http://66.213.69.5/files/original/66e139f0e7c8a34b9029e84b9dd37299.pdf 29327a428ff672ceee811a86d54a14cb PDF Text Text ALONG THE RIVER ~lVING Flooded with memories Beauty and danger go hand in hand along Ohio River, Cl Michelle Obama's garden ex'seeds' her expectations, Dl entfnel Hometown News for Gallia & Meigs counties 't Ohio Valley Publishing Co. Rizer jury to begin deliberations Tuesday OBITUARIES Page AS • Van W. Bernard • Emillia L. Danisek ·Frank Dodderer • Daniel Brian Eades • Lora J. Hughes • Billy Lee Windon Williams, Carson deliver closing arguments in re-tri81 BY BRIAN J. REED BREED@ MYDAILYSENTINELCOM POMEROY- Jury deliberations will begin Tuesday in the second murder trial of Paula Rizer. Portland. Both sides concluded closing arguments in Meigs County Common Pleas Court early Friday evening, and jurors opted to go home for the weekend and return Tuesday to begin their deliberations. Monday is Martin Luther SPORTS . • Eagles outlast Southern for TVC ocking lead. See Page 81 BY ANDREW CARTER MDTNEWS@MYDAILYTRIBUNECOM ========== . INSIDE • AEP supports Gallia Strong Tower. See PageA2 • Meigs First Baby of 2010. See Page A2 • IRS electronic tax filing underway. See Page A3 • USDA Livestock Disaster payments exceed $175 Million. See PageA3 • Local Briefs. See PageA3 •'====== WEATHER High: Mid 40s. Low: Lower 30s. versity will host its annual program beginning at 7 p.m. in the John W. Ben·y Fine and Performing Arts Center. URG Dean of Students Elaine Armstrong will be mistress of ceremonies for the program, which is sponsored by the Rio Grande Chaplainc}. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Francine Childs, professor of Black History at Ohio University. Childs is an expert on Dr. King, his life and work. The Rev. Gene Armstrong from Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in Bidwell is scheduled to offer the invocation and benediction. Music will be provided by Christian Scott, Natalie Baxter and the vocal trio Sacrifice of Praise and Elizabeth Clary. Another hallmark of the Rio Grande program will be Please see ML~ Al point. and striking her with a paddle at another. Paula Rizer has held a number of jobs in her adult life. including ~job as a buyer for Elberfeld's Department Store, a rural mail carrier, and a temporary worker for the U.S. Census Bureau. She testified that she had expressed an interest in returning to work, but that she and her husband were relatively secure financially. and that he had been generally opposed to her returning to work. Instead, she had been spending BY ANDREW CARTER MDTNEWS@MYDAILYTRIBUNE.COM 4 SECTIONS- 24 PAGf.S Around Town A3 Celebrations C4 D3-4 Comics Ds Editorials A4 B Section c) 2010 Ohio Valley Publishing Co. . llll! I!IJIJl !1!1!I!1[11 GALLIPOLIS - Higher than expected enrollment figures at the new Gallia Academy High School and other factors will result in more state dollars coming into the Gallipolis City School District. Superintendent Jack Payton told the board of education during Thursday's meeting that enrollment at GAHS now stands at 763 students, an increase of 186 over the original projection by the Ohio School Facilities Commission (OSFC). The increase in enrollment and addition of more than 32,000-square feet of space Please see Rizer, Al Lopez named new publisher TIMES-SENTINEL MDTNEWS@MYDAILYTRIBUNE.COM GALLIPOLIS Heartland Publications has appointed Sammy M. Lopez as the new publisher of its Ohio Valley Publishing Co. operation. which prints the Gallipolis Dailv T r i b u n e·, Point Pleasant Register. The Daily Sentinel and Sundar Times-Sentinel. 'Th[s is one of the best appointments I have had the pleasure to make." said Michael C. Bush, CEO and President of Heartland Publications. ··sammy is a ·seasoned communications and media professional who Richard Drew/AP photo truly understands communiThe legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., will be remem- ty newspapers. Sammy bered during ceremonies scheduled Monday at Paint understands that the long Creek Baptist Church in Gallipolis and the University of Rio term interests of a newspaGrande/Rio Grande Community College. per and the community it serves are intrinsically linked. He will work hard to help make both the newspaper and its community successful.'' Lopez comes to the tricounty area from Fannington. N .M., where he served as publisher of Please see Lopez, Al Erwin sentenced to 15 years BY ELIZABETH RIGEL ERIGEL@MYDAILYTRIBUNE.COM National Civil Rights Museum, Morgan Abudu Mukarram/AP photo The Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., was the assassination site of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is now home to the National Civil Rights Museum, which chronicles key episodes of the American civil rights movement and the legacy of the movement. Gallipolis City Schools to benefit from enrollment increase INDEX Sports GALLIPOLIS It's been nearly 42 years since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated outside the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. While the man may be gone, the principles for which he stood justice, equality, freedom live on today in the hearts and souls of millions. Those principles and other teachings of Dr. King will be at the forefront of messages that will be shared Monday when America pauses to observe Martin Luther Kmg Jr. Day 2010. Programs in Gallia County will be held at Paint Creek Baptist Church in Gallipolis and the University of Rio Grande/Rio Grande Community College. The annual Paint Creek Baptist program is planned for I p.m. Monday. It will feature Elder Randolph Edwards from Kitts Hill as the keynote speaker. Edwards is associate pastor at New Jerusalem Christian Center in Ironton. In addition to Edwards' address, the Paint Creek celebration will feature music by Deotis Conwell and Christian Scott. Gallipolis City Manager Randy Finney is scheduled to participate in the ceremony. Mable Tanner will serve as mistress of ceremonies. A reception will be held in the church fellowship following the program. The church is located at 833 Third Ave. in Gallipolis. The Rev. Harry Scott is pas~ tor of Paint Creek Baptist. The event is sponsored by the Southeastern Ohio Branch NAACP, which serves Gallia. Jackson and Lawrence counties. MLK Day activities shift to the Rio Grande campus Monday evening. The uni- had been arguing on April 3. 2009. and that she fired shots at him during a physical struggle between them in order to escape his clutches. Kenneth Rizer had been retired for over a year at the time of h1s death. Spending a lot of time together in their country home near Portland. he and Paula Rizer had been experiencing increasing problems within their marriage. and Rizer has said her husband had become physically abusive to her. knocking her off a tractor at one King, Jr. Day, and the courthouse is closed. Rizer is accused of murder. She was acquitted of aggravated murder in October, but the jury could not reach a unamimous verdict on the lesser charge. Prosecutors say Rizer fired six shots at her husband, Kenneth Rizer. Sr., while in his reclining chair. Rizer, in her second trial, has claimed self defense as her motive, alleging that she and her husband Paint Creek Baptist, URCi to host ~LK • ceremon1es a .ssifieds $1.50 • Vol. 44, No. 3 Sunday, January 17, 2010 have prompted OSFC to revise the budget for the facility from the original figure of $17 .440.979 to $24,781.207 - a gain of $7,340,228. The budget to meet Design Manual standards for the new GAHS was also revised upward, meaning ~he project budget w!ll mcreasebyabout$1.6mtllion. The design budget for th~ new Galli~ Academy Mtddle Scho~l ~ncreased by about $2.1 mtlhon. Bot~ of those mcreases were ~~wen by market cond1t10ns, ~ccording to the amendment . . 1ssued by OSFC. Other ?u?~ets pertammg to consttuctton at GAMS were reduced by about $700.000, but the district • still stands to gain about $10 million from the changes. Detai Is about the increase~ and decreases were laid out in an amendment to the Exceptional Needs Program agreement the district entered into with the OSFC. The board of education elected new officers for _the 2010 year dunng Thursday's meeting. Bob Cornwell w~s elected president, replac1~g J .R. Sauer. a~d Ryan ~m1th was elec.ted vtce pres1dcnt, replacmg Cornwell. The .boar~ app_roved the followmg m~tvtduals to serve as substitute~ f~~ the 200'tJ-2010 school )ea1. ~ • James Bartels - bus driver • • Clyde Dunlap - cook, custodian • Michael Fulks - bus driver • Brandy Hill - teacher • Angela Janel> - secretary The board approved Debra Mink's request for an unpaid leave of absence for medical reasons. effective Jan. 4. 2010, through the end of the 2009 2010 school year. Also gaining board approval was the recommendation to erect a plaque at GAHS honorino a donation made by M/ and Mrs. Clarence Archer. The Archers do~ated three pianos to the mus1c program at the Please see Schools, Al GALLIPOLIS - Gallia County Common Pleas Colllt Judge D. Dean Evans sentenced Robert H. Erwin to serve 15 years in prison during a hearing Friday. Erwin Erwin. 67, Gallipolis, pled guilty to three counts of unlawful se:\.ual conduct with a minor in December 2009. The former Little League coach was indicted in June after being accused of molesting at least a dozen boys dating back to the 1980s. The three counts he pled guilty to involved a 13year-old male victim between April and May 2009. The victim's mother spoke in court Friday and asked Evans to impose a full 15-year sentence, which is the maximum allowable on all counts . Gallia County Assistant Prosecutor Pat Stor) also asked Evans to honor the plea agreement Please see ill ~rwin, Al �PageA2 .iunbap mtme5 ·itntinel Sunday,Januaryt7,2010 Beth SergeanVphoto Paula Rizer, seated right, speaks to a representative from the Athens County Public Defender's Office during a break in her trial Friday at the Meigs County Courthouse. Also pictured is Herman Carson, who is Rizer's lead defense counsel. The jury will begin deliberations Tuesday following the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Rizer from Page AI Submitted photo Kevin Dennis presents a check from American Electric Power's Dollars for Doers outreach to the Gallia Strong Tower organization, a faith-based, 12-step program offered at Vinton Baptist Church. AEP supports Gallia Strong Tower her time on a number of hobbies. For a while, she participated in auto racing. She was a gardener, and she and her husband were developing a larger plot of garden land at the time of the shooting. She was also involved in redecorating VINTON - American their manufactured home, because the Rizers had decided in Electric Power, through its the days and weeks leading up to Kenneth's death to sell Dollars for Doers program, their home and land to one of Kenneth's sons and his new recently donated funds to wife. support Gallia Strong Tower. In fact, Rizer told jurors in this second trial that she Dollars for Doers is an AEP would have liked to have moved out of Meigs County - a outreach on behalf of compoint Williams has reinforced in characterizing the defen- pany employees who volundant as an angry, unhappy woman. teer their time to support The defendant also had a crafting business, selling purs- community organizations. es on an online site. She bought antiques and resold them Gallia Strong Tower is a onE-Bay. non-profit organization that Paula Rizer and her husband had also assumed primary responsibility for her granddaughter, a kindergarten student, who was living with them on the day Kenneth Rizer died. The granddaughter's living situation, and other famiJy matters, were at the heart of the issues the two were experiencing that wet, muddy April day. LONG BOTTOM The Rizers had been arguing most of the day on April 3. Tiffany Timmons and Nathan 2009, and had tried unsuccessfully to have sexual interIreland of Long Bottom are course, something the two were experiencing increasing the parents of Meigs difficulty with. Kenneth Rizer's large stature, physical aches and pains, and erectile dysfunction limited their sex- County's First Baby of 2010, ual activity, Paula Rizer testified, and he had become and winners of numerous prizes contributed by local increasingly aggressive in the bedroom. merchants in The Daily Rizer said her husband blamed her physical appearance Sentinel's annual contest. for his increasing inability to perform sexually. She had Their infant son, Isaiah undergone a radical mastectomy in her early 30's, and ·while she later underwent reconstructive surgery. she still Steven Ireland, was born on Jan. 6 at O'Bleness Memorial has scars on her upper body. The two went grocery shopping on April 3, but had Hospital in Athens. He weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces, argued for most of the outing. When they returned home to and has a two-year-old brothLovett Road from Pomeroy, and the groceries were put er, Joshua Frank. away, Kenneth Rizer fell asleep in his chair. His wife began Grandparents are Loretta working on a redecorating project in a spare room. Rizer told this second jury she agreed to learn bow to use Lunsford of Middleport and a 9-mm handgun that afternoon at her husband's insistence, Dana and Rosie Ireland of but she had tried to continue their discussion of family Long Bottom. Gifts for the couple and issues before they did so. When she insisted that he help her their new son include a $25 with the gun, she said, he lunged out of his chair, and gift cettificate from Craw's threatened to get the paddle which was hanging in their KFC/Long John Silvers; kitchen. She told the jury she turned around sideways on the sofa, $50 U.S. savings bond from but ended up on the floor. The two struggled with the gun, Home National Bank; $25 gift certificate from Powell's while she had hold of his pants leg and he her right hand. She fired the shots, she said, in order to distract him and Foodfair; $25 gift certificate from Swisher & Lohse allow her to escape to another part of their home. Prosecuting Attorney Colleen Williams, in closing argu- Pharmacy; a chiropractic ments Friday, said Rizer's repeated additions and changes adjustment for the mother to her story about what happened make hers a "fish story." and baby from Bend Area "None of it makes any sense," Williams said. "Why Chiropractic; $50 U.S. savwould a man who abuses his wife give her a gun in order to ings bond from Peoples Bank; two cases of baby forprotect herself?" Williams urged the jury to look at the big picture, rather mula from Pleasant Valley Hospital; and a gift pack than picking and choosing evidence for consideration. Rizer's lead counsel, Herman Carson, faulted Ohio from Holzer Meigs Clinic. Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation agents with faulty crime scene investigation. He quoted one of the agents, Larry Willis, who in an interview with the defendant told her he wanted to "hurry up and get this closed The Daily Times, the largest out." "Taking shortcuts in the beginning does not save time in and most influential newspaper in the Four Comers the long run," Carson said. He said the paddle, which was entered into evidence in region of New Mexico, this second trial, is a "symbol of the brutality" that had Colorado, Arizona and Utah. During his five years increasingly become prevelant in the Rizer's home. "It was a household secret," Carson said. "In answer to at the helm, Lopez led The (Wjlliams') question, in hindsight, it was really bad judg- Daily Times to national ment on Mr. Rizer's part to give his wife a loaded gun and prominence both in its news coverage and in generating then attack her." advertising revenue. Lopez has enjoyed a long. successful history in the from Page Al newspaper business. He was publisher of the Las Cruces and sentence him to 15 years, "to punish Robert Erwin and (N.M.) Sun News (2003protect the public." 2004) and Current-Argus Evans complied, ordering Erwin to serve five years per (1995-2003) in Carlsbad, count consecutively for a total of 15 years in prison. N.M. He was publisher and Erwin declined to address the court Friday, as did group manager for World Defense Attorney William Eachus on his behalf. West Ltd. Liability Co. and Pursuant to his guilty plea, Gallia County prosecutors Raljon Publishing ( 1990agreed not to file any other charges of a similar nature 1995), a position that against Erwin regarding any other alleged victims. involved supervision of eight Upon Erwin's release from prison, he will be classified as newspapers in three states. a Tier II sexual offender and be required to register in perHis career in journalism son with the sheriff's office every 180 days for 25 years. began in 1972 when he was Evans further ordered him to have no contact with the victim and pay court costs. As of Dec. 9, Erwin had 26 days time served. During sentencing, Evans noted that he had no prior adult convictions. reaches out to community residents who want to gain victory over "butts. hangups and habits" that they are experiencing. It is a faithbased, 12-step program that has reportedly enjoyed a high success rate nationwide. '"When we cannot, God can, and he does," reads a prds release issued by the group. ..Testimony night verifies the life changing power of God, no matter how dark the circumstances may seem.'' Gallia Strong Tower meets at 6 p~m. each Wednesday at Vinton Baptist Church, 11818 Ohio 160 across from the former North Gallia High School complex. According to the press release, the evening begins with a fellowship meal followed by praise and worship, teaching and small group sharing at 7 p.m. Organizers said that small groups are available for people who struggle with substance abuse and othef' abusive situations and • ''loved ones'' group to support family members. Meigs First Baby of 201 0 Erwin Charlene Hoefllch/photo Isaiah Steven Ireland, son of Tlffany Timmons and Nathan Ireland of Long Bottom, was Meigs County's first baby of 2010, and winner of The Dally Sentinel's First Baby contest. ~opez from Page AI hired as a photographer by the Valencia County News Bulletin. He later worked for the Santa Fe New Mexican, De Baca County News, The Taos News, Deming Headlight and Ruidoso Nev.•s. During his career. Lopez has won a variety of awards for his personal advertising and journalism prowess and many of the newspapers he has managed have been award-winning publications. In 2008, he was named the recipient of the William S. Dixon First Amendment Freedom Award, which is sponsored by the Foundation for Open Government. He is a former president of the New Mexico Press Association ( 1984), past president of the Taos Rotary Club (1985), a Paul Hanis Fellow and past member of the San Juan Rotary Club. Lopez has served as a discussion leader at the American Press Institute in Reston. Va., seven times teaching publishers from across the country. Lopez and his wife, Kathy, most recently lived in Farmington \.vith their daughter. Melinda. who is a freshman at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. N.M. Lopez is an avid golfer, hunter and enjoys the outdoors. Internet • f'II!E Mlf 1Mhri:al Sifll<!1 •• ::llllll.'m¥.iii·~,;:u~ Ill: • 10HO t>ntf..,. ' CKi:m ~I ~Q; I»~ Mlfw 1. hW _Yht«.r, ,..,.~ l Surf "11 (0 .J \ 6X,ft1~fe!{._; S".p Up Owlllntl. .,..,...loaalfH< COlli ~~ llxtJNM. 740-446-4665 1-888-488-7 ~5 Subscribe today 446-2342. 992-2155 MLK fromPageAl Schools from Page AI school. The board accepted a donation of $9,500 from American Electric Power that will be used to build athletic facilities. It also approved two payments to the Ohio School Boards Association. One in the amount of $5,469 for annual membership dues. The second in the amount of $250 for access to the Legal Assistance Fund. Ten construction change orders and certificates of contract with seven companies providing services related to the school construction projects were approved. The board also gave its nod to the 2010-2011 district calendar. Regular school board meetings in 2010 will be held at 7 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month in the auditorium at the new GAHS in Centenary. the presentation of essays by school students from Gallia, Jackson and Vinton counties. The annual essay contest is sponsored by the university's Project CHAMP program and the URG bookstore. This year's essay theme is "I Have a Dream: How Can I Serve My Community?" Students who wrote the top three essays hav'e been invited to read their works to the audience in attendance. A reception will be held following the ceremony in the Beny Center atrium. • P/he t_ {t~"w«tl Cffln,luw B~~l~~y~ R~]]s <Caree~r Center~ For information contact the Adult Center at 740-245-5334 Financial aid is available for those who qualify �------...-..;------ --- -~ - · - -~--·- -----------· ---- - - - ----...,.-~._..-:::--~----.....-"!'-"!'"... ~.,. , ~-.... - ....- -••- Meigs County calendar Big sister is critical of everything she says Dear Dr. Brothers: My a_big sister just spent her first ~ acation home after going to college about six hours away. We alway-. have been close. as \.\e are only t\VO years apat1. I'm a JUnior in high school. She h<ls changed at college and now she is critici;ing everything I say. She seems to think I am bah) ish and unsophi~ti­ cated all of a sudden. even though I U'>t.!d to think she thought I was neat. Hovv can I gether to stop acting this \.\ay and treat me like she u ...ed to? - C.W. Dear C.\\l.: I'm sure you are very curious about what college ts like. and your Sl'> ter is giving you some insight into the big changes that are ahead. It's an exciting time, and if you can get over thb bump in the road. I'm sure <.he will want to help guide you in your own search for the best-fitttng place to contmuc your edu cation. I can sec how upset A ou arc b) the changes in ~er. and it may give you pause about what might happen to your own personal it) vv hen you lcaYe home in two vears as well. Let me assure ·) ou that \\ hile they mioht be alarmino thl! ch:nges )OUr :-.ister i~going through are very normal and the kind of thing you would do well to try to take in !->tride. Your sister is living on her own, without your parents. for the first time. That heady dose of freedom really changes young people, who may never have quite figured out who they are until they are in a position to make pretty much all of their own decisions and .shape their own destiny. to a _large extent - at least for the short term. Gomg back home for the first vacation I iterall) some culture and few young want to go back to dependent , juvenile role that thev nov\ look back on with a ~bit of disdain. And included in the old stuff your sister left behind is you . So please try to bear \\ ith her and be the same girl you al\\ays have been, and I am sure you will see her attitude soften over ,time. Then you can move . vour • future ••• Dear Dr. Brothers: I T IMES-S ENTINEL STAFF POINT PLEASAf\ T. W.Va. - The City ot Pomt a!'.ant is current!) in the cess of obtaining the press ions of interest with qualifications in order to make repairs to the historic renovation of the A .F. Kiser House. The professional services will include the preparation of the project plans and specifications. the preparation of bidding documents, ·monitoring and inspectiOn 'of construction activitil.!s to ,insure compliance with ;plans and specifications. • The scope of work in the ·renovation project is to 'remove and replace thi.! slate roof as \\ell a~ to make •repairs to the roof and structural drainage :-.ystem. The interested firm must submit ,data detailing their qualili;cations of technical exercise •management and staffing :capabilities along with . related prior experiences. : Funding for the proposed ~ect includes the Federal ghway Administration's . .nspottation Enhancement ,Program, administrated by ,the West Virginia Department of Transportation on Division of Highways and local sources. All work will be ' performed in accordance with the regulation is!-.ued by the Federal Highway Administration and the !'>tate of ~est Virginia. Clubs and organizations Monday, Jan. 18 POMEROY Pomeroy Chapter 186 OES, 6:30p.m. refreshments. 7:30 p.m . meeting. Tuesday, Jan. 19 CHESTER Chester Council 323 Da\Jghters of America, regular meeting, 7 p.m., quarterly birthdays, install officers. Thursday, Jan. 21 POMEROY - Amencan Cancer Society Meigs County Advisory Board Meeting, noon, banquet room of the Wild Horse Cafe. Church events Methodist Church. soups, salad. sandwiches. Public meetings Monday, Jan. 18 LETART FALLS- Letart Township Trustees, regular meeting , 5 p.m., office building. Tuesday, Jan. 19 DARWIN - Public meeting to discuss proposed 3mil fire protection levy for Bedford Township, 7 p.m .• Hemlock Grove Grange Hall, invited guests include local insurance representa· tives, Meigs County Auditor Mary Byer-Hill, Pomeroy Mayor John Musser, Pomeroy council members, Pomeroy Fire Department members, Bedforg Township Trustees. have a dilemma. I have been thinking about becoming a Thursday, Jan. 21 vegetarian. because I Jove MIDDLEPORT Free veggies and I think I would community 'dinner, 4:30 - 6 be healthier and less overp.m., Heath United weight if I gave up meat. I have some. vegetarian friends who cauQ:ht vv ind of this and im·ited me to a potluck. But they had such , strange ideas about not 1 - - - - -- - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - touching plates \\ ith meat E m e r g ency M e di c al Bidwell. Info: Connre Walking Group, 5 p.m., T e c hni c ian on them, calling meat-eaters Bradbury, Gallia-Vinton River Valley High School, (EM T B as ic ) (like me!) a 'ariety of ESC, 245-0593. Bidwell. Info: Connie insulting names. etc .. that 1 Monday, Jan. 18 Nurs e Assi sta nt Huntington VINTON Bradbury, Gallia-Vinton (STN A ) am now rethinking things, GALLIPOLIS Docs all this sound a little Southeastern Oh1o Branch and Morgan Township Crime ESC, 245·0593. Monday, Feb. 8 0 extreme?- J.H. NAACP will hold its annual Watch meeting, 6 p.m., at BIDWELL Adult Dear J .H.: It is a strange Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. the Vinton Village Hall. Monday, Jan. 25 ..!t]j'# Walking Group, 5 p.m ... ne\V world you have entered program at the Paint Creek BIDWELL Adult River Valley High School, as a novice motivated by Baptist Church, 1 p.m. The Info: Connie nothing more than a vague message will be brought by Walking Group, 5 p.m., Bidwell. 1l'or "'Ott lt~furan•tlun \'ODI•t" l Adult Cul., ot Gall ia-Vinton idea that it might be good Elder Randolph Edwards of River Valley High School, Bradbury, ""' ww.b Connie Bidwell. Info: ESC, 245-0593. for your health to cut down New Jerusalem Christian Gallia-Vinton on meat or cut it from your Center, Ironton, Ohio. Rev. Bradbury, diet completely. That may Harry Scott, pastor. Info: ESC, 245-0593. GALLIPOLIS Gallia be the exact same motiva- Jessie Payne, vice presition that many vegetarians dent of Gallia County County Animal Welfare League meeting, 6:30 p.m., quieti) operate from - but NAACP, at 245-5216. Woodland Centers. the ones making all the RIO GRANDE - Martin Thursday, Jan. 28 noise toda) have a lot more Luther King Jr. Day proGALLIPOLIS French on their agenda than losing gram, 7 p.m .. John W. Berry weight or improving their Fine and Performing Arts 500 Free Clinic, 1-4 p.m .. Pinecrest Drive, cholesterol profile. And I do Center, University of Rio 258 mean agenda - as you· ve Grande/Rio Grande Gallipolis. The clinic will not begun to discover. being a Community College. Dr. be open in the event of \ cgetarian today is more~ of Francine Childs from Ohio inclement weather. a political statement. one in University will be keynote BIDWELL Adult \\ hich meat-eaters are con- speaker. Walking Group, 5 p.m., sidered a subhuman species, GALLIPOLIS - Bossard River Valley High School, and animal-rights groups Memorial Library closed for Bidwell. Info: Connie have taken over. Gallia-Vinton Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Bradbury, Besides the politically BIDWELL Adult ESC, 245-0593. "'' /11 stock mcrcha11disc correct agenda of bringing a Walking Group, 5 p.m., Monday, Feb. 1 new level of disgust to the River Valley High School, BIDWELL Adult consumption of animals, the Bidwell Info: Connie Walking Group, 5 p.m., vegetarian way of life now Bradbury, Gallia Vinton River Valley High School, pretty much demands that ESC, 245-0593. Bidwell. Info: Connie you treat anything surThursday, Jan. 21 Bradbury, Gallia-Vinton rounding the consumption BIDWELL Adult ESC, 245-0593. of meat as a poison to be Walking Group, 5 p.m ., Thursday, Feb. 4 avoided at all costs River Valley High School, BIDWELL Adult Separate plates. silvenvare. sinks. stoves and even d\vellings are now required. I don't know why things have !!Otten so extreme. but )OU still can enjoy the benefits of health) eating without meat as a sin!!le human being makin2 her~own decisions. Tr) not to succumb to the groupthink. which could turn )OU into a grim extremi!-.t. Cooking and eating should be fun and enjoyable - it doesn't have to be a pol1ticaJ statement. Gallia County calendar Meetings-Events C ' ~.., Buckeye HilJs Career Center 740·2 4 ~.~~.14 Storewide Everything is on Sale! Free Glaucoma Screening in recognition of National Glaucoma Awareness Month Wednesday, January 20, 2010 (c) 2010 bv King Features Syndicate Point Pleasant making plans to renovate A.F. Kiser House MDTNEWSC MYDAILYTRIBUNE COM ...... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Sunday, J anuary t7, 2010 ASK DR.. BR.OTHER. ~ ahead into together. ...- PageA3 i unbap ~ime~ -i>entinel B v DR. J OYCE BROTHERS ••- The Cit) of Point Pleasant will afford full opportunities for minorit) busmesses enterprise:. to submit a !->hOv\ of interest in response to this invitation and will not discriminate agamst any interested firm or indi' idual on the grounds of race. creed, color, sex, age. handicap or national origin in the contracted awarded. The contract will be awarded to the responsible offer or whose proposal is within the competitive range and determined to be the most advantageous to the City of Point Pleasant, price and other factors considered. Please submit all requested information in triplicate to: The City of Point Pleasant. Main Street Organization: 305 Main Street. Point Pleasant. WV. 25550. Information must be ~ent in no later than February 20 LO. For more information. contact Charles Humphreys at 304675-1497 . Keeping Gallia & Meigs informed Sunday Times-Sentinel Gallia • 44&2342 Meigs • 992-2155 Holzer Clinic HOL ZE ii CLIN IC 90 Jackson Pike p,ovided by: Lisa Reaves, MD Board Certified Ophthalmologist *Please Ca/1740.446.5421 to Schedule you' F'ee Screening* �_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ...,._ _ _ _ _ _ w - - w .... . . -·------ - - ---- --:--:--..,....--:-:-:---'--:-------.,.~-----o:-~~-"1"!-------------- ~-----· Page A4 i>unbap ~imes -ientinel Sunday,Januaryt7,2010 . "unba~ ~tmes -~eutfnel 825 Third Avenue • Gallipolis, Ohio (7 40) 446-2342 • FAX (7 40) 446-3008 www.mydailytribune.com Ohio Valley Publishing Co. Sammy Lopez Publisher Diane· Hill Andrew Carter Controller Managing Editor Pam Caldwell . Advertising Director ·Congress shall make no larv respecting afl establislmrmt of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridgitt.~ the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Govemment for a redress of grievances. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution YOU R. O PI N I ON Christian nation Dear Editor: Barry says we are not a Christian nation. Is that right Barry? Is it because perhaps there's not a Christian in the White House? Tell me Barry, where were the .Muslims during this country's tight for freedom in the revolutionary war? Where were the muslims our nation's people fought to fre the opressed in the ch il war? During WWII , do you realile the majority of Muslims actually sided with Adolph Hitler? Of the 58,000 Americans who died in the VietNam war ll. ves 11 were Muslims. Each and every time our count!) was attacked in recent years by jidhadist ~luslims (eg. World Trade Center. U.S .S. Cole. American soldiers' bodies dragged through the streets. etc., etc.) radical muslims actually cheered and laughed. Yes. Ban;, we are a Christian nation and Christians will be pu~hed just so far before v.·e strike back and defend ourselves. I'm worried about the direction in which you are leading us and foresee a revolution around the corner. I know where myself and fellow Christians stand; I also know where you stand as stated your book. Craig Barnes Gallipolis Got coal? Dear Editor: This information b an attempt to educate some of m\ fellow citizens in making informed decisions about energy policy. Most will not like the news. A pie chart was attached to my electric bill from AEP in Athens. Ohio. (v.herc I see anti-coal bumper stickers and signs e\ ery ll feet) . It shows the breakdO\\ n of electricity sources they use to keep our lights and furnace on , so that we don't die from h)pothermia (and can watch football). Note that 91 percent of the time (22 hours per day) our electricity comes from coal -fired plants (with 6 percent nuclear, and I percent each for hydropower, natural gas and wind power). You don't like coal? Simple. just turn off your electricity 91 percent of the time. Without coal, you have 15 hours of electricity per week (two hours per day). Go crazy with it. If you are not willing to turn off your power for the other 153 hours per week (22 hours per day), and are still whining about coal, you arc a hypocrite. Neal Lee Athens Thought for Today: "He that is of the op1mon money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1 790). Competition is a good thing !':ot so long ago. if you wanted to talk to a friend or relative, you had to walk o~er to your rotary telephone, !)pin the number dial and wait for an ansv.oer. If you were out of the house and needed to make a call, you had to find a quarter and locate the closest pay phone. In 2010, thanks to incredible advances in technology over the past decade, the pay phone, and for a growing number of Ohioans, the traditional home phone have been replaced by cable phone service, internet communications and mobile phones that can do everything from search the internet to take pictures to pia) videos . From 200lto 2009, local telephone companies lost 3 million lines. v. hile the number of wireless phone customers in Ohio grev. by nearly 4.5 million. according to a recent report from the Ohio Telecom Association . These in nO\ at ions have brought Ohioans more sen ices than they could e\cr imagine and. in man) ways. tmnsfonncd how coworkers. friends and family interact. But. as the telecommunications marketplace has evolved. l>tate laws governing the industry have not kept up. The Ohio Revised Code, for instance, still includes references to the "telegraph." More importantly, current regulations arc discouraging competition by creating an unfair advantage for some telephone providers in the state. Last month, the Senate approved legislation that is designed to put traditional telephone service providers on an equal plane v. hen competing with wireless. cable and other telecommunications companies. Senate Bill 16~. which received strong bipartisan support. would reform O)Uch of Ohio's traditional Lifeline advisory board responsible for promotion. marketing and outreach of Lifeline services. Also, SB 162 was amended in com- ' mittee to create a commission to . monitor the telecommunications John industry's progress in deploying Carey broadband service to rural areas, as v. ell as the legislation's impact on telephone rates and how Ohioans are getting Lifeline services. The commission. which would have to report , telecom regulatory framework., elimi- its findings to the General Assembly, nating many rules at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio that are would be comprised of four legislano longer appropriate in a competi- tors, a representative from the tive environment, in favor of a more Strickland Administration. a repre- · market-oriented. yet consumer- sentative from the PUCO. a person from the telecommunications indusfriendly approach. However. under the bill. the PUCO try and a member from the Ohio v.ould maintain regulatory authorit> Consumers· Counsel. The goal of SB 162 is to foster over basic dial tone telephone service. including access to 9-1-1. oper- environment that is fair. "n'""'"'"" ' ator services and caller ID blocking. and encourages as \\ell as certification of new tele- companies to invest and create JObs in , phone companies. telephone number Ohio. As we look ahead to 2010, the administratiOn. local number porta- bill should be discussed as part of the bility and emergency outage report- General Assembly's larger goal to 1 ing. grov. business, put Ohioans back to • Furthermore. to help ease concerns work and get our state's economy and from some legislators and consumer budget situation back on track. groups, SB 162 seeks to preserve sevSB 162 is cunently pending in the eral important protections for Ohio Ohio House. For more information consumers. For instance, the legisla-· about the bill, please visit www.legis- . tion ensures that if a telephone company fails to respond to a customer's lature.state.oh.us. I welcome your views on other report of an outage within 72 hours. state issues. If you have any questhe customer's account would automatically be credited for one month tions. thoughts or concerns, or if you need assistance working with a state of service. government agency, please write to ' In addition. the bill also would expand the enhanced Lifeline pro- me: Senator John A. Carey. Ohio .. gram to include all basic telephone Senate. Statehouse, Columbus, Ohio service prO\ iders in Ohio. Lifeline 43215 or call my office at (6 14) 466helps reduce the cost of basic tele- 8156. I also encourage you to visit phone rates for people at or below m) page on the new Ohio Senate 150 percent of the federal poverty v.cbsite at www.ohiosenate.gov/John- _ level. The legislation also creates a care). LETTE RS T O T H E E DI T OR Letters to the editor should be limited to 300 words. All letters are subject to editing, must be signed and include address and telephone number. No unstgned letters will be published. 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Sunday, January17, 2010 Obituaries Daniel Brian Eades Daniel Brian Eades. 53. Leon, W.Va., passed away January 14. 2010, in St. Mary's Hospital. Huntington, W.Va., following a brief illness. He was born December 13, 1956, in Springfield. a son of Shirley Ann (Tingley) Eades Roush of Millwood, W.Va .. and the late William Thomas Eades. He was a crane operator for Southern West Virginia Asphalt, in Poca, W.Va. and :~joyed hunting and fishing. • In addition to his mother. other survivors include his son. Ian William Eades of Leon; brothers and their wives, Doug and Susan Eades of Cottageville, W.Va., David and Sarah Eades of Rutland and Darrell and Connie Eades of London; several nieces and nephews. A service will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday, January 17, 2010. at Casto Funeral Home, Evans, W.Va., with the Rev. Verlin Hart officiating. Burial will follow in the Creston Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to time of service at the funeral home. On line condolences may be sent to: castofuneralhome@citynet .net. Billy Lee Windon Billy Lee Windon. Long Bottom, passed away unexpectedly on Friday, January 15. 2010. He was born on July 4. 1932, in Flatwoods, Ohio, to the late Ernest and Saylie (Will) Windon. Mr. Windon served in the United States Army and then worked in road construction. He later went to work at the AEP Gavin nt. Mr. Windon enjoyed ializing on his CB where . . went by the handle of "Dirty Neck." His hobbies also included traveling, Billy Lee Windon wood working and spending time with family and friends. He is survived by his wife of 52 years; Lela King Windon of Long Bottom, Ohio; daughter, Patricia "TC" and Herbert Ervin, of Racine, Ohio; grandchildren, Josh Ervin, Logan, W.Va .. and Macyn Ervin, Gallipolis, Ohio; and sister, Jean Hawk. He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers. Charles and Victor Windon; and one sister, Clara Mae Windon. The funeral service will be held at 11 a.m .. Tuesday, January 19. 20 10. at Anderson McDaniel Funeral Home in Pomeroy. Burial will follow at Meigs Memory Gardens. Visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m., Monday, January 18,2010, at the funeral home. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.andersonmcdaniel.com. Frank Dodderer Frank Edward Dodderer, 87, Coolville. Ohio, passed away Wednesday, January 13.2010, in Coolville. e was born April 31, 1922, in Coolville, son of the late "Pete" Arden and Carroll Parker Dodderer. He was an ny veteran of World War II, a member of the Coolville sonic Lodge and the Athens County Shrine Club . He was retired from Shell Chemical Co. and worked for AT&T. " He is survived by a sister-in-law, Beulah (Kesterson) Dodderer; two nieces, Jane Walker and Teresa Lemons; a niece by marriage, Janet Gosnell; and a nephew by marriage, Phillip Heil. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Elsie (Davis) Dodderer; and a brother, Hobart. At the request of the deceased, there will be no calling hours. Graveside services will be held at 3 p.m., Tuesday, January 19, 2010, at Tuppers Plains Christian Cemetery with Pastor George Horner officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of WhiteSchwarzel Funeral Home, Coolville. Deaths Emillia L Danisek Emillia L. Danisek, 73, Gallipolis, died Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010, at Holzer Medical Center. Private disposition will be conducted by McCoy-Moore Funeral Home, Wetherholt Chapel, Gallipolis, at the . vary Cemetery, Cleveland. Lora J. Hughes Lora J. Hughes, 89. Ashton. W.Va .. died Friday, Jan. 15. 2010, at Pleasant Valley Nursing and Rehab Center. The funeral service will be held at I p.m., Monday, Jan. 18, 2010, at the Deal Funeral Home. Burial will be at Balls Chapel Cemetery, Ashton, W.Va. Friends may call from 68 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Van W. Bernard Van W. Bernard. 77, Point Pleasant, W.Va., died Friday, Jan. 15,2010, at Pleasant Valley Hospital. The funeral service is scheduled for 2 p.m., Monday, Jan. 18,2010. at Wilcoxen Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Kirkland Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be held one prior to the service on Monday at the funeral home. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.wiJcoxenfuneralbome.com. Ohio counties report decadeslow marriage licenses CINCINNATI (AP) - Some Ohio counties are reporting the ~st number of marriage license applications in decades as e people apparently choose to cohabitate than tie the knot. In Hamilton County, home to Cincinnati, about 4,500 couples applies for marriage licenses last year, the fewest since 1957. Neighboring Butler County received about 2,000 applications last year, the fewest since 1970. Though booming Warren County has doubled its population since 1990. the number of applications has stayed flat at about t, 100. A report last month by the National Marriage Project found the number of marriages per l ,000 unmarried women age 15 and older dropped by nearly 50 percent from 1970 to 2007. The report said the number of couples that just live together increased from 439,000 in 1960 to about 6.8 million today. • -. ~== a u $unbap ~imeil -$entincl • Page As : Pomeroy • Middleport • Gallipolis IRS electronic tax filing underway BY ERIC ERICKSON IRS MEDIA RELATIONS WASHINGTON - IRS e-file, the popular electronic tax return delivery service used by two-thirds of the nation's taxpayers, opened for business Friday and marks 20 years of safely and securely transmitting nearly 800 million individual federal tax returns. The Internal Revenue Service debuted e-file nationally in 1990, delivering 4.2 million tax returns. Last year, IRS e-file delivered 95 million tax returns, 66 percent of all returns filed. "Electronic filing is more and more popular every year, and most taxpayers now e-file. IRS e-file means fas ter refunds. It means the option to file now and pay later if you owe additional tax. It means peace of mind knowing the IRS received the return because we send an acknowledgement. Those are the reasons this has been a popular service,'' said Doug Shulman, IRS Commissioner. "IRS e-file is safe, it's easy and everyone should try it." Last year, more than 49 million taxpayers missed out on the e-file benefits. The IRS urges taxpayers. especially those people already using tax software, to take the next step and efite their return or ask their preparer to e-file their return. The IRS urges tax preparers who electronically fi le some of their clients' tax returns to consider filing all tax returns through efile . The IRS is working on faster acknowledgements of accepted or rejected returns. Last year, taxpayers received an acknowledgement within 48 hours that the IRS had accepted or rejected their return. Paper filers do not receive any acknowledgement. Also, if the IRS rejects an e-filed return, it will provide more specific explanations of the errors that caused the rejection. This will enable taxpayers to make corrections and quickly resubmit their returns. IRS e-file offers the fastest, safest way for people to receive their tax refunds. By using e-file and direct deposit, taxpayers can get their refunds in as few as 10 days. Taxpayers even can opt to have their refund deposited into two or three financial accounts or purchase a U.S. Savings Bond. For those who owe additional tax, e-file is still the best option. People can file now and pay later, as long as the payment is received by April 15. Taxpayers can set the date for an automatic withdrawal from their financial accounts or they can pay by credit card. People also can e-file and pay by check by simply attaching the payment to a voucher that is mailed to the IRS. Other e-file benefits include a reduced error rate (1 percent compared to nearly 20 percent on a paper return). which means a decreased likelihood of hearing from the IRS. Also, federal tax returns are delivered to the IRS through a highly secure. encrypted transmission system. Just like paper returns, e-filed returns remain confidential . There are three ways to use e-file: through tax preparers, through most tax preparation software or through IRS Free File. The IRS does not charge for efile. Many tax preparers and software products also offer free e-filing with their services. As people become more comfortable using computers and the Internet for financial transactions, the IRS has seen a huge growth in the number of people who are preparing their own tax returns with the help of software. For people seeking free electronic options, IRS Free File offers some- thing for almost everyone through two formats. Traditional Free File provides free tax preparation software and free electronic filing to individuals or families who earn less than $57.000. Traditional Free File is a public-private partnership in which approximately 20 tax software manufacturers make their tax preparation software and e-filing available for free. Everyone can use Free File Fillable Forms. This senice. now in its second year. provides free on line tax forms that can be completed and filed electronically. These are electronic versions of lRS paper forms. This program is ideal for people who are comfortable preparing their own returns with little assistance. People must access Free File through the IRS Web site at www.IRS.gov and click on Free File or ww vv. IRS .go v / freefi le. People can read more about Free File at www.freefile .IRS .gov. People looking for a tax preparer who files electronically and for more information on e-file can review IRS e-file for Individuals. Taxpayers also can locate an e-file authorized tax professional nearest to them by doing a zip code search. USDA Livestock Disaster payments exceed $175 Million WASHINGTON, D.C. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said that USDA has already made more than $175 million in disaster payments to America's livestock producers after implementing two new programs in 2009, demonstrating USDA's commitment to rapidly meeting the goals of Congress and providing farmers and ranchers with timely and effective disaster assistance. "America's farmers and ranchers deserve efficient and effective assistance programs to help get through natural disasters," said Vilsack. "While the previous ad hoc disaster assisranee too often was too little, too late, because we were able to get these new programs up and running quickly, we are already beginning to achieve Congress' goal of helping producers recover losses rapidly and more thoroughly.'' Under the standing provisions of the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) and the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP). authorized in the Food. Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 (Farm Bill), producers are better able to recover from their losses stemming from 2008 and subsequent disasters. The 2008 Farm Bill provisions replace previous ad-hoc disaster assistance programs and are funded through the Agricultural Disaster Relief Tmst Fund. LIP provides payments to eligible livestock owners and contract growers who suffered eligible livestock deaths in excess of normal mortality as a direct result of an eligible adverse weather event including hurricanes, floods. bJizzards, disease, wildfires and extreme heat and cold. Eligible livestock under LIP include beef cattle, alpacas, buffalo, beefalo. dairy cattie, deer, elk, emus, equine, goats, lambs. poultry, reindeer. sheep and swine. LFP provides payments to eligible livestock producers who have suffered livestock grazing losses due to qualifying drought or fire. Eligible livestock under LFP include beef cattle. alpacas, buffalo. beefalo. dairy cattle, deer. elk, emus, equine, goats, llamas, poultry. reindeer, sheep and swine. For losses because of drought, eligible areas are determined using the U.S. Drought Monitor, which can be found at the FSA website: http://www.fsa.usda.gov. To be eligible for LIP for livestock losses suffered during 2009.1ivestock owners and contract growers must file a notice of loss no later than 30 calendar days of when the loss of livestock is apparent to the producer and an application for payment no later than Jan. 30,2010. To be eligible for 2009 calendar year grazing losses under LFP. eligible livestock producers must submit a completed application for payment and required supporting documentation to their administrative county FSA office no later than Jan. 30, 20 lO. For more information or to apply for LIP or LFP and other USDA Farm Service Agency disaster assistance programs. visit your FSA county office or http://www.fsa.usda.gov. Gallipolis offices closed Monday held the first Tuesday of each month at the home of Fiscal Officer Osie Follrod, is scheduled for Jan. 20 in Bob Evans Farms Hall room 218 at URG/RGCC. For information, contact Charles Gray or Paul Harrison at (740) 245-7357 or e-mail veterans@rio.edu. Local Briefs Chamber banquet reservations GALLIPOLIS The deadline to make reservations for the Gallia County Chamber of Commerce banquet is 5 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 21. Tickets cost $40 each . Reserve tickets by calling Sabrina Tennant at 446-0596, faxing requests to 446-7031, or e-mailing stennant@galliacounty.org. The banquet is scheduled for 6 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 28 at the University of Rio Grande cafeteria. Generation Gallia workshop GALLIPOLIS Jim Morrison, CFP, will be the guest speaker for the next Generation Gallia workshop, set for 6 p.m .. Thursday, Jan. 21. Morrison will discuss how to improve personal finances for 2010. The workshop will be held at the Holzer Clinic 850 Building in training rooms A-B. There is a $5 fee. RSVP by calling Sabrina Tennant at 446-0596, or email stennant@galliacounty.org. Refreshments will be served. Meetings canceled GALLIPOLIS The Galli a- J ackson-Meigs Board of Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services has canceled its meetings scheduled for Jan. 18 and Feb. 15. The board will hold a special meeting at 7 p.m .. Monday, Feb. I to conduct regular business at its office at 53 Shawnee Lane, Gallipolis. The board regularly meets at 7 p.m. on the third Monday of each month. GALLIPOLIS - Offices in the Gallipolis Municipal Building will be closed Monday, Jan. 18 in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Trash removal schedule GALLIPOLIS - Trash in the City of Gallipolis will be removed according to its usual schedule Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Jan. 20-22. Residents should have all trash at curbside by 6 a.m. on their regular day of service. Office closed POMEROY Meigs County Board of Elections will be closed Wednesday through Friday to allow for staff training. Regular hours will resume on Jan. 25. An answering machine is available at 992-2697 for those who wish to leave a message. Board of Elections closing GALLIPOLIS The Gallia County Board of Elections will be closed Jan. 19-22 while the staff attends the Ohio Association of Elections Officials Winter Conference. The office will reopen at 8:30 a.m. on Monday. Jan. 25. TOPS meetings POMEROY - TOPS (take off pounds sensibly) meets at 6 p.m. every Thesday at the Mulberry Commuity Center on Mulberry Avenue in Pomeroy. For more inforrnaton call Caroly Payne, 740249-3008. DO board meets Jan. 19 GALLIPOLIS The Galli a County Board of DO. formerly known as the Gallia County Board of MRIDD. will hold its organizational and regular January monthly meeting at 4 p.m. ntesday, Jan. 19 at the administrative offices, 77 Mill Creek Road. Student Veterans Organization forming at Rio Grande RIO GRANDE Students at the University of Rio Grande/Rio Grande Community College and the Veterans Affairs Office are teaming up to form a Student Veterans Organization on the URG/RGCC campus. The group's first meeting GALLIPOLIS The Gallia County Ohio Township Association meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m., Thursday. Jan. 21 at the Senior Resource Center, 1167 State Route 160. Gallipolis. Gallia SWCD meeting Jan. 22 GALLIPOLIS The Gallia Soil and Warer Conservation District board will meet at I :30 p.m .. Friday. Jan. 22 at the C.H. McKen;ie Agricultural Center. For in formation, call 446-6 17 3. Correction MIDDLEPORT Middleport Community Association's spring Bear Basket Games will be held on March 23. The Hou:..e and Garden Tour will be held on June 19. The dates were reported incorrectly. tJvtcCoy-'Moore Punera[ ']{omes Trustees organize POMEROY - Orange Township Trustees elected Roger Ritchie. president, and John Rankin, vice president. James Watson is the third trustee. Regular meetings will be Township Association to meet Serving Our Commmzities for O·ver 100 Years Hn1;, lean. [artd. .\ felhrc~ & lor.\ loort'- Dmdor.f i'!a 420 Av~nuc, Gallipolis, 0 -11 • (740) 446-0852 208 l\bin S t reet , Vintun, Oil •(740} 388-8321 ~~------ ~ ~ �PageA6 iunbav.. ~ime~ -ientinel Sunday,Januaryt7,2010 HMC to offer health screenings during mobile food pantry stop in Gallipolis TIMES-SENTINEL STAFF MOTNEWS@MYOAILYTRIBLINE COM GALL.IPOLIS Hol1.er \1edtcal Center's Communitv Health and Wellness Department \\ill of'i'er free health screenings during the Luthl:ran Social Sen ices (LSS) Mobile Fond Pantry stop on Tuesday. Feb. 16,11 Grace United ~lcthodist Church. 600 Second Awnuc. Gallipoli-.. The pantry \\111 be open from noon to 2 p.m. Screenings that \\ill be made available mclude blomJ pressure. non-fasting glucose and cholesterol. bone den.,it) and body fat anal} sis. In order to recehe tood items. familie~ must prc-regi ter for the ~en ice. To register. call toll-free, (877) 704-3663. The LSS Mobile Food Pantn \\as launched in Februar} 2009 and ctirrentl) 'isits four communtties in Southeast Ohio. including Gallia and ~1cig., countie.... The LSS Mobile Food Pantt'} operates on the Choice model in ,., hkh each famil} is able tO Select a number Of itl!ll1S in VariOUS food categories based on the size of the family. In addition, the patltr") utilites the Ohio Benefit Bank to help people in need file their taxes and determine cligibilit} for state and federal programs. With its regional divtstons of I .uthcran Social Services of Southern Oh10 and Lutheran Social Servicl!s of Northern Ohio, Lutheran Social Sen i<:cs of Central Ohio serves thousands of people each day by focusing on the core "ocietal issues of hunger. hou.,ing. healing and hope. LSS provides food pantries, homeless shelters, semor lh ing, affordable housing communities and other programs and sen ices that upl rt tamilies and "trengthen communities. LSS is aftiliatcd "ith the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, recogni/ed by the Lutheran Church-Missouri nod and a charter member of Lutheran Social Sen ices in America. For more information. please visit WW\\ lssco.org. For informatwll about health .\creenings Hol-:.er Medical Center prm·ide.\, call CommunitY Health and We!lnn., Director Bonnie tvicFarla11d. RN. HSN. at (740) 446-5679. s, Holzer Medical Center/photo Mark McPherson, Lutheran Social Services Mobile Food Pantry driver, left, and Bonnie McFarland, RN, BSN, HMC director of Community Health and Wellness, ar shown with the LSS Mobile Food Pantry delivery truck. School calamity days burned in Meigs County BY BETH SERGENT BSERGENT@MYOAILYSENTINELCOM PO~IEROY The Eastern. Meigs and Southern Local School District.. hme each burned their fi\ e allotted calamit\ da\., due to inclement \\ cather. This means if any more bad \\Cather causes school to be canceled. the districts will have to make up that time ...omehm\. someday within this school calendar year. William Buckley. superintendent of the Meigs Local School District. said if more calamit} days occur, students may sec some of their spring brl·ak da} s diminish to make up for the lost time. Buckley abo said adding days onto the school calendar ) car is also a possibilit). saying the law docs allow distncts to extend their school }Car to June 20. Anthony Deem, ~upenn­ tendent of the Southern Local School District. said if more calamit) da) s begin to accumulate. like students in Meigs LocaL students at Southern could also sec their spring break decrease. Southern ·s spring break is set for April 1-6 but Deem said if another calami!} da} is missed. make up days \\Ould be!!in in reverse order. For example, if one more !'110\\ dav occurs. student.. "ould lose April 6 of their spring break. if l\\0 occur the) 'd lose April 6 and 5. If calamity days begin to accumulate be\ond days a\ ail able during spring break, those da} s "ould be made up b~ extending the school >car. Rick EJwards. superintendent of Eastern Local School District said the same scenarios apply for his students. With no more calamity days to claim. if more snow days occur students will begin to lose equivalent days of their spring break and then possibly an extension of the school vear which is currently scheduled to end on Ma' 27. School districts across Ohio \\ill go from five to onh three allo\\ able calamity da) s for the 20 I OIl school vear. ''The ..\•ay I look at calumit) da) s is, \\ e can make up a school day. we can't replace your kid." Buckley said about making the call to call it a day when the weather takes a turn for the worse. Gallia-Meigs Forecast Sunday ...Rain. Highs in the mid 40s. Northeast "inds 5 to I 0 mph. Chance ofrain 90 percent. Sunday night. •.Mostl) cloud}. Rain likel) in the evening .. :! hen a slight chance of rain and snow sho" ers after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s. '\orth winds around 5 mph ...Becoming nor1hwe!lt after midnight. Chance of precipitation 60 percent. Martin Luther King Jr Day through tuesday... Partl) cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s. Lows in the upper 20s. Tuesday night. •. Partly cloudy in the e' ening .. .Then most I} cloudy with a chance of rain showers after midni!!ht. Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 30 percent. Wednesday and Wednesday ·night ... Mostly cloud) '' ith a 40 percent chance of rain shO\\ ers. Highs in the mid 40s. Lows in the mid 30s. Thursda) ... Mostl} cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs in the mid 40s. Thursda) night and Friday... Mostly clouJy with a 30 percent chance of rain. Lows in the mid 30s. Highs in the lower 40s. Local Stocks AEP (NYSE) - 36.01 Akzo (NASDAQ) - 62.90 Ashland Inc. 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January 19 Boys Basketball Eastern at Federal Hocking. 8 p.m. Gallia Academy at Jackson, 6 p.m. River Valley at Southern, 6 p.m. South Gallla at Rock Hill, 6 p.m. Wahama at Point Pleasant, 6 p.m. Teays Valley Christian at Hannan. 6 p.m Girls Basketball Eastern at Federal Hocking, 6:30 p.m. Wrestling Gallia Academy at Athens, 5 p.m. Wednesday. January 20 Boys Basketball Meigs at Jackson. 6 p.m. Girls Basketball South Gallia at Green. 6 p.m. Wrestling Meigs at Wellston, TBA Ib.ur.s.day. J.anu.ary_21 Boys Basketball Wahama at Southern, 6 p.m Girls Basketball Tnmble at Eastern, 6 p.m Rock Hill at River Valley. 6 p.m. hern at Waterford. 6 p.m. s at Point Pleasant. 6 p.m. • nan at Van. 6 p.m. Wahama at St. Mary's Tournament, TBA frJQ.ay, January 22 Boys Basketball Eastern at Miller 6:30 p.m. Marietta at Gallia Academy, 6 p.m. Southern at Fed Hock, 5 p.m. Nels-York at Meigs, 6:30p.m. OVCS at South Galha, 7:30 p.m. Hannan at Buffalo, 6 p.m Wrestling Point Pleasant. River Valley, Gallla Academy at WSAZ, TBA Friday results B OYS B ASKETBALL Eastern 74, Southern 66 Warren 67, Gallia Acad 42 Chesapeake 67, R Valley 29 Athens 51, Meigs 31 St. Joe 63, S Gallia 48 Pt Pleasant 64, Hannan 31 aves at rvc, late GIRLS B ASKETBALL Chas Cath 70, Wahama 20 Grace 46, Hannan 32 atTVC,Iate ders drop league game to Chesapeake BY SARAH HAWLEY SHAWLEY@MYDAILYTRIBUNE.COM St. Joe rallies to beat Rebels, 63-48 B Y SARAH H AWL EY IRONTON - For the first three quarters, the South Gallia Rebels played even with the St. Joe Flyers. but the fourth quarter was a much different story. The Flyers led by three at the half. but South Gallia tied the game up going into the final quarter. when St. Joe put the game out of reach. ..__;a;............__. ._........a..__-J_.L-J Dalt. Matney Harrison South Gallia and St. Joe played to an 11-11 tie in the first quarter of the contest. The Flyers outscored South Galli a 14-11 in the second quarter, to lead 2522 at half-time. South Gallia was able to erase the thre~ point Flyer lead in the third quarter, as they outscored the hosts 19-16 in the quarter. With the game tied at 41, it all went down to the last eight minutes of the contest. The Rebels were unable to stop the Flyers charge in the fourth quarter, as St. Joe outscored South Gallia 22-7 in the fina l quarter of play. In the end, free throws accounted for the difference n the contest as South Gall ia was 4 of 12 at the line, and St. Joe was 23 of 32. The Rebels ""ere led in scoring by Dalton Matney with 10 points. Brandon Harrison and Bryce Clary each scored nine points. Levi Ellis and A.J. McDaniel each had eight points, and Danny Matney Please see Rebels, Bl Eagles outlast Southern for TVC Hocking lead B Y B RYAN WALTERS BWALTERS@MYDAILYTRIBUNE.COM RACINE - A 25-10 third quarter run, as well as nine consecutive made free throws down the stretch. ultimately allowed the Eastern boys basketball to escape Pierce Charles W. Hayman Gymnasium on Friday night with a bardfought 7466 victory over host Southern during a Coppick pivotal TriV a 1I e y Conference Hocking Division matchup in Meigs County. The visiting Eagles (8-1 , 4-0 TVC Hocking) claimed sole possession of first place in the early league standings with the triumph over the Tornadoes (6-1. 31) - the 1Oth-ranked team by the Associated Press in Division IV. EHS also snapped a seven-game losing streak against Southern in the process. Both teams battled through 14 lead changes and six ties through twoand-a-half quarters of play, but an 11-0 surge over the final 2:37 of the third quarter allowed the Green and White to turn a 42-all contest into a commanding 53- GALLIPOLIS - A trailblazer is defined by Webster's Dictionary as one that discovers a new way to guide others down a path. Fitting. then, that Ohio Valley Chiistian senior Hali Burleson will be continuing her volleyball career as one. Burleson, a three-year starting middle hitter for the Lady Defenders, signed a letter of intent with Ohio Christian University on Tuesday, Jan. 12, at the First Baptist Church Activities Building in the Old French City. Burleson - who is also a four-year starter with the basketball program helped guide the volleyball team to back-to-back state appearances at the Association of Christian Schools International tournament the last two years, all while maintaining a grade-point average above 3.5 in her vast course of studies. She is also the first Lady Defender to s1gn a letter of intent to play college sports in recent years. "Continuing to play volleyball was something that I Plea se see Raiders, Bl Please see Burleson, B3 J r--~=---, r--~=---. SHAWLEYOMYDAILYTRIBUNE.COM BIDWELL - The River Valley Raiders matched Chesapeake point for point in two quarters on Friday evening, but were not able to p i e c e together consecutive good quarters in the 67-29 loss. For the Chesapeake. the first and third quarters were the difference in the game. as they outscored the Raiders 41-3 in those two periods. The second and fourth quarters were quite different as River Valley and Chesapeake each scored 26 point in the two quarter&. The Raiders started out slow as Chesapeake took a 21-1 first quarter advantage. River Valley rallied in the second quarter, as the Panthers outscored them 12- I 1, to make the score 3312 at the half. Chesapeake returned from the half-time break in the same fashion that they began the contest, outscoring the host 20-2 in the third period, but River Valley would not be shutdown. The Raiders played a strong th quarter as they were to outscore the ~ thers 15-14 in the quarter. Chesapeake went on to a 67-29 victory. ~ The Raiders were led by Cody Smith with 10 points. Keith Skidmore and Dominique Peck each ~cored six points. Austin lewis added five points, and Cody McAvena scored two points. Chesapeake was led by l Sunday, January 17, 2010 Please see Outlast, Bl Bryan Walters/photo Eastern's Mike Johnson (5) hauls in a rebound over both teammates and opposing Southern players during the first half of Friday night's TVC Hocking boys basketball game at Charles W. Hayman Gymnasium in Racine. Bulldogs defeat Meigs, 55·35 B Y SARAH HAWLEY SHAWLEY@MYDAILYTRfBUNE.COM THE PLAINS - The Meigs Marauders ( 1-9. 0-5 T V C Ohio) were unable to hold off two second half runs put together by the Athens Bulldogs Friday evening in the TVC0 h i 0 match up between the two teams. T h e Bu l ldogs (8 - 1. 4-0 T V C Ohio) went on runs of 10-2 and 15-0 in the final half of play to put the game away after Meigs had tied the game in the third quarter. Athens went on to a 51-31 victory in the game. Meigs and Athens kept the game close in the first quarter. as Athens led 9-6 at the end of one. In the second quarter. each team scored I 0 points, allowing Athens to keep the three point lead going into the half time break. Meigs tied the game at 22 with 4: 19 remaining in the third quarter after Ryan Taylor made a pair of three-point shots for the maroon and .gold. Following the brief tie, Athens 'Went on a 10-2 run to make the score 32-24. Leading 34-27 in the fourth quarter, Athens went on a 15-0 run to take the score to 49-27. The Bulldogs went on to win 51-31. The Marauders were led in scoring by Colton Stewart with I 0 points. Taylor added eight points, Jesse Smith had seven points. Tanner Hysell scored four points, and Ryan Payne added two points. Please see Meigs, Bl OVCS' Burleson signs to play volleyball at OCU B Y BRYAN W ALTERS BWALTERS@MYDAILYTRIBUNE.COM Brya n Walters/photo Ohio Valley Christian senior Hali Burleson, front and center, signed a letter of intent to play volleyball at Ohio Christian University in Circleville on Tuesday, Jan. 12, at the First Baptist Church Activities Building in Gallipolis. Sitting in the front row with Burleson are OCU volleyball coach Wes Brothers, left, and OVCS volleyball coach Valerie Westfall, right. Sitting in back, from left, are OVCS administrator Patrick O'Donnell, parents Jay and Sue Burleson, and OVCS athletic director Jeff Patrick. 1 �P age B2 • ~unbap 'ar:i~ -~entinel Pomeroy • Middleport • Gallipolis Raide~s split matches aga1nst Jackson, Southeastern BY BRYAN WALTERS SHAWLEY O MYDAILYTRIBUNE.COM JACKSON The River Valley Raiders wrestling team split a trimatch against Jackson and Southeastern High Schools on Thursday evening. The Raiders wrestled Jackson in the first round, falling by a score of 39-28. River Valley's Nick Watson ( l30) and Jordan Rife (135) each won their match by pinning their opponents, Bryce Triona and Jacob Saunders. Kyle Brown (189) won by a tech fall over Jackson's Phoenix Queen. The Raiders Levi Stoop ( 119) and Zane Carroll (215) won by forfeit. Jon Campbell (125), Paul Reynolds (140). Matt Mulford ( 145). Eli Kimble ( 171), and Alex Smith (285) were all defeated in their respective matches against the Ironmen. In round two of the tri- Rife Stroop match, River Valley defeated Southeastern 48-18 . The Raiders Stroop ( 119) pinned Jonathon Lancaster, Mulford ( 145) pinned Southeastern's Dustin Waugh, and Smith (285) pin ned Christian Waugh . Campbell (125), Rife (135), Reynolds (140), Brown (189), and Carroll (215) all won m({tches by forfeit. Watson (130) and Kimble (171) were defeated in their respective matches. The Raiders return to action on January 22 and 23, at the WSAZ meet in Huntington, W.Va. Junior High Submissions 2010 Blue Devils burned by Warren, 67-42 ewALTERS O MYOAILYTRIBUNecoM B Y S ARAH HAWLEY Sunday, January 17, CENTENARY - A 2810 first quarter surge ultimately gave visiting Warren all of the advantage it would need Friday night during a 67-42 victory over Gallia Academy in a Southeastern Ohio Athletic League boys basketball matchup in Galli a County. The Warriors (6-3, 2-3 SEOAL) stormed out to an 8-0 advantage less than two minutes into the contest and never looked back . closing the quarter on a 20-10 surge to establish the early 18point cushion. The Blue Devils (4-6, 1-5) - who dropped their third straight decision overall never carne within 15 points the rest of the way despite a much more competitive showing over the final three periods. The hosts were only outscored 39-32 over the final 24 minutes of regulation. WHS went on a 15-12 run in the second canto to take a 43-22 cushion into the inter- Cornwell Eastman mh.ston, then opened the third quarter with an 11-9 spurt for a 54-3 J advantage headed into the finale. WatTen also posted a 13-1 1 edge in the fourth to wrap up the 25-point decision. Warren connected on 24of-50 field goal attempts for 48 percent, including 4-of-8 from three-point range for 50 percent. GAHS, on the other hand. went 14-of-39 from the field for 36 percent. including 4-of-14 from the trifecta for 29 percent. The Warriors outrebounded the hosts 32-25 overall and had two less turnovers than Gallia Academy's final total of 14. Jordan Cornwell led the Devils with nine points, fol- lowed by Tyler Eastman SEOAL matchup against with six markers. Corey Jacbon. The tripleheader Eberhard, Ethan Moore ~nd will begin at 5 p.m. John Troester all added f1ve points apiece. followed by W ARREN 67, Austin Wilson. Jared GALLIA A CADEMY 42 Golden and Cody Billings with three markers each. warren 28 15 11 13 - 67 10 12 9 11 - 42 Chuck Calvert and Joe Gallipolis Jenkins rounded things out WARREN (6·3, 2·3 SEOAL) with two points and one Laffingwell 0 0·0 0 . Grant Venham 7 point, respectively. The 17. Landon Kerr 0 0·0 0. Ryan Kreaps 0 0·0 0. Austin Henthorn 0 0-0 0 . Andrew hosts were also 10-of-19 Lang 2 0-1 5. Justin Hilverding 1 0·0 2, from the free throw line for Clay Ellenwood 4 2-2 10. Jeremy Hastie 1 2·4 5, Josh Windland 1 0-0 2, Austin 53 percent. Cunn1ngham 2 3·6 8 , Jake Knost 3 3·6 9. Grant Venham led WHS Brandon Fivecoait 3 2-2 9 Brad Proctor and all· scorers with J 7 0 0·0 0, Tyler Ward 0 0-0 0. TOTALS: 24 15·24 67. Three·point goals: 4 (lang. points. followed by Clay Hastie. Cunningham. Fivecoait). Ellenwood with 10 markers. GALLIA ACADEMY (4-6, 1·5 SEOAL): Eberhard 2 0·0 5, Jordan Cornwell Both Brandon Fivecoait and Corey 3 1-1 9. Ethan Moore 1 2-2 5. Nate Jake Knost added nine Allison 0 0-0 0. Chuck Calvert 1 0·0 2. apiece, with Austin Tyler Eastman 2 2-3 6. Austin Wilson 1 13 3. Ja•ed Golden 1 1-2 3, Bryce Amos 0 Cunningham chipping in 0·0 0. Cody Billings 1 1-2 3. John another eight. The guests Troester 2 1-4 5. Joe Jenk1ns o 1-2 1. were also 15-of-24 from the Nathaniel Gordon 0 0·0 0. TOTALS: 14 42. Three·point goals: 4 (Cornwell charity stripe for 63 percent. 2.10-19 Eberhard. Moore). Warren claimed an statistics/Individual leaders evening sweep of things FieldTeam goals: W 24·50 (.480). GA 14·39 with a 43-30 victory in the (.359); Three·point goals: W 4-8 (.500). junior varsity game and a GA 4-14 (.286): Free throws: W 15-24 GA 10-19 (.526); Rebounds:W 32 43-38 win in the freshmen (.625), (Fivecoait 8). GA 25 (Moore 4, Calvert 4, contest. Amos 4); Assists: W 12 (Cunningham 6), Gallia Academy returns to GA 10; Steals: W 11 (Cunningham 3), GA 6 (Calvert 2); Blocks: W 1 (Venham). action Tuesday when it trav- GA 0 : Turnovers: W 12. GA 14; Team els to the Apple City for a fouls: W 20. GA 23; JV: W 43. GA 30: Freshmen: W 43. GA 38. Outlast from Page Bl BOYS BASKETBALL Gallia Academy 45, L ogan 23 GAMS: Alex White 16, Andrew Owens 8, Dylan Saunders 4 , Michael Putney 4, Seth Elliott 2, Logan Few 2 , Jordan Jackson 2, Jacob McCormick 2, Joseph Sabastian 2, Eric Sheets 2, Trevor McNeal 1. LOGAN: Joseph Foltz 6, Matt Mutzer 4, Chance Cox 3, Kyle Cassady 2 , Jordan Castle 2, Trevon Cotrill 2, Peyton Quier 2, Sam Shaben 2. Gallia Academy 45, J ackson 38 GAMS: Alex White 19. Michael Putney 8. Andrew Owens 6. Jordan Jackson 5, Trevor McNeal 4, Eric Sheets 2. JACKSON: R. Wiliams 11, C. Staten ll, T. Spriggs 7, D. Rafferty 3, C. Bridges 2, G. Griffith 1. Meigs Me1gs Athens fromPageBl Athen s was led by Frank Valentour and Colin Pfaff with 16 points each. Valentour scored 10 of his 16 points in the fourth quarter. The Marauders out rebounded Athens 39-37 in the game, with Smith leading Meigs, grabbing 13 rebounds. The Marauders return to action on Wednesday as they travel to Jackson for a non-league matchup with the Ironmen beginning at 6 p.m. 31 10 8 7 10 13 19 - 31 51 MEIGS {1-9. 0·5 TVC-Ohio): Ryan Payne 1 0·0 2 . Jesse Smith 3 0-0 7, Colton Stewart 4 2·2 10, Ryan Taylor 3 0·0 8, Tanner Hysell 2 0-2 4, Seth Wells 0 0·0 0, Cody Mattox 0 0·0 0. TOTALS: 13 2-4 31. Three-point goals: 3 (Taylor 2, Smith). ATHENS (8·1 , 4·0 TVC·Ohio): Con Butcher 5 0-1 10, Frank Valentour 7 2-4 16, Colin Pfaff 7 0·2 16, Dean Maffin 0 0·0 o. Joe Stanley 0 0·0 o. Joe Germano 0 0-0 o. Jimmy Herpy o 1-3 1, Trey Harris 2 0-0 6, Ben McAdoo o 2-2 2. Vinnie Rider 0 0-1 0, Johnny Young 0 0·0 0, Jan Frampton 0 0-0 0. TOTALS: 21 5-13 51 . Three-point goals: 4 (Pfaff 2, Harris 2). Team statisticsllndividualleaders Field goals: M 13·50 (.260), A 21-59 (.356); Three·point goals: M 3·15 (.200). A 4-13 (.308); Free throws: M 2-4 (.500). A 5-13 (.385); Total Rebounds: M 39 (Smith 13). A 37 (Valentour 15); Steals: M 3 (Taylor 2). A 11 (Valentour 3, Rider 3); Turnovers: M 24, A 12; Team fouls: M 18, A 14; JV score: Athens 55. Meigs 35. IRONTON ST. Joe 63, SOUTH GALLIA 48 fromPage Bl rounded out the scoring for South Gallia with four points. St. Joe was led by Payton Blair with 20 points . South Gallia won the JV game by a score of 34-22. The Rebels were led by Jaylan Nolan with 14 points, and Grant Griswein led the Flyers with 13 points. South Gallia returns to action on Tuesday, Jan. 19, as they travel to face Raiders fromPageBl Nathan Copley with 18 points. Colin Kennedy with 17 points, and Austin McMaster with 12 points. The Raiders return to action on Tuesday as they travel to Southern for a nonleague matchup at 6 p.m. CHESAPEAKE 67, RIVER VALLEY 29 21 12 20 14 1 11 2 1!1 - 6 9 MEIGS Rock Hill. Rebels Chuapeake !'liver Valley 51 I ATHENS 87 29 CHESAPEAKE (8·3, 4-0 OVC): Gunner Hll11 0·3 3, Peter Hintz 3 0·0 7, Nathan Copley 7 3·4 18, Petrick Hintz 0 0·0 o, ' S Gallia st. Joe 11 11 19 7 11 14 16 22 - 48 63 SOUTH GALLIA (1·7): Brandon Harrison 3 2-5 9, Levi Ellis 3 1-2 8, Bryce Clary 4 1·3 9, A.J. McDaniel4 0· 1 8. Danny Matney 2 0-1 4, Dalton Matney 5 0-0 1o. Michael Parcell 0 0·0 0. Cory Haner 0 0·0 0, Jaylan Nolan 0 0· 0 0. TOTALS: 21 4·12 48. Three-point goals: 2 (Harrison, Ellis). IRONTON ST JOE (3·6): Payton Bla1r 5 8-10 20. Cody Blackburn o 1-2 1, Joseph Unger 5 4-6 14, Tanner Riley 2 4-4 10. Justin Mahlmeister 2 2-4 7, T.J. Young 3 4-6 11. Spencer Schwab o o-o 0. TOTALS: 17 23-32 63. Three·point goals: 6 (Bia1r 2, Riley 2, Mahlmeister, Young) Colton lindsey 1 0-2 2. Brandon Noble 0 0·0 o. Javon Thompson 1 0-0 2, Austin McMaster 5 1-2 12. Trent Saunders 2 02 4. Seth Ransbottom 1 0·0 2. Colin Kennedy 6 5·817. TOTALS: 27 9-21 67 Three·po1nt goals: 4 (Hill, Peter Hintz, Copley. McMaster). RIVER VALLEY (2-6, 1-2 OVC): Trey Noble 0 0·0 0 , Keith Skidmore 2 0·0 6, Cody McAvena 1 0-0 2, Parker Hollingsworth 0 Q-2 0. Aaron Harrison 0 0-0 0, Kyle Bryant 0 0·0 0, Dominique Peck 2 2-4 6, Cody Smith 3 4·4 10, Austin Lewis 2 1·2 5. TOTALS: 10 7·12 29. Three·polnt goals: 2 (Skidmore 2). MORE LOCAL NEWS. MORE LOCAL FOLKS I Subscribe today. 992-2155 446-2342 42 advantage headed into the finale. . The Eagles extended their lead to as many as 12 points on two different occasions in the fourth, which forced the Tornadoes to resort to fouling over the final four minutes of regulation. Southern's trategy. however, paid big di vidends as the hosts rallied back to within three points (66-63) with 54 seconds remaining. Eastern - which made only 7 -of-17 charity tosses through the first six minutes of the fourth quarter, allowing SHS to rally back to within a possession made its final nine free throw attempts over the last 1:07 of regulation to wrap up the eight-point outcome. There were seven lead changes and two ties in the opening eight minutes of play, which resulted in a slim 18-16 SHS advantage. Southern led by as many as five points (9-4) at the 5:16 mark, while Eastern countered with a l0-2 run over the next 3:03 to take its biggest lead of the period at 14-11 with 2:13 remaining. Southern, which closed the first on a 7-2 spurt, led all of the second quarter and took its biggest lead of the first half at 28-22 with 4:23 remaining. The Eagles closed the second canto on a small 6-4 run, allowing the Purple and Gold to take a 32-28 edge into the intermission. The Eagles were just 8of-31 from the field for 26 percent, while SHS connected on 12-of-27 field goal attempts for 44 percent. EHS also held a slim 18-17 advantage on the boards at the break. The guests started the second half with five straight points to take a 3332 advantage just 50 seconds into the third period. which started a chain reaction of lead changes up to a 37-all tie with 4:56 remaining in the quarter. Tied again at 39, Southern captured its final lead of the night (41-39) with 4:15 showing in the third, only to have EHS run off three straight points for a 42-41 cushion at the three-minute mark. The Tornadoes countered with the final tie of the evening with a free throw by Sean Coppick at the 2:37 mark. Eastern held the hosts scoreless over the next 2: 56, closing the third quarter on an 11 -0 run that was capped by a Jake Lynch trifecta at the buzzer for a 53-42 lead entering the fourth. T he Eagles led 58-46 with 5:42 left in regulation and were again up a dozen points (60-48) with 4:13 remaining, but were held without a field goal the rest ' Brya n Walters/photo Southern's Dustin Salser releases a shot attempt over Eastern defender Devon Baum (43) during the first half of Friday night's TVC Hocking boys basketball game at Charles W. Hayman Gymnasium in Racine. Salser was called for a charge on the play of the way. The Tornadoes - thanks to Eastern's inability to make free throws - countered with one last furious charge. going on a 15-6 surge over the next 3:19 to pull back within three points at 66-63. The Eagles. however. found their touch at the chaiity stripe the rest of the way. knocking down eight straight in the final minute to finish off an 8-3 run to end the game. Eastern was 16-of-26 at the free throw line in fourth quarter. Eastern connected on 20of-55 field goal attempts for 36 percent, including 6of-16 from three-point range for 38 percent. Southern. on the other hand. was 23-of-55 from the field for 42 percent, including 5-of-17 from three-point territory for 29 percent. The Eagles outrebounded SHS by a 40-33 overall margin, including 15-11 on the offensive glass. Eastern also had 12 turnovers in the contest, two less than the hosts' 14 miscues. Jake Lynch and Titus Pierce both Jed Eastern with 19 points apiece. with Pierce also posttng a double-double with II rebounds. Kelly Winebrenner was next for EHS with 10 points. followed by Mike Johnson and Kyle Connery with seven apiece. Devon Baum added six points. Tyler Hendrix contributed four and Brayden Pratt rounded things out with three markers . The guests were 28-of-45 overall at the free throw line for 62 percent. Southern was led by Dustin Salser with 19 points, followed by Sean Coppick with a doubledouble effort of 15 points and 13 rebounds. C) le Rees also scored 12 markers before fouling out with 3:51 remaining in the conLest. Michael Manuel chipped in II points. Zach Manuel added seven and Taylor Deem rounded things out with two points. SHS was 15-of-21 at the free throw line for 71 percent. The win was also relevant for EHS coach Howie Caldwell. who defeated Southern's Jeff Caldwell for the first time in three years and six chances. Southern salvaged an evening split with a 47-24 victory in the junior varsity contest. Andrew Roseberry led the JV Tornadoes with n game-high 14 points, while Zach Heaton paced EHS with six markers. ( Eastern host. Parkersburg Catholic Saturday and will return to action Tuesday 'A hen it travel!:. to Ste\\-art for a makeup TVC Hocking matchup against Federal Hocking at 8 p.m. Southern traveled to Chesapeake on Saturda) to pla) North Adams and returns to action Tuesday when it hosts River Valley in a non-conference matchup at 6 p.m. E ASTERN 7 4, SOUTHE RN 66 Eastern 16 12 25 19 - 74 Southern 18 14 10 24 - 66 EASTERN (8·1 , 4·0 TVC Hocking): Mike Johnson 3 1·4 7, Jake Lynch 4 78 19, Kelly Winebrenner 1 8·12 10, Brayden Pratt 0 3-8 3 . T1tus Pierce 6 79 19. Tyler Hendrix 1 1-2 3 . Kyle Connery 2 1·2 7, Devon Baum 3 0·0 6. TOTALS 20 28·45 74. Three·point goals: 6 (Lynch 4. Connery 2). SOUTHERN (6-1 . 3·1 TVC Hocking): Cyle Rees 4 4·5 12. Dustm Salser 7 24 19, Taylor Deem 1 0·0 2. Sean Copp1ck 6 3-4 15, Colby Roseberry 0 0· 0 0 . Ethan Mart1n 0 0·0 0. And ~ Roseberry 0 0·0 o. Michael Manu 3·4 11 . Zach Manuel 2 3·4 7. TO!: 23 15·21 66. Three-point goals! (Salser 3, M. Manuel 2). Team statisllcst lndivldvtJIIeaders Field goals: E 20·55 (.364), S 23-55 (.418); Three·polnt goals ~ E 6-16 (.375), S 5·17 (.294); Free throws: E 28·45 (.622). S 16-21 (.714); Total Rebounds: E 40 (Pierce 11 ), S 33 (Copplok 13); Offenllve rebounds· E 16 (Johnaon 6), S 11 (Copplck II): Aulatl: E 10 (Lynch 2, Pierce 2, Hendrix 2), S 8 (Sal11r 3); Steal•: E 8 (Winebrenner 3), S 3 (011m. Copplck, C. Rosa berry); Blocks. E 3 (Winebrenner 2). S O: Turnovers: E 12, S 14; Team louie: E 23, S 32, JV acore: Southern 47, Eaatern 24. �Sunday, January 17. Holtz ·excited about challenge at USF TA~tPA. Fla. (AP) Someonl.! in thl.! LTO\\ d rin!.!ing the amphithl.!ater outside the Unh ersit) of South Florida student Cl.!ll!CI shout ed "BI.!at Florida!" Skip Holtz smiled and \\ aited for the applause to \\ ane. ''That's \\h) I'm here." he said. setting off another round of cheers . \ week after firin~ Jim ea vi tt for m istrcatmg a • player. South f·lorida introduced Hultz as the second coach in the school's rela th el) brief football histOI') The son of former :"Jotre Dame and South Carolina coach Lou Holtz talked Frida) about ''inning Big East championships and achie\ ing e'en loftier goab of elc\ ating South Horida to the k\'el of Florida. Florida State and Miami and competmg for national titles. '"\\e \\ant to build one of the better programs in the count1y:· he said folkm ing a nC\\ s conference that wa~ more like a pep rally. Hundred!-. of enthusiastic students. including at least one who il.nows florida 1s on next season's schedule. stopped by. "It's not going to happen O\ ernight ," Holtz added. "But it can happen here." The Bulls lurl.!d the 45'ar-old coach from East arolina '' ith a live-year. :S9.1 million contract and an opportunit) to \\Ork at a BCS school ncar famil) that ' reside~ in Florida. Holtz·, parents li\'e in Orlando. east of Tampa. His •"" ife is from Port Charlotte. :less then two hours to the ·south. : The coach said it ""as di f·ficult saying goodb)C to his old team, which won Conference USA titles the past two seasons. He also told USF athletic director Doug Woolard that "it would have been a lot harder for me to watch that airplane take off without me." Holtz's contract calls for base salaries of $1.7 million in each of the tirst t\\ o y...:ars: $1.8 million in 2012. $1.9 million in 2013 and $2 mil• in 2014.lt includes a Sl llion bu) out clause for the t\\O seasons. $500.000 20 12 and $300 .000 in 2013. \\ hile East Carolina "as in need of a drastic O\ erhaul \vhen he joined the Pirates in December 2004. Holtz inherits a program that has been one of the nation's feelgood ~tories for much of the past decade. That was until Leavitt was accused a grabbing a player by the throat during halftime of a game in November, slapping him in the face t\\icc and then lying about the incident. The only coach South Florida had in the first 13 years of the program \\'~s fired last \\ eek '"hen a um- Burleson • from Page Bl was hoping for. When I visited the campus, it just felt like it was right for me and that it was what God wanted me to do," Rurlcson commented. "It's a good opportunity for me and I'm very exc1ted about it." Ohio Christian Univer~ity. which uses TrailblaLers as its mascot. is located in Circle\ ille, Ohio. and is affiliated with the National Chri ... tian Collegiate Athletic Association as a member of the Di\ ision II, Mideast region. OCU also participates in the brand ne\\ (fall of 2009) Ohio Collegiate Athletic Conference. alongside teams like World Hanest Bible College. Southern State CC. OSUMarion. OSU-Mansficld and Temple Baptist College. OCLI volleyball coach " Brothers - who took • er the program in 2007 was immediately impressed with Burleson during a recruiting visit this past fall at the ACSI state tournament. ''I sa\\ Hali pl<t) at one of her semifinal matches in Columbus and really liked what I Sa\\. both offensivelv and defensively. I thought then that he had the potential to play at the next le,el, Why Kiffin should name his next ch.ild 'Mercenary.' B Y Jt M LITKE ASSOCIATED PRESS AP photo This Dec. 5, 2009, file photo shows East Carolina's head coach Skip Holtz second from left, yelling at an official during the second half of the NCAA college football Conference USA championship game against Houston tn Greenville, N.C., Holtz is leaving East Carolina to take over as coach at South Florida. Team spokesman Tom McClellan says Holtz informed the team of his decision tn a meeting Thursday afternoon. 'ersit) investigatiOn con- begin each of the past three cluded the coach "s account seasons '' ith at least fh e of \\hat happened was not -.traight \ ictorics. But each credible and that Leavitt of the promising st_arts \\US also tried to interfere with followed bv a mtdseason the probe. swoon that dropped the Holtz met with the Bulls Bulls out of the Top 25 and after arriving on campus contention for a Big East from Greenville, N.C .• late title. Thursday. Holtz expects to have a His message was simple. staff in place by early next " l know there needs to be week. He anticipates keepsome healing." the coach ing some of Lea\'itt ·., assissaid. adding he respects tants. what Leavitt accomplished "The\ ha' e been to five in starting USF's program straight bowl games. from scratch and guiding the Ob\ ioush the\ 're doing a Bulls to a 95-57 record that lot of things· richt." the included n~,;merou~ s1gna- coach said. "I'm not lookinc tu re ' ictorics. to come in and reim ent tl1e .. 1 told them this is not \\heeL I'm looking to build about Jim Leavitt's players. on the success that this proJim Lea\ itt's recruits or gram ha, already enjo)ed." Skip Holtz's recruits. It's Holtt, 38-27 in ti\e :-;eaabout coming to together as sons at East Carolina. said the Unh·ersity of South he's going to be open-mllldFlorida football team and ed about the team's st) le of doing "hat it takes to get to play. USF returns nine the next level." starters on offense. mcludHoltz is one of four coach- ing quarterback B .J. es to ""in conference cham- Daniels. and sb. on defense. pionship~ the past two sea"This isn't about Skip sons. Holt/ running his system. He took over a program at This is about what talents East Carolina that had lost and abilities do we have on 22 or its previous 25 games this football team," the and rebuilt the Pirates into a coach said. ''I'\ c thro\\ n the team that's had winning ball 14 times a came and record' and played in bo,.,:-1 won a lot of gaines. I've games the past four )ears. thro\\ n the ball~ 65 times a USF is the onlv BCS game and ''on a lot of school in the country to gante~.'· so we are glad to have her as an addition to our program:· Brothers commented. "One of the traits I picked up on early '' ith her is her determination. Hali is a competitor. but she i:-. a quiet leader that is \\ illing to do anything to make the group better. She sets a good example for a team and that is something that we will definitely value over the next few years from her." OVCS volleyball coach Valerie Westfall - who just completed her third season "ith the program belie\ es that this is win-\\ in for both her star pupil and for the Ohio Christian Uni\ersit) program. ·-rm '.ery excited for Hali because she loves the sport. She has a lot of experience as a player and she is just an all-around good athlete. And she\ \Cry coachable:· Westfall commented. "Hali alwa) s looks to improve on what she is doing and she is also her biggest critic. She's always looking to do better and that is her bigge ... t strength." Burleson is also aware that moving up to the next le\·el will require a lot of hard "ark over the next four ) ear!'>. something she picked up on early in her prep career. .. 1 knm\ that there are a lot ol things that 1 ''ill ha\C to impro\e on at the college level, but I feel prepared ~tmbm> Q::mt£5 -~rntmd • Page 83 J>omcr oy • Middleport • Gallipo lis 2010 Lane Kiffin returned to Southern Californ ia saying he fe lt as if he ne\Cr left. No doubt - assumi ng Kiffin was talking about what he's accomplished on the football field since leaving behind USC and an offensiw coordinator's jnb at the end of the :won season. In his first stint as a head coach. he '' ent 4-12 '' 1th the i'\I·L·s sad-sack Oakland Raider-., then started the next 'cason 1-3 and got fired by owner AI Da\ is. Kiffin's next job. at Tennessee. lasted all of one sea...on and produced a 7-6 record. Off the field . thou!!h. 1t's been a vcr) e\entfuT three years . Kiffin won at a 33 percent clip. but ran his mouth I 00 percent of the time. even if half of that was spent apologizing. He saw guys breaking rules ever)whcre he looked. except the guy in the mirror. Da\ is called Kiffin "a flatout liar.. while banishinl! him from Oakland. Th<~ 'ounds flattering compared to what people in Tennessee are sa) ing about him no\\. (Small wonder: 1n \\hat might be just one measure of Kiffin 's insincerity. he named his son. born a vcar ago. Monte Knox Kiflin. then said he·d be called "Knox:· a reference to the vols' Knoxville location. To spare his next child similar embarrassment, how about this for a middle name: ''M ercenary.'') Kiffin is Exhibit A for "hat's wrong with college football. but he·s hardly alone. Because the on!) amateurs left in the !-.port are the pia) ers and rhe people in charge. coaches like Kiffin. Bobb) Petrino and Nick Saban treat schools as though the) \\ere luggag...: lockers at the ,tirport - a place to store baggage before catching the nc.xt flight out of town. Coaching has ah\a)" bel.!n a prof...:ssion \.\here loyalty b in short supply. In the pros, a t least, players aren't kft in a lurch. Colleges hire and fire coaches just as ca\ alierly, say1ng the bottom line is the \\CJfare of "the kids:· Rut they're not e\t.:n bothering to pretend an) more. Not \\hen the\ cancel classes in mi{h~cek. or feather brand-nC\\ nests for gu)s like Kiffin \\hile people at his last stop ""ork 'round-the-clock to clean up the mess he left behind. and limit how mam of hb recruits defect to lJSC. Go back and listen to Saban's remark:-. after he ''on a second national championship, and count ho\\ many times he thanked his "organttation." He credited several of the higher-ups at Alabama. to be sure. But Saban has no problem assemblin!.! a staff. and \.\ ith a wcll-llilcd recruitmg machine in tow, he \\ould h;l\c \\Oil just a9out an)\\ here he "et up shop. Winning title" at two different ...ciioo1s - Saban ·s first \\Us at LSU- ma\ be unprecedented in the n1odern era, but it'" hardh a coincidence. Saban i-.-an athletic department unto himself: the only thing he needs upon arri\:al arc uniforms and directions to the stadium. The strange thing about Kiffin is that he's had nowhere ncar the success that Saban has. or even Petrino . But he doe'-. have the organizational part down already. perhaps hceau~e of the man Knox 1s realh named alter. That's ·Kitfin'-. father. Monte. whose defcnsh e genius and hard-earned reputation as one of foot- balrs good.gu) ~ pared h1s son more than one heating from insulted ri'.ab l1ke Florida's Urban Meyer. To be fair, Kinin's skill as an offensive coordinator in his first stay at USC impressed a lot or people. It convinced Davts, \\hose track record with )Ollng up-and-comers included hiring John Madden. ~like Shanahan and Jon Gruden. to !!i\'e him that shot '' ith the~ Raiders. It also con\ inced USC's recruiting coordinator at the time. Ed Or2:eron. to foliO\\ him to Tennessee. and no\\ on the return trip. If nothing eh.e. at J~ast Team Kiffin hit the !.!round running. At his intnxlucton news conference Wednesday. he tried to reassure a fan base unnerved by possible NCAA sanction!'> resultin£ from Pete Carroll's tenure by vowing to run a "clean. disciplined program." ' Apparently that prombe didn't cover Orgeron. who ''as alread) bus) getting back in touch with a fe\\ of the kids he recruited for Tennessee to tell them ho'' much more fulfilling the coursework is at us~c. Jf those con\ ersations turn out to be \ iolations, it might mark the earliest an incoming colle••e coach has gotten his feam into trouble with the i'\CAA. ..I make tremendous!) stron!! tie!'>\\ ith families in recruiting. I ahH1ys tt') to guide them in thl.! right direction." Orgeron sa1d. defending the calls. Of course. Because it's alway" about ""hat's best for the il.ids. Remember that wh\!n \OU '"atch the 1110\ ie. "The l3lind Side:· In it. Saban i ... one of a half-doten SEC coaches pa~ ing a recruitin~ 'isit. ~ot one of them is~ working the ... nme job toda). Business Card Directory lJolllt fJLr.lsalll l{rn•strt goin~ in because of 111) time pia) mg at ovcs:· Burleson said. ·-rvc been pia) ing varsit) sporb since I ''as a freshman (basketball) and sophomore (\ olle) ball) agatnst older players. so I kind of learned early to adapt. This\\ ill be a vel') similar situation, so I know that there will be a transition · and what to expect" One area thut Burleson muy not ha\C as much of a tran!-.ition in will be the academic sl.!ctor, \\ hich \\as another ke\ element lhat OCU noticed in her recruitment. "As excited as I am to hme Hali joining our \nile> ball program, we arl.! e\ en more excited to ha\ e her coming to Ohio Christian University.'' Brothers said ...OCU \a lues thl.! '-.tuJent-athletc, '' ith the emphasis on putting the student fir. . t. She\ a solid -.tudcnt and '' e want to make sure that she's just a!'> succcs!'>ful 111 the classroom as on the <.:ourt. "And being from Ohio Valley Christian School. she's alrcad) had the training to be a leader in our Bibk studic!-1. campus group and mi..,sion "ork that \\e do. It is a good fit for c\ ervone.'' Burle~on has )Ct to decide on a major. She is the daughter of Jay and Sue Rurlcsnn ~1f Gallipolis. Special advertising supplement found January 29th only in the This Publication will also be online: www.mydailytribune.com www.mydailyregister.com www.mydailysentinel.com Pomeroy Daily Sentinel @allipolis ~ailp ~ribunr ~9oint l9Ieasant l\egister T h ink how long it would take you to hand out 14,000 business ca rds. 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So as the Cowboys prepare tor a trip to Minnesota for a second-round playoff game on Sunday. the message from the Dallas locker room is clear: Bring it on, Vikings fans: make all the noise ) 'all \\ anl. ..We ha\e pretty good experience facing a hostile crO\\d." Brooking said. "The way you ha\e to handle the situation is. ob\ iously. you can't allow them to get the momentum going early in the game. You've got to go for their heart. lf you can pot a little doubt in their minds in the beginning. that can go a long way.... But we've got to be ready for a 3 1/2-hour battle and fight to the end." The Cowboys followed that game plan four weeks ago in New Orleans. They jumped on the Saints \\ ith two quick touchdowns. silencing the crowd with a 14-0 lead. Dallas remained in front all night. but things got shaky - and loud - in the fourth quarter. New Orleans scored two touchdo\\ ns and was drh ing for the potential tying score when the Cowboys staved off Drew Brees and the inspiration of the New Orleans fans to hold on for the win. Dallas hasn't lost since, winning four in a row. including its first playoff victory in 13 years. "I think it does help that we played in New Orleans." Cowboys coach Wade Phillips said. "We have to have the same kind of focus and concentration that we did in that game . ... lr'll be lou.d in there. but that's part of being the visitor in this league: · To get acclimated. or at least try to, Dallas practiced Thursday at its domed stadium with a recording of crowd noise cranKed up. While it 's not the same blood-pumping atmosphere as a packed stadium. the deafening sounds forced the offense to work off gestures instead of commands hollered by quarterback Tony Ramo, and the defense had to respond to movement instead of the quarterback's voice. Crowds are generally loudest when the visitors have the ball: after all. they AP photo Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo (9) smiles during football practices on Thursday at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The Cowboys play the Minnesota Vikings in an NFL divisional playoff game on Sunday, Jan. 17 in Minneapolis. don't want to drown out "An atmosphere like that, loud as well. but I think their own quarterback's sig (we're) more tight in the Minnesota is the loudest." nal-calling. At Dallas home huddle so we hear every satd Williams. who used to games, the team even word that comes out of the play there every year \\hen reminds fans of this by quarterback's mouth." he was with the Detroit putting a sign on the video receh er Roy Williams said. Lions. "They are the only board that reads: ··Quiet. '"The snap count is big. You team out of 32 teams that Offense at work... can't hear him sa) ing \Vhen )OU w.atch film. it Romo knows what to 'dtm n. set. hut,' and on the shakes." expect and is already plot- defenshc side of the ball The Saints and Vikings ting ho\\ to counter it. they' re tl") ing to get us to also fed off their dome-field "There are going to be a jump offside. We have to be advantages to grab the top lot of little thihgs that come together as a unit.'' two seeds in the NFC. up that I won't be able to say Stat indicate how much Minnesota benefited most. as we're leaving the huddle crov.d noise can help a going 8-0 at home. or at the line of scrimmage," defense. ~ The success of both teams Romo said. "(You ha\e to) The leading sack Mist in starts with talented pla)erl> be prepared for what could home games this season: and coaches \\ ho can get the happen. Tell them in the New Orleans' Will Smith. most out of them. Still. the huddle before go out there with 10. He had three on the so-called 12th man can only different things you won't be road. help. and at this time of year, able to say because it will be Second on the list: teams need every little edge too loud. Things like that I'll Minnesota's ,Jared Allen. they can get. have to think a little extra with 9 1/2. He had rive on "The crowd makes it hard on." the road. on the other team's offense The burden isn't only on Their common de nomina to function," Vikings center Romo. It's actually tougher tor, of course, is a roof that John Sullivan said. ··we feed for the other 10 .guys. who traps in the noise. off that in every facet of the have to be tuned in to h1m. "New Orleans was kind of game." LT OK with reduced role, if it leads to Super Bowl SAN DIEGO (AP) - The 100-yard games have dried up. although he came close once. Those three-touchdown games seemingly are on the endangered species list. There is talk about this perhaps being the end of a remarkable career. or at least his time in San Diego, what with his declining output and advancing age. None of it matters to LaDainian Tomlinson. Perhaps in his last few weeks with pass-happy San Diego. L.T. is happy and healthy going into the Chargers ' playoff opener against the New York Jets on Sunday. It could be the final game at Qualcomm Stadium for one of the city's most popular athletes ever. Three )Cars removed from winning the NFL MYP award and setting league records for touchdowns (31) and points ( 186) in a season. Tomlinson doesn't mind at all that Pro Bowl quarterback Philip Rivers spends less time haflding off to him and more time throwing to Pro Bowl tight end Antonio Gates, and 6 foot 5 wideouts Vincent Jackson and Malcom Floyd Handling the reduced rule was easy for Tomlinson , one of the greatest running backs in NFL history. "You prepare yourself for something and you accept it." Tomlinson said. "This train was going one way, and l wasn't going to be the guy to hold it up. I've never been that type of guy. I accept my role on this team and I play the best I can ... Tomlinson had 730 yards on 223 carries for an aver age of 3.3 yards per cafl)' this season, all career lows. The lower numbers were due in part to the Chargers ( 13-3) relying more on their high-octane passing game. as well as L.T. missing the second and third games with a sprained ankle. What he doesn't want to miss is playoff playing time. considering that his last two postseasons have been cut short by knee and groin injuries. No\\ he's healthv. ''I'm excited about it." said Tomlinson, who in his ninth season has reached eighth on the NFL's all-time rushing list with 12.490 yards. "I get to go out and turn it loose. and whate"er happens. happens." Maybe he 'II pile up some yards and score a few TDs'? "It would be great but even greater would be a win, and no matter how we get it done, that's what I'm focusing on. It'll be an exciting time," he said. In his best game this year. Tomlinson had 96 yards and two touchdowns in a 3 1-23 home win against Philadelphia on 1ov. 15. This was his first season without a 100-yard game . His best playoff game was a 123-yard, two-TO performance in an otherwise mis- crable da) for the Bolts. \\hen they lost to ~ev. England in a flood of e1Tors in a di\ isional game folio\\ing the 2006 season. 'I omlinson has 303 vards and four scores on 84 c~uTies in :-.ix playoff games. Most fans remember his January injuries - although this week he became an Internet dance sensation with the release of a Nike commercial filmed in ?007. Tomlinson remembers the frustration. "just to have done so much in the regular seuson and the last two years to be injured \\here I can't help this team out. I was probably at my lowest point. Just down. because I couldn't do an) thing. so it feels · great to be running around health) kno\\ ing that I'm going to play a big part in these playofls." Tomlinson l1Urt his left knee during a divisionalround \\in at Indianapolis two seasons ago. He tried to play in the AI"C championship game at New England the next week but left after only a few plays. The 'team didn't do his impeccable reputation any favors when it announced in the second quarter that Tomlinson hud a "sore knee.. and "can return:· when in reality he was done for the da). L.T. took heal from C\erybody from the Bolts faithful to Nl•L Network analyst Deion Sanders. "I mean. I think it was the firs! opportunity people had to criticize me. but I don't knO\\ any body in the histOr) of this league \\ ho had a sprained MCL and was supposed to have been out four to six weeks. trv to come back in six days.': he said. "I actually got out there on the field and played a few plays. "People are going to take their shots because certain people have different opin ions. But the bottom line is. we're football players and at all costs. no matter if we're hurt or not. we have to go out there and try to see if we can fight through it." In 2008. Tomlinson hurt his grom in a season-ending win against Denver that propelled the Charger:-. into the playoffs. He didn't la~t long in an overtime playoff win against Indianapolis. then \\ ,1s sidelined for the Bolts' loss at Pittsburgh. It \\as the first time in his career he had to sit due to an injury. Tomlinson. the franchise's most brutally honest employee, confirmed he had a detached tendon in his groin. while the tean1 said only that he had a strain. General manager A.J. Smith bristled at the player's revelation. ''You know, at the end of the day I had learned from that first experience and so I kind of handled things differently the second time around," Tomlinson said . ''It's really up to me to make sure I protect myself.'' Sunday, January 17, 2010 Jets' Rhodes again an important part of defense FLORHAM PARK. ;-,i.J . (AP) - KelT) Rhodes \\as frustrated and uncertain of what his future held with the New York Jets. The star safety had lqst his starting job seven weeks ago. his commitment \\as being questioned and he was criti cized for a lack of big plays and not being physical enough. "It was tough." Rhodes said Thur);duv. "For me. l'\e been a guy'who's been an All-Pro type of player here. I've been a player \\ho has made pia) li here. The uncertaint\ of not knowing ID\' role; I don't think an\lbod) wants that. I think e\ er) lxxh wants to know what their role is and \\hat thev'rc looked upon to do for their individual team." A refocu-.cd Rhode:-. is back in the starting lineup, putting some tension \\ ith defensive coordinator ~1 ike Pettine behind him and again being an imponant pan of the game plan. He'll be partially responsible for blanketing Chargers tight end Antonio Oates in New York's AFC divisional playoff game at San Diego on Sunday. " It's going to be a matchup that everyone\ going to want to sec." Rhodes said. ··and I think you're going to get your money's \\Orth.''Rhodes is confident again. ha\ mg come a long wa) since \lo\. 29. when he was on the sideline for New York's opening defensive snap against Carolina. It \Vas the first time m his NFL career that he didn "t :-tart. "I think it made me realize that no etayer is immune to scrutiny.· Rhodes !>aid. "It just put me in a situation where ~ had to humble myself and come back and re-evaluate the situation." He returned to the starting lineup at Tampa Bay on Dec. 13 following a hea11-to-hea1t meeting with defensive backs coach Dennis Thunnan one of the conditions set by coach Rex R) an. "Kerry could always make plays," cornerback Darrelle Revis said. ··You just have to make sure you're focusin!! in on your job and technique. I'm not sa) inc he wasn't taking things serious!). You just can't get complacent ever:· When R) an took over as coach. he labeled Rhodes as the Jets' \ersion of Baltimore's Ed Reed. The high praise wa!'> the result of the 12 interceptions. nine sacks and live forced fumbles Rhodes had in his first four seasons. The problem was that he didn't live up to Ryan's hype. producing no turnovers through the first· 10 games. The coaches began to have doubts about the desire of Rhodes. who has aspirations of having an acting career after football. "Gu)s arc ooing to do what the) do off the tleld. but we just want to make sure it doesn't affect his job,'' Pettine said. "That's one of. my jobs as a defensive coordinator is to make sure the .. guys have ~ught in and are : dom~ what 1t takes to be sue- .. cessrul as a group." So, Pettine pulled Rhodes : from the base defensi package. "From Day I , I don't think me and Pettine really saw eye to eye." Rhodes said. "That was nothing that he did or I did. but it's something when you have guys come in and · they have their fa\orites and we were ne\\ to each other. ~ \Ve didn't know each other. I never really felt that vibe w1th him. and I just think ~ now that we talked about it like men, we see eye to eye and it's been a lot smoother." It was initially believed most of the tension was between Rhodes and Ryan. who also sa1d he was unhapPY with his player's production. "It's never been a problem With Rex at all," Rhodes said. "It was more me and Pettine." A fan favorite during his first four seasons. Rhodes also was taking heat from the same people who used to root forhim. A "'lt wasn't all the fans, b~ you see some fans turn on you quickly." he said. "Just to • see where I put in four great · years here and then I go through a little slump through one year and all of the sudden. people forget what~ ) ou ·ve done here ... Pettine acknowledged that there were some uncomfort- ~o able moments with Rhodes. but he also believes the situation helped him. ·•It was maybe a little bit of wakeup call." Pettine said. "From what we've seen, I think he realized what had , happened and didn't want it to happen again. He 's elevated his level of play." • Sunday ·s game is a big , chance for Rhodes to show .. that the struggles are in the past against Gates. a 6-foot-4. ~60-pound pass-catching machine. ··Against linebackers. he's too fast and against little c~ ners. he's too big." Rhod satd. "A lot of safeties ca cover one-on-one anyway. so he ·s got a unique blend of power and speed as a big ~uy. \\ ith good hands as well.' Rhodes ha~ drawn the matchup against some other big-time tight ends, such as Bay's Kellen Tampa Winslow and Atlanta's Tony Gonzalez, and helped shut them down. "That just makes me pick my game up because I know I don't want to get embarrassed," Rhodes said. "From that standpoint. I want to go out there and exert my will on them:· Sounds like the confidence and commitment definitely are back. ~==================~. FAIVIILY ~~<-: HEARTlAND PUBLICATIONS : l21J "Publishing for the Heart" Reach the Lost & Hurting Families Invite them to your church Touch their souls with God's Word. God said: "'They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.'• Matthew 4:16 m:IJc ®allipoli5 IDailp U::ribune 740-446-2342 ext. 17 �Sunday, January 17, 2010 P om eroy • Middleport • Gallipolis $)unbap Q:mt£5 -srntinrl • Page Bs Tennessee hires Louisiana Tech coach Derek Dooley KNO'<VILLE. Tenn. (AP) Tennessee's whirl\\ind search for a ne\\ c o a c h c n d e d Friday 'With h e \olunteer-. h i r i n g D c r e k Dooley of Louisiana Tech. Like his Dooley p red e c e ssor- Lane Kiffin - he comes with a '>hort head coaching resume. The son of former Georgia coach Vince Dooley. Derek Dooley \\ ent 17-20 111 three seasons at Lout..,lana Tech and \\a-, the only coach in major college football to also serve as h1s school's athletic director. He holds a law degree and previous ly worked for several years under Nick Saban at LSU and with the Miami Dolphins, including as a recruiter for the Tigers. "Derek is one of the bright young coaches in America. He understands league and the compet e environment in which • e compete:· Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton said. "He took a t \en difficult first head coaching job and has made significam strides there in a ~hort period of time. "He is incredibly bright. a tireless recruiter and excellent on-the-field coach." Tennessee planned a Friday evening news conference at Neyland Stadium's Peyton Manning Locker Room to introduce Dooley. who has an 8-yearold son named Peyton. "Louisiana Tech University and the Ruston community will always hold a special place in my heart." Dooley said in a statement Friday. ..The foundatiOn for success has been established and a bright future lies ahead for the university and the athletics program." The Volunteers hired him JUSt days after Kiffin abruptly quit, bolting to Southern California only 14 months into his tenure with the Vols. Dooley was hired from a list of candidates that was believed to include Texas defensive coordinator WilJ Muschamp, Air Force coach Troy Calhoun, Duke coach David Cutcliffe and Utah coach Kyle Whittingham. Aside from his pedigree. Tennessee ·s attraction to the 41-year-old Dooley includes the time he spent working as an assistant and recruiter for Saban. StJIL his limited head coachmg experience makes him like Kiffin. whose only head coaching stmt prior to Tennessee was a brief, bad one with the Oakland Raiders - a somewhat risky pick. Dooley's uncle, former North Carolina and Virginia Tech coach Bill Dooley. voiced support for his nephc'W "I think he'll do well anywhere he goes. and at Tennessee, he would do very well." Bill Dooley said in a phone inten ie\\ from his home in Wilmington N.C. "When you get a Ia\\ degree. it gives you a little notch up. He's got his feet on the ground. He's levelheaded. Dooley's father. Vince. who coached at rival Georgia from 1964 88 and won the 1980 national title, did not return a call to his cell phone seeking comment. Derek Dooley worked as LSU's recruiting coordinator and tight ends coach from 2000 through 2003's signing day, landing classes rated No. I in 200 l and '03. He coached LSU's running backs and special teams in 2003-04. He follo'Wed Saban to the Dolphins as tight ends coach in 2005 before leaving for Louisiana Tech in December 2006. Dooley was a receiver in college at Virginia. After earning his law degree from Georgia. he worked as an attorney for two years before starting h1s coaching career at Georgia in 1996 as a graduate assistant. He also worked as assistant recruiting coordinator at SMU from 199799 until being hired b) Saban. He went to Louisiana Tech in December 2006 as one of the youngest coaches in the Football Bowl Subdivision and added the athletic director title in March 2008. Dooley led the Bulldogs to their first bowl victory in more than three decades, beating Northern Illinois in the 2008 Independence Bowl. "We are grateful for the contributions that Derek made to Louisiana Tech Athletics and we wish him luck in his new position." Louisiana Tech President Dan Reneau said. AP photo In this photo provided by the University of Southern Indiana on Friday, Southern Indiana center Jeron Lewis, left, grabs a rebound in front of Saint Josephfs College's Phillip Collins during an NCAA college basketball game in Evansville, Ind., on Monday, Jan 4. Athletic Department spokesman Ray Simmons says the 21-year-old Lewis collapsed on the court with about 4 minutes left in Thursday night's game in Owensboro, Ky.. He died at a local hospital just before 10 p.m. Arenas pleads guilty to felony gun possession Coroner: Ind. player who WASHI!'.GTON (AP) Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas pleaded guilty Friday to carrying a pistol without a license in the District of Columbia, a felony conviction that could jeopardize his future in the NBA. Arenas pleaded guilty to a single count of violating the city's strict gun laws as part of a plea bargain in D.C. Superior Court. He will remain free at least until his ~entencing March 26. The charge stems from a Dec. 21 incident in which nas admitted he stored s in his locker at the izon Center and took m out to play a joke on a teammate. The N BA has suspended him indefinitely. A pre-sentence report b not yet complete. but defense attorney Kenneth Wainstein said Friday that prosecutors have agreed not to seek a sentence longer than the low end of sentencing guidelines. which call for six months to two years. That could include probation. jail time or some combination. Judge Robert E. Morin emphasized he is not bound by prosecutors· recommendation. Arenas "accepted full responsibility for his l actions. acknO'W }edged that those actions were wrong and against the law, and has apologized to all who have been affected by his conduct." Wainstein said in a statement. Kavanaugh. reading in court from a statement of facts that Arenas agreed to, said the charge stemmed from a Dec. 19 dispute with another player over a card game. Kavanaugh did not identify the other player, but authorities have searched the home of teammate Javaris Crittenton for a gun. Kavanaugh said the disagreement developed during a team flight back from Phoenix. The other player offered to settle matters \\ ith a fist fight. but Arenas. 28. said he was too old for that and suggested he would instead burn the other player's car or shoot him in the face. The argument on the plane ended with the other player saying he would shoot Arenas in his surgically repaired knee. Two days later, Kavanaugh said, Arenas brought at least one gun to the Verizon Center in a black backpack. He laid out four guns on a chair in front of the other player's locker with a sign saying. "Pick one." When the other player asked. "What is this?:· Arenas responded: "You said you were going to shoot me. Pick one." The other player ~aid he had his own gun, threw one of Arenas· weapons across the room and then displayed his own firearm. Kavanaugh said. Since Arenas first acknowledged keeping guns in his locker. he has publicly employed a ''goof ball" defense. claiming he wasn't aware of the law. meant no ham1 and never takes an)thing seriously. But he was subdued in court Friday. wearing a gra) suit \\ ith a light pinstripe and responding in a soft voice to the judge's questions. The three-time All-Star earlier acknowledged storing four unloaded guns in his locker. saying he wanted to keep them away from h1s young children and didn't know it was a violation of the city's strict gun laws. He says he took them out of the locker Dec. 21 in a "misguided effort to play a joke'' on a teammate. He was charged Thursday. hours after Crittenton had his northern Virginia apart- ment searched by police looking for a silver- or chrome-colored semiautomatic handgun with a black handle. The search warrant indicated police were investigating crimes that include brandishing a weapon. No evidence was seiled, according to court documents. and Crittenton has not been charged. Crittenton has previously said he did nothing wrong. Even if Arenas avoids jail, the outcome of the legal process will have important implications on his future in the NBA and specificall) 'With the Wizards. Possession of a gun at an NBA arena is a violation of the league's collecti\ e bargaining agreement. and last week. commissioner David Stern suspended Arenas indefinitely without pa) pending the outcome of the investigation, a move supported by the Wizards. Stern was particularly upset that Arenas repeatedly joked about the matter with reporters and on Twitter. Arenas at one point said: ''I'm a goof ball and that's what I am. so even doing something like this. I'm going to make fun of it and that's how I am." EVANSVILLE. Ind. (AP) - Hundreds of grieving students turned out Friday to mourn Southern Indiana center Jeron Lewis as a coroner said a heart condition may have caused the player's death after a game at Kentucky Wesleyan. Speaking in a gymnasium in front of an estimated 300 students and others. firstyear coach Rodney Watson said there had been no signs of health problems with the 21-\ car-old Lewis. He had done 'Well in \\orkouts and had lost 40 pounds O\ er the summer as part of a selfimposed workout regimen to get in shape for his senior season. "He was the personality of our basketball team." Watson said as the scoreboard displayed a picture of Lewis and his framed Jersey stood on a nearby podium. " If you sa\\ us with a smile on our face it was because he said something." Lewis collapsed with about 4 minutes to go in Thursday night's game in Owensboro. Ky. There were s1gns of convulsion and he was rushed to a hospital. where he died at about 10 p.m. Davie:-.s Coumy. K) .. Coroner Bob Howe said preliminary results from an autop-.y Frida) sho,., that owns the 76ers and the Australia Open. Roger city whioh I have per:-.onally Lewis had an enlarged heart Philadelphia Flyers Federer and other tennis stars claimed as my own home for and may ha\e died from a planned to atr public service will hold a special exhibition 15 years." Mourning said. heat1 condition he may not announcements. event to benefit the victims. "As a longtime resident. I ha\e known he had. The NFL and its network Federer said the admission feel a profound sense of sadFans reported seeing broadcast partners plan to run price would be $10 at ness for my man} affected Lewis hit his head in the messages before and during 15,000-seat Rod Laver friends and neighbors." fall. but the coroner ruled this weekend's playoff games Arena. Mourning and former that out as a cause. World TeamTennis is teammate pwyane Wade arc to promote donations. The "He didn't even bruise his announcements will drive donating clothing items for working together on a ven- head," llowc said. "It looks viewers to the Red Cross children through Kids in ture called the "Athletes like it's going to be a heartWeb site and feature Saints Distressed Situations, and Relief Fund for Haiti." The related death." linebacker Jonathan Vilma Red Sox slugger David Ortiz Heat have also announced Howe said further testing and Chargers defensive end said he is donating food and plans to send money and supremained to be done that Jacques Cesaire. Both play- medical supplies. The Detroit plies, asking fans to give m ers have Haitian parents. Lions are donating $10,000 exchange for ticket vouchers would likely tak~ about two weeks. Hendrick Motorsports to the American Red Cross in to February games. Southern Indiana as~is­ announced it was loaning an the name of three players ''As professional athletes. airplane and two flight crews Gosder Cherilus. Cliff Avril we experience the positive tant sports informatton to Missionary Flights and Louis Delmas - who effects of teamwork every director Dan \lcDonnell International. which will are of Haitian descent. day." Wade said in Houston. said the Evan~\ tile campus send support teams in and out "We're trying to get a where the Heat were pla>mg of about I 0.000 students of Port-au-Prince. The first fundraiser started right no'W ... the Rockets on Friday mght. was in shock and a flight was scheduled to leave Avril said. "Getting supplies "Today. our attention is Facebook page set up in Fort Pierce. Ra .. on Saturday is a concern for the whole turned to Haiti. While an honor of Le\\ is had more morning. country. There\ no clean individual donation is valu- than 2.000 members b) Hendrick is covering all water. A lot of people don't able. there is also a special noon Friday. the flight costs. At least one have places to stay. Water strength found within the "It hasn't sunk in:· said roundtrip flight is planned and medicine is needed." force of a unified effort." Abby Williams. a 21-yearper day with no timeline for The Red Cross estimates Greg McLaughlin, prest old senior on the women's how Jon& the plane and per- 45,000 to 50,000 people were dent of the Tiger VVoods basketball team who killed in Tuesday's earth- Foundation, said Friday that sonnel will be on loan. recalled talking with Lewis The Redskins are also fly- quake . his staff was evaluating what ing medical supplies, personMourning arrived in the it could do to help the relief in classes. "It's not real to nel and clothmg into Haiti devastated capital of Port-au- effort. Rap mogul Russell any of us. It's a terrible, with help from Diageo, one Prince on Friday with Project Simmons said on Twitter that tragic incident to happen of the team's business part- Medishare, a Miami-based Woods was providing $3 mil- and none of us can quite nonprofit agency that has lion to help with the recov- grip it." ners. The 6-foot-8, 260-pound "We're not a relief orsani- worked since 1995 to provide zation, but there are tlmes quality health care in Haiti. 'Our plan rs to be part of Lewis was in his second when our resources allow us He said in a statement first the rehef effort to help season with Division II to step in and make a differ- released to The Associated rebuild Haiti by supporting Southern Indiana. averagence, if only a small one," Press that athletes can "make or~anizations that provide ing 12.8 points and 8.0 Redskins owner Daniel a difference" for those affect- cntical resources to young rebounds in 13 games. Snyder said. "Getting the ed by the earthquake and its people, which is consistent Lewis wa!> from Fort right people and supplies to aftershocks. witn our mission and previ- Wayne, where he led the Kaiti IS critically important." "The Haitian community ous efforts," McLaughlin state in rebounding as a On Sunday on the eve of has deep roots in Miami, a said in a statement. Sports world comes together for Haiti relief MIAMI (AP) - Retired star Alonw Mourning. CAR team owner Rick • drick and the Washington Redskins are among several athletes and sports organizations contributing to the recovery effort in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. The NFL and the players· union announced Friday that it would donate $500,000 each to the American Red Cross and Partners In Ht:allh, whHe the NBA and its unton said it will contribute $1 million toward relief efforts. Major League Baseball has aJready pledged S l million. while the NHL donated $100,000. Haiti native Samuel Dalembert of the Philadelphia 76crs taped a public sen ice announcement for UNICEF encouraging fans to contribute. He also plans to address the crowd before the 76crs' home game Friday. make a $100.000 z rion to UNICEF and . - :h the donations made by "I was going to go tomorrow mommg but rou have to get clearance. Its not like you can go to Santo Domingo and drive," said Dalembert 1 who now hopes to visit Haui next week. "lf I could fly myself, I would go over there after every practice. I am just waiting." The Comcast-Spectacor Foundation made a SI0,000 donation to UNICEF, and Comcast-Spectacor - which died had enlarged heart err.. • high school senior. Le\\ is missed two game' in December for the birth of his son. Williams recalled that Lewis had been thrilled to become a father and was looking forward to raising the boy. He is also :-.urvi\ed by his fiancee. mother and sister. No,ell. \\ho Mike coached Lcv,:is at Fort Wayne North. said the high school of I .600 studcnb \\as stunned b\ hi ... death. He said Le\\ i'> u:-.ed to make SIX transfers on cit) bu:"~e-. from his home to get to schooL but nc\ er usedhardship a-. an excu-.e. .. What a great ) oung man." i':o\ell said. "Kind. gentle. compassionate, loving - you hardly e\er sa\\ Jeron without a -.mile on his face." Southern Indiana postponed a men's and women's doubleheader against Quincy that had · been set for Saturday. ' Lewis' death was reminiscent of Loyola Marymount star Hank Gathers. who collapsed on the court during a West Coast Conference tournament game on ~1arch 4. 1990. and \\as pronounced dead about I I 12 hour' later. 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Clark Montessori 76, Hamilton New Miami31 Cin. Colerain 64, Fairfield 55 Ctn Country Day 52. St. Bernard 33 Cin. Elder 56, Hamilton Badin 52 Cin. Hills Christian Academy 68, Cin. Christian 52 Cin. La Salle 58, Cin. McNicholas 40 Cin. N. College Hill 74. Lockland 54 Cin. NW 47, Hamilton Ross 39 Cin Princeton 57, Cln. Oak Hills 55 Cm. SCPA 67, Cin. Oyler 55, OT C1n. Seven Hills 53, Cin. Summit Country Day 30 C1n. St. Xavier 60, Middletown Fenw1ck 33 Cin. Taft 88. Cin . Shroder 76 Cin. Walnut Hills 57, Kings Mills Kings 32 Ctn. Wtnton Woods 82, Cin. Glen Este 52 Cin. Winton Woods 82. Cin. Glen Este 52 Cin. Withrow 64, Cin. Hughes 46 Cle. Cent. Cath. 64. Bedford Chane! 35 Cle. St. Ignatius 27, Lakewood St. Edward 23 Cle. VASJ 82, Garfield His. Trinity 66 Cols. Centennial 79 Cols. Linden McKinley 49 Cols. Ready 48, Worthington Christian 39 Cols. 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Pictured are photos of commumt•e~ throughout the ) ears 3nd throui?hout ~1 cigs County dealing w1th flood C\ents. Middleport, named for the middle port between Pittsburgh, Pa. and Cincinnati along the Ohio River, is shown in this undated photo taken of a flooded Second Avenue. Photos provided by Bob Graham, Pomeroy I Some of these gentlemen waded out into the flood waters on West Main Street in Pomeroy though the women seem to know better in this undated photo featuring the New York Clothing House . During this photo from the 1898 flood, the Ohio River brought layers of debris to settle in downtown Pomeroy. This photo dated Feb. 12, 1884, shows flooded businesses in Pomeroy on Lynn Street. A popular place for spectators to gather during a flood in Pomeroy is here, in front of the Meigs County Courthouse. This photos shows Court Street during the 1936 flood. This undated photo shows the Shade River overflowing its banks in Chester. Floyd Hoback, Lawrence Hilldore and companion, float through downtown Racine during the 1937 flood. • �PageC2 iunbap 1Eimes -ientinel Sunday,Januaryt7, 2010 Knitting classes to begin Knitting classes started at the Meigs Senior Center last week and will be held at 1 p.m. in the Center room every Wednesday. The group will work on projects for veterans, nursing home residents, Hospice patients and other groups in need. Here at the first class are on the left are Texanna Wehrung, instructor, Mary Davidson, Adell White, Mary Russell and Debbie Jones, Activity Director/RSVP Coordinator: and on the right, Dixie Sayre, JoAnn Hays and Ruth Smith, instructor. Submitted photo PPJSHS Junior Class Council to collect donations for Haiti victims J ·./ BY HOPE ROUSH 'llt HROUSHCMYOAILYREGISTER COM POINT PLEASANT. W.Va Thousands recently lost their lives in the earthql akc that struck Haiti. while others who survived arc nO\\ '' ithout homes. suffeimg from injuries or missing famil) members. Although the traged) is far a\'. ay from \lfason County. students at Point Pleasant Junior Senior High School have decided to help the earthquake victims by selling ribbons and collcctmg donations. Junior Class Co- Presidents Clam: Cottrill and Gabriel Starcher are organizing the project. and described it as a '' U) to help others beside themselves . "We arc ah\'a) s focused on fundraisers for our elves and \\ ith this \\e \\ant to raise as much mone) as we can for those in need,'' Cottrill said. According to Cottrill. I00 percent of the donations will be given to Save the Children. which is an approved credible organization. Donations will provide for food. water and medicine for children in Haiti. Cottrill said that they chose to give to Save the Children in order to target those in their age group. The ribbons will officially be sold during tonight's school basketball game. In addition, Cottrill and Starcher said that they would like to get other area schools involved as well as the community. Donation ribbons and jars have already been distributed to .several local businesses jncluding the school's part- I would be remiss if I didn't comment on my feelings as I stood in freezing weather taking pictures for this paper and watching as long lines of people waited for food. Right here in Metgs County we have many who apparently are hungry. Why else would an)one brave 20-degree temperatures and wait an hour or so in a line for a bag of groceries. I can only sa) thank God for the kindness of others. In this instance tt \\as the Lutheran Social Services \\ ho arrived in a big yello\\ truck packed with food for distribution in what they re~ognized as a povertystncken county. So often we don't even know the plight of our friends and neighbors. nor do we take the time to find out. Companies are struggling to survive. la)offs are inevitable, and consideration for the individual has fallen by the wayside. This distresses me. With that said. it behooves me and everyone else to be more aware of the plight of others. to show a little C?mpassion. to get more mvolved. to contribute in some way. "There but for the grace of God ........ onto Main Street in 2005 and on Jan. 9 reached 50.6 feet which puts it into most ever\ business in downtown Pom-eroy. ••• Don and Carolyn Thomas. like most grandparents. are delighted with the accomplishments of their grandchildren. Zach. son of Greg Thomas. \Vas recently one of 111 student athletes from more than 35.000 players selected as a member of the 2009 Academic All-Ohio Football Team chosen by the Ohio High School Football Coaches Association. He played with the Ravenna Ravens. The ~reat thing about this award ts .that the pia) er m. not only be an outstand athlete but shov. exempl· academic perfonnance. • •• Just "hen school got back into session after days missed because of slick roads. it's out again tomorro'' for the obserYance of Martin Luther King Day. The five calamity days allowed b) the :;tate have no\\ been used in all three school districts. So. if the weather is as bad as it has been in the past couple of weeks. students here will still be making up time in June ... just kidding! ••• Some old timers here in \1et~" Count) can't remember JUSt how long it's been since there wa~ this much icc in the river - not that we ha\en't had cold weather. just not for the sustained periods of time needed to form ice. But they do reflect on way back when long before the locks and dams were put in place to control the flow of water - the ice on the river was solid enough for them to walk across. One even remembered years ago when ktds skated on the rh·er. '\ow while it takes an old timer to talk about ice on the rh er almost anyone can talk about floods. The prediction is "it's time for another big one.'' The water last moved yr !J/1 f;Jrll ri" II f( PROUD TO BE APART OF YOUR LIFE. The Sunday Times-Sentmel Subscnbe today 446-2342 or 992·2155 Hope Roushlphoto Point Pleasant Junior Senior High School Junior Class CoPresidents Gabriel Starcher and Claire Cottrill dtsplay one of the ribbons that is being sold for donations that will go toward "Save the Children," which is a program that will provide food, water and medicine to children who were victims in the recent Haiti earthquake. Several local businesses have agreed to support the project and will have ribbons and donation jars available. ner in education. Ohio Valley Bank. "This is a great way for our community to see that we do want to reach out and help others," Cottrill said. Donations also can be made to Save the Children online b) visiting the Web site www.savethechildren.org. Checks must be made payable to the PPJSHS Junior Class. For more information, contact the high school at 304-675-1350 and lem·e a me.smge for either Cottrill or Starcher. Meigs student graduates college .MIDDLEPORT - One student from Meigs Count) \s.as amon1! the 2026 stu£ients who received degrees tluring graduation ceremonies Dec. 19 at Indiana :Wcsle) an University's main campu~ in Marion. Graduating was Shelley Gilke). 38479 Leading Creek Road . Middleport. B.S.N. nursing. Indiana Wesleyan University is an evangelical Christian comprehensive University of The Wesleyan Church which has its world headquarters in Indianapolis. The University was founded in 1920 and is committed to liberal arts and professional education . More than 3,200 students 'are enrolled in traditional programs on the Uni\ersit) 's main campus in Marion . Another 12.200 }ldult learners auend classes at regional campuses in indiana. Kentuck) and Ohio and on line . 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Pictured from left to right, David Morgan, plant manager, Lovett and sented 35-year awards during the 2009 Christmas party. Pictured from left Mike Townsley, president of food products. to right, David Morgan, plant manager. Hash, Woodward and Mike Townsley, president of food products. Bob Evans Farms, Inc., Bidwell Plant employees Ivan Beaver and David Burleson , sausage processors, were presented with 25-year awards during the 2009 Christmas party. Pictured from left to right, David Morgan, plant manager, Beaver, Burleson , and Mike Townsley, president of food products. Bob Evans Farms, Inc., Bidwell Plant employee Mike Smith, sausage processor, was presented with a 20-year award during the 2009 Christmas party. Pictured from left to right, David Morgan, plant manager, Smith and Mike Townsley, president of food products. Bob Evans Farms, Inc., Bidwell Plant sanitation employee Greg Stump ·Bob Evans Farms, Inc .. Bidwell Plant sausage processors James Stover and sausage processor Shannon Weaver were presented with 5-year ,and Denver Lively, shifts supervisor Ernie Metzger and maintenance awards during the 2009 Christmas party. Pictured from left to right, David ·.employee Robbie Helms were presented with 10-year awards during the Morgan, plant manager, Stump, Weaver and Mike Townsley, president of ~009 Christmas party. Pictured from left to right, David Morgan, plant man- food products. :pger, Stover, Lively, Metzger, Helms and Mike Townsley, president of food ;products. Evans Farms. Inc., Bidwell Plant sanitation employee Greg Nelson and :sausage processor Mike Miller were presented with 3-year awards during :the 2009 Christmas party. Pictured from left to right, David Morgan, plant :manager, Nelson, Miller and Mike Townsley, president of food products. .• Bob Evans Farms, Inc .. Bidwell Plant sausage processors Mark Sheets and James Jones and sanitation employee Virgil Isaac were presented with 1-year awards during the 2009 Christmas party. Pictured from left to right, David Morgan, plant manager, Sheets, Jones, Isaac and Mike Townsley, president of food products. Kick start 2010 with the LAP-BAND y E Call your local Center of Excellence at 877.527.4957 M .. RACINE - More than a hundred stuffed animals were collected by members of the Sonshine Circle and will be donated to Racine Town Marshall Kevin Dugan and hb officers to be distributed to children in stressful situations. The stuffed animal project has been carried out several years by the Circle. At Thursday night's meeting the group also made plans to make fruit baskets at the February meeting. The regular donation to the Meigs County Council on Aging was made and desserts were prepared for God's NET. Betty Proffitt opened the meeting with a readin2:. Thou ~Shall Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself' followed by prayer. Kathryn Hart presided with Mary Ball and Ann Zirkle giving reports. The group signed 79 cards provided by Mattie Beegle. Donations were accepted from Mildred Hrut. Dorothy Sayre. Avis Harrison and June Kloes. The group received thank you cards from Helen Bailey. Jason Codner. Charles and Margaret Yost, Jack and Betty Coughenour, Joyce Hoback. Jim Steele. Wilma Casto, Wilma Ervin. Vinas Lee , Dorothy Sayre. Avis Harrison and June Kloes. Members donated col~ lectibles at the meeting. Zirkle. Ball, Lillian Hayman, and Hart won game and door priLes.. Noodle making sessions were set for Monday and Wednesday. The annual motherr d:tughter dinner was set for May 6 at the church. and the group voted to donate money to the school literacy program. The church auction crew will be holding a rummage sale and bake sale on Feb. 4 and 5 at the church from 9 to 4 p.m. Anyone wanting to donated items rna) contact Hart at 949-2656. Birthdays of Hart and Mabel Brace were celebrat" ed along with the wedding of Betty anniversary Proffitt, Edie Hubbard. Blondena Rainer. and Betty Profitt had the program and games. They served refreshments to Letha Proffitt. Jackie White. Louise Frank, Lillian Hayman, Ruth Simpson. Bernice Theiss, Mildred Hart. Mabel Brace. Hazel McKelve). Ann Zirkle. Mary Ball, Evelyn Foreman and Kathryn Hart. Next meeting is Feb. ll with Evelyn Foreman and Kathryn Hart having program and refre~hments. �------~--....-------~~-,.._---~ - --~- --- -~- --- --------- ~-- - - -- --- --- - --- ------------... ....... --~-----:--:--:----~----- PageC4 iunbap OZimes -ientinel Sunday,January17,2010 McGuire 5 Generations Parents, doctors debate tots teetering in heels Bv JAMIE STENGLE ASSOCIATED PRESS Five generations of the McGuire family are pictured. Bert McGuire, seated center, is holding great great grandson Justin Case. Seated are Bert's son Gene, left, and granddaughter Jessica, right. Standing is grandson Richie. Skidmore birlhday DALLAS - A pair of sparkly, peekaboo shoes with heels 2 inches high are favorites of 6-year-old Helena Bell ever smce she got them for a wedding. '·She's worn them to the point where the jewels have en off.'' says Helena's mother, Dana Bell of Woodland Calif. "It's not my preference. but I've stopped fighting it. The heels aren't allowed at school, but the first-grader slips on her white treasures first thing when she gets home and wears them to church every Sunday. " I think if it's · within reason. it's OK." her mom says. As image~ of 3 1/2-year-old Suri Cmise out and about in blingy heels recently hit magazines and the Internet, reactions to the grown-up look for not-so-old kids have ranged from cries of inappropriate to defense of a little girl's right to be girlie. Suri·s mom, Katie Holmes, told Access Hollywood· she considers the kitten heels supportive because they were, made specifically for kids learning ballroom dancing. Samantha Fein of San Jose, Calif.. says her 6-year-old daughter has attracted some double-edge remarks - "My,~ look at your big girl shoes·- - when she wears her knee- . high boots with a 2-inch chunky heel or her brown wedges with only slightly less height. Fein notes that her child ' wears sneakers 90 percent of the time and heels on special : occasions. like birthday parties. , "lt's not like I'm sending her to the park in them,'' she says. "I think there's a time and a place for everything." • The San Francisco Bay area is pretty fashion forward, so ' it's not unusual to see girls that young wearing heels. Fein, !'lays they've helped her daughter learn to walk like a lady. "They're definitely not suggestive at all . Suggestive to me · is inappropriate.'' The phenom falls in line with other trends in clothin· · books, music and movies once reserved for older audienc trickling down the age ladder. As Christina Vercelletto, senior editor of Parenting mag- · azine. has been putting together the spring fashion edition,, she's noticed shoes for girls as young as 5 and 6 sporting ; heels as high as an inch . '·I am seeing these heeled shoes, shoes that would be con- · sidered a little too grown up typically for a girl that age," she , says. "I think it's definitely a trend for 5- or 6-year-olds." In years past, Vercelletto says, heels usually stopped at sizes . for 8- or 9-year-olds. She unsuccessfully tried to nab a pair of: stacked heel boots that arrived in a bag of hand-me-downs for her own 6-year-old but wasn't quick enough. Now, Vercelletto tries to keep them out of sight in the back of a closet. '"I do feel that it's rushing it a little to put a girl 3 years·· old in shoes like that," said Vercelletto, among those who· fear the physical perils. ' Unlike other trends, heels pose physical risks that include' a tightening of the heel cord and changes in the growth plate. ' Matthew Dairman. a Suffolk. Va., foot and ankle surgeon· and a spokesman for the American College of Foot and · Ankle Surgeons, urges parents to limit wear to once or~ twice a week for four hours at a stretch - if at all. Another important factor. he says, is difficulty in keeping Rids from~ running, which could make those in heels more susceptible to ankle sprains or broken bones. ~ "You put a kid in a heel and someone touches them and' says tag, they're it - they're off," Dairman says • "Moderation is key." Micliael Penrod, a sales representative for childre footv.•ear with a showroom at Dallas Market Center. a who sale merchandise marketplace, says adult styles began surfac- ; ing in children's footwear a decade ago. While manufacturers do offer heels in sizes small enough to possibly fit a 3-year-old, stores are more likely to carry sizes meant from age 5 and up. Heels for young girls get mixed reactions from buyers, with more interest from the coasts and bigger deprutment stores. "In the South, there's still a very traditional store owner that prefers the younger looking silhouettes," he says. Jennifer Thomas, one of the owners of two Chicago-area children's shoe boutiques called Piggy Toes, says she doesn't carry heels for young girls. "I just don't think they're age appropriate," says Thomas, who has a 10-year-old daughter she doesn't want to see in them. ·'As far as the customers, girls for sure love them. Mom usually doesn't want them." · Dr. James W. Brodsky. a Dallas orthopedic surgeon and~ past president of the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle • Society. says healthy shoes for kids are similar to healthy shoes for adults - not too high a heel, plenty of width in the toe box. soft natural materials to conform to the shape • of the foot and good support. Dairman does see some value in girls around 12 or so: learning to wear heels. when their bones have developed.' And while he doesn't think younger girls wearing heels is that widespread, ''as kids seem to be aging quicker, it's something that should be addressed.'' · Lisa Spiegel, a counselor and director of Soho Parenting,. New York City parenting resource center, says worry abo kids aging too fast is often on the minds of parents today. She says she hasn't noticed a prevalence of young girls wearing ' heels but does know parents contending with young girls wanting to wear makeup or dress in too-skimpy clothes. · "We really, really try to help families hold onto their better instincts that kids should be children and not little' adults," she says. I Connolly birlh Reagan Cassidi Skidmore celebrated her third birthday on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2009. Reagan is the daughter of Amy and Christopher Skidmore and baby sister to Mason. The theme for her birthday was pink fairy tale princess. Helping her celebrate were her mom and dad, brother Mason, Nana Vickie and Papaw Ron Phalin, Granny Becky and Papaw Jay Riepenhoff, Penny and Poppy Bobby Ratliff, great Uncle Jimmy Skidmore, Aunt K.K. Higley, cousins Margi Layne, Tom Foster, Jeff Leigh Ann, Hannah and Phil Roach, Kelly, Katie and best friend Olivia Ratliff, Aunt Cissy Hunter and Lauren Riepenhoff. Her birthday was also celebrated at Guarding Angels Daycare. POINT PLEASANT, W.Va.- Elijah David Connolly proudly announces the bitth of his brother. Cilleb Joshua Connolly. Caleb was bom July 10. 2009 at Holzer Medical Center in Gallipolis, Ohio. He weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces, and was 22 inches long. Caleb is the son of Charles and Marsha (Blessing) Connoll) Ill of Point Pleasant. He is the grandson of lrwin and Barbara (Slayton) Blessing of Point Pleasant and Charles Jr. and Debra (Miller) Connolly of Point Pleasant. Caleb is the great grand son of Loretta (Wears) Slayton of Apple Grove and the late Walter Slayton, Betty (Crump) Kearns of New Haven, Ralph Alonzo Blessing, Matjorie (Brewer) Connolly of Point Pleasant and the late Charles L. Sr. Connolly. and James Miller Sr. of Middleport. Ohio and the late Katie (McGowan) Miller. Caleb is the great great grand son of the late Carol and Earthley (Wamsley) Wears, the late Daniel and Ella Mae (Long) Slayton. and the late Carl and Nellie (Herdman) Crump. Caleb's aunts and uncles are Kevin and Misty (Blessing) Craig of Willow Wood. Ohio. His cousins are Autum Nicole Craig and the late Jozee Ryder Craig. U. of Penn receives papers of author Chaim Potok Elijah David Connolly Connolly turns five POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. - Elijah David <;onnolly celebrated his fifth birthday on Sept. 8, 2009. Elijah received a Transformers birthday cake that was decorated "Happy Birthday Elijah". The cake was baked and decorated by his mother. Elijah's parents are Charles and Marsha (Blessing) Connolly III of Point Pleasant. His grandparents are Irwin and Barbara (Slayton) Blessing of Point Pleasant and Charles Jr. and Debra (Miller) Connolly of Point Pleasant. Elijah's great grandparents are Loretta (Wears) Slayton of Apple Grove and the late Walter Slayton, Betty (Crump) Kearns of New Haven, Ralph Alonzo Blessing, Matjorie (Brewer) Connolly of Point Pleasant and the late Charles L. Sr. Connolly, and James Miller Sr. of Middleport, Ohio and the late Katie (McGowan) Miller. Elijah's great great grandparents are late Carl and Earth ley (Wamsley) Wears, the late Daniel and Ella Mae (Long) Slayton, and the late Carl and Nellie (Herdman) Crump. Elijah's aunts and uncles are Kevin and Misty (Blessing) Craig of Willow Wood, Ohio. His cousins are Autum Nicole Craig f>nd the late Jozee Ryder Craig. PHILADELPHIA (AP) The University of Pennsylvania is home to papers documenting the literary career and life of rabbi-turned-author Chaim Potok. The collection includes cmTe&pondence. writings, lectures. sermons, articles, memorabilia and fan mail for the man who wrote "The Chosen." The 1967 novel follows the friendship between two Jewish boys with different backgrounds. Subsequent books, including "My Name is Asher Lev," also explore the conflicts between religious and secular Jewish life. Penn announced Friday that the Potok collection is housed at the university's rare book and manuscript library. Potok left the papers to Penn in his will. Potok was a Penn alumnus who also taught at the Ivy League school in Philadelphia. He died of brain cancer in 2002 at age 73. First Southern Baptist Church proudly presents Bandy Miller Formerly with the Kingsnlen Quartet ccomplished Christian Artist/Musician · Sunday, January 24th 7:00pm 41872 Pomeroy Pike • Pomeroy, OH 740-992-6779 �PageCs i>unba~ ~imes -!>enttnel Sunday,Januaryt7,2010 Come with me to Ford County John Gri!-.ham has written :! I no\cls. successful legal t ilers. and one work of -fiction. In Ford Count\'. sham has returned to the little north Mississippi town where he grew up. The tO\\ n has I 0.000 people. including over 50 Ia\\ \ ers. There are seven storie; here. each one a gem. Blood Drin• is a hilarious tale of three good ·ole bo) s on their \\a) to Memphis to donate blood for a young man they barely know '' ho ''a' injured in a \\ork-related accident. Aggie has the truck and a girlfriend: Cal\ in wetghs 270 pounds and is also sim!le. Roger \\as volunteered~ by hi; father. He "was the oldest of the three. but the years had not been kind. He's been through two divorces and nun1erous unsuccessful effotts to rid him of his addictions." Naturally. Roger insists they stop for beer. They also pause at a strip joint and ome totally distracted. you can't start this one • and not finish it! Fetching Raymond has two of the Grane) brothers taking their \\ heelchairbound mother to visit a third brother who resides on death rO\\. Ra) mond killed a cop several years ago and has spent his prison time ,., nting eight unpublished novels. composing songs. compiling letters to various state and federal officials. and begging for money from home to pay his numerous lawyers. He is now on the eve of his exe· cution, and his family waits wtth him for a call from the governor. In Fi~h Files (old cases which have never been resolved and have begun to stink). a lawyer sick of his job and his failing marriage hear:-. from a compahe filed suit against g ago for fault) · chain s. Can he flee his situatiOn and make a ne\\ life for himself? Room ' .Hichael's Beverly Gettles involves another lawyer and a lawsuit he won against a family seeking monev for a son who was se\ erely brain-damaged due to neglect by the doctor during his birth. It is a tragic story of injustice. and Michael's father holds the lawyer responsible. Quiet Haven is a "retirement home." the last stop for many of Clanton's senior citi£ens. Enter a clever and charming young man who seeks a job there while researching the assets of his patients. Casino stars Bobby Carl Leach. a flashy and shady businessman who claims to be part Yazoo Indian so he can open a casino. Into his casmo comes his rivaL dull and boring Sidney Lewis. expert at counting cards and a whiz at olackjack. I smell a showdown. By the way. Bobb) Carl is now keeping company with Sidne) 's former wife. the discontented Stella. Funnv Bov set in 1989. feature's the son of a prominent family who returns after many years in New York and San Francisco. He has AIDS and has come home to die. His family rejects him and farms him out to be cared for by Empona, a black spinster livng in Lowtown. There is fear among the townfolk. afraid to touch Adrian Keane because of his disease. This is Grisham "s first book of short stories. and it is a dandy! Pat Conro) sa)s it"s the best writing Grisham has ever done. I agree. Don't miss this one! Elvis pal Klein takes readers inside King's court His Elvis is funny, kind, whip-smart and generous. Presley bought Klein gifts, "Elvis: My Best Man" including a new car, and (Crown, 320 pa~es, $25), paid for his wedding - he by George Klem: Elvis was Klein's best man at Presley is one of the most the nuptials, hence the enduring figures in book's title. American pop culture hisMany who write or remtory. inisce about their time Hundreds of thousands of with Presley focus on subpeople still pay each year to jects that titillate. but see Graceland mansion in Klein holds off on all of Memphis. Tenn .. and fork that, preferring to paint a over cash for his music and picture of Presley the memorabilia. And he con- human being. tently {laces at or near The book comes across as top o the annual list of an affectionate recounting highest-earning dead of the times Klein spent • celebritieo.;. with a man he considered Not bad for a gu) who his best friend. died in 1977. Klein - called ''GK'' by He's known around the Presley - offers a stirring world simply as Elvis. and account of how Presley his life story has been told coped with the untimely and retold in every imagin passing of his beloved able medium. from docu mother. Gladys. whom mentaries and movies to Klein calls ''the anchor m biographies and memoirs. his crazy life.'' And they keep rolling in. "I've come to believe that The latest comes from George Klein, who if Mrs. Presley had lived a befriended Presley \\hen full life. Elvis would be they were high school class- with us toda} ... Klein mates. Klein went on to writes. The book features earn a place in the King's retellings of Presle) 's interinner circle of friends and employees kno,., n as the actions v. ith other famous figures of the era - from Memphis Mafia. Ann-Margret and Steve ''Elvis: My Best Man" isn't a tell-all. Klein McQueen to Nat King Cole makes it clear in the and James Brown. "Elvis: My Best Man" author's note that he "was offered a fair amount" to also hits on the major write such a book after points in Presley's life. including his marriage to sley'l-. death. and divorce from nstead, what he offers is • an insider's view of Priscilla Beaulieu; his Presley the man as time in the Army: his opposed to Pres Icy the movie and music careers: and so on. singer, actor and icon. Klein unlocks the door to "So much has been written and said about Elvis the King's court, but what Presley that for a long time I he shows us isn't a tale of didn't feel the need to add sex. drugs and rock · n · roll my own book to the clam- favored b) other Presley or." Klein writes. "No\\, biographers. though. I'm old enough to His is a tribute and a welknow that I won't always be come addition to the mounaround to speak of the Eh is tain of Presley books I knew.'' .. already on the market. B Y M IKE H OUSEHOLDER ASSOCIATED PRESS Book capsules: 'Iron River' and other books ''Iro n Rh er " (Dutton. tially fatal disorder that Let's hope there ·s more pages. $26.95), b) T. makes hts brain stem on the way. Jefferson Parker: Mexico is bleed. - By Chri.\ Talhotl. paying a high price for His illness makes him ••• America's appetite for ille- disoriented and numb. It "Silencer" (Minotaur gal drugs. The drug cartels makes him vomit and sptt Books. 276 pages. $24.99). have murdered an estimat- blood. It distorts his vision. by James W. Hall: After 10 ed 15.000 people in the last tweaking it so he cannot books, fan!> of James W. three years and the vio- see straight and causing Hall's series featu ring an lence has spilled across the him to fall down in the amateur detective named border to the American shower. As he tells his Thorn have grown accusSouthwest. story. Lemon's nickname tomed to seeing the recluAmericans. T. Jefferson comes to seem less like the sive roughneck come Parke!' ''rites. "arc com- invention of a carefree charging to the rescue. So plicit in the problem." Not coed and more like an it's sta11ling. in book I I. to onl) are \\C the market for unfortunate coincidence. find him spending most his the druos, but also the And yet he com mces time held prisoner in an source the weapons v. ith you of how strong he is. underground pit while his '' hich the drug lords arm using the same charm he friend<> tr} to figure out their ~rivate armies. "Iron emplO)S to win friends on ''here he is. Ri\ cr.· the title of his new campus. Thorn recent!) inherited crime newel, is a metaphor His writing is impressive. millions from a distant relafor the illegal trade in With the knowing use of tive but he can't v. a it to rid American-made weapons. run-on sentences. multiple himself of the money. so he e\ er) thing from cheap words combined into one puts his girlfriend Rust} handguns to militar) assault and other tricks, he makes Stabler in charge of figuring rifles. that flow to the car- his words evoke his person- out how. Sharing Thorn's tels from hundreds of al story. which ts about love for what's left of American gun dealt!rs. youth and death. Florida\ natural landscape, While Parker has a seriLemon is a compelling she cooks up a complicated ous message to convey, he and inventive writer. At real estate deal to preserve is a lso a popular novelist times his prose is so 300 square miles. But some with a need to entertain. In packed, so vivid. you bad people have other plans "Iron River," he succeeds sometimes have to reread it for the land. brilliantly at both. to let your imagination In quick succession. 87Charlie Hood. Parker's catch up with his. ycar-old Earl Hammond. a smart. likable young series - By Vinnee Tong. key player in the land deal. character. has been ••• is murdered, Thorn is kiddetached from hts job at the "Sleepless" (Ballantine napped and thrown in the Los Angeles Sheriff's Books. 368 pages. $25). by pit, and his friends. Stabler Department to gt\<e the ATF Charlie Huston: and Sugarman. begin their a hand in tracking dov. n "Sleepless:· the ne'' novel desperate search for him. tllegal gun sales along the from the writer of the Hall, who is not only a border. His first case goes moment. Charlie Huston. fine crime novelist but also bad. and in the ensuing kept us up all night through an excellent poet. retired gunfight, a b) stander is 275 pages. recently from his job as a A flawed fifth act. though. college literature professor. shot to death. The victim happens to be the son of cuts down what might have What Hall has done in one of Mexico's most pow- been the most satisfying "Silencer" would be a big erful drug lords. who retali- achievement in Huston's gamble for a lesser talent ates by kidnapping an ATF dizzying ascent from it's generally not a good agent. The attempt to rescue unknown to one of the most idea to keep your hero the agent forms the spine of interesting writers working immobilized for most of the the crimelmystery/supemat- book. Yet Hall, who excels the story. Since the days of ural beat. at character development, Raymond Chandler, Still, Huston has woven a has created a passel of fasciCalifornia ha!oi produced serious novel full of ideas nating good and bad guys to some of our finest crime about our future, concerns drive the action. no\elists. and today about our present and dead- Bv Bruce DeSilva. Michael Connelly. Don on characterizations. ••• Winslow and Joseph Parker Haas is a novelty ..The First Rule" Wambaugh continue the tra- m the near-future world (Putnam, 308 pages. dition. With "Iron River," Huston has created. The $26 .95). by Robert Crats: Parker prmes again that he young LAPD detective i~ a The problem '' tth Pike b belongs in their company. man of conviction in a time he's perfect. When Joe Pike - By Bruce DeSilm. when it's e\eryone for \\as private detecti\e Elvis ••• himself. Cole's sometimes sidekick '"H appy: A Memoir '' The \\Orld is unraveling and always silent partner. (Scribner. 289 pages. $25) thanks to a new progres- there was an air of mystery by Alex Lemon: Alex sive disease that has ren- about him that left Robert Lemon tells us,., ith his title. dered I 0 percent of the Crais' many fans aching for "Happy: \Memoir." that all population unable to sleep. more. Now that Crais has started is not as it seems. After all. And the number is growwhat self re::.pecting mem- ing. At the same time, the Pike's own occasional oirist would be so U.S. is hit with droughts, series. the mystery has unabashed!} earnest as to domestic terrorism and faded and we pretty much pick such a name without an widespread panic. know what we re going to ulterior motive? In the Henry Thompson get when Pike steps onto the Not this one. Trilogy and the Joe Pitt page - perfection. There's "Happy," it turns out, is Casebooks, Huston showed no question he's going to a nickname Lemon gets he can spin an adept thriller. outsmart the cops and the from boisterous college With his most recent books, crooks and achieve his goal. friends and baseball team- the author shows us that It's Pike, after all, the formates. They mostly recede he's willing to stretch and mer soldier, mercenary and into the background as reach for something with cop who has played zenlike Lemon copes with a poten- more meaning. straight man to Cole's 36~ of clown for 16 years. In "The First Rule," the second installment in the Pike series following 2007\ "The Watchman." Pike's old buddy Frank "The Tank" Meyer has been brutally murdered along with his family in a home invasion that doesn't appear to be about robbery. The cops and equally lost federal authorities are stumped. Not Pike. Within a few doten pages. he's following his own thread on the path to cold vengeance. '"The First Rule" is the kind of book that fan~ v. ill devour like sweet. sv. eet candy. New readers should tum their attention to his earlier works featuring Cole and Pike for an introduction to the wisecracking PI and his taciturn pal. - By Chris Talbott. ••• "The Swan Thieves" (Little, Brown and Co .. 576 pages, $26.99). by El izabeth Kostova: Renowned painter Robert Oliver pulls a knife and attacks a painting in the impressionist collection at the National Gallery of Art. He tells psychiatrist Andrew Marlow. "I did it for her,"' and then falls silent for nearly a year. Perplexed - and fru!->trated by his patient's silence. Marlow contacts Oliver's \\ife. mistress and colleagues in a search for the woman \\.·ho drove him to ti) to destro) the art he loves. Marlov. ·s search uncovers blackmail, fraud and a mystery answered in the work of French impressionists. Elizabeth Kostova made a splash in modern literature with "The Historian." her best-selling debut novel about Dracula. "The Swan Thieves:· her much anticipated second novel. wanders into Dan Brown territor). but lacks the body count found in ·'The Da Vinci Code." Instead. she offers an understated. beautifully wriuen tale of art. love and an obsession triggered by both. "The $\\an Thie\es" also sho\\ s the same meticulous histoncal research and scene-setting description that elevated "The Historian" from a vampire tale to a work of art. "The Swan Thieves" has two parallel plots, one focusing o n M arlow and Oliver and the other on Beatrice de Clerval, a gifted painter in 19th-century Paris. The story lines are connected by a mystery in which clues are hidden in works of art. - By M.L. Johnson. Thanks to the generous support ofour community, O'Bteness Memorial Hospital is now offering mammograms using the most advanced, accredited dig1tal mammography eqwpment. Ramona MacGregor, RT (R)(M) For your next mammogram, 0 8/eness' specialized and credentialed mammographers Ramona MacGregor and Kelly Shears invite you to our prwate comfortable mammography sune m the Casrrop Center- next to the hospital. · We have also recently joined an e!Jte group of faetfll/es across the country that share the commitment to ra1sing the standard ofcare for every patient We are proud to be recogmzed as a certified Pmk Rtbbon Facility. Talk to your phystcian about screening frequency and a referral for a mammogram. . To schedule your digital mammogram with O'Bieness, please cafl (7 40) 566-4540. O 'BLENESS ~emo:rial f lo>~pital �PageC6 iunba~ ~ime~ -ientinel Sunday, January17,2010 Review: Denzel saves the world in 'Book of Eli' Bv J AKE C oYLE ASSOCIATED PRESS , In the future, according to "The Book of Eli," we'll all dress like we're in a Nine Inch Nails video. It is written. Most everyone wears goggles and leather in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of "The Book of Eli." A meteorite and a subsequent war 30 years earlier has scorched the Earth and the population. The landscape (shot in New Mexico) IS much like an old Western: bandits (albeit cannibalizing bandits) lurk the desert roads, while rough crowds take refuge in hardscrabble towns. At the downtown saloon, water, not whiskey, is "the good stuff.'' Across this charred land strides our Christian cowEli (Denzel boy, Washington), a mysterious, solitary man who carries the last remaining Bible in his backpack. He also carries a gleaming silver knife and a shotgun, both of which he's expert with. Like a prophet, he has heard God's voice in his head and he walks West with divine determination. He says to himself: ··stay on the path." After ''the flash" of the cataclysm that rocked the Earth, many blamed the troubles on religion. All the books were burned, making the few that remain precious cargo indeed. Those born after this event (and this might not seem so futuristic) don't have any knowledge of books - what they mean or • AP photo This movie still released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Denzel Washington as Eli in Alcon Entertainment's action adventure film "The Book of Eli:' a Warner Bros. Pictures release. how to read them. The elders are the exception. those who lived "before." Among them is Carnegie (Gary Oldman), a villainous man who presides over the town Eli wanders into. He sends his minions out in search of a Bible, though all they can do is return with "The Da Vinci Code" which apparently even meteorites can't destroy. An intellectual (we first meet him reading a biography of Mussolini), Carnegie believes the Bible's power will make him a great leader: "It's a weapon," he says. When Eli and Carnegie meet. much fighting ensues. A young woman, Solara (Mila Kunis, oddly fashion- able in tattered clothes), gets roped into the fracas. Tom Waits makes a good cameo as a simple, somewhat quirky shopkeeper. "The Book of Eli" is the first movie from Albert and Allen Hughes - the filmmaking brothers of "From Hell" and "Menace II Society" - in nine years. Post-apocalyptic tales are all the rage these days, and it's easy to see the imprint of Cormac McCarthy's far more deeply felt ''The Road'' just recently adapted with disappointing results - on "The Book of Eli." Like McCarthy's great novel. "The Book of Eli" follows a wandering man on a lawless road while carry- ing his charge (a boy, rather than a book, in "The Road"). "The Road" even included an Eli: "Ely," played by Robert Duvall in the movie. We might take both as a reference to the prophet Elijah. But "The Book of Eli" doesn't get too BiblicaL mostly content to spout a few cool-sounding verses before a battle. The Hughes brothers don't let nary a bullet or arrow fly without sending their cameras behind to track it in slow-motion. That such a Christianthemed film enthralls in violence so much (the body count is in the dozens) is obviously contradictory to its message of civilization saved by the Bible. Blink and you'll miss the only aJlusion to other religious tomes - a cheap, belated try at tolerance. One senses the Bible was chosen for ''The Book of Eli'' earnestly, but perhaps also to take advantage of its cultural weight. Such travails might not be plausible for one carrying the last copy of "Moby Dick," or, for that matter, "Jonas Brothers: Inside Their World." Cinematographer Don Burgess has drained the film to a sepia. What breathes life into "The Book of Eli" is the performances, most notably by Washington and Oldman. It's fun to see Oldman, made relatively boring in the Batman films. return to full, theatrical villain mode. He's not over-the-top like he was in "The Professional," but' rational, intelligent surviv - a frustrated dictator. H wants order, only he wants to control it. Washington, too, is in his wheelhouse. Ever able to play a man with purpose, he propels the film on a straightforward, linear path: a charismatic man-of-fewwords with a whole lot of them in his sack. ''The Book of Eli." a Warner Bros. release, is rated R for some brutal violence and language. Running time: 118 minutes. Two stars out of four. Brooke Burke to host 'She's Got the Look' An inside look at a boy band on Nick's new comedy B Y F RAZIER MOORE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - Four hockey-loving teenage pals from the nation's frigid heartland get a crack at mus1c stardom as a boy band in sunny L.A. What a break! But the deal almost collapses when the excitable record exec, Gustavo Rocque, picks only one of the lads at an audit~on in their Minnesota hometown. Unacceptable. On "Big Time Rush," Nickelodeon's new comedy series, an alior-nothing pact unites these chums. They stand firm against Gustavo, who, after seething and ranting, agrees to sign them all. Almost before they can stash their hockey sticks, they're heading west. But once there, they discover that show-biz success calls for more than any old song-and-dance. In fact, initially their song-and-dance needs a lot of improvement. Gustavo has to whip them into shape, and fast. Alas, they find more on their things-to-do list than catching rays by the pool and flirting with cute girls. "The show is all about the wild ride these guys go on trying to achieve their dream while still remaining friends," says Marjorie Cohn. Nickelodeon's executive vice president of original programming and development. "It's also about learning how to take responsibility, having your friends' backs, handling romantic crushes - all the kid issues, played out against a show business background. The guys aren't just handed the keys to the kingdom.'' With a comic-caper style, rousing spirit and snippets of music and dance, "Big Time Rush" is an engaging romp that should tickle the network's core audience (ranging roughly between 6 and 14) - plus many parents. Fun is fun. The series pilot. aired in November, snagged some 3.5 million viewers. Now the 20-segment season debuts Monday at 8:30 p.m. EST, as the lads discover, to thei_r dismay, that their quest for a hit song won't exempt them from hitting the books at school. "Big Time Rush" was created by Scott Fellows, who scored for already Nickelodeon with the zany "Ned's DeClassified School Survival Guide." Like that series, "Rush'' has sharp writing, snappy pacing, and it spoofs the entertainment industry with relish. But the key to the show, of course, is its four starsin-the-making: Kendall (played by Kendall Schmidt, "Gilmore Girls"); James (James Maslow, "iCarly''); Logan (Logan Henderson. "Friday Night Lights"); and Carlos (Carlos Pena, "Ned's DeClassified School Survival Guide''). Kendall, a 19-year-old Kansan raised m Los Angeles, describes the character he plays as "the mo11ar in between, making sure everyone is treated fairly. I don't go anywhere without them, and they don't go anywhere without me." James, also 19, is a LaJolla, Calif., native whose early singing skill earned him a spot in the San Diego Children's Choir. His character, alone among the foursome, had already dreamed of being a famous pop star. which turned "him into a narcissist - but in a harmless way." Logan, a 20-year-old native of Dallas-Fort Worth, calls his character the reasonable, grounded one. "He says, 'Guys. let's think this through before we do it.' But he isn't afraid to be goofy and crazy." Carlos, 20, from Weston, Fla., somewhat sheepishly acknowledges competing on the MTV musical-reality flop "Making Menudo" back in 2007. His character, he says, "isn't the brightest, but he's the one who keeps the other guys from being boring. He does anything he thinks might be fun." Finding these fellows tough, says was Nickelodeon's Cohn, explaining that "Big Time Rush" was given the green light two years ago, which unleashed a cross-country talent search and auditions in a half-dozen cities. "There was a triple-threat nature for what we needed them to do," Cohn says. "The acting and the singing were really challenging, and then you needed to find guys who looked different from each other and who had the required complementary voice qualities. ''Dancing came last on the list because we figured: How bad could they be?" Then she laughs. ''I'm not 100 percent comfortable with myself dancing yet,'' acknowledges Kendall, in a separate interview. Yet, hearing that, Carlos jumps in, "He's good! He's very dedicated and he gets his stuff down.'' Around 1,500 hopefuls were considered for the four roles before Kendall, the final and most elusive piece of the puzzle, was cast last August. Then filming started. Already, says James, "we· ve been able to put our own flavor into the show about us becoming a band in real life. as well as in the episodes.'' With "Big Time Rush'' produced in partnership with Sony Music, its future holds promise for hit recordings and concert tours. "The story arc will mirror their actual lives," says Cohn, even if the comic flavor serves more like a fun house mirror. "We aren't trying to be anything we're not," Logan sums up. "We're regular guys. But in the show, we're able to say, 'Hey, sometimes you got to take a chance - and great things may come from it.'" NEW YORK (AP) TV personality Brooke Burke will host the third season of the reality show and modeling competition "She's Got the Look," TV Land announced Thursday. Burke, a "Dancing with the Stars" champion, said the show is about second chances and women making the most of their potential. ·'Women are beautiful at every age," she said in a telephone interview. ''I think the message of the content is really inspirational to women:· Contestants on the program have ranged in age from 35 to 72 and winners have gone on to represent products sold by nationwide companies, including Kmart, Verizon, AT&T and Microsoft. Burke said she hopes to work with the women to boost their confidence. "It's really important that women don't try to hold onto the beauty that they had in their 20s, that really understand the selves mentally and phy cally and bring out their best attributes," the 38-yearold Burke said. ·'She's Got the Look" is slated to begin production next week in Los Angeles. An air date has not been announced. Invite them t your church. Touch their souls th God's Word. weare 'We will shout(or joy rs in the victorious and lift up our 20:5 nanle of God." P 1 Ce/ebroting special days with you! Sunday Times-Sentinel Subscribe today • 446-2342 or 992-2155 Call c ®nlltpolh~ 1Batlp ~ribunr 740-446-2342 thl �Dl INSIDE Farm • Gardr n, Pa~c Dl TechnoloJ!), Pa~e I>6 Sunday,January17, 2010 AP photos In this Oct. 29, 2009, file photo first lady Michelle Obama, left center, poses with children from Washington's Bancroft and Kimball Elementary Schools after their harvest of vegetables from the first lady's garden on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. The garden has given the first lady a platform to speak about the country's childhood obesity problem, the benefits of eating fresh food and growing your own, and teaching children early about vegetables and appreciating them. Michelle Obama's lgarden ex'seeds' her expeCtations B Y D ARLENE SUPERVILLE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHING1 ON To Michelle Obama, her White House garden is more than a plot of land. It's a Iso a soapbox. The South Lawn garden has given Mrs. Ohama a platform to speak out about the country's childhood obesity problem, extol the benefits of eating fresh food. and teach children earl) to appreciate vegetables. It also has offered Mrs. Obama another way to open White House to people o don't norrnalh visit. • The garden now is ready for winter. fitted with protective coverings called "hoop houses," a kind of temporary green house, to help keep various crops spinach, cauliflower, lettuce, carrots. cabbage and other greens - gro\\.'ing during the cold months. In its first year, aides say the garden has ex-"seeded" expectations. It's become so popular that even foreign dignitari~s ask Mrs. Obama about It when thev meet. Crops have been donated to a neighborhood soup kitchen, and the first lady's green thumb has inspired others to start gardening. too. Local fifth-graders whose public school has a similar garden helped prepare thl.! plot, plant the crops and harvest the produce. They en were brought into the hite House kitchen to • cook some of the food and experience what eating "fresh" tastes Iike. During the first lady's recent visit to "Sesume Street" to help Elmo und some kids plant vegetable seeds. Big Bird asked if he had heard correctl) that she eats seeds. Not exactly, she replied, but "I do eat what grov. ~ from these seeds." Shl.! encourages the kidVo eat all their vegeta- bles. telling them that if Obama has said it was they do. the> ·n "grow up something she thought to be big and strong just about doing before moving like me.'' from Chicago. The garden also inspired a She talks often about her culinary showdown on an experience as a busy, episode of "Iron Chef working mother trying to America." Filmed partly at feed daughters Malia and the White House. the con- Sasha but relying too test paired White House much on processed. fast chef Cristeta Comerford food or takeout meals like and Bobby Flay against the pizza. not realizing the toll duo of i\tario Batali and Jt was taking on the girls' Emeril Lagasse. health - and weight Their challenge? Whip up until their pediatrician fi\e dishes using anything spoke up. from the garden. The chefs The entire family began harvested- C\'Cf) thing from to feel better, she sa) s. after fennel and collard greens to she started serving more purple cauliflower and fresh fruit and vegetables. Japanese eggplant. eliminated procl.!ssed foods Comerford and Flay won and cut back on sugar} drinks. Her children were the cook-off. The 1.I 00-sq uare-foot like sponges. she said, and plot, about the size of a soaked up the information small apartment, has yield- about what foods do to ed more than 1.000 pounds their bodies. of sweet potatoes. tomaThey even police her toes, eggplant, broccoli, diet, too. "They started schooling fennel. lettuce. other vegetables and herbs that me and lecturing me about White House and visiting what I should be eating. and chefs have used to feed the what a can·ot does. and what Obama family and guests. broccoli does. And someA nearby beehive. bolted times they look at my plate to the South Lawn to with- in disgust nov..·." the first stand v. ind gusts from the lad} said. president's helicopter. proStatistics show that two duced 134 pounds of honey. out of three Americans are Some v. as given to spouses either overweight or obese, who accompanied world and childhood obesity has leaders to an international tripled in the past 30 years. economic summit last year Mrs. Obama aims to pay in Pittsburgh. more attention to childhood This year, Mrs. Obama obesity this year in hopes plans to in,·olve more stu- that America's children will do like her daughters and dents from other schools. Mrs. Obama 's plot is the help their families clean up first large-scale garden their diets, too. Another benefit of garproject at the White House since the ··victory garden" dening is cost. Mrs. Obama first lady Eleanor said it cost less than $200 Roosevelt planted during to start the garden. v.hich World War IJ. The govern- already has yielded a posiment encouraged such tive return on the investgardens to make sure ment. It's also boosti ng in gardening troops and civilians had Interest enough to eat. nationwide. Advocates of eating more "That's the first word out fresh. locall) grown food, of people's mouths when including California chef we talk about gardens," said Alice Waters. spent months Da\ id Ellis. spokesman for lobbying the Obamas to the American Horticultural start the garden. Mrs. Society. Mrs. Obama \ gar- This June 16 2009 file photo shows fifth graders from Bancroft Elementary School and assistant Wh1te House Chef Sam Kass weighing some of the lettuce that they and first lady Michelle Obama harvested from the White House garden on the South Lawn. den has ·'just made an incredible influence on people who haven't gardened before.'' The National Gardening Association pred icted a I 9 percent increase last year in the number of home-based fruit and vegetable gardens, compared with 2008. W. Atlee Burpee & Co., a large seed company in Warminster. Pa .. sav. a 30 percent increase in vegetable seed sales alone in 2009. compared with the year before. according to spokeswoman Kristin Grilli. The ~arden is popular at the Whtte House. too. Assistant chef Sam Kass. who cooked for the Obamas in Chicago and does the same at the White House. oversees the garden. But other chefs and staffers from throughout the White House office complex jockey to help care for it. Chefs love having fresh ingredients handy. While House pastry chef Bill Yosses spices up dessert \\ ith fresh herbs. Marice! Presilla. an authority on Latin American cuisine who cooked for a Latin music festival at the White House. said she was "absolute ly flabbergasted'' to find tomati llos in the garden. • In this Oct. 29, 2009. file photo fi rst lady Michelle Obama helps students from Washington s Bancroft Elementary School push a wheel barrow with sweet potatoes that they harvested from the first lady's ga rden on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. t �PageD2 iunbap ~imr~ -ientinel Sunday,Januaryt7,2010 Living walls may be the ultimate raised-bed garden B Y D EAN F OSDICK EXTENSION (ORNER ASSOCIATED PRESS Things arc looking up for gardeners who arc short on space but long on imagination. It's increasingly easy to build vertical gardens. structures that enable plants to grow upward if there is no room for growing them lateral!). These living walls can make great backdrops for mixing color with cuisine; use them to frame patios and decks ,.. ith tapc ...tries of miniature tomatoes and spaghetti ...quash. Or make privac) ...cn~cns by draping morning glories. clcm~t is and s\\eet peas O\Cr nettmg or latticework. "'Vertical gardening makt:s it easier to have your ornaments and eat them too," said Leonard Perry. an extension professor of horticulture at the University of Vermont. "Grab a tomato or two as you walk by, which is an easy thin~ to do when the)'re hangmg at different levels." Living walls entail gardening on the edge. however. While great for saving space. they are more challenging when fertilizing and watering. "Holding water on a flat roof isn't difficult, but turning it 90 degrees on a wall is tremendously tricky." said Edmund Snodgrass of Street. Md .. an author and operator of a nursery dedicated to producing green roof plants. "You have to decide early on what it is you want to accomplish with this. Understand what level of effort you want to put into it as a homeowner." · Living walls vary greatly in size and ...ophistication. from commercial designs with complicated plumbing and roots attached to walls. to plant pockets connected to webbing, to flowering vines planted in the ground and trained to climb homemade supports. Each needs a sturd) framework. waterproofing material to protect the walls, and plant containers. Bv This photo released by Derek Fell shows a Skyscraper Garden, featuring climbing vegetables, from left to nght: climbing Trombone zucchini, Early Cascade tomatoes, and Orient Express climbing cucumbers. AP photo The 62 day countdown to spring's arri val (March 20) has many homeowners eagerly anticipating warmer weather. Ho\\e-ver. before then the ice, snow and cold of winter is still with us. Stan preparing for the spring growing season by purchasing supplies for a new vegetable garden . Seeds, potting soil. containers and nHl) be grow lights arc a few items soon to be available either from mail order catalogs or lcx;al stores. Remember to take a soil sample ( I 0-15 four inch depth cores of soi l taken from the garden site) the ne xt time v. e ha\'e se\eral d ay~ above freezing . Bring the cup of soil with fifteen dollars and the ex te n~ ion offi ce will ...end it a\\ a) to be tested for the soil acidity. nutrient le\el and orgamc matter content. Several organilation.., have inquired about the pos ioilit) of community e:arden:. and assistance in starting gardens. Both local OSU ma...ter gardener and our extension office can assist individuals and groups. One opportunit). ''Starti ng a Vegetable Garden" will be held January 25 at the Meigs County hxt~nsion office at 2 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. Co~t is S IO per family unit. Give us a call 740-992-6696. ••• Arc you raisin~ sheep and goats? A Small Ruminate Productton seminar begins .January 19 and continues for the following four Tuesday evenings from 6 to 8:30p.m. ~eetings v. ill be held at the Athens County Extens1on office located on 260 West Union Avenue next to the county fairgrounds. Weekl_y topics include fora~e quality, ewe and Jamb nutntion , mineral nutrition, and profitability. Regi tration is required b) calling 740593-8555 or via e-maillewandowshki.l 1@osu.edu. ••• "Walb with pocket~ arc nice for urban areas or properties \\ ith ele\'ation changes,'' Snodgrass said. "They're also eas) for backyard gardeners to use because they don't need complex irrigat on systems. All have their merits.'' More benefits of vertical gardens: • Erected against warm wnils. the\ can become microclimates resistant to killing frosts. "That can mean starting your garden earlier in the spring and continuin!! with it later into the fall." ~aid Derek Fell. a horticulturist from PipersVille. Pa .. who has de' eloped a back) ard de\ ice he calls the "Sk) ~craper Garden.'' "Climbing plants like spinach or pole snap beans will bear all summer, giving )OU up to 10 times-the ) iclds of ~imilar bush varieties." • Plants grown in vertical !!ardcns are less diseaseprone. "Having them grow upright gets more air circulating around them," Perry said. "Less accumulated moisture means less disease." • Little or no stooping i.., required. "Forget all that bending over as you plant or prune." Pert') said. "E\Cr)thing is conveniently in front of vou.'' The \\eight of a maturing vertical garden can fracture or rot buildings if it\ not installed properly, however. Using lightweight potting soil rather than ...aturatcd topsoil \\ill help reduce the load. "'I cannot think of any downside to vertical gardening except not all vegetables are suitable for growing tall up supports lettuce. cabbage peppers, eggplant for example," Fell said. "But they can be used as an edging below the vin ing plants. "By extending your (planting) bed away from a wall like an apron. you can ha\ e the best of both worlds - chmbing vegetables at the back and compact. low-growing vegetables at the front." (On the lmemet: Unil·ersitv of Vermont fact slzee;: www.uvm .edulpsslppplartiComact Dean Fosdick at deanfosdick@ netscape Jlet.) clesh·erl!~ard )ltml. Ohio Department of Agriculture expands emerald ash borer quarantine ously quarantmed areas. iliegal to take these items the bark about one-eighth inch \\ide when they The following counties are out of the state of Ohio. now on the quarantine list: Firewood dealers. bu ... i- emerge a~ adults. REYNOLDSBURG Adams, Ashtabula. Bro\\ n. ncsses or ,.,.·oodlot O\\ ners Suspected emerald ash Ohio's emerald ash borer Clinton, Coshocton, interested in marketing and borer adults and larva can quarantine was expanded Fa)ette. Geauga. Highland. transporting ash trees or be confirmed by sending the today by the Ohio Holmes. Knox, Lake. fire\\ ood from quarantined suspected specimen(s) to Department of Agriculture .Madison. Ross and areas can do ..,o onlv v. ith a the Ohio Department of to include 14 additional Trumbull. department-appro\ cd com- A2riculture for identificacounties. The quarantine Since the emerald ash pliance agreement. These tion using the form located helps slow the spread of borer was first discO\ered agreements define handling on the department's Web the ash tree·killing insect in Ohio in 2003. the depart- practice' that reduce the site. Visit to uninfested parts of the ment has placed 67 coun- artificial spread of the emer- '' \\ v. .agri.ohio.go\' and click on "Emerald Ash state by prohibiting the ties under quarantine. The ald a...h borer. movement of all hard,..ood quarantine makes it illegal Ash trees infested \\ ith Borer Program·· located firewood and ash tree to tran ... port a<.h trees. parts emerald ash borer t)picall) under the "Regulatory materials. of ash trees and all hard- die within five )Cars. The Programs" tab. The form is While the invasive pest wood firev.. ood from any pest bt:long~ to a group of available b) clicking has not been detected in quarantined county into or metallic wood-boring bee- "Submit a Sample" on the the following 14 counties, through a non-quarantined tles. Adults are dark green. left-hand side. For informatwn on tlze the department issues thi~> county without a compli- one half inch in length. quarantine to m.ake the ance agreement from the one eighth inch wide, and emerald ash borer, maps, movement of ash trees, Ohio Department of fly from early May until c:omp/iance agreements, part" of ash trees and all Agriculture. Violation of Scptemhe1. Lan ac spend firell'ood restrictions and hardwood lirewood more this quarantine could result the rest of the year beneath quarantine updates, \'is i I practical among counties in fines up to $4.000. A the bark of ash trees and uww.agri.ohio.gO\' or call that are adjacent to prcvi- federal quarantine makes it leave D-shaped holes in (888) OH/0-EAB. TIMES-S ENTINEL S TAFF MDTNEWSCMYOAILYTRIBUNE COM Open Gate club learns about wildflowers, food for winter birds RIO GRANDE - The the northem cardinal. tufted Open Gate Garden Club titmouse. blue jay. chickwhite-crested gathered at the home of adee. Ginn) Shov. alter for its nuthatch. Carolina wren and December meeting. white-throated sparrow. Ducks, swans and other Showalter read the devowaterfowl like the pie-billed tional ''Mysterious Ways.'' She also prc!'ented a pro- grebe, hooded merganser, gram about wildflowers and scaup duck and cormorant can also be observed during food for winter birds. When winter whistles the winter months. around your house and Some other frequent \'lsitemperatures drop, many tors to your winter feeders birds migrate south. Many include the red-bellied familiar summer birds, woodpecker, Downy woodsuch as the yellow warbler, pecker, mourning dove, red-eyed vireo, northern blue jay. white-breasted oriole, chimney :iWift, barn nuthatch. song sparrow. swallow, ere ted flycatch· dark-eyed juno, purple er and even birds of prey finch, house sparrow and like the broad-wi nged European starling. hawk fly south. When is the best time to tan feeding bird ? There Many bird remain for the winter, including the red- isn't any best time since bellied downey, pileated birds appreciate a hangout woodpecker. the barred, throughout the year, espescreech and homed owls, cially during severe weathf HAL KNEEN cr. September is not too earl) to place a feeder. The sooner the birds find them, you can enjoy \\ atching the birds. It takes a while for birds to find the feeders.., What is the he~t location for a bird feeder? Pick a location that is easily accessible for you so the feeders can be refilled in cold weather. Also pick a good spot for you to watch the birds. What type of feeder is appropriate'? Starling-resis· tant ~uet feeders. house feeder:, for sunflower seeds, wire mesh cage feeders for peanuts, tube feeder for thi tie nnd platform feede rs or truy fruit feeder • Suet feeders attract wood· peeker , wren , cardinals, goldfinches, chickadee~. nuthatches and doves. Peanut buttc:J suet attract:, ' woodpeckers. junos, jays and bluebirds. House feeder:, attract smaller birds like grosbeaks, fi nches. titmice. sparrows and cardinals. Other types of appropriate food include hulled sunflower seeds, birdseed mix. white proso millet, safflower seed. shelled peanuts, fresh dried corn , thistle, niger seed and suet cakes. Clean your feeders with soap and water before you set them out. Clean any feeder when you suspect that the food has become spoiled. Members partici~ated in a workshop m wh1ch they made pme cones using peanut butter on the pine corns and rolled them in bird feed. They can be hung from trees. (Submitted by the Open Gate Garden Club) Are you interested in bu) ing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables? Join the twenty first centul) and discover how to utilize a website to acce s availability of Ohio grown produce. A demonstration of Ohio ·s .MarkeL.\1aker v. ill be held at the Ohio Department of Agriculture on Wednesday January 27th. The demo ,.. ill be presented b) Julie Fox from The Ohio State Uni\ersity Extension. Ohio Market}. taker is a free sen ice that was launched in 2008 as a collaborative effort to support Ohio's food industry, impro\ e acces~ to local food and keep more food dollars in the regional economy. As part of a growing national network, Ohio Market- Maker is an easv-to-use web-based resource already used b) thousands of Ohio food producers, buyers. and others in the food supply chain. This electronic infrastructure combines easy-to-usc infonnation that food businesses need, including demographic. food consumption and business profile data that can be mapped to ... hO\\ concentrated markets and strategic business partners. See for \ our~e l f how Ohio businesse.., can use Ohio Market Maker to make connections that imprO\ C uppl) and demand of Ohio foods. \\'e will do a presentation v. ith a program update. If )Ou' d like. bring your laptop.log into Ohio Market ..\1nker and we 'II walk through a demo of the latest technology. If unavailable that day. check out their web site at http ://ohiomarketmaker.com ••• Arc ) ou look ing for agriculture. construction or outdoor power equipment? Take the family to Power Show Ohio being held January 29-3 l at the Ohio Expn Center & State Fairgrounds in C<'lumbus. Displays arc indoors and there is a full schedule of OSU Extension educational seminars covering topics including agriculture marketing outlook . computer technologies for farm applications. farm safety and more. Additional info m1ation is available at W W \ \ .omcda.orglpowershO\\ . This event is !-> pOnsoreJ b) the Ohio ~1 ichi gan Equipment Dealers A.....,ociation. Free tickets are available from the extension office and local equipment dealerships wh1lc they lasl. (Hal Kneen i\· the Afeigs Count) A~riculwre & Nm ural Re\Ources Educator, Buckere Hill\ EERA. OMo State Univa.,it,v £ aensivn.) • LIVESTOCK REPORT GALLIPOLIS - United Producers Inc. livestock report of sales from ]atz . 13,2010. Feeder Cattle-Higher 275-415 pounds. Steers. $75-$116. Heifers, $70-$90; 425-525 pounds, Steers, $75-S '00, Heifers. $70-$86; 550-625 pounds. Steers. $75-S•OO. Heifers. $70-$8 1; 650-725 pounds, Steers. $75-$94. Heifer.... $70-$78: 750-850 pounds Steers. $75-$85. Heifers. $70-$75. Fed Cattle Choice. Steers. $80-$89. Heifers. $78-$84: Select. Steers. S75-S89. Heifers. S73-S77: Holstem. Steers. ~50·$70. Cows-Steady Well Muscled/FJeshed, S44-S53; Mediu!ThLean, $35$43; Thin/Light, $30-$35; Bulls, S55-S65. Back to Farm Bred Cows. $300-$800; Goats, $70-$92.50. Manure to give away. Will load for you. Upcoming specials Feeder sale, 10 a.m .. Jnn. 20 Brood cow sale. 12:30 p.m .• Jan . 27 Direct sales and free on-farm visits . Contact Dewayne at (740) 339-0241. Stacy at (304) 634-0224, or Mark at (740) 645-5708, or visit the website at www.uproducer .com. I j ~~~ �Sunday, January 17, 2010 Pomeroy • Middleport • Gallipolis, OH • Pt. 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OH 800-537·9528 Betty Hunt Queen 80th Birthday Celebration \\'hen: Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 Where: Hampton Inn Banquet Room Gallipolis, Ohio Time: 2 pm • 4 pm Open House Everyone come visit & wish Betty a Happy Birthday Pictures that have been placed in ads at the Gallipolis Daily Tribune must be picked within 30 days. Any pictures that are not picked up will be discarded. CLASSIFIED INDEX : • • • , • legals........................ ................................ 100 Announcements .... .....................................200 Blrthday/Anniversary..................................205 Happy Ads....................................................210 Lost & Found ........- ..................................215 Memory/Thank You ..................................... 220 Notices......................................................... 225 Personals....................................................230 Wanted ........................................................ 235 Servlces ....................................................... 300 Appliance Service....................................... 302 Automotive ............................................... 304 Building Materials....................................... 306 "~"""""· , , • ' • , : , , • ' , , • 1 , • ' , • • • 1 ................................................310 Chilld!Etderlv Care ....................................... 312 Computers............................................... 314 Contractors .........•......•.......•......................316 Domestics!Janltorial ...................................318 Electrical······-··········································· 320 Financial.._.............- ...................................322 Health ........................................................... 326 Heating & Coollng.......................................328 Home Improvements 330 Insurance ..................................................... 332 Lawn Service-........................................... 334 Muslcl0ance/Orama .................................... 336 Other Services.............................................338 PlumblnWEiectrical .....................................340 Professional Services.. ..............................342 Repairs .......................................................344 Roofing .........................................................346 Security....................................................... 348 Tax/Accounting ......- .................................. 350 TraveVEnlertainment ................................352 Financial......................................................400 Financial Services.......................................405 Insurance .................................................. 410 Money to lend.............................................415 Education..................................................... 500 Business & Trade School.......................... 505 Instruction & Trainmg ................................. 510 Lessons-.-....--···-·-........................515 Personal...................................................... 520 Anlmals ........................................................ 600 Animal Supplies.......................................... 60s Horses .......•.•- .............................................610 Livestock.....................................................615 Pets..............................................................620 Want to buy...........................-....................625 Agriculture ........._ ...................................... 700 Farm Equipment..........................................705 & Produce.......................................710 Seed, Grain ............................... 715 & land ........................................... 720 Want to buy ................................................725 Merchandise............................................... 900 Antiques ....................... ·········-···············... 905 Appliance ..." .. .. .........--.......................... 910 Auctions ......................................................915 Bargain Basement......................................920 Collectibles.................................................. 925 Computers .• - ............................................. 930 EquipmenVSupplies....................................935 Flea Markets .............................................. 940 Fuel Oil Coal/Wood/Gas ............................. 945 Furniture....- ......- ..................................... 950 Hobby/Hunt & Sport ....................................955 Kid's Corner.................................................960 Miscellaneous...........,..................................965 Want to buy .....- .......................................... 970 Yard Sale .................................................... 975 Recreational Vehicles ............................... 1000 ATV ............................................................. 1005 Bicycles......................................................1010 Boats/Accessories.................................... 1015 Camper/RVs & Trailers ............................. 1020 Motorcycles ............................................... 1025 Other ..........................................................1030 Want to buy ...............................................1035 Automotive ............................................... 2000 Auto Rentalll.ease ....................................2005 Autos ..........................................................2010 Classic/Antiques ....................................... 2015 CommerciaVIndustrial .............................. 2020 Parts & Accessories ..................................2025 Sports Utlllty..............................................2030 Trucks .........................................................2035 Utility Trailers ............................................ 2040 Vans ............................................................2045 Want to buy ...............................................2050 Real Estate Sales ...................................... 3000 Cemetery Plots.......................................... 3005 Commercial. •.'.............................................3010 Condominiums ..........................................3015 For Sale by Owner.....................................3020 Houses for Sale..........................- ............ 3025 Land (Acreage) ...... ...................................3030 Lots ............................................................3035 Want to buy...............................................3040 Real Estate Rentals ...................................3500 Apartments/Townhouses ......................... 3505 Commerclal................................................3510 Condominlums..........................................3515 Houses for Rent.. ...................................... 3520 Land (Acreage) .......................................... 3525 Storage.......................................................3535 Want to Rent .............................................. 3540 Manufactured Housing............................. 4000 Lots.............................................................4005 Movers........................................................4010 Rentals ....................................................... 4015 Sales...........................................................4020 Supplies ..................................................... 4025 Want to Buy.. - .......................................... 4030 Resort Property.........................................5000 Resort Property for sale ........................... 5025 Resort Property for rent.. ......................... 5050 Employment...............................................6000 Accounling/Financlal ................................6002 Admlnistrative1Professional ..........•..........6004 Cashier/Clerk............................................. 6006 Child/Elderly Care ..................................... 6008 Clerical ....................................................... 6010 Construcllon..............................................6012 Drivers & Delivery ..................................... 6014 Education...................................................6016 Electrical Plumbing...................................6018 Employment Agencies ..............................6020 Entertalnment ........................................... 6022 Food Servlces............................................6024 Government & Federal Jobs.................... 6026 Help anted· General.................................. 6028 Law Enforcement...................................... 6030 Malntenance/Oomeslic............................. 6032 ManagemenVSupervlsory ........................ 6034 Mechanlcs..................................................6036 Medical ......................................................6038 Musical................................................- ...6040 Part-Time·Temporaries ............................. 6042 Restaurants ............................................... 6044 Sales ...........................................................60-la Technical Trades ....................................... 6050 Textiles/Factory ......................................... 6052 Now you can hove borders and graphics added to your classified ads ~ Borders $3 .00/per ad Graphics 50¢ for small $1.00 for large £!!•• All D i splay: 12 Noon 2 Busrne5s Days Prior To Publication S unday Display: 1:00 p.m. ;rhursday for Sundays Paper POUCIES· OhiO 1/al!ey Publlalllng re-vea 1tte rlg!lt to edit, rejec1, or cancel any ad at aoy time. Errors must be reported on the first day ot pUblication and the Tnbune-Ser«lnei·Aeglster will be respollSibie tor no more than the cost ot the epece occupied by the error and only the llrst inset1i0n We shall no1 be !lab~ !Of any loae or ex~ thai reauns from t he publicatiOn or omission of an advertisement Cotrtdion 't>ill be made In the first available adhlon. • Box number ads are alwayto conlidentoel • Current rate card appUes. ·All ~~ estate wdwltrtleemerrts ara wb~ to tht Federel Fait Houeing Act of 1968. • This nowspeptlf ocwpte only help wanted ads m~tlng EOE etallllards. We will no1 ~nowlngly accept any advertising In viOlation of the law Wilt not be ~ble for any e~rors tn an ad taken ove~ the phone. Pets Miscellaneous Two lovely English bulldogs for Adoption,Both Male and female.Ready to become your sweet babtes contact me via my email • Jaydensil· vester@live.com. Buck Mark·Browmng 22 Auto w/ Case-like New 5225-Pistoi-Browning Sweet ' 16" S1,000. Ruger Blackhawk 45 cal. Single ACtiOn·Nice 5325. Remmgton Wlngmaster like New 12 Ga. $275. Remington-Old Style Pump 12 Ga. $275. Remington 22·250 Nice Shape . Bushnell Scope 3x9-S375. Ph. 740-446-7327 or 740-256·1270. Prices are firm. Financial NOTICE OHIO VALLEY PUBLISHING CO. rec· Home Improvements Money To Lend ommends that you do Notices bustness w1th people you Basement NOTICE Borrow Smart. know. and NOT to send Waterproofing Contact the Ohio Divi· money through the mail Manetta Unconditional hfehme :GUN SHOW sion of Financial lnstitu· until you have investigatguarantee. local refer•Comfort Inn Jan. 30 & tions Offtce of Consumer ing the offenng. ences furnished. Estab· ;31 1·77 Extt 1. AdmS4 6 Affairs BEFORE you refi· hshed 1975. Call 24 Hrs. •TBLS $25, nance your home or ob· 740-446·0870, Rogers : 740·667·0412. tain a loan. BEWARE of Now open Shaes Tan· Basement Waterproofing. requests lor any large ning '" Gallipolis Ferry advance payments of call 304-675·2828 to Other Services schedule your app. to· ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; fees or Insurance. Call Happy Ad day Pet Cremations. Call the Office of Consumer Affiars toll free at 740-446-3745 1·866·278·0003 to learn if the mortgage broker or ProFe,sional Services lender is properly li· censed. (Th1s IS a public TURNED DOWN ON announcement SOCIAL SECURITY SSI servtce from the Ohio Valley No Fee Unless We Win! Publlshtng Company) 1-888-582-3345 700 Agriculture Farm Equipment EBY, INTEGRITY, KIEFER BUILT, VALLEY HORSE/LIVE· STOCK TRAILERS LOAD MAX EQUIP· MENT TRAILERS, CARGO EXPRESS & HOMESTEADER CARGO/CONCESSION 600 Animals TRAILERS. B+W GOOSENECK FLATBED $3999. VIEW OUR ENPets TIRE TRAILER INVEN· TORY AT Rat Terner Puppies Blue WWW.CARMICHAEL· & White $75. Call TRAILERS. COM 645·6857 or 379-9515 740-446-3825 4 mo. old puppies. free Have you priced a John to a good home. Deere lately? You'll be surprised! Check out our 740-446-9552 used inventory at www.CAREO.com. CarAKC Mini~ture Dachs- m1chael EqUipment hund Pup. Red Female. 740·446-2412 (740)256·1498. STIHL Sales & Service AKC mimature Schnau· Now Available at Carmi· zers. Parti & Chocolates. chael EqUipment Parents on premises. 740·446-2412 740-441·1657. Hay, Beagle pups S75 each tri colored, good hunting, good pets. 740·441-1440 Free 9 lab pups 5 choc. 1 male, 4 yellow 1 male 6 wks. old 304-675-2925 or 304·593·8173. ~~ 2000 Automotive Recreational Vehicles Campers f RVs & Trailers 94 S-10 Blazer 4x4. t49K Mi. Newer Eng. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;= looks & Runs Good. RV Service at Carmi· $2,850. 740-256·6043. chael Trailers 740-446·3825 ~~~~~~~~ .....-------,,----. Vans FIND AJQB ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;= IN THE CLASSIFIEDS 96 Chev-Full s1ze van 4 cap chairs- Auto-queen bed running boards VS.AT, AC, TV & VCR hookup wtconsole $1495 call 446·2706 Help Wanted Help Wanted MECHANICAL Fuel I Oil I Coal I Wood/Gas or Miscellaneous 156-Silver Half Dollars, Common Dates, 57 ea: also complete set of Peace Type, Silver Dollars. 24 Cotns. $1250, Senous , Calls Only' 740-533·3870. Jet Aeration Motors repaired, new & rebuilt In stock. Call Ron Evans 1·800·537-9528 Plumbing Company office manager/estimator/supervisor wanted to manage commercial and residential work. Responsible for bidding and '>upen ising work. Ma<;ter Plumber license preferred but not mandator). .\1ust apply by sending resume to Certified Mechanical PO Box 68 Chester, OH 45720 or wes@karrcontracting.com. Salal) is based upon experience. Office located m Athens. OH Announcements In memory of Wendell L. Price on your 79th birthday, January 16th Forever missed Your son, Steve Relocating. 3BR. 2BA. 1700 sq.ft. home with Appl. AC. All Appt. Lg. 2 Bath w/Fireplace, TV. All only 3 yrs. old. Call for more tnfo. _ 388 0301 Free Rent Special Ill 2&3BR apts $395 and up, Central Atr, W;D hookup. tenant pays electric. Call between the hours of 8A-8P. EHO Ellm View Apts. ..,._< ;..3-04.;.)8_a_,2_·3..;.0_17_ _ Twtn Rivers Tower is accepling applicattons for watting list for HUD sub· sidized. 1-BR apartment lor the elderly/disabled. call675·6679 L d (A ) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;a;;;;n;;;;;;;i;;;;;;;;cr;;;;e;;;;a;i;g;;;ie;;;;;;;;;;;; For sale 2 acres ol land on Redmond Rdge. 304-675·4893 or 304·593-3707. -------Meigs Co. Red H1l Rd 8 acres 519.999 or Cook Rd. 5 acres $16.500. Gallla Co. 10 acres S12,500! Call 740·441-1492 for maps BR and bath. first or see months rent & depostt. www.brunerland.com, we references reqUired, No finance! Pets and clean. 740-441·0245 lots 2BR Apts. Clean renovated dwntwn, new 1 acre land on Morning St Rd R . Oh appl., lam. flooring, water ar ' actne ·· sewer & trash incl. elect. is in place, No mo· $475/mo. 740·709·1690. bile homes. $16,000 call 7 _4 - 0-·5_0_8·8_04_8____ MIDDLPORT, t BED· ROOM APARTMENT, APPLIANCES FURNISHED. NO PETS, NON SMOKING, NICE. ~ 740·856·8863 Apartments/ --------Townhouses Apartment available now Riverbend Apts. New and 2 bedroom apts.. Haven WV. Now accept· furmshed and unfur- ing applicatiOns for nished, and houses in HUD·subsidized, one Pomeroy and Middleport. Bedroom Apts. Utilities security deposit required. 1ncluded. Based on 30% no pets. 740·992·2218 of adjusted income. Call 304·B82·3121. available 1 BR Cab1n appliance for Santor and Disabled furnished utilittes pd., people. Thiurman area also 2 BR apt. 74()..286·5789 or Beautiful 2 BR apt. for 740-441-3702 highly qualified person or 1BR Apt WID Hookup. couple. WID hookup & dtshwasher. Inc. water. 740-256·1417. sewage & !rash. Central 2 BR Completely Fum. heating & air. No pets. $600/mo + elec. $560/mo. Kelly $500/dep. Call 446-9585 7 40·645-6378. or 446-9595. Gracious living 1 and 2 2 br. apartment $375.00 Bedroom Apts. at Village a mon. tn Pt Pleasant Manor and Riverside 304-812·4350 Apts. In Middleport. from =;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; to $592. 2BR APT.Ciose to Hol- 5327 Equal zer Hospital on SR 160 740-992·5064 Housing Opportunity. CIA. (740) 441·0194 Help Wanted The Help Wanted Help Wanted Holter Famtl} PharmaC). Gallipolis. 9hio. seeking Certified Pharmacist Assistants. 1s Duties include: As\lsts the pharmacist in dispensing • Communicates \\ tth nursing staff. nursing facilities. and physicians personal!}. na phone or fa' to serve residents' needs • t\~sist;. in the rev1ew of and supervises the printing of monthly and 4uarterly medical documents H®LZER SENIOR CARE CENTER Differmce NEEDED IMMEDIATELY!! pre~criptions In Memory CATED & AFFORDABLE! Townhouse apart12 Unit Apt. Complex. ments. and/or small 446-0390. houses for rent. Call 740-441-1111 for apph· Houses For Sale cation & information Caring People ... Help Wanted • "iC:.,=-- -===.!il' LO· For Sale By Owner t'!!:t CERTIFIED Card of Thanks Thanks to all our customers for the wonderful Christmas presents. God bless each and everyone of you. OILERS TRASH SERVICE Gloria & driver, !;>~ Josh Johnson i WINDS CAMPER Why put yourself in debt for a new camper, when you can buy onme just like new for less money. Once you look @ this camper you will see that 't . . t l'k It h 1 19 IS JUS new. as a roof top AJC, antenna & cable HIU. CD & casFM d sette AM/ au 10 system, pa110 awning. gas or elec furnace and ref. , microwave, LP gas range and slide out in the living room & dining room. 2 BR: 1 kidSibunk bed 1/adults queen size bed. Sleeps 8 or more. This camper has been used very little. 14.000 ftrm Call (740) 388-9979 Autos Merchandise Apartments/ Townhouses ;;;20;;;;0;;;;5;;;;;;;;;;;D;;;;U;;;;TC;;;;H;;;;M;;;;E;;;;N;;;;;;;;;;;;;4 ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; CONVENIENTLY Absolute Top Dollar • sil· vertgold co1ns. any 1OK/14K/18K gold jeWelry, dental gold, pre 1935 US currency. proof/mint sets diamonds, MTS Coin Shop. 151 2nd Avenue. Galli· polis. 446·2842 1000 Real Estate Sales 3000 Feed, Seed, Grain To good home small ( f) Blonde dog, loves adults not kids housebroken Seasoned firewood. All Hardwood. 304-675·7368. 740-853-2439 740-446·9204. ~I" Campers / RVs & Trailers Want To Buy Hay for sale round bales 1300-1600 lbs. $25.00-$50.00 call 304-882-3251. 900 Pekingese Puppies. 1st set of shots. $150. 256·1664 ·- -~ GET YOUR CLASSIFIED LINE AD NOTICED • All ads must be prepaid" • Start Your Ad~ With A Keyword • Intlude Complete Descnption • Jnc:lude A Price • Avoid Abbreviations • Include Phone Number And Address When Needed • Ads Should Run 7 Days JUST SAY CHARGE IT! 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Tonight: Beam in what you want. **** *** J~tt~plflmt Big~:r ~· t.lll tJ~ lnltnlfl at IJI~I:I/wtl~!!pCYflil'linrltrgar.l"tniP .. .mai enline .com ~-~··~ .. ----~ - - --- . _____________________ _______ __________________ -----~------.__ ......, .__........_ -.,~ �j,unbap ~imes -i>entinel PageD6 Sunday, January 17, 2010 Google's decision on China traces back to founders BY MICHAEL LIEDTKE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO Google lnc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have always said they put their principles before profit, even to the point of using their control of the company to take a stand. • The billionaires' idealism underlies a potentially exp si ve decision disclosed this week: Google 's threat to leave China ·s rapidly growing Internet market in defense of free speech and its users' privacy rights. It's a bold move unlikely to be made without the explicit support of Page and Brin, given the possible fallout. Departing the world's most populous country could slow Google's earnings growth and weigh on its stock. Although Google has thousands of shareholders. it has two classes of Mock. giving Page and Brin veto power over everyone else, including the company's chief executive, Eric Schmidt. Combined, Page and Brin hold 58 percent of the voting power among shareholders while Schmidt has less than I0 percent. according to the company's disclosures. Google said this week's China bombshell was the result of an ''incredibly hard" decision, but the company declined to elaborate on the internal debate. Google declined requests to interview Page, Brin and Schmidt. Page and Brin, both 36, pledged to strive to do the right thing in a manifesto that they distributed just a few months before Google took its stock public in 2004. " Don't be evil,'' they wrote, evoking the phrase that has become Google's motto. "We believe strongly that in the AP photo The lntereatt Cooler is shown at lnteread's exhibit at the Cons..umer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Thursday, Jan. 7. long term. we will be better served - as shareholders and in all other ways - by a company that does good things for the world." Critics contended Brin and Page broke that promise in 2006 when Google created a Chinese version of its searengine. at Google.cn, to be in a better position to pro from China's booming economy. To gain the toehol . Google complied with the Chinese government's demands for censorship of Internet search results about political dissent and other hot-button issues. Human rights groups and even some Google shareholdAmazon has lowered the price to Atkinson, enTourage's vice president ers have been urging Google to pull out of China for the B Y R ACHEL M ETZ ASSOCIATED PRESS $259 and lured buyers with inexpen- of marketing and business develop- past four years, only to have Schmidt diplomatically reject sive material. such as new releases of ment, believes people will gravitate to the idea. He has maintained that Google needs to be in LAS VEGAS - When most people books for about $10 each. On his company's device because it com- China to protect its franchise as Chinese becomes the think of electronic book readers. Christmas Day. Amazon sold more e- bines Web browsing and book reading. Internet's predominant language - a transition that Amazon's thin. white Kindle probably books than physical copies for the Success in this market might require Schmidt thinks could occur within five years. springs to mind. But that could be first time. more than selling a specific gadget, Brin, though, has never been completely comfortable about to change. To keep up, Barnes & Noble has though. Amazon, Barnes & Noble and with Google playing by the Chinese government's rules. A cascade of e-readers will hit the come out with its $259 Nook. and Sony, for example, also sell electronic In each of the last two years. Brin abstained from voting market this year. taking the devices far Sony Corp. has stayed in the game books for people to read on other on shareholder proposals demanding that Google defy beyond gray-scale screens with fea- with its Readers, with an entry-level devices, such as the iPhone. China's censorship policies. The symbolic act was tures like touch navigation and video model at $200. Each offers hundreds That gives those companies a way to designed to show he shared some of the concerns outlined chatting - and probably lowering of thousands of titles. with relatively profit if the most popular reading in the measures. according to Brin. prices. too. few exclusives - publishers have device turns out to be, say. a tabletSome of Brio's misgivings can be traced to fam ily's own It's happening as other gadgets. such shown little interest in favoring one style computer like the one Apple is experience under Communism. He was born in Moscow in expected to launch this year. as mobile phones and tablet comput- device over another. 1973. He and his family fled the Soviet Union when he was ers, give people even more choices for Another company hedging its bets 6 years old, but he has said the oppressive policies of the Now other companies are getting in diving into their favorite books. the game. Samsung Electronics Co .. this way is Skiff LLC. an e-reading government and the anti-Semitism directed at his family Perhaps the onl} downside is worrying the leading maker of phones and TVs company developed by media con- and other Russian Jews have helped shape his thinking on you might buy an e-reader from a in the U.S., will launch an e-reader glomerate Hearst Corp. that hopes to political and social issues. Page, born in Michigan, voted against the shareholder funnel content to devices from varicompany that won't stick around. this year, too. Last week. nearly two dozen comproposals that tried to get Google to change its ways ,. Interead Ltd. already sells a $249 ous producers. panies that make the devices or device called the COOL-ER and has Skiff is focused on trying to make China. But those votes occurred before Google became a targ deliver reading material to them are two new models at the trade show: a newspapers and magazines look good showing products at the smaller, lighter version called the on e-readers - which is difficult of computer attacks originating in China. International Consumer Electronics Compact and a touch-screen model because they have more complex layIn a blog posting about the assault. Google said hackers Show. the first time it has devoted a called the Connect that can download outs than the single column of text broke into the e-mail accounts of human rights activists section toe-books. books from Interead's online store if we're used to seeing on the pages of a who challenge China. The chicanery led Google to conclude "we are no longer willing to continue censoring our In a good sign for the mainstream the user is in a Wi-Fi hot spot. book. Skiff also plans to include ads. status e-book companies hope to The first Skiff product, the Skiff results on Google.cn.'' That act of defiance might be the Interead plans to launch both in the achieve, they are clustered at a prime first quarter. It also plans to roll out a Reader, will have an 11.5-inch. gray- first step toward leaving the country completely. China hasn't turned into a big money maker for Google location in the Las Vegas Convention model with access to a "3G" cellular scale touch screen that can download Center often taken over by the likes of network. for use outside Wi-Fi loca- material from Skiff's online store. The yet, partly because it's a distant second to the homegrown company is partnering with Spring Baidu.com in the country's Internet search market. Microsoft Corp. And Amazon isn't tions. by summer. even at the exhibition. EnTourage Systems Inc. is showing Nextel Corp. for wireless delivery. It's Analysts estimate Google could get $250 million to $600 E-books make up a tiny portion of off a $490 e-reader at the trade show expected to be available this year, million in revenue from China thjs year, a small slice of book sales. but their popularity is that has two screens - a 10 .l-inch though Skiff has not announced a Gool!le 's $22 billion in worldwide revenue. Google's absence from China would likely loom larger as growing rapidly. According to the color touch-screen on the right and a price or named the device's manufacmore of the country's people get Internet access and the Consumer Electronics Association, 9 .7-inch black-and-white display on turer. The Kindle can already deliver pub- economy continues to grow. which organizes the trade show, 2.2 the left. That screen is controlled with By 2013, about 840 million Chinese will be surfing the lications like Newsweek and The Wall million e-readers were shipped to a stylus. Like the Nook. enTourage's device, Street Journal. Yet Skiff's president. Web at least once a month. predicts research firm stores in 2009. nearly four times as many as the year before. This year, called the eDGe. will run Google Gil Fuchsberg, thinks people will be eMarketer Inc. That would open far more opportunities to the group expects 5 million will be Inc.'s Android operating software, so drawn to his company's service show the on line ads that account for most of Google ·s earnshipped. you can use the color screen to because it's dedicated to newspaper ings. Analysts estimate somewhere between 330 million and 400 million Chinese regularly use the Web now. ''It's an incredible growth category," browse the Web and watch videos. and magazine content. Broadpoint.AmTcch analyst Benjamin Schachter is worsaid Jason Oxman, senior vice presi- There will even be a small camera for Indeed,NPD Group technology anadent of industry affairs at the electron- video chats. lyst Ross Rubin says his firm's ried Google 's stock will suffer if the company leaves Customers will be able to buy books research has found people are more China. "The obvious concern is that China's growth has ics association. E-readers from Sony and other com- from enTourage's e-store over Wi-Fi, interested reading magazines on e- been solid and its market potential is enormous," he wrote in a Wednesday research report. • panies were around before Amazon and the company expects to release a readers than books. Google shares held up fairly well Wednesday. dippin While the choices are overwhelmreleased the Kindle in 2007, but the version with service through a wirejust $3.39. or less than 1 percent, to close at $587.09. That's Kindle was the first to offer wireless less carrier. The eDGe is expected to ing, shoppers stand to benefit. "The great thing about competi- nearly seven times higher than Google ·s IPO price of $85 downloading of books, making ship to customers in February. The price is twice what the smaller tion,'' Oxman said, "is it inspires inno- in 2004, a performance reflecting the company's evolution impulse buys easier. into one of the world's most powerful entities. Since the Kindle debuted at $399, version of the Kindle costs. But Doug vation among the manufacturers." By taking a stand in China. Google could win more goodwill among Internet users opposed to the Chinese government's policies. Google won widespread praise in 2006 when it took on the U.S. government in a privacy battle. Unlike several of SEATTLE (AP) - Apple including one from Toshiba bersome than using a mouse advantage of near-ubiqui- its rivals, Google refused to comply with a subpoena seekhas a knack for spotting Corp. that weighed 3.3 and keyboard. tous wireless Internet access. ing potentially sensitive information about its users· search No one has given up on as well as our growing will- requests. Google went to court instead, and a judge sided problems we didn't know we pounds and cost about the company. had. It can leave us wonder- $3,500. But tablets haven't tablet computers running ingness to pay for monthly with ''Being righteous is in their DNA," said Gartner analyst ing how we survived without seen much success in the Windows; several cropped up data plans for smart phones Whit Andrews. vast libraries of music and mainstream. At the peak in last week at the International and little netbooks. up to the IPO, Page and Brin advised people not Touch screens and the to Leading TV shows in our pockets or 2007. manufacturers shipped Consumer Electronics Show buy Google 's stock unless they felt comfortable with the the comfort of knowing about 1.5 million tablets in Las Vegas. including pro- underlying software are also duo's unconventional approach to business. worldwide - less than 1 per- totypes "there's an app for that." from Hewlett- dramatically better today, "You are placing a potentially risky long term bet on the and we've gotten used to team," Now, speculation is grow- cent of the personal comput- Packard Co. and Dell Inc. Page wrote in 2004, "especially Sergey and me." ing that in two weeks Apple ers shipped that year, accordBut it seems it will be pinching, swiping and using will unveil a tablet-style mg to the research firm IDC. Apple CEO Steve Jobs who on-screen keyboards thanks touch-screen computer that Only about one-third of those swoops in with a tablet that to the popularity of Apple's is bigger than an iPhone but tablets were for consumers. takes advantage of recent iPhone. And gadgets - especially smaller than a standard lap- The rest were used in spe- technology improvements top. If indeed that i~ Apple's cialized settings such as doc- and garners the most buzz. ones made by Apple - are Dell and HP didn't pre- thinner and sleeker all the next move - the company tor's offices or warehouses. won't comment - it would Bill Gates, co-founder of sent a retail-ready tablet time. making them more have to show us why we Apple nemesis Microsoft because the companies want portable than clunky early ought to pay for yet another Corp., predicted repeatedly to be able to adjust if tablets. We've seen this happen Internet-connected screen, during the 2000s that tablets Apple's vision turns out to on top of the TVs. comput- were about to take off. He be radically different, says before: Portable music players and smart phones we was wrong because those computer industry analyst en; and "smart" phones had tablets required people to Roger Kay of Endpoint existed before the iPod and already have. the iPhone came along. and Tablets, also called slates, use a pen-shaped stylus to Technologies Associates. ''If Apple blows it out of yet it was Apple that redeare one-piece computers tap buttons or write on the with big screens and no screen. which was attractive the park. we know that fined those categories. Still. an Apple tablet workplaces where that's what the space is keyboards. though some in models can convert from a employees needed to check going to look like for a could have a harder time becoming a mainstream regular laptop to a tablet by boxes or fill out forms. For while," he says. flipping the screen around most people, though, using While older tablets success than those gadgets. to hide a keyboard. a stylus for regular comput- weren't pitched as I ntemet- if only because there is not Such devices have been er tasks such as editing a surfing devices, modern necessarily a compelling around since the early 1990s. spreadsheet was more cum- ones will be able to take reason for one . E-reader boom kindles a variety of new·options Apple may wipe slate clean for new tablet computer Visit us online at www. mydai lytribune .com www. mydai tysenti nel.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 01. January Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. 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