https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/d8451858a3f9c07fa21da11038eb0574.pdf 28d8862c4b2b2637dbe783beea4d7ed9 PDF Text Text LOG ONTO WWW.MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM OR WWW.MYDAILYTRIBUNE.COM FOR ARCHIVE s�GAMES s�E-EDITION s�POLLS & MORE Hometown News for Gallia & Meigs counties INSIDE STORY WEATHER SPORTS OBITUARIES Letters to The Editor... Page A4 Mostly cloudy. High near 42. Low around 23 ... Page A2 Local sports action... Page B1 Elila A. Adams, 74 Ricky Blanton, 57 Lena E. Fowble, 96 Edna Halley, 89 Lawrence Nuckles, 91 SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2014 Vol. 48, No. 13 Clara Robie, 57 Joseph Slone, 56 Teddy Snyder, 50 George Thompson, 61 Floyd Ward $2.00 Unemployment declines in Meigs, Gallia counties By Sarah Hawley shawley@civitasmedia.com OHIO VALLEY — Unemployment rates in both Meigs and Gallia counties declined in February after sharp increases in January. Meigs County saw a nearly one point decrease, but is still tied for the second-highest rate among Ohio’s 88 counties at 12.3 percent. In January, the unemployment rate in Meigs County was at 13.2 percent after being at 10.9 percent to end 2013. Gallia County’s unemployment rate decreased from 10 percent in January to 9.4 percent in February. Gallia County had been at 8.1 percent in December 2013. Last February, Meigs had an unemployment rate of 12.8 percent, while Gallia County had a rate of 8.6 percent. A total of 87 of Ohio’s 88 counties saw a decline in unemployment in February. Washington’s County’s unemployment remained steady at 7.3 percent, making it the lone county not to see a decline. Monroe County currently holds the state’s highest unemployment at 14.2 percent, down from 15 percent in January. Monroe County is followed by Meigs and Pike counties at 12.3 percent, Morgan County at 12 percent and Huron County at 11.6 percent. Other counties with an unemployment rate at or above 10 percent were Adams and Ottawa counties, each at 11.3 percent; Scioto County at 10.9 percent; Vinton County at 10.3 percent; and Jefferson County at 10 percent. Meigs and Morgan counties had been tied for second in unemployment in January behind Monroe County. Gallia County was 12th in unemployment in January and February. When it comes to unemployment rates, in terms of rankings, it’s a good thing when a county’s number rises. The higher the ranking, the lower the unemployment. Mercer County remains ranked 88th with an unemployment rate of 4.3 percent, down from 4.4 percent in January. Delaware County has the second-lowest rate at 4.6 percent, followed by Auglaize County. The national and state unemployment rate was at 7 percent in February. The national rate remained steady from January, with the state rate falling from 7.5 percent. Ohio had an unemployment rate of 7.6 percent in February 2013, while the national rate was 8.1 percent. A total of 39 Ohio counties had unemployment rates lower than the state and national rate. In southeast Ohio, other un- employment numbers include: Athens County, 7.9 percent; Hocking County, 7.8 percent; Jackson County, 9.2 percent; Lawrence County, 7.5 percent; Morgan County, 12 percent; Perry County, 9.3 percent; Ross County, 8.1 percent; Vinton County, 10.3 percent; and Washington County, 7.3 percent. On the southern side of the Ohio River, Mason County’s unemployment rate was 10.7 percent — a decrease from 10.9 percent in January. Wetzel County had West Virginia’s highest unemployment rate at 13.2 percent. Monongalia County was the lowest at 4.6 percent. Following appeal, Grube re-sentenced to life in prison By Amber Gillenwater agillenwater@civitasmedia.com Rolls for lunch, fresh out of the oven, are being packed by Ann Wiles, left, and Tina Crawford for take-out. Advance orders for pickup can be placed by calling 992-7400. The place where everyone eats … and no one goes away hungry By Charlene Hoeflich choeflich@civitasmedia.com POMEROY — The recent reopened Mulberry Country Kitchen in Pomeroy is a place where people have a choice of eating in a comfortable dining area, or taking it out to the comfort of their home. It’s a place where everyone can eat — money or not — and where no one goes away hungry. That’s the word from volunteer Linda Lukasik, manager of a group of volunteers who cook, serve, pack for take-out, and clean up in preparation for another day. Meals are served Tuesdays and Thursdays, with plans for adding a Wednesday luncheon. The program is supported by residents who come for a low-cost meal in support of the program, and those who contribute food for the meals. Lukasik stressed that everyone is welcome and that no one will be turned away hungry. She said there is a $3 charge for Among the volunteers operating the Mulberry Country Kitchen gathering for a picture at the new sign are from the left, Linda Lukasik, manager, Ann Wiles, Tonia Crawford, Christopher Zacharias, Steve Lukasik, and Andrew Harrington. people who arrive for a full meal. That money is then used to support the program so that people who may be short on funds can eat free of charge. The kitchen is self-supporting, operates solely with volunteers, and relies on food donations with which to prepare the meals. All luncheon sales go to buy food so that those who can’t afford to pay can eat free. Funding for the new sign announcing “the place where everyone eats” erected in the front yard of the Mulberry Community Center, where the food program is being carried out, was provided by the local Eagles Club. GALLIPOLIS — During a hearing on Thursday before Gallia County Common Pleas Judge D. Dean Evans a Gallia County woman convicted of killing her infant son in 2010 was re-sentenced to a term of life imprisonment without parole. Kansas D. Grube, 28, who is currently incarcerated in the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, Ohio, was originally sentenced in 2010 after she was found guilty of the murder of her infant son Jaxson Grube. Reportedly, the two-and-a-half month old infant was found unresponsive by first responders who arrived on scene at the Grube home on Ohio 218 at approximately 11 p.m. on Feb. 12, 2010. Initially, the infant was thought to have suffered from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome due to the lack of any outward physical abnormalities, but after an autopsy — a standard procedure in the death of an infant — two skull fractures were found on the child’s head. One fracture was located above the left ear and the other on the back of the skull. Grube was later arrested as the only suspect in this case, and, following a three-day jury trial in September 2010, a jury found Grube guilty of aggravated murder and endangering children. She was subsequently sentenced to life without parole and was ordered to serve an additional eight-year sentence for endangering children. The defendant later filed an appeal with the Fourth District Court of Appeals of the Ohio Supreme Court and recently had her case remanded back to the common pleas court for further proceedings after the judgment in this case was partially affirmed and partially reversed by the court of appeals. The defendant’s appeal contends that the trial court violated her rights to due process and fair trial in the absence of sufficient evidence to convict her of aggravated murder, that her constitutional rights were violated when the trial court failed to give jury instructions as to the lesser offenses of reckless homicide and/or involuntary manslaughter, that the court erred when it failed to merge her convictions for aggravated murder and child endangering for purposes of sentences and that she was rendered ineffective assistance of counsel at trial. According to the decision filed by the court of appeals and signed by Presiding Judge Matthew McFarland, the court of appeals found that the trial court erred in failing to consider whether the defendant’s charges were the result of a single action of the defendant or “allied offenses,” while the remaining three contentions as outlined in Grube’s appeal were overruled by the court. As such, this case was remanded back to the common pleas court for further proceedings. The defendant appeared on Thursday morning with her court-appointed counsel Barbara Wallen and was re-sentenced to life imprisonment for a charge of aggravated murder after the court considered and subsequently determined that the charges of aggravated murder and child endangering in this case are allied offenses and should be merged for purposes of sentencing. Thus, the eight-year sentence for endangering children was dropped and the life sentence for aggravated murder was maintained in this case. Gallia County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Eric Mulford who, along with Gallia County Prosecutor Jeff Adkins, represented the State of Ohio in this case, reported following Thursday’s hearing that the determination that the charges of aggravated murder and child endangering are allied offenses of similar import was required by the Ohio Supreme Court case of State v. Johnson, which was decided after Grube’s conviction in 2010, but must be applied retroactively. “The state’s interest was in making sure that the defendant was re-sentenced to life without parole for aggravated murder, and that was achieved. From a procedural standpoint, not objecting to the finding that the offenses are allied saves the taxpayers the cost of another appeal on that issue, while preserving the life sentence for the homicide,” Mulford said. “Jaxson’s death was avoidable and our office will always fight when necessary to make sure that the life sentence is not disturbed.” Central Ohio leads in growth Bob Evans accepting juried quilt show entries COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Central Ohio counties are leading the state in population growth categories. Population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau show Franklin County — home to Columbus — recorded by far the most births in the state last year, 18,200. The birth rate of 15.21 per 1,000 residents in Franklin beat out Hamilton County — home to Cincinnati — which had a birth rate of 13.73. Delaware County had the biggest percentage growth — 2.09 percent — in the state last year. The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1m7TLnD ) reported that Ohio on the whole lost almost 7,400 people to migration last year. Nearly half of that loss occurred in Cuyahoga County, home to Cleveland. Three-fourths of the state’s counties had a net loss of residents because of people moving out of Ohio. RIO GRANDE — The original Bob Evans Farm is now accepting entries for its “Celebrate Quilts” juried quilt show. The selected 50 entries will be showcased in the Bob Evans Farm Event Barn from June 21-July 31. Visitors may view the exhibit from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily. Admission is $3 for adults and $1 for children between 6-12 years old. More than $4,000 in prize money will be awardSee GROWTH | A2 ed in three categories: bed quilts, wall quilts and this year’s themed quilt category — Christmas in July. First-place entries will receive $500; second place, $300; third place, $200; and People’s Choice, $100. Best of Show will receive $1,000. Entry forms, photographs and the $10 entry fee must be postmarked by May 1. For more information or to receive an entry form, email amy.sumSubmitted photo mers@bobevans.com, or Bob Evans Farm is now accepting entries for its “Celebrate call 1 (800) 994-3276, or Quilts” juried quilt show. The selected 50 entries will be showcased in the Bob Evans Farm Event Barn from June 21-July 31. (740) 245-5305. �&@>6C@JîLî#:55=6A@CEîLî�2==:A@=:D Page A2 LîSunday Times Sentinel Sunday, March 30, 2014 %9:@î,2==6Jî�@C642DE #6:8Dî�@F?EJî�@>>F?:EJî�2=6?52C Today: Sunny, with a high near 54. Calm wind becoming north 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Tonight: Clear, with a low around 33. Monday: Sunny, with a high near 69. Monday night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 48. Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 64. Tuesday night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 40. Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 65. Wednesday night: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 47. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent. Thursday: Showers likely. Cloudy, with a high near 66. Chance of precipitation is 60 percent. Monday, March 31 LEBANON TWP. — Lebanon Township will hold their monthly meeting at 6 p.m. The meeting will be held at the town hall. POMEROY — Pomeroy Village Council will hold a special meeting at 6 p.m. at village hall. The purpose of the meeting is to approve the purchase of police cruisers. POMEROY — The Meigs County Veterans Service Commission will meet at 9 a.m. at the 117 E. Memorial Drive, Pomeroy, office. Tuesday, April 1 HEMLOCK GROVE — Hemlock Grange inspection practice will be 6:30 p.m. at the hall. 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(NYSE) — 98.09 Big Lots (NYSE) — 37.20 Bob Evans (NASDAQ) — 50.09 BorgWarner (NYSE) —60.02 Century Alum (NASDAQ) — 12.91 Champion (NASDAQ) — 0.550 City Holding (NASDAQ) — 44.10 Collins (NYSE) — 79.01 DuPont (NYSE) — 66.62 US Bank (NYSE) — 42.30 Gen Electric (NYSE) — 25.88 Harley-Davidson (NYSE) — 66.17 JP Morgan (NYSE) — 60.04 Kroger (NYSE) — 43.95 Ltd Brands (NYSE) — 56.55 Norfolk So (NYSE) — 96.35 OVBC (NASDAQ) — 22.28 BBT (NYSE) — 39.83 Wednesday, April 2 HARRISONVILLE — The Scipio Township Trustees regular monthly meeting will be 7 p.m. at the Harri- Peoples (NASDAQ) — 24.36 Pepsico (NYSE) — 82.95 Premier (NASDAQ) — 14.26 Rockwell (NYSE) — 124.25 Rocky Brands (NASDAQ) — 14.31 Royal Dutch Shell — 73.29 Sears Holding (NASDAQ) — 46.61 Wal-Mart (NYSE) — 76.01 Wendy’s (NYSE) — 9.01 WesBanco (NYSE) — 31.04 Worthington (NYSE) — 37.65 Daily stock reports are the 4 p.m. ET closing quotes of transactions March 28, 2014, provided by Edward Jones financial advisors Isaac Mills in Gallipolis at (740) 441-9441 and Lesley Marrero in Point Pleasant at (304) 674-0174. Member SIPC. Card shower Velva Mae Underwood will celebrate her 95th birthday March 31. Mail birthday cards to: 2031 1/2 Chatham Ave., Gallipolis, OH 45631. Betty Mae DeWitt will celebrate her 84th birthday April 12. Mail birthday cards to 455 Skidmore Road, Bidwell, OH 45614. Betty Rutt will celebrate her 81st birthday April 23. Please send cards to 47 Blazer Place, Gallipolis, OH 45631. (USPS 436-840) SWITCHBOARD: 740-446-2342 Annual local subscription price for The Gallipolis Daily Tribune is $250. Please call for more information on local pricing. Full-price single-copy issues are $1. CLASSIFIED ADS: 740-446-2342 NEWSROOM: Amber Gillenwater 740-446-2342 Ext. 31 OBITUARIES: 740-446-2342 loss — 2.34 percent. Statistics show that Hocking County in Franklin County is closing southeast Ohio had the big- in on Cuyahoga County and gest percentage population could become Ohio’s most From Page A1 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Gallipolis Daily Tribune, 825 3rd Ave, Gallipolis, OH 45631 SUNDAY EVENING 3 (WSAZ) 4 (WTAP) 6 (WSYX) 7 (WOUB) 8 (WCHS) 10 (WBNS) 11 (WVAH) 12 (WPBY) 13 (WOWK) CABLE 6 PM 6:30 WSAZ News 3 Inside Edition ABC 6 News at 6 Moyers and Company (N) NBC Nightly News NBC Nightly News ABC World News Great Dec. "Economic Statecraft" News at 6 ABC World p.m. News (4:30) NCAA Basketball Division I Tournament (L) Burn Notice "Depth Perception" PBS BBC NewsHour Newsnight Weekend (N) (4:30) NCAA Basketball Division I Tournament (L) 6 PM 6:30 SUNDAY, MARCH 30 7 PM 7:30 The Voice "Recap: Battle Performances, Week 2" (N) The Voice "Recap: Battle Performances, Week 2" (N) Funniest Home Videos A salute to hopping dogs. 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"Sunday Night Countdown" (L) MLB Baseball Los Angeles Dodgers vs. San Diego Padres Site: Petco Park (L) 26 (ESPN2) (4:30) Basket. NCAA Studio NCAA Basketball Division I Tournament UNC/S.C. (L) College Gameday (L) SportsCenter 27 (LIFE) Tuesday, April 8 TUPPERS PLAINS — The Tuppers Plains Regional Sewer will have their regular meeting at 5 p.m. Growth SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES: 740-446-2342 825 3rd Avenue. Periodical postage paid in Gallipolis, Ohio BROADCAST Monday, April 7 OLIVE TOWNSHIP — The Olive Township Trustees will meet in regular session at 7:30 p.m. at the Olive Township Garage on Joppa Road. Wednesday, April 2 Friday, April 25 GALLIPOLIS — The Gallia County Board of Health RIO GRANDE — Southwestern retirees dinner, 11:30 will meet at 9 a.m. in the conference room of the Gallia a.m., Bob Evans Restaurant, Rio Grande. All retirees from Couonty Service Center. the district of Southwestern, Centerville, Cadmus and friends are invited to attend. Sunday, April 7 GALLIPOLIS — Coin show, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Quality Tuesday, April 29 Inn, formerly Holiday Inn. Free admission, door prizes. BIDWELL — Gallia County Family Forum presents, RIO GRANDE — Gallia-Vinton Educational Service “Communication,” a topic related to Alzheimer’s disease Center Governing Board meeting, 5 p.m., University and dementia, 1-2:30 p.m., Abbyshire Place, 311 Buckof Rio Grande, Bob Evans Farms Hall, Room 103. Call ridge Road in Bidwell. CONTACT US ADVERTISING: Julie Mitchell, Matt Rodgers 740-992-2155 Ext. 11, 29 Friday, April 4 POMEROY — The P.E.R.I. Chapter 74 of Meigs County will meet at 1 p.m. at the Mulberry Community Center. John Francescon from OPERS will be our guest speaker. His topic will be “Retiree’s Health Care” Come and hear what the future is for us. Events Sunday, March 30 RIO GRANDE — Rio Grande Volunteer Fire Department spaghetti dinner, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Village Municipal Friday, April 18 Building. Take-out or eat-in available. The meal will inCHESHIRE — American Red Cross blood drive, 8 clude spaghetti, salad, rolls, drink and dessert. a.m.-1 p.m., Kyger Creek Power Plant training center, 5758 Ohio 7 North. Call (740) 367-5059 to schedule an Tuesday, April 1 appointment, or call 1-800-RED CROSS or visit redcrossGALLIPOLIS — Holzer Clinic and Holzer Medical blood.org and enter: KygerCreek. Bring photo ID or doCenter retirees will meet for lunch at noon at Courtside. nor card. Civitas Media, LLC CIRCULATION MANAGER Jessica Chason 740-446-2342 Ext. 25 jchason@civitasmedia.com Thursday, April 3 HEMLOCK GROVE — Hemlock Grange will be meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the hall. All members are urged to attend. CHILLICOTHE — The Southern Ohio Council of Governments (SOCOG) will hold its next board meeting at 10 a.m. in Room A of the Ross County Service Center at 475 Western Avenue, Chillicothe, Ohio, 45601. Board meetings usually are held the first Thursday of the month. For more information, call 740-775-5030, ext. 103. SOCOG provides administrative support for the County Boards of Developmental Disabilities in Adams, Athens, Brown, Clinton, Fayette, Gallia, Highland, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Pickaway, Pike, Ross, Scioto and Vinton counties. SYRACUSE — Wildwood Garden Club to meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Syracuse Community Center. �2==:2î�@F?EJî�@>>F?:EJî�2=6?52C Sunday Times-Sentinel EDITOR: Michael Johnson 740-992-2155 michaeljohnson@civitasmedia.com sonville Fire House. In Memory of Phil E. Wise May 15, 1927 – March 30, 2013 You left us beautiful memories Your love is still our guide Though we cannot see you, You’re always at our side. We love and miss you, Wife Shirley and Son Don 60493786 Visit us at www.mydailysentinel.com or www.mydailytribune.com �Sunday, March 30, 2014 &@>6C@JîLî#:55=6A@CEîLî�2==:A@=:D Sunday Times Sentinel Lî&286î� #6:8Dî�@F?EJî"@42=î�C:67D Humane Society Benefit MIDDLEPORT — The Martial Arts Center at 129 Mill Street Middleport OH 740-992-5715, is doing a fundraiser for the Meigs County Humane Society. Those interested in donating can drop off bags of dog food, cat food or money at the center Monday -Thursday 4pm to 9pm. Easter Egg Hunt RUTLAND — An Easter egg hunt will take place at 11:30 a.m. April 12 at the Old Fort Meigs, 35431 New Lima Road, Rutland. Cost is $1 per child up to 15 yeas old. There will be prizes, food available and free fishing. Lunch Along the River MIDDLEPORT — Lunch Along The River kicks off April 2 with chicken and noodles, green beans, rolls, cake and your choice of pop or water for a donation of $6. Lunch will be served in the Depot at Dave Diles park from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. If you are unable to attend, call (740) 591-6095, (740) 416-2247 or (740) 444-9157 for delivery in the Pomeroy and Middleport areas. garten registration will be April 3-4. To schedule an appointment for either preschool or kindergarten registration, call the school at (740) 949-4222. decoration be removed from cemeteries in Rutland Township from March 15-31 in preparation for the spring cleanup and mowing season. Items are to remain off the cemetery until April 11. OLIVE TWP. — Spring cleanup of the Olive Township cemeteries will begin April 7, weather permitting. Anyone having flowers or decorations they wish to save is asked to remove them prior to April 7. The Olive Township Trustees are not responsible for flowers or decorations left on cemetery lots. POMEROY — Cemetery cleanup in preparation for spring will begin in Salisbury Township cemeteries the week of April 1, the trustees announced. Road Clean-up CHESTER — Shade River Lodge 453 will conduct a road River City Kids production clean-up at 6 p.m. April 8. MemSYRACUSE — River City Kids bers to meet at the lodge hall. production Doo Woo Wed Widing Hood will take place at 7 p.m. Cemetery Cleanups April 5 and 2 p.m. April 6 at SyraTUPPERS PLAINS — Cleancuse Community Center. Tickets up of the Tuppers Plains Chirisat the door are $8. Food is avail- tian Church Cemetery will begin able from the Syracuse Commu- on April 3. All flowers and other nity Center. items will be removed. Mowing and trimming fees are $25 and Registration must be paid by the first mowing. RACINE — Preschool and Payments are payable to Martie kindergarten registration dates Baum, 41036, SR 7, Reedsville, Shade River for Southern Local have been an- Ohio 45772. Lodge Scholarships nounced. Preschool registration RUTLAND TWP. — Rutland CHESTER — Shade River will be March 31-April 1. Kinder- Township Trustees ask that all Lodge 453 will be awarding two $250 scholarships to eligible seniors at Eastern High School. To qualify to apply those eligible must be children and/or grandchildren of Shade River Lodge members. Deadline to apply is April 25. For more information contact school counselor or call Delma Pullins, 985-3669. Immunization Clinic POMEROY — The Meigs County Health Department will conduct a childhood immunization clinic from 9-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. Tuesday at the Meigs County Health Department located at 112 E. Memorial Drive in Pomeroy. Bring child’s shot record. Children must be accompanied by a parent/legal guardian. A donation is appreciated for immunization administration, however no one will be denied services. Bring medical cards or commercial insurance cards. �2==:2î�@F?EJî"@42=î�C:67D City commission meeting GALLIPOLIS — The Gallipolis City Commission will hold its regular monthly meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 1 at the Gallipolis Municipal Building, 333 Third Avenue, Gallipolis. The meeting room may be accessed through the side entrance door by 2 1/2 Alley. Farmers market annual meeting GALLIPOLIS — The Gallia County Farmer’s Market will be holding their annual meeting from 5:30-6:30 p.m. on April 3 at the Gallia County OSU Extension Office, 111 Jackson Pike, Suite 1572, Gallipolis. During the meeting, there will be the election of officers and board members. Those individuals who were members of the market last year and would like to be a board member should call (740) 339-3216. The market will be accepting new members, so individuals interested in the farmer’s market should attend. SOCOG meeting CHILLICOTHE — The Southern Ohio Council of Governments (SOCOG) will hold its next board meeting at 10 a.m. April 3 in Room A of the Ross County Service Center at 475 Western Ave., Chillicothe. Board meetings usually are held the first Thursday of the month. For more information, call (740) 775-5030 Ext. 103. SOCOG provides admin- istrative support for the County Boards of Developmental Disabilities in Adams, Athens, Brown, Clinton, Fayette, Gallia, Highland, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Pickaway, Pike, Ross, Scioto and Vinton counties. Solid waste district board meets April 10 WELLSTON — The Gallia-Jackson-Meigs-VinDust-patching, ton Solid Waste Manageherbicidal opt-out ment District Board of forms available Directors will meet at 3:30 GALLIPOLIS — Gallia p.m. April 10 at the district County Engineer Brett A. office, 1056 S. New Hamp- Boothe says annual dust patching and herbicidal shire Ave., Wellston. 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Thoughts come back of the last words said. Unbelievable how 15 years have come and gone. Love and memories keep you living on. We ask why things happen the way that they do. With God, Faith and Love~ HE will guide us to you. 60494027 Forever Loved & Missed Mom, Dad, Angie, Niece Megan & Nephew Mason 60493386 MONDAY EVENING Schedule: 6:30pm to 7:00pm 7:00pm to 7:05pm 7:05pm to 7:25pm 7:25pm to 7:40pm 7:40pm to 8:10pm Advertise your business in this space, or bigger m Where? The new OVCS gym 1100 Fourth Ave., Gallipolis, OH Community leaders and organizations will be presenting: • How big and how serious is our community drug problem? • Drug Culture - Signs of Addiction • Front Line Warriors in the battle • Are you or a loved one struggling? There is Help and Hope! This advertisement is paid by an Opiate Task Force Grant through the Gallia-Jackson-Meigs Board of Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services. Alumni Association offering scholarships CENTENARY — The Gallia Academy Alumni Association has established a scholarship program that will award two one-time $1,000 scholarships for financial assistance to current Gallia Academy High School graduating seniors. Applications are available in the guidance office at GAHS or online on the GAHS website. Complete applications are due by May 16. May 25, 1982 – March 31, 1999 · 8am-1p Concession availab Great off-street p le! arking! Town Hall Meeting Restoration – Let’s Take Our Community Back 160. The deadline for submissions is May 1. Shawn Michael Henry OVCS Yard Sal e & Vendor Fair April 5t h Date: April 7, 2014 Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM Venue: Elizabeth Chapel Church Gymnasium 55 Locust Street, Gallipolis, Ohio opt-out forms are now being accepted at the Engineer’s Office. The dust patching form is required for residents who would like to apply for materials to be applied at a requested site to reduce the dust generated from traffic on a county road. The herbicidal opt-out form is required for residents who do not want herbicidal spraying in specific areas along county road right-of-ways and agree to maintain those areas. Both forms may be picked up at the Engineer’s Office, 1167 Ohio Two Great Events, One Great Location!! Citizens for Prevention and Recovery (CPR) Our community resource individuals will stay as long as necessary to answer your questions. Tables and Representatives Available: Area Agency on Aging Field of Hope Gallia County Juvenile Court Gallia County Sheriff Gallia Strong Tower Gallia-Jackson-Meigs Board of Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Gallipolis City Police Health Recivery Services, Inc. Holzer of Gallipolis Community Health and Wellness Refuge Representative Ryan Smith, District 93 Stepping Stones TASC of SE Ohio Wing Haven Woodland Centers, Inc. Gallia highway department posts summer hours GALLIPOLIS — The Gallia County Highway Department will begin working from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, beginning April 14. The schedule will be in effect throughout the summer construction season. 57 (OXY) 58 60 61 (WE) (E!) (TVL) 62 (NGEO) 64 (NBCSN) 65 (FS1) 67 (HIST) 68 (BRAVO) 72 (BET) 73 (HGTV) 74 (SYFY) PREMIUM 400 (HBO) 450 (MAX) 500 (SHOW) MONDAY, MARCH 31 7 PM 7:30 Wheel of Jeopardy! Fortune Wheel of Jeopardy! Fortune Entertainm- Access ent Tonight Hollywood PBS NewsHour Providing indepth analysis of current events. Judge Judy Entertainment Tonight Jeopardy! 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A chronicle of the life and times of Lies America's controversial President, Richard Nixon. TV14 "Together" "Together" (5:00) �OPINION Sunday Times-Sentinel Page A4 SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2014 Pope Francis isn’t a party boss Letters to The Editor By E.J. Dionne Toll road on U.S. 35 a bad idea Editor’s note: The following is a portion of a letter directed to Sen. Joe Manchin from Gene Zopp, of Gallipolis Ferry. It has been edited to conform to the newspaper’s length and style guidelines. I would like to request a clarification of a statement you reportedly made regarding tolling U.S. 35 in a Feb. 20 town hall meeting in Mason County. The clarification I request is whether you are referring to our tax return law as it is now written or did you have a notyet-existent tax law revision in mind to make all out-of-pocket toll fees incurred by state residents to be a refundable credit? My concern is that as our present tax laws are written, there is no provision for deducting toll expenses to the extent one has no out-of-pocket expenses. As our tax law now stands, there is no way your statement, according to a story published in the Point Pleasant Register, regarding “all the tolls wouldn’t have cost you a penny” is accurate. I am personally opposed to any West Virginia road being tolled. A toll road in any county will hinder business from locating in that area. It is not fair to punish isolated areas of our state with a toll road passing through their city or county to raise funds for highway maintenance. Certainly, funds are sorely needed to defray the upkeep of our state roads. A better solution is an approach whereby all residents of the state share in providing those funds. There was once a consideration of a bill to increase auto registration fees in West Virginia and use the funds for road maintenance. It was vetoed by our governor. There needs to be such consideration of raising highway funds wherein all taxpaying West Virginia citizens make a contribution rather than tolling roads in certain locations and penalizing only residents in a given area. Maybe there has to be a higher gasoline tax or a higher tax on vehicle purchases. Whatever the solution, all residents of this great state need to pay their fair share. Perhaps the state needs to require trucking firms that regularly use state roads to pay higher user fees. Users, whose heavy vehicles do more damage to state roads, should expect to withstand a greater cost. Gene Zopp Gallipolis Ferry Dilemna on Pomeroy employee salary increases Dear Editor, You really have to hand it to the elected folks running the village of Pomeroy. They recently granted pay raises to everyone in the police department, from the chief to the meter patrolman. That’s OK. They granted a raise for the village solicitor. That’s OK, too. They granted a raise for the magistrate. Again, that’s OK. Not to be outdone, at the March 24 meeting, they approved a pay raise for the mayor and council members to take effect next election cycle. They’re prohibited from giving themselves a raise during their current terms. That wasn’t really quite good enough, so they’re going to pay themselves when they perform as chairperson of whatever committee they select at the beginning of the year. Oh, we also need to pay the other two members of the committee when they attend. Three members on a committee is the maximum allowed because if you have four, that would qualify as a council meeting. Notice anybody missing from all this? How about the Public Works employees? The water department clerk, tax clerk, fiscal officer? I don’t know how in good conscience you could give raises to yourselves or whoever will be in those positions, the entire police department and others providing services, and determine that half the employees don’t deserve a raise. You should be ashamed. Bryan Shank Pomeroy WASHINGTON — President Obama’s first salary as a community organizer was paid by a Catholic group and his earliest social justice work was rooted in Catholic social doctrine. He identified with Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, then Chicago’s archbishop, whose consistent ethic of life encompassed a dedication to the poor, a concern over the human costs of war, and opposition to the death penalty. You could imagine that at his meeting with Pope Francis on Thursday, the president was tempted to ask: Why can’t these American bishops get along with me? Or, perhaps more humbly: Holy Father, what can I do to make these guys happy? It is a sign of how politicized the American Catholic Church has become that its different factions were lobbying hard over the message the bishop of Rome should send after meeting with the president of the United States. Catholic conservatives hoped that Francis would again condemn abortion by way of upbraiding the pro-choice Obama. They were also seeking strong language supporting the campaign spearheaded by the more conservative bishops against the contraception mandate in the health care law. Catholic progressives were looking for Francis to push the president to move more forcefully against poverty and inequality, around the world and not just at home. They hoped for some of the pope’s searing criticisms of global capitalism by way of reminding Obama that the Catholic Church is well to his left on economic matters. Both sides, in other words, want Francis to bless their own positions inside the American Catholic struggle. The progressives believe they now have a friend in Rome and conservatives worry the progressives might be right. After all, as Michael Sean Winters pointed out in the National Catholic Reporter, “the American bishops who are most aggressively hostile to Obama are also the American bishops who have been most resistant to Pope Francis.” But this meeting underscored something else: While Francis has decidedly moved the church back toward the social justice Catholicism that Obama connected with as a young man, Francis’ worldview is plainly not American. Efforts to shoehorn him into our debates will always have a distorting effect. And the Vatican — which itself is divided into factions — has other things to think about besides the contention within the American church. From everything he has said, Francis is, in our terms, a social conservative. Yet the issues about which he feels a genuine sense of urgency involve the hundreds of millions around the globe who suffer from extreme deprivation and oppression. From this standpoint, the political and theological skirmishes that consume so much energy among believers in wealthy countries might seem a form of self-indulgence. Francis didn’t leave conservative U.S. bishops out in the cold in their contraception battle, as the Vatican statement after the meeting made clear. But it’s difficult to see the pope joining them at the ramparts. The veteran Vatican correspondent John Allen has documented attacks on religious liberty from state-sponsored persecution, including the outright murder of Christians. In light of this, the American uproar over a requirement that contraception be subsidized in health insurance policies seems disproportionate. That’s especially true since the government-led health systems in many predominantly Catholic countries routinely cover contraception. As for foreign policy, the Vatican has an approach of its own. It has often found itself allied with Obama — for example, on his quest for Middle East peace — but has also opposed him, as when he threatened military retaliation for Syria’s use of chemical weapons. Conservatives have ignored or downplayed the Vatican’s relative dovishness, except when it provided them with another club to use against Obama. But this highlights the larger truth that Francis defies many currents of American thinking. Francis is anti-consumerist and anti-materialist. That is quite at odds with an American ethos that turns the mall into a religious shrine and shopping into a sacrament. The pope preaches a code of sacrifice that is not widely celebrated in our society outside the realm of military combat. He extols the simple life, a value popular in sections of the environmental movement, but not a big seller in a country obsessed with stuff and gadgets. It would be good if Francis encouraged the parts of the American Catholic leadership most alienated from the president to stop treating this former church employee as an enemy. But the pope’s main job is to pose a radical challenge to our complacency and social indifference. In doing so, he should stir an uneasiness that compels all of us — and that includes Obama — to examine our consciences. When geography matters most By George Will WASHINGTON — Igor Stravinsky, the Russian composer, said of Poland, perilously positioned between Russia and Germany: “If you pitch your tent in the middle of Fifth Avenue, it is quite likely you will be run over by a bus.” Poland has been run over hard and often; indeed, between 1795 and 1918 it disappeared from the map of Europe. Geography need not be destiny, but it matters, as Ukraine is being reminded. During its hazardous path to the present, all or bits of it have been parts of Poland, the Austro-Hungarian empire, the Ottoman empire, the Russian empire, the Soviet Union and now another Russian empire. Czarist Russia, which Lenin called “the prison of the peoples,” is re-emerging and has in Vladimir Putin an ambitious warden. In last week’s Kremlin address, he said, “Do not believe those who want you to fear Russia, shouting that other regions will follow Crimea. We do not Sunday Times-Sentinel Reader Services Correction Policy Our main concern in all stories is to be accurate. If you know of an error in a story, please call one of our newsrooms. 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If Putin had a sense of humor he would justify as “R2P” his policy of bringing home to the safety of mother Russia many of the Russians residing in contiguous countries. R2P — “responsibility to protect” — was the moral principle the Obama administration invoked to justify involvement in the seven-month assault on Moammar Gaddafi, who posed no threat to us but supposedly did to Libyans. On Sept. 26, 1938, Hitler said “10 million Germans” lived “in two large contiguous regions” outside the Reich, and that “if I were simply to renounce 10 million … I would then have no moral right to be fuehrer of the German people.” Putin, whose Russia had about 142 million people before he added the 2 million in Crimea, must envelop many more if he is to match the 200 million the last czar, Nicholas II, ruled 100 years ago. Can NATO help restrain Putin? After NATO was created in 1949, its first secretary general, Lord Ismay, said its purpose was to protect Europe by keeping “the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down.” The task of keeping Russia out of its neighbors is being complicated by something that would have improved the last century — German passivity. Angela Merkel may think that bringing Barack Obama to a confrontation with Putin is like bringing a knife — a butter knife — to a gun fight. In a recent New Yorker interview, Obama praised himself for being “comfortable with complexity” and unraveled the Middle East’s complications: “It would be profoundly in the interest of citizens throughout the region if Sunnis and Shias weren’t intent on killing each other.” This is the president as poseur — detached, laconic, arch, almost droll: If only — apologies to Kipling — the lesser breeds without the law would behave. Obama evidently harbors the surreal hope that Putin will continue to help regarding Syria and Iran. Continue? Putin’s client in Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, is winning his civil war. And regarding attempts to halt Iran’s nuclear weapons program, Putin’s helpfulness, if not fictitious, has been ineffective. Obama, always a slayer of straw men, has eschewed something no one has contemplated, “a military excursion in Ukraine.” The American Heritage Dictionary defines “excursion” as “a usually short journey made for pleasure.” �Sunday, March 30, 2014 &@>6C@JîLî#:55=6A@CEîLî�2==:A@=:D Sunday Times Sentinel Lî&286î�� %3:EF2C:6D JOSEPH K. SLONE RICKY BLANTON and Sherry (Jeff Wetherholt); brothers Karry, of Columbus, and Jess, of Florida; several nieces and nephews; and aunts and uncles. He was preceded in death by a brother, Erskine Eugene Jr.; his twin sister Vicky; sisters Cathy and Pamela; maternal grandparents John and Elsie Miller; and paternal grandparents Bert and Elizabeth Blanton. Funeral services were held in Akron. EDNA MAE HALLEY CROWN CITY — Edna Mae Halley, 89, of Crown City, Ohio, passed away on Thursday, March 27, 2014, at her son’s home. Edna was born on December 13, 1924, in Gallia County, Ohio. She was the daughter of the late Alta and Eva Barry Pinkerman. She was raised in the home of Glenville and Melva Halley. She was married to Billey Halley for 61 years and he preceded her in death in 2003. Edna was a devoted homemaker and had a love for working outdoors in her flowerbeds. Her greatest joy was taking care of and spending time with her family. She lived a life that was an example for many; always being a role-model for upholding family values. Even though everyday included working hard on the farm with the dairy and crops, she still managed to always have a hot meal ready for anyone who came to the door. Edna is survived by three children Wanda (Chuck) Staton of Milton, Florida, Linda Fulks, and Jeff (Wendy) Halley, both of Crown City; four grandchildren, Tim (June) Calhoun, of Pensacola, Florida, Marlena Durst of Crown City, Jennifer (Bobby) Angel of Gallipolis, and Kristen (Stevie) Pelfrey of Patriot; three great-grandchildren, Abigail, Durst, Halli and Jake Angel; one sister, Erma (Joe) Lewis of Columbus, and a nephew, Terry Halley, who Edna raised lovingly in her home. Edna was preceded in death by her husband, an infant daughter, Brenda Lee, and a son-in-law, Richard Fulks. Edna’s family gives special thanks to her care-giver Tonia Call. Services will be 2 p.m. Monday, March 31, 2014, at Willis Funeral Home with Pastor Berkley Saunders officiating. Burial will follow in Ridgelawn Cemetery. Friends may call from 12:30 p.m. until the time of the services on Monday at the funeral home. Pallbearers will be Terry Halley, Bobby Angel, Stevie Pelfrey, John Baker, Scott Swain and Bill Call. Please visit www.willisfuneralhome.com to send e-mail condolences. LENA E. (DEJARNETT) FOWBLE GALLIPOLIS FERRY — Lena E. (DeJarnett) Fowble, 96, of Gallipolis Ferry, W.Va., formerly of Addison, Ohio, passed away on Friday, March 28, 2014, at the Pleasant Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Pt. Pleasant, W.Va. She was born on May 14, 1917, at Salt Rock, W.Va., daughter of the late John Hamilton and Della Ferrell DeJarnett. Lena was preceded in death by her husband, Chelcie C. Fowble, in 1985; a son, Raymond, in 1948; and by three brothers, Scott, Frank and Paul DeJarnett; three sisters, Anna Zornes, Lilly Stewart and Dorothy in infancy. She was 4-H member years ago, member of Wohelo homemakers clubs, a member of Beale Chapel Church and church circle. She loved to make quilts and gave many, many away. Surviving are two daughters, Nancy (Dexter) Dowell and Linda (Jim) Bragg both of Gallipolis Ferry, W.Va.; two sons, Robert (Stephanie) Fowble of Apple Grove, W.Va., and Chelcie “Bud” (Barbara) Fowble of Gallipolis; one brother, Sidney (Alma) DeJarnett of Barboursville, W.Va.; one sister-in-law, Jean DeJarnett of Huntington, W.Va.; nine grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and one great-grandchild due in September. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at Beale Chapel Church in Apple Grove, W.Va., with Tommy Moore officiating. Burial will follow in the Oak Lawn Memorial Park in Barboursville. Friends may call at Willis Funeral Home in Gallipolis on Monday, March 31, 2014, from 6-8 p.m. Her body will lie in state at the church on Tuesday an hour prior the services. Pall bearers will be Bill, Ronnie, and John DeJarnett, Perry Morrison, Tom Lewis, Jeff Handshaw. Honorary Pallbearers will be Eddie DeJarnett, Tom Moore and Ron Cremeans. Please visit www.willisfuneralhome.com to send e-mail condolences. GEORGE CLINTON THOMPSON POMEROY — George Clinton Thompson, 61, of Pomeroy, passed away Friday, Jan. 10, 2014, at O’Bleness Hospital in Athens of heart failure. He was born June 6, 1952, in Gallipolis, the son of the late G. R (Bob) and Alice K. Thompson. He was preceded in death by a sister, Maryanna Mitchell. He is survived by his soul mate of 20 years, Shirley Stephenson; the son he helped raise, Don (Robin) Stephenson; a sister, Louella (Wayne) Roush, of Texas; a brother, Fred (Andrea) Thompson, of North Carolina; and several nieces and nephews. He worked for 30 years with his father at Associated Fabricators (formerly Fulton-Thompson Tractor Sales) in Pomeroy. Throughout his school years, he was seriously ill with kidney infections. At age 19, he became Meigs County’s first kidney transplant recipient and celebrated more than 40 years with that second lease on life. He loved the outdoors and enjoyed hunting and fishing. He was somewhat of a local expert on guns and ammunition with interests ranging from antique muzzle loaders, revolvers and shotguns to modern high-power rifles. He also loaded much of his own ammunition. Besides guns, his interests included Dodge diesel trucks and making candles for friends and relatives. He is lovingly remembered for the years that he served ice cream at the annual Thompson family reunion. An outdoor memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Saturday, April 5, 2014, on the farm where he lived at 42145 Thompson Way. Lifeline of Ohio has gratefully acknowledged that George became a cornea transplant donor after his death. He had indicated on his driver’s license that he wanted to be an organ donor. The cycle of lifegiving donation continues. WEST MANCHESTER, Ohio — Joseph K. Slone, 56, of West Manchester, passed away suddenly on Thursday, March 27, 2014, at his residence. He was born April 18, 1957, in Gallipolis. Joe was a 1975 graduate of Hannan Trace High School in Mercerville. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Morehead State University and received his master’s degree from the University of Dayton. He taught two years at Wellston High School and, since 1983, taught agriculture education and was FFA advisor at National Trail High School. He was preceded in death by his father James M. Slone. He is survived by his mother Viola E. Slone, of Crown City; daughter Jessica W. (Collin) Helsinger, of West Manchester; son Justin G. Slone, of Bridgeport, Texas; granddaughter Emma Helsinger, of West Manchester; brother James (Rebecca) Slone, of Oak Hill; sister Cathy (Dean) Martin, of Crown City; nephews Tim and Kevin; niece Mary Beth; great-nephew Hunter; and great-niece Samantha. Visitation will be 3-7 p.m. Sunday, March 30, 2014, at Eaton Church of the Brethren, 813 Camden Road, in Eaton. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Monday, March 31, 2014, at the church. Visitation will also be 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at Willis Funeral Home in Gallipolis, with a graveside services to follow at 1:30 pm at Ridgelawn Cemetery in Mercerville. Girton Schmidt & Boucher Gard Funeral Home in Eaton is assisting the family with local arrangements. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to the Joseph Slone Memorial Fund, c/o LCNB National Bank, 201 S. Washington St., New Paris, OH 45347. Online condolences and other remembrances may be sent to the family by visiting www.gsbfuneralhome.com and www.willisfuneralhome.com. ELILA A. ADAMS TUPPERS PLAINS — Elila A. Adams, 74, of Tuppers Plains, left this earth Thursday, March 27, 2014, at Camden Clark Memorial Campus after a sudden illness. She was born September 22, 1939, in Parkersburg, W.Va., the daughter of the late Forrest and Eula Cooper Ward. She worked for Rampp Company in Marietta and Wente Construction in Belpre. She later freelanced as an abstractor all over the eastern United States. She was active in the Parkersburg Moose Club. She is survived by two sons, Keith (Sheryle) Adams of Vincent and David (Kim) Adams of Tuppers Plains; three grandchildren, Joshua Adams (Christa) of Fleming, Matthew Adams (Kayla) of Vienna, Sydnee Adams of Tuppers Plains. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a sister, Barbara Rice. Funeral services will be Sunday at 5 p.m. at WhiteSchwarzel Funeral Home in Coolville. Friends may call the funeral home on Sunday from 2 p.m. until the time of the service. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The American Humane Society, 29th and Poplar Streets, Parkersburg, W.Va. 26101. Friends may sign the online guest book at whiteschwarzelfh.com. �62E9î$@E:46D SNYDER CROWN CITY — Teddy Joe Snyder, 50, of Crown City, Ohio, died Friday, March 28, 2014, at home. Funeral service will be conducted at 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at Hall Funeral home, Proctorville, Ohio, by Pastor Luther Dingess. Burial will follow in Miller MemoROBIE MASON — Clara Ro- rial Gardens, Miller, Ohio. Visitation will be held from bie, 57, died on Saturday, 6-8 p.m. Monday, March 31, March 29, 2014, in Mason, 2014, at the funeral home. West Virginia. Funeral services will be WARD held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, MIDDLEPORT — Floyd April 1, 2014, at Anderson Ward of Middleport, Ohio, McDaniel Funeral Home died on Saturday, March in Pomeroy. Visitation for 29, 2014, at his residence. family and friends will be Arrangements are incomheld from 6-8 p.m. on Mon- plete and will be announced day, March 31, 2014, at the by Anderson McDaniel Fufuneral home. neral Home. NUCKLES BELLEVIEW, Fla. — Lawrence E. Nuckles, 91, of Belleview, born in Gallipolis, died March 10, 2014, at his residence. Services were held in Ocala, Fla., at the convenience of the family. KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban militants attacked an American charity and a nearby day care center Friday, sending foreigners — including women and children — fleeing while Afghan security forces battled the gunmen. An Afghan girl, a driver and all five attackers were killed. The assault is the latest aimed at foreigners in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and suggests the Taliban are shifting tactics to focus on civilian targets that aren’t as heavily protected as military and government installations as part of an overall surge in violence ahead of April 5 elections. It also appeared aimed at sending a message to the U.S. and its allies as the Obama administration presses the Afghan government to sign a security agreement that would allow thousands of international troops to stay after the NATO-mandated combat mission ends in December. The attack began in a way typical of the Taliban, which claimed responsibility in a statement. A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives in front of the four-story building housing workers with the California-based Roots of Peace, then four gunmen rushed into the compound. Roots of Peace said the organization’s guards pursued the attackers into the house and killed two of them, while four foreign aid workers — two Americans, a South African and a Malaysian — took cover inside. Two of the foreigners went to the roof while the other two hunkered down in their rooms, said the group’s president, Gary Kuhn. One man survived by hiding in the closet with clothes pulled over himself, even after a grenade was thrown in his room, Kuhn said from his office in San Rafael, California. Members of the Afghan National Police rapid reaction force, wearing helmets and bulletproof vests, cordoned off the area. Kuhn said an adjacent children’s day care center used mostly by foreigners also was hit, although it was unclear if it was actually targeted. About two dozen foreigners, including women and children, were evacuated from the day care center, which is not connected with Roots of Peace. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said insurgents attacked a “guest house of foreigners and a church of foreigners” and vowed in a statement that “we will keep on killing foreigners.” Kuhn said he didn’t have more details about the neighboring building, which is separated by a wall. His wife, Heidi Kuhn, said it was “a day care center that does have Christian religious services.” Kuhn had planned to travel to Kabul next week with his son. Besides the suicide bomber, all four gunmen were killed, ending the standoff at about 8 p.m, Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Seddiq Seddiqi said. An Afghan girl died in the crossfire, Deputy Interior Minister Mohammed Ayub Salangi said. However, Seddiqi said the dead civilians were a driver and an Afghan woman. The discrepancy couldn’t immediately be resolved. Roots of Peace, founded by the Kuhns in 1997 after Heidi Kuhn survived cancer, is currently running two projects supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development as well as advising Afghanistan’s agriculture ministry. The projects involve helping farmers shift from lower value crops like wheat to more lucrative ones, such as almonds, grapes and pomegranates. In past years the group, which employees 350 people in Afghanistan and works in all 34 provinces, has worked to clear land mines from farm land. “It’s just a tragic, tragic, tragic situation. We stand in solidarity with Afghan families. We stand in firm solidarity with Afghan people,” Heidi Kuhn said. Witnesses say several houses caught fire, possibly from the car bomb blast. Mohammed Sadi, who lives in the upscale neighborhood, said the force of the explosion rattled buildings several blocks away and broke windows in his house. “Then gunfire started and the police blocked all the roads,” he said. The affluent area, located near parliament, is home to some of the candidates in next month’s elections for president and a provincial council, although it didn’t appear they were the targets. The U.S. Embassy in Kabul condemned the attack “on an organization that only seeks to help Afghans improve their lives and livelihood.” It was the latest in a series of high-profile attacks targeting places long considered safe havens for Westerners in the country. Gunmen slipped through security last week into a luxury hotel in Kabul with pistols and ammunition hidden in their shoes, then opened fire, killing nine people, including two Afghan children who were dining in the restaurant. Tope’s Furniture Galleries 151 Second Avenue s Gallipolis, Ohio 740-446-0332 Semi-Annual Drapery Sale Save 20 % CUSTOM MADE AND PROFESSIONALLY INSTALLED WINDOW TREATMENTS INCLUDING: sDrapery sCurtains sSheers sValances ALSO SAVE 20% ON “FABRIC BY THE YARD” AND CUSTOM MADE BEDDING ENSEMBLES www.topefurniture.com 60488835 AKRON — Ricky Blanton, 57, passed away Thursday, March 20, 2014, in Akron. Ricky was born in Gallipolis. He was the son of the late Erskine Blanton Sr. and Joyce Miller Blanton, of Vinton. Ricky is survived by his wife, Karen; his mother Joyce; sisters Sheila (Alvin Yester), Cindy (Carl Webb) *2=:32?î>:=:E2?EDî 2EE24<î+)î2:5î 8C@FAî:?î!23F= 60494009 �&@>6C@JîLî#:55=6A@CEîLî�2==:A@=:D Page A6 LîSunday Times Sentinel Sunday, March 30, 2014 #2CD92==î@CE9@A65:4îDFC86@?Dî;@:?î&,�îE62> Register Staff PPRnews@civitasmedia.com POINT PLEASANT — Pleasant Valley Hospital has three new surgeons who will join Dr. Clifford Roberson at PVH Orthopaedics. Dr. Ali Oliashirazi, Dr. Alan Koester, and Dr. Zach Tankersley, from the department of orthopaedics at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, will soon be providing services at PVH. Dr. Koester and Dr. Tankersley will start providing services in April, and Dr. Oliashirazi will start providing services for patients in June. “One of the many great things about our partnership with Cabell Huntington Hospital and the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine is that it provides new and expanded healthcare avenues and choices onsite at PVH. The addition of these award-winning Marshall physicians and surgeons to PVH Orthopaedics expands the existing services provided by Dr. Roberson and brings members of a nationally recognized surgical group to the community,” said Glen Dr. Ali Oliashirazi Dr. Alan Koester Washington, PVH chief executive officer. “We are making highly specialized medicine available at Pleasant Valley Hospital.” PVH Orthopaedics offers care for patients with sports-related injuries, arthroscopic knee and shoulder surgery, reconstructive foot and ankle surgery and more. “I am pleased we are working with Cabell Huntington Hospital and Marshall to offer many new benefits and improved access to highlyspecialized medical care at Pleasant Valley Hospital,” Robertson said. “I have referred my patients to Marshall Orthopaedics for several years and I am extremely impressed with their profes- sionalism and surgical skills. Now, my patients can receive advanced care at Pleasant Valley Hospital.” Roberson earned his medical degree at the College of Medicine at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Following medical school, he completed internship training in general surgery and residency training in orthopedic surgery at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C. He has more than 30 years experience in the medical field and has practiced at Pleasant Valley Hospital since 2007. Oliashirazi is the founding chair of Marshall’s department of orthopaedics and also serves as a profes- Sentences upheld for Ohio bridge bomb plotters COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A failed anti-Wall Street plot to bomb a highway bridge near Cleveland had an element of terrorism to it, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in upholding the sentences of four men in the case, including the addition of extra time because of the terrorism factor. The court also said Akron federal judge David Dowd correctly added time to the sentence of defendant Douglas Wright as the group’s leader. The ruling by a panel of three judges unanimously upheld the 11 ½-year sentence for Wright, of Indianapolis; the more than 9-year sentence of Brandon Baxter, of suburban Cleveland; and the 8-year sentence of Connor Stevens, of Berea. The panel ruled 2-1 to uphold the 6-year sentence of Anthony Hayne, of Cleveland. The terrorism element added about five years to each man’s sentence, while the leadership element added one to two additional years to Wright’s sentence, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Cleveland, which prosecuted the cases. The defendants, who all pleaded guilty, were accused of plotting to blow up a busy highway bridge over the Cuyahoga Valley National Park between Cleveland and Akron. An informant who secretly recorded conversations helped FBI agents foil the bomb plot, and an undercover agent supplied the would-be bridge-bombers with fake plastic explosives, authorities have said. The government described the suspects as self-proclaimed anarchists who acted out of anger against corporate America and the government. The cumulative evidence in the case justifies the judge’s use of the “terrorism enhancement” permitted in federal sentencing rules, according to Friday’s ruling by Judge Guy Cole of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. That includes the bridge-bombing plot, a plan to engage in violent protests in Chicago, and the defendants’ consideration of bombing two government buildings, the ruling said. “They expected that the government would respond to the bridge bombing—that the bombing would ‘influence or affect’ the government—by taking new security measures,” Cole wrote. Bank Financing Available Dr. Clifford Roberson Dr. Zach Tankersley sor in the department. He is a board-certified physician who specializes in hip and knee replacement surgery, including computernavigated surgery. He was valedictorian at George Washington University School of Medicine before completing his residency in orthopedic surgery at the Mayo Clinic. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery, a member of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons and the International Society for Computer-Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery. Koester is an associate professor and chief of hand surgery at Marshall Orthopaedics. He is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon who specializes in finger, hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder problems. He earned his medical degree from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine before completing a residency in orthopedic surgery at Southern Illinois University. He completed advanced training in hand and upper extremity surgery at the University of New Mexico. He also serves as a member of the Permanent Total Disability Board for West Virginia. Tankersley is an associate professor and chief of the foot and ankle surgical service at Marshall Orthopaedics. He also serves as the team podiatrist for the Marshall University Thundering Herd and an adjunct professor in the division of exercise science, sport and recreation at Marshall University. He is boardcertified in foot and reconstructive rearfoot and ankle surgery and specializes in reconstructive foot and ankle surgery, deformity correction and diabetic limb preservation surgery. Tankersley earned his degree from Des Moines University before completing a residency in foot, ankle and lower leg surgery at Western Pennsylvania Hospital/ Temple University School of Medicine Clinical Campus in Pittsburgh. After his residency, Tankersley completed an orthopedic fellowship in limb deformity reconstruction at the Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopaedics and the International Center for Limb Lengthening at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. He is a fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons and a diplomate of the American Board of Podiatric Surgery. Physicians and surgeons at PVH Orthopaedics are accepting new patients. For an appointment or more information, call (304) 675-2781, or visit www.pvalley.org. -:=5=:76îC6D4F6î@?8@:?8î:?î@:=î4=62?FA CINCINNATI (AP) — Officials are hoping that as crews move through the next stage of cleanup of thousands of gallons of pipeline oil that leaked into a nature preserve the threat to wildlife will end. Crews are winding down the initial emergency response, which focused on removing the heaviest concentrations of oil in the Oak Glen Nature Preserve, west of Cincinnati. Federal officials estimate more than 20,000 gallons spilled into the preserve from the leak, discovered nearly two weeks ago. No problems have been detected with air quality or area water wells, but an official with the Great Parks of Hamilton County, which owns the preserve, said at least 20 animals including salamanders, frogs and crayfish had died. More than 40 animals had been taken from the preserve to be cleaned and cared for until they could be returned to the wild. Parks stewardship manager Bob Mason said at least 14 rescued creatures had been released into the Miami Whitewater Forest. A fence was installed around an oil-contaminated intermittent stream to prevent wildlife from entering it, and wildlife crews patrolling the area hope to be able to end the rescue effort soon. Crews have continued flushing the stream and vacuuming large amounts of oil from soil and water in the 374-acre preserve. But a spokesman with the pipeline’s primary owner, Sunoco Logistics, said the cleanup phase to start next week will concentrate on removing residual oil. “We will be working to restore the stream to its previous conditions and removing contaminated soil from it very carefully,” Sunoco Logistics spokesman Jeff Shields said. Mason, who expects to find more dead creatures, said crews will need to avoid any cleanup that could further damage the habitat. Ohio woman arrested in husband’s poisoning death CINCINNATI (AP) — A northeastern Ohio woman whose husband died after authorities say he unwittingly ingested a drink spiked with antifreeze was arrested Friday on a murder charge. Teresa Kotomski was taken into custody at her Conneaut home by the Ashtabula County Sheriff’s Office after a grand jury indicted her earlier this week. Investigators say new information led to the 53-year-old woman’s arrest in the poisoning death years ago of her husband, Raymond Kotomski, but they declined to be specific or discuss a possible motive. Gallia2147Auto Sales Jackson Pike 446-0724 Trade In’s Welcome The couple had been married five years when 65-year-old Raymond Kotomski died at a hospital three days after he was found unconscious in his Pierpont home Aug. 13, 2009. An autopsy found he had died of complications from ethylene glycol toxicity. Ethylene glycol most commonly is found in antifreeze, which is sweet to the taste and can be easily disguised in sweet foods and drinks. “This case goes to show that families should not give up hope that a suspect will be identified in the death of a loved one, even if several years have passed,” Attorney General Mike DeWine said in a statement. It was unclear Friday whether Teresa Kotomski has an attorney. Au- thorities say she was living with family at the home in Conneaut, about 65 miles northeast of Cleveland. A message left at the home seeking comment was not immediately returned. Sheriff’s Lt. Terry Moisio said Teresa Kotomski wasn’t initially a suspect in her husband’s death. He described her as subdued during her arrest Friday. “She didn’t appear to be upset. She was just very quiet,” he said. Raymond Kotomski, originally from Pittsburgh, had been a longtime corrections officer at Western Penitentiary. “He was a great father, a good husband,” his former wife, Marylou Kotomski, told The Associated Press. “He was a very standup guy. He was loved by many.” Marylou Kotomski, who still lives in Pittsburgh, said she never met her ex-husband’s new wife and never talked about her with the three children she and Raymond Kotomski had during their 36 years of marriage. “I’m just shaking,” she said. “I knew him better than anybody. I go to my husband’s cemetery, I’ve talked to him, I’ve prayed for him. I’ve prayed for justice and I hope everything works out.” She said her ex-husband was extremely close to his children and grandchildren. His oldest grandson, Nikkolas Mamula, 27, posted an online message to his grandfather Tuesday, which would have been Kotomski’s 70th birthday. “You were sadly taken from us in 2009,” Mamula wrote. “That we still don’t have any answers for and it hurts every day.” US recognizes Mich. same-sex couple marriages 2013 Chevy Malibu 32,900 17,900 Factory Warranty! 2 to Choose From Starting at $ Factory Warranty! 2 LT (22,000 Miles) $ 2013 Dodge RAM Factory Warranty! 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Holder’s action will enable the government to extend eligibility for federal benefits to the Michigan couples who married Saturday, which means they can file federal taxes jointly, get Social Security benefits for spouses and request legal immigration status for partners, among other benefits. The attorney general said the families should not be asked to endure uncertainty regarding their benefits while courts decide the issue of same-sex marriage in Michi- �Sunday Times-Sentinel SPORTS SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2014 mdsports@civitasmedia.com B1 Point Pleasant nips White Falcons, 8-7 By Alex Hawley ahawley@civitasmedia.com POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — All it takes is one. The Point Pleasant baseball team scored the game’s only run over the final three innings Friday night as they defeated guest Wahama 8-7. Wahama (0-2) struck first with a run in the top half of the opening frame, but Point Pleasant (2-1) answered with four markers in the bottom of the first. The White Falcons cut the lead to one in the top of the second, but PPHS scored three in the home half of the second to push the lead to 7-3. The Red and White pulled even with a run in the third and three in the fourth. See POINT | B2 Alex Hawley | OVP Sports Wahama senior Kane Roush (2) steals second base infront of Point Pleasant senior Alex Somerville, during the Big Blacks 8-7 victory on Friday. Alex Hawley | OVP Sports Gretchen Nibert of Point Pleasant returns a forehand during Thursday night’s girls tennis match against Spring Valley in Point Pleasant, W.Va. Lady Knights fall to Spring Valley By Bryan Walters bwalters@civitasmedia.com POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Not all was lost. The Point Pleasant girls tennis team suffered its second consecutive setback at home Thursday night following a 6-1 loss to visiting Spring Valley in a non-conference matchup at the new PPJSHS courts in Mason County. The Lady Knights (0-2) have been defeated in 13 of the 14 matches played at their new home early on, but junior Kelsey Allbright provided the lone host triumph Thursday night with an 8-5 victory over Meredith Hall in second singles. Allbright also dropped an 8-6 tiebreaker for a 9-8 loss to Abigail Cadle of Nitro Monday night in the season opener. Those are the only two matches of the year in which PPHS has won more than four games in any one outing. Valerie Smith dropped an 8-0 decision to Katie Swan in first singles, while Kaitlyn Dunn suffered an 8-2 setback to Abby Chaffins in the third singles. Gretchen Nibert also dropped an 8-0 decision in fourth singles to Hannah Ray of SVHS. Smith and Allbright suffered an 8-2 setback to Swan and Hall in first doubles, while Dunn and Nibert dropped an 8-4 decision to Chaffins and Shelby Wellman in second doubles. Ealisha Ebert and Macy Adkins also lost an 8-1 decision to Ray and McKenzie Wright in third doubles. OVP Sports Schedule Monday, March 31 Baseball River Valley at Gallia Academy, 5 p.m. Miller at Eastern, 5 p.m. Trimble at Southern, 5 p.m. Warren at Meigs, 5 p.m. South Gallia at Federal Hocking, 5 p.m. Point Pleasant at Ripley, 7 p.m. Belpre at Wahama, 6 p.m. Softball River Valley at Gallia Academy, 5 p.m. South Gallia at Federal Hocking, 5 p.m. Crosslanes Christian at Hannan (DH), 5:30 Trimble at Southern, 5 p.m. Belpre at Wahama, 6 p.m. Miller at Eastern, 5 p.m. Warren at Meigs, 5 p.m. Tennis Huntington at Point Pleasant, 4:30 Photos by Alex Hawley | OVP Sports Point Pleasant senior Payton Fetty slides safe into second base past the Mallory Litton’s tag on a steal attempt during the Lady Knights 3-2 triumph on Thursday. Lady Knights top Winfield, Sissonville By Alex Hawley ahawley@civitasmedia.com POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Twice as nice. The Point Pleasant softball team earned a pair of victories Thursday night in Mason County, defeating Winfield 3-2,then turning around to defeat Sissonville 8-4. In the opening game of the evening PPHS (3-0) struck first when Karson Bonecutter scored on an error in the home half of the third. Later in the third inning Payton Fetty came around to score on a single by sophomore Makinley Higginbotham, putting the Lady Knights ahead 2-0. The Lady Generals cut the lead to in half in the top of the fourth frame when Abbie Short scored on a Cartnet Schoolcraft double. WHS added the tying run in the top of the fifth when Mallory Litton walked and later scored on a wildpitch. Fetty took a base on balls to open the home half of the fifth and then moved into scoring position with a stolen base. Higginbotham hit a single to move Fetty to third base and then Karissa Cochran drove Fetty home with a sacrifice hit to the second baseman. The Lady Knight defense allowed just one baserunner over the final two frames and PPHS took the 3-2 victory. Madison Barker earned the victory in relief after pitching 2.2 innings without giving up a hit or a run. Barker walked two and struckout three. Starting pitcher Karissa Cochran threw 4.1 innings and surrendered two runs, both earned on three hits and three walks. Cochran struckout eight of the 18 batters she faced. Abbie Short was the losing pitcher of record, giving up three runs, one earned, on four hits and a walk. Short finished with four strickouts in six innings of work. Higginbotham led the Lady Knights with two singles, followed by Barker and Cottrill with one apiece. Higginbotham and Cochran each had a run batted in, while Fetty scored two runs and Bonecutter scored once. Fetty had the Lady Knights’ lone stolen base. Schoolcraft led the Lady Generals with a double Tuesday, April 1 Baseball River Valley at Meigs, 5 p.m. Fairland at Gallia Academy, 5 p.m. Eastern at Nelsonville-York, 5 p.m. Grace Christian at Hannan, 5:30 Point Pleasant at Ravenswood, 5:15 Softball River Valley at Meigs, 5 p.m. Fairland at Gallia Academy, 5 p.m. Grace Christian at Hannan, 5:30 Track and Field Southern, Eastern, Wahama, at Meigs, 4 p.m. South Gallia, River Valley, Hannan at Point Pleasant, By Bryan Walters bwalters@civitasmedia.com 4 p.m. Tennis CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The hole Point Pleasant at St. Albans, 4:30 was simply too deep to climb out of. Host Charleston Catholic jumped Wednesday, April 2 out to an 11-3 lead after three comBaseball plete and ultimately never looked Southern at South Gallia, 5 p.m. back during a 12-8 victory over the Gallia Academy at Warren, 5 p.m. Wahama baseball team Thursday Wahama at Miller, 5 p.m. night in a non-conference matchup Eastern at Belpre, 5 p.m. in Cabell County. Hannan at Lincoln County, 5 p.m. The visiting White Falcons (0-1) Point Pleasant at Winfield, 7 p.m. outhit CCHS by a 12-8 overall marSoftball gin, but never led in the contest — as Southern at South Gallia, 5 p.m. the Irish (1-0) jumped out to an early Wayne at Point Pleasant, 5:30 3-0 lead after one inning of play. Gallia Academy at Warren, 5 p.m. WHS countered with a three-run Eastern at Belpre, 5 p.m. second to pull even at three, but Tennis the Irish responded with five runs Jackson at Gallia Academy, 4:30 Point Pleasant freshman Michaela Cottrill fields a grounder and prepares to tag a Winfield runner, during the Lady Knights 3-2 victory on Thursday. and a RBI, while Short and Litton each had a single. Short and Litton each marked a run, while Litton had the lone WHS steal. PPHS will face Winfield again on April 9, in Putnam County In the night cap the Lady Knights drew first blood with a when Higginbotham drove in Fetty with a single. Barker drove in Rebekah Darst and Cochran scored after Cottrill drew a bases loaded walk, putting PPHS ahead 3-0 at the end of three innings. See KNIGHTS | B2 Charleston Catholic outlasts Wahama, 12-8 in their half of the second — then tacked on three more in the third to secure an eight-run cushion through three full frames. Wahama answered with five runs in the top of the fourth to close the gap down to 11-8, but ultimately went scoreless the rest of the way. Charleston Catholic tacked on an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth to wrap up the four-run decision. Both teams stranded 10 runners on base and WHS committed three errors in the contest, compared to two miscues by the hosts. Domonic Marsico was the winning pitcher for CCHS, while Mason Hicks took the tough-luck loss for the guests. Demetrius Serevicz and Wesley Harrison led the White Falcons with three hits apiece, followed by Kane Roush, Wyatt Zuspan, Hunter Bradley, Garrett Miller, Tyler Grimm, Brent Larck and Jared Oliver with a safety apiece. Serevicz, Miller and Larck also had an extra-base hit in the setback. Serevicz and Miller led the offense with two RBIs each, followed by Zuspan, Bradley, Grimm and Larck with one run batted in apiece. Bradley led the guests with two runs scored, while Roush, Serevicz, Harrison, Grimm, Hicks and Oliver also scored a run each. Jordan Covelli and Connor Golden paced the Irish with two hits apiece, with Golden driving in a team-best five RBIs. Thad Jameson also scored three times for the victors. �Page B2 LîSunday Times Sentinel &@>6C@JîLî#:55=6A@CEîLî�2==:A@=:D Sunday, March 30, 2014 Lady Bison surge past Wahama, 10-0 By Bryan Walters bwalters@civitasmedia.com BUFFALO, W.Va. — The Wahama softball team fell to 0-3 overall this season following a 10-0 setback to host Buffalo in four innings Thursday night during a non-conference matchup in Putnam County. The Lady Falcons committed the only four errors in the contest and managed only one hit, which came on a single from Taylor McGrew in the top of the third. Shayln Green also reached safely in the top of the first on a walk. The Lady Bison (1-1) pounded out six hits and scored four runs apiece in the first two innings, giving BHS a comfortable 8-0 edge through two complete. Buffalo tacked on two more scores in the fourth to wrap up the mercy-rule decision. Parkins, Christia and Dingess each led BHS with two hits, while Parkins also chipped in a team-best three RBIs. Burdette was the winning pitcher of record for the hosts. McGrew took the loss for Wahama. %,&î)A@CEDî�C:67D Riverside 2-man scramble MASON, W.Va. — Riverside Golf Club will be holding its annual twoman scramble on Sunday, May 4, at the golf course. There will be two flights of competition, with Flight A consisting of either player holding an 8-or-under handicap while Flight B will consist of 9-or-more handicap players. There is a cost of $140 per team and there is a limit of 72 teams combined for both tournaments. The Flight B tourney will tee off at 7:30 a.m. and the A Flight tee off following the B Flight. Meigs County Seniors Golf League POMEROY, Ohio — The Meigs County Golf Course will be starting a seniors league for all men and women age 50-or-older on at 9 a.m. Friday, April 4. Signups will start at 8 a.m. and tee off will begin at 9 a.m. Contact the Meigs County Golf Course for more information at (740) 992-6312. Riverside seniors to kickoff on April 1 MASON, W.Va. — The of- ficial start of the 2014 Riverside senior men’s golf league will be on Tuesday, April 1 at 8 a.m. and will begin with an informative meeting. Any rule changes must be taken into consideration at this time. The League is open to all male players that are fifty years or older. Playing every week of the 26-week season is not mandatory but it is encouraged. One coyot hunt remains ROCKSPRINGS, Ohio — One coyote hunt remains in the second annual Shade River Coon Hunters Club Coyote Hunt. Coyote hunters can sign up by 6 p.m. on March 30 for the April 6 weigh-in. Cost is $20 per hunt with 75 percent payback. Prize money split between most caught, biggest male and biggest female. For more information or to sign up contact Bill Spaun at (740) 992-3992, Shannon Cremeans at (740) 985-3891, Randy Butcher at (740) 742-2302 or at the coon club at the Rocksprings Fairgrounds between 4-6 p.m. on signup day. Alex Hawley | OVP Sports Nate Loomis of Point Pleasant hits a backhand during Thursday night’s boys tennis match against Spring Valley at Point Pleasant, W.Va. &@:?EîE6??:Dî72==DîE@î)AC:?8î,2==6J By Bryan Walters bwalters@civitasmedia.com POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — The Point Pleasant boys tennis team fell to 0-2 overall this young season following a 7-0 setback to visiting Spring Valley Thursday night during a non-conference match at the new PPJSHS courts in Mason County. The Black Knights scored at least two games apiece in five of )��)î9@?@CDî2E9=6E6Dî2Eî Staff Report MERCERVILLE, Ohio — South Gallia High School honored its winter sports teams at the 2014 Winter Athletic Awards Ceremony held Tuesday, March 25, at the school’s cafeteria. Starting with the varsity girls basketball team, participation awards and firstyear awards were presented to Katie Bostic, Kelsey Corbin, Courtney Haner and Caitlyn VanScoy. Firstyear awards were also given to Maddie Simpson and Ciara Small. Second-year awards were presented to Sara Bailey, Alicia Hornsby, Mikayla Poling and Lexi Williamson, while Rachel Johnson and Lesley Small were given third-year awards. Varsity cheerleading went next as first-year awards were given to Mariah Chapman and Lexi Williamson, while thirdyear awards were given to Cierra Fortner, Kylie Haislop and Lexie Johnson. JV cheerleaders Alaina Kuhn, Kayla Pugh and Tayla Bragg were also recognized for their efforts. Haislop was presented with the varsity leadership award, while Fortner was named the winter Rebel recipient. Kuhn received the JV leadership award. The boys basketball program went next as Josh Henry, Austin Triplett, Levi Walters, Elijah Warner and Joseph Woodall each received freshman awards. JV awards were also given to Hunter Calhoun, Justin Crago, Dustin Hornsby, Kane Hutchinson, Dominick Johnson, Jordan Johnson, Devin Lucas, Cory Rhodes, Bruce Rutt, Andrew Simms and Blake Strait. The varsity team presented first-year awards to Justin Crago, Kane Hutchinson, Cory Rhodes and Bruce Rutt, while Jared Calhoun, Joseph Ehman, Brayden Greer, Dustin Hornsby, Landon Hutchinson, Chris Johnston, Devin Lucas and Ethan Spurlock received second-year awards. Gus Slone, Ethan Swain and Mikey Wheeler were also given third-year awards After being shutdown for two consecutive frames the Big Blacks’ offense manufactured a run in the bottom of the fifth to break the tie and take the 8-7 lead. Wahama failed to answer and PPHS took the 8-7 victory. Freshman Abe Stearns earned the win on the mound for PPHS, pitching the final 2.2 innings with out surrendering a run. WHS had just one hit against Stearns, who struckout three and walked one. Gage Buskirk was the starting pitcher for Point Pleasant and he three two innings and allowed three runs on three hits and three walks, while strikingout three. Levi Russell threw 2.1 innings in relief and allowed four runs in third and fourth singles play to Akila Juan and Josh Force, respectively. Lee and Loomis dropped an 8-3 decision to Masters and Chambers in first doubles, while Adkins and Haga suffered an 8-4 loss to Juan and Force in second doubles. Anthony Brown and Darrell McBeath also suffered an 8-2 loss to Shonn Chaffins and Pat Cummings in third doubles. �î-:?E6Cî)A@CEDî�2?BF6E Photo courtesy of SGHS 2013-14 South Gallia Winter Scholar-Athletes for varsity basketball. Swain was named the best defender, while Slone came away with the Rebel award. Landon Hutchinson was the best rebounder and Greer was named the top offensive player. Wheeler was presented the best free throw shooter award, while Point From Page B1 the seven matches played Thursday, but the hosts ultimately never won more than four games in any of the contests. SVHS also claimed a pair of shutout victories in singles play. Caleb Lee suffered an 8-3 setback to Chase Masters in first singles, while Nathan Loomis dropped an 8-3 decision to Zach Chambers in second singles. Holden Adkins and Richard Haga also suffered a pair of 8-0 losses Spurlock was given the most improved award. Scholar-athlete awards were presented to freshmen Josh Henry, Maddie Simpson, Austin Triplett, Elijah Warner and Joseph Woodall; sophomores Hunter Calhoun, Kelsey Corbin, Courtney Haner, Ashley Northup, Mikayla Poling, Bruce Rutt, Blake Strait, Cory Rhodes and Caitlyn VanScoy; juniors Sara Bailey, Katie Bostic, Brayden Greer, Kylie Haislop, Lexi Johnson and Ciara Small; and seniors Rachel Johnson, Chris Johnston, Gus Slone and Ethan Swain. Winter All-TVC Academic selections were seniors Rachel Johnson, Gus Slone and Lesley Small; juniors Sara Bailey, Katie Bostic, Kylie Haislop, Lexi Johnson and Ciara Small; and sophomores Kelsey Corbin and Caitlyn VanScoy. Knights on five hits and a walk. The losing pitcher of record was Hunter Bradley, who threw five innings and surrendered eight runs on seven hits and two walks. Mason Hicks threw one inning of relief work for WHS and allowed a hit and a walk. Bradley struckout four Big Blacks. PPHS was led on offense by Buskirk and Alex Somerville with two hits each, while Evan Potter, Austen Toler, Bruce McDermitt and Trevor Porter each had a hit. Buskirk scored twice fore Point Pleasant, while Somerville, Potter, Toler, Russell, Porter and Kaleb Beckner each scored one run. Potter and McDermitt each had two runs batted in, followed by Porter with one. Buskirk had Point Pleasant’s lone steal in the win. Tyler Grimm paced Wahama with three hits, followed by Hicks with two. Kane Roush, Wyatt Zuspan, Wesley Harrison and Bradley each had one hit in the setback, while Demetrius Serevicz, Harrison, Bradley, Grimm and Zuspan each had an RBI. Roush, Serevicz, Zuspan, Grimm, Hicks, Jacob Bennett and Jared Oliver each scored in the game. Roush led WHS with three steals, followed by Serevicz with one. PPHS finished with eight runs, eight hits three errors and seven runners left on base, while Wahama wrapped up the game with seven runs, nine hits, 10 errors and nine runners left on base. These teams will meet again on May 6, in Mason. From Page B1 Sissonville countered in the third inning when Alexee Haynes, Taylor Legg, Reagan Johnson and Abbey Jordan all scored to give the Lady Indians a 4-3 lead. After being sent away in order in the fourth inning PPHS put together a fiverun fifth frame, whith Fetty, Cottrill, Cami Hesson, Elizabeth Bateman and Megan Hammond each scoring. Sissonville failed to answer and Point Pleasant sealed the 8-4 victory. Cochran earned the victory in relief, pitching the final three frames and giving up just one hit. Barker was the starter and surrendered four runs, all earned, on five hits and a walk in four innings. Barker struck out six, while Cochran added two strikeouts. Haynes was the losing pitcher of record after giving up five runs, all unearned, on four hits and a walk in the final three in- nings. Taylor Casto was the SHS starter and threw three inning while surrendering three runs, two earned, on five hits and a walk. Haynes struckout three Lady Knigts, while Casto fanned two. Barker marked a triple and a single for PPHS, Darst added two doubles, while Fetty finished with two singles. Higginbotham, Hesson and Hammond each had a single in the win. Fetty led the way with two runs scored, while Darst, Cochran, Hammond, Hesson, Cottrill and Bateman each scored once. Barker, Fetty, Higginbotham and Darst each had an RBI, while Fetty had the lone PPHS steal. Promise Bragg led SHS with two hits and two RBIs, while Haynes, Legg, Johnson and Jordan each had a hit and scored a run. The Lady Indians and Lady Knights meet twice more this season, first on April 5, in Chapmanville and on April 14, in Sissonville. �Sunday, March 30, 2014 &@>6C@JîLî#:55=6A@CEîLî�2==:A@=:D �2DE6C?î�:89î)49@@=î9@?@CDî Sunday Times Sentinel Lî&286î� � �îH:?E6Cî2E9=6E6D Staff Report Eastern High School held its annual Winter Sports Banquet on Sunday, March 23rd in the High School gym. The All-TVC winners are Jenna Burdette, Erin Swatzel, Jordan Parker and Christian Speelman. Burdette was named TVC Hocking player of the year and Division IV State Tournament MVP. AP all-district selections were Jenna Burdette and Jordan Parker on first team, Erin Swatzel on second team, Katie Keller and Maddie Rigsby on third team and Laura Pullins Honorable Mention. Jett Facemyer was AP Honorable Mention. Burdette was AP district player of the year. AP All-Ohio selections were Jenna Burdette on the first team and co-player of the year, while Jordan Parker was on second team and Erin Swatzel was an honorable mention. All-District 13 player of the year Jenna Burdette is joined on first team by Jordan Parker, Erin Swatzel and Katie Keller, while Maddie Rigsby made second team and Laura Pullins was named honorable mention. Christian Speelman was named honorable mention for the Eagles. TVC Academic Honor Roll students are Jenna Burdette, Erin Swatzel, Maddie Rigsby, Katie Keller, Dillon Swatzel, Kendra Fick, CasSubmitted photo sidy Cleland, Holly Johnson, while Jenna Bur- Pictured above are the Eastern special award winners. Sitting in the front row, from left, are Laura Pullins, Shaye Selbee, Kendra Fick, Jordette and Erin Swatzel were also Academic dan Parker, Jenna Burdette, Cassidy Cleland and Katlyn Barber. Standing in the back row are Maddie Rigsby, Greyson Wolfe, Katie Keller, Erin Swatzel, Jett Facemyer, Cameron Richmond and Daschle Facemyer. All-Ohio. �î#6:8Dî�@F?EJî)AC:?8î)A@CEDî)4965F=6D Eastern Eagles Baseball March 29 at Meigs (DH), 11 a.m. 31 vs. Miller, 5 p.m. April 1 at Nelsonville-York, 5 p.m. 2 at Belpre, 5 p.m. 4 vs. Southern, 5 p.m. 7 at Wahama, 5 p.m. 8 vs. Vinton County, 5 p.m. 9 at Waterford, 5 p.m. 11 vs. Federal Hocking, 5 p.m. 14 vs. South Gallia, 5 p.m. 16 at Trimble, 5 p.m. 21 at Miller, 6 p.m. 22 vs. Warren, 5 p.m. 23 vs. Belpre, 5 p.m. 25 at Southern, 5 p.m. 28 vs. Wahama, 5 p.m. 30 vs. Waterford, 5 p.m. May 2 at Federal Hocking, 5 p.m. 5 at South Gallia, 5 p.m. 6 vs. Nelsonville-York, 5 p.m. 7 vs. Trimble, 5 p.m. 8 at Wellston, 5 p.m. 9 at Parkersburg South, 5:30 21 at Wellston, 5 p.m. 23 at Warren, 5 p.m. 24 vs. Nelsonville-York, 5 p.m. 28 at Athens, 5 p.m. 29 at River Valley, 5 p.m. May 1 vs. Alexander, 5 p.m. 5 vs. Vinton County, 5 p.m. 6 at Gallia Academy, 5 p.m. 8 vs. Jackson at URG, 5 p.m. 10 at Amanda-ClearCreek (DH), noon Southern Tornadoes Baseball March 29 vs. South Webster (DH), noon 31 vs. Trimble, 5 p.m. April 2 at South Gallia, 5 p.m. 4 at Eastern, 5 p.m. 7 vs. Waterford, 5 p.m. 8 vs. Oak Hill at URG, 5:30 9 vs. Miller, 5 p.m. 11 at Wahama, 5 p.m. 14 at Federal Hocking, 5 p.m. 15 at River Valley, 5 p.m. 16 vs. White Oak at URG, 5 Meigs Marauders Baseball p.m. March 17 vs. Belpre, 5 p.m. 29 vs. Eastern (DH), 11 a.m. 19 vs. Amanda Clearcreek 31 vs. Warren, 5 p.m. (DH), noon April 21 at Timble, 5 p.m. 1 vs. River Valley, 5 p.m. 22 vs. River Valley, 5 p.m. 3 vs. Wellston, 5 p.m. 23 vs. South Gallia, 5 p.m. 5 at Federal Hocking (DH), 25 vs. Eastern, 5 p.m. noon 28 at Waterford, 5 p.m. 7 at Nelsonville-York, 5 p.m. 30 at Miller, 5 p.m. 9 vs. Wahama, 5 p.m. May 10 at Vinton County, 5 p.m. 2 vs. Wahama, 5 p.m. 12 at Jackson, 3 p.m. 3 at Alexander (DH), 10 a.m. 14 vs. Athens, 5 p.m. 5 vs. Federal Hocking, 5 p.m. 15 at Trimble, 5 p.m. 8 vs. Athens, 5 p.m. 17 at Alexander, 5 p.m. 9 at Belpre, 5 p.m. 19 vs. Westfall (DH), noon Eastern Lady Eagles Softball March 29 at Meigs (DH), 11 a.m. 31 vs. Miller, 6 p.m. April 2 at Belpre, 5 p.m. 4 vs. Southern, 5 p.m. 7 at Wahama, 5 p.m. 8 vs. Vinton County, 5 p.m. 9 at Waterford, 5 p.m. 11 vs. Federal Hocking, 5 p.m. 14 vs. South Gallia, 5 p.m. 15 at Gallia Academy, 5 p.m. 16 at Trimble, 5 p.m. 19 at Symmes Valley, TBA 21 at Miller, 6 p.m. 23 vs. Belpre, 5 p.m. 24 vs. Warren, 5 p.m. 25 at Southern, 5 p.m. 28 vs. Wahama, 5 p.m. 30 vs. Waterford, 5 p.m. May 1 at Warren, 5 p.m. 2 at Federal Hocking, 5 p.m. 5 at South Gallia, 5 p.m. 7 vs. Trimble, 5 p.m. 8 at Wellston, 5 p.m. Meigs Lady Marauders Softball March 29 at Eastern (DH), TBA 31 vs. Warren, 5 p.m. April 1 vs. River Valley, 5 p.m. 3 vs. Wellston, 5 p.m. 5 at Federal Hocking, noon 7 at Nelsonville-York, 5 p.m. 8 at Southern, 5 p.m. 9 vs. Wahama, 5 p.m. 10 at Vinton County, 5 p.m. 12 at Jackson, 3 p.m. 14 vs. Athens, 5 p.m. 15 at Trimble, 5 p.m. 17 at Alexander, 5 p.m. 21 at Wellston, 5 p.m. 22 vs. Belpre, 5 p.m. 23 at Warren, 5 p.m. 24 vs. Nelsonville-York, 5 p.m. 28 at Athens, 5 p.m. 29 at River Valley, 5 p.m. May 1 vs. Alexander, 5 p.m. 5 vs. Vinton County, 5 p.m. 6 at Gallia Academy, 5 p.m. 8 vs. Jackson, 5 p.m. Southern Lady Tornadoes Softball March 31 vs. Trimble, 5 p.m. April 2 at South Gallia, 5 p.m. 4 at Eastern, 5 p.m. 7 vs. Waterford, 5 p.m. 8 vs. Meigs, 5 p.m. 9 vs. Miller, 5 p.m. 11 at Wahama, 5 p.m. 14 at Federal Hocking, 5 p.m. 15 at River Valley, 5 p.m. 16 at Roane County, 5 p.m. 17 vs. Belpre, 5 p.m. 19 at Symmes Valley,10 a.m. 21 at Timble, 5 p.m. 22 vs. River Valley, 5 p.m. 23 vs. South Gallia, 5 p.m. 25 vs. Eastern, 5 p.m. 28 at Waterford, 5 p.m. 29 vs. Roane County, 5 p.m. 30 at Miller, 5 p.m. May 2 vs. Wahama, 5 p.m. 3 at Alexander (DH), 10 a.m. 5 vs. Federal Hocking, 5 p.m. 7 at Wellston, 5 p.m. 9 at Belpre, 5 p.m. Eastern Track and Field March 29 at Warren, 10 a.m. April 1 at Meigs, 4:30 5 at Nelsonville-York, 9:30 8 at South Gallia, 4:30 12 at Parkersburg, TBA 15 at Vinton County, 4 p.m. 19 at Shadyside, 9 a.m. 22 home meet, 5 p.m. 24 at Chillicothe, 4:30 29 at Point Pleasant, 4 p.m. May 3 at Marietta, 10 a.m. 8 TVC Hocking at Meigs, 4:30 14 TVC Meet of Champions, 5 p.m. Meigs Track and Field April 1 home meet, 4:30 5 at Nelsonville-York, 9:30 8 at South Gallia, TBA 11 at Logan, 4:30 15 at Jackson, 4:30 22 at Eastern, 4:30 25 home relays, 4:30 29 home meet, 4:30 May 1 at Vinton County, TBA 7 vs. TVC Ohio at Athens, 5 p.m. 14 TVC Meet of Champions, 5 p.m. Southern Track and Field April 1 at Meigs, 4 p.m. 5 at Nelsonville-York 9:30 10 at Belpre, 4 p.m. 12 at Belpre, 10 a.m. 17 at Waterford, 4:30 22 at Eastern, 4 p.m. 25 at Meigs, 4 p.m. 29 at Meigs 4:30 May 1 at Waterford, 8 TVC Hocking at Meigs 4 p.m. 14 TVC Meet of Champions, 5 p.m. �î�2==:2î�@F?EJî)AC:?8î)A@CEDî)4965F=6D Gallia Academy Blue Devils Baseball March 29 vs Waverly, 11 a.m. 29 vs Circleville, 4 p.m. 31 vs River Valley, 5 p.m. April 1 vs Fairland, 5 p.m. 2 at Warren, 5 p.m. 4 vs Logan, 5 p.m. 8 vs Symmes Valley, 5 p.m. 9 vs Jackson, 5 p.m. 10 at Fairland, 5 p.m. 14 at Portsmouth, 5 p.m. 16 vs Warren, 5 p.m. 18 at Logan, 5 p.m. 19 vs Adena at VA Stadium, 4 p.m. 21 at Jackson, 5 p.m. 22 vs Rock Hill, 5 p.m. 25 vs Portsmouth, 5 p.m. 26 Wooden Bat Tourney at GAHS, 9:30 29 vs Piketon, 5 p.m. 30 vs Athens, 5 p.m. May 2 at Athens, 5 p.m. 5 at River Valley, 5 p.m. 6 vs Meigs, 5 p.m. 7 at Wellston, 5 p.m. 9 at Rock Hill, 5 p.m. 10 at Oak Hill, 10:30 10 vs Fed Hock at Oak Hill, 12:30 11 vs. Fairland, 5 p.m. 5 vs Eastern, 5 p.m. 12 vs. Vinton County 9 vs Waterford, 5 p.m. (DH), 11 a.m. 14 at Chesapeake, 5 p.m. Gallia Academy 15 vs. Southern, 5 p.m. Blue Angels Softball 16 at Coal Grove, 5 p.m. March 22 at Southern, 5 p.m. 29 vs Hillsboro (DH), 11 23 at Rock Hill, 5 p.m. a.m. 25 at South Point, 5 p.m. 31 vs River Valley, 5 p.m. 28 at Fairland, 5 p.m. April 29 vs. Meigs, 5 p.m. 1 vs Fairland, 5 p.m. 30 vs. Chesapeake, 5 2 at Warren, 5 p.m. p.m. 4 vs Logan, 5 p.m. May 7 at Chillicothe, 5 p.m. 2 vs. Coal Grove, 5 p.m. 8 at Rock Hill, 5 p.m. 3 vs. Federal Hocking 9 vs Jackson, 5 p.m. (DH), 11 a.m. 10 at Fairland, 5 p.m. 5 vs. Gallia Academy, 5 12 at Washington CH p.m. (DH), 11 a.m. 6 vs. Oak Hill at Paint 14 at Portsmouth, 5 p.m. Stadium, 5 p.m. 15 vs Eastern, 5 p.m. 7 at Alexander, 5 p.m. 16 vs Warren, 5 p.m. 9 at Southeastern, 5 p.m. 18 at Logan, 5 p.m. 19 at Waverly (DH), 11 South Gallia a.m. Rebels Baseball 21 at Jackson, 5 p.m. March 24 at Marietta, 5 p.m. 29 vs East (DH), 11 a.m. 25 vs Portsmouth, 5 p.m. 31 at Federal Hocking, 5 26 Tourney at GAHS, p.m. 9:30 April 30 vs Athens, 5 p.m. 2 vs Southern, 5 p.m. May 4 at Miller, 5 p.m. 2 at Athens, 5 p.m. 9 vs Belpre, 5 p.m. 5 at River Valley, 5 p.m. 10 at Hannan, 5:30 6 vs Meigs, 5 p.m. 11 vs Trimble, 5 p.m. River Valley 14 at Eastern, 5 p.m. River Valley Lady Raiders Baseball 16 vs Wahama, 5 p.m. Raiders Softball March 17 at Waterford, 5 p.m. March 29 vs. Symmes Valley 21 vs Federal Hocking, 5 29 vs. Symmes Valley (DH), noon p.m. (DH), noon 31 at Gallia Academy, 5 23 at Southern, 5 p.m. 31 at Gallia Academy, 5 p.m. 24 at East, 5 p.m. p.m. April 25 vs Miller, 5 p.m. April 1 at Meigs, 5 p.m. 29 at Wahama, 5 p.m. 1 at Meigs, 5 p.m. 3 at Rock Hill, 5 p.m. 30 at Belpre, 5 p.m. 3 at Trimble 5 at Rock Hill, 5 p.m. May 5 at Wahama (DH), 6 7 vs. Rock Hill, 5 p.m. 1 vs Hannan, 5 p.m. p.m. 9 vs. South Point, 5 p.m. 2 at Trimble, 5 p.m. 7 vs. Rock Hill, 5 p.m. 9 vs. South Point, 5 p.m. 11 vs. Fairland, 5 p.m. 12 vs. Vinton County (DH), 11 a.m. 14 at Chesapeake, 5 p.m. 15 vs. Southern, 5 p.m. 16 at Coal Grove, 5 p.m. 18 at South Point, 5 p.m. 22 at Southern, 5 p.m. 23 at Rock Hill, 5 p.m. 28 at Fairland, 5 p.m. 29 vs. Meigs, 5 p.m. 30 vs. Chesapeake, 5 p.m. May 2 vs. Coal Grove, 5 p.m. 3 vs. Federal Hocking (DH), 11 a.m. 5 vs. Gallia Academy, 5 p.m. 6 vs. Oak Hill, 5 p.m. 7 at Alexander, 5 p.m. 9 at Southeastern, 5 p.m. 1 vs Hannan, 5 p.m. 2 at Trimble, 5 p.m. 5 vs Eastern, 5 p.m. 9 vs Waterford, 5 p.m. Gallia Academy Track and Field March 29 at Cabell Midland, 9 a.m. April 3 Saunders Insurance Relays at GAHS, 4:15 5 at Nelsonville-York, 9:30 8 at Fairland, 4:30 12 at Point Pleasant, 3 p.m. 15 at Gallia County at SGHS, 4:30 17 at Huntington (WV), 4 p.m. 24 at Chillicothe, 4:30 29 at GAHS, 5 p.m. South Gallia Lady May Rebels Softball 2 at South Point, 4:30 March 6 at Point Pleasant, 6 29 vs East (DH), 11 a.m. p.m. 31 at Federal Hocking, 5 9 at Logan Elm, 4 p.m. p.m. 13 SEOAL at GAHS, April 4:45 2 vs Southern, 5 p.m. 4 at Miller, 5 p.m. River Valley 8 at Oak Hill, 5 p.m. Track and Field 9 vs Belpre, 5 p.m. March 10 at Hannan, 7:30 29 at South Point, 11 11 vs Trimble, 5 p.m. a.m. 14 at Eastern, 5 p.m. April 15 at Oak Hill, 5 p.m. 1 at Point Pleassant, 4:30 16 vs Wahama, 5 p.m. 5 at Nelsonville-York, 17 at Waterford, 5 p.m. 9:30 21 vs Federal Hocking, 5 8 at South Gallia, 4:30 p.m. 12 at Point Pleasant, 3 23 at Southern, 5 p.m. p.m. 24 at East, 5 p.m. 15 at South Gallia, 4:30 25 vs Miller, 5 p.m. 22 at Chesapeake, 4:30 29 at Wahama, 5 p.m. 25 at Meigs, 4:30 30 at Belpre, 5 p.m. 29 at Point Pleasant, 5 May p.m. May 2 at South Point, 5 p.m. 9 home meet, 5 p.m. 16 OVC meet, TBA South Gallia Track and Field April 1 at Point Pleasant, 4 p.m. 8 vs Eastern, Meigs, River Valley and Southern, 4:30 12 at Belpre, 10 a.m. 15 vs Gallia County at SGHS, 4:30 22 at Eastern, 4:30 25 at Meigs Relays, 4:30 29 at Meigs, 4:30 May 6 at Coal Grove, 4:30 8 at TVC Hocking Meet, 4:30 14 TVC Meet of Champions at VCHS, 4:30 Gallia Academy Tennis April 2 vs Jackson, 4:30 4 vs Ports. Clay, 4:30 7 at Portsmouth, 4:30 9 at Logan, 4:30 10 vs Ironton, 4:30 11 vs Ports. ND, 4:30 12 at Lawrence (KY), 9 a.m. 14 vs Athens, 4:30 15 vs Marietta, 4:30 16 vs Valley, 4:30 17 at Chillicothe, 4:30 21 at Jackson, 4:30 23 vs Portsmouth, 4:30 25 at Ports. Clay, 4:30 28 vs Logan, 4:30 29 at Ironton, 4:30 30 at Athens, 4:30 May 1 at Wheelersburg, 4:30 5 at Marietta, 4:30 �&@>6C@JîLî#:55=6A@CEîLî�2==:A@=:D Page B4 LîSunday Times Sentinel ANNOUNCEMENTS Notices Professional Services LEGALS Double E Enterprises LLC. Excavation Business PUBLIC NOTICE In accordance with the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, the annual report of the Roger Parker Long Memorial Trust for the period ending December 31, 2013, has been prepared by Harold Roger and Delores Jean Long, trustees. 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Houses For Sale HOUSE FOR SALE 4 BR, 2 1/2 BA, 2 Car Garage, 5 Acres, Plus Pole Barn. OHIO RIVER VIEW! Located: Rt. 218 Gallipolis 740-441-1492 60493480 Business Consulting RICKY’S TREE SERVICE Complete Tree Care 60491193 740-612-5128 NOTICE OHIO VALLEY PUBLISHING CO. Recommends that you do Business with People you know, and NOT to send Money through the Mail until you have Investigated the Offering. Pictures that have been placed in ads at the Gallipolis Daily Tribune must be picked within 30 days. Any pictures that are not picked up will be discarded. Special Notices $5.95 and Up *While Supplies Last* MOLLOHAN CARPET 740-446-7444 AUCTION / ESTATE / YARD SALE Call 740-339-3513, Monday–Friday 8:00 am-3:00pm to schedule a site visit. 03/27,28,30 Auctions Help Wanted General 60490293 30 Auburn Drive, Crown City Ohio 3 Bdrm, 2 Bath, Approx 1782 Sq.Ft, 2 Car Det Garage Nurse Practitioner Help Wanted General Join a newly established, extended-hours clinic in Mason, West Virginia. 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Gallia County Courthouse Second Floor Meeting Room Gallipolis, Ohio Professional Services Please leave a message Notices FORECLOSURE Property to be sold at Sheriff’s Sale )NSURED s &2%% %34)-!4%3 �� 9EARS %XPERIENCE Gary Stanley PUBLIC NOTICE: A public hearing has been scheduled on April 3, 2014 beginning at 10:00 am at the Gallia County Courthouse commissioner's office to review and solicit public comment on the Gallia County Department of Job and Family Services (GCDJFS) Title XX County Profile to be provided from October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2016 in Gallia County by the GCDFJS. Raccoon Township is changing its monthly meetings to the first Tuesday of each month at 7:00PM. Meetings are held at the township meeting room located in the Centerville Municipal Building, Thurman, Ohio. The next regular meeting will be held April 1, 2014 at 7:00 PM. Ruth A. 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Meigs Industries, Inc. is seeking a group leader to assist individuals with developmental disabilities. Duties include provision of direct assistance, service, training, instruction and supervision to adult participants with developmental disabilities. Qualifications: Must have a high school diploma or equivalent; meet requirements for the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities registration; meet acceptable background checks. Must have a valid Ohio Driver s License, good driving record, and proof of insurance. Send resume to Meigs Industries, Inc., P.O. Box 307, Syracuse, Ohio 45779 - Application deadline April 3rd, 2014. (3) 26,27,28,30 Part-Time Site Manager. Pt. Pleasant area. Multifamily Apt. complex. Tax credit knowledge a plus but not necessary. ADA/EOE Fax resumes to: (866)579-6151 Gallia County Department of Job & Family Services Position available: Eligibilty/Referral Supervisor 1 For position details the job opening has been posted on OhioMeansJobs.com and gallianet.net Application form is on gallianet.net click popular links then job openings Send application and resume to dlglassburn@gallianet.net �Sunday, March 30, 2014 &@>6C@JîLî#:55=6A@CEîLî�2==:A@=:D Sunday Times Sentinel Lî&286î�� �î#2D@?î�@F?EJî)AC:?8î)A@CEDî)4965F=6D Point Pleasant Baseball March 31 at Ripley, 7 p.m. April 1 at Ravenswood, 5:15 2 at Winfield, 7 p.m. 5 vs Chas Catholic, 1 p.m. 5 at Logan, 4 p.m. 7 vs Wayne, 5 p.m. 10 vs Spring Valley, 6 p.m. 15 vs East Chester (NY), 6 p.m. 16 vs Chapmanville, 6:30 17 vs Shady Spring, 7 p.m. 18 at St. Albans, 7 p.m. 24 at Poca, 6:30 25 at Chas Catholic, 6:30 26 at Wayne, 3 p.m. 30 at Parkersburg South, 5:30 May 1 at Herbert Hoover, 7 p.m. 2 vs Nitro, 7 p.m. 3 at Chapmanville, 2:30 5 vs Poca, 6:30 6 at Wahama, 6 p.m. 8 vs Ripley, 7 p.m. 9 at Spring Valley, 6 p.m. 10 at Logan, 2 p.m. Wahama Baseball March 31 vs. Belpre, 6 p.m. April 2 at Miller, 5 p.m. 4 vs. Wirt County, 5 p.m. 7 vs. Eastern, 5 p.m. 9 at Trimble, 5 p.m. 11 vs. Southern, 5 p.m. 12 vs. Alexander (DH), noon 14 at Waterford, 5 p.m. 16 at South Gallia, 5 p.m. 17 vs. Federal Hocking, 5 p.m. 19 vs. Charleston Catholic, 1 p.m. 21 at Belpre, 5 p.m. 22 vs. South Gallia, 5 p.m. 23 vs. Miller, 5 p.m. 25 at Calhoun County, 4:30 26 at Williamstown (DH), noon 28 at Eastern, 5 p.m. 30 vs. Trimble, 5 p.m. May 1 at Wirt County, 4:30 2 at South Gallia, 5 p.m. 5 vs. Waterford, 5 p.m. 6 vs. Point Pleasant, 5 p.m. 9 at Federal Hocking, 5 p.m. Hannan Baseball March 29 at Huntington SJ, 2:30 April 1 vs Grace Christian, 5:30 2 at Lincoln County, 5 p.m. 4 at Calhoun County, 5:30 7 at Cross Lanes Christian, 5:30 8 at Teays Valley Christian, 5:30 9 vs Calhoun County, 5:30 10 vs South Gallia, 5:30 11 vs Grace Christian, 5:30 14 vs Buffalo, 5:30 17 at Rose Hill Christian, 5:30 21 vs Wood County, 3 p.m. 22 vs Lincoln County, 5:30 28 vs Huntington SJ (DH), 5 p.m. 30 at Fairview, 5:30 May 1 at South Gallia, 5 p.m. 2 vs Fairview, 6 p.m. 5 at Huntington SJ, 5 p.m. 6 at Elk Valley, 5:30 9 vs Tolsia (DH), 5:30 Point Pleasant Softball March 29 at Ripley, 1 p.m. 29 vs. Pikeview at Ripley, 3 p.m. April 2 vs. Wayne, 5:30 3 vs. Wahama, 5:30 4 vs. Logan at Chapmanville, 7 p.m. 5 vs. Sissonville at Chapmanville, 3 p.m. 5 vs. Buffalo at Chapmanville, 7 p.m. 8 vs. Poca, 6 p.m. 9 at Winfield, 6 p.m. 10 vs. Ripley, 5:30 11 vs. Logan, 5:30 12 at Magnolia, TBA 14 at Sissonville, 5:30 15 at Parkersburg South, 5 p.m. 21 at Poca, 6 p.m. 25 vs. Huntington, 6 p.m. 26 at Gallia Academy, TBA May 1 at Wayne, 5:30 2 vs. Richwood (DH) 5 p.m. 3 vs. Grafton (DH) 1 p.m. Wahama Softball March 31 vs. Belpre, 6 p.m. April 3 at Point Pleasant, 6 p.m. 5 vs. Wirt County, 11 a.m. 5 vs. River Valley, 3 p.m. 7 vs. Eastern, 6 p.m. 9 at Trimble, 6 p.m. 10 vs. Buffalo, 6 p.m. 11 vs. Southern, 6 p.m. 14 at Waterford, 6 p.m. 15 vs. Roane County, 6 p.m. 16 at South Gallia, 6 p.m. 17 vs. Federal Hocking, 6 p.m. 21 at Belpre, 6 p.m. 23 vs. Miller, 6 p.m. 28 at Eastern, 6 p.m. 29 vs. South Gallia, 6 p.m. 30 vs. Trimble, 6 p.m. May 2 vs. Grafton, 6 p.m. 5 vs. Waterford, 6 p.m. Hannan Softball March 31 vs Cross Lanes Christian (DH), 5:30 April 1 vs Grace Christian, 5 p.m. 3 vs Teays Valley Christian (DH), 5 p.m. 4 at Calhoun County, 5:30 5 at Valley Fayette, 2 p.m. 8 at Ironton SJ, 6 p.m. 9 vs Calhoun County, 5:30 10 vs South Gallia, 5:30 11 vs Ironton SJ, 5:30 14 at Van, 5:30 16 at Cabell Midland JV (DH), 5:30 17 vs Southern, 5 p.m. 28 at Grace Christian, 5 p.m. 30 vs Valley Fayette, 5:30 May 1 at South Gallia, 5 p.m. 2 vs Tolsia (DH), 5:30 Hannan Track and Field March 29 at Cabell Midland, 4 p.m. April 1 at Point Pleasant, 4 p.m. 8 at Poca, 4 p.m. 15 at Point Pleasant, 4 p.m. 18 at Ripley, 4 p.m. 29 at Gallia Academy, 4 p.m. May 1 at Ripley, 4 p.m. 8 at Buffalo, 4 p.m. Point Pleasant Tennis March 29 at Lincoln County, 10 a.m. 31 vs Huntington, 4:30 April 1 at St. Albans, 4:30 3 at Winfield, 4:30 4 vs Hurricane, 4:30 8 at Spring Valley, 4:30 10 at Nitro, 4:30 12 at S. Charleston, 1 p.m. 15 vs Huntington SJ, 4:30 16 at Huntington SJ, 4:30 26 at Logan, 1 p.m. 28 vs Winfield, 4:30 29 at Cabell Midland, 4:30 30 vs St. Albans, 4:30 Point Pleasant Track and Field April 1 Home Meet, 4 p.m. 3 at Gallia Academy, 4 p.m. 8 at Poca, 4 p.m. 12 Paul Wood at PPHS, 3 p.m. 15 vs Wahama, 4 p.m. 18 at Ripley, 4 p.m. 29 Home Meet, 4 p.m. May 2 at Gazette Relays, 4 p.m. 3 at Gazette Relays, 4 p.m. 6 vs Gallia Academy, 4 p.m. 9 at River Valley, 4 p.m. !J=6î�FD49îH:?DîA@=6î2Eî#2CE:?DG:==6 MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) — Kyle Busch has seen it time and again at Martinsville Speedway. Driving down pit road, heading back onto the track and in contention for the lead, Busch is used to seeing the pole-sitter gun the engine just off the jack and reassume the race lead. Busch hopes to finally get to experience that for himself at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday after earning the pole on NASCAR’s smallest, tightest track for the first time in 19 career starts. “I think that’s a great thing for us,” Busch said after winning the pole with a lap at 99.674 mph. “We get to pit there and of course drop the jack and just lunge across the line and be good. “You need to still run up front all day. I think that it’s a great opportunity for us to pick up some spots say if we’re second, third, fourth, whatever, but you definitely always want to stay as close to the front as you can and try not to use that box as much as some guys have in the past.” The pole is the 14th of Busch’s career. In an interesting twist under NASCAR’s new knockout qualifying system, Busch won it while Joey Logano set a track record. That came at 100.201 mph during the first phase of two-session qualifying. All 44 cars competed in the 30-minute first session, and the top 12 moved into the 10-minute phase two. Denny Hamlin earned the No. 2 starting spot with a lap at 99.548 mph, and will be followed on the starting grid by Logano and Hendrick Motorsports teammates Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon. That puts Busch in some pretty accomplished company because Hamlin (4), Johnson and Gordon (8 each) have won a lot. Wahama Track and Field March 29 at Williamstown, 10 a.m. April 1 at Meigs, 4:30 8 at River Valley, 4:30 12 at Point Pleasant, 10 a.m. 15 at Point Pleasant, 4:30 18 at Ripley, 4:30 25 at Meigs, 10 a.m. 29 at Meigs, 4:30 May 1 at Ripley 8 at Buffalo, noon 8 at TVC Hocking at Meigs, 4:30 Attendance at women’s hoops first two rounds drops By Doug Feinberg Associated Press Jeff Siner | Charlotte Observer | MCT NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Kyle Busch answers a question during a breakout session at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Media Tour on Thursday, Jan. 30, at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, N.C. It wasn’t hard to find a good seat during the opening rounds of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament. The NCAA expects that to change for the Sweet 16. Fewer people turned out for the opening two rounds of the NCAA women’s tournament as the 16 sites averaged nearly 4,100 fans for the first two rounds, down about 700 from the previous year. It probably didn’t help that three of the locations didn’t have host schools playing at them — Los Angeles, Seattle and Toledo. While the Ohio site had good attendance mainly because Notre Dame was there, Los Angeles and Seattle ranked as the bottom two locations in attendance. Less than 1,000 fans turned out for the second round matchup between BYU and Nebraska in L.A. Tennessee drew the most with more than 7,000 people at the first round games and nearly 6,000 for the second. The NCAA doesn’t expect to have the attendance problem next year when the top four seeds hosting the opening rounds of the tournament. While attendance was lagging in the early rounds, the NCAA is hopeful that will change in the regionals. “While we didn’t experience an increase in attendance at our first- and second-round championship sites, we are anticipating great crowds and games at our four regionals and the women’s Final Four,” said Anucha Browne, the NCAA vice president of women’s basketball championships. “You can sense the momentum building in this year’s championship, with many interesting story lines developing in what should make for a fantastic finish.” Stanford, Louisville, Notre Dame and Nebraska are all hosting, marking the first time in a decade that a school has been able to play at home in the regionals. While the Cornhuskers were knocked out in the second round, the other three teams advanced. Classifieds - Continued from Previous Page Help Wanted General Medical / Health Southwestern Community Action Council seeking qualified candidates for the following position: Team Member for Mason County Homeless Shelter: Must have excellent communication skills, exp. with Microsoft Word and Excel. Must maintain confidentiality. Posting #MCHS032814 Both part time and full time positions available and include paid holidays, annual and sick leave, pension options and other benefits if qualified. Interested candidates must have a valid driver's license, auto liability insurance and pass drug and background screen. For current list of positions or for an application please visit www.scacwv.org or call 304525-5151. All applications must include posting number. Send all applications, including resume to: SCAC, Human Resources, 540 Fifth Ave., Htgn., WV 25701 by 4pm Wednesday April 2, 2014. 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Starting with the Los Angeles Dodgers’ game at the San Diego Padres on Sunday night, the U.S. opener of the 2014 season, players, managers and fans will turn their attention to the ROC — the Replay Operations Center. In a dimly lit room of just under 1,000 square feet in the Chelsea Market in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, umpires and technicians will make the decisions that could decide games and championships. More than $10 million has been spent wiring the 30 big league ballparks with Fiberlink cable that will transmit the images from at least 12 cameras at every site, and Major League Baseball says it will take just 400 milliseconds for each image to arrive at the command center. All in an effort to prevent the type of botched calls that cost Detroit’s Armando Galarraga a perfect game in 2010. “I’m happy for the managers,” said Joe Torre, an MLB executive vice president overseeing the new system. “Maybe it will keep them from having one or two more sleepless nights if they are able to grab one and overturn it.” Inside the sliding glass doors at the offices of Major League Baseball Advanced Media, the room has its own power supply in case of a blackout — with batteries as a second auxiliary — and a stand-alone heating, ventilation and air conditioning system that keeps the temperature at 72 degrees. Cell phones don’t have reception. There are dozens of televisions, more than enough to make it resemble NASA’s Mission Control. Outside the room, next to a modernist black sofa, is a 55-inch NEC screen, with another just inside the entrance. Walk in, and there’s 65inch Pentus TV to your left. On each side are three stations, each to be staffed with a technician on the left and a major league umpire on the right. Three more “floater” stations stretch across the back well. Every station has four 46-inch screens — three Planars for each pod, with a higher-quality Sony directly in front of each umpire’s seat. The umps will wear headsets and can push a button to speak with their colleagues at any stadium. Fifteen Asus computer monitors are scattered about, four on a wavy table in the center where supervisors will monitor the review umpires and up to 15 simultaneous games (there would only be the maximum if weather delays the action in the eastern half of North America). The nine circular overhead lights are kept low, the walls are gray and the carpeting is dark — all so that the televised images will stand out more for the umpires. There is a sink and a microwave — the food court on the first floor is filled with dozens of options. “I’ll see more games than the Fan Cave,” quipped Justin Klemm, a former minor league umpire and big league fill-in who was hired last month as MLB’s director of instant replay. Baseball ignored replay even as it was first used by the NFL in 1986, the NHL in 1991, the NBA in 2002 and the Little League World Series in 2008. MLB took a tentative step toward replay in August 2008, when it first used video to decide boundary calls such as home runs at the top of fences or near foul poles. Torre long opposed video review but changed his mind in October 2012, when umpire Jeff Nelson missed a call on Robinson Cano’s two-out tag of Omar Infante at second base in the AL championship series, calling the runner safe. Detroit went on to win Game 2 and sweep the New York Yankees. “That’s when I realized that we certainly can’t ignore the technology and the fact that this seemed to be what the people want or think they want,” Torre said. Eight umpires will be assigned to the replay room each week, with generally six on duty for a full sched- ule and each monitoring two games at a time. When an umpire has a decision to make, screens for their other game will go dark. If an ump has simultaneous challenges in both games, one will “cascade” to the next pod over. Baseball established a “clear and convincing” standard for overturning calls. The replay decision will be either the call is confirmed, stands (if there is no conclusive evidence) or is overturned. Managers get one challenge per game, and if that challenge is successful, they receive a second. If a manager is out of challenges, from the seventh inning on an umpire can call for a replay on his own. In addition, home runs and plate collisions are subject to unlimited review at the discretion of the crew chief. Baseball hopes it will take no more than an average of 3 minutes for the decision. The average length of a nine-inning game was a record 2:59 last year, according to STATS. Torre said pace-of-game rules will be enforced more strictly. “In order to make this thing work and not have it make the games longer is the fact that we have to start really disciplining and paying attention to the repeat violators,” he said. Open for replay challenges are force plays, tags plays, fair-foul in the outfield, traps in the outfield, hit batters, retouching, passing runners, ground-rule doubles, fan interference and home runs (at the umpires’ discretion). Among the excluded decisions are ball-strike calls, check swings, foul tips making contact with the bat, balks, interference and obstruction calls, the neighborhood play at second on double plays, running out of the basepath or runner’s lane, tagging up and catches in the infield. MLB says that among incorrect calls last year were 156 force plays, 60 tags on steals and 76 other tags — totaling 86 percent of all missed decisions. Torre said he expects more dropped balls during pivots at second base will be called safe rather than forceouts, and that MLB will monitor phone traffic between team replay personnel and dugouts to ensure the video isn’t used for sign stealing. About 75 umpires came to New York for training, and MLB sat down with all managers during spring training and will have a conference call with them this week. Umpiring’s new era has arrived. “I could tell you, one, I’m glad we didn’t have replay,” Torre said, an apparent reference to Richie Garcia calling a 2-2 pitch to Tino Martinez a ball in the 1998 World Series opener. Martinez hit a grand slam on the next pitch, and the Yankees swept San Diego. “I’m wearing that ring right now,” Torre said. #2;@CîD9:ñDî2==î 2C@F?5îE96î>2;@CDî 6?E6C:?8î � By Ben Walker Associated Press Mike Scioscia moved his left fielder onto the infield dirt, then watched him start a double play. Matt Williams tried a similar trick — he put his right fielder on the grass behind the mound, only to see a bases-loaded triple fly into the vacated spot. All over the majors this year, the shift is on. From the designer defenses taking over the game, to expanded replay, to opening day on a cricket ground in Australia, baseball is changing. Those scraggly beards of the World Series champion Boston Red Sox? Shaved off, mostly. Soon Derek Jeter will be gone, too. “You can’t do this forever,” the Yankees captain said. “I’d like to, but you can’t do it forever.” Ryan Braun and the Biogenesis bunch are back in (along with tougher drug penalties), reckless crashing into catchers is an automatic out. Robinson Cano, ShinSoo Choo and Japanese ace Masahiro Tanaka changed sides, as did Jacoby Ellsbury, Prince Fielder and Curtis Granderson. Plus, there’s a rookie with real pedigree — sweet Hank the Dog got a second chance. He found a home in Milwaukee and his own bobblehead night. Also, a bright forecast for mega-rich Miguel Cabrera and fellow MVP Andrew McCutchen. After a bruising winter that left frozen fields in the Midwest and East, temperatures in Detroit, Pittsburgh and most spots were supposed to warm up for Monday’s openers. This spring has been much rougher for others. Even before the Dodgers started the season by sweeping two from the Diamondbacks in Sydney during Major League Baseball’s first regular-season games Down Under, there were serious setbacks. Kris Medlen, Brandon Beachy, Jarrod Parker and Luke Hochevar already were out for the year with Tommy John surgery. Patrick Corbin and Bruce Rondon later joined them. Aroldis Chapman is missing at least two months after getting hit on the head by a line drive. There was no defense for that, not even those protective caps now in play for pitchers likely would’ve saved the Cincinnati reliever. Defense, though, has rapidly become a major focus in the majors. Be it Dodger Stadium or Fenway Park or anywhere inbetween, it’s easy to spot the trend taking over baseball: Creative ways that clubs are positioning their fielders. The Detroit Tigers even hired a defensive coordinator. Ever expect to hear about a defensive coordinator in baseball? Matt Martin got that job, and pointed to the overloaded alignments Red Sox slugger David Ortiz sees on a daily basis. “That’s not out of the norm now. That is the norm. With left-handers, if you’d have seen this 25 years ago, the way they play Big Papi — and 15, 20 guys in the league playing like that — you’d be, ‘What happened? Did I wake up and come to a softball game?’” NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin, left, waits with a crewman for team members to finish making adjustments to his car during practice at Daytona International Speedway on Friday, Feb. 24, 2012, in Daytona Beach, Fla. Jeff Siner | Charlotte Observer | MCT Hamlin cleared after metal removed from eye CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A small piece of metal in his eye, and not a sinus infection, caused Denny Hamlin to miss last week’s race at California. Hamlin was not medically cleared to race last Sunday by doctors in the infield care center at Auto Club Speedway. He had visited the care center on Saturday and Sunday complaining of an irritation to his eye, and it was determined at the track that it was related to a recent sinus infection Hamlin had suffered. Hamlin was referred to a local hospital for further evaluation, and once there, “a small piece of metal was found to be in Hamlin’s eye,” Joe Gibbs Racing said in a statement Wednesday. The metal was removed and JGR said “Hamlin felt immediate improvement.” By then, the race at Fontana had already started and replacement driver Sam Hornish Jr. was behind the wheel of Hamlin’s No. 11 Toyota. Hamlin underwent further testing in California before he was cleared to fly home to North Caro- lina. He was evaluated in Charlotte on Monday and again on Wednesday, when it was determined he had no lingering issues with his vision and is cleared to race this weekend at Martinsville Speedway. Hamlin has four career victories at Martinsville and an average finish of eighth. The timeline of Hamlin’s diagnosis and revelation it was a piece of metal in his eye and not a sinus infection comes a day after Dale Earnhardt Jr. called on NASCAR to release information regarding Hamlin not being cleared to race at California. Earnhardt, during an appearance Tuesday at Charlotte Motor Speedway, questioned why there had been no official NASCAR statement or further explanation from Hamlin on what happened. He was particularly interested because it is so unusual for a driver to be parked shortly before a race is about to begin. “I’m worried the perception is bad for NASCAR and the perception is bad for Denny,” Earnhardt said. “If Denny didn’t race because his vision is blurred and he had a sinus infection, NASCAR should put out a release and say, ‘This is the timeline of the events and this is why we made this choice and this is the protocol for going forward.’ “That answers everybody’s questions. Don’t you have questions? I have questions. We shouldn’t have questions. We should all feel pretty comfortable with what happened.” Earnhardt missed two races in 2012 after he suffered his second concussion in six weeks. He drove for weeks following the first concussion, which occurred while testing at Kansas Speedway. He was cleared to drive following that crash, and the concussion was discovered after he wrecked again at Talladega. “If Denny did everything right, that’s good to know,” he said. “Why NASCAR did the things they did and the timeline, it would be good to know those things because the drivers are all curious and the fans are curious. Information is moving around. It just doesn’t need to be going on. We should all know what happened and know why it happened and be done with it and not have to worry about it.” #"�îE@F896?Dî5CF8î28C66>6?Eî2ñ6Cî�:@86?6D:D NEW YORK (AP) — In the wake of the Biogenesis scandal that led to 14 suspensions last summer, Major League Baseball and its players’ union announced Friday they are toughening penalties and increasing the frequency of testing in the most substantial revisions to their drug agreement in eight years. Players suspended during the season for a performance-enhancing drug violation will not be eligible for that year’s postseason. In addition, discipline will increase from 50 games to 80 for a first testing violation and from 100 games to a season-long 162 for a second. A third violation remains a lifetime ban. While there were two-to-four major league suspensions annually from 2008-11, the number increased to12 in 2012 and 14 play- ers were penalized following last year’s investigation of the Biogenesis of America anti-aging clinic. Among them were former NL MVP Ryan Braun, who agreed to a 65-game ban, and three-time AL MVP Alex Rodriguez, who is suspended for the entire 2014 season. “Obviously, that showed that there was a need for harsher and stiffer penalties — and this is a very clear and resounding answer for all of that,” Los Angeles Dodgers catcher A.J. Ellis said. Detroit shortstop Jhonny Peralta and Texas outfielder Nelson Cruz returned from their 50-game suspensions in time to participate in last fall’s playoffs. Peralta became a free agent and was given a $53 million, four-year contract by St. Louis during the offseason. “In the past it hasn’t been fair that guys, they get popped, they serve their suspension and they come back and play in the playoffs,” said Oakland reliever Sean Doolittle, whose team lost to Peralta and the Tigers in the division series. “Then on top of that, guys parlay it into a bigger contract and getting a raise … it was frustrating, mainly because he did so well against us.” Accused of being slow to react to steroids in the 1990s, baseball started testing with penalties in 2004, established a 10-day suspension for an initial testing violation in 2005 and increased discipline to 50 games in 2006. In the last year or two, many players spoke out and said the deterrent wasn’t sufficient. “There are 32 states that have the death penalty for murder, and murders happen in those states every single day. It’s not going to stop people from committing the crime, even if you have a death penalty,” Arizona pitcher Brad Ziegler said. “You’ve got to put things in place better to get them caught. That’s the thing. People do it when they think they can get away with it.” New union head Tony Clark, a former All-Star himself, said his members wanted to make sure “a player is not coming back and affecting a change in the postseason as a result of the decision that particular player made earlier in the year.” “Our hope here is that the adjustments that we’ve made do inevitably get that number to zero,” Clark said. “In the event that that doesn’t happen, for whatever reason, we’ll reevaluate and move forward from there. But as I sit here, I am hopeful that players make the right decisions that are best for them, for their careers and for the integrity of the game.” Players who serve a PED suspension also will not be eligible for automatic postseason players’ pool money shares but may be given cash awards at the discretion of their teammates. “There are a lot of guys who haven’t done it right,” San Francisco pitcher Tim Hudson said, “and I think the one thing that puts a bad taste in people’s mouth that are playing are the guys who have messed around with the stuff but then somehow have still benefited contractually and gotten paid more money than they might have done if they had been clean. Those are the things that kind of stick some players.” �Sunday Times-Sentinel SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2014 ALONG THE RIVER C1 Photos by Charlene Hoeflich | Sunday Times-Sentinel ABOVE, every Easter this cross adorns the Middleport First Baptist Church’s pulpit area. AT LEFT, hundred’s of crosses mark the graves in Pomeroy’s Catholic Cemetery. Crosses of the crucified Christ By Charlene Hoeflich choeflich@civitasmedia.com POMEROY — As we travel through life, we accumulate a chest full of memories that overflows with years of experiences, emotions, songs, stories and symbols useful in developing life’s direction. Then at times like these, as we prepare to observe Easter, we retrieve something from that chest — perhaps the cross of Christ — and place it center stage in our thoughts as we take a closer look at our relationship with God. Easter is a wonderful time for retrieving messages of the cross and reflecting on the sacrifice, compassion and hope eternal Many church steeples are topped with crosses. This one is at that they represent. the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. There seems more awareness of crosses, those that mark the tall steeples of churches, those displayed in sanctuaries of many churches, those which adorn landscapes and cemeteries, and those worn as a testimony to faith. All the while messages of life eternal through the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ are proclaimed from pulpits not just at Easter, but every day of the year. However, as spring arrives and the lilies begin to bloom, and bells toll out songs like “In the Cross of Christ I Glory,” and “At the Foot of the Cross,” there comes an awareness of crosses encountered in our daily activities. Like the lighted cross on Lincoln Hill that has overlooked Pomeroy for the past 74 years, serving as a beacon in the night for A cross adorned with a purple scarf stands as a reminder of motorists traveling through the Bend Area. Christ crucified along Route 7 below Middleport. This large cross of daffodils planted many years ago by the late Harold and Helen Blackston in their old Route 33 front yard is late in blooming this year. It stands 36 feet high and is 14 feet wide, is equipped with 250 bulbs, and has been lighted every night with the exception of when it required repair work, or the one time it had to be moved from its original location due to some construction. It was built soon after the devastating 1937 flood by congregation members of Trinity Church to fulfill a dream of the late Rev. Ralph Kuether, who arrived in the area to pastor the church just as the flood was receding and the country was emerging from the Great Depression. The first cross was wooden and required being turned on and off by hand every night. Later, the larger metal cross that stands to this day was built and equipped with an auto- matic timer, thanks to Ohio Power Co., which also for a time provided the electricity free of charge. Another cross enjoyed over the years consists of blooming daffodils in a large cross-shaped bed on the front lawn of the Blackston home on old Ohio 33. It was created many years ago by the late Harold and Helen Blackston as a testimony of their faith and continues to bloom year after year. There remains a cluster of three crosses just outside Racine on a hill placed there by the Rev. Bernard Coffindaffer of Craigsille, W.Va., sometime after 1984 as a witness of his faith. The minister is reported to have spent $3 million on erecting 1,864 clusters of crosses in 29 states. Coffindaffer said at the time of placing the crosses that they were, “not for saints or sinners, but for everybody. They’re up for the sole reason which is to remind people that Jesus was crucified on a cross at Calvary for our sins, and that He is coming again.” Every year just below Middleport, a large cross wrapped with a purple scarf is placed at the edge of the highway as a reminder to motorists of the crucifixion of Christ. Hundreds of crosses are placed in cemeteries across the county as a reminder of not only Christ crucified but resurrected. They are symbolic of life offered through the death of another. Sightings along life’s journey are added to that chest of memories to be revisited in times like these. ABOVE, the cross at the St. Paul Lutheran Church hangs on a chain from the ceiling into the sanctuary. AT LEFT, the 36-foot lighted cross on Lincoln Hill in Pomeroy is a beacon in the night for Bend area travelers. �Page C2 LîSunday Times Sentinel &@>6C@JîLî#:55=6A@CEîLî�2==:A@=:D -:=5H@@5îE@î9@DEî(68:@?î î%��� SYRACUSE — Details of the Ohio Association of Garden Clubs’ Region 11 spring meeting scheduled for April 26 at Syracuse Community Center were discussed at a recent meeting of the Wildwood Graden Club. The meeting was conducted in the home of Joy Bentley. Members discussed decorating ideas, door prizes, menu, table arrangements and favors. It was announced that the speaker for the morning session of the meeting will be Rebecca Wood, an outstanding herb and plant specialist presently leading a plant group in Central America. Details for the afternoon flower show were discussed. Anyone wanting to enter the flower show is asked to call Peggy Crane to register. Only four entries will be accepted for each arrangement class. Horticulture entries will also be accepted, but do not need to be registered before the show. Shirley Hamm, president and hostess for the meeting, announced that the Meigs County Garden Club meeting will be 7 p.m. April 21 at the Syracuse Community Center. Cathy Matthews was introduced as a new member. Diana Ash gave devotions titled “Blue Morning Glories.” Roll call was answered with members relating their favorite herb. Jo Hill reported that now is the time to seed kohlrabi, leaf lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, peppers, Swiss chard, and eggplant indoors; onion sets, broadleaf evergreens, peas and non-flowering trees and shrubs, roses, head lettuce, asparagus, strawberry plants, turnips, radishes and rhubarb. She advised that row covers should be used for freeze protection. Spring flowering bulbs should be fertilized, raspberries, blackberries and fruit trees should be pruned, and dogwood anthracnose control should begin. Peggy Moore gave a program on lavender. She said lavender demands full sun and are drought-resistant after they are established, but flower better if they do not dry out. It is not necessary to fertilize lavender, although they do like a side dressing of compost occasionally. Since the plant will die in wet soils, always plant them in areas with good drainage. They prefer a pH slightly above neutral, so add lime if the soil pH is below 7.0. Gravel mulch is good to use around the plants, since it helps keep the crowns away from too much moisture, she advised. It was noted that deer will not bother lavender and it has no insect pests because of its strong essential oils. Honey bees love the lavender plants, though. Lavender is a woody sub-shrub and should not be pruned in spring until new growth appears. Plants can be cut back and shaped after flowering, but avoid cutting into old wood. Older plants can be cut back every three years. Shearing off flower spikes will help produce a second bloom later in the season. The flower spikes can be dried by hanging in bunches, or by placing them on a screen to dry in the sun. Moore said that young plants divide easier than older, woody specimens. They can be divided in early spring if plenty of soil is kept around their roots when they are dug up. During the winter months, a protective mulch of evergreen boughs may help prevent damage from cold winds. Attending the meeting in addition to those previously mentioned were Pattie Tarr and Jo Hill. �>2K:?8î�C246î�9FC49î:?î7@@5î5C:G6î7@Cî?665J TUPPERS PLAINS — The Amazing Grace Community Church in Tuppers Plains is this year partnering in food collection with the annual Alan Shawn Feinstein Food Drive, which will continue through April 30. For the past 16 years, Alan Shawn Feinstein has been giving away $1 million to anti-hunger agencies throughout the country who donate to the cause of feeding the poor. According to Cindy Chadwell, a member of the church, this means the more in donations the Amazing Grace Community Church collects over this period, the more of Feinstein’s $1 million the church will receive for its food pantry operation. Donations can include cash and checks as well as food items. “Alan Shawn Feinstein be- lieves each of us was put here on earth to do what we can to help those in need and added that also is the philosophy of the Amazing Grace Church,” Chadwell said. “This has become the greatest grass roots campaign ever to fight hunger in our country.” Monetary donations can be mailed to Amazing Grace Community Church, in care of Daryl Collins, treasurer, at 1720 Cornes Road, Little Hocking, OH 45742. Food items can be dropped off at Amazing Grace Community Church at 7 p.m. Wednesday or 9 a.m. Sunday, or by calling Pastor Wayne Dunlap at(740) 667-0194 to make other arrangements. The church is appealing for help with replenishing its food pantry, which continues to assist those in need in this area. “Every donation helps,” Chadwell said. Sunday, March 30, 2014 Chester Courthouse benefit set for April 11 CHESTER — The annual benefit dinner and Chinese auction to provide funds for the Chester Courthouse and Academy operational expenses will be 6:30 p.m. April 11 at Meigs High School’s cafeteria. The menu will contain a variety of dinner entrees and sides, along with homemade desserts. Tickets are $15 and are on sale at Farmers Bank locations in Pomeroy and Chester, and Baum’s Lumber and Summerfield’s Restaurant in Chester. Meanwhile, items are being collected for the Chinese auction. Those with antiques, collectibles, quilts or other items are asked to bring them to the dinner or drop them off at the Chester Courthouse. For more information, call 985-9822 or 985-4115. The event is sponsored by the Chester Shade Historical Association. There will also be matching fund raffle sponsored by the Modern Woodmen of America. ":G6DE@4<î(6A@CE GALLIPOLIS — United Producers, Inc., livestock report of sales from March 26, 2014. Feeder Cattle 275-415 pounds, Steers, $125-$230, Heifers, $120-$205; 425-525 pounds, Steers, $115-$220, Heifers, $115-$199; 550-625 pounds, Steers, $110-$199, Heifers, $110$178; 650-725 pounds, Steers, $110-$185, Heifers, $110-$164; 750-850 pounds, Steers, $110-$160, Heifers, $110-$165. Cows Well Muscled/Fleshed, $95-$120; Medium/Lean, $85-$94; Thin/Light, $70-$84; Bulls, $85-$122.50. Back to the Farm Cow/Calf Pairs, $1,200-$1,950; Bred Cows, $750$1,300; Baby Calves, $80-$240; Lambs, $137.50-$140. Upcoming Specials 4/2/14 — next sale, 10 a.m. Direct sales and free on-farm visits. Contact Dewayne at (740) 339-0241, Stacy at (304) 6340224, Luke at (740) 645-3697, or Mark at (740) 645-5708, or visit the website at www.uproducers.com. &=62D2?EDî�@F?EJî72C>î@A6?DîFAî>2A=6îDJCFAîE2AD By Gretchen Richards Parkersburg News and Sentinel FRIENDLY, W.Va. — Fresh maple syrup doesn’t have to come from a faraway state or country. Just ask the folks at Cedar Run Farms in Pleasants County. They get it fresh from their own trees and sell it at local supermarkets. Cedar Run is a 157-acre family farm, said Chris Metz, 41, one of the founders. With his wife, Betsy Metz, 38, his mother Debbie Metz, 60, and his father, Bill Metz, 61, Chris Metz and his family operate the farm. They opened their doors in 2009 as a Christmas tree farm and expanded into maple syrup the following year, Chris Metz said. Cedar is in the name, but ironically there are only five cedar trees on the entire farm, Metz said. Cedar Run Farms adds nothing to its syrup, Metz said. Metz and his family had tapped into 625 maple trees on their property in early March and the maple syrup was flowing almost faster than the team of four could keep up with it, Metz said. Cedar Run Farms discarded traditional sap collection methods after one year. Many hear of maple syrup and think of buckets hanging on spouts from the sides of trees and farmers stomping through the mud to empty and replace the buckets throughout the day. “For more than 600 trees? The traditional approach is too labor intensive for one family,” Metz said. Plastic tubing, 5/16 inch thick, is suspended from tree to tree, criss-crossing the valley at the farm. Tubes connected to each other forming a 1,200-foot-long, sap-gathering spider’s web that is the heart of the family operation. The web clung to each maple tree the family had tapped with small round devices called check valves. These valves are inserted directly into the tree’s bark and pose no injury to the tree, Metz said. “Our maple trees just happened to be here,” Metz said, “We have about 1,200 sugar maple and a dozen red maple trees on the property, with about 625 tapped at the moment,” he said. Future plans include 1,200 maple trees on the property tapped with another 600 trees from their Tyler County farm, Metz said. Every spring, the maples undergo a natural process, releasing a sugary sap that can be drawn from the tree. Normally, any injury to the tree’s bark would allow the sap to flow onto the ground, or in this case, through the tree’s check valve, until nightfall, Metz said. When the check valves are removed at the end of the season, the tree will naturally heal over the spot, Metz said. A single sugar maple tree can produce more than a gallon of sap every day during good weather, Metz said. “Today, it’s 55 degrees and the sap is really running,” Metz said. “We expect that we will bring in more than 1,500 gallons of sap,” he said. The sap ran through the transparent tubing down to an 1,100-gallon storage tank at the bottom of the hollow. There, a dedicated water line pumped the sap from that storage tank up to one of two 600-gallon holding tanks at the family’s Sugar Shack, Metz said. “It seems strange to think Advertise your business in this space, or bigger Call us at: 740.992.2155 or 740.446.2342 AP Photo Chris Metz stands before his family's season supply of wood that is used at their maple syrup evaporator at the Cedar Run Farms in Friendly, W.Va. The family uses whatever falls naturally on their property throughout the year to run the evaporator 24 hours a day. that you can take a drink straight from a tree, but you can from a sugar maple,” Metz said. “The sap in these lines is perfectly safe to drink, and even a little sweet at this point,” he said. The Sugar Shack is the name the family gave to the building where the sap is transformed into sugar, Metz said. Through the process of evaporation, the family turns 56 gallons of sap into a single gallon of maple syrup, Metz said. The machine that does all the work is a Leader brand maple syrup evaporator, Metz said. Leader is a Vermont-based company that has been in business since 1888, Metz said. It offers three styles of evaporators: wood-burning, oil-burning, and natural gas-burning. The style of stainless steel evaporator that Cedar Run Farms uses is powered by a wood-burning fire, Metz said. “It is the most difficult to control of the three types,” Metz said, “But we don’t have a natural gas source at the Sugar Shack and oil is far more expensive than wood,” he said. The family prefers to use wood with a high BTU content, Metz said. Their favorite woods are oak and hickory, although they will use ash, cherry and sugar maple as well, he said. “We try to use the wood that falls on the ground throughout the year, whatever that wood happens to be,” Metz said. Wood is added to the fire every 12 minutes while the family is making maple syrup, Metz said. As long as there is sap in the holding tanks, the machine must be constantly operated, he said. With maple season lasting four or five weeks in West Virginia, that is a lot of overnight shifts and a lot of firewood to keep the evaporator going, Metz said. From the holding tanks, the system pumps sap into the 225-gallon feed tank, which gravity-feeds the sap, little by little, into the first stage of the evaporation process, Metz said. The raw sap enters the first pan in the evaporator, and is heated to 750 degrees, Metz said. The water in the sap evaporates, creating steam, he said. As the sap becomes thicker, the machine eventually deposits it in the syrup pan, Metz said. The syrup is heated and thickened even more, until its temperature reaches 7 degrees above that day’s boiling point, Metz said. When the machine reaches the target temperature, it automatically opens a valve and draws the maple syrup into a bucket beneath the spout, Metz said. Then, the family tests to see if it is maple syrup or not, Metz said. Using a hydrometer, the family tests a cup filled with syrup for the proper consistency. It is then transferred to the filter tank, Metz said. In a nearby, much-cooler building, the family hooks the filter tank up to a filter press to filter the syrup, Metz said. “All pure maple syrup has natural sediment, called sugar sand, when it is made,” Metz said. “It is perfectly safe, but people want to see a clear product. That’s why we filter it,” he said. The filter press sends 20 gallons of maple syrup at a time through a pressure-op- erated diatomaceous earth filter, Metz said. Once all of the sediment has been removed, the syrup is placed into a canning unit, Metz said. The operation has two of these, a large one and a small one, he said. Both are surrounded by a water jacket, which is heated with a propane source to make the syrup smooth enough to easily pour into its container, Metz said. Cedar Run Farms offers several types of syrup containers, both decorative and practical, he said. Plastic containers with the farm logo come in quart and pint sizes, he said. Decorative glass bottles with festive scenes, wildlife, and humorous shapes such as gingerbread men, are more popular as gifts, he said. Cedar Run Farms maple syrup is available in St. Marys at Galaxy Market and Smith Candies; in Middlebourne at Dids Designs; in Parkersburg at Mother Earth Foods, Mulberry Lane and the Blennerhassett State Park Gift Shop; and online at cedarrunfarm. com and on Facebook at Cedar Run Farms, Metz said. �Sunday, March 30, 2014 &@>6C@JîLî#:55=6A@CEîLî�2==:A@=:D BLONDIE Sunday Times Sentinel Lî&286î� By Dean Young and John Marshall BEETLE BAILEY By Mort, Greg and Brian Walker Today’s answer RETAIL By Norm Feuti HAGAR THE HORRIBLE HI AND LOIS By Chris Browne Written By Brian & Greg Walker; Drawn By Chance Browne THE BRILLIANT MIND OF EDISON LEE By John Hambrock BABY BLUES ZITS By Jerry Scott & Rick Kirkman By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman PARDON MY PLANET CONCEPTIS SUDOKU By Vic Lee by Dave Green By Dave Green 7 4 RHYMES WITH ORANGE By Hilary Price 5 9 8 7 3 6 1 2 4 8 1 5 6 9 1 2 4 3 1 5 9 3/29 Difficulty Level Today’s Solution THE FAMILY CIRCUS By Bil and Jeff Keane 3/29 2 6 8 3 9 1 4 7 5 6 7 4 8 1 5 9 3 2 5 9 1 6 2 3 8 4 7 8 2 3 4 7 9 6 5 1 All offers require 24-month commitment and credit qualification.Call 7 days a week 8am - 11pm EST Promo Code: MB0913 *Offer subject to change based on premium movie channel availability 7 1 9 5 6 4 2 8 3 1-800-401-1670 4 3 5 2 8 7 1 6 9 Call Now and Ask How! 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Others pictured are five members of the honoree’s family, all members of Harrisonville Lodge, left to right, Jack Well, nephew; Vernal Well, brother-in-law; Ryan Well, nephew; Jerry Well, brother-in-law, and Morris and Larry Well, brothers-in-law. POMEROY — Bennie and Jan Eblin recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Eblin were married Feb. 25, 1964, at Rock Springs United Methodist Church. The Rev. Robert Card officiated. They are the parents of three children, Doug and Cindy Eblin, Mandy and Matt Combs, and Dale and Robin Eblin. Their grandchildren are Charlie and Brittany Eblin, Nathan Eblin, Marinda and Tylor Combs, and Samantha Eblin. Their great grandchildren are Brynlee and Boston Eblin. Other relatives are her mother Virginia Wears, who will celebrate her 95th birthday on Easter Sunday, and sisters Ann Werry and Reta Ord. Submitted photos AT LEFT, Breanna Hall, LPN, Holzer-Jackson Urgent Care, left, receives the Mary Scully Thomas and Homer B. Thomas Memorial Scholarship from Michelle Theiss, RN, BSN, manager of the education department at Holzer Health System. AT RIGHT, Michelle Theiss, RN, BSN, manager of the Education Department at Holzer Health System, left, presents the Mary Scully Thomas and Homer B Thomas Memorial Scholarship to Julie Greenlee, LPN, Holzer-Jackson Family Practice. Megan Bias Bias celebrates eighth birthday at Rio Grande Megan Mickaylee Bias, of Vinton, celebrated her eighth birthday on Jan. 8, 2014, but celebrated with a swimming party on Jan. 12. She enjoyed her SpongeBob SquarePants-themed event with several friends and family members. Guests snacked on a variety of chips and beverages. To finish, the group consumed the most delicious, brilliantly crafted SpongeBob cake, with ice cream on the side. Many people came for thirds. The kids, even some adults, enjoyed swimming in the Olympic-size pool at the Univeristy of Rio Grande. Those in attendance were Megan’s mother and father, Brian and Angela Bias; Nana Lois Henry; Pawpaw and mamaw Danny and Martha Bias; aunt Lisa Shaver; cousins Keerstin “Kee” Shaver, and Heather and Cash Hunt; friends Matt, Becky and Shyann Holcomb, Marissa Sayre, Codi East, Gavin, Hunter and Kynnli, Josh, Grace, Abbie and A.J. French, Bridget, Mikayla and Brianna Lodwick, Mindy, Eli and Caylee Caudill, Ronda Daft, Zachary, Marley and Lynzee, Emily, Ryan and Tyler Carter, Lisa, Macy and Reese Potter, Beth and Bryn Morgan, Stephanie and Haidyn Rife, Mike McCoy, Jamie, Brooklyn and Bailey Boggs, Misty Miller and Miranda. Others that could not attend, but gave gifts were Paps Bill Henry, Great-Nana Virginia Tipton, great-aunts Lynn Tipton and Violet Henry, great-uncle Mike Tipton, uncle Travis Shaver, Kevin Hunt, Jacob Marcum, Nancy Cherrington, Judi Woodruff, Gary and Portia Thomas, Jason Kempton, Jade, Lexie, Chad and Heather Covert, Gavin, Shana, Logan, Blake, Diania Baxter, Rhonda Harrison, D.R., Liz and Robbie Keeton. Do you have story ideas or suggestions? Call: 446.2342 or 992.2155 �@=K6Cî?FCD6DîC646:G6îD49@=2CD9:AD Staff report GDTnews@civitasmedia.com GALLIPOLIS — Four scholarships representing memorial nursing scholarship funds were recently awarded to members of the Holzer nursing staff to assist them in advancing their education. Julie Greenlee, LPN, Holzer-Jackson Family Practice, and Breanna Hall, LPN, Holzer-Jackson Urgent Care, were recipients of the Mary Scully Thomas and Homer B. Thomas Memorial Nursing Scholarships. Greenlee joined Holzer in 1998 as an employee at Holzer Senior Care Center. She has also been an employee at Holzer Medical Center in Jackson in the family practice office and cardiology office. In 2009, she began working at the Jackson location on Pattonsville Road. She is currently enrolled in Excelsior College in Albany, N.Y., in the registered nurse program. She and her husband, Larry, and their dogs, Sassy and Beau, all live in Jackson. Hall joined Holzer last May and is currently in the RN program at Ohio University’s Chillicothe campus. She plans to complete her BSN degree following graduation this August. Hall and her fiancée, Jesse Morgan, live in Wellston. The Thomas Scholarship was established in 1974 in memory of Mary Scully Thomas by her husband, Dr. Homer B. Thomas. At the time of his death in 1988, Dr. Thomas’ name was added. Their sons, Dr. James Thomas, of Oxford, Ohio, and Dr. John Thomas, of Fort Wayne, Ind., continue to support the scholarship fund. Tammy Harrison, LPN, was awarded the Karen Hudson Memorial Nursing Scholarship. Harrison began her career at Holzer in June 2012 at Holzer Senior Care Center. She is advancing her education in the nursing program at the University of Rio Grande. Harrison is a native of Gallia County. She and her husband, Christopher, have two children, C.J. and Kayla, and one grandson, Bentley. The Karen Hudson Memorial Scholarship was established in June 2008 in memory of Karen Hudson, by the staff of Holzer Senior Care and Karen’s husband, Les. Hudson was a long-term employee of Holzer Senior Care Center as the Quality Assurance Nurse. Holzer Health Systems staff, the Hudson family, and former Holzer School of Nursing classmates of Hudson’s continue to support the fund. The Wilma Evans Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Tina Perkins, RN, BSN, Holzer Medical Center-Jackson 2 North Inpatient Unit staff. Perkins joined Holzer in 2007 in her current position. She is advancing her education by pursuing a nurse practitioner license through Ohio University. She and her husband, Eric, and their children, Lauryn and Abigail, live in Bidwell. The Wilma Evans Memorial Scholarship was established by her daughter, Karen Douglass. In 1947, Evans graduated from the Holzer School of Nursing. Douglass established the scholarship to create a memorial to her mother, striving to establish a memorial in a place that touched her mother’s life. The scholarship was limited to those who work at Holzer Medical Center- Tammy Harrison, Holzer Senior Care Center staff member, left, receives the Karen Hudson Memorial Scholarship from Teresa Remy-Detty, vice president of Post-Acute Care Division at Holzer Health System. Tina Perkins, RN, BSN, Holzer Medical Center-Jackson Inpatient Unit nurse, receives the Wilma Evans Memorial Scholarship from Bill Pfeifer, RN, manager of clinical support services. Jackson to assist nursing students. Interest from the corpus of the three funds makes each scholarship possible. The Thomas Scholarship Fund is handled by Holzer Hospital Foundation, while the Evans and Hudson scholarships are managed by the Holzer Heritage Foundation. Traditionally, awards from each memorial scholarship fund are made annually to nurses who are furthering their education, with exception to the Hudson Scholarship, which will award to any health care worker pursing a degree in nursing. Scholarships can be set up by an individual, family, or civic group. For more information, call 446-5217 or e-mail llester@holzer.org. � 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 03. March Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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