https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/08abba8f690c43ee8c5dafadecb2076f.pdf a6ecb60d236b4bf8c93eb872fba0defc PDF Text Text Scenes from Middleport Fourth on page A2 Storyteller to arrive on page A3 Middleport • Pomeroy, Ohio 50 CENTS • Vol. 61, No. 106 Budget hearings WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2011 www.mydailysentinel.com Bartrum one of five in GOP Senate running LETART FALLS — Letart Township’s 2012 Budget Hearing will be held at 5 p.m., July 18 at the office building. SYRACUSE — Syracuse Village Council will hold a tax, budget hearing from 6:30-7 p.m., July 14 at village hall. Domestic violence support group BY BRIAN J. REED BREED@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM POMEROY — A Meigs County man could follow another in the Ohio Senate. Meigs County Commissioner Michael Bartrum is one of five hoping to succeed Senator Jimmy Stewart, R-Albany. A new Senator representing the 20th District will be sworn in July 13, with a screening committee to meet the day before. 20th Senate District Senate President includes Athens, Thomas Niehaus Wa s h i n g t o n , has appointed a Morgan, Noble, committee of nine Monroe, Guernsey, Republican senaMuskingum and tors to screen Coshocton counties. applicants and Stewart was first make a recommenelected to the office dation to the GOP Bartrum two years ago, sucSenate Caucus. Stewart, the first Ohio ceeding Joy Padgett of Senator in Meigs County Coshocton, who chose not in over a half century, left to seek re-election.Prior to his post last week to his service in the Senate, become president of the Stewart was elected to the House of Ohio Gas Association. The Ohio Represntatives in the 92nd District. He is a West Virginia native, who served in city government in Athens prior to his election to district office. Bartrum, Pomeroy, joins Athens County Auditor Jill Thompson, who sought the Ohio House seat now occupied by Debbie Phillips, D-Athens, two years ago, Ohio Rep. Troy Balderson, R-Zanesville, Zanesville Attorney Jeanette Moll, and Donald Warnock, a Guernsey County township trustee as candidates for the Senate seat. The five have applied to the Ohio Senate GOP Caucus for the position. Bartrum was elected to the Board of County Commissioners as an independent, and is now in his second year in the position. Prior to his return to Meigs County, Bartrum played in the National Football League.. GALLIPOLIS — A support group for current or past victims of domestic violence will be held at 6 p.m., Monday, July 11. For more information on location, contact 740-446-6752. Southern votes on insurance, personnel Consumer confidence reports BSERGENT@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM SYRACUSE — Syracuse Board of Public Affairs has announced the 2010 Consumer Confidence Report has been delivered to residents. Any residents who didn’t receive a report or an application of leak insurance can pick them up at the village clerk’s office. Free computer and Internet training GALLIPOLIS — Connect Ohio, in coordination with the Gallia County Economic and Community Development Office, is offereing free computer and Internet training for Gallia Countians. The class is available for anyone 18 years of age and over and offers the basics on computers and the Internet and their use as valuable tools for individuals and businesses. Classes are being offered at the Gallia County Dept. of Job and Family and the Rhodes Student Center at the University of Rio Grande. For more information contact Gallia County Economic Development Assistant Director Jake Bodimer at 446-4612, ext. 257. OBITUARIES BY BETH SERGENT RACINE — Though students and staff are on summer vacation, the Southern Local Board of Education has been busy approving agreements dealing with the cost of health care as well as other personnel matters, at its most recent meeting. Due to insurance concessions in premium, deductibles and co-insurance, Southern Local Education Association members will receive a stipend of $1,200 on Aug. 19 and on the first pay in September 2012. SLEA members will pay 10 percent of the insurance premium. The district will set up HRA’s ($250 single plan, $500 family plan). In exchange for these concessions, SLEA members will receive a three percent base increase in year one (2011-2012) and 2.25 percent base increase in year two (2012-2013). The vote on this motion was unanimous. In addition, the same Middleport’s Fourth It was a traditional July 4 celebration in Middleport Monday, complete with a colorful parade, with blaring sirens and a high-stepping marching band, a patriotic program, musical entertainment, and fireworks. Sponsored by the Middleport Community Association, Mondayʼs Independence Day celebration centered in dowtownʼs Diles Park. Feeney-Bennett Post 128, American Legion, conducted a flag-raising ceremony, Teresa Brown, Rutland, sang patriotic numbers, K&D Karaoke hosted a concert, and Elixir, a local band, performed before the light show. Additional photos are inside. See Votes, A5 (Brian J. Reed/photos) Rhythm concert New bank series continues building coming BY BETH SERGENT BSERGENT@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM Page A5 • James Edward Morrow WEATHER High: 93 Low: 64 INDEX 1 SECTIONS — 10 PAGES Classifieds Comics Editorials Sports A7-8 A6 A4 A9-10 © 2011 Ohio Valley Publishing Co. Racine accepting bids for paving Randy McAllister He has been described BY CHARLENE HOEFLICH HOEFLICH@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM as being a rare artist who is able to meld genres POMEROY – The such as gospel, blues, Rhythm on the River country, Tex-Mex, rock concert series of the and zydeco together and Pomeroy Blues & Jazz come away with someSociety moves into its thing that is uniquely third week at 8 p.m. him. Friday, with the multiRemaining concerts in talented Randy the series includes The McAllister taking the Gas House Gorillas on stage. July 15, The Scott Holt McAllister is a singer, Band on July 22, Eden songwriter and instru- Brent on Aug. 5, and mentalist from Texas Biscuit and The Mix on who has performed sev- Aug. 12. eral times in Pomeroy’s The Big Bend Blues riverside amphitheater as Bash is set for July 28, 29 a part of the concert and 30 with a full schedseries. Raised in Texas, ule of musicians, a blues he is known not only for school for kids in the his music but the humor mini-park, and a cornand tall Texas tales he hole tournament on the incorporates into his per- parking lot. formance. While The Farmers Bank has not made an official announcement yet itʼs apparent from a sign erected on a vacant lot between Bunʼs Party Barn and Pomeroy Village Hall that a new bank building is going to be built on East Main in Pomeroy. (Charlene Hoeflich/photo) RACINE — The Village of Racine is accepting bids on a paving job which will resurface some village roads using funds from a Community Development Block Grant (aka a “Community Distress Grant”) and Ohio Public Works Commission grant. Clerk-Treasurer Dave Spencer said the two grants plus matching money providing by Gatling, Ohio LLC will allow the paving project to move forward - a project estimated to cost around $250,000. Spencer said streets which will be paved include Fourth Street, Sycamore Street and all roads going west towards the Ohio River - in short, a chunk of downtown Racine. Also, paving will occur on Yellowbush Road to the corporation limits. Sealed bids for the work are being taken until 4 p.m., Monday, July 11 bid specifications and packets can be picked up at the clerk-treasurer’s See Paving, A5 �Wednesday, July 6, 2011 www.mydailysentinel.com The Daily Sentinel • Page A2 Middleport FOURTH SCENES Jim Stewart and the Life family traveled from the Chester area to ride their horses in Mondayʼs July 4 parade in downtown Middleport. 2010 Fair Queen Olivia Davis made what might be her final public appearance as fair royalty in Middleportʼs July 4 parade, smiling and waving to those aong the parade route. Members of Feeney-Bennett Post 128, American Legion, raised the American flag to open Mondayʼs July 4 festivities in Diles Park. Right: Dan and Donna Jean Smith, Racine, went “international” in Middleportʼs July 4 parade, cruising along the parade route in their IH farm tractor, complete with matching umbrella. (Brian J. Reed/photos) Space shuttleʼs legacy: Soaring in orbit and costs CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The space shuttle was sold to America as cheap, safe and reliable. It was none of those. It cost $196 billion over 40 years, ended the lives of 14 astronauts and managed to make less than half the flights promised. Yet despite all that, there were some big achievements that weren't promised: major scientific advances, stunning photos of the cosmos, a high-flying vehicle of diplomacy that helped bring Cold War enemies closer, and something to brag about. Former President George H.W. Bush, who oversaw the early flights, said the shuttle program "authored a truly inspiring chapter in the history of human exploration." NASA's first space shuttle flight was in April 1981. The 135th and final launch is set for Friday, although storms could cause a delay. Once Atlantis lands at the end of a 12-day mission, it and the other two remaining shuttles are officially museum pieces — more expensive than any paintings. America has done far more for far less. The total price tag for the program was more than twice the $90 billion NASA originally calculated. The nation spent more on the space shuttle than the combined cost of soaring to the moon, creating the atom bomb, and digging the Panama Canal, according to an analysis by The Associated Press using figures from NASA and the Smithsonian Institution and adjusting for inflation. Even its most ardent supporters concede that the shuttle program never lived up to its initial promise. The selling point when it was conceived four decades ago was that with weekly launches, getting into space would be relatively inexpensive and safe. That wasn't the case. "But there is no embarrassment in setting the bar impossibly high and then failing to clear it," said former astronaut Duane Carey, who flew in 2002. "What matters is that we strived mightily to do so and we did strive mightily. The main legacy left by the shuttle program is that of a magnificent failure." Of the five shuttles built, two were lost in fiery tragedies. The most shuttle flights taken in one year was nine‚ far from the promised 50. The program also managed to make blasting into space seem everyday dull by going to the same place over and over again. Shuttles circled the planet 20,830 times, but went nowhere really new. The shuttle's epitaph is "we tried," said Hans Mark, a former deputy NASA administrator who oversaw most of the first dozen launches. Six years ago, thenNASA chief Michael Griffin even called the shuttle program a mistake. But as a mistake it is one that paid off in wildly unexpected ways that weren't about money and reliability. "The discoveries it enabled, the international cooperation it fostered and the knowledge it gained — often at great human cost — has also contributed in countless, important ways to humanity and our common progress," President Bush wrote The Associated Press in an email. Bush oversaw the program's early days as vice president, a job that has by tradition supervised NASA. There are the magnificent photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, which helped pinpoint the age of the universe and demonstrated the existence of mysterious dark energy; the ongoing labwork on the International Space Station; a multitude of satellites for everything from spying to climate change; and spacecraft that explore the solar system. All owe their existence to the space shuttle. The Hubble was not just launched from the shuttle — it was repaired and upgraded five times by shuttle astronauts. They also captured and fixed satellites in orbit. Earlier this year, shuttle astronauts installed a $2 billion particle physics experiment on the space station that may find evidence of dark matter and better explain aspects of how the universe was formed. Add the intangibles of near continuous American presence in space over three decades and a high-flying venue for both international diplomacy and school science lessons. Like a real life version of the television show "Star Trek," the shuttle was a United Nations in space, carrying representatives of 16 other countries. The U.S. and Russia became close partners in space and Russian rocket scientists after the breakup of the Soviet Union found new employment. NASA's current boss said all that is not something that should be ignored. The shuttle also diversified space to make it seem more like Earth, sending the first American woman, the first AfricanAmerican and teachers, lawmakers and even a former migrant farmworker into orbit. "The space shuttle program reaffirmed, once again, American dominance in space and laid the foundation for the United States to continue its long-standing leadership beyond our home planet," NASA Administrator and former shuttle commander Charles Bolden wrote in an email. "The shuttle program evolved over its lifetime and gave us many firsts and many proud national moments, along with painful lessons." Prince William and Catherine to visit Skid Row LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prince William and Catherine's visit to the U.S. will fittingly include a match of the "sport of kings" at a Santa Barbara polo ground and an evening of hobnobbing with Hollywood's version of royalty, but the couple will also make a stop in Los Angeles' most plebian neighborhood — Skid Row. Moving from the hoitytoity to the hoi polloi, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will be visiting Inner-City Arts, a nonprofit academy that has given children from poverty-stricken neighborhoods free classes in visual and performing arts since 1989. "This is what's going on outside their castle. They're going to get a taste of what life is like for us," said Jessica Cornejo, a 19-year-old member of a dance troupe that will be performing for the newlywed couple during their Sunday visit. "It's the best way to end that royal trip." Housed in a contemporary compound of bright white buildings dotting a plant-filled courtyard, the academy stands out on a street pockmarked with despair. As twilight sets in on a recent afternoon, the sidewalk fills with locals swigging beer out of paper bags and smoking marijuana cigarettes. No one pays any mind to the toothless and shoeless, mumbling to themselves or shouting to the air as they shunt shopping carts crammed with their worldly possessions. Skid Row is the nation's homeless capital with some 4,000 people crammed into a 50square block area of downtown Los Angeles. Nearly 1,000 sleep on the street every night, others seek a cot at one of five shelters in the area or reside in homeless housing. But inside Inner-City Arts, the air is filled with the energy of kids who turn the frustration of growing up poor into creative impulse for dancing, acting, music, painting, sculpting and drawing in professional caliber studios. About 90 percent of the children here are Hispanic, many from families that lack a stable home. The academy offers arts classes as part of local elementary school curriculums and afterschool activities to teens, as well as instruction to teachers. The duke and duchess will paint and work in ceramics alongside 120 grade-schoolers and then watch a dance performance by a troupe of teenagers. The 16 dancers have been frantically rehearsing in twiceweekly, six-hour sessions since the visit was announced in early June. While some were enthralled about the prospect of meeting the figures from a fairy tale, others weren't quite sure who Prince William and Catherine were when told of the impending visit. "I said 'I need to research them'," said Lorenzo Perez, 19, adding he got a lot more excited when he found out the guest is a genuine blue blood second in line to the British throne. That beats hands down a previous VIP performance for a group of congressional representatives. "We thought that was the biggest we could get," he said. "I never pictured that I'd be performing for the royal couple." The troupe will perform two pieces. One is a dynamic seven-minute medley of various musical genres, including hiphop, pop and merengue, while the other is a more somber piece that incorporates a video of images of poverty around the world. The first was selected to highlight their own urban youth culture and the second to point to global issues. "We're close to Skid Row," said dancer Iliana Samaniego, 15. "Maybe it can get attention to that." Inner-City Arts combines two of Prince William's causes — the arts and homeless prevention — in a trip that focuses on his charity causes. "I know he wanted to use this trip to the benefit of everything he does," said Nigel Lythgoe, chairman of the Los Angeles chapter of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, which is hosting the Saturday evening gala for the royals. The prince is the president of the academy and the event will promote young British film industry talent to Hollywood elite. The Santa Barbara polo match and dinner — at $4,000 a plate — is expected to raise $4.4 million for the prince's foundation that benefits a number of charities. The prince and his brother Harry often play in polo matches at home as fundraisers. Early Sunday, Prince William and Catherine will attend a private breakfast with American patrons of Tusk Trust, an African conservation charity. Administrators at Inner-City Arts, which has worked closely with the British Consulate- General in Los Angeles in the past, hope the visit will raise awareness of the importance of arts in children's lives and how Inner-City Arts benefits underprivileged youngsters who otherwise rarely get a chance at creative expression. "It puts Inner-City Arts in a different category of visibility," said Beth Tischler, Inner-City Arts' director of education. The trip's emphasis on charity reflects the fundamental role of the modern British monarchy, especially that of the "satellite royals," the relatives who surround Queen Elizabeth II, said Philippa Levine, codirector of the British studies program at the University of Texas at Austin. A stop in a place like Skid Row is not out of the ordinary these days as modern royals have aimed to reach out to commoners since World War II when the Queen Mother, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, sought to rally Britons' spirits through years of bombing raids and rationing. That tradition was enlarged upon by Princess Diana, William's mother, making her a revered personality the world over. "It's a very, very long history with the British monarchy, and it's at every level — the rich stuff at $4,000 a plate, and at the most basic level," Levine said. Skid Row residents seemed largely oblivious to the royal visit, but they didn't think it would do much for the neighborhood as the couple's visit focused on InnerCity Arts. "It's good for the kids," shrugged Michael Nicholson, 58, who was sitting in a wheelchair on a street corner a couple blocks from the academy. "But I don't think it will do anything for Skid Row." At the academy, the dancers were gleaming with sweat as instructor Marissa Herrera put them through their paces during rehearsal. She said she hoped to impress the royals with how empowering the arts can be to disadvantaged youth. "These youth really have hope for the future," she said. Jeff Warner Agent Jeff Warner Agency Nationwide Insurance On Your Side® 113 West 2nd. Street Pomeroy, OH 45769 Tel 740-992-5479 Fax 740-992-6911 warnerj1@nationwide.com Excavation work includes: Driveways, Land Clearing, Ponds, Trenching, Reclamation, & Much More! Call today for a FREE ESTIMATE 1-740-949-0405 Manuel - 740-590-3700 Danny - 740-590-9255 Mike - 740-590-3701 �The Daily Sentinel BY THE BEND Community Calendar Public meetings Wednesday, July 6 WELLSTON – GJMV Solid Waste Management District Policy Committee will meet 2 p.m. at the district office, 1056 S. New Hampshire Avenue, Wellston. POMEROY — Meigs County Board of Health, regular meeting, 5 p.m., health department. PAGEVILLE – Scipio Township Trustees, 6:30 p.m. adt the Pageville Town Hall. Thursday, July 7 POMEROY – Special meeting of the Meigs Local Board of Education, 7 p.m. in the administrative office for the purpose of handling personnel matters. Community meetings Thursday, July 7 SYRACUSE– The Wildwood Garden Club, 6:30 p.m. at the Syracuse Community Center. Program on calla lilies by Barbara Koker. TUPPERS PLAINS — Tuppers Plains VFW 9053 Ladies Auxiliary, regular meeting, 7 p.m., the hall. Saturday July 9 SALEM CENTER – Star Grange #778 and Page A3 Star Junior Grange #878, potluck at 6:30 p.m. followed by meeting at 7:30 p.m. All members are urged to attend. HARRISONVILLE – Harrisonville Masonic Lodge, special meeting with work in the fellowcraft degree. Monday, July 11 POMEROY — Meigs County Cancer Initiative, regular meeting, noon, Meigs County Health Department. Community Events Thursday, July 7 CHESTER – Chester Shade Historical Association will meet 7 p.m. at the Chester Courthouse. Reunions Saturday, July 9 RACINE – The 33rd annual reunion of the Charles and Fannie Beaver family will be held at noon at the Star Mill Park in Racine. Friends and relatives invited. Take covered dish. Sunday, July 10 RACINE — Theiss family reunion, 1 p.m., Star Mill Park, potluck. Sunday, July 17 CHESTER – The annual Singer reunion will be held at the Masonic hall Chester. Potluck at noon. Friends and relatives welcome. Stories at the River’s Edge begin Thursday Church Events Friday, July 8 LONG BOTTOM – Faith Full Gospel Church, Long Bottom, benefit gospel sing for the Fall Harvest Gospel Sing, 7 p.m. Features singers, Open Rail, Jerry and Diana Frederick, and Bryan and Family Connections. Saturday, July 9 MIDDLEPORT – Benefit gospel sing for Fall Harvest Gospel Sing, 6 ip.m. at the Old Bethal Freewill Baptist Church, Route 7, Middlepoort. Featured singers, Rick Towe, John and Velma Dolly, Brian and Family Connections, and Jerry and Diana Frederick. Monday, July 11 REEDSVILLE – A community Bible school will be held at the Reedsville United Methodist Church, July 11-15, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Birthdays Friday, July 8 RUTLAND – Clyde Davis of Rutland will observe his 92nd birthday on Friday, July 8. Cards may be sent to him at Box 89, Rutland. Ohio 45775. Wednesday, July 6, 2011 POMEROY – Storyteller Susanna “Granny Sue” Holstein will be at the Pomeroy Library at 10 a.m. Thursday for a Stories at the River’s Edge program, a part of free summer activities sponsored by the Ohio Arts Council and the West Virginia Commission on the Arts. Following her program in Pomeroy, Holstein who develops her stories from folklore, history and personal experience, will go to Ripley, W. Va. for a program at 11 a.m. following by one at 1:30 p.m. at Ravenswood, W. Va. The storytelling programs begin today (July 6) with Donna Wilson and Bizzie Vunderink telling stories at Mason, W. Va. at 11 a.m. and at Gallipolis at 1:30 p.m. Programs will continue weekly into the first week of August, and then be followed by one at Halloween and another at Christmas. The last two have not yet been scheduled as to time and location. Airshow at Vinton County Airport McARTHUR – Members of the Vinton County Pilots and Boosters Association will sponsor a two-day event at the Vinton County Airport Saturday and Sunday. The Annual RC (radio controlled) Airshow will be held Saturday after participants arrive Friday evening to practice their shows. Most of the flying for the public will be held Saturday with some special flying being done Sunday morning and early afternoon. Sunday, garden tractor pulls will begin at noon with weigh-ins beginning at 11 a.m. There will also be a car show in the afternoon. Airplane rides for those who want to see a large section of Vinton County from the air will be offered. The Vinton County Airport is located about six miles north of McArthur just off St. Rt. 93 on Airport Road. For more information, call Booster President Nick Rupert at 740-357-0268 or Secretary Steve Keller at 740-418-2612, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Meigs students on Shawnee deanʼs list PORTSMOUTH – William Owen of Pomeroy, a sport studies student, and Megan Smith of Middleport, a mathematical sciences major, Pomeroy, have been named to the Dean’s List for the spring semester at Shawnee State University. To be named on the list, students must be full time and achieve a grade point average of 3.5 or better. Casey Anthony acquitted of killing young daughter ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Casey Anthony was found not guilty Tuesday of killing her 2-year-old daughter three years ago in a case that captivated the nation as it played out on national television from the moment the toddler was reported missing. Anthony wept after the clerk read the verdict, which jurors reached after less than 11 hours of deliberation over two days. The 25year-old was charged with first-degree murder, which could have brought the death penalty if she had been convicted. Instead, she was con- victed of only four counts of lying to investigators looking into the June 2008 disappearance of her daughter Caylee. Her body was found in the woods six months later and a medical examiner was never able to determine how she died. Anthony will be sentenced by the judge on Thursday and could receive up to a year in jail for each lying count. Since she has been in jail since August 2008, she could walk free then. After the verdict was read, Casey Anthony hugged her attorney Jose Baez and later mouthed the words "thank you" to him. Prosecutors sat solemnly in their seats, looking stunned. Prosecutor Jeff Ashton shook his head slightly from side to side in apparent disbelief. Across the room, Anthony's father wiped tears from his eyes. Without speaking to Casey, he and his wife left the courtroom escorted by police as the judge thanked the jury. "While we're happy for Casey, there are no winners in this case," Baez said at a news conference afterward. "Caylee has passed on far, far too soon. And what my driving force has been for the last three years has been always to make sure that there has been justice for Caylee and Casey, because Casey did not murder Caylee. It's that simple." "This case has brought on new challenges of all of us.Challenges in the criminal justice system, challenges in the media, and I think we should all take this as an opportunity to learn and to realize that you cannot convict someone until they've had their day in court." State Attorney Lamar Lawson thanked the prosecutors from his office who tried the case, and he said the case was never about the defendant. "It has always been about seeking justice for Caylee and speaking on her behalf," he told reporters. Jurors told the court that they didn't want to talk to the media at the courthouse. Anthony's attorneys claimed that the toddler drowned accidentally in the family swimming pool, and that her seemingly carefree mother in fact was hiding emotional distress caused by sexual abuse from her father. Prosecutors contended that Caylee was suffocated with duct tape by a mother who loved to party, tattooed herself with the Italian words for "beautiful life" in the month her daughter was missing and crafted elaborate lies to mislead everyone from investigators to her own parents. Captivated observers camped outside the courthouse to jockey for coveted seats in the courtroom gallery, which occasionally led to fights among those desperate to watch the drama unfold. Prior to the verdict on Tuesday, the judge said: "To those in the gallery please do not express any signs of approval or disapproval upon the reading of the verdict." In Mexico, US shipmates await word of seven missing SAN FELIPE, Mexico (AP) — They are fathers, fiances and experienced fishermen. The seven U.S. tourists still missing two days after their boat capsized off Mexico's coast went to sea as they had for several years on the U.S. Independence Day holiday: They wanted to fish and have a good time. At least one American tourist, besides the seven missing, has been confirmed dead and identified by Mexican officials as Leslie Yee of Ceres, California. On Tuesday, the shipmates who survived the wreck anxiously awaited word as the Mexican navy and the U.S. Coast Guard expanded their search in the Gulf of California, holding out hope that the missing were able to survive in the gulf's balmy waters. Mexican navy Capt. Ruben Bustos said they are increasing resources and moving their search area south of Gonzaga bay, a coastal town south of the port of San Felipe where efforts concentrated Monday. Rescue teams are also coordinating efforts with officials across the gulf in the northern state of Sonora because shipwreck survivors in the region sometimes are swept far away by fast tides. "Every hour he's still missing, hope gets hit with reality," said Gary Wong, whose younger brother, Brian, 54, of Berkeley, is among the missing tourists. A local TV station in California erroneously reported that Brian Wong, who works in personnel for Alameda County and has two grown daughters, was among the dead, leaving the family to calm his frantic wife. A sudden storm struck early Sunday, capsizing the 115-foot (35-meter) vessel, the Erik. The crew and the fishermen clung to coolers, rescue rings and life vests for more than 16 hours. The navy and other fishing boats plucked 19 fishermen and all 16 crew members from the water late Sunday. The vessel sank about 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of San Felipe. Sunday was the second day of a weeklong fishing trip the group had organized for several years each Independence Day holiday. They had planned to fish for yellowtail. Gary Wong was celebrating his first day of retirement on the trip with three brothers. He said his brothers, including Craig and Glen, took the trip twice before. Wong thought he was going to die as the storm tossed the boat. "I thought, 'Oh my God, my first day of retirement and I go down on a boat," he said. "All that work for what? To be six feet under." Wong, who was trained as a first responder in his job with the East Bay Municipal Water District, has become the spokesman for the families seeking information about their loved ones. He has been able to bring good news to some families, telling them that the reason they couldn't reach a fisherman was only because he was asleep in his hotel room. Don Lee, an experienced fisherman who is also missing, brought all 27 together, Wong said. "He does everything, he makes everything happen," he said. "He always says 'Don't worry, don't worry, I have everything in hand.' " Mark Dorland, 62, was reportedly one of the first to go overboard and didn't have a life vest. He is set to get married in a month. Russell Bautista, 60, of Penngrove, Calif., is also missing. The retired Pacific Bell worker and avid fisherman who often took others fishing or crabbing. "He's taught a lot of people to fish," wife Joelle Bautista said. "Our son went out with him a lot." The search was expanded to a wider area and continued with helicopters and aircraft. Divers also prepared to search the wreckage, which is in water more than 200 feet (65 meters) deep, but officials have not confirmed when. The U.S. Coast Guard sent a C-130 aircraft that can stay in the air longer and search farther than the helicopter it used Monday, said Petty Officer Levi Read. Three helicopters from Mexico's navy, the state of Baja California and the city of Mexicali were also searching, said Baja California state Civil Protection Director Alfredo Escobedo Ortiz. Please!! Do Yourself A Favor CHECK OUR BUYING PRICES FOR GOLD AND SILVER BEFORE YOU SELL TO ANYONE We Pay Cash! 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His was among the most confident voices telling Obama that bin Laden was probably behind those walls. The CIA will not permit him to speak with reporters. But interviews with former and current U.S. intelligence officials reveal a story of quiet persistence and continuity that led to the greatest counterterrorism success in the history of the CIA. Nearly all the officials insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters or because they did not want their names linked to the bin Laden operation. The Associated Press has agreed to the CIA's request not to publish his full name and withhold certain biographical details so that he would not become a target for retribution. Call him John, his middle name. John was among the hundreds of people who poured into the CIA's Counterterrorism Center after the Sept. 11 attacks, bringing fresh eyes and energy to the fight. He had been a standout in the agency's Russian and Balkan departments. When Vladimir Putin was coming to power in Russia, for instance, John pulled together details overlooked by others and wrote what some colleagues considered the definitive profile of Putin. He challenged some of the agency's conventional wisdom about Putin's KGB background and painted a much fuller portrait of the man who would come to dominate Russian politics. That ability to spot the importance of seemingly insignificant details, to weave disparate strands of information into a meaningful story, gave him a particular knack for hunting terrorists. "He could always give you the broader implications of all these details we were amassing," said John McLaughlin, who as CIA deputy director was briefed regularly by John in the mornings after the 2001 attacks. From 2003, when he joined the counterterrorism center, through 2005, John was one of the driving forces behind the most successful string of counterterrorism captures in the fight against terrorism: Abu Zubaydah, Abd alNashiri, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Ramzi bin Alshib, Hambali and Faraj alLibi. But there was no greater prize than finding bin Laden. Bin Laden had slipped away from U.S. forces in the Afghan mountains of Tora Bora in 2001, and the CIA believed he had taken shelter in the lawless tribal areas of Pakistan. In 2006, the agency mounted Operation Cannonball, an effort to establish bases in the tribal regions and find bin Laden. Even with all its money and resources, the CIA could not locate its prime target. By then, the agency was on its third director since Sept. 11, 2001. John had outlasted many of his direct supervisors who retired or went on to other jobs. The CIA doesn't like to keep its people in one spot for too long. They become jaded. They start missing things. John didn't want to leave. He'd always been persistent. In college, he walked on to a Division I basketball team and hustled his way into a rotation full of scholarship players. The CIA offered to promote him and move him somewhere else. John wanted to keep the bin Laden file. 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. Postmaster: Send address corrections to The Daily Sentinel, P.O. Box 729, Pomeroy, Ohio 45769. Our main number is (740) 992-2156. 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The CIA had a list of potential leads, associates and family members who might have access to bin Laden. "Just keep working that list bit by bit," one senior intelligence official recalls John telling his team. "He's there somewhere. We'll get there." John rose through the ranks of the counterterrorism center, but because of his nearly unrivaled experience, he always had influence beyond his title. One former boss confessed that he didn't know exactly what John's position was. "I knew he was the guy in the room I always listened to," the official said. While he was shepherding the hunt for bin Laden, John also was pushing to expand the Predator program, the agency's use of unmanned airplanes to launch missiles at terrorists. The CIA largely confined those strikes to targets along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. But in late 2007 and early 2008, John said the CIA needed to carry out those attacks deeper inside Pakistan. It was a risky move. Pakistan was an important but shaky ally. John's analysts saw an increase in the number of Westerners training in Pakistani terrorist camps. John worried that those men would soon start showing up on U.S. soil. "We've got to act," John said, a former senior intelligence official recalls. "There's no explaining inaction." John took the analysis to then CIA Director Michael Hayden, who agreed and took the recommendation to President George W. Bush. In the last months of the Bush administration, the CIA began striking deeper inside Pakistan. Obama immediately adopted the same strategy and stepped up the pace. Recent attacks have killed alQaida's No. 3 official, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, and Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. All the while, John's team was working the list of bin Laden leads. In 2007, a female colleague whom the AP has also agreed not to identify decided to zero in on a man known as Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, a nom de guerre. Other terrorists had identified al-Kuwaiti as an important courier for al-Qaida's upper echelon, and she believed that finding him might help lead to bin Laden. "They had their teeth clenched on this and they weren't going to let go," McLaughlin said of John and his team. "This was an obsession." It took three years, but in August 2010, al-Kuwaiti turned up on a National Security Agency wiretap. The female analyst, who had studied journalism at a Big Ten university, tapped out a memo for John, "Closing in on Bin Laden Courier," saying her team believed alKuwaiti was somewhere on the outskirts of Islamabad. As the CIA homed in on al-Kuwaiti, John's team continually updated the memo with fresh information. Everyone knew that anything with bin Laden's name on it would shoot right to the director's desk and invite scrutiny, so the early drafts played down hopes that the courier would lead to bin Laden. But John saw the bigger picture. The hunt for alKuwaiti was effectively the hunt for bin Laden, and he was not afraid to say so. The revised memo was finished in September 2010. John, by then deputy chief of the Pakistan-Afghanistan Department, emailed it to those who needed to know. The title was "Anatomy of a Lead." As expected, the memo immediately became a hot topic inside CIA headquarters and Director Leon Panetta wanted to know more. John never overpromised, colleagues recall, but he was unafraid to say there was a good chance this might be the break the agency was looking for. The CIA tracked alKuwaiti to a walled compound in Abbottabad. If bin Laden was hiding there, in a 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 busy suburb not far from Pakistan's military academy, it challenged much of what the agency had assumed about his hideout. But John said it wasn't that far-fetched. Drawing on what he knew about bin Laden's earlier hideouts, he said it made sense that bin Laden had surrounded himself only with his couriers and family and did not use phones or the Internet. The CIA knew that top al-Qaida operatives had lived in urban areas before. A cautious Panetta took the information to Obama, but there was much more work to be done. The government tried everything to figure out who was in that compound. In a small house nearby, the CIA put people who would fit in and not draw any attention. They watched and waited but turned up nothing definitive. Satellites captured images of a tall man walking the grounds of the compound, but never got a look at his face. Again and again, John and his team asked themselves who else might be living in that compound. They came up with five or six alternatives; bin Laden was always the best explanation. This went on for months. By about February, John told his bosses, including Panetta, that the CIA could keep trying, but the information was unlikely to get any better. He told Panetta this might be their best chance to find bin Laden and it would not last forever. Panetta made that same point to the president Panetta held regular meetings on the hunt, often concluding with an around-thetable poll: How sure are you that this is bin Laden? John was always bullish, rating his confidence as high as 80 percent. Others weren't so sure, especially those who had been in the room for operations that went bad. Not two years earlier, the CIA thought it had an informant who could lead him to bin Laden's deputy. That man blew himself up at a base in Khost, Afghanistan, killing seven CIA employees and injuring six others. That didn't come up in the meetings with Panetta, a senior intelligence official said. But everyone knew the risk the CIA was taking if it told the president that bin Laden was in Abbottabad and was wrong. "We all knew that if he wasn't there and this was a disaster, certainly there would be consequences," the official recalled. John was among several CIA officials who repeatedly briefed Obama and others at the White House. Current and former officials involved in the discussions said John had a coolness and a reassuring confidence. By April, the president had decided to send the Navy SEALs to assault the compound. Though the plan was in motion, John went back to his team, a senior intelligence official said. "Right up to the last hour," he told them, "if we get any piece of information that suggests it's not him, somebody has to raise their hand before we risk American lives." Nobody did. Inside the Situation Room, the analyst who was barely known outside the close-knit intelligence world took his place alongside the nation's top security officials, the household names and well-known faces of Washington. An agonizing 40 minutes after Navy SEALs stormed the compound, the report came back: Bin Laden was dead. John and his team had guessed correctly, taking an intellectual risk based on incomplete information. It was a gamble that ended a decade of disappointment. Later, Champagne was uncorked back at the CIA, where those in the Counterterrorism Center who had targeted bin Laden for so long celebrated. John's team reveled in the moment. Two days after bin Laden's death, John accompanied Panetta to Capitol Hill. The Senate Intelligence Committee wanted a full briefing on the successful mission. At one point in the private session, Panetta turned to the man whose counterterrorism resume spanned four CIA directors. 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James Edward Morrow, 66, of Point Pleasant, W.Va., died July 4, 2011, at Cabell-Huntington Hospital, Huntington, W.Va. Funeral will be a 11 a.m. Thursday, July 7, 2011, at Sacred Heart Church, Pomeroy, with burial to follow at Sacred Heart Cemetery. A vigil will be conducted at 8:45 p.m. on Wednesday at the Wilcoxen Funeral Home, Point Pleasant, W.Va., where friends may call from 6-9 p.m. Wednesday and 9-10 a.m. Thursday. Condolences to www.wilocoxenfuneralhome.com. Votes From Page A1 benefit and salary agreement for the exempt staff as with SLEA excluding the superintendent, treasurer and building principals was unanimously approved. The Board also approved the superintendent, treasurer and building principals receive the $1,200 one time payments in August 2011 and September 2012 in exchange for paying 10 percent of insurance premiums and going to the same medial plan design as SLEA. A one-time, two percent performance bonus for the two building principals, the superintendent and treasurer, for the 2010-11 school year, was also approved. Also hired: Kyle Wickline, middle school social studies; Samantha Barr, fourth grade; Lisa Schenkelberg, MH intervention specialist; Dawn Hill, long term substitute for first grade. A $1,300 Race to the Top (federal grant) stipend was approved for Beth Bay. Jody Norris was approved for a $1,200 stipend for mentoring Samantha Barr during the 2010-11 school year. Brent Smith and Jon Sargent were approved as teachers to instruct summer OGT and administer the OGT test for 12 hours at $23 per hour. Approved returning the advance from School Counseling Grant to the general fund in the amount of $8,474.49. Approved entering into a contract with the Jefferson County ESC Virtual Learning Academy for the period of July 1-June 30, 2012. The fees are as follows: District data base setup, $1,000, student license fee, $150 per student, teacher cost, $250 per full course. Approved entering into a membership agreement with ETSEO at a reduced amount of $100 per building for the 2011-12 school year. Approved a contract with Study Island in the amount of $10,656 for the 2011-12 school year. Approved a service agreement with Advanced Communication in the amount of $2,839 for the period June 30-June 30, 2012 for the district’s telephone equipment. Approved a payment of $1,815 to CompManagment, Inc. for group rating enrollment services Jan. 1, 2012 Dec. 31, 2012. SLBOE members present were for the meeting were Denny Evans, Dennie Hill, Paul Harris, John Hoback, Peggy Gibbs. The next meeting is set for 8 p.m., July 25 in the high school media room. www.mydailysentinel.com Fatal ATV accident update released STAFF REPORT BIDWELL — Troopers with the Gallipolis Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol are continuing to investigate a fatal ATV accident that occurred on Saturday in Cheshire Township. The crash occurred at approximately 9:35 a.m. on July 2 on Van Zant Road near Ohio 554. According to a press release issued by the highway patrol, Charles R. Stewart, 14, Bidwell, was opearting a 2011 Honda all terain vehicle and traveling northbound on Van Zant Road when he struck a 2007 Dodge truck owned by American Electric Power and being operated by Bryant Douglas, 30, Gallipolis. Bryant was traveling southbound when Stewart drove left-of-center and struck the truck being operated by Douglas. The all terrain vehicle was overturned and Stewart was ejected. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Douglas was not injured in the accident. According to the press release, Stewart’s vehicle sustained heavy, disabling damage, while Douglas’ vehicle sustained moderate, functional damage. Stewart was transported to Willis Funeral Home in Gallipolis. The crash remains under investigation. Gallia County Snack Pack program receives donations from local organizations, businesses Pictured, left to right, in honor of the Lions Clubʼs $1,800 donation to the Snack Pack organization are Tim Scites, president of the Lions Club, Greg Shrader, Lions Club member; Nancy Smith, Snack Pack Chairman; Doug Norris, Snack Pack; Carol Norris, Snack Pack; Marleen Hoffman, Snack Pack. Tim Scitesʼ insurance company, Scites Insurance Agency, also donated $500. From Page A1 Flood surge raises fears of Montana oil spill spread LAUREL, Mont. (AP) — Crews cleaning up an oil spill on the Yellowstone River faced difficult conditions Tuesday as the scenic waterway rose above flood stage and stoked fears that surging currents could push crude into undamaged areas and back channels vital to the river's prized fishery. Conditions on the swollen Yellowstone have hampered efforts to find the cause of Friday's break in the 12-inch pipeline that spilled an estimated 1,000 barrels of crude oil. The river also has been flowing too swiftly for crews to reach some oiled areas, as forecasters said mountain snowmelt was adding to the high water levels. Officials speculated that the surge may push oil into areas that haven't yet been damaged. Much of the riverbank also is covered with dense underbrush, making it difficult to walk the shoreline. Most observations have been made through aerial flights. One homeowner, Robert Castleberry, said he had been out of his house since Saturday because of dangerous fumes from oil that the river pushed across his yard and into the crawlspace beneath his house. Castleberry's wife suffers from heart disease and the fumes gave her difficulty breathing, he said. While he appreciated the company promising to cover the couple's immediate expenses, the 64-year-old retired fuel truck driver was doubtful workers would be able to clean up the black, gooey film that laced through the underbrush along the river. "Exxon's been nothing but 100 percent with us," he said. "But when you get into brush that thick, that's going to be virtually impossible to clean." Company and federal officials said they have only seen oil about 25 miles downstream from the site of the break near Laurel. But Gov. Brian Schweitzer said he believes some has traveled hundreds of miles to North Dakota. "At seven miles per hour, some oil is already in North Dakota. That's a given," Schweitzer said. "I'm asking everyone to get out there and report what you see on the river." Representatives of Exxon Mobil and the Environmental Protection Agency said they had no reports of oil beyond the town of Huntley. Company officials said they were concentrating cleanup in that area, but have acknowledged the scope of the leak could extend far beyond the 10-mile stretch that they initially said was the most affected area. Meigs County Forecast Wednesday: Patchy fog before 8 a.m. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 93. Calm wind becoming west between 4 and 7 mph. Wednesday Night: A slight chance of showers between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m., then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3 a.m. Partly cloudy, with a low around 64. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 20 percent. Thursday: A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 10 a.m. Partly sunny, with a high near 84. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Thursday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight, then a slight chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 65. Calm wind. Chance of pre- cipitation is 30 percent. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Friday: A slight chance of showers between 10 a.m. and noon, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Partly sunny, with a high near 84. Chance of precipitation is 20 percent. Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 63. Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 84. Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 65. Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 88. Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 65. Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 87. Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 64. Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 87. 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Member SIPC. GJM Board of Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services meeting change announced Paving office inside the Racine Municipal Building during regular business hours. Bids will be opened at 7 p.m., Monday, July 11. Spencer said the bids will then go through a review process and once the village receives a request to proceed from OPWC, council will make the award. He said council wishes the work to be done this year and take place possibly in August or September. Though some state routes through Racine remain to be paved, after several dry years of no funding to resurface local streets, in the last couple of years village leaders have been able to find some grant money for road maintenance, one project at a time. The Daily Sentinel • Page A5 Pictured from the Holzer Clinic Pediatric Unit are, back row, Dr. Richard Mendieta, Tracie Ward, Missy Triplett, Nina Curry; and front row, Kim Larkins; Sarah Waddell, RN Pediatrics Manager; and Nancy Smith, Snack Pack Chairman. Holzer Clinic has sponsored the Snack Pack program since 2009. GALLIPOLIS – Gallia County Snack Pack, a local organization which provides bags of food for area elementary students, is pleased to receive several donations from local organizations to assist with the 201112 school year. Most recently, the organization received a donation of $1,800 from the Gallia County Lions Club to support food distribution among the program’s seven participating schools. Also providing $500 donations recently were Tim Scites, owner of Scites Insurance, and Gallipolis Attorney Eric R. Mulford. For the past two years, the pediatric staff of Holzer Clinic has worked to raise funds to support the Snack Pack program. In September of 2009, the staff took on the responsibility of providing snack packs to the children at Washington Elementary. Not only did the employees of Pediatrics conduct fundraisers to purchase all of the food needed, but also committed time to organizing, assembling and arranging for delivery of the packs each month for the entire school year. They supplied and distributing over 1,300 bags of food during that period. During the 2010-11 school year, the Pediatrics Department continued their financial support by conducting additional fundraisers to support these children and donated $2,400. Beginning in the spring of 2009, Holzer Clinic has provided rent-free space for the Snack Pack organization, as well as free brochure printing. This assistance and support has enabled the Snack Pack organization to utilize all other donations solely for the purchase of food. The Snack Pack program targets school-age children who qualify under the federal guidelines for free or reduced lunch assistance. In April of 2011, 1,394 children of the 2,265 enrolled in elementary schools in Gallia County were eligible to receive free or reducedcost meals. The goal of the local Snack Pack organization is to supply these children with additional food for the weekend when school meals are not available. The snack pack program began at Rio Grande Elementary in January of 2008 reaching 75 children. At the end of the 2010-11 school year, over 650 bags each month were distributed throughout the seven elementary schools in Gallia County. The Gallia County Lions Club donation will help in the ongoing effort to prevent these children from experiencing weekend hunger. For more information, please contact Nancy Smith at (740) 446-3939. Donations may be sent to the Gallia County Snack Pack Organization, P.O. Box 169, Gallipolis, Ohio 45631. Snack Pack is a 501©3 tax exempt organization which allows your donations to be tax deductible. GALLIPOLIS — The July 18 meeting of the GalliaJackson-Meigs Board of Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services has been canceled. The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Board is Monday, August 15 at 7 p.m. Business and planning meetings canceled GALLIPOLIS — The Gallia County Family and Children First Council has canceled the August 5 planning meeting. The next business meeting of the Council will be on Friday, September 2 at 9 a.m. at the Gallia County Service Center, located at 499 Jackson Pike, Gallipolis. Need a ride? 60 years or older? 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Quadrangle map approximately 0.7 mile Southeast of the corporation limits of Racine, Ohio. Road permits have been obtained to conduct surface mining operations within 100 feet of the outside right-of-way line but no closer than 0 feet of the traveled portion and to construct a conveyor over Township Road 100 & within 100 feet of the outside right of way line but no closer than 100 feet of the traveled portion and to construct a conveyor over County Road 28 as described below: Located in Lots 834 & 1215, Township 2, Range 12, Sutton Township, Meigs County, Ohio. Mining within 100 feet of the outside right-of-way line but no closer than 0 feet of the traveled portion of Township Road 100: Beginning at a point in Township Road 100 (Yellowbush Road) approximately 150 feet west of the westernmost intersection of Township Road 100 and County Road 28 ( Apple GroveDorcas Road), thence from said place of beginning and following Township Road 100 in an easterly and southerly direction for approximately 600 feet to the point of terminus. Located in Lots 834 & 1215, Township 2, Range 12, Sutton Township, Meigs County, Ohio. Mining within 100 feet of the outside right-of-way line but no closer than 0 feet of the traveled portion of County Road 28. 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Love & Miss You, Buck Tillis FIND BARGAINS EVERY DAY IN THE CLASSIFIEDS WEDNESDAY TELEVISION GUIDE �Wednesday, July 6, 2011 The Daily Sentinel • Page A8 www.mydailysentinel.com Ex-Yankees’ drug use likely to come out of Clemens trial WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge who will preside over Roger Clemens’ perjury trial said Tuesday he probably will not permit the pitcher’s former teammates on the New York Yankees to give testimony aimed at bolstering the credibility of Clemens’ former trainer, now a major prosecution witness. A day before the trial’s start, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said at a hearing that statements from former Yankees Andy Pettite, Chuck Knoblauch and Mike Stanton that they received injections of performance-enhancing drugs from the trainer, Brian McNamee, could unfairly influence jurors. Clemens is charged with perjury, false statements and obstruction of Congress for telling a House committee under oath that he never used steroids or human growth hormone during his 23-season career. The record-setting pitcher who once seemed a sure bet for baseball’s Hall of Fame now could face prison if 12 jurors agree that he lied and unanimously agree to convict him. Walton also said he is inclined to prevent Clemens’ defense team from telling jurors about rape allegations against McNamee that did not result in charges. Rusty Hardin, Clemens’ lead attorney, told Walton that the alleged rape is “inextricably bound to this entire case.” Clemens was in court for the pre-trial hearing but didn’t speak. He stared ahead without taking notes like he did at previous proceedings and walked so quickly out of the courthouse, surrounded by media, that his attorney called for him to slow down. Clemens’ main defense has been to discredit his former friend McNamee. Walton said Tuesday that telling jurors about an alleged rape that did not result in charges would be “extremely prejudicial,” although he did not make a final ruling on these issues. He also warned of a possible delay in the trial concerning the inability to obtain the audio of Clemens’ deposition to House investigators in 2008. Both sides want the audio to be played in court, but the House office in charge of transcribing testimony has refused to part with the audio. However, a transcript is available. The trial of the United States vs. William R. Clemens, expected to last 4-6 weeks, will bring a parade of celebrity athletes and plenty of sordid details to the staid Washington federal courthouse. It will feature testimony about illicit drugs, bloody evidence of injections, an abscess on Clemens’ backside allegedly caused by steroid use and the allegations that his accuser is a serial liar and a rapist. Even with some former teammates’ testimony disallowed, Pettitte remains particularly important because he’s the only witness besides McNamee who says he spoke with Clemens about his drug use. For a decade, McNamee worked out intensively with Clemens and helped shape “The Rocket” into one of the most powerful pitchers in the major leagues, even into middle age. McNamee also says he injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone, and even kept the used needles that will be key scientific evidence at trial. But McNamee, a former New York City police officer, is not an ideal witness for the prosecution. He acted as a drug dealer to several major league players and acknowledges he hasn’t always told the truth when asked about Clemens’ drug use and other matters. McNamee initially denied giving Clemens drugs, he says out of loyalty to his best and longtime client, but eventually admitted to federal agents that he injected the seven-time Cy Young Award winner. Clemens’ attorneys described McNamee in a recent court filing as “the only person in the entire world who has ever alleged that he witnessed Mr. Clemens use performance enhancing drugs at any time in his storied career.” Clemens’ lawyers accuse McNamee of being a “congenital liar” who made up the allegations against their client to save himself from drug charges. The six felony counts against Clemens stem from the House Government Reform Committee’s 2008 investigation into the use of performanceenhancing drugs in baseball. Former Sen. George Mitchell had recently published a 400-page report that named Clemens and 85 other former and current major league players as users. Clemens denied the allegations and the House committee responded by opening an investigation into the dispute surrounding the Mitchell Report. Clemens appeared voluntarily before committee staff for a deposition under oath on Feb. 5, 2008, in which he flatly denied ever using anabolic steroids or human growth hormone. Eight days later at a public hearing, he continued to insist he never used performanceenhancing drugs. The indictment accuses him of making 15 separate false statements during both the deposition and hearing testimony, including denials of drug use, insistence that Pettitte must have misheard him about using drugs and denials that he attended a party at admitted steroid user Jose Canseco’s house. The six charges Clemens is accused of carry a maximum sentence of up to 30 years in prison and a $1.5 million fine. But it would be unlikely even if he were convicted that Clemens would be sentenced to nearly that long since he doesn’t have a criminal record. Cueto strong in Reds’ 1-0 loss to Cardinals ST. LOUIS (AP) — Getting deep into games is big for Johnny Cueto. The Cincinnati Reds’ pitcher says that’s all he can control. Cueto worked his third career complete game Monday, but was a 1-0 loser to the St. Louis Cardinals and Chris Carpenter on an infield hit off the end of pinch-hitter Mark Hamilton’s bat with two outs in the eighth inning. “You hate to lose a game like that on a little jam shot squibber,” Cincinnati manager Dusty Baker said. “Johnny was great.” Cueto (5-3) allowed six hits in his first appearance against the Cardinals since he spiked Chris Carpenter on the back and dealt Jason LaRue a career-ending concussion with kicks during a brawl in Cincinnati Aug. 11. Cueto and Brandon Phillips, whose bat tap to Molina’s shin guard had precipitated the benchclearing incident, were both booed at every opportunity. “How long can you hold stuff, you know what I mean?” Baker said before the game. “There’ll be some booing when they come to our place, too.” Cueto scoffed off last year’s dramatics, saying through an interpreter: “That’s normal. It happens between good teams.” Cueto is 3-2 in his last seven starts despite compiling a 1.42 ERA in that span, working at least seven innings every time. The Reds have two blown saves in that stretch. Cueto hasn’t allowed more than three runs in any of his 11 starts this season. “We’re trying to teach him to close out games and he closed it out,” Baker said. “I wasn’t going to take him out. Man, he was dealing. It was going to come down to a home run or something fluky like it did.” Jon Jay robbed Jay Bruce with a leaping catch at the right field wall to end the fourth and retreated while battling the sun for another fine grab on Edgar Renteria’s drive near the warning track with two men on in the seventh. Carpenter (4-7) has won three straight starts, digging himself out of the worst hole of his career, and is 13-4 for his overall against Cincinnati. The right-hander has permitted just two runs on 18 hits in 24 innings to lower his ERA to 3.74. Cueto had no strikeouts for only the third time in 103 career starts, two of them in St. Louis, after fanning 25 hitters his previous four outings in 28 13 innings. According to stats compiled by MLB.com, Cardinals batters swung and missed only four times. “It’s about getting late into the game, get seven, eight innings,” Cueto said. “If I look for strikeouts, then I throw more pitches and I don’t stay in the game as long.” Joey Votto had three singles and Scott Rolen singled in the first for his 2,000th hit for Cincinnati. The Reds, the highestscoring team in the National League, managed just three runners in scoring position. Colby Rasmus opened the eighth with his second hit and advanced when Molina converted a sacrifice after fouling off two attempts and then fouling off a two-strike pitch. Rasmus went to third on a flyout before Hamilton spun a grounder off the end of his bat that curled just inside the third base line. 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Youth Football Signups CENTENARY, Ohio — Gallia Academy will be holding their Fall Sports Orientation at Gallia Academy High School on July 26th at 6 p.m. The meeting will be held in the Holzer Center For Performing Arts at Gallia Academy High School. Any student, grades 7-12, planning to participate in fall sports this season must attend. This is a mandator meeting for both parents and students to review policies and procedures related to topics such as sportsmanship, health, and sports medicine issues. The Ohio High School Athletic Association requires all athletes and parents to attend in order to be eligible for fall participation in athletics. POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — The Mason County Youth Football and Cheerleading League will be holding signups every Thursday thru the month of July at Harmon Park under the picnic shelter from 5-7 p.m. Any boy or girl age 6-12 as of July 31, and from Mason or Gallia Counties will be eligible to sign-up. Any questions please contact D.J. Turner @ 304-593-9461. GAMS football helmet fitting CENTENARY, Ohio — Gallia Academy will be conducting helmet fittings for this year’s 7th and 8th grade football teams. Any one interested in particpating in 7th and 8th grade football this fall is required to attend. The helmet fittings will be held at the football locker room, above Memorial Field, on July 19th at 4 p.m. Gallipolis Softball Camp GALLIPOLIS, Ohio — The Gallipolis City Parks and Recreation will be having their annual softball camp July 18-20 at the Gallipolis Water Treatment softball fields. The camp will take place from 6-8:30 p.m. This camp is open to all Gallia County and any surrounding county girls entering grades 3 thru 9 this fall. Pre-Registation date is July 15 at the Water Treatment fields from 6-8 p.m. Campers can sign up on the evening of the first night of camp on July 18th. If there are not at least 25 campers pre-registered by July 15th the camp will be cancelled. Bring your young ladies out for 3 evenings of fun and a nice softball learning experience! Any questions or interest call: Jim Niday at 740-441-0551 or 740645-1093 or Brett Bostic at 740-4416022 or 740-339-2683 for more information Gallia Academy Football Camp GALLIPOLIS, Ohio — The Gallia Academy football staff will be conducting a youth football camp July 12-15. The camp will take place each day from 8-10 a.m. at Memorial Field. The camp is for boys entering grades 2-8 this fall. Grades 2-6 will receive offensive and defensive fundamental instruction, while grades 7 and 8 will be participating in a Wing T Camp that will be conducted by the Gallia Academy varsity coaching staff. For more information about the camp contact Joni Eddy at 304-834-2568. Eastern Fall Sports Signups TUPPERS PLAINS, Ohio — All athletes who are planning to play a fall sport — football, volleyball, cross country, golf or cheerleading — should signup and fill out informational packets in the Eastern High School office. Office hours are 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday-Friday. The office will be closed the week of July 4. 4th Annual Southern Basketball Golf Scramble MASON, W.Va. — The Southern Basketball team will holds its 4th annual golf scramble on Saturday, July 9, at Riverside Golf Course in Mason, W.Va. Play will begin at 8:30 a.m. A four person team should have a handicap of no less than 40, with no more than one player under an eight handicap. Prizes will be awarded to the top three teams, as well as for the longest drive, closest to the pin and longest putt. To register or for more information contact Jeff Caldwell at 740-949-3129. BBYFL Signups The Big Bend Youth Football League will hold its annual signups every Saturday in July from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for all youth interested in participating in football or cheerleading. Ages range from third grade to sixth grade. Signups will be held at the Veterans Memorial Stadium in Middleport, Ohio. For questions call Sarah at 740698-4054, Regina at 740-698-2804, Randy at 740-591-4203, Jim at 304674-3825, Bill at 740-416-8712 or Tony at 740-992-4067. URG women’s basketball camp RIO GRANDE, Ohio — The University of Rio Grande women’s basketball team will be hosting an overnight girls basketball camp on the dates of July 10-13. The camp is for girls ranging from grades 4-12 and will be separated up into divisions. Commuter and overnight fees apply for the camp. Stop by the Lyne Center to pick up an application form or simply call coach David Smalley at 740-2547491 or email at d.smalley@rio.edu. Kiwanis Junior Golf at Cliffside GALLIPOLIS, Ohio — The Cliffside Golf Club will be hosting the third annual Kiwanis Juniors at Cliffside Golf Tournament for junior golfers on Thursday, July 14. Play will begin at 1 p.m., with registration starting at noon. To enter or for more information contact the Cliffside Clubhouse at 740446-4653 or Ed Caudill at 740-2455919 or 740-645-4381. Mason County Soccer League Signups POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — The MCSL fall registration signups are Tuesday, July 12, Monday, July 18, and Thursday, July 21 from 5:30-7 p.m. each day at the Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church on the corner of 8th and Main Streets. For questions call Brandy 304-593-6055 or the Mason County Soccer League fb page. Meigs LEF hosting little league tourney ROCKSPRINGS, Ohio — The Meigs Local Enrichment Foundation is hosting the Meigs Dreams’ Park double elimination little league tournament on July 15, 16 and 17. The games will be played on the Salisbury Elementary Field and the new turf field on the enrichment property that adjoins Salisbury. The tournament will be double elimination for 11 and 12 year olds and is open to any teams, including All Star teams. An entry fee is required along with two diamond little league baseballs, and each team will be guaranteed two games. There will also be door prizes and a home run derby. For more information contact Mike Bartrum at 740-416-5443, all proceeds will benefit the Meigs Local Enrichment Foundation. Church Softball League POMEROY, Ohio — Any church interested in pllaying in the co-ed fall softball league, which will begin August 6, should contact Mike Stewart at 992-7196 or Bryan and Melissa Colwell at 992-0565 or 416-5663. AP Sports Briefs CINCY QB ANDERSON REUNITED WITH QUINN IN BUFFALO BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Cincinnati quarterback Chazz Anderson is transferring to play his final year at the University at Buffalo, where he’ll be reunited with coach Jeff Quinn. Anderson has one year of eligibility left and will be allowed to step in immediately this season after graduating from Cincinnati in May. That’s big news for Quinn, who is seeking an experienced quarterback to run his spread offense entering his second season in Buffalo. Quinn coached Anderson from 2007- 09, when he served as the Bearcats offensive coordinator. Anderson has served mostly as a backup to Tony Pike and Zach Collaros in three seasons at Cincinnati. His best season came in 2008, when he went 46 of 75 for 520 yards in two victories, helping the Bearcats win the Big East title. JACKETS SIGN JOHNSON, METHOT COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Columbus Blue Jackets have agreed to terms on a four-year contract with defenseman Marc Methot. The Blue Jackets have also signed defenseman Aaron Johnson to a one-year contract. The Daily Sentinel • Page A9 Woods to skip British Open as leg recovers JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Those “minor” injuries to his left leg now have kept Tiger Woods from playing in two majors. In an announcement on his website Tuesday that came as no surprise, Woods said he would not play the British Open next week because his injuries have not fully healed. “Unfortunately, I’ve been advised that I should not play in the British Open,” Woods said. “As I stated at the AT&T National, I am only going to come back when I’m 100 percent ready. I do not want to risk further injury. That’s different for me, but I’m being smarter this time. “I’m very disappointed and want to express my regrets to the British Open fans.” It will be the second time in the last four years that Woods has missed two majors in one season. He did not play the British Open and PGA Championship in 2008 while recovering from reconstructive surgery on his left knee. These injuries are not as easy to describe. Woods said in May that he suffered “minor injuries” to knee ligaments and his Achilles while hitting from an awkward stance in the pine straw on the 17th hole in the third round at the Masters. He skipped the Wells Fargo Championship, and withdrew after nine holes from The Players Championship a week later because of injury. Woods said last week it was a mistake to go to The Players, and that if he had waited, he would be playing golf right now. “In hindsight, I probably shouldn’t have competed at The Players, but it’s a big event, and I wanted to be there to support the tour,” he said. “I’ve got to learn from what I did there and do it right this time and not come back until I’m ready.” Woods was replaced AP photo In this March 14, 2011, file photo, Adam Scott, left, of Australia, and Tiger Woods, center, with caddie Steve Williams wait to take their tee off on the third hole during the first day of the Tavistock Cup golf tournament in Windermere, Fla. at Royal St. George’s by Jason Dufner, who said on Twitter, “Looks like I am getting in the open championship, I am excited!” Brendan Jones was the next alternate, but the Australian told the Royal & Ancient he would not be able to play because his wife is expecting their first child. Woods called R&A chief executive Peter Dawson to tell him he would not be playing. “I know how disappointed Tiger is not to be able to play in the Open this year,” Dawson said. “Naturally, we are sorry that a player of his caliber isn’t able to join us at Royal St. George’s, but we wish him well in his recovery and hope to see him back soon, competing in front of the fans that love to see him play the game.” Woods tied for fourth in the 2003 British Open at Royal St. George’s, where he started with a two-shot penalty when he couldn’t find his opening tee shot in the rough. He wound up two shots behind Ben Curtis. He did not say whether he expected to play in the final major, the PGA Championship, which starts Aug. 11 at the Atlanta Athletic Club. As Woods mentioned last week at Aronimink, he doesn’t have any idea when he will next compete. He said he has not hit golf balls since May 12 at the TPC Sawgrass. Woods indicated last week that his chances of playing the British Open were remote. “I wouldn’t go over there just to show up,” he said. “I’d go over there to win the golf tournament, so I need to obviously get my body ready so I can practice and eventually play.” Woods has slipped to No. 17 in the world, and is likely to be out of the top 20 after the British Open. He also is No. 116 in the FedEx Cup standings on the PGA Tour, and only the top 125 qualify for the playoffs. If he doesn’t return for the PGA Championship, he wouldn’t be eligible for any PGA Tour events until October. Asked last week if he would be surprised he didn’t play another tournament the rest of the year, Woods said, “I’d be very surprised, because I’m progressing.” But he’s not making enough progress to play in the tournaments that mean the most to him. Woods remains on 14 career majors, four short of matching the record set by Jack Nicklaus. Record-tying 10 Americans in Tour de France REDON, France (AP) — A record-tying 10 U.S. cyclists spent the Fourth of July on the roads of the Tour de France. American fans had even more to celebrate Monday when Tyler Farrar raced to his first individual Tour stage victory, becoming the first U.S. rider to win a stage on July 4. “I certainly would have taken it on any day,” said Farrar, a sprint specialist from Wenatchee, Wash., who rides for GarminCervelo. “But as an American, winning on the Fourth of July, it’s the icing on the cake. ... Lucky me.” Levi Leipheimer was the last American to win a Tour de France stage, taking an individual time trial in 2007. Veterans such as BMC’s George Hincapie and RadioShack’s Chris Horner were among the U.S. riders taking stock of the bumper crop from America this year — and looking to some promising young compatriots. This year’s Tour marks the 30th anniversary since Jonathan Boyer became the first American ‘Giant of the Roads”, and it has been 25 years since Greg Lemond became the first American to win cycling’s greatest race. Also in 1986, a total of ten American cyclists competed on two teams. This year, just as many riders are competing — but this time there are four U.S. teams: RadioShack, BMC, Garmin-Cervelo and HTC-Highroad. HTC-Highroad’s Tejay van Garderen, at 22, wasn’t even born when Lemond & Co. jumpstarted Americans’ interest in the Tour, which got a huge boost by the record run of seven Tour victories by Lance Armstrong. “He paved the way for us, and we just have to keep it up,” Brent Bookwalter, a 27-yearold BMC rider, said about Armstrong. “Last year was my first Tour, and I was overwhelmed by the support” from American fans. You know this event kind of transcends cycling to the sporting world in general. It means a lot to be an American here.” This year, there is no dominant American like Armstrong. RadioShack riders Horner and Leipheimer have ambitions for a top-10 finish — but that could change if they need to serve a teammate with the best chance for a podium fin- ish when the race ends July 24 on Paris’ Champs-Elysees. Longtime Armstrong lieutenant Hincapie, competing in his 16th Tour, noted that he hasn’t been home for July 4 in a long time — but said he feels the sport’s growing recognition in America. “Ten Americans at the Tour de France just shows you how much the sport has grown in the U.S.,” he said. “You know people are really starting to realize what a grueling sport this is, and starting to respect it.” Christian Vande Velde said the main goal of his Garmin-Cervelo team Monday was a stage win by Farrar — one of the world’s best sprinters — on the flat 123-mile trek from Olonne-sur-Mer to Redon in Brittany. Garmin-Cervelo also was going to be riding up front to help protect Norway’s Thor Hushovd, who took the yellow jersey after the U.S. squad won the team time trial Sunday, the Chicago native added. “It’s cool that we’re going be an American team on the front,” Vande Velde said at the starting line. “But if Tyler could win today, that would be awesome.” Consider it done. �The Daily Sentinel SPORTS Page A10 Wednesday, July 6, 2011 Retired NFL players file class-action complaint MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — While NFL owners and players appear to be inching toward a resolution of the league’s long lockout, a group of retired players is clamoring to be more involved in the discussions. The group filed a classaction complaint against the owners and current players in federal court Monday, saying they have been excluded from the mediation sessions taking place in an attempt to end the lockout. Named plaintiffs including Hall of Famers Carl Eller, Franco Harris, Marcus Allen and Paul Krause are asking U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson to put a halt to the mediation she ordered and declare that the current players cannot negotiate on behalf of those who are retired. Owners and current players have met five times over the last few weeks as they work to put together a new collective bargaining agreement in time to avoid the loss of training camps and games. They met with U.S. Magistrate Judge Arthur J. Boylan in Minneapolis last week, including for more than 15 hours on Thursday, and will resume meetings on Tuesday in New York. The retired players say that NFL owners, the NFL Players’ Association and a group of current players including star quarterbacks Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Drew Brees are “conspiring to depress the amounts of pension and disability benefits to be paid to former NFL players in order to maximize the salaries and benefits to current NFL players.” The NFL declined comment on the complaint, which was first reported by the New York Times. The Associated Press left a message for an NFLPA spokesman seeking comment. The complaint gets to the heart of an issue that has been building for quite some time. Retired players have felt marginalized in the dispute over how to divide more than $9 billion in revenue. After the owners locked out the players in March, the NFLPA disbanded and a group of them sued the league for antitrust violations. A small group of retired players, including Eller, Obafemi Ayanbadejo and Ryan Collins, filed their own lawsuit against the league seeking more help for medical treatments of former players and better pensions. Nelson combined the two lawsuits, and several representatives of the retired players, including Eller and attorney Michael Hausfeld were present at early mediation sessions in Minneapolis. But as talks have heated up and the venue has shifted from the Twin Cities to Maryland, Massachusetts, Illinois and back to Minneapolis again over the last month or so, the retired players have not been present. This hasn’t sit well with them, and lawyers for the group have sent letters to Boylan, lobbied commissioner Roger Goodell and held intense media briefings to make their feelings known. The complaint said the players’ decision to decertify their union makes it an antitrust violation for the owners and current players to negotiate for retired players. It also alleges that the NFL had said it would tap revenue streams both from within and outside the salary cap to help retired players, union representatives including DeMaurice Smith want all the money delegated for the cap to be given to current players. “Through the settlement they are forging, the Brady plaintiffs, the NFLPA and the NFL defendants are conspiring to set retiree benefits and pension levels at artificially low levels,” the complaint alleged. If Nelson rejects the motion for an injunction on the mediation, the retired players are asking for treble damages. It was not immediately clear what kind of impact the filing would have on the continuing talks between the owners and current players. They were scheduled to resume on Tuesday, with the open of training camp less than three weeks away and the preseason opener between the Bears and Rams slated for Aug. 7 in Canton, Ohio. Pat Carter looks to shine again at W.Va. Amateur AP photo A helicopter of the French TV hovers over the pack with Thor Hushovd of Norway, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, center, during the fourth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 172.5 kilometers (107.2 miles) starting in Lorient and finishing in Mur de Bretagne, Brittany, western France, Tuesday. Evans wins 4th stage of Tour de France MUR-DE-BRETAGNE, France (AP) — Cadel Evans edged defending champion Alberto Contador in a photo finish Tuesday to win the fourth stage of the Tour de France, while Thor Hushovd kept the overall lead. The mostly flat 107mile course from Lorient to Mur-deBretagne with a short, steep uphill finish underlined two aspects of the race so far: Evans has been nearly flawless; Contador can never be ruled out. The tense finale was so close that Contador raised a fist to celebrate what the three-time Tour champ believed was his victory, but a photograph at the line showed Evans had won. Still, the ride left little doubt that Contador, who has faced a series of early setbacks already, is in shape to compete. With his second-place finish, he regained several seconds against other some likely title contenders. “I still can’t quite believe it. ... It was a very close final, I didn’t even know if I had it on the line myself,” Evans said. “To win in front of Alberto Contador is really a nice present.” But the Spaniard’s strong finish demonstrated “Contador again proving himself. He was up there and riding well,” Evans said. “He’s never a guy you can underestimate.” Evans, a two-time runner-up, scored his first in-competition Tour stage win in seven appearances — the Australian inherited a stage victory in 2007 after Alexandre Vinokourov was barred in a team doping scandal. It was also the first Tour stage victory for an Aussie since Simon Gerrans won Stage 15 in 2008. Hushovd, the Norwegian world champion who is mainly a sprint specialist, narrowly kept the race leader’s yellow jersey by trailing not far behind in a small breakaway group. “My only goal today was to keep the yellow jersey,” said Hushovd, of Garmin-Cervelo. “I had a great day ... I will do all I can to defend this jersey as long as possible.” Evans finished in 4 hours, 11 minutes, 39 seconds — the same time as Contador, thirdplace Vinokourov and Hushovd, who was sixth. Overall, Hushovd held a one-second lead over Evans. Frank Schleck of Luxembourg rose to third place from seventh by staying with the seven-man group, including Evans and Contador, though he didn’t gain any time on Hushovd and is four seconds back overall. Contador remains 1:42 behind Hushovd in 41st place after two dismal opening days at the Tour, first being stalled by a crash on Saturday and then losing time with his Saxo Bank squad in the team time trial on Sunday. But on Tuesday the Spaniard finished eight seconds faster than possibly his biggest overall rival — Andy Schleck, Frank’s younger brother and the Tour runnerup the past two years. It was a message not lost on Andy Schleck. It “isn’t good, but it’s not a catastrophe,” he said. “I never thought that he was out of the race. He just had bad luck the first day and his team wasn’t suited for the time trial.” Contador, who expressed frustration about a lack of “luck” in recent days, said he was out to test his competition, even if this stage wasn’t crucial. “I wanted to see how my rivals were, to see if I could take some time off them,” Contador said. “Getting the stage win, when I was so close, would have been a great joy.” This has been a nearly impeccable Tour so far for Evans. His BMC team fared well in the time trial, and he has avoided the many crashes that have entangled Contador and Andy Schleck. With less than 12 miles left Tuesday, Evans ran into trouble with his chain and had to stop briefly with a team car before getting an escort from teammates to catch the pack. Omega Pharma-Lotto rider Philippe Gilbert, who turned 29 Tuesday, was favored to win because of his prowess on course layouts like the fourth stage. Earlier, Jurgen Van de Walle of Belgium became the first rider to pull out of the race — reducing the field to 197 racers. The Omega Pharma-Lotto rider quit because of lingering groin pain from a crash Saturday, the team said. Riders set off under rain in the coastal city of Lorient, whose name is derived from the 17th century shipyards and port for trading ships that hauled spices, teas, silk, porcelain and other goods from Asia, or “The Orient.” It seemed as if the whole pack began the ride in rain jackets, but gradually peeled them off as skies dried up. The roads were mostly wet, though there were some dry patches on the weaving course. Five riders who were low in the standings sped ahead of the pack by the 5.5-mile mark, and built a lead of nearly five minutes on the main bunch over the next 10 miles. But as is common in flat rides, when the pack accelerates behind constantly changing front men who cut into the wind, the peloton tracked down and overtook the increasingly tired escapees with about 21⁄2 miles left. That set the stage for the leaders to break out alone to scale the Murde-Bretagne, which features a super-steep patch known by some as the “Alpe d’Huez of Brittany” after the famous peak in the French Alps. “This was a short, steep climb — not a mountain pass,” Contador said, hinting of the importance of stages in the Pyrenees and Alps in the second and third weeks. “Cadel Evans is showing a lot of strength, but even if Andy or others lost a few seconds, it doesn’t mean they’re not in CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Pat Carter’s chances to recapture his glory days at the West Virginia Amateur have never been better. It’s been five years since Carter’s reign ended at The Greenbrier resort after a remarkable run that saw him win 12 times in 18 years, including a national record 10 in a row for a state amateur. Sure, it took the suspension of Tim Fisher and the out-of-state move of defending champ Jonathan Bartlett to make him the potential front-runner again. Even at age 43 playing against an increasingly younger pack of golfers, Carter can’t be counted out. Because he’s Pat Carter. “If I’m on top of my game and I putt well,” Carter said, “then I feel like I’ll be in the hunt at the end of the tournament.” He’s more than likely to have a few hitches in his swing, maybe a few three-putts along the way. The insurance firm manager doesn’t play as much competitive golf and doesn’t practice much. And 11-year-old Hogan Carter is in Little League now, giving dad the thrill of watching his son play baseball. When Carter has found time to compete this year, he’s not embarrassed himself. He had a top 40 finish in the Sunnehanna Amateur, a multistate event in Johnstown, Pa. And he tied for fifth at last month’s West Virginia Open. Carter went on a business trip last year and missed the Amateur for the first time in 26 years. The tournament’s dates had to be moved due to the PGA’s Greenbrier Classic. Now he’s back in perhaps his favorite tournament with a different look and feel. “Hopefully I’ll be in contention and be able to handle the pressure,” Carter said. “But I don’t play as much competition any more and it shows. I do get a little more nervous in certain situations. Hopefully I’ll be able to handle it this year.” Bartlett has moved to Rhode Island. Fisher was suspended from U.S. and West Virginia golf association events for a year after he didn’t give proper notification when he withdrew in the middle of last year’s U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship in Greensboro, N.C., and drove to compete in the 2010 West Virginia Open. Carter calls their absences “a shame,” although the tournament isn’t second-rate without them. There’s still plenty of talent capable of finishing under par, including 2007 winner Anthony Reale and former Marshall golfer Christian Brand, whose third-place finish last year at 2 under was his best ever. “I think the tournament is wide open,” Carter said. “I think there’s 10 or 15 guys who could win it this year.” Reale, who said he hasn’t been playing as much competitive golf as he’d have liked in the past year, said Carter, 22 years removed from his first Amateur title, is the one to watch. “Not only can he seriously contend, I think it’d be crazy not to think he’d be the favorite,” Reale said. “I don’t care how much time he takes away from the game. That guy’s got so much of a resume. He’s been through so many competitive tournaments at the highest level of amateur golf.” Not only will the field have a different look, the playing field will, too. The golfers won’t be competing on the Old White Course because it’s being prepared for the PGA event later this month. Instead, the The par-70 Meadows Course is being substituted, along with the customary par-72 Greenbrier course. Changes aside, Carter can still edge closer to the record of 15 Amateur wins held by Huntington’s Bill Campbell. Carter will recite his annual speech on that issue, that reaching Campbell’s win total has never been his goal and he thankful for what he’s already done. “My goal just like every other time that I play in a tournament is just to try the hand that I’m hitting,” Carter said. “If that means at the end of the tournament I win, that’s great. If not, then congratulations to the guy that won the tournament. If I can keep things in perspective and keep my emotions in control, then I will play well. And if I get beat, I get beat. That’s � 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 07. 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