http://66.213.69.5/files/original/5cc9f5468b4f52471830bf871ca365e3.pdf 8180e0905d11b47171f43719d39b31ab PDF Text Text Wahama ready for Wheeling Central, B1 Courthouse Christmas set for Saturday, A6 Middleport • Pomeroy, Ohio 50 CENTS • Vol. 60, No. 35 Ohio State gives Gee pay increase, bonus COLUMBUS (AP) — The president of Ohio State University will receive a $16,000 pay increase and a bonus of about $300,000 for his performance. The board of trustees on Wednesday approved the 2 percent increase in base salary, raising it to $818,167, and the 37 percent bonus for President Gordon Gee. The bonus comes from a fund created from private donations. Gee says he will contribute it to his scholarship fund and other university initiatives. Among accomplishments noted by the board are improved retention and graduation rates, a recordsetting freshmen academic profile and an increase in research funding. Trustee Alex Shumate says Gee and is “willing to roll up his sleeves” to help solve challenges facing the state and nation. Gee led Ohio State from 1990 to 1997 and returned in 2007. Family singers coming to Harrisonville HARRISONVILLE — The Lonnie Welch Family singers will be at the Harrisonville Presbyterian Church for an evening of gospel music at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday. The singers are residents of Athens. They perform a wide variety of bluegrass, traditional country gospel, and contemporary music using only acoustic instruments. Members of the group are Lonnie and his wife, Mary, and their three children, Josh, 21, Kristin 18, and Sarah 17. Refreshments will be served following the program which is free to the public. The church is located on Route 143 in Harrrisonville. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2010 www.mydailysentinel.com Fire victim still officially unidentified (described as a weekend home or cabin) located at 52790 Curtis Hollow Road in Long Bottom. Cartmill said at this time there’s nothing to indicate any criminal activity associated with the fire. The cause of the fire remains undetermined, but investigators have determined the fire originated in the area of the chimney of a wood burner. Investigators have also not been able to rule out a possible electrical failure in the same area as the wood burner. No one else was in the home when the fire occurred. There were no smoke alarms found in the home. The investigation is being conducted by the Division of State Fire Marshal, Olive Township Fire Department and the Meigs County Coroner’s Office. Donors ʻShine Onʼ in quilt blocks County HVAC engineering awarded BY BETH SERGENT BSERGENT@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM LONG BOTTOM — The victim of a fatal house fire on Nov. 21 on Curtis Hollow Road remains officially unidentified, according to Shane Cartmill from the Division of State Fire Marshal. Cartmill said preliminary autopsy results from the Meigs County Coroner’s Office indicate the victim died of smoke inhalation but authorities have not yet been able to positively identify that victim. Meigs County Sheriff Robert Beegle reported the victim’s name as William Keith (Pete) Stanforth with unconfirmed reports indicating Stanforth was 73 years old and from Athens County. Cartmill said investigators have no other reason to believe the victim isn’t Stanforth but further efforts at making a positive identification will have to be completed. Situations where identification of victims are difficult are not unheard of but not common either, Cartmill said, explaining these types of situations happen a few times a year in cases his agency investigates. The fire completely destroyed the home B Y C HARLENE H OEFLICH HOEFLICH@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM BY BRIAN J. REED POMEROY — A Lifeline of Ohio quilt titled “Shine On” composed of 30 unique quilt blocks hangs in the lobby of Charlene Farmers Bank. Each 12x12-inch block was Hoeflich/photo created by the families of Brandi Thomasʼ quilt block. donors in tribute to their loved ones whose organs were given that others might live. There is a block in tribute to Brandi Thomas, daughter of Cheryl and John Thomas of Pomeroy, who died as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident several years ago. The beautiful block which includes a picture of Brandi along with a tribute in her memory was made by her aunt, Debbie Kennedy. The quilt was reserved for display here by Barbara Crow whose daughter Morgan Matthews was the recipient of a donor liver transplant. It was brought by her from Columbus to Meigs County for display at this year’s “Keep Your Fork” event held Saturday in remembrance of Brandi. Funds raised in the track and cross country event go into a scholarship fund at Meigs High School. The “Shine On” quilt, one of 11 state quilts, was Charlene Hoeflich/photo unveiled in April 2010. Brandi Thomasʼ life is remembered on a Lifeline of Ohio quilt displayed at Brandi’s parents attended the Farmers Bank. Here with the quilt is her mother, Cheryl. unveiling ceremony. BREED@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM POMEROY — County commissioners approved a $22,000 engineering contract to plan for an energy efficiency project at two county-owned buildings. The commissioners have received a $300,000 grant to upgrade heating and cooling systems and make energy efficiency renovations to the multipurpose building and county annex buildings. Wednesday, commissioners approved a contract with Kramer Engineers, Columbus, to perform the engineering work required to replace equipment and make window upgrades. The funding was awarded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the federal stimulus program. Commissioners also met with Max Cale, director of the Veterans Service Office, and VSO Board Member Mick Williams, regarding budgetary matters in the department. See HVAC, A5 OBITUARIES County Commissioners warn of dire December budget crunch Page A5 • Emma M. (Dray) Moodispaugh WEATHER High: 40 Low: 26 INDEX Cash flow, ‘11 carryover at issue BY BRIAN J. REED BREED@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM POMEROY — County officeholders have been put on notice to curb spending in this last month of the year, because a bleak financial picture awaits in January. Meeting Wednesday, Meigs County Commissioners discussed the importance of maintaining a healthy cash flow this month and into 2011, holders. Commissioner Mick Davenport said the board expects to know more about next year’s cash carryover by midDecember, when the deadline for bills to be paid from 2010 funds has passed. “It is vital to control expenses at every level in order to get every department through the first two months of next year,” Anderson said. “Even so, it appears that cuts will have to be made across the board.” There have been times this year that commissioners have held off on approving certain payments because there was insufficient money to make them. The first dire warning of a budget problem was issued in September, when commissioners reported a shortage of cash to pay bills, due to a late second-half real estate tax settlement. The 2010 budget year has been the toughest in years, Davenport said then. There was a $100,000 carryover shortage in January and a $100,000 drop in real estate tax collection for the second half, the county has experienced a shortage of available cash in the past weeks. There were no acrossboard cuts to county departments this year, despite the shortage in cash carryover. Southern approves personnel, contracts BY BETH SERGENT 2 SECTIONS — 12 PAGES BSERGENT@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM Calendars A3 Classifieds B3-4 Comics B5 Editorials A4 Sports B Section RACINE — The approval of personnel and supplemental contracts took center stage at the most recent meeting of the Southern Local Board of Education. The following list of county approved certified substitutes were accepted: Katie Dickson, Sarah Nelson, Tamara Toomey, April Dunaway, Michael Ramthun, Ray Tope, Bretta Hansen, Wendy © 2010 Ohio Valley Publishing Co. when the county will operate on a cash carryover from this year — what there is of one. Board President Tom Anderson said he expects 15 to 20 percent cuts in departmental budgets next year. Anderson also said the county cannot afford pay increases or year-end bonuses for courthouse employees — although those are paid from appropriations controlled by the respective county office- Sewell, Madison VanGosen. The following county approved substitute aides were accepted: Christie Casto, Sarah Nelson, Christopher Light. An amendment to a resolution was approved to reflect the correct amount of compensation for LPDC member William Beegle at $500. The Board approved an amendment to a resolution accepting the resignation of Pam Foreman from the day tutoring program and not the ASK program. Robert Glen Johnson and James Stewart Languell were approved as substitute bus drivers. The following supplemental contracts were approved: Virginia Hart, junior high cheerleaders, $700 (half season); Kim McClain, elementary newspaper, $361.47; Brian Weaver, assistant girls basketball, $2,100; Ryan Lemley, seventh grade boys coach, $1,400; Chad Dodson, pep band, $800.71; Chad Dodson, assistant band director, $2,100. Approved accepting a grant in the amount of $5,000 from the School Breakfast to School Wellness Partnership. Approved accepting a grant in the amount of $1,000 from the GalliaJackson-Meigs Board of Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services. Revised permanent appropriations for the 2010-11 school year in the amount of $10 million. Approved a variety of bylaw and policy revisions, additions and form changes including new policies on executive session, voting, educational opportunity for military children, call to active duty leave. Board members present for the meeting were Denny Evans, Dennie Hill, Paul Harris, John Hoback, Peggy Gibbs. Members of the administration present were Tony Deem, Roy Johnson, Kent Wolfe, Daniel Otto. �Thursday, December 2, 2010 www.mydailysentinel.com The Daily Sentinel • Page A2 Fed IDʼs companies that used crisis aid programs BY JEANNINE AVERSA ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve revealed details Wednesday of more than $3 trillion in emergency aid it provided to U.S. and foreign banks during the financial crisis. Newly released documents show that the most loan money over time went to Citigroup ($2.2 trillion), followed by Merrill Lynch ($2.1 trillion), Morgan Stanley ($2 trillion), Bank of America ($1.1 trillion), Bear Stearns ($960 billion), Goldman Sachs ($620 billion), JPMorgan Chase ($260 billion) and Wells Fargo ($150 billion). Many of the individual loans they took were worth billions and had short durations but were paid back and renewed many times. Merrill Lynch was later acquired by Bank of America, while Bear Stearns collapsed and was sold to JPMorgan. Among the largest foreign bank recipients were Bank of England, Swiss National Bank, Barclays and Bank of Japan. The documents are a reminder of how crippled the financial system had become during the crisis and how much it’s recovered since. Banks earned $14 billion from July through September this year. The Fed released the data in the form of more than 21,000 transactions. The disclosures are required under the financial overhaul law. The Fed’s programs were credited with helping restore the health of individual banks and stabilize the financial system. The documents detail more than $2 trillion the Fed lent through eight programs from December 2007 to July this year to ease a credit crisis. It came at a time when credit had virtually dried up and was worsening the deepest recession since the Great Depression. The lending programs had never been used before and are now defunct. Most of the loans have been repaid, and none are overdue, Fed officials say. The Fed also detailed the $1.25 trillion in mortgage securities it bought from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to help drive down mortgage rates, ease credit and provide some support to the crippled housing market. In addition, the Fed disclosed details of “swap” arrangements with foreign central banks. These occurred when the Fed traded much-in-demand dollars for foreign currencies to try to ease credit. The foreign central banks, in turn, lent the dollars to banks in their countries that needed dollar funding. The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the Swiss National Bank and the Bank of Japan were involved in the exchanges. One of the emergency lending programs the Fed created provided lowcost, short-term loans to banks. Another sought to ease credit problems in the “commercial paper” market, which many U.S. companies use to finance everything from salaries to supplies. Another was designed to spark low-cost lending to consumers and small businesses. Investors used the Fed’s loans to buy securities backed by auto loans, credit cards and other debt. But the emergency aid that was extended to banks and Wall Street rankled many ordinary Americans who weren’t getting any help in their struggles with high unemployment, rising foreclosures and sagging home values. And many expressed anger toward banks and Wall Street for lax lending and for taking risky gambles that contributed to the crisis. Much of the information the Fed is disclosing is similar to what would be required under a court case that a group of commercial banks is appealing to the Supreme Court The Fed didn’t take part in that appeal. What the court case could require — but the Fed isn’t providing Wednesday — are the names of commercial banks that got low-cost emergency loans from the Fed’s “discount win- dow” during the crisis. The Fed has long acted as a lender of last resort, offering commercial banks loans through its discount window when they couldn’t obtain financing elsewhere. The Fed has kept secret the identities of such borrowers. It’s expressed fear that naming such a bank could cause a run on it, defeating the purpose of the program. The Fed didn’t oppose releasing the information being disclosed Wednesday. But the new financial overhaul law will require the Fed in late 2012 to provide information on any commercial banks that are drawing emergency loans from its discount window now. That doesn’t include banks that drew loans from the discount window during the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Manufacturing expands for 16th straight month BY CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — U.S. factory output grew for the 16th straight month in November as consumers and businesses spent more on autos, computers and other goods. The Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday its index of manufacturing activity was barely changed in November, dipping to 56.6 from 56.9 in October. Any reading above 50 indicates growth. Automakers are driving the growth in manufacturing, and America’s two biggest car companies reported healthy sales gains for last month. Sales rose 20 percent at Ford Motor Co. and 11 percent at General Motors in November. Manufacturing has been one of the strongest sectors of the economy since the recession ended. After slowing over the summer, factories have picked up in recent months as auto sales have grown and businesses are investing in industrial machinery and other equipment. “American factories are catching a second wind as consumers start to flex their wallets,” Sal Guatieri, an economist at BMO Capital Markets, said. Stocks surged prior to the report’s release and held their gains afterward. The Dow Jones industrial average rose more than 190 points in midday trading. Broader indexes also rose. Investors were mostly responding to strong manufacturing data out of China and a report showing that small U.S. companies are hiring more workers. ADP Employer Services said employment at private companies jumped by 93,000 in November as small businesses added the largest amount of workers in three years. Meanwhile, a survey affiliated with the Chinese government said its measure rose to 55.2 in November from 54.7 in October. Separately, the Commerce Department said construction spending in October for the second straight month. The growth was mostly due to a 6.2 percent jump on spending for home improvements. Spending on new home construction fell. Wednesday’s ISM reading is the secondhighest in the past six months. The index rose to 60.4 in April, the highest level since June 2004. The index had bottomed out at 32.5 in December 2008, the lowest since June 1980. Daryl Dulaney, CEO of Siemens Industry Inc., said his company is seeing strong demand for industrial equipment from automakers, railroad companies, and renewable energy firms. Siemens just received a $466 million order for 70 electric locomotives from Amtrak, he said. Auto companies are also ordering industrial automation equipment to boost their productivity, Dulaney said. The ISM report showed that new orders and production also grew, but at a slower pace. Production fell steeply, to 55 from 62.7. The employment index also ticked down, to 57.5 from 57.7. That’s the 12th straight month of growth in factory employment. Exports, meanwhile, are benefiting from a cheaper dollar. The export index grew, but not as quickly as in October, the ISM said. “Manufacturing continues to benefit from the recovery in autos, but those industries reliant upon housing continue to struggle,” said Norbert Ore, chairman of the ISM’s survey committee. The ISM is a trade group of purchasing executives. The ISM surveys purchasing managers at about 350 companies around the country to compile the index. GOP says itʼll block bills until tax cuts extended BY JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans threatened Wednesday to block virtually all legislation until expiring tax cuts are extended and a bill is passed to fund the federal government, vastly complicating Democratic attempts to leave their own stamp on the final days of the post-election Congress. “While there are other items that might ultimately be worthy of the Senate’s attention, we cannot agree to prioritize any matters above the critical issues of funding the government and preventing a job-killing tax hike,” all 42 GOP senators wrote in a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. The 42 signatures are more than enough to block action on almost any item he wishes to advance. The threat does not apply to a new arms control treaty with Russia that is pending, since it would be debated under rules that differ from those that apply to routine legislation. President Barack Obama has made ratification of the pact a top priority. But it does threaten Democratic attempts to lift the Pentagon’s ban on openly gay members of the military, a separate item to give legal status to young illegal immigrants who attend college or serve in the military, and a measure to expand first responders’ collective bargaining rights. The tax and spending bills are likely to be the last to pass before Congress adjourns for the year. “Republicans have pleaded with Democrats to put aside their wish-list to focus on the things Americans want us to focus on. They’ve ignored us. The voters repudiated their agenda at the polls. They’ve ignored them. Time is running out. They’re ignoring that,” Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said in remarks on the Senate floor. “The election was a month ago. It’s time to get serious. It’s time to focus on priorities.” McConnell and Reid met Wednesday to discuss the legislative agenda, but no agreements were reached. The Democratic to-do list also includes extending the expiring tax cuts — although they and Republicans differ on particulars, as well as a measure to keep the government in operation. But the rest of their agenda marks an attempt to court voters Democrats need in 2012 to recapture the majority, including Hispanics, gay-rights activists and organized labor. Call it lame-duck poli- tics. Take the so-called Dream Act, a measure to give young people whose parents brought them into the United States illegally before they were 16 a path to legal status by going to college or joining the armed forces. The measure has enjoyed some degree of bipartisan support in the past, and Reid, the majority leader, vowed last month — in the thick of his tough re-election fight in heavily Hispanic Nevada — to hold a vote on it when Congress returned to finish its endof-the-year business. He said Tuesday he’d move to overcome GOP objections and force a test vote, although it’s unclear when one will occur. Hispanic voters also played a major role in sparing other Democrats — including Sens. Michael Bennet of Colorado and Barbara Boxer of California — from being toppled by a GOP wave. “There was a firewall in the West where Latino voters turned out in big numbers to reward people who championed them,” said Frank Sharry of America’s Voice, an immigrant advocacy group. “We’re going to try to make it painful” for those who oppose efforts to give illegal immigrants a path to legal status, he added. Most Republicans vehemently oppose the Dream Act, saying it amounts to amnesty. And they decry the strategy of acting on such issues during the lame-duck session, accusing Democrats of playing politics and ignoring the message voters sent Nov. 2. But Democrats also face pressure from their left flank. Gay-rights groups have criticized Reid for not pushing hard enough to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy against openly gay soldiers, as the House has already voted to do. Reid has promised to hold a Senate vote on the matter before year’s end, after hearings can be held later this week on a Pentagon report on the impact that openly serving gays would have on the military. Republicans say they need to examine the report, which was issued Tuesday, before acting. It concluded that getting rid of the policy might cause some disruption at first but wouldn’t create widespread or long-lasting problems. Obama seized on the conclusion to call on the Senate to act “as soon as possible” to repeal the ban, “so I can sign this repeal into law this year and ensure that Americans who are willing to risk their lives for their country are treated fairly and equally.” Obama: No offshore drilling in East Coast waters BY BRENDAN FARRINGTON AND MATTHEW DALY ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — In a reversal, the Obama administration said Wednesday it will not pursue offshore drilling off the East Coast of the U.S. and the eastern Gulf of Mexico. A senior administration official told The Associated Press that because of the BP oil spill, the Interior Department will not propose any new oil drilling in waters off the East Coast for at least the next seven years. President Barack Obama’s earlier plan — announced in March, three weeks before the April BP spill — would have authorized officials to explore potential for drilling from Delaware to central Florida, plus the northern waters of Alaska. The new plan allows potential drilling in Alaska, but officials said they will move cautiously before approving any leases. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar planned to discuss details of the decision later Wednesday. He said in a statement obtained by the AP that the BP spill taught officials a number of lessons, “most importantly that we need to proceed with caution and focus on creating a more stringent regulatory regime.” The new strategy focuses on areas with leases that are currently active in the central and western Gulf of Mexico, Salazar said. “Our revised strategy lays out a careful, responsible path for meeting our nation’s energy needs while protecting our oceans and coastal communities,” he said. Obama’s pre-spill embrace of more offshore drilling was widely viewed as a political ploy to secure more votes for a comprehensive global warming bill in Congress — one of the president’s top domestic priorities. But that bill died last summer, and with Republicans winning control of the House and gaining in the Senate, the bill is unlikely to be revived any time soon. The eastern Gulf — an area stretching from 125 to 300 miles off Florida’s coast — was singled out for protection by Congress in 2006 as part of a deal with Florida lawmakers that made available 8.3 million acres to oil and gas development in the eastcentral Gulf. Under that agreement, the protected region is to remain off limits to energy development until 2022. But the administration had entertained the idea of expanded drilling, until the BP spill that spewed an estimated 172 million gallons of oil into the Gulf. In order to open more of the eastern Gulf to drilling, the administration would have to ask Congress to lift the drilling moratorium. The new plan does not affect the Pacific seaboard, which will remain off-limits to drilling in federal waters. Lawmakers in Florida, where drilling in state-controlled waters has long been banned, hailed the announcement. State officials fear that a spill would damage its beaches, the state’s biggest tourism draw. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said the decision represents a major step backward for the nation’s energy future. “The decision comes on top of the de facto moratorium the administration has imposed on production in both deep and shallow waters in the Gulf and Alaska, which is already causing significant harm to our economy and our energy security,” said Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the camber’s Institute for 21st Century Energy. “By continuing to keep most of America’s abundant oil and natural gas resources under lock and key, the Obama administration is ensuring that we will continue to increase our dependence on foreign oil, which threatens our national security,” Harbert said. The decision to abandon offshore drilling along the East Coast follows questions raised by the president’s oil spill commission as to why top-level administration officials were not consulted before the drilling expansion was announced in March. �The Daily Sentinel BY THE BEND OʼBleness names new chief of staff ATHENS — Dawn Sammons, DO, is now the chief-of-staff elect of the medical staff at O’Bleness Memorial Hospital. Sammons, who is boardcertified in dermatology, owns and practices at Oakview Dermatology at the Castrop Center in the O’Bleness Medical Park. S a m m o n s received her medical degree from the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Athens and completed her residency in dermatology at O’Bleness. Sammons is a member-at-large of the Medical Executive Committee and chairs the medical education and recruitment committees within that group. She is interested in advancing the medical education program at O’Bleness. A S K D R . B R OT H E R S Husband needs to understand discrimination Dear Dr. Brothers: Our family just moved to a very small town, where we signed our son up for a new school. He’s being taunted by many kids in his class. I don’t think any of his classmates has ever met an Asian-American, so he is the victim of many insults. The children’s inexperience does not excuse the pain my son endures, but my husband doesn’t seem to understand. He says our son is tough and 15 years old. How can I make him see my son is in so much turmoil? — K.L. Dear K.L.: Fathers often relive their own childhood through their sons, as mothers sometimes do with their daughters. In this new reality, they have a chance to project onto their children all the wonderful qualities they wish they had possessed when they were growing up. Maybe they were shy and would have liked to have been more popular. Or they were scholarly when the athletic boys were getting all the attention. Or they felt stupid because they didn’t understand calculus or chemistry, but their sons seem to get it and that makes them feel proud. In any case, your husband may very well understand about discrimination. He would just rather forget and deny that it could be happening again. Those old scars are difficult to heal, and he may not want to open those old wounds, so he tells himself (and you) that his son is a man and can handle it. But your son needs the support from his dad — even if he were to be able to say “I understand.” A recent study at UCLA confirmed that minority youth who are discriminated against by peers and adults suffer from lower grade point averages and physical symptoms. While being in denial may be helpful to your husband, it would be more helpful for him to show some empathy to his son. Far from making him look and feel weak, it could help your son’s selfesteem, and that’s a powerful role for a father. Dear Dr. Brothers: I’m a 26-year-old single mother who is very concerned Dr. Joyce Brothers about her 8-year-old son. He’s excruciatingly sensitive about how other kids on his baseball team treat him and is convinced no one likes him. He’s taken to bursting out in crying fits because he doesn’t want to play anymore. I’m afraid that not having a male role model in his life is making him like this. What can I do to change his behavior? I don’t want him to grow up like this. — A.W. Dear A.W.: I suppose you could concentrate on finding a husband who would raise your son as his own and you would all live happily ever after. But since you don’t even raise that as a possibility — and it probably seems more like an impossible dream at this point — let’s see what you can do with the hand you were dealt. You are a very young mother, and you seem very in tune with your child’s feelings. Does he really like baseball, but is not happy with how the other kids act around him? Or do you think he’d rather quit and try something else? It would be good to sort this out a bit, but it seems likely that your child would enjoy his sport if his teammates were more supportive. Teammates may not seem to like a child for a number of reasons: He may be boastful or conceited (not your situation, I imagine), he may not “step up to the plate” and do his job adequately, he may be a cheater or poor sport, or he may be a pet of the coach. Or maybe his parent or parents are obnoxious or never show up at all. So when you go to his games, try to see what is really going on and where your son’s strengths or weaknesses lie. Page A3 Thursday, December 2, 2010 To Smartphone, or Not to Smartphone? My wife decided to upgrade her dinosaur cell phone to a “smartphone” and enlisted my help. Initially, we ran into the brick wall of decisions smartphone shoppers frequently face: How to choose among hundreds of available phones, pick the right service provider and predict which calling and data plan and other options Jason Alderman would best fit her needs without breaking the bank? Here are a few things we learned: What’s a smartphone? These all-in-one devices generally let you: send and receive phone calls and text, email and instant messages; surf the Internet; shoot photos and video; manage and synch-up your calendar; run applications such as weather and traffic conditions, games, social networking and maps; play music and video, and much more. Reception. Reception in your home, commute and work is a critical component when choosing a service provider. Unfortunately, signal strength, data download speed and other factors can vary significantly from block to block. Ask friends and neighbors how pleased they are with their service. Also, remember carriers offer a grace period (generally 30 days) before an early plan termination fee kicks in, so try out all features extensively wherever you plan to use the phone. No apples to apples. Many variables complicate the selection process, including: • Some models are only available with particular service providers. • Most smartphones use some variation of the standard “QWERTY” keyboard, as a touch screen and/or raised keys located below the display or on a slide-out keyboard. Key size, spacing and sensitivity vary widely, so try several types for comfort and ease of operation, especially if you have large hands. • Screen size, handset shape, weight and battery life vary considerably, so visit carrier showrooms or an electronics store to compare phones, even if you end up purchasing online. Ask to make a few test calls and evaluate sound quality at both ends. • If you want to receive work emails and open documents, make sure the OS is compatible with your employer’s system and that you’ll be allowed to access your work network. Cost considerations. Although the smartphone itself is pricey, to determine the true cost of ownership factor in how much you’ll pay for a standard two-year carrier contract. Depending on whether you opt for limited or unlimited plans for voice minutes, text messaging and Internet data transfer, you could rack up $80 to $150-plus in monthly operating costs. Other expenses to consider: accessories (vehicle charger, Bluetooth earpiece, home charging dock and external memory card); various monthly plan taxes and fees; software applications such as ring tones, games, on-demand TV or radio, GPS navigation; additional fees for international calls; and replacement insurance. These additional more online resources may help you decide: • CNET (www.cnet.com) has a helpful Cell Phone Buying Guide, a Cell Phone Coverage Map tool for comparing cell reception in certain cities, product reviews and other tools. • BillShrink has a cell phone service Price Comparison Tool (www.billshrink.com). • TeleBright has an online tool that compares cellular plans and phones available in the top 70 U.S. markets (https://wireless.telebright.com). As for my wife, a friend let her borrow an LG Ally and now she’s hooked. The Ally is sleek, powerful and runs Google’s Android. Now I’ve got phone envy . (Jason Alderman directs Visa’s financial education programs. To Follow Jason Alderman on Twitter: www.twitter.com/PracticalMoney.) Grover recognized Kayla Sharlene Grover of Pomeroy was recently recognized as a member of Sigma Alpha Lambda, National Leadership and Honors Organization at The Ohio State University. Sigma Alpha Lambda is a national leadership and honors organization dedicated to promoting and rewarding academic achievement and providing members with opportunities for community service, personal development and lifelong professional fulfillment. Grover is the daughter of Greg Grover of Pomeroy and Linda Thayer of Columbus. Monday, Dec. 6 RUTLAND — The Rutland Township Trustees, 5 p.m. at the Rutland Fire Station. LETART FALLS — Letart Township Trustees, 5 p.m., office building. Clubs and organizations Thursday, Dec. 2 POMEROY — Meigs County Retired Teachers Association luncheon, noon, Trinity Church. Eastern High School bell choir to perform holiday music. Bring gift books for children. Reservations to 992-3214 by Nov. 30. CHESTER — Chester/Shade Historical Association, 7 p.m., Chester Courthouse. TUPPERS PLAINS — VFW Aux. 9053. 6:30 p.m. at the hall, gift exchange. Friday, Dec. 3 POMEROY — Meigs County PERI Chapter will meet at noon, Mulberry Community Center for potluck meal. Meat and drinks furnished, members to bring covered dish. Business meeting at 1 p.m., to include nomination of officers, group singing and $5 gift exchange. Saturday, Dec. 4 SALEM CENTER — Star Grange #778 and Star Junior Grange #878, 6:30 p.m. potluck dinner Chevrolet Impala LS Air, Power Windows, Locks & Seats Stock # U0398 Holiday Priced @ $13,990 2008 Cadillac STS Sterling Silver, Only 24,000 Careful Miles, Balance of 4 yr. 50,000 Bumper to Bumper Warranty Extra Clean Stock # U0249 Dr. Joyce Brothers 2008 GMC Yukon Denali Fully Equipped, All Wheel Drive Stock # U0276 Must See to Appreciate! 2009 Chevrolet HHR Special Holiday Price Company Vehicle, Leather, All Power Stock # U9355 $13,999 2009 Hyundai Accent 2 Door, Air, Auto Gas Saver, Only 13,000 miles Stock # N0414A $9,990 2008 Saturn Acura XR V-6, Extra Clean, Family Sized Sedan Stock # U0067 $13,400 2007 Cadillac CTS Red Jewel Exterior, Only 23,000 miles Stock # U0320 All Power Options-Drive Now! Must See 2008 Toyota 4 Runner Sport 4x4, Only 36,000 miles, One Owner, Sunroof, Loaded New Buick Trade Stock # N0316A 2006 Chevrolet Tahoe Z-71 4x4, Leather, & More One Local Owner Stock # N0315A Priced to Sell! 2008 Chevrolet Silverado Ext. Cab Truck 2WD 6 Auto Work Truck Model $14,800 Stock # U0190 2007 Pontiac Grand Prix Community Calendar Public meetings A2010 S K D R . B R OT H E R S followed by 7:30 p.m. meeting. Tuesday, Dec. 8 HARRISONVILLE — Harrisonville O.E.S. 255, Past Matrons annual Christmas dinner and business meeting. Harrisonville Masonic Lodge hall. All past matrons and spouses welcome. Church events Saturday, Dec. 4 SYRACUSE — Bluegrass gospel music will be presented at 6:30 p.m. at the Syracuse Community Center. Bands performing will be the Mason County Seniors, Delivered and others. Free admission. Refreshments. Sunday, Dec. 5 HARRISONVILLE — The Lonnie Welsh family singers will be at the H a r r i s o n v i l l e Presbyterian Church, 6:30 p.m. RACINE — “The Concords,” a nationallyknown singing group will be featured at Bethany UM Churchʼs free Christmas concert at 6 p.m. Other events Thursday, Dec. 16 RACINE — A free holiday dinner will be served at 5 p.m. at the Racine United Methodist Methodist Church. White Exterior, V-6, Air, Power Windows & Locks Stock # U0108A $9,990 2004 Ford F-250 Extended Cab Diesel $19,990 Auto, 4x4 Model, Two tone paint, Auto Trans. Stock # U0266A Smith Chevrolet Buick 1911 Eastern Avenue Gallipolis, Ohio 45631 740-446-2282 www.smithsuperstore.com 60147707 �OPINION 111 Court Street • Pomeroy, Ohio (740) 992-2156 • FAX (740) 992-2157 www.mydailysentinel.com Ohio Valley Publishing Co. Sammy M. 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That’s according to a Democratic official who attended the Democratic Governors Association meeting and spoke on the condition of anonymity because the session was closed to the public. The official said that several Democratic governors acknowledged the past tension and welcomed the White House’s commitment to improving the relationship. They also called Obama’s White House the most responsive they had ever dealt with and called the visit by a White House chief of staff a historic first. On Capitol Hill, incoming House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., were meeting with more than a half dozen newly elected Republican governors, in hopes of working together on proposals for cutting spending, creating jobs and repealing Obama’s health care law. Three of the newly elected governors told reporters they would stand up to Washington on issues such as President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. “Let our people go,” said John Kasich of Ohio, a former member of the House. “Washington will not let our people go.” Mary Fallin of Oklahoma promised to focus on jobs, the economy and fiscal responsibility. Niki Haley of South Carolina railed against unfunded mandates. In both parties, leaders in Washington were looking to strengthen ties with their state counterparts as they seek to both plot strategy and show the public that they are listening after an election that highlighted the public’s disgust with the capital. Obama was hosting newly elected Republican and Democratic governors at the White House today. Throughout the 2010 campaign cycle, there was little collaboration between the White House and Democratic governors on fundraising, policy and political matters. 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The first president to deal with North Korea, Harry Truman, a Democrat, was anything but timid, sending massive U.S. troops into a major war on the Korean peninsula, one that killed tens of thousands of American boys. It was just the start of a 60-year nightmare. What is interesting, however, has been the long battle within the American left over North Korea. The left has suffered two threats in particular—call them “internal:” First, there was the deception and manipulation by the communist left, which, by its nature, refused to acknowledge it was serving the Communist Party line. Second, there was dangerous self-delusion and gullibility among some leading Democrats. As to the first, consider the instructive example of Frank Marshall Davis; on the second, consider Jimmy Carter. As I’ve written before, Frank Marshall Davis was a mentor to Barack Obama, and an actual member of Communist Party USA. (Click here to view documents.) He did pro-Soviet propaganda work, particularly in his weekly Honolulu Record column. I have all of Davis’s columns for 1950, the year Korea erupted into war. Many American liberals/progressives were unsure where to stand on U.S. involvement in Korea, even as President Truman, a Democrat, sent troops. For communists, however, this was a no-brainer: They wanted no U.S. involvement because they wanted all of Korea to be communist. This was the Stalinist line, the Maoist line, and the worldwide communist line. Thus, American communists ridiculed the very idea of U.S. engagement as paranoid, excessive anti-communism, as an “inordinate fear” of communism, as U.S. imperialism, as capitalist exploitation, as … well, whatever worked. For Frank Marshall Davis, this stance was evident in a February 9, 1950 column, where he accused Truman of “manufacturing crises” for the sake of Big Business and U.S. imperialism, with Korea merely the latest example. America, claimed Davis, wasn’t really “‘endangered’ in Korea.” This was a bunch of baloney by Truman, a phony “propaganda barrage.” “We manufacture crises so rapidly,” argued Davis, “that a new one is shoved in front of us before we can examine yesterday’s or the one rushed in this morning.” Korea, insisted Davis, was another such case. How many liberals/progressives fell for this communist line? A lot of them. How many Americans communists pushed the line? All of them. The communist left didn’t stop pushing until the north was firmly in communist hands. It has been a murderous dungeon ever since, run by two lunatics from the Kim family. These two men, of course, can’t be trusted, which brings me to my second case, involving Jimmy Carter. In June 1994, Carter visited North Korea, hosted by Kim Il Sung. For the impressionable ex-president, Kim provided the full Potemkin village treatment. To say Carter was fooled is an understatement. Carter reported: People are busy. They work 48 hours a week…. We found Pyongyang to be a bustling city. The only difference is that during working hours there are very few people on the street. They all have jobs or go to school. And after working hours, they pack the department stores, which Rosalynn visited. I went in one of them. It’s like Wal-Mart in American stores on a Saturday afternoon. They all walk around in there, and they seem in fairly good spirits. Pyongyang at night looks like Times Square. They are really heavily into bright neon lights and pictures and things like that. Of course, in truth, North Korea is draped in darkness, as well-known satellite photos attest (click here). Worse, within just one year of Carter’s incredibly gullible appraisal, 10-15 percent of North Korea’s population (two to three million people) starved to death, the worst famine in modern times. Adding insult to injury, a few years after that, North Korea announced it was a nuclear state, a direct violation of the “Agreed Framework” brokered by Carter in 1994. Then, Carter had triumphantly assured “the crisis is over”—words headlined by the New York Times and Washington Post. Needless to say, the crisis was far from over. I don’t have the answer for resolving the North Korea situation, but I do know what hasn’t helped. Jimmy Carter hasn’t, and neither did the communist left, embodied by the likes of Frank Marshall Davis. In both cases, America has been poorly served. Delusion and deception have exacerbated an already complex situation. (Dr. Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. His books include “The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism” and the newly released “Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.”) Happy Birthday, Peace Corps! On International Volunteer Day, Dec. 5 BY DAVID SANTULLI UNITED PLANET Dear Peace Corps — It’s been 50 years since the idea of you was born during a speech by JFK at the University of Michigan. It’s been a wonderful life — and now is the time to see how you’re faring. Many people celebrating your birthday have focused on what you have and haven’t done. I’d like to examine why you were brought into being, and how the world has changed. During the Cold War — when the U.S. and the Soviet Union raced to find allies — you were viewed as a way to exert soft power and build friendship with countries susceptible to communist influence. But there was more; there was a genuine interest to support communities in need around the world while engaging American youth and opening their global sensitivities. Other notions were discussed, but never brought into being — such as the idea of bringing people from other countries to serve in the U.S. (a so-called reverse Peace Corps). At the time, this idea was dismissed as too revolutionary. Besides, many thought, what help does the U.S. need from the rest of the world? A lot has changed in the past 50 years. Indeed, the idea of international volunteering has flourished, and you are just one of many institutions that now send volunteers around the world. As we look forward, we should be aware of this new world. 1. The concept of enlightened foreign policy has entered the global lexicon. Many of us now agree that countries must think beyond their own self-interests, and that global challenges require global solutions. It is naïve and even self-destructive to think that any one country can solve such pressing issues as global poverty, environmental degradation, and more. It’s also naïve to think that these global issues will not and cannot affect any one country, even the U.S. 2. The global interest in volunteerism has spread. Peace Corps, you have set an example for the world, and many have been inspired by you. From Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to Germany and beyond, the spirit of volunteerism is taking the world by storm. 3. There is more openness to multilateral volunteerism. We are all realizing how much we have to give each other. A farmer from Tanzania or a non-profit professional from Brazil can in fact make a difference in the U.S., while at the same time opening our eyes to another culture and way of life. So what do these changes mean? How should we act differently because of them? If our true intent is to improve relationships so that we can address and overcome global challenges, then we need to create one or more global Peace Corps. These organizations could be intergovernmental volunteer forces or independent non-governmental forces. When volunteers of different countries, cultures, and faiths work shoulderto-shoulder to solve the world’s most compelling challenges, the communities in which they work change — and perhaps more importantly, the volunteers themselves change. A multilateral Peace Corps (a global volunteer corps, if you will) does not operate from North to South; it operates in all directions. A polycentric approach, employing many organizations around the world within their circles of influence, will ensure that the maximum numbers of people are touched. As we mark International Volunteer Day on December 5, millions will celebrate the spirit and worth of volunteering. As you turn 50, Peace Corps, you can mature and go on to create the better world that was the idea of your birth. You can become a role model and a partner for other nations and non-governmental organizations. You and your idealistic cadres of volunteers have changed the world. Now is the time for you to learn from your acquired lessons so that the world can reap the benefits — and continue the celebration for many years to come. (David Santulli is founder and executive director of United Planet, an international nonprofit based in Boston, Mass.) �Thursday, December 2, 2010 Obituaries The Daily Sentinel • Page A5 www.mydailysentinel.com Meigs County Forecast HVAC From Page A1 Emma M. (Dray) Moodispaugh Emma M. (Dray) Moodispaugh, 82, Middleport, passed away on Nov. 30, 2010. She was born on June 22, 1928, daughter of the late Peter Dray and Ada (Henry) Dray. She was a member of the Hobson Christian Fellowship Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph Moodispaugh; brothers: John Dray, Harold Dray; mother-in-law, Lovena Neal; gather-In-law: Albert Moodispaugh. She is survived by her children, Bill (Connie) Moodispaugh, Little Hocking; Connie (Paul “Ed”) Barthelmas, Langsville; Jolene (David) Sefzik, Pittsburgh, Pa.; sisters, Jean (Jr.) Johnson, Gallipolis; Bonnie (John) Reynolds, North Wilksboro, N.C.; Mary Siders and Betty Siders, both of Gallipolis; brother: Gilbert Henry, Gallipolis; sisters-In-law, Juanita Dray, Columbus; Sue Dray, Sierra Vista, Ariz.; eight grandchildren, nine great grandchildren, several nieces and nephews. Funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 3, 2010, at Anderson McDaniel Funeral Home in Middleport with Pastor Hershel White officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Cemetery. Friends may call on Friday from 10 a.m. until time of service. An online registry is available at www.andersonmcdaniel.com. Stocks rise sharply on signs of economic growth NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks started December with a jump. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 249 points Wednesday, its biggest one-day gain since Sept. 1 and the sixth largest this year. An encouraging employment report and hopes that Europe’s debt crisis may ease boosted major indexes on Wednesday, erasing nearly two weeks of losses. Bond prices and the dollar fell as investors moved money into riskier assets. Signs that the U.S. job market thawed in November jump-started the gains. ADP Employer Services, a payroll company, said small businesses added the largest amount of workers in three years last month, well ahead of what analysts had forecast. “The U.S. economy is all about jobs and anything that leads folks to believe that there’s a better job market will be good for equities,” said Paul Zemsky, the head of asset allocation at ING Investment Management. Greg Walker, a global investment strategist at J.P. Morgan Private Bank, said the ADP report gave traders confidence that the overall U.S. employment rate will fall. The Labor Department will release the November unemployment rate on Friday morning. More encouraging news followed throughout the day. The Institute of Supply Management said its index of manufacturing activity rose in November for the 16th month. The Federal Reserve then said the U.S. economy improved in 10 of the Fed’s 12 regions. Only the Philadelphia and St. Louis regions reported mixed economic conditions. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 249.76, or 2.3 percent, to 11,255.78. It was the largest point gain since Sept. 1, when stocks began rallying on expectations the Federal Reserve would move to lift economic growth. The Dow continued climbing until it hit this year’s high on Nov. 5, two days after the Fed put the $600 billion stimulus plan in motion. Since then, stocks have fallen amid worries about Europe’s debt troubles and sluggish U.S. economic growth. Even with Wednesday’s gains, the Dow is still 1.7 percent below its Nov. 5 close. The index is up 7.9 percent so far this year. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 25.52, or 2.2 percent, to 1,206.07. The Nasdaq composite rose 51.20, or 2.1 percent, to 2,549.43. All 10 industry groups that make up the S&P 500 index were higher, led by energy, industrial and technology companies. And all 30 stocks in the Dow index rose, led by Home Depot Inc., whose shares rose 4.6 percent. United Technologies rose 4 percent and Alcoa Inc. 3.4 percent. Rising stocks outpaced falling ones by four to one on the New York Stock Exchange. Consolidiated volume was 4.4 billion shares. Bond prices fell sharply, pushing their yields higher. The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond rose to 2.97 percent from 2.80 percent late Tuesday. That yield is a widely used benchmark for loans including mortgages. European stocks got a boost after European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet suggested that the bank could buy bonds issued by countries within the European Union. That, along with a better-than-expected bond auction by Portugal, pushed the euro higher. The Euro Stoxx 50, which tracks blue chip companies in Europe, rose 2 percent. Stocks rose in Asia on signals that the Chinese economy is growing. A Chinese state index of manufacturing activity indicated that the country’s economy expanded for the 21st straight month. A competing Chinese survey by HSBC rose to an eight-month high. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 1.1 percent. China’s benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.1 percent. Stocks have fallen in Asia since early November after China raised a key interest rate to combat inflation. Commissioners discussed their budgetary authority and cash flow issues. (See related story, page 1). Commissioners also approved payment of bills in the amount of $299,364.42. Attending were Commissioners Mick Davenport, Tom Anderson and Mike Bartrum and Clerk Gloria Kloes. Father of 3 missing boys fights return to Mich. BY JEFF KAROUB ASSOCIATED PRESS MORENCI, Mich. — A couple whose three sons have been missing since Thanksgiving had bickered over custody as they negotiated their divorce, but they still did things together as a family. On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, John and Tanya Skelton took their boys to the United Methodist Church in Morenci to help decorate it and a nearby park for the Christmas season. “Andrew said to me, ‘With the park all lit up and church all lit up, we’re going to light up the town,’” the Rev. Donna Galloway, who also serves as the chaplain for the Morenci Fire Department, said Wednesday. “It was a good day, it was a family day, for all of us at the church. That light — and the season of light — is what we’re holding on to,” Galloway said. That was the first time Galloway saw the whole family together. The following Friday, Tanya Skelton reported the boys missing when their father didn’t return them to her. Police say he tried to hang himself, and that he lied to investigators when he said he first gave the boys to a female acquaintance to hand over to their mother. The disappearance of the boys, who were last seen on Thanksgiving playing in their father’s yard, has gripped those living in and around Morenci, a community of about 2,000 residents 75 miles southwest of Detroit. A small army of volunteers fanned out for a fifth day Wednesday to search the countryside around Morenci and across the border in Ohio. Meanwhile, the children’s father was in a Toledo, Ohio, courtroom, fighting extradition back to Michigan to face three charges of parental kidnapping. John Skelton, a 39-year-old unemployed long-haul truck driver, sat throughout the hearing in a wheelchair covered by a green blanket, answering the judge’s yes-or-no questions in a whisper. The judge set bond at $3 million and scheduled another hearing for Dec. 14. Tanya Skelton, 44, filed for divorce in September. A judge gave her custody of the boys, but she and John Skelton reached an agreement on visitation. Police say Tanya Skelton’s family has asked for their privacy. Galloway said she has spoken with Tanya Skelton since the boys’ disappearance, and that she thinks it’s absurd when people ask how Skelton’s doing. “How would you be doing?” Galloway said. “She wants her boys home. We all want her boys home. She’s a mom.” Adam Johnson, who lives next door to John Skelton, said Wednesday that he was among the last people to see the boys. He and his wife, Gail, had company over and were putting coolers on the back porch. “Two of the boys were playing out back. They called to me and I said ‘hi,’” said Johnson, 69. Whatever might have happened last week, Johnson said he never saw anything that concerned him. “He seemed to be very caring around the boys — I never saw him really yell at the boys,” said Johnson, who owns a local hardware store with his wife. Johnson said he often saw the boys playing loudly and happily on bikes, in a backyard playhouse and even in the dirt. The Skelton family also liked to gather for outdoor barbeques, he said. Morenci Police Chief Larry Weeks said John Skelton hasn’t said much about where the boys might be, and that he was no longer speaking to investigators. Asked whether he thought the children had been killed, Weeks said he refused to believe that “at this point.” “It is my desire to maintain hope,” he told reporters during a Wednesday news conference. “But as I said yesterday, the information we have did not indicate that this is going to have a positive outcome.” Volunteer searchers were asked to break for the weekend starting Friday evening so that the authorities can take the weekend to decide how to proceed with the search next week, Weeks said. Naturalists offer kidsʼ programs NELSONVILLE — “Wacky Wayne Fun Science” will be offered by a naturalist of the USDA Forest Service Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Wayne National Forest office on U.S. 33 between Athens and Nelsonville. Naturalist John Wayne will be conducting the program where the children will create blobber and oobeck and other strange inventions. The kids will learn measuring and mixing skills as well as discovering the difference in solids, liquids and gases. To register call (740) 753-0101. On the first Saturday of every month from 10 a.m. to noon through October 2011 the Wayne National Forest will feature its Wild Weekend Discovery Series. The public is invited to bring their children to the Nelsonville Forest Headquarters and enjoy a fun filled educational program designed for kids preschool to 5th grade. They will enjoy a different lesson every month, with an activity and a craft to complement the lesson. The kids will be given a Smokey Bear card punched each time they participate, and then on their sixth visit will be presented a patch. The other programs are Stars on Jan. 1, Snowflakes on Feb. 5; Owls on March 5, Amphibians on April 2, Birds on May 7, Polination on June 4, Butterflies on July 2, fungus on Aug. 6, trees on Sept. 3, and bats on Oct. 1. Registrations are encourage the week prior to each event so that sufficient materials are available for all participants. Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high near 40. West wind between 6 and 10 mph. Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. West wind around 5 mph. Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 39. West wind between 3 and 8 mph. Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 25. Saturday: A chance of snow showers between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., then a chance of rain showers after 1 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 37. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent. Saturday Night: A chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. Chance of precipitation is 40 percent. Sunday: A chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 39. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent. Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. Monday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 36. Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 24. Tuesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 34. Local Stocks AEP (NYSE) — 36.40 Akzo (NASDAQ) — 55.30 Ashland Inc. (NYSE) — 52.05 Big Lots (NYSE) — 31.01 Bob Evans (NASDAQ) — 32.02 BorgWarner (NYSE) — 63.26 Century Alum (NASDAQ) — 14.19 Champion (NASDAQ) — 1.30 Charming Shops (NASDAQ) — 3.79 City Holding (NASDAQ) — 32.85 Collins (NYSE) — 57.37 DuPont (NYSE) — 48.35 US Bank (NYSE) — 24.21 Gen Electric (NYSE) — 16.30 Harley-Davidson (NYSE) — 32.26 JP Morgan (NYSE) — 38.15 Kroger (NYSE) — 23.86 Ltd Brands (NYSE) — 34.64 Norfolk So (NYSE) — 61.52 OVBC (NASDAQ) — 19.50 BBT (NYSE) — 23.75 Peoples (NASDAQ) — 13.42 Pepsico (NYSE) — 65.63 Premier (NASDAQ) — 6.15 Rockwell (NYSE) — 67.61 Rocky Boots (NASDAQ) — 9.23 Royal Dutch Shell — 62.29 Sears Holding (NASDAQ) — 67.58 Wal-Mart (NYSE) — 54.70 Wendy’s (NYSE) — 4.84 WesBanco (NYSE) — 17.95 Worthington (NYSE) — 16.44 Daily stock reports are the 4 p.m. ET closing quotes of transactions for Dec. 1, 2010, provided by Edward Jones financial advisors Isaac Mills in Gallipolis at (740) 441-9441 and Lesley Marrero in Point Pleasant at (304) 674-0174. Member SIPC. For the Record 911 POMEROY — Meigs County 911 dispatched these calls for emergency assistance: Tuesday 9:13 a.m., Ohio 143, difficulty breathing; 9:59 a.m., East Memorial Drive, rapid heart rate; 10:20 a.m., Ohio 124, Sutton Township, motor vehicle collision; 4:11 p.m., Elm Street, Racine, syncope. Wednesday 1:41 a.m., Baer Road, Racine, fall. GCC grad hired at Health Department GALLIPOLIS — Amy Ragland was recently hired as a WIC Clerk by the Gallia County Health Department. Ragland is a graduate of Gallipolis Career College where she received an associate of applied business degree in medical office administration. She resides in Bidwell with her husband Mike, daughters Miranda and Leah, and son Stephen. Southern High School honor roll RACINE — Southern High School recently released its honor roll for the first nine weeks. Seniors, all A’s, Eric Buzzard, Trevor Flint; A and B, Eric Cundiff, Tiffany Cundiff, Joey Forester, Zachary Manuel, Charley Pyles, Braxton Thorla, Cody Tucker. Juniors, all A’s, Ceairra Curran, Andrew Ginther, Amber Hayman, Miranda Holter, Emily Manuel, Emma Powell, Olivia Searls, Hope Teaford, Courtney Thomas, Abbie Williams, Catherine Wolfe; A and B, Emily Ash, Tiffany Burns, Austin Hill, Katelyn Hill, Chelsea Holter, Katelyn Hoover, Kelly Humphrey, Natalie Marler, Morgan McMillan, Andrew Roseberry, Ryan Taylor, Justin Young. Sophomores, all A’s, Kyrie Swann, Johnny Vancooney, Kody Wolfe; A and B, Chris Chaney, Jennifer McCoy, Megan McGee, Jaclyn Mees, Shelby Pickens, Olivia Poling, Stefanie Pyles, Joe Smith, Cody Taylor, Whitney Weddle, Paige Wehrung, Nicolete Wells, Jessica Wood. Freshmen, all A’s, Darien Diddle; A and B, Ryan Daugherty, Brandon Grueser, Shyanne Harper, Lacey Hupp, Rikey Jones, Nathan Leamond, Jamie O’Brien, Chris Yeater. Keeping Meigs County informed The Daily Sentinel Subscribe today 740-992-2156 Visit us online at mydailysentinel.com �Thursday, December 2, 2010 DECK The Daily Sentinel • Page A6 www.mydailysentinel.com THE HALLS Andrew Carter/photos The Gallipolis Junior Womenʼs Club is dressing up the French Art Colony (FAC) in holiday style as members prepare for the annual Christmas Tree and Wreath silent auction, which will be held Friday, Dec. 3 and Saturday, Dec. at the FAC. The event will be open from 5:30-10 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 3, and from 12:30-5 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 4. The French Art Colony is also playing host to local artisans and crafters this weekend during its annual Arts and Crafts Fair, which will be open at the same time as the Junior Womenʼs Club auction. Also on the docket this weekend is the French Art Colonyʼs Holiday Homes Tour, which is also scheduled for Friday and Saturday. The tour will run from 6-10 p.m. Friday and from 1-5 p.m. Saturday. For information about any events at the FAC, call 446-3834. Paula Williams-Wray is shown decorating one of the trees donated for the auction. Courthouse Christmas set for Saturday Vallee elected OCHCH board COLUMBUS — Michael Vallee, president of Ohio Valley Home Health, was recently elected to the board of directors of the Ohio Council for Home Care and Hospice, one of the nation’s oldest and largest trade associations, representing 520 Ohio home health and hospice agencies dedicated to providing the highest quality services in the home to people of all ages and disabilities. “It’s an honor to be selected for such a position,” said Vallee, who is a certified public accountant. “Given the state budget crisis, it’s going to be essential that public officials have all of the information at their disposal so they can make decisions in the best interest of all Ohioans, and particularly those in need of care.” “Mike’s varied background and keen business skills will serve the council well and, most importantly, the people of Ohio,” said Kathleen Anderson, OCHCH President. “He provides the kind of leadership that we need as an organization and the people of Ohio deserve. It’s especially helpful that Mike fully understands the challenges of serving Ohioans living in rural areas of the state and he provides keen insight into helping that underserved population.” OCHC is a statewide trade association that was founded in 1965. Membership is open to home care and hospice providers, suppliers to home care and hospice industries, and individuals not employed by a home care or hospice agency. Ohio home care providers employ nearly 22,000 professional and paraprofessional caregivers. The total visits provided in 2009 to Ohioans in all 88 counties totaled 6.6 million by both home health and hospice. The annual Christmas in the old Chester Courthouse will be held Saturday. The program will be from 2-4 p.m. and will feature the Eastern High School Bell Choir under the direction of Kris Kuhn. That program will be followed by Beth Stivers on the clarinet. Refreshments will be served following the concert to which the public is invited. The holiday activities in the decorated courtroom are sponsored by the Chester Historical Association. Singing for Uganda: Watoto Childrenʼs Choir coming to Gallia County BY AMBER GILLENWATER MDTNEWS@MYDAILYTRIBUNE.COM UNDATED — An Ugandan children’s choir will make three stops around Gallia County this weekend and perform to help raise awareness about the plight of vulnerable children in Africa. The members of the Watoto Children’s Choirs act as ambassadors to promote the mission and vision of the Watoto Child Care Ministries based in the city of Kampala, the capital of Uganda in the heart of eastern Africa. The ministry service was born in the early 1990s as a response to the overwhelming number of children, continually orphaned because of disease, poverty and HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Their mission is to rescue, raise and rebuild the nation of Uganda through its children and raise awareness about the plight of orphaned and vulnerable children across Africa. The Watoto Children’s Choirs have traveled around the globe since 1994 and have performed at Buckingham Palace, the White House and for the Canadian and Scottish Parliaments, among many others. The choir is composed of children who have lost one or both of their parents because of war, poverty or HIV/AIDS. The Watoto choir is schedule to appear at 6 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 4, at the Grace United Methodist Church, Second Ave., Gallipolis; 9 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. on Dec. 5, at Fellowship of Faith church in Rio Grande; and at 7 p.m., Dec. 5, at River Valley High School. The concerts are free and open to the public. For more information on the Watoto Choir or the Watoto Child Care Ministries go to www.watoto.com. this ck soon, Check ba s at 6 A.M. deal startovember 18th Thurs., N � ������ Check Out Our Hot Deal December 2nd At www.mydailyregister.com, www.mydailytribune.com and www.mydailysentinel.com 60149216 �Inside SPORTS W.Va. Class AAA championship game postponed, Page B2 Division V, VI All-Ohio Football Teams, Page B6 LOCAL SCHEDULE POMEROY — A schedule of upcoming high school varsity sporting events in the Ohio Valley Publishing coverage area involving teams from Gallia, Mason and Meigs counties. Thursday, December 2 Boys Basketball Parkersburg Chr. at OVCS, 7 p.m. Girls Basketball Eastern at Belpre, 6 p.m. Southern at Wahama, 6 p.m. River Valley at Gallia Aca., 6 p.m. Parkersburg Chr. at OVCS, 5:30 p.m. Fed Hock at South Gallia, 6 p.m. Wrestling Point Pleasant at Huntington, TBA Friday, December 3 Boys Basketball Meigs at Eastern, 6:30 p.m. River Valley at Southern, 6 p.m. S. Gallia at Ironton St. Joe, 6:30 p.m. Girls Basketball Hannan at Wirt County, 7 p.m. Saturday, December 4 Boys Basketball Warren at Meigs, 6:30 p.m. Gallia Aca. at Rock Hill, 7:30 p.m. River Valley at Nels-York, 6:30 p.m. Girls Basketball Herbert Hoover at Point Pleasant, 7:30 p.m. Marietta at Gallia Academy, 6 p.m. S. Gallia at Symmes Valley, 1 p.m. Swimming River Valley at Athens Inv, TBA Wrestling Gallia Academy, Meigs, River Valley at Meigs Invitational, 10 a.m. Pt. Pleasant at Mike Ellis Duals, TBA CLASS A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME Saturday, December 4 at Wheeling Island Stadium No.1 Wahama vs No. 6 Wheeling Central, 7 p.m. Eastern soars past Lady Rebels in opener, 56-30 B1 Thursday, December 2, 2010 Five local athletes named to D-6 all-Ohio teams BY SARAH HAWLEY SHAWLEY@MYDAILYTRIBUNE.COM COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Valley Publishing area landed a total of five players on the all-Ohio football teams in Division VI for the 2010 season. Eastern led the way with three selections, while Southern and South Gallia each had one. Eastern seniors Kyle Connery, Klint Connery, and Tyler Hendrix were all special mention selections. South Gallia junior Josh Cooper and Southern sophomore Danny Ramthun also earned special mention all-Ohio. The Division VI offensive player of the year was Andrew Dee of McComb, the defensive player of the year was Delphos St. John’s Chris Pohlman, and coach of the year honors went to Curtis Enis (Bradford) and Joe LaRosa (Thompson Ledgemont). In Division V, Akise Teague of Youngstown Ursuline was named offensive player of the year. Defensive players Kl. Connery Hendrix Cooper Ramthun of the year in D-5 were Keil’n Thurston (Youngstown Ursuline), Christian Hauber (Kirtland), and Ryan Severo (Columbia Station Columbia). Division V coach of the year awards went to Brian Baum (Fredericktown), Dave Tarpley (New Lebanon Dixie) and Mike Stoll (Collins Western Reserve). There are no local teams in Division V. Bryan Walters/file photo Eastern’s Kyle Connery carriesthe ball downfield during the Eagles Sept. 14 games against Wahama. Connery was one of three Eastern players named to the all-Ohio football team for the 2010 season. W V S S A C C L A S S A S TAT E C H A M P I O N S H I P SENTINEL STAFF MDSSPORTS@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM TUPPERS PLAINS, Ohio — A 19-2 first quarter surge ultimately allowed host Eastern to spoil South Gallia’s TriVa l l e y Conference Hocking Division d e b u t Monday night during a 56-30 girls basketball contest at Burdette the Eagles’ Nest in M e i g s County. The visiting Lady Rebels (01, 0-1 TVC Hocking) never led in the contest Canaday as the Lady Eagles (10, 1-0) established a doubledigit advantage midway through the first and never looked back en route to posting a 26point triumph. Eastern — which is coming off a 20-2 record last season — had four different players contribute points in that opening quarter charge, which allowed the hosts to take a 17-point cushion after eight minutes of play. The Lady Rebels, however, battled back and kept pace with EHS in the second canto — as both squads scored eight points for a 27-10 contest at the intermission. The Lady Eagles expanded on their lead in the third quarter, going on a 23-12 run that led to a 50-22 cushion headed into the finale. SGHS closed the game on a small 8-6 run in the fourth quarter, wrapping up the 56-30 conclusion. Eastern — which claimed a 22-10 rebounding edge — had nine different players score in the triumph, with freshman Jenna Burdette leading the way with a game-high 15 points. Brenna Holter was next with 13 points, followed by Emeri Connery with nine markers. Chandra Canaday led Please see Eastern, B6 Sarah Hawley/photo The Wahama White Falcons huddle up after taking the field on Friday evening during the Class A State Semifinal game against Wirt County. Wahama will face Wheeling Central Catholic on Saturday at 7 p.m. at Wheeling Island Stadium for the state championship. White Falcons face WCC in championship game BY GARY CLARK SPORTS CORRESPONDENT WHEELING, W.Va. — The 2010 dream continues for the top ranked Wahama White Falcon football team as the Mason County team prepares to battle sixth rated Wheeling Central Catholic at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday at Wheeling Island Stadium in what should be a classic Class A championship clash. The undefeated White Falcons of veteran coach, Ed Cromley, will find themselves in uncharted waters as they advance to their first-ever championship contest. The Bend Area team has reeled off 13 consecutive gridiron victories, including three straight postseason triumphs, on its way to the title game. Wahama also picked up a Tri-Valley Conference, Hocking Division, crown in its first year of league competition while defeating 16th ranked St Marys (19-0), ninth rated East Hardy (73-38) and fourth ranked Wirt County (31-14) during its storybook season. Wheeling Central (9-4) is certainly no stranger to the Class A title game experience with the Maroon Knights owning six championships and a runner-up berth during the current decade. WCCHS claimed the Class A football crowns in 2000, ‘02,’04, ‘05, ‘06 and 2007 while garnering a second place finish in 2001. The Ohio Valley Athletic Conference member played didn’t compete against a WVSSAC opponent this year but did play a regular season ending contest against a West Virginia team in Linsly. Central met two teams from the state of Pennsylvania, two from the Washington D.C. area and five from neighboring Ohio with four of those foes extending their respective seasons into the playoffs. The Maroon Knights opened the year with consecutive victories over Bellaire Ohio (56-7) and McKinley D.C (47-34). They then dropped successive contests to Friendship Collegiate Academy from the D.C. area (1626) and to Bridgeport Ohio (7- 24). Back-to-back wins followed against Catholic Central Ohio (41-0) and Oliver Pa (4118) before another setback to Perry Traditional Academy Pa (28-39). A win over Martins Ferry (10-7) preceded a loss to Ohio power Shadyside (21-26) to set up a must-win, regular season ending showdown with Linsly to get into the post-season. Wheeling Central rallied from 18 points down in the final 11:20 against the Cadets to take a thrilling 39-38 decision and secure a playoff position. During the post-season the Maroon Knights have disposed of 11th rated Pendleton County (487), third ranked Bishop Donahue (24-20) and seventh rated Matewan (34-12) in succession to earn the championship game berth. Wheeling Central will field a veteran team when they line up against the White Falcons on Saturday with eight senior starters, two juniors and a sophomore. The Maroon Knights are led by senior running back Marcus Clifford (5-10, 190) and junior quarterback Lee Peluchette (6-3, 185) who have accounted for over 3900 yards between them. Clifford has scored 144 points on the season while picking up 1278 yards on the ground and adding another 546 receiving yards to his resume. Peluchette has equally impressive stats after connecting on 123 of 255 passes for a whopping 2075 yards and 26 touchdowns. The duo will be joined in the backfield by senior Austin Frohnapfel (6-0, 170) with 43 rushing attempts for 276 yards and junior Ian Iuliucci (5-9, 200) with 193 yards on the ground in 31 tries. Peluchette’s number one target is senior wide receiver McKenzie Peluchette (6-1, 170) with 42 receptions for a team best 819 yards. Frohnapfel is the third leading pass catcher behind Clifford for the Maroon knights with 18 catches for 263 yards while junior Ian Yahnke (5-8, Please see Wahama, B6 �Page B2 • The Daily Sentinel www.mydailysentinel.com Legal fight postpones W.Va. Class AAA title game CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Every day this week, Martinsburg High School players went to practice to prepare for their fifth Class AAA championship game in a decade. Right now, they’re not sure who they’re playing or when. Competing court decisions over the eligibility of four South Charleston players involved in a Nov. 19 fight prompted the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission on Wednesday to postpone the championship pending a resolution. Championship games will be played Friday night for Class AA and Saturday night for Class A. “It’s frustrating obviously,” Martinsburg coach Dave Walker said Wednesday. “We’re going to stay positive and try to stay focused and prepared. The problem is, we’re not sure who we need to prepare for at this point.” The confusion comes from rulings issued Tuesday in circuit courts in Ohio and Kanawha counties. Ohio County Circuit Judge Arthur Recht ruled the Class AAA game couldn’t be played until the players’ eligibility question was resolved in Kanawha County Circuit Court. Brooke County school officials sought the ruling after Kanawha County Circuit Judge Carrie Webster ruled the four players could participate in Saturday’s championship, setting the stage for possible further appeals. “This is a very unfortunate and unique situation,” said SSAC Executive Director Gary Ray said. “Our hope is to settle the Class AAA football championship on the field of competition.” Ray said the SSAC’s attorney has been directed “to do all that he can to expedite a fair and final resolution of this matter. The next legal option is the state Supreme Court, which had not received an appeal petition by Wednesday afternoon, spokeswoman April Harless said. The eligibility question stemmed from a midfield brawl that occurred in the final seconds of South Charleston’s quarterfinal win over Hurricane at Charleston’s Laidley Field. South Charleston players Tyler Harris, Pierria Henry, Emerson Gagnon and Trevand Reese played in last weekend’s 29-28 semifinal win over Brooke after winning a court order allowing them to play. The SSAC and Brooke County school officials contend the four shouldn’t have been allowed to play, and the two-time defending Class AAA champion should be forced to forfeit. That would allow Brooke — which lost to South Charleston in last year’s finals — to play Martinsburg (13-0) in the championship game. “The last two days we’ve practiced for South Charleston because that’s who we thought we were going to play,” Walker said. “Nobody’s playing Saturday afternoon. Right now we’re just waiting to see what happens.” For now, Martinsburg will work on its own fundamentals just like it would during an open week in the schedule. As far as the delay’s effect on his team’s mental state of mind, “I guess it could do whatever you let it do to you,” Walker said. “We’re going to stay focused and just go back and look at things we need to work on. We’re not going to let it pull us down.” Martinsburg is accustomed to playing for championships. The Bulldogs advanced to the title game four times in a six-year span, the last coming in 2006. They’ve gone home as runners-up every time. Martinsburg Principal Regina Phillips has sensed a chomping-atthe-bit attitude during her regular talks with players in the hallways and during lunch hour in the 1,730-student school’s cafeteria. “I think they know it’s just a temporary measure and that in spite of the outcome (in court), we will be in the final game, and we will win,” Phillips said. “My kids are confident.” South Charleston coach John Messinger didn’t immediately return a phone call Wednesday. Since the current Super Six format began in 1979, every championship game has been played as scheduled, said Doug Huff, a retired Wheeling sports writer and high school sports historian. In 1963, BuckhannonUpshur was awarded the Class AAA championship because two other teams were tied for second place in the ratings system and there was no tiebreaker provision, Huff said. According to the SSAC’s website, one title game was called off due to bad weather. Poca and Vinson were declared co-champions of Class B in 1950. Ray called the current legal tangle a “sad” situation. “This is not something we’d like to see. It’s a game. It’s about opportunity, but at the same time it’s got to be about teaching as well,” he said. “Part of teaching lessons is about consequences for inappropriate behavior.” Thursday, December 2, 2010 Browns RB Hillis an unlikely hero CLEVELAND (AP) — His hog-nosed facemask is unlike any in the NFL, just one of the many things separating Peyton Hillis from the pack of running backs. With a straight-ahead, stop-me-if-you-dare smashmouth style, Hillis has emerged as an unstoppable force in his first season with the Cleveland Browns, who acquired him in a trade never envisioning he would emerge as their best offensive threat. Soft-spoken off the field, Hillis is downright demonic when he’s gets the ball. “Dude’s a beast,” said Browns linebacker David Bowens. Thus, the facemask. “It looks like it has tusks,” Hillis says in a distinct, Southern twang in describing the unique cage that protects the face of this football-crazed city’s newest star. “It brings me back to my college days at Arkansas. It’s ugly, but I like it.” Cleveland has fallen for Hillis the same way he drops linebackers. At 6-foot-1, 240 pounds, he’s a hulking hunk, who on the brink of surpassing 1,000 yards, has quickly made the Browns’ female fanbase forget about quarterback Brady Quinn’s model looks. Quinn, by the way, is the one Cleveland traded to Denver in March for Hillis. Hillis is also a guy’s guy. Dressed in rattlesnake-skinned cowboy boots, jeans, a camouflage jacket and a tattered baseball cap, Hillis is the antithesis of many pro athletes right down to his favorite hobby — hunting 400-pound, wild boars in the woods back home. “You get a team of boys together, a bunch of dogs, you lay ‘em (the boars) up against a tree and shoot ‘em or cut ‘em,” Hillis explains matter-of-factly. “Pretty simple.” Bringing down Hillis, on the other hand, is anything but easy. Knees churning, cleats kicking up dirt and grass, he’s a terror to tackle. On his way to rushing for 131 yards in Sunday’s win over Carolina, Hillis powered over an unfortu- nate Panthers safety at the 2 before going in for this third touchdown, and 11th this season, joining Hall of Famers Jim Brown and Leroy Kelly as the only Cleveland backs to score that many. But Hillis isn’t only three yards and a cloud of debris and dust. He’s remarkably agile and has perfected a hurdle to elude defensive backs who try to cut out his legs. “Not only does he bulldoze people,” Browns center Alex Mack said, “he can jump over them, too.” Hillis will enter Sunday’s game in Miami with 905 rushing yards and 414 receiving yards on a team-high 46 catches. The Browns thought Hillis could help them. They had no idea he would carry them. “I thought he would be pretty good and a great addition, but he’s been outstanding,” coach Eric Mangini said. “He just shows up, works like crazy. He’s a great guy, loves being here and plays his heart out every week. He runs people over, catches everything we throw to him, blocks well. “Yeah, he’s made for Cleveland.” And Cleveland seems made for Hillis. The buckle of the Rust Belt, it’s where generations of families spent their work weeks in factories and steel mills and their Sundays in front of the TV or down on the shores of Lake Erie watching the beloved Browns. Of course, times have changed, but there remains a strong identity to athletes who give it their all without complaint. It’s a lunch-pail town. And that’s something Hillis sensed as soon as he arrived. He felt the pride, the passion and the connection between himself and the fan base. “I feel like I can relate to fans on a per- sonal level,” said Hillis, whose No. 40 jersey is popping up all over Northeast Ohio. “They’re hard-working people, they love football and they don’t ask for much. They just want to see their team play. This city’s hungry for a winning team.” On Sunday, there were banners hanging over the railings of Browns Stadium honoring the new hero. “Peyton’s Place” read one. “House of Hillis” was another. And through it all, Hillis is aw-shucks humble. He’ll routinely answer reporters questions with “Yes, sir” or “No, ma’am” and the 24-year-old, who was teammates with running backs Darren McFadden and Felix Jones when they played for the Razorbacks, goes out of his way to compliment his teammates. Following Sunday’s win, the deeply religious Hillis stood at the podium and gave glory to God. Then, he thanked fullback Lawrence Vickers, who helped open a few holes. There’s something else rare about Hillis — he’s white. You have to go back to Craig James in 1985 to find the last white running back to eclipse 1,000 yards. It is a position long dominated by AfricanAmerican players, but Hillis has become an exception. However, his teammates don’t see color when they watch Hillis pulverize his way to a first down or a touchdown, leaving a wasteland of defenders in his path. “It’s something we really don’t talk about,” Bowens said. “He’s a good running regardless of his color.” Hillis was mostly used as a fullback in college, paving the way for McFadden and Jones, who both became first-round draft picks. Hillis, on the other hand, was still around in the seventh round when the Broncos selected him with the 227th pick in 2008. He began his pro career buried on the depth chart in Denver, but injuries to others gave him a chance and he rushed for 343 yards and five touchdowns before being put on injured reserve with a hamstring injury. Last season, he made only two starts and seemed to be a forgotten man. The Browns, though, knew about him. Mangini had faced him with New York in ‘08 and remembered Hillis being more than a handful. “We were pretty good,” said Bowens, who played for the Jets under Mangini. “He ran the ball right down our face. We didn’t expect that. I knew he was tough, and when we got him here, man, I was happy.” Hillis entered training camp as Cleveland’s No. 3 back, behind rookie Montario Hardesty and Jerome Harrison. He showed flashes during the preseason, making a memorable run against St. Louis by breaking six tackles on a 9-yard run. He gained just 76 combined yards in his first two games, but broke out for 144 in Week 3 at Baltimore and had 102 the next week against Cincinnati. Hillis rumbled for a career-high 184 against New England, steamrolling through Bill Belichick’s defense. “With Peyton, the best stat would be yards after contact,” Mack said. “He gets so much after that first hit. Our job is to give him a clear space as far as possible and everything he does after that is what he’s all about. He gets extra yards every time.” Hillis is taking it all in stride. After Sunday’s win, he was asked about joining the company of Brown and Kelly. “Absurd,” he said. “I’m nobody.” That’s not the case anymore. He’s piling up yardage and fans by the week. In fact, on Sunday, Cleveland Indians manager Manny Acta attended his first NFL game. He came away impressed by the passion of Browns fans and the drive of one particular player. “Peyton Hillis,” Acta said, “is the man in Cleveland.” THURSDAY TELEVISION GUIDE �Thursday, December 2, 2010 P O L I C I E S Ohio Valley Publishing reserves the right to edit, reject or cancel any ad at any time. ¾Errors Must Be Reported on the first day of publication and the TribuneSentinel-Register will be responsible for no more than the cost of the space occupied by the error and only the first insertion. 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Jefferson, 6-1, 180, sr.; Tyler Kinchen, Woodsfield Monroe Cent., 6-0, 210, jr.; Nick Lawley, Cin. Hills Christian Acad., 6-6, 200, sr.; Garrett Morton, Archbold, 6-3, 190, sr. Backs — Brandon Schankweiler, Wheelersburg, 5-11, 185, sr.; Westen Hale, Oak Hill, 6-0, 205, sr.; Alec Torgerson, Cle. Cuya. Hts., 5-9, 186, sr.; Akise Teague, Youngs. Ursuline, 5-8, 176, sr. Kicker — Logan Eyer, Cin. Summit Country Day, 6-0, 165, sr. DEFENSE: Linemen — Cody Bensman, Anna, 6-0, 225, sr.; Xavier Dye, Hamler Patrick Henry, 5-10, 190, sr.; Justin Carver, Mount Gilead, 6-3, 205, jr.; Brock Jones, Woodsfield Monroe Cent., 5-10, 185, sr.; Marcus Moser, Defiance Tinora, 5-10, 240, sr. Linebackers — Austin Hoeflich, Fredericktown, 6-0, 190, sr.; Warren Shields, Richwood N. Union, 6-3, 210, sr.; Richard Hawthorne, W. Lafayette Ridgewood, Tyler Gaines, Minford, 5-8, 195, jr.; Christian Hauber, Kirtland, 6-0, 210, jr.; Keil'n Thurston, Youngs. Ursuline, 6-0, 210, sr. Backs — Ryan Severo, Columbia Station Columbia, 6-1, 175, sr.; Dylan Schwieterman, St. Henry, 5-11, 185, sr.; Damian Winner, Versailles, 6-1, 182, sr. Punter — Tyler O'Connor, Lima Central Cath., 6-0, 160, jr. Offensive player of the year: Akise Teague, Youngs. Ursuline. Defensive players of the year: Keil'n Thurston, Youngs. Ursuline; Christian Hauber, Kirtland; Ryan Severo, Columbia Station Columbia. Coaches of the year: Brian Baum, Fredericktown; Dave Tarpley, New Lebanon Dixie; Mike Stoll, Collins Western Reserve. SECOND TEAM OFFENSE: Ends — Cody Morris, Caldwell, 6-3, 205, sr.; Mitchell Campbell, Versailles, 6k-4, 205, jr. Linemen — Dan Satterthwaite, Cols. Grandview Hts., 6-1, 265, sr.; Donald Mullett, W. Lafayette Ridgewood, 6-1, 229, sr.; Brock Bahan, W. Liberty-Salem, 6-2, 250, sr.; Nick Glass, Columbia Station Columbia, 5-10, 215, sr.; Matt Malone, Columbia Station Columbia, 5-10, 220, sr. Quarterbacks — Dylan Sayre, Caldwell, 6-0, 175, sr.; Jesse Slone, Oak Hill, 6-4, 200, sr.; Carter Hill, Columbiana Crestview, 6-0, 199, sr. Backs — Matt Smith, Fredericktown, 5-10, 195, soph.; Devante Hunter, Cin. Summit Country Day, 6-3, 235, sr.; Blake Buckhannon, Collins Western Reserve, 510, 185, jr.; Dan Skiba, Mineral Ridge, 6-0, 190, sr. Kicker — Alex Moser, Defiance Tinora, 5-11, 165, sr. DEFENSE: Linemen — Nick Seither, Hamilton Badin, 63, 230, sr.; Dave Kampman, Louisville Aquinas, 6-3, 232, sr.; Curtis Fairchild, Oak Hill, 6-2, 280, jr. Linebackers — Jordan Markota, Youngs. Ursuline, 6-2, 215, sr.; Alex Batt, Defiance Tinora, 6-3, 220, sr.; Bryan Hefflinger, Liberty Ctr., 6-1, 210, jr.; Reed Pyers, Casstown Miami E., 5-9, 170, jr. Backs — Serafin Sanchez, Newcomerstown, 5-11, 155, sr.; Jeff Smith, Hamilton Badin, 6-0, 176, sr.; Landon Drewes, Defiance Tinora, 60, 185, sr. Punter — Ray Benedetti, Louisville Aquinas, 6-0, 170, sr. THIRD TEAM OFFENSE: Ends — Joey Maynard, Oak Hill, 6-1, 180, sr.; Bubba Kreig, Lima Cent. Cath., 6-0, 155, sr. Linemen — Joey Reinhardt, Wheelersburg, 6-3, 295, sr.; Alex Haney, Woodsfield Monroe Cent., 5-10, 245, sr.; James Wilker, Versailles, 6-2, 175, sr.; Pete Wearsch, Youngs. Ursuline, 6-2, 245, sr. Quarterbacks— Josh McLaughlin, Hanoverton United, 6-0, 180, sr.; John Banyasz, Columbia Station Columbia, 6-0, 180, jr.; Tyler Walter, Sugarcreek Garaway, 5-10, 160, soph. Backs — Nick Bellik, W. Lafayette Ridgewood, 5-9, 165, sr.; Dexter Bensman, Anna, 5-9, 165, sr.; Mark Slone, Minford, 511, 210, sr. Kicker — Ned Reilly, Kirtland, 5-5, 130, jr. DEFENSE: Linemen — Tyler Keeley, Mineral Ridge, 510, 220, sr.; Colin Ross, Columbia Station, Columbia, 59, 245, sr.; Nick Stacey, Fredericktown, 6-3, 260, sr. Linebackers — Pat Pickenpaugh, Caldwell, 5-10, 200, sr.; Caleb Maurer, Anna, 6-0, 175, jr.; Justin Cunningham, Nelsonville-York, 6-1, 210, sr.; Drew Randleman, Oberlin, 5-7, 224, jr.; Nick Cooper, Columbia Station Columbia, 5-10, 190, sr. Backs — Kaleb Deam, N. Lewisburg Triad, 5-10, 155, sr.; Devin Jones, Castalia Margaretta, 6-3, 195, sr.; Phillip Arsuffi, N. Lima S. Range, 6-0, 160, sr. Punter — Brandon Garlough, Tipp City Bethel, 5-10, 180, soph. SPECIAL MENTION Tony Lybarger, Fredericktown; Logan McGovern, Centerburg; Gage Barton, Milford Ctr. Fairbanks; Jacob Boyd, Richwood N. Union; Brian Garen, W. Jefferson; Shane Snyder, Baltimore Liberty Union; Demetrius Clark, Cols. Ready; Preston Pearson, Cols. Acad.; Blake Taylor, Richwood N. Union; Chaney Fulton, W. Jefferson; Greg Houk, W. Jefferson; T.J. Langermeier, W. Jefferson; Nate Webb, Grandview Hts.; Clay Hastings, Richwood N. Union; Tyler Hathaway, Fredericktown; Caleb Martin, Cardington Lincoln; Charlie Ramey, W. Jefferson; Austin Peterman, Cols. Acad.; Darian Arnold, Newcomerstown; Zach Renner, Sugarcreek Garaway; Adam Rossiter, Caldwell; Shane Crum, Sarahsville Shenandoah; Preston Dornon, Barnesville; Chandler Shryock, Newcomerstown; Brett Farnsworth, Sarahsville Shenandoah; Kalob Davis, Sarahsville Shenandoah; Brian Sawyer, Caldwell; Dustin Starr, Barnesville; Evan Jones, W. Lafayette Ridgewood; Michael Smith, Caldwell; Marquece "Bubba" Harris, Newcomerstown; Marcus Schumacher, Woodsfield Monroe Cent.; Kellan Mutschelknaus, Sugarcreek Garaway; Kyle Morris, Barnesville; Jarod Conrad, W. Lafayette Ridgewood; Daniel Kline, Nelsonville-York; Sandy Proehl, Frankfort Adena; Clay Wescott, Frankfort Adena; Kyle Dunn, Chillicothe Southeastern; Thomas Taggart, NelsonvilleYork; Derek Fulk, Crooksville; Drew Cannon, Oak Hill; Blake Yates, Lucasville Valley; Alex Shears, Wheelersburg; Jacob Piguet, Minford; Reid Hutchison, Frankfort Adena; Steven Hall, Chillicothe Southeastern; Boo Woods, Coal Grove Dawson-Bryant; Alex Holcomb, Lucasville Valley; Dylan Lewis, Oak Hill; Colbie Griffith, Minford; Chris Prater, Wheelersburg; Jake Freeman, Frankfort Adena; Cody Mann, Chesapeake; Bubba Wood, Coal Grove Dawson-Bryant; Brice Crabtree, Lucasville Valley; Isaiah Andrews, Nelsonville-York; Trey West, Chesapeake; Nathan Brooks, Crooksville; Devon Davis, Oak Hill; Garrett Tyree, Bainbridge Paint Valley; Jake Murphy, Coal Grove Dawson-Bryant; Austin McMaster, Chesapeake; Jeremy Simmons, Gates Mills Hawken; Clayton Thurling, Middlefield Cardinal; Anthony Eder, Cle. Cuyahoga Hts.; Dan Lofgren, Kirtland; Kenny Greco, Kirtland; Jimmy Durst, Kirtland; Damon Washington, Kirtland; Mitchell Lake, Orwell Grand Valley; Sam Stretar, Independence; Paul Guhde, Kirtland; Josh Rigg, Orwell Grand Valley; Bobby Matthews, Kirtland; Jake Finkler, Kirtland; Vinny Polverine, Middlefield Cardinal; Nick Kraus, Independence; Logan Matt, Cle. Cuyahoga Hts.; Zach Santo, Kirtland; Ryan Loncar, Kirtland; Jacob Gries, Gates Mills Hawken; A.J. Henson, Orwell Grand Valley; Jordan D'Orazio, Cle. Cuyahoga Hts.; Drew Guisinger, Anna; Josh Thiel, Cin. Hills Christian Acad.; Jordan Holtvogt, Tipp City Bethel; Zach James, Cin. Hills Christian Acad.; Nick Marenberg, N. Lewisburg Triad; Ben McBride, Cin. Summit Country Day; Al Upshaw, Cin. Clark Montessori; Ryan Moore, Jeromesville Hillsdale; Bobby Silagy, Louisville Aquinas; Ryan Powell, Hanoverton United; Corey Mullins, Apple Creek Waynedale; Josh Forbes, West Salem Northwestern; Jeff Sickle, Columbiana Crestview; Zach Fulk, Jeromesville Hillsdale; Ethan Whitmer, N. Lima S. Range; Joey Badini, Rootstown; Sam Young, Jeromesville Hillsdale; Lawrence Wolfe, Creston Norwayne; Trevor Badertscher, Jeromesville Hillsdale; Taylor Kassa, Creston Norwayne; Adam Wallace, Creston Norwayne; Jeff Podolsky, Youngs. Ursuline; Cory Siefring, St. Henry; Willy Flanary, Sherwood Fairview; Austin Tittle, Defiance Tinroa; Jake Fannin, Collins Western Reserve; Josh Almanza, Hamler Patrick Henry; Ben Miller, Archbold; Clint Endicott, Ashland Crestview; Kipp McCann, Defiance Tinora; Zach Eastern from Page B1 the guests with 12 points, followed by Taler Duncan and Ellie Bostic with six markers apiece. Eastern was 7-of-13 at the free throw line for 54 percent, while South Gallia finished the night 8-of-12 at the charity Bermejo, Northwood; Mason Minnich, Ashland Crestview; Kody Richardson, Delphos Jefferson; Sam Huffman, Lima Cent. Cath.; Ethan Patrick, Collins Western Reserve; Garrick Montgomery, Ashland Crestview; Aaron Rammel, Coldwater; Noah Keefer, Archbold. DIVISION VI FIRST TEAM OFFENSE: Ends — Taylor Haines, McComb, 6-1, 175, sr.; Alex Weber, Ada, 6-2, 200, sr.; Hayden Welch, Lancaster Fairfield Christian Acad., 6-0, 152, jr.; Nicholas Houston, Day. Ponitz, 5-10, 165, jr. Linemen — Aaron Silverio, Shadyside, 6-1, 253, sr.; Austin Vogt, Delphos St. John's, 6-4, 270, sr.; Robert Gilliland, Sycamore Mohawk, 6-1, 250,sr.; James Tripp, Lockland, 6-2, 243, sr. Quarterbacks — Andrew Dee, McComb, 5-11, 195, sr. Backs — Britt Wilder, Newark Cath., 5-10, 190, sr.; Garrett Price, Bridgeport, 5-11, 180, sr.; Johnathon Barbee, Bradford, 5-10, 160, jr.; Tyler Dyla, Glouster Trimble, 5-8, 170, sr.; Evan Herrell, Willow Wood Symmes Valley, 5-11, 170, sr.; Danny LaRosa, Thompson Ledgemont, 5-11, 170, jr. Kicker — Daniel Kohr, Strasburg-Franklin, 5-10, 165, jr. DEFENSE: Linemen — Josh Boehringer, Covington, 62, 205, sr.; Taylor Brown, Shadyside, 6-1, 177, sr.; Derek Klaus, Delphos St. John's, 6-2, 205, sr. Linebackers — Curt Smelley, Bridgeport, 6-0, 225, sr.; Grant Foster, Willow Wood Symmes Valley, 6-0, 200, sr.; Chris Pohlman, Delphos St. John's, 6-3, 240, sr.; Nick Rota, McDonald, 6-1, 175, sr. Backs — Zach Brewer, Danville, 6-2, 178, jr.; Brad Marsic, Thompson Ledgemont, 6-3, 160, jr.; Devontay Scott, Lockland, 5-10, 175, sr.; Cody Albers, Ft. Loramie, 5-11, 167, sr.; Gavin Hackett, Dalton, 6-0, 170, sr. Punter — Ty Jolliff, Ada, 5-11, 180, sr. Offensive player of the year: Andrew Dee, McComb. Defensive player of the year: Chris Pohlman, Delphos St. John's. Coaches of the year: Curtis Enis, Bradford; Joe LaRosa, Thompson Ledgemont. SECOND TEAM OFFENSE: Ends — Jordan Gaines, Canal Winchester Harvest Prep, 5-11, 175, jr.; Cody Latimer, Day. Jefferson, 6-3, 210, sr.; Derek Mangas, Leipsic, 5-9, 165, sr. Linemen — Cody Eccard, Lancaster Fairfield Christian Acad., 6-3, 275, sr.; Devin Richard, Sidney Lehman, 6-0, 205, sr.; Matt Douglas, Columbiana, 6-3, 255, sr. Quarterbacks — Brandon Bauman, Rittman, 61, 185, sr.; Brandon Ross, Canal Winchester Harvest Prep, 6-3, 215, sr.; Konnor Baker, Ada, 6-3, 190, jr. Backs — DeVonte McGhee, Toronto, 6-3, 220, sr.; Kaleb Goins, Sidney Lehman, 5-10, 205, sr.; Shannon Geren, Edon, 5-8, 180, jr.; Jake McAvinew, Mogadore, 5-10, 200, sr. Kicker — Brandon Liette, Ansonia, 6-0, 180, sr. DEFENSE: Linemen — Zack Shane, Newark Cath., 6-4, 239, sr.; Sebastian Monnin, Springfield Cath. Cent., 6-3, 200, sr.; Tre Lopez, Leipsic, 5-11, 185, sr. Linebackers — Nate Long, Fremont St. Joseph, 6-0, 190, sr.; Aaron Weyer, Ada, 6-1, 225, sr.; Wyatt Tiffany, Cin. Country Day, 6-2, 180, sr. Backs — Ellis Brown, Shadyside, 6-0, 152, sr.; Cole Smelley, Bridgeport, 5-11, 180, jr.; Mason Roth, McComb, 5-11, 150, sr.; Troy Stevenson, PandoraGilboa, 5-9, 161, sr.; Craig Parker, Sycamore Mohawk, 6-0, 155, sr. Punter — Jake Aldridge, Springfield Cath. Cent., 6-4, 185, jr. THIRD TEAM OFFENSE: Ends — Trey Griffith, Salineville Southern, 61, 175, sr.; Ryley Sheptock, Berlin Center Western Reserve, 6-1, 175, sr. Linemen — Robert Guyton, Ada, 6-3, 270, sr.; Jason Reichert, Maria Stein Marion Local, 6-2, 220, sr.; T.J. Griffith, McComb, 6-1, 195, sr.; Trent Rowland, Bucyrus Wynford, 6-1, 210, sr. Quarterbacks — Shawn Ball, Malvern, 6-1, 205, jr.; Brian Kelly, Springfield Cath. Cent., 6-2, 185, jr.; Matthias Tayala, McDonald, 6-3, 205, sr.; Shane Ritts, Thompson Ledgemont, 6-0, 180, sr. Backs — Taimere Fambro, Canal Winchester Harvest Prep, 6-2, 185, jr.; Hunter Schneiter, Strasburg-Franklin, 5-11, 170, jr.; Chris Smelley, Bridgeport, 6-0, 230, sr.; Tyler Bay, Zanesville Rosecrans, 5-8, 190, sr.; Tyler Noffsinger, Covington, 59, 150, sr. Kicker — Eric Ziems, Tol. Christian, 5-10, 155, sr. DEFENSE: Linemen — Joey Brown, Edon, 6-3, 203, sr.; Jeremy Krill, Monroeville, 6-3, 235, sr.; Bryce Collins, New Washington Buckeye Central, 6-1, 275, sr. Linebackers — Aaron Sanders, Ansonia, 5-11, 180, sr.; Joe Staley, Sidney Lehman, 5-11, 155, sr.; Kody Chance, Mogadore, 6-0, 190, sr. Backs — Lucas Kennedy, Lakeside Danbury, 5-11, 185, jr.; Sam Shafer, New Washington Buckeye Central, 6-3, 185, sr.; Garrett Raff, Dalton, 6-3, 170, sr.; Kyle Cramer, Mogadore, 5-6, 160, sr. Punter — John Rosati, Berlin Center Western Reserve, 6-2, 178, sr. SPECIAL MENTION Michael Lewis, Newark Cath.; Jordan Arnt, Morral Ridgedale; Zach Casparro, Grove City Christian; Dresan Mathis, Canal Winchester Harvest Prep; Aaron Price, Newark Cath.; Sean Tobin, Lancaster Fisher Cath.; Owen Heckman, Cols. Crusaders; Dylan Blythe, Grove City Christian; Aaron Putinski, Lancaster Fairfield Christian Acad.; Casey Sloan, Danville; Brandon Brookes, Morral Ridgedale; Quinton Ferenbaugh, Danville; Terry Harper, Canal Winchester Harvest Prep; Allen Ritchie, Cols. Crusaders; Nelson Anu, Cols. Crusaders; Devon Wade, Canal Winchester Harvest Prep; Tony Roark, Grove City Christian; Connor Shook, Newark Cath. Corey Fickiesen, New Matamoras Frontier; Brendon Sedinger, Shadyside; Jerrod Kinney, Beallsville; Travis Tucci, Malvern; Carl McGuire, New Philadelphia Tuscarawas Cent. Cath.; Levi Zartman, New Matamoras Frontier; Cameron Baker, Bridgeport; Trevor Cooper, Toronto; Erik Myers, Malvern; Zach Erb, StrasburgFranklin; Matt Hammond, Shadyside; Daniel Abbas, New Philadelphia Tuscarawas Cent. Cath.; Logan Hudson, Shadyside; Mike Dalto, Bridgeport; Cody Lynskey, Steubenville Cath. Cent.; Eric Hain, Malvern; Robbie Martinelli, New Philadelphia Tuscarawas Cent. Cath.; Tanner Wright, Hannibal River; Levi McCutcheon, Waterford; Kevin Lewis, Portsmouth Notre Dame; Austin North, Glouster Trimble; Garrett Foster, Willow Wood Symmes Valley; Eric Putman, Glouster Trimble; Charles Kish, Glouster Trimble; Danny Ramthun, Racine Southern; Hunter Boggs, Willow Wood Symmes Valley; Ryan Bradford, Portsmouth Notre Dame; Tyler Hughes, Franklin Furnace Green; Klint Connery, Reedsville Eastern; Colten Gill, Corning Miller; Ian Watterson, Manchester; Matt Saab, Portsmouth Notre Dame; Jacob Patterson, Willow Wood Symmes Valley; Levi Porter, Waterford; Chad Lewis, Franklin Furnace Green; Justin Crager, Sciotoville Community; Johnny Stobart, Glouster Trimble; Tyler Hendrix, Reedsville Eastern; Cody Myers, Willow Wood Symmes Valley; Kyle Connery, Reedsville Eastern; Josh Cooper, S. Gallia; Brad Seiler, Thompson Ledgemont; Levert Cox, Cle. Hts. Luth. East.; Jimmy Marsic, Thompson Ledgemont; J.C. Giffin, Fairport Harbor Harding; Sam Grabinski, Thompson Ledgemont; Zak Hites, Fairport Harbor Harding; Kyle Burchett, Fairport Harbor Harding; Brian Griffith, Fairport Harbor Harding; Josh Ohler, Thompson Ledgemont; Matt Amiott, Fairport Harbor Harding; Jalen Coleman, Cle. Hts. Luth. East; Derek Cantrell, Thompson Ledgemont; Marques Coleman, Cle. Hts. Luth. East; Cory Whitt, Fairport Harbor Harding, sr.; Kyle LaRosa, Thompson Ledgemont; Brian Burdine, Cle. Hts. Luth. East; evin Pye, Thompson Ledgemont; Kyle Dennis, Thompson Ledgemont; Russ Harless, Fairport Harbor Harding; Seth Beedy, Spring. Cath. Cent.; Darren Clark, Covington; Aaron Hall, Ansonia; Will Duncan, Cin. Country Day; Rodney Huston, Sidney Lehman; Jordan Gates, Lockland; Derek Bubeck, Ansonia; Devyn Turbeville, Rittman; Skylar Haines, Ashland Mapleton; Charles Rader, Modadore; Nick Puntel, McDonald; Tyler Burns, Dalton; Tyler Powell, Berlin Center Western Reserve; Greg Blevins, Dalton; Alex Roebken, Mogadore; Derek Miller, Dalton; Devan Miller, Leetonia; John Dutton, Lowellville; Josh Melhorn, Salineville Southern; Ed Crump, Berlin Center Western Reserve; Wade Prueitt, Vienna Mathews; Trevor Sahagian, Rittman; Seamus Johnson, Sebring McKinley; Shaile Chamberlain, Antwerp; Greg Schwieterman, Maria Stein Marion Local; Zach Brumbaugh, Tol. Christian; Evan Burgei, Delphos St. John's; Cam Brown, Arlington; Caleb Coil, Sycamore Mohawk; Nathan Anese, Sycamore Mohawk; Brandon Arling, Maria Stein Marion Local; Mitchell Gross, Norwalk St. Paul; Jonathon Morter, Sycamore Mohawk. stripe for 67 percent. Eastern returns to action Thursday when it travels to Belpre, while the Lady Rebels host Federal Hocking on Thursday. Both games will tip-off around 7 p.m. EASTERN 56, SOUTH GALLIA 30 S. Gallia Eastern 2 8 19 8 12 8 23 6 — 30 — 56 SOUTH GALLIA (0-1, 0-1 TVC Hocking): Courtney Blackburn 0 0-0 0, Tayler Duncan 2 2-3 6, Ellie Bostic 2 2-2 6, Morgan Gilliland 1 0-0 2, Chandra Canaday 5 2-5 12, Caldwell 0 2-2 2, Meghan Caldwell 0 0-0 0, Rachel Johnson 0 0-0 0, Jasmyne Johnson 0 0-0 0, Tori Duncan 0 0-0 0, Chelsea Johnson 1 0-0 2. TOTALS: 11 8-12 30. Threepoint goals: None. EASTERN (1-0, 1-0 TVC Hocking): Brenna Holter 6 1-2 13, Jordan Parker 1 0-2 2, Beverly Maxson 1 01 2, Jenna Burdette 7 1-1 15, Katie Keller 0 0-0 0, Cheyenne Doczi 0 00 0, Kelsey Myers 0 0-0 0, Emeri Connery 4 1-1 9, Ashley Putnam 1 2-4 2, Erin Swatzel 2 2-2 6, Savannah Hawley 1 0-0 3, Madison Rigsby 1 0-0 2. TOTALS: 24 7-13 56. Three-point goals: 1 (Hawley). CLEVELAND (AP) — Mo Williams knows the pain and frustration Cleveland fans have been feeling since LeBron James left town six months ago. That’s one reason why Williams is looking forward to Thursday night, when James makes his long-awaited return to Cleveland as a member of the Miami Heat. The Cavaliers guard understands why fans around the region still feel betrayed about James’ departure after playing in Cleveland for seven years. “This game is not just for us,” Williams said following practice Wednesday. “It’s the 20,000 fans and the millions watching who will be pulling for us. We’ve got people who aren’t even Cavs fans who will be pulling for us. We’ve got a lot behind us.” The schedule says the Cavaliers will play their 18th game of the season, but Williams isn’t kidding anyone. This will be no normal game. This will be no walk in the park. “It’s definitely more than a game, I can tell you that,” Williams said. “This game has been circled. There’s a lot of playoff feeling going on.” Williams says he and the Cavaliers are excited about the opportunity to face their former teammate, who led the franchise to the NBA Finals in 2007 and to the league’s best record the last two seasons. “The whole world is watching,” Williams said. “It’s something that will go in the history books. I’ll be a part of it. I’m proud of that.” Williams, acquired from Milwaukee prior to the 2008-09 season, was more troubled by James’ decision to leave that any player still on the team. He was quoted in a story during the summer that he considered retirement, comments which he backtracked on at the team’s media day. Williams and James had a chance meeting after “The Decision” in which they cleared the air. Williams said they have not spoken since. “That’s in the past,” he said. “It’s over and done with. We can go on and on with it. We talked about it. This summer, I voiced my opinions. I put it behind me. It’s not personal. It’s not personal at all.” If any Cleveland players feel resentment toward James, they’re keeping it to themselves. “I think we are all looking forward,” guard Daniel Gibson said. “We’re ready for the opportunity. He did what he had to do and it’s a matter of us doing what we have to do. That was the approach we took from day one and that’s the approach we still have.” Gibson came to Cleveland as a 20-year-old rookie out of the University of Texas in 2006. He said he and James still keep in touch. “He looked out for me,” Gibson said. “He showed me the ropes, and now it’s time for me to go out and help this team win and beat a team that we want to beat. You can best believe it won’t be anything nice when we get out on the floor together. You won’t know that he taught me. You won’t know that we’re friends. I’m going right at him. Then, after the game, we say our goodbyes.” While the subject of whether James misses Cleveland hasn’t come up in their conversations, Gibson believes that is indeed the case. “For you to play here the amount of time he did, there’s no way in your heart of hearts, the way the fans cheer for you, the way the city shows love out here,” Gibson said. “You have to. Without saying it, he probably does. But that’s neither here nor there. (Thursday) night, it’s about basketball.” Williams expects James will be booed and heckled, but hopes the fans’reaction doesn’t go beyond that. “I understand the frustrations,” he said. “I had the same frustrations, but when the results are something violent or the possibility of that, I think that’s outside of basketball and outside of everything we stand for as an organization. Once we start talking about harming people and their well-being, that’s taking it a little too far.” Sarah Hawley/photo Wahama players (from left) Colton McKinney, Matt Stewart, Zac Warth, Jamin Branch, and Evan Smith, celebrate at midfield following Friday evening’s state semifinal victory over Wirt County at the Point Pleasant Athletic Complex in Point Pleasant, W.Va. Wahama from Page B1 140) has 12 grabs for 195 yards. The senior dominated interior line will consist of senior guards Aaron Schneid (5-9, 250) and John Duplaga (5-10, 195) along with senior tackles Tyler Jacovetty (6-0, 250) and John Miller (6-0, 220). Senior Dustin Henry (5-9, 215) will get the start at center with sophomore Braxton Nolte (5-10, 215) being the tight- end. Defensively Wheeling Central will go with Jacovetty, the teams leading tackler, and Duplaga at the tackles with senior Tyler Harto (5-11, 180) and the second leading tackler in Schneid at the ends. The linebackers are seniors Marcus Clifford and Logan Bartsch (5-11, 205) along with juniors Eric Gompers (6-1, 165) and Andrew Keane (5-8, 1700. The defensive secondary should find senior Maxx Peluchette (6-1, 150) and junior Ian Yahnke (5-8, 140) at the halfbacks with senior McKenzie Peluchette at safety. Wahama has received a tremendous level of play from its young defensive unit throughout the year with the exception of the first half of the East Hardy playoff encounter. The White Falcons posted six shutouts during its 13 game, 2010 football cam- paign and limited the opposition to two touchdowns or less in five other outings. The Bend Area team gave up 21 points to Waterford during the regular season before allowing a season high 38 to East Hardy’s west coast offense. Sophomore linebackers Zack Wamsley and Crandal Neal have led the Bend Area defense all year long with juniors Jamin Branch, Matthew Stewart, Colton McKinney, Isaac Lee, Evan Smith, Jeremy Cundiff, Anthony Grimm in addition to seniors Jeremiah Hoffman, Elijah Honaker, Ryan Anderson, Tyler Kitchen, Ryan Lee and freshman Tyler Nutter. Offensively Wahama has gained over 5000 yards on the season with over 3700 yards on the ground and another 1302 through the air. A young offensive line consisting of Branch, Cundiff, Smith, Anderson, McKinney, Honaker, Kitchen Nutter and Wesley Harrison are responsible for a large part of the Falcons’ offensive success. Ryan Lee has scored 152 points on the year to rank the senior running back as the third leading scorer in WHS history. Lee has totaled 1124 yards on the ground which is the eighth best season among all White Falcon ball carriers. Anthony Grimm is just five yards shy of becoming the 17th player in the last 45 plus seasons to gain 1000 yards in a season. Grimm has scored 120 points to rank him as the seventh leading point getter at Wahama. Sophomore quarterback Trenton Gibbs is poised to become the career passing leader with 1181 yards through the air this season on 60 of 113 attempts. Gibbs has thrown for 12 touchdowns and has been intercepted eight times. Right now the sophomore signal caller is fifth among passing yards in a single season. Tyler Kitchen is the teams leading receiver with 555 yards in 27 catches with seven TD grabs. His receiving yardage total ranks him as the seventh leading single season receiver at Wahama. The White Falcons will carry a 43.9 per game scoring average into the title game while the Bend Area defense is giving up just 8.7 points per outing to the opposition. Wheeling Central averages 31.7 points a game offensively while the Maroon Knight defense surrenders 19.8 points per game. Wahama and Wheeling Central have met only once on the gridiron with the Maroon Knights claiming a 31-6 quarterfinal round affair in a 2004 post-season game played at Bacthel Stadium. Kickoff time for the Class A championship is set for 7:00 p.m. at Wheeling Island Stadium. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 12. December 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. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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