https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/fc00f5713960ca6596deda373c4ce3e8.pdf 3514c27a444bd9585605a79ccb4de3a6 PDF Text Text log onto www.mydailysentinel.com for archive • games • features • e-edition • polls & more Middleport•Pomeroy, Ohio INSIDE STORY WEATHER SPORTS Dr. Brothers .... Page 2 Sunny. High near 49. Low around 24. ........ Page 2 Boys basketball action .... Page 6 OBITUARIES Frances L. Carleton, 87 Doris E. Fulks, 71 Gerald Kelly, 81 Cole Eli Nida Detner Roush, Jr., 82 Carol Sisson, 77, Grace E. Thornton, 91 50 cents daily THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2012 Vol. 62, No. 227 Council approves temporary appropriations for 2013 Charlene Hoeflich choeflich@mydailysentinel.com MIDDLEPORT — Temporary appropriations in the amount of $1,733,000 for village operations in 2013 were approved by Middleport Village Council at Monday night’s meeting. Adjustments to that figure may come when Council approves permanent appropriations prior to the March 31 deadline. At the meeting to request per- mission to collect scrap metal from along the riverbank in Middleport was Adam Nettles. The riverbank belongs to the village, according to Mayor Mike Gerlach. Nettles was given permission to collect the scrap iron along the riverline, and asked to check with adjacent property owners if collecting material beyond that. Council approved accepting the Delay sculpture which will be placed in the lobby of the Middleport Village Hall. The sculp- ture is being designed by Robert Delay, former resident, and will be cast in bronze. The casting is being paid for by Middleport alumni. A report from Chief of Police Bruce Swift shows that 18 traffic citations, 27 criminal citations, and eight warrants were handled in mayor’s court, that receipts were $6,079, and that eight crash reports, 54 dispatch reports, and 23 incident reports were handled through the police department. It was announced that at the 6 p.m. Dec. 20 Community Watch meeting, Lt. Joel Lynch will conduct a drug awareness program. The report from the fire department shows nine calls answered in November requiring 104 man hours on calls, 66 man hours on station and equipment maintenance, and 53 on training. As for Jail Administrator Mony Wood’s report, it showed that to date this year $166,002.98 has been billed for outside housing in the jail. A total of 597 inmates have been booked since the jail opened in the spring with 395 coming from other agencies, according to the report. An extensive report of work done during over the past month was given by Faymon Roberts, Middleport Village administrator. It included everything from digging graves to installing Christmas lights. Community Association plans free movie events Group looking for new officers, members Sarah Hawley shawley@heartlandpublications.com Photos by Carrie Wolfe A special guest straight from the North Pole made an appearance at the Reconnecting Youth finale. Show connects community Carrie Wolfe Special to The Daily Sentinel RACINE — A simple idea to raise funds for local scholarships has become a community event and brings back a holiday tradition. The annual Reconnecting Youth (R.Y.) talent show at Southern High School in Meigs County is now connecting with regional talent to provide one spectacular evening showcasing youth. The event brought talent together from across county borders and the Ohio River through a cooperative effort with the Gallia-Meigs Performing Arts. “We have partnered with Southern’s After School Kids (ASK program) and have also teamed up with the Gallia-Meigs Performing Arts. Several area students participated in the show,” said Amy Roush. She is the teacher of Southern’s R.Y. class that focuses on helping teens succeed and remove personal barriers. The students from both RY and ASK programs decorated the Charles W. Hayman Gymnasium for the show Saturday night. They also served dinner. Brenna Call, ASK coordinator assisted the students as well as prepare for the event. The show and dinner are used as a major fundraiser for scholarships for youth that have been through the R.Y. program. The show featured various dance numbers and musical talent. “I am very pleased to see the wonderful turnout and all of the youth that have shared their talent with us. It is just exciting. We have seen the show steadily grow,” Roush said. She noted attendance was up so much, they ran short on food. She said more than 200 people attended the show. Through the participation of the Gallia-Meigs Performing Arts, youth from Gallia, Meigs and Mason County performed. Singing performances included Kalandra Nero, Tedra Sayre and Jamie O’Brien. Jacob Hoback played his trumpet with piano accompaniment. Student rock band, Rich Requirement also performed. Rich Requirement consists of Brayden Easthom, Austin Wolfe, Derek and Damon Ledford. Dance numbers included performances by members of the Gallia-Meigs Performing Arts, Abby Eades, Jaden Conolly, Natalie Harrison, Madison and Marlee Maynard. See SHOW ‌| 5 The Reconnecting Youth Talent Show has become an annual tradition during the holidays. MIDDLEPORT — The Middleport Community Association will host two movie events on Dec. 22 at Middleport Village Hall. A children’s movie will take place at 2 p.m., with a movie for grown-ups at 7 p.m. The children’s movie will feature two kids Christmas movies running about one and a half hours total. A Christmas classic will be shown at 7 p.m. for the adults in attendance. The movies are free to the public and will be held in the gymnasium of Middleport Village Hall, the former Middleport Elementary. Those attending may bring their own snacks to enjoy during the move. Kids must be accompanied by an adult (18 or older). No re-entry will be permitted. The community association plans several annual events which take place in the Village of Middleport each year. Some of the events include Lunch Along the River, the Fourth of July celebration, and the Christmas events. New officers are needed for the group and will be elected at the next meeting at 9 a.m. on Jan. 8 at Middleport Village Hall. Anyone one interested in helping to make these and other events a continued success is encouraged to attend the meeting. Reconnecting Youth: A program for at-risk kids Carrie Wolfe Special to Ohio Valley Newspapers Hallie Kearns, of New Haven, W.Va., was all smiles as she was dressed up to perform Shirley Temple’s “Smile” with several friends. Addie Hayman and Maggie Cummings help decorate for the Reconnecting Youth talent show at Southern High School. The girls are participants in the engaging youth class directed helping teens succeed. RACINE — Reconnecting Youth is a class, but it is more than that. Reconnecting Youth is an evidence-based program for at-risk youth. R.Y. focuses on three factors to help students reach their potential: increased school performance; decreased drug involvement; decreased emotional distress. Not all students who participate have all of those issues. It is geared on helping them break down barriers for school and life. R.Y. is an important part of the day for many students and they look forward to the show. Amy Roush has attended special training to lead the program at Southern High School in Meigs County. It is a program that is important to the youth that participate. “Miss Amy helps us with our problems. Everyone keeps everything in the classroom,” said Addie Hayman, one of Roush’s students. “We have a lot of support that helps us make better choices.” Choices are not presented as being “good” or “bad”. In the class, students learn to make “healthy choices” and how to judge what would be an “unhealthy choice.” Hayman said that the class is very helpful with understanding choices. R.Y. focuses on small group settings with proven curriculum to guide students to learn more about themselves, others and how to make healthy decisions. Groups and individuals from Gallia County, Ohio and Mason County, W.Va. recently participated in an annual talent show held in Meigs County to support Reconnecting Youth programs. Community locations for dog license sales POMEROY — Again this year, Tom Proffitt, Meigs County dog warden, will be going out into the communities to sell dog tags. The deadline for buying tags for dogs is Jan. 31. The cost is $8 for a regular tag, or $40 for hunters and breeders for a kennel license. Tags can also be purchased at the Meigs County Auditor’[s office in the Courthouse from 8 a.m.to 4 p.m. daily or at the dog shelter on the Rock Springs Fairgrounds from 8:30 to 11 a.m. Questions regarding the sale of dog licenses can be directed to Proffitt at 992-3779. The schedule for the remainder of December for community visits, as announced by Proffitt is as follows: Thursday, Dec. 13 – Powells in Pomeroy, 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14, Middleport Village Hall, 1 to 3 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17, Wolfe’s Hot Spot in Portland, 1 to 3 p.m Tuesday, Dec. 18, Rutland Department Store, 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesday Dec. 19, Connie’s Corner in Langsville, 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, Powells 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21, Hill’s Citgo at Racine, 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 27, Powells, 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 28, TNT Pit Stop in Syracuse, 1 to 3 p.m. The schedule for January is as follows: Wednesday, Jan. 2, Middleport Village Hall, 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Jan 3 – Powells, 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 4, Wolfe’s Hot Spot in Portland, 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5 Powells, 2 to 4 p.m.. Monday, Jan. 7 Rutland Department Store, 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 87, Racine Hills Citgo, 2 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 9, Pageville General Store, 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 10, Powells, 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11, Connie’s Corner, Langsville, 1 to 3 p.m. �Thursday, December 13, 2012 The Daily Sentinel • Page 2 www.mydailysentinel.com Meigs County Community Calendar Thursday, Dec. 13 POMEROY — Meigs County Board of Elections, 8:30 a.m., regular meeting with audit of last election. POMEROY — A free community dinner will be held Thursday, Dec. 13 with serving from 5:3007 p.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church. Ham, scalloped potatoes, vegetable, dessert and drinks. The public is invited. POMEROY — The Meigs County American Cancer Society Volunteer Leadership Council/Survivorship Taskforce for today has been cancelled. The next meeting will be held on March 7, 2013. For more information contact Courtney Midkiff at (740) 992-6626 ext. 24. POMEROY — The Alpha Iota Masters will hold there Christmas luncheon meeting at 11:30 a.m. at the Meigs Museum. Please Local Briefs Meals on Wheels Benefit Dinner POMEROY — A benefit dinner for the Meals on Wheels will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Meigs Senior Center, Pomeroy The cost is $15. A chicken Cordon Bleu dinner with appetizer and dessert tables will be featured. bring food for the food pantry. TUPPERS PLAINS — VFW Post 9053 will meet at 7 p.m. at the hall, with the meal at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15 TUPPERS PLAINS — Tuppers Plains St. Paul U.M. Church Christmas Play “Star Of Wonder” will be presented at 7 p.m. Everyone Welcome. SALEM CENTER — session at 6:30 p.m. in the high school media center. LETART TWP. — The Letart Township Trustees will meet at 5 p.m. at the Letart Township building. POMEROY — The regular meeting of the Meigs County Library Board will be held at 3:30 p.m. at the Pomeroy Library. Star Grange #778 and Star Junior Grange #878 will hold their fun night and potluck supper on at 6:30 p.m. at the grange hall located on County Road 1, three miles north of Salem Center. All interested persons are invited to attend. Class of 1959 will be having their “3rd Friday” lunch at Fox’s Pizza Den, 518 E. Main Street, Pomeroy at noon. Friday, Dec. 21 POMEROY — The Pomeroy High School Birthday CHESTER — Harold Newell will celebrate his 80th birthday on Dec. 22. a celebration will be held from 2-4 p.m. at the Chester United Methodist Church. No gifts please. Christmas Program REEDSVILLE — The Reedsville United Methodist Church will be having a Charlie Brown Christmas Community program at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 15. There will be a special visit from Santa. Everyone is invited to enjoy this holiday program. The Reedsville United Methodist Church is located on Ohio 124 in Reedsville across from Reeds Country Store. Monday, Dec. 17 RACINE — The Southern Local Board of Education will meet in regular Meigs Church Calendar Live Nativity RACINE — I live nativity will be presented by the Carmel-Sutton United Methodist Church from 5-8 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 16 at Star Mill Park in Racine. Breakfast with Santa Cookies, hot chocolate and POMEROY — The Meigs County Historical Society coffee will be available. will host Breakfast with Santa on Saturday, Dec. 15, from 9 to 11 a.m. in the Museum Annex. The menu will consist of all-you-can eat pancakes, sausage and scrambled eggs. Donation are $5 for adults and $3 for children, 12 and under. There will be crafts for the children. Church Sing LONG BOTTOM — A sing featuring the Crossroads Messengers will be held at 7 p.m Friday night at the Faith Full Gospel Church located on Route 124, Long Bottom. Point man pleads guilty to robbery, tampering Amber Gillenwater Wasonga’s bond was set at Garrett was taken into custody MEIGS SWCD office move mdtnews@mydailytribune.com $30,000, own recognizance with without incident after he turned POMEROY — The Meigs Soil and Water Conservation an additional $1,500 10 percent himself into the Gallia County District will have limited phone service for a time due to GALLIPOLIS — The prosecu- Sheriff’s office on June 12. bond. an impending office move into new quarters. Until furtion and respective defense counThe defendant was released from Redmond was also taken into ther notice call 992-4282. selors are moving forward in their custody on June 12 at the sheriff’s the Gallia County Jail following his negotiations surrounding four in- office, Williams was arrested at hearing. He had been held under a Holiday Office Closures POMEROY — The Meigs County Clerk of Courts legal dividuals charged in relation to the the Gallia Metropolitan Estates in $1 million, 10 percent bond since office and title office will be closed on Dec. 24, 25 and June murder of a Gallipolis man. Bidwell and Wasonga was later lo- his arrest in June. Eugene O. Wasonga, 25, Point cated and taken into custody with Jan. 1. The journal entry filed in this POMEROY — The Meigs County Health Department Pleasant, entered a plea of guilty the help of the West Virginia State case stipulates that a sentencing will be closed from 2-4 p.m. on Friday Dec. 14. to one count of robbery and one Police. hearing will be held on January 11 count of tampering with evidence As plea negotiations continue in the common pleas court. HowFood for Fines during an arraignment hearing in between the parities involved in ever, according to Adkins, as WaPOMEROY — The Meigs County District Public Li- the Common Pleas Court of Gallia the cases against Williams and songa has agreed to testify against braries will be accepting non-perishable food items in lieu County on Tuesday, while negotiaall of his other co-defendants, he of fines during the month of December. These items will tions have commenced in the cases Redmond, according to Gallia will only be sentenced once he has County Prosecutor Jeff Adkins, a be distributed to area food banks. For more information against Lacey S. Redmond, 26, plea agreement filed in the case completed his obligation to testify please contact (740) 992-5813. Gallipolis, and Steven L. Williams, against Wasonga came in exchange against them in court, if necessary, 31, Bidwell. for the defendant’s possible testi- and the cases against the other dePotential Boil Advisory Wasonga had been charged, mony against his co-defendants. fendants accused in the murder of POMEROY — The hydrant replacement project in the Prior to Tuesday’s hearing, new Taylor are settled. Village of Pomeroy began on Dec. 3. Water customers along Redmond and Williams, In the case against Redmond, a within the village may experience a boil advisory or tem- with conspiracy to commit aggra- charges of robbery and tampering porary water shut off for repair and connection of water vated robbery, aggravated robbery with evidence were filed in a new recent entry indicates that a status lines. Anyone with questions is asked to contact Village and complicity to commit murder case against Wasonga in a bill of conference was held in this case on Administrator Paul Hellman. following the death of Zane T. Tay- information. The charges in his December 4 and negotiations have lor, 33, at his Ohio 218 home on original case were dropped as the commenced. Upcoming Blood Drives the afternoon of June 11. A jury trial in Redmond’s case new charges and the negotiated MEIGS COUNTY — Two upcoming blood drives have James C. Garrett, 21, Point plea were filed. has been continued to January 14, been scheduled in Meigs County. The first will be from Pleasant, was also arrested in conThe plea agreement filed on 2013. The plea deadline in this 1-6 p.m. on Dec. 26 at the Mulberry Community Center. nection to this case and is the only Tuesday stipulates that Wasonga, case is December 28. The second is scheduled from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. on Dec. 31 at suspect being charged with murIn the case against Williams, a pending his cooperation via posthe Middleport Church of Christ der. He is also facing charges of sible testimony against his co-de- entry filed on November 30 and aggravated robbery and conspiracy fendants, will receive 30 months of signed by Adkins requests an exImmunization clinic incarceration for the charge of rob- tension for the plea filing deadline, POMEROY — The Meigs County Health Department to commit aggravated robbery. According to testimony given bery and 12 months of incarcera- but indicates that a tentative plea will conduct a Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Clinic from 9-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. on Tuesday at the Meigs during a preliminary hearing in tion for tampering with evidence. agreement has been reached in County Health Department. Please bring shot record and this case, the suspects allegedly These sentences will be ordered to this case. A journal entry filed on Decemmedical card or commercial insurance if applicable. Children traveled together to Taylor’s home be served consecutively for a total must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. A do- on June 11 where Redmond made of three and a half years in a state ber 7 in the case against Garrett nation is appreciated, but not required. Flu and pneumonia initial contact with the victim. The prison. schedules a hearing on a motion to shots will also be available for a fee. For more information remaining three suspects then alDuring the hearing, Wasonga substitute counsel for December contact the Health Department at 992-6626. legedly entered Taylor’s home to entered a plea of guilty, and a pre- 20. rob the victim of money and/or sentence investigation was ordered According to the entry, attorneys items of value that could be located to be completed by the Adult Pro- Todd A. Long and James D. Owen throughout the residence. bation Department prior to the de- have filed notices of substitution of counsel indicating that they will The suspects reportedly told fendant’s sentencing. investigators that it was Garrett’s Also during the hearing, defense be substituting defense counselor “job” to hold the victim to prevent counselor Pat Story moved for an Richard Hedges in this case. Thursday: Areas of fog between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. Patchy his involvement in the robbery — own recognizance bond in this Redmond, Williams and Garrett dense freezing fog before 8 a.m. Otherwise, sunny, with a a choke hold that allegedly caused case, and the state also requested continue to be held under $1 milhigh near 49. Light and variable wind. lion, 10 percent bonds. a reasonable bond. Thursday Night: Clear, with a low around 24. Calm wind. Taylor’s death. Friday: Sunny, with a high near 54. Calm wind becoming southwest around 6 mph in the morning. Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 29. Light south wind. Saturday: A slight chance of showers after 3 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 55. Chance of precipitation is 20 percent. Saturday Night: Showers likely, mainly between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m. Cloudy, with a low around 43. Chance of precipiDear Dr. sible that she the wrong direction. Liv- to expect of twins of all tation is 60 percent. Brothers: Our has run afoul of ing far away doesn’t mean stripes. Your challenge is Sunday: A chance of showers. Cloudy, with a high near daughter is 15 some mean but that your daughter is safe to know them as individu55. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent. popular girls and sound; she still needs als and treat them as such; Sunday Night: A chance of showers. Cloudy, with a low and attends a boarding school and doesn’t your input on using good it’s a little easier for a boy around 38. Chance of precipitation is 40 percent. several want to admit judgment. and a girl, because they Monday: Rain likely. 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BBT (NYSE) — 28.84 and make sure that really is school to make sure your or act in the identical ways (c) 2012 by King Feathe case. It’s entirely pos- daughter is not headed in that many people seem tures Syndicate Ohio Valley Forecast Ask Dr. Brothers Is her daughter being bullied? Local stocks �Thursday, December 13, 2012 The Daily Sentinel • Page 3 www.mydailysentinel.com Ohio reaches agreement on coordinated medical care COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio and the federal government reached an agreement Wednesday on a plan aimed at better coordinating medical care for some of the state’s sickest and most expensive patients. Gov. John Kasich’s administration wants to streamline the way health care is delivered to people enrolled in both Medicaid and Medicare. Ohio has more than 182,000 so-called “dual-eligible” individuals. And while they make up only 14 percent of total the state’s Medicaid enrollment, they account for almost 40 percent of total Medicaid spending, according to state figures. Coordinating care is expected to save the state and federal government $243 million in Medicaid spending through the end of 2016, said Ohio Medicaid Director John McCarthy. The bigger benefit, he said, will be better health care. Providers, as an example, will make decisions based on need rather than whether it’s paid for by Medicaid or Medicare, McCarthy said. “That’s our No. 1 concern,” he said, “making sure the person gets what they need.” The federal Medicare program serves the elderly and disabled, while Medicaid provides coverage for the poor though state and federal funding. The two programs operate fairly independently of each other. Medicare generally helps pay for doctor and hospital visits, along with prescription drugs. Medicaid typically helps pay for long-term care, such as nursing homes, among other services. Officials worked to create a three-year demonstration project aimed at better coordinating the care of the beneficiaries in the programs. The project would affect a portion of the dual-eligible population — almost 114,000 people living in seven urban regions. Voluntary enrollment in the program begins Sept. 1. Federal officials had to sign off on the project before the state could move forward. Wednesday’s agreement makes Ohio the third state — after Massachusetts and Washington — to finalize such a proposal, the Kasich administration said. As a result of the lack of connection between Medicaid and Medicare, some patients are more costly to the system, officials say. For instance, a patient could be discharged from a hospital to a nursing home instead of to a less expensive home-based care because the two programs aren’t talking to each other in the same setting. The state wants to better link the two programs so that the beneficiaries have to work with only a single entity to receive the services. Individuals would get a care manager to help them with medical decisions and to live independently if they are still at home. Ohio’s plan is also designed to eliminate unnecessary health tests, prevent medication errors and keep people healthier and out of emergency rooms. “Better care coordination across the state means healthier Ohioans, and it will also help in driving down costs in the long run,” Kasich said in a statement. Gov’t arrests illegal immigrant Senate intern WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez employed as an unpaid intern in his Senate office an illegal immigrant who was a registered sex offender, now under arrest by immigration authorities, The Associated Press has learned. The Homeland Security Department instructed federal agents not to arrest him until after Election Day, a U.S. official involved in the case told the AP. Luis Abrahan Sanchez Zavaleta, an 18-year-old immigrant from Peru, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in front of his home in New Jersey on Dec. 6, two federal officials said. Sanchez, who entered the country on a now-expired visitor visa from Peru, is facing depor- tation and remains in custody. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss details of Sanchez’s immigration case. A spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not immediately respond to a request for further details. Menendez, D-N.J., who advocates aggressively for pro-immigration policies, was re-elected in November with 58 percent of the vote. Congressional staffers who work for Menendez were notified about Sanchez’s case shortly after the arrest. Sanchez told ICE agents that he worked on immigration issues for the senator. A spokesman for Menendez said she was looking into the matter. Online jail records did not indicate whether Sanchez has an attorney. Immigration officials there were relaying a request from the AP to speak with Sanchez in jail. The prosecutor’s office in Hudson County, N.J., said Sanchez was found to have violated the law in 2010 and subsequently required to register as a sex offender. The exact charge was unclear because Sanchez was prosecuted as a juvenile and those court records are not publicly accessible. The prosecutor’s office confirmed to AP that Sanchez registered as a sex offender, although his name does not appear on the public registry. Authorities in Hudson County notified ICE agents in early October that they suspected San- chez was an illegal immigrant who was a registered sex offender and who may be eligible to be deported. ICE agents in New Jersey notified superiors at the Homeland Security Department because they considered it a potentially high profile arrest, and DHS instructed them not to arrest Sanchez until after the November election, one U.S. official told the AP. ICE officials complained that the delay was inappropriate, but DHS directed them several times not to act, the official said. It was not immediately clear why federal immigration authorities would not have been notified sooner about Sanchez’s status. During discussions about when and where to arrest Sanchez, the U.S. reviewed Sanchez’s application for permission to stay in the country as part of President Barack Obama’s policy to allow up to 1.7 million young illegal immigrants avoid deportation and get permission to work for up to two years. As a sex offender, he would not have been eligible. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which oversees the program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, notified Sanchez of that shortly before his arrest, one official said. During the final weeks of President George W. Bush’s administration, ICE was criticized for delaying the arrest of President Barack Obama’s aunt, who had ignored an immigration judge’s order to leave the country several years earlier after her asylum claim was denied. She subsequently won the right to stay in the United States after an earlier deportation order, and there was no evidence of involvement by the White House. In that case, the Homeland Security Department had imposed an unusual directive days before the 2008 election requiring high-level approval before federal agents nationwide could arrest fugitive immigrants including Zeituni Onyango, the half-sister of Obama’s late father. The directive from ICE expressed concerns about “negative media or congressional interest,” according to a copy of that directive obtained by AP. The department lifted the immigration order weeks later. Former Massey Official: Syria fires Scud missiles at rebels mine exec set to enter plea Jan. 16 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Syrian government forces have fired Scud missiles at insurgents in recent days, escalating the 2-year-old conflict against rebels seeking to overthrow the regime, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, two officials said forces of President Bashar Assad have fired the missiles from the Damascus area into northern Syria. These officials asked not to be named because they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly. News of the missiles came on the same day that more than 100 countries, including the United States, recognized a new Syrian opposition coalition. That has further isolated Assad’s regime and opened a way for greater humanitarian assistance to the forces battling to oust him. One official said there was no indication that chemical weapons were aboard the missiles. Officials have said over the past week that they feared rebel advances were prompting Assad to consider using chemical weapons. This official estimated that the number of Scuds fired was more than a half dozen, confirming details first reported by The New York Times. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Assad has fired missiles, but wouldn’t specify what kind. “As the regime becomes more and more desperate, we see it resorting to increased lethality and more vicious weapons moving forward and we have in recent days seen missiles deployed,” she said. White House press secretary Jay Carney, speaking to reporters, said he could not confirm the report, but said if true it would be a sign of desperation. “The idea that the Syrian regime would launch missiles, within its borders, at its own people, is stunning, desperate and a completely disproportionate military escalation,” Carney said. The new development happened as officials planned an international conference to further assist opposition to Assad. BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) — An ex-president of Massey Energy’s White Buck Coal Co. will enter a plea on conspiracy charges in January. David Hughart is set to appear Jan. 16 before U.S. District Judge Irene Berger in Beckley. Hughart is cooperating in a continuing investigation of the Upper Big Branch mine disaster, an April 2010 explosion at another former Massey operation that killed 29 men. Massey and the mine are now owned by Virginiabased Alpha Natural Resources. Prosecutors say Hughart worked with unnamed co-conspirators to ensure miners at White Buck and other, unidentified Massey-owned operations got advance warning about surprise federal inspections many times between 2000 and March 2010. That allegedly gave workers time to conceal life-threatening violations that could have led to citations and shutdowns. Hughart faces up to six years behind bars. Mich. becomes right-to-work state despite protests LANSING, Mich. (AP) — In a dizzyingly short time span, Republicans have converted Michigan from a seemingly impregnable fortress of organized labor into a right-to-work state, leaving outgunned Democrats and union activists with little recourse but to shake their fists and seek retribution at the ballot box. The state House swiftly approved two bills reducing unions’ strength Tuesday, one dealing with private-sector workers and the other with public employees, as thousands of furious protesters at the state Capitol roared in vain. Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed the measures into law within hours, calling them “proworker and pro-Michigan.” “Workers deserve the right to decide for themselves whether union membership benefits them,” Snyder said. “Introducing freedom-to-work in Michigan will contribute to our state’s economic comeback while preserving the roles of unions and collective bargaining.” House Speaker Jase Bolger exulted after the vote that Michigan’s future “has never been brighter,” while Democrats and union activists said workers had been doomed to ever-lower living standards. Lacking enough votes to block the measures or force a statewide referendum, oppo- nents set their sights on the 2014 election. “Passing these bills is an act of war on Michigan’s middle class, and I hope the governor and the Republican legislators are ready for the fight that is about to ensue,” said Gretchen Whitmer, the Senate Democratic leader. As one of 24 states with right-to-work laws, Michigan will prohibit requiring nonunion employees to pay unions for negotiating contracts, representing them in grievances and other services. Supporters say the law gives workers freedom of association and promote job creation, while critics insist the real intent is to drain unions of funds needed to bargain effectively. Labor has suffered a series of setbacks in Rust Belt states since the 2010 election propelled tea party conservatives to power across much of the region. Even so, the ruthless efficiency with which Republicans prevailed on rightto-work was breathtaking in Michigan, birthplace of the United Auto Workers, where unions have long been political titans. The seeds were planted two years ago with the election of Snyder, a former venture capitalist and CEO who pledged to make the state more businessfriendly, and GOP supermajorities in the House and Senate. They have chipped away repeatedly at union power, even as Snyder insisted the big prize — right-to-work — was “not on my agenda.” Fearing the governor wouldn’t be able to restrain his allies in the Legislature, labor waged a pre-emptive strike with a ballot initiative known as Proposal 2 that would have made right-to-work laws unconstitutional. It was soundly defeated in last month’s election, and Snyder said Tuesday the unions had miscalculated by bringing the issue to center stage. “I don’t believe we would be standing here in this time frame if it hadn’t been for Proposal 2,” the governor said at a news conference after signing the bills. “After the election, there was an extreme escalation on right-to-work that was very divisive.” After days of private talks with legislative and union leaders, Snyder threw his support behind the measures last Thursday. Within hours, Senate Republicans had introduced and approved them without the usual committee hearings. After a mandatory five-day waiting period, the House did likewise Tuesday. It happened so quickly that opponents had little time to generate the massive resistance put forward in Indiana, where right-towork was approved earlier this year, and Wisconsin during consideration of a 2011 law curtailing collective bargaining rights for most state employees. Those measures provoked weeks of intense debate, with Democrats boycotting sessions to delay action and tens of thousands of activists occupying statehouses. Still, Michigan unions mustered thousands of protesters who massed in the Capitol’s hallways, rotunda and front lawn. Crowds formed before dawn on a chilly morning. Four oversized, inflatable toy rats bearing the names of Snyder and GOP legislative leaders were on display. “They’re selfish. They’re greedy. They’re Republican,” said Susan Laurin, 60, of Saginaw, a secretary with the state Department of Transportation, wearing a hard hat like many fellow demonstrators. Seventh-grade teacher Jack Johnson, of East Lansing, said the GOP’s goal was obvious: “You take away money from the unions and they can’t support the Democratic candidates, and the Republicans take over.” “No justice, no peace!” protesters chanted, the chorus reaching a deafening din as the House prepared to vote. “Shame on you!” they shouted from the House gallery as the results were announced. Republicans insisted the bills were given adequate consideration, as the issue had been debated across the state for years. Snyder said he saw no reason to delay signing the measures, especially with opponents still hoping to dissuade him. “They can finish up, and they can go home because they know … making more comments on that is not going to change the outcome,” he said. “I view this as simply trying to get this issue behind us.” Don’t count on it, state Democratic Chairman Mark Brewer retorted. “If Gov. Snyder thinks that Michigan citizens will go home and forget about what happened in Lansing today, he is sorely mistaken,” state Democratic Chairman Mark Brewer said. “Snyder has set the tone for the next two years, and this fight is not over.” Snyder said he expects the law to be challenged in court but believes it will stand. Opponents also said they might seek recalls of some legislators. Meanwhile, unions must adapt to a new reality. The law takes effect 90 days after the Legislature adjourns. Even then, workers bound by existing contracts won’t be able to stop paying union fees until those deals expire. But activists fear some will opt out at first opportunity. “A lot of people like to freeload,” said Sharon McMullen, an employee of the state Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. 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A Bud Light is $6. — US Airways has partnered with mixer company Stirrings to sell mojitos and cosmos for $8 each. — Delta offers the “Sky Breeze,” which is vodka, Fresca and a splash of cranberry-apple juice over ice for $7. It also sells small batch bourbon from Woodford Reserve for $7. Other airlines create drinks to get travelers into the mindset of their destination. United sells a “Trader Vic’s Mai Tai” for $9 on flights to and from Hawaii. “It’s simply a matter of finding a way to get people to spend money,” says Henry Harteveldt, a travel industry analyst with Hudson Crossing. “They see people spending $12, $14, $15 or more for fancy martinis, cosmopolitans or other beverages on the ground.” Flying isn’t what it used to be. Long lines, everchanging security rules and limited overhead bin space have all made traveling much more stressful. It’s no wonder many passengers look for a little escape. Airlines — who created much of this anxiety — are happy to oblige. “We wanted to do stuff to surprise people, be a little more different and have fun,” says Megan Mosier Ireland, who helps design Delta’s drink offerings. The specialty drinks are part of a larger push to get passengers to pay for a little in-flight luxury. Fliers can now opt for more legroom, Internet access or even shorter security lines, all for an extra fee. Those perks and others — along with baggage fees — now account for nearly 7 percent of U.S. airlines’ revenue. That’s up from just 2 percent five years ago. The government doesn’t require airlines to break out specific data on alcohol sales. But airlines are clearly doing everything they can to drive liquor sales. And it’s not just by putting fancy drinks on the menu. Want to buy a drink for that lovely lady across the aisle? Virgin America will soon launch a “send a drink” feature. 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Time of year and the destination also determine how many bloody marys, vodka tonics and beers are poured. The week of March 8 — spring break — had the highest overall liquor sales in the last 12 months at nearly $58 a flight. The slowest time of year is right after Christmas and New Year’s, when passengers have already had plenty to drink and many are traveling with their families. Alcohol sales on flights heading to Las Vegas average $99, nearly double the industry average. The trip home isn’t as happy; only $49 in liquor is sold per flight. “Vegas passengers are big drinkers,” says Betty Thesky, a flight attendant with a major U.S. airline and author of “Betty in the Sky with a Suitcase: Hilarious Stories of Air Travel by the World’s Favorite Flight Attendant.” Those are the same folks “who sat in the ‘smoking section’ back in the day.” Michael Hill The Associated Press SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — A holiday tradition in this upstate New York resort town has a peppermint twist: pig-shaped hard candies are sold with little metal hammers to smash them at Christmas. The peppermint pigs, which can weigh up to a pound, are considered good luck charms by some. Family members will take turns whacking the piggy tokens of holiday cheer into little candy shards. “We do find that some people are a little taken aback: ‘What’s the whole idea of the pig and the hammer? What are you doing? And is someone insulting me by giving me a pig?’” said Mike Fitzgerald, owner of Saratoga Sweets, which makes the pigs that can be the size of a big bar of bath soap. Fitzgerald has pigs on his brain this time of year. A small crew at his shop south of Saratoga Springs in Halfmoon makes the hard candy from dawn to dark in a shop distinguished by boiling red pots of candy and an overwhelming scent of peppermint. Fitzgerald is hurrying to fill thousands of pig orders around the country. Why pigs? It could be related to the marzipan pigs northern European confectioners make at holiday time as good luck symbols. Fitzgerald said it’s possible chefs at the old hotels in Saratoga Springs in the late 19th century couldn’t easily make marzipan, so they improvised with peppermint hard candy. In the old days, the pig was placed on the Christmas dinner table. Father would wrap it in a napkin and crack it with the steel rod used to sharpen knives so the family could share the sweet-tasting bits, Fitzgerald said. But by the mid-20th century, the area holiday tradition went the way of lit candles on Christmas trees. In 1988, Fitzgerald made a first run of 60 peppermint pigs at the request of the local historical society. He was surprised to see people lining up to buy them, many of them older people who 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. fondly recalled smashing pigs when they were young. He sold out his run and never looked back. “It’s been a pig race ever since. This year we’ll make about 130,000 pigs,” he said. As Fitzgerald spoke, workers stirred bubbling tea pots filled with a Peptopink mix of sugar and corn syrup. The candy mix is hand-poured into cast aluminum molds to make one of three pigs: Holly (3 ounces and 3 1/2-inches long), Noel (a half pound and 5 1/2 inches) or the big man, Clarence (1 pound and 6 inches). The hardened pigs have a shiny, glassy quality other hard candies with a higher corn syrup content lack. A quick strike by Fitzgerald’s hammer shattered a pig. “It has to break like glass,” Fitzgerald said with satisfaction. It’s not as though sales of candy canes — more than 1.8 billion are made a year — are being threatened. But the pigs are a popular item in gift stores in Saratoga Springs and other retailers, dressed in red velvet bags with a shiny, silver hammer. (Once you get the hammer, you can order a refill without one.) “Thanksgiving sort of kicks it off and from here on in, it gets crazy,” said Marianne Barker of Impressions of Saratoga. And the pigs have extended beyond their upstate New York habitat through online sales and catalogs. In Georgia, Lynn Barlow bought a pig on a lark in 1997 and shared it with her family on Christmas. A good luck streak followed that included a raise for her husband, one son bagging the biggest buck of his life and another son’s team winning a basketball tournament. The White, Ga., resident said pigs have been passed around at the holiday table ever since, now with grandchildren taking a turn with the hammer. “My husband hits it first,” Barlow said, “and then the peppermint is hard, so we usually go around the table twice just because the kids enjoy doing it so much.” 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, December 13, 2012 www.mydailysentinel.com The Daily Sentinel • Page 5 Obituaries Frances Louise Carleton Frances Louise Carleton, 87, of Pomeroy, Ohio, departed this life on December 11, 2012, at Overbrook Rehabilitation Center surrounded by her loving family. She was born on February 10, 1925, daughter of the late John Dill and Grace Bumgardner Dill. She was a graduate of Pomeroy High School and she retired from Rocksprings Rehabilitation Center. Frances married William Henry Carleton on February 3, 1945. She was the loving mother of Jim (Connie) Carleton, Mike (Candy) Carleton, Mary Sheets, Sandy (Jeff) Needs and Sally (Buddy) Ervin. She was blessed with twelve grandchildren, Chris (Stacy) Carleton, Mandi (Chad) Roberts, Jason (Sarah) Carleton, B.J. (Megan) Ervin, Seth Carleton, Sara Beth Ervin, Betsy (Kevin) Fields, Deidra Carleton, Scott Needs, Carrie (Mike Jarvis) Sheets, Kacy Ervin and Evan (Rachael) Needs; nineteen great-grandchildren, Taylor, Alison, Kelsey, Sophie, Ella, Brayden, Conner, Gage, Cami, Preston, Alexis, Dalton, Maycee, Adyson, Braxton, Ethan, Treyson, Hunter and Jay. She is also survived by sisters, Faye Watson and Retta Arnett; sisters-in-law, Sara Dill and Barbie Dill; and many nieces and nephews. In addition to her parents, John and Grace Dill, she was preceded in death by her husband, William Carleton; son-in-law, David Sheets; great-grandson, Michael Allan Carleton; brothers, Ellsworth, Charles, Carl, Bill and John Dill; sisters, Kathryn Evans, Mary Starcher and Esther Dill. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, December 14, 2012, at the Anderson McDaniel Funeral Home in Pomeroy with Pastor Arland King officiating. Burial will follow at Rocksprings Cemetery. Visiting hours for family and friends will be held from 5-8 p.m. on Thursday at the funeral home. A registry is available at www.andersonmcdaniel.com. Gerald Kelly Gerald Kelly, 81, of Pomeroy, Ohio, passed away December 11, 2012. He was the son of Charles and Gratus Kelly. He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Park, Chuck, and John; sisters, Opal Bostick and Maxine Aldridge; mother-in-law, Polly Eichinger; and father-inlaw, Allen Eichinger. He was a 1950 graduate of Wahama High School and he was on the Wahama Hall of Fame Committee. He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Bonnie Kelly; son, Dennis (Mary) Kelly; daughter Darla (Doug) Staats; grandsons, Scott (Kelly) Kelly, Bobby Kelly, Cody Kelly and Shannon (Eryn) Staats; and three great-grandchildren. The great loves of Gerald’s life were his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, his family, his friends, singing and golfing. He was a member of New Beginnings United Methodist Church where he sang tenor in the choir. Gerald gave his heart and soul to his family and friends. They were all blessed to have such a loving and generous husband, father, grandfather, brother, brother-in-law, uncle and friend. Gerald sang in barbershop choruses and quartets for over 50 years in several different states. As a member of the Riversblend quartet, he sang at many local functions and brightened Valentines Day for hundreds of people through the years. He was proud to sing with the “Flight 93 Chorus” in Shanksville, Pa., for the 10th anniversary of September 11th. He always brought a smile to family and friends by performing their own personalized serenades. Gerald’s other favorite pastime was golfing. The perfect day for him was a warm summer day on the golf course with his son and grandsons, or his many friends. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, December 15, 2012, at the Anderson McDaniel Funeral Home in Pomeroy with Pastor Brian Dunham officiating. Burial will follow at Beech Grove Cemetery. Friends and family visiting hours will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday at the funeral home. A registry is available at www.andersonmcdaniel.com. Carol Spence Sisson Carol Spence Sisson, 77, of Pomeroy, Ohio, passed away on December 12, 2012. She was born on June 26, 1935, in Pomeroy daughter of the late Floyd and Elsie Roush Spence. She is survived by her husband, Frank Sisson of Pomeroy; daughters, Angela (James) Morrell of McKinney, Texas, and Amy Ferguson of New Haven, West Virginia; grandchildren, Luke (Tiara) Ferguson, Jenna Ferguson, Police: Ore. mall shooter used stolen rifle PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The gunman who killed two people and himself in a shooting rampage at an Oregon mall was 22 years old and used a stolen rifle from someone he knew, authorities said Wednesday. Jacob Tyler Roberts had armed himself with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and had several fully loaded magazines when he arrived at a Portland mall on Tuesday, said Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts. The sheriff said the rifle jammed during the 22-year-old’s attack, but he managed to get it working again. He later shot himself. Authorities don’t yet have a motive but don’t believe he was targeting specific people. Two people — a 54-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man — were killed, and another, Kristina Shevchenko, whose age could not be confirmed, was wounded and in serious condition on Wednesday. Roberts, wearing a hockey-style face mask, parked his 1996 green Volkswagen Jetta in front of the second-floor entrance to Macy’s and walked briskly through the store, into the mall and began firing randomly, police said. He fatally shot Steven Mathew Forsyth of West Linn and Cindy Ann Yuille of Portland, the sheriff said. Roberts then fled along a mall corridor and into a back hallway, down stairs and into a corner where police found him dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot, authorities said. People at the mall were heroic in helping get shoppers out of the building, including medical personnel who rendered aid, Roberts said. In response to previous mass shootings elsewhere, the first arriving officers were trained to form teams and go inside instead of waiting for SWAT. Employees at the mall also received training to handle such a situation. “This could have been much, much worse,” Roberts said. The first 911 call came at 3:29 p.m. Tuesday and officers arrived a minute later. By 3:51 p.m., all the victims and the gunman and rifle had been found. Four SWAT teams spent hours clearing the 1.4 million squarefoot mall, leaving shoppers and workers to hide in fear. Roberts rented a basement room in a modest, single-story Portland home and hadn’t lived there long, said a neighbor, Bobbi Bates. Bates said she saw Roberts leave at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday wearing a dark jacket and jeans, carrying a guitar case. An occupant at the house declined to comment. The mall Santa, Brance Wilson, was waiting for the next child’s Christmas wish when shots rang out, causing the mall to erupt into chaos. About to invite a child to hop onto his lap, Wilson instead dove for the floor and kept his head down as he heard shots being fired upstairs in the mall. “I heard two shots and got out of the chair. I thought a red suit was a pretty good target,” said Wilson, 68. Families waiting for Santa scattered. More shots followed, and Wilson crept away for better cover. Witnesses heard the gunman saying, “I am the shooter,” as he fired rounds from a semi-automatic rifle inside the Clackamas Town Center, a popular suburban mall several miles from downtown Portland. Some were close enough to the shooter to feel the percussion of his gun. Kayla Sprint, 18, was interviewing for a job at a clothing store when she heard shots. “We heard people running back here screaming, yelling ‘911,’” she told The Associated Press. Sprint barricaded herself in the store’s back room until the coast was clear. Jason DeCosta, a manager of a window-tinting company that has a display on the mall’s ground floor, said when he arrived to relieve his co-worker, he heard shots ring out upstairs. DeCosta ran up an escalator, past people who had dropped for cover and glass littering the floor. “I figure if he’s shooting a gun, he’s gonna run out of bullets,” DeCosta said, “and I’m gonna take him.” DeCosta said when he got to the food court, “I saw a gentleman face down, obviously shot in the head.” “A lot of blood,” DeCosta said. “You could tell there was nothing you could do for him.” He said he also saw a woman on the floor who had been shot in the chest. Austin Patty, 20, who works at Macy’s, said he saw a man in a white mask carrying a rifle and wearing a bulletproof vest. There was a series of rapid-fire shots in short succession as Christmas music played. Patty said he dove for the floor and then ran. His Macy’s co-worker, Pam Moore, told the AP the gunman was short, with dark hair. Kira Rowland told KGW-TV that she was shopping at Macy’s with her infant son when the shots started. “All of a sudden you hear two shots, which sounded like balloons popping,” Rowland told the station. “Everybody got on the ground. I grabbed the baby from the stroller and got on the ground.” Rowland said she heard people screaming and crying. “I put the baby back in the stroller and ran,” Rowland said. Kaelynn Keelin was working two stores down from Macy’s when the gunfire began. She watched windows of another store get shot out. She and her co-workers ran to get customers inside their own store to take shelter. “If we would have run out, we would have run right into it,” she said. Shaun Wik, 20, was Christmas shopping with his girlfriend and opened a fortune cookie at the food court. Inside was written: “Live for today. Remember yesterday. Think of tomorrow.” As he read it, he heard three shots. He heard a man he believes was the gunman shout, “Get down!” but Wik and his girlfriend ran. He heard seven or eight more shots. He didn’t turn around. “If I had looked back, I might not be standing here,” Wik said. “I might have been one of the ones who got hit.” Clackamas Town Center is one of the Portland area’s biggest and busiest malls, with 185 stores and a 20-screen movie theater. Holli Bautista, 28, was shopping at Macy’s for a Christmas dress for her daughter when she heard pops that sounded like firecrackers. “I heard people running and screaming and saying ‘Get out, there’s somebody shooting,’” she told the AP. David Morrell and Cate Morrell; and great-grandson, Jordan. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her daughter, Amanda Hoffman. Private services will be held for the family. A registry is available at www.andersonmcdaniel.com. Doris Evelyn Fulks Doris Evelyn Fulks, 71, died Tuesday, December 11, 2012, at her home. Services will be held at 1 p.m., Friday, December 14, 2012, at Willis Funeral Home with Pastor Jimmy Chapman officiating. Burial will follow in the Perkins Ridge Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 6-8 p.m., Thursday, December 13, 2012. Cole Eli Nida Cole Eli Nida, the son of Chris and Elizabeth Nida, died at 12:25 p.m. on Monday, December 10, 2012. He was born at 1:14 a.m. on Wednesday, December 12, 2012, in Holzer Medical Center, Gallipolis. Graveside services will be conducted at 1 p.m., Friday, December 14, 2012, in Centenary Cemetery. The McCoyMoore Funeral Home, Wetherholt Chapel, Gallipolis, is honored to handle the arrangements for the Nida Family. Detner Roush, Jr. Detner Roush, Jr., 82, New Haven, W.Va., died December 10, 2012. A memorial service will be held at the convenience of the family. In lieu of flowers, please donate a meal or an hour of your time to someone in need in the name of Jesus Christ to show God’s overwhelming love. Arrangements are under the direction of the Anderson Funeral Home in New Haven. Grace E. Thornton Grace E. Thornton, 91, of Mason, West Virginia, died December 11, 2012. Graveside funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, December 15, 2012m at Dayton Memorial Park. Visiting hours will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Friday at the Anderson McDaniel Funeral Home in Pomeroy, Ohio. US hesitant in condemning North Korean launch WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is drawing no “red line” for North Korea after a successful long-range rocket test, tempering the public condemnation to avoid raising tensions or possibly rewarding the reclusive communist nation with too much time in the global spotlight. The U.S. has told the world that it won’t tolerate Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons or Syria’s use of chemical stockpiles on rebels. North Korea, in some ways, is a trickier case. The U.S. wants to forcefully condemn what it believes is a “highly provocative act,” and that was the first public reaction from the White House late Tuesday. But it also is mindful of the turmoil on the Korean peninsula and treading carefully, offering no threat of military action or unspecified “consequences” associated with other hot spots. Just two years ago, the North allegedly torpedoed a South Korean warship and shelled a South Korean island. Some 50 South Koreans died in the attacks that brought the peninsula to the brink of war. North Korea already has the deterrent of a nuclear weapons arsenal. The U.S. is bound to protect next-door South Korea from any attack, but has no desire now for a military conflict. Raising the rhetoric can even serve as a reward for seeking attention to a government that starves its own citizens while seeking to leverage any military advance it makes into much-needed aid. “No doubt Pyongyang is pleased. It again has unsettled its leading adversaries. And it is in the news around the world,” said Doug Bandow, senior fellow at the Cato Institute. “The allies should have responded with a collective yawn. After all, the plan is nothing new. The DPRK has been testing rockets and missiles for years.” The United States remains technically at war with the notoriously unpredictable North Koreans, whose opaque leadership has confounded successive American administrations. With no peace agreement, only the 1953 armistice ending the Korean War keeps the U.S. and the North from hostilities. Some 28,500 U.S. troops remain in South Korea to deter potential aggression. Show From Page 1 “We are bringing back a tradition that disappeared about 20 years ago at Southern,” Chad Dodson, music teacher, said. Dodson helped with the event, and he also performed a song. For years, Southern had a tradition of a variety show for Christmas. Through the R.Y. show, the tradition has been revived. “It has been a pleasure to see so many youth participate with their talents. It takes a lot to get up there on the stage. This has been a very positive experience for all involved,” Daniel Otto, Southern High School principal, said. He also said the commuPhotos by Carrie Wolfe nity support for the event Marley and Madison Maynard participate in the show’s finale Rich Requirement, a local teen band, performed two cover songs and even an original number at the Reconnecting Youth talent show. which they also designed. has been great. �The Daily Sentinel Sports THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2012 mdssports@heartlandpublications.com Southern storms by Wildcats, 59-33 Alex Hawley ahawley@heartlandpublications.com RACINE, Ohio — Off on the right foot yet again. The Southern boys basketball team is starting the season off after earning its second win in as many games Tuesday night with a 59-33 victory over Tri-Valley Conference Hocking Division foe Waterford. The Tornadoes (2-0, 2-0 TVC Hocking) defense came out of the gates ready to play giving up just four points in the opening stanza. Southern’s offense scored 17 points in the first quarter and the Tornadoes were in control of the game. SHS scored 14 points in the second period, while holding Waterford (1-1, 1-1) to just four points for the second consecutive quarter. The Purple and Gold led 31-8 at halftime. After the break the teams played evenly, each scoring 12 points in the third period. Southern closed the game out on a 16-13 win to claim the 59- 33 victory over the Wildcats. Casey Pickens led the Tornadoes with 15 points in the game on 6-of-7 from the field including a three pointer. Chandler Drummer went 7-of-11 for 14 points on the night, while Adam Pape had eight points including two three-pointers. Trenton Deem and Taylor McNickle each had six points, Tristen Wolfe and Hunter Johnson both finished with four, while Zac Beegle finished with two points to round out the SHS scoring. Drummer had a game-high 11 rebounds and had the games only blocked shot. Wolfe finished with 10 rebounds for the Tornadoes while Pickens finished with nine and Johnson grabbed seven. Wolfe had a game-high six assists, while Deem led SHS with three steals. Austin Shriver and Cody Paxton led Waterford with 10 points apiece. Wyatt Porter had four points, while Eli Strahler Jacob McCutcheon and Tanner Pottmeyer each finished with three. Shirver had eight rebounds to lead Waterford. The Tornadoes shot 26-of-59 (44.1 percent) from the field, 5-of-13 (38.5 percent) from beyond the arc and 2-of-7 (28.6 percent)from the charity stripe. Waterford shot 13-of-61 (21.3 percent) from the field, 2-of-20 (10 percent) from three-point range and 5-of-12 (41.7 percent) from the free throw line. The Tornadoes will face Waterford once more this season, on January 15th in Washington County. Alex Hawley | Daily Sentinel South Gallia sophomore Brayden Greer (3) works in the post on Wahama junior Hunter Bradley during Tuesday night’s 5749 Rebels victory in Mercerville. South Gallia outlasts White Falcons, 57-49 Alex Hawley ahawley@heartlandpublications.com MERCERVILLE, Ohio — Streak snapped. The South Gallia boys basketball team defeating Tri-Valley Conference Hocking Division foe Wahama 57-49 Tuesday night in Gallia County to end the Rebels three game skid. SGHS (2-3, 1-2 TVC Hocking) out scored the White Falcons (0-1, 0-1) 14-to-13 in tightly contested opening stanza. The teams battled evenly through the majority of the second period but the Rebels sank a three pointer as time expired to extend their lead to 24-20 at halftime. South Gallia began the second half with an 8-4 run sparked by a technical foul accessed to Wahama’s Hunter Bradley. At the 4:06 mark of the third period Trenton Gibbs drained a three pointer to stymie the SGHS run and set the White Falcons back on course. WHS cut the lead back to 33-31 headed into the finale. The lead changed hands several times in the fourth period until SGHS sophomore Brayden Greer hit a pair of free throws to put South Gallia up 44-43 with 2:48 remaining in regulation. The Rebels went on a 13-6 run to close regulation and seal their first league victory of the year. “It feels good, the kids really worked hard on their day off,” South Gallia coach Larry Howell said after the game. “At halftime we talked about them finishing this game where we didn’t finish the other night and that’s going to kinda be our motto for the season. They did a really good job against a tough Wahama team.” The Rebels were led by Greer with 28 points followed by Kody Lambart with 11. Ethan Swain finSee OUTLASTS ‌| 8 OVP Sports Schedule Thursday, Dec. 13 Girls Basketball Alexander at Meigs, 6 p.m. River Valley at Fairland, 6 p.m. South Gallia at Wahama, 6 p.m. Federal Hocking at Eastern, 6 p.m. OVCS at Ironton SJ, 6 p.m. Southern at Belpre, 6 p.m. Swimming River Valley at Wheelersburg, 5:30 Friday, Dec. 14 Boys Basketball Southern at Eastern, 6 p.m. Alexander at Meigs, 6 p.m. Gallia Academy at Logan, 5 p.m. River Valley at Fairland, 6 p.m. South Gallia at Miller, 6 p.m. Hannan at Wayne, 6 p.m. Point Pleasant at Nitro, 6 p.m. Wahama at Buffalo, 6 p.m. Wrestling PPHS Jason Eades Duals, 6 p.m. URG Sports Women’s Basketball at Mt. Vernon Nazarene, 6:30 Men’s Basketball at Embry-Riddle, 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15 Boys Basketball Southern at Green, 6 p.m. Girls Basketball Southern at Meigs, 6 p.m. Trimble at South Gallia, 6 p.m. Gallia Academy at Logan, noon River Valley at Wellston Tourney, TBA OVCS at Wellston Tourney, noon Point Pleasant at St. Albans, 6 p.m. Wrestling Gallia Academy at Jackson Inv., 10 a.m. Meigs at Fairland, TBA Swimming RVHS quad at URG, 10 a.m. URG Sports Men’s Basketball at Warner University, 7 p.m. Bryan Walters | Daily Sentinel Point Pleasant senior Caleb Riffle, right, guards Ripley’s Jacob Haynes, left, during the first half of Tuesday night’s non-conference boys basketball contest in Point Pleasant, W.Va. Point Pleasant falls to Vikings, 47-37 Bryan Walters bwalters@heartlandpublications.com POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Visiting Ripley shot 44 percent from the field and limited Point Pleasant to just 19 points over the final three quarters Tuesday night en route to a 47-37 decision in a non-conference boys basketball game in Mason County. The host Big Blacks (0-3) fell behind 3-0 in the opening moments of the contest, but rallied with 11 consecutive points to claim an 11-3 advantage with 4:11 left in the first quarter. The Vikings (1-0), however, responded with an 11-7 run to close out the period with an 1814 deficit. RHS started the second canto with a 4-0 spurt to knot the game up at 18-all with 4:55 remaining, but Point Pleasant responded with a 4-0 run of its own to claim a 22-18 edge with 2:58 left until halftime. Ripley closed the final 2:45 of the first half with an 8-0 surge, allowing the guests to take a 26-22 advantage into the intermission. PPHS was never closer than three points the rest of the way, and the hosts ended a 4:55 scoreless drought at the 6:02 mark of the third canto after Marquez Griffin sank a free throw to pull Point back to within two pos- sessions at 29-23. The Vikings, however, finished off the third period on a small 8-7 spurt to take a 37-30 cushion into the finale. Dillon McCarty capped a 6-2 run by the Big Blacks with a trifecta at the 2:21 mark, which allowed the hosts to pull within a single possession at 39-36. Ripley responded with four straight points and closed regulation with an 8-1 run to wrap up the 10-point decision — the largest lead for either squad all night long. Through three games, the Big Blacks are averaging just 46.3 points offensively. That is something that PPHS coach Josh Williams acknowledged after the game, admitting that everyone — including himself — needs to improve on in the upcoming weeks. “We have to get better on the offensive end of the floor. We have to be more consistent,” Williams said. “We all — including myself — have to get better as a team at finding mismatches and developing a rhythm on the offensive end. We need to work with our strengths and put ourselves in better situations to score than what we have done in the first three games.” The Big Blacks connected on 14-of-41 field goal attempts for 34 percent, including a 3-of-17 effort from three-point range for 18 percent. The hosts were outrebounded by a 30-28 overall margin, but did claim an 8-4 edge on the offensive glass. McCarty led the hosts with 12 points, followed by Griffin with seven markers. Garrett Norris, Andrew Williamson and Wade Martin each contributed five points to the losing effort, while Aden Yates rounded out the scoring with three markers. PPHS was 6-of-14 at the free throw line for 43 percent. Martin led the hosts with six rebounds and four steals. Ripley connected on 18-of-41 shot attempts overall, including a 4-of-11 effort from three-point territory for 36 percent. Both teams had 19 turnovers in the contest. Casey Smith paced the Vikings with a game-high 19 points, followed by Kade Harrison with 10 points and Chuck Sieboda with eight markers. Jacob Haynes and Drew Harpold respectively rounded out the winning total with seven points and three markers. RHS was 7-of-11 at the charity stripe for 64 percent. Harrison hauled in a game-high eight boards and Haynes added three steals for the victors. Wildcats pick up 1st win at Van, 72-66 Bryan Walters bwalters@heartlandpublications.com VAN, W.Va. — A 20-13 fourth quarter surge ultimately allowed the Hannan boys basketball team to pick up its first win of the 2012-13 season Tuesday night following a 72-66 decision over host Van in a non-conference matchup in Boone County. Both teams battled through numerous ties and lead changes throughout the course of three quarters of play, as the Bulldogs led 37-36 at the half and 53-52 headed into the finale. Both teams were tied at 14 through eight minutes of play. The visiting Wildcats (1-2) went on a 10-4 run to establish a 62-57 lead with just under five minutes remaining, and the hosts never led the rest of the way. HHS — which hit eight trifectas in the triumph — connected on 14-of-20 free throw attempts for 70 percent. The Bulldogs, conversely, netted six three-pointers and went 14-of-27 at the charity stripe for 52 percent. Tyler Burns led a balanced Hannan attack with 15 points, followed by Tyler Jenkins with 14 points and Brad Fannin with 13 markers. Paul Holley and Ty Paige respectively chipped in 12 and 10 points to the winning cause, while Kade McCoy rounded things out with eight markers. 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Rogers Basement Waterproofing �Thursday, December 13, 2012 The Daily Sentinel • Page 8 www.mydailysentinel.com OVCS falls to Pioneers, 63-51 Alex Hawley ahawley@heartlandpublications.com WAYNE, W.Va. — The Wayne Pioneers shot 53 percent from the field Tuesday night en route to a 63-51 victory over the Ohio Valley Christian boys basketball team in Wayne County. The Pioneers (1-0) out scored the Defenders (42) 15-to-11 over the first eight minutes of the game. The WHS offense exploded for 22 points in the second quarter to push their total to 37. Ohio Valley Christian scored 11 points for the second consecutive quarter and trailed by 15 at halftime. The Defenders offense struggled in after halftime, scoring just six points in the third period. Wayne was held to 14 points in the third and led 51-28 headed into the finale. OVCS got on track in the final period, scoring 23 points while only allowing Wayne to score 12. The Pioneers survived to win their season opener 63-51. Ohio Valley Christian was led by T.G. Miller with 18 points, followed by Chance Burleson with 12. Calbe McKitrick chipped in with eight points, Richard Bowman had six and Phil Hollingshead finished with nine. Marshall Hood and Eric Blevins each finished with one point to round out the RVHS scoring. Wayne was led by Brett Jostice with 21 points in the contest including five three-pointers. Grant Ferguson had 17 points, Alex Elkins had 10 points, Cameron Queen finished with six points, James Egnor finished with four points, Zack Cassidy finished with two points, Chandler Fry had two and Derek Holland finished with one point to round out the Pioneer scoring. OVCS was 19-of-42 (45.2 percent) from the field, 3-of-11 (27.2 percent) from beyond the arc and 10-of-20 (50 percent) from the charity stripe. Wayne was 26-of-49 (53.1 percent) and 6-of-10 (60 percent) from the free throw line. Miller hit one three-pointers while Hollingshead had one. This is the only meeting between these teams this season. Choo to Reds, Bauer to Indians in 3-team trade Kent Sanborn | Submitted photo River Valley senior Kyle Bays (12) dribbles between a pair of Rock Hill defenders during Tuesday night’s OVC boys basketball contest in Pedro, Ohio. Rock Hill outlasts Raiders 53-48 in OVC opener Alex Hawley ahawley@heartlandpublications.com PEDRO, Ohio — A tale of two halves. The River Valley boys basketball team out scored Ohio Valley Conference host Rock Hill 39-to-33 in the second half of Tuesday’s game in Lawrence County. The only problem for the Raiders was that they were out done 20-to-9 in the first half which led to the 53-48 Redmen victory. RVHS (1-3, 0-1 OVC) struggled through the first eight minutes of the game, scoring just six points in the opening stanza. Rock Hill (1-2, 1-0) scored 14 in the first period and held the momentum.Just nine points were scored in the second canto and the Redmen held a 20-9 halftime advantage. The offense picked up for both squads after the break, as each team poured in 19 points in the third quarter. River Valley pushed the pace in the finale scoring 20 points over the last eight minutes. RHHS scored 14 in the fourth and held on for the 53-48 victory in the OVC opener. Tyler Twyman led the Raiders with 18 points on 6-of-13 shooting including four three-pointers. Seann Roberts chipped in with 12 points on four field goals and four free throws. Burnie Stanley had six points, Jacob Gilmore notched five, Joseph Loyd has four and Kyle Bays finished with three points to round out the RVHS scoring. Roberts led RVHS with seven rebounds on the night, while Stanley had five. Loyd finished with a team-high four assists and a game-high five steals. The Redmen had three players reach double figures led by Evan Morris with 19 on 9-of-10 shooting. Austin Collins had 10 points, Shane Harper had eight, Joey Stidham had eight and Layden Delawder had six. Aaron Dalton and Jacob Falls each had two points to round out the RHHS scoring. Collins led Rock Hill with 13 rebounds and 4 assists. The Raiders shot 15of-51 (29.4 percent) from the field, 5-of-21 (23.8 percent) from three point range and 13-of-24 (52 pecent) from the free throw line. Rock Hill shot 22-of-43 (51.2 percent) from the field, 0-of-5 from beyond the arc and 9-of18 (50 percent) from the free throw line. Both River Valley and Rock Hill committed 16 turnovers while the Redmen held a 26-to-23 rebounding advantage. The Raiders we charged with 21 fouls while Rock Hill was charged with 20. River Valley has now dropped three consecutive contests. The Raiders will have their chance to avenge Tuesday night’s loss on January 22nd when the Redmen visit Bidwell. OVP Sports Briefs EHS Holiday Biddy Basketball Tourney TUPPERS PLAINS, Ohio — The boys and girls basketball teams at Eastern High School will be hosting a Biddy Basketball Tournament for both boys and girls teams in grades 4-6 at the EHS gymnasium. The fundraiser event will start on Saturday, Dec. 22, and run through Sunday, Dec. 30. The deadline to enter a team is Monday, Dec. 17. There is an entry fee and each team is guaranteed three games —which includes two poolplay games and a tournament contest. For more information, contact EHS boys coach Corey Britton at (419) 934-5891 or by email at brittonc2@gmail.com. You may also contact EHS girls coach John Burdette at (740) 541-7132. Ohio Valley Dragons shootout BELPRE, Ohio — There will be an Ohio Valley Dragons “Shoot-Out” basketball tournament for 5th and 6th grade girls on January 11-13 at the Belpre Elementary School. There is a registration fee for each team, and three games are guaranteed with certified officials. Prizes for first, second and third place will be presented. For more information or to register a team, contact Brett Cowdery by email at brettcowdery@ovdragons.com or call (304) 381-7637. CLEVELAND (AP) — Shin-Soo Choo didn’t want to be part of the Indians’ future. So they’re moving on without him. Cleveland traded the talented outfielder to the Cincinnati Reds and acquired prized pitching prospect Trevor Bauer from the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night in a three-team deal involving nine players. The Indians obtained center fielder Drew Stubbs from Cincinnati and received Bauer, the No. 3 pick in the 2011 draft, along with right-handers Matt Albers and Bryan Shaw from the Diamondbacks. “This is a trade that can impact our team not only for 2013, but for the future,” Indians general manager Chris Antonetti said. “Three of the players we acquired we will have under control for at least the next three seasons.” Cleveland shipped Choo, infielder Jason Donald and about $3.5 million to the Reds, while sending left-handed reliever Tony Sipp and first baseman Lars Anderson to Arizona. The Diamondbacks also received shortstop prospect Didi Gregorius from Cincinnati. Choo, primarily a right fielder for Cleveland since he was acquired from Seattle in 2006, will play center and bat leadoff for Cincinnati. “It was very difficult giving up home-grown talent, but we think Choo can fill the missing parts in our lineup both offensively and defensively,” Reds general manager Walt Jocketty said in a statement. “He is an exciting player, and we expect him to set the table.” Dealing Choo was almost a necessity for the Indians. He was entering the final year of his contract and is eligible for free agency in 2013. The Indians have not been able to work out a deal with agent Scott Boras, who has turned down several extensions in recent years. The 30-year-old Choo, from South Korea, batted .283 with 16 homers and 67 RBIs in 155 games last season. He had been considered a core player for the Indians, who collapsed in August and finished 68-94 — two games out of last place in the AL Central. “It was really tough,” Antonetti said of trading Choo. “I talked with Shin-Soo tonight and expressed my profound appreciation for his professionalism. He is always one of the first to arrive for workouts, whether it is spring training or just a game.” With plenty of power in the middle of the lineup, Cincinnati has lacked a prototypical leadoff man to get on base consistently in front of sluggers such as Joey Votto, Jay Bruce, Ryan Ludwick and Todd Frazier. Brandon Phillips, who previously batted cleanup at times, was pressed into leadoff duty last season despite a .322 career on-base percentage. Choo can also hit the ball out of the ballpark, but his .381 career OBP fits the bill at the top of the order. He also had 43 doubles and 21 steals this year. The speedy Stubbs has played center exclusively for the Reds, helping them win NL Central titles in 2010 and 2012. He batted .213 with 14 homers and 40 RBIs last season, striking out 166 times in 493 at-bats. He has 100 stolen bases over the past three years, including 30 in 2012. Antonetti said the team hasn’t decided where Stubbs will play. Michael Brantley played center for the Indians last season, but has also spent some time in left. “In Drew Stubbs, we received a great defensive player who brings an element of speed and power to our lineup,” Antonetti said. “We are happy with the job Michael Brantley did for us in center field, but Drew is one of the best out there. He brings a great deal of athleticism to our team.” Bauer, one of baseball’s top pitching prospects, became the first member of the 2011 draft class to reach the majors and went 1-2 with a 6.06 ERA in four starts for Arizona this year. The 21-year-old right-hander struggled with his control, compiling 13 walks and 17 strikeouts in 16 1-3 innings. Bauer spent most of the season in the minors, going a combined 12-2 with a 2.42 ERA in 22 starts at Double-A Mobile and Triple-A Reno. He had 157 strikeouts and 61 walks while allowing 107 hits in 130 1-3 innings. “We are getting a young pitcher with a ton of potential,” Antonetti said. “He can be a top-of-the-rotation guy with development. He is somebody we have been interested in for a long time, since he was at UCLA.” Arizona general manager Kevin Towers said he was sorry to part with Bauer, but “we’re fortunate to have a lot of pitching depth.” The 22-year-old Gregorius, considered a defensive whiz, spent last season with Double-A Pensacola and Triple-A Louisville before appearing in eight games for the Reds. He hit a combined .265 with seven homers and 54 RBIs in 129 minor league games, adding 21 doubles and 11 triples while scoring 70 runs. The Diamondbacks have been looking for a shortstop to replace Stephen Drew, traded to Oakland in August after returning from a serious ankle injury. They were thought to be interested in Indians All-Star Asdrubal Cabrera, though Towers wouldn’t comment on that. Towers said Gregorius reminds him “of a young Derek Jeter.” Gregorius will go to spring camp and compete for the starting job in the big leagues. Arizona completed a $15.5 million, two-year contract with right-hander Brandon McCarthy on Tuesday and also acquired reliever Heath Bell from Miami earlier this offseason. Towers said those additions make it “highly unlikely” the team will trade slugger Justin Upton. Outlasts From Page 6 ished with nine points, Landon Hutchinson notched six, CJ Johnston had two and Gus Slone rounded out the SGHS total with one point. The White Falcon offense was led by Bradley with 19 points and Gibbs with 13. Dakota Sisk had seven points, Austin Jordan had five, Derek Hysell and Jacob Ortiz each finished with two points and Preston Hudnall finished with one point for WHS. “Well we’re a real athletic team and we’re gonna be good after we get a chance to get on the floor a little more,” Wahama coach Mike Wolfe said post game. “Obviously coming out of the football state championship I could make an excuse but we won’t use that. We’ve only had seven days practicing together so hopefully we’ll go back to the drawing board tomorrow and see what we can do.” The Rebels rebounding was led by Hutchinson with eight and Michael Wheeler with seven. Wheeler and Lambart each had three steals for the victors while Greer finished with a teamhigh four assists. Greer stepped up when it mattered most sinking 8-of-9 free throw attempts in the fourth period. “I talked to Brayden the other day and I told him he kinda struggled down the stretch against Southern,” said Howell. “I just dropped him a little and told him that we’re only going to win games if you play strong down the stretch and he took the challenge and tonight he finished the game for us.” Bradley led the White Falcons with a game-high in rebounds with 18 and a game-high in assists with five. Gibbs finished with 13 rebounds and a gamehigh four blocks. Wahama hit five threepointers on the night, Bradley had three, while Gibbs and Jordan each had one. SGHS hit four shots from beyond the arc, Lambart with two, Greer and Swain with one each. Wahama held a 43to-31 advantage on the glass, while SGHS held a 21-to-20 turnover advantage. The Rebels were 21-of-33 (63.6 percent) from the charity strip in the game but improved that number greatly in the fourth quarter going 12-of-16 for 75 percent. The White Falcons went 14-of-24 from the line on the night for 58.3 percent. “Shots weren’t falling,” said Wolfe. “That happens sometimes early in the season and when they’re not you’ve gotta eliminate mistakes and we defiantly had too many mistakes, too many turnovers and too many missed layups. I can’t fault anybody on the team for not playing hard or for their effort.” Wahama will have its shot at revenge on January 15th with the Rebels travel to Mason. �Thursday, December 13, 2012 The Daily Sentinel • Page 9 www.mydailysentinel.com Thursday, december 13, 2012 ComiCs/EntErtainmEnt BLONDIE Dean Young/Denis Lebrun BEETLE BAILEY FUNKY WINKERBEAN HAGAR THE HORRIBLE HI & LOIS Mort Walker Today’s Answers Tom Batiuk Chris Browne Brian and Greg Walker THE LOCKHORNS MUTTS 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, Dec. 13, 2012: This year you will have a new beginning in whatever area you deem necessary. Your personal power will expand because you live your word. Many people in your life want to draw you in, both professionally and personally. Your magnetism soars, and if you are single, you will see direct results. If you are attached, curb a tendency to be me-oriented. Yes, it is an exciting year, but a relationship will succeed only with the combined efforts of two people. CAPRICORN is cautious. 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) HHHHH A matter from the recent past could come back to haunt you. You can’t take back words said or actions done, but the good news is that you can remedy what happened. Your instincts speak to you and show you the right path to follow. Tonight: Touch base with an older relative. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH Reconsider a situation involving a close partner. You can work through nearly anything together, as long as you are able to remain detached. You might surprise yourself with the sense of elation and harmony you could achieve as a result. Tonight: Answer your calls. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH Reflect rather than react. A friend’s unpredictability could create uncertainty in your world. On the other hand, you just might find exactly what you’ve been looking for. Relate to others directly, especially when discussing finances. Tonight: Dinner for two. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Dive right into work. You’ll discover the importance of clearing up as much as possible in the late afternoon. Free yourself up for some socializing with friends and loved ones. A boss or someone you respect startles you with his or her response. Tonight: The only answer is “yes.” LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You feel the weekend in your bones, but you have a lot to do before then. As you attempt to accomplish everything you must, you could get bogged down in a project. A different perspective could help you see the situation in a new light. Tonight: Do your thing. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH If you’re considering the pos- sibility of staying home more often, know that you’ll have to indulge this fantasy sooner or later. You could find a friend or loved one most distracting, though, so you might want to rethink this plan. Tonight: Now for the romp. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHHH You could be overwhelmed by everything that falls into your lap. You are incapable of handling it all, as you are only human. Your sense of humor emerges because of a child’s antics. Can you even question how much you are cared about? Tonight: Get some errands done. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH You could have a lot to say, and perhaps it is more than someone wants to hear. Be sensitive to this person. You might have a lot to say, but the purpose of saying it is to be heard. You need this individual around for his or her support. Tonight: Out and about. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Make a resolution in the morning, and you’ll stand a chance of making it so. Your creativity springs forward whenever there is a need for a solution. You delight others, as well as yourself, with an addition to a project or a special purchase. Tonight: More holiday duties. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH In the morning, you could have a case of the lazies or seem a bit passive. By midafternoon, you’ll start acting like the Energizer bunny, and few can hop as fast as you. What you initially had resisted doing becomes a piece of cake. Tonight: The world is your oyster. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH Use the morning to the max. You could be inordinately lucky or just have a lot of support. Whatever you launch, do or decide seems destined to succeed. An interpersonal relationship glows. A neighbor or friend could surprise you with his or her antics. Tonight: Not to be found. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Take charge of a project early on. You might feel as if you do not have enough time in the day to handle what you must. Lighten up and prioritize, and by late afternoon, the Fish will beam. A meeting could be more important than you realize. Tonight: Start the weekend early. Jacqueline Bigar is on the Internet at www.jacquelinebigar.com. �Thursday, December 13, 2012 The Daily Sentinel • Page 10 www.mydailysentinel.com Bengals wary of looking past Eagles PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A midweek trip to Philadelphia should keep the Cincinnati Bengals from focusing on another Pennsylvania team for a few more days. The Bengals (7-6) find themselves in a unique position where they’re tied with the Pittsburgh Steelers for the last playoff spot in the AFC, but a loss to the Eagles (4-9) Thursday night wouldn’t ruin their chances. “This decides if we go to the playoffs or not,” quarterback Andy Dalton said. “We still have to take it one at a time. We’ve got to get a win this Thursday, and then we’ll focus on the last two.” Well, the next one is far more crucial. The Bengals visit the Steelers on Dec. 23 and finish at home against the AFC North-leading Baltimore Ravens. Win or lose against the Eagles, the Bengals have to beat the Steelers to get in the playoffs unless Pittsburgh loses both of its other games — at Dallas this week and vs. Cleveland in Week 17. “We want to finish these last three games 3-0 and see what happens after that,” cornerback Leon Hall said. “You get to losing games obviously this late in the season, you kind of take destiny out of your own hands. You don’t want to be part of that.” Three wins — or only two if they’re against Pittsburgh and Baltimore — guarantees the Bengals their second straight playoff appearance for the first time since 1981-82. They lost to Houston 31-10 in a wild-card game last January. Coming off a last-second loss at home to Dallas, the Bengals had no time to dwell on a disappointing defeat in a short week. Coaches went right to gameplanning for the Eagles immediately after that game and players were back at practice on Monday. “It’s a quick turnaround, and that’s probably a good thing for us,” coach Marvin Lewis said. “We need to improve fundamentally on the things we’re doing. Some of those little things, the details of our work, ended up putting us in the position to lose the football game.” The last time the Bengals played the Eagles ended in a tie on Nov. 16, 2008. Afterward, Donovan McNabb said he thought games couldn’t end in ties and teams had to play to sudden death. McNabb took plenty of grief for that mental blunder, but the six-time Pro Bowl quarterback ended up leading the Eagles to the NFC championship game that season. They won a pair of road playoff games before losing at Arizona. The Eagles haven’t won a playoff game since and are headed for just their third losing season in Andy Reid’s 14 years as coach. It doesn’t make them a pushover for the Bengals. “To see the way they played last week shows they’re not giving up,” Dalton said. “They’re still playing hard. For them to be in that situation, that’s what you have to do. We’ve got to come out and we’ve got to play our best. Just because they lost (eight) in a row doesn’t mean anything. We’ve got to come out and play our best to get a win. The Eagles dealt a serious blow to Tampa Bay’s playoff hopes with a 23-21 comeback win last Sunday. Rookie Nick Foles led them back from an 11-point fourth-quarter deficit and threw a 1-yard touchdown pass to Jeremy Maclin with no time left. Foles will start his fifth straight game for Michael Vick, who along with running back LeSean McCoy remain sidelined by concussions. After a tough start, Foles has been impressive the last two games, giving fans a glimmer of hope for the future. “We want to win every game,” Foles said. “The first game is this week and it was great to get the win last week. There’s a lot of things to improve on from last week so we need to go out there this week, play together as a team, keep improving, keep pushing each other, keep playing for each other, and just get the win.” Foles had 381 yards passing against the Buccaneers, who have the worst-ranked pass defense in the NFL. He could have a tougher time against Cincinnati’s 11th-ranked unit. The Bengals also lead the league with 42 sacks, so Foles has to get rid of the ball quickly. “I’m going to have to do a great job with blitz pickup and we need to execute our offense,” Foles said. “We need to run effectively and throw effectively. The big thing is run our offense well and execute well.” Foles and rookie running back Bryce Brown could have big games if they catch the Bengals looking ahead to the Steelers. Brown had 347 yards rushing in his first two starts filling in for McCoy before he was held to just 6 yards on 12 carries against Tampa’s top-ranked run defense. Brown has benefited from improved play by the offensive line, which has been overhauled because of injuries and inconsistency. The Bengals haven’t allowed a 100-yard rusher in the six games since Pittsburgh’s Jonathan Dwyer ran for 122 yards against them. “They have a stout defense and they’re athletic,” Reid said. “They’ve got a good football team. Marvin has done a nice job with that group. They have some good young players and some good veteran players, a nice mix. They’ll be a good challenge for us.” Greinke chose Dodgers over Rangers Sam Riche | MCT photo Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall (34) heads upfield in the second half of their game on Sunday, September 25, 2011, in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Steelers won 23-20. Steelers suspend RB Rashard Mendenhall PITTSBURGH (AP) — When Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin demoted running back Rashard Mendenhall to third-string following a fumble in a loss to Cleveland last month, Tomlin stressed Mendenhall would have a chance to redeem himself. Not this week. The Steelers suspended the mercurial Mendenhall for their game Sunday at Dallas for conduct detrimental to the team. Pittsburgh promoted running back Baron Batch from the practice squad to take Mendenhall’s place. The suspension is the latest in a series of set- backs for the 25-year-old Mendenhall. He emerged as Pittsburgh’s starter in 2009 and topped 1,000 yards in 2009 and 2010. He nearly reached the milestone again last winter but tore the ACL in his right knee in the regular- season finale against Cleveland. Mendenhall returned Oct. 4 and had 101 total yards and a touchdown in a victory over the Philadelphia Eagles. He strained his right Achilles four days later against Tennessee and never regained a firm grip on the starting job. Jonathan Dwyer and Isaac Redman shined in Mendenhall’s absence — with one or the other rushing for more than 100 yards in three straight games — and Mendenhall was dropped to third in the depth chart after he coughed up the ball in the first quarter against the Browns. The Steelers (7-6) made Mendenhall inactive in a victory over Baltimore and last week’s 34-24 loss at home to San Diego. Though the running game struggled — Dwyer led the Steelers with 32 yards — Tomlin said he had no plans to make a change as Pittsburgh heads into the final three weeks of the season. BUNDLE & SAVE! ON DIGITAL SERVICES FOR YOUR HOME DIGITAL TV HIGH-SPEED INTERNET DIGITAL PHONE Offers may be available now in your area from Acceller, Inc. for these top service providers: * BUNDLES STARTING AS LOW AS $89/mo. For first 12 months FIND OUT MORE BY CALLING TOLL-FREE 1-866-636-5984 By Acceller, Inc., an authorized retailer. *Geographic and service restrictions apply to all services. Call to see if you qualify. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Zack Greinke showed up alone to a mid-November meeting at Dodger Stadium, asking as many questions as he answered. When he left three hours later, the pitcher thought he may have found his new team while the Los Angeles Dodgers brass knew they had to land the top arm on the open market. They did, signing Greinke to a $147 million, six-year deal that is the richest for a right-hander in baseball history. The Dodgers beat out Texas and the rival Los Angeles Angels, for whom Greinke pitched last season. “He’s the one we wanted,” said Magic Johnson, a partner in Guggenheim Baseball Management, which bought the team last spring. “A guy of Zack’s ability and also his commitment to his craft, they don’t come on the market too many times. We’re so thrilled to have him. Dodger pride is on the way back.” Greinke’s introduction on Tuesday culminated a more than $200 million spending spree by the Dodgers in which they also signed South Korean left-hander Ryu Hyun-jin, who got a $36 million, six-year deal. The club also spent $25.7 million on a posting fee that gave the Dodgers exclusive negotiating rights with Ryu. “Nobody worried about the Yankees when they were doing this and winning,” Johnson said. “We’re here to win.” The Dodgers haven’t won the World Series since 1988, but that didn’t discourage Greinke. “Besides the money, the No. 1 (reason) was they have a team that could win a World Series for several years,” he said. Greinke, the 2009 AL Cy Young Award winner, and Ryu give the Dodgers eight starting pitchers under contract for next season, joining 2011 NL Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw, Chad Billingsley, Josh Beckett, Ted Lilly, Chris Capuano and Aaron Harang. The Dodgers were eager to bolster their pitching this winter knowing that Billingsley (elbow) and Lilly (shoulder) are coming off operations. “A lot of things have to come together,” Greinke said. “You can’t just throw names on a team and be good. If everyone comes back healthy it should be a good ride. They could be good for every year of my contract, so there is no rebuilding.” With Greinke locked up, the Dodgers plan to discuss a contract extension with Kershaw, who can become a free agent after the 2014 season. Casey Close, Greinke’s agent, said Texas was in the hunt for his client until the end. “At one point, I was favoring Texas,” Greinke said before the negotiations made him change his mind. The Angels didn’t make it that far, according to Greinke, who said his former team “never really got into it when the details came.” “There’s a point where every team has to have a stopping point and they obviously reached it,” he said. “I’m not mad at them. I don’t think they’re mad at how I went about things.” The 29-year-old righty started last season with Milwaukee and was later traded to the Angels, going a combined 15-5 with a 3.48 ERA. He is 91-78 with a 3.77 ERA in nine seasons with the Brewers, Dodgers and Angels. In 2009, Greinke went 16-8 with a major league-leading 2.16 ERA for Kansas City, and he’d like to recapture that form. “I was consistent that whole entire year,” he said. “Most years I’ll start strong and hit a roadblock.” Greinke impressed Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti, president and CEO Stan Kasten and manager Don Mattingly simply by showing up alone to their meeting. “He was stunning. It was probably the best free-agent meeting I’ve ever had,” Colletti said. “I can’t remember one that didn’t bring an agent or friends. If the questioning got a little tough, they had a fallback.” Greinke showed he’d done his homework on the Dodgers, discussing younger players in their system, his strategies for retiring everyone in the team’s lineup, and what the club would be like in three years. He saw Dodger Stadium as the kind of park that would allow him to be a fly ball pitcher. “This was always a place I wanted to play,” he said. “I loved it there (in Anaheim), so I assume this will be just as good.” Kasten impressed Greinke with his plans for the organization and what the pitcher said was “his ability to keep so many things under control.” “I don’t want to make his head too big, but I thought Stan was the smartest person I ever talked to,” Greinke said. “With him in charge, I thought they had a chance to keep things going good.” Irving and Cavs deal Lakers another loss, 100-94 CLEVELAND (AP) — There had to be a low point. The Los Angeles Lakers can only hope they’ve reached it. This chaotic season has gotten worse. Kyrie Irving scored 28 points in his return after missing 11 games with a broken finger, leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 100-94 win over Kobe Bryant and the Lakers, who look nothing like a team projected to win an NBA title — or anything else. “This is one of the most challenging stretches of my 17 years, and the most baffling, too,” a puzzled Bryant said after the Lakers lost for the eighth time in 11 games. “We have the talent and personnel to do it, but we’re not, and it’s baffling. It’s extremely frustrating. “It doesn’t make any sense. We’re still finding ways to lose games.” Irving added 11 assists in 39 minutes and showed off his dizzying array of moves as the Cavs, who came in with just four wins, ended a five-game losing streak. Bryant scored 42 points and Dwight Howard had 19 points and 20 rebounds, but it wasn’t enough to stop the Lakers, who were still missing Pau Gasol and Steve Nash, from opening a four-game road trip with a with a loss that could sting for a while. “We have to stop the bleeding — somehow,” said Howard, who forced a trade this summer from Orlando to join the Lakers and maybe win some championships. “We can’t let this kill our spirits too much. This is tough on all of us right now. “We want to win. We’re sick of losing. We all understand that situations like this don’t last forever.” C.J. Miles scored 28 in his first start this season, Anderson Varejao had 20 and Alonzo Gee 17 for the Cavs. Los Angeles fell behind by 16 points in the third quarter, and despite Bryant’s valiant attempt to rescue them — he scored 16 in the fourth quarter — the Lakers dropped to 1-10 in games the superstar scores 30 or more points. “We played very uninspired basketball, offensively and defensively,” said coach Mike D’Antoni, brought in to repair an underachieving squad after Mike Brown was fired five games into the season. “We play at a very slow pace and we struggle. Maybe it shifts over to defense. Maybe we’re slow. Maybe we can’t do it. . It’s my job to fix it — and that’s what I’ll do.” � 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 12. December Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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