https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/b0212aab558caa18b7cbf46b93007cc8.pdf d95b1e561332c3cfff4a71e6a344e78d PDF Text Text log onto www.mydailysentinel.com for archive • games • features • e-edition • polls & more Middleport•Pomeroy, Ohio INSIDE STORY WEATHER Dr. Brothers .... Page 2 Mostly sunny. High of 80. Low of 63 ........ Page 2 OBITUARIES SPORTS Bob Chapman, 82 Linda Sue De La Rosa, 66 Sister Grace Graber, 89 Tony Woodyard, 49 D4 District Baseball Teams announced .... Page 7 50 cents daily THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2012 Vol. 62, No. 95 Pomeroy Council approves court cost increase Speeding tickets modified to coincide with Ohio Revised Code Sarah Hawley shawley@heartlandpublications.com POMEROY — Pomeroy Village Council approved the final ordinance 755 and 756 during Thursday’s meeting. Ordinance 755 is a schedule of fees, which raises court costs to $85 (currently $75) and modifies speeding ticket fees to coincide with the Ohio Revised Code. Tickets for 20 miles per hour or less over the speed limit will be $120, with speeds of more that 20 miles per hour over the speed limit resulting in a $150 ticket. Ordinance 756 is a records retention schedule as presented by Village Solicitor Michael Barr. The document outlines how long village documents should be kept as recommended by the Ohio Historical Society. Council approved a bid from Fields Excavating for the water, sewer and hydrant project to take place in the village. The low bid of $1,019,536.72, was recommended by ME Companies. It has been determined that the village has a 10-foot easement on the properties where the new line would be located. Pomeroy Police Chief Mark Proffitt noted that the police department is currently taking part in the Click It or Ticket campaign, which runs through June 3. Proffitt stated that the half of the money from the fines related to the check point go to the state, and half to the village. Council approved a transfer of $700 from the general fund to the permissive motor vehicle license fund. Mayor Mary McAngus read an anonymous letter which she received regarding officers sitting on private property and the enforcement of traffic laws. The letter questioned whether or not officers could legally watch the stop sign located near Holzer Clinic while parked in a driveway. Proffitt said that the officers use private property in order to monitor several concerns, including traffic violations and other criminal activity within the village. The main concern of Proffitt and Council President Jackie Welker was that the letter stated the person did not always stop at the stop sign. Bill Spaun and Steve VanMeter addressed council about Veteran’s Appreciation Day to be held September 8 in Pomeroy. They added that the fly-over has been approved to take place again this year as it did last year. This is the fourth year for the event. Construction is still taking place on the access road at Monkey Run. McAngus is to remind the Shelly Company, who is do- ing the construction, of the weight limit on roads in the area. Council approved making the position of fiscal officer, which is held by Pam Haggy, an hourly position instead of salary. Minutes, bills and the monthly report were approved by council. Present at the meeting were council members Robert Payne, Dru Reed, Ruth Spaun, Vic Young, and Welker, McAngus, Proffitt and Haggy. The next Pomeroy Village Council meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 11. New water lines, hydrants being installed in Hobson area Charlene Hoeflich choeflich@mydailysentinel.com MIDDLEPORT — Installation of new water lines and fire hydrants in the lower end of Middleport, an area not currently served by the village’s water system, is well under way and expected to be completed in a few weeks. The area where the waterline and fire hydrants are being installed is part of the Hobson section annexed into the village a number of years ago. Middleport Mayor Mike Gerlach at a recent meeting Members of the Southern Local Band, under the direction of Chad Dotson, play the Star Spangled Banner as part of the Memorial Day Celebration at the Racine American Legion Post 602. Remembering those we have lost RACINE — Members of the Racine American Legion Post 602 honored their fallen comrades during Monday’s Memorial Day celebration. Rev. Charles Bush gave the invocation, with the Southern Band, under the direction of Chad Dotson, playing the Star Spangled Banner. The American Legion Honor Guard lowered the colors to half-staff in memory of the fallen comrades. Superintendent of Southern Local Schools Tony Deem, who is a retired Army Sgt. 1st Class, delivered the Memorial Day address to the those in attendance. A special award was presented by Post Commander Kevin Willford to Abby Cummins, daughter of Sheri Cummins, for making Flag and Ribbons pins and a special thank you note for the Legion Members. Abby Cummins is a junior member the Legion’s Ladies Auxiliary. INSIDE For more photos see REMEMBER ...... 5 shawley@heartlandpublications.com TUPPERS PLAINS — The Eastern Local Board of Education approved several agenda items during its May meeting. Supplemental and pupil activity contracts for the 2012-13 school year were approved as follows: Cindy Chadwell, senior class coadvisor; Robyn Hawk, se- Meigs primary students — Champions of Change Charlene Hoeflich choeflich@mydailysentinel.com POMEROY — Two primary students with medical problems were the inspiration for spring fund raisers at the Meigs Primary School, one called “Pennies for Patients” and the second “It Takes a Heart to Be a Hero.” The inspiration for the fund raisers came from Michael Ratliff, a second grader who has been taking treatments for leukemia since August 2110, and Brady Collins, a first grader who was born with only half a heart and will require a heart transplant sometime in the future. Both projects were described as being “near to the hearts of both students and staff.” The first fund raiser with Ratliff as the ambassador was, “Pennies for Patients” for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Meigs Primary along with the help of Meigs Intermediate and The National Honor Society at Meigs High School collected over $4,800 in See CHANGE ‌| 5 Submitted photos Meigs Primary staff Jackie Justice, presents Michael Ratliff, “Pennies for Patients,” ambassador, gift cards for his role in raising $4,800. See HOBSON |‌ 5 Eastern Education Board approves agenda items Sarah Hawley The American Legion Honor Guard “lowers the colors” to half-staff in memory of their fallen comrades. stressed that not all of the annexed area is included in the section where the new lines will go. What it will include, he said, is eight to 10 houses on the river side which now have water lines which need to be replaced, and another eight or nine which do not currently have village water. The lines will go along Powell Street and onto Leading Creek Road, where there are currently water lines which need to be updated. However there are no fire hydrants in that area. The replacement lines will nior class co-advisor; Sam Thompson, National Honor Society advisor; Pam Douthitt, athletic director; Corey Britton, head boys basketball coach; Joel Lynch, summer weight room supervisor; Charles Weber, paid assistant golf coach; Dave Tennant, varsity football coach; Kemp Kelly, paid varsity assistant football coach; John Burdette, head girls See AGENDA |‌ 5 Wings and Ribs T-shirt design unveiled Most have their own idea about what the Gold Wings and Ribs Festival is all about. So when Bill Quickel went looking for a T-shirt logo, he turned to a drawing by 13-year-old Emily Graham of Rutland, granddaughter of Al Graham, that jolly old man who comes to town for Christmas festivities every year. The colorful shirts will be sold this weekend at the festival by Bill Quickel and his GW&R Committee. (no description) �Thursday, May 31, 2012 Local stocks AEP (NYSE) — 38.20 Akzo (NASDAQ) — 15.25 Ashland Inc. (NYSE) — 63.85 Big Lots (NYSE) — 37.07 Bob Evans (NASDAQ) — 40.47 BorgWarner (NYSE) — 72.74 Century Alum (NASDAQ) — 7.15 Champion (NASDAQ) — 0.57 Charming Shoppes (NASDAQ) — 7.33 City Holding (NASDAQ) — 31.96 Collins (NYSE) — 50.38 DuPont (NYSE) — 48.43 US Bank (NYSE) — 30.75 Gen Electric (NYSE) — 19.04 Harley-Davidson (NYSE) — 47.32 JP Morgan (NYSE) — 32.96 Kroger (NYSE) — 22.35 Ltd Brands (NYSE) — 45.84 Norfolk So (NYSE) — 65.34 OVBC (NASDAQ) — 19.75 Meigs County Local Briefs BBT (NYSE) — 30.16 Peoples (NASDAQ) — 18.67 Pepsico (NYSE) — 68.22 Premier (NASDAQ) — 7.05 Rockwell (NYSE) — 74.86 Rocky Brands (NASDAQ) — 12.29 Royal Dutch Shell — 61.80 Sears Holding (NASDAQ) — 52.34 Wal-Mart (NYSE) — 65.44 Wendy’s (NYSE) — 4.52 WesBanco (NYSE) — 20.25 Worthington (NYSE) — 16.74 Daily stock reports are the 4 p.m. ET closing quotes of transactions for May 30, 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. Holter reunion postponed RACINE — The annual Holter family reunion will not be held this Sunday as is customary. Due to family illness, it has been postponed until Sunday, Sept. 9. For further information call 949-4000. Secretary of State Husted’s Office to hold open Office Hours POMEROY — Secretary of State Jon Husted’s regional liaison, Jim Milliken, will hold open office hours from 2-4 p.m., Monday, June 4, at the Meigs County District Public Library. The goal of open office hours is to give local citizens an opportunity to learn more about, and stay connected with, the Secretary wind 5 to 15 mph becoming of State’s office in an informal west. Chance of precipita- and accessible setting. tion is 80 percent. New Church having yard sale rainfall amounts between a RUTLAND — Rutland quarter and half of an inch possible. Friday Night: A slight chance of showers before 7 p.m., then a slight chance of showers after 10 p.m. MostFriday, June 1 ly cloudy, with a low around POMEROY — Meigs 49. West wind between 8 County PERI Chapter 74 and 11 mph becoming calm. will meet at 1 p.m. at the Chance of precipitation is Mulberry Community Cen20 percent. ter. State Representative Saturday: A chance of Debbie Phillips will be the showers, mainly after 4 p.m. guest speaker. Partly sunny, with a high MARIETTA — The Bucknear 70. Chance of precipi- eye Hills-Hocking Valley Retation is 30 percent. gional Development District Saturday Night: A Executive Committee will chance of showers before 8 meet at 11:30 a.m. at 1400 Pike Street in Marietta, Ohio. If you have any questions regarding this meeting Ohio Valley Forecast Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 80. Northeast wind between 3 and 5 mph. Thursday Night: A slight chance of showers between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 10 p.m. Cloudy, with a low around 63. Southeast wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50 percent. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Friday: Showers and thunderstorms before 11 a.m., then a chance of showers. High near 70. South The Daily Sentinel • Page 2 www.mydailysentinel.com Need to advertise? Call The Daily Sentinel 740.992.2155 Free Will Baptist Church yard sale, June 1-2, in the fellowship hall at the church, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Food served. Yard sale for education CHESTER — The Chester Shade Historical Association will have a yard sale May 31, June 1, and 2, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Chester Courthouse to raise money for educational programs for Meigs school children. Donations for the sale are needed and can be taken to the Chester Courthouse and Academy, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday or Saturday. To arrange other delivery times, call the Court House at 740-985-9822. Middleport Consumer Confidence Report MIDDLEPORT — The Village of Middleport Consumer Confidence Reports have been mailed out. Any- one who did not receive the report can pick one up at Village Hall, 659 Pearl Street. Route 143 yard sale HARRISONVILLE — The third annual Route 143 yard sale, a project of the Scipio and Columbia Volunteer Fire Department, will be held 8 a.m to 5 p.m. on Saturday June 2. The sale will extend from Route 7 at Pomeroy to Route 50 near Albany. Both of the fire departments will be serving food, and both will have rest rooms available to the public. To rent space contact Rexie Cheadle at 740-591-6086 or Dan or Rhea Lantz, 740-742-2819. Vacation Bible School POMEROY — The churches of Pomeroy will host a community wide Vacation Bible School at Trinity Church on the corner of Second and Lynn streets in Pomeroy. The theme is Sky. VBS will run from June 4-8 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. each evening. Youth ages preschool to sixth grade are invited to attend. Activities will include games, music, bible stories, and crafts. For more information contact Jill Johnson at 992-2947. Water Aerobics POMEROY — A water aerobics class will be held from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday at Kountry Resort. For more information call Devan Soulsby at 9926728. Free Lunch POMEROY — A free lunch for downtown merchants will be provided by the First Southern Baptist Church the first Thursday of every month from May 3 to Sept. 6 with serving from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the stage area on the Pomeroy parking lot. Meigs County Community Calendar please contact Jenny Myers at (740) 374-9436. Saturday, June 2 SALEM CENTER — Star Grange #778 and Star Junior Grange #878 will meet in regular session with potluck supper at 6:30 p.m. and meeting at 7:30 p.m. Racine Grange will be our guests. Sunday, June 3 MASON, W.Va. — Edwards Reunion will be held at 1 p.m. at Mason Park. Please bring a covered dish. There will also be an auction. Monday, June 4 ALFRED - Orange Township Trustees, regular monthly meeting on Monday, 7:30 p.m. at the office of the Fiscal Officer Debbie Watson. SYRACUSE — Sutton Township Trustees, 7 p.m. at the Syracuse Village Hall. RUTLAND — The Rutland Township Trustees will meet at 5 p.m. at the Rutland Fire Station. Wednesday, June 6 POMEROY — Meigs County Fair Board will hold its regular June meeting, 7:30 pm at the fairgrounds. Thursday, June 14 CHESTER — Shade River Lodge 453 will hold its monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served after. Birthdays MIDDLEPORT — Bernice Durst, longtime carrier for The Daily Sentinel, will observe her 86th birthday on May 31. Cards may be sent to her at 334 S. Third Ave., Middleport. Ask Dr. Brothers Teen is attracted to new stepbrother Dear Dr. Brothers: I’ve been married for six months to a wonderful widower, whom I met online. We both have teenage children, and we spent a lot of time talking about how our families would blend. We want- In the normal ed his two boys course of family and my two girls life, attraction to get along, but simply doesn’t we worried bedevelop between cause it was a brothers and long-distance rosisters. Nature mance and they has arranged didn’t really get that siblings will to know one annot — generally other before the speaking — be wedding. The attracted to one problem is that another, simply we are noticing because they my 13-year-old have grown up daughter and his 14-year-old son Dr. Joyce Brothers as siblings and it’s not the way flirting. What Syndicated things usually should we do? Columnist evolve. Call it — L.L. a case of familDear L.L.: The blending of families iarity breeds contempt or can be a tricky thing to pull what have you. So, the key off. You really can’t foresee to the current trouble lies in all the issues in advance, two facts: the girls and boys but your fears about all of didn’t grow up together, those kids getting along and the lack of knowledge well under one roof makes when it comes to choices a lot of sense. What you fo- and consequences. Time to cused on, though, was the have a frank family talk. *** fact that teens are highly Dear Dr. Brothers: Our emotional, love to squabble amongst themselves family is facing a peculiar and can be very sensitive challenge. We have five to which of them a parent kids, and all but the youngfavors over the others, or est take after both my husblames for everything. And band and me — they are while these are issues in very quiet, laid-back indimany families — not just viduals. But our 3-year-old blended ones — they may seems like she came from have blinded you to some- outer space! She’s noisy and thing you didn’t really want boisterous and very outgoto think about if you didn’t ing and fun-loving. How do have to: the possible sexual we adapt to a child who is attraction between new nothing like the rest of our “brothers” and “sisters.” reserved clan? Of course we Since you have two of each want her to be herself, but sex, you really should have we aren’t sure how she fits in. — G.C. this one on your radar. Dear G.C.: It’s always a bit bewildering when one’s children follow a set pattern that seems to be right for the family, and then one more comes along and blows everything out of the water. And if one child is going to do this, it’s probably the youngest. So your family is following a pattern that may not be so bizarre after all. It’s good that you affirm that you want your daughter to be able to grow up being herself, and pursuing her own pleasures without feeling that she somehow doesn’t fit into the family unit. Instead of comparing your daughter to the rest of the kids, why not find her a group of friends she can start to identify with? It might consist mainly of boys or girls who are tomboys — no matter, she will soon be making waves as her own person, and everyone will learn to take her big personality in stride. Until then, treat her as a fun and unique addition to the family, and try to loosen up a bit about her. Ask each of her siblings to find something they can teach her, and involve her in family life as much as possible. There’s no reason to be concerned about your daughter being a misfit. She’s young and flexible, and so are you and your husband and other kids. (c) 2012 by King Features Syndicate Romney clinches nomination, but Trump overshadows 60319304 LAS VEGAS (AP) — Mitt Romney has won the Republican presidential nomination after years of fighting, though his triumph was partially overshadowed by the celebrity businessman who helped him along the way. As primary voters in Texas on Tuesday pushed him past the 1,144-delegate threshold he needed to win the nod, Romney was raising money in Las Vegas with Donald Trump, the real estate mogul who has stoked doubts about whether President Barack Obama was born in America. It’s the start of a weeklong push to raise millions of dollars during a West Coast swing as Romney looks to bring in as much cash as possible ahead of a ramped-up campaign schedule later this summer. “Mr. Trump, thank you for letting us come to this beautiful hotel and being with so many friends. Thank you for twisting the arms that it takes to bring a fundraiser together,” Romney told the approximately 200 people who paid thousands to attend the event at the Trump International Hotel. “I appreciate your help.” The Trump event and surrounding controversy overshadowed the Texas primary win that officially handed Romney the nomination, a triumph of endurance for a candidate who came up short four years ago and had to fight hard this year as voters flirted with a carousel of GOP rivals. According to the Associated Press count, Romney surpassed the 1,144 delegates needed to win the nomination by winning 105 delegates in the Texas primary, pushing his total to 1,191 delegates. The former Massachusetts governor reached the nomination milestone with a steady message of concern about the U.S. economy, a campaign organization that dwarfed those of his GOP foes and a fundraising operation second only to that of Obama, his Democratic general election opponent. He outlasted a half-dozen See ROMNEY ‌| 6 �Thursday, May 31, 2012 The Daily Sentinel • Page 3 www.mydailysentinel.com Class of 1975 holds ‘Girls Night Out’ Free educational program for kids planned at WNF ATHENS — Two sessions of the Wild Weekend Discovery Series will be held Saturday at the Wayne National Forest Headquarters located off U.S. Highway 33. Saturday’s program will be on the water cycle and children, pre-school to fifth grade, will be taken on a journey “traveling the world as a water drop, sharing some of the places he has been and drink[ing] a bit of the past.” The fun-filled free educational program will be offered in two sessions starting at 10 a.m. and noon with each lasting about an hour. Space is limited to 15 seats per session, and pre-registration by calling (740) 753-0101 is suggested. Weather permitting, the activities will take place outside, and it is suggested that those attending dress appropriately. Submitted photo The “girls” of the Eastern Class of 1975 enjoyed a “Girls’ Night Out” on Friday, May 25, at the Wild Horse Café in Pomeroy. Attending were, Jane Bahr Baker, Sally Burke Bissell, Debbie Boatright, Joanne Pullins Calaway, Rhonda Sovel Cogar, Marsha Kimes Cowdry, Becky Ebersbach Grate, Melody Roberts Hauber, Terry Brawley Marcum, Louann Newell Meek, Sheila Newell Theiss, Cindy Thomas, Bonnie Welsh Thomas, Kathy Spurlock Walker, Linda Myers Westjohn, Pam Sams Wolfe, Frances Hawk Wood, and Sherri Linthicum Ziegler. After enjoying good food and conversation, most headed off to the home of Jane Baker to continue reminiscing and catching up on thirty-seven years! This led to a long enjoyable evening which lasted until the final four headed home at 4 a.m. with plans to have more “Girls Night Outs” and a whole class of 1975 reunion in the near future. Southern High School 4th nine weeks honor roll announced RACINE — Several Southern High School students were named to the honor roll for the fourth nine weeks. Seniors earning “All A” honor roll were: Amber Hayman, Chelsea Holter, Miranda Holter, Emily Manuel, Olivia Searls, Hope Teaford and Courtney Thomas. Earning “A and B” honor roll were: Ceairra Curran, Andrew Ginther, Austin Hill, Katelyn Hill, Jesse Lamar, Natalie Marler, Morgan McMillan, Clayton Moore, Emma Powell, Jessica Riffle, Andrew Roseberry, Kelsey Strang, Sara VanCooney, Abbie Williams, Catherine Wolfe and Justin Young. Juniors earning “All A” honor roll were: Jennifer McCoy, Jaclyn Mees, Danielle Taylor, Paige Wehrung and Kody Wolfe. Earning “A and B” honor roll were: Christa Berryman, Chris Chaney, Caitlyn Cowdery, Tara Eakins, Angie Eynon, Cole Graham, Kristen Holbrook, Megan McGee, Adam Pape, Joe Smith, Kyrie Swann and Jessica Wood. Sophomores earning “All A” honor roll were: Lacey Hupp, Wyatt Jarell and Na- than Leamond. Earning “A and B” honor roll were: Riley Beegle, Amy Bennett, Ryan Daugherty, Darien Diddle, Brandon Grueser, Katie Jenkins, Taylor McNickle, Jamie O’Brien and Chris Yeater. Freshmen earning “All A” honor roll were: Sophie Gunither, Bethany Theiss and Tristan Wolfe. Earning “A and B” honor roll were: Ashley Baker, Brandon Counts, Kali Cunningham, Jacob Hoback, Cassandra Hutchison, Bradley McCoy, Ryan Schenkelberg and Austin Wolfe. 4-H beginner camp deadline extended POMEROY — Registration for 4-H summer camp at Canter’s Cave for youth leaving grades 3, 4 or 5 has been extended, Michelle Stumbo, 4-H extension agent announced today. The camp which she described as being a “place to make memories” will be held June 18-21. “Everything from fairy tales and super heros to Dr. Seuss and “Who Done it” mysteries will be included, not to mention all the traditional camp fun of swimming, paddleboats, canoes, hiking, camp fires and line dancing,” said Stumbo. For registration information, visit www.meigs. osu.edu or Stumbo.5@ osu.edu, or call the Meigs County Extension Office, 992-2669. Ohioan: Helping panhandler led to littering ticket TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A driver who stopped to give a couple of bucks to a panhandler in a wheelchair at a busy freeway interchange was handed a $344 littering ticket by a Cleveland police officer after the cash fell to the ground. The driver, who’s now fighting the ticket, said he can’t believe that his attempt to help someone in need might cost him a lot more. “It’s turned into a big hassle,” John Davis, of Elyria, told WJW-TV after he pleaded not guilty to the minor misdemeanor Tuesday in court. He is due back in court Thursday, when he hopes the ticket will be thrown out. The panhandler was at a busy intersection during rush hour on May 17, and it’s illegal to solicit or give money at the side of a roadway, Cleveland police said. “It’s a huge safety issue,” said police spokeswoman Jennifer Ciaccia. “The main issue was where it occurred.” Davis could have been ticketed for donating to a panhandler but instead was cited for littering from a vehicle, which carries a bigger fine. Ciaccia said she could not talk about why the officer handed out the littering ticket now that the issue is in court. The man in the wheelchair was not cited for panhandling, but he has been many times in the past at the same spot and along other roadways, Ciaccia said. Submitted photo Pictured are the award recipients, (front row, from left) Marcie Reedy, Shefali Shah, Sarah Goebel, Thomas McLaughlin, Nancy Hooper, Abby Hammond, Christina Howell, Brandon Waddle, Maggie Smith, Eryn Khounlavong, Ashley Heighton, Michael Kingery, Dr. T. Wayne Munro, Chief Executive Officer of Holzer Health System and Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician, Brycie Cook, (second row, from left) John Cunningham, Executive Vice President of Administrative Services at Holzer Health System; Brent Saunders, Chairman of the Board of Directors at Holzer Health System, Kristen Boch, Jennifer Robinson, Ben Tillis, Miranda Cobb, Evans Smalley, Brogan Barnitz, Caleb Reed, Madison Hoffman, and Stephen Popper, DO, MPH, PhD, Holzer Health System Occupational Medicine Physician. Not pictured are Nicole Brooks, Meelim Jasmine Lee, Garret Myers, Cheyenne Dozci, Charlie Murphy, Chelsea Ward, Dirk Dempsey, and Emma Powell. Holzer Health System presents science awards GALLIPOLIS, Ohio — Holzer Health System recently held its 29th Annual High School Science Awards Banquet to honor outstanding science graduates from 29 area high schools. Holzer hosted the scholars, their parents and school representatives and presented each student with a certificate, monetary award, and picture frame. A representative from each high school was also presented a check to further their efforts in the Science Programs. The Science Awards Program encompasses high schools from Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Meigs, Lawrence, Pike and Vinton Counties in Ohio, and Mason County in West Virginia. John Cunningham, Executive Vice President of Administrative Services with Holzer Health System, served as Master of Ceremonies and delivered the introductory remarks. Wayne Munro, MD, Chief Executive Officer of Holzer Health System outlined the history of the Science Awards Program. “Holzer sees the Science Awards as an opportunity to give back to the community and formally recognize the achievements of our students and educational systems,” Munro said. The Science Awards Program honors a student selected by the high school based on outstanding achievement in science and a desire to pursue a higher education. The featured speaker for the program was Board Certified in Preventative Medicine, Stephen Popper, MD. Dr. Popper practices medicine in Gallipolis, Athens and Jackson, Ohio, specializing in Preventative Medicine, with Occupa- tional evaluations and screenings. Through the Science Awards Program, Holzer has contributed thousands of dollars to area schools and students for the betterment of education in our region. The Award Recipients are Marcie Reedy, Vinton County High School; Shefali Shah, Fairland High School; Sarah Goebel, St. Joseph High School; Thomas McLaughlin, Nelsonville York High School; Nancy Hooper, Trimble High School; Abby Hammond, River Valley High School; Christina Howell, South Gallia High School; Brandon Waddle, Rock Hill High School; Maggie Smith, Chesapeake High School; Eryn Khounlavong, South Point High School; Ashley Heighton, Ironton High School; Michael Kingery, Symmes Valley High School; Brycie Cook, Buckeye Hills Career Center. Kristen Boch, Wellston High School; Jennifer Robinson, Meigs High School; Ben Tillis, Ohio Valley Christian School; Miranda Cobb, Point Pleasant High School; Evans Smalley, Gallia Academy High School; Brogan Barnitz, Wahama High School; Caleb Reed, Jackson High School; Madison Hoffman, Waverly High School; Stephen Popper, DO, MPH, PhD, Holzer Health System Occupational Medicine Physician; Nicole Brooks, Alexander High School; Meelim Jasmine Lee, Athens High School; Garret Myers, Dawson-Bryant High School; Cheyenne Dozci, Eastern Local High School; Charlie Murphy, Federal Hocking High School; Chelsea Ward, Hannan High School; Dirk Dempsey, Oak Hill High School; and Emma Powell, Southern High School. BUNDLE & SAVE! ON DIGITAL SERVICES FOR YOUR HOME DETTWILLER LUMBER 50% off DIGITAL TV HIGH-SPEED INTERNET June 1st 7-6 & 2nd 8-5 Equine Products Fishing Tackle Gun Cleaning Supplies DIGITAL PHONE Paint Items Overstocks Misc. 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Dr. Jaczko, alone among his fellow Commissioners, has insisted no new nuclear power plant should be licensed unless and until the operator has committed to making safety upgrades needed to protect against the risk of severe accidents such as occurred at Fukushima. His resignation throws into question whether the NRC will have the fortitude to complete advances commenced under his leadership. As attorneys who represent environmental groups, civic groups, and neighbors of proposed nuclear power plants in NRC licensing cases, we have watched the NRC’s response to the Fukushima Daiichi accident with concern. From the outset of the accident, Dr. Jaczko took actions that were unpopular with the nuclear industry and his fellow Commissioners but showed a strong commitment to protecting public health and safety. In the first hours of the accident, he prudently recommended the evacuation of all U.S. citizens living within 50 miles of Fukushima, even though U.S. regulations call for evacuation within only ten miles. His judgment later proved sound. After the NRC appointed a high-level Task Force to study implications of the Fukushima accident for the regulation of U.S. reactors, Dr. Jaczko exercised his authority as Chairman to ensure that the Task Force could conduct its review independently, without interference by fellow Commissioners or non-Task Force staff members. As a result, the Task Force issued a forceful report that called on the agency to make safety upgrades that had been delayed since the post-Three Mile Island safety review thirty years before. Under Dr. Jaczko’s leadership, the agency adopted many of the Task Force’s recommendations for improvements to the NRC’s regulatory system for providing a basic level of protection to public health, safety and the environment. Recently, when the Commission was presented with requests for approval of new reactor licenses at the Vogtle site in Georgia and the Summer site in South Carolina, Chairman Jaczko asserted construction and operation of new reactors should not be allowed unless their licenses incorporated firm commitments to implement the Task Force recommendations for postFukushima safety upgrades. He was overridden by his fellow Commissioners. The new reactors were licensed and are now under construction. As Dr. Jaczko stated in his dissent from the licensing decision, postponing implementation of safety upgrades until after reactor licensing is fraught with difficulty and uncertainty. Once construction is underway or completed, future Commissioners may lack the resolve to order expensive design changes that require the ripping out of completed reactor parts. And without Dr. Jaczko, the Commission could lack even a dissenting voice. Diane Curran is an attorney in Washington, D.C. who for 30 years has represented citizen and environmental groups in NRC licensing and enforcement cases. Mindy Goldstein is Director of the Turner Environmental Law Clinic at Emory University Law School. They represent nine civic and environmental organizations in a court appeal of the NRC’s decision to license the new Vogtle reactors. Letter to the editor Veterans Service Office offers apology Dear Editor, The Gallia County Veterans Service Center Executive Director wishes to apologize to all the families whose loved ones’ names were not read at the Memorial Day Ceremony at the Gallipolis City Park, May 28, 2012. Due to an administrative error in the Veterans Service Office, names were unintentionally omitted from the list read. I sincerely apologize for the error and would like to pay proper respect to those veterans for their service at this time. 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Swain — U.S. Army, World War II Max Reeves — U.S. Navy, World War II John D. Thoma — U.S. Army, World War II Sincerely, R. Keith Jeffers, Gallia County Veterans Service Officer/Executive Director Dr. Marvin Folkertsma At 0227 hours on the morning of June 6, 1944, Lieutenant Robert Mathias saw the red light flash above the door of his C47 “Dakota” aircraft, signaling his men to get ready to parachute into a terrifying blackness that was streaked with machine-gun tracers and punctuated by exploding rounds from four-barrel 20-millimeter Flakvierling-38 anti-aircraft guns. The Cotentin Peninsula loomed beneath him as he stared into an abyss crackling with enemy fire and crawling with Nazi troops. Machine-gun rounds peppered their slow-moving, easily targetable transport, “sounding like rocks being shaken in a tin can,” Stephen Ambrose reports. Then, just as he was ready to jump, a shell exploded nearby, shredding his reserve chute, propelling red-hot flak into his chest, and slamming his body to the floor. The light flashed green. He got up. He didn’t have to. He could’ve crawled away, let his men jump without him, returned to England, get treated. But he got up anyway, struggled to the open door, yelled, “Follow me!” and leapt into the hellish maw of combat below, and to his death. And into the history books as well. For they all knew they were making history, from the lowliest privates slugging it out with their M1 Garands, or BARs, or flamethrowers, to those at the peak of the Allied and German command structures. Everyone knew the stakes involved, especially Hitler, for whom the defeat of the invasion of France constituted “the sole decisive factor in the whole conduct of the war and hence in its final result.” It is not hard to see why. The war had not been going well for the Third Reich, especially on the Russian front since the defeats at Stalingrad and 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. Kursk in 1943, where the Russians had succeeded in demolishing entire armies in the German order of battle. Still, the situation for Germany was not hopeless; far from it. Indeed, the Germans had conquered so much territory that they could afford to exchange it for time to recoup their losses, strike back at the Soviets, stabilize the line in the east, and perhaps arrange for a separate peace, which is approximately what happened in World War I. Best of all, the grotesque alliance arrayed against Germany could not be expected to hold together. Or so he reasoned. Interestingly, Hitler’s thinking was mirrored at least in part by those in charge of Western strategy. Without question, a failed invasion of France would constitute a calamity of incalculable proportions for the Western allies. It would takes months—perhaps an additional year— to reorganize and mount a similar endeavor, giving the Germans additional time to prepare. Perhaps worst of all would be the damage to troop morale, along with the corrosive effects on American and British public opinion. The British had little stomach for more years of war, and Americans were habitually impatient, a mordant combination that might have concluded military operations with an armistice instead of a surrender, and before the availability of atomic weapons. Further, the record of previous amphibious landings was not particularly instructive, though they had been successful— three in Sicily and Italy— but these had been against unfortified coastlines. The attack made by the Canadians in 1942 at Dieppe, a skeletally fortified port in northern France, was a catastrophe. Yet, if the Americans and British were serious about defeating Hitler, the attempt had to be made and it had to succeed, because the alternatives were unthinkable: a continent dominated by two totalitarian powers, or worse, a Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, which would result in Russian domination of Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals. Indeed, it is this latter possibility that brings into bold relief the long-term significance of the Allied victory on D-Day, in that the triumph over Nazi Germany in 1944 and 1945 saved Western Europe from being conquered by an equally barbaric Soviet Union. In short, the seeds of the West’s ultimate Cold War victory a half century later were planted on the bloody beaches of Normandy, because in the long run not one but two totalitarian powers collapsed— one in 1945, the other in 1991—as a result of our victory on D-Day. In his simple, direct way, Eisenhower stated it best: “We cannot afford to fail.” He was more prescient than he knew. A week after D-Day, Ernie Pyle wrote in his column, “Now that it is over it seems to me a pure miracle that we ever took the beach at all.” Rather, make that tens of thousands of miracles, all consisting of heroic young men who formed the backbone of “aroused democracies,” to use the words of Eisenhower again. Men like Lieutenant Robert Mathias, who, by sacrificing his life saved the world—twice, as it were—along with thousands of others who fought and died on D-Day. Dr. Marvin Folkertsma is a professor of political science and fellow for American studies with The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. The author of several books, his latest release is a high-energy novel titled “The Thirteenth Commandment.” 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 �Thursday, May 31, 2012 Obituaries Sister Grace Graber Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Grace Graber (formerly S. Grace Anton) died Monday, May 28, 2012, at the age of 89 in Mother Margaret Hall, the nursing facility of the Sisters of Charity. She was born Virginia Cecilia Graber on September 17, 1922, in Pomeroy, Ohio, the daughter of Anthony and Grace (Gosmeyer) Graber. Sister Grace Graber was a Sister of Charity for 68 years. Sister earned her Bachelor of Science in Education from the College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1958 and the masters in education from Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1976. For three years prior to entering the Sisters of Charity Sister Grace worked in civil service at Wright Paterson Air Force Base. Sister Grace spent more than 40 years, ministering in elementary education and teaching piano and organ lessons in the dioceses of Cincinnati, Columbus (Ohio) and Detroit. (Mich.). She began teaching intermediate grades in 1945 at St. Mary, Greenville, Ohio, where she remained for 10 years. She then went to Sacred Heart, Dayton, Ohio, (195559); St Mary, Marion, Ohio (1959-63); St. Patrick, Cincinnati, Ohio (1963-65); and Guardian Angel, Detroit, Mich., (1965-68). From 1968 to 1976 Sister taught at St. Bernard, Springfield, Ohio, and then ministered at St. Charles, Kettering, Ohio, (1976-81). She served as parish organist for 12 years at St. Aloysius on the Ohio, Cincinnati, Ohio, and also served as music instructor at St. Vincent de Paul, Cincinnati, Ohio, for four years. Sister Grace was a special friend to the Vine Street Neighborhood Service Center, frequently collecting basic items needed by the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood residents, according to Sister Carol Ann Brockmeyer, Center Director. The staff nurses at Mother Margaret Hall where Sister was a resident, considered Sister Grace a ‘ray of sunshine’. “Sister Grace was always willing and anxious to help, a very generous and giving person,” staff nurse Cathy Reichert said. When Sister Grace came to live at the Motherhouse she served as a volunteer organist in the Mother Margaret Hall Chapel, frequently playing for daily liturgy. A highlight in her retirement years was to visit her hometown of Pomeroy, a small Ohio river town; the Bed and Breakfast where they stayed was the very house where Sister Grace grew up, a 160 year old Civil War house. Thanks to Sisters Rose Martin and Mary Martin Morand Sister was able to stay overnight in her former family home and sleep in her childhood bedroom. Their family property was the site of Morgan’s Raid, when Civil War Confederate General John Morgan terrorized towns along the Ohio River in 1863. Sister Grace Graber is survived by two sisters, Mary Catherine Foster and Teresa Marie Funke, as well as nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by an infant sister, May Agnes Graber. Visitation for Sister Grace Graber will be held from 2-3 p.m., Friday, June 1, 2012, in the Heritage Room of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati Motherhouse, Mount St. Joseph, Ohio, followed by Mass of the Christian Burial at 3 p.m. in the Motherhouse Chapel. Burial will be in the Sisters of Charity cemetery. Memorials may be made in Sister Grace Graber’s name to the Sisters of Charity Retirement Fund, 5900 Delhi Road, Mount St. Joseph, Ohio 45051. www.mydailysentinel.com The Daily Sentinel • Page 5 Colleges’ bank deals saddle students with big fees WASHINGTON (AP) — As many as 900 colleges are pushing students into using payment cards that carry hefty costs, sometimes even to get to their financial aid money, according to a report released Wednesday by a public interest group. Colleges and banks rake in millions from the fees, often through secretive deals and sometimes in apparent violation of federal law, according to the report, an early copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press. More than two out of five U.S. higher-education students — more than 9 million people — attend schools that have deals with financial companies, says the report, written by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group Higher Education Fund. “For decades, student aid was distributed without fees,” said Rich Williams, the report’s lead author. “Now bank middlemen are making out like bandits us- ing campus cards to siphon off millions of student aid dollars.” Programs like Higher One’s shift the cost of handing out financial aid money from universities, which no longer have to print and mail checks, to fee-paying students, Williams said. The fees add to the mountain of debt many students already take on to get a diploma. U.S. student debt tops $1 trillion, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Student loans have surpassed credit cards as the biggest source of unsecured debt in America, according to the CFPB, which regulates cards and private student lenders. It took Mario Parker-Milligan less than a semester to decide that he was paying too many fees to Higher One, the company hired by his college to pay out students’ financial aid on debit cards. Four years after he opted out, his classmates still face more than a dozen fees — for replacement cards, for using the cards as all-purpose debit cards, for using an ATM other than the two on-campus kiosks owned by Higher One. “They sold it as a faster, cheaper way for the college to get students their money,” said Parker-Milligan, 23, student body president at Lane Community College in Eugene, Ore. “It may be cheaper for the college, but it’s not cheaper for the students.” Among the fees charged by Higher One, according to its website, is a $50 “lack of documentation fee” for students who fail to submit certain paperwork. The U.S. Department of Education called the charging of such fees “unallowable” in guidance to financial aid officers issued last month. Higher One founder and Chief Operating Officer Miles Lasater said in an email that the company takes compliance with the government’s rules “very seriously,” and officially swears that to the government each year. “We are committed to providing good value accounts that are designed for college students,” he said, and students must review the company’s fee list when they sign up for an account. He cited a study commissioned by Higher One that declared Higher One “a low-cost provider for this market.” The same study found that the median fees charged to the 2 million students with Higher One accounts totaled $49 annually. Among the fees charged to students who open Higher One accounts: $50 if an account is overdrawn for more than 45 days, $10 per month if the student stops using his account for six months, $29 to $38 for overdrawing an account with a recurring bill payment and 50 cents to use a PIN instead of a signature system at a retail store. See FEES ‌| 6 Remember From Page 1 Retired Army Sgt. 1st Class Tony Deem speaks during the Memorial Day celebration at the Racine American Legion Post 602. Tony Woodyard Tony Woodyard, 49, of Camba Road in Jackson, passed away Tuesday, May 29, 2012, in Columbus, Ohio. Tony was born in Athens, Ohio, on March 11, 1963, to the late Donna Kay (White) and Terry Woodyard. Tony served in the U.S. Army from 1981 until 1984. He was the President of Twin River Hardwoods of Southside, West Virginia. Tony was the loving husband of Melissa Brodess Woodyard and the proud father of Logan Ashley Woodyard. Tony is survived by his wife, daughter, and father, in addition to many relatives and friends. Family members surviving include brother, Tim (Tiffany) Woodyard and children Taylor and Tess, as well as sister, Tami Woodyard. Tony is also survived by father-in-law, Jim (Donna Brownfield) Brodess; brother-in-law, Brian (Tammy) Brownfield and children Kaley and Taylor; sister-in-law, Tana (Steve) Heisey and children Lindsay Rutter, Alex and Niklas; and brother-in-law, Greg Brodess and children Hunter, McKenzie and Piper. Calling hours will be observed from 4 until 8 p.m. on Friday, June 1, 2012, at the Eisnaugle-Lewis Funeral Home in Jackson. The funeral will be held there at 11 a.m. Saturday morning, June 2, with burial to follow in Fairmount Cemetery. A military graveside service will be conducted by the Disabled American Veterans Chapter # 45. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Tony Woodyard Memorial Scholarship Fund, c/o Jackson City Schools, 450 Vaughn Street, Jackson, Ohio 45640. Online condolences may be sent to www.e-k-lewisfuneral. com. Rev. Charles Bush gives the invocation during Abby Cummins, right, receives an award from Post Commander Kevin Willford Monday’s Memorial Day celebration at the Racine American Legion Post 602. during the Memorial Day celebration. Change From Page 1 pennies as part of the drive. Jackie Justice, a secretary at Meigs Primary, handled the fund raiser. The class making the largest donation, Tammy Chapman’s first grade, was rewarded with a pizza party. Ratliff and his family were given a gas card to use during his monthly trips to Columbus for treatment and a gift card for the family to use at Chuck E. Cheese. The students participated in a Jump Rope for the Heart Foundation with Bob ‘BJ’ Chapman Collins, a hero of their own, Bob Chapman, 82, of Lancaster, Ohio, died Tuesday, May serving as ambassador for 29, 2102, at the Pickering House. the jump rope program. Calling hours will be held from 6-8 p.m. on May 31, 2012, After many surgeries, Colat Halteman-Fett Funeral Home. Funeral services will be lins’ heart is stable, but he held at 10 a.m. on Friday, June 1, 2012, at First United Methodist Church, Lancaster, Ohio. A graveside service will follow at 3 p.m. at Kirkland Memorial Gardens, Point Pleasant, W.Va. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to the First United Methodist Church, 163 E. Wheeling Street From Page 1 and FairHoPe Hospice, 282 Sells Road, both in Lancaster, basketball coach; Bobby Ohio. Calaway, girls reserve basketball coach; Brian CumLinda Sue (Barker) De La Rosa mins, junior high football Linda Sue (Barker) De La Rosa, 66, of Mason, died on coach; Jared Cullen, paid assistant boys basketball May 21, 2012. Friends may call on family at 6 p.m., Friday, June 1 at the coach; and Denny Facemyer, junior varsity assistant Mason Senior Center. boys basketball coach. The resignation of Leslie LeBlanc, Spanish teacher, was approved at the end of come from the village’s capi- the 2011-12 school year due From Page 1 tal improvement fund. She to relocating. The resignabe adequate to support the said the work is moving right tion of Glenn Easterling, use of hydrants which will be along and it’s estimated that bus driver, was approved efinstalled as a part of the proj- about a third is completed. It has been over 20 years fective September 1. ect. Approval was given for TAM Construction, whose since the Hobson area was the following summer poannexed into the village and bid for the work was $398,813, at the time residents were sitions through the 21st is the contractor on the job. The project, according to promised that water lines Century Community LearnSusan Baker, clerk/treasurer, would be extended into that ing Center Grant: Heather is being funded with a 40 per- area and that hydrants would Wolfe, Program Director; Rachel Marten, summer cent grant with the balance to be installed. site coordinator; Sheryl continues to be monitored by his cardiologist. Danny Thomas and Kolleta Fridley, staff members, handled the jump rope fundraiser. The school collected over $4,000 in donations, with the largest donation coming from Darla Kennedy’s first grade class, which was given a pizza party provided by Fridley. Collins and Edena Reynolds brought in the largest donations, and the Jump Rope for Heart Foundation presented them with prizes that included an electric Razer scooter. Collins and his family were given a gas card and a monetary donation for his eighth birthday, celebrated on May 2, for a trip to a Cincinnati Submitted photos Brady Collins helped raise $4,000 for the Jump Rope for the Heart Foundation. He was presented with gifts including a Razer Scooter by school staff Dan Thomas and Kolleta Fridley. Reds ball game. Fridley also provided Collins with $50 worth of books about eagles, his favorite bird. sented by Superintendent Scot Gheen. Open enrollment students approved for the remainder of the school year were Destiny Adams, James Adams and Bryleigh Weigum. The students were already enrolled in Eastern Local Schools and moved from the district. A bid was accepted from C&T Design and Equipment Company in the amount of $23,128.57 to replace the high school cafeteria service line. The board approved participation in the TANF summer youth employment program through the department of job and family services. The posting of the position of Summer School Instructor was approved. Food sales service and standards were approved as mandated by House Bill 210. The next meeting of the Eastern Local Board of Education will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 21 at the Eastern Elementary School. The meeting minutes were approved by a 3-2 vote with board members Dennis Eichinger and Mark Hall voting no. The financial report was approved by a 4-0 vote, with Hall abstaining. The five-year forecast was approved by a 5-0 vote as presented by treasurer Lisa Ritchie. An amendment to the permanent appropriations was approved in the amount to $1,481.90. Agenda Hobson Roush, guidance counselor/ social worker; Krista Johnson, Carly Hayes, Kirk Reed, Samuel Thompson, and Deborah Kerwood, intervention specialist; Kaitlyn L. Stewart, instructional aide; Tom Pullins, bus driver; Lesa Sidwll, bus driver. Charles Martindale was approved as evening custodian at the Easter Elementary building on a one-year contract. Student accident insurance was approved for the 2012-13 school year with Reed & Baur Insurance Agency. The School Safety and Crisis Response Plan was approved for the Eastern Local School District. The coaching evaluation form was approved as pre- �Thursday, May 31, 2012 The Daily Sentinel • Page 6 www.mydailysentinel.com Sex offenders Remnants of Tropical Storm Beryl fight for right to head back toward Atlantic coast use Facebook INDIANAPOLIS (AP) after pleading guilty to — Registered sex offend- seven counts of production ers who have been banned of child pornography. Xavier Von Erck, founder from social networking websites are fighting back of Perverted Justice Inc., a in the nation’s courts, suc- group devoted to exposing cessfully challenging many online sexual predators, of the restrictions as in- said it doesn’t make sense fringements on free speech for judges to let pedophiles and their right to partici- troll the Web for more vicpate in common online dis- tims but revoke the voting rights of people convicted cussions. The legal battles pit pub- of lesser crimes. He called lic outrage over sex crimes that “judicial hypocrisy.” The American Civil Libagainst cherished guarantees of individual free- erties Union of Indiana, dom and the far-reaching which is challenging Indicommunication changes ana’s 2008 law, argues that brought by Facebook, it’s unconstitutional to LinkedIn and dozens of bar sex offenders who are no longer in prison or on other sites. “It’s going to be really, probation from using basic really hard, I think, to online services. “To broadly prohibit write something that will achieve the state’s pur- such a large group of perpose in protecting children sons from ever using these online but not be restric- modern forms of commutive enough to be uncon- nication is just something stitutional,” said Carolyn the First Amendment canAtwell-Davis, director of not tolerate,” said Ken legislative affairs at the Falk, legal director of IndiVirginia-based National ana’s ACLU chapter. The case is scheduled Center for Missing & Exfor a court hearing Thursploited Children. Courts have long al- day. The main plaintiff, referred to lowed states in the suit to place re- “The fact is that only as “John strictions on Doe,” was c o n v i c t e d telephones still convicted on sex offendtwo counts ers who work. People of child exhave comincluding ploitation in pleted their 2000 and res e n t e n c e s , registered sex leased from c o n t ro l l i n g prison in where many offenders may 2003, accordof them live ing to federal and work still congregate, court docuand requir- discuss, debate ments. ing them to The man register with and even cannot send police. But questions the increas- demonstrate.” to televised ing use of soor cial networks — David Arthur debates for everyday Indiana Deputy Attorney comment on communicaGeneral news stories on local webtion raises sites because new, untestdoing so reed issues. The bans generally forbid quires a Facebook account, offenders to join social the ACLU contends. Neinetworks or chat rooms or ther can he communicate use instant-messaging pro- with his out-of-state family grams — just a few of the members using the social online tools that civil liber- network or post his busities advocates say have be- ness profile on LinkedIn. The plaintiff is also forcome virtually indispensbidden to supervise his able to free speech. After hearing challenges, teenage son’s Internet use federal judges in two states or investigate questionable threw out laws or parts of friend requests sent to his laws that they deemed too child, the ACLU claims. Prosecutors argue that stringent. In Nebraska, the decision allowed sex of- social networking sites fenders to join social net- aren’t the only forms of works. And in Louisiana, communication. “The fact is that telea new law lets offenders use the Internet for shop- phones still work. People ping, reading news and including registered sex exchanging email. A case offenders may still congrefiled against Indiana’s law gate, discuss, debate and even demonstrate,” Indiis under review. Authorities insist the ana Deputy Attorney Genbans address a real prob- eral David Arthur wrote in lem: the need to protect a brief. Television and radio are children from pedophiles who prowl online hangouts still widespread and offer numerous call-in shows. visited by kids. “It’s hard to come up Newspapers still accept with an example of a sex- letters to the editor, he ual predator who doesn’t added. The ACLU says precuse some form of social networking anymore,” said edent is on its side. The Steve DeBrota, an assis- lawsuit cites a February tant U.S. attorney in In- ruling in Louisiana in dianapolis who prosecutes which U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson found that child sex crimes. Ruthann Robson, a pro- the state’s prohibition was fessor of constitutional too broad and “unreasonlaw at the City University ably restricts many ordiof New York, said the bans nary activities that have could eventually be taken become important to evup by the Supreme Court if eryday life.” Louisiana lawmakers the justices decide there’s passed a new law this a constitutional question. “If we think that the gov- month that more narrowly ernment can curtail sex defines what sites are prooffenders’ rights without hibited. News and governany connection to the ac- ment sites, email services tual crime, then it could and online shopping are become a blanket prohibi- excluded from the new tion against anyone who rules, as are photo-sharing is accused of a crime, no and instant-messaging sysmatter what the crime is,” tems. The measure takes effect Aug. 1. Robson said. But courts continue to Supporters of the bans say they target repeat of- wrestle with the issue in fenders such as a Maryland Indiana and Nebraska, man charged with extort- where a federal judge in ing a 16-year-old girl Indi- 2009 blocked part of a ana girl to perform sexual law that included a social acts during video chats. networking ban. A second He was free on bond when legal challenge by an Omahe was accused of doing ha-area sex offender is set the same thing to more un- for trial in July. “I think policymakers are derage girls. Trevor J. Shea, 21, of struggling to come up with Mechanicsburg, Md., was the right policy that makes sentenced to 33 years in sense,” Atwell-Davis said. federal prison in January “There’s no silver bullet.” CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The remnants of Tropical Storm Beryl headed toward the Atlantic on Wednesday, skimming the Carolinas coast and prompting flood watches in eastern North Carolina. Beryl was expected to gain strength even as it was losing its tropical characteristics. Heavy rains from the storm caused some scattered street and lowland flooding near Wilmington, N.C., as the system approached. Loris., S.C., near the border of the two Carolinas, received more than 3 inches of rain and radar showed heavy showers along the Interstate 95 corridor in the two states. The tropical depression gained some strength overnight and winds increased to near 35 mph (56 kph) At 11 a.m. Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center said the storm was losing its characteristics as a warm core weather system as it interacted with a weather front. The center was located 5 miles (8 kilometers) west of Wilmington and was moving northeast at 20 mph (32 kph). Forecasters said Beryl was expected to become a post-tropical storm by late Wednesday and could strengthen to maximum 50 mph (80 kph) winds well out in the Atlantic by Saturday. Tropical storm force winds of more than 39 mph (63 kph) were expected to stay off the North Carolina coast Wednesday so no coastal warnings had been posted. Reid Hawkins, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wilmington, said the storm had picked up speed and was expected to dump between 1 and 3 inches of rain in eastern North Carolina. Earlier forecasts had called for upward of 8 inches in areas. He said Wilmington had received about 2.5 inches of rain by late Wednesday morning. Forecasters said the depression was expected to move along the coast of the Carolinas before heading back over the Atlantic. They warned of dangerous surf conditions, including rip currents. Hawkins said rain, not wind, was the concern with the system — and the rain would be welcome. He said Wilmington has received only about 75 percent of its normal rainfall this year. Beryl came ashore near Jacksonville, Fla., just after midnight on Memorial Day as a tropical storm dumping 10 inches of rain in some areas of north Florida. It struck Cumberland Island National Seashore off the Georgia coast and the island, part of the National Park Service, will remain closed to visitors until the weekend to give rangers time to clean up. Fred Boyles, the island’s superintendent, said Wednesday that downed trees and other debris still need to be cleared before Cumberland re-opens Saturday. Rangers evacuated the federally protected wilderness area reachable only by boat last Sunday, well ahead of the tropical storm’s landfall. The island off Georgia’s southeast corner gets about 43,500 visitors each year. Beryl is the second named tropical system of the 2012 Atlantic Hurricane season, which doesn’t officially begin until Markie12Friday. Pope breaks silence over Vatileaks scandal VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI broke his silence Wednesday over the leaked documents scandal that has convulsed the Vatican, saying he was saddened by the betrayal but grateful to those aides who work faithfully and in silence to help him do his job. Benedict made his first direct comments on the scandal in off-the-cuff remarks at the end of his weekly general audience. He lashed out at some of the media reports about the scandal, saying the “exaggerated” and “gratuitous” rumors had offered a false image of the Holy See. The Italian media have been in a frenzy ever since the pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, was arrested last week after Vatican investiga- tors discovered papal documents in his Vatican City apartment. He remains in detention and has pledged to cooperate fully with the investigation. Rumors have been flying in the press about possible cardinals implicated in the probe, pending resignations and details of the investigation that even Gabriele’s lawyers say they haven’t heard. The Vatican spokesman has spent much of his daily briefings in recent days shooting down the various reports. The scandal represents one of the greatest breaches of trust and security for the Holy See in recent memory given that a significant number of documents from the pope’s own desk were leaked to an investigative journalist. paper check. In the end, students feel locked into accounts before they have a chance to shop for a better deal, Parker-Milligan said. He said that’s especially tough for poor students who rely on food stamps and other social services. Those students budget down to the penny, and don’t plan on paying a fee when Higher One’s ATM runs out of cash, he said. Offerings by financial companies vary by campus. Some issue checking accounts with debit cards. Others offer prepaid debit cards, which are similar to bank debit cards but can carry higher fees and offer fewer consumer protections. Often, students’ campus ID cards double as payment cards. At the University of Minnesota, TCF Bank issues cards that serve as school IDs, ATM and debit cards, library cards, security cards, health care cards, phone cards, and storedvalue cards for vending machines, the report said. TCF also has branches on campus and 25-year naming rights to the football stadium. Its cards charge similar fees, the report says. Having such visibility on campus is a big benefit for banks seeking exclusive access to an untapped group of potential customers. Many banks are willing to pay universities for the privilege. Under its contract with Huntington Bank, Ohio State University will receive $25 million over 15 years, plus a sweetener of $100 million in loans and investments for the neighborhoods around campus, the report said. Florida State receives a portion of every ATM fee paid by a student, it says. It’s difficult to get a full picture of how much money the schools are getting because most of them refuse to release their contracts with banks. Only a handful were available to the authors of the report. Ohio State and Florida State did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The National Association of College and University Business Officers, a trade group involved in the issue, did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Lane Community College receives no payments under its contract with Higher One, Spilde said. Lasiter said Higher One does not “offer revenue sharing” to colleges that it partners with. However, Higher One does pay some universities under existing contracts, according to the U.S. PIRG report. Campus card deals have become more popular in part because of recent legal changes that cut into the profits banks can generate from students. A 2009 law banned credit cards given to students who had no way of repaying. It forced colleges to disclose deals with credit card companies and stopped some forms of marketing, such as offering students free gifts in exchange for obtaining a credit card. Until recently, banks also made a lot more money from student loans. They extended federal aid to students, and also offered confusingly similar, higher-cost private loans alongside the government programs. Congress cut them out of the equation in 2010. Neither change affected debit cards. As the recession forced states to slash higher education budgets, companies such as Higher One, Wells Fargo and US Bank approached colleges with an nor just before the February Nevada caucuses, offering his support at a morning endorsement event in ballroom in the hotel that bears his name. In the same room Tuesday night for the fundraiser, Trump introduced Romney. He steered clear of the “birther” issue as he spoke to donors, though just hours earlier he had repeated his doubts about the authenticity of the birth certificate that shows Obama was born in Hawaii. “A lot of people do not think it was an authentic certificate,” Trump told CNN of Obama’s birth certificate. When CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer told Trump he was “beginning to sound a little ridiculous,” Trump responded, “I think you sound ridiculous.” Such allegations about Obama’s birthplace have been repeatedly proven false. The state of Hawaii recently re-affirmed that he was born there. Trump’s comments, repeated in several media in- terviews Tuesday, overshadowed Romney’s attempts to focus on failed stimulus projects and federal money given to companies like Solyndra, the green energy company that received millions from the government only to go bankrupt. Romney hasn’t condemned Trump’s assertions. On Monday night, he told reporters aboard his campaign plane that Trump is entitled to his opinion. Even as Trump-related criticism from Democrats and Republicans intensified in recent days, Romney showed no sign of distancing himself from the polarizing figure. “I don’t agree with all the people who support me. And my guess is they don’t all agree with everything I believe in,” Romney said. “But I need to get 50.1 percent or more.” Trump remains popular among the conservative base and boasts ties to deeppocketed donors. He has recorded automated phone calls for Romney, hosted a fundraiser with Romney’s wife, Ann, in New York, and pressed the candidate’s case as a television surrogate. The Obama campaign released a video Tuesday criticizing what it considers Romney’s unwillingness to stand up to Trump and the more extreme elements in his party. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, once a rival for the GOP nomination and now a Romney supporter, suggested that the Trump issue will not derail Romney’s campaign. “Gov. Romney’s not distracted. The Republican Party’s not distracted,” said Gingrich, who attended the Trump fundraiser. “We believe that this is an American-born job-killing president. Other people may believe that he was born somewhere else and still kills jobs.” Gingrich was one in a series of rivals who challenged Romney during the prolonged primary fight. Fees From Page 5 Higher One has agreements with 520 campuses that enroll more than 4.3 million students, about one-fifth of the students enrolled in college nationwide, according to public filings and the U.S. PIRG report. Wells Fargo and US Bank combined have deals with schools that enroll 3.7 million, the report says. Lane Community College’s president, Mary Spilde, said in an interview that the real problem is a “lack of adequate public funding,” which forces students to seek financial aid and colleges to find ways to cut costs. “Many institutions are looking at ways to streamline and to do things that we’re good at, which is education and learning, and not banking,” Spilde said. Students can opt out of the programs and choose direct deposit or paper checks to receive their college aid, but relatively few do. The cards and accounts are marketed aggressively using college letterhead and websites carrying the endorsement of colleges. Higher One also warns students that it will take extra days if they choose direct deposit or a Romney From Page 2 Republican opponents to clinch the nomination later in the calendar than any recent GOP nominee. Romney must now fire up conservatives who still doubt him while persuading swing voters that he can do a better job fixing the nation’s struggling economy than Obama. In Obama, he faces a well-funded candidate with a proven campaign team in an election that will be heavily influenced by the economy. Romney will continue his push to raise money with fundraisers this week in wealthy California enclaves like Hillsborough, near San Francisco, and Beverly Hills. He has at least one major fundraising event every day for the rest of the week, as well as a series of smaller events. But the focus Tuesday was on Trump, who once led polls of GOP primary voters. He endorsed the former Massachusetts gover- �The Daily Sentinel Sports THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2012 mdssports@heartlandpublications.com Arnold wins 2012 Roush Memorial at Riverside Staff Report mdrsports@mydailyregister.com MASON, W.Va. —Jeff Arnold captured the 2012 G.O. Roush Memorial Golf Tournament championship this past weekend with a one-stroke victory over the field at Riverside Golf Club in Mason County. Arnold, from New Haven, battled 95-degree heat both Saturday and Sunday to post a winning score of 129, which was one shot ahead of co-runners-up Ed Coon and Jay Harris and their match- ing efforts of 130. Arnold shot a weekend-best round of 60 on the opening day and held on Saturday to win the 37th annual event. A total of 42 players took part in the GHIN handicap event, which honors G.O. ‘Grant’ Roush — the father of Riverside owner Gary Roush. Tom Cremeans also nailed a hole-in-one on No. 4 and Bryan Williams drained a double-eagle on the par-5 No. 18, just a few of the highlights on the weekend. The top-10 efforts from the weekend, including there cumulative scores, were: Jeff Arnold (129); Ed Coon and Jay Harris (130); Carl King (131); Tom Dotson and Bill Yoho (133); Tom Cremeans and Jon McCauley (134); Trent Roush (135); and Steve Safford, Dave Reed, Tim Burnette and Gary Roush (136). Eight local baseball players land on D4 all-district teams Alex Hawley ahawley@heartlandpublications.com The Division IV South coaches have released the 2012 All-District baseball team. Southern’s Ryan Lemley earned Coach of the Year honers after leading the Tornadoes to a 24-0 regular season. Southern landed three players on first team, seniors Ryan Taylor and Ethan Martin, and junior Adam Pape, as well as earning one honorable mention selection, sophomore Trenton Deem. Eastern earned two first team selections, senior Christian Amsbary and junior Max Carnahan. The Eagles also landed a second team selection, sophomore David Warner. South Gallia senior Cory Haner made first team as the Rebels lone representative. Division IV South First Team Justin Mahlmister, Ironton St. Joseph Justin Crager, Sciotoville East Dylan Ricketts, Manchester Cody Myers, Symmes Valley Max Carnahan, Eastern Brian Moore, Waterford Cory Haner, South Gallia Ryan Taylor, Southern Adam Pape, Southern Ethan Martin, Southern Christian Amsbary, Eastern Mitch Crum, Symmes Valley Second Team Alec Herrell, Symmes Valley Kyle Adams, Manchester David Warner, Eastern Honorable Mention Tanner Mays, Symmes Valley Shain Seibert, Sciotoville East Trenton Deem, Southern Coach of the year: Ryan Lemley, Southern Bryan Walters/file photo Gallia Academy baseball coach Rich Corvin, left, watches intently during a Division II district final matchup against Miami Trace in this May 17 file photo at Paint Stadium in Chillicothe, Ohio. Blue Devils land 4 on D-2 all-district team Bryan Walters bwalters@mydailytribune.com A total of four members of the Gallia Academy baseball team have been chosen to the 2012 Division I-II Southeast Ohio District baseball squad, as voted on by the coaches in the district. Junior Justin Bailey and sophomore Ty Warnimont were chosen to the first team, while senior John Faro was named as an honorable mention selection. GAHS coach Rich Corvin was also named the Coach of the Year in the district after leading the Blue Devils to their first-ever 20-win season in school history. Gallia Academy, which won its second consecutive Southeastern Ohio Athletic League championship, finished the 2012 campaign with a 22-7 overall record. Division I-II South First Team Chris Dord, Athens Justin Bailey, Gallia Academy Bryce Arledge, Unioto Alex Thackston, Fairland Landon Kern, Warren Ty Warnimont, Gallia Academy Ben Barnas, Marietta Jacob Schriner, Athens Eric Rinehart, Waverly Luke Parker, Unioto Sean Jackson, Chillicothe Zach Corcoran, Waverly Second Team Tim Grosel, Marietta Eric Riley, Fairland Tyler Neal, Jackson Honorable Mention Curt Barkhurst, Logan Casey Grimm, Athens David Allen, Vinton County John Faro, Gallia Academy Coach of the Year Rich Corvin, Gallia Academy NFL to keep Pro Bowl, hold game in Honolulu NEW YORK (AP) — After a promise from players that the game will be more competitive, the NFL will hold the Pro Bowl in Honolulu next Jan. 27, a week before the Super Bowl. Commissioner Roger Goodell had made it clear canceling the allstar game was a possibility after the uninspired play of this year’s 59-41 AFC victory. Following discussions between the league and the players’ union, the NFL announced Wednesday that Aloha Stadium would host the Pro Bowl for the third straight year. It will be the 33rd Pro Bowl in Hawaii. “The players have made it clear Alex Hawley/file photo through the NFL Players Association Southern’s Ryan Lemley was named All-District Coach of the that they would like the opportunity Year by the division four south coaches. to continue to play the Pro Bowl in Hawaii,” said NFL executive vice president Ray Anderson. “We will support the players on this initiative to improve the Pro Bowl. We have had many discussions with the players in recent years about the Pro Bowl and they recognize that the quality of the game has not been up to NFL standards. We look forward to working with the players toward the goal of improving the competitiveness of this season’s game.” The Pro Bowl was held in Hawaii from 1980-2009. In 2010, the NFL moved the game to the week before the Super Bowl for the first time, and it was held in Miami, site of the Super Bowl that year. The Pro Bowl returned to Hawaii for the 2011 and 2012 games but remained one week before the Super Bowl. “The players believe that the Pro Bowl is an important tradition,” NFL- PA President Domonique Foxworth said. “We worked hard with the league to make sure the best players in the NFL are honored for their achievements on the field.” Goodell expressed his displeasure with this year’s game several times, acknowledging it could be scrapped if the level of play doesn’t improve. “The issue is we recognize it is an all-star game, but we also believe fans expect more from an NFL game,” he said recently. “If we believe we can achieve that, we want to give them every opportunity to do that.” For last January’s game, TV ratings were strong, with 12.5 million viewers, making the Pro Bowl the most watched of all all-star games for the 2011 season. OVP Schedule Woods says he’s building trust in his swing Friday, June 1 Baseball Point Pleasant vs. Herbert Hoover at Appalachian Power Park, 12:30 p.m. Track and Field OHSAA state meet at Jesse Owens Stadium, 9:30 a.m. Saturday, May 26 Baseball Point Pleasant-Herbert Hoover winner vs. Liberty Harrison-Wyoming East winner at Appalachian Power Park, 1 p.m. Track and Field OHSAA state meet at Jesse Owens Stadium, 9 a.m. DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Almost two weeks before he’ll play it with a U.S. Open on the line, Tiger Woods tested his game at The Olympic Club on Tuesday. Then, he sat down on a comfy red couch and mingled with a group of hand-picked fans in an online chat that touched on everything from if he can regain his winning ways to whether he’s still having fun playing golf. “We’re excited about what we’re working on. I hadn’t played well in a couple of weeks but we know what it is,” Woods said of problems in his swing that have been addressed by him and swing coach Sean Foley. “It’s a matter of getting reps in and getting the trust in it.” Woods took questions from several fans including a sergeant with the Ohio National Guard, Olympic triple-jump hopeful Erica McLain and others. NBC golf analyst Roger Maltbie also par- ticipated in the 34-minute chat — called a “hangout.” Woods practiced at Olympic earlier in the day. He said he hit a 9-iron into one green on the Lake Course that bounced flag high. “It’s going to be one heck of a test,” Woods said. After playing in temperaSee SWING ‌| 12 �Thursday, May 31, 2012 Thursday, May 31, 2012 BLONDIE BEETLE BAILEY FUNKY WINKERBEAN HAGAR THE HORRIBLE HI & LOIS ComiCs/EntErtainmEnt www.mydailysentinel.com Dean Young/Denis Lebrun Mort Walker Today’s Answers Tom Batiuk Chris Browne Brian and Greg Walker THE LOCKHORNS MUTTS The Daily Sentinel • Page 8 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 Thursday, May 31, 2012: This year you naturally do and say the right thing. As a result, much will fall on your plate. You also have an unusual blend of charisma and creativity, which allows you to manifest many long-term desires. If you are single, you have a tendency to choose someone much older or younger than yourself. Try it out, but understand that you might need to continue until you find someone more compatible. This person could turn the corner at any moment. If you are attached, the two of you work even better together. LIBRA can be quite a flirt. 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 Defer to others, and let them figure out what is happening. When they come back with suggestions, analysis and information, you will be able to make a decision. Someone might be overly serious. Do not take this person’s sharing in the same vein. Listen, but stay level. Tonight: Get on the phone and make plans. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH You push ahead into new turf; you rarely question where you are. If you look around, you’ll realize that you are by yourself. Stop. Decide if this is the result of taking a risk or simply a natural change. Regardless, you still might decide to forge ahead. Tonight: Sometimes fatigue is a result of stress. Take a nap. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH You seem to have a flare for making situations work, or you might make an adjustment to make sure it works. Remember to call a friend or loved one. You do not want to get any attitude, do you? Find a phone. Tonight: Start your weekend early. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Settle in and decide which way to go with an important decision. You might push someone too far. As a result, he or she could become far more difficult. Look to more creative and dynamic solutions that don’t involve this person. Ultimately, everyone will be happier. Tonight: Happy at home. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH You make your points so clear that you often are understood. You will note that even as precise as you can be, one person remains closed down. It is not your fault. Let the situation go and do nothing more for the moment. Tonight: Hang out with friends. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You have many assets and talents. Consider adding to your income through one of your innate gifts if you no longer want to feel so restricted by money. You do not need to make a final decision right now. Reflect on it. Tonight: Squeeze in a relaxing soak. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You have a charming way about you that helps others gravitate toward you and open up. How you see someone could change radically as a result. Your bright ways and seemingly happy demeanor do a great job of disguising your real mood. Tonight: Do for you. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Others want to express their competency and take over a job, chore or errand. Let them. Allow your mind to wander to a deeper issue that probably involves a special person in your life. Do not misread him or her. Tonight: Take some private time. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHH Your innate ability to bring out the best in others attracts many people. What an entourage! You might not understand the dynamics of dealing with a difficult situation. Do not let one issue get the best of you under the present circumstances. Tonight: Where the fun is. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You might want to change gears when dealing with someone. He or she demands your respect. You use sarcasm with this person instead of real respect, but he or she doesn’t know the difference. With others, your natural style wins you friends and success. Tonight: A must appearance. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH Your willingness to stretch beyond your present mental stance makes you even more laid-back, as you incorporate different views. Your empathy and understanding toward others build. Tonight: Make plans for a getaway. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH You might want to juggle various elements of your life or different people. A close friend or associate might be overwhelmed by everything that is going on. You could be inordinately tired of complaints from this person. Tonight: Choose your favorite person and have fun. 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(This is a public service announcement from the Ohio Valley Publishing Company) Legals Gallipolis Career College (Careers Close To Home) Call Today! 740-446-4367 1-800-214-0452 Repairs Sutton township is having a sealed minimum bid sale on the following items: 1985 Chevy dump-truck 350, automatic $2000.00 Minimum bid. 1996 Ford 1 ton diesel, automatic $1500.00 Sutton township has the right to refuse any bid. Bidding to begin on 05/15/2012 through 06/04/2012. Mail sealed bids to : P.O Box 245 Syracuse, Ohio 45779 For any questions call 740-949-2983 or 740-416-5535. 5/30 6/1 6/3 ANNOUNCEMENTS Lost & Found FOUND Laptop call to Identify 740-256-1060 Notices NOTICE OHIO VALLEY PUBLISHING CO. recommends that you do business with people you know, and NOT to send money through the mail until you have investigating the offering. 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At Catholic Church Hall(By City National Bank)Proceeds go to Relay for Life.Fri,8-3.Sat, 8-12. Garage Sale June 1st & 2nd, 1149 Bulaville Pike, 1 mile off 160 Garage Sale Rain/Shine 1900 Chestnut St. Gallipolis. 6/1 (94) & 6/2 (9-2) Toys, kids clothes, shoes, men, women clothes, outdoor planters, antiques, plus much more Huge Yard Sale Furniture, electronics, appliances, toys, clothing for men, women, babies, and plenty of collectibles items. Fri-Sat 8-4. Car Wash on Saturday 1110 1st Ave. Gallipolis Huge Yard Sale June 2 & 3, 95. Moores,3 miles South of Middleport on Rt 7 just above Meigs & Gallia Line.Lots of Alfred Dunner clothes & much more CHEAP. June 1st & 2nd, Racine, Vine St. Several houses, kids clothes, crafts, cribs & much more. June 1st 8am-3pm, 115 Bastiani Dr. Dining room table w/ chairs, TV, clothes and a lot of misc. Men's suits, dress clothes, Electronics, Toys. 3565 Georges Creek Rd Saturday 2 Moving Sale Jun 1-2, 3489 Hannan Trace Rd., Patriot. Household, Inside & Outside items, Longaberger baskets MOVING SALE! Couches,Entertainment center, bookcase,patio set,patio swing,boy 3T-size 8,toys, decor.152 Maple Drive(Spring Valley)Fri & Sat 8-3 Quail Creek Community Annual Yard Sale Saturday June 2, 8am-3pm Rain or Shine 3 Family Sale Furniture, household items, Grandfather clock, lawn furniture. Lg variety. 9 to 6. 1st & 2nd. 444 Lariat Dr. RAIN OR SHINE- 4 FamilyJune 1 & 2, 2 miles from Five Points out Flatwoods, turn right on Frank Rd, 5th house on left. Dining table, loveseat, fishing equip, baby items, tools & much more. Rodney Community Center. Boys Clothes,toys,misc. 6/1 94, 6/2 9-3. Rummage Sale St. Paul U.M. Church, Point Pleasant Fri. 92pm Sat 9-11am. LOTS OF EVERYTHING Saturday Only! Huge Sale! 8a-1p, 137 Homewood Dr. Bidwell, Name Brand Clothes mens, womens, juniors; golf clubs, household items, TVs �Thursday, May 31, 2012 The Daily Sentinel • Page 10 www.mydailysentinel.com OVP Sports Briefs Tri-County Junior Golf League POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — The Tri-County Junior Golf League has been in existence for more than 30 years. The league has now been renamed in honor of one of the original founders, Frank Capehart. Hundreds of area young men and woman have participated in this league over the years. It has existed for the sole purpose to provide an outlet for the area youth to learn and develop their golf skills. Many of the young people have gone on to play for their respective high schools as well as their college golf teams. This year’s tour begins on Monday, June 4, at the Hidden Valley Golf Course in Point Pleasant. The age groups are 10 and under, 11-12, 13-14, 1516, and 17-19. Trophies are awarded each week to the first and second place winners in each age group. All participants received weekly points according to their position in their age group. A man/woman of the year is determined at the end of the first 4 weeks of play based on the points accumulated. The final event of the year is a ‘Fun Day’ where handicaps are used to determine the winning scores for that day. The final day will also be used to break any ties that may exist after the first four weeks. There is a small fee for each tournament day per player. A small lunch is included with the fee and will be served at the conclusion of play. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. with play starting at 9 a.m. The tournament dates and locations of play are as follows: 1. June 4 (Hidden Valley); 2. June 11 (Cliffside GC); 3. June 18 (Riverside GC); 4. June 25 (Cliffside GC); 5. July 9 (Hidden Valley). Kiwanis Juniors at Cliffside GALLIPOLIS, Ohio — Cliffside Golf Club will be hosting the fourth annual Kiwanis Juniors at Cliffside golf tournament at 1 p.m. on Thursday, July 19. This is an individual strokeplay tournament open to all golfers ages 9-18 in four separate divisions. The age groups are Age 9-10, Age 11-12, Age 13-15 and Age 16-18, and registration begins at noon on the day of the event. There is a an entry fee for the event, and awards will be given to the top-three places in each division. For more information, contact either the Cliffside clubhouse at (740) 446-4653 or call tournament director Ed Caudill at either (740) 645-4381 or (740) 245-5919. Hustlin’ Tornado Basketball Camp RACINE, Ohio — Southern High School will be hosting its sixth annual Hustlin’ Tornado Basketball Camp on Monday, June 18 through Thursday, June 21 for all boys and girls entering grades 1-6 at Charles W. Hayman Gymnasium. The camp will run from 9 a.m. until noon and will be conducted by SHS basketball coach Jeff Caldwell, and members of the current coaching staff and both former and current players will also serve as camp instructors. Fundamentals that lead to winning basketball will be taught, with awards being given for the following competitions: 3-on-3, Horse and free throws. There are individual and family rates for the camp, andeach camper will receive a camp t-shirt and basketball or water bottle. Payment must be received before the first day of camp, Yard Sale Apartments/Townhouses TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH YARD SALE St. Rt. 160 Porter OH. Friday June 1, Saturday June 2, 8:00 4:00 Hot Dogs Baked Goods 1 & 2 bedroom apartments & houses, No pets, 740-992-2218 Yard Sale 59 Hilda Drive June 1 & 2. Sewing Machines,Bar Stools,Dishes,Tools,Clothes Yard Sale Cheshire on 554 first house on Roush Lane June 1-2 Yard Sale Fri& Sat 2404 Neighborhood Rd. 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For Lease: 3 bedroom, 2nd floor apt. overlooking City Park, no pets, references required, security deposit, $650/mo., call 740-446-4425, 740-441-5539 or 740-446-3939 Twin Rivers Tower is accepting applications for waiting list for HUD subsidized, 1-BR apartment for the elderly/disabled, call 304-675-6679 Spring Valley Green Apartments 1 BR at $425+2 BR at $475 Month. 446-1599. and registration will run from 8:30 a.m. until 9 a.m. on the opening day of camp. Checks can be made out to Southern Athletic Boosters. For more information, contact Coach Caldwell at (740) 949-3129. Blue Devil Golf Shootout GALLIPOLIS, Ohio — The Gallia Academy golf program will be holding its third annual Blue Devil Golf Shootout on Sunday, June 24, at Cliffside Golf Club in the heart of the Old French City. There will be a nine-hole scramble and a nine-hole Florida scramble, and the event will feature a shotgun start time of 1:30 p.m. There is a fee for the event — both for Cliffside members and non-members — and there will also be a golfer lottery at 1:15 p.m. All teams will be divided into three-man groups, with a fourth member coming from a blind draw. That lottery pick will be either a current or former GAHS golfer. All proceeds from the tournament goes toward facilitating the needs of the Gallia Academy golf team. You may register at Cliffside Golf Club or by contacting GAHS coach Corey Luce at either (740) 709-6227 or by email at corey.luce@gmail.com PPJSHS Athletic Physicals POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Point Pleasant Junior-Senior High School will offer sports physicals provided by Dr. Kelly Roush and Holzer Clinic on June 1, from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the school. There is a small fee for the physicals and checks can be made out to Point Pleasant Athletics. 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There is a fee per player and you may pre-register at Riverside Golf Club by calling (304) 773-5354. For more information, contact Sean Gibbs at (304) 893-3949 or Mike Wolfe at (304) 5932512. The proceeds will benefit the Wahama JuniorSenior High School athletic programs. Meigs youth basketball camp ROCKSPRINGS, Ohio — The Meigs boys basketball program will be holding a basketball camp for boys entering grades 2-6 on June 4 through June 7. The camp will be held at Larry R. Morrison Gymnasium and will be divided into two sessions, with grades 2-4 running from 9 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. and grades 5-6 running from noon until 1:30 p.m. There is a fee for the camp and a discounted rate for multiple siblings in the same family, and each camper will receive a t-shirt and be eligible to win additional camp awards. For more information, contact Meigs basketball coach David Kight at (740) 4186125. 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Police were called to the Omni William Penn Hotel after 10 p.m. Tuesday after other guests heard the woman screaming. The woman was identified only as a 26-year-old from Silver Spring, Md. The woman told the police the man knocked on the door claiming to be a maintenance worker sent to fix her toilet before he demanded various items in the room, tied her up, then stole jewelry, clothes, a notebook computer, credit cards and identification. Police said some of the property belonged to the man as- signed to the room. Police did not identify him, but the team said it was Chapman. The 24-year-old Chapman defected from Cuba in 2009 and signed a six-year, $30.25 million deal with the Reds in January 2010. The team did not make Chapman available for interviews before Wednesday’s game at PNC Park, the last of a three-game series with the Pirates. Team Heisman winner Smith looking to revive career PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Heisman Trophy Troy Smith won at Ohio State in 2006 lays in storage somewhere in Cleveland. The quarterback is hoping his career avoids the same fate. Smith is trying to break back into the NFL with the Pittsburgh Steelers, who signed him in the offseason as an insurance policy during organized team activities and training camp. The 27-year-old who dazzled while leading the Buckeyes to a Big Ten title and a berth in the national title game during his senior season is now a journeyman trying to beat out established veterans Byron Leftwich and Charlie Batch for a spot behind Ben Roethlisberger. The odds are long. Time is short. Yet Smith hardly seems stressed. “I’ve always had to do a little bit more,” Smith said. “That’s the only way that I’ve approached working. That’s the only way that I’ve approached life. You get out what you put in.” Maybe, though Smith acknowledges this isn’t where he expected to be at this point in his life. Selected in the fifth round of the 2007 NFL Draft by Baltimore, Smith made the team and started two games, including a 27-21 win over the Steelers in the regular season finale. The victory capped an otherwise miserable 5-11 season for the Ravens, who promptly drafted Joe Flacco the following spring. Smith welcomed the competition, but it was over before it barely began when he developed Lemierre’s syndrome. The illness starts as a sore throat then blossoms into an infection. In Smith’s case, the disease attacked the pain receptors in Smith’s lungs. A bout with tonsillitis followed and he dropped 45 pounds off his 6-foot frame. Smith never did compete with Flacco for the job and when Flacco led the Ravens to the playoffs as a rookie, Smith was rendered a backup. Baltimore cut him after the 2009 season and Smith landed a spot in San Francisco. He ended up starting six games, posting a 3-3 record while passing for 1,176 yards with five touchdowns against four interceptions. Solid numbers, but not enough to keep him from losing his job when Jim Harbaugh took over as coach. The phone stopped ringing and Smith found himself taking a job with the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League. He started just one game, throwing for 191 yards and two touchdowns in a loss to the Sacramento Mountain Lions. Hardly Ohio State-Michigan. Yet Smith doesn’t consider his time in the UFL a setback, pointing out “guys want to take a quarterback’s head off, no matter what league it is.” He did enough to earn a call from the Steelers, a team he grew up rooting against while growing up in Cleveland. There were other opportunities, Smith said, but the Browns weren’t one of them. When asked if he thought it was odd Cleveland didn’t reach out considering the team’s unsettled quarterback situation, Smith just shrugged his shoulders. “They’ve been making decisions like that in the city for a long time, baffling decisions,” he said. The Browns addressed their quarterback needs in the draft by taking Oklahoma State’s Brandon Weeden, who is actually a year older than Smith. He didn’t take it personally, though pointing out the team “drives my mom crazy.” Smith is hoping for a little sanity in Pittsburgh, where he faces an uphill battle to make it to September. Making things even more difficult is the task of trying to decipher new offensive coordinator Todd Haley’s playbook while working with the fourth string. His travels as a pro have made him a quick learner. Whenever he gets into a new system, he simply hits the delete button in his brain. “What you have to do literally is you have to take everything you know with one offense, let it go and start over new,” Smith said. “That can be kind of nerveracking at times, but that’s football.” Smith understands trying to stand out will be difficult. During organized team activities on Tuesday coaches had to interrupt several plays with Smith under center to get skill players in the right spot. Not Smith’s fault, exactly, but not the best way to win over the staff. The Steelers are experimenting at the moment, with Smith at the forefront. Hey, somebody’s got to do it. “If I’m a guinea pig, so be it,” he said, “but I’m a decent guinea pig.” Rory McIlroy is hopeful of sticking around DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Rory McIlroy is playing more golf than he planned going into his title defense at the U.S. Open. Just not on the right days. McIlroy lost his No. 1 ranking — and briefly lost his composure — by missing consecutive cuts at two big tournaments at The Players Championship and the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, where frustrations boiled over to the point that he tossed a 6-iron after an errant shot. If nothing else, it was a wake-up call for McIlroy. “When you’ve went on a run when you’ve hardly finished outside the top five, and then all of a sudden two missed cuts, it’s more of a shock than anything else,” McIlroy said Wednesday. “Just a little bit surprising, and it’s something I haven’t really had to deal with in a while, and I just have to knuckle down and figure it out and get back to the way I was at the start of the year.” He can only hope the Memorial is the start of another big run. Most of the game’s best players are at Muirfield Village, a popular spot because Jack Nicklaus is the tournament host and a good location on the schedule with the U.S. Open at The Olympic Club only two weeks away. officials declined comment, other than to say they’re cooperating with the investigation. In a news release, police identified the woman only as a “hotel guest of a male who attended the Pirates baseball game” Tuesday night. She was examined at UPMC Mercy hospital in Pittsburgh and briefly treated for having been tied up, police said. Police Cmdr. George Trosky refused to release additional information during the investigation, which includes examining surveillance video for clues. The Reds were playing the Pirates in a game delayed by rain at nearby PNC Park when the robbery occurred. The player spoke to police after the game. Bob Page, the hotel’s marketing director, said the Omni William Penn employees were cooperating with police and that the hotel has “very stringent” security measures that are typically tightened when visiting teams stay at the hotel. Page said police don’t believe the robber actually worked at the hotel. Browns DE Benard feels “blessed” after accident BEREA, Ohio (AP) — As sweat beads streaked his cheeks, defensive end Marcus Benard looked out at the green practice fields behind the Browns’ training facility. For a time, he didn’t know if he’d see them again. He made it back. Seven months ago, an instant of recklessness on a motorcycle nearly took Benard’s life. At 26, a highly paid professional athlete just tapping into his potential, Benard, who had beaten the odds and made an NFL roster as an undrafted free agent, almost threw everything away and left three young sons without their father. Benard was lucky. He lived and learned. “I appreciate life,” he said. “And I appreciate the sport that I’m playing and my responsibilities to it. It’s a blessing and I feel like it’s a plan. “I’m very happy to be here.” Benard spoke to reporters Wednesday for the first time since his harrowing experience. Before answering questions, he smiled and shook hands with several media members, another step in his recovery completed. On Oct. 10, Benard had just left practice when he crashed his three-wheel Can-Am Spyder into a guardrail on Interstate 71. Brooklyn Police estimated that the 6-foot-2, 260-pound Benard, who led the Browns in sacks the previous season, was thrown an estimated 80 yards before coming to a stop. He broke his right hand and sustained other unspecified injuries that required a three-day hospital stay at The Cleveland Clinic. Benard declined to discuss any specifics about his horrific accident or other injuries. The only visible reminder of his traumatic ordeal is a long, thick scar tracing from the middle of his right hand past his wrist. Benard was asked if the wreck had changed him. He paused, perhaps searching for the proper words. “It did,” he said. “But you live and you learn from everything. You walk up stairs and you stub your toe and you say I’m going to pick my feet up this time. So I learned a valuable lesson, just the appreciation of life. I feel like it was a blessing and you learn your lessons. “You learn more about life. You learn more about yourself. Sitting out and going through what I went through — rehab and everything — you always sit back and evaluate yourself and evaluate your position in life.” When he was finally cleared to return, Benard remembers his mind filling with many thoughts as he ran back onto the field with his teammates. “I was just excited just to be back with the team and to be back on grass,” he said. “Life’s chaotic, but the football field is where we’re comfortable, where I’m comfortable and it was just a joy to be able to have that chance again and to be able to be on the team.” Benard expressed his gratitude to the Browns, whom he said were there “from Day One.” The team could have released him following the accident because it was a nonfootball-related injury, but the Browns chose to pay him the final 12 game checks on his $525,000 salary. “Words can’t even describe how wonderful they’ve been to me,” he said. “I will forever appreciate the Browns for what they did for me.” Benard said he no longer rides a motorcycle. The one he was on when he wrecked last October, one day after the Browns completed their bye week, had its front wheels torn off by the impact. Following the crash, Benard said his first thoughts were about his three boys, Domanic, Marcus Jr., and Ashai. “That’s my heart and I don’t ever want to disappoint them,” he said. “I want to be there for them.” Browns coach Pat Shurmur has noticed a physical change in Benard, who bulked up last year when the team switched from a 3-4 to 4-3 defensive front. Benard says he now weighs 260 pounds. “He’s much leaner,” Shurmur said. “He looks much more fit and he’s flashed a little bit. He looks like he’s putting himself in position to have a good camp.” Shurmur also believes Benard has matured following last year’s life-altering event. “I’m glad he’s here and I think we all go through things in life that refocus us on doing things the right way and allowing us to be able to continue things that are important to us. He’s done that.” Not that he did before, but Benard now knows not to take anything for granted. The crash has made him more aware, more thankful. “Blessed,” he said. “Above anything, blessed. I’m happy to be here. It was an event. It’s not something that I can just shrug off or anyone else can just shrug off. I’m not going to say that it was nothing, but it was definitely something and it’s a blessing.” Notes: Rookie QB Brandon Weeden took the first snaps with the starting offense in team drills, but Shurmur cautioned not to read too much into it. Weeden is competing with QB Colt McCoy, who showed some frustration after a few poorly thrown passes. … LB Scott Fujita was in Philadelphia for a hearing to appeal his three-game suspension by the NFL for his role in the New Orleans Saints bounty program. … WR Greg Little has dropped 11 pounds since last season by watching his diet. Little feels he’ll be much quicker without the weight. … S Eric Hagg had an impressive practice with the first-team defense. In a life of extremes, pros need to find balance John D. Simmons/Charlotte Observer/MCT photo Rory McIlroy hts off the 12th fairway during the final round of the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, Sunday, May 6, 2012. It’s the strongest field of a regular PGA Tour event this year, featuring McIlroy, world No. 1 Luke Donald, defending champion Steve Stricker and Masters champion Bubba Watson, along with Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. McIlroy added the St. Jude Classic next week as he tries to find a form that suddenly went missing. “I just feel like I need See RORY ‌| 12 DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — The world’s greatest golfers seek balance in their swings. They also seek balance in their lives. The general public, including most Sunday afternoon hacks, can’t understand how a pro would ever take a week off. Travel the world? Play one outstanding track after another? For millions of dollars? Why go home? Elite players know that they are at their best when they can occasionally get away, when they pick and choose where they play and when they have a balance between the sport they play and their family back home. “They kept yelling at Arnold and Gary and me, ‘You need to play more golf!’” Jack Nicklaus said Wednesday, a day before the start of his Memorial Tournament. “Well, they’re still doing the same yelling 50 years later.” Nicklaus, of course, was also referring to Arnold Palmer and Gary Player. Those three helped transform the public perception of touring pro from itinerant hustler to family man. There was a time when pros entered almost every tournament because they had to in order to make a living. Nicklaus, Palmer and Player became so successful they were able to be more selective. After playing in 20 or 22 tournaments a year, they gradually scaled back as their families grew and they grew older. Today’s players try to find that same balance. Most play in 15 to 25 tournaments a year, across the globe. But it’s still difficult to make a life when there are so many aspects of your profession that demand attention. Masters champion Bubba Watson and his wife just adopted a child while trying to find a new house in Orlando. The strains of fitting in everything at home and on the course have opened his eyes. “Not in a mean way (but) everybody wants something from you: Can you help with this? Can you help with that?” he said. “You’ve got to say no. It’s not that you’re being mean. You’ve got to have time for yourself, with your wife, with your child.” Rory McIlroy had been acclaimed as golf’s next big thing even before he rolled to victory at last year’s U.S. Open at Congressional. Since then, he has had his ups and downs as he learns the proper measure of a life away from the course. Dating one of the world’s top tennis players, Caroline Wozniacki, he is trying to find a way to blend his public and private lives. “This has been a big learning curve for me because I’m still trying to find a balance between being a top-class golfer and handling media commitments, sponsors’ commitments, trying to have a life outside of all of that,” he said. “It’s hard to do all of them all at the same time. It’s something I’m still figuring out how to do.” HONORED: Each year the Memorial Tournament See BALANCE |‌ 12 �Thursday, May 31, 2012 The Daily Sentinel • Page 12 www.mydailysentinel.com Cowboys owner accepts not trading Jenkins ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jerry Jones says the Dallas Cowboys have no intention of trading cornerback Mike Jenkins or any interest in going to federal court to further fight the NFL about a $10 million salary cap reduction. Jones made it clear Wednesday that he fully expects Jenkins to stay with the Cowboys, even as the cornerback was missing another week of voluntary workouts. Jenkins has remained home in Florida after shoulder surgery and there have been numerous reports he wants to be traded after Dallas added Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/MCT photo two prominent cornerbacks in recent The San Antonio Spurs’ Tony Parker watches his 3-pont attempt weeks. sail through the basket as a front row Los Angeles Clippers fan tries to distract him during the second half in Game 3 of the Western Conference Semifinals at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, on Saturday, May 19, 2012. The Spurs took a 3-0 series lead with a 96-86 victory. From Page 7 “I’m real excited about what we can do defensively with having his skills along with the other corners we have. … We could really have a chance to do something exceptional in our secondary and I want to give us every chance to do that,” Jones said. “I’m sure not interested in the future. I’m all about what we can do next season.” Jenkins, who is going into the final year of his contract, was the first topic presented to Jones during an impromptu 25-minute session with reporters on the field at Cowboys Stadium, where the team practiced instead of Valley Ranch because of some rain overnight and that morning. Jones called last season “probably the most disappointing” in his tenure as the Cowboys owner. Dallas finished 8-8 after losing the season finale against the New York Giants, who claimed the NFC’s last playoff spot with that victory and went on to win the Super Bowl. The owner’s session came a week after arbitrator Stephen Burbank upheld the NFL’s salary cap reductions against the Cowboys and Washington Redskins. Burbank ruled in favor of the league and dismissed the grievances by both teams. Dallas lost $10 million in salary cap for overloading contracts during 2010, while the Redskins lost $36 million for this season and next. Swing Thunder may have to ugly it up to beat Spurs OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gregg Popovich implored his San Antonio Spurs to get nasty to take control of the Western Conference finals. The Oklahoma City Thunder may just have to get ugly if they hope to make it a series. The Thunder have struggled to corral a San Antonio offense that is clicking on all cylinders during a 20-game winning streak, the longest any NBA team has been able to maintain into the playoffs. Oklahoma City is in an 0-2 hole as the series shifts to the Chesapeake Energy Arena for Game 3 on Thursday night. Maybe — just maybe — the Thunder found something that works while trying to rally from a 22-point, thirdquarter deficit in Game 2. They toughened up, turned it into a more physical contest and the NBA’s best free-throw shooting team had both teams marching to the foul line as the lead shrank to six. The Spurs were able to close it out for a 120-111 victory. “We’re a physical team. We have to play that way,” Thunder coach Scott Brooks said Wednesday. “If we play freeflowing basketball, we can beat some teams but we’re not at our best if we’re not being physical on the defensive end. “Even on offense, we’re a physical team. We’re aggressive, we set great screens, we set up our screens and we attack the basket, we have dribble penetration and we’re looking for extra shooters. That’s when we’re at our best.” So far, the Spurs have been at their best more than the Thunder, cranking it up for 39 fourth-quarter points in a come-from-behind Game 1 victory and then shooting 63 percent from the field and 64 percent from 3-point range while building their biggest lead in Game 2. That had Brooks in a rare position, questioning whether his team was playing its hardest and specifically noting that defense on 3-point attempts wasn’t good enough. “We have to play with maximum effort every possession and the entire possession. If you don’t do that, you give them so many open looks because they’re the best passing team in the game,” Brooks said. “They don’t hesitate. They make the plays for each other and they make them consistently and they make them quickly and on time. With that being said, you can have great defense and they still make some tough shots.” The Thunder held a team meeting to regroup and try to find a way to become the 15th team in NBA history to rally back from a 0-2 deficit in a seven-game series. “We’re not down on ourselves,” said guard Derek Fisher, a veteran of the Los Angeles Lakers’ 2004 comeback after losing the first two games to a Spurs team also riding a double-digit win streak. “We’re obviously disappointed. We don’t like to lose,” he said. “But we still feel good about our ability to follow our game plan, do some of the things we need to do, make some adjustments and give ourselves a chance to win Game 3.” It starts with duplicating the rugged approach that disrupted the Spurs’ rhythm in Game 2. It materialized after Brooks had his players foul backup center Tiago Splitter intentionally to send a poor free-throw shooter to the line. Oklahoma City didn’t make up any ground while sending Splitter to the line repeatedly, but the whistles kept sounding afterward and the Thunder showed some fight. “They started to attack, attack, attack — put your head down and try to draw fouls — and it worked for them in that fourth quarter,” Spurs guard Manu Ginobili said. “And defensively they were everywhere. I don’t know if we got a little tired or we kind of stopped playing a little, but they were successful in doing what they wanted in the fourth. We just made a couple of tough shots that gave us some fresh air.” Brooks also questioned how much of the comeback to claim credit for, and how much was San Antonio relaxing after building such a commanding lead. “If we don’t go down 20 and we have that spurt, we’re in the lead,” Thunder guard James Harden said. “So, we just can’t allow a lack of focus.” He said there were too many “mini-spurts” where Oklahoma City’s lapses let the lead keep ballooning out of control. No matter what style they try to play, the Thunder already know they can’t get by with that lack of mental discipline. BURIED in CREDIT CARDDEBT? Over $10,000 in credit card bills? Can’t make the minimum payments? � WE CAN GET YOU OUT OF DEBT QUICKLY � WE CAN SAVE YOU THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS � WE CAN HELP YOU AVOID BANKRUPTCY Not a high-priced consolidation loan or one of those consumer credit counseling programs CREDIT CARD RELIEF for your FREE consultation CALL 888-838-6679 Not available in all states tures in the 40s, Woods — wearing a black cap and black sweater with a blue shirt peeking through at the collar — went on a webcam for his close-up. Woods has won 14 majors, but none since the 2008 U.S. Open. He was headed Tuesday evening for the Memorial, founded by Jack Nicklaus, who won a record 18 majors. That remains Woods’ ultimate goal. “I figure it’s going to take a career,” Woods said. “It took Jack 24 years. This is my 17th year into it. I still feel like I’ve got plenty of time. It’s about giving myself the most amount of opportunities to win them on the back nine on Sunday. The more chances I give myself, I figure I’m going to clip a few of them.” There were few if any revelations in the chat. This is the second time this year that Woods has not met with reporters at a tournament but instead reached out to friends and fans online. Speaking after a practice round at the Memorial, Masters champion Bubba Watson was asked if he would consider going online to reach out to his biggest fans. “Tiger’s online chat? I actually think it’s neat. I can see that working out for me,” he said. “Again, I don’t come to the media center as much as he does, so I still like this. I feel cool up here. Yeah, I could see doing something like that, but I’d still come to the local media and talk here. He does it every week no matter how he plays, so it’s still new to me.” Watson has been besieged by requests from sponsors, tournaments, media and others since his dramatic win in April at Augusta National. He said he’s just learning now what it’s like to be in such demand. “I’ve got a lot more friends than I used to have,” he said with a wide grin. “I wasn’t very popular before, but now I’ve gotten a lot more popular.” Questions on Woods’ website ranged from who he looked up to the most as a kid to why he didn’t recapture some of his old championship magic by switching Patrick Tehan/San Jose Mercury News/MCT photo Phil Mickelson, left, and Tiger Woods walk off the 2nd tee at Pebble Beach Golf Links during the final round of the 2012 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Golf Championship in Pebble Beach, California, on Sunday, February 12. from Foley back to former swing coach Butch Harmon. Mixed in were some responses from awed fans. “No questions,” wrote NateDogg8896. “Just wanted to say you’re the most amazing person on the planet.” Another poster wondered why Woods is now wearing white golf shoes so often. After winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational in late March, Woods came into the Masters as a favorite. He finished tied for 40th there, missed the cut at the Wells Fargo and then tied for 40th again at The Players two weeks ago. Woods said he still has fun playing golf, despite the meltdown he had during the Masters that included kicking a club and swearing. “I love competing, mixing it up with the guys, trying to beat all of them,” Woods said. “That’s the rush, that’s the fun. Obviously it’s a lot more fun when you’re winning than when you’re 40th. That’s something I’m still working on.” Watson, who won five British Opens, two Masters and one U.S. Open title. “I’ve been one of the luckiest people on earth to have friends on the course and outside the ropes who have enriched my life with laughter, joy and love.” Nicklaus did not hold a grudge for the close losses. Far from it. “He embodies everything I could want in a friend,” he said. Bob Verdi of the Chicago Tribune was the Memorial’s journalism honoree. FOLLOWING A PATTERN: He learned the game at Scioto Country Club, graduated from Upper Arlington High School in suburban Columbus, Ohio, went on to play at Ohio State and became a pro golfer. After taking the same early steps as Memorial founder Jack Nicklaus, Bo Hoag hopes to also move on to a successful career. “Similar pasts, Arlington and Ohio State,” Hoag said on the eve of playing in his first Memorial Tournament. Hoag, 23, received a sponsor’s exemption to make the field in just his second PGA Tour event. He missed the cut earlier this spring at the Honda Classic. He is the grandson of Bob Hoag, one of the founding members of Muirfield Village Golf Club, and his family has long been close to the Nicklauses. He has played Muirfield over 100 times, he said, and will be fighting his nerves when he plays in Thursday’s opening round. Hoag will now play in a tournament that he used to attend every year. “I can’t think of one event that’s inspired me more to be a professional golfer, kind of growing up as a youngster, just seeing some players on the range or watching them on the course and thinking, ‘Oh, this is pretty cool. I’d like to do this someday,’” he said. NO LONGER LOST: Not so long ago, Ben Curtis had dropped off the golf map. He had lost his PGA Tour card for the first time in a decade and had played just four times on tour this season. All of a sudden, lightning struck. He salvaged par with a 20-footer from the fringe at the 17th and then added an insurance birdie on the 72nd hole to win the Texas Open last month. Then he tied for 13th at New Orleans, for fifth at Wells Fargo and for second at The Players. Amazingly, he earned $2,096,730 in a span of four tournaments — more than the $2,035,126 he made from 2009-2011 combined. His entire approach has changed. “You just feel like when you show up you’re going to do good things, instead of, OK, how am I not going to have a disaster?” said the surprise winner of the 2003 British Open. “Before, I was playing and I’m trying to do everything I can to not make bogeys and doublebogeys, where now I’m just going out there and trying to make as many birdies as I can.” bigger news when he tossed the club at Wentworth on his way to missing the cut by a mile. He gets just as much attention off the course for going to Italy after The Players Championship and to Paris for a day after missing the cut at Wentworth to see his girlfriend, tennis star Caroline Wozniacki. “Last week I threw my 6-iron on the 12th hole, and I didn’t think it was that big of a deal,” McIlroy said. “And then I wake up the next morning and it’s all over the papers in the U.K. And I’m just like, ‘Oh, my god.’ It’s just one of those things, and it’s something I’m going to have to deal with and learn how to do.” Donald, even though he has been at No. 1 for all but two months of the last two years, doesn’t face this kind of constant scrutiny. Even so, he remembers what it was like to be 23 and seeking to find a balance between a girlfriend and golf and everything else that goes into trying to be the best. “You can’t blame the kid,” Donald said. “But he’s obviously realized that, and it looks like he’s trying to focus on practicing a little bit harder and getting back to what he does. It’s a tough game. Certainly for me, from a personal standpoint, if I don’t put the work in, I’m not going to get the results. Rory sounds like he’s got to that point where everything has been pretty easy up until this point, and he’s come into a little bit of a bad run of form. This game does that to you. “It’s a fickle game, and it’s tough,” he said. “You’ve just got to work through it.” McIlroy is working. Despite all the attention on his quick trip to the Paris, he spent some seven hours on the range at Wentworth the day after missing the cut. He put in a full day at the gym Sunday, practiced for six hours with swing coach Michael Bannon on Tuesday and was back on the range at Muirfield Village after his pro-am. McIlroy said he looked at old video with Bannon in his hotel room to seek out flaws. He thinks he found them and now is working to get back to where he was. Along the way, he found time for some important matters. A year ago, he went to Haiti on a UNICEF trip to meet with kids who survived the earthquake. McIlroy always has time for kids, perhaps because he still feels like one himself. At Quail Hollow this year, where he was in a threeman playoff won by Rickie Fowler, McIlroy filmed a commercial with a 7-yearold undergoing chemotherapy. And at the Memorial, he met a young boy named Tucker before his pro-am round as part of the MakeA-Wish Foundation. Tucker had two open-heart surgeries before he was 6. McIlroy met him later on the range and watched him hit balls. “I started to give him some advice and he started to not hit so well, so I just shut up,” McIlroy said. Balance From Page 11 honors players and other notables who have furthered the game of golf. Tom Watson, long a nemesis but also a good friend of Memorial founder Jack Nicklaus, is the 2012 honoree. A visibly moved Nicklaus broke down and had great difficulty introducing Watson during Wednesday’s ceremony. It was Watson who beat Nicklaus in two of the most famous headto-head showdowns in golf history. Watson chipped in from the deep rough behind the 17th green at Pebble Beach to defeat Nicklaus in the 1982 U.S. Open. “I thought he was in deep rough and out of the hole,” Nicklaus said. “But he didn’t!” He also held off Nicklaus in a dramatic two-man battle over the final 36 holes — dubbed “The Duel in the Sun” — to win the 1977 British Open at Turnberry. “I had a couple of lucky breaks along the way,” said Rory From Page 11 more rounds,” he said. “These two-day weeks aren’t really that good for me.” He has lost his No. 1 ranking (again) to Donald. He has lost out on a chance to play on the weekend. He has not lost his perspective, his refreshing honesty and some of that self-deprecating humor. By playing next week in Memphis, that means McIlroy will not see Olympic until he arrives for the U.S. Open. “I’m planning on … getting there on Sunday night. Do you know what I mean,” he said with a smile, another dig at himself by suggesting that he hopes to be playing on the weekend at the St. Jude Classic. McIlroy, who turned 23 earlier this month, already is getting the scrutiny that has accompanied Woods his entire career, and Mickelson when he went a decade without winning a major. It was big news when he missed the cut at Sawgrass as the No. 1 player, and even � 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 05. May 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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