https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/214eef32c09d5507f4b73c54a4a9bd44.pdf f61ff07196b4f275f2d5a8b03ba78328 PDF Text Text • ALONG THE RivER LIVING Skin deep: Redefining beauty through body modification, Cl Step back in time: Discover what might be Europe's newest nation, 01 ' ·u n a tme Hometown News for Gallia & Meigs counties Ohio\ ;ollt·~ l'uhli~hllt )..\ ( 'o . SPORTS .. · ~ High school basketball ' action. See Page B1 l'ont<'t'n) • ~liddl•· l'"'"l• (;allipnlis • .Janum") b , :!tlllX $1 . 50 • Vol. 41 . :'llo . .')0 Board: University working on accQrd with RG~C STAFF REPORT NEWS@MYDAILYTRIBUNE.COM RIO GRANDE - The Execuli ve Commiltl;!e of the University of Rio Grande Board of Trustees has .pledged to continue its work on a new long-term contract Rio Grande with Community College. "When the voters and founding fathers created lhis relationship in 1974, they were looking at .the means to produce more col- vate institution 1hrough lege graduates in southeast , which studenls are getting a Ohio," Board Chairman valuable opportunity. Steve Chapman said. "This The primary difficulty has been successful, and we faced by lhe univet>ily is are working hard to keep that · during the last several this original goal alive." years, state funding has not Chancellor Eric Fingerhut kept pace with growing of the Ohio Board of educalional costs. As a Regents supports this rela- result, the university has tionship, university officials had to fund lhe shortfall. said. He recognized the S1Lident and com'munity value of thi s unique and needs for new and expanded long-slanding relation ship programs have also conbetween a public and pri· tributed to the cost increases. . "We are committed to developing a governance structure so that operations between the university and 'the community college better reflect the shared vision of both boards," Chapman said. On Nov. 2, Fingerhut mel with representatives of both instituuons and expressed the .state's desire that they negoliale a new long-term contract that addresses the various 'financial and governance issues. At the same Extension of AMP hearing is sought meeting. he also praised the educational value and opponunities afforded S1U· dems by lhi > unique collabormivc partnership. Fingerhul set Feb. 15 , 2008, as a larget date for complelion of the contraC1 and outlined various issue s that should be addressed. "We are working hard to meet that goal." Chapman said. "If the university and Please see Rio, Al . STAFF REPORT NEWS@MYOAILYTRIBUNE.COM GALLIA - A falher and daughler are in an area hospi· BSERGENT@MYDAILYSENT!NELCOM tal and a Galli a-area man was placed in jail in connection COLUMBUS with their apparent wound· Intervenor group, the ing by gunshots on Friday, Natural Resources Defense the Gallia County Sheriff's Council, petitioned the Department reported . . Ohio Power Siting Board to Daries D. Pembertqn, no continue the Jan. 4 hearing age available, of 3291 Ohio unlil Jan. 18 to respond to 233, Patriot, is being charged American Municipal with two counts of attempted Power-Ohio's three rebuual murder in the wounding of witnesses in the . proceed· Tammy J. Christian, 23, and ings for the company's her father, 83-year-old application for environVictor Hayslip. Both have mental compatibility and been taken ,10 a trquma cenpublic.need, ter in Hunlingtqn , W.Va. , Matt Butler, spokesperson and a sheriff's news releas.e of the OPSB, said there has Submitted pnoto on Saturday did not name been no official ruling on Videographer Evan Shaw stands on the·field following the Dec. 7 Blizzard Bowl in Cleveland. the facility. the motion but the OPSB Pemberton is currently in have verbally contacted the the Gallia County Jail. NRDC and offered them the Deputies and emergency dates of Jan. 7-9 or Jan, 14 personnel were called lo the to offer up their sur-rebuttal. area where lhe hhptimngs Though the Jan. 18 are believed to have request may be off the on 233. about 3 occurred table, Butler said by offer· BY CHARLENE HOEFLICH Films began when he was a Shaw, . shows "players miles. from Oak Hill. late HOEFLICH@MVOAilYSENTINEL.COM ing up the other available senior at Ohio University. falling over like tin soldiers Friday afternoon ~ The shoal· dates the attorJley examinHis talent as a videographer righ1 in front of him." ings are believed to have POMEROY - For Evan and producer landed hiin an ers with the OPSB are tryThat shot was also used on occurred at separale nearby ing to be accommodating Shaw, a graduate of Meigs internship with NFL Films "Inside the NFL" on HBO while at the same time are High School and Ohio and th<ll resulted in addi· with Bob Costas, Dan residences, and inves11ga1ors trying to get the proceed· University where last year tiona! assignments shooting Marino, Chris Collingsworth said in the release that 1wo locations were secu red by ings wrapped ul'. he was selected by student NFL games after he gradu- and Chris Caner. ' depU1ies, the State Highway The NRDC wtshes to pre· vote as a "Superstar." ated from OU last spring. Today he is in San Diego Patrol and Oak Hill police sent sur-rebuttal testimony things just couldn't get For those who walched 10 shoot the game between for investigation . from David Schlissel to much better. the Patrie~ts/Giants game a San Diego and Tennessee. No further .del"ib were address the '"new and · He has just been assigned week ago, you might have Watchers can identify him available and in vestigators updated information' to shoot video for NFL seen Evan in ac1ion. His by his grey kneepads standregarding the carbqn diox· Films al Super Bowl XLII, footage was selected for the ing near 1he end zone if said the incident remains ide costs, construction costs which takl!s place 'Feb. 3 at Samsung Play of the Week. there is about to be a score. under ·investi gation. and alternatives that AMP· the University of Phoenix It was of the Giants' Corey His new bride Michelle is Ohio presented in its recent· Stadium in Glen Oak, Ariz., Webster returning an inter- his "runner" and will be ly filed rebuttal testimony." using a live camera that will ceplion for a touchdown. handling 111m cannisters at The NRDC also states il beam up to a satellite that Evan's slow molion footage the game. She'll be wearing needs "adequate time" to feeds to 230 countries. was used and, according to a white T-shirt that says "review the 40 pages of His connection to NFL his parents, Lynn and Liz "NFL Films." . rebuttal testimony presented · by AMP-Ohio and to depose and prepare for cross examinauon of AMP· Ohio's three rebuttal wit· • nesses." According to the NR,DC, AMP-Ohio served 40 pages, · including BY KEVIN KELLY exhibits, of rebuttal testimo· KKELLY@MYDAILVTRIBUNE.COM ny from three witnesses at Bv BRIAN J. REED · Republican incumbent County Engineer BREEIJ@MYDAILYSENTINELCOM around 5 p.m. on Dec. 28, Jim Sheets of Reedsville is Eugene Triplett, Coolville GALLIPOLIS which was the deadline the only candidate to file for (R)(l). ' Comested races for several POMEROY . - Six his seat. He is seeking a required by the administra· County Coroner County offices are Gallia Republicans and three third term on the board. live law judges. Douglas D. Humer, Racine cxpec1ed in 1he March 4 pri· Butler said after the hear- Democrats have fi-led as (R)(l). Other races ing is officially over, briefs candidates for a seat on the . The offices of clerk of Common Pleas mary after candidates met from each party are due by Meigs County Board of courts and county treasur· Court/Juvenile and Probate the Friday filing deadline Jan. 28 foltowed by a pen- County Commissioners. er will be open next year, Division: L. Scott Powell, with the Gallia County Friday was the filing od of reply briefs. He Board of Elections. due to the retireinenls of Pomeroy (R)(I). guessed there could be a deadline for candidales for Marlene Harrison and All of the multi-candidate County Recorder - Kay ruling on the case "some- the March 4 primary. races for lhe party nomina· Howard Frank, respective- Hill, Syracuse (R)(l). time in mid-year." Republicans filing peti- ! y. Local issues lion are ;n the Republican . The ongoing hearing by tions for the seat now held The followin g tax levies aisle. The followin g candidates Democrat Jeffrey have also filed petitions for were filed: · the OPSB could determine by For the Jan. 3, 200'! lerm as the fate of the $2.9 billion Thornton are Ray C. 'Frank county office: • Replacement of one mill county comm1sstoner, power plant. The OPSB is of Albany; Jack Williams of Clerk ·of Courts- Diane and additional tenth mill for incumbent Dr. David K. Sandra responsible for reviewing Syracuse; K. Lynch, Middleport (R), senior citizen service and Smilh is seeking a second and approving plans for the lannarelli of Middleport; Brenda Phalin, Middleport multipurpose facility. for term and is opposed for the construction of new energy George · · Hawley of (D). five years. nomination by forn1er comfacilities in Ohio. Before Middleport; Thomas R. • Renewal of two mills'for missioner Shirley Angel of c;:ounty Treasurer any company can build a Anderson of Middleport; Peggy Yost, Rutland (R), Carleton School/Meigs Crown City. Angel. who major utility facility like a and Victor C. Young Ill of M~rt y L. Cline, Pomeroy Industries for five years. ended two terms on the board new power plant, or an elec· Pomeroy. (R). • Additional two mills in of commissioners in 2005. tric transmission line, ·or a Democrats April L. Burke Coumy Sheriff - Robert Scipio Township for road was the tirs1 candidate for gas tral'\smission pipeline, of Rutland , William A. E. Beegle, Racine !R){l), maintenance, five years. cou mywiue oflke to file wi1h the OPSB is supposed to Barnhart uf Pomeroy, and Sleven E. Healer, • Renewal of one mill in .the elections hoard last fall. assure that it benefits Ohio's A. Thoma> Lowery of Reedsville (R). Rutland Township for fire The winner of that primactllzens, promotes the Syr~cuse, have also filed for County Prosecutor protection for five years. ry race will face Lois M. state's economic interests, the seat. Thornton is ill and Colleen Voters have unti I Feb. 4 Snyder. the sole Democra1 S. Williams, and protects the- environ· is not seeking r~ ·ele ction to Albany (R), Pal Story. to regisler lo vote in the nient and land ' use. · Middleport (R){I ). the seat. pnmary. Please see Gallia, Al BY BETH SERGENT OBITUARIES .... ~ - Page 16 • Ohio State Buckeyes vs. LOuisiana State Tigers 2008 BCS Championship Ottcon· • Delta Page AS ' . • Opal Irene Baker, 91 • Ezequiai.Majia Diaz, 26 • Lewis Humphrey, 75 • Donald Leifheit, 87 · • Jabez 0. Parsons, 90 • Phyllis Mae Tumer, 83 • Gloria J. Williams, 53 • cc . Hearlng . ls not: any problett1, - ·understandlng Is•• · · ' Adrnit: It:! · Vbu..._ In D•nlel••• "Aw'IWIYoua••lf'Youl Don~ tleed k. •• You Pe•l '1bo 'nNn• Por lt. •• .'lbill,... 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"The college appreci- physicians who wrote their orders for prescription drugs ates Holtel's many years of prescriptions. The board over the Internet has resigned service to Hocking College informed him that it was as chairman of the Hocking and the community ;md movin? to revoke his pharCollege board of trustees. the wishes him the best of luck macist s license. in his future endeavors." Holte! has operated Stolz school said Friday. A message seeking fur- Drugs since 1982. Steve Hoi tel, 50, had been Hocking College offers a trustee of the two-year ther comment was left at courses in such things as technical' school since 2004. Holtel's home. The State Board of computer programming, the He is owner of Stolz Drugs Pharmacy filed a complaint ho~pitality industry and in .Nelsonville. care fields. "Holte! resigned from his against Holte! in November health board position due to person- accusing him of supplying Enrollment is about 5,000. The state attorney general's office has said it is looking into trips by Hocking College officials, including: Holte!. . One report showed that Hocking president John Light , listed expenses of $15,000 for a trip last year to the Central American country of Belize for up to 17 members of an advisory board that oversees the school's hospitality training program. • ----------------------Memberships now on sale . GALLIPOLIS - 2008 memberships for the Gallia County Agricultural Society are now ?n sale at the Gall iii County. Cooperative Extension Servtce,. located m the McKenzie Agriculture Center near the fmrgrounds. Memberships. are $2 and may '?e purchased at the Extension Office dunng regular busmess hours, Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m: to 4 p. m. • . Membership into the society entitles the member to vo!e at the annual election held in September. The membership does not enti tie tlie member to admission to the fa1r. To be eligible for member~hi~, an ~ndividual must purchase his/her own membership ticket m person,. be at least 18 years of age or older, and reside in Gallia County. Meeting canceled GALLIPOLIS - A special meeting of t~e. GalliaJackson-Meigs Board of Alcohol, Drug Add1c11on and Mental Health Services set for Jan. 28 has been canceled. . The meeti11g has been rescheduled for Monday, Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. so the board can conduct its regularly scheduled bus mess. The board usually meets the thud Monday of each month at the board office, 53 Shawnee Lane. Funding available GALLIPOLIS - Economic development grant funding is now available from the Southern Ohio Agricultur)l] and Community Development Foundation (SOACDF), according to Don Branson, executive director of SO)\CDF. SOACDF has allocated funds for economic development projects to Gallia County for the 2008-09 funding cycle. Applicants may apply for up to 35 percent of the total cost for projects that will create, · retain or expand j~b opportunities for resideqts in Galli a County. The econom1c development funds may be used for capnal Improvements · or the purchase of fixed asse.ts for businesses. For more information, contact Richard Stephens, OSU Extension, at 446-7007 or visit www.soacdf.net and click on "economic development." Board to meet APphoto · Janet Woolweaver holds a photo of her late husband Arthur B. Woolweaver Jr. on Sept. 13, 2007 in Cuyahoga Falls. After her husband died in June following a battle with lung cancer, Janet introduced a bill with U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown to allow terminally ill people to collect Social Sec~rity disability benefits without a five month waiting period. . State agency backs disability waiver for terminally ill By THOMAS J. SHEERAN ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER ' CLEVELAND- A state · agency that handles Social · Security . disability claims has asked Ohio's congressional delegation to back a : proposal that would allow : terminally ill patients to : receive payments quick:ly. The seven-member Ohio : Rehabilitation Services : : Commission, which han. : died 169,392 · disability · : claims in Ohio last year, · endorsed the bill proposed · by U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and called for his Ohio colleagues on Capitol Hill to support the ·meas ure, which would waive a five-month waiting period for such patients . . "Terminally ill .beneficiaries deserve their money as soon as they are approved," said John M. Connelly. executive director of the commission. "The long waiting period is an U!}necessary hurdle to jump." The five-month wait · reflects a standard back-towork benchmark and is meant to avoid paying benefits to those who don't have · a long-term disability, U.S. Social Security Administration spokeswoman Carmen Moreno said Friday. The agency administers disability programs established by law but doesn't comment on pending legislation, she said. Moreno had no immediate estimate on how many disabled Americans die while awaiting their first benefit payment. Social Security processed 2.5 million disability claims last year, approving 34 percent. Brown named his proposal for Arthur Woolweaver Jr. of Cuy!lhoga Falls, who was terminally ill when his $1,800 monthly disability payments were approved but was told the first .payment would begin after a mandatory 'five-month waiting period. He died before the payments began. Wool weaver, 58, who had cancer., died last June 12, six days after his wife called Brown's office to ask about his disability claim. With a family in that type situation, "This ought to be one place where we can lift the burden on them," Brown said Friday · by phone in between stops in western Ohio. GALLIPOLIS - This month's regular meeting of the 0.0. Mcintyre Park District Board of Commissioners is Friday, Jan. II at noon m the park d1str1ct office at the Gallia County Courthouse. Library closing GALLIPOLIS - Bossard Memorial Library will be His bill, introduced Sept. closed· on Monday, Jan. 21 . in observance of Martin ):..uther 12, has been referred to King Jr. Day. committee and there have been no hearings so far. Brown said he was hoping · term, incumbent William S. to link his proposal to other Medley, a Republican, is legislation, a tactic often · seeking a second term. Also used in the Senate, where he filing in the GOP primary for from PageA1 said freestanding bills are the seat is Thomas S. Moulton less common. Jr. of Gallipolis, currently an Brown said fairness to file for the post. Snyder is . assistant. prosecuting attorney requires ,speeding up pay- retired as office·manager of whose father, Thomas Sr., ments to those . like . the Gallia Soil and Water was John Lentes, a Gallipolis Woolweaver who paid into Conservation District. Joe Foster, appointed in attorney and fonner Meigs Social Security for years County prosecuting attorney, and had little time to live February 2007 to complete filed as a Democratic candi· the remainder of Fred Deel's after a disability finding. date for the judge's seat. "It's something we ought term for the Jan. 2 term as Vying to succeed David to do. When somebody has commissioner, is also the L. Martin as Gallia's sheriff worked like Mr. Woolweaver only Democrat to file for the did all his life, he earned this post in the primary and will are Roger P. Brandeberry of Gallipolis on the GOP ticket and because of this pretty face no opposition in the and Joseph R. "J .R." much a,utomatic five-month general election. Steve McGhee, who's Browning of Bidwell in the wait, he died before he got it. aisle. That just shouldn't happen,1' been county treasurer since Democratic 1999, is seeking election to a Brandeberry was Gallipolis Brown said. third consecutive term. He police chief from 1993 until faces opposition in the pri- 2005 and Browning is a mary from James Thomas captain with the sheriff's "Jim" Clark of Gallipolis, an department. Facing no opposition in eml'loyee of the county audi.for unleaded regular tor s office. No Democrats the primary or the general election are County Saturday, according to filed for the primary. GasPriceWatch.com. Glenn A. Smith, a Recorder J. Roger Walker, a The price of crude also Republican who's served as Republican; Clerk of Couns Saunders, can affect airfares. Airlines county engineer since (997, Noreen M. add surcharges when jet fuel will be opposed in the pri- Republican: and Prosecuting gets more expensive. And mary by first-time candidate Attorney 'C. Jeffrey Adkins, almost all consumer prod- Brett Boothe of Crown City. a Democrat. Walker and ucts- even those that don't The winner of the primary Adkins are seeking second contain petroleum - .can be will also have no opposition terms and Saunders a .fourth. affected through the .added in the fall. The elections board will For judge of the probate- meet Monday at 10 a.m. to cost of transpoi'ting them, Fleming said. juvenile court, a six-year cenify all candidate petitions. Gallia Record oil price to affect items from golf balls to pantyhose COLUMBUS (AP) products in a 'supermarket Anyone with a car knows have at least some petroleall about the record prices urn. . of wholesale crude oil. · The petroleum in the lids But buyers of CDs, golf on plastic coffee cups could balls, lipstick and even raise the cost of drinkers' pantyhose also should be . java fixes. "Over a period of months, feeling the effects soon. Those and dozens of other it may eventually drive up products contain at least · the price of that cup a penny some oil, · which passed or two," said James Newton, $100 a barrel during trading chief economic adviser for for the first time last week. Commerce National Bank. Terry Fleming, director of "It won't be one of those the Ohio Petroleum things whe11 we see oil hit Council, said the list also $100 a barrel and see includes perfume, · deodor- Starbucks raise the price of · ant apd food preservatives. coffee 5 or I 0 cents a cup." "I think ·people do forget A barrel of oil contains·42 this. They get so angry at gallons of petroleum. In the the prices at the pump," U.S., about 34 gallons of Fleming said. _that goes to gasoline, home It's difficult to guess how heating oi I and diesel and jet much more those items will fuel, according to the cost. That will depend in American Petroleum part on how much petrole- Institute. Less than a halfurn they contain. Fleming gallon of each barrel · goes said more than 70 percent of into such products as DYDs, crayons a.nd house paint. But it adds up: Americans go through about 21 million barrels of oil a day, up from 17 million in the early 1990s. "We shouldn't play it ur too much, but we shouldn t ignore it," Newton said of petroleum's part in so many products. "With a lot of those (products), oil is a rather modest contributor." More than a gallon of each barrel of crude goes to asphalt. That has been one · reason construction costs ' for the Ohio Department· of Transportation have increased 40 percent in lhe past four years, the department said, Last week, Ohioans were paying about 75 cents per gallon more than they did a year ago for unleaded regular. Central Ohioans paid $3.09 a gallon, on average, "People don't need to enhanced athletic facilities worry," said Dr. Greg Sojka, and programs, and an interim president of the uni- expanded student center are from PageA1 versity. "We are building for only several of the benefits the future upon a founoation deriving from the fundrais· community college aren't of 132 years of commitment ing drive. Rio Grande will continue able to work it out on their to the area. Academic excellence will continue to be the to devore the highest possiown by that date, the chancellor indicated that the standllrd for all students on ble level of resources to its students and academic prostate will dictate its own our campus." The · university of Rio ' grams, officials said. resolution. Chapman noted that .the . ·· "The most important goal Grande is preparing for the · for us is that students will future, officials said . .Many university board appreciates continue to have a quality donors and alums have con- the support it has. received educational experience here tributed to a successful $21 · from State Rep. Dr. Clyde at Rio Grande no matter mi Ilion capital campaign Evaris and State Sen. John what is decided at the board which enriches programs Carey, who are committed level," he added. "We will and facilities. Additional to the future success of Rio make sure that students are endowed student scholar- Grande and to the continued not negatively affected by ships , improved sc1ence improvement of southeast· these negotiations." equipment and labs, em Ohio. Rio • • Douglas D. Hunter, MD Family Medicine The O'Bleness Health System welcomes Douglas :p. Hun~er, MD. Be is board-certified in family medicine by the American Board of Family Physicians. A graduate of The Ohio State University Sch9ol of Medicine in Columbus, Ohio, he completed a residency in family practice at Grant Medical Center in Columbus. He is also the Meigs County Coronet as well as medical director for the Meigs County Health Department and Meigs Emergency Medical Services. Hunter Family Practice at 207 Fifth St. in Racine is an affiliate of the O'Bleness Health System. For more mformation' or to schedule and appointment, call · (740) 949-2683. ·4 O'BLENESS (~ HEI\LTH SYSTEM -AROUND 2008 ToWN ANNIE'S MAILBOX Dear Annie: I recently · saw my doctor for an annu- . al physical and talked to him about something that had been bothering me. My 14-year-old daughter "Sara," told me that she and her friend "Donna" had smoked pot for the .first time. Since my doctor has a 14-year-old daughter in the same school, I thought he might have some words of . wisdom for me. . Three days ago, Sara began receiving angry emails from Donna, wanting to know why I was spread.. ing gossip about her. It turns out the person who told her I was spreading gossip was the physician's daughter. . I feel betrayed by my doctor io the point of leaving his practice, but he is otherwise a wonderful physician. I also don't want Donna to bully me into doing something I don't wish to do. My relationship with Sara is strained over this and I'm considering callin¥ Donna's mother, but I don t want to . make things worse for Sara. What should I do?- Need Help in Wisconsin · Dear Wisconsin: Your doctor is the one at fault. Although we understand he · their house to walk and feed may have been concerned the animals. The last few about his 'own child, he had times they asked, I made no business discussing your excuses that we were too personal problems (and men- busy, but they persist. They tioning you by name!) with are .nice people, but we are anyone in his family. If you not otherwise close. We don't want to liavehis prac- have a dog, too, but have t1ce; at least let htm know never once asked our neighyou are disappointed in_ his bors to care for it. We put, lack of profess10nahsm. F1do m a kennel when we Don't confide in him again. go away. Why can't these As for Sara, you should people get the hint? .apologize for discussing her Frustrated Neighbor behavior with someone who Dear Neighbor: Stop lacked discretion. You pussyfooting around and might ·also apologize to tell them directly that you Donna for dragging her mto' no longer have the time or this, but tlrst discuss it with energy to take care of their Sara. She will appreciate dogs. Give them the name your willingness to do so, and phone number of the even if she prefers that you kennel. Say you've found say nothing more. ln any the place trustworthy and event, we recommend using suggest they try it next time. this .. opportunity to have Don't let them·guilt you into sotrie frank talks with your changing your mind. daughter about your conDear Annie: I, read the cerns. · responses from children of Dear Annie: My . neigh- · divorce who never forgave bors ask us to pet-sit their their fathers for leaving the dogs every holiday, vacation, marriage, usually for another etc. This started 10 years ago, woman . . While · I don't when my young son was approve of the actions of friends with their son. Both these men, I think you should boys are now grown and · present the opposite situation. don't live at home. My wife of 17 years had · These neighbors have an several affairs. I found out elderly dog !hat can barely after the first and told her I walk and ·they also have· a didn't want to ever catch her puppy. This entails at least doing that again. I felt · three or four daily visits to everyone deserves one "Aw, heck." Well , she didn't let me catch her again. She went deeper underground. With the inevitable divorce, I was kept out of my children's lives for 10 years. It wasn't until they grew up and really looked at their mother's behavior that they came back into my life. Women aren't all saints like those responses painted them out to be. California Dad Dear California: You're right, but the responses we · printed were a sampling of the ones we received - and not one came from a child whose parents divorced because the mother walked out for another man, 'although we know this surely happens. But apparently,' it doesn't happen as often. Am1ie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Plea.~e e-mail your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, P.O. Box 118190, Chicago, I L 60611. To find out more about Annie's Mailbox, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, Pisit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com. Gallia County calendar Community events 'starting at 5:30p.m. Central and Executive comGALLIPOLIS mittees meet the second Gallipollis Rotary Club Tuesday of the month, 7 meets 7 a.m. each Tuesday p.m., in the second floor at Holzer Clinic doctor's meeting room of the Gallia Monday, Jan.' 7 . OAK HILL - Meeting ' dining room. County !=ourthouse. The GALLIPOLIS Gallia public is welcome. for Oak Hill High School senior parents on the after- County Right to Life meets GALLIPOLIS - Gallia prom party, 6:30 p.m., high 7:30 p.m., second Tuesday County District Library of each month at St. Louis Board of Trustees ineets the school lib(lll)'. Catholic Church Hall. Tuesday, Jan •.8 second . Tuesday of the . GALLIPOLIS- Choose month, 5 p.m., at Bossard GALLIPOLIS - Holzer Clinic Retirees will meet for to Lose Diet Club meets 9 Memorial Library. lunch at noon at the a.m., each Tuesday at·Grace GALLIPOLIS The United Methodist Church. Veterans of Foreign Wars Courtside Bar and Grill. GALLIPOLIS FERRY, Use Cedar Street entrance . Ladies Auxiliary Post 4464 GALLIPOLIS French W.Va. Supresta meets the second Thursday Gallipolis Ferry plant will City Barbershop Chorus prac- of each month at 7 p.m. at have its monthly tice, 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday the post home. Community Advisory Panel at Grace United Methodist GALLIPOLIS meeting, 7 p.m. The public Church. Guests welcome. Exercise free at New Life CENTERVILLE is welcome. Lutheran Church, Sunday, Raccoon Township Cri"me Tuesday and Thursday at GALLIPOLIS Riverside Study Club will Watch meets the · second 5:BO p.m. All ages. Walking, meet at noon at the Holiday . Tuesday of each month at 7 palates and dance. p.m. at the old Centerville Inn. CHESHIRE- TOPS OH school. GALLIPOLIS 1383, Cheshire, meets on GALLIPOLIS Gallipolis PERI meeting, 2 Mondays at the DAY p.m., meeting room of the American Legion Post 27 Building, 28051 State Route First Baptist Church, 1100 meets on the first and third 7, Cheshire. Weigh-in begins Mondays of each month at at 8:30 a.m., with the meetFourth Ave. 7:30 p.m. Dinner on first . ing starting at 10 a.m. TOPS Friday, Jan. 11 Monday 'begins at 6:30p.m. (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) GALLIPOLIS - River GALLIPOLIS The is a non-profit, non-commer· Cities Singles Club, 6 p.m., Bossard Memorial Library. French City Treble Makers, cial weight loss organizaWelcoming new members barbershop chorus, meets tion. For more information and for information, call every T!,lesday, 7:30 p.m., at on TOPS, call Janet Thomas, . 446-2722 l;>efore I 0 a.m. or Grace · · United Methodist leader, at (740) 367-0274, or Church. Accepting new e-mai l after 5 p.m. ' at . her members. For info, call Hugh JanetThomas590@hotmail.c . Thursday, Jan. 17 Graham at (740) 446-1304. GALLIPOLIS . om. GALLIPOLIS - Gallia Gallipolis City Schools TRIAD/SALT Academic Boosters will County Council, a program in which meet at 5:30 p.m. in the law enforcement and older Gallia Academy High POMEROY Mae School library. The public is persons work together to preformerly of vent crimes against . senior Young, encouraged to attend. citizens, meets on the second Pomeroy, is celebrating her Thesday of the· month at I 87th birthday on Jan. 7. She . p.m. at the Gallia County was a former leacher in Pomeroy, as was her late · Senior Resource Center. GALLIPOLIS - Gallia husband. Cards can be sent County Democrats meet on to her at Otterbein-Lebanon ·: GALLIPOLIS . : Gallipolis Neighborhood the first Monday of the Retirement Home, 585 : Watch meeting every month at 6 p.m. at the second North State Route 741, . Monday at 7 p.m. in the tloor meeting room of the Phillippi Hall, Room 203, Lebanon, Ohio 45036. : Galli~olis Municipal Gallia County Courthouse. GALLIPOLIS The For information, call 367· Buildmg. Rev. Robert "Bob" Addis, 7530. Everyone invited. : GALLIPOLIS- Practice at pastor GALLIPOLIS The former ::for the French Colony ; · Chorus, a four-part harmo- Gall ia County Veterans Mercerville, is in rehab due : · ny style women's group, 7 Service Commission will to a fractured hip and would : p.m. each ~uesday at the meet at 4 p.m. on the second appreciate cards from • Gallia County Senior and fourth Tuesdays of each everyone; especially -members of local churches. Sign Resource Center, 1167 State month until further notice. GALLIPOLIS -, Gallia your name and church you Route 160, Gallipolis. Enter County Republican Party attend. Cards can be sent to the side center door.. For more information, contact Suzy Parker at (740) 992.si'>.., Shouldn't Your Number #I r~ 5555 or Bev Alberchi nski at New Years Resolution Be: 446-2476. GALLIPOLIS - Gallia County Commissioners Start Saving Money On meet every Thursday, 9 My Insurance ~-. a.m., Gallia County Courthouse. Auto - Home.- Life - Business GALLIPOLJS The Gallia County Airport Clll Ju1ic1 w. Pllll tMIJ Authority Bqard meets at . 6:30 p.m., on the first N ltlri Hftll SIS : . Monday of each month at the · . Airport terminal building. • Reed & Baur Insurance Agency : dALLIPOLIS 220 East Main Street :: Gallipolis TOPS (Take Off :: Pounds Sensibly) meets .· Pomeroy, OH 45769 · . each Monday at 6 p.m. at 992-3690 : :the Sycamore Branch of Or visit us on the web· www.reedbaur.com '· Holzer Clinic with weigh-in Sunday, January 6, 2008 Meigs County calendar Doc shouldn't tell tales out of school BY KATHY MITCHELL AND MARCY SUGAR Page .A 3 him at 608 Fort Duquesne Drive, Sun City Center, Fla. 33573-5156. E·mail community calendar iJems to kkelly@mydai- · lytribune.com. · · Fax announcements to 4463008. Mail items to 825 Third Ave., Gallipolis, Ohio 45631. Announcements may also be dropped off at the Tribune office. Public meetings catered by · Hometown Market, 992-5005 to RSVP. MIDDLEPORT Thesday, Jan. 8 meeting of Special POMEROY -Meigs Middleport Masonic Louge County Board of Ele~tions, #363, with practice in 8:30 a.m., regular monthly Fellowcraft degree. 7 p.m . board meeting. Middleport Masonic POMEROY - Meigs- Temple. All Masons invited. Soil and Water Thursday, Jan. 10 Conservation Di~tricl, orgaRACINE' Sonshine nizational meeting, II :30 Circle, 7 p.m., Bethany a.m. at the district office, United Methodist Church 33101 Hiland Road. Special fellowship hall. Kathryn Hart meeting ·to follow. , CHESTER -Chester . and Mary Ball are hostesses. TUPPERS PLAINS TownShip Trustees, 7 p.m ., VFW 9050 7 p.m. at the hall Chester Town Hall, organi- Meal served at 6:30 p.m. zational meeting. · CHESTER . Shade RUTLANO - Rutland River Lodge 453 to meet at Village Council , regular Refreshments. . meeting, 7 p.m., Rutland 7:30p.m. · POMEROY -Meigs Civic Center. · · County Relay For Life , kick-off event, 5:30p.m.- 7 p.m., banquet room Wild Horse Cafe. Clubs and organizations Birthdays Monday,Jan.7 RACINE -Regular Monday, Jan. 7 meeting Racine OES 134, POMEROY Mae 7:30p.m. Young. longtime teacher in POMEROY Meigs Meigs County will observe Band Boosters will meet at her 87th birthday, Jan. 7. 6 p.m. ori the bandroom. Her address is OtterbeinThesday, Jan. 8 Lebanon Retirement Home, HARRISONVILLE 585 N. State Route 741, Harrisonville 255, O.E.S. Phillippi Hall, Room . 403, 7:30 p.m. Take money tree Lebanon, Ohio 45036. gift. 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OPINION ·6unbap ltmes -iltnttnel Am I being unreason able for wunting the presidential candidates to have solutions for the difficult problems the nation is facing'' It was striking that Bill during the Bhutto assassiO'Reilly nation news cycle, not one of the candidates put forth a solution to deal with the dangerous. situation in Pakistan. need to be involved· over Some of the comments there.'' the candidates made were Sure, Congressman, tlat-out dumb. For exam- · good thinking. Let's just let pie, Democrat B_ill the Islamic fundamentalists Richardson smd th1s: take over that government "Pr~sident Bush faced a and play around with the choice with Pakistan - he nuclear arsenal. SwelL ' needed to choose whether Pakistan epitomizes the to suppqrt the dictator or difficult world .in which we the Pakistani. people. He all live. That chaotic nation chose the dictator." is ultra-violent, divided by Please . .The Pakistani religion and ideology, and a people comprise about 300 I complete mystery to the 'different factions, many of vast majority · of which would lop off Amerjcans. Richardson's head if they Military dictator Pervez ·got the chance. So give me. Musharraf can't control a break, Governor. Did you the jihadists, so he makes not learn anything from the deals with them . Those Shah of Iran debacle? Did deals have allowed the the Ayatollah Khomeini Tali ban a Pakistani sanctuthing turn out well for the ary from which they can USA? kill Americans in neighOn the Republican side . boring Afghanistan. there was Congressman . Musharraf's double oealRon Paul, who said this ing also means Osama bin about Pakistan: "We ·d on't Laden and his murderous 825 Third Avenue • Gallipolis, Ohio (740) 446·2342 • FAX (740) 446·3008 , www.mydailytribune.com Ohio Valley Publishing Co. 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In 1838, Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail gave the first successful public demonstration of their telegraph, in Morristown, N.J·. In 1912, New Mexico became the 47th state. In 1919; the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, died in Oyster Bay, N.Y, at age 60. · · In 1942, the Pan American Airways Pacific Clipper arrived in New York more than. a month after leaving California and following a westward route. · In 1945, George Herbert Walker Bush married Barbara Pierce in Rye, N.Y. In 1967, U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Deckhouse Fi-ve, an offensive in the Mekong River. delta. In 1982, truck driver William G. Bonin was convjcted in .Los Angeles of I 0 of the "Freeway Killer" slayings of ;young men and boys. (Bonin was later convicted of four . 'other killings; he was executed in I 996.) · · In 1987, the U.S. Senate voted 88-4 to establish an 11-member panel to hold public hearings on the Iran-Contra affair. Ten years ago: In a new bid to expand health insurance, President Clinton unveiled a proposal to offer Medicare .coverage to hundreds of thousands of uninsured Americans 'lietween the ages of 55 to 64. Five years ago: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein accused U.N. inspectors of engaging in "intelligence work" instead of searching for suspected nuclear, chemical and biological ·wea{lons in his· country. Thousands of Marines, sailors and '·sol~hers headed for the Persian Gulf region, shipping Qllt from California, Georgia and Maryland as the buildup for a 'war with Iraq accelerated sharpIy. · . · One year ago: At a Baptist church in Fort Worth, Texas, the Denver Broncos filed past the open casket of Darrent 'Williams, the promising cornerback who had been gunned 'down in a drive-by shooting on New Year's Day. A large · avalanche pushed two cars off the heavily traveled road at Berthoud Pass in Colorado, but no deaths resulted. : · Today's Birthdays: Pollster Louis Harris is 87. 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"We'll stay safely on the ground and collect - large sums of money." · · And thus the modern ski industry was born. Today there are thousands of ski areas arid, as of 8 o'clock this morning, every single one of them had excellent skiing conditions, as measured by the Official Ski Area Rating System, in which each area objectively rates its own conditions "Hans, you moron," on a standardized scale that explained Bernice. " It' s ran ges from the highest ~uly. There's no snow." possible ranking, And so Hans had to walk Extremely Superb·(defined manually down the moun- as "snow or at least cold tain to get the doctor, who mud · clearly visible in Subscription Ralea Our webe]tes are: ... THEN THEY SELL THE STUFF FOR lE55? ScifC on the slopes Here's a fun winter vacation idea: Why not go skiing? If you . answered, "Because I don't want to spend the next two years in a full-body cast," then 1. have good news: Thanks to modern, high-tech ski equipment · origihally developed for use by ·U.S. astronauts, 72 percent of all skiers are able to walk with assistance in less than I 0 months! Yes, things have really changed since the early days of skiing, a sport that traces its origins back to 16th"c'entury Switzerland, where, according to legend, a man named . Hans lived with his family on top of a mountain. One day, . Hans' daughter became very ill, and his wife, Bernice, told him to ·go down to the village immediately and fetch the · doctor. Hans, knowing that it would take hours to walk down the mountain , noticed two loose barrel .staves that happened to be lying around, and suddenly an idea struck him . Using some leather thongs that also happened to be lying around, he attached the staves to his feet , grabbed two poles that . also happened to be lying arounq, aimed the staves down the mountain and gave a shove . Within a matter of seconds,- nothing had happened. ·----··- ..' " -· .... ··-·~ .. -~ ·,....,.......,.. ,. Opal Irene Baker Opal Irene Baker, 91, of Gallipolis, died Friday morning. Jan. 4, 2008, at Arbors at Gallipolis. . She was born June 6, I 916, in Guy an Township, Oallia County, daughter of the late Floyd and Myra Sheets Daniels. In addition to her parents, she was preceded by her husband, John Baker; by two brothers, Elmer Daniels and Dow Dani.els; and by a sister, Trusal Carruthers. Opal was a nurse's aide at the Gallip<llis State Institute. She retired in 1974 after 33 years of service. She was a member of the First Baptist Church. She is survived by her nephew, Dana Daniels of Gallipolis; two nieces, Karen Daniels of Georgia, and Pam Newell of Le0n, W.Va.; several great-nieces ~nd nephews; and special friends, Earl and Bea Champlin of Gallipolis Services will be 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6, 2008, at the Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral Home, with Pastor Alvis Pollard l)fficiating. Burial will follow in Ohio Valley Memory Gardens. Friends may call·at the funeral home on Sunday, one hour prior to services. . In lieu of !lowers, contributions can be made to The Gallia County Veterans Association, Attn: Pete Spencer, 5674 Stare Route 588, Gallipolis, Ohio 45631. . To send condolences, visit waugh-halley-wood.com. , Ezequi;ll Majia Diaz · Ezequial Majia Diaz, 26, of Parkersburg, W Va., died Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008, in the Ohio t6tate University Hospital at Columbus, as a result of injuries sustained in an auto accident. . He was born Oct. II, .1981, in Monticito, Mexico, son of Maria Majia Diaz of Moriticito, and the late Mario Diaz. Ezequial was a farmer, and in addition to his mother, he is survived by a son, Ezequial Diaz Jr.; a brother, Bobby Kuhn of Vinton; grandparents, Douglas and Connie Miracle of Vinton; SP._ecial friends, Patricia Hardharger of Parkersburg, and Jenmfer Kuhn of Middleport; and many friends. Arrangements are by the McCoy-Moore Funeral Home, Vinton. Condolences may be sent to www.timeformemory.com/mm. Jabez D. Parsons, 90, of Waverly, · and formerly of Gallipolis, passed away Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008, in the Piketon Nursing Center. He was born June 26, 1917, in Arnoldsburg, W.Va., son of the late O.D. Parsons and Addie Kingsbury Parsons. He was a retired air pollution control inspector for the state of Washington and retired at Seattle in 1978. H,e served in the Anny Air Corps in World War II and was a member and post commander of American Legion Post 27, and a member of VFW Post 4464 and the AMVETS of Gallipolis. WH'I CAN'T places") all the way down to the lowest ranking, Very Good (defined as "This ski resort is located in Puerto Rico"). 'Because different skiers have different abilities, ski resorts offer a variety of slopes, which are colorcoded according to degree of difficulty, as follows: GREEN: Steep . BLUE: Steep BLACK:· Steep If you're a beginner, you want to avoid the steeper ~lopes. J would rule out Colorado altogether. One time I went skiing at the swank Colorado resort of Aspen, and the ski slope there turned out to be basically a cliff. Not coincidentally, Aspen is the home of a world-class knee-injury clinic. It:s located right at the base of the mountain; the surgeons just stand around the operating room, scalpels in hand, chatting about golf, and every few minutes · there's a scream, and a new patient comes crashing through the roof. Of course, to reach that level ·of ex-pertise, yo1,1'll need to take lessons. Most ski areas .have ski schools, where an instructor will assign you to a class of students who are of approximately the same age, skill level and athletic ability as you, except that they are all secretly members of the Olympic slalom . team . You' ll ' see what I mean: The instructor will get you all up on top of the mountain. then say, "Follow me!" and start skiing sedately down, making graceful · turns, totally under control. Your classmates, after exchanging the secret Olympic wink, will follow the instructor, making it appear as though they have never done anything like this before. Some will even fall down, but they'll get right up again as though it's n~ big deal. You'll think, "How hard c~n this be?'' So you 'II push off· an~ within seconds yo1,1'1l be going so fast that your ski outfit will burst into flames from friction with the atmosphere. You'll huttle straight down the hill, a human comet, penetrating the ski lodge directly through the wall, rocketing past the wise .veterans who have elected to spend their ski vacations indoors, and coming to a violent halt in the cafeteria when you slam into the salad bar with such force that surgeons will later find individual chickpeas embedded two inches into your forehead . As you're lying there, face-down in the vinaigrette, you ' II hear, from way up on the mountain, hearty Olympic laughter, plus your instructor's voice advising you: "NEXT TIME, . KEEP YbUR KNEES BENT! " They encourage this because it makes you go faster. The important thing is not to be discouraged. Remember: Everybody falls at first. The real winners pick themselves up, dust themselves off and signal for the cocktail waitperson. Remember to keep your elbow bent. ~unbap -crcimes -i9t!ltlnel • Page~ Pomeroy • Middleport·· Gallipolis Jabez D. Parsons THROUGH HI6Hl'f TECHNICAL 6Eot06/CAL SUR'IJEYS ... Reader Services •• •• • trol because the United States sends him bill ions to buy military support and weaponry. If we stop sending the cash, Musharraf will go down- fast Thus, the U.S. govern·ment must deman<i that strongman Musharraf aggressively attack the Taliban and al-Qaeda with help on_ the ground from . NATO . and America. Yes, this will tee off the radical lslamists and .that is risky. But that's the price Musharraf will have to pay. It's either throw in with the good guys , us, or · you're on your qwn. That's a plan. If the candictates have . a better one. I'd like to hear it (Veteran TV news anchor Bill O'Reilly is host of the Fox News show "The O'Reilly Factor" and author of the book "Who s Looking Out For You?" To find out more about Bill 0 'Reilly, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers a11d cartoonists, visit the Creators Sy11dicate web page at www.creators.com. This column originates on the Web site www.biiloreiliy.com.) AND DIS"COVERED ~unbap ~ime~ -~entinel :. crew can continue living unmolested in Northwest Pakistan. Barack Ob~ma says we have to do something about that But what, Senator? Are you going to send a few American divisions into the mountains? That would mean massive casualties on both sides ~nd a possible Pakistani civil war. Do you realize that, Senator? The Republicans say we have to figure the whole thing out. Well, that's terrific. We've been fighting the Islamic terrorists for more than six years now. trying to "figure out" Pakistan is not exactly a plan, is it? There are two entities at fault here: the seemingly clueless politicians and a corrupt media that is more interested in ideology than demanding cogent answers to specific questions. Here's a clue: Calling Musharraf a corrupt dictator and President Bush a dunce is not a policy. So, permit me to put forth a strategy: Mus~arraf remains in power because he controls most· of the guns. He retains that con- 2008 Obituaries ' OF LI~UID PROCURED FROM COUNTRIES AT WAR ... : · Letters to the editor are welcome. They should be · ·less than 300 words. All letters are subject to editing, .-must be signed, and include address and telephone number. No unsigned letters will be published. Letters -should be in good taste, addressing issues, not per:sonalities. Letters of thankS to organizations and in,dividuals will not be accepted for publication. Third Avenue, Gallipolis, OH 45631 . Periodical postage paid at Gallipolis . · · story, please call one of our newsrooms. Member: The Associated Press, the West Virginia Press Association, and the Ohio Our main numbers are: Newspaper Association .. llrribunr • Gallipolis, OH Postmooter: Send address cor(740) 446-2342 rections to the Gallipolis Daily Senlinel • Pomeroy, OH Tribune . 825 Third Avenue, (740) 992-2155 . " Gallipolis, OH 45631'. i\rwr!ltrr • Pl. Pleasant, WV 2008 $100 A BARREL S£EM5 HI6H FOR A BARREL LETTERS TO THE EDITOR . Sunday, Jimuary 6, The No Solution Zone ·.·&uttbtl~ t!tfme~ -i>eutinel . ' PageA4 • Sunday, January 6, He served 'as Gallia County Veterans Service officer for Visitation will be held on Monday, Jan. 7, 2008 from 3-7 ·several years, retiring in 1993. In addition, he was a n.em- p.m . at the Hillside Baptist Church. ber of the New Life Lutheran Church at Gallipolis and the Arrangements are being handled by the Fisher Anderson Vinton F&AM Lodge 131. McDaniel Funeral Homes in Pomeroy. Jabez and Waltraud were married in Seattle, Wash., in Online condolences may be sent to www.fisherfuneral1969, and returned to Gallipolis in 1978. She preceded him homes.com in death in 1993. He is survived by three sons, James (Linda) Parsons of Kearney, Mo. , Steven Parsons of Seattle, Wash., and Patrick (Amy) Parsons of Waverly; a daughter, Pamela Phyllis Mae Turner, 83, of Joseph, Oregon, died Jan. I, ·Parsons, Fla.; grandchildren, Tony, Mark, Madison and 2008, at Wallowa Valley Care Center in Enterprises, Oregon. Abigail ,Parsons; six great-grandchildren; a brother, Dale She was born May IS , 1924, in Rocksprings, daughter of Parsons of Roanoke, Va.; a sister, Erma Eagle of Gallipolis; the late Marion Dale .and Mabel Mae Shoemaker and several nieces and nephews. Services will be II a.m. · Monday, Jan. 7, 2008, in the Kesterson. She was a homemaker. Surviving.are her sons and daughter-in-law, Williain Dale New Life Lutheran Church, I 70 New Life Way, Gallipolis. Heilmann of Joseph, Oregon, and Jerry Gene and Cindy Burial will follow in the Vinton Memorial Park, where graveside · military rites will be conducted by the Gall ia Diddle of Silver Springs, Fla.; a daughter, Shirley Ann Heilmann (William Cogar) of Minersville; two brothers and County V.eterans Service Organizations. sisters-in-law, Earl Ray and Esther Kesterson of Wilmington . Friends tniiY call al the McCoy-Moore Funeral Home and Roy Homer and Ruth Kesterson, Racine; five grandchilWetherholt Chapel in Gallipolis on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2008, dren; 10 great grandchildren; and several nephews. from 4 to 6 p.m. with Masonic Services to be held at 6 p.m. Besides her parents, she was preceded m death by her by the Vinton Masonic F&AM Lodge 131. · husbands, Alva Wesley Heilmann, .Floyd "Buster" Diddle, Condolences may be sent to www.timeformemory.com/mm. and Dana S. Turner; a son, Alvah John Heilmann; a great granddaughter, Darien Leigh Diddle; and a brother and sister-in~ law, Marion Alonzo "Lonnie" Kesterson and his wife, Freda Brinker Kesterson. Lewis Eugene "Gene" Humphrey, Sr., 75, of Pomeroy, Funeral will be held at I p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008, at Ewing Funeral Home in Pomeroy with Dwight Ashley as , went home to be with his Lord on Friday, Jan. 4, 2008 at the Holzer Medical Cen!er in Gallipolis. His strength and officiant. Burial will be in Mt. Hermon Cemetery. determination we re an inspiration to all that knew him. Friends may call from 6-9 p.m. on Tuesday at the funerHe was born on Aug. 6, 1932 in Pomeroy to the late al home. Edward and Hazel (Brown) Humphrey. Mr. Humphrey was a member of the Hillside Baptist Church :where he was a Sunday school teacher 'and a trustee. He was also a member of the Council on Aging, a life member of United Steel Workers of America; he retired from Ravenswood Aluminum and was a member of the American Legion Feeney-Bennett Post # 128, Middleport. Mr. Humphrey also served in the United States . Army as a Specialist 4th Class in the Combat Engineers Gloria Jean Williams, 53, Chesapeake, forrnerly · of during the Korean War. . He is survived by his wife of 51 years', Patricia "Pat" Gallipolis, died Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2008, in Marietta · Memorial Hospital, Marietta. . Humphrey; sons, Gene Humphrey, Jr. Joe and Jamie She is survived by a sister, Shirley . (Douglas) Humphrey; grandchildren, Kandis Humphrey, Bridget Wheelwright of Cincinnati. Humphrey, Joe Humphrey, Jr., Blake Humphrey, and Graveside services will be II a.m. Monday at the Hecla Luke Humphrey; great grandson, Brayden Eugene Cemetery, with the Rev. James Cremeans officiating. There Humphrey; and several nieces and nephews. will be no visitation. Arrangements are by the Phillips · He is preceded in death by his parents; and brothers and Funeral Home, Ironton. sisters, Hortense, Clara, Waid, and Edward Humphrey, ·• Grace Drake and Louise Bartels. Services will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008 at 11 a.m. at the Hillside Baptist Church in Pomeroy with the Dr. James Acree officiating. Burial will follow in Rocksprings Donald Leifheit, 87. of Springfield, a former resident of Cemetery in Pomeroy. Military graveside rites will be con- Pomeroy, died Thursday. Funeral services wilL be lield at II ducted by the American Legion Feen~y-Bennett Post# 128, a.m. Monday. Friends may call at the Jackson Williams Middleport. . Funeral Home in Springfield Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. Phyllis Tuftier Lewis·Eugene Humphrey, Sr. Deaths Gloria Jean Williams Donald Leifheit · Levee breakS in Nevada desert town, strands 3,500 in their flooded homes Bv MARTIN GRIFFITH did not overtop the. bank," he said. , The irrigation district has FERNLEY, Nev. - A a bounty on gophers, said canal levee ruptured early Kate Rutan, an administraSaturday .after heavy raintive assistant at the district fall, pouring more than 3 office. "Gophers are terrifeet of near-freezing water ble for making a hole ... into hundreds of homes and and once {water) finds a stranding 3,500 people weak spot, it will go for it," across a square mile in their she said. desert agricultural town, The Fernley area had gotauthorities said. ten snow plus heavy rain on A section of the Truckee Friday. The town sits about Canal up to 50 feet long halfway between Lake broke around 4 a.m. in Tahoe, where the river origFernley, about 33 miles inates, and Pyramid Lake, east of Reno, officials where the canal empties said. No injuries were about 100 miles downreported. stream. Fernley Mayor Todd · ."It 'was a mess up there Cutler said he had reports of last night," Allen said. The .damage to at least 300 to snow is about 2 inches in 400 homes. depth and the temperatures ·"I think the damages are are right near the frigid going to be discovered mark both for the rescuers more and more as we go and rescuees." on through the day," The canal brings' water Cutler said. from the Truckee River, Truckee River water starting just east of Reno !lowing Into the canal was and running to the farming diverted upstream · and community of Fallon, about ·water in the canal was 60 miles away. receding by noon, said In December 1996, Ernie Schank, president of flooding from a rupture of the Truckee-Carson an irrigation canal that is Irrigation District. , AP photo part of the Truckee-Carson "We're still rescuing A Reno HASTY team worker surveys the flooded area on Canary Circle in Fernley, Nev. Saturday. A canal .levee ruptured Irrigation District surfolks and getting people to early Saturday after heavy rainfall, pouring more than 3 feet of near-freezing water into 800 homes and stranding 3,500 rounded about 60 Fernley shelter safely," said Chuck people across a square mile in their agricultural desert town, authorities said. homes with ·as much as 2 . . Allen of the Nevada feet of water. Department of Public On Jan. 3, 1997, floodSafety. "I'm hoping the bulldozers were brought in helicopters and by mid- California, blacking out break may started with ing from the Truckee brunt of this is over. We to shore up the levee, morning had rescued 1-8 thous11nds of customers and rodent burrowing that · River swamped motels, people. sort of have some tontrol Allen said. blanketing the Sierra weakened the canal's earth- casinos and other busi"Some folks were stand- Nevada range with deep .en bank. than I 00 people had More today because it's not nesses in Reno and mjlde gathered at a high school ing in their driveways and snow. raining." "Evidently it was a rat or hundreds of homes uninsome were on top of their The break might have shelter by midday. However, Schank said the a gopher hole. The canal habitable . buildings," said Zip Upham ~ "Unfortunately, there are been started by burrowing rodents, an official said, people with damaged a spokesman for the Navy 'though the cause wasn ' t houses, ,people refusing to training facility. The . break came as a leave their houses," Cutler clear. • storm pummeled the West , Ten school buses were said. The nearby Fallon Naval Coast, raising ·a threat of used to carry residents to Air Station provided two mud slides and tlooding in shelters at schools, and ASSOCIATED. PRESS WRITER 8th Annual C{Zlflbrity rt)innflr ,' Keeping Gallia, Meigs ·&Mason ' informed · Sunday Times-Sentinel • Galla • 446-2342 - . 992-2155 Mason. 675-1333 SURE COVE 750 1st Ave. Gallipolis, OH 446-9600 WE'RE RE-OPEN AND READY FOR BUSINESS! As SQmc of vou kno". wc'w been closed•for a fc11 days due ·to illness, but we're now open again with Jots of great new merchandise! Hours; Mon-Sat10.6 • Closed Sunday ___ . ' Benefiting Holzer Senior Outreach Join us for a "Winter Wonderland" �f ' OHIO PageA6 Sunday, January 6, 2008 STAFF REPORT COLUMBUS - State Rep. Clyde Evans recently reinforced the importance of winter heating assistance during colder months. . Many low-income individuals and families .may need assistance with winter heating bills. The Home Energy As~istance Plan (HEAP). administered through the Ohio Department of Development, is designed to help eligible low-income Ohioans meet the high costs of home heating. HEAP provides . residents with a · one-time payment based on energy usage to help pay In the Open, Page 83 • for heating bills. "As Ohio 's coldest months arrive, it is important that f;!VeJY Ohioan have access to heat ," said Evans, a Republican from Rio Grande. "I am pleased with the HEAP program and encourage anyone in need to utilize its services." Any customer who meets income guidelines is eligible to apply for HEAP, and applications are available at local post offices, libraries and Community Action agencies across the state. Union Avenue in Pomeroy was closed late Friday afternoon after a huge tree fell across the street taking electric and telephone lines with It and causing extensive power outage in the village. On · the scene were the Pomeroy Fire Department,· Pomeroy Police, and the Meigs 'county Sheriffs deputies. along with American Electric Power and telephone company workers. For income guidelines and additional information about the HEAP program, comact · the Ohio Departmellt of Development at (800) 282-0880. staff P.,oto Report encourages 5 colleges in NE Ohio to pool resources CLEVELAND (AP) Five public universities in northeast Ohio should work more closely with each other to pool their resources and produce more college graduates. a new report recommends. Cleveland State University should lead the way on developing a regional department . for computer sc1ence maJors, and the University of Akron should use its research foundation as a vehicle for spurring-technology innovations that ·have commercial applications, the report said. The report issued Friday by a 19-member commission studying hig~er education in northeast Ohio comes as state Chancellor Eric Fingerhut is developing his own I 0-year plan for the future of higher education in Ohio. Fingerhut said the report by the Northeast O~io Universities Collaboration arid Innovation Study Commission is a good first ·$tep. Fingerhut wants OhJO's 13 public universities and 24 community col- I I .. 1 111.01 . Cllamplon (NASDAQ) - 5.43 Chllnnt... Sllopo (NASDAQ)4.82 City H-W (NASDAQ) - 32.8.2 COIItM (NYSEI - 89.67 DuPont (NYSE) - 43.38 US a.nk (NYSE) - 29.44 Q - (NYSE) - 35.03 - . . . Electltc (NYSE) - 36.04 H-~IWklolon (NY$E) - 42.38 JP Mort111n (NYSE) - 40.93 Kro&er (NYSE)- 25.34 Umllecr-. (NYSE) -16.51 Norfoltc Southern (NYSE)- 47.88 Mander. Jan. z TUtedoy Jon 8 Boys Basketball. Gallla Academy at Chillicothe, 6 p.m. Fairland at River Valley, 6 p.m . South Gallla at Southern, 6 p.m. Wahama at Eastern, 6 p.m. fed!ral Hocking at Meigs, 6 p.m. Wednaldoy. 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The win giv~s Southern a 7-4 record overall and 2-1 mark in the TriValley Conference Hocking Division. Southern was led by Weston Harris Roberts with 14 points and six rebounds, Bryan Harris added 13 points, Ryan ' Chapman added ten pomts i$d six rebounds, and Kreig Kleski had eight points. 131:lld Brown added seven, .John Brauer four, Micliael Manuel three, and Cyle Rees two. Trimble was led by Issac Standley with a game-high 21 points, while Adam MUlford added . ten, lss~c Walton twelve, Taylor Russell five, Joel Barrett wur, Joey Reitano four, and fee Eing two. . ·: South~m struggled someiN hat throughout the ga!lle. l:iut did what a team has to in pitler to be successful in the tOugh Tri~ Valley l;onference; and that is "win bn ·the road". 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(NASDAQ) -25 BBT (NYSE) ~ 27.38 Peopleo (NASDAQ)- 22.64 Pepsico (NYSE) - 75.55 P"""ler (NASDAQ) - 13.05 I!Ockw.ll (NYSE) - 84.09 ' Rocky -(NASDAQ)- 6.01 Roylll Dutch Shell - ,84.13 Seals Hotclntl (NASDAQ) - _ OVCS at Hannan, 7:30 p.m. Southern at Miller; 6 p.m. +The Zone, 73 1: Huron St., (740) 28&·9698 1-740-446-2342 ext. 33 h•- 1·74D·446·:l008 1!-moll- sportsOmydailytnbune.com ~LS.tl!ll Bryan Walters, Sports Writer (740) 446-2342 , ext. 33 bwaltersOmydallytrlbuna .com larry Crum, Sports Writer "'*• 1140) 446-2342 , ettt. 33 .lcrumOmydailyregister.com ~rtc Randolph, Sports Writer (740) 446-2342 , ettt. 33 ~:.rtsOmydaMysentl nel .com • ' . : Glrl1 Basketball f*Jer Valley at ChesapeakS, 6 p.m. South GaHia at Hannan, 6 p.m. ~lpre at Eastern . 6 p.m. p.m . +Uioduon Rrd Skye Wi"'l"', 731 EMain St., Sie. 6 · 1740! 161).1806 ' tejtma from Gallia and Meigs countie$, ') OVCS at Hannan', 6 p.m. wWtthln 30 days you aren't completely sa~slled, you can get out of your contract. i Third.quarter surge lifts Marietta past Devils, 49-41 ; GAI,.UPOUS - A schedule of L4J0011ingcollege and hi1!6Ctlool varsity sportii'J,;l even1s involving Cllrl1B11ketbllll CJOSS lanes Chrl&llan at South Gallla, 6 were more moves out of thari to Ohio. . United .says it saw migration qut of the_ entire Great Lakes reg10n mcrease during 2007. Michigan had the highest outbound percentage overall, at 67.8 percent. North Carolina _was _No. I for people movmg m, at 61.6 percent. . .' The rankings are based on information from 213,000 household · moves handled by United last year. Local Stocks Bob Ev.,. (NASDAQ~- 25.37 BotCWomer (NYSE) - 43.54 • Centqry Aluminum (NASD"Q) - LocAL ScHEDUl.£ Friday. Jan. 11 Sunday... A slight chance 60s. of rain in the morning. Thesday ni~;~ht... Showers Cloudy with patchy drizzle. likely. Lows m the lower Warmer with highs in the 40s. Chance of rain 70 permid 50s. South winds 5 to cent. 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 Wednesday ••• Mostly percent. cloudy with a 40 percent Sunday night... Cioudy. chance of showers. Much Lows in the upper 40s . . cooler with highs around South winds 5 to 10 mph.. 50. · Monday...Gioudy. Highs · Wednesday night in the mid 60s. Southwest . through· Thursday winds 5 to I 0 mph. . nlght. •• Mostly cloudy. Monday night ••• Mostly Lows in the lower 30s. cloudy. Lows in the upper 'Highs in the upper 40s. 40s. Friday... Mostly cloudy . Thesday... Mostly cloudy . with a chance of rain showwith a 50 percent chance of ers. Highs in the mid 40s. . showers. Highs in the mid Chance of rain 30 percent. AEP (NYSE) - 46.29 Sunday, January 6, 2008 ~elpre Local Weather Ak.1o (NASDAQ)- 82 .Uhland Inc. (NYSE) - 44.90 BIC Lota (NYSE)- 13.97 . Federal Hocking at Eastern, 6 p.m. Moving ftrm reports Ohio mostly an outbound state in '07 I I ' ·Waterford at Southam, 6 p.m. leges to collaborate more and focus on their common goals, instead of constantly competing with each other. The commission's report, however, does not say how new projects among the five schools Cleveland State, Akron, Kent · State. Youngstown State and the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine - would be funded. . · It also J;ioes not address the possible merger of Cleveland State and Akron. something Fingerhut favors. Fingerhut expects to release his plan for Ohio's public universities in March. Other recommendations in the commission's report include centralizing printing services among the five universities and combining · health insurance coverage · for employees. · · The report also recommended greater collaboration among fine and performing arts ·programs, with . student and faculty productions · trayeling from one school to another. ST. LOUIS (AP) - A major name .in the moving • l:iusiness says Ohio re'mained a state . people were more likely to leave than move into during 2007. In a report, United Van Lines says 57 percent of [ts business in the state last rear was outbound - that ts, moving people from Ohio to someplace else. The company says it was the 15th straight year that there Ivery named AMC Player of Week, Page 82 .. .,.;su feels at home in Superdome;Page BS Legislator hails HEAP's efforts to aid Ohioans NEWS@MYDAILYTRIBUNE.COM Inside when Quinton Nibert drained a three-pointer for an 18-16 lead. Marietta countered with a 6-2 run for a 22-20 edge, then Kyle Mitchell tipped in a rebound at 5:36 to tie things up at 22-all. . Gallia Academy was 16-ol45 from the field for 28 percent. including a ,dismal 1-for-15 from behind the arc for just seven ,percent. The Tigers shot 18-of-35 overall for just over 51 percent. Kyle Mitchell paced GAHS with a game-high 12 points, followed by Ethan Moore with eight. Both Niben and David Rumley conlributed seven, while Chris McCoy added three markers. John Troester rounded out the Blue and White scoring with two points. . Rumley - the Devils' leading SCOrer- picked up his SC!Cond foul with 3:15 left in the first quarter and did not play again during the opening half. The score was 7-5 at the time of the second personal foul. Biehl led MHS witll II Please see Devils, 81 BY BRYAN WALTERS BWALTEAS@MYDA.ILYTRIBUNE.COM GALLIPOLIS - A 15-5 run midway through the third quar· ter allowed visiting Marietta to pull away fromGalliaAcademy and claim a hard-fought 49-41 victory Friday night during a Southeastern Ohio Athletic League boys basketball interdivisional matchup. Tied at 22 early· in the second half, the Tigers' Cole Biehl ran off eight straight points - all , off turnovers - to give . the guests a 30-22 advantage. The Orange_and Black finished the stanza on a 7-5 surge to take a 37-27 edge into the finale. The Blue Devils (3-6, 1-4 SEOAL South) pulled to within si~ points (47-41) with 2:4:5 remaining, then went SCOreless the rest of the way. MHS (4-6, 2-3 SEOAL North) led most of the game, taking a 12-7 lead after eight Bryan Walterliphoto minutes and a slim 16-15 ed~e Gallla Acadell\Y'S Chri.s Armstrong. right, defends Marietta's Christian Hudspeth (3) at intermission. GAHS took tts during an in-bounds attempt in the second quarter of Friday night's SEOAL interdivi- final lead of the night on the sional contest at Gallipolis. opening play of the second half Marauders' winning streak ends at three BY ERIC RANDOLPH SPORTS@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM ROCKSPRINGS - Clay Bolin scored.l4 points, and Damian Wise ' was right behind him with 12 more, but the Meigs Marauders basketball team was defeated 69-57 by · the Vinton County Vikings at Larry R. Morrison Gymnasium on Friday night. The loss snapped a threegame winning streak for the Marauders, whose record now falls to 3-6. The game was the fourth Tri-Valley Conference Ohio Division game of the season for_ Meigs. They're now 1-3 in TVC Ohio play. The Vikings remain undefeated in the division with a record of 4-0. Vinton County has lost just one game this season and improved to 10-1. Despite an excellent fourth quarter in which they . scored 29 points, the Marauders just couldn't run with the Vikings. The game was tied at four early, but Vinton County would go on a 16-0 run from there, and the Marauders did not make another basket until a ·minute remained in the first quarter. The score after one was 26-7. Meigs played a similar second quarter offensively, but Guthrie was not as effective, scoring just six J>oints. Wise had four of the Marauders' eight points, and Me~gs went to halftime' down 38-15. They nearly doubled their Pleese - Melp, i1 Eastern falls at Waterford BY lARRY CRUM LCRUM@MYDA!LYREGISTER.COM WATERFORD -· Things started otf well enough then came' the third quarter. After jumping on top .in the opening minutes, the Eastern boys · basketball team hit a co ld spell during the latter min utes of the second quarter spilling into the t h i r d including a 24-4 run that turned the game around and allowed Waterford to take 71-55 victory Friday nighl. That 24-4 streak Winebrenner · began with a little over four minutes to play in the second quarter with the Eagles holding a 33-l9lead. Led by Derek Hmlge, whn scored 12 of his game-high 20 points, Waterford closed the g<~p tn 35-2(i heading . into the break. , From there the Wildcats took over, outscoring Eastern 23-5 in the third quarter ·including an 11-0 run that led to WHS taking its first lead of the game and extending that lead to 49-40 heading Eric Randolph/photo into the final quarter. Meigs junior Clay Bolin (20) dribbles past a Vinton County defender during the first half of Ple1se see E1gles, 8J Friday's TVC Ohio boys basketball game at Larry R. Morrison Gymnasium in Rocksprings . . a Redmeit roll past_RV, 71-46 BY BRYAN WALliRI . eWALTERSOMYOAILYTRieUNE.COM CHESHIRE - On a ni~ht that j\IS! about everytht~g went right for the Rock Htll boys basketball team, the same couldn't be said for host River Valley during a 71-46 setback Friday night in an Ohio Valley Confe~ence contest. The Raiders (3-6, 0-3 OVC) started sluggishly, falling · behind 16-4 after eight minutes · of play and also trailed by a whopping 45-13 at intermission. The Silver and Black managed to outscore the Redmen (55, 1-2) 33-26 in the second half, but the damage was already done. Matt Matney paced the guests with a game-high 35 ]JOints, including 29 of those · in the opening hal f. Matney also hit six three·-pointers in the triumph, all of which came before halftime. Matney had II ,points in the opening period and 18 during the second frame . The Red and White including Matney - had nine pl'ayers reach the scoring column during the win. Drew Kuehne was next with II points, followed by Mark DePriest with eight and Nate Davenport with seven markers. Aaron Butler chipped in three points, while Seth Kuehne, Wes Pierson and Luke Simpson each added two. Herbie Butterbaugh rounded out the scoring with one point. RHHS made seven trifectas in the contest and a] so went 15-of-24 from the foul line. RVHS, which did not make a three-pointer in the setback, went 6-of-17 at the charity stripe and had eight players reach the scoring column . Zak Dee! led the Raiders with I 0 points, follow ed by lan Lewi s and Ryan Henry Please see Raiders, 82 . Bryan Walterliphoto River Valley's Ryan Eggleton. right. dribbles into a pair of Rock Hill defenders during the second half of Friday night's OVC boys basketball game in Cheshire. 'I • - - l ..., �Page B2 • ~unbap in:iml'!i -~rntinrl Lady Wildcats tame Eastern, 79-21 STAFF REPORT SPORTS@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM EHS On the Other hand - was 8 -of- 3 2 from the floor for 25 perc e n 1 , Eastern had only six players SCOre, Jed by ~enior ~atie Hayman wuh ctght pomts. Allie Rawson was next with six, followed by Beverly Maxson with four and Emeri Connery with two points. Kaylee Milam rounded things out with one point. The Lady Eagles traveled to Wahama Saturday night and next return to action Gil Monday when they ho.st Belpre in a TVC non-conference matchup. Tipcoff is scheduled fur 6 p,m. WATERFORD - A 24-2 first quarter run ultimately allowed Waterford to cruise to an easy 79-21 victory over . visiting Eastern Thursday in~luding 2night during a Tri- Valley of-9 from Conference Hocking behind the Division girls basketball arc for 22 matchup. Hayman · percenJ. The The Lady Wildcats ( 10-0, Lady Eagles 5-0 TVC Hocking) led 40-7 were also 3-for-6 at the charat intermission, then went on ity ,\tripe for 50 percent. a 25-8 third quarter run for Eastern committed 19 an incredible 65-15 advan- turnovers in the setback. I0 tage headed into· the tinale. more than the hosts' tally of Waterford '79, Eastern 21 Eastern 2 5 8 6 - ~ 21 W.HS. the three-time defend- nine. Waterford also had 17 Waterlord 24 1B 25 14 - 79 · ing TVC Hocking champs, steals in comparison· to the EASTERN (2·6, 2·3 TVC Hocking) - · outscored the Lady Eagles Lady Eagles' five. Hayman 3 2-2 8, Beverly Maxson 2 (2-8, 2-3) by a 14-6 margin WHS had nine players Katie 0-0 4, Emeri Connery 1 0-Q 2, Allie in the fourth. which led to reach the scoring column, Rawson 2 0-0 6, Morgan Werry 0 ().0 0, the 58-point margin of victo- including a trio of players Alyssa Newland 0 0·2 0, Kaylee ~ilam 0 1·2 1. TOTALS: B 3·6 21 . Three-point ry. with do.uble figures. goals: 2 (Rawson 2). The hosts shot 35-of-64 Sina King led the victors WATERFORD (10·0, 5·0 TVC Hocking) from the field for 55 percent, with 19 points, followed - Sma King 8 3-4 19, Brittany Br9wn 5 i2, Jessi Drayer!} 0-0 17, Ashleigh including 4-of-7 from three- clo.sely by Jessi Drayer with 2·2 Tomes 3 0.0 6, Kaitlyn Stewart 4 0·0 9, point territory for 57 percent. 17 and Brittany Brown with Ali West 0 0-0 0, Bethany Dailey 1 Q..O 2, Waterford was also 5-of-6 at a dozen markers. Kaitlyn Janetta Lang 3 0·0 7, Lauren Bo~ner 2 0Ellis 10·0 2. TOTALS: 35 5·6 the free throw line for 83 Stewart also. chipped in nine 079.5, Haley Three-point goats: 4 (Drayer. percent. points. Stewart, Lang, Basner). GAHS grapplers split at Logan dual STAFF REPORT SPORTS@MYDAilYTRIBUNE.COM LOGAN - Led by Matt Watts, · Benjamin Saunders. Kyle Bays, Robert Daniels and Jonathan Caldwell the Gallia Academy wrestling team split its pair o.f its matches at a dtial meet earlier this week. Perfect 2-0 marks from those tive wrestlers allowed the Blue Devils to take a 3625 victory over host team Logan and was almost good enough to take a pair o.f victo.ries, but Vinton County held on for the other win in a narrow 35-34 decision. In the match against Logan eight different Blue Devil wrestlers took wins. Caldwell defeated Chris Phillips '4-2, Cody Pullins defeated Malachi Bichm 145, Matt Watts won by forfeit, Benjamin Saunders pinned Jordan Spicer, Bays def~ated Kurt Geiger 5-l. Mo.rgan McKinnis pinned Levi Smith, Tyler Wachs won by forfeit and Robert Daniels defeated Jake Poggemoller 6-4. Also. competing for GAHS was Lawrence Wademeyer, David Saunders, Clint Saunders and Mike Brown. In the match with Vinton County seven wrestlers claimed wins. Caldwell won by forfeit, Watts defeated Billy Wright 15-4, Benjamin Saunders won by fo.rfeit, Bays pinned . Derrick Parkson, Clint Saunders defeated Justin Burt 9-6, Brown defeated Jed Patterson 9-4 and Daniels pinned Aaron Puckett. Also competing in the match against VC was Pullins, Wedemeyer, McKinnis, David Saunders, Wachs and Zach Swisher. Gallia · Academy will return !O the mat January 16 when it travels to a dual meet with Athens and Jackso.n. with eight apiece. · Clyton Curnutte was next with five markers. Jordan Qeel, Sean Sands and Marcus Frazier each contributed four points. to the losing cause, with Kody Johnson rounding out the · scoring with three points. Rock Hill led 55-29 at the end of tlu;ee quarters. Rock Hill claimed · an evening sweep with a 48-30 : victory in the junior varsity contest. Sam Cooke led the JV Redmen with II points, while Harry Smathers and · · Kody Johnson paced the Raiders with seven and six points, respectively. River Valley returns to action Tuesday when it hosts Fairland in another OVC matchup. The JV tipoff is scheduled for 6 p.m. Rock Hill 71, River Valley 46 Rock Hill 16 29 10 16 - 71 A. Valley 4 9 16 17 - 46 ROCK Hlll (5·5, 1·2 OVC) - David Turley 0 0-0 O, Seth Kuehne 1 o-o 2, ' Bryan Walters/photo Curnut~e from Page Bl . ed to a 20-11 first period lead . Southern had trouble gettin~ its "game" go.ing offens1vely, while the Tomcats spread the wealth amo.ng six different players. Southern started to close the gap in the seco.lid ·peri· od, making necessary defensive adjustments that equalized the Tomcat success of the first frame. Harris $arnered his first four pomts of the night, while Brauer and Manuel chipped in three each as Southern closed the. gap to five at the half, 30-25. Fine-tuning the Southern machine at the half, Coach Jeff Caldwell tasered so.me life back into. the Tornadoes. Point guard Brad Brown o.pened his best offensive effort of the year with five points in the frame, while Harris (6), Roberts (4 ), Rees, Ashland. lie follo.wcd that performance up with a 17point. nine-rebound. and eight assist effort in a I08IOr triumph over NCAA Division Ill Hiram in the consolation game. In the two contests, Ivery shot 58 percent and made 4of-1 0 free throws. He added three blocked shots and one steal. · Rio Grande is currently 5-8 overall. South G.allia falls to Flyers, 70-45 Harvey led all scorers with 16 points, with Pat Gagai and David Crossan chipping in 12 and I I markers, respectively. Joey Basedow also scored 10 in the triumph. South Gallia returns to action 1\tesday night when it travels to Racine fo.r a noncon rererice contest with Southern. The JV tip-off is scheduled for 6 p.m. STAFF R,EPORT SPORTS@MVPAILYTRIBUNE.COM IRONTON - The first and third quarters ultimately pro.ved disastrous fo.r South . Gallia on Friday night during a 70-45 setback to host Ironton St. Joseph in a boys basketball non-league rontest. Duncan Wild The Rebels (0-10) fell behind 17-2 after eight minutes of play, then outscored leading the Rebels with 13 Ironton St J(\0 70, South Gollla 45 the Flyers (4-5) by a slim o.ints. Vance Fellure and · s. Gallia 2 15 e 20 - 45 P St. Joe 17 14 22 17 - 70 15-14 margin in the seco.nd Justin Shelton were next · quarter to pull their deficit to with seven .apiece, followed soUTH ·GALLIA 10·10) - Jacob within 31-17 at intermission. by Jacob Watson and Corey· ~~~f~ 0 ~;5 :: ~~;m~~d6o~~ ~· g~r"l. 2 The hosts then hit 7-o.f-8 Small with four markers Micah cardwell 1 o-o 3, Caleb field goal attempts in the each McClanahan 1 0-2 2, TYler Duncan 6 1-5 : 13 Vance Failure 3 1-2 7, Justin Shelton third, which led to a 22-8 M1cah Cardwell and Max 2 3-s 7. TOTALS: 16 11·21 45. Three· run for a 53-25 advantage Wild . both added three point goals: 2(Wild, Cardwell). · JOSEPH IH) -;- Chad Harvey 47· heading into the finale. The Points • while Thomas Cook 12sr. 16 Payton Blair 4 0-0 9. Dav1d Red and Gold finished out ·and. Caleb McClanahan Cross~n51·211 , AnthonyWhaleyoo.o things OUt with tWO 0, Joey Basedow 42·2 10, levi Hop<ins on a 20-17 run, but came up rounded . . o 0-0 o, Pat Gagal3 6-7 12. Dylan Klein well short of a comeback pOIIltS ap1ece. 0 0·0 0, Ale< Brown 1 4·4 6, Cody Nine players also scored Blackburn 0 0·0 o. Caleb Blackburn 20· bid. ' · 1 d' < 0 4. Spencer Schwab 0 1·2 1, Zach Nine players sco.red in the tOf St · Joe, lllC U mg tOUr Alexander 0 1·2 1. TOTALS: 23 22·33 setback, with Tyler Duncan with double figures. Chad 70. Three-point goals: 2 (Harvey, Blair). Meigs ers was allegedly hit in the 'face during a Marauders possession. Combs shouted at one of the officials for what he thought should have been a call. When that did not draw a response to his liking, Combs continued to yell until the official called a technical foul, drawing a raucous cheer from the hometown crowd. The Marauders made one of the two free-thro.ws, and C · · f ombs spennhe maJonty o the final three minutes seated on the bench. Meigs head co.ach Ben Ewing praised Vinton County for the impressive. game they played but also mentioned his own team's unwillingness to give up. H~ conceded that ,the game m1ght nol haVe been as close as the final score might indicate, but he was · pro.ud o.f the effo.rt from his . players that made the game mteresting in the end. Other scorers for Meigs were Jacob Well with II points, Jeremy Smith with eight, and Corey Hutton with three. Vinto.n County's Dustin . Guthrie did his best impression of a one-man team, scoring a game-high 26 points . One other player narro.wly hit double figures for the Vikings. More than half of Guthrie's . points came in the first quarter while the Marauders were struggling to find their rhythm. The junior varsity Marau.ders were defeated 47-30 prior to the start of the varsity game. Meigs' next ·game is Tuesday evening at home against Federal Hocking. Tipoff is set for 6 p.m. ~ VInton County 69, Melga 57 Vinton Co 26 12 17 14 - 69 Meigs 7 8 13 29 - 57 VINTON COUNTY (10·1, 4·0 TVC Ohio) - Andy Grillo 0 0-0 0, Ryan Stewart 3 0-0 9, Taylor Reed 1 2-4 4, Ethan Allen 2 2-2 6, Michael Dixon 3 0- , 0 6, Ben Batey 0 2·2 2, Dustin Guthrie 12 2-5 26, Brandon Clark 0 Q.O 0, Steven Thompson 0 0·0 0, Dylan Guthrie 2 2-2 6, Jake Prater 5 D-0 10. TOTALS: 28 10·15 69. Three-point goals: 3 (Grillo 3). MEIGS (3·6, 1·3 TVC Ohio)- Jeremy Smith 3 1-2 8, Clay Bolin 5 2·• 14, Jacob Well4 2·2 11, Chris Goode 3 3-5 9, Corey Hutton 03·4 3, Gabe Hill 0 0·0 o, Damian Wise 5 2-212, Willy Barcus a 0·0 0, Austin Dunfee 0 D-0 0. TOTALS: 2013-19 57. Three·polnl goals: 4(Bolin 2, Smith. Well) .. fromPageBl RIVER VALLEY (3·8, 0·3 OVC) - . Jordan Dee! 2 0-Q 4, Sean Sands 2 0-0 4, Cody McAvena o 0-2 O, Clayton Southern I v e r y nearly tallied tripledoubles in both game~. sco.ring 25 points, collecting 15 rebounds and dishing out eight assists in a 94-88 loss Division II Devils · Wes Pierson 1 0-1 2, Luke Simpson 1 00 2, Nate Davenport 3 1-1 7, Matt · Matney 10 9-13 35, Mark DePriest 4 0• 1 8, Herbie Butterbaugh 0 1-2 1, Drew Kuehne 4 3-5 11, Dustin Chandler 0 0..0 0, Aaron Butler 1 0-2 3. TOTALS: 25 1524 71. Three-point goals: 7 (Matney 6, Butler). , 2 1-2 5, Kody Johnson 1 1-2 3, Ryan Eggleton 0 0-0 0, lan Lewis 3 2-4 8, Ryan Henry 3 2-6 8, Marcus Frazier 2 D-0 4, Zak Deet 50·1 10.TOTALS: 20 6· 17 46. Three-point goals: None. · CEDARVILLE University of Rio. Grande forward Brandon Ivery has ·been selected as the American Mideast Co.nference Player of the Week for December 24-30. Ivery, a 6-8 junior from Columbus, averaged 21 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists as the Redmen split two games at the Holiday Inn Ivery E'xpress Tournament at Ashland University. · to . NCAA point to.tal in the third by scoring 13 points, led by Wise and senior Chris Goode with four each. It was 55 _28 after three. Goo.de finished the game with nine po.ints. The fourth quarter belonged to Bolin and the Marauders. The J'unior scored all of his team-high 14 points in the final period, helping Meigs . post one more point than they managed in the first three quarters o.f the game while ho.ldc ing the Vikings to just 14. While it wasn't enough to win them the game, it made things interesting and gave the home crowd something · to cheer about. Speaking of that cro.wd. the highlight of the night for the Meigs fans came three minutes before the final buzzer during a stoppage in play. Vinton County head coach Matt Co.mbs became upset when one of his play- from Page Bl River Valley senior Ryan Henry (40) converts a layup as a Rock Hill defender tries to block his shot during the second half of Friday's OVC contest in Cheshire. Chapman, and Kleski jumped onto the bandwagon. The explosive effort was aided by a Trimble technical that sent Harris to the line for a r.air of free throws on a tra1l that led to a 46-42 So.uthern lead. The last quarter streamed · toward a see-saw battle that saw Trimble tie the score with 20 seconds left. , Roberts had paced · the · So.uthern attack, while Issac Standley became the Trimble wo.rkhorse with twelve fourth-quarter As Southern points . worked fo.r the last shot Harris gained the rij!ht oppo.rtunlty, where the drib· ble penetration led to. his game-winning shot and a blo.ck/charge tyre foul that . fell in Southern s favor. the score 61-58. Southern hit 23•39 two.'s, 1-8 three's, and 12-19 at the line. Southern had 24 rebounds (Ro.berts 6, Chapman 6), 14 assists (Brown 3, Chapman 3, Roberts 3), two steals, three charges, 14 turnovers , and 17 fouls. Trimble hit 21-40 two.'s, 2-ll three's, and 1117 at the line. Trimble had 21 rebounds, eight assists, six steals, eleven turnovers, and 17 fouls. Southern won the reserve ganie 42-33 led by Taylor Deem with ten points, Colby Roseberry seven, Cyle Rees eight, Dustin Salser six, and Sean Coppick six. Trimble was led by Noah Guthrie with 19 points and Kevin Boudmot with nine. Southern hosts So.uth Gallia Tuesday in Racine. 8outhorn 11, Trimble II Soulhorn 11 14 21 16 - 81 Trimble 20 10 12 18 - 68 SOUTHERN (7-4, 2·1 TVC Hooking)Mlchool Manual 1 1·2 3. Cyle Reoa 10· 0 2, Brad Brown 2 3-5 7, Trenton Rooeborry o 0·0 o, Kiolg Kjeekl 4 0·0 8, Brett Beegle 0 0·0 0, Bryan Harrta 5 3-3 13, WeOion Robena 6 2·3 14, Ryan· Chapman• 1-3 10 , John Brauer 1 2-2 4. TOTALS: 24 12·1!l 61 . Three·polnt goals I (Chapman). TRIMBLE (2-8, 1-3 TVC Hocking) Taylor Russell 2 0-0 5, Isaac Standley 8 4·8 21 . Joey Reitano 2 0..0 4, Joe Eing 1,D-1 2, Adam Mu~ord 4 2-3 10, Joel Sarrett 2 0-0 4, tssac Walton 4 4-5 12. TOTALS: 23 11·17 58., Three-point goals; 2 (Russell, Standley). Sulll!ay, January 6, 2008 Rio Grande's Ivery selected as AMC Pl.ayer 0 f. the week fromPageBl Raiders '' Sunday, January 6, 2Q08 Pomeroy • Middleport • Gallipolis points, fo.llowed by Zane Eschbaugh and Zack Arnold with 10. apiece. Evan Brockmeier also added . · eight to the winning cause. Both squads missed 10 free throws on the night. Gallia Academy went 8-tor. 18 for 44 percent, while Marietta was 12-of-22 for 55 percent Gallia Academy salvaged an evening spli~ with a hardfou~~t 41-39 victory in the . jumor varsity tilt. ·Nate Allison's steal and buzzerbeating layup broke a 39-all tie and allowed the .Devils to improve to 8-1 overall this year. Dylan Hunter led the JV victors with nine points, while Marietta was paced by Keith Schwehdemen with a game-high 10 markers. The Blue Devils return to action :ruesday when they travel to. Ohio's First Capital fo.r an SEOAL South Division contest with league-leader Chillicothe. The JV game will tip-off. at 6p.m. MortoHo 48, Cllllllo Acodomy 41 Marlena 12 4 21 12 - 49 Gallipolis 7 B 12 14 - 41 MARIETTA (4-6 , 2·3 SEOAL North) Evan Brockmeier 3 2·2 8, Christian Hudspeth 1 0-0 3, Cole Biehl 3 5-7 11 , Anthony Tabler 0 1-7 1, Clayton Malheny 1 0·0 2, Zane Eschbeugh 3 4· 5 10, Jason Baldwin 2 o-0 4, Dustin Huck o o-o o, lack Arnold 5 0-1 10. White Falcons outlast Hannan, 54-52 Redwomen win in return to·the BY GARY Bryan Walterlllpholo • • CLARK SPORTS CORRESPO.NDENT ASHTON, W.Va. Jordan Smith drove the lane and drop~d in the winning basket With just :03 remaining to give the Wahama White Falcons a 54-52 basketball win over c,o.unty rival Hannan Friday evening befon; a large turno.ut at the southern Mason County school. Smith's game winning shot enabled Wahama to ward off a spirited, second half Wildcat rally that .saw young Ryan Arrowood's Hannan squad ·overcome a 19 point second half deficit before ·falling on the Bend Area teams successful last second attempt. The dramatic hard. court triumph moved coach James To.th s Falcons to 5-1 on the season While Hannan dropped its fifth consecutive dec1sion to fall to. 1-5 on the year. "We' struggled both offensively and defensively but a win IS a win and we'll take it · even if it is an \lgly ohe," said Toth. "I think the co.unty policy of not allowinjl us to practice when school1s not in session due to weather had a lot to. do with our poo.r play added Toth. I don't understand t)le. policy at all. I'm permitted to use my judgment to make decisions concerning Larry Crumlphoto this basketball team but when Wahama's Keith Pearson goes for a layup while Hannan's it .comes to. scheduling a pracand Derrik Akers (2) look on during the third Jason Bennett tice session when school is called off my hands are tied. quarter of a boys high school basketball game Friday night Wahama was cruising in Ashton. Wahama won in the final seconds 54-52. along after sco.ring the first before stretching that lead to range and 2-9 (22 · percent) two baskets of the second from beyond the arc. The half to take a 36- 17 advan- 32-17 at the half. Successive baskets by Bend Area team converted tage and the White Falcons Arnold and Keith Pearson to ei&ht of I 5 from the line and were poised to put the contest away but Hannan had other open the third period gave enJoyed a 35-27 edge on the ideas. After shooting a poor WHS its largest lead of 36-17 boards while tossing the bas28 percent during the games but a trio of three-pointers by ketball away to the tune of 22 T1rst 16 minutes the Wildcats Euring suddenly shifted the turnovers. Hannan shot 39 suddenly caught fire behind momentum over to the percent (21-54) o.verall with the scoring o.f senior guard Wildcats. Blake joined in the the Wil!lcats hitting 56 perKevin Blake and senior post scoring parade as Hannan cent (14-25) from two point player Dave Heuring. The trimmed the once comfort- land and 24 percent (7-29) Wildcat duo led Arrowood's able Falcon advantage to 42- from three point territory. The crew on a 16-4 run as Hannan 36 with eight minutes to play. ho.sts canned three of nine Blake connected on a three from the charity stripe while pulled to within five at 38-33 pointer and added a tield goal committing 17 . turnovers. with I: 17 left in . the third around a Pearson bucket to Hannan turned the ball over quarter befo.re consecutive make it 44-41 affair early only four times in the seco.nd goals by Smith and Justin Arnold stretched the WHS on in the final canto before half which was a huge factor Travis Bowman dialed in in the Wildcats ability to lead back to nine at 42-33. "We've got to learn to plar, from long range to even the erase its 19 point deficit. Justin Arnold led Wahama four quarters instead o.f two, ' score at 44-44 with 5:32 to play. A couple · of treys by with 15 points o.n the night Arrowoo.d said after the Josh Pauley and ano.ther bas· with Jordan Smith adding 12 Wildcat rally fell just short. ket by Arnold appeared to to points, Keith Pearson II and "Wahama played with mo.re intensity in the first half and bring a co.nclusion to. the Josh · Pauley eight. Arnold ·as a result they were able to Hannan rally but once again also had a game high · )2 jump out to a big lead. When the Wildcats came roaring rebounds with Pearson netour shots began to fall in the .back as Blake co.nnected on a ting 10 for the White Falcons. Kevin Blake led all scorers second half our intensity level field goal fo.llowed by a free jumped up considerably and throw by Euring. Blake with a big 27 point effort It affected our entire level of added another basket to knot while Heuring added 16 and play. We stepped it up defen- the score again at 52-52 with Travis Bowman six for sively and be an to. get more I :49 remaining. Wahama Hannan. Bo.wman collected loose balls. · dug ourselves held the ball for the last shot nine rebo.unds for the out of a big nole and got into with Smith dri~ing. the lane Wildcats with Euring snatcha positio.n to win the game but and softly laying in the game ing seven boards. on two. or three possessions winner With :03 left. Waharna travels to Eastern late in the game we didn't Heuring's three-quarter., last on .Tuesday and Calhoun execute very well and that ditch toss fell short o.f its County on Thursday for its hurt. We're getting there mark as Wah am a escaped next hardwood -encounters though. I'm pleased with the with the narrow two-point while Hannan visits St. Joe way we !ought back." victory. on Tuesday, hosts Ohio Both teams were sloppy .. "We didn 't play well in the Valley Christian on Friday throughout the first half wtth second half,". said Toth. "We turnovers playing a huge role struggled o.ver the final 16 and travels to St. Marys on in both teams offensive play. minutes but Pauley hit some Saturday. Waharna consistently pound- big shots for us late in the Wahame 54, Hannen 52 .. ed the ball into the paint to try gan1e to help ward o.ff their WAHAMA (5-1)- Justin Arnolds 3·6 • :and capitalize on its height · second half charge. We knew 15, Jordan Smi1h 5 2·3 12, Keith . ~ : tldvantage with the White fal- who's hands we !lad to getthe Pearson 5 1-4 11. Josh pauley 2 2-2 6, CaseyHarrison3D-06,KerryGibbs1D: · eons enjoying relative sue- ball i,nto when thec~.ame's on O 2, Brandon Flowers 0 0-0 0. Rodney •. cess w1th its game plan. the line and Jor an Smith Bragg oo-o o. ro.TALS: 22 6·15 s4. : ' Hannan on the other hand, 'carne through for us in the HANNAN (1 -5)- Kevin Blake 13 0·2 27, Dave Euring 5 3~5 16. Travis : was bombing away from CIUtCh" added the WHS cage • Bowman 20·0 6, Derrick Akers 1·0;0 3, · beyond the three-point arc mentor. Patrick Flora 0 0-0 0, Jason Bennett 0 0· : without much success and as ·The White Falcons shot 42 oo. TOTALS: 21 3·9 52 percent from the floor with Three poinl Goals: Wahama 2 (Pauley : :a result the Bend Area team WHS connecting o.n 20-43 2). Hannan 7 (Euring 3, Bowman 2, • , was able to. co.nstruct .an 18Blake. Akers) : ,tO edge after eight minutes (46 percent) fro.m two point Junior Varsi1y· Wahama 78 Hannan 40 a court, beat Carlow University BY MARK WtWAMS SPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL RIO GRANDE - After two weeks off from live action . for the Christmas/New Year's holiday the University of Rio Grande women's basketball team was back on the court on Friday evening o.pening up the 2008 portion of the schedule against the same team they· opened up the season with, Carlow University. This . time the match-up was at the friendly confines o.f the Newt Oliver Arena. The No. 20 ranked Redwomen played well in the second half and rolled to an 84-56 victory. Rio Grande (11-2) strug ~ ~led at times from the field m the first half and some ho.t perimeter. from'Carlow kept the Celtics in the game as the Redwomen held a 40-31 lead at halftime. Carlow shot 6-of-1 0 (60 percent) from three-point land in the first half. Rio clicked in the second hljlf in the half court and blistered the nets at a 54.8 percent clip in the second 20 minutes of pi<\Y. to blow out Carlow by the 28point margm. U R G had four players in Women's Hoops do ubI e . f.i g u res led by Sarah Drabinski with a double-double performance of 18 points and II rebounds. Senio.r guard Britney Walker added 17 points (I 0 in the first half) while junior center Erin Kume and freshman ftJrward Leah Kend ro a Iso scored in double figures with 12 and 10 points respectively. Both were also active on the glass .as Kume nearly claimed a doubledouble with nine rebounds and Kendro gathered in six caroms. Freshman guard Bre Davis ran the offense well when she was in the game, dishing out a team-high six assists for the game. Carlow (2-8) had three players in double figures led by Jacqueline Muir with . l6 points (nine in the second half). Lauren Roscoe and Sara McAteer tossed in 12 po.ints each while Chri,tina Costa paced the Celtics with seven assists and six rehounds. Colleen Cannon also pulled down six boards. The Celtics cooled off considerably from the perimeter in the second hal f as they came up empty on all eight three-point attempts in the second half. Rio Grande mit -rebounded Carlow 49-38 and did a solid job of possessing the basketball , committing 10 turnovers while the Celtics tallied 19 mi scues •On the evemng·. Rio won both match-ups against Carlow this season and improved to 10-1 against the Cellics all-time. Rio will get right back at it on Saturday afterno.on with a matinee against Point Park beginning at 2 p.in. at the Newt. This is the first meeting · against Point Park since January 19. 2002 at Point Park when Rio Grande scored an 89-57 victory. It is the fifth meeting all time between the two schools and Rio holds a 4-0 lead in the se ries. Lady Spartans rally past Meigs, 53-44. . STAFF REPORT SPORTS@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM ALBANY- Catie Wo.lfe and Morgan Howard each scored II points, but the Meigs Lady Marauders basketball team was defeated by the Alexander Lady Spartans 53-44 o.n Thursday night. With the loss, the Lady Marauders are now 5-6 this season and 1-4 in the TriValley Conference Ohio Division. Alexander is also 5-6, but the Lady Spartans are 3-1 in TVC Ohio play. : Wolfe 's II points came before she was fo.rced to the bench with an ankle injury early in the third quarter.. She remained there until just under three minutes were left in the game. Meigs started the game strong, taking a 4-1 lead and forcing the Alexander starters to the bench until the second quarter with head coach Denton Guthrie unhappy with their effort. Meigs led 9-1 at one po.int in the first and was up 15-7 when the Lady Spartan starters returned. · Meigs was ahead by seven at halftime, but when Wolfe left , the game, the wind in the L ·a d y Marauders' sails temp o r a r i·l y left, taking with it the lead they · had. Meigs scored just H d five points in the third owar quarter and trailed 40-34 at the start of the fourth. The Lady Marauders got back into the game, though, even tying the score at 42all on a three-pointer by Tricia Smith two minutes into the fourth quarter. But they would sco.re just two more points from then on with Alexander ending the game on an · 11-2 run. Meigs went 15-of-39 from the field and four-ofsix from beyond the arc. They went 10-o.f-15 from the foul line for 67 percent. The Lady Marauders had 23 rebounds to Alexander's 22. The Lady Spartans attempted a staggering 38 free-throws in the game, making 21 o.f them. Fouls .were 27-16 . in favor of Meigs, as were turnovers 22-15. • Smith finished with six points for the Lady Marauders . Amy Barr also had six points, while Hannah Pratt and Meri VanMeter sco.red three apiece. Brittany Preast and Shellie Bailey each scored two.. Howard led Meigs with six rebounds. Adrian Bolin had three steals. .Whitney Smith had a gamehigh 15 points for Alexander. Also Thursday night, the junior varsity Lady Marauders lo.st to the Lady Spartans 38-24. The Lady Marauders play again on Thursday, January I0, at home against Belpre. Scheduled start time is 6 p.m. AleJCender 53, Meigs 44 , Meigs 15 14 5 · 10- 44 Alexander 7 15 18 13 - 53 MEIGS (5·6. 1-4 TVC Ohio) - Tricia Smith 2 0-0 6, Catie Wolfe 2'6-7 11, Amy Barr 3 0-0 6, Morgan Howard 4 3-4 11 , Bri!lany Preast 1 o-o 2, Hannah Pratt 1 0-0 3, Shellie Bailey 1 o-o 2. Meri VanMeter 11-3 3, Melissa Grueser 00-0 0, Adrian Bolin 0 0·0 0. TOTALS: 15 10· 15 44 . Three-point goals: 4 (Smith 2, Wolfe. Pratt). ' ALEXANDER (5·6, 3-1 TVC Ohio) - Whitney, Smith 2 11-17 i 5, lauren Raines 4 3-6 t t , Kaillyn Guthrie 0 1-4 1 , Morgan Grinstead 3 1-4 9. Lacey Shaulis 3 2-3 B. Emily Skidmore o 0-0 o, Jenni Pyle 0 1 ~2 1, Heather McClain 1 0-Q 2. Kathy Kasler 0 2-2 2, Julie Els 0 0-0 0, Liz Brozak 2 0-0 4, Halley Bom o 0-0 0. TOTALS : 15 21-38 53. Three-point goals: 2 (Grinstead 2) Gallia, Meigs SWCD's gearing up for annual ·tree sales A new ,year has arrived • for more information, conmeaning your county's soil tact the Meigs SWCO at and Water conservation dis740-992-4282. trict must be gearing up for Gallia SWCD is offering its annual tree sale. packets of 25 small white pine trees for $15 or fi vc For the wildlife .lover, large white pines ( 1-2 feet in planting trees is a great way to help our furry and feath, height) tor $20 or Colorado blue spruce (four per packet) ered friends by pro.viding sources of food and cover, for $15. plus there's no denying they Fruit tree offerings include simply look great. · a cherry tree packet with two Meigs County residents Bing cherry trees and two Mo.ntmorency trees for $28, will find far more choices , ·honey locust; the Wildlife this year at an even lower Tree Packet consists of I0 an apple packet with four price as the Meigs SWCD is tree or shrub seedlings, two trees, two each of red and making changes to its tradi- each of common witchhazel, yello.w delicious for $25 . tiona I offerings by . partner- s)ladblow serviceberry. east- There is also. a wildlife packet including one persimmon, ing with . the neighbo.ring Athens County SWCD. · ern white pine, American one burning bush and one of'er Hardwood Sargent crabapple for $15. ,, 1·ngs elderberry and American $ include Northern red oak, hazelnut. Either costs, 13. Fo.r more information or to black walnut, sugar maple In addition there are pack- request an order form, conand black cherry, packets of ets of fruit trees and black- tact the Gallia SWCO at 25 seedlings for $15. while berries, flowering trees, 740-446-6173. Trees are evergreens like Scotch pine. groundcover and vprious expected tn he available lor eastern white pine, Colorado seed mixes for ,er{)sio.n con- pickup arOtmd March 27-28. blue spruce, Norway spruce, trol, wildflo.wcrs, birds and Oh yeah . . don't forget to Canadian hemlock , white butterflies and wildlife food write "2008" on your check . . spruce and pitlolly pine are plots , bird and bat boxes . available in packets of 25 The deadline for orderi'ng Jim Free/11(111 is •~·ftdlife seedli'ngs for $13. trees or seed packets fro.m specialist 'for th e Mei11s Soil The Homeowners Tree the Meigs SWCD is and Water COIISI'I'Wttion Packet consists of I0 trees, February 29 with trees being District. He can he cnmacttwo each of sourwood, scar- available for pickup around ed weekdal's at 740-992' let oak, Kentucky coffeetree, . the· second weekend in 4282 or ·,·ia ·e-mail ar sugar maple and thornless April. For an order form or j im..free man @ult .nacdne l.neI In the Open Jim Freeman Kelly Winebrenner added In the reserve contest seven points, Alex Eastern managed te pull off Burroughs and Kyle the victo.ry 37-35 over the home team. Dev.on Baum had six points Rawson from PageBl apiece, Josh Collins had led the Eagles with 14 , tive points. Jordan Kimes points while Jacob Biedel '' Hodge, D.J. Cunningham had three points and Tyler led Waterford with 10 mark, and Brandon Hendershot ers. then too.k over, scoring six Hendrix and Mike Johnson Eastern will return to two points each. points apiece to offset the had . Lynch helped his . team ac t1on .Tues d ay when 'tt seven d1fferent Eagles to hosts Wahama. break in to the scoring co.l- take the .eaFly lead, outscor- , umn as the Wildcats held on ing Waterford 22-10 o.ver Waterford 71 , Eastern 55 the first eight minutes. Eastern 22 13 5 15 -- 55 : . for the 16-pojnt victory. then extended that Eastern Waterford 10 16 23 22 - 71 : • Hodge led all scorers with . lead to as many as 13 mid· · 20 markers and II rebounds EASTERN (4·5, 2·2 TVC Hocking) as he and Cunningham, who way through the second Kvle Connery o o-o o. Tyler Hendrix 1 oJosh Collins 2 0·0 5, Jake Lynch 2 : had 15 po.ints and I0 canto. before Waterfo.rd 05-82, 10, Kelly Winebrenner 3 0-0 7, Mike ·caught tire fro.m the field. : boards. both completed Johnson 1 0-0 2. Titus Pierce 4 6·8 14, Overall the Wildcats shot Jordan Kimes 1 0-Q 3. Ale)( Burroughs 2 • double-doubles. Gary 38 percent (27-o.f-71) from 2-2 6, Andrew Senedum 0 0-0 0, Kyle : . Tomes and Alex Long also Rawson 2 2-2 6. Tyler Kearns 0 0-0 0. · scored in do.uble digits, the field while the Eagles TOTALS: 18 15·20 55. Three-point scoring 12 and l 0 points shot 27 percent (18-of-65). goals: 4 (Collins, Lynch, Winebrenner, . Waterford also had a 41-30 Kimes). respectively. . WATERFORD -Alex Long 2 5-5 10, Hendershot added eight advantage in rebounds with Brad Miller 0 0-0 0, Cody Strahler 1 1-4 Brandon Roe 2 0-0 4, Derek Hodge 9 points, Brandon Roe had Hodge and Cunni~gham ·3, 2·4 20, Colton Reed 0 0·0 o. Cody Hall both coming down with fqur po.ints and Cody 0 1-3 1, Brando n Hendershot 4 0-1 8, boards: Gary Tornes 4 3-4 12. D.J . Cunningham digit Strahler had a triple to com- double 7 1-1 13.. TOTALS: 27 13·22 71 . Threeplete the scoring for the Cunningham also had five point goals: 2 (long, Tornes). blo.cked shots. Wildcats. Team stetlatlctnndivldutl leaders The Wildcats added 16 Eastern had nine different POMEROY- The Poll\et'Oy Youth .League will be holding its 17th Annual Youth rebounds ; E 30 (Pierce 7, players score led by Titus assists, with Hodge and Total Winebrenner 6), W 41 (Hodge 11 ,· Double Elimination Basketball Tournament at the Ruband Civic Center January 28 Pierce with 14 points and Cunningham dishing out Cunningham 10); AssistS: E 6 (lynch 3), thro.ugh February U. 'file tournament is for boys and g.irls grades four thro.ugh six with 16(Hodge, Cunningham 4); Steals E seven boards and Jake four helper apiece. Lynch BW(Pierce, Kimes 2). W5 (Tomes 2); ·separate divisions fo.r all groups. For more information, contact Ken at 740-992-5322 o.r Lynch with I0 points and led Eastern with three Blocks: E 1 (Burroughs 1J, W 6 740-416-6648, or call Tony at 740-992-4067. . . (Cunninham 5) . six rebounds, assists. ' Gallia Academy sophomore John Troester, left, prepares to sho.ot a layup as he Is defended by Marietta's Anthony Tabler during the first half of Friday's SEOAL contest In Gallipolis . ' TOTALS : 18 12-22 49. Three-point 7, Chris McCoy 0 3-4 3, Kyle Ml1chell 6 goals:.1 (Hudspeth). 0-5 12, Zack Brown 0 0·0 0, John GALLIA ACADEMY (J.6, 1·4 SEOAL Troester 1 0·2 2, David Rumley 3 HZ 7. Soulh) - E1han Moore 3 2·2 8, Chris TOTALS: 16 8·18 41 . Three-point goals: 1(N1ben). Armstrong 1 0-0 2, Quinton Nibert 2 2-3 gs,unbap il!:iml'!i -~ntinrl • Page B3 Pomeroy • Middleport • Gallipolis Eagles . PYL to hOld double elimination hoops tourney, grades 4-6 . .' �Sunday, January 6, 2008 Pomeroy • Middleport • Gallipolis . Sunday, January 6, 2008 J Friday Prep Basketball Scores OHIO BOYS ~da 60, Bluffton 32 tAkr. Coven1ry 75, Mogadore Field 57 _Akr. Gar1ield 71 , Youngs. Chaney 64 .Alliance 96. Carrollton 52 Alliance Martington 65, Beloit W. Branch 52 Anna 71 , Houston 49 Arlington 58, McComb 53, OT 1 ·Ashland 55, Mansfield Madison 43 _Ashtabula EdgewOOd 52, Geneva 44 Ashtabula Lakeside 76, Easttak~ N. 45 Basccm· Hopewell· loudon 49, Old Fort 26 Batavia 54, Batavia Clermont NE 51 ~ay Village Bay 69, Fairview 50 Bedford 100, Maple 'Hts. 63 Bellbroo~ 72, Eaton 42 . Bellefontaine 53. Spring. Kenton Ridge 46 · Bellevue 93 . Upper Sandusky.91 Belmont Un1oo Local 69, Barnesville 62 Berlin Hiland 72 , Bowerston ConoMn Valley 45 .Beverly Ft. Frye 55, Hannibal River 33 · Bloomdale Elmwood 67, Kansas Lakota ·s5, OT · Brecksville-Broadview Hts. 44, Amherst .·&.teele 42 • 6ridgeport 56, Bishop Donahue . W.Va. 52 Brooklyn 52, Sullivan Black River 42 -.ijrookvilte 59, Milton·U_nion 45 · Byesville Meadowbrook 58 . New Philadelphia 53 · ,Cambridge 61 , Warsaw River View 51 Can. Timken 71 . Zoarville Tuscarawas ·valley 46 Canal Fulton Northwest 58. Can . Soulh ·so :Canfield 47. Camp,bell Memorial 40 Carlisle 59 , Middletown Mad1son 45 Casstown Miami E. 71 . Union CityMississinewa Valley 41 Centerburg 65, Loudonville 59 ' Centerville 43, Beavercreek 32 Chesapeake 76, Coal Grove Dawson. Bryant 39 · 'Chillicothe Huntington , 49, Chillicothe • Unioto 38 Chillicothe Zane Trace 71 , Bainbridge Paint Valley 44 Cin. Aiken 69, Cin. Western Hills 63 "Cin. Christian 44. St. Bernard 42 · _Cin. Clark Montessori 64, Hamilton New .Miami 41 Cin. beer Park 67, Cin. Mariemont 46 Gin. Hills Christian. Academy 61, Gin. Country Day 54 Cin. Indian Hill62, Cin. Wyom1ng 58 . Cin. Madeira 74, N. Bend Taylor 65 . Cin. Moeller 58, Cin. La Salle 44 ·cin. Mt..Healttly 49, Gin. NW 47 Cin. N. College Hilt 65. Cin. Summit Country Day 48 ·cin. Princeton 61, Middletown 56 Cin. Purcell Marian 57, Gin. McNicholas .55 : Cin. Seven Hills 63, Lockland 57 Cin. Sycamore 64, Cin. Colerain 55 Cin. Taft 60, Cin. Shrader 40 ·: cin. Turpin 49, Batavia Amelia 42 Cin. Winton Woods 58, Loveland 56 Gin. Withrow 69, Cin. Hughes 64 ·Clayton Northmont 69, Sidney 54 .Cie. Cent. Calh. 74. Gates Mills Gilmour 63 'Cie. Glenville 60, Cle. St. Ignatius 54 · Cia. Hts. Lutheran E. 57, Youngs. Christian 49 Cle. VASJ 55, Bedford Chanel 45 .Ctyde 69, Oak Harbor 41 · COldwater 56, Minster 42 ~ Collins Western Reserve 68, Ashland "Mapleton 37 Cots. Gentenniat 76, Tree of Life 71 Gals. DeSales 66, Cots. St. Charles 65 Cols . Walferson 61 Cols. Hanley 48 Gals. WeHington 70, Mansfield St. Peter's 62, OT Columbiana Crestview 59, Leetonia 47 Columbus Grove 86, Lafayette Allen E. 50 Convoy Crestview 54, Spencerv1lle 45 Copley 41 , Wadsworth 39 Cornerstone Chr1st1an 70 , Thompson Ledgemont 47 Cortland Maplewood 77. N. Bloomfield Bloomfield 56 Coshocton 67. Uhrichsville Clayman! 57 Creston NorWayne 76, Rittman 48 Cuyahoga Falls CVCA · 62. Akr. Manchester 40 Day. Chammade -Julienne 48 , Oay. Carrotl47 Day. Dunbar 67, Day. Slivers 60 Day. Marshall104. Day. Belmont 69 Defiance 46. St. Marys Memorial~ Dover 49. Gnadenhutten Indian Valley 40 Dresden Tri-Valley 52 , New Concord John Glenn 46 Dublin Cottman 59, Marysville 44 Dublin Scioto 60, Mt Vernon 48 E. Can . 83, Mogadore 57 E. Palestine 63, N. Jackson Jackson· Milton 24 Elmore Woodmere 54, Ton10gany Otsego 41 Elyrta 70. Medina sa Findlay 57, Fremont Ross 53 Findlay Ubeny-Benton 55, Van Buren 31 Fostoria 58. Shelby 57 Fostoria St . Wendelin 66, N. Ballimore 42 Fredericktown 45, Johnstown-Monroe 25 Galloway Westland 61. Cols. Upper Arlington 53 Garfield Hts. 61 , Brunswick 36 Garfield Hts. Trinity 49, Elyria Cath. 46 Garreltsville Gartield 68, Windham 59 Germantown Valley VIew 67, FranKlin 63 Gilead Christian 40, Northside Christian 32 Goshen 47, Blanchester 45 Gratton Midv1ew 64 , Avon 48 Greenfield McClain 49, Clarksville Clinton-Massie 32 Grove City Cent. Cross1ng 76. Cols. West69 Groveport-Madison 67. Pickerington N. 51 . Hamilton Badin 54 , St. Bernard Roger Bacon 50 Hanoverton United 62, Salem 60 Harrison 83. Gin. Glen Este 60 Hilliard Darby 55, lancaster 43 Holland Springfield 64. Whitehouse Anthony Wayne 57 Howard E. Kriox 47, D.anville 45 Hubbard 55, Cortland Lakeview 44 Huber Hts. Wayne 86, Spring. S. 71 Hudson 61. Cuyahoga Falls 47 Huron 58, Castalia Margaretta 53 Ironton Rock Hill 71 , Cheshire River Valley 46 Ironton St. Joseph 70, Crown City S. Gallia 45 Jeromesville Hillsdale 61, Dalton 58, OT John Marshall. W.Va. 86, Steubenville 80 Kalida 69, F1. Jennif!QS 56 Ktmt Roosevelt 84. Nonon 73 Kettering Fairmont 55, Spring. N. 41 Kings Mills Kings sa, Morrow Little Miami 39 Kingsway Christian 69, Mansfield Temple Christian 65 LaGrange Keystone 47, RocKy River Lutheran W. 46 L~ewood 61, Strongsville 52 Lakewood St. Edward 56, Tol. St. John's 47 Greenon 43 ' Lexington 70. Mansf1eld Sr. 66, OT Lima Shawnee 77 , Lima Bath 40 Uma Sr. 68, Sandusky 59 Lima Temple Christian 59 , R ldg ~ way Ridgemont 37 L001 Cloverleat 66, Med1na H1ghland 57 London 64 . Washington C.H. Miami Trace 55 Loodon Mad1son Pla1ns 64, H1llsboro 58 Louisville 74, Mmerva 62 lynchburg-Clay 75. Sardinia Eastern H1gh School 61 Lyndhurst Brush 58. Stow-Munroe Falls 56 Macedonia Nordonia 73. Mayfield 52 Madison 89. Chardon 56 Malvern 78. Strasburg-Franklin 51 Maria Stein Marion Local 48. New Bremen 40 Marietta 49. Gallipolis Gallia 41 Marion Cath : 58, Mansfield Christian 49 Martins Ferry 52. ftaytand Buckeye 36 Massillon Perf)' 69, Can. GlenOak 59 McArthur Vinton County 69, Pomeroy Meigs 57 McDermott Scioto NW 80, Lucasville, Valley 57 McDonald 65, Mineral Ridge 48 Mechanicsburg 54. Spring. NE 38 Mentor 65, Euclid 64 Mentor Lake Cath. 50. Parma Padua 40 MiHord 56, Cin. Anderson 44 Miller City 69, Continental 59 ~illersburg W. Holmes 54. Bellville Clear Fork 42 Minford 68. Waverly 64 , OT Mowrystown Whiteoak 58 , Fayetteville 34 MI. Crab Western Brown 60, Lees Creek E. Clinton 28 N. Can. Hoover 60, Massillon Jackson 51 N. Lima S. Range 56. Berlin Center Western Reserve 44 N. Olmsted 52 , Avon Lake 47 Napoleon 54, Marion Harding 43. Navarre Fairless 80, Mass1110n Tuslaw 51 New Boston Glenwood 7·1, Beaver Easterp61 • NeW Carlisle Tecumseh 47, Tipp City Tippecanoe 42 New KnOJcville 73, Ft. Recovery 40 New Lebanon Di11.ie 68, Day. Northridge 42 New London 69. Greenwich S. Cent. 51 New Madison Tri-Vitlage 72, Tipp City Bethel61 New Matamoras Frontier 68, Sarahsville Shenandoah 38 New Middletown Spring. 47, Lowellville 42 New Richmond 64, Williamsburg 41 New Riegel 57, Attica Seneca E. 55 · Newark 61, WesteNIIIe S. 42 Newton 60, Covington 52 Newton Falls 60. Brookfield 38 Norwalk 61, Galion 39 Norwalk St. Paul 100, Monroeville 93, OT Oak Hilt 59, S. Webster 41 Old Washington Buckeye Trail 54, Woodsfield Monroe Cent. 37 Olmsted Falls 65, Berea 52 Oregon Clay 69, Tot. Scott 65 OrNille 59, Wooster 30 Ottawa-Glandorf 62, Wapakoneta 37 Oxford Talawanda 68, Hamilton Ross 49 Painesville Harvey 99, Jefferson Area 71 Painesville Riverside 78, Willot.,~ghby S. 63 Pandora-Gilboa 65, Dole Hardin Northern 44 Parma Normandy 75. Parma 58 Pemberville Eastwood 53, Millbury Lake Latham Western 48, Franklin Furnac Green 43 ' 32 Leipsic 62, Cary-Rawson 47 Perrysburg 71, Sylvania Southview 57 Lemon·Monroe 65, Camden Preble Philo 50, Crooksville 47 Shawnee 45 . Piketon 66, Frankfort Adena 61, OT Lewisburg Tri-County N. 66, Bradford 50 Pitsburg Frenklin7Monroe 64, New Paris Lewistown Indian Lake 64, Spring. National Trail43 · Plain City Jonathan Alde r 50, 73 , 0T Washington CH 31 ' X:enia 71 , Miamisburg 64 Plymouth 78. Ashland Crestview 57 Yellow Springs 64, Franklin Middletown Christian 57 Poland Seminary 99 , Struthers 43 Youngs. Boardman 51, Youngs. Port Clinton 43, Sandusky Perkins 39 ·Austintown-Fitch 44 Portsmouth 95, Athens 57 Ponsmouth Sciotoville 58, Portsmouth Youngs. East 50, Youngs. Ursuline 46 Youngs . liberty 49, Girard 41 Notre Dame 26 Zanes\lille 80 , Jackson 32 Reading 53, Cln Finneytown 41 Zanesville Maysville 53, Zanesville W. Richfield Revere 76, Green 59 Ripley Alpley·Unlon·Lewis·Huntlngton Muskingum 47 Rlplew- Pepsi Tournament 69 . Seaman N. Adams 58 Riverside Stebbins 53, Spr; 1g. Shawnee Cle. Benedictine 61, Youngs. Mooney 45 41 Rootstown 70, Streetsboro 68 GIRLS Rossford 79, Bowling Green 69 Russia 78, JackSon Center 44 Antwerp 75, Sherwood Fairview 50 S. Point 72, Proctorville Fairland 71 Archbold 44, Montpel(er 37 Sandusky St. Mary 61: Milan Edison 39 Aurora 56, Orange 32 _ Sidney- lehman 59, Ansonia 51 Baltimore Liberty Union 74, Cols. Smithville 67, Apple Creek Wayonedale Harvest Prep 63 61 Bucyrus 61 , Ontario 53, OT Spring. Cath . Cent 50, S. Charleston SE Bucyrus Wynford 37, New Washington 42 Buckeye Cent . 31 Spring . Emmanuel Christian 77, N. Can. McKinley 61 , E. Cle. Shaw 56 Lewisburg Triad 61 Canal Winchester 41 , Ashville Teays St. Clairsville 76, Bellaire 43 Valley 35 St. Hetuy 75, Rockford Parkway 51 Cardington-Lincoln 47, Mt Gilead 38 St. Paris Graham 74, Bellefontaine Chagrin Falls Kenston 53, Chagrin Falls Benjamin Logan 49 43 Sugarcreek Garaway 60, Chesterland W. Geauga 57, Perry 43 Newcomerstown 27 Circleville 58, Btoom·Carrott 32 Sunbury Big Walnut 58, Westerville N. Circleville Logan Elm 55, Cots. Hamilton 56, OT Twp. 52 Sycamore Mohawk 80, Bettsville 74 Cots. Bexley 57, Newark Licking Valley Tallmadge 75, Barberton 54 5() Thornville Sheridan 44, New Lexington Cols. Centennial 39, Cols . Wellington 37 41 ' Cots. Grandview Hts. 47. Sugar Grove Tiffin Galven 57, Garay 40 Berne Union 1B To!. Christian 75, Lalo::eside Danbury 46 Cols. Linden McKinley 56. Newark 31 TaL Libbey 67, Tal. Bowsher 45 Delaware HayeS 47, Mt. Vernon 44 TaL Maumee Valley 61. Northwood 55 Dublin Scioto 64, Hilliard Davidson 59 Tal. Ottawa Hills 71, Tol. Emmanuel Gilead Christian 53, NortliSide Christian Bap11st 39 22 Tal. St. Francis 71 , Tol. Cent. Cath . 64 Gorham Fayette 37, Eden 26 Tal. Waite 7B , Tal. Rogers 59 Hamt$r Patrick HenrY 64, Metamora Tal. Whitmer 50, Tal. Start 48 Evergreen 57 Toronto 63, Bellaire St. John 38 Haviland W~yne Trace 73, Defiance Trenton Edgewood 84, Norwood 49 Tinora 67, OT Trotwood-Madison 87, Vandalia Buller Heath 63, Gahanna Cols. Academy 22 39 Hicksville 53, Defiance Ayersville 50 Troy 56, Piqua 49 . Jefferson County Christian 42, Cheswick Troy Christian 55, Day. Christian 52 Christian Academy. Pa. 25 Tuscarawas Cent. Cath. 56, W. LatayeHe Kirtland 45. Burton Berkshire 40 Ridgewood 51 Lancaster 53, Hilliard Darby 41 Twinsburg 63, Solon 50 Lancaster Fairfield Unk)n 41, AmandaUniontowtl Lake 61, ·can. McKinley 56 Ciearcreek 36 Urbana 58, Spring. NW 54 Lancaster Fisher Cath. 57, M~lerspon 37 Utica 42, Johnstown Northridge 38 Liberty Center 43, Bryan 34 Van wen 52, Celina 43 Marion Elgin 47, Delaware Buckeye Van Wert Lincolnview 56, Lima Cent. Valley 45 Cath. 53 Marion Pleasant 82, Galion Northmor 26 Vanlue 61, Arcadia 41 Marysville 35, Lewis Center Olentangy' Versailles 50, Delphos St John's 35 33 . Vincent Warren 46, Ironton 35 MI. Blanchard Riverdale 76, Crestline 25 W. Alexandria Twin Valley S. 57, N. Robinson CoL Crawford 88. Lucas 23 Arcanum 56 Newark Cath. 50, Hebron Lakewood 42 Newbury 32, Middlefield Cardinal 24 W. Carrollton 72, Day. Meadowdale ·ea W. Chester Lakota W. 35, Uberty Twp. Orwell Grand VaHey 47, Fairport Harbor Harding 23 Lako1a E. 33 W. Liberty-Salem 53, Cedarville 31 Pataskala Watkins Memorial 65, Cols. W. Salem NW 63, Doylestown Chippewa Walnut Ridge 38 46 Pettisville 70, Pioneer N. Central21 Warren Champion 64, Leavittsburg Richmond Hts. 62, Cuyahoga Hts. 36 LaBrae 46 Richwood N. Union 53, Sparta Highland Warren Harding 83, Massillon 38 Washington 45 . Rossford 48, Bowling Green 42 Warren Howland 50, E. Liverpool 39 Steubenville Cath. CBnt. 62, Oak Glen, Warren JFK 55, Louisville Aquinas 44 W.Va. 57 Waterford 7t, Reedsville Eastem 55 Stryker 54, W. Unity Hilltop 29 Waynesville 49, Day. Oakwood 39 Sylvania Nontwiew 62, Maumee 27 Westerville Ceot. 61, New'Aibany 51 Tree of Life 63, Delaware Christian 42 Wesllake 44 , Middleburg Hts. Midpark 38 w. Jefferson 52, Pataskala Licking Hts. Wheelersburg 58, Portsmouth W. 38 42 Westerville s. 63, Thomas Worthington Willard 61, Tlftin Columbian 49 ~ Williamsport Westfall 76, Southeastern 50 Whitehall· Yearling 53, Granville 43 61 Whitehouse Anthony Wayne 46, Holland Wilmington 65, Cin. Walnut Hills 50 Wintersville Indian Creek 54, Cadiz Springlield 38 Harrison Cent. 49 Wickliffe 47, Independence 45 Worthington Christian 77, Cols. Ready Worthington Kilbourne 46, Westerville N. . Youngs. Boardman 71 , You,)gs. Ursuline 31 POSTPONEMENTS·CANCELLAnONS Cols. Horizon Science vs. Marion Cath ., ppd. to Jan 17. BY RALPH Russo The Buckeyes entered the 2007 season lrying .to make people forgel the ugly way N.EW ORLEANS they ended the 2006 season. Remember tiack when Soulh Ohio State's 41-14 loss to Florida was the talk of colFlorida in lhe BCS tille lege football? game was a black 'eye for the Yeah, thai didn't lasl very proud program, it's highly long. coac;h Jim successful Boston College was a nice Tressel, and the entire Big story, too .- for a couple of Ten. · weeks. Having said goodbye to Kansas was everybody's · Heisman Trophy winner favorite uhderdo~ · until Troy Smith and first-round Missouri took that IItle from NFL draft pick receivers Ted , the Jayhawks. The Tigers Ginn Jr. and Anthony were a big deal for about a Gonzalez, Ohio State started week. the season ranked N'o. II All those upstarts tuJOed and watched every team out to be fads - boy bands above it lose during the first have longer shelf lives- in seven weeks. this hard-to~figure, but thorMaybe the rebuilt oughly entertaining college Buckeyes had less star football season. · power but lhey didn't lack ' In the end, despite all the for talenl, especially on yapping about parity and defense where defensive end upsets and level playing Vernon Gholslon, linebacker fields, the natitmal title game James Laurinaitis and corwill feature two regular visi, nerback Malcolm Jenkins tors to the BCS VIP room: gave lhem an All-America Ohio State and LSU. candidate anchoring each . · Ho hum. unit. Wait a minute, •two teams "In Ihe beginning it was a that lost their next-to-last lot of trying to find out who regular-season games? · we were, developing an Now that's different. identity," Buckeyes receiver Like any good trip, the Brian Hartline said this best part of the 2007 season week. was the journey itself. November rolled around, "We know the road we've though, and the Buckeyes taken isn't one that anyone had a second · consecutive could have sciipted," LSU . AP pholo BCS national championship running back Jacob Hester Stanford quarterback Tavita Pritchard celebrates after game appearance m their said. throwing a touchdown pass late in the second half of a foot- sights. All they needed to do That pretty much sums up ball game against Southern California, in this Oct. 6 file was beat Illinois at home the entire season. photo, in Los Angeles. and the regul.ar-season finale From the beginning; we ings. But jusl when everyone top spot in the final week of against Michigan at Ann Arbor, would be for Ihe Big should've known· this was learned South Florida was Seplember. ~ going to be a wild ride. . actually located · in the cenThose good times lasted Ten tllle and a chance for in the How could Appalachian tral Florida, the Bulls went two weeks in Baton Rouge, redemption State beating Michiga.n 34- bust. Superdome. La. This time it was Illinois 3~ in the Big House not be a By then the No. 2 ranking On Oct. 13, Kentucky and the best laid plans. spoiling. s1gn the colle~e football _ was getting passed around star quarterback Andre Quarterback Juice god~ were planmng to have · like the spout at a kegger. Woodson beat the Tigers 43When the regular season ' 37 in triple overtime. It was Williams and.the lllini upset some fun, at the expe~se of the sports. upper class· was over, eight teams had the first time since the 2003 Ohio State 28-21 on Nov. 10 By theume the season was been ranked second in The season the No. I team lost and the Buckeyes plummetov~r, Appalachmn State o~er Associated Press Top 25. before the bowls. ed to seventh in the Bowl ~1ch1gan on the firSt Seven of lhose teams lost as A few hours after lhe Championship, Series slandS?turday of Seplember was- No. 2. Tigers were taken out by the mgs. n I even the clear-cut wmner The one team that escaped Wildcats in Lexington, Ky., So, with three weeks left the curse of No. 2? LSU, No. 2 California lost 31-28 in the regular season and of upset of the year. !'lot . after ~ctober began which started the season at home to Oregon State and only one more chance to with 41-pomt . underdog with national championship fcir the first time in II sea- impress poll voters, the Stanford beal!ng s~perpower expectations and ranked sons the top two teams had B11ckeyes chances of earnSouthern Cahfom~a,.. 24-23. behind only No. 1 USC. ing a spot in the national lost in the same weekend. game were championship Sudde~ly, USF was Problems for the Tigers Thai uncommon occurcame when they got 10 No. rence would become a trend. bleak. At least they could ranked h1gher than USC.. USF, a program ~oro 10 a 1. · It happened two more times. still go•to the Rose Bowl. Wilh Ohio Slale Seemingtratler park durmg . the LSU hadn't been No. 1 in The new No. I - almost Clinton admtmstrauon, the AP poll since 1959 when by default - was Ohio ly out of the piciUre, LSU gol a second chance at being reached No, 2 m the rank- it moved from No. 2 'to the Slate. · ASSOCIATED PRESS W.VA. BOYS Berkeley Springs 57, Paw Paw 17 Bluefield 68, Graham, Va. 49 Bra)Cton County 59, Clay County 36 Bridgeport n , Philip Barbour 64 · Bridgeport, Ohio 56, Bishop Donahue 52 Buffalo 91, Van 36 Capital 72, Princeton 56 Clay-Battelle 49, Paden City 47 Cross Ltines Christian 58, Calvary Baptist 55 Doddridge County 59, Tyler Consolidated 54 Fairmont Senior 67, Elkins 54 Grafton 49, Notre Dame 47 Greater Beckley Christian 69, Mercer Christian 29 Hedgesville 5.1. Musselman 50 Herbert Hoover 54, Wayne 53 Huntington 78, Lincoln County 63 Independence 93, Uberty Raleigh 40 Independence 93, Uberty Raleigh 40 John Marshall 86, Steubenville. Ohio so· Lincoln 68, Lewis County 42 Logan 70, Point Pleasant 32 Martinsburg 63, Jefferson 56 Matewan 67, Iaeger 47 Morgantown 87, Parkersburg South 57 Mount Hope 64, Fayettevme 58 Oakland Southern, Md. 49 , Tucker County 48 · PikeView 63, Oak Hilt 59 Pocahontas County 70, Pendleton County 58, OT Roane County 47, Calhoun 45 Sissonville 66, Sherman 30 St. Marys 74, Ritchie County 56 Trinity 75, Uberty Harrison 63 Tug Valley 70, Williamson 54 Tygarts Valley 51, Harman 42 Valley Wetzel72, Cameron 70, OT Wheeling Park 52, Brooke 33 Williamstown 64, Parkersburg C&tholic 59, OT Wlnlleld 70, Roca 48 Wlrt County 68, South Harrison 47 Wood .County ·Christian 78," Grace Christian 75 Wyoming East as, Westside 50 GIRLS I Buffalo 56, Van 24 Charleston Catholic 45, Tolsia 39 Council. Va. 56, Big Creek 22 Gilbert 55. 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And both help shape the if UGA apd Friends ate No. I voters' choices in the fall. in The Associated Press Top That's why Georgia coach 25 and USA Today coaches Mark Richt began· stumping poll next August. for his Bulldo~s a few min- · Georgia's breathtaking utes after thetr resounding mix of strength and speed in 41-10 victory over Hawaii in 1he Sugar will be among the the Bourbon Street primary, passel of impressions left on .otherwise known as the the pollsters duripg this bowl ·Sugar BowL d .. season. NorrnaIIy, a tradition- 1a en They'll remember West Southeastern ,Conference Virginia's ballcarriers weavsquad wouldn t sguawk ing through 1he Oklahoma much about , ~undmg a Sooners as if lhey were trafWestern Athlettc. Conference tic cones. oppo~ent. But R1cht used lhe The Mountaineers return · occas10n as a platform to quarterback Pat White, who pa.~der for votes. , ran for 150 yards and passed . We hope ~~ r~ rank~d for 176 more and two touch~tgh, prese~son, , R1cht satd. · downs. Tailback Steve I thtnk we re gomg t<;> ret~!'" Slaton hasn'l said whether ·a ve:; good football team. he •11 come back for his Riehl_ went on to s~y that senior year. If he "doesn't proJectmN success .m the return, Wesl Virginia will S,EC IS rretty brash- And plug in freshman tailback I m no,t gomg to ~o tha~. But Noel Oevine, who tore I do think that we re gomg to through ou for 108 yards have a more veteran team · hd ft than we've had in a while, and two tOll;C owns a. er and I think we'll have some ~~~ton left wtth a hamstnng good depth, and I think we'll _JnJury. . '!~Je V!Jters will remember have a chance to make a run at it." ~tssourr's Cotton Bowl r!JUI The message Riehl was of an Ar~?msas team C'?~mg trying to get across to the off a w_m over LouiSiana voters: don't forget the State -. m Baton Rouge. . Dawgs ·when you fill out They !I remem~r Kansas your ballots next summer. - 1_2-1 Kan~as, mmd-youThis is one of the chronic tummg to 1ts o~t-~~hgned problems in college footbalL ~efense to beat Vl!gmta Te_ch You Ulought NASCAR was !n ~e Orange; and. U~C. wtpthe only sport where poll mg 1ts cleats on lllmms m the position matters? Rose. LSU finished second in the What. do those results have BCS standings, right where it to do wnh next seaso1_1? A ~ot, began in the coaches and as far as poll posltlomng media polls last August The goes. · Tigers' high preseason posiThe top four teams in the tion came in handy when 2007 preseason AP ~op . 25 they lost- twice. -USC, LSU, West Vtrgtma Certainly, Richt knpws and Texas_ - were coming this; Georgia was 13th 10 off bowl v1ctones. BY ANDREW BAGNAt:O ~.: ~1k. <$9 ::()NVERT ~.! llhr , t ' ml• S6 7S.? new No. I. West Virginia, a program wilh more wins lhan any olher in major college foolball without a nalional title, moved into second place in the BCS standings. There was one game left. Back in Colull)bus, Ohio, the Buckeyes were feeling reborn. They would watch championship Saturday, needing either Missouri to lose to Oklahoma in lhe Big 12 title game or West Virginia lo fall agai~st threelouchdown underdog Pittsburgh to get back to the · national title game. · "It was nerve-racking when you have to sit and watch a couple of games and you know your life depends on what they do," Ohio State -.. tackle Kirk Barton said. It was no great surprise when the Sooners knocked off · Missouri 38-17, they were favored by oddsmakers gomg tn. Then the final shocker in a season full of them came in Morgantown, W.Va.: Pitt 13, · West Virginia 9. "Now that we ended up where we wanted to be, It was fun," Hartline said about watching the last two weeks play out. The final BCS computations favored Ohio State and ... welcome back from the dead; LSU, , "I didn't think we'd be playing any later than Jan. !," Hester said. "I really like the path we've taken. If we would have come in here 130 with the big head, thinking we're untouchable, who knows what would have happened. But the fact that we are 11-2 ... that really makes us have a sense , of focus on this coming game." Two teams that lost their second-to-last games of the regular season will play for the national championship Monday night. ' . Perhaps we'll never know for sure which is the best college football team in the country this season_ The wacky road trip that was the 2007 college football season has reached its final destination and all those unlikely contenders lhat made it so much fun are nowhere to be found. What happens in.this LSU feel~ ~ght at home in the Superdome year's bowls helps shape next year's polls •.:.- . f1hr f .!"• Bl~ ill fA99S No. I. The Tigers had started lhe season playing scary good, blowing out opponents, mos1 notablr a 48-7 thumping of Virgima Tech. After the firsl month, however, the Tigers were a team that lived on the edge, with a gambling coach that wasn' t afraid to go all in. In a come-from-behind 28-24 . victory against Florida, the Tigers converted five fourth. downs. In position to kick a potential game-winning field goal against Auburn, Miles had Matt Flynn throw into the end zone in the waning moments. Flynn completed a 22-yard touchdown pass to Demetrius Byrd with I second left and LSU won 3024. . One thing was obvious, the LS U defense lhat was so dominant early wasn't the same in the second half of the season after AllAmerican defensive tackle Glenn Dorsey was injured against Auburn. Evemually it would catch up wilh lhe Tigers. But first other contenders fell. Oregon and Oklahoma couldn 't o;vercome injuries to their quarterbacks and lost games to unranked foes. That set up a huge game in a longtime rivalry between two schools far more accuslomed to playing important basketball games. In 2007. Kansas vs. M is so uri got the kind of buildup that used to go lo Miami-Florida State games. On the day bt~fore the third-ranked Tigers faced the second-ranked Jayhawks in the 116th and most .important game in the heated rivalry, LSli lost again as No. I, again in triple-over· time. This ·time ·Darren ~cFadden and Arkansas lopped the Tigers, 50-48. LSU became the frrst team to lose twice in the same season as No. I since Notre · Dame in 1990. Certainly, the Tigers were out of the national title picture for good. No team with two losses had ever played in the BCS national championship game. When Missouri beat Kansas, the Tigers were the ' COUPE Place Your Paid Classified Ad In Wednesday's Gallipolis Dally Tribune, Point Pleasant Reg~ter or Daily Sentinel, And It Will Run For FREE In The Tri-County Marketplace! i;lunba!' Qrimr5 -i;lentinel • Page Bs Pomeroy • Middleport • Gallipolis Season packed with upsets, upstarts.produces ho-humtitle game . 42 I • ' NEW ORLEANS Imagine playing the Rose Bowl in Chicago, the Sugar Bowl in Kansas City or the Orange Bowl in Omaha. Outdoors, on a mucky field. Snowy day, temperatures in the 20s. Windy, too . Maybe lhat would tilt the edge toward teams like Ohio State when it's lime lo decide the national Iitle. In the meantime ... welcome to Tigerlapd, boys 1 · Oh, and be sure to check out that huge LSU billboard on the drive in from the airport. "I don't know that homefield advantage affects outcomes of games, to be honest with you," LSU coach Les Miles said this week. As he spoke in the hallway of a downtown hotel, a Dixieland jazz band kept moving closer, playing louder and louder. In lhe lobby, fans dressed in purple-and. gold feather boas surrounded the LSU stars, and a woman insisted on kissing All-American lineman Glenn Dorsey. "They tell me it gels progressively better from this point forward," Miles said. "Or worse, depending how you look at it." The Superdome is a quick 80 miles from the LSU campw in Baton Rouge, and ihe Tigers are plenty familiar with the Bourbon Streel buzz leading up to ~onday night's game, The only one absent is Mike, the live Bengal tiger mascot :_ his ca~e is being renovated, so he s back home. But does proximity provide a huge edge in a game like this? Not always. Southern California liked its chances for winning the 2005 title at the nearby Rose Bowl. Boosted by a huge throng of Texas backers, Vince Young and the Longhorns upset Reggie Bush, Matt Leinart and the 1rojans41-38. AP photo Lights illuminate the Louisiana Superdome Friday night in New Orleans. Ohio State will face LSU in the BCS bowl champion~hip football game on Mot:Jday. A year earlier, LSU fell . By the second quarter, of going and seeing a differright al home in the LSU led 27-0 and the crowd ent part of the worlcl than Superdome, healing favored was so crazed, then-coach you've ever . seen. And Oklahoma 21-14 for the Nick Saban took the stadium there's an advantage to that, BCS nalional title. microphone and pleaded too. Now, obviously. there's In the 1980s and · into the with fans over the public- an advantage to bemg close 1990s. Miami got a big address system to settle lo home. But I think there's no disadvantage to our sceboosl from holding title down. games at the Orange Bowl. LSU trounced Notre nario." Many first:time visitors to Back then, opponents such Dame 41-14 in last year's as Nebraska and Oklahoma Sugar Bowl and beal Tulane the Superdome talk about its would trudge away from the on the same field this sea- odd lighting and pulsating old stadium. grousing about son. Ohio State last played at noise. Tressel doesn't see.m playing on the Hurricanes' the Superdome in 1999, overly concerned, and the home field. when 1t defeated Texas Buckeyes' only workout there will come during a The No. I Buckeyes shrug A&M at the Sugar. off any worries. They've "You really can't ask for light walkthrough Sunday. heard all the Tiger tales, anywhere better to play," In the meantime, Ohio lineman Kirk Barton State about the taunts and trouble. LSU lineman Ciron Black Plus, they point out, they said Friday. "I have no idea was eager to see LSU fans won at the Big House and how many tickets we have up close. "I mean,' it was kind of other big houses this season. or how many they have, but . "We've been warned I'm sure it will be loud for like in 'Rock,Y IV' when he. goes to Russta, gets off the about how LSU, the fans both sides." have latched onto that kind Each team officially gets plane and the KGB is with of team," Ohio State receiv- 16,000 tickets, and that will him," he said. "As far as er Brian Hartline said. fill up about half the build- running my laps around the . "Between the hurricane and . ing. Many more go to bowl city tonight, I'll probably just the whole ·situation of officials and sponsors. The have' some people chasing being down in New Orleans public gets the rest- in the- after me with their flags and and Louisiana, (they) take it ory, both schools have an stuff. "They love their Tigers very personal." ' equal shot at getting them. "There's nothing we can down here. It's very evident. At the 2002 Sugar Bowl, Illinois did everything it do about it If we would It would be the sa111e way if could to prepare for playing have been given more tick- they had a bowl game in a !ower-ranked LSU team at ets, we could have changed Columbus." Miles, who was born and the Super~ome. They put up, the home-tield advantage," with chants of "Tiger bait!' Ohio State coach Jim Tressel raised in Ohio, was asked from little boys and girls, said. "But that's part of the whether it would indeed be and blasted crowd noise and reality of it. And that's OK. lhe same thing. "More like Toledo," he Cajun music over the loud- We'll get tickets. "There's some excitement said. "Not quite Columbus." speakers at practice. �• Po~.eroy • Middleport • Gallipolis Sunday, January 6, :mo8 ' .------------~------------~~----~--~--------------~~--~-- Cl Clemens, Pettitte, ~x-trainer McNamee asked to testify to Congress . . BY HOWARD FENDRICH ASSOC IATED PRESS WASHINGTON - Now Roger Clemens get s a chance to tell his side of the story under oath. So does Iiis g!Jod pal Andy Pettine . And their former trainer, Brian McNamee, too. Clemens, a seven-time Cy Young Award winner. was asked Friday to testify before a congressional committee looking into the Mitchell Report on doping in baseball, nearly three years after the same panel brought sluggers Mark McGwire, Sammy S!Jsa and Rafael Palmeiro to Capitol Hill. · · · Also invited to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Jan. 16 were Clemens' former New York Yankees teammates Pettine and Chuck Knoblauch; McNamee, who has ·said he injected Clemens wit)) steroids and human growth hormone; and former Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski,. whose allegations were central to the findings released last month by former Senate majority leader George Mitchell. Although no one had agreed to show up for the hearing as of late Friday afternoon, the committee's announcement listed Clemens and others under the heading, "Witnesses will include." "Roger is willing · to answer questions, including those posed to him while under oath," said Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin. "We hope to determine shonly if schedules and other commitments can accommodate the committee on that date." Said the committee's minority staff director, David Marin: "We always presume that invited witnesses will appear." That session will take place one day after the lawmakers are to hear testimony from Mitchell, along with baseball commissioner Bud Selig and union leader Donald Fehr. "The origiltal hearing was called (o examine the Mitchell recommendations and findings. The committee has decided to hold a second day of hearings for the very same reason - to invite p~ople with varying perspectives on the Mitchell Report to shed further light on it," Marin said. · Clemens, who ranks eighth in major league history with 354 career wins, and McNamee, a former strength coach for the Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays, have engaged in a public game of he-said, hesaid - although neither has spoken under oath about the matter. "Congress is askin~ him to appear. In all likelihood, he will certainly appear," Yankees in June and going "Ii could be a circus with 6-6 with a 4'.'18 ERA. The players, true," Marin said. right-hander hasn't said :'But if you tailor it right and whether he will pitch in the invite people who clearly majors in 2008, although an have pertinent information indication he might retire about the substance of the came in November when his report, then it's anything b_ut agent told the Houston a circus. It's substantive. Astros that Clemens is set to That's what Democrats and · start his ~rsonal-services Republicans ·have agreed to contract w1th the team. here." Pettine, who has won 201 This is the group of lawgames and four World makers that convened the Series titles, acknowledged March 2005 hearing where McNamee injected him 'with McGwire refused to answer HGH twice while the pitch- questions about whether he er was recovering from an used steroids, repeatedly injury. The 35-year-old left- saying, "I'm not here to talk bander recently put off about the past." Sosa testiretirement "nd agreed· to a fied he had never knowingly $16 million, one-year con- used illegal performancetract to play for the Yankees enhancing drugs. Palmeiro next season. McNamee told Mitchell pointed his finger for APphoto he acquired HGH from emphasis and declared; 'IJ In this image captured from video and released· by CBS Radomski for Knoblauch in have never used steroids. News on Thursday baseball player Roger Clemens is seen at his Katy, Texas home, on Friday while giving his first Inter- 2001, and that he injected Period." He was suspended view since being accused of using ~r.formance-enhanclng the 1991 AL Rookie of the by baseball later that year drugs by his former trainer In the Mitchell Report. The Inter- Year and four-time All-Star after testing positive for a with it. Knoblauch .stopped st¥b~d.leaders of the comview will air on CBS's "60 Minutes," on Sunday. playing in 2002. Radomski pleaded guilty mittee, California Democrat said Richard Emery, one of an "interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" to be aired Sunday in April to federal felony Henry Waxman and Virginia McNamee's lawyers.. McNamee's claims about night, Clemens admits he charges of distributing Republican Tom Davis, Clemens were the most was injected by McNamee steroids and laundering were among several memstriking part of the Mitchell but with f:ainkillers and vit- money, and he is scheduled bers of the House and Senate who sponsored legisReport. He told Mitchell he amin B- 2 - not perfor- to be sentenced Feb. 8. Phone calls were not lation in 2005, proposing to injected Clemens with mance-enharicing drugs. steroids in 1998 while they Clemens also told CBS that re.turned by Radomski's mandate stronger steroid were with Toronto, and with McNamee's accusation was lawyer o~ the agent who rep- testing and penalties .for Pettitte and baseball and other U.S. prosteroids and human growth "ridiculous" and said he resents fessional sports leagues. hormone .in 2000 and 2001 "never" used bamted sub- Knoblauch. stances. There had been some Another congressional while with New York. The 45-year-old Clemens question as to whether the · committee has scheduled a Clemens issued a video statement denying put off retirement yet again . House panel would ask Jan. 23 hearing on the Mitchell Report. McNamee's accusations. In m 2007, returning to the players to appear again. Sunday,January6,2oo8 Redefining beauty through OOcly modification STORY AND PHOTOS BY P.P FOOTBALL WR ITER NEW YORK- One NFL scout called linebacker Patrick Willis "a beast" An NFL coach said Willis is "a rolling b~ll of butcher knives." And that was before Willis won The Associated Press 2007 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year award. Willis ' dominant performance could have been overlooked because his San Francisco 49ers·went 5-11 in . a mediocre division. Instead, his league-leading 174 tackles and presence all over the field made him a runaway winner and the 'fifth straight linebacker to take the honor. "It's a great honor," said Willis, who woke up Friday to "a bunch of text messages and 13 calls" on his cell phone telling him he won. "I can't give enough credit to my teammates, especially for the front seven - the defensive line was unbelievable - and for my linebacker · corps helping me find my way, and for my coaches believing in me." Willis earned 48 votes Friday from a nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the NFL. Only Carolina linebacker Jon Beason, with two, also received votes . . · "It's confirmation of what you've been doing as an individual," Willis said."From an individual perspective, it would he good for people that doubted, or didn't know if you could be a No. I draft pick, or' if you could come into the league and do well because of your size or where you might have played ball at ... and show them that if you put your mind·to it, you're capable of anything." . Willis certainly looked capable of just about any- ' AP photo Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jeff Garcia is sacked by San Francisco 49ers' Patrick Willis in the first half of an NA. football game in San Francisco, in this Dec. 23, 2007 file photo. Willis won The Associated Press 2007 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year award Friday. thing as he did just about . "He's a freak," said everything in 2007. The II th Vikings · running back overall . draft pick from Adrian Peterson, who won· Mississippi was a dynamic the Offensive Rookie award presence from the first prac- earlier this week. "Working tice with the 49ers, and by out with him, I saw the talseason's end, opponents ent he has. "One thing I realized · Wllre scheming to avoid him. It didn't work very often, while working out with witness his total tackles and Patrick is that he i> very .four sacks and his ability to competiti've. You don't realdisrupt the opposition. He ly see that too much .in guys made JI tackles in the sea- that are as gifted as him as son opener and had at least far as his speed being 4.1 10 in 10 gaq~es. His high (sec.onds in the 40-yard was 20 against Tampa Bay, dash) at 240 pounds. He's when Willis also had two strong as an ox. That's one thing I picked up on \vhich sacks. "I never say it was after niade me respect him that this (specific) game I knew I much more. I definitely like would have a good year," his fearless style of play." Willis said. "Each week I ·Willis is the third 49ers continued to work and try to player to win the award, be productive. Each week JOining · tackle Dana . was a working opportuni'ty Stubblefield (1993) and cor- · nerback Bruce Taylor for me. .. "I think that I was more (1970). comfortable as the season He also continued the run went on. I think I started of linebackers earning the understanding things a little honor. The previous four better and seeing things bet- were: DeMeco Ryans of Houston, Shawne Merriman ter." And, as Vikings coach of San Diego, Jonathan Brad Childress noted, cut- Vilma of the New York Jets, ting throu~h blockers like and Terrell Suggs of Baltimore. butcher kntves. :·.'No. ,.:il;~~• ' '" . . ' ~ '.. . ~,, •' . 'ta ~ .· FIMIIi,_ No.2 Flalliltl t4, '1... ' . tf'· il.AI. 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No. 2VIrglnta Tecl129, SugarBowt 27, No. 1 Gtorglo 23, Sugar Bowl lltpl. ,21, 1N1 - NO. 1 Sou!hem 2 Nevi 7 Jan. 4, 11te -No. 1 Tennell. . 23, No. 2 Florida Stale 16, Fleeta Bowt Cal 28, No. 2 Oldalloma 24 - · 20, 11143- No. 1 Notro 011111t Jan. 1, 1m- No. 2 AI ...... 14, 14, No. 2 Iowa Pro•Aighl 13 Nov. 30, 11M - No. 2 Florida No. I Penn Slote 7, SugarOct. t, 11143- No. 1 Noire Danw Stale 24, No. I Florida 21 Jan, 1,11172- No." I -aaka38, 35, No. 2 MlchiOan 12 olin. 2, 11118 - No. 1 Nebrllka 62, Jan. 7, 2008 - No. I OhiO Slate va. No . 2 LSU, BCS Nallonal Champlonohip • Jan. 8, 2007 - No. 2 Florida 41, No. I Ohio Stale I 4, BCS National Championship . ·Nov. 18,2006- No! 1 Ohio State 42, No. 2 Michigan 39 StpL 8, 2006 - No. 1 Ohio Slota 24, No. 2 Texas 7 Jan. 4, 2006 - No. 2 Texas 41, No. I Soolhem Cal 38, Rose Bowl Jan. 4. 2001- No. I SoutMm Cel No. 1 t~~•mll3, S\!llll tlo'll! NEW ORLEANS (AP)Just a few blocks from Bourbon Street, where partying was )lerfected, the Ohio State Buckeyes are getting primed for their national championship date with LSU by sta:ying in their hotel and staymg out of trouble. It's almost like they're in a monastery. No, wait that happened almost . 40 years ago. So that his players · were walled off from all the distractions - or, as some would put it, fun- of going to a bowl game, coach ·Woody Hayes used to make his Buckeyes spend the nights before· their Rose Bowl games in a monastery. "Have you ever been to one?" laughed Rex Kern, the Buckeyes quarterback in 1968 when Hayes first conceived of puttmg his linebackers in with the monks. "It's .really peaceful, which is obviously why Woody wanted us. there. I remember walking among the olive trees, all the shrubbery and the landscaping - it was great for meditation." · The current Buckeyes aren't exactly contemplating their navels. They're surrounded by plenty of t~ings .to ke~p tliem occupted, mcludmg a worldclass workout facility and a game room that includes piles of the latest video .gam~s and large. flat-screen momtors. Still; they believe their singularity of mind and purpose will be reinforced by sticking around the Hilton instead of collecting strings of beads down at the French Quarter. . That ethic comes from theij:., head· coach. Jim Tressel constan~y repeats the age-old coachmg caveat, "Nothing good ever happens after 10 o'clock." So the Buckeyes are all but sequestered as they count down to Monday. . . Harrah's Casino is mere steps from the front door of the team hotel, hut Tressel has banned the Buckeyes from going there. Several LSU players were spied enjoying the gambling tables and -one-armed bandits late on Thursday night. (The jury is still out on whether slot machines . strengthen or weaken a player's arm.) Hoping to somehow "prote~t" ~is players from the wild stde, Hayes took his teams in 1968 and 1970 to a monastery on the outer reaches of Los An~eles. There was no carpet m the entire complex, and no TVs or railios. There was one bed to a room - a single, barren cot. "We laugh about it when we . get together at reumons," Kern said. Before the Buckeyes played O.J. Simpson and Southern Cal in the 1969 Rose Bowl, Hayes showed the · John Wayne movie, "The Hellfighters." ATHENS CO. Il l VOLUME USED CAR DEALER 10 YEARS RUNNING --- CARFAM ' 07 Ford Fre.tylt f1.Wt5 A.WO, Air Ng, AC, AI~ Whit. Crulu, CruiM, Tlrlt, PWIPS $18,485-. 06 Chevy Equinox 08 GUC Yukon . tl45MAC.AIIoyWhMit, CD, Crulle, PBIPl. PWIPS 111. CO 11.UIOABS, 4WD,AJC, CD, Tilt, Pt\, PIN. lin! $15,895-. $22,48h1-.. 05 Su_blru Llgocy 1142tl8 Alloy Whit. CO, CruiM, Tilt, Pil,P!W, ~m $10,800 .. - . 'I' • ' . IU.HI ITT au,Jier l'8!:lllt:a fi4162.AIIS,Air,AII>y-Mmtt- Quloo ,CD, PI, Pl., n.JAir .~. Tllt...... 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S2l4 111.9ts l2l.llt5 $312 IIO.MS $153 116.115 $231 l12,f95 $179 IIS.IItl $245 115.291 $232 121~190 121.100 lls.t50 w.ns 120.M5 IILMS KOCMOUO GALLIPOLIS - Most people believe rhat it's what's on the !nside that counts, but a growing percentage of our population IS choosmg to outwardly express thetmelves through p1ercmgs, tattoos and other forms of body modification. The practice of tattooing has roots in every culture around the world, daung back hundreds of years, and even thousands of years .m some cases. According 10 Wikipedia, ev1dence of ta!toomg has been found in cenain culture s from as far back as the Neolithic and Paleolithic eras. Often serving as asymbolidndication of a person's accomplishments, devotions or desires, the tradition of tattooing has changed drastically over the years. What was once a method · of identifi~ation in ancient times has become modem way of embelhshmg human body for aesthetic purposes. ''I'm not afraid to express myself," said Shawn Schappe of Gallipolis, who has several piercings and tattoos. " I don't care if society likes it or not. One thing I have control over is my own body." The process involves the placement of pigments under the " skin us1_ng. a needle. Once the skin heals, the pigment is trapped 1ns1de, leavmg a permanent mark. While they do fade over time, the evidence of the design will remain forever. "You don't really think about how many people you're touching for the rest of their lives," said Tom Green, owner of Temple Tattoo in Gallipolis. "There is no feeling in the world like putting a good tattoo on someone." Green and his business panner, Jack Marchant. purchased the tattoo shop in August of 2007 from founder Rick Thomas, who originally opened·Temple Tattoo at its current location, 250 Second Ave., in 1996. Both Green and Marchant compleied apprenticeships before taking the needle into their own hands, and strongly urge anyone considering getting a tattoo or · piercing to check the credibility and hygiene of a studio before making the commitment. ~~~~ . r. "1, Iike having. them more than I like getting them," said ureefl: "You have to make sure you know what you want to get before you jump into ·something. Don't get things you don't like, so you don't have to get them covered up later. "About 25 percent of our work is cover ups. Don't get something you'll regret later, and don't get anything just because it's cheap," Green added. "Ask the right questions and look at the artist's portfolio before you make a decision." "Make sure they have tiled floors and not carpet," said Marchant. "Ask if .they are well educated and have taken classes in hygiene. Make sure they have an autoclave and· don't ever reuse needles. You can get a virus from contaminated equipment. It's literally a matter. of life and death." When asked why they choose to modify their bodies in such_a way, most people have their own unique justification. "It's meaningful to me," said Rod Pifer of Estero, Fla. , as Green tattooed a frog riding on an eagle 's back onto his calf. "I don't care what others think. I have two and they're both symbolic. You can 'say I earned these tattoos." "Tattooing is becoming much more widely accepted," . said Marchant. "There is so much more knowledge out there now, and so many tal~nted people are doing this stuff that the information is being disseminated. It used to be coveted. You used to have to work for someone for years in · order to learn their secrets. a ~d even then they hated to give them up. It's like the eat's out of the bag." Even though a cenain amount of pain is involved, enthusiasts insist it's well worth it. :'The anticipation was worse · than lhe piercing itself," sa1d Frannie Hewitt of Gallipolis, after having her nose pierced. "If you can handle having a kid. you can get piercmgs and tattoos." · "It's like an addiction," said Ashley Cain of Point Pleasant, W.Va., before getting a new design tattooed on her shoulder. 1,_ .Jil'l!,..I Whether you love it or hate it, body modificalion in pop:, Atiove: Tom Green, owner of Temple Tattoo In ular culture has evolved into a way for anists and patrons CaiiiJ)Oiis, uses 1!1trlcate shading to ad.d details to to define themselves as individuals. · a design of e frog riding an.eagle belng tattooed on In the words of the late John Holsinger, a tattoo anist at the calf Of ~od Pifer of Estero, Fla. Years of experiBody Fantasies Tattoos and Body Piercing in Middleport, ence allow seasoned tattoo artists to Imbed life "We all die. The goal isn 't to live forever, but to create like Images within the sklh of patrons. something that will." · ,. ' ' . Left: Frannie H.E!wltt. center,. squirms with anticipation as :remple Tattoo owner Jack Marchant, right, pr!lpares to pierce .her o(>se. Shawn Schappe, left. : coiT]forts her bY tightlx hok1lng he" hand. ' .' , Willis named AP's Defensive ROY Most Buckeyes avoiding French Quarter BY BARRY WILNER Joy JKOCMOUO@MYDAILVTRISUNE.COM " .'(., '' o ' . e .~· • ·' •' . ~. f. • . ' Belt)W: E;very tt~lt bring~, tl)eir' own style to a . ' desl$n •.maklng'ei!C~: work unique. tJiar~ Warq of Gallipolis, left, ·shqws off a tiger tattoo on his atln · • < done by Sam Sowards,, owner of Body Fantasies Tattoos in Middleport, a,s Mark Casto of Pomeroy · displays a 5lmllar tiger .on his back, created by Holije Langford, ll' tattoo artist at Body Fantasies. · ,. " ' . $3ll $309 $245 $359 $313 $273 • 'N:f Ashley Cain of Point Pleasant, W.Va .. carefully e~mtnts the placement of her new tattoo before the artist befAI his work. 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A perusal of an end to the struggle by creature's shoulders as sever:jl websites dedicated· striking him somewhere 'monstrously wide.' They to the pursuit of "Bigfoot" about the ear. The creature estimated that its shoulders in Ohio usually begin their . was not stunned, but feeling · were twice Jhe width of a research with a January unequal to further exertion, man's. It ·ha a 'bulky head 1869 report that appeared in slowly got up and retired and appeared to have no a Mankato, Minn., newspa- into the neighboring copse neck."' per about "Bigfoot" commg that skirted the road." There were also sightings near the Old French City. The next major "Bigfoot" of "Bigfoot" in Old Gallia · "Gallipolis is excited over sighting in Gallia County as recent as 1972. It was in a wild man, 1\'ho is reported was in 1912. According to 1999 that there was a lot of to haunt the woods near that the Bigfoot Casebook by interest 1n "Bigfoot" in city. He goes naked, is cov- Bord: "It was the year 1912 southern Ohio when Dallas .erect with hair, is gigantic in in Gallipolis, Ohio. On that Gilbert reported seeing the height, and 'his eyes start day, 'Mr. Jim' and his moth- · creature nine times in the from their sockets.' A car- er noticed a strange dark Shawnee Forest near riage containing a man and cloud hovl;ring over them. Portsmouth. Gilbert's huntdaughter, was attacked by When they took a path ing partner, Wayne Burton, him a few days ago. He is through tre woods, it fol- first saw "Bigfoot" in 1978. said to have bounded at the lowed them. Around 50 feet In early 1998, there were a father, catching him in a down the lrail, the elder number of "Bigfoot" sight· grip like that of a vise, hurl- mother took the lead. The ings in Adams County. ing him to the earth, falling .story got stranger· from Ohio. Sever,al sightings m on him and endeavoring to . there. They soon re~lized northeast Ohio have been bite and to scratch like a that a 'monster' was pacing recorded in the last seven wild animaL . them. It kept to the right of . years as well. , "Bigfoot," also called "The struggle was long Mr. Jim, parallel to the path and fearful, rolling and wal- ori which they traveled. The Sasquatch, Gigantopithicus lowing in the deep mud, ' mother screamed, 'Let's or Giganto, is believed to half suffocated, sometimes Go!' The creature began have been the offspring of beneath his adversary, turning to 'its left as its gaze some type of giallt baboon whose burning and maniac fell directly on Mr. Jim. 'It that once inhabited Asia. eyes glared into his .own made some sort of noise, The theory was. that they with murderous and savage like growling or maybe a somehow came mto North intensity. Just as he was . barking sound.' It has been America and moved across about to become exhausted noted that the creature's the northern United States. There are several webfrom his exertions, his body was partially hidden· daughter, taking courage at by the terrain as it continued sites given over to the study the imminent danger of her to follow them. They · of Bigfoot in Ohio. There parent, snatched a. rock and walked another hundred have even been a few books BY JAMES SANDS HMC joins with state in observing Birth Defects Prevention Month . ' GALLIPOLIS - Holzer c a r l: f u I , " toring, low risk obstetrics, Medical Center .is joining said Brown. · inpatient obstetrics, !acta- · the Ohio Department of "Good habits tiori and childbirth educaHealth and the National to avoid tion. The unit features priBirth Defects Prevention in fecI ion vate rooms before, during Network to share the mesinclude fre- .and after delivery. Most sage that a mother's health quent hand- postpartum (after delivery) w a s h i n g , rooms have king-sized beds before, during and after pregnancy is an important Terri Brown careful han- . and are designed to encourfoundation to having a - dlmg of raw age the entire family to healthy baby who grows up meats, staying away from enjoy the experience. healthy. ditty cat litter, and not hanAlso feaiured are 24-hour "Preventing Infections in dljng pet rodents or their anesthesia coverage and an Pregnancy'' is the theme 'of bedding. Women should obstetrician on · call 24National Birth Defects also talk with their doctor hours-a-day, seven days a Prevention Month during about testing for infec_tions week. In addition to outJanuary 2008. like ~roup B strep and standing care during an Good health habits for Hepatitis B. Holzer Medical inpatient stay, the unit also everyone, include knowing Center, along with the Ohio offers free classes for your family history and Department of Health, the Preparation for Childbirth, genetic risks, seeing a doc- National Birth Defects Breastfeeding and · tor, taking care to nor · Prevention Network Infant/Child CPR. expose yourself to diseases (Network) and the Centers The Ohio Connections and managing health prob- for Disease Prevention and for Children with Special !ems. For women, these . Control (CDC), is working Needs (OCCSN}, Ohio's habits should also include · with doctors and other birth defects program at taking a multivitamin with .health care providers ODH, is a member of the 400 meg of folic acid daily around Ohio to encourage network and works to starting before she gets more education for women · assure that Ohioans are pregnant. about infections that can educated about birth defects "We are excited to be part harm a baby before it is and ways that they may Be of this national awareness born. prevented. OCCSN also campaign. We hope to reach "There are more than 60 assures that Ohio families women, their families and million women of .child- and children who are born health care providers in our bearing age iii the United with a birth defect . are · state with this important States. They need to hear offered information about message," said Terri Hood- this message," she added. services that they may Brown, RN-C, FMC, The Maternity and need. BSEd., Holzer Medical Family Care Center at To learn mnre, call Brown Center patient care manager HMC, located on the third at (740) 446-5030 or Dr. · and floor of the hospital in Norma Ryan; RN, CHES, for Maternity Family/Pediatrics. Gallipolis, offers a nurtur- OCCSN program coorcfina"Women who are preg- ing . environment staffed tor; at the Ohio Department nant or planning to get preg- with registered nurses that of Health, at (614) 752-9523, nant need to be esp~cially are certified in fetal moni- norma.ryan@odh.ohio.gov. written on that subject, including Christopher Big Foot Murphy's Encounters in Ohio: Quest For The Grassman. The last report of "Bigfoot" in Gallia County (1972) was a big year for "Bigfoot" sightings in general as he was seen in the Toledo, Defiance, Cleveland, Germantown, Ironton and Dublin areas. Two security guards. in Dublin even saw an eight feet tall "Bigfoot" on a golf course .. Some of these sightings report the creature to smell like Limburger cheese on a hot muffler, have red eyes, reddish brown fur or hair, be about eight feet tall and weigh around 500 pounds. A few motorists said they had to swerve off the road to miss "Bigfoot". and that is why they ran into a ditch. Most people, including insurance companies, doubt the existence of "Bigfoot," but no less authority than Jane Goodall was convinced that "Bigfoot" did exist. (James Sands is a special correspondent . for the Sunday Times-Sentinel. He can be conwcted by writing to 1040 Military Road, Zanesville, Ohio 43701.) drainage, flooding occurrences, underground utilities and sufficient surface area (ground) to locate the sewage system, are major If you are buying proper- considerations for house·ty, you should contact your hold sewage systems. local · county authorities As a rule of thumb, regarding any public . s<;~ni­ always develop your home tary sewer lines available to on the highest point on the the property, ·and confirm Jot, never ori low-lying that there is capacity avail- ground that could experiable to hook onto existing ence flooding . .Household system. If not, allow for the sewage systems do not cost of installing a house- function properly under sathold sewage system. . urated soil conditions. It is extremely risky to Always make sure you have purchase land outrig~t with- a household sewage permit out considering how you approval before you close will manage your household title to the property. wastewater. Contact the Isolate the area designatlocal health departme.nt to ed for your 1 sewage system d~termine if you can build by roping or fencing the your home on the lot or con- ;rrea out to keep construcfirm that the seller has tion traffic from destroying obtained approval for a tbe .soil needed for absorphouse·hold sewage system tion of wastewater. design for your -proposed Remember that sewage syshouse. The Gallia County tems cannot be located Health Department issues under driveW<\YS or sidepermits based on the soi I walks. Ensure that future evaluations at the building development, such as swimsite. Test holes are generally. ming pools, out buildings required to determine soil and room additions, adhere texture, high water tables , · to the sewage system isolaand depth to bedrock. tion distances. Disrega,rding Also, site conditions like these issues can destroy the topography. proper site soil necessary , for wasteBY GREGG SPEAR . water absorption and may render your property unusable for a household sewage system. Make sure that your septic contractor installer is registered and bonded properly with your local health. department and lhat the required permits have been obtained. The system should be back-filled, seeded following installation and approved by the local ' health department. Also, routine maintenance on yourimusehold sewage system is mandatory, such as pumping the septic tank, very important to · the longevity of the system. In closing, after all the.· con. struction is complete and you move into your · nt;w home, one should not forget about the· investment you · have made in your househoid sewage system. PR,OTECT YOUR INVESTMENT! For more information, · contact the Gallia Comity Health Department at 4412018. Source: ·o hio Department of Health, Bureau of Environmental Health www.odh.ohio.gov. PARTY RECOGNIZES · claSses start Jan. 15 Sunday, January 6, 2oo8 BEF EMPiOYEES GALLIPOLIS_. Want to quit tobacco? The Tobacco Prevention Center of Holzer Medical Center is here to help with the FreedO)ll From Smoking cessation clinic that will soon begin in Gallipolis on TueSday, Jan. d. · · . Freed!'m From Sm<_>kin~. deyelopc:d . by .t~e American Lung Associal!on, ts III\ etgbt-sesston cliruc sponsored by the HMC Tobacco Preventi9n Center. A professionally trained instructor w\11 create a suppo_rttve environment to help break the tobaccd addtqtion.Each participant wpo joins the clinic will develop an individual plan for qUitting. · . Iri the clinic, long-term freedom from tobacco wtll ~. the etuphasis.' The cl~nic also iD;cludc:s !he late§! improVed *iUs for ~tudymg the habtl, buildmg motivation, coping with urges, making 11 plan, recovery and · support, .stress managenien,t, "'eight contrpl, .exerCISe, assertive communication and relapse prevention. , · . F~om From Smoking offers a more systematic approach to cessation effg~~.• allowing pa,rti~i~ants to work:gn the pr9¢ess of qutttmg .not only mdlV!dually, ' b~~~~cfo~J:;;'the roup ~ill hi Rai~~ Garhet. adu_It coordinator at HMC s Tobacco P~evenuon Cen!llr. · Duri 0g the clinic, Garber will teach step-by-step .111et~ods for changing behavior .and q~itt!ng t~bacco. ,The. group approach u~s posttJ ve thinking,, on,e:?~­ one help, te,Wan_ls, and group suppop to help p~ti;t·pants stop smoktng. .. . .:•; · ·· . \ •"·< ~ , The .first. ~sip~i; · ''Thinking' .~lxmt Quitti!Jg!' · take place Tuesdjiy, Jan. 1S .at 6 p.m. :at . 119~ & ..Tobacco Prevention Center,Ji)cated at 288·~ Obi!) 160 in Oallip!)lis, •W~th additi.OJ'!Iil, sessi~~ ,to ·be l.l.eld ql)c,IJ over the next seve.n weeks. .t\:11 are· welcome t(ja~li~.• , ,l!lld ,there Is ~o ch~~ to a!te0d se~sii>ll.s_, i · : .s ,. Submitted pholo.l Alan Kuhn, center, hog harvest supervisor at Bob Evans Farms Inc.'s Bidwell Plant, received a 30-year service award during the plant's Christmas Party on Dec. 7, which indluded a buf- Jude Maher, center, control manager at Bob Evans Farms Inc.'s Bidwell Plant. received a fet·style meal and entertainment by the Cherry Ridge Bluegrass Band. With Kuhn are Mike 15-year service award at the plant's annual Christmas party. At left is Mike Townsley, exec· Townsley, executive vice president of food products, left, and Plant Ma'nager David Morgan. utlve vice president of food products, and Plant Manager David Morgan is at right. · wW !fiet IFf()~ mottt;ttif,p"'/'l~l()» ,or ,to, ca(l'446 5940 ·· · _,,. ·• .;t;{: ::~,, '~:,, .. :::;~:~,i:~!· , "<[':<~:;i;,' L regrstu.fqr t!tf .;fll~lg! ~ ' ·' . .. :I < ·• • ·• ·• >:~;:,~:·~:; SUNDAY PUZZLER ACROSS 1 Reduce drastically 6 False face 10 Shoeslring 14 Make i!Shall*l 19 Rid! dough 20 l.o>IO ' 22 King~ Aida . 24 Well-parng and easy 25 Rose oi 26 Flower parr . 27 Latin danoe dOne in a lile 28 Bar legally 29l.eg part 30 RepJise . 32 Publicizes 34 The bud< stops 35 F111t planet 39 Sandm parr 41 BII!Md unsteadily 43 letelll . 45 Aquatic mammal -471mpostor -43 An article ~ 51 !stand paradise in Ar1hurlan legend 53 Love""" 55 Alltigu'ftY 56 Engt1Sh netwolt letters 59 Round dance 61 Support 62 Wlidina bird 106 Kind ot ink 110 Thinly scattered 112 Viltles 114 Wtln~ed fruit 115 T!Hio 1st tor a meeting 117 Get outl 118 Stutf 120 'East of-' 121 Matter, in law 122 Branch • 124 Looked at 126 Drink after adrink . 128 Before 129 Olselved 131 Woolen Iatric 133 Restrict 135 Restaurant of a kind 139 Make dia<OOraged ' 141 lrmator 145ll<e a missing Gl 146 Memorize 148 TIQhlisted one 150 Trove~ on 151 Hospital areas 1531cy rain 155 SensationaJ 157 Blaok-~:white animal 158_Rye 1Ungus 159 Taut 160 Mistake 161 Make tllious 64~stree 66 Force to leave 68 "~1etter 162~ 163 Soda! engagement · 164 Hasa meet 165 Legerd 70 - In Excelsis Oeo 72 Napped leather . 73 DeliciOUS drink 75 Pi!id - of Hamein T7 Relates 79 Stoon 80 Ropes tor cowpokes 82 Gift trorn a new dad 34 Find the way B6 Summrts 88 Artificial waterway 90- qua non DOWN . 89 Goa- way 91 Sptee 92 Mountfjns 1 Muscle contraction 2 Machine for woodwor~ng in South Amara :i Moving atiout 4 Po~tion 5 Thalgwl 6 Naroo for astranger 7 Jewish month 8 Parts of·shoes 9 Superman's planet 10 Fonddu11 Thar)ks- - .' 12•- - WOfi11S . (thorny problem) 13 Swallow up 14 High card 15 Exhausted 16 Ray llower 11 Seacoast 18 Promoted 21 Put forth effort 23 Lampoon 31 Tardy 33 Overcharge . 0 Shakespeare's . , • 126Reprim~ • 127 Tear 129 Nor very often at all 130 Used a phone 132 Claliness 134 Opt:re~ve ruler 135 Cried like acrow 136 Cognizant 137 Blad<smnh's for ticl<ets 36 The Stares (abbr.) Abbr. on an in~talion rr 38 Pine 40 Danger 42 High praise 44 Sa,llng boat 46 Machan~Q/ mao 48 In lhat case · · 49 Maan dll'llling 50 Plant of the heath family 52 Of the eyes · 54 Warning signal 56 Sheep's ay 57 Insignia 58 Western Indian 60 Pertorms 63 ·-Marner Above left: Receiving 5-year service awards at the Bob Evans Farms Inc. Bidwell Plant's annual· Christmas party were, from left, front, sausage processors Brenda Whittaker. James Norman and Lanna Lively; back row, second from left, sausage processor 'Rob · Elliott; and back row, third from left, butcher·bone"r Jason Moore. In back row at left is Executive Vice President for Food Products Mike Townsley and back row, right: Plant Manager David Morgan. workshop 138 Hippodrome ' 140- firma 142 River in Akica 143 Venomous snake 144 L.achryrnoll'! 147 Aerie 149 Wild disturbance 152 Paved ways (abbr.) 154 Golf ball stand 156 AN.A mernbelll 157 -de deux 102 Comrnenoe 104 Singing voice 106 Wooer ... Big Man --------~------------~------~--------------~ 60-day weight loss challenge begins Jan. 14 87 Detergents See Sunday Puzzle Answer On 20 ., The puzzle answer is sponsored by ARBORS AT GALLIPOLIS " sausage processor at the Bob Evans Farms Inc. Bidwell Plant, received a 1year service award from Mike Townsley, left, executive vice president for.fo9d products, and Plant Manager David Morgan, right, at the plant's annual Christmas party. ' 85.Mt 170 Pinecrest Or. Gallipoli!r,Ohio 45631 740-446-7112 Left: Mike Miller, center, ·' 67 FIIMlr 69 .The 'Iliad' is one 70 Stone for monuments 71 One of the ChipiTlJnks 74 Housetops 76 Mild oath 78 Skull cavity 81 Blemishes 63 Rant and- 95 Chunk ot turt 97 Connecticut. the- State 101 Wrinkle Abol/8: Receiving 3-year service awards at the Bob Evans Farms Inc. Bidwell Plant's annual Christmas party were, second from left, sausage processor Nathan Young; center, sanitarian Greg Stump; and second from right, sausage processor Shannon Weaver. At left is Executive Vice President for Food Products Mike Townsley, and at right, Plant Manager David Morgan. • 'Tempest' 119 Oflce no1e 123 Least 125 B~ to dnnk . 65 Aqua-· ·91 Shoeless • 93 Restrain (with 'i'I"J 94 Vestige 96 Burning dltl 98 Mud . 99 Composition for plano 100 Dead duck 101 Perjurer 103 Sal~e~ 105 Part ot RFD 101 Descal1es or Coty 109 Make fit 111 Warhorse 113 Fundamental 116 Sprite in Know how to select a home site SANITARIAN IN TRAINING ENVIRONMENTAl HEALTH .GAlli A COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT PageC3 ., EX!ENDICARE- '"''uy www .ex,tendicare.com , f.qual OpJI(IflUIIil)' Prcwidrr of .~ rl'icn • POINT PLEASANT, official weigh-in, each .par. W.Va. -In an effort to pro- ticipant will be weighed in a :· mote healthier lifestyles, ·private setting and their · Pleasant Valley Hospital is body fat percentage will be teaming-up with Sunny recorded. 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Ison of Franklin ·Furnace and the late Peggy Jo !son of Portsmouth. The bride-to~ be is a 2005 graduate of Wheelersburg High School and is currently -enrolled in the Surgical Tech11ician . program at the Scioto County Joint Vocational School. The groom-to-be is a 1999 graduate of Green High ·School and is currently enrolled at Shawnee State · University in the electro-mechanical engineering program. Dustin is also a veteran of the U.S. Navy, where he served for five years as a submarine sonar technician. . ·. · The couple will exchange vows in the summer of 2008 in ·. Portsmouth. The Bureau for Children with Medical Handicaps (BCMH) is one of the many programs offered by the Gallia County Health Department with · the purpose of keeping our· chitdren healt~y. BCMH was originally called "the Crippled Children's Services," which was established in 1935 when the Social Security Act was passed by Congress. It is dedicated to · the mission of providing . medical services for all children wit!) handicapping conditions. That mission has survived the years of · . smaller governmental controland decreasing budgets. BCMH is a state administered program-, funded in part bY. county, state and federal money. The pmgram expanded in the 1990s to cover many additional handicapping conditions' and . offered families a greattr. expanded financial eligibtlity. In 1987, the name "Crippled Children's Sei'VIces" was changed to the present Bureau for Children with Medical Handicaps. The program today exists of three main parts: Diagnostic, Treatment, and Service Coordination. The Diagnostic program is aimed at a 90-day period during which medical testing procedures are done with the prospect of diagnosing a medical condition and developing a plan of treatment. Every child who is an Ohio resident, 21 years and younger, and under the care of a BCMH physician provider are eligible, regardless of income, for evaluation and diagnosis of a handicapping condition. The Treatment Program would be established when a handicapping condition is diagnosed and ongoing treatment is required. The same requirements for the Diagnostic Program apply, plus the child must meet two more criteria, eligible medical condition and financial eligibility. The Service Coordination laboratory tests, X-rays, · Program of BCMH .is -to therapies (physical, occu- _ help .families obtain needed pational, and speech), services for their child. nutritional consults, There are no financial eligi- surgery and anesthesia, bility requirements for this prescription medications, program. It does not pay for medical equipment and Diagnostic evaluations supplies, eyeglasses/conand/or treatment services, tacts, public health nurse but helps coordinate the ser- services and consultations, 'vices the child may need and 'office visits to BCMHand is receiving from approved physicians. Not BCMH providers. all services are eligible for There are many eligible all conditions. medical conditions that BCMH works close.ly meet the requirements of the with local health departBCMH Treatment Program. ments to identify needs and A short general list follows: increase ser .~es to children dia~tes, . cereb~al palsy, with handicaps and their hearmg loss, cystic fibrosis, families. Some of the serscoliosis, spina bifida, vices provided by local epilepsy, cancer, sickle cell health · departments are: dtsease, hemop_hilia, heart early identification and · defects, cleft lip and palate, referral of children with spinal injuries and paralysis, potentialiy handicapping juvenile arthritis, crossed conditions, service coordieyes and eye diseases, and nation, advocacy, and pubchronic pulmonary disease. lie health nurse home visits There are many other dis- to help families obtain and eases, covered under . coordinate services. BCMH, that are medically The Gallia County Health eligible diagnoses. . Department provides these Eligible services which services and many other may be provided are: in- comparable services. patient hospitalizations, Please ·call 441 -2951 for hearing aids, special shoes, more i11jormatio11. It's a jungle (gym) out there: Moms' search for friends can resemble dating B¥ JENNIFER FORKER one of two ways: They can go it alone, and find likeminded moms at the playThe pickup lines are the ground, in their neighborsame. But they're delivered hood, or through their chilwith a mommy twist. dren's schools and sports. "Do you come here (the Or they cm;t netwprk playground) often?" through national groups like "Do you want to come to the Moms Club, Mothers & my place, or sha.ll we go to More, newcomers clubs and · Matchingmoms.org. yours?" Mothers of young chitBelanger met her tightdren, who a few years ·ago knit group of mom friends may have been looking for through the Moms Club of Mr. Right in a bar, now are Helena. seeking Mrs. Right and her ",I knew if I didn't have a kids in between the swings club, I'd be stuck stalkin~ and the slides at the loca.l people at the playground,' playground. she says. Women 11lso are going She and her three friends online to find moms who are so close now, after a · match their personality and year and a half of playdates interests, much like smgles and girls' nights out, that use an online dating service. they take overnighters "You scope 'em out," says together with their kids. Maga.lie Belanger, 31, about Last summer, they went prospective mommy-friends huckleberry ·picking in m Helena, Mont. "You see Glacier National Park. how they deal with ·their Another Helena mom, children, and with yours." Anna Doran, moved to town · AP plloto It's like dating, but the about 4 months ago and ·A Bureau of Engraving and Printing employee uses a magnifying glass to inspect fresh newly'designed $100 bills, in this 1996 file photo, ~;~t the agency in Washington. Saving money can be hard. especially when you're young and retirement dates are with other moms already has a close group of . seems far away, or if you're saddled with student loans, mortgage payments, or childcare costs, but there's always a way and their children. While the gal pals, thanks entirely to . kids play, hopefully without her 4-year-old daughter's · : to squirrel away a few bucks here and there. And those bucks add up, eventually. · · tantrums or biting, the soccer league and her older, nioms are free to talk about tree-lined neighborhood, the things they have in com- which has lots of young kids. mon, from the lofty subjects "Truly, I use my children of religion and politics to the to make friends," says BY COLLEEN LONG "My father worked for the money for? Do you want to and work out a budget. ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER Postal Service for 30 years, travel? Go back to school'' . "If you get out a pen and more practical topics of Doran, a 31-year-old mother of two. "We have so much in retired at age 57 and he was Always wanted to write a paper and write down teething and diaper,rash. , The story goes like this: A fine. He was happy," book but never had the everything you spend "Women, ·they want common and there's so : couple in their early sixties Delehanty said. "I can't time? Want to keep working money on, you'd . be someone else who is go in* much to ta.lk about." • scrimped and saved, and imagine that now. No one but do something new? . Or shocked by how much is · through the same thing, ' Doran sees at least one of : ·retired to their dream home even uses the word 'retire- inaybe you really like your wasted ~oing out for coffee says Drury Sherrod, a Los her friends, generally with · in France. But eight months · ment' in a -positive way any- job, and you want to keep at or buymg gum," Sedlar Angeles social psychologist kids in tow, daily. Several of '. after they arrived at their more." it after you hit 65. says. "You really need to sit who studies friendship. them work out together at a : ~hateau, the couple was Often, that can· mean nearby gym, where the day Jeti Sedlar, co-author of '"I'm not saying that a tra- down and say, 'What's my . m1serable. "Don't Retire, Rewire!" ditional · retirement doesn't budget?' You don't want seeking out other women in care is free, three times a , They missed their friends says these changes· in soci- have good components," people running out of the same trimester of preg- week. And at night, the : and 'Clubs back home. They ety .mean we have to start Sedlar said. "Many retirees money when they still have nancy or whose children are women occasionally head :. missed working, and loung- looking at retirement in a are stressed out and burned a heck of a lot of life left in similar in age, he says. over to the downtown wine . mg around all day was cost- different way. out, but I don't think a'sole- them." Kate Harmon, 41, of bar after the kids are tucked , ·lier than they expected. So "I know you're working ly leisure and fun lifestyle is Concord, Mass., recalls how ·into bed. · they moved back to their hard and smart, but you've going to be good for physiTHE FUTURE'S I 0 years ago she fell into the "I've never had this (kind · : old lives. got to lift your head up and cal or mental health." SO BRIGHT perfect support group while of friendship), even in col: The moral of the story: see how much longer peoSociety is slowly changing he( husband was a graduate lege," says Doran. "I had a • : Retirement ain't what . it ple are living, and staying SAVE IT, SUCKER how it views retirees. student in Boston. Three of team, . because I ran cro,ls: used to be. engaged in life, and think So, if the old model of Companies are increasingly the four moms gave birth in country and track. I was • Fact is, we're living longer about what you want from retirement is out, do those hiring older workers, Sedlar the same week, and the really independent. 1 had ; and healthier lives, and the your future," she said. in their 20s and 30s still says, especially in fields fourth a month later. rnY career." ~. _cost of living is increasing have to save? Yes, yes, where there is a skills short"None of us knew what ·"Now," she continues, "if •. exponentially. That means GET REFLECTIVE say. ~'There's age like nursing and teachyes, experts the heck we were doing," I don't see my friends every ' . • we re gomg to have more If you're in the work no guarantee you're going ing. There are even Web siies Harmon says. "The first " day, I get really bummed :·time to spend money, and world, you've go to start to be in good health, · like retirementjobs.com, year was fabulous. You had out." : ll:ss money to spend. thinking about what fulfills there's no guarantee there encore.com and civicven- this tiny, little apartment ... Moms should revel : · Years ago, jobs were more and· drives you, and make will be ·Social Security," tures.com where companies you could just squoosh in guilt-free - in their tailor.;physically demanding. By sure those components are Sedlar said. post ·openings geared specifi- and hang out." · made support groups beCause ; ·the time you hit 65, you still in your life after you .Saving can be hard, cally for retirees. Such groups, primarily a few hours a day or week ; were exhausted and the leave your day job. Do you especially when you're "Nonprofits as well as the for stay-at-home moms or spent with female friends is ' prospect of leisure seemed like to be a leader? Do you young and retirement private and public sector are those who work part-time, good for your health, says : ·novel. Nowadays, jobs are like the camaraderie that an seems far away, or if increasingly looking to help both.new and seasoned Sherrod, the psychologist. :-more sedentary, and people office c~n provide? po you you're saddled with stu- recruit and retain 'mature' moms on many levels. Sure, "The emotional support : are increasingly admitting like the buzz you get from dent loans, mortgage pay- workers ," Sedlar says. ·•t's great to let off steam and of friendship insulates peo' ~that a 24-7 vacation-style someone complimenting ments, or childcarc costs, "They realize the value talk about the day's toddler pie from stress," he says. • life isn't all it's cracked up your work? but there's always a way to they're getting." tr1als: But there's a practical ."Friendship supplies the ~ -to be. In fact, it can get "Many people say 'I still squirrel away a few bucks It's also possible that you benefit, t()(). social and emotional sup:-downright boring. want to work, but I don't here and there. And those do a financial assessment at "Always there's some- . port that has been proven to • · According an AARP sur- want to be in the rat race,"' bucks add up, eventually. age, say, SO. and find out body at that next milestone enhance health." ; vey, at least 80 percent of Sedlar says. "Or they want "You have to look at this you need to work another ahead ofypu," says Harmon. Seana Zimmer, 43, of : .Baby Boomers expect to flexibility, they want to as an opportunity, and not a 20 years, so you rethink "You could say. 'What's Boulder, Colo., says she · : continue working past the work on their own terms. problem . Saving isn't giv- . what you're doing right going to happen next?'" used to be fairly introverted. ' age of 65, and half of however 'that is deffned. ing up something else, it's now, instead of later. "You either felt like you Then she became a mother. : retirees say they're worried Or they leave work and putting away for tomor"Maybe there's no point were an expert -.and you "You're visibly, forcibly :-about running out of money. realized that their identity row, " Sedlar says. "You in keeping your old job, only went through 1t a week puttmg yoursell out there,'' · Even the word "retirement" was tied up in their job, have to start a philosophy of when you can stan working or two earlier - or you she s&ys. "You're talking 2 is outdated, says Hugh and now they don't know saving for the future ." toward something new and thought, 'Wow, they know a with people and finding : Delehanty, editor of AARP what to do." Sedlar says it's best to still be getting a paycheck," lot. This is great,"' she says. commonalities and finding :Publications. What · are you saving consult a financial planner Sedlar says. · Moms tend to hook up in out if you match." FOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS :WORKLIFE: Saving for what kind of retirement? 1 4 ~----------·· .. -- - ·-·-.... -· LINDA A. JOHNSON M' BUSINESS WRITER . AP photo Ken Kimura with Panasonic demonstrates a mobile navigation system at the Panasonic booth at'the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas Friday as exhibitors get ready for the opening of the Consumer Electronic.s Show. The CES. the world's largest consumer technology trade show starts; Monday in Las Vegas. Gadget show goes green with laptop made of corn and smart power adapters PETER SVENSSON ers really are taking notice, said Richard McCormack, senior vice president of Consumer electronics marketing at Fujitsu's U.S. aren't exactly easy on the arm. environment - they con"They're driving manusume electricity that con- facturers like us with their tributes to global warming, pocket book," McCormack and toxins leach out of them said. when they end up in landThe catch with the cornfills. · based laptop is that the But the industry that's material isn't biodegradinviting us to get a new cell able, meaning it doesn't phone every year and toss decompose any faster than out that old TV in favor of a regular plastiC. That's great new flat panel is also because it still contains trying to show that it cares. some petroleum-based plasAt the world 's largest tic in the mix for rigidity. trade show for consumer The plastic still needs to be electronics, starting processed for recycling, Monday in Las Vegas, man- after which the corn-based ufacturers will be talking component can biodegrade. · not just about megapixels, Another company attackmegahertz and megabytes, ing the recycling angle is Zbut about smart power Power, which has developed adapters that don't waste as a battery technology that it much electricity, batteries hopes will replace the lithithat are easier to recycle, · um-ion battePies that power and components made from today's laptops and cell phones. Its silver-zinc batplants. Many of the products on teries will show up in -lapdisplay will be striking tops from a "major" manu· rather small blows ·for the facturer in the summer, environment, but the indus- accordi hg to the Camarillo, try is realizing that even in Calif., company's chief . electronics, going "green" executive, Ross Dueber. , can be a powerful marketLithium-ion batteries are recyclable but contain little ing tool. "Everything I've heard recoverable material. The from folks out there is that metals in Z-Power's batterthere is going to be a lot of ies will be recoverable, emphasis on green this Dueber said, and with a preyear," said Scot Case, a vice cious metal like silver in president at consultancy them, there will be a strong TerraChoice Environmental incentive to do so. The capacity should be 20-30 Marketing Inc. One of the 2,700 percent higher than lithiumexhibitors at the ion· laptop batteries. The International Consumer company 1s also in discusElectronics Show w~l be sions with cell-phone manuJa.l?an's Fujitsu Ltd., which facturers. PC makers have already wtll show off a laptop with a plastic case made from com come a long way toward . rather than petroleum prod- making their products recyucts. The comparyy has sold clable, said Jeff Ziegler, such a model in Japan since chief executive of Austin: 2006, but is now consider- based TechTurn Inc., which ing taking it to the North processes millions of used computers and other gadAmerican market. Environmental awareness gets every year for recyor reuse. among consumers and cor- cling porations has now reached Manufac·turers have cut the point where manufactur- · down on the number of difBY AP TECHNOLOGY WRITER ferent materials that go into consume II percent of resitheir products, simplifying dential electricity in the recycling a great deal. U.S., more than doubling its They've also cut back on share in 10 years. Television sets are anothlead solder and other poisonous components. er big power draw, and will But as yet, only a few become more so as analog manufacturers, .like Sony TVs are replaced with highCorp., take responsibility for definition sets. Though recycling their products. Just more energy efficient per 12.5 percent of U.S .. elec- inch of screen size, their tronics waste is offered for larger size more than makes recycling each year, accord- up for any gain jn efficiening to the Environmental cy. Plasma sets in particular Protection ·Agency, and easily draw 400 watts, or as much of that is dumped much as four older tubetype TVs. rather than recycled. At the show, the EPA will A much more power-effibe announcing a campaign cient screen technology wiU to provide consumers with ~e on display at CES: more places to turn in cell Samsung Electronics Co. phones for recycling, in will be bringing a 31-inch partnership with manufac- TV made of organic light turers and retailers. The emitting diodes, or OLEOs. agency puts the number of For now, however, the techunused cell phones Jin~ering nology is much too expensive for the mass market, in drawers at 100 mill1on. Also at the show, manu- and there's no word on facturers are · expected to when or if Samsung plans to trot out computers, especial- · sell the screen. Sony has ly laptops, that meet the announced an !l-inch EPA's new, tougher Energy OLEO display for $1 ,700. Cell phones, while hardly Star 4,0 power consumption requirements, which went power-l)ungry, are quite into effect in July. The spec- wasteful: Nokia ·says twoification now sets maximum thirds of the energy a charglevels for power consump- er · uses is drawn when the tion when the computer is connected phone is alri!ady on but idle - previously, fully charged. GreenPlug of Energy Star dealt only with San Ramon, Calif., will be the, ability to enter "sleep" previewing a solution to that problem, a universal mode. There won't be many power adapter that "talks" desktop computers qualify- to gadgets to determine ing for the Energy Star rat- · their energy need. Apart ing - their power con-· from cutting wasted elecsumption is growing, with tricity, GreenPlug aims to many now hitting 400 watts. eliminate the need for a difMarvell Technology Group ferent adapter for every Ltd. will be demonstrating phone; MP3 player, and chips for power adapters other portable gadget. Getting other manufacturthat ;t says can curb that trend, by convert alternating ers to make their products with the current into ·the direct cur- compatible rent in a more efficient way, GreenPlug hub looks diffipotentially power consump- cult, however. That points to pan of the problem with tion by half • The · Consumer the eonsumer electronics Electronics Association, the industry: innovation is haporganization that also puts pening in a lot of corners, on CES, estimated last year 'but no one player is big that consumer electronics, enough to solve all the including home computers, problems. Cameron Mathison offering private dance lessons in auction to benefit AIDS organization . I popularity overseas, fueled by scienti fie reports on their medical benefits and occaTRENTON. N.J. -Amid . sional news accounts of the growing concern over drug- dramatic recovery of a patient resistant superbugs and non- with. a longtime wound that healing wounds that endan- sudden.ly healed. ·. ger diabetes patients, nature's Regular honey can have original antibiotic - honey mild medicinal benefits. A - is making a cqmeback. · study · published Dec. 3 More than 4,000 years showed it helps to calm after Egyptians began children's coughs so they applyihg honey to wounds, can sleep. · But manuka Derma Sciences Inc., a West honey is far more potent, · Windsor company that research shows. makes medicated and other Dr. Robert Frykberg, advanced wound care prod- chief of podiatry at ' the ucts, began selling the first Veterans Affairs Medical honey-based dressing this Center in Phoenix, said the fall after it. was approved by Medihoney product has the U.S. Food and Drug worked on about half the Administration. patients with diabetic foot Called Medihoney, it is ulcers who have used it. made from · a highly He said the Medihoney absorbent seaweed-based dressing can also prevent material, saturated with the dangerous drug-resistant manuka honey, a particular- staph infection known as ly potent type that eJ<.):lerts MRSA from i11fecting open say kills germs and speeds wounds. healing. Also called "It's been used on wounds Leptospermum honey, where nothing else will manuka honey comes from work," said biochemist Peter hives of bees that collect Molan, a professor at the nectar from manuka and University ofWaikato in New jelly bushes in Australia and Zealand who has researched New Zealand . honey and other -natural Derma Sciences now sells antibiotics for 25 years. · two Medihone¥ dressings to He's found manuka hon.ey hospitals, climes and doc-. can kill the toughest bactetors in North and South ria even when diluted lO America under a deal with tiines and recommends : it supplier Comvita LP of New especially for people with · Zealand. Derma Sciences weak immune systems. · hoees to have its dressings "There's more evidence, in U.S. drug stores in the ·clinical evidence, by far for next six months, followed honey in wound treatm<;nt by adhesive strips. than for any of the pharma- · Comvita, which controls ceutical products'' for infec'about · 75 percent of the tion, Molan said. However, world's manuka honey sup- it won't work once an inf<;cply, sells similar products tion gets in the blood. "It's under its own· name in not a miracle." Australia, New Zealand and Some U.S. hospitals alld Europe, where such prod- . wound care clinics are ucts have been popular for already using Medihoney over a decade. dressings to treat patients "The reason that · with stubborn, infected Medihoney is so exciting is wounds from injuries ,or that antibiotics are becoming surgical incisions and nonineffective at fighting healing pressure ulcers on pathogens .... said Derma diabetics' feet, which too Sciences CEO Ed Quilty. often lead to amputations. Another big advantage, he Kara Couch, a nurse pracsaid, is that the dressin~s' titioner at . Georgetown germ-fighting and fluid- University Hospital's absorbing effects last up to a Center for Wound Healing week; making them conve- in Washington, said it works nient for patients being cared well for patients who have for at outpatient clinics or by "wound pain" or infected visiting nurses. They also wounds. reduce inf1ammation and can One patient who had an . ·eliminate the foul .odors of · open wound that didn't heal . infected wounds. for a few years "healed 90 Since receiVIng FDA percent in three weeks," she approval, Medihoney has said. adding that the usual brought in sales of $150,000 mte for · chronic wounds is in I 0 weeks and Quilty barely 10 percent. a week. pfans to nearly double his 15-person sales force· in ~'-"~ Cl~ 2008 thanks to the two new Medihoney products. «. ..', 0 Honey dressings and gels, ""<: :. \ > i,;,.0 ' ( . \ "-:1 as well as tubes of manuka ~ [(; · . v / . -~ . honey, have been gaining in BY . He is offering private NEW YORK (AP) dance lessons and the Cameron Mathison is putting opportunity to perform on himself up for auction. It's to raise money for the benefit show, which will Broadway Cares/Equity feature ABC Daytime soap Fights AIDS. an industry- stars and co-hosts of "The based HIV/AIDS. fundrais- View." The auction opens Jan. 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PageC6 ENTERTAINMENT Sunday, January 6, 2008 JNSIDE Down on the Farm, Page 02 Real Estate, Page D6 Dl ~unb1p ~tm~ -&entinel News isn't on networks' radar for strike replacement -programnting "Dateline NBC" was on that can hit the jackpot in a way many hours to covering the network 's schedule five news never can. Create a presidential campaign dur. nights a week, even when successful francl)ise, a ing 2008. NEW YORK - To pre- the writers were working. Corporate politics may "Deal or No Deal" or pare for a prolonged writers That's not to say prime- "Dancing With the Stars,'' also play a h1dden role in strike, television networks time will be empty of news and you have a gift that driving the broadcast nethave stockpiled a gladiator programming in the coming keeps giving, week after works away from news. battle, a lie-detector game, a weeks. ABC News will air week, year after year. Prime-lime schedules are remade "Password," a back-to-back debate ~ of A prime-time news pro- drawn up by executives on celebrity "Apprentice" and Republican and Democratic gram may occasionally the West Coast with an a competition for aspiring presidential candidates on attract a lot of people if, say,. entertainment background, Pussycat Dolls. Saturday, Jan. 5, following Michael Jackson is talking . and may not want to cede Among the new .shows to the Iowa caucuses. about child abuse allega- control of hours on their roll out in ~rime-time this "Dateline NBC" will tions. But those successes , schedules to news execuwinter, what s the one pro- reappear on Sundays ·after· are fleeting. And it's a quiet tives in New York, The rise gramming genre the broad- the football season. The period for tabloid scandals, of a new generation of execcasters are virtually ignoring? newsmagazine will also Be'ckman said. utives who made their The news. show the latest edition of its The viewers that news marks in reality program· With the exception of 'To Catch · a Predator" shows attract tend to be · ming - like new NBC CBS ordering a few more series, boiled down to an older, Reality skews young, entertainment chief Ben "48 Hours: Mysteries" true hour and buried on the and ii's no secret that mar- Silverman - argue for crime yams, the networks Friday night between keters crave youth. Even those trends continuing. haven't looked to their news Christlnas and New Year's. "60 Minutes ," the oldest There are many in the divisions to fill holes Once these shows ran sever- and best newsmagazine, broadcast business who conexpected when viewers' al nights during ratings isn't immune to the demo- sider prime-time news profavorite dramas and come- sweeps month; controversy graphic hustle - features gramming the modem equivdies are on hiatus. over the subject matter is on football stars and Bruce alent of the Western: a onceEven a vital, true-life real- likely most responsible for Springsteen are designed to popular TV genre that disapity show can't break · the low-wattage return. bring youth into the mix and peared and hasn't come back. through. The most wideNot all the news is grim, To this point, the news lower the average age of the open presidential nominat- . divisions have .come up audience. · news junkies. ing contests since before with few other special The late-night newsPerhaps out of a sense that television was invented will prime-time plans. . traditional news . reports magazine "Nightline" has . reach voters in January. At . During their heyday, were boring, newsmagazine protitied from the writer's this point, the networks plan newsmagazines proliferated fare has drifted more toward strike, gaining an average of only to insert a minute or less out of a sense of public social experiments, true 200,000 viewers in two of Iowa caucus and service, but to till holes. · crime and celebrity inter- November from the previous New Hampshire primary "Until 'Survivor' came view~. The two "Dateline years, while Jay Leno's and results between commer- around, if you weren't going NBC" specials thai have . David Letterman's ratings cials during prime-time. to do dr3Jlla, comedy or a aired so far t,his season were nosedived. Broadcast sched"It's not surprising that movie, it was a news- Ann Curry's visit with the ulers may take -note of that. you're not seeing news fill- magazine," said Preston family of septuplets and Beckman cautioned not to ing the gap caused by the Beckman, Fox's program- Matt Lauer's interview with dismiss the idea that more writers' strike," said Robert ming chief, who had the same Sen. Larry Craig. news programming could Lichter, president of the job at NBC in the 1990s. News programming that be used if the strike drags Center for Media and Public "Over the last five or six · presses to be entertaining into spring. The networks Affairs. "More and more, years, th.e numbe~ of alterna- "has the fate of all entertain- made contingency plans the networks are only about tives that a network has has . ment programs -· they fall long ago in case the strike whatever sells. They used to increased. You -don't have to out of fashion ," Lichter lasted until the winter, but genuflect in the direction of tum to news as much." said. the the cupboard will the public interest. Now Both news and reality Many network executives become bare eventually. they only bow down before programming offer penny- . believe that the cable news "The fact that they're not money." pinching executives the networks are-there to satisfy talking about it now. doesn't . The programming plans same advantage of being people interested in news mean that if the strike goes · are -also a reflection of how · cheaper to produce than during prime -time. CNN, on for a long time they much the business has scripted material. Fox NeWi- Channel - and won't turn to their news A reality show, however, . MSNBC wi II all devote divisions," he said. changed in the decade since Sunday,January6,2oo8 Bv DAVID BAUDER I AP TELEVISION WRITER I ,, i AP photo In this photo provided by truTV. the three stars of the new series, "The Real Hustle: which offers tips to avoid scams from real-live hustlers. from left to right, Apollo Robbins. Dani Marco and Ryan Oakes, pose for a photograph._ Name change for evolving network: Court TV becomes truTV ' · Bv DAVID BAUDER it was necessary, Juris said. Networks can be elastic things; the MTV and VHJ NEW YORK - Court of today bear little resemTV, R.I.P. blance to whai they were 20 The network that burst into years ago, but they kept public consciousness with their names without much the 0 .J. Simpson trial and of an identity crisis. The other big-name courtroom Learning Channel became dramas in the 1990s became TLC when it became obvipart of television history last ous the name and pmgramTuesday, renamed truTV to ming. weren't a match. . emphasize its prime-time That was clearly the case acuon programrmng. at Court TV, where legal Besides the name, there coverage had been restrictwon't be many immediate ed to the hours of 9 a.m. to change~ to what Court TV 3 p.m. on daytime&, Juris has become. The six remain- said. "It's really a case of . ing hours . of legal-oriented the brand catching up with material -during the day will the programming,".he said.' remain, labeled "In Session." Changing the identity of a The New Year's Day pre- network while keeping that miere of "Ocean Force specific a · name is next to Huntington Beach O.C." typ- . impossible, he said. ifies the network's direction. "If 'Red Lobster decided The series follows lifeguards to become a steakhouse prion a busy California beach, marily, it would be really emphasizing heart-pounding hard to convince people that rescues rather than hours Red Lobster means steaks,'' spent ogling hot bodies. he said. "It's different if it's That's about as far from a Bennigan's." · swearing in a witness as you Finding a name that rings can get, but Court TV's tru, however, is an excruciviewers are used to the dis- ating process because the · ·connect. consequences of failure can Court TV prime-time has be huge. emphasized non-fiction Court TV consulted out~enes like the long-running side experts. It held an in"Forensic Files" and newer house contest to suggest shows like "The Real ideas. Executives sifted Hustle," which interviews through some 5,000 candi'pickpockets about tricks of dates. the trade; the upcoming Frank TV was one popu"Black Gold," about oil lar suggestion; Koonin prospectors; and "Speeders,'.' wound up using it for comic which shows tapes of people Frank Caliendo's . TBS trying to talk their way out of sketch show. Brainstorming · speeding tickets. -for a name that evoked true, That's part of an intensely not fictional, stories, they competitive television world; (ealized the name was right "Black Gold" taps into the in front of them. True ~same fascination with gruel- Nation was almost chosen, ing jobs as "Deadliest Catch" but truTV tested better with on Discovery and "Ice Road focus groups. · Truckers" on The History Since all the letters in Channel, for example. truTV were also in Court Now the network takes TV, it also enabled the. netthe risk of shedding an · work to make a neat graphestablished brand for the ic to remind viewers of the unknown. change. "It's a big concern," conEven though truTV will ceded Steve Kooriin, presi- retain its daytime )ega! prodent of Turner Entertainment gramming, executives gave Networks, which includes that block a new name to the soon-to-become truTV. avoid confusing viewers, "Court .TV i'S a very well- Juris said. defined programming entity. "I like the idea that it's Unfortunately, it's not as new, that it's not associated broad and doesn't offer the with Court TV anymore ·growth opportunities, we given that what they're believe, as starting anew." doing is obviously quite difKoonin oversaw the suc- ferent," said Court TV cessful brandings of TNT founder Steven Brill. "It's ·and TBS. Those networks not journalism. It hasn't . established clear identities been journalism for quite a -- TNT is for drama, TBS . while, except for some parts while bf the daytime, although I does comedy keeping names that are don 't watch it." essentially meaningless. · Brill, founder of American TruTV's identity will be Lawyer magazine, also fast-moving programming brought Court TV into the that tells real stories about real world as a companion offerpeople. There's such a glut of ing serious legal coverage. real1ty programming with a He sold his stake in 1997. wide range of styles that · After he left, operators truTV is making an explicit pursued a path of increasing point of rejll(;ting the term. re.venues, which also meant · TruTV ·isn't reality, its increasing costs for pronew slogan states. It's actu- . gramming. "Once you're ality. on that treadmill, you have "Reality has a connotation to keep reaching for higher of not bein~ real, of being and higher ratin~s to justify phony." sa1d Marc Juris, the higher costs, ' said Brill, executive vice president and who founded and now runs general manager of truTV. Verified Identity Pass -Inc., "We felt that because (our wl\ich makes a fast-pass 'Programming) was real, we identity card for airline travelers. couldn't call it reality." "True" was 'a better word. '.'As a journalist, many of Or ... tru, as it were. us don't celebrate the elimiDeciding to change the nation of another outlet for name wasn't \hat difficult, good journalism," he said. particularly since Turner "What they've done is left a executives, upon taking wide open hole for anyone over in spring 2006, agreed who wants to fill the gap." AP TELEVISION WRITER Travel & Destinations . . AI' photos The town .of Prizren is seen from the top of an ancient ·anoman fortress in this 2005 file photo. For adventurous travelers seeking a glimpse of a region still col· ored by the medieval collision of Slavs and Onoman Turks. and spiced by Islam and the mysteries of Eastern Orthodoxy, Kosovo is a fantastic destination. -. .. Discover what might be Europe's newest.nation Bv WILUAM J. KOLE If You ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER ,·- ''/J;~~:;~~.. ' . lt··· ·;.o-.~ ' ~;::.~.If ''•·,. ~· '\ Daily .Num_,.r Of· Vl-aors 4\r.e Growing. · ··More · I ndividuals Are Che.c klnsr The ' News-,Onllnel • ., ' , .~ Your ad will be·seen '. 2417 , ,., ' • ~ Top Referrals .. _ .. · 3o,oqo visitors request .... ......, mydallytrlbune.com t . . .... b ·. ' DIRECTLYli .,_ & ~ I .- • -..-- -.......... ,. ..... *""' D•ily Number , ... of. Visitors . Over 1,000 Visitors · A Day! Take a break to check out the news! "Kosovo is an intriguing_place and full of paradoxes and surprises for any first-time visitor," says Verena Knaus, co-author with Gail Warrander of the newly released "Bradt Guide to Kosovo.'' Off the beaten path? No question about tilat. But for the adventurous seeking a glimpse of a region still colored by the medieval collision · of Slavs and Ottoman Turks, and spiced by Islam and the mysteries of Eastern Orthodoxy, Kosovo is deli. ciously uncharted territory. Is it safe? That's a fair enough question to ask about a place where a 1998-99 war between c;thflic Albanian · insurgents and Serbian troops killed I0,000 people, and where ethnic strife still occasionally erupts. The answer: an unequivocal yes. About 16,000 NATO peacekeepers . patrol the province, which is roughly the size of Belgium or Connecticut, and visitors can count on plenty of warm Balkans hospitality. Pristina, Kosovo 's gritty capital, is the most logical starting point, if only because Austrian Airlines and a handful of other A Reflection of the Grand Mosque is seen in a puddle of water as Kosovar muslims are carriers fly daily .there from Vienna and a lined up in the streets of Pristina in this 2006 file photo, .after prayers marking the first day . of Eid ai-Fitr celebrations, the end of the holy month of Ramadan. few other European cities. Its tiny airport is your first clue that you're about to alight in what was, just a of statehood. That helps explain why the cloth. Indulge in a cappuccino - the decade ago, arough neighborhood. Military capital's main street is Bill Chnton Kosovar version is especially decadent, jets and helicopters line the tarmac, and Boulevard, and why a 6-story-high poster topped with a thick dollop of cream and signs warn visitors not to snap pictures. of Clinton ~ who was president at the chocolate syrup. : ·Don't be put off by Pristina's drab com- time - towers over the City center. Climb the hill and take in the panoramic oiunist-era apartment blocks and muddy Kosovo's beleaguered Serb minority views from Prizren's lith century Kalaja trash-strewn street~. The city is working doesn't share this pro-America sentiment. Fortress. Back d.own in town, check out the ~ar~ to clean up its act, and tucked among . But visitors, reg<Udless of-the passport they Mehmet Pasha Mosque, built in 1561, and Ote tenements are some of southeastern carry, are likely to be offered a glass of its hexagonal mausoleum; and the larger Europe's most lively cafes and bars . home-distilled "slivovitz," the region's Sinan Pasha Mosque with its Baroque Pemographically, it's much like Dublin: a ubiquitous fire":ater. It's sometimes called paintings and ornaments. Although Kosovo is unquestionably ·:rb!Jthful city where half the population is "nlkia" or ·plum brandy, a decidedly dainty Albani~, arguably its greatest treasures are upder age 25. name for a drink that to the uninitiated can \Is ,Serbmn Orthodox churches and monas: :Pristina's top watering holes change bum like jet-fuel. teries. The most important of these have every few months, but among the current Now get out of town' ~Ot spots is "212," owned by an AlbanianThe best of Kosovo is just a two-hour been under NATO protection since 2004, }(ffierican and named for New York City's drive to t~e west, where the settlement of when ethnic Albanian mobs attacked the ~a code. Quench your thirst with a bottle Pee (known to Albanians as Peja; and yes, Serbian minority and defaced or destroyed OLKosovo's · signature Peja lager, or just where the beer is ·brewed) rises from the about 30 churches. Not to be missed: a visit to the Decani (ilipk in t)le live jazz. forested foothills of the craggy range that Monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage Site ·:Apropos New York, this is one place forms the border with Montenegro . . ~here Americans are practically wor- . Or roughly the same journey to the south, tucked in a verdant valley below pine-stud~hipped rather than reviled, at least among where the picturesque city of Prizren offers ded cliffs. The eleg<tnt exterior of the church, built ttie province's independence-seeking'ethni c a glimpse "f remarkably unspoiled and intaL·t Turhi'h bths and other Onoman with sumptuous slahs of pale yellow onyx Albanian majority. and light violet br.eccia marble.' is a mar: A little background : In 1999, U.S. Empire <tn:hitecture. forces led the NATO air war that broke the In Prizren, wander the banks of the River velous combination of Gothic, Byzantine t;ite · Yugoslav leader Slobodan Bistrica, whicl'j winds through the town. mtd Romanesq~e features . Equally lovely is Milosevic's grip on Kosovo, and and haggle with the merchants selling han<' - the courtyard, where tile scraggly bearded ~ashington has been a staunch supporter crafted silver jewelry and e111broidercd Serb monks offered safe haven to Albanian ' • I I • • • ' Go~ •• KOSOVO: http://www.visitkosova.org has useful information on how to get around Kosovo and tips on important ~ultural landmarks and other destinations. GETTING THERE: Austrian Airlines flies daily to Pristina from Vienna. British Airways otfers nonstop service from London's Gatwick Airport, and Adria Airways operates regular flights from Brussels and other European capitals. A full -rundown is available at . the airport site: http://www.airportpristina.com/ WHERE TO STAY: Hotels in Pristina can somewhat hit or miss; but a number of clean, new hotels have sprung up in recent years. Try the Hotel Prishtina, http://www.hotelprishtina.com, where wireless Internet, breakfast and mini-bar are included in the room rate. Go to http://www.hotelskosova.com/ for an overview. DECANI MONASTERY: Details and history at ' http://www.kosovo.net/main.html· CURRENCY: The euro is used in Kosovo. · LANGUAGE: Albanian is the predominant language but English is widely spoken, especially among young Kosovars. · refugees during the war. But it is the interior that beckons. A single step inside helps explain why Serbs stubbornly cling to their conviction that Kosovo is the heart of their ancient homeland, if not the cradle of civilization itself. · A hush - to the spiritually inclined, an undeniable presence - washes over you the moment you set foot inside. Christ and the saints beam down from some of the continent's best-preserved fresco paint~ ings and icons, and the monks say the faithful are still healed by contact with the remains of Holy King Stefan entombed in the chapel. Conflict of any kind seems entirely out of place, even though as recently as last spring, someone fired an anti-tank rocket that damaged Decani's outer wall. No one was hu'rt, and the young 20something monk tending the chapel is nonplussed. Re.' s seen worse, aod expects better. "NATO is here.'' he says. "But it is God who will protect us." ·-----------~-----------------~··-- .~ �• iunba~ ~tmes-ienttnel DOWN ON THE I EXTENSION CORNER FARM PageD2 PageD3 FARM • GARDEN Sunday, January 6, 2008 Sunday,January6,2oo8 Fair Board awards Steps toward planting a fruit orchard BY HAL I 'II ,I I' I ••• prune and care for your Are you interested in garplants? If you do not, you Are you interested in fruit need to choose a dwarf or dening? .Do others in your semi dwarf tree. Training neighborhood seek you out trees for your backyard? Ma·ny of us remember the tree as an espaliered · to assist in their gardening visiting our grandparents tree against a wall or fence problems? Do you want to and picking an apple, peach may be an option for the assist in improving your. or pear to eat right from the dedicated fruit grower. neighborhood with flowers tree. Perhaps the smell of Dwarf root stocks plants and landscaping projects? fresh apple pie, peach cob- will bear fruit earlier then Consider becoming a Meigs bler .or cherry pie brings standard fruit trees (two to County Master Gardener, a back memories of a safer three years versus five to select group of individuals and more comforting time. 10 years) however their willing to go through Ohio Are you a. homeowner bearing life may be shorter, State University Extension who wants to know how only 15 to 20 years. Some · eight week class in discovthe fruit was produced dwarf trees may need addi- ering new information on before they feed it to the tional staking. growing, maintaining, family'' Whatever your reaAre you looking for fresh selecting plants best suited son for purchasing and fruit in season ·or do you for your site, use and needs. planting a fruit. orchard,' want to freeze or can fruit After attending sessions take a few steps before for use throughout the on growing fruit, vegetayear? A single fruit . tree bles, houseplants, landorder your plants. . Site location, plant size, may bear one to three scape, backyard wildlife, quantity required and fruit bushels of fruit if on dwarf soils, lawns, plant diseases, use play a major p<m in · rootstock to several bushel entomology you are expectSubmitted photos deciding what to purchase if a standard tree. ed to share this knowledge Gallia County Junior Fair Board President Brent Eastman, center, presented Lonnie Boggs, Most fruii trees need an with others in our commu- left, and Skip Meadows, right, with a plaque for their years of service as a director to the and plant. Poor site location prevents many · fruit trees additional variety of the nity. The 50 hours of classes Gallia County Agricultural Society. from bearing. Fruit trees same type of tree planted are followed by 50 hours of need well drained soils, all to cross-pollinate the flow- donated time back to your dai sunny areas and sites> ers to insure fruil set. community. that are not susceptible to Whether you buy your If you are interested, give late frosis which kill the trees local! y or bare root a call to our office at IJ92. On behalf of the Gallia flowers buds. from a mail order compa- 6696, Classes 'are every County Fair Board, Land that floods or bas a ny, make sure you water VVednesday beginning Feb. President Brent high water table within a the tree on a weekly basis 6 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastman, left, recogthrough the end of March. couple feet of the soil sur- the first summer. nized Fred Deel for his face is a poor site to grow For more information on Registration costs $85 per 31 years of years of fruit trees. Twelve to 15 fruit trees go on the inter- person. Applicant forms service as the 4-H hours of sunlight are need- net under available at our office or by Extension agent and ed to produce the best www.ohioline.osu.edu and calling 992-6696. . two years as Gallia (Hal Kneen is the Meigs crops. Morning sunshine look under Home, Yard and County commissioner. assists in the drying out of Garden fact sheets and bul- County Educator for Fred was recognized Natural plant leaves and fruit which letin 591, "Growing ·and Agriculture, helps prevent ideal disease l,Jsing Fruit at Home," or Resources and Community prior to the December. environment. Do you want stop by our office on Development, Ohio State monthly board meeting. to climb ladders to pick, Mulberry Heights. University Extension.) KNEEN Agencies. offer equine program in February GALLIPOLIS ment practiced that can help facilities, which in turn will Helping horse farms of all address natural resource lead to better protection of sizes better manage envi- concerns and poiential lia- the environment and natural ronmental and liability bility issues," he added. resources.' • Develop a comprehenissues is the ultimate goal "This comprehensive eduof the Equine cation and awareness pro- sive understanding of enviEnvironmental and gram will help them do ronmental ru)es and regulaLiability Awareness exact! y that." tions by which horse farms According to Mills, the must comply. Program training session • Adopt and implement that is being hosted by the objectives · of the program Gallia Soil and VVater are as follows: good neighbor policies that Conservation District, OS U • Create awareness of create a J?OSitive perception Extension-Gallia County, environmental, conserva- of the h vestock industry, : and Gall ia County Farm tion and natural resource which includes equine. • Develop an understandBureau on Feb. 4 and 5 issues that need to be beginning at 5:30 p.m. at addressed by horse farms in ing of programs and incenthe C.H. McKenzie Ohio. tives made available by varAgricultural Center. • Become more familiar ious government agencies The program's curriculum with best management prac- that may benefit your horse · · focuses on key ,issues that tices (BMPs) and best avail- farm. are critically important to able technolo$ies (BATs) • Develop a more through the success of an equine · that will specifically help . understanding of Ohio's operation developing and horse farm owners, opera- equine .liability Jaw. implementing practices that tors, and managers better The Equine are economically viable, · identify and address envi- Environmental and Liability environmentally friendly ronmental, ·conservation Awareness Program was and natural resource issues developed by the Ohio and socially acceptable. Specific top.ics that will and challenges. Livestock Coalition and • . Reduce the number of Ohio Farm Bureau be addressed during the training session .include pro- verified agriculture pollu- • Federation in cooperation . tecting water quality, tion complaints involving with the Ohio Federation of manure and nutrient man- horse farms, Soil and Water agement, pasture manage• Identify various alterna- Conservation · Districts, ment, facility design, con- tives for · manure handling, United States Department servation practices, neigh- storage, application, utiliza- of Agriculture's . Natural bor relations, regulatory tion and disposal. Resources Conservation Ohio ·State ' compliance, and Ohio's • Learn how to manage, Service, equine liability law. handle, _store, and apply University Extension and "Manure on horse farms manure In a manner that Department of Animal is typically handfed and pro.tects the environment Sciences, . Ohio stored very differently than and conserves precious nat- Environmental Protection Agency, Ohio Department other livestock farms. ural resources. of Natural Resources' Additionally, many horse • Learn how to manage farms do not have a direct pasture, hay, forages, and Division of Soil and Water link to crops like o1her live- ·grasses in a manner that Conservation and Ohio stock farms, nor do the usu- enhances animal nutrition · Horseman's Council. To make reservations to ally have adequate forage and utilization, efficiency resources," said Buz Mills and use of resources, maxi- attend the training session, of the Gallia SWCD. . mizes profit and protects the or for additional ·informo. "Therefore, it is very environment. tion about the program, · Important that they learn to • Use information fmrn contact Buz Mills at JJ 1 recognize the challenges the personal self-assessment Jackson Pike, Gallipolis, that they face and become to improve your · horse Ohio, Suite 1569 or call acquainted with manage- farm's management and (740) 446-6173 by Feb. 1. Skip Meadows, left, , vice president of the Gallia County Fair Board, presented Elizabeth Miller, the 2007 Miss Gallia County Junior Fair queen, with a token of appreciation for her dedicated service as · fair queen. USDA reopens corrnnent period on lease rule COLUMBUS In determines whether they Independence Ave., SW, response to public requests, have created a "cash-rent" Washington, D.C. 20250the U.S. Department of or "share-rent" agreement 0517; Agriculture has reopened for USDA program purpos• Fax: (202) 690-2130; or the comment period on its es. But before ta~ing any • Federal eRulemakil1g proposal to standardize action, FSA and RMA will Portal: Go to leases with variable or flex- review the comments on the http://www.rcgulations.gov. ible provisions. · current rules governing Follow the online instrucThe original comment "cash-rent" and "share- tions for submitting comperiod ended Nov. 27,4007. rent" provisions, especially ments.The proposed regulaUSDA will now consider examining variable and tion announcing the reopencomments received flexible leases. ing of the comment period through Thursday, Jan. 17, The public may submit was published in the Dec. ,. 2008. Market trends and comments by: 18, 2007, Federal Register. an increased use of flexiThe reopening and exten• E-mail to ble or variable cash leases make it necessary for · Salomon.Ramirez@wdc.us sion of the Cash and Share Lease Provisions for Future USDA to· review the cur- da.gov; Farm · Programs proposed • Mail or hand delivery to: rent program rules. At Production, rule can be found at: issue is whether . regula- Director, http://www.fsa.usda.gov/lnt Emergencies & Compliance tions ~overning whether a lease IS considered "cash- Division, FSA, USDA, erne t/FS A_Fi le/c ashand0517, 1400 shareleaseprovisipns.pdf. rent" or "share-rent" for a STOP USDA program purpose need to be revised or defined more specifically. This affects leases ·that have provisions under USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) and Risk Management Agency • (RMA). Current program rules do not prevent tenants and landowners from taking · advantage of various. types Association director of per- addition, the Spring 2008 of leases to adjust to changformance programs. Sire Evaluation ReP.ort ing market conditions. Expected However, the agreement Progeny includes research Docility Differences (EPDs) are gen- EPDs and Heifer Pregnancy between them, which has erated from the perfor- EPDs for sires meeting sometimes been an oral mance database of the accuracy criteria. agreement rather than a The semi-annual analysis written lease agreement, American Angus ·Association, which includes for the Sire Evaluation information submitted by Report contains more than , nearly 9,800 Angus breed- I S million measures used to ers this past ~ear through generate over 42 million the association's Beef EPDs for the Angus Breed. ' Improvement Records The American . Angus (BIR) program. Association with headquarEPDs are listed for ters in Saint Joseph, Mo., growth, maternal and car-· provides programs and sercass merit. Decision-mak- vices fo.r more than 36,000 The by SUnday 1fmes-$enti1Jel ing tools also include seven members nationwide and ARBORS AT GALLIPOLIS $Values in the suite of bio- thousands of commercial Gallla • '446-2342 Bl<1llm lllninq lllld IWilahJ.litatim oont..economic indexes designed producers who use Angus Meigs • 992-2155 to assist commercial pro- genetics. Go to 70 Pinecrest Dr. Gallipolis, Ohio 45631 Mason • 67&1333 ducers in simplifying the www.an~us.org for more 740-446-7112 ~ ' . genetic selection process. In information. '. Local breeder hailed in sire report GALLIPOLIS - Sunset Valley Allgus of Gallipolis owns two bulls listed in the Spring 2008 Sire Evaluation Report published by the American Angus Association® in St .. Joseph, Mo. Issued in both the spring and fall, the new report features the latest performance information available on S,299 sires,' and is currently accessible at www.angussiresearch.com. "This report provides both An~us breeders and comrnerc1al cattle producers using Angus ~enetics with .ace~.uate, predictable selection tools for improving their herd," says Bill Bowman, American Angus ~~~· ·'Me!P &·Mason mformed ,. • BY GARANCE BURKE ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER SAN FRANCISCO ·- In a workshop in the city's Mission District. Ally Beran's team of fashion designers is sprawled out over buttons and spools of 'thread, hoping to stem glob.al warming by stitching new outfits from thrift store finds. A brown lace applique from a scrap bin could make last year''S castoff cashmere p<)p, Beran muses. Or, she reckons, swatches from a tattered leather jacket could double as chic · epaulettes on a high-end used sweater. Designers of so-called sustainable fashion are not only dominating New York catwalks and urban boutique racks this winter, many also are providing farmers with new markets for their crops. As with the movement for locally harvested food, ceofashion's devotees' seek to lower their toll on the earth by buying clothes made of recycled materials and sustainably . harvested, homegrown fibers. This year, American Apparel and yoga-gear retailer prAna wi II start selling shirts ,spun with cotton in California's grown Central Valley and sewn just a few hours away, in Southern California, to avoid burning fossil fuels in transporting the materials; Beran's creations, marketed under the label William Good - an anagram · of the company's business partner; thrift store giant Goodwill Industries - are only sold online and in stores near San Francisco, also to reduce their carbon footprint. Last summer, New York's Rag & Bone hired supermodel Shalom Harlow as the face for its line of filmy "carbon free" T-shirts. which were manufactured domestically in a process that required no greenhouse gas emissions . . Frank For farmer Williams, the new interest in locally grown, organic cotton has meant he's had to learn how to talk about threadcount and .women's skirt lengths with the eco. logically minded crowd that tours his fields near Fresno. "These fibers are among the best organic in the world," Williams said as he · led a group of fashion executives from China, Sweden and New York through rows of billowy cotton. "With the right · diameter, length and strength you can really spin the finest yarns that you want." · Farmers in the United States grow a small portion 6f the organic cotton used by the apparel industry, which still sources most of its fibers overseas in countries like Turkey where labor and production costs are cheaper. The market is clearly booming, however: · The nonprofit · Organic Exchange predicts that sales · · of organic cotton fiber will ' : · reach $226 million by 2009, up from about $19 million in 2004. As more companies seek AP photos Monica Reed works on new pieces for the Williarn good fashion line in San Francisco Dec. 31, 2007. The William Good label is a play on words for the company's business partner, thrift store giant Goodwill. The products are sold online and in stores near San Francisco to avoid burning fossil fuels when transporting the clothes. · Production manager Ally Beran hangs finished pieces from the William Good line at their workshop in San Francisco Dec. 31, 2007. to build a greener supply was a women's apparel chain, American farmers are . buyer at Sams Club, said hoping that will translate once companies start switchinto more demand for ing to natural fibers, it's only domestic crQps. a matter of time before they Ttie Sustainable Cotton start thinking about other Project, a nonprofit based in · sustainable design practices. Davis, has helped almost VVai-Mart is now the biggest two dozen cotton farmers seller of organic cotton prodpenetrate the fashion indus- ucts worldwide. try by promoting "It's a total mindset shift Josie Hua of Fountain Set fabric mill looks at organic grown cotton during a tour Nov. 2, California-grown BASIC at the design level," said 2007 in Firebaugh, Calif. Farmers in the United States produce a small portion of the cotton, a crop that's not Rose, now a consultant organic cotton used by the apparel industry, which still sources most of its fibers overseas. quite organic but is farmed based in Fayetteville, Ark. in countries like Turkey and China where labor and production costs are much cheaper. The using techniques that reduce "It holds the designer market is clearly booming, however: 'the Organic Exchange predicts that sales of organic for their . cotton fiber will reach $226 million by 2009, up from about $19 million ·in 2004. pesticide usage by as much accountable as ·73 percent. designs and their impacts." San Diego-based prAna William Good CEO Nick "VVe' ve gotten more peo- said Marshal Cohen, a fash recently snapped up hun- Graham, a veteran designer with everything we've ple aware or interested in ion industry anal'yst at the dreds of pounds of BASIC who founded Joe Boxer in already used once?" Santa Barbara-based ecological fashion, but most NPD Group. "The message acala cotton for its the 1980s, said the idea for is promoting Simple Shoes of the world's still looking will resonate, but. it's going "Homegrown T-Shirt," and his new company carne to that concept as well with its for cheaper, better. faster," to take more time." American Apparel has him· as he wandered around of ecoSNEAKS, a line committed to buying near- a Goodwill store, thinking ly half a million pounds, about all the used clothing shoes .and boots featuring treads made from recycled said Lynda drose, a sus- . that ends up in landfills. car tires. · tainable fashion design "I thought we could do an Still, analysts caution that professor ·at California organic line, but then I College of the Arts who thought that's just more until earth-friendly clothes helped broker the deals. stuff we'd be creating," come down in price, only a GALLIPOLIS - United Producers Inc. market Coral Rose, who spear- Graham said. "It's the small group of consumers report from Gallipolis for sales conducted on headed VVal-Mart's first pur- American way to say we will think about their carbon Wednesday, Jan. 2. · chase · of organic yoga need more growth, but what footprint before they reach clothes in 2004 when she if we created an economy for their wallets. LivESTOCK REPORT. Feeder Cattle-Steady ' January.freeze: good for Louisiana's peaches, bad news for the state's strawberry crop ... their period of dormancy. ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER Peach trees need about 800 hours of temperatures below NEW ORLEANS - As 45 degrees each growing sea. Louisiana's strawberry farm- son, Mitchum said. Thus far, : : ' ers covered their crops for the weather has been too protection against the expect- warm - Mitchum's crop has ed drop in temperatures, the had 250 hours of so-called : ·state's peach farmers hoped ''chill hours." Ideally. the .; · the cold weather would stick crop should have about 350 hours by this time of year: ' around for a while: Mitchum said a lack of : · : "The more cold weather : :: we have, the better," said chill hours generally results :··Joe Mitchum, a peach grow- in smaller, misshapen peaches ut h'(rvest season from late er in northern Louisiana: While the cold snap might. May through late July. The warmer weather thus hun south Louisiana's sensitive strawberry crop, it will far has been ideal for the help north Louisiana's peach state's strawberry crop, farmers, whose fruit trees which has been thriving ' need cold weather during with months of dry, warm · BY STACEY PLAISANCE .' days and mild nights. said farmer Wi IIi am Fletcher, who grows strawberries in Ponchatoula, ' which bills itself as the "Strawberry Capital of the World." . Since mid-November, Fletcher's 80,000 strawberry plants have been laden with berries in ·all stages of growth - from the white flowering blooms and small green berries to the plump and juicy red ones. Fletcher says winter cold snaps always pose a danger to strawberry crops. I'articutarly to.the plants' vulnerable blooms. The blooms, which are white flowers with yetlow centers, extend past the plant's leaves, making them vulnerable to the cold. If the blooms are burned · by frost, their centers tum brown, they lose their petals and do not produce berries, Fletcher said. "All we can do is cover them up and hope for the best," he Said. . Fletcher said he covered h!s crop on Tuesdax with an . a1r, water and. sunhght permeable matenal th~t h~lds m heat. It was the third ttme this year he has covered the crop,. though the prev!ous two ttmes were precautiOnary, he said. "This will be our first hard freeze this year," he said. 275-415 lbs., Steers. $80-$115, Heifers. $75-$97; 425-525 lbs .. Steers, $80-$110, Heifers, $75-$90; 550625 lbs., Steers, $75-$100, Heifers, $75-$88: 650-725 Jbs., Steers, $75-$95, Heifers, $75-$85: 750-R50 lbs., Steers, $75-$90, Heifers, $75-$80. ~ Cows-Steady • VVell-Muscled/Fleshed, $45-$51. Medium/Lean, $40-$46. Thin/Light, $10-$30. Bulls, $52-$64. Back to the Farm: Cow/C<ilf Pairs,$750-$975; Bred Cows, $285-$635 : Baby Calves, $50-$195 . Upcoming specials: Fat cattle sale Wednesday, Jan. 9 . Direct sales and free on-farm visits. For more information, call DeVVayne at (740) 3390241 or Stacy at (304) 634-0224. Visit the website at www.uproducers.com. �.. Pac1e 04 • &>1111bq t:tmes -&>tntjnel Pomeroy • Middleport • Gallipolis, OH • Sunday, January 6, 2008 1r IL Hot.S£<; .t'ORRmr 3 BR house in Gallipolis, 2 BR trailer located In W/0 conn. $425/mo, BidwelL $360/month, $150idep. You pay all Utili- S360tdep + ftrsr months ties. Call Wayne 404-456· rent. References required. 3B02 All real Htate advertlllng In lhla new1paper Is subject 10 the Federal F1lr Housing Act of 1988 whlctl makes it Illegal to advertise "llfiV preference, limitation or S&M Home Repair. Painting, Decks, Finish work, yard care, Free Estiniates (740)446·3682 -· dlaclimll'llltion. " This newsp~~per wm not MIIIM IOI'I tlogo Elks Lodge In Gallipolis. Bartenders needed. eKperienced preferred, please send resume to P.O.Bolt 303, Attn: Mike. Aaal Estat dvertlsemerits ar ubject to the Federa air H0u1ing Act 0 968. FEDERAL POSTAL JOBS $17.33·$27.58/hr., now hiring. For application i:l.nd free governement job info, call American Assoc. of Labor 1913·599·8226, 24/hrs. emp serv. newspape ccepts only het anted ads meetln OE standarde. · Thl1 . ' iiii;ii;iiii:iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii:l \\'- 01 \1 I )t \ II \h GIVEAWAY 1yr old Shih·TzuNorkie ' Welch mix, with Kennel 304~ 674-5889 ~ Free Chihuahua Blue. 4 yrs . old. 740-64~-6987, loa'e ' • O,essage. LosrAND FOUND . : ~ound: 2 .black lab pups·. . Please call446·6194 :._ r. .. "ARD SALE 1, ;F : ~~~ .- Cross Crook Auction Buffak> : ~uction Saturday 6pm ,. . Estate Sale this Saturday . consisting of 3 bedroom $uhes, Cedar Chest, cast : Iron Skillets, Cedar · Wardrobe, w/skelton key, ~ China Cabinet, American · Fostoria Glassware & much · .' tnore. also epieces of Blue •. Cast Iron Cookware. Local • • Consignment 8 gal Stone · ".Crock, 4 gal. Churn, Old •.• Apple Butter Pot. Couch, ·Chair & Aeclinei'S, Don Ho Cfock marked Arbuckla, WV . 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LPN: administer/monitor · Wages based on ~,;pepence patient medication prepara· :• and benefits Including 401K, tion lor individuals with •. Health Insurance and Paid de11elopmental disabilities in : Vacation are also available Mason County and sur· • Valid COL required. Please rounding areas. $13-$15 per : ~ply in person. For more hour based on experience · Vlformatlon contact Teddy Please call (304) 373-1011 ' lambert at 304·675·3930. 'or toll free at 1·877 -373· ~ AVON! All Areas! To Buy or 1011. 100 WORKERS NEEDED • Assemble crafts, wood '. Hems.To $480/wk Materials : provided. Free information :· pkg. 24Hr.. 801-42&4649 Shirley Spears, 304- Person for li11e in wilh elderly : 675-1429. 741).222-8031 i Ohio Valley Home Health, ::: ~r'llto_r------..., t nc. hiring STNA, CNA, liEu> WANrnl · Homo Health Aides and ._ Full, · _ _ _. ._ __.. Personal Part TimeCare and Aides. Per Diem :· Sell. Bullderltlealer high sch~ diploma or Certi- Commercial prlnt~r seeks of requests for any large . sales rep.dv for. .th1s area. advance pavmen 1s ol . 110n . of hi gh schoo1equ1v· f1ca P. . alency (GED) by the state ' nn.tlng, a ertiSing, or pro- tees or insurance. Call the board of election. You must motional product sales .8 Office of Consumer also have 2 years e11peri· plus. Background ~n graphiC Affairs toll free at 1-866ence in a Childcare Center arts 8 plus. E·m~ 11 resume 279·0003 to learn if the to: markpub@ 119rlzon.net or b k or .h~e .a .CDA · V~II ona I mail resume to: 4302 Gallia mor1gage ro er or Tra1r11n~ 1n Early Ch1ld~ood St .. New Boston, OH 45662 lender is property Educat1on or an Assoc1ates licensed. ~This is a public De!J'Be in Early Childhood =Tr-u--:ck~D:-r:-1 ,-or_s_C::D:-L--:C:-Ia_s_s~A service announcement Education. 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For more inronmdiun calf\304) 675-7400 or apply in person Monday lhru Friday 8:00am to 4:00pm al: lOll Viand St. Po!nt Pieasant, WV, St. Marys Medical Center in Huntington, WV, a 393 bed tertiary care teaching facility school affiliation, has immediate openings for the following position: Cardiac Stepdown Critical Care Float (Must have 3 years current critical'care , experience) Emergency Room Intermediate Care Medical Intensive Care Med.-Surg. and Med.-Surg. Float Neurology Pulmonary Skilled Nursing S\ll"gical Intensive Care Telemetry and Telemetry Float ------ - · - --· - - - _ _ J , _ MI::RCHANDLSE I HP Pavilion 500 computer. home edition, Windows XP 2002. 8 mon old, pd $700. 15' tlet screen pd $450. W1ll sell for $350 or trade. 74o.. 709-9267 aSk lor Roger Beautiful Pit Bull puppies. No papers. Parents on premises . .wormed. 5125 . Cal1 740 _388_8901 -:--::---::--::----:::-:----:-: CKC Min ~ Dachshunds 2 female Choc/ tan & Black/tan, 1 short haired red male asking $275.00 each 304-593·3820 28 States Jan 11th- 18th FREE BIDDING -::-:--::-- - : - - - 1999 Toyota Corolla, auto, well maintained. 160,000 ml, ~. $2700 740·446-9555 or 740·339·0315 Auction -:-~--::-:----::-::-:We ha11e quaHiy vehicles with warranty. Toyota, Nissan, Suzuki, Mazda , . Cavalier. Grand-Am. Focus. Saturn, Regal. Camaro. Full size and small trucks. Stop or call Cook Motors 328 Jackson Pike 740-.446-0103 5 nux:KS IURSALE ======= . Auction A11ctlon r 05 Chevy Avalanche 4x4, mi, mostly highway. Good Cond. 1 owner. $19,000. 740-339-9983 red Si ,000 The Ohio Valley 1997 2004 2004 ---:----:--:- 1978 Ford F-150, 4114, automatic, .VB, 96,000 actual miles. Some rust. $1750. Call 740-446-4053 1991 FORD 112 T. 6 CYL. loaded 4 WD, low mileage. Runs excellent. $1900.00 740-992-6159, 2002 4x4 2001 FoR SALE 2002 2002 undercarriage. winch, 2,800 !irs. Combipe; JD 3300 D, I ,805 actual. hrs. w/JD 343 com head & 13" JD grain table; machine. 2nd owner combine & heads will sell as I unit!!! NH 411 discbine; Sitrex 4 basket hay tedder; NH stack wagon; NH 855 Round baler; NH 850 round baler; MF 124 sq baler, twine , w/1/4 tum; Nl 5 bar ground driven hay rake; 16'11at rack wagon· w/gears; running gear; 40' hay & grain elevator; older running gear w/spoke wheels; 3 pt. bale mover, Farm Machlnen; White 2640 18' hyd . fold disk w/1 bar harrow,IH 10' rotary cutler 3 pi ; 175 bu. gra,ity wagon w/IH gears; Herd 1200 3 pl. spreader; 18' harrowgator w/hyd . fold wings; ID 495 A com planter; 4 row 3 pt . cultivators; JD 1350-1450 5-18" semi-mounted plow; JD F 1350 - 1450 5-16" semimo.unted plow; Continental puH ty!)e sprayer; 18.4-38 snap on duals; 18.4-26 8 bolt rice tires . Muk;_1991 Kawasaki 500 mule ; Kawasaki Bayou 4 wheeler, bad piston. Trailers; 22' tri-axle trailer bumper pull; 6x 10 tilt utility trailer. Other Items; 12' aluminum john boat; 500 gaL fuel lank, on skids, ele. pump; eng. Hoist; Coleman 4000 wan generator; Lincoln 400 arc welder, air compressor; I" drive ele, impact; chains; chain binders; 300 gal. poly· tote; hand tools; wre'nches; sockets; many other items. find any better' We will sell for approximately I hour of smaller items, a!ld then go rig/11 to the larger items. Make Sllrt you allelld·this good auction!!.' TERMS: Cash or check with proper ID. Lunch available. AUCTIONEERS: Rick Williams, Mike Ames, Chip Yochum, Brad Williams · Mr. & M". Don W. Wilson Please mail resume to: Scenic Hills Nurshig & Rehabilitation Attn: Bill Potter 311 Buckridge Road Bidweii,OH 45614 Or rax to: 740-446-1248 740-286-5940 ,t{w 'UiUt;bOrn, Ohl~; ..51 .1l 77R3 S1. Rt. 1315 '"'W . ' Auction 1<:76187 1888878 1512756 1214163 1318010 IA89810 1208685 1143695 1484989 'as- DAvm STOVT Collection Department at 1-888-441-1038. OVB reserves the right to accept /reject any and all bids, and withdraw items from sale prior to sale. Terms of sale: CASH OR CASHIER'S CHECK. 1993 Dodge Caravan, no rust,no dents,belongs to Granny--She bOught a new car & wants to sell her red Good AUTOS FOR SALE , _ 011 Chonges 11nd 2002 Honda Racing 4wheeler, KN air IMler, 2 new bacM tires. very nice $2,000 Make Best Offer 304-6753824 nresfor LIJe Public Notice 2002 Honda Recon 250. Low hours, good tires. 446- Rutland Township 4473 or 645-D623 after 4pm Trustees will take bids lor 1983 Ford Flatbed ..,, H\ H I " Pickup Truck, s-cyllnder. Bids must be HOME received by lhe IMPROVEMENI'S , Township by 5 p.m. on Thursday, January 10, BASt ME NT to the Rutland WATERPROOFING Township Trustees, UnconditiOnal lifetime guar- POBox 203, Rutland, antee. Local references fur- OH 45775. Minimum nished. Established 1975. bid $200. Township Call 24 Hrs. (740) 446- reserves the rlghl to 0870, Rogers Basement reject any and all bids. WaterproofinQ. (1)1,3,6 l io , NOTE; The Wilsons have sold the farm and will be relocating to Tenntssee. This eq11ipment has always been shedded and you will 1101 Qualified candidates should possess sales experience along with some knowled~e of the long term care industry. Computer proficiency, high degree of professionalism, and ability to build professional relationships a must. 1163353 These Items are available . at the Ohio Valley Bank Annex, 143 3rd Avenue, Gallipolis, OH on the date and time specified above. Sold to the highest bidder is, where-is' without expressed or implied warranty & may be seen by calling the BIR'111DAT. Tractors- Farm Machinery - Backhoe- Dozer- Kawasaki Mule Help Wanted CHEVROLET BLAZI;:R LS 4X4 FORD F550 4X4 DUALLY DIESEL XL FORD F450 4X4 DUALLY DIESEL XL COACHMEN SPIRIT OF AMERICA 28 BHS FORD TAURUS SES JEEP G_ RAND CHEROKEE LAREDO 4X4 FQ~D WINDSTAR SEL DODGE RAM 2500 4X4 KIA RIO CHEVROLET CAVAUER 2006 2002 2004 r3J January 12. 2008 10;00 a.m. Located: 6 miles south of Jackson, Ohio; 25 ·miles north of Gallipolis, Ohio at 1503 Erwin Rd., Jackson, Ohio. From SR 35 lake Dixon Run Rd. (at Truck Stop) west to C.H.D. Rd., then north on Erwin Rd. Walch for signs. TrPctors; AC 7040 D, CIA, power shift, 3,682 hrs. 18.4-38; (2) AC 7000 D., power shift, 2,692, & 4,491 hrs; AC 185 D, w/AC loader 5,194 hrs; JD 4010 NF gas. 627 hrs. since eng;overh~~L BPckhoe; JD 410.0 backhoe , cab, 5,397 hrs. llstw:l JD · 450 C, very 'good Bank will offer for sale by public auction the following items: ,, 997 Jeep Grand Cherokee. 4WD $3495. 740-6313 Wilson Auction . Public Auction ' January 12, 2008 . ·10:00 a.m. • i Spacious second-Uoor apt. overlooking Gallipolis City Park and river. L.A. den, large kltchen·dining area with an new appliances & cupboards. 3BR, laundry . area, 2 1.12 baths. $900 per month. Call 446-4425·, or 446-2325 Auction , Auction . Auction Nice 2BA apl. on St At 588. No pels. 419-359·176B Auction Ohio Valley Bank 1997 F250 4114 E11t. cab. 7.3 diesel, automatic, lots of options. 446-4473 or 645Ca11Today866·352-046936 __7·-77_5_5___,_ _ __ 0623 after 4pm 800.801.8003 (OJ7) )9~--.U 7 ~-,.ar . · ~-:=: 1 -· ·~ Public Notice Public Notice Cheshire • Cheshire VIllage Council will hold lhalr 2008 organlzaUonal meeting at the Regular Council meetIng moved to January 8, 2008 at 6:30pm. Regular monthly meet· in.gs will be held the llrsl Monday al 6:30 pm of each month unlaes Public Notices flied newspaper on changes. Public Is walcome to attend. January 6, 7, 2008 VIllage of Cheshire legal Notice to Bid Invitation Proposals to dolcom· repairs to plate Maintenance/Garage Building of the VIllage of Cheshire located at the address at 27t State Route 554, Cheshire, Ohio to begin the proJect In March or April of 2008. The bid must specify romoval of existing molal siding (to be furnished), Install new 26 · GA metal siding, gut· =========::o=================~====~ ter, downspouts, lrlm = to coat the existing metal roof and any and all otbor maintenance or repairs required to upgrade out existing Maintenance/Garage Building: Each bid must beaccompanled by a sufficient bond to secure the contract II the bid Is accepted. The VIllage will enter into a written contract with 'lhe lowest/best bidder. Any and all bide ore subject to rejection or denial by the VIllage Council. Any and all bids must - ~· a bid of quote price to be valid ·through completion of project. To ask or set up a, date/time to Inspect Antiques &Collectible's Saturday Jan. 12th @6p.m. yen Partial Listipg ~Belgium 12 guage rabbit ear hammer double barrel-Keystone the lnterthangable, Mossberg & Sons mod 44 USO l2 boll action, Stevens mndel940-12guage, old military riDe K· 3!173 (lend shape), Pardner 12 guall" New England Firearms, 3 Daisy DB guru, 1907 Sanderson bayonet, beer & cigarette memorabilia + slgn..some light up. J(t'Gal, Cut lrgp Kef1Jc <Bey PgO 2-#Ll stone jars, milk can, arrowheads & more lndluan momo., 1943 Wlaklng Liberty half dollar, 1938 Mercury dime, quilts, old lramed Morton sal<·RI<e Krisples pidu,.., 1.2" Pez ANNUAL FORMAL DRESS SALE Saturday, January 12 9am--3pm · Ohio Valley Bank Annex 143 Third Ave., Gallipolis Prom • Homecomi~'g - Wedding Have one to seii?·Register .it Jan. 1Oth or 111h, 3:30-6 pm daily Small entry file goes to charity Pay No Commission www.ovbc.com for detail& clown dlpenser, Rolling Stone mags, costume jewelry, eggsholl dish set, g,..n & pink dep. glass, old Arnold mllkshake mixer. :lm:l%5 Lionel steam rrelgbt-1242 soils complete & in org. box (vtry rare), Strombeckor sports car road racing set-romplele & In original bo•l9925 (rare), Alexander dolls, Mickoy Mouse Club records & more. IOOJ-5.3 .:tosscut saws, o.ld kerosene cans, 1 arm claw blntiDer, old plane,·ek. FJ JRNITURE-Waterfall poster br suite full size with vanity & closet chest, •IIKh bedroom suite full size made in Grand Rapids, MI., cherry table wl4 padded chairs, hutch, buffet, old stand, bibles, Lane-cedar chest, leather room divider. OSU vs LSU National Championship Game Dinner Specials 2 for $20.00 Bucket of Domestic Beer $7.50 the game and stay to cheer on Quality at a Low Price SALE $4.95 yard 446-7444 Vinyl 1-'ubllc welcome Gallia County Conservation Club Meeting Wild Game Dinner Jan. • COURTSIDE BAR &GRILL Come and enjoy dinner before MOLLOHAN CARPET Excellent salary and benefit program. Please visit our website at www.st·marys.org and apply on-line under Careers & Education. -- MlscEuANEOUS 158 Properties EOE - '"ll"l -------JET AERATION MOTORS Doberman pups, AKC, 7 Repaired, New & Rebuilt In ·weeks old shots, black/rust Stock. Call Ron Evans, 1- and redlrust. M 8. F. Ready Newly renovated Comm. 800·537·9 528. to go! 7~0-379·2140 Building in downtown Pt. Pleasant. 3,000 sq. ft Call Mint Plnchers. Females:· 1 703·528·061 7 for more btwtan, 1 rusVred tail. Dew NEW AND USED STEEL : information Steer Beams, Pipe Rebar claws cut. wormed, shots. 8 For Concrete. Angle, wks $300. 740-388-6124 · _ _R_e_a_I_E_s_t-at_e__ Channel, Flat Bar, Steel -Yo-rk~le-.-M~a-lo-,3-yrs-ol-d.~4:-lbs-. Grating For Drains, $3SO 740..645_6987 Driveways & Walkways. l&L I \H\ I .,tl'l'l ll " Scrap Metals Open Monday, ,\ I l \ I ..., I ( H I-. Tuesday. Wednesday & Friday, Bam-4:30pm. Closed c:::;--~~----, Thursday, Saturday & r·~ FARM Sunday. (740)446-7300 EQuiPMENT Seasoned FirewOOd, Picked , 995 John Deer 770 up or deli11ered. OH HEAP Compact Tractor with loader. &LAA, WV LEAP accepted. $6700. 740-645-B262 Call Melvin Clagg. 740·441· - - - - - - - 0941 or 740·645-5946 91 John Deer 2955. manufactured 4WD, cab, air, heat, J.D. 740, self-leveling Steel Buildings . Save toe..der, bale spear, larks & thousands on 3 canceled buclcet. 2900 hrs. 446-4473 orders. Must move oH of or 645-0623 after 4pm. our books before taK MF 23t -S wfth6' Brush Hog Williamsauction.com time. 20x26, 25x30, only 154 hrs. Excellent unit, 35x50 Easy Payments! ready to work. $11,500 740> will be resJNlnsible for developing and executing the marketing plan, managing all sales efforts to ensure that expectations for budget and occupancy are attained, promoting the community outreach efl'orts and event planning for our facility in the. area. Ability to work some evenings and weekends are required. • Auction r 'II~( II AKC Reg. Blue Tick ·--iliiiiiiiiiiiioo_.l Beagles. 9 wks old. ~ st shots Hyundal Accent & wormed. $75. 740·388· 01 9327 Hatchback. 5 speed trans. 65,310 miles, good condiAKC Shitzu puppies w/ lir:.;t tion. needs catalytic convertshots & wormed. Only $400 er. Asking $2600. Call 740709-6339. Call367-7124 S ~ PACF. lo"'R R•Nr Must be eligible for WV RN licensure. · 25550 AA/EOE - Help Wanted Registered Nurses Fulltime Positions Help Wanted 1 ===============-::::· be<:l, 1 bath & all appl. L. $6700. 740-208·1535 I :::--::--::-::-:----:---:New 3 Bedroom homes from $214.36 per month, Includes many umdes, delivery & sal-up. (740)385-2434 Nice used 3 Bedroom 1 Bath Home $5995 doll,erod 740-385-7671. . FOR RENT New Haven.1 Br. furnished apt. ,h.as W/D."o pols,dep.&rof. 992·0165. -:-::-:-::-:--- -- Twin Riv9fS Tower is accept· ing applications lor waiting list lor Hud·subsized. 1· br, apartmenU:ir the elderly/disabled call 675 · 6679 Equal Housing · OpjXIrtunity A leading owner and operator of senior living facilities throughout Ohio has an immediate opJNlrtunity for an experienced Director of Marketing and Admissions. This selected individual Centers. Inc. offers Competitive S31aries and -------- <;1. Trailer lot for rent in New Havl'!n. Tr. must be 1990 or newer & good shape.$125 Month. 74().416·6622. lo-..iiiliiiliil--iii.,J Director of Marketing and Admissions Bachelor's Degree in Social Work, Psychology. or other related field. LSW Preferred . Woodland 1970 121<65, 2BR. Tongue & tires attached. $500. 740339-9983 8 ::---:---:-::--:---::-:Gracious LIVIng 1 and 2 Bedroom Apts. at Village Manor and Alverslde Apts. in Middleport , from $327 to $592. 740·992·5064. Equal Housing Opportunity. -------Immaculate 1 bedroom apt. New carpet & cabinets, Opportunity Efll)loyer. Provider an'd freshly painted ' decorated,' WID hookup. Beautiful coun: Beech St ..Middleport, 2 Br. · try setting. Only 10 minutes furnished apl., utnities paid, from town, Mu~ t see to no pets, deposit & refer- appreciate. $325/mo. onces.' 740-992-()165. (614)595-7773 or 1-BOO798·4686 740·645-5953 Clean & quiet apts. Rodney :-:-::-:--·':----.,& Gallipolis area. Ref/dep. Modern 1 Bedroom apt. Call roq. No Pels. Call for appl & 446-Q390 app. 446-1271 or 709-1657 :-:--:-::-:-=-:--::-::-:--::CONVENIENTLY LOCAT· 3M7o36 dern 1 BR Apt. Call 446- ::...==----- Mapager (21- Provfding support services 10 at risk families. Candidates should possess a 1 14X70 Mobile Home with 50X95 corner lot in New Haven, WV asking 2B,OOO.OD call 304·675· 0517 or 304-55().3716 4 - - - - ~.J---·-· - - - - - Pleasant $375 ask for Don (304)8I 2-4350 Apt. tor rent In Aacine. 3 bedroom : Call 740-2474292. -:---:---:---::--::--Apt. for Aent. No Pets. 740992·5858. _llea_ut_llu_lApi--,_-II_J_oc_b_o_n Eltatee. ·. 52 Westwood DnWJ, lrom $365 to $S60. Equal 740. 446 _2568. Housing Opportunity. This institution Is an . Equal a College Kimes Nursing and Rehabilitatiun Center ofAthens, Ohio and their employees for their loving compassionaJe care. Thank you to our St. Paul United Methodist Church family and all our friends, also Pastor Jim Corbin and Pastor . J(athy Corbin, who were always there Vor us.Andjioolly, a special thanks to Mike Putman and the White · ,. Schwarze/ Funeral Home. L,.-~=======-====:::=~~ M I u~. -~ i ;;;';;;He;;;l;p;;;W;;;a;;;n;;;ted;;;;;;~;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~ Two Story Appartment Building For Sale $29,000· (Careers Close To Home) Over 2000 sq.ft. Mester BA 304-B62-2793 or 304-BS2: Call TOdayl 740·446-4367, &2 nice size BA's.·2 baths, ·1·800-214-()452 LA, ~Foyer, Kit, lots of cabinet Lors·& www. ~llipolisca!'eercollege .com space. Log FP on 1 acre, Accr&ditad Member Accrediting Co: Schools. L--•AiiiCliEAiiiiiGEiiiio-r' Counc11 Jor lndepei'IOEin1 Colleges Gollio $110,000. OBO 441-7B42 and Schools 12748. Meigs Co. 5 acres on Cook Rd. $19,950 or Landaker Ad Card of Thanks Card of Thanks $18,900. ReedsviVe 1 acres -:;;:=======~======:;;:~ $14,900. Red Hill Rd. a r acres $500 down + $239 momhly. Salem Ctr. 19 acres The family ofHazel Barnhill $46,9001 Gallla Go. Kyger, wishes to sincerly thllnk everyone for wooded 10 acres $11,9001 Call 740-441-1492 for maps their unfailing support in the loss of or visit www.brunerland.com. We Hazel. We wish to especially thank finance! Galllpolla ments, furnished and unfurnished, and houses In Pomeroy and Middleport, serurlty deposit required, no •2&3 bedroom apartments •Central heat & AJC pets, 740-992-2218. :________ •Washer/dryer hookup OIIIUILER~~ . Aacine area, 2 br., carport, ""'" poreh, good co nd'l' 11on, eIec, trrc heal, In town, near opporh.lntty baua. 2 Bedroom In Rio Gr~nde school. park & library, $400 area. Weekly or bl- week- dep., $400 per month, water, For sale by owner. 3BR ly rent. Deposit' $400. 740- sewer, garbage Included, no Ranch, 1 bath, Family 245-5671 or740-645-5429 pets, (740)949-2217 Room, Stove/Fridge, WID - - - - - - - included. Asking $70,000 .. Nice 2BR at Johnsons CaM 740·709·6339 Mobile Home Park. 740·446- Trailer for. rent. 3BR, 2 BA. 2003 Call367-7762 or 446-4060 House for sate In Racine area. ~pr_o11 . 4 acres. all --H-el_p_W_a_nt_ed __ professionally landscaped ED & AFFORDABLE I Ranch style house with 4 Townhouse apartments, bedrooms, living room, din«Jdlor small houses FOR ing room, kitchen, large famPositing Ooegjggs· Wogdlgpd Cepten, RENT. Call (740)441-1111 ily room, central air. gas heat ~. a community mental health all"ncy for appMcation & Information. and 1 fireplace. Addition of a Jackson, and Meigs counties serving Gallla, large Florida room ComDowntown Gallipolis. 3BA. In Southeastern Ohio is accepting pletely cedar opens onto 1.5 bath, CIA. Carpet I hardapplications for the following positions: patio 8. pool area. Heated in wood floors, klt.appl. includ· ground pool enclosed bv priod. WID hookup. No ~Is vacy fencing and land· preferred. Ample Storage Vag Drinr/Maigteq•gre Worker - Contracl scaped. Finished 2 car Available. Dep. Req. 740· position ($8.00/hr) scheduled 40 hours per garage attached to house 446-7654 week. Primary job duty will be running van and finished & heated 3 car Nice 2BR Apt, Frig, St011e, garage unattached. routes in Jackson and Meigs Counties four days Water Pd, Centenary Ad, No Excellent condition ready to a week . Secondary duty will be perfonning light' Pete, Call (740)446-9442 move in. $255,000.00, Call: maintenance and repair in Meigs County one after 5pm . (740)949·2217 day a week. High School Diploma/GED and Middleport, brick ranch, 8 Valid Drivers License Requiml .. Help Wanted rooms, 35 yr. old, call (740)992·4197 Iqteqslye Home BnssJ Treatment Cw lady. Cal! 740-367-7f29 Trainer Position SUPPORT Are you interested in a Card of Thanks Card of Thanks : BEHAVIOR ; SPECIALIST: Work wi!h rewarding position? PAIS is i~~~;;;;;;;;;;~;;;;;;;;;;;iii~ ·; Vldividuals with develop- currently seeking a part t1me [ ; lll'lental disabilities assessing staff lor Mason and Point CARD OF THANKS •• ~havlor problems. develop· Pleasant. YN providing reSi· The family of U>rtnt (Shirley) Sigman • lng effective intervent1ons, dential!community skit! train· · extend• hearlfe/J thanks to our friend.,, ;- rraining staff and. rnonitoflng ing with individuals with neighbors & co-workers for their prayers, • inPiementation ot 1nterven- MRfDD. High school diplofood, cards,fluwers & Comfortillg words in : ~ons. Position is open in the ma or GED requ1red. No •• "'ipley area . Musf have e11per1ence necessary. our time of so"ow. A speciallha11k you to: : · ~S ~nd 2 year. experi· Criminal background check Lim & Maudie (Home Health Nur.<es) f ence working with .MRDD required. Mu81 have reliable Dr. Flramy (Holzer's) : flctlviduals . El<penence and . transportation and valid auto Holzer's 4tll Floor West All Nurses working knowledge of insurance. Paid training. Willis Funerol Home ~; eehavioral principles and Hourly rate starting at $7· Rene Runyon-Singing ~. (echnlques preferred. Salary $8.00/hOur Please call 1 :JIIegOtiable based on expen· 304-373-1011 or toll free at Ministers: .. fnce. Reply lo: BehaviOr 1-877-373·1011. Rev. William Runyon ~ iupport Specialist, PAjS POST OFFICE N{)VoJ Re11. Dennis Parsons · Inc., .• PO Box 1t210 Rev. Jack Par<ons . Charleston. WV 25339, HIRING Avg. Pay $20/hr or Tht Silver Memorial Church for a UcCiures Restaurant ( $57K annually wonderful dinner. ' Gallipolis Only) now hiring InCluding Federal Benefits May God bless each of you! .: part & full time - da~shift and OT,Peid Training, Husband, Sons, /;ather, Sister.~ ~ IV&IIa!JM! . Apply between 10 Vacations-FTIPT & Brotl1ers and 11 AM Monday 1-1)66-542-1531 Saturday USWA • pss ' town. $575/rant + sec dep. 446-3644 2BR localod on Core Mill near Aodney. $395/month. House for rent ion Gallipolis, $3951deposit. Checkable 2BR. 2 bath, LR, DR, large references. Call 245-5211 or kllchen, unfinished base- 446_0123 ment, detached garage w/small lanced . yard. - - : - - - - - - - $575/month. utilities not 2BR, 1 bath, all electric included. Sec. dep. req. (AEP), CIA, no pets. 1624 Sorry, NO PETS. Call 740- Chatham A,o: 740-446339·11 01. Leave a mas- 4234 or 740.209-7861 mak• any .uch preference, llmltltton or m EllmView Apartments handicap accessible, $835 a water pd. Deposit +~, st man sewer, trash $525/mo +dep. pays water, sewer: month, (740)949·2303 rent lo move in. Gas sel up _7_40_-7_09_-1_690 _ _ _ _~ •OWner trash on budge!. 256-5671 2br. Apt on 5th Street Pl. 3BA, 1.5 bath house in (304)882-3017 famlllalstatua or national origin, Of any ln\lfrtlon to OPI'OimJNliY 1 and .2 bedroom apart- bath, garage, full basement, 2BA tn Rio Grande area. 2BR renovated downtown •All electric- averaging new carpet, very clean, $350Jmon $350 dep. Trash & Gallipolis, C/A,HNA, water, $50-$601month race, color, religion, Hx , Bl!SINESli Exp. Req. 3 br. house, Pomeroy, -2 full =::-:-----::::-:--::---- dltcrlmlnatlon based on I I\ \ \t I \ I 740·441-5551 I Tar~ Townhouse Apartments, Very SpaciQus, 2 Bedrooms, CIA, t 1f2 Balh, Adult Poor & Baby Pool, Patio, Start S425/Mo. No Pets. lease Plus Security Depos~ Required, (740)367-0547. " •• 9. -- 6:30 · . the Buckeyes to another National Championship • 740-441-9371 I I h e Maintenance/Garage Building, please coli Keith Handley, Maintenance Supervlaor, at 740· or lax 367·0301 request to tame number. Any and all blda muat' · ba mailed to the VIllage at below addrtlt or rtctlvtd at tht VIllage Hall by February 4, 2008; before regular Council MMtlna time of 8:30 p.m. All blda will be optntd at the VIllage Hall, I 1I Btata Routt 114, Chalhlra, OH dur· lng the regular VIllage Council muting on February 4, 2008; I du~ng mtttlng agen· da eptcllltd lima. Mtttlng btglna at 8:30 pm. April Stlnaon , Flacal Officer I 11 Stilt Roula 554 PO Box 278 ChHhlrt, OH 45620 December 30, 2007, January 6, 13, 2008 $19,999 S17,999 2006 camry a #<06161 llt 500- 1880861M 2007 Pontiac 06 V6 ~ IIJG& 110..K 2006 Pontfac O..nd ftrbt - ~JG6 ~ 2071tJt _. Or , $ !...,. 2007 Hyundal SonCito • •H0\00391. Gr..n 2003 Honda Civk • 111'27'22.&1 <: . 2007 Saturn ton .. -o6145$Jit 2007 Che.vy Cobalt • 1F'61li3MJI. t:o'oM• olloetoryW.-, 2006 kla Optima - •Hooe7et a~w 2002 Volc.•wopn l'o•Mit W g;n • • 2n211C Sot... 2004 Che-vy Malibu .. I G612l) 11 2005 C:hryt.a.r PT Cruiser- loki. .. f6103tJ 2002 HyvndcM X03'0 .. •27'2l61C. .$it.. 2005 Kfolpectto •lt6lJ.SlM AMo, ,~Eq~.ao~~r 2QC)2 Hyund- lanN Fe • .. H611 07J ,II._ 2002 Chwy Cov-,lkw .. 1tH6()9•2C . hd. 2004 ~ . . ltratul .. fiiH6QOii.S9:1 .,._ Hyuftdoi Acc.nt .. •H60U1!_ r.d 2003 krd Tavru• lit • •G60977J, r., 2005 2001 . ..,...3.,, v.,...r o,..., •HooO'O.o e. Chryt~..... c....., . ~ a • 1271.SlC. t..l. ,$16,999 $15,99$ $16,999 $16,999 $10,999 $14,999 $13,999 f12t. . . $13.999 $11,999 $10,999 $11,999 $10,999 . $9.999 $9,999 $9,999 $1.999 $1,999 $6,999 $6,999 $6,999 �iunba, lim,. -ienttnel PageD6 REAl. ESTATE - ' ·Passengers iri Alaska plane . crash that killed 6 were · flying ho~e to celebrate Russian Christmas, A2 Sunday,January6,2oo8 ' · Get an extreme home makeover without going to e~tremes (MS) Think an "extreme makeover" for your home has to include sledgehammers ani! a general contractor? Well, interior design does- not always mean knocking cjown walls. Changing a few select . items can bring new color and texture into an existing space -just the thing need. ed to brighten, lighten and transform any room in your home. . One of the easiest ways to change an interior is to start with new area rugs, which go far beyond merely prQviding a covering for the floor. They can serve as the impetus for a new color palette and decomting scheme, changmg the entire look and feel of a room without breaking the bank. From tntditional Persians to ultmmodem works of art in knotted wool, there are more styles to choose from than ever before. "Today's designs have a level of sophistication that just wasn't available in the past," says Joyce Lowe, carpet and decor expert for Nourison, the world's largest manufacturer of hand-made area. rugs . Are you a traditionalist? Choose an heirloom-quality Persian rug with fields of midnight blue accented with rich chocolate and gold. Want a living room that's sleek and modern? A rug from designer Calvin Klein, rich in texture, color and style, can provide the starting point. Color is a huge component of a room's decor and should be chosen with care. "A basic rule of thumb in interior design is to select one neutrdl tone and tWo brighter accent colors that combine in a pleasing way," adds Lowe. Area rugs from Liz. Claiborne Home, made exclusively by Nourison for exan1ple, make choosing room accent colors easy because design teams have already selected. colors that work well together. Simply pull. and match colors from the field or destgn. "Your choice of accessories should complement the decor," says Lowe. Wall colors, window treatments and accessories are important to a good redesign but need not be expensive. Toss out pillows, curtains, candles and other accessm;ies from your old room and bring in new ones in complementary colors and styles. You'll be surprised how drJmatic the change will be. . ' Promote a tradiiional style. with . classic elements; a more modem look with sleeker, . pared,down accents. Sin'ce the eye is drawn to like colors, stick to the use of complementary shades of metal and wood. Table and floor lamps don't need to match, but they should have some similar elements, in color or design. Select a new area rug, change colors and accessories and you've done a truly "extreme" makeover in your home. To view thousands of choices in all styles arid price points, including Calvin Klein, Liz Claiborne Home and scores of Nourison brand collections, visit www.nourison.com, where you can also locate a retailer near you. ' How much is that kitchen going to cost you? (MS) - Ifyou're like any of the more than 7 million new owners of existing homes sold last year, you're probably looking at taking on remodeling projects that · w.ill update both style and functionality'. And the kitchen is probably at •the top of your "to do" list. According to a survey conducted in 2006 . by ~emodeling magazine, the average, minor kitchen remodeling job will cost 'llbout $18,000 while a major ·kitchen remodeling project may cost up to $107,000! If you're planning a kitchen ·remodel in the near future, · here are some ideas that can .save you money in the process, or leave you with extra money for the "must haves" on your project list. : Cabinets are generally the most expensive part of the remodeling project. Custombuilt cabinets offer an unlimited number of options, but ;are also the most expensive. Semi-custom cabinets offer a 'good alternative. With the number of styles, material · and hardware available today, you can have a custom · . look without a custom price tag. Also, refinishing your existing cabinets can provide an updafed look without the cost of replacement. Consider one of the new luxury, laminate countertops rather than solid surfacing or granite. You· could have. ·money left over for the stainless steel appliances you want. And you will be pleasantly suTrised with the look and qualtty of modem !ami- Instantly transform a room starting from the ground up. • Shown above are rugs from the Nourison 2000 collection in a traditional style, and Nourison's Mystique collection · for a more · modern .feel to a room. fore landlords might have to first-time investors, it's accept less desirable tenants always best to look for a who cannot pay on time. · newer building. While an • Speak with local offi- exact age is arbitrary. try cials about codes and zon- and find a building that's ing. Landlords who have less than 30 years old. Older owned a property for sever: buildings require more al years often get away with maintenance, ·and if you're things that new landlords new to real .estate, you won't get away with. This mi~ht not be· skilled at can include problems with mamtenance yourself of zoning or fire codes. Be know of a qualified handysure to ask local officials man to act as your super. . about a property before Plus, older buildings, while they often have more charsigning on the dotted line. • Look for a newer · acter, are less desirable to building. Particularly for p~ospective tenants and are often harder to fill than newer buildings. • Look for .sellers who aren't in-state. A big part of buying real estate, whether it's property you plan to live in or rent out, is negotiating. When buying an investment IJroperty, you can often gain the upper hand if you're buying a property from an owner who doesn't live in the state where the property is located. Such owners often prefer selling quickly and minimizing headaches ~ver getting the best price. M' ECONOM ICS WR ITER WASHINGTON- Rates on 30-year mortgages fell iast week to the lowest level · in a month as investors found new reasons to worry about a possible recession. · Freddte Mac, the mortgage company, reported Thursday that 30-year, fixed-rate . mortgages averaged 6.07 percent this week. That was down from 6.17 ~nt last week and was the lowest level for 30-year mortgages since the week of Dec. . 6 when they fell to a two-year low of 5.96 percent. That marked the only time that the 30-year mortgage was below 6 percent last year. Analysts attributed the decline in part to some weaker-than-expected economic reports. The Institute for Supply Management reported that its closely watched gauge of manufacturing activity dipped to the lowest level in near! y fi ve years. Frank Nothaft, chief economist at Freddie Mac, said that the fall in the manufac- .)D ( 1. .._ IS • \ 'ul. -; -. :\o . 11 · i\10'\11> \) · SPORTS • Lady Eagles outlast Wahama. See Page 81 · ,(i~aule REALTY. · I UOIIWI,flt U , l'o.,.roy , This lovely 1999 double· wide miJst be moved to your homesite. Home has 3 BA , 2Baths and a wood burning fireplace. Open and briQht Inside with total 1~11.. '""' electric and central alf. I BY BETH SERGENT BSERGENT@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM 43020 SH 124. PDfl1troy 10 so." ' locoMit.,lll-tltll t4Z $43,110 t.1S1 Call or visit LizMauleRealty.com to see more pictures of our listings or to sign up for our free · Reasons to list with . Liz Maul, Realty 1. ')Vc CO·O}' ._,.,,n aiJ rul caurc com panic•· Thlt mC"ant ANY Ohio Rc•l F...tue a~r,an •how uMI 1 1ell ytKlr propcrrr. 1hi• will not ~twn: yuu mnrcl . 2. We will t~dvcrc'llc )our ••r . property in the MciJf, G•llla,tnd ~h.un ruarktr. I)' Wt:llat 1he AthtMIN:& New Listings E-Letter market. 3 We pl-.:t lltdngr broc hutt~ In QI'CU fit\ltt:• and ptaurlnna 4, We- will markc=t your prope rty 14 /7 on out prufeuional weh•nte, www.Lli M t~llc.Retlty.<:om, ami ~nd )"'.'"Ur praprrty Ibri ng vi• fhe Jnt~"rnrt to hundredJ ofhuycn wirh our new litrmpc~lcncr. Meigs Co,.,.tyAgetlt Sb;wla Laudcrmilr. R~:aJcb'r 740 ·416 -7476 Office, 122 E. State St, Atbens 740-S94-7006 Liz Maule, Broker 740 -591 ·7007 K .-c ri na r: ~ l inc-. R('a lw r 740 -S91·7008 K at I(" P.\(.~ . Rco~.ltor 740-S94·7006 J essie Kov.Kh . Rca.Jror 740-707·6087 ... • u • -OCJo • \\H\\ nl\d .•ih ... ~ · •illlll ' l, 1111 1 is $25,483 and would require a match of $6,371. The village has received some interest in donations towards the matching funds. The grant's filing deadline is Feb. I. . Bob Byer, director of the Meigs County Emergency Management Agency, also reported he has received grant money to provide the Syracuse Fire Department with marine band radios similar to Racine's and pub-· lie works radios to make communication easier between · the water/street departments and village hall. Byer said it could be a couple months before the radios arrive. Council voted to take bids on replacing the roof on village hall and the tire department. The bids should be for rubber or metal roofing, complete with new gutters, and be in the clerk's office by Jan. 24. Council will use at least part · of an unexpected $18,000 state inheritance Council also welcomed tax payment it received to new Council members help replace the 30-year old Dorothy Amberger and Bob roof. Ord. Ord was also elected Council made the fol- president of council. lowing appointments for Coltnci I se t a mileage 2008: Mike Ralston, street rate of 50.5 cents per mile .Todd and set $200 as th.e spendcommiss ioner; Cundiff, water board mem- ing limit for the mayor to ber; . Fred Hoffman , grants purchase items without admmtstrator; Brent Shuler, council's prior consent. Shannon Smith, Mike Mayor Eric Cunningham Jacks, Mike Van Meter, fire .also acknowledged former department dependent 's Councilman Joey Riffle for board; Carson Crow, village Please see Field, AS solicitor. Meigs'initiates ft•tJit Flu shot for nutrition program clinics to BY CHARLENE HOEFLICH lofOEA.ICH@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM OBITUARIES ·Page AS -• Cynthia Jones · • Vera Marie Buchanan • Lillian Pickens INSIDE Rep. Jimmy Stewart Stewart files for.20th Senate-seat STAFF IIIPO.RT NEWSOMYDAILYSENTINEL.COM POMEROY -State Rep. Jimmy Stewart, R-Albany, filed the necessary paperwork Friday as a candidate for the 20th Ohio Senate district. The district includes Meigs, Athens, Coshocton, Guernsey, Monroe, Morgan, Mu*ingum, Noble and Washmgton counties. Stewart lives in Meigs County and represents the county as part of the 92nd House distnct. · See~A3 . "As Ohio continues to •• Hypnotist offers hope adapt to a chlmging economy, w~h smoking and weight. our region needs a leader See Page A3 who realizes the tremendous potential we have to bring • One sacrifice you can't more jobs and economic force. See Page A3 opportunity for our families • Peace plan, Iran, and who will stand up and fight for better access to terrorism will be on affordable health care and the agenda for'Bush's quali!r education for our chiltrip to Middle East. dren,' Stewart said. "(plan to See Page AS work very hard to convince the voters of the 20th Senate District that I have the experience and vision to be their voice in Columbus." Stewart ftrst entered public service when he unseated a long-serving Democrat in the City of Athens' heavily Democratic First Ward. He earned the seat by walking door-to-door and listening to the concerns of his constituents. He was . later elected to serve as Athens City Auditor and to three.terms in the Ohio Detallo on P... A2 House as the Representative for the 92nd House District. At the Statehouse, Stewart has served as a member of the House Finance and Appropriations Cl)mmittee 2 SECTIONS- 1:1 PAGES and as chair of the Human Subcommittee. Calendars A:3 Services During his time in the House, he has also seeyed on comClassifieds B3-4 mittees specializing in healthcare access and affordability Comics Bs and public utilities. Stewart graduated from &mie's Mailbox A:3 Marshall University with a in economics and degree Eqitorials A4 earned his M.B.A. at Xavier · Qbituaries As University with a cont;~trd­ tion in taxation. He has 'since earned credits in accounting Sports B Section at Ohio University. Weather Stewart and his wife Stacey •' reside in Albany with their © aoo8 Ohio Valley Publishing Co. three children. WEATHER 3· 4 8R tJome. VieW\I IJl Ohlu River. 38R I.S. b1th NMdi TLC. J \~·1 · \I" '- ., · • · :" Syracuse pursuing grant for ball field SYRACUSE -One of Syracuse Council's first official acts for the new year included ·pursuing funds for new lighting for King Field. · Council signed a resolution ·permitting Fred Hoffman, village grants administrator, to apply for an Ohio Nature Works Grant to help pay for the project. The estimate for the project ·• Search for missing Qa. hiker to be scaled back; susPect to appear In court. See Page A2 • Voting by mall starts for Callfomla's 2008 · presidential primary. SeePageA2 ·• Suicide attacker strikes crowd celebrating Iraqi Army Day, killing 11 . See Page A2 • Posts land transfers. See Page A3 • Gardeners leam all about poinsettias. . Rates on 30-year mortgages drop to lowest level in 4 weeks BY MARTIN CRUTSINGER Middleport • Pomeroy, Ohio What to look for in investment pr9perty (MS)- While the investment game is never a sure nates. Wilsonart® HDTM High DefinitionTM Laminate thing, one of the most solid for countertops has the rich investments a person can look and feel of natural or make is real estate. As the old engineered stone at up to one- saying goes, · "God's not quarter of the cost. Pair it with making any more land, so the one of the new bevel or ogee price is only going to go up." But if the real estate game edges now available and were that easy, ·everyone you' U be showing off your would be . a millio.ilaire. · style and your ~ood sense. Because of the expensive Today's laminate IS extremely real estate and the nature of durable and easy to clean which is a real advantage for . uneasiness mariy people feel · when they decide to invest in today's busy families. · it, consider the following If yoll want the look of stainless appliances, but tips before taking the plunge. • Look for the right locaaren't ready to pay the price, tion. It's always important to consider ordering basic remember that buyin¥, an appliances with front "trim kits." You can applY. a metal investment property isn t the or laminate look-alike panel same as buymg a home to the fronts of refrigerators you're going to live in. But and dishwashers, and some of the same rules apply. you've got the look for less. One such rule is location. Making . trade offs in While those.looking for their ' o . • opttons ts one cost-savmg own home will likely look at step. Another way to maxi- privacy, the local school sys-. mize your budget is to con- tern and other things, when sider doing some of the buying an investment propwork yourself to save · on erty it's best to look in a high labor costs. - which typi- traffic area that's close to cally are about 20 percent of public transportation. The high traffic means more the project cost... Depending on your abili- prospective renters will see ties and the time you have your "For Rent" signs, while available, you can .save by . accessibility to public transremoving existing cabinetry portation will increase ·your and countertops at the begin- pool of potential tenants. In addition, it goes withning of the project and paintout saying that a desirable ing the room yourself at the can often rent a place locale end of the proJect. It's usualon its own. Rental properly a good 1dea to leave electrical,' plumbing arid installa- ties in trendy neighborhoods often rent the fastest tion work to the experts. and landlords can often A little planning before charge more for less. your project starts and maybe • Look for low-maintea little elbow grease of your nance properties. These own can get you that new days, the practice of "flipkitchen that fits your lifestyle houses is more popular ping" as well as your budget. · than ever before. Those who are just starting out investing· in real estate, however, should avoid this approach and all high-maintenance properties. Hipping a house requires substantial capital to turing index could possibly turn a profit, as you' II need to be a "harbinger of a more do lots of maintenance substantial economic slow- before you can rent or sell the down" at the start of this year. property. If you're just beginAlready, forecasters believe Din~ to invest in real estate, economic growth will slip to you II want a low-·maintea barely discernible annual nance property that will rate of around l.S percent this be¥in turning a profit more winter and early spring as the · qutckly than a property .that economy feels the imp~ of wlll need lots of repairs. • Inquire about the propthe severe slump in housing and a credit squeeze that hft erty '• rental hl1tory. If you're buying a property last August. Housing, which ,had with multtple apartments, enjoyed a fiv~-year boom of examine the property's soanng prices and record rental history. If the current . sales, has been in a severe tenants are gQod with their slump which economists payments, this will ease predicted will continue into your transition to becoming a landlord. If current and 2008. Nothaft said he predicted past tenants were consistentthat sales of both new and ly late paying rent, this existing homes will be might tell you something not around 5.09 million this only about those tenants, but year, down by more than 11 the neighborhood as well. Good neighborhoods don't percent from 2007. "Our latest forecast has n'"ed to beg for tenants, and total home sales continuing therefore landlords don't to decline in the ftrst quarter have to put up with tenants of the year before starting a who don't pay on time. If slow recovery," Nothaft said. the property has a history of Other types of mortgage . tenants who pay late, this rates also experienced n:tight be indicative of adeclines !his week, according neighborhood where people to the Freddie Mac survey. don 't want to live, and there- Break from the cold, As INDEX . . . . · .. . . ·' f POMEROY Encouraging students to eat more fruit and fewer sweets is one way the Meigs Elementary School is using to step up its nutrition program and assist students in weight control. Last year Marilyn Meier, food service supervisor, applied for and received a federal grant administered by the Ohio Department of Nutrition to bring quantities of fresh fruit into the elementacy~-and intermediate schools. With the $100,000 grant Meier received she was able to expand the amount of · fruit offered daily to the nearly 900 students. While a limited number apd kinds of fruits have always been a· part of the regular school lunches, Meier was able to purchase more fruit and in different varieties for the students and to make them accessible not only at lunchtime but from a cart or a vending machine Cha~ene H~ftli:h/photos during morning and after- Students are encouraged to try new fruits. Dvring a recent noon breaks. All of the fruit assembly food service supervisor Marilyn Meier stood by to is free to all students. offer each one a taste of something different. Students are limited to one fruit a day from the vending . machine which usually includes things which are less familiar to many, like star fruit, kiwi, or pink grapefruit. "We encourage the students to include less familiar fruits," said Meier "in . addition to apples, oranges and bananas." . And the · new fruits are well accepted, according ·to Meier. She said that about everyday some students check out what will be served. 'They're looking for something different, something unusual, something they: can try, and they ' re excited. They love the· idea of being given a choice." Meier noted that the kids are now eating a wider variety of fruits as well as veg- · etables which contributes to better overall nutrition. "The students are receptive to trying new things. The exposure . to new fruits has been good and when something new comes in, they are Gage Gilkey selects a piece of ·fruit from the vending anxious to try it." · machine as Marilyn Meier, food service supervisor, looks on. To encourage · participation, Meier started a contest. lion gets a reward, · like a classroom. The classroom with the high- smoothy party or some fresh .Plene see Fruit. AS est percentage· of participa- fruit juicy-juice in their traVel . county BY Brn SERGENT BSERGENT@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM POMEROY Beginning Thursday, the Meigs ·. County Health Department will literally be branching out into the four corners of the county (and then some) to offer flu shots to residents six months and older. People who possess Medicare B, Railroad Medicare or Medicaid coverage must present the appropriate health care cards. There will be a $15.00 administration fee · for people who do not have Medicare B, Railroad Medicare or Medicaid Commercial coverage. health care insurance(s) cannot be accepted, but residents are encouraged to submit claill)s to their respective companies for · possible reimbursement. Thursday's schedule for the mobile outreach clinics is as, follow s: 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. , Racine Volunteer Fire Department; I 0:30 a.m. - .11 :30 a.m., Portland Community Center; I p.m . - 2 p.m., Reed's Country Store in Reed sville ; 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., Cool Spot in Tuppers Plains. Friday's schedule for the mobile outreach clinics is as -follows: 9 a.m. - I 0 a.m. , Pa'geville Grocery in Albany; 10:30a.m. - 11:30 a.m. , Harri sonville Masonic Lodge: 12:30 p.m. -· I p.m ., Rutland Civic Center; 2 p.m . - 3 p.m., Salem Township Volunteer Fire Department in Salem Center. Influenza is a serious (but preventable) disease . which is caused by a 'virus that is transmitted from infected persons to the nose or \throat of others. Proper hand-washing techniques should be utilized. The U.S. "flu se ason" extends from Nove mber through April each year. For additional information, contact the Meigs County Health Department ai 992-6626. Candidates file for central committees: . Rutland, Steven D. Morris; Salem, R. Keith Oiler; Middleport 2, Sandra Iannar~IJi ; M.iddhet>IJrt 3, Marilyn ;·POMEROY - The following candi- Anders~~nJi:rof;lJ E: Jan51Walton; dates have ftled for Central Committee Pomeroy ..J; · Btl! S'paun ; B~adbury, in 'the March 4 primary: Edward' W. Durst; Laurel Cliff, Republican' Marjorie Fetty; Rocksprings, John R. · Bedford, Marlene Harrison; Letart. Weeks; Scipio, Randy Butcher; Joyce White ; North Olive, Cheryl Racin7, Grover Salser,. Jr. ; Racine Gumpf; Rutland, Danny Davis; E. Village, Robert E. Beegle: Syracuse, Rutland, Wilma J. Davidson; W. Kay Hill. STAFF REPORT NEWS@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM ' Democratic W. Chester, Mary J. Hunter: Rutland Village , Samuel Bruce May; Salem, Rebecca J. Johnston; Pomeroy L Phillip M. Ohlinger; Pomeroy 2, Rebecca Triplett : Bradbury, Jane Huffman; Rocksprings, Phillip D. Ohlinger; Scipio, Bob Smiddic; Racine. Joyce Quillen: Racine Village, Ann M. Layne:. Minersvill, , John N. lhle. • � 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. 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