http://66.213.69.5/files/original/19625cc96599adab8e342cb4de8bde71.pdf 7d936a10542821e6d0f9b7de5a78fa0e PDF Text Text log onto www.mydailysentinel.com for archive • games • features • e-edition • polls & more Middleport•Pomeroy, Ohio INSIDE STORY WEATHER SPORTS OBITUARIES Dr. Brothers .... Page 2 Mostly sunny. High near 27. Low 17......... Page 2 Prep basketball action .... Page 6 Howard W. Brumley, 78 James George, 70 Charles F. ‘Buddy’ Pyles, Jr., 59 50 cents daily THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2013 Vol. 63, No. 15 Unemployment rises in Mason, Meigs, Gallia Beth Sergent bsergent@civitasmedia.com OHIO VALLEY — Unemployment in Mason, Meigs and Gallia counties is on the rise, according to the latest statistics released for December 2012. Mason County’s unemployment rate has been steadily rising since September and went from 9.7 percent in November to 10.1 percent in December. This means Mason County was ranked 13th out of 55 counties in terms of its unemployment rate. Mason County was preceded by Lincoln County at 10.2 percent, Braxton and Nicholas counties both at 10.3 percent, Pocahontas County at 10.5 percent, Boone County at 10.6 percent, Mingo County at 10.8 percent, Grant County at 11.1 percent, Wyoming County at 11.3 percent, Wetzel County at 11.5 percent, Roane County at 11.7 percent, Calhoun County at 12.3 percent, Webster County at 13.7 percent and Clay County at 14.9 percent. Mason County was not alone when it comes to increasing unemployment rates across the state with 53 out of 55 counties reporting higher rates. Two counties, Brooke and Pocahontas, reported declining unemployment rates in December. Monongalia and Jefferson counties had the lowest unemployment rates, both at 4.8 percent. The unemployment rate in Meigs County has been on the rise since October, going from 10.4 percent in November to 10.9 percent in December. However, for the first time in months, Meigs County has finally fallen from the number two spot in terms of the highest unemployment in the state. This month, Meigs was ranked at number five out of 88 counties, preceded by Ottawa County, also at 10.9 percent, Adams and Morgan counties, both at 11.1 percent and Pike County at 12.3 percent unemployment. After unemployment rates in Gallia County were on the decline since September 2012, unemployment went from 7.6 percent in November to 8.6 percent in December. Gallia County went from being ranked at number 21 to 18 out of Ohio’s 88 counties when it comes to unemployment rates in terms of rankings, it’s a good thing when a county’s number rises with the higher the ranking, the lower the unemployment. For example, once again, Mercer County was ranked at number 88, having 3.9 percent unemployment - the lowest in the state. Other unemployment numbers from across the state include Hamilton County, 6.2 percent, Cuyahoga County, 6.6 percent, Franklin County, 5.4 percent, Athens County, 6.6 percent, Vinton County, 10.1 percent, Lawrence County, 7.2 percent, Jackson County, 8.3 percent. Gallia and Meigs counties were also not alone when it came to rising unemployment rates across Ohio - rates increased in 67 out of 88 counties. Ohio’s unemployment rate was 6.7 percent in December, down slightly from 6.8 percent in November. While in West Virginia, the unemployment rate climbed two-tenths of a percentage point to 7.5 percent in December. The U.S. unemployment rate for December was 7.8 percent, unchanged from November, and down from 8.5 percent in December 2011. Information for this article provided by WorkForce West Virginia and the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. Attorney general’s office investigating missing money Sarah Hawley shawley@civitasmedia.com POMEROY — A case involving alleged missing funds from the Meigs County Sheriff’s Office is now in the hands of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s office. An investigation is being conducted by the Attorney General’s office regarding former Meigs County Sheriff’s Office employee Mary Kimes. Jill Delgreco, a representative of the Attorney General’s office, confirmed to The Daily Sentinel on Wednesday that the office has assigned a special prosecutor to handle the case. Meigs County Prosecutor Colleen Williams said that a previous investigation was conducted by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office at the request of the Meigs County Sheriff last year. The case was then turned over to the Attorney General’s Office. Delgreco said the office could not comment on possible charges or details of the investigation at this time. Commissioners approve contracts Staff Report TDSnews@civitasmedia.com Submitted photo Rick Blaettnar, Meigs vice principal, right, accepts a check for $501 from Tina Rees, Pomeroy branch manager, and Scott Walker, southeast region manager. Observing Peoples Bank Night POMEROY — When you enter a money machine, whatever you catch is what you get to keep. For Meigs High School Vice Principal Rick Blaettnar who entered the Peoples Bank money machine at Tuesday night’s basketball game between Meigs and Jackson, that turned out to be $501. That amount was donated by Peoples Bank to the Meigs prom committee. The money machine was used as a part of the Peoples Bank Night activities, which also included distributing 25 T-shirts decorated with the bank’s logo. The T-shirts were thrown out at random by the cheerleaders and basketball players during the evening. Scott Walker, southeast region manager for Peoples Bank, and Tina Rees, Pomeroy branch manager, handled the activities of Peoples Bank Night. Walker’s daughter, Alli, sang the National Anthem. DJFS child support call center moving to Columbus Staff Report tdsnews@civitasmedia.com THE PLAINS — Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Director Michael Colbert announced last week that the state is moving its child support payment processing center and unemployment call center out of The Plains and to Columbus. The two offices are currently located in the same building. Colbert explained in an e-mail to County Job and Family Services directors that the closing is part of a statewide cost-savings initiative. Approximately 50 peo- ple work at The Plains office, including five from Meigs County according the Chris Shank, director of Job and Family Services in Meigs County. “Changes in the way we do business have resulted in high vacancy rates at many of our facilities. With that in mind, we have reviewed our operations and made a difficult decision that preserves jobs but still will impact staff at many of our locations,” said Colbert in the e-mail. “In order to minimize vacant office space and save the state more than $2 million each year, we have decided to consolidate several of our facilities. This work will begin this spring and finish by the end of the year.” For most employees at the facility in The Plains, this means deciding whether to commute to Columbus every day or move closer to the city. For Meigs County, this will mean the loss of jobs at a time when a number of full-time positions have already been lost in the county and surrounding areas. Shank, on behalf of the County Commissioners, has written Colbert ask- ing him to reconsider his decision to close the facility and emphasizing the impact it will have on those affected and the local economy. Other locations affected by the closings include Bowling Green, Bridgeport, Canton, Dayton, Fort Loramie, Ironton, Mansfield, Maumee, Richmond Heights, Springdale, Tiffin and Columbus. Shank added that none of the affected offices provide in-person services to constituents or businesses, and local clients will not experience any changes in service. POMEROY —The Meigs County Commissioners approved contracts on behalf of the Meigs County Department of Job and Family Services during last week’s regular meeting. Contracts approved included a renewal of a contract with Michael Barr for child support services, as needed. The contract amount is not to exceed $3,000. Agreements were also approved to use two data systems. An advance was approved in the amount of $1,200 for the Attorney General Moving Ohio Forward Program. The amount is to be reimbursed through the grant. Kevin Lewis and Adrian Harrison spoke with the commissioners about labor unions competing for contract bids in the county. Present at the meeting were Meigs County Commissioners Tim Ihle, Randy Smith and Michael Bartrum, clerk Gloria Kloes, Lewis and Harrison. Commission meetings are held each Thursday at 11 a.m. Meigs SWCD annual tree sale under way Staff Report TDSnews@civitasmedia.com POMEROY — The 2013 tree sale is under way at the Meigs Soil and Water Conservation District, now located at its new office at 113 E. Memorial Drive in Pomeroy. This year’s hardwood offerings include Northern red oak, black walnut, sugar maple and black cherry in packets of 25 seedlings for $17; Austrian pine, Colorado blue spruce and Bald Cypress in packets of 25 for $17, and evergreens Scotch pine, eastern white pine, Norway spruce, Canadian hemlock and Douglas fir in packets of 25 seedlings for $15. American Chestnut trees are available in packets of five for $17. The Nut Tree Packet consists of 10 seedlings, two each of black walnut, shagbark hickory, hardy pecan, hazelnut and white walnut (butternut) for $15. Other offerings include Grimes Golden Apples and Santa Rosa Plum in packets of two seedlings each for $17; shiitake mushroom kits (consisting of 200 plugs) for $25; English ivy and pachysandra trays of 100 plants for $25, and crownvetch trays of 72 plants for $35. Seed mixes include erosion control, showy native wildflower and grass, bird and butterfly and wildlife food plot. Also available are bluebird boxes, bat boxes, marking flags and deer and rabbit repellent (available in ready-tospray quart bottles or in a powder concentrate). The deadline for ordering trees or seed packets from the Meigs SWCD is Monday, March 4 with trees being available for pickup around the second week in April. Tree and shrub seedlings should be between six and 18 inches tall depending on the species, and should be planted within five days after pickup and watered regularly. For an order form or for more information, contact the Meigs SWCD at 740-992-4282 or stop in during regular business hours, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, at 113 E. Memorial Drive, Suite D, Pomeroy. Order forms will also be available at www.meigsswcd.com. �Thursday, January 24, 2013 Local Briefs 2013 Visitors Guide Calender Events POMEROY –Stories are being written and advertising is being sold for the 2013 Meigs County Visitors Guide, a project of Meigs County Tourism and the Meigs County Commissioners produced in conjunction with The Daily Sentinel. Currently, Luke Ortman, director of the Meigs County Chamber of Commerce and its tourism program, is preparing a calendar of events from March through December. Anyone with an event which they would like listed in the calendar so that it will appear in the 2013 Meigs Visitors Guide is asked to get the information to Ortman as soon as possible but not later than Jan. 31. Anything that comes in past that date will not be included in the Visitors Guide. Informational sheets to be filled out may be picked up at the Chamber of Commerce Office in Pomeroy or information may be e-mailed to luke@meigscountychamber. com. Valentine’s Dinner and Movie MIDDLEPORT — The Middleport Community Association will host a Valentine’s Day Dinner and movie on Thursday, Feb. 14 at Middleport Village Hall. The dinner of lasagna, salad, dessert and drink will be served from 6-7 p.m., with the movie beginning at 7 p.m. The cost will be $5 per dinner with the movie shown free. For reservations call 992-5877, 992-1121, or 742-3153. Small government committee meeting MARIETTA — A meeting of the District 18 Small Government Committee will be held Wednesday, January 30, 2013, at 10 a.m. at the Holiday Inn in Marietta, Ohio. The purpose of this meeting is to select seven small government eligible projects, two of the seven being contingency projects, for submission to the Ohio Public Works Commission. Five of the projects selected at this meeting will compete for small government funding with other projects throughout the state of Ohio. If you have questions regarding this meeting, please contact Michelle Hyer at (740) 376-1025. Immunization Clinic POMEROY — The Meigs County Health Department will conduct a childhood immunization clinic from 9-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. on Tuesday at the office located at 112 East Memorial Drive. Flu and pneumonia shots will also be available for a fee. Community Calendar The Daily Sentinel • Page 2 www.mydailysentinel.com Ask Dr. Brothers Parents have a battle over bedtimes Dear Dr. to keep the upBrothers: As per hand when our kids have it comes to begotten older, ing in charge my husband and not having and I have the kids take gotten more over just betired. We are cause you get older parents tired before and we both they do! Teens work, and we are notorious find ourselves for wanting to ready for bed stay up late, by 9:30. Meanso this isn’t an while, our two Dr. Joyce Brothers easy challenge. young teens Even though Syndicated are staying up you all have to Columnist after we go get up at the upstairs. They crack of dawn, manage to get up and out their energy pretty much in the mornings, but I feel is guaranteed to outlast we have lost control over yours. their bedtimes. We have Since your children are no idea how late they are refusing to go upstairs staying up or what they when you do, it’s clear are doing. They absolute- they’ve already gotten ly refuse to go upstairs control of their own bedwhen we do. What should times. Let them have a we do? — M.E. half-hour downstairs after Dear M.E.: It’s a frus- you retire, then give them trating feeling when you a bedtime that’s another have kids at home and half-hour later. Have them you feel your author- set alarms on their cellity slipping away because phones to remind them, you’re just too tired to and be prepared to stay cope. I’m sure you want awake for a few evenings to be in control of your to enforce the new rouchildren’s safety and se- tine. If they don’t comply, curity, as well as able to be up and ready to enassure yourselves that force the rules. This way, you’re not lying down on they will assume that you the job, as it were. Just will keep bugging them. as important, you want Even if you have only a few nights’ worth of energy in you, tell them you will be on their backs until they switch to the new routine. If you can keep your eyes open, it just might work. *** Dear Dr. Brothers: I have two kids who are a real handful. They are both in elementary school, ages 7 and 9. I think they should be able to behave and help around the house and do their schoolwork and not fight. Sometimes I hear people say they have charts that they use for keeping their kids in line, but our family is pretty casual and free-flowing, so I’m not sure anything like that would be workable. In the meantime, I am finding these boys more and more difficult to control. — J.M. Dear J.M.: Charts and their accompanying stickers have been around for a long time, ever since mothers first noticed that the kids weren’t pulling their weight by helping around the house, yet were demanding expensive toys. In households with a number of kids, they can be very helpful for keeping track of who does what and eliminat- ing nagging. For younger kids, stickers will do for simple accomplishments, like brushing teeth. When it comes to behavior issues and motivating older kids to keep up with homework or household chores, things are a little trickier. Many kids will respond to rewards for good behavior, but once they are past the sticker stage you may feel conflicted about handing out punishments or bribes for very long. If the charts can be used to get the kids into some kind of routine, it could help you have a less chaotic, out-of-control household. The children will need to be involved in deciding which routines need improving, what pet care or music practice they need to do, and what they can earn by erasing bad habits. Orient the rewards toward family activities or those independent ventures that show your trust in them, not just toys or electronics that you don’t think will add to the kids’ quality of life. As long as you realize that charts are a tool, not a solution, you’ll be on the right track. (c) 2013 by King Features Syndicate NM teen spent day at church after family slain ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) trol measures proposed by Presisalad, corn, rolls and des- — Just hours after a New Mexico dent Barack Obama following Video surveillance sert. teen allegedly gunned down his the December elementary school parents and younger siblings in- shows 15-year-old massacre in Connecticut. Monday, Jan. 28 side the family’s home, he was What authorities know, HousPOMEROY — The spotted walking the campus of Nehemiah Griego had ton said, was that Griego texted Meigs County Veterans a picture of his dead mother to Service Commission will one of Albuquerque’s largest spent the better part Friday, Jan. 25 his girlfriend, then spent much MARIETTA — The Re- meet at 9 a.m. at the office Christian churches as security of the day at Calvary personnel conducted a safety of Saturday with the girl and gional Advisory Council located at 117 East Memoclass for dozens of Sunday school her family. That evening, Griego for the Area Agency on Ag- rial Drive in Pomeroy. Albuquerque last went to the church where his RACINE — The South- teachers. ing will meet at 10 a.m., in Video surveillance shows Saturday. father once worked, and he conthe Buckeye Hills-HVRDD ern Local Board of Educa15-year-old Nehemiah Griego fessed later that night to killing Area Agency on Aging of- tion will meet in regular his parents and three siblings, session at 6:30 p.m. in the had spent the better part of the fice in Marietta. day at Calvary Albuquerque last night on behalf of family, the authorities said. RACINE — The Racine high school media center. boy’s uncle Eric Griego described Saturday. “We know Nehemiah had been First Baptist Church will Church security chief Vince those traits, and called on the contemplating this for some Friday, Feb. 1 host Squire Parsons in conMARIETTA — The Harrison says he doesn’t know media and the public not to use time,” Houston said. Griego apcert at 7 p.m. Admission is Buckeye Hills-Hocking Val- why Griego decided to come to 15-year-old Nehemiah Griego “as parently had told others of his free. MIDDLEPORT — A ley Regional Development the church other than it was like a pawn for ratings or to score po- plans, but whom and when were litical points.” free community dinner District Executive Com- his second home. still under investigation, the After killing his parents, sheriff said. will be served at 5 p.m. at mittee will meet at 11:30 Harrison says it was a familiar the Middleport Church of a.m. at 1400 Pike Street in place and people had embraced younger brother and two sisters The motive, Houston said, Christ Family Life Center. Marietta. Contact Jenny the teen that Saturday morning, at the family’s home in a rural “was purely that he was frustratThe menu will include Myers at (740) 376-1026 unaware of what had happened. area southwest of Albuquerque, ed with his mother.” chicken and noodles, with questions. Griego is facing murder and Griego planned to randomly “He did not give any further child abuse charges in connec- shoot people at a Wal-Mart, Ber- explanation,” he said. tion with his family’s slaying. nalillo County Sheriff Dan HousThe teen waived his right to Authorities say he also had plans ton said Tuesday. The teen also arraignment in adult criminal to drive to a Wal-Mart to shoot contemplated killing the parents court Tuesday on charges of of his 12-year-old girlfriend, murder and child abuse resultmore people. To his family, he was a bright Houston said. ing in death and was ordered Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 27. North and talented musician who Griego loaded guns and ammu- held without bond. He was arwind 6 to 10 mph. played guitar, drums and bass nition into the family’s van, but it rested Saturday at his family’s Thursday Night: Increasing clouds, with a low around with a church group. He also was unclear if he ended up going home. 17. Calm wind. to a Wal-Mart or how seriously The sheriff ’s office identified Friday: Snow likely, mainly between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. was a champion wrestler who he contemplated continuing his dreamed of following his family’s the dead as Greg Griego, 51, Cloudy, with a high near 31. Calm wind becoming southrampage, the sheriff said. long tradition of military service, his wife, Sarah Griego, 40, and west 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation The attack happened Satur- three of their children: a 9-yearand a boy who accompanied his is 70 percent. Friday Night: Scattered snow showers before 3 a.m., pastor father on rescue missions day, the same day thousands of old boy, Zephania Griego, and gun advocates rallied around the daughters Jael Griego, 5, and Anthen a slight chance of snow showers after 4 a.m. Cloudy, to Mexico. In a statement issued Tuesday country to oppose the gun-con- gelina Griego, 2. with a low around 21. Light southwest wind. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent. Saturday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 29. Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 15. Sunday: Partly sunny, with a high near 34. Sunday Night: A chance of snow showers. Cloudy, with a low around 27. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent. WASHINGTON (AP) stretched thin by fight- at Clark University in tance to union organizMonday: A chance of rain and snow showers. Cloudy, — The nation’s labor ing efforts in states Worcester, Mass. “You ing. with a high near 44. Chance of precipitation is 40 percent. unions suffered sharp like Wisconsin, Indi- can’t be a movement That began to change Monday Night: A chance of rain and snow showers. declines in member- ana and Michigan to and get smaller.” when Wisconsin Gov. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 35. Chance of precipita- ship last year, the Bu- curb bargaining rights Unions have steadily Scott Walker signed a tion is 50 percent. weaken union lost members since reau of Labor Statis- and Tuesday: A chance of rain and snow showers. Cloudy, tics said Wednesday, clout. their peak in the law in 2011 eliminating with a high near 52. Chance of precipitation is 40 percent. But unions also saw 1950s, when about one most union rights for led by losses in the Tuesday Night: A chance of showers. Cloudy, with a public sector as cash- losses in the private of every three workers government workers. low around 41. Chance of precipitation is 50 percent. s e c t o r, was in a The state lost about Wednesday: A chance of showers. Cloudy, with a high strapped state and loeven as u n i o n . 46,000 union members cal governments laid near 54. Chance of precipitation is 50 percent. By 1983, last year, mostly in the off workers and — in the econ- Total membership r o u g h l y public sector. some cases — limited omy exfell by about 20 percollective bargaining p a n d e d Union officials blame m o d e s t - 400,000 workers cent of rights. losses on the lingering AmeriThe union member- ly. That c a n effects of the recession, ship rate fell from 11.8 rate fell to 14.4 million. w o rke rs as well as GOP goverpercent to 11.3 per- of memAEP (NYSE) — 44.10 Peoples (NASDAQ) — 20.75 Akzo (NASDAQ) — 22.82 b e r s h i p w e r e nors and state lawmakPepsico (NYSE) — 71.81 cent of all workers, the Ashland Inc. (NYSE) — 86.10 Premier (NASDAQ) — 11.34 fell from u n i o n ers who have sought to lowest level since the Big Lots (NYSE) — 30.89 Rockwell (NYSE) — 89.41 6.9 percent to 6.6 members. weaken union rights. 1930s. Bob Evans (NASDAQ) — 44.65 Rocky Brands (NASDAQ) — 14.04 Losses in the pubBorgWarner (NYSE) — 75.12 “Our still-struggling Royal Dutch Shell — 70.25 Total membership percent, a troubling Century Alum (NASDAQ) — 8.86 sign for the future of lic sector are hitting economy, weak laws Sears Holding (NASDAQ) — 45.06 fell by about 400,000 Champion (NASDAQ) — 0.13 Wal-Mart (NYSE) — 69.49 particularly and political as well workers to 14.4 mil- organized labor, as unions City Holding (NASDAQ) — 36.38 Wendy’s (NYSE) — 5.15 job growth has generhard since that has Collins (NYSE) — 59.72 lion. More than half WesBanco (NYSE) — 22.51 as ideological assaults DuPont (NYSE) — 47.50 ally taken place at non- been one of the few Worthington (NYSE) — 28.13 the loss — about US Bank (NYSE) — 33.09 areas where member- have taken a toll on Daily stock reports are the 4 p.m. 234,000 — came from union firms. Gen Electric (NYSE) — 21.94 membership, ET closing quotes of transactions “To employers, it’s ship was growing over union Harley-Davidson (NYSE) — 51.76 government workers for January 23, 2013, provided by and in the process have JP Morgan (NYSE) — 46.23 including teachers, going to look like the past two decades. Edward Jones financial advisors Kroger (NYSE) — 27.66 also imperiled economIsaac Mills in Gallipolis at (740) firefighters and public the labor movement About 51 percent of Ltd Brands (NYSE) — 46.92 is ready for a knockunion members work ic security and good, 441-9441 and Lesley Marrero in Norfolk So (NYSE) — 68.41 administrators. Point Pleasant at (304) 674-0174. OVBC (NASDAQ) — 17.95 out punch,” said Gary in government, where middle class jobs,” The losses add anBBT (NYSE) — 30.76 Member SIPC. other blow to a labor Chaison, professor of until recently, there said AFL-CIO Presirelations had been little resis- dent Richard Trumka. movement already industrial Thursday, Jan. 24 MASON — The Alpha Iota Masters will meet at 11:30 a.m. at Bob Evans in Mason. Ohio Valley Forecast Union membership sharply declines Local stocks �Thursday, January 24, 2013 The Daily Sentinel • Page 3 www.mydailysentinel.com GAO releases gas pipeline safety report CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Federal regulators must account for response times in the data they collect from transmission operators on natural gas pipeline incidents, a congressional watchdog agency said Wednesday. The U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report that the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, which oversees pipelines in the U.S., doesn’t require operators to fill out certain time-related fields when reporting incidents. Operators also have indicated they interpret the data fields in different ways. “Reliable data would improve PHMSA’s ability to measure incident response and assist the agency in exploring the feasibility of developing a performancebased approach for improving operator response to pipeline incidents,” the report said. The report comes a month after a 20-inch line owned by Columbia Gas Transmission ruptured in West Virginia, triggering a massive fire. The Dec. 11 inferno destroyed four homes and charred a section of Interstate 77 near Sissonville, about 15 miles north of Charleston. No one was seriously injured. Federal investigators say it took Columbia Gas Transmission, a subsidiary of Texas-based NiSource Gas Transmission & Storage, more than an hour to manually shut off the gas that fueled the fire, which sent flames as high as nearby hilltops. And in September 2010, gas continued to escape for nearly 90 minutes after a ruptured pipeline exploded in a suburb of San Francisco. The explosion, which was blamed on an inferior pipeline weld, killed eight people and destroyed dozens of homes. Investigators said the damage would have been less severe had automatic valves been in place. The National Transportation Safety Board has long advocated requiring automated valves that could shut off gas in such situations within minutes. Currently, manual valves are required at intervals — from every 2 1/2 to 10 miles — based on population density. The report said the PHMSA doesn’t disseminate how transmission line operators decide whether to install automated valves, even though many have developed evaluation guidelines, including software to estimate the amount of spillage and extent of damage in the event of an incident. “And not all operators we spoke with were aware of existing PHMSA guidance designed to assist operators in making these decisions,” the report said. “PHMSA could assist operators in making this decision by formally collecting and sharing evaluation approaches and ensuring operators are aware of existing guidance.” There are approximately 2.3 million miles of pipeline in the United States that transport oil, natural gas and hazardous liquids. Since 2006, there have been about 40 serious pipeline incidents each year that resulted in a fatality or injuries. The cause of the West Virginia explosion remains under investigation. The NTSB has said the line showed signs of external corrosion and had thinned to about one-third of the recommended thickness in some spots. U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W. Va., has scheduled a hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee that he chairs to look into pipeline safety. The GAO report is expected to be discussed at the field hearing set for Monday in Charleston. Deep freeze to Air Force general calls sex assaults a ‘cancer’ continue into weekend in East WASHINGTON (AP) — Likening sexual assault in the Air Force’s ranks to a cancer, the service’s top officer resolved Wednesday to tackle the problem by screening personnel more carefully and putting an end to bad behaviors like binge drinking that can lead to misconduct. But Gen. Mark Welsh, the Air Force chief of staff, underscored the challenge by telling a House oversight committee that the service recorded a disturbing number of reports of sexual assault last year even as it worked to curb misconduct in the wake of a sex scandal at its training headquarters in Texas. Dozens of young female recruits and airmen at Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio were victimized by their instructors who sexually harassed, improperly touched or raped them. Most difficult, Welsh said, is transforming a culture in which victims are often reluctant to report what happened because of guilt, shame or fear they won’t be believed. “Why, on what was undoubtedly the worst day of a victim’s life, did they not turn to us for help?” Welsh said during testimony before the House Armed Services Committee. “We are missing something fundamental in the human-to-human interaction that will allow them to feel safe enough to come to us and report.” An Air Force veteran who was sexually assaulted while serving — but not at Lackland — described how intimidating it is for young enlisted personnel to speak up. “You’re stuck,” Jennifer Norris told the committee. “If you want a career, you don’t want to say anything because you get retaliated against.” Norris, who said she medically retired in 2010 with post-traumatic stress disorder, said the Air Force and the other military branches have a sexual assault epidemic and a broken system of justice. The scandal at Lackland, now known as Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, continues to unfold nearly two years after the first victim came forward. All U.S. airmen report to Lackland for basic training. The base has about 500 military training instructors for about 35,000 airmen who graduate every year. About 1 in 5 recruits is a woman; most instructors are men. The initial results of Air Force investigation released in November described abuses of power by instructors who took advantage of a weak oversight system to prey on young recruits. The inquiry has found that 32 military training instructors allegedly engaged in inappropriate or coercive sexual relationships with 59 recruits and airmen at Lackland, according to the Air Force. Three of the most recent alleged victims are males. Six instructors have been convicted in courts-martial on charges ranging from adultery, rape and conducting unprofessional relationships. Nine more instructors are awaiting courts-martial. Two more received nonjudicial punishments. Fifteen 15 instructors remain under investigation. The Air Force has changed the way it selects officers and instructors who train new recruits and reduced from four to three years the amount of time they can spend as instructors, said Gen. Edward Rice, head of the Air Education and Training Command. Rice, who testified along with Welsh, said more women are being placed in supervisory roles within the training command. The Lackland scandal has not affected recruiting, Rice said. “I’m not in any way ready to declare victory,” Rice said. The preliminary figures for 2012 show there were nearly 800 reports of cases, ranging from inappropriate touching to rape, according to Welsh’s testimony. That would be a nearly 30 percent increase from 2011, when 614 cases were reported. The number could be much greater, Welsh said, because many cases are never reported. “It’s astonishing, really,” Welsh said. “Eight hundred is not acceptable, 600 is not acceptable. 300 is not acceptable. Zero is the only answer.” The 2012 figures are being audited and reviewed before being included in a report the Defense Department will submit to Congress in April, according to Welsh. Welsh said he has stressed to the Air Force’s officer corps and senior enlisted ranks the importance of eliminating sexual misconduct. As part of that effort, Welsh issued a “Letter to Airmen” this month that said images, songs and stories that are obscene or vulgar are not part of the Air Force heritage. Not everyone who commits sexual assault is a predator, but there are predators in the ranks and they have to be found before they act, Welsh said. The Air Force also has to identify and stop the activities that can lead to inappropriate actions. “A young man who routinely binge drinks and loses control of himself is going to conduct bad behavior,” Welsh said. “That bad behavior could result in sexual assault. Let’s stop the binge drinking.” $1 million in speeding tickets roils Ohio village ELMWOOD PLACE, Ohio (AP) — If you feel the need for speed, better steer clear of this Cincinnati-area village. Since installing two traffic cameras that record vehicle speed in September, Elmwood Place has been issuing citations at a rapid pace: 6,600 in the first month, or three times the number of village residents, with a reported $1.5 million in fines overall so far. It’s not unusual for newly installed traffic cameras to anger people when they first open their mail to find photos, citation and a notice of the fine. But the blitz of $105 citations has roiled this economically struggling village for months. There have been petition drives, a councilman’s asking the mayor to resign, calls on Facebook and other social media to boycott the village, and a lawsuit that alleges violations of constitutional rights. Arguments in the lawsuit are scheduled to resume Thursday in Hamilton County court. “It’s just a money grab,” said David Downs, one of the plaintiffs. “They did it all wrong. I understand they’re hurting for money, but this is the wrong way to get it.” Downs has owned St. Bernard Polishing Co. for 25 years. His small business sits just yards from a camera that sits where the speed limit drops to 25 mph from 35 mph. Big companies including consumer products maker Procter & Gamble Co. and jams maker J.M. Smucker Co. have facilities nearby. Police say as many as 18,000 vehicles a day pass through the one-thirdsquare-mile village, many of them on their way to an Interstate 75 ramp. Downs said one of his longtime customers has already vowed not to return after getting speeding citations, and other customers are angry. Another plaintiff is the Rev. Chau Pham, whose Our Lady of Lavang Catholic Community Church had some 70 parishioners — more than half — get ticketed the day of a Sunday service in September. The church says the cameras have scared away a third of its Vietnamese congregation, most of whom come from out of town. There’s no argument that Elmwood Place can use the money. Median household income is less than two-thirds of Ohio’s statewide figure of some $48,000; poverty rates are higher; and housing values are well below statewide averages. Police Chief William Peskin said when he joined the force in 1998, there were nine full-time officers. Now, he said, he is the only one, with auxiliary officers helping. There wasn’t enough manpower to deal with the speeding issue that caused alarm after a pedestrian was killed and two children were injured, he said, and village officials were looking for possible solutions when they began talks with Optotraffic. The Lanham, Md.based company is one of several U.S. firms in the traffic camera business. It provides and services the cameras, mails citations and handles other administrative tasks in return for 40 percent of the ticket revenue. With many local governments facing budget squeezes, automated traffic cameras are an enforcement option that allows police officers to be deployed for other crime fighting. “It’s an efficient and accurate way to control speed, and we do see that happening around the country,” said Optotraffic spokesman Tim Ayers. The second camera was installed in a school zone. Peskin said the village is already seeing positive effects, with estimated speeding violations down to less than 1 percent of daily traffic compared with 11 percent before the cameras. “The cameras have worked out great for us,” he said, adding that as drivers have adjusted, he’s getting few angry calls these days. “It’s a byproduct of us trying to make the community safer,” Peskin said. Federal, state and local courts across the country have upheld use of camera enforcement, and nearby cities such as Dayton and Middletown have used them for years. However, anti-tax and civil rights groups led a successful effort a few years ago to bar traffic cameras in neighboring Cincinnati. Mike Allen, a former Hamilton County prosecutor, is pressing the case of those who say they are being hurt by the cameras. The lawsuit says the village failed to comply with Ohio law for public notice on its ordinance before putting the cameras in and charges other due process violations, including difficulty in challenging the speeding allegations. Optotraffic’s Ayers said at least three other municipalities in Hamilton County are awaiting the case’s outcome before going ahead with cameras. Others, such as the village of New Miami near the Butler County seat of Hamilton in southwest Ohio, have already begun using them. Dave Siegel, who owns a roofing company with 15 employees, had seen the problem with speeders and risks to children. But he didn’t like seeing people get hit with hundreds of dollars in fines, including one employee who racked up four tickets before she even knew about the cameras. (The village has dismissed some fines in such cases of early, multiple citations.) PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A teeth-chattering cold wave with sub-zero temperatures was expected to keep its icy grip on much of the eastern U.S. into the weekend before seasonable temperatures bring relief. A polar air mass that’s been blamed for multiple deaths in the Midwest moved into the Northeast on Wednesday, prompting the National Weather Service to issue wind chill warnings across upstate New York and northern New England. In northern Maine, the temperature dipped to as low as 36 below zero Wednesday morning. The weather service was calling for wind chills as low as minus-45. Keith Pelletier, the owner of Dolly’s Restaurant in Frenchville, said his customers are dressed in multiple layers of clothing, and they keep their cars running in the parking lot while eating lunch. It’s so cold that even the snowmobilers are staying home, he said. “You take the wind chill at 39 below and take a snowmobile going 50 mph, and you’re about double that,” he said. “That’s pretty cold.” The Canadian air mass also has forced schools to close, delayed commuter trains and subways and kept plumbers busy with frozen pipes. A ski resort in New Hampshire shut down on Wednesday and Thursday because of unsafe ski conditions — a predicted wind chill of 48 degrees below zero. The coldest temperatures were expected Wednesday and Thursday, after which conditions should slowly moderate before returning to normal levels, said John Koch, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service regional headquarters in Bohemia, N.Y. For the most part, temperatures have been around 10 to 15 degrees below normal, with windy conditions making it feel colder, he said. For Anthony Cavallo, the cold was just another in a litany of big and small aggravations that began when Superstorm Sandy swept through his Union Beach, N.J., neighborhood and flooded his one-story house with 4 1/2 feet of water. Still waiting for the go-ahead to rebuild, Cavallo and his family have been living in a trailer they purchased once it became clear they couldn’t afford to rent. Wednesday’s frigid temperatures temporarily froze the trailer’s pipes, which Cavallo’s 14-year-old daughter discovered when she tried to take a shower at 4:30 a.m. Cavallo spent the morning thawing out the pipes and stuffing hay under the trailer to help insulate them. “Every day it’s something, whether it’s frozen pipes or getting jerked around for two months by insurance companies,” the 48-year-old security system installer said. “I just kind of want to wake up one day and have no surprises.” In New York City, food vendor Bashir Babury contended with bone-numbing cold when he set up his cart selling coffee, bagels and pastries at 3 a.m. Wednesday. On the coldest of days, he wears layers of clothing and cranks up a small propane heater inside his cart. “I put on two, three socks, I have good boots and two, three jackets,” he said. “A hat, gloves, but when I’m working I can’t wear gloves.” In Pottsville, Pa., letter carrier Cheryl Vandermeer was stoic as she walked her route Wednesday with temperatures in the teens and wind chill in the single digits. She thankful she had a job that kept her moving, even if it was outside. “I’m not just standing around,” she said. “So for me it’s cold, but it’s not intolerable.” A little cold air couldn’t keep Jo Goodwin, 64, of Bridgewater, N.H., off the slopes at Sugarloaf ski resort in Carrabassett Valley, Maine, where she was skiing Wednesday with her husband and her sister. The snow conditions were great and there were no lift lines. To keep warm, she uses a toe warmer, a hand warmer, a face mask, extra underwear and an extra wool sweater. 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Respondents did prefer our national legislature to the ebola virus, but otherwise the news was grim: Americans, the survey suggested, have a lower opinion of Congress than of head lice, Genghis Khan, usedcar salesmen, and root canals. I’ll admit it: I chuckled, though I don’t really agree. Having experienced both, I put Congress well ahead of root canals. Still, in the years since I left Capitol Hill my frustration with the institution I admired and loved has grown; watching it now is painful. Congress has shown a dispiriting unwillingness to reckon with tax reform, rein in the deficit, find ways to spur economic growth or make any of the other tough decisions that face it. When it does make a decision, it tends to limit its reach — thus, over and over, avoiding the real issues. Its constant partisanship, lack of urgency in the face of looming fiscal threats, posturing and finger-pointing even at moments when the national interest clearly demands a resolution — all these have made it appear uninterested in actually governing. Yet people do not run for Congress so they can become unpopular. They don’t go to Washington because they want to accomplish nothing. They don’t take the oath of office, surrounded by reminders of the distinguished men and women who came before them, just to disavow Congress’s rich history of accomplishment. Rather, they get caught in a destructive cycle whose dynamics are often shaped by political forces out of their control — by the demands of party loyalty or the arm-twisting of caucus leaders, by the threats and blandishments of special interests or the fear of well-funded opposition in the next primary. The challenge facing members of Congress is to rise above all this, to find a way to reassert the values and aspirations that first brought them to national office. How can they do this? I’m convinced that it comes down to attitude. To begin, they have to put the country first. Not their party or their re-election or their political ambitions, but the nation’s best interest. The surest way I know to earn the respect of voters is to put responsible governance first. In part, this means acting with the future in mind. Thomas Jefferson in his first inaugural address looked toward “our descendants to the thousandth and the thousandth generation.” That may be a longer timeframe than is politically realistic, but at the moment I’d even settle for just the thousandth and the thousandth day, which is more far-sighted than most members’ obsession with the next election. Americans care about their country’s future, and they want their representatives to do so, too. 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Members have a responsibility to make the government work, and they need to square their shoulders and step up to it: to make decisions, to vote on the issues that need addressing — rather than on legislation designed to give them political cover or to pander to deep-pocketed interests — and to move the country forward. To do this, they will have to work out their differences — through skillful negotiation, patience, understanding, accommodation, and compromise. Being a member does not mean treating adversaries as enemies to be defeated and humiliated; they are colleagues with whom one must cooperate on the larger goal of searching for a remedy to the challenges that beset the country. Focusing on the facts — rather than on scoring ideological points — and working together to build consensus based on those facts is the only way our representatives will be able to take on the responsibilities Americans expect of them. That is what Americans are looking for. And that is what Congress needs to deliver if it wants to be more popular than root canals. Lee Hamilton is Director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 34 years. Thomas Beaumont The Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa — Dozens of states have slashed spending on mental health care over the last four years, driven by the recession’s toll on revenue and, in some cases, a new zeal to shrink government. But that trend may be heading for a Uturn in 2013 after last year’s shooting rampages by two mentally disturbed gunmen. The reversal is especially jarring in statehouses dominated by conservative Republicans, who aggressively cut welfare programs but now find themselves caught in a crosscurrent of pressures involving gun control, public safety and health care for millions of disadvantaged Americans. In many states, lawmakers have begun to recognize that their cuts “may have gone too deep,” said Shelley Chandler, executive director of the Iowa Alliance of Community Providers. “People start talking when there’s a crisis.” About 30 states have reduced mental health spending since 2008, when revenues were in steep decline, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. In a third of those states, the cuts surpassed 10 percent. As a result, nine state-run psychiatric hospitals were closed and another 3,200 beds for mental health patients were eliminated, dramatically reducing treatment options for the poor and people in the criminal-justice system. Thousands of patients were turned onto the streets. Making matters worse, the cuts came as unemployment was rising, causing more people to lose private insurance and forcing them to shift to public assistance. The steepest drop by percentage was in South Carolina, where spending fell by nearly 40 percent over four years — an amount that Republican Gov. Nikki Haley has called “absolutely immoral.” Now Haley, who took office in 2011, has pledged to bolster a mental health system that dropped case workers, closed treatment centers and extended waiting lists. She also wants to expand remote access to psychiatrists through video conferencing. Both Pennsylvania and Utah have put aside plans to scale back their mental health systems. And Kansas, which cut mental health spending by 12 percent from 2008 to 2011, announced this month a new $10 million program aimed at identifying mental health dangers. “I don’t think we’re well set as a state at Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Letters to the Editor Letters to the editor should be limited to 300 words. All letters are subject to editing, must be signed and include address and telephone number. No unsigned letters will be published. Letters should be in good taste, addressing issues, not personalities. “Thank You” letters will not be accepted for publication. all to be able to deal with these intensive cases” of mental illness, acknowledged Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, usually an avid proponent of downsizing social programs. The sudden pause reflects anxiety from last year’s shootings in a Colorado movie theater and a Connecticut elementary school. Although little is known about the mental health of either gunman, the attacks have shaken state legislatures that until recently didn’t intend to consider more social spending. In some cases, gun-rights advocates are seeking mental health reforms as an alternative to more gun laws. Jon Thompson, spokesman for the Republican Governors Association, said many budget-cutting governors are having second thoughts, including whether to reform mental health policies “to further invest in the safety of their citizens.” South Carolina eliminated 600 full-time case workers and closed five treatment centers. That led to an increase in the number of people with mental illness in jail in Columbia — so much that it now exceeds the patient total at the city’s public psychiatric hospital. “We’ve been unable to maintain those preventative measures to keep people out of jail,” said Bill Lindsey, director of South Carolina’s National Association on Mental Illness. During former Gov. Mark Sanford’s term, the fiscal pressure was inescapable. The recession cut state revenue by more than $1 billion from 2008 to 2011. “It wasn’t really Sanford’s fault,” said former state Rep. Dan Cooper, Republican chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. “There just wasn’t enough money to go around.” Revenues have since recovered somewhat and are projected to be at levels last seen in 2008. In Kansas, under then-Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat, state psychiatric hospitals began treating only the most dangerous cases. Caseloads at the Johnson County Mental Health Center near Kansas City rose from the recommended 15 per caseworker to more than 30 in 2010. Tim DeWeese, the center’s clinical director, said one of his patients who had finished college and gotten a job and an apartment became homeless after his doctor visits were cut off. “It came crashing down all the way,” DeWeese said. The Daily Sentinel Ohio Valley Newspapers 111 Court Street Pomeroy, Ohio Phone (740) 992-2156 Fax (740) 992-2157 www.mydailysentinel.com Sammy M. Lopez Publisher 740-446-3242, ext. 15 slopez@civitasmedia.com Stephanie Filson Managing Editor �Thursday, January 24, 2013 The Daily Sentinel • Page 5 www.mydailysentinel.com Obituaries Charles Frederick ‘Buddy’ Pyles, Jr. Charles Frederick “Buddy” Pyles, Jr., 59, of Gallipolis, Ohio, went home to be with the Lord on January 22, 2013, at his home with his loving family at his side after a long battle with cancer. He was born on August 29, 1953, in Mason County, West Virginia, a son to the late Charles F. Pyles, Sr. and Lorene Hart Pyles. He retired as a plant welder after 33 years of service at the Kyger Creek Plant, and was a member of the Utilities Union. Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by one brother, Randy Pyles; and several aunts and uncles. He is survived by his loving wife of 20 years, Debbi Spencer Pyles of Gallipolis, Ohio; two sons, Nathan Pyles of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Dr. Brandon Pyles of Death Notice Brumley Howard William Brumley, 78, of Alexandria, La., formerly of Mason County, W.Va., died January 6, 2013, at CHRISTUS St. Francis Cabrini Hospital. Services were held in Alexandria, La. There will be no local services. High court to decide group’s right to sue JobsOhio COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s high court agreed Wednesday to determine whether opponents of the new private economic development entity created by Republican Gov. John Kasich have the standing to sue. So far, lower courts have rejected a legal challenge to JobsOhio brought by a liberal policy group and two Democratic state lawmakers. They’ve stopped short of ruling on the constitutionality of the nonprofit job-creation board, instead saying the parties can’t show harm and so don’t have standing. Opponents argue the law created an impossibly small window in which they had to both experience harm and file their legal challenge. In taking the case, the Ohio Supreme Court signaled it will hear arguments and decide the question. ProgressOhio executive director Brian Rothenberg, whose group is spearheading the legal challenge, said he hopes justices will find his group has the right to sue so legal arguments over JobsOhio’s constitutionality can proceed. “We’ve said all along we believe that somebody should have the right to bring this case,” he said. “No court has actually ruled on the constitutionality of JobsOhio yet. The state, instead, has played legal games challenging whether any Ohioan had the right to sue.” Earning standing would allow JobsOhio opponents to get to the essence of their legal gripe with Kasich’s jobcreation entity: Does Ohio’s Constitution allow the state to hand over taxpayer money — in the form of proceeds from Ohio’s liquor business — to a private entity? Opponents say no; the state says yes. That question would go back to the lower court if standing is granted. Kasich spokeswoman Connie Wehrkamp said the governor’s office remains confident the Supreme Court will eventually rule against the standing of ProgressOhio and Democrats Mike Skindell and Dennis Murray — as lower courts have. “Additionally, it continues to be beyond our understanding why anyone would fight against job creation when it’s so important to Ohio and our continued economic recovery,” she said. In the meantime, JobsOhio has announced it will go forward with the sale of $1.5 billion in bonds backed by future liquor profits. Wednesday had been relayed to rating agencies as a target date for the sale. A JobsOhio spokeswoman said a firm date has not been set. The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board indicated in an email to The Associated Press that a filing to announce the offering is expected by Friday. In a joint statement Wednesday, plaintiffs called on the administration to hold off on the sale until the court rules. “Proceeding with the sale before the case is resolved would be reckless,” they said. “If Kasich chooses to plow ahead, bond buyers beware.” The fight over the standing issue has drawn attention across the political spectrum. The libertarian 1851 Center for Constitutional Law backs ProgressOhio, a sometime political adversary, in its legal effort. The law center’s Maurice Thompson says laws denying taxpayers the standing to sue government are dangerous and increasingly common. The center decided to get involved for that reason in July after the 10th District Court of Appeals in Columbus upheld a judge’s decision to dismiss the JobsOhio challenge citing plaintiffs’ lack of standing. The outcome of the JobsOhio case is also of interest to the Ohio Roundtable, a conservative anti-gambling group that’s fighting for standing to legally challenge Kasich’s decision authorizing slots-like video lottery terminals at Ohio’s seven horse tracks. The Roundtable and individual plaintiffs argue Kasich’s decision to go forward with racinos is unconstitutional because expansions of the state lottery must be approved by voters. A three-judge panel of the 10th Circuit heard arguments last week over whether the group should be granted standing in that case and is deliberating. Cincinnati, Ohio; step-daughter, Holley Cummings of Cincinnati, Ohio; step-daughter, Amy Broward of Columbus, Ohio; sisters, Sharon Harvey of Racine, Ohio, and Shirley Stewart of Minersville, Ohio; six grandchildren, Andrew and Madeline Cummins, Brady and Isabella Pyles, and Evan and Tyler Broward; as well as many friends and neighbors. A memorial service celebrating Buddy’s life will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 29, 2013, at the First Baptist Church on Fifth Street in Racine, Ohio, with Pastor Ryan Eaton officiating. Burial will be at the convenience of the family. Friends may visit the family at the church from 2-4 p.m. prior to the service. Deal Funeral Home in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, is serving the family. Please visit www.dealfh.com to send online condolences to the family. James George James George, 70, of Columbus, Ohio, formerly of Rutland, died January 13, 2013. He was born December 24, 1942, to the late Beulah (Denney) Grate. He is survived by his daughter, Jodi Nichols; sons, Chris and Jamie George; grandchildren, Morgan Nichols, Michael George, Aaron George, and Adam Tilly; great-grandchildren, Madison, Natalie, Kylie and Aaron Jr.; step-father, Herman Grate; sister, Vicki Ferrell; and brother, John Grate. Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. on January 27, 2013, at Morgan Center Wesleyan Church Cemetery with Pastor Marty Hutton officiating. Cameron proposes vote on EU relationship LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged Wednesday to offer citizens a vote on whether to leave the European Union if his party wins the next election, prompting rebukes from European leaders accusing the premier of putting the bloc’s future at risk over domestic politics. Claiming that public disillusionment with the 27-nation EU is “at an all-time high,” Cameron used a long-awaited speech in central London to say that the terms of Britain’s membership in the bloc should be revised and the country’s voters should have a say. Cameron proposed that his Conservative Party renegotiate the U.K.’s relationship with the EU if it wins the next general election, expected in 2015. “Once that new settlement has been negotiated, we will give the British people a referendum with a very simple in-or-out choice to stay in the EU on these new terms. Or come out altogether,” Cameron said. The speech was seen by many as a gamble to shore up support from Cameron’s fractured, increasingly anti-EU party that risked antagonizing other countries focused on stemming the eurozone debt crisis. The fiercely independent island nation has never been an enthusiastic member of the bloc, seeing itself as culturally different and balking at having policy dictated by Brussels. But the drumbeat has grown over fears that new EU regulations to address the debt crisis will further restrict the country’s control over its own economic policies. Many EU member states, which had in the run-up to the speech stressed the importance of Britain’s presence in the bloc, took a sharper tone after Cameron spoke. Martin Schulz, the president of the European Parliament, said Cameron was playing “a dangerous game,” and accused him of playing domestic politics. “This was an inward-looking speech that does not reflect European reality and will not impress many of the U.K.’s European partners,” Schulz said. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius likened the EU to joining a soccer club — “you can’t say you want to play rug- by,” he told France-Info radio. Britain does not use the euro currency, but membership in the EU has given the U.K. access to the massive joint European market as well as a say in how the region should govern itself and run its financial markets. The country has also benefited from EU funds to build infrastructure such as broadband networks. German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said his country wants Britain “to remain an active and constructive part” of the EU, but suggested that countries could not be allowed to write their own terms for EU membership, saying “a policy of cherry-picking won’t function.” Italian Premier Mario Monti said the EU does not need “unwilling members,” adding that he hopes British citizens will decide to remain in the bloc and help shape its future. He said the referendum would be best framed with a direct question — up or down on membership — rather than a fuzzier query for voters. “I think there is an advantage in the idea of eventually putting to the people the real question in a referendum,” he said. Cameron stressed that his first priority is renegotiating the EU treaty — not leaving the bloc. “I say to our European partners, frustrated as some of them no doubt are by Britain’s attitude: work with us on this,” he said. Cameron said a new EU treaty should reshape the bloc, protect and complete the single market, allow the transfer of powers on issues from crime to working hours back from Brussels to national governments, and make Europe’s economy more competitive and its institutions more flexible and democratically accountable. Cameron insisted Wednesday that a “one size fits all” approach to the EU is misguided. “Let us not be misled by the fallacy that a deep and workable single market requires everything to be harmonized,” he said. “Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonize everything.” Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany is “of course prepared to talk about British wishes, but we must always bear in mind that other countries have other wishes.” Her foreign ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer added that Britain could lose future economic benefits if it exits the EU, for example if tentative talks on a free trade deal between the U.S. and EU are successful. “If such negotiations lead to a conclusion the fruits will only be available to those who are members of the union,” he told reporters in Berlin. Even as he raised the specter of a referendum, Cameron reiterated his view that Britain should stay in the EU. “I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part,” Cameron said. “There is no doubt that we are more powerful in Washington, in Beijing, in Delhi because we are a powerful player in the European Union.” In Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney said the administration welcomes Cameron’s call for Britain to remain an active force in the EU. “We believe that the United Kingdom is stronger as a result of its European Union’s membership and we believe the European Union is stronger as a result of having the United Kingdom in the EU,” he said. The timeline Cameron laid out mostly hinges on a Conservative victory in the next general election. But he said legislation will be drafted before 2015 so that if his party wins, it can be introduced and passed quickly to ensure a vote could be held “in the first half” of the next Parliament. Cameron’s proposals drew lukewarm support from the foreign minister of the Netherlands, where the prime minister was initially slated to give his speech last week before it was postponed due to the Algeria hostage crisis. Frans Timmermans said in a statement that the Netherlands agrees with many of Cameron’s criticisms of the EU. “That’s why we want to keep the British on board in the EU,” he said. “Because you reform the EU from within, not by walking away.” Panetta opens combat roles to women WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior defense officials say Pentagon chief Leon Panetta is removing the military’s ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after more than a decade at war. The groundbreaking move recommended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff overturns a 1994 rule prohibiting women from being assigned to smaller ground combat units. Panetta’s decision gives the military services until January 2016 to seek special exceptions if they believe any positions must remain closed to women. A senior military official says the services will develop plans for allowing women to seek the combat positions. Some jobs may open as soon as this year. Assessments for others, such as special operations forces, including Navy SEALS and the Army’s Delta Force, may take longer. The official said the military chiefs must report back to Panetta with their initial implementation plans by May 15. The announcement on Panetta’s decision is not expected until Thursday, so the official spoke on condition of anonymity. Panetta’s move expands the Pentagon’s action nearly a year ago to open about 14,500 combat positions to women, nearly all of them in the Army. This decision could open more than 230,000 jobs, many in Army and Marine infantry units, to women. In recent years the necessities of war propelled women into jobs as medics, military police and intelligence officers that were sometimes attached — but not formally assigned — to units on the front lines. Women comprise 14 percent of the 1.4 million active military personnel. Scientists to resume work with lab-bred bird flu WASHINGTON (AP) — International scientists who last year halted controversial research with the deadly bird flu say they are resuming their work as countries adopt new rules to ensure safety. The outcry erupted when two labs — in the Netherlands and the U.S. — reported they had created easier-to-spread versions of bird flu. Amid fierce debate about the oversight of such research and whether it might aid terrorists, those scientists voluntarily halted further work last January — and more than three dozen of the world’s leading flu researchers signed on as well. On Wednesday, those scientists announced they were ending their moratorium because their pause in study worked: It gave the U.S. government and other world health authorities time to determine how they would oversee high-stakes research involving dangerous germs. A number of countries already have issued new rules. The U.S. is finalizing its own research guidelines, a process that Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health said should be completed within several weeks. In letters published in the journals Science and Nature this week, scientists wrote that those who meet their country’s requirements have a responsibility to resume studying how the deadly bird flu might mutate to become a bigger threat to people — maybe even the next pandemic. So far, the so-called H5N1 virus mostly spreads among poultry and other birds and rarely infects people. “The risk exists in nature already. Not doing the research is really putting us in danger,” said Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He and Ron Fouchier of Erasmus University in the Netherlands separately created the new virus strains that could spread through the air. The controversy flared just over a year ago, when U.S. officials, prompted by the concerns of a biosecurity advisory panel, asked the two labs not to publish the results. They worried that terrorists might use the information to create a bioweapon. More broadly, scientists debated whether creating new strains of disease is a good idea, and if so, how to safeguard against laboratory accidents. Ultimately, the flu researchers prevailed: The government decided the data didn’t pose any immediate terrorism threat after all, and the two labs’ work was published last summer. Fouchier said that within weeks, he will begin new research in the Netherlands, with European funding, to explore exactly which mutations are the biggest threat. He said the work could enable scientists today to be on the lookout as bird flu continually evolves in the wild. U.S.-funded scientists cannot resume their studies until the government’s policy is finalized. But the NIH had paid for the original research — and it would have been approved under the soonto-come expanded policy as well, Fauci told The Associated Press. That policy will add an extra layer of review to higher-risk research, to ensure that it is scientifically worth doing and that safety and bioterrorism concerns are fully addressed up-front, he said. �The Daily Sentinel Sports THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2013 mdssports@civitasmedia.com Raiders outlast Rock Hill, 56-51 Bryan Walters bwalters@civitasmedia.com BIDWELL, Ohio — Eight was enough. The River Valley boys basketball snapped an eight-game losing skid while also picking up their first league victory of the 2013 season Tuesday night following a 56-51 decision over visiting Rock Hill in an Ohio Valley Conference matchup in Gallia County. The host Raiders (3-13, 1-6 OVC) shot 42 percent from the field and won each of the first three periods of play to estab- lish a 40-31 advantage headed into the finale. The Redmen (410, 1-6) countered with a 20-16 charge down the stretch, but their rally bid ultimately ran out of time — allowing RVHS to secure the five-point decision. River Valley — which had been plagued by turnovers during its recent skid — committed just 16 miscues total, the same amount surrendered by RHHS in the game — and those equal numbers ultimately proved beneficial to the hosts. The Raiders jumped out to a 13-9 edge after eight minutes of play, then posted another 13-9 run in the second canto to establish a 26-18 cushion at the break. The hosts kept that momentum going into the third quarter, using a small 14-13 spurt to establish a nine-point lead headed into the fourth. Rock Hill made its valiant run at the end of regulation, but never led at any point in the final stanza. RVHS connected on 17-of-40 field goal attempts overall, including a 2-of-9 effort from threepoint range for 22 percent. The Raiders were outrebounded by a slim 29-28 overall margin, includ- ing 13-7 on the offensive glass. Tyler Twyman led the hosts with 14 points, followed by Justin Rusk with 10 points and Ethan Dovenbarger with nine markers. Seann Roberts also had eight points for the victors, who were 20-of-37 at the free throw line for 54 percent. Joseph Loyd and Jonathon Qualls each chipped in six points, while Burnie Stanley rounded out the scoring with three markers. Dovenbarger hauled in a team-high five caroms, while Qualls came up with a team-best three steals. The Redmen sank 22-of-61 shot attempts for 36 percent overall, including a 5-of-30 effort from three-point range for 17 percent. The guests were also 2-of-6 at the charity stripe for 33 percent. Jacob Falls paced RHHS with 14 points, followed by Joey Stidham and Austin Collins with 13 markers apiece. Collins also grabbed a game-high seven rebounds in the setback. River Valley salvaged a season split with the Redmen with this outcome. The Raiders dropped a 53-48 decision in Pedro back on December 11. Alex Hawley | Daily Sentinel Point Pleasant senior Katie Bruner (13) takes the ball in the post while being defended by Gallia Academy senior Halley Barnes (23). The Lady Knights took the 46-44 victory in Mason County. Photos by Bryan Walters | Daily Sentinel Like father, like son. Meigs boys basketball coach David Kight, right, joins Jackson basketball coach Bob Kight on a knee while watching their respective teams during the third quarter of Tuesday night’s non-conference matchup in Rocksprings, Ohio. Lady Knights Marauders surge past Jackson, 60-46 rally past Gallia Academy, 46-44 Bryan Walters bwalters@civitasmedia.com Alex Hawley ahawley@civitasmedia.com POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Saving the best for last. The Point Pleasant girls basketball team only scored 23 points through the first 24 minutes of Tuesday night’s game against Gallia Acadmey. The Lady Knights equaled their 24 minute total in the final period as they rallied back to defeat the Blue Angels 46-44 in Mason County. Gallia Academy (5-12) came out of the gates hot, scoring 11 points in the opening period. The Lady Knights (5-10) were held without a field goal in the first quarter nut scored three points on free throws. GAHS extended its lead to double digits after out scoring Point Pleasant 13-to-10 in the second canto. The Blue Angels held a 2413 halftime advantage. Following the break the Lady Knights scored 10 points for the second consecutive period. The Gallia Academy offense struggled in the the third, amassing just six points in the quarter. The seven-point lead GAHS began the final period with vanished and at the 1:58 Point Pleasant took its first lead since 1-0. The Blue Angels regained the lead just before the one minute mark but a PPHS three-pointer gave the advantage back to the Lady Knights. Point Pleasant held on to take the game 46-44, making it back-to-back wins for the first time this season. “It’s nice to get a win over Gallia Academy,” said Point Pleasant coach John Fields. “What’s even nicer is that we came back from 12 or 13 down to get the W.” Andrea Porter led PPHS with 17 points on the night, putting her just 12 away from the career 1,000 point mark. Sarah Hussell scored 14 points, all of which came after halftime, while Allison Smith notched five. Mackenzie Thomas, Katie Bruner and Cassie Nibert each scored three points, while Cassie Adkins marked one to round out the PPHS scoring. See KNIGHTS ‌| 8 ROCKSPRINGS, Ohio — In regards to this family business, son knew best Tuesday night. The Meigs boys basketball team moved over .500 for the season while handing head coach David Kight a victory over both his alma mater and his father following a 60-46 decision over visiting Jackson in a non-conference matchup at Larry R. Morrison Gymnasium. The Marauders (7-6) shot 52 percent from the field and never trailed in the second half, but the hosts still needed a solid effort down the stretch to keep a pesky Ironmen squad winless on the 2013 season. Jackson — which is now 0-15 this winter — is coached by David’s dad and current JHS athletic director, Bob Kight. Leading 35-31 headed into the finale, MHS nailed 8-of10 shot attempts in the fourth quarter and was ahead by double digits for the first time all night at the 4:53 mark, but the Ironmen countered with a 7-0 run to get as close as 45-42 with 3:40 left in regulation. The Marauders, however, answered the bell with a 15-4 surge the rest of the way to secure the 14-point triumph — See MARAUDERS ‌| 8 Meigs senior Dillon Boyer (2) scores two of his game-high 25 points during the first half of Tuesday night’s non-conference boys basketball contest against Jackson at Larry R. Morrison Gymnasium. OVP Sports Schedule Wahama gets 1st road win of season over Wildcats Thursday, Jan. 24 Girls Basketball Belpre at Eastern, 6 p.m. River Valley at Chesapeake, 6 p.m. South Gallia at Federal Hocking, 6 p.m. Wahama at Trimble, 6 p.m. Meigs at Alexander, 6 p.m. Wrestling Point Pleasant at Huntington (dual), 6 p.m. URG Sports Women’s Basketball vs St. Catharine, 6 p.m. Men’s Basketball vs St. Catharine, 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25 Boys Basketball Logan at Gallia Academy, 5 p.m. Eastern at South Gallia, 6 p.m. Federal Hocking at Wahama, 6 p.m. Belpre at Southern, 6 p.m. Meigs at Alexander, 6 p.m. OVCS at Teays Valley, 7 p.m. Ravenswood at Point Pleasant, 6 p.m. Girls Basketball Eastern at Huntington SJ, TBA OVCS at Teays Valley, 6 p.m. Alex Hawley ahawley@civitasmedia.com WATERFORD, Ohio — Don’t look now but the White Falcons are starting a streak. The Wahama boys basketball earned it’s first road win of the season Tuesday night with a 61-54 TriValley Conference Hocking Division triumph over host Waterford, making it three victories in a row for the Red and White. Waterford (4-8, 2-7 TVC Hocking) began the game with a 14-to-11 run, ending the first period. The White Falcons (5-8, 4-6) answered with a 14-to-12 spurt in the second period that cut the Green and White lead to one point at the half. The Red and White came out of the half with a 18-to-12 run that gave them a five point lead with eight minutes to play. Wahama out scored the hosts by two in the fourth period to seal the 61-54 victory. Austin Jordan led the White Falcons with 19 points on the night, including four three-pointers. Dakota Sisk finished with 15 points, Jacob Ortiz chipped in with 12 and Hunter Rose added seven. Hunter Bradley had five points, while Preston Hudnall marked three to round out the victors scoring. Rose and Hudnall each made one three-pointer in the game. Ortiz and Sisk both recorded double-doubles pulling down 12 and 10 rebounds respectively. Bradley led Wahama with nine assists. The Red and White shot 17-of-22 from the free-throw line equaling 77.3 percent. Wyatt Porter led the Wildcats with 23 points, followed by Austin Shriver with 16 and Brian Moore with five. Eli Strahler and Tryston Crawford each had four points, while Cody Paxton rounded out the Waterford scoring with two points. Moore, Porter and Shriver each made one three pointer in the game. Waterford was 5-of-6 (83.3 percent) from the free throw line in the game. Three of Wahama’s normal starters, Derek Hysell, Trenton Gibbs and Wyatt Zuspan, did not play due to illness or injury. The White Falcons will look to complete the season sweep of Waterford in the season finale on February 21st in Mason. 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Rogers Basement Waterproofing RECREATIONAL VEHICLES �Thursday, January 24, 2013 The Daily Sentinel • Page 8 www.mydailysentinel.com Tornadoes Eastern drops heartbreaker to Lancers sweep South Gallia, 60-44 Bryan Walters bwalters@civitasmedia.com Alex Hawley ahawley@civitasmedia.com RACINE, Ohio — The Tornadoes controlled the boards Tuesday night en route to a 60-44 victory over South Gallia. The Purple and Gold pulled down 36 rebounds, 15 more than the Rebels, to take their sixth Tri-Valley Conference Hocking Division victory and their fifth victory in Carles W. Hayman Gymnasium. Southern (8-7, 6-5 TVC Hocking) out rebounded SGHS (5-11, 3-8) 12-to-4 in the opening stanza, which allowed the hosts to jump out to a 13-7 lead. The Rebels rallied back in the second period with an 11-to-8 run that cut the SHS lead to three points at halftime. The Tornadoes hot shooting allowed them to expand their lead to five points headed into the finale, despite committing seven turnovers in the third period. The Red and Gold had the best offensive period in the fourth, scoring 14 points. Unfortunately for the Rebels, Southern also had its best quarter of the night in the fourth, amassing 25 points to seal off the 60-44 victory. Sophomore guard Tristen Wolfe led the way for the Tornadoes with 23 points on 10-of-13 (76.9 percent) from the field and 3-of-3 from the free throw line. Casey Pickens marked 12 points in the triumph, while Dennis Teaford had seven points. Adam Pape and Taylor McNickle each added six points, while Bradley McCoy, Trenton Deem and Zac Beegle each finished with two points, rounding out the SHS scoring. Both Wolfe and Pickens finished one rebound shy of a double-double, with nine each. Pape finished with a team-high four assists, followed by Wolfe and Deem with three each. Wolfe had two steals on the night to lead the Tornadoes, while Teaford, McNickle and Wolfe accounted of Southern’s three rejections. Southern shot 9-of-13 (69.2 percent) from the free throw line and 24-of-51 (47.1 percent) from the field including just 2-of-9 (22.2 percent) from beyond the arc. Pape and Pickens accounted for the two SHS three-pointers. As a unit the Tornadoes had 36 rebounds, 12 assists, seven steals, and 23 turnovers. Brayden Greer paced the SGHS offense with 12 points, followed by Michael Wheeler with nine. Gus Slone chipped in with six points, Ethan Swain added five, C.J. Johnston marked four and Kody Lambert added three. Alex Stapleton notched two points, while Landon Hutchinson and Tyler Reynolds rounded out the SGHS scoring with one point each. Wheeler and Greer led South Gallia with five rebounds each, while Swain had the lone blocked shot. Greer led SGHS with eight assists and six steals on the night. The Rebels shot 7-of-15 (46.7 percent) from the charity stripe and 16-of-51 (31.4 percent) from the field including 4-of-21 (19 percent) from three. Greer accounted for two of the Rebels three-pointers, while Lambert and Swain had the others. SGHS as a team had 21 rebounds, 11 assists, 12 steals and 20 turnovers. With the loss South Gallia falls to 2-7 away from Mercerville including 0-6 in TVC Hocking games. Southern completes the sweep of SGHS, as the Tornadoes were also victorious on December 7th by a count of 43-38 in Gallia County. This is the second straight year SHS has swept the Rebels. TUPPERS PLAINS, Ohio — Terrance Mayle netted an offensive rebound as time expired in regulation Tuesday night, allowing visiting Federal Hocking to sneak away with a 40-39 victory over the Eastern boys basketball team in a Tri-Valley Conference Hocking Division matchup at the Eagle’s Nest in Meigs County. The Eagles (3-12, 3-7 TVC Hocking) led most of the opening three periods of play, as the hosts stormed out to an 11-2 advantage before ending the first quarter with an 11-7 edge. The Lancers pulled to within 11-9 early in the second canto, but EHS answered with an 11-6 surge to secure a 22-15 intermission lead. FHHS (12-3, 10-1) made its biggest charge of the night in the third quarter after going on a 12-5 run to pull even at 27-all headed into the finale. The guests claimed a small 13-12 edge down the stretch to wrap up the one-point outcome. Trailing 38-37, Eastern’s Kirk Pullins hit a layup with 22 seconds remaining — giving EHS a 39-38 advantage. Following a timeout with under 10 seconds left, the Lancers’ Pete Crum released a shot attempt that did not hit the rim. Mayle, however, had the ball fall into his possession just underneath the basket, and his putback effort went through the cylinder as the horn sounded — allowing Fed Hock to claim a season sweep. FHHS won a 71-42 decision in Stewart back on December 7. The buzzer-beater — which allowed Fed Hock coach Howie Caldwell to improve to 4-0 against his former program since leaving last year — was the second time in four previous contests that the Lancers beat Eastern at the horn. Caldwell’s first win over the Eagles last winter came after Chris Saylor hit a layup at the buzzer in a 43-41 decision at Federal Hocking. The Eagles — who have now dropped four straight decisions — connected on 17-of-32 field goal attempts for 53 percent, including a 1-of-5 effort from three-point range. The hosts were also 4-of-7 at the free throw line for 57 percent. Max Carnahan led EHS with a game-high 26 points, followed by Pullins with six points and Zakk Heaton with four markers. Brent Wlech and Troy Gantt rounded out Eastern’s scoring with two points and one point, respectively. Carnahan also led the hosts with six rebounds and six steals. Shawn Parsons paced the Lancers with 10 points, followed by Max Carney with seven points and Mayle with six markers. The guests were 17-of-66 from the field for 26 percent, including a 3-of-9 effort from three-point territory for 33 percent. FHHS — which currently owns a two-game lead over Belpre in the TVC Hocking standings — was 9-of-12 at the charity stripe for 75 percent. Wildcats fall to Buffalo, 73-53 Alex Hawley ahawley@civitasmedia.com ASHTON, W.Va. — Effective use of the threepoint line by each team leads to a 73-53 Buffalo victory Tuesday night. The Bison earned their third straight victory while connecting on nine threepointers. Hannan made eight three’s but fell for the eighth straight game. The Bison (12-1) had just a two point lead at the end of the first period after out scoring Hannan (213) 11-to-9. Buffalo open up the game in the second quarter, out scoring the Wildcats by 15 en route to 34-17 halftime advantage. Buffalo added nine to its lead in the third period, out scoring HHS 20-to-11 over eight minutes. Hannan rallied for 25 points in the final period but the Bison scored 19 to seal the 73-53 victory. Tyler Burns led the Wildcats with 18 points on the night, including four threepointers. Paul Holley scored 11 points, Kade McCoy chipped in with nine, and Tyler Jenkins added seven. Brad Fannin finished with five points, while Daniel Black rounded out the HHS scoring with two points. Hannan shot 7-of-11 from the free throw line for 63.6 percent. The Bison were led by Levi Jordan with a gamehigh 29 points, followed by Laythan Good with 13 and Isaiah Robinson with 11. Buffalo’s lone loss this season came on January 10th by a count of 53-46 at Charleston Catholic. Hannan will face the Bison again in the season finale on February 19th in Putnam County. Ohio judge weighs whether to keep rape trial open COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The state attorney general says the trial of two high school football players charged with raping a 16-year-old girl should be closed to the public to protect her, a sentiment supported by the accuser, her parents and one of the defendants. News organizations including The Associated Press lined up on the other side of the debate Wednesday, arguing that openness is the best way to ensure public confidence in the proceedings. Judge Thomas Lipps is set to hold a hearing Friday to take testimony from both sides, then decide. The judge has already rejected a request to try the two players separately. The football players are accused of attacking the girl twice after an alcohol-fueled party in mid-August in Steubenville in far eastern Ohio. Three other students who witnessed the attack but weren’t charged are expected to testify at next month’s trial. The girl attends a different high school across the river in West Virginia. The girl and her parents want the trial closed to keep evidence that a judge might rule inadmissible from becoming public, their attorney argued in a court filing Tuesday. That could include “harmful” and “legally non-relevant” evidence, said attorney Robert Fitzsimmons. Keeping the hearing closed will also protect the girl, who has maintained her anonymity through the proceedings, Fitzsimmons said. “Closure will help to preserve that anonymity,” Fitzsimmons wrote. The Associated Press generally doesn’t identity people who say they are the victims of sexual assault. Attorney General Mike DeWine, whose office is prosecuting the case, said Wednesday that he has met with the girl and she’s “doing OK.” “We’re dealing with a 16-year-old victim,” DeWine said. “It’s difficult enough for her to testify without testifying in front of the whole world.” DeWine also said the girl will testify even if the trial remains open. News organizations arguing to keep the hearing open say the case is already subject to speculation it won’t be fully investigated and prosecuted because it involves the city’s popular football team. Knights From Page 6 Point Pleasant was 9-of-21 from the free throw line for 42.9 percent. The Lady Knights committed 14 turnovers in the game. Hussell led the charge from beyond the arc with four three-pointers in the game, while Porter, Thomas and Nibert each had one. “We did a lot of things right,” Gallia Academy coach Renee Barnes said. “In the end it’s silly misteaks that can give you the win or the loss and tonight it gave us the loss.” The Blue Angels were led by the sophomore duo of Micah Curfman with 15 points and Chelsy Slone with 13. Abby Wiseman had nine points in the game, while Hannah Loveday marked four and Kendra Barnes had three. GAHS was 9-of-14 (64.3 percent) from the free throw line and 16-of-50 (32 percent) from the field, including 3-of-19 (15.8 percent) from beyond the arc. Curfman accounted for two of the Gallia Academy three’s while Kendra Barnes had the other. Gallia Academy had 30 rebounds in the game, led by Loveday with eight, followed by Curfman and Slone with six apiece. The Blue Angels assist- ed on 10 baskets, led by Kendra Barnes and Halley Barnes with three dimes each. Kendra Barnes also led the GAHS defense with three of the teams eight steals. This marks the lone meeting between PPHS and Gallia Academy this season. Marauders From Page 6 the largest lead of the entire contest. The victory allowed Meigs — which finished last year with a 2-18 overall mark — to secure just its fourth seven-win season since the 2005-06 campaign. It also showed that the Marauders are making major strides as a program under David Kight in his first season. “The hardest thing to do is learn how to win. We are accepting that we don’t want to lose games, but we are still learning how to win games,” Kight said. “Rarely do we come into a game, on paper, as a favorite — and that may have been a little hard for us to handle early on tonight. “We settled down late in the first half and started doing what we do, and we showed that we are learning how to put teams away. We won tonight without our A-game, and our kids learned to battle through the tough times while still producing. We showed that we know how to finish a ball game, and that’s what I’m most proud of tonight.” There were seven ties and 10 lead changes in the contest, all of which came in the opening 16 minutes of play. Jackson claimed the biggest first half advantage at 12-8 with 1:14 left in the opening period, but MHS owned seven of the 10 leads exchanged before halftime. The game was tied at 12 after one period of play, then both teams battled through three ties and five lead changes to find Jackson clinging to a 22-21 edge with 43 seconds left in the half. Dillon Boyer hit a field goal with 21 seconds remaining to give Meigs a permanent lead at 23-22, and that basket sparked a small 4-0 run that gave the hosts a 25-22 edge at the intermission. The Marauders committed five turnovers and hit 10-of-21 shot attempts in the opening half, while the guests had nine turnovers in the first two stanzas while sinking 10-of-25 field goal tries. Meigs twice led by three points in the second frame for its biggest cushion before the break. Boyer capped a 4-0 Meigs run to start the second half for a 29-22 lead with 6:23 left in the third, but Evan Crabtree ended a 4-0 spurt over the next two-plus minutes to again get JHS to within a possession at 29-26. The hosts responded with 6-1 run to take their biggest lead of the third period at 35-27 with 2:03 remaining, but the Ironmen ended the third on a 4-0 run to cut their deficit down to 35-31 headed into the finale. Meigs stretched its lead out to double digits (4535) with just under five minutes remaining, but Jackson countered with three straight baskets over the next 1:22 to again get within a possession at 4542. The guests, however, never came closer the rest of the evening. MHS made a 7-2 run for a 52-44 lead at the 2:02 mark, then an intentional foul was called on Jackson’s Jordan Helman at the 1:35 mark — allowing Cody Stewart to sink both freebies for another double-digit cushion. The Ironmen were never within single digits the rest of the night, as the Marauders closed regulation with a 6-2 spurt to wrap up the final outcome. Though still winless on the year, Bob Kight noted afterward that there were a lot of pluses to come away from this latest Jackson setback. “We were really proud of the kids because of the heart and the hustle that they showed in the first half,” the elder Kight said. “Regardless of our record, we have always hustled and we are still playing hard. More importantly, we’re playing smarter each time out too. “The big thing we learned tonight was that the more patient we are on offense, the more productive we are. We had some positive things come out of tonight’s game.” The Ironmen connected on 20-of-50 field goal attempts overall in the contest for 40 percent, including a 3-of-13 effort from three-point range for 23 percent. The guests committed 16 turnovers total in the game and went 10-of-25 from the floor in each half. Meigs, conversely, sank 23-of-44 shot attempts overall, including a 1-of-6 effort from behind the arc for 17 percent. MHS committed a dozen turnovers and also had team totals of 28 rebounds, 10 assists and four steals in the victory. Dillon Boyer led the hosts with a game-high 25 points, followed by Cody Stewart with nine points and Treay McKinney with seven markers and a team-best seven rebounds. Kaileb Sheets and Dustin Ulbrich were next with six points apiece Jordan Hutton chipped in five markers, while Ty Phelps had two points to round out the scoring for the Marauders — who were 13-of-17 at the free throw line for 76 percent. Meigs also made 9-of13 freebies in the pivotal fourth quarter. Casey Walker paced Jackson with 16 points, followed by Tyler Neal with 15 points and Evan Crabtree with six markers. JHS was 3-of-6 at the charity stripe for 50 percent. The elder Kight is just as fierce as his son when it comes to competition, but he also took a moment to be a proud papa following the game Tuesday night. “David’s coaching style and mine aren’t quite the same, but I am happy for both him and the Meigs program,” Bob Kight said. “He does it the right way, his kids play hard for him and they are having some success. They are fortunate to have him, and you can quote me on that.” In contrast, David Kight was glad to have an emotional evening finally come to an end. Then again, there is always next winter. “We’ve known this matchup was coming for some time, and we’ve shared conversations and joked about this game happening,” the younger Kight said. “We both knew it would be two hours of very stressful ball, because dad doesn’t want to lose and I don’t want to lose. “It was a neat experience and it was fun, and we are under contract to do it again next year. I’m already looking forward to another stressful two hours with dad.” When asked if this gave him bragging rights at the next family gathering, David Kight could only smile while trying to stay humble — proving his father didn’t raise a fool. “I may have the bragging rights at the moment, but he still has my inheritance,” Kight said. “I’m going to have to be nice and not celebrate too much the next time we get together.” �Thursday, January 24, 2013 The Daily Sentinel • Page 9 www.mydailysentinel.com Thursday, January 24, 2013 COMICS/ENTERTAINMENT BLONDIE Dean Young/Denis Lebrun BEETLE BAILEY FUNKY WINKERBEAN HAGAR THE HORRIBLE HI & LOIS Mort Walker Today’s Answers Tom Batiuk Chris Browne Brian and Greg Walker THE LOCKHORNS MUTTS William Hoest Patrick McDonnell Jacquelene Bigar’s HOROSCOPE ZITS THE FAMILY CIRCUS Bil Keane DENNIS THE MENACE Hank Ketchum Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman CONCEPTIS SUDOKU by Dave Green HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013: This year you’ll want to avoid power plays at all costs. You might generate a lot of plans only to find that many of them will fall apart. Ask yourself why this happens. It could be something that is totally unrelated to your decisions. If you are single, your nurturing style draws many people to you. Do you always want to be a nurturer? Think about that scenario before you decide to relate to a needy individual. If you are attached, dive into a new hobby with your sweetie. You will discover that it brings the two of you closer together. Make more time for each other. CANCER is very moody. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You could have your fair share of hurdles to jump over at the present time, especially when someone suddenly becomes extremely controlling. Don’t play into this person’s games. You might get frustrated when dealing with someone else’s finances. Tonight: Mosey on home. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Go with someone else’s suggestion. You might feel as if you cannot break through an associate’s resistance. Why even try? Detach, and suddenly this person could want to pull you back in. You can’t avoid this situation. Tonight: Discussions over dinner at a favorite spot. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You seem to be acting as if another holiday is around the corner. Be smart. Rein in your impulsiveness and your desire to indulge. Express your feelings instead of spending money to appease them; you’ll be happier in the long run. Tonight: Treat yourself to a favorite dessert. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Your impulsiveness might carry you through a problem, but there is a strong likelihood that you could collide with someone. This person might be a partner who often gets into control games. Take a stand if you need to, but know that it could prolong the issue. Tonight: Charm works. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Take your time right now. You might be on overload and thinking through a lot of issues that all might be connected. Don’t worry, because as you process your feelings, you will become more logical. Avoid a difficult person. Screen your calls. Tonight: Do something just for you. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Meetings with groups of people and one-on-one interactions will allow greater success and more support. Brainstorming with others encourages greater involvement from all parties. A partner acts in a most unexpected manner. Tonight: Only what makes you happy. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Deal with an authority figure who often causes you a problem. This person can be very controlling, yet you must be responsive. You might decide to tighten your budget in order to create more flexibility when you need it. Check in with an older relative. Tonight: A must appearance. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Know when enough is enough. Be willing to understand what is happening with a child or a loved one at a distance. Sometimes your attitude pushes people away. Open up to some new ideas that could invigorate your daily life. Tonight: Let your imagination make the call. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Your emotional nature takes over. Avoid getting pulled into a difficult situation. You will work through your feelings quickly if you can stay calm. A loved one is unpredictable. Nothing you can do will make this person honor the status quo. Tonight: How about a cozy dinner? CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH You could be surprised at what falls into your lap. The energy from an unexpected source will carry you through the day. Maintain your sense of humor, and worry less. The immediate situation or crisis does not reveal the whole story. Tonight: Go with the flow. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Pace yourself. Know that some situations cannot be resolved; worrying about them is a waste of your time. Unexpected news points to a new direction or idea. This might be hard to realize at first, but eventually you will know what to do. Tonight: Get some exercise. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Your attention turns to a child or loved one who makes it clear that he or she wants your attention. You might be surprised at the cost of a token of appreciation. A friend you previously counted on might not be reliable or supportive right now. Tonight: Go with your feelings. Jacqueline Bigar is on the Internet at www.jacquelinebigar.com. �Thursday, January 24, 2013 The Daily Sentinel • Page 10 www.mydailysentinel.com Wahama to retire jerseys of five 1,000-point scorers Friday Gary Clark ments as former members of Wahama High School basketball. Yonker, a 1963 graduate from Wahama, will have his No. 22 jersey retired during the evening ceremony. Yonker, a celebrated three-sport star athlete for the White Falcons ranked as the third highest high school basketball scorer in the state of West Virginia for two consecutive seasons. Following his high school graduation, Yonker went on to become a star at Marshall University where he was named to the Mid-American Conference second-team as a catcher for the Thundering Herd baseball team. Last fall Yonker was honored by being inducted into the 2012 Class of the Wahama High School Athletic Hall of Fame. Clark will have his No. 44 jersey retired after graduating from Wahama in 1970. He was Special to OVP MASON, W.Va. — Long after their memorable high school cage careers came to a conclusion, five former Wahama White Falcon basketball stars will experience yet another honor this Friday Night at the Bend Area School when their basketball numbers will be retired prior to the Falcons’ Tri-Valley Conference Hocking Division contest with visiting Federal Hocking. Charles Yonker, Gary Clark, Roger Dingey, John Barnitz and Isaac Lee are believed to be the lone White Falcon basketball stars to have achieved the 1,000-point plateau during their respective high school careers on the Bend Area hardwood. The five cage stars will be recognized by the WHS administration during a brief ceremony to celebrate their noteworthy accomplish- the leading scorer as a member of the only basketball team from Wahama High School to advance to the West Virginia State Basketball Tournament. Clark holds the distinction of scoring 80 points on successive nights with a 38-point effort at Southern on Friday before scoring 42 points at home against Kyger Creek the following evening. Clark was selected to the Class AA All-Tournament team following the White Falcons state tourney contest. In 2010, he was chosen as an inaugural member into the WHS Athletic Hall of Fame. Roger Dingey will have his No. 43 jersey retired after being regarded by many as the greatest basketball player in WHS history. Dingey graduated from Wahama in 1975. At 6-foot-6, Dingey was considered the complete basketball player with the size to excel while playing under the basket in addition to being able to master the difficult skills of a point guard. Dingey was deemed as a pure shooter and rebounder and is among only a handful of scorers at Wahama to score more than 40 points in a game. He is the career scoring leader at Wahama and following his high school career went on become a member of the starting five at Glenville State College as a true freshman. John Barnitz graduated from Wahama in 1991 following a remarkable basketball career at the Bend Area School. Barnitz will have his No. 32 retired during Friday Night’s ceremony after being among the top singleseason scorers in WHS history and the Falcons second leading career scorer. He was the Bend Area team’s leading scorer his sophomore, junior and senior seasons while connecting on 102 three-point goals and shooting an amazing 78 percent from the free throw line for his career at Wahama. Isaac Lee was the most recent Wahama cage star to achieve the 1,000-point scoring plateau with the three-sport star athlete achieving that goal just last year. A 2012 graduate, Lee will have his No. 5 retired during the Friday evening festivities. Isaac ranks among the top single-season scoring leaders at WHS. Lee was an extremely versatile athlete for the White Falcons, with the exceptional ability to excel at any position on the hardwood. In addition to his scoring capabilities, Isaac was a tremendous rebounder and defensive specialist — which rank him among the best all-around basketball players in WHS history. Reds start countdown to 2015 All-Star game CINCINNATI (AP) — The Reds started a countdown to a 2015 AllStar game on Wednesday by breaking out the bunting and bursting into a standing ovation. A few of them also started to dream about playing in it. Commissioner Bud Selig awarded the midsummer game to Cincinnati on Wednesday, rewarding years of persistence by Reds owner Bob Castellini. The city hasn’t hosted an AllStar game since 1988, when the Reds played at Riverfront Stadium. “I can’t imagine what’s going to happen, but I think it’s going to be beautiful,” said second baseman Brandon Phillips, a two-time All-Star under contract through 2017. The Reds lobbied hard for years to get the game. It’ll be the fifth time that the game is played in Cincinnati, which was the stage for one of the most memorable All-Star moments. Pete Rose bowled over Indians catcher Ray Fosse to win the 1970 game at Riverfront Stadium. The 1988 game was something of a disappointment. Rain wiped out the home run derby events, and the American League won the game 2-1 a day later with the winning run scoring on a sacrifice fly. The Reds moved into Great American Ball Park in 2003. Castellini became controlling partner in the ownership group after the 2005 season and was determined to bring the game back to his home city. It’ll be played in New York this year, followed by Minneapolis in 2014. “I’ll say one thing for Bob: Man, he is persistent,” Selig said. “I could use a couple other terms to describe him. One starts, ‘A pain in …’ But tenacity is a great virtue.” Baseball’s oldest professional franchise has enjoyed a renaissance in the last few years. Under Castellini’s leadership, the Reds reached the playoffs twice in the last three seasons, ending a 15-year postseason drought. The franchise hosted the Civil Rights Game in 2009 and 2010, impressing Major League Baseball with its handling of one of its premier events. Former Reds shortstop Barry Larkin was inducted into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., last summer, putting the spotlight back on the franchise. Now, the All-Star game. “If we’d been able to bring the Reds along to where they’re a perennial contender — which we feel we’re on the verge of doing — that has to be the biggest challenge we’ve had in this ownership,” Castellini said. “Then to have a jewel of having the All-Star game — we can only surpass that by having the World Series.” Selig informed Castellini a few months ago that it appeared Cincinnati would get the 2015 game. The Reds brought business and community leaders, along with fans and members of the front office, to the announcement at the ballpark on Wednesday. They gave a 30-second standing ovation when Selig announced the All-Star choice. The videoboards on the field lit up with the news. Phillips, outfielder Jay Bruce and manager Dusty Baker were among those seated at the front of the room. “It’s only fitting that we get it here very quickly,” Hall of Fame second baseman Joe Morgan said. “One of the things I missed in my career — I didn’t miss much — I never got a chance to play an All-Star game in the city I was playing in. Brandon and Jay, you guys will get that opportunity. And Dusty, you’ll get a chance to manage.” Baker returns this season on a twoyear deal. He would manage the NL All-Star team if the Reds won the league title in 2014. Bruce and Phillips have each played in two All-Star games. They heard Morgan talk about what he missed as a player and started thinking about what it would be like to be introduced as an All-Star in their ballpark. “It would be nice,” Phillips said. “If I’m not starting, then I have a problem. That’s just how I look at it. To bring the game here, it’s nice for the city more than the players. To hear Joe say he never played (an All-Star game) in Cincinnati — maybe I can say I did.” Mayor Mark Mallory, who holds a special place in baseball blooper lore, noted that he started pushing to get an All-Star game in 2003. He said that Selig awarded it despite his opening day gaffe in 2007, when the major’s ceremonial pitch stuck in his hand and bounded up the first base line. BUNDLE & SAVE! ON DIGITAL SERVICES FOR YOUR HOME DIGITAL TV HIGH-SPEED INTERNET DIGITAL PHONE Offers may be available now in your area from Acceller, Inc. for these top service providers: * BUNDLES STARTING AS LOW AS $89/mo. For first 12 months FIND OUT MORE BY CALLING TOLL-FREE 1-866-636-5984 By Acceller, Inc., an authorized retailer. *Geographic and service restrictions apply to all services. Call to see if you qualify. Phil Masturzo | Akron Beacon Journal | MCT photo Cleveland Browns quarterback Brandon Weeden slaps hands with fans in the stands following a 34-24 win over the Cincinnati Bengals at Cleveland Browns Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012. Browns say ‘premature’ to name Weeden starting QB BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Norv Turner will call plays for the Browns’ next season. It’s not yet certain who will run them. First-year Browns coach Rob Chudzinski said Wednesday that “it’s premature” to name Brandon Weeden as Cleveland’s starting quarterback in 2013. At a press conference to introduce Turner, San Diego’s former coach as his offensive coordinator, Chudzinski would not commit to Weeden, who had an uneven rookie season after he was drafted in the first round last year. Chudzinski is keeping his options open, which doesn’t mean he’s opposed to Weeden keeping his job. But Chudzinski wasn’t involved in the process to select Weeden and it only makes sense that he will do his own evaluation before making decisions on any players. Cleveland could opt to sign a quarterback in free agency, draft another one — they pick sixth overall — stick with Weeden or promote backup Colt McCoy. There’s time and Chudzinski intends to use it. He’s been too busy hiring his assistants to judge what he’s inheriting, which is why he won’t pencil Weeden in as the starter. It’s too early to be sure of anything. “That’s premature to say any of that,” he said. “Until we all get together, we get the staff set, we get a chance to sit down and talk through personnel and everybody’s on the same page with those things. You don’t know watching tape necessarily how guys are. Sometimes guys will get out there and they get into the system and maybe it’s a better fit. Maybe you see some things that you didn’t see from tape, whether its game tape or practice tape so you just never know.” Weeden won’t be handed anything by Cleveland’s new regime and Chudzinski, who was hired as Cleveland’s sixth coach since 1999 on Jan. 11, isn’t rushing into such an important decision. The Browns have opened the season with a new starting quarterback in each of the past five years. Weeden, who was part of a talented rookie class that included Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III, Russell Wilson and Super Bowl starter Colin Kaepernick, was equally promising and perplexing in 2012. The 29-year-old passed for 3,385 yards but completed only 57 percent of his throws in Cleveland’s West Coast system. He had 14 touchdowns, 17 interceptions and his 72.6 rating was 29th among the league’s 32 starters. Turner will also coach Cleveland’s quarterbacks and is looking forward to working with Weeden, who made 15 starts before missing Cleveland’s finale at Pittsburgh with a sprained shoulder. Like Chudzinski, Turner would not offer a strong opinion — positive or negative — on Weeden, but said he’s got some intangibles to build upon. “I look at things where I know he has to improve and needs to get better to do the things we want him to do, but I think he has a lot of the skill set that we’re looking for,” Turner said. “Again, this is early in terms of an evaluation, but he does have a big arm and he can throw the ball up the field.” Turner wasn’t modest in predicting he can get the most out of Weeden’s potential. “There’s a lot of guys that I’ve been with that I think have had their best seasons while I was coaching them,” he said. As far as play-calling duties, Chudzinski was happy to hand them over to Turner, who he said has been “one of the best play callers in the league for a long time.” They worked together in San Diego — Chudzinski coached the Chargers tight ends under Turner — and already have a trusting relationship. Chudzinski said having someone with Turner’s vast NFL experience is a huge plus, particularly for a rookie head coach. “One of the things you want to do as a head coach is recognize the people that are around you and the talents that they have,” Chudzinski said. “With Norv here, there’s no doubt in my mind he’ll do a great job as the play caller. I’ll still be involved. The way that we’ve done this is from a game-planning standpoint and on game day when I was with Norv when we we’re in San Diego together is that everybody’s really involved through the whole process.” After he was fired by the Chargers, Turner went on vacation in Hawaii with his wife, Nancy. It was a chance to unwind and plan the next phase of a coaching career spanning nearly four decades. Turner said Chudzinski made a convincing sales pitch to join the Browns, who had one of the league’s youngest rosters last season. “He really got to me,” Turner said. “The youth of the team was extremely exciting to me and it looked like a great opportunity. We share a philosophy in terms of offensive football and the way you play football. You want to be a team that the fans love to watch. You have to be able to score points, you have to be able to make explosive plays, big plays, you have to be a team that plays fast, plays hard, plays physical.” Turner became familiar with many of Cleveland’s players when the Chargers were beaten by the Browns 7-6 in October. It’s when he got his first look at running back Trent Richardson, who scored the game’s only TD on a 26-yard, tacklebreaking run. “An impressive, young player,” Turner said. “I’ve been fortunate through most of my stops to be with outstanding running backs, great running backs. Guys who have characteristics like a Trent. I’ve been fortunate to be able to coach five backs that have led the NFL in rushing. That experience will help me in terms of understanding what we need to do.” � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 01. January Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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