http://66.213.69.5/files/original/4420b150824fd84ed2ca6a3c491b8d06.pdf c9c0f9ee75e2cb91b94c905fdb6d5656 PDF Text Text Meigs Homecoming court, A6 MLEF awards scholarship, A6 Middleport • Pomeroy, Ohio 50 CENTS • Vol. 60, No. 1 OBITUARIES Page A5 • James Albert Rife Bikers group sets Toy Run POMEROY — The Meigs County Bikers Association will host its annual Toy Run to raise money to purchase Christmas toys for needy, local families. Bikes leave the Pomeroy parking lot at noon, Saturday, Oct. 9 and the run ends at Fort Meigs. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2010 Groundbreaking set for new health care clinic BY BRIAN J. REED BREED@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM POMEROY — Family Health Care, Inc. will break ground Oct. 26 for its new $3 million clinic on Oct. 26. The new health facility, to be located at the junction of Ohio 833 and U.S. 33 near Rocksprings, will be 10,000 square feet, and will allow the non-profit Family Health Care to accommodate a growing patient base and a larger staff. The new office will be more than twice larger than the current office in downtown Middleport. Family Health Care closed on its purchase of three acres from the Meigs County Community Improvement Corporation in April, and will use funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, in part, to build the new facility, along with loan funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture/Rural Development. The outpatient clinic will be more than twice the size of the current Middleport office, and is designed to serve a growing practice that has outgrown two offices since first locating in Meigs County over three years ago. The Middleport office saw around 3,000 patients last year. Privately-insured patients make up around 30 percent of the Meigs County practice. 40 percent of the patients are uninsured, and receive care on a sliding fee scale. SYRACUSE — A coed softball tournament to benefit those affected by last month’s tornado will take place Oct. 16-17 at Syracuse Park. Five guys and five girls will be needed for each team. For more information call Lee Gillilian at 7072270. A donation station will also be set up at the park. Ohio First Lady to attend opening on Wednesday BY BRIAN J. REED BREED@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM MIDDLEPORT — First Lady Frances Strickland will help Meigs County Democrats open their fall headquarters in downtown Middleport Wednesday evening. The Democrats will make their home in the former barber shop adjacent to Locker 219, on North Second Avenue. The head- Strickland quarters opening is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Party Chairman Henry Hunter announced the party is organizing a fundraising program to benefit families affected by the September tornadoes instead of a traditional political rally later this month. “Of course all our functions are open to anyone but this event, in particular, is for everyone in this community,” Hunter said. “It is planned as a means of allowing the party to do its share in helping our neighbors.” “Like so many other organizations in the county that have made a contribution, we want to do our part, and we hope everyone will feel welcome to participate. That includes Democrats, our Offices closed for holiday HC, HMC Retirees lunch GALLIPOLIS — The Holzer Clinic and Holzer Medical Center Retirees luncheon is scheduled at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 5 at the Courtside Bar and Grill. Womenʼs workshop set PIKETON — The OSU South Centers in Piketon will host the workshop Women in Appalachia from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 14. Visit www.2010 women.eventbrite.com to register. The building’s design is based on that of the McArthur office, with 11 exam rooms, two procedure rooms and a dental department with five patient rooms, although two of those rooms are not expected to be operational at the time of the new clinic’s opening, Bridenbaugh said. The new Pomeroy facility will be Family Health Care’s second largest. Once fully operational, Bridenbaugh said, the Pomeroy office will employ around 25 staff. Democrats open HQ, plan tornado benefit Tournament for storm relief POMEROY — Tuberculosis clinic and Meigs County Health Department will be closed Monday for Columbus Day. www.mydailysentinel.com Beth Sergent/photos Marauder madness This weekend, Meigs High School alumni from near and far gathered for the Fifth Annual Reunion on the River which included this parade through downtown Pomeroy. Pictured are members from the massive Meigs Alumni Marching Band and future alumni from Meigs Primary School. Please see Strickland, A5 Flu shot clinic set Free to Meigs Co. residents WEATHER BY BETH SERGENT BSERGENT@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM High: 58 Low: 42 INDEX 2 SECTIONS — 12 PAGES Calendars A3 Classifieds B3-4 Comics B5 Editorials A4 Sports B Section © 2010 Ohio Valley Publishing Co. POMEROY — Though patience is a virtue it’s not always smart to patiently wait, particularly for influenza vaccines. Last week the Meigs County Health Department canceled their order of influenza vaccines with one provider and went with another which promised the doses would arrive for a seasonal flu shot clinic scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 16. The health department’s annual clinic will be held from 9-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. that day at the Meigs County Health Department. The vaccines are free and for Meigs County residents only. Residents with Medicare B, Railroad Medicare and Medicaid cards are asked to present them at the clinic. Sherry Wilcox, director of nursing for the MCHD, said the previous, private provider of the vaccines said the order of 1,500 doses probably wouldn’t arrive until midNovember. This prompted Wilcox to look elsewhere and though the vaccines from the new provider will cost the health department a “little more” money, they will also arrive earlier and still be free to local residents. The health department has also ordered some influenza doses from the Ohio Department of Health for high risk cases, including: 100 doses for infants, 100 does for those ages three-18 years and 40 adult doses for those with high risk conditions who have no way to pay for the vaccine from another provider. People at risk for contracting a serious case of influenza or related complications and people who are in close contact with someone with a chronic medical condition should receive the vaccine. The following are more susceptible to flu complicaPlease see Clinic, A5 Charlene Hoeflich/photo The Meigs Local Enrichment Foundation presented distinguished alumni and service awards at the Meigs homecoming game to, from the left, Rita Slavin, Evan Shaw, Dave Hoffman, Morgan Mathews, and Jan Long. MLEF presents awards at MHS homecoming game BY CHARLENE HOEFLICH HOEFLICH@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM POMEROY — Five distinguished alumni and service awards were presented by the Meigs Local Enrichment Foundation at Friday night’s football game on Bob Roberts Field in Pomeroy. Receiving distinguished alumni awards were: Dave Hoffman, who is manager of the Gavin Plant, second largest in the AEP system. He graduated from Meigs High School in 1982 and Ohio University in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering. In 2006 Please see MLEF, A5 �Tuesday, October 5, 2010 The Daily Sentinel • Page A2 www.mydailysentinel.com Japan warns about terror in Europe; tourists chill PARIS (AP) — Japan issued a travel alert for Europe on Monday, joining the United States and Britain in warning of a possible terrorist attack by al-Qaida or other groups, but tourists appeared to be taking the mounting warnings in stride. The Foreign Ministry in Tokyo urged Japanese citizens to be cautious when using public transport or visiting popular tourist sites — issuing another blow to Europe’s tourism industry, which is just starting to recover from the global financial crisis. European authorities — especially in Britain, France and Germany — tightened efforts to keep the public safe in the wake of warnings by officials that the terrorism threat is high and extra vigilance is warranted. Last week, a Pakistani intelligence official said eight Germans and two British brothers were at the heart of an al-Qaidalinked terror plot against European cities, but the plan was still in its early stages, with the suspects calling acquaintances in Europe to plan logistics. The official said the suspects were hiding in North Waziristan, a Pakistani tribal region where militancy is rife and where the U.S. has increased its drone-fired missile strikes in recent weeks. Security officials say terrorists may be plotting attacks in Europe with assault weapons on public places, similar to the deadly 2008 shooting spree in Mumbai, India. European officials have provided no details about specific targets. Former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff urged Americans in Europe to take commonsense precautions, such as knowing where they are in a city and identifying an exit at major tourist sites. “Don’t walk around with the American flag on your back,” Chertoff, who headed the agency during the Bush administration, told ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “(Consider) where would you take shelter if some- thing happened.” On Monday, French police arrested a 53-yearold man suspected of links to a bomb threats including one Friday at a Paris railway hub, an official with knowledge of the investigation said on condition of anonymity. The suspect, who was not identified, was detained southwest of the capital for possible links to a phone-in threat at the Saint-Lazare train station. French authorities recorded nine bomb alerts in the capital in September, including two at the Eiffel Tower — a threefold increase from a year earlier. No explosives were found. The U.S. State Department alert Sunday advised the hundreds of thousands of American citizens living or traveling in Europe to take more precaution about their personal security. The British Foreign Office warned travelers to France and Germany that the terror threat in the countries was high. Western nations are aligned in their estimation of the threat, a French official said. “These American recommendations are line with the recommendations that we have made on our own territory,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero, pointing to France’s “red” terror alert status — the second-highest in the French warning system. “All countries concerned have a convergent analysis of the high level of threat in Europe,” Valero said. In Berlin, Interior Ministry spokesman Michael Paris said German authorities were taking the latest travel warnings “very seriously,” but that there were no indications of an imminent terror threat. Neither France or Germany has raised its terror alert level recently. Business travelers and tourists arriving Monday at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport from the United States said they were aware of the new warnings but weren’t changing their plans. “I’m very happy to be here in France. I think we’re very safe, and I trust the French government to keep us safe,” said James O’Connell, a 59-year-old from Pittsburgh, arriving in Paris for a 7-day vacation. Karen Bilh, a 39-yearold traveler, arrived in Paris from Cincinnati. “We’ll pay extra caution and if there’s terror threats, we’ll listen to police in the area. We’re excited about the trip,” she said. Travelers taking the Eurostar trains between London and Paris were similarly determined not to let the warnings disrupt their plans. Jennifer D’Antoni, who owns a retail clothing store in Britain, was in Paris to celebrate her birthday. “I had a wonderful time and I’ll come back again. In fact, I wish I was here for another day because I didn’t get to see everything. We are just going to be a bit more cautious getting on the train,” she said. Yet Germans — author- ities and citizens alike — were not convinced of the need for concern. “I think it is quite exaggerated,” said Marian Sutholt, 25, of Berlin. “If you worry all the time, you actually live up exactly to what the terrorists want. So you should take things as they come and not worry too much. Hopefully nothing will happen.” But John Gooley, a tourist from Portland, Oregon, was more cautious. “Berlin is an amazing city, its a beautiful city, but I’d probably recommend staying in smaller cities,” he said Monday. “I am still happy to travel all throughout Europe, but for right now I might avoid Paris, Berlin, London.” At Washington’s Dulles airport, Jennifer Mackey, an American traveling to Germany, said: “I don’t think we should be in a fear-based society.” “I think if we stop traveling, the so-called quote, unquote ‘enemy’ has won,” she said. “I think life has to carry on.” Arsonists torch Bank of America delays mosque in West foreclosures in 23 states Bank village RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Arsonists torched a mosque in a West Bank village Monday, scrawling “revenge” on a wall in Hebrew and charring copies of the Muslim holy book in an attack that threatened to stoke tensions over deadlocked Mideast peacemaking. Palestinians say they suspect hard-line Jewish settlers of setting the fire in the village of Beit Fajjar, near the city of Hebron. The attack is likely to hamper U.S. efforts to sustain month-old between Israelis and Palestinians, now deadlocked over settlement construction. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials condemned the arson attack in an apparent attempt to limit the political fallout. Dozens of grim-faced residents milled around as blueclad Israeli police and khakiuniformed soldiers tried to maintain order. “Only somebody who doesn’t fear God would do this,” said resident Ayman Taqatqa. “We won’t allow people to offend our religion. We’ll defend it with our lives.” There was no claim of responsibility for the blaze, but suspicions fell on extremist Jewish settlers. A tiny minority of hard-liners often damage Palestinian property in what they call the “price tag” policy — meant to frighten Palestinians or to express outrage over their government’s slowdown in settlement construction. “Revenge” was scribbled on an inside wall of the sooty mosque. A neat row of Muslim holy books, the Quran, were partially charred, and patches of the carpet were blackened. The blaze otherwise appeared to be contained and caused limited damage. Taqatqa said he saw a car pull up to the mosque before dawn. Two men then rushed inside, while another two stood guard outside and two men stayed in the car, he said. He then said he saw a small blaze and began yelling for his neighbors to come. He said they waited for the men to leave before putting out the blaze, fearing they were armed Jewish settlers. Residents later prayed in the sooty mosque and an elderly man chanted verses from one of the charred Quran books. The village is ringed by Jewish settlements, and both Palestinian residents and a settler leader acknowledged that relations are tense. But village councilman Kamel Hamish said there had not been any physical altercations between Jews and Palestinians in the past. In a statement released by his office, Netanyahu condemned the attack on the mosque and ordered his security forces “to act with determination” to bring the arsonists to justice. Defense Minister Ehud Barak described it as a “shameful act.” “Whoever did this is a terrorist in every sense of the word, and intended to hurt the chances for peace and dialogue with the Palestinians,” he said in a statement. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said they were looking into the incident. It was the third West Bank mosque burning in the past year, following incidents last December and March. Nobody has been charged with any of the arson attacks, said Dana Zimmerman of Yesh Din, an Israeli rights group which monitors attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank. The group noted that only 10 percent of attacks on Palestinians result in prosecutions. U.N. spokesman Richard Miron said Israel must take action. “It’s a clear act of desecration and comes in the wake of other attacks upon mosques,” Miron said. “We are reminding the Israeli government that the extremists responsible for these attacks must be bought to justice.” The settlements, where 300,000 Jews live among 2.5 million Palestinians, are one of the thorniest issues in Israeli-Palestinian relations and the main obstacle at the moment to continuing a round of talks restarted a month ago in Washington. Palestinian negotiators say they cannot build a state that includes the West Bank while Israel continues to expand Jewish settlements on the land they claim. Israel last week refused to extend a moratorium on new construction in West Bank settlements, putting peace talks into doubt because Palestinians have threatened to quit if building resumes. Netanyahu is under heavy international pressure to put restrictions back into place. White House envoy George Mitchell has been shuttling across the region over the past week in hopes of brokering a compromise, but so far has not been able to find a solution. At the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting Monday, Netanyahu said Israel was “in intense diplomatic negotiations with the American administration to find a solution to allow the talks to continue.” WASHINGTON (AP) — Bank of America is delaying foreclosures in 23 states as it examines whether it rushed the foreclosure process for thousands of homeowners without reading the documents. The move adds the nation’s largest bank to a growing list of mortgage companies whose employees signed documents in foreclosure cases without verifying the information in them. Bank of America isn’t able to estimate how many homeowners’ cases will be affected, Dan Frahm, a spokesman for the Charlotte, N.C.-based bank, said. He said the bank plans to resubmit corrected documents within several weeks. Two other companies, Ally Financial Inc.’s GMAC Mortgage unit and JPMorgan Chase, have halted tens of thousands of foreclosure cases after similar problems became public. The document problems could cause thousands of homeowners to contest foreclosures that are in the works or have been completed. If the problems turn up at other lenders, a foreclosure crisis that’s already likely to drag on for several more years could persist even longer. Analysts caution that most homeowners facing foreclosure are still likely to lose their homes. State attorneys general, who enforce foreclosure laws, are stepping up pressure on the industry. On Friday, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal asked a state court to freeze all home foreclosures for 60 days. Doing so “should stop a foreclosure steamroller based on defective documents,” he said. And California Attorney General Jerry Brown called on JPMorgan to suspend foreclosures unless it could show it complied with a state consumer protection law. The law requires lenders to contact borrowers at risk of foreclosure to determine whether they qualify for mortgage assistance. In Florida, the state attorney general is investigating four law firms, two with ties to GMAC, for allegedly providing fraudulent documents in foreclosure cases. The Ohio attorney general asked judges this week to review GMAC foreclosure cases. In New York, State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is reviewing the matter “to prevent homeowners from being improperly removed from their homes,” according to a spokesman, Richard Bamberger, who said Friday that Cuomo’s office has been in contact with several of the financial institutions. Mark Paustenbach, a Treasury Department spokesman, said the Treasury has asked federal regulators “to look into these troubling developments.” And the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which regulates national banks, has asked seven big banks to examine their foreclosure processes. “We both want to see that they fix the processing problems, but also to look to see whether there is specific harm” to homeowners, John Walsh, the agency’s acting director told lawmakers Thursday. A document obtained Friday by the Associated Press showed a Bank of America official acknowledging in a legal proceeding that she signed up to 8,000 foreclosure documents a month and typically didn’t read them. The official, Renee Hertzler, said in a February deposition that she signed 7,000 to 8,000 foreclosure documents a month. “I typically don’t read them because of the volume that we sign,” Hertzler said. She also acknowledged identifying herself as a representative of a different bank, Bank of New York Mellon, that she didn’t work for. Bank of New York Mellon served as a trustee for the investors holding the homeowner’s loan. A lawyer for the homeowner in the case, James O’Connor of Fitchburg, Mass., said such problems are rampant throughout the industry. “We have had thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of foreclosures around the country by entities that did not have the right to foreclose,” O’Connor said. The disclosure comes two days after JPMorgan said it would temporarily stop foreclosing on more than 50,000 homes so it could review documents that might contain errors. Last week, GMAC halted certain evictions and sales of foreclosed homes in 23 states to review those cases after finding procedural errors in some foreclosure affidavits. Consumer advocates say the problems are widespread across the lending industry. “The general level of sloppiness is pervasive around the industry,” said Diane Thompson, counsel at the National Consumer Law Center. Vickee Adams, a spokeswoman for Wells Fargo & Co., said Wells’ “policies, procedures and practices satisfy us that the affidavits we sign are accurate.” Mark Rodgers, a spokesman for Citigroup Inc., said the bank “reviews document handling processes in our foreclosure group on an ongoing basis, and we have strong training to ensure that appropriate employees are fully aware of the proper procedures.” Mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac said Friday they’re directing companies they work with that collect loan payments to follow proper procedures. In some states, lenders can foreclose quickly on delinquent mortgage borrowers. By contrast, the 23 states in which Bank of America is delaying foreclosures use a lengthy court process. They require documents to verify information on the mortgage, including who owns it. Those states are: Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont and Wisconsin. Test-tube baby pioneer wins Nobel Prize NEW YORK (AP) — The Nobel Prize in medicine went to a man whose work led to the first test tube baby, an achievement that helped bring 4 million infants into the world and raised challenging new questions about human reproduction. Robert Edwards of Britain, now an 85-yearold professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge, lived to see the far-reaching ramifications of his hugely controversial early research. "Today, Robert Edwards' vision is a reality and brings joy to infertile people all over the world," the Nobel Committee said in Stockholm. It began with the birth on July 25, 1978, of the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, to a couple who had been trying to conceive for nine years. With in vitro fertilization, or IVF, an egg is removed from a woman, mixed with sperm in a laboratory, allowed to divide for four or five days, then implanted in the womb to grow into a baby. Today the odds of a couple having a baby after a single cycle of IVF treatment are about 1 in 5, roughly the same odds as a fertile couple trying to have children naturally. Edwards and research partner Patrick Steptoe, who died in 1988, faced opposition to their IVF experiments. Some religious leaders called it morally wrong. Some government officials thought it more important to limit fertility than treat infertility, and some scientists were worried about the safety of embryos. �BY THE BEND The Daily Sentinel Community Calendar Public meetings Wednesday, Oct. 6 POMEROY — Meigs County Board of Health, regular meeting, 5 p.m., Meigs County Health Department. PAGEVILLE — Scipio Township Trustees, regular meeting, 6:30 p.m., Pageville Town Hall. Monday, Oct. 11 POMEROY — Bedford Township Trustees regular meeting 7 p.m. at the town hall. Tuesday, Oct. 12 TUPPERS PLAINS — Tuppers Plains Regional Sewer District, 7 p.m., WELLSTON — The GJMV Solid Waste Management District Board of Directors, 2:00 p.m. at the district office, 1056 S. New Hampshire Avenue, Wellston. Clubs and organizations Monday, Oct. 4 POMEROY — Meigs County Cancer Initiative, regular meeting, noon, conference room, Meigs County Health Department. Tuesday, Oct. 5 MIDDLEPORT — Regular stated meeting of Middleport Masonic Lodge 363, 7:30 p.m. Refreshments at 6:30. Bring item for food pantry. Wednesday, Oct. 6 MIDDLEPORT — The Middleport Literary Club Isaac Mills — If you have children, are they out of college? Whether they are or not, are you still helping support them? How about elderly parents? Do you need to provide them with financial support? You’ll need to know the answers to these questions to help evaluate your need to continue working. • Your eligibility for Social Security — You can start collecting Social Security as early as 62, but if you wait until your “full” retirement age, which will probably be around 66, your monthly payments will be larger. And if you delay taking payments until you’re 70, you can collect the maxi- will meet in the Pomeroy branch of the Meigs County Library at 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7 TUPPERS PLAINS — VFW Ladies Auxiliary 9053, 6 p.m. potluck, 7 p.m. meeting. CHESTER — Chester-Shade Historical Association, 7 p.m., Chester Courthouse. Church events Tuesday, Oct. 5 WILKESVILLE — Revival, 7 p.m. through Sunday, Point Rock Church of the Nazarene. Bud Allman speaker. Brian & Family Connections to sing. Loyde Grim is pastor. Friday, Oct. 8 LONG BOTTOM — Hymn sing with “Portal,” 7 p.m., Faith Full Gospel Church. Saturday, Oct. 9 TUPPERS PLAINS — Revival at St. Paul United Methodist Church, 7 p.m. through Monday. Rev. Brent Watson to speak. Special music. Homecoming Sunday, with morning service at 10:15 a.m., and carry-in dinner, 12:30 p.m. Music by “Heavenʼs Rush.” Sunday, Oct. 10 MIDDLEPORT — Homecoming at Ash Street Church, 9:30 a.m. Sunday School, 10:30 a.m., morning worship. Potluck follows. The Weekleys to sing after lunch. mum payments. If you continue working, but also start taking Social Security, your benefits will be reduced, up until you reach full retirement age. After that point, you can earn as much as you want without losing any benefits. • Your potential income stream from retirement accounts — You don’t have to start taking withdrawals (“distributions”) from your traditional IRA and your 401(k) or similar employer-sponsored retirement plan until you’re 70-1/2. But if you want to take early retirement, you’ll likely have to tap into these resources much sooner, so you’ll need to calculate some hypothetical withdrawal rates to make sure your money will last. • Your investment mix — Outside your IRA and 401(k), you may well have built an investment portfolio over the years. As you contemplate early retirement, you’ll need to look at this portfolio to see if it’s structured, or could be structured, to provide you with both the income stream you’ll need as a retiree and the growth potential to keep your investment returns ahead of inflation, so that you don’t lose purchasing power over time. As you consider drawing on your retirement accounts and your investments to help fund an early retirement, you may want to consult with a professional financial advisor — someone with the expertise and experience to help make sure you’ve got an income stream that’s big enough to support your lifestyle, but not so big that you’d eventually outlive your money. Once you’ve considered all these factors, and gotten the help you need, you’ll be able to make an informed choice as to whether you should accept that early buyout offer — and then your future awaits you. (Isaac Mills is a financial advisor with Edward Jones Investments, 990A Second Ave., Gallipolis, phone 441-9441. Edward Jones has been serving the needs of individual investors since 1871, member SIPC.) ODOT targets federal funds to training for women, minorities COLUMBUS — To encourage more women and minorities in Ohio to enter the highway construction industry, the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is targeting new funding, including federal stimulus funds, into new on-the-job training efforts across the state. “Ohio is a state full of great talent and great diversity, and Ohio’s highway construction industry should reflect that great diversity,” said ODOT Director Jolene M. Molitoris. “Over the next year, we will work with our industry partners to creating a diverse workforce pool that includes more women and minorities, especially in those skilled and semi-skilled crafts such as masonry and carpentry.” ODOT has been awarded $568,354 in new federal funds along with an additional $318,000 in federal stimulus funds to assist Ohio Disadvantaged Business Tuesday, October 5, 2010 A S K D R . B RO T H E R S Should you take ‘early retirement?’ At some time or another, you’ve probably thought about what you’d like to do during your retirement years. But when will those years begin? You may have some idea in mind about your ideal retirement date, but, as that day approaches, you’ll need to ask yourself: “Can I afford to retire?” During these days of corporate downsizing, this question is not rhetorical. If your employer offered you a severance package to take a voluntary early retirement, should you accept it? Your answer depends on a variety of factors. Most important of all, of course, is whether you still enjoy your job and still like coming to work every day. If so, you’ll be inclined to turn down the offer and continue working. But if you’re eager to move on to the next phase of your life, you might be tempted to accept the buyout package — if you can afford to retire. To make that determination, you’ll need to consider several factors: • Your family situation Page A3 Enterprise (DBE) firms and promote training opportunities for women and minorities. In addition to developing a Transportation Career Institute aimed at training opportunities for women and minorities, these new federal funds will also be used to launch a new DBE Capacity Building Academy — with a goal of improving the technical capacity of 20 DBE firms across the state to compete for state transportation construction work. ODOT will also provide targeted one-on-one professional consultant services to approximately 30 DBE firms in the areas of marketing, business development, and accounting. Director Molitoris will soon approve ODOT’s financial partnership - as much as $150,000 with the Hard Hatted Women, a Cleveland-based non-profit organization that helps women explore, pursue and excel in careers in high-wage, high-skill industries. The Hard Hatted Women are launching a “Women in Ohio Roadways and Rail Construction Consortium” onthe-job training effort aimed at getting women in training and apprenticeship programs. “These investments are just the start. ODOT is putting its dollars where its commitments are, by investing more in minority and women-owned businesses,” added Director Molitoris. Over the past year, ODOT and its local transportation partners invested more than $178 million in construction contracts and subcontracts with DBE firms and companies — the largest amount in state history. For perspective, ODOT alone will invest $133 million — which is more than double the $70 million invested by the department in 2004. More information about ODOT’s Division of Equal Opportunity can be found online at www.transportation.ohio.gov. Girlfriend not good with the elderly Dear Dr. Brothers: I found out a very weird thing about my girlfriend last week. I wanted her to meet my favorite aunt. She’s quite old now and is in a retirement home — but still is in very good shape mentally and physically. She’s been a big part of my life, but when we got there, my girlfriend wanted to stay in the car. She said that old people depress her, and if she’s around them too long, she freaks out. I was totally disgusted. What would make a person like this? — S.H. Dear S.H.: You are very fortunate to be someone with a big heart, who has a lot to offer an older person in your life. Because you have known and loved your aunt all your life, it is easy for you to see her as the vibrant and worthwhile individual she is, and to follow her interests and meet her friends in the retirement home. Your girlfriend has revealed a lot about herself as well, and it probably is a good thing that you have seen this side of her now. Plenty of young men would agree with her and would skip the visit to the retirement home in favor of going about their merry way. Unfortunately, the young often are indifferent to or put off by the old. It is not unusual, but it can’t easily be understood if you are a caring person. Because your girlfriend can’t relate to older people — perhaps no one she is close to has reached old age yet — she probably has no frame of reference in which to see them as lovable or worthwhile, while she has plenty of cultural cues telling her that old people are nonentities. Still, it doesn’t really explain her cold heart. You might want to take this incident and use it wisely when you are interested in young women — sometimes the internal values means a lot more than the pretty face. And now you actually have a chance to understand what that means. If you choose your friends based on their character first, you’ll have a lot less to be disgusted about. ••• Dear Dr. Brothers: When my mother died, she left a will that basically divided up her estate 50/50 between me and my sister. I thought this was very fair, but my wife feels differently. She’s been after me to contest the will, and wants to quibble over things I care nothing about, like china and silverware. My wife says that since my sister is already quite well-off, she doesn’t need anything Southern approves personnel BY BETH SERGENT BSERGENT@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM RACINE — The Southern Local Board of Education recently met to discuss and approve personnel matters for the district. The following action was approved: A one time performance incentive stipend for the building principals of 2.5 percent of their base for exceeding goals for the 2009-10 school year. Approved the same raise or percentage of raise given to the Ohio Association of Public School Employees / Southern Local Education Association for the exempt staff, effective the same time period, to exclude the superintendent, treasurer and building principals. County approved substitutes: Sarah Carleton, Christopher Carroll, Patrick Dowell, Dennis Eichinger, James Essick, Erika Howard, Craig Knight, Malinda Lawrence, Jamie Leseky, Josephy McCall, Ryan Sleight, Amanda Tope, Marsha Whitton-Nagy, Carrie Wolfe. County approved substitute aides: Susan Brauer, Billie Jo Hayes, Lisa Lute. Supplemental contracts and salaries: Bill Beegle, LPDC, $250; Jen Holt, VLA Coordinator, $1,000; Shane Hayman, freshman class advisor, $300; Tonya Smith, junior class advisor, $400, yearbook advisor, $1,400, Quiz Bowl advisor, $550; Mindy Patterson, junior high student council, $550; Katie Dickson, varsity softball, $2,100; Jeff Caldwell, Title IX compliance, $600. Personnel and compensation rates for the ASK program: Elementary teachers, $23 per hour, aides, $10 per hour; M o n d a y - We d n e s d a y teachers, Meg Guinther, Patty Struble, Beth Bay, Dawn Hill, Lisa Schenkelberg, Craig Knight; TuesdayThursday teachers, Misty Rogers, Nicole Brafford, Craig Knight, Lori Hill, Jenny Manuel, Carolyn Robinson; MondayThursday, aides, Launa Teaford, Carmel Evans, Mindy Patterson, Leanna Davis, Debbie Allen, Pam Foreman. Monday- Friday, (a.m.), Beth Bay; Monday-Thursday, special education, Evelyn Stanley. Linda Harris was approved as substitute cook. Dr. Joyce Brothers “extra.” I feel like I’m caught in the middle of something very bad, and I don’t want to be here. — H.C. Dear H.C.: I am sorry for the loss of your mother, and also for the quibbling that unfortunately often goes with the division of an estate. It is almost as though the best-laid plans go awry when a will is made, because the legal document just can’t address all the emotional issues that go with the death of an individual who owns property. All sorts of rivalries and jealousies are aroused when a parent dies, but in this case you and your sister are very much in accord, so you need to hang on to that fact before you allow yourself to be drawn into a drama that’s not of your own making. It may be worthwhile to have a conversation with your sister and make sure she is happy and satisfied with the division of the property, without mentioning your wife’s demands. Once that is accomplished, your wife needs to be brought up to date on what is happening. That means you tell her that both you and your sister are quite satisfied with the way the estate has been handled, and that even though your sister has more things than you and your wife, that has nothing to do with your mother’s wishes to divide things evenly. Nor is the will really anything your wife has to worry about. However you need to state it in order for her to back off, let her know that unless she was specifically mentioned or given an item, she really doesn’t have a dog in this fight — in other words, it’s not her business. Be firm but pleasant, and don’t give in. (c) 2010 by King Features Syndicate �OPINION Page A4 Tuesday, October 5, 2010 111 Court Street • Pomeroy, Ohio (740) 992-2156 • FAX (740) 992-2157 www.mydailysentinel.com Ohio Valley Publishing Co. Sammy M. Lopez Publisher Charlene Hoeflich General Manager-News Editor Pam Caldwell Advertising Director 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 Stocks fall at beginning of a busy week NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell Monday as investors took a pause from a historic rally in September and held back ahead of a busy week of economic and earnings reports. The Dow Jones industrial average lost nearly 80 points after factory orders fell slightly more than expected in August and contracts for new homes remained far below last year’s pace. Analysts say the market was due for a pullback following a 10.4 percent gain in the Dow last month. The monthlong rally has come on relatively low volume, a sign that many investors are still waiting on the sidelines. In corporate news, American Express Co. sank 6.5 percent after the Justice Department hit the credit card company with an antitrust suit. The government also sued MasterCard and Visa but announced proposed settlements with those two. This week brings a number of potentially important news events for stocks, including Friday’s monthly jobs survey and earnings on Thursday from Dow industrials component Alcoa Inc., a report that marks the traditional kickoff to the quarterly earnings season. France’s Sanofi-Aventis launched an $18.5 billion hostile takeover offer for Genzyme Corp. Sanofi-Aventis’ previous offer was rejected by Genzyme’s board, so it is now taking the offer directly to shareholders. The offer, at $69 per share, is unchanged from Sanofi-Aventis’ original offer in July. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 78.41, or 0.7 percent, to close at 10,751.27 The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 9.21, or 0.8 percent, to 1,137.03. The Nasdaq composite index fell 26.23, or 1.1 percent, to 2,344.52. The S&P 500 again came within two points of hitting 1,150. The index has come that close or crossed 1,150 each of the past seven days during trading. However, it has been unable to close above the key level during that stretch. Factory orders fell 0.5 percent in August, slightly worse than the 0.4 percent drop predicted by economists polled by Thomson Reuters. But the drop was largely due to a steep falloff in commercial aircraft orders. Excluding transportation, orders rose 0.9 percent. The number of buyers that signed contracts to purchase homes rose more than expected in August. The National Association of Realtors pending home sales index rose 4.3 percent, slightly better than the 2.5 percent jump economists predicted. The housing market remains weak after a home buyer tax credit expired at the end of April. The pending home sales index is 20 percent below where it was just a year ago. The week’s blitz of economic reports and the start of earnings season should provide insight into the economy and help give the market direction. 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To the extent it would affirm and further institutionalize John Brennan’s willful blindness, or worse, towards the most serious threat of our time — the supremacist totalitarian politico-militarylegal program authorities of Islam call shariah — it could prove catastrophic. A pathbreaking new “Team B II” study sponsored by the Center for Security Policy and entitled Shariah: The Threat to America documents the publicly available evidence of Brennan’s dereliction of duty. These include: his systematic failure to recognize what animates our enemy; his insistence on characterizations of our foes that interferes with, if not utterly precludes, effective countermeasures — especially against shariah-adherents’ use of stealthy techniques to achieve our submission; and the “outreach” he engages in and encourages to Muslim Brotherhood operatives. Without access to classified information, and in the absence of the sort of congressional oversight and forensic investigation we can only hope will be forthcoming after November’s elections, it is impossible to say with certainty how bad is the cumulative effect of John Brennan’s tenure in a position largely cloaked in secrecy with respect to government deliberations and policy-making. Still, recent events provide a chilling sense of the impact of what Team B member Admiral James “Ace” Lyons has called Brennan’s “see-no-evil, speak-noevil” approach - one that is utterly athwart the time-validated prescription of the great Chinese strategist, Sun Tsu, that victory in war depends on knowing one’s Frank Gaffney enemy. Consider three examples: • Team B Member Patrick Poole revealed last week at BigPeace.com that, in adherence to the Brennan outreach mantra, the FBI provided a six-week training — and intelligence-collection opportunity — to a known Hamas operative named Sheikh Kefah Mustapha. When challenged, a Bureau spokesman insisted that there was no problem with doing so because Mustapha “had never been convicted of any crime.” Never mind that he was an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing trial in U.S. history or fired from a volunteer chaplain post with the Illinois State Police when his terrorist ties were exposed. • We also learned last week that a man brought into the White House in April for a high-level Muslim outreach effort designed “to update members of the ArabAmerican community on issues of their concern, Hatem Abudayyeh, had his home raided by the FBI on suspicion of ties to terrorism in the Middle East and Latin America. As Andy McCarthy makes plain in an important essay National Review Online, Abuddayyeh’s ties to unsavory individuals like friend-of-Obama Rashid Khalidi should be a concern on multiple levels. • The Pentagon recently released its final after-action report concerning the Fort Hood massacre allegedly committed by a self-described “Soldier of Allah” named Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan. This document became the latest in a series of strategy papers, policy documents and guidelines issued by law enforcement, intelligence, military and homeland security agencies that fail to use words like “Islam,” “Muslim,” “shariah,” “Muslim Brotherhood,” or “jihad.” In fact, John Brennan has expressly forbidden the use of the term “jihad” as he considers it to be a “legitimate tenet of Islam” whose correct translation is personal strug- gle, not holy war. The practical effect of such direction is to leave the United States exceptionally vulnerable to the kind of warfare our shariahadherent jihadist enemies have operationalized here in the United States — namely, the stealthy kind practiced by the Muslim Brotherhood which calls it “civilization jihad.” Brennan evidently neither understands nor is working to counter this threat. To the contrary, to the extent that he is engaging in willfully blind behavior that is perceived by our shariah-adherent foes as submission (the literal meaning of the word “Islam"), he is setting the stage for our enemies to abandon the sub rosa civilization jihad in favor of the kind Mohammed principally practiced: the terrifyingly violent version of holy war. Fortunately, one upside of the Ground Zero mosque controversy is that it has prompted lots of Americans to start asking hard questions, reflecting a growing awareness of shariah. They want to know, for example, about the conflicting peaceful and warlike passages of the Koran, the horrible treatment of “infidels,” apostates, women and those who besmirch Islam and its followers’ “honor” or sensibilities. Some of these were featured in two, hourlong specials broadcast over the weekend by ABC News. Regrettably, the “20/20” and “This Week with Christiane Amanpour” programs largely failed to answer these questions — most especially with respect to the stealth jihad. But there is no question that a serious debate has begun and that there is a growing appreciation that the U.S. government’s stewardship with respect to this most urgent of national security imperatives is seriously deficient. For there to be real change in policy, however, there needs to be real change in policymakers. John Brennan should be encouraged to join the exodus from Team Obama’s senior ranks, not promoted to a position in which he can do vastly more harm. (Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., is president of the Center for Security Policy, a columnist for the Washington Times and host of the syndicated program, Secure Freedom Radio.) �Tuesday, October 5, 2010 www.mydailysentinel.com Obituaries Infant, 4 women die in Lawrence Co. fire James Albert Rife James Albert Rife, 78, Cheshire, Ohio, passed away on October 2, 2010, at his home. He was born on June 12, 1932, in Bulaville, Ohio, son of the late Frank B. Rife and the late Alice Elliot Rife. Mr. Rife was a member of the Rutland United Methodist Church. He retired from the Kyger Creek Plant. He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Ann Sears Rife of Cheshire; three children, Debby Rife of Gallipolis, Terry Rife of Cheshire and Penny (John) Harrison of Cheshire; grandchildren, Angela (Tim) Clickenger of Gallipolis, Ronald James White of Gallipolis, Jim Harrison of Cheshire and Katie Harrison of Cheshire; great grandchildren Delaney, Avery and Emerson Clickenger; niece and nephews, Betsy (Dave) Ball of Gallipolis, Herman (Nyoka) George of Bidwell, Eddie (Janice) George of Texas and Dale (Jenny) Little of Pomeroy; sister-in-laws, Betty Conkle of Middleport and Carrie Neal of Racine. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by several brothers and sisters. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, October 6, 2010, at 1 p.m. at Anderson McDaniel Funeral Home in Middleport with Rev. Herman George and Rev. John Chapman officiating. Burial will follow at the Gravel Hill Cemetery. Visiting hours will be on Tuesday from 5-8 p.m. at the funeral home. A registry is available online at www.andersonmcdaniel.com. Local Stocks Akzo (NASDAQ) — 60.15 Ashland Inc. 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Meigs County Forecast Tuesday: A chance of showers. Cloudy, with a high near 58. Calm wind becoming northwest between 5 and 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40 percent. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. Tuesday Night: A chance of showers. Cloudy, with a low around 42. Calm wind becoming west around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50 percent. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Wednesday: A chance of showers, mainly before 10am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 62. West wind between 7 and 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent. BARTLES (AP) — A fire swept through a 12bedroom house in early Monday in Lawrence County, killing five people, including an 8month-old boy, authorities said. The split-level house that went up in flames was believed to be a large private home, not a boarding house, Lawrence County Sheriff Jeff Lawless said. The house was located in Elizabeth Township. Fire marshal’s spokesman Shane Cartmill says the others who died were four adult women. Seven people were injured. CHICAGO (AP) — Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel began campaigning for Chicago mayor on Monday with the standard fare — greeting surprised commuters at a downtown train station, listening to voters’ ideas for improving the city and posing for cell phone photos. But in announcing his candidacy on YouTube and launching a campaign Facebook page, Emanuel signaled he’d also be using a strategy he helped craft to such great effect for his former boss, President Barack Obama, by galvanizing support among young voters through near constant contact via online postings, text messages and e-mails. With a small army of television news crews in tow, Emanuel engaged commuters at a downtown elevated train station, spoke to diners at a South Side restaurant and shook hands with pedestrians in the bustling Pilsen neighborhood. He leaned in close when voters spoke and appeared to concentrate on what they were telling him. Many said he had their support. “I know he’s a good politician,” said Frederick Childress, a 58-year-old retired Chicago Housing Authority employee on the South Side who plans to vote for Emanuel. “He was a good White House chief of staff. He’s for the people.” Maria Martinez, 21, who hugged Emanuel at the train station on her way to her sales job downtown, dismissed the talk she’s heard about Emanuel as an outsider. “I still say he’s from Chicago,” she said. “He’s here, isn’t he?” But there were also signs of hurdles Emanuel has to overcome if he is to have a chance at becoming mayor. In Pilsen, which is predominantly Hispanic, a group of parents protesting the planned demolition of a field house they’ve been using as a library briefly surrounded Emanuel’s car. He’d told them he’d listen to them, but hadn’t, the protesters complained. At the train station, one man called Emanuel a political “fixer” who “sold out” liberal Democrats when he joined Obama’s administration. And while most messages on his new Facebook page were positive, there were also some from people who were skeptical or downright hostile toward Emanuel. Some were critical of his role in the Obama administration. Others wondered if he was more concerned about landing himself a job than he was for the city. And some New high court era: Kagan makes 3 women on bench WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court began a new era Monday with three women serving together for the first time, Elena Kagan taking her place at the end of the bench and quickly joining in the give-and-take. In a scene that will repeat itself over the next few months, Kagan left the courtroom while the other justices remained to hear a case in which she will take no part. She has taken herself out of 24 pending cases, including the second of the two argued Monday, because of her work as the Obama administration’s solicitor general prior to joining the court in August. Opening its new term on the traditional first Monday in October, the court turned down hundreds of appeals, including one from the relatives of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. They are seeking a proper burial for material taken from the World Trade Center site because it could contain the ashes of victims. The justices did not appear to lean one way or the other in the argument. Roberts suggested that some of the arguments on both sides would lead to absurd results. from Page A1 ership roles in state and local government. Morgan Mathews, a 2000 graduate of Meigs High School and a 2006 graduate of Ohio University with a bachelor’s degree in therapeutic recreation. Over the last decade she has been a strong advocate and dedicated volunteer for “Lifeline of Ohio.” In February she will celebrate the 10th anniversary of her own liver transplant. Morgan is currently employed at the Ohio State University’s Dodd Hall as a certified therapeutic recreational therapist with a specialization in brain injuries. Evan Shaw, a 2002 graduate of Meigs High School and a 2007 graduate of Ohio University’s College of Communications, cur- The fire’s exact cause has not been determined. Seven people were reported injured, said Cartmill. All were taken to King’s Daughters Medical Center in Ashland, but spokesman Tom Dearing said he could not comment on the nature or extent of the injuries. The fire was Ohio’s deadliest this year, the fire marshal’s office said. Because of the heavy damage to the home and the numbers of fatalities and injuries, the investigation will take time, Cartmill said in an email. Emanuel hits Chicago streets, makes case for mayor MLEF he was promoted to manager of the Gavin Plant, the second largest plant in the AEP system. In 2009 under his leadership, the plant was recognized for performance records in unit and plant electric generation production. Jan Michael Long, former State Senator and current Pickaway County Juvenile and Probate Judge, who graduated from Meigs High School in 1970 and The Ohio State University in 1974. He then went on to Capital University Law School receiving his juris doctorate from there. From 1986 to 1997, he served in the Ohio Senate as a representative of Meigs and seven other Southeastern Ohio counties. He was recognized for his outstanding lead- The Daily Sentinel • Page A5 rently employed as director of multimedia marketing for Ohio University Athletics. He recently won an Emmy and National Silver Telly award for his video production showcasing Ohio University’s 2009 football season, He also won an Emmy in 2009 for Outstanding Sports Photography and has received two Platinum Level National Empixx Awards for Videography and Sports Feature. The distinguished service award went to Rita Slavin, who along with her husband, the late Jack Slavin, taught at Meigs High School for over 50 years. Mrs. Slavin’s biology classes were known to be difficult but were also known to be the premier courses to prepare students for college and give them a true appreciation for science. Many of her students have excelled in various fields of science. Equally remembered is the unique ability of her husband who encouraged and developed the creativity and work ethic of students in his art classes. For their demonstrated dedication to Meigs Local, Mr. and Mrs. Slavin were honored with the distinguished service award. Making the presentations were Rusty Bookman, Meigs Local Superintendent; Barbara Musser, Meigs Local Board of Education president; Steve Ohlinger, Meigs High School principal; and Amy Blake, vice president of the Meigs Local Alumni Association. suggested that after being away from Chicago for so long, he was ineligible to run for mayor — an argument that one city elections official said is likely without merit. Emanuel seemed to recognize that his job, at least now, is to reconnect with the city. On a video in his newly minted website, ChicagoforRahm.com, he said he plans to make plenty of stops around the city. “As I prepare to run for mayor, I’m going to spend the next few weeks visiting our neighborhoods — at grocery stores, L stops, bowling alleys and hot dog stands,” Emanuel said. “I want to hear from you — in blunt Chicago terms — what you think about our city, and how the next mayor and you can make it better.” On Monday morning, Emanuel was dressed much as he was in the two-minute video in which he sat at a desk wearing a white shirt with an open collar and a dark jacket. Behind him is a photo of his family and several books. In making the announcement in a YouTube video, Emanuel appears to be following in the online footsteps of Obama, who used social networking sites, mass emailing and text messaging to get through to young voters. Emanuel’s website offers several options for receiving updates, including e-mail and text, and more than 15,000 Facebook users had “liked” his page by Monday morning. Lori Goldberg, an Emanuel spokeswoman, said the online video was an attempt to reach as many people as possible. Emanuel plans to make “a more formal announcement” after the November election. “By having the website up, it also allows people to communicate with him,” Goldberg said. Bruce Newman, professor of marketing at DePaul University, called the online announcement “a clever move.” But other political analysts said the online approach won’t work for all voters. Indeed, one of the challenges facing Emanuel in a mayoral run is reconnecting with Chicago voters after his time in Washington. Emanuel highlighted his ties to Chicago in the video Sunday, noting his three terms representing a North Side district in Congress before serving as Obama’s chief of staff. Emanuel’s website says his family’s home is in Chicago’s Ravenswood neighborhood. But a tenant recently re-signed a lease for the home, leaving Emanuel to rent a condo closer to downtown, Goldberg said. Strickland from Page A1 Republican friends, and everyone else.” The event will be held in place of the party’s fall Kennedy Day Dinner, Hunter said, and all funds collected will be donated to a fund for the Olive Township families who lost homes and belongings in the Sept. 16 tornado system. The event will be held from 2-4 p.m. Saturday at the Pomeroy parking lot. Hunter said the First Lady’s visit tomorrow night, on the other hand, is designed to motivate the party’s faithful. “Frances is right at home in Meigs County,” Hunter said. “We Meigs County Democrats consider her to be our personal friend, and we are very pleased she has made time to visit us.” “Anyone in Meigs County who has not met Mrs. Strickland should feel welcome to attend our opening reception and do so.” Clinic from Page A1 tions; people aged 50 years or older; residents of long-term care facilities that house persons with chronic medical conditions; persons suffering from serious, extended health problems or a weakened immune system; children aged six months to 18 years on long-term aspirin treatment; pregnant women who will be past the third trimester during flu season; workers who will be in contact with people at risk of developing serious influenza complications. The incubation period (or the time it takes to get the flu from the time of exposure) is one-four days, but it usually averages two days. Most people are ill with influenza for only a few days, however, some get much sicker and may require hospitalization. According to the Centers for Disease Control, influenza epidemics occur on an annual basis and cause thousands of deaths and hospitaliza- tions throughout the US. Rates of infection are greatest among children; meanwhile, rates of serious illness and death are highest in the 65 years or older population and among persons of any age who have medical conditions that make them susceptible for flu complications. The flu vaccine can prevent influenza, however, the viruses that cause the disease often change. Protection develops about two weeks after the vaccine is administered and may last for a year. A new shot is needed on an annual basis. �Tuesday, October 5, 2010 The Daily Sentinel • Page A6 www.mydailysentinel.com MHS HOMECOMING C O U RT MHS HOMECOMING C O U RT Charlene Hoeflich/photo Hope Hajivandi, escorted by Garrett Riffle, center, was crowned the 2010 Meigs High School homecoming queen in ceremonies at the Athens-Meigs game played on Bob Roberts Field Friday night. Making up her court were from the left, Kristen Rice and her escort, Austin Sayre; Morgan Danielle Howard and her escort, Jeremiah Myers; Marissa McAngus and her escort, Jonathon McCarthy; and Kristen Rice and her escort, Austin Sayre. The flower girl and crown bearer were Taylor Bartrum and Dillon Howard, front. Charlene Hoeflich/photo Jacob Dunn, a student at West Virginia University majoring in graphic design, was the recipient of this yearʼs Meigs Local Alumni Associationʼs scholarship award. Making the presentation on behalf of the MLEF was Amy Blake. Since its reorganization in 2007 the MLEF has awarded seven scholarships to graduating Meigs seniors totaling $3,500. Plains mood: Times good, but incumbents in danger HOPE, N.D. (AP) — The recession that has brought misery to so much of America hasn’t touched Walter Grotte. His business moving silos and grain bins is prospering, and, like many in North Dakota, he has no financial worries. Life, he says, is “better than we deserve.” But bring up the state’s Democratic congressman — a man Grotte voted for in 2008 and in seven elections before that — and the smile disappears. “I’ll tell you what, I’ve thought about buying a billboard on the freeway between Fargo and Grand Forks with a big picture of Earl Pomeroy and Nancy Pelosi arm in arm,” Grotte said, sitting in the kitchen of his farmhouse near Hope, a town of 300 about 70 miles northwest of Fargo. “Earl seemed like a nice fella, but I think Harry Reid and Pelosi got leverage on him some way.” Incumbent politicians across the nation are in peril this year, and the reason is no surprise. Many Americans are not doing well and are anxious about the future. After two years, President Obama and his party’s congressional majorities have been unable to dispatch the lingering recession and doggedly high unemployment rate, and now face the consequences. But in a notable twist, a region that has largely escaped these problems has decided to join in the national bad mood anyway. Not only are the Plains states of the Upper Midwest not economically depressed, they’ve rarely been better. The Dakotas and Nebraska are all enjoying unemployment below 5 percent — virtual full employment, according to economists. In North Dakota’s case, the money problem is how to spend it. The state’s budget surplus is approaching $1 billion, thanks mainly to an oil boom that’s creating jobs faster than they can be filled, and healthy commodity prices that are keeping small farmers in the black. So why are incumbents like Pomeroy in trouble? Polls have shown the amiable 58-year-old in perhaps the toughest fight of his 18-year congressional career, a period in which he has ridden out several Republican landslides. Pomeroy’s not the only Dakota Democrat feeling the voter discontent. His colleague, longtime Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan, opted a few months ago to retire rather than seek a fourth term. In South Dakota, popular Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin has struggled mightily in her re-election race, but was helped recently by reports on opponent Kristi Noem’s extensive record of driving violations. The political disconnect in the upper Midwest shows that just because people are doing well themselves doesn’t U.S. Chamber of Commerce turns on past allies WASHINGTON (AP) — During the worst of the economic crisis, the nation’s most powerful business lobby pleaded with Congress to prop up financial institutions and stimulate the economy with hundreds of billions of dollars in borrowed money. “Make no mistake: When the aftermath of congressional inaction becomes clear, Americans will not tolerate those who stood by and let the calamity happen,” wrote Bruce Josten, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s vice president in September 2008, who at the time pressed lawmakers before their vote on a $700 billion bailout for Wall Street. A few months later, Congress faced a similar reckoning — whether to pass an $814 billion economic stimulus package consisting of about one-third tax breaks and two-thirds additional government spending. Again, Josten wrote to lawmakers: “The global economy is in uncharted and dangerous waters and inaction from Washington is not an option.” Fast forward to the present. The chamber is now spending millions of dollars on ads trying to elect candidates whose campaigns are based on opposing the very bank rescue and stimulus law it once supported. Lawmakers who voted with the chamber on the two crisis-era measures are now getting the back of its hand: Sen. Barbara Boxer in California, and Reps. Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania, Paul Hodes in New Hampshire and Brad Ellsworth in Indiana. “What they want is one of their own,” said Sestak, now running for the Senate against former Rep. Pat Toomey, who denounced bank rescue and the economic stimulus as ill-advised government interventions. “So back when we were salvaging the nation, that was then.” The chamber’s strategy underscores an all-ornothing approach to lobbying, where partial support of their agenda is not sufficient and where recent clashes trump past agreements. Since the bank bailout and stimulus program, the four Democrats have taken stances contrary to what the business lobby wanted. They voted for President Barack Obama’s health care initiative and a consumer financial protection bureau. They supported reducing greenhouse gases and backed bills to make organizations like the chamber disclose donors who help pay for political ads. “The chamber looks at an endorsement on a broad range of issues, certainly not just one or two issues alone,” said J.P. Fielder, a chamber spokesman. “Looking at this so narrowly is like looking at the wrong end of a telescope. We need to consider all the factors that impact businesses.” The bank rescue initiated by former President George W. Bush and Obama’s recovery program aimed at stimulating economic growth have become two of the most popular Republican targets this election season, cited by some candidates as examples of misguided policies. One Senate candidate backed by the chamber, Republican Rand Paul in Kentucky, so opposed the bank bailout that he refused during the primary to accept financial backing from senators who voted for it. Another critic is Carly Fiorina, the California Republican Senate candidate who is challenging Boxer. The stimulus spending is one of Fiorina’s main avenues of attack against the three-term incumbent, saying it has not led to promised job growth while sticking taxpayers with a huge tab. “When the stimulus was passed, the California unemployment rate was 10.2 percent. It is now 12.4 percent. The stimulus was a failure,” Fiorina said in a recent telephone interview. The chamber has endorsed Fiorina and spent more than $2 million on TV ads criticizing Boxer. “I think it’s hypocritical with a capital H,” Eric Schultz, spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said of the chamber’s campaign effort. mean they can’t be gloomy about the country. And, overwhelmingly conservative, they think the government is a big part of the nation’s problems. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll last month found 55 percent of Midwesterners disapprove of President Obama’s performance. The same poll found that 66 percent of rural voters see the country as on the wrong track, five points higher than the U.S. as a whole. Tim Mathern, a Democratic state senator from Fargo, said many in the state seem frustrated with the federal government and convinced the Democrats are spending irresponsibly. “I think it’s there, fairly or not, this perception that something is wrong and nothing is being done,” he said. What Mathern called the “new millionaires” are among the angry, he said. Last month the D e m o c r a t i c Congressional Campaign canceled $1.2 million in planned TV advertising for Pomeroy, signaling his grim prospects. Pomeroy said he isn’t afraid of a tough challenge. “This isn’t my first time at the rodeo,” he said in an interview. But he said he should get more credit for federal legislation that has helped North Dakota’s economy. In recent years, oil companies have been extracting oil from the Bakken shale deposit, the largest such formation ever surveyed in the United States by the U.S. Geological Survey. The number of millionaires in North Dakota rose by more than 40 percent in one year alone, to 388 in 2006. But after being reelected with 66 percent of the vote in 2006, Pomeroy’s job is hanging by a thread. “I voted for Earl Pomeroy and I voted for Obama too, and I don’t much like the way that’s come out,” said Janis LeClair, a 54-year-old former hospital technician from Fargo who retired early from the mineral rights income on her inherited farm atop the Bakken formation. “I have oil money now, and I have investments, and it’s really frightening to me what the Democrats might do,” LeClair said. Walter and Donna Grotte acknowledge that the federal government has helped make life in this out-of-the-way state possible. Walter Grotte’s Norwegian grandfather staked a claim here through the Homestead Act. At Grotte’s silo and grain bin moving business these days, there’s more demand than the couple can meet. They’ve eased back a bit to enjoy their brand-new RV camper. But Grotte is angry about the federal debt. “You hear about change, change, change,” Grotte said. “I’m not for change. I like the country the way it was the last 200 years.” Visit us online at mydailysentinel.com Your online source for news �SPORTS LOCAL SCHEDULE Friday, October 1, 2010 Meigs, Eastern ladies end first golf seasons at sectionals POMEROY — A schedule of upcoming high school varsity sporting events involving teams from Gallia, Mason and Meigs counties. Friday, October 1 Football Gallia Academy at Logan, 7:30 p.m. Athens at Meigs, 7:30 p.m. Eastern at Belpre, 7:30 p.m. South Gallia at Federal Hocking, 7:30 p.m. Southern at Wahama, 7:30 p.m. Fairland at River Valley, 7:30 p.m. Point Pleasant at Wayne, 7:30 p.m. Fayetteville-Perry at Hannan, 7:30 p.m. Soccer Calvary at OVCS, 5:30 p.m. BY BRYAN WALTERS BWALTERS@MYDAILYTRIBUNE.COM Saturday, October 2 Volleyball Gallia Academy at Logan, 10 a.m. Waterford at South Gallia, Noon Cross Country Gallia Academy, River Valley at Piketon, TBA Eastern, Southern at Pickerington North, 10 a.m. Meet at Meigs, 4:30 p.m. Soccer Gallia Academy at Point Pleasant (B), 7 p.m. Winebrenner wins Riverside Seniors title B1 Sarah Hawley/file photo Meigs’ sophomore Alyssa Cremeans unleashes a tee shot during this September 9 file photo of a golf match held at Kountry Hills Golf Course in Pomeroy, Ohio. ASHVILLE, Ohio — There is a first time for everything, even if it is the finish. The girls golf programs at Meigs and Eastern — both in their first season as a varsity team sport — had their inaugural runs come to an end Wednesday at Upper Landsdowne Golf Course as neither squad qualified out of the Division II sectional meet held in Pickaway County. The Lady Marauders finished the day with a team tally of 508, finishing 67 shots ahead of the Lady Eagles — who tallied a total of 575. Logan Elm won the girls team title with a 369, while Westfall (384) and Peebles (418) were the other district qualifiers of the group. Michelle Schambs of Zane Trace was the medalist with a low round of 75, while Shania Irvin of Huntington Ross and Jessica Patterson of Sheridan were the other district advancees with matching rounds of 84. Alyssa Cremeans led the Lady Marauders and all Meigs County competitors with a round of 103, which gave the sophomore the 20th best individual effort of the 62 com- petitors. Jennifer Robinson and Natalie Michael were next with matching 128s, with Kassandra Mullins rounding out the team score with a 149. Autumn Williams also fired a 166 for MHS, which does not have a single senior on its 2010 roster. Megan Carnahan paced the Lady Eagles with round of 130, followed by Samantha Cline with a 134 and Jenna Burdette with a 143. Jessica Cleland and Ashley Miller both had matching rounds of 168 to wrap up the day. Carnahan, Cleland and Miller are all seniors. SENTINEL STAFF MDSSPORTS@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM MASON, W.Va. — Mick Winebrenner of Racine has captured the second half championship of the 2010 Riverside Senior Men’s Golf League. Winebrenner’s total of 201.5 points just beat out runner-up Carl Stone (199.5) by two points. Ed Debalski was third with 193 points. The final day of play was reduced down to 70 men, due to the cold and windy weather that occurred on Tuesday. The players were broken down into 16 teams of four and a pair of threesomes. There was a tie for first place as a pair of foursomes posted 10-under par rounds of 60. Winebrenner, Dave Seamon, Bob Hysell and Cuzz Laudermilt made up one winning squad, while Stone, Bob Avery, Ray Oliver and Butch Bookman made up the other. There was also a fourway tie for third place, as a quartet of foursomes fired matching rounds of 63. Tom Dotson, Chet Thomas, Bill Winebrenner and Jack Fox made up one team, while Howard Lee Miller, Rick Northup, Jim Blair and Jack Maloney made up another. The final two quartets were Jim Turley, Catbird Roush, Bob Hill and Pat Williamson, as well as Richard Mabe, Bobby Oliver, Curtis Grubb and Gerald Kelly. The closest to the pin winners were Cuzz Laudermilt on No. 9 and Willis Dudding on the 14th hole. The second half season average was 81.2 players per week and a total of 130 different people competed in at least one round. 2010 RIVERSIDE SENIORS LEAGUE Mick Winebrenner Carl Stone Ed Debalski Kenny Grenne Bob Humphreys Claude Proffitt Don Corbin Ken Whited Paul Maynard Earl Johnson Butch Bookman Bob Hysell Cuzz Laudermilt Dave Seamon Skip Johnson Chet Thomas Tom Fisher Rich Mabe Bill Arnott Rick Northup Jack Maloney Bobby Joe Roush Frank Brown Jim Mitchell Tom McNeely Willis Dudding Jim Blair Bill Winebrenner Curtis Grubb Haskel Jones Gary Minton Russ Wood Cecil Minton Gerard Kelly Pat Williamson Ed Coon 201.5 199.5 193.0 173.0 173.0 171.0 167.0 166.0 163.0 160.5 157.0 156.5 155.5 155.0 154.0 151.0 145.0 143.5 142.0 142.0 142.0 141.5 141.5 140.5 140.0 140.0 140.0 139.0 137.5 135.5 135.5 135.0 135.0 133.5 131.0 129.5 Prep Volleyball Roundup Blue Angels drop heartbreaker to Warren in 5 SENTINEL STAFF MDSSPORTS@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM CENTENARY, Ohio — Gallia Academy (95, 4-4 SEOAL) and Warren battled to five sets on Thursday evening, with the Lady Warriors winning for the second time this season. Warren — who previously defeated GAHS in five sets — trailed 12-7 in the fifth set and rallied for the 15-13 victory in the set. Warren won the match by scores of 20-25, 25-19, 27-25, 19-25, and 15-13. Kassie Shriver had 13 points (three aces) in the five sets. Morgan Daniels had 12 points (three aces), Heather Ward added nine points (two aces), Haley Rosier had seven points (three aces), Hannah Cunningham added six points, and Morgan Leslie had five points. Daniels had 14 kills to lead the Blue Angels at the net. Leslie had eight kills, Cunningham had six, Rosier had five, Shriver had four, Shaina Fillenger had three, and Amanda McGhee had two. Fillenger lead the team in blocks with seven, followed by Daniels with five, McGhee with two, Cunningham, Leslie, and Rosier with one. Ward had an impressive defensive match with 68 digs. Leslie had 29 digs, Rosier had 20 digs, Cunningham had 11 digs, Shriver and Taylor Foster each had 10 digs, Breanna West had eight digs, and Daniels and McGhee each had five. The loss puts Gallia Academy at 4-4 in the SEOAL with four matches remaining. Marietta leads the SEOAL with a 7-0 record. The Blue Angels play at Logan on Saturday at 10 a.m. and host River Valley on Monday at 5:30 p.m. Shriver had 29 assists and Cunningham had 22 assists. LADY EAGLES RALLY PAST TRIMBLE TUPPERS PLAINS, Ohio — The Eastern volleyball team had its consecutive games won streak snapped Sarah Hawley/photo Gallia Academy’s Breanna West bumps the ball in the air as teammates Heather Ward, left, and Kassie Shriver (11) look on during Thursday night’s SEOAL volleyball contest against Warren in Centenary, Ohio. Thursday night against visiting Trimble, but the Lady Eagles rallied to win their eighth straight match during a 23-25, 25-16, 28-26, 25-15 decision in a Tri-Valley Conference Hocking Division matchup at the Eagles’ Nest in Meigs County. The Lady Eagles (141, 9-1 TVC Hocking) lost Game 1 by a minimal two-point margin — which snapped a 21game winning streak for EHS — but the hosts responded with three straight game wins to wrap up a season sweep of the Lady Tomcats. Eastern — which remains one match behind Waterford in the league standings — defeated Trimble earlier in the year by a 25-19, 25-22, 25-15 margin. Ally Hendrix led the Lady Eagles with 13 service points, followed by Jamie Swatzel with 12 and Brenna Holter with 10. Baylee Collins was next with eight service points, while Beverly Maxson added four points. Both Janae Boyles and Britney Morrison added one point apiece to the winning cause. Maxson led the net attack with 13 kills, followed by Holter and Swatzel with nine kills each. Morrison added five kills and Hendrix had two, while Kelsey Myers and Brooke Johnson both chipped in one block each. Swatzel also had a team-best six blocks in the triumph, while Hendrix added three blocks. Swatzel and Hendrix both led the passing attack with 17 assists apiece, while Maxson added one assist. Trimble salvaged a split with a 13-25, 2522, 26-24 victory in the junior varsity contest. LADY TORNADOES MILLER IN 3 BEAT RACINE, Ohio — The Southern Lady Tornadoes defeated Miller (3-11, 3-6) in a TVC Hocking match on Thursday evening in Racine, Ohio. Southern (5-9, 5-5 TVC Hocking) won in straight sets by scores of 25-17, 25-14, and 2520. Kelsey Strang led the Lady Tornadoes in serving, going 17-17 with five aces. Katelyn Hill was 14-14 serving with one ace, Maggie Cummins was 11-13, Courtney Thomas was 9-11, Bobbi Harris was 6-7, Hope Teaford was 4-4, Michelle Ours was 2-2, and Amber Hayman was 1-1 with one ace. Strang had 13 points, Hill added 12 points, Cummins had six points, Thomas and Harris each had four points, Teaford had three points, and Hayman had one point. Strang led the team with 12 kills, followed by Cummins and Hill with four each, Hayman with two, and Thomas with one. Hayman and Jordan Huddleston each had one block. Thomas had 17 assist and Cummins added one. Strang and Cummins each had one dig. The Lady Tornadoes travel to South Gallia on Monday with the JV match beginning at 6 p.m. Southern defeated Miller on Sept. 2 by scores of 25-14, 18-25, 25-14, and 25-16. RIVER VALLEY OUTLASTS COAL GROVE BIDWELL, Ohio — It took five set, but the Lady Raiders defeated Coal Grove in on Ohio Valley Conference match on Thursday evening in Bidwell, Ohio. River Valley won by scores of 25-19, 22-25, 25-13, 21-25, and 1510. Kelsey Sands had 14 points (five aces), followed by Kaitlyn Roberts with 11 points (two aces), Katelyn Birchfield with nine points (six aces), Ashley Randolph had eight points (four aces), Beth Misner had eight points (one ace), and Kelcie Carter added five points (one ace). Roberts had 21 kills, Carter added 16 kills, Birchfield added seven kills, Misner had six kills, Sands had five kills, and Randolph had four kills. Coal Grove was led by Marissa Stevens with eight points and Haley Johnson, Ashley Adkins, and Bailey Harrison each had seven points. River Valley won the JV match by scores of 25-7 and 25-23. Morgan Wooldridge had 11 points, Mary Waugh had 10 points, and Mercedes Combs had eight points. In the freshman match, River valley won by scores of 21-25, 2519, and 25-23. 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