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The Fourth District Court of Appeals had previously confirmed the trial court’s (Meigs County Common Please Court) decision, denying a new sentencing hearing. On March 20, the Supreme Court of Ohio affirmed the decision by the Fourth District Court of Appeals and the Meigs County Common Pleas Court. Qualls, 36, formerly of Middleport, will have to serve the 33-year prison sentence, and would be required to serve five years of post-release control if paroled. Qualls pleaded guilty to kidnapping and aggravated murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend, Rebecca Ackerman. Ackerman was shot and killed in March 2002, in Middleport. According to previous reports, Qualls admitted to the shooting death of Ackerman, his former girlfriend, while she was working at a Middleport restau- rant. Qualls led Ackerman out a back door of the restaurant and shot her. He then fled to a South Third Avenue residence where he was eventually arrested. In appealing to the Fourth District Court of Appeals, Qualls alleged that information about post-release control was not included in his final sentencing entry. The sentencing entry was later corrected by the court through a nunc pro tunc entry. A nunc pro tunc entry is a ruling filed to correct an earlier ruling from a court. The Fourth District Court of Appeals had ruled that the entry was an appropriate way to correct the omission of the postrelease control information from the original sentencing entry, although the Fifth District Court of Appeals had not agreed pre- viously. The Fifth District Court previously ordered re-sentencing in a case in which the appropriate postrelease control information was not supplied in the original judgement entry. Qualls was sentenced to a prison term of 33 years to life, with five years of post release control. Qualls will now be required to serve his sentence as previously ordered. Staff Report Ohio, fire departments are seeing a 20 percent turnover rate every year due to the same life obligations as everyone else, according to Middleport Fire Chief Jeff Darst. Recruitment and retention of dedicated volunteers is a key issue in Ohio. To put the volunteer efforts into financial terms, nationally each volunteer saves the taxpayers $45,000 annually (www.NVFC.org). The dollar amount of savings in Ohio for each volunteer is $18.40 per hour (www. independentsector.org/volunteer_time). Requirements for applicants include being at least 18 years old and physically fit. Anyone who would like to help is encouraged to contact their local fire department to schedule a visit and find out how to become a member. Volunteer applications are also available online at VolunteerFirefighter.org or by calling 855-vol-fire. Volunteer fire fighter applications available mdsnews@mydailysetninel.com Charlene Hoeflich/photos Kitchen help at the Senior Citizens Center, Mary Morton, Danna Hines, Karen Circle, and Pat Medley, left to right, prepare meals to go out on the hotshot trucks. March for Meals — rolling right along By Charlene Hoeflich choeflich@mydailysentinel.com POMEROY — The Meigs County Council on Aging’s “March for Meals” is rolling right along towards its goal of raising $15,000 to support the homedelivered meal program for homebound seniors. This year’s projected cost is $313,000, which covers the cost of preparing about a hundred meals a day and delivering them in the agency’s hotshot trucks around the county, Monday through Friday, along with serving some meals at the Senior Citizens Center. To come up with funds to supplement what is received through the Older Americans Act, the Department of Agriculture, United Fund, other local agencies and organizations and some small contributions from recipients who are able to give, annual “March for Meals” fundraising projects are held. To kickoff fundraising on March 1 , basket games were held at the Senior Center bringing in $4,000. Individuals, churches and other organizations have been making donations, and several businesses are sponsoring events in an effort to keep the program moving along. Thursday, the annual spaghetti dinner and cake contest/auction will be held at See MEALS ‌| 5 MEIGS COUNTY — As we enter into wild fire season, local fire departments are in search of more volunteer fire fighters. Volunteer firefighters are an extremely valuable national resource, protecting neighbors and saving taxpayers. They are the backbone and spirit of many smaller communities and the first line of defense against not only fire, but also natural disasters, industrial and highway accidents, terrorism, and any other situation that threatens the safety of lives and property. Volunteer fire departments throughout the country, state, and local area are experiencing the lowest roster levels in years. According to volunteerfirefighter. org, volunteer firefighters responded to 48,237 fire related emergencies throughout Ohio in 2009. As call volume increases, so does the need for new members. Currently in Athens Co. murder-suicide under investigation Staff Report mdsnews@mydailysentinel.com Charlene Hoeflich/photos Pat Medley loads up one of the hotshot trucks with hot meals ready for delivery to homebound seniors. ATHENS COUNTY — The Athens County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a homicide-suicide that occurred at 8:59 a.m. on Monday. Sheriff Pat Kelly, through a written statement, said the 911 communications center received a call at 8:59 a.m. Monday morning from a male resident at 10270 Alderman Road, in Athens County, stating there had been a murder-suicide at the residence, and the caller stated, “I’m the one that caused it.” At approximately 9:35 a.m., the Sheriff’s special response team made entry and found Robert T. Nusser, 68, deceased in a living room chair with a single gunshot wound, and Paulette Nusser, 64, deceased lying in bed with a single gunshot wound. Deputies had made contact with Nusser on February 25, 2012, serving the residents with an eviction notice. Deputies again made contact with the Nussers on March 25, informing the Nussers they had to vacate the residence. According to the release by the Athens County Sheriff’s Office, the Nussers recently moved to Athens from Chillicothe. Little retiring after 24 years at Health Department By Charlene Hoeflich choeflich@mydailysentinel.con POMEROY — Connie Little, R.N., BSN, who has been working at the Meigs County Health Department in the Family Services and Pregnancy Care Clinic since 1988, is retiring. In tribute to her and the work she has done, an open house will be held to celebrate her retirement on Friday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Health Department conference room. Light refreshments will be served, and the public is invited. The program that Little has so successfully operated is being discontinued because state funding is no longer available. As Little put it, “The decision to retire did not come easy, but circumstances often help us make up our minds when a life- changing event is pending.” When the Ohio Department of Health decided not to refund the program which over the past 24 years has served more than 2,000 pregnant women, she made the decision to retire. Little viewed the clinic as an opportunity to make a difference. “I was the first to let them know they were pregnant, instructed them on eating nutritious foods, the importance of continuing their education, and how to take care of themselves so they would deliver a healthy baby,” said Little. The goal was to decrease the rate of early birth and low weight babies and have healthier newborns. Little’s counsel always was to help each client have a successful pregnancy and thereby decrease the cost of after- birth concern and care. After graduating from the three-year nursing school at Holzer Medical Center, she went to Ohio University where she received her bachelor of science in nursing. She worked three years at University Hospital in Columbus, then was a nurse at O’Bleness Hospital and at the Ohio University, College of Medicine Clinic, and later at the Rock Springs Rehabilitation Center. The Ohio Department Health Department which funded the pregnancy program in Meigs County will now focus on childhood obesity. The full-time nurse position will become part-time, and pregnant women, even those who have transportation issues, will unfortunately have to travel to Gallipolis, Athens, Point Pleasant or elsewhere to access Connie Little, RN, BSN prenatal care. Charlene Hoeflich/photo �Tuesday, March 27, 2012 The Daily Sentinel • Page 2 www.mydailysentinel.com Ohio Valley Forecast Meigs County Local Briefs Tuesday: Areas of frost before 9 a.m. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 63. Calm wind becoming east around 5 mph. Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 45. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm. Wednesday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11 a.m., then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 75. Southwest wind between 5 and 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60 percent. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts pos- sible in thunderstorms. Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 46. Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 57. Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 34. Friday: Sunny, with a high near 63. Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 39. Saturday: A chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 65. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent. Saturday Night: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 45. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent. Sunday: Partly sunny, with a high near 65. Local stocks AEP (NYSE) — 38.49 Akzo (NASDAQ) — 19.93 Ashland Inc. (NYSE) — 62.37 Big Lots (NYSE) — 46.40 Bob Evans (NASDAQ) — 38.32 BorgWarner (NYSE) — 85.31 Century Alum (NASDAQ) — 9.29 Champion (NASDAQ) — 0.66 Charming Shoppes (NASDAQ) — 5.83 City Holding (NASDAQ) — 35.59 Collins (NYSE) — 58.74 DuPont (NYSE) — 53.25 US Bank (NYSE) — 32.11 Gen Electric (NYSE) — 20.05 Harley-Davidson (NYSE) — 50.48 JP Morgan (NYSE) — 46.17 Kroger (NYSE) — 24.21 Ltd Brands (NYSE) — 49.80 Norfolk So (NYSE) — 66.13 OVBC (NASDAQ) — 18.40 BBT (NYSE) — 31.42 Peoples (NASDAQ) — 17.70 Pepsico (NYSE) — 65.78 Premier (NASDAQ) — 7.45 Rockwell (NYSE) — 81.47 Rocky Brands (NASDAQ) — 12.80 Royal Dutch Shell — 72.17 Sears Holding (NASDAQ) — 71.77 Wal-Mart (NYSE) — 61.20 Wendy’s (NYSE) — 5.05 WesBanco (NYSE) — 20.79 Worthington (NYSE) — 18.28 Daily stock reports are the 4 p.m. ET closing quotes of transactions for March 26, 2012, provided by Edward Jones financial advisors Isaac Mills in Gallipolis at (740) 441-9441 and Lesley Marrero in Point Pleasant at (304) 674-0174. Member SIPC. Meigs Calendar Saturday, March 31 RUTLAND — An Easter Egg Hunt will be held at Old Fort Meigs, 35431 New Lima Road, at 2 p.m. All ages welcome, prizes will be given, food will be available, as well as a raffle and free fishing for children. For more information call 7422974. Sunday, April 1 TUPPERS PLAINS — Special singing at the South Bethel Community Church will be held at 1:30 p.m. A dinner will begin at noon. Coolville Unity Singers will perform, “Celebrating with Songs of Joy.” Pastor Linda Damewood invites the public to attend. Monday, April 2 POMEROY — The Meigs County Cancer Initiative, Inc. (MCCI) will meet at noon in the conference room of the Meigs County Health Department. New members are welcome. For more information contact Courtney Midkiff at 740992-6626. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Organizers of an annual Easter egg hunt attended by hundreds of children have canceled this year’s event, citing the behavior of aggressive parents who swarmed into the tiny park last year, determined that their kids get an egg. That hunt was over in seconds, to the consternation of egg-less tots and their own parents. Too many parents had jumped a rope set up to allow only children into Bancroft Park in a historic area of Colorado Springs. Organizers say the event has outgrown its original intent of being a neighborhood event. Parenting observers cite the cancellation as a prime example of so-called “helicopter parents” — those who hover over their children and are involved in every aspect of their children’s lives — sports, school, and increasingly work — to ensure that they don’t fail, even at an Easter egg hunt. “They couldn’t resist getting over the rope to help their kids,” said Ron Alsop, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and author of “The Trophy Kids Grow Up,” which examines the “millennial children” generation. “That’s the perfect metaphor for millennial children. They (parents) can’t stay out of their children’s lives. They don’t give their Mulberry Avenue closed POMEROY — Mulberry Avenue will be closed for a few hours on Wednesday and potentially Thursday for the final restoration and cleanup of the Columbia Gas project near the Mulberry Pond. Boil Advisory MEIGS COUNTY — The Tuppers Plains-Chester Water District has issued a boil advisory in Chester and Sutton Townships. This includes the following roads: Sand Ridge Road from Eagle Ridge Road to Sorden Road; Pine Grove Road from the intersection of Canter Road, north bound across Ohio 33 north to the intersection of Eagle Ridge Road; Eagle Ridge Road from intersection of Eagle Ridge Road northwest to Ohio 7 and east to Vinegar Street; all of Frecker Road (township road 416); Vinegar Street, one mile east of Pine Grove Road; Amberger Road from Forest Run Road north to Yost Road; Yost Road, east/ northeast from Forest Run Road to Pine Grove Road; Forest Run Road from Minersville Hill Road south/ southeast to Pine Grove Road; Minersville Hill Road from Forest Run Road south to Ohio 124; Welshtown Road; all of Roy Jones Road from Syracuse north to For- est Run Road; all of Snowball Hill Road; Salser Road from Pine Grove Road to Bowman’s Run Road; all of Bailey Road; Court Street Road; Morning Star Road from the intersection of Pine Grove Road, east to one mile beyond Ohio 33. The boil advisory will remain in effect until 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 27. Flower removal TUPPERS PLAINS — Flowere removing from the Tuppers Plains Christian Cemetary will start on April 2. Any one wishing to keep decorations must remove them before that date. Mantinance fees for mowing are also due if you wish to have graves mowed. Payments may be sent to Marvene Caldwell, 41036 SR 7, Reedsville, Ohio 45772. SUTTON TWP. — Sutton Township Trustees ask that all flowers and decorations be removed from graves before mowing begins. Childhood immunization offered POMEROY — The Meigs County Health Department will conduct a childhood immunization on Tuesday, March 27, from 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. at the office, 112 E. Memorial Drive in Pomeroy. Parents/guardian are to accompany all children. Shot records and medical cards, if applicable, are to be brought along. A $10 donation for administration is appreciated but no one will be denied service because of an inability to pay. Southern Alumni Banquet RACINE — The annual reunion of the Racine/ Southern Alumni banquet will be held on Saturday, May 26 at 6:30 p.m. at the Southern High School. Tickets are $15 and available now at Southern High School and Racine Home National Bank.They will be $25 at the door. Flags are $30. The website is www. tornadoalumni.net. Farmer’s Market POMEROY — Anyone interested in taking part in the Farmer’s Market on the Pomeroy Parking Lot this Summer is asked to contact Derek Brickles at (740) 590-4891. Wanted: old computers POMEROY — The Invincible Industries Teen Center at the Mulberry Community Center is in need of old computers, both PCs and Macs, for repair or use of parts. Mike Tipptin, a computer specialist, has volunteered to see what he can do to get some working computers for the teen center. He has volunteered to pick up old computers. Call 740-444-5599 and leave a message so that he can call back. Beth Clark is the lead volunteer at the youth center and says she has long recognized the need for computers for the kids to use for study and/or entertainment. Preschool registration MASON COUNTY — Mason County Schools Preschool Registration will be taking place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the following days, April 20 at New Haven Elementary, and April 26 at the Nazarene Church on Mt. Vernon. April 26 will also be a make up day. For information call (304) 6754956. Community Lenten services MEIGS COUNTY — Meigs County Ministerial Association is hosting community Lenten services each Thursday during Lent. An offering is received to help those in need in Meigs County. Refreshments will be served following the services. All Thursday evening services will be held at 7 p.m. March 29 — Grace Episcopal Church, Pastor Brenda Barnhart speaking. Good Friday (April 6th) at Noon the Ministerial service will be The Stations of the Cross at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Ask Dr. Brothers She feels like a loser By Dr. Joyce Brothers Dear Dr. Brothers: I feel like such a loser. I left my hometown after a big going-away party a year ago. I was going to make it big in Hollywood, and I even had a job lined up out there to pay the rent. Well, I found out it’s not as easy to get cast in L.A. as it was in the high-school musical. I couldn’t even get an agent. So I came home. I am so depressed. I am just sitting in my old room in my mom’s house. I hate it when I see my old friends. How do I get over this failure? — V.R. Dear V.R.: I know how humiliated and disappointed you must feel, after being sent off to a new life and now having to return, believing you’ve failed. It may take some time to get over this, but the sooner you start trying to retool your attitude and your activities, the sooner you will begin to have something to cheer about again. First, re-evaluate yourself, fine-tune your present goal or work toward a new goal. Take charge of your life, and soon you may find yourself actually being less unhappy. It is a good enough plan to jump-start your journey back to feeling good about yourself. Right now you are feeling like a total failure. But if you analyze what you’ve been through, you’ve certainly learned a lot about your ambitions, plans and the way the world works, Californiastyle. You’ve had a great adventure, regardless of the outcome. And think about this: While you are sitting in your old room feeling afraid to see your friends, they very likely are not on that negative wavelength. While you were out experiencing the ups and downs of Hollywood, what were they doing? Sitting in their hometown, doing the same old thing. They must admire you for your adventurous spirit. So, be proud of yourself! *** Dear Dr. Brothers: My fiance and I are in the middle of a battle about where to live, and I’m afraid one of us is going to end up miserable. We are graduating from college this June and buying a starter house. He wants a condo in the city, and I need to live in the country with some animals and a garden. We found out when we started looking that we really have very different dreams for our lifestyle. Can something like this be enough to break us up? I am really scared about it. — A.C. Dear A.C.: I’m sorry this difficult decision has scared you into wondering if your relationship can survive a move from a college campus to the city or country. But it’s not such a bad thing that you are able to foresee the problems coming and have time to face them before your wedding. This is the kind of situation that can severely test your com- munication skills, your ability to compromise and your willingness to put the other’s interests ahead of your own. And, of course, that goes for your fiance as well. Since you want your marriage to be a long and happy one, you need to try to take a long-term look at what kind of future lies ahead. If you are like most couples, you will move several times, and your needs and wants likely will change along the way. If you have children, you will make many decisions based on what is best for them — including where and in what manner you are going to live. You will have to get used to putting the good of the family ahead of your own individual wishes sometimes, even if it’s just the two of you. It is interesting that you say your fiance WANTS to live in the city but you NEED to live in the country. You might bring that up when you talk about this: He may be willing to bend if you let him know just how important this decision is to you. (c) 2012 by King Features Syndicate Aggressive parents force egg hunt cancellation Colleen Williams Keep Colleen Your Prosecutor In November The Candidate with Experience Paid for by Williams for Prosecutor, Jackie Jeffers, Treasurer, 31996 McGinnis Rd., Albany, OH 45710 Mountain Chocolate Factory and sponsor of the event. There was no place to hide the plastic eggs, which were filled with donated candy or coupons redeemable at nearby businesses. So thousands of eggs were placed in plain view on the grass. A bullhorn to start the event malfunctioned, so Baalman, master of ceremonies, used a public address system that was hard to hear. “So everybody thinks you said ‘Go,’ and everybody goes, and it’s over in seconds,” Baalman said. “If one parent gets in there, other parents say, ‘If one can get in we all can get in,’ and everybody goes.” Jennifer Rexford used to live near the park and now lives in Galveston, Texas. She said she used to participate in public Easter egg hunts with her three boys, ages 3, 8, and 14. She doesn’t anymore because of “pushy parents” she experienced at hunts in Florida and Texas. “It just seems to be the mindset. People just want the best for their kids,” Rexford said. Lenny Watkins, who lives a block away from Bancroft Park, took his friend’s then 4-year-old son to the hunt in 2009. “I just remember having a wonderful time, him with his Easter basket” Watson said, adding that he can understand why a Do we have your attention now? Advertise your business in this space, or bigger Call us at: 60301026 T hank You For Your Support children enough chances to learn from hard knocks, mistakes.” Alsop and others say the parenting phenomenon began in earnest when Baby Boomers who decorated their cars with “Baby on Board” signs in the 1980s began having children. It has prompted at least two New York companies to establish “take your parent to work day” for new recruits as parents remain involved even after their children become adults. Last April’s egg hunt, sponsored by the Old Colorado City Association, attracted hundreds of parents and children and experienced a few technical difficulties, said Mazie Baalman, owner of Rocky The Daily Sentinel 740.992.2155 parent would step in. “You have all these eggs just lying around, and parents helping out. You better believe I’m going to help my kid get one of those eggs. I promised my kid an Easter egg hunt and I’d want to give him an even edge.” Alsop said that dynamic is at play with parents who hover over their children, even into adulthood. “I don’t see any sign of it abating,” he said. “It seems everything is more and more and more competitive, fast paced, and I think parents are going to see they need to do more to help their kids get an edge.” �Tuesday, March 27, 2012 Southern High School third nine weeks honor roll RACINE — Southern High School has released its list of honor roll students for the third nine weeks of the 2011-2012 academic year. Seniors All A honor roll: Ceairra Curran, Miranda Holter, Emily Manuel, Emma Powell, Olivia Searls, Hope Teaford, Courtney Thomas, Abbie Williams, Justin Young; A and B honor roll: Michelle Alley, Martina Arms, Emily Ash, Bethany Ferrell, Andrew Ginther, Chase Graham, Amber Hayman, Austin Hill, Marcus Hill, Natalie Marler, Morgan McMillan, Andrew Roseberry, Ryan Taylor, Haley Tripp. Juniors All A honor roll: Jaclyn Mees, Kyrie Swann, Johnny VanCooney, Paige Wehrung, Kody Wolfe; A and B honor roll: Christa Berryman, Chris Chaney, Caitlyn Cowdery, Angie Eynon, Kristen Holbrook, Jennifer McCoy, Megan McGee, Adam Pape, Shelby Pickens, Olivia Poling, Joe Smith, Danielle Taylor, Jeremiah Warden. Sophomores All A honor roll: Darien Diddle; A and B honor roll: Riley Beegle, Hannah Conley, Ryan Daugherty, Lacey Hupp, Wyatt Jarrell, Sarah Lawrence, Nathan Leamond. Freshmen All A honor roll: Sophie Guinther, Bethany Theiss; A and B honor roll: Ashley Baker, Nicole Brickles, Jacob Hoback, Tori Hoschar, Chais Michael, Ryan Schenkelberg, Tristan Wolfe. TUPPERS PLAINS — Eastern High School has released its list of honor roll students for the third quarters of the 2011-2012 academic year. Earning all A honor roll: 12th grade — Janae Boyles; 11th grade — Marshall Aanestad, Larissa Riddle; 10th grade — Paige Cline, Katie Keller, Dakota O’Brien; 9th grade — Kristen King, Meloney Victory. Earning A and B honor roll: 12th grade — Tyler Cline, Baylee Collins, Cheyenne Doczi, Kristin Fick, Maegan Jewell, Kayte Lawrence, Amber Lawson, Samuel Levacy, Kelsey My- ers, Ashley Putnam, Cassie Randolph; 11th grade — Alex Amos, Tim Elam, Anna Fulks, Tori Goble, Alexandria Hendrix, Rachael Markworth, Timothy Minear, Kiana Osborne, Derick Powell; 10th grade — Latham Bissell, Jenna Burdette, Cassidy Cleland, Samantha Cline, Brandon Coleman, Kendra Fick, Noah Miller, Joshua Parker, Madison Rigsby, Zack Scowden, Erin Swatzel, David Warner; 9th grade — Breanna Bailey, Brad Buckley, Lindsey Hupp, Mallory McIntyre, Asia Michael, Brock Smith. Eastern High School third quarter honor roll Wayne National Forest seeks volunteer photographers Staff report mdsnews@mydailysentinel.com NELSONVILLE — The Wayne National Forest is looking for volunteers to become Wayne Photo Naturalists. This program is for people that enjoy the outdoors and taking photographs. An hour-long informational meeting for becoming a Wayne PhotoNaturalist will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 31, at the Wayne National Forest Headquarters office located off U.S. Highway 33 between Nelsonville and The Plains. Athens Ranger District wildlife biologist, Lynda Andrews, is heading up the PhotoNaturalist effort for the second year and encourages anyone with a digital camera and a love of the outdoors and wildlife to participate. Andrews said, “We had such success with our first year that we are wishing to continue this volunteer program. The idea is to photo document various species of wildlife and wildflowers taken on the Wayne National Forest.” Last year the effort documented a state endangered dragonfly that was previously unknown to exist in the Forest. Anyone interested can follow the Wayne National Forest on Twitter: @waynenationalfs. Wife defends soldier accused in Afghan rampage SEATAC, Wash. (AP) — The wife of a U.S. soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians says her husband showed no signs of PTSD before he deployed, and she doesn’t feel like she’ll ever believe he was involved in the killings. “I don’t know a lot about the symptoms of PTSD, so I wouldn’t know,” Karilyn Bales told NBC’s “Today” show. “He doesn’t have nightmares, you know, things like that. No dreams,” she said. She defended her husband, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, in a weekend interview with Matt Lauer that aired on Monday. Officials say Bales left his base March 11 in southern Afghanistan and killed eight Afghan adults and nine children. The wife of the Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier said the accusations are “unbelievable to me.” “He loves children, he’s like a big kid himself,” she said. “I have no idea what happened, but he would not … he loves children, and he would not do that.” He was formally charged Friday with 17 counts of premeditated murder and other crimes, and is being held at a U.S. military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Karilyn Bales was in a grocery store when she first heard of the rampage in a phone call from her parents. “They said well it looks like a U.S. soldier, some Afghan civilians were killed by a soldier,” she said. She learned more when she got home. “I saw 38-year-old staff sergeant, and I don’t think there are very many of those, and I probably prayed and prayed that my husband wasn’t involved,” she said. “And then, I received a phone call from the Army saying that they would like to come out and talk to me. And I was relieved, because when you get a phone call, you know that your soldier is not deceased.” She was told about the shootings. “They held my hand and they just said that perhaps, you know, they thought that he had left the base, and gone out and perhaps killed the Afghan civilians, and that was really the only sentence, and I just started crying,” she said. The deaths of the nine Afghan children are especially difficult. www.mydailysentinel.com The Daily Sentinel • Page 3 Justices moving to heart of health care overhaul WASHINGTON (AP) — As demonstrations swirled outside, Supreme Court justices signaled on Monday they are ready to confront without delay the keep-orkill questions at the heart of challenges to President Barack Obama’s historic health care overhaul. Virtually every American will be affected by the outcome, due this summer in the heat of the election campaign. On the first of three days of arguments — the longest in decades — none of the justices appeared to embrace the contention that it was too soon for a decision. Outside the packed courtroom, marching and singing demonstrators on both sides — including doctors in white coats, a Republican presidential candidate and even a brass quartet — voiced their eagerness for the court to either uphold or throw out the largest expansion in the nation’s social safety net since Medicare was enacted in 1965. Tuesday’s arguments will focus on the heart of the case, the provision that aims to extend medical insurance to 30 million more Americans by requiring everyone to carry insurance or pay a penalty. A decision is expected by late June as Obama fights for re-election. All of his Republican challengers oppose the law and promise its repeal if the high court hasn’t struck it down in the meantime. On Monday, the justices took on the question of whether an obscure tax law could derail the case. The 19th century law bars tax disputes from being heard in the courts before the taxes have been paid. Under the new health care law, Americans who don’t purchase health insurance would have to report that omission on their tax returns for 2014 and would pay a penalty along with federal income tax on returns due by April 2015. Among the issues facing the court is whether that penalty is a tax. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr., defending the health law, urged the court to focus on what he called “the issues of great moment” at the heart of the case. The 26 states and a small business group challenging the law also want the court to go ahead and decide on its constitutionality without delay. But one lower court that heard the case, the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., has said the challenge is premature. No justice seemed likely to buy that argument Monday. The justices fired two dozen questions in less than a half hour at Washington attorney Robert Long, who was defending the appeals court ruling. “What is the parade of horribles?” asked Justice Sonia Sotomayor, if the court were to decide the penalties were not a tax and the health care case went forward? Long suggested that could encourage more challenges to the longstanding system in which the general rule is that taxpayers must pay a disputed tax before they can go to court. The questions came so quickly at times that the justices interrupted each other. At one point, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sotomayor started speaking at the same time. Chief Justice John Roberts, acting as traffic cop, signaled Ginsburg to go first, perhaps in a nod to her seniority. Only Justice Clarence Thomas, as is his custom, stayed out of the fray. Verrilli also faced pointed questioning over the administration’s differing explanations for whether the penalty is a tax. “General Verrilli, today you are arguing that the penalty is not a tax. Tomorrow you are going to be back and you will be arguing that the penalty is a tax,” Justice Samuel Alito said. Verrilli said Monday’s argument dealt with the meaning of the word in the context of the 19th century law, the Anti-Injunction Act. Tuesday’s session will explore Congress’ power to impose the insurance requirement and penalty. In that setting, he said, Congress has the authority under the Constitution “to lay and collect taxes,” including the penalty for not having insurance. Still, he had trouble keeping his terms straight. Answering a question from Kagan, Verrilli said, “If they pay the tax, then they are in compliance with the law.” Justice Stephen Breyer jumped in: “Why do you keep saying tax?” Breyer reminded Verrilli he should be saying penalty. “Right. That’s right,” Verrilli said. The administration officials involved with the defense and implementation of the health care law, Attorney General Eric Holder, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, were in the courtroom Monday. Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi also were in the crowd that filled the courtroom’s 400 seats. Outside the court building, about 100 supporters of the law walked in a circle holding signs that read, “Protect my healthcare,” and chanting, “Care for you, care for me, care for every family.” A half-dozen opponents shouted, “We love the Constitution!” Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was there, too, declaring anew that GOP front-runner Mitt Romney has no standing to challenge Obama on the law since Massachusetts passed a somewhat similar version when Romney was governor. Santorum said, “If you really want Obamacare repealed there’s only one person who can make that happen.” A four-person student band from Howard University was part of the group favoring the law, playing New Orleans-style jazz tunes. People hoping for a glimpse of the action had waited in line all weekend for the relatively few seats open to the public. The justices allotted the case six hours of argument time, the most since the mid-1960s. The justices also will take up whether the rest of the law can remain in place if the insurance mandate falls and, separately, whether Congress lacked the power to expand the Medicaid program to cover 15 million low-income people who currently earn too much to qualify. If upheld, the law will force dramatic changes in the way insurance companies do business, including forbidding them from denying coverage due to preexisting medical conditions and limiting how much they can charge older people. The law envisions that insurers will be able to accommodate older and sicker people without facing financial ruin because of its most disputed element, the requirement that Americans have insurance or pay a penalty. By 2019, about 95 percent of the country will have health insurance if the law is allowed to take full effect, the Congressional Budget Office estimates. Polls have consistently shown the public is at best ambivalent about the benefits of the health care law, and that a majority of Americans believe the insurance requirement is unconstitutional. SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The security summit was supposed to be an opportunity for President Barack Obama and other leaders to find ways to keep nuclear material away from terrorists. So far, North Korea has upstaged that agenda. And that may be just what Pyongyang intended. Several of the heads of state meeting in Seoul have criticized the North’s surprise announcement 10 days ago that it plans to blast a satellite into space next month aboard a longrange rocket — a launch that Obama’s government views as cover for nuclear missile development. Obama urged North Korean leaders to abandon their rocket plan or risk jeopardizing their country’s future and thwarting a recent U.S. pledge of food aid in return for nuclear and missile test moratoriums — considered a breakthrough after years of deadlock. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak’s government warned Monday it might shoot down parts of the rocket if it violates South Korean air space. Obama and Lee also pressed North Korean ally China to use its influence to prevent a launch. Meanwhile, a Chinese government-backed disarmament expert said allowing the launch to dominate discussions at the summit may be exactly what North Korea wants. “I think North Korea did this to overshadow our talks about nuclear security,” said China Arms Control and Disarmament Association head Li Hong. “We shouldn’t fall for their trick.” Impoverished North Korea has a history of angling for food, oil and other concessions in exchange for disarmament pledges in onagain, off-again talks, and it periodically launches aggressive, attention-grabbing moves to ensure those negotiations stay high on the international agenda. Why North Korea made its rocket announcement so soon after settling a nuclear freeze-for-aid deal last month with the United States has mystified some observers, because it endangers a pending aid shipment. However, Pyongyang previously has upped the ante by creating crises during diplomatic talks on the nuclear standoff, including in 2009 when it launched a long-range, multistage rocket seen as a defying a U.N. ban. When the U.N. Security Council condemned that launch, Pyongyang responded by abandoning six-nation nuclear disarmament talks and, weeks later, carrying out a nuclear test, its second. The following year saw violence blamed on North Korea that claimed the lives of 50 South Koreans and fears that the Koreas were near war. But Pyongyang then began a charm offensive, pushing for a resumption of the disarmament talks, and the U.S.-North Korea deal settled on Feb. 29 was seen as a breakthrough and a step toward resumption of those broader nuclear negotiations. “If they raise hopes, then dash hopes, then come back again, they think they might get a better deal,” said Ralph Cossa, president of Pacific Forum CSIS, a Hawaii-based think tank. “The better the crisis, the better the deal.” Pyongyang also has been blamed for provocations ahead of previous major in- ternational events hosted by the South. The year before the 1988 Seoul Olympics, a bombing blamed on two North Korean agents killed 115 people aboard a South Korean airline. North Korea has never acknowledged responsibility. The drama over North Korea’s latest plan for a satellite launch has also robbed attention from the summit’s moves to lock down the world’s supply of nuclear material by 2014. Participants were to release a communique about those efforts Tuesday. It also takes the spotlight away from diplomacy meant to halt Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program, though Obama stressed that he would press the issue of Iran in one-on-one talks with the leaders of Russia and China. “Iran’s leaders must understand that there is no escaping the choice before it. Iran must act with the seriousness and sense of urgency that this moment demands,” Obama said. North Korea has said it would launch its rocket around the April 15 celebration of the birthday of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung — and that timing is probably not linked to this week’s nuclear summit, said Koh Yu-hwan, a North Korea professor at Seoul’s Dongguk University. However, the North may have timed its March 16 launch announcement with the global meeting in mind, he said. “North Korea can demonstrate to the world how volatile and tense the situation on the Korean peninsula is” with the launch, he said. “That would help it achieve its interests in future negotiations.” North Korea moved its rocket into position just before the summit opened, South Korean officials said Sunday. Yoo Ho-yeol, a professor at Korea University in the South, said Pyongyang has decided to launch a satellite because it believes it will help solidify new leader Kim Jong Un’s power at a time when it has vowed to build a thriving nation. “North Korea doesn’t have many things to show off,” he said. China, as North Korea’s biggest source of diplomatic support and economic assistance, faces pressure to get the North to halt its rocket plans. However, China maintains its leverage is limited by Pyongyang’s unpredictable nature and Beijing’s overriding concern for stability along its northeastern border. North Korea’s rocket plan hijacks nuclear summit Marcum Construction and General Contracting Mike Marcum - Owner • Commercial & Residential • General Remodeling • Room Additions • Roofing • Garages • Pole & Horse Barns • Foundations • Home Repairs 740-985-4141 • 740-416-1834 Fully Insured • Free Estimates • 30 Years Experience Not Affiliated with Mike Marcum Roofing & Remodeling 60301176 �The Daily Sentinel Opinion Page 4 Wednesday, January 11, 2012 Try a little nuclear sanity Why do we protest the NATO Summit? By Buddy Bell After the end of World War II, a group of nations in the north Atlantic established NATO to impede Russian influence over the reconstruction of Europe. The result was that it facilitated the United States’ influence: according to a 2009 article by Georgetown professor David S. Painter in the journal Cold War History, the economic blueprint begun under the Marshall Plan and continued with NATO was a process where European member countries shifted their energy dependency from coal to oil. This came at a time when the U.S. was the world’s leading oil producer. A graph included in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s 2011 Transportation Energy Data Book shows that before 1960, the U.S. used to supply more than a third of worldwide crude oil production from within its own borders. In addition, U.S. oil companies enjoyed effective control over vast petroleum reserves in Venezuela, which they had wrested away from Britain a few decades earlier. The entire arrangement ensured that these companies would stand to make a fortune, setting a high price to fulfill Western Europe’s manufactured demand. After the Cold War ended, the U.S. rebranded NATO and extended its mandate as the supposed defender of liberty in regions far beyond the north Atlantic. Seeing military action as a suitable solution to various global conflicts, it has had the effect of sowing discord and violence instead of alleviating these problems. In Kosovo, NATO claimed that bombing the countryside would stop Yugoslav forces from invading homes and practicing summarily executing Kosovars. Instead, the New York Times reported on May 29, 1999 that Belgrade’s atrocities at ground level had “kicked into high gear,” as was widely predicted by international aid workers, described in the Washington Post on April 11 as “the only remaining brake on Yugoslav troops” and who were forced to leave their host villages when NATO commenced aerial bombing. Years later, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia would issue an indictment against Slobodan Milosevic on 17 Kosovo-related war crimes, 16 of which happened after NATO’s entry into the conflict. In Libya, the scene following the NATO-enabled civil war has been a chaotic mix of factional battles with various anti-Gaddafi militias who refuse to disband. According to Reuters, on Jan. 21, 2012, Libyan veterans were attacked with tear gas while protesting outside the Benghazi headquarters of the ruling NTC party, the site of a near-attack on the country’s Vice President days earlier. They charged into the building and seized it while party officials fled. Widespread torture of alleged Gaddafi loyalists has caused a vicious humanitarian catastrophe, prompting the medical aid group Doctors Without Borders to tell The Canadian Press on Jan 26 that they would abandon the mission in Misrata because “detainees were brought for care only to make them fit for further interrogation.” NATO continues to insist that its actions have prevented political repression and have promoted freedom and democratic change, despite ample evidence to the contrary. In Afghanistan, NATO has been the overseer, since 2003, of the criminal bombardment and invasion of a small nation, one which has not initiated hostilities, by a vast superpower employing devastating and overwhelming weaponry. This war began to exceed the death toll of 9-11, civilian life for civilian life, in only the first few months, and over the last decade, the death toll has continued to mount. A report released in February of this year by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan noted a sharp rise in the proportion of civilians killed that were women and children. The negligence of The Daily Sentinel Reader Services Correction Policy Our main concern in all stories is to be accurate. If you know of an error in a story, call the newsroom at (740) 992-2156. Our main number is (740) 992-2155. 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Those who participate in the May actions to shed light on this deranged historical trend will not just be protesting NATO, but will also be proposing a different agenda for the nations who convene under NATO’s banner. Instead of pursuing a partnership agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, which would authorize the war up until the year 2024 or beyond, the powerful nations of the world should be meeting to discuss ending drone strikes immediately, pulling combat forces out Afghanistan, and ending their manipulation of Afghan democracy—- propping up Hamid Karzai and the warlords in the National Assembly. Secondly, they must take responsibility for their past criminality by providing reparations, to be dispersed by an independent body such as the UN general assembly. Reparations would fund projects decided on by local communities and might take the form of food aid, water filtration, housing construction, soil renewal, sanitation, mine disarmament medical brigades, etc. It is crucial that we walk, march, picket, and speak out to demand these real solutions. Buddy Bell (buddy@vcnv. org) co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence www.vcnv.org. By Lawrence S. Wittner On February 8, 2012, Congressman Edward Markey (D-MA) took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to introduce the Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures Act (H.R. 3974). This SANE Act would cut $100 billion from the U.S. nuclear weapons budget over the next ten years by reducing the current fleet of U.S. nuclear submarines, delaying the purchase of new nuclear submarines, reducing the number of ICBMs, delaying a new bomber program, and ending the nuclear mission of air bombers. “America’s nuclear weapons budget is locked in a Cold War time machine,” noted Markey, the senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. “It doesn’t reflect our twenty-first-century security needs. It makes no sense. It’s insane.” He went on to explain: “It’s insane to spend $10 billion building new plants to make uranium and plutonium for new nuclear bombs when we’re cutting our nuclear arsenal and the plants we have now work just fine.” Furthermore: “It’s insane that we’re going to spend $84 billion for up to fourteen new nuclear submarines when just one sub, with 96 nuclear bombs on board, can blow up every major city in Iran, China and North Korea.” Finally, “it is insane to spend hundreds of billions on new nuclear bombs and delivery systems … while … seeking to cut Medicare, Medicaid and social programs that millions of Americans depend on.” Since its introduction, the SANE Act has picked up significant support. Not surprisingly, it is backed by major peace and disarmament organizations, such as Peace Action, Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and the Ploughshares Foundation. But it has also attracted the support of the National Council of Churches, the Project on Government Oversight, and the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Indeed, the SANE Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Letters to the Editor Letters to the editor should be limited to 300 words. All letters are subject to editing, must be signed and include address and telephone number. No unsigned letters will be published. Letters should be in good taste, addressing issues, not personalities. “Thank You” letters will not be accepted for publication. Act now has 45 Congressional co-sponsors. In light of the vast and very costly nuclear weapons enterprise operated by the U.S. government, cutting the nuclear weapons budget makes a lot of sense. The U.S. government currently possesses over five thousand nuclear weapons and, as the New York Times noted in a caustic editorial late last October (“The Bloated Nuclear Weapons Budget”): “The Obama administration, in an attempt to mollify Congressional Republicans, has also committed to modernizing an already hugely expensive complex of nuclear labs and production facilities. Altogether, these and other nuclear-related programs could cost $600 billion or more over the next decade.” Of course, if America’s vast nuclear arsenal were absolutely necessary to protect U.S. national security, the case for maintaining it would be strengthened. But, with the exception of Russia, no nuclear-armed nation has more than a few hundred nuclear weapons. It is not even clear what military or deterrent purpose is served by maintaining an arsenal of thousands of nuclear weapons. As Congressman Markey observed: The “U.S. nuclear arsenal could destroy the world five times over.” The New York Times concluded that the United States “does not need to maintain this large an arsenal,” and “it should not be spending so much to do it, especially when Congress is considering deep cuts in vital domestic programs.” The real nuclear threat to the United States does not lie in the fact that it does not (or will not) possess enough nuclear weapons to deter a nuclear attack. Rather, it is that there is no guarantee that nuclear deterrence works. That is why the U.S. government is so worried about North Korea possessing a few nuclear weapons or Iran possibly obtaining a few. That is also why the U.S. government squanders billions of dollars every year on a “missile defense” shield that is probably ineffective. The grim reality is that, if governments are reckless or desperate, they will use nuclear weapons or perhaps give them to terrorists to attack their foes. While nuclear weapons exist, there is always a danger that they will be used. Thus, what has made the United States safer in this dangerous world has not been piling up endless numbers of nuclear weapons but, rather, nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, for example — by trading promises of the nuclear powers to disarm for promises of the non-nuclear powers to forgo nuclear weapons development — has persuaded the vast majority of nations not to develop nuclear weapons. In this fashion, the willingness of the U.S. government to decrease its nuclear arsenal (something it has done, although reluctantly) has made Americans safer from nuclear attack by other nations. As a result of patient U.S. diplomacy, even the leaders of North Korea, one of the worst-governed countries in the world, seem to have shown glimmers of sanity in recent weeks. In late February, they announced that, thanks to an agreement with the U.S. government, they would suspend nuclear tests and uranium enrichment, as well as allow international inspection of their nuclear facilities. If even the government of North Korea can manage to display a measure of common sense, then is it too much to ask our own government to do the same? Our leaders in Washington could join Representative Markey and his Congressional allies in cutting back the U.S. government’s vast and expensive nuclear doomsday machine and using the savings to provide for the needs of the American people. Surely it’s time to try a little nuclear sanity. Lawrence S. Wittner is professor of history emeritus at SUNY/Albany. His latest book is “Working for Peace and Justice: Memoirs of an Activist Intellectual” (University of Tennessee Press). The Daily Sentinel Ohio Valley Publishing Co. 111 Court Street Pomeroy, Ohio Phone (740) 992-2156 Fax (740) 992-2157 www.mydailysentinel.com Sammy M. Lopez Publisher Stephanie Filson Managing Editor �Obituaries Rosalie J. Claar Rosalie J. Claar, 83, of Bangor, Maine, formerly of Chillicothe, died 5 p.m. Friday, March 23, 2012, in Westgate Manor of Bangor. She was born July 22, 1928, in Meigs County, Ohio, to the late Edward L. and Gladys I. Terrill Parfitt. On April 5, 1950, she married William E. Claar, who died March 7, 1996. Surviving are a son and daughter-in-law, Randy and Vivian Claar, of Orono, Maine; grandchildren, Matthew and Joseph Claar; and a sister, Donna Ryan, of Niles, Ohio. She was predeceased by a daughter, Sandra Lynn Claar and a brother, Lawrence R. “Shorty” Parfitt. Rosalie was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church. She retired from the VA Medical Center in 1971 where she had worked as a Registered Nurse. Funeral services will be held 10 a.m., Thursday, March 29, 2012, in the Ware Funeral Home, Chillicothe with Rev. Brandon Lee officiating. Burial will follow in Fairmount Cemetery in Jackson, Ohio. Friends may call from 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday at Ware Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made in Rosalie’s memory to the Alzheimer’s Association of Central Ohio, 3380 Tremont Road, Columbus, Ohio 43221 or to one’s favorite charity. You may sign her online register at www.warefh.com. Obituaries Norma Jane Baker Norma Jane Baker, 69, of Pomeroy, Ohio, passed away Sunday, March 25, 2012, at Rocksprings Nursing and Rehab Center. Services will be held at 1 p.m., Tuesday, March 27, 2012, at White-Schwarzel Funeral Home, Coolville, Ohio. Friends may call from 11 a.m. until time of service on Tuesday at the funeral home. Elizabeth Butler Elizabeth Butler, 81, Crown City, Ohio, passed away on Saturday, March 24, 2012, at Holzer Assisted Living. Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, March 27, 2012, at Swan Creek Cemetery with Pastor Jack Berry officiating. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation in Elizabeth’s name to the Christ United Methodist Church, Holzer Assisted Living, Holzer Hospice and/or one’s Ruby Virginia Burnside charity of choice. There will Ruby Virginia Burnside, of Pomeroy, went to be home not be any calling hours. with the Lord on Monday, March 26, 2012, at the Holzer Willis Funeral Home is in Medical Center in Gallipolis. She was born on March 21, charge of arrangements. 1915, in Parkersburg, West Virginia, to the late Bert Kelly and Gracie Mae (O’Riley) Sayre. Mrs. Burnside loved the Carleton Church were she was a lifetime member. She enjoyed the flowers, the sun and animals. She was a loving Christian woman who enjoyed and genuinely cared about From Page 1 everyone she met. the Senior Center. Tickets She is survived by her children, Patsy Burnside-Thoma, are $8 or tw0 for $15, and Grace Thoma, Margaret J. (Kenneth) King, Mary Lou $5 for children 12 and un(Rich) Houdashelt and Thomas R. (Mary Etta) Burnside; der. Advance tickets may grandchildren, Debbie Grate, Gail Thoma, Kay Watson, be purchased at the CenKelly Thoma, Linda Jones, Suzan Thoma, Teresa Newton, ter and the holder of those Audra Harrison and Betsy Houdashelt-Rice; great-grandtickets will be included in children, Jennifer Bishop, Bradley Jones, Wade Harrison, a special door prize drawTaylor Jones, Cody Rice, Lexie Houdashelt-Rice and Joey ing that evening. Serving Newton; sister, June Sayre-Kalatta; several nieces and nephwill begin at 5:30 p.m. ews; and special friends, Randy and Robynn Cox. The cake contest winShe is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Thomners will be announced as Harlod Burnside; infant son, Robert Leroy Burnside; grandson, Robert Harrison; two sons-in-law, Glen and Earl at 6:15 p.m. and the cake Thoma; a brother, James Sayre; and a sister, Lilly Hawley. auction will begin at 6:30 Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 29, p.m. This year’s auction2012, at the Anderson McDaniel Funeral Home in Pomeroy. eer is Jim Taylor. There is Officiating will be Pastor Steve Little. Friends and family no fee for entering a cake. may call from 6-9 p.m. on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, at Competition cakes will be accepted at the Center on the funeral home. An online registry is available at www.andersonmcdaniel. the day of the event until 3 p.m. There is no restriccom. tion on the number of cakes one individual may Patrick Scott Steele enter. Patrick Scott Steele, 36, of Racine, Ohio, passed away on The categories are March 25, 2012. He was born on June 30, 1975, in Wilm- chocolate, fruit or vegetaington, North Carolina. He was a boilermaker foreman for ble, decorated, yellow or Fisher Tank Inc. He enjoyed the outdoors and spending white and coffee, crumb time with his family. or pound. All entries must He is survived by his wife, Aimee Steele, of Racine; son, have the entrant’s name on Cole Bradley Steele; mother, Sharon (Okey) Meadows, of the bottom of the plate and Pomeroy, Ohio; father, Frank (Diane) Steele of Ruckersville, should come with a short Virginia; mother-in-law, Redenith Mills of Syracuse; father- description of the cake in-law, Randy Mills of Racine; brother and sister-in-law, to be read at the auction. Stacey Mills and Jerrod Mills; siblings, Rachel (Dexter) Da- Cakes should be on or in a vis, of Dayton, Virginia, Sonja Fick, of Long Bottom, Ohio, disposable container. Brian Steele, of Ruckersville, Virginia, Michael Steele, of ArThere will be first and lington, Virginia, Youlonda Meadows, of Lewisburg, West second place winners Virginia, Kevin (Angel) Meadows, of Langsville, Ohio; sev- in each category with a eral nieces and nephews; and many special friends. grand champion, reserve He was preceded in death by his brother, Rusty Meadows. champion, and director’s A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. on Thursday, choice awards. Trophies March 29, 2012, at the Anderson McDaniel Funeral Home will be awarded to all winin Pomeroy. Visiting hours will be one hour prior to memo- ners with monetary prizes rial service. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be going to the champions. made in memory of Pat for his family at Anderson McDan- Entry forms can be picked iel Funeral Home. up at the Senior Center. A registry is available at www.andersonmcdaniel.com. At the dinner tickets for door prizes will be sale. There will also be a MCCOA membership-only drawing for those holding current bronze, silver or gold MCCOA memberships. The prize is a WASHINGTON (AP) — miles down. “I just sat there looking Longaberger basket with The last frontier on Earth is out-of-this-world, desolate, out the window, looking at ceramic dish and a Rada foreboding, and moon-like, this barren, desolate lunar Cutlery set. Members James Cameron said after plain, appreciating,” Cam- must be present to win. Beth Shaver, executive diving to the deepest part of eron said. director, reports an averHe also realized how the ocean. age of 100 meals being alone he was, with that And he loved it. delivered to seniors daily, Cameron, who knows much water above him. “It’s really the sense of iso- adding that 3,522 meals a little about alien worlds were taken to homebound having made the movie lation, more than anything, seniors in January and Feb“Avatar,” said when he got realizing how tiny you are ruary. She reported that to this strange cold, dark down in this big vast black the average cost of a home place 7 miles below the unknown and unexplored delivered meal is nearly western Pacific Ocean that place,” Cameron said. $15, when staff salaries, Cameron said he had food, utilities, insurance, only two other men have been to, there was one thing hoped to see some strange truck maintenance, gasohe promised to himself: He deep sea monster like a crea- line, kitchen equipment wanted to drink in how un- ture that would excite the maintenance and packstoryteller in him and seem aging supplies are taken usual it is. He didn’t do that when like out of his movies, but he into consideration. At the he first dove to the watery didn’t. Center 1048 lunches were He didn’t see tracks of ani- served in January and Febgrave of the Titanic, and Apollo astronauts have said mals on the sea floor as he ruary, at an average cost to they never had time to savor did when he dove more than the agency of $10. 5 miles deep weeks ago. where they were. Shaver went on to ex“There had to be a mo- All he saw were voracious plain that the money to ment where I just stopped, shrimp-like critters that pay for the program inand took it in, and said, weren’t bigger than an inch. cludes $34,000 in Older But that was OK, he said, Americans Act dollars, ‘This is where I am; I’m at the bottom of the ocean, it was all about exploration, around $3,000 from the the deepest place on Earth. science and discovery. He is Department of AgriculWhat does that mean?’” the only person to dive there ture, local sponsorships, Cameron told reporters dur- solo, using a sub he helped contributions, MCCOA program ing a Monday conference design. He is the first per- memberships, call after spending three son to reach that depth — income from the particihours at the bottom of the 35,576 feet — since it was pants, fund raising, local government, co-pays, Mariana Trench, nearly 7 initially explored in 1960. Meals Cameron: Earth’s deepest spot desolate, foreboding The Daily Sentinel • Page 5 www.mydailysentinel.com Donald Day Donald Day, 81, of Guysville, Ohio, passed away Saturday, March 24, 2012, at Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital. Services will be held at 11 a.m., Wednesday, March 28, 2012, at White-Schwarzel Funeral Home, Coolville, Ohio, with Rev. Charles Buck officiating. Burial will be in the Vanderhoof Cemetery, where military graveside services will be conducted by the American Legion Post 15, Parkersburg, West Virginia. Friends may call from 5-8 p.m. on Tuesday at the funeral home. Cheryl Lynn Haefner Cheryl Lynn Haefner, 66, Langsville, Ohio, died Sunday, March 25, 2012, in St. Mary’s Medical Center, Huntington, West Virginia. Funeral services will be conducted at 12 p.m. on Friday, March 30, 2012, in the McCoy-Moore Funeral Home, Vinton. Friends may call the funeral home on Friday, one hour prior to the service. United Fund, and a local levy.It also includes the Senior Center’s earned income from bakery and catering events. Total projected costs of home delivered meals for 2012 is over $313,000, said Shaver. The noon meal at the center for seniors is projected to cost over $73,000 this year, adding that $386,000 will be spent by the Center in 2012 for senior nutrition. This leaves $323,500.00 in local money needed to totally fund the nutrition Susan L. ElliottLudy Susan Lynn Elliott-Ludy, 50, of Winston-Salem, NC, formerly of Gallia County, died on Friday, March 23, 2012, at Wake Forest Baptist Health Center in Winston-Salem, NC. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Thursday, March 29, 2012, at the Thurman United Methodist Church, 205 Broad Street, Thurman, Ohio, with Pastor Dan Lamphier officiating. Burial will follow in the CM Cemetery in Oak Hill. Friends may call from 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, at Willis Funeral Home. Pallbearers will be Mike Fortner, Eddie Lamphier, Ryan Cisco and Jimmy Johnson. Honorary pallbearers will be Ashton Franks and Scott Elliott. day, March 28, 2012, at the Deal Funeral Home in Point Pleasant, W.Va., with Reverends Charles Moses and Rick Towe officiating. Burial will follow in the Forest Hills Cemetery in Flatrock, W.Va. Friends may call from 6-8 p.m. on Tuesday at the funeral home. Robert W. Workman Nathan Simmons, 90, of Point Pleasant, W.Va., passed away at Holzer Senior Care Center on March 23, 2012. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednes- Robert William Workman, 83, of Columbus, died Sunday, March 25, 2012, at the Manor at Whitehall in Columbus, Ohio. Friends may visit from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, at the Dwayne R. Spence Funeral Home, 550 Hill Road North (Ohio 256), Pickerington, Ohio, 43147, where the funeral service will follow at 1 p.m., with Rev. Ralph B. Workman and Rev. Jack Johnson officiating. Interment will follow at Glen Rest Memorial Estate. Donations may be made to the Capital Area Humane Society, 3015 Scioto-Darby Executive Ct., Hilliard, OH 43026 in Robert’s memory. program. Money donated by the participants who receive the meals averages $.03 per meal for the home delivered meals, and $2.43 for the noon meal at the Center, according to the director. She also noted that the Center is receiving a new HotShot truck this year to save gas money and repair costs on an older truck. Funding for that will come from the County Commissioners with a match of $10,000 from the Meigs County Council on Aging. Businesses working to raise money include the Rivercity Sportsbar which sponsored a spaghetti dinner Sunday, the Home National Bank which will be holding basket games on April 19 at the Syracuse Community Center, and a “pin-up” program in local businesses. Donations to participate in the pinup program are sold for $1 and Swisher & Lohse Pharmacy is offering a match for the money raise in the pinups project. Nathan Simmons Demonstrate your pride in your local community, by participating in the Ohio Valley Publishing Company’s 2012 “Pride” Edition Friday, April 27, 2012 This edition will feature the following: Government-Education-Community-Financial-Professionals Real Estate-Industry-Technology-Agriculture-Healthcare-Business and Much More!! Reach over 14,000 homes in the Tri-County Area in addition to over 7,500 daily via each papers’ website! 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The visiting Tornadoes (2-0) rallied back from an 8-3 deficit in the opener to claim an 11-10 decision, then stormed out to an early 7-0 edge in the nightcap — and perhaps received a little help from Mother Nature late — en route to a 9-8 victory and a two-game sweep of the Blue Devils (0-2). GAHS led the opener 1-0 after two innings and were ahead 5-3 through three complete, then the hosts erupted for three runs in the bottom of the fourth to take a sizable 8-3 cushion into the latter frames. SHS, however, responded with three runs in the fifth and four runs in the sixth, giving the Tornadoes a 10-8 edge headed into the bottom of the sixth. The Blue Devils answered with two runs in their at-bat, which tied the game at 10-all headed into final inning of regulation. Ryan Taylor led off the top of the seventh with a single, stole second and later scored the eventual game-winning run on a full count single by Ethan Martin. Taylor’s run gave SHS an 11-10 lead, which ultimately held up. Taylor was also the winning pitcher of record, allowing just one run and one hit over two innings of relief work. Jimmy Clagg took the loss for GAHS, allowing one run and three hits in one inning of relief. Southern outhit the hosts by an 11-7 count in the opener and both teams committed four errors each. Martin and Trenton Deem both paced the guests with three hits apiece, followed by Taylor and Adam Pape with two safeties each. Dustin Custer, Andrew Roseberry and Chandler Drummer also added a hit to the winning cause. Martin, Custer and Marcus Hill each drove in two runs for SHS. John Faro and Bobby Dunlap paced the hosts with two hits apiece, followed by Clagg, Ty Warnimont and Drew Young with one safety apiece. Clagg led GAHS with two runs batted in during the opener. The Tornadoes established a 7-0 edge through two innings at the plate in the finale, but the Blue Devils responded with three runs in the second and two more scores in the fourth to pull within 7-5 through five complete. Southern ended its scoring drought, however, in the top of the sixth after plating two runs, giving the guests a 9-5 cushion headed into the final frame. SHS went down in order during its half of the seventh, but the Blue Devils did not go nearly as quiet in their half of the finale. With one out, GAHS had five straight hitters reach base safely. A walk to Justin Bailey turned into a run after Kyle Saunders and Drew Young delivered back-toSee TORNADOES |‌ 8 Kansas’ Thomas Robinson leads AP All-America team Jim O’Connell Associated Press Kansas forward Thomas Robinson has even more in common with Blake Griffin now. Not everything, though. Robinson, who played through personal tragedy as a sophomore reserve, capped his junior season by being a unanimous selection to The Associated Press’ All-America team Monday, a day after leading the Jayhawks to the Final Four. The 6-foot-10 Robinson averaged 17.9 points and 11.8 rebounds this season and he was a first-team pick by all 65 members of the national media panel that selects the weekly Top 25. The last unanimous pick was Griffin in 2009. “It’s a blessing to be named even in the same category as Blake Griffin,” Robinson said. “For that to happen, I’m glad all the hard work is paying off.” Robinson did find some similarities between them besides being Big 12 Player of the Year. “That man jumps out the gym. He looks like a superhero when he takes off,” Robinson said. “But we both try to be aggressive. He knows what he does well. I feel the same way. I know what I do well.” Joining Robinson on the first team were Jared Sullinger of Ohio State, the first repeat All-America in three years, freshman Anthony Davis of Kentucky, Draymond Green of Michigan State and Doug McDermott See ROBINSON |‌ 8 Ethan Hyman/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT photo Kansas’s Tyshawn Taylor (10), center, and the team celebrate Kansas’s 80-67 victory over North Carolina during the NCAA Tournament Midwest regional on Sunday at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Missouri. Kansas, Kentucky and Louisville join Ohio State Buckeyes in Final 4 Eddie Pells Associated Press David Perry/Lexington Herald-LeaderMCT photo Ohio State’s Jared Sullinger (0) dunked over Kentucky defender Terrence Jones (3) during the first half of a 2011 NCAA East Regional basketball game at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. OVP Schedule Tuesday, March 27 Baseball Gallia Academy at Rock Hill, 5 p.m. River Valley at Eastern, 5 p.m. Buffalo at Wahama, 6 p.m. Meigs at Trimble, 5 p.m. Softball River Valley at Eastern, 5 p.m. Point Pleasant at Ravenswood, 5:30 p.m. Meigs at Trimble, 5 p.m. Roane County at Southern, 5 p.m. Track and Field Eastern at Ripley, 4:30 p.m. Boys Tennis Poca at Point Pleasant, 4 p.m. Girls Tennis Poca at Point Pleasant, 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 28 Baseball Gallia Academy at Warren, 5 p.m. Southern at South Gallia, 5 p.m. Waterford at Wahama, 6 p.m. Eastern at Federal Hocking, 5 p.m. Softball Gallia Academy at Warren, 5 p.m. Southern at South Gallia, 5 p.m. Herbert Hoover at Point Pleasant, 5:30 p.m. Waterford at Wahama, 6 p.m. Eastern at Federal Hocking, 5 p.m. Boys Tennis Jackson at Gallia Academy, 4:30 p.m. Point Pleasant at Spring Valley, 4 p.m. Girls Tennis Point Pleasant at Spring Valley, 4 p.m. Thursday, March 29 Baseball Meigs at Gallia Academy, 5 p.m. Poca at Point Pleasant, 5:30 p.m. Wahama at Ravenswood, 5:30 p.m. Roane County at Southern, 5 p.m. Softball Meigs at Gallia Academy, 5 p.m. Point Pleasant at Sissonville, 5:30 p.m. Track and Field South Gallia at Coal Grove, 4:30 p.m. Point Pleasant at Poca, 5 p.m. Two games. Two rematches. One Final Four repeat is between Kentucky and Louisville, teams that know each other all too well. The other has Kansas facing Ohio State, teams that had more or less been strangers until this season. Earlier in the season, Kentucky beat Louisville 69-62, handing a loss to Rick Pitino, the coach who once led the Wildcats, but left for the NBA, only to return down the road to lead their in-state rivals. Kansas defeated Ohio State 78-67 in a game the Buckeyes played without their star, forward Jared Sullinger. The stakes are higher this time. The winners of Saturday’s semifinals will play for the national title next Monday. “You know if you get this far you’re going to play a great team, no matter what,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “And you know what? They’re going to get to play a great team, too. It should be pretty fun.” Absent from this year’s final hoops weekend, taking place at the Superdome in New Orleans, are the longshots and little guys who have made March Madness so special over the years. Although there are no Butlers, VCUs or George Masons, there are plenty of good stories to tell. That list starts with Pitino vs. his old school. It was Pitino who restored Kentucky to its former greatness when he arrived there in 1989 and the Wildcat program was coming off the sting of NCAA violations. Pitino took the program to three Final Fours and won one championship, but left in 1997 to take a second shot at the NBA, where he had previously coached the New York Knicks. He fared far worse in four seasons with the Boston Celtics, and when the call back to the college game came, it was from Louisville, located only 70 miles up the road from Lexington and very much in the crosshairs of Kentucky fans. It has been 11 years since his dramatic return, and most of the shock has worn off from what was once deemed an unforgivable betrayal. But there’s nothing like a Final Four meeting to stir up some old memories. “It is in our state. They’re a great program. We’re in two different leagues,” Kentucky coach John Calipari said after the Wildcats beat Baylor 82-70 in the South Regional to ad- vance to the Final Four for the second straight year. “The city of Louisville drives our state. The University of Louisville drives that city. So it’s a very important thing for our state, and it’s important that that school does well.” Maybe just not Saturday. The teams play every season, and most recently, they were ranked Nos. 3 and 4 in The Associated Press poll when they met on New Year’s Eve. Kentucky won by seven. Now, it’s top-seeded Kentucky against Louisville, a No. 4 and the worst-seeded team in the Final Four. “We think they’re excellent. We think they’re great. I coached there. It’s great. Great tradition,” Pitino said Saturday, after Louisville rallied for a 72-68 win over Florida that put the Cardinals in the Final Four for the second time since the coach arrived. “But we want to be Louisville. We have a different mission. They have a different mission. But we both want to get to a Final Four and win a championship.” In the other semifinal, Sullinger got what he wanted when he decided to return to Ohio State for his sopho See FINAL ‌| 8 Marauders take two from Wahama Alex Hawley ahawley@heartlandpublications.com ROCKSPRINGS, Ohio — The Marauders opened the season with a bang. The Meigs baseball team hosted Wahama for a doubleheader Saturday in Meigs County. Meigs won both contests, the first game 9-1 and the second game 10-1. In the first game both teams remained scoreless until the bottom of the third when they marked one run. The White Falcons answered back with a run of their own in the top of the fourth. Meigs bounced back and scored twice more in the bottom of the fourth, and then added another run in the fifth. Five straight singles to start the bottom of the sixth for the Marauders led to five runs and pushed their lead to eight. Wahama failed to score in the top of the seventh, giving MHS the 9-1 victory. Taylor Gilkey threw all seven in- nings for MHS, striking out five, walking two, while giving up one unearned run and one hit. Tyler Nutter is credited with the loss for the White Falcons and pitched five inning, striking out four, walking two, while giving up four runs on three hits. Zach Wamsley pitched the final inning for WHS giving up five runs on six hits. The Marauders hitting was led by Justin Myers and Nathan Rothgeb who each had two hits, followed by Treay McKinney, Zach Sayre, Charles Barrett, Taylor Gilkey, and Matt Casci with one hit apiece. In the second game the Marauders wasted no time getting on the score board, as they scored four runs in the first and four more runs in the second inning off of the Zach Sayre grand slam. Wahama got on the board in the top of the third with one run but the Marauders bounced right back to score in once in the bottom of the fourth and once in the bottom of the sixth to take the 10-1 win. Justin Myers earned the victory for Meigs after pitching seven innings of one-run four-hit ball while striking out eight and walking one. Nick Templeton was charged with the loss for Wahama after pitching two innings and allowing eight runs on five hits and three walks while striking out one. Dakota Sisk pitched the third, fourth and fifth innings for the White Falcons striking out one and walking one while giving up one run on two hits. Tyler Roush pitched the final inning for Wahama and gave up a hit and a walk. The Marauder hitting was led by Zach Sayre who had a single in addition to his grand slam in the second inning. Nathan Rothgeb, Taylor Rowe, Charles Barrett, Justin Myres, Taylor Gilkey, and Ty Phelps each had one hit for the Marauders. Zac Warth, Wyatt Zuspan, Wesley Harrison, and Nick Templeton each had a hit for Wahama. �credit shall be equal to ten (10) percent of the Bid and the Successful Bidder will be required to submit a bond in the form provided in 153.57 of the www.mydailysentinel.com Ohio Revised Code in conjunction with the execution of the Contract. Tuesday, March 27, 2012 VILLAGE OF SYRACUSE LEGAL NOTICE- INVITATION TO BID Separate sealed Bids will be received for furnishing all labor, materials and equipment necessary to complete a project known as Village of Syracuse – Phase II Water System Improvements at the village office: 2581 3rd Street, P.O. Box 266, Syracuse, Ohio 45779 until 11:00 A.M. local time on Tuesday, April 10, 2012, and at said time and place, publicly opened and read aloud. Bids may be mailed or delivered in advance to the public opening at the above address. The project consists of installation of approximately 3,160 feet of 6” PVC waterline and 4,200 feet of 4” PVC waterline, valves, service reconnections, hydrant installations and other necessary appurtenances. Bid Documents that include all bid sheets, specifications, and any addenda can be obtained from M•E Companies, Inc. (the “Engineer”), 5085 Tile Plant Road, New Lexington, Ohio 43764 (phone 740-342-6695) with a non-refundable payment of $80.00 per set. Checks should be made payable to M•E Companies, Inc. Bid Documents will also be on file in the plan room of the F.W. Dodge Corporation, Buildersʼ Exchange, and the Village of Syracuse office. Legals PUBLIC NOTICE Sealed bids will be received for the purchase and installation of a commercial water slide for the Syracuse Municipal Pool at the village offices: 2581 Third St., PO Box 266, Syracuse, Ohio 45779 until Friday, April 6, 2012 at 1 P.M. Bid shall include all materials and labor in the installation of the water slide. Engineering estimate on the project is $33,000 with all work to be completed by May 15, 2012. The Village of Syracuse reserves the right to waive any informalities or irregularities. The Village reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Eric D. Cunningham, Mayor Village of Syracuse Publish March 20, 27 VILLAGE OF SYRACUSE LEGAL NOTICE- INVITATION TO BID Separate sealed Bids will be received for furnishing all labor, materials and equipment necessary to complete a project known as Village of Syracuse – Phase II Water System Improvements at the village office: 2581 3rd Street, P.O. Box 266, Syracuse, Ohio 45779 until 11:00 A.M. local time on Tuesday, April 10, 2012, and at said time and place, publicly opened and read aloud. Bids may be mailed or delivered in advance to the public opening at the above address. The project consists of installation of approximately 3,160 feet of 6” PVC waterline and 4,200 feet of 4” PVC waterline, valves, service reconnections, hydrant installations and other necessary appurtenances. Bid Documents that include all bid sheets, specifications, and any addenda can be obtained from M•E Companies, Inc. (the “Engineer”), 5085 Tile Plant Road, New Lexington, Ohio 43764 (phone 740-342-6695) with a non-refundable payment of $80.00 per set. Checks should be made payable to M•E Companies, Inc. Bid Documents will also be on file in the plan room of the F.W. Dodge Corporation, Buildersʼ Exchange, and the Village of Syracuse office. Each Bidder is required to furnish with its submission of the fully completed Bid Documents, a Bid Security in accordance with Section 153.54 of the Ohio Revised Code. Bid security furnished in Bond form (Bid Guarantee and Contract and Performance Bond as provided in Section 153.57.1 of the Ohio Revised Code), must be issued by a Surety Company or Corporation licensed in the State of Ohio to provide Legalssaid surety. Those Bidders that elect to submit bid guaranty in the form of a certified check, cashierʼs check or letter of credit pursuant to Chapter 1305 of the Ohio Revised Code and in accordance with Section 153.54 (C) of the Ohio Revised Code. Any such letter of credit shall be revocable only at the option of the beneficiary Owner. The amount of the certified check, cashierʼs check or letter of credit shall be equal to ten (10) percent of the Bid and the Successful Bidder will be required to submit a bond in the form provided in 153.57 of the Ohio Revised Code in conjunction with the execution of the Contract. Each proposal must contain the full name of the party or parties submitting the Bidding Documents and all persons interested therein. Each bidder must submit evidence of its experiences on projects of similar size and complexity. The Owner intends that this Project be completed no later than the time period as set forth in Article 4 of the Standard Form of Agreement Between Owner and Contractor on the Basis of a Stipulated Price. Each Bidder must insure that all employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, handicap, ancestry, or age. All contractors and subcontractors involved with the project shall to the extent practicable, use Ohio products, materials, services and labor in the implementation of their project. DOMESTIC STEEL USE REQUIREMENTS AS SPECIFIED IN SECTION 143.011 OF THE (OHIO) REVISED CODE APPPLY TO THIS PROJECT. COPIES OF SECTION 153.011 OF THE (OHIO) REVISED CODE CAN BE OBTAINED FROM ANY OF THE OFFICES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES. Additionally, contractor compliance with the equal employment opportunity requirements of Ohio Administrative Code Chapter 123, the Governorʼs Executive Order of 1972, and Governorʼs Executive Order 84-9 shall be required. Each Bidder is required to furnish with its submission of the fully completed Bid Docu- Bidders must comply with the ments, a Bid Security in accor- prevailing wage rates on Pubdance with Section 153.54 of lic Improvements in Meigs the Ohio Revised Code. Bid County as determined by the security furnished in Bond Davis-Bacon Federal Wage form (Bid Guarantee and Con- Determinations. tract and Performance Bond as provided in Section The Engineerʼs estimate for 153.57.1 of the Ohio Revised this Contract is $260,000. Code), must be issued by a Surety Company or Corpora- The Village of Syracuse retion licensed in the State of serves the right to waive any Ohio to provide said surety. informalities or irregularities. Those Bidders that elect to The Village reserves the right submit bid guaranty in the form to reject any or all bids or to inSales of a certified check, cashierʼs crease or decrease or omit check or letter of credit pursu- any item or times and/or award ant to Chapter 1305 of the the bid to the lowest and best Ohio Revised Code and in ac- bidder. cordance with Section 153.54 (C) of the Ohio Revised Code. By order of the Village of SyraAny such letter of credit shall cuse, 2581 3rd Street, Syrabe revocable at the option Accountonly Executive - Point Ripley, cuse,Pleasant, Ohio 45779, County of of the beneficiary Owner. The Meigs, this 9th day of February amount of the certifiedRavensowood check, 2012. cashierʼs check or letter of WVto & Ohio credit shall be equal tenGallipolis, (10) 03-20-12 week 1 percent of the Bid and the 03-27-12 week 2 Successful Bidder will be required to submit a bond in the Executive Account form provided in 153.57 of the Ohio Revised Code in conOutside Sales junction with the execution of Professional outside sales person needed for the Contract. The Daily Sentinel • Page 7 Each proposal must contain the full name of the party or parties submitting the Bidding Documents and all persons interested therein. Each bidder must submit evidence of its experiences on projects of similar size and complexity. 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AA/EOE �Tuesday, March 27, 2012 www.mydailysentinel.com The Daily Sentinel • Page 8 Blue Angels top Lindsey Wilson sweeps URG softball SGHS in opener, 12-0 Randy Payton Special to OVP Alex Hawley ahawley@heartlandpublications.com CENTENARY, Ohio — The Gallia Academy softball team defeated South Gallia Saturday 12-0 in five innings in Gallia County. The Blue Angels scored pushed across seven runs in the first inning to take a commanding lead over the Lady Rebels. GAHS added four more runs in the second inning and one more in the third to take the 12-0 lead. That is where the score remained as the Blue Angles earned their first victory of the year. Heather Ward was credited with the win for GAHS after allowing just one hit and no walks while striking out four. The Lady Rebels’ Chandra Canaday was credited the loss after giving up 11 hits and six walks while striking out two. The Blue Angels were led by Rachel Morris, Violet Pelfrey, and Maggie Westfall with two hits apiece. Mattie Lanham, Heather Ward, Megan Cochran, Kendra Barnes, and Chelsy Slone each finished with one hit for GAHS. The Blue Angels return to action Wednesday at Warren at 5 p.m., while South Gallia hosts Southern Wednesday at 5 p.m. Final From Page 6 more year — a trip to the Final Four. The Buckeyes are early 2.5-point picks over Kansas in the matchup of No. 2 seeds. They finished in a threeway tie for first in the Big Ten, widely viewed as the toughest conference in basketball this year, but settled for a No. 2 seed in the NCAAs after losing the conference tournament final to Michigan State. It wasn’t the first or last time critics underestimated Thad Matta’s team this season. “People were asking, are we mentally tough enough, are we physically tough enough, can we do this, can we do that?” Sullinger said. “I relayed those questions back to the team. We did some soul searching, and now we’ve taken this to a whole other level.” Sullinger scored 19 points Saturday in Ohio State’s 77-70 win over Syracuse to make the Final Four. Tyshawn Taylor scored 22 points Sunday in an 80-67 win over North Carolina to lock in the matchup against the Buckeyes. The Jayhawks reached the Final Four for the first time since 2008, when they won it all after rallying from nine points late in the title game to beat Memphis (and Calipari, before he moved to Kentucky) in overtime. Taylor finished with 13 assists in the Dec. 10 game against Ohio State despite playing with an ailing knee. The Buckeyes, meanwhile, had to do without Sullinger. Playing their first road game of the season, they lost by 11 to drop to 8-1. Seems like quite a long time ago. “We caught a break the first time when Jared didn’t play, and we were kind of finding ourselves,” Self said. “We knew they were a team that could make a run and win a national championship. They have so many pieces that are so good. It starts with Jared.” Tornadoes From Page 6 back singles for a 9-6 contest. Saunders also scored on an error during Young’s hit, which made the game 9-7. Gage Childers followed by reaching safely on an error, then Gus Graham singled home Young for a 9-8 deficit with only one out. And that’s when Southern caught its late-game break. With runners on the corners and No. 8 hitter Bryant Bokovitz coming to the plate, the rain started falling — which ultimately led to the game being called due to weather. Since the game had gone past the mandatory five innings to be considered complete, the Tornadoes ultimately got out of the jam and snuck away with the sweep. Chandler Drummer was the winning pitcher of record for the guests, allowing eight runs and eight hits over 6.1 innings of work. Bokovitz took the tough-luck loss, allowing five runs and four hits over two-thirds of an inning of work. Southern outhit the hosts by a 12-8 count and both teams had three errors in the nightcap. Martin led SHS with three hits, followed by Custer, Roseberry, Pape and Drummer with two safeties each. Deem rounded out the winning tally with one hit. Pape and Drummer both drove in two runs for the guests. Clagg, Young and Graham contributed two hits apiece for the Blue Devils, while Warnimont and Cody Russell added a safety each. Graham and Russell also drove in two runs each for GAHS. RIO GRANDE, Ohio – Fourteenth-ranked Lindsey Wilson took advantage of some pourous defensive play by the University of Rio Grande and handed the RedStorm a pair of losses, sweeping Sunday’s MidSouth Conference softball doubleheader by scores of 4-1 and 9-1 at Rio Softball Park. The Blue Raiders improved to 30-6 overall and 9-1 in league play, while Rio slipped to 11-8 overall and 4-4 in the MSC with a third and fourth consecutive setback. Lindsey Wilson turned two RedStorm errors in the opener into a trio of unearned runs among the four that it scored, while three Rio miscues led to five unearned runs for the Blue Raiders in the nightcap, which was shortened to six innings as a result of the NAIA’s mercy rule. Rio Grande was also limited to just seven hits in the twinbill – four in game one and three in the finale. Lindsey Wilson grabbed a 2-0 lead against Rio senior starter Anna Smith in the second inning of the opener when Andrea Whelan led off with a long home run to left field and Chelsea Collins later added a sacrifice fly to left to score pinch-runner Alexis Rodgers, who took over on the basepaths after Josie Cox followed Whelan’s homer with a single to left. Rodgers moved into scoring position by stealing second and, on the same play, advancing to third as a result of an error. The RedStorm cut the deficit in half in the home fourth when junior Jaymie Rector led off with an infield single and scored moments later on a double to left by junior Katie Fuller, but the Blue Raiders got the run back – plus one – in the top of the fifth. Lauren Seibert reached on an error to begin the frame, but was erased at second on Megan Huckaby’s fielder’s choice grounder to third. Huckaby stole second and took third on a passed ball before Em- ily Priar walked and moved into scoring position with another steal of second. One out later, Whelan singled to left-center to score both runners. Lindsey starter Cara Law (13-2) allowed just two baserunners after Fuller’s run-scoring double, one of which came when freshman Allison Hurst reached on a two-out error in the seventh inning. She did not issue a walk and struck out two. Like Whelan, Cox had two hits in the opener for the Blue Raiders. Junior Kaitie Stewart had two hits of the four hits for the RedStorm, while Smith suffered her fifth loss in 11 decisions. She allowed seven hits and a pair of walks, while striking out eight. Lindsey Wilson also got off to a quick start in game two against Rio senior starter Allison Mills taking a 2-0 first inning lead on a two-out single by Mikalia Etheridge, but Rio countered with a run of its own in the bottom half of the inning against Blue Raiders’ starter Jordan Hood when junior Kaylee Walk led off with a walk and scored on a one-out triple to right. However, it was all Lindsey Wilson the rest of the way. Jamie Williams hit a oneout home run to right-center in the third to make it 3-1 and the Blue Raiders tacked on three-run outbursts in both the fifth and sixth innings. Hood had a two-run single to fuel the fifth inning uprising, while Whelan and Etheridge both added RBI singles in the sixth. Priar finished 3-for-4 with a triple in the winning effort for Lindsey, while Cox and Etheridge had two hits each. Hood (12-3) also walked four in addition to the three hits she allowed, while striking out seven in a complete game effort. Mills (5-3) went the distance in the loss for Rio, which left five of its seven stranded runners on base in scoring position. The RedStorm will try to end their season-high losing slide on Tuesday afternoon when UVA-Wise visits for a 2 p.m. doubleheader. and sophomore since Chris Jackson of LSU in 1989 and 1990, averaged 17.6 points and 9.3 rebounds while shooting 53.9 percent from the field. He is the fourth Ohio State player to repeat joining Jerry Lucas, Robin Freeman and Garry Bradds. Buckeyes coach Thad Matta said it’s no surprise Sullinger has already sealed a place in the history of the program. “I think that’s one of what was important to us when Jared came here,” Matta said. “We knew he was going to be a special player. And to see him get these accolades he has received and won at the level he’s won at speaks volumes to the player he is and that select category and only being a sophomore let’s you know what a great player he is.” Davis burst onto the national scene as part of the Wildcats team that spent most of the season ranked No. 1 in the poll and then entered the NCAA tournament as the overall No. 1 seed. The 6-10 Davis was chosen the Southeastern Conference Defensive Player of the Year after averaging 14.3 points, 10 rebounds and 4.6 blocks while shooting 64.2 percent from the field. The last Wildcats to be first-team selections were freshmen John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins in 2010. At least one freshman has been on the first team five of the last six years. “It means a lot, especially for a freshman,” Davis said before admitting he surprised himself this season. “I thought I would just come in here and hit a couple of shots, block a couple of shots, get a couple of dunks. I never thought I would be this successful in college.” He said he has been successful because of opportunities. “My teammates have been doing a great job of giving me the ball,” he said. “And basically, all the teams that were driving inside, giving me a chance to get blocks. We’re just out there having fun.” The 6-7 Green averaged 16.1 points, 10.4 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.5 steals while doing everything the Spartans needed on the way to sharing the Big Ten regular season title, winning the conference tournament and being a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament. He is Michigan State’s fourth first-team selection joining Magic Johnson, Shawn Respert and Mateen Cleaves. “It’s an honor because those are the guys who I looked up to, paved the way for me, starting with Magic and going to Respert and Cleaves,” Green said. “Those guys, every time I walk into the gym I see their names up in the rafters and that’s a goal that everyone has who’s playing. Just being mentioned in the same sentence with those guys means a lot. All of them are winners, all of them are great players and all of them are successful and great people.” McDermott is Creighton’s first All-America and he joins three-time selection Pete Maravich of LSU as All-Americas coached by their fathers. The 6-7 sophomore was third in Division I in scoring with a 23.2 average. He averaged 8.2 rebounds and shot 61 percent from the field, including 49.5 percent from 3-point range. “It’s really special. It really hasn’t hit me yet. Later down the road it will,” McDermott said of his selection. “It’s something real cool to be in the company of some of those names. Creighton never had one. It’s really cool to be able to be the first, especially with all the great players who have been at Creighton over the years.” Coaching a son who is the star of the team did bring about a different problem for Greg McDermott. “It could be a situation where if your son was a borderline player that your fans get upset if you put him in the game,” he said. “Our fans get upset if I take him out.” Junior guard Isaiah Canaan of Murray State was joined on the second team by seniors Marcus Denmon of Missouri, Tyler Zeller of North Carolina, Jae Crowder of Marquette and Kevin Jones of West Virginia. Sullinger was the only member of the preseason All-America team to make any of the postseason teams. Harrison Barnes of North Carolina, Jeremy Lamb of Connecticut and Jordan Taylor of Wisconsin were honorable mentions. Terrence Jones of Kentucky was the fifth member of the preseason team. Robinson From Page 6 of Creighton. Davis received 63 firstteam votes while Green, the lone senior on the team, got 53. Sullinger had 30, one more than McDermott. The voting was done before the NCAA tournament. Robinson received nationwide support as a sophomore when he lost his mother, grandmother and grandfather in a three-week period. He not only became a starter this season, he became a star. “It’s an unbelievable honor for a kid that came as a semi-highly recruited guy, played seven minutes as a freshman, 10 minutes as a sophomore, endured the tragedies he’s had and then somehow made so many sacrifices, not only for the betterment of himself but the betterment of all of us.,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “To be unanimous, it’s just something that blows me away.” Robinson is Kansas’ first All-America since Wayne Simien in 2005. The 6-9 Sullinger, who was selected East Regional as he led the Buckeyes to the Final Four, is the first repeat All-America since North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough in 2009. “It means a lot when your name is with Tyler Hansbrough, Psycho T. He was a great basketball player,” Sullinger said with a big smile as he used Hansbrough’s nickname. “It means a lot. I think it’s a credit to my teammates.” Sullinger, the first player to repeat as a freshman Miscellaneous �Tuesday, March 27, 2012 Tuesday , March 27, 2012 BLONDIE BEETLE BAILEY FUNKY WINKERBEAN HAGAR THE HORRIBLE HI & LOIS www.mydailysentinel.com ComiCs/EntErtainmEnt Dean Young/Denis Lebrun Mort Walker Today’s Answers Tom Batiuk Chris Browne Brian and Greg Walker THE LOCKHORNS MUTTS The Daily Sentinel • Page 9 William Hoest Patrick McDonnell Jacquelene Bigar’s Horoscope zITS THE FAMILY CIRCUS Bil Keane DENNIS THE MENACE Hank Ketchum Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman CONCEPTIS SUDOKU by Dave Green HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, March 27, 2012: This year you work on communication to clear out confusion that often seems present. Many people around you act in unexpected ways. You will need to step away in order to regroup and re-evaluate. You could find that anger is an issue that frequently emerges. Use self-discipline when you become triggered. If you are single, you meet people with ease. Take your time before deciding someone is perfect. You easily could meet a better match. If you are attached, take a workshop together to improve your communication. A class involving a mutual interest also could draw you closer. GEMINI knows how to stimulate your imagination. 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 Express your thoughts. Decide which way would be best to go. A meeting could confuse matters even more. A little self-discipline goes far. If you become triggered or angry, take a walk to gain perspective. Tonight: Where the action is. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Do not be too sure of yourself, because you easily could make an error with funds, whether it is by accident or by someone taking deceptive action. Listen to your inner voice; don’t be reactive. Tonight: Treat yourself well. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH Keep conversations moving, and stay on top of what is going on. You have a strong sense of direction that emerges when dealing with several people. There also is no better organizer than you. Do not let a personal matter interfere with your plans. Tonight: As you like it. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Know when enough is enough. You could be overtired. The unexpected occurs when dealing with a friend or group. Tap into your instincts. Detach rather than get angry. You will gain a new perspective and will handle the situation differently. Tonight: Play it low-key. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Zero in on what you want. Sometimes you undermine yourself without intending to. You might say too much or have a knee-jerk reaction that could give you away. Be careful with your spending, as you easily could go overboard. Deal with anger directly. Tonight: Where your friends are. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Step up to the plate. You know you have a lot to do, but you could become very upset or angry if you have to deal with a parent or higher-up. Be careful. Words said are never forgotten, even if they are forgiven. Diplomacy goes far. Tonight: Working late. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHHH Keep reaching out for new information. How you see a situation will change if you can detach and be less invested. You have difficulty understanding an associate or friend who seems determined to mess up your plans. Tonight: Let go of stress with friends. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH Work with a partner. You might be surprised by what goes on between you and another person. Confusion surrounds a situation involving a child or an associate. Learn not to judge so much; more information is forthcoming. Stay neutral. Tonight: Dinner for two. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH Push yourself to finish a project, even if you could do something more interesting. You might be surprised how much excitement comes your way. A person you look up to, or need to look up to, could be in a very bad mood. Relax. Tonight: Let someone else make the first move. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Plunge into work without getting distracted. Someone around you might speak in a most confusing manner. Apparently, you two are on different wavelengths. You could have difficulty with someone at a distance. Trust your choices. Tonight: Let’s not forget to exercise. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH Let your playfulness show, even at work. Everyone knows it is there, yet it is subtle in your interactions. A partner could be quite upset and might need some time. Don’t get irritated. Tonight: Let yourself enjoy friends and family. Make it OK to stay up late. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Stay centered, knowing what you want. Push comes to shove with a partner who could be quite difficult. Relax. Don’t let this person’s crankiness create an argument. Walk away, and control your feelings for now. Tonight: Happy to be home. Jacqueline Bigar is on the Internet at www.jacquelinebigar.com. �Tuesday, March 27, 2012 The Daily Sentinel • Page 10 www.mydailysentinel.com Champions are crowned in OSHAA boys hoops Summit Country Day tops Portsmouth in D-3 final COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Kevin Johnson had 11 points to go with eight assists, leading Cincinnati Summit Country Day to its first state championship with a 53-37 victory over Portsmouth on Saturday in the Division III finale. Mike Barwick also had 11 points for the Silver Knights (261), who were ranked third in the final Associated Press regularseason poll. They won their ninth game in a row. They ran off the first nine points of the game and were never headed, coming up with a big basket to counter every run by the Trojans. Zaide Whitley had 16 points, and first-team All-Ohioan and coplayer of the year Dion McKinley added 13 points before fouling out for Portsmouth (24-3), which was ranked No. 6 in the AP poll. Bess’ FTs lift Central over Whitmer in D1, 45-40 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Substitute guard Javon Bess hit nothing but net on two free throws with 9.1 seconds left to seal Pickerington Central’s first boys basketball state championship, a 45-40 victory over Toledo Whitmer in the Division I final on Saturday night. Bess, who also hit another foul shot, scored all three of his points in the last 40 seconds. Caris LeVert had 20 points and Jae’Sean Tate 10 for the Tigers (26-2), making their first appearance ever at the state’s final four. Leroy Alexander scored 19 points and Nigel Hayes added 15 for Whitmer (24-3), which was making its fourth trip to the state tournament, but has never won a title. The Tigers trailed 37-36 with just over 2 minutes left. Yates shot with 5 seconds left lifts Dunbar, 54-52 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Andre Yates’ bank shot in traffic with 5 seconds left powered topranked Dayton Dunbar, which needed an 18-0 second-half run to get back in the game, to a dramatic 54-52 victory over Elida in the Division II state championship on Saturday night. After Elida all-stater and coplayer of the year Reggie Mc- Adams tied the game with a free throw with 11.8 seconds left, Dunbar’s Damarion Geter rebounded his second shot and passed to Yates. Yates went the length of the court, flipping a left-handed shot high off the glass from the left block. It set off a wild celebration by Dunbar (28-0) fans. After a timeout, the Bulldogs (24-4) inbounded to Dakota Mathias, but his 45-foot shot at the buzzer was wide of the mark. Hawks fly coop early, repeat in D4, 68-36 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Seger Bonifant scored seven points as Berlin Hiland got off to a 10-2 lead, finishing with 18 points as the Hawks beat Jackson You didn’t expect this from Tiger? Tim Dahlberg AP Sports Columnist A celebratory high-five with his caddie before he ever got to the green. More happiness than most galleries have witnessed since a sex scandal ripped apart his life and helped take down his game. The only thing missing on the best day Tiger Woods has had in the last 30 months was a huge sigh of relief. He knew this day was coming even when his drives were going sideways and his putts weren’t even scaring the hole. Knew it even when fans around the world were deserting him, sickened by tales of his philandering. We should have known it, too. This is, after all, Tiger Woods, and nothing he does should ever surprise us. He is the greatest player of his era. He may still be- Gary W. 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All customers are subject to a one-time, non-reundable processing fee. it in his last outing before the Masters, setting the stage for what could be an epic chase for the green jacket at Augusta National. Take away the circumstances and there wasn’t anything especially dramatic about it. Just the kind of grind it out, beat them down, style of golf he once took for granted. The kind of golf only Woods could play. The kind of golf we wondered if he would play again. He conquered personal demons and he conquered swing demons. He did it in the face of intense scrutiny, insisting all along that it was part of the process and that he would eventually prevail. When it was over, he had a five-shot win and his 72nd tour victory. No one challenged him because, well, he played so well no one had a chance. The swing was different, but there was no dispute: This was the Tiger Woods of old. “He was a man on a mission today,” caddie Joe LaCava said. “He was pretty jacked up. He was out there to prove himself.” What that means for the future, Woods wasn’t about to say. He barely acknowledged the significance of it all, claiming that his victory in his own tournament in December with a small, hand-picked field was his first real comeback win. People around golf know better. This was a statement made on the golf course, a statement that will reverberate on the driving ranges and through the locker rooms. And if Woods wouldn’t go there, his playing partner was more than willing to oblige. “I think he really just kind of nailed home his comeback,” Graeme McDowell said. “Great to have a front-row seat watching maybe the greatest of all time doing what he does best, winning golf tournaments.” Center 68-36 Saturday to capture their second consecutive Division IV boys state championship. It was a battle of top teams in the final Associated Press regularseason poll. The Hawks (27-1) were No. 2 then, but not now. First-team AP All-Ohioan Dylan Kaufman had 17 points and Neil Gingerich scored 12 for Hiland, which captured its third state title (1992, 2011). It became just the second repeat small-school state champ since the tournament went to four divisions in 1988. Columbus Wehrle won three straight from 1988-90. Andy Hoying, who shared the player of the year award in the division with Kaufman, had 15 for Jackson Center (27-1). Stewart wins rain-shortened race in Fontana FONTANA, Calif. (AP) — When dark clouds ominously obscured majestic Mount Baldy north of Auto Club Speedway early in Sunday’s race, NASCAR’s drivers all realized they were probably in for a short day on a long track. Nobody did a better job racing until the raindrops fell than Tony Stewart. Stewart got his second NASCAR victory of the season when rain shortened the race at Auto Club Speedway by 71 laps, extending the defending Sprint Cup champion’s unusually strong start. Kyle Busch finished second, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. added to his good start to the season in third. “You hate to have it end with rain like that,” Stewart said. “But we’ve lost some that way, and we didn’t back into the lead.” Stewart has won seven of the last 15 races, including Las Vegas last month, in a remarkable stretch of dominance for a driver who rarely gets rolling until summer. Although Stewart sees nothing special about his approach to the new season, he’s clearly focused. Stewart and new crew chief Steve Addington didn’t mention the rain to each other until moments before it hit one end of the 2-mile oval, but they had already done the work necessary to win. “It’s been nice to get off to a good start this year the way we have,” said Stewart, who has been even more impressive this year despite firing crew chief Darian Grubb last December. “The history shows the last 13 years, we haven’t had the strongest start the first third of the year, but I’m really excited about the start we’ve got going. Daytona was probably our weakest race, and I know I made decisions trying to make things happen and it didn’t work out. I’m really proud of what Steve and all our guys have done.” Stewart’s Chevrolet passed Busch 44 laps before the race was stopped when the looming rain clouds finally burst and halted a race run entirely on green flags to that point. Although a few drivers weren’t happy when the race was called off after a delay of just over 30 minutes amid steadily worsening rain, Stewart collected his 46th career win and his second at Fontana. “Playing to the weather, everybody is trying to get everything they can get toward the midway point of that race,” Stewart said. Defending race winner Kevin Harvick was fourth, and Carl Edwards was fifth. Greg Biffle, Edwards’ Roush Fenway Racing teammate, finished sixth and kept a sevenpoint lead on Harvick atop the points standings. “We had a great race car there from the start of the race,” said Busch, who started second alongside teammate Denny Hamlin and took the lead on the second lap. “We led a lot of laps. I just wish we led 30 more.” The drivers saw only blue skies at their meeting two hours before the race began, but the weather steadily worsened. The resulting drop in temperature threw off many teams’ calculations on air pressure and other decisions, forcing adjustments on their first pit stops. Realizing they might not be able to get much past the halfway point necessary to make a race official, the drivers mounted a fast, clean race on the extra-wide track, nearly setting the track record for consecutive green-flag laps until the rain finally forced a caution on the 125th lap. “We all knew it was just going to be a matter of time,” Busch said. “So probably at Lap 60 or 70, we were thinking, ‘OK, we’re probably going to race to Lap 100.’” The California track is known for its bumpy, wide asphalt that puts a premium on driver skill and strategy, but also is more susceptible to climate changes. Although most forecasts suggested the rain would stick around for a while, Hamlin went to Twitter to express his displeasure with NASCAR’s decision to end the race with roughly five hours of daylight left. “Never seen a race called at 2pm before,” Hamlin tweeted. “1st time for everything. Strong weekend.” Visit us at www.mydailysentinel.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 03. March Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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