and students in totals): Ashton — 17; Beale — 2; New Haven — 1; Point Pleasant Intermediate — 1; PPJ/SHS — 8; Wahama — 1; Transportation — 2 Total — 32. reported two days per week) Vaccination rates in Ohio are as follows, according to ODH: Vaccines started: 6,035,272 (51.63 percent of the population); Vaccines completed: 5,574,468 (47.69 percent of the population). West Virginia According to the 10 a.m. update on Friday from DHHR, there have been 184,682 total cases since the beginning of the pandemic, with 1,328 reported since Thursday. There have been a total of 3,054 deaths due to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, with ﬁve since Thursday. There are 13,766 active cases in the state, with a daily positivity rate of 10.94 percent and a cumulative positivity rate of 5.13 percent. As of Thursday, statewide, 1,112,615 West Virginia residents have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 Ohio (62.1 percent of the populaAccording to the 2 p.m. update on Friday from ODH, tion). A total of 50.6 percent there have been 4,855 cases of the population, 907,182 in the past 24 hours (21-day individuals have been fully vaccinated. average of 3,054), 165 new © 2021 Ohio Valley Pubhospitalizations (21-day average of 132), 21 new ICU lishing, all rights reserved. admissions (21-day average Kayla (Hawthorne) Dunham is a staff of 12) and 70 new deaths writer for Ohio Valley Publishing. Reach (21-day average of 12). her at (304) 675-1333, ext. 1992. (Editor’s Note: Deaths are Canning From page 1 2nd Bryant Mohler, Pomeroy, OH; Class 26, Chili Sauce, 1st Doris Grueser; Class 27, Spaghetti Sauce, 1st Teresa Wilson, Racine, OH, 2nd Donna Jenkins; Class 28, Barbecue Sauce, 1st Teresa Wilson; Class 31, Salsa, 1st Donna Jenkins, 2nd Peyton Bailey, Racine, OH, 3rd Teresa Wilson. Division 208: Juices: Class 32, Tomato Juice, 1st Teresa Wilson, 2nd Ella Bailey, 3rd Rhonda I. Dailey, Racine, OH; Class 35, V-8 Juice, 1st Peyton Bailey, 2nd Bill Grueser. Division 209: Canned Fruit: Class 36, Applesauce, 1st, Opal Dyer; Class 38, Blackberries, 2nd Doris Grueser; Class 39, Peaches (half, whole or sliced), 2nd Kassandra Lodwick; Class 42, Blueberries, 2nd, Maxine Dyer. Division 210:Canned Vegetables: Class 43, Beets (whole or sliced), 1st Doris Grueser, 2nd Maxine Dyer, 3rd Opal Dyer; Class 44, Beans, Lima, 2nd Opal Dyer; Class 46, Beans, Snap, 1st Opal Dyer, 2nd Mary D. King, 3rd Doris Grueser; Class 47, Beans, Shell, 1st David King, 2nd Mary King; Class 54, Potatoes, 2nd Bill Grueser, 3rd Opal Dyer; Class 55, Tomatoes, 1st Bill Grueser, 2nd Mary D. King, 3rd Donna Jenkins; Class 58, Hot Pepper Rings, 1st Teresa Wilson, 2nd Bill Grueser, 3rd Kassandra Lodwick. 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