https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/043b07b6c616d4f97b330596e86049bc.pdf c9d69c3a0d8ed8c783b3870bb8748928 PDF Text Text -. . . !. < • . .. . ,. . Pqe B6 • The Daily Sentirel Friday, January a, aoG9 www.mydailyseDtinel.eom .. CHICAGO (AP) - LIVING ALONG . 'THE RivER . Cubs'.curse thaws, dooms .. Hawks in 'Winter Classic' History alba:tions prepare tor inauglnlln DC, 01 For , all the bad blood between the Red Wings lllld Blackhawk&, and all the novel ways they've come up with over the years to spill it. maybe the only surpnse is that no one ordered them to "take it outside" before .this. . Seven hllll<lred time~ previously. more than any · two teams in pro hockey, these If his ellpression was any ''Original Six" members met indicator. Bettman should and yet rarely raised this have walked around the old kinil of ruckus. But a home- ballyard in a top hat. His town crowd unused to seeing sport is still struggling to anything s~ng in WrigleY. carve out a niche in the field from September unnl United States and rdfely gets ' spring didn't have to wait . this kind of attention long to find their familiar unless one player caves in a ballpark transformed into the rival's head or, like bad-boy , . . AP pllcllo "Unfriendly Confines." Sean Avery did recently. Just two minutes in, disses his ex-girlfriend. But Fans cheer during the national anthem bekiie the NHL Winter Classic hockey game between the Detroit Red Wings and ; . Chicago defenseman Brent the sports calendar broke the Chicago Blackhawks at Wrigley Field on Thursday in Chicago. . . Seabrook lined up Detroit's well and the novelty of Dan Clearv. bounced him ancientWrigley,oneofbaseinto the boards al!d then ball's grand dames. decked deposited him headfirst into out in winter clothes to usher the Hawks· bench. It was in the new year made it a payback for the_ brui~ leg compelling event. Cleary ~ave nsmg C.h1cago "The ~lace was rocking. star Pa~nck, Kane dun~g the The . national anthem was Red 'Ymgs 4-0 thrashiOg. 10 unbelievable." Kane said. · Detro1t two mghts earlier; "And just looking around. T)lat one bro~e the Hawks realizing you're playing a nme-~;a~e wmmng streak, hockey game on a baseball am;l ndmg th~ ~omentum field . It's probably a once-infrom Seabrooks hit to.a 3_:,~ . l}>lifetime thing. and I deftlead by !he end of the fi~itely will cherish it." penod. 1t look~ hke the Kane is right about that. \\\ locals were .gomg to get Detroit , goaltender Ty revenge. . . Conklin was actually play,.U IEDUftiOI IILE EXTINDJJ But that 1dea got buned by ing in his'third outdoor NHL three unanswered scores. m game. havin~ been in the (ILL IIW IIC£1,.1111 liD JIIUIBY 1,.1, 1.1) ' the second as the re1gnmg nets for the 01lers in the first Stanley Cup champ10ns unofficial winter classic in piled on the quality in Edmonton a half-dozen waves, rolling up a 43-37 years ago and again for the a~vantage In shots, and a 6-4 Penguins in Buffalo last wm m the NHL s second January. The feeling he said "~inter Cla~sk." never gets old. · · It .~as'! t Just . another "I count myself very . 01 game. Ch1cago c~~ch Joel lucky," Conklin said. ,995 Quennevule sa1d. We had "There's not a guy in this to bnng our best game league who wouldn't like to agamsl them. But ·they play in these games." played some very Important Their chances will come game,~ the last part of last soon. enough. Bettman was · s~ason and they know what coy about where he plans to 1t s hke to play a b1g game. take the game next but he .. "(1-nd to me," he added, won't be hurting fo~ invitathls was a ~1g game and a tions. There was talk this b1g expene~~e. They year's classic wo~ld be the responded well. ·' last event played 10 the old If the game wasn't a sue- Yankee Stadium but New cess ·for the Blackhawks. it York is hardly th~ only town was a near-perfect showcase in the mix. for. the NH.L, v.en~rated "It's something that we Wngley, the c1ty o.f Ch1cago, know can be a special part of and perhaps even 1ts quest to our game if we do it right," play host for the 2~ 16 the commissioner said. Summer . Olymp1cs. The event 5eemed - to Commissioner Gary borrow a term from basketBellman went out of his way ball, the game· that early to put in a plug on that score.· NHL owners nurtured to fill "Had a chance ,to chat with up the empty dates in their Mayor Daley.' Bettman rinks - a slam-dunk. Going said .. "I hope the . Olympic back to hockey' s outdoor b1d IS successful. because roots stirred more than fond there's no doubt this is a memories of frozen ponds great sports town.'.' among longtime fans; it .The game certamly had a helped fire up the imaginawmtry, old-school feel, from tion of a few new ones. the relatively comfortable 32 Ryl)e Sandberg and Billy degrees when the puck was Williams. two former Cub dropped to the snow dumped greats who were·on hand for around the playing field to the ceremonies as represenoJil<i;JWq,~·· A'*' surround the nnk - com- tatives of Wrigley's past. IT~ Palm, mt SUM plete w1th a ~nck _facade that c·ame up to the press box 111 lllE m1rrored Wngley s walls - after the opening faceoff to to . the retro Jerseys on both warm up. ,1 sides and the fedoras donned "Can you belie11e it?'' by the Red Wings coaching Sandberg turned to staff m a nod to a few of Williams. "A rink in the mid100? Cllllw OIH" tUI2VI. v•. P. WtndoWl 1Uin3;.z6R, Air • lcM*•, LS Modtl ' t~eir legendary predeces- die of our field." Onf)l HK Mlln, Wlt,U,IMI Aulo, Wu SIQ.tH sors. "When they first menTDSILE$1.100 TIIUII$12"Just old-time hockeY.," tioned it to me, it sounded Red Wings coach M1ke like something somebody Babcock said about his fash- thought up after too man~ . ionable felt hat .."We needed beers. But you know what?' something on our head, even Williams said. "It was a · · MiliA. 4X4, OnlY IOK Mlltl though we didn't realize the damn-near perfect place to ~.cx~~~y OwMcl, fttw n,.. CIMntW..IUtl benches were going to be as put down a hockey game ." 'Ill Wl$8,150 warm as they were. Amen .. "Probably didn't need it. And no," he added, smiling Jim Litke is a national · after back-to-back wins over sports columnist for The their closest pursuers , "I Associated Pre~s. Write to · won't be donning it again." him at jlitkeap .otg ' Hometown News for Gallia & Meip counties · Meigs E0091l set for February launch SPORTS • Higl school ~slab&ll :aditln· See Plge Bl REED · ·. · ~nt.tdephone Bv BRIAN J. BREEDOlrtlwL'I:SENTINELCOM POMEROY - The Jan. I deadline for lmplementirig Mei¥s County's E-911 serv1ce has come and ~one, but County Commisstoner Miele. Davenport .said he expects the service to be up and running sometime next month. By law, the service was to have . been .operating by Thursday, and the county has .been ·collecting a 50- new . TAl SAlE sut152" ................ Wells undecided on NFL SCOTTSDALE, Ariz . (AP) - Ohio State . star Chris "Beanie" . Wells isn't ready to say whether the Fiesta Bowl will be his last game for the Buckeyes ; "1 . personally reel like I haven't done enough at Ohio State, the things I wanted to accomplish here, to move.on to the next level," the junior running back said Thursday. . Asked if ·that meant he was leaning toward staying at Ohio State for another season. Wells said: "I don't want to say I'm leaning toward staying or I'm. leaning toward going. All I'm saying is I do want to be the best Buckeye' to ever come through here ." · IOth-ranked The Buckeyes (10-2) play third -. ranked Jcxas ( Il - l) on Monday. Two weeks ago, Ohio State coach Jim Tressel sug' gested it should be an.,easy decision considering he thinks Wells will be a top draft choice at)d that it may be time to go. Wells said Thursday it's not so simple . Wells ran for I ,091 yard; and · eight touchdowh·s despite missing th.ree games after injuring his foot in the season opener. Wells said he feels as healthy ·as he has been since that first ~arne. but still didn't call hmiself 100 percent for.the Fiesta Bowl. Thursday's chat with the metlia was the first time Wells hus lwe'n availabl e In comment on Tressel's .remark on hi s NFL future .. Wells said the comment surprised him. b~t that ·rt won't affect his decision. ........ .UI$2&, 4x.a. Rt~g. ft•WHftl .....tint C•b Long Bed, V..e, Auto, Air Ill iii's1iA51 Page AS • Jeny D. Schoolcraft, Sr. • Pastor lra.c. Wellman . • Clifford :Red' A. Rogers . · e; Randall M. Spencer · • Jettie Reynolds ~ Richard Lee Mollohan - INSIDE . .· ~lo debiltes how _to eXp8fld prison iobacco ban. S'ee PiKe A2 In 2008, a record·of over $3 million was collected in child support by staff at the Meigs County.Department of Job and Family Services Child Support Enforcement Agency. Pictured are CSEA staff RaRdy, Smith, attorney John Custer, Supervisor Don Snyder, Michene Hutton, larry Byer, George Hoffman and Dean McKnight. BREEDOMYDI<ILYSENTINEL.COM POMEROY.- A Pomeroy man will make a second court appearance ThurSday ori charges relating to pandering cfuld pornography. David A. Barner, 49. was released last week on a $5,000 personal recognizance bond; and was restrained from contact with his wife and two female ":Jane Doe" victims. I . He is charged· in Meigs County Court with pandering obscenity involvi_!l¥..& minor.. ~t:.:::::;:~:!:!::t! and was arraignea TUesday I 0 ~: ;l!~d~~~~~~Li:~ charse. and requested • Consequences to not SubmHted photo .. Agency collects record $3 million in ·child support appomtment of counsel. Bv BETH SERGENT • ~ record amount. taking things seriously. Barner was also ·restrained BSERGENTOMYDI<ILYSENTiNELCOM ,. Supervisor Don Snyder SeePageA3 from any computer Internet said the.$3 million mark has - 11 Mars rover mission actess.as a tenn of his release MIDDLEPORT ,been a goal the unit has .reaches 5th anniversary. on bond. He will appear at a Though overlooked as a. been striving to reach for preliminary hearing on SeePageAS • .Thursday, at which time the legitimate crime by some, the past few years, coming delinquent child support is, close in 2006 when il colstate wdl ·prove probable cause that the matter should prOceed to the gral)d jury for consideration. f The complaint against Barner does not detail specif· ic offenses, but Sheriff Robert Beegle .said obscene material involving minor victims was found on Barner's home computer. WEATHER in fact, a crime with victims who are the most vulnerable .in society. In 2008, · the Meigs County Department of Job . and family Services Family . Services Child Support Enforcement Agency collected ove.r $3 million ·in child support, which was a · lected $2.9 million and 2007 when it closed the year at $2.8 million. Snyder, along with his MCDJFS coworkers, recognized CSEA staff duri!'g the ag·ency 's recent in-service training. MCDJFS Interim Director Barb .o'@lapnian reported the actual figure the CSEA collected was $3 ,050,665. ,• "Snyder, (agency attorney).John Custer and CSEA staff do an excellent job getting support dollars for the child~n they represent," Chapman sa1d. '.'To be able to increase collections in today's economy is remark·able." . Meigs County CSEA works with 2,236 child support cases, according to Chapman, who added that although staff are not always successful in collec- Gallia's fir~t baby of 2099 Proud mother Tonya Smith of Bidwell shows off her daughter, Rylee Michelle, who was the first Gallla County baby born in 2009. Rylee Michelle was born at .1:43 a.m. Friday, Jan. 2, · 2009, in the Maternity and Family Care Center at Holzer Medical Car.~ter­ Gallipolis. She weighed sevett· pounds, three ounces. 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' CIIEVIILET . PONTIAC ' r ' .. ~ PllliM GallipOk MillOn PohPie. . . 667.3161 446.226o ns.64oo 6~4.8200 ' Please see AB•ncy, A2 Saunders announced · the event. "The february 2009 con- ~ GALLIPOLIS - Feb .' l7 version date ·,is quickly . · has been set as the deadline approaching," she said. for the digital transition by "Bossard Library i,s pleased the U.S. Congress. After to sponsor 'DTVAwareness that date, most TV broad- Day.' This~eiJ'-Will help . everyon~rlilerstand the casting will be digital. To help answer the many DTV 'transitimi - what it is questions the transition to and what it. means to ihem. digital tefevision · (DTV) Please join us on Jan. 15." raises, Bossard Lib.rary is for viewers · who have sponsoring "DTV one or more televisions Awareness Day'' on that receive free over-theThursday, Jan. 15 , air programming (with a An information session roof-top antenna or ~·rabbit will be held at the Library ears'' on the TV), the type , located at 7 Srruce St.. o.f TV you own is very Gallipolis, from to 4 p.m. important. A digital · televiThe session' will be con-. sion (a TV with an internal d~cted by an. FCC repnisen• · digital ' tuner) will allow tative who will answer· you to continue to watch questions about th~ upcom- free over-the-air programing conversion, supply ming after Feb. · 17. handouts, and perform a However, if you have an connectivity demonstration. . PI•••• ~ee Llbr•ry. A2 Lib.rary Directot Debbie STAFF REPORT, NEWSOMY~ILYTRIBUNE.COM INDEX Around Town tion on all of their cases for a variety of reasons, they continue · to · strive to increase collections. The agene y does take advantage of many tools available under the Ohio Revised Code to assist in collection, such as intercepting income tax refunds, attaching bank accounts, wase garnishment. property liens , drivers license suspensions. professional license suspensions, along Lil:>racy .will host DTV Day Delalla on Pqe AI Weather 1'111 Til *OUR ENTIRE INVENTORY HAS SPECIAL YEAR PRICES but said it should be running in February. Meigs County now has over $100,000 i!Vailable for E-911 equipment and training, since the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved the.county's E-911 plan late last year. The county will continue to receive at last $43.000 per month through the state E911 fund, which is collected from cellular telephone custamers. BY BRIAN J. REED 5P<>rts .......,, IOMGM081e,.. line charge 2009; according Jo the plan; fC'ck information as .well as from cilstorners for equip- · Phase I· wireless 911 ser- ·the location information. DavenJX!rt said renovament purchase and mainte- · vice provides the tower · nance for nearly two years. infonnation and the. ~aller's tions necessary to the However, Davenport said contact number. Phase II pro- Emergency Medical Friday there is no legal vides the Phase I information Services building . on penalty for a delay in· start- . and the latitude/longitude of Memorial Drive are nearly ing the system. · the caller's location. completed. EmergiTech.the Enhanced wireless 9-1-1 Columbus company providMeigs is one of 22 Ohio counti~s in tl)e process of servic& routes emergenc)! ing the computer equipment · implementing the E-911 wireless calls to the appro- for the new service, will service. The county' will priate · Public: Safety begin installation on Jan. 12. implement Phase I and · Answering Point (PSAP) . Davenpoit said he has "no Phase II wireless 9-1-1 ser- and . provides a mobile · idea". when .the system will vice by the end of February directory number for call- be available for public use, ·Man faces child porn chargee .................... sun .....,.......... . .. MombtrFDIC < • �" ' .. • 0 ' .· ' '• -iaubap lim ·itntintl · -PageA2 REGIONAL SUJ)day, January 4, 2009 ianba, liM ·itntind · HiJGGINS PRESS WAITER ASSOCIATED · -. · toJCARR with the proposal uihat Oh'10 ItJfN currently says bout ki · ·' S a SmO ng In pnson : · YJ COLUMBUS - Ohio is · moving ahead to. ban illl • No smoking or other tobacco use alloWed . tobacco products from prisons .by .Marclidespite quesinsideoroutsideattheCorrectiQnsMedical tions · about the state's CenterinColurribu$orlheOhioState Penitentiary in Youngstown, which also houses . authprity' to put such a ban in place, death row. · · d b Smokmg an to acco · • No smoking or other tobacco use inside the .products an; already prohibNorth Coast Correctional treatment faet'lity' _ 1·n · ·11151·d Oh'10· 32 · e · s pnsGrafton, the Lake Erie Correctional Institution in . •ted· ons. though some facilities Conneaut, the li"''""'- Correctional' Institution', the UICUU have outdoor areas set aside for inmates and staff. Hocking Correctional Facility in Nelsonville in 'ferry Collins. -director of southern Ohio, the Oakwood Correctional the Department of · Facility in Lima, the Northeast Pre-Release Rehabilitation and Center in Cleveland, the Franklin Pre-Release Correction. wants to expand Center in Columbu$ or the Montgomery · the ban to eliminate all Education Pre-Release Center in Dayton. tobacco products in or out • The prisons director may de1~ignate areas · of prisons by March I. whel'e smoking or tobacco-use is alloWed Out· That ban will also stop the sale -of tobacco products at side of those prisons. prison ~ommissaries, some • The prisons director shall designate at least of which still offer the one tobacco-free housing area within each items. prison not listed above. • The main issue is the • The state shall provide anti-smoking and tobac· eo-use programs·for prisoners at all state correchealth both of inmates and tiona! instMons, subiect to available Iundin . g. prison employees. Andrea ' Carson. the department's . said spokeswoman. Soun:e:Oillo.Re\oioedCodeTitle5t,Sec:tlon5t45.32 d S . atur ay. . . , A joint House-Senate legk· islative rule-rna tng com- clear how the law deals with said Niehaus,. a Republican · from New ' Richmond in mittee was supposed to • other correctt'onal ~act'litt'es, •· approve the plan last week. But the prisons depart- said Sen : Tom Niehaus. southwest Ohio. "That's not . ' ment took it.s plart off the chairman of the Joint clear right now." agenda to review the pro- Committee on Agency Rule Niehaus said Saturday posal. Meanwhile. some Review. that his preference is to find lawmakers Jiave raised "We're just trying to sort a way to allow the agency to questions about the state's through this to make sure · implement the ban without ability to implement such a the. statute does allow the having to pass a new law. of Carson said the agency is ban without passing a new Department Jaw. Rehabilitation and confident it will . have the Current law bans smoking Correction to actually ban ban in place by March one in some prisons but it's not tobacco use in all facilities," way or the other. It returns later this month. The union representing · gu;mls wants assur ~::its employees will~ offered. the same types of anti-smoking programs available·toinmates. . The Ohio Civil SerVice Employees Association is also concerned about & • th ob b en.orcmg e t acco an as the state tightens its budaffi d get and st ng goes own. "This now · will make tobacco contraband," ·said OCSEA spokeswoman Sally Meckling. "We now have to enforce the prohibition of tobacco and that takes resources, and we don't have resources, as I'm sure you've heard." Ohio had 51,197 inmates and 7,031 prison guards in . December. One .year ago; the prison system had fewer . inmates _ 49,886 _ and more guards: 7 .212. · A recent worst-case budget scenario developed by Gov. Ted Strickland for all state agencies would elim.i• ·nate · 5).~7 positions at the d - 1d prisons epartment, me u ing corrections and parole· . officers. It would also close · sIx pnsons a t a .t'tme of inmate overCrowding. The scenario was created to illustrate what could happen in Ohio if the federal government doesn't step in with ·financial help. Businesses that sell tobac-. co products to the prison . stores question whether the st;~te is .overreaching . its authority with the ban. Ag Society 'lemberships . GALLIOOLIS - 2009 emberships for the Gall~a County Agricultural Society are no~ on sale at. the Galha County Cooperative Elltenston Servtce l~ated m the C.H. McKenzie A~riculture Center near the faugrounds. Membershtps are $2 and may be purchased at the Extension Office during regular business hours, Monday through Friday. frail) 8 a.m. to 4 P:m. . · Membership into the society entltles the member to vote at the annpal election held in Septem~?er. The me~bershtp does not entitle the member to adm•sston to the frur. . be h' . d' 'd · To be eligible for mem ~ '!?• an !n IV! ua1 mus1 purchase his/her own membershtp hcket m person, be at least 18 years of age oroIder, and rest'de in Gallia County; · Agency rrom Page At BY KATHY MITCHELL AND MARCY SUGAR I . of the agency is directly related to the cooperation and coordination between · MCD1FS staff, the CQunty prosecutor's office an(j the court systems of Meigs County Common Pleas Judge Fred Crow and Juvenile Court Judge L. Scott Powell. · "Their commitment to protect and provide for the innocent children play a major role in making it possible to provide the. children with the child support they deserve," Chapman lidded. · Dear Annie: I'm in my outside the bedroom. I've late 50s and married to a got more important things very fine lady, the love of to worry about than how my life. 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I let her initi- and read feaJures by other ate intimacy, but I make ·Creators Syndicate writers sure I continually provide and cartoonists, visit the her with a reason to want to. Creators Syndicate Web by being loving l\nd caring page at www.creators.com. meets the second Friday of Central and Executive cominformation, ca11388-8454. · 4193. GAlliPOLIS · - Gallia GALLIPOLIS - . the month at II a.m. in the mittees meet the second MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Gallipollis · Rotary Clt.ib park 'district office at tke Tuesday of .the month. 7 Support Group meets the meets 7 a.m. each Tuesda,Y Gallia County ·Courthouse .p.m., in the second floor second Monday of each · at Holzer Chmc doctor s GALLIPOLIS - Gallia meeting .room of the Gallia .. · Tuesday, Jan. 6 · County TRIAD/SALT County Courthouse. The GALLIPOLIS - Holzer month at Holzer Medical dining room. GALLIPOLIS :... Galli a Council, a program in which · public is welcome. Clinic retirees will meet for . Center. For information, lunch at noon at the Holiday _ contact Amber Barnes at County Right to. Life meets law enforcement and older GALLIPOj.JS (740) 339-0291. 7:30 p.m., second Tuesday persons work together to preInn, Gallipolis. Morning Dawn No. 7 . GALLIPOLIS - NAMI of each month at St. Louis vent crimes against senior Thursday, Jan. 8 F&AM meetings are held citizens, meets on the second GALLIPOLIS - Gallia (National Alliance on Catholic Church Hall. GALLIPOLIS - Choose '• Tuesday of the month at I on the second Monday of County Ohio Township Ment'al Illness) meetings · each month at 7:30p.m. For Association meeting, . 7 will take ytace. the second to Lose eiet Club meets 9 p.m. at the Gallia County more information, call 446p.m., Gallia County Senior Tuesday o each month at 6 a.m., each Tuesday at Grace Senior Resource Center. 02 GALLIPOLIS - Gallia · Resource Center, 1167 State p.m. at the Gallia County United Methodist Church. J~LLIPOLIS Senior Resource Center. Use Cedar Street entrance. County Democrats meet on Route 160. Informational meetings are GALLIPOLIS - Fren,ch th~ first Mond11y of the. Veterans of Foreign Wars . Tuesday, Jan.l3 GALLIPOLIS - ·PERl held the third Thursday of City Chorustrreblemakers· month at 6 p.m. at the sec- Post 4464 meets the first third Tuesday of the meeting, 2 p.m .. meeting . every month at 6:30p.m. at · Chorus practice, 7:30 p.m. ond floor meeting room of and month at 7:30 p.m. at the Woodland Centers. . For every Tuesday at Grace the Gallia Co11nty room of the First Baptist post. 134 Third Ave. Family information, contact Linda United Methodist Church. Courthouse. For informaChurch, I 100 Fourth Ave. Night for members and their Johnson at (740) 367-0467 Guests welcome. tion. call 367-7530. Monday,Jan.26 families is the second (740) 339-3282, GALLIPoLIS - Gallia Everyone invited. GALLIPOLIS - . Knights or Tuesday of the month at County Board of Mental GALLIPOLIS - Park of Columbus dinner meet- Everyone is welcome. Retardation/Developmental Lane Crime Watch in the 6:30p.m. ing, 6:30p.m., Holiday Inn, Disabilities meets the third I Spring Valley area meetings Gallipolis. Tuesday of each month. 4 are held on the third · GALLIPOLIS p.m., at Guiding Hand Tuesday of each month at 7 School. p.m. at the Gallia County 9GALLIPOLIS - Harriet Gallipolis Neighborhoo,d THURMAN 1-l Center. · events. Library rromPageAt Regular m.eetings Support groups (Mrs. James L.) Davison will · celebrate her 90th birthday on Jan. 7. Cards can be sent to her at 5266 State Route 141, Gallipolis, Ohio 45631. GALLIPOLIS - Gladys Carter will .celebrate her 96th birthday on Jan. 10. Cards can be sent to her at 839 State' Route 218. Gallipolis, Ohio 45631. E-mail community calen· dar items to kkeUy@mydai· lytribune.com. Fax announcements to 446• 3008 _ Mail iums to 825 Third Ave., Gallipolis, Ohio 45631. Announcements may also be dropped off at the Tribune office. Card shower · GALLIPOLIS . Watch . meeting first ThulTI)an-Vega Parish Thrift QALLIPOL!S The Grieving Parents Support Monday of the month lit 7 Store open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Gallia County Veterans Group meets 7 p.m. second p.m. in the Gallipolis Thursday and Friday, 10 Service Commission will a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. meet at 4 p.m. on the second Monday of each month at Municipal Bu.ilding. • FME! 24/1 fte~ ~ Holzer Medical Center. GALLIPOLIS - Moms' Clothing and household. and fourth Tuesdays of each • li\SIJtll ~9 ICMP I'C'o" tludd-r 18' People attending should Club meets, noon, third · goods available. month until further notice. • 10 ~rnai ilddresM wiltt Webmail! • Cv!1om Slw1 Paal · news. weather & "-xt1 meet in the general lobby. Monday of each month at CADMUS Walnut GALLIPOLIS - Gallia · For information, call Jackie · Community Nursery Township Crime Watch County Veterans w ., , It's Not A Good Buy Sud up lo 6X Keatley at 446-2700 or School. For more informa- meets the second Monday Assoctation meet& the Without It! Nancy Childs at 446-5446. tion, call Tracy at (740) of each month at 7 p.m. at fourthMond~y of the month Sign Up Onllntl www.LoeatNot~om ATHENS - Survival of 441-9790. the old Cadmus school- at 7 p.m. at American Suicide support group GALLIPOLIS - Practice house. Legion Post 27. mee~s 7 p.m., fourth .for the French Colony CENTERVILLE GALLIPOLIS - Gallia "Thursday of each month at Chorus, a four-part harmq- . Raccoon Township Crime . · Cmtnty Republican Party Athens Church of Christ, ny style women's group, Wf Watch meets the second 785 W. Union St., Athens. p.m. each Tuesday at the Tuesday of each month at 7 For information, call 593- Central Christian Church, p.m. at the old . Centerville 7414. 109 Garfield Ave., school. GALLIPOLIS .- Look Gallipolis. Enter the side GALLIA - Greenfield Good Feel Better cancer cente~ door. For more infor- Township Crime Watch program, third Monday of mation, contact Suzy Parker meets the fourth Tuesday of ·the month at 6 p.m., Holzer at (740) 992-5555 or Bev each month at 7 p.m. at the Regi.dratiort Center for Cancer Care. Alberchinski at 446-2476. fire station. Now Open! GALLIPOLIS . GALLIPOLIS - Gallia . GALLIPOLIS - . The Alcohol'ics Anonymous County Conventi.on and "Old and New" quilters Call today Wednesday book study at 7 Visitors Bureau Board meet from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m . to sclredule p.m. and Thursday open meets the third Monday of the ·fourth Thursday of meeting at noon at St. the month, 5 p.m., at the eyery month at St. Peter's Peter's Episcopal Church, bureau's office, 61 Court St. Episcopal Church. For more 541 Second Ave. Tuesday Meetings are open ·to th~ information, call446-2209. . closed meetinf is at 8 p.m. public and for information, GALLIPOLIS Ft•r nulrtJinjQrmaliott ('tJtllJU'T.' at St. Peters Episcopal call 446-6882. · American Legion Post 27 Bn:m Pauerson CHESHIRE - Citizens meets on the first and third ,740) 992-188/Jor Church. GALLIPOLIS Against Pollution .(CAP) Monday of each month at Rrl><w1 l.nn,~ :Narcotics Anonymous has its quarterlY. meetings at 7:30 p.m. Dinner for mem(800) 282-7201. rxl. 7425 : Miracles in Recovery meets the Cheshire Vtllage Hall on bers ans their families Enwil: :every . Monday and the last Tuesday of January, served at 6:30 p.m. · brtnlp@rio.edu or rllhonuu@rio.edu :Saturday, 7:30 p.m,, at St. April, July and October, RIO GRANDE - The On lht ijJb, ~o ro 'o\'Ww.rio.tdu.admissimu Peter's Episcopal Church. starting at 7 p.m. Anyone · Village of Rio Grande reguPOINT PLEASANT, with concerns ts encouraged lar council meeting is held W.Va. Narcotics to attend . For more informa- the second Monday of each month at 6:30p.m. : Anonymous Living Free tion, call (740) 367-0273. ·Group meets every . · GALLIPOLIS - Gallia RODNEY ,- MOPS Wednesday and Friday at 7 County Commissi!)ners (Mothers of Preschoolers) Ht:N~ .-\IIIJ \ ', tTI.TZ n :Nn:R meet every Thursday, 9 . meets 10 a.m. on the first : p.m. at 305 Main St. I·'OR HIGIU:R EDUC ,\'riO~ VINTON - Celebrate a.m., Gallia County Tuesday of each month at .J:!J"ry' CMtk."'' C bltm:~· ) Dlt\t Recovery at Vinton Baptist Courthouse. Rodney Pike Church of F\>!Jit:rt l~·. ()hit• 4..~i(YIJ IJo·or 1/J.J,flr "'lo•i<nt Church. Small groups lookGALLIPOLIS - The God. Child ca,re provided. 7, HtJIII Cell"/"''' ., ing for freedom from addic- Galli a County Airport For information call (740) . ·-tions, hurts, habits and Authority Board meets at 245-9518. OI~~CRlf'IION C011Rst; PR!•f TIM!'. ROOM ~AYS GALLIPOLIS . hangups every Wednesday 6:30 p.m.. on the first A(.'(' l !.u}~ t;.ll ) L1ff PRINr:tiUS OF ACCOIJ'ofnNO I . li IJ'R51/ I'M Ml::I(IS tf.PoJ Hll) II<U"14 h{), ~ndl' II : .~11- 1 2 : 20 1~M ;at 7 p.m. For informatjon, Monday of each month at Ga\lipolis Kiwanis Club MWf MFIGS lllh PRIN Cli'I.~S OF HIOI.OGY HIU 11404L 60 S1~fT PRI. ~CIIUS Of BIOI.IXW I.AH TR II.:J().. 12::!{! J'tJ! MEIGS 106 ~call 388-8454. the Airport terminal build- meets at 6 p.m. on the secOOO.So.lO PM BM ZWO:< 00 Smff I'RIN('II'I.ES OF M'INAliEMENT M MEIGS 1(11) . POINT PLEASANT, ing. ond and fourth Thursday of INl'EnRAl'EO.CI.ASSR(XlM EDl ! · 1Q.l0l 60 rk:m Ill tl'f.Xl6:~ I'M MEIGS 100 MANAI<EMENl W.Va. - ''Let Go and Let GALLIPOLIS ' each month in the French . 7·00-9:.50 JlM ' I:M.•,,n I'LANNINti !'OR IN\- IRIJ<l'ION MEI(iS Ill WI! 104<XI ~) M . 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The group res!lects all of each month in basement interested in being involved MS CJFflCE & lf'IERNET I MEIGS I!~ M IT 1mu• 60 I ')I.~T · ~'Rf$ 11MAN si1rn:ss ~ : 00-~ : ~PM LA 10101 TR MEIGS 109 • members' anonym1ty. .ofGallia County 911 Center with caring for homeless "'' sm~r MAIH Rf.VI~W IUIH lo:!U I'M MEIGS lffl 60 Hill MTR ~fl H I~IUl : VINTON Vinton on Ohio 160. Licensed ania- cats in this area is invited . Al.()f.BRA 5:1JJ-7· 20itM 'IR MEIGS)1.1! MTII IW\11 60 Shtller I'RI·.( :AI.('lll(IS MTWRI' MFI(jS 1m IIBU·IUO AM MTU 14505 b!) ' Hill · Baptist Church will operate teur radio operators and GALLIPOLIS - 0.0. INTROT(J S(X'IOUXJY sue 1110.{ nO ~WI MWf ll:.lO·I'JJJ PM MEIGS lll'i . a food pantry every Monday interested parties invited. Mcintyre Park District from 5 to 6:30 p.m. For .For information, call 446- Board of Commissioners 4 ·c.; .. j f!'.ff!!'!J ~@J)aJJibi €~~ : of <t, .RIO GRANDE MEIGS CENTER Spring Semester 2009 January 12, 2009- May It's ~0 easy being green with cDcRivery I' OIJ OHIO VALLEY B ' Dear Annie: For two years, I attended. a good allgirls Catholic high school. Because of my poor grades, 1 was ellpelled and am now ·enrolled in a public school. I reall-y don't like it and long to be back with my friends . · I have asked my mother and stepfather about reenrollment, but they said even if it were possible for me to return, they can't afford it with · the .state of the economy these days. Financial aid is not an option because their income exceeds the amount needed to be eligible. My father said if I really · wanted to go back, he would find a way to pay the tuition. Annie, I know he would never deliberately lie to me, but he's not rich and I'm not honey, if you get back into Or can they create their sure he can manage it. the Catholic school, you'd own activities? What could I desperately want to get better make them proud. I have done to relieve the back to my old school, but Dear Annie: I recently stress Susie brought to what it seems hopeless. I 'II do hosted a cl)stumed ladies was supposed to be a fun anything it takes, but it social, serving•lunch to 20 afternoon? Hostess seems impossible. Any sug- womeQ and organizing ice- Blues . gestions'!. - Losing Hope breaker games. While Dear Hostess: Susie was Dear Losing Hope: We gu~sts were arriving and I a rude guest because she know . you miss your was introducing people, undermined your authority friends, but there are con- "Susie" started taking pic- as the hostess. Guests sequences when you don't tures of the fun costumes. should always defer to the take your education seri- She directed people t9 hosts' plans for the occaously enough to gel pass- move here and there for sion, and hosts should make ing grades. It is unfair to photos. After severa1 their guests' participation as expect your father or any- attempts to get my allen- pleasant as possible. The one else to put themselves · tion, she hollered; "Debbie, best way to defuse someone in financial . jeopardy look at me right this like Susie is to assign her a · because you messed up. minute!" ' job and make her f~el like We think you . can make Susie acted put out when an important part of . the new friends at your current her ideas weren't used and process. We would huvc school. However, it's possi- wanted to control how the gushed about her photoble your parents would be games were played. She graphic skills and put her in willing to pool · their was not a very ~ompliant charge of taking pictures of resources so neither .one guest,· and I remam resent- every aspect of the event so gets stuck with the entire Jul. she had less time and inclituition bill, and it's OK to Aren't guests supposed to nation to interfere in other ask them about that. And, let the hostess direct them? areas. , Community Ireland ending historic run as-WVCz~ Sec. of State . January 4, 2009 GaUia County calendar I analog television, you will through a process called need a digital-to-analog " m u I t i c a s t i n g ·. " converter box to continue Multicasting_allows broadto watch broadcast ·televi- cast stations to offer several sion on that set. This con- channels of digital prog~am­ verter boll will also enable ming at the same lime, ycu to see any additional using the same amount of multi-cast programming spectrum required for one that your local stations are analog program. · Further, . · · · DTV can provide interacoffering. in 2008, U.S. · tive video and data services Beginning Bv LAWRENCE MESSINA , cycle as she cared for c!)mplaints · reg1l!'ding t~e latest technology, and · ASSOCIATEo PREss WRITER . them. · touch-screen · machines ease doing business in and households may be abl.e to · that are' not possible with obtain up t!> two coupons analog technology. Her faiher died in before the 2008 general with the state. 1 An important benefit of CHARLESTON, W.Va. August 2007, and her 'election -from perhaps But Ireland said they worth $40 each toward the purchase of conv_erter the switch to all-digital - A pre-Christmas visit to mother followed in ApriL 15 out of 153,789 early were also spurred partly the office of Secretary of ireland has held off sor't- voters - national groups )l,y an unexpected discov- b'oxes. The program will be broadcasting is that it will by the National free up parts of the valuState Betty Ireland ing through the items left •touted Ireland's response. ery froni when she first run revealed no packing. from the household the The Brennan Center for moved into 1900 Kanawha Telecom!"unicatio~s ~nd able broadcas_t spectrum Informatton AdmtmstratlOn for public safety commu. boxes, no recently bared couple shared iluring 68 Justice at New York Boulevard. (NTIA), a part of the U.S. nications (such as p,olice, . wall space. no .·signs that years of marriage. University and Verified "It dismays me, how we Department ?f Congress, fire departments, and resthe first woman ever elect"I look forward to the Voting jomtly sent letters have to struggle to do ed to West Virginia's exec- down time and tlie quiet to Ireland.'s counterparts modern-day; 21st Century whtch_ has tssued rules cue squads). Also, some of utive branch was entering time to really give that the •around the country hold- business in a state Capitol regardmg the coupon pro- the spectrum will be auc: the final weeks of ·her attention that it needs, to ing up her office's advice that was built 75 vears gram. (Please ~ate t~at tioned to companies that . term. honor their memories," - that counuh·~s redcal i- .ago," she said. "Be~ause these coupons ':"!II exptre will be able to provide consumers with more : Ireland instead had her Ireland said. brate their mac mes ai 1Y :.this is a historically pre- 90 days after mathng). . If you are a cable or sateladvanced wireless services hands full: putting the fin"The hardest thing that I and offer pencils or stylus- served building, we can't hte custo!"er, you need. to (such as wireless broad. ishing touches on . a new had to do in this office was es for touch screens - as electronic system for le~al to manage this office and "best practices." Just knock out walls. check wtth your servtce · b d) an · f process servers; steadtly still manage . the require"Th1s was definitely the There are things we just provider to be assured of a transition after Feb. . There ~re many source~~ m th 00 expanding the breadth of ments and the demands on best election that my absolutely cannot do. It's _ mformatu;m about the dtgi7 state agency rules avail- me as the daughter who office has had in conjunc- not set up for modern Why is the country con- tal t~ansti!On but one of the able online; preparing to took care of two aging tion with the secretary of business." brief the Legislature on parents, and then going state," said Mason County Ireland remains mindful verting to digital? Di~ital . pestts www.dtv.gov, or call: the year's busy election through their final days Clerk Diana Cromley, a of the milestone that bears broadcasting allows statiOns mg (88~) CAL~- FCC. You to offer improved picture can get.mformatton on what . season. with them," she said. four-term Democrat and her name, · as the first and sound quality, and digi- DTV ts, questwns conShe's also dealing with a Ireland had previously board member of the West woman elected to the tal is much more efficient sumers . should ask when : pile of allegations from headed the state Virginia Association of Board of Public Works, · :: the Nov. 4 balloting that Consolidated Public Counties. "As her term but .said she rarely dwells than analog. For example, purchasmg . new televts1on rather than being limited to set~, wh~t programs are · have been relayed to ihe Retirement Board and was progressed, and her team on it. · .iu\ud investigation unit chief executive of consult- got more experienced with "It's not my main deal to providing one analog pro- avatlable m DTV, and much - :she created after taking ing firm Jackson Kelly elections, I thought that stand up and be the gram, a broadcaster is able more. For information abo11t · office in 2005. Solutions when she ran for overall they did an excel- women's rights advocate," to offer a. super sharp "high definition' . ' (HD) digital this program or other ser"Typically, when a com- secretary of state in 2004. , lent job." she said. "I am a women's program or multiple "stanvices provided by Bosswd : plaint comes in at this She defeated Ken Hechler, As for her office's other rights advocate, but that's dard definition" (SD) digital Library. call the library at : time in the process, it is a Democratic elder states- roles, Ireland established a not what pushes me forprograms • simultaneously (740) 446-7323. . ': from somebody who has man who had previously syste111 for electronically ward. I am here to do the . lost an election, and who held the office, with near- recording when people are job." : wants us to do something ly 52 percent of the vote. served with notices of But she · also hopes to ; about it," Ireland said. A daunting deadline legal proceedings. The help increase the ranks of The day's tasks reflect greeted Iretand in her new state's 55 circuit clerks GOP women in slate polihad· previously been pep- tics, and encourage the wide-ranging role that post. : West Virginia's -secretary . Congress had given . pered, continuously, with women generally by constate plays - as a key states. until Dec. 31 to green postcards that tiMing her -work with the · record-keeper, in aiding · reach· benchmarks set by denote service. . . d . the flow of state com- the Help America Vote "It's going 1to save us . MiSSissippi-base Stenms . merce,'and as its chief vot- Act, meant to end the immense amounts of dol- Center'for. Public Service. "I shudder to think, how ing overseer. problems that marred the Iars," she said .. · - _ . The 63-year-old, who 2000 elections. Ireland The electromc rule fJ]. in the world can we have ·· leaves office Jan. 18; is also had·to wait until that ing, meanwhile, will allow both sides of the human : also keeping an eye to the April for state legislation online tracking of changes equation represented ade. future. Besides a long- that sketched out the finer proposed and debated for quately, when we've just postponed vacation with points of the mandated the hundreds of agency had one viewpoint," her husband ("Neither of changes. . and program rules that. Ireland said, citing · the . us has had more than a 1 "We . had only eight spell. out the day-to-day dearth of women in West . week off at a time in 20 months to come ,into full workmgs · of state law. ·Virginia elected office. years, probably," she compliance with an Such changes aim to '.'We're very underrepre• said); Ireland expects lo extreme'ly complex and embrace the Internet and sented." remain involved with the · technical set of federal · state's Republican Party. · laws," Ireland said. "We In a state where were one of only 26 states Democrats dominate most that were able to meet the levels of government, deadline." . Ireland 1s the only Ireland leaves offices Republican since. 1996 to with all I ,887 of West win one ·of the six Virginia's election Ohio Valley Bank'~ eDelivery paperless bank sta1emenl is the statewide elected execu- .precincts equipped with at secue and green w~ to receive your financial information. All tive branch (')ffices that least one mac-hine that eDelivery users will ba automatically entered in quarterly drawings · form the Board of Public allows handicapped voters ·throughout 2009 to win eco-friend!y prizes suCh as zoo tickets, Works. to cast their ballots on Sdar lights, bicycles, and even the ultimate green ...Cashl ·'';-' . •' :~: ''I have · no concrete their own. All counties .' political plans," she told offer voting devices that .I NetTeller users may sign up by logging·in and clicldng on the ·.; The Associated Press, leave paper trails to help eDellvery tab. Don't have NetTellerintemet banking? No IJIIlllllin; · adding that "if something ensure ballots are counted just contact OVB's Internet Call Center by email at opens up politically, and I as they were cast. callcenter@ollbc. com or toll free at 1-an-893-2265 to g•t ellrlad. choose to walk through a She also rode herd over a 2008 election season door, I may do that." www.ovbc.com/go/eDeJivery . . But Ireland's first post- that saw record-breaking office task is a tough one. registrations and early She must ·settle the affairs voting turnout, though of her parents. whose ail- Nov. 4 's tur9.out numbers ing health prompted her to fell below tllat of 2004. . ~E~BERFDIC sit out tht; 2008 election And amid a handful of . Sunday~ Consequences to·· not taking things seriously _ _..c..__ _ _ _ _ _ _~--.---- with civil contempt and federalllonsupport orders. Chapman said an example of how these tools are applied came when employee. Randy Smith collected $11.917 in back child support on one case in 2008 when a p~sport suspension was J1Ut in place. "It was quite an exciting day when someone hands over that amount of money · and you know what it will mean to the children of the family," Chapman said. · Chapman . said the success. AltoUNn ToWN PageA3 ANNIE'S -MAILBOX Ohio debates how to expand prison ·tobacco ban ~Briefs · Bv · · ~Was..- I I ·· 2009 -l.t•~••HB>flr<· ,lt. ·• ~· "It· -<~ �" ' .. • 0 ' .· ' '• -iaubap lim ·itntintl · -PageA2 REGIONAL SUJ)day, January 4, 2009 ianba, liM ·itntind · HiJGGINS PRESS WAITER ASSOCIATED · -. · toJCARR with the proposal uihat Oh'10 ItJfN currently says bout ki · ·' S a SmO ng In pnson : · YJ COLUMBUS - Ohio is · moving ahead to. ban illl • No smoking or other tobacco use alloWed . tobacco products from prisons .by .Marclidespite quesinsideoroutsideattheCorrectiQnsMedical tions · about the state's CenterinColurribu$orlheOhioState Penitentiary in Youngstown, which also houses . authprity' to put such a ban in place, death row. · · d b Smokmg an to acco · • No smoking or other tobacco use inside the .products an; already prohibNorth Coast Correctional treatment faet'lity' _ 1·n · ·11151·d Oh'10· 32 · e · s pnsGrafton, the Lake Erie Correctional Institution in . •ted· ons. though some facilities Conneaut, the li"''""'- Correctional' Institution', the UICUU have outdoor areas set aside for inmates and staff. Hocking Correctional Facility in Nelsonville in 'ferry Collins. -director of southern Ohio, the Oakwood Correctional the Department of · Facility in Lima, the Northeast Pre-Release Rehabilitation and Center in Cleveland, the Franklin Pre-Release Correction. wants to expand Center in Columbu$ or the Montgomery · the ban to eliminate all Education Pre-Release Center in Dayton. tobacco products in or out • The prisons director may de1~ignate areas · of prisons by March I. whel'e smoking or tobacco-use is alloWed Out· That ban will also stop the sale -of tobacco products at side of those prisons. prison ~ommissaries, some • The prisons director shall designate at least of which still offer the one tobacco-free housing area within each items. prison not listed above. • The main issue is the • The state shall provide anti-smoking and tobac· eo-use programs·for prisoners at all state correchealth both of inmates and tiona! instMons, subiect to available Iundin . g. prison employees. Andrea ' Carson. the department's . said spokeswoman. Soun:e:Oillo.Re\oioedCodeTitle5t,Sec:tlon5t45.32 d S . atur ay. . . , A joint House-Senate legk· islative rule-rna tng com- clear how the law deals with said Niehaus,. a Republican · from New ' Richmond in mittee was supposed to • other correctt'onal ~act'litt'es, •· approve the plan last week. But the prisons depart- said Sen : Tom Niehaus. southwest Ohio. "That's not . ' ment took it.s plart off the chairman of the Joint clear right now." agenda to review the pro- Committee on Agency Rule Niehaus said Saturday posal. Meanwhile. some Review. that his preference is to find lawmakers Jiave raised "We're just trying to sort a way to allow the agency to questions about the state's through this to make sure · implement the ban without ability to implement such a the. statute does allow the having to pass a new law. of Carson said the agency is ban without passing a new Department Jaw. Rehabilitation and confident it will . have the Current law bans smoking Correction to actually ban ban in place by March one in some prisons but it's not tobacco use in all facilities," way or the other. It returns later this month. The union representing · gu;mls wants assur ~::its employees will~ offered. the same types of anti-smoking programs available·toinmates. . The Ohio Civil SerVice Employees Association is also concerned about & • th ob b en.orcmg e t acco an as the state tightens its budaffi d get and st ng goes own. "This now · will make tobacco contraband," ·said OCSEA spokeswoman Sally Meckling. "We now have to enforce the prohibition of tobacco and that takes resources, and we don't have resources, as I'm sure you've heard." Ohio had 51,197 inmates and 7,031 prison guards in . December. One .year ago; the prison system had fewer . inmates _ 49,886 _ and more guards: 7 .212. · A recent worst-case budget scenario developed by Gov. Ted Strickland for all state agencies would elim.i• ·nate · 5).~7 positions at the d - 1d prisons epartment, me u ing corrections and parole· . officers. It would also close · sIx pnsons a t a .t'tme of inmate overCrowding. The scenario was created to illustrate what could happen in Ohio if the federal government doesn't step in with ·financial help. Businesses that sell tobac-. co products to the prison . stores question whether the st;~te is .overreaching . its authority with the ban. Ag Society 'lemberships . GALLIOOLIS - 2009 emberships for the Gall~a County Agricultural Society are no~ on sale at. the Galha County Cooperative Elltenston Servtce l~ated m the C.H. McKenzie A~riculture Center near the faugrounds. Membershtps are $2 and may be purchased at the Extension Office during regular business hours, Monday through Friday. frail) 8 a.m. to 4 P:m. . · Membership into the society entltles the member to vote at the annpal election held in Septem~?er. The me~bershtp does not entitle the member to adm•sston to the frur. . be h' . d' 'd · To be eligible for mem ~ '!?• an !n IV! ua1 mus1 purchase his/her own membershtp hcket m person, be at least 18 years of age oroIder, and rest'de in Gallia County; · Agency rrom Page At BY KATHY MITCHELL AND MARCY SUGAR I . of the agency is directly related to the cooperation and coordination between · MCD1FS staff, the CQunty prosecutor's office an(j the court systems of Meigs County Common Pleas Judge Fred Crow and Juvenile Court Judge L. Scott Powell. · "Their commitment to protect and provide for the innocent children play a major role in making it possible to provide the. children with the child support they deserve," Chapman lidded. · Dear Annie: I'm in my outside the bedroom. I've late 50s and married to a got more important things very fine lady, the love of to worry about than how my life. Like many women much sell I'm getting. in their 40s and 50s, she The Other Side of the Bed now has a weaker sex drive. Dear Other Side: It's called menopause and is Compared to the majority inevitable, kind of like of letters we receive from death and taxes. men. it's refreshing to get · Does my wife wish she another perspective. We had a greater desire for love you guys. physical intimacy? Of Annie's Mailbox is writcourse. Can she .will it to ten by KaJhy Mitchell and happen? No. But I still find her desirable, and she Marcy Sugar, longtime shows me her love in so editors of the Ann Landers many other ways , from the column. Ple.ase e-mail special meals she prepares your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or to being my best friend. I try to be passionate write to: Annie's Mailb(,lx, without expectation. Just P.O. Box 118190, Chicago, cuddling when she needs IL 60611; To find out more comfort is far more impor- about Annie's Mailbox, tant than sex. I let her initi- and read feaJures by other ate intimacy, but I make ·Creators Syndicate writers sure I continually provide and cartoonists, visit the her with a reason to want to. Creators Syndicate Web by being loving l\nd caring page at www.creators.com. meets the second Friday of Central and Executive cominformation, ca11388-8454. · 4193. GAlliPOLIS · - Gallia GALLIPOLIS - . the month at II a.m. in the mittees meet the second MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Gallipollis · Rotary Clt.ib park 'district office at tke Tuesday of .the month. 7 Support Group meets the meets 7 a.m. each Tuesda,Y Gallia County ·Courthouse .p.m., in the second floor second Monday of each · at Holzer Chmc doctor s GALLIPOLIS - Gallia meeting .room of the Gallia .. · Tuesday, Jan. 6 · County TRIAD/SALT County Courthouse. The GALLIPOLIS - Holzer month at Holzer Medical dining room. GALLIPOLIS :... Galli a Council, a program in which · public is welcome. Clinic retirees will meet for . Center. For information, lunch at noon at the Holiday _ contact Amber Barnes at County Right to. Life meets law enforcement and older GALLIPOj.JS (740) 339-0291. 7:30 p.m., second Tuesday persons work together to preInn, Gallipolis. Morning Dawn No. 7 . GALLIPOLIS - NAMI of each month at St. Louis vent crimes against senior Thursday, Jan. 8 F&AM meetings are held citizens, meets on the second GALLIPOLIS - Gallia (National Alliance on Catholic Church Hall. GALLIPOLIS - Choose '• Tuesday of the month at I on the second Monday of County Ohio Township Ment'al Illness) meetings · each month at 7:30p.m. For Association meeting, . 7 will take ytace. the second to Lose eiet Club meets 9 p.m. at the Gallia County more information, call 446p.m., Gallia County Senior Tuesday o each month at 6 a.m., each Tuesday at Grace Senior Resource Center. 02 GALLIPOLIS - Gallia · Resource Center, 1167 State p.m. at the Gallia County United Methodist Church. J~LLIPOLIS Senior Resource Center. Use Cedar Street entrance. County Democrats meet on Route 160. Informational meetings are GALLIPOLIS - Fren,ch th~ first Mond11y of the. Veterans of Foreign Wars . Tuesday, Jan.l3 GALLIPOLIS - ·PERl held the third Thursday of City Chorustrreblemakers· month at 6 p.m. at the sec- Post 4464 meets the first third Tuesday of the meeting, 2 p.m .. meeting . every month at 6:30p.m. at · Chorus practice, 7:30 p.m. ond floor meeting room of and month at 7:30 p.m. at the Woodland Centers. . For every Tuesday at Grace the Gallia Co11nty room of the First Baptist post. 134 Third Ave. Family information, contact Linda United Methodist Church. Courthouse. For informaChurch, I 100 Fourth Ave. Night for members and their Johnson at (740) 367-0467 Guests welcome. tion. call 367-7530. Monday,Jan.26 families is the second (740) 339-3282, GALLIPoLIS - Gallia Everyone invited. GALLIPOLIS - . Knights or Tuesday of the month at County Board of Mental GALLIPOLIS - Park of Columbus dinner meet- Everyone is welcome. Retardation/Developmental Lane Crime Watch in the 6:30p.m. ing, 6:30p.m., Holiday Inn, Disabilities meets the third I Spring Valley area meetings Gallipolis. Tuesday of each month. 4 are held on the third · GALLIPOLIS p.m., at Guiding Hand Tuesday of each month at 7 School. p.m. at the Gallia County 9GALLIPOLIS - Harriet Gallipolis Neighborhoo,d THURMAN 1-l Center. · events. Library rromPageAt Regular m.eetings Support groups (Mrs. James L.) Davison will · celebrate her 90th birthday on Jan. 7. Cards can be sent to her at 5266 State Route 141, Gallipolis, Ohio 45631. GALLIPOLIS - Gladys Carter will .celebrate her 96th birthday on Jan. 10. Cards can be sent to her at 839 State' Route 218. Gallipolis, Ohio 45631. E-mail community calen· dar items to kkeUy@mydai· lytribune.com. Fax announcements to 446• 3008 _ Mail iums to 825 Third Ave., Gallipolis, Ohio 45631. Announcements may also be dropped off at the Tribune office. Card shower · GALLIPOLIS . Watch . meeting first ThulTI)an-Vega Parish Thrift QALLIPOL!S The Grieving Parents Support Monday of the month lit 7 Store open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Gallia County Veterans Group meets 7 p.m. second p.m. in the Gallipolis Thursday and Friday, 10 Service Commission will a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. meet at 4 p.m. on the second Monday of each month at Municipal Bu.ilding. • FME! 24/1 fte~ ~ Holzer Medical Center. GALLIPOLIS - Moms' Clothing and household. and fourth Tuesdays of each • li\SIJtll ~9 ICMP I'C'o" tludd-r 18' People attending should Club meets, noon, third · goods available. month until further notice. • 10 ~rnai ilddresM wiltt Webmail! • Cv!1om Slw1 Paal · news. weather & "-xt1 meet in the general lobby. Monday of each month at CADMUS Walnut GALLIPOLIS - Gallia · For information, call Jackie · Community Nursery Township Crime Watch County Veterans w ., , It's Not A Good Buy Sud up lo 6X Keatley at 446-2700 or School. For more informa- meets the second Monday Assoctation meet& the Without It! Nancy Childs at 446-5446. tion, call Tracy at (740) of each month at 7 p.m. at fourthMond~y of the month Sign Up Onllntl www.LoeatNot~om ATHENS - Survival of 441-9790. the old Cadmus school- at 7 p.m. at American Suicide support group GALLIPOLIS - Practice house. Legion Post 27. mee~s 7 p.m., fourth .for the French Colony CENTERVILLE GALLIPOLIS - Gallia "Thursday of each month at Chorus, a four-part harmq- . Raccoon Township Crime . · Cmtnty Republican Party Athens Church of Christ, ny style women's group, Wf Watch meets the second 785 W. Union St., Athens. p.m. each Tuesday at the Tuesday of each month at 7 For information, call 593- Central Christian Church, p.m. at the old . Centerville 7414. 109 Garfield Ave., school. GALLIPOLIS .- Look Gallipolis. Enter the side GALLIA - Greenfield Good Feel Better cancer cente~ door. For more infor- Township Crime Watch program, third Monday of mation, contact Suzy Parker meets the fourth Tuesday of ·the month at 6 p.m., Holzer at (740) 992-5555 or Bev each month at 7 p.m. at the Regi.dratiort Center for Cancer Care. Alberchinski at 446-2476. fire station. Now Open! GALLIPOLIS . GALLIPOLIS - Gallia . GALLIPOLIS - . The Alcohol'ics Anonymous County Conventi.on and "Old and New" quilters Call today Wednesday book study at 7 Visitors Bureau Board meet from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m . to sclredule p.m. and Thursday open meets the third Monday of the ·fourth Thursday of meeting at noon at St. the month, 5 p.m., at the eyery month at St. Peter's Peter's Episcopal Church, bureau's office, 61 Court St. Episcopal Church. For more 541 Second Ave. Tuesday Meetings are open ·to th~ information, call446-2209. . closed meetinf is at 8 p.m. public and for information, GALLIPOLIS Ft•r nulrtJinjQrmaliott ('tJtllJU'T.' at St. Peters Episcopal call 446-6882. · American Legion Post 27 Bn:m Pauerson CHESHIRE - Citizens meets on the first and third ,740) 992-188/Jor Church. GALLIPOLIS Against Pollution .(CAP) Monday of each month at Rrl><w1 l.nn,~ :Narcotics Anonymous has its quarterlY. meetings at 7:30 p.m. Dinner for mem(800) 282-7201. rxl. 7425 : Miracles in Recovery meets the Cheshire Vtllage Hall on bers ans their families Enwil: :every . Monday and the last Tuesday of January, served at 6:30 p.m. · brtnlp@rio.edu or rllhonuu@rio.edu :Saturday, 7:30 p.m,, at St. April, July and October, RIO GRANDE - The On lht ijJb, ~o ro 'o\'Ww.rio.tdu.admissimu Peter's Episcopal Church. starting at 7 p.m. Anyone · Village of Rio Grande reguPOINT PLEASANT, with concerns ts encouraged lar council meeting is held W.Va. Narcotics to attend . For more informa- the second Monday of each month at 6:30p.m. : Anonymous Living Free tion, call (740) 367-0273. ·Group meets every . · GALLIPOLIS - Gallia RODNEY ,- MOPS Wednesday and Friday at 7 County Commissi!)ners (Mothers of Preschoolers) Ht:N~ .-\IIIJ \ ', tTI.TZ n :Nn:R meet every Thursday, 9 . meets 10 a.m. on the first : p.m. at 305 Main St. I·'OR HIGIU:R EDUC ,\'riO~ VINTON - Celebrate a.m., Gallia County Tuesday of each month at .J:!J"ry' CMtk."'' C bltm:~· ) Dlt\t Recovery at Vinton Baptist Courthouse. Rodney Pike Church of F\>!Jit:rt l~·. ()hit• 4..~i(YIJ IJo·or 1/J.J,flr "'lo•i<nt Church. Small groups lookGALLIPOLIS - The God. Child ca,re provided. 7, HtJIII Cell"/"''' ., ing for freedom from addic- Galli a County Airport For information call (740) . ·-tions, hurts, habits and Authority Board meets at 245-9518. OI~~CRlf'IION C011Rst; PR!•f TIM!'. ROOM ~AYS GALLIPOLIS . hangups every Wednesday 6:30 p.m.. on the first A(.'(' l !.u}~ t;.ll ) L1ff PRINr:tiUS OF ACCOIJ'ofnNO I . li IJ'R51/ I'M Ml::I(IS tf.PoJ Hll) II<U"14 h{), ~ndl' II : .~11- 1 2 : 20 1~M ;at 7 p.m. For informatjon, Monday of each month at Ga\lipolis Kiwanis Club MWf MFIGS lllh PRIN Cli'I.~S OF HIOI.OGY HIU 11404L 60 S1~fT PRI. ~CIIUS Of BIOI.IXW I.AH TR II.:J().. 12::!{! J'tJ! MEIGS 106 ~call 388-8454. the Airport terminal build- meets at 6 p.m. on the secOOO.So.lO PM BM ZWO:< 00 Smff I'RIN('II'I.ES OF M'INAliEMENT M MEIGS 1(11) . POINT PLEASANT, ing. ond and fourth Thursday of INl'EnRAl'EO.CI.ASSR(XlM EDl ! · 1Q.l0l 60 rk:m Ill tl'f.Xl6:~ I'M MEIGS 100 MANAI<EMENl W.Va. - ''Let Go and Let GALLIPOLIS ' each month in the French . 7·00-9:.50 JlM ' I:M.•,,n I'LANNINti !'OR IN\- IRIJ<l'ION MEI(iS Ill WI! 104<XI ~) M . God" Nar-Anon Family Gallipolis TOPS (Take Off 500 Room of Holzer . 6:10.8;:10 PM EDll('A'/lNG THE EXCEI~ ' ION.~L ED~ r :!2-«U 6IJ . sr.n.r w · ,1\lEIG.S lOti ~ !.t;ARI'/P\ . .. . . ~. Group meeting, every . Pounds Sensibly) meets each Medical Center. . 1011)4 110. Jtlrcry ' <i1~i ~~:\61\~l. ~- ... MEI(JS I<It i;:N\~ ra .. Monday at 7 p.l)l., Krodel · Monday at6 p.m. at the First · GALLIPOLIS The ~~mg~~~ma~A~ BN(i 11111)4 60 • 11~00- 10:50 AM ... ,... M.~l("JS 12~ · Jell<ry R :Park recreational building. Baptist Church, 1100 Fourth Perennial Cat, a shelter for MW '<Olf·l().50 AIll Mf~GS lUi ENO 1(1:!()1 60 l<ffery ' REI,IJINO LFARNING .w MJ'J(jS 12~ lel[ol} II\ I)(~ IOo:>l AM . RI'.AlliNG ~.t;ARNINfi LAR F.NO 1021).1 (J() :The &roup helps· fami!ies Ave., with weigh"in starting .. homeless and abandoned 7 : .\0. 8:4~ PM COMPOS IT ION I TR MEIG~ I~ ENfi IIIQ1 6IJ Slid! r aqd fnends of d!Ug addi~ts at 5:30p.m. · • cats, meets the fourth q,:t().IOolOAM COMi~'l'iiTION 11 MWF MEIGS Ill Waici ENO 1120.\ 60 or users to attam seremty, GALLIPOLIS - Mid- . Monday of each month, MEI(JS I(IQ SIHJi 6: 00- S : ~PM COMI~OSITION il R bNd 1111.1.1 ., I:IK,l:lO PM 1.1 1(ll WORUl CIVUJZATION I MEIGS Hill ·HIS w ·regardless of whether Ohio Valley-Radio Club Inc. 6:30 · p.m., at Bossard ~· l)k~ o.~l PM MJ:I(iS H9 llliM,\N Wf.IJ.NESS & I'IIYSICAL MW ,fiP~ 10101 ~~ he/she has stopped - using. meets 8 a.m. first Saturday Memonal Library. Anyone fn'NF.SS hOOX!'i.lPM . The group res!lects all of each month in basement interested in being involved MS CJFflCE & lf'IERNET I MEIGS I!~ M IT 1mu• 60 I ')I.~T · ~'Rf$ 11MAN si1rn:ss ~ : 00-~ : ~PM LA 10101 TR MEIGS 109 • members' anonym1ty. .ofGallia County 911 Center with caring for homeless "'' sm~r MAIH Rf.VI~W IUIH lo:!U I'M MEIGS lffl 60 Hill MTR ~fl H I~IUl : VINTON Vinton on Ohio 160. Licensed ania- cats in this area is invited . Al.()f.BRA 5:1JJ-7· 20itM 'IR MEIGS)1.1! MTII IW\11 60 Shtller I'RI·.( :AI.('lll(IS MTWRI' MFI(jS 1m IIBU·IUO AM MTU 14505 b!) ' Hill · Baptist Church will operate teur radio operators and GALLIPOLIS - 0.0. INTROT(J S(X'IOUXJY sue 1110.{ nO ~WI MWf ll:.lO·I'JJJ PM MEIGS lll'i . a food pantry every Monday interested parties invited. Mcintyre Park District from 5 to 6:30 p.m. For .For information, call 446- Board of Commissioners 4 ·c.; .. j f!'.ff!!'!J ~@J)aJJibi €~~ : of <t, .RIO GRANDE MEIGS CENTER Spring Semester 2009 January 12, 2009- May It's ~0 easy being green with cDcRivery I' OIJ OHIO VALLEY B ' Dear Annie: For two years, I attended. a good allgirls Catholic high school. Because of my poor grades, 1 was ellpelled and am now ·enrolled in a public school. I reall-y don't like it and long to be back with my friends . · I have asked my mother and stepfather about reenrollment, but they said even if it were possible for me to return, they can't afford it with · the .state of the economy these days. Financial aid is not an option because their income exceeds the amount needed to be eligible. My father said if I really · wanted to go back, he would find a way to pay the tuition. Annie, I know he would never deliberately lie to me, but he's not rich and I'm not honey, if you get back into Or can they create their sure he can manage it. the Catholic school, you'd own activities? What could I desperately want to get better make them proud. I have done to relieve the back to my old school, but Dear Annie: I recently stress Susie brought to what it seems hopeless. I 'II do hosted a cl)stumed ladies was supposed to be a fun anything it takes, but it social, serving•lunch to 20 afternoon? Hostess seems impossible. Any sug- womeQ and organizing ice- Blues . gestions'!. - Losing Hope breaker games. While Dear Hostess: Susie was Dear Losing Hope: We gu~sts were arriving and I a rude guest because she know . you miss your was introducing people, undermined your authority friends, but there are con- "Susie" started taking pic- as the hostess. Guests sequences when you don't tures of the fun costumes. should always defer to the take your education seri- She directed people t9 hosts' plans for the occaously enough to gel pass- move here and there for sion, and hosts should make ing grades. It is unfair to photos. After severa1 their guests' participation as expect your father or any- attempts to get my allen- pleasant as possible. The one else to put themselves · tion, she hollered; "Debbie, best way to defuse someone in financial . jeopardy look at me right this like Susie is to assign her a · because you messed up. minute!" ' job and make her f~el like We think you . can make Susie acted put out when an important part of . the new friends at your current her ideas weren't used and process. We would huvc school. However, it's possi- wanted to control how the gushed about her photoble your parents would be games were played. She graphic skills and put her in willing to pool · their was not a very ~ompliant charge of taking pictures of resources so neither .one guest,· and I remam resent- every aspect of the event so gets stuck with the entire Jul. she had less time and inclituition bill, and it's OK to Aren't guests supposed to nation to interfere in other ask them about that. And, let the hostess direct them? areas. , Community Ireland ending historic run as-WVCz~ Sec. of State . January 4, 2009 GaUia County calendar I analog television, you will through a process called need a digital-to-analog " m u I t i c a s t i n g ·. " converter box to continue Multicasting_allows broadto watch broadcast ·televi- cast stations to offer several sion on that set. This con- channels of digital prog~am­ verter boll will also enable ming at the same lime, ycu to see any additional using the same amount of multi-cast programming spectrum required for one that your local stations are analog program. · Further, . · · · DTV can provide interacoffering. in 2008, U.S. · tive video and data services Beginning Bv LAWRENCE MESSINA , cycle as she cared for c!)mplaints · reg1l!'ding t~e latest technology, and · ASSOCIATEo PREss WRITER . them. · touch-screen · machines ease doing business in and households may be abl.e to · that are' not possible with obtain up t!> two coupons analog technology. Her faiher died in before the 2008 general with the state. 1 An important benefit of CHARLESTON, W.Va. August 2007, and her 'election -from perhaps But Ireland said they worth $40 each toward the purchase of conv_erter the switch to all-digital - A pre-Christmas visit to mother followed in ApriL 15 out of 153,789 early were also spurred partly the office of Secretary of ireland has held off sor't- voters - national groups )l,y an unexpected discov- b'oxes. The program will be broadcasting is that it will by the National free up parts of the valuState Betty Ireland ing through the items left •touted Ireland's response. ery froni when she first run revealed no packing. from the household the The Brennan Center for moved into 1900 Kanawha Telecom!"unicatio~s ~nd able broadcas_t spectrum Informatton AdmtmstratlOn for public safety commu. boxes, no recently bared couple shared iluring 68 Justice at New York Boulevard. (NTIA), a part of the U.S. nications (such as p,olice, . wall space. no .·signs that years of marriage. University and Verified "It dismays me, how we Department ?f Congress, fire departments, and resthe first woman ever elect"I look forward to the Voting jomtly sent letters have to struggle to do ed to West Virginia's exec- down time and tlie quiet to Ireland.'s counterparts modern-day; 21st Century whtch_ has tssued rules cue squads). Also, some of utive branch was entering time to really give that the •around the country hold- business in a state Capitol regardmg the coupon pro- the spectrum will be auc: the final weeks of ·her attention that it needs, to ing up her office's advice that was built 75 vears gram. (Please ~ate t~at tioned to companies that . term. honor their memories," - that counuh·~s redcal i- .ago," she said. "Be~ause these coupons ':"!II exptre will be able to provide consumers with more : Ireland instead had her Ireland said. brate their mac mes ai 1Y :.this is a historically pre- 90 days after mathng). . If you are a cable or sateladvanced wireless services hands full: putting the fin"The hardest thing that I and offer pencils or stylus- served building, we can't hte custo!"er, you need. to (such as wireless broad. ishing touches on . a new had to do in this office was es for touch screens - as electronic system for le~al to manage this office and "best practices." Just knock out walls. check wtth your servtce · b d) an · f process servers; steadtly still manage . the require"Th1s was definitely the There are things we just provider to be assured of a transition after Feb. . There ~re many source~~ m th 00 expanding the breadth of ments and the demands on best election that my absolutely cannot do. It's _ mformatu;m about the dtgi7 state agency rules avail- me as the daughter who office has had in conjunc- not set up for modern Why is the country con- tal t~ansti!On but one of the able online; preparing to took care of two aging tion with the secretary of business." brief the Legislature on parents, and then going state," said Mason County Ireland remains mindful verting to digital? Di~ital . pestts www.dtv.gov, or call: the year's busy election through their final days Clerk Diana Cromley, a of the milestone that bears broadcasting allows statiOns mg (88~) CAL~- FCC. You to offer improved picture can get.mformatton on what . season. with them," she said. four-term Democrat and her name, · as the first and sound quality, and digi- DTV ts, questwns conShe's also dealing with a Ireland had previously board member of the West woman elected to the tal is much more efficient sumers . should ask when : pile of allegations from headed the state Virginia Association of Board of Public Works, · :: the Nov. 4 balloting that Consolidated Public Counties. "As her term but .said she rarely dwells than analog. For example, purchasmg . new televts1on rather than being limited to set~, wh~t programs are · have been relayed to ihe Retirement Board and was progressed, and her team on it. · .iu\ud investigation unit chief executive of consult- got more experienced with "It's not my main deal to providing one analog pro- avatlable m DTV, and much - :she created after taking ing firm Jackson Kelly elections, I thought that stand up and be the gram, a broadcaster is able more. For information abo11t · office in 2005. Solutions when she ran for overall they did an excel- women's rights advocate," to offer a. super sharp "high definition' . ' (HD) digital this program or other ser"Typically, when a com- secretary of state in 2004. , lent job." she said. "I am a women's program or multiple "stanvices provided by Bosswd : plaint comes in at this She defeated Ken Hechler, As for her office's other rights advocate, but that's dard definition" (SD) digital Library. call the library at : time in the process, it is a Democratic elder states- roles, Ireland established a not what pushes me forprograms • simultaneously (740) 446-7323. . ': from somebody who has man who had previously syste111 for electronically ward. I am here to do the . lost an election, and who held the office, with near- recording when people are job." : wants us to do something ly 52 percent of the vote. served with notices of But she · also hopes to ; about it," Ireland said. A daunting deadline legal proceedings. The help increase the ranks of The day's tasks reflect greeted Iretand in her new state's 55 circuit clerks GOP women in slate polihad· previously been pep- tics, and encourage the wide-ranging role that post. : West Virginia's -secretary . Congress had given . pered, continuously, with women generally by constate plays - as a key states. until Dec. 31 to green postcards that tiMing her -work with the · record-keeper, in aiding · reach· benchmarks set by denote service. . . d . the flow of state com- the Help America Vote "It's going 1to save us . MiSSissippi-base Stenms . merce,'and as its chief vot- Act, meant to end the immense amounts of dol- Center'for. Public Service. "I shudder to think, how ing overseer. problems that marred the Iars," she said .. · - _ . The 63-year-old, who 2000 elections. Ireland The electromc rule fJ]. in the world can we have ·· leaves office Jan. 18; is also had·to wait until that ing, meanwhile, will allow both sides of the human : also keeping an eye to the April for state legislation online tracking of changes equation represented ade. future. Besides a long- that sketched out the finer proposed and debated for quately, when we've just postponed vacation with points of the mandated the hundreds of agency had one viewpoint," her husband ("Neither of changes. . and program rules that. Ireland said, citing · the . us has had more than a 1 "We . had only eight spell. out the day-to-day dearth of women in West . week off at a time in 20 months to come ,into full workmgs · of state law. ·Virginia elected office. years, probably," she compliance with an Such changes aim to '.'We're very underrepre• said); Ireland expects lo extreme'ly complex and embrace the Internet and sented." remain involved with the · technical set of federal · state's Republican Party. · laws," Ireland said. "We In a state where were one of only 26 states Democrats dominate most that were able to meet the levels of government, deadline." . Ireland 1s the only Ireland leaves offices Republican since. 1996 to with all I ,887 of West win one ·of the six Virginia's election Ohio Valley Bank'~ eDelivery paperless bank sta1emenl is the statewide elected execu- .precincts equipped with at secue and green w~ to receive your financial information. All tive branch (')ffices that least one mac-hine that eDelivery users will ba automatically entered in quarterly drawings · form the Board of Public allows handicapped voters ·throughout 2009 to win eco-friend!y prizes suCh as zoo tickets, Works. to cast their ballots on Sdar lights, bicycles, and even the ultimate green ...Cashl ·'';-' . •' :~: ''I have · no concrete their own. All counties .' political plans," she told offer voting devices that .I NetTeller users may sign up by logging·in and clicldng on the ·.; The Associated Press, leave paper trails to help eDellvery tab. Don't have NetTellerintemet banking? No IJIIlllllin; · adding that "if something ensure ballots are counted just contact OVB's Internet Call Center by email at opens up politically, and I as they were cast. callcenter@ollbc. com or toll free at 1-an-893-2265 to g•t ellrlad. choose to walk through a She also rode herd over a 2008 election season door, I may do that." www.ovbc.com/go/eDeJivery . . But Ireland's first post- that saw record-breaking office task is a tough one. registrations and early She must ·settle the affairs voting turnout, though of her parents. whose ail- Nov. 4 's tur9.out numbers ing health prompted her to fell below tllat of 2004. . ~E~BERFDIC sit out tht; 2008 election And amid a handful of . Sunday~ Consequences to·· not taking things seriously _ _..c..__ _ _ _ _ _ _~--.---- with civil contempt and federalllonsupport orders. Chapman said an example of how these tools are applied came when employee. Randy Smith collected $11.917 in back child support on one case in 2008 when a p~sport suspension was J1Ut in place. "It was quite an exciting day when someone hands over that amount of money · and you know what it will mean to the children of the family," Chapman said. · Chapman . said the success. AltoUNn ToWN PageA3 ANNIE'S -MAILBOX Ohio debates how to expand prison ·tobacco ban ~Briefs · Bv · · ~Was..- I I ·· 2009 -l.t•~••HB>flr<· ,lt. ·• ~· "It· -<~ �' . f OPINION 6unap lillld -6tntintl . . &unbar 1ttm~ -6tntintl ''. 825 Third Avenue • GalllpoUa, Ohio (740) 446-2342 • FAX (740) ~ -.mydalllytrlbune.com Ohio Valley Publishing Co. Dan Goodrich Publisher Diane Hill Controller Kevin Kelly Managing Editor Leuers to the editor are welcomt'. They should be less than 300 words. All letters are subjeCt to editing and must be signed and include address and telephone number. No unsign..d letters will be published. Letters should be in go_od taste. addressing_ issues. not ~rsonaliries. . TODAY IN filS TORY are Today is Sunday, Jan. 4, the fourth day of 2009. There . 361 days left in the year. · · Today's Highlight in History: 1\vo hundred years ago, on Jan. 4, 1809, Louis Braille, - inventor of the Braille raised-dot reading sysrem for the blind, was born in (:oupvray. France. : On !his dale: In 1821 , the first native-born American.saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton. died in EmmitsbUI¥· Md. . In 1896, Utah was admittt!d as the' 45th state. In 1904. the Supreme Court, in Gonzalez v. Williams. ruled that Puerto Ricans were not aliens and could enter the United States freely; however, the court stopped short of declaring them U.S. citizens. In 1948, Burma (now called Myanmar) became independ!mt of British rule. · In 1951, during the Korean War, North Korean cand Communist Chinese forces recaptured the city of Seoul. In 1960, Nobel Prize-winning French author Albert Camus died in an automobile acciqent at·age 46. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson outlined ·the goals of his "Great Society" in his State of the Union Address. Poet T.S. Eliot died in London at age 76. .· .. In 1974, President Richard M. Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate .Committee. · . In 1987. 16 people were killed when an Amtrak train bound from Washington 10 Boston collided with Conrail locomotives that had crossed iniO its path from a side lnlck in Olase, Md. In 2007, Nancy Pelosi was elected the fii'St female speaker of .the House as Democrats took control of Congress. · Ten years ago: Europe's new currency, the euro, got off to a strong start on its first trading day, rising against the dollar on world currency maJkets. Fonner ·professional wrestler Jesse Ven~ took the oath of office as Minnesota's goveinor. · Five years ago: In Iowa, seven of the nine Democratic presidential hopefuls participated in a feisty, first debate of the election year. Afghans approved a new constitution. G~s overwhelmingly elected Mikhail Saakashvili president, two months after he'd led protests that forced Eduard Shevardnadze to step down.,Louisiana State University won college football's Sugar Bowl, defeating Oklahoma 21-14. · · · One year ago: The government reported that the nation's jobless rate hit 5 percent in December 2007, a two, year !righ, fanning recession fears. Howling winds, pelting rain and heavy snow pummeled California. Britney Spears lost custody of her two sons to ex-husband Kevin Federline a day after police and paramedics were called 10 her home. . Today's Birthdays: Actress Barbara Rush is 82. Football Hall-of-Fame coach Don Shula is 79. Actress Dyan Cannon is 72. Opera singer Grace Bumbry is 72. Author-historian Doris Kearns Goodwin is 66. Couiltry singer Kathy Forester (The .Forester Sisters) is 54. Actress Ann Magnuson is 53. Rock musician Bernard Sumner (New Order, Joy Division) is 53. Country singer Patty Loveless is .52. Rock singer Michael Stipe (REM.) is 49. Acror Patrick Cassidy is 47. Actor Dave Foley is 46. Singer-musician Cait O'Riordan is 44. Actress Julia Ormond is 44. Tennis player Guy Forget is 44. Country singer Deana Carter is 43. Rock musician Benjamin Darvill (Crash Test Dummies) is 42. Actor Jeremy Licht is 38. Actress-singer Jill Marie Jones is 34. , · . Thought for Today: "Sometimes history takes things into its own .hands." - Thurgood Marshall. U.S. Supreme Court iuslice (1908-1993). · . ( " fr • Pomeroy • Middleport • Ga1lipolis Sunday, January 4, a009 .Obituaries ,. .. A hard year ahead · ; ; Here's a New Year's res. ready cash. Economist cers and wholesalers are olution that can be summed Mark Zandi told the Post down sharply, and Bonnie up in two words: Fight that every food-stamp dol- Bellehumeur. president of a ·hunger. Cokle lar generates $1.73 in eco- gmup ,ihat collects those The economic ' crisis is and nomic activity, exactly the donations, says, "We crushing· ·the ability of Steven sort of kick-start the econo- haven't seen this low a food supply in 10 years." . Roberts my needs. ·••many parents to feed their · H11111!er is not just a pubIn Colorado Springs. children. Donations to antilie problem: it's a private Colo ., Catholic Charities is hunser programs surged one. 'Obviously, many fam- short on baby food, diapet'5 during the holiday season, but the demand continues · ilies have to reduce their and formula. "Donations to outstrip th~ supply. weekly total in 26 years. charitable giving this year, have been· consistent. with Many of the needy families Consumer spending and which means that those of previous years, but they're have never had to rely on family income both plum- us who still have the means · not enough - they go out . charity before in their lives. meted in November. should .try to increase our · as quickly as they come "Food has been going.out "I think we are only see- donations. in," says spokeswoman just about as fast as it is ing the beginning of it," a Michelle Obama sent an Rochelle Schlortt. "All coming in;" Rhonda' food-bank·official in north- e-mail . to her husband's charities are concerned Chafin, director of a food east Iowa . told Feeding vast network of supporters, everybody is competing for bimk in northeastern America. "It could be a urging them to contribute a limited amount of dolTennessee. told the Bristol hard winter." Another in "to your local food bank." Jars." Herald Courier. "This year the Pacific Northwest We directed most of our Some people have is different. It's not just added , "We feel we haven't own holiday giving this stepped up bi~ time. The those who live in poverty. seen the bouom yet of the year to feeding programs. Bill & .· Melinda . Gates This year, it's our neigh- economic· downturn, and and were pleased to receive Founwition gave an emer; bor." . . while giving is up right · a ·.-.umber of cards from gency grant of $1.4 million She's right. This fall, now, we're ¥ery concerned . friends saying they had to feeding programs in the 31 .5 million Americans about what will come sev- done the same thing. · Pacific Northwest. Yoga qualified for ·federal assis• . era! months down the But just plug the words · teachers in Connecticut tance through the food- road ." "food" and "hunger" into have started a national stamp program .(now Part of this is a fede.ral your Internet search movement, trading a free renamed SNAP). That's the problem. Barack Obama, engine, and you quickly largest number in history, whose mother briefly realize that holid!ly gifts class for a bag of food. breaking the record set in received food stamps. has alone won't solve the prob- High-school students in . November 2005 after three talked about using h1s stim- lem. Fighting hunger will Riverton, Utah, raised $82,000 for charity through devastating hurricanes. ulus package to boost food take a yearlong effort. · A national survey of 160 aid, and ihat makes sense. In western Pennsylvania, 19 days of caroling and car food banks by Feeding Food costs jumped more feeding programs are run- washes. Yes, there is a hard win• America reported a 30 per" · tha~ 6 pc:rcent for the year· ning so low on supplies ter ahead. Mosi of us cuicent increase in demand endmg m October, and · thi!-t ·they have to d1vert over the last year. Three of benefits have · not caught ·operating funds to buy not create jobs for needy four banks said they had to up . The Washington Post food . Local hunters iue families. But we can help reduce each family's allot~ reports that for a family of helping by donating deer feed their kids . (Cokie Roberts' latest tnent so no one would be four, the current monthly meat, but. as Marlene turned away. food-stamp allotment, Kozak, director of a local book is "Ladies of Liberty: A11d the demand for food $588, falls $64 short of food bank, says "You The Women Who Shaped · is only going to increase. providing an adequate diet. never solve the problem. Our Nation" (William Claims for jobless benefits Moreover, food stamps Everybody has to eat three Morrow, 2008) . Steve allil .hit 586,000 during th.e -;- as O(?posed to construe- times a day." . Cokie Roberrs can be week ending · just befofe !•on p~jects :- .Pr~uce an · In Milwaukee. Wis., food reached at Christmas - the highest •mmed1ate mJeclion .of donations from local gro- stevecokie@gmail.com.) Hope is on the way If life were a Broadway play .instead of the reality show we often make it, 2008 will soon be enjoying · its final curtain call. The reviews are about to start Donna pourin$ in, and there are Brazile · early s1gns of hope as well as hardship on th~ horizon. An amazing time in poli. LETTERS TO THE .tics, 2008 will go down in EDITOR history as a groundbreak- and even suggested topics ing year for the United for the column. most often ' Letters to the editor are welcome. They should be · States. No matter your polless than 300 words. All letters are subject to editing, .. itics, and even if you dis- wanting me to share the stories and sacrifices .of must be signed, and include address afl4 telephone like politicians of every working Americans I met .number. No unsigned letters will be published.l.etters sort, this was an incredible in my extensive travels :should be in good taste, addressing issues, not per12 months . across the country in 2008. It was a record-breaking .sonalities. Letters of t1tanks to organizations and indiThough I have only met a year of vertigo-inspiring few of them in person, 1 viduals will not be accepted for publication. highs and nausea-inducing call them the greatest blesslows: It contained so many . ing of all during this long firsts .:.. chief among them, presi~.ential season. the first African-American Unanimously and ardto win the presidency and less their political a t .· Reader Services the first woman to achieve lion, they all call Barack Third Avenue, Gallipolis. OH Correction Polley a yjable chance of winning Obama 's victory the greatOiJr main concern in 811 stories is to be 45631. Periodical postoge paid at Gallipolis. accuraie. 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States can ill himself or the Democratic afford to ignore them ..The Party. He was beckoning world, too, awaits the new every American to join him order. in putting the country back With all that is going on on the righi track. and perhaps much more to The worst thing about come, I still see 2009 as 2008 was the economy. being markedly better than There Will be plenty of 2008. This will be our seaissues to spill over into son to hope again, to move 2009, but ilts the economy forward as one people, to . that will continue to sap put shoulder to the wheel our resources and test our and help the new president faith. We might as well get with a recovery plan that used to more government will stimulate the economy intervention and bailouts as · anq innovation. the recession deepens. There will be sacrifice, Unemploym~nt wi.ll likely ~d the recovery will take conll nse, w1th more lime. There will be dark Americans ht in the · days in which hope and undertow of the. economiC inspiration are scarce.There downturn. · To keep us will be sweat, toil and inore inspired, Obama will .have than a few tears. But if we to act quickly and decisjve- start now to brace ourselves .Jy. Hope· is a precious and for the WO{St and determine all · too often ephemeral to do our best, together .we commodity. . s~all be as prepared as posObama IS well-advised to Sible to hefp our neighbor s'~ll the stimulus package to our co-workers, our extend~ us right now. Its best sell- ed ·families, our nation·and ing points will be jobs, our new president overcome · extraordinary accountabili- every obstacle. ty and transparency, and . We the people are n~ed mvestments to long-term now more than·ever..~o . as ecoliomic.growth1 especial- we pop our champagne and ly m the energy and health- make our resolutions, let us care · sectors. Equally also resolve to seize this, impol;lant is investment in our moment, and make it educa'tion reforms that will our time to truly come to prepare future generations the aid of our country and to acquire the skills they fellow citizens. need t!).compete in a global . (Donna Brazile is a polit. economy. ical commema.tor ori CNN, Unfortunately, our prob- ABC and NPR; contributr lems will not all be domes- ing columnist to Roll Cali; .tic in scope or urgency. the newspaper · of Capitol Some of our worst Hill; and fofWier campaign moments of 2009 will manager for AI Gore .) ' • -' Jerry D. Schoolcraft, Sr. Deaths Jettle Reynolds iilunbap ~imt$ -i;lrntinrl •'Page As Mars rover mission"reaches . 5th anniversary PASADENA. Calif. (AP) !erry D. Schoolcraft , Sr~.. 61. Langsville, went to be Jettie J. Hendrick Reynolds, 73, Point .Pleasant. W.Va .. - Five years after the NASA ·~llh the Lord on Jan. 2. 2009. at his residence follow- died Thursday, Jan. I, 2009, in Cabell Huntington Hospital. rover Spirit landed on ~ars. Jog a battle wtth cancer. the six-wheel robotic geolO. .· Huntington, W.Va .. after a sudden illness. He was born Oct•. 13, 1947, in Richwood. W.Va., son She was preceded in death by her first .husband. Jack gist and its twin Opportunity of the late Charles Schoolcraft and Lillian Durham. He Hel)drick . and her second husband. David Reynolds Sr. are still on the job. was a former Gallia County Deputy of eight years Expectations were far Services will be I p.m. Monday in the First Church of the where he worked as Sgt. Criminal investigator. He also Nazarene, Point Pleasant, with Pastor James -Ellis and the lower .when Spirit made a worke~ at the Gallia County Landfill . Rev, Dean Warner officiating. Burial will be in the Cox · bouncing landing in a cocoon · ~urv.1vmg are hi s wife. Barbara Schoolcraft: three Landing Church Cemetery, Lesage, W.Va. Friends may call of air bags on Jan. 3, 2004. children, Paul (Tammy Clary) Yost, Danville. Patricia at the Deal Funeral HoD)e. Point Pleasant . frpm 7 to 9 p.m. followed . 21 days later by ..(IvaJ_~) B~umfteld k,Crown City, Nina (Jim) Brumfield, Sunday and at the church one hour prior to the services on Opporturuty: 1'\le goal was to Galhpoh~; grandchtldren, Jasmine and Michael Charles Monday. . . try to operate each solar-powYost. Talissa O'Shae and Miranda Nichole Brumfield Condolences may bee-mailed to the family at dealfuner- ered rover for at least three . Aaron _Don Schoolcraft, Cody James and Dylan Col~ al@suddenlinkmail.com. · , · months. .Brumfield; and .four brothers, Marvin (Elva) "That's an extraordinary School~raft. Danvtlle: James (Diane) Schoolcraft, return of investment in these 1)icl( "Langsville; Roger (Mary) Schoolcraft, Shade; Timmy ohallenging budgetary times." {Bndgett). Robens, Webster Springs, W.Va. · Richard Lee "Dick" Mollohan. Sr.. 75. of Gallipolis. died Ed Weiler. associate adminis:In addtlton to hts parents. he was preceded in death by Saturday morning, Jan. 3, 2009, at Pleasant Valley Nursing trator for NASA's Science h1s son, Jerry Don Schoolcraft, Jr. , Mission Direclorate, said in a Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m . on Sunday at and Rehab Center. · December statement the McCoy "Moore Funeral Home. Vinton. with Rev. · Funeral services will be at I p.m. on Tuesday Jan. 6. Combined, the rovers have ~haron Durhafr! officiating. Burial will be at the discre- 2009, at the Waugh-Halley-Wo<id .Funeral Home with Rev. made more than 13 miles of }IOD of the fam•ly. The family requests in lieu of llow- Alfred Holley officiating. Burial will follow in Reynolds tracks on Mars' dusty surface ers, me.monal g1fts be made to the Jerry Schoolcraft Cemetery. Fnends may call at the funefal home on Tuesday and sent a quarter:million from noon until the time of service. · Memonal Fund. P.O. Box 148 , Vinton , OH 45686. An online guest registry is available at waugh-halley- images back to Earth. Their instruments have uncovered wood.com. · · · evidence that Mars was once ' Richard Lee Mollohan, Sr. Pastor Ira C. Wellman a far wener and wanner place than tbe frigid. dusty world it isnow. · An accumulation of dust on the rovers· electricity-generat~ ing solar panels was expected to be one of the most likely causes of their eventual deaths. but wind has occasionally cleaned the panels. _ Spirit, however. has an 18, month buildup of dust and its panels were barely able to provide sufficient power during Mars· just-ended southern hemisphere ',"inter. At one point it failed to receive commands; and its status fell to --~rious but stable" condition. The winter was a "squeaker" for Spirit. John Callas. the rover project ,manager at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. said in the NASA statemenl . "We just made it through." he said. .·Alaska celebrates 50 years of statehood Pastor Ira C. Wellman, 84, of Gallipolis , went home to be wtth his Lord on Friday, Jan . 2, 2009, surrounded by his family Bv STEVE QuiNN concurrent, 1\nrelated to see if the Senate would rooted in the resource- rich at the Four Winds · ASSOCIATt:D PRt:ss WlliTER developments that le.d to concur. North Slope. . Community in Jackson. . . Stevens' conviction for . One of those sitting tight - March 24. 1989. the He was born on Feb . 16, JUNEAU ; Alaska lying on federal disclosure wa~ Jack Coghill. one of Valdez oil tanker ran 1924, 'in Louisa, Ky ., to Mike Stepovich peered forms and Palin 's emer- 55 people who helped aground and spille'd nearly ·Paris F. and Olema B. over Dwight · D. . gence onto th~ national draft the state's constitu- 10 million gallons of oil in 'llensley Wellman . Eisenhower's shou.lder scene as · America's tion three years earlier. He the Prince William Sound. Pastor Wellll]an was a while the president signed favorite hockey mom. was among a s mall group 11 led 10 a 19-year comnon-denominallonar pasAlaska's statehood proclaBut to tbose living here. in his roadhouse coffee pensatwn · batt 1e belween tor. pastoring various · · b mauon - JUSt to e sure. especially historian s, that shop huddled around a fishermen and Ehon churches in our area for "We did it; we're in." · point of view may be an radio crackling out as Mobil Corp. , which prefifty plus years. He was slice of much static as it did news . Stepovich thought while . important also a construction painter Eisenhower, not an origiAlaskarta, but it is still When word came that vailed in the U.S. Supreme und a dedicated member nal backer of Alaska state· myopic. the Senate backed state- Court. -of the Painter's Union for hood, dragged his pen They point to the state's hood, 64-20, "there was - Aug. 6. 2006. BP parfifty plus years in Tampa, across the page. wildlife that attracts phoeuphoria all over the tially shut down Prudhoe Ira Wellman Fla. He was also a World on Jan. 3, tographers, · artists and state," recalled Coghill, Bay, the nation's largest This signature War II U.S, Navy Veteran : 1959., made Alaska the hunters: features such as ~ho went on to .serve as producing oil field. The Ira W<\S married to Irene Smith Wellman on Oct. 13, 1945, in Pikeville, Ky. and nation 's 49th state, 11nd bears pouncing on salmon: lieutenant governor as shutdown unsettled markets globally, . drivin g she survives him in Gallipolis. He is also survived by . touc~ed off .a series of eel- . moose roaming parks as well as state senator: ebrallons more than 3,00() well as the streets of In • downtown prices close to $90 a barone son, David Ira (Angela) Wellman of Gallipolis; two Anchorage; Anchorage. a boQfire' rei. . daughters, Donna (David) Russell of Flagstaff, Ariz .. miles away while Will~am:.. downtown roared that evening; in - Aug. 31. 2006, the and Diana Racer of Delaware, Ohio; it daughter-in-law, A. Egan took an oath ma - ··eagles ~oaring overhead. downtown Juneau mov1e They cite the lditarod , a Juneau , people rang the FBI raided the offices of Candice C. Wellman of Gallipolis ; eight grandchildren, Michelle. (Brian) Miller of Glenford , Ohio , David Ira lheat,er . to serve ·. as the lc;mg-distance dog race and liberty bell replica in front six state lawmakers under the one sport that puts of the Capitol, and in investigation for a rela(Stacey) Wellman,. Jr. of Farmington, W.Va ., Jason state s fust governor. "Thal was the final act.'' · Alaska in the national Fairbanks, fire engines tionship with oil field . ser(Jennifer) Swisher of Fairplay, Colo., Brandy Krouse of . made a noisy celebration. vices firm VECO Corp. ·Point Pleasant, W. Va., . Celena (Jason) Sprouse of . ~aid Stepovich, nov.: 8?. spotlight. Congress approved tt SIX Columbus, Lauren Russell of Pagosa Springs, Colo., And they mention the An Anchorage newspa- seeking·favorable votes on Kolt Racer of Colu~ and Miela Wellman of months earlier, but. it tasty seafood that lands on per came out with a six- an oil tax. The investigaGallipofis; six great gr'dndchlldnin; two sisters, Dorothy never came. about until It the plates of many in the inch headline that hangs tion has led to convictions (Joseph). Brackens of Tennessee and Delores Wyatt of was s1gned , · by Lower 48. Alaska supplies framed in the state's of four state lawmakers. Crest! in!'. Ohio; three brothers, James (Vickie) Wellman Etsenhower. He wasn I for . nearly 50 percent of the Capitol: WE'RE IN! (A with one trial pending. of Arkansas, William (Carol) Wellman of Illinois, and. 11 at fuTsht, but by then h~ nation~s seafooq, includ- Juneau paper lighthearted- . _ Aug. 1, 2008, the · Robert (Inez) Wellman of South Carolina. . · · was. · ere was sue,. ing delicacies such as ly bannered: WE DOOD Legislature .agreed to give One son, Pastor William Daniel Wellman preceded relief." 0: Copper River salmon that IT!) TransCanada Corp . an · · , · For the next 50 ye10 fetched up to $40 a pound him in death. But a few hours later. exclusive license to purServices will be at I p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, at Alaska built on its appeal in 2008. the state of Alaska had its sue a natural gas pipeline . d d Willis Funeral Home with Pastor Roy Oldaker officiat- as rugge a.n .at lnJ!eS "The people who wrote first crisis. · h • d d 10 1 E~an was rushed to has- be proJect at s eeme ing. Burial will follow in the Ohio Valley Memory untamed, whtle .becommg . the constitution were o~tithe stat.e 's next ecoGardens. Friends may call on Monday, Jan. S, 2009, a key d omesuc energy mists,'! said Vic Fisc er pita . Three days later, he' nomic lifeline, much like from 6 to 8 p.m. at Willis Funeral Home. There will be provider, a place for ~riti- an 84-year-old man wh~ had his gall bladder full military riles given at the cemetery by volunteers of ~ally h~cated m11itary was among the charter's removed, but his recovery the oil pipeline 31 years · bases durmg the Cold War, authors. "We saw what we would last months ·and ago. area veteran lodges. · Fischer said people conPlease visit www.willisfuneralhome .com to send e- · and a state with a highly had to offer to the rest of require a trip · to a Seattle and of late, the world.~' hospital with more sophistinue to have an idealized charj!\ed mail condoh!nces. hostile - political ·eliEfforts to make others ticated facilities. vision of Alaska. . mate. . recognize Alaska predated "When he got sick, he "It's a place where Alaska has provided 15 Eisenhower's signing 50 didn't have a clue what Native people still live in billion barrels of oil - as years ago , of course. It was going on," recalled their original environClifford "Red" R. Rogers, 56, of Jackson, passed wt;ll ~s the most ~ost_ly ml took nearly 10 years of his son, Dennis Egan. "It ment .'' he said, "a place of ·away Jan. I, 2009. . sptll m the nation s htstory intense lobbying from ter- was his . will that kept him !1/orth Ameri'ca that's still He was born in Zanesville on May 20, 1952, to that led , to a ·frolracted ri·torial · leaders before going. He had worked so gorgeous and shiny like George Rogers of ,Ironton and the late Sarah legal. battle. Ot has al.so Congress gave its final hard - everybody did the North Star." (Richardson) Rogers. , prov1ded Alaska wnh approval in 1958. to make Alaska a state. He .. In addition .to his father, he is survived by special nearly 90 percent of' its Congress and wouldn't give up after friend, Jackie Figl!ens of Gallipolis; children, Grace and state treasury annually. Eisenhower balked at the coming that far. " Garrett of Gall1polis; brother, Randell (Deborah) Egan went on to serve It:S, ·offered fodder for nCJ\ion for much of the Rogers of Ironton; niece, Amanda Rogers: and pohllcal pundtts and I9~s, worrying about two teqns as governor and 'neplle.ws, Mark and Brad McFann . humon~ts followmg lhe potential state interference was later elected for a In addition to his mother, he is preceded in death by unsucces~ful GOP vtce with military operations third nonconsecutive term. sister, Betsy McFann. .. prestdenhal run of Gov. during the Cold War's He worked with budgets · . Funeral st,:rvices will be at I p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 6, Sarah Palm, and the feder- emergence, and whether in the low millions of dot2009, at the Eisnaugle-Lewis Funeral Home with Rev. 'Scott ·Baker · officiating burial to follow in Vernon al corruptton scandal th11t the state's entry would Iars before oil star!ed ·cemetery. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday, stretched from Juneau to · upset a power balance in flowing. san indrpc:ndt:nl Washington , where it Congress. Today. Palin. the state's 'Jan. 5, 2009 , at the funeral home . ensnared Sen. Tep But in 1958, opponents. ninth and 1he first woman Online condolences to www;e~k-lewisfunenil.com. Stevens: • . . · including Eisenhower. governor, works with surrhc best in.m : r.lilcc:: pr01~tiou at And Its gtven wnters accepted Alaska's state- plus-generating budgets in and d1rectors a place to set hood pitch . largely thanks the billions generated compc:ntl'-'C pm..c:~ . \Y./c reprtsent a scene for memorable to relentless push by a from oil revenue . · only thC' fine~>t lk'---. The industry ·has been a : Randall M. Spencer, 76, ofGalli'polis. passed away on. books , rttovtes and televt- delegation made up partly insuran~ ·Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, at his residence. . si<:?n shov.:s. Think James of future Congressmen boon and a black eye for Randall was born on June 10, 1932, in Vinton, son of ~tchene~. s book Ralph Rivers, Ernest the state, producing some companJts. Alaska, the movie Gruening and the late Marvin H. and Sarah E. Berry Spencer. · 11 Bob indelible memories: ,including , He was retired from the Gallipolis Developmental "Limbo," with director Bartlett. · - June 20, 1977. oil r.Center .where he had been a nursing assistant. Randall · John Sayles, or the The House first backed first moved through a Auto-Owncn was a U.S. Army Veteran ; a member. of the VFW Post Disco~ery Cha?.nel d~cu- statehoqd for the territory trans-Alaskan · pipeline . fnsuranct" .161 in Vinton; AM VETS; and the DA\1.. He also attend- mentary Deadliest on May 28 1958 with a More than 31 years later, ed the First Church of God. Catch." , 210-166 vote. On 'June 30 15 billion barrels of oil Company. year, have moved through an The state s f<;>undation of that same · Randall is survived by two daughters, Cindy Lahrmer which has truly c:arn~d 1hc of Chillicothe, and Carla Spencer of Waverly; two sons , was bu1lt by ftshermen, Alaskans waited anxiously 800-mile pipeline that's repurarion a.~ The "No Problem" _Richard (Joan) Spencer of South Carolina, and Donald miners. lawyers; mer. chants. homesteaders · (Joan) Spencer of Garfield, Ga. ; seven grandchildren; Proplc:4> Ask u:. ahour-tht> ·ren great grandchildren; three sisters,. Margaret (Tom Today. Alaska's leaders mJ.ntorher advantagrs of cloin~ ,Cook) Burnette, Virginia Russell , .and Dorie (Donald) still are made up o( people unafraid to get dirty, while .VanScoy, all ·Of Gallipolis. two brothers, Roy A. hu.~in~-~.s with an indtpe nJl·nr . I • ;Spencer of Richlands, N.C .. and Pete (Jean) Spencer of serving in the Legislat~re im:uranC( agc;' n ' "Y . for half a year then casting Gallipolis; and several nieces and nephews . nets at sea and hunting for Ra11dall was preceded in death by his parents; his food in the interim. wife, Betty. in 1991; and by a brother, Gomer Spencer. "Most of us still share a · Services will be at I p.m. on Monday, Jan . 5, 2009, at Willis Funeral Home witb Rev. James Chapman offici- love for the land we li\le . ating . Burial will follow in the Ohio Valley Memory on," said state Rep . John oghill , a Republican Gardens . Friends may call at Willis Funeral Home on whose father, Jack, was Sunday (today) from 6 to 8 p.m. www.mydgUy.sen~inel.eom Pallbearers will be Donald Spencer, Charlie Spencer, one of the state constitu Jimmy Arledge, Mike Ru ssell , Scott Ru~sell , and Boyd iion 's drafters. "In the end. Burnette. Full military rites will be given at the' grave- that's what's made us work ·well together." side by volunteers of area veteran lodges. Recently, the nation 's Please visit www.willisfuneralhome.com to send e' ' look at Alaska has been mail condolence s. through a political pri sm: Clifford •Red• R. Rogers We offer the bestprices . and protection for you. · Randall M. Spencer · a / ;.!w~.:C#..y• announcements onlne at or www.mycfa1lytnbune.com . �' . f OPINION 6unap lillld -6tntintl . . &unbar 1ttm~ -6tntintl ''. 825 Third Avenue • GalllpoUa, Ohio (740) 446-2342 • FAX (740) ~ -.mydalllytrlbune.com Ohio Valley Publishing Co. Dan Goodrich Publisher Diane Hill Controller Kevin Kelly Managing Editor Leuers to the editor are welcomt'. They should be less than 300 words. All letters are subjeCt to editing and must be signed and include address and telephone number. No unsign..d letters will be published. Letters should be in go_od taste. addressing_ issues. not ~rsonaliries. . TODAY IN filS TORY are Today is Sunday, Jan. 4, the fourth day of 2009. There . 361 days left in the year. · · Today's Highlight in History: 1\vo hundred years ago, on Jan. 4, 1809, Louis Braille, - inventor of the Braille raised-dot reading sysrem for the blind, was born in (:oupvray. France. : On !his dale: In 1821 , the first native-born American.saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton. died in EmmitsbUI¥· Md. . In 1896, Utah was admittt!d as the' 45th state. In 1904. the Supreme Court, in Gonzalez v. Williams. ruled that Puerto Ricans were not aliens and could enter the United States freely; however, the court stopped short of declaring them U.S. citizens. In 1948, Burma (now called Myanmar) became independ!mt of British rule. · In 1951, during the Korean War, North Korean cand Communist Chinese forces recaptured the city of Seoul. In 1960, Nobel Prize-winning French author Albert Camus died in an automobile acciqent at·age 46. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson outlined ·the goals of his "Great Society" in his State of the Union Address. Poet T.S. Eliot died in London at age 76. .· .. In 1974, President Richard M. Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate .Committee. · . In 1987. 16 people were killed when an Amtrak train bound from Washington 10 Boston collided with Conrail locomotives that had crossed iniO its path from a side lnlck in Olase, Md. In 2007, Nancy Pelosi was elected the fii'St female speaker of .the House as Democrats took control of Congress. · Ten years ago: Europe's new currency, the euro, got off to a strong start on its first trading day, rising against the dollar on world currency maJkets. Fonner ·professional wrestler Jesse Ven~ took the oath of office as Minnesota's goveinor. · Five years ago: In Iowa, seven of the nine Democratic presidential hopefuls participated in a feisty, first debate of the election year. Afghans approved a new constitution. G~s overwhelmingly elected Mikhail Saakashvili president, two months after he'd led protests that forced Eduard Shevardnadze to step down.,Louisiana State University won college football's Sugar Bowl, defeating Oklahoma 21-14. · · · One year ago: The government reported that the nation's jobless rate hit 5 percent in December 2007, a two, year !righ, fanning recession fears. Howling winds, pelting rain and heavy snow pummeled California. Britney Spears lost custody of her two sons to ex-husband Kevin Federline a day after police and paramedics were called 10 her home. . Today's Birthdays: Actress Barbara Rush is 82. Football Hall-of-Fame coach Don Shula is 79. Actress Dyan Cannon is 72. Opera singer Grace Bumbry is 72. Author-historian Doris Kearns Goodwin is 66. Couiltry singer Kathy Forester (The .Forester Sisters) is 54. Actress Ann Magnuson is 53. Rock musician Bernard Sumner (New Order, Joy Division) is 53. Country singer Patty Loveless is .52. Rock singer Michael Stipe (REM.) is 49. Acror Patrick Cassidy is 47. Actor Dave Foley is 46. Singer-musician Cait O'Riordan is 44. Actress Julia Ormond is 44. Tennis player Guy Forget is 44. Country singer Deana Carter is 43. Rock musician Benjamin Darvill (Crash Test Dummies) is 42. Actor Jeremy Licht is 38. Actress-singer Jill Marie Jones is 34. , · . Thought for Today: "Sometimes history takes things into its own .hands." - Thurgood Marshall. U.S. Supreme Court iuslice (1908-1993). · . ( " fr • Pomeroy • Middleport • Ga1lipolis Sunday, January 4, a009 .Obituaries ,. .. A hard year ahead · ; ; Here's a New Year's res. ready cash. Economist cers and wholesalers are olution that can be summed Mark Zandi told the Post down sharply, and Bonnie up in two words: Fight that every food-stamp dol- Bellehumeur. president of a ·hunger. Cokle lar generates $1.73 in eco- gmup ,ihat collects those The economic ' crisis is and nomic activity, exactly the donations, says, "We crushing· ·the ability of Steven sort of kick-start the econo- haven't seen this low a food supply in 10 years." . Roberts my needs. ·••many parents to feed their · H11111!er is not just a pubIn Colorado Springs. children. Donations to antilie problem: it's a private Colo ., Catholic Charities is hunser programs surged one. 'Obviously, many fam- short on baby food, diapet'5 during the holiday season, but the demand continues · ilies have to reduce their and formula. "Donations to outstrip th~ supply. weekly total in 26 years. charitable giving this year, have been· consistent. with Many of the needy families Consumer spending and which means that those of previous years, but they're have never had to rely on family income both plum- us who still have the means · not enough - they go out . charity before in their lives. meted in November. should .try to increase our · as quickly as they come "Food has been going.out "I think we are only see- donations. in," says spokeswoman just about as fast as it is ing the beginning of it," a Michelle Obama sent an Rochelle Schlortt. "All coming in;" Rhonda' food-bank·official in north- e-mail . to her husband's charities are concerned Chafin, director of a food east Iowa . told Feeding vast network of supporters, everybody is competing for bimk in northeastern America. "It could be a urging them to contribute a limited amount of dolTennessee. told the Bristol hard winter." Another in "to your local food bank." Jars." Herald Courier. "This year the Pacific Northwest We directed most of our Some people have is different. It's not just added , "We feel we haven't own holiday giving this stepped up bi~ time. The those who live in poverty. seen the bouom yet of the year to feeding programs. Bill & .· Melinda . Gates This year, it's our neigh- economic· downturn, and and were pleased to receive Founwition gave an emer; bor." . . while giving is up right · a ·.-.umber of cards from gency grant of $1.4 million She's right. This fall, now, we're ¥ery concerned . friends saying they had to feeding programs in the 31 .5 million Americans about what will come sev- done the same thing. · Pacific Northwest. Yoga qualified for ·federal assis• . era! months down the But just plug the words · teachers in Connecticut tance through the food- road ." "food" and "hunger" into have started a national stamp program .(now Part of this is a fede.ral your Internet search movement, trading a free renamed SNAP). That's the problem. Barack Obama, engine, and you quickly largest number in history, whose mother briefly realize that holid!ly gifts class for a bag of food. breaking the record set in received food stamps. has alone won't solve the prob- High-school students in . November 2005 after three talked about using h1s stim- lem. Fighting hunger will Riverton, Utah, raised $82,000 for charity through devastating hurricanes. ulus package to boost food take a yearlong effort. · A national survey of 160 aid, and ihat makes sense. In western Pennsylvania, 19 days of caroling and car food banks by Feeding Food costs jumped more feeding programs are run- washes. Yes, there is a hard win• America reported a 30 per" · tha~ 6 pc:rcent for the year· ning so low on supplies ter ahead. Mosi of us cuicent increase in demand endmg m October, and · thi!-t ·they have to d1vert over the last year. Three of benefits have · not caught ·operating funds to buy not create jobs for needy four banks said they had to up . The Washington Post food . Local hunters iue families. But we can help reduce each family's allot~ reports that for a family of helping by donating deer feed their kids . (Cokie Roberts' latest tnent so no one would be four, the current monthly meat, but. as Marlene turned away. food-stamp allotment, Kozak, director of a local book is "Ladies of Liberty: A11d the demand for food $588, falls $64 short of food bank, says "You The Women Who Shaped · is only going to increase. providing an adequate diet. never solve the problem. Our Nation" (William Claims for jobless benefits Moreover, food stamps Everybody has to eat three Morrow, 2008) . Steve allil .hit 586,000 during th.e -;- as O(?posed to construe- times a day." . Cokie Roberrs can be week ending · just befofe !•on p~jects :- .Pr~uce an · In Milwaukee. Wis., food reached at Christmas - the highest •mmed1ate mJeclion .of donations from local gro- stevecokie@gmail.com.) Hope is on the way If life were a Broadway play .instead of the reality show we often make it, 2008 will soon be enjoying · its final curtain call. The reviews are about to start Donna pourin$ in, and there are Brazile · early s1gns of hope as well as hardship on th~ horizon. An amazing time in poli. LETTERS TO THE .tics, 2008 will go down in EDITOR history as a groundbreak- and even suggested topics ing year for the United for the column. most often ' Letters to the editor are welcome. They should be · States. No matter your polless than 300 words. All letters are subject to editing, .. itics, and even if you dis- wanting me to share the stories and sacrifices .of must be signed, and include address afl4 telephone like politicians of every working Americans I met .number. 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States can ill himself or the Democratic afford to ignore them ..The Party. He was beckoning world, too, awaits the new every American to join him order. in putting the country back With all that is going on on the righi track. and perhaps much more to The worst thing about come, I still see 2009 as 2008 was the economy. being markedly better than There Will be plenty of 2008. This will be our seaissues to spill over into son to hope again, to move 2009, but ilts the economy forward as one people, to . that will continue to sap put shoulder to the wheel our resources and test our and help the new president faith. We might as well get with a recovery plan that used to more government will stimulate the economy intervention and bailouts as · anq innovation. the recession deepens. There will be sacrifice, Unemploym~nt wi.ll likely ~d the recovery will take conll nse, w1th more lime. There will be dark Americans ht in the · days in which hope and undertow of the. economiC inspiration are scarce.There downturn. · To keep us will be sweat, toil and inore inspired, Obama will .have than a few tears. But if we to act quickly and decisjve- start now to brace ourselves .Jy. Hope· is a precious and for the WO{St and determine all · too often ephemeral to do our best, together .we commodity. . s~all be as prepared as posObama IS well-advised to Sible to hefp our neighbor s'~ll the stimulus package to our co-workers, our extend~ us right now. Its best sell- ed ·families, our nation·and ing points will be jobs, our new president overcome · extraordinary accountabili- every obstacle. ty and transparency, and . We the people are n~ed mvestments to long-term now more than·ever..~o . as ecoliomic.growth1 especial- we pop our champagne and ly m the energy and health- make our resolutions, let us care · sectors. Equally also resolve to seize this, impol;lant is investment in our moment, and make it educa'tion reforms that will our time to truly come to prepare future generations the aid of our country and to acquire the skills they fellow citizens. need t!).compete in a global . (Donna Brazile is a polit. economy. ical commema.tor ori CNN, Unfortunately, our prob- ABC and NPR; contributr lems will not all be domes- ing columnist to Roll Cali; .tic in scope or urgency. the newspaper · of Capitol Some of our worst Hill; and fofWier campaign moments of 2009 will manager for AI Gore .) ' • -' Jerry D. Schoolcraft, Sr. Deaths Jettle Reynolds iilunbap ~imt$ -i;lrntinrl •'Page As Mars rover mission"reaches . 5th anniversary PASADENA. Calif. (AP) !erry D. Schoolcraft , Sr~.. 61. Langsville, went to be Jettie J. Hendrick Reynolds, 73, Point .Pleasant. W.Va .. - Five years after the NASA ·~llh the Lord on Jan. 2. 2009. at his residence follow- died Thursday, Jan. I, 2009, in Cabell Huntington Hospital. rover Spirit landed on ~ars. Jog a battle wtth cancer. the six-wheel robotic geolO. .· Huntington, W.Va .. after a sudden illness. He was born Oct•. 13, 1947, in Richwood. W.Va., son She was preceded in death by her first .husband. Jack gist and its twin Opportunity of the late Charles Schoolcraft and Lillian Durham. He Hel)drick . and her second husband. David Reynolds Sr. are still on the job. was a former Gallia County Deputy of eight years Expectations were far Services will be I p.m. Monday in the First Church of the where he worked as Sgt. Criminal investigator. He also Nazarene, Point Pleasant, with Pastor James -Ellis and the lower .when Spirit made a worke~ at the Gallia County Landfill . Rev, Dean Warner officiating. Burial will be in the Cox · bouncing landing in a cocoon · ~urv.1vmg are hi s wife. Barbara Schoolcraft: three Landing Church Cemetery, Lesage, W.Va. Friends may call of air bags on Jan. 3, 2004. children, Paul (Tammy Clary) Yost, Danville. Patricia at the Deal Funeral HoD)e. Point Pleasant . frpm 7 to 9 p.m. followed . 21 days later by ..(IvaJ_~) B~umfteld k,Crown City, Nina (Jim) Brumfield, Sunday and at the church one hour prior to the services on Opporturuty: 1'\le goal was to Galhpoh~; grandchtldren, Jasmine and Michael Charles Monday. . . try to operate each solar-powYost. Talissa O'Shae and Miranda Nichole Brumfield Condolences may bee-mailed to the family at dealfuner- ered rover for at least three . Aaron _Don Schoolcraft, Cody James and Dylan Col~ al@suddenlinkmail.com. · , · months. .Brumfield; and .four brothers, Marvin (Elva) "That's an extraordinary School~raft. Danvtlle: James (Diane) Schoolcraft, return of investment in these 1)icl( "Langsville; Roger (Mary) Schoolcraft, Shade; Timmy ohallenging budgetary times." {Bndgett). Robens, Webster Springs, W.Va. · Richard Lee "Dick" Mollohan. Sr.. 75. of Gallipolis. died Ed Weiler. associate adminis:In addtlton to hts parents. he was preceded in death by Saturday morning, Jan. 3, 2009, at Pleasant Valley Nursing trator for NASA's Science h1s son, Jerry Don Schoolcraft, Jr. , Mission Direclorate, said in a Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m . on Sunday at and Rehab Center. · December statement the McCoy "Moore Funeral Home. Vinton. with Rev. · Funeral services will be at I p.m. on Tuesday Jan. 6. Combined, the rovers have ~haron Durhafr! officiating. Burial will be at the discre- 2009, at the Waugh-Halley-Wo<id .Funeral Home with Rev. made more than 13 miles of }IOD of the fam•ly. The family requests in lieu of llow- Alfred Holley officiating. Burial will follow in Reynolds tracks on Mars' dusty surface ers, me.monal g1fts be made to the Jerry Schoolcraft Cemetery. Fnends may call at the funefal home on Tuesday and sent a quarter:million from noon until the time of service. · Memonal Fund. P.O. Box 148 , Vinton , OH 45686. An online guest registry is available at waugh-halley- images back to Earth. Their instruments have uncovered wood.com. · · · evidence that Mars was once ' Richard Lee Mollohan, Sr. Pastor Ira C. Wellman a far wener and wanner place than tbe frigid. dusty world it isnow. · An accumulation of dust on the rovers· electricity-generat~ ing solar panels was expected to be one of the most likely causes of their eventual deaths. but wind has occasionally cleaned the panels. _ Spirit, however. has an 18, month buildup of dust and its panels were barely able to provide sufficient power during Mars· just-ended southern hemisphere ',"inter. At one point it failed to receive commands; and its status fell to --~rious but stable" condition. The winter was a "squeaker" for Spirit. John Callas. the rover project ,manager at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. said in the NASA statemenl . "We just made it through." he said. .·Alaska celebrates 50 years of statehood Pastor Ira C. Wellman, 84, of Gallipolis , went home to be wtth his Lord on Friday, Jan . 2, 2009, surrounded by his family Bv STEVE QuiNN concurrent, 1\nrelated to see if the Senate would rooted in the resource- rich at the Four Winds · ASSOCIATt:D PRt:ss WlliTER developments that le.d to concur. North Slope. . Community in Jackson. . . Stevens' conviction for . One of those sitting tight - March 24. 1989. the He was born on Feb . 16, JUNEAU ; Alaska lying on federal disclosure wa~ Jack Coghill. one of Valdez oil tanker ran 1924, 'in Louisa, Ky ., to Mike Stepovich peered forms and Palin 's emer- 55 people who helped aground and spille'd nearly ·Paris F. and Olema B. over Dwight · D. . gence onto th~ national draft the state's constitu- 10 million gallons of oil in 'llensley Wellman . Eisenhower's shou.lder scene as · America's tion three years earlier. He the Prince William Sound. Pastor Wellll]an was a while the president signed favorite hockey mom. was among a s mall group 11 led 10 a 19-year comnon-denominallonar pasAlaska's statehood proclaBut to tbose living here. in his roadhouse coffee pensatwn · batt 1e belween tor. pastoring various · · b mauon - JUSt to e sure. especially historian s, that shop huddled around a fishermen and Ehon churches in our area for "We did it; we're in." · point of view may be an radio crackling out as Mobil Corp. , which prefifty plus years. He was slice of much static as it did news . Stepovich thought while . important also a construction painter Eisenhower, not an origiAlaskarta, but it is still When word came that vailed in the U.S. Supreme und a dedicated member nal backer of Alaska state· myopic. the Senate backed state- Court. -of the Painter's Union for hood, dragged his pen They point to the state's hood, 64-20, "there was - Aug. 6. 2006. BP parfifty plus years in Tampa, across the page. wildlife that attracts phoeuphoria all over the tially shut down Prudhoe Ira Wellman Fla. He was also a World on Jan. 3, tographers, · artists and state," recalled Coghill, Bay, the nation's largest This signature War II U.S, Navy Veteran : 1959., made Alaska the hunters: features such as ~ho went on to .serve as producing oil field. The Ira W<\S married to Irene Smith Wellman on Oct. 13, 1945, in Pikeville, Ky. and nation 's 49th state, 11nd bears pouncing on salmon: lieutenant governor as shutdown unsettled markets globally, . drivin g she survives him in Gallipolis. He is also survived by . touc~ed off .a series of eel- . moose roaming parks as well as state senator: ebrallons more than 3,00() well as the streets of In • downtown prices close to $90 a barone son, David Ira (Angela) Wellman of Gallipolis; two Anchorage; Anchorage. a boQfire' rei. . daughters, Donna (David) Russell of Flagstaff, Ariz .. miles away while Will~am:.. downtown roared that evening; in - Aug. 31. 2006, the and Diana Racer of Delaware, Ohio; it daughter-in-law, A. Egan took an oath ma - ··eagles ~oaring overhead. downtown Juneau mov1e They cite the lditarod , a Juneau , people rang the FBI raided the offices of Candice C. Wellman of Gallipolis ; eight grandchildren, Michelle. (Brian) Miller of Glenford , Ohio , David Ira lheat,er . to serve ·. as the lc;mg-distance dog race and liberty bell replica in front six state lawmakers under the one sport that puts of the Capitol, and in investigation for a rela(Stacey) Wellman,. Jr. of Farmington, W.Va ., Jason state s fust governor. "Thal was the final act.'' · Alaska in the national Fairbanks, fire engines tionship with oil field . ser(Jennifer) Swisher of Fairplay, Colo., Brandy Krouse of . made a noisy celebration. vices firm VECO Corp. ·Point Pleasant, W. Va., . Celena (Jason) Sprouse of . ~aid Stepovich, nov.: 8?. spotlight. Congress approved tt SIX Columbus, Lauren Russell of Pagosa Springs, Colo., And they mention the An Anchorage newspa- seeking·favorable votes on Kolt Racer of Colu~ and Miela Wellman of months earlier, but. it tasty seafood that lands on per came out with a six- an oil tax. The investigaGallipofis; six great gr'dndchlldnin; two sisters, Dorothy never came. about until It the plates of many in the inch headline that hangs tion has led to convictions (Joseph). Brackens of Tennessee and Delores Wyatt of was s1gned , · by Lower 48. Alaska supplies framed in the state's of four state lawmakers. Crest! in!'. Ohio; three brothers, James (Vickie) Wellman Etsenhower. He wasn I for . nearly 50 percent of the Capitol: WE'RE IN! (A with one trial pending. of Arkansas, William (Carol) Wellman of Illinois, and. 11 at fuTsht, but by then h~ nation~s seafooq, includ- Juneau paper lighthearted- . _ Aug. 1, 2008, the · Robert (Inez) Wellman of South Carolina. . · · was. · ere was sue,. ing delicacies such as ly bannered: WE DOOD Legislature .agreed to give One son, Pastor William Daniel Wellman preceded relief." 0: Copper River salmon that IT!) TransCanada Corp . an · · , · For the next 50 ye10 fetched up to $40 a pound him in death. But a few hours later. exclusive license to purServices will be at I p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, at Alaska built on its appeal in 2008. the state of Alaska had its sue a natural gas pipeline . d d Willis Funeral Home with Pastor Roy Oldaker officiat- as rugge a.n .at lnJ!eS "The people who wrote first crisis. · h • d d 10 1 E~an was rushed to has- be proJect at s eeme ing. Burial will follow in the Ohio Valley Memory untamed, whtle .becommg . the constitution were o~tithe stat.e 's next ecoGardens. Friends may call on Monday, Jan. S, 2009, a key d omesuc energy mists,'! said Vic Fisc er pita . Three days later, he' nomic lifeline, much like from 6 to 8 p.m. at Willis Funeral Home. There will be provider, a place for ~riti- an 84-year-old man wh~ had his gall bladder full military riles given at the cemetery by volunteers of ~ally h~cated m11itary was among the charter's removed, but his recovery the oil pipeline 31 years · bases durmg the Cold War, authors. "We saw what we would last months ·and ago. area veteran lodges. · Fischer said people conPlease visit www.willisfuneralhome .com to send e- · and a state with a highly had to offer to the rest of require a trip · to a Seattle and of late, the world.~' hospital with more sophistinue to have an idealized charj!\ed mail condoh!nces. hostile - political ·eliEfforts to make others ticated facilities. vision of Alaska. . mate. . recognize Alaska predated "When he got sick, he "It's a place where Alaska has provided 15 Eisenhower's signing 50 didn't have a clue what Native people still live in billion barrels of oil - as years ago , of course. It was going on," recalled their original environClifford "Red" R. Rogers, 56, of Jackson, passed wt;ll ~s the most ~ost_ly ml took nearly 10 years of his son, Dennis Egan. "It ment .'' he said, "a place of ·away Jan. I, 2009. . sptll m the nation s htstory intense lobbying from ter- was his . will that kept him !1/orth Ameri'ca that's still He was born in Zanesville on May 20, 1952, to that led , to a ·frolracted ri·torial · leaders before going. He had worked so gorgeous and shiny like George Rogers of ,Ironton and the late Sarah legal. battle. Ot has al.so Congress gave its final hard - everybody did the North Star." (Richardson) Rogers. , prov1ded Alaska wnh approval in 1958. to make Alaska a state. He .. In addition .to his father, he is survived by special nearly 90 percent of' its Congress and wouldn't give up after friend, Jackie Figl!ens of Gallipolis; children, Grace and state treasury annually. Eisenhower balked at the coming that far. " Garrett of Gall1polis; brother, Randell (Deborah) Egan went on to serve It:S, ·offered fodder for nCJ\ion for much of the Rogers of Ironton; niece, Amanda Rogers: and pohllcal pundtts and I9~s, worrying about two teqns as governor and 'neplle.ws, Mark and Brad McFann . humon~ts followmg lhe potential state interference was later elected for a In addition to his mother, he is preceded in death by unsucces~ful GOP vtce with military operations third nonconsecutive term. sister, Betsy McFann. .. prestdenhal run of Gov. during the Cold War's He worked with budgets · . Funeral st,:rvices will be at I p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 6, Sarah Palm, and the feder- emergence, and whether in the low millions of dot2009, at the Eisnaugle-Lewis Funeral Home with Rev. 'Scott ·Baker · officiating burial to follow in Vernon al corruptton scandal th11t the state's entry would Iars before oil star!ed ·cemetery. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday, stretched from Juneau to · upset a power balance in flowing. san indrpc:ndt:nl Washington , where it Congress. Today. Palin. the state's 'Jan. 5, 2009 , at the funeral home . ensnared Sen. Tep But in 1958, opponents. ninth and 1he first woman Online condolences to www;e~k-lewisfunenil.com. Stevens: • . . · including Eisenhower. governor, works with surrhc best in.m : r.lilcc:: pr01~tiou at And Its gtven wnters accepted Alaska's state- plus-generating budgets in and d1rectors a place to set hood pitch . largely thanks the billions generated compc:ntl'-'C pm..c:~ . \Y./c reprtsent a scene for memorable to relentless push by a from oil revenue . · only thC' fine~>t lk'---. The industry ·has been a : Randall M. Spencer, 76, ofGalli'polis. passed away on. books , rttovtes and televt- delegation made up partly insuran~ ·Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, at his residence. . si<:?n shov.:s. Think James of future Congressmen boon and a black eye for Randall was born on June 10, 1932, in Vinton, son of ~tchene~. s book Ralph Rivers, Ernest the state, producing some companJts. Alaska, the movie Gruening and the late Marvin H. and Sarah E. Berry Spencer. · 11 Bob indelible memories: ,including , He was retired from the Gallipolis Developmental "Limbo," with director Bartlett. · - June 20, 1977. oil r.Center .where he had been a nursing assistant. Randall · John Sayles, or the The House first backed first moved through a Auto-Owncn was a U.S. Army Veteran ; a member. of the VFW Post Disco~ery Cha?.nel d~cu- statehoqd for the territory trans-Alaskan · pipeline . fnsuranct" .161 in Vinton; AM VETS; and the DA\1.. He also attend- mentary Deadliest on May 28 1958 with a More than 31 years later, ed the First Church of God. Catch." , 210-166 vote. On 'June 30 15 billion barrels of oil Company. year, have moved through an The state s f<;>undation of that same · Randall is survived by two daughters, Cindy Lahrmer which has truly c:arn~d 1hc of Chillicothe, and Carla Spencer of Waverly; two sons , was bu1lt by ftshermen, Alaskans waited anxiously 800-mile pipeline that's repurarion a.~ The "No Problem" _Richard (Joan) Spencer of South Carolina, and Donald miners. lawyers; mer. chants. homesteaders · (Joan) Spencer of Garfield, Ga. ; seven grandchildren; Proplc:4> Ask u:. ahour-tht> ·ren great grandchildren; three sisters,. Margaret (Tom Today. Alaska's leaders mJ.ntorher advantagrs of cloin~ ,Cook) Burnette, Virginia Russell , .and Dorie (Donald) still are made up o( people unafraid to get dirty, while .VanScoy, all ·Of Gallipolis. two brothers, Roy A. hu.~in~-~.s with an indtpe nJl·nr . I • ;Spencer of Richlands, N.C .. and Pete (Jean) Spencer of serving in the Legislat~re im:uranC( agc;' n ' "Y . for half a year then casting Gallipolis; and several nieces and nephews . nets at sea and hunting for Ra11dall was preceded in death by his parents; his food in the interim. wife, Betty. in 1991; and by a brother, Gomer Spencer. "Most of us still share a · Services will be at I p.m. on Monday, Jan . 5, 2009, at Willis Funeral Home witb Rev. James Chapman offici- love for the land we li\le . ating . Burial will follow in the Ohio Valley Memory on," said state Rep . John oghill , a Republican Gardens . Friends may call at Willis Funeral Home on whose father, Jack, was Sunday (today) from 6 to 8 p.m. www.mydgUy.sen~inel.eom Pallbearers will be Donald Spencer, Charlie Spencer, one of the state constitu Jimmy Arledge, Mike Ru ssell , Scott Ru~sell , and Boyd iion 's drafters. "In the end. Burnette. Full military rites will be given at the' grave- that's what's made us work ·well together." side by volunteers of area veteran lodges. Recently, the nation 's Please visit www.willisfuneralhome.com to send e' ' look at Alaska has been mail condolence s. through a political pri sm: Clifford •Red• R. Rogers We offer the bestprices . and protection for you. · Randall M. Spencer · a / ;.!w~.:C#..y• announcements onlne at or www.mycfa1lytnbune.com . �\ OHIO ' PageA6 • Sunday, January 4, 2009 .. · Inside ; The 0VPScortbo8nl, Pice B2 Colis,. Bolts meet apia,,. 84 :Murder victim's son soon to be a Cleveland judge The trial turned into a : spectacle. Spisak carried a copy of Hitler's "Mein CLEVELAND Kampf' and told the court~rendan Sheehan was just room that he was God's 15 when he sat in the back agent in a war against of a courtroom and watched blacks and Jews. When he a jury convict his father's was sentenced, to die, Spisak Hitler-loving killer of mur- offered the Nazi "Heil der. Hitler" salute. Sheehan, now 41, knew Now 57, Spisak is being then that he was headed for held in the Mansfield state a career in law. On Monday, prison. He has ap~aled his he will leave his job as an death sentence. claiming he assistant prosecutor and was represented poorly by head to work as a trial judge an attorney who described in Cuyahoga County . Spisak at trial as ''dementCommon Pleas Court. ed" ·and "undeserving of " I remember how I was sympathy." · treated. I remember how it . A photograph on the felt," Sheehan said in an prison Web site shows interview in his final days Spisak stockier than he was as a prosecutor, . recalling at the time of the trial; the the courtroom years ago. narrow, Hitler-style mus. "It just kind of inspired tache is gone . ine," he said. "That kind of Spisak, who wants led me down this road." surgery to become a woman Sheehan, a Democrat . ran and has called himself unopposed and was elected Frances Anne, blamed his in November. crimes on a mental illness The crime was committed ·related to a sexual identity on his 15th birthday, and the crisis. The col!rts identify trial was over before he him in rulings as Frank .iumed 16. . Spisak but, at his request, : Neo-Nazi Frank Spisak have made subsequent refrobbed 50-year-old Timothy erences to "she" and "her." Sheehan and shot him four Spisak was once arrested times in a men's bathroom for prostitutiondressed as a· at Cleveland State woman. University in 1982. The Each new legal developelder Sheehan had worked ment in Spisak's 25-year at the. school as a physical odyssey through the courts pla!!t · ~~~perintendent. · . takes a tool on Shee~an's Spisak, who now s1ts on family. death row, was later con"Mom's firSt response is, victed of committing three 'Does that mean he can get campus murders ov<:r a out'," Brendan Sheehan said. "It just breaks iny heart." ·seven-month period. · BY THOMAS J, SHEERAN 1\SSOCIATED PRESS WRITER Sheehan, who has prosecuted killers and serial pedophiles, sidestepped a question about his views on the death penalty, saying it was up to a judge to follow the law. But he took issue with the suggestion ·that exprosecutors might be seen · as tough, insensitive judges. The issue before a judge, he said, is the truth - working within the law to find out what happened. Sheehan said his goal as a prosecutor has been fairness, not a blind commit- . ment to winning a conviction. Sheehan, whose boyish . face draws comments that he couldn't be old enough to be a judge, is descri1>ed by colleagues and defense attorneys as fair and harddriving. His prosecutor's office - a converted closet - is lined almost to the ceiling with boxe<j files o( highprofile cases he has handled and photos of his wife, an attorney in private practice, and children ages 5, 8 and 10. Stephen McGowan, who has known Sheehan for years, said Sheehan's fairness gave fellow defense attorneys confidence that they had seen all prosecu· tion evidence before trial, a m recumng issue Cleveland. "If everybody was like Brendan Sheehan, it wouldn't be such a big issue," McGowan said. Sheehan has been willing to reduce charges if the circumstances warrant, an important taciic to make sure criminal charges fit the crime, McGowan said. Fiesta Bowl ""'Nhlp, . . . 85 Sheehan said he hopes to · bring to the bench some of ) . the qualities he learne,c( from his · father. "One of the best qualities of a judge is their character and integrity and if I can be like my dad in that regard being honest and having integrity and fairness and just the good character that he had - the citizens will be in good shape," he said. But he sometimes thinks about what his life · inight have been like, had his father lived. "You often wonder, would I have taken this path if this tragedy dido 't happen to my family?" Sheehan said. "It just exposed me to ·the court and the law at such an early age. you wonder if · I'd be in this position today." Sheehan's boss , Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason, said Sheehan's thoroughness helped him solve a murder by realizing the victim had earlier been robbed elsewhere. The robber eventually was tied to the slaying, · U.S, District Donald C. Nugent, who prosecuted Spisak and later mentored Sheehan and gave him a counhouse .job, said the death of his father . sensi· . tized Sheehan·without making him biased against the · defense. "He's probably inore sensitive to all aspects of the justice system by being related to the victim of if crime ," Nugept said. "He sees what causes people to go into a life of crime and he 's sensitive to that, as he is to the victims." Sunday, January 4, 2009 - l..ocAL ScHEDULE """" ~ ..... """'""' Dmda.IM"Q'I loyalri ..., Chillicothe at Galio ~.&p. m. Meigs at Southam, 6 p.m. Si&oonville at Paint Pleasant. 7:30 p.m. WBharna at Buffalo, 7:30p.m. WIMU!ng GaHia ~at Lagan, 5 p.m. Tbu..... .......,e , Bop.B..IIetbltll W&herna at Partcarsburg Cllhollc, 7:30 p,m. • frtde JIDYMlf I . ' Ohio Valley Bane Corp. (NASDAQ) -18 Champion (NASDAQ)- 3.14 Charming Shopl (NASDAQ) - BBT (NYSE) - 28.73 Peoples (NASDAQ) - 18.59 """ Pepalco (NYSI:) - 55.97 Premier (NASDAQ) - 7. 70 Rockwall (NYSE) - 34.04 Rocky Boola (NASDAQ) - 4.35 · Royal Duleh Shell - 55.11 Saara Holding (NASDAQ) 2.35 41.49 11.72 City Holding (NASDAQ) - 33.41 Collins (NYSE) - 40.80 DuPont (NYSE) - 26.18 US Blink (NYSE) - 25.25 Gannett (NYSE) - 8.58 General Electric (NYSE) - 17.07 Harley-O.VIdaon (NYSE) - 18.4CJ JP Morge11 (NYSE) - 31.35 Kroger (NYSE) - 26.54 LlmHed Branda (NYSE) - 10.73 Norfolk Southern (NYSE) 49.07 ") Wat-Mart (NYSE)- 57.18 , Wendy's (NYSE) - 4.99 WetBenco (NYSE) - 27.28 Worthington (NYSE) - 11.41 Dally atock reporta ere the 4 p.m. ET cloalng quotn of tranaac• Ilona for Jan .. 2, 2009, provided by EdWard Joraa financial edvl· sort laaac Milia In Galllpolle at (740) 441-9441 and Lealey Marrero In Point Plaaeant at (304) 874-0174. Mamber f!IPC. lap Bolkllbllt Eastern at Federal Haeldng, 6:30p.m. Cllllla Acdaemy al Jaclraan, 8 p.m. H1111nan at C.Miry Baptist, 7:30 p.m. OYCS at Teays Valley, 8 p.m. Po[)rt PJeasant at Wayna, 7:30 p.m. River Valley at Roc:lc HIU, 6 p.m. $>uth Galia at Cross lanes, 7:30 p.m. :SOUthern al Miller, 6:30p.m. VInton Counly at Melga, 6:30p.m. Ol~oBukatblll . Hannan al C.lvary Baptist, 7:30 p.m. Q/CS at Teaya Valley, 6:30 p.m. South GaiMa at Crass Lanes, 6 p.m. Wahama al Colhoun County. 7:30p.m. WMI!lng Point Pleasant at JCI (Ra..,nswoad), tiiA . $et;u- Janyary 1Q lloytBII-11 Belpre at SOuthern (Marietta), TBA N$w Boston at South Gallia, 6 p.m. AP photo In this Nov. 2; 2008 file photo, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning looks to pass the ball dUring an NFL football game against the New England Patriots, in Indianapolis. For the third time, Manning won the Most Valuable Player Award by The Associated Press, .tying Brett Favre as the only players in that elite category. BY BRYAN WALTERS BWALTERSOMYDI\ILYTRIBUNE.COM GALLIPOLIS - Another valiant effon. Another tough loss. The Gallia Academy boys basketball team gave Ironton a good fight . for two- . and-a· half quarters, but a 13-2 run over the final 5:12 of the third period ultimately PHOENIX (AP) - The allowed the Fiesta Bowl isn't a tourist visiting draw this year. Fighting A slugg1sh economy, apaTigers to thetic fans and people conpu)l away cerned. about their JObs ha~ and claim a led many to stay home and hard-fought not travel to Arizona for 49-31 deci· Monday's ~arne between siop Friday No. 10 OhiO State (10-2) night durand the third-ranked 'Fexas ing a Longhorns (11-)). · Southeast' . Even though it's freezing ern Ohio K. Mitchell A t h I e t i c in the Midwest, Ohio tour operators say they can't get League contest in the Old people to book trips to French City. Arizona. The Tigers (6-2, 3-0 In metro Phoenix, hotels SEOAL South) led start to and resorts are pushing low finish, jumpin~ out to an rates and freebies to spur ·early 6-0 le!ld JUSt 2:09 into last-minute demand, with the contest. The Blue Devils luxury Scottsdale resorts (3-4, 0-2) fell behind by as going for as little as $119 on many as seven points (10-3) Hotwire.com. . in the opening eight min; "The demand here is terri- utes, but closed the opening ble," said Lisa Cisco, owner canto on a 4-2 run over the of Travel Panners in final three minutes to pull Dublin, Ohio, a travel within 12-7 after one period agency that has been seUing of play. bowl packages since 1979 . . · The Orange . and Black Cisco said she has booked again staned the second just 64 clients for a $1 ,649 stanza strong, jumping out Bryan Watleralphoto package that includes a to their biggest lead of the Galiia Academy's Ethan Moore (20) delivers a pass while being guarde~ by lront~n game ticket, round-trip airPlease see Devils, il:s . defenders Friday night during the first half of a SEOAL boys basketball game In Galhpohs. fare, four nights at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak, breakfast and more. Two years ago~ she had 708 buy· ers travel to Arizona to see O)lio State play for the ferent players score, the Red BY LARRY CRUM (il(tional championship in LCRUMCMYDAILYREGISTER.COM and Black also had a trio of dlendale. · double digit performances ' . :This time around, Cisco .. POINT PLEASANT If led by junior Tyler Deal who iu!ured she'd get at lefiSt 20 your looking for the definihad a game-high 14J'oints. peJcent of champio'nshiption of good team basket- Senior B.J. Lloy and : ·'PluM 1ft Fiest., 82 ball, look no further .than sophomore Jacob Templeton • Point Pleasant's perfor- - who had a breakout game mance Friday night. - had 13 points apiece, l'YL holding youth After an absolutely !,.loyd had a tno of big abysmal outing Tuesday three pointers in thf'l first half ~pstourna~ent night against Hurricane, the to help extend \lie l'oint lead '· Big Blacks turned things while Templeton brought• : "RUTLAND The around in a big way Friday down 13 rebounds to comt>omeroy Youth League and had arguably the best plete a double-double . will be holding a 4th, 5th outing they have had in the Templeton also had four !Ind. 6th grade basketball past few years in dominating assists in the victory. tournament in separate Roane County from start to Rounding out the long list dlvisions at the Rut.land finish 76-53 in non-league of scorers for the Big Blacks Civic Center on Monday, action Friday night. . were Chris Campbell with January 26; through All but one player scored eight points, Cody Sunday, February 8. for Point Pleasant (2·1) who Greathouse with seven Each tournament will be jumped out to a 21-9 lead points, Tyson Jones and double elimination and no after one quarter and never JeWaan Williams with four all-star teams will be perlooked back. At one ,point points each , Nathan Wedge mitted. . the PPHS lead swelled to as with th~ee points and ·For more information much as 30 points, but the Kylenn Criste, Drake Nolan, LJI,.Y Crui!Vphoto Raiders ( 1-3) were able to Layne contact Ken at (740) 992Thompson and Point Pleasant's Kylenn Crista (5) releases a shot attempt . slightly close that gap before Preston Rairden with two 5322 or (740) 41~.~648, or call Dennis at ( "\0) 44"7- over a Roane County defender during the second half of the final whistle. points apiece. 0021. /' Friday night's boys basketball game in Point Pleasant. Along with having 13 di{- Brett Sergent was the only Ohio travel agencies find Fiesta Bowl tough·sell · FRIE SHIPfiiNG . W T . ATaT 11.111 . be the crlft I I whit• pnlllder at w.t VIIII!IIa ~1111,. Congiilllilllllont, ..........._on a grtat-nl 1,[,\\'.,JIJ.llli. +*Gailpoli 2145 Ea,.,rn . j Av•. (14~44! · 2407 \liH {>t;!lWii.HIIil k-. Mirldlop>~ I"B'i> Electroolc>. 106 N2nd Avo. 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Freshman center Chris Davis scored eight points and collected nine rebounds in his first collegiate start. in the line-up for t~ injured Will Norwell. · After owning a 36-34 half-time · lead, Union extended the lead to eight points. Thanks to a Beau Brown 3-pointer, Union led 51-43. He finished with a game-high 18 points. Please see Rio, 12 Point crushes Roane County, 76-53 I 1.866.MO BILITY- ATT-C OM/WIRELESS- VISIT A STORE . NEW YORK (AP) Peyton Manning took a different ap~roach to, earn in~ a record·tymg th1rd Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player award. The Indianapolis Colts quarterback got hun, stniggled when he came back, then lost a bunch of games. Hardly vintage Manning. But when he rediscovered the touch that has made him one of football's dominant players for a decade, Manning and the Colts were virtualLy unstoppable . · Now Manning can tell Brett Favre to move over and make room for him atop the roster of MVPs. "I really feel like it's a team award," Manning said Friday. "Just what our team. went through this year and the way we responded and bounced back to a little bit of football adversity . at the beginning of the season, Ironton claws past Blue Devils, 49-31 . Glrla Buketblll Gallla Academy at Jackson , 6 p.m. Meigs ot RMir Valley, 6 p.m. eves at Southern, t p.m. · Wllllllng . Point Pleasant at Jet (Rownswoacl). TBA . AEP (NYSE) - 34 Akzo (NASDAQ) - 43.80 Alhland Inc. (NYSE) - 11.02 Big Lots (NYSE) - 14.53 Bob Evans (NASDAQ) - 21.07 BorgWarner (NYSE) - 22.96 Century Alum.lnum (NASDAQ) - ' CJlhoun County at Wahama. 7:30p.m. +tadlon Corrrnuniuticru Co:t~neclloo m Ei'hln Sl, St• !, (740) 288·1800 +The Zone, 7l EHuroo St.. (140) 28!-9!98 ~~ ' GI~a-otbon Eastern atTtii'T\tH, 6 p.m . . Meigs at l\ther111, 6 p.m. Ravenswood at Point Pleasant, 7:30 p.m. Rhler Valley at Coal o.,..,, 6 p.m. ~rn at Federal Hod<ing, 6 p.m. Local Weather I MonM·.......,.a .... loylftri tii•H 11a11oy Fayetle at Hannan, 7:30 p.m. Glrltl' ...... eo8J Grow at Saulh Galtia. 6 p.m. Eastafn at Rivor Valley, 6 p.m. Hannan at Buffalo, 7:30p.m. CINClNN AT! (AP) --: A available, . ·. . . ·. · city council committee· in . "l~s ~ llw.YC!U have peo:. ·' Cincinnati is proposing that pie calling 9) 1 saying, 'My the city reduce unnecessary baby has a toothache,"' said ambulance rides by hiring Councilwoman Laketa Cole. public health nurses to sort Under the proposal, a nurse out 911 calls. would·advise callers on how The committee .is also to deal with their medical Pf?posing the use ?f cheaper, problems in cases that don't p~vate vans to drive people ~\ll!:r. JJ,Illllediate transpqrt . ~~th~ut, emergency. needs to · to a ho5piiiil. The nurse would the City s health clinics. The set up appointtnents at city current system allows almost health clinics for people who anyone who calls 91 ~ and need to see a doctor. wants to go to the ~osp1tal to "We 'II s.till be caring for our get an ~b?lance nde. citizens," Berding said, ·"but . The City s 10 ambulances in a much more effective transpo~ people more than way." 31.000 times m .2007' an? . The program would be many of those ~uents d1dn t modeled ·after a similar prohave urgent medical needs. · Ri hmond Va. The Such tntnsports cause the gram m c • city to waste money and wear task force plans to J?Ut the proout ambulances. It also con- posal .befo.re the Clo/ council tributes to emergency room sometune m ~e s~g. . .. overcrowding and exhausts In ~e meantune, Cmcmna~ medical personnel. ~ffic1als have added two ~diCouncilman Jeff Berding, lion~ !"''bulances, bnngmg co-chairman of the task force the city s total to 12. It was the said too·much ambulance u~ first increase in aJI!bulances can keep people who serious- since · 1990; said Marc ly need immediate assistance Monah~n, · pr~s1de~t of waiting. A review conducted InteinatiOnal Fue F1ghters last fall by the task force Local.48. found that 73 911 callers over .The additional ambul;jnces the ·course of a month were will ease the stress on ,.bther !old no ambulances were units, Monahan said. mid 20s, · Tuesday ...Cloudy with rain likely .. .A chance of snow and sleet. Highs in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 60 percent. Tuesday night...Rain tikely. Lows in the lower 30s. . · Chance of ram 60 percent: Wednesday..:Cloudy with a· chance of ram and snow showers. Highs in.the .upper . 30s. Chance of precipltallon 50 percent. Peyton M~g wins AP's NFL MVP again ·GALLFWs-A_,__.._. _Golo,_ . . _...,._ ·Ohio city explores plan to reduce ambulapce rides · Sunday...Clou!iy with rain likely. Warmer with highs in the upper 50s. 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Deal Lloyd player in Red and Black not to break into the scoring column, although the final few minutes of the giUTie were spent trying to get an open look for the sophomore. Along with a big night on offense, good pacmg and a great defensive effort helped push the Big Blacks over the top in the 23-point win. Overall Point Pleasant fin- . ished with 47 rebounds led by Templeton with 13, Greathouse with eight and J.ones with seven. The Big Please SH Point. B:S - ' �\ OHIO ' PageA6 • Sunday, January 4, 2009 .. · Inside ; The 0VPScortbo8nl, Pice B2 Colis,. Bolts meet apia,,. 84 :Murder victim's son soon to be a Cleveland judge The trial turned into a : spectacle. Spisak carried a copy of Hitler's "Mein CLEVELAND Kampf' and told the court~rendan Sheehan was just room that he was God's 15 when he sat in the back agent in a war against of a courtroom and watched blacks and Jews. When he a jury convict his father's was sentenced, to die, Spisak Hitler-loving killer of mur- offered the Nazi "Heil der. Hitler" salute. Sheehan, now 41, knew Now 57, Spisak is being then that he was headed for held in the Mansfield state a career in law. On Monday, prison. He has ap~aled his he will leave his job as an death sentence. claiming he assistant prosecutor and was represented poorly by head to work as a trial judge an attorney who described in Cuyahoga County . Spisak at trial as ''dementCommon Pleas Court. ed" ·and "undeserving of " I remember how I was sympathy." · treated. I remember how it . A photograph on the felt," Sheehan said in an prison Web site shows interview in his final days Spisak stockier than he was as a prosecutor, . recalling at the time of the trial; the the courtroom years ago. narrow, Hitler-style mus. "It just kind of inspired tache is gone . ine," he said. "That kind of Spisak, who wants led me down this road." surgery to become a woman Sheehan, a Democrat . ran and has called himself unopposed and was elected Frances Anne, blamed his in November. crimes on a mental illness The crime was committed ·related to a sexual identity on his 15th birthday, and the crisis. The col!rts identify trial was over before he him in rulings as Frank .iumed 16. . Spisak but, at his request, : Neo-Nazi Frank Spisak have made subsequent refrobbed 50-year-old Timothy erences to "she" and "her." Sheehan and shot him four Spisak was once arrested times in a men's bathroom for prostitutiondressed as a· at Cleveland State woman. University in 1982. The Each new legal developelder Sheehan had worked ment in Spisak's 25-year at the. school as a physical odyssey through the courts pla!!t · ~~~perintendent. · . takes a tool on Shee~an's Spisak, who now s1ts on family. death row, was later con"Mom's firSt response is, victed of committing three 'Does that mean he can get campus murders ov<:r a out'," Brendan Sheehan said. "It just breaks iny heart." ·seven-month period. · BY THOMAS J, SHEERAN 1\SSOCIATED PRESS WRITER Sheehan, who has prosecuted killers and serial pedophiles, sidestepped a question about his views on the death penalty, saying it was up to a judge to follow the law. But he took issue with the suggestion ·that exprosecutors might be seen · as tough, insensitive judges. The issue before a judge, he said, is the truth - working within the law to find out what happened. Sheehan said his goal as a prosecutor has been fairness, not a blind commit- . ment to winning a conviction. Sheehan, whose boyish . face draws comments that he couldn't be old enough to be a judge, is descri1>ed by colleagues and defense attorneys as fair and harddriving. His prosecutor's office - a converted closet - is lined almost to the ceiling with boxe<j files o( highprofile cases he has handled and photos of his wife, an attorney in private practice, and children ages 5, 8 and 10. Stephen McGowan, who has known Sheehan for years, said Sheehan's fairness gave fellow defense attorneys confidence that they had seen all prosecu· tion evidence before trial, a m recumng issue Cleveland. "If everybody was like Brendan Sheehan, it wouldn't be such a big issue," McGowan said. Sheehan has been willing to reduce charges if the circumstances warrant, an important taciic to make sure criminal charges fit the crime, McGowan said. Fiesta Bowl ""'Nhlp, . . . 85 Sheehan said he hopes to · bring to the bench some of ) . the qualities he learne,c( from his · father. "One of the best qualities of a judge is their character and integrity and if I can be like my dad in that regard being honest and having integrity and fairness and just the good character that he had - the citizens will be in good shape," he said. But he sometimes thinks about what his life · inight have been like, had his father lived. "You often wonder, would I have taken this path if this tragedy dido 't happen to my family?" Sheehan said. "It just exposed me to ·the court and the law at such an early age. you wonder if · I'd be in this position today." Sheehan's boss , Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason, said Sheehan's thoroughness helped him solve a murder by realizing the victim had earlier been robbed elsewhere. The robber eventually was tied to the slaying, · U.S, District Donald C. Nugent, who prosecuted Spisak and later mentored Sheehan and gave him a counhouse .job, said the death of his father . sensi· . tized Sheehan·without making him biased against the · defense. "He's probably inore sensitive to all aspects of the justice system by being related to the victim of if crime ," Nugept said. "He sees what causes people to go into a life of crime and he 's sensitive to that, as he is to the victims." Sunday, January 4, 2009 - l..ocAL ScHEDULE """" ~ ..... """'""' Dmda.IM"Q'I loyalri ..., Chillicothe at Galio ~.&p. m. Meigs at Southam, 6 p.m. Si&oonville at Paint Pleasant. 7:30 p.m. WBharna at Buffalo, 7:30p.m. WIMU!ng GaHia ~at Lagan, 5 p.m. Tbu..... .......,e , Bop.B..IIetbltll W&herna at Partcarsburg Cllhollc, 7:30 p,m. • frtde JIDYMlf I . ' Ohio Valley Bane Corp. (NASDAQ) -18 Champion (NASDAQ)- 3.14 Charming Shopl (NASDAQ) - BBT (NYSE) - 28.73 Peoples (NASDAQ) - 18.59 """ Pepalco (NYSI:) - 55.97 Premier (NASDAQ) - 7. 70 Rockwall (NYSE) - 34.04 Rocky Boola (NASDAQ) - 4.35 · Royal Duleh Shell - 55.11 Saara Holding (NASDAQ) 2.35 41.49 11.72 City Holding (NASDAQ) - 33.41 Collins (NYSE) - 40.80 DuPont (NYSE) - 26.18 US Blink (NYSE) - 25.25 Gannett (NYSE) - 8.58 General Electric (NYSE) - 17.07 Harley-O.VIdaon (NYSE) - 18.4CJ JP Morge11 (NYSE) - 31.35 Kroger (NYSE) - 26.54 LlmHed Branda (NYSE) - 10.73 Norfolk Southern (NYSE) 49.07 ") Wat-Mart (NYSE)- 57.18 , Wendy's (NYSE) - 4.99 WetBenco (NYSE) - 27.28 Worthington (NYSE) - 11.41 Dally atock reporta ere the 4 p.m. ET cloalng quotn of tranaac• Ilona for Jan .. 2, 2009, provided by EdWard Joraa financial edvl· sort laaac Milia In Galllpolle at (740) 441-9441 and Lealey Marrero In Point Plaaeant at (304) 874-0174. Mamber f!IPC. lap Bolkllbllt Eastern at Federal Haeldng, 6:30p.m. Cllllla Acdaemy al Jaclraan, 8 p.m. H1111nan at C.Miry Baptist, 7:30 p.m. OYCS at Teays Valley, 8 p.m. Po[)rt PJeasant at Wayna, 7:30 p.m. River Valley at Roc:lc HIU, 6 p.m. $>uth Galia at Cross lanes, 7:30 p.m. :SOUthern al Miller, 6:30p.m. VInton Counly at Melga, 6:30p.m. Ol~oBukatblll . Hannan al C.lvary Baptist, 7:30 p.m. Q/CS at Teaya Valley, 6:30 p.m. South GaiMa at Crass Lanes, 6 p.m. Wahama al Colhoun County. 7:30p.m. WMI!lng Point Pleasant at JCI (Ra..,nswoad), tiiA . $et;u- Janyary 1Q lloytBII-11 Belpre at SOuthern (Marietta), TBA N$w Boston at South Gallia, 6 p.m. AP photo In this Nov. 2; 2008 file photo, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning looks to pass the ball dUring an NFL football game against the New England Patriots, in Indianapolis. For the third time, Manning won the Most Valuable Player Award by The Associated Press, .tying Brett Favre as the only players in that elite category. BY BRYAN WALTERS BWALTERSOMYDI\ILYTRIBUNE.COM GALLIPOLIS - Another valiant effon. Another tough loss. The Gallia Academy boys basketball team gave Ironton a good fight . for two- . and-a· half quarters, but a 13-2 run over the final 5:12 of the third period ultimately PHOENIX (AP) - The allowed the Fiesta Bowl isn't a tourist visiting draw this year. Fighting A slugg1sh economy, apaTigers to thetic fans and people conpu)l away cerned. about their JObs ha~ and claim a led many to stay home and hard-fought not travel to Arizona for 49-31 deci· Monday's ~arne between siop Friday No. 10 OhiO State (10-2) night durand the third-ranked 'Fexas ing a Longhorns (11-)). · Southeast' . Even though it's freezing ern Ohio K. Mitchell A t h I e t i c in the Midwest, Ohio tour operators say they can't get League contest in the Old people to book trips to French City. Arizona. The Tigers (6-2, 3-0 In metro Phoenix, hotels SEOAL South) led start to and resorts are pushing low finish, jumpin~ out to an rates and freebies to spur ·early 6-0 le!ld JUSt 2:09 into last-minute demand, with the contest. The Blue Devils luxury Scottsdale resorts (3-4, 0-2) fell behind by as going for as little as $119 on many as seven points (10-3) Hotwire.com. . in the opening eight min; "The demand here is terri- utes, but closed the opening ble," said Lisa Cisco, owner canto on a 4-2 run over the of Travel Panners in final three minutes to pull Dublin, Ohio, a travel within 12-7 after one period agency that has been seUing of play. bowl packages since 1979 . . · The Orange . and Black Cisco said she has booked again staned the second just 64 clients for a $1 ,649 stanza strong, jumping out Bryan Watleralphoto package that includes a to their biggest lead of the Galiia Academy's Ethan Moore (20) delivers a pass while being guarde~ by lront~n game ticket, round-trip airPlease see Devils, il:s . defenders Friday night during the first half of a SEOAL boys basketball game In Galhpohs. fare, four nights at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak, breakfast and more. Two years ago~ she had 708 buy· ers travel to Arizona to see O)lio State play for the ferent players score, the Red BY LARRY CRUM (il(tional championship in LCRUMCMYDAILYREGISTER.COM and Black also had a trio of dlendale. · double digit performances ' . :This time around, Cisco .. POINT PLEASANT If led by junior Tyler Deal who iu!ured she'd get at lefiSt 20 your looking for the definihad a game-high 14J'oints. peJcent of champio'nshiption of good team basket- Senior B.J. Lloy and : ·'PluM 1ft Fiest., 82 ball, look no further .than sophomore Jacob Templeton • Point Pleasant's perfor- - who had a breakout game mance Friday night. - had 13 points apiece, l'YL holding youth After an absolutely !,.loyd had a tno of big abysmal outing Tuesday three pointers in thf'l first half ~pstourna~ent night against Hurricane, the to help extend \lie l'oint lead '· Big Blacks turned things while Templeton brought• : "RUTLAND The around in a big way Friday down 13 rebounds to comt>omeroy Youth League and had arguably the best plete a double-double . will be holding a 4th, 5th outing they have had in the Templeton also had four !Ind. 6th grade basketball past few years in dominating assists in the victory. tournament in separate Roane County from start to Rounding out the long list dlvisions at the Rut.land finish 76-53 in non-league of scorers for the Big Blacks Civic Center on Monday, action Friday night. . were Chris Campbell with January 26; through All but one player scored eight points, Cody Sunday, February 8. for Point Pleasant (2·1) who Greathouse with seven Each tournament will be jumped out to a 21-9 lead points, Tyson Jones and double elimination and no after one quarter and never JeWaan Williams with four all-star teams will be perlooked back. At one ,point points each , Nathan Wedge mitted. . the PPHS lead swelled to as with th~ee points and ·For more information much as 30 points, but the Kylenn Criste, Drake Nolan, LJI,.Y Crui!Vphoto Raiders ( 1-3) were able to Layne contact Ken at (740) 992Thompson and Point Pleasant's Kylenn Crista (5) releases a shot attempt . slightly close that gap before Preston Rairden with two 5322 or (740) 41~.~648, or call Dennis at ( "\0) 44"7- over a Roane County defender during the second half of the final whistle. points apiece. 0021. /' Friday night's boys basketball game in Point Pleasant. Along with having 13 di{- Brett Sergent was the only Ohio travel agencies find Fiesta Bowl tough·sell · FRIE SHIPfiiNG . W T . ATaT 11.111 . be the crlft I I whit• pnlllder at w.t VIIII!IIa ~1111,. Congiilllilllllont, ..........._on a grtat-nl 1,[,\\'.,JIJ.llli. +*Gailpoli 2145 Ea,.,rn . j Av•. (14~44! · 2407 \liH {>t;!lWii.HIIil k-. Mirldlop>~ I"B'i> Electroolc>. 106 N2nd Avo. (740) 992 -2825 '!:flidto ..... 'AT&T aiO illjQH I'IOIIIIJ 1 Alpillb): COli Alcowty Cl...... lid hdorll U~ISir: CM19" lldS!d"'9'1lorC-I 00« "'ila~e . . * Opon Sunday +H igh Spood Internet SOld Hore - BY MARK WtwAMS S~ECIAL TO THE TIMES·SEN!INEL 13ARBOURVILLE, Ky. .- The University of Rio Grande RedStorrn men's basketball teani, ra'*ed No. 5 in the most ·recent NAJA Division II Top 25 rating, lost for the third time in the last four games, dropping an 83·75 decision on the road at Union College on New Year's Eve afternoon. The win evened Union's record at 7-7 while Rio Grande moved to 12-4. The Bulldogs imd Rio Grande have played once for the last three seasons with Union owning a 2-1 advantage over the stretch. Senior forward Brandon 'I very led Rio Grande with 17 points . The duo ·of junior wing P.J. Rase and senior point guard Aaron Drakeford contributed 13 ·points apiece. Senior guard Brett Beucler also landed in doub.le figures with II points. . Freshman center Chris Davis scored eight points and collected nine rebounds in his first collegiate start. in the line-up for t~ injured Will Norwell. · After owning a 36-34 half-time · lead, Union extended the lead to eight points. Thanks to a Beau Brown 3-pointer, Union led 51-43. He finished with a game-high 18 points. Please see Rio, 12 Point crushes Roane County, 76-53 I 1.866.MO BILITY- ATT-C OM/WIRELESS- VISIT A STORE . NEW YORK (AP) Peyton Manning took a different ap~roach to, earn in~ a record·tymg th1rd Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player award. The Indianapolis Colts quarterback got hun, stniggled when he came back, then lost a bunch of games. Hardly vintage Manning. But when he rediscovered the touch that has made him one of football's dominant players for a decade, Manning and the Colts were virtualLy unstoppable . · Now Manning can tell Brett Favre to move over and make room for him atop the roster of MVPs. "I really feel like it's a team award," Manning said Friday. "Just what our team. went through this year and the way we responded and bounced back to a little bit of football adversity . at the beginning of the season, Ironton claws past Blue Devils, 49-31 . Glrla Buketblll Gallla Academy at Jackson , 6 p.m. Meigs ot RMir Valley, 6 p.m. eves at Southern, t p.m. · Wllllllng . Point Pleasant at Jet (Rownswoacl). TBA . AEP (NYSE) - 34 Akzo (NASDAQ) - 43.80 Alhland Inc. (NYSE) - 11.02 Big Lots (NYSE) - 14.53 Bob Evans (NASDAQ) - 21.07 BorgWarner (NYSE) - 22.96 Century Alum.lnum (NASDAQ) - ' CJlhoun County at Wahama. 7:30p.m. +tadlon Corrrnuniuticru Co:t~neclloo m Ei'hln Sl, St• !, (740) 288·1800 +The Zone, 7l EHuroo St.. (140) 28!-9!98 ~~ ' GI~a-otbon Eastern atTtii'T\tH, 6 p.m . . Meigs at l\ther111, 6 p.m. Ravenswood at Point Pleasant, 7:30 p.m. Rhler Valley at Coal o.,..,, 6 p.m. ~rn at Federal Hod<ing, 6 p.m. Local Weather I MonM·.......,.a .... loylftri tii•H 11a11oy Fayetle at Hannan, 7:30 p.m. Glrltl' ...... eo8J Grow at Saulh Galtia. 6 p.m. Eastafn at Rivor Valley, 6 p.m. Hannan at Buffalo, 7:30p.m. CINClNN AT! (AP) --: A available, . ·. . . ·. · city council committee· in . "l~s ~ llw.YC!U have peo:. ·' Cincinnati is proposing that pie calling 9) 1 saying, 'My the city reduce unnecessary baby has a toothache,"' said ambulance rides by hiring Councilwoman Laketa Cole. public health nurses to sort Under the proposal, a nurse out 911 calls. would·advise callers on how The committee .is also to deal with their medical Pf?posing the use ?f cheaper, problems in cases that don't p~vate vans to drive people ~\ll!:r. JJ,Illllediate transpqrt . ~~th~ut, emergency. needs to · to a ho5piiiil. The nurse would the City s health clinics. The set up appointtnents at city current system allows almost health clinics for people who anyone who calls 91 ~ and need to see a doctor. wants to go to the ~osp1tal to "We 'II s.till be caring for our get an ~b?lance nde. citizens," Berding said, ·"but . The City s 10 ambulances in a much more effective transpo~ people more than way." 31.000 times m .2007' an? . The program would be many of those ~uents d1dn t modeled ·after a similar prohave urgent medical needs. · Ri hmond Va. The Such tntnsports cause the gram m c • city to waste money and wear task force plans to J?Ut the proout ambulances. It also con- posal .befo.re the Clo/ council tributes to emergency room sometune m ~e s~g. . .. overcrowding and exhausts In ~e meantune, Cmcmna~ medical personnel. ~ffic1als have added two ~diCouncilman Jeff Berding, lion~ !"''bulances, bnngmg co-chairman of the task force the city s total to 12. It was the said too·much ambulance u~ first increase in aJI!bulances can keep people who serious- since · 1990; said Marc ly need immediate assistance Monah~n, · pr~s1de~t of waiting. A review conducted InteinatiOnal Fue F1ghters last fall by the task force Local.48. found that 73 911 callers over .The additional ambul;jnces the ·course of a month were will ease the stress on ,.bther !old no ambulances were units, Monahan said. mid 20s, · Tuesday ...Cloudy with rain likely .. .A chance of snow and sleet. Highs in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 60 percent. Tuesday night...Rain tikely. Lows in the lower 30s. . · Chance of ram 60 percent: Wednesday..:Cloudy with a· chance of ram and snow showers. Highs in.the .upper . 30s. Chance of precipltallon 50 percent. Peyton M~g wins AP's NFL MVP again ·GALLFWs-A_,__.._. _Golo,_ . . _...,._ ·Ohio city explores plan to reduce ambulapce rides · Sunday...Clou!iy with rain likely. Warmer with highs in the upper 50s. 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Deal Lloyd player in Red and Black not to break into the scoring column, although the final few minutes of the giUTie were spent trying to get an open look for the sophomore. Along with a big night on offense, good pacmg and a great defensive effort helped push the Big Blacks over the top in the 23-point win. Overall Point Pleasant fin- . ished with 47 rebounds led by Templeton with 13, Greathouse with eight and J.ones with seven. The Big Please SH Point. B:S - ' �• ' Pomeroy • Middleport • Gallipolis •~ Fl The liP Scorabaard Prep Scores OHIO BOYS BASKETBALL Al<r. Hoban 62, Cols Wlle!Stone 50 AtllancS Martlngton 58. Canal Fulton Northwest 49 ~learcreok 62, NollonY'Io-York 55 Basconi Hopewell-Loudon 85· ·· Gibsonburg 84 . : Belli>,_ 65. Ealon 53 ... Bellefonta~ne 66, A1versKte Stebbins 31 • Berlin Center Western. Rase~ 44, E. · Paklstine •1 Broolwille 55. Millon·Union 44 Can. GlenOak 76, Youngs. Boardman 69 Can McKinley 63. Massittcn Jackson 62 Canfield 58. Akl. North 48 Chillicothe 68. Portsmouth 42 : · • : Chillicothe Hunt1ngton 60, Ch illiCothe Unioto 36 Chillicothe Zane Ti'ace 54 , Bainbridge Paint Valley ~6 . Cin. Anderson 63, Cin. Glen Este 45 · Cm lnd1an Hill 86. N. Bend l'aytor 64 Sebnng McKinley 74, Bnstol 68 Sidney 74 , Greenville 63 Spring. Ksnton R1dge 52. Tipp City Tippecanoe 45 Spring. NW 76, Spl'lng. Greenon 68 Spr1ng Shawnee 51 , New Carlisle Tecumseh 43 St.·Henry 42. Ft. loramie 23 St FJans Graham 66, Urbana 47 Tol. Cent Cath 54. SylVania Northview 42 Unionl<>Wn Lake 75, Youngs. Austintown- Frt<h 58 - ' TT. Roclctord Parl<way 59 W. Lafayette Ridgewood 47, Warsaw River V18W 45 Warren JFK 68, warren Champ~oo 58 Williamsport WesttaU 67, Southeastern 52 Youngs. Christian 61 . Youngs. Easl 58 Zanesville Rosecrans 69. Bowerstoo Coootton Valley 34 Columbus FCI N.ademy Tournament CampbeU. Ga. 114, Cols. FCI Academy 74 McDonslds Tournament Peebles 79, W. Union 51 . WPTW Tourriamenf Pique 63. CoYiOjjlon 56 Sidney L.ehman 63, Russia 59 · Cin Oak H~ ls 58. Cin. Colerain 40 · Cin Prmceton 79. W Chester Lakota W. GIRLS BASKETBALL Coldwater 63. Van Wert 60 Collins Western Reserve 77. Monroeville : 67 · Conneaut 67, South1ngton Chalker 61 • Day. Northndge 72, New LeWrlon Oboe Beatlswille 68, Stewart Federal Hocking 67 Ckl. VASJ 67, Cle. St. Martin De Porres 22 . Cols Granc:lview Hts. 43, M.11ford Center Fairbanks 41 . OT Cols. Hartley 63, Pataskala Licking Hts. 29 Detphos Jefferson 84, lima Perry 46 Grove City Christian 46, Millers~rt 41, OT ' Kettering Alter 40, Beaverer&M. 31 Lex. Chnstian, Ky. 80, N. Can. Hoover 66 Newark Cath. 59. Zanesville Aosecran's 49' Piketon 49, Beaver Eastern 44 Smilhville 68, MassillOn Tuslaw 39 Bragg1n' Rights Tournament Cin. Mt. Healthy 35. Cols. East 2.7. CiO. Walnut Hills 45, Shaker Hts-..44 Cols. Harvest Prep .73, Day. MeadQwdale 67 Cots. Northland 56, Trotwood-Madison 49 Day. Marshall 65, Cols Marion-Franklin 20 Dublin Coftrrian 47, Troy Christian 30 Potter's House Christian, Fla. 79, Cle. Hts. Lutheran E. 49 Spr1ng. Kenton Ridge 65. E. Cle. Shaw 53 St. Michael's, N.Y. 49. Cols. Africentric 39 Xenia 55, Gahanna Lmcoln 45 Laurel Tournament Parma Normandy 63, Richmond Hts. 58 Shaker His. Laurel 63. Cle. Rt'todes 36 . 7p ' 64 · Dover 59. Rocky River 45 Dublin Scioto 41 . Mt. Vernon 29 Franklin 70, Germantown Valley VIew 53 Ft. Recovery 70. St Marys Memorial 50 Galion Northmor 53, Cardington-Lincoln 50 Hamilton 65, Cin. Sycamore 35 : Hamilton Ross 47, Cin Mt Healthy 45 • Hartville · Lake Center Christian 68, • Columbiana 64 •. Ironton 49. Gallipolis Gallia 31 Jollnstown·Monroe 39, Morral Ridgedale 36 Kalida 62, Haviland Wayne Trace 38 Kettenng Fairmont 68, W. Carrollton 67 Lakes1de Danbury 55, Norwood 50 Lakewood St. Edward 56. Cle Benedicti n ~ 46 Lewistown Indian Lake 57. Bellelohtaine BenJamin Logan 37 Lima Temple Ctuistlan 41 .Milford Center Fairbanks 31 · Lockland 85, Cin. Wyoming 59 Louisville 83 . Beloit W. Branch 44 Loveland 68, Harrison 45 Magnolia. W.Va. 70. Hannibal River 56 Malvern 79, Heritage Chnslian 55 Marla Stein Markin Local 46, Pitsburg FrankliFI·Monroe 32 Mason 59, Liberty Twp. Lakota E. 51 McArthur Vinton County 65, Jackson 41 McGuffey Upper Scioto Valley 53, Waynesfield-Goshen 51 Mechanaburg 78, w. Jefferson 53 Medina 60. Ashland 52 · Middletown 57, Fa1rfield 51 Middletown Madison 68, Carlisle 53 Milford 72. Cin Winton WOOds 66 Minerva 65, Alliance 58 Morrow LiHie Miami 58, Cin. Turpin 48 Mt. Blancl1ard Riverdale 83, COla Hardin Northe rn 52 N, Can Hoover 63, Perry 43 Napoleon 58. Sandusky 47 New London 71. Ashland Crestv1ew 45 New R1ege1 61, New Washington Buckeye Cent. 56 Niles McKinley 45, Chagrin Falls 43 Norwalk St. Paul73, Greenwich S. Cent. 54 . Norwood 50, C1n. NW 43 Oregon Strltch 59, N. Baltimore 53 Ottoville 72. McComb 56 Oxford Tatawanda 76, Trenton Edgewood 59 Parma 80, P~rma Padua 74 Pemberville Eastwood 61 , Oak Harbor 37 P8ttisville 68, Tol. Ottawa Hills 53 Piketon 68, Frankfort -Adena 58 •. Plymouth 90, Ashland Mapleton 40 W.VA. BOYS BASKETBALL Berl<eley Springs 83. Paw Paw 54 Bishop Donahue 65, Cameron 60 Bluefield 54, Scott 48 FM Hill, Md. 62, Frankfort 59 Hedgesvllte 8~ , Part< View-Sterling, Va. 44 Hurley, Va. 66; 81d Creek 59 Lawrence Co., Ky. 64, Tolsia so Magnolla 70, Hannibal River, Ohio 56 Man 78, Iaeger 42 Ma~nsburg 6Q,.llJscarora, Md. 57, OT Notre Dame 83J PhU1p,Barbour eo · Dak Hlll71 , Lloooln 35 Paden City 65, Cley·Ba11elle 61 Parkersburg Cath<lllc B6. Ritchie County 58 . SOuth Charleston 83, Nitro 57 San Diogo, Indianapolis or Bollimonl al Tennessee. 4:30 p.m (C.IIS) Minnesota, Arizona or Atlanta Carolina, B: 15 p.m. (FOX) at SUndoy,-. 11 Phll-phla, Aril<l<1a or Atlanta at N.Y.. GioniS, 1 p.m. (FOX) San Diego, Indianapolis or MiarTM at Plllsburgll, 4:45p.m. (CBS) NBA 58 Greater Beckley Christian 48, Meadow Bridge 34 Hurley. va. 52, Big Creek 3S laager 63, Mount Hope 51 North Marion 84. l,lusselman 29 POrkentlurg 69, Uncoln CO<Jnty 60 Pendleton County 5', H~land­ Mcnterey. va. 25 Ravenswood 52, Williamstown 50 Rit<:hie County 35. Calhoun County 34 Sherman 57, Buttato 34 W1rt CO<Jnty 69. Clay County 56 3 SATURDAY, .JAN. International Bowl- At Toronto Payout: $750.000 Connoctk:ut (7·5) vs. Buffalo (8-5) Noon (ESPN2). F~esta Bowl - 'At Glendale, Ariz. Payout: $17 million Texas (11 ·1) vs. Ohio Stale (10.2) 8:30 p.m. {FOX) TUESDAY, JAN. 6 GMAC Bowl- Mobile. Ala. Payout: $750.000 Tulsa (10.31 vs. BeN State (12·1) 8 p.m. (ESPN) ' 8 . THURSDAY, JAN. BC$ ChampiOnship - At Miami ~ayout: $17 million Florida (12·11 vs. Oklahoma (12·1) 8 p.m. (FOX) ' ATLANTIC DIVISION w Boston New Jersey PhUadelphla Toronlo New Vorl< 29 16 13 13 12 East-West Shrine Classic At Houston West vs. East, 4 p.m (ESPN2) SATURDAY, JAN. 24 senior Bowl Ar Mobile, Ala. South vs. North 7 (NFLN) . w Orlando 26 21 . 17 A-. Miami Charto11a · Wa&!lington 11 6 J 31 Texas vs. The Notion AII·Star Challenge AI El Paso. Texas Taxes vs. Niltlon, , p.m. NFL Playoffs . SCHEDULES Atlanta at Arizona, 4:30p.m. ~NBC) Indianapolis at San Diego, 8 p.m. (NBC) Sunday. Jln. 4 Baltimore 81 Miami, 1 p.m. (CBS) GB 17' 19 20 19 12112 15 151/2 151/2 L 7 GB 411;1 11 ·B 14 22 25 15 19 Juan Portillo said. Additionally. he blames fan disappointment over the ·from Page~l Longhorns' bowl destination. "I don 'I think they see the year sales, or more than game against Ohio State as double ' " boolced the number she has what we should be domg. .. · Por1illo said. . We needed 13 motor Some Ohio travel agencies coach~ to go to ~ (2007) · say fans are tired of Phoenix. game, she. saJd. ,)"ow, we This is, after all. the Buckeyes • fifth ,..appearance need one this year. . Travel agent Ike Reynol'!s ..since 2003 . · · m <;ol~bus. Oh!?· satd hts Other'S are disappointed busmes;: ts down ~ good ~ the Buckeyes have lost their :;:nt from prevtous bow last two ,big games. fo~ the "E~en if ou have money 2007 .a nd .2008 .n auonal ou've ~n hit pretty . champtonsht~. l:?hto State ~ by the losses in the sold some of 1ts ll~ket all?tstock market and you're sort m~nt to the pubhc earher. ofhanging 00 the sidelines th1s month . seats that are not spending money," normally reserved for seaReynolds said. son-llcket ho~ders . . · The same thing is happenThe Phoemx travel mw:Ic~t ing iii Texas. with many · reported . double-d1g1t deciding to stay home, save dechnes m hilf:l occupancy money and watch the Fiesta through NoveJ!IIIier ~d po~t­ Bowl on TV. ed the b1ggest declmes m At Tramex Travel in other key measures. mcludAustin, bookings have been ing room demand, which soft with fewer tMri four was off 7 .I percent, accorddo~n packages sold, owner ing to Smith Travel data. ' CENTRAL DIVISION w c-.nc1 Detroit Milwaukee ChiCagO Indiana Z7 20 . L 5· 11 16 14 11 1D 21 ' 18 G8 · 6112 12 13112 16 WESTERN CONF. SOUTHWEST DIVISION w New Orleans 20 San Anto11k> Dallas Houston Memphis 21 20 21 10 L 9 11 12 13 23 GB . 112 1 1/2 1112 12 NORTHWEST DIVISION DenVer Portlanct Utah Minnesota Oklahoma City W L 22 · 20 19 12 13 15 25 7 4 30 Ge 1 1/2 3 14 18 PACIFIC DIVISION w p.m. L 5 SOUTHEAST DIVISION 17 SATURDAY, JAN. SATURDAY, JAN. EASTERN CONF. 5 MONDAY, JAN. Saturday, Jan. 3 2QT _.,_10 Btaa<ton CO<Jnty 58. AoOne County 54 Bridgeport 62, Lewis County 52 Cameron 53. Valley 40 Ctay-Battelle 58, Trinity 45 Doddridge County 42. Sou1h HorriSon 18 Fairmont Senior n , BucKhannon--Upshur WILD·CARD PLAYOFFS Princeton 62. St. All>ens 56 RavenSWOOd 61, Summers County 46 Saint Joseph Ce~tral 72, Teays Valley Christian 62 Shady Spring 69. Liberty Raleigh 64. QIV1SIONAL PLA'I'OFFS GIRLS BASKETBALL 71, Gilbert 58 ~y. (FOX) Wyoming East 78, Independence 46 Point Pl88811nt 76, Roane County 53. Preaton 52, \)niverslty 39 Phelps, a t -· 4:30p.m. ~ Trinity 74, Troil 511 Wayne 53, Heart HocMr 44 Webster Counly 50. Gilmer CO<Jnty 46 Weir 62. llodorma 50 Wheeling Pari< 63. Ripley 60 Wlnfktld 68, Riverside 62 W~rt County 66. Wood County Christian 3S Woodrow Wilson 79. Greenbrier East 55 College Football Snwl•y, January 4 2009 LA. Lakera PhoeniM Gcilden State L.A. Clippers sacramento L 26 • 5 12 19 10 ' 25 24 8 25 a G8 7 18 18 112 19 SATURDAY'S GAMES Houston at Atlanta, ·late · saCramento at indiana, late · · Mltwaukee at Char1otte, late New Jersey at Miami, late Minnesota at Chicago, late Philadelphia at San Antonio, late New Ortea,Qs at Denver, late SUNDAY'S GAMES Orlando at Toron10, 12:30 p.m. Cleveland at Washington, 1 p.m. Detroit at L.A. Clippers, 3:30p.m. DaUas at Memphis, 4 p.m. Boston at New York, 6 p.m. · Porttand at L.A. Lakirs, 9:30 p.m. ~ Rio test. The visitoi'S eventually built a seven point advantage on two occasions in the ·opening half. fromPageBl Union only made 25 shots while Rio Grande made 27 .. Rio Gr~tnde regained · the The Bulldogs owned the lead after sophomore for- . advantage at the free -throw ward Wendell Bates, Jr. . line . Union went 27-for-37 knocked down a 3-pointer (73 .0 percent) and Rio of his own with 6:34 left in Grande was 15-for-21 (71.4 the game . Union's Bill percent). Also , Union made Davis put Onion back in six 3-pointers. 'It was the front, 70-69, with a basket. fourth game of the season The lead changed hands with six 3-point baskets. two mm:e time~ in the next The rebounding advantwo minutes. Michael tage was also owned by Hester put the Bulldogs in Union , 42-40. Of the front for ~ood, 72-,71 , wjth a .·basket w1th I :48 left on the Bulldogs' 42 rebounds, 19 were on the .offensive glass clock. Union scored the which led to 12 secondnext five points to own con- · chance points. . trol of the game. Hester Rio Grande will open up contributed .13 points with Mideast three assists and three American on Conference play steals. . Saturday with a ·road trip to The Bulldogs trailed for the first 16 minutes of the NAIA Division II No . .9 game. Da,..is tied the score Cedarville. Tip-off is schedand ·gave Union tlie lead uled for 4 p.m. following with a pair of free throws. the women's game. The two teams met in a His two free throws made non-conference game on the score 29-2!1 . Union went on to lead 35- December 2 at Rio Grande 30 with two minutes to go with the RedStorm coming in the half. It was the largest away with a 70-65 victory. . lead the Bulldogs enjoyed Uni~n College Sports in the opening half. Rio Grande reeled off the Information contributed to first six points of the con- this report. I RE PRICE IS NOT A SECRET!! 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Roane County ended the quart!)r on 'a 7-0 run incl uding a half-court three at the buzzer by Starcher tO cut the deficit to 65-40 . But that is all the closer th.e Raiders would get as bo'lh teams SJ.lCnl the fourth quarter subbmg new faces in and . out of the game. Roane County outscored Point Pleasant in the fourth 13-11 ltiading to the 76-53 final. Fridlly 's victory was one of the best all-around performances by the Big Blacks in a while as they claimed their second victo. ry of the season after posting just three on-court wins last year. . Point Pleasant will try to keep its momentum going when it returns to the .c ourt Tuesday at home against Sissonville. The JV game is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. Blacks also came away with 14 steals led by Jones and Nolan with three apiece and 10 assists. • Roane County simply could not put together a string of points large enough to make up any ground ~ every big score was answered Immediately by the Red and Black. Like Point Pleasant, the visitors had Sc:veral different players score in Friday's setback with nine Raiders puttin~ points on the board. Combmed ·the two te~s placed 22 players into the · scoring column. , Roane County (1-3) was led by Rhett Atkinson and . Colter Taylor with 10 points apiece. Jimmy Henlsey was next with eight points followed by Shane Starcher with seven points ,' Logan Cain with six points, Matt Brohard with five points, Trever Cummint& and Alex Mace with tliree points apiece and · R .J . Burdette with one point. Combined the Raiders had 33 rebounds led by Taylor with eight. Point Pleasant led its first game of the new year from start to finish, opening the contest with a 14-2 run as Deal posied nine first quarter points. That lead was extended to 17-4 before the . .Raiders finally put together back-to-hack scores for the · first time . By 'then, however, it was already too late. Point Pleasant continued to pile on points over the final three minutes , ending the 9.uarter with a commandmg 21-9 lead. That trend continued into POINT PLEASANT ·76, ..the next round as the Big .Blacks kept up the intensiROANE CouNTY .53 ,ty and e.xtended their lead Roane Co. 9 17 14 13 - 53 to 20 m1dway through the Point 21 26 18 11 - 76 ·'quarter. The proverbial nail · in the coffin came with a · ROANE COUNTY (1·3): Rhett Aff<lnson ' little under five minute!\ 4 2>4 10. Matt Brohard 2 1·2 5, Matt - left as a 30 second defen- Harper 0 0.0 0. Jimmy Hensley 2 3-5 8. sive stand allowed Point Trever Cummings 1 1·2 3, Austin Corbitt ().() 0, Logan Cain 3 0.2 8. Colter Pleasant tQ open up a 33-13 0Taylor 34>410, Shane Starcher 1 4>4 7. · . lead . Alex Mace 1 1>4 3, R.J. Burdette 0 1·2 · Having just scored to go 1. TOTALS: 17 17·29 53. Three'f)Oinl · up 28-13 with 4:51 left goals: 2 (Hensley, Starcher). before the half, Williams POINT PLEASANT (2·1): B.J. Lloyd 5 ().() 13. Kylenn Crlste 0 2>4 2. Drake came away with a big steal · Nolan 1 0..2 2, Layne Thof11)SOn ~ o-o 2, ' on the inbound and put the '!VIer Deal6 ().() 14, Nathan Wedge 1 o. ball back up for another 2 3. Preston Ralrden 1 ().() 2. Bnett score, getting fouled in the Sergent o o-o o, JeWaan WiHiams 2 0.1 process. Williams missed 4. Chris Campbell 3 2·6 B. • Jacob Templeton 5 3-3 13. Cody Greath<lusa 3 the freebie, but his team 1·2 7. Orrin Chason 1 ().() 2, Tyson - bailed him out with an Jooes 2 ().() 4. TOTALS: 31 8·20 76. ::: offensive board and anoth- Thrae·polnt goals: 6 (Lloyd 3. ·Deal 2, ~ er foul sent Greathouse to Wedge). the line. • Tsam llltlattcollndlvlduoll-.. Greathouse made the .:front end of a pair of free · Total rellounds: RC 33 (Taylor B), PP 47 .t hrows and once again (Tem~n 13); Alslsts' RC 3 (Aff<inson, PPHS came away with an Brohard, pummlngs), PP 10 ,(Templeton Steele: RC 3 (Aff<lnson, Cummings, :offensive board, this time 4): l.lace). PP 14 (Nolan 3, Jones 3); :: getting the putback for a 5- Blocks RC a (Atkinson. Heneley, 0 run during a 30 second S1srcher), PP 1 (Jones) ; Team louis: RC stretch where Roane 20. pp 24. Manning Devils County failed to cross mid- fromhgeBI first half with 5:08 remaiDing u 16-7. Tbt Blue aDd White however clOsed the res1 of the first half on an 8-3 charge to enter the intermission trailing 19-15. GAHS pulled to within a possession 0.9-17) with 6:J91eft in the third period. but the guests countered with "8 small 4-0 run over the next 4 7 · seconds to reclaim a two-possession 23-17 edge. The hosts managed to pull back within four markers (2)-19) with 5:12left in the third, but never came closer the rest of the way. IHS hit full stride from there, going on .an 11-0 charge over the next 4: 13 to establish a colilfortablet3419 cushion with just under a minute left in . the third canto. Both teams traded !)No-point baskets over the final 40 sec.o nds. allowing Ironton to take a 36- 2'l advantage into the finale. Gallia Academy came as close as to points (38-28) with 4:35 left in regulation • but the Tigers closed things out on an 11-3 surge to claim the 18-point decision . Ironton's biggest lead of the night was also 18 points, both of which carne in the final 90 seconds of play. .' The win - . combined with Portsmouth's 68-42 loss to Chillicothe - puts IHS atop the SEOAL South Division standings. The Fighting Tigers were also without the services . of senior . starter Michael Lamb, who suffered an injury in a previous game. Gallia Academy finished the night 13-of-40 from the field overall for 33 percent, including jus.t 1-of-14 from three-point territory for seven percent. The hosts also had J8 turnovers in the contest, two more than Ironton's 16 miscues . The Tigers connected on · 1'9-of-37 field goal tries for 51 . pen;etit , including a 3of-9 effort from behind the arc for 33 percent. The guests also claimed a 29- 15 edge in rebounding, including an 8-4 edge on the offensive glass. touchdown passes, 12 interce~tions ,and a 95 .0 passer rating . "In other years, everyfrom Page Bl . thing started fast," Colts Atlanta running back running back Dominic .Michael Turner, each with Rhodes said. "He'·s still four votes . Pi«sburgh line- breaking records. But this - backer James Harrison and year, there were a bunch of ·. Minnesota RB Adrian negative things ~aid in the ; Peterson each got three beginning, and he brought yotes. San Diego QB Philip his best when we needed his Rivers (2), Tennessee rook- best. This is probably the ie RB Chris Johnson (1) and best ball I've seen him Arizona QB Kurt Warner play." . ·(1) also earned votes. . The folks in Indianapolis · "I'm honored to receive might take for granted havttiis award because of the ing Manning behind center, .· . number of other worthy just as Packers and now Jets candidates who had some . fans have assumed Favre great years," Manning said. would be there every week . . ·"It was just fun for me, Favre has started 269 ·truly, to watch them ..I'~ straight regular-season games, the record for quarjust glad to be'! part of 11. Manning has bee11 part of terbacks. Manning's string a most unusual season for is 176 - every game since the Colts, who normally · · he was the No. I pick in the have the AFC South just 1998 draft. about clinched by The Mannings, of course, Thanksgiving. Manning·had are the frrst family of NFL two operations on his left quarterbacking, from father :. knee in the preseason, cut- Archie to Peyton to younger : ring into practice tim'e , brother Eli of the New York ·· blunting his usual precision Giants. ·. as a passer and, eventually. "To be able to· come back :leading to that 3-4 start. .. and play the way he has, : From there, wtth especially the last nine or 10 ··Manning getting sharper by weeks where they • have • the week, the Colts won .been winning and · getting .· ·:": nine straight games to · into the playoffs, I'm very ~ secure a wi ld-catd berth and proud of him and the season 11 meeting Saturday night he has had," said Eli ~ith San Diego . Manning, the MVP of last • In ihat streak, Manning is February's Su~r Bowl. Added Peterson, the : 209-of-290 for 2,248· yards :; and 17 louchdowns, with league's leading rusher: "I :only three interceptions. He know Manning is definitel,Y :: extended his' NFL cecord worthy of the award. He s · :.Vith his ninth 4,000-yard an outstanding player and I .season . and finished y.:ith 27 take my hat off to him." . Bryon W.lterSiphoto Gallia Academy's John Troester, middle, releases a jump shot over a pair of Ironton · defenders during the first halfof Friday night's SEOAL boys basketball game in Gallipolis. The Devils had six play- · ers score in the setback. led by Chris Armstrq_ng and Kyle Mitchell wi)h nine points apiece. Quinton Nibert was next with seven markers, follewed by Ethan Moore. Beau Whaley and John Troester with two p<:>ints apiece. The hosts fin!Shed the night 4-of-6 at the foul line for 67 percent. lronton had nine players reach the scoring column, with John Schweickart leading the victors with gamehighs of 13 points and seven rebounds. Tim Kochendorfer was next' with nine markers, followed by Dustin Green with eight points . Travis Elliott , Lukas Morris and Erin Edens also had four points apiece in the winning cause, whi'le Tommy Waginger and Malcolm Morton rounded things out with two markers each. lt!S was 8-of-15 at the charity stripe for 53 percent. Ironton won two of the three &ames played Friday night, also posting an 82-42 victory in the freshmen matchup. Gallia Academy. needed overtime and heroics to win the junior varsity tilt by a 50-49 margin. Trailing 4948 with no time remaining in overtime, Jordan Cornwell sank a pair of free throws to give the JV Devils the lone triumph of the night. · Cornwell had a game-high 17 points in that contest, while Michael Lawless paced the JV Tigers with 13 points. · Gallia Academy returns to the hardwood Tuesday when it hosts Chillicothe in another SEOAL South Division matchup . · The freshmen game will tip-off at 5 p.m. IRONTON 49, GALLIA AcADEMY 31 Ironton Gallipolis 12 7 7 8 17 6 13 _ 49 10 - 31 IRONTON (6·2, 3-0 SEOAL South) John Scnweickart 6 1·2 13, Tommy Wagtnger 1 o-o 2, Matcolm Morton 1 02 2. Travis Elliott 2 Q-0 4. Tim Kochendorfer 2 4-4 9, Lukas Morris 2 o0 4, Dustin Green 3 o-t 8, Enn Edens 1 24 4, Geoffrey While 1 1-2 3. TOTALS 19 8-~5 49. Thtee-point goals: 3 (Green 2. Kochen<Jorfer). GALLIA ACADEMY (3>4. o-2 SEOAL South): Quinton Nibert 2 2-2· 7, Ethan Moore 1 [).() 2. ·Nick Mllchell 0 [).() 0. Chris Arrnstrong 4 t ·1 9, Kyle Mitchell 4 1·3 9, Beau Whaley 1 o-o 2, Zeke Maher o (}() o. Jonn Troes1er 1 ().() 2 TOTA'LS· 13 4-6 31. Three·polnl QO\IIS: 1 (Nibert). Tum o1AIIotlc.nndl•lduolField goals: I 19-37 (.513). GA 13-40 (.325); Three·point goals: I 3·9 (.333). GA 1·14 (.071); Free tl)rows: I 8·15 (.533), GA 4-6 (.667), Total rebounds: I 29 (Schweickert 7) , GA 15 (Armslrong 5): Oftensive rebounds: 1 8 (Morris 2. Schweickart 2). GA 4 (K. Mitchell, Nibert, Moore. Troester): Assists: I 12 (Edens 5). GA 4 (Nibert. Whaley. Armstrong, - Troester}, Steals. I 10 (Kochendorfer 4), GA 5 (Moore 3); BloCks: 1 S (Kochendorfer 3), GA. 0 · (None);Turnovers: I 16. GA 18; ~rsona1 louis: 113, GA 15; JV score: GA 50, 149 - OT; Freshmen score: I 82, GA 42. �• ' Pomeroy • Middleport • Gallipolis •~ Fl The liP Scorabaard Prep Scores OHIO BOYS BASKETBALL Al<r. Hoban 62, Cols Wlle!Stone 50 AtllancS Martlngton 58. Canal Fulton Northwest 49 ~learcreok 62, NollonY'Io-York 55 Basconi Hopewell-Loudon 85· ·· Gibsonburg 84 . : Belli>,_ 65. Ealon 53 ... Bellefonta~ne 66, A1versKte Stebbins 31 • Berlin Center Western. Rase~ 44, E. · Paklstine •1 Broolwille 55. Millon·Union 44 Can. GlenOak 76, Youngs. Boardman 69 Can McKinley 63. Massittcn Jackson 62 Canfield 58. Akl. North 48 Chillicothe 68. Portsmouth 42 : · • : Chillicothe Hunt1ngton 60, Ch illiCothe Unioto 36 Chillicothe Zane Ti'ace 54 , Bainbridge Paint Valley ~6 . Cin. Anderson 63, Cin. Glen Este 45 · Cm lnd1an Hill 86. N. Bend l'aytor 64 Sebnng McKinley 74, Bnstol 68 Sidney 74 , Greenville 63 Spring. Ksnton R1dge 52. Tipp City Tippecanoe 45 Spring. NW 76, Spl'lng. Greenon 68 Spr1ng Shawnee 51 , New Carlisle Tecumseh 43 St.·Henry 42. Ft. loramie 23 St FJans Graham 66, Urbana 47 Tol. Cent Cath 54. SylVania Northview 42 Unionl<>Wn Lake 75, Youngs. Austintown- Frt<h 58 - ' TT. Roclctord Parl<way 59 W. Lafayette Ridgewood 47, Warsaw River V18W 45 Warren JFK 68, warren Champ~oo 58 Williamsport WesttaU 67, Southeastern 52 Youngs. Christian 61 . Youngs. Easl 58 Zanesville Rosecrans 69. Bowerstoo Coootton Valley 34 Columbus FCI N.ademy Tournament CampbeU. Ga. 114, Cols. FCI Academy 74 McDonslds Tournament Peebles 79, W. Union 51 . WPTW Tourriamenf Pique 63. CoYiOjjlon 56 Sidney L.ehman 63, Russia 59 · Cin Oak H~ ls 58. Cin. Colerain 40 · Cin Prmceton 79. W Chester Lakota W. GIRLS BASKETBALL Coldwater 63. Van Wert 60 Collins Western Reserve 77. Monroeville : 67 · Conneaut 67, South1ngton Chalker 61 • Day. Northndge 72, New LeWrlon Oboe Beatlswille 68, Stewart Federal Hocking 67 Ckl. VASJ 67, Cle. St. Martin De Porres 22 . Cols Granc:lview Hts. 43, M.11ford Center Fairbanks 41 . OT Cols. Hartley 63, Pataskala Licking Hts. 29 Detphos Jefferson 84, lima Perry 46 Grove City Christian 46, Millers~rt 41, OT ' Kettering Alter 40, Beaverer&M. 31 Lex. Chnstian, Ky. 80, N. Can. Hoover 66 Newark Cath. 59. Zanesville Aosecran's 49' Piketon 49, Beaver Eastern 44 Smilhville 68, MassillOn Tuslaw 39 Bragg1n' Rights Tournament Cin. Mt. Healthy 35. Cols. East 2.7. CiO. Walnut Hills 45, Shaker Hts-..44 Cols. Harvest Prep .73, Day. MeadQwdale 67 Cots. Northland 56, Trotwood-Madison 49 Day. Marshall 65, Cols Marion-Franklin 20 Dublin Coftrrian 47, Troy Christian 30 Potter's House Christian, Fla. 79, Cle. Hts. Lutheran E. 49 Spr1ng. Kenton Ridge 65. E. Cle. Shaw 53 St. Michael's, N.Y. 49. Cols. Africentric 39 Xenia 55, Gahanna Lmcoln 45 Laurel Tournament Parma Normandy 63, Richmond Hts. 58 Shaker His. Laurel 63. Cle. Rt'todes 36 . 7p ' 64 · Dover 59. Rocky River 45 Dublin Scioto 41 . Mt. Vernon 29 Franklin 70, Germantown Valley VIew 53 Ft. Recovery 70. St Marys Memorial 50 Galion Northmor 53, Cardington-Lincoln 50 Hamilton 65, Cin. Sycamore 35 : Hamilton Ross 47, Cin Mt Healthy 45 • Hartville · Lake Center Christian 68, • Columbiana 64 •. Ironton 49. Gallipolis Gallia 31 Jollnstown·Monroe 39, Morral Ridgedale 36 Kalida 62, Haviland Wayne Trace 38 Kettenng Fairmont 68, W. Carrollton 67 Lakes1de Danbury 55, Norwood 50 Lakewood St. Edward 56. Cle Benedicti n ~ 46 Lewistown Indian Lake 57. Bellelohtaine BenJamin Logan 37 Lima Temple Ctuistlan 41 .Milford Center Fairbanks 31 · Lockland 85, Cin. Wyoming 59 Louisville 83 . Beloit W. Branch 44 Loveland 68, Harrison 45 Magnolia. W.Va. 70. Hannibal River 56 Malvern 79, Heritage Chnslian 55 Marla Stein Markin Local 46, Pitsburg FrankliFI·Monroe 32 Mason 59, Liberty Twp. Lakota E. 51 McArthur Vinton County 65, Jackson 41 McGuffey Upper Scioto Valley 53, Waynesfield-Goshen 51 Mechanaburg 78, w. Jefferson 53 Medina 60. Ashland 52 · Middletown 57, Fa1rfield 51 Middletown Madison 68, Carlisle 53 Milford 72. Cin Winton WOOds 66 Minerva 65, Alliance 58 Morrow LiHie Miami 58, Cin. Turpin 48 Mt. Blancl1ard Riverdale 83, COla Hardin Northe rn 52 N, Can Hoover 63, Perry 43 Napoleon 58. Sandusky 47 New London 71. Ashland Crestv1ew 45 New R1ege1 61, New Washington Buckeye Cent. 56 Niles McKinley 45, Chagrin Falls 43 Norwalk St. Paul73, Greenwich S. Cent. 54 . Norwood 50, C1n. NW 43 Oregon Strltch 59, N. Baltimore 53 Ottoville 72. McComb 56 Oxford Tatawanda 76, Trenton Edgewood 59 Parma 80, P~rma Padua 74 Pemberville Eastwood 61 , Oak Harbor 37 P8ttisville 68, Tol. Ottawa Hills 53 Piketon 68, Frankfort -Adena 58 •. Plymouth 90, Ashland Mapleton 40 W.VA. BOYS BASKETBALL Berl<eley Springs 83. Paw Paw 54 Bishop Donahue 65, Cameron 60 Bluefield 54, Scott 48 FM Hill, Md. 62, Frankfort 59 Hedgesvllte 8~ , Part< View-Sterling, Va. 44 Hurley, Va. 66; 81d Creek 59 Lawrence Co., Ky. 64, Tolsia so Magnolla 70, Hannibal River, Ohio 56 Man 78, Iaeger 42 Ma~nsburg 6Q,.llJscarora, Md. 57, OT Notre Dame 83J PhU1p,Barbour eo · Dak Hlll71 , Lloooln 35 Paden City 65, Cley·Ba11elle 61 Parkersburg Cath<lllc B6. Ritchie County 58 . SOuth Charleston 83, Nitro 57 San Diogo, Indianapolis or Bollimonl al Tennessee. 4:30 p.m (C.IIS) Minnesota, Arizona or Atlanta Carolina, B: 15 p.m. (FOX) at SUndoy,-. 11 Phll-phla, Aril<l<1a or Atlanta at N.Y.. GioniS, 1 p.m. (FOX) San Diego, Indianapolis or MiarTM at Plllsburgll, 4:45p.m. (CBS) NBA 58 Greater Beckley Christian 48, Meadow Bridge 34 Hurley. va. 52, Big Creek 3S laager 63, Mount Hope 51 North Marion 84. l,lusselman 29 POrkentlurg 69, Uncoln CO<Jnty 60 Pendleton County 5', H~land­ Mcnterey. va. 25 Ravenswood 52, Williamstown 50 Rit<:hie County 35. Calhoun County 34 Sherman 57, Buttato 34 W1rt CO<Jnty 69. Clay County 56 3 SATURDAY, .JAN. International Bowl- At Toronto Payout: $750.000 Connoctk:ut (7·5) vs. Buffalo (8-5) Noon (ESPN2). F~esta Bowl - 'At Glendale, Ariz. Payout: $17 million Texas (11 ·1) vs. Ohio Stale (10.2) 8:30 p.m. {FOX) TUESDAY, JAN. 6 GMAC Bowl- Mobile. Ala. Payout: $750.000 Tulsa (10.31 vs. BeN State (12·1) 8 p.m. (ESPN) ' 8 . THURSDAY, JAN. BC$ ChampiOnship - At Miami ~ayout: $17 million Florida (12·11 vs. Oklahoma (12·1) 8 p.m. (FOX) ' ATLANTIC DIVISION w Boston New Jersey PhUadelphla Toronlo New Vorl< 29 16 13 13 12 East-West Shrine Classic At Houston West vs. East, 4 p.m (ESPN2) SATURDAY, JAN. 24 senior Bowl Ar Mobile, Ala. South vs. North 7 (NFLN) . w Orlando 26 21 . 17 A-. Miami Charto11a · Wa&!lington 11 6 J 31 Texas vs. The Notion AII·Star Challenge AI El Paso. Texas Taxes vs. Niltlon, , p.m. NFL Playoffs . SCHEDULES Atlanta at Arizona, 4:30p.m. ~NBC) Indianapolis at San Diego, 8 p.m. (NBC) Sunday. Jln. 4 Baltimore 81 Miami, 1 p.m. (CBS) GB 17' 19 20 19 12112 15 151/2 151/2 L 7 GB 411;1 11 ·B 14 22 25 15 19 Juan Portillo said. Additionally. he blames fan disappointment over the ·from Page~l Longhorns' bowl destination. "I don 'I think they see the year sales, or more than game against Ohio State as double ' " boolced the number she has what we should be domg. .. · Por1illo said. . We needed 13 motor Some Ohio travel agencies coach~ to go to ~ (2007) · say fans are tired of Phoenix. game, she. saJd. ,)"ow, we This is, after all. the Buckeyes • fifth ,..appearance need one this year. . Travel agent Ike Reynol'!s ..since 2003 . · · m <;ol~bus. Oh!?· satd hts Other'S are disappointed busmes;: ts down ~ good ~ the Buckeyes have lost their :;:nt from prevtous bow last two ,big games. fo~ the "E~en if ou have money 2007 .a nd .2008 .n auonal ou've ~n hit pretty . champtonsht~. l:?hto State ~ by the losses in the sold some of 1ts ll~ket all?tstock market and you're sort m~nt to the pubhc earher. ofhanging 00 the sidelines th1s month . seats that are not spending money," normally reserved for seaReynolds said. son-llcket ho~ders . . · The same thing is happenThe Phoemx travel mw:Ic~t ing iii Texas. with many · reported . double-d1g1t deciding to stay home, save dechnes m hilf:l occupancy money and watch the Fiesta through NoveJ!IIIier ~d po~t­ Bowl on TV. ed the b1ggest declmes m At Tramex Travel in other key measures. mcludAustin, bookings have been ing room demand, which soft with fewer tMri four was off 7 .I percent, accorddo~n packages sold, owner ing to Smith Travel data. ' CENTRAL DIVISION w c-.nc1 Detroit Milwaukee ChiCagO Indiana Z7 20 . L 5· 11 16 14 11 1D 21 ' 18 G8 · 6112 12 13112 16 WESTERN CONF. SOUTHWEST DIVISION w New Orleans 20 San Anto11k> Dallas Houston Memphis 21 20 21 10 L 9 11 12 13 23 GB . 112 1 1/2 1112 12 NORTHWEST DIVISION DenVer Portlanct Utah Minnesota Oklahoma City W L 22 · 20 19 12 13 15 25 7 4 30 Ge 1 1/2 3 14 18 PACIFIC DIVISION w p.m. L 5 SOUTHEAST DIVISION 17 SATURDAY, JAN. SATURDAY, JAN. EASTERN CONF. 5 MONDAY, JAN. Saturday, Jan. 3 2QT _.,_10 Btaa<ton CO<Jnty 58. AoOne County 54 Bridgeport 62, Lewis County 52 Cameron 53. Valley 40 Ctay-Battelle 58, Trinity 45 Doddridge County 42. Sou1h HorriSon 18 Fairmont Senior n , BucKhannon--Upshur WILD·CARD PLAYOFFS Princeton 62. St. All>ens 56 RavenSWOOd 61, Summers County 46 Saint Joseph Ce~tral 72, Teays Valley Christian 62 Shady Spring 69. Liberty Raleigh 64. QIV1SIONAL PLA'I'OFFS GIRLS BASKETBALL 71, Gilbert 58 ~y. (FOX) Wyoming East 78, Independence 46 Point Pl88811nt 76, Roane County 53. Preaton 52, \)niverslty 39 Phelps, a t -· 4:30p.m. ~ Trinity 74, Troil 511 Wayne 53, Heart HocMr 44 Webster Counly 50. Gilmer CO<Jnty 46 Weir 62. llodorma 50 Wheeling Pari< 63. Ripley 60 Wlnfktld 68, Riverside 62 W~rt County 66. Wood County Christian 3S Woodrow Wilson 79. Greenbrier East 55 College Football Snwl•y, January 4 2009 LA. Lakera PhoeniM Gcilden State L.A. Clippers sacramento L 26 • 5 12 19 10 ' 25 24 8 25 a G8 7 18 18 112 19 SATURDAY'S GAMES Houston at Atlanta, ·late · saCramento at indiana, late · · Mltwaukee at Char1otte, late New Jersey at Miami, late Minnesota at Chicago, late Philadelphia at San Antonio, late New Ortea,Qs at Denver, late SUNDAY'S GAMES Orlando at Toron10, 12:30 p.m. Cleveland at Washington, 1 p.m. Detroit at L.A. Clippers, 3:30p.m. DaUas at Memphis, 4 p.m. Boston at New York, 6 p.m. · Porttand at L.A. Lakirs, 9:30 p.m. ~ Rio test. The visitoi'S eventually built a seven point advantage on two occasions in the ·opening half. fromPageBl Union only made 25 shots while Rio Grande made 27 .. Rio Gr~tnde regained · the The Bulldogs owned the lead after sophomore for- . advantage at the free -throw ward Wendell Bates, Jr. . line . Union went 27-for-37 knocked down a 3-pointer (73 .0 percent) and Rio of his own with 6:34 left in Grande was 15-for-21 (71.4 the game . Union's Bill percent). Also , Union made Davis put Onion back in six 3-pointers. 'It was the front, 70-69, with a basket. fourth game of the season The lead changed hands with six 3-point baskets. two mm:e time~ in the next The rebounding advantwo minutes. Michael tage was also owned by Hester put the Bulldogs in Union , 42-40. Of the front for ~ood, 72-,71 , wjth a .·basket w1th I :48 left on the Bulldogs' 42 rebounds, 19 were on the .offensive glass clock. Union scored the which led to 12 secondnext five points to own con- · chance points. . trol of the game. Hester Rio Grande will open up contributed .13 points with Mideast three assists and three American on Conference play steals. . Saturday with a ·road trip to The Bulldogs trailed for the first 16 minutes of the NAIA Division II No . .9 game. Da,..is tied the score Cedarville. Tip-off is schedand ·gave Union tlie lead uled for 4 p.m. following with a pair of free throws. the women's game. The two teams met in a His two free throws made non-conference game on the score 29-2!1 . Union went on to lead 35- December 2 at Rio Grande 30 with two minutes to go with the RedStorm coming in the half. It was the largest away with a 70-65 victory. . lead the Bulldogs enjoyed Uni~n College Sports in the opening half. Rio Grande reeled off the Information contributed to first six points of the con- this report. I RE PRICE IS NOT A SECRET!! 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Roane County ended the quart!)r on 'a 7-0 run incl uding a half-court three at the buzzer by Starcher tO cut the deficit to 65-40 . But that is all the closer th.e Raiders would get as bo'lh teams SJ.lCnl the fourth quarter subbmg new faces in and . out of the game. Roane County outscored Point Pleasant in the fourth 13-11 ltiading to the 76-53 final. Fridlly 's victory was one of the best all-around performances by the Big Blacks in a while as they claimed their second victo. ry of the season after posting just three on-court wins last year. . Point Pleasant will try to keep its momentum going when it returns to the .c ourt Tuesday at home against Sissonville. The JV game is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. Blacks also came away with 14 steals led by Jones and Nolan with three apiece and 10 assists. • Roane County simply could not put together a string of points large enough to make up any ground ~ every big score was answered Immediately by the Red and Black. Like Point Pleasant, the visitors had Sc:veral different players score in Friday's setback with nine Raiders puttin~ points on the board. Combmed ·the two te~s placed 22 players into the · scoring column. , Roane County (1-3) was led by Rhett Atkinson and . Colter Taylor with 10 points apiece. Jimmy Henlsey was next with eight points followed by Shane Starcher with seven points ,' Logan Cain with six points, Matt Brohard with five points, Trever Cummint& and Alex Mace with tliree points apiece and · R .J . Burdette with one point. Combined the Raiders had 33 rebounds led by Taylor with eight. Point Pleasant led its first game of the new year from start to finish, opening the contest with a 14-2 run as Deal posied nine first quarter points. That lead was extended to 17-4 before the . .Raiders finally put together back-to-hack scores for the · first time . By 'then, however, it was already too late. Point Pleasant continued to pile on points over the final three minutes , ending the 9.uarter with a commandmg 21-9 lead. That trend continued into POINT PLEASANT ·76, ..the next round as the Big .Blacks kept up the intensiROANE CouNTY .53 ,ty and e.xtended their lead Roane Co. 9 17 14 13 - 53 to 20 m1dway through the Point 21 26 18 11 - 76 ·'quarter. The proverbial nail · in the coffin came with a · ROANE COUNTY (1·3): Rhett Aff<lnson ' little under five minute!\ 4 2>4 10. Matt Brohard 2 1·2 5, Matt - left as a 30 second defen- Harper 0 0.0 0. Jimmy Hensley 2 3-5 8. sive stand allowed Point Trever Cummings 1 1·2 3, Austin Corbitt ().() 0, Logan Cain 3 0.2 8. Colter Pleasant tQ open up a 33-13 0Taylor 34>410, Shane Starcher 1 4>4 7. · . lead . Alex Mace 1 1>4 3, R.J. Burdette 0 1·2 · Having just scored to go 1. TOTALS: 17 17·29 53. Three'f)Oinl · up 28-13 with 4:51 left goals: 2 (Hensley, Starcher). before the half, Williams POINT PLEASANT (2·1): B.J. Lloyd 5 ().() 13. Kylenn Crlste 0 2>4 2. Drake came away with a big steal · Nolan 1 0..2 2, Layne Thof11)SOn ~ o-o 2, ' on the inbound and put the '!VIer Deal6 ().() 14, Nathan Wedge 1 o. ball back up for another 2 3. Preston Ralrden 1 ().() 2. Bnett score, getting fouled in the Sergent o o-o o, JeWaan WiHiams 2 0.1 process. Williams missed 4. Chris Campbell 3 2·6 B. • Jacob Templeton 5 3-3 13. Cody Greath<lusa 3 the freebie, but his team 1·2 7. Orrin Chason 1 ().() 2, Tyson - bailed him out with an Jooes 2 ().() 4. TOTALS: 31 8·20 76. ::: offensive board and anoth- Thrae·polnt goals: 6 (Lloyd 3. ·Deal 2, ~ er foul sent Greathouse to Wedge). the line. • Tsam llltlattcollndlvlduoll-.. Greathouse made the .:front end of a pair of free · Total rellounds: RC 33 (Taylor B), PP 47 .t hrows and once again (Tem~n 13); Alslsts' RC 3 (Aff<inson, PPHS came away with an Brohard, pummlngs), PP 10 ,(Templeton Steele: RC 3 (Aff<lnson, Cummings, :offensive board, this time 4): l.lace). PP 14 (Nolan 3, Jones 3); :: getting the putback for a 5- Blocks RC a (Atkinson. Heneley, 0 run during a 30 second S1srcher), PP 1 (Jones) ; Team louis: RC stretch where Roane 20. pp 24. Manning Devils County failed to cross mid- fromhgeBI first half with 5:08 remaiDing u 16-7. Tbt Blue aDd White however clOsed the res1 of the first half on an 8-3 charge to enter the intermission trailing 19-15. GAHS pulled to within a possession 0.9-17) with 6:J91eft in the third period. but the guests countered with "8 small 4-0 run over the next 4 7 · seconds to reclaim a two-possession 23-17 edge. The hosts managed to pull back within four markers (2)-19) with 5:12left in the third, but never came closer the rest of the way. IHS hit full stride from there, going on .an 11-0 charge over the next 4: 13 to establish a colilfortablet3419 cushion with just under a minute left in . the third canto. Both teams traded !)No-point baskets over the final 40 sec.o nds. allowing Ironton to take a 36- 2'l advantage into the finale. Gallia Academy came as close as to points (38-28) with 4:35 left in regulation • but the Tigers closed things out on an 11-3 surge to claim the 18-point decision . Ironton's biggest lead of the night was also 18 points, both of which carne in the final 90 seconds of play. .' The win - . combined with Portsmouth's 68-42 loss to Chillicothe - puts IHS atop the SEOAL South Division standings. The Fighting Tigers were also without the services . of senior . starter Michael Lamb, who suffered an injury in a previous game. Gallia Academy finished the night 13-of-40 from the field overall for 33 percent, including jus.t 1-of-14 from three-point territory for seven percent. The hosts also had J8 turnovers in the contest, two more than Ironton's 16 miscues . The Tigers connected on · 1'9-of-37 field goal tries for 51 . pen;etit , including a 3of-9 effort from behind the arc for 33 percent. The guests also claimed a 29- 15 edge in rebounding, including an 8-4 edge on the offensive glass. touchdown passes, 12 interce~tions ,and a 95 .0 passer rating . "In other years, everyfrom Page Bl . thing started fast," Colts Atlanta running back running back Dominic .Michael Turner, each with Rhodes said. "He'·s still four votes . Pi«sburgh line- breaking records. But this - backer James Harrison and year, there were a bunch of ·. Minnesota RB Adrian negative things ~aid in the ; Peterson each got three beginning, and he brought yotes. San Diego QB Philip his best when we needed his Rivers (2), Tennessee rook- best. This is probably the ie RB Chris Johnson (1) and best ball I've seen him Arizona QB Kurt Warner play." . ·(1) also earned votes. . The folks in Indianapolis · "I'm honored to receive might take for granted havttiis award because of the ing Manning behind center, .· . number of other worthy just as Packers and now Jets candidates who had some . fans have assumed Favre great years," Manning said. would be there every week . . ·"It was just fun for me, Favre has started 269 ·truly, to watch them ..I'~ straight regular-season games, the record for quarjust glad to be'! part of 11. Manning has bee11 part of terbacks. Manning's string a most unusual season for is 176 - every game since the Colts, who normally · · he was the No. I pick in the have the AFC South just 1998 draft. about clinched by The Mannings, of course, Thanksgiving. Manning·had are the frrst family of NFL two operations on his left quarterbacking, from father :. knee in the preseason, cut- Archie to Peyton to younger : ring into practice tim'e , brother Eli of the New York ·· blunting his usual precision Giants. ·. as a passer and, eventually. "To be able to· come back :leading to that 3-4 start. .. and play the way he has, : From there, wtth especially the last nine or 10 ··Manning getting sharper by weeks where they • have • the week, the Colts won .been winning and · getting .· ·:": nine straight games to · into the playoffs, I'm very ~ secure a wi ld-catd berth and proud of him and the season 11 meeting Saturday night he has had," said Eli ~ith San Diego . Manning, the MVP of last • In ihat streak, Manning is February's Su~r Bowl. Added Peterson, the : 209-of-290 for 2,248· yards :; and 17 louchdowns, with league's leading rusher: "I :only three interceptions. He know Manning is definitel,Y :: extended his' NFL cecord worthy of the award. He s · :.Vith his ninth 4,000-yard an outstanding player and I .season . and finished y.:ith 27 take my hat off to him." . Bryon W.lterSiphoto Gallia Academy's John Troester, middle, releases a jump shot over a pair of Ironton · defenders during the first halfof Friday night's SEOAL boys basketball game in Gallipolis. The Devils had six play- · ers score in the setback. led by Chris Armstrq_ng and Kyle Mitchell wi)h nine points apiece. Quinton Nibert was next with seven markers, follewed by Ethan Moore. Beau Whaley and John Troester with two p<:>ints apiece. The hosts fin!Shed the night 4-of-6 at the foul line for 67 percent. lronton had nine players reach the scoring column, with John Schweickart leading the victors with gamehighs of 13 points and seven rebounds. Tim Kochendorfer was next' with nine markers, followed by Dustin Green with eight points . Travis Elliott , Lukas Morris and Erin Edens also had four points apiece in the winning cause, whi'le Tommy Waginger and Malcolm Morton rounded things out with two markers each. lt!S was 8-of-15 at the charity stripe for 53 percent. Ironton won two of the three &ames played Friday night, also posting an 82-42 victory in the freshmen matchup. Gallia Academy. needed overtime and heroics to win the junior varsity tilt by a 50-49 margin. Trailing 4948 with no time remaining in overtime, Jordan Cornwell sank a pair of free throws to give the JV Devils the lone triumph of the night. · Cornwell had a game-high 17 points in that contest, while Michael Lawless paced the JV Tigers with 13 points. · Gallia Academy returns to the hardwood Tuesday when it hosts Chillicothe in another SEOAL South Division matchup . · The freshmen game will tip-off at 5 p.m. IRONTON 49, GALLIA AcADEMY 31 Ironton Gallipolis 12 7 7 8 17 6 13 _ 49 10 - 31 IRONTON (6·2, 3-0 SEOAL South) John Scnweickart 6 1·2 13, Tommy Wagtnger 1 o-o 2, Matcolm Morton 1 02 2. Travis Elliott 2 Q-0 4. Tim Kochendorfer 2 4-4 9, Lukas Morris 2 o0 4, Dustin Green 3 o-t 8, Enn Edens 1 24 4, Geoffrey While 1 1-2 3. TOTALS 19 8-~5 49. Thtee-point goals: 3 (Green 2. Kochen<Jorfer). GALLIA ACADEMY (3>4. o-2 SEOAL South): Quinton Nibert 2 2-2· 7, Ethan Moore 1 [).() 2. ·Nick Mllchell 0 [).() 0. Chris Arrnstrong 4 t ·1 9, Kyle Mitchell 4 1·3 9, Beau Whaley 1 o-o 2, Zeke Maher o (}() o. Jonn Troes1er 1 ().() 2 TOTA'LS· 13 4-6 31. Three·polnl QO\IIS: 1 (Nibert). Tum o1AIIotlc.nndl•lduolField goals: I 19-37 (.513). GA 13-40 (.325); Three·point goals: I 3·9 (.333). GA 1·14 (.071); Free tl)rows: I 8·15 (.533), GA 4-6 (.667), Total rebounds: I 29 (Schweickert 7) , GA 15 (Armslrong 5): Oftensive rebounds: 1 8 (Morris 2. Schweickart 2). GA 4 (K. Mitchell, Nibert, Moore. Troester): Assists: I 12 (Edens 5). GA 4 (Nibert. Whaley. Armstrong, - Troester}, Steals. I 10 (Kochendorfer 4), GA 5 (Moore 3); BloCks: 1 S (Kochendorfer 3), GA. 0 · (None);Turnovers: I 16. GA 18; ~rsona1 louis: 113, GA 15; JV score: GA 50, 149 - OT; Freshmen score: I 82, GA 42. �. . . . . . :i ? '· 2 GAil'd :iaJiwl - p....., IOJ • VHfltport • GeiHpoHs Pomeroy • Middleport • Gallipolis Browns interview Patriots' McDaniels CLEVELAND (AP) - his firin! in New York a&r New Enldand offmsive coar- the .Ids collapwl ml mj.....t dinalor Josh McDaniels bas the playotfs. Mangini. ~ interviewed with Browns made the playoffs 0110e m owner Randy 1...emer about three years, began as a biD Cleveland's coaching vacan- boy 8nd public relalioos cy 00 Friday. assisfam with the Browns. The OhiO born and bred . Lerner has spent the past McDaniels just oomp1eted his four days doing· inlierviews. thUd sea'!Oil overseeing the He has not set up 111y for tbe PatriOts' offense anrf roach- fusl weekend of playoffs. ing quarterbacks. The 32Meanwhile.hisstaitbfora ~-old former college quar- GM ·continues to.. .focus oo terback was· credited with Pioli, who met with Lerner ' transforming backup Matt on Wednesday .in the New Cassel . into an effective York area. Sial lti after Tom Brady was No ag~eement was rew hc:d, lost for the seasoo after in!JIIl.- leading to ~alioo thai the ing his knee in the opener. · 43-year-ol Piol'1 WllSil ,I McDaniels is the third interested in joining the coaching candidate to meet Browns or that there was a wilh Lerner, who spate with major hang-up in oe~a­ fired Jets ·coach Eric Mangini lions. The sides may simply · on l'uesilay and Giants defen- be evaluating their options; sive coordinator Steve Pioli re~y will interSpagnuolo on Thursday. view With the Kansas City Spagnuolo has also met with Chiefs for their GM opening. Detroit and will talk with the Also. the Browns postJets oo Saturday. poned an interview with Lerner was also scheduled Atlanta president Rich to meet Friday wilh Browns McKay, who is with the defensive coordinator Mel Falcons in Arizona for Tucker, and interYiew TJ. Saturday's first-round game .·· . ~~ McCreight, Cleveland's against the Cardinals. Leriler San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers (17) talks with teammates es they stretch out during football Pr,actice at director of playet personnel, still intends to speak with the Chargers' facility Thursday in San Diego. The ChargefS face the Indianapolis Colts on Saturday in an AFC wild-card about Cleveland's opening at McKay,Atlanta's forrnerGM · playoff football gamQ in San Diego. general manager. MCreigbt who was moved upstairs after worked alon~ide GM Phil last season and took some of Savage, fired m the rubble an the blame for !he club's baninjury-filled 4-12 season that ,dl~· of the Michael VK:k included some embarrassing do ahting situation. both went out with knee said. SAN DIEGO (AP) - expired. off-the-field issues. ·oli began his NR.. career And the Bolts? After injuries.. Rivers was the only QB These guys might as well be Lerner is hesitant to hire as a pro personnel assistant division rivals. crashing to 4-8 and being "Maybe I was thinking too this year with a passer rating another first -time NFL head for Bill Belichick in Peyton Manning, voted wrinen off in Norv Turner's early, but I was thinking above lOOandhetiedfonner coach after Chris Palmer, Cleveland in [992. He 'Was NFL MVP for a record-tying second season as head coach, even going into the Denver teammate Drew. Brees of !he Butch l>avis and Romeo promoted to pro personnel · third time, and his the Chargers climbed back game, 'Hey, we get through New Orleans Saints for most Crennel all came to director four years later when Indianapolis Colts face into the race thanks to the this one, !his is as healthy as TO . passes with 34. But be Cleveland with sparkling · the Browns moved to Philip Jti vers and the San weak AFC West. They won we've been in a while going goes against , a unit that resumes but no experience Baltimore. Belichick brought Diego Chargers for the their last four g;unes to into the playoffs,' Rivers said allowed only six scoring running a pro team. All him to the Jets in 1997, and fourth time in two seasons clinch the division at .500. this week. "Obviously those throws, fewest ever in 16- failed. Pioli was credited with severAmong their December wins two guys gening nicked up a game season. ;Saturday night. . But the highly regarded al key ·signings !hat helped Sanders missed the regu- McDaniels could come in a New York go from l-IS in Not · only are the teams were a fourth-quarter come- little bit, I know lhey're both familiar with each other. they baclc at doormat Kansas City, hopeful to play and play Jar-season game between the package wilh Scott Pioli, the 1996 to 12-4 in 1998. · · know all too well the conse- a stirring victory at Tampa well. We certainly hope so teams with a knee injury. Patriots' director of pla~er ·As Belichick's top personquences of facing off a sec- Bay, and a 52-21 rout of the too. Guys will step up as we "It's always a great game personnel who remams nel man, Pioli has had a hand ond time - one team moves· Broncos that contributed to did last year, as we did for us," Sanders · said. Lerner's top choice for GM. in New England's run of four · along in the playoffs and the Denver coach Mike throughout this year. Guys "TheY're a physical team, we Man~ini is believed to he conference championships other one goes home for the Shanahan's surprise firing. will step up and we'll keep consider ourselves a physical Lerner s preference despite and three Super Bowl wins. "Obviously San Die11o was on going." . . winter. Even if Tomlinson and .·team, and it's · always a After fighting week-by- in the· same boat,'"' said match." week to stay alive in the Manning, whose team start- Gates are limited, Rivers Turner said Sanders· presplayoff ch~. the Colts (12- ed 3-4. "They couldn't afford who had the NFL's best pass- ence can have a big influence 4) and Chargers (8-8) should to lose one, beci!I,ISe Denver er rating at 105 5 - has be acclimated to the pressure would win the division. So plenty of otl!er teammates -to on a game. "I'm not sure you can accompanying their wild- there has been a lot of pres- get the ball to. There's ftrstsure in these last ftve, six time I ,000-yard wide receivchange a lot what you do card showdown at weeks for both teams and it's er Vincent Jackson, a redisbecause of him, but he MIAMI (AP)- Six weeks entire playbook. He can keep Qualcomm Stadium. "You've got two teams nice to know you can kind of covered Chris Chambers, makes !hem a lot better on into the 5eason, the Miami the play alive, kind of Tony that have been in very simi- come through in thoile situa- and Malcom Floyd, who defense," Turner said. "He's Dolphins still looked a lot like Romo-like. I just see a comcould return after missing a playmaker and a very good a punchline. pletely different kid back lar situations, that we've .lions.". So here they are meeting two games wilh a collapsed tackler and he's a very expeThey were 2-4, las.t in the there right now from the first essentially been playing . elimination games these past again, 51 weeks after the lung. There's also speedy lit- rienced player, so I 'don't AFC East and licking their time we played." · To the astonishment of five, six weeks," Manning Chargers kept the Colts from tie running back Darren think you fool him very wounds after being mimhandied by the Baltimore Miami fans, Fiacco has · said. "We didn't feel like we gening a shot at defending Sproles; who's a threat to go often." Overall, this will be the Ravens. That defeat made it apparently benefited from !he could afford to lose one their Super Bowl title by all the way every time he sixth game between the 22 losses in 25 games, and as tutelage of offensive coordi'because we fell· like we knocking them off in Indy in touches the ball. Tony • Sparano. nator ·Cam Cameron, who !he divisional round. The Colts will counter Colts and Chargers in ftve coach would get behind, whether it bemoaned deficiencies in went 1-15 ii1 his only season was against New England or ·On the injury front, !he with a healthy strong safety seasons. blocking and tackling, it liS Dolphins head coach last Sanders poted the sirnilariBaltimore, because we knew Colts seem to be in better Bob Sanders, last season's 'we were playing for the wild shape than the Chargers. San NFL Defensive'Player of the lies in the teams starting seemed the rebuilding project year. The Ravens gave an emoDiego stars LaDainian Year, and a formidable slow and gaining momen- under the new Bill Parcells .card." regime might take several tiona! Cameron !he game ball The Colts' early struggles, Tomlinson (groin) 'and Pro defensive front that includes tum. seasons. after their October victory in "I think both teams kind of due largely to Manning's Bowl tigat end Antonio Dwight Freeney, Robert Now, Miami is the NFL's Miami. Baltimore mounted .knee problems, p11t them Gates (ankle) were hurt in Mathis and Raheem Brock. just realized, 'We have the Freeney, Mathis and Brock personnel to get the job most improbable playoff four long scoring drives, ytay behind the AFC South the Denver game. While champion Tennessee Titans. Turner is optimistic ihey can missed last year's playoff done.' •t's just, when are you entrant and lhree wins from allowed Fiacco plenty of time But Indy more than took care play, it's anyone's guess how game against tbe Chargers· going to step up, when are the Super BowI. Wilh a rook- to throw, scored on an interdue to injuries,.and the ·Colts you going to have guys make ie coach, a castoff quarter- ception return and . even of business by winning nine effective they'll be. · plays? We've had guys back and a roster low on star stuffed !he Wildcat, Miami's Tomlinson and Gates were .fl\iled to get a sack. ~traighl games to. secure a power, the Dolphins (11-5) v~ation of the single wing :wild-card spot while New listed as questionable on Freeney ( 10 112 sacks) and mjured and guys stepped in have won nine of their past I0 that has produced eight touchEngland was shut out despite Friday's injury report, mean- Mathis (II 112) were select- on both teams and have been !lames to claim the AFC East downs this season. . ing they've got a 50-50 ed for the Pro Bowl this sea- a~le to make plays for us aRd .&oing II- 5. utle and make !he postseason A~~nst the Ravens, the son. Brock had 3 1/2 sacks keep us rolling. That's all we for the first . The Coils' winniqg streak chance of J?laying. . time since 200 I. Wil t netted 4 yards in ftve That sa1d, the Chargers and eight pressures. wan~. We just want guys to included a heartstopping 23Their reward in the first plays, but they figure they'll "The.re's so many gu,Ys. continue to ~~ better and round Sunday: another crack see it_ agai~ Sunday. ~e 20 victory at San Diego on still pulled off a 28-24 upset Nov. 23 on Adam Vinatieri's at Indy in 1~1 year's pla,Yoffs you feel like lhey're corrung grow, and I lhink lhey've bad at Baltimore. Dolphins gamed 55 yards m : il-yard ,field goal as time after Rivers and Tomlmson from everywhere," Rivers the same thing." This is remaleh fu more 10 plays from the formation ways than one, because the in Sun~y's showdown victo" Ravens ( 11-5) are making ry over !he-New York Jets. their third trip to Miami in J.3 "They have expanded that months. The Dolphins earned package," Baltimore coach their only victory of 2007 by John Harbaugh says. "It looks · PITTSBURGH (AP) - New England in the AFC lowest-seeded team in the · Of the first 30'Super Bowls beating Baltimore 22-16 in more and more like the comlbe Pittsburgh Steelers are championship games during AFC playoffs. - played after teams began overtime; !he Ravens exacted ·plete package, so it's tougher .sining where every NFL team the 200 I and 2004 seasons. Away from the pressures of being seeded in 1975, 25 revenge by winning 27-13 on to defend than it was earlier in ·Wants Jo be thts weekend, at The inexplicable AFC title home, and all the talk of the were won by a No. 1- or No. Oct. 19. . . the year." borne with a short path to the game loss to San Diego, a frequent playoff disappoint- 2-seeded ieam. The Steelers f.veryone agrees the While Miami's trickery ·super Bowl awaiting them. nine-point underdog, during men~ there, they became ~e . ther_nselves were top-seeded Dolphins .have improved failed to work in the earlier The problem: this is a road the 1994 season: All the inter- first SIXth-seeded team to wm d\lflllg the 1975 and 1978 greatly in the past. 2 1/2 meeting, Baltimore was pbys.the Steelers frequently travel, ceptions Kordell Stewart three road games and the seasons and second-seeded in monlhs. Blocking and tack- ically superior in that game, but with little success. threw in a 24-21 loss to Super , Bowl. N<;>w • . the 1979, and they won the Super ling is no longer a problem, bruising· more than just the : This is the seventh time in Denver lh(lt led to John Steelers (12-4) will leave Bowl all three times. · offense has become a Dolphins' egos. 16 years the Steelers have Elway's first Super Bowl Pittsburgh during the AFC The Steelers are hoping the model efficiency and the • "That's kind of !heir M.O.," :been first- or secohd-seeded win, during the 1997 season. playoffs only if they meet another aberrant pattern tiolds · defenseof can be stingy for long Miami cornerback Andre 'with a bye in the AFC playThe current-day Steelers' Tennessee (13-3) for the AFC when they move into the stretches. Goodman says. "They do playoffs next week. Three offs, and not once has the bye reaction to all this. ancient his- championship. Baltimore is better, ·too. !heir best to mtimidate you. translated into a Super Bowl tory.?Me~s~othingto';hem. "We'renotgoingoffwhat's times previously !hey were victory. They've made the · I don t _thmk there IS an happened i!l previous years or seeded second, only to wind Starting with the victory at They.did a good job of it !he _ the Ravens have won frrst game. But !has is a differ;Super Bowl only once under advantag~. m the bye week, anything like that," defensive up playing host to the AFC Miami, of their past 11 games. entteam." . :such a ·scenario, losing 10 mentally. . . sa~~ty . Troy end Brett Keisel said. "We're champiOnship game after the nine "Everybody talks about the It's a team that belongs in a ·Dallas to end the 1995 sea- PollllT!alu S3!d .. Physacally,_ excited about the team we top-,seeded team lost. Dolphins being on this ride," fantasy league, considering 'son · · · there as. In hmdsaght, we can have, we're excited for our It happened during the : I~ 1992,fue_ydidn'tljlakeit . a~l say we . got .our butts opportul)ity. All you can do 1979 season, when the Baltimore linebacker Ray the storybook nature of the !ticked by New England (dur- ~lie_n you ~et ~ oppo~nity Chargers lost in the divisional Lewis says. "We ·don't care Dolphins' transformation. out ofthe divasional!'llu d about the Dolphins' ride. Leading the turnaround has _ _Bseasut o.fn!..ewdi~edn- as e11her seaze 11 or let at go round and Pittsburgh went on We're on our own ride." the. AFC's t_op_-seeded ~a:. .wmeg w ' theere 2004 been quarterback Chad 5 1 1 1 ~ and, hopefully, we can seize to beat Houston in !he AFC h B l\t the wheel is rookie Joe Pennington, "<!_eised by !he los'!lg Ill orne 10 uffalo 2~ n't 'have a bye week, who it."' · title game for the second year 3 m !ormer coach Btll ' knows what would have hap-' Despite their recent fail- in a row; during the 1995 sea- Fiacco, who in !he past 11 New York Jets In August and ·Cowber s . first season. The pened? I don't know and, ures, !he Steelers understimd son, when the Chiefs were $ames has thrown only five now the AP Comeback Player :next five times they were No. ri~t now. I'm happy we hav.e the difficulties of tiying to stunned by lhdianapolis. and mterceptions with 13 touch- of the Year. The Dolphins are the ~·s .I or No. 2, they won !hear it' · wm three games m three two years after that when the down passes. He has helped divisional game, only to lose Curiously, for all their weeks merely to reach the . Chefs were beaten by Denver. the Ravens win by such comeback team .,.. thell' 10four AFC title ~es at home wasted chances ~ most Super Bowl, the main reason · The Steelers will stay at S<!ores as 34-3. 36-7, 41-13, game one-year improvement matches the best in NFL his.jllld one Super owl. · notably the four AFC cham- wliy they welcome the bye.·· home for the AFC champi- 27•7 and 29-10. · "Where th~y've grown the tory. While a soft schedule Some reward, ~uh'! . pionsliip game losses - the They had to play a wild-cilrd onship game this season only . The memones remam Steelers' lone Super Bowl game last -season and were if !he Titans )ose on Jan. 10 · most is at ·the quarterback has made it easier for them to at home by and Pittsburgh wins the next position," Sparano says. "He hide flaws. they're no longer ·painful for the fans who can't victory since 1979 came lhree beaten has total command of the a laughingslock., :Corget the !Win defeats to years ago when !hey were the Jacksonville 31-29. day. .-Colts, Chargers meet yet again in 2009 playoffs I ·surprising Dolphins face improved Ravens I •( a :Bye:bye? Playoff bye not always good for Steelers ' I ·,,_ .... ·--· . .··~··- . I. · ~··-- • Brown and Tressel able successors · SCOTTSDAUi, Ariz. (AP) - Mack Brown and Jim Tressel struck up a conversanon on !he · Ohio Stadium fu:ld as Texas and ~State warmed up before thear first-ever meeting in ~:.a., !hen that the two who pined for Woody. Brown and ~I have put up some gaudy numbers - Brown is 114-26 in lO seasons with Texas, and Tressel is 83-18 in eight year.; with ~ Buckeyes - but they take jobs~e.rent approaches to their tickets to a Longhorns game . Texas' sea'>OD-ticket base ha:, gone from 38,()94 to 70,10) since Brown arrived, and the school is planning a 9,10}seat expansion. · Success came faster for Tressel. But, like Brown, he also had to win over demandcoaches realized how much Brown. a 57-year-old ing followers. they b8d in COflllliOII. Tennessean. who graduated Tressel had won four Both progrl\ms have storied frOm Aorida State. [avors histori ·!he Lon national titles at Youngstown . . es :gboms homespun anecdotes and is at State. But ll)any fans wanted are tied .wtth ~otre Dame for ease bantering with reporters. Ohio State 10 pursue ~ m. map--colk)ge vic1be 56-year-old Tressel. a Youngstown product Bob tones, With 831, ~ the native Ohioan. is more guard- Stoops, who had just won the Buckeyes rank~ with 808. ed. with !he media. Tressel 2000 BCS national title at Both ~ have enor- , created a stir Ol! Friday when Oklahoma as the Buckeves moos bUdgets matched only be refused to make starting 1 hd · by the expectations of !herr quarterback . Terrelle Pryor aunc e their search for die-himl fan_s. Both schools. available to reporters on Cooper's replacement. are located m state. capita!s, Fiesta Bowl media day _ a Tressel supplemented the w1th . ~g ~- m fertile move that doubtless would talent Cooper !eli by tapping JeC~U~ting temtory, and .nei- have brought a smile from mto an extensive statewide ther competes wilh the NFL Hayes. who often battled the recruiting network he 'd for attenbon. press. established ·at Youngstown ·~~ are so many simi- But when it comes to foot- State· · larities_m ~ two ~hools, it ball. Brown and Tressel have . "He has mo.lded his players really JUS! kmd of hit us that much in common mto good players,' said we're living in the same Start with their.com~nsa- Buckeyes wide · receiver lace ~ Brow lied · k Brian Hartline. who grew up . , .. . n reca . on lion puc ages. whic are in North Canton. Ohio. ''He nday. We JUSt have daffer- among the richest in majoren! co!?rs and different college football. Brown just has developed consistenweather. makes about $3 million per cy throughout the program." Since !hat conversation in year. not including bonuses. Two years into Tressel's September 2005,. Brown led 10 a contract that runs.through tenure. the Buckeyes went Te~as '? a ~altona! litle. 2016. Beginning in February. 14-0 and won the natiomil which gtves ham _somethmg Tressel wall be prud $3.5 mil.- . title. He's taken the Buckeyes else mcommon ~nh Tressel. lit?n, a $1 million increase. to the BCS five times since As No. 10 Ohao State (10- Hts deal rims until2013 then. iitcluding two lopsided 2) and third-ranked Texas Both men won their n~tion- national championship game (1_1-1) prepare to meet in the al titles by dethroning a losses. to Florida two years F~esta Bowl on Monday defending champion in a ago and LSU last January. mght, !he coaches are the memorable bowl ~arne· Brown came within a most important link between Texas defeated USC 10 th~ whisker of a shot at playing the two programs. Tressel Rose Bowl after the 2005 forthe BCS title this year. but and Brown are creating last- season, snaJ?ping the Trojans' his Longhorns lost a Big 12 mg legacaes at IJiaces where 34-game wm streak. and the South tiebreaker to the legends left therr stamps in Buckeyes ktiocked off Miami Sooners. whom they defeated cement. in the Fiesta Bowl after the on the field.lt rankles Brown. The Buckeyes train in the 2002 season, ending the but with McCoy and a wealth Woody Hayes Athletic Hurricanes' 34-game win of other talented players Center. Texas plays in Darrell streak. returning. Brown is pnmed to K. Royal!fexas , Memorial But boih Brown and make another nm next seaStadium. Tressel had to overcome son. ~efore Brown and Tressel some early hurdles before Like the Buckeyes. the arnved, the Longhorns and returning their teams to Lo11ghoms look as if they'll Buckeyes · had . endure~ national prominence. contend for national titles for lengthy droughts smce thear When Brown arrived in years to come. Maybe Brown last Associated Press national 1998. the Longhorns were and Tressel will someday be titles. Hayes led Ohio State t.o ~oming off a 4-7 season that seen as the standards at their the 1968 national champ1- mcluded a once-unimagin- re~pective schools , although onship and Royal and the able 66-3 home loss to neither expects that. · Longhorns followed suit a UCLA. Texas' season-ticket "There will never be anothyear later. base dropped by abOut 1,700 er coach Darrell Royal at It took decades for both fans before Brown's first sea- Texas." Brown said. "I mean, schools -to duplicate those son. he's the face of the program. achaevements. - and it dido 't Brown quickly established He always will be. . happen until they hired stability . and upgraded "One of the good things Brown and Tressel. recruiting.and he led Texas to that I. learned early is !hat I'm "Maybe the reality that we the Rose Bowl after the 2004 not chasing that legacy,'' both know is that you can season. But Orangebloods Brown said. "I know it's never win enou,fh." Tressel . still griped aboUt a string of there, and I know it's not srud on Fnday. Woody and five straight losses to arch going to change, and I would . Darren probably never .lost a rival . Oklahoma - a streak think Jim would tell you the g_~e.l don't know two more Brown snapped in 2005 on same thing about coach stmtlar places." hi!i way to the national title. Hayes, because these are two The Longhorns chewed "They lost a few games men he and I idolized growthrough three coaches - early on, but they · were ing up." Fred . . Akers , David rebuilding, and now coach Tres~el shared Brown's and · John Brown has this program back assessment. McWtlhams Mackov1c - before findmg a on top, back where it should "We 'II never be the Woody fitting successor to Royal. be," Texas quarterback Colt Hayeses of the place ," Tressel Ltkewtse , Earle Bruce and McCoy said. said. "But we're the r.eople John Cooper followed Hayes Brown may still have his that have the responsibality to and won in Columbus, but detractors. but they've try to maintain that type of not enough to satisfy those become harder to find than excellence." o · Oh~ State quarterback Terrene Pryor throws durinQ fuotball p~ Wednesday in :.::::. ·Ohao State Will play Texas in the Fiesta Bowl NCAA college football game on Monday. · ~ .osu QB Terrelle Pryor a .no-show at Fiesta media day SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. 'Did you happen to miss ·(AP) - Fres~man Terrene any?'' ' . :t>ryor is the starting quarterPryor's absence was back for Ohio State in the notable in the ballroom set· Fiesta Bowl. Yet he isn't aside for media day. talking, at least for now. Frustrated Fiesta Bowl ofti. The Buckeyes did not cials had to tell reporters bring Pryor to the Fiesta that the Buckeyes' starting Bowl media day on Friday, quarterback wasn't present :snubbing bowl officials who - and that there was noth·had -'hoped that Ohio State ing they could do about it. ·and Texas would make their Fiesta Bowl president and 'starters available ahead of CEO John Juriker said he'd -Monday night's !lame. -like the Bowl · Ohio State Jam Tressel Championship Series to .said it would be better' for provide clearer rules for : ~ryor to ·attend mee~ings media access to players. ·mst~ad o~ the 30-manute "Any policy is workable se~s10n Wtlh ~eporters on . only if there. are conseFnday at the Faesta 's resort quences in place, which is ·headquarters. currently not the case " • "My feeling is ~e proba- Junker sl)id. "The prese~t bly had som~thmg that arrange~ent puts the team would be more ampactful on m questiOn and the bowl in our cause and that was to question in a difficult cirspend time · in the meeting cumstance ." room,'\ Tressel said. "We Tressel shrugged off the were asked to bring 30 play- stir caused by Pryor's • ers and we sent in a hst of absence. .P!~Y~~-' We_djd, g~t 0!1!: ~~1: Asked if Ohio State fans would like to hear from their Starting quarterback before t~e game, :rressel replied, Well, I thmk we owe a · lot • to our fans. Unfortunately. you can't do everyl!ling you'd like to do. "I would like all of our kids and coaches to be able to sign every autograph that every fan would like and, you know, all those kinds of things. But you can only do so many .things. You have to make decisions : Some of them are well thou~ht of, some of them aren't. Texas quarterback Colt McCoy h:~d no trouble attending media day for the Longhorns, .who were snubbed in their efforts to reach the BCS title game. "We're here," · McCoy said. "We want to play the best game we have played all year. We've prepared so far and now it is kind of polishing up. getting ready. We'll see what happens." · Texas trying not to be disappointed in the desert • SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) .- The Texas . Longhorns came to the desert determined not to let disappointment ruin a good season. · · But they can't forget !hat if not for one play with one sec.ond left on the clock and the . slimmest of margins in the Bowl Championship Series · standings, they would be 2,300 miles away on the beaches . of Aorida gening reitdy to play for a national title . · So many things went wrong for the third-ranked Longhorns ( Il-l ) over the last monih of the regular season that's it's hard to imagine they're not feeling a bit sorry for lhemselves heading into Monday's Fiesta Bowl ~ainst No. 10 Ohio State (I 0-2).. "We were disappointed. We're human," quarterback' Colt McCoy said. "But that's not how it turned out, and AP photo great teams overcome that." Consider all that has hap- The Fiesta Bowl trophy is displayed between two football helpene<l: . mets during a press conference Thursday in Scottsdale, Ariz. -.Texas was No. J· when Bowl practice. . pledge to return next season a McCoy rallied the Longhorns "The first one was, 'All big win could set them up io to the lead late in the fourth risht. it happened,' " senior start the 2009 ·season ranked quarter at Texas Tech. only to wade .receiver Quan Cosby No. I. . . watch the Red Raiders' srud. The second one was, And there's the distant hope · Michael Crabtree score the 'All right, let's gel over it.'" of earning a "split" natiorial ·winning touchdown with one But even . Cosby said he's chamrionship. . second left. One play earlier, not sure he' II be able to stomWhtle Oklahoma or Florida ·freshman safety Blake Gideon ach watching the BCS title is guaranteed to claim the dropped what would have game that he feels snubbed his BCS title, the Longhorns . been a game-clinching inter- team. could finish No. I m the CCJ?tion. And just to twist the "Being a sports fan, I proba- Associated Press nmkings if kriife a bit more, Crabtree's bly will watch some of it, but I the much-hyped Soonershildilicllt catch seems to be on definitely won't put too much Gators matchup turns into a ESPN"every five minutes dur- into it," he said. . dud. If the Sooners win, · it's ing the bOwl season. Texas can't let hurt feelings jlossible that some AP voters . -The loss at . Texas Tech and frustration linger too long. might remember that the ultimately put Texas in a Many a good bOwl team lost Longhorns beat Oklahoma on three-way ue in the Big 12 when it felt as though it a neutral fierd in Dallas. Soulh. Conference rules sent deserved better of its destina- · Unlike USA Today coachthe team with the hig_hest BCS lion. . es' poll voters, who are .rating to the league title game. 'It happened to Texas in required to put !he BCS cham.That ended up being 2003 wfien the l.,onghoms pionship game winner No. I Oklahoma. the team Texas thought they were going to the on their final ballots, the 65 'beat 45-35 on Oct. 11. Those BCS' but got bumped to the AP voters don't have to put ·same Souners are now in !he Holiday Bowl. The dispirited the winner of that game on top BCS champ.•ionship game Longhorns lost to Washington of their final ballots. against Florida. State in what turned out to be Texas coach Mack Brown -McCoy was runner up for Texas' last bOwl defeat. was cautious this week not to Texas players say there's sound too hopeful of such a ,the , H~!i~man Trophy, losing out to none other than .OU still a lot to shoot for in the scenario. There's no point Fiesta. To begin with, the talking about it unless his team . quarterback Sam Bradford. - It all added up to a feeling pnde of. etght semor starters 1s wms Monday. "If you start talking about among some Texas players on the hne. ·that they were denied a title . ''This is our last game we.ar- all that stuff that comes at the mg the Longhorn helmet)" end, you probably won't get shot they deserved. · The team liad two meetings senior defens1ve· end Brian !he result you want," Brown ·to clear the air. The first was Orakpo said .•:'Let's not hold said. "Obviously, .wanted to · play for the (BCS) national 'On the day the BCS rankings back nothmg. There's also the future to championship in- Miami and were announced. The second was when they started Fiesta thmk about. With McCoy's that dido 't happen." •.-- 1 '' ' . -- ~ ·-- -- �. . . . . . :i ? '· 2 GAil'd :iaJiwl - p....., IOJ • VHfltport • GeiHpoHs Pomeroy • Middleport • Gallipolis Browns interview Patriots' McDaniels CLEVELAND (AP) - his firin! in New York a&r New Enldand offmsive coar- the .Ids collapwl ml mj.....t dinalor Josh McDaniels bas the playotfs. Mangini. ~ interviewed with Browns made the playoffs 0110e m owner Randy 1...emer about three years, began as a biD Cleveland's coaching vacan- boy 8nd public relalioos cy 00 Friday. assisfam with the Browns. The OhiO born and bred . Lerner has spent the past McDaniels just oomp1eted his four days doing· inlierviews. thUd sea'!Oil overseeing the He has not set up 111y for tbe PatriOts' offense anrf roach- fusl weekend of playoffs. ing quarterbacks. The 32Meanwhile.hisstaitbfora ~-old former college quar- GM ·continues to.. .focus oo terback was· credited with Pioli, who met with Lerner ' transforming backup Matt on Wednesday .in the New Cassel . into an effective York area. Sial lti after Tom Brady was No ag~eement was rew hc:d, lost for the seasoo after in!JIIl.- leading to ~alioo thai the ing his knee in the opener. · 43-year-ol Piol'1 WllSil ,I McDaniels is the third interested in joining the coaching candidate to meet Browns or that there was a wilh Lerner, who spate with major hang-up in oe~a­ fired Jets ·coach Eric Mangini lions. The sides may simply · on l'uesilay and Giants defen- be evaluating their options; sive coordinator Steve Pioli re~y will interSpagnuolo on Thursday. view With the Kansas City Spagnuolo has also met with Chiefs for their GM opening. Detroit and will talk with the Also. the Browns postJets oo Saturday. poned an interview with Lerner was also scheduled Atlanta president Rich to meet Friday wilh Browns McKay, who is with the defensive coordinator Mel Falcons in Arizona for Tucker, and interYiew TJ. Saturday's first-round game .·· . ~~ McCreight, Cleveland's against the Cardinals. Leriler San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers (17) talks with teammates es they stretch out during football Pr,actice at director of playet personnel, still intends to speak with the Chargers' facility Thursday in San Diego. The ChargefS face the Indianapolis Colts on Saturday in an AFC wild-card about Cleveland's opening at McKay,Atlanta's forrnerGM · playoff football gamQ in San Diego. general manager. MCreigbt who was moved upstairs after worked alon~ide GM Phil last season and took some of Savage, fired m the rubble an the blame for !he club's baninjury-filled 4-12 season that ,dl~· of the Michael VK:k included some embarrassing do ahting situation. both went out with knee said. SAN DIEGO (AP) - expired. off-the-field issues. ·oli began his NR.. career And the Bolts? After injuries.. Rivers was the only QB These guys might as well be Lerner is hesitant to hire as a pro personnel assistant division rivals. crashing to 4-8 and being "Maybe I was thinking too this year with a passer rating another first -time NFL head for Bill Belichick in Peyton Manning, voted wrinen off in Norv Turner's early, but I was thinking above lOOandhetiedfonner coach after Chris Palmer, Cleveland in [992. He 'Was NFL MVP for a record-tying second season as head coach, even going into the Denver teammate Drew. Brees of !he Butch l>avis and Romeo promoted to pro personnel · third time, and his the Chargers climbed back game, 'Hey, we get through New Orleans Saints for most Crennel all came to director four years later when Indianapolis Colts face into the race thanks to the this one, !his is as healthy as TO . passes with 34. But be Cleveland with sparkling · the Browns moved to Philip Jti vers and the San weak AFC West. They won we've been in a while going goes against , a unit that resumes but no experience Baltimore. Belichick brought Diego Chargers for the their last four g;unes to into the playoffs,' Rivers said allowed only six scoring running a pro team. All him to the Jets in 1997, and fourth time in two seasons clinch the division at .500. this week. "Obviously those throws, fewest ever in 16- failed. Pioli was credited with severAmong their December wins two guys gening nicked up a game season. ;Saturday night. . But the highly regarded al key ·signings !hat helped Sanders missed the regu- McDaniels could come in a New York go from l-IS in Not · only are the teams were a fourth-quarter come- little bit, I know lhey're both familiar with each other. they baclc at doormat Kansas City, hopeful to play and play Jar-season game between the package wilh Scott Pioli, the 1996 to 12-4 in 1998. · · know all too well the conse- a stirring victory at Tampa well. We certainly hope so teams with a knee injury. Patriots' director of pla~er ·As Belichick's top personquences of facing off a sec- Bay, and a 52-21 rout of the too. Guys will step up as we "It's always a great game personnel who remams nel man, Pioli has had a hand ond time - one team moves· Broncos that contributed to did last year, as we did for us," Sanders · said. Lerner's top choice for GM. in New England's run of four · along in the playoffs and the Denver coach Mike throughout this year. Guys "TheY're a physical team, we Man~ini is believed to he conference championships other one goes home for the Shanahan's surprise firing. will step up and we'll keep consider ourselves a physical Lerner s preference despite and three Super Bowl wins. "Obviously San Die11o was on going." . . winter. Even if Tomlinson and .·team, and it's · always a After fighting week-by- in the· same boat,'"' said match." week to stay alive in the Manning, whose team start- Gates are limited, Rivers Turner said Sanders· presplayoff ch~. the Colts (12- ed 3-4. "They couldn't afford who had the NFL's best pass- ence can have a big influence 4) and Chargers (8-8) should to lose one, beci!I,ISe Denver er rating at 105 5 - has be acclimated to the pressure would win the division. So plenty of otl!er teammates -to on a game. "I'm not sure you can accompanying their wild- there has been a lot of pres- get the ball to. There's ftrstsure in these last ftve, six time I ,000-yard wide receivchange a lot what you do card showdown at weeks for both teams and it's er Vincent Jackson, a redisbecause of him, but he MIAMI (AP)- Six weeks entire playbook. He can keep Qualcomm Stadium. "You've got two teams nice to know you can kind of covered Chris Chambers, makes !hem a lot better on into the 5eason, the Miami the play alive, kind of Tony that have been in very simi- come through in thoile situa- and Malcom Floyd, who defense," Turner said. "He's Dolphins still looked a lot like Romo-like. I just see a comcould return after missing a playmaker and a very good a punchline. pletely different kid back lar situations, that we've .lions.". So here they are meeting two games wilh a collapsed tackler and he's a very expeThey were 2-4, las.t in the there right now from the first essentially been playing . elimination games these past again, 51 weeks after the lung. There's also speedy lit- rienced player, so I 'don't AFC East and licking their time we played." · To the astonishment of five, six weeks," Manning Chargers kept the Colts from tie running back Darren think you fool him very wounds after being mimhandied by the Baltimore Miami fans, Fiacco has · said. "We didn't feel like we gening a shot at defending Sproles; who's a threat to go often." Overall, this will be the Ravens. That defeat made it apparently benefited from !he could afford to lose one their Super Bowl title by all the way every time he sixth game between the 22 losses in 25 games, and as tutelage of offensive coordi'because we fell· like we knocking them off in Indy in touches the ball. Tony • Sparano. nator ·Cam Cameron, who !he divisional round. The Colts will counter Colts and Chargers in ftve coach would get behind, whether it bemoaned deficiencies in went 1-15 ii1 his only season was against New England or ·On the injury front, !he with a healthy strong safety seasons. blocking and tackling, it liS Dolphins head coach last Sanders poted the sirnilariBaltimore, because we knew Colts seem to be in better Bob Sanders, last season's 'we were playing for the wild shape than the Chargers. San NFL Defensive'Player of the lies in the teams starting seemed the rebuilding project year. The Ravens gave an emoDiego stars LaDainian Year, and a formidable slow and gaining momen- under the new Bill Parcells .card." regime might take several tiona! Cameron !he game ball The Colts' early struggles, Tomlinson (groin) 'and Pro defensive front that includes tum. seasons. after their October victory in "I think both teams kind of due largely to Manning's Bowl tigat end Antonio Dwight Freeney, Robert Now, Miami is the NFL's Miami. Baltimore mounted .knee problems, p11t them Gates (ankle) were hurt in Mathis and Raheem Brock. just realized, 'We have the Freeney, Mathis and Brock personnel to get the job most improbable playoff four long scoring drives, ytay behind the AFC South the Denver game. While champion Tennessee Titans. Turner is optimistic ihey can missed last year's playoff done.' •t's just, when are you entrant and lhree wins from allowed Fiacco plenty of time But Indy more than took care play, it's anyone's guess how game against tbe Chargers· going to step up, when are the Super BowI. Wilh a rook- to throw, scored on an interdue to injuries,.and the ·Colts you going to have guys make ie coach, a castoff quarter- ception return and . even of business by winning nine effective they'll be. · plays? We've had guys back and a roster low on star stuffed !he Wildcat, Miami's Tomlinson and Gates were .fl\iled to get a sack. ~traighl games to. secure a power, the Dolphins (11-5) v~ation of the single wing :wild-card spot while New listed as questionable on Freeney ( 10 112 sacks) and mjured and guys stepped in have won nine of their past I0 that has produced eight touchEngland was shut out despite Friday's injury report, mean- Mathis (II 112) were select- on both teams and have been !lames to claim the AFC East downs this season. . ing they've got a 50-50 ed for the Pro Bowl this sea- a~le to make plays for us aRd .&oing II- 5. utle and make !he postseason A~~nst the Ravens, the son. Brock had 3 1/2 sacks keep us rolling. That's all we for the first . The Coils' winniqg streak chance of J?laying. . time since 200 I. Wil t netted 4 yards in ftve That sa1d, the Chargers and eight pressures. wan~. We just want guys to included a heartstopping 23Their reward in the first plays, but they figure they'll "The.re's so many gu,Ys. continue to ~~ better and round Sunday: another crack see it_ agai~ Sunday. ~e 20 victory at San Diego on still pulled off a 28-24 upset Nov. 23 on Adam Vinatieri's at Indy in 1~1 year's pla,Yoffs you feel like lhey're corrung grow, and I lhink lhey've bad at Baltimore. Dolphins gamed 55 yards m : il-yard ,field goal as time after Rivers and Tomlmson from everywhere," Rivers the same thing." This is remaleh fu more 10 plays from the formation ways than one, because the in Sun~y's showdown victo" Ravens ( 11-5) are making ry over !he-New York Jets. their third trip to Miami in J.3 "They have expanded that months. The Dolphins earned package," Baltimore coach their only victory of 2007 by John Harbaugh says. "It looks · PITTSBURGH (AP) - New England in the AFC lowest-seeded team in the · Of the first 30'Super Bowls beating Baltimore 22-16 in more and more like the comlbe Pittsburgh Steelers are championship games during AFC playoffs. - played after teams began overtime; !he Ravens exacted ·plete package, so it's tougher .sining where every NFL team the 200 I and 2004 seasons. Away from the pressures of being seeded in 1975, 25 revenge by winning 27-13 on to defend than it was earlier in ·Wants Jo be thts weekend, at The inexplicable AFC title home, and all the talk of the were won by a No. 1- or No. Oct. 19. . . the year." borne with a short path to the game loss to San Diego, a frequent playoff disappoint- 2-seeded ieam. The Steelers f.veryone agrees the While Miami's trickery ·super Bowl awaiting them. nine-point underdog, during men~ there, they became ~e . ther_nselves were top-seeded Dolphins .have improved failed to work in the earlier The problem: this is a road the 1994 season: All the inter- first SIXth-seeded team to wm d\lflllg the 1975 and 1978 greatly in the past. 2 1/2 meeting, Baltimore was pbys.the Steelers frequently travel, ceptions Kordell Stewart three road games and the seasons and second-seeded in monlhs. Blocking and tack- ically superior in that game, but with little success. threw in a 24-21 loss to Super , Bowl. N<;>w • . the 1979, and they won the Super ling is no longer a problem, bruising· more than just the : This is the seventh time in Denver lh(lt led to John Steelers (12-4) will leave Bowl all three times. · offense has become a Dolphins' egos. 16 years the Steelers have Elway's first Super Bowl Pittsburgh during the AFC The Steelers are hoping the model efficiency and the • "That's kind of !heir M.O.," :been first- or secohd-seeded win, during the 1997 season. playoffs only if they meet another aberrant pattern tiolds · defenseof can be stingy for long Miami cornerback Andre 'with a bye in the AFC playThe current-day Steelers' Tennessee (13-3) for the AFC when they move into the stretches. Goodman says. "They do playoffs next week. Three offs, and not once has the bye reaction to all this. ancient his- championship. Baltimore is better, ·too. !heir best to mtimidate you. translated into a Super Bowl tory.?Me~s~othingto';hem. "We'renotgoingoffwhat's times previously !hey were victory. They've made the · I don t _thmk there IS an happened i!l previous years or seeded second, only to wind Starting with the victory at They.did a good job of it !he _ the Ravens have won frrst game. But !has is a differ;Super Bowl only once under advantag~. m the bye week, anything like that," defensive up playing host to the AFC Miami, of their past 11 games. entteam." . :such a ·scenario, losing 10 mentally. . . sa~~ty . Troy end Brett Keisel said. "We're champiOnship game after the nine "Everybody talks about the It's a team that belongs in a ·Dallas to end the 1995 sea- PollllT!alu S3!d .. Physacally,_ excited about the team we top-,seeded team lost. Dolphins being on this ride," fantasy league, considering 'son · · · there as. In hmdsaght, we can have, we're excited for our It happened during the : I~ 1992,fue_ydidn'tljlakeit . a~l say we . got .our butts opportul)ity. All you can do 1979 season, when the Baltimore linebacker Ray the storybook nature of the !ticked by New England (dur- ~lie_n you ~et ~ oppo~nity Chargers lost in the divisional Lewis says. "We ·don't care Dolphins' transformation. out ofthe divasional!'llu d about the Dolphins' ride. Leading the turnaround has _ _Bseasut o.fn!..ewdi~edn- as e11her seaze 11 or let at go round and Pittsburgh went on We're on our own ride." the. AFC's t_op_-seeded ~a:. .wmeg w ' theere 2004 been quarterback Chad 5 1 1 1 ~ and, hopefully, we can seize to beat Houston in !he AFC h B l\t the wheel is rookie Joe Pennington, "<!_eised by !he los'!lg Ill orne 10 uffalo 2~ n't 'have a bye week, who it."' · title game for the second year 3 m !ormer coach Btll ' knows what would have hap-' Despite their recent fail- in a row; during the 1995 sea- Fiacco, who in !he past 11 New York Jets In August and ·Cowber s . first season. The pened? I don't know and, ures, !he Steelers understimd son, when the Chiefs were $ames has thrown only five now the AP Comeback Player :next five times they were No. ri~t now. I'm happy we hav.e the difficulties of tiying to stunned by lhdianapolis. and mterceptions with 13 touch- of the Year. The Dolphins are the ~·s .I or No. 2, they won !hear it' · wm three games m three two years after that when the down passes. He has helped divisional game, only to lose Curiously, for all their weeks merely to reach the . Chefs were beaten by Denver. the Ravens win by such comeback team .,.. thell' 10four AFC title ~es at home wasted chances ~ most Super Bowl, the main reason · The Steelers will stay at S<!ores as 34-3. 36-7, 41-13, game one-year improvement matches the best in NFL his.jllld one Super owl. · notably the four AFC cham- wliy they welcome the bye.·· home for the AFC champi- 27•7 and 29-10. · "Where th~y've grown the tory. While a soft schedule Some reward, ~uh'! . pionsliip game losses - the They had to play a wild-cilrd onship game this season only . The memones remam Steelers' lone Super Bowl game last -season and were if !he Titans )ose on Jan. 10 · most is at ·the quarterback has made it easier for them to at home by and Pittsburgh wins the next position," Sparano says. "He hide flaws. they're no longer ·painful for the fans who can't victory since 1979 came lhree beaten has total command of the a laughingslock., :Corget the !Win defeats to years ago when !hey were the Jacksonville 31-29. day. .-Colts, Chargers meet yet again in 2009 playoffs I ·surprising Dolphins face improved Ravens I •( a :Bye:bye? Playoff bye not always good for Steelers ' I ·,,_ .... ·--· . .··~··- . I. · ~··-- • Brown and Tressel able successors · SCOTTSDAUi, Ariz. (AP) - Mack Brown and Jim Tressel struck up a conversanon on !he · Ohio Stadium fu:ld as Texas and ~State warmed up before thear first-ever meeting in ~:.a., !hen that the two who pined for Woody. Brown and ~I have put up some gaudy numbers - Brown is 114-26 in lO seasons with Texas, and Tressel is 83-18 in eight year.; with ~ Buckeyes - but they take jobs~e.rent approaches to their tickets to a Longhorns game . Texas' sea'>OD-ticket base ha:, gone from 38,()94 to 70,10) since Brown arrived, and the school is planning a 9,10}seat expansion. · Success came faster for Tressel. But, like Brown, he also had to win over demandcoaches realized how much Brown. a 57-year-old ing followers. they b8d in COflllliOII. Tennessean. who graduated Tressel had won four Both progrl\ms have storied frOm Aorida State. [avors histori ·!he Lon national titles at Youngstown . . es :gboms homespun anecdotes and is at State. But ll)any fans wanted are tied .wtth ~otre Dame for ease bantering with reporters. Ohio State 10 pursue ~ m. map--colk)ge vic1be 56-year-old Tressel. a Youngstown product Bob tones, With 831, ~ the native Ohioan. is more guard- Stoops, who had just won the Buckeyes rank~ with 808. ed. with !he media. Tressel 2000 BCS national title at Both ~ have enor- , created a stir Ol! Friday when Oklahoma as the Buckeves moos bUdgets matched only be refused to make starting 1 hd · by the expectations of !herr quarterback . Terrelle Pryor aunc e their search for die-himl fan_s. Both schools. available to reporters on Cooper's replacement. are located m state. capita!s, Fiesta Bowl media day _ a Tressel supplemented the w1th . ~g ~- m fertile move that doubtless would talent Cooper !eli by tapping JeC~U~ting temtory, and .nei- have brought a smile from mto an extensive statewide ther competes wilh the NFL Hayes. who often battled the recruiting network he 'd for attenbon. press. established ·at Youngstown ·~~ are so many simi- But when it comes to foot- State· · larities_m ~ two ~hools, it ball. Brown and Tressel have . "He has mo.lded his players really JUS! kmd of hit us that much in common mto good players,' said we're living in the same Start with their.com~nsa- Buckeyes wide · receiver lace ~ Brow lied · k Brian Hartline. who grew up . , .. . n reca . on lion puc ages. whic are in North Canton. Ohio. ''He nday. We JUSt have daffer- among the richest in majoren! co!?rs and different college football. Brown just has developed consistenweather. makes about $3 million per cy throughout the program." Since !hat conversation in year. not including bonuses. Two years into Tressel's September 2005,. Brown led 10 a contract that runs.through tenure. the Buckeyes went Te~as '? a ~altona! litle. 2016. Beginning in February. 14-0 and won the natiomil which gtves ham _somethmg Tressel wall be prud $3.5 mil.- . title. He's taken the Buckeyes else mcommon ~nh Tressel. lit?n, a $1 million increase. to the BCS five times since As No. 10 Ohao State (10- Hts deal rims until2013 then. iitcluding two lopsided 2) and third-ranked Texas Both men won their n~tion- national championship game (1_1-1) prepare to meet in the al titles by dethroning a losses. to Florida two years F~esta Bowl on Monday defending champion in a ago and LSU last January. mght, !he coaches are the memorable bowl ~arne· Brown came within a most important link between Texas defeated USC 10 th~ whisker of a shot at playing the two programs. Tressel Rose Bowl after the 2005 forthe BCS title this year. but and Brown are creating last- season, snaJ?ping the Trojans' his Longhorns lost a Big 12 mg legacaes at IJiaces where 34-game wm streak. and the South tiebreaker to the legends left therr stamps in Buckeyes ktiocked off Miami Sooners. whom they defeated cement. in the Fiesta Bowl after the on the field.lt rankles Brown. The Buckeyes train in the 2002 season, ending the but with McCoy and a wealth Woody Hayes Athletic Hurricanes' 34-game win of other talented players Center. Texas plays in Darrell streak. returning. Brown is pnmed to K. Royal!fexas , Memorial But boih Brown and make another nm next seaStadium. Tressel had to overcome son. ~efore Brown and Tressel some early hurdles before Like the Buckeyes. the arnved, the Longhorns and returning their teams to Lo11ghoms look as if they'll Buckeyes · had . endure~ national prominence. contend for national titles for lengthy droughts smce thear When Brown arrived in years to come. Maybe Brown last Associated Press national 1998. the Longhorns were and Tressel will someday be titles. Hayes led Ohio State t.o ~oming off a 4-7 season that seen as the standards at their the 1968 national champ1- mcluded a once-unimagin- re~pective schools , although onship and Royal and the able 66-3 home loss to neither expects that. · Longhorns followed suit a UCLA. Texas' season-ticket "There will never be anothyear later. base dropped by abOut 1,700 er coach Darrell Royal at It took decades for both fans before Brown's first sea- Texas." Brown said. "I mean, schools -to duplicate those son. he's the face of the program. achaevements. - and it dido 't Brown quickly established He always will be. . happen until they hired stability . and upgraded "One of the good things Brown and Tressel. recruiting.and he led Texas to that I. learned early is !hat I'm "Maybe the reality that we the Rose Bowl after the 2004 not chasing that legacy,'' both know is that you can season. But Orangebloods Brown said. "I know it's never win enou,fh." Tressel . still griped aboUt a string of there, and I know it's not srud on Fnday. Woody and five straight losses to arch going to change, and I would . Darren probably never .lost a rival . Oklahoma - a streak think Jim would tell you the g_~e.l don't know two more Brown snapped in 2005 on same thing about coach stmtlar places." hi!i way to the national title. Hayes, because these are two The Longhorns chewed "They lost a few games men he and I idolized growthrough three coaches - early on, but they · were ing up." Fred . . Akers , David rebuilding, and now coach Tres~el shared Brown's and · John Brown has this program back assessment. McWtlhams Mackov1c - before findmg a on top, back where it should "We 'II never be the Woody fitting successor to Royal. be," Texas quarterback Colt Hayeses of the place ," Tressel Ltkewtse , Earle Bruce and McCoy said. said. "But we're the r.eople John Cooper followed Hayes Brown may still have his that have the responsibality to and won in Columbus, but detractors. but they've try to maintain that type of not enough to satisfy those become harder to find than excellence." o · Oh~ State quarterback Terrene Pryor throws durinQ fuotball p~ Wednesday in :.::::. ·Ohao State Will play Texas in the Fiesta Bowl NCAA college football game on Monday. · ~ .osu QB Terrelle Pryor a .no-show at Fiesta media day SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. 'Did you happen to miss ·(AP) - Fres~man Terrene any?'' ' . :t>ryor is the starting quarterPryor's absence was back for Ohio State in the notable in the ballroom set· Fiesta Bowl. Yet he isn't aside for media day. talking, at least for now. Frustrated Fiesta Bowl ofti. The Buckeyes did not cials had to tell reporters bring Pryor to the Fiesta that the Buckeyes' starting Bowl media day on Friday, quarterback wasn't present :snubbing bowl officials who - and that there was noth·had -'hoped that Ohio State ing they could do about it. ·and Texas would make their Fiesta Bowl president and 'starters available ahead of CEO John Juriker said he'd -Monday night's !lame. -like the Bowl · Ohio State Jam Tressel Championship Series to .said it would be better' for provide clearer rules for : ~ryor to ·attend mee~ings media access to players. ·mst~ad o~ the 30-manute "Any policy is workable se~s10n Wtlh ~eporters on . only if there. are conseFnday at the Faesta 's resort quences in place, which is ·headquarters. currently not the case " • "My feeling is ~e proba- Junker sl)id. "The prese~t bly had som~thmg that arrange~ent puts the team would be more ampactful on m questiOn and the bowl in our cause and that was to question in a difficult cirspend time · in the meeting cumstance ." room,'\ Tressel said. "We Tressel shrugged off the were asked to bring 30 play- stir caused by Pryor's • ers and we sent in a hst of absence. .P!~Y~~-' We_djd, g~t 0!1!: ~~1: Asked if Ohio State fans would like to hear from their Starting quarterback before t~e game, :rressel replied, Well, I thmk we owe a · lot • to our fans. Unfortunately. you can't do everyl!ling you'd like to do. "I would like all of our kids and coaches to be able to sign every autograph that every fan would like and, you know, all those kinds of things. But you can only do so many .things. You have to make decisions : Some of them are well thou~ht of, some of them aren't. Texas quarterback Colt McCoy h:~d no trouble attending media day for the Longhorns, .who were snubbed in their efforts to reach the BCS title game. "We're here," · McCoy said. "We want to play the best game we have played all year. We've prepared so far and now it is kind of polishing up. getting ready. We'll see what happens." · Texas trying not to be disappointed in the desert • SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) .- The Texas . Longhorns came to the desert determined not to let disappointment ruin a good season. · · But they can't forget !hat if not for one play with one sec.ond left on the clock and the . slimmest of margins in the Bowl Championship Series · standings, they would be 2,300 miles away on the beaches . of Aorida gening reitdy to play for a national title . · So many things went wrong for the third-ranked Longhorns ( Il-l ) over the last monih of the regular season that's it's hard to imagine they're not feeling a bit sorry for lhemselves heading into Monday's Fiesta Bowl ~ainst No. 10 Ohio State (I 0-2).. "We were disappointed. We're human," quarterback' Colt McCoy said. "But that's not how it turned out, and AP photo great teams overcome that." Consider all that has hap- The Fiesta Bowl trophy is displayed between two football helpene<l: . mets during a press conference Thursday in Scottsdale, Ariz. -.Texas was No. J· when Bowl practice. . pledge to return next season a McCoy rallied the Longhorns "The first one was, 'All big win could set them up io to the lead late in the fourth risht. it happened,' " senior start the 2009 ·season ranked quarter at Texas Tech. only to wade .receiver Quan Cosby No. I. . . watch the Red Raiders' srud. The second one was, And there's the distant hope · Michael Crabtree score the 'All right, let's gel over it.'" of earning a "split" natiorial ·winning touchdown with one But even . Cosby said he's chamrionship. . second left. One play earlier, not sure he' II be able to stomWhtle Oklahoma or Florida ·freshman safety Blake Gideon ach watching the BCS title is guaranteed to claim the dropped what would have game that he feels snubbed his BCS title, the Longhorns . been a game-clinching inter- team. could finish No. I m the CCJ?tion. And just to twist the "Being a sports fan, I proba- Associated Press nmkings if kriife a bit more, Crabtree's bly will watch some of it, but I the much-hyped Soonershildilicllt catch seems to be on definitely won't put too much Gators matchup turns into a ESPN"every five minutes dur- into it," he said. . dud. If the Sooners win, · it's ing the bOwl season. Texas can't let hurt feelings jlossible that some AP voters . -The loss at . Texas Tech and frustration linger too long. might remember that the ultimately put Texas in a Many a good bOwl team lost Longhorns beat Oklahoma on three-way ue in the Big 12 when it felt as though it a neutral fierd in Dallas. Soulh. Conference rules sent deserved better of its destina- · Unlike USA Today coachthe team with the hig_hest BCS lion. . es' poll voters, who are .rating to the league title game. 'It happened to Texas in required to put !he BCS cham.That ended up being 2003 wfien the l.,onghoms pionship game winner No. I Oklahoma. the team Texas thought they were going to the on their final ballots, the 65 'beat 45-35 on Oct. 11. Those BCS' but got bumped to the AP voters don't have to put ·same Souners are now in !he Holiday Bowl. The dispirited the winner of that game on top BCS champ.•ionship game Longhorns lost to Washington of their final ballots. against Florida. State in what turned out to be Texas coach Mack Brown -McCoy was runner up for Texas' last bOwl defeat. was cautious this week not to Texas players say there's sound too hopeful of such a ,the , H~!i~man Trophy, losing out to none other than .OU still a lot to shoot for in the scenario. There's no point Fiesta. To begin with, the talking about it unless his team . quarterback Sam Bradford. - It all added up to a feeling pnde of. etght semor starters 1s wms Monday. "If you start talking about among some Texas players on the hne. ·that they were denied a title . ''This is our last game we.ar- all that stuff that comes at the mg the Longhorn helmet)" end, you probably won't get shot they deserved. · The team liad two meetings senior defens1ve· end Brian !he result you want," Brown ·to clear the air. The first was Orakpo said .•:'Let's not hold said. "Obviously, .wanted to · play for the (BCS) national 'On the day the BCS rankings back nothmg. There's also the future to championship in- Miami and were announced. The second was when they started Fiesta thmk about. With McCoy's that dido 't happen." •.-- 1 '' ' . -- ~ ·-- -- �• • I . SundQ', Januuy 4 2009 Pomeroy • Middleport-'• GaDipoHs t ~~~----~--._------------------------------------------------~------------------~-- 6 6unbap ttiaid ·&tntintl Snead, McCiuster lead Ole Miss past Texas Tech ' I I : DALLAS (AP) - Ole couldn't( ...) WE DID." Miss isn't just the team that In the final minutes, Ole handed Florida its only Miss fans chanted "Hou- · loss, These Rebels are seri- ston Nutt! Hou-ston Nutt!" ously on the rise. and cheered when defenBehind Jevan Snead 's. sive coordinator Tyrone Deltter Nilt got ·a cooler of blue passing, McCluster's squirming juice dumped on him . They tuns and ~orne big returns also enjoyed breaking into by Marshay Green, No. 20 chants of "S-E-C! S-E-C!" Mississippi overcame an three times' \n the closing early deficit and beat No.7 minutes. Texas Tech 47-34 Friday in A little louder and the the final Colton B<_~wl cheer might've been heard p)ayed in the stadium of at the Big 12 offices !lbout the same name . 12 miles away. Still , ,the The Red Raiders (ll-2) ·message that the founhconverted a pair of early best team in th.e SEC, turnovers into a 14-0 lead, according to the polls, is but Snead led the Rebels to better than the third-best touchdowns on their next team in the Big 12 came three drives. followed by a across loud and clear, and go-ahead field goal shonly is worth noting as schools before halftime. Once from these leagues - No. Green returned an intercep- l Florida and No. 2 tion 65 yards for a touch- Oklahoma . - meet ne~tt down · early in the third week for the national title. The Red Raiders had a quarter, Ole Miss (9-4) was well on its way to capping direct path to playing in AP.,._ coach Houston Nutt's first that game until getting Mississippi fullback · Bnandon Bolden (34) celebrates his crushed by the Sooners in season in grand style. third quarter touchdown against Texas Tech with teammate This was Mississippi's late November. At the time, sixth straight win, match- they were unbeilten and Mississippi wide receiver Mike Wallace (2) at the Cotton ing its longest streak since ranked second, the highest Bowl NCAA college football. game Friday in Dallas. his highlight was ·a 2-yard five catches and two TDs 2003, when Eli . Manning mark in school history. catch for all season. was a senior. That also was Getting drubbed in two touchdown the last time the Rebels had of the last three games Harrell's record-breaker Green nearly stole the been to. a bowl. takes some shine off Tech's and his low light was show by following his long This roll began when Ole season. and kept senior falling down on the pass interception · return with Miss was only 3-4 and quar.terback Graham that turned into Green's what initially was called a coming off consecutive Harrell from going · out interception and return for 63-yard punt return for a losses following its stun- with the school's record- the score that put Ole Miss touchdown . Upon review, ning upset at the Swamp. setting 12th win. up 31-21. however, ~e stepped out at Actually, it might've begun Harrell's consolation was Snead, a Texas native the "nine and two-thirds the week before when a several statistical feats: who began his career with yard line," as the official late comeback at Alabama most career touchdowns in the Longhorns, was 18-of- described it. came up short. The string · rnajor college football 29 for 292 yards and three This was the 73rd Cotton includes a win at. LSU (four in this game made it touchdowns. He · threw an Bowl and the last in its when the Tigers were No . 134 for. his career, breaking early interception that was namesake home. Next year, 18. the record of 131 set by returned for the touchdown it'll be played in the $1.1 "These guy have such Hawaii's Colt Srennan) that put Tech up 14' 0 • but billion stadium being built · great character and it's got- and first player with two the Rebels dido 't have ten better each and every 5,000-yard · passing sea- another turnover the rest of by the Daljas Cowboys. week," Nutt said. sons. Harrell was 36-of-58 the way while pilil)g up a The bowl founder's widow handled the pregame coin · A postgame celebration for a Cotton Bowl-record season-best 515 yards. McCiuster, who at 5- toss and the dates 1937 and five years in the making 364 yards, giving him foot-8 is hard 10 find and 2009 were painted on the was practically worth the 5,111 yards this season. wait to the 44,000 or so Only five other quarter- even harder to tackle, was field between the words , Rebels fans, nearly all of backs have cracked 5,000, at the .center of everything, "Celebrating 73 year~." This turned out to be the whom stuck around until including Brennan and two running 14 times for 97 yards and a touchdown, most. points in the game's long after the game. When others from Texas Tech. time ran out, one player All-American receiver and catching six passes for history ' and the biggest tumbled across the 50-yard Michael Crabtree caught 83 yards. On the other end crowd, 88,175, thanks to a line and others ran around only four passes for 30 of the spectrum, 6-foot-5, recent stadium expansion. carrying flags. Several yards in what might be his 250-pound tight end Gerald It was the third-warmest, guys gleefully held up a last college game. Slowed Harris caught two passes too, with 69 degrees at wipe board with the mes- by an ankle injury sus- for 29 yards, both touch· kickoff and the mid· 70s at sage, "94 percent said we tained in the season finale, downs - after having only halftime. CLEVELAND (AP). - and an MRJ revealed he One big loss was enough fractured a bone in the back Cleveland of his ankle. . for · the He'll be in a walking Cavaliers, still perfect at home. . . boot for a week. "One thing we don't want Anderson Varejao scored a career-high 26 points, to do is rush it," llgauskas LeBron James had a triple- said. "We 'lltake it weekly double · and the CavaherS · and see how it goes - we stayed unbeaten on their really don't know." TbeC11vs lost their offenfloor with a 117-92 win rhythm while Friday night over the sive Chicago Bulls after learn- . llgauskas was out, but they ing center Zydrunas were sharp moving the ball IIt:auskas will miss a month and destroyed the Bulls, wtth a fractured bone in his who were again without left. ankle. injured forwards Drew James finished with 16 Gooden and Luol Deng . James was able to draw points, II assists and 10 rebounds as the Cavaliers double teams and find im{lroved to 17-0 at Varejao and Cleveland's Qutcken Loans Arena. other big men underneath The Cavs also got a sea- for easy layU{IS - Varejao, son-high 13 points from Wallace and Htckson com~ Ben Wallace, B froin rook- bined for 52 points .and 23 ie J.J. Hickson and a sea- rebounds, more than makson-high 13 from reserve ing 6p for the 13.8 J,X>ints Sasha Pavlovic. Delonte and 7 .I rebounds m1ssing West added 14 points and with llgauskas watching Mo Williams had II as from the bench in street Cleveland's five starters all clothes. finished in double figures. And as has become the James scored 41 points in norm this season, James each of Cleveland's first made a spectacular defentwo wins over Chicago this sive play as impressive as season, but the superstar any of his dunks . Early in was content to defer tooth· the third quarter, James cut ers for most of the night. across the lane and perfectHe didn 'I make his second ly timed his jump to slap a field goal - aJ.pointer - layup by rookie Derek until there was just · 5:58. Rose off the ·b ackboard left. He grabbed rebound glass. . . seconds later, brought them Cleveland's big · men ,, ball up the floor and drilled picked up the slack for " his second 3-pointer in a llgauskas from the outset. Wallace scored eight of 16-second span to make it 104-80. the Cavs' first 21 points It was James' first triple- and finished the first q\lardouble this season and the ter with five rebounds. 18th of his career. Hickson added six points He could get a ·few more and Varejao five as the trio in .the coming weeks while combined for 19 points and llgauskas recovers. 10 rebounds in the period Ben Gordon scored 22 as Cleveland opened a ISpoints and Lindsey Hunter point lead it pushed to 25 in 13 for the Bulls. who shot the third quarter. just 37 percent and have Notes: Gooden remained back in Chicago for treatlost five of six. llgauskas first rolled his ment on an ankh~ injury ankle trying to block a shot that has sidelinec;l him for during a Dec . 10 game at seven games. Coach Vin~ty Philadelphia. He missed Del Negro said Gooden just three games and med- ·could return for Saturday's ical tests taken at the time home game against showed nothing more than Minnesota ... . Hickson split a sprain .. However, the 7- his lip in the first quarter foot-3 Lithuanian whose and needed one stitch to left foot ~as surgically close . the cut. ... Cavs F rebuilt eight years ago, · Wally Szczerbiak · played continued to have soreness six minutes after missing and· sweiHng. two games · with a sore A sec~nd round of X-rays knee. · Cl Sunday, January 4 2009 'This composite shows some of the Delta planes which Meigs native John Dyke built from blueprints . he designed. · Submitted photos Utah beats Alabama in Sugar Bowl· NEW ORLEANS (AP) - times for only 26 yards. · Utah is the best of the BCS . · The Utes' array of stunts busters. and blitzes appeared to upset Brian Johnson threw for Wilson's rhythm. He over336 yards and three touch- threw a couple of open downs, and the No. 7 Utes receivers downfield and finupset fourth-ranked ished IS:of-30 for 177 yards Alabama 31-17 in the Sugar and a touchdown Bowl on Friday night to finUtah didn't seem very ish 13-0. interested in running the With the victory, Utah ball, and who could blame became the first team from a them the way Johnson non-BCS conference to win adeptly spread the ball two BCS bowls. The Utes around to seven receivers? beat Pittsburgh in the 2005 He hit Freddie Brown 12 Fiesta Bowl under coach times for 125 yards. Urban Meyer, going for ·his Johnson was 27-of-41 and second BCS national title was not intercepted. His with Florida when his tou&downs went for 7 Gators play Oklahoma on yards to Brent Casteel, 18 Thursday in Miami. yards to Bradon Godfrey . Johnson's pinpoint pass- and 28 yards to David Reed. jng led Utah to a 21-0 first- Matt Asiata ran for a 2-yard 1 b Reed' quarter lead and the Utes TD refused to wilt when ' a score se up y s 2· 21 17 leaping catch at the labama pulled to A An Alabama comeback ~arty in the second half. · appeared 10 be building · Utah's defense was equal- early in the . second half, ly impressive, intercepting when Dont'a Hightower John Parker Wilson twice and sacking him eight time. s • stripped Johnson and Bobby Greenwood recovered at the with the seventh sack fore- Utah 30. Wilson methodicalins a fumble that sent crim- ly drove the Tide for a score, son-clad Alabama fans streaming for the e~tits .with hitting Coffee for an easy 4just more than five minutes yard score on a rollout to close the gap to 21-17. ' to go. At the point, Alabama bad After surgin~ to No. l in scored 17 straight points, the rankings wtth a 12-0 reg- imd it appeared ·to be only a ular season, Alabama closed the season with two consec- matter of time before the utive losses, the first against Tide, favored by more than a florida in the Southeas.tern touchdown, would overtake Conference championship the underdog Utes. game. .. Johnson "had other ideas, Alabama could have used 'opening Utah 's next drive suspended' All-America left with a 33-ya(d pass over the tackle Andre Smith, but middle to Brown. The. com• even he might not have been pletion kick-started a 7·1enough to stop a Utah yard ·scoring drive that defense .that played with ended with Reed's touchspeed, ferocity and · disci, down . pline. • . , The Tide drove right back The Utes' front seven was into Utah territory, but significantly. outweighed by ln$ram was stuffed for no Alabama's offensive line, gam on third-and-2 from the but refused to give ground to Utah 32. Leigh Tiffen then the Tide's normally ,power- missed his second long field fu1' running game that aver- goal of the game, hooking a aged 196.5 yards per game 49-~arder just left of the · coming into the Sugar Bowl. upnght. · Glen Coffee was held to 36 Only a year ago, the Sugar yards on 13 carries; while Bowl saw its first BCS Mark Ingram rushed eight buster in Hawaii, which took ' a 41-10 beating from Georgia. Utah calmly dismissed any comparisons to last year's game during the leadup to the ·game, and wasted no time proving it on the field. The Utes stalled Alabama's $arne-opening drive by. blitzmg linebacker Stevenson Sylvester from the side vacated by the suspended Smith, resulting in a Jarring sack from Wilson's blind side. . Johnson then completed his frrst five passes for . a combined 68 yards, the last his TD pass to Casteel. The heavily outnumbered Utah fans had barely stopped cheering the TD when safety Robert Johnson intercepted Wilson in Alabama territory and returned it to the 32. Two plays Iate'r, Reed made a Ieapin11. 30-yard catch along the stdeline, setting up i:ata's plunge through the1 · iie A*' a 14-0 . Utah lead • th' more than 8 minutes remaining in the opening · .quarter; 1':'l;ide ~oach Nick Saban was ' paeing and grimacing already- and things were .,ut. to 11et even worse. Replace.lnent left tackle ,Mike.:Johnson limped.offthe JieW, ~ll. . ~labama's. next •senes,··forcmg the T1de to moy~ ·iackJe Drew Davis to the lt'fi side and insert freshmalt lineman John Michael B~~ell on the right. Soon ·after; Wilson was hurried :mte ~ an incompletion, then .slicked on the next·;pJay, forcing another punt. ' ' Utah's 21-0 lead, the l!ll'gest deficit the Tide faced . · all season , stood until Tiffin · hit a 52-yard field goal on the first 'play . of the second quarter. 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John Dyke stands beside what h~ describes as just a "standard airplane" Cherakee wh1ch he s1111 flies occasionally. 1 as a FAA certified mechanic/inspector and mentor to other aircraft POMEROY - For. John owners and homebuilders . Dyke, the drive to invent · Dyke was instrumental and innovate began when, in ·converting civilian airas a lad growing up in craft for special purpose Danville, he built a pro- use fo,r the military to test peller-driven bicycle using infrared cameras and a the engine from his moth- s"pecial sensor system. er's Maytag washing This· system has been used machine. on military d.rones in Iraq · Some years later · after and is considered a classiDyke graduated . from fled weapon as wen · as a Rutland High School, he . classified early detection got involved in aviation system . . while serving four years in Dyke is best known . the U.S. Navy . .Soon after internationally for the his discharge, he began a design and cotistruction of 37-year career at Wright the Dyke Delta, a delta Patterson Air Force Base winged experimental airdoing aircraft· develop- craft, the first model being ment work. · introduced in 1963 . In All the while he was addition to two versions of busy at what is called the ' Dyke · Delta, other "homebuilding ." In his expetimenta'l aircraft projects have been the · Delta case it was aircraft building planes, restoring, Kitten, Delta Stringray, altering and · rebuilding Jackson Roadabilie, the others. It was his success original Wri'ght B. Flyer in the homebuilding of replica located at Dayton planes which led to his Wright Airport, and most. · receut induction into the recent!", the new Wright ' · Experimental Aircraft Q. Flyer replica, currently Association Homebuilders under. construction there. Hall of Fame . · · Over the years, his s\(ill · For many years he flew in aircraft design and his planes , from the development . has led to Springfield Municipal numerous awards, the Iat'Airport, but is now. basecl est being his induction at the Greene County into the Experimental Lewis A: iackson Airport. Aircraft Association He continues his 50 year~ Homebuilders Hall of JIV CHARLENE HOEFLICH HOEFUCHOMYI:WLYSENTlNELOOM ... a Piper Fame. His induction took place in November in Oshkosh, Wis. In the Hall of Fame, Dyke joins such luminaries as Burt Rutan and Paul Poberezny in being bOnored for accomplishments and contributions to sport aviation. 0· ther · prestigiOus awards given to Dyke over the years have included the coveted Federal Aviation Agency's Charles Taylor Master Mechanic Award, and the FAA's President's Award. ·Dyke · continues to remain active in support of the De,Ita Builder's Network, -now numbering 600 members, and the EAA AirVenture, the world's largest avia 7 tion event. He was a charter mem-· ber, officer and remains a member of the Air City EAA Chapter 48 , which celebrllted its 50th . · anmversary 1ast year. While still actively involved in homebuilding · · planes and flying, Dyke always takes time to return to Meigs County in the spring to attend the . Rutland High School alumni banquet, and in the fall to turkey hunt in .the. hills around Danville. John Dyke' was recently inducted in.toThe Experimental Aircraft Aswciation Homebuilders Hall of Fame in cere· monies held recently in Oshkosh, Wis. �• • I . SundQ', Januuy 4 2009 Pomeroy • Middleport-'• GaDipoHs t ~~~----~--._------------------------------------------------~------------------~-- 6 6unbap ttiaid ·&tntintl Snead, McCiuster lead Ole Miss past Texas Tech ' I I : DALLAS (AP) - Ole couldn't( ...) WE DID." Miss isn't just the team that In the final minutes, Ole handed Florida its only Miss fans chanted "Hou- · loss, These Rebels are seri- ston Nutt! Hou-ston Nutt!" ously on the rise. and cheered when defenBehind Jevan Snead 's. sive coordinator Tyrone Deltter Nilt got ·a cooler of blue passing, McCluster's squirming juice dumped on him . They tuns and ~orne big returns also enjoyed breaking into by Marshay Green, No. 20 chants of "S-E-C! S-E-C!" Mississippi overcame an three times' \n the closing early deficit and beat No.7 minutes. Texas Tech 47-34 Friday in A little louder and the the final Colton B<_~wl cheer might've been heard p)ayed in the stadium of at the Big 12 offices !lbout the same name . 12 miles away. Still , ,the The Red Raiders (ll-2) ·message that the founhconverted a pair of early best team in th.e SEC, turnovers into a 14-0 lead, according to the polls, is but Snead led the Rebels to better than the third-best touchdowns on their next team in the Big 12 came three drives. followed by a across loud and clear, and go-ahead field goal shonly is worth noting as schools before halftime. Once from these leagues - No. Green returned an intercep- l Florida and No. 2 tion 65 yards for a touch- Oklahoma . - meet ne~tt down · early in the third week for the national title. The Red Raiders had a quarter, Ole Miss (9-4) was well on its way to capping direct path to playing in AP.,._ coach Houston Nutt's first that game until getting Mississippi fullback · Bnandon Bolden (34) celebrates his crushed by the Sooners in season in grand style. third quarter touchdown against Texas Tech with teammate This was Mississippi's late November. At the time, sixth straight win, match- they were unbeilten and Mississippi wide receiver Mike Wallace (2) at the Cotton ing its longest streak since ranked second, the highest Bowl NCAA college football. game Friday in Dallas. his highlight was ·a 2-yard five catches and two TDs 2003, when Eli . Manning mark in school history. catch for all season. was a senior. That also was Getting drubbed in two touchdown the last time the Rebels had of the last three games Harrell's record-breaker Green nearly stole the been to. a bowl. takes some shine off Tech's and his low light was show by following his long This roll began when Ole season. and kept senior falling down on the pass interception · return with Miss was only 3-4 and quar.terback Graham that turned into Green's what initially was called a coming off consecutive Harrell from going · out interception and return for 63-yard punt return for a losses following its stun- with the school's record- the score that put Ole Miss touchdown . Upon review, ning upset at the Swamp. setting 12th win. up 31-21. however, ~e stepped out at Actually, it might've begun Harrell's consolation was Snead, a Texas native the "nine and two-thirds the week before when a several statistical feats: who began his career with yard line," as the official late comeback at Alabama most career touchdowns in the Longhorns, was 18-of- described it. came up short. The string · rnajor college football 29 for 292 yards and three This was the 73rd Cotton includes a win at. LSU (four in this game made it touchdowns. He · threw an Bowl and the last in its when the Tigers were No . 134 for. his career, breaking early interception that was namesake home. Next year, 18. the record of 131 set by returned for the touchdown it'll be played in the $1.1 "These guy have such Hawaii's Colt Srennan) that put Tech up 14' 0 • but billion stadium being built · great character and it's got- and first player with two the Rebels dido 't have ten better each and every 5,000-yard · passing sea- another turnover the rest of by the Daljas Cowboys. week," Nutt said. sons. Harrell was 36-of-58 the way while pilil)g up a The bowl founder's widow handled the pregame coin · A postgame celebration for a Cotton Bowl-record season-best 515 yards. McCiuster, who at 5- toss and the dates 1937 and five years in the making 364 yards, giving him foot-8 is hard 10 find and 2009 were painted on the was practically worth the 5,111 yards this season. wait to the 44,000 or so Only five other quarter- even harder to tackle, was field between the words , Rebels fans, nearly all of backs have cracked 5,000, at the .center of everything, "Celebrating 73 year~." This turned out to be the whom stuck around until including Brennan and two running 14 times for 97 yards and a touchdown, most. points in the game's long after the game. When others from Texas Tech. time ran out, one player All-American receiver and catching six passes for history ' and the biggest tumbled across the 50-yard Michael Crabtree caught 83 yards. On the other end crowd, 88,175, thanks to a line and others ran around only four passes for 30 of the spectrum, 6-foot-5, recent stadium expansion. carrying flags. Several yards in what might be his 250-pound tight end Gerald It was the third-warmest, guys gleefully held up a last college game. Slowed Harris caught two passes too, with 69 degrees at wipe board with the mes- by an ankle injury sus- for 29 yards, both touch· kickoff and the mid· 70s at sage, "94 percent said we tained in the season finale, downs - after having only halftime. CLEVELAND (AP). - and an MRJ revealed he One big loss was enough fractured a bone in the back Cleveland of his ankle. . for · the He'll be in a walking Cavaliers, still perfect at home. . . boot for a week. "One thing we don't want Anderson Varejao scored a career-high 26 points, to do is rush it," llgauskas LeBron James had a triple- said. "We 'lltake it weekly double · and the CavaherS · and see how it goes - we stayed unbeaten on their really don't know." TbeC11vs lost their offenfloor with a 117-92 win rhythm while Friday night over the sive Chicago Bulls after learn- . llgauskas was out, but they ing center Zydrunas were sharp moving the ball IIt:auskas will miss a month and destroyed the Bulls, wtth a fractured bone in his who were again without left. ankle. injured forwards Drew James finished with 16 Gooden and Luol Deng . James was able to draw points, II assists and 10 rebounds as the Cavaliers double teams and find im{lroved to 17-0 at Varejao and Cleveland's Qutcken Loans Arena. other big men underneath The Cavs also got a sea- for easy layU{IS - Varejao, son-high 13 points from Wallace and Htckson com~ Ben Wallace, B froin rook- bined for 52 points .and 23 ie J.J. Hickson and a sea- rebounds, more than makson-high 13 from reserve ing 6p for the 13.8 J,X>ints Sasha Pavlovic. Delonte and 7 .I rebounds m1ssing West added 14 points and with llgauskas watching Mo Williams had II as from the bench in street Cleveland's five starters all clothes. finished in double figures. And as has become the James scored 41 points in norm this season, James each of Cleveland's first made a spectacular defentwo wins over Chicago this sive play as impressive as season, but the superstar any of his dunks . Early in was content to defer tooth· the third quarter, James cut ers for most of the night. across the lane and perfectHe didn 'I make his second ly timed his jump to slap a field goal - aJ.pointer - layup by rookie Derek until there was just · 5:58. Rose off the ·b ackboard left. He grabbed rebound glass. . . seconds later, brought them Cleveland's big · men ,, ball up the floor and drilled picked up the slack for " his second 3-pointer in a llgauskas from the outset. Wallace scored eight of 16-second span to make it 104-80. the Cavs' first 21 points It was James' first triple- and finished the first q\lardouble this season and the ter with five rebounds. 18th of his career. Hickson added six points He could get a ·few more and Varejao five as the trio in .the coming weeks while combined for 19 points and llgauskas recovers. 10 rebounds in the period Ben Gordon scored 22 as Cleveland opened a ISpoints and Lindsey Hunter point lead it pushed to 25 in 13 for the Bulls. who shot the third quarter. just 37 percent and have Notes: Gooden remained back in Chicago for treatlost five of six. llgauskas first rolled his ment on an ankh~ injury ankle trying to block a shot that has sidelinec;l him for during a Dec . 10 game at seven games. Coach Vin~ty Philadelphia. He missed Del Negro said Gooden just three games and med- ·could return for Saturday's ical tests taken at the time home game against showed nothing more than Minnesota ... . Hickson split a sprain .. However, the 7- his lip in the first quarter foot-3 Lithuanian whose and needed one stitch to left foot ~as surgically close . the cut. ... Cavs F rebuilt eight years ago, · Wally Szczerbiak · played continued to have soreness six minutes after missing and· sweiHng. two games · with a sore A sec~nd round of X-rays knee. · Cl Sunday, January 4 2009 'This composite shows some of the Delta planes which Meigs native John Dyke built from blueprints . he designed. · Submitted photos Utah beats Alabama in Sugar Bowl· NEW ORLEANS (AP) - times for only 26 yards. · Utah is the best of the BCS . · The Utes' array of stunts busters. and blitzes appeared to upset Brian Johnson threw for Wilson's rhythm. He over336 yards and three touch- threw a couple of open downs, and the No. 7 Utes receivers downfield and finupset fourth-ranked ished IS:of-30 for 177 yards Alabama 31-17 in the Sugar and a touchdown Bowl on Friday night to finUtah didn't seem very ish 13-0. interested in running the With the victory, Utah ball, and who could blame became the first team from a them the way Johnson non-BCS conference to win adeptly spread the ball two BCS bowls. The Utes around to seven receivers? beat Pittsburgh in the 2005 He hit Freddie Brown 12 Fiesta Bowl under coach times for 125 yards. Urban Meyer, going for ·his Johnson was 27-of-41 and second BCS national title was not intercepted. His with Florida when his tou&downs went for 7 Gators play Oklahoma on yards to Brent Casteel, 18 Thursday in Miami. yards to Bradon Godfrey . Johnson's pinpoint pass- and 28 yards to David Reed. jng led Utah to a 21-0 first- Matt Asiata ran for a 2-yard 1 b Reed' quarter lead and the Utes TD refused to wilt when ' a score se up y s 2· 21 17 leaping catch at the labama pulled to A An Alabama comeback ~arty in the second half. · appeared 10 be building · Utah's defense was equal- early in the . second half, ly impressive, intercepting when Dont'a Hightower John Parker Wilson twice and sacking him eight time. s • stripped Johnson and Bobby Greenwood recovered at the with the seventh sack fore- Utah 30. Wilson methodicalins a fumble that sent crim- ly drove the Tide for a score, son-clad Alabama fans streaming for the e~tits .with hitting Coffee for an easy 4just more than five minutes yard score on a rollout to close the gap to 21-17. ' to go. At the point, Alabama bad After surgin~ to No. l in scored 17 straight points, the rankings wtth a 12-0 reg- imd it appeared ·to be only a ular season, Alabama closed the season with two consec- matter of time before the utive losses, the first against Tide, favored by more than a florida in the Southeas.tern touchdown, would overtake Conference championship the underdog Utes. game. .. Johnson "had other ideas, Alabama could have used 'opening Utah 's next drive suspended' All-America left with a 33-ya(d pass over the tackle Andre Smith, but middle to Brown. The. com• even he might not have been pletion kick-started a 7·1enough to stop a Utah yard ·scoring drive that defense .that played with ended with Reed's touchspeed, ferocity and · disci, down . pline. • . , The Tide drove right back The Utes' front seven was into Utah territory, but significantly. outweighed by ln$ram was stuffed for no Alabama's offensive line, gam on third-and-2 from the but refused to give ground to Utah 32. Leigh Tiffen then the Tide's normally ,power- missed his second long field fu1' running game that aver- goal of the game, hooking a aged 196.5 yards per game 49-~arder just left of the · coming into the Sugar Bowl. upnght. · Glen Coffee was held to 36 Only a year ago, the Sugar yards on 13 carries; while Bowl saw its first BCS Mark Ingram rushed eight buster in Hawaii, which took ' a 41-10 beating from Georgia. Utah calmly dismissed any comparisons to last year's game during the leadup to the ·game, and wasted no time proving it on the field. The Utes stalled Alabama's $arne-opening drive by. blitzmg linebacker Stevenson Sylvester from the side vacated by the suspended Smith, resulting in a Jarring sack from Wilson's blind side. . Johnson then completed his frrst five passes for . a combined 68 yards, the last his TD pass to Casteel. The heavily outnumbered Utah fans had barely stopped cheering the TD when safety Robert Johnson intercepted Wilson in Alabama territory and returned it to the 32. Two plays Iate'r, Reed made a Ieapin11. 30-yard catch along the stdeline, setting up i:ata's plunge through the1 · iie A*' a 14-0 . Utah lead • th' more than 8 minutes remaining in the opening · .quarter; 1':'l;ide ~oach Nick Saban was ' paeing and grimacing already- and things were .,ut. to 11et even worse. Replace.lnent left tackle ,Mike.:Johnson limped.offthe JieW, ~ll. . ~labama's. next •senes,··forcmg the T1de to moy~ ·iackJe Drew Davis to the lt'fi side and insert freshmalt lineman John Michael B~~ell on the right. Soon ·after; Wilson was hurried :mte ~ an incompletion, then .slicked on the next·;pJay, forcing another punt. ' ' Utah's 21-0 lead, the l!ll'gest deficit the Tide faced . · all season , stood until Tiffin · hit a 52-yard field goal on the first 'play . of the second quarter. Alabama did nQt score a.n offensive TD in the half, but pulled to 21- 10 when Javier Arenas returned a punt 73-yards for a score, bursting through three tacklers before breaking outside and outrunning the rest. . This Delta wing plane built in 1967 is one of John Dyke's favorite flying machines. Does your car seem a little out of whack? Do you hear strange noises when you hit a pothole, or does you steering faYC?r one side? Chances are, you could have alignmenl or suspension problems. Don1 wait- bring your vehicle to · us for a checkup! . • Alignment • Suspension • Mufflers • Brakes • Exhaust Systems • Tune-ups tf . I ' ' / FREE ALIGNMENT INSPECTIONS ·It Alignment Is Needed Front End $39.99 . . 4 Wheel Alignment $59.99 Call740·992·6614 or 800·837·1094 For Appointment ............,. ' Flying high ' Mel'gs natz've desz'gns ·buz'lds:flyz'ng machz'nes .. John Dyke stands beside what h~ describes as just a "standard airplane" Cherakee wh1ch he s1111 flies occasionally. 1 as a FAA certified mechanic/inspector and mentor to other aircraft POMEROY - For. John owners and homebuilders . Dyke, the drive to invent · Dyke was instrumental and innovate began when, in ·converting civilian airas a lad growing up in craft for special purpose Danville, he built a pro- use fo,r the military to test peller-driven bicycle using infrared cameras and a the engine from his moth- s"pecial sensor system. er's Maytag washing This· system has been used machine. on military d.rones in Iraq · Some years later · after and is considered a classiDyke graduated . from fled weapon as wen · as a Rutland High School, he . classified early detection got involved in aviation system . . while serving four years in Dyke is best known . the U.S. Navy . .Soon after internationally for the his discharge, he began a design and cotistruction of 37-year career at Wright the Dyke Delta, a delta Patterson Air Force Base winged experimental airdoing aircraft· develop- craft, the first model being ment work. · introduced in 1963 . In All the while he was addition to two versions of busy at what is called the ' Dyke · Delta, other "homebuilding ." In his expetimenta'l aircraft projects have been the · Delta case it was aircraft building planes, restoring, Kitten, Delta Stringray, altering and · rebuilding Jackson Roadabilie, the others. It was his success original Wri'ght B. Flyer in the homebuilding of replica located at Dayton planes which led to his Wright Airport, and most. · receut induction into the recent!", the new Wright ' · Experimental Aircraft Q. Flyer replica, currently Association Homebuilders under. construction there. Hall of Fame . · · Over the years, his s\(ill · For many years he flew in aircraft design and his planes , from the development . has led to Springfield Municipal numerous awards, the Iat'Airport, but is now. basecl est being his induction at the Greene County into the Experimental Lewis A: iackson Airport. Aircraft Association He continues his 50 year~ Homebuilders Hall of JIV CHARLENE HOEFLICH HOEFUCHOMYI:WLYSENTlNELOOM ... a Piper Fame. His induction took place in November in Oshkosh, Wis. In the Hall of Fame, Dyke joins such luminaries as Burt Rutan and Paul Poberezny in being bOnored for accomplishments and contributions to sport aviation. 0· ther · prestigiOus awards given to Dyke over the years have included the coveted Federal Aviation Agency's Charles Taylor Master Mechanic Award, and the FAA's President's Award. ·Dyke · continues to remain active in support of the De,Ita Builder's Network, -now numbering 600 members, and the EAA AirVenture, the world's largest avia 7 tion event. He was a charter mem-· ber, officer and remains a member of the Air City EAA Chapter 48 , which celebrllted its 50th . · anmversary 1ast year. While still actively involved in homebuilding · · planes and flying, Dyke always takes time to return to Meigs County in the spring to attend the . Rutland High School alumni banquet, and in the fall to turkey hunt in .the. hills around Danville. John Dyke' was recently inducted in.toThe Experimental Aircraft Aswciation Homebuilders Hall of Fame in cere· monies held recently in Oshkosh, Wis. �• ' • i iunbap titnH -6rnttnrl . ... .•' Online learning provides entry-level career options · ATHENS - According to :a study released during National Distance Learning Week last month, online learning continues to grow. A study by the Sloan :Consortium reports that ·>"me 3.94 million students :enrolled in at least one ·online murse in 2007. an ·in ere use of 12.9 percent . over the previous year. Although figures aren't in . for 2008. e"pectations are· · :for ariot her increase. The continued growth may be. in part. because taking courses over the lntemet is convenient and tlex ible, according to Lisa Dael. assistant director of :Lifelong and Distance :Learning at Ohio University ··online learning provides a lot of advantages," Dael said. 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Rife closed his letter by saying, "I find people have strange beliefs, e~pecially in regard to the scriptures.'' · In 1932, Dr. Holzer and Hollis Johnston (the •latter a native of Kyger) cooked up the scheme to have a &urprise tribute dinner 'for Dr. Rife on the occasion of his · 50th year as the "country doc" in Kyger. Several prominent men of medicine like Dr. Hanson (in his 58th year · In • medicine), Dr. Vornholt and Dr. Holzer spoke as well as Judge Mauck, whom the Gallipolis Daily Tribune slyly recorded, spoke at greater length than anyone else. Interestingly, this surprise dinner came the day after Rife had spent two days with Mr. Rothgeb. ' When Dr. Rife died . on Oct. 29.1933, the GallipOlis Daily Tribune said, "Thousands of people living bel\yeen Cheshire and Vinton . from Campaign up to and beyond the Meigs line, experienced a sense of personal loss when Dr. Rife was compelled to end his career as a practitioner. For more than half a century he had ridden ttte highways and byways, day and night, to administer to the afflicted, no matter how poor they might be or how isolated their home." When Dr. Rife died , he was owed hundreds of dollars from unpaid bills. GALLJPOLIS - The year 2008 was an ellciting time for the Holzer Cardiovascular Institute (HCI) as the facility continued ellpansion of the service$ it offers for residents of the Mid-Ohio Valley. . Dr. Choudhury Rayani , who specializes in cardiac electrophysiology at HCI , said institute physicians began performing the following procedures in '08: electrophysiology studies . (EPS). implantable cardioverter defibrillators (lCD). cardiac resynchfonization therapy (CRT) and ·catheter ablation. Ra~arti said being able to provtde these procedures at HCI is significant because it means local cardiac paiients no longer have to travel elsewhere to receive specialized treatment. "We are bringing in services that were not availal>le ·previously," he said. "People had to go mostly to Columbus or Cleveland. Now we can · do them here:· Rayani performed the first two catheter ablations in HCI history on Dec. 18, 2008. The other procedures were implemented earlier in the year. . Catheter ablation is a procedure designed to eliminate an arrhythmia. a Implantable cardiovertey defibrillators are small gener.11ors that are used to · help regulate the bean's' rhythm. The lCD monitors heart acfi vity and is desig11ed to provide therapy when it detects any type of rhythm disorder. ICDs are implanted in the upper chest and are connected to the heart with small wires called leads. Cardiac resynchroniza ~ tion therapy helps a weakened heart pump more Dr. Chouclll8.y Rayanl blood witll each beat to help more bloOd and oxy' heart rhythm problem that gen get to the rest of the can make the heart beat too body. Increased blood and fast. The problem is . often oxygen ll.o w decreases caused by cells in the heart bean-failure symptpms. that fail to work J?IOperly. . Doctors place either a The catheter ablatton uses biventricular pacemaker or an electrode catheter to . a biventricular implantable locate and destroy the cardioverter defibrillator in problem cells. the patient's chest to help ElectrOphysiology stud- synchronize the right and ies . are performed on left ventricles of the heart. patients Who have been The . Holzer diagnosed with a heart Cardiovascular Institute rhythm problem or who was established in 2002 as have symptoms tha& might a joint venture between suggest . there is a heart Holzer Medical Center and rhythm issue. Doctors uSc: 'Holzer Clinic . It is located one or more electrode on the HMC-Gallipolis catheters to monitor and/or campus at I 00 Jackson stimulate heart rhythms to Pike . determine the problem. · For more information · • EPS is generally the first about HCl , Jog on to the step toward determining website cu www.holzerwhat course , of treatment heart.cdm, or call (740) should follow next. . 446-5002 . SUNDAY PUZZLER 92 ·- -is Born" t JeHy frui1 6 ~ian's La .- opera hOuse 11 ln~el · 16 BartkJtt 20 Talked wildly 21 Nwnety (2 iods.) 22 Sharp ·23 Mechar1cal man 25 Think 26 Rub011 27 Ricochel 28 Western Iridian 29 By way of 30 "The Chronicles of - . 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All classes will be held at New Life Lutheran Church in Spring Valley and will .run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m .. with lunch being provided. "Volunteers must be over the age of 16, in good physical health, and willing to work hard to help their· neighbors," Pa)(ton added. 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On County . Amen can . Red Saturday, Jan 17, volunCross wtll be ~r~vtdtng a leers win 'be learning senes of free trammg class- about openmg and operates for any@e wanting to ing shelters. On Saturday, . volunteer dunng a thsast~r. Jan 24, volunteer s will Thts tmmmg wtll quahfy learn about " Family the parttctpants to help ~ith Services" a~d will learn ,local dtsaste~s such as ftres, how , to wnte cases · and flood s. wmter storms, etc. issue assistance to fire vicThe training . will also pre- tims . · )are volunteers who would "These classes will help . :. ltke to travel across the U:S. you to prepp~ to help peo- . -: to help wtth larger scale dts- pie ·m then' ttme of need," ·- asters . said Ollie Paxton, Red : On Saturday , . Jan 10, .Cf?SS volunteer. "We need · ~ lass es will mc~ud~ tratped V~?lunteers when dis: Fulf!,lhng Our Mtsston asth .s tnkes. Thts ts an and Mass Care-feedmg opportumty to become COMM Sunday, January 4. 2009 New services highlighi 2008 at Holzer Cardiovascular Institute . Relating the tale of a country doctor the juice out of the cane. Bv JAMES SANDS Frank Rife forced the horse There is an interesting to go backwards, thus story in the March 8, 1932. reversing the machinery. but Gallipolis Daily Tribune: the little boy's arm was "Samuel Rothgeb, 81. died mangled to the elbow. Dr. at his home between Sisson was called from Addison and Cheshire at Porter and he amputated 4: IS Monday afternoon. He Charles' arm on the kitchen had been ill about a week, table. In a few years, Charles suffering from a bronchial · infection, but de11th resulted walked 10 miles every day from a cerebral hemorrhage. to go to and from Ewington With him at the time were Academy. The .Charles · . his daughter, Ella, and a taught school at Turkey Run physician, Dr. C.A. Rife, of for some ·time before going Kyger. Both of them, as off to Starling Medical well as the patient himself, College (now OSU Medical felt that his condition was School) and later to the improving. One of his last University of Cincinnati inquiries was to the fate of College of Surgery. Dr. Rife was not only a the Lindbergh baby. He then ·asked that the curtain be country doctor, but also pushed back that. he might a~ted as his own pharmalook out at the snow-cov- CJst,.ordenng medicmes and ered landscape that he had . fixing up the same.· The known from his babyhood. country doctor, especially A moment later he was one like Dr. Rife, who pracstricken and quickly he ticed in the same place from 1882 to 1933, was a bit of a passed away." Dr. C.A. Rife , himself, psychologist and family was not well as he was in ·. counselor as well. year two of a three-year losWe note that Dr. Rife was ing battle with cancer of the 1 a frequent letter writer to .. mouth . Dr. Rife was an various medical journals. In interesting man, who one piece found on the despite losing ·an arm in an worldwide web · is one accident as a ypung lad, · where he tells the editor that _de livered in his 51 years of he is proud to be a "big fish being a country doctor over in a small pond," r1,1ther than 2,500 babies . · being a "big fish in a big : Charles Augustus Rife pond ." The piece was writ:- was born on Nov. 26, 1858, ten in 1904 and even that :at White Oak to Jonathan many years ago, there was a and Rosetta <\bigail Rowley · big debate as to how long it Rtfe. In 1864, Charles was would be before country helping squeeze sorghum to doctors all .but disappeared. In another letter, Rife make molasses. which dur· . ing the Civil War was used · complains about some of . as a sugar substitute. the superstitious practices Charles was helping his that doctors in Gallia older brother at the cane County were employing. He mi II run by a horse when the told about one Gallia doc knuckle of a cane.caught his who used a "cow dung arm and pulled it into the. poultice" for puncture three rollers that squeezed wounds caused by metal . PageC3 121 ~lnus 123 Sect 124 Pops 127 Insect 129 Monk's tille 131 Nonsense! Submttt.d pholas Darsha Bitanga is seen in action while . completing her Black Belt tes,l. She studies at lhe Martial Arts Center in Middleport pr~sented Airport:":S~tn;~; The 2008 Williams Trophy was to Stan and Doris Ann Harrison during the Washington ~~~i.al general meettng. The Ha~sons are flanked by Marion Blakey, left, and by WATF Chairman David Whitestone, Dis(inguished GARS alumni receive 2008 Williams Trophy . GALLIPOLIS The 2008 Williams Trophy was .presented to Stan and Doris Ann Harrison . during the Washington Airports Task Force's (WATF) annual general meeting in November for "their eminently successful leadership . and · support of the . Washington Airports Task · Force's .e .fforts to: : • Improve the national capital region's air service capability; and : • Support U.S. aviation ·policies that are of funda: mental importance to the economic growth of our region and the nation." The trophy commemorates WATF founder . Carrington Williams and is :awarded annually to recog, nize those whose leader. ship, vision and dedication :in the application ·of aviation or space has enriched the quality of life on earth. · Past recipients include . former U.S. Sen. John :Glenn and Sen. Elizabeth :Dole. ·, Marion Blakey, president lind chief executive officer, Aerospace Industries Assoctation, recognized the · Harrisdn 's achievements for :aviation. · ' As WATF chair, Stan Harrison, with Doris Ann's ~upport and encouragement, "presided over one of the . most challenging periods in :air travel ever.' Blakey ·noted. "I could start ticking :off a Jot of things: the :Potomac TRACON; more ·efficient U.S. CustomsffSA !Jperations at the airports; !he blueprint for the rail :project: the coordination of ·local, state, and the airports ' authority to improve the ISmile loop of roads around :Dulles: and support for the .!lpening of that spectacular new Udvar-Hazy Center. . · "But I think perhaps the : biggest challenge that Stan · faced was the trying times : right after . the attacks of : Sept. II . We all know that Reagan National was the last airport to reopen and the detail s · and tinie table were very much in question : because of its pro"imity to • the Nation's Capital. Stan : and the task force worked . effectively, quietly, but with huge conviction behind the scenes to show to those who ttad · reason to evaluate 'the , risk and to our political : authorities that closure of : the airport did nothing to really help the DC area become more secure and i;afe , and as a result of that process the airport reopened." Blakey added. Mark Lowham , senior :·vice president with We st Group, gave a community president and chief opera- October) 2005, dean emeriperspective on the honorees. tion officer of the BDM tus of the Harry F. Byrd Jr. "Stan and Doris have Corp. They have four chil- School of Business · (dean touched people throughout dren and ten·grand children. from . 1999-2004) at the United States," he said . Doris Ann was born in Shenandoah University . " From Presque Isle and Ohio, attended Ohio Winchester, Va. Jackson Hole, to University and Ohio State Harrison was a member Washington . and University. She was an edu- of the Virginia . State Winchesttr, you begin to cator in the public school Council of Higher see a pattern . Wherever system of Ohio and an. Education from 1980 to Stan and Doris go, wherev- assistant librarian in '1988 and was the chairman er, they 've landed, they ' ve Columbus. She received a from 1986 to 1988. He was made a tremendous difl'er- governor's appointment in a member of the George .enc.e in the community, and Virginia to assist in inter- Mason University Board of thetr efforts on behalf of the preting and furnishing the Visitors from 1992 to 1996, WATF are no exception. executive. mansion; served and rector from 1994 to . " I · am reminded of as a trustee on the board of 1996. He served as chairChurchill's remarks that we Shenandoah University man and president of The make a living by what we where she was chair person Potomac Foundation from get, but we make a life out of the Nominating 1988-1994, a non-profit of what we give; Stan and · Committee: chair person of corporation in Fairfax, Va., Doris have certainly made a the Institutional dedicated to the advance-· life which defies the short Advancement Committee ment of knowledge in scinumber of decades they've on the Board of Governors ence and technology. educabeen with us in Northern of · Wesley . Theological tion, .social development, Virginia," Lowham said. Seminary in Washington , and defense. · Following its annual gen- D.C. and while with the Harrison retired from his eral meeting this afternoon. seminary .visited South executive position as presithe new Board of the Africa · to • study the dent and chief operating Washington Airports Task apartheid issue with Force · elected · David Plowshares Institute: and a officer of the BDM Corp .. a Northerp Virginia-based Whitestone chairman. member of the Woodlawn knowledge company, in the The Washington Airports Plantation Council tn fall of 1988. He is a nationTask Force (WATF) is a Alexandria, Va. . • ally recognized .defense · SOI(c)(3) non-profit, Presently, she is a memVirginia corporation dedi- ber of the finance commit- industry executive and has cated to promoting the tee , Administrative Council, over four decades of e"periexpansion and enhancement and the financial secretary ence in building and managof aviation services for at Wesley United Methodist. ing large organizations. He Virginia and the National Church in Winchester, Va. is a registered professional Capital region. In 2006, she was chosen as engineer in Ohio. He holds a master of sciWhitestone succeeds Stan the distinguished alumnus ence degree in electrical Harrison, a former defense ·of Galli a Academy High . engineering from the industry leader and univer- School in Gallipolis . . sity dean who chaired the Doris Ann's philanthropic University of New Mexico WATF ' for 12 years. interests · include the and a bachelor of science in Harrison remains a member Children's Museum in electrical engineering from of the board. Winchester; Wesley Ohio State University, hon· over . to Theological Seminary in orary doctorate degrees Handing Whitestone, Harrison said: Washington, where she from the Ohio State "David has been an active · supports a student from University and Shenandoah participant in your Task Liberia: the Harry F. Byrd University, honorary profesForce for more than a Jr. School of Business at sorships from two universidecade. He first came to Shenandoah University; and ties in China. · Harrison is active in comknow us when he was the Shenandoah Congressman Frank Wolf's Conservatory of Music munity .affairs. business adviser on transportation . where she established the groups , professional and "After he left Frank, he Doris Ann Powdl Harrison political organizations, and pecame part of the Task chair in ·piano . She gives university boards of direcForce," Harrison added . " regularly to the 4-H pro- tors. He is a member at\d You have elec'ted him on gram in Ohio by supplying Paul Harris Fellow of ·five consecutive occasions facility additions and Rotary International. He to your board. He's been a improvements as well as was a founding member of most active and valuable annual scholarship for pro- the Board of the member of your executive gram participation . Washington Airports :rask committee." Stan Harrison has been Force . serving from 1983 to ~ Stan Harrison graduated president and CEO of the 1993. and served as its rrom Gallia Academy in Winche s ter/Frede rick chairman · from 1996 to 194 7 and Doris Ann Powell County .Chamber of 2008. He is a licensed priin I 95 L They married in Coml)lerce (April to vate pilot. 1953 . . Doris Ann said of Stan after they received the trophy, "he's my hero." ~ Educators from as far awaY. as China and Harrison famtly members from ,the United Kingdom flew in to attend the presentation. · · Doris Ann has been a home maker for 55 years and resides in Winchester, Va. , with her husband, Stanley Harrison, the retired Fall Winter Cothing .50°/o OFF Retiring Vera Bradley ·50°/oOFF 300 Second Ave. Ga!llpolls, OH 446-1998 (' • Seen with he.r Black Belt following her test is Darsha Bitanga. She has also received several awards for her practice of karate and mixed martial arts. · · . Bitanga promoted to black belt .MIDDLEPORT past, but are still c:ffective Darsha L. Bitanga was suc- since the human body was cessful ·in completing her the same then as it is now. . Black . Belt test. and was The Kata verifies that karate awarded the First Degree is a true art form and meets Black Belt. the criteria of art and is simHer daily training routine ilar to poetry, paint!ng and has been a minimum of four • other expressions of creativdays per week and consists · ity, whtch may be more of karate classes and su~­ familiar. porting workouts. Baste Students of Martial Arts self-defense techniques Center in Middleport, where against holds and grabs with Darsha trains, must also immediate · and precise research and study the hiscounter-moves are impor- to!}' and philosophy of the Astan martial arts. At this tant to this training. test ; Mike Couchenour of Other requirements consist of the performance of . Mount Airy, Md., was prothe Karate Kata, which moted to Second De~ree resembles a dance, although Black Belt. Several htghit must be performed with ranking Karate officials power, balance, control and from Washington D.C. comprecision. The Kata is con- prised the board, which was sidered a formal exercise responsible for the belt rank with contains all elements promotions. Masters Anthony Russo, of an actual self-defense sitJames Stargel and Mike uation. traveled to Proper breathing, stance. Weise precision blocking, kicking Middleport for the test. and punching are displayed. Additional board members The opponent is imaginary, . representing southeast Ohio . bu.t in an actual self-defense and West Virginia: Ben encounter, the reaction to an Ne<tse, Conner Newberry, opponent is very much the Bill Prater, Steve Stewart same. Some of the move- and Eric Chambers. 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Rife closed his letter by saying, "I find people have strange beliefs, e~pecially in regard to the scriptures.'' · In 1932, Dr. Holzer and Hollis Johnston (the •latter a native of Kyger) cooked up the scheme to have a &urprise tribute dinner 'for Dr. Rife on the occasion of his · 50th year as the "country doc" in Kyger. Several prominent men of medicine like Dr. Hanson (in his 58th year · In • medicine), Dr. Vornholt and Dr. Holzer spoke as well as Judge Mauck, whom the Gallipolis Daily Tribune slyly recorded, spoke at greater length than anyone else. Interestingly, this surprise dinner came the day after Rife had spent two days with Mr. Rothgeb. ' When Dr. Rife died . on Oct. 29.1933, the GallipOlis Daily Tribune said, "Thousands of people living bel\yeen Cheshire and Vinton . from Campaign up to and beyond the Meigs line, experienced a sense of personal loss when Dr. Rife was compelled to end his career as a practitioner. For more than half a century he had ridden ttte highways and byways, day and night, to administer to the afflicted, no matter how poor they might be or how isolated their home." When Dr. Rife died , he was owed hundreds of dollars from unpaid bills. GALLJPOLIS - The year 2008 was an ellciting time for the Holzer Cardiovascular Institute (HCI) as the facility continued ellpansion of the service$ it offers for residents of the Mid-Ohio Valley. . Dr. Choudhury Rayani , who specializes in cardiac electrophysiology at HCI , said institute physicians began performing the following procedures in '08: electrophysiology studies . (EPS). implantable cardioverter defibrillators (lCD). cardiac resynchfonization therapy (CRT) and ·catheter ablation. Ra~arti said being able to provtde these procedures at HCI is significant because it means local cardiac paiients no longer have to travel elsewhere to receive specialized treatment. "We are bringing in services that were not availal>le ·previously," he said. "People had to go mostly to Columbus or Cleveland. Now we can · do them here:· Rayani performed the first two catheter ablations in HCI history on Dec. 18, 2008. The other procedures were implemented earlier in the year. . Catheter ablation is a procedure designed to eliminate an arrhythmia. a Implantable cardiovertey defibrillators are small gener.11ors that are used to · help regulate the bean's' rhythm. The lCD monitors heart acfi vity and is desig11ed to provide therapy when it detects any type of rhythm disorder. ICDs are implanted in the upper chest and are connected to the heart with small wires called leads. Cardiac resynchroniza ~ tion therapy helps a weakened heart pump more Dr. Chouclll8.y Rayanl blood witll each beat to help more bloOd and oxy' heart rhythm problem that gen get to the rest of the can make the heart beat too body. Increased blood and fast. The problem is . often oxygen ll.o w decreases caused by cells in the heart bean-failure symptpms. that fail to work J?IOperly. . Doctors place either a The catheter ablatton uses biventricular pacemaker or an electrode catheter to . a biventricular implantable locate and destroy the cardioverter defibrillator in problem cells. the patient's chest to help ElectrOphysiology stud- synchronize the right and ies . are performed on left ventricles of the heart. patients Who have been The . Holzer diagnosed with a heart Cardiovascular Institute rhythm problem or who was established in 2002 as have symptoms tha& might a joint venture between suggest . there is a heart Holzer Medical Center and rhythm issue. Doctors uSc: 'Holzer Clinic . It is located one or more electrode on the HMC-Gallipolis catheters to monitor and/or campus at I 00 Jackson stimulate heart rhythms to Pike . determine the problem. · For more information · • EPS is generally the first about HCl , Jog on to the step toward determining website cu www.holzerwhat course , of treatment heart.cdm, or call (740) should follow next. . 446-5002 . SUNDAY PUZZLER 92 ·- -is Born" t JeHy frui1 6 ~ian's La .- opera hOuse 11 ln~el · 16 BartkJtt 20 Talked wildly 21 Nwnety (2 iods.) 22 Sharp ·23 Mechar1cal man 25 Think 26 Rub011 27 Ricochel 28 Western Iridian 29 By way of 30 "The Chronicles of - . 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All classes will be held at New Life Lutheran Church in Spring Valley and will .run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m .. with lunch being provided. "Volunteers must be over the age of 16, in good physical health, and willing to work hard to help their· neighbors," Pa)(ton added. 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On County . Amen can . Red Saturday, Jan 17, volunCross wtll be ~r~vtdtng a leers win 'be learning senes of free trammg class- about openmg and operates for any@e wanting to ing shelters. On Saturday, . volunteer dunng a thsast~r. Jan 24, volunteer s will Thts tmmmg wtll quahfy learn about " Family the parttctpants to help ~ith Services" a~d will learn ,local dtsaste~s such as ftres, how , to wnte cases · and flood s. wmter storms, etc. issue assistance to fire vicThe training . will also pre- tims . · )are volunteers who would "These classes will help . :. ltke to travel across the U:S. you to prepp~ to help peo- . -: to help wtth larger scale dts- pie ·m then' ttme of need," ·- asters . said Ollie Paxton, Red : On Saturday , . Jan 10, .Cf?SS volunteer. "We need · ~ lass es will mc~ud~ tratped V~?lunteers when dis: Fulf!,lhng Our Mtsston asth .s tnkes. Thts ts an and Mass Care-feedmg opportumty to become COMM Sunday, January 4. 2009 New services highlighi 2008 at Holzer Cardiovascular Institute . Relating the tale of a country doctor the juice out of the cane. Bv JAMES SANDS Frank Rife forced the horse There is an interesting to go backwards, thus story in the March 8, 1932. reversing the machinery. but Gallipolis Daily Tribune: the little boy's arm was "Samuel Rothgeb, 81. died mangled to the elbow. Dr. at his home between Sisson was called from Addison and Cheshire at Porter and he amputated 4: IS Monday afternoon. He Charles' arm on the kitchen had been ill about a week, table. In a few years, Charles suffering from a bronchial · infection, but de11th resulted walked 10 miles every day from a cerebral hemorrhage. to go to and from Ewington With him at the time were Academy. The .Charles · . his daughter, Ella, and a taught school at Turkey Run physician, Dr. C.A. Rife, of for some ·time before going Kyger. Both of them, as off to Starling Medical well as the patient himself, College (now OSU Medical felt that his condition was School) and later to the improving. One of his last University of Cincinnati inquiries was to the fate of College of Surgery. Dr. Rife was not only a the Lindbergh baby. He then ·asked that the curtain be country doctor, but also pushed back that. he might a~ted as his own pharmalook out at the snow-cov- CJst,.ordenng medicmes and ered landscape that he had . fixing up the same.· The known from his babyhood. country doctor, especially A moment later he was one like Dr. Rife, who pracstricken and quickly he ticed in the same place from 1882 to 1933, was a bit of a passed away." Dr. C.A. Rife , himself, psychologist and family was not well as he was in ·. counselor as well. year two of a three-year losWe note that Dr. Rife was ing battle with cancer of the 1 a frequent letter writer to .. mouth . Dr. Rife was an various medical journals. In interesting man, who one piece found on the despite losing ·an arm in an worldwide web · is one accident as a ypung lad, · where he tells the editor that _de livered in his 51 years of he is proud to be a "big fish being a country doctor over in a small pond," r1,1ther than 2,500 babies . · being a "big fish in a big : Charles Augustus Rife pond ." The piece was writ:- was born on Nov. 26, 1858, ten in 1904 and even that :at White Oak to Jonathan many years ago, there was a and Rosetta <\bigail Rowley · big debate as to how long it Rtfe. In 1864, Charles was would be before country helping squeeze sorghum to doctors all .but disappeared. In another letter, Rife make molasses. which dur· . ing the Civil War was used · complains about some of . as a sugar substitute. the superstitious practices Charles was helping his that doctors in Gallia older brother at the cane County were employing. He mi II run by a horse when the told about one Gallia doc knuckle of a cane.caught his who used a "cow dung arm and pulled it into the. poultice" for puncture three rollers that squeezed wounds caused by metal . PageC3 121 ~lnus 123 Sect 124 Pops 127 Insect 129 Monk's tille 131 Nonsense! Submttt.d pholas Darsha Bitanga is seen in action while . completing her Black Belt tes,l. She studies at lhe Martial Arts Center in Middleport pr~sented Airport:":S~tn;~; The 2008 Williams Trophy was to Stan and Doris Ann Harrison during the Washington ~~~i.al general meettng. The Ha~sons are flanked by Marion Blakey, left, and by WATF Chairman David Whitestone, Dis(inguished GARS alumni receive 2008 Williams Trophy . GALLIPOLIS The 2008 Williams Trophy was .presented to Stan and Doris Ann Harrison . during the Washington Airports Task Force's (WATF) annual general meeting in November for "their eminently successful leadership . and · support of the . Washington Airports Task · Force's .e .fforts to: : • Improve the national capital region's air service capability; and : • Support U.S. aviation ·policies that are of funda: mental importance to the economic growth of our region and the nation." The trophy commemorates WATF founder . Carrington Williams and is :awarded annually to recog, nize those whose leader. ship, vision and dedication :in the application ·of aviation or space has enriched the quality of life on earth. · Past recipients include . former U.S. Sen. John :Glenn and Sen. Elizabeth :Dole. ·, Marion Blakey, president lind chief executive officer, Aerospace Industries Assoctation, recognized the · Harrisdn 's achievements for :aviation. · ' As WATF chair, Stan Harrison, with Doris Ann's ~upport and encouragement, "presided over one of the . most challenging periods in :air travel ever.' Blakey ·noted. "I could start ticking :off a Jot of things: the :Potomac TRACON; more ·efficient U.S. CustomsffSA !Jperations at the airports; !he blueprint for the rail :project: the coordination of ·local, state, and the airports ' authority to improve the ISmile loop of roads around :Dulles: and support for the .!lpening of that spectacular new Udvar-Hazy Center. . · "But I think perhaps the : biggest challenge that Stan · faced was the trying times : right after . the attacks of : Sept. II . We all know that Reagan National was the last airport to reopen and the detail s · and tinie table were very much in question : because of its pro"imity to • the Nation's Capital. Stan : and the task force worked . effectively, quietly, but with huge conviction behind the scenes to show to those who ttad · reason to evaluate 'the , risk and to our political : authorities that closure of : the airport did nothing to really help the DC area become more secure and i;afe , and as a result of that process the airport reopened." Blakey added. Mark Lowham , senior :·vice president with We st Group, gave a community president and chief opera- October) 2005, dean emeriperspective on the honorees. tion officer of the BDM tus of the Harry F. Byrd Jr. "Stan and Doris have Corp. They have four chil- School of Business · (dean touched people throughout dren and ten·grand children. from . 1999-2004) at the United States," he said . Doris Ann was born in Shenandoah University . " From Presque Isle and Ohio, attended Ohio Winchester, Va. Jackson Hole, to University and Ohio State Harrison was a member Washington . and University. She was an edu- of the Virginia . State Winchesttr, you begin to cator in the public school Council of Higher see a pattern . Wherever system of Ohio and an. Education from 1980 to Stan and Doris go, wherev- assistant librarian in '1988 and was the chairman er, they 've landed, they ' ve Columbus. She received a from 1986 to 1988. He was made a tremendous difl'er- governor's appointment in a member of the George .enc.e in the community, and Virginia to assist in inter- Mason University Board of thetr efforts on behalf of the preting and furnishing the Visitors from 1992 to 1996, WATF are no exception. executive. mansion; served and rector from 1994 to . " I · am reminded of as a trustee on the board of 1996. He served as chairChurchill's remarks that we Shenandoah University man and president of The make a living by what we where she was chair person Potomac Foundation from get, but we make a life out of the Nominating 1988-1994, a non-profit of what we give; Stan and · Committee: chair person of corporation in Fairfax, Va., Doris have certainly made a the Institutional dedicated to the advance-· life which defies the short Advancement Committee ment of knowledge in scinumber of decades they've on the Board of Governors ence and technology. educabeen with us in Northern of · Wesley . Theological tion, .social development, Virginia," Lowham said. Seminary in Washington , and defense. · Following its annual gen- D.C. and while with the Harrison retired from his eral meeting this afternoon. seminary .visited South executive position as presithe new Board of the Africa · to • study the dent and chief operating Washington Airports Task apartheid issue with Force · elected · David Plowshares Institute: and a officer of the BDM Corp .. a Northerp Virginia-based Whitestone chairman. member of the Woodlawn knowledge company, in the The Washington Airports Plantation Council tn fall of 1988. He is a nationTask Force (WATF) is a Alexandria, Va. . • ally recognized .defense · SOI(c)(3) non-profit, Presently, she is a memVirginia corporation dedi- ber of the finance commit- industry executive and has cated to promoting the tee , Administrative Council, over four decades of e"periexpansion and enhancement and the financial secretary ence in building and managof aviation services for at Wesley United Methodist. ing large organizations. He Virginia and the National Church in Winchester, Va. is a registered professional Capital region. In 2006, she was chosen as engineer in Ohio. He holds a master of sciWhitestone succeeds Stan the distinguished alumnus ence degree in electrical Harrison, a former defense ·of Galli a Academy High . engineering from the industry leader and univer- School in Gallipolis . . sity dean who chaired the Doris Ann's philanthropic University of New Mexico WATF ' for 12 years. interests · include the and a bachelor of science in Harrison remains a member Children's Museum in electrical engineering from of the board. Winchester; Wesley Ohio State University, hon· over . to Theological Seminary in orary doctorate degrees Handing Whitestone, Harrison said: Washington, where she from the Ohio State "David has been an active · supports a student from University and Shenandoah participant in your Task Liberia: the Harry F. Byrd University, honorary profesForce for more than a Jr. School of Business at sorships from two universidecade. He first came to Shenandoah University; and ties in China. · Harrison is active in comknow us when he was the Shenandoah Congressman Frank Wolf's Conservatory of Music munity .affairs. business adviser on transportation . where she established the groups , professional and "After he left Frank, he Doris Ann Powdl Harrison political organizations, and pecame part of the Task chair in ·piano . She gives university boards of direcForce," Harrison added . " regularly to the 4-H pro- tors. He is a member at\d You have elec'ted him on gram in Ohio by supplying Paul Harris Fellow of ·five consecutive occasions facility additions and Rotary International. He to your board. He's been a improvements as well as was a founding member of most active and valuable annual scholarship for pro- the Board of the member of your executive gram participation . Washington Airports :rask committee." Stan Harrison has been Force . serving from 1983 to ~ Stan Harrison graduated president and CEO of the 1993. and served as its rrom Gallia Academy in Winche s ter/Frede rick chairman · from 1996 to 194 7 and Doris Ann Powell County .Chamber of 2008. He is a licensed priin I 95 L They married in Coml)lerce (April to vate pilot. 1953 . . Doris Ann said of Stan after they received the trophy, "he's my hero." ~ Educators from as far awaY. as China and Harrison famtly members from ,the United Kingdom flew in to attend the presentation. · · Doris Ann has been a home maker for 55 years and resides in Winchester, Va. , with her husband, Stanley Harrison, the retired Fall Winter Cothing .50°/o OFF Retiring Vera Bradley ·50°/oOFF 300 Second Ave. Ga!llpolls, OH 446-1998 (' • Seen with he.r Black Belt following her test is Darsha Bitanga. She has also received several awards for her practice of karate and mixed martial arts. · · . Bitanga promoted to black belt .MIDDLEPORT past, but are still c:ffective Darsha L. Bitanga was suc- since the human body was cessful ·in completing her the same then as it is now. . Black . Belt test. and was The Kata verifies that karate awarded the First Degree is a true art form and meets Black Belt. the criteria of art and is simHer daily training routine ilar to poetry, paint!ng and has been a minimum of four • other expressions of creativdays per week and consists · ity, whtch may be more of karate classes and su~­ familiar. porting workouts. Baste Students of Martial Arts self-defense techniques Center in Middleport, where against holds and grabs with Darsha trains, must also immediate · and precise research and study the hiscounter-moves are impor- to!}' and philosophy of the Astan martial arts. At this tant to this training. test ; Mike Couchenour of Other requirements consist of the performance of . Mount Airy, Md., was prothe Karate Kata, which moted to Second De~ree resembles a dance, although Black Belt. Several htghit must be performed with ranking Karate officials power, balance, control and from Washington D.C. comprecision. The Kata is con- prised the board, which was sidered a formal exercise responsible for the belt rank with contains all elements promotions. Masters Anthony Russo, of an actual self-defense sitJames Stargel and Mike uation. traveled to Proper breathing, stance. Weise precision blocking, kicking Middleport for the test. and punching are displayed. Additional board members The opponent is imaginary, . representing southeast Ohio . bu.t in an actual self-defense and West Virginia: Ben encounter, the reaction to an Ne<tse, Conner Newberry, opponent is very much the Bill Prater, Steve Stewart same. Some of the move- and Eric Chambers. 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Sraight from the page{ of "Martha Stewart Holiday" and "Family Fun" magazines. they .don't take an inordinate amount 'of time to make. are iriex pensive and will surely relay the message that your thanks are heartfelt . A simple thank' you is best, so your recipient doesn't feel pressured to thank you .back, creating a "cycle of gift giving," according to Corinne Gill, associate editor for holiday and crafts for "Martha Stewart Living." What matters, she says, "are the sentiments of the words~ not the showmanship of the card." Gill recommends enclosing holiday photographs with a thank-you note, especially if the recipient didn't spend the hohdays with you. Two of the crafts below include photos. Another idea · is · using children's artwork. "I love receiving them," says Maggie Neff, a 94year-old grandmother in Kansas City, Mo. "It's like getting a wonderful gift you · can hold ." .'.. ... Jerry and Margaret Powell .Powell anniversary RACINE - A 50th wedding anniversary party honoring Jen-y and Margaret Powell will be held on Saturday, Jan. ·10, 2009 at the 'Ravenswood Church of God, State Route 68 · · North. Ravenswood. W.Va. Special music will be presented in the sanctu~ beginning at 6 p.m . with the party to begm at 7 p.m. 10 the fel· . lowship hall . Mr. and Mrs, Powell were married on Jan. 10, 1959. They have three children. Jim Powell of Reedsville, Juanita Ginther of Racine. and Crystal Baker of Logan; nine grand·children; and one great-grandchild. . . . . Powell retired from Ravenswood Alummum/J'echmey, where he was employed for 3S years. Mr\ Powell worked as a health ai<;le for many years and spent e1ght years work· ing for Rocksprings Rehabilitation Center. Cards may be sent to Mr. and Mrs. Powell at P.O .. Box 706 , Racine , Ohio 4S771. ... · Photo House Card Note: If mailing this card, 1hake sure it will fit into an oversized envelope without folding. Supplies: Heavyweight white paper (such as cardstock) in any SIZe Markers and/or crayons Su plies: 3J:trerent-size white buttons; the smallest must have 4 holes Embroidery floss in red Embroidery floss in green (optional) · . Blank folded note card in festive color . Slightly larger . blank white card (or wh1te card · stock) . Glue gun with glue s_tJck Thin ribbon J/16-mchwidth Ribbon in white or cream Hole punch (preferably '1/8-inch.size) Sewing needle Thimble (optional) Assembly: . . I. Using a thimble llll:d with three strands of floss, Holiday ·thal)k You·. cards are displayed, Monday, .Dec. 22, attach the smallest button · 2008, in Thornton, Colo. Straight from ltle pages of "Martha + the snowman's head Stewart Holiday" and."Family Fun• magazines, these cards to the colored card sloe~ by · don't take an inordinate amount of time to make, are inex- sewing a single stitch pensive and will surely relay the message that your thanks between two button hole~ to create a mouth. If desired, are heartfelt. add ·;yes by sewing French card in festive color (sold, knots into the two remainPhotographs with envelopes, at crafts ing buttonholes, using three Craft glue stores) . 'strands of green floss. Scissors l'hoto of your family pos2. With a hot glue gun, Assembly: ing with arms cocked (as if . secure the button face with I. Have a child draw and a drop of glue on the inside color a house, including a to throw ·a snowball) Glue stick of the card. Glue the window for each family remaining two, incremenmember. (The windows · Crafting glue Small white pom-poms . tally larger buttons below probably need to be 'dr~wn Assembly; · the first one. larger than usual.) . I. Cut the photo to fit the 3. lie a small piece of col2. Cut out images of each family member to fit inside card, leaving a border of at orful ribbon into a knot and each window and glue them least 114 inch around the glue it below the snowinto place. If you have pets, photo. man's head (between the 2. Use a glue stick to glue smallest two buttons); trim they can be placed inside a ends. window or outside- in the the photo to the card. 4. Slide the white, slightly 3. Use crafting glue to yard. . . (Adapted from "Famtly adhere a white pom-pom · larger card inside the frrst Fun" magazine) over each· throwing hand. one. Align, then punch two (Adapted from "Family holes along the folded edge. ••• Fun" magazine) StriRg a ribbon through the ... holes .and tie it to secure, (Adapted from "Martha Supplies: Stewart Holiday" maga. 5 112-by-4 1/4-inch blank zine) 3-D Snowball Card Snowman Button Cards Wealthy tighten their belts, look for bargains · BY ANNE D'INNOCENziO AP RETAIL WRITER NEW YORK - The rich are tightening their belts, too. Even if it's still a Gucci. · Faced with the sharpest decline in net worth in nearly SO years, wealthy Americans are re-evaluating Roger and Edith Manuel their priorities and slashing their spending at a rate unseen .in decades - a move that could have dire consequences for the econoRACINE - Roger and Edith Roush Manuel celebrated my, luxury stores and hightheir 40th wedding anniversary on Nov. 30, 2008. end brands. A surprise party was hosted by their daughters and cel.eIn response to the inc~as­ brated with family and friends. ingly subdued shopping ·. Mr. and Mrs. Manuel were married at the Letart Falls mood that began late last 'Methodist Church on Nov. 30. 1968. He worked at the AEP year. luxury brands are cutpower Plant for 41 years retired on Dec. 3l. His wife is a ting their inventory, chang· homemaker. ing the assortment of prodThe couple has three daughters. Angie (Tim) Fortner of ucts they offer and tweaking Ravenswood, W.Va .. Aimee (Chris) Ebersbach of Madison·, their advertising message. Ohio. and Regina and her fiance, Michael Hill , of Racine . "Fewer, better thing~ ... They have six grandchildren. Brad and Alicia Fortner, suggests diamond jewelry Dalton Cummins. Madelyn Ebersbach and Alden and giant De Beers Group in an ad campaign launched last Laynee Hill. . month. Sure, many of the ultrarich aren't exactly scrimp· ing. Some are still dropping $100,000 on a fur coat or $600 for a pair of sh~s but increasing numbers who were never bargain-hunters are picking through mounds of discounted designer goods to ·save money in an uncertain time. And why not? Deep discounts are making it a great time · to stock up on highend clothes and accessories, whether it's a Chane! suit, a Prada bag or a $1,000 pair • of Christian Louboutin shoes with their bright red soles. But if conspicuous consumption was a hallmark of the luxury days of old, those still shopping 'til they drop are taking a more low-l;ey approach. apparently out of deference to the new breed Matthew Double and Crystal Mace of have nots. · "I keep a stash of brown. paper bags," says Sara Albrecht, owner of Ultimo,, a . Chicago-based designer NEW MARSHFIELD - Crystal Dawn Mace and.Matthew clothing boutique. "No one Jay Double are announcing their engagement and approachmg will ever know." mamage . Albrecht said she used to · The bride-to-be is the dau~hter of Tim A. and Alfreda E. keep just a few bags· on . Mace of New Mm:shfield. ~he is a 2002 graduate of Alexander hand for those who wanted High School. a 2004 graduate of Hocking College and. a 2005 to keep their purchases hidgraduate of Franklin University. den from their husbands. · She i;, employed at the corporate offices of C&E Stores Inc. But now she has a bigger The prospecti ve bridegroom is the son of Timothy J. and pile in response to requests ·Karen S. Double of Southside. W.Va. He is a 2001 graduate of from shoppers who want to . Wesleyan Holiness Academy . and a 200S graduate of the keep their buying secret . Nationnll nstitute of Technology. · from friends and neighbors. He is en1ployed by Tasty Blend Foods. Still, the affluent clients n~e wedding is scheduled for II a.m. on March 21, 2009, at who do come in are buying· the Danville Holiness Church. ' fewer items and choosing ·Manuel anniversary Mace-Double engagement ,, • special pieces that are less change in shoppers' psyche, "They are virtually giving flamboyant, she said. which could linger for a the goods away," she said. Albrecht said her shop has while in what's feared to be Offering such deep dissuffered a 20 percent drop a deep and long recession. counts can cost high-end in sales from a year ago. The cutbacks · by the retailers beyond falling Luxury sales overall wealthy are clearly different profits, risking the cache of dropped 34.S percent in the from the grocery-aisle econ~ · their brands. That happened first week of December · omizing . so many to Saks after . the Sept. 11 frorri the same period a year Amer.i cans have begun attacks, when deep cuts on ago, according to . making. For one, the rich designer. goods hurt the SpendingPulse, a data ser- typically don't trade down ·retailer's tony image. vice provided by to lower-price brands and Retailers may also conMasterCard Advisors, and stores, luxury experts say. front problems trying to were down 23 percent in the Instead of · six pairs · of raise prices once the econofive weeks ending Dec. 6. Manolo Blahnik shoes at my improves as consumers Such behavior differs dra- $700 each, they will buy accustomed to deep dis" matically from even just a two - not browse the shoe counts balk at buying items year ago, when luxury department ·a t J .C. Penney at regular prices. . stores couldn't keep up with or shop at Nine West. . "It is hard for us to tell the wealthy's appetite . for It may be hard to sympa- what the true mindset of the extravagance. . A-listers thize with suc.h trade-offs customer is at this point," wanted $5,0;;0 · ~bags, given the sudden erosion of said Ginger Reed,-a spokesnoN~e $500 ve ·ions they jobs in nearly every sector woman at Neiman Marcus, and people's uncertainty where profit dropped 85 perboug.. i~e t. ( th mancial melt- about putting food on the cent in ·the quarter endf4 do n s deflated the table or paying the mortgage. Nov. I. "We 'do know she is that reigned for dem But millionaires saying still shopping - both regumuch of this decade, result- no to that third pair of highlar~price · items. and sale ing in plummeting sales for priced heels· is worrisome items - but not m the quan" many luxury purveyors. for us all, say economists, tity she has in the past." . That has forced high-end because it deepens the Heidi Dillon, a 55-yearstores like Saks Fifth trough consulper spending ·oJd philanthropist from Avenue and Neiman has fallen into. Michael P. Marcus to offer discounts of Niemira, chief econ.omist at Dallas, rarely bought on sale before, but believes that up to 70 rercent before the the International Council of the economic meltdown has traditiona start of the holi- Shopping Centers. says the "altered her permanently da~ shopping season economy depends on spend- . akm to their downscale ing by the wealthy because spending hab~ts." "You don't need to buy as competitors. of their dominance in dismuch· as you did," she said . Th!f aspirational luxury cretionary purchases, from "I don't need to buy a bunch shoppers, those whose aver- boats to furs. age annual salary is about . But such over-the;top of new clothes every year.". Still, the few purchases $1SO,OOO, began cutting spending isn't prudent anythat she made this season back a year ago, according more . Americans' wealth a Michael Kors fur, marked to Milton Pedraza, chief fell4.7 percent to $56.5 trilexecutive of the Luxury lion in the ,third quarter down from $13 ,000 to Institute, a research firm . from the second, the biggest $6,500 at Neiman Marcus, That spiraled up the · eco- decline since the second and a $1,200 pair of shoes at nomic scale after the econo- quarter of 1962, according Barneys New York that was my "iOrsened. ·ro Scott Hoyt, senior direc- slashed to $600 - cost Single-digit millionaires tor of consumer economics more than the estimated $6,000 the government says began pulling back sharplY. at Moody's Economy.com. the average household typistarting in March, when 'Meanwhile, investment cally spends on food for the Bear Stearns nearly col- bankers who once could lapsed and was bought by . depend on $3 million annu - year. And Dillon is still on the JP Morgan in . a fire sale, al compensatimi to finance Pedraza said. • their spending are facing prowl for better bargains. And the ultra-wealthy shrinking bonuses, long- After spotting a $4,800 Jil with a net worth above $10 term unemployment or Sander leather jacket marked million - who make up worthless · company stock, 50 percent off at her local about 60 percent of sales where they may. have had Neiman Marcus, she e- mailed a salespeTSQn l\) ask and 20 percent of top luxury most of their·net worth. stores' customer base In the last weekend before when the next markdown started cutting back in Christmas, F.aith Hope would be. After finding out September, when the finan· Consolo, chairman of real that the jacket .will be discia! crisis ballooned, estate further, she fi~m Prudential -counted Pedraza said. Douglas Elliman's retail promised she would be back. "This is no longer a ·state leasing sales division, noted "At this point, we are· not of mind. or what feels · that luxury stores stepped up looking for markdowns," right," said luxury consul- price cuts even more: On she said. "We are looking .tant Robert Burke. "This is New York's chic Madison for steals." · a reality of where people's Avenue, discounts at luxury bank accounts and invest- boutiques ranged from 70 Associated Press Writer ment portfolios are." percent to 80 percent off; at D'oug . Whiteman in · But he and others are also Saks Fifth Avenue, discounts ColumbJ,ts, Ohio, contaking note of a fundamental were up to 90 percent. tributed to this report. ~.rr/ ... • ON THE BOOKSHELF PageCs Sunday, JanuarY 4, 2009 (Hour I First·Believed' has Journalist, activist . William Blizzard dies at 92 an ~mazing Grace' RIPLEY. W.Va. (AP) · Wally- Lamb 's two previWilliam C. Blizzard, a rna. ous novels, She's Come journalist and . historian 1 find Lamb's . writing Undone and I Know This style engaging and who was a living link to Much is True, were both easy. His Caelum · isn't a West Virginia's turbulent selections for Oprah's · labor history, has died. He hero, just a regular guy was 92. Book Club. It has been 10 trying to make some sense · years since fie has pubHis publisher, Wess Beverly of a life which doesn't lished a novel. The latest Harris, said Blizzard died Gettles seem to make much Dec : -29 at Jackson one, The Hour I First sense. When be asks one General Hospital in Ripley Believed, has an of his students in English · after a sudden .illness. "Amazing Grace" about it. It is long , over 700 class to sum up what he's "I saw bim Sunday at pages. learned , he says, "Life is about 2 p .m.,'and he gave just plain messy, violent, confusing me hell for not bringing The narrator is Caelum chotic, Quirk, a high school angry? Who · can predict !IDd hopeful." One review- him some· books to read," English teacher from who and · why some will er says that fiction can Harris said. " I think his cause su~h horrible grief? body basically just shut Coimeclicut. now living As far as the Quirks are deepen our understanding down .n Littleton, Colo. His third of trauma. "It can expand A journalist, labor wife had an affair. and concerned, the shootings our capacity for empathy activist and writer. Caelum went after the guy are only the beginning (lf a and provide · Blizzard came about his with a wrench. He is try- downward spiral. Maureen consolation. It's highest interests through his fami is emotionally scarred by ing to hold . this marriage His father, Bill together. Both he and his her experience. She has achievement is to compli· ly. Blizzard, was a leader o( wife, Maureen. a part-time "survivor's guilt," thinking cate, not simplify." she should have been Some folks tell me they the famous " Red Neck school nurse. work at of the stukilled instead don't care for Army" of striking miners Columbine High School, dents. She becomes fiction. Personall)', I love that clashed with authoriso you can probably guess addicted to Xanax. The it. I think I have learned ties at the Battle of Blair where this is going. couple moves back East .to more about the human Mountain iri 1921, a strugCaelum is called back to the family farm; thinking a Connecticut, where an aunt change of scene will help condition from fiction gle ultimately involving than J do from facts . That federal troops and a squad . who raised him is graveiy · her heal. of Army biplane s dis: ill. While he is gone, the There is a back story of old literary lion, Norman patched on President Columbine sh()()tings hap- Caelum's ancesto~s. espe- Mailer, once said, "A nov pen. Maureen was in the cially the women, who elist tells ·a lie to tell the Warren G . Harding's library when the mayhem worked for women's rights truth, whereas· a jounralist order. began, and she crawled and justice for imprisoned tells the truth to tell a into a cabinet to save her- women. They founded a lie ." Gre11t · fiction takes self. women's prison which was you into a character's , There is an extensive built in the middle of their head, into his motivation section citing the diaries farm. I wori't tell you how and his thoughts the way . of Harris and Klebold, Mauree~;~ ends up in that nonfiction never can. which afford some insight prison. Long live Wally Lamb, into the source of their There's a lot in this who conducts a writing anger and plans to kill book. Caelum's father was at York both those they hate for a worthless drunk . His workshop ridiculing them, as well as mother was not who he . Correctional Institution. a the jocks and the "in" thought she was. We hear women's prison near his kids. The scenes featuring .about. Hurricane Katrine, home in Connecticut. He the · students and parents the Iraq War, drug adtlic· gets his inspiration from are heartbreaking - all tion, prison reform, trou- "real people" and perfects over again. Were these bled marriages. mother- it for our pleasure and young men deranged, psy- hood. psychological trau- understanding . . Gallla • 44&2342 in ~ The elder Blizzard was tried along with other miners for treason in· Cbarles Town , but all were acquitted. He continued leading union organizing drives in the coalfields until his retirement in 195S. The younger Blizzard graduated from West Virginia University in 1939 and served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1948 . After his army service. he attended journalism sc hool at Columbia University and began contributing to publications like The Nation · and Labor's Daily. A series of articles he wrote in the 1950s formed the basis for When Miners March , a history of the origins and growth of the United Mine Workers and labor struggles publishe'd by Appalachian Community Services Press in 2004. The book ·is scheduled for a second printing .in 2009. . "Bill Blizzard wrote the definitive story about the strugg les of coal miners in sou thern West Virginia to win justice for themselves and their families through the UMWA." said Cecil Robert s, president of the United Mine Workers. " He wasn ' t just a bystander. he was there." Blizzard worked as a photographfr and features writer for the Charleston Gazette for 12 years . Harris remembered him as a graceful man who was equally at home translat· ing Latin as he was talkin g with union organizers. " He absolutely didn 't have patience with medi ocrity," Harris said. ·'It's fair to say Bill wouldn't accept anything but the top drawer." A memorial gathering was scheduled Saturday at 10 a.m . at the Cultura~ Center on the grounds uf the State Capitol. After the ceremony. Blizzard was to be buried · in . South · Charleston . alongside -his father. Keepil)g . .Gallia, Meigs. &Mason. ·informed Your Choice Suiulay . TUnes-Sentinel "·' :Meig$ • 992·21S5 . ·. Maspn • 675'1333 Anger, sadness over :fabricated Holoca~st story BY Ht'LLEL ITALIE greater fantasies. Misha Defonseca, author Of "Misha; A Memoire of the NEW YORK - It's the Holocaust Years," prelatest story that touched, tended she was a Jewis.h and betraved, the world. · . girl who lived with wolves ·"Herman Rosenblat and during the war, when she his wife are the most gen·- was actually a non· Jew tie., loving, beautiful peo- who lived, without pie," literary agent Andrea wolves, in Belgium: · Hurst said Sunday, · Historical records prove l!nguishing over why she, Rosenblat was indeed at and so many others, were Buchenwald and other taken by Rosenblat's story camps. · · of love born on opposite "How sad that he felt he sides of a barbed-wire had to embellish a life of fence at a concentration surviving the Holocaust camp. and of being married for · "l question why I never half a century;" said ·q uestioned it. I believed it; . Holocaust scholar Michael it was an incredible, hope- Berenbaum. filled story." The damage is broad. On Saturday, Berkley Publishing, the most trustBooks canceled ing of industries, has again Rosenblat's memoir, been burned by a memoir "Angel at the Fence ," after that fact-checking might he acknowledged that he have ·prevented. Berkley is and his wife ·did not .m'eet, an imprint of Penguin as they had said for years, Oroup (USA), which in at a . sub-camp of March pulled Margaret B. Buchenwald, where she Jones' "Love and allegedly sneaked him Consequences" after the . apples and bread. The author acknowledged she book was supposed to had invented her story of come out in February. gang life in Los Angele.s. Rosenblat , 79, has been Winfrey fell, as· she dtd . married to the former with James Frey, for a narRoma Radzicky for SO · rative of suffering and years, s!nce meet_ing her redemption better suit~d on a bhnd date m New for televtswn than for hiS. York . In a statement tory. issued Saturday through · "If I ever take on .anoth·his agent, he ~escribed er memoir, they ' re going himself as an advocate of to have to prove. everylave and · tolerance who thing, every line," Hurst falsified his past to better says. "Fro.m now on. I may spread his message. just stick to basic fiction "I wanted to bring hap· and nonfiction." · piness to people," ' said The damage is deep. Rosenblat, who now h ves Scholars and fellow surin the Miami area . "I vivors fear • that . brought hope to a lot. of Rosenblat's fabrications people . My mot1vat1on will · only encourage was to make good in this doubts about the world ." Holocaljst. Rosenblat's believers · "I am very worried included not only his because many of us speak a11ent and his publisher, to thousands of students b11t Oprah Winfrey. ~ilm each year," says Sidney producers, JOurnalists, Finkel , a longtime friend family . members, school of Rosenblat's and a felchildren and strangers low survivor. "We _go online who ignored, or before audiences . We tell dido 't know about, the them a storY' and now warnings from scholar.s some people ·will question and skeptics that his story what I experienced." didn ' t make sense. · "This was not Holocaust Other Holocaust mem- education but miseducaoirists . hM>e devised tion," Ken Waltzer, direcAP NATIONAL WRITER tor of Jewish Studies at Michigan State University, said in a state· ment. · "Holocaust experience is not heartwarming, it is heart rending. All this shows something about the broad unwillingness in our culture to confront the difficult knowledge of the Holocaust," Waltzer said. "All the · more important then to have real memoirs that tell of real experience · in the cainps ." Among the fooled , at least the partially fooled, was Berenbaum, former direcior of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Memorial Hol(lcaust Museum in Washington. Berenbaum had been asked to read . the manU· script ' by film . producer Harris Salomon, who still plans an adaptation of the b.o ok. . Berenbaum's tentative support - "Crazier things have happened," he told The Associated Press last fall . J. ~as cited by the · publisher as it initially defended the bo'o k. Berenbaum now says he saw factual errors , including Rosenblat's description of Theresienstadt, the camp from which he was eventually liberated, but didn't think of challenging the love story. "There's a limit to what I can verify, because I was not there ," he says. "I can verify the general historical narrative, but in my research I rely upon the survivors to present the specifics of their existence with integrity. When they d'on't, they destroy so mucli and they ruin .so much. and that's terrible ." "I was burned ," he added. "And· I have to read books. more skeptically because I was burned." • 81 • am1 Coming Soon To Oallla, ~elgs & ~ason Counties We need your Inspirational Stories! Submit Your Stories Tcr . . Matt Rodgers mrodgers@ mydajl ytribune.com or mail to · Ghllipolis Daily Tribune · Attn: ·Matt Rodgers · P.O. Box 469 Gallipolis, OH 45631 And l'our Story ~light Be Included In ThiS faith Based Magazine . . . ' �• • PageC4 CELEBRATIONS iunba!J lim" -ienttntl iunbap lim~ ·itntintl Sunday, January .t, 2009 Homemade thank you cards are a nice_~o~ch • • BY JENNIFER FORKER FOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . ' 1 . If after the holidays you have someone rou'd like to thank in a spectal way, here are three card-making ideas. Sraight from the page{ of "Martha Stewart Holiday" and "Family Fun" magazines. they .don't take an inordinate amount 'of time to make. are iriex pensive and will surely relay the message that your thanks are heartfelt . A simple thank' you is best, so your recipient doesn't feel pressured to thank you .back, creating a "cycle of gift giving," according to Corinne Gill, associate editor for holiday and crafts for "Martha Stewart Living." What matters, she says, "are the sentiments of the words~ not the showmanship of the card." Gill recommends enclosing holiday photographs with a thank-you note, especially if the recipient didn't spend the hohdays with you. Two of the crafts below include photos. Another idea · is · using children's artwork. "I love receiving them," says Maggie Neff, a 94year-old grandmother in Kansas City, Mo. "It's like getting a wonderful gift you · can hold ." .'.. ... Jerry and Margaret Powell .Powell anniversary RACINE - A 50th wedding anniversary party honoring Jen-y and Margaret Powell will be held on Saturday, Jan. ·10, 2009 at the 'Ravenswood Church of God, State Route 68 · · North. Ravenswood. W.Va. Special music will be presented in the sanctu~ beginning at 6 p.m . with the party to begm at 7 p.m. 10 the fel· . lowship hall . Mr. and Mrs, Powell were married on Jan. 10, 1959. They have three children. Jim Powell of Reedsville, Juanita Ginther of Racine. and Crystal Baker of Logan; nine grand·children; and one great-grandchild. . . . . Powell retired from Ravenswood Alummum/J'echmey, where he was employed for 3S years. Mr\ Powell worked as a health ai<;le for many years and spent e1ght years work· ing for Rocksprings Rehabilitation Center. Cards may be sent to Mr. and Mrs. Powell at P.O .. Box 706 , Racine , Ohio 4S771. ... · Photo House Card Note: If mailing this card, 1hake sure it will fit into an oversized envelope without folding. Supplies: Heavyweight white paper (such as cardstock) in any SIZe Markers and/or crayons Su plies: 3J:trerent-size white buttons; the smallest must have 4 holes Embroidery floss in red Embroidery floss in green (optional) · . Blank folded note card in festive color . Slightly larger . blank white card (or wh1te card · stock) . Glue gun with glue s_tJck Thin ribbon J/16-mchwidth Ribbon in white or cream Hole punch (preferably '1/8-inch.size) Sewing needle Thimble (optional) Assembly: . . I. Using a thimble llll:d with three strands of floss, Holiday ·thal)k You·. cards are displayed, Monday, .Dec. 22, attach the smallest button · 2008, in Thornton, Colo. Straight from ltle pages of "Martha + the snowman's head Stewart Holiday" and."Family Fun• magazines, these cards to the colored card sloe~ by · don't take an inordinate amount of time to make, are inex- sewing a single stitch pensive and will surely relay the message that your thanks between two button hole~ to create a mouth. If desired, are heartfelt. add ·;yes by sewing French card in festive color (sold, knots into the two remainPhotographs with envelopes, at crafts ing buttonholes, using three Craft glue stores) . 'strands of green floss. Scissors l'hoto of your family pos2. With a hot glue gun, Assembly: ing with arms cocked (as if . secure the button face with I. Have a child draw and a drop of glue on the inside color a house, including a to throw ·a snowball) Glue stick of the card. Glue the window for each family remaining two, incremenmember. (The windows · Crafting glue Small white pom-poms . tally larger buttons below probably need to be 'dr~wn Assembly; · the first one. larger than usual.) . I. Cut the photo to fit the 3. lie a small piece of col2. Cut out images of each family member to fit inside card, leaving a border of at orful ribbon into a knot and each window and glue them least 114 inch around the glue it below the snowinto place. If you have pets, photo. man's head (between the 2. Use a glue stick to glue smallest two buttons); trim they can be placed inside a ends. window or outside- in the the photo to the card. 4. Slide the white, slightly 3. Use crafting glue to yard. . . (Adapted from "Famtly adhere a white pom-pom · larger card inside the frrst Fun" magazine) over each· throwing hand. one. Align, then punch two (Adapted from "Family holes along the folded edge. ••• Fun" magazine) StriRg a ribbon through the ... holes .and tie it to secure, (Adapted from "Martha Supplies: Stewart Holiday" maga. 5 112-by-4 1/4-inch blank zine) 3-D Snowball Card Snowman Button Cards Wealthy tighten their belts, look for bargains · BY ANNE D'INNOCENziO AP RETAIL WRITER NEW YORK - The rich are tightening their belts, too. Even if it's still a Gucci. · Faced with the sharpest decline in net worth in nearly SO years, wealthy Americans are re-evaluating Roger and Edith Manuel their priorities and slashing their spending at a rate unseen .in decades - a move that could have dire consequences for the econoRACINE - Roger and Edith Roush Manuel celebrated my, luxury stores and hightheir 40th wedding anniversary on Nov. 30, 2008. end brands. A surprise party was hosted by their daughters and cel.eIn response to the inc~as­ brated with family and friends. ingly subdued shopping ·. Mr. and Mrs. Manuel were married at the Letart Falls mood that began late last 'Methodist Church on Nov. 30. 1968. He worked at the AEP year. luxury brands are cutpower Plant for 41 years retired on Dec. 3l. His wife is a ting their inventory, chang· homemaker. ing the assortment of prodThe couple has three daughters. Angie (Tim) Fortner of ucts they offer and tweaking Ravenswood, W.Va .. Aimee (Chris) Ebersbach of Madison·, their advertising message. Ohio. and Regina and her fiance, Michael Hill , of Racine . "Fewer, better thing~ ... They have six grandchildren. Brad and Alicia Fortner, suggests diamond jewelry Dalton Cummins. Madelyn Ebersbach and Alden and giant De Beers Group in an ad campaign launched last Laynee Hill. . month. Sure, many of the ultrarich aren't exactly scrimp· ing. Some are still dropping $100,000 on a fur coat or $600 for a pair of sh~s but increasing numbers who were never bargain-hunters are picking through mounds of discounted designer goods to ·save money in an uncertain time. And why not? Deep discounts are making it a great time · to stock up on highend clothes and accessories, whether it's a Chane! suit, a Prada bag or a $1,000 pair • of Christian Louboutin shoes with their bright red soles. But if conspicuous consumption was a hallmark of the luxury days of old, those still shopping 'til they drop are taking a more low-l;ey approach. apparently out of deference to the new breed Matthew Double and Crystal Mace of have nots. · "I keep a stash of brown. paper bags," says Sara Albrecht, owner of Ultimo,, a . Chicago-based designer NEW MARSHFIELD - Crystal Dawn Mace and.Matthew clothing boutique. "No one Jay Double are announcing their engagement and approachmg will ever know." mamage . Albrecht said she used to · The bride-to-be is the dau~hter of Tim A. and Alfreda E. keep just a few bags· on . Mace of New Mm:shfield. ~he is a 2002 graduate of Alexander hand for those who wanted High School. a 2004 graduate of Hocking College and. a 2005 to keep their purchases hidgraduate of Franklin University. den from their husbands. · She i;, employed at the corporate offices of C&E Stores Inc. But now she has a bigger The prospecti ve bridegroom is the son of Timothy J. and pile in response to requests ·Karen S. Double of Southside. W.Va. He is a 2001 graduate of from shoppers who want to . Wesleyan Holiness Academy . and a 200S graduate of the keep their buying secret . Nationnll nstitute of Technology. · from friends and neighbors. He is en1ployed by Tasty Blend Foods. Still, the affluent clients n~e wedding is scheduled for II a.m. on March 21, 2009, at who do come in are buying· the Danville Holiness Church. ' fewer items and choosing ·Manuel anniversary Mace-Double engagement ,, • special pieces that are less change in shoppers' psyche, "They are virtually giving flamboyant, she said. which could linger for a the goods away," she said. Albrecht said her shop has while in what's feared to be Offering such deep dissuffered a 20 percent drop a deep and long recession. counts can cost high-end in sales from a year ago. The cutbacks · by the retailers beyond falling Luxury sales overall wealthy are clearly different profits, risking the cache of dropped 34.S percent in the from the grocery-aisle econ~ · their brands. That happened first week of December · omizing . so many to Saks after . the Sept. 11 frorri the same period a year Amer.i cans have begun attacks, when deep cuts on ago, according to . making. For one, the rich designer. goods hurt the SpendingPulse, a data ser- typically don't trade down ·retailer's tony image. vice provided by to lower-price brands and Retailers may also conMasterCard Advisors, and stores, luxury experts say. front problems trying to were down 23 percent in the Instead of · six pairs · of raise prices once the econofive weeks ending Dec. 6. Manolo Blahnik shoes at my improves as consumers Such behavior differs dra- $700 each, they will buy accustomed to deep dis" matically from even just a two - not browse the shoe counts balk at buying items year ago, when luxury department ·a t J .C. Penney at regular prices. . stores couldn't keep up with or shop at Nine West. . "It is hard for us to tell the wealthy's appetite . for It may be hard to sympa- what the true mindset of the extravagance. . A-listers thize with suc.h trade-offs customer is at this point," wanted $5,0;;0 · ~bags, given the sudden erosion of said Ginger Reed,-a spokesnoN~e $500 ve ·ions they jobs in nearly every sector woman at Neiman Marcus, and people's uncertainty where profit dropped 85 perboug.. i~e t. ( th mancial melt- about putting food on the cent in ·the quarter endf4 do n s deflated the table or paying the mortgage. Nov. I. "We 'do know she is that reigned for dem But millionaires saying still shopping - both regumuch of this decade, result- no to that third pair of highlar~price · items. and sale ing in plummeting sales for priced heels· is worrisome items - but not m the quan" many luxury purveyors. for us all, say economists, tity she has in the past." . That has forced high-end because it deepens the Heidi Dillon, a 55-yearstores like Saks Fifth trough consulper spending ·oJd philanthropist from Avenue and Neiman has fallen into. Michael P. Marcus to offer discounts of Niemira, chief econ.omist at Dallas, rarely bought on sale before, but believes that up to 70 rercent before the the International Council of the economic meltdown has traditiona start of the holi- Shopping Centers. says the "altered her permanently da~ shopping season economy depends on spend- . akm to their downscale ing by the wealthy because spending hab~ts." "You don't need to buy as competitors. of their dominance in dismuch· as you did," she said . Th!f aspirational luxury cretionary purchases, from "I don't need to buy a bunch shoppers, those whose aver- boats to furs. age annual salary is about . But such over-the;top of new clothes every year.". Still, the few purchases $1SO,OOO, began cutting spending isn't prudent anythat she made this season back a year ago, according more . Americans' wealth a Michael Kors fur, marked to Milton Pedraza, chief fell4.7 percent to $56.5 trilexecutive of the Luxury lion in the ,third quarter down from $13 ,000 to Institute, a research firm . from the second, the biggest $6,500 at Neiman Marcus, That spiraled up the · eco- decline since the second and a $1,200 pair of shoes at nomic scale after the econo- quarter of 1962, according Barneys New York that was my "iOrsened. ·ro Scott Hoyt, senior direc- slashed to $600 - cost Single-digit millionaires tor of consumer economics more than the estimated $6,000 the government says began pulling back sharplY. at Moody's Economy.com. the average household typistarting in March, when 'Meanwhile, investment cally spends on food for the Bear Stearns nearly col- bankers who once could lapsed and was bought by . depend on $3 million annu - year. And Dillon is still on the JP Morgan in . a fire sale, al compensatimi to finance Pedraza said. • their spending are facing prowl for better bargains. And the ultra-wealthy shrinking bonuses, long- After spotting a $4,800 Jil with a net worth above $10 term unemployment or Sander leather jacket marked million - who make up worthless · company stock, 50 percent off at her local about 60 percent of sales where they may. have had Neiman Marcus, she e- mailed a salespeTSQn l\) ask and 20 percent of top luxury most of their·net worth. stores' customer base In the last weekend before when the next markdown started cutting back in Christmas, F.aith Hope would be. After finding out September, when the finan· Consolo, chairman of real that the jacket .will be discia! crisis ballooned, estate further, she fi~m Prudential -counted Pedraza said. Douglas Elliman's retail promised she would be back. "This is no longer a ·state leasing sales division, noted "At this point, we are· not of mind. or what feels · that luxury stores stepped up looking for markdowns," right," said luxury consul- price cuts even more: On she said. "We are looking .tant Robert Burke. "This is New York's chic Madison for steals." · a reality of where people's Avenue, discounts at luxury bank accounts and invest- boutiques ranged from 70 Associated Press Writer ment portfolios are." percent to 80 percent off; at D'oug . Whiteman in · But he and others are also Saks Fifth Avenue, discounts ColumbJ,ts, Ohio, contaking note of a fundamental were up to 90 percent. tributed to this report. ~.rr/ ... • ON THE BOOKSHELF PageCs Sunday, JanuarY 4, 2009 (Hour I First·Believed' has Journalist, activist . William Blizzard dies at 92 an ~mazing Grace' RIPLEY. W.Va. (AP) · Wally- Lamb 's two previWilliam C. Blizzard, a rna. ous novels, She's Come journalist and . historian 1 find Lamb's . writing Undone and I Know This style engaging and who was a living link to Much is True, were both easy. His Caelum · isn't a West Virginia's turbulent selections for Oprah's · labor history, has died. He hero, just a regular guy was 92. Book Club. It has been 10 trying to make some sense · years since fie has pubHis publisher, Wess Beverly of a life which doesn't lished a novel. The latest Harris, said Blizzard died Gettles seem to make much Dec : -29 at Jackson one, The Hour I First sense. When be asks one General Hospital in Ripley Believed, has an of his students in English · after a sudden .illness. "Amazing Grace" about it. It is long , over 700 class to sum up what he's "I saw bim Sunday at pages. learned , he says, "Life is about 2 p .m.,'and he gave just plain messy, violent, confusing me hell for not bringing The narrator is Caelum chotic, Quirk, a high school angry? Who · can predict !IDd hopeful." One review- him some· books to read," English teacher from who and · why some will er says that fiction can Harris said. " I think his cause su~h horrible grief? body basically just shut Coimeclicut. now living As far as the Quirks are deepen our understanding down .n Littleton, Colo. His third of trauma. "It can expand A journalist, labor wife had an affair. and concerned, the shootings our capacity for empathy activist and writer. Caelum went after the guy are only the beginning (lf a and provide · Blizzard came about his with a wrench. He is try- downward spiral. Maureen consolation. It's highest interests through his fami is emotionally scarred by ing to hold . this marriage His father, Bill together. Both he and his her experience. She has achievement is to compli· ly. Blizzard, was a leader o( wife, Maureen. a part-time "survivor's guilt," thinking cate, not simplify." she should have been Some folks tell me they the famous " Red Neck school nurse. work at of the stukilled instead don't care for Army" of striking miners Columbine High School, dents. She becomes fiction. Personall)', I love that clashed with authoriso you can probably guess addicted to Xanax. The it. I think I have learned ties at the Battle of Blair where this is going. couple moves back East .to more about the human Mountain iri 1921, a strugCaelum is called back to the family farm; thinking a Connecticut, where an aunt change of scene will help condition from fiction gle ultimately involving than J do from facts . That federal troops and a squad . who raised him is graveiy · her heal. of Army biplane s dis: ill. While he is gone, the There is a back story of old literary lion, Norman patched on President Columbine sh()()tings hap- Caelum's ancesto~s. espe- Mailer, once said, "A nov pen. Maureen was in the cially the women, who elist tells ·a lie to tell the Warren G . Harding's library when the mayhem worked for women's rights truth, whereas· a jounralist order. began, and she crawled and justice for imprisoned tells the truth to tell a into a cabinet to save her- women. They founded a lie ." Gre11t · fiction takes self. women's prison which was you into a character's , There is an extensive built in the middle of their head, into his motivation section citing the diaries farm. I wori't tell you how and his thoughts the way . of Harris and Klebold, Mauree~;~ ends up in that nonfiction never can. which afford some insight prison. Long live Wally Lamb, into the source of their There's a lot in this who conducts a writing anger and plans to kill book. Caelum's father was at York both those they hate for a worthless drunk . His workshop ridiculing them, as well as mother was not who he . Correctional Institution. a the jocks and the "in" thought she was. We hear women's prison near his kids. The scenes featuring .about. Hurricane Katrine, home in Connecticut. He the · students and parents the Iraq War, drug adtlic· gets his inspiration from are heartbreaking - all tion, prison reform, trou- "real people" and perfects over again. Were these bled marriages. mother- it for our pleasure and young men deranged, psy- hood. psychological trau- understanding . . Gallla • 44&2342 in ~ The elder Blizzard was tried along with other miners for treason in· Cbarles Town , but all were acquitted. He continued leading union organizing drives in the coalfields until his retirement in 195S. The younger Blizzard graduated from West Virginia University in 1939 and served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1948 . After his army service. he attended journalism sc hool at Columbia University and began contributing to publications like The Nation · and Labor's Daily. A series of articles he wrote in the 1950s formed the basis for When Miners March , a history of the origins and growth of the United Mine Workers and labor struggles publishe'd by Appalachian Community Services Press in 2004. The book ·is scheduled for a second printing .in 2009. . "Bill Blizzard wrote the definitive story about the strugg les of coal miners in sou thern West Virginia to win justice for themselves and their families through the UMWA." said Cecil Robert s, president of the United Mine Workers. " He wasn ' t just a bystander. he was there." Blizzard worked as a photographfr and features writer for the Charleston Gazette for 12 years . Harris remembered him as a graceful man who was equally at home translat· ing Latin as he was talkin g with union organizers. " He absolutely didn 't have patience with medi ocrity," Harris said. ·'It's fair to say Bill wouldn't accept anything but the top drawer." A memorial gathering was scheduled Saturday at 10 a.m . at the Cultura~ Center on the grounds uf the State Capitol. After the ceremony. Blizzard was to be buried · in . South · Charleston . alongside -his father. Keepil)g . .Gallia, Meigs. &Mason. ·informed Your Choice Suiulay . TUnes-Sentinel "·' :Meig$ • 992·21S5 . ·. Maspn • 675'1333 Anger, sadness over :fabricated Holoca~st story BY Ht'LLEL ITALIE greater fantasies. Misha Defonseca, author Of "Misha; A Memoire of the NEW YORK - It's the Holocaust Years," prelatest story that touched, tended she was a Jewis.h and betraved, the world. · . girl who lived with wolves ·"Herman Rosenblat and during the war, when she his wife are the most gen·- was actually a non· Jew tie., loving, beautiful peo- who lived, without pie," literary agent Andrea wolves, in Belgium: · Hurst said Sunday, · Historical records prove l!nguishing over why she, Rosenblat was indeed at and so many others, were Buchenwald and other taken by Rosenblat's story camps. · · of love born on opposite "How sad that he felt he sides of a barbed-wire had to embellish a life of fence at a concentration surviving the Holocaust camp. and of being married for · "l question why I never half a century;" said ·q uestioned it. I believed it; . Holocaust scholar Michael it was an incredible, hope- Berenbaum. filled story." The damage is broad. On Saturday, Berkley Publishing, the most trustBooks canceled ing of industries, has again Rosenblat's memoir, been burned by a memoir "Angel at the Fence ," after that fact-checking might he acknowledged that he have ·prevented. Berkley is and his wife ·did not .m'eet, an imprint of Penguin as they had said for years, Oroup (USA), which in at a . sub-camp of March pulled Margaret B. Buchenwald, where she Jones' "Love and allegedly sneaked him Consequences" after the . apples and bread. The author acknowledged she book was supposed to had invented her story of come out in February. gang life in Los Angele.s. Rosenblat , 79, has been Winfrey fell, as· she dtd . married to the former with James Frey, for a narRoma Radzicky for SO · rative of suffering and years, s!nce meet_ing her redemption better suit~d on a bhnd date m New for televtswn than for hiS. York . In a statement tory. issued Saturday through · "If I ever take on .anoth·his agent, he ~escribed er memoir, they ' re going himself as an advocate of to have to prove. everylave and · tolerance who thing, every line," Hurst falsified his past to better says. "Fro.m now on. I may spread his message. just stick to basic fiction "I wanted to bring hap· and nonfiction." · piness to people," ' said The damage is deep. Rosenblat, who now h ves Scholars and fellow surin the Miami area . "I vivors fear • that . brought hope to a lot. of Rosenblat's fabrications people . My mot1vat1on will · only encourage was to make good in this doubts about the world ." Holocaljst. Rosenblat's believers · "I am very worried included not only his because many of us speak a11ent and his publisher, to thousands of students b11t Oprah Winfrey. ~ilm each year," says Sidney producers, JOurnalists, Finkel , a longtime friend family . members, school of Rosenblat's and a felchildren and strangers low survivor. "We _go online who ignored, or before audiences . We tell dido 't know about, the them a storY' and now warnings from scholar.s some people ·will question and skeptics that his story what I experienced." didn ' t make sense. · "This was not Holocaust Other Holocaust mem- education but miseducaoirists . hM>e devised tion," Ken Waltzer, direcAP NATIONAL WRITER tor of Jewish Studies at Michigan State University, said in a state· ment. · "Holocaust experience is not heartwarming, it is heart rending. All this shows something about the broad unwillingness in our culture to confront the difficult knowledge of the Holocaust," Waltzer said. "All the · more important then to have real memoirs that tell of real experience · in the cainps ." Among the fooled , at least the partially fooled, was Berenbaum, former direcior of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Memorial Hol(lcaust Museum in Washington. Berenbaum had been asked to read . the manU· script ' by film . producer Harris Salomon, who still plans an adaptation of the b.o ok. . Berenbaum's tentative support - "Crazier things have happened," he told The Associated Press last fall . J. ~as cited by the · publisher as it initially defended the bo'o k. Berenbaum now says he saw factual errors , including Rosenblat's description of Theresienstadt, the camp from which he was eventually liberated, but didn't think of challenging the love story. "There's a limit to what I can verify, because I was not there ," he says. "I can verify the general historical narrative, but in my research I rely upon the survivors to present the specifics of their existence with integrity. When they d'on't, they destroy so mucli and they ruin .so much. and that's terrible ." "I was burned ," he added. "And· I have to read books. more skeptically because I was burned." • 81 • am1 Coming Soon To Oallla, ~elgs & ~ason Counties We need your Inspirational Stories! Submit Your Stories Tcr . . Matt Rodgers mrodgers@ mydajl ytribune.com or mail to · Ghllipolis Daily Tribune · Attn: ·Matt Rodgers · P.O. Box 469 Gallipolis, OH 45631 And l'our Story ~light Be Included In ThiS faith Based Magazine . . . ' �I ._jullbap ltmtt -itntintl • PageC6 ENTERTAINMEN'I' . ~6unba!' Sunday, Jan5 4t 2009 Dl 1thnd -6tntintl· . Review: 'Despereaux' feels like a meager meal • BY CHRISTY LEMIRE · courage; forgiveness and faith over and over again . Surely children in · the audience are astute enough to pick up some of these ideas on their own without being banged over the head with a soup ladle. "The · Tale of Despereaux," a Universal Pictures release, is · rated G. Running time: 93 minutes. One and a hlllf. star out of four. · AP MOVIE CRITIC • Which came first. the rat or the mouse? Doesn't really matter. Even though Kate DiCamillo's book "The Tale of Despereaux" came out in 2003 - and won a Newbery Medal for outstanding children's literature - the animated film version still feels like a rip-off of "Ratatouille," which was only released last year. That's partly because of the premise: It's a foodladen fairy tale about a rodent . (voiced . by Matthew Broderick) who must overcome his underdog ,status to save the day. But the bigger problem is its Jack of comparative charm. Whereas the gorgeous, sophisticated "Ratatouille" was both a crowd-pleaser and a critical . favorite , duly winning the Academy Award for best animated feature, "Despereaux': feels obvious, preachy and heavy-handed. ·And that's a surprise given that the script was co-written and produced by Gary Ross, whose pre- · vtous screenplays include the smart, winning "Dave" anp "Pleasantville." Aside from its muted tones and a pleasing softness to the creatures' · fur · and whi~kers, there's not a .whole lot of subtlety to be found here in the film from directors Sam Fell ••• .. .. ..... ......... ' ._:,.....·~~·· ' .... AP photo In this image released Universal Pictures, TlQble mouse Despereaux, voiced by Matthew Broderick, is shown in a scene from "The Tale of Despereaux." ("Flushed Away") and banned throughout the land would rather read books young Miggery·s envy and longtime animator Robert after the queen's death. than eat them; his parents insecurity. Stevenhagen - certainly Nevertheless, it's still men- and older brother fret. As Also among the impres·not in the way it shifts tioned so often in this movie, · such, he's also banished. sive vocal cast are William awkwardly among three it could be a drinking g31ll!l .) But then along comes the H. Macy, Frank Laqgella, plots, all of which are con· Roscuro is exiled for the crass, portly serving girl Kevin Kline, Stanley nected to Princess Pea act , which ultimately turns · Miggery Sow (Tracey Tucci and Richard (Emma Watson). him hard and vengeful. Ullman), whose jealousy of Jenkins, but n,one of them next · comes. the princess threatens the is given any opportunity Roscuro the rat (voiced But with nebbishy earnestness Despereaux, a tiny, young palace and, naturally, pro- to let their unique, wellby Dustin Hoffman) acci- mouse with giant ears. It's vides an opportunity for known screen personali- . dentally falls into the obvious from the day he's Roscuro and Despereaux to . ties shine through . The queen 's soup, killing her and born that he 's different, redeem themselves. overly pervasive prompting darkness · and but he grows into such a Ullman, a gifted mimic voiceover, meanwhile , depression throughout the maverick, he fears noth- · with a great ear, lends her comes from Sigourney kingdom of Dor. (Soup is a ing. He never cowers voice to some awfully Weaver, who's forced to very big deal in Dor, and it's when he's supposed to and clunky lines in expressing spell out themes of This file photo of Jan. 14, 2004 shows Jonathan Rodgers President of TV One, a cable channel geared to blacks, in the channel's e!;liting studio in Washington, D.C .. TV One plans to cover the inauguration for 21 straight hours, from 6 a.m. on Jan. 20 to 3 a.m. the next day. Radio talk host Joe Madison and Art Fennell of CNB, the Corneas! Network, will be the hosts. AP photo SAFETY COVERS CHEMICAL KITS PIPEUNE ANTI·FREEZE 2973 Piedmont Rei. Motion Picture Association of America rating definitions: G - General audiences. All ages admitted. PG - Parental guidance suggested . Some material may not be suitable for children. PG- 13 Special parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13. Some ma!l~rial may be inappropriate for young children. R - Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adu It guardian. NC-17 - No one under 17 admitted. • 'I' ~~, I , , , 1 ,, -...... .1 : ' PLUGS WATERTUeES AIR PILLOWS ~;BET, TV One plan extensive inauguration coverage ;;-• BY DAVID BAUDER AP TELEVISION WAITER . ' ·' .I' ·l ·' NEW YORK :_ BET and TV One, the television net·works aimed primarily at a black audience, haven't paid much attention to presidential inaugurations before. This time will be different. Both are planning extensive coverage for Jan. 20, J.>i hen Barack Obama is sworn in as the nation's 44th president. While it will be followed as a news . event, network executives said the installation· of the first black president will be as much a celebration as a story . . · "This is an opportunity to be the best we can be," said Stephen Hill, BET's programming chief. "We see this as 11n opportunity to infmm and inspire our audience, which is what we !llways try to do." . BET marked President Geor~e W. Bush 's last inauguranon with a news brief, to ·.say "Oh, it happened. What a shame," he said. .This time, BET will cover the Swearing-in and parade from four locations, includiria~ground and rooftop sites on Pennsylvania ,Avenue . · An'c'horing the coverage ,will be Hill Harper of CBS ' "CSI: NY," former CBS :" The Early Show" host Rene Syler and Jeff John8on , who hosts a weekly BET news program. The networks will take a particular interest in speaking to people who have traveled to Washington to .witness the event. On election night, their ratings peaked shortly after the . people who. helped elect the general news networks new president; on his inter<leclared Obama the winner national appeal; and on his - when black viewers security, asking, "Who is turned to the stations to willing to take a bullet for a soak it in with the people on black man?" BET, as . the the air. · · older of the two networks "They talked about the and the one with the wider emotion of it," said reach, believes it has an Johnathan Rodgers, TV advantage over TV One One's president. "Everyone because BET is the only one talked about their own rela- with a news division. tives and how they grew up. BET will include simple Almost everyone could not historical explainers about believe that it happened in presidential inaugurations our lifetime." throughout the day; the netTV One plans ·to follow work reasons that many the . inauguration for · 21 • who jNill be watching have straight hours, from 6 a.m. never seen one before. EST on Jan. 20 to 3 a.m. "This is the first time in a EST the next day. Radio long time a lot of people in talk -shpw post Joe Madison our audience feel they are and Art Fennell of CN8, the really part of the process of Comcast Network , will be selecting a leader for the the hosts. It's already a big United States of America," week for TV One: Martin Hill said. Luther King Jr.'s birthday BET is planning a primethe weekend before marks .time entertainment special the fifth anniversary of the taped earlier, "Yes We Will: ·network's launch. The BET Inaugural With all that time on the Celebration," and will also air, TV One will do its best sponsor its own inaugural to give its audience a real ball, which will be featured flavor of being there. in live cut-ins . TV One is Rodgers said. reporting from the scenes of "We will show the Obama's inaugural balls parade," he said. "We will from 10 p.m . EST t<i midnot overwhelm the parade night. General news networks with a lot of pundits · and other stuff.'' are still formulating their The connection between coverage plans. It's unclear King 's work and Obama's whether reporters will be election will be a major assigned specifically to theme for the networks; cover the black perspective BET will speak to King's on that day; but it obviously · children for their thoughts will be a big part of the on Obama and is making a· story, said Paul Friedman, special, "King to Obatna: CBS News·senior vice pres~ Repurposin_g the Dream." ident. . BET is preparing several "I don't know how you reports to air during the don't cover that story virtucoverage, including a look ally all the way.through," he at Michelle Obama; on the said. · I ' ' ;. .,' .. >~<' .' !'. 1\\:' I.', ,' ' ' ' ' ' ' I . )' ..": -.,:',' 7 Sunday, Jaunary 4t 2008 ' ~======. Travel ' &· Destinations History ~ttr:actions prepare · · for inaugural in DC BY BRETT ZONGKER ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER WASHINGTON Presidents are "in" again, and that means ·Washington is a hot spot. District of Columbia, ' Lincoln's birthday, and Maryland and Virginia . . tours resume Feb. 17. The "Tell me ltbout this theater also commissioned place," Mal!nick n:called a new play on Lincoln set Oba~a saymg while he in 1862 .entitled, "The h~~ lime to loo~ aro?nd. Heavens are Hung in And I satd, W~ll, Black.'' The play tackles rn':./i~g ~~ac~he o;~lt= ~~t~~~~~ ~~~:n~g l~ut~~ House next month and the slave quarters of Decatur ongoing celebration of House. " Abraham Lincoln·'s life, "Really?" he said. the nation's. capital and its "He was just very intermany tourism sites . have ested, but nonplussed by it been thrust into the spot- one way or another," light . · · Mal'inick said. As the nation installs its The exhibit features ·a first . black ere.s ident, cane used by . Douglass, dozens of exhtbits and who was an abolitionist, 8.1tractions in early 2009 that is carved ~ith ima~es are touching on the inau- from his life, progressmg guration, the nation's from slavery to a presiden· wlitical and social history tial appointment as the 11nd its progress from the U.S. Marshal. Other struggle for civil rights. objects include a painting Obama will be inaugu- of Lillian Evanti, the first rated as the 44th president black person to perform one day after the Martin . with a major European J_uther . King Jr. holiday Opera, and a quilt made by a~;~d a few weeks. before Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly, ·a the 200-year anmversary . · free black woman who o.f Honest Abe's birth on was a seamstress for 'Mary Feb. f2, 1809. The sym- Todd Lincoln. oolism and power of his toAccess on Inauguration ry could draw millions of Day will likely be limited people to the inaugural due to security, but public and in the weeks that fol- tours will continue the lqw. For the city's muse- weekend before and . in the urns and memorials, this is days after Obama is sworn a key momen,t. in. For more information, Some unique sites are in visit the Decatur House !he middle of Washington Web site at yet off the' beaten path for h ltp: II w w w. decaturmosJ.. t.<!uri!!~S. 9nlU!Xam.· house.org. pie , the ·fiec11-tur House · Here are . some highmuseum, was the ftrst lights of other fresh sites neighbor of the White to see in Washington. · House built o.n Lafayette Square in 1818. The. NEW ATTRAC· house, once an unofficial TIONS: The National residence · for secretaries Mutieum of American of state, includes slave ' History, recently reopened quarters within steps of after a •two-year renovathe White House tion, features a dramatic though they usually go display of the flag that unnoticed amid the hustle inspired the national of the city. anthem. The museum also "It's a sensitive subject. features exhibits on the It's an important subject, presidency and first though," museum director ladies, and .costumed hisCinqi Malinick said of an toric characters wa'n der exhibit C!n black history in through the halls every the Wh1te House netgh· weekend. Open daily 10 borhood. "The more we a.m.-5:30 p.m.: free discuss it and discuss ... admission, http://amerihow these people lived canhistory.si.edu. and worked and ~ot Visitors can also see the Visitor through their lives, I thmk new · Capitol the better off we all will Center, an underground be as a 'society." museum that's now the Decatur House, now first stop for people touradministered · by the ing Congress. It features National Trust for Historic documents from milePreservation, holds one of stones such as President the few remaining exam: John F. Kennedy's 1961 pies of what urban slavery speech calling for the was like in 19th century nation to send a man to the America, Malinick said. moon. Tours of the Capitol It was there that 15 are limited to free timedmembers of the King and entry tickets that should Williams families lived be reserved in advance ' together in three rooms on online at http://www.visitthe .second floor of a thecapjtol.gov or through building located .behind a congressional office. !he red-brick house. They were considered the prop· LINCOLN BICEN· erty of I ohn Gadsby; TENNIAL: A citywide owner of the National celebration of the 200th · Hotel in the 1800s. anniversary of Honest Gadsby was said to · have Abe's birth . begins in made a fortune in the sl'a:ve January and will feature trade. more than 80 exhibits and A 2002 renovation pro~rams. The uncovered the original Smithsonian · Institution ijoor, walls and fireplaces will offer five exhibits on pf the slave quarters, the 16th president, includwhich are on view in the ing'" Abraham Lincoln: An exhibit, "The l'falf Had Extraordinary Wfe," with Not Been Told Me: moJJr than 60 artifacts African Americans on frdlf'i Lincoln's life at the Lafayette Squ.a re." The American history musetitle of the exhibit is . urn. The exhibit . opens in drawn from a Frederick January along with a dis) Douglass quote; the show play of rare documents the Lincoln rernains on. view thro~gh from . at least March. Presidential Library and in Illinois. Reservations· are recom- Museum mended for' the $5 tour. D,etails at http://www.lin~~ertainly, given the ma~­ colnindc .com : In February, Ford's nllude of' the new president that's coming, this is Theatre - where Lincoln a really sl?ecial place," was assassinated in 1865 - will reopen for tours Malinick satd. · · Obama visited the hdme and performances after an in Feb~uary to film a cam- extensive renovation. paign cotllrnetclal during There will be an open the primaries held in tbe house on Feb. 12 to mark the . Emancipation Proclamation and t~e end of slavery. Detatls at http://www.fords.org. The Peterson House a~ross the _s treet, where Lmcoln dted, remams open for tours. "It's 011e Of the most sacred . spots in all .of Washington ," said Ford's Theatre Director Pa11 1Tetreault. "That is the real deal." CIVIL RIGHTS: Visitors can "walk in the footsteps of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick . Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr." and others who fought for equality along the Civil War to Civil Rights heritage trail . that winds through downtown Washington. Stops along the way include the alley where John Wilkes Booth fled after shooting Lincoln and the hotel where King finished his "I Have a Dream" speech. Details at http://www .culturaltourismdc.org. Powerful images from the civil rights movement . will be on display in the "Road to exhibit, Freedom," through March 9 at the Smithsonian's Ripley · CenteF · International Gallery, Nearly 200 images are on display from about 50 photographers who documented the 12 years between the time Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in 1955 to King's assassination in 1968 . The gallery is located underground on the . National Mall with an entrance near the Smithsonian Castle: http://nmaahc .si .edu. Later in 2009, ori Easter Sunday, the National Park Service will recreate Marian Anderson's hmd~ mark concert on those steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where she sang in 1939 after a nearby concert hall turned her away because she wa.s black. Ford's Theatre, where President Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot, undergoes renovation in Washington Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008. .... ............... . . . -"'· ~ . • • ., "7<"''·. .r" ··~~ AP phoiOI In this 'Nov. 21 , 2008, file photo with the Washington Monument in the background, visitors to the National Museum of American History watch the reopening ceremony for the muse· . um after completion o renovations . INAUGURAL BALLS: For visitors who can't wait to attend their first inau· · gural ball, there will be a plethora of options during the inaugural weekend . Peace activists can gather at the "Inaugural Peace Ball," which will be hosted at the Smithsonian Postal Museum. Alumni and others connected to histori~ally black colleges and universities will hold their own ball on the Washington Harbor. Tickets sell for .$300. MTV will televise its own ball from the Ronald Reagan Building on .. Pennsylvania Avenue. And the Smithsonian American Art Museum will be the site of the Lincoln 2.0 . Inaugural Ball. In 1865, the building also played · host to President l--incoln's inaugural ball . Victorianera attire is welcomed .. Tickets are going for $375 to $500, proving that for t~is year, history still sells. ' · :A listing of inaugural balls is ·available at http://www. washington .or In this June 25, 2008, file photo Timothy Boyd of the National. Park Service steam cleans the Lincoln Memorial in Washington . · g. �I ._jullbap ltmtt -itntintl • PageC6 ENTERTAINMEN'I' . ~6unba!' Sunday, Jan5 4t 2009 Dl 1thnd -6tntintl· . Review: 'Despereaux' feels like a meager meal • BY CHRISTY LEMIRE · courage; forgiveness and faith over and over again . Surely children in · the audience are astute enough to pick up some of these ideas on their own without being banged over the head with a soup ladle. "The · Tale of Despereaux," a Universal Pictures release, is · rated G. Running time: 93 minutes. One and a hlllf. star out of four. · AP MOVIE CRITIC • Which came first. the rat or the mouse? Doesn't really matter. Even though Kate DiCamillo's book "The Tale of Despereaux" came out in 2003 - and won a Newbery Medal for outstanding children's literature - the animated film version still feels like a rip-off of "Ratatouille," which was only released last year. That's partly because of the premise: It's a foodladen fairy tale about a rodent . (voiced . by Matthew Broderick) who must overcome his underdog ,status to save the day. But the bigger problem is its Jack of comparative charm. Whereas the gorgeous, sophisticated "Ratatouille" was both a crowd-pleaser and a critical . favorite , duly winning the Academy Award for best animated feature, "Despereaux': feels obvious, preachy and heavy-handed. ·And that's a surprise given that the script was co-written and produced by Gary Ross, whose pre- · vtous screenplays include the smart, winning "Dave" anp "Pleasantville." Aside from its muted tones and a pleasing softness to the creatures' · fur · and whi~kers, there's not a .whole lot of subtlety to be found here in the film from directors Sam Fell ••• .. .. ..... ......... ' ._:,.....·~~·· ' .... AP photo In this image released Universal Pictures, TlQble mouse Despereaux, voiced by Matthew Broderick, is shown in a scene from "The Tale of Despereaux." ("Flushed Away") and banned throughout the land would rather read books young Miggery·s envy and longtime animator Robert after the queen's death. than eat them; his parents insecurity. Stevenhagen - certainly Nevertheless, it's still men- and older brother fret. As Also among the impres·not in the way it shifts tioned so often in this movie, · such, he's also banished. sive vocal cast are William awkwardly among three it could be a drinking g31ll!l .) But then along comes the H. Macy, Frank Laqgella, plots, all of which are con· Roscuro is exiled for the crass, portly serving girl Kevin Kline, Stanley nected to Princess Pea act , which ultimately turns · Miggery Sow (Tracey Tucci and Richard (Emma Watson). him hard and vengeful. Ullman), whose jealousy of Jenkins, but n,one of them next · comes. the princess threatens the is given any opportunity Roscuro the rat (voiced But with nebbishy earnestness Despereaux, a tiny, young palace and, naturally, pro- to let their unique, wellby Dustin Hoffman) acci- mouse with giant ears. It's vides an opportunity for known screen personali- . dentally falls into the obvious from the day he's Roscuro and Despereaux to . ties shine through . The queen 's soup, killing her and born that he 's different, redeem themselves. overly pervasive prompting darkness · and but he grows into such a Ullman, a gifted mimic voiceover, meanwhile , depression throughout the maverick, he fears noth- · with a great ear, lends her comes from Sigourney kingdom of Dor. (Soup is a ing. He never cowers voice to some awfully Weaver, who's forced to very big deal in Dor, and it's when he's supposed to and clunky lines in expressing spell out themes of This file photo of Jan. 14, 2004 shows Jonathan Rodgers President of TV One, a cable channel geared to blacks, in the channel's e!;liting studio in Washington, D.C .. TV One plans to cover the inauguration for 21 straight hours, from 6 a.m. on Jan. 20 to 3 a.m. the next day. Radio talk host Joe Madison and Art Fennell of CNB, the Corneas! Network, will be the hosts. AP photo SAFETY COVERS CHEMICAL KITS PIPEUNE ANTI·FREEZE 2973 Piedmont Rei. Motion Picture Association of America rating definitions: G - General audiences. All ages admitted. PG - Parental guidance suggested . Some material may not be suitable for children. PG- 13 Special parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13. Some ma!l~rial may be inappropriate for young children. R - Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adu It guardian. NC-17 - No one under 17 admitted. • 'I' ~~, I , , , 1 ,, -...... .1 : ' PLUGS WATERTUeES AIR PILLOWS ~;BET, TV One plan extensive inauguration coverage ;;-• BY DAVID BAUDER AP TELEVISION WAITER . ' ·' .I' ·l ·' NEW YORK :_ BET and TV One, the television net·works aimed primarily at a black audience, haven't paid much attention to presidential inaugurations before. This time will be different. Both are planning extensive coverage for Jan. 20, J.>i hen Barack Obama is sworn in as the nation's 44th president. While it will be followed as a news . event, network executives said the installation· of the first black president will be as much a celebration as a story . . · "This is an opportunity to be the best we can be," said Stephen Hill, BET's programming chief. "We see this as 11n opportunity to infmm and inspire our audience, which is what we !llways try to do." . BET marked President Geor~e W. Bush 's last inauguranon with a news brief, to ·.say "Oh, it happened. What a shame," he said. .This time, BET will cover the Swearing-in and parade from four locations, includiria~ground and rooftop sites on Pennsylvania ,Avenue . · An'c'horing the coverage ,will be Hill Harper of CBS ' "CSI: NY," former CBS :" The Early Show" host Rene Syler and Jeff John8on , who hosts a weekly BET news program. The networks will take a particular interest in speaking to people who have traveled to Washington to .witness the event. On election night, their ratings peaked shortly after the . people who. helped elect the general news networks new president; on his inter<leclared Obama the winner national appeal; and on his - when black viewers security, asking, "Who is turned to the stations to willing to take a bullet for a soak it in with the people on black man?" BET, as . the the air. · · older of the two networks "They talked about the and the one with the wider emotion of it," said reach, believes it has an Johnathan Rodgers, TV advantage over TV One One's president. "Everyone because BET is the only one talked about their own rela- with a news division. tives and how they grew up. BET will include simple Almost everyone could not historical explainers about believe that it happened in presidential inaugurations our lifetime." throughout the day; the netTV One plans ·to follow work reasons that many the . inauguration for · 21 • who jNill be watching have straight hours, from 6 a.m. never seen one before. EST on Jan. 20 to 3 a.m. "This is the first time in a EST the next day. Radio long time a lot of people in talk -shpw post Joe Madison our audience feel they are and Art Fennell of CN8, the really part of the process of Comcast Network , will be selecting a leader for the the hosts. It's already a big United States of America," week for TV One: Martin Hill said. Luther King Jr.'s birthday BET is planning a primethe weekend before marks .time entertainment special the fifth anniversary of the taped earlier, "Yes We Will: ·network's launch. The BET Inaugural With all that time on the Celebration," and will also air, TV One will do its best sponsor its own inaugural to give its audience a real ball, which will be featured flavor of being there. in live cut-ins . TV One is Rodgers said. reporting from the scenes of "We will show the Obama's inaugural balls parade," he said. "We will from 10 p.m . EST t<i midnot overwhelm the parade night. General news networks with a lot of pundits · and other stuff.'' are still formulating their The connection between coverage plans. It's unclear King 's work and Obama's whether reporters will be election will be a major assigned specifically to theme for the networks; cover the black perspective BET will speak to King's on that day; but it obviously · children for their thoughts will be a big part of the on Obama and is making a· story, said Paul Friedman, special, "King to Obatna: CBS News·senior vice pres~ Repurposin_g the Dream." ident. . BET is preparing several "I don't know how you reports to air during the don't cover that story virtucoverage, including a look ally all the way.through," he at Michelle Obama; on the said. · I ' ' ;. .,' .. >~<' .' !'. 1\\:' I.', ,' ' ' ' ' ' ' I . )' ..": -.,:',' 7 Sunday, Jaunary 4t 2008 ' ~======. Travel ' &· Destinations History ~ttr:actions prepare · · for inaugural in DC BY BRETT ZONGKER ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER WASHINGTON Presidents are "in" again, and that means ·Washington is a hot spot. District of Columbia, ' Lincoln's birthday, and Maryland and Virginia . . tours resume Feb. 17. The "Tell me ltbout this theater also commissioned place," Mal!nick n:called a new play on Lincoln set Oba~a saymg while he in 1862 .entitled, "The h~~ lime to loo~ aro?nd. Heavens are Hung in And I satd, W~ll, Black.'' The play tackles rn':./i~g ~~ac~he o;~lt= ~~t~~~~~ ~~~:n~g l~ut~~ House next month and the slave quarters of Decatur ongoing celebration of House. " Abraham Lincoln·'s life, "Really?" he said. the nation's. capital and its "He was just very intermany tourism sites . have ested, but nonplussed by it been thrust into the spot- one way or another," light . · · Mal'inick said. As the nation installs its The exhibit features ·a first . black ere.s ident, cane used by . Douglass, dozens of exhtbits and who was an abolitionist, 8.1tractions in early 2009 that is carved ~ith ima~es are touching on the inau- from his life, progressmg guration, the nation's from slavery to a presiden· wlitical and social history tial appointment as the 11nd its progress from the U.S. Marshal. Other struggle for civil rights. objects include a painting Obama will be inaugu- of Lillian Evanti, the first rated as the 44th president black person to perform one day after the Martin . with a major European J_uther . King Jr. holiday Opera, and a quilt made by a~;~d a few weeks. before Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly, ·a the 200-year anmversary . · free black woman who o.f Honest Abe's birth on was a seamstress for 'Mary Feb. f2, 1809. The sym- Todd Lincoln. oolism and power of his toAccess on Inauguration ry could draw millions of Day will likely be limited people to the inaugural due to security, but public and in the weeks that fol- tours will continue the lqw. For the city's muse- weekend before and . in the urns and memorials, this is days after Obama is sworn a key momen,t. in. For more information, Some unique sites are in visit the Decatur House !he middle of Washington Web site at yet off the' beaten path for h ltp: II w w w. decaturmosJ.. t.<!uri!!~S. 9nlU!Xam.· house.org. pie , the ·fiec11-tur House · Here are . some highmuseum, was the ftrst lights of other fresh sites neighbor of the White to see in Washington. · House built o.n Lafayette Square in 1818. The. NEW ATTRAC· house, once an unofficial TIONS: The National residence · for secretaries Mutieum of American of state, includes slave ' History, recently reopened quarters within steps of after a •two-year renovathe White House tion, features a dramatic though they usually go display of the flag that unnoticed amid the hustle inspired the national of the city. anthem. The museum also "It's a sensitive subject. features exhibits on the It's an important subject, presidency and first though," museum director ladies, and .costumed hisCinqi Malinick said of an toric characters wa'n der exhibit C!n black history in through the halls every the Wh1te House netgh· weekend. Open daily 10 borhood. "The more we a.m.-5:30 p.m.: free discuss it and discuss ... admission, http://amerihow these people lived canhistory.si.edu. and worked and ~ot Visitors can also see the Visitor through their lives, I thmk new · Capitol the better off we all will Center, an underground be as a 'society." museum that's now the Decatur House, now first stop for people touradministered · by the ing Congress. It features National Trust for Historic documents from milePreservation, holds one of stones such as President the few remaining exam: John F. Kennedy's 1961 pies of what urban slavery speech calling for the was like in 19th century nation to send a man to the America, Malinick said. moon. Tours of the Capitol It was there that 15 are limited to free timedmembers of the King and entry tickets that should Williams families lived be reserved in advance ' together in three rooms on online at http://www.visitthe .second floor of a thecapjtol.gov or through building located .behind a congressional office. !he red-brick house. They were considered the prop· LINCOLN BICEN· erty of I ohn Gadsby; TENNIAL: A citywide owner of the National celebration of the 200th · Hotel in the 1800s. anniversary of Honest Gadsby was said to · have Abe's birth . begins in made a fortune in the sl'a:ve January and will feature trade. more than 80 exhibits and A 2002 renovation pro~rams. The uncovered the original Smithsonian · Institution ijoor, walls and fireplaces will offer five exhibits on pf the slave quarters, the 16th president, includwhich are on view in the ing'" Abraham Lincoln: An exhibit, "The l'falf Had Extraordinary Wfe," with Not Been Told Me: moJJr than 60 artifacts African Americans on frdlf'i Lincoln's life at the Lafayette Squ.a re." The American history musetitle of the exhibit is . urn. The exhibit . opens in drawn from a Frederick January along with a dis) Douglass quote; the show play of rare documents the Lincoln rernains on. view thro~gh from . at least March. Presidential Library and in Illinois. Reservations· are recom- Museum mended for' the $5 tour. D,etails at http://www.lin~~ertainly, given the ma~­ colnindc .com : In February, Ford's nllude of' the new president that's coming, this is Theatre - where Lincoln a really sl?ecial place," was assassinated in 1865 - will reopen for tours Malinick satd. · · Obama visited the hdme and performances after an in Feb~uary to film a cam- extensive renovation. paign cotllrnetclal during There will be an open the primaries held in tbe house on Feb. 12 to mark the . Emancipation Proclamation and t~e end of slavery. Detatls at http://www.fords.org. The Peterson House a~ross the _s treet, where Lmcoln dted, remams open for tours. "It's 011e Of the most sacred . spots in all .of Washington ," said Ford's Theatre Director Pa11 1Tetreault. "That is the real deal." CIVIL RIGHTS: Visitors can "walk in the footsteps of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick . Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr." and others who fought for equality along the Civil War to Civil Rights heritage trail . that winds through downtown Washington. Stops along the way include the alley where John Wilkes Booth fled after shooting Lincoln and the hotel where King finished his "I Have a Dream" speech. Details at http://www .culturaltourismdc.org. Powerful images from the civil rights movement . will be on display in the "Road to exhibit, Freedom," through March 9 at the Smithsonian's Ripley · CenteF · International Gallery, Nearly 200 images are on display from about 50 photographers who documented the 12 years between the time Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in 1955 to King's assassination in 1968 . The gallery is located underground on the . National Mall with an entrance near the Smithsonian Castle: http://nmaahc .si .edu. Later in 2009, ori Easter Sunday, the National Park Service will recreate Marian Anderson's hmd~ mark concert on those steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where she sang in 1939 after a nearby concert hall turned her away because she wa.s black. Ford's Theatre, where President Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot, undergoes renovation in Washington Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008. .... ............... . . . -"'· ~ . • • ., "7<"''·. .r" ··~~ AP phoiOI In this 'Nov. 21 , 2008, file photo with the Washington Monument in the background, visitors to the National Museum of American History watch the reopening ceremony for the muse· . um after completion o renovations . INAUGURAL BALLS: For visitors who can't wait to attend their first inau· · gural ball, there will be a plethora of options during the inaugural weekend . Peace activists can gather at the "Inaugural Peace Ball," which will be hosted at the Smithsonian Postal Museum. Alumni and others connected to histori~ally black colleges and universities will hold their own ball on the Washington Harbor. Tickets sell for .$300. MTV will televise its own ball from the Ronald Reagan Building on .. Pennsylvania Avenue. And the Smithsonian American Art Museum will be the site of the Lincoln 2.0 . Inaugural Ball. In 1865, the building also played · host to President l--incoln's inaugural ball . Victorianera attire is welcomed .. Tickets are going for $375 to $500, proving that for t~is year, history still sells. ' · :A listing of inaugural balls is ·available at http://www. washington .or In this June 25, 2008, file photo Timothy Boyd of the National. Park Service steam cleans the Lincoln Memorial in Washington . · g. �• • • DoWN ON THE .FARM ' PageD2 IN DEPTH ' Sunday, January 4, 2008 EXTENSION. CORNER Decide what works best for all in 2009 BY HAL KNEEN , I • I -I -. '. Submitted photo I Fred Dee!, director of the Governor's Office of Appalachia, presented a check for $75,000 to Christie Welch, Farmers . Market specialist, and Torn Worley, director of OSU South Centers, for a new program being offered to assist farmers mar. kets in Appalachian Ohio. John Hemmings, director of the Ohio Valley Regional Development Commission, as well as . Cindy Cunningham, representing U.S. Rep. Zack Space's office, and Dave Hodapp, representing U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown's office, were also on hand for the presentation. Appalachian Farmers' Markets to benefit from ARC assistance PIKETON - As cQn" .the wont out about the bensumer interest in locally eflts of their products. grown food continues to " Many markets in the rise, there is a new program region are run by volunteer being offered to assist farm- managers ," ·says Christie · ers ' markets in Appalachian Welch, Farmers ' Market Ohio beher communicate specialist with OSU South with potential consumers. Centers. "Due to time and As a result , consumers resource . restrictions, many looking to frequent farmers ' do nol have the luxury of markets in the Appalachia developing a stralegic marregion will be better able to keting plan to help inform identi,fy where those mar· consumers of the benefits of kets are located and what · their markets . The OSU products they offer. South Centers will develop Through $75.000 in customizable marketing fundin g from the materials to assist these Appalachian Regional busy producers." "This initiative will assist Commission, The Ohio State University South Ohio's Appalachian comCenters will be providing munities by creating oppor· marketing assistance to . !unities to share the bounty farmers' markets in the of their natural resources region. This will . allow with greater Ohio arid the farmers ' marker managers ·entire region," said Fred arfd vendors/producers easy Dee I, direclor of the access to tools to help get Governor 's Offic.e of Appalachia. "This cOfiabo- · sumers access to fresh , ration between the OSU healthy. locally produced South Centers . and the foods , they help smaller Appalachian Regional farmers maintain their Commission will generate financial stability. and they agricultural dollars, which keep food dollars in the will then work to leverage region . In addirion 10 the growth for the entire economic benefits. farmers ' markets also .provide many region." benefits to the region. social Deel presented a checlt Tom Worley, director of for $75,000 in support of the OS U South Centers the OSU South Centers marketing initiative ,· The erophasized the benefit the · Ohio Department of program will have for the Development's Governor 's Appalachian region of Office of Appalachia pro- Ohio. vides approximately a quar" As we work to expand ter-million dollars per year . income of farmers markets via Appalachian Regional in this region, it will continCommission funding for ue to build income throughOhio's Appalachian conn- out the region," Worley ties. said . "The OSU South Farmers' .markets are a Centers. is pleased to offer win~win-win for producers, assistance from production, consumers and the commu- all the way through the marmiles of Appalachian keting of the region 's hortiOhio. They provide con- C\lltural products," he said. Growers cheery as winter farmers' markets swell BY ltSA RATHKE ASSOCIATEO PRESS WRITER MONTPELIER , Vt . The snow might be piling .up in Vermont, but farmers are still selling their produce. This winter, they have more venues. . The number of farmers ' mark~s op,en year-round has grown from six last year 'to at least II this winter, thanks to ris'ing_ demand, according to the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont. From Brattleboro to Grand Isle , farmers are extending their seasons by moving indoors - to gym.nasiums and churches for weekly or monthly markets. " It's really exciting for ev.eryone fnvolved , from the con sumers to the farmers to the market organizers , to have this community event that is continuous through_out the year," said Jean Hamilton , farm share coor- markets where customers -dinalor for the association. pre-huy food from a farm Winter or not, farmers • for the season has grown markets are getting more from 6 in 2006 to 22 this popular. The· number of winter. farmers' markets national- · At the Montpelier farmly has grown nearly 7 per- ers· marker on a recent cent from 2006, to 4,685 . Saturday, shoppers walked this year, according to the the three rows of vendors in U.S . Department of the Vermonr College gymAgriculture . nasium, wliile a guitarist "It benefits both the con- played on the stage . They sumer and the producer," chatted with farmers as said Joan Shaffer, a USDA they picked out potatoes, spokeswoman for farmers' carrots and greens; beef, markets . · cheese and eggs. -Consumers like to meet They sampled sheep and the producers and get fresh cow 's milk cheeses, inspectfood and farmers get anoth- ed jams, honey and yam. er outlet for their products, and lunched on samosas she said . pastri~ s filled with spiced Also ,- consumers are con- vegetables or meaL· · · cerned about their food and · "It's excellent," Annie want fresh •produce grown McCleary, 61, of Woodbury, locally and farmers are said of the twice-monthly planning ahead , planting market. crops, such as potatoes, "This is about re-localizturnips and squash that can ing our food, our economy, be stored and sold in winter, our community, getting ' what we need to support Hamilton said. The number · of winter true resiliency in our com- munities . I don ' t miss one if I can help it .'' Carrie Cook. 34, · of Montpelier, is another regular. " It's great to be able to get local produce so often in the winter," she said . It's social , too. In the small Lake Champlain community of Grand Isle , more than 150 people showed up at two winter markets held· this year in a church. "People can come out and have coffee and v'isit with one another," said Christine· Bourque, of Blue Heron· Farm. It's also a long trip - 30 to 40 minutes - to big grocery stores in Burlington and St. Albans, she said. "To be able to have all the farmers, all artisans and the bakers and prepared food people all in one place is such a great thing and peo• pie were stocking up the last time," she said. 0 Christmas·tree: Work in summer sun, winter snow rams . He expects to have scores of trees planted by POWDER SPRINGS ; February so they'll be Ga. - Christmas is over, ready to soak in the winter but for Chri s tmas tree and spring rains . He'll farmers the work is just lime the .land in February. beginning so next year's fertili ze it in April, and boughs can be even mow it throu gh the sumbrighter. mer. Tree fa.rms across the In July, he ' ll begin the South - whose operators first of two · round s of feared the economic pruning wayward branchdownturn would trim tree es , and in the fall he ' II sales - are already begin - prepare his choose -and- · ning to lay the ground- cut farm for customers by work 'for .the next holiday culling some of the · season . · unworthy tree s. "Essentially, the day " We never get a break . after Christmas is the day Farming . is like house- · we start all over again ," work : It's never done ,'' said Perry DeWeese, who sai d · Judy Brewer, who · began the tedious task of runs Brewer ' s Christmas cutting down stumps and Tree Farm with her husplanting new seedlings band in Midway , Ga . Friday at his Sleepy "There 's something all the Hollow Christmas Tree time .'' · Farm , a 7-acre plot in west . The Chri-stmas tree Georgia . · industry was bracing for a topsy-turvy season amid DeWeese ' s regimen is a · tried -and-tr.ue schedule the economic downturn. mirrored around · the Ameri cans spent some region , designed to take $1.3 billio n on real trees advantage of the South 's and another $1.2 billion balmier winters and spring on artificial' trees in 2007, Bv •GREG BLUESTEIN ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER ' J • according . to the National time a year, and they were Christmas . Tree going . 10 celebrate," Association, a trade Beavers said . ~'They might group . cut back on gifts·, but not There was no telling yet on trees." how the economic down• John Gregory, who run s turn has affected the Unicorn Hill Farm in industry, but early reports Gainesville. Fla., ~ aid his from scattered · growers business fared a b1t better were encouraging. Some than usual. Hi s farm sold said the downturn didn 't about 400 tree s and was clip their sales , and others forced to close a week earreported only marginal lier than normill - a full declines. 11 days before Christmas . "Most of us have been .But Gregory and other doing thi &. for years and growers have little time to we know Christmas trees take stock in this year's are recession proOf," said sales if they want next De Weese, whose sale s year's bu sine ss to rival were about average this their larest haul. year. "Even if y()u . can't "The hard work starts. get many presents, every- now. We have to get to it," one wants · a beautiflll said Gregory, a retired , Christmas tree." professor at the University Paul Beavers ·said busi- of Florida who got into the ness at his Trafford , Ala. , business <\bout 30 years farm took a minor hit .ago . sales were down les s than Little did he know it was J percent - . but he said he pretty much. a full -time was slill pleased with how JOb. _"The work never really things turned out. "Over the 14 years I' ve stops ," he sa id, befo.re sold trees , I've had people trackin g back a bit. "Well , who didn 't care , who said only right around Christmas just came one Christm as." ., th at allow s them to track how th is year is goi ng aga in st set goa ls and objectives along a given time line. The Meigs · Countv Cha mbe r of C o mmerce · has joined up ·with Uni versity of Rio Grande /Rio Grande t ommunity College . Oh io University Vo inovich Leadership Center and Ohio State Universit v Elttension lo assist loc al businesses with formin g, re v iewing. and revi sing their business plans. As classes· are available plan to attend or send someone from ·your business to gain new insight on how your business can meet your 2009 goal s. The 2009 New Year has begun ! How are you allocating your resources this year? Most businesses a nd individuals · think only about their mone y resources · but thiqlc this year outside of lhe box . Tighten ing down the hatches might be on many business . persons' a nd homeowner . lip s. However, look to where you want to he at. the yearend. 1\re there opportunities out there that you can reallocate your money. time and efforts into? Where will you be spending your work hours this year, your vacation hours. and your free hou(s? ••• Are you using your work . Are you wanting grow, · hours and those of your sell or market fresh fruit s employee s to the be sl and · vegetables? Take advantage? Free up a cou- some time to attend the pie hours to ask .them how OPGMA (Ohio Produce !heir jobs can be improved Growers and Marketers this year. Start off asking . Association Congress .w hat worked well in 2008 . .being held in Sandusky. What was a di saster at . work last year? Ask how Ohio, on Jan. 1'2 - 14 · The Nia Center at the should operations be Kalahari Resort will host improved for 2009 · the event as educational How about those home projects that are on hold? clas ses. lrade show and Not everything takes industry leaders convene money. some like cleaning to see what is new and difout . the attic or garage ferent in 2009 . Trade show might provide saleable will be held on January 13 stuff at a yard sale or · and 14th while educationthrift/consignment store . al classes are being held Projects like installing all three .days. Early bird insulation, building a sign up is still available playground area for the through Jan . 5 via the kids , creating a vegetable . internet at garden area or developing http:// www.opgma or an at home hobby might phoping (614) 487-1117. save you a lot of money in Late registration is avail2009. able at a higher cosl . If you ihink a positive (Hal Kneen is the Meigs change is going to happen County Agriculture, on its own, think again . Natural Resources and Businesses and families Community Development need goals that are incor- Educator, Ohio Slate porated into· a game plan University Extension.) Beef producers' meeting set for Jan 19 GALLIPOLIS - Ohio addressing on behalf of Cattlemen 's Association the beef 'industry. There (OCA). in partnership will also be an opportunity with the OCA Allied for producers to visit with Industry Council, is hold- Allied Industry Council ing a meeting for beef pro; members . ducers on Monday, Jan. 19 For additional informaat the University of Rio tion on the meeting conGrande/Rio . Grande tact the OCA office at Comtimnity College cam- (614) 873-6736 or visit pus, Bob Evans Farms www.ohiocattle .org . Hall, in Rio Grande. The Ohio Cattlemen 's ·All cattle producers are . Association is an affiliate invited and encouraged to of the National · attend, as well as others Cattlemen ' s Beef with beef industry interAs sociation and is the est. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. with a state 's spokesperson and .compl'imentary dinner, issues manager for all segaccording to ,Jamie King. ments of the beef cattle director Of communica- . industry including cattle breeders, producers and tions for the OCA. feeders . Meeting attendees will It is the grass roots polihear from OSU beef team cy development organizamember Steve Boyles us tion for the beef business. he addresses the impor- · the Ohio tance of mineral supple- Through Cattlemen ' s As sociation. mentation and provide's effective strategie s for cattle producers work to create a positive business producers in Ohio. Cattlemen will also have environment, while prothe opportunity to share · viding consumers with a their opinions on lhe many safe and wholesome prod issues that OCA is uct .. ' Sunday, January 4, 2008 Sojourners are there for detainees building on a blealr. induslrial delainees who have entered the Jdass, In another a mother Slretch near Newrui aiJport. a the oounrry illegally - a mis- holds a baby girl up to the parplace SIUdded with tire shops, demeanor - · even if tbe1 tition so she can press her lips ELIZABETH .• · NJ. - "H- warehouses. a slrip club and a have lived here for r,eliJS. against it and kiss her father 26, the_~~ yelled. "You · diner. Outside an American '1bey broke the law,' she on the other side. have a VISIIor. . flag flutters nexl to a red one says. ~When people disregard On a recent SaiUrday, Locked . m a wmdowless slamped CCA, for that law, what other laws wiD Fraccaro visits with a 2()... w~ for three months, Corrections Corporation of they disregard?' year-old man from the Ivory Ibrah1m C1sse had long gt~en America. the privare prison C~t; an asylum-seeker who up hope of anyone fmding conttaclor that runs the cenler. "Today rny hean screams has been detained for seven him. Now. h1s . mmd raced . Inside, immigranls · are for hope... · months. They chat about socHow could he poss1bly _have _a delained indefinilely - some The hope of waking up one cer and politics. but depresVISitor when 110 one m this for months and years- while day free of bars and chains.. . sion and monotony have country knew h1s name? the govenunenl decides whal The hope of waking up. worn the man down. Nen.:ously. he shuffled into to do with them. . only to find that everyt,hing "It is very hard.'' he says, the VISitors "?<Jffi. · Some have fled persecution that has happened to me head downcast. . ·!here, behind the glass par- in their counlry and applied. would only be a dream ..." After an hour, a guard yens b~on. was a small ~oman for asylum after landing a1 a In a basement room at the "Golf-26. Your time is up." "':'th short brown. hrur and U.S. airport. Others were Riverside Church , David Fraccaro presses his hand kind green e~~ - C1sse stared rounded up in raids because Fraccaro's voice cracks as he against the glass and the man at her susp1c1ously as he . of probleins with their paperAPpholo reads the poem and recalls the presses his. Then he shuffles picked up ~ phone. · work or because they had 110 Sojourner Janet Curley, 49, left, talks with Ibrahim Cisse. ~ 18-year-old asylum seeker back to his dorm . . . . · Myn~ IS Janel. s~ said, paperwork. Some were 27. center, and Lassjna Konate, 30, as they stand ori a from Colombia who wrote it . One booth over, Sojourner . spealcm~. m a soft v~1ce caudlt at the border. . street in Harlem Sunday,.Nov. 23, 2008. Both men stowed · Her ·was Claudia and Stephanie Crane. a 21 -yearFrench .• I came as a friend. Their numbers have soared away on a boat from Ivory Coast filled with crates of choco- for eight months Fniccaro vis- old Fordham University stuC1sse s ~M:an wanned at the in recent years in the wake of late and cocoa. An immigration judge had ordered them ited her in Elizabeth. . dent, chats with a 19-year-old sound ot h1s o~ language. tougher immigration laws. an deported, but because they have no passpOrt or papers, · Then, because of over- high school student from Sllll, he was cautious: inlepse new focus on deporta- the Ivory Coast refused to take them back. Curley visited crowding, shewasmovedtoa Trenton. NJ .. who was . So many _lemble things had lion and a reorganization of weekly during Cisse's 16 months in detention before being local jail. There, Fraccaro picked up in a raid at his happened smce he had Oed a the system .after Sept. II. released on parole. says, he witnessed her deteri- horne seven months earlier. . gunfight on the streets of 200 I. About 350 !XX) people oration from a beautiful, His parents emigrated illegal· Abidjan and stowed away on are now deported ~ually up daughter count them as close will also be on her if they are · spunky young woman to a ly from Gualemala when he a boat filled with crates of from about 100,000 in 'the friends . deported . · · · defeated, depressed inmate was 7. · Ndayishimlye and chocolate and cocoa. · ~n , years before 200 I . Most She has seen detainees dis- who didn '.t care what hapHe tries to stay hopeful , but Amenca he . was ~lapped 111 spend time' in detention. Murekatete call her their appear before - the 26-year- pened. Eventually. she was desperalely misses hi.s soccer ~hackl~s. yell~ at like a cnm"Why was I locked up guardian angel. · team buddies, his studies, his old Ethiopian woman who deported . mal , locked m Jllll first and when I had not committed a For Schoen did far more languished for two years only Fraccaro, 31. has been visit- mother. She wasri 't home durthen sent to this prison-like · criJI~e?" cries . Speciose · than simply yisit. She gave to be deported ," the 51}-year~ ing detention centers for eight ing the raid. She cannot visit detenbon center: Here, ~ys Murekatete, a 40-year-old .them money f()r phone cards old teacher from Burma who; · years now. When he ·, first because she fears being passed m a nund-numbmg Rwandan who, with her hus- so the couple could call their knowing she was about to be ~tumbled on the Sojourner arresled, too. . blur w1th httle to do but lie on band, spent a year and a half children; brought pictures and sent back. pressed her hands program at coffee hour after Crane has been visiting him h1s bunk and ponder an in Elizabeth. "Why could I news from Rwanda; worked and face against the gla~s and Sunday service, the fair- for months and she senses a unimaginable fulure. not hug my husband for more . with a pro-bono lawyer. wailed "pray for me, pray for haired, square-jawed actor change- a wearinessofspirAn imm!gration judge had than a year? Why could I get Elissa Steglich of the me." as tears flowed down from Paradise, Ind. had just . it .that hurts to watch. "It .ordered htm deported, but no fresh air? Why could I not American Friend Service her face. lost a major audition and was makes me so angry:··she says. because he had no passport or see the sun? Why could I nqt Committee. "It was like warc.hing her questioning everything about "He hasn't done anything · papers, the Ivory Coast wear my own clothes?" And when the eouple were drown," Schoen says. his life and career. wrong ." · · re_fused to take h1m back. Immigration officials refuse finally released with electronHe kliew nothing about In some ways, the ordeal of C.sse was .a man w1thout a to directly answer these ques- . ic ankle bracelets in To .receive asylum, immi- asylum seekeis or delention detention is worse for those country, w1thout llope, w1th- tions. But they defend deten- December 2007, it ,,~was grants must prove that !hey cenlers. And then he went on who have already sampled ..out conlact with the outside lion as a necessary program. Schoen who picked them up · have been perseculed or have his flfSt Sojourner visil - to life in America than for those world. one designed to protect the and brought them to her a "credible fear" of future per~ the former Wackenhut delen- who are locked up as soon as . Gently,_ Janet Curley country from undesir.ables home. Their release had fol- secution on the basis of race; lion center near Kennedy air- they · arrive , But being coaxed h1m. _How could she and lerrorists and to pt'otect lowed a chaotic few days dur- nationality. religion , political port in Queens. released brings its own chalthe detainees as well. · ing which the couple were .opinion or a membership in a help? What d1d he need? "They brought ·out tltjs very lenges. He wanted to learn. English "Our mission is to detain almost deported after being . particular social group. skinny and tired looking Cisse - the young man so that he could understand and remove as many illegal denied a5ylum. Steglich man·Immigration judges. who African man right around my from the Ivory Coast what was_ happening. He aliens as possible, and it is aged to get a last-minute decide their cases in closed own age," Fraccaro recalls. recalls the day he stepped out wan_red_ to h~d out about his done in a highly humane . reprieve, pending an appeal to courts, are rigid about inter- "His lips were cracked and of the Elizabeth faciliry, havfam1ly m Africa. Mosl of all; manner," ICE spokeswoman a federal court. pretations . Couples like his eyes were sunken wilh ingjust been flown back from Pat Reilly says. "Of course While the couple are grate- Ndayishimiye , he wanted to be free . and lack of sleep and his hands an Alabama prison, where he . I will teach you English, there are lots of compelling ful for their freedom, they are Murekatete , for example, do were shaking ." spent six weeks because lhe she said. stories, but a judge has to still haunted by their. incarcer- not easily fall into one of the Fraccaro had to bend down New Jersey facility needed The next Saturday she make a decision based on the · ation. "We .were treated like specific calegories. Men like to speak into the small, wire- his bed. arrived with alphabet letters law." . we were not human beings," Cisse and his friend, Lassina covered hole in the partition; It was a warm September and words and pictures. Over But critics question why Murekatete says, sobbing. Konale, 30. who also slowed \here were no phones. He night in 2006 and Janet the static-tilled phone connec- conditions have to be so · Their ordeal began after · away on a boat from the Ivory remembers the smell of the Curley was waiting. they .arrived at Kennedy Coasi, have no papers and man's breath. his fear. The lion. Cisse had his first harsh. He remembers how the English lesson. He learned Detainees wear dark blue Internarional Airport for a . were illiterate when · they man, a fisherman from the lights of the city glowed as how to say "pineapple." prison uniforms. They are two-week vacation. An imrni- arrived; they are in an impos- Ivory Coast, was named they drove over the George And so began an extraordi- addressed by numbers, not gration officer informed them . sibly difficult position unless Charles. "Please help me," he Washington bridge, how weinary journey. a friendship their names. Men and that their tourist visas had they ·can somehow find a said. . · coming they seemed. And he for~ed. i~ the unlikeliest of women are segregated and been canceled and they would lawyer. Overwhelmed by disgust remember's Curley's caution .. settmgs. through a grubby · even spouses are allowed no have to return to Kigali. They Even lawyers for detainees and helplessness, Fraccaro New York .is a big exciting . glass partition in the visitors physical contact, just · two were stunned by lhe news, face enormous challenges. knew he had to do more than place. she told him. · room · of a detention center phone conversations a and feared what would hap- They cannot call their clients just visit. He wenrback to col- Sometimes it is good. And where 300, immigrants week. There is no outdoor pen to them if they went back. directly, scheduling meetings . lege, got a degree in rheology sometimes it is hard. · none of whom are charged yard .at Elizabeth, nor any According to is practically impossible, and is now studying human It is a sunny fall day and with a crime - are impris- windows, just an open sky- Ndayishimiye, when . they m1my of their clients need rights at Columbia University. Cisse is sitting in a downtown oned. light in the roof of the room objecled, they were hund- interpreters, and detainees can · He became a minister. And he Manhattan restaurant with Cisse, 27, spent 16 monlhs they use for one hour of cuffed and taken to Elizabeth. be abruptly transferred with- became coordinator of the Curley and Konate sipping Sojourner program. tea. Even now, after two years in detention oofore being daily recreation. Detainees where they spent 15 months out any notice. : relea~d on parole. Today, he have no right to a lawyer. fighting deportation as her "What is happening is, On this fall evening of freedom, the men marvel at inhumane ," Fraccaro is speaking at a !heir fortune . They can read calls the 49-year-old court · though legal aid firms offer health deteriomted and his unjust and clerk "Momma." She loves their services pro bono. anger grew. Steglich says. "We are talking training session for about 20 and write English now. They Some detainees become so "They wouldn't even let me life and dealh cases, where new members. He tells them can take the subway withoul ' him like her own family. . _In . those . weekly visits, disheartened they ask for vol- wear my own underwear," he people have fled intense suf- . about Claudia and Charles getting lost. They can ask a fering , where families are and the Tibetan woman who police officer for help without Cts~ says, Janet made me untary deportation back to the says. · feel like a human being again. counlry from which they have They had a good life in often tom apart. A judge's screamed and fought so hard feeling frightened. And yet life is not easy. · fled.-The government usually Rwanda, the couple say. He decision can have dire conse- at the airport that guards In a. searing, first-person quickly obliges. ICE leases a worked as a clerk for the quences. These people should couldn't put her on the plane , They work for minimum account , Fauziya Kassindja,a fleet of 10 airplane's for American Embassy and she have an absolute right to so they returned her to wage - Cisse in a warehouse Togolese teenager who deportation purposes. ran a small clothing store. counsel." Elizabeth and placed her in and Konate . as a dishwasher applied for asylum to escape · "You lo~ your identity," Their children were doing · Nationwide , -immigration solitary confinement for 10 - and have a hard time malefemale genital mutilation, says Pradeep Thapa, a 36- well at school. Bur he had judges granted asylum to days: When she was finally ing ends meet. They don't described her 14 months in year-old writer from Nepal. been involved in a bitter about 37 percent of 35.775 released, Fraccaro said. she know what has become of detention at Elizabeth. The . who was detained for 16 court dispute over property applicants in 2007, according had two narrow channels their families or what will tenible isolation and uncer- months. "You begin to feel with relatives , one of whom lo the Executive Office for etched into her cheeks from become of them . tears. Una Tapper, a 76-year-old tainty. she wrote, was made like you don't really exist, that is a high-ranking police lmmigrdtion Review. Human rights groups argue The group listens quietly, retired lawyer who was once even more unbearable by the maybe lhe life you had before official. Ndayishimiye says ail administrative law judge he fears for his life if he !hat jailing detainees amounts some shaking their heads. fact that no one came to visit. never really ex1sted either.". About 35,000 are living this returns. to criminalizing them. They At the detention center, he for the state of New York. is Her 1-998 book, Do They Murekatele has delicate condemn the limited right of tells them, !heir mission is working on their behalf. · Hear You When You Cry. so alternative reality in a patchdisturbed a group of congre- work of detention centers and features and a quiet . elegant detainees to appeal their purelr friendship . They are Tapper. a former Sojourner. gants at the Riverside Church prisons .all over the counrry. presence. In detention, she incarceration, the lack of not v1siting as social workers, is trying to get a new hearing in Manhanan lhatlhey decid- Aliens, they are called, and says, she suffered from accountability at many cen- advocates or legal advisers. before an immigration judge ed to take action . They would for many, this is the most heart problems and ters and · the psychological He wluns them that some- on the grounds that the first headaches and. there were · sufferings of those detained times they will go and their one - in which they had no visit det&inees who had no ·alien experience imaginable. other visitors . They would lis·"When I saw my visitor ·times she wept so hard she indefinitely. friend will not be there, and representation , couldn't Many also criticize the. they may .be given no expla- speak · English and didn 't every week ," Cisse says. "It · thought she would die . She ten to their cries. understand the proceedings And so, on Saturdays and was the only time I felt ached for her children, her profits earned by the private nation . And he invites them to a - was unfair. She has med1\tesdays, a small band of happy." · husband , for warmth, for companies that run detention decent food. Steglich wor- cenlers. ICE has an annual rally outside the detenti.on ical reports from Doctors people climb into a church without Borders , which, she " Van and drive 15 miles to Mary Schoen's Roo~velt ried about the toll prolonged budget of nearly $5 billion. center a few weeks later. . There, as families huddle says are consistent with.their :: Elizabeth. They come from Island apartment is a tranquil imprisonment was taking on ICE officials say it costs about $175 a day to detain someone and weep and protesters bran- stories of being beaten by ·::an backgrounds: social work- place filled with books and her client. · ers, professors, students , doc- pictures. There are sweeping · For seven months the·cou- at Elizabeth. They refused to dish sign_s sa~mg "Asylu_m is · soldiers. But there is still a 'tors , nurses, an engineer, a views of the East River. A pot pie lived in Schoen's apart- say how much ICE pays not a Cnme. Fraccaro JOinS possibility · that they will be with others in reciting the· returned to detention or court clerk . Their mission is of spicy lamb slew simmers ment while she helped them CCA . Profits are also reaped in names of the detainees who deponed. . siml)(e: just show up, to he a on the stove. navigate their new lite. find . The prospect haunts Curle~. ::friendly face for an hour artd For Rwandans Jean-Bosco jobs, enroll in English classes, smaller ways. Detainees rhust are locked inside. At one point a speaker steps even as she marvels at therr ::make a commitment to be a Ndayishimiye, 47, and · his . and find a rentalroom'oftheir purchase phone cards, snacks · real f1iend . wife, Murekatete, this is the own. Now Ndayi shimiye and other small items within up to the · microphone and fortitude. "They are such respectful, They call themselves one place they ·can take a works in a commercial ware- the system, some at prices gazes up at the grim brick kind, hardworking, prayerful . Sojoumers.ln 10 years of vis- break from their nightmare. hou~ and Murekatete works higher thlm they cost outside. builqjng. "Mr. President," he cries, as , men," she says. "We should Detainees who work - in the ·its they have transformed Their three children, ages 7; 8 as a home health uide. .. some detainee lives - but and 12. smile from a framed Even if they win asylum , kitchen or laundry of facilities the crowd roars, "tear dt>wn be welcoming immigrants this wall." like this into our counlry, not which would mean their chil - - earn just $1 a day. ::many say their own lives have photograph on the bookcase. ' IC E spokeswoman Reilly ... punishing them .'' . ::been transformed as ,well. Schoen is a sunny woman · dren could join them, The visitors room is a soulCurley tells them that they "We try to bring some · with lair hair and twinkling Ndayishimiye . worries about said the.average length of stay is a month . Those who 'remain . less place where stark white have seen the wotst of humanity into a place that is eyes . The 50-year-old nurse .the diftkuhies of starting a so . dehumanizing." Curley practitioner began visiting the new life "fmrn z.ero," as he longer, she said, make their light~ beam down on the glass America, and she apologizes own choice to do so while partition that separates the for that. says. couple in Elizabeth shortly says . No, they say, smiling·. They It is not an easy task. after they were detained in Schoen listens from the they · appeal deportation imprisoned from the free. In . one comer a man tries to com- have seen the best of The detention center is September 2006. Today kitche11 as she prepares, din- orders. .She has little sympathy for fort a woman sobbing behind America. ::housed in - a brown brick Schoen and her 20- year~ld ner. She knows how hard it !? .. ---. PageD3 ' name �• • • DoWN ON THE .FARM ' PageD2 IN DEPTH ' Sunday, January 4, 2008 EXTENSION. CORNER Decide what works best for all in 2009 BY HAL KNEEN , I • I -I -. '. Submitted photo I Fred Dee!, director of the Governor's Office of Appalachia, presented a check for $75,000 to Christie Welch, Farmers . Market specialist, and Torn Worley, director of OSU South Centers, for a new program being offered to assist farmers mar. kets in Appalachian Ohio. John Hemmings, director of the Ohio Valley Regional Development Commission, as well as . Cindy Cunningham, representing U.S. Rep. Zack Space's office, and Dave Hodapp, representing U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown's office, were also on hand for the presentation. Appalachian Farmers' Markets to benefit from ARC assistance PIKETON - As cQn" .the wont out about the bensumer interest in locally eflts of their products. grown food continues to " Many markets in the rise, there is a new program region are run by volunteer being offered to assist farm- managers ," ·says Christie · ers ' markets in Appalachian Welch, Farmers ' Market Ohio beher communicate specialist with OSU South with potential consumers. Centers. "Due to time and As a result , consumers resource . restrictions, many looking to frequent farmers ' do nol have the luxury of markets in the Appalachia developing a stralegic marregion will be better able to keting plan to help inform identi,fy where those mar· consumers of the benefits of kets are located and what · their markets . The OSU products they offer. South Centers will develop Through $75.000 in customizable marketing fundin g from the materials to assist these Appalachian Regional busy producers." "This initiative will assist Commission, The Ohio State University South Ohio's Appalachian comCenters will be providing munities by creating oppor· marketing assistance to . !unities to share the bounty farmers' markets in the of their natural resources region. This will . allow with greater Ohio arid the farmers ' marker managers ·entire region," said Fred arfd vendors/producers easy Dee I, direclor of the access to tools to help get Governor 's Offic.e of Appalachia. "This cOfiabo- · sumers access to fresh , ration between the OSU healthy. locally produced South Centers . and the foods , they help smaller Appalachian Regional farmers maintain their Commission will generate financial stability. and they agricultural dollars, which keep food dollars in the will then work to leverage region . In addirion 10 the growth for the entire economic benefits. farmers ' markets also .provide many region." benefits to the region. social Deel presented a checlt Tom Worley, director of for $75,000 in support of the OS U South Centers the OSU South Centers marketing initiative ,· The erophasized the benefit the · Ohio Department of program will have for the Development's Governor 's Appalachian region of Office of Appalachia pro- Ohio. vides approximately a quar" As we work to expand ter-million dollars per year . income of farmers markets via Appalachian Regional in this region, it will continCommission funding for ue to build income throughOhio's Appalachian conn- out the region," Worley ties. said . "The OSU South Farmers' .markets are a Centers. is pleased to offer win~win-win for producers, assistance from production, consumers and the commu- all the way through the marmiles of Appalachian keting of the region 's hortiOhio. They provide con- C\lltural products," he said. Growers cheery as winter farmers' markets swell BY ltSA RATHKE ASSOCIATEO PRESS WRITER MONTPELIER , Vt . The snow might be piling .up in Vermont, but farmers are still selling their produce. This winter, they have more venues. . The number of farmers ' mark~s op,en year-round has grown from six last year 'to at least II this winter, thanks to ris'ing_ demand, according to the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont. From Brattleboro to Grand Isle , farmers are extending their seasons by moving indoors - to gym.nasiums and churches for weekly or monthly markets. " It's really exciting for ev.eryone fnvolved , from the con sumers to the farmers to the market organizers , to have this community event that is continuous through_out the year," said Jean Hamilton , farm share coor- markets where customers -dinalor for the association. pre-huy food from a farm Winter or not, farmers • for the season has grown markets are getting more from 6 in 2006 to 22 this popular. The· number of winter. farmers' markets national- · At the Montpelier farmly has grown nearly 7 per- ers· marker on a recent cent from 2006, to 4,685 . Saturday, shoppers walked this year, according to the the three rows of vendors in U.S . Department of the Vermonr College gymAgriculture . nasium, wliile a guitarist "It benefits both the con- played on the stage . They sumer and the producer," chatted with farmers as said Joan Shaffer, a USDA they picked out potatoes, spokeswoman for farmers' carrots and greens; beef, markets . · cheese and eggs. -Consumers like to meet They sampled sheep and the producers and get fresh cow 's milk cheeses, inspectfood and farmers get anoth- ed jams, honey and yam. er outlet for their products, and lunched on samosas she said . pastri~ s filled with spiced Also ,- consumers are con- vegetables or meaL· · · cerned about their food and · "It's excellent," Annie want fresh •produce grown McCleary, 61, of Woodbury, locally and farmers are said of the twice-monthly planning ahead , planting market. crops, such as potatoes, "This is about re-localizturnips and squash that can ing our food, our economy, be stored and sold in winter, our community, getting ' what we need to support Hamilton said. The number · of winter true resiliency in our com- munities . I don ' t miss one if I can help it .'' Carrie Cook. 34, · of Montpelier, is another regular. " It's great to be able to get local produce so often in the winter," she said . It's social , too. In the small Lake Champlain community of Grand Isle , more than 150 people showed up at two winter markets held· this year in a church. "People can come out and have coffee and v'isit with one another," said Christine· Bourque, of Blue Heron· Farm. It's also a long trip - 30 to 40 minutes - to big grocery stores in Burlington and St. Albans, she said. "To be able to have all the farmers, all artisans and the bakers and prepared food people all in one place is such a great thing and peo• pie were stocking up the last time," she said. 0 Christmas·tree: Work in summer sun, winter snow rams . He expects to have scores of trees planted by POWDER SPRINGS ; February so they'll be Ga. - Christmas is over, ready to soak in the winter but for Chri s tmas tree and spring rains . He'll farmers the work is just lime the .land in February. beginning so next year's fertili ze it in April, and boughs can be even mow it throu gh the sumbrighter. mer. Tree fa.rms across the In July, he ' ll begin the South - whose operators first of two · round s of feared the economic pruning wayward branchdownturn would trim tree es , and in the fall he ' II sales - are already begin - prepare his choose -and- · ning to lay the ground- cut farm for customers by work 'for .the next holiday culling some of the · season . · unworthy tree s. "Essentially, the day " We never get a break . after Christmas is the day Farming . is like house- · we start all over again ," work : It's never done ,'' said Perry DeWeese, who sai d · Judy Brewer, who · began the tedious task of runs Brewer ' s Christmas cutting down stumps and Tree Farm with her husplanting new seedlings band in Midway , Ga . Friday at his Sleepy "There 's something all the Hollow Christmas Tree time .'' · Farm , a 7-acre plot in west . The Chri-stmas tree Georgia . · industry was bracing for a topsy-turvy season amid DeWeese ' s regimen is a · tried -and-tr.ue schedule the economic downturn. mirrored around · the Ameri cans spent some region , designed to take $1.3 billio n on real trees advantage of the South 's and another $1.2 billion balmier winters and spring on artificial' trees in 2007, Bv •GREG BLUESTEIN ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER ' J • according . to the National time a year, and they were Christmas . Tree going . 10 celebrate," Association, a trade Beavers said . ~'They might group . cut back on gifts·, but not There was no telling yet on trees." how the economic down• John Gregory, who run s turn has affected the Unicorn Hill Farm in industry, but early reports Gainesville. Fla., ~ aid his from scattered · growers business fared a b1t better were encouraging. Some than usual. Hi s farm sold said the downturn didn 't about 400 tree s and was clip their sales , and others forced to close a week earreported only marginal lier than normill - a full declines. 11 days before Christmas . "Most of us have been .But Gregory and other doing thi &. for years and growers have little time to we know Christmas trees take stock in this year's are recession proOf," said sales if they want next De Weese, whose sale s year's bu sine ss to rival were about average this their larest haul. year. "Even if y()u . can't "The hard work starts. get many presents, every- now. We have to get to it," one wants · a beautiflll said Gregory, a retired , Christmas tree." professor at the University Paul Beavers ·said busi- of Florida who got into the ness at his Trafford , Ala. , business <\bout 30 years farm took a minor hit .ago . sales were down les s than Little did he know it was J percent - . but he said he pretty much. a full -time was slill pleased with how JOb. _"The work never really things turned out. "Over the 14 years I' ve stops ," he sa id, befo.re sold trees , I've had people trackin g back a bit. "Well , who didn 't care , who said only right around Christmas just came one Christm as." ., th at allow s them to track how th is year is goi ng aga in st set goa ls and objectives along a given time line. The Meigs · Countv Cha mbe r of C o mmerce · has joined up ·with Uni versity of Rio Grande /Rio Grande t ommunity College . Oh io University Vo inovich Leadership Center and Ohio State Universit v Elttension lo assist loc al businesses with formin g, re v iewing. and revi sing their business plans. As classes· are available plan to attend or send someone from ·your business to gain new insight on how your business can meet your 2009 goal s. The 2009 New Year has begun ! How are you allocating your resources this year? Most businesses a nd individuals · think only about their mone y resources · but thiqlc this year outside of lhe box . Tighten ing down the hatches might be on many business . persons' a nd homeowner . lip s. However, look to where you want to he at. the yearend. 1\re there opportunities out there that you can reallocate your money. time and efforts into? Where will you be spending your work hours this year, your vacation hours. and your free hou(s? ••• Are you using your work . Are you wanting grow, · hours and those of your sell or market fresh fruit s employee s to the be sl and · vegetables? Take advantage? Free up a cou- some time to attend the pie hours to ask .them how OPGMA (Ohio Produce !heir jobs can be improved Growers and Marketers this year. Start off asking . Association Congress .w hat worked well in 2008 . .being held in Sandusky. What was a di saster at . work last year? Ask how Ohio, on Jan. 1'2 - 14 · The Nia Center at the should operations be Kalahari Resort will host improved for 2009 · the event as educational How about those home projects that are on hold? clas ses. lrade show and Not everything takes industry leaders convene money. some like cleaning to see what is new and difout . the attic or garage ferent in 2009 . Trade show might provide saleable will be held on January 13 stuff at a yard sale or · and 14th while educationthrift/consignment store . al classes are being held Projects like installing all three .days. Early bird insulation, building a sign up is still available playground area for the through Jan . 5 via the kids , creating a vegetable . internet at garden area or developing http:// www.opgma or an at home hobby might phoping (614) 487-1117. save you a lot of money in Late registration is avail2009. able at a higher cosl . If you ihink a positive (Hal Kneen is the Meigs change is going to happen County Agriculture, on its own, think again . Natural Resources and Businesses and families Community Development need goals that are incor- Educator, Ohio Slate porated into· a game plan University Extension.) Beef producers' meeting set for Jan 19 GALLIPOLIS - Ohio addressing on behalf of Cattlemen 's Association the beef 'industry. There (OCA). in partnership will also be an opportunity with the OCA Allied for producers to visit with Industry Council, is hold- Allied Industry Council ing a meeting for beef pro; members . ducers on Monday, Jan. 19 For additional informaat the University of Rio tion on the meeting conGrande/Rio . Grande tact the OCA office at Comtimnity College cam- (614) 873-6736 or visit pus, Bob Evans Farms www.ohiocattle .org . Hall, in Rio Grande. The Ohio Cattlemen 's ·All cattle producers are . Association is an affiliate invited and encouraged to of the National · attend, as well as others Cattlemen ' s Beef with beef industry interAs sociation and is the est. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. with a state 's spokesperson and .compl'imentary dinner, issues manager for all segaccording to ,Jamie King. ments of the beef cattle director Of communica- . industry including cattle breeders, producers and tions for the OCA. feeders . Meeting attendees will It is the grass roots polihear from OSU beef team cy development organizamember Steve Boyles us tion for the beef business. he addresses the impor- · the Ohio tance of mineral supple- Through Cattlemen ' s As sociation. mentation and provide's effective strategie s for cattle producers work to create a positive business producers in Ohio. Cattlemen will also have environment, while prothe opportunity to share · viding consumers with a their opinions on lhe many safe and wholesome prod issues that OCA is uct .. ' Sunday, January 4, 2008 Sojourners are there for detainees building on a blealr. induslrial delainees who have entered the Jdass, In another a mother Slretch near Newrui aiJport. a the oounrry illegally - a mis- holds a baby girl up to the parplace SIUdded with tire shops, demeanor - · even if tbe1 tition so she can press her lips ELIZABETH .• · NJ. - "H- warehouses. a slrip club and a have lived here for r,eliJS. against it and kiss her father 26, the_~~ yelled. "You · diner. Outside an American '1bey broke the law,' she on the other side. have a VISIIor. . flag flutters nexl to a red one says. ~When people disregard On a recent SaiUrday, Locked . m a wmdowless slamped CCA, for that law, what other laws wiD Fraccaro visits with a 2()... w~ for three months, Corrections Corporation of they disregard?' year-old man from the Ivory Ibrah1m C1sse had long gt~en America. the privare prison C~t; an asylum-seeker who up hope of anyone fmding conttaclor that runs the cenler. "Today rny hean screams has been detained for seven him. Now. h1s . mmd raced . Inside, immigranls · are for hope... · months. They chat about socHow could he poss1bly _have _a delained indefinilely - some The hope of waking up one cer and politics. but depresVISitor when 110 one m this for months and years- while day free of bars and chains.. . sion and monotony have country knew h1s name? the govenunenl decides whal The hope of waking up. worn the man down. Nen.:ously. he shuffled into to do with them. . only to find that everyt,hing "It is very hard.'' he says, the VISitors "?<Jffi. · Some have fled persecution that has happened to me head downcast. . ·!here, behind the glass par- in their counlry and applied. would only be a dream ..." After an hour, a guard yens b~on. was a small ~oman for asylum after landing a1 a In a basement room at the "Golf-26. Your time is up." "':'th short brown. hrur and U.S. airport. Others were Riverside Church , David Fraccaro presses his hand kind green e~~ - C1sse stared rounded up in raids because Fraccaro's voice cracks as he against the glass and the man at her susp1c1ously as he . of probleins with their paperAPpholo reads the poem and recalls the presses his. Then he shuffles picked up ~ phone. · work or because they had 110 Sojourner Janet Curley, 49, left, talks with Ibrahim Cisse. ~ 18-year-old asylum seeker back to his dorm . . . . · Myn~ IS Janel. s~ said, paperwork. Some were 27. center, and Lassjna Konate, 30, as they stand ori a from Colombia who wrote it . One booth over, Sojourner . spealcm~. m a soft v~1ce caudlt at the border. . street in Harlem Sunday,.Nov. 23, 2008. Both men stowed · Her ·was Claudia and Stephanie Crane. a 21 -yearFrench .• I came as a friend. Their numbers have soared away on a boat from Ivory Coast filled with crates of choco- for eight months Fniccaro vis- old Fordham University stuC1sse s ~M:an wanned at the in recent years in the wake of late and cocoa. An immigration judge had ordered them ited her in Elizabeth. . dent, chats with a 19-year-old sound ot h1s o~ language. tougher immigration laws. an deported, but because they have no passpOrt or papers, · Then, because of over- high school student from Sllll, he was cautious: inlepse new focus on deporta- the Ivory Coast refused to take them back. Curley visited crowding, shewasmovedtoa Trenton. NJ .. who was . So many _lemble things had lion and a reorganization of weekly during Cisse's 16 months in detention before being local jail. There, Fraccaro picked up in a raid at his happened smce he had Oed a the system .after Sept. II. released on parole. says, he witnessed her deteri- horne seven months earlier. . gunfight on the streets of 200 I. About 350 !XX) people oration from a beautiful, His parents emigrated illegal· Abidjan and stowed away on are now deported ~ually up daughter count them as close will also be on her if they are · spunky young woman to a ly from Gualemala when he a boat filled with crates of from about 100,000 in 'the friends . deported . · · · defeated, depressed inmate was 7. · Ndayishimlye and chocolate and cocoa. · ~n , years before 200 I . Most She has seen detainees dis- who didn '.t care what hapHe tries to stay hopeful , but Amenca he . was ~lapped 111 spend time' in detention. Murekatete call her their appear before - the 26-year- pened. Eventually. she was desperalely misses hi.s soccer ~hackl~s. yell~ at like a cnm"Why was I locked up guardian angel. · team buddies, his studies, his old Ethiopian woman who deported . mal , locked m Jllll first and when I had not committed a For Schoen did far more languished for two years only Fraccaro, 31. has been visit- mother. She wasri 't home durthen sent to this prison-like · criJI~e?" cries . Speciose · than simply yisit. She gave to be deported ," the 51}-year~ ing detention centers for eight ing the raid. She cannot visit detenbon center: Here, ~ys Murekatete, a 40-year-old .them money f()r phone cards old teacher from Burma who; · years now. When he ·, first because she fears being passed m a nund-numbmg Rwandan who, with her hus- so the couple could call their knowing she was about to be ~tumbled on the Sojourner arresled, too. . blur w1th httle to do but lie on band, spent a year and a half children; brought pictures and sent back. pressed her hands program at coffee hour after Crane has been visiting him h1s bunk and ponder an in Elizabeth. "Why could I news from Rwanda; worked and face against the gla~s and Sunday service, the fair- for months and she senses a unimaginable fulure. not hug my husband for more . with a pro-bono lawyer. wailed "pray for me, pray for haired, square-jawed actor change- a wearinessofspirAn imm!gration judge had than a year? Why could I get Elissa Steglich of the me." as tears flowed down from Paradise, Ind. had just . it .that hurts to watch. "It .ordered htm deported, but no fresh air? Why could I not American Friend Service her face. lost a major audition and was makes me so angry:··she says. because he had no passport or see the sun? Why could I nqt Committee. "It was like warc.hing her questioning everything about "He hasn't done anything · papers, the Ivory Coast wear my own clothes?" And when the eouple were drown," Schoen says. his life and career. wrong ." · · re_fused to take h1m back. Immigration officials refuse finally released with electronHe kliew nothing about In some ways, the ordeal of C.sse was .a man w1thout a to directly answer these ques- . ic ankle bracelets in To .receive asylum, immi- asylum seekeis or delention detention is worse for those country, w1thout llope, w1th- tions. But they defend deten- December 2007, it ,,~was grants must prove that !hey cenlers. And then he went on who have already sampled ..out conlact with the outside lion as a necessary program. Schoen who picked them up · have been perseculed or have his flfSt Sojourner visil - to life in America than for those world. one designed to protect the and brought them to her a "credible fear" of future per~ the former Wackenhut delen- who are locked up as soon as . Gently,_ Janet Curley country from undesir.ables home. Their release had fol- secution on the basis of race; lion center near Kennedy air- they · arrive , But being coaxed h1m. _How could she and lerrorists and to pt'otect lowed a chaotic few days dur- nationality. religion , political port in Queens. released brings its own chalthe detainees as well. · ing which the couple were .opinion or a membership in a help? What d1d he need? "They brought ·out tltjs very lenges. He wanted to learn. English "Our mission is to detain almost deported after being . particular social group. skinny and tired looking Cisse - the young man so that he could understand and remove as many illegal denied a5ylum. Steglich man·Immigration judges. who African man right around my from the Ivory Coast what was_ happening. He aliens as possible, and it is aged to get a last-minute decide their cases in closed own age," Fraccaro recalls. recalls the day he stepped out wan_red_ to h~d out about his done in a highly humane . reprieve, pending an appeal to courts, are rigid about inter- "His lips were cracked and of the Elizabeth faciliry, havfam1ly m Africa. Mosl of all; manner," ICE spokeswoman a federal court. pretations . Couples like his eyes were sunken wilh ingjust been flown back from Pat Reilly says. "Of course While the couple are grate- Ndayishimiye , he wanted to be free . and lack of sleep and his hands an Alabama prison, where he . I will teach you English, there are lots of compelling ful for their freedom, they are Murekatete , for example, do were shaking ." spent six weeks because lhe she said. stories, but a judge has to still haunted by their. incarcer- not easily fall into one of the Fraccaro had to bend down New Jersey facility needed The next Saturday she make a decision based on the · ation. "We .were treated like specific calegories. Men like to speak into the small, wire- his bed. arrived with alphabet letters law." . we were not human beings," Cisse and his friend, Lassina covered hole in the partition; It was a warm September and words and pictures. Over But critics question why Murekatete says, sobbing. Konale, 30. who also slowed \here were no phones. He night in 2006 and Janet the static-tilled phone connec- conditions have to be so · Their ordeal began after · away on a boat from the Ivory remembers the smell of the Curley was waiting. they .arrived at Kennedy Coasi, have no papers and man's breath. his fear. The lion. Cisse had his first harsh. He remembers how the English lesson. He learned Detainees wear dark blue Internarional Airport for a . were illiterate when · they man, a fisherman from the lights of the city glowed as how to say "pineapple." prison uniforms. They are two-week vacation. An imrni- arrived; they are in an impos- Ivory Coast, was named they drove over the George And so began an extraordi- addressed by numbers, not gration officer informed them . sibly difficult position unless Charles. "Please help me," he Washington bridge, how weinary journey. a friendship their names. Men and that their tourist visas had they ·can somehow find a said. . · coming they seemed. And he for~ed. i~ the unlikeliest of women are segregated and been canceled and they would lawyer. Overwhelmed by disgust remember's Curley's caution .. settmgs. through a grubby · even spouses are allowed no have to return to Kigali. They Even lawyers for detainees and helplessness, Fraccaro New York .is a big exciting . glass partition in the visitors physical contact, just · two were stunned by lhe news, face enormous challenges. knew he had to do more than place. she told him. · room · of a detention center phone conversations a and feared what would hap- They cannot call their clients just visit. He wenrback to col- Sometimes it is good. And where 300, immigrants week. There is no outdoor pen to them if they went back. directly, scheduling meetings . lege, got a degree in rheology sometimes it is hard. · none of whom are charged yard .at Elizabeth, nor any According to is practically impossible, and is now studying human It is a sunny fall day and with a crime - are impris- windows, just an open sky- Ndayishimiye, when . they m1my of their clients need rights at Columbia University. Cisse is sitting in a downtown oned. light in the roof of the room objecled, they were hund- interpreters, and detainees can · He became a minister. And he Manhattan restaurant with Cisse, 27, spent 16 monlhs they use for one hour of cuffed and taken to Elizabeth. be abruptly transferred with- became coordinator of the Curley and Konate sipping Sojourner program. tea. Even now, after two years in detention oofore being daily recreation. Detainees where they spent 15 months out any notice. : relea~d on parole. Today, he have no right to a lawyer. fighting deportation as her "What is happening is, On this fall evening of freedom, the men marvel at inhumane ," Fraccaro is speaking at a !heir fortune . They can read calls the 49-year-old court · though legal aid firms offer health deteriomted and his unjust and clerk "Momma." She loves their services pro bono. anger grew. Steglich says. "We are talking training session for about 20 and write English now. They Some detainees become so "They wouldn't even let me life and dealh cases, where new members. He tells them can take the subway withoul ' him like her own family. . _In . those . weekly visits, disheartened they ask for vol- wear my own underwear," he people have fled intense suf- . about Claudia and Charles getting lost. They can ask a fering , where families are and the Tibetan woman who police officer for help without Cts~ says, Janet made me untary deportation back to the says. · feel like a human being again. counlry from which they have They had a good life in often tom apart. A judge's screamed and fought so hard feeling frightened. And yet life is not easy. · fled.-The government usually Rwanda, the couple say. He decision can have dire conse- at the airport that guards In a. searing, first-person quickly obliges. ICE leases a worked as a clerk for the quences. These people should couldn't put her on the plane , They work for minimum account , Fauziya Kassindja,a fleet of 10 airplane's for American Embassy and she have an absolute right to so they returned her to wage - Cisse in a warehouse Togolese teenager who deportation purposes. ran a small clothing store. counsel." Elizabeth and placed her in and Konate . as a dishwasher applied for asylum to escape · "You lo~ your identity," Their children were doing · Nationwide , -immigration solitary confinement for 10 - and have a hard time malefemale genital mutilation, says Pradeep Thapa, a 36- well at school. Bur he had judges granted asylum to days: When she was finally ing ends meet. They don't described her 14 months in year-old writer from Nepal. been involved in a bitter about 37 percent of 35.775 released, Fraccaro said. she know what has become of detention at Elizabeth. The . who was detained for 16 court dispute over property applicants in 2007, according had two narrow channels their families or what will tenible isolation and uncer- months. "You begin to feel with relatives , one of whom lo the Executive Office for etched into her cheeks from become of them . tears. Una Tapper, a 76-year-old tainty. she wrote, was made like you don't really exist, that is a high-ranking police lmmigrdtion Review. Human rights groups argue The group listens quietly, retired lawyer who was once even more unbearable by the maybe lhe life you had before official. Ndayishimiye says ail administrative law judge he fears for his life if he !hat jailing detainees amounts some shaking their heads. fact that no one came to visit. never really ex1sted either.". About 35,000 are living this returns. to criminalizing them. They At the detention center, he for the state of New York. is Her 1-998 book, Do They Murekatele has delicate condemn the limited right of tells them, !heir mission is working on their behalf. · Hear You When You Cry. so alternative reality in a patchdisturbed a group of congre- work of detention centers and features and a quiet . elegant detainees to appeal their purelr friendship . They are Tapper. a former Sojourner. gants at the Riverside Church prisons .all over the counrry. presence. In detention, she incarceration, the lack of not v1siting as social workers, is trying to get a new hearing in Manhanan lhatlhey decid- Aliens, they are called, and says, she suffered from accountability at many cen- advocates or legal advisers. before an immigration judge ed to take action . They would for many, this is the most heart problems and ters and · the psychological He wluns them that some- on the grounds that the first headaches and. there were · sufferings of those detained times they will go and their one - in which they had no visit det&inees who had no ·alien experience imaginable. other visitors . They would lis·"When I saw my visitor ·times she wept so hard she indefinitely. friend will not be there, and representation , couldn't Many also criticize the. they may .be given no expla- speak · English and didn 't every week ," Cisse says. "It · thought she would die . She ten to their cries. understand the proceedings And so, on Saturdays and was the only time I felt ached for her children, her profits earned by the private nation . And he invites them to a - was unfair. She has med1\tesdays, a small band of happy." · husband , for warmth, for companies that run detention decent food. Steglich wor- cenlers. ICE has an annual rally outside the detenti.on ical reports from Doctors people climb into a church without Borders , which, she " Van and drive 15 miles to Mary Schoen's Roo~velt ried about the toll prolonged budget of nearly $5 billion. center a few weeks later. . There, as families huddle says are consistent with.their :: Elizabeth. They come from Island apartment is a tranquil imprisonment was taking on ICE officials say it costs about $175 a day to detain someone and weep and protesters bran- stories of being beaten by ·::an backgrounds: social work- place filled with books and her client. · ers, professors, students , doc- pictures. There are sweeping · For seven months the·cou- at Elizabeth. They refused to dish sign_s sa~mg "Asylu_m is · soldiers. But there is still a 'tors , nurses, an engineer, a views of the East River. A pot pie lived in Schoen's apart- say how much ICE pays not a Cnme. Fraccaro JOinS possibility · that they will be with others in reciting the· returned to detention or court clerk . Their mission is of spicy lamb slew simmers ment while she helped them CCA . Profits are also reaped in names of the detainees who deponed. . siml)(e: just show up, to he a on the stove. navigate their new lite. find . The prospect haunts Curle~. ::friendly face for an hour artd For Rwandans Jean-Bosco jobs, enroll in English classes, smaller ways. Detainees rhust are locked inside. At one point a speaker steps even as she marvels at therr ::make a commitment to be a Ndayishimiye, 47, and · his . and find a rentalroom'oftheir purchase phone cards, snacks · real f1iend . wife, Murekatete, this is the own. Now Ndayi shimiye and other small items within up to the · microphone and fortitude. "They are such respectful, They call themselves one place they ·can take a works in a commercial ware- the system, some at prices gazes up at the grim brick kind, hardworking, prayerful . Sojoumers.ln 10 years of vis- break from their nightmare. hou~ and Murekatete works higher thlm they cost outside. builqjng. "Mr. President," he cries, as , men," she says. "We should Detainees who work - in the ·its they have transformed Their three children, ages 7; 8 as a home health uide. .. some detainee lives - but and 12. smile from a framed Even if they win asylum , kitchen or laundry of facilities the crowd roars, "tear dt>wn be welcoming immigrants this wall." like this into our counlry, not which would mean their chil - - earn just $1 a day. ::many say their own lives have photograph on the bookcase. ' IC E spokeswoman Reilly ... punishing them .'' . ::been transformed as ,well. Schoen is a sunny woman · dren could join them, The visitors room is a soulCurley tells them that they "We try to bring some · with lair hair and twinkling Ndayishimiye . worries about said the.average length of stay is a month . Those who 'remain . less place where stark white have seen the wotst of humanity into a place that is eyes . The 50-year-old nurse .the diftkuhies of starting a so . dehumanizing." Curley practitioner began visiting the new life "fmrn z.ero," as he longer, she said, make their light~ beam down on the glass America, and she apologizes own choice to do so while partition that separates the for that. says. couple in Elizabeth shortly says . No, they say, smiling·. They It is not an easy task. after they were detained in Schoen listens from the they · appeal deportation imprisoned from the free. In . one comer a man tries to com- have seen the best of The detention center is September 2006. Today kitche11 as she prepares, din- orders. .She has little sympathy for fort a woman sobbing behind America. ::housed in - a brown brick Schoen and her 20- year~ld ner. She knows how hard it !? .. ---. PageD3 ' name �Pomeroy • Mlddlaport • ca.llipqlls, OH • Pl. Pleannt. WV Sunday, .Jant..ry 4, 2009 A I ~rihunt- Sentinel·cLASSIFIED I ----- - - - - - •I .. IJ J: l ii~~=~~~= W. ......._ at ·~ _...,. 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E-•· for details and pictures ~· ~·'" 0 . ,Ifl/ \..~.\ I!Cti~!_l Ohio \ AuCtion . Auction . ANNUAL FORMAL DRESS SALE 143 Third Ave., Gallipolis Prom· Homecoming- Wt;dding Have one to sell? Regiter itJan. 3th or 9th • 3:30 - 6 pm daily Small entry fee goe~ to charity Pay No Commission www ..ovb.com for details Chec~sOnly Auction Auction ANNUAL GARAGE DOOR AUCTION . Sunday, January II, I :00 pm, Located ut: Jackson Co. Fairgrounds. Wellsturi. Ohio (4-H Exhibit Bldg) Tuke Rt. 9J Suutn Edge of Wellsron go East on Driving Purk Rd. Tum left at Cement Planl to fairgrounds. Able: Haas and Sholl garuge door sections. 112 hp . G~nie und commercial garage door openers. Approx.. 100 garage doors will be offered in thi~ auction. one sided steel and insulated doors. seyenl l insuluted doors w/sunburst glass tops, Iruck.• springs. trim. 300' hanging meHtl and door hardware. 8x7, 9x7. !6x7, 10x8. IOxiO, 12xl2 . 14', 16'. IR' wide commerch1l und olher size doors a\'uilable. For a different size or ·style dtllir to be udded to this auction cull (6 14 l 83 7-4 710. Door instullation available, bring a tr\u..- k or tmiler. Open for previ~w 2 Ins. before auction .· . All sales final & sold "us' is· . · Terms: Cash, Charge curd und check wlpositi'e LD . IO'it buyer:; premium will be charged . Tax win be churged unless you huve' vendors number. All doors musl be removed 2 hrs . after completion of auction. Owner: Sholl Door Co. Auclioneer: Jatk Goodbar. BULLETIN BOARD DEADLINE 2:00 P.M. FRI. January & February Only $35.00 an hour reduced labor rate on all Marine and RV Service. Cari'l come lo ·us? We'll come 10 you I We are your certified RVIA dealer. Ccrt!t!cd.Tcchnic!::mc for Norcctd, Dometlc and Suburban appliances LAMINATE SALE $28.99/BOX 25 Yr. Warranty MOLLOHAN CARPET 2212 EasternAve. 740·446·7444 BACK FROM VACATION Open, 8 lo 8 Mon·Sat . LUNCH SPECIALS Try our new $5.00 Speclalo or Bring someone to lunch & get the 2nd meal at 1/2 Price (equal or lesser value) Reg. Menu THE PARKFRONT · DINER 446:6700 www.IWinrivermarlna.com , J, \' ~ - ·- ,. . TERMS of SALE- Cash or Pre-Approved 740-924-9334 Michael & .Friends Hair Spring Valley Plaza Job Opening Cosmetologisl, Barber, Nail Tech Independent Conlraclor$ Renl a Booth $125 wk. Be your own boss. · 740·446,0698 or 740·645·5895 lnlllmory r---------:;:~~ !!I!!!!!!O!!!I!!!!!!O!!!!O!!!!O!!II!I! en Legal Notice Legal NoUce Rtctulll lor Bond RICIUIII lor Bond ReiHl& . ReiHl& Pennll Number: D- · Permll Number: · D0354 ~ . Mining Yeilr: 21' · Mining Year: 21 Delalatued: 6-12-84 Deteluued: 8-12-84 Southam Ohio Coal Soulhetn Ohio Coal Compilny Ia Company 11 raqullllng a Phan I rtctullllng a Phaee 1 bond release for 73.5 bond relell.. for acrea alfaclld by lhe 136.6 aforementioned coal ec;ret ·~ by the ·mint and reclemltlon · atoremenllcilied coal p.nnit, locllled In · mine and reclallllllon 35 of parmlt, leicalad In Secllona Cheehlre Township, Secllona 13, 19, 25, (iallla County, and 26, 31, 32, 33, and Sectloni 16; 19, 25, Fracllon 17 of 26, 32, and Fracdona Columbia .Townahlp, ~. 19, a~d 33 of and Secllona 16, t7, Salem Townahlp, 23, 24, 34, 36, and Melga County. Frecllona 2, 6, 23, 35, Backfilling and and 36 of Salem .grading was Townlhlp, Melga completed on to- 15· County. Backfilling 05 In accordance and grading wae with lhe approved complelid on to-tsreclamation plan. 05 In accordance $183,750.00 bond Ia with the approved on depoelt, of which reclamation plan. $91,875,00 Ia aoughl $341.500.00 bond Ia Ia be releaaacl. on· deposit, of which Written ob)ecllonl, $170,750.00 Ia aought commenla, or to be . ralea1ad. Written objecllona, rtctUIIII lor a. bond conference may be commanla, or submitted lo lhe rtctueela lor a bond ODNR, Dlvlalon of conference may be Mineral ~ource eubmltted 10 lht Management, 2045 · , Chlel Ollhl, Dlvlalon Morrie Roed, of Mineral Ruourca Building H·:i, Managamenl, 2045 Columbue, . .Ohio · Morrla Road, 43229 - 8813, In ·Building H-2, -ordl:nce with · Columbua, Ohio peregraph (F) (8) of 43228 • etl93, In the OhiO RtVItiacl ICCOrdlnCI Wllh Code Secllon peregraph (F) (51 of • 1513.18. · lhe Ohio ReviHd Written ob)actlvae or Code Sacllon rtctUIIII lor bond 1513.18. . Written re11111 contarenc11 objecllvea or muat be Iliaci wtlh lhl riCJUIIII lor bond Clllef wtlhln 30 daye rei""" conlarancea after the lilt dale ol muel be Iliad wllh lhl"' · publlcellon. Chief within 30 daye (12) 14, 21, 28, (1) 4 ·after lhe lilt dale of publication. (12) 14, 21' 28 (1) 4 . I lnlllmory ' home Mlms>ille :l04-S]6-2220. 2br, House lor Aa1t. il- Rd. $37!!/mo + doc>: NO ;;;;;;;;~'"'"';:::;;;;;;;;;:;;; ~~"!'!"-"'"!~.....; duclos ~. Relilger• PETS. Cal alter S. ;;; Service Manager & Servlor.. Water/Trasi\'Sewer 44&-15621eave - g o Ohio )!alloy Home ~ Te<hrlieiln pos1tions . of Thank& paid, No Pels. $450 Hoaltll, Inc. is accepting available. Hoalth ca"' & !ii!!!!!!!·~; manti!, I>'- deposit. 3BR DbL ~ applications for Part R.. roment plor>$ avail- 740-446-t370 P<>rnoroy. groat c:oodillon limo Otlico Clerk Expo- able. Ploass send .,. r; ~-~~~~~~ with noce yanl. Rent ,,.. · tarred · ;.. 1y t sumo to To lhose who Ohio Valley Bank Annex Help Wanted One of the Nation 's J.,eading Telemonitoring Home Care Agencies is hiring a Full Time ~PN . Telemonitor Central Station Nurse/Passport · Supervisory Nurse Position entails pan lime in office to monitor Telemonitor VItal Statistics & pan time performing supervisory visi1s. rooms T - f'fl6itioroo Saturday, January 10 9am-Spm PSYCHOLOGIST; HelpWanled ..p.,,on\onls RN- FT !-Jackson 1-Gallipolls LPN· FT· Gallipolis Home Health Aide - Per Diem Physical Theraplsl· FT Occupalional Therapist· FT t\nnllqpts for Nuniqg +cWtagt Twice Charmed Used Furniture & Appliances. 740-245-5428 'fllllhMID,....... 1_..........,...... ·PoiiYaaliool.atK · App~ln,.,.,:lc.,ic II.. DioMIIotloot, liON m Wli4fo RooUilwt~ llllmt4 £1-FMJtlwj.-.-lthc.t._£1-0nlntct: 11 land. ~ tiiS6-6&Q()70. 1-866-403-2582 Olld Will do listiD8• Bal\kfUP':Y & Bad Credit OK. 2, 3. 4 andav!...t>o,! S37r.'mo.(740)4464782 NOW LEASING ,.Jo..an 5 room house stovalreh. Landing 2BR, 3BR & 44 Olive St. $42S'mltl + ........,, No ~ 4BR Available No Pols. _..,..t. · ·-Tanant Responsible lor ' 446-3945 Ron ;,. Elec1ric t 304-674.()023 or 4BR house In Gailljlolis. 304-610.0776 740-367-77112 ed Unfumli5ht upstelrs !"'-~--~~apartmen stove/1rldge room Southwest house, lull school basswater/trash Included 5menl, 5350 mo + depos"" ro- district 379-2254 quired . 446-9872 or 44 - ~ DOWNI =lis"""' ~ hho1:;:~,,..; lor Lonl Owners, Holier Seqlor Care Centeri Seasoned Firewood CAA HEAP accepted. 645-5946 or 441-09~t Seasoned ·C:..-4lli~w-·"-tf101itn1N.,.rllio .._ """""'· - and flO< ..,.... ~ lob ""'· haopilol • QUI pe!isnt call ~ Aoso<;. ol setting Llll<M t-913o599-8290, _ _ _ ...._ ·coli 304-61&1500 or fU HoJzer Home Cer!: Ross Co. Fairgrounds Athens Medical AssO!!lates Attn: Finance · SS Hospital Drive . Holzer EJtra Care; - included in NO PETS. JaM. se<;urity deposit requlreri Ouit, · $450 mo. plus de' no pets.74D-992·2216 posit. NO pets, No smok· LongT«rr!CGNI HomeC41N . Dlvtslon II' ~ t ,.. ~~-"'!"'~"'!"'~ Mollie ntshed, and houses in rooms, · front yard, stove Pomeroy and Middlepo~. & relrlgarator iumii5hed, at • Equipment 740 "1 1393 Vena ....................... ..................................... 20ot5 Want to buy ........................................~~ ...... 2010 Real Estate Sates .. :..............................:.... 3000 Cemallry Plols .......................................... 3005 . Commerclal................................................3010 Condominiums .......................................... 3015 Home Improvement• 330 For Sale by Owner ...............,..................... 3020 lnaurance ..................................................... 332 Hou..oror Sale ..........................., ............. 3025 Llwn ·Service ............ ~ ................ ,................. 334 Land (llcroage) .......................................... 3030 Muslc/Dance/Drama .................................... 336 Lola ........................,................................... 3035 Otl)er Services ............................................. 338 Want to buy ................................................ 3040 Plumblng/Eiectrlcal ..................................... 340 . Reel Eotale Rentalo ........................, .......... 3500 Professional Servlcea ................................. 342 Apartmento/Townhou............................ 3505 Repairs ,.............,.......................................... 344 Commerclal................................................ 3510 Roofing ......................................................... 346 Condominium• .......................................... 3515 Security ........................................................ 348 Housel fcir RW1t .. ,..................................... 3520 Tax/Accounting ................................... ;.... ,.. 350 Land (Acreage) ..........................................3525 Travei!Entertaln.-nent . ...................... ...........352 Storage ...................... ,................................ 3535 Flnancla~ ... ,................................................... 400 · Want to Renl .............................................. 3540 Financial Servicea ....................................... 405 Manufactured Houolng ............................. 4000 Money to Lend .......................... :................. -415 a •>~1027 - ~-;~;;..,;: ~ mod. . & mino< a 11 bl& Fat IUIIIIiicati<>1 ~r:. n 2l>r ...... . "' city. Iorge within 'store. Thctmas ll<> lot carport SSOCI'rent + 2BR & 3BR mobile home ~ Canter, 17& McCardoposil + relersnCes. No tar lllfl~ · 367-1762 or mick Rd. GwHpolitl. lor OJIIlOr. .& .,.,rgetit - - - - - - - petSc 7~ . 446-4060 b a - & doOrman Apctlmenlt/ 2 br., $350 mo. plus de· ;;;;;:;::l~CI~Wit=..:ot:~:M:•:._;;;;; posit .& u)ilitles, no pets, ;;; 3rd St., Racine, t and 2 bedroom apts., "74;;0.~2;.;".;.74,;;2;,;9;;,2_ _ _~ lurrilshed and untur· -Midd1oport• 1 br. apt., b'·'g 4 Sate 4x5 Round Bates, ..... ==·===·==:! good mi.xed . hay-bam kept Delano . Jackson h Electrical.,...... ,........ ,, .. ,.,,,......... ,, .... ,.... ,... ,,, .. 320 Flnanclal ......•.................. .............................. 322 Heallh ...........................................................326 Heating & Coollng ....................................... 328 Insurance ........................ : ........................... 410 invenlol)l "===o=r::p:=o;:n;:e:=~ Aulo Renlai'L.e aae ..................................... 2005 Appliance Servlce .. .......t··························· .. 302 Auto a ............................................. ,............ 201 0 Automotive ..... .........•........... :.................•... :. 304 Claoalc/Anllquea ...................:................... 20t 5 Building Malerlels ....................................... 306 Commerclalllnclualrlal ...... ,, .. ,................;.. 2020 Bustrie:aa ...................................................... 308 Parts & Accaeaorlea .................................. 2025 ~aterlng .................. :.................................... ,31 0 . Sporla Utlllly....... ,.... ,................................. 2030 Chlld/Eideny Care .......,............................... 312 Trucka ..........................:. ............................. 2035 Com pulers .,,....... ,............................. :.......... 314 UUIIty Trallort ............................................ 2040 Conlractore .................................................. 318 DomestlciiJarittortat ................................... 318 used ,74().446·2412 1480 Jackson Pike Galliplls, OH ~~--..~~~ 2 Maltese · t (M) and 1 I" CLASSIFIED INDEX . BlrthdaylAnnlvereary ...,. .................... ,, .. ,.... 205 Happy Ads ................................................... 210 Loot & Found ....... :......................................215 Memory/Thank You .................................. ;.. 220 Notices ,........................................................ 225 Have you pncad a John Deere lately? You'll . be surprised! Check out ·our michael Apply at ' ...., Service. . www.CAREO.com. --- Jan !. Feb only S35/hour reduced labOr rate on all Legato ................................................. ,.... ,.... 100 675-6679 ~~;;;;:t~~Ma~r~~~-~~--~ SAVINGS law. ":; $J'R) for JOBS ··~ .,..,.....,_ NNII;:w;"·'isi'iiBedl;;::ooro;;:;,,;-, POST OFFICE NOW fl<>m S2t4.36 I* montll. HIRING "'9o Pay S21»1r 01 inclutlM "'""'I UIIQ!IIIIe$. or <ltp. JO>t-+7 l--4IOO $67Kiyr: inclutlM 77·40:~·=·te~.&~~:.9·~~~= Qallvery & . - · Fodl!¥>, OT. l'lac. by ':..D 1 bo·~ ~ 741h'JM-2434 ~ not allilialod ~ m ·-· '1 " USPS . who hireo. ~ ~ ~-211<. fw... ~ 1 !l% <Iowa. rent .negotiable, seeunty dop. required, 740.949-2025 ;;;~~~~~'!!!!'~ 2 br. ap8rtment $370 a mo. plus utilities, dop: re· quired, no pets. 740'992-4119 as!< for .Get AJump on •1 I 7 •~oo ' If , _ ·.·~·oo ~. · ~. No . closing 8 elderty/-. Immaculate 2BR apan, new carpet cabinets ·• fr8sh1y painted WID hool<up beOutiful CO<Iltry setting 1o mlnuloo 1rom 'Pleasant, :JI>r, 2 balll. town. Watar & trash paid. · Must soe to Oj)l)rGCiote. ~- Story. HardWood $425/mlll. 614·595-1773 999· Must. or 740-645-5953 ,_.,.. $l53. See' -...oNb.com ~~~~---:304-675-48110 1SR luml!llled Apt. au~:,..."!!""___.,......__ able for t adult lirtvate :S Bad, 2 9allll Only driveway wlcarport. ·St9,900 for .listlngo ReYdap. required. dor ""- =" ;. e= - ·"!!!!!!!!!ii;;;;;;;;!!ii!!!ii!ii!!!! Ohio Valley Shop the Classifieds! Ap!S. ~ {.~ ~ Q2 Up '*"· GOVERIIENT S1' .. - llwl • Page D5 SMIOOg PllyS> . citrt ac.lUllBElime ~~~ep~~g;st .,.. t1o bo8n1 cert>11oc1 n medico•. "" · "**'or -. Gq ;;-ci{ ;-c;..., ~~~~=;::::~~ w...., not_,.,-... _,..·- ol""' ""· not ... Ohio VaUey Home Health, lnf, accepting _applications for STNA, CNA, CHHA, PCA. 740-as& ::;....., , . - . . ~~ .,. rent COQting. . appltcal!ons lor ~'"" 8'11 -- PubHshlngreiiOMio tile right to edit .S200 <llp<tolt call S42f.'IWit. rlop. Coll740-»7-<1647 listings Tom Rivers Tower is ac- Bani. caH Sl.OOforlarve odlt.- t.~blefornomorwtt.n pd.) onl . ~ No - ' (304)882-3017 au, lhi!COII ol tn. ..-.~ lly llld ont,thetm tnwt1on. W. QlllriM .._. retu111 trom or om1111on IICMrll......m. CorrecUon Will t1e l'nllll ... .....,. contldtnllll . •Current rtll Cllld ......... · AU I'MI•ta\lt ~ . . aubfect tothtFtdenl F81r Houtlnti Actol1ta ~St •6141 enw toe~ Dr - lr>- WJI VIEW APIS · soos t.1o1ti1e Home l'lrlt 2&38R and up, camal si.- $450 ..... + .. 74D-64S{)506 Air, WID -up. tonant poolt 1'.0 2511 • 1 . pays etecllic. EHO Elm --:" Fedorll Funca illSt re- Watt To .~;;:;;;;;;;;;;;;;.;.;;....,.. lor tl'tOI addecl~yourclasslfledacls Borders $3.00/peracl · G~lcs SCM for small .m IQI, pol)!, Cflllllry. '!-~~~--- calion & inlormaliQn. Honda·• View . Cllevy$, Je&j)$, Folds, & Now you can have bardersanci91'Qphks All D ...... y: 1.2 Noon 2 Bualn- Days Prior To MondayMFrlctay for ln-rtlon ssoo"·~, GEl' YOI~R CLASSIFIED UNE.AD Display Ads .. c :liit EO- 4 . DR auto, power locks + windows 58,000 CATED I> .AFfORD. 2 bo! I mi. clean $4900. Day ABLE! Townhouse oport· Ja<1rsort Pile. L..,. 446-t615 or , ~ .••_ ments. an<llor small """reri Coli 4t6 3644 o•~· houses for rent Coli -· - to 446-1244 740-44t-1ttt, .... ~ ~ mori!UIII . Websi!eS: Oearlt1irec Asl• . -. - •&flf ol ..... Go11• - IMc! · tor ~ ,..,.._ now 111ow hlo ,;;;;;;;;;;;;~;;;;;;~;;;;;;;;;o;;;;t ~ Flna wllo""" or • Riii-ICI AQls. ·-~- S315.00'NI!#Il ._.. - .....,., lard o down "'!!';;;::!;;;iiT:tiiliii;ia;_;;;;;;;;;;; Haven wv. ....- 740 •• ll40tl - · 10r ~ limo c . as/W.• :::.. • Ponlei'OJ • llddlepart • ca.lllpolls, OH • Pt. Pleasant, WV ,. �Pomeroy • Mlddlaport • ca.llipqlls, OH • Pl. Pleannt. WV Sunday, .Jant..ry 4, 2009 A I ~rihunt- Sentinel·cLASSIFIED I ----- - - - - - •I .. IJ J: l ii~~=~~~= W. ......._ at ·~ _...,. CarrnL ing opplicalions T,_; HUD-~ "" ooe ~ -21$-577" 2 "' IIH "" IW1\ , - ~---~-- 10-.. 740-~~ BedtOO'ft Apls. onUtllitioe 'includad. 6ase<l ~ -.....,.... - " 2BR, 1.5 2llR 1 - · lli!l )llftL in of ~ ,,..,._ c.~~. ~ · - pler;glouncl. { - - - ciLt<loS QlllliQO pick 304-882-3121. lor Senior and people. ~ ~ lill · ::200:!:t-:!"'-~•~ 'Ma~n~·bu;;:;::L;;;;t. ~~~~~-'"!'!!' ~·-•1 CONVENIENTLY L()o Allloe . In One Week With Us classified@!~:~ribunecom ·REACH OVER 285,000 PROSPECTS. '!!"...!""~!!""!-.....F'Cit S8le- t999 Red PQn. liol: Grand IVn SE, Qieat lor new clriv<lrs 301-675.-6787. Polce t~unds! CaN www.mydailytribune.com www.mydailysentinel.com www.mydailyregister.tom from TO Place ~rihunt · Sentinel .· l\egi~ter · Your Ad, (740) 446-2342 (740) 992-2156 (304) 675-1333 Call TOday... or .To 446-30011 · OrFaxTo 992-2157. Wprd O.lly In-column: 8:00 a.m. Monday thru Friday p.m. .S:OO a.m. to 5:00 ' In Next Su1ndooy EM~y'a ~per Publl~tton In-Column: •:oo a.m. Sunday• Pa.-r SYndaY Dl8playa :&100 Thurad.y for sunday• . • All Ids must be prepaid" . HQW IO W§Ijf! 6fi 6Q 'SuCct~sSii ds , Should ·InclUde These Items To Help Get Response ... • St•rt Your Ads Wlth A Keyword • I'OUCII!S ' Ohlo""'"' _ , _ .......... Inc~ Compl... .Description • Include A Price • Aveld AIIIH'evtatlona ··Include Phone Nurftber And Addi'UI When NHdecl • Ads Should Run 7 Days ~· A•a••• d , more! "*' 6n an ld 1M "'*lltiiiOrt .... "'"''"~~ !0! - - o n l y ..... - tor tiQn ow Mpttont. - - __ . . _ ......... tMemar or.,. Jn 1M""'.-.........._ Wll ;~exi'I019 Land f.,__;_l Want To Buy Looking lor land to leass lor deer hunting 1·300 ARTIST ' wants to buy acreo. Will · pay cai5h. Large .Building Malwiala Gray 865·363-3305 Slates.call 252-729-93t1 --~·Leave Message. reject or cancel any ad alany time. i>Erroro Must i'le!>llrlacl on the Molgo Co. nice 5 acres on Cook. Ad $t 9,900. Red Hill Rd ·t3 acres co. cwater lr. Salem 18$26.500.. acres, pond $47,950. Reedsville 7 acres $t3,900! Golllo Co. 10 acres $12,5001 We linanc<!l Call 740-441-1492 for maps or visit . Pet Cremations. Cell ~~~~~ 740-446-3745 I [)[) Marine & RV ,\ '1 C an't come to us? we·ll . 2 male AKC Springer · come to youl 446 ·6700 Spaniel puppies $200.00 304-273-43n """"""'"""'"""'"""'"""'!!! · Prolmionol s.m- Announcements ....... .'.................................. 200 Personals ..........................................'........... 230 Wanted ............. ;.......................................... 235 Services ....................................................... 300 (F) born Nov. t6. First · TURNED DOWN ON . shots/wormed AKC Reg. SOCIAL SECURITY SSI 740·256-1049 No Fe~ Unless We Win! eKe · REG.- Miniature 1·886·582·3345 Ptncher M-9 Mo. Ears, tall , shots $400. 740-388-6788 . Septic pumping Gallia CO. OH and Mason Co. Free- Mate striped tabby WV. Ron E11ans Jack· cat, very loving, to good home 304-675-7585. son. OH. 800-537·9526 Recreatlonalliehlclel .........:..................... 1000 ATV ........................................... ,................. 1005 Blcyclee .......................................... ,........... 1010 Boato/Acceaaorlaa .................................... 1015 · Camper/RVe & Trallers ............................. 1020 · Motorcyctes .............................................~ 1025 Olher ................... ,.,... ,.............. ,................:1030 Want to buy .........:..........................,..........1035 Automotive ................................................ 2000 Educatton ..................................................... soo Bualneoa & Trade Schoot. ....... :.................. 505 Instruction &: Training ................................. 510 Lesaons ...........:............................................ 515 ·Personal ................ ,., .................................... 520 Anlmala ......................................................... &OO Animal Su'ppllea .......................................... 605 Horua ............... ........................................... 610 Llveatock ..................................................:... 615 Peta ........... :................................................... 820 Want to buy .................................................. 625 Agriculture .................................................. . 700 Farm Equlpment ..........,.............................. :7o5 Garden & Produce ....................................... 710 Hay, Feed, Seed, Grain ............................... 7t5 Hunting !. Land ............................................ 720 Wan.l to buy .................................................. 725 Merchandise .... ......................................... ;.. 900 Antiques .................................... ,............. :.... 905 Appliance .................... ,................................ 9t0 Auctlona ................ , ......... .......................... ,.. 915 Bargain Basement. ..................................."!•• 920 Collectibles .................................................. 925 (:omputera ................................................. :.930 Equlpmeni/Suppllaa................ ,................... 935 Flea Martce1a ................................................ 940 Fuel 011 Coal/Wood/Gao ............................. 945 .Furniture ....... ~ .......... :................................... 950 Hobby/Hunt li.··Sport ....................................955 Kid's Corner ................................ :................ 960 Mlacellaneous ...................·........................... 965 Lota ............................................................. 4005 Moveis ........................................................ 4010 Rentala ............. ,,, ............. ,,.,,....... ,............. 4015 Seles ........................................................... 4020 Supplies .......................... ,....................... ,.. 4025 Wanl to.Buy ... :....,...................................... 4030. Resort Property ......, .................................. 5000 Reoort Property lor aale ........................... 6025 Resort Property for rent... ........................ 6050 Employment... ............................................ 6000 Accountlng/Financlal .....................>.......... 6002 Admlnlstratlvo/Proleaalonal .....................8004 Caahlor/Cierk .. ,,................................,........ 6006 Chlld/EI(Ierly Care .... :................................8008 Clerlcat... ........................................ :........... 6010 Con atr.uctlon ..................................~ ...........6012 Drivers & Delivery ..................................... 6014 Educallon ..... ,, .. ,,,...:••... ,, ............................ 6016 Electrical Pltimblng ...........................,....... 6018 Employment Aganclaa .............................. 6020 Entertainment ................. ,......................... ,6022 Food Servtcal............................................ 6024 .Governmenl & Federal Jobo .................... 8026 Help anted· General .................................. 6028 Law Enforcement .. .'.........................:......... 6030 MalntenancWDomeatlc ............................. 6032 Management1Supervl1ory ........ ,........... :... 6034 Mec~anlco ..................................................6036 Medlcal .......................... ,............................ 6038 Muolcitt... .................................................... OQ40 Part-Tlme·Temporarlea ............................. 6042 Rlatauranle ........ ;,,, ................................... 6044 Sale, ........................ ,,,,,, ............................. 8048 Want to buy .................................................. 970 ' Technical Tradea ......... ;....................,........ 6050 Yard 'Sale·.......... ::......................................... 975 Textllea/Factory ......................... ,............... 6052 I -==H=ai:li;:p=W=ai:nted=i::==.=:;::He:;;I;;P.;WBn:;tld;;;,~. r . Car· 19" Apt, WID hookups, solelllto . TV Incl. wlrenl, close to hospital. Call 740-339-0382 ;..;,;;.;_;;..._ _ _ 2 br apt 6 mt 1rom Hoi· zer. Uttllttes paid. ~5 + dep. · 740-418-5288 or 398-8039 2br apt. In Rio Grande close to Col!ege. $375 dop. $375/monlh. 245-9060 2BR APT.Ciose to Hoi· Hospllal on SR 160 CIA. (740) ~1-0194 Hay, FM<I, Said. Grain Do you want lo make a difference? If you - -======:..:=====:::; Help Wantld ·Help Wanted Athens Medical Associales, an affiliate of the O'Bleness. Heallh Syslem, currently has an opening for a full time Accounting Clerk. An assoc.iate's . Farm 67&1743 339·0143 are compassionale and commined 10 providing Quality Care come and be a part , or of our Long Term Care/Home Care team. We have lhe following positions available: '!'""-~""'!~-~ · For sale· .2nd cutting grass hay square bales degree in accounling is preferred. Experience in payroll, accouins payable and Microsoft Office is required. Musl be well organized and maintain records effectively. Athens, OH 45701 Fax: (740) 566-4821 EOE GUN SHOW & SALE CHILLICOTHE, OH Jan. 10 & t1 Adm.$4 t35 · 6' tbls $35 pre·paid 740·667·.0412 fuel/ Oil/ Cool/ Wood/G!rJ . Firewood Hardwood. 446-9204 fumltura Miowlanooua · Jet Aeration Motors re· paired, new & rebuilt In stock. Call Ron Evans, www.vrablehealthcare.com . Personal Care Aides· Per'Diem: . Hourly rate and paid mileage ·· I ·Jackson Counly I·Gallla County ' . ••r Ohio Valley Home Health, Inc. Competitive Wages and' Benefits · For more lnrormalion conlact April at 740-441-1393 Apply al: 1480 Jackson Pike Galllpoli•, OH www.ovhh.org· 7~ . Unit Mana11:er/RN • FT Evenings )\N I· FT Nipl shift· 7 pm • 7 am · Medical Rec:ords/Marketlng Assistant- FT . · STNA·FT STNA- Pf Days Dietary Aide- Pf 1-800·537-9526. Moving Sale: Sola $400, toffoe table & 2 end tabios $300, end table $40, trldgo $75, stereo $50, dresser & night stand $150, twin poster bed $200, all ~oms 080. Call 740-441-0988 ·or 740-645-2376 Help Wanted Qplzer Aulstcd Clews Llylqp.. GaJIIoolilj • Resident asslslanl· (Can Train) I·FT l·Pf Holzer Assited Living· Jackson: Residenl Assistanl: Pf (Can train) For details please ·give Barb Peterson, Director of Human Resources for our Long Tenn Carel Home Care division a callnt 740-441 -3401 or . email me at oeterson®bOIZer.org or visit us on the web at www.holzer.org. · · Equal Opportunity Employer ~=======-=======~ Help Wanted ~ in 1 rewanllng pooltlon? PAIS is currontly . sael<ing luiV""~ lime o1a11 for Ma,.... ·SQO and PWrt !!leasanl .. Are you providing residontiaVc:cmmunity skill ~ with inaIWpWa-.t·Gei.al vlduals Wttll MR/00. High· schoQI· diPloma or W>l 7 · ?40-38S-854 - C Na I 01* . Casllier f1!leded, tJ11M1ti.,.,. ' reqlireri . /!Wy· GED' requlracl No · exporior1Ce """""'"'Y· Crim1ntil background check required. Must have reti· a111e trartspOr!ation and tl'tOI road - O..r ..,.""!'_ _,_...,...... AVOM All Areas! 'll> Buy valid auto insuranco. or SoU Sltirley Spears Pail! tralrllng. fiourty · rate 304-67$-1429 starling at $7-$8.00/h<lur. Please call 1 304-373-t011 or toH hoe Goodllmes Bar l<ld<"'Q at 1-817~73- 1()11. Help Wentld Holzer Clinic. a multi-specialty group practice with 130+ physicians in Gallipolis, Ohio, is seeking an OH licensed psychologist for clinicbased services. including; Counseling services for depression, family crisis.etc. Support for Primary Care physiFians whe.n lreatin~ general psychological disorders · Administer, inte.,iret and assess resulls of psychological testi,ng Assisl in evaluation and treatment of chrotlic pain disorder~ . t.ccept.ing Masters and Ph.D. applic~nts. Desirable work experiem:e and training include: Experience working in a medical setting with an interdisciplinary tenm approach to patient ewe and demonstrated compet!mcy in responding to physicians' coflstiltation requests by. providing on~ site assessment. Competitive benefit package including: Health, Dental, Life, Disability, 401 (k) & Profil Sh.aring . ' . '. Conta~.:l i~formation: Ana Marla Mendiela "'ameqdietaiholzercllplsfpm 740-446-5949 In Loving Memory t';tne Humphrty, Sr. be with the.Lord Ollt year ago today. Jan. 4, 2008. and for Myrtle V. Grot·er on htr .89th Birthday today. who wtnt ~B8 $4Wmo OK, elude~~•-'- roortt&t•"" J~--- 441-0tt0or59t·5174 inlormation. , kepp Ga~ LLCOCAREO.COM or , 2BR Fum~m.,..."aolterl~ -~· • • S400'dop HUD & some utilities . Included llpolis. OH "' phone lax to 740-446-9104 ·no cats. $675/mo. · No petSc call 740-441-139a for more Gorfteld 740-645-t646 For rent- :JI>r. all-.. all appllanees ~ lg. deck . & big yard 304-!lt2-72t4. P . l ::E~E~~= •--~ · , _ S.. ftCII !!!i!!i!i!!!!!!!i!I!!!!!!O!!!!O!~ Lunchroom Vending At._.__ · ~~~;.;;~~~~ Brand new Sbed 2bath on + -hall acre· In Pt. Pleasant OWNER Fl· NANCE AVAILABLE. (740) 446-3570 s~•·etl mefiWries. " Sadly misml by, Famil)' & Friends . senl cards or !!!!1!"::::::;!!!!!!! M.-•._,_l joined in the celebrmion of -;;;;:;::;;;;iDooiiOftlllllciiiaiiitiillcii;;;;;;;·;·;;;;; my 80th " Au.c tlon Auction · Birthday . PTJanitor positkln, must tiave insurance, chemlTHANKS ca•·.· ftoo:, carpet and G ,, II ~ rattJlt y, general clesnif19 equip. Gallipolis area. Please Lowell Beaver caii9Q1.754-3060 ~~~~~~~~ tendant, Pan Tme, M-F, Bam-tpm, product dollvered to you. Paid trainlng. holidays, vacation, 401 k, $8•.25/tu. Pre-em· - - - - - - - - Auction Auction ployrnent drug testing. EOE Cail304·485-542t ========~======::; Hti2o Real Estate Auction Dam· 5 Mile Above Crown City 4 Mulll Family Properties Court Ordeftd RectinrsllipAuclion. Manslleld, OH 44905 B!lSHNELL Spoiler Scope Everlast Punching Bag on w/Boxing Gloves. Weight Bench· . Weights & Dumb Bell weights w/stands (Very Nice) FURNITURE· G.E. EL Stove. K . :enfD()'rel uprighl Freezer. Em. Center • M,lK. · Nascar Items, Counlry CD's, Tools. Pots, Pans. Dishes, Linen'~ Box Lois. Elc. ~_;;;;.;..~'"!"~~­ 2 bdrm. apt; In Racine, Janu!li'Y 10,2009 · •Where Can You Find the Perfect Pet1 f ;;;ing:·~7~4o-~99~2.;"5~18;;1-.'!'"'~ tQ "How Precio11s are the Clru... ;.;!!· Mi:dmum bill $7 ,ZSO!property No Buyers Prtmlum Greal lnveslmtnt Opportunity . 287 Jrd Ave.,2 112 slory duplex 10 am 562 S Diamond St., 2 1/2 slory duplex !0:30am 116 Dlsll Ave., 2 Ill story duplex II am 369·2nd Ave. 2 112slory duplex 11:30 am . . ' . l"!·.(p·~· . .. Su«,essful bidders will d•posil $l,o00lproperty (personal or compa~y cheokl :md ....., wilbin 30 days. Visit \vww .auctlonohlo.com Beoutllul Apl:t. at Jock· 1on 52· Westwood 0... from $365 to 6560. 740-446-2568. Equal Housing Opportu· nity. This Institution is an Equal Opportunity Provider·and El)11Jiqyor. Gracloua uvlng t and 2 lladroqm Apts. at. VIllage Manor end Riverside Apts. In Mlddlepo~. lrom $327 to . $592. 740-992·5064. Equot Housing Opportunity. E-•· for details and pictures ~· ~·'" 0 . ,Ifl/ \..~.\ I!Cti~!_l Ohio \ AuCtion . Auction . ANNUAL FORMAL DRESS SALE 143 Third Ave., Gallipolis Prom· Homecoming- Wt;dding Have one to sell? Regiter itJan. 3th or 9th • 3:30 - 6 pm daily Small entry fee goe~ to charity Pay No Commission www ..ovb.com for details Chec~sOnly Auction Auction ANNUAL GARAGE DOOR AUCTION . Sunday, January II, I :00 pm, Located ut: Jackson Co. Fairgrounds. Wellsturi. Ohio (4-H Exhibit Bldg) Tuke Rt. 9J Suutn Edge of Wellsron go East on Driving Purk Rd. Tum left at Cement Planl to fairgrounds. Able: Haas and Sholl garuge door sections. 112 hp . G~nie und commercial garage door openers. Approx.. 100 garage doors will be offered in thi~ auction. one sided steel and insulated doors. seyenl l insuluted doors w/sunburst glass tops, Iruck.• springs. trim. 300' hanging meHtl and door hardware. 8x7, 9x7. !6x7, 10x8. IOxiO, 12xl2 . 14', 16'. IR' wide commerch1l und olher size doors a\'uilable. For a different size or ·style dtllir to be udded to this auction cull (6 14 l 83 7-4 710. Door instullation available, bring a tr\u..- k or tmiler. Open for previ~w 2 Ins. before auction .· . All sales final & sold "us' is· . · Terms: Cash, Charge curd und check wlpositi'e LD . IO'it buyer:; premium will be charged . Tax win be churged unless you huve' vendors number. All doors musl be removed 2 hrs . after completion of auction. Owner: Sholl Door Co. Auclioneer: Jatk Goodbar. BULLETIN BOARD DEADLINE 2:00 P.M. FRI. January & February Only $35.00 an hour reduced labor rate on all Marine and RV Service. Cari'l come lo ·us? We'll come 10 you I We are your certified RVIA dealer. Ccrt!t!cd.Tcchnic!::mc for Norcctd, Dometlc and Suburban appliances LAMINATE SALE $28.99/BOX 25 Yr. Warranty MOLLOHAN CARPET 2212 EasternAve. 740·446·7444 BACK FROM VACATION Open, 8 lo 8 Mon·Sat . LUNCH SPECIALS Try our new $5.00 Speclalo or Bring someone to lunch & get the 2nd meal at 1/2 Price (equal or lesser value) Reg. Menu THE PARKFRONT · DINER 446:6700 www.IWinrivermarlna.com , J, \' ~ - ·- ,. . TERMS of SALE- Cash or Pre-Approved 740-924-9334 Michael & .Friends Hair Spring Valley Plaza Job Opening Cosmetologisl, Barber, Nail Tech Independent Conlraclor$ Renl a Booth $125 wk. Be your own boss. · 740·446,0698 or 740·645·5895 lnlllmory r---------:;:~~ !!I!!!!!!O!!!I!!!!!!O!!!!O!!!!O!!II!I! en Legal Notice Legal NoUce Rtctulll lor Bond RICIUIII lor Bond ReiHl& . ReiHl& Pennll Number: D- · Permll Number: · D0354 ~ . Mining Yeilr: 21' · Mining Year: 21 Delalatued: 6-12-84 Deteluued: 8-12-84 Southam Ohio Coal Soulhetn Ohio Coal Compilny Ia Company 11 raqullllng a Phan I rtctullllng a Phaee 1 bond release for 73.5 bond relell.. for acrea alfaclld by lhe 136.6 aforementioned coal ec;ret ·~ by the ·mint and reclemltlon · atoremenllcilied coal p.nnit, locllled In · mine and reclallllllon 35 of parmlt, leicalad In Secllona Cheehlre Township, Secllona 13, 19, 25, (iallla County, and 26, 31, 32, 33, and Sectloni 16; 19, 25, Fracllon 17 of 26, 32, and Fracdona Columbia .Townahlp, ~. 19, a~d 33 of and Secllona 16, t7, Salem Townahlp, 23, 24, 34, 36, and Melga County. Frecllona 2, 6, 23, 35, Backfilling and and 36 of Salem .grading was Townlhlp, Melga completed on to- 15· County. Backfilling 05 In accordance and grading wae with lhe approved complelid on to-tsreclamation plan. 05 In accordance $183,750.00 bond Ia with the approved on depoelt, of which reclamation plan. $91,875,00 Ia aoughl $341.500.00 bond Ia Ia be releaaacl. on· deposit, of which Written ob)ecllonl, $170,750.00 Ia aought commenla, or to be . ralea1ad. Written objecllona, rtctUIIII lor a. bond conference may be commanla, or submitted lo lhe rtctueela lor a bond ODNR, Dlvlalon of conference may be Mineral ~ource eubmltted 10 lht Management, 2045 · , Chlel Ollhl, Dlvlalon Morrie Roed, of Mineral Ruourca Building H·:i, Managamenl, 2045 Columbue, . .Ohio · Morrla Road, 43229 - 8813, In ·Building H-2, -ordl:nce with · Columbua, Ohio peregraph (F) (8) of 43228 • etl93, In the OhiO RtVItiacl ICCOrdlnCI Wllh Code Secllon peregraph (F) (51 of • 1513.18. · lhe Ohio ReviHd Written ob)actlvae or Code Sacllon rtctUIIII lor bond 1513.18. . Written re11111 contarenc11 objecllvea or muat be Iliaci wtlh lhl riCJUIIII lor bond Clllef wtlhln 30 daye rei""" conlarancea after the lilt dale ol muel be Iliad wllh lhl"' · publlcellon. Chief within 30 daye (12) 14, 21, 28, (1) 4 ·after lhe lilt dale of publication. (12) 14, 21' 28 (1) 4 . I lnlllmory ' home Mlms>ille :l04-S]6-2220. 2br, House lor Aa1t. il- Rd. $37!!/mo + doc>: NO ;;;;;;;;~'"'"';:::;;;;;;;;;:;;; ~~"!'!"-"'"!~.....; duclos ~. Relilger• PETS. Cal alter S. ;;; Service Manager & Servlor.. Water/Trasi\'Sewer 44&-15621eave - g o Ohio )!alloy Home ~ Te<hrlieiln pos1tions . of Thank& paid, No Pels. $450 Hoaltll, Inc. is accepting available. Hoalth ca"' & !ii!!!!!!!·~; manti!, I>'- deposit. 3BR DbL ~ applications for Part R.. roment plor>$ avail- 740-446-t370 P<>rnoroy. groat c:oodillon limo Otlico Clerk Expo- able. Ploass send .,. r; ~-~~~~~~ with noce yanl. Rent ,,.. · tarred · ;.. 1y t sumo to To lhose who Ohio Valley Bank Annex Help Wanted One of the Nation 's J.,eading Telemonitoring Home Care Agencies is hiring a Full Time ~PN . Telemonitor Central Station Nurse/Passport · Supervisory Nurse Position entails pan lime in office to monitor Telemonitor VItal Statistics & pan time performing supervisory visi1s. rooms T - f'fl6itioroo Saturday, January 10 9am-Spm PSYCHOLOGIST; HelpWanled ..p.,,on\onls RN- FT !-Jackson 1-Gallipolls LPN· FT· Gallipolis Home Health Aide - Per Diem Physical Theraplsl· FT Occupalional Therapist· FT t\nnllqpts for Nuniqg +cWtagt Twice Charmed Used Furniture & Appliances. 740-245-5428 'fllllhMID,....... 1_..........,...... ·PoiiYaaliool.atK · App~ln,.,.,:lc.,ic II.. DioMIIotloot, liON m Wli4fo RooUilwt~ llllmt4 £1-FMJtlwj.-.-lthc.t._£1-0nlntct: 11 land. ~ tiiS6-6&Q()70. 1-866-403-2582 Olld Will do listiD8• Bal\kfUP':Y & Bad Credit OK. 2, 3. 4 andav!...t>o,! S37r.'mo.(740)4464782 NOW LEASING ,.Jo..an 5 room house stovalreh. Landing 2BR, 3BR & 44 Olive St. $42S'mltl + ........,, No ~ 4BR Available No Pols. _..,..t. · ·-Tanant Responsible lor ' 446-3945 Ron ;,. Elec1ric t 304-674.()023 or 4BR house In Gailljlolis. 304-610.0776 740-367-77112 ed Unfumli5ht upstelrs !"'-~--~~apartmen stove/1rldge room Southwest house, lull school basswater/trash Included 5menl, 5350 mo + depos"" ro- district 379-2254 quired . 446-9872 or 44 - ~ DOWNI =lis"""' ~ hho1:;:~,,..; lor Lonl Owners, Holier Seqlor Care Centeri Seasoned Firewood CAA HEAP accepted. 645-5946 or 441-09~t Seasoned ·C:..-4lli~w-·"-tf101itn1N.,.rllio .._ """""'· - and flO< ..,.... ~ lob ""'· haopilol • QUI pe!isnt call ~ Aoso<;. ol setting Llll<M t-913o599-8290, _ _ _ ...._ ·coli 304-61&1500 or fU HoJzer Home Cer!: Ross Co. Fairgrounds Athens Medical AssO!!lates Attn: Finance · SS Hospital Drive . Holzer EJtra Care; - included in NO PETS. JaM. se<;urity deposit requlreri Ouit, · $450 mo. plus de' no pets.74D-992·2216 posit. NO pets, No smok· LongT«rr!CGNI HomeC41N . Dlvtslon II' ~ t ,.. ~~-"'!"'~"'!"'~ Mollie ntshed, and houses in rooms, · front yard, stove Pomeroy and Middlepo~. & relrlgarator iumii5hed, at • Equipment 740 "1 1393 Vena ....................... ..................................... 20ot5 Want to buy ........................................~~ ...... 2010 Real Estate Sates .. :..............................:.... 3000 Cemallry Plols .......................................... 3005 . Commerclal................................................3010 Condominiums .......................................... 3015 Home Improvement• 330 For Sale by Owner ...............,..................... 3020 lnaurance ..................................................... 332 Hou..oror Sale ..........................., ............. 3025 Llwn ·Service ............ ~ ................ ,................. 334 Land (llcroage) .......................................... 3030 Muslc/Dance/Drama .................................... 336 Lola ........................,................................... 3035 Otl)er Services ............................................. 338 Want to buy ................................................ 3040 Plumblng/Eiectrlcal ..................................... 340 . Reel Eotale Rentalo ........................, .......... 3500 Professional Servlcea ................................. 342 Apartmento/Townhou............................ 3505 Repairs ,.............,.......................................... 344 Commerclal................................................ 3510 Roofing ......................................................... 346 Condominium• .......................................... 3515 Security ........................................................ 348 Housel fcir RW1t .. ,..................................... 3520 Tax/Accounting ................................... ;.... ,.. 350 Land (Acreage) ..........................................3525 Travei!Entertaln.-nent . ...................... ...........352 Storage ...................... ,................................ 3535 Flnancla~ ... ,................................................... 400 · Want to Renl .............................................. 3540 Financial Servicea ....................................... 405 Manufactured Houolng ............................. 4000 Money to Lend .......................... :................. -415 a •>~1027 - ~-;~;;..,;: ~ mod. . & mino< a 11 bl& Fat IUIIIIiicati<>1 ~r:. n 2l>r ...... . "' city. Iorge within 'store. Thctmas ll<> lot carport SSOCI'rent + 2BR & 3BR mobile home ~ Canter, 17& McCardoposil + relersnCes. No tar lllfl~ · 367-1762 or mick Rd. GwHpolitl. lor OJIIlOr. .& .,.,rgetit - - - - - - - petSc 7~ . 446-4060 b a - & doOrman Apctlmenlt/ 2 br., $350 mo. plus de· ;;;;;:;::l~CI~Wit=..:ot:~:M:•:._;;;;; posit .& u)ilitles, no pets, ;;; 3rd St., Racine, t and 2 bedroom apts., "74;;0.~2;.;".;.74,;;2;,;9;;,2_ _ _~ lurrilshed and untur· -Midd1oport• 1 br. apt., b'·'g 4 Sate 4x5 Round Bates, ..... ==·===·==:! good mi.xed . hay-bam kept Delano . Jackson h Electrical.,...... ,........ ,, .. ,.,,,......... ,, .... ,.... ,... ,,, .. 320 Flnanclal ......•.................. .............................. 322 Heallh ...........................................................326 Heating & Coollng ....................................... 328 Insurance ........................ : ........................... 410 invenlol)l "===o=r::p:=o;:n;:e:=~ Aulo Renlai'L.e aae ..................................... 2005 Appliance Servlce .. .......t··························· .. 302 Auto a ............................................. ,............ 201 0 Automotive ..... .........•........... :.................•... :. 304 Claoalc/Anllquea ...................:................... 20t 5 Building Malerlels ....................................... 306 Commerclalllnclualrlal ...... ,, .. ,................;.. 2020 Bustrie:aa ...................................................... 308 Parts & Accaeaorlea .................................. 2025 ~aterlng .................. :.................................... ,31 0 . Sporla Utlllly....... ,.... ,................................. 2030 Chlld/Eideny Care .......,............................... 312 Trucka ..........................:. ............................. 2035 Com pulers .,,....... ,............................. :.......... 314 UUIIty Trallort ............................................ 2040 Conlractore .................................................. 318 DomestlciiJarittortat ................................... 318 used ,74().446·2412 1480 Jackson Pike Galliplls, OH ~~--..~~~ 2 Maltese · t (M) and 1 I" CLASSIFIED INDEX . BlrthdaylAnnlvereary ...,. .................... ,, .. ,.... 205 Happy Ads ................................................... 210 Loot & Found ....... :......................................215 Memory/Thank You .................................. ;.. 220 Notices ,........................................................ 225 Have you pncad a John Deere lately? You'll . be surprised! Check out ·our michael Apply at ' ...., Service. . www.CAREO.com. --- Jan !. Feb only S35/hour reduced labOr rate on all Legato ................................................. ,.... ,.... 100 675-6679 ~~;;;;:t~~Ma~r~~~-~~--~ SAVINGS law. ":; $J'R) for JOBS ··~ .,..,.....,_ NNII;:w;"·'isi'iiBedl;;::ooro;;:;,,;-, POST OFFICE NOW fl<>m S2t4.36 I* montll. HIRING "'9o Pay S21»1r 01 inclutlM "'""'I UIIQ!IIIIe$. or <ltp. JO>t-+7 l--4IOO $67Kiyr: inclutlM 77·40:~·=·te~.&~~:.9·~~~= Qallvery & . - · Fodl!¥>, OT. l'lac. by ':..D 1 bo·~ ~ 741h'JM-2434 ~ not allilialod ~ m ·-· '1 " USPS . who hireo. ~ ~ ~-211<. fw... ~ 1 !l% <Iowa. rent .negotiable, seeunty dop. required, 740.949-2025 ;;;~~~~~'!!!!'~ 2 br. ap8rtment $370 a mo. plus utilities, dop: re· quired, no pets. 740'992-4119 as!< for .Get AJump on •1 I 7 •~oo ' If , _ ·.·~·oo ~. · ~. No . closing 8 elderty/-. 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Pleasant, WV ,. �\ ' ... . ., li--·itltinl • 1 GARDENING PageD6 •• Su~, Jan...-ry 4t aoo8 .Delta Queen nombiated as eqdangered historic site, As Bee houses can encourage helpful insects · • .J... BY DuN~ ' -TIE ASSOCIAllO PMSS ·Preventing lymphedema after breast cancer, A6 It's one thing to attract roving hooey bees·, butterflies or hummingbirds to your flowering pluts or trees. It's another t&. teep • them. ,.,. plloto · Try placing a few butter. fly houses, bee blllCks or bat · houses around your yard to encourage these hard-working polfinators to become long-term tenants. Inexpensive ($15 range) bee houses are poving popular with gardellers looking for pollinators. particularly the ground-dwelling kind. The four habitat requirements for luring wildlife food, water. shelter and space - apPly to beneficial insects, too. It pays to know something about the life cycle of pollinators if ~ou 're to succeed at attract- Milkweed is seen July 8, 2008, in New Market, Va. Milkweed is one of the most popular flowering plants for pollinators as well as a fa110rite food source for Mot18n:h butterfly lar- '1!':"'~1tard mason bees, for example. They can be vae. Foraging bees and wasps also seek it out for its pollen and necta~ svpplias. · found across North America and are great pollinators for flowers and tlowerir;~g fruit trees. Some entomologists believe the docile mason bees are more efficient than their larger cousins, the ·• honeybees. although they don't hive or prpduce centralized honey supplies. "They're . so industrious. you only need three to polJi, Bv DEAN FOSDICK encourage them .fo stay. "Figure out their food nate an ornamental tree," FOR THE ~SSOCIATED PRESS Pollen- and nectar-rich sources." said Kathy LaLibene, direcflowering plants like butterAvoid: tor of gardening at Wild honeybees have all fly weeds (Asciepias • Herbicides and insecti- Gardener's Supply Co. in but disappeared from yards tuberosa), black-eyed cides. which are especially across America. Many .ldnds susans ( Rudbeckia species). harmful to bees and butter- Burlington, Vt. These s9litary bees tend of butterflies also are coneflowers {Echinacea flies. Choose non-chemical to place their pollen, nectar becoming scarce. But gar- purpurea), milkweeds solutions for .insect probdeners have options if they · (AsCiepias species), phlox lems. "One of the things we and e~s in hollow reeds or need pollinators to help pro- (Phlox paniculata, tell our farmers is be careful holes tn trees that have been duce a healthy food supply. Carolina), Queen Anne's when spraying;" Dill said. drilled b)' woodpeckers or No cause has been found lace (Daucus carota), sedum "lf you're an apple grower, beetles. The ·female then for the worldwide decline in and sunflowers (Helianthus look and see what's under- plaees a plug made of mud pollinators, but contributing species) appeal most to bees neath the tree. Be mindful to protect the nest before factors include pesticides, and butterflies, said James about time of day, wind building another. Mature habitat loss, pollution; dis- Dill, an entomologist with bees emerge from the tubes conditions, bee activity and the next spring. ease and pests. the University ·of Maine whatever else is around." A typical mason bee An estimated 200.000 Cooperative ~xtension. Many "honicultural • hou·se that you can buy is species act. as pollinators. ·Hummingbirds prefer carplants" such as marigolds, bnilt around 30 or more . transferring pollen grains dinal flowers (red Lobelia), mums and roses bred as from one flower to another, Columbines the doubles contain little or no facilitating fruiting and seed red Aquilegia(especially species) and pollen. Their many petals production. About I ;ooo are trumpet vines (Campsis). make it impossible for bees birds. bats, and small mam"Red, trumpet-shaped and other pollinators to mals like mice and voles. flowers are the most popugather nectar, entomologists The rest are insects: bees. lar thing you can put in your say. Select single petal flowhornets and wasps, butteryard to attract pollinators," ers like strawberries, cranesflies and moth.s, ants and Dill said. "Even though bill (geraniums) and daisies beetles. even h.ouseflies and they're small, phlox have a that provide easier access. mosquitoes. nice supply of nectar .. They • Cleaning up. The casual On nearly every contialso ·have shallow trumpets look is in if you want pollinent, native bee populations and even small insects can nators to take up househave seen dramatic keeping on your property. declines. said Gary Mast, a· reach into those." Some other ·plant-cen- Bees often nest in undisdeputy undersecretary with tered suggestions for turbed shrubs or grass. the U.S. Department of pollinators: attracting "Condition yourself to the A~riculture . • Succession planting. beauty of natural areas," 'In China. many fruit growers are pollinating Food plants shOuld be avail- said Laurie Adams. execuflowers by hand because able from early spring well tive director of the improper pesticide use has into autumn. Bees need nec- Pollinator Partnership, a· ki lied the . bees in the tar and pollen to survive. San Francisco-bused non· orchards," Mast said. "And "You especially want flow- profit group that promotes nearly two·thirds Of ering plants for butterflies P.ollination and biodiversity. Britain's 25 species of bum- during mid- to late season, 'Put up a sign that says when butterflie.s are most 'pollinator garden' if it blebees are in decline." Pollinator species that are prevalent," Dill said. looks a little unkempt. ·• Provide Water. A dripping Ground nesting bees need disappearing in North Amenca include some but- faucet, birdbath or mud pud- sQme debris nearby." terflies, bats and humming- dle attracts bees and butterLearn all you can about 'birds, as well as honeybees, flies . .Change the water fre- plants native to your area the most efficient pollina- quently to discourage mos- and observe which benefitors, according to a report quito breeding and to avoid cial insects are visiting the by the National Academy of chemical contaminatioh. garden, Adams said.· • Plant native perennials. · Sciences National Research "Diversify with tlowenng These hardy flowers pro- .plants known to attract par· Council. · Mast estimates that bees vide many colorful returns ticular pollinators," she pollinate one-third. of the and produce large nectar said. "That reduces the pes· world's crops, a service cal- supplies . . · ticide load, creates someculated to be worth around • Sunny sites. Bees are thing attractive that will last · $70 billion a year. more active when warm, for years· and benefits the So what can gardeners do and most flower varieties environment." to help pollinators? require several hours or ••• Landscaping with plants more of sun per day to proOn the Net: that appeal to them can duce nectar and pollen. · Pollinator. Partnership: secure a season-long series • Add food plants for the http://www.pollinator.org. of visitors. Anificial she!- juveniles. "Tbmk of the life You can contact Dean . ters like bee condominiums cycles of the insects you're Fosdick at and . bat . houses could trying tiJ attract," Dill said. deanfosdick@netscape.net. ~ ~ school baske1ball .adion. See.._ Bl ·I A mason bee house and a bat house are seen Thesday, Dec. 16, 2008 in New Market, Va; Designing a garden attractive to pollinators may atlract some foraging bees and wasps, bats and hummingbirds. Adding some shelters may help keep them around. This mason baa house is becoming a popular item for gardeners trying to produce a healthy food supply. A bat house hangs from the shed In the back· ground. bamboo tubes. After laying Wildlife Federation. eggs in the tubes and leav- , "One thing is stop spraying behind some pollen and ing pesticides," Winter said. nectar, the female deposits a "Use biological products · mud plug and then repeats like tobac~-o and soapy mixthe P.rocedure a half-dozen lures on (insect-stressed) rimes per tube. plants. Growers can do many "The small steps people things to enrich their sur- can take will help all roundings even if space is wildlife. not just pollinators. limited, said Kimberly That's good for·the natural Winter, habitats pro~ram world and good for tht: manager for the Nattonal growers. too." . ' . I Options for the Christmas tree when its time is up ' ' Bv LEE REICH A couple of tablespqons of bleach in the water will' inhibit the growth of stem-clogNow, the goodbyes. ging bacteria. There's no rule, of course, • When it does come time to about how long · to keep a dispose of your tree, cut up Christmas tree. In many the branches and lay them on homes ,the tree goes out along the ground. as a decorative with the old year. At the very and insulating mulch for your least, it's time for your tree ,to power beds through late win-. go when it starts to dry out A drying tree will not only terSome municipalities will look sad and littef your floor accept trees for shredding. :-vith drying needles; but it The ground-up trunk, stems also can present a fare hazard. and leaves are effective as Cooler temperatures, howev- ~ear-round mulch anywhere er. will prolong your tree's m the garden. This mulch beauty and slow drying by looks pretty and ·keeps the reducing water loss from the ground moist through next needles. At the same time, summer. As it decomposes, it keep water flowing into the will enrich the soil with nutrij:ut trunk by making sure its ents and.organic; matter. . base sits in water. A live, potted tree avoids FOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the problem of drying out as long as you keep it watered. But move it outdoors as soon as you can . bring yourself to do so after Christmas . .You don't wimt the tree indoors so long that it feels spring has arrived and starts growing. Give the tree a good watering ·and then plant it outdoors, preferably into a hole that you dug and mulched before the ground froze. Anyone who can't bear to see the end of their Christmas tree will be glad to know that the residents of Christmas, Aa .. live up to its name and maintain a year-round, · trimmed Christmas tree on the main highway in iown. ~ 4\ . Money is tight and bills need to be paid. For small illnesses, why go to the Emergency Room or an Urgent Care service just to get home and find a bill waiting for you! 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The Institute for Local Government and Regional Development at Ohio University was hired to complete the study, using a $6,(XX) pant from the Stille. A prelimmary repon was expected in June, 2008, and the final study was to have been completed . in September. However, Dnvenport said, he has not yet seen a final repon. and expects it soon. · Susan Isaac of ILGARO has traveled t~ srudy successful FQHC/emergency room facilities, and the health care committee investigating options hopes to identify a Water rate .mcrease in effect Bv REED however, have been . developed in urban settings, A new . medical school graduate. Matthew Weimer, M.D.. joined the staff at Family Health Care last summer. It offers outpatient medical care, mental health, Iaboratory lind other services to anyone, regardless of insurance or income. The ulti{nate goal is a new medical calnpus on U.S. 33 near Rocksprings. The Meigs County Community Improvement Corporation has purchased .land for that purpose. but no operator has been identitied for such a facilitY.· While an inpatient hospital facility has been mentioned as part of the campus. both Davenport and County Commissioner Tom Anderson said · Friday the E.R. services top their prior· ity lists, and smd. a full-ser· v1ce hospital might not be a reasonable expectation. Pay up! ' BRIAN model easily adapted for this . community. Most' models, . . APphotO Excellent Healthcare at a price so small it is a HUGE deal! Stat;t saving money on your hea/thcare cost today. Here's how ... · I Bv BRIAN J. REED BREEOOM'IOAllYSENTINELCOM POMEROY - The final draft of afeasability study of combined FQHC health clinics and emergency · rooms has been completed. but has ·not yet been made public. Commissioner Mick Davenport said. · Davenpon and others involved in developing additional medical services hope the study .will allow them to build . on the Federally . Gardeners can learn to .·attract and·keep bees QHC study not yet av~able SPORTS ~~----~-------------- J. . BREEDOMVDAflYSENTINEL.COM OBITUARIFS I ·Page AS' • Joan Childs, 79 INSIDE • Hoyer: Stimulus unlikely before inauguration. See"'Page A2 • Aging Issues: . Help is available to complete your tax returns. See Page A3 • Law You Can Use: Consumers should know rights when ·_buying used cars. See Page AS • Abandoned toddler leads Ohio police to slain mom. See Page· AS • Cookie company · owes almost $1 million in Ohio. See Page AS • Avoiding the ·painkiller-overuse rut in migraines. See Page A6 WEATHER MIDDLEPORT A three-percent increase in Middlepon's water rates went into eft'ect on Thursduy. The rate hike wiH appeur on January bills . Villuge Council approved the increase as an emergency measure on Dec. 22, so 11 would become eft'ective at the first of the year. According to the minutes of the meeting, the ordinance passed last month "will help water and sewer funds overcome the financial drain caused by int1ation each year." lntlation is now ut 3.48 percent. The increase wi II result in a 37-cent monthly increase for the minimum hill for 2,000 gallons. Without a "cost of living" increase in the rate schedule. the villa~e will lose three J)Crcent of Its water revenue each year, Village · Administrutor Faymon Roberts suid. Council also approved extending the contract with Rumpke Waste for 2009, for collection of residential refuse. The contract rate and customer rate will remain the same. 'l' ·• ..... Jiro , t '>.. • .P A sure sign the holidays are over is when the bags come off the meters in downtown Pomeroy and It's time for visitors to pay up or get a ticket. During the holidays Pomeroy offers free parking to not only visitors but downtown workers who already pay a payroll tax to the village on each paycheck. The tax is still on the paychecks but the meters are no longer free. Bllh Sergantlphoto Small business workshop ·offered Bv BETH SERGENT BSERGENTOMVDAILVSENTINELCOM ATHENS ._ Small business is often referred to as the backbone of the local economy and evidence of this may be found in Meigs County re{'orting an increase of $81 K .m· sales tax compared to collections in 2007. DttaUI on Plga A3 Still. desf>ite the importance of small bllSiness, ·many who wish to start their ' own don't know how to begin to turn their dreams into reality. An upcoming a SEC'fiONS - 1111 PAOI!S. . workshop 1s meant to assist Annie's Mailbox A3 these "dreamers" with the of what it takes to Calendars A3 reality start and run, a successful busines~. Glassifieds · B3-4 small The .Small Business· Comics Bs Development Center in associntion with the Editorials A4 Appulnchiun Regionul Group of Movies A3 Entrepreneushi~ Southeast Oh10 will be a free "Basis of Obituaries As sponsoring a Successful Stmf' work' Sports B Section shop from 6-9 p.m. on the first Monday of each month W.el!.ther A3 in Suite 237 of Building 20 at The Rid~cs in Athens. @ 1009 Ohio Volley Publl•htna Co. Classes begm on Jan. 12 nnd March 2. workshQp is This designed to answer basic Plnil 111 Workshop, AS JNDEX . Perspective: Governor feels budget.pressures BY STEPHEN MAJORS ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER COLUMBUS The worsening state . budget crisis will test the political met· tie of Gov. Ted Strickland, who promoted a handful of governing principles before he knew just how difficult the budget environment would become. Among them: No tall increases. no expansion of gambling and a new school funding plan. They are practical as indi~idual goals, more difficult if done together, and extremely challenging when the state is facing a projected $7 billion deficit over the next two-year budget cycle. "Those three things are on a collision course," state Rep. Jay Hottinger, a Newark Republican. said recently. "Something's gotta give." Holding the line on tux raises eliminates one of the few ways to increase rev~· ,. . enue, putting more pressure on secondury options. such 1as expanded gambling. Eliminating revenueoptions makes it n1ore difficult to maintain current education spending lev7ts, much less the increase m state spending that would likely be needed to make Ohio's school funding system constitutional. Each of these governing principles has beh1nd 11 u po~erful constituency that could become a pnliticalliability for the Democratic governor should he p1ck· somethmg on wh1ch to · compromise on, or change positions. In a statement. a· Strickland spokeswoman did not say whether the g?vernor was contemplat mg adjusting . any of these govenung pnnc1ples. . "The governor wtll approach the budget for the next biennium with ·the ~ame fiscal responsibility he has demonstrated ove~ the past year as Oh10 has taced difficult economic si1uations · and budget chatlenges." · spokeswoman Amanda Wurst said. "The governor will :continue to advocate for atd from the federal government to avoid worst-case scenario cuts in .the next biennium." . Republicans would ltkely go after Strickland with a ven¥eance tf he prl?poses · tax mcreases, sometht~g he has smd would be detnmental t? Ohio:s eventual econom1c r~covery , Democrat~. respondmg to popular ~ent1- , ment. have mcreasmgly moved toward Repubhcans on th~ 1ssue of taxes. Stnckland smd ~arty on that the success of h1s ,tenure as governor would be JUdged on wheth.er he could solve the states school fund1~g sy,stem, whtch the OhiO Supreme Court has repea~edly ruled to be unconsutuuonal because of . its over reliance on local prope~y taxes that create a dispanty in opportunity. based on where students hve. ,. , Abandonmg the pursutt ot a new funding system would surejy lead opponents to try to JUXtapose Strickland's words with his tack of action. But Ohio's budget troubles weren't a factor when Strickland campaigned . for governor. in 2006 ustng school fundtng as a major platform. ·•seems to me it's something you do when the time is good and you've got rev- · enue in the coffers. not when you · are projecting revenue shortfalls," said Grant Neeley. a political science professor at the University of Dayton. And with gambling, voters have repeatedly reje.cted proposals to create casinos or establish outlets for slot machines. most recently in Pl1111 •'- ludpt. AI ,. . � 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 01. January Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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