https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/fe0d13b57dac8165f817a5d3cccc2bae.pdf 56b67678b542d34d134aff851bf8a2dc PDF Text Text Southern Academic Banquet, page 2 Point advances to regional finals, page A10 Middleport • Pomeroy, Ohio 50 CENTS • Vol. 61, No. 83 Bike blessing POMEROY — A “bike blessing” event will be held from 5-8 p.m., Saturday, May 28 on the Pomeroy parking lot. The event is for all denominations and is sponsored by the Christian Motorcycle Association’s Meigs County Chapter, “Delivered.” Food, prayer, devotions, entertainment and fellowship will be offered. HarrisonvilleScipio Alumni HARRISONVILLE — The Harrisonville-Scipio Alumni Banquet will be held at 6:30 p.m., Saturday, May 28 at the high school alumni center on the Graham Farm at 36008 Ohio 143 near Harrisonville. Classes to be honored are 1931, 1941, 1951. Dinner is $12 for adults, $8 for children under 12. Annual dues for alumni members are $2 in addition to the meal. Call 992-3690 or 742-3033 for more information. THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2011 www.mydailysentinel.com Senator to resign seat Stewart: “SB 5 had nothing to do with my decision” BY BETH SERGENT BSERGENT@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM COLUMBUS — This week when Sen. Jimmy Stewart (R-Albany) announced he would be resigning his seat, critics immediately began to speculate it was because of Stewart’s vote for the controversial Senate Bill 5 - speculation Stewart firmly denied. Many critics of SB 5 were claiming Stewart didn’t want to face the backlash of voters who didn’t support the measure; calling him a casualty of the political fallout. “If people want to believe that, then let them believe it...it’s just false,” Stewart said. “I’d vote for SB 5 again today and I’d be proud to vote for it again. I’ve actually read the bill. Most people would agree with paying people based on performance and that’s a large part of what the bill is about. It (SB 5) had nothing to do with my decision (to resign).” Stewart said he’d leave his post as only the third state senator and the only majority leader in the state senate from Meigs County, in late June or early July for a job in the private sector. Stewart said he would announce Looking back more details over his nearly 14about the job year career in public later this week service, years which or next week included serving in but did say it local government in was “an incredthe general assemible opportunity bly, in the city of in the energy Athens, the Ohio industry.” He Stewart House of also said he would continue to live in Representatives and the Ohio Senate, Stewart Meigs County. As for who replaces said he was most proud Stewart, that is anyone’s of being able to muster guess. The Republican bipartisan support among senate will develop a colleagues. “I ran six times, I won screening committee and make recommendations six times and in every on who will replace office I held I had biparStewart. The new senator tisan support,” Stewart will serve out the remain- said. “I passed a dozen der of the term which is bills and every one up for reelection in 2012. passed with overwhelm- ing bipartisan support with half signed by former Gov. Taft and Gov. Strickland.” Stewart had been a popular candidate in Meigs County which he often carried by a large margin. “I sincerely appreciate the apparent, overwhelming support I had in Meigs County,” he said. As for the GEO Prizm he could be found touring his districts in, it now has 540,000 miles on it, he said. “Whoever replaces me is going to have to get some new tires on their car.” Community Dinner Chester chicken barbecue CHESTER — The Chester Volunteer Fire Department will hold its annual Chicken and Ribs BBQ at 11:30 a.m., on Monday, May 30. Homemade ice cream and fellowship. Pie donations appreciated. Office closed POMEROY — The Meigs County TB Office will be closed on Memorial Day. No skin tests will be given on Friday, May 27. Memorial Day service RACINE — The Racine American Legion will hold a Memorial Day service at 10 a.m., Monday, May 30 at the legion hall. Refreshments served. OBITUARIES Page A5 • Vivian V. Coy • William P. Matlack • Donald Reuter • Viola Helen Young WEATHER High: 84 Low: 62 Proposed levy would support street light expenses BY BRIAN J. REED BREED@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM MIDDLEPORT — The street lights are still burning in Middleport, although village council there voted earlier this month to extinguish part of them for economy’s sake. They hope a levy to appear on November’s general election ballot will allow the village to burn all of its lights next year. Monday evening, council voted to place a new levy before village voters in November, a two-mill measure that would dedicate proceeds to keeping street lights and other security lighting burning. That vote came two weeks after council authorized to turn off 130 of the 251 street lights in town, and to turn off dusk to dawn lights in parks. Doing so is estimated to save the town $2,000 in general fund expenses per month, Fiscal Officer Susan Baker said. Police officers, Mayor Michael Gerlach and others were to determine which lights are turned off and which are the most important to village security, but Baker said the lights are still on — for now. If a two-mill levy to appear on this fall’s ballot is approved, it will generate an estimated $41,000 per year for lighting Baker said. It now costs the village $35,000 per year to operate street lights. In the meantime, if the village proceeds with its plans to turn off part of the lights for the remainder of this year, at least, it will cost $30 per light to turn them back on when money is available, Baker said. There will be no cost to turn any lights off, as long as it is done by the end of this year. In addition to approving placement of this levy on the ballot, council also plans to seek renewal of a two-mill fire protection levy and a three-mill levy for current operating expenses, which is expected to generate $52,000 per year. The village anticipates a difficult road ahead financially for the remainder of 2011, and has reduced hours for employees of the police department and other operating expenses in order to balance the general fund budget. The village hopes passage of the street light levy in November will not only keep the lights on, but relieve the general fund burden to do so. US 33 paving at $3.9 million INDEX 1 SECTION — 10 PAGES Classifieds Comics Editorials Sports Volunteers from New Beginnings United Methodist Church, Pomeroy, expected to serve around 50 people at its monthly free community dinner Wednesday. The dinners are open to everyone at no cost, and are among several free dinners sponsored each month by area churches. Here, Delores Will serves up baked steak, mashed potatoes and other home-style favorites. She is one of several church members who devote their time to serving a wholesome meal — as well as friendly fellowship. (Brian J. Reed/photos) B7 B6 A4 A10 © 2011 Ohio Valley Publishing Co. BY BETH SERGENT BSERGENT@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM POMEROY — Nearly six miles of US 33 is currently in the process of being resurfaced to the tune of $3.95 million. Brenna Slavens, public information officer for the Ohio Department of Transportation’s District 10, said the paving project officially began on May 2 and due to inclement weather, the completion date has been pushed to October. Slavens said the Shelly Company of Thornville received the contract and are milling and filling the road. Through the nearly sixmile construction zone, the speed limit has dropped to 45 mph, slowing traffic a bit in the area as the project continues currently, Shelly officials are milling off the old layer of asphalt to prepare for the topcoat. According to local economic development officials, US 33 through Meigs County provides the closest transportation route for products from central Ohio to southern markets. US 33 through Meigs County was billed as the shortest route between Columbus and the heavily traveled I-77 south. When ground was broken on the project, the cost was at $180 million. Despite the money spent to build the road, there has been one major complaint about it - no money has been made available to upgrade rest area facilities along the route. Meigs County’s rest area along US 33 is primitive and many consider it an eyesore, at best - a glorified outhouse, at worst. ODOT officials have acknowledged they are aware of the frustration of residents when it comes to the rest area on US 33 but last year said the funding wasn’t available, particularly at a time when the state budget crunch was hitting hard. County and local officials are hoping the availability of funding a new rest area is not wiped away. �Thursday, May 26, 2011 The Daily Sentinel • Page A2 www.mydailysentinel.com Storm claims victims in Central US KANSAS CITY, Mo (AP) — A violent storm system rumbled through the central U.S. on Wednesday, spawning tornadoes that turned homes into splintered wreckage, killing at least 14 people and hampering rescue efforts in a city slammed by a massive twister days earlier. The new system, which followed closely behind the one that spawned the massive twister that struck Joplin, Mo., and killed more than 120 people, moved into the Oklahoma City area Tuesday evening as worried commuters rushed home from work. Several tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma City and its suburbs, killing at least eight people and injuring at least 70 others, authorities said. Among those killed was a 15-month-old boy, and searchers were looking for his missing 3year-old brother. The storms killed two people in Kansas and four others in Arkansas, to the east. The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning Wednesday for an area that includes downtown Kansas City, Mo., saying that storms such as one approaching the city from the south have a history of producing funnel clouds. The storm was expected to reach the city’s downtown by 12:45 p.m. The system was centered over Missouri and Arkansas and Illinois early Wednesday and moving into western Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. The National Weather Service placed much of Illinois and Indiana under a tornado watch, and said isolated tornadoes were possible throughout Ohio when the storms moved into the state Wednesday night. The system moved into western Arkansas late Tuesday night, bringing with it a tornado that touched down in several small communities over the span of an hour, flattening or damaging houses and scattering roofing material and other debris over a wide area before dissipating at about 1 a.m. Wednesday. Winery owner Eugene Post, 83, said as he watched the tornado advance on the town from the porch of his home just outside Denning. He said the lights flickered before the area was plunged into darkness, leaving him only able to listen to the twister’s deafening approach. “I didn’t see anything,” Post said. “I could hear it real loud though.” Brenda Murders and her husband rode out the tornado in their mobile home in Denning after her daughter called to wake and warn them. “We jumped up, got as far as the kitchen. There was wind and hail, it destroyed the trailer.” The trailer was still standing, though the roof and wall panels had been peeled away. Her daughter, Teresa Day, said she and her husband rent mobile homes in Denning. She said all of their renters survived. “I don’t know how, they don’t know how. But they did,” (survive) Day said. In neighboring Altus, May Banhart said everything became really quiet before the hail came. “All I know is my old man (husband) told me to hit the floor,” Banhart said Wednesday as she sat with her family under the section of her carport that still had a roof. The tornado killed one person each in the towns of Denning, Bethlehem, Strawberry and Etna, authorities said. John Lewis, a senior forecaster at the National Weather Service in Little Rock, said new tornadoes were expected to develop later Wednesday in northeastern Arkansas, southeastern Missouri, and the western parts of Kentucky and Tennessee. A rural fire station in Franklin County was left without a roof as emergency workers tended to the wounded. Downed trees and power lines tossed across roadways also slowed search-andrescue crews’ efforts. Renee Preslar, a spokeswoman for the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management, said the threat of more severe weather could delay efforts to assess storm damage. The twisters that struck the Oklahoma City area killed five people in Canadian County, two in Logan County and one in Grady County, said Cherokee Ballard, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s office. A weather-monitoring site in El Reno recorded 151 mph winds. A tornado almost completely destroyed two subdivisions in Piedmont, 20 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, throwing vehicles around like toys tossed from a stroller. Mayor Valerie Thomerson said searchers were looking for a 3-yearold boy whose 15-monthold brother was killed and whose mother and another sibling were seriously injured. “My husband and I were driving around yesterday and went past a house and there was a vehicle in the pond in the front yard. The only way I could tell it was a vehicle was I could see four wheels above the water. It was a crushed ball,” Thomerson said Wednesday. “We have anything from houses that have shingles blown off, to half the house missing, to the house being completely wiped out, gone,” Thomerson said. Some residents said they had been warned about the impending weather for days and were watching television or listening to the radio so they would know when to take cover. “We live in Oklahoma and we don’t mess around,” Lori Jenkins said. “We kept an eye on the weather and knew it was getting close.” She took refuge with her husband and two children in a neighbor’s storm shelter in the Oklahoma City suburb of Guthrie. When they emerged, they discovered their carport had been destroyed and the back of their home was damaged. Chris Pyle was stunned as he pulled into the suburban neighborhood near Piedmont where he lived as a teenager. His parents’ home was destroyed, but the house next door had only a few damaged shingles. “That’s when it started sinking in,” he said. “You don’t know what to think. There are lots of memories, going through the trash tonight, finding old trophies and pictures.” His parents, Fred and Snow Pyle, rode out the storm in a shelter at a nearby school. At Chickasha, 25 miles southwest of Oklahoma City, a 26-year-old woman died when a tornado hit a mobile home park where residents had been asked to evacuate their trailers, Assistant Police Chief Elip Moore said. He said a dozen people were injured and that hundreds were displaced when the storm splintered their homes. In Kansas, police said two people died when high winds threw a tree into their van around 6 p.m. near the small town of St. John, about 100 miles west of Wichita. The highway was shut down because of storm damage. In Joplin, Mo., latenight tornado sirens sent residents scurrying for cover, briefly hampering the painstaking search for survivors of Sunday’s twister before brushing past the city without causing serious problems. Sunday’s storm was the nation’s eighth-deadliest twister among records dating to 1840. The storms also blew through North Texas, but the damage seemed to be confined to roofs and trees and lawn furniture and play equipment. “The hail was probably more destructive,” said Steve Fano, National Weather Service meteorologist in Fort Worth. Finale of ʻOprah Winfreyʼ airs after 25-year run CHICAGO (AP) — Oprah Winfrey ended her famous talk show Wednesday by telling her viewers of 25 years that they weren’t saying goodbye. “I won’t say goodbye, I’ll just say until we meet again,” Winfrey said. She hugged and kissed her longtime partner Stedman Graham and shook hands with audience members before walking through the halls of Harpo Studios in Chicago, hugging and crying with her staff. Winfrey shouted “We did it!” The last shot of the finale showed Winfrey walking away with her cocker spaniel, Sadie. Earlier Winfrey walked on stage to a standing ovation from her studio audience. She thanked the viewers for watching for a quarter of a century. “Twenty-five years and I’m still saying, ‘Thank you America,’” Winfrey said. “Thank you so much. There are no words to match this moment.” Winfrey told viewers that sometimes she was a teacher, but more often her viewers instructed her. She called Wednesday’s episode her “last class.” The final “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” which was taped in Chicago on Tuesday, opened with a clip from her first show. Winfrey was the only person on stage with little background music and very short flashback clips. “When she came out, her appearance, the way she stepped on stage and the message she brought (was) about finding yourself, your purpose,” said audience member Wanda Nash, 47, of Chicago, an executive assistant and foster parent. “It was all about Oprah.” Some fans across the country planned parties for the finale. Sharon Evans, 53, of Chicago had pancakes with her mother and girlfriends. “She was very subdued today and I appreciated that she was taking that last hour not to showcase any celebrities or favorite things,” Evans said. “It was truly what she said, a love letter to us.” Winfrey announced in November 2009 that she would end her popular talk show after 25 years. Tuesday’s taping came a week after Hollywood A-listers and 13,000 fans bid Winfrey farewell in a double-episode extravaganza at Chicago’s United Center. The shows that aired Monday and Tuesday included Aretha Franklin, Tom Cruise, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jordan and Madonna, among other stars of television, music and movies. They were just a few of the approximately 30,000 guests who have appeared on the show over 25 years. Ohio mom of bullied teen to testify on House bill COLUMBUS (AP) — An Ohio mother who says taunting over a nude cell phone picture led to her teen daughter’s suicide was to testify before a state legislative panel Wednesday in favor of anti-bullying legislation. An Ohio House panel is reviewing a bill named after Cynthia Logan’s daughter. The “Jessica Logan Act” would require public schools to expand their bullying policies to prohibit harassment by cell phones, computers and other electronic means. Under the bill, school administrators could discipline students who “cyberbully” on buses and off school grounds. Schools would also be required to provide anti-cyberbulling training to teachers. 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The meeting opened with recognition of Charles C. Lanham for his time and efforts as the Foundation chairman for the past two years. The Pleasant Valley Hospital Health Foundation, a non-profit corporation, established to assist local students with the financial burden of attending institutions of higher learning in a variety of healthcare career programs. Annually area students are invited to apply for the scholars program which offers a $4,000 Vitus Hartley Scholarship as well as a number of grant-in-aid loans. Miller said, “The great thing about our grant-in-aid loans is that they do not have interest attached to them until the student graduates from his or her program.” Tom Schauer, acting CEO of Pleasant Valley Hospital announced that the hospital is proud of the tradition of honoring excellence among today’s students working toward a degree in the healthcare industry. “The aim of this board is to make our communities a better place to live, work and raise a family by helping local students realize their dream of being healthcare providers,” Schauer said. Students who have applied for the 2011 awards had been interviewed earlier this month. Selection takes place and then an awards reception is set for July 14 at the Marshall MidOhio Valley Center when all the 2011 winners will be announced. For more information about the PVH Health Foundation, contact Georgianna Tillis at 302675-2040. Rural Communities Receive GIS Support STAFF REPORT MARIETTA – Buckeye Hills-Hocking Valley Regional Development District has announced that the communities of Pomeroy and Middleport in Meigs County, Albany in Athens County, and Somerset in Perry County, have each been selected to participate in the bhgis data collection program for small communities in 2011. The new communitybased Geographic Information Systems (GIS) program from Buckeye Hills will offer basic data collection and GIS mapping services to communities of less than 5,000 in its region. Buckeye Hills has been providing digital mapping (GIS) services to its eightcounty region since the mid-1990s. Customized maps and data created by Buckeye Hills have been used to complete funding applications, studies and countless other projects. In this program, each community’s municipal water, sewer and storm sewer resources will be mapped. "This program grant will provide smaller communities across the region access to critical GIS services,” said Buckeye Hills Executive Director Misty Casto. “Many smaller towns have to rely on antique maps stored in tubes or the memories of key municipal or county staff as the resource for critical details of water, sewer, storm sewer, or other local utility data. We want to assist them with a tech- nology-based, userfriendly system for future use and prosperity.” This high accuracy local data is becoming increasingly critical to a community's ability to secure grant funding from most state and federal programs. Potential business and industry site selectors are seeking this type of data as well. Supporting the bhgis program are GIS Program Manager Bret Allphin and Jason Pyles. Pyles recently joined Buckeye Hills following graduation from The Ohio State University with a degree in Geography and a specialization in Geographic Information Systems. Learn more at www.bhgis.org or call Bret Allphin at 740-3749436. Community Calendar Public meetings Community meetings Tuesday, May 31 POMEROY — Local Emergency Planning Committee, 11:30 a.m., Senior Center. Lunch available. Thursday, May 26 TUPPERS PLAINS — Tuppers Plains VFW Post 9053, 6:30 p.m., at hall. PORTLAND — Lebanon Township Trustees, 6 p.m., regular monthly meeting. Friday, May 27 MIDDLEPORT — Middleport Community Association planning meeting for Hump Day Lunch Day, 11 a.m., Dairy Queen. Bring tools for street cleaning and weeding flower beds. Wednesday, June 1 POMEROY — Meigs County Board of Health, regular meeting, 5 p.m., health department. Church events Sunday, May 29 CARPENTER — Ray Family Singers, West Virginia, to sing at 6:30 p.m., Mt. Union Baptist Church. Other events Monday, May 30 RACINE — Racine American Legion Memorial Day Service, 10 a.m., legion hall, refreshments. Planning meeting MIDDLEPORT — A planning meeting for Middleport Community Association’s Hump Day Lunch Day on June 1 will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday at Dairy Queen. Members are asked to bring tools for street cleaning and weeding of flower beds. Horse show set PORTLAND — The Portland Community Center will sponsor a competitive horse show at 11 a.m., Monday, May 30 at the show ring. Refreshments available and all proceeds go to maintaining the show ring. Call 590-9936 or 843-5216 for more information. Academic honorees from the Southern Local School District. RACINE — This year the Southern Local School District honored academic excellence by recognizing top students in their classes. Seniors: Eric Buzzard, Trevor Flint, Joey Forester, Zachary Manuel, Charley Pyles. Juniors: Emily Ash, Tiffany Burns, Ceairra Curran, Andrew Ginther, Chelsea Holter, Emily Manuel, Morgan McMillan, Emma Powell, Andrew Roseberry, Olivia Searls, Hope Teaford, Courtney Thomas, Abbie Williams. Sophomores: Tara Eakins, Jennifer McCoy, Jaclyn Mees, Olivia Poling, Stefanie Pyles, Joe Smith, Kyrie Swann, Johnny Vancooney, Whitney Weddle, Paige Wehrung, Kody Wolfe. Freshmen, Ryan Daugherty, Darien Diddle, Brandon Grueser, Lacey Hupp, Nathan Leamond. Eighth grade: Ashley Baker, Kali Cunningham, Caitlyn Holter, Bradley McCoy, Chais Michael, Kevin Perry, Bethany Theiss, Austin Wolfe, Tristen Wolfe, Cameron Yates. Seventh grade: Kari Arnold, Jeremy Dutton, Tanner Grubb, Sophie Guinther, Cameryn Harmon, Madison Maynard, Brynn Harris, Parker Hill, Sylvia Richards, Andrew Shockey, Kris Shortridge, Brittany Wells, Elizabeth Wolfe, Jansen Wolfe. Sixth grade: Katie Barton, Sierra Cleland, Tyler Custer, Talon Drummer, Daniel Dunfee, Gage Hensley, Brook Hettinger, Eli Hunter, Marissa Johnson, Marlee Maynard, Macie Michael, Haley Musser, Trey Pickens, Crenson Rogers, Sara Schenkelberg, Kamryn Smith, Faith Teaford, Jacob Weddle. Fifth grade: Sydney Cleland, Andrew Evans, Hannah Evans, Miranda Greenlee, Jonah Hoback, Austin McKibben, Jaiden Roberts, Riley Roush, Conner Thomas, Sailor Warden. Fourth grade: Ryan Acree, Peyton Anderson, Austin Arnold, Austin Baker, Marissa Brooker, Tori Chaney, Brayden Cunningham, Noah Diddle, Brody Dutton, Baylee Grueser, Billy Harmon, Mallory Johnson, Madison Lisle, Kathryn Matson, Rhiannon Morris, Reece Reuter, Kaitlyn Taylor, Weston Thorla. More tornadoes possible this week in Ohio state’s roads. Six people died in alcohol-related crashes last year during the long weekend, out of 11 total traffic fatalities. Officials say troopers will work alongside local law enforcement to take Memorial Day drunken drivers off the roads. Patrol superintendent Col. John Born calls drunken driving deaths a national tragedy — and a potential tragedy for everyone. criticized Stewart for voting in favor of the measure and featured his face with a circle and slash over it. WILMINGTON (AP) — More severe weather is headed to Ohio, bringing the risk of more tornadoes. The National Weather Service says isolated tornadoes are possible throughout much of the state through Wednesday night as part of thunderstorms likely to be accompanied by damaging winds and large hail. The agency has confirmed that four lowergrade tornadoes touched down in Ohio during violent storms on Monday. At least one person was injured, not seriously. Ohio Senate majority leader is stepping down COLUMBUS (AP) — A high-ranking Ohio Senate Republican is leaving the Legislature to take on a new role outside government. The Coshocton (kuhSHAHK’-tuhn) Tribune reports Senate Majority Leader Jimmy Stewart has accepted what he describes as a “fantastic opportunity in the private sector.” He plans to step down in July from his seat representing a nine-county area in southeast Ohio. Stewart has been targeted by opponents of Ohio’s new law limiting the union rights of public employees. The Columbus Dispatch reports a billboard that went up in March between Nelsonville and Athens Ohio patrol warns against holiday drunk driving COLUMBUS (AP) — The State Highway Patrol is warning Ohio motorists that troopers will do what they can to have a Memorial Day weekend free of drunken-driving crashes. The patrol said in a statement Wednesday that accidents involving impaired drivers can make the holiday period a dangerous time on the "Bob's Retails are stocked daily from their 20 acres of greenhouses on the Ohio River" May 26th thru May 29th Select Styles ������������������������������������������� � CARHARTT Clothing New Arrivals � � � 20% Off � Select Styles � � 3 Locations to serve you Kipling Shoe Company 1221 Main Street Milton, WV 25541 304-743-5721 306 3rd Street Point Pleasant WV 25559 304-675-7870 216 Davis Ave. Elkins WV 26241 304-637-6909 We're here for you and have been for 110 years. 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Now, it’s at 33.6 percent and rising. Since the housing meltdown, nearly 3 million households have become renters. At least 3 million more are expected by 2015, according to census data analyzed by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies and The Associated Press. All told, nearly 38 million households are renters. Among the signs of a rising rental market: — The pace of apartment construction has surged 115 percent from its October 2009 low. It’s still well below a healthy level. But permits for apartments, a gauge of future construction, hit a two-year peak in March. By contrast, permits for single-family home are on pace for their lowest annual level on records dating to 1960. — The number of completed apartments averaged about 250,000 a year before the boom. They fell to 54,000 last year and will probably number around the same this year. But then the number will likely double to about 100,000 in 2012 and hit 250,000 by 2013 or 2014, according to the CoStar Group, a research firm. The lag is due to the time it takes for an apartment building to be completed: an average of 14 months. — Demand is driving up rents. The median price of advertised rents rose 4.1 percent between the end of 2009 and the end of 2010, census data shows. Few expect the higher prices to stem the flood of renters, though. One reason: Younger adults don’t value homeownership as earlier generations did and many prefer to rent, studies show. — Rental housing is giving builders more work just as construction of single-family homes has dried up. Still, that economic lift won’t make up for all the single-family houses not being built. Apartments account for only about one-fourth of homes. And renters are outspent roughly 2-to-1 by homeowners, who pay for items from lawn care to remodeling and help drive the economy. Before the housing bust, mortgage rates were so low it was often cheaper to buy than rent. That was true a decade ago in more than half the 54 biggest metro areas, according to Moody’s Analytics. Today, by contrast, it’s cheaper to rent in about 72 percent of metro areas. Consider Mason Hamilton, 26, an energy consultant who rents an apartment with his wife for $1,100 a month in Alexandria, Va., outside Washington. He’d like something bigger. But he says he doesn’t plan to buy even though he could afford to. “My parents always told me, ‘You need to buy 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. Member: The Associated Press and the Ohio Newspaper Association. 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In the past four years, the median price of a single-family home has sunk 37 percent, by $57,500, to its lowest since 2002. Yet in some areas, owning is still too expensive for many. “It’s becoming so difficult for most Americans to afford a home, with larger down payments and tighter credit, that it is creating a renter’s nation,” says Robert Shiller, a Yale economist and co-creator of the Case-Shiller home price index. “The home is no longer an investment; it’s a burden.” Homeownership bestows its own financial advantages, of course. Each loan payment builds equity. Loan interest and property taxes provide tax deductions. And in normal housing markets, home values rise over time. But for now, renting is more attractive. Hamilton, the energy consultant, says his father, a 58-year-old teacher in Richmond, Va., still owes nearly as much on his mortgage as his house is worth. BY JOHN MIILLER ASSOCIATED PRESS MALTA, Idaho — America’s kids will be learning about the U.S. Constitution this coming school year with help from a decidedly conservative Idaho publishing house, if a tea party group gets its way. The Tea Party Patriots, Georgia-based but claiming 1,000 chapters nationally, are instructing members to remind teachers that a 2004 federal law requires public schools to teach Constitution lessons the week of Sept. 17, commemorating the day the document was signed. And they’d like the teachers to use material from the Malta, Idaho-based National Center for Constitutional Studies, which promotes the Constitution as a divinelyinspired document. The center’s founder, W. Cleon Skousen, once called Jamestown’s original settlers communists, wrote end-of-days prophecy and suggested Russians stole Sputnik from the United States. In 1987, one of his books was criticized for suggesting American slave children were freer than white nonslaves. Interest in Skousen, a former FBI employee and Salt Lake City police chief who died in 2006 in Utah, soared in tea party circles after praise from talk show host Glenn Beck. Not surprisingly, groups battling the tea party — and Beck — warn that Skousen’s center shouldn’t be teaching kids about American history. “It’s indoctrination, not education,” said Doug Kendall, director of the Constitutional Accountability Center in Washington, D.C. “They’re so far from the mainstream of constitutional thought that they are 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 completely indefensible.” Though the National Center for Constitutional Studies is best known for its promotion of Skousen’s work, including “The 5,000 Year Leap,” a 1981 book that suggests Biblical inspiration for the Constitution, those materials aren’t included in the packet being touted by the Tea Party Patriots. Instead, a $19.95 order buys “A More Perfect Union,” a movie DVD created by Mormon-run BYU in 1989 depicting the 1787 Constitutional Convention, as well as an accompanying teacher’s guide, a poster and a pocket-size Constitution. Bill Norton, the Tea Party Patriots leader in charge of the group’s “Adopt a School” push, gives seminars for the National Center for Constitutional Studies. He says the BYU movie was endorsed 20 years ago by the federal Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, proving its educational merit. “It has the stamp of approval of this federal entity,” Norton said, adding he’s not demanding schools use it. “It’s just a suggestion.” But not everyone is convinced the film and study guide are the best resources. David Gray Adler, who directs the University of Idaho’s McClure Center for Public Policy Research, said some of its assertions — that “Americans’ confidence in republicanism stemmed largely from their shared commitment to Christianity,” for example — exaggerates religion’s impact on the framers while neglecting European enlightenment figures who shaped early American views on government. “Give them (the Tea Party Patriots) credit for urging adherence to the federal law,” Adler said. “But there are many other, better, more scholarly documents on the Constitution.” Another constitutional education group, the federally funded Center for Civic Education in Woodland Hills, Calif., suggested those unhappy with the Tea Party Patriot’s choice of educational materials should promote alternatives. “The Tea Party Patriots are doing what Americans are supposed to do,” said Robert Leming, who directs his group’s “We The People” program. “What that should do is encourage others of a different point of view to do the same thing.” The current leader of the National Center for Constitutional Studies, Zeldon Nelson, met Skousen in the mid1980s, when the author was raising money for his latest book, “The Making of America.” Nelson said he took over amid financial difficulties after sales-damaging criticism of the book, including from then-California Republican Gov. George Deukmejian, for its characterization of slavery. Asked if the Tea Party Patriots’ push is helping sales, Nelson responded, “I would have to say, probably no.” But he anticipates business could pick up closer to the school year. Today, there’s a question over whether Nelson has a right to distribute the BYUproduced materials. And further complicating matters is an acrimonious lawsuit between Skousen’s adult children and Nelson over rights to Skousen’s work, Three years ago, BYU canceled a longstanding licensing agreement with Nelson because he wasn’t paying royalties. 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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He was a United States Navy veteran and a member of the Middleport American Legion. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Pauline M. Reuter and a son, Scott Reuter. He is survived by his son and daughters-in-law, David and Potsanee Reuter of Fort Walton Beach, Fla. and Lisa Reuter of Gallipolis; grandchildren: Crystalle, Pauline, Jeff, Juree, and Natee of Fort Walton Beach, Courtney of Columbus, Jeffery and Kelsey of Gallipolis; brothers and sister-in-law, Paul and Marge Reuter of Urbana, and Keith Reuter of Mexico. Funeral will be held at noon on Friday, May 27, 2011 at Anderson McDaniel Funeral Home in Middleport. Burial will follow at Riverview Cemetery. Visiting hours will be from 10 a.m. until the service. Donations in memory of Mr. Reuter may be made to the Feeney Bennett Post 128, Middleport American Legion. An on-line registry is available at www. andersonmcdaniel.com. POMEROY – A memorial service for William P. Matlack, 94, longtime Pomeroy resident, who died Jan. 28, 2011 in Agoura Hills, Calif., will be held Sunday, May 29, at Trinity Congregational Church immediately following the Sunday morning church service. Drew Webster Post 39, American Legion, will be present to recognize Mr. Matlack’s military service. Following the service a luncheon will be held in the church basement for family and friends. Burial will be in Sand Hill Cemetery at Long Bottom about 4 p.m. Viola Helen Young Viola Helen Young, 80, Middleport, passed away on May 25, 2011, at Overbrook Center in Middleport. She was born on December 21, 1930, daughter of the late Marlin and Garnet Rife. Mrs. Young was a homemaker. She enjoyed spending time with her family. She also enjoyed square dancing and square dance calling. In addition to her parents, she was preceded by her husband, Charles (Tom) Young; a brother, Hurley Rife; a sister, Vivian Rife; granddaughter, Amanda Lynn Young; and a great-grandson, Brayden Robert French. She is survived by sons and daughters-in-law, Danny and Linda Young, Steve and Gail Young, Glenn and Debbie Young, Larry and Claricy Young, Keith and Sharon Young, Darrell and Missy Young; daughters and sons-In-Law, Brenda and Henry Doerfer, Roberta and Richard Dill; 19 grandchildren, 22 great- grandchildren and 17 step-grandchildren; special cousin, Patty Frazier; niece, Sharon Roseberry. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 10 a.m. at the Anderson McDaniel Funeral Home in Middleport with Anido and Clyde Ferrell officiating. Burial will follow in the Gravel Hill Cemetery in Cheshire. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. on Friday May 27, 2011 at the funeral home. An on line registry is available at www.andersonmcdaniel.com Vivian V. “Granny” Coy Vivian V. “Granny” Coy, 97, formerly of Rutland, Ohio, passed away Tuesday, May 24, 2011, at Holzer Medical Center, Gallipolis, Ohio. She was born on Jan. 7, 1914 in Gallia County, Ohio to the late Honel H. and Pearl Barrett Denney. She was a school custodian, the Rutland switch board operator, and a homemaker. She is survived by three daughters, Minnie (Charlie) Young, Langsville; Beulah Shuler, Langsville, and Priscilla (John) Schuler of Rutland; a son, Maxwell (Diane) Coy of Yawkey, W. Va.; a sonin-law, Bob Rathburn of Pomeroy; 31 grandchildren, numerous great-grandchildren, numerous great-greatgrandchildren, and a great-great-great-grandchild, along with several nieces and nephews. Besides her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Everett Coy, a daughter, Wanda Rathburn, a son, Giles Coy, a son-in-law, Ross Shuler, two sisters, three brothers, and several grandchildren. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, May 27, at the Birchfield Funeral Home in Rutland. Pastor Marty Hutton will officiate. Burial will be in Miles Cemetery, Rutland. The family will receive friends from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 26, 2011 at the funeral home. That family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations be given to Holzer Hospice, 100 Jackson Pike, Gallipolis, Ohio 45631. Meigs County Local Emergency Planning Committee meeting POMEROY — Meigs County Local Emergency Planning Committee will meet at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday at the senior center. Lunch will be available. Fundraising dinner BURLINGHAM — Burlingham Modern Woodmen will hold a fundraising dinner from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the hall, with proceeds to benefit repairs at the Burlingham church. Donations will be accepted for the meal, dessert and drink. Carryout is available. Anyone who would like to purchase a whole pie the day of the dinner may call 992-7770 to order. 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Rio presents research work RIO GRANDE – Several outstanding students and faculty members from the University of Rio Grande/Rio Grande Community College recently presented research findings on a wide range of topics over a two-day period, highlighting research work conducted during the 20102011 academic year. The presentations were part of Rio Grande’s “Provost Academic Initiative,” and they detailed different projects sponsored by the university. Presentations were made on campus, and students, faculty, staff and community members were all invited. Faculty member Linda Sigismondi, Ph.D., and student Kelly Collins, Wadsworth, for example, gave their presentation on “Bioremediation Using Oil-Eating Microbes.” Collins, who is studying environmental science at Rio Grande, began the presentation by talking about the importance of Earth Day and reminding those in attendance that on Earth Day 2010, the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was taking place. Collins discussed how much oil was lost in the spill and the amounts of the oil which was skimmed out of the ocean, burned, dispersed or eaten by microbes. A large portion of the oil has also not been accounted for, Collins said. As part of the project that Collins, Sigismondi and student Jordan Roush, Letart, W.Va. took on, Collins explained that they wanted to look more closely at bioremediation of the oil, or how microbes in the water break down oil. The Rio Grande group studied the temperatures at which certain microbes grow fastest, other factors that affect the growth rate of the microbes and how successful microbes can be in bio-remediation. The group brought certain types of microbes to the campus laboratories and studied them throughout the year. ` Rio Grande student Emalea Neal, Thurman, was involved in an entirely different type of project, but her work was also extremely impressive. Neal worked with faculty member Kent Williams, Ph.D., on the project, “Perspectives of Ruel Foster and Emalea Neal.” Williams studied several books by Foster on the life of Stuart, an acclaimed writer, and also studied the life and works of Stuart. In his presentation, Williams discussed Stuart’s life and how it affected his writing, and discussed Foster’s findings on Stuart. Also as part of the project, Neal created several large drawings of Stuart that are astounding. Neal explained that she took The Daily Sentinel • Page A5 Meigs County Forecast Thursday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8am, then a chance of showers between 8am and 11am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 84. South wind between 9 and 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. 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Member SIPC. images of Stuart from different books and used them as the inspiration for her artworks. One particularly poignant piece shows Stuart with some of his writings in the background. Williams said he was very impressed with the quality of Neal’s work and said that other Stuart scholars were as well. The Provost’s Academic Excellence Initiative also involved three other research projects, and the presentations on these projects were also notable. The other three projects were as follows: • “Assessment Techniques for Handling and Aging Southern Flying Squirrels,” by faculty member Don Althoff, Ph.D, and student P. Drew McCaffrey, Ashland, KY. • “Effects of Surface Coal Mining On Stream Water Chemistry in Raccoon Creek Watershed,” by faculty members Rob Hopkins, Ph.D., and Jacob White, Ph.D., and students Andrea Merry, Oak Hill, and Derek Haselman, Ottawa. • “Cross-Fertilization in the Academic Art Garden,” by faculty members Jim Allen, Benjy Davies and Kevin Lyles and students Elizabeth Hamilton, Gallipolis; Emalea Neal, Derek Weber, Pomeroy; Kia Wright, Gallipolis, Ferry; Dustin Beach, Vinton; and Dane Eichinger, Reedsville. For more information on the Provost’s Academic Excellence Initiative or the research projects, call the Rio Grande Provost’s Office at 1-800-282-7201. For additional information on the wide range of academic programs offered on Rio Grande’s scenic campus, log onto www.rio.edu. �Page A6 • The Daily Sentinel www.mydailysentinel.com Thursday, May 26, 2011 www.mydailysentinel.com �Thursday, May 26, 2011 POLICIES Ohio Valley Publishing reserves the right to edit, reject or cancel any ad at any time. ¾Errors Must Be Reported on the first day of publication and the TribuneSentinel-Register will be responsible for no more than the cost of the space occupied by the error and only the first insertion. We shall not be liable for any loss or expense that results from the publication or omission of an advertisement. 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Plans and Specifications are on file in the Department of Transportation (5) 26, 31, 2011 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE: is hereby given that on Friday May 27 at 10:00 a.m., a public sale will be held at 1389 Brumfield Rd., Crown City, Ohio. The Farmers Bank and Savings Company is selling for cash in hand or certified check the following collateral: 1987 Redman Mobile Home 11229745 The Farmers Bank and Savings Company, Pomeroy, Ohio, reserves the right to bid at this sale, and to withdraw the above collateral prior to sale. Further, The Farmers Bank and Savings Company reserves the right to reject any or all bids submitted. The above described collateral will be sold “as is-where is”, with no expressed or implied warranty given. For further information, or for an appointment to inspect collateral, prior to sale date contact Cyndie or Ken at 992-2136. (5) 24, 25, 26, 2011 NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed proposals for the installation of the Scipio Township Baseball Concession Building Project in Meigs County, Ohio, will be received by the Meigs County Commissioners at the Courthouse, Second Street, Pomeroy, Ohio 45769 until 1:00 P.M., Thursday, June 9, 2011 and then at 1:15 P.M., at said office opened and read aloud for the following: Scipio Township Baseball Concession Building Project , Meigs County, Ohio- Specifications are provided in bid packet. Specifications, and bid forms may be secured at the office of the Meigs County Commissioners , Courthouse, Pomeroy, Ohio 45769Phone # 740-992-2895. A deposit of O dollars will be required for 100 Notices Legals each set of plans and specifications, check made payable to _______-_____________. The full amount will be returned within thirty ( 30 ) days after receipts of bids. Each bid must be accompanied by either a bid bond in an amount of 100% of the bid amount with a surety satisfactory to the aforesaid Meigs County Commissioners or by certified check, cashiers check, or letter of credit upon a solvent in the amount of not less 10% of the bid amount in favor of the Meigs County Commissioners. Bid Bonds shall be accompanied by Proof of Authority of the official or agent signing the bond. Bids shall be sealed and marked as Bid for Racine Village Water Meter Purchase Project and mailed or delivered to: Meigs County Commissioners Courthouse, Second Street Pomeroy, Ohio 45769 Attention of bidders is called to all of the requirements contained in this bid packet, particularly to the Federal Labor Standards Provisions and Davis-Bacon Wages, various insurance requirements, various equal opportunity provisions, and the requirement for a payment bond within thirty (30) days after the actual date of the opening thereof. 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This position requires three to five years experience managing and developing employees; previous experience in sales, marketing and circulation; basic accounting knowledge and familiarity with Microsoft Office programs; excellent organizational skills; excellent written and verbal communication skills. This position is a full-time opportunity offering a compensation package including medical,dental and paid time off. Apply at Gallipolis Daily Tribune 825 3rd Ave Gallipolis Oh 45631 740-446-2342 Part-Time/Temporaries I-Car Training a plus Pay based on experience More work than we can handle Drug free environment Paid vacation Health & Dental Ask for Derrick Help Wanted Medical instructors for terminology, billing & coding, and transcription. A minimum of associate degree in a medically related field required. Email cover letter & resume to bshirey@gallipoliscareercollege.edu. 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Meigs County is assured a spot in Elite 8, as either the Tornadoes or the Eagles will appear in the regional final on Friday. Cleveland roughed up by Red Sox, 14-2 CLEVELAND (AP) — The Indians knew it was coming. They were due, perhaps overdue, to play a miserable game. At some point, their impressive, unexpected start figured to slow down. On Wednesday, it came to a grinding halt. Mitch Talbot came off the disabled list and Boston put a hurting on him, scoring seven runs in the first inning as the Red Sox rocked the Indians 142, handing Cleveland its largest loss this year and winning two of the last three games in the series. “Every team is going to have a game like this,” shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera said. “We have to forget about today.” Boston starter Jon Lester shut out Cleveland on three hits over six innings and the Red Sox racked up a season-high 20 hits. This was lopsided, and then some. “It was an uphill battle from the get-go,” Indians manager Manny Acta said. “It’s not a very good feeling before you get to the plate and you’re trailing 70 against Jon Lester. I don’t think even the ‘27 Yankees would have a good feeling trailing 7-0 against this guy.” Talbot, activated before the game, was tagged with eight runs and 12 hits in three innings — the worst outing of his career. Dustin Pedroia hit a two-run homer to start Boston’s first-inning onslaught, when all the Red Sox hits were rockets. Talbot chalked it up as “just kind of one of those days.” The Indians can only hope there aren’t any more like it. Talbot’s ERA swelled from 1.46 to 5.87. He had been on the disabled list with a right elbow strain, and hadn’t pitched since shutting out the Los Angeles Angels for eight innings on April. Acta wouldn’t pin Talbot’s bad performance on the long layoff. Lakers reach deal in principle with Mike Brown LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Lakers have reached an agreement in principle with former Cleveland coach Mike Brown to succeed Phil Jackson, the team said Wednesday. “We’ve met with Mike and are very impressed with him,” said a statement issued by the Lakers. “In addition, we have an outline for an agreement in place and hope to sign a contract within the next few days.” Brown will get a fouryear deal worth roughly $18 million, a person with knowledge of the discussions told The Associated Press on Wednesday on condition of anonymity because the Lakers hadn’t yet formally hired Brown. With a strong interview last weekend, Brown jumped to the front of the line of candidates for the daunting challenge of succeeding the 11-time NBA champion Jackson with one of the NBA’s iconic franchises. Brown will be the 22nd coach of the Lakers, whose 16 NBA titles trail only the Boston Celtics’ 17 in league history. Rather than promoting one of Jackson’s assistant coaches, the Lakers are changing course after an abrupt end to their twoyear title reign and the long-anticipated departure of Jackson, the coach with the most championship rings in NBA history. After nearly quitting last summer, Jackson retired earlier this month after the Dallas Mavericks swept the defending two-time champion Lakers out of the second round of the playoffs. Although Kobe Bryant endorsed Jackson assistant Brian Shaw for the vacancy, Jim Buss — the Lakers’ executive vice president of player personnel and the son of owner Jerry Buss — became intrigued by Brown after Saturday’s interview. A respected young tactician with a strong coaching pedigree, Brown also has ample experience with big games and big stars, even if he couldn’t guide LeBron James to a title. “I think it’s great,” James said in Miami, where he’s preparing for Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals. ESPN, which employed Brown as an analyst this season, first reported Brown had been hired. The 41-year-old Brown led the Cavaliers to the 2007 NBA finals and went 272-138 in five years with Cleveland, becoming the most successful coach in franchise history while compiling the league’s best regular-season record in each of his last two seasons. But the 2009 NBA coach of the year was fired last spring following the Cavs’ dissension-filled exit from the second round of the postseason, and James left for Miami a few weeks later. Although James was critical of Brown’s strategies during their final playoff run together, the two-time NBA MVP strongly endorsed his former coach Wednesday. “Mike Brown is a great coach,” James said. “He brought us success that we hadn’t had before in that city, and it started with his defensive concepts. He brought in a defensive mindset that we didn’t have. Fifty-plus wins, he was coach of the year, he got us to the (NBA) finals, won us the Eastern Conference finals ... because of him and his coaching staff. I respect him. He definitely helped me become who I am today.” Brown’s background in defense apparently intrigues the Lakers, whose last two title runs were built on sturdy defense led by Bryant and 7-foot shot-blocker Andrew Bynum, a favorite of Jim Buss. Brown is a former assistant to San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich and Dallas coach Rick Carlisle, who employed Brown as his defensive coordinator in Indiana when Lakers forward Ron Artest was named the NBA’s top defensive player in 2004. Bryant and his teammates apparently weren’t consulted during the coaching search, and Bryant declined to comment on Brown’s hiring Wednesday when reached by the Los Angeles Times. Bryant publicly supported Shaw, his former Lakers teammate, but the twotime NBA finals MVP also said the Lakers should find a coach who believes in hard-nosed defense. “I don’t believe in building a championship team on offense,” Bryant said two weeks ago after his exit interview with Lakers brass. “It has to be built on defense and rebounding, period.” Brown’s reputation as an offensive coach was savaged during his time with the Cavaliers, who often appeared to be running a 1-on-5 scheme for James. Bryant, who will turn 33 before next season, has similar ball-dominating tendencies — but he also has more talent around him than James ever had in Cleveland, from 7-foot All-Star forward Pau Gasol to a bench led by Sixth Man of the Year Lamar Odom. During an interview with Sirius XM Radio on Tuesday, Jerry Buss said the Lakers “won’t continue exclusively with the triangle” offense championed by Jackson. The Lakers also showed interest in veteran coach Rick Adelman, who left the Houston Rockets last month, and Mike Dunleavy, the former Lakers and Clippers coach. Shaw was the favorite candidate among the current Lakers, with Derek Fisher and Bynum joining Bryant in throwing their support behind him. But the Buss family has a history of idiosyncratic coaching hires, often from outside the organization. When Jackson left the Lakers for a year in 2004, they replaced him with former Houston coach Rudy Tomjanovich, who resigned midway through his only season because of health issues. Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak has said the club is likely to return with largely the same veteran core that won the past two NBA titles before falling short this season. Los Angeles already has more than $85 million in salary committed to eight players for next season, likely meaning the Lakers will have the NBA’s largest payroll again next season. Page A9 Thursday, May 26, 2011 Marietta claims one last SEOAL All-Sports trophy BY CRAIG DUNN SPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL Marietta High School didn’t have to win any spring titles to claim one last Southeastern Ohio Athletic League William E. (Bill) Thomas AllSports Trophy. Marietta won not only the 2010-11 All-Sports Trophy but the last three straight and seven of the last eight as well. The May 14 league track meet marked Marietta’s final SEOAL appearance. A member of the SEOAL each of the last 26 seasons, Marietta leaves this fall to join the East Central Ohio League. Marietta wound up with 74 points, with Warren (63) finishing second, Gallia Academy (59.5) third and Logan (54.5) edging Chillicothe (54) for fourth. Jackson (40) was sixth and Portsmouth (31) seventh. Marietta won titles in golf, boys soccer, girls soccer, volleyball and girls cross country last fall to take a substantial early lead, then maintained a solid margin through the winter sports season after sharing the girls basketball title with Logan. During the spring, the Marietta girls track team was runner-up, the boys tennis team tied for second, and the baseball and boys track teams both finished third. Warren maintained second place, which it held the entire 2010-11 season, by finishing second in both baseball and softball and third in girls track. Gallia Academy, which had the league’s best spring season for a second-straight season, won the baseball and softball championships and finished second in boys track to vault into third place past Logan, which was third after the winter season. Logan won the boys track title and was fourth in softball, enough to hold off Chillicothe, which won both the girls track and boys tennis championships. Jackson’s top spring finish was third in softball while Portsmouth tied for second in boys tennis and placed fourth in baseball. All-Sports Trophy points are determined on an 7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis in sports where all seven schools field full teams. In other sports, points are determined as to how many teams competed for the title, with fractional points awarded in case of ties. Since Warren doesn’t have boys tennis, for example, those points were determined on a 65-4-3-2-1 basis, with Marietta and Portsmouth both receiving 4.5 points for sharing second place. The SEOAL, one of the longest-running prep conferences in the state, was formed by William E. (Bill) Thomas of Wellston in 1925 and began competition with a boys track meet that spring, with 1925-26 being the first full season of conference competition. Craig Dunn is the Sports Editor of the Logan Daily News in Logan, Ohio. FINAL SEOAL ALL-SPORTS TROPHY STANDINGS 1. Marietta 2. Warren 3. Gallipolis 4. Logan 5. Chillicothe 6. Jackson 7. Portsmouth 74.0 63.0 59.5 54.5 54.0 40.0 31.0 NFL sees signs fans are turned off INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NFL is seeing the early signs of cracks in fan loyalty. Ten weeks into the owners’ lockout of the players, Commissioner Roger Goodell noted Wednesday the negative effect the labor dispute is having on pro football. “Clearly it has had an impact on the fans,” Goodell said as the owners completed their spring meetings. “We see it in various metrics. There’s been a noticeable change, TV ratings were down on the draft roughly 4 million people. NFL.com traffic (is down), we see that.” Ticket sales also are down. “Fans want certainty,” Goodell added. “We can’t underestimate that the fans are going through challenges just in the general economy.” That certainty isn’t likely to come soon. Both sides have a date in 8th U.S. District Court on June 3 for hearings on the league’s appeal to uphold the lockout. A decision probably won’t come for several weeks, and while another set of mediation sessions is scheduled to start June 7, not much is expected from those discussions while the appeal is being considered. The owners’ meetings included lengthy talks about the labor dispute, but no deadlines have been set — yet — for the opening of training camps, which usually happens in late July. That drop-dead date “obviously is coming,” Goodell said, barring a collective bargaining agreement. “We’ve made it clear that (revenue loss) is current and will continue to accelerate and impact on the ability of ownership to make an offer (the players) find attractive,” he said. Owners were presented the full range of plans for opening weekend, from the first game on Thursday night at Lambeau Field to commemorations of the Sept. 11 attacks on the first full Sunday of games. Those dates are not in jeopardy yet, but the longer the impasse, the more in danger they would become, particularly with the league’s marketing partners, sponsors and advertisers who must commit dollars to those events well in advance. “We’re not at an Armageddon date,” Eric Grubman, executive vice president of business operations for the NFL, told The Associated Press. “We’re not staring that in the face this week.” Several teams already have begun to consider adjusting where they hold training camp. Fifteen teams trained last summer at complexes other than their in-season facilities, and some have deadlines as early as July 1 to decide whether to return to those locales or hold a truncated training camp at home. “If it dragged on or there was a shorter camp, something like that might not be inconceivable,” Colts owner Jim Irsay said. The Colts training camp is held about an hour from Indianapolis at Anderson University. One day after canceling the rookie symposium scheduled for June 26 in Canton, Ohio — the first NFL event victimized by the lockout — Goodell reiterated the league’s intent to play a full schedule this season. �SPORTS Page A10 Thursday, May 26, 2011 Point baseball powers past Rebels, 14-10 BY BRYAN WALTERS POMEROY — A schedule of upcoming college and high school varsity sporting events involving teams from Gallia, Mason and Meigs counties. Thursday, May 26 D-4 Baseball Regional Semifinal (5) Eastern vs. (1) Southern, 5 p.m. Class AA Baseball Region 1 Championship Point Pleasant at Magnolia, 6:30 p.m. D-2 Regional Track and Field at Meadowbrook High School (Byesville), 4 p.m. BWALTERS@MYDAILYTRIBUNE.COM POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — The Point Pleasant baseball team won its ninth consecutive regional contest and also set a schoolrecord for wins in a season following a 14-10 victory over visiting B. Toler Ritchie County on Tuesday night in a Class AA Region 1 semifinal matchup in M a s o n County. The host Roberts Big Blacks (24-6) — who have been to four consecutive Class AA state tournaments — extended its regional postseason streak to nine, a stretch that dates back to the 2007 campaign. Point, with the triumph, also bested the 2004 squad that finished 23-12 overall — which was previously the most wins for a season at PPHS. For its efforts, Point Pleasant earned a road trip to Magnolia (12-6) on Thursday for the Class AA Region 1 championship title, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. Magnolia defeated Oak Glen 9-1 in the other Region 1 semifinal contest on Tuesday night. Both PPHS and the Rebels (14-8) combined for 24 hits and 24 runs in the contest, as the teams scored at least one run in 10 of the 13 innings at the plate. The difference, however, was that the Big Blacks outhit the guests by a 15-9 margin and also scored three or more runs in half of their six plate appearances. RCHS scored three runs only once in the setback. Following the massive offensive outburst from both teams, Point baseball coach James Higginbotham spoke about coming away with the hard-fought victory. “They (Ritchie County) have a very good hitting team. They put the ball in play against both of our pitchers and kept battling until the end. My hat’s off to them on that,” Higginbotham said. “Luckily we had a few people step up tonight and make some plays in the field and at the plate. The top of our lineup really crushed the ball tonight. “Most importantly, I’m really proud of our guys tonight. We survived and advanced.” Point Pleasant fell behind 2-0 after a halfinning of play, but the hosts rallied to score three times in their half of the first for a 3-2 advantage. Brandon Toler and Jason Stouffer started the rally with a pair of oneout singles, then Justin Cavender was walked to load the bases. Eric Roberts received a twoout walk to bring in the first PPHS run, then Alex Potter delivered a 2-RBI bloop single to right — giving the hosts their first lead of the night at 3-2. The Big Blacks kept that momentum going into the second frame, plating two runs that allowed Point to open up a 5-2 edge through two compete. Austen Toler and Brandon Toler were issued back-to-back walks with one out, which led the Rebels bringing in Colby Vanoy to relieve starter Andrew Sellers. After Vanoy induced a ground ball for the second out of the inning, Cavender singled home both Jacob Gardner (courtesy runner for Austen Toler) and Brandon Toler to give PPHS a 3-run advantage. LOCAL SCHEDULE Friday, May 27 D-3 Regional Track and Field at Fairfield Union H.S. (Lancaster), 4 p.m. Saturday, May 28 D-2 Regional Track and Field at Meadowbrook High School (Byesville), 11:30 a.m. Sports Briefs 2nd Annual Blue Devil Golf Shootout Bryan Walters/photos Point Pleasant senior Justin Cavender watches a hit ball travel towards the outfield in the second inning of Tuesday night’s Class AA Region 1 baseball semifinal contest against Ritchie County in Point Pleasant, W.Va. Cavender had three hits and drove in six runs in the Big Blacks’ 14-10 victory. That cushion was shortlived, however, as the Rebels countered with two runs in the top of the third to pull back within a run at 5-4. The score remained that way until the bottom of the fourth, as Point Pleasant again added some breathing room to its lead after Cavender delivered a single that plated both Brandon Toler and Stouffer for a 7-4 lead after four complete. Ritchie County, however, battled back in the top of the fifth by plating three runs to knot things up at seven. PPHS retaliated by scoring four times in its half of the fifth for an 11-7 edge after five full frames. Both Tolers started the inning with back-to-back singles, then Stouffer legged out an infield hit that left the bases loaded with one out. A passed ball allowed Gardner to score for an 8-7 game and also allowed the other runners to move up a base. Instead of choosing an intentional walk to set up a force out at any base, the Rebels decided to go ahead and pitch to Cavender with first base open. Cavender followed with his third 2-RBI hit of the ball game, producing a double that plated both Stouffer and Brandon Toler for a 10-7 edge. Cavender later scored on a two-out double by Eric Roberts that gave the hosts a four-run cushion through five complete. The Rebels trimmed their deficit in half by plating two runs in the top of the sixth for an 11-9 contest, but Point answered with three scores in its half of the sixth for a 14-9 advantage. Steven Porter was hit by a pitch with one out in the frame, then an Austen Toler single gave Point runners at the corners. Brandon Toler doubled home Porter for a 12-9 edge, then Stouffer provided a 2-RBI single that plated both Gardner and Brandon Toler for fiverun cushion — Point’s biggest lead of the night. Ritchie County managed to score a run and get the tying run into the on-deck circle in the seventh, but Roberts fanned Jordan Shaffer to record the final out and secure Point Pleasant’s ninth straight regional victory. Roberts was the winning pitcher of record, allowing three runs and four hits over three innings of relief work. Roberts also struck out five and walked three. Brandon Toler started and allowed seven runs, six walks and five hits over four-plus innings while striking out six. Colby Vanoy took the loss for Ritchie County, GALLIPOLIS, Ohio — The 2nd annual Blue Devil Golf Shootout will be held on Saturday, June 25 at Cliffside Golf Course in Gallipolis, Ohio. The event will begin at 9 a.m. with a shotgun start. Three-man teams are to entry with the fourth player selected by blind draw of current and former GAHS golfers and coaches. For more information contact Coach Corey Luce at 740-709-6227 or corey.luce@gmail.com Shawn Baker Memorial Golf Tournament The first 9 and 9 For Shrine, Shawn Baker Memorial Golf Tournament will be held Saturday, June 25, at the Riverside Golf Course in Mason, W.Va. The deadline for entry is May 31. For information and questions contact 740645-0753 or email 9and9forshrine@gmail.c om Point Pleasant’s Jason Stouffer, left, legs out an infield single during the first inning of Tuesday night’s Class AA Region 1 baseball semifinal contest against Ritchie County in Point Pleasant, W.Va. which used three pitcher in the contest. Rebel hurlers allowed 15 hits and seven walks over six frames while fanning seven. Stouffer led the hosts with four hits, followed by Cavender and Brandon Toler with three safeties apiece. Austen Toler contributed two hits, while Roberts, Alex Potter and Titus Russell added a hit each to the winning cause. Cavender had a gamehigh six RBIs, while Brandon Toler scored a game-high five runs in the triumph. Both teams committed one error in the contest. The first four hitters in Point’s lineup produced 12 of the hosts 15 hits. Ritchie County’s first four hitters produced seven of the Rebels’ nine safeties. Vanoy, D.J. Burgess and Reno Jackson each had two hits for the guests, followed by Shaffer, Ryder Bolin and Andrew Sellers with one safety each. Higginbotham noted that winning in the postseason never gets old, but Tuesday’s win had a special meaning to it — being a record-setting victory for the program. Now he’s hoping the Big Blacks can build on it. “One of our goals this year was to set the school record for wins. Our other was to get back to the state tournament. We got one and we’re one win away from making another a reality, so hopefully we can get a little luck later on this week,” Higginbotham said. “It’s baseball. You never know what’s going to happen, but all you can do is show up and play the game. We know we’re going to see Magnolia’s best and we are going to give it our best. You just have to hope that the ball bounces your way on game day.” 18th Annual Meigs Football Golf Tourney MASON, W.Va. — The 18th Annual Meigs Football Golf Tournament will be held on Saturday, June 4 at Riverside Golf Course in Mason, W.Va. For more information contact head coach Mike Chancey at 740-5918644. CONTACT US 1-740-446-2342 ext. 33 Fax — 1-740-446-3008 POINT PLEASANT 14, RITCHIE COUNTY 10 RC PP 202 032 1 320 243 x — 10 9 1 — 14 15 1 RCHS (14-8): Andrew Sellers, Colby Vanoy (2), D.J. Burgess (6) and D.J. Burgess, Colby Vanoy (6). PPHS (24-6): Brandon Toler, Eric Roberts (5) and Austen Toler. WP — Roberts; LP — Vanoy. 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