http://66.213.69.5/files/original/997b104d24ade9121bc3b5ea7c1ca186.pdf 3468e7296f1089a26d7f0c1a8367e6f8 PDF Text Text Page 88 • The Daily Sentinel www .mydailys(mtinel.com Wednesday, December 14, 2005 Riley hires the only coach he ever really trusted BY JtM LITKE ~$SOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO- It was always just a matter of time before Miami Heat ·president Pat Riley turned the ball club over to the only coach he 's ever really trusted . Himself. The "compulsi ve-obsessi ve" Riley's words . - returned to the bench Tuesday night after two years away looking none too worse for the w'ear. If eit.her the timing, the manner or the criticism that followed the departure of Stan Van Gundy a day earlier was troubling him, Riley wasn't about to let on. At 60, the slicked-back mane above a widening forehea(i was grayer. but it still · featured as many comb lines as wrinkles gathering below. His answers were just as crisp as the knotted tie and spread collar on ~iley 's impeccably tailored white shirt. One thing was different, though. The man who made a small fortune giving motivational speeches to corporate chieftains about winning expects <i grace period himself. too many second shots, too many what it is. That's the only ones that "Thi s is really about us under- points in the paint. But as long as really count, anyhow." Except the players, of course. standing that winning is going to Riley was peering over his shoulder, take great effort, it's going to take Van Gundy was powerless to do But there was no question whose great execution, it's going to take all much about it. side they were on. It's been two those cliches that coaches use," Shaquille O'Neal hasn't played decades since Riley worked his Riley said. much thi s .season because of a magic with Magic and Kareem, but . This was 90 minutes before the sprained ankle. The rest of the play- they know his past. And just in case Heat played the Chicago Bulls. ers Riley as.sembled heard him say they forgot. a not-so-subtle, goldDespite four NBA titles and 1,110 this summer that he mi ssed coach- and-diamond rc ni ndcr oJistened on wins, Riley stood in a hallway and ing. that he . wanted to be 'llorc '\' ' · . ri!lg 1, .·''1'. Sal.d the buttertlt'es were tluttert'ng "involved." and read between the · • ·. · ·u play th h game to provide for the way they always did before big lines. Like everybody else inside your family, No. 1," Alonzo games. Coaching, he insisted, was and outside the Miami organization, Mouming said. "A fter that, it's nothing like riding a bicycle. For they knew from that day l't)rward . R'J •t · h h v G d d k d · ahout wmning .... We ' re in good . h one t mg, 1 ey wasn sure ow t at an un y was a1rca y 1oc c long he'd need to get the franchise in a holding pattern circling until he hands." moving in the right direction again. picked out a soft place to land . · And how they got there troubled ''U ntil the time comes where I can "I wasn't primed or prepared for those players least of all. inject a different personality' into it," it," Riley said one more time. "f. "This was made between Coach he said. "the only thing that counts is really wasn't. Van Gundy and Coach Riley," what's been on the last couple of . "!tried to keep Stan in it as long as O'Neal said. "I had nothing to do weeks." 1 could. He became · adamant about with it. Coach Riley's not that type The last couple of weeks have it. It's what it is and 1 just felt that of person where I can go into the been unsatisfactory for everybody in it's time that I step in. That's the way o!fice and say, ' Why don't you · do Miami , to be sure. Van Gundy. it is. Whether you believe it or not this, why don't you do that.' whom Riley just eased out the door, it's allsolutely irrelevant to me,'' he "He told me that when·! first came wasn't happy with the effort he was added. "I know what the deal is, and here, that that's not how this organigetting from a veteran team, either. he knows what it is, and Micky zation is run . 1 knew and understood They gave away too many rebounds,. (Arison, the Heat owner) knows that," O'Neal added. "I would never 1 do that anyway." It matters little now what the real reasons for the switch were. He turned the team over to Van Gundy in the t'irst place after frustrating, back-to-back seasons of 36 and 25 victories, then watched his successor win as many playoff series in two seasons as he'd won in the previous eight. Back then, though, Riley never imagined Dwayne Wade would turn into a Magic-caliber superstar or that the Lakers would let Shaq leave. "I was in an abyss two years ago,'' Riley said. "I feel a Jot differently about the game, two years of watching and collecting thoughts about it. .. Now he gets 60 games to prove himself right or wrong. Good as he's always been at the blame game, the beauty of this move is that Riley has only one person to piri this one on. Himself: · 511 <.:ENTS • \ 'of. 55, No. 85 Geiger the loan was an NCAA violation. He testified Monday that he gave the money to Radojevic because his father was dying and the family had no money for medicine or the funeral. Geiger said the loan clearly was a violation, and he was most bothered by 0' Brien Gift time: Droughns Philadelphia flies past Blue Jackets, 3·1 · thanks his·blockers. . : BEREA (AP) - Reuben ~roughns ligured it was time to reward the Browns for having a 1.000-yard rusher. Cleveland's running back bimght 13 diamond-encrusted w'rist watches as gifts for his Cleveland teammates who blocked for him and helped l)im become the tirst Browns player to rush for I ,000 yards since 1985. :Droughns gave the gifts to Cleveland's offensive linemen - starters and backups -. as well as the club's fullbacks and tight ends. .·"I got some very good cl)ampagne for the guys back in Denver when I went over l ~00 yards last year." said Droughns, who rushed for 1·;240 yards for the Broncos a year ago. "But this was a lot . different situation here because a 1.000-yard season hadn't been done in a while. . So I had to do more than that" Before Droughns eclipsed the 1,000-yard barrier on Dec. 3 against J~cksonville , the Browns were the only team in the league not to have a I,000-yard rusher in the past 20 years. In 1985, Earnest Byner and Kevin Mack did it for Cleveland. Droughns said he picked out the watches himself. "I hope the guys like them. I paid a pretty pet;~ny for them," said Droughns, who would not divulge their cost. Center Jeff Faine was overwhelmed by Droughns ' generosity. "He said' he was going to buy something for us, but I wasn't expecting anything · this extravagant," Faine said. "It shows what kind bf person he is." WVU center cited for . ~osting loud party · . CHARLESTON , W.Va. (AP) - Wesi Virginia center Van Mazes was cited by Morgantown police for celebrating the Mountaineers ' first Big East championship Ill 12 years too loudly. ·Mazes faces arraignment Jan . II in Morgantown Municipal Court on misdemeanors of loud and unnecessary noise and dealin~ in •Stolen goods. The latter charge stemmed fro m city street signs that were fOLmd in his residence on Saturday. ~ccording to a statemen.t by Officer William Runyan . . Mazes told police that the team "had won the Big East championship and they should be allowed to celebrate,'' Run yan said. · The officer said Mozes also denied living there even though it' was listed as his Morgantown residence. .Coach Rich Rodriguez said 1\tesday he plans no di>ciplinary action in the Sugar Bowl against Mazes but indic<ttcd he could face extra work in practices leading up to the Jal1. 2 game between No . II We>t Virginia ( l 0-1) and No. . 8 Georgia (I 0-2) in Atlanta. Mazes was given more reason to celebrate later Tue.sday ·- he was named a secondteam Ali-Ame~ican by The Associated Press. The Mountaineers will re sume practices for the Sugar Bowl on Friday after the players finish final exams. the team will break for Christmas on Dec. 22 and . arrive in Atlanta on Dec. 27. One of the many tasks left for Rodriguez is to find a No. 3 quarterback. Former Nitro quarterback J .R. House announced last week he 's leaving the team to tfy to revive his pro baseball career. "We have not quite figured that out yet," Rodriguez said. · "Obviously, we' ve got a few bowl practices before we mak~ that determination." Freshman running back Jason Gwaltney, sidelined si nce sufferin g ~ knee injury Oct. 8. won't play in the bowl game. Rodriguez said last month that Gwaltney hadn't met hi s obligations and re.sponsibiliti es as a studentathlete. / COLUMBUS (AP) Philadelphia Flyers coach Ken Hitchcock is impressed with his teams' composure· through recent adversity. Not only has Philadelphia played lately without leading . scorers Peter Forsberg and Simon Gagne. and key defensemen Joni Pitkanen and Eric Desjardins, the team had to -weather a challenging second period Tuesday night. Rookie Jeff Carter scored the go-ahead goal early in the second period and Philadelphia killed 3:02 of two-man power play time in a 3-1 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets. "I don 't know if we're sur·viving." Hitchcock said of his team, which has won five of its last seven. "When vou play with some composure you're going to win a lot of close games, especially on the road. Even when things got a little bit hairy like they did in the second period we gathered ourselves in the third. We did a great job." Forsberg. who has 18 points in I 0 career games against Columbus, also scored for the Flyers, and Sami Kapanen added an empty-net goal with 8 seconds remaining. Philadelphia is 3-0-3 overall against Columbus. Jan Hrdina scored a powergoal for the Blue Jackets, who had won four of their last six games. Carter gave Philadelphia a 2.-1 lead early in the second period, pushing iri a loose puck for his eighth goal of the season. "It was kind of a broken play to start out with,'' Carter said. "Our defenseman made a good play trying to keep it in. It was pretty much sitting their for me to tap it. in." Philadelphia. which entered with the league's worst penalty kill, stood the test against Columbus' power play, ranked last, during the period. The Flyers killed six power plays. "There w.ere a lot of chances," Columbus coach Gerard Gallant said. "It was good to get one early, but it was very disappointing not to get one on one of the five-onthrees in the second period. You have to get a goal on one of those when you are down 2-1. T.hat was the difference in the game ." During one stretch of a I :05 two-man advantage, Columbus' Sergei Fedorov hit the right post and goalie Robert Esche stopped Niko lai Zherdev's closerange attempt. Moments later, Esche made a lunging toe save on Geoff Platt's shot from near the far post. "! think I got fortunate, they just hit me," Esche said, playing his first game since missing four with a groin injury. "Some days they hit you, some days they don't. Today I think I was more fortunate than other days." Hrdina , positioned in front of Esche, scored at 5:42 of the first opening period, redirecting Duvie Wescott's pass from the right point. The point was Hrdina's sixth in six games after he had only three in his first 21 games. Forsberg responded for the Flyers just over a minute later with an individual effort. He stripped 'the puck from Jaroslav Balilstik at the blue line, beat Wescott at the left circle and jammed his· own . rebound past· Marc Denis for his IOth goal. "It was a creation of good hustling and a turnover from their side," said Forsberg, who has three points in two games since missing six with a groin injury. Esche finished with 23 saves, and Deni s made 28 saves. Notes: Before the game, Fedorov said he won 't play for Russia in the Turin . Olympics. Fedorov, a sixtime NHL All-Star who turned 36 on Tuesday, said he needed the time to recuperate from a nagging injury and to adapt to his new team .... The Blue Jackets are 4-8 since Fedorov was acquired Nov. 15 in a trade with Anaheim. They were 5-13 b~fore his .arrival. ... Columbus, the league 's lowest- scoring team, has not scored more than two goals in a period and tour goals in a game .... · · Columbus' Rick Nash, out since Nov. 3 with a sprained knee, has been skating with the team and is expected back in about a week .... The game was the Flyers' second without the high-scoring Simon Gagne, expected to miss two weeks with a groin injury .. • Palmer says cold weather wasn't the reason for off day. See Page B1 BY RANDALL CHASE ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER BRIAN J. ' REED BREED@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM POMEROY - DuPont Co. has agreed to pay $10.25 mi 1!i<in in fines and $6.25 mi Ilion for environmental projects to settle allegations that the company hid information about the dange" of the chemical C8. · The chemical pertluorooctanoic acid. als.o known as PFOA, has been detected in the Pomeroy Village and Tuppers Plains-C hester Water District in Meigs County. and in the Mason, W.Va .. Lubeck. W.Va . and Little Hocking water systems. The toxic chemical is used to make the non-stick coating Teflon and other DuPont products. and was released into the Ohio River at the Weeki~· Deli sp~dalo.; "'""m)dail}wlltim·l .t·cnu TIIURSI>.\Y, llECEMBER 15,2005 Washington Works, W.Va. plant ncar Park ersbu~g. Lawyers for DuPont and EPA told an administrative law judge Nov. 23 that they had reached. a final agreement, .but details were not rel eased un ti l Wedn esday. The U.S. Environmental tlement is the largest civil adm inistrative penalty the agency has obtained under any federal environmental statute . "Frankly, we could have litigated this th ing for several years," sa id DuPont ge neral ·counsel Stacey Mobley. "We Protection Agency allegeJ wanted to ~et thi' thin~ that DuPont withhe ld in for- behind us so -we could move mation for more than 20 torward. " years about the health effects The settlement involve s of the chemical and about the EPA action taken against pollution of water supplies. DuPont for allegedly withThe settlement. which mu st holding information about the be approved by the EPA potential health and environEnvironmental Appeals mental risks posed by C8. Board. resolves four counts Among other things, the of reporting violations filed EPA said DuPont withheld by the EPA last year. Four .test results indicating that the additional counts rai sed by . chemical had been found in the agency this year al so at least one pregnant worker were resolved, according to from the Washington Works DuPont. which did not make plant and had been passed on any admission of liability. to her fetus. EPA officials said the setThe environmental proj ects INSIDE involved in the se ttleme nt include funding for a re-.earc·h program to evaluate the potential for biodegradation of chemicals such as the one used for Tellon and fund ·mg for mi croc hem istry and gre~n che mistry progra ms in West Virt!inia schools. "Om i~t tc rpretati o n of the reporting r"quirements differed from the agency 's. The sculement allows us to put thi s maHer behind us and move forward," sa id Mobley, who noted that the company has cut PFOA emissions from U.S. plant si tes by !}8 percent and hopes to reduce emissions even further by 2007 . DuPont, which previously set aside $15 million to cover the costs of the EPA lawsuit. still faces a federal criminal investigation of its action~ concerning PFOA. In Fehruary, the com pany agreed to pay more than $107 million !(,.settle a class-action law ,uit filed m 200 I by Ohio and West Virginia residents who claimed that DuPont intentionally withheld and misrepresented information about the human health threat posed by PFOA . The seulement of that law' uit included funding for the CR Hea lth Project, which hope,, to test 60,000 water . t:unsllmers in the area to determine if there are health ri sks aS>ociated with C8 e.x posurc. The project now operates a testing center in Pomeroy. The EPA is continuing its ri,sk assessment' process for CS. In ·a draft report released in June. the majority of members on a sc ientific advisory hoard concluded that the chemical i> "likely" to be carcindgenic to humans. Meigs Jab and Family Services Donates to Red Cross . • Iranian president says Holocaust is 'myth' that Europe used to create lsrae.l. See Page A2 • Father pleads guilty to shaking baby, causing brain damage. See PageA3 • Moores host DAR Christmas celebration. See Page AS STAFF REPORT NEWS@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM MIDDLEPORT- To continue its annual tradition of giving to the American Red Cross, employees of the Meigs County Department of Job and Family Services (Meigs CDJFS) staged a fund raiser for .the benefit of the hurri cane disaster relief program -this year. Wednesdilf a donation of $1,025 was pre sented by Susan Zirkle on behalf of the Meigs CDJFS employees to Sandy Shirey. executive director of the Athens Red Cro" Chapter. The money was raised through $10'donations toward Longenberger products awarded by drawings Monday through Saturday during the · month of Novem her. The Meigs CDJFS has a history of assisting the Red Cross. beginning several years ago when Red. Cross · officials contacted ill'irector Michael Swisher requesting assistance in providing damPlease see Donates, A5 Brian J. R8ed/photo • House's Hurricane Katrina inquiry considers evacuation procedures. See Page AS • Judge says university shooting rampage was not terrorism. See Page AS • Sheriff's department dog among defendants named . in suit. See Page AS WEATHER Urgent Care Holiday ·Hours ))eli, llakery, Drh·c· Thru. Wine Shnp DuPont agrees to pay millions in fines in EPA C8 case SPORTS Former Ohio State official: coach acknow,Iedged loan was violation seriously because the university thought the loan was such a blatant violation. The trial is separate from the NCAA's investigation into violations committed during O'Brien's coaching tenure with the Buckeyes. O'Brien 's loan to Radojevic came to light through a lawsuit by a \\'Oman who said she provided housing, meals, money and clothes for another Ohio · State recruit also from Serbia, Bobim Savovic. He played four years with the Buckeyes, including the 1998-99 team that O' Brien led to the Final Four, and is the source of several of the NCAA violations. 992-6121 Middleport • Pomeroy, Ohio Jim Litke is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press . Write to him at jlitkeap.org and fireable waiting more than five years violation to reveal that he gave offense - because Radojevic Radojevic money. had not been officially "He said he was telling me declared ineligible to play because I was going to lind college basketball at the time out anyway. And I think that's ·of the loan. a breach of trust and that's a Geiger said he was angry breach of contract," he said. that Ohio State appealed the O'Brien said he waited to NCAA's decision finding reveal the Joan because he Radojevic ·ineligible and said no one would believe he O'Brien still did not disclose did it for humanitarian rea- the loan. sons. "It was all moot- a sham Radojevic never enrolled at - because he paid money to Ohio State and was declared a prospective student-athineligible by the NCAA for Jete," Geiger said. accepting money from a team O'Brien's contract allowed in his homeland. He was later for him to be suspended until taken in the first round of the the NCAA ruled after an 1999 NBA draft. investigation, but Geiger said Ohio State said it was still a the option was not conside~ed Party Barn 'l.'":- -.. en tne . is suing in the Ohio Court of Claims for $3.5 million in back pay and benefits. The judgment could grow by millions if interest and other damages are awarded. Former athletic director Andy Geiger testified 0' Brien told him in April 2004, less than two months before he was tired, that he wanted Geiger to know about the loan to recruit. "He wanted me to know what he had done," Geiger said. "First or all , he said he committed a vio lation. Secondly. he gave the money to a prospective student-athlete." O'Brien disputes telling '- ~ \.. ' COLUMBUS (AP) - A former Ohio State official challenged basketball coach Jim O'Brien's reasoning for why he shouldn't have been fired, testifying Tuesday that the coac.h acknowledged a $6,000 loan to a potential recruit was a rule violation. O' Brien argues the loan of his own money was not a NCAA violation because he knew Aleksandar Radojevic, a 7-foot-3 prospect from Serbia, already lost hi s amateur status by playing professionally. . O' Brien. who coached the Buckeyes to a 133-88 record that included two Big Ten titles and a conference toumanient title over seven seasons, ,, :~-Bt-Ul~.._ no:t'S , . , Troops in place, ballots ready for historic Iraqi vote, A2 Laura Harrison of Gallipolis was holiday shopping ar Danielle's on Second · in Middleport Wednesday. The local outlet clothing store is celebrating its first Christmas. and is attracting shoppers from throughout the area to.Me igs County. Effort undeiWay encouraging local holiday trade Bv BRIAN J. REED BREEO@MYDA ILYSENTINE L.COM POMEROY - The Meigs Econolnic County · Office is Development using an . advertising carilpaign to encourage holiday to do their shoppers Christmas shopping here. The office has made funding available to participating tTierchants in the Middleport Comn)unity Association and Pomeroy Merchants Association, to help offset the cost of advertising thei r retail com- munities' holiday' promoti ons . The hope, sa id Economic Developmenr Director Perry Varnadoe: is tilat local shoppers will realize . the importance of supporting the local retail. community durin g the holiday season . "For some of these merchants, the holiday shopping seaso n is ·make or break ' time ," Varnadoe said. "These local merchants. who support the community throughout the year, need our bu siness: especially during this important time." In addition to helping the two merchant organizations with their group advertising effom. the development office h~ s also undertaken its own newspape r ad camsome paign, outlining important reasons to keep retail business local. Varnadoe said each dollar spe nt with local shops is ~.:in.:ulateU through the communi(y seven times. often ending up in the cotTers of local organilUtions through merchant donations. Please see Local, A5 Meigs Board Arrest made in weekend assault Valley Hospital. Poin·t Pleasant, hires teaching W.Va., and later to · Cabell Huntington Hospital. . POMEROY - A Pomeroy Rose and Assistant Police personnel man has been arrested for l'elo- Chief Joseph Kirby. 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A longtime industrial arts teacher retired at the cl ose or school in the spring creating the vacancy. Buckley S<~i d that Pullins has a certificate in Please see School, AS nious assault, a second degree felony, lor his alleged pa11 in a weekend altercation on East Main Street that sent anml1er man to Cabell Hunt ingtoq Hospital , Huntington, W.Va. Brian Nutter. 25. Pomeroy. was arrested by Pomeroy Pol ice on Munday in reference ,,; the alleged assault that happened early Saturday morning on the I00 block of East Main Street. Arounu 2 : ~0 a.m . on Saturday Patrolman Brent Rose was dispatched to East Main Street where he found Chris D. Smith. 35. Pomeroy. laying on his back and bleeding on the sidewalk with what Rose d~s~.:ribcU a'i he ad lrauma. Meigs EMS medic.s arriveu on the scene to treat Smith who was. transported to Plea,;ult questioning witnesses concern~ ing Smith's injuries. Witness <~ccounts led the officer> to Nutter's home where alleged evidence in th e case was pho~ tographcd . Nutter wa' arrested and questioned by Patrolman Shannon Smith and K1rby at the Pomeroy Pol icc Dcpat1mcnt. Nuuer w;" then transported to the Southeast Regional Jail in Nelsonville where he awai ts an appearance in Meigs County Court. Kirhy said that Smitl1's injuries required llim to be · placed on a ventibtor at one point. Earlier this week Police Chief Mark E. Proflitt >aid that Smith's condition had improved and he was no longer on a vcnti lator. Both Sercont/photo Comfort Club volunteer Gayle Thomas works at her sewing mach ine station assembling a patchwork quilt. Over Thomas· shoulder is a work station where Helen Partlow, Angela Poole, Sarah Caldwell and lnzy Newell , np and cut fabric . Comfort Club brings needed comfort to those les$ fortunate BY BETH SERGENT BSERGENT@MYOAILYSENTINEL.COM POMEROY - Most of us have a favorite blanket or quilt we grew up with that brings us comfort on a cold night but !-iomc timcs cin.:: um~ stances separate us from that comfort which is why th e Comfort Clu b works to replace those quilts for people in need . The Comfort Club i' ;t group of volunteers thai meet from ~ a.m . til noon every Wednesday at Mulberry Community Celltcr to assemble patchw<Jrk yuilts that are then donated to fami lie s that have been burned out of their homes as we ll ,IS those that arc in need. The group was foundeu by Betty Wi:ycrsmil!cr. To date the club llits completed 609 Please see Comfort. AS �PageA2 WORLD The Daily Sentinel • Thursday, December 15, 2005 Posts land transfers BY ROBERT H. REID the walls of houses. the biggest Iraqi Shiite party, "In January, turnout was which used the report to fire low. In the referendum it was up its supporters. "SAGHDAD Troops tremendous and tomorrow it Hours later, thousands of were in place, the borders will be better," said John people chanted anti-Alwere closed and the ballots Kale Weston, U.S. State Jazeera slogans in the streets were ready early Thursday Department spokesman in of the Baghdad neighborahead of Iraqi parliamentary the city. hoods of Sadr City and elections the U.S. hopes will Still, U.S. official s warned Karradah , and in major cities build ·democracy and lay the that a successful election throughout the Shiite south. · groundwork for American alone will not end the insurIn Nasiriyah, Shiite protroops to begin returning . gency. Also needed is a gov- testers set fire to a building home. ernment capable of reconcil- .housing the offices of former A coalition of Shiite reliing Iraq's disparate groups. interim Prime Minister Ayad gious parties, which domiThe Americans also were Allawi, a secular Shiite, and nate the current · government, eager to avoid protracted the Iraqi Communist Party'. was expected to win the negotiations to choose a new Officials at the Qatar-based largest number of seats prime minister and Cabinet AI-Jazeera were not available but not enough to form a new - a process that dragged on for comment. But Baghdad administration without for three months after the last correspondent At war Bahjat ·alliances with rival groups. vote. told The Associated Press she · The Bush administration "I think the elections are a resigned from her job "in hopes the new parliament positive step, but it will not protest of what the guest of will include more Sunni lie enough to ensure stabili- the station said." Arabs to help establish a Ambassador Rumors .swept Baghdad ty," U.S. government that can lure Zalmay Khalilzad told AI- that a tanker truck filled with other Sunnis away from the AP Photo Jazeera television. "There thousands of blank ballots insurgency. Such ~ devel.op- Iraqi soldiers guard an empty street in Bagtidad, Iraq Wednesday. Campaigning came to a stop should be a good government had been smuggled into the ment would make II poss1ble Wednesday around Iraq to give the country's 15 mill ion voters an opportunity to reflect before that represents all Iraqis, and country from Shiite-dominatfor the Umted States and liS ·deciding who will govern their country for the next four years. Streets in Baghdad were eerily quiet the security forces also ed Iran. Many Sunnis considpartners . to start to draw . one day before Thursday's election, with police strictly enforcing a traffic ban. Only the noise from should be formed by all Iraqi er Shiite political parties as · down their trool's next year. an occasional police siren, sporadic gunshot or U.S. helicopter could be heard. Borders and air- sects." agents of Iran. With Sun~'. msurgent ports have also been closed and the nighttime curfew has been extended. His comments about the The Interior Ministry groups promising not to security forces referred to .· denied any attempt to smugattack the polls, voter turnout ' · w·as expected to be high soccer could be heard. · high as for the Iraqis. A sue- coalition forces . standing Sunni Arab complaints .that gle ballots, and the election ·up to I 5 million Iraqis cessful election would repre- ready in case of trouble. U.S . the Shiite-dominated army commission said the only Thursday. and police have abused trucks in the area were its However, police arrested were to choose 275 members sent a much-needed political troops and bomb-detecting Sunnis. On Tuesday, · two suspected insurgents car- of the new parliament from victory at a time .of growing dogs checked thousands of Khalilzad said at least . 120 own . delivering election rying. 72, bombs, police Lt. among 7.655 candidates run- dou.bts about the war among . polling stations before hand: abused prisoners had been materials to polling stations. Col. Ahmed Hajoul said. He ning on 996 ticket s, repre- the American public. ing over control to lraq1 found in two detention censaid the pair said they senting Shiite, Sunni , " We are in Iraq today police. ters run by the Interior · planned to hide the bombs Kurdish. Turkomen and sec- because our goal has always As a sign of Sunni interest, Ministry since November. · . Wednesday night in the tarian interests across a wide been more than the removal mosques, walls, houses and On the eve of the election, largely Shiite city of. Hillah political spectrum. Iraqis do of a brutal dictator," Bush lamp posts in Baghdad's sectarian tensions swelled to explode when the polls not vote for individual candi- said. "It is to leave a free and Sunni district of Azamiyah over what Shiite p.olitical democratic Iraq in its place." were festooned with posters · parties considered an offenopened. dates, but instead for lists A loud explosion also was or tickets- that compete for U.N. Secretary-General of Sunni . candidates. In sive remark made by an Iraqi FullOne Year! heard in central Baghdad the seats in each of the 18 Kofi Annan also urged the January, few people tn Shiite panelist on Al-Jazeera. OfftrEndl1liS1/0$ s~ortly before . I a.m. provinces. Iraqi people to vote, saying Aza!myah voted an~ some· Fadel ai-Rubaei said Shiite • FREE Technical Support Thursday, hours after police Some preliminary return s they have another "historic pollmg stations d1dn t even clerics should not participate • Instant Messag ing • keep your buddy list said several mortar shells were expected late Thursday, opportunity" to shape the open. . . . • 10 e.-mail addresses w:lh Web ma~! in politics, and he accused exploded in southwest but final returns could take i:ountiy' s political future. . U.S. offiCials were opti• Custom Start Pttge - news. wealhll! & more! them of conspiring with the Baghdad,. setting some shops days if not weeks. Insurgent threats and boy- mistic about a heavy .t~rnout Americans against the moston tire. "Let us make tomorrow a cott calls kept many Sunnis In FalluJah, the Sunm msur- ly Suimi insurgents. There were also signs of national celebration, a day of at home in the January elec- gent ~tronghold captured by ju31'3 m0111 per monlfl The statements angered ille sectarian tensions that national unity and victory tion des pite a national Amencan forces last . year. Sign Up Online! www. local~et.c:om threaten the nation 's future over terrorism and those who turnout of nearly 60 percent. Campaign posters were plas- many Shiites, including Cflll Today & Sava! many who did not see the AIand the Bush administration oppose our democratic That enabled Shiites and tered Wednesday over blast Jazeera broadcast but saw strategy: Angry Shiites march," President Jalal Kurds to dominate the cur- . walls along the street, at Rel1able Internet Ace'.!~~ Sn1cu 1994 protested what they consid Talabani told a nationwide rent legislature. sharpening police checkpoints and on reports about it on an Iraqi station, AI-Furat, owned by ered to be a televised slur on television audience. communal tensions and fuelthe country's religious leadElection of the new parlia- ing the insurgency. ership, and rumors spread of · ment, which will serve a · This time, more Sunnis ballots smuggled in from four-year term, marks the Arabs were in the race and Iran. final step in the U.S . blue- changes in the election law to Rumors also swept the print . for democracy. The allocate the majority of seats Iraqi capital early Thursday . vote will cap a process that by district all but guaranteed that the water supply had included the transfer of sov- strong Sunni representation. been poisoned after warnings ereignty last year, selection More than 1,000 Sunni against drinking tap water of an interim parliament Jan. clerics called on their followwere broadcast through 30 and ratification of the ers to vote, and insurgent mosque loudspeakers, but constitution in October. The groups, including al-Qaida in · they were quickly denied by new parliament will name a Iraq and the Islamic Army in the Health Ministry. government, including a new Iraq, pledged not to attack · Most of Ba~hdad's streets prime minister. polling stations even though "In spite of 'the violence, they oppose the political were eerily qutet Wednesday; with police strictly enforcing Iraqis have met every mile- process. a traffic ban. On! y an occ'a- stone," President Bush said Nevertheless, tens of thou:sional siren. a sporadic gun- in Washington. sands of Iraqi soldiers and :shot, a U.S. helicopter, or For the Bush administra- police were to guard polling shouts from boys playing tion, the stakes are nearly as stations,. with U.S. and other ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER $99 (s~6X fas'i!J (740)992-6260 PRE-CHRISTMAS MARKDOWNS Iranian president says Holocaust is i 'myth' that Eur~pe used ·to create Israel BY A~l AKBAR DAREINI ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER TEHRAN, Iran - Iran 's hard-line president lashed out ·.with a new outburst at Israel :on Wednesday. calling the : Nazi Holocaust a "myth" · used as a pretext for carving out a Jewish state in the heart of the Muslim world. President Mahmoud .Ahmadinejad's comments ·drew quick condemnalions ' from Israel. the United States ·and Europe, which warned he is hurting Iran's position in talks aimed at resolving suspicions about his regime· s nuclear program. The White House said his :remarks showed why Iran -must not be allowed to devei·OP nuclear weapons. Germany, one of three European Union countries leading the nuclear talks. called his statements "shock. ing and unacceptable.'' : Iran and the Europeans are due to resume the U.S.·backed negotiat ions soon , possibly in late December. trying to find a compromise on . reining in · Tehran's :nuclear program and avoid:ing a confrontation. : Washington says Iran is ·secretly trying to build warheads. Iran says its nuclear program is peaceful, and Ahmadinejad reiterated ·Wednesday that his r,egime :refuses to give up key :processes that can produce ·weapons-grade material as well as fuel for atomic reactors that generate electricity. It was difficult to measure .. • the . impact that increasing anger over Ahmmli11 ejmJ might have on 1he negotiations. · The Europeans have not threatened to call off the talks, which they see as vital to a peaceful resolution of fears over Iran's nuclear ambitions. But Ahmudinejad's words. which come as the top U.N. nuclear watchdog agency h!!!i said it .is losing patience with Tehran, could lead Europe to take a tougher stance. So far, Ahmadi nejad has appeared to only escalate hi s. rhetoric in the fac e of widespreatl international criticism, suggesting he may be seeking to fire up supporters at home. Some allies warn that he is isolating the country when it needs support for its nuclear program. But supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , who has final word on all matters . has stood by the president. even calling thi s week for Pale \t inian militants to step up their fi ght to drive Israeli s out of Jerusalem. Ahmadinejad provoked an outcry in October when he called for Israel to be " wiped off the map." When that drew international anger, he responded by holding large anti-Israel rallies. Last week, he e~pre ssed · doubt about Nazi Germanv 's slaughter of · 6 mil li"o n European Je-w ;,; during ~orld War II, raising a new storm of criticism. On Wednesday, he went a step funher and said for the first time that he didn 't believe the Holocaust • happened. During a tour of so utheastern lran, Ahmadinejad said that if Europeans insist the Holocau st. occurred , .then tl1cy are responsihle and should pay the price . 'Today, they have created a myth in the name of Holocaust and consider it to be above God , · religion · and the prophets,'' Ahmadinejad told thousands of people in .Zahedan. "If you committed this big crime, then why should the oppressed Palestin ian nation pay the price''" 'This is our proposal: If you committed the crime, then give a pan of your own land in Europe. the United 'States, Canada or AIaska to them so that the Jews can establish their country," he said. The White House said Ahmadinejad's words "only underscore why it is so important that the international community continue to work together to keep Iran from dc vclp ping nuclear weapons." Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said the speech illustrated "the mind-set of the ruling clique in Tehran and indicate clearly the extremist policy goal s of the regime." The Gernum government SU!ll lll\ll ll'cl lhc Ira nian charge d ' a llt~it''" lo l'\!'IL'\ " iLs di\pleas ur~. "I cannot hide the fact that this wei ghs on bilateral relations and on the chances for the negotiation process," POMEROY - Meigs County Recorder Kay .Hi II reported the following real estate transfers: Jessica R. Williams, J. 'Tucker Williams, to Unorganized Realty, LLC, deed, Village of Syracuse/Sutton. · Rhonda J. Fetty to Daniel -L. Tanner, deed, Salisbury. · Pamela Bentz, Timothy Bentz. to Bank of .New York, Equicredit Corp., sheriff's deed, Village of Pomeroy. . Donna J. Laughlin to . Robert S. Cartwright, ,Brenda Joy Cartwright, ·deed, Olive. . Phillip Lacomb, Ann Lacomb, to Robert S. Cartwright. Brenda Joy Cartwright, deed, Olive . Allen T. Down~e . Janet .K. Downie, Charles A. . Downie, Barbara A. Laverick, to Mitchell D. Chapman, Anna M. Chapman, deed, Village of Pomeroy. . Joseph Freeman Post, American Legion, to Debra · ' K. Sayre, Danny B. Sayre, · easement, Salem. Gary Spencer, Kathy ·Spencer, to Dolphus Daniel Burke, Angela Michele Burke, deed, Columbia. David McDonald, Sr., to : David E. McDonald, Jr., :Amy Jo McDonald, deed, : Salem. Virgil Phillips, Virgil D. Phillips, Virgil P. Phillips, Virgil R. Phillips, to :Farmers Bank and Savings · Co., sheriff's deed, Chester. : William Harmon to Ohio ·Power Co., right of way, Lebanon. Barry Hart to Ohio Power :Co., right of way, Lebanon. : Daisy Frecker, Lawrence :G. Hasbargen, Persis L. · Scott, to Ohio Power Co., right of way, Chester. Revna Curtis King III, Linda L. King, to Ohio Power Co., right. of way, .·Chester. . A. · Richard Larson, .Corrin S. Larson, to Ohio : Power Co., right of way, :Sa'lem. James M. Prushing, Jayne M. Prushing, to James M. Prushing, deed, Olive. Briefs Santa at Library SUPER SAVINGS THROUGHOUT THE STORE • POMEROY - Santa Claus : will make an appearance at ·the Pomeroy Library at 2 p.m. ·on SaturdaY. to visit with children. Seled group Road closed Living Room Suites Bedroom Suites Dinettes . HEMLOCK GROVE • The Meigs County Highway ·Department will close Hemlock Grove Road from the intersection of Clark Road, Dec. 19-22, for a bridge repair project. Centers & Howard Miller Floor Clocks 40% off 50°/o off la-Z·Boy Rocker/Wall Recliners . · $299&up Harrisonville clinic List Price All Maytag- Frigidaire Appliances Glider Rockers Oak/Maple Frames Variety of fabrics 10°/o sggoo . &Up Credit Terms Available Delivery tl1;u December 24th James St. Clair, deed, Olive. Chester Casto, Lori Casto, to CitHinancial Mortgage. Associates Financial Services , sheriff 's deed, Village of Middleport. Citifinancial Mortgage, A ssociates Financi a l Services, to James W. Casey, Connie Casey, deed , Village of Middleport. Premier Builders Technology to Family Home s, Inc. , deed, Salisbury. Nora Hoschar, Charles E . Hoschar. Gregory Koziar, Sharon E . Koziar, Larry R. Koziar, Wilma Hoschar, Paul Hoschar, to Rocky R. Hupp. Carol J. Hupp, deed, Village of Middleport. · Kenneth A. Ford , deceased, _to Naomi C. Ford, certificate, Olive . Richard K. Harmofl, deceased, . to Betty Karen Kincaid, Betty Karen Harmon, affidavit, Chester. Betty Karen Kincaid, Douglas Kincaid, Betty Karen Harmon , to Connie Harmon , deed, Cbester. Milton C. Maxwell, Margaret L. Maxwell , to Brenda K. Grady, Steven E. Grady, deed, Chester. Guy E. Bing, deceased, to Guy E. Bing II , Autumn Bing, deed, Village of Middleport. Andrea D. Hill to Mack E. Griffith, deed, Chester. Grace l. Abbott to Daniel Ray Abbott, Roger Alan Abbott , Vicki Lynn Hoffman, deed, Salisbury .. Irene Wells to Fanme Mae, sh(fiff's deed, Village of Pomeroy. Ter_e sa A. Jordan, Ronald L. Jordan, Brenda J. Weller, Stephen K. Weller, deed, to Roger Crum, Jamie Crum, deed, Village of Racine. Barbara A. Barringer, Carl L. Barringer, to Carl Patrick Barringer. deed, Olive. Leland Brown, Mary Brown, Brenda S. Brown, to William Klein, deed, Village of Middleport. Beverly June Haning to Mike L. Starkey, Kathy A. Starkey, deed, Bedford . DEAR ABBY: The letter about .the man who parade s around naked in front of hi s daughters after hi s sho-..:er prompts my ·letter. His stated reason is he claims he's hot and needs to air-dry his hemorrhoids. Well. my advice for him is to wrap a towel around his wai st. go straight to his bedroom, shut the door and do his "airing" there . Then if he wants, he can stand on his head and air-dry them as long as he darn we II pleases . When he 's done, he can get dressed and join the family. And if this doesn't please him , send him to a shrink. - SIMPLE SOLUTION, TWIN FALLS. IDAHO DEAR SIMPLE : The mail that poured in regarding that letter·- · and scolding me for my lighthearted answer was all over the map on this subject. Your solution is a good one , but read on: DEAR ABBY: My fathe·r also did that, and · I turned out just fine. I' m female , 37, happily married with no emotional scars . Unless the wife has reason· to think he 's a predator, she should relax . Americans - and I am one - ·are far too hung up on BETTINA IN nudity. CROSSVILLE , TENN. DEAR ABBY: Only people with dirty minds equate nudity (especially that of a family member) with sex. Those girls are probably so used to it by now they think nothing of it. I suspect this is a power struggle between the HARRISONVILLE - An ·outreach immunization clinic ·will be held from I0 a.m. to :noon on Saturday at the :Scipio Township Volunteer ·Fire Department. Bring child's shot records. Children must be accompanied by an adult. ·Bring medical cards if applic. able. A $5 donation is appreci·ated but not required. Flu :shots will also be available for Ohio residents. The cost for flu shots is $10. due at the time the shot is administered. There is no charge for those with Medicare B or Medicaid coverage. Be sure to bring Medicare or Medicaid cards. 1be clinic is sponsored by the County Health Meigs Department and the Middleport-Pomeroy Rotary · Club . . Woodmen dinner planned GALLIPOLIS -A Modem Woodmen dinner will be held at the Park Front Restaurant in Gallipolis, 9 to II :30 a.m. Saturday. Santa will be 'there. Man pleads guilty in shooting of sheriff's deputy All Sofas & Curios NEWARK (AP) -. A former Licking County sheriff's deputy pleaded guilty to charges of shaking his 10- . •week-old daughter so hard she :suffered brain damage. Dustin Burden, 30, of ·Newark, could get up to 13 rears in prison when sentenced m January. He pleaded guilty Tuesday in Licking County Common Pleas Court to two .counts of endangering children .as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. The girl, who is now II months old, is developmentally delayed and must use a feeding tube. said Assistant County Prosecutol' Amy Weeks . 300/o off MASO ·104 SECOND SIRED • 304~113·5592 •MASON, WV • • Dear Abby husband and wife, and it's none of the mother-in-law's business. DISGUSTED IN CANADA DEAR ABBY: The father's actions are criminal. He 's se~ually abusing . the eyes and emotions of those unwilling witnesses. The wife · and mother-in-law should document the time s and date s of these assaults. With that documentation they can force Dad into therapy long enough to root out the evil beginnings of this perverse behavior. - PSYCHOTHERAPIST FROM NEW JERSEY · DEAR ABBY: I am European. For us, it . is completely normal to see our parents naked. There is nothing abnormal or wrong about it. - YASMINE (U.S. AIR FORCE) DEAR ABBY: I almost spewed my coffee when I saw the letter about the guy letting his hemorrhoids airdry in front of his daughters. Can I say one word here? Bathrobe'. PAUL IN FAIRBORN , OHIO DEAR ABBY: You s·hould have advised "Disgusted" to Public meetings Saturday, Dec. 17 PORTLAND -.Lebanon Township Trustees, ·8 a.m .. township building, to discuss FEMA projects and a legal opinion. Clubs and organizations POMEROY - Alpha Iota Masters catered Christmas .dinner, 6:30 p.m., home of Charlotte Elberfeld. Members take canned goods. RACINE - Ohio River Producers, 7 p.m., Southern Vo Ag room. regular meeting, noon at the Wild Horse' Cafe. Sunday, Dec. II! MINERSVILLE Syracuse Charge of United Saturday, Dec. 17 Methodist Church will celeMIDDLEPORT brate the third Sunday in Annual inspection at Advent by conducting a Bosworth Council 46, Bible study witl1 songl'est, 7 Royal and Select Masons , . p.m., Minersville United 5 p.m. in the Middleport Methodi st Church. Masonic Building. LONG BOTTOM Christmas program at Long Bottom United Methodist Church, 6:30 p.m. RACINE - Carmel Saturday, Dec. 17 RUTLAND Rutland United Methodist Church program , Church of God will have a Christmas . at the Chris.tmas program at 7 ''Christmas p.m. There will be special Horsecave Mall," 7 p.m .. at music and a play, "A Carmel Building on Carmel Heavenly Visitor." Road. Church events Friday, Dec. 16 POMEROY Meigs HAMILTON .(AP) - The· County Cancer Initiative, second of two men charged with shootin~ a • Butler County shenff's deputy· pleaded guilty and could face up to 45 years in prison when sentenced. Robert Morris, 19, reached an agreement with prosecutors Monday in which he plea~ed guilty to multiple charges, including one count · The Daily Sentinel each of complicity to attempted murder and comSubscribe today plicity to felonious assault. 992-2155 His trial was to have started Friday. Keeping Meigs County informed .....------- - - - - ----- HOMETOWN HOLIDAY SPECIAL. 10-MONTH CD - 4.22 WITH APY 4.30 Christmas WraPPini! PaPer fashion Russell Stover Watche~ with Cream Santas Sequin Bands RACINE. OHIO 45771 *Am.uUpeiQin'\qlt~(APY) Syracuse 740-992-6333 il c:\a'nDt: ofthl4.atll ofthS asw 1M; U s~.iac' ._, ~~. l'inl I'NNlM dou.n. (~oo .OO) Jh.jNa,_ optNrcd~~posit:is nq\UC. Tbt• is ap-..kyfJJ4:.Uiy'WiU'w!r.awaJ.1Z\lln ct. vttbd:r•"'Hs JUd.tiwi.Ud.nt:te b t 10 cal~Dd.ard41'1 .,_rn.&~1.a'il:,-: Mot a~'bllt t»rtu's orlnk.-d.fuhls. Tl\iJ Splci&J. a o* •vtil.&~ J)r .alilrl. •.s tiiJI... • boN or c:oa• in I> r .Sditional deqls, ~~~ • MomJ»r FDIC Rea.49¢ ·OnlY 29¢ Russell Stover Asst. Chocoljltes Time~ Watches 40% OFF In Santa Box SYRACUSE Racine 740-949-2210 Men·s Coloanes & After Shaves 1/2 . 25°/o Off Price Sequin AmitY Billfolds Belts 1/2· Rea. $6.99 Price OnlY $3.77 Rea. $14.95 OnlY $8.88 a: tell her daughter to try once more to calmly and intelligently rea son with her husband. And if that doesn' t do the trick. the daughter should inform her mother- in- law about his behavior. One call from his mother, and I'll bet the practice would stop! VIVIAN IN MASSACHUSETTS DEAR ABBY: I'd get a video camera and film him without his knowledge . Then, when hi s family comes to visit over the holidays. I'd announce that I have a " special home video" to show. Maybe when everyone has seen him like that, her husband will make an appointment with a surgeon to hav e those hemorrhoids removed. BERNIE IN AYLETT, VA. DEAR ABBY: I had a similar problem with my husband and son. Every night · they'd come to the dinner table and eat their meal shirtless . Finally, I ue cid ecj I'd had enough - so I calmly took off .my · shin and· proceeded to eat my meal. (They got the me"age! ) DAWNELLE IN ALTUS, OKLA . Dear Abby i.~ written by Abigail Van Buren, al.w known a.~ Jea~me Phillips, and was founded by l1er mot/1er, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Lo.~ Angeles, Calif. 90069. Community Calendar Father pleads .guilty to shaking baby, causing · brain damage List Price • Jeffrey D. Howell, Deborah L. Howell, to Leonard C. Lyons, deed, Salisbury. James Satterfield, Marjorie A. Satterfield, to Marvin Wayne Satterfield, Shelly D. Satterfield, deed , Sutton . Frances t. Keaton to Ernest H . Calaway. :rere sa L. Calaway, right of way, Orange. Trinity Church to Meigs · United Methodist Cooperative Pari sh, deed, Village of Pomeroy. Overbrook Presbyterian Church to Meigs United Methodist Cooperative Parish , deed, Village of Pomeroy. Deanna Ewing Nichols to Meigs United Methodist Cooperative Pari sh; deed, Village of Pomeroy . Natalie Ewing Thomson, Frederick Preston Thomson , to Meigs United Methodist Cooperative Parish, deed, Village of Pomeroy. Michael Ewing, Joanne Smith Ewing , to Meigs United · Methodist Cooperative Pari sh, deed, Village of Pomeroy. Virgie Mae Buckley, Paul G. Buckley to Virgie Mae and Paul G. Buckley, memorandum of trust. Virgie Mae Buckley, Paul G. Buckley to Virgie Mae and Paul G. Buckley, deed. Orange. · . Lori Warden, Lori Adams, Nicholas Adams. Jessica A. Adams, Douglas Wan;len, Ryan Adams, to First Baptist Church of Racine, deed, Village of Racine. Wayne Jarvis, deceased. to Roy Jarvis. Herston Jarvis , deed, Village of Middleport. · Rosalie G . Sayre, Rosalie Sayre, to Eric Shane Sayre, Jennifer Jane Sayre, deed, Scipio. Gary Basham, Pamala Kay Basham, to Jeffrey E. Basham , deed, Bedford. Gary Basham, Pamala Kay Basham, Jeffrey E. Basham, to Michael ·Ray Turner, right of way. Virginia Hayman to Thursday, December 15, 2005 Readers express opinions about man who walks around naked after shower Thursday, Dec. 15 ~Local PageA3 BY THE BEND The Daily Sentinel 1.6oz. Rei!. 49¢ OnlY 29¢ Extra SPecial ThursdaY OnlY 50% Off �OPINION The Daily Sentinel The Daily Sentinel 111 Court Street • Pomeroy, Ohio (740) 992-2156 • FAX (740) 992-2157 www.mydallysentlnel.com Ohio Valley Publishing Co. · Jim Freeland Publisher Charlene Hoeflich General Manager-News Editor Congress shall make no law respecting an . establishment of religion, or prohibiting the :free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom : of speech, or of the press; or the right of the • people peaceably to assemble,' and to petition the Government for' a redress of grievances. - The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution READER'S VIEW Guts· Support companies wlw support Christmas ,· · Dear Editor, Merry Christmas everyone! This is what a lot of corporate America will not be saying to you this Christmas season. Consumers will be spending their money during this Christmas season but the corporations will insult you by taking Christmas out of the season. Sure, they still want your money but they do not have the' guts to stand up for the Christian values that inake this country great. Like it or not, lhis country was founded on Christian values. In 1889, the Supreme Court designated this country a "Christian Nation." When you are out shopping this Christmas, please do not su pport stores which have taken Christmas out of the season, and shop at those which support the Christmas season. At stores where workers say to customers "Happy Holidays" 'instead of "Merry Christmas," please .talk to the managers of these stores and let thef!l · know that you do not like this. Because of complaints some places are changing their holiday trees back to Christmas trees. Christians need to stand for what is right to protect our freedoms. r know it is a free countryso lets stand up for our rights so it will stay that way. This time of year reminds us of giving. God gave Jesus for us to take the place for our sin. If you accept Him your sin will be forgiven. Without Him, life is an almost impossible journey full of problems. · Thank goodness there are people who will stand up for what is right and try to keep our country on the right track. Thank goodness for corporations who do not give in to dangerous · groups who have the destruction of the family and Democracy jn mind. Merry Christmas Todd Bissell Lo11g Bottom, Ohio PageA4 Thursday, December 15, 2005 Democrats again show why voters don't trnst .them on security American voters don't trust Democrats on national security, for good hi storical reasons - the U.S. defeat in Vietnam, Jimmy Morton Carter's surprise at Soviet Kondrack aggression, the party's e 1980s embrace of the nuclear freeze and its lack of support for the 1991 Persian Gulf War. President Bush rode a 30-point GOP advantage by so~e fellow Democrats on national sec urity and -Dean claimed hi s quote fighting terrorism to re - was "cherry-picked" and election in 2004, but that he meant "we ca n only doubts about his Iraq poli· win the war, which we cy have eroded that lead to ha ve to win, if we change ·our strategy dramatically." the teens. But Dean's original According to a Dec. I stalemenl was, "I've seen Gallup p<ill . voters trust Republican s over this before in my life. This Democrats on national is the same situation we security by 48 percent to had in Vietnam .... We just . 32 percent and on fighting didn't have a victory" and terrorism 46 percent ·to 33 lost 25,000 more lives percent. On Iraq, "because we were too Democrats were preferred •stubborn to recognize what by 42 percent to 39 per- was happening." Dean also tried to .say cent. Last week. the · that Bush has said the Democrats blew it again, United States couldn't win demonstrating why, when a victory - despite repeat· thtre' s danger to the coun- ed Bush statements that try, people think their he'll~othing less. party simply can't be relied Bush once said victory wouldn't come with a sur· on. Parties choose their lead- render as World War II did. Bu sh''s pronouncements ers and, in the force-averse tradition of George and policies all operate in McGovern, Carter and the direction of U.S. with· Michael Dukakis. drawals in the context of Democrats have chosen "v ictory" - a secure Iraq whereas Democrats Howa.rd Dean as their app~ar focused purely on national chairman, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) as withdrawal regardless of House Minority Leader the consequences. Last week. Pelosi per· and Sen. John Kerry (Mass.) as their latest -pres- sonally backed the imme· diate withdrawal proposal idential nominee. Last week, just as Iraqis of a disillus.ioned hawk, were preparing to .risk their Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), lives to run and vote in and claimed · that a majori · of her House parliamentary ty hi.s toric colleagues elections, these Democratic supported his position. Democratic leaders were S~eking to . mitigate seen pronouncing the war harm Pelosi in Iraq a lost cause, urging political caused, various colleagues immediate U.S. withdrawal and accusing U.S. sol- . claimed that Murtha was not really advocating an' diers of terrorizing Iraqi immediate pullout of U.S. women and children. forces . But in a response to Dean, in a Texas radio latest speech, interview, said, "the idea Bush's Murtha said his alternatiVe that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortu- was "immediate re-deploy ment" of U.S. forces. "Thenately is plain wrong." sooner we get out, in my After being attacked as estimation, the better off defeatist by Republican we'd be," he said, adding National Committee that withdrawal could be Chairman Ken Mehlman - and for being impolitic· complete in si'x months. Kerry, meanwhile, said on CBS' "Face the Nation" that "there's no reason that American soldiers need lo be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and women and breaking historical customs." Kerry added that responsi bility for home ra,ids s hould be turned over to Iraqi sec urity forces, but hi s quote was used by right-wingers to recall his Vietnam-era allegations that U.S. forces routinely committed rape, torture and mutilation. Kerry advocates. a more politically popular policy · than immediate withdrawal a strict timetable for pullouts -but his bottomline message still is that the U.S. goal should be exiting Iraq , not leaving behind a stable country. That's true even for " New Democrats," whose House leader, Rep. Ellen Tauscher (C:alif.), has drafted a "statement of principles," calling for the United States to stop assisting Iraqis ·in fighting domestic insurgents, but battle only foreign terrorists, and to draw down to 50,000 troops by the end of 2006. Even her proposal makes no mention of "victory." The Democratic Party . ,o nce had a tradition of strong foreign policy leadership. established by Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy and Lyndon John son. It exploded over Vietnam and hasn't been . pul.together since. Nearly the lone remaining representative of that tradition is Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), who last week stated, even more forcefully .than Bush has, the· consequences of U.S . failure in Iraq. "The cost of defeat would be disastrous," he said, "in the collapse of the new Iraqi regime, civil war in Iraq, regional wars beyond its borders, a victory for (terrorist leader Abu Musab a!) Zarqawi and AI Qaeda, which would embolden them to attack other Arab countries and our American homeland, the rollback of the democratic advances in other countries of the Middle East and the painful realization that the lives of American soldiers who have died in Iraq were . .m vam. . " gtven Democrats now divide into six basic groups on Iraq. Lieberman is alone in defending U.S. resolve. A small group of "constructive critics," including . Sen. Joseph Biden (Del.), advocates specific changes in Bush policy to achieve success. Bush lately has shown willingness to adopt some suggestions from this group. A large group, led by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.), is content to concentrate on Bush failures, without offering positive recommendations. And there are two groups advocating withdrawal - one phased, the other immediate. A sixth group might be characterized as "floaters" - moving from one group to another. These include the party's 2008 presidential frontrunner, Sen. Hillary Rodhain Clinton (N.Y.), who previously supported the war, but has been forced by . loud criticism from the left to join the Reid bloc of nonconstructive critics. With a few exceptions, the Democratic Party has put itself in the position of being invested in U.S. defeat in Iraq. The main body of party leaders seems so hostile to Bush and his. policy that it wants to be vindicated by collapse .. It's a terrible place for a political party 'to be - in effect, rooting for its own country's failure. And it's utterly unnecessary. If Democrats .believe that Bush is destined to fail, all they would have to do is wait and reap the political benefit. Why do they act as defeatists? The only explanation is: They can't help themselves. (Morton Kondracke is executive editor of Roll Call; the newspaper of Capitol Hill.) TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Thursday, Dec. 15, the 349th day of 2005. There are 16 days left in the year. · Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 15, 1944, a single-engine plane carrying bandleader Glenn Miller disappeared over the English Channel while en route to Paris. On this date: · In 1791, the Bill of Rights went into effect following ratification . . by Virginia. In 1890, Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull and II other tribe members were killed in Grand River, S.D., during a fracas with Indian police. · . In 1938, groundbreaklng ceremonies for the Jefferson Memorial took place in Washington, D.C. In 1939, the motiol) picture "Gone With the Wmd" had its world . premiere in Atlanta. . In 1944. American forces invaded Mindoro Island in the Philippines. In 1961, former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death by an Israeli court. 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Sopranos" where a bear shows up on Tony's patio, scaring the fool out of the mobster 's teenaged son, New· Jersey recently held a licensed sixday bear hunt. About 5,000 sportsmen and a smaller number of animal· rights protesters showed up for the hunt, limited to the state's three rural northwestern counties. Maybe because the weather was cold, with snow expected, or possibly because anti-hunting activists have lost several courtroom battles, the number of sign-carrying senti-. mentalists appears to . h.ave been few. : In a sure sign of the impending apocalypse, The New York Times ran two same-day columns defending sport hunting as the only sensible answer to wildlife over-population - one by Nicholas Kristof, the other by Metro Columnist Peter Applebome. Kristof argued , that although the " university-~ducated ·crowd . in the · cities" views hunting as "barbaric," " brutal and vaguely psychopathic". hunters are needed to thin expanding deer herds. He urged readers to take up rifles as a civic duty, kind of like joining the Peace Corps. Applebome (a former col· league ) admitted that he· d always thought hi s cousin "nuts and morally defiCient because he trekked off into the woods every fall with hi s hunting buddies." But he. too, ·ended• up exp re ss ing thank s to his "suburban Rambo neighbors" for deal ihg with the problem of dog- collision~: "( l)n a typical ·year," he writes "an American is less likely to be killed by Osama bin Laden than by Bambi." . Friends tell me things Gene have gotten equally bad on Lyons the outskirts of the San Francisco Bay area, and doubtless on the metastasizing edges of other big cities food thieving bears. too. So yeah, I guess if I More usefully, Applebome lived in either place, I'd be also pointed out that if cor- inclined to take up deer porations were doing to hunting again, althoygh the northeastern forests what animals have grown so deer are doing , "stunting habituated to humans it' d be future growth, killing plants something like sbooting and trees, destroying food cows. But then' I've been and habitat for other crea- pr~aching this particular sertures ... it would be viewed mon for quite some time. as an environmental crime At the expense of ternof epic scale." · porarily succumbing to red I suppose that's progress state versus blue state nonof a kind, although it's been sense to make a point: antiawfully long in coming. On hunting zealotry ·has long recent visits to New Jersey's . served as the functional semi-rural suburbs, I was . equivalent of creationism shocked at the numbers of among what I call the "anti· maimed, dead deer lying gravity left. '' Like all forms along roadsides. The ani- of Puritanism, it originates · mals graze in broad day- iri a need to cleanse oneself light, picturesque to some, of sin lly casting one's imagbut odd behavior for white- ined enemies as wicked. As tail deer, which derive insuf- night follows day, Kristof's ficient nutrition from grass. column drew angry · leiters Their ribs were visible in depicting deer hunting as "a late September, a bad sign socially acceptable means of. with winter coming. No venting one's blood lust." wonder they're cropping Given the letter writer's suburbanites' vegetable and North Jersey address, I'm flower gardens. . sure he drives around braMotorists theie are killing ken deer carcasses every deer in such numbers that day. But those, see, are accilocal road crew~ can't keep dents ; there's no unseemly up with the carnage. I'm lust involved. Another writer talking two or three dead opines that hunting for popdeer every five-minute trip ulation control is futile, as to the supermarket; it's a "(d)eer will quickly adjust ... sad. grisly spectacle. by more births as competiMemorably, if not tastefully, tion for food and habitat is Kristof asks readers to pon- reduced." A third suggests der the human costs of these I; that "the correct solution includes re-establishing ecological balance through the reintroduction of the preda' tors that we hunted into. local extinction." , Never mind that human predation Native Americans were very efficient hunters - has always been a major contributor to nature's mythical "balance" where deer are concerned. Which predators capable of killing deer would the fellow like to see in Tony Soprano's backyard next? Mountain lions? Timber Impossible, wolves? Anybody with a knowledge of tenth grade biology knows these guys are substituting fantasy for reality. If I wanted to be a smart aleck, I'd propose that blue state New Jersey start a cultural exchange program with a nearby red state, say West Virginia, to solve its deer problem. Of course it's equally a fantasy to imagine that a few pickup loads of snuff-dipping good old boys could easily fix a mess so long in the making, and so inextricably connected to the suburban sprawl that most Americans view as a birthright. Even so, it might ·be educational for suburbanites tO witness firsthand something most prefer to ignore : hired hands doing their slaughtering and butchering for them. (Arkansas DemocratGazette columnist Gene Lyons is a national maga· zine award winner and coauthor of "The Hunting of the President" (St. Marti11's Press, 2000). You can e-mail Lyons at genelyons2@sbcglobal.llet.) <t • Thursday, December 15, 2005 .. The Daily Sentinel • Page As www.mydailysentinel.com lAW You CAN UsE: WHAT ARE 'CIVn SERVICE' LAWS AND CAN THEY HELP ME? Q.: Just what is the "civil merit selection guarantees leges, your employer · must Q.: What happen s if I make service H? and job security that is outline the claims or charges an appeal and I still don't like A.: The "civil service" extended to middle manage- against you with enough the deci sion? describes a broad range of employees of local, county, state, and federal government entities. In Ohio, it also includes a number of employees of colleges and universities operated by the state. Q.: Are there laws that pro· teet civil service employees from beingfiredfor political reasons? . A.: Yes. Laws protect civil service employees against unfair or unreaRonable employment practices . that they otherwise might face because they usually work in offices managed by politicians who sometimes lose their own jobs at election time. Civil service workers also are protected by laws that guarantee merit selection in the hiring process and prevent the winner of an election from harassing individuals on the predecessor's staff or fir· il!g them in order to give jobs to fflends or supporters. Q.: Are all government workers protected under civil service laws? A.: · No. The law recognizes that election winners must have some discnition when filling certain . highlevel and policy-making positions in government, so senior management employees may ·not get the same ment personnel and rank-andfile workers. · Moreover, government employees working under a union contract typically enjoy job security benefits only through the terms of the contract · neg9tiated on their behalf by ~eir union leaders, though some Ohio municipalities allow their unionized workforce to pursue grievances against management either under the terms of their union contract or under the citfs civil service laws. IJ.: Can civil serviCe laws help me if I don ' t work for the government? A.: Not directly. However, the fringe benefits given by law to civil service workers and the decisions handed down in civil service appeals involving claims of wrongful dismissal or unwarranted discipline often serve as benchmarks for unionized and nonunionized work forces to use in determining if private sector emplo:,:ee benefits are unreasonable or management conduct is arbitrary. Q.: I think my employer might discipline me. What are my options as a civil service worker? A.: Before firing you or taking away any of your employment rights or privi- detail so you can understand them, and then must offer you the chance to attend a meetin g to explain your actions or to challenge any claims or charges made against you. Management must take into account any evidence or arguments you provide before giving you a final decision in writing. You have the right to hire a lawyer to help you in the meeting. Q.: What can I do if, after· the meeting, I still am not satisfied'! A.: If you are a state employee, an employee . of a state college or university, or an employee of a county or municipality that is not organized under the charter form of government, you can appeal to the State Personnel Board of Review in Columbus. Otherwise, you must appeal to your local ci vii service another commission or administrative agency specifically set up to handle such actions. While you can handle your own appeal, you should treat it as a lawsuit. Because it likely will involve a number. of complicated steps, it is generally a good idea to consult an attorney who practices regularly in this area of the law. A.: Under Ohio law, you 'have just 30 days io take an appeal of the final decision in your case to the Court of Com,mon Pleas that has jurisdiction over your civil service appeal. The court will review your appeal, but will ov~rturn the decision only if the agency ihat decided against you improperly interpreted or applied the law, acted arbi· trarily in renderii1g its decision, violated your rights in conducting the appeal proceedings, or failed to base its decision on "substantial, reli able, and probative evidence" actually appearing in the record. Law You Cal! Use is a Weekly consumer legal it!for· marion column provided by the Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA). This article was prepared by S. David Worhatch, an employee rights attomey with offices in Northea.H Ohio, and a member . of the Board ofDirectors of tire OSBA 's Litigation Sectio11. Articles appearing ill this column are intmded to provide brood, general information about the law. Before applying this informatioll to a specific legal problem, readers are urged to seek adv,icefrom an al/orney. • ! . .....' . Submitted photo Rae Moore, hostess for the DAR celet>ration of Christmas, pre· sents Sue Tut>t>s with a vase of roses and a DAR marker for Alice llses Struble's gravesite. Moores host DAR Christmas Celebration · MIDDLEPORT - Ferman She noted the exchange of and ·Rae Moore hosted the Christmas cards started in annual Christmas celebration. London in 1843 when . John of Return Jonathan Meigs Calcott Horsley designed one Chapter, Daughters of the and it had such an impact that American Revolution , at their it quickly spread in Britain home in Middleport recently. and later came to America. 1\venty DAR mem· By 1880 the manufacture of bers and invited guests Christmas cards was big busiStephanie Arnott. Kathy ness, she added, providing Moore, Elmer and Margy opportunities fur artists, writ· Grueser, · Paul and Gloria ers, printers and engravers. Agency in other flooding sitFollowing a luncheo n. Kloes, .Janet Williamson, Sue uations, as well as, the severe Tubbs, Mary Bowen, Clarice members and guests gathered ice storm last year. Krautter, Charlotte Elberfield, around the fireplace and sang The Red Cross has trained Christmas carols and Dan and Jeanette Thomas traditional and certified 25 employees at the agency to provtde Red Bv DAVID HAMMER them read the internal memo enjoyed the decorated home with Donna Weber Jenkins at Cross services when needed ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER to The Associated Press over which had been on the Homes the electric organ. for the Holiday tour earlier. Regent Patricia Holter prein the county. the phone. Anna Clel~nd presented a sented, with the assistance of 'This has worked very WASHINGTON The staff members requestprogram on Christmas. Mary Yost, chaplain, a well," according to Swisher, Department of Defense pay- ed anonymity because the · "as the Job and Family roll and accounting offices in plan was not supposed to be describing it as the mo st cele· memorial service in memory Service Agency also has pro· two Ohio cities will each add released until Thursday, but brated holiday in the world of DAR member Alice Isles grams which can provide near! y 700 new jobs by 2008 details had already been and the product of many Struble who passed away earemergency service assistance under a plan expected to be reported by The (Cleveland) years of both secular and reli· lier this year. Rae Moore gave gious traditions from around a tribute to Mrs. ·Struble who to Meigs County residents. released Thursday. Plain Dealer 'and The the globe. had been a member of Return making correlation of ser· A congressional staff mem- Columbus Dispatch in the In her program she talked Jonathan Meigs Chapter since vices much easier." ber wrote in an internal newspapers' Wednesday ediabout the many ways of cele- 1972 and served the chapter memo that the Defense tions. · brating Christmas and deco· in many ways including chap· erally more loyal to their Finance and Accounting LaTourette's office declined rating for the holiday season. lain, historian and librarian. employees than larger Service offices in Columbus to comment Wednesday. In the 1800s Christmas trees It was noted thai she had chain stores," Varnadoe and Cleveland would end up DFAS' 26 offites are being in Germany were decorated attended last year's Christmas said. "Keeping spending in with 500 more jobs. than they consolidated into five under the county supports local have now by 2010-11, when the Base Realignment and with candles, cookies, fruit celebration at the Moore and candy. Then a glassblow- home. jobs, funds local services attrition will have lowered the Closure process. Vases of roses and a DAR er in Lauscha crafted some and invests in the commu- net job gains. The original BRAC propos· small glass balls to hang on Insignia marker to be placed nity." That would give Columbus al had Cleveland gaining at Local governments about 2,500 employees and least 400 new jobs . Sen. his family's tree. The practice on her gravesite were presentcaught on and F.W. ed to her two daughters, Janet depend on local retail busi· Cleveland about I ,600 George Voinovich, R-Ohio, Woolworth brought the orna- · Williamson and Su·e Tubbs. A ness, too. Revenue from employees . . said in October that DFAS ments to the United States. prayer and dedication of the the county's one-percent DFAS ofticials briefed Rep. director Zack Gaddy Mistletoe, Cleland said, has 2005 celebration in her honor sales tax is used by county Steven LaTourette, R-Ohio, promised 300 to 400 addi- · government to make ,and staff members from other tiona! full-time positions, long been a symbol of love,. concluded the service. Members will meet on Jan . peace and goodwill. and St. expenses, particullii'IY while congressional offices about bringing the total number of a selfless · 14, 2006 at the Pomeroy Nicholas represents waiting for real estate tax the plan . Tuesday, several jobs at that center to more of giving. She described Public Library to complete act settlements. The villages of congressional staff members than I ,800, but DFAS offiSanta Claus is "a perception reports for the State and Middleport and Pomeroy said Wednesday on the condi- cials have considered se veral of a tmly magical holiday National Daughters of the depend on a one-percent tion of anonymity: One of proposals sin.c e then. spirit." · American Revolution. income tax collected from all who live and work in recent visit to the club Inzy stitching together the pieces. The ladies, which include the villages. Newell and Sarah Caldwell While Mrs. Henderso n Rev. Jane Beattie, welcom.e were ripping double-stitched was running her loud sewing volunteers from all faiths been under review were fabricJieces that had been machine she stopped and · and accept donations of from PageA1 adopted by the board during donat for quilts. joked, "It feels like I'm dri· yarn, thread and fabric . They the meeting which was fol"We're the rippers," ving a tractor while running often receive double-stitched lowed by an executive session quilts with 70 of those being Newell laughed. this machine." fabrics donated to the Parish completed in 2005, so far. · to discuss personnel. The jokes only confirmed Clothing Shop that can be Sitting at the same table The ladies who currently It was reported by Mark Angela Poole and Helen that the ladies not only meet transformed into one of. their volunteer in the club are from Rhonemus, treasurer, that Partlow were patiently cut- to make quilts but to share in custom patchwork quilts . "November was a big month United Methodist churches ting squares from the fabric. fellowship. Donations of yarn, · thread for paying final contracts on throughout the county includ- Mrs. Partlow had accumulat· Finally the fabric arrived and fabric can b dropped the Salisbury school renova- ing Forest Run, Chester, .ed a stack of squares that ai the station· inanned by off at the Mulberry tion into headquarters for the Alfred, Rocksprin~s, Long was nearly to her forehead. Edith Sisson, Barbara Community Cent for the district's central offices. A Bottom and Enterpnse. At another station Gayle Sargent, Cleo Smith and -! The ladies have organized Thomas listing of expenditures on the and Thelma Dolores Will where the fab- _; C I God 's NET at 992an assembly line where each financial report recap showed inf rmation Henderson were working on ric is quilted into the final 0261 payments from the permanent of them has a station. On a their on the C sewing machines product. Improvements fund (tax levy now expired) of$6,734 for the electrical contractor; $17,786 for general trades, and $59,507 for the windows and doors contract, along with $30, I 02 for new furniture and filing cabinets. Attending were Buckley, Mark Rhonemus, treasurer, and board members, Victor Young, Scott Walton, Norman Humphreys, Ron Logan, and Roger Abbott. D~AS to Donates announce job gains 1n Cleveland, Columbus · from PageA1 age assessments following a flood in the community. The Red Cross workers .w ere provided use of the agency conference room and agency employees volunteered their time to assist in the assessment of the stricken areas. Since that time the agency has worked with the Red Cross and the local Emergency Management Local from PageA1 "Many of our local shop ow'ners rely heavily on the . holiday season to carry . their businesses through the rest of the year, and yet they support local groups and organizations all year long," Varnadoe said. "It's important to remember that." . :· Varnadoe said support of local retailers is also important · for those who :work for them. "The local businesses in the community employ many people, and are gen- School from PageA1 Industrial arts. Also hired at the meeting were Jennifer Henson, teacher mentor for the current school year;. Nicole White and Greg rvt cCall as tutors· at $20 an hour for health handicapped students, and Alexandra Brandt and Andrea Krawsczyn, substitute teachers. . The board also authorized the superintendent to hire intervention assistance teach" ers and aides at a rate of $75 and $65 per day respectively lo be prud from grant funds received by the district. Their role will be assist students in preparing for proficiency tests. Several school policies/bylaws which have ALLICATOR -MCKS n.utt · Open Year-round Fridays 1Oam-Spm • Saturdays fiz. Sundays 9am-5pm Free Parking & Admission Heated and Air Conditioned Holiday Hours: Deeember 21, 22, 23 Noon until 8:00p.m. Located in the old Pa11Jida Building on State Route 7 114 mile South of US 33 in Pomeroy, Ohio. Indoor & Outdoor Vendor Spaces Available Comfort 5 Top Reasons To Shop In Meigs COunty This Christmas · S. Local Jobs and Wages Locally owned businesses create many jobs and arc mud1 mOre · loyal to their employees than some ~.:hain s . And The Meigs Co. Economic Development Office . invite you to shop locally & support your friends & neighbors **DON'T FORGET"'* Frantic Santa Shopping Friday, December 23rd 8-Midnight at participating'stores Horse Drawn Carriage Rides 7pm-9pm r.,;;e." s • • · 4. Local Economic Benents . Keeping your spending in lhe county suppons local jobs. fund s local services and invests in the communi ty. · 3. Local Decision Making Local ownership means local deci1ion making by people •·ho · share in the future of the commuOiy. 2. Local Well Being Local Businesses foster community well being and contri~Utl' 111 local causes and charili c.; I. Local ProspcritJ· The county·s prosperit)' when you suppor its unique and di\er3e locally owned bu!o.ine.iises. IIOP Melp Caaaty Flntll �PageA6 NATION The Daily Sentinel Thursday, December 15, 2005 .. House votes to extend Patriot Act, cut social Undercover air marshals :program spending; fate uncertain in Senate to expand work beyond BY DAVID ESPO AP SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON - The · Republican-controlled House approved a pair of year-end conservative . priorities Wednesday, voting to extend the anti-terrorism Patriot Act and to cut spending across a wide swath of social programs. Both bills have White House support·, but they also face Democratic-led opposi· tion in the Senate. Their fates are uncertain in the final, contentious days of the con· gressional year. "We need to stay tough on terrorism. This bill ensures that our law enforcement keep the tools they already have in place to root out and prosecute terrorists," House Speaker Dennis Hastert said as lawml!kers voted 25.1-174 to renew expiring provisions of the Patriot Act. The law initially was passed after the attacks of Sept. 11 , 200 I . Despite criticism that the bill shortchanged civil liberties, the vote was relatively 44 bipartisan. The Democratic supporters included two members of the leadership. The vote on the spending bill was far closer and more partisan, 215-213. Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer. the sec" and-ranking Democrat , scathingly criticized the Republic~n-crafted funding measure. "Last week; the House majority passed more than $94 billion in additional tax cuts, the benefits of which mostly go to the wealthiest taxpayers," he said. "And . this week, with this bill, we are slashing discretionary spending for education, health care programs. worker training and assistance to the most vulnerable by $1.6 billion." As both bills advanced. Hasten, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and their leadership teams worked with the White House to salvage other priorities as well. Legislation to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling took on outsized significance, with officials saying its passage could accomplish one and possibly two long-sought Republican goals. The legislation itself would hand the president a major victory on energy policy. At the same time, in the year-end congressional calculus readily understood only to lawmakers and their aides. approval of the oil provision could quickly lead to passage of a bill to attack deficits by slowing the growth of federal benefit programs for the first time in a decade. "We're looking for ways to do that," . said Rep. Roy. Blunt, the acting House majority leader. House leaders reluctantly jettisoned tlie' oil drilling provision earlier this fall in their drive to salvage the larger deficit-cutting measure. In recent days, GOP officials have considered several options to push legislation the · ANWR through Congress. One possibility, which Hastert and Frist discussed Tuesday night, would attach the ANWR legislation to a mustpass defense bill. Any such strategy would . require 60 votes in the Senate, though, and it is not clear it would succeed. While some lawmakers were eager for the session to end, others said they were determined to stay as long as necessary to prevai'l on .spending cuts. "We're at a moment of critical mass with respect to public expectations," said Rep. Mike Pence, the Indiana lawmaker who heads the conservative Republican Study Committee in the House. He dismissed suggestions that Congress would be better off to return early next year to try and complete work on the bill. There were outside pressures, as well. In one case, the American Medical Association was lobbying 10 halt a Jan. I scheduled reduction of more than 4 percent in Medicare payments to doctors. The organization's best hope appeared to be the big deficit-cutting measure. The spending bill carries a price tag of $602 billion for the 12 months that began Oct. I. Most of the funds, about $460 billion, goes for Medicaid payments to the ·states as well as Medicare costs, and is not subject. to annual spending decisions by lawmakers. The remaining funding is more directly under congressional control, and this year's total of $142.5 billion represents a decline from the $142.7 billion total of a' year ago for programs such as medical research .at the National Institutes of Health, Bush's signature No Child Left Behind education program and job training. Opponents said they would try and stop the bill in the Senate. "I'm not sure they have the votes," Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said of supporters. . . Of the two House-passed bills, the Patriot Act appeared in greater trouble. An unknown number of conservative Republicans joined with a larger group of Democrats to object to the bill, promising to filibuster a measure they said went too far to strengthen the hand of law enforcement agencies. Four Republicans and five Democrats circulated a letter stating they intended to support a filibuster against the measure . They listed objections to provisions governing the conditions under which the government' can secret! y obtain access to a wealth of personal records, including library books borrowed. The measure, a merger of earlier bills passed . by the House and Senate, "fails to make some vitally important reforms and in some areas actualiy makes · the law worse," they wrote. While passage of legislation normally requires only a majority, it takes 60 votes to overcome a filibuster and proceed to a final vote, and one official said the GOP high command was exploring a fallback. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Frist and the White House were discussing a one-year extension of existing Patriot Act provisions if one became necessary. The majority leader's office is;ued a statement that said Frist is "o'pposed to a short-term extension." The Bush administration swung into action. "In the war on terror, we cannot · afford to be without this law for a single moment," Bush said in a statement, and the White · House dispatched Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to t~e Capitol to lobby Republicans behind closed doors. House's Hurricane Katrina inquiry · considers.evacuation procedures . Bv LARA JAKES JORDAN ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER WASHINGTON A House committee investigating the government's response to Hurricane Katrina issued a subpoena Wednesday to force Defense ·Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to turn over documents but stopped short of sending a similar · legal demand to the White House. The subpoena commands Rumsfeld to produce internal records and communications about the Pentagon's response · to the Aug. 29 storm, including efforts to send supplies to victims, stabilize public safety and mobilize active duty forces in the Gulf Coast. It requires the Pentagon to deliver the documents, spanning from Aug. 23 to Sept. 15, from Rumsfeld and eight · other top military officials by Dec. 30. Separately, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said it would comply with a judge 's ruling that FEMA keep paying for hotel rooms for hurricane evacuees until Feb. 7, The agency also agreed to extend the program for eligible storm victtms who have not been helped by that deadline. The subpoenas were one focus of a House hearing that was marked by angry barbs between Gov. Kathleen Blan9o. D-La.. and Republicans who challenged her about why a mandatory evacuation tor New Orleans was not ordered until the morning before Katrina hit. Mandatory evacuations were ordered for coastal parishes south and east of New Orleans before then. "We had mandatory evacuations,'' Blanco said. "We got 1.2 million people out. We ended up saving another 100,000 people and we lost 1,100. That's the whole story. We got people out." Rep .. Jeff Miller. R-Fla ., said Blanco's explanation was "a story that's not acceptable because 1.100 people is one half of the men and women we have lost in Operation Iraqi Freedom." "You lost that many on one day," Miller said. Shot back Blanco; "Then it's not acceptable for us to lose ... soldiers, either." · Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Ky., asked Blanco why New Orleans' emergency management and evacuation plans were not followed . . . "It's detailed," Rogers said . of the plan. "All it needed was for the mayor and/or the governor to say 'Let's go."' · "We did that, sir. Don't pretend that we didn't do that," BIanco responded terse! y. Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers said they were frustrated by the administration's .failures to provide the House investigation with internal memos, emails and other documents before and after the storm hit. Pentagon spokesman Army Maj. Paul Swiergosz said the . panel's requests for information have been "very farreaching and very broad, and we're doing everything we airplanes to trains, buses Bv LESLIE MILLER ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER . WASHINGTON - Critics of a plan to send undercover air marshals to patrol trains, buses and ferries say .it will take scarce resources away from airplanes and could get in the way of local police. The . . Transportation Security Administration, in a little-noticed announcement on Tuesday. said teams of air marshals would begin counterterror surveillance on land as part of a small test program that also involves bomb,sniffing dqgs and transit inspectors . Beginning Wednesday. the teams were going out for three days at a bus station in Houston and at rail facilities in Baltimore, Wa shington, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Philadelphia. · Ju st hours before the undercover marshals arrived, Philadelphia police were told about the patrols for the local transit system, according to Rep. Allyson Schwartz, D-Pa. Schwartz, who was briefed by Philadelphia and Southeastern Pennsylvania . Let_ .C~lrrr~rr·:) )/.,"' Party..Barn ~~-\ help you with your holiday party & gift giving Party Trays Available • Meat & cheese • Wings: Hot, Mild & Honey • Meatballs • Sausage • Cookies & pastries Ivy Hill Gift Baskets Available Personalize your holiday gift basket or stop in for a pre-made basket. Contact Lisa for special orders. 24 hr advance notice appreciated 740-992-6121 Santa will be here Sal'u"lay,_ December 17th, 9-12 can to answer them as quickly as we can. "We're going to provide the documents as fast as we can," Swiergosz said. "No one has been dragging their feet on these things." '. .. ... ,ptt ..... . . - Holiday ReJ;Delnbrance held Saturday, Funeral Home in P01111erc Anyone who ha& lost a ._.u wou~d like to tellllelllliM~r q.~ Set-Up Removal · with Express DeliveJY • I~JSplratioual me~~a~,e .,, · ~ Candle L.ghtlng cen• Name Readin3 Ce~ony • Remembl'llilee.h LIMITED TIMEfVENT' • Refreshlileilts . ,, open to the publle. La-Z- Boy Recliners "(Jtrtstmas Savtnos" Curio Cabinet.• A,.Uat weat savlntJs! I ) 992-5141 for more COLUMBUS (AP) - Here is a list County Fairgrounds, Richland. of current and upcoming Ohio festivals Woodland Halle Days, Lake and events: · · Metroparks Penitentiary Glen Through Dec. 22 . Reservation, Kirtland Chardon Rd., Christmas . at the J .E. Reeves Kirtland. Festival of Lights, Cincinnati Zoo, Victorian Home, E. Iron Ave., Dover. . Vine St., Cincinnati. Through Dec 23 Country Lights, Lake Metroparks Wildlights, Columbus Zoo. Farmpark, Chardon· Rd., Kirtland. Riverside Dr., Powell. Gifts of the Craftsmen, Ohio Craft Exhibition: Age of Armor from the Higgins Armory Muse.um, Columbus Museum, W. Fifth Ave., Columbus. Museum of Art, E. Broad St .. Through Dec. 24 Christmas at the . Cabin, Magic Columbus. Through Jan. 3 Waters Theatre, Cave Rd., Bainbridg·e. The. · Quest for Immortality : Through Dec. 28 Christmas of Yesteryear, Historic. Treasures of Ancient Egypt, Dayton Lyme Villag~. state Route 4, Bellevue. Art Institute. Belmonte Park North, Through Dec. 30 Dayton . Upper's Winter Fantasy of Lights, E. Through Jan. 4 Upton Pyne : .. Jem Southam Wyandot Ave. Business Route 30, Upper Sandusky. Photographs, Cleveland Museum of North Pole Express, Northwest Ohio Art, E. Blvd., Cleveland. Railroad Preservation, Co. Rd . 99, Through .Jan. 8 Findlay. Holiday Festival of Lights, Greenbo · Holid'ay Lights, Diagonal Rd., Lake State Resort Park, Lodge Rd., LaGrange. Greenup, Ky. Fantasy of Lights, Alum Creek Hayes Train Special, Hayes Marina, Hollenback Rd., Lewis Center. Presidential Center, Fremont. Through Dec. 31 Breaking With Tradition: Ohio Victorian Christmas at Dillon House. Women Painters-1870-1950. Ohio Arts . Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Coun>il's Riffe Gallery, S. High St. , Center, Spiegel Grove (corner Hayes & Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts, Columbus. . I;luckland aves.), Fremont. Firelands Festival of Lights, Sawmill Renoir's Women: Exhibition, Creek Resort, Sawmill Creek, Huron. Columbus Museum of Art, E. Broad Light Up Middletown, Smith Park, St., Columbus. downtown Middletown. Origins: Life's First 3 Billion Years, Christian Indian . Christmas Drive- Museum of Natural History & Science, thru Display, Gnadenhutten Historical Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Park and Museum, S. Cherry St., Terminal, Western Ave., Cincinnati. J:hrough Jan 16 . Gnadenhutten. · Christmas by Candlelighi, Marion Trains, Trees and Holiday Traditions, Courity Fairgrounds, Marion. Western Reserve Historical Society, Holidays at the Mansion, Wooster East Blvd., Cleveland. Rd., Millersburg. Through .Jan. 27 Christmas at The Copper Rose, The Exhibition -Neill Dorr: A Subtle Copper Rose Studio & Gardens, state Magic, Massillon Museum, Massillon. Through Jan: 29 Route 258 S.W., Newcomerstown. Christmas Morning Toys: Trains, Exhibition-Borrowed Time: The Dolls, and Miniatures-Exhibition, Photograph· as Music Album Cover, Decorative Arts Center of Ohio, E. Cincinnati Art Museum, Eden Park Main St., Lancaster. Dr., Cincinnati. Exhibit: Motocross America, Through .Jan. 31 Motorcycle ·Hall of Fame Museum, Winter Festival of Art IV, Art CellaJ Yarmouth Dr., Pickerington. . .Gallery, W. Third St., Mansfield . Through Jan. 1 Through Jan. 31 (Fri-Sat) Santa's Holiday in the Park, James Holiday Fest, The Beach, Mason. Carroll County Holiday Lights, Ranch Park, Fairground Rd., Xenia. · Kensington Rd. NE., Carrollton. Through Feb. 19 Holiday Show, Franklin Park Exhibit: Michael Mercil. Columbus Conservatory, E. Broad St., Columbus. Museum of Art, E. Broad St., Clifton Mill Christmas Lights, Columbus. Through March 11 Clifton Mill, Water St., Clifton. Christmas at the Castles, Piatt Exhibit-Arthur Leipzig: On Castles, Twp. Rd. 47, West Liberty. Assignment, Columbus Museum of Belpre Holiday Lights, Washington Art, E. Broad St., Columbus. Blvd., Belpre. Through March 2006 Exhibit: Winter Wunderland, Richland "Tommy: The Amazing Journey," Ariel celebrates with sing-a-long . . . ...... This program is for all faiths and www .mydailysentinel.com FLAIR F U R N I T U R E liiiZJ Ate 2, Gallipolis Ferry, WV (304) 675-1371 ''DRAND N.-\ME FURNITURE AT DISCOUNT PRICF.s·· Mon & F'ri 9·6 • Tue, Thursday, December 15, 2005 A listing of festivals, events in Ohio Transportation Authority law enforcement officials, said the TSA's failure to give . advance warning was unacceptable. ''They said. 'We're coming in ,''' Schwartz said. "They should at least have come in and said, ' How will it work best> Who do we call? How should we hatidle this?"' TSA spokeswoman Yolanda Clark said the project was planned carefully and that local and transit police were notified about it last week. James Carafano, a senior fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said the point of the exercise was to figure out how federal counterterrorism ·officials could work with local police if terrorists threatened to attack transportation targets other than airplanes. "These are pilot projects designed to figure out how do you do this," Ca'fafano said. Carafano said local police were right to be concerned about armed undercover law .enforcement agents being assigned to their jurisdiCtion without adequate preparation. :!399..... ' Page A7 • The Daily Sentinel GALLIPOLIS - The Ariel Ann Carson Dater Performing Arts Centre cordially invites the community to celebrate the season on Monday, Dec. 19 at 7 p.m. This free Christmas Party is the Ariel-Dater Centre's thank you to the community for a wonderful year. Free cookies and hot chocolate will warm your hearts while a Christmas Carol Sing-a-long will warm your souls. Christmas carols will be accompanied by the Dater Sinfonia. This new ensemble led by Ariel Composer in Residence Scott Michal brings together professional and . semi-professional musicians with music majors from local universities. Members of several area church choirs will be on hand to lead the singing. Rumors abound that the party will be attended by someone dressed in red, with a white beard, so bring your wish lists .. Guests are encouraged to remember their needy furry friends and bring a donation of pet food or kitty litter to be donated to area animal resc·ue agencies and shelters. For more information, call the Ariel Dater Hall box office at 740-446-ARTS (2787). Firs~ Fridays slated at area art center ASHLAND, Ky. - The Pendleton Art Center houses a large number of individual artists from Ohio, West Virginia, .and Kentucky. Their studios are open to the public on the Jirst Friday of each month from 5 to-9 p.m.; the following day for a second look Saturday from noon to 4 p.rn . and by appointment with the individual artist . · This gives everyone an opportunity to visit with the artists , view their work and purchase original art. if desired . Studios are now being leased and center management encourages area artists to visit and view this exciting, stimulating envi· ronment. The Pendleton lobby, normally open to the public Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., has extended huurs for the Christmas season. The lobby, along with some artists' studios, will be open from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturdays during December. · Jeff Ball Photography will present a Digital Fine Art Workshop for Photographers. Information and reservations can be made at jeftball @earthandskyphoto.com or (800) 357-2198. Children's art workshops are being held on Suturdays. For more information . call (606) 369-0000. Artists of the Month for December are Jesse Hurst and April Hackworth . gourd artists. Gina Dickens of Studio 10 I will be donating 25 percent of her December sales to St. Jude's Hospital. Thur, Sat 9·5 • Closed Sunday to be with family J The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland. Through May 30,2006 Millionaire's Row : The Legacy of Euclid Avenue, Western Reserve Historical Society, East Boulevard, Cleveland. Through Aug. 6 Cowan Pottery: Shining Design Exhibit, . Zanesville Art Center, Military Rd., Zanesville. Dec. 21 Peter White Cliristmas featuring Rick Braun & Mindi Abair, Palace Theatre. Playhouse Square Center, Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Messiah Sing, Trinity <;:athedral, Euclid Ave.; Cleveland . Welcome Winter Walk, FA. Seiberling Naturealm, Smith Rd. , Akron. Dec. 21-22 The Salvation Army Christmas Distribution Cheer Program, DiSalle Center, Ohio Expo Center, Columbus. Winter Solstice· SunWatch Sleepover, SunWatch Indian Village. W. River Rd., Dayton. Dec. 22-23 · the Cleveland Orchestra-Holiday Organ and Brass, Severance Hall, Euclid Ave ., Cleveland. . · Dec. 23 .. Frantic Santa Shopping Spree and Carriage Rides, downtown Middleport. Dec. 24 ' Christmas Mornings, Piatt Castles, Twp. Rd. 47, W. Liberty. Dec. 26 Breakfast With Stmta & Sleigh Rides in the Village, Amish Door Restaurant & Village, Wilmot. Dec. 26-Jan. 5 Annual Kwanzaa Celebration, Cuyahoga Community College, Metro . Campus, Community College Ave. , Cleveland. Dec. 27 Harlem Globetrotters, Nationwide Arena, Columbus. Dec. 27·28 · Wild Ice at Wildlights, Columbus Zoo, Riverside Dr., Powell. Dec. 27-29 Holiday Break Family Programs, Franklin Park Conservatory, E. Broad St., Columbus. Dec. 27-30 Special Holiday Tours: Families & Children, Cincinnati Art Museum, Eden Park Dr., Cincinnati. Dec. 27-31 Horse-drawn Sleigh/Carriage rides, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Spiegel Grove (corner Hayes & Buckland aves.), Fremont. Paul "Bub" Williams slates coumrv concen at Altel BY PAUL DARST PDARST@MXDAILYTRIBUNE .COM GALLIPOLIS- Next weekend, Paul "B ub" Williams will perform at one of his favorite venues. .Williams will pu1 on a Country Christmas Concert' at the Ariel Theatre on Saturday, D~c. 17, beginning at R p.m. . "I love singing at the Ariel,'' he said. ''11 has a wond~r­ ful sound to it." This will be William s' first Christmas concert he said. But the show will feaiLtre more thanjust ht)liday tunes.• "It's not all going to be Christmas music." he said. "It will be actually mostly country music." Williams will he accompanied by John Grubb on the guitar. he said. Tickets for the show are $5 , and are available at the box ottice, which is open from II a.m. to 2 p.m . daily. or at the door the day of the show. . Wi·lliams already is thinking ahead to performances for the coming year. On Feb. 4, 2006. he will perform during a memorial concert for his late friend Josh Watson. Watson was killed in a car crash on that date this year, he said. Three local bands will join Williams for that concert. Pakin Up with John Grubb, Kent Boogie with Jeremy Russell, and Bart and the Chasers with Don Mayse also will perform. . That concert also will be at the Ariel. The event is still in the planning stages. More information about events at the Ariel is available at 446-ARTS . At the Movies: 'The Family Stone' BY CHRISTY LEMIRE AP MOVIF CRITIC As the war on Christmas rages across the nation ·_ at least on Fox News Channel- the holiday remains firm- · ly intact with "The Family Stone." your typical feelgood, feel-bad, feel-good-again family Christmas movie. • Writer-director Thomas Bezucha l?acks his idyllic, snow-covered New England setting with all the familiar clements of the genre: a big. rambling house filled with lovably eccentnc characters: ·petty sibling mi sunderstandings and ,long-held ·resentments: unlikely romance that blossoms' simply for the sake of comedy: and of course, a food mishap. It is the cinematic equivalent of your batty great-aunt's fruitcake: You make fun of it but you eat a piece of it anyway. because it's traditional. AP Photo If not for the performanyes - notably from Diane In this photo provided by Twentieth Ce.ntury Fox, Keaton, Rachel McAdams and Luke Wilson - the Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker) feels like an outsider entire endeavor would be too treacly to .tolcrate. · Sarah Jessica Parker received a Golden Globe nomi· when Stone patriarch Kelly (Craig T. Nelson) takes a fam· nation this week for her 'performance as an uptight New ily photo of, left to right : Thad Stone (Ty Giordano). Yorker who clashes with her bohemian , soon-to-be in· Elizabeth Trousdale (Savannah Stehlin). Susannah Stone laws. but the role is glaringly 011e-note. Actually. it 's two Trousdale (Elizabeth Reaser) . Everett Stone (Dermot notes: She's buttoned-down and wound-up until one Mulroney), Amy Stone (Rachel McAdams), Sybil Stone night when she literally lets her hair down and all of a (Diane Keaton) and Thads compan ion. Patrick Thomas sudden becomes a completely different. easygoing per· (Brian Wh ite). in "The Family Stone." ' son. Just like that. Until then, Parker's Meredith Morton says and does But it's Bet> Stone (Wilson).thc pothead documentary the absolute wrong thing~ at every opportunity. When filmmaker who's visiting from California, who serves as Everett (Dermot Mulroney), her boyfriend and the eldest the voice of reason . He cuts throu~h all the alN1rdity hut Stone child, brings her home to meet his family, she he also arbitrarily attaches himsc ir to Mcreditl1. hb polar · · . stiffly extends her hand to mom Sybil (Keaton) and opposite. · states coldly. "Hel.Io. you have a lovely house." , Lucky he r - Ben \ the must interesting charaL·tcr in Subsequent conversations with Everett's siblings the movie. But it' s hard to imagine wl1y he wou ld reveal her to be not just nervous and awkward but choose to spend time with this person : I hei r ins!aill bond closed-minded - especially over a painful dinner-table reeks of plot contrivance. So does the arrival of Meredith's vounga sister. Julie. discussion about homosexuality in front of Thad (Ty Giordano), the son who's gay, deaf, and has a partner for moral sur.port. A' played by Claire Danes . .she shows up and exhtbits all the effortless beauty aml tw!ural who' s black (Brian White) .. "What! don 't understarr<l i~ what he >ees in her," says charm thm her sister sorely lack>. So guess who finds Kelly Stone, the family patriarch and a longtime college himself tincxpectcdly smitt en by her'! For every wacky, high-comed y nwmetil. though. each professor (Craig T. Nelson). And he's got a point. Bezucha makes Meredith so character gets a major tearjerker . . ccne. Ma~1y ol t l~~m are inspired by Syhil, who's - you gucS>cd 11 - dymg. insufferable, she seems utterly beyond redemption. The Stones, meanwhile, are consistently fun and free- but stifl maintain s her quirky sense of humor. The quickness with which lktudia veer' bc!wt•en spirited. with jaunty music accompanying their every yuletide adventure. They ' re almost too good to be tru e. emotions is about as subtle'"'·' snuwhal l !nthc lace. but Youngest daughter Amy, the angst-ridden goth chick. then again. movies like "The Family Stone" aren't is quick-witted and candid . (And the beautiful exactly shy about reminding you that laughter and lcars . McAdams ;haws her chameleonlike abilitie s again fol- com spring from the S#-tlllt' soun:c . "The Famil y Stone. " a 20th Century Fox rck"se. 1 s lowing tO!ally different roles in " Mean Girls ," "The rated PG1 3 for some sexual <.:oment mcludtng d1alo~ue. Notebook" and ''Wedding Crashers.") Proper older sis, ter Susanna (Elizabeth Rease r) is married with a preco- and drug rel'erences . Runnmg lime: I04 mmules . 1wo stars out of four. . cious daughter and a baby oo the way. �, OHIO The Daily Sentinel A quick fix for those who ~an't afford to spay or neuter their pets Page AS Thursday, December 15, Bl The Daily Sentinel WEDNESDAY'S SCORES No local scores reported 2005 Sheriff's department dog among defendants named in suit Thursday, December 15, 2005 ATHENS (AP) - One of the defendants has more than a leg to stand on in a lawsuit filed by a convicted drug dealer. Andi has four legs. He's a dog used · by the Athens County Sheriff's Department. County Prosecutor C. David Warren said to his knowledge, it's the first time the county's dog has ever been singled out as a defen.dant. Warren has volunteered to handle Andi's defense personally. "That dog could've done something to me or one of my · attendants," said Wayne Francis Green, 46, of Albany, who filed the suit Nov: 18 in Athens County Common Pleas Court. Green. who is representing Green 's lawsuit, which himself, alleges that a search seeks $450,000 in damages, of his furniture business in also w·as tiled against police 2003 was illegal. He claims investigators, Athens County officers also went into an Sheriff Vem Castle and the adjoining building that he trial judge who ruled that the owned without a warrant, but marijuana was admissible as police deny it. evidence because it came Green said Wednesday from the 'furniture business, evening that he felt endan- not the other building. . Last Thursday, Andi the gered by Andi's presence. "They've got a mean ol' German · shepherd was dog. you know what I' m say- informed that he's being sued, ing? I take that pretty seri- sort of. With a paw print, the ous," Green said, adding, dog "signed" the paper indi"I' m a dog lover. but that 's cating he had been formally the limit." served with the complaint. The search turned up 50 Green said he wants prosepounds of marijuana, and last cutors to look into the dog 's month Green was convicted .actions. of possession and trafficking ''I want him charged ":ith · i'n the drug. His sentencing is several different felony scheduled for Jan. 6. counts," he said. Bearca~ pound Ohio BY JOE KAY ASSOCIATED PRESS -.=astBreak LocAL Scm~nm.E GAlLIPOLIS -A schedule of upcoming college and high school varsity spor1ing events involving teams !rom Gatlia, Meigs and Masoo coontie& Thyradav'• QIIlltl Boys Busketball Buffalo at Hannan, 7:30p.m. Glr~s Baakalball Warren at GaUia Academy, 5:30p.m Miller at Eastern, 7:30p.m. _Vinton County at Meigs, 7:30p.m. Fairland at River Valley, 7:30 p.m. Trimble at Southern, 7:30 p,m Hannan at Wahama, 7:30p.m . Friday's games Boys Basketball Eastern at Southern , 8 p.m. Wellston at Meigs, 6:30 p.m. River Valley at Fairland, 7:30p.m. Gallia Academy at Warren. 7:30p .m. OVCS at South Gallia (at University of Rio Grande), 7 p.m. Wahama at Man, 7:30 p.m. Girls Baskelball OVCS at South Gal1ia (at Un11Jersity ol Rio Grande), 5:30p.m. Herbert Hoover at Point Pleasant. 7:30 p:m. Wre,lllng Point Pleasant Pool Tournament, TBA College Basketball Rio Grande at Bethel TN Tournamerit, AP Photo Aboard the brand new PetFix Northe;~st Ohio mobile spay(neuter clinic parked outside the Fnendship Animal Protective League, veterinarian Megan Volpe, left, and staffer Ron Carlton prepare two cats for their surgeries on Wednesday in Elyria. On this first day of operation, the staff of PetF1x performed spay/neuter surgeries on 20 cats brought to them by two area shelters and local residence. The clinic will be on the road 4 days a week across 9 northe,;lst Ohio counties on a mission to end pet overpopulation by providing spaying and neutering to those who cannot afford full fees. Judge says university shooting • rampage was not terro~tsm CINCINNATI Freshman point guard Devan Downey scored a career-high 24 . points Wednesday night, directing Cincinnati's fast break offense to an 86-58 victory over previously unbeater. Ohio. . Downey led runs at the start of both halves that gave Cincinnati (5-2) a calming victory. The Bearcats had lost two consecutive home games for the first time in their arena's 17-year history. Trying for its first 5-0 start since 1969, Ohio quickly realized it had no one to guard Downey, a true freshman who is learning how to crack open a defense with his quickness. He led an opening 19-9 run and. set the pace ·durin g a 24-5 sp urt early in the second half. Sonny Truu iP1<11i kll Ohio with 17 pui 1• ,, Forward Leon William>. who anchors Ohio's inside attack, picked up' is fourth foul with 13:56 left in the game and wasn 't a factor while Cincinnati took control. Dribbling into the middle uf Ohio's defense for open shots, Downey hit three consecutive baskets during the opening 19-9 spurt. The Bearcats broke out of their shouting slump during a 9283 victory at Vanderbilt on Saturday, and kept their touch by making seven of their first II against Ohio. Even slumping Armein Kirkland hit shots early, Please see Pound, Bl AP photo Cincinnati forward Armein Kirkland (33) knocks the ball loose from Ohio forward Sonny Troutman (1) during the first half of a college basketball game Wednesday in Cincinnati. Cincinnati's Eric Hicks is behind Kirkland. TBA Women's College Basketball Rio Grandeut Pikeville, 6 p.m • BY THOMAS J. SHEERAN ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERS CLEVELAND -A judge dismissed a terrorism charge Wednesday in the trial of a former graduate· student charged with killing one person and wounding twu others in a seven-hour shooting rampage at Case .Western Reserve University. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Peggy Foley said the attack against a "small, random" group of people in the business school building on campus did not constitute a terrorist attack on the civil population as defined by Ohio law. Defense attorneys representing Biswanath Halder, 65, had requested the charge be dismissed. Prosecutors say Halder went to the university's business school on May 9, 2003, with more than I ,000 rounds of ammunition because he believed a school computer lab employee' hacked into his Web site devoted to helping fellow India nativ.es form businesses. Halder, originally from Calcutta, India, faced 196 felony counts including aggravated murder. The judge dismissed six counts Wednesday, including those involving two hostages out of the country and didn't appear as witnesses. The case goes to the jury after final instructions by the· judge and . deliberations could begin Thursday. The jurors were sequestered in a hotel Wednesday night. · Ohio's terrorism law was enatted in 2002 in response to the Sept. II, 2001, terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. . Halder's attorney, John Luskin, said Halder "did not intend to terrorize the civilian population,'' Luskin said legal precedent defined civilian population as a broad group of peoc pie distinct fro!l\ the military. The prosecutor, Rick Bell, said Halder's. goal was to terrorize the community. "Mr. Halder's intention was to intimidate people into submission," he said. Bell said in his closing argument to the jury that it was clear from Halder's weapons and ammunition that the crime was premeditated. He reminded jurors of campus security videotapes showing Halder methodical- . ly moving about the building. . Bell . showed jurors a studio portrait of the only person killed, Norman Wallace, 30, a Case student from Youngstbwn, · and then showed a morgue photo of BRIEFS OPEN the victim. Wallace was the first person met by Halder in the business school. The defense for. Halder, ·who didn't testify, acknowledged his role in the rampage and lost a bid last month to argue that he is mentally ill. Kevin Cafferkey, codefense counsel, a.J?ologized to· Wallace's famtly, other victims, hostages and police officers called to the scene. CHRISTMAS EVE COLUMBUS (AP)- The first of len weekly state wrestling polls for .2005-06, as · compiled by the Ohio High School Wrestling Coaches Association: percent chance of snow ·showers. Highs in the upper 30s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. , Friday night ... Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow showers. Cold with lows in the 'lower 20s. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Saturday through Wednesday ... Partly .cloudy. Cold. Highs in the lower 30s. Lows around 20. Local stocks 80.05 AEP -37.81 Akzo- 46.28 Ltd. - 23.36 NSC - 43.73 Oak Hill Financial Ashland Inc. - 57.83 BLI - 12.37 Bob Evans - 24.13 BorgWarner - 60.45 32.25 ACI - Home Eqa.d Rates"f? tO. Are At.Fcil-mers Bank. . \!... · ~ • 0' CENX - 23.67 Champion - 4.47 Charming Shops - 13.61 City Jioldlng - 37.40 Col - 48.10 DG -19.60 DuPont - 43.18 Federal Mogul - .36 USB· - 30.66 Gannett - 61.38 General Electric 35.77 GKNLY- 5 53.08 Harley Davidson JPM- 39.55 Kroger 19.21 \ ' OVB - 25 BBT- 43.17 Peoples - 29.91 Pepsico - 59.25 Premier 14.75 Rockwell - 60.27 Rocky Boots - 22.24 RD Shell - 62.50 Sears - 123.74 Wa~Mart 49.51 Wendy's - 55.40 Worthington - 20.77 Dally stock reports are the 4 p.m. closing quotes of the previous day's transactions, provided by Smith Financial Advisors of Hilliard Lyons In Gallipolis. 1, Lakewood St. Edward (8) 2. 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II 11 8 Meigs eighth grade boys split pair of games f7 Baseball players who met last week to di>cuss union matters at a pricey · resort outside of Las Vegas had good reason to be happy. The weather was good, there was a golf course just outside the front door, and there wa.sn't an autograph seeker in sight. Even better. the news coming uul of b;ISebioll 's front offices kept. remiuUing them thal thi~ is a very good time tube a major leaguer. Make that an incredibly good time - if you happen tu be a pitcher. The free agent season isn't yet over btJt. in the spiril uf the holidays, general managers arc playing . Santa Claus to anyone who can raise one arm over their head and throw a baseball 60 feet. six im:hcs. It's almost enough "to put a smile on the face of union chief Donald Fclu. whose _job it is to help loosen DIVISION I Local weather Thursday ... Rain ... A chance of freezing rain and sleet. Little or no sleet accumulation. Ice accumulation of less than one quarter of an inch. Highs in the lower 40s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Thursday night...Cioudy with rain with a chance of snow. Liitle or no snow accumulation. Cold with lows in the upper 20s. Southwest winds 5 to IOmph with gusts up to 20 mph. Friday ... Cloudy with a 30 Free agentpitchers are a happy group Ohio High School wrestling poll UNT/l4PM ROCK SPRINGS Meigs' eighth grade boys .basketball team defeated Eastern 35-22 on Monday and fell 53 -27 to Vinton County. Jacob Well and Caleb Davis scored I 0 points for the winners while Taylor Deem and Zach Whitlatch added six, Cody Laudermill two and Tyler Brothers one . :- Eastern was led by 13 from Lynch. Winebrenner added five and Brannon and Trussel · chipped in two each. Against Vinton County, Well led the way with eight followed by five from Caleb Davis . Ben Hood. Whitlatch and Jos h Eredricks all scored four itnd Deem chipped in· two. AP photo Cincinnati Bengals quarterback·Carson Palmer (9) reverses direction as he is pursued by Cleveland Browns lineman Orpheus Roye (99), Sunday in Cincinnati. Palmer had his worst game of the season 111 the game that was played in cold and windy conditions. . Palmer says cold weather wasn't the reason for off day Bv JOE KAY ASSOCIATED PRESS CINCINNATI The win<.! swirled. the cold numbed and Carson Palmer looked like a transplanted Californian having no fun in the Great White North. The Hei sman Trophy winner Farmers Bank • Poneoy • Mastv1 • 992.2136 773.6400 Phone- 1·740·446·2342 ext. 33 F8x - 1·740-446-3008 E-mail - sports@mydailysentinet.com S.POrl$ ..S.IJI:f1 Brad Sherman, Sports Edilor (740) 446·2342, ex1. 33 bsherman@ mydailytnbune. co m Bryan Waltera, Sport& Writer (740) 446·2342, ext. 23 bwatters@ mydailytrlbune.com • T•¥JP8S Larry Crum, Sports Writer (740) 446-2342 , ext. 33 Ierum Omydailyregister.com 667..316» ' another. The Toronto Blue .lays may find that out after setting the tone for the free agent ~cason by giving a com- bined $ 102 million to a starting pitd1er wit11 a career reco.rd of 49-50 and a closer who has saved only 42 g.amcs in his career. providing that the quarterback · can handle it . "We need . tu usc that to our . a~~-antage _because our ~tadn!m, 1s chtterent, hke a couple ot ~ther studiUms around th~ . leag~e, . Palmer said Wednesday. And we need to Before they were so richly rewarded. all A..l. Burnett and B.J . Hyan had in common were initials in front of th eir surnames. Now they've both got multimillion dollar contracts guaranteed through 20 I 0. "One thing about the free-agent game is if you're going to get in it, you can't get in it halfway." _Blue Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi said. " Either .Please see Palmer, Bl Please see Dahlberg, Bl .Cuban federation shut out of World Baseball Classic Bv RONALD BLUM ASSOCIATED PRE SS CoNTAcrs !rom Southern Cal gave ht s worst performance ot the season in a 2320 \'ictury uver Cleveland, rai sing question-. llow he'll Uo when the weather gets worse lmd the stakes ge t hi ghec _ The \Vind at Paul Brown Stadium was nasty Sunday. provtding the ultimate hume-rield at! vantage _ "The ktnd of activity we've seen so ·ri.lr i1.1 ccrtain respects is encouraging," Fchr sail). · Discouraging. though. i[ you're a l;m who will eventtJally have to pay in the form of pricier tickets and ballpark beers. It 's one thing to overpay for c'cryday players (think Dodgers and Rafael Furcal). Mortgaging a 'team 's ftllure with pitchers is quite NEW YORK _ Cuba won't be allowed to send a team to next year's inaugu ral World Baseball Classic, the U.S. government told e\'e nt omanizers Wednesday. The dc.:ision by the Treasury Department 's Office of Foreign Assets Comrol was conveyed to Major League Ba.;;ehall on Wednesday, according to Pal Courtney, a spokesman for the commissioner's ofli.:e. A permit from OFAC · is necessary because of U.S. lmv.-. !.mverning certain commcrci~d transactions with Fidel Cast ro' s cnmmuni>t i~land nation . Paul Archey, the senior . vice president" of Major League Baseball International. and Gene Orza. the chief operating offic er of the Major League Baseball Players Assm;iation. iss ued a joint statemen t sayi ng the organizers would try to have the dcci•don rever~ed. The commissioner's <>flice and the union have jointly organilcd the 16-team tournam'ent, which runs from March J-20 in the Uniteo States. Puerto Riro und Japan. "We arc very disappointed wilh thL" government\ ckd sion to deny the participation of a team from Cuba in 1he World lhsebal l Clos; ic." Archey and Orza said. "We wi ll· continue to work within appropriate channcl.s in an attempt to addre" !he government\ concern .. and will not announce a replocement unleS> and until that effort fail ,." Organizers had said the Cuban team likely would have inducted only players currently re si ding in Cuba and not defectors such as Jose Contreras, Orlando Hernandet. · and Livan whu have Hernandez, become major ·league stur-... In the iournament schedule ' ;innounced la't week. Cuba w;\s to play its three i'ir;truund games in San .Juan , Puerto Rico. facing Pamma on March 7, the Netherlands on Murch 9 and Puerto Rico the following day. If the Cubans 'advanced. thev wouiJ also have played tht'i'r second-round garne.~ in Puerto Rico. " It is our policy that we do not confirm. deny or discuS> license,," Treasury spokeswomcllt Molly Millcrwisc said in an e-mail to The , Associated Press . "Generally >pcak11og. the Cuba embargo prohihib cntenng tnto conll'act> in which Cuha or Cuban nationals have an tn terc:-. r. At lust week'-.. news conferenec in Dallas announcing touri1<1111ent plans, Orza :-.nunJed nearly c:ertain about OFAC nranting a permit . · " I do ~10t thitlk that is a serious impedimen t," Orza said, adding he wa~ "very. very confide nt that the Cubans will play." • .. �Page B2 • The Daily Sentinel www.mydailysentinel.com Thursday, December 15,2005 OSU president says no NCAA rul~ng required for coach's firing Bv RUSTY MILLER ASSOC IATED PRESS COLUMBUS - Ohio State did not need an· NCAA ruling to fire basketball coach Jim 0' Brien because a former school official said the coach admitted he violated a mle by loaning a potential recmu $6,000, President · Karen Holbrook testified Wednesday. Holbrook said the university had a right to terminate O' Brien's contract because one of the school's regulations for coaches is to know and comply with NCAA bylaws. O' Brien di sputes that he told former athletic director Andy Getger · th at he violated an NCAA mle. He is suing in the Ohio Court of Claims tor $3.5 million in back pay and benefits for what he says was an . 'improper dismissal in . June · 2004. The judgment could ·grow by millions if interest and other damages are awarded. A provtston of O' Brien's . contract said the NCAA had to rule on alleged violations · AP photo before he could be fired for Dhio State Un ive rsity President Dr. Karen Holbrook testifies during former basketba ll coach that reason. But Holbrook said Jim O'Brien's tri a l in courtroom of Judge Joseph T. Clark of the Ohio Court of Claims in there was still justification for Columbus Wednesday. O'Brien is s uing th e school in his wrongful firing lawsuit the dismissal without such a Ohio State to have suspended egregious violation -and one Geiger said. ru!i ng. him until the NCAA had that h.ad no remedy." O'Brien attorney Joseph 111 · ' e contract still requires investigated any possible viaHolbrook said there was no Murray asked Geiger how he ' him to uphold Ohio State's lation and then . rendered a reason to investigate the matter knew the loan would make permanently standards, which are the same decision, but Geiger said that or to contact the NCAA after Raddjevic as the NCAA's in part, but was not even considered. Geiger reported to her thar ineli~ible. Geiger said his "We're now in the 19th O'B nen · had ac k now1ed ge d belt'e was based on what he nonetheless, h it is an bOl)io hState d" contract t at was reac e , . month of the NCAA process. giving Radojevic 's family the considered a major violation. she satd. . . Having a coach in limbo or money. "Have you ever heard of O' Brien says the .loan to · having a coach suspended "We did not ask the NCAA," Troy Smith?" Murray asked. · · Smt'th, Oht'o State's start1'ng Aleksandar Radojevtc, a b'7- w9uld be grossly unfair to the sh e sat·d . "Th'ts was a umverst~ 3 f s oot- pros~ct. rom er ta, young people who pla,l;' bas- ty decision." quarterbac k in football the was not a vtolatton because he kelball at Ohio State ' said t d $ 00 knew Radojevic already had Geiger, called as the ~hool's Radojevic never played at F:~~t:o t~:s,booac~,~~~ea y5ear 'o"" · but testifyinf for· Ohio State and never enrolled ago. He was forced to sit out •• ue1 ted hts ama1eur status by f"trst wttness · · the tna · . •' 1t in classes at the school. After two games but played most of Playing Pro.,'esst onaII y. He aIso t11e th'trd tune 111 contends that the loan did not would have arrested any devel- he signed to come 10 Ohio this · season with the come !O light until after the opment of our program and State from a junior college, it Buckeyes. NCAA s tour,year statute of that would have been an unten- was determined that he had Interviewed after his firing, limitations. able solution." . Pl.ayed · professionally for a O' Brien told NCAA investtO' Brien, who coached the Holbrook was asked if she team in Yugoslavia and he was gators that he was relieved Buckeyes to a 133-88 record or other Ohio State administra- declared ineligible by the that Radojevic's appeal was that included two Big Ten titles tors had contacted the NCAA NCAA. deni ed. . and a conference tournament to find out how serious the Geiger said "it was a cha'This is the amazing part to title in seven seasons, says he sanctions . stemming from rade, a sham," that O' Brien me," Geiger said. "He gave the money to Radojevic's O'Brien 's loan might be. had allowed Ohio State to (O'Brien) said in his NCAA fatruly m late 1998 or early "No." she said. 'The issue spend months on an appeal to statement .that he realized he 1999 because the player's was the coach had entered into regain Radojevic 's eligibility. would be living with an inelifather had recently died. a clear violation of NCAA "The coach had already gible player. I thought to O'Brien's lawyers have bylaws; it was a considered to made Alex irrevocably ineligt- my self, 'What on emth would argued that his contract allbws be a blatant violation, and an ble by giving h.im the money," the university be living with?'" Palmer throw in the worst weather. So I' m used to throwing in from PageBl He's admittedly not used to feel ing it. After a workout on the field Wednesday morning . Palmer walked into the locker room with his bare hands pulled up inside the sleeves of hi s gray hooded sweat shirt. Hi s red nose sniffled. " It' s co ld out there ," he said. The thought of playing in Detroit 's indoor stadium Sunday quickly warmed him . " ! love playing in · a dome ," he said . ''I'm exci ted. Bein g a qu arterb ac k, you've go t perfect weather. get a better feel for exactly where the wind comes from and how it comes through." He rarely encountered Jack Frost as a high sc hool and college quarterback in California. Palmer started learning about the joys of winter on a daily basis during his 2003 rookie season in Cincinnati. The Bengals are one of the few northern teams that don ' t have a covered practice facility for when the . weather gets raw. a so re point with coach Marvin Lewis. So, they practice in the co!d, rain and wind. Palmer took over as the starter last season and did all right in his first experiences with wintry weather. One of his best moments ca me two week s ago in the biting cold of Pittsburgh, where a 38-31 victory put the Bengals ( 103) in control of the AFC North . He prefers to think of his showin g agai nst Cleveland as an aberration, hot an indication he's a fi sh in frozen water. · "We pract ice in it eve ry day, without havin g a bubble to practice in," Palmer said . "You practic e in the worst weather and yo u Pound from Page Bl swishing his lirst two 3-point tries. The se nior forward has struggled with his shot all season, making only 21 percent from behind the arc. The jlobcats, picked to win the Mid-American Conference, went 4-0 for the first time in six years with a balanced offen se. Aga in st Cincinnati, they rushed their shots early, missing layups and tip-ins while goi ng 4-of21 from the fi eld. • it." great footin g, no wind , no snow, no rain . Quarter bac ks a nd receivers , I assume. all love doing it. " And kickers, of course . Bengal s kick e r Shayne Graham und ersta nd s why Palmer was wary of the wind on Sunday. Graham 's 37-yard field goa l into the wind on the fi nal pla y beat the Browns. One mo re victory will clinch th e AFC North and ensure at least one pl ayo ff game at Paul Brown Stadium, letti ng the winds come into play aga in . " I' ve been in the stadium where all fo ur ribbon s on top of the goalposts were blowing toward each other," Graham said Wednesday. "It doesn't make any sense, but I've seen it. That 's ju st what happens when you've got so many surfaces for the wind to blow against." At Paul Brown Stadium , the sideline seats are hi gh and the end zo ne. seats are low, allowing 'the wind to race throu g h. It caroms unpredictably off the and sometime s stands blows opposite to the way the !lags atop the . f'i eld are blo wing. ''Sometimes you ' re not sure where it 's co min g from. and it really swirls," Palmer said . He considers hi s shak y perform~nce against C levela nd - 13-of-27 fo r 93 yards and a costly interception - as nothing more than a rare off day. It was u nl y the second time . all season he had a passer rat ing be low I 00. Given how well he had played, he was due for a c lunker. " ! missed some easy ball s that I don ' t norm all y mi ss," Palmer sa id . "There 's no exc use and no reaso n I shou ld do th at. I just didn ' t play my best, and I'm go in g. to need to play better ift th e futUre.'' ' Particularly whe n th e , t'I\Jkes are fl yin g and th e wi nd is how li ng. Whitney Davis changed the fir st half. There · were the momen tum by hittin g three more lead cha nues Downey helped consec utive 3's, sta rtin g a before 20-4 run th at put Ohio up 31 - Cincinnati regain contro l for 25. Davis had .all of his I 0 good. points during the sp urt, He got a long rebound and inducting a steal and a break- drove for a lay up before away dunk th at revved sever- Ohio's defende rs could react, al ht!ndred green-c lad Ohio and drove and passed off to fa ns 111 th e less-than-capaci ty James White for an easy bascrowd of 9, 133. ket th~t sparked the 24-5 The Bearcats have n't ·spurt and put Cincinnati up drawn I 0,000 fan s for any of 64-45. their six home games si nce The.Bearcats also asserted Bob Hu ggins was ousted as themselves on defense, holdhead coac h. ing Ohio to two baskets and Downey made a three- three free throws . in the first point play off a fastbreak 9 minutes of the second half. layu p that prevented Ohio Troutman scored six of those· from inc reasing its lead in seve n points. I Dahlberg fromPageBl you're going to be a player or you ' re not. ,, Wh en 'you become a playe r, though, you risk getting burned . Burnett may have. a 98 mph fastball and a no-hitter on hi s resu me, but he's also had elbow surgery and has ne ver won more than 12 games in a season. Ryan , meanwhile, was a medi ocre middle reliever before finally getti ng his chan ce to save games with Baltimore. But th e Blue Jays were badly in need of pitchin g if th ey wanted to compete with the Yank ees in the AL East. And, after cuttin g payroll and · grooming future · stars, they had money to spend in a thin free agent pitching market. Unfortunately f(u Toronto , there 's a reason five- ye ar deals for .pitchers have been out of vogue in recent times. Teams have ended up with bad cases 'o f bu yer's remorse after making big investments on the mound. Chan Ho Park cost Texas $65 million over five years, but won ju st 22 games before the Range rs shipped him along with a wad of cash to San Diego. Kev in Brown got a seven-year deal that included private jet service from the Dodgers, yet averaged only 10 wins a year between Los Angeles and the Yankees. Darren Dreifort, meanwhile, earned $13.4 million last year and didn't even touch a ball. He was injured so much he won only nine games over the length of his five-year, $55 million contract with tj!e Dodgers. And in . Colorado they surel y remember the eightyear, $121. million contract Mike Hampton signed with the Rockie s. It's only money, though, which is what the Mets must have been thinking when they signed Billy Wagner for $43 million to be their closer for four years . Wagner will be 38 when the contract is up, so for good measure New York threw in · a club option for a fifth year. And who really can blame th e Tigers for givi ng $ 16 million to. camern-basher Kenny Rogers or the Cubs for making instan t millionaires of se tup men Scott · Eyre and Bobby Howry? Baseball ow ners have a long . history of not being ·able to control themselves when it comes to landing pitchin g talent. That goes back to Ted Turner winnin g a bidding war for . one ef baseball's first free agents in 1976, signing Andy Messersmitli to a three-year, $ 1.75 million contract. Messersmith .won only 16 ga mes in two years for Atlanta. was so ld to the Yankees and won only two · more games the ·rest of hi s career. Messe rsmith 's contract wouldn 't barely cover expense money for today's players, but the underlying dynamics haven ' t changed. There are .on ly so many decent pitchers . to go around, and only a few left for next season . ·Fans may not like th e price, but they demand the players. " It's a byproduct of our indu st ry," Ricciardi said after signing Rya n. ' ''We're damned if we do and damned if we don't. " Houston showed rare ·restraint by allowing Roger Clemens to go, but imagine what the 43 -year-old will be worth if he decide s to return next season. The Boston Red Sox are already salivating at the thought of th e Rocket 's return to Fenway Park. Jeff Weaver also figures to land a big multiyear deal when agent Scott Boras is done marketing the free agent ri ghty who most recently toiled for the Dodgers. And Boras is shopping Kevin Millwood for the kind of money and length of deal that Burnett received . After that, who knows? The way the market is going someone may want to offer Dreifort another five years. He is, after all, a free agent once again. Tim Dahlberg is a nationtil sports columnist for Th e Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlberga(J.org We remember those who have passed away and are especially.dear to us. On Friday, December 23, we will publish a special page devoted to those who are gone but not lorgotten. They Will be Similar to lhe sample below: you wish, select one of lh{' following t' REE verses below to your tribute. David C. 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Hoping to bolster their sta rting rotation , the Worl d Series · ~ham p ion White Sox agreed to acquire righthande r Javier Vazquez from Arizona for right-hander Orlando Hernandez, reliever Luis Vizcaino and minor league outfielder Chris Young, a baseball official said Wednesday. The deal is contingent on the players passing physi· cals and must be approved by commissioner Bud Selig beca use Arizona is sending the White Sox cash to help pay part of Vazquez's salary. AP photo Vazquez dealt to White Sox; Mueller time in Los Angeles BY RONAl-D BLUM ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Javier ·Vazquez is joining the World ,Series champions and their stellar pitching staff. The Chicago White Sox agreed Wednesday to acquire Vazquez from the Arizona _Diamondbacks for right-hander Orlando Hernandez, .reliever Luis Vizcaino and :minor league outfielder Chris Young. · . Vazquez filed a tract~ demand last month, wanting .to move to a team closer to his home in Puerto Rico. If the Diamondbacks had failed to meet his demand by March 15, Vazquez could have become a free agent - voiding the remainder of his contract, which guarantees him $24 million over the next two seasons. Arizona's trade is subject to ·the players involved passing ·physicals and baseball commissioner Bud Selig approving the cash Arizona is sending to the White Sox as part of · the trade. Both teams declined comment because the trade wasn't final. Vazquez joins a rotation that already includes Jose . AP photo Contreras, Jon Garland, Mark Boston Red Sox third basema n Bil l Moe ller laughs during a Buehrle and Freddy Garcia, a staff that led the White Sox to break at batting practice in . this Feb. 27 file photo. at spring their first World Series title training camp in Ft. Myers, Fla. since 1917-. Houston Astros and New son. He is joining his eighth Among free agents, third York Yankees. Garciaparra, team in 14 major league seabaseman Bill Mueller and the coming off two injury-short- sons, his first west of Texas. Los Angeles Dodgers agreed ened seasons, is willing to 'T il be taken out of my to a two-year contract worth play any position other than comfort zone," said Everett, about $9.5 million, ~euniting the former AL batting cham- pitcher or catcher. New York who is from Tampa, Fla. pion with manager Grady manager Joe Torre already "This will 'probably be the has spoken with him . biggest challenge of my Ltttle. "Nomar had a good convercareer. Coming out here, I'm Mueller hit .295 with I 0 sation with Joe Torre this about 2,505 miles away from hemers and 62 RBis in 150 games with Boston last sea- week,'' agent Arn Tellem said home. in an e-mail to The Associated Mariners general manager son. Press. "The Yankees are one Bill Bavas i said the some"Little by little, it became clear he had an interest in ·of four teams that Nomar is times moody Everett "would being here," said new considering. We are in the break up any monotony or Dodgers general inanager process of reviewing the boredom." · "And that's good," Bavasi Ned Colletti, who hired Little options and we hope to make as manager last week. "When .a decision in the near future." · added . Carl Everett left the White 1 mentioned his name, Grady AP Sports Writ ers Bub Sox. agreeing to a one-year couldn't say yes fast enough." Bawn in Phoenix, Gregg Bell Los Angeles also is one of contract with the Seattle four teams interested in sign- Mariners that guarantees the in Seattle, Rick Gano in ing Nomar Garciaparra, de signated hitter $4 million . Chicaxo and John Nadel in whose agent also has spoken Everell batted .25 1 with 23 Los Angeles contributed to this with the Cleveland Indians, homers and 87 RBis last sea- report. Buckeyes remain unbeaten CO~UMBUS (AP) - Ohio State's perfect record stayed . intact after a scare from Belmont on Wednesday night, thanks to J.J. Sullinger's second career double-double and some timely defense. Sullinger scored 14 points in the seco nd half and )e •Kel Foster had steals on consecutive possessions down the stretc h to push the Buckeyes to an 85-75 win. Ohio State (6-0) led by 14. in the first half artd carried a 12-point lead into halfti me before the Bruins (3-4) took a 48-47 lead on Andy .Wicke's layup with 13:26 left. The Buckeyes called a 30-second timeout, then reclaimed the lead on a layup and a 3pointer by Sullinger. who fini shed with 23 points and I 0 rebounds. " He's a guy that if we go for three hou rs, he's nonstop for three hours," Ohio State coach Thad Matta said. "We've asked numer. ous things of him. and he 's accepted the challenge." The Buckeyes also got 18 points from Foster, who was 3-of-6 from beyond the arc. Jamar Butler had 12 points and a career-high seven assists and Ron Lewis added II poi nts as Ohio State ·won its third game in five days. 'Tonight it was evident we were exhausted. We couldn't come up with a loose ball. We couldn ' t come up with a rebound. We had to find the guys th at were go ing to make the plays down the stretch.'' Matta said. · Ohio State opened on a 13-2 run, keyed by 3-pointers from Sullinger. Foster and Matt Sylvester. Wicke had 14 of his 2 1 points in the second to help Belmont close th e gap. Josh Goodwin added 14 points whil e Boomer Herndon had -10 points, six rebounds and a pair of blocks · for the Bruins. Belmont hung around , tying it at 55 with 9:20 left on a Herndon layup. The deci sive stretc h came. with Ohio State leadin g 64-59 . and 6 minutes to play. Foster made hi s second straight steal, feeaing Sullinger for a dunk. Sullinger then stole it on the next possession and converted a threepoint play to make it 69-59. "We knew we had to stri ng some stops together because they were mak in g a run.'' Foster said. "We had to rind some kind of way to slow them down. The two steals came at the righl time.'' ' VIkings' Johnson a different challenge to Steelers defense BY ALAN ROBINSON been managi ng the game ASSOCIATED PRESS PITTSBURGH The Pittsburgh Steelers couldn ' t hav e figured a few weeks ago they would be scram. bling to make the playoffs now. They ' re goi ng agai nst a quarterback who is in much the same position, only fo r a much different reason. The Steelers took advantage of Chicago Bears rookie Kyle Orton's inexpe ri ence and inability to lead a team from behind to end their three-game los ing streak with a 21-9 victory Sunday. This week's opposin g· quarterback, Brad John son of the Minnesota Vikings, is the polar opposite of Orton, and that 's a worry to a Steelers defense that thrive s on its ability to disrupt. There has Qeen little di srupting of John son as he has won six conse.c utive starts since replacing the ·injured D~unte Culpepper. The change has tran sformed a Vikings team that was in considerable disarray on and off the field when it was 2-5 into one that is 8-5 and trails th ~ Bears by one game in th e NFC North. "Th~y're kind of a re surgent team, probably at the first of the year everybody was counting them out but . they've turned it on of late and won a bunch of games in a row and they're playing like a new team," Steelers quarterback Be n said Roet hli sberger Wedne sday. " Brad brin gs 14 years of experie nce and more of a throwing mentality, and he 's doing a great . job of leading that team ." ' The Steelers, conversely, looked to be in prime posi- we ll an d doing a good .1ob of nm havi ng a whole lot of turnovers." . While th e Bears (9 -4) c'ame into Pittsburgh co nfident after winn ing eig ht in a row. mu<:h of that wnfi . denc·e was ·generated by a de fen se that has allowed the . fewest points and ya rd s in tion to defend their AFC the league. Much of the North title when they were v·1kings' winning mind-set 7 -2, ~ut have since lost three of four. C inc inn ali is· coming from John so n. ( 10-3) will clinch the divi- which, to Porter. wi ll make 't s nex 1 v1c · 1 Sl.on wt'th 1 ory or the Steelers defen se's J·ob the Steelers' next loss, more dillicult - espec ially which means the Steelers on the road. can get into the playoffs for "The situat ion they were th e fourth time in five years in, it looks like the seaso n only as a wild card. is over, hut you have a vet To linebacker Joey Porter. like him co me in and got that 's the key que sti on to be the guys to rally behind answered Sunday at th e · him ," Po rter said . " You win Metrodome: Was winning one and you want to ge t once•enough to· refocus the another one. You strin g a Steelers, who, despite their coupl e of them togeth er and rece nt slump. have won 23 yo u start to th ink you're of 29 the last two seasons? prett y good. That's all it "Where we are ri ght now, takes to get your confidence we put ourselves in that sit- goi ng and he did that for uation, and ifs up to us to that team . He lifted' them up ge t ourselves out of this sit- and now they feel like uation ," he said . " Winnin g they're b;tck in it. " is the only thing that can M e a 11 w h i 1 e . make thin gs better, and Roe th!·isberge r will keep that's wh at we ' re trying to wearin g a glove over the do thi s week." protective splint on th e The Steel ers got Orton right thumb he· inJUred Nov. out of rhythm by taking 28 against the Co lts, eve n · leads of 7-0, 14-3 and 2!- 3 and making him play from thou gh Sunday 's game is behind. But Porter knows it indoors. Ne ither he nor the will be harder to un settle Steelers have re vea led what the 37-year-old Johnson , the injury is. tho'ugh it did who has completed 116 of n't appear to affe ct him as 188 passes for 1,247 yards, he threw for I '13 vards wit h eight touchdown s and two a touchdo wn and no i nt~ r­ interceptions since re plac- ce ptions aga inst Chi cago . ing Culpepper. "We're go ing to throw in "He's making good deci- practice and see how it sion s with the footb all. He's feels· in si de," tryin g to place the ball in Roethli sberger said . " It will position for hi s receivers to be warm and my hmid wil l go up and make plays for probably swea t a little hit , him ," Porter said , " He 's but we' ll make ·it work."' ~ay Merry Christmas to c~omeone ~pecial with a .&ntinel Christmas An8el Example: Actual Size "'ONLY"' ~ooo .fer Picture· Prepaid Adam Rodgers ~'Merry Christmas" Mommy &. 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Certificates Series 2004 OPt C/0 t Option One Mortgage Corporation Plaintiff VS Ronal E Davis at al Defendant Case No Q5-CV.Q23 Defandant(s), John Doe Real Name Unknown the Unknown Spouse If any, of Pauline F Davis, whole laet known address Ia 35646 Carpenter Hill Rd , Langsville, Ohio 45741 , and John Doe and/or Jane Doe, Real names unknown, the unknown Heirs, Devisees, Legatees, Adminatratlora, Executors and Assigns of Paulina F Davia, (leceaad, will take notice that on October 6, 2005, Wells Fargo Bank National Aaaoclatlon, as Trustee for Morgan Stanley capital I Inc , Truot 2004-0Pt Mortgage Pan· Through CertHicatll, Serlll 2004-0P1, C/0 Option One Mortgage Corporation , flied their Supplemental Complaint In Caae Number 05·CV,023, In the CoUrt of Common Plaaa of Meigs County, Ohio elleg· lng that the defendant(&) John Doe, Real Name Unknown, the Unknown spouse If any, ol Pauline F Davia, and John Doe t~ndlor Jane Doe, 'Real Names unknown, the Unknown heirs, devisees, legateee, admlnatratora, exec~,t­ tora and assigns of, Paulina F Davia , deceased have or claim to have an Interest In the real estate described below Situated In the Township of Salem, Gounty of Melga, and State of Ohio Situate In Salam Township, Meigs County, State of Ohio and being In Section 5 Town 8 North , Range 15 Wast of tha Ohio Purchau and being deacrtbed as follows Beginning at an Iron Rod Wast aboul 2640 teet and south about 1095 Feet from the Northeast corner of Saction 4B0,5, thence Soul~ 9 dog will be required for 18 20 Weat 151 45 and for auch other each set of plans and feet to an Iron rod, and further relief aa Is speclllcat•ons check thance South 28 Deg just and equHable 41" 20' west 16311 The defendants mada payable to The full amount will be feet to a point In the named above are returned within thirty centerline of County requited to answer on or bafore tha 16th (30) days after receipt Road 10, passing an day of February 2006 of bids Iron rod at 143 feat for reference, Thence Walla Fargo Bank Each bid must be accompanied by north 46 Deg 58'30 National Association either a bid bond In West 99 68 feet along as Trustee lor Morgan the cantorllno of aald Stanlay Capital I Inc , an amount of 100% of tho bid amount with a county Road 10 lo a Truat 2004·0P1 surety satisfactory to point, lhence Norlh Mortgage Pass· 53 Deg 43' 10" West Through Certificates, the aforesaid Meigs 109 69 Feat Along the Sanaa 2004·0P1 C/0 County centerline ot said Option One Mortgaga CommiSSioners or by county road 10 to a Corporation Mark A certified check, point, Thence North Poland (0071988) cashiers check, or let· 14 Deg 47' 20" East tar ol credit upon a Anorney for Plaintiff solvent bank In the 16509 Feet loan Iron Carlisle, McNellle, Rlnl Kramer & Ulrich, amount of not less Rod paaalng an Iron than 10% of the bid rod at 15 feet for ret· LPA, 24755 Chagrin amount In favor of t)1e erence, Thence East Blvd Suite 200 221 95 Feet to the Cleveland OH 44t22 aforesaid Meigs point of beginning 2t6-360 7200 Phone County Commissioners Bid containing 1 18 216 360·7210 acraa, more or leas, Facsimile, Bonds shall be excepting all legal mpolandOcarllale accompanied by Proof of Authority of rlghto of way Tha law com bearings In the abova the official or agent (12) 15 22 29, (1) 5 12, 19 doocrlpUon are based signing the bond Bids shall be sealed on tho reference deed volum 127, Page 122 and marked as Bid Description per for Meigs County Public Notice Council on Aging Survay of Robert H Eason, Registered NOTICE TO CON· Hotshot Vahlcle Surveyor Ohio R.S TRACTORS Project and mailed or No 1·06546, dated Sealed proposals tor delivered to April 1984. Promlaea the Purchase and Meigs County commonly known aa Delivery of One (1) Commissioners 35846 Carpenter Hill Hotshot Meal Courthouse Pomeroy, Rd, Langavlllt, Ohio Delivery System Ohlo45769 45714 The Plalntllf Vehicle for tho Malgs Attantion of bidders further altegaa that County Council on Is called to all of tha con~ by reason of default Aging, Melga County, requirements In the payment of the Ohio, will be received talned In this bid promissory note, by the Meigs County packet, particularly to according to Ita tenor, Commissioners at the Federal Labor tha condltlona or a thalr ofllce at tha Standards Provisions concurrent mortgage courthouse , and Davis-Bacon deed given to secure Pomeroy, Ohio 45769 Wages, various lnsur· until 100 pm , ance requlremenls 1 tho payment of aald nota and conveying Thuraday, January 5, various equal oppor~ tha premises 2006 and then at 1 15 tunlty provisions, and p m , at said office deacrlbed, hava been the requirement for a broken and the ume opened and read payment bond and has become aloud tor the follow~ performance bond tor lng absolute 100% of I he contract Tha plaintiff demands Purchase and price No bidder may that tha defondanta Dellvary ot one (1) withdraw his bid with· named above be Hotshot Meal In thirty (30) days raqulrad to anawer Delivery System after the actual date and aat up their InterVehicle lor tha Malga of the opening there· eat In aald real estate County Council bn of The Meigs County or ba forever barred Aging Commissioners from asserting the Specifications pro reserve the right to ume for forclosure vlded In bid packet reject any or all bids of said mortgage, the Specifications, and Mlck Davenport, marahallng of any bid forma may be President Iiana, and the ule of aecured at the office Meigs Counly uld real estate, and of Malgs County Commlasloners tha proceedo of aald Commlsaloners (12) 15, 19 21 sale appllod to the Courthouse payment of plalntllfo Pomeroy Ohio 45769 claim In the proper Phone 740·992 2895 A deposit of 0 dollars order of Ito priority 1-2-739o-Other services 3,08525 90,054 57 1-2-7410 Security Services 4,341 25 1·2·7430 Computer Services 179 oo 1~2-7440 Cleaning & Janltorla 2,540 00 1·2·7450 Grounds K-Ing 2,75000 1·2·7460 Trash Hauling 2103 11 1-2~7470 Sound System Service 3 695 00 1-2-7480 Tax~Real Estate ............."792 40 1 ·2~ 749~0ther Purchased Serv • 9.342 00 25,742 76 1·2·7510. Newspapers Lagal ADS ···A;~·:::;::::::.·::::::::; 529 80 1·2·752DAD 1 ,802 25 1-2·7590~0ther Communications 600 00 2·2·7520· Newspaper ADS 190 00 2,922 05 1 2 7610 Equipment Repairs 1· 2 762D-Motor Vehicles Repair 1·2·7630 Building Repair 1· 2 7690 Other Repairs 9506 10195 • 76498 2,737 42 3,699 41 74 1 2 7850 Rent Motor Vehicle .••....•••.•• 3,081 00 1·2·7870 Rontlleaoe aqulpment 6,426 05 9,517 OS 1·2·7910 Land 1-2 7920 Buildings 1-2-7930 Motor Vehicles 1·2·7940 Equipment 1·2 7980 Other 2-7910 Land ' 2·7920 Bulldlngo Public Notice Public Notice 20,80000 57,519.86 •• 3,45678 2,927 31 3, 596 34 3,20000 2,500,00 94,00029 1-2·7220- Race Purse 2~ 2·722D- Race Purses 2·2·7230. Starting Gate 2· 2 7240-Photo flnlah 2 2· 7251).-Track Maintenance 2·2·726D-Announcer, Judge• 2·2·7290- Other Race Related 19,440 00 20,30400 80000 60000 34053 1, 375 00 .., 804,00 43,7:1363 1· 2·7310 Legal Services 839 00 1-2-7320 Auditing Services 2,538 80 1-,2-7330 Veterinary 5ervlcea. .. .600.00 1-2=-=7340 Contractual Entertainment 39,118 62 1-2-7350 Ride Company Expense 43,824 90 1·1-1220 Seatson nckatl •• 42,812.00 1-1·1230 Admlnlon Tlcketo 98.220.00 1.340.00 1-1-1240 Grandstand Evenls 142,372 00 1·1·14110 Other Sales ••.•. •••••.••••••.•..••••••••• 481 60 48180 1+1510 Entry Foeo 4,300 00 1-1=1540 Speed Fees • 10,240 DO 1-1·1590 Other Race Receipts ,..., 611 ,70 15,151 70 F~~~~~::::::::::::::::::~~589 2,910 00 1·11810 Claos Entry Faea 1·1·1820 Member11hlp 1-1·1830 Contest Fees 1 13&4 00 9,863 00 1·1·1120 Rental Buildings • 1-1·1930 Rental camp SHoo 1 1-1950 Rental stalle, Pen 1~1~1960 Rental Storage 1·1· 1990 Rental Other 3,401 00 13,835 00 2,430 00 3,198 DO 4 40000 27,28400 1 2-8040..1nterest Payments ...................., 138 OS 138 06 1·2-911Q-Senlor Fair Judgea 1 303 88 1 2 912Q..Sanlor Fair Premiums 3,777 99 2·2 912D-Senlor Fair Premiums •. aoo.oo 5,881 85 2-1-2110 Ohio Falro Fund ···:::.::::::::::::: 2,888 28 2·1-2130 Ohio Fairs Fund ••• 5,000 00 2·1·2140 Ohio Fair Funda 20,304 00 2·1·2150 Ohio Dept ol Agrlc 3A51 85 32,044 24 1· 2·921 o Contest Judgeo • •• •• • 175 00 1..2 9220~ Contest Premlum1 ................J.t5~,~7~68~34~ 15,941 34 2·1·2210 County Govm1 Grant 2-1~2230 County Govern Grant 2-1-2240 County Govern Grant 2+2270 County Govern Grant 1 1 3400 Transfers In ........................ . 98,387 54 98,38754 1·1·3500 ADVANCES IN ........................,-,!,9!.J,OOO~:\! ·OO~ 9,000 DO 37Q.11 15,00000 1·1·3930 Other Sales of Aooet ................. 200 00 20000 TOTAL INCOME • ••••.•..•..••.••••• 446,913 96 Expense 1·2·4010 Secretary 1 Salary .................. 5,512 so 1·2.o4030 Grounds maintenance 6,025 58 1,614 50 1-,3-4090 Other Salaries 13,152 56 1~2-6110 Board of Olrecttco'.rr~o ..'.".".~·:.~.·::::.·:••;4~,5~6~1~84~ 1·2-6140 Membershlpo ••. 515 00 5,076 84 2·2 8290 OTHER RACE EXPENSES 85 00 85 00 1 2-&410 Office supplies .:·:·::···.. ~·········· .. 330 65 1 2~420 Grounds maintenance 676 85 1·2-6490 Other Supplloa m.§l 2 002 11 Electrlcjjty~ :·~-~~~·~~8]8!212!3!9 1 2 7140 Water 1·2·7150 Telephone 1·2·7110 2·2·7110 Elactrlclty 2·2 7140 Water 2 2 7150 Telephqne 918 69 1,163 73 500 00 250 00 . 250 oo 11,894 81 717 80 Sponaorohlpp~:;~:~:~:~::::::::::::11~1~,200~.jooi. 1-14140 1·1·3130 Promotions 1-1-3190 Othor Reotrlctod Sup ....... o.oo 11,91780 1-1-3210 oms Donation• ····::::::. :::::~~gogW~oo;_ 1·1-3290 Other unreatrlctad 52,117.89 !53,017.88 a. 1-2-9310 Junior Fair Judges 1· 2· 9320 Junior Fair Premlumo 3 1203 41 1,888 32 !:;;:::::::::.~4~,3~54~34; 500 oo 1-2 9390 Other Fair 2·2·8310 JuniorJunior Fatr Judgeo 2~2·9320 Juntor Fair Premium• 111 3.151 H 13,785 02 1 2·9490 Other Fair Expenooo •••••••. •,.-'!41-!-•'!'42~7~,113!'! 41,42713 1·2·9500 Trenoforo Out ......................~118~.~38!';7~,~114 18,387 84 1 2~9100 Advanoea ~ \\\()1 \c I \II\!.._ r ANNOUNCEMEI'IIS I I Jarled Sm1th am not respona•ble lor any debts other than my own as of 11120105 Wreaths & Grave Blankets $6 $25 (740)949 2115 Sues Greenhouar r GIVEAWAY 5 black lab puppies Mother Black Lab (on premises) father traveling salesman awks old wormed (740)367 7522 8 used wmdows & 8 storm windows FREE all differ entSizes (740)446 1714 r :1 ~~ (2) narrow gold bands (attached) w1th small diamonds Sentimental Value REWARD Please ca ll (740)388 1708 or (304)576 4501 and leave a message 1f no one IS there REWARD Childs pet Mtmature Schnauzer salt/pepper Lost in vicinity of Eastern and Chatham Ave If found please call (740)441 0143 or (740)709 18Ei1 Reward Lost Friday around Rayburn Rd&Sandhlll Ad PI Pleasant Small black male Sk1pper Key dog w/no 1a1t answers to Captain (304)675-3354 r Mixed breed pups to g1ve away 3 mates 4 fema le Call (740)245 5221 e~1 Lostl Gold Martne Corps Ring with Onyx Stonell Rowardll (740)992 9927 t.ost 2 Cows 1 Rod Cow and 1 Red w1th while lace Call 740 742 2773 or 740 742 2220 r_.,."%ANrnll_BUY._. 1 ... 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Items As Is No returns Not respons ble tor ace• dents on premises CLASSIFIED INDEX 4x4 1 For Sale ••:::::::::::::::::.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::725 Announcement. 030 Antiques 530 Apartmants for Rent • 440 Auction and Flea Markel • • • 080 Auto Parts & Acceasot1ee. 760 Auto Repair • 770 Autos for Sate 710 Boats & Motors for Sole 750 Building Supplies 550 Bualnaeo and Buildings 340 Buslnoao Opportunity 210 Buslnaas Trolnlng • • .. • 140 Campers & Molor Homea 790 Camping Equipment • 780 Carda of Thanks. • • • 010 Child/Elderly Care 190 ElactrlcaVRofrlger11tlon 840 Equipment for Rent 480 Excavating 830 Farm Equipment 610 Farms for Rent 430 Farms for Sale 330 For Leaee 490 ForSele 585 For Sale or Trade 590 Frulla & Yegetabloo 580 Furnlahed Roome 450 General Hauling 850 Giveaway 040 Happy Ada .050 Hay & Grain 640 Help Wonted 110 Home Improvements 810 Homes for Sale. • 310 Houoehold Goodo 510 Houseo for Rent 410 In Memoriam 020 tnaurance • 130 Lawn & Garden Equipment 660 Llvootock • • 830 Losl and Found • • .. • • 060 Lobi & Acreage .. , • • • 350 Mlocollanoouo • 170 lliocallonoouo Merchandloe 640 Moblla Home Repair 860 MobUa Homes for Rent 420 Mobile Homes tor Sate 320 Money to Loan 220 Motorcycloo & 4 Wheelers 740 Mualcallnatrumento •• 570 Pertonala 005 Peto lor Sale 580 Plumbing & Heating 820 i'roleaolonal S.rvlceo • 230 Radio, TV & CB Repair 160 Real Estate Wantod 360 Schoolo lnotructlon 150 Seed , Plant & Fertilizer 650 Sltuottono Wanted 120 Space for Rent 480 Sparling Goodo 520 suv a for Sole •720 Trucks for Sale 715 Upholotery 870 Vena For Solo 730 Wanted to Buy ovo Wanted to Buy· Farm Supplteo 620 Wonted To Do 180 Wanted to Rent 470 Yard Sale- Galllpollo • 072 Yard Sei•Pomeroy/Middle 074 Y rd Sale·Pt Plaaoant 076 {ri How you can have borders and graphics lL..l added to your classified ads 1m Borders $3.00/per ad Graphics SOc for small $1.00fortarge Display Ads Dally In - Column 1 00 p m Monday-Friday for In•ertlon In Newt Day 's Paper Sunday In-Column 1 00 p m 'rldO•Y For Sunday• Peper All Dl•pl•y 12 Noon 2 Bu•lne•• Day• Prior To Publication Sunday Dl•play: 1:010·1>.-t,n. 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Mti&l Countr OH o.,.. c I The Daily Senhnel • Page 85 www.mydailysentlnel.com Thursday, December 15, 2005 GA 1 Wednesday 1 Colleg• Bulcetblll 86 2 Major Score• 1 79 EAST 102 Fordham 95 Fa rt eld 80 PA 106 Tuesdays Games Harvard 91 Long Island U 79 241 106 Wash•ngton 94 New Jersey 74 Hofstra 73 Stony Brook 56 233 Atlanta 100 Cleveland 94 Monmouth N J 41 Princeton 21 246 Denver 101 Charlotte 85 GA SOUTli 314 S5 Sacramento 93 M•nnesota 91 Auburn 66 SE Loulstana 51 M1am 100 Chicago 97 73 SOUTH Campbell 93 N Carolina A& T 72 PA San Antomo 95 L A C ppers 87 OT 91 AMC ALL Coastal Carolina 72 S Carolina Sf 57 209 Golden State 11 0 Seatte 107 OT 104 72 Wal~h 30 Coli of Charleston 85 North Flonda 63 214 Wednesday 8 Games 74 Cedarvtlle 30 83 Georg a Southern 81 Jacksonville 67 ChiCago 105 Toronto 94 254 Mt Vernon Nazarene 2 1 94 N C State 86 "! C AshavtHe 56 331 Phllrtdelptua 106 Atlanta 101 GA Urbana 21 56 Northwestern St 92 LSU Shreveport 82 1 Boston 85 lnd1ana 71 BO btl to Dom mean 2 1 45 South Alabama 81 Louls1ana Monroe 71 Orlando 105 New York 90 PA 93 Tiffm 12 62 South Carolina 68 Winth rop 54 Oetr011109 Sacramento 98 148 81 49 12 Shawnee State MIDWEST Charlofte 91 New Jersey 83 286 12 Wtlberforce 25 e6 Bradley 78 W Kentucky 76 M amt 100 Milwaukee 83 257 96 At0 Grande 55 03 l A Lakers 94 Memph s 79 C1ncmnat1 86 Ohio 58 255 27 Malone 03 Dallas 102 Phoemx 96 Ill Ch1cago 71 Northwestern 62 Two points for a Win one point tor over New Orleans 102 L A Clippers 89 M1nnesota 69 UAB 68 PA Wedneaday'a Transactions Thursday 1 games t1me loss or shootout loss Utah 82 Portland 77 211 OhiO St 85 Belmont 75 BASEBALL -Mount Vernon Nazarene at Florida 1 Houston 111 Golden State 105 OT 378 W1s Green Bay 73 E MIChigan 69 Amerlc1n League ~allege 2 p m "'''Uuday-'1 Games Thuraday 8 Games 319 SOUTHWEST CLEVELAND INDIANS- Agreed to • Friday 1 game& Atlanta 7 Delro1t 6 Denver at Cleve and 8 p m l amar 91 Arka nsas St 81 381 terms w•th OF Todd Donovan INF Jose Ttfftn vs Mtssoun Valley at Notre Dame Carolina 5 Ch1cago 3 San Anlon•o at Minnesota 8 p m FAR WEST Flores and INF Andy Tracy on minor Classtr: 5 30 p m Ror da 7 Nashville 3 Houston at Seattle 10 30 p m Montana 110 Montana Western 71 x chnched diVISion Ktng TN vs Walsh at Ma one Tournament league contracts Mmnesota 4 N Y Islanders 3 Friday 8 Games Oregon St 70 N Colorado 52 SEATTLE MARINER5-Agreed to terms 6pm Ph1ladelph1a 3 Columbus 1 Utal:l at lnd1ana 7 p m Sunday a Games Rto Grande vs lambulh at Bethel TN with DH OF Cart Everett on a one·year Vancouver 3 N Y Rangers 2 New York at Atlanta 7 p m N Y Jets 26 Oakland 10 Tournament 6 p m Wedneaday 1 WOmen 1 Baskelball contract Montreal 5 Phoenl~r: 2 Golden State at Toronto 7 p m Tennessee 13 Houston 10 Goshen vs Oh o Dom ntcan at Otterbetn Malar Scores National Ltague New Jersey 2 Edmonton 1 SO Milwaukee at Boston 7 30 p m Pltlsburgh 21 Chicago 9 1 pm EAST CINCINNATI REDS-Named A10k Sweet St Louts 3 Pltlsbu tgh o Denver at New Jersey 7 30 p m New England 35 Buffalo 7 Concordta Ml at Notre Dame 7 30 p m Pnnceton 67 Aider 63 manager Lee Tunnell pltchmg coach Wednesday • Gamea M1am at Philadelphia B p m C rnc~nn a h 23 Cleveland 20 :Roberts Wesleyan at Hesser 8 p m SOUTH Smokey Garrett hitting coach Alonzo Buffalo 4 Dallas 3 Ch1cago at Detroit 8 p m •Seton H II at Malone 8 p m Minnesota 27 St lOUIS 13 Chattanooga 84 N C Ashev le 59 Powell bench coach and Chris lapote alh Washington 3 los Angeles 2 Phoemx at New Orleans 8 p m ndlanapOlls 26 Jacksonville 18 Saturday 1 games MISSISSippi 67 Rutgers 57 let c tra1ner for louisville of the IL and Anahe m 4 Tamps Bay 2 Orlando at Dallas 9 30 p m Tampa Bay 20 Carolina 10 Ttfltn '¥'5 Concordia Ml at Notre Dame I N w lm•n gton 62 JaCksonville St 40 Mack Jenk ns minor league pttchlng coor Thursd1y 1 Games Seattle 41 San FranciSCo 3 Class1c 1 p m Northwestern St 91 lSU Shreveport 57 Seattle at Portland 10 p m d naiOr Columbus a! Carol na 7 p m Washington at l A Lakers 1o30 p m Seton H 11 vs Walsh at Mal one Washington 17 Arizona 13 South Alabama 62 North Florida 29 LOS ANGELES DODGERs-Agreed to Vancouver at Phi adelphia 7 p m N Y G anls 26 Ph•lade ph1a 23 OT Tournament 1 p m UNC Greensboro 70 Wake Forest 64 terms wHh 38 Bill Mueller on a two year Dallas at Onawa 7 30 p m CBA Daemen at Gannon 2 p m Da a~ 31 Kansas Ctty 28 MIDWEST contract Atlanta at New Jersey 7 30 p m Et8ttrn Conference M1ssoun Valley at Notre Dame 3 p m M1am1 23 San D1ego 21 Clnclnnall 73 Texas Arlington 61 MILWAUKEE BREWERS- Agreed to Boston at Minnesota 8 p m W LOWPTS AVG Denver 12 Balt1more 10 King TN at Malone 3 p m II Ch1cago ao Ch cage Sf 62 terms with LHP Wtlfredo Rodnguez on a Detroit at Flonda 8 p m 65230410 ~7 Rockford Green Bay 16 Detrot 13 OT R10 Grande at Bethel TN 3 p m w M1ch gan 90 Northwestern 72 m nor league contract Ch1cago at Nashville B p m 6 6 250 430 36 I Gary Monday 8 Game Roberts Wesleyan at F1sher 3 p m W1scons•n 72 Wls Milwaukee 57 NEW YORK ME.T$-Agreed to terms Montreal at Edmonton 9 p m 2 7 15 0 21 0 23 MIChigan Atlanta 36 New Orleans 17 Shawnee State at Charleston 7 p m 1 SOUTHWEST with LHP Matt Per sho INF Juan TeJada C Tampa Bay at Phoen x 9 p m 2 8 17 0 23 0 23 Albany Saturday s Games Mount Vernon Nazarene at Tampa 7 30 L'amar 68 Prame Vtew 51 Sandy Martinez and OF Julio Ramirez on Friday 8 Game• Weatem Conference pm Tampa Bay at New England 1 30 p m FAR WEST minor league contracts Buffalo at Pittsburgh 7 30 p m WLOWPTS AVG Kansas C11y at NY G1ants 5 p m New Mexico St 88 UC lrvme 64 PITISBURGH PIRATES-Named Pete St l ouis at Chicago a 30 p m 7 4 26 5 47 5 43 Dakota Denver at BuUalo 8 30 p m Maclcanln manager for Bradenton of the Washington at San Jose 10 30 p m 4 2 Yakama 93230500 Women'sAMC Sunday Oec 18 Gulf Coast League Bruce Tanner pitching los Angeles at Anahe m 1o30 p m SIOUX Falls 65245425 39 NORTH N v Jets at Miami 1 p m coach for Williamsport of the New York 66220400 33 Idaho AMC ALL Anzona at Houston 1 p m Penn League and Tim Leiper manager ECHL 10 44 Oaemen National Basketball A..ocletlon Seattle at Tennessee 1 p m Ray Searage p1tchlng coach Brandon AMERICAN CONFERENCE Teams rec::e ve three po1nts for a wm one Roberts Wesleyan 21 7 1 EASTERN CONFERENCE San D1ego at Indianapolis 1 p m Moore h tt1ng coach and Thomas Pribyl North Division po nt for each quarter won and , po1nt for 2 1 B2 Notre Dame Atlantic Dlvlalon Ph1ladelph a at Sl Lou1s 1 p m athletiC tra1ner tor Altoona of the Eas1ern W L T Pts GF GA 42 2 1 Geneva w L Pet GB any quarter I ed No pomls awarded dunng Carolina vs New Or eans at Baton Wheeling league 14 6 2 30 78 66 overt1me 2 1 44 Philadelphia Carlow 12 11 522 Rouge La 1 p m BASKETBALL 14 5 29 B1 54 Aeadmg 11 Houghton 35 Boston 9 12 429 2 San Franc1sco at Jacksonv le 1 p m National Basketball Asaociallon 11 10 2 24 46 61 Trenton Tuesday 8 Games 11 Sa nt V ncent 35 9 12 429 2 New Jersey P ttsburgh at Minnesota 1 p m WASHINGTON WIZAR05-Asslgnod F Toledo 10 7 3 23 75 66 Idaho 106 Gary 97 (6 1) 15 12 Pomt Park New York 6 15 266 5 Cmcmnat1 at DetrOit 4 05 p m Andray Blatche to Roanoke of the NBA 8 11 6 22 62 66 Johnstown Yakama 113 Dakota 103 (5 2) 14 57 Urs uhne 4 18 162 n Cleveland at Oakland 4 05 p m Toronto Development League 7 13 2 16 64 66 Dayton Wednetday s Game 0 1 37 Seton H 1 Southelll Division Dallas at Washmgton 4 15 p m FOOTBALL South Division Albany at M1Ch1gan SOUTH w L Pet OB Atlanta at Ch cago 8 30 p m National Football League WL T P1SGFGA AMC ALL Mlam• 13 tO 565 Thursday • Game• Monday Dac 19 CAROLINA PANTHERS- Placed S Flonda 14 6 0 28 73 55 3.() Ce darv1l e 92 M1ch1gan at Gary Orlando 9 11 450 21: Green Bay at Baltimore 9 p m ldreel} Bash1r an Injured reserve Signed S Gwlnnen 12 5 4 28 91 65 92 2 1 Washmgton 9 t 1 450 2 't Albany at Rockford Shawnee State James Hardy from the practice squad and Columbia 12 9 3 27 75 85 21 Oh1o Dom1n1can 83 1 Charlotte 6 17 261 7 S B lly Parker to the practice squad Greenville 12 9 1 25 76 64 21 53 Atlanta 4 17 190 8 T1111n CHICAGO BEAR5-S •gned LB Jeremy South Carolina 9 10 6 24 78 89 64 A o Grande 21 Cenlral Division Ca1n trom the practiCe squad and DB Charlotte 11 9 1 23 71 68 National Hockey Leegue 21 Walsh 45 W L Pet GB W11t e Amos to the practice squad Pen sacola 10 11 3 23 70 95 National Football League EASTERN CONFERENCE 12 Mt Vernon Nazare ne 84 DetrOit 16 3 842 GREEN BAV PACKERS-Claimed LB Augusta 10 12 2 22 69 88 AMERICAN CONFERENCE AUantlc Dlvl1lon Indiana 12 a 600 4 , 12 36 W lbertorce John Leake all wa1vers from Atla.nta NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W l OTPts GF GA M1lwaukee 12 a 600 4}, llrbana 03 36 Placed LB Brady Popp1nga on 1njured Watt Dlvl•lon PF PA W L T Pel NY Rangers 20 9 4 44 105 82 03 26 Cleveland 11 9 550 5% Malone WLTPis GF GA reserve New England B 5 0 615 294 269 Ph1ladelph a 18 7 4 40 109 92 Chicago 11 10 524 6 ST LOUIS RAMS-Released TE Cam Alaska 17 3 2 36 77 43 6 7 0 462 242 261 M1am1 NV Islanders 15 13 2 32 9Ei 102 WESTERN CONFERENCE Fridays games Cteeland and RB David Allen Placed CB 16 4 2 34 71 4B Las Vegas Buffalo 4 9 0 308 191 282 New Jersey t4 12 4 32 91 98 A1o Grande at P kev lie 6 p m Southwett Dlvlalon Travts FISher on n1urad reseNe Signed 14 6 1 29 84 67 Idaho 3 100 231 169 274 NY Jets Pittsburgh 8 17 6 22 82 124 W l Pet GB Oh1o Domm1can at lnteramer1cana PR TE Jerome Collins DT Jeremy Calahan Utah 13 a 2 28 78 70 South Northeast Division San Anton1o 17 4 810 Tournament and DE Clifford Dukes from the practice Vlctona 9 15 1 19 75 91 W L T Pet PF PA W l OTP!s GF GA 16 6 727 1 ' Saturdays gamea Dallas squad and AB Derr1ck Kmght and OT Phoenix B 1t 2 18 56 70 22 4 2 46 124 59 x Indianapolis 13 0 0 1 000 392 180 Ottawa 13 8 619 4 Urbana vs Sa1nt Francis IN at Shawnee Memphis Drew Strojny to the praeltee squad Pacific Division 20 10 1 41 102 98 Jacksonvtlle 9 4 0 692 273 227 Buffalo State Classic 12 p m New Orleans 10 12 455 7 . SAN FRANCISCO 49ER5-Signed G WlTPts GF GA Montreal 16 8 5 37 as 89 Tenne ssee 4 9 0 308 252 329 Ursuline at Huam 1 p m Houston 8 12 400 8 . Ben Sob1eSk1 to the practice squad Fresno 10 4 7 27 65 66 16 12 3 35 102 97 Houston 1 12 0 077 193 354 Toronto Northwest Division Cedarv•l e at Centra State 2 p m Released G Jtm Jones from the practiCe 11 11 2 24 65 73 l ong Beach 10 15 6 26 93 ~07 North Boston Malone at Daemen 2 p m W l Pet GB squad San 019g0 10 8 4 24 68 68 Southeast Division PF PA W L T Pel 12 8 600 Notre Dame at Shawnee Slate 2 p m Minnesota COLLEGE B 7 4 20 47 64 Bakersfield C ne~nnat 10 3 0 769 350 259 W L OT Pis GF GA 12 10 545 1 T!ftm at Nova 6 p m Denver AZUSA PACIFIC -Named Victor Santa 5 9 3 13 50 59 Stockton Carolina 19 9 2 40 110 98 10 12 455 3 P ttsburgh 8 5 0 615 295 234 Sh ppensburg at Seton l·lill 7 p m Utah Cruz football coach Tampa Bay 17 11 3 37 98 94 9 ~ , 450 3 Baltunore 4 9 0 308 171 253 Oh1o Dom mean at lnteramencana PR Seattla I Thursday, December 15,2005 r. . -·ro·H-~.s.~.I.E......I r Me:~ I 10 KIT & CARLYLE J1u.QMFS I wnght2005@detnew5 com FREE DI~ECTTV up 10 4 rooms w1th equipment and Installation t 30 plus channels with HBO Stars and Showtlme $39 99./Month Call tod ay and get a FREE OVD Player 800 523 7556 lor details Absolute Top Dollar U S Silver and Gold Co1ns Proofsets Gold Amg s Pre , 935 U S Currency Solltatre D•amonds M T S Cotn Shop 151 Second Avenue Gallipolis 740 446 2642 I buy Junk Cars (304)773 5004 WAMlill To Do Wan ted Bob Evans Caboose Photo wanted for h story book Caboose was at Bob Evans Farm on display Scrapped around 1970 614 870 7315 0 0 " I \ll'lln\11 \I "I I<\ I( I.._, "A fast pa ced Me1gs Counly off•ce IS looking lor an ott ce clerk w1th a degree 1n English and a mmor 1n Accounting or PtJbllc Relaltons Must be able to work well w1th the publiC and able to mulh task General knowledge of Peachtree MS Word ~x cel and MS Explorer are des1red A grammar and spellmg test will be requ1red w1th all Inter v1ewed applicants a sec ond language IS a plus Mllsl state what proiiCien c1es are as some van ances may be allowed Please prov1de a resume and send to Oatly Sentlllel P 0 Box 729 B Pomeroy Ohto 45769 Computer Trouble Shoot and Rep a1r Affordable Pr ces E.o:pert Serv1ca 740 992 2395 1"2 I~ ~ritr <Cl 2005 by NEA, Inc l . Dispatchers & EM:rs needed Apply In person 1770 Jackson Pike or for more Information call (740)446 7930 Home Health Care of Southeast Ohio 1s current ly hmng home a1des and regi stered nu rses Full time part 11rne per dmm Compet111ve wages llex• ble schedul ng Call Toll Free 1 866 368 t 100 1ns1de sates/secretary needed for busy otftee environment General computer skills necessary Good verbal and wriHen communication SkillS a must Please Submit Resume to PO Box 215 GallipoliS OH 45631 AVON I All Areasl To Buy or Sell Shuley Spears 304 675 1429 Jam the Tupperware Opportunity for only $15 K1t conta1ns $85 m Products and Bus1ness Matenals Call (304)n3 5630 now for more details Offer ends December 30th Darst Adult Group Home needs help (740)992 5023 Dental Clmc Administrator The Meigs County General Health District 15 accep11ng application tor a Dental Cl1n1c AdminiStrator Dut1es 1nclude planning directing &I or coord•natlng all dlni cal fiscal & support serv~c es Minimum quaiHicatlons mcll.lde a BAIBS In Business Admm•strat10n or equivalent degree 2 years s~r:pe rlen ce m a c hn~eat setting and a thorough knowledge of the Sate MMIS Applicant must submil three letters of recom mendat10n With apphcatKln to Health Commissioner 112 E Memonal Drive Pomeroy Ohio 45769 Salary IS dependant on exper once and qua liCa lions Applications Will be accepted until poSit on Is filed www comics com ito An Excellent way to earn money The New Avon Call Marilyn 304 882 2645 Dental Ass•stant The Meigs County General Health District Is accepting apphcat1ons for a Dental Ass1stant The Dental Ass•stant works under general superVISIOn & requires cons•derable knowledge of dental offiCe pracl1ces & procedures & dental operatory practiCes & procedures 1n order to ass1st denhst Ill lour hand ad dental treatment & to perform cha1rs1de ass1s lance MlnlmtJm quallf1ca lions 1nclude completion ol associate core program In def1tal ass•st•ng tec:hnolo gy proof of mOCtJiatlon or •mrnunlty to hepatitiS B v1rus and 2 years eKpen ence Appl1cant must sub mit three letters ol recom mendatlon w tl"' application to Health Commtss1oner 112 E Memorial Dr1ve Pomeroy Ohio 45769 Salary 1s dependent on expenence and qua lflca tiona Applications will be accepted until post! on 1s filled 25 Years Experienced Care G1ver has openings for your Mom & or Dad or loved One w lh Family Environment Legally Licensed Health Care Fac1hly Rates starting $1 500 monthly (304)675 6183 or tax (304 )67 5 6182 Legal Secretary needed Expenence prelerred Please reply to Box 548 cto Gallipolis Tnbune PO Box 469 Gallipolis OH 45631 DRIVE Best Driving Job Available local Fa mily Onented Carrier w1th Open Door Polley IS lookmg tor OTA Class A COL dnvers wtlh one year expenence "40cpm-al m11es weekly pay late model Fra1ghtllner Condos No NYC '95'% no touch freight "Hasp taztlat on and 401K "Homelima on weekends Call 1 BOO 652 2362 Expenenced paint & body man nesded tor RestoratiOn Shop contact H lis ClassiC Cars (740)949-2217 7am 7pm Front desk cterk wanted Must be very lriendly and outgoing personal ty Computer exper ence helplul No Phone Calls Apply In person at Ho •day Inn 577 State Route 7N JOB 150 $300 dey eat dmlrlbutor lookm or Independent Rout anagers w1th rehab! 1ckup trucks No truck n roblem What are yo arhng far call th apta1n Now 740 441 1274 local bu smass look ng for OffiCe Manager Must have good telepho ne sk lis & good wllh thO public knowledge 1n computers & computer accounting pro grams & all other off1ce machines Send res ume lo Local Bus1ness P.O Box 775 Gall polls OH 45631 Medt Home Health Agency Inc seeking a lull t1me RN Patient. Care Coord inator or Account Executive lor Gall pohs Ohio and surround•ng area Out es Include estab hshlng and ma•ntalnmg open lines ol commumca lion w1th area phy siCians and health care tactlltles In the delivery at Home Health serv~ces We offer a compebt1va salary and benef1ts package for full lime EOE Please send resume to Jud1e Reese Clinical Manager 352 Second Avenue Gallipolis DH 45631 Medl Home Health Agency Inc seeking tull tune and part time RNs tor the Gall polls OhiO area Must be l ~ensed In Ohio and West VIrginia We offer eompet1ttve salary bene fits package 401 K and stgn on bonus ot $1 500 tor full time and $750 tor part 11me E 0 E Please send resume to 352 Second Avenue Gall1p0hs OH 45631 Attn Judie Ree se Cl n cal Manager Work 0 home Earn $450 $1 500 monthly part I ma $2 000 $4 500 full t1me www Our Answer com Do you need a Care Giver Compamon? I Have References Ca I Beverly (304)675 1084 A Chr•stmas special 1st year of homeowners msur ance Is all you need to buy th s n1ce home In Gal a Counly Smgle story new roof w nOows sidmg and level tot Less than perfect credit ok Payment $550 per monl h This could be your last chance to buy a home so easy 740 416 3130 1994 14x70 C/A new car pet like new condition up on wheels ready to move $12 000 OBO (740)368 9686 1996 Sky ne 28x64 3BR 2BA 11reptace cathedral ce111ng $35 000 (740)709 1166 89 House Tra ler $5900 Senous calls only 740 675 4218 Attention! Local company ollar ng "NO DOWN PAYMENT programs for you to buy your home nstead or rent 1ng • 1ooo o 1nancmg less than perfect c ed •t accepted Payment could be the same as rent MortQage Locators (740)367 0000 91 Skylrne 16x80 3Br/2Sth $1 45/mo Call (740)385 7671 New 14~70 V nyiiShlngle 3 Br 2 Bth $24 995 Cal~ (740)385 9948 New 16K70 3 Br/ 2 Bth $229/mo V nyi/Shmgle Delivered (740)385 9948 r Clean and coz y hOme With ba seme.nt ga age and carport at 1228 College Street Syracuse 740 992 2906 lookrng to purchase approxm alely 5 acres near Galhpolts (740)388 8276 Cl (740)388 8655 catt Monday-Thursday,_ I"" lb:AL Fsr:m· 4282 Now hmng full and part t1me McCiu res Restaurants n Mn:klteport and Gallipolis Apply between 10 10 30am W-wrED Georges Portable Sawm111 don t haul your Logs to the Mill just call 304 675 1957 II\\\( I \1 B~ Nurs n~;~ Ass1slant Classes OPPOKl'UNI'IY Beg1nmng January 3rd 2006 II you en;oy elderly people and wan t to •NOTICb become a member of our ' PHIO VALLEY PUB haallh care team please ISHING CO recom stop by Rockspnngs ~ends that you do bus1 Rehabilitation Center at ress With people yo 36759 RockSpr ngs Road now and NOT to sen Pomeroy Oh o 45769 and roney through the mal II out an application for ~nlll you tiave •nvest gat the classes the offermo. 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Lale on pa~ments d vorce JOb transfer or a death? t can buy your home All cash and qu1ck clos ng 740 41 6 3130 lil\l\1"> subject to the Federal Fair HoualniJ Act ot 1968 which make. •t tlleg al to advort11e any prererence llmltahon or discrimination ba aed on race calor religion ee11: familial at11tus or national origin or any Intention to melle any such preference limitation or 10 Housr.s · mR lbx r dla crlmlnatton Thl• newapaper will not knowingly ..::cept I "advertlaem.nta tQr real estate whlctlla In vlotarJon of the taw Our readers ar• hereby Informed that all dw•ltlna• advertised In thta newspaper are available on an equal opportunHy bases 1)In town 2B A t bath house S375tmo plus Sac Dep You pay ut1lt1es References and mm 1 yr ease requ red Ca I (740)4 46 3644 for more nlo Newly remodeled 3 or 4 bedrooms central a1r lull ba semen t hardwood floors detached garage large cove red pat•o fenced back yard close 10 schools Pomt Peasant $69 500 (740)709 1382 28D 18a 1n country stove/rolngeralor propane heat pny own u1hllles, $375/mooth depoSit ref eren ces no pets (740)3811 9686 3BA 1 5 bath newly reno vated 1 block from schools m downlown Gal polls (740)446 1119 or (740)709 12"9 38A LA DR 1 5bath rec room den AC pnvate dnve garage de past reqUired $750/monltl (740)44 1 0514 Part time Reception st needed !Qr Dental Ott1ce n PI Peasant area Ple ase send resume to Dental Office 3984 lnd1an Creek Road Elkv ew Wv 2507 1 POSTAL JOBS $ t 5 94 $22 56/hr now hlr ng For application and free governament job Info can American As soc of Labor t s 13 599 8220 24/hrs emp serv & A loca l chu rch group IS Fam1 y Day Care 3 open ings 6 30am 5 30pm M Fn certified & reterences Chester Mary (740)985 Hru>WANim IJJI~ ACREAGI Sandh II 3 Bedroom 2 Bath LA FA 1+acras Landscaping Outbu ld tng Deck several Extras 1304)5S3-0852 ri'R~ TURNED OOWN ON SOCIAL SECURITY ISSI? No Fee Unless We Win! 1 saa sa2 3345 I~ I \I I "" 1 \ II HoMES FOR SALE 2 Bedroom S~ngle Story home Po1ndeKior Road 1n Mason County $39 500 wilt cons1der Land Contract with $5 000 down (304) 576 2247 3 Bedroom 2 Bath wtlh F~replace 1n R10 Grande area 8 acres m/1 40x60 barn $t20 000 (740)709 1166 7BA 5BA Foreclosure Only $18 000 For IISMQS call 800o391 5228 ext F254 Country setting In Ge.lha County! 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'WID hooKup. $350.00 : rQonth. $300.00 deposil. · 304·773·9~92 . .stop renting Buy 4 bed· ·room foreclosure $15.000. listings 800-39 i -5228 ·e}(t. 1709. hr MOBILE HOMES FOR RENT 14x70, 2BD. 2Ba, etovelrefrigerator. CI A,· propane heat. very nice. $375/month, deposit. references, no pets. (140)38ll-9686 ~ bedroom, near Porter. Waterftraah paid. no pets, reqwred, references $370/mo. plus deposit. (740)38ll·1100 . 2BA large livingroom, car· pet, perch. air, 1n Gallipolis, very nice, no . pets. (740)446-2003 or the Shade area. Water, MWa·r, trash mcluded, 4325 a month plus ~cfeposit. No pets allowed . (740)385·4019. 3 bedroom mobile hOme, .2 "bath , in Middleport, c/a, )425 plus deposit: 2 bed.,..oom mobile home in )41ddleport , all electric, o$375 plus deposit, no jrlside pets. 740-416·1354 Mobile home spaces in Country Mobile Home Park. (740)385·40~9. r ~ AII\RThiENTS FORJm.T Immaculate I Bedroom Apartment , Newly carpeted , freshly painted and decorated .. WID Hook-up, Privacy Fence. 12 minutes from Rio Grande. Must See to appreciate, $325/mo. (614}595-7773, 1-800-798-4686 lg. 2BR apt. Close to' hos· p1tal. Appliances fur· nlshed. \740)441·0117 . Modern ~ bedroom apt 1 bedroom apartment for "rent, (740)992-5858 2 bedroom apartment MeiQS County. very nice. clean , $425 per month plus dep~it, no p&ts, references required, (740)992·5174 2 bedroom, .all utilities paid, monthly rent $550, $550 deposit. Call Blue Fountain Motel ~740)4419473. ' 2 BR apt 4 rent . WID hookup $400. trash, water, sewer pd. (740)367·7015. (740)367-n46, (740)446· 4734. . 2 ' room efficiency apart· ·ment in the c.ountry, 6 miles south on At. 7. Includes stove and refrigerator, $250 per ·month plus deposit, utilities included. Tak ing applications. (740}446-4514. NEW EllM VIEW TOWNHOUSE!APTS NOW LEASING! SPACIOUS 2 & 3 BEDROOM BOTH FLATS & TOWNHOUSES AVAILABLE "All ELECTRIC "CENTRAL AC & HEAT "STOVE, REF , "DISHWASHER "GARBAGE DISPOSAL 'WINO BLINDS 'CEILING FANS 'WATER , SEWAGE, & 'TRASH INCLUDED PETS CONDITIONAL . (304)882-3017 1!1=1 E ,.._,jHO-.an~ ~'Y Tara Townllouse Apartments. Very Spacious, 2 Bedrooms, CIA, 1 1/2 Bath, Adult Pool & Baby Pool, P:atio. Start $395/Mo. No Pets, lease Plus Security · Deposit Required, (740)367-7086. New and Used Furnaces. Installation available. (740)441 ·2667 NEW AND USED STEEL Steel Beams. Pipe Rebar For Concrete, Angle, Channel, Flat Bar, Steel Grating For Dra ins, Driveways & Walkways. L&l Scrap Metals Open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday, Bam4:30pm. Closed Thursday, Satufday & Sunday. Oak and firewood Seasoned Hickory Downtown Olfice Space- 5 room suite $650/mo; 1 room ollice- $225/mo.: 2 su ite $250/mo. room Security deposit required. You pay utilities. All spaces very nice. Elevator. Call (740)446-3644 for appoint· ment. 512~. IJotSEHOW Goons Appliance 080. (740)446·7665. Warehouse in Henderson, WV. Preowned Applicanes sta rting at $75 & uP all under Warranty, also have Household. Misc. Items starting at .99e & up (304)675·7999 ' Ch ildrens Captains bed wrth storage in "the bottom. All wood framed. Like new, $300 for both. (740)446· 0852 speak with Jaty or Melissa. BEAUTIFUL APART· Sanyo 2r color 7V stereo "MENTS AT BUDGET TV $50 OBO. Call PRICES AT JACKSON (740)645·7465. ESTATES, 52 Westwood Drive from $344 to $442. · Thompsons Appliance S. Walk to shop & movies. Repair-675·7388 . .For sale, Call 740-446·2568. E(lual re-conditioned automatic Housing Opportunity. wast1ers & dryers, refrigerBrand new 2BR apt 1n ators, gas and electric Gallipolis, $450 /month , . ranges, air conditioner~. 2BR apt SR 1g 0 past and wringer washers. Will hospital do repairs on major brands 'Holzer ' in shop or at your home. 751rnonth ;sa '2BR apt Bidwalt , )400imontt1. (740)441· 1184: (74b)441·0194. Used Furniture Store. 130 Bulaville Pike, Gallipolis, OH, wlst1es you AU· ·Merry CONVENIENTLY LOCAT• . Christmas and a Happy New Year". (740)446·4782 ED & AFFORDABLE! Hrs. 11-3, M-S :ToWnhouse apartments, "Bndlor small houses FOR )on, r Furnished Eff. Apartment. 1br. Pt. Pleasant, all Paid Deposit Utilities Required (304)675-7783 . Buy or sell. Riverine Antiques, 1124 East Main on SA 124 E. Pomeroy, 740·992·2526. Russ Moore. owner. {740)245-9 ~62 BUIIJJING SLTPPUES (304)593-3820 AKC Beagles, 12 weeks on 24th, tri -color, shots, wormed, $100. Steve Stapleton (740)256 - 16~9 or (740)446-4172 AKC Black lab puppies 4 males. 6 weeks at Christmas. Adorab le. Shots. wormed. $250. AKC Labrador Retriever with field and waterfowl hunting bloodlines that are calm and family oriented. Can hold until Christmas. (740)418-8388. AKC Pekingese puppies. Beautiful Christmas presents. (740)446·1000. AKC Pomeranian Pups, 1 · White Male, 1 Sable ·Female, Wormed, Ready 1o go. $350. (740)388· 8642 Miniature Pincher. ~ male, 8 Wks, black/tan, Male Shar-Pai 2yr old, ssoo: $300. (740)388·8124. Pitt Bull puppies tor sales. Parents on premises. Call . Pureb reed Jack Russell pups. First shotS, WOfmed, tails docked, $125.00. Call 740-992·4131 .or 740-517· 1453. Registered Border Collie pups. Known for intelligence and herding Instinct. Imported bloodline and Classic colors. Wormed and 1st shots. "The Girt that keeps on Giving" Lee Anodes (740)379-9t 10. r~~~ Kimball Organ/Piano Swinger 400 The Entertainerlll. Asking $500. Call (740)446-3317. I \H \ 1 ..,l 1'1'1 It .., .'i. I 1\ I .., I c lC h. FARM Eguii'MFNT Case 310 track loader with larks & bucket has low hours 011 rebuilt engine.· For more details or to see contact (call evenrngs or Saturday)Davld Troyer, 148 Ramblewood Dr. Patriot. OH 45658,. Heavy EqlJip Trailer, Dual Wheels Tandem A1o:te 13 ton $2,800 (304)895-3638 r L~m I AOHA gray mare 3 yrs, $3,000. Bay weanling, $1 ,000, Brood mare • flO L $1 ,000. (740)379-2932. Phone (740) 992-5232 ·. " ; 5'X1 .·. 0' ..r...~"'., s O'""'"' (f~ 10xl5, 10x20, 10x30 Janel Jeffers 33795 Hiland Road Pomeroy, Ohio p.n;f , - ~ ,i#, ·~ ... ~ 1 ' Hours 7:00AM • 8:00 PM 1.'14{1 !flO. ~ - LW!.Iho<Bic l.irtaiirltu:trtl ' Dealer: North ' Vulnerable: Neither South Dht. 4.¥ JONES' Tree Service Pas:. Pass .. 'FRANK & EARNEST .I. ~~EP nL/,IN~ / ... VAN ~OGI'I !'liS GOLO#lS All~ OFF, lilT ~e- ONLY I-f~ AilS es J::'l FORSALE $12,700 (740)24S -566 1 ' "Where Quality and Service MatterJ" I'IALF Of WtiAT 30 Vrs. Exp. • Ins. Owner: ROnnie Jones .I. <Whlppl.ty Stitch CEm&roldery No job to BIG or una!/ Belinda & Leo Wellington evenings (740)992-0~94 1988 VY'J Golt:Ges. 40mpg. (740)256-1375. 2001 Pontiac Sunfire, 51,000 miles, $3,500 OBO. Call (740)256-6169. 2002 Camara Z28 35th Anniversary. low miles, loaded , all options $17,500 OBO. Call 2002 White Chevy Caviler. f'ower Brakes, Power StE!,ering, Auto Trans. New Tires and low Mileage. 740-949·2253. 25mpg $3,000 (740)245-9142, 080, 28589 S!. R!. 7 MANLEY'S SELF STORAGE 97 Beech Street Middleport. OH 1985 Chevy 1-ton dump truck, new motor. cab S. paint. Used daily. Asking $3,000 .. (740)256·1253. 7.~ Diesel, '90 F-250 XLT, Cruise, Air, Heavy Duty, Pull Anything, $3950 OB9. 4.4 FoRk 02 Dodge Dually ~·ton e)(tended cab, 4)(4, Cummins Turbo diesel 21,000 ' miles, B)(Cellent condition , garage kept. $25,000 firm. (740}286- 591·8757 www.holierclinic.com 992-3194 or 992-6635 1998 Mercedes-Benz ML 320, 4K4 loaded $10,000 (304)675-7773 4X4 Chevy Truck, Loaded, ~lack in Color, Topper, New Trans, nice stero, $4900. 7'40-675·4218. 95 F250 4x4 Supercab Heavy· Duty. New . transmission, gooseneck towIng package 79,000 miles. Great shape $8,000 OBO. (740)245·9142. VANS FoR SALE 98 Chevy E)(t. Cargo work Van New Trans Great Engine VB. $6900. 740· 675-4218 Plush. full size 19931uxury van . Great condition. Mechanic owned. Built-in solar recharging system. 77,400 miles. Must see. 55,499. Call John HOW'S YORE PITCHIN' ARM COMIN' ALONG, I MEANT THRoWIN• PRACTICE !! JUGHAID ·? LAWN CARE DIVISION . (Commercial ~nd RMidenlial) , Mowing, Trimming, -Tree Trimming, Aeration, Fertilization; Spraying of fence lines, Leaf Removal as well as small landsc.1ping jobs such as planting and mulct-ling. FREE ESTIMATES • GUARANTEED LOWEST PRIUS • River Rd. • Gallipolis, OH 1·800·231-4467 Pass Pu"ss Dbl. : 1"'1-\0W WAS SO\OOL TOC>f>-Yf'l P"l t>\D HELl. 1'-1 t<\r>-Tf\ ! YEI\t\- L GO\ IE.N -q OUT OF N\Nt:. Cli MY MMrl n:. ::ic' Self·Storage• 25 Years Experience David Lewis 740-992-6971 D~a.l"" ROBERT BISSEll CINSmUCTI81 ··'FAMILY OWNED" : ·David, Donna & Brad Deal ,. • Complete Remodeling ~2u~f.~4 Chuck Wolfe Owner • New Homes • Additions • Remodeling Licensed Home Builder Stop & Compare (740) 992-0496 WV# • FOR ALL YOUR ELECIRICAL NEEDS. • MOBILE HOME REPAIRS • CARPENTRY • ROOF • PAINT OHIO !JCENSE # 38244 'I'D vou And, of course, love IS blind. Also, love. means never having to sav you're SCJrry. Plus, love Is a m;,ny·splendored thing, · IT 111\Y AAvE 13EE~ 1\ 111:0.t11M 11Y BooK IMPORTS Athens OF FI\M!L\1\R, QUOTATION's. lncotnito liUhtlnu & Novemes lllt:lllltJib nlllcH IIIII. .... ~~~~~~. Clr lllliiMI Ttncce ....... IIICinst llllltn IIIIIIIHrl, , Ctiieclllllt 111111& ltltr o..ntnlll llllllltrl ... IIIII. lllltllts. In !Atilt llrl n-. fn 1111011. ' ldVIAVI. Blllilll ClnA ln. StiJ llllltlft. ' T·IMIS IMIIIIMII. ftrltlllllll$ CIIIIIISII . lltlr Wltlltlllnw.lllllliiii.Ctll :PEANUTS 1-7a-14H23H·Mf.742·lrMrllftiJ-1-116-151-J2J2 WI 1111111 fiDI DdnrJ In hrrnlllllllltllnl •• 1111trlllltr . AllllDC1t.. ll .....rIICb fin llllht ~ 18-li ·12% Cattle $7.75 -Econo Beef $6.85 -Whole Corn $6.25/Bag ·Cracked Com $7.25/Bag ·16% Hog Mix $8.75/Bag Why Drive Anywhere Else? Au Your Home lmpro.,ement Needs · Plumbing & l:::te..:tric Siding C<trport~ RoomAtld. Garages Winpows De.::ks & Porches Kitchens & Baths Shade River AG Service, Inc· TIM DEEM 48336 SR. 124 740-367-0544 740·36HI536 Dear Heartbroken: You say love him. But remember, there's a thin line between love and llate. TAKE TO GIVE 140-992·1611 Curnarstona · Elactrlcal lanlca M:;" boyfriend :lust bro~e up with me! I'm .so sad! I love him so muc h! ~;o• (304) 675·6000 1401 Kanawha St. Pt. Pleasant 35537 St Rt 7 N • Pomeroy, Ohio 45769 740-985-3831 RACINE. OHIO 740-247·2090. or CcH 741l·-116- .liOH 'ltubbard's ~rl!enlwuse BASEMENT WATERPROOFING Uncond itional lifetime guarantee . Local reler· ences lurnished. Established ~ 975. Call 24 Hrs. (740) 446·0670, Rogers Basement Waterproofing. , on SAVINGS r¥4~=j~UH/ 1 Open For Christ rna~ Poinsouias-AII Sizes Open Daily I 0-4 , Closed Sunday 740-992-5776 WiNTER sYoliiO£ OF BOATS, CAMPERS ETC. AT THE MEIGSCO. , FAIRGROUNDS Nov. 12, 2005 9:00 AM· 1I :00 For more Info. call 740-985·4372 ~ m LINC.OLN .MilCUaY Gallipolis, Ohio ~DEER'i PROCESSINO Skinned. Cut & Wrapped Summer Sau.~age Made SR 124 belween Racine&. Syracuse 949-2734 2003 Suzuki 4WD Vinson 500 ATV with 34 miles. CARMICHAEL $4900. EQUIPMENT. (740)4462412. 1815 F-151414 ........ ... 11111.111.. JIMI . . 740-446-9800 Now Available At HAUM LUMBER tAA~~ ;GARFIELD • ,, ,• • • • ' HAVS. PliY • ADVERTISE IN THIS SPACE FOR $52 PER MONTH Scorpion Tractors + amateur + 38 Oisrespecl Pass 12 A Bobbsey 42 43 45 47 50 52 Farm sheller Tree trunk Sediment Utll. bill Big oil well Faucet possession of 53 Helium or neon 55 Afire 56 Pucksler Bobby- 57 Prefix meanin~ American capital twin 40 UK network dollar, onca 51 Woo in 35 Crux 39 Soulh spray 48 Film spectacular 49 Luigi 's 13 Floor 17 Gives credit 19 Big celebralions 20 Slol-machine lru~ "recent' .. 41 Willy 44 Silar kin 46 Destroy a1apo 47 Kitchen me as . Bridge Baron (USA), Jal;k (Ne1herlands), Micro Bridge (Japan), 0-Pius Bridge , (Germanyf and WbridgeS (France) . Jack had won the previous three years and qualified for the 64-board final in first place, ahead of Wbridge5. In the final , Wbridge5 led by one international match point at half1ime. Then it surged to victory, winning the second hall, 91-23. This was the most dram~tlc deal. • At this table, the three·cl~b response by Jack (West) was a fit-showing jump, promising long_clubs and diamond support. East, though,. looks as thoug h it forgot! Not to bid four clubs or five clubs was appalling, but fi\le diamonds was unbeat- West led the spade ace, East strangely playing the six. It should have dropped the three." the lowest card being a suit· preference signa l for clubs. Suitably confused. West shilled to a diamond. Declarer won with its ace, d rew humps, and ran the spades, discarding its club lo ser, for plus 650. At th e other table, Wbridge5 (East) passed over three clubs. Jack (Sou th) jumped to four hearts, but West was Still there with five cl ubs. North passed now, and again after South doubled - two · debatable decisions. This contract was impregnable, so Wbridge5 scored an additional 550 for a gain of 15 imps and final victory. 136·67. GRIZZWELLS • 1 "~\'tR. \.\UR. AHYeoDY $$.'( •'i<'£L'<A'5t. ~~ \ll:>lli\0'5" A"VIJI:*~ CELEBRITY CIPHER by Luis Campos C&leb r~ C•plie r cryplogrit!TIS ar e created lrOI'"I Qootaloons by famous !)OOple. pas I and present. Each lener In tne ~iohe r ~land; lrn anothe r Today·s clue · J equals V "E AZXNFK TP AXBPHZEM· U AA A HX UFRK El XOONLLPK ' HX BREM EKPR KJXLRW XMFD SXZRMMPA HZ A H TO HZP BP XOONLA CAD." TLRZBA PREVIOUS SOLU:riON - ' Man would not have attained the possible unleSs time and again he had reached out tor the Impossible." - Max Weber AstroGraph • Caring • Professional • New Homes • Garages Or. L.ove: Help! Affordable Services 5 22 Beam of lighl 23 Knock gently 25 Time period 27 Grove 28 Round dwellings 31 Wane 33 Trigger"s . rider The WOrld Computer-Bridge Championship "was the first tit le dec1dect in Estoril, Portugal. Six programs entered: Blue Ch ip Bridge (England); "BIG NATE Josh Billings flssoc. 1• 3 When the chips were down 'lJea[ :Junera[J{ome . Dauld R. Deal Director/Licensee In Charge Charlie Huber, DirectOr East Pass Pass Pass 5 ¥ All pa ss 58 Steal software 59 Really fancy with his Yarborough to ~sacrilice " in live hearts. · THE BORN LOSER 269 34 ~orth paradise award able, and Wbridge5 (Norlh) judged well "Middleport's only (740)645·6378. ~ ~....­ - 'lllrth<lflly: Friday, Dec. 16, 2005. By Bemice Bede Osol You should be able to make those Important changes you'va wanted to do in the .year ahead to correct conditions whic/l have hampered you in the past. Your success potential will Increase considerably as the obstacles are lifted. SAGIITAAIUS (Nov. 2J·Dec. 21)- Stay in 1M backgroUnd today when you see another doing a good job of promoting your best interests to someone you. want to· impress This individual can say things you can't say about yourself . CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Construct ive arrangements can be worked out quite fortunatelY tor you today in mat· tars that require teamwork . Each party will be. assurEid that the benefits they'll acquire will be subst8ntial. , · AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - Try to implement procedures today that will upgrade your standard at performance where your wo~ is ooncerned. Ouahty w1ll brint;~ you the recognition you deserve at this time. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - Things should work out well lor you today in Situations wllere maners ol the heart are con· cerned . You and the-object ol your affection will be in an equally responsive mood. ARIES (March 21-Aprit 19)- Even i1 initial happemngs seem to go against your a•ms, hang in there. Shifting conditions will be taking place today that will work oul to your advanlage. Trust your luck. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - · It you feel confident about your present plans but a re in need ol cooperation and assistance Irani certain people, this is your day to a1tempt to establish the alliance you 're looking for. GEMIN I (May 2 1-June 20)- Forego frivolous pursuits today and locus your efforts on matters of real importance to you, espeCially if tl1ey involve enhancing y<Jt.lr material security. Lady luck is in your corner now.. CANCER (June 2~-July 22)- A business meeting has a beffer chance of coming olf well for you tod<ly if you can have it con ducted in a pleasant atmosphere. Get away from the hustle and bustle of the olfice. LEO (July 23-Aug . 22) ~ Conditions are quite favorable for you today pertaining to a family matter where all share a common Interest. Let everyOne do what is possible to bring about the des1rad results. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)- Altllough ·tt may never be possible to please everyone at.the same time, today you should s1 111 be able to make favorable po ints with persons who are the most important to you at the mom€nt . , LIBRA (Sept. 23 -0ct. 23) - Don't undersell the value ot work or service s that you pertorm today. Be fair as to the price you ask for, but be fair to yourself as welL SCORPIO (Oct. 24·Nov. 22) - Don 't be hesitant 1oday to e)(pand upon plans or projects wh ich are presently giving you good indications that they are moving in the direct1on you want to take them . You 're lucky today l I' I I I ECLUSI I I I I' I I OJBAT I My roommate spends a lot of time in front of the mirror. : I think that those wlio are · sll!ck on themselves liave no . S AS I B I ..17"".-rl-1.--.r--,l"s:-1I() ~- . c. . . . . ~ cause for - - -. E Q Y S U.· A 12/IS/Ql _ PRINT NUMBERED Compl••• 1he chuckle quo1ed by filling In you ch:velop from 11 ·J ·~ LEnERS IN SQUARES 'E) ro:~~~~~ LETTERt Jl th! sfip ml1sing word• · No. 3 below. · I' I~ I' I' I _j_ .I . _j I'· I I I r I I I ·I SCRAMLETS IZ/14105 Rotten- Drawn- Lapel-Dainty-LAY them DOWN An old friend reassured me during a very trying week. "All burdens," she said, "must be carried before we can LAY them DOWN." ARLO & JANIS .,,' '. e .~ ~r-L-l.---v--v--1 r .SOUP TO NUTZ J: WOULD :LMaGiNe S~, THaT ah ABNOliMaLL'i LllrGE HEaP WOULD Be aN IMfnli""'>'T To Pla'iinG ~~ . IN FacT•. ITs :rusT THE Of'Posl"te . I !laD T~e HIGijE,s T ON · 6asE fl>RCeNllleE In ll4e l.:JTTLe ~aGUe "Taki11g The Sti11g Oui Of 2400 Eastern Ave. (Across lrom KMart) 1990 Dodge Omni, body in good condition, for parts only. Make offer. (740)4487665. BUDGET TAANSMIS· SIONS, All types. (740)245-5677 or (740)645-7400 ·BARNEY (Commercial and Residential) , Mobile Homes, Houses, Lcig Homes, Decks, Driveways, ' Sidewalks, Gas Station Awnings. Degreasing of Equipment. Boats, Campers, TractOr Trailers, Dump Trucks, painting or staining of your deck 1 or log home, Aluminum brightening. Special rates to Trucking and Dump Trucking Companies! Medical Excellence. Local Caring•M 0257. 1993 GMC Truck heavy half 4 wheel drive 4.3 V6 automatic transmission Runs exceller:-1. trannv rebuilt, motor has low miles, duai exhaust, toolbox. Will sale for $3,1 00 or best offer in ca:sh. Call {740)441-9378 leave mes· sage. Owner: Jeff Stethem Office: (740) 992·2804 Cell: (740) 517·6883 POWER WASHING ~HOLZER CLINIC IOxiOxiOxlO fUR SAlE 3861. SEPTIC TANK PIJMPING $95.00 PORTA8lf TOilET RENTAl CAll FOR APPOINTMENT TOUA Y & Weekends TRuCKS S13,000 080. (740)446· Sanitation Open Evenings 93 Toyota Camry $400. Cars from $500. For list· ings 800-391·5227 E:ICI. 01 green Ford F150 XLT 4dr, auto, 5.4l, VB, bedcover, 6CD player, sun-c roof, . good condition, 71,000 miles, 18121mpg, Meigs Co. Rnldenta!U Middlepon, OH 45760 SAY. TRI-STATE MOBilE POWER WASH AND LAWN CARE AHenUoa We~l Opening lead: • A Top • Removal • Trim • Stump ~Inding Bucket Truck "s.m.~ Point Pleasant, WV .KQ9 r. :l .A J 8 2 ... Q Al!IIJS 05 Chevy Cobalt 4dr 4cyl 5-speed 40 mpg air, tow. all hwy miles, asking r ; ~ (304)675-2630 •• ¥AK QJlU5 +A 10 \Ill"'[. Htrn;lr LK'M •.IIllllll. 170 I Jefferson Blvd, .J63 South .KQ J02 Middleport. OH 45760 1 . F.11st • J 8 5 2 .K10 9654 3 and Financial Services Box 189 Co-OnN w• wr..,;~mo . "'' .A, 'Rocky Hupp Insurance ·,,.,.s;;., .ld~Pliii!U CtOm ¥9 6 4 3 2 • 71 West SxiO, IOxiO, ( ~llf 11111i1 $5001 Police Impounds! Cars from $500. For liSt· lngs 800-391-5227 ext 3901 i 29670 Bashan Road Racine, Ohio 45771 740·949-2217 StoraiJil "Wiure Quality, Compassion And Integrity Cume 1ilgethrr'' ••t WkfiH 8 Blgh and Dry Crow-Hussell Funeral Home, Inc. Hay for Sale Round Bales new & old call after 5pm (740)245-9142. (740)446·4859. I amessage C548. Upright player piano with Scrolls $300. Call West Virginia State Farm Museum Annual Christmas Dinner Dec. 18th at 1:00 PM Covered Dish r 6-montt1 old AKC Beagle female (304)576-2779 (740)379-9517. ' Leave HAY& . GRAIN 90 Volvo 2400L, no rusl, runs great, totally reliable. 2 Registered Miniatu'~e Dachshund puppies. 7wks . First shots and Wormed . black & tan. $300 740·742·2293 Hill 's Self Storage Ctrlf.Sm.t (304)773-5706. r work • Affordable Rates • References Available • Free Estimates . (304)949·1401. (740)446-7300 ' New paint surplus $6/gailon, Call Mollohans (740)446·7444. STANLEY TREE TRIMMING& GENERAL CONTRACTING • Prompt & quality Registered black Angus Bull 3 year old. Limited edi· lion 9273 son, Sunset Valley Phylis dam. E)(Cellent deposition easy calvin_g. KUHLSANGUSOct1artar.net ~4~-~964 t Beautiful 2-story • town hoUse overlooking Gallipolis city park. Kitchen, DR. LA, study, 2 laun dry area. baths, References required , security deposit, no ~ts. $900 mo. Call (740}4462325 o'r (740)446-4425. for application & lntorma- JET AERATION MOTORS Repaired, New & Rebuilt In Stack. Call Ron Evans. 1·800-537·9528. Block, brick, sewer pipes, windows. lintels, etc. Claude Winters, Rio Grande. OH Call 740.245- . Af]tique maple butcher block table 30x34. $250 )'lENT Call (740)441-1111 All Items In House for Sale {including great furniture) Due To Death. 740742- 1401 . r \ II IH II\ '\Ill" I LMNf(X]{ l2 · t:i · ll.~ North .9 8 7 54 1 ··Titanic"" 6 Honchos 10 Vlllain's 60 Hombre's lament 12 Tropical abode fruit 61 Noslalglc 14 Cheated look a bll 15 Trust acoounl DOWN 16 Hitching posls? 1 Swllch 18 Flock posllion member 2 Worthless 19 Skedaddle coin 21 Galaw:y unit 3. Scotland 23 KlckoffS1and Yard dlv. 24 Holiday mo. 4 Pool prolilem 26 Oellcale ' 5 Staggered 29 Cash . around dispenser 6 Feudal JO Mother lode tenant 32 It's- move 7 Corporate 34 Unskilled sutf. · laborer · B Fix potatoes 36 Pen part 9 Whije stuff 37 Not an ·11 Banned bug ~/I Call Gary Stanley 1 2 girl pagent dresses, size 6, 8, $60 each. 740-742160~ : 740-416-4544 Alder "Insured" r ~=~ r Twin -~=!Ivers Tower Is accepting applications for waiting list for Hud·subsized, 1- br. apartment. call 675-6679 EHO 2BA upstairs apt. 23B 1st Ave. Kitchen with stove & refrigerator, hookup for washer/dryer. $385/month plus ut!llties, deposit, refer· ence. (740)446-4926. Beautilul 2-story town house overlooking Gallipolis · City park. Kitchen. D.R. L.A .. study. 3BR, 2 baths, laundry .area. References required, 'S&Curity deposit, no pets. $900 mo. Call (740)4462325 or (740)446·4425. & Robert Jr. (740)446-0390. "1 ancl 2 bedroom apartinents, furnished and unfurnished, security deposit -required, no pets, 740-992-2218 The Family ofTerry & Margaret Boyce wish to thank the churches, families, friellds and neighbors for the food, kindness and support during lhe loss of my parents. May God Bless You All Thank You The Lawson& Boyce Family Tom Albert Jr., Robert Sr. Gracious living. 1 and 2 bedroom apartments at Village Manor and Riverside Apartments In Middleport. From S295· $444. Call 740-992·5064 Housing Equal Opportunities. (740)446· 1 ~09 3 bedroom mobile home in Phillip Furnished upstairs. 3 rooms & bath. Clean . ret. & dep. reqwed. No pets. (740)446-1519. 54 King Arthur Island Gallipolis, Ohio 45631 (740) 446·1711 Shop the Classifieds! 114 Mile North Hard Work!" Mid-Size 4Wheel Drive Tractor with 30hp & 40hp Kubola Engines Pomeroy/Mason Bridge BAUM LUMBER Mason. WV 25260 St. Rt. 124 Chester 985-3301 I ' �' The Daily Sentinel PageBS PRO FOOTBALL ~·"'"~~t;l'~.,...~~>rr~ ?;'; ~ !t'j~ ~W' .":,!Jf' .'fl??;:l~~ Thursday, December 15, 2005 BY ACREB·~-+-HOMB ()~ 2006 Pet Calendar Browns look to salvage season with another win "rl inside today's Sentinel · -+~.......... 244 North 2nd Ave • Mid!)lcpnrt. OH l ' days til Christmas JOE MILICIA ASSOCIATED PRESS BER EA - No NFL team enters a season with the goal of winning five games. But fo r th e Cleve land Brown s, fiv e wins would be a sign of impro veme nt, however slight , in coach Romeo Crennel' s first season. The Browns are 4-9 and have los t three strai ght entering Sunday's ga me agai nst the Oakland Raiders. who 'share an ide htical record and losing streak. · . It would be easy to say the teams have no reason to care anymore. Cre nnel, however, said there's plenty of motivation for hi s team. "If we're able to go ~ut there and ge t the victory, we'll say that we. have made some prog ress this year," he said Wednesday. " I want them to treat this game as a pl ayoff ga me , and that' s what it really will be for the teams involved." The Browns went 4-1 2 last season as the team went into an injury-r iddled tail spin and coach Butch Davi s quit with five ga mes left. Crenne l has given , the team a fresh . outlook , but the changes haven' t been evident in the win column , "We'd like to finish up on a strong' note here at the end so going into the offseason we have a good attitude and can look forward to next year," Crennel said. " It would be a good carry-over. When the guy s walk out of this building at the entl of the year - make them feel . better about working in the offseason and preparing for another year." Kicker Phil Dawso n says .it doesn' t matter what time of year it is or what thei r · record is - they just want to win another game. ~.... •'Coach is right,'' Dawson said. ··we all want to walk out of here fee ling like, you know what. we learned some things this season. We got better thi s season." The Browns have salvaged wins late in each of the last two seaso ns. They beat the Houston with interim coach Terry Robiskie in the final week last season and in 2003 ended Ci ncinnati 's playoff hopes with a road victory. "Since I' ve been here, we've never quit and I have no reason to believe that this team will." Dawson said. Rookie . quarterback Charlie Frye has plenty to play for. He' s trying to prove himself as the tea m' s quarterback of the future. Frye, who has a sore right knee, is expected to play Sunday and is still looking for his first win as an NFL starter. "I hope to get a win,'' Frye said . " I hope to get three · wiris. That's . the goal' every week." Since Frye took over as quarterback, the Browns have lost two close games to teams likely headed to the playoffs - Cincinnati and Jacksonville. After Oakland, the Browns have home games ·left agai nst Pittsburgh and Baltimore. The Browns need a win in 'the last two weeks to avo id going 0-6 against their AFC North rival s for the first time . Crennel knows there's another motivating factor besi des wins · entering the Middleport • Pomeroy, Ohio ;;ul'ENTS • \ 'ol. ;;;; , No . H6 SPORTS • Miller upsets Eastem. See Page 81 Cleveland Browns head coach Romeo Crenn'el signals a time-out during their 23-20 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals, on Sunday in Cincinnati. next thing to go? It's a cycle. thing that we've wanted . The coaching staff goes, The reason is because of his inconsistency on his drops,'' then the players go." Notes: Crennel gave WR he said . ... The Browns Antonio Bryant a· lukewarm injury report for the Oakland evaluation Wednesday, say- game is longer than it'~ been ing he's helped the team as ' all season. DB Antonio its leading receiver but has Perkin s (hand ) is listed as made too many errors. doubtful. Questionable are "Anionio hasn't been every- OG Joe Andruzzi (c'ilifJ, TEs Wilkinson rips Spurrier, apologizes for calling Cincinnati a racist city Bv JOE KAY Bengal s (10-3) one victory away .from clinching a playoff spot and m~king a d ean CINCINNATI Dan break with · their troubled Wilkinson apologized past - one that prominently Wednesday for · calling invol ved Wilkin son. Cipcinnati a raci st city, a The Bengals made him the COJllment that led the top overall pick from Ohio Bengals to trade thei,r former State in 1994, when they No . I drafr pi ck to the were co ming off their secWashington Redskins after ond straight failed season the I '197 season. under coach Dave Shula. The defensive tack le also Wilkinson failed to develop ~riticized former Redskins into a Pro Bowl player in ~oach Steve Spurrier, ·who fo ur years with the Bengals, j'Vent 12-20 in Washington becoming disi llu sioned witb from 2002-03 before quit- the organization and the losling. Marvin Lewi s was the ing . Redskins' defensive coordi Wilkinson blasted the city nator in 2002. and became in December 1997, saying the Bengais' head coach the residents were "prej udiced next season. and uptight and stiff." When "Marvin should have been the Bengal s used their fran our head coach," Wilkinson , chi se designation on him, he who now plays for Detroit, gre)V more unhappy. Finally, sa id Wednesdny in a confer- he went on a radio show and ence call with Cincinnati ca lled Cincinnati a raci st writers. city, a remark that prompted "Actuall y, Marvin was our owner Mike Brown to .trade head coach. We had Steve · him to the Red skins. "It's a factor in our way of Spurrier, but Spurrier didn't have a clue how to trai n and thinking," Brown. said at the get an NFL team ready. He time. "It's a burden for him just didn ' t have a clue of and a burden for us. He 's how to train a team anti still a young man, and I coach the team and under- think one day he' ll wonder stand what all went into it. . why he said .these things." "Marvin did everything. Brown was ri gh t. Marvin did everything as a Wilkin son, in hi s third seadefensive coord inat or, but son in Detroit, said he has he was able to· keep himself matured over the yea rs and humble in the situation and wishes he hadn' t sai d what move on after that one year." he said. In hi s third season in " I have no negatives or Cincinnati , Lewis has the grudges toward the Bengals ASSOCIATED PRESS Next year, Ohio State and Cincinnati will meet for first time since 1962 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Ohio State and Cincinnati play each oth-er next year for the first time since the 1962 NCAA men's championship game. The game on Dec. 16, 2006, will be ftrst between the teams in the regular season since 1921. It's part of the annual John K Wooden Tradition doubleheader at Conseco Fieldhouse. Purdue, the host team, will play Butler in the other game. Separated b;y fe~er than 100 miles, the two schools have played only etght Urnes, most recently in Cincinnati's 71-59 victory for its second straight NCAA title in 1962. The B.earcats also beat the Buckeyes for the championship the pre,vtous year. . organization or the city or anything,"· he said. ''I'd like to take this opportunity to apologize to those I've hurt or bothered or made upset or anything else .." Wilkinson, 32, gre w up in Dayton and still has family there. He said he was wrong to call Cincinnati racist. "That was just blatant ignorance," he said. "Again, that 's ·the immaturity I' m talking about ~s far as some of the things I've said and done. If I had a chance to g.o back, I would certainly correct . soine things, and that was just wrong . Saying the city is racist and conducting myself in that way that I did was bad. "As a young man at the time, all I can remember is feeling· trapped, that I have to get away from this team . That's what I recall from eight years ago ." He al so recalls that the HOLZER CLINIC Steve Heiden (ankle) and Aaron Shea (calf), CBs Michael Lehan (hamstring) and Ray Mi ckens (groin) and DE Orpheus Roye (knee). RB Reuben Drougtms (knee), OG Cosey Coleman (knee), CB Leigh Bodden (concussion,) and Frye are probable. (740) 589-3100 Page A5 • Donald E. Buctlanan, 85 • Barbara A. Croy, 60 • Emily Lynn Runyon, 71 INSIDE • 'fhe simple message of Christmas. See Page A2 • A Hunger For More. . See Page A2 • Church leads mission giving. See Page A2 ·• Local Briefs. See Page A5 • Churches announce . Christmas programs. See Page A5 • 700 food baskets distributed. See Page A6 • Quilts donated to needy children. See Page A6 ·• DofA enjoys Christmas party. See Page .A6 • Huge tumout as Iraqis choose parliament in ·mostly peaceful vote. See Page A7 • Workers' comp surplus could be gone in two years. See Page AS ·. ')~ -fBl'~f~ r -> ~~--VJ.~.. ' Bengal s' facilities and coaching staffs ·were among the league' s worst , contributing to their 14-year run without a winning record . Wilkinson had three different defensive line coaches in his first three seasons in r:incinnati. "I think that's where the organization dropped it," Wilkinson said. "I think my first three years in Cincinnati, we · had defen sive line c,aaches that never coached defensive line on any level. Any level. " Asked if he had one thing he regretted about how he acted .in Cincinnati, Wilkinson said, "Looking at it in hindsight, if I had it to do all over again, there are many things I regret. Some of the things I've sai d anll done were so out of character for me that it still bothers me today when I think about that stuff." /'-' Party Barn C"~~ help you with your holiday party & gift giving Party Trays Available ' • Meat & cheese • Wings : Hot, Mild & Honey .• Meatballs • Sausage • Cookies & pastries . Ivy Hii~. Gift Baskets Available Personalize your holiday gift basket or stop in for a pre-made basket. Contact Lisa for special orders. 24 hr advance notice appreciated 740-992-6121 Sa11ta will be l·1ere ·S·atu.·n·d·ay, ~' DecemberJ7t~, 9-1? .~\\~, . $$.00 dOnation or ,. 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Other business my buildPOMEROY Steve ing is locatLamar Lyon s II. pres ident Milhoan of Long Bottom was ed next to of the Tuppers Plains Fire the apparent low bidder for the Chester Department anti Captain of the replacement of windows Courtho use the Tu ppers Plain s Area at the Chester Academy, and is Emergency Medtc R6 unit, when Mei gs County undergoin g spoke In co mmi ssioners Commissioners opened bids res torat ion about the need for repairs to on the project Thu"day. by the the count y-ow ned ambulance Milhoan's bid was Thomas Proffitt C he s t e r - used by the volunteer squad. $23,000, and that of Quality S h a d' e Lyons said the sq uat! needs Window Systems of Histori cal Association and repairs tuthe back door, usctl Pomeroy was $27,969. commissioners, who own it . for loading patients. the lockmech ::m i sm whic h Action on the bids was tabled The windows for the pro- ing pending review. ject have bee n purchased, and secures the cot in place, and No bids were received on the installation work is to be the brake system. Lyons said the volunteers the monar and brick repair financed tluough the project for the building, and Co mmunity Development have requested repairs lo that pon·ion of the project will Block Grant formula pro- ensure the safety of patients BY BRIAN J. REED BREEO@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM they transport . btil said the animals ·'only when absoluterepai rs hav e not yet bee n . ly necessary." Since he took made. He also addre'Sed over the job. he said. the problems the volunteer ><1uacl num ber of ani mals euthaunit has expcricm.:e<.J in nized has decreas-ed from 95 obta ining. nC ccssary medi cal percenl to .65 percent, by supplies from the count y work ing with resc ue organiEMS offi ce. ~a ti ons and encouragi ng Meigs Cou nt y Dog Warde n adoptions .. Th omas Proffitt met with Com mi ssioners also: cotmni:-;sioners to di sL" us:-. his • Approved tra nsfers withrecent euthana:o;ia tra ining in in the budgets of the Juvenile Davton under the direc tion of anti Probate Court and Clerk t11e. Amcr i ~o:;w Humane of Courts . Assoc iation. His ceni i'ication • Recessed their meeting wil l allow · him to eurhanize unt il II :30 a. n'L on Friday for dogs in the dog _pmmd. and payment of bill s. relieve the cou nt y of the Present were expense of paying a local vet- Commissioners . Mick eri narian to do the work . Dave nport and Jim Sheets Proffitt said he euthani zes and Clerk Gloria Kloes. Sales tax deficit half last year's AP photo final three ·weeks - his players' jobs. It 's what motivates linebacker Kenard Lang, "You still get your check. Mr. (Randy ) Lerner · signs your check. You 've got a job," Lang said . "Last year they brought in a whole new coaching staff. What's the FRIDAY, DECEMBER t6, :.!.oo;; lr() BY BRIAN J. REED BREED@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM POMEROY Meigs County collected $4,385 less in sales tax this year than last. year, but the collection of the tax increased for six months of the year. A downward spiral in the collections seems to have slowed significantly, with a collection deticit of only half of last year's. Meigs County Parker Auditor Nancy Grueser has is sued the December sales tax comparison, which shows a collection of $87,897.11 in the county's one-percent tax for December. This month's receipts bring the ·County's year,to-date collection to $1,088,139.48, just $4,385.78 be low the collections last year. Collections were up in April, May, August, October, November and December this Please see Sales tax. AS Meigs Board takes step forward on CIC-Rio Grande project BY CHARLENE HOEFLICH HOEFL ICH@MYDAILYSENTIN EL.COM POMEROY If the Meigs Count y Community Improvement Corporation (CIC) is to construct a building on land adjacent to Mei gs schools at Rock Springs and lease it to Rio Grande Community College, a sewage problem will have to be resolved first. With that in mind, an engineering consullant has been retained by the Meigs Local Board of Education to review the current sewage system at , Meigs High School and deterrnine upgrades and changes required to handle the additional sewage of another building. Tentative platJS of the CIC call for tying the Center into the sewer system now serving both Meigs Hi gh and Meigs MiPJie Schools.EThe .• additional capac ity is t a problem," said Meigs ocal Superintendent William Buckley, "if ce11ain upgrades and changes are put in place." The superintendent said this week that "the board is willing to look at donating the property for the college's Meigs Center but before anything is done the sewer issue needs to be resolved." Please see Board, AS ·' ' , Bath Sergent/photo The Parish Shop volunteers Eloise Watkins (left) and Mar y Bowles donate six .hours of their day, five days a week ·a t the store, selling, accepting and distributing hou sehold goods. The Parish Shop has bee') in existence for 18 years and this will be its first Christmas at the Mulberry Community Center. PARISH (L01HING SHOP'S FIRST CHRISTMAS AT MULBERRY (OMMUNin' (ENIER BY BETH SERGENT aSERGENT@MYOAI LYSENTiNEL.COM Eloise Watkin s. Mm·y Bowles, Bell y .Reibel. Rose . Barrows, Dc lo rc·s ll awi< and Cintly GlaLe. POM EROY - The Pari sh Clothing Mo~l of these . volu11teers g ive six Shop has been part of Meigs County for !lours of th eir time. li ve day\ a week to the pa.~ t 18 years and since March it has ope rating the shop. . been at its latest . location in the ' Bowles has been volunteering at the Mulbel'ry Community Ce nter where it shop for the past 17 years and says she has stayed with the shop for so long will celebrate its first Chrislmas. May be a shop can't celebrate Christmas because she enjo ys helping people . "It does me good:· she said. but the volunteers that are the bac i<bonc VoiLIIlteer Eloise Watkins who has of the shop can. helping to mai<c been with the shop for 16 years agreed Christmas nicer for their customers. with Bowles. The Parish Clothing Shop operates on Both women al so said they appreciated volunteer labor from workers like the opponunity to visit with the many people that come in and out of the shop. Business has been picking up since the move to the center. bringing visitors from throughout Meigs County. Athens County, Parkersburg. W.Va. anti even Florida. The shop spedali zes in used household items like clothing. shoes. toys, games, di shes. The shop operates on · donations and then sells them at a discountcd price. "Our clothes are affordable," Mrs. Watkins said proudly. Please see Parish, A5 Pomeroy cracking down on unpaid fines or letters for unpaid pqrking Department Met er Maitl paitl in full . Sandra Thorla said she has Indi vid uals with unpaid ti ckets arc reminded that the sent out rem intler post cards traffic or mi sdemeanor cita- full amount shown on those POMEROY - Thousands and letiers lo those with out- tion .s and unpaid parking post cards and letters are due. Those ti nes are due immeof dollars in unpaid parkmg swnding parking tickets with tickets are subject to arrest and mayor's court fines are often no response. and/or the loss of their tlri- di ately to avoid repercus" outstanding in the vi ll age of Thorla can pull out fist ful s ver's license. Warrants for stons. Pomeroy, fo rci ng the of unpaid parking tickets arrest are being issued and Pumcroy Clerk of Courts Pomeroy Police Department from her file s. . license suspensions are bei ng Tammv Sm ith will be availto crackdown on offende" by Not paying parking ticke ts sent to the state or Ohi o ahle \1 ·a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday stepping up vehicle towi ng, can rcsull m vehicles being Bureau of Motor VehiCles for thn>ugh Fri day to assist with blocks on dri ve r's license towed and remaining ....4\QSe with unpaid fines. any questions and ac~~,pt renewals and arrests. im pounded unt' all ( ~' · lndi vid4als•. that have payment s. SmiJh can ' ·.~~·~;. ..... :~!'N~my Police standing parking ~~~)¢,~_'J:f'l! ..~ceivr~ post card reminders reached at '192-611 11 . . '.'( ( 1·j(f;, · '• · · ~ ~------,------J!nL-•--f.'~,.:.:.__,;.~r-----------:----;---· · ·• '!'/' ". · · . ., BY BETH SERGENT BSERGENT@MYDAILYSENTiNEL.COM I Faulty heater to_' blarrle in fatal fi.rre Capt. John Perry of the Ga)l hi County Sheriff's Department said Michael D. KERR - A faulty kerosene Proctor. 59. 1564 Kerr Road. heater that was !laming close di!.!d in a blatc that was fou!.!ht to a wall in a residence ncar by volun teer lircfight~r.., frOm Kerr is believed to be the three local departments. Perry ~aid an initial investi cause of a lire that ki lled a Bidwell-area man Wednesday gation of the .scene near the intersection with Ohio 850 night, investigators said. Bv KEVIN KELLY KKELLY@MYDAILYTRIB.UN E.COM indicates the lire was caused by the heater. The vict.im had called a fami ly fri end prior to the blaLe anti told him tha t the heater wa~ malfum.: tinn ing and flamin g. Perry added. Proctor. who was paraly7.cd fro m the waist do,vn from a traffil: acciden t some years ago anti whcckhair-bountl. was unable to escape the fire , Perry said. In vestigators said fl ames from the heater spread to a nearby wal l. and.the victim is be lieved to have been overcome hy ~mo kc . Proctor was the only resident in the house. Please see Fire, AS � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 12. December Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource December 15, 2005