https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/ed2c2e753a2c92eb9ae773acf674e595.pdf fc1d8345dc6a6f1c501d9dd9b4498780 PDF Text Text Area youth wins in AKC contest, A3 Exceptional bowler, A6 Middleport • Pomeroy, Ohio 50 CENTS • Vol. 61, No. 39 Lenten service at Grace UMC GALLIPOLIS — The 2011 community lenten service series begins today at Grace United Methodist Church in Gallipolis. Rev. Paul Voss from the First Church of God will be the speaker. The service begins at noon followed by lunch at 12:30 p.m. Grace UMC is located at 600 Second Avenue. Cadot-Blessing Camp to meet GALLIPOLIS — The bimonthly meeting of the Cadot-Blessing Camp #126 Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 10 at the Gallia County Convention and Visitors Bureau, Court Street in Gallipolis. Anyone with documented Civil War ancestors is encouraged to attend. Raccoon Creek Road closed Friday GALLIPOLIS — Gallia County Engineer Brett A. Boothe has announced that Raccoon Road will be closed from 7 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Friday, March 11. The road will be closed from Ohio 7 to Shoestring Ridge, weather permitting, for slip repair. Local traffic will need to use other county roads. Rotary Club scholarships GALLIPOLIS — Applications are now available for the 2011 Gallipolis Rotary Club scholarships. Application forms can be downloaded from the club website at www.gallipolisrotary.org/scholarship. Students may return the completed application by emailing the file attachment to jodie.mccalla@gmail. com. The deadline to submit applications is Friday, March 11. For information, call Jodie McCalla at 4462631, ext. 252, or 441-7938. Free clinic set for March 31 GALLIPOLIS — The French 500 Free Clinic will be open from 1-4 p.m. on Thursday, March 31 at 258 Pinecrest Drive, off Jackson Pike. The clinic was organized to serve the uninsured residents of Gallia County. WEATHER THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2011 www.mydailysentinel.com Flood conditions predicted along Ohio River Point Pleasant, W.Va., on Sunday morning. A spokesperson with the NWS said the agency was waiting to see just how much rain the area received Wednesday into Thursday to get additional river crest information. The spokesperson said more rain could possibly fall Wednesday into Thursday night and the hope is not as much will fall as predicted to exacerbate high water conditions. Nervous store owners in Pomeroy were watching the Ohio River all day on Wednesday, trying to determine how much the water would rise, where it would rise and when. More recent flood crest readings for Pomeroy include: 50.6 feet, Jan. 9, 2005; 52 feet, Sept. 20, 2004; 47.5 feet, Jan. 7, 2004. Flooding problems in Pomeroy MHS sets admission fees for spring sports BY BETH SERGENT BSERGENT@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Ohio River is predicted to overflow into flood stage at Racine, Pomeroy and Point Pleasant, W.Va., this weekend, according to the latest forecast from the National Weather Service in Charleston, W.Va. Though crest predic- tions are constantly changing, as of 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, the NWS predicted the following crest readings: 44 to 46.5 feet in Racine (flood stage is 41 feet); 46-48 feet in Pomeroy (flood stage is 46 feet); 44-46.3 feet in Point Pleasant, W.Va. (flood stage is 40 feet). With the NWS predicting a “high end” of 46.5 feet in Racine, this could mean the water could get as high as 49.5 feet in Pomeroy — Pomeroy typically crests three feet higher than Racine. The NWS is predicting the Ohio River will go into flood stage in Racine and Pomeroy late Thursday into Friday morning and crest in Racine and Pomeroy late Friday into Saturday morning. The Ohio River should crest at Under water: BY BETH SERGENT BSERGENT@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM POMEROY — Practically every time it rains, some residents in the Monkey Run area brace for a flood event regardless of the Ohio River rising or falling — an event which often results in a literal lake of water appearing. Sherman Hoschar, who lives on Oak Street, says he’s lived in the Monkey Run area for nearly 43 years and only remembers water, due to the Ohio River flooding, being on Locust Street twice in those 43 years. Nowadays, water seems to rise with each rain on Locust — flooding Hoschar’s property six times since May. On Wednesday afternoon, the water began to rise about 7:30 a.m. and within 10 minutes, Hoschar said it was in his garage. He said the water comes up so fast these days, his property is destroyed before he can move it. Oddly enough, Hoschar said Wednesday’s flooding wasn’t as bad as it has been — one day the water rose 41 inches into his garage. As the rains began to ease up Wednesday, Monkey Run’s temporary lake began to recede somewhat, as it always does, according to Hoschar. Hoschar blames the dumping of dirt into the Monkey Run ball diamond as the culprit for continual flooding, not high water along the Ohio River and he recently went to Pomeroy Village See Flooding, A5 BY CHARLENE HOEFLICH HOEFLICH@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM Beth Sergent/photo A view from Monkey Run on Wednesday shows the property of Sherman and Terri Hoschar under a literal lake of water. The Hoschars arenʼt blaming the flood waters for the lake but the dumping of dirt on the Monkey Run ball diamond. The Hoschars have been flooded six times since May. Beth Sergent/photo Motorists were cautiously driving through deep water along West Main Street in front of Taco Bell on Wednesday. The village placed high water signs along this stretch of road as drivers questioned whether or not to drive through or turn around. See MHS, A5 Middleport Police seize stolen car BY BRIAN J. REED BREED@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM MIDDLEPORT — Officers with the Middleport police department arrested a Columbus man last weekend for allegedly stealing an automobile from there. Tyrone Powell, Jr., was charged with receiving stolen property and assault after allegedly striking a Middleport woman in the head. Chief Bruce Swift said Patrolmen Ross Holter and Joel Lynch arrested Powell after discovering that a cloth had been placed on the 1986 Buick’s steering wheel and the ignition had been damaged. Powell was placed in the Middleport Jail and is expected to appear in Meigs County Court for a bond hearing. Officers also contacted the Columbus Police Department’s auto theft division and charges are pending there, as well, Swift said. • Swift also reported the arrests of Sharath Maganahalli, 32, and Brittany Haning, 21, at their residence at 129 Fairlane Drive, for domestic violence. They were both jailed and were to appear in County Court. • Josh Cleland, Hysell Run Road, advised that while he was parked at General Tire on North Second Avenue someone had stolen a Sony CD player, radar detector, amplifier and CDs from his car. Officers recovered one CD on North Third Avenue, and while on patrol, saw Josh Edwards, 25, Walnut Street, standing in front of a residence there. Holter advised Edwards became nervous, and after officers got permission to search his residence, they discovered three of Hysell’s missing items in the home. • Christopher Yeauger, 27, Cheshire, was arrested on North Second Avenue for disorderly conduct and obstructing justice after a passerby reported he was urinating on a parked car. Swift said Yeauger refused to provide information and became disorderly and was placed under arrest in the Middleport jail. Health Fair coming to Community Center High: 46 Low: 32 INDEX 2 SECTIONS — 12 PAGES Classifieds B4 Comics B5 Editorials A4 Sports B Section © 2011 Ohio Valley Publishing Co. POMEROY — No longer will Meigs High School spring sports fans be able to watch field events free of charge. At Tuesday night’s meeting the Meigs Local Board of Education accepted a proposal from Ron Hill, MHS athletic director, to charge admission to spring sports events, including cross country, varsity and reserve baseball, varsity and reserve softball, and track-regular meets. His proposal included an individual spring sports pass for all baseball and softball home games at $25, which would also be good for double headers. The admission charge for adults to spring events will be $3 for everything except the reserve games which the charge will be $2. For students, the charge will be $2 for everything except the reserve games where it will be $1. The first BY CHARLENE HOEFLICH HOEFLICH@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM POMEROY — The annual spring health fair sponsored by Faith Community Nursing Health Ministry Meigs Cooperative with grant money from the Sisters of St. Joseph Charitable Fund will be held March 26 at the Mulberry Community Center in Pomeroy. Free health screenings and health information will be provided at the fair, according to Lenora Leifheit RN-BC, parish nurse Health screenings and information will be provided by several health agencies and organizations providing services in Meigs County. The health fair will be held from 9-11 a.m. The only test for which an appointment is necessary is the fasting lipid profile and those interested in receiving that test to be given by the Holzer Medical Center Community Wellness Program should call either Leifheit or Nancy Thoene at 992-9919 for one of the limited appointments Tuesday through Friday 9 a.m.-1 p.m. The deadline for reg- istration is March 24. Other services to be offered by Holzer Community Wellness will be non-fasting blood glucose and total cholesterol and bone density. The Meigs County Health Department will be on hand to do body mass index and waist measurements, and Holzer Clinic Meigs Branch Rehab will give balance screenings. Blood pressures and health information will also be a service of the Ohio Valley Home Health. The Ohio State University Family Nutrition Program will be (Extension office personnel) will be offering nutrition information, and the Senior Center Wellness program will be there with information on exercise and its benefits for a healthy lifestyle. There to provide information on breast cancer, colorectal cancer and tobacco cessation will be members of the Meigs County Cancer Initiative “Think Pink” Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Awareness Program. Family Health Care Clinic representatives will be there to provide health education information. Pain pill traffic: DeWine addresses southern Ohio plague BY BRIAN J. REED BREED@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM POMEROY — Ohio’s Attorney General will visit areas of southern Ohio hardest hit by prescription drug abuse Thursday and Friday, meeting with law enforcement officials about this growing problem. Prescription drug offenses are common in Meigs County, as well, but other areas in southern Ohio, including Lawrence and Scioto counties, have seen an epidemic in pain medication abuse and addiction, particularly among young adults. Scioto County has been placed on a federal Drug Enforcement Agency watch list of the 10 mostsignificant places in the United States for prescription pill trafficking. Poverty is believed to play a large role in the trafficking problem, because it provides a lucrative market to those with pills to sell and bills to pay. Mike DeWine will visit Ross, Scioto and Pike counties today and tomorrow. Meetings will include See Pills, A5 �Thursday, March 10, 2011 www.mydailysentinel.com The Daily Sentinel • Page A2 Senate rejects rival GOP, Democratic budgets BY ANDREW TAYLOR ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Democratic-led Senate on Wednesday emphatically rejected a budget-slashing House spending bill as too draconian. It then immediately killed a rival Democratic plan that was derided by moderate Democrats as too timid in its drive to cut day-to-day agency budgets. The votes to scuttle the competing measures were designed, ironically, to prompt progress. The idea was to show tea partybacked GOP conservatives in the House that they need to pare back their budgetcutting ambitions while at the same time demonstrating to Democratic liberals that they need to budge, too. “It isn’t often that two failed votes in the Senate could be called a breakthrough,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a speech at the liberal Center for American Progress think tank. “Once it is plain that both party’s opening bids in this budget debate are non-starters, we can finally get serious about sitting down and narrowing the huge gap that exists between the two sides.” Schumer, along with other top Senate Democrats, visited with Obama on Wednesday afternoon to plot strategy. The senator declined to comment afterward, other than to say he recognizes his party will have to move in the GOP’s direction. One reason is that Democratic moderates are agitating for further cuts to spending. “I still think there are way too many people in denial around here about the nature of the problem and how serious it is,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill, DMo., who contended that the Democratic plan didn’t go far enough. But she said the GOP measure cut too indiscriminately in its funding for infrastructure programs, education and research. The GOP plan mustered 44 aye votes; the Democratic measure received just 42 votes, with 10 party members and liberal independent Bernard Sanders in opposition. Moderates Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Ben Nelson, DNeb., Bill Nelson, D-Fla., and McCaskill — each face potentially difficult reelection bids next year — were among those opposed to the Democratic version. At issue was legislation to fund the day-to-day operating budgets of every federal agency through the Sept. 30 end of the budget year and provide a $158 billion infusion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Republicans dominating the House, driven by a campaign promise to bring return domestic agency budgets to 2008, drove through last month a measure cutting more than $60 billion, imposing cuts of 13 percent, on average, to domestic agencies. The 87-person freshman class forced Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to back away from an earlier plan cutting $35 billion over the second half of the budget year that took into account the fact that the budget year is nearly half over. As a result, over the coming six months, the House measure would actually impose day-to-day cuts far steeper than promised in the campaign. Targets grew to include Head Start, special education and Pell Grants for low-income college students. Senate Democrats had been slow to respond. Their alternative, unveiled just last Friday by Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, cuts about $12 billion below levels enacted for 2010. It’s also $30 billion below a Senate omnibus spending measure that Republicans sidetracked in December. Inouye said his bill represented months of labor by panel members and their aides and “makes real cuts to real programs.” “But the cuts ... are based on hearings, testimony and a thorough analysis of the current needs of every agency and department,” Inouye said. “By contrast, the Republicans in the House have thrown together a proposal ... based on the campaign promise to reduce spending by $100 billion.” Inouye was referring to a GOP campaign promise to cut nonsecurity spending by $100 billion below President Barack Obama’s budget request. By that measuring stick, the Democratic alternative represents $50 billion in savings. Republicans derided Inouye’s efforts as simply endorsing the status quo. “There is plenty of fat to be cut in the discretionary budget,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. “And yet Democrats can’t find it in themselves to cut an additional $50 billion from a bill that spends over $1 trillion.” Inouye’s current plan might have won bipartisan support last year, but it was overtaken by events. GOP moderates queasy about cuts to education, health research and college aid nonetheless rallied behind the slashing House mea- sure despite their reservations. “I have a lot of concerns about some of the cuts,” said moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. But, she added, “it may be necessary to send a strong message to the White House.” The near-universal GOP support for the House plan belied significant qualms about it among many Republicans. “While I can support the spirit in which the House made its cuts, I do not endorse each and every reduction in the House measure,” said Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., top Republican on the Appropriations panel. “In fact, I oppose some of the cuts to important programs and believe that alternative reductions must be considered.” There were GOP defections from the right, however, as tea party-favorites Rand Paul, R-Ky., Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Jim DeMint, R-S.C., voted against the House GOP measure. Oil installations ablaze in Libya as battles rage BY MAGGIE MICHAEL AND PAUL SCHEMM ASSOCIATED PRESS RAS LANOUF, Libya — A giant yellow fireball shot into the sky, trailed by thick plumes of black smoke Wednesday after fighting between rebels and forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi set two oil installations ablaze and inflicted yet more damage on Libya’s crippled energy industry. In the west, Gadhafi claimed victory in recapturing Zawiya, the city closest to the capital that had fallen into opposition hands. The claim could not immediately be verified; phone lines there have not been working during a deadly, six-day siege. State TV showed a crowd of hundreds, purportedly in Zawiya’s main square, shouting “The people want Colonel Gadhafi!” The fall of Zawiya to anti-Gadhafi residents early on in the uprising that began Feb. 15 illustrated the initial, blazing progress of the opposition. But Gadhafi has seized the momentum, battering the rebels with airstrikes and artillery fire and repulsing their westward march toward the capital, Tripoli. Gadhafi’s successes have left Western powers struggling to come up with a plan to support the rebels without becoming ensnared in the complex and fast-moving conflict. On Wednesday, a highranking member of the Libyan military flew to Cairo with a message for Egyptian army officials from Gadhafi, but no further details were known. President Barack Obama’s national security team weighed how to force Gadhafi from power and halt his crackdown on rebels, but the White House said no action was imminent and set no timeline as attention shifted to a pivotal NATO session in Brussels. The NATO alliance said it was planning for any eventuality in the Libyan crisis. But with Defense Secretary Robert Gates preparing to join a meeting of alliance defense chiefs to discuss military options on Thursday, there was little sign they would agree to set up a no-fly zone over the North African country. A rebel spokesman said Wednesday they will buy weapons if the international community fails to declare a no-fly zone. “If a no-fly zone is not imposed, we do have the means to get armaments. We don’t expect any country to refuse to deal with us in terms of an arms sale,” said AbdelHafidh Ghoga, a spokesman for the rebels’ provisional transitional national council. He did not elaborate or say where the rebels would get the money for arms. Britain and France are pushing for the U.N. to create a no-fly zone over the country, and while the U.S. may be persuaded to sign on, such a move is unlikely to win the backing of veto-wielding Security Council members Russia and China, which traditionally object to such steps as infringements on national sovereignty. Gadhafi said in a Turkish television interview that Libyans would fight back if Western nations imposed a no-fly zone to prevent his regime from using its air force to bomb government opponents staging a rebellion. He said imposing the restrictions would prove the West’s real intention was to seize his country’s oil wealth. “Such a situation would be useful,” Gadhafi said. “The Libyan people would understand their real aims to take Libya under their control, to take their freedoms and to take their oil and all Libyan people will take up arms and fight.” In eastern Libya, an Associated Press reporter at Ras Lanouf near the front line of fighting saw an explosion from the area of the Sidr oil facility, 360 miles (580 kilometers) east of Tripoli. Three columns of thick smoke rose from the area, apparently from burning oil. Mustafa Gheriani, an opposition spokesman, said the government artillery hit a pipeline supplying Sidr from oil fields in the desert. An oil storage depot also was hit, apparently by an airstrike, he said. Testimony doesnʼt match furor over terror hearing BY EILEEN SULLIVAN ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Family members of two young men who were inspired to terrorism, with deadly consequences, plan to tell Congress that the men were victims of brainwashing by radical elements in local Muslim communities, according to prepared testimony obtained by The Associated Press. The remarks are scheduled to be delivered as part of the House Homeland Security Committee’s hearing on Islamic radicalization Thursday. Plans for the hearing touched off days of protests from critics who liken it to McCarthyism and the era of communist witch hunts. But at least in the prepared testimony, there’s nothing that indiscriminately labels Muslims as terrorists, as critics had feared. The hearing has reignited a national debate over how to combat a spate of homegrown terrorism. The Obama administration has tried to frame the debate around radicalization in general, without singling out Muslims. Rep. Peter King, the New York Republican who called the hearing, said that’s just political correctness, since al-Qaida is the main threat to the U.S. Melvin Bledsoe, whose son, Carlos, is charged with killing an Army private at a recruiting station in Little Rock, Ark., is scheduled to testify about his son’s conversion to Islam and his isolation from his family. “Carlos was captured by people best described as hunters. He was manipulated and lied to,” Bledsoe says in his prepared remarks. “I have other family members who are Muslims, and they are modern, peaceful, law abiding people,” Bledsoe’s remarks say. He blames “the Islamic radicals who programmed and trained my son Carlos to kill.” The committee is also scheduled to hear from Abdirizak Bihi, the uncle of a young SomaliAmerican who was recruited by the terrorist group al-Shabab and was killed shortly after returning to Somalia. Bihi says “99.9 percent of Muslim SomaliAmericans are good citizens who are very grateful for the opportunities they have and are very busy in chasing their American dream.” King said Muslims should not feel threatened by the hearings. “If there is going to be animosity, I would blame it on my opponents,” King said Wednesday in a nationally broadcast interview. At the White House, spokesman Jay Carney said, “We welcome congressional involvement in this issue.” “In the United States, we don’t practice guilt by association,” Carney added. “We believe Muslim-Americans are part of the solution.” Elsewhere at the Capitol, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was also scheduled to address the threat of homegrown terrorism Thursday. In his prepared remarks, Clapper says 2010 saw more plots involving homegrown Sunni extremists — those ideologically aligned with alQaida — than in the previous year. “Key to this trend has been the development of a U.S.-specific narrative that motivates individuals to violence,” Clapper’s remarks say. Chaos deepens as clashes between Muslims and Christians in Egypt left 13 dead BY HAMZA HENDAWI ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — Clashes between Muslims and Christians in Egypt left 13 dead and 140 wounded, deepening a sense of chaos as the police and ruling military struggled to maintain order barely a month after a popular uprising ousted longtime leader Hosni Mubarak. In a sign of how much security has broken down, the pitched battles — the deadliest in years — went on for nearly four hours Tuesday night as both sides fought with guns, knives and clubs. Army troops fired in the air to disperse the crowds to no avail. The new Cabinet sought to reassure Egyptians on Wednesday night, ordering police to immediately take back the streets. The spasm of violence offered a glimpse of what has gone wrong in a onetime police state that now finds itself with less than half of its security forces back to work and a military that does not have enough troops on the ground. The fighting began when a Muslim mob attacked thousands of Christians protesting the burning last week of a church in Soul, a village just south of Cairo. The Muslims torched the church amid escalating tensions over a love affair between a Muslim woman and a Christian man. The relationship set off a violent feud between the couple’s families. The woman’s father and a cousin of the man were killed. At one point in the battles, Christian protesters blocked a vital highway, burning tires and pelting passing cars with rocks. Security officials said seven Christians and six Muslims were killed. The wounded were 72 Muslims and 68 Christians, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. Troops later arrested 20 people, they said. Even before the upris- ing that toppled Mubarak, tensions had been growing between Christians and Muslims. The Coptic Christian minority makes up 10 percent of Egypt’s 80 million people and complains of widespread discrimination that they say relegates them to secondclass citizen status. A Jan. 1 suicide bombing outside a Coptic church in the port city of Alexandria killed 21 people, setting off days of protests. Barely a week later, an off-duty policeman shot and killed a 71-year-old Christian man, and wounded his wife and four others. Last November, police halted construction of a church, and Christians clashed with the authorities. Two Christians were killed and 68 people were hurt in the fighting. Sworn in Monday, Prime Minister Essam Sharaf and his government issued a statement Wednesday saying security forces would return “in full force to carry out its national duties.” The statement also appealed to Egyptians to put the interests of the nation above all else. Egypt’s ruling generals pledged last week to rebuild the torched church in Soul. The head of AlAzhar, Egypt’s most prominent Islamic institution, promised that Muslims would help in the reconstruction as a gesture of solidarity. Sharaf also met Christians who have been protesting outside the TV building in Cairo to reassure them that his interim government would not discriminate against them. In the meantime, the difficulty of keeping order continues. Egypt’s 500,000-strong security forces pulled out of Cairo and several other major cities three days into the uprising that began Jan. 25. They have yet to fully take back the streets. Their still-unexplained withdrawal left space for a wave of violent crime and lawlessness in parts of the nation, especially in Cairo, a city of 18 million people that at the best of times looks chaotic. Additionally, some 25,000 prisoners, including hardened criminals and drug barons, escaped from prisons during the uprising. Only 13,000 of them have been recaptured or surrendered voluntarily. Attacks on police stations freed another 25,000 suspects, most of whom remain at large, according to security officials. Only last week, inmates at prisons in two Nile delta towns — Damanhour and Shibeen — attempted jail breaks before guards regained control, killing three of them. Over the weekend, crowds stormed at least six offices belonging to the hated State Security Agency, including its main headquarters in a Cairo suburb, clashing with officers inside and seizing documents. The attacks followed reports on Facebook that State Security officers were destroying documents that could incriminate them if court cases were brought against them for human rights abuses. Dissolving the agency, blamed for the worst human rights abuses under Mubarak’s 30-year rule, is a key demand of the youth groups behind the 18day uprising. The continuing security vacuum has prompted residents in some Cairo districts to form their own neighborhood protection groups to guard buildings. In some places, civilian volunteers are directing traffic after nightfall when traffic police disappear. Cairo residents report robberies on highways, unheard of less than two months ago. Motorists driving against incoming traffic on one-way roads is not uncommon in Cairo now. In a separate incident, at least two people were wounded when rival crowds threw rocks in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square, the uprising’s epicenter, according to an Associated Press Television News cameraman at the scene. �The Daily Sentinel Page A3 BY THE BEND Thursday, March 10, 2011 A S K D R . B RO T H E R S Open house to honor Son hugs and Geraldine Varney on hangs on strangers her 90th birthday Dear Dr. Brothers: Our son, who just turned 6, has a penchant for hugging nearly everybody in his field of vision. He hugged the delivery man, and that was the last straw. Yesterday, after hearing the doorbell ring, I was horrified to find him grasping tightly the leg of the UPS man. I thought he would grow out of his seemingly clingy conduct, but his behavior shows no signs of abating. While his behavior is embarrassing, I feel it’s most likely dangerous as well. Is there anything I can do to control his “? — J.N. Dear J.N.: A child’s world is one of innocence. Children see the world through welcoming eyes and can’t really conceive that someone might want to do them harm. Learning to differentiate between friends of the family and strangers is an important learning process for any child, especially those prone to being overtly affectionate. Your role in this process is to assume the role of “hug goalie” to help your child know when it’s proper to display affection, and with whom. But you also need to address the root cause. It’s possible that your son behaves in this manner due to a lack of physical affection. He may be hugging strangers, in effect, to make up for the loss. You might want to do a little soul-searching before you focus solely on his behavior. Ask yourself what type of parents both you and your husband are. Do you usually kiss or hug your child goodnight, or are you less demonstrative in your affections? As opposed to just telling him you love him, it’s much easier for a child to realize he’s cared about when he gets a hug. The security of having lots of hugs in childhood could save the child from looking for love in all the wrong places later on. ••• Dear Dr. Brothers: Ever since we were teens, my sister has been copying everything I do. Whether it’s bands, movies or clothes, she always would glom onto my interests and then pretend she’d just found these things herself. Now we are in our 30s, and she An open house to honor Geraldine Varney on her 90th birthday will be held from 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, March 19 at the American Legion Post 602, Ohio 124, Racine. Cards may be sent to her at 50210 Bald Knob Stiversville Road, Long Bottom, Ohio 45743. Relatives and friends are invited to the open house celebration but are asked not to bring gifts. Dr. Joyce Brothers still continues to do this. I got extremely annoyed recently when she met a really nice guy who was into the same stuff. She’s totally misrepresenting herself. How do I get this to finally end? — C.F. Dear C.F.: Lifelong habits die hard, and you just might want to think about trying to adjust to your sister’s ways instead of wishing and hoping she will change after 30 years. Or, if you are into confrontation and drama, you can pick a fight with her and demand that she stop copying you, but you risk coming off like some jealous sibling who never outgrew the family squabbles in middle school. Your sister might not even realize she is using you as a role model inappropriately, and if you didn’t settle this long ago, she might not even know that you are upset. If you think she’s clueless, it might be productive to ask her, kiddingly, to lay off. But only if you are sure she doesn’t realize what she is doing. It is more likely that she is trying to get your goat, and this time she’s done so, big time. Why should she use all your interests to hook a cool guy? Perhaps she has a little more success with the things you work hard to claim as your own. You’ve heard the old saying about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery. But if the imitation beats the original, you may be more than annoyed — try jealous and angry. If that’s the case, maybe you need to put a little distance between yourself and your sister. Most siblings have moved on, by this time, to their own separate lives — and a little distance may be just what your battered ego needs right now. Community Calendar Public meetings Thursday, March 10 WELLSTON — The GJMV Solid Waste Management District Board of Directors will meet 3:30 p.m at the district office, 10856 S. New Hampshire Ave., Wellston. Tuesday, March 15 CHESTER — Special meeting of the Chester Township Trustees to be held to 6 p.m. at the town hall to discuss cemetery bids and unfinished business. Clubs and organizations Thursday, March 10 CHESTER — Shade River Lodge 458, 7:30 p.m. at the Lodge Hall. Refreshments following meeting. TUPPERS PLAINS — VFW Post 9053 meets at 6:30 p.m., with dinner at 6 p.m., VFW hall. SYRACUSE — Wildwood Garden Club, 6:30 p.m. at the Syracuse Community Center with Extension Agent Hal Kneen talking on edible wild plants. Saturday, March 12 TUPPERS PLAINS — VFW Post 9053 will have a free public dinner with serving from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday March 19 MIDDLEPORT — Special meeting for the purpose of annual inspection of Middleport Masonic Lodge 363 in the Fellow Craft Degree. Dinner served at 6:30 P.M. with the meeting to follow. Church events Friday, March 11 LONG BOTTOM — Faith Full Gospel church, S. R. 124, Long Bottom, 7 p.m. service. Charlie Hall speaking, special singing. Monday, March 14 SYRACUSE — Syracuse Mission Church, Bridgeman Street, revival 7 p.m. each night through Saturday, March 19, featuring Rev. Mike Finnicum, Rev. Mike Thompson, Rev. Theron Durham, singing, etc. Birthdays Tuesday, March 15 MIDDLEPORT — Yvonne Damewood Stover will celebrate her 70th birthday on March 15. Cards may be sent to her at 1504 Powell St., Middleport, Ohio 45760. Area youth wins in AKC contest REEDSVILLE — Austin Bailey, 15, of Reedsville, a freshman at Eastern High School, qualified fourth in points in the AKC youth world hunt in South Carolina which qualified him to participate in the world championship hunt. His father, Brian, and a friend, Larry Ross, accompanied him to the world championship hunt in South Carolina where he won third place in the competition with his treeing walker “Buckeye Bullet.” Buckeye Bullet was purchased three years ago for Austin on his birthday by his grandmother, Teddy Mundry, from Larry Ross of Salt Rock, W.Va. Austin Bailey, center, poses with his championship dog, Buckeye Bullet, and two other winners, along with the judge, Kevin Self, back left, and two contest guides. Submitted photo Two employees of Swisher & Lohse Pharmacy become certified Two employees of Swisher & Lohse Pharmacy have been certified in their respective categories of employment there. Pictured with Ed Zatta, R.Ph., owner, left, are Joshua Kimes of Middleport, pharmacy technican, and Melissa Frederick of Racine, customer service 1. Charlene Hoeflich/photo Lenten services begin Thursday at Grace UMC ‘Bad Boys of Easter’ topic of 2011 series BY ANDREW CARTER MDTNEWS@MYDAILYTRIBUNE.COM GALLIPOLIS — The annual lenten service series is scheduled to begin Thursday, March 10 in Gallia County and continue through Good Friday. All services will be held at Grace United Methodist Church, located at 600 Second Avenue in Gallipolis. The theme for the 2011 series is “Bad Boys of Easter,” according to Rev. Bill Thomas from Grace United Methodist Church. All services will begin at noon and last until 12:30 p.m. Lunch will be served in the Grace UMC fellowship hall from 12:30-1 p.m., according to Thomas. Pastors from eight churches from Gallia County are participating in this year’s series. Following is the 2011 lenten service schedule with the pastors bringing the weekly messages listed: • March 10 — Rev. Paul Voss, First Church of God • March 17 — Rev. Tim Luoma, First Presbyterian Church • March 24 — Father William Myers, St. Louis Catholic Church, and Rev. Leslie Flemming, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church • March 31 — Rev. Mark Grizzard, First Church of the Nazarene • April 7 — Rev. Randy Carnes, Elizabeth Chapel Church • April 14 — Rev. Scott Baker, New Life Lutheran Church • April 22 — Rev. Bill Thomas, Grace United Methodist Church According to Christianity Today (CT), the roots of the lenten season can be traced back to the year 325 when the Council of Nicea discussed observing a 40day period of fasting. Ted Olsen, in the article “The Beginning of Lent” (ChristianityToday.com; Friday, Aug. 8, 2008), said it’s not clear if those early Christian leaders only intended to use the time of fasting to prepare new Christian converts for baptism, but the early church soon made lent a regular observance. Lent is still faithfully observed by some denominations, with Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic church- es holding to some of the stricter practices associated with the season. While most Protestant denominations have not made lent a regular practice, the 2011 observance in Gallia County does encompass churches from eight denominations. (Source: Christianity Today, www.christianitytoday.com) Support Groups GALLIPOLIS — Gallia County Alzheimerʼs/ Dementia Support Group meeting, 1:30-3 p.m., third Thursday of each month, at Holzer Medical Center Education Center. Info: Amber Johnson, (740) 441-3406. GALLIPOLIS — Grieving Parents Support Group meets 8 p.m., first Tuesday of each month at New Life Lutheran Church, Jackson Pike. Info: Jackie Keatley at 446-2700 or John Jackson at 446-7339. GALLIPOLIS — Grief Support Group meets second Tuesday of each month, 8 p.m., at New Life Lutheran Church. Facilitators: Sharon Carmichael and John Jackson. GALLIPOLIS — Serenity House support group for domestic violence victims meets Mondays at 2 p.m. For more information, call the Serenity House at 4466752. GALLIPOLIS — Look Good Feel Better cancer program, third Monday of the month at 6 p.m., Holzer Center for Cancer Care. GALLIPOLIS — Alcoholics Anonymous Wednesday book study at 7 p.m. and Thursday open meeting at noon; Tuesday closed meeting at 8 p.m.; Friday open lead meeting, 8 p.m. St. Peterʼs Episcopal Church, 54 Second Ave., Gallipolis. 507 Mulberry Heights, Pomeroy, OH Friday, March 11 • 9:00-noon 60179469 �OPINION Page A4 Thursday, March 10, 2011 Investigating Muslims or coming together as Americans? BY TALAT HAMDANI AMERICAN FORUM When Winston warned America: Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ at 65 BY DR. PAUL KENGOR CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES It was 65 years ago, when Winston Churchill delivered his “Iron Curtain” speech in Fulton, Missouri. It was a speech that rocked the world and changed history. By then, Churchill was no longer British prime minister. He and his conservatives had been replaced by Clement Attlee and the Labour Party, which busily nationalized everything under the sun, from car companies to healthcare, pursued Keynesian economic policies with reckless abandon, exploded the public sector, and piled debts that buried Britain for a generation. Churchill was out, and Britain’s giant lunge leftward was in, enabled by an electorate that voted for “change.” Churchill and his work, however, were hardly finished. He had been called upon to save Western civilization at the start of the decade, when Hitler’s Germany was at the gates. Now, he saw new vandals, equally dangerous, already inside the gates, and colored red. Stalin was their dictator. Worse, the West, complacent and tired of war, had no clue of the threat; it could not see the wolf at the door. The former prime minister travelled to America to issue a wake-up call to the free world. So, at little Westminster College, on March 5, 1946, at the invitation of President Harry Truman, Churchill cut loose: Nobody knows what Soviet Russia and its Communist international organization intends to do in the immediate future, or what are the limits, if any, to their expansive and proselytizing tendencies…. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of central and eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in the Soviet sphere and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and increasing measure of control from Moscow. Churchill conceded these were tough words to hear on the “morrow of a great victory” over Nazism, one where Stalin’s Russia had been an ally. Nonetheless, we could not be blind to reality, and simply wish away the dangers. Of course, Churchill was exactly right, as anyone paying attention should have noticed. A month earlier, Stalin had delivered his Bolshoi Theater speech, which followed blatant Soviet violations of the Yalta agreement signed a year earlier. Moscow was installing puppet governments and refusing promises of free elections throughout Eastern Europe, all the while committing countless war crimes, especially in eastern Germany, where Red Army soldiers committed two million rapes. The former prime minister spoke the truth. Naturally, Stalin responded by blasting Churchill: “To all intents and purposes, Mr. Churchill now takes his stand among the warmongers.” Churchill expected Stalin’s reaction. He also would not have been surprised to learn that members of Communist Party USA had gathered at Fourth Avenue in New York to prepare a P.R. strategy to smear his plans to launch “a new world war.” The international communist movement wasted little time. Yet, Churchill was taken aback by the response of many progressive Americans. Eleanor Roosevelt was furious. She accused the courageous prime minister of “desecrating the ideals for which my husband gave his life.” She took a personal swipe: “Perhaps it’s just as well,” she publicly sneered at Churchill, “that he [FDR] is not alive today to see how you have turned against his principles.” The Daily Sentinel Reader Services (USPS 213-960) Correction Policy Ohio Valley Publishing Co. Our main concern in all stories is to be accurate. If you know of an error in a story, call the newsroom at (740) 992-2156. Published Tuesday through Friday, 111 Court Street, Pomeroy, Ohio. Second-class postage paid at Pomeroy. 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In the next few years, the Soviets blockaded Berlin, sponsored a coup in Czechoslovakia, and swallowed up Eastern Europe. According to the seminal work by Harvard University Press, The Black Book of Communism, at least 100 million people were killed by communist governments — a conservative figure that, even then, is double the combined deaths of World War I and II. Soviet authorities like Alexander Yakovlev maintain that Stalin alone was responsible for 60-70 million deaths. It took the rest of the world a while to awaken to Churchill’s reality. When it did, it recognized the prime minister as a political prophet. But on March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill was a voice in the wilderness. (Dr. Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values. His books include “The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism” and the newly released “Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.”) 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 As a proud New Yorker and the mother of a first responder who lost his life on September 11, 2001, I am saddened to learn that Rep. Peter King (R-NY) is planning on holding congressional hearings on March 10 on the “radicalization of American Muslims.” My son Mohammed Salman Hamdani was a 23year-old paramedic, a New York City police cadet and a Muslim American. He was one of those brave 2,976 people who tragically lost their lives in the 9/11 terrorist attacks almost a decade ago. As The New York Times eulogized, “He wanted to be seen as an allAmerican kid. He wore No. 79 on the high school football team in Bayside, Queens, where he lived, and he was called Sal by his friends... He became a research assistant at Rockefeller University and drove an ambulance part-time. One Christmas, he sang in Handel’s Messiah in Queens. He saw all the Star Wars movies, and it was well known that his new Honda was the one with “Yung Jedi” license plates.” Even though my son bravely sacrificed his life to try and help others on that fateful day, after the tragedy there were still some people who smeared his character solely because of his Islamic faith. False rumors were spread that he was in league with the attackers and that he had secretly fled. It was only when his remains were identified that this ugliness finally came to a close. By explicitly investigating Muslim Americans, the result of Representative King’s hearings, whether intentionally or unintentionally, will be to unjustly cast suspicion upon millions of good Americans. And the sad truth is that there are many who will follow the lead of these hearings and capitalize on the opportunity to act upon this prejudice. The implicit message of Rep. King’s hearings will be that you should be suspicious of your Muslim neighbors, co-workers or classmates — solely on the basis of their faith. Rep. King initially premised these hearings on the false claim that the American Muslim community has failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in our efforts to disrupt terrorism plots here in the United States. But that claim has been directly refuted by law enforcement professionals such as Los Angeles Sheriff County Sheriff Lee Baca, whose jurisdiction includes a large and diverse Muslim community. Baca who serves as a Chair of the Major City Chiefs Association has directly challenged King’s unsubstantiated claim, “If he has evidence of non-cooperation, he should bring it forward,” said Baca, “I don’t know what Mr. King is hearing or who he’s hearing it from.” I have no problem with investigating criminal behavior or watching for patterns of action that indicate that criminal activity is underway, but it is altogether a different thing to divide Americans on the basis of their faith. In the past, Rep. King has also claimed while providing no evidence whatsoever, that 85% of American mosques have “extremist leadership” and that American Muslims have shown “no moral outrage or condemnation” of terrorist acts. Mr. King seems to conveniently forget that the first person to report the foiled Times Square bomb plot was a Senegalese Muslim named Aloune Niass. He seems to have forgotten that the young man who plotted to bomb a Christmas tree lighting in Oregon was turned in to the authorities by his own Muslim father. The fact of the matter is that like all Americans, American Muslims are committed to the safety of their families, their communities and their nation. The United States Congress honored the legacy of my son when it wrote in Title I of the USA Patriot Act: “Many Arab Americans and Muslim Americans have acted heroically during the attacks on the United States, including Mohammed Salman Hamdani, a 23-year-old New Yorker of Pakistani descent, who is believed to have gone to the World Trade Center to offer rescue assistance and is now missing.” If my son were alive today, he would be very concerned by the broad assault on American Muslims that these hearings represent. As we near the 10th anniversary of the tragic September 11 attacks, I will be thinking of my son and the 2,976 other innocent souls who perished on that terrible day. As a nation, we should use this tenth anniversary of 9/11 to help move our nation towards a healing process. Sadly, these hearings will only divide our country at a time when Americans of all religions and races need to help bridge the divide and come together. (Talat Hamdani is the mother of 9/11 first responder Salman Hamdani, a 23-year-old paramedic, a New York City police cadet and a American Muslim first responder who lost his life in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.) The Daily Sentinel Ohio Valley Publishing Co. 111 Court Street Pomeroy, Ohio Phone (740) 992-2156 Fax (740) 992-2157 www.mydailysentinel.com Letters to the Editor able. 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In the proposal which Hill presented to the board, he gave a list of expenditures to put teams on the field including the $2500 paid to officials, and suggested that the admission fee will “take a bit out of the red ink.” The total cost of the spring sports program, Hill said, is $13,570. He said admission fees would offset some of the officiating costs, busing and equipment expenses, but there would be an additional cost for hiring ticket sellers/takers of $720 for the 48 games. Meeting with the Board to give a brief report on progress in the “Race to the Top” program being funded through a federal grant was Tim Lawson. He described the progress as “going well: but noted that it is a “work in progress.” He said some professional development is being planned for the summer. and noted that in the school year of 2013-14 the schools will be going to computer based testing. Dean Harris, the Meigs transportation director, reported on roads closed due to high water listed several areas where the buses could not travel. On Wednesday, schools in Meigs Local closed at noon when more and more roads over which the buses travel were closed due to high water. Harris reported on driver certification, noting that four of the drivers will begin training soon to qualify for certification. He expressed concern about the price of gasoline and what it could mean for the transportation budget. Also reporting at the meeting was Donna Corsi, food service supervisor. She noted that the nutrition program as received a $1,000 grant from the Meigs County Health Department and said she is working with Andy Brumfield on proposals for its use possibly in restarting the fruit and vegetable grant program which was not refunded this year. Corsi also noted that a summer feeding program is under consideration and advised that she is meeting with a representative of Second Harvest Food Bank which serves this area about that possibility. On recommendation of Superintendent Rusty Bookman, Kristin Baer was hired on an administrative supplemental contract as Meigs Elementary School Title I Coordinator at a rate of $3,000 for the 2010-11 school year. Candi Ohlinger and Elizabeth Harrison were hired as substitute teachers to be used on an asneeded basis Resignations for retirement purposes were accepted from Twila Childs, elementary teacher, James Timothy Simpson, OWE/OWA teacher, Vicki Bragg, special education teacher; Karen Walker and Marjorie Gibbs, Meigs Intermediate teachers, and Emma Ashley and Paula Whitt Title 1 teachers. Attending the meeting were Superintendent Bookman, Treasurer/CFO Mark Rhonemus, and Board members, Ryan Mahr, Ron Logan, Roger Abbott, Larry Tucker and Barbara Musser. Pills From Page A1 discussions with sheriffs, prosecuting attorneys, and officers working in the AG’s special prosecutions unit, and the Route 23 Drug Task Force. A coroner, a village mayor, health commissioner and state representative will also be in on the tour, DeWine’s office said. Route 23 in Scioto County is said to be a common route to and from Columbus in the trafficking of prescription medications. DeWine will also tour Southern Ohio Medical Center in Portsmouth, meeting with health care professionals for a discussion on the growing prescription pill problem and its effect on communities and children. The counties DeWine plans to visit also provide locations for so-called “pill mills,” known as pain management clinics, where pain pills such as Oxycontin, Percocet and Vicodin are easily secured. Scioto County, with a population of around 74,000 people, has as many as eight operating now. March 8 10:25 a.m., Kingsbury Road, pain; 12:53 p.m., South Third Avenue, Middleport, stroke; 1:35 p.m., Union Avenue, laceration; 4:46 p.m., Success Road at Number 9, motor vehicle collision; 6:58 p.m., South Third Avenue, Middleport, hemorrhage; 10:27 p.m., Rose Hill Road, chest pain. March 9 3:19 a.m., Kingsbury Road, pain; 4:10 a.m., South Third Avenue, pain. Middleport Mayorʼs Court MIDDLEPORT — Middleport Mayor Michael Gerlach fined the following in Mayor’s Court: James Bradford, $114, speed; Allen Brickles, $545, underage consumption, $300, contributing; Joe Demarco, $645, resisting arrest, $195, disorderly conduct. John Falkenberg, $170, failure to control; Gary Haning, $195, disorderly conduct; Keith Mattox, $395, court suspension; Charles Wayland, $170, failure to control; Carrie Barton, $195, failure to comply; Eric Crump, $195, failure to comply. Sara Moon, $195, failure to comply; Precious Moore, $195, failure to comply; Kevin Nutt, $195, failure to comply; Charles Fitchpatrick, $295, drug paraphernalia. Lance Herman, $300, court suspension, $75, expired operator’s license; Patrick Johnson, $395, court suspension; Alisha Mcdaniel, $195, failure to comply; Michael Pierce, $195, failure to comply. Common Pleas Court Domestic Relations • Actions for divorce filed by Thomas I. Barnhart against Debora Barnhart; Melvin Hayes, against Michelle N. Hayes. • Dissolution granted Angela N., Kevin O. Stanley; Tonya, David Hardwick; Tonya, Jeremy Watson; Erin Lynn, Rickie Lee Causey. A fresh focus on Social Security in budget debate BY STEPHEN OHLEMACHER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — In the midst of the budget crisis, an old debate has broken out with new force: Should Social Security be seen as part of the deficit that Washington needs to rein in? The White House is balking at calls to tackle Social Security’s financial problems now, before baby boomers swamp the system. But the massive retirement program, like the rest of the government, is running a deficit and has become part of the argument on Capitol Hill. The elderly and disabled don’t need to worry about losing their benefits or seeing them cut anytime soon. The Obama administration is correct in asserting that Social Security doesn’t face an immediate crisis. But the program’s red ink will only get worse the longer policymakers don’t act. While Congress has spent the past several weeks debating how much to cut government spending through September, a growing number of lawmakers say they also want to act on long-term concerns about benefit programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. “If you don’t think Social Security is becoming unraveled as a safety net, you’re not listening,” says Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. “This year it is paying more in benefits than it collects in taxes. Once it goes off this cliff, it goes fast.” House Republican leaders say their budget plan for next year will address entitlement programs, including Social Security. President Barack Obama kept the administration’s hands off the big benefit programs in his budget plan for next year, saying it will take time to create the political environment necessary for Democrats and Republicans to negotiate in good faith on such difficult long-term issues. But Social Security’s problems do have some immediacy. Last year’s $37 billion operating deficit — the first since the system was last overhauled in the 1980s — is expected to grow to $45 billion in 2011. Over the next decade, the program is projected to run up more than $500 billion in operating deficits if Congress doesn’t act, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. White House officials and some Democrats in Congress say not to worry: Social Security has built up a $2.6 trillion surplus over the past 30 years. “Social Security benefits are entirely self-financing,” White House budget director Jacob Lew wrote in a Feb. 21 article in USA Today. “They are paid for with payroll taxes collected from workers and their employers throughout their careers. These taxes are placed in a trust fund dedicated to paying benefits owed to current and future beneficiaries.” That argument, however, overlooks a nagging fact: The money in the trust funds has been spent over the years to help fund other government programs. In return, the Treasury Department issued bonds to Social Security, which earn interest and are backed by the government, just like bonds sold in public debt markets. When Social Security runs a deficit, it redeems its bonds with the Treasury Department to cover the red ink. But Treasury gets the money to pay Social Security the same places the government gets all its money: either from taxes and other revenues or by borrowing it. Last year, the government borrowed 37 cents of every dollar it spent. This year it’s borrowing 43 cents of every dollar. Here is how Lew described the Social Security trust funds when he was budget director under former President Bill Clinton, in Clinton’s 2000 budget request: “These funds are not set up to be pension funds, like the funds of private pension plans. They do not consist of real economic assets that can be drawn down in the future to fund benefits. Instead, they are claims on the Treasury that, when redeemed, will have to be financed by raising taxes, borrowing from the public, or reducing benefits or other expenditures.” Few on Capitol Hill are suggesting that the federal government won’t make good on its IOUs to Social Security. But now that it is time to start repaying Social Security, Lew’s decade-old analysis of where the money will come from still holds true. Thursday: A chance of showers. Cloudy, with a high near 46. Calm wind becoming west between 8 and 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50 percent. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. Thursday Night: A chance of rain showers before 2 a.m., then a chance of rain and snow showers. Cloudy, with a low around 32. West wind between 11 and 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50 percent. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. Friday: A chance of rain and snow showers before 10 a.m., then a slight chance of rain showers between 10am and noon. Partly sunny, with a high near 46. West wind between 11 and 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 33. Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 58. Saturday Night: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 34. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent. Sunday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 48. Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. Monday: A chance of showers. Cloudy, with a high near 52. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent. Monday Night: A chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 32. Chance of precipitation is 40 percent. Tuesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 51. Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29. Wednesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 53. Local Stocks AEP (NYSE) — 36.30 Akzo (NASDAQ) — 67.10 Ashland Inc. 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Suspect in Tucson shooting rampage enters not guilty plea BY JACQUES BILLEAUD ASSOCIATED PRESS TUCSON, Ariz. — The suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage that critically injured U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal charges accusing him of killing six people and wounding 13 others. U.S. District Judge Larry Burns also approved the release of some records of a police search of Jared Lee Loughner’s home. Loughner, who smiled as he was led into the courtroom, appeared before Burns in kaki prison clothes, his once-shaved head now featuring short, dark hair and side burns. He pleaded not guilty to charges that included trying to assassinate Giffords, attempting to kill two of her aides and murdering federal judge John Roll and Giffords staffer Gabe Zimmerman. Loughner also is charged with causing the deaths of four others who weren’t federal employees, causing injury and death to participants at a “federally provided activity” and using a gun in a crime of violence. He also will likely face state charges stemming from the Jan. 8 attack at a Giffords event outside a Tucson grocery store. News organizations had asked Burns to unseal records related to the search of Loughner’s home. The Arizona Republic and KPNX-TV argued there was no basis for search warrant records to remain sealed and that the public has a right to the records. The documents have been sealed since Jan. 11. Loughner’s attorneys argued their client’s right to a fair trial might be harmed by the release of the records. The said the documents contain potentially inflammatory statements by a law enforcement officer. Burns ruled Wednesday that many of the records should be released. However, he said some will remain sealed, such as information that is inflammatory or that will not be admissible at trial. Loughner’s father attended the hearing, listening to the proceedings with his arms crossed, head down and eyes closed. Also in the crowded courtroom were more than 20 U.S. Marshals and security personnel, numerous reporters, about a dozen family members of victims, and at least two survivors of the shooting spree. 60147267 Council with this issue. Hoschar said since going to council, the village is trying to help and has had an elevation survey done. Despite the help, this doesn’t change the fact the Hoschars have to live practically in the middle of “Monkey Run Lake.” Hoschar said beyond the aggravation of a lake in his backyard, the issue is becoming a health hazard when it comes to sewage in the water. “It’s a problem that should’ve never happened,” Hoschar said. “Everyone back here (in Monkey Run) complained before they put the first scoop of dirt on the tile and now there’s 30 feet of dirt and rock on those tiles.” One of the questions Hoschar took to council was who made the decision to dump the dirt on the property? “If I owned a holler and I filled it up with dirt and flooded people’s houses, I’d be in jail,” Hoschar joked despite the fact it isn’t much of a laughing matter, especially since he’s lost items like power washers, an ATV, weedeaters, tools and many other items to what he considers a bad decision. The dirt came from excavation work from the Bridge of Honor construction site. Mayor John Musser told Hoschar the property is owned by the Community Improvement Corporation. In fact, the CIC is putting up matching grant money to build a road along Taco Bell into Monkey Run. At a previous council meeting, Musser said when the new road is constructed, hopefully this year, a curb drain will be put in. Whether or not this alleviates the steady flooding on West Main Street in front of Taco Bell remains to be seen. On Wednesday, drivers were traversing high water which ran off West Main Street and puddled into the alley behind Pizza Hut and McDonalds. This problem has been ongoing with high water signs going up along this stretch of road at least once already this year. �Thursday, March 10, 2011 www.mydailysentinel.com The Daily Sentinel • Page A6 Deputies seek suspects Father, son arrested for sexual assault, abuse counts of the West Virginia took place at in second RVHS break-in B H R sexual abuse State Police, on Feb. 7747 16 Mile Y OPE OUSH HROUSH@MYDAILYREGISTER.COM BY AMBER GILLENWATER MDTNEWS@MYDAILYTRIBUNE.COM CHESHIRE — After the recent arraignment of two men allegedly involved in a break-in at the former River Valley High School (RVHS) building in Cheshire, detectives with the Gallia County Sheriff’s Office are investigating a second break-in at the facility. Reportedly, on March 3 two unknown men were captured on video surveillance inside the building removing electrical lines and copper pipe from the facility. After reviewing the video, detectives reported that the suspects answer to the names “Chuck” and “Joey.” Their vehicle, a dark colored, extended cab Ford Ranger with flare sides, was also captured on video. In the previous breakin, at approximately 1 a.m. on Feb. 26, Charles K. Smith, II, 24, Bidwell, and Travis L. Swartz, 30, Gallipolis, were arrested on scene by officials with the sheriff’s office while trying to exit the building through a window. Both Smith and Swartz were arraigned in the Gallipolis Municipal Court on Feb. 28 on one count of breaking and entering and were further ordered not to be within 100 yards of any school property belonging to the Gallia County Local or Gallipolis City school districts. The case against Swartz was bound over to the Gallia County Court of Common pleas on March 2, while Smith’s case was bound over on March 4 and are expected to be indicted during the next session of the grand jury. Swartz and Smith are currently being held in the Gallia County Jail under $100,000, 10 percent bonds. According to Gallia County Sheriff Joe Browning, the investigation into the second break-in at the former RVHS facility is ongoing and he further reported that the sheriff’s office has every intention of pursuing felony charges against the newest suspects. Browning also asked anyone with information about the latest RVHS break-in to call the sheriff’s office tip-line at (740) 446-6555. The tipline is anonymous and all information in regard to this case will be passed on to investigators. Getting the message out: Sheriff to offer annual Citizensʼ Academy BY AMBER GILLENWATER MDTNEWS@MYDAILYTRIBUNE.COM GALLIPOLIS — Gallia County citizens who are curious about the activity of local law enforcement, emergency officials and the local court system now have the chance to enroll in a free educational class coordinated by the Gallia County Sheriff’s Office. “It really helps get the message out to some of the citizens about the resources we have to offer, but also some of the obstacles that we face in law enforcement and in prosecuting some of these crimes,” Gallia County Sheriff Joe Browning stated about the program. “It kind of helps us to build a base of support out in the community and, at the same time, it gets really important information out.” This is the fourth year that the sheriff’s office has offered the annual Citizens’ Academy, as the program has been deemed, and the sheriff is hoping that the program only grows and that many more Gallia County citizens take advantage of the free class. “I can see it being really useful to teachers or anyone who works in a field where these resources might be needed. ... One of the goals that I had was to reach the high school and middle school teachers to try to build a relationship between the deputies and the teaching staff so we have an open exchange information and we’re able to address that [juvenile delinquency] well,” Browning said. The sheriff also encourages all individuals who participate in crime watch organizations or those who are interested in joining or starting a crime watch organization to attend. The Citizens’ Academy is open to all Gallia County citizens over the age of 18 who have no felony convictions or crimes of moral turpitude. A total of seven sessions will be given on every Tuesday, beginning on March 15, and will continue until April 26. Each session will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will end promptly at 9 p.m. Classes are held in the second floor meeting room at the Gallia County Courthouse. Various guest speakers will present information at each session. Guess speakers will include deputies, detectives and officers with the sheriff’s office and Gallipolis Police Department who will provide information about patrol operations, drug enforcement, home security, as well as officials from the Gallipolis Municipal Court, Gallia County Prosecutor’s Office and the City Solicitor’s Office who will speak about the legal system in Gallia County. A guest speaker the Ohio Department of Natural Resources will present information about wildlife violations on April 12 and a representative from the Ohio Attorney General’s Office will also present information about victims’ rights during the April 26 session. Residents should apply for the program by March 10, however, Browning reported that the sheriff’s office would generally accept any applicants up until the day the program begins on March 15. Applications can be obtained and dropped off at the sheriff’s office. “We have a little bit of funding that’s available to us to do projects like this and that’s just one of the things we wanted to target that for,” Browning commented and further stated that the graduates will receive certificates and a class picture upon their completion of the program. In order to successfully complete the program, individuals must attend five of the seven courses. A total of 10 individuals participated in the program in 2010 and Browning reported that a total of nine applications have been received so far by the sheriff’s office and he is hopeful to double the number of participants by March 15. SOUTHSIDE, W.Va. — Two Mason County men have been arrested on sexual assault and sexual abuse charges. Timothy J. Double, 57, and his son, Anthony J. Double, 23, were transported to the Western Regional Jail in Barboursville, W.Va., on Tuesday following their arrests. Timothy Double was charged with three counts of sexual abuse in the second degree and three by a parent or custodian. Anthony Double was charged with two counts of incest and Anyjony two counts of Double sexual assault in the third degree. Bond for each man was set at $150,000. The arrests stemmed from an incident that took place in February. According to Sgt. E.B. Starcher of the Mason County Detachment of Creek Drive in 15, Trooper S.C. Southside. Allen began investiLater, on gating a complaint March 7, Allen that he received from sat in on an Anthony Double’s interview that probation officer, Lori was conducted James. between the The complaint indi- Timothy victim and cated possible sexual Double contact between Anthony Marin Runyon of CAMC Double and the victim. Women’s and Children’s Also, on Feb. 15 in a Hospital in Charleston. recorded audio statement Also, on March 7, in a Double told Allen that he recorded audio statement Allen, Anthony had sexually assaulted to the victim on two occa- Double admitted to sexusions. Double also ally abusing the victim reported that the assault on three occasions. Mason Co. man pleads not guilty to sex charges BY AMBER GILLENWATER MDTNEWS@MYDAILYTRIBUNE.COM GALLIPOLIS — A Point Pleasant, W.Va., man, who previously served a prison sentence for attempted abduction, was arraigned in separate case in the Gallia County Court of Common Pleas on Monday. Travis Efaw, 22, was charged with and pleaded not guilty to unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. The indictment in this case alleges that Efaw had unlawful sexual conduct with the victim, a 14-year old, on July 16, 2010, a fourth degree felony. Efaw was further ordered to have no contact with the victim in this case and is scheduled to appear threats to injure or for a status conkill her. The victim ference on April later ran out of the 25 in the common front door of the pleas court. A residence and was plea agreement in allegedly tackled this case may be and taken back filed with the inside the house by clerk of courts by Efaw the defendant. The June 13. Efaw’s bond was set at victim later went out of $10,000 own recog- the residence a second nizance, with an addition- time and phoned 911 and al bond of $1,500, 10 per- the defendant fled the cent secured. Efaw posted scene. Efaw later pleaded bond for his release on guilty to one count of March 7. In a previous common attempted abduction as pleas case, Efaw was sen- per a plea agreement and tenced to 17 months of was sentenced to 24 imprisonment for months of community control and ordered to attempted abduction. Reportedly, this earlier successfully complete the case stemmed from an Southeastern Probation incident that occurred on Treatment Alternative Nov. 8, 2008, when the (SEPTA) program in defendant entered the vic- Nelsonville, Ohio. tim’s house and allegedly Probation violations restrained her and made were later filed with the court after the defendant was arrested by the Gallipolis Police Department on Dec. 5, 2009, for a violation of a civil protection order after he was in contact with the victim in this case. Efaw was originally scheduled to appear for an arraignment on the community control violations in this case on Jan. 26, 2010; however, the hearing was continued and Efaw was only later sentenced on July 16, 2010. During sentencing, Efaw’s community control was revoked and he was sentenced to 17 months of imprisonment for attempted abduction and was given credit for 285 days served. Cheshire man facing forgery, other charges BY AMBER GILLENWATER MDTNEWS@MYDAILYTRIBUNE.COM GALLIPOLIS — A Gallia County man arrested on Friday on a warrant for failure to appear, appeared in the Gallipolis Municipal Court and the Gallia County Court of Common Pleas on Monday to face charges of forgery, resisting arrest and obstruction of official business. Keith E. Muncy, 26, Cheshire, was arrested by a deputy with the Gallia County Sheriff's Office on March 4 and was later arraigned in the municipal and common pleas courts. The defendant pleaded not guilty in the pleas court on Aug. common pleas 10, 2010. A warrant court to one count was issued for his of forgery after he arrest. allegedly forged a During his hearcitation with the ing in relation to this name of Joshua 2009 case, a new Muncy, who did court schedule was not authorize the Muncy set forth and Muncy act, on March 9, 2010, a was further ordered to have no contact with the victim fifth degree felony. In a previous common in this case. Muncy is scheduled to pleas case, Muncy was arraigned on March 10, appear for a status confer2010, on one count of ence in both of his comunlawful sexual conduct mon pleas cases on April with a 15 year old minor, 25. A negotiated plea in an incident that allegedly both cases may be filed by June 13 with the clerk of occurred on July 9, 2008. Muncy pleaded not courts. A jury trial is schedguilty to this charge and uled for July 13. Muncy also appeared later failed to appear for a jury trial in the common before the Gallipolis Municipal Court on March 7 after he failed to appear for a court pretrial hearing on June 24, 2010, on falsification and driving under suspension charges. Muncy was further arraigned in the municipal court on one count of resisting arrest and one count of obstructing official business on Monday. The defendant is scheduled to appear in the municipal court on March 17 for a court pretrial in relation to these charges. Muncy’s bond was set at $10,000 own recognizance with an additional bond of $1,500, 10 percent. He is currently being held in the Gallia County Jail. Fishing and hunting permits on sale COLUMBUS — Ohio’s 2011-12 fishing, hunting and trapping licenses and permits are on sale now, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife. Licenses purchased online or at a retail outlet will be printed on 8-1/2 x 11 paper that can be folded down to credit card size. Each license buyer must have a Social Security Number (SSN) recorded in the system. Sportsmen and women who have purchased licenses in the past and who provided an Ohio driver’s license will most likely be unaffected. SSNs are required to purchase a recreational license, regardless of age, for the purpose of child support collection enforcement under Federal Statute 42. As a recreational license provider, the Division of Wildlife is obligated to comply with this law, and cannot issue a license or permit without the SSN of the purchaser. The division will see that a proper security system is in place to protect SSNs and any databases that contain them. The new Web-based license and game check system incorporates better management and integration of license sales information, hunter education, controlled hunt allocations, arrest report tracking, and automated game check processes — all in real time. Licenses and permits can be purchaseD online at wildohio.com and at hundreds of agent outlets throughout the state. The license will be valid March 1, 2011through Feb. 29, 2012. The 201011 licenses expired Feb. 28, 2011. A complete list of participating license sales agents can be found at wildohio.com. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources ensures a balance between wise use and protection of our natural resources for the benefit of all. Visit the ODNR Web site at ohiodnr.com. ATHENS-MEIGS EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER Contact Person: Michael Barnett, Curriculum Supervisor Phone: 740-742-2666 Meigs County Kindergarten and Preschool Registration and Screening for Eastern Local, Southern local and Meigs local Schools Children who will be 5 years old before August 1, 2011 are eligible to attend kindergarten during the 2011-2012 school year. The kindergarten registration and screening schedule is as follows: Eastern Local: May 5th & 6th Eastern Elementary 985-3304  Additionally, Eastern Local will be having a Preschool registration and screening to be announced at a later date. Meigs Local: April 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st Meigs Primary 742-3000 Additional Meigs Local is having a Preschool registration and screening on April 18, 2011 at Bradbury Learning Center. You can make appointments by calling 992-2165. Southern Local: April 4th & 5th Southern Elementary 949-4222  Additionally Southern Local is having a Preschool registration and screening on April 4, 2011 at Southern Elementary School. • Please call or visit one of the listed above schools to arrange for an appointment for kindergarten registration and times. Parents or guardians must bring their child who is enrolling to registration. For safety measures, parents are asked to provide proper identification, proof of residency, and any other applicable information showing legal guardianship. • Please bring the child’s birth certificate, social security card, and immunization record. The birth certificate must be “original” or “live” birth certificate. • The child should have had 5DPT, 4 Polio (4th dose of Polio must be administered on or after the 4th birthday regardless of the number of previous doses) 2 MMR, 3 Hepatitis B and 1 TB Skin Test within a year of entering school. Additionally, stated during the 2010-2011 school year, kindergarteners must have 2 doses of varicella (chickenpox) disease vaccine. In order to be considered valid, the first varicella must have been administered before entry into kindergarten. In addition, the law states that “A pupil who has had natural chicken pox and presents a signed statement form the pupil’s parent, guardian or physician to that effect, is not required to be immunized against chicken pox”, ORC 3313.671 (B)(3). • School nurses will be present at registration to answer any of your questions concerning your child’s immunization requirements. • School personnel will assess the speech, fine motor skills and language abilities of the children who are being enrolled. Information about each child’s performance will be provided to the parent/ guardian. • Information obtained during the registration and screening process allows school staff members to plan activities that will make the child’s first year of school successful and enjoyable. Please call your school as soon as possible and make an appointment to register your child for kindergarten. We look forward to working with you to provide the best educational opportunities for your child. �B1 SPORTS LOCAL SCHEDULE Thursday, March 10, 2011 Prep Girls Basketball — Division IV Regional Preview POMEROY — A schedule of upcoming high school varsity sporting events involving teams from Gallia, Mason and Meigs counties. OHIO GIRLS BASKETBALL Thursday, March 10 Division IV - Regional Semifinal at Pickerington North High School No. 2 Eastern vs. No. 1 Waterford, 8 p.m. OHIO BOYS BASKETBALL RedStorm open MSC play with two wins Thursday, March 10 Division IV - District Semifinal at Ohio University No. 5 Southern vs. No. 1 Manchester, 6:15 p.m. No. 7 South Gallia vs. No. 6 Whiteoak, 8 p.m. WEST VIRGINIA BOYS BASKETBALL Thursday, March 10 Class A Region 4 final at Williamson High School Wahama vs. Williamson, 7 p.m. BY MARK WILLIAMS SPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL Union seeking more financial data than NFL owners offered WASHINGTON (AP) — Players’ union leader DeMaurice Smith indicated Wednesday that NFL owners have lowered from $1 billion to $800 million t h e amount of addiNOTEBOOK t i o n a l revenues they want to take off the top of their $9 billion business. He also was clear he considers that lower figure still too high, because the league is not offering to turn over enough financial information. Leaving the 14th day of mediated talks — and with the labor contract set to expire Friday — Smith called the information the NFL proposed to provide “utterly meaningless.” The union rejected what the league offered to give; that financial information doesn’t include data requested nearly two years ago by Smith in a letter to Commissioner Roger Goodell. “Has it gotten everything it wants? Evidently not. Have we offered to provide more? Absolutely,” NFL lead negotiator Jeff Pash said. “And is it a subject that we’re prepared to discuss? Absolutely.” At the outset of talks, the NFL sought an additional $1 billion before splitting remaining revenues with the players; the NFL already gets an immediate $1 billion for operating expenses under the old collective bargaining agreement. The NFL Players Association, meanwhile, insists it wants full financial disclosure. “Just to be absolutely clear, the information that was offered wasn’t what we asked for,” Smith said, “and, according to our investment bankers and advisers, they told us that information would be meaningless in determining whether to write an $800 million check to the National Football League” in each year of a new CBA. “We have requested access to fully audited financial statements since May 2009,” Smith continued. “We believe that is the appropriate information to analyze the league’s request to write a multibillion check to the owners.” In a letter dated May 18, 2009 — a copy of which was obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press — Smith asked Goodell to Please see NFL, B6 Bryan Walters/photos Eastern seniors Beverly Maxson (13) and Emeri Connery (23) both took great pride in cutting down the net last Thursday night at the Ohio University Convocation Center after winning a Division IV girls basketball district championship with a 64-26 victory over Portsmouth Clay. The Lady Eagles will be looking to advance to their first-ever regional final Thursday night when they take on Waterford in a Sweet 16 matchup at Pickerington High School North at 8 p.m. Eastern-Waterford: A rivalry renewed BY BRYAN WALTERS BWALTERS@MYDAILYTRIBUNE.COM PICKERINGTON, Ohio — When it comes to competitive spirit, it’s really hard to find a more-balanced rivalry than the one shared in girls’ athletics between Eastern and Waterford. These historical TriValley Conference combatants will take this friendly feud to a whole new level Thursday night at Pickerington High School North in a Division IV regional semifinal basketball contest at 8 p.m. Both the second-seeded Lady Eagles (21-2) and top-seeded Lady Wildcats (20-3) shared the TVC Hocking title this winter with matching 15-1 league marks, as each road team lost in the annual homeand-home series. EHS snapped Waterford’s six-season, 48-game winning streak in TVC Hocking play back on December 6 with a 57-55 win at the Eagles’ Nest, but the Lady ’Cats avenged that setback with a 7370 triumph on February 5 at WHS. The league championship was the seventh straight for Waterford, while Eastern clinched its first TVC Hocking crown since the 2001 campaign. Neither squad has won by more than a possession in the headto-head series this season, and neither program has had a hard time in getting back to this spot for the decisive rubber match. The Lady Eagles have won their three postseason games over Symmes Valley (69-35), Manchester (82-37) and Portsmouth Clay (6426) by an average margin of 39 points, which helped Eastern earn its fourth district championship in program history and first since 2004. Waterford, on the other hand, defeated Miller (70-20), Paint Valley (65-31) and Portsmouth Notre Dame (69-43) in the postseason by an average margin of 36.7 points. The Lady ’Cats also picked up their sixth straight district title — and sixth overall in program history — in getting to this point. Waterford — in its previous five regional appearances — advanced to the championship game twice, but came up one win short of heading to the state tournament in both 2008 and 2010. WHS has also been defeated by the eventual state champion in the regionals three times, which includes Africentric twice (2007 and 2009) in the semis and Harvest Prep last year in the regional final. Eastern, conversely, is winless in its three previous regional contests and also lost to eventual champion Jackson Center in its regional semifinal debut back in 1995. The Lady Eagles — who also qualified for regionals in 1999 — have never advanced to the Great 8 in basketball. With both Eastern and Waterford in the Sweet 16, it gives the TVC Hocking at least one team in the regional postseason for the eighth consecutive year. It will also be the third time over that span that the TVC Hocking will have a pair of representatives at the regional level. Waterford and Trimble both qualified in 2006, while Eastern and Trimble each made it to the Sweet 16 in 2004. Trimble made its lone regional final appearance in 2005 before coming up short to eventual-champion Berlin Hiland in the Great 8 matchup that season. Hiland also beat THS in the regional semis in 2006 before winning the state championship. Five of the last seven state champions in Division IV have come out of the Pickerington regional. The TVC Hocking is also guaranteed a regional finalist this year for the fourth time in the last eight tournaments, including three of the last four postseasons. There is also some regional history connected to the Eastern and Waterford basketball series, as the programs have met only twice in the postseason Please see Rivals, B2 Point Pleasant headed to Charleston Sarah Hawley/photo Point Pleasant head coach Richie Blain talks with players during a second half timeout in Wednesday evening's Class AA Region 1 final against the Weir Red Riders. The Big Blacks defeated Weir by a score of 66-41 at RIpley High School to advance to their first state basketball tournament since 1975. Point Pleasant will play on Thursday, March 17, with the opponent and time yet to be determined. This story will appear in the Friday sports editions of the Gallipolis Daily Tribune, Point Pleasant Register and The Daily Sentinel. BELLE, W.Va. — The University of Rio Grande RedStorm softball team opened up Mid-South Conference play on Tuesday afternoon with a doubleheader sweep of West Virginia Tech. Rio won the first game, 5-3 and captured game two by a 4-1 score. Rio Grande (4-4, 2-0 MSC E), the favorite to win the MSC East Division, received two outstanding pitching performances, along with timely hitting and solid defense in getting the sweep. The RedStorm had nine hits in the opening game win. Rio Grande broke open a 1-1 game with a three-run sixth inning. Junior pitcher Anna Smith helped her own cause with an RBI triple and freshman first baseman Amber Myers clubbed her first collegiate home run, a two run shot. Smith and senior shortstop Amber Bowman had two hits to headline the offensive attack for Rio Grande. Smith (2-1) was masterful in the pitcher’s circle, limiting WVU Tech (1-5, 0-2 MSC E) to only two hits while striking out 11 and walking only one. Rio took control of game two early with two runs in the first inning. Sophomore second baseman Katie Fuller produced an RBI hit in the frame. Fuller would go 2-for-3 at the plate in the second game. The RedStorm would score twice more in the third inning and made those runs hold up for the win. Bowman was 2-for-2 at the plate with a double, two walks, a run scored and an RBI. Junior Allison Mills threw the ball well in collecting her second win of the season. Mills (2-2) went the distance, yielding five hits and one run with five strikeouts and one walk. She pitched out of a basesloaded jam in the bottom of the seventh to preserve the victory. Rio Grande head coach Dawnjene DeLong was pleased to start off conference play with a pair of wins. “Most definitely,” she said. “The pitchers did a great job, we only had two walks both games, that’s huge keeping them off base and making them earn their chances to get on.” “A lot of people don’t realize how much the catchers do too,” DeLong added. “Nicole Sargent did a great job behind the plate, she calls the game and she did a really good job back there.” DeLong also lauded the play of two other key combatants for the RedStorm in the victoPlease see Rio, B2 �Page B2 • The Daily Sentinel www.mydailysentinel.com Buckeyes, others have high hopes in Indy COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — One of the strengths for No. 1 Ohio State all season has been the Buckeyes’ cohesion on the court and common ground off it. The players, who hang around together even when they don’t have to, are also tight with coach Thad Matta. They can almost finish his sentences. But there’s one big thing on which the coach and his team disagree this week heading into the Big Ten tournament. Matta wants his Buckeyes (29-2), the regular-season champions and top seed in Indianapolis, to simply play their best. Whatever happens beyond that is fine with him. But that’s not good enough for senior David Lighty. “I’m trying to win,” he said with a laugh after Wednesday’s practice. “Playing good and winning at the same time is great. If we keep playing like we’ve been the past five or six games, it’s going to be pretty hard to beat us.” The Buckeyes come in having won their last four games by an average of 23 points. They took the regular-season title by two games. They’re a lock for the NCAA tournament, and a lock to be a No. 1 seed in it. Yet they refuse to look at the conference tournament as just something to get through. “Honestly, it’s just another trophy to put in coach Matta’s office,” said freshman Jared Sullinger, a first-team All-Big Ten performer. “We’re out here to win. This is another step toward where we want to go. We got to keep going.” The Buckeyes open play on Friday after a first-round bye. They play the winner of the tournament’s first game on Thursday, between ninth-seeded Minnesota and eighth-seeded Northwestern. “As I told the team, I just want us to go over there and play the best that we possibly can,” Matta said, saying play- Rivals from Page B1 since the 2003-04 campaign. Waterford started its run of six straight regional appearances in the 2006 postseason after defeating Eastern 44-39 in the district final on March 1 at Jackson High School. The Lady Eagles, on the other hand, defeated Waterford by a 50-45 margin in a Division IV sectional final at Vinton County High School on Feburary 19, 2004 — which was the last time Eastern had reached the regional tournament before now. The 2004 tournament matchup was also the last time that EHS beat the Lady ’Cats in hoops until this past December, as that early-season victory at ‘The Nest’ snapped a 13-game losing skid against Waterford. Both coaches in this matchup — John Burdette of Eastern and Jerry Close of Waterford — have been named the AP coach of the year in Division IV over the last two seasons. Burdette was the unanimous choice last year, while Close was named the 2011 honoree earlier this week. Each team had a coplayer of the year this winter, as EHS freshman Jenna Burdette and WHS senior Kim Barker shared the AP accolades in D-4. Both squads also had a total Thursday, March 10, 2011 OVP Sports Briefs Point football selling strawberries POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — The Point Pleasant High School football team is kicking off its annual strawberry sales fundraiser. The deadline to order strawberries is Thursday, March 10. Strawberries will be delivered on the week of March 14. For more information or to place an order, contact either Dave Darst (304) 593-2892, Tess Veith (304) 812-0186 or Brenda Long (304) 593-6434. Wahama MS golf meeting MASON, W.Va. — An Informational meeting for all candidates for the Wahama Middle School golf team will be held Monday, March 14, at the Riverside Golf Course picnic shelter area at 6 p.m. Practice will begin Tuesday, March 15 immediately after school. Parents are welcome to attend the informational meeting. All candidates are reminded that physical exams must be completed and on file with the school before becoming a team member. Additional information can be obtained by calling Bob Blessing at (304) 6756135. PPJSHS Golf Signups Chris Russell/Columbus Dispatch/MCT Ohio State's Jared Sullinger (0) celebrates a 46-26 halftime lead against Purdue at the Value City Arena on Tuesday, Jan. 25, in Columbus, Ohio. ing three games in three days requires a lot of mental toughness. “It’s also the whole deal of, ‘Well, we just played yesterday.’ But, so did our opponent. You go to the next game and it’s, ‘Well, we’ve played the last two days.’ Well, so did our opponent.” The 11-team gettogether could have a profound influence on several conference teams. Only Ohio State, Purdue (25-6) and Wisconsin (23-7) are assured of spots in the 68-team NCAA tournament the following week. Tenuously sitting on the bubble are Illinois (19-12), Michigan (1912), Michigan State (1713) and Penn State (1613). Northwestern (1712), Minnesota (17-13), Iowa (11-19) and Indiana (12-19) would need to win it all at Conseco Fieldhouse to make the NCAA field. Of course, the teams with their tickets already punched for the NCAAs still need to play well to move up in seeding or possibly stay closer to home to play in the first and second rounds. All of which provides a fresh start for everyone. “It’s almost like a new season,” said Purdue’s star guard, E’Twaun of four players represented on the Division IV list in the top-three teams — including a pair of first-teamers apiece. The similarities between these programs don’t stop in hoops, which is where the real story behind this rivalry stems from. Waterford and Eastern have combined to win the last eight TVC Hocking championships in volleyball, basketball and softball since the fall of 2008. More impressively, the two schools have combined to win 19 league titles in those three sports since the fall of 2004. In other words, Eastern (8 titles) and Waterford (11 titles) have 19 of the last 24 TVC Hocking championships in those 20 individual seasons, with four of those league crowns being shared. Only Trimble (three league titles, one outright) and Southern (two league titles, one outright) have prevented WHS and EHS from completely running away with all the TVC Hocking hardware since the 2004 volleyball campaign. Southern is also the last TVC Hocking team not named Waterford or Eastern to win a league title, doing so in an outright fashion during the 2008 softball season with an 8-2 league mark. Eastern (six) and Waterford (eight) have a combined 14 outright titles in league play Moore. “What happened before almost doesn’t matter, because you either win or you go home.” Other first-round games include 10th-seeded Iowa against No. 7 Michigan State and No. 11 Indiana against sixthseeded Penn State. “I think we need another win,” said Nittany Lions coach Ed DeChellis. “I’ve looked at some teams, their RPIs and their strength of schedule and they don’t have what we have. I think that’s what makes it very interesting when people talk about this team is in, this team is out. Other teams might have another win or two, but again, who are you playing?” Michigan State has made a trip to the Final Four almost an annual occurrence. But coach Tom Izzo isn’t so certain this year. He knows that his team must show some energy in Indianapolis or might not make the grade. “You don’t have to be Einstein to figure out our backs are against the wall,” he said. “We enhance our chances with a win on Thursday.” The quarterfinals are Friday, semis on Saturday and the champi- onship game is nationally televised on Sunday afternoon — and almost leads directly into the announcement of the NCAA brackets. Teams such as Illinois, which has had a solid season but has been erratic at times, feel as though they’re on the cusp of playing their best basketball of the season. “It gives you a little bit of a second chance,” coach Bruce Weber said of the conference tournament. After Ohio State finished its scheduled games last week with a dominating 93-65 rout of Wisconsin, which had earlier ended the Buckeyes’ perfect season at 24-0, Lighty said he broke the season down into three segments. Step one was the regular season and winning a title. Step two was the conference tournament. The big tournament rounded out the trifecta. “It’s 0-0. Everyone’s got a clean slate,” he said. “What you did in the regular season really doesn’t mean anything. It’s kind of like starting the season over. You’ve got to come ready to play and — what is it — 120 minutes until hopefully mission No. 2 is complete.” POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — The PPJSHS golf signups for grades 6-8 will be held on Thursday, March 10 at 6 p.m. in the Commons Area of the school. Pomeroy Youth League POMEROY, Ohio — The Pomeroy Youth League will be holding baseball and softball signups at the Pomeroy Fire Department on Saturday, March 12 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Kids ages 4 to 18 are eligible to signup. For more information contact Ken at 740416-8901. Rutland Youth League RUTLAND, Ohio — Rutland Youth League ball signups will be held on Thursday, March 10 from 5-7 p.m. and Saturday, March 19 from 6-8 p.m. at the Rutland Fire Department. For more information call 992-7870 or 416-7134 or visit rutlandball.com to download signup forms. Mason Baseball/Softball Signups MASON, W.Va. — The Mason Recreation Summer baseball/softball signups will be held each Saturday in March from 10 a.m. to noon at the Mason Ball Field. For more information contact Ryan Miller at 304857-1548 or Rick Kearns at 304-674-3491. River Valley Ball Association BIDWELL, Ohio — The River Valley (Bidwell) Ball Association will hold signups for summer softball and baseball on March 8 at 7 p.m., March 15 from 6-7:30 p.m. and March 22 from 6-7:30 p.m. Signups will be held in the cafeteria of the River Valley Middle School. Signups are for junior and senior girls softball, little league and junior pony league. For more information contact Dena Warren at 740-339-4221. Green Ball Association CENTENARY, Ohio — The Green Ball Association will be holding signups for summer baseball and softball on Thursday, March 10 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Green Elementary School Cafeteria. Only one registration will be held. Middleport Youth League Signups MIDDLEPORT, Ohio — The Middleport Youth League will be holding signups for baseball and softball on Saturday, March 12. Signups will be held at the Middleport Council Chambers from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information contact Dave Boyd at 740-590-0438 or Tanya Coleman at 740-992-5481. Gallipolis Baseball-Softball Signups Bryan Walters/file photo Waterford senior Kim Barker, left, hauls in a rebound during the second half of this February 7 TVC Hocking contest against South Gallia in Mercerville, Ohio. Barker, the Lady ’Cats lone senior, joined Eastern freshman Jenna Burdette as AP Division IV co-players of the year. since the fall of 2004, with a total of 10 of those (Eastern four, Waterford six) coming in an unbeaten fashion. If you add girls track and field into this mix, Waterford and Eastern have also won four of the last five league titles — including a share of the TVC Hocking crown in 2007. Now, in knowing the sheer power of this rivalry, you begin to understand the full impact of this upcoming regional semifinal showdown. And, regardless of the final outcome, you have also learned why the TVC Hocking will be wellrepresented in the regional final on Saturday night. There is, however, one final thing to keep in consideration about this matchup ... there will only be three seniors competing on Thursday night at Pickerington High School North. Which means that the future is looking just as bright for these two programs as their respective pasts. GALLIPOLIS, Ohio — The Gallipolis Parks and Recreation Department will hold Baseball-Softball signups until Friday, March 11. You can signupat the Gallipolis Municipal Building at 848 Third Ave. between the hours of 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. An evening signup will be held Thursday, March 10 from 4-6:30 p.m. For more information contact Brett Bostic at 740441-6022. Registration can be mailed to the Recreation Department, P.O. Box 339, Gallipolis, Ohio 45631. Registration must be postmarked by March 11. Hannan Trace-S. Gallia Ball Signups MERCERVILLE, Ohio — Hannan Trace-South Gallia baseball and softball signups will be held on Friday, March 11, from 5-7 p.m. at Hannan Trace Elementary. For more information contact Jimmy Brace at 740-645-9590. Rio from Page B1 ries. “Amber Bowman had two great hitting games,” she said. “Amber Myers getting her first collegiate home run, that was big, she was real excited about that.” “It’s really good to get two wins to start off conference, that’s builds our confidence a little bit and just makes it easier to move into the next few conference games,” Delong said. Rio’s game with Fairmont State, scheduled for Thursday has already been cancelled. The RedStorm will travel to Pikeville College on Friday for a make-up doubleheader. The first game is set to begin at 1 p.m. �Thursday, March 10, 2011 www.mydailysentinel.com The Daily Sentinel • Page B3 WVSSAC GIRLS BASKETBALL TOURNEY MLB Spring Training St. Joseph beats Trinity, 59-20 Reds beat ex-teammate Harang, Padres CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Sara Sang scored 11 points to lead two-time defending champion St. Joseph to a 59-20 win over Trinity in the girls Class A quarterfinals Wednesday. Mychal Johnson and Terra Stapleton added 10 points apiece for secondseeded St. Joseph (16-7). St. Joseph outscored Trinity 16-2 in the first quarter and breezed into the semifinals, where it will play No. 3 Charleston Catholic (205) on Friday. St. Joseph held a 54-38 rebounding advantage and forced 24 turnovers. No. 7 Trinity, (17-6) making its second-ever girls state tournament appearance, shot 14 percent (8 of 56) from the floor and was held to its lowest point output of the season. Hayden Giuliani led Trinity with nine points. ST. MARYS DOWNS GREATER BECKLEY CHRISTIAN 76-29 CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Kelsea Fickiesen scored 24 points and set a Class A state tournament record with 15 steals as topseeded St. Marys breezed past Greater Beckley Christian 76-29 in the girls quarterfinals Wednesday night. Audra Clark added 12 points for St. Marys (250), which held an opponent under 30 points for the fifth time this season. Fickiesen broke the single-game steals record of 13 set by Charleston Catholic’s Ashley Shepler against Pendleton County in 1999. St. Marys’ 32 steals were one shy of the tournament record. St. Marys led 24-2 after the first quarter and 42-12 at halftime. With a six-player roster, No. 8 Greater Beckley Christian (18-6) advanced to the tournament for the first time since 2008. Greater Beckley’s Laura Ward had 16 points. The Crusaders had 36 turnovers. CHAS. CATHOLIC BEATS TUCKER COUNTY 40-28 CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Charleston Catholic has advanced to the girls Class A semifinals for the seventh straight year with a 40-28 win over Tucker County on Wednesday at the Charleston Civic Center. Victoria Thomas had 16 points and 11 rebounds while Meg Whelan added 11 points for the Irish (20-5), who broke open a close game in the second quarter. Thomas scored seven points in the period and the Irish used a 10-3 run to lead 23-13 at halftime. Charleston Catholic extended the lead to as many as 20 points in the fourth quarter. Audra Hull led Tucker County (17-8) with nine points. The Mountain Lions shot just 21 percent (9 of 43) from the floor. Tucker County had beaten Charleston Catholic 49-46 on its MORE LOCAL NEWS. MORE LOCAL FOLKS. Subscribe today. 992-2155 home court during the regular season. NORTH MARION BEATS MARTINSBURG 62-42 CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Hailey Garrett had 16 points and 13 rebounds to lead twotime defending champion North Marion to a 62-42 win over Martinsburg in the girls Class AAA quarterfinals Wednesday night. State player of the year Mariah Byard added 14 points and Courtney Swiger scored 12 for topseeded North Marion (23-0). Eighth-seeded Martinburg (17-9) lost to the Huskies for the third time this season. The Bulldogs stayed close until North Marion finished the first half on a 12-5 run to lead 31-20. After Martinsburg trimmed the deficit to 3324 early in the third, Byard hit a 3-pointer and North Marion’s lead remained in double digits. Jasmyn Hosby led Martinsburg with 15 points. The Bulldogs committed 26 turnovers and shot 27 percent (16 of 59) from the floor. S. CHARLESTON TOPS WHEELING PARK 63-45 CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Keke Allen scored nine of her 21 points in the fourth quarter to lead South Charleston to a 63-45 win over Wheeling Park in the girls Class AAA quarterfinals Wednesday. Allen also grabbed 10 rebounds, while Brittany Gordon scored 19 points for the second-seeded Black Eagles (24-1). Wheeling Park came back from a seven-point halftime deficit to take the lead twice late in the third quarter. But Gel Villanueva’s jumper with 1:39 left in the third put South Charleston ahead to stay. That started a 120 run and gave the Black Eagles a 50-38 lead with 5:51 left in the game. Wheeling Park made just one field goal in the fourth quarter. South Charleston scored the game’s final nine points, with eight coming from Allen. Emily Puskarich led No. 7 Wheeling Park (15-10) with 17 points. PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — Aaron Harang had a rocky reunion with the Cincinnati Reds in the desert. Ryan Hanigan hit a three-run homer and Chris Heisey had a two-run shot off Harang in the Reds’ 15-5 victory against a San Diego Padres split squad on Wednesday. Admitting to “a little bit of nervous adrenaline,” Harang left too many fastballs up in the strike zone and allowed seven hits and seven runs in three innings to a Reds lineup minus many projected starters. “You kind of want to go out there and do well against your old team,” said Harang, the Reds’ opening day starter the last five seasons who signed with his hometown Padres in December. “I guess I look at it that it’s better to get it out of the way down here than having it happen the first time throwing against them during the season. “They came out swinging. They knew I was going to throw strikes. Them knowing my history, that I’m not going to back down, I’m going to come right at you with the fastball, they were taking advantage of it with the ball being elevated and swinging at the first pitch.” The 6-foot-7 Harang spent the last 71⁄2 seasons with the Reds, winning 16 games in 2006 and 2007. But he struggled the last three years, going 6-7 with a 5.32 ERA in 2010, when he was bothered by back spasms. After retiring the first three batters to run his spring streak to nine straight, Harang allowed five straight hits to open the second inning, including Hanigan’s homer. Harang (0-1) had trouble out of the stretch. “Out of the windup I was good,” he said. “The last start everything was down in the zone. The first inning it was down in the zone. I just got out of the stretch and I got a little ahead of myself and was staying elevated. It always equates into bad situations. But it’s only my second start, so we’re not too worried about it. It gives me something I’ve got to work on in my next bullpen and future starts.” After giving up five runs in the second inning, he started the third inning in the stretch, but walked Yonder Alonso and then gave up Heisey’s homer. “The first inning he threw some good pitches,” manager Bud Black. “Actually his last eight to 10 pitches were pretty good in the third inning. In between, just too many balls mid-thigh to the belt. That’s what spring training’s for. You’ve got to resolve this. He’s going to be fine.” Juan Francisco hit a two-run homer in the sixth off Matt Lollis. “It was their turn today,” said Cincinnati manager Dusty Baker, whose Reds took a similar pounding on Monday, losing 11-3 to Kansas City. Edinson Volquez had been scheduled to start for Cincinnati, but returned to the Dominican Republic to straighten out a work visa issue. He was due back in Arizona later Wednesday. Chad Reineke (2-0), who was with the Padres briefly in 2008, allowed just a walk in two innings. “We played well. We pitched well. We played a heck of a defense,” Baker said. “Especially when those young boys got in there they were all over the place. The (young players) are hard to pitch to. If they can hit the fastball, they’re going to hit.” San Diego’s Casey Kelly, the key prospect obtained from Boston in the Adrian Gonzalez deal, pitched two perfect innings. He hasn’t allowed an earned run in five innings spanning three appearances. Indians’ Santana passes first test at 1B GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — Carlos Santana went 9 for 9 — not at bat, but at a new position and that made the Cleveland Indians happy. Santana played first base for the first time in a 9-2 loss to a San Diego Padres split squad on Wednesday. “I felt good,” Santana said after making seven putouts and two assists over six innings. Normally a catcher, Santana’s only gaffe came when he tossed the ball past second baseman Jayson Nix on the traditional throw around the infield following the first out of the game. “He looked comfortable, but it was only one game,” manager Manny Acta said. “He made some good plays and we’ll play him there again.” The hard-hitting Santana had surgery to repair a torn ligament in his left knee in August and is slated to start at catcher. Acta wants to keep the switch-hitter in the lineup and reduce the stress on Santana’s legs by using the 24-year-old at first base. “It’s OK with me, whatever the manager wants,” said Santana, who played third base until being converted to catcher in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ system in 2007. He was dealt to Cleveland in 2008 for veteran Casey Blake. “My knee is fine, there’s no problem,” Santana said. “I’m a catcher now, but I like to field ground balls.” Most of all, Santana enjoys hitting. He batted .311 with 57 homers and 275 RBIs in his last 21⁄2 seasons in the minors before being called up in June. He hit .260 with six homers and 22 RBIs in 46 games before being hurt in a collision at home plate Aug. 2 in Boston. Santana doubled and scored the Indians’ first run in the second inning off Cory Luebke. Luebke, trying to win a Padres rotation spot, gave up two hits and one run over three innings. The left-hander struck out three of the last four men he faced. “He finished strong, that’s what I liked,” Padres pitching coach Darren Balsley said. “He was falling behind in the count early, but made an adjustment and pitched well after that. As long as he stays ahead in the count, he can pitch in the majors.” Rookies Aaron Cunningham and Anthony Rizzo homered on consecutive pitches from Carlos Carrasco in the second to put San Diego ahead 2-0. Rizzo had three RBIs. Cunningham and veteran Chase Headley had two hits and two RBIs apiece. Carrasco allowed four hits and struck out two over three innings. He returned to camp Tuesday after going to Florida for the birth of his first daughter, Camila, on Friday. “He threw the ball well,” Acta said of the right-hander, who was clocked at 94 mph on scouts’ radar guns. “He also threw some good breaking balls.” NOTES: Indians 3B Jason Donald is expected to play Thursday. He has been out with a sore left hand, hit by a pitch Saturday. ... Cleveland 2B Luis Valbuena hit his third homer, one more than he had for the Indians in 2010. ... San Diego rookie LHP Colt Hynes fanned two in a perfect ninth. ... Indians OF Grady Sizemore, recovering from microfracture surgery on his left knee in June, said he hopes to be cleared to run the bases this weekend. On Friday, RHP Anthony Reyes will throw batting practice to Sizemore. Reyes is rehabbing from elbow surgery. 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But skeptical doctors and ethicists say the tests are putting profit before science and have a much greater price tag — potentially robbing perfectly capable youngsters of a chance to enjoy activities of their choice. “In the ‘winning is everything’ sports culture, societal pressure to use these tests in children may increasingly present a challenge to unsuspecting physicians,” according to a commentary in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association. Scientists have identified several genes that may play a role in determining strength, speed and other aspects of athletic performance. But there are likely hundreds more, plus many other traits and experiences that help determine athletic ability, said Dr. Alison Brooks, a pediatrician and sports medicine specialist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Brooks and University of Michigan physician Dr. Beth Tarini wrote the commentary to raise awareness about the issue. A handful of companies are selling these tests online. In some cases, the tests screen for genes that are common even among non-athletes. As science advances, Brooks said, “My guess is we’re going to see more of this, not less.” Bradley Marston of Bountiful, Utah, bought a test online a year ago for his daughter Elizabeth, then 9. She’s “a very talented soccer player,” and Marston wanted to know if she had a variation of a gene called ACTN3, which influences production of a protein involved in certain muscle activity. One form of the gene has been linked with explosive bursts of strength needed for activities such as sprinting and weight lifting. The ACTN3 test sold by Atlas Sports Genetics was developed by Genetic Technologies Limited, an Australian firm. Atlas’ $169 kit consists of two swabs to scrape cells from the inside of the cheek. Customers return the used swabs to the Boulder, Colo., company and receive an analysis several days later. Elizabeth Marston’s test showed she has a sprinting-related gene form — results her father hopes will help her get into elite sports programs or win a sports scholarship to college. Marston said he ordered the test partly out of curiosity, but approached it cautiously and talked with Elizabeth to make sure she could handle it. “She told me, ‘Well, Daddy, I just have to try harder’” if the results came back negative, Marston said. Elizabeth has loved soccer since age 4 and said she’s happy with the results. But even at age 10, she knows it will take more than genes to reach her goal of playing in the Olympics. “I think I would have to train hard,” she said. Nat Carruthers, operations president for Atlas Sports Genetics, says the company has sold several hundred test kits since it began marketing them in 2008. “Our goal is to help people become the athlete they were born to be,” not to exclude kids from certain sports, Carruthers said. He said critics have misrepresented the test “to sound like we’re telling parents what their kid should do and how good their kid will be. That’s not at all our claim or desire,” he said. CyGene Laboratories, based in Coral Springs, Fla., sold a similar $100 swab test online for different sports-related genes until last fall, but it has suspended operations. CyGene also sold kits online advertised as testing for human diseases, but Mark Munzer, the company’s former president, said that industry is reeling from a Food and Drug Administration crackdown last year on efforts to sell disease-related gene tests in retail pharmacies. The FDA scheduled a hearing on Tuesday to receive feedback from an expert panel on how the agency should be regulating direct-to-consumer genetic tests that make medical claims. Marketers of sports gene tests that don’t make medical claims aren’t FDA regulated. University of Maryland researcher Stephen Roth, a specialist in exercise physiology and genetics who has studied the ACTN3 gene, said the science of how genes influence athletic ability “is in its infancy” and that marketers’ claims are based on “gross assumptions.” Roth said roughly 80 percent of people worldwide have the ACTN3 gene that has been linked with explosive force. The fact that few of them become elite athletes underscores that it takes more than genes to make a sports star. Also, about 20 percent of people have a gene variation that inhibits production of the protein involved in explosive force. That doesn’t mean they can’t excel in sports, Roth said, citing a Spanish long jumper who made it to the Olympics despite lacking that protein. Dr. Lainie Friedman Ross, a medical ethicist and pediatrician at the University of Chicago, said the tests raise ethical questions when used in children because they’re too young to understand the possible ramifications and to give adequate consent. “This is recreational genetics with a real serious potential for harm,” Ross said. “People are going to think, ‘If my kid has this, I’m going to have to push real hard. If my kid doesn’t have it, I’m going to give up before I start,” she said. Instead, Ross said, parents should “let kids follow their dreams.” “While parents have the authority to make health care decisions about their children, this type of genetic testing is elective at best and should actively involve the children in the decision-making process,” Ross said. NFL even more information (available), including information that we do not disclose to our own clubs.” Pash didn’t reveal any specifics of the league’s offer and wouldn’t comment on the union’s response. But a person familiar with the negotiations told the AP that the NFL offered to turn over five years of league-wide profitability data to the union — and that the offer was rejected. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the mediator overseeing the labor talks has told participants not to publicly discuss details. According to the person who spoke to the AP, the NFL’s proposal to the union included: —audited league-wide profitability data with dollar figures from 200509 that wouldn’t show information on a clubby-club basis; —the number of teams that have seen a shift in profitability in that span; —an independent auditor to examine the data. The NFLPA long has demanded that the league give it full access to financial data — including team-by-team information — and made that a central issue in contract talks. “As you know, the NFLPA does not have access to a wide range of information that is directly relevant to the contention that the current CBA fails to address the owners’ concerns,” Smith wrote to Goodell in 2009. “For example,” the letter said, “the NFL and the teams do not provide the NFLPA with their audited financial statements detailing the profit (loss) information for the teams. We also lack the information to discern the profits (losses) per regular season games, the profit per team per playoff game and other fixed financial non-player costs.” The CBA dates to 2006, but owners exercised an opt-out clause in 2008. The deal was set to expire last week, but two extensions now have pushed the cutoff to the end of Friday. Goodell was joined by three members of the owners’ 10-person labor committee: Art Rooney II of the Pittsburgh Steelers, John Mara of the New York Giants, and Clark Hunt of the Kansas City Chiefs. More owners are expected to attend on Thursday. If a deal isn’t reached by Friday, the sides could agree to another extension. Or talks could break off, leading to, possibly, a lockout by owners or antitrust lawsuits by players. “The commissioner said ‘talking is better than litigating.’ Talking is better than, you know, going to DEFCON 3 or whatever term I’ve heard thrown around,” Pash said. “So let’s keep at it.” from Page B1 “provide audited financial statements concerning the operations of the 32 clubs and the league.” Smith attached a list of 10 categories of information he sought, including: — total operating income; — total operating expenses, such as player costs, team expenses, sales and marketing expenses, game expenses, salaries/payments to owners; — profit from operations; — net income; — cash and investment assets. In the letter, Smith noted the owners’ push to expand the regular season from 16 games to 18 as one reason “this information is critical in understanding the fair ‘cost/compensation’ model for players and teams.” On his way into Wednesday’s mediation session, Pash said the issue of financial transparency — a key sticking point in labor talks this week — “really should be behind us.” “We’ve made more information available in the course of this negotiation than has ever been made available in decades of collective bargaining with the NFLPA,” Pash said. “Far more information. And we’ve offered to make Thursday, March 10, 2011 AP Sports Shorts Arrested trooper enters diversion program CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio Highway Patrol trooper arrested at a Cleveland Browns game has entered a first-time offender’s program that will allow him to avoid a felony charge. Thirty-four-year-old Jason Fantone, who works in the Youngstown area, was charged with vandalism Jan. 2. His record could be cleared after six months to a year in the court diversion program. He was assigned to the program Feb. 24. Prosecutor’s spokesman Ryan Miday in Cleveland tells The Vindicator newspaper of Youngstown that Fantone must pay for damage to a stadium holding cell where he was locked up. Sheriff deputies working at the game arrested Fantone after he allegedly heckled two officers by throwing peanuts at them and shouting obscenities. He was fired from the patrol on Feb. 28. Davis leaves Cavs after grandmother’s death CLEVELAND (AP) — Baron Davis is going back home. It’s the trip he feared. The veteran guard left the Cleveland Cavaliers and returned to Los Angeles to be with his family following the death of his beloved grandmother, Lela “Madea” Nicholson, a woman who raised him and protected him from the ganginfested streets of South Central Los Angeles. The team said in a statement that she died Monday. Davis played on Tuesday night against Golden State, but did not travel with the team to Milwaukee for Wednesday’s game against the Bucks. The Cavaliers said there is no specific date for Davis to rejoin them. Davis was recently acquired in a trade with the Los Angeles Clippers. It was difficult for him to leave his hometown, and not just because he was playing where he first began dribbling the ball as a kid or because he was in one of the NBA’s most glamorous markets. Davis’ 89-year-old grandmother had been in failing health and he wanted to be near her. He has credited his 89-year-old grandmother for being the guiding figure in his life. He chose to wear No. 85 with the Cavs as a tribute to his late grandparents, whose house was on 85th St. in Los Angeles. “It’s a number I’ll always go out and give my heart and soul for,” he said last week. Despite knowing his grandmother had passed away, Davis played Tuesday night and scored a teamhigh 19 points in the Cavs’ 95-85 loss to the Warriors. Davis did not mention his grandmother’s passing after the game. Davis has already become something of a favorite in Cleveland, where fans have quickly embraced his powerful game and the joy he shows while entertaining on the floor. With the Cavs, he has been reunited with coach Byron Scott, his former coach in New Orleans. Davis and Scott clashed with the Hornets, but have since put aside any differences. Davis has described their second chance as a “rebirth.” Bob Feller to be honored in public memorial CLEVELAND (AP) — A public memorial will be held for late Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller on March 31, one day before the Cleveland Indians open their first season in 75 years without the right-hander part of their family. Feller died on Dec. 15 at the age of 92. The Indians said Feller’s life will be celebrated at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights at 11 a.m. It is open to the public. The Indians have several tributes planned for Feller on opening day at Progressive Field when they face the Chicago White Sox. After breaking in with the Indians as a 17-year-old in 1936, Feller won 266 games in 18 seasons with Cleveland. He interrupted his career to serve in the military in World War II. Ex-WVU QB Pat White retires from baseball SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Former NFL player Pat White has told the Kansas City Royals that he is retiring from baseball. The 26-year-old White signed a minor league contract with the Royals after being released by the Miami Dolphins last September. Kansas City then sent the outfielder to the Fall Instructional League. The Royals said Wednesday that White did not report to spring training. White was a star quarterback at West Virginia, a dual threat as a passer and runner. The Dolphins drafted him in the second round in 2009 and he played in 13 games. The Los Angeles Angels and New York Yankees had previously drafted White. Report: Former player sent Tressel e-mails COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that a former Ohio State football player is the lawyer who sent e-mails to football coach Jim Tressel last spring telling him that players were selling memorabilia. The newspaper, citing three unidentified sources, reports Columbus attorney Christopher Cicero sent the e-mails. Cicero lettered in football at Ohio State in 1983, when Tressel was an assistant coach, according to The Columbus Dispatch. In a statement released Wednesday Cicero says he voluntarily cooperated when an Ohio State attorney asked him to meet with university representatives and the NCAA about e-mails he exchanged with Tressel. The university on Tuesday suspended Tressel for the first two games of the 2011 season and fined him $250,000 for failing to notify the school about the players’ involvement. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 03. March Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper 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 March 10, 2011