http://66.213.69.5/files/original/51cd157189e808ffe26fdef63154105d.pdf 1efb11abcf584d3924c53a36cee37302 PDF Text Text Yard of the Week Tornadoes take down South Gallia Band of brothers LOCAL s 3 SPORTS s 8 RIVER s 10 C_ZZb[fehj��Fec[heo"�E^_e Breaking news at mydailysentinel.com Issue 74, Volume 157 Saturday, September 5, 2020 s $2 Friday night under the lights Additional cases reported at Overbrook Staff Report Alex Hawley | OVP Sports High school football entered week two Ohio on Friday night. Pictured here, Eastern place kicker Conner Ridenour makes an extra point attempt during the first quarter of Friday’s game at East Shade River Stadium. Local teams playing their first home games were the Meigs Marauders who hosted the River Valley Raiders, the Eastern Eagles who hosted the Trimble Tomcats, and the South Gallia Rebels who hosted the Waterford Wildcats. The Southern Tornadoes were on the road for the second consecutive week, traveling to face the Belpre Golden Eagles. The Gallia Academy Blue Devils took to the road for the first time in 2020, facing the Ironton Fighting Tigers. Due to early press times, complete game coverage won’t appear in print until Tuesday’s print edition. However, stories will appear on our websites and Facebook pages as soon as they are available. CSHA cancels fall events By Lorna Hart Special to the Sentinel CHESTER — The Chester Shade Historical Association has made the decision to cancel their annual fall activities which include the Genealogy Fair scheduled for Sept. 19 and Meigs Heritage Festival on Oct. 3 due to COVID-19 concerns. Both the Fair and the Festival are interactive social events designed to “explore your roots” and celebrate Meigs County’s rich history. These types of gatherings now necessitate compliance with COVID-19 protocols, making it extremely difﬁcult and expensive to navigate requirements with volunteer resources. “We put the safety and health of our attendees and CSHA members ﬁrst,” said Dan Will, CSHA President. “So we voted to cancel our fall events and wait and see what next year brings. Hopefully we can resume our activities.” All non-proﬁts are feeling the economic impact of the pandemic, CSHA included. The annual April Banquet and Auction, their main fundraiser of the year, was canceled during the initial shutdown. Most activities at the Courthouse Courtesy of Gary Coleman Photography | Provided by CSHA Members of Meigs County American Legion Posts took part in the official opening of the 2019 Meigs Heritage Festival with the flag raising ceremony. and Academy are free of charge, and this fundraiser is a big part in providing funding for the events and maintaining the buildings. “We have cut costs wherever we could,” Will continued, “But we were on a tight budget before this started, so there isn’t much else we can do.” He said it is necessary to keep the buildings heated and cooled to protect both their structural integrity and contents, and security must be maintained. Almost all work done at CSHA is volunteer, so there are very few cuts to be AIM Media Midwest Operating, LLC (USPS 145-966) Telephone: 740-992-2155 Publishes every Tuesday through Saturday. Subscription rate is $208 per year. Prices are subject to change at any time. 825 Third Ave., Gallipolis, OH, 45631 Periodical postage paid at Pomeroy, OH POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Daily Sentinel, 825 Third Ave., Gallipolis, OH, 45631. All content © 2020 The Daily Sentinel. All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law. made in stafﬁng. “We sponsored events here so folks can come out and enjoy the buildings and learn more about their history, as well as that of Meigs County.” The Old Meigs County Courthouse, usually referred to as the Chester Courthouse, was the original county seat, and is the oldest standing courthouse in the Northwest Territory. The Courthouse is now a museum and the upstairs of the adjacent Academy building holds the ofﬁce and genealogy library of the CSHA. A kitchen and meeting room located downstairs is available for events with food catered by CSHA members. The Courthouse is big with an open ﬂoor plan, making it easy to social distance with small groups, and is currently open for self guided tours Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m.4 p.m. and also by appointment for groups no larger than ﬁve. “Social Distancing” must be practiced and masks are mandatory (visitors are asked to bring their own masks). Visitors are encouraged to call to verify the schedule before making a trip to Chester. “We are volunteers, and some things happen that might prevent us from being there during our regular limited hours,” Will said. “But if you call ahead, we will make sure someone is there to meet you. We do welcome and encourage visitors.” In the meantime, CSHA, like other historical venues, is exploring ways to stay engaged during the pandemic, and making plans to implement necessary changes for what will certainly be a “new normal” in the coming months. Those interested in the preservation of the Courthouse and Academy are encouraged See CSHA | 12 Strengthening resiliency of youth in Appalachian Ohio Grant funding available Staff Report NELSONVILLE — The Foundation for Appalachian Ohio (FAO), in partnership with the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation of Nelsonville (OHFN), announced a new funding opportunity intended to address the social, economic, educational, and health challenges faced by young people in Appalachian Ohio. Given the critical role of childhood development on lifelong well being, and the extraordinary challenges youth face as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, FAO’s I’m a Child of Appalachia® Fund and OHFN are inviting proposals designed to support nonproﬁt and public organizations, including public schools, working to address these challenges and foster youth resiliency. Up to $350,000 is available through this funding opportunity; grant See YOUTH | 6 OHIO VALLEY — Fourteen additional COVID-19 cases were reported on Friday at Overbrook Rehabilitation Center in Middleport, according the daily update from the Meigs County Health Department. All 14 cases are residents of the facility, stated Meigs County Health Department Public Information Ofﬁcer Brody Davis. Overbrook Rehabilitation Center Administrator Stephanie Cleland said that during the outbreak the facility is “completing repeat testing weekly for all residents and employees who previously tested negative until we have a 14 day period without any positive results.” These positive cases were a result of that testing, said Cleland. See CASES | 2 FOR THE RECORD Meigs County Sheriff’s Office Aug. 17 Dispatch received a call from an employee of the 124 Mart advising that a male is hanging around in the store and keep trying to talk with his ex-wife, who is also an employee. A deputy was dispatched to the location. The suspect had left before he arrived, and the caller advised that he had done nothing criminal they just wanted him advised not to come back to the store. Later, the deputy located the suspect near Five Points and advised him not to return to the 124 Mart, and any further complaints on him from the store would result in a trespassing charge being filed against him. No further action was taken on this call. Dispatch received a call from a female on Martin Street in Rutland advising that someone had been running up and down the road on a four-wheeler earlier and now someone is shining a flashlight in her window. A deputy arrived and spoke with the caller about the incident and patrolled the area. When no one was located the deputy blacked out and parked where he could see the length of the street. After a short time two subjects came out of a house and walked down the street, doing nothing wrong. When they got close to the area the deputy was setting that noticed him there and walked up and spoke with him. Their version of the incident varied from the original caller and the base of this incident is it’s an ongoing neighbor dispute. They were advised by the deputy not be riding their four-wheeler on the public roadway and the leave their neighbor alone. No further action will be taken in this situation as long as no further calls are received. See RECORD | 12 �2 Saturday, September 5, 2020 DEATH NOTICE/NEWS Ohio Valley Publishing DEATH NOTICE GALLIA, MEIGS CALENDAR OF EVENTS NANCE SCOTTOWN — Bessie Mae Nance, 67, of Scottown, Ohio, died Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, at The Emogene Dolin Jones Hospice House, Huntington, W.Va. A graveside service will be held 11 a.m., Monday, Sept. 7, 2020, at Perkins Ridge Cemetery, Willow Wood, Ohio. Hall Funeral Home and Crematory, Proctorville, Ohio is assisting the family with arrangements. Editor’s Note: The Daily Sentinel and Gallipolis Daily Tribune appreciate your input to the community calendar. To make sure items can receive proper attention, all information should be received by the newspaper at least ﬁve business days prior to an event. All coming events print on a space-available basis and in chronological order. Events can be emailed to: TDSnews@aimmediamidwest.com or GDTnews@aimmediamidwest.com. GALLIA, MEIGS BRIEFS Editor’s Note: Gallia Meigs Briefs will only list event information that is open to the public and will be printed on a space-available basis. Farmers’ Market cooking demonstration POMEROY —The Meigs County Farmers’ Market will host a cooking demonstration from 11 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Sept. 5, with chefs Rick Werner and Jessica Wolf. Menu will include fast, easy ﬁnger appetizers, ratatouille with penne and blackberry crumb bars. Meigs County Trade Days to take place Sept. 5-6 ROCKSPRINGS — Meigs County Trade Days will take place Sept. 5 and 6 at the Meigs County Fairgrounds from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free admission and parking. Rain or shine. Food distribution set for Sept. 18 GALLIPOLIS — The Southeast Ohio Foodbank, a program of Hocking Athens Perry Community Action, will be hosting a mobile food distribution at the Gallia County Fairgrounds on Friday, Sept. 18 from 10 a.m. – noon. Food items will be given to families who are residents of Gallia County. Photo I.D. and proof of residency no more than 60 days old is required. No pre-registration is required for this event. Middleport paving schedule change MIDDLEPORT — Due to weather conditions, the paving schedule in the village of Middleport has been revised as follows: Tuesday, Sept. 8, South Second Avenue; Thursday, Sept. 10, Grant and Beech Streets; Friday, Sept. 11, Middleport Hill. Everyone is asked to ﬁnd alternative parking and driving plans for the area. Update from highway dept. GALLIA COUNTY — Gallia County Engineer Brett A. Boothe announces beginning Tuesday, Sept. 8, the Gallia County Engineer’s Ofﬁce and the Gallia County Highway Department will begin working Monday through Thursday, 6:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. This schedule will be in effect through the month of September. Beginning Oct. 5, the ofﬁces will begin working Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the winter season. Ofﬁces are now open to the public but masks must be worn at all times in the building. LIVESTOCK REPORT GALLIPOLIS, Ohio — The latest livestock report from United Producers, Inc., 357 Jackson Pike, Gallipolis, Ohio, 740-446-9696. Date of Sale: Sept. 2 Total Headage: 188 Feeder Cattle (#1 Cattle) Yearling Steers: 600-700lbs: $100.00 - $130.00; Heifers 600-700lbs: $100.00 $122.00; 700-800lbs: $100.00 - $110.00; Steer Calves 300-400lbs: $140.00 - $165.00; 400-500lbs: $135.00 $163.00; 500-600lbs: $127.00 - $144.00; Heifer Calves 300-500lbs: $120.00 - $145.00; 500-600lbs: $100.00 $125.00; Feeder Bulls 250-400lbs: $140.00- $164.00; 400-600lbs: $110.00-$140.00; 600800 pounds: $100.00 $141.00 Cows & Fat Cattle Comm/Utility: $20.00 - $72.00; Canner/Cutter: $1.00 - $20.00 Cow/Calf Pairs: $610.00 - $1200.00; Bred Cows: $600.00 $1250.00 Bulls By Weight: $69.00$96.00 Small Animals New Crop Lambs: $215.00; Feeder Pigs: $20.00 Per Head Comments #2 Feeder Cattle: $50.00 - $120.00; #3 Feeder Cattle: $50.00 $120.00. CONTACT US 825 Third Ave., Gallipolis, OH, 45631 740-446-2342 All content © 2020 Gallipolis Daily Tribune and The Daily Sentinel. All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law. REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT/ GROUP PUBLISHER Lane Moon lmoon@aimmediamidwest.com EDITOR Beth Sergent, Ext. 1992 bsergent@aimmediamidwest.com MANAGING EDITOR Sarah Hawley, Ext. 2555 shawley@aimmediamidwest.com SPORTS EDITOR Bryan Walters, Ext. 2101 bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Matt Rodgers, Ext. 2095 mrodgers@aimmediamidwest.com CIRCULATION MANAGER Derrick Morrison, Ext. 2097 dmorrison@aimmediamidwest.com Card shower Pearl Burger will be celebrating her 100th birthday on Sept. 10, cards may be sent to Wyngate at Rivers Edge, 7694 County Rd 107, Proctorville, OH 45669. Cancellations GALLIPOLIS — The American Legion Lafayette Post #27 will not meet on Sept. 7 due to the Labor Day Holiday and COVID-19 precautions. GALLIPOLIS — The annual Rev. Samuel Lewis Reunion, that would have been scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 6 at Raccoon Creek Park has been canceled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. MEIGS COUNTY — Meigs County Cleanup Day, which had been rescheduled for Sept. 26, has been canceled for 2020. Saturday, Sept. 5 SALEM CENTER — Star Grange #778 and Star Junior Grange #878 will meet with potluck supper at 6:30 p.m. followed by meeting at 7:30 p.m. Plans for Chicken BBQ to be held on Sunday, Oct. 4 will be discussed. Sunday, Sept. 6 RACINE — Racine American Legion Dinner from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Menu will be fried chicken, bbq pork riblets, homemade noodles, mashed potatoes, green beans, macaroni salad, roll, dessert and drink. Monday, Sept. 7 LETART TWP. — The regular meeting of the Cases of the deaths were in the 60-69 age range, one in the 70-79 age range and one over 80 years of age. From page 1 Gallia County remains at an Orange level-2 adviThey are awaiting sory level on the State of results of the most recent employee testing Ohio Public Health Risk which was conducted on Advisory System, which is deﬁned as “increased Thursday. Here is a look at coro- exposure and spread; navirus cases around our exercise high degree of caution.” area: Letart Township Trustees will be held at 5 p.m. at the Letart Township Building. Tuesday, Sept. 8 GALLIPOLIS — VFW Post #4464 meeting, 6 p.m., post home on Third Ave., all members urged to attend. GALLIPOLIS — The board of trustees for the Dr. Samuel L. Bossard Memorial Library will hold it’s regular monthly meeting at the library at 5 p.m. TUPPERS PLAINS — The monthly board meeting for the Tuppers Plains Regional Sewer District will be held in the conference room at the ofﬁce at 7 p.m. RUTLAND TWP. — Rutland Township Trustees will meet at 7:30 a.m. at the Township Garage. The change is due to the Labor Day holiday. POMEROY — The Meigs County Board of Health meeting will take place at 5 p.m. in the conference room of the Meigs County Health Department, which is located at 112 E. Memorial Drive in Pomeroy, Ohio. A call-in option is available for this open, public meeting in response to the COVID 19 Pandemic and resulting declared national, state and local emergency. To dial in by phone: +1.202.602.1295; Conference ID: 994-078-803 # A proposed meeting agenda is located at www.meigshealth.com. Wednesday, Sept. 9 POMEROY — Meigs County Health Dept. will be closed to the public for its annual Workforce Development and Employee Recognition Day. Normal business hours will resume at 8 a.m. on Sept. 10. SCIPIO TWP. — Scipio Township Trustees regular monthly meeting is scheduled at 7 p.m. at the Harrisonville Fire House. Due to COVID -19, if visitors need or want to ask questions, feel free to call during our meeting at 740-742-2110. Thank you for understanding. Friday, Sept. 11 GALLIPOLIS — O. O. McIntyre Park District regular board meeting, 11 a.m, in the park board ofﬁce at the Gallia County Courthouse, 18 Locust St. 79-year-old age range, who is not hospitalized. 14. Conﬁrmed case, male in the 60 to 69-year-old age range, who is not hospitalized. Age ranges for the 150 Meigs County cases, as of Friday, are as follows: 0-19 — 19 cases 20-29 — 16 cases 30-39 — 14 cases (1 hospitalization) 40-49 — 14 cases Gallia County Meigs County 50-59 — 16 cases (1 The Gallia County Friday’s cases of Health Department COVID-19 bring Meigs hospitalization) 60-69 — 15 cases (2 reported two additional County to 65 active new cases, 2 hospitalizacases on Thursday evecases, and 150 total tions) ning, as well as numercases (126 Conﬁrmed, 70-79 — 21 cases (5 ous recovered cases and 24 Probable) since new cases, 3 hospitalizaindividuals released from April. the hospital. No addiFriday’s cases at Over- tions, 1 death) 80-89 — 20 cases (6 tional cases were report- brook Rehabilitation ed on Friday, according Center were as follows: new cases, 4 hospitalizations, 3 deaths) to the Ohio Department 1. Conﬁrmed case, 90-99 — 13 cases (1 of Health database. female in the 80 to new case, 1 hospitalizaThe following are 89-year-old age range, updated age ranges, who is not hospitalized. tion) 100-109 — 1 case as of Thursday, in the 2. Conﬁrmed case, The Meigs County 152 total cases (149 male in the 70 to Health Department has conﬁrmed, 3 probable) 79-year-old age range, which have been report- who is not hospitalized. reported a total of 81 recovered cases, there ed by the health depart3. Conﬁrmed case, have been a total of 11 ment since March: female in the 70 to hospitalizations and 0-19 — 14 cases (1 79-year-old age range, new case Thursday) who is not hospitalized. four deaths. There have been four 20-29 — 23 cases (1 4. Conﬁrmed case, positive antibody tests new case Thursday, 1 female in the 60 to in Meigs County. Antihospitalization) 69-year-old age range, 30-39 — 16 cases who is not hospitalized. body tests check your blood by looking for 40-49 — 25 cases 5. Conﬁrmed case, antibodies, which may 50-59 — 21 cases (3 female in the 80 to tell you if you had a past hospitalizations) 89-year-old age range, 60-69 — 14 cases who is not hospitalized. infection with the virus that causes COVID-19. (6 hospitalizations, 2 6. Conﬁrmed case, Meigs County remains deaths) female in the 80 to at an Orange level-2 70-79 — 18 cases 89-year-old age range, (9 hospitalizations, 1 who is not hospitalized. advisory level on the State of Ohio Public death) 7. Conﬁrmed case, Health Risk Advisory 80-89 — 13 cases (7 female in the 70 to System. hospitalizations) 79-year-old age range, 90-99 — 8 cases (5 who is not hospitalized. hospitalizations) 8. Conﬁrmed case, Mason County 80+ — 1 death (ODH female in the 80 to The Mason County does not breakdown age 89-year-old age range, Health Department over age 80) who is not hospitalized. reported 117 total cases Of the 152 total cases, 9. Conﬁrmed case, on Friday morning, two 119 of the individuals female in the 70 to more than Thursday. are listed as recovered/ 79-year-old age range, The department said not active, an increase who is not hospitalized. that 33 of those are of 29 recovered cases on 10. Conﬁrmed case, currently active, 83 are Thursday. Active cases male in the 90 to recovered, and there has were nearly cut in half, 99-year-old age range, been one death. There with 29 of the cases con- who is not hospitalized. are no currently hospitalsidered active and four 11. Conﬁrmed case, ized cases. total deaths. Eight of the male in the 80 to DHHR reported 120 active cases remain hos- 89-year-old age range, cases in Mason County pitalized, with 23 previ- who is not hospitalized. in the 10 a.m. update on ous hospitalizations. Gal12. Conﬁrmed case, Friday. lia County reported its female in the 80 to According to DHHR, ﬁrst COVID-19 death in 89-year-old age range, the age ranges for the March, its second Aug. who is not hospitalized. 120 COVID-19 cases 14, and the third and 13. Conﬁrmed case, DHHR is reporting in fourth on Aug. 28. Two female in the 70 to Mason County are as follows: 0-9 — 3 cases 10-19 — 9 cases 20-29 — 18 cases 30-39 — 11 cases 40-49 — 20 cases (1 new) 50-59 — 17 cases (1 new, 1 death) 60-69 — 15 cases 70+ — 27 cases Mason County is now deﬁned as “orange” according to DHHR as it relates to its “County Alert System” map. Counties deﬁned as “orange” are reporting 10 - 24.9 cases per 100,000 people. In regards to schools, inperson learning is suspended when a county reaches “red” which is 25-plus cases per 100,000 people. Ohio As of the 2 p.m. update on Friday, the Ohio Department of Health reported a total of 1,332 new cases, above the 21-day average of 1,042. There were 22 new deaths reported on Friday (21-day average or 22), 68 new hospitalizations (21-day average of 76) and 19 new ICU admissions (21-day average of 13). West Virginia As of the 10 a.m. update on Friday, DHHR is reporting a total of 11,037 cases with 243 deaths. There was an increase of 192 cases from Thursday, and six new deaths. The West Virginia DHHR reports a total of 448,720 lab test have been completed, with a 2.46 cumulative percent positivity rate. The daily positivity rate in the state was 4.96 percent. Sarah Hawley and Kayla (Hawthorne) Dunham contributed to this report. (Editor’s Note: Statistics reported in this article are tentative and subject to change. This was the information available at press time with more to be added as it becomes available.) © 2020 Ohio Valley Publishing, all rights reserved. �NEWS Ohio Valley Publishing Saturday, September 5, 2020 3 Middleport Yard of the Week MIDDLEPORT — Each week throughout the summer property owners in the village of Middleport are recognized for the care they take of their yards. Week 10 — Norma and Flip Wilcox 482 South Second Ave. Norma and Flip have lived in this home since 1960. Norma worked 40 years at Citizens Bank which later became Peoples. Then she worked at Middleport Public Works for 7 years. Flip worked 26 years at NAPA then as a lineman for Southern Electric, and other various mechanic jobs throughout his life. Norma has “Bee-utifful” morning glories in the back yard and Flip says when he lived on the farm he had to hoe them out of the garden and now he grows them. In addition, they have zinnias, marigolds, rose mallow, and a couple huge tomato plants. Week 11 — Ron and Judi Cowan Courtesy photo Week 10 — Norma and Flip Wilcox and day lilies in her yard. On her porch is a humming bird feeder and crafts that her father made. Teresa’s neighbor has given her many plants enjoys the challenge. and some have needed some TLC and she enjoys Information provided by Middleport Village Yard of the Week committee. Week 13 — Teresa Brown nursing them back to health, she says she Week 11 — Ron and Judi Cowan 1175 Vine St. Ron and Judi have lived in this home for 44 years and Judi grew up right next door from the age of 14. With the neighbors being long term residents and her sister Marybeth Mitchell living just up the cove, Judi says it’s like they’re all family. Ron does a lot of the gardening and mowing with Judi’s help. She enjoys the plantings which include clematis, hostas, vinca, blooming moss, and lemon grass which helps deter mosquitoes. She says the plants give her peace and is a form of meditation. Ron and Judi Week 12 — Vaughan and Marybeth Mitchell lost their son Sam seven and a half months ago and they have a wonderful memory garden with a laser etched stone of him, that his friends around the world had made, as a center piece. Are you looking for an opportunity to work for one of the world’s leading food companies? General Mills, located in Wellston, Ohio is hiring Production Operators for their 2nd and 3rd shift teams. Pay rates start out between $16.70 and $18.30 per hour, with excellent beneﬁts. Apply online today at http://careers.generalmills.com Week 12 — Vaughan and Marybeth Mitchell 1285 Vine St. Vaughan and Marybeth live in a secluded cove at the end of Vine Street. Virtually no one sees their yard unless they come to visit and what a shame because it’s a showcase. All that Marybeth does is for her own enjoyment and it’s a lot. She has a “beeutiful” home with an outstanding arrangement of ﬂowers and trees. Vaughan helps with the planting and the yard, but Marybeth does the maintenance of the plantings which include cone ﬂowers, old growth azaleas two white and one orange, columbine, bugleweed, coleus, petunias, million bells, hibiscus, zinnia, and hostas, just to name a few. Also, in their landscape are two huge Japanese Maple trees one green and one red. Sharing this month’s yard of the week with her sister, Judi Cowan, shows that great landscaping must run in the family. Week 13 — Teresa Brown 319 Pearl St. Teresa moved to Middleport from Rutland about 3 years ago. She loves to do yard work and it shows. Her yard is always well groomed and edged, and you can see the pride she takes in it. The stone edged ﬂower beds include roses (which are her true love), cone ﬂowers, petunias, and vincas. She also has million bells, hydrangeas, mhsystem.org/ourlocations �NEWS 4 Saturday, September 5, 2020 TODAY IN HISTORY The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Sept. 5, the 249th day of 2020. There are 117 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History On Sept. 5, 1972, the Palestinian group Black September attacked the Israeli Olympic delegation at the Munich Games, killing 11 Israelis and a police ofﬁcer. German forces killed ﬁve of the gunmen. On this date In 1774, the ﬁrst Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia. In 1793, the Reign of Terror began during the French Revolution as the National Convention instituted harsh measures to repress counter-revolutionary activities. In 1864, voters in Louisiana approved a new state constitution abolishing slavery. In 1939, four days after war had broken out in Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a proclamation declaring U.S. neutrality in the conﬂict. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed legislation making aircraft hijackings a federal crime. In 1975, President Gerald R. Ford escaped an attempt on his life by Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a disciple of Charles Manson, in Sacramento, California. In 1984, the space shuttle Discovery ended its inaugural ﬂight as it landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California. In 1986, four hijackers who had seized a Pan Am jumbo jet on the ground in Karachi, Pakistan, opened ﬁre when the lights inside the plane failed; a total of 20 people were killed before Pakistani commandos stormed the jetliner. In 1995, France ended its three-year moratorium on nuclear tests, setting off an underground blast on a South Paciﬁc atoll. In 1997, breaking the royal reticence over the death of Princess Diana, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II delivered a televised address in which she called her former daughter-in-law “a remarkable person.” Mother Teresa died in Calcutta, India, at age 87; conductor Sir Georg Solti (johrj SHOL’-tee) died in France at age 84. In 2016, Phyllis Schlaﬂy, the outspoken conservative activist who helped defeat the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and founded the Eagle Forum political group, died in St. Louis at age 92. In 2018, The New York Times published an opinion piece from an anonymous senior administration ofﬁcial claiming to be part of an internal “resistance” working to thwart President Donald Trump’s “worst inclinations;” Trump responded that if such a “gutless” person exists, “the Times must, for National Security purposes, turn him/her over to the government at once!” Ten years ago: A Los Angeles police ofﬁcer shot and killed Manuel Jaminez, a Guatemalan immigrant, in a case that sparked angry protests. (A civilian oversight panel later said the ofﬁcer was justiﬁed in using deadly force against Jaminez, who witnessses said was drunk and threatening passersby with a knife.) Jefferson Thomas, one of nine Black students to integrate a Little Rock high school in America’s ﬁrst major battle over school segregation, died in Columbus, Ohio, at age 67. Five years ago: Germans waving welcome signs in German, English and Arabic gathered at a train station to welcome the ﬁrst group of a wave of migrants ﬂeeing conﬂict in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa. One year ago: A jury in Oakland, California, acquitted one of the two men charged in a deadly warehouse ﬁre and deadlocked on whether to convict or acquit the other. (Derick Almena is scheduled to be tried again in October on manslaughter charges; he was the founder of an artists’ collective at the site where the fast-moving ﬁre trapped and killed 36 partygoers in December, 2016.) The Education Department said it was ﬁning Michigan State University a record $4.5 million for failing to respond adequately to sexual assault complaints about Larry Nassar, a campus sports doctor who molested elite gymnasts and other female athletes. Drug chains CVS and Walgreens and grocery chain Wegmans joined retailers requesting that customers refrain from openly carrying ﬁrearms in their stores, even where state laws allow it. The NFL opened its 100th season in Chicago, where the Green Bay Packers beat the Chicago Bears 10-3 in the season’s ﬁrst game. Today’s Birthdays: Comedian-actor Bob Newhart is 91. Actor-singer Carol Lawrence is 88. Actor Lucille Soong is 85. Former NFL All-Pro quarterback and college football Hall of Famer Billy Kilmer is 81. Actor William Devane is 81. Actor George Lazenby is 81. Actor Raquel Welch is 80. Movie director Werner Herzog is 78. Singer Al Stewart is 75. Actor-director Dennis Dugan is 74. College Football Hall of Famer Jerry LeVias is 74. Singer Loudon Wainwright III is 74. Soul/ rock musician Mel Collins is 73. “Cathy” cartoonist Cathy Guisewite (GYZ’-wyt) is 70. Actor Michael Keaton is 69. Actor Debbie Turner-Larson (Marta in “The Sound of Music”) is 64. Actor Kristian Alfonso is 57. Rhythm-and-blues singer Terry Ellis is 57. Rock musician Brad Wilk is 52. TV personality Dweezil Zappa is 51. Actor Rose McGowan is 47. Actor Carice Van Houten is 44. Rock musician Kyle O’Quin (Portugal. The Man) is 35. Actor Andrew Ducote is 34. Olympic gold medal ﬁgure skater Yuna Kim is 30. Actor Skandar Keynes is 29. Ohio Valley Publishing Ohio governor delays more executions COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday delayed two death row inmates’ 2021 executions as the state’s unofﬁcial death penalty moratorium continues. The announcement came as Ohio struggles to ﬁnd an adequate supply of drugs for lethal injection. The Republican gover- nor’s warrants of reprieve were issued for condemned prisoner Melvin Bonnell and Cleveland Jackson. The reprieves moved Bonnell’s execution from March 18, 2021 to Oct. 18, 2023 and Jackson’s from Jan. 13, 2021 to June 15, 2023. Bonnell was sentenced to die for killing Robert Bunner in Bunner’s Cleveland apartment in 1987. Jackson was sentenced to die for fatally shooting 17-year-old Leneshia Williams in Lima in 2002 in a drug-related robbery at a crowded home. Both inmates have also had previous execution dates rescheduled. DeWine has repeat- edly said the state is at a standstill because it’s unable to obtain drugs for lethal injection. He’s also expressed concern that drug companies — which oppose use of their drugs in executions — could pull pharmaceuticals from state hospitals to punish Ohio if it did ﬁnd a lethal drug supply. Undercover drug detective, informant killed CLEVELAND (AP) — A Cleveland police detective who had just joined a federal violence task force was shot and killed in his unmarked car along with a police informant during a drug operation, ofﬁcials said Friday. Three people have been arrested in the shooting that killed Detective James Skernivitz, 53, and another man on Thursday night. Cleveland Safety Director Karrie Howard said at a news brieﬁng Friday afternoon that two juveniles and an adult taken into custody for unrelated arrest warrants are being questioned. Their names have not been released. Scott Dingess, 50, has been identiﬁed by the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Ofﬁce as the other man killed inside Skernivitz’s car. An emotional Police Chief Calvin Williams did not provide details about the shootings during the brieﬁng. “It could have been random, it could have been targeted,” Williams said. “We don’t know. We’re still investigating.” Skernivitz and Dingess were shot around 10 p.m. Thursday on the city’s west side. A Cleveland police ofﬁcial knowledgeable about some details of the shooting, but who was not authorized to speak publicly, told The Associated Press that Skernivitz was working undercover as part of a drug operation and that Dingess was a police informant. Jeff Follmer, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association, said there were no other ofﬁcers in the area when the two men were shot. Ofﬁcials have not said whether Skernivitz was working Thursday night as part of the federal task force or as a member of the Cleveland police gang unit to which he was normally assigned. Skernivitz was a 25-year veteran. Williams at Friday’s brieﬁng called him a “policeman’s policeman.” Skernivitz and other law enforcement ofﬁcers were sworn in Wednesday at the Cleveland FBI ofﬁce to become members of the FBI’s Violent Crime Task Force in support of Operation Legend, a Justice Department effort to crack down on violent crime in a number of U.S. cities, including Cleveland, FBI spokesperson Vicki Anderson. Gov. Mike DeWine ordered the U.S. and state ﬂags to be ﬂown at halfstaff at public buildings in Cuyahoga County and at the Statehouse in Columbus. U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman said Thursday that 54 defendants have been charged criminally, including 39 people for drug-related offenses, since Operation Legend got underway in Cleveland on July 29. It has been more than 10 years since an on-duty Cleveland police ofﬁcer was fatally shot. Patrol Ofﬁcer Derek Owens, 36, was killed in February 2008 while chasing a suspect. Owens caught up to the man, who turned and shot Owens in the abdomen below his bulletproof vest. The man was found guilty of aggravated murder and was sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole. Feeding America to recognize hunger action month LOGAN — Throughout September, the Southeast Ohio Foodbank and Kitchen will be recognizing Hunger Action Month. Hunger Action Month is a Feeding America initiative to raise awareness and accelerate plans of action to address hunger in the United States. The Foodbank is a program of Hocking Athens Perry Community Action (HAPCAP), and has been feeding Southeast Ohioans for over 30 years. The Foodbank is based in Logan and serves 10 counties throughout the region, including Athens, Gallia, Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Morgan, Perry, Vinton, and Washington. Over 60 member pantries are operating throughout the Foodbank’s service area. Combined with mobile food distributions at county fairgrounds, senior food boxes, Meals on Wheels, and summer meals for children, the Foodbank served ﬁve million meals in 2019 alone. Despite these achievements, hunger is still present in the homes of thousands of Southeast Ohioans. Feeding America has released an interactive map showing the projected food insecurity rates of each county in the United States as a result of the pandemic. More than 54 million people nationwide may experience food insecurity due to COVID-19, including 18 million children. Counties Served by the Southeast Ohio Foodbank, along with there 2018 food insecurity rate and the projected rate for 2020 are as follows: Athens 18.2 percent in 2018, projected 23.9 percent in 2020; Gallia 18.1 percent in 2018, projected 23.1 percent in 2020; Hocking 14.0 percent in 2018, projected 19.4 percent in 2020; Jackson 17.2 percent in 2018, projected 22.1 percent in 2020; Lawrence 17.3 percent in 2018, projected 22.3 percent in 2020; Meigs 18.7 percent in 2018, projected 23.9 percent in 2020; Morgan 17.0 percent in 2018, projected 22.0 percent in 2020; Perry 16.0 percent in 2018, projected 20.9 percent in 2020; Vinton 17.7 percent in 2018, projected 22.5 percent in 2020; and Washington 15.3 percent in 2018, projected 20.3 percent in 2020. “Southeast Ohio’s history with hunger and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic is making the evidence very clear,” says Andrew Mayle, HAPCAP’s director of Food & Nutrition. “SNAP is the ﬁrst line of defense against hunger, and the families we serve need this support to sustain them through this crisis, and any other ﬁnancial crisis they may face.” The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly referred to as SNAP or food stamps, is a federal program that provides a monthly food allowance to incomeeligible families. The funds are loaded onto a debit card, otherwise known as an Electronic Beneﬁts Transfer or EBT card, and can only be used on certain grocery items. According to Feeding America, the program has had signiﬁcant success in lifting families out of poverty. In 2015, 4.6 million families were pushed above the poverty line. When low-income families can receive SNAP beneﬁts, they no longer need to shrink their food budget to meet other needs such as rent, utilities, or medical costs. The next round of federal stimulus legislation in response to the COVID19 pandemic is still in discussion on Capitol Hill. Feeding America is urging a 15 percent increase in SNAP beneﬁts to help alleviate the pressure on the nation’s Foodbanks, as well as putting money back into local economies through grocery stores, farmers’ markets, and easing the sacriﬁces food-insecure families often make each month. Throughout Hunger Action Month, the Foodbank will be providing information on how Southeast Ohio Residents can contact their legislators to encourage support of the 15 percent SNAP increase. There will also be a ﬂag installation in front of the Foodbank’s Warehouse on CIC drive, and a Facebook Live panel discussion on September 22 at 7:00 p.m. The discussion will include staff members of the Foodbank and Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, executive director of the Ohio Association of Foodbanks. “The dedication of our staff, our volunteers, our donors, and our community partners is invaluable,” says Mayle. “We want to make sure the policy is in place to support their work, and to ensure that no one in our community goes hungry.” For more information on programs at the Southeast Ohio Foodbank and Hocking Athens Perry Community Action, contact Claire Gysegem, Public Relations Manager at (740) 767-4500, or e-mail claire.gysegem@hapcap. org. IN BRIEF Compromise keeps ‘Black Lives Matter’ off Boardwalk ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A “Black Lives Matter” protest that arose amid threats of vandalism and arrest ended in Atlantic City’s mayor and a community activist who had threatened to paint those words on the seaside gambling resort’s historic Boardwalk peacefully joining together Friday. Mayor Marty Small and protest organizer Steve Young picked up roller paint brushes and helped write those words on the pavement of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in front of the city’s Civil Rights Garden. “This city truly understands the Black Lives Matter movement,” said Small, who is Black and who had announced plans earlier in the week for the city to co-opt the event in order to spare the Boardwalk. “In order for all lives to matter, Black lives need to matter.” “We are saying the same thing right now — Black lives matter,” Young said. “And as long as we have something in common, there’s plenty of room at this table.” Weeks ago, Young announced plans to write the slogan on the city’s Boardwalk. But Small said doing so would be illegal. He then decided the city would hold its own event where the slogan would be painted on a roadway. Marine wins primary for Kennedy’s US House seat Jake Auchincloss, a city councilor in suburban Boston and a former Marine, won a packed primary to become the Democratic nominee in the race to ﬁll the U.S. House seat being vacated by Rep. Joe Kennedy III in Massachusetts. Auchincloss edged out six other Democratic candidates in the crowded ﬁeld for the open 4th Congressional District, a contest that took until early Friday to decide because of a deluge of mailed-in ballots that overwhelmed several cities and towns. �NEWS Ohio Valley Publishing Saturday, September 5, 2020 5 Will long Labor Day weekend mean another spike? HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Stir-crazy in some cases after the dreary Summer of COVID-19, Americans headed into the Labor Day weekend amid warnings from public health ofﬁcials not to make the same mistakes they did over Memorial Day and July Fourth. The fear is that backyard parties, crowded bars and other gatherings will cause the coronavirus to come surging back “I look upon the Labor Day weekend really as a critical point,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectiousdisease expert. “Are we going to go in the right direction and continue the momentum downward, or are we going to have to step back a bit as we start another surge?” The warnings came as a widely cited model by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington projected a worsening outbreak in the U.S. that will peak in early December at about 2,900 deaths per day, up from about 860 a day now, unless government ofﬁcials take action. Over the summer, the U.S. saw a rise in infections, deaths and hos- pitalizations, primarily in the South and West, that was blamed in part on Americans behaving heedlessly over Memorial Day and July Fourth. The landscape has improved in recent weeks, with the numbers headed in the right direction in hard-hit states like Florida, Arizona and Texas, but there are certain risk factors that could combine with Labor Day: Children are going back to school, university campuses are seeing soaring case counts, college football is starting, more businesses are open, and ﬂu season is around the corner. And a few states are heading into the holiday with less room in hospitals than they had over Memorial Day and the Fourth of July. Alabama, for example, had about 800 people hospitalized with the virus on July 1. This week, it has just under 1,000. More beaches will be open on Labor Day than on Memorial Day, but Fauci said that is not cause in itself for concern, as long as people keep their distance. “I would rather see someone on a beach, being physically sepa- rated enough, than someone crowded in an indoor bar,” he said. Americans, cooped up for months, appeared more than ready to venture out and socialize — though with some precautions. In New York City, once the epicenter of the outbreak in the U.S., Jennifer Bolstad of Brooklyn picked up the keys to a rented minivan with plans to drive with her two children to Maryland this weekend to visit family she hasn’t seen in a year. “I monitored the quarantine list pathologically, and they are ﬁnally a place I can visit,” she said, referring to the list of states that New York has advised are safe to travel to. “I think a lot of people are going stir-crazy and are going somewhere this weekend and possibly not be as cautious as they should about not bringing their germs back with them.” Fellow New Yorker 30-year-old Heather Poole and her ﬁance, Jason Goldrosen, decided to pack up some bedding along with the makings for s’mores and head to a tiny home on the property of a brewery for the long weekend about two hours north of the city. She ﬁgures it will be one last blast of freedom before she is cooped up again this fall. “It’s kind of a way to enjoy the outdoors and be able to walk outside and not run into a lot of people or feel the need to wear a mask the second you walk out your door,” she said. In Cicero, Indiana, 40-year-old Matt McInnis planned to continue with tradition by getting together with about 15 neighborhood friends for a barbecue. And forget wearing masks. “With the picnic being outdoors, we feel that we can space enough, and with the fresh air that we are going to be safe with it being outdoors and in the wide open,” McInnis said. He said they won’t be asking the eight children at the picnic to socially distance either. Dawn Love of Bolton, Connecticut, decided to host an outdoor breakfast Saturday for her running group, The Crazy Legs, at her cottage on a lake. The 20 members normally run the local roads together every weekend but haven’t seen each other since March. Love, 62, said she expects just a few people to show up, with some deciding it was still too risky and begging off. “Everyone is bringing their own breakfast, their own beverage and a mask,” she said. “We’re going to meet and have the chairs 6 feet apart. Wearing the mask will depend on the comfort level with the person you’re talking to. I have a bathroom inside the cottage, with paper towels and a basket, so there is no shared towels.” The gathering comes as governors throughout the Northeast discouraged people from traveling out of state this weekend. Visitors from 33 states and territories must quarantine for 14 days after arriving in New Jersey, New York or Connecticut. The outbreak is blamed for about 187,000 deaths and almost 6.2 million conﬁrmed infections in the U.S., by far the highest totals in the world. Cases of COVID-19, which spiked from about 20,000 per day to around 70,000 during the summertime surge in the South, are now down to about 40,000. Worldwide, the num- ber of deaths has topped 870,000, with more than 26.4 million infections. The IHME model Friday predicted that worsening outbreaks in the Northern Hemisphere will lead to 1.9 million more COVID-19 deaths in the remaining months of 2020 unless governments take action. Mask mandates and social distancing could save hundreds of thousands of lives, but there is “a tremendous amount of COVID fatigue” among the world’s leaders because of the economic downturn, said IHME’s Dr. Christopher Murray. Dr. Albert Ko, a Yale University epidemiologist, said he is concerned about students heading back to school across the nation next week after coming back from holiday travel and a weekend of social gatherings. “Any transmission events that happen here could be ampliﬁed unless we’re careful about it,” Ko said. “Whether it’s going to be a perfect storm, l don’t think so. People are aware of the risk, and people have been socially distancing. But this is certainly a concern.” US wildlife agency seeks to carve out areas from protections By Matthew Brown regulations across government that has broadly changed how the Endangered Species BILLINGS, Mont. — A Trump administra- Act gets used. Other steps under Trump to tion proposal released Friday would allow the scale back species rules included lifting blanket government to deny protections for animals habitat protections for newly listed as threatendangered animals ened, setting cost estiand plants in areas mates for saving species that would see greater economic beneﬁts from and a July proposal to restrict what areas ﬁt being developed — a under the deﬁnition of change critics said “habitat”. could open lands to Wildlife advocates more energy developsay the administration’s ment and other activiapproach has elevated ties. natural resource extracU.S. Fish and Wildtion and commercial life Service ofﬁcials described the proposal development over the protection of sites that as giving more deferare home to dwindling ence to local governpopulations of endanments when they want gered species. to build things like Animals that could schools and hospitals. be affected by the latBut the proposal est change include the indicates that exempstruggling lesser prairie tions from habitat chicken, a grasslands protections would be bird found in ﬁve states considered for a much in the south-central broader array of develU.S., and the rare dunes opments, including at sagebrush lizard that the request of private lives among the oil companies that lease ﬁelds of western Texas federal lands or have and eastern New Mexpermits to use them. ico, wildlife advocates Government-issued said. leases and permits can Friday’s proposal and allow energy developthe habitat deﬁnition ment, grazing, recreation, logging and other offered in July were triggered by a 2018 commercial uses of U.S. Supreme Court rulpublic lands. ing involving a highly It’s the latest move endangered Southern by the Trump adminfrog — the dusky istration in a yearsgopher frog. long effort to repeal Associated Press Evan Vucci | AP President Donald Trump, shown at Andrews Air Force Base Thursday night, has denied reports that he made multiple offensive comments toward fallen and captured U.S. service-members, including calling World War I dead at an American military cemetery in France “losers” and “suckers” in 2018. Trump denies calling US war dead ‘losers’ By Zeke Miller and Alexandra Jaffe Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump defended himself Friday against accusations that he mocked American war dead as his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, intensiﬁed efforts to frame the election as a referendum on the president’s character. The allegations, sourced anonymously in The Atlantic, describe multiple offensive comments by the president toward fallen and captured U.S. service-members, including calling World War I dead at an American military cemetery in France as “losers” and “suckers” in 2018. The reported comments, many of which were conﬁrmed independently by the AP, are shining a fresh light on Trump’s previous public disparaging of American troops and military families and opening a new political vulnerability for the president less than two months from Election Day. “This is more made up Fake News given by disgusting & jealous failures in a disgraceful attempt to inﬂuence the 2020 Election!” Trump tweeted late Thursday, as aides mounted a concerted defense of the president, with Trump’s campaign and allies taking to social media and broadcast interviews to denounce the report. “I’ve done more for the military than almost anyone else,” he added Friday in the Oval Ofﬁce. The president was alleged to have made the comments as he was set to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery during a trip to France in Nov. 2018. The White House said the visit was scrubbed because foggy weather made the helicopter trip from Paris too risky and the 90-minute drive deemed infeasible. Trump, who traveled to Pennsylvania on Thursday, told reporters after he returned to Washington that the Atlantic report was “a disgraceful situation” by a “terrible magazine.” “I would be willing to swear on anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes,” Trump told the reporters, gathered on the tarmac in the dark. “There is nobody that respects them more. No animal — nobody — what animal would say such a thing?” On a call with reporters hosted by the Biden campaign Friday, Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth lambasted Trump for “belittling the sacriﬁces of those who have shown more bravery than he’s capable of.” “Of course he thinks about war selﬁshly,” Duckworth said of Trump. “He thinks of it as a transactional cost, instead of in human life and American blood spilled, because that’s how he’s viewed his whole life. He doesn’t understand other people’s bravery and courage because he’s never had any of his own.” Duckworth, a retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel who lost both of her legs in the Iraq War, has been a prominent critic of Trump’s handling of military issues. Knocking Trump for allegedly inventing an injury to avoid serving in the Vietnam War, Duckworth said that she’d “take my wheelchair and my titanium legs over Donald Trump’s supposed bone spurs any day.” Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father who drew national attention after criticizing Trump during the 2016 Democratic National Convention, joined Duckworth on the call and said that Trump’s “life is a testament to selfishness.” “Words we say are windows into our souls. So when Donald Trump calls anyone who places their lives in service of others a loser, we understand Trump’s soul,” he said. Khan’s son, Humayun, was killed in action in Iraq in 2004. In 2016, Trump responded to the criticism from Khan by claiming he’d made sacriﬁces of his own and making an Islamophobic attack on Khan’s wife, Ghazala Khan, who was wearing a headscarf at the Democratic convention, saying, “She had nothing to say. She probably — maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say. You tell me.” Biden said that “if the revelations in today’s Atlantic article are true, then they are yet another marker of how deeply President Trump and I disagree about the role of the President of the United States.” OVP STOCK REPORT American Electric Power(NYSE)….........................$79.05 Apple(NASDAQ)….................................................$120.96 Big Lots, Inc(NYSE)….............................................$44.44 Century Aluminum(NASDAQ)…...............................$9.82 City Holding Company(NASDAQ)….......................$64.38 Coca-Cola Co(NYSE)…...........................................$51.04 Far Eastern New Century Corp (TPE)…................$26.90 Harley-Davidson Inc(NYSE)….................................$27.65 Kroger Co(NYSE)….................................................$35.47 McDonald’s(NYSE)….............................................$211.73 Ohio Valley Bank Corp(NASDAQ)…........................$22.45 Peoples Bancorp Inc.(NASDAQ)…..........................$21.71 PepsiCo,Inc.(NASDAQ)…......................................$138.76 Post Holdings.....................................................…..$88.92 Rocky Brands Inc(NASDAQ)…................................$24.12 Walmart Inc(NYSE)…............................................$142.83 Wendy’s Company(NASDAQ)…..............................$21.58 Stock reports are the closing quotes of transactions on Sept. 4. �6 Saturday, September 5, 2020 NEWS Ohio Valley Publishing MEIGS HEALTH MATTERS GALLIA, MEIGS BRIEFS Creating a first aid kit for home Holiday hours family. Next you should gather September 1st marked the supplies which are speciﬁc to beginning of National Preparedyour family such as oral glucose ness Month. This year’s theme for a family member with diabeis “Disasters Don’t Wait. Make tes or and EPI pen for a family Your Plan Today.” In the past we member who has a severe allergy. have talked about preparing and Once you have gathered those planning for disasters including supplies it’s time to gather some building a 72-hour emergency Brody basic ﬁrst aid supplies such as, kit. A 72-hour emergency kit is Davis an important piece of survival Contributing Band-Aids in different shapes and sizes, gauze pads, gauze rolls, during a disaster, and one major columnist medical tape, triangle bandages, component is a ﬁrst aid kit. hot and cold packs, and a breathFirst aid kits aren’t just important in a 72-hour emergency kit, families ing barrier for CPR. All these supplies should have ﬁrst aid kits readily available can then be placed in your ﬁrst aid container, which should be maintained for everyday use. First aid kits come in many shapes and sizes, some are bought monthly to ensure supplies are still in usable order and not expired. at stores and others are homemade, all For more information on emergency having a majority of the same items. In kits and ﬁrst aid kits visit www.meigsmy opinion, building a ﬁrst aid kit to health.com/emergency-preparedness/. cater to your family is the best option. The ﬁrst step in creating a ﬁrst-aid kit Brody Davis is the Emergency Response Coordinator/ is to ﬁnd a container that will ﬁt your Public Information Officer at the Meigs County Health supplies, this can be a backpack, storDepartment. age tote, or whatever ﬁts best for your Youth Appalachia campaign 15 years ago, and it’s why we continue to emphasize opportunities for From page 1 youth today.” Public and nonproﬁt awards are anticipated organizations in all 32 to range from $10,000 to $30,000 per organiza- Appalachian Ohio counties are eligible to apply tion. Applications must be submitted by Wednes- for projects focused on building resiliency for day, Oct. 14 and are available at www.Appala- youth, from pre-school age through age 18. chianOhio.org/Youth. Priority will be given to “At FAO, we have organizations focused on long known that there is no greater investment young people who experience risk factors that we could make than jeopardize their ability to in the young people of thrive and achieve. our region,” said FAO’s “The disruption and President and CEO Cara uncertainties caused by Dingus Brook. “This COVID-19 have exacerphilosophy is why we created the I’m a Child of bated the challenges vul- nerable youth are already facing at home, school, or in their communities,” said Susan Beaudry, Vice President at the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation of Nelsonville. “There is no more important time to focus on youth resiliency.” Projects will encourage the development of protective factors among young people. Examples of protective factors supporting youth include academic success; emotional self-regulation; coping and problemsolving skills; increased self-esteem; supportive relationships with family members; connecting to Green Valley Drive beginning at 9 a.m., Monday, Aug. 10 - Thursday, Sept. 10, for repair of a road POMEROY — Meigs County Health Dept. will be closed on Mon- slip. day, Sept. 7: Labor Day. Normal MEIGS COUNTY — A landslide business hours will resume at 8 a.m. repair project begins on Aug. 31 on on Sept. 8. State Route 124, between Barr HolGALLIPOLIS — The Samuel L. low Road (Township Road 402) and Bossard Memorial Library will be Eden Ridge Road (County Road 50). closed Monday Sept. 7, in obserOne lane will be closed. Temporary vance of the Labor Day Holiday. trafﬁc signals and a 10 foot width Normal hours will resume Tuesday, restriction will be in place. Estimated Sept. 8. completion: Oct. 30. OLIVE TWP. — Mt. Olive Road in Olive Township is currently closed due to slip repair by Olive Township Trustees. MEIGS COUNTY — Beginning June 1, one lane of SR 124 will be closed between Old State Route 338 POMEROY — A landslide repair (Township Road 708) and Portland project begins on Aug. 17 on State Road (County Road 35) for a bridge Route 124/833, between Rose Hill deck overlay project on the bridge Road (Township Road 200) and crossing over Groundhog Creek. Chester Road/State Route 733. Temporary trafﬁc signals and a 10 One lane will be closed. Temporary foot width restriction will be in trafﬁc signals and an 11 foot width restriction will be in place. Estimated place. Estimated completion: Nov. 20. completion: Oct. 15. MEIGS COUNTY — Beginning MEIGS COUNTY — A tree trimJune 1, one lane of SR 7 will be ming project begins on Aug. 24 on State Route 124, between the Vinton closed between Storys Run Road (County Road 345) and Leading County line and Rutland. This secCreek Road (County Road 3) for a tion will be closed from 8 a.m.-3 bridge deck overlay project on the p.m., Monday through Friday. Estibridge crossing over Leading Creek. mated completion: Sept. 30. Temporary trafﬁc signals and an SPRINGFIELD TWP. — The 11 foot width restriction will be in Springﬁeld Township Board of Trustees announces Hemlock Road place. Estimated completion: Nov. will be closed from State Route 850 20. Road construction, and closures with mentors; physical and psychological safety; or engagement and connections with school, peers, employment, or community – including the ability to connect through technology. The 32 counties of Appalachian Ohio include Adams, Ashtabula, Athens, Belmont, Brown, Carroll, Clermont, Columbiana, Coshocton, Gallia, Guernsey, Harrison, Highland, Hocking, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lawrence, Mahoning, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Perry, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Trumbull, Tuscarawas, Vinton, and Washington counties. OHFN’s service area includes Athens, Hocking, Jackson, Meigs, Morgan, Perry, Ross, Vinton, and Washington counties. Applications are due on Oct. 14, and funding decisions will be announced by Nov. 16. More information is available at www.AppalachianOhio.org/Youth. The youth resiliency funding opportunity is offered through OHFN and FAO’s I’m a Child of Appalachia Fund, which was created to address the greatest needs and pursue the most exciting opportunities facing Appalachian Ohio’s communities today, while growing the resources needed to make a difference for generations to come. To learn more about this funding opportunity visit www.AppalachianOhio.org/Youth. For any questions, or to learn how you can support other opportunities like this one, contact FAO at 740.753.1111. About the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation of Nelsonville The mission of the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation of Nelsonville (the Foundation) is to improve the health and quality of life in the community through education, research, and service consistent with our osteopathic heritage. The Foundation advances this mission through strategic partnerships, multi-year funding commitments, funding collaborations and signiﬁcant investments in southeastern Ohio. More information about the Foundation is available at osteopathicheritage. org. About the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio The Foundation for Appalachian Ohio (FAO) is a regional community foundation serving the 32 counties of Appalachian Ohio. A 501(c)(3) public charity, the Foundation creates opportunities for Appalachian Ohio’s citizens and communities by inspiring and supporting philanthropy. For more information about FAO, visit www.AppalachianOhio. org. Information provided by the Foundation of Appalachian Ohio. In the response to the Pandemic Outbreak of COVID-19, Gallia County Department of Job and Family Services will make assistance available to families affected by this health crisis that have had an increase in their water consumptions and sewer usage due to school closure and families now working from home to help protect themselves and their families from being exposed to the COVID-19. In order to promote a stable family home by continue3d access to these essential humanitarian services, GCDJFS will offer assistance to those lowincome families who have delinquent water and/or sewer accounts as it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic. Only Phone Call Applications will be taken!! Please call 740-578-3380 Monday thru Thursday 8am-4pm beginning Monday August 31, 2020. NO PAPER APPLICATIONS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED so do not come to/into the agency. This program will cease at 4pm on September 14, 2020 and no applications will be accepted after this time. Please have all household members social security numbers and last 30 days of household’s gross income readily available prior to calling. Eligible Services: x x A one-time payment of $300.00 to pay towards delinquent water bills that occurred or have not�been paid during the Pandemic period of March 9, 2020 though July 31, 2020 payable directly to�their local Water Company. A one-time payment of $300.00 to pay towards delinquent sewer bills that occurred or have not�been paid during the Pandemic period of March 9, 2020 through July 31, 2020 payable directly�to their local Sewer Company. Eligibility x x x x x x The affected household must be a Gallia County resident and US Citizens. Must have at least one child in the home Must have an active account wi8th a local water and/or sewer company This program must serve persons in a TANF-eligible family (See Section 1200 Eligibility and�Application of current PRC Plan) The household income cannot exceed 200% of the Federal Poverty Level (see link Federal�Poverty Level http://jfs.ohio.gov/ofam/ OWFPaymentStandards.stm A special application will be used for this COVID-19 Special Program Amendment #3 The applicant must call the agency to complete the application from 8am-4pm. Self-Attestation may be used for verification of income during the March 9, 2020 through July 31, 2020. This guidance only applies to COVID-19 PRC program. Funds are approved on a first come, first serve basis and approval is based on limited funding. Once funding is exhausted, this special program will cease. This service will be a one-time non-reoccurring benefit. Notice of approval/denial will be sent within 30 days. OH-70201329 �NEWS/CLASSIFIEDS Ohio Valley Publishing MHS graduate earns Cosmetology License in spite of pandemic SATURDAY EVENING BROADCAST 3 (WSAZ) 4 (WTAP) 6 (WSYX) Staff Report 7 (WOUB) ROCKSPRINGS — In March, when schools were ordered by the Governor of Ohio to close, career and technical cosmetology students and instructors went into panic mode. The Ohio State Cosmetology and Barber Board at that time only permitted distance learning in the theory portion of their program and that was capped and left no alternative for the lab, or clinic hours needed. For a 1500-hour cosmetology program, a minimum of 750 hours must be earned Ryder while in lab, doing hands-on work on mannequins or live models. This is the area that is most critical for the bulk of the cosmetology students within Ohio. Interning within a salon was possible for 150 of those hours, until Governor Mike DeWine mandated all salons close, as well. With so many variables unknown, The Ohio State Cosmetology and Barber Board sprang into action to support these programs across the state. With an executive order signed April 6, 2020, cosmetology students could now log lab hours from the safety of their homes as long as they followed the guidelines set forth by the State Board and their school district. Upon hearing the framework with which she could attain her hours, Joey Ryder, Meigs High School cosmetology student dove into her distance learning. She worked tirelessly to document her progress and forward her assignments to her instructor, Denise Russo. She often worked for the maximum hours permitted daily and by April 30th, she had completed her hours. Now all she had to do was wait. She then had to wait for the Ohio State Cosmetology and Barber Board to open up their scheduling and schedule her exam, and then wait for the date. That date was Aug. 5, 2020. During all that wait time, she studied in between working. 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Edwards Stadium for a 1 p.m. kickoff. The Thundering Herd are coming off an 8-5 campaign and last faced EKU in the 2018 home opener, a 32-16 win for MU. The Herd leads the all-time series by an 11-8-1 overall margin and has three consecutive wins entering Saturday’s affair with the Colonels. Marshall has also won nine consecutive season-opening contests. The game will be televised live on ESPN. Lady Tornadoes take down South Gallia By Alex Hawley ahawley@aimmediamidwest.com RACINE, Ohio — Emphatically into the win column. The Southern volleyball team claimed its ﬁrst victory of the season on Thursday in Meigs County, with the Lady Tornadoes defeating Tri-Valley Conference Hocking Division guest South Gallia in straight games. The opening game of the evening featured three lead changes, with Southern (1-3, 1-1 TVC Hocking) taking the edge for good at 7-6. The Lady Tornado lead grew as high as seven points in the ﬁrst, and hosts settled for a 25-19 victory. South Gallia (1-3, 0-1) scored eight of the ﬁrst 10 points in Game 2, but the Purple and Gold scored the next eight and led the rest of the way to the 25-13 win. Southern started the fourth with a 9-to-1 run, but the Lady Rebels rallied back and took their ﬁrst lead of the set at 19-18. The hosts were back in front at 22-21, but gave up the next two points and the lead. South Gallia was a point away from forcing a fourth game, at 24-23, but the Lady Tornadoes took the next three points and the match-clinching game by a 26-24 count. Leading the way for Southern, Jordan Hardwick had 12 service points, including three aces, while Kayla Evans earned 11 points and a pair of aces. Cassidy Roderus was next with seven points and an ace, followed by Kassidy Chaney with six points, and Jacelyn Northup with ﬁve points and one ace. Kylie Gheen and Abby Rizer had two points apiece, with Gheen earning a pair of aces, while Logan Greenlee and Gracie Hill both marked one point, with Hill’s coming on an ace. Jessie Rutt led the Lady Rebels with eight points and two aces, followed by Emma Shamblin with seven points and ﬁve aces. Natalie Johnson earned six service points in the setback, while Bella Cochran and Cara Frazee had three points each, with Cochran earning just six minutes to break into the scoring column as Robert Setser found a free kick POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — rebound from 12 yards out and squeezed one inside the right Not the season opening result post for a permanent lead. the Black Knights had hoped Carson Asbury made it a for. Visiting Scott claimed a 22-9 2-goal advantage in the 15th advantage in shot attempts and minute after tracking down a 70-yard through ball for a sucled by three goals early in the cessful 1-on-1 attempt, making second half while handing the Point Pleasant boys soccer team it a 2-0 contest at the intermisa 4-1 setback Wednesday night sion. Asbury gave SHS a 3-0 lead in in the season opener at Ohio the 48th minute after going to Valley Bank Track and Field in the far left post from six yards Mason County. away. The Skyhawks (1-0) needed bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com NEW YORK (AP) — Adam Gase probably could’ve saved some time after a few training camp practices by reading off the names of New York Jets players who weren’t nursing injuries. Hamstring pulls, core muscle injuries and banged-up knees. And, plenty more. “I do think we’re not the only ones,” Gase said. “I think there’s a lot of teams in the league right now that are dealing with all kinds of injuries.” He’s right. Teams all over the league were sent scrambling during camp. But the Jets’ wide receivers group seemed to lose a man almost daily. Breshad Perriman (knee), Denzel Mims (hamstring), Vyncint Smith (core muscle), Jeff Smith (shoulder), Lawrence Cager (knee) and Braxton Berrios (lower back) all missed practice time this summer, leaving quarterback Sam Darnold to wonder some days who he was throwing to. “We just had to ﬁgure out a way to kind of maneuver around practice, schedule-wise, and get everything we can out of these days,” Gase said. “Whether it’s a shorter practice or different kinds of situations or more individual (drills) or a walkthrough, whatever we’ve got to do to kind of get us ready, and then just keep trying to get healthy.” And, that’s nothing new in the NFL, of course. Certainly not during training camp when players are going hard to make the roster as the start of the regular season rolls closer. “That’s why you want to take it to the ﬁne line, but at the same time, you don’t want to take that aggressive nature away,” Washington coach Ron Rivera said. “You want to take the techniques that See NFL | 9 Alex Hawley|OVP Sports Southern’s Cassidy Roderus (13) picks up a block during the second set of the Lady Tornadoes’ straight games win on Thursday in Racine, Ohio. an ace. Ryleigh Halley capped off the SGHS service with two points. At the net, Gheen led Southern with six kills and eight blocks. Roderus picked up three kills, two blocks and a teambest nine assists for SHS, Evans added three kills, while Hardwick had two kills and a block. Greenlee and Kelsey Lewis rounded out the Lady Tornado attack with a kill apiece. Rutt also paced SGHS at the net, posting eight kills and two blocks. Halley had six kills and six blocks for the Red and Gold, while Frazee added ﬁve kills and two blocks. Cochran ended with a quartet of kills, Johnson ﬁnished with three kills and a block, while Ellen Weaver picked up one kill. The rematch between SHS and SGHS is set for Sept. 29 in Mercerville. Both teams are back in action on Tuesday, with Southern at Trimble, and South Gallia hosting Waterford. © 2020 Ohio Valley Publishing, all rights reserved. Alex Hawley can be reached at 740-4462342, ext. 2100. Skyhawks top Point Pleasant, 4-1 By Bryan Walters Camp injuries, virus protocols had some NFL teams scrambling Point Pleasant (0-1) ﬁnally broke into the scoring column in the 51st minute as Adam Veroski converted a free kick from 22 yards out into the upper right post. Asbury completed his hat trick in the 60th minute with a goal from 18 yards away, wrapping up the 4-1 outcome. PPHS claimed a slight edge in possession by controlling the ball just over 52 percent of the time, but the Skyhawks managed a 9-5 edge in shots in goal. The guests were also called for 18 of the 27 fouls in the contest. Hunter Bonecutter made three saves on ﬁve shot attempts in the ﬁrst half, while Luke Pinkerton stopped three shots out of ﬁve tries in the second half. Greg Howard made four saves in net for Scott. Point Pleasant returns to action Friday when it travels to Winﬁeld for a non-league friendly at 6:30 p.m. © 2020 Ohio Valley Publishing, all rights reserved. Bryan Walters can be reached at 740-4462342, ext. 2101. OVP SPORTS SCHEDULE Monday, Sept. 7 Volleyball Alexander at Eastern, 7:15 Tuesday, Sept. 8 Volleyball River Valley at Meigs, 7:15 Waterford at South Gallia, 7:30 Chesapeake at Gallia Academy, 6:30 PPHS, Nitro at Winfield, 6:30 Wahama at Ritchie County, 7:15 Southern at Trimble, 7:15 Soccer Chesapeake at Gallia Academy girls, 5:30 Chesapeake at Gallia Academy boys, 7 p.m. Scott at Point Pleasant girls, 6:30 Point Pleasant boys at Parkersburg South, 6 p.m. Cross Country Gallia Academy Invite, 4:30 Golf River Valley girls, Meigs girls at Wellston, 4:30 Point Pleasant at Meigs, 4 p.m. Wahama at Roane County, 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9 Volleyball Meigs at Southern, 7:15 Cross Country SHS, SGHS at River Valley INV, 4:30 Golf TVC Hocking at Oxbow, 4:30 �SPORTS Ohio Valley Publishing Belpre tops local golfers at Oxbow By Bryan Walters bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com BELPRE, Ohio — It turned into a local battle for second place … and the Tornadoes claimed the honors. Host Belpre posted a 14-stroke victory over the ﬁeld during a nonconference quad match against Southern, Wahama and Point Pleasant on Thursday at Oxbow Golf Course in Washington County. The Golden Eagles recorded the top three individual scores and cruised to a winning tally of 168. Southern was the runner-up with a 182, while Wahama (189) held off Point Pleasant (193) by four shots for the third overall spot. Jacob Smeeks of BHS won medalist honors with a 4-over par round of 35. Teammate Matt Deems was the overall runner-up with a 40. Connor Copeland and Jacob Ferrier completed the winning score for Belpre with respective rounds of 41 and 48. David Shaver led Southern with a 43 and Jacob Milliron followed with a 45, while Tanner Lisle added a 46. Ryan Laudermilt completed the SHS tally with a 48. Lance Stewart and Aaron Vance also ﬁred respective round of 56 and 58 for the Tornadoes. Connor Ingels and Brycen Bumgarner led the White Falcons with identical rounds of 45, followed by Ethan Mitchell with a 49. Ethan Gray completed the WHS team score with a 50. Ashton Barnitz and Josh Roque also shot respective efforts of 60 and 66. Brennen Sang led the Black Knights with a 44, followed by Joseph Milhoan with a 48 and Kyelar Morre with a 49. Alex Hill and Jonny Porter both ﬁred a 52, while Kaleb Pearson added a 60 as well for PPHS. © 2020 Ohio Valley Publishing, all rights reserved. Bryan Walters can be reached at 740-446-2342, ext. 2101. Lady Bulldogs turn back Meigs By Alex Hawley ahawley@aimmediamidwest.com THE PLAINS, Ohio — At least it started out all right. The Meigs volleyball team lost to Tri-Valley Conference Ohio Division host Athens in straight games on Thursday in McAfee Gymnasium, falling by counts of 27-25, 25-20 and 25-8. After three early lead changes in the ﬁrst game, Meigs (0-2, 0-2 TVC Ohio) opened up eight-point, 24-16 lead. The hosts scored the next eight points to tie the game, but MHS moved back into a gamepoint situation at 25-24. The Lady Bulldogs, however, scored the next three points for the 27-25 win. Athens took the lead at 3-2 in the second game and never trailed again on its way to the 25-20 win, leading by as many as 11 points, at 16-5. After a 3-all tie in the third game, AHS went on a 22-to-5 run to cap off the match sweep with a 25-8 triumph. Andrea Mahr led the Lady Marauders with nine points, followed by Baylee Tracy with seven. Mallory Hawley was next with ﬁve points, followed by Hannah Durst with three and Katie Hawkins with one. Meigs will look to ﬂip the script when these teams meet in Rocksprings on Sept. 29. Next, Meigs will host River Valley on Tuesday. © 2020 Ohio Valley Publishing, all rights reserved. Alex Hawley can be reached at 740-446-2342, ext. 2100. Blue Devils outlast South Point on Senior Night, 3-1 By Bryan Walters bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com GALLIPOLIS, Ohio — A Senior Night to remember. The Gallia Academy boys soccer team broke a scoreless tie at halftime with three second half goals and ultimately sent seniors Christian Higginbotham, Colton Roe, Dalton Vanco and Bode Wamsley out in style Thursday with a 3-1 victory over visiting South Point in an Ohio Valley Conference friendly at Lester Field in Gallia County. The Blue Devils (3-0, 2-0 OVC) struggled to a scoreless stalemate in the opening 40 minutes of regulation, but the hosts ﬁnally broke through when Roe took a pass from Carson Wamsley and found the near post for a 1-0 edge. Moments later, Brody Wilt netted a free kick from the top of the box to give GAHS a comfortable 2-goal cushion. The Pointers, however, caught a break in the Gallia Academy zone as a misplayed pass ended up getting bounced off of the GAHS keeper’s head — making it a 2-1 contest with less than 20 minutes left in regulation. The Blue Devils responded as Wilt crossed a pass in front of the SPHS goal and found Maddux Camden, who buried the pass in the net while wrapping up the 3-1 outcome. Gallia Academy outshot the guests by a 23-8 overall margin and claimed a 4-1 edge in corner kicks. Bryson Miller made ﬁve saves for GAHS in goal. The Blue Devils return to action Tuesday when they host Chesapeake at 7:30 p.m. © 2020 Ohio Valley Publishing, all rights reserved. Bryan Walters can be reached at 740-446-2342, ext. 2101. Browns acquire safety Harrison from Jaguars for draft pick to shop for a safety before he pulled off the swap for Harrison, who is in his third season from Alabama. Delpit, a second-round pick from LSU, got hurt while doing individual drills early in practice last month. He had been penciled to start alongside Karl Joseph, who was signed by the Browns as a free agent this winter. Harrison brings experience and size. The 6-foot3, 214-pounder made 22 starts for Jacksonville, which selected him in the third round of the 2018 draft. He’s played in 28 games and made 103 tackles along with three interceptions. Harrison started 14 games last season and ﬁnished second on the team in tackles (70). He was a member of two national title teams with the Crimson Tide. Not long after the trade was ﬁnalized, Browns linebacker Mack Wilson posted a photo of he and Harrison when they were teammates at Bama with the caption, “Let’s get it rocking brother … #BamaBoys.” Harrison played well for the Jaguars, but they felt like fourth-year pro Josh Jones would be a better ﬁt on and off the ﬁeld and had been plan- ning to make the switch in recent weeks. Harrison is the sixth player dumped by Jacksonville in the last three months, following A.J. Bouye (Denver), Calais Campbell (Baltimore), Nick Foles (Chicago), Yannick Ngakoue (Minnesota) and Leonard Fournette (Tampa Bay). Just this week, the Jags have either cut or traded three starters. They sent Ngakoue to the Vikings on Sunday and waived Fournette, who landed with the Browns. Jacksonville now has 11 drafts picks in 2021, including nine in the ﬁrst ﬁve rounds. McCoy signed a threeyear contract with Dallas in the offseason, but ruptured his quadriceps in From page 8 practice. He was released a few days later. Los Angeles Chargers they’re working on and safety Derwin James tore say, ‘OK, do a ﬂyby or do a roll-off or a peel-off, the meniscus in his right something like that.’ And knee and is out for the the next thing you know, season. Giants linebacker David Mayo suffered the you’re in the game and same injury to his left they don’t know how to knee. react. Buffalo guard Jon “That’s the ﬁne line that we have to deal with Feliciano tore a pectoral muscle, as did Cincinnati as coaches.” cornerback Trae Waynes. Teams were also limited to 80 players in camp Carolina punter Michael Palardy tore an ACL. So instead of the usual 90, did Chicago cornerback leaving fewer “practice Artie Burns. bodies” on the ﬁeld, Defensive end Dee theoretically making it Ford of the Super Bowl easier for clubs to manchampion Kansas City age the safety protocols Chiefs strained a calf. during the coronavirus Bears running back David pandemic. Montgomery hurt his Among some of the groin. Philadelphia left more prominent injuries tackle Andre Dillard tore this summer: Defensive tackle Gerald his biceps. Giants corner- back Xavier McKinney, a second-round draft pick in April, broke his left foot. Chargers wide receiver Mike Williams sprained a shoulder. Bills cornerback Josh Norman injured a hamstring. Defending NFC champion San Francisco lost wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk and fullback Kyle Juszczyk for some time to hamstring injuries, while defensive end Nick Bosa was dealing with a strained leg muscle. “Yeah, you get frustrated a little bit when it happens, but it’s just happened too much to me that, over your career as a coach, it’s just part of the game,” 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan said. “You can’t sit there and dwell on it. You try to look at, was anything done wrong or anything like that? Not at all.” Of course, this year has been more unusual to navigate because of the pandemic, which cut out the entire offseason program — leaving players to try to coordinate workout routines in makeshift garage and basement gyms before reporting for camp. And leaving them in varying degrees of football shape. “Some guys probably didn’t have access to anything,” Gase said, “which is probably why you see quite a few injuries.” Browns left guard Joel Bitonio credited the NFLPA — including teammate and union president JC Tretter — for stressing the need for a ramp-up period for teams before camp began. Still, Cleveland has had its share of what Bitonio calls “unlucky injuries” this summer, including rookie starting safety Grant Delpit being lost BEREA, Ohio (AP) — The Browns knew exactly where to go to ﬁnd help at safety. Jacksonville’s holding a late-summer sale. Hoping to offset the loss of expected rookie starter Grant Delpit for the season due to an injury, Cleveland on Thursday acquired safety Ronnie Harrison in a trade with the Jaguars, who will receive a ﬁfth-round pick in 2021 and continue to purge their roster. Delpit suffered a season-ending torn right Achilles tendon during training camp, forcing Browns ﬁrst-year general manager Andrew Berry NFL Saturday, September 5, 2020 9 Center of attention; Steelers’ Pouncey eyes delicate balance PITTSBURGH (AP) — Maurkice Pouncey didn’t love the collective bargaining agreement the NFL Players Association reached with team owners just as the COVID-19 pandemic brought the league and the world to a standstill. Not even a little. Six months later, he’s still not a fan, even if in hindsight the deal does give the NFL some level of ﬁnancial security in a post-pandemic economy that Major League Baseball, for example, does not have. “I still think we should have waited and got everything that we wanted,” Pouncey said Thursday. “To say that the NFL is hurting, and guys are signing multimillion-dollar deals? For me, I just don’t understand what the whole narrative is. If that was the case, then how are guys getting paid? We will see how things turn out.” Pouncey and his twin brother Mike, a center for the Los Angeles Chargers, offered to help out younger players ﬁnancially if the NFL went into a lockout while both sides haggled over billions. Instead, a new 10-year agreement narrowly passed in mid-March. The terms don’t sit well with the eight-time Pro Bowler. “There is always a cap number put in place to kind of put the players in check and make sure they are not overdoing things, in my opinion,” Pouncey said. “But to say the NFL won’t hit numbers as far as TVs, as far as advertisement to make up some of that money, as far as to say that they are going to lose would be hard for me to believe that.” Pouncey’s issue isn’t with his salary. He’s in the ﬁrst year of a twoyear, $22-million extension. He’d just have preferred the players receive a larger share of the pie and suggested the NFLPA got outmaneuvered at the negotiating table. “I think there are a lot of great owners around the league, but they are billionaires for a reason,” the 31-yearold said. “They are very smart ﬁnancially.” Pouncey’s frustration on the business side does not bleed into the game itself. Entering his 11th season, the ever-animated fulcrum for the year with a torn Achilles tendon and nickel back Kevin Johnson suffering a lacerated liver. And Tretter hurt his knee. “It’s the soft tissue injuries and those things that you are trying to prevent with the ramp-up period,” Bitonio said. “Some of those football injuries just happen. It’s an unfortunate part of the business.” Teams were also, well, hamstrung, by the COVID-19 protocols they had to follow to add a player to the roster. It wasn’t as simple as calling a player, ﬂying him in and getting him on the ﬁeld that day or the next morning. Players had to undergo two days of testing — and come up negative on both — before they were even allowed to sign. “It’s kind of a weird year for everybody,” said of Pittsburgh’s offensive line insists his passion hasn’t waned. He spent the extended offseason rehabbing torn meniscus in his knee, a path he chose over surgery. “I had a lot of time to work and get myself strong in that area,” Pouncey said. “I kind of got lucky with the aspect of it not being a lingering issue, so hopefully it stays that way throughout the season.” Pouncey’s presence is vital if the Steelers are to get back into the playoffs for the ﬁrst time since 2017. The second longest-tenured member of the team behind quarterback Ben Roethlisberger ﬁnds himself with a new partner at left guard for the ﬁrst time in nearly a decade following Ramon Foster’s retirement. Matt Feiler will slide from right tackle to Foster’s old spot, with Chukwuma Okorafor and Zach Banner competing for Feiler’s old job at right tackle, rookie Kevin Dotson and veteran free agent signee Stefen Wisniewski providing depth. The unit ﬁgures to be more effective than it was in 2019, but the change has nothing to do with personnel. Roethlisberger’s return from a right elbow injury should make the line’s job signiﬁcantly easier while also providing Pouncey with a much-needed sense of normalcy. “To watch his whole process of going through the surgery to being able to come back like this in Year 17 has been incredible to watch,” Pouncey said. “I know injuries and how hard they are, especially at that age, but he’s been out there rocking. He’s a true leader, a true soldier, and you can really appreciate that type of player.” Having Roethlisberger’s familiar No. 7 taking snaps from Pouncey might be one of the few things that feel routine. The pandemic and the rise in athletes speaking their minds in an effort to curb police brutality, racial and social injustice have made being an NFL player complicated, particularly for Pouncey. He’s worked closely with Pittsburgh Police in recent years and donates tickets to the department to distribute to kids across the city. quarterback Trevor Siemian, who went through the process before signing with Tennessee. That will certainly be something to monitor as the regular season begins and teams deal with injuries and potential replacements. Either way, players and coaches still refuse to use injuries — or this unusual offseason and summer — as an excuse for what ultimately happens on the ﬁeld. “It was different, but that’s the card we were dealt,” Minnesota right tackle Brian O’Neill said. “At the end of the day, nobody really cares about how you felt about it or how you were able to adjust, just if it translates into wins on Sunday or high performance on Sunday. And hopefully we’ll be able to do that.” �Along the River 10 Saturday, September 5, 2020 Ohio Valley Publishing Band of brothers 100-year old veteran honored By Beth Sergent bsergent@aimmediamidwest.com POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — U.S. Marine Corps veteran Ray Stith celebrated his 100th birthday last week with a parade, proclamations in his honor and a visit from Medal of Honor recipient, and fellow West Virginian, Hershel “Woody” Williams. During the parade lineup near Stith’s home on Birch Avenue, Williams, who is the last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the Battle of Iwo Jima, spoke to the Register, explaining why he felt he needed to attend the celebration. “Not everybody reaches to be 100 years old and besides, he’s a Marine, and we Marines stick together,” Williams said. “So I felt obligated to come and celebrate this day for him, not with him, but for him.” When asked about his feelings regarding the importance of honoring veterans, particularly at this point in time, he said, “Especially right now, we need to get back to more patriotism than we’ve…, well, we’ve lost it,” Williams said. “I think the veterans are the individuals that if we can all come together and begin thinking together, we can have a tremendous inﬂuence on the future of this country.” Lining up behind Williams were motorcycles, cars, trucks, vans, American ﬂags and signs that read “thank you” and “happy birthday.” Once Williams arrived at Stith’s home, the two visited and shared stories, watching the parade of well wishers. Then, following the parade, Stith was presented with proclamations of recognition by representatives from U.S. Senators Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito, as well as Congresswoman Carol Miller. Gov. Jim Justice’s Chief of Staff Mike Hall presented Stith with the Distinguished West Virginian Award on behalf of the governor. Mayor Ray Stith, 100-year old veteran of Point Pleasant, visits with Medal of Honor recipient Hershel Woody Williams on Friday. Photos by Beth Sergent | OVP Fellow Marines Ray Stith and Hershel Woody Williams visit on Friday at Stith’s home in Point Pleasant. Parade participants fill Birch Avenue in Point Pleasant, honoring 100-year old veteran Ray Stith. The parade lineup honoring 100-year old veteran Ray Stith. Hershel Woody Williams, pictured, is the last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the Battle of Iwo Jima. He visited Point Pleasant on Friday to honor a fellow Marine. Brian Billings and City Clerk Amber Tatterson also honored Stith with a framed proclamation from the city honoring him as a citizen of Point Pleasant who served his country in WWII. Commissioner Rick Handley, who played a part in helping organize some of the festivities along with Stith’s brothers in the Marine Corps League Mason-Gallia- Meigs Detachment 1180, presented the veteran with a proclamation honoring him on behalf of the Mason County Commission. Stith joked it only took him 100 years to receive all this recognition. © 2020 Ohio Valley Publishing, all rights reserved. Beth Sergent is editor of Ohio Valley Publishing. Medal of Honor recipient Hershel Woody Williams signs The parade lineup honoring 100-year old veteran Ray Stith. a birthday banner for fellow Marine, Ray Stith. Veteran Ray Stith is honored by the City of Point Pleasant, represented here by Mayor Brian Billings Commissioner Rick Handley honors veteran Ray Stith at his home Friday evening on behalf of the and City Clerk Amber Tatterson. Also pictured, members of Marine Corps League Mason-Gallia-Meigs Mason County Commission. Also pictured, members of Marine Corps League Mason-Gallia-Meigs Detachment 1180. 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Deputies spoke with him about the From page 1 incident and he denied any intentions to harm himself. Dispatch received a call of The female stated that he a black car setting in the could stay there, and she roadway blocking traffic on Dye Road. A deputy patrolled would take responsibility for him as long as he cooperated the area and located the with her. He agreed and the vehicle. It was a traffic hazard, so it was towed from deputies left the area. No further calls were received the scene. Later the owner on this incident. called dispatch looking for Dispatch received a call from her car and advised it had a male on Third Street in broken down and she was Racine advising someone unable to get it out of the had stolen the rear license road. She was advised what plate off his vehicle. A deputy she needed to do to get was sent, and a report taken. her car out of in pound. No Sgt. Jones arrested Kristy further action was taken on Nelson, 31, of Middleport and this call. Jesse Allen, 35, of Portland Sgt. Jones responded to for outstanding warrants out Mark Porter Dodge for of Middleport Mayor’s Court. reported stolen Cadillac Deputies responded to a converters/report taken. residence in Rutland with Sgt. Jones and Deputy Hill someone actively trying responded to Pine Grove and Bowman’s Run for male to enter the back door. When deputies arrived and passed out in vehicle. Male checked the door it was transported to Holzer ER. discovered to be a canine Sgt. Jones well Being check on State Route 124 with EMS that the owner had rehomed and Racine Fire Department. but had found its way back to the residence and was trying Deputy Hill patrolled to enter the back door. No Minersville Hill area for further action needed. possible suspects breaking Deputies responded to a into cars. Nothing found. residence on State Route Deputies Hill and Riley 248 to take a report on responded to a possible the theft of a car title. This domestic situation on State incident remains under Route 681, Darwin. Suspect investigation. fled to scene before their A female from Albany area arrival. Charges filed. reported that someone Aug. 18 fraudulently used her Dispatch received a call from a female on Valley Belle identification information at Sprint and caused her to Road, Racine advising that receive approx. $500-600 in her brother was having a mental breakdown and they bills. This incident remains under investigation. have been arguing with him Deputies responded to over his believed meth use. He is now trying to break into McCumber Road to look their father’s car to get a gun for a black sports car which he thinks is in there. Deputies was in the area and acting suspiciously. Deputies responded and arrived on contacted the subject who scene. The caller advised reported it and patrolled the that her brother had left in area to try to locate it. No a truck minutes before they arrived. She also said that no further action. one had been assaulted and Aug. 19 Sgt Jones responded to that he did not gain access Racine for a harassment to the car or any weapons. complaint. Racine Marshal They were not interested Hupp took over complaint. in any criminal charge just Sgt. Jones and Deputy wanted the deputies to find him and check his well being. Barnhart responded to Bigley Ridge for a possible She advised of a possible assault. Male suspect fled location near Forked Run before their arrival. Victim that he may have went to. Deputies went and patrolled refused to give a statement. Aug. 20 that area and located the Record TOPS holds meeting The TOPS (Take off Pounds Sensibly) group met recently for their weekly meetings. The TOPS and KOPS pledges were repeated by all members. With hand over heart the Pledge to the Flag was recited. Co-Leader Cindy Hyde called the meeting to order. TOPS songs sung were “I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy” and “TOPS Welcome Song.” Due to the coronavirus regulation, we would like to remind everyone that our meetings are held with social distancing observed. This is to ensure that all of our meetings are safe for everyone who attends. Masks are also encouraged. There were eight members present with weekly best loser being Judy Morgan. Sue Maison was runner-up. Connie Rankin was recognized for seven weeks straight weight loss. Connie Rankin was named winner of the 50/50 game. There was no marble game winner named yet. The group discussed a TOPS T-Shirt design and have chosen a hummingbird as insignia. There will be further discussion on this at the Sept. 14 meeting. There will be no weigh-in nor meeting next week because of the Labor Day holiday. There will be a new contest starting Sept 14: “Unwrapping Game”. The contestants wear oven mitts. Cindy Hyde mentioned doing an open house in the near future. This will be where the public is invited to visit the meeting and learn about TOPS. The meeting was dismissed by repeating the Helping Hand Circle poem. Social distancing was strictly observed. TOPS information can be obtained from the TOPS website at TOPS.org, by calling Leader, Judy Morgan at 740-667-6641 or by contacting any TOPS member. Weekly meetings take place on Mondays at 6 p.m. at the Tuppers Plains United Methodist Church, 42216 State Route 7, in Tuppers Plains, Ohio. CSHA From page 1 to become members now and to volunteer when activities resume. For more information visit their newly updated Facebook Page: Chester Shade Historical Association. TODAY 8 AM WEATHER 2 PM 75° 73° HEALTH TODAY Statistics through 3 p.m. Fri. AccuWeather.com Asthma Index™ Temperature The AccuWeather.com Asthma Index combines the effects of current air quality, pollen counts, wind, temperature, dew point, barometric pressure, and changes from past weather conditions to provide a scale showing the overall probability and severity of an asthma attack. 78° 70° 83° 61° 99° in 1953 43° in 1902 Precipitation (in inches) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Fri. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date 0.01 0.48 0.42 34.46 30.78 SUN & MOON Today 7:01 a.m. 7:52 p.m. 9:51 p.m. 10:03 a.m. Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Last New First Sep 10 Sep 17 Sep 23 Full Oct 1 SOLUNAR TABLE The solunar period indicates peak feeding times for ﬁsh and game. Major Today 2:23a Sun. 3:09a Mon. 3:55a Tue. 4:42a Wed. 5:30a Thu. 6:19a Fri. 7:09a Minor 8:33a 9:19a 10:05a 10:53a 11:42a 12:05a 12:55a Major 2:43p 3:29p 4:16p 5:04p 5:53p 6:44p 7:35p Minor 8:53p 9:39p 10:27p 11:15p ---12:31p 1:22p WEATHER HISTORY Strong southwesterly winds on Sept. 5, 1881, fanned ﬂames into a mammoth forest ﬁre on Michigan’s “thumb” region. The ﬁre consumed a million acres and killed over 500 people. OH-70199153 0-2 Low; 3-4 Moderate; 5-6 High; 7-8 Very High; 9-10 Extreme POLLEN & MOLD Low Moderate High Moderate High Source: Hamilton County Department of Environmental Services AIR QUALITY 300 500 Primary pollutant: Ozone Air Quality Index: 0-50, Good; 51-100, Moderate; 101-150, Unhealthy for sensitive groups; 151-200, Unhealthy; 201-300, Very unhealthy; 301-500, Hazardous. Source: Hamilton County Department of Environmental Services OHIO RIVER Levels in feet as of 7 a.m. Fri. Location Willow Island Marietta Parkersburg Belleville Racine Point Pleasant Gallipolis Huntington Ashland Lloyd Greenup Portsmouth Maysville Meldahl Dam Flood Stage 37 34 36 35 41 40 50 50 52 54 50 50 51 Level 13.24 16.65 21.86 13.13 13.24 25.36 12.79 26.33 34.64 12.70 20.90 34.40 21.20 Portsmouth 82/56 24-hr. Chg. +0.49 +0.52 +0.40 +0.27 -0.13 +0.27 -0.29 +0.37 +0.17 +0.04 +2.10 none +2.60 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2020 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 90° 64° 85° 61° Mostly sunny, warm and humid Mostly sunny, hot and humid Chance for a couple of showers Chance for a couple of showers Marietta 80/54 Belpre 81/54 Athens 80/54 Today St. Marys 80/54 Parkersburg 79/56 Coolville 80/54 Elizabeth 81/54 Spencer 80/54 Buffalo 80/55 Milton 81/55 St. Albans 82/55 Huntington 80/56 NATIONAL FORECAST Clendenin 82/54 Charleston 80/55 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. Winnipeg 70/53 Montreal 69/52 Toronto 73/52 Minneapolis Detroit 77/61 76/56 Billings 100/63 New York 78/64 Chicago 82/64 Denver 99/66 Washington 81/63 Kansas City 89/73 City Hi/Lo/W Albuquerque 92/66/s Anchorage 60/45/pc Atlanta 89/70/pc Atlantic City 79/65/pc Baltimore 80/60/s Billings 100/63/pc Boise 101/63/s Boston 77/60/s Charleston, WV 80/55/s Charlotte 84/62/pc Cheyenne 95/64/s Chicago 82/64/s Cincinnati 80/60/s Cleveland 77/58/pc Columbus 80/60/s Dallas 88/72/t Denver 99/66/s Des Moines 87/70/t Detroit 76/56/c Honolulu 88/76/s Houston 92/76/t Indianapolis 81/60/s Kansas City 89/73/t Las Vegas 110/85/s Little Rock 86/63/pc Los Angeles 109/82/s Louisville 82/62/s Miami 92/81/pc Minneapolis 77/61/pc Nashville 85/61/pc New Orleans 94/78/pc New York City 78/64/s Oklahoma City 88/67/pc Orlando 93/76/sh Philadelphia 79/62/s Phoenix 113/89/s Pittsburgh 78/58/s Portland, ME 77/56/s Raleigh 83/62/pc Richmond 82/59/pc St. Louis 87/68/s Salt Lake City 100/70/s San Francisco 82/60/c Seattle 76/57/pc Washington, DC 81/63/pc Sun. Hi/Lo/W 95/64/s 59/51/c 86/67/pc 79/69/s 83/63/s 81/45/s 94/63/s 78/63/pc 84/60/s 83/62/pc 94/52/s 84/71/t 82/64/pc 78/66/pc 81/63/c 89/72/s 99/59/s 95/64/t 76/66/t 89/77/pc 96/74/t 82/68/c 90/70/s 112/86/s 88/64/s 110/75/s 85/66/pc 90/79/pc 81/53/pc 88/67/s 91/76/c 80/67/pc 91/69/s 90/75/t 83/65/s 112/86/s 79/60/pc 76/57/pc 83/60/s 84/61/s 89/72/pc 97/68/s 88/62/s 79/60/s 84/64/s EXTREMES FRIDAY National for the 48 contiguous states Atlanta 89/70 High Low El Paso 96/69 Chihuahua 85/62 FRIDAY 90° 69° Murray City 79/54 Ironton 81/56 110s 100s Seattle 90s 76/57 80s 70s 60s 50s 40s 30s San Francisco 20s 82/60 10s 0s Los Angeles -0s 109/82 -10s T-storms Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Cold Front Warm Front Stationary Front Information provided by the Meigs County Sheriff’s Office. 89° 65° Wilkesville 80/54 POMEROY Jackson 81/55 81/54 Ravenswood Rio Grande 81/55 81/55 Centerville POINT PLEASANT Ripley 81/58 GALLIPOLIS 81/56 81/55 80/55 Ashland 81/56 Grayson 81/56 in about a male causing problems. Units patrolled for him but was unable to locate. Subject has been identified. Aug. 22 Deputies responded to Martin Street, Rutland on a neighbor dispute. A woman filed a theft report of a stolen kayak. Charlotte Creelman was arrested in Madison County on a warrant through Meigs County. Donald Edwards of Syracuse was arrested on warrants and charged with disorderly conduct for alleged incidents reported the previous night. Deputies were called for a suspicious vehicle on Painter Ridge. Units patrolled area performing traffic stop. Deputies assisted OSP with non injury crash at the park and ride on State Route 7. Deputies received a report of a male in the middle of the road on State Route 833. An officer patrolled the area and did not locate the subject. Aug. 23 Deputies were called to Carleton Street, Syracuse reference to filing report on stolen bike. The bike was recovered and returned to the owner. Deputies handled a lockout Walnut Street, Middleport. An inmate was transport from Monroe County Jail to Marietta Memorial Hospital reference mental health. Deputies were called for an EMS assist State Route 7/ Storys Run, the was vehicle gone prior to arrival. Deputies were called to Reedsville on a report of a runaway juvenile. Juvenile returned before officers made it on scene. Suspicious person reported BP One Stop in Tuppers Plains. Officers patrolled and did not locate anyone at the location. Officers did locate a male walking on State Route 7 that was walking because his vehicle was broke down. Officers assisted him to his destination. Officers assisted OSP with a crash on State Route 143. NATIONAL CITIES McArthur 80/54 South Shore Greenup 81/56 81/55 38 0 50 100 150 200 Chillicothe 79/55 Lucasville 82/55 Very High Logan 79/54 Adelphi 79/54 Very High Primary: ragweed, other Mold: 6154 Partly sunny and pleasant Destiney Ramsey of Pomeroy was arrested on a charge of assaulting an officer. A female reported a domestic dispute with her son. It was verbal argument parties separated. A man in Portland reported a stolen vehicle. Vehicle was not stolen but taken by additional owner. Deputies responded to Pleasant View Road reference suspicious person with dog. Units patrolled negative locate. Deputies responded to Roy Jones Road for a domestic dispute. A resident of State Route 681 reported a burglary at his residence. Deputies handled a lockout on Main Street, Pomeroy A woman reported that her ex came to her residence violating the protection order she has against him. Deputies took a report of medicine being stolen at a residence in Tuppers Plains. This incident remains under investigation. Anyone with any information is asked to call The Meigs County Sheriff’s Office at 740-9923371. Deputies took a report about a subject who had been booked into Middleport Jail with counterfeit money in his possession. This incident remains under investigation. Aug. 21 Josh Rathburn of Pomeroy was arrested on charges of domestic violence, resisting arrest, and assault on an officer. A woman in Portland reported that her brother was at her residence causing problems. Deputies responded to a report of domestic violence on Dusky Street in Syracuse. Male subject left on foot officer patrolled for him but did not locate. A woman filed report reference a man stealing her phone so she stole his phone. Phones were returned to proper owners and all parties advised to stay away from each other. Deputies responded to Bald knob Stiversville reference civil matter over eviction. Deputies responded to a disturbance on Dusky Street, Syracuse. Several calls came TUESDAY 88° 62° Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Waverly 80/54 Pollen: 152 Low MOON PHASES MONDAY Mostly sunny and comfortable 0 Primary: cladosporium Sun. 7:02 a.m. 7:51 p.m. 10:16 p.m. 11:01 a.m. SUNDAY Mostly sunny and nice today. Mainly clear tonight. 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