https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/2124a942878ce6da6e3648c0ec28b4a7.pdf 27b700192e7bfc28aa38693d5fa56bd4 PDF Text Text Weekly church columns CHURCH s 4 8 AM 2 PM 8 PM 30° 37° 35° Cloudy and very cold today. Low clouds tonight. High 41° / Low 29° Today’s weather forecast Rio competes at OCU WEATHER s 14 SPORTS s 11 C_ZZb[fehj�š�Fec[heo"�E^_e Breaking news at mydailysentinel.com Issue 29, Volume 75 Friday, February 12, 2021 s 50¢ Birds of a feather Three in custody following search Suspected drugs located at Spring Avenue residence Staff Report Beth Sergent | OVP A fresh coating of snow and ice left many feeling the latest winter weather was “for the birds” on Thursday. Pictured are a Northern Cardinal and sparrow roosting in a cherry tree whose branches were slowly thawing out from the freezing rain which began on Wednesday evening in Mason, Meigs and Gallia counties. COVID-19 UPDATE Cases reported in Mason, Gallia New vaccine locations being added Staff Report OHIO VALLEY — New COVID-19 cases were reported in Mason and Gallia counties on Thursday with the state of Ohio announcing upcoming vaccine locations. The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reported three additional cases of COVID-19 in Mason County on Thursday. The Ohio Department of Health reported eight new COVID-19 cases in Gallia County on Thursday. New vaccine locations Swisher & Lohse Pharmacy in Pomeroy will soon begin to administer vaccines to those in Phase 1B. Call 740-992-2955 to be added to the wait list. According to Governor Mike DeWine, during Thursday’s news conference, additional pharmacies including 160-plus RiteAid locations in Ohio and all Kroger pharmacies in the state will soon be offering vaccines as well. Additional pharmacies are also expected to be added. Here’s a closer look at coronavirus cases across our area: Gallia County ODH reported a total of 2,135 cases of COVID-19 (since March) in Gallia County as part of Thursday’s updates. This is an increase of eight since Wednesday’s update. ODH has reported a total of 34 deaths, 126 hospitalizations (one new), and 1,931 presumed recovered individuals (13 new) as of Thursday. Age ranges for the 2,135 total cases reported by ODH on Thursday are as follows: 0-19 — 280 cases (1 new case, 1 hospitalization) 20-29 — 349 cases (2 new cases, 6 hospitalizations) 30-39 — 287 cases (3 hospitalizations) 40-49 — 308 cases (6 hospitalizations) 50-59 — 317 cases (1 new case, 1 new hospitalization, 14 hospitalizations, 2 deaths) 60-69 — 267 cases (2 new cases, 25 hospitalizations, 3 deaths) 70-79 — 182 cases (35 hospi- 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 © 2021 The Daily Sentinel, an edition of the Gallipolis Daily Tribune. 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. POMEROY — Three people were taken into custody after a search warrant was executed at a residence in Pomeroy on Tuesday night. In a news release, Sheriff Keith Wood stated that on Feb. 9, in the late evening hours the GalliaMeigs Major Crimes Task Force while working in conjunction with deputies from the sheriff’s office and officers with the Pomeroy Police Department, executed a search warrant at 416 Spring Avenue in the Village of Pomeroy. “The search warrant comes after an in-depth investigation into drug trafficking in the Spring Avenue area of Pomeroy. Seized from the residence was a large quantity of suspected See CUSTODY |14 4K unreported deaths found in database review By Andrew Welsh-Huggins and Farnoush Amiri Associated Press/Report for America unchecked. The prosecutors described in stark, personal terms the horror faced that day, some of it in the very Senate chamber where Trump’s trial is underway. They displayed the many public and explicit instructions Trump gave his supporters — long before the White House rally that unleashed the deadly Capitol attack as Congress was certifying Biden’s victory. Five people died in the chaos and its aftermath, a COLUMBUS, Ohio — The discovery of as many as 4,000 unreported COVID-19 deaths in Ohio came as the state Health Department reconciled an internal death certificate database with a federal database, the state auditor’s office said Thursday. Republican Auditor Keith Faber has been auditing Health Department coronavirus death data since September. But the agency didn’t have access to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s infectious diseases database because of federal health privacy laws, said Matt Eiselstein, Faber’s communications director. “We were never able to make that reconciliation ourselves to come up with those figures,” Eiselstein said. The final audit is expected next month. The Ohio Department of Health says those deaths will now be added to the state’s tally of deaths from the coronavirus during the coming week. Thursday’s coronavirus death toll showed more than 720 deaths, of which 650 come from previously unreported deaths, said GOP Gov. Mike DeWine. “We hope, we believe, that is going to put us back from the track where we actually are,” See TRIAL | 2 See REVIEW | 14 PVH | Courtesy The weather didn’t stop a planned COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the National Guard Armory in Mason County on Thursday. A coalition comprised of county agencies and the health care community has been working the clinics which are held as vaccines become available. This photo of residents arriving for vaccines provided by coalition member, Pleasant Valley Hospital. talizations, 11 deaths) 80-plus — 145 cases (2 new cases, 36 hospitalizations, 18 deaths) Gallia County is currently “Orange” on the Ohio Public Health Advisory System map after meeting two of the seven indicators on Thursday. Meigs County The Meigs County Health Department reported 96 active cases and 1,308 total cases (1,174 confirmed, 134 probable) since April, as part of Tuesday’s update. There have been a total of 27 deaths, 1,185 recovered cases, and 67 hospitalizations since April. Due to vaccine clinics taking place on Wednesday and See CASES | 14 Rioters acted on Trump’s ‘order,’ Democrats say in trial By Lisa Mascaro, Eric Tucker, Mary Clare Jalonick and Jill Colvin Associated Press WASHINGTON — House Democrats prosecuting Donald Trump’s impeachment said Thursday the Capitol invaders believed they were acting on “the president’s orders” to stop Joe Biden’s election, arguing it was the culmination of the defeated president’s pattern of spreading false and violent rhetoric that will continue to vex American politics if left �OBITUARIES/NEWS 2 Friday, February 12, 2021 OBITUARY JAMES L. ‘JIM’ RIDENOUR CHESTER — James L. “Jim” Ridenour, 85, of Chester, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Huntington. He was born on May 20, 1935, in Chester to the late Buel and Mildred Pauline (Wickham) Ridenour. Mr. Ridenour attended the Chester School where he played football and basketball. He then served two years in the United States Army before starting his own business. He was the owner and operator of Ridenour Gas for 60 years. He was also a founding member of the Chester Volunteer Fire Department. He is survived by his wife, June (Pullins) Ridenour; sons, Lowell and Sharon Ridenour, John and Melanie of Chester; son-in-law, Brandon Werry; four grandsons, Joshua and Amber Ridenour of Pomeroy, Jacob and Lynsey Ridenour of Reedsville, Zachary and Ciera of Mesa, Ariz. and Tadd and Zhe Song of Cincinnati; seven great grandchildren, Lakin, Alana, Desmond, Jude, Reid, Finn and Alexandria. James was a big supporter of the Meigs County Fair, which he loved every year. He enjoyed golf, fishing, and spending time at the river lot. He is preceded in death by his parents; son, Jamie Ridenour; daughter, Janet Werry; brother, John Buel Ridenour; and a great grandson, Holden Ridenour. Funeral services will be held on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021, at 1 p.m. at the Anderson McDaniel Funeral Home in Pomeroy with Pastor Randy Smith officiating. Burial will follow at the Chester Cemetery. Visitation for family and friends will be held on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021, from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers donations may be made in Mr. Ridenour’s name to the Chester Volunteer Fire Department, PO Box 131, Chester, Ohio 45720 An online registry is availabel at www.andersonmcdaniel.com. Burt Reynolds’ remains find home at Hollywood cemetery LOS ANGELES (AP) — Burt Reynolds finally reached his final resting place Thursday at a storied Hollywood cemetery. A small, private ceremony, with relatives taking part remotely via Zoom, was held Thursday morning at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where Reynolds’ cremated remains were placed in a grave next to a lake nearly 2 1/2 years after his death. A temporary headstone simply reading “Burt Reynolds” now marks the site, but a bronze or stone bust of him is being commissioned, with hopes that it can be unveiled and opened to the public in September on the third anniversary of his death, Hollywood Forever president and co-owner Tyler Cassity told The Associated Press. After the ceremony on Thursday, a wreath and flowers draped the grave, and a lone fan appeared with a tiny Trans Am, the car that became synonymous with Reynolds through the “Smokey and the Bandit” films, and placed it on the grave. It is not clear why it took 2 1/2 years for the gravesite to be established, and Reynolds’ surviving relatives, seeking privacy after his death, have not been public about the process. Trial take the floor on Friday. The proceedings could wind up with a vote this From page 1 weekend. The Democrats, with little hope of conviction by two-thirds of domestic attack unparalthe Senate, are making leled in U.S. history. Videos of rioters, some their most graphic case posted to social medial by to the American public, themselves, talked about while Trump’s lawyers are how they were doing it all focused on legal rather than emotional or historic for Trump. questions, hoping to get “What makes you think the nightmare with it all behind him as quickly as possible. Donald Trump and his This second impeachlaw-breaking and violent mobs is over?” asked Rep. ment trial, on the charge Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the of incitement of insurrection, has echoes of last lead prosecutor. He said year’s impeachment and earlier, “When Donald Trump tells the crowd as acquittal over the Ukraine matter, as prosecutors he did on Jan. 6, ‘Fight warn senators that Trump like hell, or you won’t have a country anymore,’ has shown no bounds and will do it again, posing a he meant for them to danger to the civic order ‘fight like hell.’” unless he is convicted and Prosecutors wrapped up an emotional two days banned from future office. 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The seven-member board con- sists of three members of each major party and one who is unaffiliated. Libertarians argued that structure sets up an unconstitutional condition on full participation in the state’s “political community and electoral machinery” that requires its members to forfeit their “freedom of association.” The court disagreed, saying the legal framework is constitutional because “it is ‘appropriate’ for Ohio to consider political affiliation to serve its stated interest in maintaining partisan balance among the members of the OEC.” “There is no comparison to be drawn from laws which afford equality of opportunity to all political parties, and those that expressly prohibit a person from government employment because of a protected characteristic,” the court wrote. Mark Brown, the Libertarians’ attorney, said a decision had not yet been made on whether to appeal. The case grew out of an earlier dispute that the 2018 Libertarian and Green Party candidates for governor lodged at the commission, alleging their exclusion from that year’s debates amounted to illegal corporate contributions to the then-candidates, Republican Mike DeWine and Democrat Richard Cordray. GALLIA, MEIGS CALENDAR OF EVENTS 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. Card shower Garnet Schwarz will be celebrating her 100th birthday on Feb. 18. Cards may be sent to Garnet at 906 27th Street, Point Pleasant, WV 25550. Friday, Feb. 12 GALLIPOLIS — The Regular Monthly Board meeting of the O. O. McIntyre Park District will be at 11 a.m., in the Park Board office at the Gallia County Courthouse, 18 Locust St., Gallipolis, Ohio. POMEROY – The deadline for ordering trees or seed packets from the Meigs Soil and Water Conservation District’s 2021 Tree Sale at 4:30 p.m. For more information or for an order form visit www.meigsswcd. com or call 740-992-4282 weekdays from 8-4:30 p.m. or visit the Meigs SWCD at 113 E. Memorial Drive, Suite D, across from the old Veterans Memorial Hospital building. Packets will be available for pickup in late March/early April. Monday, Feb. 15 POMEROY — The Meigs County Health Department will be closed in observance of President’s Day. LETART TWP. — The regular meeting of the Letart Township Trustees will be held at 5 p.m. at the Letart Township Building. Wednesday, Feb. 17 Gallia-Meigs Community Action Agency Board of Directors meeting, 11:30 a.m. via virtual media. If you would like to attend, please contact Lora at lrawson@galliameigscaa.org to obtain access information. Thursday, Feb. 18 WELLSTON — GJMV Solid Waste Management District Board of Directors will meet 3:30 p.m., district office. Monday, Feb. 22 MIDDLEPORT — The Meigs County Veterans Service Commission will meet at 9 a.m. at their office located at 97 North Second Avenue, Suite 2 in Middleport. GALLIA, MEIGS BRIEFS stresses a scheduled appointment is required to Editor’s Note: Gallia Meigs Briefs will only list event information that is open to the public and will receive the vaccine. be printed on a space-available basis. Closing for holiday GALLIPOLIS — The Bossard Memorial Library will be closed on Monday, Feb. 15 in observance of President’s Day. Normal hours of operation will resume on Tuesday, Feb. 16. Gallia vaccine registration The Gallia County Health Department is scheduling COVID-19 vaccine appointments for residents in the following age groups and categories: 80 years and older, 75-plus and those with severe congenital conditions, 70-plus, 65-plus. To schedule an appointment, call 740-441-2018, 740-4412950, or 740-441-2951. The health department dent holds influence over large swaths of voters. The prosecutors on Thursday drew a direct line from his repeated comments condoning and even celebrating violence — praising “both sides” after the 2017 outbreak at the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia — and urging his rally crowd last month to go to the Capitol and fight for his presidency. He spread false claims about election fraud, even there has been no evidence of it, and urged his supporters to “stop the steal” of the presidency. Prosecutors used the rioters’ own videos from that day to pin responsibility on Trump. “We were invited here,” said one. “Trump sent us,” said another. “He’ll be happy. We’re fighting for Trump.” “They truly believed that the whole intrusion was at the president’s orders,” said Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado. “The president told them to be there.” At the White House, President Joe Biden said he believed “some minds may be changed” after senators saw chilling security video Wednesday of the deadly insurrection at the Capitol, including of rioters searching menacingly for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence. Biden said he didn’t watch any of the previous day’s proceedings live but later saw news coverage. Though most of the Senate jurors seem to have made up their minds, making Trump’s acquittal likely, the neverbefore-seen audio and video released Wednesday is now a key exhibit as lawmakers prosecuting the case argue he should be convicted of inciting the siege. Senators sat riveted as the jarring video played in the chamber on Wednesday. Senators shook their heads, folded their arms and furrowed their brows. Screams from the audio and video filled the Senate chamber. Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma bent his head at one point, another GOP colleague putting his hand on his arm in comfort. Videos of the siege have been circulating since the day of the riot, but the graphic compilation offered a momentby-moment retelling of one of the nation’s most alarming days. And it underscored how dangerously close the rioters came to the nation’s leaders, shifting the focus of the trial from an academic debate about the Constitution to a raw retelling of the assault. The footage showed the mob smashing into Meigs vaccine registration The Meigs County Health Department is compiling a list of Meigs County residents who wish to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The following age groups and categories are currently being accepted: 80 years and older, 75-plus and those with severe congenital conditions, 70-plus, 65-plus. To be placed on the list for an appointment, call 740-444-4540. Individuals are asked to utilize this number and do not call the Health Department’s main line to be placed on the waiting list. Your call will be returned to acknowledge receipt within 24-48 hours during normal business hours (Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.4 p.m.). Appointments will be made based on the availability of vaccine and in compliance with guidance issued by the state of Ohio. the building, rioters engaging in hand-to-hand combat with police and audio of Capitol police officers pleading for back-up. Rioters were seen roaming the halls chanting “Hang Mike Pence,” and eerily singing out “Where’s Nancy?” in search of Pelosi. Trump attorney David Schoen said the presentation was “offensive” and that they “haven’t tied it in any way to Trump.” He told reporters Thursday at the Capitol he believed Democrats were making the public relive the tragedy in a way that “tears at the American people” and impedes efforts at unity in the country. Senators sitting through a second full day of arguments appeared somewhat fatigued on Thursday, slouching in their chairs, crossing their arms and walking around to stretch. One Republican, Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, said during a break: “To me, they’re losing credibility the longer they talk.” The goal of the twoday presentation by prosecutors from the House, which impeached the outgoing president last month a week after the siege, was to cast Trump not as an innocent bystander but rather as the “inciter in chief” who spent months spreading falsehoods and revving up supporters to challenge the election. “This attack never would have happened but for Donald Trump,” Rep. Madeleine Dean, one of the impeachment managers, said as she choked back emotion. “And so they came, draped in Trump’s flag, and used our flag, the American flag, to batter and to bludgeon.” Trump’s lawyers are likely to blame the rioters themselves for the violence. The first president to face an impeachment trial after leaving office, Trump is also the first to be twice impeached. His lawyers say he cannot be convicted because he is already gone from the White House. Even though the Senate rejected that argument in Tuesday’s vote to proceed to trial, the issue could resonate with Senate Republicans eager to acquit Trump without being seen as condoning his behavior. While six Republicans joined with Democrats to vote to proceed with the trial on Tuesday, the 56-44 vote was far from the two-thirds threshold of 67 votes needed for conviction. �NEWS Ohio Valley Publishing Friday, February 12, 2021 3 Biden hopes infrastructure can bridge partisan divide By Josh Boak and Matthew Daly Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is hoping that launching an effort to build roads and bridges can help to unite Democrats and Republicans in a time of sharp partisan divisions. Biden met with lawmakers from both parties at the White House to discuss infrastructure on Thursday, even as the Senate is holding impeachment proceedings against former President Donald Trump where partisan divisions are on full display. “I’ve been around long enough,” Biden said, “that infrastructure wasn’t a Republican or a Democratic issue.” The president specifically mentioned the potential for improvement projects in the states of the senators attending the meeting, signaling that lawmakers might be willing to cooperate in order to make their voters’ lives better. Biden highlighted the need for repairs to “a lot of bridges in West Virginia.” Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, the ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, was among those in attendance. She later voiced her support for a “bipartisan surface transportation reauthorization bill that makes long-term investments in our nation’s roads and bridges.” The president also referenced Route 9 in his home state of Delaware, which he shares with Democratic Sen. Tom Carper, the committee Evan Vucci | AP Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., right, speaks to President Joe Biden during a meeting with lawmakers on investments in infrastructure, in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday. chairman, who was also in the Oval Office meeting Thursday and had discussed these issues with Biden last week. “The American people desperately want us to bring our roads, trains and bridges out of the last century and into the future,” Carper said after Thursday’s meeting. Carper pledged to work on a transportation bill that will focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by cars and trucks and boosting electric cars. “I’m glad it’s at the top of the administration’s agenda. The current authorization bill for surface transportation expires in September, so “there is no time to waste, Carper said, adding that he expects bipartisan support for the reauthorization bill in the Senate. Also at the meeting were Vice President Kamala Harris, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg virtually, Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma and Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland. Inhofe later told reporters that the meeting with Biden was “very good, very good. “One reason is that I’ve known the president forever, and we’ve worked on highway bills before,” Inhofe said. “The main thing that I want to be careful on is when you’re working on infrastructure that’s high dollar stuff.” Biden said there are “a number of things out there that the American people are looking for us to step up” and do. During the presidential campaign, Biden committed to deploying $2 trillion on infrastructure and clean energy investments over four years. His campaign pledged that millions of jobs would flow from repairing roads, building electric vehicle charging stations, weatherizing buildings, improving access to public transit and updating the U.S. power grid to be carbonpollution free by 2035. Since the pandemic began in February 2020, the United States has lost 256,000 construction jobs, lowering total construction employment to 7.4 million. Still, total construction spending has increased slightly to an annualized rate of $1.49 trillion, according to the Census Bureau. About a quarter of that spending comes from the federal, state and local governments. Both the Obama and Trump administrations famously promised to invest in infrastructure, only never fully to deliver. The term “infrastructure week” became something of a joke during the Trump era, when it was associated with a policy push that was meant to take public attention away from controversial remarks or actions by the president. Biden has been warned that his push for $1.9 trillion in coronavirus relief might hamper a later push to get bipartisan support for infrastructure improvements. OSP security aid bill tops $2.4 million By Andrew Welsh-Huggins amendment rights and protect property,” patrol spokesperson Lt. Tiffiany Meeks said Thursday. COLUMBUS, Ohio — The patrol costs are on Overtime and other costs top of the $1.2 million for the State Highway it cost Ohio to activate Patrol topped $2.4 milmembers of the National lion for providing extra security around the Ohio Guard for duty protectStatehouse in the wake of ing the Statehouse and to provide security in the U.S. Capitol breach, Washington during the the patrol said. inauguration of President The $2,433,841 spent Joe Biden. by the patrol entailed The state ramped up about $2.3 million in pay security after the FBI including overtime and warned of the potential about $178,000 in nonfor armed protests in payroll expenses such as lodging, water and meals, Washington and at all 50 state capitol buildings according to figures on Jan. 17 ahead of Presreleased by the patrol. “The Patrol had staffing ident-elect Joe Biden’s and security measures in inauguration on Jan. 20. But concerns over place to ensure the safety potential protests at the of those who were there Ohio Statehouse Jan. 17 to exercise their first Associated Press faded as a small number of armed but peaceful demonstrators were considerably outnumbered by state troopers and National Guard members during an afternoon rally. Other statehouses also saw small groups with no clashes reported. On Inauguration Day, a small crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters rallied peacefully at the Ohio Statehouse, also far outnumbered by security personnel. Republican Gov. Mike DeWine activated about 1,000 members of the Ohio guard for duty in and around the U.S. Capitol following its Jan. 6 breach by a mob of supporters of then-President Donald Trump. Pleasant Valley Hospital is pleased to welcome pulmonologist and sleep medicine specialist Mostafa Kurdi, MD, FCCP, to its medical staff. 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OH-70219585 OH-70223620 ɗ ɗ ɗ Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Breathing Problems Emphysema Cystic Fibrosis �CHURCH 4 Friday, February 12, 2021 Ohio Valley Publishing Celebrating Transfiguration Sunday Choose to looked again, but John with Him up now they saw only onto a mountain to Jesus there alone pray six days later. with them. Moses He did this because and Elijah were He wanted them to gone. better understand When Peter who He really was. As Jesus was God’s Kids offered to build the praying there, Korner tents, He didn’t understand that something very Ann this wonderful strange happened. Moody experience on the The Bible says that mountain was the appearance not a stopping place to of Jesus’ face began to change, and His clothing stay; it was a starting place to begin. It was the became shining white – starting place for God’s whiter than anyone on greatest gift: His own earth could make them. Son who came as the gift Then, Moses and Elijah of salvation for each of from the Old Testament appeared with Jesus. The us. Later on, following what happened on the disciples were afraid, but when Peter saw this, mountain, Jesus did die on the cross, was buried, he was so excited in his and rose from the grave fear that he told Jesus just like He said. Jesus he thought that they did this so that you and I should just stay there on could have eternal life in the mountain and build heaven. three tents — one for God sends a lot of Jesus, one for Moses, happy days into our lives. and one for Elijah. SudThe day that we accept denly, a cloud came and Jesus as our Savior is covered them all. God’s without a doubt the hapvoice came from the piest day of our life, but cloud and said, “This is it isn’t a stopping place my Son, the one I love. Obey Him.” The disciples either, It is a starting Have you ever had a day that was so wonderful that you wanted it to last forever? I am sure you probably have. Maybe it was Christmas or your birthday, and you were having so much fun, you didn’t want it to ever end. Did you know that Jesus’ disciples had days like that too? Our Bible lesson today from Mark 9:2-9 is about one of those days. It’s called the Transfiguration of Jesus, and we celebrate it this Sunday (Transfiguration Sunday). Transfiguration may be a new word to you, but it is a big word that means to be suddenly changed in form or appearance into a more beautiful or spiritual state. That is exactly what happened to Jesus in these verses. About a week earlier, Jesus had told His disciples that He was going to be killed and rise again after three days. They didn’t understand what He was saying. Surely, not their Jesus; how could this be? So Jesus took Peter, James, and point for a journey that leads to eternal life in heaven with Him - a life of being loved and accepted and forgiven by Him and a life of loving and serving Him back. Isn’t that a wonderful idea that each day can be so wonderful because of having Christ in our lives! Let’s say a prayer to thank Him for doing that for us. Dear Father, we thank You for all of the happy days that You send our way, but most of all, we thank You for the happiest day — the day we met Jesus and invited Him into our heart. That is the beginning of an awesome life in You. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen. By the way, this Sunday is Valentine’s Day too. Happy Valentine’s Day from me to you. You make my heart glad! Ann Moody is a retired pastor, formerly of the Wilkesville First Presbyterian Church and the Middleport First Presbyterian Church. Viewpoints expressed in the article are the work of the author. Redeemed by God in Christ Last week, if you remember, I said Ephesians 1:3-14 is one sentence in Greek. And I focused on verses 3 through 6. Now, I want to look at verses 7 through 10. “In him [Christ] we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth” (ESV). What does it mean to redeem? Let me share a couple of definitions. John Piper defines redemption as “release by payment” or “freedom by ransom.” John Stott says, “Redemption means ‘deliverance by payment of a price;’ it was specifically applied to the ransoming of slaves.” As the family of God, we’re chosen by God in Christ (vv. 3-6), but we’re also redeemed by God in Christ (vv. 7-10). But what are we redeemed from? In this passage, we see two all things in him, things we are things in heaven redeemed from. and things on First, we’re earth” (ESV). redeemed from Christ is the our guilt. In verse sum. He is the 7, Paul describes head. As the famredemption as “the ily of God, we’re forgiveness of our Cross trespasses” (ESV). Words submitted to Him. Consider what After all, “‘None Isaiah Paul writes in is righteous, no, no Pauley Colossians: “For one; no one underin him [Christ] all stands; no one the fullness of God was seeks for God’” (Rom. pleased to dwell, and 3:10-11 ESV). And the wrath of God is released through him to reconcile to himself all things, upon sinners. Unless whether on earth or in one is redeemed by the heaven, making peace by blood of Christ. So, to the blood of his cross” be redeemed by God in Christ is to be forgiven of (1:19-20 ESV). So, there’s more to our trespasses. This redemption comes redemption than the removal of our guilt. according to the riches Our bodies are of God’s grace (v. 7). redeemed along with And this grace is not creation. We see in Ephesomething God keeps to Himself. He has lavished sians 1:10 how God has reconciled all things in this grace on us (v. 8). heaven and on earth to And He has revealed to us the mystery of His will Himself through Christ. As F.F. Bruce writes, (v. 9). And what is that “Since the liberty of mystery? As Ephesians 3 makes the children of God is procured by the redempclear, this mystery is the bringing together of tive work of Christ, the Jews and Gentiles. God release of creation from its bondage to decay is has redeemed a family assured by that same through His Son, and redemptive work.” this family consists of There’s a future to both Jews and Gentiles. redemption. One day, This is the plan of God. As verse 10 reads, our bodies will be free of cancer, pain, and scars. “… a plan for the fullOne day, the groaning of ness of time, to unite creation will be silenced. Romans 8:22-23 says, “For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies” (ESV). In Christ, the defects are perfected. In Christ, evil thrones and rulers are overthrown. And one day, “… at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Phil. 2:10-11 ESV). Those who belong to the family of God are redeemed by God in Christ. We experience some of this redemption now. And one day, we’ll experience all of it. But there’s even more beauty in this long sentence at the beginning of Ephesians. More to come next week. North Korea in violation of international treaties, sending the dispute to the Security Council. In 2013, At the Grammy Awards, Adele took home all five awards she was nominated for, including album (“25”), as well as record and song of the year (“Hello”). In 2019, Mexico’s most notorious drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was convicted in New York of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation; a jury whose members’ identities were kept secret as a security measure had deliberated for six days. (Guzman is serving a life sentence at the federal supermax prison facility in Florence, Colorado.) Ten years ago: Thousands of Algerians defied government warnings and dodged barricades in their capital, demanding democratic reforms; demonstrations continued in Yemen as well. Death claimed actors Betty Garrett, 91, and Kenneth Mars, 75. Five years ago: Pope Francis, while en route to Mexico, embraced Patriarch Kirill during a stopover in Cuba in the firstever meeting between a pontiff and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. New York Mets reliever Jenrry Mejia (HEN’-ree me-HEE’-uh) became the first player to receive a lifetime ban under Major League Baseball’s drug agreement after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance for the third time. One year ago: Holland America Line said a cruise ship, the MS Westerdam, which had been barred from docking by four governments because of fears of the coronavirus, would arrive Isaiah Pauley is the Minister of Worship for Faith Baptist Church in Mason, W.Va. Find more at www. isaiahpauley.com. Viewpoints expressed in the article are the work of the author. embrace life nothing more than One of the livestock, from the remarkable failure to speak things about the truth to one Jesus is His another in small compassion things to media towards us outlets that no revealed in how He deals honA Hunger one can trust. The estly with us for More apparition of death appears every time as we actually Thom we see fear, hate, are and what it Mollohan bitterness, loneliis we actually ness, addiction, need to do to and suicide. respond to it. In addiAnd there is, of tion to the fact of our course, the ultimate and desperate need for the salvation that only God consummate expression of death in the eternal can give us through faith in Jesus Christ, we judgement that awaits anyone who is not in are given compelling Christ (see Revelation reasons to make what 20:11-15). may seem like radical Where sin leads us life choices, radical only if we disregard what is is such a grave matter that Jesus says, “If your truly at stake. hand causes you to sin, For example, when Jesus speaks about sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life He lays out for us a dramatic claim that we crippled than with two are indeed accountable hands to go to hell, to for what we do, no mat- the unquenchable fire. ter how it comes about And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It that we do it. In Mark 9:42-48, Jesus speaks to is better for you to enter the effect that our lives life lame than with two have on others and how feet to be thrown into we’re answerable to the hell. And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it Lord for it. When that effect leads to the sinful out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of choices of others who look up to us because of God with one eye than sinful choices we make with two eyes to be and claims we state, we thrown into hell” (Mark 9:43-47 ESV). must give account to Is Jesus telling you to God Himself. maim yourself so you “Whoever causes can have some sort of one of these little ones spiritual reward? No, who believe in Me to but He is pointing out sin, it would be betthe enormous result ter for him if a great of not dealing with sin millstone were hung around his neck and he in this life. Cutting off your hands and were thrown into the sea” (Mark 9:42 ESV). feet, and tearing out your eye will not likely Indeed! That may remove your inclinaseem a bit extreme to tion to sin, but perhaps us today since, in our you should thoughtestimation, most sin falls into the “little sin” fully consider cutting off relationships with category and is therepeople who pressure fore negligible. But if you, mislead you, or we understood that when a person departs exploit you resulting in your choosing things from abiding in a relacontrary to God’s Word tionship with a holy God through Christ, no and will. You should tear yourself away from matter how “small” a sin may seem, he or she situations, devices, and opportunities to slip sets in motion an endless array of departures and slide into sinful actions. You should from God that bring instead choose to with them the tragic consequences of broken embrace life. relationship with Him. Thom Mollohan and his family The Bible truthhave ministered in southern fully testifies to us that Ohio the past 25 years, is the “the wages of sin is author of Led by Grace, The Fairy Tale Parables, Crimson death” (Romans 6:23). Harvest, and A Heart at Death manifests itself Home with God. He blogs at in countless ways in “unfurledsails.wordpress.com”. Pastor Thom leads Pathway the evil we see today Community Church and may from broken families be reached for comments to rioting mobs, from or questions by email at killing unborn babies pastorthom@pathwaygallipolis. to trafficking of people com. Viewpoints expressed are the work of the author. as though they were TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Feb. 12, the 43rd day of 2021. There are 322 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 12, 1973, Operation Homecoming began as the first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam conflict took place. On this date: In 1809, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a log cabin in Hardin (now LaRue) County, Kentucky. In 1818, Chile officially proclaimed its independence, more than seven years after initially renouncing Spanish rule. In 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded. In 1912, Pu Yi (poo yee), the last emperor of China, abdicated, marking the end of the Qing Dynasty. In 1914, groundbreaking took place for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. (A year later on this date, the cornerstone was laid.) In 1924, George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” premiered in New York. In 1959, the redesigned Lincoln penny — with an image of the Lincoln Memorial replacing two ears of wheat on the reverse side — went into circulation. In 1999, the Senate voted to acquit President Bill Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice. In 2000, Hall of Fame football coach Tom Landry, who’d led the Dallas Cowboys to five Super Bowls, died in Irving, Texas, at age 75. In 2003, the U.N. nuclear agency declared the next day in Cambodia. In Japan, officials confirmed 39 new cases on a cruise ship that had been quarantined at Yokohama, bringing the total number of cases on the Diamond Princess to 174. A second case of coronavirus was confirmed in the U.S. among evacuees from China; the person had been aboard a flight from Wuhan that arrived the previous week at a military base in Southern California. Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, the last remaining African American candidate in the Democratic presidential field, ended his campaign after his late bid failed to catch fire. Pope Francis, in an eagerly awaited document, declined to approve the ordination of married men to address a priest shortage in the Amazon. Today’s Birthdays: Movie director Costa- Gavras is 88. Basketball Hall of Famer Bill Russell is 87. Actor Joe Don Baker is 85. Author Judy Blume is 83. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is 79. Country singer Moe Bandy is 77. Actor Maud Adams is 76. Actor Cliff DeYoung is 75. Actor Michael Ironside is 71. Rock musician Steve Hackett is 71. Rock singer Michael McDonald is 69. Actor Joanna Kerns is 68. Actor Zach Grenier is 67. Actor-talk show host Arsenio Hall is 65. Actor John Michael Higgins is 58. Actor Raphael Sbarge is 57. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is 56. Actor Christine Elise is 56. Actor Josh Brolin is 53. Singer Chynna Phillips is 53. Rock musician Jim Creeggan (Barenaked Ladies) is 51. Actor Jesse Spencer is 42. Rapper Gucci Mane is 41. Actor Sarah Lancaster is 41. �Ohio Valley Publishing Friday, February 12, 2021 5 Meigs County Church Directory Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic Van Zandt and Ward Road. Pastor: James Miller. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m.; evening, 7:30 p.m. The Refuge Church 121 W 2nd St.Pomeroy, Oh 45769. Sunday, 10:30 a.m. Pastor: The Rev. Jordan Bradford.,740-209-0039 info@ trclife.org W.Va. Route 652 and Anderson Street. Pastor: Robert Grady. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; morning church, 11 a.m.; evening, 6 p.m.; Wednesday Bible study, 7 p.m. Pageville Freewill Baptist Church Carpenter Independent Baptist Church Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; preaching service, 10:30 a.m.; evening service, 7 p.m.; Wednesday Bible study, 7 p.m. Cheshire Baptist Church Pastor Dr. Jim Williams, Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; evening service, 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday Bible study, 6:30 p.m. Call: 740-367-7801. Hope Baptist Church (Southern) 570 Grant Street, Middleport, .Pastor: Ron Branch,. Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Rutland First Baptist Church Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:45 a.m. Pomeroy First Baptist East Main Street, Pomeroy. Pastor: Tim Mullins. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. First Southern Baptist 41872 Pomeroy Pike. Pastor: David Brainard. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:45 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. First Baptist Church Sixth and Palmer Street, Middleport. Pastor: Billy Zuspan. Sunday school, 9:15 a.m.; worship, 10:15 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Racine First Baptist Pastor:Duke Holbert, Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:40 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Silver Run Baptist Pastor: John Swanson. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; evening, 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday services, 6:30 p.m. Mount Union Baptist Children’s Sunday school and Adult Bible Study 10am Sunday evenings 6:30 pm Wednesday evening 6:30pm Pastor James Croston Old Bethel Free Will Baptist Church 28601 Ohio 7, Middleport. Pastor Everett Caldwell. Sunday service, 10 a.m.; Tuesday and Saturday services, 6 p.m. Hillside Baptist Church Ohio 143 just off of Ohio 7. Pastor: Rev. James R. Acree, Sr. Sunday unified service. Worship, 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday services, 6 p.m. Victory Baptist Independent 525 North Second Street, Middleport. Pastor: James E. Keesee. Worship, 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday services, 7 p.m. Faith Baptist Church Railroad Street, Mason. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday services, 7 p.m. Forest Run Baptist 108 Kerr Street ,Pomeroy,Oh, Pastor:Rev Randolph Edwards, Sunday school, 10:30 a.m.; worship, 11:30 a.m. Mount Moriah Baptist Fourth and Main Street, Middleport.,Oh. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:45 a.m. Antiquity Baptist Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:45 a.m.; Sunday evening, 6 p.m. Rutland Freewill Baptist Salem Street, Rutland. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11:30 a.m.; evening service and youth meeting, 6 p.m.; Pastor Ed Barney. Second Baptist Church Ravenswood, W.Va. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.; evening, 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Episcopal Grace Episcopal Church 326 East Main Street, Pomeroy. Holy Eucharist, 11 a.m. 626 Brick Street, Rutland. Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.; Worship Service, 10:30 a.m.; Evening Service, 6 p.m.; Wednesday service, 7 p.m. 161 Mulberry Ave., Pomeroy. Pastor: Rev.Mark Moore. (740) 992-5898. Saturday confessional 4:45-5:15 p.m.; mass, 5:30 p.m.; Sunday confessional, 8:459:15 a.m.; Sunday mass, 9:30 a.m.; For Mass schedule visit athenscatholic.org. Baptist 201 E. Second St., Pomeroy. Worship, 10:25 a.m. Pastor Randy Smith. Catholic Loop Road off New Lima Road, Rutland. Pastor: Marty R. Hutton. Sunday services, 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, 7 p.m. Dudding Lane, Mason, W.Va. Pastor:Rita Darst. Sunday services, 10 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 pm Trinity Church Holiness Emmanuel Apostolic Tabernacle, Inc. Liberty Assembly of God Forest Run Congregational 40964 SR #684 Pageville, OH Sunday 9:30 am, Wednesday 6:30 pm Sacred Heart Catholic Church Assembly of God OH-70222679 First Baptist Church of Mason, W.Va. Church of Christ Westside Church of Christ 33226 Children’s Home Road, Pomeroy. (740) 992-2865. Sunday traditional worship, 10 a.m., with Bible study following, Wednesday Bible study at 7 p.m. Hemlock Grove Christian Church Pastor Diana Carsey Kinder, Church school (all ages), 9:15 a.m.; church service, 10 a.m.; Wednesday Bible study, 7 p.m. Pomeroy Church of Christ 212 West Main Street. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday services, 7 p.m. Middleport Church of Christ Fifth and Main Street. Pastor: David Hopkins. Sunday school, 9 a.m; Morning Worship Service 10 am, Sunday evening 6 p.m.; Wednesday services, 7 p.m. Keno Church of Christ Pastor: Jeffrey Wallace. First and Third Sunday. Worship, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. Bearwallow Ridge Church of Christ Independent Holiness Church Community Church Main Street, Rutland. Pastor: Steve Tomek. Sunday worship, 10 a.m.; Sunday services, 7 p.m. Danville Holiness Church 31057 Ohio 325, Langsville. Pastor: Paul Eckert. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday worship, 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday prayer service, 7 p.m. 39558 Bradbury Road, Middleport. Minister: Justin Roush. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. Rutland Church of Christ Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship and communion, 10:30 a.m. Bradford Church of Christ Ohio 124 and Bradbury Road. Minister: Russ Moore. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.; Sunday evening service, 6 p.m.; Wednesday adult Bible study and youth meeting, 6:30 p.m. Hickory Hills Church of Christ Tuppers Plains. Pastor: Mike Moore. Bible class, 9 a.m.; Sunday worship, 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday Bible class, 7 p.m. Asbury Syracuse New Beginnings Pomeroy. Pastor:Walt and Sheryl Goble. Worship, 10 a.m.; Sunday school, 9:15 a.m.. Rocksprings Pastor: Walt and Sheryl Goble. Sunday school, 9 a.m.; Worship Service 10 am:; 8 am worship service with Lenora Leifheit Pastor: Mark Brookins. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; Thursday services, 7 p.m. Bethel Worship Center Rose of Sharon Holiness Church Carmel-Sutton Leading Creek Road, Rutland. Pastor: Rev. Michael S King. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday worship, 7 p.m.; Wednesday prayer meeting, 7 p.m. Wesleyan Bible Holiness Church 75 Pearl Street, Middleport. Pastor: Matt Phoenix. Sunday: worship service, 10:30 a.m.; Sunday evening service, 6 p.m.; Wednesday service, 7 p.m. 740691-5006. Latter-Day Saints Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Ohio 160. (740) 446-6247 or (740) 446-7486. Sunday school, 10:20-11 a.m.; relief society/ priesthood, 11:05 a.m.-12 p.m.; sacrament service, 9-10-15 a.m.; homecoming meeting first Thursday, 7 p.m. Lutheran Pastor: James Marshall. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 9 a.m.; Wednesday services, 10 a.m. Pastor: James Marshall. Carmel and Bashan Roads, Racine.. Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.; Wednesday Bible study, noon. 39782 Ohio 7 (two miles south of Tuppers Plains). Pastor: Rob Barber; praise and worship led by Otis and Ivy Crockron; (740) 667-6793. Sunday 10 a.m.; Affiliated with SOMA Family of Ministries, Chillicothe. Bethelwc. org. Morning Star Ash Street Church Pastor: James Marshall. Sunday school, 11 a.m.; worship, 10 a.m. East Letart Pastor:Larry Fisher. Sunday school, 9 a.m.; worship, 9:30 a.m. 398 Ash Street, Middleport. Pastor: Mark Morrow. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; morning worship, 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday service, 6:30 p.m.; youth service, 6:30 p.m. Racine Pastor:Larry Fisher. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.; Tuesday Bible study, 7 p.m. Coolville United Methodist Church Main and Fifth Street. Pastor: Helen Kline. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 9 a.m.; Tuesday services, 7 p.m. Walnut and Henry Streets, Ravenswood, W.Va. Pastor: David Russell. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. Saint Paul Lutheran Church Corner of Sycamore and Second streets, Pomeroy. Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. United Methodist Graham United Methodist Pastor: Richard Nease. Worship, 11 a.m. Bechtel United Methodist New Haven. Pastor: Richard Nease. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; Tuesday prayer meeting and Bible study, 6:30 p.m. Mount Olive United Methodist Off of 124 behind Wilkesville. Pastor: Rev. Ralph Spires. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Thursday services, 7 p.m. Alfred Pastor: John Frank. Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. Chester Pastor:Walt and Sheryl Goble. Worship, 9 a.m.; Sunday school, 10 a.m. Joppa Pastor: Denzil Null. Worship, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. Long Bottom Township Road 468C. Pastor: Phillip Bell. Sunday school, 9 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. Laurel Cliff Road. Pastor: Bill O’Brien. Sunday school, 9:30; morning worship, 10:30; evening worship, 6 p.m.; Wednesday Bible Study, 7 p.m. Nazarene Route 689 between Wilksville and Albany. Pastor: Diane Chapman Pettit. Sunday School, 10 a.m.; worship service, 11 a.m.; evening service, 6 p.m.; Wednesday service, 6 p.m. Mile Hill Road, Racine. Pastor: James Satterfield. Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; evening service, 6 p.m.; Wednesday services, 7 p.m. Rutland River of Life Church of God Pastor: Sam Buckley: Sunday worship, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday services, 7 p.m. Church of God of Prophecy O.J. White Road off Ohio 160. Pastor: P.J. Chapman. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.; Wednesday services, 7 p.m. 980 General Hartinger Parkway, Middleport. Pastor Bill Justis. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; morning worship, 11 a.m.; evening worship, 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday evening Bible study, 6:30 p.m.; men’s Bible study, 7 p.m. Reedsville Fellowship Bailey Run Road. Pastor: Rev. Emmett Rawson. Sunday evening, 7 p.m.; Thursday service, 7 p.m. Syracuse Mission 1141 Bridgeman Street, Syracuse. Sunday School, 10 a.m.; evening, 6 p.m.; Wednesday service, 6 p.m. Dyesville Community Church Pastor: Russell Carson. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday services, 7 p.m. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Syracuse Church of the Nazarene Morse Chapel Church Pastor: Daniel Fulton. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m., worship, 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday and Sunday evenings, 7 p.m. Faith Gospel Church Worship, 5 p.m. Long Bottom. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:45 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Chester Church of the Nazarene Flatwoods New Hope Church Carleton Interdenominational Church Old American Legion Hall, Fourth Ave., Middleport. 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Sunday, 10 a.m. Team Jesus Ministries 111 W 2nd Street PO Box 112 Pomeroy OH 45769 Middleport Community Church Faith Valley Tabernacle Church New Hope Church of the Nazarene Syracuse. Pastor: Wesley Thoene. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday services, 7:30 p.m. Pastor:Walt and Sheryl Goble. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11:15 a.m. Pastor: Theron Durham. Sunday, 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. 575 Pearl Street, Middleport. Pastor: Sam Anderson. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; evening, 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday service, 7:30 p.m. Point Rock Church of the Nazarene Common Ground Missions Asbury Harrisonville Community Church Laurel Cliff Pastor: Mark Brookins, Sunday school, 9 a.m.; worship, 10:15 a.m.; Bible study, Tuesday 10 a.m. Reedsville Long Bottom. Pastor: Steve Reed. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Friday fellowship service, 7 p.m. Free Methodist Christian Union Mount Moriah Church of God Faith Full Gospel Church Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. Torch Church County Road 63. Sunday school, 9:30 am.; worship, 10:30 a.m. Non-Denominational Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. (Full Gospel church). 603 Second Ave., Mason. Pastors: John and Patty Wade. (304) 773-5017. Sunday 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. 923 South Third Street, Middleport. Pastor: Teresa Davis. Sunday service, 10 a.m.; Wednesday service, 7 p.m. Hockingport Church Pine Grove. Worship, 9 a.m.; Sunday school, 10 a.m. Agape Life Center Abundant Grace Bethel Church Tuppers Plains Saint Paul Church of God Oasis Christian Fellowship Community of Christ Salem Center Pastor: John Frank. Worship, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday school, 10:30 a.m.; first Sunday of the month, 7 p.m. Hartford, W.Va. Pastor: Mike Puckett. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday services, 7 p.m. Ohio 681, Tuppers Plains. Pastor: Wayne Dunlap. Sunday worship, 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday Bible study, 7 p.m. (Non-denominational fellowship). Meeting in the Meigs Middle School cafeteria. Pastor: Christ Stewart. Sunday, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Rutland Pastor: Jack Colgrove. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship service, 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday Bible study, 6:30 p.m. Hartford Church of Christ in Christian Union (Full Gospel Church). Harrisonville. Pastors: Bob and Kay Marshall. Thursday, 7 p.m. Amazing Grace Community Church Pastor: Wesley Thoene. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. Pastor: Will Luckeydoo. Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday morning service, 10:30 a.m.; Sunday evening service, 6 p.m. Rutland Church of the Nazarene Pastor: Ann Forbes. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; Sunday evening, 6 p.m. Reedsville Church of Christ A New Beginning Bethany Our Savior Lutheran Church Bradbury Church of Christ 339 S. 3rd Ave., Middleport. Pastor: Rebecca Zurcher. Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. State Route 143. Pastor: Mark Nix. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday service, 7 p.m. Calvary Pilgrim Chapel Zion Church of Christ Worship service, 9 a.m.; communion, 10 a.m.; Sunday school, 10:15 a.m.; youth, 5:50 p.m.; Wednesday Bible study, 7 p.m. Heath Pastor: John Chapman. Sunday school, 10:15 a.m.; worship, 9:15 a.m.; Bible study, Monday 7 p.m. Saint John Lutheran Church Tuppers Plains Church of Christ 2480 Second Street, Syracuse., Sunday evening, 6:30 p.m. Portland-Racine Road. Pastors: Dean Holben, Janice Danner, and Denny Evans. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday services, 7 p.m. Pastor: Bruce Terry. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday services, 6:30 p.m. Harrisonville Road,Rutland,. Pastor: C Burns,Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday services, 7 p.m. Syracuse Community Church Pastor: Wesley Thoene. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 9 a.m. OH-70218391 Fellowship Apostolic Kingsbury. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship service, 10:30 a.m.; evening service, 6 p.m. Freedom Gospel Mission Bald Knob on County Road 31. Pastor: Rev. Roger Willford. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 7 p.m. Fairview Bible Church Letart, W.Va., Route 1. Pastor: Brian May. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 7 p.m.; Wednesday Bible study, 7 p.m. Faith Fellowship Crusade for Christ Pastor: Rev. Franklin Dickens. Friday, 7 p.m. Calvary Bible Church Pomeroy. Pastor: Rev. Blackwood. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday service, 7:30 p.m. Stiversville Community Church Pastor: Bryan and Missy Dailey. Sunday school, 11 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Rejoicing Life Church 500 North Second Ave., Middleport. Pastor: Mike Foreman. Pastor Emeritus: Lawrence Foreman. Worship, 10 a.m.; Wednesday service, 7 p.m. Clifton Tabernacle Church Clifton, W.Va. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 7 p.m.; Wednesday service, 7 p.m. Full Gospel Church of the Living Savior Route 338, Antiquity. Pastor: Jesse Morris. Saturday, 2 p.m. Salem Community Church Lieving Road, West Columbia, W.Va. (304) 675-2288. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday evening, 7 p.m.; Wednesday Bible study, 7 p.m. Hobson Christian Fellowship Church Pastor: Herschel White. Sunday 7 p.m. Wednesday, 7 p.m. Restoration Christian Fellowship 9365 Hooper Road, Athens. Pastor: Lonnie Coats. Sunday worship, 10 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. House of Healing Ministries (Full Gospel) Ohio 124, Langsville. Pastors: Robert and Roberta Musser. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday service, 7 p.m. Hysell Run Community Church 33099 Hysell Run Road, Pomeroy, Ohio; Pastors Larry and Cheryl Lemley. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.; morning worship 10:30 a.m.; Sunday evening service, 7 p.m.; Sunday night youth service, 7 p.m. ages 10 through high school; Thursday Bible study, 7 p.m.; fourth Sunday night is singing and communion. Endtime House of Prayer Ohio 681, Snowville; Pastor Robert Vance. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.; Bible Study, Thursday 6 p.m. Mount Olive Community Church 51305 Mount Olive Rd, Long Bottom, OH 45743 Sunday School 9:30 am, Sunday Evening 6 pm, Pastor: Don Bush Cell: 740-444-1425 or Home: 740843-5131 Grace Gospel 196 Mulberry Avenue, Pomeroy, OH 45769 Sunday School 10:00 AM, Sunday Service 11:00 AM, Sunday Evening 6:00 PM, Wednesday 6:00 PM, Pastor: Thomas Wilson Pentecostal Pentecostal Assembly Tornado Road, Racine. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; evening, 7 p.m.; Wednesday services, 7 p.m. Presbyterian Harrisonville Presbyterian Church Pastor: Rev. David Faulkner. Sunday worship 9:30 a.m. Middleport First Presbyterian Church 165 N Fourth Ave Middleport, OH 45760 Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship service, 11:15 am United Brethren Eden United Brethren in Christ Ohio 124, between Reedsville and Hockingport. Pastor Aaron Martindale, Charles Martindale. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.; Wednesday service, 7 p.m. Sunday service at 7pm Mount Hermon United Brethren in Christ Church 36411 Wickham Road, Pomeroy. Pastor: Adam Will. Adult Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.; Worship and Childrens Ministry – 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday Adult Bible Study and Kingdom Seekers (grades 4-6) 6:30 p.m. www. mounthermonub.org. Wesleyan White’s Chapel Wesleyan Coolville Road. Pastor: Rev. Charles Martindale. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday service, 7 p.m. �6 Friday, February 12, 2021 Ohio Valley Publishing Ohio Valley Publishing Friday, February 12, 2021 6 Apostolic Pyro Chapel Church 4041 CH&D Road, Oak Hill, Ohio. Pastors, Donna and Marlin Wedemeyer; assistant pastor, Vicki Moore. (740) 416- Gallia Baptist Church Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Worship, 11 600 McCormick Road, Pastor: Joseph Dry Ridge Road, Gallia. Pastor: Cline a.m. and 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Godwin, Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; Rawlins. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday Church Services 10:30 AM & 6:30 PM, Wednesday 7 PM, AWANA Sunday 5:45. 9288, (740) 395-3396. Services, Sunday school – children and adults, 10 a.m.; Bethel Missionary Baptist Church evening service 6 p.m. Wednesday night Vinton, Ohio. Pastor: Rev. Calvin Bible study, 7 p.m. Minnis. First and Third Sundays, Sunday school 10 a.m.; worship 11 a.m. Life Line Apostolic Pastor: Charles Birchfield, four miles Vinton Baptist Church north on W.Va. Route 2. Sunday 11818 Ohio 160, Vinton. Sunday morning, 10 a.m.; Sunday evening, 7 school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. p.m.; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.; (740) 388-8454. Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic Canaan Missionary Baptist Van Zandt and Ward Road. Pastor: Ohio 218, Gallipolis. Pastor: Garland James Miller. Sunday school, 10:30 Montgomery. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; a.m.; worship, 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, Sunday worship, 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Bible study, 6:30 p.m. Apostolic Gospel Church Silver Memorial Freewill Baptist worship, 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Prayer Christian Union Church of Christ in Christian Union Meeting, 6 p.m. Church Wednesday Bible study, 6:30 p.m. 2173 Eastern Avenue, Gallipolis. Interim Pastor: Todd Bowers. Sunday 10 a.m.; Deer Creek Freewill Baptist Church Sunday night 6 p.m.; Wednesday Bible Koontz Sailor Road, Vinton. Pastor: Study 7 pm Rev. Mickey Maynard. Sunday school, Poplar Ridge Freewill Baptist Pastor: Joe Woodall. Sunday school, 10 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. a.m.; worship, 6:30 p.m.; Sunday prayer Guyan Valley Missionary Baptist meeting and Bible study, 6:30 p.m.; Church Wednesday service, 7 p.m. Salem Baptist Church Platform. Pastor:Jason Morris. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:40 a.m. Gage. Pastor: Philip Taylor. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; Mount Carmel Baptist Church Sundays, 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Eureka Church of God AM; Sunday School 10:00 AM; AM Off of Ohio 141 (Meadow Look Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Ohio 775. Pastor: Jim Holman. Worship, Sunday worship, 8:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. Pastor: Rev. Robert Smith. Sunday Worship Service 10:30 AM; Bible Study, subdivision). Pastor: Keith Eblin. Church 9:30 a.m.; Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.; school, 10 a.m.; worship, 6 p.m.; Wednesday 6 PM April through Oct.; Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. Valley View Drive, Crown City. Pastor: youth meeting and adult Bible Study, Wednesday, 6 p.m. 3C’s Ladies Meeting, Fourth Thursday, and 6 p.m.; Wednesday preaching and Jamie Klaiber. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; 10 AM, Bob Evans, Rio Grande. www. youth, 7 p.m. Wednesday, 7 p.m. bulavillechurch.com. Peniel Community Church Crown City Community Church Pastor: Rev. Robert Persons. Sunday 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. . New Life Church of God Pastor: Mike Buchanan. Office hours, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. (740) 446-7119. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday youth ministries and adult service, 7 p.m. Faith Valley Community Church Little Kyger Congregational Christian Pastor: Gregory Sears,576 State Route Church 7 North (across from Speedway and Little Kyger Road, Cheshire. Pastor: Rev. Quality Inn) Gallipolis, Oh, Sunday 86 Main Street, Crown City. Pastor: school, 10 a.m.; Sunday worship, 11 Paul T. Imboden. Sunday School, 9:30 School 10:00 am; Sunday Worship 11 Randy Thompson. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Thursday, 7 p.m. Ralph Miller a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday am and 6 pm; Wednesday Bible Study 7 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; youth Sunday school superintendent. Bible Study, 6:30 p.m. pm, www.newlifecog.net meeting, Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.; Adult Pine Grover Holiness Church 4315 Bulaville Pike, Gallipolis, OH and 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Sunday evening service, first and third Outreach Minister: Christian Stewart Bidwell. Pastor: Rev. Gene A. Armstrong. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday morning 10:00am, Sunday evening 6:00pm, Thursdays 7:00pm, KJV Bible preached each service Fairview Church of Christ in Christian Union Alice Road. Pastor: Rev. Denver Central Christian Church 109 Garfield Ave., Gallipolis. Evangelist Episcopal Lecta Church Pastor Todd Bowers. Sunday School, 10 Christian Community Church Manely. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; a.m.; Sunday service, 6 p.m. 740-256- Sunday school, 10:30 a.m.; worship, FOP Building, Neal Road. (740) worship, 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.; 1894. 9:30 a.m. Pentecostal 446-6788. Sunday 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Patriot United Methodist Church Potter’s Wheel Pentecostals Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. Mount Calvary Independent Church Latter-Day Saints Patriot Road. Pastor: Jane Ann Miller. 750 First Avenue, Gallipolis. Pastor: Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship: 11:05 Steve Nibert; Sunday School, 11 a.m., a.m.; Sunday evening Bible study, 6 p.m. Sunday services, 12 p.m., Wednesday, Children’s church, Thursday, 6 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Dickey Chapel Sunday school, 11:20-12 p.m.; relief 7 p.m. Hannan Trace Road. Sunday school, 10 society/priesthood, 12:05-1 p.m. Patterson 3615 Jackson Pike Christian Union (740) 446-4404 or (740) 446-0196. Community Christian Fellowship 176 Ewington Road. Pastor: David Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship 10:25 290 Trails End, Thurman. Pastor: Dale Mina Chapel Missionary Baptist Greer. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday family Geiser. (740) 245-9243. Sunday worship, Church 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 night/Bible study, 6-8 p.m. Neighborhood Road. Pastor: Jack p.m. Full Gospel The Church of Jesus Christ of LatterDay Saints Ohio 160. (740) 709-9262 or (740) 4467486. Sacrament service, 10-11:15 a.m., Lutheran Claylick Road, Patriot. Pastor: Rev. Liberty Chapel Hilda Sanders. Sunday school and Crown City. Pastor: Rev. Walter Wood. New Life Lutheran Church kid’s church and nursery, 10 a.m.; youth worship services, 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 7 p.m.; 900 Jackson Pike, Gallipolis,Pastor: night, Wednesday, 7 p.m. Thursday service, 7 p.m. Thursday, 7 p.m. Michael Giese,740- 446-4889, Mercerville Missionary Baptist Church and are posted online. 553 Jackson Pike, Gallipolis. Pastor: 117 Burlington Rd, Crown City, Ohio Centerpoint Freewill Baptist Church Terry Hale, (740)979-7293 or (740)- 45623 740-256-8157. Pastor: Joe Noreau. Centerpoint and Nebo Roads. Northup. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Lecta Church of Christ in Christian 440 Ohio 850. Pastor: Ron Bynum. (740) Vinton Full Gospel Church Trinity Gospel Mission Elizabeth Chapel Church 645-1873. Sunday worship, 11 a.m.; Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Sunday evening Pastor:Rondall Walker. Associate pastor Sunday and Wednesday service, 6 p.m. Union 245-9518. Sunday worship, 10:30 a.m., 418 Main Street, Vinton. Pastor: Steven 11184 Ohio 554, Bidwell. Pastor: Robert Third Avenue and Locust Street, Sunday school, 10 a.m.;Wednesday worship, 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Dale Adkins. Sunday morning 10 am, Hersman. Sunday school, 10 a.m. and 6 Gallipolis. Pastor: Randy Carnes. –Bible Study or Prayer-6:00 pm, Good Hope United Baptist Church Sunday evening 6 pm, Wednesday p.m.; Tuesday, 7 p.m. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:35 calvaryapostolicgallia.com Ohio 218. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; evening at 7 pm Apostolic Faith Church of Pentecostal worship, 11 a.m.; Wednesday and Assemblies of the World Sunday 6 p.m. 190 Vale Road, Bidwell. Pastor: Elder Rodney Pike Church of God Old Emory Freewill Baptist Church a.m.; worship, 10:50 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Pastor: Jeff Simpson. Sunday school, 10 Wednesday service and special youth First Christian Church of Rio Grande Rio Grande Calvary Baptist Church a.m.; worship, 7 p.m.; Friday, 7 p.m. programs, 6:30 p.m. 814 Ohio 325 North, Rio Grande. Sherman Johnson. Sunday school, 10 Pastor: Vinton Rankin. Sunday Cheshire Baptist Church Corinth Missionary Baptist Church a.m.; Sunday service, 12 p.m. Bible study school, 9:45 a.m.; Worship, 10:45 Pastor Dr Jim Williams. Sunday school, Jimis Emary Road, Oak Hill. Pastor: and prayer service, Wednesday, 7 p.m. a.m., Bible Study 6:30 pm every 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; Sunday Rev. Calvin Minnis. Sunday school 10 Wednesday,(740)-245-5228 evening service, 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday a.m.; service, 11 a.m. Every second and White Oak Baptist Church Bible study, 6:30 p.m. Call: 740-367- fourth Sunday. 1555 Nibert Road, Gallipolis. Pastor: 7801. Carl Ward. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Northup Baptist Ohio 160, Pastor:Ray Frye. Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday,Adult Bible Study 7 p.m. Sunday Evening 6:30 p.m. lagohio.com. Liberty Assembly of God Dudding Lane, Mason, W.Va. across from Riverside Golf Course. Pastor: Gregor A. Johnson, (304) 773-5501. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Sunday children’s church, 11 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Thursday Bible study, worship, 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Pathway Community Church 1192 Jackson Pike, Gallipolis, Oh. Pastor: Thom Mollohan. Sunday 1100 Fourth Ave., Gallipolis. Pastor:Aaron Young. Sunday school, 9 a.m.; worship, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; AWANA Wednesday, 6:45 p.m. Keystone Road. Pastor: Paul Ring. 380 White Road, just off of Ohio 160. (740) 388-9041. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Pastor: Pat Henson. (740) 446-7900. worship, 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Independent worship, 11:15 a.m.; children’s church, 11:15 a.m.; Sunday evangelistic service, Bulaville Christian Church 6 p.m.; Wednesday night Bible study, 7 2337 Johnson Ridge Rd., Gallipolis, OH Youth Minister: Andrew Wolfe, p.m.; Wednesday night youth meeting, 45631; Pastor Bob Hood, 740-446-7495, Children’s Ministeries: Kyli Bowers. 7 p.m. Cell 740-709-6107; Coffee Klatch 9:45 Worship, 8:30 a.m.; Sunday school, 9:30 service, 10 a.m. Sunday; Gentle Worship Ohio 218. Pastor: Paul Johnson. Sunday Faith Community Chapel a.m.; worship 10:45 a.m, Sunday Youth (designed for families and individuals school, 10 a.m.; worship service, 11 Teacher: Rodney Roberts. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 7 p.m.; Ministry 6:00-8:00 pm, Wednesday- with Autism Spectrum Disorder), 2 p.m. a.m.; Sunday night worship, 6 p.m.; For Men Only, 8:00 a.m.church dining third Sunday each month; Midweek Wednesday, 7 p.m. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Opportunity, 7 p.m. Wednesday. Nebo Church room, 3rd Thursday at noon, Friends, Debbie Drive Chapel Food, Fellowship(FFF) bring brown Gallia Cornerstone Church paper bag lunch & drink.Website U.S. 35 and Ohio 850. (740) 245-0141 www.GallipolisGrace.com Pastor: Jr Preston,. Sunday school, Christ United Methodist Church 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. and 6 Middleport First Presbyterian Church 9688 Ohio 7 South. Pastor: Rev. Jack p.m.; Wednesday teen service, 6 p.m.; 165 N Fourth Ave,Middleport,Oh Berry. Adult Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; Wednesday service, 7 p.m. Nursery 45760, Pastor Ann Moody (740) 6457736, Sunday School 10:00 am, Morgan Center Christian 7 p.m.; Wednesday 7 p.m. 3766 Teens Run Road,Crown City,OH Sunday School 9:30am worship 10:30am Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6pm worship and children’s church, 10:30 provided every service. a.m.; Wednesday night Bible study, River City Fellowship Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 6:30-8 p.m. Third Ave. and Court Street. River of Life United Methodist Pastor: John O’Brien. (740) 446- p.m.;Wednesday Bible study and youth Saint Louis Catholic Church Kings Chapel Church 3554 Ohio 160. Pastor: Rev. Mark night, 7 p.m. 85 State Street, Gallipolis. Father Hamm. King Cemetery Lane, Crown City. Williams. (740) 446-3331. Sunday Prospect Enterprise Baptist (740) 446-0669. Daily mass, 8 a.m.; Sunday morning worship, 10 a.m.; Pastor: Ed Mollohan. Sunday school, Saturday mass, 5:30 p.m.; Sunday mass, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.; Sunday and 8 and 10 a.m. Wednesday, 6 p.m. New Hope Baptist Church Ohio 554. Pastor: Rev. Arius Hurt. school, 10:00 a.m.; worship, 11:00 a.m.; Wednesday Bible study, 10:30 a.m. Sunday morning coffee: 9am, Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. Sunday Bidwell Church of Christ Jubilee Christian Center Ohio 554, Bidwell. Sunday school, George’s Creek Road. Worship, 10 a.m. 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Church of Christ Evening 6 pm ,Wednesday Evening 6 234 Chapel Drive. (740) 446-1494. school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:35 a.m. pm,. www.goodnewsgallipolis.com Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Wednesday prayer meeting and youth service, 7 p.m. Silver Run Freewill Baptist Church Springfield Baptist Church Vinton. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; 568 Ohio 325 North, Bidwell. Sunday Charles Ted Glassburn. Services are Wednesday, 7 p.m. Bible study, 10 a.m.; Sunday worship, conducted Thursday, 6 p.m.; Saturday 6 Fellowship Baptist Church 11 a.m.; Sunday evening service, 6 p.m.; p.m; and Sunday 10 a.m. Senior Resource Center OH-70218337 OH-70218304 Sellers of NEW STEEL 740-446-3368 �� 2147 Jackson Pike • Bidwell, OH 45614 ��4#4'��4�� ���#--+10-+3��*+0�:� ����� � ��� 740-446-0724 ��� �� � OH-70218309 galliaautosales.com 107 South High Street, Wilkesville, (740) 446-0122./740-645-7736 Sunday Morning Service 9:30 am Seventh-Day Adventist Point Pleasant Seventh-Day Adventist Church 4751 Ripley Road. Pastor: Bill Hunt. p.m.; prayer meeting, 6 p.m. Thursday. Wesleyan worship, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.; prayer Crown City Wesleyan Church 26144 Ohio 7 South. Pastor: Rev. The Way, Truth and Life George Holley, Jr. Sunday school, 9:30 Old Garden of My Heart Church, 1908 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Fairview Drive, Bidwell. Sunday night Wednesday family night, 7 p.m. service, 6:30 p.m.; Sunday school for children, 6:30 p.m.; Pastor Jack Harless. Morgan Center Wesleyan Church Intersection of Morgan Center and Liberty Ministries Clark Chapel Rd, Vinton, Ohio; Sunday Ohio 325, Rio Grande; Pastors Randy School 9:45 am Church Services 10:45 and Sally Patterson; Sunday coffee and a.m.; Sunday Evening Church Services, fellowship, 10 a.m.; Worship and work, 7 p.m.; Wednesday services, 7 p.m.; 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday service, 7 p.m. Pastor: Wade Hall Jr CROWN EXCAVATING Free Estimates Complete Line of Light and Heavy Duty �'*�!���')(�-�Chrome Accessories 5885 St Rt 218 GALLIPOLIS 740-256-6456 “We love OBS! They are thorough and very helpful. Their work is great too.” — Angel B. Prearrangement Center Garfield Ave. • Gallipolis, OH — Devyn M. 446-9295 OH-70218315 OH-70218405 Bethesda United Methodist ��-�� Wilkesville First Presbyterian Church “Super fast! Very, very accommodating. Very informative and upfront. 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Sunday a.m.; Bible study, 9 a.m. Saturday. a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Parsons-Justice. (740) 446-1030. Sunday W.Va. Pastor: Darrell Johnson. (740) Pastor:Jack Berry, Sunday school, 10 Ohio 325. Pastor: Ben Crawferd. Sunday 51 State Street. Pastor: Rev Mark Saturday, noon; worship service, 1:30 165 Wood School Road, Gallipolis Ferry, meeting, Wednesday, 7 p.m. Danville Holiness Church Old Kyger Freewill Baptist 30 a.m.; Sunday night service, 7 p.m.; Bidwell United Methodist Church a.m.; Worship 9 a.m. Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship 11 a.m. Pastor: Sam Carman Sunday school, 9: Kanauga. Pastor: Jim Holman, Sunday Ferrell. First Presbyterian Church (210) 778-6502. Sabbath school, College Hill Church Fair Haven United Methodist worship, 6 p.m.; Wednesday evening Good News Baptist Church morgan@gmail.com. (740) 446-0188. rivercityfellowship.com. 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; prayer meeting, 7 p.m.; Pastor Clyde Pastor:Morgan McKinniss.mckinniss. Contemporary music and casual. www. Pastor: Matt McKee. Sunday school, Presbyterian Church 11:15 am 2474. Sunday celebration, 10 a.m. 35 Hillview Drive, Gallipolis. Sunday school, 11 a.m.; Sunday evening Church of Christ a.m.; Wednesday Bible Study, 7 p.m. Walnut Ridge Church French City Southern Baptist school, 10:00 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.; worship, and children’s church, 10:30 Sisson. (740) 245-0900. Worship Pastor: Joseph Godwin 4045 George’s Creek Road. evening, 7 p.m. Gumc600@gmail.com, Sunday. Providence Missionary Baptist Church Wednesday, 7 p.m. Crawford. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. ,Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. worship, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday 20344 Ohio 554, Bidwell. Pastor Jamie Morning worship, 10:30 a.m. school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. and 6 Cadmus Road, Cadmus. Pastor: Mark Monday-Friday 9am-3:30pm, Catholic (740) 256-9117. 5834. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Sunday 256-6080. Sunday, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Russell. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 6761 Youth Pastor: John Anderson Church 4 p.m.; prayer meeting, Tuesday, 7 p.m. 600 McCormick Rd Wednesday evening, 7 p.m. Vance. (740) 245-5406 or (740) 645- Fellowship of Faith Holiness church. Pastor: Rev. Teddy 45623, Pastor:Jacob Watson (740)256- McDaniel Crossroads Pentecostal Kane. (740) 446-0555. Office hours Fellowship Baptist Church 10 a.m.; Sunday evening, 6 p.m., 3773 George’s Creek Road. Pastor: J.R. Teacher: Eugene Johnson, Sr. (740) Sunday evening, 7 p.m.; Youth every Troy Delaney. Sunday morning service, Thursday, 7 p.m. Sunday school, 10 a.m, Sunday evening, 7:30 p.m. Victory Road, Crown City. Pastor: Oasis Christian Tabernacle Sunday school, 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.; 600 Second Ave., Gallipolis. Pastor:Ray Wednesday Bible Study, 7 p.m. Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Bible study at 7 p.m. Wednesday and 9am Friday Non-denominational 1774 Rocky Fork Road, Crown City. first and third Sunday of each month; Victory Baptist Church study at Poppy’s on Court Street, 10am Pastor: Ray Perry. (740) 379-2969. Truman Johnson. (740)-441-1638.. Bailey Chapel Church Sunday school (all ages), 10 a.m.; 4486 Ohio 588.Pastor::Joseph Bowers. Veteran Care, Memory Care & Rehabilitation OH-70218410 Church of God of Prophecy 10 a.m. Sunday School: 9:00 a.m.; Bible Triple Cross Grace United Methodist Church Tuesday prayer meeting and Bible study, Scott. (740) 446-0954. Sunday First Baptist Church Vinton Fellowship Chapel Llewellyn Bethlehem Church 6 p.m. pathwaygallipolis.com. study, 6:30 p.m. (740) 645-6673. Wired Juniors. www.rodneypikecog.org. Wednesday night prayer, 7 p.m. Clay Chapel Road, Gallipolis. Pastor; school, 10 a.m.; Sunday service, 11 a.m.; 833 Third Ave. Pastor: Rev. Christian worship, 11 a.m.; Wednesday Bible Ohio 554, Rio Grande, Ohio; Pastor Bob month at 7 p.m. 446-4023. 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; school, 9 a.m.; worship, 10:15 a.m. and United Methodist 9:45 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. on the Wednesday youth services, 7:30 p.m.; and adult programming. www. Pat Miller. Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; Harris Baptist Church Adults, Momentum 360 Students and Pastor: Rick Towe. Sunday school, 1110 First Ave., Gallipolis. Sunday a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Promiseland Community Church Pastor: Rev. Kathryn Loxley. Sunday, Paint Creek Regular Baptist 2265 Harrisburg Road, Bidwell. Pastor: Gallipolis Christian Church with adult Bible study, Engage Young Family movie night, 3rd Friday of each ‘Scotty’ Scott (740) 388-8050; Sunday worship, 11 a.m.; Mid-week children Countryside Baptist Chapel meeting, 7 p.m., Wednesdays. 6 p.m. Pastor Jim Chapman. Sunday school, 7 p.m. Baptist a.m. and 6 p.m. Bible study and youth nursery; Wednesday groups, 7 p.m., 210 Upper River Road, Gallipolis. First Church of the Nazarene 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Pastor: Matt newlifeluth@att.net. Worship Services: OH-70218307 Lighthouse Assembly of God Sunday school, 9 a.m.; worship, 10 Stewart. Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Sunday, OH-70218313 Assembly of God Minister: Jeff Patrick. (740) 446-9873. with Wired Junior Church and attended New Life Church of God Nazarene a.m.; worship, 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Macedonia Community Church Calvary Christian Center, Inc. Christian Church Evening 7 pm, “Everyone Welcome” Off of Ohio 325. Pastor: Rev. Odel and 6 p.m.; Tuesday prayer and praise, Chapman. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Pastor:Mel Mock,. Sunday school 10 am, Sunday Evening 6 pm, Wednesday Ohio 141. Pastor: Harold Benson, p.m.; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. 1723 Ohio 141. Pastor: Paul E. Voss. :Sammy Queen, Sunday Morning 10 Bible Study, Wednesday, 7 p.m. (740) 682-4011. Sunday school, 10 a.m. First Church of God 19 Bell Ave at Eastern Avenue, Pastor Centenary United Methodist Church Fr,AJ Stack, Priest-in-Charge Church of God Bell Chapel Church State routes 775 and 790, Scottown. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 7:30 Ewington Church of Christ in Wednesday, 7 p.m. a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. Route 279, Oak Hill. Pastor: Dan Neal. (740) 245-9321. Sunday school, 9:30 Robinson Street, Point Pleasant. or (740) 709-1745. Sunday school, 10 refreshments following. Sunday School 10am Sunday Worship Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 6 p.m.; 10:40 a.m.; youth, 6 p.m. W.Va. Route 2, Gallipolis Ferry, W.Va. 3615 Jackson Pike. Pastor: John New Hope Bible Baptist Church Worship, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday school, Freedom Fellowship 1812 Eastern Ave., Pastor Mike All services at the Church are in person Wednesday, 7 p.m. Pastor: John Rozewicz. (740) 245-5430 Child care provided, Fellowship & Wednesday, 7 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study 6:30pm Thurman Church Wednesday Bible Study, 6:30 p.m. Rio Grande. Pastor: Marc A. Sarrett. p.m. (304) 593-3095. 6611 Ohio 588. Fellowship, 9:15 a.m.; worship with Communion, 10 a.m., 740-367-7063 Pastor: Rick Barcus Wednesday, 7 p.m. Marcum. Sunday, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.; p.m.; evening worship service, 6 p.m.; Faith Baptist Church Wednesday Night Prayer meeting 7pm Rodney Church of Light 446-2483,stpgallipolis.org,, Sunday worship, 10:45 a.m. and 7 p.m.; 740-446-2607 Sunday worship: 10:00am: Rocky Jeffers. Youth pastor: Sandy Bible study, 1 p.m. Monday. service, 10:25 a.m.; youth meeting, 5:30 Trinity Baptist Church Sunday worship, 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 Dan Lamphier. Sunday worship, 11 a.m.; school, 9:30 a.m.; morning worship 210 Addison Pike Gallipolis, Oh a.m.; worship; 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.; community) Bidwell, Ohio. Pastor: 541 Second Ave., Gallipolis. (740) McCarty. 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OH-70218306 �NEWS/CLASSIFIEDS 8 Friday, February 12, 2021 Ohio Valley Publishing US jobless claims fall slightly to 793,000 with layoffs high By Christopher Rugaber then slowed through the fall and in the past two months has essentially stalled. In December WASHINGTON — and January combined, The number of Ameriemployers cut 178,000 cans seeking unemployment benefits fell slightly jobs. Nearly 10 million jobs remain lost to the last week to 793,000, pandemic. evidence that job cuts Thursday’s governremain high despite a ment report also showed substantial decline in a sizable rise in the total new confirmed viral number of Americans infections. who are receiving jobless Last week’s total aid, including through declined from 812,000 extended benefit prothe previous week, the grams — a sign that Labor Department said long-term unemployment Thursday. That figure was revised higher from may be growing. All told, 20.4 million people the previously reported were receiving benefits 779,000. The numbers in the week that ended point to a still-elevated number of layoffs. Before Jan. 23, the latest period for which data are availthe virus erupted in the able. That’s up sharply United States in March, from 17.8 million from weekly applications for the week before. Part jobless aid had never of that increase likely topped 700,000, even reflects the processing of during the Great Recesa rush of claims after the sion. extension of two federal The job market had shown tentative improve- aid programs just after Christmas. ment last summer but AP Economics Writer In January, the unemployment rate fell to 6.3% from 6.7%, mostly because more people found jobs. But it also declined because many people who had lost jobs stopped looking for one. The government doesn’t count people as unemployed unless they’re actively seeking work. The job market’s persistent weakness is fueling President Joe Biden’s push for a $1.9 trillion economic rescue package. Biden’s proposal would extend, through August, two federal unemployment benefit programs that are set to expire in mid-March. His proposal would also raise the federal unemployment benefit to $400 a week from the current $300. Some economists, including former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, have raised concerns that such a huge spending package would risk igniting inflation by fueling a burst of consumer spending later this year as the virus is gradually brought under control. Yet on Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell underscored the Fed’s focus on the struggling job market and said he thought that any worrisome surge in inflation would be unlikely. If it did arise, Powell said, the Fed has the financial tools it needs to quell inflation. For now, inflation remains below the Fed’s target rate. “We are still very far from a strong labor market whose benefits are broadly shared,” Powell said. A driving force behind the Biden administration’s push for more aid is the impending expiration of the extended jobless benefits in barely more than a month. More than 11 million people would lose benefits as a result, according to a report by the Century Foundation. Unlike the previous expiration of extended unemployment aid, which occurred on Dec. 26, the cut-off would be phased in between March 14 and April 11. The job market won’t likely be close to fully recovered by then. Many economists expect a burst of growth and hiring later this year after vaccines are more widely administered, especially if Congress provides significantly more aid to households, small businesses and states and cities. But that isn’t likely for many months. Once vaccinations become more widely distributed and administered in the coming months, economists expect growth and hiring to pick up, particularly if Congress provides significantly more financial aid to households, small businesses and states and cities. “Additional fiscal stimulus and broader vaccine diffusion will eventually allow the labor market to heal,” Oxford Economics said in a note Thursday. “But as the January employment data showed, current conditions are still quite weak and declines in new jobless claims are likely to occur only gradually in the near term.” Research issued Thursday by the JPMorgan Chase Institute found that supplemental unemployment payments, like the $600 a week that the federal government provided from April through July, helped maintain spending for the unemployed and didn’t appear to reduce their willingness to take jobs. GOP attacks Dems’ $1.9T COVID-19 relief bill from all angles By Alan Fram, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Kevin Freking Associated Press WASHINGTON — Republicans are attacking the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package as too costly, economically damaging and overtly partisan, an all-angles attempt to derail new President Joe Biden’s top priority as it starts moving through a Congress his party controls only narrowly. Four House committees worked Thursday on their pieces of sweeping legislation that would send $1,400 payments to many Americans. It would also provide hundreds of billions for state and local governments and to boost vaccination efforts, raise tax credits for children and increase unemployment benefits. Democratic leaders hope for House passage later this month, with Senate approval and a bill on Biden’s desk by mid-March. “This is the moment,” said Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., citing the pandemic’s human and economic toll. As committees worked, Republicans proposed amendments spotlighting what they see as the legislation’s soft spots. Their themes were clear: Democrats are overspending, hurting workers and employers’ job markets, being too generous to some immigrants, inviting fraud and rewarding political allies — allegations that Democrats dismiss as ludicrous. The proposals signaled that Biden’s plan faces solid Republican opposition in a House and Senate where Democrats have few votes to spare, while forcing Democrats to take positions that could tee up GOP campaign ads for the 2022 elections. There were amendments to reduce the $400 extra in weekly jobless benefits Democrats want to provide through August and exempt the smallest businesses from Democrats’ plans to gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 hourly from $7.25. 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He said while his party has backed over $3 trillion in earlier pandemic relief bills, “whatever this rushed, partisan, special interest ‘stimulus’ package does, it comes with no bipartisan discussion, no opportunity for finding common ground.” Biden campaigned on reuniting a country riven by President Donald Trump’s divisive four years. He met two weeks ago with 10 GOP senators to discuss the COVID-19 plan in a session that seemed cordial but has produced no visible movement. Democrats say attempts to compromise with Republicans wasted time and resulted in a package that proved too small when President Barack Obama sought an economic stimulus compromise in 2009, his first year. They want to finish this initial Biden goal without any stumbles and before emergency jobless benefits expire on March 14. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said in a statement that Democrats were pushing “liberal wish-list policies” and accused them of “siding with teachers’ unions,” mostly Democratic-friendly organizations that have largely opposed reopening schools until they are safer. McCarthy, eyeing 2022 elections that he hopes will make him speaker of a GOP-run House, suggested Republicans were ready to work to restore jobs, reopen schools and provide vaccines “to those who want it.” But he said Democrats’ “policy distractions will only make America weaker and bring our recovery to a halt.” One by one, committees were rejecting GOP amendments, mostly on party-line votes. Democrats disputed Republican assertions that, for example, a proposed $400 weekly pandemic unemployment benefit was so generous it would discourage people from seeking jobs. “The whole force of this amendment is to not, quote unquote, spoil people by giving them too much money,” said Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis. She said it suggested people who’ve lost jobs do not “deserve to live above a starvation-level wage.” Even so, Republicans voiced concerns about the sheer size of the $1.9 trillion package. “Big doesn’t necessarily mean good,” said Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, R-Ohio. “Let’s go smart. Let’s go targeted and let’s solve the actual need.” The Congressional Budget Office expects the economy to add an average of 521,000 jobs a month this year, a sign of robust hiring made possible in part by government aid. But those gains will likely hinge on containing the virus. Employers kicked off 2021 by adding a mere 49,000 jobs in January as deaths from the disease curbed economic activity. Meanwhile, House Democrats unveiled new details of their plan. The Energy and Commerce Committee’s section of the plan, exceeding $180 billion, would provide billions for COVID-19 vaccination, testing, contact tracing and treatments. It would invest $1.75 billion in “genomic sequencing,” or DNA mapping of virus samples, to identify potentially more dangerous coronavirus mutations and study how fast they are spreading. It would also advance longstanding Democratic priorities like increasing coverage under the Obama-era Affordable Care Act. It dangles a fiscal carrot in front of a dozen states, mainly in the South, that have not yet taken up the law’s Medicaid expansion to cover more low-income adults, proposing a temporary 5% increase in federal aid to states that newly expand the health care program for lower-income people. Among the Medicaid expansion holdout states are major population centers like Texas, Florida and Georgia. Whether such a sweetener would be enough to start wearing down longstanding Republican opposition to Medicaid expansion is uncertain. �NEWS Ohio Valley Publishing Friday, February 12, 2021 9 3 years later, Parkland school shooting trial still in limbo By Curt Anderson AP Legal Affairs Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It’s been more than 1,000 days since a gunman with an AR-15 rifle burst into a Florida high school, killed 17 people and wounded 17 others. Yet, with Valentine’s Day on Sunday marking the three-year milestone, the trial of 22-year-old Nikolas Cruz is in limbo. One reason is the coronavirus, which has shut court operations down and made in-person jail access difficult for the defense. Another is the sheer magnitude of the case, with hundreds of witnesses from Feb. 14, 2018, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. The case could have been all over by now. Cruz’s lawyers have repeatedly said he would plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence. But prosecutors won’t budge on seeking the death penalty at trial. “We are dedicated to ensuring that justice is done and we are working Wilfredo Lee | AP, File It’s been more than 1,000 days since a gunman with an AR-15 rifle burst into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., killing 17 people and wounding 17 others. And yet, with Valentine’s Day on Sunday marking the three-year milestone, Nikolas Cruz’s death penalty trial is in limbo. diligently to ensure that the criminal trial begins as soon as possible,” said Broward County State Attorney Harold Pryor, who was elected in November. The longtime state attorney he replaced, Michael Satz, is staying on to personally prosecute Cruz. Satz has said Cruz’s fate must be decided by a jury, not by Cruz himself through a guilty plea. Parents of those slain and wounded are divided over the death penalty, said Tony Montalto, whose 14-year-old daughter Gina was killed in the shooting and who is president of the victims’ family group Stand With Parkland. There’s no doubt where Montalto stands. “”The option for a long life was not given to our children and spouses — it was taken that day,” Montalto said. “Society in general should demand that someone who attacked the most vulnerable, our children, at their school, a place of learning, should be held ultimately accountable. Our families have already paid the ultimate price.” Michael Schulman, the father of shooting victim Scott Beigel — a school cross-country coach and geography teacher hailed for protecting students — wrote a newspaper opinion piece in which he said it would be better for everyone if Cruz could plead guilty and be locked away for life. “Going for the death penalty will not bring our loved ones back to us. It will not make the physical scars of those wounded go away,” Schulman wrote. “In fact, what it will do is to continue the trauma and not allow the victims to heal and get closure.” Even in the best of times, death penalty cases typically take years to go to trial. In Broward County, the average time between arrest and trial is about 3 1/2 years. Some complex cases have taken up to 10 years to get to trial. “Even if we didn’t have the pandemic to contend with, getting a death penalty case with this many victims to trial, in Florida, would have taken at least this long,” said David Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor now in private practice in Miami. “The deposition process alone can take years, and then there are the experts and mitigation specialists.” If Cruz is convicted and sentenced to death, the appeals would probably stretch for decades. It’s also possible the case could get reversed and sent back for another sentencing hearing or trial, forcing victims’ families to confront it all again. Cruz is represented by the Broward County public defender’s office, which has taken depositions so far from about 300 witnesses. His lawyers declined comment for this story, but in court papers they have insisted there is no intent to delay the case. Cruz had a well-documented history of mental problems, including an obsession with violence and death, before the shooting rampage when he was 19. His defense isn’t focused on his guilt or innocence; it’s more about sparing him from the death penalty, his lawyers have said in court. IN BRIEF Magnolia Network set to debut in January 2022 LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Fixer Upper” stars Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia enterprise is finally coming full bloom, with an app launch in July and the debut of the Magnolia Network in January 2022. The TV venture, which replaces the DIY Network, will feature original shows, new seasons of some DIY series and all past episodes of home renovation show “Fixer Upper,” which proved the start of a brand that’s undergoing major expansion. The app’s July 15 arrival is timed to an expanded slate of original Magnolia shows available on the app and on streaming service discovery+, current home of a Magnolia Network preview. The preview includes shows on food, gardening, design and the arts, including season one of the new “Fixer Upper: Welcome Home” and “Magnolia Table with Joanna Gaines.” The Magnolia, first announced in 2018, was originally set for a 2020 launch. Herd of calves stroll Indiana highway after escaping a farm LaPORTE, Ind. (AP) — A herd of about 75 Holstein calves barreled down an Indiana highway after escaping a nearby farm. Capt. Derek Allen, an off-duty officer who happened to be nearby in his department police car, quickly made a U-turn Saturday when he witnessed the cows running by in LaPorte County. “It’s really important to note, these cows weren’t just walking, they were at a full gallop, if you will,” Allen told the South Bend Tribune. He quickly got in front of the herd and drove ahead with his police lights flashing in order to warn oncoming traffic. Allen, along with LaPorte County Det. Jim Fish, as well as a number of volunteer firefighters and other onlookers, began corralling the calves as they moved south. Eventually, all the cows are accounted for, Allen said, and no injuries were reported to the human onlookers or the cattle. COVID-defying nun toasts 117th with wine and prayer PARIS (AP) — A French nun who is believed to be the world’s second-oldest person celebrated her 117th birthday in style on Thursday, with multiple treats and well-wishes, cards and flowers to fete her exceptional longevity through two world wars and a recent coronavirus infection. Sister André also got a Mass in her honor and a feast with Champagne, red wine and port. Then came a nap followed by more festivities, including an afternoon snack of baked Alaska, her favorite dessert. “It made me very, very, very, very happy,” the birthday girl said. “Because I met all those I love and I thank the heavens for giving them to me. I thank God for the trouble they went to.” She skipped dessert because she was tired, but got it served to her later after a nap — with three candles and the numerals 117 on top. Sister André’s birth name is Lucile Randon. The Gerontology Research Group, which validates details of people thought to be 110 or older, lists her as the second-oldest known living person in the world, behind only an 118-year-old woman in Japan, Kane Tanaka. Greg Lovett | The Palm Beach Post via AP, File A senior receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Pahokee, Fla. About three-quarters of all first-dose shots in Florida have gone to those 65 years or older. Race to vaccinate older Americans advances By Carla K. Johnson, Bryan Anderson and Andrew Dalton vaccine can get the vaccine. The system we have in place is working. Associated Press We have to keep pushing for more vaccine.” The proportion of Two months after the vaccines given to those first COVID-19 shots 65 years and older varies. were administered, the It’s about three-quarters race to vaccinate older of all first-dose shots in Americans is gaining traction, with more than Florida and more than two-thirds in North a third of people 65 and up having received their Carolina. In Indiana, Alaska and first dose in states that West Virginia, almost have provided data. half of the population The finding comes from an Associated Press 65 years and older has received the first dose. analysis of information In North Carolina, from 27 states where Louisiana, Colorado, data is available. Those Florida and Utah, about states account for just over half of all first doses a third of that population administered nationwide. has received the first dose. “This is very good Oregon, Pennsylvania, news. This is a sign we’re Kansas, Nebraska and doing it right,” said Ali Maryland, are on the Mokdad, professor of lower end, with 20% health metrics sciences or less of the 65-andat the University of older population. The Washington in Seattle. administration of Vaccine hesitancy is Pennsylvania Gov. Tom dropping quickly as Wolf and a bipartisan older Americans talk to group of state lawmakers their friends who have said Wednesday that been vaccinated, he they would create a said. “They’re watching people they know get the vaccine task force that will brainstorm ways to vaccine and seeing it’s administer COVID-19 safe.” shots more rapidly. The effort is uneven, As of Wednesday, the with many other states federal government had still lagging behind distributed 46.4 million on vaccinations of the vaccine doses to states higher-risk population. and other jurisdictions, Mokdad added: “We according to statistics can do better. I can’t from the Centers for wait for the day when Disease Control and all those who want the Prevention. Older Americans have borne the brunt of the deaths and hospitalizations from the virus, which has claimed more than 473, 000 lives in the U.S. About 80% of the people who have died from COVID have been adults 65 and older. There’s not yet enough data to analyze whether vaccination is reducing infections and deaths in that age group, Mokdad said. But his research center, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, plans to look at that during the coming weeks. Experts recommend that people continue wearing masks and practicing social distancing even after receiving COVID19 shots. Although recipients are expected to get some level of protection within a couple of weeks of the first shot, full protection may not happen until a couple weeks after the second shot. It’s unclear whether vaccinated people can still spread the virus. Still, the vaccines have already had a real impact on the lives of older Americans. Stephanie LaBumbard, 80, spent most of last year alone and separated from family at home in Cadillac, Michigan. Now she’s feeling a surge in positivity after getting her second vaccine dose. “I’m not home free yet, but I feel in a lot better shape,” LaBumbard said. She has yet to change her cautious behavior but is making plans to do so and couldn’t be happier about it. Being able to go out with friends again seems “just an absolute miracle.” “It’s so wonderful to realize that we can be back to normal or something like it.” She’s especially happy to be able to worship in person at her church, where she will return Sunday after taking part via Zoom for months. She had to give up volunteering at a hospital and getting coffee and dinner with friends, but she especially missed her family. “I was alone at Thanksgiving. I was with just one of my sons for Christmas. Especially when you get to my age ... I feel young, but you don’t know, this could be my last Christmas,” she said, adding that she’s pleased with Michigan’s vaccine distribution. “It seems to me that they have done a fantastic job up here. 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EURZVH�MREV�‡�SRVW�\RXU�UHVXPH�‡�JHW�DGYLFH jobmatchohio.com �S ports Ohio Valley Publishing Friday, February 12, 2021 11 Rio competes at OCU Invite By Randy Payton For Ohio Valley Publishing LOGAN, Ohio — Spencer Harris notched a pair of first-place finishes and set a new school record in the process, leading the University of Rio Grande men’s track & field team in Saturday’s OCU Trailblazer Invitational at Logan High School’s Chieftain Center. Harris, a freshman from Gallipolis, Ohio, took first place in the high jump Courtesy|URG Athletics with an effort of 1.84m Rio Grande freshman Spencer Harris had a pair of first-place finishes and set a new school record in the indoor long jump at and also finished first in the long jump with a leap Saturday’s OCU Trailblazer Invitational in Logan, Ohio. of 7.06m (23’2”). Harris’ mark in the long jump broke the previous school record of 23’0.75” set by Jerry Smith in 1995 and currently ranks eighth nationally. Senior Daniel Everett (Fletcher, OH) also had a first-place finish for the RedStorm, taking the top spot in the weight throw with a toss of 14.33m. Rio Grande finished third as a team among the 11 participating schools, totaling 65 points. Midway University won the team crown with 82.5 points, while Point Park University placed second with 78.5 points. Among the others representing the RedStorm who posted Top 10 performances were senior Joe Beegle (Racine, OH), who was second in the shot put with a toss of 14.16m; freshman Kyle Lightner (Peebles, OH), who was second in the 600-meter run with a time of 1:28.94; freshman Haden Karshner (Circleville, OH), who placed fourth in the shot put with an effort covering 13.52m; freshman Eric Weber (Bidwell, OH), who was fourth in the weight throw with a heave of 12.24m; freshman Josiah Edwards (South Webster, OH), who was sixth in the shot put at 12.70m; freshman Austin Set (Fairfield, OH), who placed sixth in the 3,000-meter run in a time of 10:00.01; freshman Holden Fritz (Canton, OH), who took seventh place in the 60-meter dash with a finish of 7.31; freshman Finn Tomlin (Georgetown, OH), who was eighth in See INVITE | 12 Bowman, Byron give Hendrick sweep of Daytona 500 front row DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — New number, new day, new time, same result for Hendrick Motorsports. Alex Bowman and William Byron swept the front row Wednesday night in qualifying for the Daytona 500, giving Hendrick its 14th pole and sixth in the last seven years. Rick Hendrick’s engine-building wing has seven straight poles because it powers Ricky Stenhouse Jr., last year’s pole-winner. “I think it means a lot to Mr. H — he wants to win everything, like every category, he wants to be top of the list,” Bowman said. “Here it really just comes down to who built the fastest race car. And I think it’s important for Hendrick Motorsports to come up and prove that they’re the ones that did that.” Bowman posted a lap at 191.261 mph to earn the top starting spot for the second time in his career. It’s the fourth consecutive year Bowman will start from the front row, but he’s got a completely new look this time. Bowman in the offseason was moved from the No. 88 into the No. 48 vacated by seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson. He inherited sponsor Ally, which has committed to backing Bowman and helping him develop his brand. “It’s really hard to sit here and be like, ‘I did it and I did this and that and that’s why we are on the front row for four consecutive years,’” Bowman said. “It’s more about the people that make it happen. I floored it, but I’m pretty sure everybody else did, too. I’m just appreciative to have a fast car.” Greg Ives, Bowman’s crew chief, has put one of his cars on the front row for five consecutive years dating to Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 2017. Ives has never had a car start lower than third since he became a Cup crew chief in 2015. “We put a lot of time and effort into our speedway program. It’s a show car. It’s the pinnacle of the hotrods that we bring out of our race shop,” Ives said. “There’s a lot of pride in every piece, every car, just from the paint job all the way down to the last nut and bolt.” Bowman drove his Chevrolet more than 1 mph faster than teammate Byron, who qualified second with a lap at 190.219 mph. Only the front row was set Wednesday, the first time Daytona 500 qualifying has been held at night under a condensed Speedweeks schedule. “Hendrick always gives us great cars to come down here and qualify well and also race well, so you never know which guys are going to have the speed out of the four of us,” Byron said of the fourcar Hendrick stable. Chase Elliott was 11th and Kyle Larson 15th to complete Hendrick’s lineup. See DAYTONA | 12 OVP SPORTS SCHEDULE Friday, Feb. 12 Boys Basketball Southern at Eastern, 7:15 River Valley at Meigs, 7:30 Gallia Academy at Rock Hill, 7:30 Girls Basketball Chillicothe at Meigs, 7:30 Saturday, Feb. 13 Boys Basketball Waterford at Eastern, 7:15 Trimble at South Galla, 7:30 River Valley at Alexander, 7:30 Girls Basketball D-3 Sectional Semifinal: (26) Eastern at (7) Adena, 7 p.m. Meigs at Zanesville, 1:30 Courtesy|Rio Grande Corey Momsen has been named the University of Rio Grande’s Director of Rugby, as well as the head coach of both the men’s and women’s teams that are scheduled to begin play during the 2021-22 school year. Momsen named Rio Grande’s Director of Rugby By Randy Payton ets and led the squad to a 3-2-1 record and a berth in the Liberty Conference Championship TournaRIO GRANDE, Ohio ment. — The sport of rugby The Jackets defeated has taken Corey Momsen from one end of the coun- Syracuse in the semifinal round before defeating try to the other. the University of MasNow, it’s bringing him a little bit closer to home. sachusetts to secure the program’s fourth conferMomsen has been ence championship. named the University of As a player, Momsen Rio Grande’s Director was heavily-recruited out of Rugby and the head of Kettle Moraine High coach of its men’s and School and represented women’s teams which the Wisconsin Selects are scheduled to begin at the Rocky Mountain play during the 2021-22 Challenge in the summer school year. of 2011 before coming to Rio Grande athletic AIC on full scholarship. director Jeff Lanham He went on to become made the announcea starter at second row ment of Momsen’s hirfor the Yellow Jackets ing official on Thursday and never missed a 15s although, technically, match or 7s tournament, the 27-year-old native helping to lead the team of Wales, Wisconsin has to several conference and been on the job for just tournament championover a week. Momsen comes to Rio ships while earning three All-Conference selections. Grande after spending Following the conclutwo full seasons and part sion of his collegiate of the current campaign career, Momsen signed as an assistant coach at his alma mater, American a professional contract with the Austin (TX) International College in Huns, which now play as Springfield, Mass. the Austin Elite in Major “The move was very appealing to me. For one, League Rugby. While with the Huns, he was I’ll be closer to home a member of their 2017 and my family. I just team which won the USA feel more at home in the Men’s D1 Club ChampiMidwest and the Great onship. Lakes region,” Momsen “My background was said. “Youth rugby, conactually in basketball, veniently, is booming in Ohio and the Great Lakes but I couldn’t touch the basketball court. That’s region. I think the move why I made the switch is fantastic for both my and I had a really successpersonal growth and for my professional growth.” ful rugby career,” he said “A lot of time, athletes Momsen joined the aren’t getting enough AIC coaching staff in playing time or opportuthe fall of 2018 as an assistant under then-head nities to suit them in one coach Rob Guiry. Howev- sport and they want to do something different. er, when Guiry resigned Rugby, at any level, at any shortly after the start of the season, Momsen took age, in any country is an example of a very open over as the interim head coach of the Yellow Jack- community that allows For Ohio Valley Publishing you to do that.” Momsen acknowledged that he has a mountain of challenges to traverse in terms of getting the RedStorm’s programs off the ground. Those challenges, though, are things in which he relishes the opportunity to answer. “It’s great to see a University like Rio Grande support rugby and resource it in the way that they’re planning to,” said Momsen. “And the opportunity to grow as the Director of Rugby is what was most appealing to me. It’s a dream come true.” “I’m pretty much, on a daily basis, explaining what rugby is to people, but I think that’s something that’s common nationwide.” he continued. “All of my colleagues are accustomed to, basically, beginning from the ground up in terms of resources and not having an alumni base. We’ve become familiar with being pioneers.” Lanham said that he and the other members of the search committee are confident that Momsen is the right person to pioneer Rio’s fledgling program. “We had a tremendous number of very qualified candidates for the position, but we were impressed with Corey’s passion and vision for the future culture of Rio Rugby,” Lanham said. “We want to compete at the national level. We’re looking to recruit 30-35 student-athletes for both programs. Corey comes from a successful program and can provide direction for Rio to reach these goals.” Recruiting, obviously, is Momsen’s top priority. His plan for accomplishing what could be a daunting task includes the hiring of two graduate assistant coaches to aid in the process. “I can spend plenty of time this summer ordering jerseys, putting up goalposts and lining the field, but I’ve got to get working on building a roster — and a big one at that,” said Momsen. “For the safety of the players, I don’t want to have just enough to play. We want enough players to where there’s healthy competition at practice. That way you know that the best player is starting, but there’s also some depth as well because it is a contact sport. I’d been recruiting for AIC and we were just about done for next fall. Now, I’ve got to go out and find another pool of players who are interested and still looking for a college to sign with it. That’s going to be the biggest challenge at first, particularly since its a new program.” Momsen said his recruiting efforts will target in-state athletes first, but won’t be limited to those inside the border of the Buckeye State. “I have experience recruiting both nationwide and worldwide. It’s about finding the right fit — the right person who embraces everything that Rio has to offer … the location, the programs that are offered,” he said. “After you get as many in-state kids as possible, then it’s about identifying immediate impact players to fill out the roster.” Rugby is a year-round sport, which plays a See DIRECTOR | 12 �SPORTS 12 Friday, February 12, 2021 Raptors to keep calling Tampa home By Tim Reynolds Masai Ujiri said. “But home is where the heart is, and our hearts are in Toronto. We think often of our fans, of our Scotiabank The Toronto Raptors aren’t Arena family, and all those we are going back to Toronto this seamissing back home, and we can’t son. wait until we can all be together Ongoing challenges related to again.” the coronavirus pandemic and The decision is hardly unexhow that affects the process of pected given the state of the crossing the border between the pandemic in the U.S. and Canada. U.S. and Canada will keep the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Raptors in their adopted Tampa, Trudeau announced Tuesday that Florida, home for the remainder starting next week any nonessenof the regular season, the team tial travelers arriving in Canada said Thursday. by land will need to show a negaThe Raptors are 6-5 in their tive PCR-based COVID-19 test or “home” building this season, Amalie Arena, which they’re shar- face a fine if they don’t have one. That wouldn’t be an issue for ing with the Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning. Tampa NBA teams; traveling parties also has the reigning Super Bowl are tested daily, players multiple times a day. champion Buccaneers and the The bigger issue is logistics. Tampa Bay Rays played in the The land border already remains World Series last season. closed to nonessential travelers “Florida has been really welcoming to us and we’re so grateful who are not Canadian citizens; for the hospitality we’ve found in Canada requires those entering Tampa and at Amalie — we’re liv- the country to isolate for 14 days, ing in a city of champions, and we which wouldn’t be feasible for NBA teams, and the Canadian intend to carry on the tradition government has also strongly disof winning for our new friends and fans here,” Raptors President couraged nonessential travel for Associated Press any reason. Toronto made the move south last fall, knowing Thursday’s decision was a real possibility. The Raptors tried to simulate the comforts the team has at home in Toronto, at least as much as possible. “We The North” — the team motto — signage is everywhere in the hotel that the Raptors are using as a practice facility in Tampa, from the elevator doors to the ballroom wall behind one of the baskets. The court that the Raptors use for games was shipped down from Toronto. And there’s a 2019 world championship banner swaying from the rafters, alongside the Lightning’s retired jerseys for Vincent Lecavalier and Martin St. Louis, at the same end of the court as the Raptors’ bench. “They did a great job,” Raptors guard Fred VanVleet said earlier this season. The NBA is preparing to release the schedule for the second half of the season — midMarch through mid-May — later this month. The playoffs will run from mid-May through mid-July. Jags unveil Meyer’s 30-person staff with NFL experience By Mark Long linebackers coach. Strong was one of three key hires who had no previous NFL experience, along with tight ends coach Tyler Jacksonville Jaguars coach Urban Meyer formally announced Bowen and safeties coach Chris Ash. Strong spent the better part his 30-person staff Thursday, of the last four decades in the wrapping up nearly a month of college ranks. work to surround himself with But Meyer kept seven holdassistants who can help him make a successful transition from overs from fired coach Doug Marrone’s staff: veteran offensive college to the NFL. line coach George Warhop; corThe group includes Darrell nerbacks coach Tim Walton; nickBevell as offensive coordinator, el cornerbacks coach Joe Danna; Joe Cullen as defensive coordiassistant linebackers coach Tony nator, Brian Schottenheimer as Gilbert; assistant strength coach passing game coordinator/quarterbacks coach, and Brian Schnei- Cedric Scott; assistant to the der as special teams coordinator. head coach ElizaBeth Mayers; and administrative assistant Meyer made most of the Tyler Wolf. hires weeks ago, but waited to The rest of Meyer’s new crew: announce them until after each receivers coach Sanjay Lal; runone signed a contract. ning backs coach Bernie ParMeyer also made former malee; defensive line coach Tosh Louisville, Texas and South Lupoi; outside linebackers coach Florida coach Charlie Strong Zach Orr; and senior defensive his assistant head coach/inside Associated Press assistant Bob Sutton. Anthony Schlegel will serve as Meyer’s strength and conditioning coordinator, and Chris Doyle will be the team’s director of sports performance. Meyer also hired several other position assistants: Will Harriger (offense); Sterling Lucas (defensive line); Chris Polk (special teams); Quinton Ganther (offensive quality control); Patrick Reilly (defensive quality control); Todd Washington (offensive line); Brandon Ireland (strength); and Adam Potts (strength). Fernando Lovo will serve as Meyer’s chief of staff. Meyer insisted when he took the job in mid-January that he would build a “great staff” with plenty of NFL experience, and his main four coordinators have a combined 67 years of pro experience. OVP SPORTS BRIEFS RedStorm’s Blevins named RSC Player of the Week MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — University of Rio Grande forward Shiloah Blevins averaged a double-double to earn River States Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Week for Feb. 1-7. The 6-5 sophomore from South Webster, Ohio, put up 18.0 points, 10.5 rebounds and 2.0 blocks per game in two contests. He also shot 56 percent from the field as the RedStorm went 2-0 versus RSC competition. Blevins first had 15 points, 11 rebounds and two blocks in a win over WVU Tech, including the winning dunk at the buzzer. He followed that up with 21 points, 10 rebounds, two assists and two blocks in a victory versus Carlow. home River States Conference Men’s Indoor Field Athlete of the Week for Feb. 1-7. The Gallipolis, Ohio, native won first place in the long jump and high jump at the Ohio Christian University Trailblazer Invitational. His leap of 7.06 meters in the long jump is now tops in the conference as is his height of 1.84 meters in the high jump. Harris’ effort in the long jump also established a new indoor school record and currently ranks eighth nationally. Next up for the RedStorm is MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — University of Rio Grande (Ohio) the RSC Indoor Track & Field Championship Feb. 20 in Logan, freshman Spencer Harris won Ohio. two jumping events to take Rio’s Harris recognized by RSC *** ATTENTION: Plugging of Oil and Gas Wells *** Orphan Well Program Public Notice Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management February 12, 2021 -This notice will run for five (5) days- Do you have a valid interest in one of the oil and gas wells listed below, or the equipment attached to, or used in, any of these wells? OH-70223238 The Orphan Well Program is responsible for plugging improperly abandoned oil and gas wells when no owner or other responsible party can be located. Additional information may be found at http://oilandgas.ohiodnr.gov/citizens/orphan-well-program. 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Momsen’s something that’s very attainable.” plan is to have a “I love seeing rugby program that will play grow here in the both styles. states and providing As for a conference opportunities for affiliation, nothing has student-athletes to use been officially decided it as a pathway to get an yet, but the Allegheny education, to travel and Rugby Union, the to continue playing,” Mid-American Rugby Conference and National Momsen added. “I can’t wait to introduce it College Rugby are the to campus. Rugby, in leading candidates. According to Lanham, my experience, really thrives at small schools. Rio Grande will utilize Given soccer’s success its current auxiliary or at Rio, I think rugby is a “practice” soccer field great fit and it’s going to — located between the do really well here.” Evan E. Davis Soccer Lanham agrees. Field and Rio Softball “Rugby will be a Park — as its home new experience to our pitch. campus, but we believe “One thing that’s the passion for this sport really cool about will spread through our collegiate rugby is, particularly on the men’s community and provide a great opportunity side, it’s not like most for student-athletes to of the other sports. If you look at the national receive a great education at Rio Grande,” he said. rankings for both men and women, the Top 10 Randy Payton is the Sports schools aren’t always Information Director at the the big-name schools University of Rio Grande. Daytona did not make a qualifying lap. His car is locked into the race, though, because it has a charter. From page 11 The No. 62 driven by It’s the ninth consecu- Noah Gragson for Beard tive year Chevrolet won Motorsport failed prequalifying inspection the pole. three times, did not get The 40-car field is to attempt a qualifydetermined through ing lap, and lost a crew both time trials and a member. pair of Thursday night Beard has to forfeit a qualifying races. NASteam member as penalty, CAR sold 36 charters but Gragson can race that guarantee those owners slots in the field, Thursday night and which leaves eight driv- attempt to qualify for his ers vying for four “open” first Daytona 500. Bubba Wallace, fastest spots in the Super Bowl in Wednesday’ afterof stock-car racing. noon’s practice, briefly Two spots were earsat on the pole in his marked to the fastest new 23XI Racing entry “open” cars in time triowned by Michael Jorals. David Ragan and dan and Denny Hamlin. Ryan Preece earned Byron bumped him first, those berths. then Bowman topped Preece had a charter Byron. Wallace wound last year with JTGup fourth on his first day Daugherty Racing, but the team no longer holds in his new car. “I’m pumped and its rights and there’s I know that all the concern the car won’t resources are there. attempt to make every Everything is in place,” race if it doesn’t have Wallace said. “My motto early success. is, ‘No more excuses.’” Preece said he wasn’t Hamlin, who is trynervous before attempting his lap, but did panic ing to become the first driver to win three conwhen the qualifying secutive Daytona 500s, session was delayed was 12th. He said it was for a power issue and emotional to see the Preece noticed he was wearing the wrong fire- team he helped build get its car on track. suit. Preece said he ran “I’ve always said for half-a-mile before his qualifying lap to change a long time, for the last couple months, when I his suit. see the car on the track, Derrike Cope, the that’s kind of when it 1990 Daytona 500 winner and oldest driver in will be real for me, and the field at 62, could not it definitely was,” Hamlin said. get his car started and Invite ninth among the 11 competing teams with 19 points. From page 11 Other Top 10 showings for the RedStorm came from sophomore Sierra the 200-meter dash with Cress (Greenville, OH), a time of 25.29; junior Dean Freitag (Magnolia, who took runner-up honors in the weight throw OH), who was 10th in the 3,000-meter run with with an effort of 14.56m and freshman Kaila Barr a time of 10:33.21; and (Waverly, OH), who was freshman Travis Hunt third in the weight throw (New Paris, OH), who was 10th in the long jump at 14.28m. Carlow University won with a leap of 5.93m. Samantha Miller had a the team title with 124 pair of Top 10 finishes to points, while Saint Marylead the University of Rio of-the-Woods was second Grande women’s track & with 83 points and host Ohio Christian University field team in Saturday’s was third with 49 points. OCU Trailblazer InviRio Grande is schedtational at Logan High School’s Chieftain Center. uled to return to action on Saturday, Feb. 20, in Miller, a sophomore from Greensprings, Ohio, the River States Conference Championship at the finished fourth in the weight throw with a toss same venue. of 11.23m and placed ninth in the shot put with Randy Payton is the Sports Information Director at the a heave of 9.74m. University of Rio Grande. 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Chg. -0.33 -0.54 -0.11 -0.15 none -0.28 -0.11 +0.52 +0.23 +0.09 none +0.50 +0.70 TUESDAY 24° 23° 45° 26° Low clouds and cold A bit of ice possible in the afternoon A chance for rain or snow showers Belpre 37/26 Athens 37/24 Chilly with clouds and sun St. Marys 38/26 Elizabeth 38/27 Spencer 36/28 Buffalo 37/29 Ironton 37/30 Milton 38/31 St. Albans 37/31 Huntington 36/28 NATIONAL FORECAST Clendenin 39/29 Charleston 38/31 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. Winnipeg -16/-32 Billings -7/-25 Montreal 8/-5 Minneapolis -3/-11 Denver 18/0 Toronto 17/6 Detroit 23/14 New York 28/20 Washington 32/28 Chicago 16/5 Kansas City 6/-2 Rain and snow possible; ice at night National for the 48 contiguous states High Low 86° in Immokalee, FL -46° in Cotton, MN Global Houston 44/37 Monterrey 55/44 Sat. City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Albuquerque 51/33/c 56/35/pc Anchorage 23/8/s 20/13/s Atlanta 55/44/r 48/42/r Atlantic City 31/28/c 37/35/r Baltimore 31/24/c 32/28/sn Billings -7/-25/sn -7/-26/pc Boise 37/29/sn 37/18/sn Boston 25/13/pc 26/23/pc Charleston, WV 38/31/c 38/29/r Charlotte 44/35/r 42/36/r Cheyenne 6/-7/sn 5/-14/sn Chicago 16/5/c 15/-7/sn Cincinnati 30/17/c 27/12/sf Cleveland 26/16/c 26/15/sf Columbus 29/18/c 28/15/sf Dallas 37/23/c 31/20/c Denver 18/0/sn 13/-4/c Des Moines 0/-6/sn 4/-9/sn Detroit 23/14/c 23/8/sn Honolulu 81/70/pc 83/69/pc Houston 44/37/c 47/34/r Indianapolis 24/15/c 22/6/sf Kansas City 6/-2/c 4/-2/sn Las Vegas 67/49/pc 67/48/c Little Rock 35/24/pc 32/18/c Los Angeles 68/52/pc 66/54/c Louisville 33/21/c 30/15/c Miami 83/72/pc 84/73/pc Minneapolis -3/-11/pc 0/-16/c Nashville 40/30/pc 34/24/i New Orleans 56/48/r 55/42/sh New York City 28/20/pc 28/26/c Oklahoma City 22/9/c 20/4/c Orlando 81/67/pc 80/66/t Philadelphia 30/22/pc 28/26/sn Phoenix 72/51/c 73/55/pc Pittsburgh 28/19/c 29/22/sf Portland, ME 23/4/pc 25/15/pc Raleigh 39/33/r 40/34/r Richmond 33/29/i 35/30/i St. Louis 18/7/c 11/1/c Salt Lake City 48/36/r 42/26/sn San Francisco 61/53/pc 59/47/sh Seattle 33/27/sn 36/30/sn Washington, DC 32/28/c 32/29/sn EXTREMES THURSDAY Atlanta 55/44 El Paso 69/45 Chihuahua 71/47 40° 20° Today Parkersburg 35/24 Coolville 38/26 Ashland 37/30 Grayson 37/29 THURSDAY 44° 20° Marietta 36/25 Murray City 35/22 Wilkesville 38/26 POMEROY Jackson 40/28 37/25 Ravenswood Rio Grande 40/29 39/28 Centerville POINT PLEASANT Ripley 28/19 GALLIPOLIS 41/29 38/29 40/29 110s 100s Seattle 33/27 90s 80s 70s 60s 50s 40s 30s San Francisco 20s 61/53 10s 0s -0s Los Angeles 68/52 -10s T-storms Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Cold Front Warm Front Stationary Front WEDNESDAY NATIONAL CITIES Logan 35/21 McArthur 36/22 500 Primary pollutant: Particulates Flood Stage 37 34 36 35 41 40 50 50 52 54 50 50 51 Chillicothe 31/21 (21-day average of 98), 189 new hospitalizations (21-day average of 188) and 19 new ICU admissions (21-day average of 21) reported in the previous 24 hours, according to Thursday’s update. Editor’s note: ODH is currently reconciling COVID-19 deaths, including about 650 in today’s count. This primarily impacts deaths occurring from November to December 2020. Deaths will be shown by the date of death. Newly reported deaths will be higher during the next few days as ODH completes this reconciliation. MONDAY 34° 20° Adelphi 33/21 South Shore Greenup 37/29 35/27 54 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021 OH-70219587 SUNDAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 0 A: No. It is the result of rain falling on a subfreezing surface Precipitation SATURDAY Cold; rain and drizzle in the p.m. far back as July and May. Fewer than 1,800 people were hospitalized in Ohio with the coronavirus Thursday, a benchmark that triggered the end of the state’s 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew. DeWine said the curfew could be reimplemented if hospitalizations rise again. The seven-day rolling average of daily new cases in Ohio did not increase over the past two weeks, going from 5,122 new cases per day on Jan. 27 to 3,129 new cases per day on Feb. 10, according to an Associated Press analysis of data provided by The COVID Tracking Project. Also Thursday, the state human services agency blamed an enormous increase in the number of weekly first-time jobless claims on fraud. The state said Ohioans filed 140,444 Ohioans filed initial claims for unemployment compensation for the week ending Feb. 6, far above the 47,786 claims filed the previous week. was an increase of 469 cases from Wednesday and 12 new deaths. DHHR reports a total of 2,028,981 lab tests have been completed, with a 5.59 cumulative percent positivity rate. The daily positivity rate in the state was 3.28 percent. There are 13,535 currently active cases in the state. DHHR reported on Thursday 227,921 first doses of the COVID19 vaccine have been administered to residents of West Virginia. So far, 115,598 people have been fully vaccinated. Ohio Kayla (Hawthorne) The Ohio Department Dunham and Sarah of Health reported a West Virginia Hawley contributed to 24-hour change of 2,806 As of the 10 a.m. this story. new cases on Thursday update on Thursday, © 2021 Ohio Valley (21-day average of 3,892). DHHR is reporting a Publishing, all rights There were 721 new total of 126,420 cases deaths (see editor’s note) with 2,187 deaths. There reserved. EXTENDED FORECAST 35° Statistics through 3 p.m. Thu. 31°/23° 45°/27° 78° in 1932 0° in 1899 new confirmed case) 50-59 — 248 cases (plus 2 probable cases, 3 deaths) 60-69 — 218 cases (plus 5 probable case, 6 deaths) 70+ — 209 cases (plus 5 probable cases, 27 deaths) On Thursday, Mason County was designated as “gold” on the West Virginia County Alert System map. Mason County’s latest infection rate was 23.17 on Thursday with a 4.15 percent positivity rate. Surrounding counties are orange and gold. total cases (since March) for Mason County in the 10 a.m. update on Thursday morning, three more than Wednesday. Of those, 1,673 are confirmed cases and 47 are probable cases. DHHR has reported 36 deaths in Mason County. According to DHHR, the age ranges for the 1,720 COVID-19 cases DHHR is reporting in Mason County are as follows: 0-9 — 36 cases (plus 2 probable cases) 10-19 — 138 cases (plus 3 probable case, 1 new confirmed case) 20-29 — 293 cases (plus 10 probable cases, 1 new confirmed case) 30-39 — 289 cases (plus 10 probable cases, 1 new confirmed case) 40-49 — 242 cases (plus 10 probable cases, 1 Cloudy and very cold today. Low clouds tonight. High 41° / Low 29° ALMANAC High/low Normal high/low Record high Record low DeWine said. The Health Department said that “process issues affecting the reconciliation and reporting of these deaths” began in October, with most occurring in November and December. The department identified the problem during a routine employee training, officials said. Adding the deaths will inflate daily reported death counts for two or three days, but the appropriate date of deaths will be reflected on the state’s COVID-19 dashboard, the health department said. The announcement of the underreported deaths came Wednesday night and followed an appearance by state Health Director Stephanie McCloud before the House Finance Committee during which McCloud said nothing of the discrepancy. “Our members have a 8 PM 37° number of questions and concerns on this issue,” said Taylor Jach, spokesperson for Republican House Speaker Bob Cupp. “We anticipate this topic will be covered in a future committee hearing.” As of Wednesday, the state was reporting a total of 11,856 confirmed and probable COVID-19 deaths, including 10,522 confirmed deaths and 1,334 considered probable under the expanded death definition by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s not uncommon for health officials to update coronavirus death totals based on data analysis, though not to the extent of Ohio’s massive adjustment. Earlier this month, Yellowstone County in Montana — the state’s most populous county — added 47 deaths to the 179 that had been reported as of Feb. 2. Missouri regularly updates its figures, adding 287 previously unreported deaths on Thursday, including some as From page 1 37° 29° 30° Daily Sentinel High Low Miami 83/72 114° in Birdsville, Australia -50° in Khabyardino, Russia Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 02. February Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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