https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/9eba4eebecb7a954292aefc914f4e6d0.pdf 097556fe6cbec0593dcea0cec236c68f PDF Text Text 8 AM 2 PM 8 PM 61° 76° 76° Mostly cloudy, warm and humid today. Mostly cloudy tonight. High 85° / Low 65° Today’s weather forecast Lady Marauders fall Point grounds Blue Angels WEATHER s 5 SPORTS s 6 SPORTS s 6 C_ZZb[fehj��Fec[heo"�E^_e Breaking news at mydailysentinel.com Issue 203, Volume 75 78 new COVID-19 cases reported Thursday, October 14, 2021 s 50¢ Blakeslee Box Office Latest stats for Meigs, Gallia, Mason By Beth Sergent (25 new) are presumed recovered. Case data is as follows: 0-19 — 750 cases (8 OHIO VALLEY — new), 7 hospitalizations There were 78 new 20-29 — 646 cases cases of COVID-19 (5 new), 10 hospitalizareported from across the Ohio Valley Publish- tions 30-39 — 557 cases ing area on Wednesday. (6 new), 12 hospitalizaThe Ohio Department of Health (ODH) tions (1 new) 40-49 — 610 cases reported 39 additional (11 new), 25 hospicases in Gallia County, talizations (2 new), 3 and 20 new cases in deaths Meigs County, on 50-59 — 542 cases Wednesday. (5 new), 39 hospitalizaIn Mason County, tions, 5 deaths the West Virginia 60-69 — 434 cases Department of Health (2 new), 41 hospitalizaand Human Resources tions, 10 deaths (DHHR) reported 19 70-79 — 296 cases additional cases of (2 new), 66 hospitalizaCOVID-19 on Wednestions (2 new), 15 deaths day. 80-plus — 189 cases, Here is a closer look 53 hospitalizations (1 at the local COVID-19 new), 28 deaths data: Due to a technical issue, vaccination rates Gallia County were not updated on According to the 2 p.m. update from ODH Wednesday and will resume today, according on Wednesday, there to ODH. have been 4,024 total Vaccination rates in cases (39 new) in Gallia County since the begin- Gallia County (as of Tuesday) are as follows, ning of the pandemic, 254 hospitalizations (6 according to ODH: new) and 62 deaths. Of the 4,024 cases, 3,437 See CASES | 3 bsergent@aimmediamidwest. com WVa regulators OK continued operation of 3 power plants CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Utility regulators have approved a request by two American Electric Power subsidiaries to keep three West Virginia power plants operational until at least 2040. The request granted Tuesday by the state Public Service Commission involves three coal-ﬁred power plants operated by Appalachian Power Co. and Wheeling Power Co. The companies are upgrading the John Amos plant in Winﬁeld, the Mountaineer plant in New Haven and the Mitchell plant in Moundsville to comply with federal environ- mental regulations. The PSC said in a news release that the order won’t immediately affect West Virginia customers’ power bills. The original order in the case resulted in a rate increase that would add about $2.64 to the bill of a residential customer who uses 1,000 kilowatt hours per month. Further proceedings would be required for any additional amount resulting from Tuesday’s order. Regulators in Kentucky and Virginia rejected rate-increase requests involving the three plants, which served customers in those states. Meigs Council on Aging | Courtesy Pictured is The Blakeslee Center’s Farmers Bank Theatre in Middleport. The theater will be hosting a variety of shows and events, including an upcoming comedy night. Tickets on sale for upcoming events Staff Report County Council on Aging, tickets can be found on MIDDLEPORT — The “The Blakeslee Center” Blakeslee Center’s Farm- Facebook page by clicking the event of interest and ers Bank Theatre has then the “Find Tickets” launched ticket sales for upcoming theatre events, button. ”If you are not on including a “Comedy Facebook, you can call Night.” 740-992-2161 Monday According to a news through Friday during release from the Meigs By Matthew Perrone and Lauren Neergaard erna vaccines. 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No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law. See BLAKESLEE | 10 Oskay FDA grapples with timing of booster for J&J COVID-19 vaccine By Andrew Welsh-Huggins AIM Media Midwest Operating, LLC the box ofﬁce hours of 1-3 p.m. to purchase tickets over the phone,” stated the release. “If you are unsuccessful with getting through the ﬁrst time, please leave a message with your name, desired show, number of tickets, COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A House GOP bill limiting businesses’ ability to require the coronavirus vaccine as a condition of employment hit another roadblock Wednesday, with indications the measure may be unlikely to pass in its current form. Under the legislation, employees who could show proof of COVID19 antibodies, proof they run the risk of a negative medical reaction, or those who don’t want the vaccine for reasons of conscience, including religious convictions, would be exempt from employer mandates. Though the bill is far more lenient than a previous measure that would have banned mandates for all vaccines — including for ailments like the ﬂu — all major business and health groups opposed the legislation. And while a plan was in place to rush the new version onto the House ﬂoor for a full vote Wednesday, that evaporated after Speaker Bob Cupp said there was still no agreement among majority Republicans on approving the measure. “Just as there are widely differing views among Ohioans on this issue, it’s certainly not a surprise that there are varying perspectives among their legislative representatives as well,” Cupp, a Lima Republican, said in a statement. It was the second time in two weeks Cupp halted action on the bill. Senate President Matt Huffman, a Lima Republican, has already signaled his disapproval of any bill regulating how private businesses can run their companies, further casting doubt on the legislation’s future. The bill is one of several antimandate measures being considered by legislatures nationwide. GOP Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday issued an executive order to prohibit any entity, including private business, from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on workers. The Ohio legislation’s exemptions would also be available for employees and students at Ohio’s public and private schools, colleges and universities. Governments See BILL | 3 �OBITUARIES/NEWS 2 Thursday, October 14, 2021 Ohio Valley Publishing MARILYN J. MILLER OBITUARIES LARRY ROGER GREENLEE VINTON — Larry Roger Greenlee went home to be with Jesus Tuesday, October 12, 2021 at the age of 74, in his home surrounded by people that love him. Larry was born December 20, 1946 in Lorain, Ohio, son to the late Fred and Winifred Greenlee. Larry was a member of Deer Creek Free Will Baptist Church, and he came to know Jesus. He was a Veteran of the United States Air Force, and his memberships include GWRRA Chapter C-2, French City Wings, Gallipolis, Ohio and GWRRA Chapter D, Freedom Riders, Ravenswood, West Virginia; UMWA, in which he retired working as a coal miner. Throughout his life, he also worked as a mill right, auto body repairman, labor in different factories and in Master Mix Feed Mill, helping his father on the family farm as a child and he will be remembered as the hardworking, loving provider for his family. Larry enjoyed riding his motorcycle in the Smoky Mountains with his friend, “Grip” Kemper; watching OSU Football games and NASCAR Races; spending time with his loved ones, playing with Kenzie and Isaac and making woodcrafts. He was always willing to lend a helping hand and had a heart of gold. Larry is greatly loved and will be greatly missed. Those left behind to cherish his memory are his wife, Julie Stapleton Greenlee, Vinton, Ohio; children: Steve (Molly) Greenlee and Cindy (Chris) Maynard, both of Bidwell, Ohio; grandchildren: Morgan (Bailey) Rhodes, Dylan Greenlee, Katie and Kristen Maynard; brother, Ron (Pat) Greenlee, Mt. Sterling, Ohio; nieces and nephews: Shay Hune, Noell Greenlee, Matthew Greenlee, Nathan Greenlee, Lily Greenlee, Steven and Kristen Stapleton, Annabell and Sam Clagg and little Makenzie “Kenzie” and Isaac Stapleton. Also surviving are former wife, Shirley Greenlee and dear friend, Kenny Davis. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by infant sister, Shirley Greenlee and his longtime friend and riding buddy, Harold “Grip” Kemper. Larry’s family would like to express their heartfelt thank you to Dr. Marazon at Holzer Medical Center, Holzer Hospice, OSU Hospitals and the James Cancer Center for their outstanding care that was given to Larry. Special thanks to Danny Stapleton, Martha Clagg, Joe Stapleton, Susan Tice-Alicke and Paul and Vicky Davis for all the help, love and support that you gave. Funeral services will be conducted 11 a.m. Monday, October 18, 2021 in Deer Creek Free Will Baptist Church, Sailor Road, Vinton, Ohio with Rev. Phil Taylor ofﬁciating. Burial will follow in Vinton Memorial Park. Friends and family may call at the McCoy-Moore Funeral Home, Vinton Chapel, Sunday 3-5 p.m. Online condolences may be sent to the family via www.mccoymoore. com. 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. Thursday, Oct. 14 GALLIPOLIS — The Gallia County Retired Teachers’ Association will meet at noon, Courtside Restaurant. WELLSTON — The GJMV Solid Waste Management District Board of Directors meets 3:30 p.m. at the district ofﬁce. post home, all E-Board members urged to attend. Saturday, Oct. 16 Tuesday, Oct. 19 GALLIPOLIS — National Public Square Biblical Rosary Prayer Rally, noon, Gallipolis City Park, all faiths invited, participants asked to take the usual COVID-19 precautions. GALLIPOLIS — American Legion Auxiliary meets 6 p.m., at the post home on McCormick Road, all members urged to attend. GALLIPOLIS — Gallipolis City Commission will hold a special meeting at 6 p.m., at the Gallipolis Municipal Building; the meeting will also be accessible via Zoom, under Ohio Sub H.B. 197. A link to the Zoom meeting will be available on the city website. GALLIPOLIS — Gallia County Board of Developmental Disabilities, regular monthly Board meeting, 5 p.m., Administrative Ofﬁces, 77 Mill Creek Road. Monday, Oct. 18 LETART TWP. — Regular meeting of Letart Township Trustees, 5 p.m., Letart Township Building. GALLIPOLIS — American Legion Lafayette Post #27, Sons of the American Legion Squadron #27 and Legion Auxiliary hosts a joint E0Board meeting, 5 p.m., at TODAY IN HISTORY The Associated Press Today in History Today is Thursday, Oct. 14, the 287th day of 2021. There are 78 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history On Oct. 14, 1947, U.S. Air Force Capt. Charles E. (“Chuck”) Yeager (YAY’-gur) became the ﬁrst test pilot to break the sound barrier as he ﬂew the experimental Bell XS-1 (later X-1) rocket plane over Muroc Dry Lake in California. On this date In 1066, Normans under William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings. In 1586, Mary, Queen of Scots, went on trial in England, accused of committing treason against Queen Elizabeth I. (Mary was beheaded in February 1587.) In 1933, Nazi Germany announced it was withdrawing from the League of Nations. In 1939, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the HMS Royal Oak, a British battleship anchored at Scapa Flow in Scotland’s Orkney Islands; 833 of the more than 1,200 men aboard were killed. In 1944, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took his own life rather than face trial and certain execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler. In 1964, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev was toppled from power; he was succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and by Alexei Kosygin as Premier. In 1968, the ﬁrst successful live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7. In 1981, the new president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak (HOHS’-nee moo-BAH’-rahk), was sworn in to succeed the assassinated Anwar Sadat. Mubarak pledged loyalty to Sadat’s policies. In 2001, as U.S. jets opened a second week of raids in Afghanistan, President George W. Bush sternly rejected a Taliban offer to discuss handing over Osama bin Laden to a third country. In 2008, a grand jury in Orlando, Fla. returned charges of ﬁrst-degree 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. 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In 2017, a truck bombing in Somalia’s capital killed more than 500 people in one of the world’s deadliest attacks in years; ofﬁcials blamed the attack on the extremist group al-Shabab and said it was meant to target Mogadishu’s international airport, but the bomb detonated in a crowded street after soldiers opened ﬁre. Ten years ago President Barack Obama cast himself as a savior of the U.S. auto industry as he stood in a once-shuttered Michigan assembly plant with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak to boast of a new trade deal and the auto bailout he’d pushed through Congress. In Tokyo, Japan’s Kohei Uchimura (koo-hay oo-chee-mur-uh) gave the home fans what they wanted, becoming the ﬁrst man to win three titles at the world gymnastics championships. manufacturers from most lawsuits over criminal use of their products. One year ago Facebook and Twitter took steps to limit the spread of an unveriﬁed political story about the son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden that was published by the conservativeleaning New York Post; the moves led to cries of censorship from the right. The U.S. Postal Service agreed to reverse changes that slowed mail service, settling a lawsuit ﬁled by Montana Gov. Steve Bullock amid a pandemic that was prompting many more people to vote by mail. The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could end census ﬁeld operations early, in a blow to efforts to make sure minorities were properly counted. First lady Melania Trump said 14-year-old Barron Trump had tested positive at one point for the coronavirus but subsequently tested negative. Post Malone won nine honors at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards. Today’s Birthdays Classical pianist Gary Graffman is 93. Movie director Carroll Ballard is 84. Country singer Melba Montgomery is 84. Former White House counsel John W. Dean III is 83. Fashion designer Ralph Lauren is 82. Singer Sir Cliff Richard is 81. Singer-musician Justin Hayward (The Five years ago A judge in Connecticut Moody Blues) is 75. Actor Greg Evigan is 68. dismissed a wrongfulTV personality Arleen death lawsuit by Newtown families against Sorkin is 66. World Golf Hall of Famer Beth the maker of the riﬂe Daniel is 65. Singerused in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shoot- musician Thomas Dolby ing massacre, citing a fed- is 63. Actor Lori Petty eral law that shielded gun is 58. MIDDLEPORT — Marilyn J. Miller, 72, of Middleport, Ohio, passed away October 10, 2021. “See, I am sending an Angel ahead of you to herd you along the way and bring you to the place I have prepared.” Exodus 23.20 Marilyn lived a fulﬁlling life as a mother, grandmother (Granny), sister, wife and friend. She is survived by her daughter Jodi Morrow and her husband Guy; grandson, Brandon Dodson, his wife Kayla and great-grandson, Dalton; granddaughter, JoLynn Morrow and her ﬁancé Alex Doll; her brothers Joe, Ben, and Roy Seymour; sister-in-law Deb Seymour, and many nieces and nephews. All who loved her would say she was the strongest person they have ever known and her tenacity, grace and unconditional love will never be forgotten. She was much like the angels she collected, a protector and provided comfort for others. In honor of Marilyn there will be a private celebration of life, a date will soon be determined. In lieu of ﬂowers, donations to help cover funeral expenses are welcomed and can be paid to Anderson-McDaniel Funeral Home, Pomeroy, Ohio. JESSICA CONRAD MILTON — Jessica Conrad, 35, of Milton, West Virginia, passed away in her Milton home on October 11, 2021, after battling an illness. She was born in Gallipolis, Ohio June 11, 1986, daughter of Jeffrey Paul and Vonzell Coley, and sister of Eric Coley. Jessica leaves behind a loving husband, Brandon Lee Conrad, two beautiful daughters, Rebecca Dawn Conrad and Gabbriella Grace Brooks. She will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her. Funeral services at Wallace Funeral Home in Milton on Friday, October 15, 2021. Calling hours are 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and eulogy will be given by Randy Patterson of Kingdom Ministries at 1 p.m. Burial will be at Vinton Memorial Park in Vinton, Ohio at 3:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Online condolences may be sent to www.timeformemory. com/wallace. DEATH NOTICES BLACK RUTLAND — Warren G. “Jerry” Black, 77, of Rutland, died at 7:44 p.m. on Monday, October 11, 2021 at the Holzer Medical Center, Gallipolis. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, October 16, 2021 at 11 a.m. in the Rutland Independent Holiness Church, Brick Street, Rutland. Pastor Norman Matson will ofﬁciate and interment will follow in the Bradford Cemetery. Friends may call from 6-8 p.m. at the church on Friday. The Cremeens-King Funeral Home, Pomeroy is entrusted with the arrangements. BURTON POINT PLEASANT — Phyllis E. Burton, age 93, of Point Pleasant, W.Va., died peacefully on Wednesday, October 13, 2021 with family at her side. Services for Phyllis will be: Visitation, Friday October 15, 2021 from 6-8 p.m., funeral will be Saturday October 16, 2021 at 1 p.m. at Crow-Hussell Funeral Home. Full obituary will follow. CHAPMAN GALLIPOLIS — Ricky Dale Chapman, 47, of Gallipolis, Ohio, died Monday, October 11, 2021 at Holzer Medical Center. Arrangements will be available at the convenience of the family. Deal Funeral Home is serving the family. WOODALL POINT PLEASANT — Martin “Hookie” Woodall, age 82, of Point Pleasant, W.Va., died Tuesday October 12, 2021 at Pleasant Valley Hospital. Graveside service for Hookie will be Friday, October 15, 2021 at Forest Hills Cemetery beginning at 2 p.m. Crow-Hussell Funeral Home is in care of arrangements. GALLIA, MEIGS COMMUNITY BRIEFS Editor’s Note: Gallia Meigs Briefs will only list event information that is open to the public and will be printed on a space-available basis. Women’s cancer screenings in Gallia GALLIPOLIS — Through its Women’s Health Clinic, the Ohio University Heritage Community Clinic will offer breast and cervical cancer screenings on the medical mobile unit parked at the Gallipolis City Park, First Avenue, Gallipolis, Ohio on Thursday, Oct. 21, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Services are available to all women, uninsured, underinsured or insured. Appointments are required and women should call 740-593-2432 or 1-800-8442654 for an appointment. Road closures, construction MEIGS COUNTY — A bridge 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. �NEWS Ohio Valley Publishing Thursday, October 14, 2021 3 Unsupported ‘sickout’ claims take flight amid Southwest woes By David Koenig and Ali Swenson Associated Press DALLAS — When Southwest Airlines canceled more than 2,000 ﬂights over the weekend, citing bad weather and air trafﬁc control issues, unsupported claims blaming vaccine mandates began taking off. Conservative politicians and pundits, including Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, alleged the ﬂight disruptions resulted from pilots and air trafﬁc controllers walking off their jobs or calling in sick to protest federal vaccination requirements. The airline, its pilots’ union and the Federal Aviation Administration denied that. “The weekend challenges were not a result of Southwest employee demonstrations,” Southwest spokesman Chris Mainz said Monday. Still, Twitter posts claiming airline employees were “standing up to medical tyranny” and participating in a “mass sickout” amassed thousands of shares. Vague and anonymous messages on social media speculated that Southwest was hiding the real reason for its disruptions. And anti-vaccine rallying cries such as #DoNotComply, #NoVaccineMandate and #HoldTheLine were among the 10 most popular hashtags tweeted in connection to Southwest over the weekend, according to a report from media intelligence ﬁrm Zignal Labs. Even as ﬂights appeared to Cases be running closer to normal on Tuesday, the Texas-based airline remained at the center of the latest front in the vaccine mandate culture war, its challenges exploited by opponents of vaccine requirements. Neither the company nor its pilots’ union has provided evidence to back up their explanations for why nearly 2,400 ﬂights were canceled from Saturday through Monday. Southwest has only said that bad weather and air trafﬁc control issues in Florida on Friday triggered cascading failures in which planes and pilots were trapped out of position for their next ﬂight. The crisis peaked on Sunday, when the airline canceled more than 1,100 ﬂights, or 30% of its schedule. By Tuesday evening, it had canceled fewer than 100 ﬂights, or 2% of its schedule, although more than 1,000 ﬂights were delayed, according to tracking service FlightAware. “When you get behind, it just takes several days to catch up,” CEO Gary Kelly said Tuesday on CNBC. “We were signiﬁcantly set behind on Friday.” Southwest struggled all summer with delays and cancellations. A senior executive admitted to employees Sunday that the airline is still understaffed and might need to reduce ﬂights in November and December. Despite repeated requests, the company and the union have declined to say how many employees missed work during the crisis. They have said that Vaccines started: 12,333 (41.25 percent of the population); Vaccines completed: 11,352 (37.97 percent of the population). to ODH. Vaccination rates in Meigs County (as of Tuesday) are as follows, according to ODH: Vaccines started: 9,330 (40.73 percent of the population); Vaccines completed: 8,420 (36.7 percent of the population). Meigs County According to the 2 p.m. update from ODH on Wednesday, there have been 2,525 total cases (20 new) in Meigs County since the beginning of the pandemic, 130 hospitalizations (1 new) and 47 deaths. Of the 2,525 cases, 2,129 (36 new) are presumed recovered. Case data is as follows: 0-19 — 471 cases (8 new), 5 hospitalizations 20-29 — 359 cases (4 new), 3 hospitalizations 30-39 — 324 cases (1 new), 10 hospitalizations 40-49 — 361 cases (4 new), 12 hospitalizations, 1 death 50-59 — 349 cases (1 new), 18 hospitalizations, 3 death 60-69 — 314 cases (1 new), 30 hospitalizations, 8 deaths 70-79 — 220 cases (1 new), 30 hospitalizations (1 new), 14 deaths 80-plus — 127 cases, 22 hospitalizations, 20 deaths Due to a technical issue, vaccination rates were not updated on Wednesday and will resume today, according Mason County According to the 10 a.m. update on Wednesday from DHHR, there have been 3,490 cases (19 new) of COVID-19, in Mason County (3,244 conﬁrmed cases, 246 probable cases) since the beginning of the pandemic and 50 deaths. DHHR reports there are currently 142 active cases and 3,298 recovered cases, in Mason County. Case data is as follows: 0-4 — 55 conﬁrmed cases, 2 probable case 5-11 — 149 (2 new) conﬁrmed cases, 14 probable cases (1 new) 12-15 — 190 conﬁrmed cases (3 new), 16 probable cases (1 less) 16-20 — 254 conﬁrmed cases (1 new), 13 probable cases 21-25 — 248 conﬁrmed cases (1 less), 22 probable cases (1 new) 26-30 — 288 conﬁrmed cases (1 new), 19 probable cases 31-40 — 501 conﬁrmed cases (2 new), 43 probable cases (1 new) 41-50 — 488 conﬁrmed cases (1 new), 34 probable cases (3 new), 1 From page 1 death 51-60 — 441 conﬁrmed cases (1 new), 36 probable cases (1 new), 4 deaths 61-70 — 337 conﬁrmed cases (1 new), 22 probable cases (2 new), 10 deaths 71+ — 293 conﬁrmed cases (2 less), 25 probable cases (2 new), 35 deaths Additional county case data since vaccinations began Dec. 14, 2020: Total cases since start of vaccinations: 2,666; Total cases among individuals who were not reported as fully vaccinated — 2,522 (18 new); Total breakthrough cases among fully vaccinated — 144 (1 new); Total deaths among not fully vaccinated individuals — 35; Total breakthrough deaths among fully vaccinated individuals — 2. are a dangerous form of misinformation because they “feel like insider information being shared by individuals directly involved in the action,” according to Rachel Moran, a misinformation scholar at the University of Washington. Similar unsupported claims circulated online in August, when social media users falsely claimed that ﬂight delays and cancellations out of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport were the result of vaccine mandates. In September, false internet rumors swirled that 40% of employees at defense contractor General Dynamics had declined the vaccine and threatened to quit. Some Twitter users connected Southwest’s ﬂight problems to news that on Friday the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association had asked a federal judge in Dallas to block the airline’s vaccine mandate. The union said under federal labor law, Southwest must bargain with the union before making changes affecting working conditions. The judge has not ruled yet. Asked on Tuesday to respond to claims that vaccine mandates have reduced the workforce and contributed to supply-chain disruptions, White House press secretary Jen Psaki took a jab at Cruz — sarcastically labeling him a “world-renowned business, travel and health expert” — before defending Biden’s policy. “I know there was a little hubbub over the course of the last few days about Southwest A total of 10,677 people in Mason County have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, which is 40.3 percent of the population, according to DHHR, with 8,942 fully vaccinated or 33.7 percent of the population. Mason County is currently orange on the West Virginia County Alert System. SURVIVABLE I never imagined I’d have cancer but I also can’t imagine having to go to a bigger city for treatment. Being close to home has been invaluable. I’ve been so grateful to be able to go home, rest on my couch, sleep in my bed, and be with my family, and my dogs. I’m Nikkie Cox and I’m surviving cancer thanks to the team at WVU Cancer Institute at Camden Clark. OH-70257106 Airlines,” Psaki said. “We now know that some of those claims were absolutely false and actually the issues were completely unrelated to vaccine mandates.” Biden’s order, which is still being ﬁnalized, would require employers with 100 or more workers to get vaccinated or tested weekly for COVID-19. Airlines, however, are government contractors because they perform work such as emergency ﬂights for the Defense Department that carried Afghanistan refugees to the U.S. in August. That makes airlines subject to a tougher standard under the Biden order: mandatory vaccinations with no opt-out for getting tested. Following the lead of other airlines, Southwest told employees last week that it would require them to be vaccinated by Dec. 8. While some staff at airlines and other large companies have spoken out against vaccine requirements, comments on social media have created an exaggerated sense of the dissent, according to Moran, the misinformation scholar at the University of Washington. “In reality, it’s quite a small number of people who are protesting employment-based mandates for the vaccine,” Moran said. “People are more vulnerable to misinformation in times of crisis, and these labor shortages and supply-chain delays either create a real sense of crisis or are manipulated by misinformation spreaders to make it appear like we are heading towards crisis.” days per week) Due to a technical issue, vaccination rates were not updated on Wednesday and will resume today, according to ODH. Vaccination rates in Ohio (as of Tuesday) are as follows, according to ODH: Vaccines started: 6,375,977 (54.55 percent of the population); Vaccines completed: Ohio According to the 2 p.m. 5,942,467 (50.84 percent of the population). update on Wednesday from ODH, there have been 5,648 cases in the West Virginia past 24 hours (21-day According to the 10 average of 5,456), 385 a.m. update on Wednesnew hospitalizations day from DHHR, there (21-day average of 252), have been 255,778 total 33 new ICU admissions cases since the begin(21-day average of 21) ning of the pandemic, and 0 new deaths in the with 1,130 reported previous 24 hours (21since Tuesday. DHHR day average of 68) with reports 14,530 “break22,021 total reported through” cases as of deaths. (Editor’s Note: Wednesday with 196 Deaths are reported two total breakthrough CANCER is Bill honoring someone’s individual medical freedom while allowing the employer and the school From page 1 to provide for public would be prevented from safety and public health,” Carfagna said Wednesrequiring proof of vaccination to enter locally or day, minutes before Cupp state-owned public facili- stopped the bill. The legislation does ties, which would include not prevent private busipublicly funded sports nesses from requiring stadiums. vaccination proof. In A change proposed to the bill Wednesday would addition, employees of children’s hospitals and end or “sunset” those employees who work on exemptions by Sept. 30, 2025, said Rep. Rick Carf- hospital intensive care or agna, a Delaware Republi- critical care units would not be eligible for the can and bill co-sponsor. exemptions to receiving “I think it’s the most sensible balance between the vaccine. absentee rates were similar to those over a typical summer weekend, but they have not put out numbers to support that argument. It is also unclear how many Southwest pilots are unvaccinated. “We don’t know, and the company doesn’t know,” said Casey Murray, president of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association. Meanwhile, speculation from prominent Conservative politicians and pundits has ﬂooded into the void. Many shared the unsubstantiated theory, but few provided details, facts or examples of employees walking off the job to protest the vaccine. “Joe Biden’s illegal vaccine mandate at work!” Cruz tweeted Sunday. “Suddenly, we’re short on pilots & air trafﬁc controllers. #ThanksJoe.” The Republican senator wrote in another tweet Monday that he met last week with leaders of pilot unions who “expressed deep concern over the vaccine mandates.” A spokeswoman for Southwest pilots said no one at the union had talked to Cruz. A spokesperson for Cruz did not respond to emailed questions from The Associated Press about whether the Republican senator had any ﬁrsthand knowledge of pilots or air trafﬁc controllers skipping work. Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona and U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin also posted the rumors on social media, without offering proof. Vague, familiar-looking “friend of a friend” stories See Nikkie’s story. deaths statewide (counts include cases after the start of COVID-19 vaccination/Dec. 14, 2020). There have been a total of 3,998 deaths due to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, with three since Tuesday. There are 9,703 currently active cases in the state, with a daily positivity rate of 8.20 percent and a cumulative positivity rate of 6.03 percent. Statewide, 1,022,880 West Virginia residents have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 (57.1 percent of the population). A total of 50.1 percent of the population, 897,119 individuals have been fully vaccinated. © 2021 Ohio Valley Publishing, all rights reserved. Beth Sergent is editor of Ohio Valley Publishing, reach her at 740-4462342, ext. 2102. �COMICS 4 Thursday, October 14, 2021 Ohio Valley Publishing Having A Yard Sale? Call your classified department to schedule your ad today! BLONDIE By Dean Young and John Marshall BEETLE BAILEY By Mort, Greg and Brian Walker BABY BLUES PARDON MY PLANET By Vic Lee CRANKSHAFT CONCEPTIS SUDOKU by Dave Green By Tom Batiuk & Dan Davis THE FAMILY CIRCUS HAGAR THE HORRIBLE HI AND LOIS By Jerry Scott & Rick Kirkman By Chris Browne Today’s Solution By Bil and Jeff Keane Written By Brian & Greg Walker; Drawn By Chance Browne THE BRILLIANT MIND OF EDISON LEE By John Hambrock Today’s answer ZITS RHYMES WITH ORANGE Hank Ketcham’s DENNIS THE MENACE By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman By Hilary Price THE LOCKHORNS By Bunny Hoest & John Reiner �NEWS/WEATHER Ohio Valley Publishing Thursday, October 14, 2021 5 Ohio’s top Democrat backs US Rep Tim Ryan in US Senate race By Julie Carr Smyth doubt lend Ryan some credibility among the party’s progressive wing. An establishment Democrat was able to defeat a hard-ﬁghting progressive aligned with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in an August congressional primary in Brown’s hometown of Cleveland. Harper argued that Ohio Democrats, internally at odds over the role of gender and race diversity on its tickets, “can’t afford to run the same old playbook” or they will lose the Portman seat to “a far-right extremist like Josh Mandel or JD Vance.” “We must nominate a candidate for Senate who can excite the Black, brown, women and young voters who we need to as a fractious race burgeoned among Portman’s fellow Republicans. That’s when consumer protection attorney and former congressional candidate Morgan Harper, a Black woman running to his left as a progressive, jumped into the race. “Voters are the endorsements that matter,” Harper said in a statement Wednesday. “Those are the endorsements that I am ﬁghting for every day. This election is about the past vs. the future. A 20-year incumbent taking money from corporations is the past. A new voice with a fresh vision for Ohio’s economy is the future.” The endorsement from Brown, one of the most liberal members of Congress, will no ﬁghting for Ohioans, and their jobs and their wages and their communities.” Ryan, 48, a 10-term represenCOLUMBUS, Ohio — tative from Ohio’s blue-collar Ohio’s top elected Democrat Mahoning Valley, announced endorsed U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan his Senate bid in April to sucfor Senate on Wednesday, an ceed Republican Sen. Rob expected move aimed at further strengthening the party’s Portman, who is retiring. He said his campaign is efforts to ﬂip a key seat next building “the strongest grassyear. roots campaign Ohio has ever U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, seen in order to ﬂip this seat.” one of the politically divided “Sherrod has proven again state’s most successful politicians, called Ryan a friend who and again that the way to win “understands that all work has in Ohio is by showing up and talking to workers, and that’s dignity.” exactly what we’re doing in “I know Tim, and I know every corner of this state,” he whose side he’s on,” the 68-year-old senior senator said. said. Until August, Ryan was “He’s not in this for himself or running largely unopposed, for corporate special interests steadily fundraising for months — he has dedicated his life to Associated Press turn out in high numbers to beat the right-wing Republicans who will turn back the clock on women’s health and rights, economic mobility and civil rights,” she said. Republicans, meanwhile, characterized both Brown and Ryan as part of the dangerous far left. “Sherrod Brown and Tim Ryan both have a history of deceiving hardworking Ohioans at home and pushing a radical agenda in Washington,” Republican National Committee spokesperson Dan Lusheck said in a statement. “Ohioans are onto their game and as they feel the impact of Brown’s support for Joe Biden’s taxand-spend agenda, his endorsement means even less.” COVID-19 hospital visitor rules: Families want more access By Adriana Gomez Licon Associated Press MIAMI — Banned from the Florida hospital room where her mother lay dying of COVID-19, Jayden Arbelaez pitched an idea to construction employees working nearby. “Is there any way that I could get there?” Arbelaez asked them, pointing to a small third-story window of the hospital in Jacksonville. The workers gave the 17-year-old a yellow vest, boots, a helmet and a ladder to climb onto a section of roof so she could look through the window and see her mother, Michelle Arbelaez, alive one last time. A year and a half into a pandemic that has killed 700,000 people in the U.S., hospitals in at least a half-dozen states have loosened restrictions governing visits to COVID patients. Others, however, are standing ﬁrm, backed by studies and industry groups that indicate such policies have been crucial to keeping hospitalacquired infections low. Some families of COVID-19 patients — and doctors — are asking hospitals to rethink that strategy, arguing that it AP Photo | Gary McCullough Portrait of Mitch Arbelaez and his daughter Jayden in Jacksonville, Fla. Wednesday. Banned from the Florida hospital room where her mother lay dying of COVID-19, Jayden Arbelaez pitched an idea to construction employees working nearby. The workers gave the 17-year-old a yellow vest, boots, a helmet and a ladder to climb onto a section of roof so she could look through the window and see her mother, Michelle Arbelaez, alive one last time. TODAY 8 AM WEATHER 2 PM 61° 76° 76° Mostly cloudy, warm and humid today. Mostly cloudy tonight. High 85° / Low 65° 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. Wed. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date 0.00 0.39 1.28 43.40 36.72 SUN & MOON Today 7:37 a.m. 6:51 p.m. 4:18 p.m. 1:06 a.m. Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Full Last Oct 20 Oct 28 New Nov 4 First Nov 11 SOLUNAR TABLE The solunar period indicates peak feeding times for ﬁsh and game. Today Fri. Sat. Sun. Mon. Tue. Wed. Major 7:40a 8:30a 9:14a 9:55a 10:34a 11:12a 11:53a Minor 1:27a 2:17a 3:03a 3:44a 4:23a 5:02a 5:42a 0-2 Low; 3-4 Moderate; 5-6 High; 7-8 Very High; 9-10 Extreme POLLEN & MOLD Major 8:08p 8:56p 9:38p 10:17p 10:55p 11:33p ---- Minor 1:54p 2:43p 3:26p 4:06p 4:44p 5:23p 6:03p WEATHER HISTORY On Oct. 14, 1984, 42 separate accidents occurred on I-94 around Milwaukee, Wis., in dense fog. A cloak of fog combined with impatience on highways can be hazardous. Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Low Moderate High Moderate High Very High 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. Wed. Location Willow Island Marietta Parkersburg Belleville Racine Point Pleasant Gallipolis Huntington Ashland Lloyd Greenup Portsmouth Maysville Meldahl Dam Flood Stage 37 34 36 35 41 40 50 50 52 54 50 50 51 Level 12.90 16.28 21.87 13.20 12.82 25.22 13.38 25.61 34.35 12.66 16.80 34.30 15.10 Portsmouth 87/68 24-hr. Chg. -0.44 +0.23 +0.39 +0.29 -0.47 +0.13 +0.33 +0.22 +0.12 -0.09 +1.10 +0.50 +1.20 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021 MONDAY 65° 40° Plenty of sun WEDNESDAY 70° 46° Pleasant with plenty of sunshine Nice with more sun than clouds Sunshine and patchy clouds NATIONAL CITIES Marietta 81/63 Belpre 82/63 Athens 82/65 St. Marys 81/62 Parkersburg 81/63 Coolville 82/63 Elizabeth 82/61 Spencer 81/61 Buffalo 83/64 Milton 84/64 St. Albans 83/63 Huntington 83/65 NATIONAL FORECAST 110s Seattle 100s 55/50 90s 80s 70s 60s 50s 40s 30s 20s 10s San Francisco 0s 71/52 -0s -10s Los Angeles 79/60 T-storms Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Cold Front Warm Front Stationary Front TUESDAY 72° 49° Murray City 82/65 Ironton 85/68 Ashland 85/68 Grayson 85/67 to see your loved ones is the worst,” he said. “It felt like you were not a human.” Kirsten Fiest, an associate professor of critical care medicine at the University of Calgary who is studying the effect of isolation on COVID19 patients, said family members are also caregivers who can lighten the burden of stressed-out health care workers in ICUs. “By not having families there, nurses have to go out of their way to call them. They have to play a new role, even holding up a phone when someone says goodbye,” Fiest said. Inspired by the stories of Starr, Arbelaez, and others like them, Darlene Guerra of Jacksonville started an online petition asking Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to push for more access. DeSantis was an early proponent of reopening nursing homes to visitors, saying he felt banning them contributed to the suffering of families. “It’s heartbreaking for all these families,” Guerra said. “We are going to work, we are going to church, we are going to the store, but we can’t go to the hospital and be with our loved ones?” 70° 44° Wilkesville 84/65 POMEROY Jackson 84/64 85/67 Ravenswood Rio Grande 83/63 86/66 Centerville POINT PLEASANT Ripley 84/67 GALLIPOLIS 85/65 84/62 85/64 South Shore Greenup 85/68 85/66 40 Logan 84/66 McArthur 84/66 Lucasville 86/68 Source: Hamilton County Department of Environmental Services 0 50 100 150 200 Chillicothe 86/67 Very High Primary: grass/weeds/other Mold: 2796 SUNDAY 62° 42° Adelphi 85/67 Waverly 85/67 Pollen: 8 Low MOON PHASES SATURDAY Partly sunny, humid A.M. showers; and remaining warm variably cloudy, cooler 2 Primary: basidiospores Fri. 7:38 a.m. 6:50 p.m. 4:53 p.m. 2:15 a.m. FRIDAY 84° 60° Statistics through 3 p.m. Wed. 75° 59° 70° 47° 89° in 1935 27° in 1988 EXTENDED FORECAST 8 PM ALMANAC High Low Normal high Normal low Record high Record low in units with more ﬂexibility. Van Scoy agrees it made sense at the beginning of the pandemic to restrict visits because protective equipment and COVID-19 tests were in short supply and there weren’t any vaccines. But now, testing and vaccinations have vastly expanded, and doctors say screening mechanisms and personal protective equipment can keep the virus at bay. Nonetheless, the U.S. Centers for Disease Con- Van Scoy said many of the family members she has interviewed have shown signs of post-traumatic stress disorder. In newspaper op-ed pieces, doctors have shared conversations with patients who declined or postponed crucial treatments because of the visiting restrictions. And studies conducted before the pandemic have shown that older patients in intensive care units that restricted visits developed delirium at higher rates than those denies people the right to be with loved ones at a crucial time. “We need to get people thinking about that riskbeneﬁt equation,” said Dr. Lauren Van Scoy, a pulmonary and critical care physician at Penn State Health who has researched the effects of limited visits on the relatives of COVID-19 patients. “The risk of getting COVID versus the risk of what we know these families are going through, the psychological and emotional harm.” trol and Prevention still recommends against inperson visits for infected patients. “We do not take lightly the sacriﬁces we are asking individuals and their loved ones to make. We would not do so unless it was absolutely necessary,” said Nancy Foster, vice president of quality and patient safety policy at the American Hospital Association. Ann Marie Pettis, president of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, acknowledged that patients beneﬁt from having visitors but said the group still discourages it in most cases. “I don’t know of any place that doesn’t try very hard because families are incredibly important for the patients’ well-being,” Pettis said. “These are heartbreaking decisions that have to be made.” Jeremy Starr, a 36-yearold electric utility lineman from Jacksonville, is familiar with such heartbreak. Starr, who contracted the virus in the summer, remembers being thirsty, alone and unable to sleep while hospitalized for 14 days in an ICU. “The non-breathing was bad enough, but not Clendenin 81/61 Charleston 82/62 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. 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With just under eight and a POINT PLEASANT, W. Va half minutes to go in the ﬁrst — The Point Pleasant High half, freshman Delaney Pearson School girls soccer team won scored. a non-conference home game Just 33 seconds later, Hughes 4-0 against the rival Gallia Academy Blue Angels Tuesday got her second goal of the game to put her team up 3-0. evening. Despite keeping the presThe Lady Knights (13-2-2) were on the offensive through- sure up on the Blue Angels, the Red and Black only scored one out much of Tuesday’s game, more goal in the second half. with the Blue Angels (4-10-2) Hughes got her hat trick with unable to get possession of the ball long enough to get attacks 15 minutes remaining in the game. going. The Lady Knight defense did Point Pleasant struck early, with senior Kady Hughes catch- their job, not allowing a single ing a cross by freshman Kendra shot on goal from the Gallia Academy offense. Lee to put the ball in the back Conversely, Blue Angel keepof the net four minutes into the er Alivia Lear had 20 saves, game. cjeffries@aimmediamidwest.com Colton Jeffries | OVP Sports Gallia Academy senior Kyrsten Sanders (21) keeps the ball away from Point Pleasant freshman Bella Tolliver (4) during a soccer game Tuesday at Ohio Valley Bank Field in Point Pleasant, W. Va. doing well under the constant Point attack. Hughes led in shots on goal with eight, followed by freshman Reece Oliver and sophomore Madelyn Call with four each. The Lady Knights will be back on the ﬁeld at 11 a.m. Saturday when they travel to face the Nicholas County Lady Grizzlies. The Blue Angels will be back in action Saturday when they host the St. Joseph Central Lady Flyers. A start time to that game is still to be announced. © 2021 Ohio Valley Publishing, all rights reserved. Colton Jeffries can be reached at 740-4462342, ext. 2100. Rio’s Davis takes weekly RSC honor By Randy Payton For Ohio Valley Publishing MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — University of Rio Grande senior Chase Davis had three goals on the week to register River States Conference Women’s Soccer Offensive Player of the Week Oct. 4-10. The native of Huntington, W.Va., had her three goals and six points over two games on the week. Rio Grande beat Midway (Ky.), 4-2, and later tied Asbury (Ky.), 1-1, in double overtime. Davis’ big week kept the RedStorm unbeaten in its last ﬁve games with a 4-0-1 record in that span. RSC recognizes Rio’s Calvin as Golfer of the Week MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — University of Rio Grande junior Jacob Calvin won ﬁrst place at the Golden Bear Classic to earn River States Conference Men’s Golfer of the Week Oct. 4-10. The native of Chillicothe, Ohio, earned a onestroke victory at the tournament hosted by WVU Tech at Glade Springs Resort in Daniels, W.Va. Calvin ﬁred scores of 72 and 76 in the two-day tournament, good for 4-over 138. He led by two shots after shooting par the ﬁrst 18 holes. Rio Grande placed fourth of seven as a team. RSC honors Rio’s Huntzinger a second time MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — University of Rio Grande freshman Avery Huntzinger for the second time this year has been named River States Conference Volleyball Setter of the Week. The mostrecent honor is for her play Oct. 4-10. The native of Canal Winchester, Ohio, collected 61 assists in two matches on the week. That came in eight sets for an average of 7.63 assists per set. Huntzinger also added 16 digs and ﬁve total blocks. Despite her efforts, the RedStorm suffered defeats of 3-1 at Midway (Ky.) and 3-1 at IU Southeast. Rio’s Booth named RSC Runner of the Week MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — University of Rio See HONOR | 7 Colton Jeffries | OVP Sports Meigs senior Meredith Cremeans gets the ball over Lady Tiger defenders in a volleyball game against Marietta Monday evening in Pomeroy, Ohio. Lady Tigers sweep Meigs Mahr also led in set points with four. Game two began with ROCKSPRINGS, Ohio the two teams trading — They felt the Tigers’ points, making a total of roar The Meigs High School four ties in the set, but the Lady Tigers never let volleyball team fell 3-0 the Lady Marauders take (25-17, 25-15, 25-15) at the lead. home to the Marietta Down 24-13, the home Lady Tigers in a non-conference Monday evening. team attempted a late comeback, but were The Lady Marauders unable to get any closer (4-13) started the ﬁrst than 10 points out. set hot, jumping ahead Mahr had both assists 3-0, but the Lady Tigers for her team while Ander(18-3) came back just as son and senior Mallory quick to tie things up. After a 4-4 tie, Marietta Hawley each recorded a kill. scored seven of the next Mahr once again led in 10 points to jump ahead service points with two. and never looked back. The third game began Sophomore Andrea Mahr had all four assists like a mirror image of the ﬁrst, with the Lady for the Lady Marauders Tigers jumping ahead 3-0, in the ﬁrst game, while but the home team came fellow sophomore E.J. back to tie things up 5-5. Anderson contributed However, the visithree of the four kills. Staff reports tors quickly regained control of things, and while Meigs had a few point runs of their own throughout the ﬁnal game, they were unable to keep Marietta from completing the sweep. Mahr and Hawley had the lone assists and kill respectively in the ﬁnal game, while senior Meredith Cremeans led in service points with ﬁve. The Lady Marauders will be back in action at 7:15 p.m. Thursday when they host the Alexander Lady Spartans in the regular season ﬁnale. Lady Raiders fall to Athens BIDWELL, Ohio — River Valley dropped a 25-19, 25-21, 25-17 decision to visiting Athens on Monday during a TriValley Conference Ohio Division matchup in Gallia County. The Lady Raiders (5-14, 1-10 TVC Ohio) received a service ace apiece from Riley Bradley, Leah Roberts and Brooklin Clonch, with Maddie Hall leading the way with eight kills. Roberts added six kills and Chloe Litchﬁeld also chipped in ﬁve kills. Clonch and Hannah Allison each dished out eight assists, while Bradley made a team best 18 digs. The Lady Raiders also defeated South Gallia by a 20-25, 25-18, 25-22, 22-25, 15-9 count on Saturday. © 2021 Ohio Valley Publishing, all rights reserved. Colton Jeffries can be reached at 740-446-2342, ext. 2100. OVP SPORTS SCHEDULE Bucks have the title, 76ers, Nets have drama Thursday, Oct. 14 Volleyball Capital, Ripley at Point Pleasant, 5 p.m. Portsmouth at Gallia Academy, 6:30 Alexander at Meigs, 7:15 Warren at Eastern, 7:15 Wahama at Poca, 6 p.m. South Gallia at Waterford, 7:15 Southern at Federal Hocking, 7:15 Soccer Ironton St. Joseph at Gallia Academy girls, 5:30 Portsmouth at Gallia Academy boys, 7:30 Friday, Oct. 15 Football By Brian Mahoney Athens at River Valley, 7 p.m. Ironton at Gallia Academy, 7 p.m. Belpre at Eastern, 7 p.m. Wahama at Wirt County, 7:30 Point Pleasant at Wyoming East, 7:30 Southern at Trimble, 7 p.m. Meigs at Wellston, 7 p.m. South Gallia at Alexander, 7 p.m. Boys Golf D2 OHSAA Championships at NorthStar, 9 a.m. College Football Marshall at North Texas, 7 p.m. Brooklyn were the biggest stories leading into the season. Those two teams ﬁnished ahead The Brooklyn Nets look like such of Milwaukee in the regular season, but the Bucks ousted the Nets in a title favorite that James Harden the second round and went on felt the need for a reminder they to win their ﬁrst NBA title in 50 aren't a title team. years. "We're not the target. The Giannis Antetokounmpo went defending champions are the targets," Harden said. "They won last home and celebrated in Greece. Khris Middleton and Jrue Holiday year. We're trying to catch them." went to Japan and won an Olympic It's easy to forget about the gold medal. Milwaukee Bucks. They have the Now they are back together NBA crown, but none of the drama again, quietly working toward a of some other top contenders in the Eastern Conference, where the repeat amid all the noise around them. situations with Ben Simmons in The Nets won't allow Irving to Philadelphia and Kyrie Irving in AP Basketball Writer play or practice with them until he is vaccinated, instead of letting him play in road games while he is ineligible to play at home because of New York's vaccination mandate. Kevin Durant and Harden might still be good enough with a potent roster around them, but the Nets — and their rivals — know they aren't the same team without Irving's talents. "Probably the team took the best decision for them to keep the players as locked in as possible and not take that outside noise to affect the team as they go for a championship See DRAMA | 7 �SPORTS Ohio Valley Publishing Thursday, October 14, 2021 7 Brewers may need lineup upgrade By Steve Megargee Kyrie Irving skips COVID jab and benches himself — for now AP Sports Writer By Jim Litke MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Brewers made a franchise-record fourth straight playoff appearance this fall and have the type of starting rotation that could enable them to keep that streak going in future years. But their loss to the Atlanta Braves in the NL Division Series revealed they may need to upgrade their lineup if they’re ever going to get back to the World Series for the ﬁrst time since 1982. A lineup that struggled to score runs at various points in the season produced a total of six runs in the four-game series. The Brewers went scoreless in 33 of 36 postseason innings. “We’ve got the best pitching in baseball, I think,” ﬁrst baseman Rowdy Tellez said Tuesday after the Brewers were eliminated with a 5-4 Game 4 loss in Atlanta. “And I think just after this loss, it’s tough. It’s kind of devastating. We didn’t think it would be like this.” The Brewers won 95 games and took over sole possession of the NL Central lead for good in June, but postseason frustration continued for a franchise that has never won the World Series. Milwaukee was a game away from getting to the World Series in 2018 before losing Game 7 of the NL Championship Series at home to the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Brewers haven’t won a playoff series since. The Brewers had rea- John Bazemore | AP Milwaukee Brewers’ Avisail Garcia (24) slides in to home as Atlanta Braves catcher Travis d’Arnaud (16) takes the late throw during the fourth inning of Game 4 of a National League Division Series, game Tuesday in Atlanta. The 5-4 loss to the Braves eliminated the Brewers from the postseason, more frustration for a franchise that has never won a World Series. son to believe they could make a long postseason run this year because of a rotation featuring three All-Stars in Cy Young Award candidate Corbin Burnes (11-5, 2.43 ERA), Brandon Woodruff (9-10, 2.56) and Freddy Peralta (10-5, 2.81). “Those guys all took big steps forward,” manager Craig Counsell said. “And they want that label, I think, of what they’ve earned this year, and they deserve it. And I think they’re not going to stop trying to go to the next place.” That pitching was good enough to help the Brewers roll to a division title without much hitting. The Brewers ranked 27th out of 30 MLB teams in batting average (.233), though they were 12th in runs scored (738). Atlanta exposed the shortcomings of Milwaukee’s lineup and left the pitching staff with little margin for error. When Atlanta’s Freddie Freeman hit a tiebreaking homer off All-Star closer Josh Hader in the eighth inning of Game 4, the Brewers couldn’t respond. But they accomplished enough to believe they can put themselves back in contention next season. “We’re going to focus on next year and come back,” Tellez said. “We’re always going to be a force here.” struck out looking with the tying run on ﬁrst. The 29-year-old Yelich is set to make $26 million each of the next seven seasons, though $4 million of that will be deferred each year. “I understand that I’ve got to play better, I’ve got to be better,” Yelich said. “Kind of take the offseason and ﬁgure out a way to do that and keep moving.” Struggling Yelich The most obvious way for the Brewers to boost their lineup is for 2018 NL MVP Christian Yelich to regain the form he showed his ﬁrst two years in Milwaukee. Yelich led the NL in OPS in 2018 and 2019 but has slumped the last two seasons. He batted .248 with just nine homers and 51 RBIs in 117 games this year. The Brewers’ season ended Tuesday when Yelich Garcia’s decision Outﬁelder Avisaíl García had a team-high 29 homers this season and now faces a decision on his future. His contract includes a $12 million mutual option for the 2022 season. Another outﬁelder with a choice to make is Jackie Bradley Jr., who has a $9.5 million player option for 2022 with a $6.5 million buyout. Bradley batted just .163 with a .497 OPS in 134 games. champions Durant and Harden healthy, the Nets may not even need a Big From page 6 Three. 2. Milwaukee - If Antetokounmpo dominates like run," Antetokounmpo he did in the NBA Finals, said. "They have a great a third MVP award in four team. Do I know if it's years is possible. right or wrong? I don't 3. Miami - Heat never know. I've got to think found their top form after about it. But at the end reaching NBA Finals in of the day, I think everythe bubble, but got both body's entitled to their own opinion. But Kyrie's more rest and more talent during this longer offseaa great player." son. The 76ers, who had 4. Philadelphia - Could the best record in the be anywhere from 1 with East last season, have Simmons to 8 without been without Simmons him, so put the 76ers in for almost the entire the middle for now. preseason while the All5. Atlanta - Trae Young Star guard stayed away and the improving Hawks in hopes of a trade. He ﬁnally arrived in Philadel- are a team on the rise after reaching the East phia this week. Even if those teams are ﬁnals. 6. New York. Added weakened, it seems like a stronger conference than good scoring punch to what was a top defensive a season ago. Miami got Kyle Lowry. The surpris- team in Thibodeau's ﬁrst season. ing New York Knicks added Kemba Walker and Evan Fournier. The Into the play-in Chicago Bulls could be 7. Boston - Getting Al poised for a move with Horford back in green DeMar DeRozan and should pay off for the Lonzo Ball. Celtics. "A lot of teams in our 8. Chicago - Count on conference have gotten Zach LaVine and Lonzo better. We have to get Ball providing plenty of better," said Knicks coach highlights. Tom Thibodeau, whose 9. Indiana - Getting team ﬁnished a surprising Rick Carlisle into a locker fourth last season. room that had friction A look at the East, in between players and predicted order of ﬁnish: coach last season is a major move. 10. Charlotte - Were Playoff bound tough for anyone last 1. Brooklyn - With forseason when Rookie of mer MVPs and scoring the Year LaMelo Ball and Gordon Hayward were both healthy. Drama Honor back from Kyrie and his camp?” Marks said at a news conference. “I’m sure that this is It’s hard to know not a decision that they where Kyrie Irving is getting his vaccination like. … But again, this is a choice that Kyrie information. Hope it’s had, and he was well not the same sources that had him convinced aware of that.” Irving has ducked for a while the Earth questions about whethwas ﬂat. er he was vaccinated, True story. saying three weeks ago So maybe it wasn’t in a Zoom interview much of a surprise Tuesday when science with reporters, “I think I just would love to tripped up the sevenjust keep that private, time All-Star again. handle it the right way Hemmed in by a New with my team and go York City COVID-19 forward together with vaccine mandate that covers pro athletes and the plan.” Whatever that plan would have limited is, Marks made clear Irving to playing road games only, the Brook- that Irving, a vice president of the NBA lyn Nets gave him an Players Association, ultimatum: a.) get the was not among the shot or b.) take the 96% of players the 2021-22 season off. union said had taken The argument for the jab. “If he was vaca.) is pretty straightforward. The Nets are cinated,” Marks said, paying Irving $34 mil- “we wouldn’t be having this discussion.” lion per year to blend How much more with Kevin Durant and they talk remains to be James Harden — two seen. It’s worth noting of the best players the NBA was the ﬁrst in the game — and maybe deliver an NBA major sports league to pull the plug on its seatitle to Brooklyn. But son when the pandemic b.) is not bad, either. Irving can stay glued began raging in March 2020, just hours after to his couch and still Commissioner Adam collect a cool $16 Silver got word that million or so. That’s Utah Jazz star Rudy because Nets general Gobert had tested manager Sean Marks positive for COVID-19. and owner Joe Tsai, It was also the only who together decided league to devise a sinthe “half-a-loaf” approach wasn’t worth gle “bubble” to resume games and among the the disruption, said ﬁrst to let some fans Irving would be paid back in the stands. The for road games where people in charge aren’t he would have been likely to start bending eligible to play. the rules now. “Will there be push- AP Sports Columnist Facing long odds 11. Toronto - Being home again should make Raptors a playoff contender again, even without Lowry. 12. Washington - Lost a great individual talent in Russell Westbrook but could be a better team with newcomers such as Spencer Dinwiddie and Kyle Kuzma. 13. Cleveland - Collin Sexton and Darius Garland will shoot them to some wins, just not quite enough. 14. Detroit - No. 1 pick Cade Cunningham takes his place on a Pistons team that has some good young pieces. 15. Orlando - Magic traded away their best players last season and might be years away from contending again. MOVING SALE Saturday October 16th @10am, Doors open @8:30! 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OH-70257452 �NEWS/CLASSIFIEDS 8 Thursday, October 14, 2021 Ohio Valley Publishing Big boost for Social Security benefits as inflation rises By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Christopher Rugaber would rise by $154 to $2,753 per month. But that’s just to help Associated Press make up for rising costs that recipients are already paying for food, gasoline WASHINGTON — and other goods and serMillions of retirees on Social Security will get a vices. “It goes pretty quickly,” 5.9% boost in beneﬁts for retiree Cliff Rumsey 2022. The biggest costof-living adjustment in 39 said of the cost-of-living increases. After a career years follows a burst in in sales for a leading steel inﬂation as the economy struggles to shake off the manufacturer, Rumsey lives near Hilton Head drag of the coronavirus Island, South Carolina. pandemic. The COLA, as it’s com- He cares at home for his wife of nearly 60 years, monly called, amounts to an added $92 a month Judy, who has advanced Alzheimer’s disease. for the average retired Since the coronavirus worker, according to pandemic, Rumsey said estimates Wednesday he has also noted price from the Social Security increases for wages paid Administration. It’s an abrupt break from a long to caregivers who occasionally spell him and for lull in inﬂation that saw cost-of-living adjustments personal care products for Judy. averaging just 1.65% a The COLA affects year over the past 10 household budgets for years. about 1 in 5 Americans. With the increase, the estimated average Social That includes Social Security recipients, disSecurity payment for a abled veterans and federal retired worker will be $1,657 a month next year. retirees, nearly 70 million A typical couple’s beneﬁts people in all. For baby AP Photo | Jenny Kane This Tuesday photo shows a Social Security card in Tigard, Ore. Millions of retirees on Social Security will get a 5.9% boost in benefits for 2022. boomers who embarked on retirement within the past 15 years, it will be the biggest increase they’ve seen. Among them is Kitty Ruderman of Queens in New York City, who retired from a career as an executive assistant and has been collecting Social Security for about 10 years. “We wait to hear every year what the increase is going to be, and every year it’s been so insigniﬁcant,” she said. “This year, thank goodness, it will make a difference.” Ruderman says she times her grocery shopping to take advantage of midweek senior citizen discounts, but even so price hikes have been “extreme.” She says she doesn’t think she can afford a medication that her doctor has recommended. AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins called the government payout increase “crucial for Social Security beneﬁciaries and their families as they try to keep up with rising costs.” Policymakers say the adjustment is a safeguard to protect Social Security beneﬁts against the loss of purchasing power, and not a pay bump for retirees. About half of seniors live in households where Social Security provides at least 50% of their income, and one-quarter rely on their monthly payment for all or nearly all their income. “You never want to minimize the importance of the COLA,” said retirement policy expert Charles Blahous, a former public trustee helping to oversee Social Security and Medicare ﬁnances. “What people are able to purchase is very profoundly affected by the number that comes out. We are talking the necessities of living in many cases.” This year’s Social Security trustees report ampliﬁed warnings about the long-range ﬁnancial stability of the program. But there’s little talk about ﬁxes in Congress, with lawmakers’ consumed by President Joe Biden’s massive domestic legislation and partisan machinations over the national debt. Social Security cannot be addressed through the budget reconciliation process Democrats are attempting to use to deliver Biden’s promises. Social Security’s turn will come, said Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., chairman of the House Social Security subcommittee and author of legislation to tackle shortfalls that would leave the program unable to pay full beneﬁts in less than 15 years. His bill would raise payroll taxes while also changing the COLA formula to give more weight to health care expenses and other costs that weigh more heavily on the elderly. Larson said he intends to press ahead next year. “This one-time shot of COLA is not the antidote,” he said. ‘We have to be heard’: Texas women travel to seek abortions By Sean Murphy Associated Press SHREVEPORT, La. — The 33-year-old Texas woman drove alone four hours through the night to get to the Louisiana abortion clinic for a consultation. She initially planned to sleep in her car, but an advocacy group helped arrange a hotel room. Single and with three children ranging from 5 to 13, she worried that adding a baby now would take time, food, money and space away from her three children. She doesn’t have a job, and without help from groups offering a safe abortion, she said, she proba- bly would have sought another way to end her pregnancy. “If you can’t get rid of the baby, what’s the next thing you’re going to do? You’re going to try to get rid of it yourself. So I’m thinking: ‘What could I do? 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The women agreed to speak to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity so they could talk openly about their experiences. Like many of the others, the 33-year-old Texas mother said she tried to schedule an abortion closer to home, but she was too far along. By the time she arrived at the clinic for the abortion on Saturday, she was just past nine weeks and had to undergo a surgical abortion rather than using medication. She said the ordeal left her angry with the Texas politicians who passed the law. “If I had to keep this baby, ain’t no telling what would’ve happened. I probably would’ve went crazy, and they don’t understand that,” she said, her voice ﬁlled with emotion. A 25-year-old woman made the 70-mile trip south from Texarkana, on the border of Texas and Arkansas. She said she was already ﬁve weeks along before she realized she was pregnant, and she knew it would be impossible to schedule the required two visits at a Texas clinic. 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Their bodies hours.” showed traces of old Within days, Touré’s and recent injuries, and family transferred the signs of bullet and knife roughly $550 demanded AP Photo | Samy Magdy wounds on their backs, to secure his freedom from a government deten- Guinean migrant Osman Touré waits his turn to receive a test for COVID-19 abroad the Geo Barents legs, arms and faces. On paper, the detention tion center in Libya. But before disembarkation at the port of Augusta, on the island of Sicily, Italy, Wednesday. Press aboard the Geo Bar- its French acronym MSF. centers under deals with centers are run by the Touré was not let go Directorate for Combatmilitias or demanding The European Union ents, a rescue vessel oper— instead, he was sold ing Illegal Migration, has sent 455 million euros payoffs to let others go. ated by the medical aid to a trafﬁcker and kept The practice continues which is overseen by the to Libya since 2015, group Doctors Without enslaved for four more Interior Ministry and Borders in the Mediterra- largely channeled through unabated and U.N.-comyears. Libya’s interim authorinean Sea off Libya. Most U.N. agencies and aimed missioned investigators Touré is among tens ties, who took power said in a 32-page report at beeﬁng up Libya’s of thousands of migrants had been held in trafearlier this year under last week that “policies coast guard, reinforcing ﬁcking warehouses and who have endured torU.N. auspices to carry meant to push migrants its southern border and ture, sexual violence and government detention out national elections in centers in western Libya improving conditions for back to Libya to keep extortion at the hands December. But on the them away from Euromigrants. over the past four years. of guards in detention ground, notorious militias pean shores ultimately However, huge sums They were among 60 centers in Libya, a major have been diverted to net- lead to abuses,” including remain in control, accordmigrants who ﬂed Libya hub for migrants ﬂeeing ing to migrants and the possible crimes against poverty and wars in Afri- on Sept. 19 in two unsea- works of militiamen and U.N. investigators. humanity. trafﬁckers who exploit worthy boats and were ca and the Middle East, “Migrants are detained Hundreds of thoumigrants, according to a hoping for a better life in rescued a day later by for indeﬁnite periods sands of migrants hopthe Geo Barents. The AP 2019 AP investigation. Europe. without an opportunity to ing to reach Europe also obtained testimonies Coast guard members The 25-year-old Guinhave the legality of their have made their way from many others collect- are also complicit, turnean, along with two detention reviewed, and ing migrants intercepted through Libya, where ed in recent months by dozen other migrants, the only practical means a lucrative trafﬁcking at sea over to detention the aid group, known by spoke to The Associated Associated Press of escape is by paying large sums of money to the guards or engaging in forced labor or sexual favors inside or outside the detention,” the U.N. report said. Spokespeople for Libya’s government, the Interior Ministry, the directorate and the coast guard did not answer phone calls or respond to messages seeking comment. Touré, the youngest of seven siblings abandoned by their father, said that as an adolescent he watched others from his small Guinean town of Kindia make it to Europe and help pull their families out of poverty. He began his own attempt in March 2015, taking odd jobs along the way to ﬁnance the trip. Trafﬁckers held him captive for months twice, in Niger and Algeria, before he crossed into Libya in April 2017, he said. Four months later, Touré embarked from Libya, only to be intercepted by the coast guard and returned to Tripoli. At the port, he and other migrants attempted to ﬂee but were caught by security forces and taken to the al-Nasr Martyrs detention center in Zawiya. Inflation rises 5.4% from year ago Film TV workers union says strike to start next week By Christopher Rugaber AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON — Another surge in consumer prices in September pushed inﬂation up 5.4% from where it was a year ago, matching the highest shift higher since 2008 as tangled global supply lines continue to create havoc. U.S. consumer prices rose 0.4% in September from August as the costs of new cars, food, gas, and restaurant meals all jumped. The annual increase in the consumer price index matched readings in June and July as the highest in 13 years, the Labor Department said Wednesday. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core inﬂation rose 0.2% in September and 4% compared with a year ago. Core prices hit a three-decade high of 4.5% in June. The unexpected burst of inﬂation this year reﬂects sharply higher prices for food and energy, but also for furniture, cars, televisions, and other largely imported goods. COVID-19 has shut down factories in Asia and slowed U.S. port operations, leaving container ships anchored at sea and consumers and businesses paying more for goods that may not arrive for months. “Price increases stemming from ongoing supply chain bottlenecks amid strong demand will keep the rate of inﬂation elevated, as supply/demand imbalances are Booster only gradually resolved,” said Kathy Bostjancic, an economist at Oxford Economics, a consulting ﬁrm. “While we share the Fed’s view that this isn’t the start of an upward wage-price spiral, we look for inﬂation to remain persistently above 3% through mid-2022.” The latest inﬂationary data makes it even more likely that the Fed will soon begin reducing its $120 billion a month in bond purchases, which are intended to keep longer-term interest rates low. Most analysts expect the Fed to announce such a move at its next meeting Nov. 3. Higher prices are also outstripping the pay gains many workers are able to obtain from businesses, which are having to pay more to attract employees. Average hourly wages rose 4.6% in September from a year earlier, a healthy increase, but not enough to keep up with inﬂation. One good sign in September was that prices fell or moderated in categories that had been initially pushed much higher by the pandemic. Those declines kept core price increases from worsening. Used car prices declined 0.7% last month, the second straight drop, after costs soared over the summer as consumers, unable to ﬁnd or afford a new car, turned to used instead. The costs for hotel rooms, car rentals, and airline tickets also all fell last month, as the delta spike in COVID-19 cases limited travel COVID-19 disease and death,” the FDA’s reviewers concluded. But data about its effecFrom page 1 tiveness “are consistently less” than the protechas cleared booster doses of the Pﬁzer vac- tion seen with Pﬁzer and Moderna shots. cine for certain people For its part, J&J ﬁled starting at six months data with the FDA from after their last shot. a real-world study showAiming for uniform recommendations, Mod- ing its vaccine remains erna likewise asked the about 80% effective FDA to clear its booster against hospitalizations in the U.S. dose at six months. J&J’s single-dose But J&J complicated the decision by propos- vaccine was highly anticipated for its oneing a second shot over and-done formulation. a range of two to six But its rollout was hurt months. FDA reviewers wrote by a series of troubles that a study of the two- including manufacturing problems and some month booster plan rare but serious side suggests “there may effects including a blood be a beneﬁt,” while clot disorder and a neupointing to only small numbers of people who rological reaction called Guillain-Barre syngot another shot at six drome. In both cases, months instead. Overall, the J&J vac- regulators decided the shot’s beneﬁts outcine “still affords proweighed those risks. tection against severe plans. Car rental prices had shot up over the summer after many companies sold portions of their rental ﬂeets. Clothing prices fell 1.1% in September, providing consumers some relief after increases earlier this year. New cars, however, are growing increasingly expensive with costs rising 1.3% in September, and 8.7% compared with a year ago. That is the biggest 12-month increase in new car prices since 1980. A shortage of semiconductors has restrained vehicle production and left fewer cars on dealer lots. Prices for household furniture, which has faced major shipping delays, jumped 2.4% in September alone, the biggest increase since 1988. Over the past 12 months, furniture costs have soared 11.2%, the most since 1951. The cost of shoes rose 0.5% in September and have jumped 6.5% in the past year. Children’s shoes are up 11.9%, a record-high gain in data that stretches back to the 1950s. Most shoes are imported and are likely caught in supply bottlenecks. Restaurant owners are paying higher salaries to lure workers who have become elusive in the pandemic and they’re paying more for food. And for the ﬁfth consecutive month, that has led to outsized price gains, 0.5%, in September. The cost of a meal at a full-service restaurant has jumped 5.2% in the past year. By Andrew Dalton and Lindsey Bahr Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The union representing ﬁlm and television crews says its 60,000 members will begin a nationwide strike on Monday if it does not reach a deal that satisﬁes demands for fair and safe working conditions. A strike would bring a halt to ﬁlming on a broad swath of ﬁlm and television productions and extend well beyond Hollywood, affecting productions in Georgia, New Mexico and other North American shoots. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees International President Matthew Loeb said Wednesday that the strike would begin at 12:01 a.m. Monday unless an agreement is reached on rest and meal periods and pay for its lowest-paid workers. Loeb cited a lack of urgency in the pace of negotiations for setting a strike date. “Without an end date, we could keep talking forever,” Loeb said in a statement. “Our members deserve to have their basic needs addressed now.” A strike would be a serious setback for an industry that had recently returned to work after long pandemic shutdowns and recurring aftershocks amid new outbreaks. “There are ﬁve whole days left to reach a deal,” said Jarryd Gonzales, a publicist for the group representing the studios. “Studios will continue to negotiate in good faith in an effort to reach an agreement for a new contract that will keep the industry working.” As in other industries, many behind-the-scenes people started reevaluating their lives and the demands of their professions during the pandemic. And now that production is ramping up again, union leaders say the “catch-up” is resulting in worse working conditions. 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