https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/b6f5f10f5794c0fefd1dc11188e95b82.pdf 05a788451a58350049711da097826ad7 PDF Text Text �The Daily Sentinel PageA2 NATION • WORLD 250 Monday, January 29, 2007 NaJai:U.S. Local governments says FCC not playing fair in cable decision ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER ; • : : WASHINGTON - The nation's chief telecommuni· cations regulator stands accused of misrepresenting the facts while pushin~ through rules that will make II easier for big phone compa· nies to get into cable television. The policy change won approval by . the ~ederal C o mm un1c at 1o ns Commission on a 3-2 vote Dec. 20. That angered local government officials who claim the agency overstepped its authority and now promise a legal challenge. The vote also drew the threat of a "leg· islative fix" !rom a powerful congressman. The new rules are meant to spur more competitioo for cable television providers. They require local governments . to speed up the approval process for new competitors, cap the fees paid by new entrants and ease requirements that competitors build systems that reach every home. Consumer groups long have complained about rising cable rates and poor service, blaming the problems on a lack of competition. But opponents of the FCC's action say the new rules amount to a "federalization" of the cable franchising process. They contend the change will mean a loss of local oversight, fewer dollars for public and government access channels and the possibility of "cherry picking" by companies that choose to serve only the richest neighborhoods. Supporters of the policy change have cited dozens of instances in which local govemments have made unreasonabledemandsofnewcompetitors, effectively blocking them from offering service. It was one of those claims that raised the ire of David L. Smith, the city attorney in Tampa, Fla. He said the FCC chairman, Kevin Martin, made a "blatantly inaccurate allegation" about Tampa's conduct during franchise negotiations with Verizon Communications Inc. Martin was quizzing an •gency employee during a commission meeting before casting his vote when he asked: "Is Verizon still " required to film the tutoring classes for the math classes in Tampa, Florida in order to get a franchise?" Rosemary Harold, a deputy chief in the FCC's Media Bureau, answered, "Yes, Mr. Chairman." Harold was put on the spot earlier by commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, who voted against the FCC pro· posal. Adelstein asked Harold to cite "specific communities" that are "particularlr, having a problem right now ' in gaining a franchise. Smith, who negotiated with Verizon in Tampa, says Martin's allegation neither was in nor a condition of the franchise agreement. Martin's characterization, the lawyer said, was "complete and abject fiction." Smith also said the FCC had never contacted him about the claim. In an interview Friday, Martin said he probably should not have used the word "still" but largely stood by his argument - that Tampa was making an unreasonable demand of Verizon. He said he had riot responded to Smith's letter, but would do so. "These are difficult issues," he said. "I think the commission is trying to find a balance between protecting the local communities' interest but also making sure they are not ·effectively pre-empting the ability (of new companies) to get in and compete.' The dispute raises a larger question about whether the agency should investigate specific allegations made by companies that stand to benefit from rules or simply assume that they are true. Adelstein, a Democrat, accused his agency of failing to "conduct any independent fact-finding" and said the FCC did not "attempt to verify the allegations made by parties who have a vested mterest in the outcome of this proceeding." He accused Martin and the two other Republican commissioners who voted in favor of the new rules of presuming that "in every case that the big phone companies are right and the local governments are wrong:" FCC spokeswoman Tamara Lipper said it would be "impossible for the commission to independently vet every single one of the millions of comments that inform our rule-making." She said the agency issues public notices and posts spe· cific comment and reply comment periods to "ensure all sides of an issue have the opportunity to weigh in." If someone knowingly submits false information in the record, he ..can be "sub)ect to disciplinary action,' she added. The stakes in this battle are high. Companies such as Verizon and AT&T are spending billions of dollars to lay fiberoptic cable in their service areas in the hope they wi II be able to compete with the cable television industry. The Tampa allegation outlined by Martin first appeared in a Wall Street Journal story in October 2005that painted a sympathetic portrait of Verizon 's travails in gaining franchises. The account said Verizon, seeking permission to offer TV service in Tampa. was presented with "a $13 million wish list" of items it needed, including "video cameras to film a math•tutoring program for kids." The story stated that "Verizon lawyers saw it as a demand." Less than a week after the story ran, the FCC opened its proceeding on video franchis mg. Smith said Tampa gave Verizon a $13 million "needs assessment" that he says was required by law in order to obtain contributions for equipment for public access and ~overnment channels. The ctty's existing cable franchise, Bright House Networks. had paid $5.5 million and pledged $1 million more, he said. ' · . Smith also said under Florida law, a competitor would be required to match that amount to obtain a franchise. He said it is possible the "needs assessment" included video cameras to film shows such as the math class, but that there was never "a specific quid pro quo." Nor was anything lik~ that mentioned in the franchise agreement. he said. "Even if it was on the needs list as one of the items, that doesn't mean that's how the money would be spent." he ., of a Shiite shrine in the largely Sunni city ofSamarra last Feb. 22. The two Cllf bombs in Kirkuk exploded within 30 minutes of each other in different parts of the city, 180 mile> nonh of Baghdad. The first blast was at a car dealership, killing six people and wounding 19, said Qader, the police general said. The second went off at a popular restaurant, killing live and injuring IS, he said. In Baghdad, police said they found 39 bullet-riddled bodies throughout the city Sunday, apparent victims of sectarian death squads. Ten more bodies were recovered floating down th ris River25 miles south the c Rital. Drive-by shooters kiUed a high-ranking Shiite ofticial at the Industry and Mines Ministry along with his 27year-old daughter and two other people, police said. A car bomb exploded near a mosque in the Sunni city of Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding four, police said. The U.S. command announced the arrest oq I suspected terrorists, including an 111-Qaida courier, in a series of raids in Baghdad and Sunni areas nonh and west of the capital. Three are believed to have close ties to the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq, the military said. Internet HOLIDAY SPECIAL! VnHmited Hou11 '" ""'~ llrlllloiVII~I • FREf 24/'f LM Tldlniclla..ppod • i nstant~ • ileep JCl'f ILO:i)' kll • t(le-f!\111 ~·~ ~ • CAiom Stilt Plot · ~ \IIMINr & I'IIO'tl o~lou~ ... p~~O.-., the math program. It did, however, revise its comments and apologize after a complaint from Tampa about how the company represented the negotiations. added. 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The idea of him even talking to her makes me sick. He also has made it clear that no matter how it makes me feel, he's not going to go out of his way to avoid her. That really hurt. I'm truly considering ending my marriage because I can't get it out of my head that he might speak to this University Medical Center woman. I cannot afford a in general and thoracic therapist, but I know I need surgery. In 1986 Dr. Rerych help. Any suggestions? was named the Chief Frultca~e . in General, Resident Dear Fruitcake: You do Vascular and Thoracic need help, but not because Surgery, also at Duke you are a "fruitcake." The University and the Virginia real problem is that your Medical Center (Asheville, husband cheated on you and North Carolina). In 1991, he you don't trust him. He also served as an assistant clini- tsn't doing enough to reascal professor of general, sure you that he will be vascular and thoracic faithful. This woman's pressurgery at the same institu- ence simply brings to the tions. surface all the issues that Prior to coming to haven't been cleared up. You Pleasant Valley Hospital, Dr. and your husband need Rerych lived in Asheville, counseling, together if posNorth Carolina where he sible, but if not, go without was a private practitioner. him.. You CAN afford it Try Some of his honors United Way, the YMCA, include being runner-up for your local hospitals, churchthe Investigator of the Year es, university psychology Award through the American College of Cardiology ( 1978), winner of two Olympic gold medals for swtmming (1968) , POMEROY - Plans are Outstanding College Athlete of the Year for the states of moving forward for a prom New Jersey and North dress sale to be held at High School Carolina (1969) and elected Meigs to the Sports Hall of Fame Saturday and Sunday. Meanwhile, Paula in New Jerst1y (1969). is the yearMorrison who Professionally, he was been invited to speak on book advisor and the one "Non-invasive Evaluation of planning the sale to raise Coronary Artery Disease" at money for that, is anxious to the annual meeting of the get more dresses. " Last year's sale was a Society of Nuclear Medicine and as a closing discussant tremendous success with on "Radionuclide lots of choice for those buyAn~iocardiolography in Pattents with Surgical Disorders" at the annual meeting of the Southern Surgical Association. Dr. Rerych is located in OSU Honor Roll Suite 113 of the Pleasant Valley Hospital Medical POMEROY - The folOffice Buildmg. For more information about the pace- lowing local students were named to the Honor Roll at maker service or general The Ohio State University surgery options, please call, for the autumn quarter : (304) 675-1666 Emily Story and Robert Swisher, Middleport; Brent Buckley, Michele Runyon, and Christopher VanReeth, Pomeroy; Amanda Foreman, Portland; Austin Little, Racine; Morgan Weber, Reedsville. Students on the Honor Roll received a grade point deeper problems we have in average of 3.5 or better <md the area and the state," he were enrolled for at least 12 credit hours. said. Seveml Democmtic Party On Dean's List members suggested .he run after he served as co-chair of CINCINATTI -Erica Sen. John Kerry's 2004 Poole of Middleport was presidential campaign in Richland County, where named to the dean's list at Republican President Bush the University of Cincinnati captured 60 percent of the for the autumn quarter. vote. Goyal ran last November for the seat vacated by Democratic state Rep. Bill Hartnett, who left due to term limits, and defeated Republican Phil Holloway COLUMBUS (AP) - A with 63 percent of the vote. man who drowned.after plung"He did a really good job ing off a freeway ovetpass as of positioning himself so he polke closed in following a was favorable to more than muhi-county chase wa~ a 19one group of people," year-old from Columbus, a coroner said. Hartnett said. An autopsy determined that Aoother Indian-American. Subodh Chandra, the former William Jones drowned after law di~tor of Cleveland, the 3(}-foot jump from a free. ran for statewide office last way bridge into the Scioto River on Thesday night. year, but lost in the Franklin County Coroner Boo Democratic primary in May Lewis said. His body was found to eventual Attorney General Wednesday 011 the river bed. Marc Dann. Chandra. the Jones, Roger Fountain, 45, of son of immigrants, created a Columbus, and Leonard parody commercial on his Rosselolt. 26, of Wtlmington. Web site comparing himself led police 011 a chase after an to the cartoon character Apu armed robbery a1 a gas station in Clinton County. police said. on "The Simpsons." Birthdays PVH surgeon now doing pacemaker implants Stephen K. Rerych, MD tings can be adjusted at any time. Routine evaluation, sometimes even via telephone, ensures the pacemaker is working properly and monitors battery life, which generally runs from five to ten years. The most common reason for a pacemaker is a heartbeat that slows to an unhealthy rate, or brady cardia. A pacemaker resets the heart rate to an appropriate pace , ensuring adequate blood and oxygen are delivered to the brain and other parts of the body. "Dr. Rerych's stellar leadership and commitment to quality health services and personalized patient care has helped build the surgical services program at Pleasant Valley Hospital," praised William A. Barker, Jr., vicepresident of corporate development "I believe that by offering the pacemaker service to the community we have made a difference in people 's lives," he added. Dr. Rerych received his medical degree in 1974 from Columbia University College of Physicians Surgeonli (New York, NY). In 197 5, he completed his internship at Duke COLUMBUS (AP) Before his first bill or floor speech, a rookie state legislator who took office this month with the minority Democrats is getting national and international attention from the Asian Indian community. Jay Goyal, 26, a native of Mansfield in north-central Ohio, is among a handful of lawmakers with Indian backgrounds serving across the United States. "As the first generation · getting something like this, the Indian community is · proud," said Neil Patel, prestdent of the Federation of · Indian Associations of Ohio. Goyal, who also is one of . Ohio's youngest lawmakers, · has ,been featured on the front pages of two newspapers in India. and his cousins . saw his photo on newspa• pers in an Indian-American community of Los Angeles. • "First, they saw one newspaper with my picture on the . cover and were like. 'Oh, ' wow. That's Jay."' Goyal , said. "Then, through the · course of the day, they kept seeing my name or picture ' everywhere, and by the end of the day it was. ·'Oh, there's Jay again."' Indian-Americans make up 0.3 percent of Ohio's population, · census figures show. "It has quite a bit of meaning to me. It's very meaningful for people from that community," he said. "Many of them first came over in the ' 50s and '60s, had worked hard and been successful in some fields , but politics has been one field that people from that group hadn't necessarily gotten involved with." Goyal, who attended Northwestern University, planned t~ get an engineering degree and work for his father's company. Goyal Industries. His father, Prakash Goyal, came to the United States in 1970 and worked for the Ohio Brass Co. in Manstield until the company was bought and set to move in 1988. Goyal started his own business and picked up a lot of Ohio Brass work. Jay Goyal became the company's vice president. Goyal entered politics because he was troubled to see so many of his high school dassmates leave Manslield and Ohio. "That's a symptom of departments and graduate sc hool coun seling departments. Or contact the American Association of Pastoral Counselors (www.aapc.org) at 9504A Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA 2203 1-2303 and Samaritan Counseling Centers (samari tanin stitute .org) at 2696 S. Colorado Blvd., Suite 380, Denver, Colo. 80222. Dear Annie : What do you think about a person who grabs every check at meals, golfing, etc. , in order to put it on hi s credit card? We all have to pay him back our portion of the bill. The purpose of this is to get all the frequent flyer mileage. He then travels everywhere on this built-up mileage. He thinks his friends aren't onto him. I think it's greedy. What do yo11 say? Disgusted In California Dear Disgusted: Some people don't mind giving cash and letting others reap the credit card benefit. If it bothers you, next time say, "George. it's our tum to get the mileage. You can have the next go-round." Or, of course, you can ask for separate checks. Dear Annie: The letter from "Heartsick Parents," whose 19-year-old daughter declared she was a lesbian, took me back several years to a time when I could have written their letter for them. · My 19-year-old daughter waited until she was in college (smart move) to say, "Mom, I'm gay." I'd always considered myself a broadminded person, but I found out that I was broadminded as long as it was somebody else's daughter. I reacted horribly. I said hurtful things and snapped at her over nothing. One of the worst things I did was tell her to never bring "those people" (her girlfriends) to our home. After a couple of months of the worst sadness I'd ever felt (seems so >illy when I think of it now) , I realized I would have to change or I was going to lose my daughter. I contacted a psychologist who told me about PFLAG . When I called for information. a man answered the phone. I gave him my name and poured out my whole blubbering, tearful story. After I finished. he s~id, "Lady, this is the Veterans Administration! " But I'd taken the ftrst step toward recovery. I'd told someone and the world didn't come to an end . The members of PFLAG took me under their wings and worked their magic, and now my daughter and I are closer than ever. - Bonnie Dear Bonnie: We laughed at the VA story, but we know that call must have been hard for you. Congratulations on doing it right Annie's Mailbox is writ· ten by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime edi· tors of the Ann lAnders column. Please e-mail your questions to anniesmail· box@comcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, P.O. Box 118190, Chicago, IL 60611. To jirid out more about Annie's Mailbox, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com, Prom dress sale coming up School news Ohio lawmaker getting noticed for Asian Indian heritage (APPROXIMATELY 60 WORDS) Happy ValenUne's .Day Cupid's arrow is straight and true. In bringing this thought oflove to you. I'm sorry about the other night When we had that terrible fight A Sendnel love message was a good ide.l. To show you just how much I love you, Maria. Regular meeting of Olive Jeanne Bowen will be host· ' Township Tru stees, 6:30 ess. p.m. , township garage . Monday, Jan. 29 RUTLAND - Rutland Friday, Feb. 2 RACINE Southern Township Trustees, 5 p.m., POMEROY - Meigs Local School Board, 8 p.m., Rutland Firehouse. County PERI Chapter 74, I budget hearing, 8: 15 p.m., p.m. Installation of officers. regular meeting, high Friday, Feb. 2 Norma Torres to speak . school media room. MARIETTA - Buckeye Hills- Hocking Valley Saturday, Feb. 3 Thesday, Jan. 30 Re gional Development SALEM CENTER POMEROY ·- Leading District, 12 noon, at the Star Grange #778 and Star Creek Watershed Group, Comfort Inn, located at 700 5:30 p.m. at the Pomeroy E. Pike St. , Marieta . Junior Grange #878 meet Library to discuss reclama- Questoins regarding the for potluck supper at 6:30 tion project. Potluck. take meeting, contact Jenny p.m., with meeting to follow· at 7:30. Opening and covered dish . McMahon, 740-374-94.36. closing team to practice during meeting. Wednesday, Jan. 31 PORTLAND - Lebanon Township Trustees, 7 p.m., at township building . All meetings for . 2007 will be Thursday, Feb. 8 Wednesday,Jan.JI held at 7 p.m. on the last POMEROY Alice POMEROY The day of the month at the Middleport Literary Club Thompson will observe her township garage . will meet at 2 p.m. at 85th birthday, Feb. 8. Card Pomeroy Libary. Olita may be sent to her at 42370 Thursday, Feb. I Heighton will review Gun Club Road, Pomeroy, REEDSVILLE "Colony" by John Tayman. Ohio 45769. POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. Stephen K. Rerych, MD, a general surgeon at Pleasant Valley Hospital, is now offering patients the opportunity to have pacemakers implanted . locally without having to · travel to larger, urban facilities. In addition, patients can receive advanced diagnostics and innovative treatments at PVH devoted to the detection and treatment of heart rhythm disorders which can cause a wide range of problems from dizziness and fatigue to stroke and even sudden death. "Today's pacemakers are truly remarkable devices. Their main purpose is to keep the electrical system ffom going too slow and thereby prevent the probe !ems associated with slow heart rhythms," explained Dr. Rerych. "Pacemakers have become a reliable means of helping people live longer and tmprove their lifestyles ·.. despite having a ·slow heart ·rhythm," he continued. Although it weighs just about an ounce, a pacemaker contains a powerful battery, electronic circuits and computer memory that together generate electronic signals: The signals, or pacin~ pulses, are carried along thtn, insulated wires, or leads. to the heart muscle. The signals cause the heart muscle to begin the contractions that cause a heartbeat A pacemaker is implanted just below the collarbone in a procedure that takes about two hours. It is programmed to stimulate the heart at a pre-determined rate, and set- Monday, January 29, 2007 ANNIE'S MAILBOX • Public meetings Clubs and organizations PageA3 BY THE BEND Community Calendar In News footage showed pools of BY ROBERT H. REID blood on the stone steps and ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER walkways. Afin from a mortar BAGHDAD, lraq - U.S.shell lay on the ground. Hours after the attack. grievbacked Iraqi troops on Sunday ing parents wept as the bodies attacked insurgents allegedly of their children were placed m plotting to kill pilgrims at a wooden col'lins. Police satd major Shiite Muslim religious four of the girls were killed festival. and Iraqi officials estiinstantly and a lifth died later mated some 250 militants died In a joint statement, in the daylong battle near UNICEF and UNESCO Najaf. A U.S . helicopter called the attack .. yet another crashed during the fight, tmgic reminder of the risks fackilling two American soldiers. ing Iraq's schoolchildren." . Mortar shells, meanwhile, No group claimed responst: hit the counyard of a girls' bility for the attack. but a Sunm school in a mostly Sunni Arab organization, the General nei~hborhood of Baghdad, Conference of the People of killing five pupils and woundinl9· blamed Shiite Muslim ing 20. U.N. officials deplored rnilttias with ties to governthe attack, calling the apparent ment security forces. The targeting of children "an group said in a statement that unforgivable crime." the mortar shells bore markTwo car bombs exploded ings indicating they were manwithin a half hour in the nonhufactured in lnm, which U.S. em city of Kirkuk, killing II officials accuse of supporting people and wounding 34, Shiite militia~. police Brig. Gen. Sarhad AP photo Three bombings, mean. Qader said. Three ethnic while, struck Shiite districts in US Soldiers from the 887th Engineer Company install cement barriers te fortify a Joint groups - Nabs, Kurds and Baghdad, killing at least seven . Thrkomen - are in a bitter Security Station, where American and Iraqi troops will stage during upcoming security oper· people and wounding 61. struggle for control of that oil- ations in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday. police said. rich area. The worst incident was a car automatic weapons, sniper craft crashed. one Sudanese. In addition to confirming the rifles and rockets, the governor It was the second U.S. milibomb that killed at least four Provincial Gov. Assad two Americans kiUed in the · helicop1er crash near Najaf, Sultan Abu Kilel said the said. He said the insurgents tary helicopter to do down in and wounded 39 at an outdoor · the U.S. command announced assault was launched because were members of a previously eight days. Twelve U.S. sol- market in Sadr City, a spr~wl­ three combat deaths from the insurgents planned to unknown group called the diersdiedJan. 20 when a Black ing slum that is a stronghold of Hawk crashed northeast of the Mahdi Anny of mdical Saturday - one Marine in the attack Shiite pilgrims and cler- Army of Heaven. "They are well-equipped Baghdad. The Am1y says it is cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a miliSunni insurgent stronghold of ics during ceremonies mark. Anbar province and two Army ing Ashoum, the holiest day in and they even have anu~air­ investigating the cause, but a tia blamed for much of lmq's the Shiite calendar commemo- craft mis~iles, " the governor Pentagon official has said sectarian bloodshed. · soldiers in the Baghdad area. The mortar attack and Authorities said Iraqi sol- mting the 7th century death of said. "They are backed by debris indicated it was downed bombings appeared to be part diers supported by U.S. air- Imam Hussein. The celebm- some locals" loyal to ousted by a missile. The mortar attack in of the sectarian reprisal craft fought all day with a large tion culminates Tuesday in dictator Saddam Hussein. Abu Kilt;l said two lmqi Baghdad occurred about II killin~s that have pushed Iraq group of insurgents in the huge public processions in Zaraq area, about 12 miles Karbala and other Shiite cities . . policemen were killed and 15 a.m. at the Kholoud Secondary into ctvil warfare over the past Officials were unclear about wounded, but there was no School in the Adil neighbor- year, violence that President . oonheastoftheShiiteholycity the religious affiliation of the word on other Iraqi govern- hood, police and school offi- Bush hopes to quell by sending ofNajaf. cials said. The principal, up to 21,500 more American CoL Ali Nomas, spokesman militants. Although Sunni ment casualties. A U.S. statement said the Fawzyaa Hatrosh Sawadi. said soldiers to Baghdad and surfor Iraqi security forces in Arabs . have been the main Najaf, said more than 250 force behind insurgent groups. American helicopter went students were mingling in the rounding areas. U.S. officials have long corpses had been found. Iraqi there are a number of Shiite down while "conducting oper- courtyard during a break in army Maj. Gen. Othman al- militant and splinter groups ations to assist Iraqi Security exams when at least two shells accused al-Qaida in Iraq, a Sunni Muslim group. of fan. Ghanemi also spoke of 250 that have clashed from time to Forces" in the attack. It said exploded. The blasts shattered win- ning sectarian hatreds by stagtwo crew members died and dead but said an exact number time with the government would not be released until Iraqi soldiers attacked at their bodies were recovered. dows in classrooms, spraying ing vicious attacks on Shiite Monday. He said 10 gunmen dawn and militants hiding in The statement did not give any students with shards of glass. civilians. Revenge killings had been captured, including orchards fought back with information on why the air- Associated Press Television have surged since the bombing BY JOHN DUNBAR The Daily Sentinel ing and a good opportunity for those wanting to make some money while getting those once-worn gowns out of the closet. We're looking for another great sale with lots of variety and sizes. It's going to be a big selection with great prices," said Morrison. To receive gowns Morrison will be at the school from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday. They can also be brought to the school anytime between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. 1\Jesday, Wednesday and Thursday, but that will be the last day gowns will be accepted for the sale. The cost to have a prom dress put on the sale rack is $5. Some accessories are also being accepted and there is no charge to sell them there. A few local merchants will also be on hand to show and sell prom accessories. OU-COM <ffering.free immunizatiom ATHENS - Community health programs for children are being offered fee of charge through the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-COM) along with Community Health Programs (CHP), and the Childhood Immunization Program (CHIP) . The Community Health Programs are providing vaccine for children whn are on Medicaid, whose parents have no insurance, or are American Indians or Alaskan natives. Also available are vac Hepatitis A, cines which is a senes of two six immunizations, months apart, started after a child is 12 months of age; Human Papillomavirus HPV (for girls 9 to 18 years) which is a series of three immunization> with the first dose after 9 years of age (usually 11-12 years of age), second dose two months after the first dose, and the third dose six months after the first dose. These will be administered free only to eligible children. 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The policy change won approval by . the ~ederal C o mm un1c at 1o ns Commission on a 3-2 vote Dec. 20. That angered local government officials who claim the agency overstepped its authority and now promise a legal challenge. The vote also drew the threat of a "leg· islative fix" !rom a powerful congressman. The new rules are meant to spur more competitioo for cable television providers. They require local governments . to speed up the approval process for new competitors, cap the fees paid by new entrants and ease requirements that competitors build systems that reach every home. Consumer groups long have complained about rising cable rates and poor service, blaming the problems on a lack of competition. But opponents of the FCC's action say the new rules amount to a "federalization" of the cable franchising process. They contend the change will mean a loss of local oversight, fewer dollars for public and government access channels and the possibility of "cherry picking" by companies that choose to serve only the richest neighborhoods. Supporters of the policy change have cited dozens of instances in which local govemments have made unreasonabledemandsofnewcompetitors, effectively blocking them from offering service. It was one of those claims that raised the ire of David L. Smith, the city attorney in Tampa, Fla. He said the FCC chairman, Kevin Martin, made a "blatantly inaccurate allegation" about Tampa's conduct during franchise negotiations with Verizon Communications Inc. Martin was quizzing an •gency employee during a commission meeting before casting his vote when he asked: "Is Verizon still " required to film the tutoring classes for the math classes in Tampa, Florida in order to get a franchise?" Rosemary Harold, a deputy chief in the FCC's Media Bureau, answered, "Yes, Mr. Chairman." Harold was put on the spot earlier by commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, who voted against the FCC pro· posal. Adelstein asked Harold to cite "specific communities" that are "particularlr, having a problem right now ' in gaining a franchise. Smith, who negotiated with Verizon in Tampa, says Martin's allegation neither was in nor a condition of the franchise agreement. Martin's characterization, the lawyer said, was "complete and abject fiction." Smith also said the FCC had never contacted him about the claim. In an interview Friday, Martin said he probably should not have used the word "still" but largely stood by his argument - that Tampa was making an unreasonable demand of Verizon. He said he had riot responded to Smith's letter, but would do so. "These are difficult issues," he said. "I think the commission is trying to find a balance between protecting the local communities' interest but also making sure they are not ·effectively pre-empting the ability (of new companies) to get in and compete.' The dispute raises a larger question about whether the agency should investigate specific allegations made by companies that stand to benefit from rules or simply assume that they are true. Adelstein, a Democrat, accused his agency of failing to "conduct any independent fact-finding" and said the FCC did not "attempt to verify the allegations made by parties who have a vested mterest in the outcome of this proceeding." He accused Martin and the two other Republican commissioners who voted in favor of the new rules of presuming that "in every case that the big phone companies are right and the local governments are wrong:" FCC spokeswoman Tamara Lipper said it would be "impossible for the commission to independently vet every single one of the millions of comments that inform our rule-making." She said the agency issues public notices and posts spe· cific comment and reply comment periods to "ensure all sides of an issue have the opportunity to weigh in." If someone knowingly submits false information in the record, he ..can be "sub)ect to disciplinary action,' she added. The stakes in this battle are high. Companies such as Verizon and AT&T are spending billions of dollars to lay fiberoptic cable in their service areas in the hope they wi II be able to compete with the cable television industry. The Tampa allegation outlined by Martin first appeared in a Wall Street Journal story in October 2005that painted a sympathetic portrait of Verizon 's travails in gaining franchises. The account said Verizon, seeking permission to offer TV service in Tampa. was presented with "a $13 million wish list" of items it needed, including "video cameras to film a math•tutoring program for kids." The story stated that "Verizon lawyers saw it as a demand." Less than a week after the story ran, the FCC opened its proceeding on video franchis mg. Smith said Tampa gave Verizon a $13 million "needs assessment" that he says was required by law in order to obtain contributions for equipment for public access and ~overnment channels. The ctty's existing cable franchise, Bright House Networks. had paid $5.5 million and pledged $1 million more, he said. ' · . Smith also said under Florida law, a competitor would be required to match that amount to obtain a franchise. He said it is possible the "needs assessment" included video cameras to film shows such as the math class, but that there was never "a specific quid pro quo." Nor was anything lik~ that mentioned in the franchise agreement. he said. "Even if it was on the needs list as one of the items, that doesn't mean that's how the money would be spent." he ., of a Shiite shrine in the largely Sunni city ofSamarra last Feb. 22. The two Cllf bombs in Kirkuk exploded within 30 minutes of each other in different parts of the city, 180 mile> nonh of Baghdad. The first blast was at a car dealership, killing six people and wounding 19, said Qader, the police general said. The second went off at a popular restaurant, killing live and injuring IS, he said. In Baghdad, police said they found 39 bullet-riddled bodies throughout the city Sunday, apparent victims of sectarian death squads. Ten more bodies were recovered floating down th ris River25 miles south the c Rital. Drive-by shooters kiUed a high-ranking Shiite ofticial at the Industry and Mines Ministry along with his 27year-old daughter and two other people, police said. A car bomb exploded near a mosque in the Sunni city of Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding four, police said. The U.S. command announced the arrest oq I suspected terrorists, including an 111-Qaida courier, in a series of raids in Baghdad and Sunni areas nonh and west of the capital. Three are believed to have close ties to the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq, the military said. Internet HOLIDAY SPECIAL! VnHmited Hou11 '" ""'~ llrlllloiVII~I • FREf 24/'f LM Tldlniclla..ppod • i nstant~ • ileep JCl'f ILO:i)' kll • t(le-f!\111 ~·~ ~ • CAiom Stilt Plot · ~ \IIMINr & I'IIO'tl o~lou~ ... p~~O.-., the math program. It did, however, revise its comments and apologize after a complaint from Tampa about how the company represented the negotiations. added. 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Valentines TOGETHER! ~ .~---------------~---------Below: --·-------------·· ~ Write your Message Mail Your Lo~e Message and Total Amount Due To: The Daily Sentinel Ill Court Street, Pomeroy, Ohio 4~769 • Nome::-::----------------~------Address: --:;=- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Size of Valentine:::;::;:---- - - - . : . -_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Total Amount Enclosed: . . ---.---.---.-. -.-.-.] -~~~~.-...-..--.--.--.~~~ --------------~- . n ~- Trust issues remain for this wife BY KATHY MITCHEU. AND MARCY SUGAR Dear Annie : My problem is, I need therapy. Let me explain. My husband has worked at his company for I 0 years and there's never been a problem, but his employer recently hired a woman with a questionable reputation. Last month, I found out my husband had cheated on me two years ago. He has promised it will never happen again and that he learned his lesson. The problem is, I can't stand the thought of him working with this woman. The idea of him even talking to her makes me sick. He also has made it clear that no matter how it makes me feel, he's not going to go out of his way to avoid her. That really hurt. I'm truly considering ending my marriage because I can't get it out of my head that he might speak to this University Medical Center woman. I cannot afford a in general and thoracic therapist, but I know I need surgery. In 1986 Dr. Rerych help. Any suggestions? was named the Chief Frultca~e . in General, Resident Dear Fruitcake: You do Vascular and Thoracic need help, but not because Surgery, also at Duke you are a "fruitcake." The University and the Virginia real problem is that your Medical Center (Asheville, husband cheated on you and North Carolina). In 1991, he you don't trust him. He also served as an assistant clini- tsn't doing enough to reascal professor of general, sure you that he will be vascular and thoracic faithful. This woman's pressurgery at the same institu- ence simply brings to the tions. surface all the issues that Prior to coming to haven't been cleared up. You Pleasant Valley Hospital, Dr. and your husband need Rerych lived in Asheville, counseling, together if posNorth Carolina where he sible, but if not, go without was a private practitioner. him.. You CAN afford it Try Some of his honors United Way, the YMCA, include being runner-up for your local hospitals, churchthe Investigator of the Year es, university psychology Award through the American College of Cardiology ( 1978), winner of two Olympic gold medals for swtmming (1968) , POMEROY - Plans are Outstanding College Athlete of the Year for the states of moving forward for a prom New Jersey and North dress sale to be held at High School Carolina (1969) and elected Meigs to the Sports Hall of Fame Saturday and Sunday. Meanwhile, Paula in New Jerst1y (1969). is the yearMorrison who Professionally, he was been invited to speak on book advisor and the one "Non-invasive Evaluation of planning the sale to raise Coronary Artery Disease" at money for that, is anxious to the annual meeting of the get more dresses. " Last year's sale was a Society of Nuclear Medicine and as a closing discussant tremendous success with on "Radionuclide lots of choice for those buyAn~iocardiolography in Pattents with Surgical Disorders" at the annual meeting of the Southern Surgical Association. Dr. Rerych is located in OSU Honor Roll Suite 113 of the Pleasant Valley Hospital Medical POMEROY - The folOffice Buildmg. For more information about the pace- lowing local students were named to the Honor Roll at maker service or general The Ohio State University surgery options, please call, for the autumn quarter : (304) 675-1666 Emily Story and Robert Swisher, Middleport; Brent Buckley, Michele Runyon, and Christopher VanReeth, Pomeroy; Amanda Foreman, Portland; Austin Little, Racine; Morgan Weber, Reedsville. Students on the Honor Roll received a grade point deeper problems we have in average of 3.5 or better <md the area and the state," he were enrolled for at least 12 credit hours. said. Seveml Democmtic Party On Dean's List members suggested .he run after he served as co-chair of CINCINATTI -Erica Sen. John Kerry's 2004 Poole of Middleport was presidential campaign in Richland County, where named to the dean's list at Republican President Bush the University of Cincinnati captured 60 percent of the for the autumn quarter. vote. Goyal ran last November for the seat vacated by Democratic state Rep. Bill Hartnett, who left due to term limits, and defeated Republican Phil Holloway COLUMBUS (AP) - A with 63 percent of the vote. man who drowned.after plung"He did a really good job ing off a freeway ovetpass as of positioning himself so he polke closed in following a was favorable to more than muhi-county chase wa~ a 19one group of people," year-old from Columbus, a coroner said. Hartnett said. An autopsy determined that Aoother Indian-American. Subodh Chandra, the former William Jones drowned after law di~tor of Cleveland, the 3(}-foot jump from a free. ran for statewide office last way bridge into the Scioto River on Thesday night. year, but lost in the Franklin County Coroner Boo Democratic primary in May Lewis said. His body was found to eventual Attorney General Wednesday 011 the river bed. Marc Dann. Chandra. the Jones, Roger Fountain, 45, of son of immigrants, created a Columbus, and Leonard parody commercial on his Rosselolt. 26, of Wtlmington. Web site comparing himself led police 011 a chase after an to the cartoon character Apu armed robbery a1 a gas station in Clinton County. police said. on "The Simpsons." Birthdays PVH surgeon now doing pacemaker implants Stephen K. Rerych, MD tings can be adjusted at any time. Routine evaluation, sometimes even via telephone, ensures the pacemaker is working properly and monitors battery life, which generally runs from five to ten years. The most common reason for a pacemaker is a heartbeat that slows to an unhealthy rate, or brady cardia. A pacemaker resets the heart rate to an appropriate pace , ensuring adequate blood and oxygen are delivered to the brain and other parts of the body. "Dr. Rerych's stellar leadership and commitment to quality health services and personalized patient care has helped build the surgical services program at Pleasant Valley Hospital," praised William A. Barker, Jr., vicepresident of corporate development "I believe that by offering the pacemaker service to the community we have made a difference in people 's lives," he added. Dr. Rerych received his medical degree in 1974 from Columbia University College of Physicians Surgeonli (New York, NY). In 197 5, he completed his internship at Duke COLUMBUS (AP) Before his first bill or floor speech, a rookie state legislator who took office this month with the minority Democrats is getting national and international attention from the Asian Indian community. Jay Goyal, 26, a native of Mansfield in north-central Ohio, is among a handful of lawmakers with Indian backgrounds serving across the United States. "As the first generation · getting something like this, the Indian community is · proud," said Neil Patel, prestdent of the Federation of · Indian Associations of Ohio. Goyal, who also is one of . Ohio's youngest lawmakers, · has ,been featured on the front pages of two newspapers in India. and his cousins . saw his photo on newspa• pers in an Indian-American community of Los Angeles. • "First, they saw one newspaper with my picture on the . cover and were like. 'Oh, ' wow. That's Jay."' Goyal , said. "Then, through the · course of the day, they kept seeing my name or picture ' everywhere, and by the end of the day it was. ·'Oh, there's Jay again."' Indian-Americans make up 0.3 percent of Ohio's population, · census figures show. "It has quite a bit of meaning to me. It's very meaningful for people from that community," he said. "Many of them first came over in the ' 50s and '60s, had worked hard and been successful in some fields , but politics has been one field that people from that group hadn't necessarily gotten involved with." Goyal, who attended Northwestern University, planned t~ get an engineering degree and work for his father's company. Goyal Industries. His father, Prakash Goyal, came to the United States in 1970 and worked for the Ohio Brass Co. in Manstield until the company was bought and set to move in 1988. Goyal started his own business and picked up a lot of Ohio Brass work. Jay Goyal became the company's vice president. Goyal entered politics because he was troubled to see so many of his high school dassmates leave Manslield and Ohio. "That's a symptom of departments and graduate sc hool coun seling departments. Or contact the American Association of Pastoral Counselors (www.aapc.org) at 9504A Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA 2203 1-2303 and Samaritan Counseling Centers (samari tanin stitute .org) at 2696 S. Colorado Blvd., Suite 380, Denver, Colo. 80222. Dear Annie : What do you think about a person who grabs every check at meals, golfing, etc. , in order to put it on hi s credit card? We all have to pay him back our portion of the bill. The purpose of this is to get all the frequent flyer mileage. He then travels everywhere on this built-up mileage. He thinks his friends aren't onto him. I think it's greedy. What do yo11 say? Disgusted In California Dear Disgusted: Some people don't mind giving cash and letting others reap the credit card benefit. If it bothers you, next time say, "George. it's our tum to get the mileage. You can have the next go-round." Or, of course, you can ask for separate checks. Dear Annie: The letter from "Heartsick Parents," whose 19-year-old daughter declared she was a lesbian, took me back several years to a time when I could have written their letter for them. · My 19-year-old daughter waited until she was in college (smart move) to say, "Mom, I'm gay." I'd always considered myself a broadminded person, but I found out that I was broadminded as long as it was somebody else's daughter. I reacted horribly. I said hurtful things and snapped at her over nothing. One of the worst things I did was tell her to never bring "those people" (her girlfriends) to our home. After a couple of months of the worst sadness I'd ever felt (seems so >illy when I think of it now) , I realized I would have to change or I was going to lose my daughter. I contacted a psychologist who told me about PFLAG . When I called for information. a man answered the phone. I gave him my name and poured out my whole blubbering, tearful story. After I finished. he s~id, "Lady, this is the Veterans Administration! " But I'd taken the ftrst step toward recovery. I'd told someone and the world didn't come to an end . The members of PFLAG took me under their wings and worked their magic, and now my daughter and I are closer than ever. - Bonnie Dear Bonnie: We laughed at the VA story, but we know that call must have been hard for you. Congratulations on doing it right Annie's Mailbox is writ· ten by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime edi· tors of the Ann lAnders column. Please e-mail your questions to anniesmail· box@comcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, P.O. Box 118190, Chicago, IL 60611. To jirid out more about Annie's Mailbox, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com, Prom dress sale coming up School news Ohio lawmaker getting noticed for Asian Indian heritage (APPROXIMATELY 60 WORDS) Happy ValenUne's .Day Cupid's arrow is straight and true. In bringing this thought oflove to you. I'm sorry about the other night When we had that terrible fight A Sendnel love message was a good ide.l. To show you just how much I love you, Maria. Regular meeting of Olive Jeanne Bowen will be host· ' Township Tru stees, 6:30 ess. p.m. , township garage . Monday, Jan. 29 RUTLAND - Rutland Friday, Feb. 2 RACINE Southern Township Trustees, 5 p.m., POMEROY - Meigs Local School Board, 8 p.m., Rutland Firehouse. County PERI Chapter 74, I budget hearing, 8: 15 p.m., p.m. Installation of officers. regular meeting, high Friday, Feb. 2 Norma Torres to speak . school media room. MARIETTA - Buckeye Hills- Hocking Valley Saturday, Feb. 3 Thesday, Jan. 30 Re gional Development SALEM CENTER POMEROY ·- Leading District, 12 noon, at the Star Grange #778 and Star Creek Watershed Group, Comfort Inn, located at 700 5:30 p.m. at the Pomeroy E. Pike St. , Marieta . Junior Grange #878 meet Library to discuss reclama- Questoins regarding the for potluck supper at 6:30 tion project. Potluck. take meeting, contact Jenny p.m., with meeting to follow· at 7:30. Opening and covered dish . McMahon, 740-374-94.36. closing team to practice during meeting. Wednesday, Jan. 31 PORTLAND - Lebanon Township Trustees, 7 p.m., at township building . All meetings for . 2007 will be Thursday, Feb. 8 Wednesday,Jan.JI held at 7 p.m. on the last POMEROY Alice POMEROY The day of the month at the Middleport Literary Club Thompson will observe her township garage . will meet at 2 p.m. at 85th birthday, Feb. 8. Card Pomeroy Libary. Olita may be sent to her at 42370 Thursday, Feb. I Heighton will review Gun Club Road, Pomeroy, REEDSVILLE "Colony" by John Tayman. Ohio 45769. POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. Stephen K. Rerych, MD, a general surgeon at Pleasant Valley Hospital, is now offering patients the opportunity to have pacemakers implanted . locally without having to · travel to larger, urban facilities. In addition, patients can receive advanced diagnostics and innovative treatments at PVH devoted to the detection and treatment of heart rhythm disorders which can cause a wide range of problems from dizziness and fatigue to stroke and even sudden death. "Today's pacemakers are truly remarkable devices. Their main purpose is to keep the electrical system ffom going too slow and thereby prevent the probe !ems associated with slow heart rhythms," explained Dr. Rerych. "Pacemakers have become a reliable means of helping people live longer and tmprove their lifestyles ·.. despite having a ·slow heart ·rhythm," he continued. Although it weighs just about an ounce, a pacemaker contains a powerful battery, electronic circuits and computer memory that together generate electronic signals: The signals, or pacin~ pulses, are carried along thtn, insulated wires, or leads. to the heart muscle. The signals cause the heart muscle to begin the contractions that cause a heartbeat A pacemaker is implanted just below the collarbone in a procedure that takes about two hours. It is programmed to stimulate the heart at a pre-determined rate, and set- Monday, January 29, 2007 ANNIE'S MAILBOX • Public meetings Clubs and organizations PageA3 BY THE BEND Community Calendar In News footage showed pools of BY ROBERT H. REID blood on the stone steps and ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER walkways. Afin from a mortar BAGHDAD, lraq - U.S.shell lay on the ground. Hours after the attack. grievbacked Iraqi troops on Sunday ing parents wept as the bodies attacked insurgents allegedly of their children were placed m plotting to kill pilgrims at a wooden col'lins. Police satd major Shiite Muslim religious four of the girls were killed festival. and Iraqi officials estiinstantly and a lifth died later mated some 250 militants died In a joint statement, in the daylong battle near UNICEF and UNESCO Najaf. A U.S . helicopter called the attack .. yet another crashed during the fight, tmgic reminder of the risks fackilling two American soldiers. ing Iraq's schoolchildren." . Mortar shells, meanwhile, No group claimed responst: hit the counyard of a girls' bility for the attack. but a Sunm school in a mostly Sunni Arab organization, the General nei~hborhood of Baghdad, Conference of the People of killing five pupils and woundinl9· blamed Shiite Muslim ing 20. U.N. officials deplored rnilttias with ties to governthe attack, calling the apparent ment security forces. The targeting of children "an group said in a statement that unforgivable crime." the mortar shells bore markTwo car bombs exploded ings indicating they were manwithin a half hour in the nonhufactured in lnm, which U.S. em city of Kirkuk, killing II officials accuse of supporting people and wounding 34, Shiite militia~. police Brig. Gen. Sarhad AP photo Three bombings, mean. Qader said. Three ethnic while, struck Shiite districts in US Soldiers from the 887th Engineer Company install cement barriers te fortify a Joint groups - Nabs, Kurds and Baghdad, killing at least seven . Thrkomen - are in a bitter Security Station, where American and Iraqi troops will stage during upcoming security oper· people and wounding 61. struggle for control of that oil- ations in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday. police said. rich area. The worst incident was a car automatic weapons, sniper craft crashed. one Sudanese. In addition to confirming the rifles and rockets, the governor It was the second U.S. milibomb that killed at least four Provincial Gov. Assad two Americans kiUed in the · helicop1er crash near Najaf, Sultan Abu Kilel said the said. He said the insurgents tary helicopter to do down in and wounded 39 at an outdoor · the U.S. command announced assault was launched because were members of a previously eight days. Twelve U.S. sol- market in Sadr City, a spr~wl­ three combat deaths from the insurgents planned to unknown group called the diersdiedJan. 20 when a Black ing slum that is a stronghold of Hawk crashed northeast of the Mahdi Anny of mdical Saturday - one Marine in the attack Shiite pilgrims and cler- Army of Heaven. "They are well-equipped Baghdad. The Am1y says it is cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a miliSunni insurgent stronghold of ics during ceremonies mark. Anbar province and two Army ing Ashoum, the holiest day in and they even have anu~air­ investigating the cause, but a tia blamed for much of lmq's the Shiite calendar commemo- craft mis~iles, " the governor Pentagon official has said sectarian bloodshed. · soldiers in the Baghdad area. The mortar attack and Authorities said Iraqi sol- mting the 7th century death of said. "They are backed by debris indicated it was downed bombings appeared to be part diers supported by U.S. air- Imam Hussein. The celebm- some locals" loyal to ousted by a missile. The mortar attack in of the sectarian reprisal craft fought all day with a large tion culminates Tuesday in dictator Saddam Hussein. Abu Kilt;l said two lmqi Baghdad occurred about II killin~s that have pushed Iraq group of insurgents in the huge public processions in Zaraq area, about 12 miles Karbala and other Shiite cities . . policemen were killed and 15 a.m. at the Kholoud Secondary into ctvil warfare over the past Officials were unclear about wounded, but there was no School in the Adil neighbor- year, violence that President . oonheastoftheShiiteholycity the religious affiliation of the word on other Iraqi govern- hood, police and school offi- Bush hopes to quell by sending ofNajaf. cials said. The principal, up to 21,500 more American CoL Ali Nomas, spokesman militants. Although Sunni ment casualties. A U.S. statement said the Fawzyaa Hatrosh Sawadi. said soldiers to Baghdad and surfor Iraqi security forces in Arabs . have been the main Najaf, said more than 250 force behind insurgent groups. American helicopter went students were mingling in the rounding areas. U.S. officials have long corpses had been found. Iraqi there are a number of Shiite down while "conducting oper- courtyard during a break in army Maj. Gen. Othman al- militant and splinter groups ations to assist Iraqi Security exams when at least two shells accused al-Qaida in Iraq, a Sunni Muslim group. of fan. Ghanemi also spoke of 250 that have clashed from time to Forces" in the attack. It said exploded. The blasts shattered win- ning sectarian hatreds by stagtwo crew members died and dead but said an exact number time with the government would not be released until Iraqi soldiers attacked at their bodies were recovered. dows in classrooms, spraying ing vicious attacks on Shiite Monday. He said 10 gunmen dawn and militants hiding in The statement did not give any students with shards of glass. civilians. Revenge killings had been captured, including orchards fought back with information on why the air- Associated Press Television have surged since the bombing BY JOHN DUNBAR The Daily Sentinel ing and a good opportunity for those wanting to make some money while getting those once-worn gowns out of the closet. We're looking for another great sale with lots of variety and sizes. It's going to be a big selection with great prices," said Morrison. To receive gowns Morrison will be at the school from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday. They can also be brought to the school anytime between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. 1\Jesday, Wednesday and Thursday, but that will be the last day gowns will be accepted for the sale. The cost to have a prom dress put on the sale rack is $5. Some accessories are also being accepted and there is no charge to sell them there. A few local merchants will also be on hand to show and sell prom accessories. OU-COM <ffering.free immunizatiom ATHENS - Community health programs for children are being offered fee of charge through the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-COM) along with Community Health Programs (CHP), and the Childhood Immunization Program (CHIP) . The Community Health Programs are providing vaccine for children whn are on Medicaid, whose parents have no insurance, or are American Indians or Alaskan natives. Also available are vac Hepatitis A, cines which is a senes of two six immunizations, months apart, started after a child is 12 months of age; Human Papillomavirus HPV (for girls 9 to 18 years) which is a series of three immunization> with the first dose after 9 years of age (usually 11-12 years of age), second dose two months after the first dose, and the third dose six months after the first dose. These will be administered free only to eligible children. 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Chuck Hagel of Nebruska) to declare this same so-called troop surge to be against "the national interest. " The president 's argument fails to convince me that the effort required to secure Baghdad, which comes down to American troops quashing sectarian street violence, is worth the price. It's hard to imagine that an increased American presence, which is necessarily temporary, will win more than a pause in the violence, which goes back centuries. But I'm also unconvinced that the mission itself is of strategic value tu the United States. My great concern, as I have written before, is that it's very possible that renewed American lighting in Baghdad, if successful whit:h, as Americans, we must hope it to be - wi II not only stabilize the chaotic capital of Iraq, but will also entrench its Shiite-led, pro-Hezbollah, antiWestern government. Thi s suggests that victory in Iraq 111 Court Street • Pomeroy, Ohio (740) 992·2156 • FAX (740) 992·2157 www.mydallysentlnel.com Ohio Valley Publishing Co. Dan Goodrich Publisher Charlene Hoeflich General Manager-News Editor Congress sllilll make no la1v respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the fret• t•xercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. - The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Munday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2007. There are 336 da ys left in the year. Today's Highlight in History : On Jan. 29, 1820, Britain 's King George Ill died at Winthor Castk ending a reign that had seen both the American and French revolutions. On thi' date: In I~43 , the 25th president of the United States, William McKinley, was horn in Niles, Ohio. In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror. In 1850, Henry Clay introduced in the Senate compromise proposals on slavery. In 1861 , Kansas became the 34th state of the Union . In 1936, the tlrst members of baseball's Hall of Fame, including T'y Cobh and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, NY In 1958, ac:tors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were Bush team, which now presides , for example, over a recurring battle for Baghdad' , Haifa Street, where enem y fighters keep returning to fire at American and Iraqi troops from positions in high-rise buildings. Is it just me, or docs anyone ever wonder why, if pacifying Baghdad is so darn vital, those buildmg' are sti ll standing'' It i' the great irony of our time that f' \ 'l' ll a~ our stoneage enemie' seck to innict as many ci viiian casualtie s as po"ible , we in the postmodern West seek to innict none. Which b extremely nice, but what is it they say ahout nice guys? And how nice, really, is it'' Ci ti zens of the 21st ce ntury, we pat ourse lves on the back for an elevated morality even as we expect our hrave volunteers to risk life and limb to protect both ourselves and, in effect, our enemies also . This does nothing but prolong the state of war and the suffering that goes with it, which is surely neither nice, nor morally uplifting. Maybe such a mindset is relatively new to the American identity. but the limbo of unresolved connict it consigns us to promises to be with us for a long time . (Diana West is a columnist for The Wa .1hington Times. Site can be comacted via' diww "·est@' ·erizmr.ner,) our own election s. With· Senate Democrats pushing through that non-binding resolution opposing troop surge (mentioned above), 11 might well be argued that Diana recent U.S. elections West brought abou t "divisions" that have fractured the American identity. Debate is one 1hing, but, as Se n. may deliver not a new Richard G. Lugar (Indiana brother for the anti-terror Republican). who h irm~lt coalition, but rather a per- considers the troop surge feel ally for Iran. And what "dubious ," pointed out, kind of American victory is "Offidal ro ll call votes carry a un1que message " that ? A victory for democracy, I Ami, in this vote's case, that guess, In his State of the message goes strai ght to our Union address this week, enemies, who will hunker President Bush was stin down to wait fur a divided chanting the democracy America to up and crumble. mantra, insisting that "free This is a disgraceful way fur people are not drawn to vio- lawmakers to send troops lent and malignant ideolo- off anyw here . It also reveals the blindgies" - this after a whole ness nf Bu sh's political lot of free people across the who see no misopponcms, Islamic world have democsiun of ~ t ra l eg ic val ue tu th~ ratically shown themselves to be drawn 10 just such ide- United State s in Iraq. Fur ologies. Even so, Lt. Gen. example, if. as AI Qaeda David Petraeus, whom d"ims, there are some Bush has tapped to execute 12,lMlO AI Qaeda terrorists hi s new Iraq strategy, has in Iraq, it is obviously a noted the limited tran sfor- mission of strategic value to mative·powers of democra- the United States to elimicy. Addressing the Senme nate them, and to do so with Foreign Relations as Iittle loss of Ameri<.:an Committee this week. the life as possible. This would likely re4uire general said, "The elections that gave us such hope actu- li,S. air attacks, and such ally intensified sectarian atwcks would likely entail divi sions in the population Iraqi civilian casualties. Ju st at the expense of the sense th" thought of such casualties seems to render such a of the Iraqi identity." He could say that again , mission unthinkable to both and, in a way, even about Bu sh opponents and the Obituaries William Watson SYRACUSE - William "Dave" Watson 74 of Syracuse, died on Saturday. Jan. 27, 2007, ~~ H~ lzer Medtcal Center in Gallipolis after an extended illness. He was born July. 10, 1932 in Plymouth, to the late Guy Watson and Chnstme Smtth Freeman. Dave sold insurance f~r ,AIG and was an avid supporter of local sports. Surv1Vtng are his · daughter, Dena (Tom) Roseberry, Syracuse; grandchildren: Trenton, Colby, and Andrew Rosberry, Syracuse; sisters: JoAnn Smalley, Findlay, and Sharon Kincaid, Point Pleasant, W.Va.; brothers. Charles (E laine) Watson, Baltimore, Md., and Gary (Linda) Freeman of Pomeroy; sisters-inlaw, Wanda Roush and Lei la Grindley of Columbus; a brother-m-law. Ted (Dee) Grindley of Columbus; and several meces, nephew s, cousins and extended family. .Bestdes hts parents, he was preceded in death by hi s wtfe of 50 years, Marilyn Watson; a son, David Lee Watson ; mother-in -law and father-in-law Ronald Edward and Cora Grindley ; his sisters: Marcella (Charles Roben) Birchfield, Connie Drake and Candie Freeman; and brothers-m-law: Stanley Smalley, Roger Grindley, and Edward Grindley. Service will be at I p.m, on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007 at the Pomeroy Chapel of Fi sher Funeral Home with Pastor Ryan Eaton officiating. Burial will follow at the Letart Falls Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6-9 p.m, on Mondayat the funeral home . Online Condolences may be sent to www. fisherfuneralhomes.com. William E. Banks Reverend William E. "Bill" Banks, 73, of Point Pleasant , W.Va., died Friday, Jan . 26, 2007, at his home. He is survived by hi s wife, Mildred L. (Peters) Banks. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007, at the Gospel Lighthouse Church, Point Pleasant, with Rev, Lloyd "Junior" Mayes and Rev, Bobby Woods officiating. Burial will follow in Suncrest Cemetery, Point Pleasant. Visitation will be from 6-9 p.m. Monday, Jan . 29, 2007, at the Crow-Hussell Funeral Home and one hour prior to service at the church. In lieu of flowers , donations may be made to the Gospel · Lighthouse Church, P.O. Box 344, Point Pleasant , W Va. 25550. married. In 1963, the first members of pro football \ Hall uf Fame were named in Canton, Ohio. Five yems ago: In hi s first State of the Union address, Pcesident Bush said terrorists were still threatening America - and he warned of "an axis uf ev il" consisting of North Korea, lr;,n and Iraq . Actor Harold Russell , who received two Oscars for his sensiii ve p011rayal of a disabled veteran in "The Best Years of Our Lives," died in Needham, Mass., at age 88. One year ago: ABC "World News 'Tonight" co-anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq. Roger Federer won his seventh Grand Slam title, overcoming an early challenge from unseeded Marcos Baghdat1s to win the Australian Open 5-7, 7-5, 6-0. 6-2. Avant garde video artist Nam June Paik died in Miami at age 74. Today's Birthdays· Actor John Forsythe is 89. Actor Noel Harrison is n . Author Germaine Greer is 68. Actress Katharine Ross is 67 . Actor Tom Selleck is 62. Rhythm-andblues singer Bettye LaVette is 61. Actor Marc Singer is 59. Actress Ann Jillian is 57. Rock musician Tommy Ramone (Rarnone s) is 55. Rock musician Louie Perez (Los Lobos) is 54. Talk show host Opruh Winfrey is 53. Actress Diane Delano is 50. Actress Judy Norton Taylor ("The Waltons") is 49. Ruck musician Johnny Spampinato (NRBQ) is 48. Olympic gold-medal d1ver Greg Louganis is 47. Rock musician David Bavnton-Power (James ) is 46. Rock musician Eddie Jackson iQucensryc hc) i' 46. Actor Nicholas Turturro is 4~ . Rock singcr-musit:ian Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera) is 4 J Actur-director EdwanJ Burns is 39. Actress Heather ( :raham i' 17. Actor Sharif Atkins is 32. Actress Sara Gilbert is 32. At:tor Andrew Keegan is 28. Actor Jason James Richter is 17 Blues musician Jonny Lang is 26. Thought for Today: "Love is an irresistible desire to be irre;istibly desired." - Robert Frost. American poet ( 18741963 ). 'lOU MR Nona; HOW BARAtK ~UNDS L\l<G IRAQ, and OBAMJI SOUNDS Ll\<E ·1: . Bv RACHEL BECK AP BUSINESS WRITER NEW YORK - There's a new twist in the buyout boom roiling corporate America: A growing skepticism among shareholders and the boards that represent them over the value of such deals. Whether it's the directors at Cablevision rejecting a sweetened going-private offer or Health Management Assoc iates' decision to do its own recapitalization rather than be bought by others, there 's a building backlash to the record-setting pace of private-equity and maAagement -led takeovers. The driving issue is money, fueled by evidence that buyers are reaping much larger rewards than shareholders, thanks tu the ability of buyers to 4uickly flip their acquisitions at higher prices. Ther" were a rewrd $409 billion worth of buyouts in 2006, nearly four times the total in 2004, according to De alogic . Among the biggest: a $21 billion deal to take hospital chain HCA Inc, private and a $ 15 billion buyout of pipe line operator Kinder Morgan Inc, That dealmaking has gotten much attention on Wall Street. helping tu fuel the market's big gains over the last six months by pumping r------------------·------------~ The Daily Sentinel (USPS 213·960) Ohio Valley Publishing Co. :our main conce rn in all stones is to Published every afternoon, Monday ·be accurate . Jf you know of an error 1n a story. call the newsroom at (740) th rough Fric:tay, 111 Coun Street. Second-class Pomeroy, Ohio . postage paid at Pomeroy 992-2156 Our main number Is (740) 992-2156. Department extensions are: News Editor: Charlene Hoeflich. El(t. 12 Reporter; Brian Reed . Ext. 14 Reporter: Belh Sergent. Ext 13 Advertising Outside Salea: Dave Harns Ext. 15 MembeJ: The Assoc1ated Press and the Ohio Newspaper Association Poatmaater: Send address correction,s to The Daily Sentinel. 111 Court Street. 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And in the process. the new buyers lavi shed themse lves with tremendous payouts. The poster-child of such tactics is Hertz, the car rental company that was sold by Ford Motor Co. to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Inc., The Carlyle Group and Merrill Lynch. They paid $2.3 billion in cash, borrowed more than $3 billion and assumed $ 10 billion in debt to acquire Hertz in the fall of 2005. Hertz took on more debt to pay its new owners about $1 billion in dividend s. Then. the proceeds from its November IPO were used llJ pay that debt oil and to give the private-equity owners another special dividend worth about $400 tnillion . They also own 216 million shares, which are worth about $3.S billion today. There is a grow ing resistance to such deal s. "In li ght of several highprotile '4uick !lips,' public shareholders can 't help but wonder whether they are leav ing money on the table," said Chris Young, who heads merger and lK4Ui>ition research at the proxy advisory firm Jn,t itutional Shareholder ' Services. An independent committee of directors at Cablevision Systems Corp. reJC<'ted a $30 a share offer from the controlling Dolan family to take the New York cable TV operator priv ate . The family _ which owns about 20 percent of the company but controls 10 percent uf the shareholder vo ting power _ had made a previm" bid or $27 a share in Ot·tober, and then raised its oiler un Jan . 12. In a letter to the Dohms, the dircl·tors said the new stock offer valued at $8,9 billion wouldn't be in the best interest of shareht>ider> and dido' t retlet:t the fair value of the l'Ompany. That deci; ion was lauded by amtlysh and investors who felt the l'ompany ·, as;et,, whit:h indude about three million cab le cu'- The Daily Sentinel • Page As www.mydallysentinel.com 2007 Elevated morality won't win Iraq The Daily Sentinel Monday, January 29, 2oo 7 tomcrs in the New York area, the New York Knicks basketball · team and Madist>n Square Garden. is worth more. · Other companies. like Phoenix -based Swift Transport<~tion Co. Inc. , are willing to give up offers they deemtuo low, despite a toug'h business climate in their industries. The trucking company's board rejected a $29-a-s hare bid in November from founder <~nd fonn"r top executive Jerry Moye,, but agreed to a buyout Monday for $31.55 per share. valued at about $2.74 billion. Man age ment Health As.sociates Inc. is going a tlitlerent route by doing what many on Wall Street are calling a ''se lf' leveraged buyout. The Naples, Fla.-based hospital operator will take on $2.4 billion in new debt to fund a one-time· S 10 dividend for every share. Whtle that effectively gives HMA's exec utives and director' a big payout because they own large stock positions in the company, it also lets its share. holders _ instead of privatec4uity firms who . could have bought out the company _ ch1i 111 the one-time cash dividend. The buyout busine" isn't ending, hut the rules of the game are certainly changmg . Mini-horse named Panda a special helper for blind upstate New York woman BETHLEHEM, N.Y. (AP) - Panda is everything you would want in a pet and guide animal for the blind - protective, alert, house-trained, plus she loves to play fetch . And at 29 inches tall and 120 pounds, she's a darn smal horse . Panda, named for her black-and-white coat, is a miniature guide horse that has helped ~8-year-old Ann Edie na viaatc the world of city streets and country lanes since 2003. "Panda loves her work," said Edie, a special education teacher. "She knows what she's supposed to do . When I pick up the hiltness, I ~et the feeling from her of, I'm ready for anr,thing . Let's j?;O have fun ." When Edte's chocolate Labrador helper Bailey died after I 0 years -l>n the job, she tried out two other do ~s before learning about gUide horses in 2000. Although she appreciates the attributes that do~s bring to guide work, Edte said she is sold Qn the mini-horses. 'T ve found that horse intelligence lends itself well to guide work~" she said. Edie visited the Guide Horse Foundation in Kitrell , N.C., where the animals art: trained, and began a search that led her to Panda, who was only 6 months old. Edie, who owns other horses, commissioned her riding coac h, Alexandra Kurland of Delmar, N.Y., to train Panda using a method of positive rein· forcement. "It creates a very enthusiastic, eager-to-work-foryou animal," Kurland said. "You are aivinll them things they actively want to work for and you aren't poisoning the experience with corrections." Kurland taught Panda regular obedience and then guide training, showing the horse what would happen if she led her blind companion astray. For instance, if there was a trash can lying on a sidewalk, Kurland would show Panda how much room she would need. Bec ause they are herd animals, they can predict where a moving object is heading. and help adjust, satd Edie. At home, where she's not needed to work, Panda snuggles, naps on a carpet or plays with toys. If she needs to go out, she ring s a small bell that hang s from a doorknob. The partnership with Panda is an experiment, Edie said, but it's going well and. with an expected life span of 30 to 40 years, Panda should be around for quite awhile. AP Interview: Muslim adviser working for U.S. in Guantanamo prison treads warily . . Bv BEN FOX ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba The Middle Eastern man's name is a tightly held secret No one tn hi s family except his wife knows he works at this U ,S. military base, where ne arly 400 men captured in Washington's war on terror are he Id. Known only as "Zak" to the detention staff and "Znki" to detainees, he is Guantanamo Bay's Muslim cultural adviser, a civilian employee who meets with them and helps their American captors understand their ways . Zak says he has helped add books to the prison librarr, improve the pri soners food and at limes has raised inmate concerns to the prison's military commander. But he's no advocate for the detainees, and many don't like him very much . Zak says the inmates have branded him a traitor and an enem y of God - and that they would kill him if they could. That' s why even Zak's native country is kept secret "I have to use my experience and my commonsense . I don't want to put myself in any situatiOn that will jeopardize my life," the 49-year adviser told The Associaled Press in a rare interview in a conference room just outside the detention center's razor wire -topped fences . Zak recounled how on a recent night, he had retired to his quarters when he learned that fo ur pri soners wanted to see him right away inside the prison . Zak, the only Muslim cultural affairs adviser at ' Guantanamo Bay, quidly returned to work, but after talking to guards, decided against the meeting. He suspected the men were planning to attack him - most ltkely with a "cocktai l" of bodily fluids. "Sometimes, I see into their games," said Zak, a lean man with salt-andpepper hair, as he slowly shook his head as if talking about unruly children . Zak, who works for a private contractor hired by the military, is vague about his background, saying only that he is an engineer and was educated in Europe and the United State s. He and his wife owned a convenience store somewhere in the United . States. They closed it, he said, because customers taunted her after the Sept . II , 200 I , terrorist attacks . Zak then became a translator for the United States, working in Iraq. H.e arrived at this base in southeast Cuba in 2005. " I want a better future for my kids and your kids and to stop thi s extremism and terrorism in the Middle East," he said. Zak sees himse lf as an educator. He teaches guards, doctors and anyone else with access to the detainee s about Islamic religious and cultural sensitiv ities. It's an important job when reports emerged in 2005 that ~uards had mishandled the (.luran, it triggered protests in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Even today, prisoners still claim that ~uard s disturb them durmg ·prayers - an allegation the military and Zak deny. He calls complaints of prisoner mistreatment Resorts Parks International among others. As for how the resort to be named the Lazy came from PageA1 T Royal Chaparral Resort, Sally J. explains the T is say they 've had visitors for Trent and the Lazy is to from across the country, promote the laid-back including Florida, Texas atmosphere the resort and California, The Lazy T attempts to provide guests. is also registered with The family also kept Royal many nationwide travel as a sort of tribute to the groups such as Adventure park's past as Royal Oak Outdoor Resorts and Resort . said. The speaker said later that while he agreed that addin$ poll workers is a good 1dea, he wasn 't sure Brunner's · plan was acceptable to his caucus. "The first reaction is that we think voting and the democratic process is voluntary and not mandatory," Hu sted said. "We agree on the goal. But this is not the only way to do it . Ohio would be the first state to authorize a summoning of poll workers , sa id Kay Stimson, a spokes woman for the N atiorial Association of Secretaries of State. Currently a co unty in Nebraska used the practice. The national group and mo st states have focused instead on recruiting teenagers eager to join the political process. Poll workers are now paid up to $95 a day . Details such as pay - or whether there will be penalties for refusing service - are still . being worked out at Brunner 's office drafts legislation, spoke sman Patrick Gallaway said . The Ohio Association of Election Officials is awaiting details before it takes a stance on the idea, said Gwen Dillingham, the group's president and deputy director of the C uyahoga County elections board . ''I'm not opposed to anything that helps us recruit poll workers, especially up here," she said. 1956. It is the program' s goal to select students who represent the best characteristics of this country: hope. courage. openness, and a love of peace. Olivia is a member of Trinity Church , in POmeroy, and plays piano and guitar along w1th trumpet in the Meigs Marauder Band. She is also involved in summer softball and archery. She and her parents are carrying out a variety of fund raising projects to cover expenses of the trip and have a goal of $1.000 a month fort he next five months to finance the trip . · Kelsey, a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, was awarded a scholarship by AEP River · Operations, Lakin, W.Va. which covers her transportation, accommodations, meals and education-. al activities. She has a parttime job at Wendy 's in Pomeroy to help with her miscellaneous expenses . Cruisers Students from PageA1 ordinary citizens of differe~t 118tioos. if able to commurucate directly, ·would solve their differences and find a way to live in peace. That simple thought that pwple can make a difference where governments cannot - led to the formation of People to People Ambassador Programs in ers speculated that he is Lebanese or Egyptian based on his slang , alOdah said. The advi ser doe s not worship with the detainees, who have chosen their own religious leaders from among themse lves. Nor is he a Muslim chaplain , a job that primarily involve s ministering to staff and military personnel, not prisoners . A former Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay, James Yee , said he 1s skeptica l of the cultural adviser, dismissing him as "stri ctl y pub Iic re 1at ions" to help the military improve the image of a prison camp that has sparked worldwide protests. "He is in the position to just be a yes man ." Yee. who was an Army captain . at the camp until hi s arrest on spying charges in 2003, told AP in a phone interview from h1s home in Wa shington stat e. He spent 76 day s in solitary confinement before being cleared of all charges in March 2004. Guantanamo no longer has a Mu slim chaplain. Harris said the Muslim chaplains, whose primary miss ion is to provide religiou s services to the troops, are in short supply in the U.S. military and are needed elsewere. But the Council on American - I s l amic Relati ons says having a cultural adviser at Guantanamo Bay is worthwhile. "Anything that helps decrease tensions and helps maintain humanitarian treatment is welcome," said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Washington-based organization. · Plan would send State: Elevenfold increase in smmnons for poll workers number imprisoned for DUI COLUMBUS (AP) Voters could be summoned to work election days at the polls under a plan Ohio's new secretary of state is considering to supplement an aging work force and shonen the job's hours. Jennifer B.runner, - a Democrat , will ask the GOP-controlled Legislature to authorize the drafting of poll workers, Brunner spokesman Jeff Ortega said Saturday, The proposal got a cool rec-eption from H~use Speaker Jon Hu sted, a suburban Dayton Republican. Prospective poll workers would be notified by mail that they would be needed for two days of trainingthe Friday and Monday before an election - then would be required to work an eight-hour election day. Currently. poll workers are in precincts for all 13 hours the polls are open. Brunner said last week · that the move would lower the average age of poll workers - currently 72 - and ease the workload. Ohio has about 47,000 poll workers - or just over four per precinct Voters who get notices could get out of doing it for just cause, much in the way one gets out of j ury duty, Ortega said. Brunner met with Husted on Thursday, one . day after bringing the idea up before an enthusiastic Ohio Association of Election Officials at their annual meeting , Ortega LazyT "baloney." "If anybody is getting tortured , it 's the staff, the guards and medical ,staff who get spit on, called names all day long," he said, Zak meets with the detention center commander. Navy Rear Admiral Harry B. Harris, at least once a week, and meets with detainees, though he is quick to stress that he is not their advocate . Zak insists he is making a difference and has relayed detainee concerns when he co nsiders them legitimate. He declines to give examples, citing a military rule barring him from disc ussi ng anything specific about the prison. Harri s. in a se parate interview. · said Zak has been useful to the military, " He helps us all understand better the detainee population and their motivations and their potential intentions," Harris said. All the detainees at Guantanamo are Muslim and all but a handful are Sunni, the adviser said. A small number of Shiite detainees are held together to avoid confl icts, he added. While Zak acknowledges that he's generally hated by the prisoners, he says he is gaining the confidence of some - and that a few have even told him the y regret having been recruited into militant groups. Khalid al-Odah, the leader of an organization of familie s of prisoners from Kuwait and whose son is held at Guantanamo, said prisoners tried to use the adviser as an emissary after senior camp officials stopped meeting directly with prisoners in 2005 . The prison- COLUMBUS (AP) Yearly incarcerations for drunken driving convictions have increased elevenfold in the past decade, the state prisons depanment reported. Judges sentenced 465 drunken drivers to prison last year, up from 38 in 1997. when the Ohio Depanment of Rehabilitation arid Correction began tracking DUI offenders. Tougher enforcement and increased penalties in state law contributed to the trend, Also, Ohio dropped the legal blood alcohol hmit to 0,08 in 2003, from 0.1 0, putting more drivers in violation. The imprisonment number excludes those who are convicted of drunken driving along with another felony. which represents about 15 percent of all DUI convictions, notes the report released this month . Only repeat offenders get prison tenns for drunken driving alone. "Judges are realizing that for a lot of these offenders, if they continue to repeat. the only way to keep our roadways safe is to keep them in prison," said Julie Leggett. executive director of the Mothers Against Drunk Driving Mid-Ohio Valley Region in Cleveland. Repeat offenders seem to not have been affected by public awareness campaigns I! fromPageA1 sod enforcement efforts, said Fred Sttatrnann, a spokesman for the Ohio Depanment of Public Safety. "You can say it's terrible sod that people still aren't getting it, but you have to applaud that the system is working to protect people," he said. About 94 percent of the inmates were male and 94 percent were white, according to the report. The average age was· 38, and the average sentence 18 months. About 8 percent of Ohio's licensed drivers, or about · 631 ,000 people. have at lea't one drunken driving conviction. About 33.300 of those have five or more. J\!1!1 Dwight Icenhower "Love Me Tender'' February 10 8 PM Tickets On Sale Now! Classic Movie- Romance Sunday, Feb. 11 2 pm Classic Mov~- K. Hepburn Sunday, Feb. 28 2 pm The Ariel-Dater Hall 42~~~~~v_e.;, ~~ipotis. OH All &11fr iacluded Olllll6" Pad w~ase of Carpet DIE No Opligation Qootes D_U RelOO'\'al of Old Carpet Btl' Funtilure Moving Beegle also announced plans late last year to use funds left over in his general fund appropriation to purchase vehicles through a state purchasing program. Because money was saved through the re-opening of the county jail in May. 2006. funds were available at year end for the purchase of the cars, ' �PageA4 OPINION The Daily Sentinel Monday, January 29, I find myself in political limbo. I don't agree with the president and I don't agree with his opponents, I'm not convinced by the argument for sending 21 ,000 additional troops mainly to Baghdad, and I'm downright incensed at Se nate Foreign Relations Committee voting along [Democratic) party lines (plus GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebruska) to declare this same so-called troop surge to be against "the national interest. " The president 's argument fails to convince me that the effort required to secure Baghdad, which comes down to American troops quashing sectarian street violence, is worth the price. It's hard to imagine that an increased American presence, which is necessarily temporary, will win more than a pause in the violence, which goes back centuries. But I'm also unconvinced that the mission itself is of strategic value tu the United States. My great concern, as I have written before, is that it's very possible that renewed American lighting in Baghdad, if successful whit:h, as Americans, we must hope it to be - wi II not only stabilize the chaotic capital of Iraq, but will also entrench its Shiite-led, pro-Hezbollah, antiWestern government. Thi s suggests that victory in Iraq 111 Court Street • Pomeroy, Ohio (740) 992·2156 • FAX (740) 992·2157 www.mydallysentlnel.com Ohio Valley Publishing Co. Dan Goodrich Publisher Charlene Hoeflich General Manager-News Editor Congress sllilll make no la1v respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the fret• t•xercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. - The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Munday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2007. There are 336 da ys left in the year. Today's Highlight in History : On Jan. 29, 1820, Britain 's King George Ill died at Winthor Castk ending a reign that had seen both the American and French revolutions. On thi' date: In I~43 , the 25th president of the United States, William McKinley, was horn in Niles, Ohio. In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror. In 1850, Henry Clay introduced in the Senate compromise proposals on slavery. In 1861 , Kansas became the 34th state of the Union . In 1936, the tlrst members of baseball's Hall of Fame, including T'y Cobh and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, NY In 1958, ac:tors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were Bush team, which now presides , for example, over a recurring battle for Baghdad' , Haifa Street, where enem y fighters keep returning to fire at American and Iraqi troops from positions in high-rise buildings. Is it just me, or docs anyone ever wonder why, if pacifying Baghdad is so darn vital, those buildmg' are sti ll standing'' It i' the great irony of our time that f' \ 'l' ll a~ our stoneage enemie' seck to innict as many ci viiian casualtie s as po"ible , we in the postmodern West seek to innict none. Which b extremely nice, but what is it they say ahout nice guys? And how nice, really, is it'' Ci ti zens of the 21st ce ntury, we pat ourse lves on the back for an elevated morality even as we expect our hrave volunteers to risk life and limb to protect both ourselves and, in effect, our enemies also . This does nothing but prolong the state of war and the suffering that goes with it, which is surely neither nice, nor morally uplifting. Maybe such a mindset is relatively new to the American identity. but the limbo of unresolved connict it consigns us to promises to be with us for a long time . (Diana West is a columnist for The Wa .1hington Times. Site can be comacted via' diww "·est@' ·erizmr.ner,) our own election s. With· Senate Democrats pushing through that non-binding resolution opposing troop surge (mentioned above), 11 might well be argued that Diana recent U.S. elections West brought abou t "divisions" that have fractured the American identity. Debate is one 1hing, but, as Se n. may deliver not a new Richard G. Lugar (Indiana brother for the anti-terror Republican). who h irm~lt coalition, but rather a per- considers the troop surge feel ally for Iran. And what "dubious ," pointed out, kind of American victory is "Offidal ro ll call votes carry a un1que message " that ? A victory for democracy, I Ami, in this vote's case, that guess, In his State of the message goes strai ght to our Union address this week, enemies, who will hunker President Bush was stin down to wait fur a divided chanting the democracy America to up and crumble. mantra, insisting that "free This is a disgraceful way fur people are not drawn to vio- lawmakers to send troops lent and malignant ideolo- off anyw here . It also reveals the blindgies" - this after a whole ness nf Bu sh's political lot of free people across the who see no misopponcms, Islamic world have democsiun of ~ t ra l eg ic val ue tu th~ ratically shown themselves to be drawn 10 just such ide- United State s in Iraq. Fur ologies. Even so, Lt. Gen. example, if. as AI Qaeda David Petraeus, whom d"ims, there are some Bush has tapped to execute 12,lMlO AI Qaeda terrorists hi s new Iraq strategy, has in Iraq, it is obviously a noted the limited tran sfor- mission of strategic value to mative·powers of democra- the United States to elimicy. Addressing the Senme nate them, and to do so with Foreign Relations as Iittle loss of Ameri<.:an Committee this week. the life as possible. This would likely re4uire general said, "The elections that gave us such hope actu- li,S. air attacks, and such ally intensified sectarian atwcks would likely entail divi sions in the population Iraqi civilian casualties. Ju st at the expense of the sense th" thought of such casualties seems to render such a of the Iraqi identity." He could say that again , mission unthinkable to both and, in a way, even about Bu sh opponents and the Obituaries William Watson SYRACUSE - William "Dave" Watson 74 of Syracuse, died on Saturday. Jan. 27, 2007, ~~ H~ lzer Medtcal Center in Gallipolis after an extended illness. He was born July. 10, 1932 in Plymouth, to the late Guy Watson and Chnstme Smtth Freeman. Dave sold insurance f~r ,AIG and was an avid supporter of local sports. Surv1Vtng are his · daughter, Dena (Tom) Roseberry, Syracuse; grandchildren: Trenton, Colby, and Andrew Rosberry, Syracuse; sisters: JoAnn Smalley, Findlay, and Sharon Kincaid, Point Pleasant, W.Va.; brothers. Charles (E laine) Watson, Baltimore, Md., and Gary (Linda) Freeman of Pomeroy; sisters-inlaw, Wanda Roush and Lei la Grindley of Columbus; a brother-m-law. Ted (Dee) Grindley of Columbus; and several meces, nephew s, cousins and extended family. .Bestdes hts parents, he was preceded in death by hi s wtfe of 50 years, Marilyn Watson; a son, David Lee Watson ; mother-in -law and father-in-law Ronald Edward and Cora Grindley ; his sisters: Marcella (Charles Roben) Birchfield, Connie Drake and Candie Freeman; and brothers-m-law: Stanley Smalley, Roger Grindley, and Edward Grindley. Service will be at I p.m, on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007 at the Pomeroy Chapel of Fi sher Funeral Home with Pastor Ryan Eaton officiating. Burial will follow at the Letart Falls Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6-9 p.m, on Mondayat the funeral home . Online Condolences may be sent to www. fisherfuneralhomes.com. William E. Banks Reverend William E. "Bill" Banks, 73, of Point Pleasant , W.Va., died Friday, Jan . 26, 2007, at his home. He is survived by hi s wife, Mildred L. (Peters) Banks. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007, at the Gospel Lighthouse Church, Point Pleasant, with Rev, Lloyd "Junior" Mayes and Rev, Bobby Woods officiating. Burial will follow in Suncrest Cemetery, Point Pleasant. Visitation will be from 6-9 p.m. Monday, Jan . 29, 2007, at the Crow-Hussell Funeral Home and one hour prior to service at the church. In lieu of flowers , donations may be made to the Gospel · Lighthouse Church, P.O. Box 344, Point Pleasant , W Va. 25550. married. In 1963, the first members of pro football \ Hall uf Fame were named in Canton, Ohio. Five yems ago: In hi s first State of the Union address, Pcesident Bush said terrorists were still threatening America - and he warned of "an axis uf ev il" consisting of North Korea, lr;,n and Iraq . Actor Harold Russell , who received two Oscars for his sensiii ve p011rayal of a disabled veteran in "The Best Years of Our Lives," died in Needham, Mass., at age 88. One year ago: ABC "World News 'Tonight" co-anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq. Roger Federer won his seventh Grand Slam title, overcoming an early challenge from unseeded Marcos Baghdat1s to win the Australian Open 5-7, 7-5, 6-0. 6-2. Avant garde video artist Nam June Paik died in Miami at age 74. Today's Birthdays· Actor John Forsythe is 89. Actor Noel Harrison is n . Author Germaine Greer is 68. Actress Katharine Ross is 67 . Actor Tom Selleck is 62. Rhythm-andblues singer Bettye LaVette is 61. Actor Marc Singer is 59. Actress Ann Jillian is 57. Rock musician Tommy Ramone (Rarnone s) is 55. Rock musician Louie Perez (Los Lobos) is 54. Talk show host Opruh Winfrey is 53. Actress Diane Delano is 50. Actress Judy Norton Taylor ("The Waltons") is 49. Ruck musician Johnny Spampinato (NRBQ) is 48. Olympic gold-medal d1ver Greg Louganis is 47. Rock musician David Bavnton-Power (James ) is 46. Rock musician Eddie Jackson iQucensryc hc) i' 46. Actor Nicholas Turturro is 4~ . Rock singcr-musit:ian Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera) is 4 J Actur-director EdwanJ Burns is 39. Actress Heather ( :raham i' 17. Actor Sharif Atkins is 32. Actress Sara Gilbert is 32. At:tor Andrew Keegan is 28. Actor Jason James Richter is 17 Blues musician Jonny Lang is 26. Thought for Today: "Love is an irresistible desire to be irre;istibly desired." - Robert Frost. American poet ( 18741963 ). 'lOU MR Nona; HOW BARAtK ~UNDS L\l<G IRAQ, and OBAMJI SOUNDS Ll\<E ·1: . Bv RACHEL BECK AP BUSINESS WRITER NEW YORK - There's a new twist in the buyout boom roiling corporate America: A growing skepticism among shareholders and the boards that represent them over the value of such deals. Whether it's the directors at Cablevision rejecting a sweetened going-private offer or Health Management Assoc iates' decision to do its own recapitalization rather than be bought by others, there 's a building backlash to the record-setting pace of private-equity and maAagement -led takeovers. The driving issue is money, fueled by evidence that buyers are reaping much larger rewards than shareholders, thanks tu the ability of buyers to 4uickly flip their acquisitions at higher prices. Ther" were a rewrd $409 billion worth of buyouts in 2006, nearly four times the total in 2004, according to De alogic . Among the biggest: a $21 billion deal to take hospital chain HCA Inc, private and a $ 15 billion buyout of pipe line operator Kinder Morgan Inc, That dealmaking has gotten much attention on Wall Street. helping tu fuel the market's big gains over the last six months by pumping r------------------·------------~ The Daily Sentinel (USPS 213·960) Ohio Valley Publishing Co. :our main conce rn in all stones is to Published every afternoon, Monday ·be accurate . Jf you know of an error 1n a story. call the newsroom at (740) th rough Fric:tay, 111 Coun Street. Second-class Pomeroy, Ohio . postage paid at Pomeroy 992-2156 Our main number Is (740) 992-2156. Department extensions are: News Editor: Charlene Hoeflich. El(t. 12 Reporter; Brian Reed . Ext. 14 Reporter: Belh Sergent. Ext 13 Advertising Outside Salea: Dave Harns Ext. 15 MembeJ: The Assoc1ated Press and the Ohio Newspaper Association Poatmaater: Send address correction,s to The Daily Sentinel. 111 Court Street. 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And in the process. the new buyers lavi shed themse lves with tremendous payouts. The poster-child of such tactics is Hertz, the car rental company that was sold by Ford Motor Co. to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Inc., The Carlyle Group and Merrill Lynch. They paid $2.3 billion in cash, borrowed more than $3 billion and assumed $ 10 billion in debt to acquire Hertz in the fall of 2005. Hertz took on more debt to pay its new owners about $1 billion in dividend s. Then. the proceeds from its November IPO were used llJ pay that debt oil and to give the private-equity owners another special dividend worth about $400 tnillion . They also own 216 million shares, which are worth about $3.S billion today. There is a grow ing resistance to such deal s. "In li ght of several highprotile '4uick !lips,' public shareholders can 't help but wonder whether they are leav ing money on the table," said Chris Young, who heads merger and lK4Ui>ition research at the proxy advisory firm Jn,t itutional Shareholder ' Services. An independent committee of directors at Cablevision Systems Corp. reJC<'ted a $30 a share offer from the controlling Dolan family to take the New York cable TV operator priv ate . The family _ which owns about 20 percent of the company but controls 10 percent uf the shareholder vo ting power _ had made a previm" bid or $27 a share in Ot·tober, and then raised its oiler un Jan . 12. In a letter to the Dohms, the dircl·tors said the new stock offer valued at $8,9 billion wouldn't be in the best interest of shareht>ider> and dido' t retlet:t the fair value of the l'Ompany. That deci; ion was lauded by amtlysh and investors who felt the l'ompany ·, as;et,, whit:h indude about three million cab le cu'- The Daily Sentinel • Page As www.mydallysentinel.com 2007 Elevated morality won't win Iraq The Daily Sentinel Monday, January 29, 2oo 7 tomcrs in the New York area, the New York Knicks basketball · team and Madist>n Square Garden. is worth more. · Other companies. like Phoenix -based Swift Transport<~tion Co. Inc. , are willing to give up offers they deemtuo low, despite a toug'h business climate in their industries. The trucking company's board rejected a $29-a-s hare bid in November from founder <~nd fonn"r top executive Jerry Moye,, but agreed to a buyout Monday for $31.55 per share. valued at about $2.74 billion. Man age ment Health As.sociates Inc. is going a tlitlerent route by doing what many on Wall Street are calling a ''se lf' leveraged buyout. The Naples, Fla.-based hospital operator will take on $2.4 billion in new debt to fund a one-time· S 10 dividend for every share. Whtle that effectively gives HMA's exec utives and director' a big payout because they own large stock positions in the company, it also lets its share. holders _ instead of privatec4uity firms who . could have bought out the company _ ch1i 111 the one-time cash dividend. The buyout busine" isn't ending, hut the rules of the game are certainly changmg . Mini-horse named Panda a special helper for blind upstate New York woman BETHLEHEM, N.Y. (AP) - Panda is everything you would want in a pet and guide animal for the blind - protective, alert, house-trained, plus she loves to play fetch . And at 29 inches tall and 120 pounds, she's a darn smal horse . Panda, named for her black-and-white coat, is a miniature guide horse that has helped ~8-year-old Ann Edie na viaatc the world of city streets and country lanes since 2003. "Panda loves her work," said Edie, a special education teacher. "She knows what she's supposed to do . When I pick up the hiltness, I ~et the feeling from her of, I'm ready for anr,thing . Let's j?;O have fun ." When Edte's chocolate Labrador helper Bailey died after I 0 years -l>n the job, she tried out two other do ~s before learning about gUide horses in 2000. Although she appreciates the attributes that do~s bring to guide work, Edte said she is sold Qn the mini-horses. 'T ve found that horse intelligence lends itself well to guide work~" she said. Edie visited the Guide Horse Foundation in Kitrell , N.C., where the animals art: trained, and began a search that led her to Panda, who was only 6 months old. Edie, who owns other horses, commissioned her riding coac h, Alexandra Kurland of Delmar, N.Y., to train Panda using a method of positive rein· forcement. "It creates a very enthusiastic, eager-to-work-foryou animal," Kurland said. "You are aivinll them things they actively want to work for and you aren't poisoning the experience with corrections." Kurland taught Panda regular obedience and then guide training, showing the horse what would happen if she led her blind companion astray. For instance, if there was a trash can lying on a sidewalk, Kurland would show Panda how much room she would need. Bec ause they are herd animals, they can predict where a moving object is heading. and help adjust, satd Edie. At home, where she's not needed to work, Panda snuggles, naps on a carpet or plays with toys. If she needs to go out, she ring s a small bell that hang s from a doorknob. The partnership with Panda is an experiment, Edie said, but it's going well and. with an expected life span of 30 to 40 years, Panda should be around for quite awhile. AP Interview: Muslim adviser working for U.S. in Guantanamo prison treads warily . . Bv BEN FOX ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba The Middle Eastern man's name is a tightly held secret No one tn hi s family except his wife knows he works at this U ,S. military base, where ne arly 400 men captured in Washington's war on terror are he Id. Known only as "Zak" to the detention staff and "Znki" to detainees, he is Guantanamo Bay's Muslim cultural adviser, a civilian employee who meets with them and helps their American captors understand their ways . Zak says he has helped add books to the prison librarr, improve the pri soners food and at limes has raised inmate concerns to the prison's military commander. But he's no advocate for the detainees, and many don't like him very much . Zak says the inmates have branded him a traitor and an enem y of God - and that they would kill him if they could. That' s why even Zak's native country is kept secret "I have to use my experience and my commonsense . I don't want to put myself in any situatiOn that will jeopardize my life," the 49-year adviser told The Associaled Press in a rare interview in a conference room just outside the detention center's razor wire -topped fences . Zak recounled how on a recent night, he had retired to his quarters when he learned that fo ur pri soners wanted to see him right away inside the prison . Zak, the only Muslim cultural affairs adviser at ' Guantanamo Bay, quidly returned to work, but after talking to guards, decided against the meeting. He suspected the men were planning to attack him - most ltkely with a "cocktai l" of bodily fluids. "Sometimes, I see into their games," said Zak, a lean man with salt-andpepper hair, as he slowly shook his head as if talking about unruly children . Zak, who works for a private contractor hired by the military, is vague about his background, saying only that he is an engineer and was educated in Europe and the United State s. He and his wife owned a convenience store somewhere in the United . States. They closed it, he said, because customers taunted her after the Sept . II , 200 I , terrorist attacks . Zak then became a translator for the United States, working in Iraq. H.e arrived at this base in southeast Cuba in 2005. " I want a better future for my kids and your kids and to stop thi s extremism and terrorism in the Middle East," he said. Zak sees himse lf as an educator. He teaches guards, doctors and anyone else with access to the detainee s about Islamic religious and cultural sensitiv ities. It's an important job when reports emerged in 2005 that ~uards had mishandled the (.luran, it triggered protests in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Even today, prisoners still claim that ~uard s disturb them durmg ·prayers - an allegation the military and Zak deny. He calls complaints of prisoner mistreatment Resorts Parks International among others. 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Currently a co unty in Nebraska used the practice. The national group and mo st states have focused instead on recruiting teenagers eager to join the political process. Poll workers are now paid up to $95 a day . Details such as pay - or whether there will be penalties for refusing service - are still . being worked out at Brunner 's office drafts legislation, spoke sman Patrick Gallaway said . The Ohio Association of Election Officials is awaiting details before it takes a stance on the idea, said Gwen Dillingham, the group's president and deputy director of the C uyahoga County elections board . ''I'm not opposed to anything that helps us recruit poll workers, especially up here," she said. 1956. It is the program' s goal to select students who represent the best characteristics of this country: hope. courage. openness, and a love of peace. Olivia is a member of Trinity Church , in POmeroy, and plays piano and guitar along w1th trumpet in the Meigs Marauder Band. She is also involved in summer softball and archery. She and her parents are carrying out a variety of fund raising projects to cover expenses of the trip and have a goal of $1.000 a month fort he next five months to finance the trip . · Kelsey, a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, was awarded a scholarship by AEP River · Operations, Lakin, W.Va. which covers her transportation, accommodations, meals and education-. al activities. She has a parttime job at Wendy 's in Pomeroy to help with her miscellaneous expenses . Cruisers Students from PageA1 ordinary citizens of differe~t 118tioos. if able to commurucate directly, ·would solve their differences and find a way to live in peace. That simple thought that pwple can make a difference where governments cannot - led to the formation of People to People Ambassador Programs in ers speculated that he is Lebanese or Egyptian based on his slang , alOdah said. The advi ser doe s not worship with the detainees, who have chosen their own religious leaders from among themse lves. Nor is he a Muslim chaplain , a job that primarily involve s ministering to staff and military personnel, not prisoners . A former Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay, James Yee , said he 1s skeptica l of the cultural adviser, dismissing him as "stri ctl y pub Iic re 1at ions" to help the military improve the image of a prison camp that has sparked worldwide protests. "He is in the position to just be a yes man ." Yee. who was an Army captain . at the camp until hi s arrest on spying charges in 2003, told AP in a phone interview from h1s home in Wa shington stat e. He spent 76 day s in solitary confinement before being cleared of all charges in March 2004. Guantanamo no longer has a Mu slim chaplain. Harris said the Muslim chaplains, whose primary miss ion is to provide religiou s services to the troops, are in short supply in the U.S. military and are needed elsewere. But the Council on American - I s l amic Relati ons says having a cultural adviser at Guantanamo Bay is worthwhile. "Anything that helps decrease tensions and helps maintain humanitarian treatment is welcome," said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Washington-based organization. · Plan would send State: Elevenfold increase in smmnons for poll workers number imprisoned for DUI COLUMBUS (AP) Voters could be summoned to work election days at the polls under a plan Ohio's new secretary of state is considering to supplement an aging work force and shonen the job's hours. Jennifer B.runner, - a Democrat , will ask the GOP-controlled Legislature to authorize the drafting of poll workers, Brunner spokesman Jeff Ortega said Saturday, The proposal got a cool rec-eption from H~use Speaker Jon Hu sted, a suburban Dayton Republican. Prospective poll workers would be notified by mail that they would be needed for two days of trainingthe Friday and Monday before an election - then would be required to work an eight-hour election day. Currently. poll workers are in precincts for all 13 hours the polls are open. Brunner said last week · that the move would lower the average age of poll workers - currently 72 - and ease the workload. Ohio has about 47,000 poll workers - or just over four per precinct Voters who get notices could get out of doing it for just cause, much in the way one gets out of j ury duty, Ortega said. Brunner met with Husted on Thursday, one . day after bringing the idea up before an enthusiastic Ohio Association of Election Officials at their annual meeting , Ortega LazyT "baloney." "If anybody is getting tortured , it 's the staff, the guards and medical ,staff who get spit on, called names all day long," he said, Zak meets with the detention center commander. Navy Rear Admiral Harry B. Harris, at least once a week, and meets with detainees, though he is quick to stress that he is not their advocate . Zak insists he is making a difference and has relayed detainee concerns when he co nsiders them legitimate. He declines to give examples, citing a military rule barring him from disc ussi ng anything specific about the prison. Harri s. in a se parate interview. · said Zak has been useful to the military, " He helps us all understand better the detainee population and their motivations and their potential intentions," Harris said. All the detainees at Guantanamo are Muslim and all but a handful are Sunni, the adviser said. A small number of Shiite detainees are held together to avoid confl icts, he added. While Zak acknowledges that he's generally hated by the prisoners, he says he is gaining the confidence of some - and that a few have even told him the y regret having been recruited into militant groups. Khalid al-Odah, the leader of an organization of familie s of prisoners from Kuwait and whose son is held at Guantanamo, said prisoners tried to use the adviser as an emissary after senior camp officials stopped meeting directly with prisoners in 2005 . The prison- COLUMBUS (AP) Yearly incarcerations for drunken driving convictions have increased elevenfold in the past decade, the state prisons depanment reported. Judges sentenced 465 drunken drivers to prison last year, up from 38 in 1997. when the Ohio Depanment of Rehabilitation arid Correction began tracking DUI offenders. Tougher enforcement and increased penalties in state law contributed to the trend, Also, Ohio dropped the legal blood alcohol hmit to 0,08 in 2003, from 0.1 0, putting more drivers in violation. The imprisonment number excludes those who are convicted of drunken driving along with another felony. which represents about 15 percent of all DUI convictions, notes the report released this month . Only repeat offenders get prison tenns for drunken driving alone. "Judges are realizing that for a lot of these offenders, if they continue to repeat. the only way to keep our roadways safe is to keep them in prison," said Julie Leggett. executive director of the Mothers Against Drunk Driving Mid-Ohio Valley Region in Cleveland. Repeat offenders seem to not have been affected by public awareness campaigns I! fromPageA1 sod enforcement efforts, said Fred Sttatrnann, a spokesman for the Ohio Depanment of Public Safety. "You can say it's terrible sod that people still aren't getting it, but you have to applaud that the system is working to protect people," he said. About 94 percent of the inmates were male and 94 percent were white, according to the report. The average age was· 38, and the average sentence 18 months. About 8 percent of Ohio's licensed drivers, or about · 631 ,000 people. have at lea't one drunken driving conviction. About 33.300 of those have five or more. J\!1!1 Dwight Icenhower "Love Me Tender'' February 10 8 PM Tickets On Sale Now! Classic Movie- Romance Sunday, Feb. 11 2 pm Classic Mov~- K. Hepburn Sunday, Feb. 28 2 pm The Ariel-Dater Hall 42~~~~~v_e.;, ~~ipotis. OH All &11fr iacluded Olllll6" Pad w~ase of Carpet DIE No Opligation Qootes D_U RelOO'\'al of Old Carpet Btl' Funtilure Moving Beegle also announced plans late last year to use funds left over in his general fund appropriation to purchase vehicles through a state purchasing program. Because money was saved through the re-opening of the county jail in May. 2006. funds were available at year end for the purchase of the cars, ' �OHIO The Daily Sentinel AUDIT QUESTIONS DOCUMENTS USED TO RFJECf SICK WORKERS' CLAIMS MIAMISBURG (AP) Poor monitoring and recordkeepin~ could make it imposstble for the federal government to asse-s past radiation exposure to workers at a former nuclear weapons plant. according to an independent audit. Advocates say the audit should help the workers qualify for lump-sum payments without having to prove that radiation at the Mound plant made them ill. "There are possibly significant doses here," which were missed by faulty monitoring. said Richard Miller of the Washington-based Government Accountability Project, an advocacy group. The audit, released this month, suggests several changes to the former Mound plant's site proliles, which are documents detail ing how workers may have been exposed to radiation that the government has relied on in rejecting hundreds of workers' claims. Those claims would have to be reopened if the federal Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health revises the proliles because of the audtt, said Amanda Harney, spokeswoman for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The board, which meets next week in Mason, will start discussions on the profiles this year. she said. If the government decides it is unable to use science to reconstruct how much radiation exposure the workers received, they would qualify for a status that allows them to collect payments and medical benefits for certain cancers. People who worked at a weapons program in Dayton before the Mound plant was opened in Miamisburg are close to approval for the status because of similar audit tindings. San ford Cohen and Associates of Vienna, Va., conducted the audit based on records reviews and interviews with 17 former workers and other experts on the site, about 35 miles north of Cincinnati. It was written in July. The Labor Department has paid 197 claims out of 1.465 tiled by 719 fnrmer Mound workers. About 88 percent have been processed based on information in the site profiles. and 70 percent of those claims have been denied. The audit detailed several problems with the site profiles. Among them: - Workers were not monitored properly for possible exposures to certain toxic metals and a form of plutonium that enters the lungs and stays hidden for a long time when it is heated at very high temperatures. "Thus, significant unknown exposures may have occurred and remained undetected for months." But monitoring was discontinued on radiation workers as soon as · they were moved to other projects, and administrative and support staff who worked near the substances weren't monitored at all. - The document doesn't take into account possible exposure to high levels of radon, which causes lung cancer. - Officials at Mound often ignored or didn ' t record high radiation doses recorded on film badges worn by employees because they assumed the workers put the badges directly near radiation sources so they would be moved off of hazardous assignments. - Other monitoring procedures were inadequate and would have led to underreponing or completely missing doses of radiation. - Several worker records are inaccessible because they were buried in a radioactive waste landtill at Los Alamos, N.M. Sherrie Neff was . among the support staff, such as security and maintenance workers. whom the audit says weren't monitored. She helped clean up Mound buildings in the 1990s to prepare the plant for closure. The Germantown woman has lost a breast, a leg and a lung to cancer, and doctors recently discovered more cancer in her chest. She remained in critical condition Sunday at the Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus. Federal officials turned down her compensation · claim based on the site profile. The letler arrived Jan. 18, two days after the audit was posed on the NIOSH Web site. "She won awards, all kinds of plaques; anywhere they wanted her to work, she'd go." said her husband, Bob. "She's paying for it with her life right now." Report: Companies stung by skyrocketing costs CLEVELAND (AP) Employers paying deeply discounted premiums for injured-worker insurance coverage often see those costs skyrocket after even one on-the-job injury is reported, The Plain Dealer reported Sunday. An oil-drilling company in southern Ohio says it won't do business in Ohio anymore, a health care company in suburban Cleveland may fold and a Cleveland baking company has had to lay off two workers - all because of the spike in the premiums they pay for coverage under the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation. They face dramatic increases · from of recent employee injuries because they were kicked out of a state-sanctioned program that has allowed for-profit companies to use the bureau's premiums for their own benefit and that of their clients, The Plain Dealer reported. It's created a disparity in whtch about two-thirds of the state's employers pay hundreds of millions of dollars more in premiums than they should to cover discounts for the other third, the newspaper said. The for-profit companies. known as third-party administrators, have been allowed to sell deep premium discounts to employers that have few worker claims, usually charging employers a percentage of the amount PageA6 the discounts save them. Flaws in the program have introduced substantial inequities into the system's rate structure, according to bureau documents cited by the newspaper. The program's 99,000 participants, about 38 percent of all employers covered by the injured-worker system, pay less than tlieir records indicate they should be paying in premiums because of the oversized discounts. The Plain Dealer said. An outside bureau analyst estimates the underpayments at more than $870 million in the last three years alone. Other companies help to subsidize their rates. The inequities make losing the discounts even tougher on small employers. At Aladdin's Baking Co. in Cleveland. officials say their projected workers' comp costs rose by more than $70,000 per year alter two workers claimed lllJUnes from workplace falls. They said the injuries forced them out of the group rating. "We don't make gold bars here." company official Connie Nahra said. "We bake bread." In 2004, a pipe accident knocked an oil driller and two of his helpers down at Dean Decker & Son Inc. in Vincent near Marietta, said company official Loretta Decker, and the machine Monday, January 29, 2007 10 mph. • Wednesday ... JI4ostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Wednesday night... Paitly cloudy in the mostly evening ... Then cloudy with a chance of snow showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 20s. Chance of snow 30 percent. Tbursday ... Partly 'sunny with a chance of snow showers. A chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent. Thursday nigbl. .. Mostly cloud)< with a 50 Nrcent • Bl The Daily Sentinel Sectional tournament draw, Page 86 Ohio mandates new way to send prisoners gifts COLUMBUS ( AP) State prison ,,m,·ials ha\·c made it a lnt harder to 'n.:ak illegal ~ifts to inmat ~' Under a pol ic} that went into effect this month . inmates can receive gift> onl y if th,· y arL· sh ipjl~d directly from a St. Loui ' company that takes mders hy phone. fax or the Internet. Hundreds of items. indttdin~ food. arc availahlc. Previously. families could St'llli p<tckage.s directly to prisons. Sec uri I y officials had to insp.!c:t eac:h package before it wa., passt'd along to an inmate. The change was mmk to improve securit y and make it easier for familie' to send packages. said TetTy Cullin,. head of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. "Some people tried to use the packages to send wntraband, including drugs ." Collin' said . "They were very ingcrtious in that ." Families trying to stick to the law nften had difficult y findin g gi ft> that met the prisons' stril'l guidelines. he added . Under the new poliL'y, cifts are on.lered fro m the Keefe Group. which shiJl' diredly to prisons. There i' no 'hipping charge on l11ternet orders, ami the slate gets nothing from the ,ales. All of the gifts offered meet requir~menls . The new system is "hasi.:ally a good idea." said Ellen Kitchens. director of a statewide prisoner-advocacy group called Citizens United fnr Rehabilitation of Errants. "The fact that family members can send paL· kage ~ is a thing. but it appears that prices on some things are hicher," Kitl·hcns said. "It's gL;ing to cosl family memgood hers more." There are limited choices on many items. including athletic shoes. T-shirts and hab are plain. All televisions and otha electronic devices have dear cases 10 prevent contraband from being hidden. " I dnn't consider any of these niceties," Collins said. "If they buy underwear, socks and shoes. that's one le.ss thing I have to hand out." Inmates and their· families also can order food, including candy and snacks. When an inmate orders items directly, the money comes from their prison account - cash from family and friends. plus money earned by doing prison jobs. Security level determines how many packages can be shipped a year: four for a minimum-security inmate or none for maximum security. Death-row inmates can receive three per year. Jury awards $800,000 in white ~fficer~~ s11it against Cleveland CLEVELAND tAP l A federal jury has awarded $800.000 to a white police otlicer. tinding that the cit y racially discriminated a¥ainsl him by ass tgning h1m to undesirab le dtttv after he shot and wounded a black boy. Patrolman Edward Lent/ Jr. had argued liis treatment · was harsher than that of black officers who shot black people, and that he was made a scapegoat to appease activists who protested a number of police shootings involving black suspects. In the verdict reached Friday. the U.S . Di strkt Court jurors. who were all white. found the discrimination was deliberate. intentional · ami ran of an official "policy or custom." They also agreed with Lentz's claim that the city retaliated when Lentz complained about his treatment by filing disciplinary charges with the fede ral Equ al Employment Opportunity Commission. The city plans to appeal, Mayor Frank Jackson said in a statement. adding that he "rejects the notion that any of the city 's investigation policies discrimina!e against anyone " .. for any rea- During the investigation, Lentz was <tssigned for nearly two years to work in the police gymnasium. "Thi s verdict has given him back his honor and reputmion ," said Lentz's attorney, Edward Kramer. A grand jury in 2003 rejected a felomous assault son. charge against Lentz, a LentL wounded 12-year- judge later dismissed a falold Lorenzo Loc:klear on sification charge and the Dec. 6, 2001, while the city dismissed departmenofticer was providing secu - tal charges. Locklear was rity omside the home of found delinquent in juvethen-Mayor Jane Campbell. nile court in 2003 for driLocklear sped around the ving the stolen car and corner in a station wagon. possessing marijuana. He There\ dispute over how also won a settlement in a Lentz got onto the 'ehi - lawsuit against the city; the L'ic 's roof - the officer amount was not disclosed .. said he was being dragged Lentz' lawsuit is similar and had to cli mh up. and a lo one filed last August li~ witness claimed h~ twt> detectives involved itt jumped . When Locklear the fatal 2005 shooting of didn't follow hi s order tl) 15-ycar-uld Brandoo stop. Lemz fired 14 shuts McCloud. who was black~ through the roof, striking Detectives Philip Habeeb the boy in the arm. hip and and John Kraynik, who are ankle. white, seek $2 million. :: Monday, January 29, 2007 "just kept hitting them until it could be turned off." Only one has returned to work, she said. The other two are on full disability. "It was a one-accident thing," Decker said. "It was operator error." However, the company lost its group coverage and its premiums have shot up. That means Ohio is off-limits. Decker said. "If we had to come back to Ohio, we would shut our doors," she said. "We would completely shut our business down, because we could not afford to have workers' comp. Period." The program was intended to help small Ohio companies compete with lar¥er companies in the same hne of work. By banding together, the smaller companies could simulate the same risk and cost of future injuries as the big companies. which spread the risk over more employees. The ¥roup-rating law took etTect m 1991. Since then. records show, officials left the oversight of the new prognun almost entirely to the third-party administrators. which got bigger fees when they offered bigger discounts. The artiticially low risk could be used to generate unrealistically low premiums for group members and inappropriately . high premiums for everyone else, the newspaper said. MEISS J3 I RIVER lAllEY 69 POMEROY - A~ o1 upcoming COllege 'V1d hql schoO ..arw,. lpOr1i'lg IIV8fU nvoMng Hlam&lrom Gda and Meigs CCU~ttas . Lady Falcons • survive Mondey'a g•m11 Olrlo Bllkolboll Gallia Academy at Rive r Valtev, 5:30 p .m. Meigs a1 Point Pleasant, 6 p.m. South Gallia at Eastern. 6 p.m Southern at OVCS, 6 p.m. Tu11dn'a pam11 Bo~• Beaketblll Southern at Belpre, 6 :30p .m. Eastem at Parkersburg Cathohc, 6:30 p.m. Gallia Academy at Portsmouth , 6 p.m. South Gallia at Rock Hill. 6 p.m. Chesapeake at River Valley. 6 p .m. Coll•ge Baaketball Rio Grande at Urbana, 7:30p.m. Women'• College Basketball Rio Grande a1 Urbana, 5:30p.m. WtdntMIIy 'a gam11 Glrla Baaketbtll Ponsmouth at Gallia Academy, 6 p.m Tburadwy'a gam11 Soya Basketball Hannan at OVCS, 7:30p.m. Olrlt Batketball Coal Grove at River Valley, 6 p .m. -Southern at Federal Hocking, 6 p .m. Vinton County at Meigs. 6 p.m. Eastern at Waterford, 6 p.m. Hannan at OVCS, e p.m. Meigs Marauders' Dan Bookman tries to put up a shot under heavy pressure from River Valley Raiders· Tyler Thompson during a boys high school basketball game on Saturday in Rock Springs. Meigs won 73-69 in double overtime. BY lARRY CRUM LCRUM@MYOAILYREGISTER.COM tile team after what will surely go down as a classic in the series. It was also the Marauders' first win over a non-Meigs county team since 2005. The last out-of-county win also came over River Valley, during a Division II sectional semifinal on Feb. 16, 2005 . This season and last, Meigs had only beaten rivals Southern and Eastern prior to Saturday. Goode finished with a double-double, scoring 12 points and collecting 14 rebounds on the night. Center Dave Poole went for 16 while point guard Clay Bolin also reached double-figures with 12 for the winners. Bookman had mne. River Valley (8-7) nailed eight threepointers. led by Jason Jones, who had five of those and led the way with 22 points. Backcourt mate Bryan Morrow MASON, W.Va. Thanks to a big founh quarter from Amber Tully, the Wahama Lady Falcons escaped a tight game against Wood County with a 38-27 victory Saturday afternoon . Tully had just one point in the first half as Wood County took a 17-16 lead into the break, but exploded in the second with 12 of her team high 13 points including eight in the fourth quarter to lead her Lady Falcons to the nine point victory. . The win improves Wahama to a 10-5 record on the season . Wahama held a narrow 26-25 edge heading into the final eight minutes of play in the low scoring affair, but a smothering Lady Falcon defense Iimited Wood County to just two fourth quarter points while pouring on a game high 12 of their own to take the win. Tully had 13 points in the win, while Airael Derifteld had I0 points. Taylor Hysell had eight points, Mary Kehler had four points and Kayanna Sayre had three points as the five starters had all of the Lady Falcon scoring. Wood County was paced by Megan Ward, who had a game high 14 points, followed by Chelsea Lord with seven points . Alii Drane with four points and Tiffany Cowdery with a pair of markers. Deritield came out firing in the tirst quarter, scoring six points to help push Wahama ahead by a nartow 9-8 margin after the first eight minute of play. But Please SH Thriller, 1:1 Please see Fakons, 1:1 Brod Shernunvphola frldlv'a g•m11 Boyo lukotboll Watertord at Southern. 6:30p.m. Vinton County at Meigs, 6:30 p.m . Athena at Gallia Academy, 7 p.m. Eastern at Trimble, 6:30 p.m. South Gallia at Ironton St. Joe, 6:30 p.m. Ri~er Valley at South Point, 6 p .m . aves at Cross Lanes, 8 p.m. Olrlo Bookolblll Coal Grovv at South Gallia. 6 p .m. aves at Cross Lanes, 6:30p.m. Sllurdly'a a1m11 Boyl llo\OkOiblll Galli& Academy at Wheelersburg. 6 p.m. Belpre at Eastern, 6 :30 p.m. Olrlo Bookolblll River Valley at Eastern, 6 p.m. w..olllng Gallia Academy at SEOAL Tournament Meigs, River Valley at John Oeno Invite Coli... BllkOiblll Rio Grande at Mount VernOn . 7:30 p.m. Woman'a Collage Bllkatball Rio Grande at Mount Vernon . 5:30 p.m. !lyndly'l geme Boyo a.akolboll Sectional tournament Jackson). 1 p.m. draw (at Cou.EGE HOOPS Marauders upset River Valley in double overtime BY 81!AD SHERMAN BSHERMANOMVDAILYTRIBUNE.COM ROCK SPRINGS - Chris Goode couldn "t be playing much better than he is right now - and he helped his Meigs Marauders get the best of the River Valley Raiders. Goode made the go-ahead bucket and had two big rebounds that set up the game-clinching free throws as Meigs upset rival River Valley 73-69 in double overtime on Saturday at Larry R. Morrison Gymnasium. The Raiders had won the earlier meeting back on Dec. 9 by double digits, The junior forward made a layup to put his team up 69-68 with I: II to play in the second extra session, then on the other end, snared a rebound to set up a pair of free throws by teammate Eric Tolar. IIIVJR YAUIV (M) Jolon JQnaa 611-10 22, Bry•n Mo<row 5 7·7 19, Ryan ~gglolon I 0.2 2, Mict>ael CoftloU 1 0.0 2. Tyler ~? 3-6 7, Ryan Henry 4 2·5 11, t.a n ~awls.2 o-o 5, ~ l>e<!l 0 1-2 1. Totals - 21 t9-32 119. 1111!11!8 (13) =J ~ I\IU(IInl 0 o-o O, 4uolln O.,.nfoe 0 o-o 0, ,&,aron Coldoll1 0.0 2, Clay Bolin 5 1·2 12, Dan IIQokman 3 2-5 9. Eric Totor6 7·10 22. 4ndy Games 0 IH>O. Chril 2-5 12. Dave Poole B 4-7 16. TotalS- 26 Tluoe poinl goolo- RV 8(Jooes 4, Morrow 2. Hervy 1, ~ewlo 1), II 5 (Tolar 3. Bolin 1. Bookman 1). Tolar, who led all Meigs scorers with 22, gave his club a three-potnt lead with the pair of makes. River Valley's Ryan Henry split a pair of free throws, but Goode grabbed the carom off the miss and got the ball to Dan Bookman, who meshed his two charity shots to ice the game. For Meigs (3-12), it was only its third win of the boys high schonl basketball season, but a big one. Students rushed the floor and celebrated with • ors Ball State tops Ohio, 69-57 • MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) Skip Mills had 20 points and five assists and Anthony Newell scored 19 points as Ball State beat Ohio 69-57 on Sunday. Micah Rollin ~rabbed nine rebounds tor the Cardinals (7-13, 4-4 MidAmerican Conference), who outrebounded Ohio 3925. Peyton Stovall had 12 points and Chris Ames 10, and Ball State shot 62 percent in the second half. Jerome Tillman led Ohio (13-7, 4-3) with 19 points and four assists, and Leon Williams scored 14. The Cardinals trailed by six at the outset, but after !loing on a 9-2 run to make u 9-8 they led the rest of the game. Ball State led 28-22 at the half. Ball State outscored Ohio 30-26 in the paint and was 19-of-25 from the free throw line compared with Ohio's 10-of-16. Local weather Monday ... Partly sunny. A slight chance of snow showers in the morning. Highs around 30. West wmds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 20 percent. Monday night...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds around 5 mph. Tuesday ... Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow showers. Highs in the lower 30s. West wmds 10 to 15 mph. Tuesday nighi ... Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows around 16. West winds 5 to Inside • "' •,4' t~ !Adult ·&.··$)ediatric medicine ;. _Women'$ health care •• a ,Minor oltice pro9edures ~ports physicals ~eriatrics Skin procedures. chahce of snow showers. Lows in the mid 20s. Friday ... Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers. Highs in the lower 30s. Friday night... Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow showers. Lows in the lower 20s. Saturday:.. Pa.rtly sunny. Highs around 30. Saturday night ... Part Iy cloudy. Cold with lows 15 to 20. SIUlday .. .Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of snow showers. Highs in the mid 20s. CoNTACT .• . US ,,\ ' .. "'""···-·easant V~ey Medical Office ~enter .......o._m , er ?t ~,St~ .S~t~&-~~tf.J,~on Avenue fQintPlea~t, WV 25S50 . . . OVP Scor8Line (5 p.m.-1 a.m.) 1-74Q-446-2342 ext. 33 Fu- 1·740-446·3008 E-mail- sportsOmydailysentinel.com Soorta Staff 1 1484 Brad Sherman, Sport• Editor (740) 446-2342. ext 33 bsherman 0 mydailytribune.com Larry Crum, Sporbl Writer (740) 446-2342. ext 23 lcrumOmydailyregister.ccm erytin Wlllttra, Sporta Writer (740) 446-2342. ext 33 bwaltersOmydallysentinel.com j CARRIE LOCKHART DILLARD, MD Accepting new patients Walk-ins welcome �OHIO The Daily Sentinel AUDIT QUESTIONS DOCUMENTS USED TO RFJECf SICK WORKERS' CLAIMS MIAMISBURG (AP) Poor monitoring and recordkeepin~ could make it imposstble for the federal government to asse-s past radiation exposure to workers at a former nuclear weapons plant. according to an independent audit. Advocates say the audit should help the workers qualify for lump-sum payments without having to prove that radiation at the Mound plant made them ill. "There are possibly significant doses here," which were missed by faulty monitoring. said Richard Miller of the Washington-based Government Accountability Project, an advocacy group. The audit, released this month, suggests several changes to the former Mound plant's site proliles, which are documents detail ing how workers may have been exposed to radiation that the government has relied on in rejecting hundreds of workers' claims. Those claims would have to be reopened if the federal Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health revises the proliles because of the audtt, said Amanda Harney, spokeswoman for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The board, which meets next week in Mason, will start discussions on the profiles this year. she said. If the government decides it is unable to use science to reconstruct how much radiation exposure the workers received, they would qualify for a status that allows them to collect payments and medical benefits for certain cancers. People who worked at a weapons program in Dayton before the Mound plant was opened in Miamisburg are close to approval for the status because of similar audit tindings. San ford Cohen and Associates of Vienna, Va., conducted the audit based on records reviews and interviews with 17 former workers and other experts on the site, about 35 miles north of Cincinnati. It was written in July. The Labor Department has paid 197 claims out of 1.465 tiled by 719 fnrmer Mound workers. About 88 percent have been processed based on information in the site profiles. and 70 percent of those claims have been denied. The audit detailed several problems with the site profiles. Among them: - Workers were not monitored properly for possible exposures to certain toxic metals and a form of plutonium that enters the lungs and stays hidden for a long time when it is heated at very high temperatures. "Thus, significant unknown exposures may have occurred and remained undetected for months." But monitoring was discontinued on radiation workers as soon as · they were moved to other projects, and administrative and support staff who worked near the substances weren't monitored at all. - The document doesn't take into account possible exposure to high levels of radon, which causes lung cancer. - Officials at Mound often ignored or didn ' t record high radiation doses recorded on film badges worn by employees because they assumed the workers put the badges directly near radiation sources so they would be moved off of hazardous assignments. - Other monitoring procedures were inadequate and would have led to underreponing or completely missing doses of radiation. - Several worker records are inaccessible because they were buried in a radioactive waste landtill at Los Alamos, N.M. Sherrie Neff was . among the support staff, such as security and maintenance workers. whom the audit says weren't monitored. She helped clean up Mound buildings in the 1990s to prepare the plant for closure. The Germantown woman has lost a breast, a leg and a lung to cancer, and doctors recently discovered more cancer in her chest. She remained in critical condition Sunday at the Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus. Federal officials turned down her compensation · claim based on the site profile. The letler arrived Jan. 18, two days after the audit was posed on the NIOSH Web site. "She won awards, all kinds of plaques; anywhere they wanted her to work, she'd go." said her husband, Bob. "She's paying for it with her life right now." Report: Companies stung by skyrocketing costs CLEVELAND (AP) Employers paying deeply discounted premiums for injured-worker insurance coverage often see those costs skyrocket after even one on-the-job injury is reported, The Plain Dealer reported Sunday. An oil-drilling company in southern Ohio says it won't do business in Ohio anymore, a health care company in suburban Cleveland may fold and a Cleveland baking company has had to lay off two workers - all because of the spike in the premiums they pay for coverage under the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation. They face dramatic increases · from of recent employee injuries because they were kicked out of a state-sanctioned program that has allowed for-profit companies to use the bureau's premiums for their own benefit and that of their clients, The Plain Dealer reported. It's created a disparity in whtch about two-thirds of the state's employers pay hundreds of millions of dollars more in premiums than they should to cover discounts for the other third, the newspaper said. The for-profit companies. known as third-party administrators, have been allowed to sell deep premium discounts to employers that have few worker claims, usually charging employers a percentage of the amount PageA6 the discounts save them. Flaws in the program have introduced substantial inequities into the system's rate structure, according to bureau documents cited by the newspaper. The program's 99,000 participants, about 38 percent of all employers covered by the injured-worker system, pay less than tlieir records indicate they should be paying in premiums because of the oversized discounts. The Plain Dealer said. An outside bureau analyst estimates the underpayments at more than $870 million in the last three years alone. Other companies help to subsidize their rates. The inequities make losing the discounts even tougher on small employers. At Aladdin's Baking Co. in Cleveland. officials say their projected workers' comp costs rose by more than $70,000 per year alter two workers claimed lllJUnes from workplace falls. They said the injuries forced them out of the group rating. "We don't make gold bars here." company official Connie Nahra said. "We bake bread." In 2004, a pipe accident knocked an oil driller and two of his helpers down at Dean Decker & Son Inc. in Vincent near Marietta, said company official Loretta Decker, and the machine Monday, January 29, 2007 10 mph. • Wednesday ... JI4ostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Wednesday night... Paitly cloudy in the mostly evening ... Then cloudy with a chance of snow showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 20s. Chance of snow 30 percent. Tbursday ... Partly 'sunny with a chance of snow showers. A chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent. Thursday nigbl. .. Mostly cloud)< with a 50 Nrcent • Bl The Daily Sentinel Sectional tournament draw, Page 86 Ohio mandates new way to send prisoners gifts COLUMBUS ( AP) State prison ,,m,·ials ha\·c made it a lnt harder to 'n.:ak illegal ~ifts to inmat ~' Under a pol ic} that went into effect this month . inmates can receive gift> onl y if th,· y arL· sh ipjl~d directly from a St. Loui ' company that takes mders hy phone. fax or the Internet. Hundreds of items. indttdin~ food. arc availahlc. Previously. families could St'llli p<tckage.s directly to prisons. Sec uri I y officials had to insp.!c:t eac:h package before it wa., passt'd along to an inmate. The change was mmk to improve securit y and make it easier for familie' to send packages. said TetTy Cullin,. head of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. "Some people tried to use the packages to send wntraband, including drugs ." Collin' said . "They were very ingcrtious in that ." Families trying to stick to the law nften had difficult y findin g gi ft> that met the prisons' stril'l guidelines. he added . Under the new poliL'y, cifts are on.lered fro m the Keefe Group. which shiJl' diredly to prisons. There i' no 'hipping charge on l11ternet orders, ami the slate gets nothing from the ,ales. All of the gifts offered meet requir~menls . The new system is "hasi.:ally a good idea." said Ellen Kitchens. director of a statewide prisoner-advocacy group called Citizens United fnr Rehabilitation of Errants. "The fact that family members can send paL· kage ~ is a thing. but it appears that prices on some things are hicher," Kitl·hcns said. "It's gL;ing to cosl family memgood hers more." There are limited choices on many items. including athletic shoes. T-shirts and hab are plain. All televisions and otha electronic devices have dear cases 10 prevent contraband from being hidden. " I dnn't consider any of these niceties," Collins said. "If they buy underwear, socks and shoes. that's one le.ss thing I have to hand out." Inmates and their· families also can order food, including candy and snacks. When an inmate orders items directly, the money comes from their prison account - cash from family and friends. plus money earned by doing prison jobs. Security level determines how many packages can be shipped a year: four for a minimum-security inmate or none for maximum security. Death-row inmates can receive three per year. Jury awards $800,000 in white ~fficer~~ s11it against Cleveland CLEVELAND tAP l A federal jury has awarded $800.000 to a white police otlicer. tinding that the cit y racially discriminated a¥ainsl him by ass tgning h1m to undesirab le dtttv after he shot and wounded a black boy. Patrolman Edward Lent/ Jr. had argued liis treatment · was harsher than that of black officers who shot black people, and that he was made a scapegoat to appease activists who protested a number of police shootings involving black suspects. In the verdict reached Friday. the U.S . Di strkt Court jurors. who were all white. found the discrimination was deliberate. intentional · ami ran of an official "policy or custom." They also agreed with Lentz's claim that the city retaliated when Lentz complained about his treatment by filing disciplinary charges with the fede ral Equ al Employment Opportunity Commission. The city plans to appeal, Mayor Frank Jackson said in a statement. adding that he "rejects the notion that any of the city 's investigation policies discrimina!e against anyone " .. for any rea- During the investigation, Lentz was <tssigned for nearly two years to work in the police gymnasium. "Thi s verdict has given him back his honor and reputmion ," said Lentz's attorney, Edward Kramer. A grand jury in 2003 rejected a felomous assault son. charge against Lentz, a LentL wounded 12-year- judge later dismissed a falold Lorenzo Loc:klear on sification charge and the Dec. 6, 2001, while the city dismissed departmenofticer was providing secu - tal charges. Locklear was rity omside the home of found delinquent in juvethen-Mayor Jane Campbell. nile court in 2003 for driLocklear sped around the ving the stolen car and corner in a station wagon. possessing marijuana. He There\ dispute over how also won a settlement in a Lentz got onto the 'ehi - lawsuit against the city; the L'ic 's roof - the officer amount was not disclosed .. said he was being dragged Lentz' lawsuit is similar and had to cli mh up. and a lo one filed last August li~ witness claimed h~ twt> detectives involved itt jumped . When Locklear the fatal 2005 shooting of didn't follow hi s order tl) 15-ycar-uld Brandoo stop. Lemz fired 14 shuts McCloud. who was black~ through the roof, striking Detectives Philip Habeeb the boy in the arm. hip and and John Kraynik, who are ankle. white, seek $2 million. :: Monday, January 29, 2007 "just kept hitting them until it could be turned off." Only one has returned to work, she said. The other two are on full disability. "It was a one-accident thing," Decker said. "It was operator error." However, the company lost its group coverage and its premiums have shot up. That means Ohio is off-limits. Decker said. "If we had to come back to Ohio, we would shut our doors," she said. "We would completely shut our business down, because we could not afford to have workers' comp. Period." The program was intended to help small Ohio companies compete with lar¥er companies in the same hne of work. By banding together, the smaller companies could simulate the same risk and cost of future injuries as the big companies. which spread the risk over more employees. The ¥roup-rating law took etTect m 1991. Since then. records show, officials left the oversight of the new prognun almost entirely to the third-party administrators. which got bigger fees when they offered bigger discounts. The artiticially low risk could be used to generate unrealistically low premiums for group members and inappropriately . high premiums for everyone else, the newspaper said. MEISS J3 I RIVER lAllEY 69 POMEROY - A~ o1 upcoming COllege 'V1d hql schoO ..arw,. lpOr1i'lg IIV8fU nvoMng Hlam&lrom Gda and Meigs CCU~ttas . Lady Falcons • survive Mondey'a g•m11 Olrlo Bllkolboll Gallia Academy at Rive r Valtev, 5:30 p .m. Meigs a1 Point Pleasant, 6 p.m. South Gallia at Eastern. 6 p.m Southern at OVCS, 6 p.m. Tu11dn'a pam11 Bo~• Beaketblll Southern at Belpre, 6 :30p .m. Eastem at Parkersburg Cathohc, 6:30 p.m. Gallia Academy at Portsmouth , 6 p.m. South Gallia at Rock Hill. 6 p.m. Chesapeake at River Valley. 6 p .m. Coll•ge Baaketball Rio Grande at Urbana, 7:30p.m. Women'• College Basketball Rio Grande a1 Urbana, 5:30p.m. WtdntMIIy 'a gam11 Glrla Baaketbtll Ponsmouth at Gallia Academy, 6 p.m Tburadwy'a gam11 Soya Basketball Hannan at OVCS, 7:30p.m. Olrlt Batketball Coal Grove at River Valley, 6 p .m. -Southern at Federal Hocking, 6 p .m. Vinton County at Meigs. 6 p.m. Eastern at Waterford, 6 p.m. Hannan at OVCS, e p.m. Meigs Marauders' Dan Bookman tries to put up a shot under heavy pressure from River Valley Raiders· Tyler Thompson during a boys high school basketball game on Saturday in Rock Springs. Meigs won 73-69 in double overtime. BY lARRY CRUM LCRUM@MYOAILYREGISTER.COM tile team after what will surely go down as a classic in the series. It was also the Marauders' first win over a non-Meigs county team since 2005. The last out-of-county win also came over River Valley, during a Division II sectional semifinal on Feb. 16, 2005 . This season and last, Meigs had only beaten rivals Southern and Eastern prior to Saturday. Goode finished with a double-double, scoring 12 points and collecting 14 rebounds on the night. Center Dave Poole went for 16 while point guard Clay Bolin also reached double-figures with 12 for the winners. Bookman had mne. River Valley (8-7) nailed eight threepointers. led by Jason Jones, who had five of those and led the way with 22 points. Backcourt mate Bryan Morrow MASON, W.Va. Thanks to a big founh quarter from Amber Tully, the Wahama Lady Falcons escaped a tight game against Wood County with a 38-27 victory Saturday afternoon . Tully had just one point in the first half as Wood County took a 17-16 lead into the break, but exploded in the second with 12 of her team high 13 points including eight in the fourth quarter to lead her Lady Falcons to the nine point victory. . The win improves Wahama to a 10-5 record on the season . Wahama held a narrow 26-25 edge heading into the final eight minutes of play in the low scoring affair, but a smothering Lady Falcon defense Iimited Wood County to just two fourth quarter points while pouring on a game high 12 of their own to take the win. Tully had 13 points in the win, while Airael Derifteld had I0 points. Taylor Hysell had eight points, Mary Kehler had four points and Kayanna Sayre had three points as the five starters had all of the Lady Falcon scoring. Wood County was paced by Megan Ward, who had a game high 14 points, followed by Chelsea Lord with seven points . Alii Drane with four points and Tiffany Cowdery with a pair of markers. Deritield came out firing in the tirst quarter, scoring six points to help push Wahama ahead by a nartow 9-8 margin after the first eight minute of play. But Please SH Thriller, 1:1 Please see Fakons, 1:1 Brod Shernunvphola frldlv'a g•m11 Boyo lukotboll Watertord at Southern. 6:30p.m. Vinton County at Meigs, 6:30 p.m . Athena at Gallia Academy, 7 p.m. Eastern at Trimble, 6:30 p.m. South Gallia at Ironton St. Joe, 6:30 p.m. Ri~er Valley at South Point, 6 p .m . aves at Cross Lanes, 8 p.m. Olrlo Bookolblll Coal Grovv at South Gallia. 6 p .m. aves at Cross Lanes, 6:30p.m. Sllurdly'a a1m11 Boyl llo\OkOiblll Galli& Academy at Wheelersburg. 6 p.m. Belpre at Eastern, 6 :30 p.m. Olrlo Bookolblll River Valley at Eastern, 6 p.m. w..olllng Gallia Academy at SEOAL Tournament Meigs, River Valley at John Oeno Invite Coli... BllkOiblll Rio Grande at Mount VernOn . 7:30 p.m. Woman'a Collage Bllkatball Rio Grande at Mount Vernon . 5:30 p.m. !lyndly'l geme Boyo a.akolboll Sectional tournament Jackson). 1 p.m. draw (at Cou.EGE HOOPS Marauders upset River Valley in double overtime BY 81!AD SHERMAN BSHERMANOMVDAILYTRIBUNE.COM ROCK SPRINGS - Chris Goode couldn "t be playing much better than he is right now - and he helped his Meigs Marauders get the best of the River Valley Raiders. Goode made the go-ahead bucket and had two big rebounds that set up the game-clinching free throws as Meigs upset rival River Valley 73-69 in double overtime on Saturday at Larry R. Morrison Gymnasium. The Raiders had won the earlier meeting back on Dec. 9 by double digits, The junior forward made a layup to put his team up 69-68 with I: II to play in the second extra session, then on the other end, snared a rebound to set up a pair of free throws by teammate Eric Tolar. IIIVJR YAUIV (M) Jolon JQnaa 611-10 22, Bry•n Mo<row 5 7·7 19, Ryan ~gglolon I 0.2 2, Mict>ael CoftloU 1 0.0 2. Tyler ~? 3-6 7, Ryan Henry 4 2·5 11, t.a n ~awls.2 o-o 5, ~ l>e<!l 0 1-2 1. Totals - 21 t9-32 119. 1111!11!8 (13) =J ~ I\IU(IInl 0 o-o O, 4uolln O.,.nfoe 0 o-o 0, ,&,aron Coldoll1 0.0 2, Clay Bolin 5 1·2 12, Dan IIQokman 3 2-5 9. Eric Totor6 7·10 22. 4ndy Games 0 IH>O. Chril 2-5 12. Dave Poole B 4-7 16. TotalS- 26 Tluoe poinl goolo- RV 8(Jooes 4, Morrow 2. Hervy 1, ~ewlo 1), II 5 (Tolar 3. Bolin 1. Bookman 1). Tolar, who led all Meigs scorers with 22, gave his club a three-potnt lead with the pair of makes. River Valley's Ryan Henry split a pair of free throws, but Goode grabbed the carom off the miss and got the ball to Dan Bookman, who meshed his two charity shots to ice the game. For Meigs (3-12), it was only its third win of the boys high schonl basketball season, but a big one. Students rushed the floor and celebrated with • ors Ball State tops Ohio, 69-57 • MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) Skip Mills had 20 points and five assists and Anthony Newell scored 19 points as Ball State beat Ohio 69-57 on Sunday. Micah Rollin ~rabbed nine rebounds tor the Cardinals (7-13, 4-4 MidAmerican Conference), who outrebounded Ohio 3925. Peyton Stovall had 12 points and Chris Ames 10, and Ball State shot 62 percent in the second half. Jerome Tillman led Ohio (13-7, 4-3) with 19 points and four assists, and Leon Williams scored 14. The Cardinals trailed by six at the outset, but after !loing on a 9-2 run to make u 9-8 they led the rest of the game. Ball State led 28-22 at the half. Ball State outscored Ohio 30-26 in the paint and was 19-of-25 from the free throw line compared with Ohio's 10-of-16. Local weather Monday ... Partly sunny. A slight chance of snow showers in the morning. Highs around 30. West wmds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 20 percent. Monday night...Mostly cloudy. 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The way Woods is playing - no worse than second in stroke play anywhere in the world s in~e July - that might no longer be the case. Woods won six in a row in 2000, a streak that Phil Mickelson stopped at Torrey Pines. But agamst a cast of challengers short on experience and victories, the world's No. I player met little resistance in winning the Buick Invitational for the www.mydailysentinel.com 17th hole for birdie that allowed him to play it safe on the par-5 closing hole. Woods fmished at 15-under 273 for his 55th career victory. the fifth time he has sta11ed a new season with a trophy. Howell had a 50-foot eagle putt on the 18th that could ha ve forced a playoft·, but he played it too high over the ridge and wound up threeputting for pur to close with 68. "I gave him a run," Howell ·said. "Anytime you try to win a tournament against that guy. it's tough. I played well down the stretch. He just never flinched." The same couldn't be said for Buckle and Quinney, who each took double bogey along the back nine on the South Course to quickly take themselves out of contention. Brandt Snedeker, tied for the 54-hole lead with Buckle, closed with a 71 and finished third. Woods· streak resumed after a nearly four-month break from the PGA Tour, when he won by eight shots in the American Express Championship outside London on Oct. I. He skipped the season-ending Tour · Championship and the scason-opening Mercedes-Benz Championship, and learned that his wife was pregnant for the first time. One thing that hasn 't changed is his golf. The PGA Tour winning streak dates to his victory in the British Open last July, and Woods is now 124-under pur during that stretch. This win looked like so many others, especially at Torrey Pines. Part of it was due to him, most of it was due to the guys falling apart down the stretch. Buckle held it together for the longest time. Woods erased a two-shot deficit in four holes, but the 24-year-old Australian bounced back with an approach into 6 feet for birdie on No. 5, and nearly reaching the par-5 sixth green from the right rough to se! up a simple up-and-down btrdie and a two-shot lead. And even after a roar that resonated across ~ribune - Sentinel CLASSIFIED to nds his PGA 'our third straight year. Woods doesn 't cons iLler this a true winning streak because he lost once in Europe and twice in Asia since September. But it still counts 111 the PGA Tour record books, and the only 4uestion is when it wi ll resume. Woods was headed for the Dubai Desert Classic on Sunday night, and he was not sure if would play his .next PGA Tour event at the Ntssan Open on Feb. 15 in Los Angeles or the Accenture Match Play Championship in Arizona a week later. "To somehow sneak out with the win is a cool feeling," Woods said. He got some help from Andrew Buckle and Jeff Quinney, both of whom had at least a share of the lead on the back nine until stumbling in a span of about 15 minutes on a cool, breezy afternoon at Torrey Pines. Charles Howell III provide the final challenge with •.tree birdies in a four-hole stretch, but Woods answered with an approach to 2 1/2 feet on the www.mydallyHntlnel.com Monday, January 29. 2007 the course, Buckle didn 't first time with a 65-foot eagle blink. putt that curled around the Woods hammered a 3- back of the cup and came an wood from the ninth fairway inch within falling , while to 25 feet and holed the putt Buckle against chopped for eagle and a share of the · around the rough and had to lead. Buckle was walking up save par. 1\vo holes later, the ninth fairway to his tee Buckle was up to his ankles shot, calmly taking a drag in ice plant and his chances from a cigarette. He looked were sliding over the cliffs up when he heard the cheer. lining the Pacific. flicked the cigarette to the Quinney also disappeared, ground and stomped it out, . trying to play a perfect bunker then !lirdied the next · two shot that came up short and holes. He still had a two-shot lead llefthto double bogey on the over Woods and Quinney A · kl h when he reached the 12th tee, s qUic Y as I ose two but his tee shot caught a cor- contenders vanished, Howell ner of grass on the edge of a emerged. fairway bunker, and that's He made the only birdie of when everything collapsed. the final round on the 477Buckle's feet slipped in the yard 12th hole, followed that sand as he struck the ball, with a two-putt birdie on the which Sjli!ed well to the right 13th, then nearly holed out an and left him little green 8-iron on the 15th, the ball between a bunker and the grazing the edge of the cup. flag. Attempting a flop shot to That pulled him to within one give himself a short putt at shot of the lead. He had the par, it came out too strong and momentum. He was d11e to tumbled over the ~reen on the have something good come other side. He p1tched to 4 his way. feet and missed the putt, takBut he was playing with a ing double bogey. guy for whom little goes Woods took the lead for the wrong. Galli a County OH , E·mal! classified@ mydailytribune.com To In One Week With Us REACH OVER 285,000 PROSPECTS PLUS YOUR AD NOW ONLINE tlr:rlbune Place Sentinel _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _._ _o;;r..;F.;;aiii.xTo Offtee llorq-so Monday thru Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 448-3008 Or Fax To Word Ad• MELBOURNE, Australia - Roger Federer held back the tears this time. He dido't hold back much else at the Australian Open. Federer underlined his lOth Grand Slam sin~les title by winning 21 straight sets, saving a set point in Sunday's final before finishing off Fernando Gonzalez 7-6 (2). 6-4. 6-4. The last man to go through a major without dropping a set was Bjorn Borg at the 1980 French Open. The only other man to win the Australian Open without dropping a set was Ken Rosewall in 1971. although he had to play only five matches. "Equaling records, doing something that hasn't been done for a long time. it's really nice, no doubt ," Federer said. "All I care about in the end is to hopefully hold that trophy. Of course, now that it 's over, it's great to think, 'Wow, you know, not having dropped a set.' It's quite amazing." Rosewall was in the crowd Sunday night, and Federer gave him a nod in a composed victory speech. It was the mere presence of another Australian great, Rod Laver, that reduced Federer to tears the previous year at the trophy presentation. "I can't force them out every year!" Federer said of his sobbing celebration Roger Federer of Switzerland reacts after defeating Fernando Gonzalez of Chlle.in hi:P~=~~: in 2006, when he accepted the trophy from Laver. "I singles final match at the Australian Open tennis tournament· in Melbourne, Australia on had a wonderful tourna- Sunday. Federer won in straight sets, 7-6 6-4 6-4. ment. A great end. Just to ensure he will break former No. 1 Lleyton Gonzalez broke Federer because there were no tears Jimmy Connors' re,cord of Hewitt and Masters Cup in the ninth game and had doesn ' t mean it doesn't 1'60 consecutive weeks finalist James Blake before set points at 5-4. but was mean anything to me." atop the men's rankings by pounding Nadal in straight unable to convert the Laver, the last man to the end of next month. in the quarterfinals. opportunities. Both players win the Grand Slam - all Although he knows he 's "1 knew he was a danger- agreed that was the turning four majors in one season only one-quarter of the way ous player, and the way point. - .fmade tripF dfrom there in 2007, a season he's been gcling th1·o ugh · tthe " 1 have to congratulate Cal1 onua 0 see e erer Grand Slam is his obiecthe draw made me wonder J again Roger," Gonzalez d1·smantl e AndY R0 dd'tc k 6 - tive . He was two sets from what did he do different 4, 6-0, 6-2 in the semifisaid. "He's on the way to nals. · that last year, when he won this time around," Federer be maybe the best player He met with Federer in the first set of the French said. "Especially the win ever. He is a great champithe locker room after the . Open final before losing in against Nadal - it kind of on who played a really shocked me .... I didn't good match today, all week semifinal and said he had four to Rafael Nadal. little doubt the 25 _year-old That was his only defeat believe he was going to ·- almost all his life. So 1 Swiss star could beat Pete in the last seven majors. beat Rafa so easy." can take a lot out of this Sampras' record 14 Grand Nadal was 26-0 on clay last Then Gonzalez routed tournament." Slam singles titles, and just season and is on a record Haas 6 - l, 6-3 • 6- 1. Gonzalez was the biggest about every other tennis 72-match streak on the surFederer considered mover in the men's top lO, record as well. ace. changing strat\!gy against moving five places to No. 5 "The best way to beat "French Open is obvious- Gonzalez. with his run to his .first him would be to hit him ly the next b1g one for me," "In the end I said, "You Grand Slam final. over the head wt' th a rack- he said. "I've made one know what, I've beaten Serena Williams won her et," LaverJ'oked in a news- step furt her every ·year him nine dtimes, so just take · eig hth and most improba· 1 now. Went from sem1s to tt easy an p av your ~arne, p a~er column. · gomg " . 1s. 0 ot c1oser to Raf a, an d hope f u11 y <11 1s f ederer improved his ma to ble Grand Slam title, beatwork out,"' Federer said. ing top-seeded Maria streak to a career-best 36 as well." wins. became the first man That and three other loss- "It did.'' Sharapova 6-1. 6·2 on Gonzalez had the most Saturday in one of the most in the Open era to twice es to Nada! were about the win three straight ml\iors only downsides of his 2006 vocal cheering section lopsided finals at the and has collected six of the season - he was 91-1 Sunday, many with painted Australian Open. last seven Grand Slam at~ainst everyone else and faces chanting and blowing Sharapova left for Tokyo titles. ptcked up 12 titles. whistles and twirling flags on Sunday, knowing she He tied Jack Crawford's "I think it's ~oing to be a as if they were at a soccer would assume the No. I 7 3-year-old record by very interestmg French game. ranking the following day. reaching his seventh con· Open for me ... hopefully Federer, as usual, had Williams, who played WID the title," he said. thousands of backers, too. about half as many matches secutive final in majors. "If somebody would "That will be a dream come One fan, dressed in Swiss in two weeks at Melbourne have told me I'd win 10 true. That's the only way I red and white, carried a Park as she did in an Grand Slams from mid '03 can make this season a bet- sign that summed up the injury-plagued 2006, stuck till today, I never would ter one than last year. general feeling: "Federer is around to watch the men's have thought there was any Otherwise it won't be pos- betterer." In the end. he final. She will move from chance," he said. sible." was. No. 81 to No. 14 and has Even before ·the tournaFederer saw Gonzalez It was close in the begin- designs on getting back to ment he bad enough points coming. The Chilean beat ning . No. 1. Now you con have borders and vraphlcs ~ added ta your classified ads .S,~ Borders $3.00/per ad I! Graphics SOC for small S1.00 for larQe Dl•plav Ad• D•Uv ln•Column1 ltOO p.m. All Dlaplayl 1.3 Noon a Monday-Prtday for lnaertlon au•ln,... 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The teams were tied at 56 from PageBl at the end of regulation and at 66 after the first overtime. adc;led 19 points and Ryan River Valley won . the Henry had II. reserve contest 51-34. Kody The game was a tight one Johnson led the winners mostly tile entire way. The with 12 points while Jeremy two clubs were tied at 14 Smith's eight paced Meigs. after one quarter and the Meigs will need all the Marauders were only up a momentum gained from the point (26-25) at halftime. win when powerful Vinton Meigs did have an County visits on Friday. impressive 14-2 run to start River Valley will try to the second half and go up rebound from the hard loss by double digits. The on Thesday at home against Raiders, though were able Chesapeake_ - --t Falcons down to its final weeks. The Lady Falcons will return to the coun Friday at Sherman. fromPageBl Wood County rallied with nine in the second to push them ahead by one heading into the half. After that Wahama chipped away and took the lead heading into the final frame and then shut down the visitors to hold on for the win. It is the second straight win by the Lady Falcons after defeating Van Friday night as the season winds 4, Brlanna 8111 0 0·0 o. Tiffany Cowdery 1 o-1 2, Llndeay Brown 0 0.. 0 0. TOTALS: 13 o-3 27. WAHAMA CM) llndoty Ooom 0 0-0 Michaela Cavil o O·O o, Alrut Oorltlold 5 o-o I 0. Mlcan Ohlinger 0 o-o o, Brooke Gabrltoch 0 o-o 0, Am~r Tully 3 7-14 13, Mary Kobler 2 0-2 4, ToyiOI Hy-1 3 2_. 8. Kay111na Sayro 0 W 3, Tlfttny SIHIIl 0 0, Cheyenne WtJien 0 0, Kaylolonlor 0 o-0 0. TOTALS: I 3 I 22838. ThrH-I>Oint po - Wood County 1 (lord 1), Wahamo (non.). o. o-o o-o . '- LOCAL NEWS. LOCAL SPORTS . ~fj~f~· 992·1155 ' I WOOD COUNTY (27) Tori Gulbtrlet 0 0-0 0, 88ck)l Garrett 0 0· 0 0. Chtlsaa Lord 3 0·0 7, Kara Smith 0 o-2 0. Mogan Ward 7 o-0 14. 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New 200 7 3 • Pavment could be the bedroom 2 bath. Only 5aflle as rent. Locators. $199.86 per month. Set up Mortgage minutes trorrt Athens and ,(7._:40:::136=7·..:0000=---ready for immediate occu- Attn : Construction Workers, pancy. Call 74Q-385-4387. 11ery clean 2-bedroom, gas - - - - - - - - heat-CA,stove&refridg,launNEW 2007 4 bed D/Wide! dry room w/washer & dryer $49,179. Midwesl (740)828· No Pets 675-4022 Sf3·5903 _27_50_ _ _ _ _ _ _ House for rent. 313 Crew Nice rental or starter home Rd. Patriot Ohio caN 7401970 Hillcrest 12X60 23_7_:9-_:2_:584'-.'--- - - - bdrm.. On a 50'X240' lot. $ . In Pomerov. b1g 4 bedroom 13 600 740 _742 _4011 house. 2 bath, cia. recenttv Lms & remooeled, (740)843-5264 0 White Ave 2BR hOuse S450Jmo + 1!mo. dep. water 2 J/2 acre bldg.lotlf:3 on the paid. renter pays gas & elecright. 1f4milepasttheScou1 triC. 1 small pet ok. 740-794Camp on Scout Camp 1760. Road, Chester, Ohio. lot goes from road to Shade River. tt has septic permit, cit~ water, and electric . Owner tinancinn, no queli"·· 3 Bedroom Mobile home, No ... $3,750.00 'r Pets, tng. $25.000.00. $400/mo. $350 down $227.06 per month. Oepos;t, (740)388-9905 Call owner 386·257-2674 . Ideal tor Mto people 4 miles 4 acre mini farm in Patriot/ !rom Kyger Creek Fosters 0.0. Mcintyre area. Already Mobile Home POrt< 740·441 · set up for mobile home . :.;..:.:_ 0181. _ _ _ _ __ Wonderful views w1th peace & seclusion but not too tar Mobile Home S3751month out Enjoy country li~ing in a $375/der>OSI., ReIerences decrlte loCation. $30,000. required No Pets (304}675Own 5578 1 1 er inancng available. - - - : - - - - - (7•Wl<146•4053 evenings. Mobile Home Lol in John90f1 ..., 3 B&droom. 1 314 Baths." Kitchen, LA. FR. Central Air, Many extras. 2.13 acres located on Chris Lane. close to new GAHS, Reduced to St29.900. 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Corner lot. fireplace. modern kitchen, jacuui tub, Payment around $550 per month. 740-367-7129 o 3 Br. hOuSe, no pets, newapaper'" i 1·688·582-3345 I~ or 3 Br 1 Bath 1 car garage, out building, green school dislrict, $550 deposit and $550 ~~~~~~~-....- - - . a mon. no pets,call 740.245M~C'~ItS 0372. tor an application. TURNED DOWN ON SOCIAL SECURITY ISS!? No Fee Unless We Win! oao o.n.r•t SEtiVtali ...._ •oSI- CLASSIFIED INDEX ~ 2 740-992·585!1. IVai._.. on an equal opponunlty .._. :P;u~bl=is;hr:ng:C:om::pa:•:YI=~ r (740)446·3870 Thla ntwiPiper wut no1 knowlngly-t .ctveltiMIMIIta for ..... ..a.•whlchtaln 111ioJI1ton ol the .... Our rudlra .... hereby Informed thai all ttw.llinp ldVertiMd In thla A~ . no gas bill. (740)794-1760 or dl~rlmlnatlon... ••fi- www.comlc•.cam 2 Br Hoose 725 3rd $325 per mon ." +1 mon. Depoait Water paid. All elec, IMUIIal OIM\Ia or Mtional origin, or anw tm.nUon to mUe.nv IIUCh PNfeNnoe, llmJtltion or Borrow Smart. 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(304)675-6639 r Meigs' Chris Goode puts up a shot in the paint during a double overtime win over River Valley Saturday. w. lftY klu Dr OpetiM tNt,........ flenl the pcMIMoJtkN• or orNMion of M ildvertletmenl ean.ctlon will bl IMOe In 1M ftm IVall-* .otlklft, •lol ad It flfY lima. Erroro Mull ~Iliad on tilt Dl pub1looltan ho Trlbolno-Son11no tgltt11 will ejoonolblo lor lhln tho coat Br•d Sherman/photo M IIII'IY tlfM, 1"011 mu.t b1 NP011M an the nrat My o1 kltncortyl . .comcaat. nat ~or-any ftllltnwlion. II no1 bo llablo Of' oancel111y tot no I'I'IOft tMn thli CMI: al the ~ occupied by thll «rOf lind only tM t1r.t lnMrtlon. 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VVoods caught up to the pack with an eagle, buried the hopes of his final challenger' with a birdie and closed with a 6-under 66 on Sunday to win the Buick Invitational for his seventh consecutive PGA Tour victory, the secondlongest streak in history. Nelson set the record in 1945 with II in a ,row. a record long thought to be out of reach. The way Woods is playing - no worse than second in stroke play anywhere in the world s in~e July - that might no longer be the case. Woods won six in a row in 2000, a streak that Phil Mickelson stopped at Torrey Pines. But agamst a cast of challengers short on experience and victories, the world's No. I player met little resistance in winning the Buick Invitational for the www.mydailysentinel.com 17th hole for birdie that allowed him to play it safe on the par-5 closing hole. Woods fmished at 15-under 273 for his 55th career victory. the fifth time he has sta11ed a new season with a trophy. Howell had a 50-foot eagle putt on the 18th that could ha ve forced a playoft·, but he played it too high over the ridge and wound up threeputting for pur to close with 68. "I gave him a run," Howell ·said. "Anytime you try to win a tournament against that guy. it's tough. I played well down the stretch. He just never flinched." The same couldn't be said for Buckle and Quinney, who each took double bogey along the back nine on the South Course to quickly take themselves out of contention. Brandt Snedeker, tied for the 54-hole lead with Buckle, closed with a 71 and finished third. Woods· streak resumed after a nearly four-month break from the PGA Tour, when he won by eight shots in the American Express Championship outside London on Oct. I. He skipped the season-ending Tour · Championship and the scason-opening Mercedes-Benz Championship, and learned that his wife was pregnant for the first time. One thing that hasn 't changed is his golf. The PGA Tour winning streak dates to his victory in the British Open last July, and Woods is now 124-under pur during that stretch. This win looked like so many others, especially at Torrey Pines. Part of it was due to him, most of it was due to the guys falling apart down the stretch. Buckle held it together for the longest time. Woods erased a two-shot deficit in four holes, but the 24-year-old Australian bounced back with an approach into 6 feet for birdie on No. 5, and nearly reaching the par-5 sixth green from the right rough to se! up a simple up-and-down btrdie and a two-shot lead. And even after a roar that resonated across ~ribune - Sentinel CLASSIFIED to nds his PGA 'our third straight year. Woods doesn 't cons iLler this a true winning streak because he lost once in Europe and twice in Asia since September. But it still counts 111 the PGA Tour record books, and the only 4uestion is when it wi ll resume. Woods was headed for the Dubai Desert Classic on Sunday night, and he was not sure if would play his .next PGA Tour event at the Ntssan Open on Feb. 15 in Los Angeles or the Accenture Match Play Championship in Arizona a week later. "To somehow sneak out with the win is a cool feeling," Woods said. He got some help from Andrew Buckle and Jeff Quinney, both of whom had at least a share of the lead on the back nine until stumbling in a span of about 15 minutes on a cool, breezy afternoon at Torrey Pines. Charles Howell III provide the final challenge with •.tree birdies in a four-hole stretch, but Woods answered with an approach to 2 1/2 feet on the www.mydallyHntlnel.com Monday, January 29. 2007 the course, Buckle didn 't first time with a 65-foot eagle blink. putt that curled around the Woods hammered a 3- back of the cup and came an wood from the ninth fairway inch within falling , while to 25 feet and holed the putt Buckle against chopped for eagle and a share of the · around the rough and had to lead. Buckle was walking up save par. 1\vo holes later, the ninth fairway to his tee Buckle was up to his ankles shot, calmly taking a drag in ice plant and his chances from a cigarette. He looked were sliding over the cliffs up when he heard the cheer. lining the Pacific. flicked the cigarette to the Quinney also disappeared, ground and stomped it out, . trying to play a perfect bunker then !lirdied the next · two shot that came up short and holes. He still had a two-shot lead llefthto double bogey on the over Woods and Quinney A · kl h when he reached the 12th tee, s qUic Y as I ose two but his tee shot caught a cor- contenders vanished, Howell ner of grass on the edge of a emerged. fairway bunker, and that's He made the only birdie of when everything collapsed. the final round on the 477Buckle's feet slipped in the yard 12th hole, followed that sand as he struck the ball, with a two-putt birdie on the which Sjli!ed well to the right 13th, then nearly holed out an and left him little green 8-iron on the 15th, the ball between a bunker and the grazing the edge of the cup. flag. Attempting a flop shot to That pulled him to within one give himself a short putt at shot of the lead. He had the par, it came out too strong and momentum. He was d11e to tumbled over the ~reen on the have something good come other side. He p1tched to 4 his way. feet and missed the putt, takBut he was playing with a ing double bogey. guy for whom little goes Woods took the lead for the wrong. Galli a County OH , E·mal! classified@ mydailytribune.com To In One Week With Us REACH OVER 285,000 PROSPECTS PLUS YOUR AD NOW ONLINE tlr:rlbune Place Sentinel _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _._ _o;;r..;F.;;aiii.xTo Offtee llorq-so Monday thru Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 448-3008 Or Fax To Word Ad• MELBOURNE, Australia - Roger Federer held back the tears this time. He dido't hold back much else at the Australian Open. Federer underlined his lOth Grand Slam sin~les title by winning 21 straight sets, saving a set point in Sunday's final before finishing off Fernando Gonzalez 7-6 (2). 6-4. 6-4. The last man to go through a major without dropping a set was Bjorn Borg at the 1980 French Open. The only other man to win the Australian Open without dropping a set was Ken Rosewall in 1971. although he had to play only five matches. "Equaling records, doing something that hasn't been done for a long time. it's really nice, no doubt ," Federer said. "All I care about in the end is to hopefully hold that trophy. Of course, now that it 's over, it's great to think, 'Wow, you know, not having dropped a set.' It's quite amazing." Rosewall was in the crowd Sunday night, and Federer gave him a nod in a composed victory speech. It was the mere presence of another Australian great, Rod Laver, that reduced Federer to tears the previous year at the trophy presentation. "I can't force them out every year!" Federer said of his sobbing celebration Roger Federer of Switzerland reacts after defeating Fernando Gonzalez of Chlle.in hi:P~=~~: in 2006, when he accepted the trophy from Laver. "I singles final match at the Australian Open tennis tournament· in Melbourne, Australia on had a wonderful tourna- Sunday. Federer won in straight sets, 7-6 6-4 6-4. ment. A great end. Just to ensure he will break former No. 1 Lleyton Gonzalez broke Federer because there were no tears Jimmy Connors' re,cord of Hewitt and Masters Cup in the ninth game and had doesn ' t mean it doesn't 1'60 consecutive weeks finalist James Blake before set points at 5-4. but was mean anything to me." atop the men's rankings by pounding Nadal in straight unable to convert the Laver, the last man to the end of next month. in the quarterfinals. opportunities. Both players win the Grand Slam - all Although he knows he 's "1 knew he was a danger- agreed that was the turning four majors in one season only one-quarter of the way ous player, and the way point. - .fmade tripF dfrom there in 2007, a season he's been gcling th1·o ugh · tthe " 1 have to congratulate Cal1 onua 0 see e erer Grand Slam is his obiecthe draw made me wonder J again Roger," Gonzalez d1·smantl e AndY R0 dd'tc k 6 - tive . He was two sets from what did he do different 4, 6-0, 6-2 in the semifisaid. "He's on the way to nals. · that last year, when he won this time around," Federer be maybe the best player He met with Federer in the first set of the French said. "Especially the win ever. He is a great champithe locker room after the . Open final before losing in against Nadal - it kind of on who played a really shocked me .... I didn't good match today, all week semifinal and said he had four to Rafael Nadal. little doubt the 25 _year-old That was his only defeat believe he was going to ·- almost all his life. So 1 Swiss star could beat Pete in the last seven majors. beat Rafa so easy." can take a lot out of this Sampras' record 14 Grand Nadal was 26-0 on clay last Then Gonzalez routed tournament." Slam singles titles, and just season and is on a record Haas 6 - l, 6-3 • 6- 1. Gonzalez was the biggest about every other tennis 72-match streak on the surFederer considered mover in the men's top lO, record as well. ace. changing strat\!gy against moving five places to No. 5 "The best way to beat "French Open is obvious- Gonzalez. with his run to his .first him would be to hit him ly the next b1g one for me," "In the end I said, "You Grand Slam final. over the head wt' th a rack- he said. "I've made one know what, I've beaten Serena Williams won her et," LaverJ'oked in a news- step furt her every ·year him nine dtimes, so just take · eig hth and most improba· 1 now. Went from sem1s to tt easy an p av your ~arne, p a~er column. · gomg " . 1s. 0 ot c1oser to Raf a, an d hope f u11 y <11 1s f ederer improved his ma to ble Grand Slam title, beatwork out,"' Federer said. ing top-seeded Maria streak to a career-best 36 as well." wins. became the first man That and three other loss- "It did.'' Sharapova 6-1. 6·2 on Gonzalez had the most Saturday in one of the most in the Open era to twice es to Nada! were about the win three straight ml\iors only downsides of his 2006 vocal cheering section lopsided finals at the and has collected six of the season - he was 91-1 Sunday, many with painted Australian Open. last seven Grand Slam at~ainst everyone else and faces chanting and blowing Sharapova left for Tokyo titles. ptcked up 12 titles. whistles and twirling flags on Sunday, knowing she He tied Jack Crawford's "I think it's ~oing to be a as if they were at a soccer would assume the No. I 7 3-year-old record by very interestmg French game. ranking the following day. reaching his seventh con· Open for me ... hopefully Federer, as usual, had Williams, who played WID the title," he said. thousands of backers, too. about half as many matches secutive final in majors. "If somebody would "That will be a dream come One fan, dressed in Swiss in two weeks at Melbourne have told me I'd win 10 true. That's the only way I red and white, carried a Park as she did in an Grand Slams from mid '03 can make this season a bet- sign that summed up the injury-plagued 2006, stuck till today, I never would ter one than last year. general feeling: "Federer is around to watch the men's have thought there was any Otherwise it won't be pos- betterer." In the end. he final. She will move from chance," he said. sible." was. No. 81 to No. 14 and has Even before ·the tournaFederer saw Gonzalez It was close in the begin- designs on getting back to ment he bad enough points coming. The Chilean beat ning . No. 1. Now you con have borders and vraphlcs ~ added ta your classified ads .S,~ Borders $3.00/per ad I! Graphics SOC for small S1.00 for larQe Dl•plav Ad• D•Uv ln•Column1 ltOO p.m. All Dlaplayl 1.3 Noon a Monday-Prtday for lnaertlon au•ln,... 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The Drug Free Workptace F.,.,.. lor Ront ............................................. 43D An ExCfilllent way to earn 1-800-214-0452 Prog<am. F•rmotor Sate ............................................. 330 money. The New Avon. WMV. gal~poli iCafiMircolege.com For ~ ..................... ................................ 490 Acorldlled Member .-'lccredilir.g Call Marilyn 304·882·2645 POST OfFICE NOW For Sale .................... ,................................... 585 ~~ tor 1~ Coli-oM HIRING For Sale or Tr-......................................... 590 · Area Manufacturer has ~""~-;:;:::::..;":;';:'"~ · _ __, I'll AYII. Pay $2Mlt or Industrial Maintenance Fruits A veg.hlbtea ..................................... 580 I1U M $571< annual~ position available. 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Apply in person at: Childran (1178)318-3650 HouMIIold ~ ....................................... 510 RN, lrnmtelal:e opening ror Wanted: Re&ponelble party SFS Trucl< Sales, 2150 ttou.M lor Rent .......................................... 4t0 Now Hiring exparlonced OON, oxperlencl P'ofl"ed. to lake on small monlllly Eastern Ave., Gallipoli8. Sawmill~- ~In per- call k>l adcttional lnrorma- paymenta on High Ottinttion In MomortMI ................................................ 020 Twin River t1oo Of lnteMIW. Contact: Big Screen TV 1.aoD-398Insurance ..................................................... 130 AVCNI AJI A1aasl To Buy or son. A a-den Equtilmonl ........................ Hlrd\uaad1 2812 US Rt 35, MIJiorie Hulton 0 3870. Bell. Shilley Spaal~ 304LIVMIOck......................................................830 875-14.29. Southside (740)3&4-3485 Of (740)384- lmtar.--::1~~--, Loat •nd Found ........................................... 080 - - - - - - - - 2676. Huston Nun~lng .. WANI'ID Lots • ACfU!IO ............................................ 380 Oh~ VaJey Home Hoalh, Home, Inc. 38500 St. Rt. Toiloi))oiilr-_.1 ~~............................... .............. 170 Bob Evans of Gallipolis, Inc. hiring AN 's, CNA, 160. Hamcltn, Ohio 45634. ~- MerehondiM....................... 540 Hi1lng nigh! & dli!f Sl1ifl Grill STNA, CHHA, PCA. U •· c-•· Cook E u Pa & ._ve, .._ung, """" 1ng, Mobile Homo Rtplltr.....:.............................. ~~ce ent .~ Competitive Wages and RN'S ntedtd to pt.rform Hot Water HNtera & Odd ttornoolor Renl ............................... 420 Beneftls av&llabla. Stop 1n. Benefits including heatth b&SiC first aid at bulineslln JobS, Gall (740)388-9039, Mobile ttornoalor Sale................................ 320 insurance and Mileage. CheShire, OH. (740)794·1532. Money to Loan ............................................. 220 Class A COL driver n&eded, Ajlply at 141!0 Jaci<oon Pilw, lntOieotino'low Slr188 Wolk - - - - - - - Moton:yctea A 4 w.............................,.... 740 2 years experiince. hauNng Gallipolis 01 2415 Jacklon Environment. Great Waiting till Spring 10 . .a! lnalrUmeniO--............................. , .. 570 logs & lumber, lumber will Avenue, Point PINsaN. WV Opporlunity to Earn Extra clun vour Carpet? . . . . . - ....... " ........................... """'" .... "." 005 need to be larped C~l IDS or phOnotolllrte 1-1111&·441- Cash! Call868-269-6344 or No Noadl ~for S.le ................................................ 580 1393. Fu. rnume to 74Q-266Low Molsturt carpet (740)288-3559. 11116 r --•Lct;•;r-ANiiooll_.,JII\1 Thriller to chip away and pulled to within siK entering the final canto. The teams were tied at 56 from PageBl at the end of regulation and at 66 after the first overtime. adc;led 19 points and Ryan River Valley won . the Henry had II. reserve contest 51-34. Kody The game was a tight one Johnson led the winners mostly tile entire way. The with 12 points while Jeremy two clubs were tied at 14 Smith's eight paced Meigs. after one quarter and the Meigs will need all the Marauders were only up a momentum gained from the point (26-25) at halftime. win when powerful Vinton Meigs did have an County visits on Friday. impressive 14-2 run to start River Valley will try to the second half and go up rebound from the hard loss by double digits. The on Thesday at home against Raiders, though were able Chesapeake_ - --t Falcons down to its final weeks. The Lady Falcons will return to the coun Friday at Sherman. fromPageBl Wood County rallied with nine in the second to push them ahead by one heading into the half. After that Wahama chipped away and took the lead heading into the final frame and then shut down the visitors to hold on for the win. It is the second straight win by the Lady Falcons after defeating Van Friday night as the season winds 4, Brlanna 8111 0 0·0 o. Tiffany Cowdery 1 o-1 2, Llndeay Brown 0 0.. 0 0. TOTALS: 13 o-3 27. WAHAMA CM) llndoty Ooom 0 0-0 Michaela Cavil o O·O o, Alrut Oorltlold 5 o-o I 0. Mlcan Ohlinger 0 o-o o, Brooke Gabrltoch 0 o-o 0, Am~r Tully 3 7-14 13, Mary Kobler 2 0-2 4, ToyiOI Hy-1 3 2_. 8. Kay111na Sayro 0 W 3, Tlfttny SIHIIl 0 0, Cheyenne WtJien 0 0, Kaylolonlor 0 o-0 0. TOTALS: I 3 I 22838. ThrH-I>Oint po - Wood County 1 (lord 1), Wahamo (non.). o. o-o o-o . '- LOCAL NEWS. LOCAL SPORTS . ~fj~f~· 992·1155 ' I WOOD COUNTY (27) Tori Gulbtrlet 0 0-0 0, 88ck)l Garrett 0 0· 0 0. Chtlsaa Lord 3 0·0 7, Kara Smith 0 o-2 0. Mogan Ward 7 o-0 14. Krl11in Gray 0 0·0 0, .Alii Drane 2 0.0 1~: ~ < ' ' ."' {f uwn eeo '• u.... eeo Plumbing a -llniJ .................................... 820 P10l111ioMI Servlcee................................. 230 11M10. TV A ClllepP' ............................... t80 E - WJnllld ..................................... 3eO SclloOie INlrUcllon..................................... 150 Seed, Plant. 650 Slboa1lone WltniOCI ....................................... t,20 ,_.llw. . . . . . . . . .. .. . . . .,_for suv·s for-.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rent ...............................:............. 480 __ , ..........................................730 w.ntocl to Buy .............................................090 W.OIId 10 Buy- Fllllll Suppltte .................. 820 W - To Do .............................................. 1.0 tocl10 Rent ........................................... 470 Ywd ...._ o.Htpollo. .... ............................... 072 Ywd Stlo -oy/Ukkllt...................... :.. 074 Ytw'd Sellt-Pl pe····nt .......... ...................... o7e DESK CLERKS NEEDED ........1 Cl..No.a 1 260 ...,..y "' ......,.t nn, Jackson Pike, Gallipolis. Persons with good communlcatlon skills. Good atttrude 6671. cfeanlng driM In an I'IOur! OTR DRIVER 2 years oxpo- - - - - - - - CaMn L....-...Clean rience. Clean MVR,. Sicfotarlal ~•on in ~-• ..,....._., ,_..,. __. (304)875+0022 W/HAZMAT. TERMINAl TO pluo bul nlll"~~~;.;.;~...., TERMINAL No touch not -Ired send NSUme -CW:"'"-IW'R"I" · ' '-'.na&~r~:a 351 ' Gallipolis, droplhooi, further info 740- to P.O b 508-0170. Ohio 45631 olfioo,--. I • I \I I " I \ II -------- l'l'ilJ "'- .. - -~ . No Pels. (7 40)446-0332 8am-5pm Mon-Sat. 2br, House in Pl. Pl. $465 Homestead Realty Broker (304)675-4024 (304)6750799 ask lor Nancy. •~"""'"" , 3 BR bri<:l< house wlbasement in Mertef\lille . 7401999 Schultz New 256·8132 Generation 16K80. vinyl sid.lnQ. &Ing h. 1e rood . JBR , 2BA , 3BA, 1 bath, LeGrande Gas & CIA. Excellent Cond., S!vd, no pets, $625 mo. + $25,000. Owner Financing sec dep. (740~446-3644. AvaJiable. Home can De left Attemlonl on 4 acre 19t il so desired. Local company offering "NO Close to 0 .0. Mcintyre. DOWN PAYMENT~ pro· (7 40~6-4053 evenings. grams for you to buy your home instead ol renling. 2007 312 Doublewide. 1 00°10 financing $37.970 Midwest (740)828· • Less than pertect credit 2750. accepted Mo\18 in today! New 200 7 3 • Pavment could be the bedroom 2 bath. Only 5aflle as rent. Locators. $199.86 per month. Set up Mortgage minutes trorrt Athens and ,(7._:40:::136=7·..:0000=---ready for immediate occu- Attn : Construction Workers, pancy. Call 74Q-385-4387. 11ery clean 2-bedroom, gas - - - - - - - - heat-CA,stove&refridg,launNEW 2007 4 bed D/Wide! dry room w/washer & dryer $49,179. Midwesl (740)828· No Pets 675-4022 Sf3·5903 _27_50_ _ _ _ _ _ _ House for rent. 313 Crew Nice rental or starter home Rd. Patriot Ohio caN 7401970 Hillcrest 12X60 23_7_:9-_:2_:584'-.'--- - - - bdrm.. On a 50'X240' lot. $ . In Pomerov. b1g 4 bedroom 13 600 740 _742 _4011 house. 2 bath, cia. recenttv Lms & remooeled, (740)843-5264 0 White Ave 2BR hOuse S450Jmo + 1!mo. dep. water 2 J/2 acre bldg.lotlf:3 on the paid. renter pays gas & elecright. 1f4milepasttheScou1 triC. 1 small pet ok. 740-794Camp on Scout Camp 1760. Road, Chester, Ohio. lot goes from road to Shade River. tt has septic permit, cit~ water, and electric . Owner tinancinn, no queli"·· 3 Bedroom Mobile home, No ... $3,750.00 'r Pets, tng. $25.000.00. $400/mo. $350 down $227.06 per month. Oepos;t, (740)388-9905 Call owner 386·257-2674 . Ideal tor Mto people 4 miles 4 acre mini farm in Patriot/ !rom Kyger Creek Fosters 0.0. Mcintyre area. Already Mobile Home POrt< 740·441 · set up for mobile home . :.;..:.:_ 0181. _ _ _ _ __ Wonderful views w1th peace & seclusion but not too tar Mobile Home S3751month out Enjoy country li~ing in a $375/der>OSI., ReIerences decrlte loCation. $30,000. required No Pets (304}675Own 5578 1 1 er inancng available. - - - : - - - - - (7•Wl<146•4053 evenings. Mobile Home Lol in John90f1 ..., 3 B&droom. 1 314 Baths." Kitchen, LA. FR. Central Air, Many extras. 2.13 acres located on Chris Lane. close to new GAHS, Reduced to St29.900. (740)245·5909 -------- 3 Bedroom , 2 Bath, fireplace 011 Pleasant Valley Rd. 1!2 ., 1rom A.10 Grande. m•e Available with 1, 5, or 8 acres. (740)709-1166 -----3bd 2b0 HUD $27,0001 n...1u $1101mol 4% down. ......., 30 yellS 0 8%. For llslings 800-559-4109 x254 -------::3br, 2 1/2 ba 1-10\ISe on Rt 62 In Hartford. House bealdre lMiilat:Me for sale, Moblte Home LOI for rtnt ren1 one Of haw extended near Vin1on. Call (740)441 family option. Sir""• caNs 1111 . al (304)675-2484 cell l'llr~~~---, (304)5g3-1481 Rr.ALF..st\n: · Mobile Home Park tn Gallipolis, OH. Phone (740)446·2003 Of (740)446· 1409 _:_:__ _ _ _ __ Nice 14., 70 3 Bedroom. 2 - - - - - - - - "'~---iiiliiiO._.I WANI'ID Bath home. ' Located 4 rental houses "For Sale" • between Atl'lens and In Gallipolis. Call Wayne Need to sell your home? Pomeroy. $36S.OO per (404}458--3802 . Late on payments. divorce. month. Call (740)385 _9948 _ ---:---~-- 100 •onsler or a dealh' 1 ""21"'"'~----., Atttn110nl can buy vour hOme. All casn APium Local company offering "NO ancl quiCk dosing. 740- 416•'OR DOWN PAYMENt PIO· 3130. 1.,~------W grams for yov to buy your _ j i home of renting. • 1 ~instead •---~ng ~~ ·•~M • Less than perfect credil ~ted I -~ • Paymenl & self motivated should ---~---- ----~~~a~ly. No phone calls AN's, OialyOia Tecl1niclanS, w··-• ~-T•-· D·•··•- Will cora !of - l yMin ,.., ""' canvv.-•• .,,,...gaJ,.....,. ~ . .. and Unit Clerk n&eded fo1 (musl be 21 _Mold) Sond ,...,.,"'~~ · 16 yrs txp., r.... av- . please. •--(740)388-9783 1 Pieasanl Valley OialyOia on FliO•~r"" lo Amorican Legion or 740)591independentfy owned OU!pa- 140 PO D - -7 N- 9004. ~ ~v 'FEDI!AAL t+ent dialysis facility !n Haven, WV ·25265 Attn: POSTAL JOBS Pt.Pteasant,WV. Experience UndEI Wyatt or stop in and $16.53-$27.58/hr., now hir- preferred. Please send pick up applicaUons after ing. For applk;ation and rr.ee resumes to Candy Bartram, 4pm gowrner-nent job info, cell Louisa-Fort Gay Flegional _:________ American Assoc. of Labor 1· Oialvsis, ' 2145 Highway Tow Truclt operator, MVR 913-599-8042, 24/hrs. emp. 2565, louisa, KY 41230 Of and drug screen required serv. lar. IO 606-638-3404. 740-388·8547 . Duple:w:, iL.--·AiiClliiiiiiEiii>\Giii'E-_.1 I t.,...... v.na For _ .. • ·-r Bedroom =-=.:.=------ I I uo Sporting Qooda ..................................,. ........ $20 for Sltlo.............................................. 720 Truclul 115 t.Jpha ..llly ................................................... 170 .. .. ll!id 2-3 S420Jmo plus deposit & ulili· ti&S in Downtown .Gallipolis. I ~ 0 Down even with less than perfect credit is available on this 3 bedroom, 1 bath home. Corner lot. fireplace. modern kitchen, jacuui tub, Payment around $550 per month. 740-367-7129 o 3 Br. hOuSe, no pets, newapaper'" i 1·688·582-3345 I~ or 3 Br 1 Bath 1 car garage, out building, green school dislrict, $550 deposit and $550 ~~~~~~~-....- - - . a mon. no pets,call 740.245M~C'~ItS 0372. tor an application. TURNED DOWN ON SOCIAL SECURITY ISS!? No Fee Unless We Win! oao o.n.r•t SEtiVtali ...._ •oSI- CLASSIFIED INDEX ~ 2 740-992·585!1. IVai._.. on an equal opponunlty .._. :P;u~bl=is;hr:ng:C:om::pa:•:YI=~ r (740)446·3870 Thla ntwiPiper wut no1 knowlngly-t .ctveltiMIMIIta for ..... ..a.•whlchtaln 111ioJI1ton ol the .... Our rudlra .... hereby Informed thai all ttw.llinp ldVertiMd In thla A~ . no gas bill. (740)794-1760 or dl~rlmlnatlon... ••fi- www.comlc•.cam 2 Br Hoose 725 3rd $325 per mon ." +1 mon. Depoait Water paid. All elec, IMUIIal OIM\Ia or Mtional origin, or anw tm.nUon to mUe.nv IIUCh PNfeNnoe, llmJtltion or Borrow Smart. Contact the Ohio Division of Financial l'nstitulion's Office of Consumer AfftJro BEFORE you nance your home or obtain a lOan. BEWARE ot requests for any large advance payments of fees or Insurance. Call the OHice of Consumer Attalr1i toll ffee at 1-866· 278-0003 to loam W !he mortgage broker or lender is properly licenHd. (This is a public serv1ce announcement tram the Ohio Valley ~ Inc: . 2 bedroom house located in <Jallipot,s. (740)441-0194. ,._, cotor, ~lgk>n, Mil **NOTitE** l-l-4f Buying Junk cars,Trucks & Wrecks, Pav c aSh J o Salvage (304)773-5343 (304)674· 1374 AU rM1 •tate .av.rtlalng In thll n~w r•rs 11 lllllioot 10 lho Focllrol Folr Houeing Act of 1111 which IMk.. lt 11'-111 to ldwrttM"any pteltrence, llmn.tlon or cllorimiMtlon buecl on r •ost 1-5·07, Camp Conley area. (304)675-6639 r Meigs' Chris Goode puts up a shot in the paint during a double overtime win over River Valley Saturday. w. lftY klu Dr OpetiM tNt,........ flenl the pcMIMoJtkN• or orNMion of M ildvertletmenl ean.ctlon will bl IMOe In 1M ftm IVall-* .otlklft, •lol ad It flfY lima. Erroro Mull ~Iliad on tilt Dl pub1looltan ho Trlbolno-Son11no tgltt11 will ejoonolblo lor lhln tho coat Br•d Sherman/photo M IIII'IY tlfM, 1"011 mu.t b1 NP011M an the nrat My o1 kltncortyl . .comcaat. nat ~or-any ftllltnwlion. II no1 bo llablo Of' oancel111y tot no I'I'IOft tMn thli CMI: al the ~ occupied by thll «rOf lind only tM t1r.t lnMrtlon. KIT & CARLYLE •POLICIES• BY JoHN PYE 992·2157 Oeatltirec Delerlptton I lnchMie A Price • Avokl Alltbrev... ionl • lndllde PhGIMI NUMIMr And A*ti,._ Wh4n ........ • .Adl ~ aun 'I Dllys Items ASSOCIATED PRESS l\egister ca"W;:.::;••• .(740) 446-2342 (740) 992-2156 (304) 675·1333 • Start Your Adl With A K,ywonl • lndw.- (ornpleW Federer holds back nothing but tears Websttes: www.mydailytribune.com www.mydailysentinal.com www.mydailyreglster.com could be the same aa rent. Mortgage Locators (740)Je7·0000 -------HUO HOIIE13bd l11~mo. 3bd aN St55/m0. More homes available! 4%dn, 30yrs 0 8%. For li&tings 800-559-41 09 KF 144 ,.,..---,--------::-:: Nicet~ · maintained 3BR l'louse. Mason, New porch, new Roof, 74,900 (Xl4)7735177 0< (300)773-5626 -- ----·-·· ··-· --··· -~-- -.- ~~=~~==~ r 10 llousili 1~ n~~ """~GUo~' a I lvelmot Buy 3bd HUD HOME! F r ·4%dn . JOyrs C 8%. or 1s1mgs 800 -559-4109 K1709 -------- -t poSSibly 2 81 House in New Haven, S275/month, $275ldeposit Ne> Pets. {304)882-3652 ~--'-----2 Nice Remodel9d Homes 1n town, No Pel&, Renovated, " II neVIII carpet. Call (740)446·7425 --· -- - -a:r"'S 1 & Rent 2 Bedroom 1o1 Meigs Apartments Counly. In N ~ Deposit town . o n:ts. Requiro<l. (740)992·5174 01 (740 44 1-0 11 0 > · 1 and 2 bedroom apart ments. furnished and unturnishtd. security Qeposit required, OQ pets , 740-9922218. -------1 br. apt tor rent Tracys Apartments . 304 -675 -1537 bacllgrouncl ci'IOOk. required located al3314 Mossman Pt Pleasant -------Modern 1BR apt. (740t4460390. �What Looks Good? Support your local press by experiencing the power and insight of your area newspaper. You're sure to find something intellectually inspiring in the pap4lr. • Monday, January 29, 2007 www.mydailyaentinel.com Page B4 • The Daily Sentinel . _r_Aoom.mml_mii_RtMiiioo.PI r For lease: 1600 rquare lrtet, beautifUl, unfurnished, two bedroom apt , 2nd llool, LA, DR, 1 1/2 baths, downiOWn Gallipolls, Ideal tor COIJ!)Ie Aeferencee required. oo pelS, """lily clopooil, seoo In Gallipob. dean. Phillip Alder 12116106· $350, 1740 )696- previous rental reference. StSO (?4 0)4<tS·0760 740-992.0165. (740)388-8981 . New 2BR apartr;nents wasl'lerldryer hookup, t...------..1 I \In I -...1 1'1'1 II-.. $425.00 74()-446-2801 ,\ I I\ I -... It ll h. Tara TownhOuse IIIII"'"-~---., Apanments. llery Spacious, FARM rio FOR RINI' 1BR upstairs garage apt. beside Washington ochool. $525/mo + 1/mo. dep, an util pd. 1 small pet allowed. (740)794·1160 3 Br. houle in Pomeroy total electric, very clean, new car· pet and cabinets. basement $500 per Mo. 949-2303-of· 591·3920 Belterra Casino Resort & Spa 3 Day-2 Night Getaway March 22, 2007 to March 24, 2007 $175/peraon basad on double occupancy Package Includes dinner on the first night and breakfaat on the second morning Single rooms can be purchased tor $275/peraon Must be 21 yeara of age (No refunds) Gladly accept caah, money order, check lt credit carda Please call PVH Community · Relations to make reaervatlona, F..guiPMENT 2 Bedrooms, CIA. 1 112 Bath, MJ~· Pool Baby ~-,,_llli-iiiiiiiiiiiio_.! a Advertise MillLEn in this SELFSTGUIE 97 Beech Street space Middleport, OH for IOxlOxiOxlO per month 992-3194 54 1 j area deposit, ret, no pets. I or siOirolrelrigotetor Wlcluded. Also. units on SFI 160. Pets Commercial building •For Welcome! (740)«1.0194. Sale. 1600 sq ft. on street Nowty r - e d 2 BR apt parking. Great location. CaM w/attached garage. Rodney Wayne (404)466·3802. AoonMoo's I 1085 (740)441 · Pool, Polio, Start $425/Mo. _ . • Pels, Lease 29670 Bashan Road Racine. Ohio 45771 740-94&-2217 High and Dry Storage UJI5 IIIIIUII ; f1 j Sili.CF. FOR RtNr I. "Middloport's only Self·Staraae· YOUNG' S CARPENTER SERVICE Room Ackllllonl a. RemocleHng and Ttallora- livestock Loadm . ax· Gooseneck, Dumps, & utility- Aluma Alum1num Commercial building "For n.illrl- B&W Goosenec:tc. Rent" 1600 square. feet. off Hitches. Carmichael street paol<ing Great loca· Equipment (740)446·2412 tion! 749 Third AV8Ill.le in Gallipolis. Rent $475/mo. ......... (740) 992-5232 Owner Rhonda Peters Manager Janet Jeffers I .' ' MONTY t • THE RED CARPET TREATMENT Stop & Compare FRANK l EARNEST YOU WON Tt4f TOSS ···1>0 YOU W/.NT TO ~~G~ 0~ ~fGfiVf7 Your carpet and upholstery cleaning solution NO for over 20 years WV036725 '"'- t121'' .-· 1 l'l ,, , '· CONSTRUCTION Har4wod CMiltetrr Aid Jurni. . www.~-· BARNEY .lAMEY'S DOG HAD PUPPIES !! CAN I HAVE ONE? IT AIN'T UP TO ME, .l\JI:iHI~ID II t~ 740.367-(1544 Free Estimates 740.387-«1536 \{1'\\1\111 ~ I I\ I"'\ v.Jf\t>..T 00 '100 Tll.t>..Tr~ .., ~O~t>? 'iOUR F"'\1~1\t.? Concrete Removal and Replacement All'JYpuOf knOws lhal 32 Col loch 1t Magazine 34 CanfiiCI1e laborer 55 Aalanlah DOWN filters 17 Helps a 29 Pill(ljo al 1 SaiM animal croak control 2 "Tomb 18 CapltallH 30 Yips Aoklor" an lleraint 22 Yuppie 31Mabaaed drink 3 Aubelyll •author 23 CodgoB' 33-'4 France'a querloa 34-lo neighbor 24 Flalhy algn 35r::v wn~ 25 paint oft-courH dlsllnce hauler 6 GlaveiHior 20 Plankton 36 irloal up-to- 7 Get ripe 27 T-ploce date 8 SUCCMd cookie 38 Chicken (2 well.) 28 Autumn flowera 9 "En garcia" ho39 Papular weapon 30 lhlaa- s v- rival 35 Plana pjecea 37 Monkey- 38 Gun tile engine 40 Tuga hord 41 01 thai kind 42 Karachi la~usge 43 Colla 44 Freebie 45 Ton ahlda 46 Upsilon proceder 47 llurraw 49 "- Tiki" three no- boner, protecting his A!1004. a lour-card overcall is not without risk. Buf mora points are lost with cauliou& passas than with ag(10SSive ... ConmteWork CELEBRITY CIPHER by Lull Campos Cttttny C4t* ~ n aMiedlom quoaktll ~ lwncus people. pat n crewe Each . , i'lh Cllll* SIW!i tor niW Todsfs cluocE ""'" P "YBOBC SAY FSBVFT IIZDBH, NBYZRHB TWA FXIV FXBT'GG BpEBYF FW JW AF BOBCT TBZC ." • . UWCDBC EAFYXBC NAGGT OWBH PREVIOUS SOLUTION - "My advice to most any man in this business is, don1 marry an actress. and I koow wltereoll speak· · Henry Fonda AstroGraph - Help Wanted .............: ,..._,Jon. 30, 2001 0 By Bllmlce lledll 0.01 There wiU be many new opportunities, adventure& and unusual possibirlllies that could further your aims. However, instead of scattering your fOrces, It behooves you to be selective and dis· IIPORTS Athena BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR Pleasant Valley Hospital is currently accepting resumes for a Business Development Coordinator. Will be responsible for direct marketing of hospital services and programs and physician services to the business and physician community. Travel required. Other duties include: business planning. compliance work, presentations to groups, financial analysis, and health fairs. Ability to work with people a must. A I Bachelor's Degree with business/training skills preferred . Sales/marketing experience, and healthcare familiarity experience preferred. Holidays , health insurance, single/family plan, dental plan, life insurance, vacation, long-term disability and retirement. Send resumes to: Pleasant Valley Hospital t/o Human Resourtes 1520 valley Drive Point Pleasant. WV 25550 criminating. We Deliver To You! EllmView Apartments • Home Oxygen • Portable Oxygen • Homefill System • Hellos System NEW AND USED STEEL ~ -~~.)~:"i"1"tt!.'l'!4ft:"'• Steel Beams, Pipe Rebar • 2&3 bedroom apartment& For •Central heat & A/C •Washer/dryer hookup Grating Concrete. Angle, $500! POLICE IMPOUNOSI Chaooel, Flat Bar. Steel For Qrains, & MEDICAL EQUIPMENT Cars lrom $500! FOf listings SQ0-559·4066 x3901 Oriwways & Walkways. L&l $50-$60/moolh Scrap Metals Open Monda~ 1991 Chevy S-10. V6. S •Owner pays water, sewer, Tuesda:,-, Wednesda~ & speed, high miles, runs trash Frday, Bam-4:30pm. Closed great $1,500 (304)882<l652 Thursday. saturday & (304)882-3017 I 99S Chevy Aslro van Sunday. (740)446-7300 • All ekM:Iric- averaging II 70 Pine Street• Gallipolis 446-0007 (740)441 ·0941 , (740)64S· loaded i I this space x . , - - - - - - - - - S94S.CAAHEAPaccepled. Ford F-150 E.:icab.. 4X4 Edclie Bauer $5495.00 ... 1994 Chevy Blazer 4 Or. 4X4 low miles $2995.00. Riverview Motors, 2 bk>cks above McDonald$, Pomeroy, Ohio Opportunities. (740)992·3490. 1740)388' 8981 · month 2002 Honda 300 EX. Razr Black/Yellow. New Tires, $1800. Horton Stag bow. $150. (740)379·2316 Help Wanted 2003 Artie Cat 400 411 4 Great condition $2800 call 740446-4135. -...1 ia I ~\ II I -... HoME r ~ 11\IPROVF.\IENI'S BASEMENT WATEAPIIOOFIN(I Unct>ndilionelliletime guar· John Sang is in need or PROFESSIONAL AUTOMOTIVE SALES CONSULTANTS Hone'st · Intelligent · Cvurteous · Friendly A ~rson looking for a career • Not just" Job! We wiII pay a guaranteed salary until we have you traillfd and ready lO assist consumers' ln their automoti ve rurchases. Pat Hill or Brian Ross Monday thru Saturday I0:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. To bfgin tbt career you ban always dreamed or. PEANUTS WilEN VOU WRITE LIKE TIIAT, DO 1{01) EVF;R GET INK ON VOUR FIN6ER5'? lure you into the shopping malls . Unfortunately, it may cause you to go oo a spending spree you hadn't intended, bringing with II more debt CANCER (June 21-.July 22) - Being aelf-suftk:lent ~ an admirable quality, but take care nollo carry It lo Mtremes and 992 -2272 SUNSHINE CLUB ' tall to act In harmony when a situation calls lor it It would only make you look sett-aeMng. antee. local references fur· nished. Established 1975. Call 24 H,.. (740) 446· WaterproofillQ. 0870. Rogers 8asornonl Get A Jump on SAV!NGS LEO (July 23·Aug. 22) - Just because you're inclined to fOllOw lhe mood ol the moment and do things as your whims dictate doesn't mean you can tgnore your duHes. Sl!ve your inclinations lor Additions Garages Rooting Vinyl Siding New Construction Interior Remodeling Residential & Commercial . 740-985-4141 Office 740416-1834 . . . .---...,..--'"'1 Manlav•a Racycl•na r-~...,..~--- 111•11.•1 5 ..d.. . . 1. . . . . . JHI•HI• . . . . . . . . . .11:11 .. -· !QJI PIMTIP_ES_ M IACI • •, ..... ~-~~~::,~!•!T~!'~~~~-~1:11~-J sa ....... 1 ltl5r.lwa•,._. I i'tiNT NWBUED lETTERS IN THIS! SQU.\IIS A UNSCIMI8lE ABOVE lETTERS W TO GET ANSWfl GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - A nurMer ot great bargafls b6ing advertised could St. Rt. 248 Chester, Ohio Mike W. Marcum, Owner Or apply 'online at: AA/EOE ing your hours away on projects of little consequence. Allocate your lime and interests wisely. PISCES (Feb. 2o-Marct1 20) - Don't hesitate to break plans il you get a better offer, especially If what you ware going to do was k ill time. H lhere was another fr6end Involved, Invite him or her along. ARIES (March 21 -April 19) - Should aomeone Interfere with your objectives, it could be upsetting to you . But it you hope to accomplish your goals, you'll lind being f~lble will actually produce the best resuhs. TAURUS (April 20·May 20) - II at all PQ68ibte. avoid d~cusslng controversial subjects because. should you rattle the wrong cage, you could stray into lorbid· den areas and cause a brouhaha you didn't Intend. RENTING llfCUIII Calllbactian ad Ben•al Contracting 304-675-6975 ' www.pvalley.o'l organized early, you could end up fritter- A-J M1n i Siornge 992·6396 S27 per $ 5995 00 1995 Gracious living. 1 and 2 bedPETs room apar!ments at Village fOil SAi..J<: ·Manor and Ri~Jerside 1.,~--0iiiiioiiiiiiO;,_.I. Apartments in Middleport. L b . • - , __ S 06 From $295·$444. Call 740· a puppres gvrn ~ ' 992-5064. Equal Housing $ 150 (740 )446"0760 or for AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - Unless you establish goals tor yourself and get NOW Advertise in garage kept asking Oak firewood !Qr sale. $2250.00 740-441·0646 Delivered or pickup. 1999 GMC Jimmy 4 DR 4 4 Orfax: See All pass club. ~,, Help Wanted Eul problem only ~ East has lour to the jack. (West cannot have lour spades. assumi~ East opened cooeolty.) 'IW should cash yoor spade ace. !han lead a spade to dummy's king. Whan West discards, you play a spade to yoor 10, draw the last trump, and claim, saying that yoo wilt lhRM yoor hean loser on dummy's long THE BORN LOSER 1 I \\ 1~ l ld 10 u.ctlovsl club kitg lrom immediate attacl<. but i!J1oring lhe expected nine-card majorsuit fit is dangerous - you look !1•et -you are right, but so bad whon yoo are wrong. Aglinlt four spados, West leads the dub jali. Tho defenders take lhe first three triclcl, tten East shifts 10 lhe hean ijng. 'IW """' aiiOid a spade loser, whicll is a Local Cantractai 1 "'\..., 4• -··~· He might be Roofing, Siding, Soffit, Decks, Doors, Windows, Electric, Plumbing. Drywall, Remodeling, Room Additions 1 l Pall 22 Alallo taken 54 Auto lull 23 Came altt<Wal'd The dealer on yoor righl opens the bid· ding, and you <MMcall in a suit. In princi· pie, yoo haVfl shown al least a five·card su~ and some 1().plus high-card poinls. Bul is ~ accoplable to overcall wilh on~ a four-card suit? Yes, when lhe sub is Slrong , When jOU have (usually) al least opening coonl, and whon your hand Is unsuitable for a takeout- (normally. yoo are short in an urllid major). Tho Sooth hand is a good ewnple. With 14 poinll, yoo want 10 enter lhe auction. But with only two heans, rt is dangero<Js lo doulllt. So a one-spade overcall is a reasonable com· promise. North, wrth opening oount, lour-card aupfiOrt and a singlelon, bids game VC YOUNG Ill "' 1• I. Is It all right to overcall on four? Roofing • Gun.• Vinyl Sking & P•lntlng P.tlo •nd Pon:h Decktl . Non• Opening lead: • J 1-740.992-7090 148-992-1671 WHI by Marty O'Bryanl 1·818·992· 7090 • Garages • Complete Remodeling Soollll 18 20 21 band ronge 51 Graul Gym lh011 52 Hugo Debollld halrotylt Taco filling 53 Slangy Dova1oe'a refuul aulftx (hyiJ!t.) paint A 7 6 2 8 5 4 Dealer: Eaal Vulnerable: Both 16 IOUIId 50 HMvy-mtlll 20l~ • A Q 10 I "A 3 70 Pine Sueet • Gallipolis 740-446-0007 Toll Fr.• 877-6611-0007 NewGaragu • - & MEDICAL EQUIPMENT • New Homes 15 Europe-Alia • K I 32 WHI t:all • J 9 7 2 · ~76542 " KQ J 8 • u 3 • 54 • J 10 9 • A Q 7 rfami1IJ •o:nM:• ROBERT BISSEll 11.-nll 14 " 10 t K Q J 10 (304)675-4340, Ext. 1326 Help Wanted Anawer to Pre¥~ Puzzle (2 wdl.) middle No • K I 13 I . Eleclr~ I Plumbing 7 "====="':<!:\:mo:.=pd~ Now Renting CORNER STONE Mos. on Horse or 992·6635 Hil l's Self Stur age Plus v~ Financing- 38 Mos. available now on John Security Deposit Required, Deere Z Trak Zero Tuml 8 {l«l}36l·?086. 5.18% Fixed Rate on Jol'wl ~ ~~lf!.lllj! Twin Rivers Tower is accept- Deere Gatora Carmichael I: Houl'tl ing applicalioos tor wailing Equipmenl (740)446-24 12. list tor Hud-subsized. 1- br. F•nanc<ng as low ,.,. 7:00AM ·8:00PM 88 36 apartment, call 675-6679 Equal HoUsing OWortunily John Deere Series 4x4. 4x5 & 5x4 r Two bedtoom upstairs apart- Round Bettr.ISOO Series ment Wl Midclteport all elec- MoCooiSquo" Bolon. tric we pa~ water and trash Also available 5.1'4 on ~ou pay electric, $300 UNCI Hav Equipment. All depoall. $450 per monlh rates thru John Deere with a year lease. No Pets. Credit. Carmichael Reference required, Equipmenl (740)446·2412. Construction worker welcome! Call(740)416-2506 Keifor Bui~- \/alloy- Bison· No RENTALS SALES SERVICE FREE DELIVERY MONTHLY OXYGEN VISITS I pies, vet ck. ok, 008 (l( lm- cruile atop 40 Deoirw 41 Fomaua .-1 43 ....ud 46 HH the hoy 13 Give In tile 46 Clock -------MC Gdden Retriever pup- Middlepon N 3ld AVfl., I & 2 :.72:.:S.:.1·- - . , - - , - - - , 8l. lumi&ohed apt& .. no pets. Lab puppies Born Dec 5, 06 r·------,JI 1 Dollop 5 Galchll I Butte COUIIn 12 Ropulatlan A.KC Boston Terrier Pups, 6 (740)441·0130 NEA Crouword Puzzle ACROSS 11832. $175.00 Each. 2 bedrooms, 2 bath, cish- miniature schnauzers. 1 washer, WID hookup, $500, Choc:.male I Clloc malo wl depo~ll. refererw;:ea. white on chest and frt.paws 1 7 ~)>146·9209 . 1 sak&oewer I wl unique Middleport Beech Street, 2 markings. 1st shots and bedroom furnished apart· puppy cut. 74().441-1657 men!, deposit & pre-rental A.KC Yellow Male Lab pupa. reterences, no pets., utilities E~ecelle nt pedigree. $200. The Daily Sentinel 992-2155 The Daily Sentinel • Page 85 ' 4 lrtmale Daln\alionl born 12-5·06, wormed, paper trained, mom & dad AICC on premiaes--call 740·992- ~ira, AKC --~ -.,,., -0<1-sm_a_ll paid, (740i9S2·0I&5 www.mydallysentinei.com BRIDGE per month. Call ( 7~)>146· weeks old, Fils! shots & wormed. $250.00. (740)3884425 (I( (74())>W6-3!136. 8743 Furnilhed one bedroom apt. dean, no petl, Pf&frir nonsrncrUJ, must be wijng lo give reft. 300-675·1386 Monday, January 29, 2007 ALLEYOOP tree hours. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sepl. 22) - One ol those impromptu gatherings with triends could come oul ol the blue . The une11· peeled Should turn out to be tun u..Veu someone opens the door to lort:lldden territory. LIBRA (Sept. 23-0c:t. 23) - You're an extremely kind and giving person, but don't limit thia merely ta material offer· lnga.'lOur generoelty coukt be more vatu· •bte w~ It IS extei"td.-:1 to your verbal GARFIELD trHttmenl ot olhera. YOU CAN''t' l.IE 1HeRe FOREVeR SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) - Although you may be q1.11ck to perceiw IOIUIKH'll to another pw.on'a probiM\a, don1 offer •ny IUQ(IIItiollll ~o~n'-41 you're uked. 0 0 0 Your well-munlng ldHa oould be lntlrprwted .. lnterfel'lnO!t. 9AOITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21 ) 'tbu'll haw • ll.r more en~ tlme going 11110f191nV wllll 1 good but take o.~e you .,.. not lnftutnold by hit or net ~ 1rwt.1e tute1 or IMI'IOnal afflu· onoo.l!'ll 00 you ln. "*"'· CAPI'tiCORN (Ooo. aa..Jon. It)- It - b'y lo ~ you- In ... poiiiiOn of being able to oall rour own lho-. If - )'011 g o t - Willi I - n g typo, )'OUr - doy will Do _ , OIUOfylng INoporoon. SOUPTONUTZ 1-2& .... 07 Whisky - Stull& - Hob1 - Manure - NIGHTIE "Negli&cnt," the comedian told the audicnco, "i11 a condition in whicb a woman answers the door in her NIGHTIE!" ARLO & JANIS �What Looks Good? Support your local press by experiencing the power and insight of your area newspaper. You're sure to find something intellectually inspiring in the pap4lr. • Monday, January 29, 2007 www.mydailyaentinel.com Page B4 • The Daily Sentinel . _r_Aoom.mml_mii_RtMiiioo.PI r For lease: 1600 rquare lrtet, beautifUl, unfurnished, two bedroom apt , 2nd llool, LA, DR, 1 1/2 baths, downiOWn Gallipolls, Ideal tor COIJ!)Ie Aeferencee required. oo pelS, """lily clopooil, seoo In Gallipob. dean. Phillip Alder 12116106· $350, 1740 )696- previous rental reference. StSO (?4 0)4<tS·0760 740-992.0165. (740)388-8981 . New 2BR apartr;nents wasl'lerldryer hookup, t...------..1 I \In I -...1 1'1'1 II-.. $425.00 74()-446-2801 ,\ I I\ I -... It ll h. Tara TownhOuse IIIII"'"-~---., Apanments. llery Spacious, FARM rio FOR RINI' 1BR upstairs garage apt. beside Washington ochool. $525/mo + 1/mo. dep, an util pd. 1 small pet allowed. (740)794·1160 3 Br. houle in Pomeroy total electric, very clean, new car· pet and cabinets. basement $500 per Mo. 949-2303-of· 591·3920 Belterra Casino Resort & Spa 3 Day-2 Night Getaway March 22, 2007 to March 24, 2007 $175/peraon basad on double occupancy Package Includes dinner on the first night and breakfaat on the second morning Single rooms can be purchased tor $275/peraon Must be 21 yeara of age (No refunds) Gladly accept caah, money order, check lt credit carda Please call PVH Community · Relations to make reaervatlona, F..guiPMENT 2 Bedrooms, CIA. 1 112 Bath, MJ~· Pool Baby ~-,,_llli-iiiiiiiiiiiio_.! a Advertise MillLEn in this SELFSTGUIE 97 Beech Street space Middleport, OH for IOxlOxiOxlO per month 992-3194 54 1 j area deposit, ret, no pets. I or siOirolrelrigotetor Wlcluded. Also. units on SFI 160. Pets Commercial building •For Welcome! (740)«1.0194. Sale. 1600 sq ft. on street Nowty r - e d 2 BR apt parking. Great location. CaM w/attached garage. Rodney Wayne (404)466·3802. AoonMoo's I 1085 (740)441 · Pool, Polio, Start $425/Mo. _ . • Pels, Lease 29670 Bashan Road Racine. Ohio 45771 740-94&-2217 High and Dry Storage UJI5 IIIIIUII ; f1 j Sili.CF. FOR RtNr I. "Middloport's only Self·Staraae· YOUNG' S CARPENTER SERVICE Room Ackllllonl a. RemocleHng and Ttallora- livestock Loadm . ax· Gooseneck, Dumps, & utility- Aluma Alum1num Commercial building "For n.illrl- B&W Goosenec:tc. Rent" 1600 square. feet. off Hitches. Carmichael street paol<ing Great loca· Equipment (740)446·2412 tion! 749 Third AV8Ill.le in Gallipolis. Rent $475/mo. ......... (740) 992-5232 Owner Rhonda Peters Manager Janet Jeffers I .' ' MONTY t • THE RED CARPET TREATMENT Stop & Compare FRANK l EARNEST YOU WON Tt4f TOSS ···1>0 YOU W/.NT TO ~~G~ 0~ ~fGfiVf7 Your carpet and upholstery cleaning solution NO for over 20 years WV036725 '"'- t121'' .-· 1 l'l ,, , '· CONSTRUCTION Har4wod CMiltetrr Aid Jurni. . www.~-· BARNEY .lAMEY'S DOG HAD PUPPIES !! CAN I HAVE ONE? IT AIN'T UP TO ME, .l\JI:iHI~ID II t~ 740.367-(1544 Free Estimates 740.387-«1536 \{1'\\1\111 ~ I I\ I"'\ v.Jf\t>..T 00 '100 Tll.t>..Tr~ .., ~O~t>? 'iOUR F"'\1~1\t.? Concrete Removal and Replacement All'JYpuOf knOws lhal 32 Col loch 1t Magazine 34 CanfiiCI1e laborer 55 Aalanlah DOWN filters 17 Helps a 29 Pill(ljo al 1 SaiM animal croak control 2 "Tomb 18 CapltallH 30 Yips Aoklor" an lleraint 22 Yuppie 31Mabaaed drink 3 Aubelyll •author 23 CodgoB' 33-'4 France'a querloa 34-lo neighbor 24 Flalhy algn 35r::v wn~ 25 paint oft-courH dlsllnce hauler 6 GlaveiHior 20 Plankton 36 irloal up-to- 7 Get ripe 27 T-ploce date 8 SUCCMd cookie 38 Chicken (2 well.) 28 Autumn flowera 9 "En garcia" ho39 Papular weapon 30 lhlaa- s v- rival 35 Plana pjecea 37 Monkey- 38 Gun tile engine 40 Tuga hord 41 01 thai kind 42 Karachi la~usge 43 Colla 44 Freebie 45 Ton ahlda 46 Upsilon proceder 47 llurraw 49 "- Tiki" three no- boner, protecting his A!1004. a lour-card overcall is not without risk. Buf mora points are lost with cauliou& passas than with ag(10SSive ... ConmteWork CELEBRITY CIPHER by Lull Campos Cttttny C4t* ~ n aMiedlom quoaktll ~ lwncus people. pat n crewe Each . , i'lh Cllll* SIW!i tor niW Todsfs cluocE ""'" P "YBOBC SAY FSBVFT IIZDBH, NBYZRHB TWA FXIV FXBT'GG BpEBYF FW JW AF BOBCT TBZC ." • . UWCDBC EAFYXBC NAGGT OWBH PREVIOUS SOLUTION - "My advice to most any man in this business is, don1 marry an actress. and I koow wltereoll speak· · Henry Fonda AstroGraph - Help Wanted .............: ,..._,Jon. 30, 2001 0 By Bllmlce lledll 0.01 There wiU be many new opportunities, adventure& and unusual possibirlllies that could further your aims. However, instead of scattering your fOrces, It behooves you to be selective and dis· IIPORTS Athena BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR Pleasant Valley Hospital is currently accepting resumes for a Business Development Coordinator. Will be responsible for direct marketing of hospital services and programs and physician services to the business and physician community. Travel required. Other duties include: business planning. compliance work, presentations to groups, financial analysis, and health fairs. Ability to work with people a must. A I Bachelor's Degree with business/training skills preferred . Sales/marketing experience, and healthcare familiarity experience preferred. Holidays , health insurance, single/family plan, dental plan, life insurance, vacation, long-term disability and retirement. Send resumes to: Pleasant Valley Hospital t/o Human Resourtes 1520 valley Drive Point Pleasant. WV 25550 criminating. We Deliver To You! EllmView Apartments • Home Oxygen • Portable Oxygen • Homefill System • Hellos System NEW AND USED STEEL ~ -~~.)~:"i"1"tt!.'l'!4ft:"'• Steel Beams, Pipe Rebar • 2&3 bedroom apartment& For •Central heat & A/C •Washer/dryer hookup Grating Concrete. Angle, $500! POLICE IMPOUNOSI Chaooel, Flat Bar. Steel For Qrains, & MEDICAL EQUIPMENT Cars lrom $500! FOf listings SQ0-559·4066 x3901 Oriwways & Walkways. L&l $50-$60/moolh Scrap Metals Open Monda~ 1991 Chevy S-10. V6. S •Owner pays water, sewer, Tuesda:,-, Wednesda~ & speed, high miles, runs trash Frday, Bam-4:30pm. Closed great $1,500 (304)882<l652 Thursday. saturday & (304)882-3017 I 99S Chevy Aslro van Sunday. (740)446-7300 • All ekM:Iric- averaging II 70 Pine Street• Gallipolis 446-0007 (740)441 ·0941 , (740)64S· loaded i I this space x . , - - - - - - - - - S94S.CAAHEAPaccepled. Ford F-150 E.:icab.. 4X4 Edclie Bauer $5495.00 ... 1994 Chevy Blazer 4 Or. 4X4 low miles $2995.00. Riverview Motors, 2 bk>cks above McDonald$, Pomeroy, Ohio Opportunities. (740)992·3490. 1740)388' 8981 · month 2002 Honda 300 EX. Razr Black/Yellow. New Tires, $1800. Horton Stag bow. $150. (740)379·2316 Help Wanted 2003 Artie Cat 400 411 4 Great condition $2800 call 740446-4135. -...1 ia I ~\ II I -... HoME r ~ 11\IPROVF.\IENI'S BASEMENT WATEAPIIOOFIN(I Unct>ndilionelliletime guar· John Sang is in need or PROFESSIONAL AUTOMOTIVE SALES CONSULTANTS Hone'st · Intelligent · Cvurteous · Friendly A ~rson looking for a career • Not just" Job! We wiII pay a guaranteed salary until we have you traillfd and ready lO assist consumers' ln their automoti ve rurchases. Pat Hill or Brian Ross Monday thru Saturday I0:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. To bfgin tbt career you ban always dreamed or. PEANUTS WilEN VOU WRITE LIKE TIIAT, DO 1{01) EVF;R GET INK ON VOUR FIN6ER5'? lure you into the shopping malls . Unfortunately, it may cause you to go oo a spending spree you hadn't intended, bringing with II more debt CANCER (June 21-.July 22) - Being aelf-suftk:lent ~ an admirable quality, but take care nollo carry It lo Mtremes and 992 -2272 SUNSHINE CLUB ' tall to act In harmony when a situation calls lor it It would only make you look sett-aeMng. antee. local references fur· nished. Established 1975. Call 24 H,.. (740) 446· WaterproofillQ. 0870. Rogers 8asornonl Get A Jump on SAV!NGS LEO (July 23·Aug. 22) - Just because you're inclined to fOllOw lhe mood ol the moment and do things as your whims dictate doesn't mean you can tgnore your duHes. Sl!ve your inclinations lor Additions Garages Rooting Vinyl Siding New Construction Interior Remodeling Residential & Commercial . 740-985-4141 Office 740416-1834 . . . .---...,..--'"'1 Manlav•a Racycl•na r-~...,..~--- 111•11.•1 5 ..d.. . . 1. . . . . . JHI•HI• . . . . . . . . . .11:11 .. -· !QJI PIMTIP_ES_ M IACI • •, ..... ~-~~~::,~!•!T~!'~~~~-~1:11~-J sa ....... 1 ltl5r.lwa•,._. I i'tiNT NWBUED lETTERS IN THIS! SQU.\IIS A UNSCIMI8lE ABOVE lETTERS W TO GET ANSWfl GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - A nurMer ot great bargafls b6ing advertised could St. Rt. 248 Chester, Ohio Mike W. Marcum, Owner Or apply 'online at: AA/EOE ing your hours away on projects of little consequence. Allocate your lime and interests wisely. PISCES (Feb. 2o-Marct1 20) - Don't hesitate to break plans il you get a better offer, especially If what you ware going to do was k ill time. H lhere was another fr6end Involved, Invite him or her along. ARIES (March 21 -April 19) - Should aomeone Interfere with your objectives, it could be upsetting to you . But it you hope to accomplish your goals, you'll lind being f~lble will actually produce the best resuhs. TAURUS (April 20·May 20) - II at all PQ68ibte. avoid d~cusslng controversial subjects because. should you rattle the wrong cage, you could stray into lorbid· den areas and cause a brouhaha you didn't Intend. RENTING llfCUIII Calllbactian ad Ben•al Contracting 304-675-6975 ' www.pvalley.o'l organized early, you could end up fritter- A-J M1n i Siornge 992·6396 S27 per $ 5995 00 1995 Gracious living. 1 and 2 bedPETs room apar!ments at Village fOil SAi..J<: ·Manor and Ri~Jerside 1.,~--0iiiiioiiiiiiO;,_.I. Apartments in Middleport. L b . • - , __ S 06 From $295·$444. Call 740· a puppres gvrn ~ ' 992-5064. Equal Housing $ 150 (740 )446"0760 or for AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - Unless you establish goals tor yourself and get NOW Advertise in garage kept asking Oak firewood !Qr sale. $2250.00 740-441·0646 Delivered or pickup. 1999 GMC Jimmy 4 DR 4 4 Orfax: See All pass club. ~,, Help Wanted Eul problem only ~ East has lour to the jack. (West cannot have lour spades. assumi~ East opened cooeolty.) 'IW should cash yoor spade ace. !han lead a spade to dummy's king. Whan West discards, you play a spade to yoor 10, draw the last trump, and claim, saying that yoo wilt lhRM yoor hean loser on dummy's long THE BORN LOSER 1 I \\ 1~ l ld 10 u.ctlovsl club kitg lrom immediate attacl<. but i!J1oring lhe expected nine-card majorsuit fit is dangerous - you look !1•et -you are right, but so bad whon yoo are wrong. Aglinlt four spados, West leads the dub jali. Tho defenders take lhe first three triclcl, tten East shifts 10 lhe hean ijng. 'IW """' aiiOid a spade loser, whicll is a Local Cantractai 1 "'\..., 4• -··~· He might be Roofing, Siding, Soffit, Decks, Doors, Windows, Electric, Plumbing. Drywall, Remodeling, Room Additions 1 l Pall 22 Alallo taken 54 Auto lull 23 Came altt<Wal'd The dealer on yoor righl opens the bid· ding, and you <MMcall in a suit. In princi· pie, yoo haVfl shown al least a five·card su~ and some 1().plus high-card poinls. Bul is ~ accoplable to overcall wilh on~ a four-card suit? Yes, when lhe sub is Slrong , When jOU have (usually) al least opening coonl, and whon your hand Is unsuitable for a takeout- (normally. yoo are short in an urllid major). Tho Sooth hand is a good ewnple. With 14 poinll, yoo want 10 enter lhe auction. But with only two heans, rt is dangero<Js lo doulllt. So a one-spade overcall is a reasonable com· promise. North, wrth opening oount, lour-card aupfiOrt and a singlelon, bids game VC YOUNG Ill "' 1• I. Is It all right to overcall on four? Roofing • Gun.• Vinyl Sking & P•lntlng P.tlo •nd Pon:h Decktl . Non• Opening lead: • J 1-740.992-7090 148-992-1671 WHI by Marty O'Bryanl 1·818·992· 7090 • Garages • Complete Remodeling Soollll 18 20 21 band ronge 51 Graul Gym lh011 52 Hugo Debollld halrotylt Taco filling 53 Slangy Dova1oe'a refuul aulftx (hyiJ!t.) paint A 7 6 2 8 5 4 Dealer: Eaal Vulnerable: Both 16 IOUIId 50 HMvy-mtlll 20l~ • A Q 10 I "A 3 70 Pine Sueet • Gallipolis 740-446-0007 Toll Fr.• 877-6611-0007 NewGaragu • - & MEDICAL EQUIPMENT • New Homes 15 Europe-Alia • K I 32 WHI t:all • J 9 7 2 · ~76542 " KQ J 8 • u 3 • 54 • J 10 9 • A Q 7 rfami1IJ •o:nM:• ROBERT BISSEll 11.-nll 14 " 10 t K Q J 10 (304)675-4340, Ext. 1326 Help Wanted Anawer to Pre¥~ Puzzle (2 wdl.) middle No • K I 13 I . Eleclr~ I Plumbing 7 "====="':<!:\:mo:.=pd~ Now Renting CORNER STONE Mos. on Horse or 992·6635 Hil l's Self Stur age Plus v~ Financing- 38 Mos. available now on John Security Deposit Required, Deere Z Trak Zero Tuml 8 {l«l}36l·?086. 5.18% Fixed Rate on Jol'wl ~ ~~lf!.lllj! Twin Rivers Tower is accept- Deere Gatora Carmichael I: Houl'tl ing applicalioos tor wailing Equipmenl (740)446-24 12. list tor Hud-subsized. 1- br. F•nanc<ng as low ,.,. 7:00AM ·8:00PM 88 36 apartment, call 675-6679 Equal HoUsing OWortunily John Deere Series 4x4. 4x5 & 5x4 r Two bedtoom upstairs apart- Round Bettr.ISOO Series ment Wl Midclteport all elec- MoCooiSquo" Bolon. tric we pa~ water and trash Also available 5.1'4 on ~ou pay electric, $300 UNCI Hav Equipment. All depoall. $450 per monlh rates thru John Deere with a year lease. No Pets. Credit. Carmichael Reference required, Equipmenl (740)446·2412. Construction worker welcome! Call(740)416-2506 Keifor Bui~- \/alloy- Bison· No RENTALS SALES SERVICE FREE DELIVERY MONTHLY OXYGEN VISITS I pies, vet ck. ok, 008 (l( lm- cruile atop 40 Deoirw 41 Fomaua .-1 43 ....ud 46 HH the hoy 13 Give In tile 46 Clock -------MC Gdden Retriever pup- Middlepon N 3ld AVfl., I & 2 :.72:.:S.:.1·- - . , - - , - - - , 8l. lumi&ohed apt& .. no pets. Lab puppies Born Dec 5, 06 r·------,JI 1 Dollop 5 Galchll I Butte COUIIn 12 Ropulatlan A.KC Boston Terrier Pups, 6 (740)441·0130 NEA Crouword Puzzle ACROSS 11832. $175.00 Each. 2 bedrooms, 2 bath, cish- miniature schnauzers. 1 washer, WID hookup, $500, Choc:.male I Clloc malo wl depo~ll. refererw;:ea. white on chest and frt.paws 1 7 ~)>146·9209 . 1 sak&oewer I wl unique Middleport Beech Street, 2 markings. 1st shots and bedroom furnished apart· puppy cut. 74().441-1657 men!, deposit & pre-rental A.KC Yellow Male Lab pupa. reterences, no pets., utilities E~ecelle nt pedigree. $200. The Daily Sentinel 992-2155 The Daily Sentinel • Page 85 ' 4 lrtmale Daln\alionl born 12-5·06, wormed, paper trained, mom & dad AICC on premiaes--call 740·992- ~ira, AKC --~ -.,,., -0<1-sm_a_ll paid, (740i9S2·0I&5 www.mydallysentinei.com BRIDGE per month. Call ( 7~)>146· weeks old, Fils! shots & wormed. $250.00. (740)3884425 (I( (74())>W6-3!136. 8743 Furnilhed one bedroom apt. dean, no petl, Pf&frir nonsrncrUJ, must be wijng lo give reft. 300-675·1386 Monday, January 29, 2007 ALLEYOOP tree hours. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sepl. 22) - One ol those impromptu gatherings with triends could come oul ol the blue . The une11· peeled Should turn out to be tun u..Veu someone opens the door to lort:lldden territory. LIBRA (Sept. 23-0c:t. 23) - You're an extremely kind and giving person, but don't limit thia merely ta material offer· lnga.'lOur generoelty coukt be more vatu· •bte w~ It IS extei"td.-:1 to your verbal GARFIELD trHttmenl ot olhera. YOU CAN''t' l.IE 1HeRe FOREVeR SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) - Although you may be q1.11ck to perceiw IOIUIKH'll to another pw.on'a probiM\a, don1 offer •ny IUQ(IIItiollll ~o~n'-41 you're uked. 0 0 0 Your well-munlng ldHa oould be lntlrprwted .. lnterfel'lnO!t. 9AOITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21 ) 'tbu'll haw • ll.r more en~ tlme going 11110f191nV wllll 1 good but take o.~e you .,.. not lnftutnold by hit or net ~ 1rwt.1e tute1 or IMI'IOnal afflu· onoo.l!'ll 00 you ln. "*"'· CAPI'tiCORN (Ooo. aa..Jon. It)- It - b'y lo ~ you- In ... poiiiiOn of being able to oall rour own lho-. If - )'011 g o t - Willi I - n g typo, )'OUr - doy will Do _ , OIUOfylng INoporoon. SOUPTONUTZ 1-2& .... 07 Whisky - Stull& - Hob1 - Manure - NIGHTIE "Negli&cnt," the comedian told the audicnco, "i11 a condition in whicb a woman answers the door in her NIGHTIE!" ARLO & JANIS �Page 86 • The Daily Sentinel www.mydailysentinel.com Monday, January 29. 2007 Palestinian suicide bomber kills·3 in E ules third in D·IV, eigs Bv BRAD SHERMAN BSHERMANOMYOA!LVTRIBUNE .COM JACKSON In the midst of its most successful season, the South Gal lia girls basketball program was awarded a fourth seed in Division IV during the girls sectional tournament draw on Sunday. The Lady Rebe Is, who are 12-5 on the season, received a first-round bye and will face the fifth -seed Green (7-9) for the right to advance to the district tournament at Jackson. The sectional final between South Gallia and Green will be held 6:15p.m. on Feb. 15 at Athens High School. .The winner of that contest will likely face the other sectional's top seed, Adena, in a district semifinal. The Eastern Lady Eagles (9-5), who have had an upand-down season, were seeded just above South Gallia in the third slot and will await the winner of Beaver Eastern and Ironton St. Joe . Eastern's game will follow South Gallia-Green around 8 p.m . on Feb. 15. Southern (5-11) is lOth in the Athens sectional and drew a first-round matchup with seve nth-seeded Trimble (5-11 ). That will be played on 7 p.m. on Feb. 14 for the right to play No. 2 seed Symmes Valley ( 134) In Division II, Meigs, on the strength of a recent hot streak was able to land a fourth seed in the sectional held at Alexander High School. The Lady Marauders came into the draw winning four of their last five en route to a 9-8 record. Meigs won't have an easy time with fifth -seed Fairfield Union, though, as the two meet 8 p.m. on Feb 14. The winner faces either top seed Vinton county ( 123) or the winner of the play in game between No. 8 seed Sheridan (4-14) and No. 9 ASSOCIATED PRESS DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Signing Juan Pablo Montoya is already paying dividends for Chip Ganassi, and the start of the NASCAR season is still three weeks off. Montoya, co-driving a Lexus Riley Daytona Prototype with veteran road racer Scott Pruett and Mexican phenom Salvador Duran, is in elite company. He and racing great Mario Andretti are the only drivers to ha v~;: won the Indianapolis 500, an American open-wheel championship, a Formula One race and, the Colombian's latest conquest. a sports car endurance race at Daytona International Speedway. What's next ? ''I' m back here for the Daytona 500 in a couple of weeks," said Montoya. set to begin his first full season in NASCAR 's Nextel Cup series . "Hopefully, we can do something about ·that one, too." Andretti won that NASCAR race in 1967. Ganassi was asked if the win in the Rolex 24 bodes well for Montoya's move back to the U.S. after several successful but unfulfilling years in Fl? "It's a good start, I'll tell you that," said Ganassi; for whom Montoya won the CART title in 1999 and Indy in 2000. Montoya gave his team the lead Sunday morning and Pruett kept it to the finish . This is the second straight year that Ganassi 's team has won the grueling 24-hour event. Former IRL champions Dan Wheldon and Scott Dixon combined with NASCAR driver Casey Mears to win the 2006 race. "This was just a total team win," said Ganassi, the first team owner to win this race back-tohack since AI Holbert in 1986 and 1987. "AI was somebody I wanted to be like when I was growing up and I'm going to think about this for a long time." The winning car covered 66R Middleport • Pomeroy, Ohio SPORTS RIGHT: Easterm Lady Eagles' Jillian Brannon {22} works on a Trimble defender during a girls high school basketball game last November. Eastern received the third seed in Division IV at Sunday's sectional draw in Jackson. • Eastern rolls past Lady Rebels. See Page 81 ae league title in '7 1- '72. "I don't feel unbeatable. We've got a lot of Improving to do.'' Shawn Marion added 23 points, Amare Stoudemire 22 and Leandro Barbosa had 19 for the Suns, who improved to 34-4 since opening the season 1-5. Phoemx, which had a 15-game win streak earlier this season, also matched a fmnchise record with its ninth straight road win and is 20-1 · vs. Eastern Conference teams. The Suns haven't lost since Dec. 28 at Dallas, and with the way their running and sharing the ball right now, it's going to take a special effort to beat coach Mike D'Antoni's speedy squad. "No matter what you do defensively, he's goinR to find a war, to counter it, James said. 'No matter how you try to stop him, he's got the weapons. That's a heck of a ranee vi """ BY BRIAN J. REED BREED@MVDAILVSENTINEL.COM Board President Loretta Murphy said the grant-funded improvements will allow the system to operate at full capacity, but said the I 0 year-old system was inadequate for the community's needs when it began operating. She said district also anticipates a grant through the Ohio Public Works Commission of approxi mately $50,000 to do additional equipment upgrades. Murphy said the improvements planned for the district are not designed to allow for future expansion, but to replace inadequate equipment and correct a poorly- constructed infrastructure. Murphy said the district's current board feels the system was not designed to accomodate the customers on the system at the time it began operating, or to allow for the modest new construction in the district since that time. There are no plans for an expansion of the system. Murphy said the district's engineering firm, M-E Engineering, completed an evaluation of the district's infrastructure to determine what problems existed, and the grant funds awarded and anticipated will be used to address those problems. Murphy said motors on the two lift stations have repeal· edly been repaired or replaced, at a cost of $6,000 each time. She said the district's board believes that an electric service converter was installed although the district's board at the time knew it was not suitable 'for the system. That, Murphy, said, has cost the district $40,000 in pump repairs when a $15,000 modifica· tion of the original system's design would have corrected the problem. A wind-driven aerator installed at one of the dis- 'March for Meals' fund • • rru.smg underway Page AS • Kathryn Shoots • Mar1a France and Shennan Roberts Jr. INSIDE photo The team of the No. 01 Lexus Riley, Scott Pruett, lower left. Juan Pablo Montoya,upper left, of Colombia, and Salvador Duran, lower right, of Mexico, ce lebrate with the trophy and Allen Brill, of the Rolex Corporation and Richard Petty, far right , after winning the Rolex 24-hour auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. Sunday. AP minute , 14.749 seconds behind Pruett. "This is very cool," said Pruett. who added the overall win here in 1994 to six other class victories . "It's huge for Ganassi. The car never missed a beat. I was getting a little nervous there at the end, but the car was just rock solid the whole time . We ne ve r spent any time in the pits. The car was flaw . 1ess. " Montoya agreed, adding, "We all three kept the car on the road all the time, and I think that was the secret." Ganassi 's other car, shared this year by Wheldon, Dixon and Mexican driver Memo Rojas was not as fortunate. That trio challenged for the lead through the night, came back to race in the top five after Rojas knocked otT the nose cone and then went out of the race when Rojas spun on a wet track and hit a tire wall after daylight Sunday. They finished 41st . Gordon. who fmed considerably better than several other stock car stars in the race , got the full expc'rience in his first endurance race . He spun in the graS> on his first sti nt and drove another stint in a downpour during the nighL "I want to be !'aster the next time so I can help thi s te<tlll be even more competi ti ve," Gordon saiu, grinning. "But I don ' t know how I could prepare for the mon- . soon I was in last night." Bobby Labonte, the 2000 NASCAR champion. was part of the team that finish ~ d lOth. while the teams with reigning Nexte l Cup champion Jimmie Johnson and two-111ne champion Tony Stewart wound up 36th and 48th after numerous mechanical problems. Prototypes took the first I0 spots, with a Porsche GTJ co-driven by Jean-Francois Dumoulin, Carlos de Quesada, Scooter Gabel and Marc Besseng finishing II th, 42 laps behind the overall winners . A Porsche Fabcar prototype driven ov Formula One test driver Gustoi1 Mauacune of Argentina slid off track and hit a barrier protecting a light pole in the infield portion of the 3.56-mile road circuit Saturday night. Mazzacane was briefly unconscious and spent the night under observation at a hospital. Officials said he had no serious injuries and was expected to be released Sunday. ~--~~~~---.~~· ··ct>Rtaet: .. .... ,.,:u' • Fleischer: Ubby discussed CIA officer over lunch. See Page .A2 • Wo~d scientists meet to finish up long·awaHed global warming report. See Page A2 • Five generation gathering . See Page A3 • Auxiliary establishes fund to benefit PVH. SeeP&geM· • Governor rireates panel to screen judicial candidates. SeePageAS • Couple in 'caged kids' case denied new trial, acquittal. See Page AS • Birthday observed. SeePageAS • Harris'(740):"2-2155 WEATHER .i (1~~~99~~2,,5$ POMEROY- The March for Meals to raise money for the home delivered meal program of the Meigs County Council on Aging is underway. This is the sixth year for the fund raiser and the goal this year is $15,000. Donations ai~: alreaqy.comiJlg ill andsev • eral activities have been planned to bring in money for the nutrition program. In early March a box lunch sale will take place, and on the last Thursday of March there will be an evening meal followed by a cake .auction and entertainment . Again this year the Center will be asking residents to bake their best cake and bring it in for the auction. Cakes will be judged in several categories, the winners recognized and rewarded, and then the cakes will go on the auction block and sold to the highest bidder. Last year the 96 cakes Charlene HHftlch/photo Norman Hysell, adjutant of the Tuppers Plains VFW Post 9053 presents a check for $500 on behalf of the Post to Sharon Matson , nutrition director for the March for Meals. entered in the competition brou~ht in $1,505 with the winmng cake going for $150. Several other projects are being planned including a car wash, and ticket sales on several nice items to be awarded in March. Beth Shaver, executive director, said the money raised will allow the center to provide home delivered meals 111 what she describes as "hardship cases" - those seniors who may need temporary assistance or do not qual- ify at the time for meals which are funded through government programs. "Last year we raised $13,000 and this year we 're shooting for $15,000. We think we can do it," said Shaver. Cervical cancer screenings saving lives BY BETH SERGENT BSERGENT®MYOAILYSENTINEL.COM POMEROY Cervical cancer screenings are saving not only the lives of women but the lives of their families and friends. By detecting cervical cancer early, women will have a better chance at being around for their .families and friends. In fact, the American Cancer Society (ACS) says survival for patients with pre-invasive lesions is nearly 100 percent. Detecting those pre-invasive lesions can usually be done through a pap test. For women who are underinsured or uninsured there is financial help when it comes to paying for a pap test. Courtney Sim, assistant administrator of the Meig s County Health Department (MCHD) said those women who are 40 or older and income eligible can call the Southeast Ohio Breast and Cervical Cancer Project at 1-800-23-NOBLE. The Southeast Ohio Breast and Cervical Cancer Project administers vouchers that can be used the same as cash at local health care providers like Holzer Meigs Clinic. River Rose OB/GYN at the Meigs Medical Clinic and the MCHD's Women's Health Clinic. Sim added the next women's health clinic at the MCHD is on Thursday with appointments already scheduled though future appointments can be made by calling Sherry Hammond at 992-6626. The MCHD offers pap smear testing on a sliding fee scale based on income for females of reproductive age. The latest ACS statistics in Ohio indicate there were 503 newly diagnosed cases of cervical cancer between 1999-2003 while there were 169 deaths for the same time frame. Often women in Appalachia have a high percentage rate of cervical cancer diagnosed in late stages. Dr. Jane Broecker, M.D., of River PIHse sH C1ncer, A5 ' Economy Auto Sales opens for business ., ) . Office of Economic and Workforce Development INDEX a SECTIONS - la PAGES •. .' • . ' ~Ck ~":nal -JF Bank A Home Ba11k. f "or Home . Calendars A3 Classifieds B3-4 Comics Bs Annie's Mailbox A:3 Editorials A4 As Obituaries Sports Weather B Section A2 © OQ07 Obko Volley l'ublishln& Co. Roger and Connie Manley, owners of Economy Auto Sales in Middleport, hosted a grand opening and open house at their car lot at 336 North Second Ave. Pictured are the Manleys, Director Michelle Donovan Patty Pickens of the Meigs County Chamber of Commerce. Middleport Revitalization Coordinator Michael Gerlach, Gary Acree and Beth Hart of K92 radio. The telephone number at Economy Auto Sales is 992· 6068. Submlttoclphoto trict's two lagoons is inoperable , she said, because it was installed jn a location where there is not enough wind to run it . Both lagoons are operational , Murphy said , but one is operating at less than capacity. Customers in the district pay $50 per month for sewer service, unless they paid upfrom their share of the district's debt retirement , in which case they pay $27.25. Murphy said the district now has a cash reserve of $192,000. Murphy, Ina Van Meter and Charles Calloway serve on the district's board . Bv BETH SERGENT BSERGENT@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM HOEFUCH@MVDAILVSENTINEL.COM OurruARIES '''"l·•'"'"'•·•ll•u•·l,ollt Rule-making proem begins for smoking ban Bv CIWILENE HOIFUCH team." James scored 30 points and Drew Gooden 19 to lead the Cavaliers, who were within four points going into the fourth. However, they couldn't match the Suns' blazing up-and-down pace and managed just 13 points in the fmal 12 nunutes on 5-of-22 shootmg. . Sewer district grants to correct design flaws TUPPERS PLAINS The Tuppers Plains Regional Sewer District anticipates a second grant to correct what the district's board now considers poor initial design and construction. Earlier this month, Meigs County Commissioners were awarded a $50,500 grant through the Community Development Block Grant program, to assist the district with replacing equipment, including an emergency power generator. OVP File laps and 2,378 · miles. The race was slowed by 13 full-course caution flags and a 78-minute red !lag stoppage at the halfway point after a GT class car knocked down 80 feet of guardraiL Two cars finished on the lead lap. With only three hours to go, three cars were nose to tail for the lead, separated by less than 6 seconds, with Montoya third and battling Scotland's Ryan Dalziel and Italy 's Max Angelelli. ''It's ama~ing," Montoya said in the tumultuous Victory Circle. "It's incredible after 20 hours there are three cars on the same lap. It was like qualifying every lap. Very exciting." Dalziel, a rookie in the Champ Car World Series this season, held off the two veterans until he pitted during the 24th hour. That gave the lead to Angelelli, but the former Daytona winner was quickly passed by Montoya and the eventual winners led the rest of the way. During the 25th hour, Pruett took over the cockpit from his Colombian teammate, while Dalziel gave up his seat in the Pontiac Riley prototype to longtime open-wheel racer Patrick Carpentier and road racing ace Jan Magnussen took over the third-place Pontiac Riley for Angelelli. Magnussen managed to put the car also shared by two-time Daytona winner Wayne Taylor and four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon into second place. But he wound up third, two laps down, after brake problems sent him on an off-course excursion and forced a long pit stop during the final half hour. It was still a great showing considering their problems. Among them, the team had no clutch for most of the race and had to be push-started by the crew after every pit stop. Carpentier, also co-driving with Darren Manning and Milka Duno, one of only two women in the 70car race, finished second - I ll I Sl) ' ' , .1 \:'\:l ' \I(' : ~o . :..! tlu -- .) o t I:'\ I'S • \ 'ol. .)h, No ; 1:.!-J Suns burn Cavaliers CLEVELAND (AP) Now more than halfway to a once-thought-untouchable record, the Phoenix Suns aren't focused on their winning streak. Steve Nash simply won't allow it. · Nash scored 23 points and kept Phoenix's high-energy offense purring with 15 assists as the Suns extended their winning streak to 17 !lames - the NBA's longest m seven years - by beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 115100 on Sunday. Phoenix's 17-game streak is tied for the fifth longest in NBA history, and with three more victories the Suns would match the second-best streak, a 20-gainer by the 1970-71 Milwaukee Bucks. And. if they keep it up, the Suns could soon challenge the Los Angeles Lakers' record of 33 straight wins in 1971-72. "The way they're playing right now. they're unbeatable," LeBron James said. Nash isn't convinced. "People don't talk about the ~3-game streak, they talk about who won the championship that year," Nash srud. noting the Lakers won the southern Israeli resort town, A2 seed Gallia Academy (3 12) The .Blue Angels, ·who have been district regulars the last few seasons, will try to make a late·season push to get back there. but 11 will all start 7 p.m. on Feb. 12 against the Lady Generals . The lone local team in Division Ill, River Valley, received the 15th and final seed in its sectional and will have to face a very strong Alexander club 6:15 p.m. on Feb. 14 in a sectional semifinal at Wellston High School. I BY MIKE HARRIS Lady Clovers basketball, As POMEROY - Last week the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) begap the formal process of adopting enforcement rules for Ohio's new indoor smoking ban. According to ODH ·draft rules were filed with the secretary of state and the Legislative Service Commission which began the 65-day process that provides for public comments, a public hearing and a final hearing before the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review (JCARR). Courtney Sim, assistant administrator for the Meigs County Health Department, said until the final rules are approved local complaints and questions about the smoking ban are being for· warded to the state-wide tollfree enforcement number at 1-866-559-0HIO. . Sim added the health depanment still has the no smoking signs that must be posted in public businesses. Signs can be picked up at the health department during normal business hours. Ohioans can view the proposed rules online at http://www.odh.ohio.gov/ru les/pendi ng/aspx, requesting a copy by contacting Kaye Notton via mail at ODH, 246 North High Street, Columbus, 4321 S, by phone at 614-46fi-4882 or by email at kaye.notton @odh.ohio.gov. A public hearing will be held at IOa .m., Feb. 27 in the auditorium of the William Green Building, 30 west Spring Street. in Columbus . Interested parties will be afforded the opportunity to te stify and provide their comments about the indoor smoking ban. Pre-register by contacting Notton. Written comments may be mailed to the above address or faxed to 614-72g-7813 before 9 a.m .. Feb. 27 : "Public input has been, and remains , e"enti<t l to thi s important process ," said ODH Acting Director Anne R. Harnish . "While we cannot adnp\ every recommendation we receive. we con· siderthem all seriously as we evaluate whether proposed changes comply with the l~w · Ohio's voters overwhelm· ingly approved." Ohio' s indoor smoking ban took effect on Dec. 7 and although ODH cannot levy fines until the rules are adopted businesses must do three things to comply: Prohibit smoking. remove ashtrays ; and post no smoking signs with the toll-free enforcement number. Since the smoking ban took effect. Please see Ban. AS � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 01. January Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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