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Middleport•Pomeroy, Ohio

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TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013

Vol. 63, No. 85

Active duty sailor found dead in Gallipolis
Coroner: Death is not result of natural causes
Stephanie Filson

sfilson@civitasmedia.com

GALLIPOLIS — A holiday
honoring members of the United
States Armed Services was overshadowed in local communities
when an active duty sailor with
the United States Navy was
found dead in a Gallipolis apartment over the weekend.
According to a dispatcher

with the Gallipolis Police Department, officers were called
to an apartment at 151 Upper
River Road in Gallipolis at approximately noon in response
to a report of a subject who was
unresponsive and with no pulse.
When they arrived, they located
the body of Steven A. Perry.
Although not available through
current police reports, Perry was
reportedly 22 years old and from

Mason County, W.Va. According
to early police reports, Perry was
in active duty with the U.S. Navy.
He had reportedly been home on
temporary leave for a short time
after an eight-month deployment in the Persian Gulf and was
scheduled to return to service in
the next couple of weeks.
Dr. Daniel Whiteley, Gallia
County coroner, reported to the
scene Sunday afternoon and in-

dicated that Perry did not die of
natural causes. Perry’s body was
sent to the Montgomery County
Coroner’s Office in Dayton to determine the cause of death.
Rumors circulating locally and
on social media sites point to a
possible altercation Saturday
night, but although officials with
the Gallipolis Police Department
said they’ve heard the talk, they
also said no calls were placed
overnight Saturday to indicate
such an altercation took place
— although fights aren’t always

reported to law enforcement.
Local law enforcement officials
also confirmed that Perry was
found in a local apartment, not at
the Regency Inn located nearby.
An investigation into Perry’s
death is being conducted by the
Gallipolis Police Department
with the assistance of the Ohio
Bureau of Criminal Investigations and Identification.
Police are asking that anyone
with information about this
case contact the department at
(740) 446-1313.

John Hoback and Roma Sayre

Hoback named Executive
VP at Home National Bank
Staff Report

tdsnews@civitasmedia.com

Patriotic music was provided by the Southern High School Band.

Photos by Charlene Hoeflich | Daily Sentinel

Memorial Day service honors fallen heroes
Charlene Hoeflich,

choeflich@civitasmedia.com

POMEROY — “If there is one thing we need to remember today, it is this. Freedom is not free. It is only
possible because fallen heroes have paid the price.”
That was the message of David Hall, National Vice Commander of the American Legion, in speaking at the annual
Memorial Day service conducted by Drew Webster Post
39, American Legion, in downtown Pomeroy Monday.
Hall called on his listeners to live up to the ideals
our veterans died for and to honor those Americans
now missing from our ranks.
“We are here today to pay tribute to them. They
fought because they were proud Americans, they gave
up their lives for their country and family, and we have
to live up to the ideals they died for,” he said.
He commented on the defense budget cuts, the programs affected by those cuts, acknowledged that cuts
need to be made in the government but said “please
not cut veterans programs, they deserve the best care
this national has to offer.” He mentioned the increasing
number of suicides and he called on everyone to make
veterans welcome when they come back into society.
Memorial Day was established in 1865 and the
observance was set for May 30, but, Hall pointed
out, priorities changed and the date of observance
was moved to the last Monday to fit into a three day
weekend. He went on to comment what he found
when he looked up Memorial Day on the internet —
“sales and picnics were at the top, and way down at
the bottom, something about veterans.”
Following his talk, John Hood, commander of
Drew Webster Post, presented the speaker with an
American flag.
A wreath was laid in the Ohio River in honor of
those veterans lost at sea, and the Legion honor
guard gave a gun salute. On site for the observance
were Pomeroy firemen who hoisted a large flag on
the fire truck’s ladder.
Special patriotic music for the event was provided
by the Southern High School Band. Hood introduced
Pomeroy Mayor Jackie Welker and Meigs County
Sheriff Keith Wood, who spoke briefly, along with
Rep. Debbie Phillips, assistant minority leader in the
Ohio House of Representatives.
The Rev. Jame Keesee gave the invocation and
benediction.
It was noted that the flag pole at the stage on the
parking lot had been painted by Pomeroy firemen
with paint provided by Dettwiller Lumber.

The honor guard of Drew Webster Post 39 stands at attention during the Memorial Day observance in Pomeroy.

“Freedom is not Free,” was the message of David Hall, National Vice Commander of the American Legion.

RACINE — Home National Bank recently announced
the addition of John Hoback as executive vice president.
Hoback is a lifelong resident of Meigs County, graduating from Southern High School in 1991. He went on to
attend Ohio University College of Business, graduating in
1995 and then earned his CPA designation. Hoback brings
with him over 18 years of experience in business finance
with increasing responsibility, including finance manager
for all North American automotive plants and most recently as Plant Controller and Operations Manager for all
North American tool shops at GKN Sinter Metals.
“The board of directors and I are very pleased to have
John join the staff of Home National Bank. He grew up
in Racine, chose to stay and raise his family here. This as
well as his involvement in the community demonstrates
his dedication to the area,” said Bank President Roma
Sayre. “John is currently serving in the lending area.”
Hoback resides in Racine with his wife, Jennifer, and two
sons, Jacob, 15, and Jonah, 13. He serves on the Star Mill
Park Board, Southern Local School Board, and is active in
many youth sports activities.
Home National Bank offers online banking, bill pay, debit
cards, and ATM services, all free of charge. Overdraft protection, competitive loan and deposit rates are available.

Meigs County Youth
Recognized as BEST Winner
MARYSVILLE — The 2012-2013 Ohio Cattlemen’s
Association BEST (Beef Exhibitor Show Total) Program
wrapped up on May 11 with its annual awards banquet
held at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus.
This year’s BEST program featured 16 sanctioned
shows that weaved its way across the state. More than
525 head of market animals and heifers were shown and
355 youth participated.
Jacob Parker of Tuppers Plains, won Fifth Overall Novice Steer. Jacob is the son of Greg and Anna Parker.
“The banquet is a time to celebrate the many achievements of our BEST participants, both in and out of the
show ring,” says Stephanie Sindel, BEST coordinator.
“Each participant is recognized for their hard work by
family, friends and BEST supporters alike.”
Several representatives from program sponsors Bob Evans Farms, Burroughs Frazier Farms, Farm Credit MidAmerica, Green Oak Farms, M.H. Eby, Ohio Farm Bureau
Federation and Weaver Livestock were on hand to help
present awards totaling more than $35,000 in belt buckles, furniture, show materials and other awards.
BEST is a youth program of the OCA that recognizes
Ohio’s junior beef exhibitors through a series of shows.
Juniors who participate in these sanctioned shows earn
points for their placing at each show. The OCA BEST program promotes educating Ohio’s juniors about the beef
industry’s issues and rewards the successful accomplishments and hard work of those junior beef producers.

SWCD taking registrations for camp
Staff Report

TDSnews@civitasmedia.com

MEIGS COUNTY —
The Meigs Soil and Water Conservation District
and Leading Creek Watershed Group will hold the
Leading Creek Watershed
Camp on June 5 and 6 at
the Meigs SWCD Conservation Area near Rutland.
During these two days,
camp runs from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Students can

participate in a number
of hands-on activities to
discover the importance
of clean water and explore all the critters that
make their home in and
around streams through
outdoor activities, crafts,
and exploration.
Since Camp lessons are
prepared for a specific age
range, please note that there
is an age limit. Watershed
Camp is for campers ages 9
to 14 years old. Registration

will be limited to the first 50
applicants. There is no fee
to attend Watershed Camp.
Lunch and one snack per
day will also be provided
for each camper.
Instructors at Watershed
Camp are staff members
of the Meigs SWCD, Ohio
Environmental Protection
Agency, Hocking College,
Ohio Department of Natural
Resources, OSU Extension,
and many other agencies.
Please contact the Meigs

SWCD to obtain registration forms or download
one from the website,
www.meigsswcd.com. The
Meigs SWCD must receive
a completed registration
form by May 31st.
If you would like to
register or have any questions please call the Meigs
SWCD office at (740)
992-4282 or email mtarian89@gmail.com or JenSubmitted photo
ny Ridenour at jenny.rid- Participants in Watershed Camp learn about the fish which
are found in Leading Creek.
enour@oh.nacdnet.net.

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Meigs Local Briefs
Benefit Concert
MIDDLEPORT — A
Fall Harvest benefit will
be held at the Old Bethel
Free Will Baptist Church
with singers, Everett
Caldwell,William Markin,
John and Wanda Fellure,
Brian and Family Connections and Angela Gibson,
Saturday at 6 p.m.
Church fund raiser
MIDDLEPORT — The
on the Go Portrait Studio
will be at the Middleport
First Presbyterian Church
on Fourth Street from 2
to 7 p.m. Tuesday to take
pictures. All proceeds
from the event will be
contributed to the church.
Photos will be printed
right after being taken
with portrait packages to
be delivered immediately.
There will be backgrounds
to choose from, and pets
are welcome. For more
information call 740-7422747. Request that those
having pictures taken not
wear green.
Tea Party meeting
POMEROY — The
Meigs County Tea Party
will hold its regular meeting Tuesday, May 28,
2013, at 7:30 p.m. at the
Meigs Senior Center, 112
Memorial Drive, Pomeroy. A time of prayer will
be held from 7-7:15 p.m.
for those who would like
to pray for our country

and its leaders. Discussions will be held about
the Constitution and current events. Mr. and Mrs,
Kevin Ritter, concerned
parents from Marietta, will
be sharing their opinions
at the meeting. The focus
of their remarks will be Common Core State Standards Initiative — “What
is CCSSI? If You Don’t
Know, It Could Hurt Your
Kids.”
Please come and bring
a friend. Snacks will be
served.
Revival
WEST COLUMBIA —
A revival will be held May
31 through June 4 at Salem
Community Church, 4577
Lieving Road in West Columbia, W.Va. Services will
begin at 6 p.m. each night.
Evangelist Michael Crawley will be the speaker.
Alumni Events
CHESTER –The Chester High School Alumni
banquet will be held at 6:30
p.m. on Saturday, June 2,
at the Eastern Elementary
School Cafetorium. The
dinner and dues are $20.
Dues alone are $5. Reservations are to mailed or
telephoned to Betty Newell, P. O. Box 36, Chester,
Ohio 45720 or telephoned
to 740-985-3351. Classes
to be honored are 1933,
1938, 1943, 1948 and
1953. Decorating for the

banquet will take place at
6:30 on May 31 and volunteers to assist are needed.
Church Yard Sale
RUTLAND — Rutland
Freewill Baptist Church
will hold an inside yard
sale from 9 a.m to 4 p.m.,
May 30, 31 and June 1.
Lunch will also be served.
Route 143 yard sale
HARRISONVILLE —
The fourth annual Route
143 yard sale, described
as 21 miles of fun and treasures, will be held from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday,
June 1. The sale will begin
at Route 7 at Pomeroy and
continue to Route 50 near
Albany. The Scip8io Volunteer Fire Department
in Harrisonville will have
a pancake breakfast and
hot dogs later in the day
and Columbia Township
Volunteer Fire Department
will also be serving food.
Both fire department will
have rest rooms available
for the shoppers. Space
at both fire departments
will be available for rent
to anyone who might want
to sell “goodies.” The fire
department contacts are
Rexie Cheadle at 740-5916086 for Columbia, and
Dan or Rhea Lantz at 740742-2819 for Scipio. Dave
or Paula Carr can be contacted at 740-742-2819 for
more information or for
rental spaces.

Immunization Clinics
POMEROY — The
Meigs County Health Department will conduct a
childhood immunization
clinic from 9-11 a.m. and
1-3 p.m. on Tuesday at the
office located at 112 East
Memorial Drive.
ATHENS — The Ohio
University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-HCOM), Community Health Programs
offers free immunizations
through the Childhood
Immunization Clinic every Thursday. Created
in 1994, CHIP strives to
keep children in the region
healthy by providing free
or low-cost immunizations
to protect against preventable diseases such as polio,
rubella, meningitis and
mumps. Free services are
available to uninsured, underinsured and Medicaideligible children up to 19
years old. For additional
information, or to make
an appointment, call (800)
844-2654 or (740) 5932432.
Ohio River
River Sweep
REEDSVILLE
—The
Ohio River River Sweep at
Reedsville will be held on
Friday, June 14, from 6 to 8
p.m. at Forked Run. There
will be free t-shirts, pizza,
chicken dinners, and bev-

erages, according to Todd
Bissell who can be contacted at 740-444-1388.
Traffic Advisory
MEIGS COUNTY —
Ohio 143 (located just 0.25
miles south of State Farm
Road) will be reduced
to one lane to allow for a
bridge replacement project. During construction
there will be a 10’ width
restriction. Traffic will be
maintained with a portable traffic light. Weather
permitting, both lanes of
Ohio 143 will be open September 1, 2013.
MEIGS COUNTY —
The westbound lane of
Ohio 124 (located at the
63.91 mile marker, about
1.5 miles north of Reedsville) will be closed to allow for a bridge replacement project. Traffic will
be maintained by traffic
signals and concrete barriers. Weather permitting,
both lanes of Ohio 124 will
be open November, 1 2013.
Free Diabetic Clinic
POMEROY
—
A
diabetes education and
support group will be
held the last Tuesday of
each month from 5:306:30 p.m. at the therapy
gym
at
Rocksprings
Rehabilitation
Center,
36759 Rocksprings Road.
For more information call
Frank Bibbee, Referral

Manager at (740) 9926606.
ATHENS — The Ohio
University Heritage College
of Osteopathic Medicine
(OU-HCOM), Community
Health Programs offers a
free diabetes clinic on the
second Tuesday of every
month. Patients at the Diabetes Clinic are treated by
physicians specializing in
diabetes, diabetic nutritionists and diabetic nurse educators. Patients receive two
follow-up visits annually
with a diabetic educator
and nutritionist. All services are free to those who
qualify. For additional information, or to make an appointment, call (800) 8442654 or (740) 593-2432.
Exercise
Program offered
POMEROY — Open
hours of the Meigs Cooperative Parish’s exercise
room at the Mulberry
Community Center have
been extended to accommodate exercisers. They
are now on both Tuesdays
and Thursdays, 9 to 11
a.m. and 5 to 7 p.m. Cost
of the program is $12 a
month and all proceeds
benefit the Parish.
POMEROY — Water
aerobics
classes
will
be held at 6:30 p.m. on
Tuesday and Thursday at
Kountry Resort. For more
information call (740) 5914407 or 992-6728.

Meigs County Community Calendar
Tuesday, May 28
POMEROY — The final Team
Captain Meeting for 2013 will be
held at 5:30 p.m. in the basement
of the Pomeroy Library. Light re-

freshments will be available.
POMEROY — The Meigs
County Emergency Planning
Committee (LEPC) will meet at
11:30 a.m. at the Senior Citizens

Center. Lunch will be available.
Friday, May 31
MARIETTA — The Buckeye
Hills Area Agency on Aging

Regional Advisory Council will
meet at 10 a.m. at the Comfort
Inn, 700 Pike Street, Marietta.
MIDDLEPORT
—
A
free community dinner will

Submitted photos

Meigs eighth graders pose for a picture.

be served at 5 p.m. at the
Middleport Church of Christ
Family Life Center. The menu
will include hot dogs, baked
beans, chips and dessert.

Students place a wreath at Vietnam monument.

Meigs 8th graders tour Washington D.C.
Charlene Hoeflich,

choeflich@civitasmedia.com

POMEROY — Ninetythree Meigs Middle School
eighth graders along with
12 chaperones boarded
buses on May 15 and headed out on a three-day trip
to Washington D.C.
Teachers described the
trip, financed through a
variety of activities and
with numerous contributions, as “an educational
opportunity for the stu-

dents made possible only
through the generosity of
those who gave.”
Arriving in Washington
D.C. the group sent the
first day touring at Arlington National Cemetery
where they watched the
changing of the guard and
a wreath laying ceremony
and visiting the Arlington
House, the former residency of General Robert E.
Lee. That day they enjoyed
dinner at the Pentagon
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up with a visit to the Iwo
Jima Memorial and the
National 9/11 Pentagon
Memorial. Nate Hoover
later commented that Iwo
Jima was his favorite stop
on the tour because he was
impressed with its size.
Day two started off
with a visit to the White
House and then a guided
tour of various memorials. One group of students was privileged to be
led by a veteran who had
served in both the Korean
and Vietnam Wars. The
tours of the memorials
included the Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial including the Vietnam Women’s
Memorial, and the Korean
War Veteran’s Memorial.
A wreath was placed at the
Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial under the name of William Neutzling of Pomeroy, as a tribute to all of
the Meigs County citizens
who served their country.
Everyone enjoyed lunch
and a little shopping at the
Old Post Office Pavilion

and were then off for
more sightseeing. Leia
Gilmore commented that
making memories with her
friends, and a visit to the
Lincoln Memorial, was her
favorite part of the trip.
The students concluded
the afternoon by visiting
the National Archives,
Ford’s Theater and the
Preston House where they
enjoyed some impromptu
street performances. In
the evening they visited
the Jefferson Memorial,
the Martin Luther King,
Jr. National Memorial,
and made a return visit to
the Lincoln Memorial for
viewing of the sunset.
The trip was brought to
a close on day three with
a tour of Mount Vernon,
home of George and Martha Washington, and a
visit to the National Holocaust Museum.
“It was a priceless
opportunity
for
the
eighth graders,” a staff
member commented and
extended
appreciation
to everyone who helped Rest time for some weary eighth graders following a busy day
make the trip possible.
of seeing the sights in Washington, D.C.

Ohio Valley Forecast
Tuesday: A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after 9 a.m. Partly
sunny, with a high near 84. Southwest wind 6 to 11 mph. Chance of
precipitation is 30 percent.
Tuesday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 9 p.m. Partly cloudy, with a low
around 62. Light south wind. Chance
of precipitation is 30 percent.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with
a high near 88. Light south wind
becoming southwest 5 to 9 mph in
the morning.
Wednesday Night: Mostly clear,
with a low around 61.
Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a
high near 90.
Thursday Night: Mostly clear,
with a low around 63.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high
near 91.
Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a
low around 65.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a
high near 91.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy,
with a low around 67.
Sunday: A chance of showers.
Mostly sunny, with a high near 90.
Chance of precipitation is 30 percent.

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Sales of camp sites throw For bicyclist, a
Girl Scouts into turmoil cat is his co-pilot

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP)
— When it came time to
draw up a budget, one
of Iowa’s regional Girl
Scout councils reviewed
its programs and made
a proposal that would
have been unthinkable a
generation ago: selling its
last four summer camps.
Troop leader Joni Kinsey
was stunned. For decades,
the camps had been cherished places where thousands of young girls spent
summer breaks hiking,
huddling around campfires
and building friendships.
Kinsey, whose daughter
learns to train horses at
camp, immediately started
a petition to fight the idea.
Other scouting alums
and volunteers have taken
up the cause, too, packing
public meetings, sending
letters to newspapers and
recording a protest song
for YouTube. When those
efforts failed, they filed a
lawsuit.
Nationwide, Girl Scout
councils are confronting
intense opposition as they
sell camps that date back
to the 1950s and earlier.
Leaders say the properties
have become a financial
drain at a time when
girls are less interested
in camp. Defenders insist
the camping experience
shaped who they are and
must be preserved for
future generations.
“Those camps still belong to us, not just literally
as members of the organization, but as people who
feel like, ‘That’s part of my
home life,’” Kinsey said.
“When camps get closed,
it’s devastating. I mean,
heartbreaking. We adults
can cry over it and do.”
Pro-camp activists have
boycotted cookie drives,
held overnight camp-ins
outside council offices,
filed legal actions and tried
to elect sympathetic volunteers to governing boards.
The other side has responded with its own aggressive tactics. At public
meetings, some Girl Scout
councils have hired facilitators to tightly manage
the agenda and security
guards to watch over protesters. Others have used
parliamentary tactics to
call protesters out of order.
Both sides insist they
want what’s right for the
girls, but compromise is
hard to find.
In Ohio, police were
present to keep protesters
off council property during a ceremony last year to
mark the closing of Camp
Crowell/Hilaka.
Opponents have raised $80,000
to pursue a lawsuit, so far
unsuccessful, seeking to
keep it and others open.
“Democracy has been
completely
squelched,”
said
volunteer
Lynn
Richardson of Bedford,
Ohio, who recalled how
police were at their
campouts on the council
lawn and parliamentarians
have called her out of order.
“They will hide behind
rules and regulations, but

they are shutting us down.”
Because of declining
camp attendance and
increasing
maintenance
costs, the Girl Scouts
of Eastern Iowa and
Western Illinois was losing
hundreds of thousands
of dollars subsidizing its
camps. But the group
backed down from its
proposal in March, one
day before its board was to
vote on the closings.
The board agreed to
keep the camps open for
now and to turn Camp
Conestoga into a modern
residential camp. But the
council still plans to eventually sell unused parts of
three other sites.
Diane Nelson, CEO of
the 20,000-member organization, said the decision
to keep the camps came
after an outpouring from
volunteers who promised
to promote and manage
them at a lower cost. But
she blasted “a small group
of individuals” for “taking
the negative approach.”
Nelson acknowledged
hiring facilitators to ensure that meetings weren’t
dominated by a few individuals and bringing in
security guards as a safety
precaution because of fears
of rowdy protests, which
didn’t materialize.
“It’s not that we were
afraid of any of our
volunteers. We didn’t
know who was going to
come,” she said.
The Girl Scouts, which
began a century ago, established hundreds of camps
nationwide as the organization expanded. But in
recent decades, the group
has consolidated its local
councils. That process accelerated dramatically under a plan that cut them
from 330 to 112 by 2009.
The restructuring left
groups with additional
properties to manage,
many featuring old cabins
and dining halls that need
upgrades.
Gregory Copeland of
Domokur Architects in
Akron, Ohio, a consultant
to local councils, said by
2020, the number of Girl
Scout-owned camps could
easily be cut in half. He
said the newly merged
groups have a glut of properties they cannot afford to
maintain, let alone fill with
programming.
“While it’s a hugely
emotional issue, there’s
just realistically no way
they can end up sustaining that amount of land,”
he said. “The emotional
ties have nothing to do
with logic or dollars or
anything else. People just
don’t want to lose what
they feel is theirs.”
Scouts from the younger generation are accustomed to technology and
comfort and have more
summer activities to
choose from. Girl Scouts
USA estimates that only
10 percent typically attend a residential sum-

mer camp every year,
while 25 percent will
spend a weekend camping with their troop.
The national group
does not keep data on
the proposals, but says a
“considerable
number”
of councils have opted
to sell one or more sites,
said Mark Allsup, a property consultant for the organization. He said some
councils have handled
sales smoothly by keeping members informed
during reviews so that
final decisions aren’t a
surprise and are backed
up with data.
Some decisions “are
being made soundly, and
we are very supportive of
them,” he said. “And, like
with anybody else, we
have good students and C
students.”
Critics say any sales undermine a key Girl Scouts
tradition. They have a saying: “I am who I am today
because of camp.”
Kinsey, a University of
Iowa art history professor,
credits her experience
with giving her a love of
landscape painting and
friendships that include
an English woman who
named a child after her.
She said the Girl Scouts
have become too focused
on money, and she was
outraged by the security
presence at one meeting.
“We just keep shaking
our heads, ‘This is just
not Girl Scouts’,” Kinsey said at her Iowa City
home, where she keeps
her old Scout memorabilia. “I’ve started saying
there’s been a corporate
takeover of Girl Scouting
and that Girl Scouts are
losing their way.”
In New York, an alumni
group is suing to block the
sale of Eagle Island Camp,
originally built for former
Vice President Levi Morton in 1902. Girl Scouts
Heart of New Jersey advertised the 31-acre property
for sale in 2011 and recently lowered the asking price
to $3.25 million.
Last month, a judge
ordered an Alabama council
to turn over documents to
critics fighting its plan
to sell 88-year-old Camp
Coleman.
The council had initially
demanded that the group
pay $22,000 for staff time
and copy charges, but the
judge called that excessive. Opponents recently
succeeded in electing 11
members to the 29-member council, and now hope
to keep it open.
Jim Franklin of Birmingham got involved after his
8-year-old granddaughter,
who rides horses there,
came to him in tears.
“Everybody, including
me, started out saying this
is just about our camp. It’s
not,” he said. “I’ve talked
to folks in Ohio and Iowa
and Michigan and New
York, and all of a sudden
everybody has realized,
‘Wait a minute, we’ve got a
national problem here.’”

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — For bicyclist Rudi Saldia, you could say a
cat is his co-pilot.
Saldia often buzzes around
Philadelphia with his year-old feline
Mary Jane perched on his shoulder.
Their urban adventures have turned
heads on the street and garnered big
hits on YouTube.
The 26-year-old bike courier didn’t
intend to become Internet-famous.
He originally shot footage of the outings only to prove to his mom that he
was taking Mary Jane — nicknamed
MJ — for a spin.
“She said, ‘No way! You’re not taking your cat out for the ride,’ which
is the reaction I still get even after
people see this video,” Saldia said.
Saldia used a GoPro sports camera mounted on his bike to capture
images of him and MJ, a brown and
black tabby with bright yellow eyes.
She seems to take the trips in stride,
even nuzzling her owner as he pedals, though she gets a bit spooked by
sirens and buses.
“She enjoys seeing everything and
having the wind blow in her ears, especially being an indoors cat. This is
really her only time outside,” he said.
“On the shoulder, she loves it. She’s in
total zen mode.”
The first video, which he posted
last October, has more than 1.2 million views on YouTube. GoPro spokeswoman AnneMarie Hennes said she
saw it earlier this year and was blown

Easement helps ensure
future of Ohioan’s farmland
CLARKSVILLE, Ohio (AP) — The
Branstrator family farm should forever remain green.
Jon Branstrator expects to ensure that
the land, bought in 1821 by his great-greatgreat-great grandfather, will stay in use for
agriculture by selling an agricultural easement to most of it through state and federal farmland preservation programs.
“It’s a personal decision. I do get some
currency. I do get some tax bonuses,” said
Branstrator who returned to the family farm
17 years ago. “Most of all, I get to know it is
going to stay in farming. It’s in my DNA.”
Andrew Branstrator is buried in a family graveyard on the land, part of 400 acres
he purchased from Stephen Mason. That
land was part of 1,000 acres Mason was
allotted after the American Revolution.
More than 190 years later, the area remains predominantly rural, but “for sale”
signs posted by regional real estate companies hint at a more residential future.
Clinton-Massie High School and a library
are about a mile away.
“After my days are done, nobody can
come in here, cut it up and plant houses
on it,” Branstrator said recently, while
walking through fields along the WarrenClinton county line.
On May 16, Warren County commissioners unanimously approved a resolution supporting his application for an easement on 53.9 acres of the 167-acre farm in
the county through the Ohio Department
of Agriculture’s Local Agricultural Easement Purchase program.
While supporting farmland preservation,
officials in fast-growing Warren County
also are developing and approving plans for
more of the planned-use residential communities already dotting the county.
Warren County was not among 16 Ohio
counties from which requests for funding
through the farmland preservation program were made in 2013.
Branstrator’s easement is to be purchased by Clinton County Open Lands,

Native American vets push for recognition
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) —
The Navajo Code Talkers are legendary. Then there was Cpl. Ira Hamilton
Hayes, the Pima Indian who became
a symbol of courage and patriotism
when he and his fellow Marines
raised the flag over Iwo Jima in 1945.
Before World War II and in the
decades since, tens of thousands
of American Indians have enlisted
in the Armed Forces to serve their
country at a rate much greater than
any other ethnicity.
Yet, among all the monuments and
statues along the National Mall in
Washington, D.C., not one stands in
recognition.
A grassroots effort is brewing
among tribes across the country to
change that, while Democratic Sen.
Brian Schatz of Hawaii has introduced legislation that would clear
the way for the National Museum of
the American Indian to begin raising
private funds for a memorial.
“This is not a political gamble
for anyone, and it’s not politically
threatening for anyone,” said Jefferson Keel, a retired Army officer and
president of the National Congress
of American Indians. “This is something that both sides of the aisle can

get behind and support, because it’s
not going to cost a lot of money for
the country. It’s just something that
needs to be done.”
The push for a memorial can be
traced back to the 1980s when the
well-known Three Soldiers sculpture
was unveiled near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Depicted are three
American soldiers: one white, one
black and a Hispanic.
During the Vietnam era, the federal government says more than 42,000
Native Americans served in the military and 90 percent of those service
members were volunteers.
“I’ve come across veterans from
throughout the whole country, from
the East Coast all the way to California, and a lot of Indian who people
believe that there should be something on the National Mall. We’re not
there, we haven’t been recognized,”
said Steven Bowers, a Vietnam veteran and member of the Seminole
tribe in Florida.
Bowers is spearheading an effort to
gain support from the nation’s tribes to
erect a soldier statue on the National
Mall in recognition of American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians who have served over the years.

away. She immediately reached out
to Saldia to get permission to use the
footage in a camera ad, which was
posted online last month.
“It’s just unique and he did a really
good job shooting it,” said Hennes.
“We hooked him up with some
cameras so he can make more cool
MJ content.”
Saldia, who also belongs to longdistance riding club, said he began taking out MJ when she was 2
months old, at first just along his
quiet street in downtown Philadelphia. The rides eventually went farther, with positive reactions from
both MJ and passers-by.
“People are thrilled to see the guy
with the cat ride his bike down the
street,” Saldia said.
But online commenters have been
less kind, questioning whether
the unharnessed cat is safe. Saldia
noted he is equally vulnerable
while riding in the city and takes
necessary precautions.
“I’m very confident that the cat
would be better off in an accident
than I would be, so I’m not worried
about taking her out,” he said.
Saldia’s mom said although she didn’t
believe her son at first, she now thinks
the tandem rides are “kind of cool.”
“He enjoys it, the cat loves to be
with him (and) it’s better than being home alone,” said Sarah Saldia,
of Sewell, N.J. “I don’t think they’re
hurting anybody.”

His proposal calls for placing it
prominently at the entrance of a
planned education center at the Vietnam memorial — where millions of
people visit each year — rather than at
the Museum of the American Indian.
Numerous tribal organizations,
including the National Congress of
American Indians, have signed on in
support of the grassroots effort, and
Bowers is hopeful the legislation introduced this week by Schatz doesn’t
complicate matters.
Jeff Begay, a Navajo and Vietnam
veteran whose grandfather also
served as a scout for the U.S. Army,
said he prefers a memorial close to
the heart of the National Mall.
“We feel that we don’t want to be
represented on the museum property
because we’re not relics anymore,”
he said. “We’re not artifacts to be observed. We are real soldiers, we contributed to defense of this country, and we
need to be honored in the Mall area.”
John Garcia, deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, said he’s been meeting
with Native American leaders and
believes that a memorial “is a real
possibility” if land is located and private funds are raised.

one of 18 sponsors seeking $2.7 million in
state funding in 2013.
“Warren County doesn’t have a land
trust. There’s never been anyone pushing
the program,” said Jeff Thomas, district
administrator for the Warren County Soil
&amp; Water District.
Interest in farm preservation in Warren County has come from farmers with
land along the Clinton County line, allowing Thomas to assist through groups like
Clinton County Open Lands.
“We’d like to go that way in a few years,”
Thomas said.
The program is funded from the Clean
Ohio Conservation Fund, approved by
voters in 2008. About 370,000 acres in
Ohio farmland already has been preserved
through the program.
Those applying this year also can
receive funding through the federal
Farm and Ranch Lands Protection
program. Branstrator hopes to be
paid more than $412,000 by the trust:
$103,301 in state funds, $309,902 from
the federal government.
No state funding was provided for the
program last year through Gov. John Kasich’s first biennial budget.
Branstrator is in line for funding this
year. Neighbor Phil George hopes to qualify next year.
In 1995, after his father died, Branstrator returned home from stints breeding
crops in Costa Rica, attending college in
Arizona and building ropes courses in
Ohio. The old-fashioned single crop farm
— where corn was the only crop raised
year after year — was turned into a mixed
fruit and vegetable farm.
Crops of asparagus, blackberries, currants, gooseberries, peaches and tomatoes
are rotated in the fields. Branstrator sells
to wholesale customers including Dorothy Lane Market, as well as pick-your-own
groups and individuals who track what’s
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WWII Marine’s diary: A ‘Obamacare’ debacle
is key to 2014 elections
brief look at a brief life
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
The Associated Press

Janet McConnaughey
The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — Before Cpl. Thomas “Cotton”
Jones was killed by a Japanese sniper in the Central
Pacific in 1944, he wrote
what he called his “last life
request” to anyone who
might find his diary: Please
give it to Laura Mae Davis,
the girl he loved.
Davis did get to read
the diary — but not until nearly 70 years later,
when she saw it in a display case at the National
World War II Museum.
“I didn’t have any idea
there was a diary in there,”
said
the
90-year-old
Mooresville, Ind., woman.
She said it brought tears
to her eyes.
Laura Mae Davis Burlingame — she married
an Army Air Corps man
in 1945 — had gone to
the New Orleans museum on April 24 looking
for a display commemorating the young Marine
who had been her highschool sweetheart.
“I figured I’d see pictures of him and the fellows he’d served with and
articles about where he
served,” she said.
She was stunned to find
the diary of the 22-year-old
machine gunner.
Curator Eric Rivet (rihVET) let her take a closer
look, using white gloves to
protect the old papers from
skin oils. It was the first
time in his 17 years of museum work that someone
found “themselves mentioned in an artifact in the
museum,” Rivet said.
The diary was a gift to
Jones from Davis. They
had met in the class of
‘41 at Winslow High
School. “He was a basketball player, and I was

a cheerleader,” she said.
Jones had given her his
class ring but they weren’t
engaged, she said. They
had dated through high
school. They went to the
prom together.
He made his first diary
entry while a private at
Camp Elliott in San Diego,
a little less than a year
before he was killed. He
described it as “my life
history of my days in the
U.S. Marine Corps … And
most of all my love for
Laura Mae for whom my
heart is completely filled.
So if you all get a chance
please return it to her. I
(am) writing this as my
last life request.”
A sniper’s bullet between the eyes killed Jones
on Sept. 17, 1944, the third
day of the U.S. assault on
the Pacific island of Peleliu, in Palau.
Peleliu was where U.S.
forces learned the Japanese
had changed their island
defense tactics. Instead of
concentrating units on the
beaches and finishing with
reckless banzai charges,
the Japanese holed up
in bunkers, trenches,
pillboxes and caves —
many of them blasted
into the island’s hills and
mountains — that had to
be taken one at a time.
Jones, nicknamed in
high school for his blond
hair, was in the 1st Marine
Division’s L Company, 3rd
Battalion. He was among
1,794 Americans killed on
Peleliu and nearby islands
in a 2½-month assault
that Marine Maj. Gen.
William Rupertus had
predicted would be over in
a few days. Another 7,302
Americans were wounded.
An
estimated
10,900
Japanese were killed; 19
soldiers and sailors became
prisoners of war. Another

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283 POWs were laborers,
mostly Korean.
Burlingame said she
didn’t know why she never
got the diary. It apparently went first to a sister
of Jones whom she didn’t
know well, she said.
Robert
Hunt
of
Evansville, the nephew
who gave Jones’ artifacts
to the museum in 2001,
told her he had received it
several years after Jones’
death and worried that
passing it on to Burlingame
might cause problems with
her marriage. It wouldn’t
have, she said: “My
husband and Tommy were
good friends.”
When she learned Hunt
was collecting mementoes
for
the
museum,
Burlingame said, she gave
him photographs and the
class ring.
Jones’s last entry, written aboard the USS Maui
on Dec. 1, 1943, described
winning $200 at craps.
He had a total of $320,
he wrote, and if he were
back home “Laura Mae
&amp; I would really have a
wonderful Xmas.” He wondered if he could wire the
money to her as a Christmas present.
That didn’t happen, Burlingame said. She said she
was touched by the number of times he mentioned
getting letters from his parents and her.
Burlingame’s tour group
had to leave, but the museum scanned the diary and
mailed a copy to her.
The diary’s 4-by-7-inch
back cover was nearly filled
with her photograph. The
picture itself was black and
white, but the photographer had tinted her cheeks
pink and her lips dark red.
She had signed it, “Love,
Laurie.”

WASHINGTON — If Republicans were
writing a movie script for next year’s congressional elections, the working title might
be “2014: Apocalypse of Obamacare.”
The plot: The rollout of President
Barack Obama’s health care law turns into
such a disaster that enraged voters rebuke
him by rewarding the GOP with undisputed control of Congress.
But there’s a risk for Republicans if
they’re wrong and the Affordable Care
Act works reasonably well, particularly in
states that have embraced it. Republicans
might be seen as obstinately standing in
the way of progress.
The law already has been a political
prop in two election seasons, but next
year will be different.
Voters will have a real program to judge,
working or dysfunctional. Will affordable
health care finally be a reality for millions of
uninsured working people? Or will premiums skyrocket as the heavy hand of government upends already fragile insurance markets for small businesses and individuals?
“The end of this movie has not been written,” said Robert Blendon, a Harvard professor who tracks public opinion on health
care. He says next year’s movie actually will
be a documentary: what happens in states
that fully put the law in place and those that
resist — “a message of reality.”
One of the most prominent doomsayers
is Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who predicts “Obamacare” probably will be the biggest issue
of 2014 and “an albatross around the neck
of every Democrat who voted for it.”
“This thing can’t possibly work,” says McConnell. “It will be a huge disaster in 2014.”
Counting on that, House Republicans are
busy framing an election narrative, voting to
repeal the health law and trying to link it to
the scandal over the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of tea party groups. It could
help excite the conservative base.
But Democratic pollster Celinda Lake
doubts reality will follow the GOP script.
Next year, “we won’t have to worry about
the mythology laid out by the right wing
about Obamacare: death panels and dramatic cuts to Medicare,” she said.
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said uninsured people in her state will have over 200
coverage options to choose from. “We have
been hearing the fear, but in states like mine,
people are seeing the reality,” she said.
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out access to coverage through their jobs
can start shopping for subsidized private
insurance in new state markets. The actual benefits begin Jan. 1. But because
of continuing opposition to the law from
many Republican governors and state legislators, the federal government will be
running the insurance markets in more
than half the states.
Another major element of the law, the
expansion of Medicaid to serve more lowincome people, also has run into problems.
With many legislative sessions over or
winding down, it looks like fewer than half
the states may accept the expansion. That
means millions of low-income people are
likely to remain uninsured, at least initially.
Other early indicators of how well the
health care rollout might fare are mixed.
In a dozen or so states that have started
releasing details of their new insurance
markets, there’s robust insurer interest in
participating, according to the market research firm Avalere Health. That’s a good
signal for competition.
There still are concerns about a spike
in premiums for people who already
buy their own coverage, particularly the
young and healthy. That could happen
for several reasons.
The health care law forbids insurers to
deny coverage to sick people, and it limits
what older adults can be charged. Also, the
plans that will be offered next year are more
comprehensive than many bare-bones policies currently available to individuals.
Another big source of angst is the
Obama administration. The Health and
Human Services Department will be
running the program in half the country while trying to fight off attempts by
congressional Republicans to starve it
financially. Unusual for a social program,
the administration is largely operating
behind a veil of secrecy.
Will Obama’s underlings turn out to be
the Keystone Kops of health care?
Frustration that he and his constituents
couldn’t get basic information from the
administration led one of the authors of
the law, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., to
warn recently that he sees “a huge train
wreck coming down.”
Republicans loved it. Lost in the uproar was the fact that Baucus was referring to potential problems with implementation. He stills thinks the health
care law itself is a good thing.
The administration official running
the rollout, Gary Cohen, told Congress
this past that he didn’t agree with the
senator’s statement. “We are very much
on schedule,” Cohen said.

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Obituary
Pamela Sue (Walker) Roush

Pamela Sue (Walker) Roush, 60, of Parkersburg, passed
away May 23, 2013, at her home. She was born in Parkersburg, WV.
She is survived by two sons, Joey Walker of Parkersburg and Christopher (Valli) Walker of Apex, NC; five
grandchildren, Brandon, wife Grace of Minot North Dakota, Cory of Belpre, Justin and McKayla of Apex, NC,
and Joey of Parkersburg, WV; one sister, Connie Hardway
of Belpre, Ohio, and extended families, the Walker’s and
Roush’s.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Alfred
Roush; her mother and father, Barbara (Cross) Farley and
Russell E. Farley; three brothers, Lonnie, Joe and Michael
Farley; three sisters, Sandra David, Linda Semones, and
Barbara Marcinkowski.
The funeral service will be conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday,
May 26, at Leavitt Funeral Home, 801 Victor St, Belpre,
OH. Visitation will be Sunday, from 1 p.m. until time of
service at the funeral home.
Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.LeavittFuneralHome.com.

Fire breaks out
on cruise ship
BALTIMORE (AP) — An announcement from the
Royal Caribbean cruise ship that passengers needed to go
their muster stations roused Mark J. Ormesher from his
stateroom on the Grandeur of the Seas early Monday. A
fire had broken out.
Ormesher said in an email to The Associated Press
that immediately after the captain’s announcement, his
room attendant knocked on the door and told him and
his girlfriend to grab their flotation devices, saying: “This
was not a drill.”
The native of England, who lives in Manassas, Va.,
Ormesher said he and his girlfriend smelled acrid smoke
as they went to their muster station, the ship’s casino. He
said the crew quickly provided instruction.
“This encouraged calm amongst the passengers,” he
said. Passengers were required to remain at their stations
for four hours, he said, and the captain “provided us as
much information as we needed to stay safe.”
Royal Caribbean said that the fire that began at 2:50
a.m. was extinguished about two hours later with no injuries reported.
Ormesher, 25, and on his first cruise, said the air conditioner had been shut off, and as the hours passed and
the ship got hot, bottled water was passed around. The
crew and passengers remained calm, and helped those
who needed it. Crying babies were given formula and
held while their parents used the bathrooms.
The ship had sailed from Baltimore on Friday and arrived in Freeport, Bahamas, Monday afternoon.
In Freeport, passenger Andrea Sanders of Washington,
D.C., said she slept on the deck with hundreds of other
passengers as smoke billowed out of the stern of the ship.
“I was terrified with it being my first cruise,” Sanders told
The Freeport News as she ate lunch in port.
Royal Caribbean said all 2,224 guests and 796 crew
were safe and accounted for.
Carnival Corp. also had trouble with fire aboard ship
earlier this year.
The 900-foot Triumph was disabled during a February cruise by an engine room fire in the Gulf of Mexico,
leaving thousands of passengers to endure cold food,
unsanitary conditions and power outages while the
ship was towed to Mobile, Ala. It remained there for
repairs until early May when it headed back to sea under its own power .
On the Granduer, after passengers were allowed to
leave their stations, Ormesher said he saw water on the
outside of deck 5 and in the hallways. The mooring lines
were destroyed he said; crew members brought new lines
from storage.
The damage at the rear of the ship “looks bad,” Ormesher said; burned out equipment was visible.
Ormesher posted about the fire on Facebook and gave
details of the evacuation and aftermath in emails to the AP.
Ormesher says he got off the ship to spend some time
in Freeport. He has not decided whether to continue on
the cruise. “I’ve been having a good time on the ship and
am in no hurry to leave,” he said.
Magnus Alnebeck, general manager of the Pelican Bay
Hotel, said they were asked to hold rooms for passengers,
although it was not yet clear how many would stay there.
The ship will stay docked in Freeport overnight. Royal
Caribbean said in a statement on its website that most
public areas and staterooms are safe and power, propulsion and communications systems functioned without
interruption.
Royal Caribbean International president and CEO
Adam Goldstein met with passengers in Freeport.
The National Transportation Safety Board said in a
tweet that it will join the U.S. Coast Guard in investigating the fire.

SEATTLE (AP) — By
Michael Hill’s estimation,
90 percent of the people
pumping gas at his station
just south of the U.S.-Canada border in Washington
state are Canadians.
Gas north of the 49th
parallel, he said, is about
$1.30 per gallon more expensive than in the United
States. But that’s not the
only product that Canadians seek in visits to Washington state: Beer, wine
and milk are significantly
cheaper (beer and wine
alone are roughly half the
price in the U.S.).
Add a strong Canadian
dollar and the result is a
key element of the economy in the towns of Whatcom County. For example,
the town of Blaine, population just shy of 5,000,
generates over $225,000
from a penny per gallon
gas tax, which is about 30
percent of its street maintenance budget.
That’s why Hill and
others are troubled by the
notion of charging a fee to
enter the U.S. by land. Last
month, in its 2014 fiscal
year budget proposal, the
Department of Homeland
Security
requested
permission to study a fee
at the nation’s land border
crossings.
“It’s a deterrent,” said
Hill, whose station is fully
stocked with wine and has
a reader board that says
“Thank you Canadians.”
“They should be doing
anything they can to get
them down here to buy
more,” he added.
That
lone
request
sparked wide opposition among members of
Congress from northern
states, who vowed to
stop it. A fee, they say,
would hurt communities
on the border that rely on
people, goods and money
moving between the U.S.
and Canada.

“The imposition of such
a toll would act as a barrier
to the greater economic integration that we seek, and
is the absolute last thing
we should be doing to
grow our economy,” stated
a letter sent to Homeland
Security Secretary Janet
Napolitano earlier this
month signed by 18 Republican and Democratic
House lawmakers.
Democrat U.S. Sen.
Patrick Leahy of Vermont
is sponsoring an amendment to the immigration reform bill that bars
Homeland Security from
conducting the study. The
senator has also promised
to stop any funding for
the study. In the House,
Democrat Rep. Suzan
DelBene of Washington
state introduced a bill to
stop the creation of a fee.
This week an amendment by Democrat Rep.
Bill Owens of New York
to stop the study was introduced to the House to
the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Bill.
Lawmakers and people
from the southern border, though, did not show
such strong opposition,
highlighting a north-south
divide on how to pay for
border infrastructure.
Democrat Congressman
Ruben E. Hinojosa, who
represents a district in
Texas that includes McAllen and its nearby border
region, said fees would be
good if the revenue stream
is used to improve infrastructure.
“I would support crossing fees only if the funds
garnered would be used
to upgrade our facilities,
provide better equipment
for our agents, or used for
the hiring of more agents
at our border crossings,”
Hinojosa said.
Currently it costs nothing to enter the country by

land. Air and sea crossings
already have a fee of under
$2, which are included in
ticket prices.
The proposal would
mean creating a pilot program that tests all the steps
needed to create a fee collection — short of actually collecting money. The
proposed fee would offset
costs of providing border
screening and infrastructure. Customs and Border
Protection did not specify
the cost of the study.
The quick response from
northern states lawmakers bolsters the thought
that the study won’t happen this fiscal year, said
Ken Oplinger, president of
the Bellingham/Whatcom
County Chamber of Commerce in Washington state.
But he thinks that due
to the expensive border security measures that have
been implemented since
Sept. 11, the idea could
make a comeback in the
future unless other sources
of funding not reliant on a
border fee appear.
One of busiest northern
border crossings — the
Peace Arch — is located
in Whatcom County. It
connects Washington state
with British Columbia. In
places, the border is just
farmland, with no wall or
fence and grazing cows.
About 12,000 people cross
the border there every day,
according to CBP figures.
Oplinger has two main
concerns. The lesser is
people who will refuse to
pay the toll and thus stop
visiting Whatcom County
all together. His greater
worry, however, would be
any increase to the wait
time at the border. He said
border traffic has just fully
rebounded to pre-Sept. 11
volumes, adding that on
summer weekends the wait
to enter the U.S. can be as
high as two hours. He fears
that adding some sort of

mechanism to collect the
toll would mean more waiting time.
Border fees, albeit local
ones, already exist on the
southern border. In Texas,
local municipalities charge
fees to use bridges that connect Mexico and the U.S.
For
Kenn
Morris,
president of marketing
research firm Crossborder Group Inc. in San
Diego, the future of the
border is in public-private
partnerships, unless the
government acts to improve ports of entry. For
example, a private company operates and builds a
port of entry, booths and
roads, and charges a fee to
recoup investments.
“I think that it’s inevitable that more border regions use those tools and
those who don’t want to
use it that’s they’re choice,
but they shouldn’t take the
ability for other regions
to at least look at that option,” he said. “For those
regions that want the ability to charge a fee, we need
good analyses to create
good policy.”
Citing a 2009 University
of Texas study, Morris said
tolls at the border don’t affect traffic flow negatively,
but provide a source of revenue to build more border
infrastructure.
At the nation’s busiest
border entry at San Ysidro
in California, 50,000 vehicles and 25,000 pedestrians go north from Mexico
every day. For the past few
years, Congress has sent
chunks of money to improve the infrastructure. In
his last budget, President
Barack Obama asked for
$226 million to continue
the improvements.
In the meantime, people face hours of waiting
every day.
“People are tired of waiting,” Morris said.

Man accused of killing couple
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) —
A man arrested fleeing from an
Anchorage home wearing boxer
shorts has been charged with beating an elderly couple to death and
sexually assaulting their 2-year-old
great-granddaughter — a case that
officials say has shaken investigators for its brutality
Touch Chea, 71, and his wife,
Sorn Sreap, 73, were found dead
Saturday night from significant
blunt force injuries. Police said
Sreap and the toddler were raped.
Officers arrested Jerry Andrew
Active, 24, as he allegedly fled the
east Anchorage homicide scene.
He was later charged with first
and second-degree murder, sexual
assault and burglary.
Investigators were affected by
the brutality and the ages of the
victims, police department spokeswoman Anita Shell said.
“They said this was the worst
thing they had ever seen in their
lives, and these are seasoned detectives,” Shell said.
Police Sgt. Slawomir Markiewicz said Sunday that there are no
indications that the victims were

connected to the suspect.
“It doesn’t appear that he knew
them,” he said. “It looks like a totally random act.”
The victims were part of an
extended family that lived in a
ground-floor, east Anchorage apartment with their granddaughter and
her husband, who are the parents
of the toddler and her 4-year-old
brother. The younger couple’s
90-year-old great-grandmother also
lives in the apartment and was at
home during the incident.
Police said the younger couple,
who are in their 20s, went to a
movie Saturday night with their
son and left the 2-year-old in the
care of Chea and Sreap.
The parents of the child and
their son returned shortly before
8 p.m. and found the door locked
from the inside.
They told police they forced
their way in through a window
and discovered the bodies of
Chea and Sreap.
A man in his 20s, they said, was naked in a bedroom with their daughter.
The woman called 911 and
police dispatchers heard scream-

ing over the phone. The woman
reported a man had broken into
her home and killed her grandmother, Sreap. The woman described the man as naked with
several tattoos.
The woman, who is pregnant,
and her husband tried to keep
the suspect from leaving and
a struggle began, Markiewicz
said. The suspect, by then wearing boxer shorts, was able to get
away after a few minutes of fighting, Markiewicz said.
Officers found Active about a
block away.
“He did offer some resistance but
he was arrested,” Markiewicz said.
The suspect apparently entered
the apartment through a window,
Markiewicz said.
Active refused to give his name
and he was not identified until
Sunday. He was arraigned at the
Anchorage Jail.
Markiewicz said the case is
unusual.
“It’s certainly very rare to see
this kind of violence — a complete
stranger, sexually assaulting and
murdering someone,” he said.

Americans gather to honor fallen service members
Americans gathered at memorials, museums and monuments
and the president laid a wreath
at Arlington National Cemetery
to honor fallen service members
on Memorial Day, as combat in
Afghanistan approaches 12 years
and the ranks of World War II
veterans dwindle.
“Let us not forget as we gather
here today that our nation is still
at war,” President Barack Obama
said after laying a wreath at the
Tomb of the Unknowns.
“When they give their lives,
they are still being laid to rest
in cemeteries in quiet corners
across our country, including
here in Arlington,” he said. He
told the stories of three soldiers
who had died. Each had been devoted to their mission and were
praised by others for saving lives.
Earlier in the morning, he and
first lady Michelle Obama hosted a
breakfast at the White House with
“Gold Star” families of service
members who have been killed.
Another wreath-laying ceremony was at Franklin D. Roosevelt
Four Freedoms Park on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island in New
York City. The park is a tribute
to President Roosevelt’s famous

speech calling for all people to enjoy freedom of speech, freedom of
worship, freedom from want and
freedom from fear.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg
joined military leaders and others at the Soldiers’ and Sailors’
Monument in Manhattan. He
said celebrate the day and the
good weather but also “remember the sacrifice that was made
so that we could be here.”
At the National World War II
Museum in New Orleans, about
20 bicyclists clustered around veteran and museum volunteer Tom
Blakey. The paratrooper in the
82nd Airborne Division jumped
at Normandy on D-Day — June 6,
1944 — and in May 1945 helped
liberate the work camp at Wobbelin in northwest Germany.
“Most of us wondered why we
were there, killing people and being killed,” he said. “We didn’t do
anything to deserve it. When we
got to that camp and saw what
was there, the lights came on.”
The cycling group makes regular weekend training runs, and
on Monday started a Memorial
Day ride about seven miles away
at the national cemetery in Chalmette, where the Battle of New

Orleans — the last in the War of
1812 — was fought.
“I’m glad I took this ride to hear
a personal story,” Scott Gumina,
41, said. “Hearing one man’s account of his personal experience
was pretty impressive to me.”
Across much of New England,
several days of heavy rain gave
way to sunny skies for parades in
towns large and small.
In Portland, Maine, kids and
even pets displayed the Stars and
Stripes as veterans, youth groups
law enforcement officials and civic
organizations paraded to Monument Square to the tunes of a
marching band, sirens from a police
car and the rumble of motorcycles.
“It’s a very important day, not
only for the Veteran of Foreign
Wars but every veteran organization, every branch of the service,
and every patriot in general — every American. This day is hugely
significant and should never be
forgotten,” said David Olson, 66,
of Portland, the VFW’s state senior vice commander.
He said he was pleased to see a
large turnout of youngsters, both
in the parade and along the parade
route. “As they get older, they’ll real-

ize exactly why we do this,” he said.
For some veterans, it was a
somber event.
Richard Traiser, a Marine injured when his tank came under
attack in Vietnam, helped deliver
a three-volley salute with the
Marine Corps League.
Memorial Day gives those who
served an opportunity to get together and remember friends
who didn’t make it.
“I think about them a lot, especially the people I lost in my
platoon,” Traiser said. “A couple
of kids were 19 years old. I don’t
dwell on it in a morbid way, but
it’s on your mind.”
In Connecticut, a Waterford
man who was killed in the
Vietnam War was honored with
a hometown park area named
for him. Arnold E. Holm Jr.,
nicknamed “Dusty,” was killed
when his helicopter was shot
down on June 11, 1972. A group
of at least 100 dedicated the
park this weekend.
In suburban Boston, veterans
gathered in a park to mark Memorial Day this year rather than
hold a parade because of failing

health and dwindling numbers.
The city of Beverly called off its
parade because so few veterans
would be able to march. The
parade has been a fixture in the
town since the Civil War.
In Atlanta, a dedication of the
History Center’s redone Veterans Park was scheduled for early
evening. Soil from major battlefields will be scattered by veterans around the park’s flagpole.
The holiday weekend also
marked the traditional start of
the U.S. vacation season. AAA,
one of the nation’s largest leisure
travel agencies, expected 31.2
million Americans to hit the road
over the weekend, virtually the
same number as last year. Gas
prices were about the same as
last year, up 1 cent to a national
average of $3.65 a gallon Friday.
At the American Airpower
Museum on Long Island, N.Y.,
a program honored Women Air
Service Pilots, or WASPs, who
tested and ferried completed aircraft from factories to bases during World War II. Thirty-eight
died during the war, including
Alice Lovejoy of Scarsdale, N.Y.,
who was killed on Sept. 13, 1944,
in a midair collision over Texas.

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Sports

TUESDAY,
MAY 28, 2013

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Votto’s HR in 8th lifts Reds over Indians

CINCINNATI (AP) — Joey
Votto hit a tiebreaking home run
in the eighth inning, lifting the
Cincinnati Reds over the Cleveland Indians 4-2 Monday in the
opener of their intrastate matchup.
Votto won this interleague
game with his ninth homer, tagging left-hander Nick Hagadone
(0-1). The reliever was called up
from Triple-A earlier in the day
when closer Chris Perez was put
on the disabled list with a sore
right shoulder.
Shin-Soo Choo led off the
Reds’ eighth with a single and

moved around on a passed ball
and Zack Cozart’s sacrifice bunt.
Votto followed with an oppositefield shot into the seats in left.
Choo, traded from the Indians
to the Reds in the offseason, also
hit a leadoff homer in the first.
Jason Giambi tied it in the Indians’ eighth with a long pinch-hit
homer. The solo shot was estimated at 467 feet and caromed off
the batter’s background in center
field. His ninth career pinch-hit
homer ended his 0-for-24 slump
and was third homer of the season and first since April 20.

Jonathan Broxton (2-1) got
two outs in the eighth. Arodis
Chapman pitched the ninth for
his 13th save.
Reds starter Mike Leake one
earned run and five hits in 7 1-3
innings, striking out seven. He
left with a no-decision after giving up Giambi’s homer.
Ubaldo Jimenez, 3-0 in five
previous career starts against
Cincinnati, gave up four hits and
two runs in seven innings.
Choo, sent to the Reds with
infielder Jason Donald and cash
for outfielder Drew Stubbs and

infielder Didi Gregorius in
December, led with his 10th
homer of the season.
The Indians took advantage of
an error by another former Indians player, Gold Glove second
baseman Brandon Phillips, to tie
it in the fourth.
Jason Kipnis singled and took
third when Phillips mishandled
Nick Swisher’s grounder. Carlos
Santana’s sacrifice fly made it 1-all.
Cozart led off the sixth with
a double that just nicked the
outside of the left-field line, advanced on Votto’s groundout to

second and scored on Phillips’
sacrifice fly.
NOTES: The Reds improved
to 40-42 in their inter-league
series with the Indians. … The
sellout crowd was the fourth
straight for the Reds, the second time they’d had four consecutive sellout crowds since
moving from Crosley Field in
1970 and the first time since
2004. … Reds RHP Mat Latos
(4-0) will try to stay undefeated
in the second game of the brief
two-game series on Tuesday.
He’ll be opposed by Cleveland
RHP Zach McAllister (4-3).

Photos by Paul Boggs

Eastern sophomore Asia Michael (right) leads Southern senior Jennifer McCoy (left) in the 1600m run in Oak Hill on Saturday in the district finals.

Photos by Bryan Walters | Daily Sentinel

Members of the Southern softball team rejoice just moments after capturing a 6-3 victory over Portsmouth Clay for
the Division IV district championship Saturday afternoon at Minford High School.

Lady Tornadoes top Clay
Win district title
Bryan Walters

bwalters@civitasmedia.com

South Gallia junior Jacob White competes in the shotput at
the district final Saturday at Oak Hill on Saturday.

Lady Eagles win district
track and field title
Alex Hawley

ahawley@civitasmedia.com

OAK HILL, Ohio — 10 champions from the OVP area
were crowned Saturday at Division III district track and
field at Oak Hill High School in Jackson County.
The Eastern Lady Eagles earned first place with 167
points, followed by Belpre with 107.5 and Coal Grove
with 96. Portsmouth and Valley each marked 47 points,
Manchester had 46, while Southern finished seventh with
34 points. Eighth was Wheelersburg (28.5), Minford was
ninth (27), South Webster finished 10th (20.5), while
Oak Hill was 11th (12). South Gallia took 12th with 10
points, while Portsmouth Notre Dame rounded out the 13
team field with 8.5 points.
The Lady Eagles earned victories in the 4x200m relay
with a time of 1:52.62 by the team of Jenna Burdette, Savannah Hawley, Jordan Parker and Maddie Rigsby, and in
the 4x400m relay with a time of 4:18.42 by the team of
Keri Lawrence, Rigsby, Taylor Palmer and Hawley. The
4x100m realy team of Burdette, Kelsey Johnson, Hawley
and Parker finished second with a time of 54 seconds.
EHS junior Keri Lawrence earned victories in the 100m
hurdles with a time of 16.26 and in the 300m hurdles with a
time of 48.38. Asia Michael won the 3200m run with a time

Thursday, May 30
Baseball
Southern vs. Newark
Catholic at Lancaster Beavers Field, 5 p.m.
Softball

See TORNADOES ‌| 8

From left, Southern senior captains Jaclyn Mees, Kyrie Swann and
Maggie Cummins raise the 2013 Division IV District championship trophy after the Lady Tornadoes captured a 6-3 victory over Portsmouth
Clay Saturday at Minford High School.

Kanaan ends heartbreak with Indy win

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tony
See EAGLES ‌| 8 Kanaan had one more lap, one anticlimactic last lap under the yellow
caution flag, to end 12 years of frustration in the Indianapolis 500.
He flipped up his visor to wipe
away tears as the crowd roared its approval, and then in Victory Lane gave
Southern vs. Strasburg- his bride of two months a long kiss
Franklin at Pickerington and poured the celebratory winner’s
HS Central, 5 p.m.
milk over his head.
Track and Field
Kanaan is Indy’s hard-luck loser no
Division II regionals at more. He is its champion at last, fittingAthens HS, 4 p.m.
ly with a dose of good luck for a change.
“I have to say, the last lap was the
Friday, May 31
longest lap of my life,” Kanaan said.
Track and Field
It was one of Indy’s most popular
Division III regionals at victories.
Fairfield Union HS, 6 p.m.
The losers were pleased with the

OVP Sports Schedule
Wednesday, May 29
Track and Field
Division III regionals at
Fairfield Union HS, 4 p.m.

MINFORD, Ohio — Some things are
just worth the wait.
Over three decades and five Presidents later, the Southern softball team
is headed back to regional postseason
play following a 6-3 victory over second-seeded Portsmouth Clay Saturday
afternoon in a Division IV Southeast
District championship contest at Minford High School in Scioto County.
The top-seeded Lady Tornadoes (1810) took a 2-0 lead after one inning of
play, but the visiting Lady Panthers
(18-9) countered with three runs in the
top of the second to secure their only
lead of the game at 3-2.
SHS answered with a run in the third
to knot things up at three, then the
hosts plated three runs in the bottom
of the fifth to secure a 6-3 cushion after
five complete.
PCHS managed zero hits and only
one baserunner over the final two
frames, and Southern starter Jordan
Huddleston wrapped up her completegame victory with a strikeout of Autumn Griffith to end the game — allowing the Lady Tornadoes to advance
to the Sweet 16 in softball for the first
time since the 1982 campaign.
It is just the third district championship in school history for the Southern
girls in a team sport, with the other
coming during the 1982-83 girls basketball season. It has been 30 years
since SHS last competed in a regional
girls tournament and 31 seasons have
passed since the softball program’s only
other district crown.
SHS coach Alan Crisp was practically

outcome, evidenced by a scene similar to rivals lining up to congratulate
Dale Earnhardt when he finally won
the Daytona 500 on his 20th try. Dario
Franchitti, whose crash brought out
the race-ending caution, stood grinning by his crumpled car, two thumbs
up as Kanaan passed under yellow.
“When I saw who was leading,
it cheered me up a little bit,” said
Franchitti, last year’s winner. “He’s a
very, very deserving winner.”
The fans thought so, too, standing
on their feet, screaming “TK! TK!
TK!” as he and team owner Jimmy
Vasser went by during the traditional
victory lap. It felt magical to Kanaan,
like he had given the crowd at Indianapolis Motor Speedway a gift.

“It means a lot to me because so
many people, I could feel that they
wanted me to win, and it’s such a
selfish thing to do because what are
they getting from it?” Kanaan said.
“I’m the one who gets the trophy. I
believed that this win was more for
people out there than for me.
“I wanted it all my life, but over the
years I was kind of OK with the fact that
I may never have the chance to win.”
His chance came at the end of a
history-making race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where Kanaan
knew he had to pounce at the green
flag for the final restart with three
laps to go. He did, zipping inside
leader Ryan Hunter-Reay to roar to
See KANAAN ‌| 8

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Heat offense puts away Kanaan
Pacers 114-96 in Game 3
From Page 6

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Miami put LeBron James
right in the middle of the action Sunday night, and this
time, the Indiana Pacers didn’t have an answer for him or
his Miami Heat teammates.
By moving James to the post, the Heat won the scoring
battle in the paint, kept Indiana at arm’s length and pulled
away for a 114-96 victory and a 2-1 lead in the Eastern
Conference finals.
“I made a conscious effort to get down in the post tonight, to put pressure on their defense,” James said. “The
coaching staff wanted me to be down there tonight, and
my teammates allowed me to do that.”
It was a move reminiscent of when the Los Angeles
Lakers played Magic Johnson in the post in place of the
injured Kareem Abdul-Jabbar during the NBA Finals
more than two decades ago.
And it worked just as well.
James rebounded from the two late turnovers that cost
Miami in Game 2 by scoring 22 points, grabbing four rebounds and dishing out three assists. Hours after Dwyane
Wade learned he would only be tagged with a flagrant foul
from Game 2 and not a suspension, he finished with 18
points, eight assists and four rebounds. Chris Bosh added
15 points and three rebounds and all five Miami starters
reached double figures.
The move allowed Miami to outscore Indiana 56-32 in
the paint.
Perhaps that much should be expected from a team
with this much scoring punch and that has won 23 of its
last 24 on the road.
The other stuff, not so much.
Miami committed a playoff franchise-low one turnover in the first half and finished with only five. James
finished with none.
The Heat shot 54.5 percent against a team that finished the regular season with the NBA’s best defensive field goal percentage and also made 24 of 28 free
throws. They matched the highest scoring output in a
quarter during this season’s playoffs with 34, broke the
franchise playoff record for points in a half (70) and fell
one point short of tying the third-highest point total in
a playoff game in franchise history.

the lead — where he wanted to be in case another
caution came out.
“I knew I had to get the
lead on the restart because
it could be a yellow, which
happened to me plenty of
times here, and it did,”
Kanaan said. “How funny
is life? The yellow was my
best friend.”
Kanaan had his fair share
of chances to win at Indy,
but came up short time and
time again. He was leading
when the rain came in 2007,
only to lose to Franchitti
when the race resumed.
In all, Kanaan went into
Sunday’s race with 221
laps led at Indy — more
than any non-winner except Michael Andretti and
Rex Mays — but his second-place finish to Buddy
Rice in 2004 was the closest he had come to victory.
He had a pair of third-place
finishes, including last
year, again to Franchitti.
“It’s wonderful for him,”
said Mario Andretti, himself a victim of bad luck at
Indy. “He’s raced here long
enough that he deserves it,
no question.”
The win for Kanaan and
car owner Vasser was celebrated throughout the paddock. Alex Zanardi, who
came from Italy to watch
the race and gave Kanaan
one of his 2012 London

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Paralympics medals as
good luck, wept behind the
pit wall as Kanaan took the
checkered flag.
“I tell you I’m starting
to think (the medal) really
works,” said Zanardi, who
lost his legs in a 2001 crash
in Germany. “It’s a dream
come true to see Tony win,
to see Jimmy Vasser win,
my dear friend. I’m so happy, I’m so happy.”
It was Vasser who
brought Zanardi’s medal
to Kanaan before the race,
telling his driver that Zanardi wanted him to rub it
for good luck.
“I actually cuddled with
the thing,” Kanaan admitted.
Vasser, caught in the
middle as a driver during
the political fighting in
open-wheel racing, only
got the chance to run Indy
eight times in his career
and not during his prime.
He had goose-bumps on
the celebratory lap with
Kanaan as the crowd
chanted the driver’s name.
“I never won it as a
driver. In fact, I couldn’t
win it as a driver,” Vasser
said, “so I had to hire the
right guy to do it, get a
baby Borg on my shelf,”
referring to the winner’s
Borg-Warner trophy.
It will be one adorned
with Kanaan’s likeness,
and the driver joked he
could finally “put my big
nose on that trophy.”

Fellow Brazilian Helio
Castroneves, like Franchitti
shooting for a record-tying
fourth Indy win, was happy
for his long-time friend.
“Finally he’s able to win
this race. He’s so close so
many times, but the good
news is the good old boys
are still able to run fast,”
Castroneves said.
Carlos
Munoz,
a
21-year-old rookie making
his first IndyCar start, finished second and HunterReay was third.
“T.K. is such a fan favorite, absolutely, it’s great
to see him win it. If anybody is going to win it in
the field, he’s one of the
few I’d like to see other
than myself,” Hunter-Reay
said. “We were leading on
that last restart, I knew I
was a sitting duck, and I
wasn’t too bummed about
it because I knew we had
enough laps to get it going
again and have a pass back.
Maybe I would be third on
the last lap, which is where
I wanted to be.”
Only there was no racing
on the last lap. Franchitti
brought out the caution seconds after Kanaan passed
Hunter-Reay for the last of
68 lead changes — exactly
double last year’s record.
On the final lap, the leaders came to the finish line all
bunched up around Kanaan,
saluting the IndyCar stalwart who had longed to add

the final missing piece to his
resume. That was about as
slow as anyone had driven
all day. The average speed
was 187.433 mph, another
Indy record.
Marco Andretti finished
fourth, failing to win for
the eighth time, and Justin Wilson was fifth in the
highest-finishing Honda on
a day that was dominated
by Chevrolet. Castroneves
was sixth. Pole-sitter Ed
Carpenter led a race-high
37 laps and finished 10th.
For a time, it appeared
the win would go to AJ
Allmendinger, who led 23
laps in his Indy debut for
Roger Penske.
Fired by Penske from
his NASCAR ride last year
after failing a NASCAR
drug test, Penske gave
him a second chance with
this IndyCar opportunity.
Seven years after leaving
open-wheel racing, Allmendinger finally ran “The
Greatest Spectacle in Racing” and was leading when
his seat belt came undone,
forcing him to pit.
It put Allmendinger off
the pit cycle, and he was
forced to stop for gas twice
far in advance of the rest
of the field. It meant Allmendinger had to drive his
way back to the front each
time, and he finally sputtered out at seventh.

Tornadoes
From Page 6
speechless with how the events
of the day had played out, considering where his team had started
just seven weeks ago. With that
said, nobody could have possibly
been prouder of the Lady Tornadoes than their third-year frontman afterwards.
“At the beginning of the year,
we knew we would be young
because we were starting two
freshmen and a sophomore and
had a lot of people without any
varsity experience. I’ve never
had a group of kids in all of my
years of coaching come so far,”
Crisp said. “Most times the kids
are ready to wrap it up and call
it a season this time of year, but
we had three of the best practice
days we’ve had all year this week.
“We knew what we had to do
to beat them, or at least stay
close, and we came out and executed. I just cannot say enough
about how proud I am of these
girls right now and how we are

all looking forward to playing
again next week.”
The Lady Tornadoes outhit
Clay by a sizable 8-4 overall
margin
and
both
teams
committed one error in the
contest, with each miscue
leading to unearned scores.
Kyrie Swann started the first
inning rally with a one-out single
and later scored on a triple by
Maggie Cummins, giving SHS
an early 1-0 edge. Cummins later
scored on an RBI groundout by
Darien Diddle for a 2-0 lead after
one complete.
Clay responded with a one-out
single from Jessica Moore and
Cami Whitley walked to put two
on with two away, then Madisen
Fuller singled. Southern’s lone
error came during Fuller’s hit,
and that miscue allowed both
Moore and Whitley to score —
tying the game at two.
Fuller later came around to
score on a hit by Marissa Messer,
giving Clay a 3-2 cushion midway through the second inning.

PCHS, however, didn’t have another hit and managed only two
baserunners the rest of the way.
The score remained that way
until the bottom of the third
when Ali Deem singled with one
out and later scored on an error
that allowed Cummins to reach
safely — tying the contest at
three after three full frames.
Southern’s biggest charge of the
night came in the fifth, as Caitlyn
Holter walked and Deem followed
with a bunt single to put two on
with nobody out. Swann followed
by hitting a ground ball to the
pitcher, who was unsuccessful
in picking off Holter at third for
a force out — leaving the bases
loaded with nobody out.
Cummins hit a ground ball
that led to force out of Holter at
home for the first out, but Diddle
followed with a line drive that
ricocheted off of the Clay first
baseman and rolled down the
first base line, allowing Deem
and Swann to score for a 5-3
Southern advantage.

Baylee Hupp followed with
a fly ball to center that Lexie
Gilliland made a diving catch on,
but Cummins tagged and beat
the throw home — allowing SHS
to double up its lead to 6-3 after
five complete.
Huddleston was the winning
pitcher of record after allowing
three runs (zero earned),
three hits and five walks over
seven innings while striking
out three. Griffith suffered the
setback after surrendering six
runs (five earned), eight hits
and one walk over six frames
while fanning five.
Deem, Swann and Cummins
each led Southern with two hits
and two runs scored, followed
by Diddle and Huddleston with
a safety apiece. Diddle drove in
three RBIs and both Cummins
and Hupp added an RBI to the
winning cause.
Messer paced Clay with two
hits, followed by Moore and
Fuller with a safety apiece.
Moore, Whitley and Fuller each

scored once in the setback.
The Lady Tornadoes travel to
Pickerington High School Central on Thursday for a 5 p.m.
D-4 regional semifinal contest
against Strasburg Franklin (265), which defeated Bellaire St.
John 1-0 in eight innings to secure its spot in the Sweet 16.
Though it will be a new experience for most of the people involved at Southern, Crisp notes
that the game will still be played
the same way as it has been all
season — with an emphasis on
executing the basics.
“If you are going to be able to
beat good teams this time of year,
you have to be able to play the
short game,” Crisp said. “Our execution of small ball there in the
fifth proved to be a big difference
in the outcome, and that is something we will have to continue to
do well next week.
“We will really need to focus on
our fundamentals and execution
next week, much like what we’ve
done in getting to this point.”

Eagles
From Page 6
of 12:20.75, while finishing
third in the 1600m run
(5:38.52). Palmer was
second in the 1600m run
with a time of 5:38.19,
while taking fourth in the
800m run (2:39.26).
Burdette was first in the
long jump with a leap of

15 feet, 10.25 inches, and
third in the 100m dash
with a time of 13.8 seconds. Eastern’s Cassidy
Cleland won the discus
(105-7), Katie Keller (1022) was second, while Maddie Rigsby won the 800m
run with a time of 2:29.06.
Southern’s
Jennifer
McCoy took gold in the

1600m with a time of
5:31.76, while taking third
in the 3200m (12:58.33).
The 4x400m relay team
of Shelby Pickens, Joyce
Weddle, McCoy and Angie
Eynon earned a spot in
the regional with a time of
4:37.24, good enough for
third place.
Coal Grove earned the

victory in boys competition
with 95 points, followed by
Belpre (67). Waterford and
Wheelersburg each had 59
points, while NelsonvilleYork finished fifth with 53
points. Southern was ninth
with 31 points, South Gallia finished 19th with eight
points, while Eastern
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field with one point.
Southern senior Kody
Wolfe won the 1600m run
with a time of 4:30.37,
while taking second in the
3200m (10:11.81).
South Gallia’s Jacob
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shotput with a distance of
45 feet, 2.5 inches.
The regional track and

field meet will be held
on Wednesday at 4 p.m.
and Friday at 5 p.m. at
Lancaster Fairfield Union
High School.
Complete results of the
2013 Division III Southeast District Track and
Field Championships can
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CONCEPTIS SUDOKU
by Dave Green

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday,
May 28, 2013:
This year you go back and forth
between having an avant-garde
mindset to a very conventional way of
thinking. You can’t be put in a box —
you are a free thinker. Others enjoy
seeing how you work with concepts
and apply them to your life. If you are
single, you could form a close bond
with a foreigner or someone who is
very different from you. You’ll like
learning about this person’s culture
and ways. If you are attached, the two
of you often speak about a dream trip;
start planning it this year. AQUARIUS
piques your interest.
The Stars Show the Kind of Day
You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive;
3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
HHHH Your anger and frustration
seem to bubble up. After listening
to someone’s needs, you could feel
put off. Do not respond if following
through makes you uncomfortable.
Make calls and reach out to a neighbor or sibling. Good news heads your
way. Tonight: Hang out.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
HHHHH You will discover what
is possible if you relax and become
more forthcoming. Your appraisal of
a personal matter encourages you
to take a leap of faith. Be sure to do
much-needed research. By afternoon,
you’ll feel as though it is time to take
action. Tonight: Make it easy.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
HHHH Engage in a conversation with a partner. You might not
come to an agreement easily. Take
an overview and see what facts you
are missing. Get to the bottom of a
problem by taking in the whole picture. Suddenly, you could see the
right path to take. Tonight: Use your
imagination.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
HHHH Others let you know what
they want. The problem might be
that you are not sure of your choice
yet. In some way, you could feel as
if someone is running right over you.
Share your feelings with this person.
Tonight: Chat with a partner or dear
friend. Speak your mind.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
HHH You could be taken aback
by someone’s efforts. You also might
find that you are angry or frustrated
with an older friend or boss. Why
not address the issue directly? This
person’s response could take you by
surprise. Be prepared. Tonight: In the
thick of a situation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
HHHH Have a talk with someone
you respect, especially if this person
is acting as if he or she is peeved.
There probably is a good reason for
this behavior. You won’t be able to
work anything out until you know the
problem. Count on your ingenuity.
Tonight: Burn the midnight oil.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
HHHH You could view an important matter very differently from a
partner. Listen to what this person
shares. He or she means exactly
what he or she says. You will have to
be very charming and nurturing to surf
this wave and come out unscathed.
Tonight: You know what is best.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
HHHH Sometimes you push so
hard to have your way that it is difficult to come to terms with a different
point of view. Try to listen more to a
key person in your life. You both will
be a lot happier as a result. Consider
taking a walk in order to clear your
mind. Tonight: At home.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
HHH You might be finalizing some
details regarding a purchase or balancing your finances. You will perk up
considerably in the afternoon. Make
calls, schedule meetings and — most
importantly — catch up on a friend’s
news. Tonight: Run errands on the
way home.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
HHHH You might want to rearrange your schedule in order to make
time for an important conversation
in the morning. Understand where
others are coming from, and listen to
their logic. Tempers run high, and you
can do little to change what is going
on. Tonight: At a favorite haunt.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
HHH You could be dragging in the
morning and feel unsure as to which
way you want to go. Alleviate a problem by talking it out; otherwise, you
could be walking on eggshells. You
have a greater chance of clearing the
issue later in the day. Tonight: Make
yourself happy, first.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
HHHH Zero in on your priorities. You could be surprised by how
strong-willed you need to be in order
to get your point across. Later, you
might want to spend some quiet
time dealing with a project or going
over this conversation in your head.
Tonight: Catch some extra zzz’s.
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New, expanded
clubhouse to greet Harvick pulls away to win Coca-Cola 600
Memorial fans
DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Just a couple of weeks before the
start of the 38th Memorial Tournament, Barbara Nicklaus
was busy doing some interior — and exterior — decorating.
Huge boxes full of patio furniture were sitting all around
the newly reconstructed clubhouse at Muirfield Village
Golf Club and the wife of the tournament’s founder was
directing traffic. She instructed workers where to put a
couple of tables, quickly greeted a few visitors and then
wiped her brow and pointed to some chairs.
There was a lot of work to be done and the woman who
has been Jack Nicklaus’ wife for almost 53 years was just
the person to get people moving.
When the Memorial Tournament begins Thursday,
the field will be strong and the course will be almost unchanged from a year ago. But the facelift to the facilities
— set in motion by Jack and completed by Barbara —
will be the biggest change for spectators.
“(The clubhouse is) basically almost 40 years old and
it needed an uplift anyway,” Jack Nicklaus said about the
buildings, constructed shortly before Roger Maltbie won
the first Memorial in 1976. “A friend said, ‘Jack, you’ve
got a world-class golf course and you’ve got a 1970s
California ranch-style clubhouse. You need to have a clubhouse that matches.’ He was right.”
The Nicklauses don’t do anything halfway. The joke is
that when Jack senses a problem with a hole at Muirfield
Village, he brings in the backhoes the day after the Memorial Tournament ends. Next thing you know, a tweak
becomes a radical change.
“What started out to be a medium-sized project has
turned out to be a very large project,” Jack said.
The clubhouse and media pavilion, which used to be
separated by 75 yards are now connected. They form a
horseshoe of a different sort not far from Ohio State’s famous football stadium where the Nicklauses still attend
games whenever possible.
Dan Sullivan, executive director of the Memorial, won’t
put a dollar figure on the reconstruction but does concede, “It’s a significant financial and construction project.
The last time the original clubhouse was updated was 38
or 40 years ago when it was built. So it was a well-timed
renovation and expansion that will allow the club to perform for years to come.”
In October, Muirfield Village also hosts the Presidents
Cup, pitting the top pros squaring off in a U.S. vs. International team format.
Nicklaus said the buildings needed to be updated.
“You’re going to say (the new design) could come from
any period,” he said. “We put pillars or columns on the
outside, we changed some of the roof lines, we put some
chimneys and dormer windows in and opened up some
skylights. We changed the inside and outside.”
There is an updated facade, with the columns replacing
the wood siding and shake roof of the old clubhouse. The
buildings now envelop the closing hole, providing sponsors’ suites, a lengthy patio and numerous viewing areas
while retaining the grass hills which hold thousands of
golf fans each year.
Off the backside of the clubhouse is a new fitness facility which includes state of the art machines along
with private rooms for massages. The semi-trailer chock
with workout apparatus which usually follows PGA Tour
events won’t make the trip to Dublin this year because
everything the players need is already there.

CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Kevin Harvick isn’t done surprising
people at Charlotte Motor Speedway or Richard Childress Racing.
Closing a bizarre night in NASCAR’s longest event, Harvick
pulled away from Kasey Kahne on
a restart Sunday with 11 laps left
to win the Coca-Cola 600 for the
second time in three seasons to
The race was stopped nearly
30 minutes at one point when a
TV camera support rope snapped
and landed on the track and in the
grandstands. There were 10 people hurt, according to Charlotte
Motor Speedway. Three were
taken to hospitals, and have been
treated and released.
It’s Harvick’s final season at RCR
— the only team he’s known since
filling the seat of the late Dale Earnhardt in 2001 — before he swifts to
Stewart-Haas Racing in 2014.
Harvick’s already shown with a
victory at Richmond this year he
wouldn’t coast through the year
and proved that again as he made
it through the broken rope, several
crashes and Kahne’s dominant machine that led a race-high 156 laps.
There was no other course for
Harvick than giving his all, saying he and Childress “have really
focused on what’s most important
for our sponsors and the guys on
this team and this organization.”
Harvick’s pulled off an unlikely
win here in 2011, sweeping past an
out-of-fuel Dale Earnhardt Jr. on
the final lap. “Last race (2011) we
came off turn two in third and by
the time we got to the start-finish
line we had won the race,” he said.
“It was one of those nights,” he
said, “where you have to grind it out
and keep yourself on the lead lap.”
Especially when you don’t know
what you’ll face.
The race stopped suddenly a
little over a quarter of the way
into the long event after the
nylon rope snapped in the first
turn. The cars were brought into
the pits and cleanup crews coiled
up the long sections of rope as if
they were putting away a garden
hose. Drivers were allowed back
to their pit stalls and crews given
15 minutes to assess and fix damage caused by the failure.
Fox Sports announcer Chris
Myers apologized to fans and
drivers several times for the delay
and problems.
In a statement, Fox said it had
suspended use of the overhead

camera indefinitely. It said drive
rope that moves the camera back
and forth failed and it had no immediate reason why.
“A full investigation is planned,”
the statement said.
Harvick couldn’t believe he’d
seen the cable along the track
and did his best to avoid problems. And Harvick wasn’t the
only one surprised.
“I came off turn four,” Kahne
said, “and I saw it wrapped around
Kyle’s car and it hit mine and I
thought I had to be seeing things
because there’s no way there could
be a cable on the race track.”
Kahne finished second, Kurt
Busch third and polesitter Denny
Hamlin was fourth in his second full
race since returning from injury.
Harvick’s win was almost as big
a surprise as it was in 2011 when
the crowd anticipated Earnhardt
ending what was then a long, long
victory drought.
Kahne had the strongest car,
quickly moving back to the front
each time he fell back. He had a
large lead and lots of open track
when the final caution flag came
out with 16 laps remaining.
But Kahne remained on the
track while Harvick pitted for
two fresh tires. On the restart,
Harvick quickly took control and
Kahne couldn’t catch up.
Ryan Newman was sixth followed by Tony Steward, Clint
Bowyer, Martin Truex Jr. and
Marcos Ambrose.
Harvick’s victory ended a long,
strange day of racing in the biggest motorsports’ weekend. Tony
Kanaan took a crowd-pleasing win
at the Indianapolis 500 before one
of NASCAR’s showcase events
was marred by the rope problems.
Childress said he texted Chevrolet’s vice president of motorsports, Jim Campbell, to congratulate him on Kanaan’s win in Indy.
“I texted him back and said, ‘We’ll
win for you tonight.’ We kept our
word,” Childress said.
The race stopped suddenly a
little over a quarter of the way
into the long event after the nylon
rope snapped in the first turn.
The cars were brought into the
pits and cleanup crews coiled up
the long sections of rope as if they
were putting away a garden hose.
Drivers were allowed back to
their pit stalls and crews given 15
minutes to assess and fix damage
caused by the failure.
Fox Sports announcer Chris

Myers apologized to fans and
drivers several times for the delay
and problems.
In a statement, Fox said it had
suspended use of the overhead
camera indefinitely. It said drive
rope that moves the camera back
and forth failed and it had no immediate reason why.
“A full investigation is planned,”
the statement said.
Kyle Busch might want to look
into why he can’t seem to win a
Sprint Cup race in Charlotte.
He entered a favorite after winning the Truck Series event last
week and powering to a Nationwide
victory Saturday. He was in the
lead, though, when the nylon guide
rope snapped and ran smack over
it. Busch heard a “thunk” and knew
he had problems. “It did have an effect of slowing my car down and I
could feel it like, ‘Whoa,’” he said.
“That’s weird and I don’t know that
anybody has ever seen that.”
Busch’s team got the car back in
winning shape and he continued
near the front. However, his race
ended for good on lap 257 when
his engine failed.
“Catastrophic engine failure.
Seems to be that time of year,”
said Busch, who has yet to win a
Sprint Cup event at the track he
calls his favorite.
Busch did praise NASCAR
for halting the race and allowing
teams to repair damage, which he
said was unrelated to his engine
problems.
About the same time Busch’s
engine failed, Earnhardt’s race
concluded with a similar problem. Earnhardt had smoke and
oil pouring out on lap 257. Greg
Biffle slipped into the wall, sending him to the garage, and Dave
Blaney and Travis Kvapil collided.
“We didn’t have a really good car,”
Earnhardt said. “We know why. We
can go back and feel like we can rebound from this real quick.”
That started of series of incidents that ended things for some
of NASCAR’s most popular and
successful drivers.
Defending series champion
Brad Keselowski and Danica Patrick saw their chances end on
lap 319 when they collided on a
restart. It appeared that Patrick’s
boyfriend, Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,
forced her car up the track and
she clipped Keselowski, who began his day in the Penske pits at
the Indianapolis 500.

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