https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/5cab1bbf6c6abde6c337edcdcbb1bdab.pdf d919f2fe8ed08195e169e7d82bd466a4 PDF Text Text 8 AM 2 PM 8 PM 72° 79° 77° Partly sunny and humid today. Partly cloudy tonight. High 84° / Low 57° Today’s weather forecast Weekly church columns Countdown to season kickoff WEATHER s 3 CHURCH s 4 SPORTS s 5 C_ZZb[fehj�š�Fec[heo"�E^_e Issue 149, Volume 75 Breaking news at mydailysentinel.com Friday, July 30, 2021 s 50¢ Nominations sought for community champion award Staff Report ness,” DeWine said. Only about 5.4 million people or 46% of the population have completed the vaccination process as of Thursday, according to the Ohio Department of Health. The seven-day rolling average of daily new cases in Ohio has risen over the past two weeks from 319.43 new cases per day on July 13 to 874.57 new cases per day on July 27, according to data collected by the Johns Hopkins University Center for OHIO VALLEY — Do you know a local champion in the fight against the opioid epidemic? “As we continue to fight against drug addiction, specifically the opioid epidemic, the GalliaJackson-Meigs ADAMH Board, seeks to highlight the excellent work provided by individuals on the front lines of the fight. These individuals work beyond the call of duty, making differences in the lives of those who struggle with addiction. Often times, the work of these champions face heartwrenching challenges and thankless recognition for their efforts,” stated a news release from the Gallia-Jackson-Meigs ADAMH Board. The Gallia-JacksonMeigs ADAMH Board would like to honor a champion from each county, Gallia, Jackson & Meigs, who is leading the battle against addiction in their communities on Sept. 11 as part of “Week of Appreciation,” formally September 20-26, with the message of “Bringing Help, Bringing Hope. Thank you.” “The ‘Week of Appreciation’ is to show our gratitude for all individuals, families, and professionals in the many roles spend their days working tirelessly to save lives. These individuals help those they serve to engage in the treatment, achieve recovery, support children and families impacted by this disease, promote prevention activities, and build healthy, resilient communities,” stated the release. The addiction epidemic impacts every sector of society. The importance of focusing on and responding to meet the needs of individuals and families affected by addiction is paramount. With the concentration being on those suffering, those helping to fight the epidemic are often left with fatigue, secondary trauma, and little thanks. The types of amazing people who work on this fight come in many forms: teachers/educators, pastor/clergy, medical personnel, law enforcement, youth mentor, friend, concerned citizens, family member, and community volunteer. “Help us honor those who bring help and hope to others through your nominations,” stated the release. From July 26 through August 20, residents of Gallia, Jackson, and Meigs counties can nominate a local champion who is actively involved in fighting opioid addiction. To submit your nomination, please go to https://bit.ly/3leAubo For more information See INCENTIVE | 2 See AWARD | 2 U.S. Department of Agriculture | Courtesy photos Mason bees are essential in the spring pollination of flowering trees and plants. Bees of the Ohio Valley: Mason Bees By Lorna Hart a ball, mixing it with nectar and their own saliva. The egg is laid on top of the mixture and then sealed. They begin the process OHIO VALLEY — Native again, until they have five to bees play a crucial role in poleight cells or nests. When this lination, but are often overis completed, they seal the showed by honeybees. Honeybees produce wax and honey as entrance to the hole with a well as pollinate, and their hives thicker mud wall. The larvae grow and metamorphose into are large. Native bees are solipupae and later on into adults. tary bees and do not produce anything of interest to humans, Mason bees are gone by early summer, hibernating over the but their contribution to pollination, especially of early crops winter inside their cocoon. According to the U.S. Departshould not be overlooked. ment of Agriculture, successful Once such bee is the Mason pollination does not require a (species Osmia). Sometimes large population. About 250 to called orchard bees, as they 300 female bees per acre are are often seen buzzing around recommended if there are no blooming fruit trees and berother bees present. Backyard ries in early spring. They are orchards of a few dozen trees very independent, producing their own offspring and gather- may be adequately pollinated ing their own food. While they with 50 female bees. Their efficiency is due to often nest close to each other, the fact that Mason bees land they are only focused on their directly on the reproductive own nest. They were named for the way structures of the fruit tree blossom. They collect pollen they build their nesting chamon the underside of their abdobers with “masonry” products. men, simply put, on their belly. Using mud and clay, they use With the abdomens of foraging existing holes found in nature female bees loaded with pollen, to place pollen and an egg the repeated and direct contact inside, then seal the entrance with the anthers and stamens with a mud wall. of the blossom results in pollen Mason bees emerge from transfer. their cocoons inside the chamSince female bees collect polbers in early spring, as they prefer cooler temperatures and wet len while constructing nests to provide food for bee larvae, conditions. Once they emerge, they mate and begin the search the key to heavy pollination is for empty holes and begin their to promote maximum nesting activity. efforts at stocking the nests. Social bees, such as honey Females collect the preferred food, fruit tree pollen and some bees, will respond to threats on the colony from people or aninectar, and bring it to their nests, where they knead it into mals by stinging. The protec- Special to OVP 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. These bees have a metallic body and a huge color range. The two main color forms in Ohio are green/blue metallic and dark metallic obscured by tan hairs. tion of the hive is so important that worker bees will give their lives to protect it. In contrast, orchard bees have little to defend and will only sting in self-defense. Chris Blank, Gallia County Bee Inspector, said that while the Mason bee is a hardy native species, there is cause for concern from the effects of pesticides. Mason bees are active outside of nests only during the spring and early summer, so they are unlikely to be directly affected by spraying that occurs at other times of the year. “The concern for these bees are the systemic pesticides sprayed at other times of year,” Blank said. Neonicotinoid pesticides are a growing area of concern because they can become persistent in plants and be transferred to bees via pollen or nectar. “Pesticides sprayed on raspberries and fruit trees can become systemic in plant tissues, so even though they might not be affected by the spraying itself, it is in the plants they visit,” Blank said. “Native bees have small colonies, so they are vulnerable to a reduction in size.” While it is difficult to study the impact of pesticides on Mason bees due to their solitary nature, amounts found in nectar and pollen are likely to cause neurological impairment affecting memory and such behaviors as foraging, which in turn affects reproduction, according to the Conservation and Management of North American Mason Bees. See BEES | 2 Ohio offering $100 vaccination incentive to state employees COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State employees will receive $100 for getting the coronavirus vaccine and their spouses will receive $25 if they also get vaccinated, under a new incentive program offered by Gov. Mike DeWine. The Republican governor announced the offer Wednesday as state vaccination efforts stall amid spiking case numbers and hospitalizations. “Vaccines are the most effective strategy at stopping the spread of COVID-19 and preventing serious ill- �OBITUARIES/NEWS 2 Friday, July 30, 2021 OBITUARY Ohio Valley Publishing GALLIA, MEIGS COMMUNITY BRIEFS JACOB ‘BRIAR’ WOLFE POMEROY — Jacob “Briar” Wolfe, 19, of Pomeroy, Ohio, passed away Sunday, July 25, 2021. He was born Oct. 5, 2001, in Point Pleasant, a son of Paul Douglas Wolfe and Melissa M. (Simpkins) Wolfe of Pomeroy. Briar was a graduate of Meigs High School Class of 2020, where he had played baseball. He currently was a student at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio, and was employed by Twin Oaks Gas Station. After graduation, he worked as an umpire for the Little League games in Meigs County. In addition to his parents, Paul and Melissa, he is survived by his brother, Zayne Wolfe of Pomeroy; and girlfriend, Alyssa Smith of Pome- roy. A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021, at the Wilcoxen Funeral Home in Point Pleasant, with Pastor Steve Blackwell officiating. Burial will follow at the Graham Cemetery in New Haven. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home and one hour prior to the funeral service Sunday. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made: “In Memory of Briar Wolfe” to the Middleport Youth League, c/o Farmers Bank, 211 West 2nd Street, Pomeroy, OH 45769. Condolences may be expressed to the family and memories may be shared by visiting www. wilcoxenfuneralhome. com. DEATH NOTICES ANDERSON HARTFORD — Nancy Ann Anderson, 79, of Hartford, West Virginia, died on July 28, 2021, peacefully at her home. S Funeral services will be held on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021, at 12:30 p.m. at the Anderson McDaniel Funeral Home in Pomeroy, Ohio. Burial will follow at Graham Cemetery. Visiting hours will be on Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the funeral home. DOUCET JR. MIDDLEPORT — John “Johnny” A. Doucet, Jr. of Middleport, died on Tuesday, July 27, 2021, at his residence. A memorial mass will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 31, 2021, in the Cremeens-King Funeral Home, Pomeroy. in Salem Township will be closed to traffic for approximately 2 weeks beginning Monday, Aug. 2. County crews will be working on a culvert replacement between State Route 325 and Goff Road, T-45. BIDWELL — SR 160/554 roundabout construction. A roundabout construction project begins on July 26 at the intersection of SR 160 and SR 554. From July 26-Sept. BIDWELL — The Southeast 6, SR 554 will be closed between Ohio Foodbank & Regional SR 160 and Porter Road. ODOT’s Kitchen is participating in the detour is SR 7 through Cheshire to Summer Food Service Program SR 735 to U.S. 35 to SR 160 to SR (SFSP). Free meals are provided 554. Beginning July 26, one lane of to all children regardless of race, SR 160 will be closed and tempocolor, national origin, sex, age or disability. Meals will be provided at rary traffic signals will be in place the site and time as follows: Gallia between Homewood Drive and Porter Road. Estimated compleMetropolitan Estates, 301 Buck tion: Oct. 1, 2021 Ridge Rd., Bidwell. Lunch, 10:30 MEIGS COUNTY — A bridge a.m. – 11:30 a.m. on Thursdays through Aug. 13. No identification replacement project begins on July 12 on SR 143, between Smith Run required. Road (Township Road 170) and Zion Road (Township Road 171). The road will be closed. ODOT’s detour is SR 143 to SR 684 to SR 681 to U.S. 33 to SR 7 to SR 143. Estimated reopening date: Aug. 11. PORTLAND — Portland ComGALLIA COUNTY — SR 141 munity Center 56896 State Route is closed between Dan Jones Road 124, Portland, will be having a (County Road 28) and Redbud Hill community yard sale on August Road (Township Road 462) for a 6-8 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. A 10 x bridge deck replacement project. 10 space is $15 for all three days. ODOT’s detour is SR 7 to SR 588 With a concession each day. Satto SR 325 to SR 141. Estimated urday will be Chicken & Noodles, completion: Aug. 23. Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans, GALLIA COUNTY — A culvert Roll, and a Dessert. Cost is $10. For information contact Fay West- replacement project starts on July 26 on SR 233, between Dry Ridge fall at 740-447-1303. Road (County Road 70) and Pumpkintown Road (County Road 66). One lane will be closed. Temporary traffic signals and a 12 foot width restriction will be in place. Estimated completion: Aug. 5. MEIGS COUNTY — Meigs MEIGS COUNTY — A bridge County Road 2, Briar Ridge Road, Editor’s Note: Gallia Meigs Briefs will only list event information that is open to the public and will be printed on a space-available basis. Free meals for Gallia kids Community yard sale Road closures, construction Lorna Hart | Courtesy photo Bees be a bee-keeper to encourage these bees to make their home in From page 1 your yard,” Blank said. “They just need a place Any effort to support to nest, and plants with pollen and nectar, and Mason bees and other they will take care of pollinators is a posithemselves.” tive step to ensuring This is the third is their survival. Blank encourages gardeners to a series of articles on attract these native bees bees in the Ohio Valley. Special thanks to Chris to their own gardens Blank and the U.S. by developing nestDepartment of Agriculing places and proper ture. soil conditions. Many resources can be found Lorna Hart is a freelance writer online or in books at for Ohio Valley Publishing. She your local library. can be reached at L.Faudree. “You don’t have to Hart@gmail.com. Award From page 1 on how to join the fight against drug addiction, contact Shannon Dalton, Community Pro- gramming Coordinator of the Gallia-JacksonMeigs ADAMH Board at 740-446-3022 or email shannon_dalton@ gjmboard.org. Information provided by the Gallia-JacksonMeigs ADAMH Board. CONTACT US 825 Third Ave., Gallipolis, OH, 45631 740-446-2342 All content © 2021 Gallipolis Daily Tribune and The Daily Sentinel edition. All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law. REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT/ GROUP PUBLISHER Lane Moon lmoon@aimmediamidwest.com EDITOR Beth Sergent, Ext. 1992 bsergent@aimmediamidwest.com MANAGING EDITOR Sarah Hawley, Ext. 2555 shawley@aimmediamidwest.com SPORTS EDITOR Bryan Walters, Ext. 2101 bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Matt Rodgers, Ext. 2095 mrodgers@aimmediamidwest.com CIRCULATION MANAGER Derrick Morrison, Ext. 2097 dmorrison@aimmediamidwest.com Ohio 7 rehab project reminder CROWN CITY — The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) announced a rehabilitation project that began Monday, March 22 on State Route 7 in the Crown City area of Gallia County. The project will be between Westbranch Road (County Road 162) and Sunnyside Drive (County Road 158). The project is estimated to be completed in June 2022. ODOT states the road will be closed now through Dec. 1. The detour for motorists will be to take State Route 7 to State Route 218 to State Route 553 and back to State Route 7. Trucks will be detoured from State Route 7 to U.S. 35 South to U.S. 64 West into West Virginia and re-enter Ohio using U.S. 52 West. ODOT said those wishing to access the K.H. Butler Fishing Access must be coming from the north. Northbound traffic must take the detour, then enter the parking area traveling southbound on State Route 7. 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 spaceavailable basis and in chronological order. Events can be emailed to: TDSnews@aimmediamidwest. com or GDTnews@aimmediamidwest.com. at 11 a.m., in the Park Board office at the Gallia County Courthouse, 18 Locust St., Gallipolis, Ohio. Saturday, Aug. 7 POMEROY — Tech Class: Windows Basics at the Pomeroy Library. Call to register: 740-9925813. Monday, Aug. 9 BEDFORD TWP. — Bedford Township trustees will hold their regular monthly meeting at 7 p.m. at the Bedford townhall. GALLIPOLIS — DAV Dovel GALLIPOLIS — Red Cross Myers Post #141 will meet 5 Blood Drive, 12:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Located at 54120 Fellowship Drive. p.m., at the post home on Liberty Ave., all members are urged to attend. GALLIPOLIS — AMVETS POMEROY — The Meigs Coun- Post #23 will meet right after the DAV meeting at 6 p.m. on Liberty ty Cancer Initiative, Inc. (MCCI) Ave., all members are urged to will meet at 12 p.m. in the conferattend. ence room of the Meigs County Health Department. New members are welcome. For more information, contact Courtney Midkiff at 740-992-6626 ext. 1028. GALLIPOLIS — VFW Post GALLIPOLIS — The American #4464 will hold a family dinner at Legion Lafayette Post #27, will 6 p.m., at the post home on 3rd not be meeting due to the Gallia Ave., all members and public are County Fair. welcome. TUPPERS PLAINS — Tuppers Plains Regional Sewer District will meet at 7 p.m. at the district office. POMEROY — Acoustic Night at GALLIPOLIS — The VFW Post the Library. Informal jam session, #4464 will not be meeting due to bring your instruments or come Gallia County Fair. to listen. 6 p.m. at the Pomeroy Library. Friday, July 30 Mason bees hibernate so they do not need to make honey to keep the colony alive over the winter. replacement project began on April 12 on State Route 143, between Lee Road (Township Road 168) and Ball Run Road (Township Road 20A). One lane will be closed. Temporary traffic signals and a 10 foot width restriction will be in place. Estimated completion: Nov. 15. MEIGS COUNTY — A landslide repair and culvert replacement project begins on August 2 on SR 681, between U.S. 33 and SR 7. The road will be closed. Estimated completion: Aug. 6. Monday, Aug. 2 Tuesday, Aug. 10 Tuesday, Aug. 3 Thursday, Aug. 5 GALLIPOLIS — Sons of the American Legion Squadron #27 will meet 5 p.m., at the post home on McCormick Road, all members are urged to attend. Friday, Aug. 6 MARIETTA — The Buckeye Hills Regional Council Executive Committee will hold its regular meeting at 10:30 a.m. If you have any questions regarding this meeting, please contact Jenny Simmons at 740-376-1026 or jsimmons@ buckeyehills.org. GALLIPOLIS — The monthly board meeting of the O. O. McIntyre Park District will be held Incentive From page 1 Systems Science and Engineering. DeWine said Monday mick Road, all E- Board members are urged to attend. GALLIPOLIS — American Legion Lafayette Post #27 will meet right after the Joint E-Board Meeting at 6 p.m., all members are urged to attend. POMEROY — Chess Night at the Pomeroy Library at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 17 GALLIPOLIS — VFW Post #4464 will meet 6 p.m., at the post home on 3rd. Ave., all members are urged to attend. GALLIPOLIS — The American Legion Auxiliary will meet 6 p.m., at the post home on McCormick Road, all members are urged to attend. Monday, Aug. 23 POMEROY — Tech Class: Smartphone 101 at the Pomeroy Library. Call to register: 740-9925813. Tuesday, Aug. 24 POMEROY — Acoustic Night at the Library. Informal jam session, bring your instruments or come to listen. 6 p.m. at the Pomeroy Library. Monday, Sept. 6 MEIGS COUNTY — All branches of the Meigs County District Public Library will be closed in observance of Labor Day. Thursday, Aug. 12 Tuesday, Sept. 14 GALLIPOLIS — The Gallia County Retired Teachers will meet at noon at Courtside Restaurant in Gallipolis, all retirees are welcome. SYRACUSE — End of Summer Reading Pool Party; Meigs County London Pool, Syracuse. Free and open to all. 6-8 p.m. POMEROY — Acoustic Night at the Library. Informal jam session, bring your instruments or come to listen. 6 p.m. at Pomeroy Library. Monday, Aug. 16 GALLIPOLIS — American Legion Lafayette, The Sons of the American Legion Squadron #27 and Auxiliary E-Board members will have a Joint E-Board meeting, 5 p.m., at the post home on McCor- that 99% of the 17,129 Ohioans hospitalized for COVID-19 since January were unvaccinated. Also Monday, the Health Department’s chief medical officer Monday, Sept. 20 POMEROY — Chess Night at the Pomeroy Library at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28 POMEROY — Acoustic Night at the Library. Informal jam session, bring your instruments or come to listen. 6 p.m. at the Pomeroy Library. said that while Ohio doesn’t plan to mandate masks in schools this fall, health officials strongly recommend that students and staff wear face coverings if they aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19. Some of Ohio’s largest districts, including Columbus and Cleveland, already decided to require masks for everyone when the school year begins. �NEWS/WEATHER Ohio Valley Publishing Friday, July 30, 2021 3 $1M bail set for man accused of killing couple at campsite the Circleville residents as missing after they were unable to contact them for about three weeks. The Morgan County sheriff’s office was asked Monday afternoon to help the Ohio Department of Natural Resources check on the couple, who were camping at the Equine Area of the Appalachian Hills Wildlife area, formerly known as AEP Recreation Lands. The wildlife area is a heavily forested 35,396-acre property that extends across the three southeastern Ohio counties of Morgan, Muskingum, and Noble. The missing couple’s trailer and vehicle were found and the woods around the equine area were searched into the early morning hours Tuesday. The sheriff’s office said the couple’s bodies were found in two different locations. Authorities have not disclosed a possible motive for the slayings or said if Weimert knew either victim. They declined further comment on the slayings, citing the ongoing investigation. in suburban Detroit; although presumed dead, his remains have never been found. Today is Friday, July 30, the In 1980, Israel’s Knesset passed a 211th day of 2021. There are 154 law reaffirming all of Jerusalem as days left in the year. the capital of the Jewish state. In 2001, Robert Mueller, PresiToday’s highlight in history: On July 30, 1965, President Lyn- dent George W. Bush’s choice to head the FBI, promised the Senate don B. Johnson signed a measure Judiciary Committee that if concreating Medicare, which began firmed, he would move forcefully to operating the following year. fix problems at the agency. (Mueller became FBI director on Sept. On this date: 4, 2001, a week before the 9/11 In 1619, the first representative attacks.) assembly in America convened in In 2003, President George W. Jamestown in the Virginia Colony. Bush took personal responsibility In 1864, during the Civil War, for the first time for using discredUnion forces tried to take Petersburg, Virginia, by exploding a gun- ited intelligence in his State of the Union address, but predicted he powder-laden mine shaft beneath would be vindicated for going to Confederate defense lines; the war against Iraq. attack failed. In 2008, ex-Bosnian Serb leader In 1908, the first round-the-world automobile race, which had begun Radovan Karadzic was extradited in New York in February, ended in to The Hague to face genocide Paris with the drivers of the Ameri- charges after nearly 13 years on the run. (He was sentenced by a U.N. can car, a Thomas Flyer, declared court in 2019 to life imprisonment the winners over teams from Gerafter being convicted of genocide, many and Italy. In 1916, German saboteurs blew crimes against humanity and war crimes.) up a munitions plant on Black In 2010, the Afghan Taliban conTom, an island near Jersey City, firmed the death of longtime leader New Jersey, killing about a dozen Mullah Mohammad Omar and people. In 1945, the Portland class heavy appointed his successor, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor. cruiser USS Indianapolis, having just delivered components of the atomic bomb to Tinian in the Mari- Ten years ago: ana Islands, was torpedoed by a NATO jets bombed three Libyan Japanese submarine; only 317 out state TV satellite transmitters in of nearly 1,200 men survived. Tripoli, targeting a propaganda In 1956, President Dwight D. tool in Moammar Gadhafi’s fight Eisenhower signed a measure mak- against rebels. ing “In God We Trust” the national motto, replacing “E Pluribus Five years ago: Unum” (Out of many, one). Sixteeen people died when a hot In 1975, former Teamsters union air balloon caught fire and explodpresident Jimmy Hoffa disappeared ed after hitting high-tension power lines before crashing into a pasture near Lockhart, Texas, about 60 miles northeast of San Antonio. MCCONNELSVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Bail has been set at $1 million for a man charged with aggravated murder in the shooting deaths of a couple found dead at a campsite in southeastern Ohio. Brian Jason Weimert, 43, of Sidney made his initial court appearance Wednesday. It’s not known if he’s retained an attorney. Weimert is accused of killing Steven Sturgill Jr., 36, and his 39-year-old girlfriend, Chrystal Burchett. Relatives had reported Biden pushing federal workers to get vaccinated By Alexandra Jaffe and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Associated Press WASHINGTON — The nation’s millions of federal workers will be required to verify they’ve been vaccinated against the coronavirus or else face mandatory masking, weekly testing, distancing and other new rules, the Biden administration announced Thursday. The newly strict guidelines are aimed at boosting sluggish vaccination rates among the 4 million Americans who draw federal paychecks and to set an example for private employers around the country. “It’s a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” President Joe Biden said in a White House address. Then he repeated it with emotion in his voice. “People are dying who don’t have to die.” The administration is encouraging businesses to follow its lead on incentivizing vaccinations by imposing burdens on the unvaccinated. Rather than mandating that federal workers receive vaccines, the plan will make life more difficult for those who are unvaccinated to encourage them to comply. Biden is also directing the Defense Department to look into adding the COVID-19 shot to its list of required vaccinations for members of the military. And he has directed his team to take steps to apply similar requirements to all federal contractors. Biden is also urging state and local governments to use funds provided by the coronavirus relief package to incentivize vaccinations by offering $100 to individuals who get the shots. And he’s announcing that small- and medium-sized businesses will receive reimbursements if they offer employees time off to get family members vaccinated. Biden’s move for the federal government — by far the nation’s largest employer — comes in the face of surging coronavirus rates driven by pockets of vaccine resistance and the more infectious delta variant. A number of major corporations and some local governments are ordering new requirements on their own, but the administration feels much more is needed. However, pushback is certain. The action puts Biden squarely in the center of a fierce political debate surrounding the government’s ability to compel Americans to follow public health guidelines. The move could work because evidence this far shows workers would rather get the vaccine than deal with burdens they consider onerous at work, said Lawrence Gostin, a professor of global health law at Georgetown University Law School. TODAY IN HISTORY TODAY 8 AM WEATHER 2 PM 79° 77° HEALTH TODAY AccuWeather.com Asthma Index™ Temperature The AccuWeather.com Asthma Index combines the effects of current air quality, pollen counts, wind, temperature, dew point, barometric pressure, and changes from past weather conditions to provide a scale showing the overall probability and severity of an asthma attack. Precipitation (in inches) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Thu. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date Trace 8.18 4.75 32.24 28.00 SUN & MOON Today 6:28 a.m. 8:42 p.m. 12:07 a.m. 1:10 p.m. Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Last Jul 31 New First Full Aug 8 Aug 15 Aug 22 SOLUNAR TABLE The solunar period indicates peak feeding times for fish and game. Major Today 5:32a Sat. 6:15a Sun. 6:57a Mon. 7:38a Tue. 8:21a Wed. 9:05a Thu. 9:51a Minor 11:43a 12:03a 12:46a 1:27a 2:09a 2:52a 3:38a Major 5:53p 6:36p 7:18p 8:01p 8:45p 9:30p 10:17p 0-2 Low; 3-4 Moderate; 5-6 High; 7-8 Very High; 9-10 Extreme POLLEN & MOLD Low Moderate High Minor ---12:25p 1:08p 1:50p 2:33p 3:17p 4:04p High Very High WEATHER HISTORY Giant hailstones pelted Fort Collins, Colo., on July 30, 1979. Baseballsized hail battered cars, golf ball-sized hail clubbed houses and grapefruit-sized hail left a sour taste for residents. Source: Hamilton County Department of Environmental Services AIR QUALITY 300 500 Primary pollutant: Ozone Air Quality Index: 0-50, Good; 51-100, Moderate; 101-150, Unhealthy for sensitive groups; 151-200, Unhealthy; 201-300, Very unhealthy; 301-500, Hazardous. Source: Hamilton County Department of Environmental Services OHIO RIVER Levels in feet as of 7 a.m. Thu. Flood Stage 37 34 36 35 41 40 50 50 52 54 50 50 51 Level 12.95 16.38 21.58 12.94 12.97 25.30 13.09 25.44 34.26 12.76 16.50 34.10 14.80 24-hr. Chg. +0.18 -0.16 -0.10 -0.03 -0.25 +0.10 -0.23 -0.08 +0.07 +0.07 -0.30 none -0.20 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021 TUESDAY Nice with clouds and sun Partly sunny and pleasant 87° 65° 86° 64° Partly sunny and nice Partly sunny with a t-storm possible Marietta 80/54 Belpre 81/55 Athens 80/54 St. Marys 81/54 Parkersburg 80/54 Coolville 80/54 Elizabeth 82/55 Spencer 82/55 Buffalo 83/56 Milton 83/57 Huntington 82/60 NATIONAL FORECAST 110s 100s Seattle 90s 89/66 80s 70s 60s 50s 40s 30s 20s San Francisco 10s 72/56 0s -0s Los Angeles -10s 84/66 T-storms Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Cold Front Warm Front Stationary Front St. Albans 85/58 Clendenin 84/56 Charleston 84/58 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. 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August 2nd-7th MONDAY 84° 57° Periods of sunshine 2 Primary: cladosporium Sat. 6:29 a.m. 8:41 p.m. 12:31 a.m. 2:09 p.m. SUNDAY Partly sunny and humid today. Partly cloudy tonight. High 84° / Low 57° Statistics through 3 p.m. Thu. 87° 68° 86° 66° 101° in 1930 52° in 1925 SATURDAY 80° 59° 72° 2021 GREENE COUNTY FAIR Today’s birthdays: Former Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is 87. Blues musician Buddy Guy is 85. Movie director Peter Bogdanovich is 82. Feminist activist Eleanor Smeal is 82. Former U.S. Rep. Patricia Schroeder is 81. Singer Paul Anka is 80. Jazz musician David Sanborn is 76. Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is 74. EXTENDED FORECAST 8 PM ALMANAC High Low Normal high Normal low Record high Record low One year ago: John Lewis was eulogized in Atlanta by three former presidents and others who urged Americans to continue the work of the civil rights icon in fighting injustice during a moment of racial reckoning. Herman Cain, a former Republican presidential candidate and former CEO of a pizza chain who became an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump, died in Atlanta of complications from the coronavirus at the age of 74; he was hospitalized less than two weeks after attending Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he was photographed not wearing a mask. Trump floated the idea of delaying the Nov. 3 presidential election, an idea that met immediate resistance from Republicans in Congress. The government reported that the coronavirus pandemic sent the economy plunging by a record-shattering 32.9% annual rate in the second quarter. The NBA season resumed for 22 teams inside a “bubble” at Walt Disney World in Florida, with no fans in attendance and with strict health and safety protocols in effect. OH-70244207 By The Associated Press Minneapolis 83/64 Detroit 75/57 Chicago 75/61 Kansas City 91/73 Toronto 67/54 New York 82/60 Washington 88/65 Today Sat. 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He started out his working life as herdsman and a tree pruner in the nation of Judah. But God called him from his home and his work and gave him a message to preach to his neighbors to the north, in the country of Israel (cf. Amos 7:14-15). The message of God, delivered via faithful Amos, was one of judgment and condemnation. God instructed Amos to tell Search the the Israelites that their lives Scriptures were wicked, their worship was wrong, and that God was going Jonathan McAnulty to send them away into perpetual captivity for their sins. This was not a message well received. The Israelites had convinced themselves that God did not care about their immorality, their prostitution, their drunkenness, or their generally materialistic lives. They told themselves that though they were worshipping in a way different than the Jews worshipped in Jerusalem, God accepted their worship just as well as He accepted the worship He had commanded through Moses. Though they worshipped idols, they were convinced that God was pleased with them, their country was strong because God would never abandon them, and that there was no reason to believe that God would ever punish them. So unpopular was Amos’ preaching, in Amos 7 we read how Amaziah, the priest of Israel, demanded that Amos leave the country and go preach his message to his own people in the south (cf. Amos 7:12-13). But Amos could not do that. The message of God had to be preached, even when men did not want to hear it. And refusing to listen to the message did not change the truth of the message. Though they rejected God’s messenger, they could not avoid God’s judgment. Israel was destroyed, and the people of Israel went into a captivity from which they never returned. Men as a whole dislike hearing from those who condemn them, their culture, or their religion. We have a tendency to assume that the way we do things must be right, otherwise we wouldn’t be doing them. Like the Israelites of old, we are likely to assume that God is pleased with our religion and worship, our lifestyle and culture; or at least if He is not pleased, that He is ambivalent enough to accept us as we are. When the message is contrary to this expectation, frequently men reject message and messenger alike. The apostles of Jesus faced a similar reception from the Jewish leaders of their day. Though there were those amongst the Jews who heard the Gospel preached and converted to Christianity, the message was not always pleasing for it told the Jews that not only did they need to repent, but that they were in large part responsible for crucifying God’s anointed (cf. Acts 2:23, 3:15) and that if they did not repent, they would face certain judgment from God, as God had said through Moses, “it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people (Acts 3:23; ESV; cf. Deuteronomy 18:18-19).” Just as Amaziah the priest had commanded Amos to stop prophesying, so too the Jewish Sanhedrin brought the apostles before them and demanded they cease their preaching (cf. Acts 4:18). The apostles, like the prophets before them, refused to give in to such demands. Peter and John replied to this decree by saying, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard (Acts 4:19-20; ESV).” The message may not be popular, but that does not make it less true. The message may not always be popular, but that does not mean that we don’t have an obligation to listen to it. The message may not be well received, but that does not mean that God’s servants don’t have the responsibility to preach it. The writer of Hebrews reminded his readers of that passage which read, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’ As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’ (Hebrews 4:7-11; ESV)” This reminder is still relevant today. When we hear the words of God, let’s not harden our hearts or turn away, even if it is not one that is comforting or personally pleasing. When God tells us to change, those who love God should listen to the message, obey that message, and faithfully share it with others. Jonathan McAnulty is minister of Chapel Hill Church of Christ. Viewpoints expressed in the article are the work of the author. CHURCH Ohio Valley Publishing Be a giver of mercy I was given definite orders not to relate the following anecdote. So, I am not going to tell it. Nonetheless, the name of “the person” will not be related so that “the person” will not be teased about what “the person” did or did not do. It happened in the car. I was in the passenger seat of the car. The person was the driver of the car. The person overmuch accelerated the car into a certain speed zone of a nearby community. I was keeping my eyes shut. Suddenly, the person said with trepidation, “Oh—-he got me!” Opening my eyes and turning my head, I saw “the man” just as “the man” reversed direction in the authoritative vehicle. There were manifold lights shining forth from the authoritative vehicle. The person pulled off to the side of the road in front of the authoritative vehicle. Soon, the person rolled down the window as the man stepped from the authoritative vehicle and approached the person’s vehicle. The man asked politely, “Do you know why I (the man) have stopped you (the person)?” is good. What does The person the Lord require replied meekly, of thee, but to love “Yes. I (the person) mercy…” was acceleratThis is an ing too quickly important spiritual through this area consideration. For, your community.” what is mercy? The man replied Ron Again, it is not informatively, Branch “Yes — you (the Contributing receiving what you deserve. person) was accel- columnist The greatest erating fifty-eight example of a giver miles per hour in of mercy is God. We this forty miles per hour area of our community. I deserve death and condemnation, but, because need to see your license of His propensity for and the registration and insurance documents for mercy, He does not give us what we deserve. this vehicle.” A long time ago, there The person remitted all the appropriate docu- was a citation written out concerning each ments to the man. of us — “a bill of ordiThe man smiled and said, “I (the man) am not nances that was against us, which was contrary going to give you (the person) a citation. Please to us…” But, being the giver mercy as He is, He slow down.” took the citation written The person has since against us, and nailed it been a strict observer of on the cross of His Son, the local limits. “taking it out of the way.” But, as we started To the church folks at again along the road, I Ephesus, Apostle wrote, observed verbally to the “But, God, who is rich in person, “The man was mercy, for His great love a giver of mercy to you, wherewith He loved us… the person. The man hath quickened us togethdid not give to you what er with Christ…” you deserved. The man But, God does not serves as an inspiring stand alone as the only example of what a giver giver mercy. He expects of mercy is all about.” Prophet Micah pointed us to be givers of mercy, out God’s expectations, “I too. For example, hushave showed thee, O Man bands and wives should be givers of mercy. Times are that occasion is present to say something direct but hurtful to the other. As a giver of mercy, you just do not say it, despite it being right on the tip of the tongue. (Men, if your wife ever asks you, “Do I look fat?”, the better part of loving valor would be to be a giver of mercy by giving a lying answer, “No, my Dear. You are youthfully svelte.” In that instance, being a giver of mercy will garner you a lot of brownie points). Our children need to be taught to be givers of mercy. They need to be taught not to say cruel and critical things to other classmates. Nonetheless, regardless of any circumstance, be a giver of mercy. In the meantime, after riding about a mile in silence, the person said to me in terse terms, “The incident will be our little secret. Okay?” I asked sheepishly, “Can I write about it?” “Don’t you dare!!” I haven’t. (wink, wink) Pastor Ron Branch lives in Mason County and is pastor of Hope Baptist Church, Middleport, Ohio. Viewpoints expressed in the article are the work of the author. Trust God more than yourself “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths” (Prov. 3:5-6 ESV). It’s a well-known, often quoted passage of Scripture. But it’s easy for me to disobey. Rather than trusting in God, I rely on myself. Rather than resting in God’s infinite wisdom, I lean on my own finite understanding. Before long, I’m following my own agenda rather than God’s. And my half-hearted trust is full disobedience. Do people ever distrust you? There’s a popular quote that says, “Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.” And we all know there’s some truth to that statement. But most of us also know what it’s like to be dis- that we know ourtrusted by those selves better than closest to us. And anyone else. So, when those people we trust ourselves refuse to trust us, more than anyit hurts. one or anything. There are After all, we can’t certainly times, control what sohowever, when Cross we’re unfaithful. Words and-so does. And, of course, there’s The apostle Paul Isaiah a certain level of writes, “If we Pauley responsibility God are faithless, he gives us in our [Christ] remains faithful — for he cannot decision-making. But we need to realize how God deny himself” (2 Tm. is much more trustwor2:13 ESV). We disobey God on a daily basis, yet thy than the most trustworthy person. God never fails us. We We must learn to trust look to Christ as a perGod more than we trust fect example of faithfulourselves. But how? ness unto God. We need to recall In other words, God’s faithfulness on a even though there are daily basis. We’re quick moments in our lives when we fail to be trust- to think about our own accomplishments, goals, worthy, God can always and dreams. But we be trusted. That’s why often neglect to consider we sing “Great is Thy Faithfulness,” not “Great how God has proved His is My Faithfulness!” Why, faithfulness in our lives. We forget the prayers He then, do we distrust has answered. And the God? We often fall for the lie promises He has made. When we begin to cling to God’s accomplishments rather than our own accomplishments, we’re beginning to trust God more than we trust ourselves. It’s not about what you’ve done today as much as it’s about what He has done for you. God is faithful. He can be trusted. Allow me to end with the chorus of “Great is Thy Faithfulness.” It reads, “Great is Thy faithfulness! Great is Thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see; All I have needed Thy hand hath provided; Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord unto me.” By God’s grace, let’s learn to trust Him more than ourselves. 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. Understanding The Lord’s Prayer Most of you have heard or even know the Lord’s Prayer. It is in the Bible in two different places: Luke 11:1-4 and Matthew 6: 9-15. Jesus was a man of prayer. He prayed to His Father in heaven every day for help, guidance, comfort, and advice. Jesus would rise early in the morning to be alone and pray. The Disciples and others saw Him praying, so one day the Disciples asked Him to teach them to pray too. Jesus gave them an example and told them to pray like this. Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. The prayer begins with praise. God is our heavenly Father; hallow means we respect and honor Him as holy. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. This speaks of our very important for hope. We know us all. that Jesus will And lead us come again, and not into temptawe want things tion, but deliver here on earth to us from evil. Ask be like they are in God to keep us heaven — loving and kind. God’s Kids from doing wrong Give us this Korner and be safe from bad things. This day our daily Ann speaks of God’s bread. We need to Moody goodness to us. depend upon God For thine is the for everything, kingdom, the power, not just our food to eat and the glory forever. every day. We ask Him to give us the things that We need to always know that God is all powerful we truly need to live a and in control of our good Christian life and world. not worry about anyAmen. This means thing. “So be it.” And forgive us our This is a wonderful debts, as we forgive prayer to say and learn. our debtors. A debt is Jesus said other things something we owe to about prayer too. He someone. God forgave said to pray about everyour sins through Jesus thing, to never give up Christ on the cross praying for those things and rising again, so we we feel are important, should also forgive our and to always have faith friends when they hurt when we pray. He said our feelings just the God hears our prayers. same. Forgiveness is He loves us and wants us to spend time talking with Him. Take time to pray and talk to God every day. Beginning with the Lord’s Prayer is a good way to start. Then just tell Him about your day, your wishes, your fears, your joys, your family, and your friends. Let’s say a prayer together now. Father, thank You for giving us an example of how to we should pray. We know You love to talk with us, so help us to remember every day to talk with You about our cares, concerns, and what’s happening in our lives. In Jesus’ name we pray, So be it. 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. �S ports Ohio Valley Publishing Friday, July 30, 2021 5 Sunisa Lee takes Olympic gold By Will Graves AP Sports Writer Charles Rex Arbogast | AP Cincinnati Reds’ Joey Votto, right, andTyler Naquin watch Votto’s two-run home run off Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Alec Mills during the first inning of a baseball game on Thursday in Chicago. Jesse Winker also scored on the play. Votto homers in record 6th game in row as Reds beat Cubs CHICAGO (AP) — Joey Votto set a Reds franchise record by homering in his sixth consecutive game as Cincinnati beat the Chicago Cubs 7-4 on Thursday. The 37-year-old Votto homered six times in the four-game series at Wrigley Field, and the big first baseman has eight home runs in the six-game streak for a record that dated back to 1900. Votto’s 20th homer of the season was a two-run shot in the first, when he hit a fastball from Alec Mills (4-4) into the center field bleachers. Chicago went ahead 3-2 lead before the Reds roughed up Mills in the sixth to go ahead to stay. After loading the bases with no outs, Tucker Barnhart drove in two runs on a soft groundball that went through the middle of the infield for a 4-3 lead. The Reds have won five of their last seven games to stay in second place in the NL Central behind the Milwaukee Brewers. Cincinnati added three runs off the Cubs bullpen in the seventh, with Kyle Farmer and Aristides Aquino each driving in a run and a Chicago error allowing a third to score. The Cubs scored three runs off Luis Castillo (5-10), who had only given up three runs total in his first four starts. Patrick Wisdom hit his 16th home run in the fourth, and Wilson Contreras belted a two-run shot in the fifth. TOKYO — Sunisa Lee wanted to quit during quarantine. It all had become too much. The lingering pain from a broken foot. The deaths of two family members from COVID-19. Her father’s slow recovery from an accident that left him paralyzed. The urge eventually passed. It always does. Still, less than two months ago the 18-year-old gymnast hobbled around the podium at the U.S. championships, getting by more on grit than anything else. Tokyo seemed far away. The top of the Olympic podium, even further. Then suddenly, there she was on Thursday night as a tinny version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” Gregory Bull | AP Sunisa Lee, of United States, reacts as she poses for a picture after winning the gold medal in the artistic gymnastics women’s all-around final at the 2020 Summer Olympics on Thursday in Tokyo, Japan. echoed across Ariake Gymnastics Centre. Gold medal around her neck. A watch party back home among the Hmong-American community in her native Minnesota raging. A victory she never envisioned not yet sinking in. “It’s crazy,” Lee said after winning the Olympic all-around title following a tight duel with Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade. “It doesn’t seem like real life.” Even though the pain in Lee’s foot eased — funny how it seemed to get better the more she trained — she arrived in Japan figuring her best shot was at a silver medal. Sure, she’d beaten good friend and reigning Olympic champion Simone Biles during the final day of the U.S. Olympic Trials last month, but that was an anomaly, right? Then Biles opted out of the See GOLD | 9 Closing in on kickoff See VOTTO | 10 White flag: Indians trade 2B Hernandez to 1st-place Sox Alex Hawley | OVP Sports By Tom Withers AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND — The Indians probably can’t catch the Chicago White Sox, so they’re helping their AL Central rival. Cleveland traded second baseman Cesar Hernandez to the first-place White Sox on Thursday for minor league pitcher Konnor Pilkington — a move that signals the Indians are conceding the division. “We made the trade that we felt made the most sense for us and this is the direction we went,” Indians president of baseball operations Chris Antonetti said. “Just as we tried to be realistic in assessing where we are, we’re going to continue to do our best to win as many games as possible. “But the reality is the White Sox are a number of games in front of us and we’re intent on improving. If they didn’t acquire Cesar, we were pretty confident they were going to acquire another talented player from another team.” The White Sox, who lead the Indians by 8 1/2 games and open a series with them Friday, have been in the market for a second baseman since starter Nick Madrigal suffered a season-ending hamstring tear on June 10. The intra-division swap created an oddity. With the Indians playing this weekend in Chicago, the team agreed to transport Hernandez’s gear before they’ll face him for the first time. “We’ve done a lot of unique trades and had some interesting circumstances around them,” Antonetti said. “But I don’t think we’ve had that one before.” In Hernandez, Chicago is getting a Gold Glove defender who can bat leadoff and drive in runs for manager Tony La Russa. The 31-year-old Hernandez is hitting .231 in his second season with the Indians with a career-high 18 home runs and 47 RBIs in 96 games. “Cesar Hernandez provides our club with a valuable combination of a power bat in the middle infield and Gold-Glove quality defense,” Chicago general manager Rick Hahn said. “Adding a player like Cesar gives Tony a strong and proven option at second base for the stretch run of the season and hopefully into October.” Hernandez had been viewed as the player most likely to be dealt before Friday’s deadline because of the Indians’ depth with middle infielders. See INDIANS | 10 The return of high school football is right around the corner, with Ohio and West Virginia beginning the regular season in three and four weeks respectively. Locally, four of the six Ohio teams open at home, with Gallia Academy hosting Meigs, South Gallia facing Symmes Valley, Eastern playing Green, and Southern welcoming Chesapeake. Along with the Marauders, River Valley also takes a trip in Week 1, visiting Piketon. While all-6 Ohio teams continue play Week 2 games on Aug. 27, West Virginia will be opening the season, with Point Pleasant hosting Greenbrier East, Wahama going to Southern, and Hannan at Trinity Christian. Scherzer takes care of Phils in his possible finale By Kevin Cooney Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Max Scherzer delivered a signature performance in what might be his last start for the Nationals, allowing three hits in six innings as Washington beat the Philadelphia Phillies 3-1 in the opener of a doubleheader on Thursday. Yan Gomes hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the seventh inning for Washington, which is dealing with a COVID19 outbreak that forced Wednesday night’s game at Philadelphia to be postponed. Before the game, the sputtering Nationals traded closer Brad Hand to the Toronto Blue Jays, and there are plenty of contending teams who’d love to have Mad Max for the last two months of the season. Scherzer (8-4) allowed a fourth-inning homer to J.T. Realmuto while striking out five and walking three on 88 pitches. Kyle Finnegan stepped into the closer’s role and struck out two in the seventh for his first career save. “Today was a wacky start because of every- time Cy Young Award winner and a stalwart of Washington’s 2019 World Series-winning squad — will become a free agent at the end of the season. “I don’t want to look at this as a negative thing. I really look at it as a positive thing,” Scherzer said. “I signed a seven-year deal here to win a World Series. And we won. We won Laurence Kesterson | AP a World Series. That’s Washington Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer throws during a lifelong dream come the first inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies true.” on Thursday in Philadelphia in the first game of a doubleheader. The Nationals have fallen out of contention in the NL East thanks “I wanted that pitch thing going on, but you to a 7-16 record this (to Gomes) on the output the blinders on and month, making Scherzer side,” Wheeler said. go and compete,” Scherby far the best starting zer said. “Even when you “I threw it down the middle and he made me pitcher on the market are at your worst, you before the trade deadline pay for it.” want to go out and do on Friday. Wheeler (8-6) went your best.” Scherzer was asked the distance in the sevAs Scherzer received about his expectations handshakes in the Wash- en-inning game, allowfor the 24 hours before ington dugout in the top ing seven hits, walking of the seventh, Gerardo two and striking out five the deadline. “I’ve got nothing,” he on 100 pitches. Parra doubled past div“We need to win some said. “I don’t know. How ing center fielder Odubel does this go? This is new games,” Wheeler said. Herrera and Gomes to me. I’ve only been “That was a big game — who was reinstated traded during the offseafor us and I needed to from the 10-day injured son. I’ve never had to deal go out and post some list before the game — zeros, especially against with this during the seadrilled a sinker from Max because he’s going son. For me, you put the Zack Wheeler into the trees beyond the center to hold us or try to and I blinders on, go out, let us down out there.” field fence for his ninth See SCHERZER | 10 Scherzer — a threehomer of the season. �6 Friday, July 30, 2021 Lighthouse Assembly of God Ohio 160, Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday,Adult Bible Study 7 p.m. Sunday Evening 6:30 p.m. Liberty Assembly of God Dudding Lane, Mason, W.Va., Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Sunday children’s church, 11 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Thursday Bible study, 7 p.m. BAPTIST CATHOLIC Saint Louis Catholic Church 85 State Street, Gallipolis. Daily mass, 8 a.m.; Saturday mass, 5:30 p.m.; Sunday mass, 8 and 10 a.m. CHURCH OF CHRIST Bidwell Church of Christ Ohio 554, Bidwell. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Church of Christ 234 Chapel Drive. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Church of Christ at Rio Grande 568 Ohio 325 North, Bidwell. 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Sunday worship, 8:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.; youth meeting and adult Bible Study, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Little Kyger Congregational Christian Church Little Kyger Road, Cheshire. Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday Bible Study, 6:30 p.m. Central Christian Church 109 Garfield Ave., Gallipolis Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; morning worship service, 10:25 a.m.; youth meeting, 5:30 p.m.; evening worship service, 6 p.m.; Wednesday Bible Study, 6:30 p.m. CHURCH OF GOD First Church of God 1723 Ohio 141. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship 10:25 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday family night/Bible study, 6-8 p.m. Rodney Pike Church of God 440 Ohio 850 Sunday worship, 10:30 a.m., Wednesday groups, 7 p.m., with adult Bible study, Church of God of Prophecy 380 White Road, Ohio 160. Sunday school 10 a.m.; worship, 11:15 a.m.; children’s church, 11:15 a.m.; Sunday service, 6 p.m.; Wednesday night Bible study, 7 p.m.; Wednesday youth meeting, 7 p.m. Eureka Church of God Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m. New Life Church of God 576 State Route 7 North Gallipolis, Oh, Sunday Services 10:00 am; Sunday Worship 11 am and 6 pm; Wednesday Bible Study 7 pm, Bethlehem Church 1774 Rocky Fork Road, Crown City. Sunday, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Faith Community Chapel Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Nebo Church Sunday, 6 p.m. Morgan Center Christian Holiness church. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 7 p.m.; Wednesday 7 p.m. Walnut Ridge Church Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday Morning worship, 10:30 a.m. Kings Chapel Church King Cemetery Lane, Crown City. Sunday morning worship, 10 a.m.; Sunday school, 11 a.m.; Sunday evening worship, 6 p.m.; Wednesday evening prayer meeting, 7 p.m Jubilee Christian Center George’s Creek Road. Worship, 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Danville Holiness Church Ohio 325. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:35 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Garden of My Hearth Holy Tabernacle 4950 State Route 850, Bidwell. Services are conducted Thursday, 6 p.m.; Saturday 6 p.m; and Sunday 10 a.m. Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church Valley View Drive, Crown City. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Rodney Church of Light 6611 Ohio 588. Fellowship, 9:15 a.m.; Worship, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday school, 10:40 a.m.; youth, 6 p.m. EPISCOPAL Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church 541 Second Ave., Gallipolis. Sunday worship with Communion, 10 a.m., Fellowship & refreshments following. FULL GOSPEL Community Christian Fellowship 290 Trails End, Thurman. Sunday worship, kid’s church and nursery, 10 a.m.; youth night, Wednesday, 7 p.m. Vinton Full Gospel Church 418 Main Street, Vinton. Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Sunday, 6 p.m. Family movie night, 3rd Friday of each month at 7 p.m. Vinton Fellowship Chapel Keystone Road. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. INDEPENDENT Bulaville Christian Church 2337 Johnson Ridge Rd., Gallipolis, OH 45631 Sunday School 10:00 AM; AM Worship Service 10:30 AM; Bible Study, Wednesday 6 PM Crown City Community Church 86 Main Street, Crown City Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; youth meeting, Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.; Adult Bible Study, Wednesday, 7 p.m. Christian Community Church FOP Building, Neal Road Sunday 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. Freedom Fellowship Route 279, Oak Hill. Pastor: Sunday school, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Tuesday prayer and praise, 7 p.m. Macedonia Community Church Claylick Road, Patriot. Sunday school and worship services, 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Thursday service, 7 p.m. Trinity Gospel Mission 11184 Ohio 554, Bidwell Sunday school, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Tuesday, 7 p.m. Promiseland Community Church Clay Chapel Road, Gallipolis. Sunday school, 10 a.m, Sunday evening, 4 p.m.; prayer meeting, Tuesday, 7 p.m. Bailey Chapel Church Ohio 218. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship service, 11 a.m.; Sunday night worship, 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Debbie Drive Chapel Off of Ohio 141 Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday preaching and youth, 7 p.m. Peniel Community Church Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Sunday worship, 11 a.m.; Thursday, 7 p.m. Pine Grover Holiness Church Off of Ohio 325 Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Dickey Chapel Hannan Trace Road. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Liberty Chapel Crown City. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 7 p.m.; Thursday, 7 p.m. Elizabeth Chapel Church Third Avenue and Locust Street. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:35 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. OH-70232141 Pathway Community Church 730 Fourth Ave., Gallipolis. Sunday worship, 11 a.m.; Mid-week children and adult programming. Countryside Baptist Chapel 2265 Harrisburg Road, Bidwell. Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.; Wednesday Bible study, 6:30 p.m First Baptist Church 1100 Fourth Ave., Gallipolis Sunday school, 9 a.m.; worship, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; AWANA Wednesday, 6:45 p.m. Gallia Baptist Church Dry Ridge Road, Gallia Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday Church Services 10:30 AM & 6:30 PM, Wednesday 7 PM, AWANA Sunday 5:45. Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Vinton, Ohio. Pastor: First and Third Sundays, Sunday school 10 a.m.; worship 11 a.m. Vinton Baptist Church 11818 Ohio 160, Vinton. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.;. Canaan Missionary Baptist Ohio 218, Gallipolis. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday worship, 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday Bible study, 6:30 p.m. Faith Baptist Church 3615 Jackson Pike. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Wednesday Bible study, 6:30 p.m. Mercerville Missionary Baptist Church 117 Burlington Rd, Crown City, Ohio 45623 Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Sunday evening worship, 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Good Hope United Baptist Church Ohio 218. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.; Wednesday and Sunday 6 p.m. Rio Grande Calvary Baptist Church Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; Worship, 10:45 a.m., Bible Study 6:30 pm every Wednesday White Oak Baptist Church 1555 Nibert Road, Gallipolis. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday youth services, 7:30 p.m.; Tuesday prayer meeting and Bible study, 7:30 p.m. Mount Carmel Baptist Church Bidwell. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:45 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m. Trinity Baptist Church Rio Grande. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship; 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Mina Chapel Missionary Baptist Church Neighborhood Road. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Sunday and Wednesday service, 6 p.m. Corinth Missionary Baptist Church Jimis Emary Road, Oak Hill. Sunday school 10 a.m.; service, 11 a.m. Every second and fourth Sunday. Harris Baptist Church Ohio 554, Rio Grande, Ohio Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Sunday service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday Bible Study, 7 p.m. Fellowship Baptist Church 600 McCormick Rd Sunday school 9:30a.m: Wednesday Prayer meeting 6pm LATTER-DAY SAINTS The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Ohio 160. Sacrament service, 10-11:15 a.m., Sunday school, 11:20-12 p.m.; relief society/ priesthood, 12:05-1 p.m. LUTHERAN New Life Lutheran 900 Jackson Pike, Gallipolis, Sunday Worship: 10 a.m. and Sunday School: 9 a.m.; Wednesday Bible study 7pm Bible study at Poppy’s on Court Street, Wednesday, 10 am and Friday 9 am; UNITED METHODIST Grace United Methodist Church 600 Second Ave., Gallipolis. Sunday. Worship, 8:30 a.m.; Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship 10:45 a.m, Sunday Youth Ministry 6:00-8:00 pm, Wednesday-For Men Only, 8:00 a.m. Christ United Methodist Church 9688 Ohio 7 South. Adult Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship and children’s church, 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday night Bible study, 6:30-8 p.m. River of Life United Methodist 35 Hillview Drive, Gallipolis.. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; Fair Haven United Methodist Kanauga. Sunday school, 10:00 a.m.; worship, 11:00 a.m.; Wednesday Bible study, 10:30 a.m. Bidwell United Methodist Church Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Worship 9 a.m. Trinity United Methodist Church Ohio 160 at Ohio 554 in Porter. Sunday worship, 9:30 a.m.; Bible study, 9 a.m. Saturday. Bethel United Methodist Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 7:30 p.m. Bethesda United Methodist Ohio 775. Worship, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. Veteran Care, Memory Care & Rehabilitation Simpson Chapel United Methodist Lake Drive, Rio Grande. Sunday worship, 11 a.m.; Bible study, 1 p.m. Monday. Thurman Church Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. Centenary United Methodist Church Ohio 141. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m.; worship, 9:30 a.m. Patriot United Methodist Church Patriot Road.. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship: 11:05 a.m.; Sunday evening Bible study, 6 p.m. Children’s church, Thursday, 6 p.m. FELLOWSHIP APOSTOLIC Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic Van Zandt and Ward Road. 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. Emmanuel Apostolic Tabernacle, Inc. Loop Road off New Lima Road, Rutland. Sunday services, 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, 7 p.m. ASSEMBLY OF GOD Liberty Assembly of God Dudding Lane, Mason, W.Va. Sunday services, 10 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 pm NAZARENE First Church of the Nazarene 1110 First Ave., Gallipolis. Sunday school, 9 a.m.; worship, 10:15 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. BAPTIST 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 Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; evening service, 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday Bible study, 6:30 p.m.. Hope Baptist Church (Southern) 570 Grant Street, Middleport, 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. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. First Southern Baptist 41872 Pomeroy Pike. 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 Sunday school, 9:15 a.m.; worship, 10:15 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Racine First Baptist Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:40 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Silver Run Baptist Sunday school, 10 a.m.; evening, 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday services, 6:30 p.m. Mount Union Baptist Children’s Sunday school, adult Bible study, 10 a.m.; Sunday evening, 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday services, 6:30 p.m. Old Bethel Free Will Baptist Church 28601 Ohio 7, Middleport. Sunday service, 10 a.m.; Tuesday and Saturday services, 6 p.m. Hillside Baptist Church Ohio 143 just off of Ohio 7. 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. 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, Sunday school, 10a.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 NON-DENOMINATIONAL Oasis Christian Tabernacle 3773 George’s Creek Road. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Sunday worship, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday evening, 7 p.m. Faith Valley Community Church 4315 Bulaville Pike, Gallipolis, OH Sunday morning 10:00am, Sunday evening 6:00pm, Wednesday 7:00pm, KJV Bible preached each service Fellowship of Faith 20344 Ohio 554, Bidwell. Worship service, 10 a.m. Sunday; Gentle Worship 2 p.m. third Sunday each month; Midweek Opportunity, 7 p.m. Wednesday. Gallia Cornerstone Church U.S. 35 and Ohio 850. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday teen service, 6 p.m.; Wednesday service, 7 p.m. River City Fellowship Third Ave. and Court Street Sunday celebration, 10 a.m. Contemporary music and casual. Old Garden of My Heart Church 1908 Fairview Drive, Bidwell. Sunday night service, 6:30 p.m.; Sunday school for children, 6:30 p.m. Liberty Ministries Ohio 325, Rio Grande; Sunday fellowship, 10 a.m.; Worship and work, 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday service, 7 p.m. New Beginnings Revival Center 845 Skidmore Road, Bidwell, Ohio. Sunday, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Bell Chapel Church 19 Bell Ave at Eastern Avenue, Sunday Morning 10 am, Sunday Evening 6 pm, Wednesday Evening 7 pm, New Life Church of God 210 Upper River Road, Gallipolis. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday night prayer, 7 p.m. Triple Cross Sunday school, 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.; Thursday, 7 p.m. McDaniel Crossroads Pentecostal Church Cadmus Road, Cadmus. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, and children’s church, 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday Bible Study, 7 p.m. PRESBYTERIAN First Presbyterian Church 51 State Street. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. Wilkesville First Presbyterian Church 107 South High Street, Wilkesville, Sunday Morning Service 9:30 am WESLEYAN Crown City Wesleyan Church 26144 Ohio 7 South. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday family night, 7 p.m. Morgan Center Wesleyan Church Intersection of Morgan Center and Clark Chapel Rd, Vinton, Ohio; Sunday School 9:45 am Church Services 10:45 a.m.; Sunday Evening Church Services, 7 p.m.; Wednesday services, 7 p.m Second Baptist Church Ravenswood, W.Va. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.; evening, 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. First Baptist Church of Mason, W.Va. W.Va. Route 652 and Anderson Street. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; morning church, 11 a.m.; evening, 6 p.m.; Wednesday Bible study, 7 p.m. Pageville Freewill Baptist Church 40964 SR #684 Pageville, OH Sunday 9:30 am, Wednesday 6:30 pm CONGREGATIONAL Trinity Church 201 E. Second St., Pomeroy. Worship, 10:25 a.m. EPISCOPAL Grace Episcopal Church 326 East Main Street, Pomeroy. Holy Eucharist, 11 a.m. HOLINESS Independent Holiness Church 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. Community Church Main Street, Rutland. Sunday worship, 10 a.m.; Sunday services, 7 p.m. Danville Holiness Church 31057 Ohio 325, Langsville. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday worship, 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday prayer service, 7 p.m. Calvary Pilgrim Chapel State Route 143. Sunday school 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday service, 7 p.m. Rose of Sharon Holiness Church Leading Creek Road, Rutland. 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. Sunday: worship service, 10:30 a.m.; Sunday evening service, 6 p.m.; Wednesday service, 7 p.m. CATHOLIC Sacred Heart Catholic Church 161 Mulberry Ave., Pomeroy, Ohio Saturday confessional 4:45-5:15 p.m.; mass, 5:30 p.m.; Sunday confessional, 8:45-9:15 a.m.; Sunday mass, 9:30 a.m CHURCH OF CHRIST Westside Church of Christ 33226 Children’s Home Road, Pomeroy, Oh Sunday traditional worship, 10 a.m., with Bible study following, Wednesday Bible study at 7 p.m. Hemlock Grove Christian Church 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. Sunday school, 9 a.m; Morning Worship Service 10 am, Sunday evening 6 p.m.; Wednesday services, 7 p.m. Keno Church of Christ First and Third Sunday. Worship, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. Bearwallow Ridge Church of Christ Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday services, 6:30 p.m. Zion Church of Christ Harrisonville Road, Rutland, Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday services, 7 p.m. Tuppers Plains 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. Bradbury Church of Christ 39558 Bradbury Road, Middleport. 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. 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, Bible class, 9 a.m.; Sunday worship, 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday Bible class 7 p.m. Reedsville Church of Christ Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship service, 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday Bible study, 6:30 p.m. LATTER-DAY SAINTS Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Ohio 160. 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 Saint John Lutheran Church Pine Grove. Worship, 9 a.m.; Sunday school, 10 a.m. Our Savior Lutheran Church Walnut and Henry Streets, Ravenswood, W.Va. 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 Worship, 11 a.m. Bechtel United Methodist New Haven. 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. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Thursday services, 7 p.m. Alfred Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. Chester Worship, 9 a.m.; Sunday school, 10 a.m. Joppa Worship, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. Long Bottom Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. Reedsville Worship, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday school, 10:30 a.m.; first Sunday of the month, 7 p.m. Tuppers Plains Saint Paul Sunday school, 9 a.m.; worship, 10:15 a.m.; Bible study, Tuesday 10 a.m. Asbury Syracuse. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday services, 7:30 p.m. Flatwoods Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11:15 a.m. Forest Run Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 9 a.m Heath 339 S. 3rd Ave., Middleport. 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Sunday worship, 10 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. House of Healing Ministries Ohio 124, Langsville. Pastors: 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; 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 through Thursday Bible study, 7 p.m. Endtime House of Prayer Ohio 681, Snowville; 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, 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 Gallia County Council On Aging Kevin Petrie Jeff Dunlap 311 Buckridge Road Bidwell, OH 45614-9016 A New Beginning Harrisonville. Thursday, 7 p.m. Amazing Grace Community Church Ohio 681, Tuppers Plains.. Sunday worship, 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday Bible study, 7 p.m. Oasis Christian Fellowship (Non-denominational fellowship). Meet in the Meigs Middle School cafeteria. Sunday, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Community of Christ Portland-Racine Road. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday services, 7 p.m. Bethel Worship Center 39782 Ohio 7 Sunday 10 a.m Ash Street Church 398 Ash Street, Middleport. 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. Agape Life Center 603 Second Ave., Mason. Sunday 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Abundant Grace 923 South Third Street, Middleport. Sunday service, 10 a.m.; Wednesday service, 7 p.m. Faith Full Gospel Church Long Bottom. 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. Harrisonville Community Church Sunday, 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Middleport Community Church 575 Pearl Street, Middleport.. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; evening, 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday service, 7:30 p.m. Faith Valley Tabernacle Church Bailey Run Road. 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, 7 p.m. Dyesville Community Church Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Morse Chapel Church Worship, 5 p.m. Faith Gospel Church Long Bottom. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:45 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Full Gospel Lighthouse 33045 Hiland Road, Pomeroy. Sunday school, 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday evening, 7:30 p.m. South Bethel Community Church Silver Ridge. Sunday school, 9 a.m.; worship, 10 a.m. Second and fourth Sundays; Bible study, Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Carleton Interdenominational Church 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. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 7 p.m. Fairview Bible Church Letart, W.Va., Route 1. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 7 p.m.; Wednesday Bible study, 7 p.m. Faith Fellowship Crusade for Christ Friday, 7 p.m. Calvary Bible Church Pomeroy. 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 Sunday school, 11 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Rejoicing Life Church 500 North Second Ave., Middleport. 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 Asbury Syracuse Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. New Beginnings Worship, 10 a.m.; Sunday school, 9:15 a.m.. Rocksprings Sunday school, 9 a.m.; Worship Service 10 am: 8 am worship service Rutland Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; Thursday services, 7 p.m. Salem Center Sunday school, 10:15 a.m.; worship, 9:15 a.m.; Bible study, Monday 7 p.m. Bethany Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 9 a.m.; Wednesday services, 10 a.m. Carmel-Sutton Carmel and Bashan Roads, Racine.. Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.; Wednesday Bible study, noon. Morning Star Sunday school, 11 a.m.; worship, 10 a.m. East Letart Sunday school, 9 a.m.; worship, 9:30 a.m. Racine Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.; Tuesday Bible study, 7 p.m. Coolville United Methodist Church Main and Fifth Street.. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 9 a.m.; Tuesday services, 7 p.m. Bethel Church Township Road 468C. Sunday school, 9 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. Hockingport 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. OH-70218313 ASSEMBLY OF GOD Victory Baptist Church Victory Road, Crown City Sunday morning service, 10 a.m.; Sunday evening, 6 p.m., Wednesday evening, 7 p.m. French City Southern Baptist 3554 Ohio 160. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Paint Creek Regular Baptist 833 Third Ave. Sunday school, 10:00 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m. New Hope Baptist Church Ohio 554 Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship 11 a.m. Old Kyger Freewill Baptist Sunday school, 9: 30 a.m.; Sunday night service, 7 p.m.; Wednesday prayer meeting and youth service, 7 p.m. Silver Run Freewill Baptist Church Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Worship, 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Silver Memorial Freewill Baptist Church Sunday 10 a.m.; Sunday night 6 p.m.; Wednesday Bible Study 7 pm Poplar Ridge Freewill Baptist Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 6:30 p.m.; Sunday prayer meeting and Bible study, 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday service, 7 p.m. Salem Baptist Church Gage. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; Sunday evening service, first and third Sundays, 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Addison Freewill Baptist Church Sunday school, 10 a.m.; Sunday worship, 10:50 a.m.; Sunday evening 6pm, Wednesday night prayer meeting, 7 p.m. Centerpoint Freewill Baptist Church Centerpoint and Nebo Roads. Sunday morning 10 am, Sunday evening 6 pm, Wednesday evening at 7 pm Old Emory Freewill Baptist Church Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 7 p.m.; Friday, 7 p.m. Cheshire Baptist Church Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; Sunday evening service, 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday Bible study, 6:30 p.m. Northup Baptist Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. on the first and third Sunday of each month; Sunday evening, 7 p.m.; Youth every Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Bible study at 7 p.m. Providence Missionary Baptist Church 3766 Teens Run Road, Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 6 p.m.; Wednesday Bible study and youth night, 7 p.m. Prospect Enterprise Baptist Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.; Sunday and Wednesday, 7 p.m. Good News Baptist Church 4045 George’s Creek Road, Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. Sunday Evening 6 pm ,Wednesday Evening 6 pm Springfield Baptist Church Vinton. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; preaching, 7 p.m.; Bible study, Wednesday, 7 p.m. Fellowship Baptist Church 600 McCormick Road, Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting, 6 p.m. Deer Creek Freewill Baptist Church Koontz Sailor Road, Vinton. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Guyan Valley Missionary Baptist Church Platform. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:40 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. OH-70218405 Pyro Chapel Church 4041 CH&D Road, Oak Hill, Ohio. Services, Sunday school – children and adults, 10 a.m.; evening service 6 p.m. Wednesday night Bible study, 7 p.m. Life Line Apostolic four miles north on W.Va. Route 2. Sunday morning, 10 a.m.; Sunday evening, 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic Van Zandt and Ward Road. 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Russian gymnast AngeFrom page 5 lina Melnikova added bronze to the gold she all-around competition won in the team final. to focus on her mental health following an eight- American Jade Carey, who joined the competiyear run atop the sport. Everything was on the tion after Biles pulled table. Gold included. Lee out, finished eighth. Biles’ decision to sit out took it with a brilliant set led to the jarring sight of on uneven bars, a nervy performance on beam and the gymnast considered a floor exercise that made the greatest of all time cheering on Lee and the up for in execution what rest of the 24-woman field it might have lacked in from the stands with the aggression. gold that’s been hers for Her total of 57.433 so long now in play for points was just enough everyone else. to top Andrade, who Still, Lee did her best earned the first gymnasto not think about the tics all-around medal by a Latin American athlete stakes. She FaceTimed with her father John — but missed out on gold (740) 446-2342 or fax to (740) 446-3008 XXX�NZEBJMZTFOUJOFM�DPN�t�HEUDMBTTJöFET!BJNNFEJBNJEXFTU�DPN HEUMFHBMT!BJNNFEJBNJEXFTU�DPN Wanted /DQG SDUFHO ���� DFUHV ZDQWHG ZLWK DFFHVV WR UXUDO FRXQW\ ZDWHU FDOO &KULV ������������ ference but her guts. She nearly came off the balance beam while executing a wolf turn — basically a seated spin — needed to suction cup her toes to the 4-inch slab of wood to stay on. Her score of 13.833 moved her in front of Andrade heading into the floor exercise. Going first, Lee opted for a routine with three tumbling passes instead of four, hoping better execution would override any potential tenths she surrendered by not doing a fourth pass. Her 13.700 was steady, but it left an opening for Andrade. 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Piepmeier LOGS Legal Group LLP Attorney 7/16/21,7/23/21,7/30/21 OH-70240095 Ohio Valley Publishing CALL TODAY! �SPORTS 10 Friday, July 30, 2021 Ohio Valley Publishing Simone Biles makes mental health the talk of the Tokyo Games By Jenna Fryer “She seems like she’s doing what’s best for her,” Mikulak said. “I am really proud of her for prioritizing mental health and making sure that everyone knows and understands that we’re not just athletes. We’re human beings, and sometimes it’s too much, and when that’s the case you have to do what’s best for you.” AP Sports Writer TOKYO — Brittney Griner has long been open about her ongoing battle with depression, an ailment that triggered suicidal thoughts when she was younger and last year drove her out of the WNBA bubble because the isolation was too much to handle. Her own struggles made the U.S. women’s basketball player feel deeply connected to Simone Biles for choosing her own well-being over sporting glory. Considered the best gymnast in the world, Biles pulled out of team competition in the middle of the event and then opted not to defend her 2016 gold medal in the all-around Thursday night at the Tokyo Games. “It’s a very tough decision to step away. Especially at the Olympic level,” Griner said Thursday. “If you’re not your best self, you’re not going to be the best in your sport or help your team.” The topic of mental health, growing in frequency in sports over the past year, was everywhere at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday, a day after Biles made her decision to not compete in the all-around. Olympians in many sports have spent the past two days coming forward to recount their own battles while offering support to Biles. “This Olympic Games has not only had a conversation about mental health, but now has movement in the right direction of mental health support,” U.S. swimmer Allison CHRISTEN PRESS The U.S. women’s soccer star said she relies on a twice-daily meditation practice to decompress and process, a tool she Gregory Bull | AP uses year-round whether Simone Biles, of the United States, waits to perform on the vault during the artistic gymnastics playing in a tournament women’s final at the 2020 Summer Olympics on Tuesday in Tokyo. The American gymnastics or out of season. superstar has withdrawn the all-around competition to focus on her mental well-being. “I’ve spent a lot of time trying to develop a selfLillard said he’s careful mission, recommends Schmitt said after the love and self-care that athletes avoid the social about his social media Americans won silver in can power me through platforms during competi- stressful times,” Press consumption, which can the 4x200 freestyle relay. tion. “Some people can distort and intensify On Thursday, Biles said. “We all have history already strong emotions. leave negative comments, and baggage. And I think expressed appreciation “We are in an era where and they can be really about the response she’s as people, knowing that hurtful to athletes,” Cov- it is our responsibility to received, posting on Twit- everybody has access to entry said. ter: “the outpouring love us,” Lillard said. “In the take care of ourselves and Across the Games, past, being a professional & support I’ve received to love ourselves first, can athlete or being an Olym- here is some of the other really help us take care has made me realize I’m pian, you were in front of discussion about menmore than my accomof each other in a more tal health heard among the world but everybody plishments and gymnasbeautiful way.” Olympians on Thursday: couldn’t just tweet you tics which I never truly and everybody couldn’t believed before.” RORY MCILROY slander you on Twitter Portland Trail Blazers SAM MIKULAK The Irish Olympic golfand you become a trendstar Damian Lillard, a er welcomes the conversaThe three-time U.S. member of the U.S. men’s ing topic and talk about tions. To him, they’re like Olympian and six-time you on Instagram and the national champion will basketball team, said his any other health discussuccess and salary doesn’t Internet just wasn’t such retire following next sions — and shouldn’t a powerful place.” make him immune to week’s parallel bars final have a stigma attached. At the Olympics, the personal struggles. The and plans to attend grad “I’m glad that at least support for Biles has discussion sparked by school. A gymnast for the conversation has been overwhelmingly Biles made him reflecmost of his 28 years, started,” he said. “It’s not tive Thursday of his own supportive. Social media Mikulak said he’s consid- taboo anymore. People has been harsher; strang- ering a career as a mental can talk about it just as journey. “When people describe ers have accused Biles health professional. (if) somebody has a knee of being weak, a quitter, what depression looks He said he’s spoken to or elbow injury. If you and said her decisions in Biles since her stunning like or battling mental don’t feel right, 100% health issues, sometimes Tokyo have tarnished her withdrawal Tuesday from right mentally, that’s an legacy. I think back like, ‘Man, team competition after injury too.” Former Olympic swim- she botched her vault rouI had a couple of those The persisting notion mer Kirsty Coventry, an moments. I just didn’t tine and recognized she of “powering through it” recognize that’s what was IOC member and chair of wasn’t in the right mental persists, he acknowledgthe IOC Athlete’s Comhappening,’” he said. space to continue. es. But McIlroy says hear- Indians “And if their timetables don’t dictate that, then they won’t pitch.” The 23-year-old PilkFrom page 5 ington has pitched at Double-A Birmingham, Antonetti said it’s poswhere he went 4-4 with sible the Indians could a 3.48 ERA in 14 starts. make more deals as they He did not pitch in 2020 begin to look toward because the minor league 2022. season was canceled by Andrés Giménez, who the COVID-19 pandemic. was acquired from the “We think he’s got a Mets in the offseason chance to start,” Antonetas part of the Francisco Tony Dejak | AP Lindor deal, is ready Cleveland Indians’ Cesar Hernandez watches his two-run home ti said. “It’s a physical at Triple-A, and Owen run in the third inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis lefty with a four-pitch mix. He’s got a fastball Miller, Tyler Freeman and Cardinals on Wednesday in Cleveland. that’s 90-93 (mph). His Gabriel Arias are among best secondary pitch at forward with their two ans will play a series at the top infield prospects the moment is a changestarters. Toronto next week. in Cleveland’s organizaup, but he also has a slid“I don’t think our Cleveland is without tion. er and a curveball. He’s time frames will be too reigning Cy Young winAntonetti said Miller, got multiple weapons to ner Shane Bieber because affected by that,” he who was up earlier this attack hitters. said. “We’ll continue to of a shoulder issue and season, will join the “Hopefully he can constarter Aaron Civale, who be guided by what’s in Indians in Chicago and was leading the league in Shane’s and Aaron’s best tinue the success he’s had take Hernandez’s spot. in Double-A and can be interests. And if that’s Giménez was in the mix, wins earlier this season coming back to pitch this an option for us moving before hurting his finger but he’s currently in the forward.” season, then great. We’ll against the Cubs. process of applying for Pilkington was drafted Antonetti said the trade welcome them back and permanent U.S. residency hopefully they can help us in the third round by the has no bearing on how and can’t travel outside White Sox in 2018. win games. the Indians will move the country. The Indi- COVID-19 UPDATE Another Washington staff member tested positive for COVID-19 From page 5 on Thursday morning, compete and have fun meaning the Nationals’ with your teammates.” outbreak has affected 13 Scherzer had made people — four players only one start since and nine staffers. starting the All-Star Before the game, WashGame and was scratched ington placed All-Star SS from his last outing with Trea Turner, RHP Daniel tightness in his right Hudson, C Alex Avila triceps. While players and RHP Austin Voth on in trade talks are often the COVID-19 injured rested to avoid injury, list. Turner was the first Scherzer took the ball player to test positive and anyway — and he was was pulled from Tuesday in fine form, changing night’s game during the speeds and inducing soft first inning. contact. Five members of man“I asked (general ager Dave Martinez’s manager Mike) Rizzo coaching staff — bench last night if I was pitch- coach Tim Bogar, pitching,” Scherzer said. “He ing coach Jim Hickey, said, ‘Yes’. And then I first base coach Randy told him I wanted to Knorr, third base coach pitch Game 1. And I was Bob Henley and assistant ready to go.” hitting coach Pat Roess- Scherzer ler — were unavailable on Thursday because of COVID-19 protocols. Major League Baseball allowed Thursday’s doubleheader to proceed after morning testing revealed no more infections among active players, Martinez said during his morning Zoom session with reporters. Martinez said none of the cases were “too serious” and that only person who tested positive was unvaccinated. “Thank God that most of us or all of us are vaccinated,” Martinez said. “I can’t imagine going through this without being vaccinated. I want to make it clear, (the vaccine) does help.” TRAINER’S ROOM Nationals: RHP Stephen Strasburg had sur- gery on Wednesday to address neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome. The 2019 World Series MVP will miss the rest of the season but is expected to be healthy for the start of spring training next year. Phillies: Placed C Andrew Knapp on the paternity list and recalled C Rafael Marcand from Double-A Reading. UP NEXT Nationals: Return home to host the Chicago Cubs on Friday. Washington has not announced Friday’s starting pitcher. Phillies: Begin a seven-game trip on Friday at Pittsburgh. RHP Vince Velasquez (3-5, 5.54) will face RHP Wil Crowe (2-5, 5.89). ing from people like Biles and swimmer Michael Phelps about mental health makes an impact — a positive one. “When you hear the most decorated Olympian ever talk about his struggles and then probably the greatest gymnast ever talk about her struggles, then it encourages more people that have felt that way to come out and share how they felt.” ISADORA CERULLO The Brazilian rugby player said her team works regularly with a psychologist. “We treat our brains as much as we treat bodies,” Cerullo said. “Every international event, especially the Olympics, has its own mental struggle and additional mental weight attached to it. You see that with Simone Biles putting her mental health ahead of everything, and it’s opening up a conversation about how important mental health is for athletes — and everyone else. Athletes are just the tip of the iceberg.” PHIL DALHAUSSER The U.S. men’s beach volleyball player said criticism of Biles was unfair. He noted the enormous pressure Biles has been under as the face of the Olympics and her status as the greatest of all time, with “GOAT” sometimes printed on her leotard. “She’s been in the gym, probably since she’s been 3. And this is her life,” he said. “So whatever is going on in her head must be so bad that she’s willing to pull herself out of a competition? To me, that sucks.” IN BRIEF ESPN says Big 12 allegations ‘entirely without merit’ ESPN responded Thursday to the Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby’s accusations of attempting to destabilize his beleaguered conference by saying it has engaged in no wrongful conduct and “there is nothing to cease and desist.” “The accusations you made are entirely without merit,” ESPN executive Burke Magnus, president of programming and content, said in a letter to Bowslby that was released by the network. The Big 12 sent a cease-and-desist letter to the network a day earlier, alleging ESPN was incentivizing at least one other conference to raid the league in an effort to hasten the departure of Texas and Oklahoma to the Southeastern Conference. The Longhorns and Sooners earlier this week formally asked to be join the SEC, starting in 2025 when its media rights agreement with the Big 12 expires. An earlier exit could cost Texas and Oklahoma a buyout worth tens of millions of dollars. SEC presidents were scheduled to meet later Thursday and could vote on whether to extend an invitation to the Big 12’s flagship members. Votto From page 5 Castillo finished with eight strikeouts in six innings, allowing seven hits. Ian Happ hit a home run in the ninth off Reds reliever Heath Hembree. TRADING PLAYERS Reds: Traded RHP Ashton Goudeau to the Colorado Rockies for cash. The team added RHP Mychal Givens and optioned RHP Ryan Hendrix to Triple-A Louisville. Cubs: Traded RHP Ryan Tepera to the Chicago White Sox for LHP Bailey Horn. Mike Moustakas (heel) could start rehab games early next week in Louisville … Nick Senzel (knee) will start a rehab assignment in Louisville on Friday … Michael Lorenzen (hamstring) could return to the bullpen in New York this weekend … Bell said Nick Castellanos will test out his wrist and seems to be doing more each day. UP NEXT Reds: RHP Sonny Gray (2-6, 4.50 ERA) starts the opener of a three-game series in New York against the Mets on Friday night. Gray will look to rebound after allowing 13 runs over his last two starts. Cubs: RHP Trevor Williams (4-2, 5.06 TRAINER’S ROOM Reds: Cincinnati man- ERA) starts at Washington on Friday night. ager David Bell said �Ohio Valley Publishing Friday, July 30, 2021 11 Better Health Starts With Us. At the Regional Health Center at Pleasant Valley Hospital, we do so much more than treat you or your child when you’re sick. 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BOSTON — The Biden Some states like New administration announced York have distributed Thursday it will allow a almost nothing, while sevnationwide ban on eviceral have only approved a tions to expire Saturday, few million dollars. arguing that its hands are “The confluence of tied after the Supreme the surging delta variant Court signaled the morawith 6.5 million families torium would only be behind on rent and at risk extended until the end of of eviction when the morthe month. atorium expires demands The White House said immediate action,” said President Joe Biden Diane Yentel, executive would have liked to director of the National extend the federal evicLow Income Housing tion moratorium due to Coalition. spread of the highly con“The public health tagious delta variant of AP Photo | Elise Amendola the coronavirus. Instead, In this June 9, 2021, photo, people hold a sign during a rally in Boston protesting housing eviction. necessity of extended Biden called on “Congress The Biden administration on Thursday announced it will allow a nationwide ban on evictions to expire protections for renters is obvious. If federal court to extend the eviction Saturday. cases made a broad extenmoratorium to protect the deadline for July 31. It sion impossible, the Biden By the end of March, moment of heightened such vulnerable renters administration should was initially put in place 6.4 million American and their families without vulnerability,” the White to prevent further spread implement all possible households were behind House said in a statedelay.” alternatives, including a of COVID-19 by people ment. “Unfortunately, the on their rent, accordThe moratorium was put out on the streets and more limited moratorium Supreme Court has made ing to the Department put in place last Septemon federally backed propinto shelters. clear that this option is no of Housing and Urban ber by the Centers for Housing advocates and erties.” Development. As of July Disease Control and Pre- longer available.” Gene Sperling, who is 5, roughly 3.6 million peo- some lawmakers have The court mustered vention. called for the moratorium charged with overseeing ple in the U.S. said they a bare 5-4 majority last “Given the recent faced eviction in the next to be extended due to the implementation of Biden’s month, to allow the evicspread of the delta vari$1.9 trillion coronavirus two months, according to increase in coronavirus tion ban to continue ant, including among the U.S. Census Bureau’s cases and the fact so little rescue package, said it through the end of July. those Americans both One of those in the major- Household Pulse Survey. rental assistance has been was key that states and most likely to face eviclocal authorities speed up Dr. Rochelle Walensky, distributed. tions and lacking vaccina- ity, Justice Brett KavanaCongress has allocated the rental assistance disugh, made clear he would director of the Centers for tions, President Biden Disease Control and Pre- nearly $47 billion in assis- tribution. would have strongly sup- block any additional “The message is that vention, said in June this tance that is supposed extensions unless there ported a decision by the there are no excuses,” to go to help tenants pay would be the last time was “clear and specific CDC to further extend he told The Associated the moratorium would be off months of back rent. this eviction moratorium congressional authorizaPress. But so far, only about $3 extended when she set tion.” to protect renters at this Associated Press “States and cities across the country have shown these programs can work, that they can get money out the door effectively and efficiently,” he continued. “The fact that some states and cities are showing they can do this efficiently and effectively makes clear that there is no reason that every state and city shouldn’t be accelerating their funds to landlords and tenants, particularly in light of the end of the CDC eviction moratorium.” The trouble getting rental assistance to those who need it has prompted the Biden administration to hold several events in the past month aimed at pressuring states and cities to increase their distribution, coax landlords to participate and make it easier for tenants to get money directly. Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta also has released an open letter to state courts around the country encouraging them to pursue measures that would keep eviction cases out of the courts. On Wednesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unveiled a tool that allows tenants to find information about rental assistance in their area. Infrastructure deal: Senate suddenly acts to take up bill By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking and Alan Fram interest among senators in the infrastructure package. But it’s unclear if Associated Press enough Republicans will eventually join Democrats to support final passage. WASHINGTON — Senate rules require 60 The Senate has voted to votes in the evenly split begin work on a nearly 50-50 chamber to proceed $1 trillion national infrafor consideration and structure plan, acting ultimately pass this bill, with sudden speed after meaning support from weeks of fits and starts both parties. once the White House The outcome will set and a bipartisan group of senators agreed on major the stage for the next provisions of the package debate over Biden’s much that’s key to President Joe more ambitious $3.5 trillion spending package, a Biden’s agenda. strictly partisan pursuit Biden welcomed the accord as one that would of far-reaching programs and services including show America can “do child care, tax breaks and big things.” It includes health care that touch the most significant long-term investments in almost every corner of nearly a century, he said, American life. Republicans strongly oppose that on par with building the transcontinental railroad bill, which would require or the Interstate highway a simple majority, and may try to stop both. system. Lead GOP negotiator “This deal signals to the world that our democ- Sen. Rob Portman of racy can function,” Biden Ohio announced the bipartisan group’s said ahead of the vote agreement on the $1 Wednesday night. “We will once again transform trillion package earlier Wednesday at the CapiAmerica and propel us tol, flanked by four other into the future.” Republican senators who After weeks of stophad been in talks with and-go negotiations, the Democrats and the White rare bipartisan showing House. on a 67-32 vote to start After voting, Portman formal Senate considersaid the outcome showed ation showed the high AP Photo | J. Scott Applewhite The bipartisan group of Senate negotiators speak to reporters just after a vote to start work on a nearly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday. From left are Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., that bipartisanship in Washington can work and he believed GOP support would only grow. “That’s pretty darn good for a start,” he said. That group had labored with the White House to salvage the deal, a first part of Biden’s big infrastructure agenda. Swelling to more than 700 pages, the bill includes $550 billion in new spending for public works projects. In all, 17 Republican senators joined the Democrats in voting to launch the debate, but most remained skeptical. The GOP senators were given Hillside Baptist Church presents... a thick binder of briefing materials during a private lunch, but they asked many questions and wanted more details. According to a 57-page GOP summary obtained by The Associated Press, the five-year spending package would be paid for by tapping $205 billion in unspent COVID-19 relief aid and $53 billion in unemployment insurance aid some states have halted. It also relies on economic growth to bring in $56 billion, and other measures. Giving Wednesday night’s vote a boost, Senate GOP leader Mitch NOAH'S ARK By Gillian Flaccus and Nathan Howard Associated Press Bring lawn chairs August 1, 7, 8, 13, 14 & 15 7:30pm nightly FREE ADMISSION...CONCESSIONS OPEN OH-70246857 Hillside Baptist Church 39760 SR 143 Pomeroy, Ohio 740-742-5007 egories, including transit. The package still includes $110 billion for highways, $65 billion for broadband and $73 billion to modernize the nation’s electric grid, according a White House fact sheet. Additionally, there’s $25 billion for airports, $55 billion for waterworks and more than $50 billion to bolster infrastructure against cyberattacks and climate change. There’s also $7.5 billion for electric vehicle charging stations. Paying for the package has been a slog throughout the talks after Democrats rejected a plan to bring in funds by hiking the gas tax drivers pay at the pump and Republicans dashed an effort to boost the IRS to go after tax scofflaws. Along with repurposing the COVID-19 relief and unemployment aid, other revenue would come from the sale of broadcast spectrum, reinstating fees that chemical companies used to pay for cleaning up the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites and drawing $49 billion from reversing a Trump-era pharmaceutical rebate, among other sources. ‘Trying to survive’: Wells dry up amid Oregon water woes 2021 LIVE OUTDOOR DRAMA... Find us on McConnell announced late in the day he would vote to proceed, though whether he will support the final bill remains uncertain. The Republican negotiators met with McConnell earlier Wednesday and Portman said the leader “all along has been encouraging our efforts.” Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, a lead Democratic negotiator who talks often with Republicans also spoke with Biden on Wednesday and said the she hoped the results showed “our government can work.” Democrats, who have slim control of the House and Senate, face a timeline to act on what would be some of the most substantial pieces of legislation in years. Filling in the details has become a month-long exercise ever since a bipartisan group of senators struck an agreement with Biden in June over the broad framework. The new spending in the package dropped from about $600 billion to $550 billion, senators said, as money was eliminated for a public-private infrastructure bank and was reduced in other cat- MALIN, Ore. — Judy and Jim Shanks know the exact date their home’s well went dry — June 24. Since then, their life has been an endless cycle of imposing on relatives for showers and laundry, hauling water to feed a small herd of cattle and desperately waiting for a local well-drilling company to make it to their name on a monthslong wait list. The couple’s well is among potentially hundreds that have dried up in recent weeks in an area near the Oregon- California border suffering through a historic drought, leaving homes with no running water just a few months after the federal government shut off irrigation to hundreds of the region’s farmers for the first time ever. Officials have formal reports of 117 empty wells but suspect more than 300 have gone dry in the past few weeks as the consequences of the Klamath River basin’s water scarcity extend far beyond farmers’ fields. Worried homeowners face waits of six months or more to get new, deeper wells dug because of the surging demand, with no guarantee that those wells, too, won’t ultimately go dry. Some are getting by on the generosity of neighbors, or hauling free water from a nearby city. The state also is sending in a water truck and scrambling to ship more than 350 emergency storage tanks from as far as Oklahoma amid a nationwide shortage of the containers due to droughtinduced demand across the U.S. West. The first tanks arrived Thursday. Judy Shanks, a volunteer ambulance driver, and her husband are surviving on 5-gallon (19liter) jugs she fills at her mother’s house, and have already sold several cows. � 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 07. July Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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