https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/ce71f139e6eb0b87f56fa0622fc37809.pdf 377aaf55894bff098dffc664f3333d1c PDF Text Text ' Page B6 • The Daily Sentinel Monday . March 12,2007 www .mydailysentinel .com =noonrNr\mfiiD.1FOTl 55HDJrltf S?ftl;cmmmm.lrnrrnnmt Tougher truck regulation sought as fatalities remain over too a week, A2 PUBLICITY NOnCE OF U.S. MINT LEGAL TENDER FIRST RELEASE go to Vault blic for s2o .... ·' Reading contest winners,A6 • tne Pomeroy to receive new ladder truck in December SPORTS • James soaring . along with Cavaliers. See PageB1. BY BETH SERGENT BSERGENT®MYDAILYSENTINE L.COM .P OMEROY - Last night members of Pomeroy Council heard the final plans for what will be the Pomeroy Volunteer Fire Department 's new ladder truck due in December. Rick Blaettnar, chief of the Pomeroy Volunteer Fire Department, di sc ussed the new ladder truck estimated to cost $617,000. The truck's entire cost is covered by a $595,000 federal Department of Homeland Security grant and the $45,000 sale of an older truck to the Scipio Volunteer Fire Department, in essence making it a free tire truck . Blaettnar went on to say the new truck will have the same red and black color scheme as.Pumper One with the addition of a silver ladder. A special ceremony will be scheduled after the truck arrives for local officials and residents to inspect the new addition. Clerk Treasurer Kathy Hysell reported $1,300 had been collected in rental inspection fees. Chief Mark E. Proffitt said beginning next week delinquent landlords wi II be targeted for failure to pay th e rental inspection fee. "This week we're going after junk vehicles, trash and also continuing o ur rental inspections," Proffitt told Council The issue of having a village wide pickup of brush was discussed and later tabled. Council approved hiring Charles Metzler for the positions of part time police ofl'icer and pan time dispatcher for the Pomeroy Police Department retroac· tive to March 5 . Resolution R.07 wa' passed, transferring $ 10 ,000 from .the general fund to th e street fund for curre nt operating expenses. Hysell informed council of training she was required to attend April 3~~- The tuition to attend the class is $165 and Hysell will be attending with Syracuse Clerk Sharon Cottrill, a llowing trave l expenses to be cut in halL Councilman George Stewart asked about the Mulberry Pond improveme nt project and the status of an Ohio Department of Clerk: Passport applications delayed BY CHARLENE HOEFIJCH HOEFUCH@MYOAILYSENTINEL .COM OBITUARIES Page AS • Belinda Bush, 33 • Harold Nelson, 70 • Earl Roush, 83 • GET THIS: INSIDE Here's a stack of a dozen new Pres1dent1al Dollars t hat are extremely uncommon because they're carved with edge lettering bearing date, Mint mark, IN GOD WE TRUST and E PLURIBUS UNUM Everyone is getting the first Presidential Coin Free By SHAWN OYLER (UMS) - There's a "pot of gold" waiting for everyone who loves being first. Starting at precisely 7:45 a.m. today, the very first Presidential Coins ever to be minted by the U.S. Government are being handed out to the public with every single vault tube. And who's to thank for this massive give·away effort'! Well, it's not the government. It's the World Reserve Monetary Exchange. And we'll even give you the direct Hotline to call so you can be among the first to get yours free right now. People everywhere will be •trying to get their hands on these magnificent stacks of coins with the never-be fore · seen edge markings. But only those who get in before the 3-day deadline are being hand· ed a brand new never· circu lat ed Presidentia l Dollar Coin free with every single 120 sealed vault tube. · Officials at the World Reserve are bracing for the explosion of ca Us. But, don't give up calling if you don't get through the first time. Keep trying. "It's a miracle we were able to set up special Hotlines in three Regional Distribution Zones in an effort to maintain order across the country. We feared the flood of calls l'Ould bring us to our knees but \ve are now equipped to handle everyone who is trying to get through to get the coins," said Stephen Speakman, Director of Hotline Operations for the World Reserve Monetary Exchange. All this is happening because the World Reserve has revealed it will release its secretly located hoard of $13 million worth of never-circulated Presidential Coins in vault sea led tubes to prevent them from ever being introduced into commerce. It's the only way to maintain their value as never-circulated coins. "This is what everyone wants but so few will actually have. So many will be left with just ordinary circulated coins if they can even firid them in their bank change. That's why we are so widely adver~ tising our plans to give away the never- drculated Presid,ential Coins free," said Speakman. Those who do beat the order deadline will be among the first to also get a free Presidential Dollar Coin so they can handle it, show it off and still keep the valuable vault tube sea led and perfectly intact. The U.S. Mint• is required to honor each President with a single Presidential $1 Coin, with a dif. ferent President appearing every ninety days. That's why everyone is trying to get the Washington dollar coin right now since it is the fir st of forty Presidential Dollars to be released during th e inaugu - ral year for the series. "That means there will be forty sealed vault tubes in all, each containing twelve never-circulated Presidential Coins. That's 480 coins. But with all forty of the free .coins everybody is getting, it becomes a spectacular collection of 520 nevercirculated coins in all, loaded into two separate heavy vault boxes. Only those lucky enough to get in on the vault bdxes now will be among the first to be automatically taken care of with all of the new Presidential Dollars to ever be minted for the next ten years," explained Speakman. The Presidential Dollars are just now starting to slowly make their way into the National Banking System. But Banks will not honor requests for the free coi ns. And Banks will never have crystal-clear sealed vault tubes of the nevercirculated cnins that show off the rare edge markings. Claims for these free coins which are in never-circulated . condition are only being honored by the World Reserve for the next three days and only for those who beat the deadline for the sealed vault tubes. "Just look at that stack of coins. When ,Americans get their hands on those, they ar'e really going to do a double take,'' Speakman sa id. • ,:COins_ • ; ~' ):, ~ ~;( ' • Democrats back off on effort to limit Bush's Iran options. See Page A2 • For the Record. See Page AS • Ohio governor will try to end certain tax breaks. See Page AS • Grange banquet plans made. See Page A6 • RACO holds meeting. See Page A6 • Grange plans participation in Relay. See Page A6 WEATIIER POMEROY "Participation in an organized mu sical activity such as a school band program does much more than teach music ," said Toney Dingess, longtime music instructor in the Meigs Local Schools. Since March is Music in Our Schools Month, a special emphasis is bemg placed this month on the Importance of music programs in the schools with an emphasis on how music relates to academic achievement as well as development of lifetime skills. ''Band is a perfect representation of the world in which we all exist where some are ready and willing to do whatever is necessary to achieve success, where there are those that do just enough 10 get by, and of course the few that are perfectly happy 10 simply enJOY the ride on the shirt tails of others." Dingess said his goal is to encourage and hopefully inspire each student to perform at his or her highest level. To stress the popularity as well as importance of band in school curriculum, he described the growth in marching band competitions as "the fastest growing spec tator sport in the · U .S. today." He noted that on any given weekend in the fall there are at least I 0 marching competitions within a 90minute drive with between 300 and 500 students participating. "Multiply that by parents, grandparents and fans and you easily fill a stadium," he said. Please - Musk. A5 mln.tell again. M~abU(IQed '' ' •.· ~·~ . '~ \11 \!If~<~> . ' BY BETH SERGENT BSERG ENT<O>M VDAILVSENTINEL. COM .~ Dellolio on 1'11110 A3 'I' ;I I ;·,k\'.~, l <I li ' INDEX 2 SECfiONS - ' 12 PAGES Calendars A3 A3 Classifieds 83-4 Annie's Mailbox i ,-.; ( C h - Hoeftlch/photo• Seven Meigs Marauder students have been selected to play in the District 17 Honors Band at Ohio University, March 30-31. Selected through an audition process were Kaylee Kennedy, clarinet; Amanda Gill key, clarinet; Lindsey, baritone; Caitlin Swartz, bass clarinet; Jamie Bailey, flute; Calee Reeves , percussion, and Chris Kimes . tenor sax. These new instruments will be played for the first time in the annual spring concert of the Meigs Marauder Band. From the left. Joey Ellis, Seth Johnson, and Brian Rice . tubas; Brad Jones, chimes; Jennifer Snow. Jennifer Peoples and Lindsay McKinney, baritones ; Katie Docz!. bari·saxophone, and Rachel Mowery, mellaphone. Syracuse Community Center plans for future I I ~iile' BY BRIAN Comics Bs Editorials A4 Obituaries As Sports Weather . B Section SYRACUSE - The mission of the Syracuse Community Center is attempting to meet the needs of its community and now volunteers are planning for those future oeeds with a fundraising auction, the construction of a picnic shelter house, new paviQg and a new roof. The auction takes place at 10 a.m. on Saturday. March 31 at the center with donations currently being accepted. Call John Bentley at 992 -2365 or Gordon Fisher at 992-2836 to make a donation with all proceeds going towards the maintenance ol' the center. ~ Bentley, president of the center's board of directors sa id t'unds for the Ernie Sisson Shelter Hou se were raised by Sisson's family and will be built this summer with volunteer labor. The center will pay for paving of J. REED BREEO@MYDAILVSENTINEL.COM ' II Natural Re so urces Nature Work' Grant tied to the proje ct. Hy ,e ll said she heliev ed the village wa' turned down in the first round with Mayor John Muss er adding the village can reapply in Apri l or May. The meeting went into executive session to discuss personnel matters. specificall y promotions a nd demotion' in the water department. Memhers of local Boy Scouts of America Troop 245 attended the meeting and led council in the Pledge of Allegiance. a road leading to and from the shelter house . Half of the center's roof was replaced last year with the other half due to be replaced this year. Bentley added the roof had no major problems but age which required replacement to avoid future damage. The future weighs heavily on the minds of volunteers who have l<ept the center open since the death of Boh Wingett who purchased the former ' Syracuse Elementary School, donated it back to the village and had the idea to turn it into a comll)unity center. "It would've· been easy to close the door when Bob died," Bentley said of the center's reorganization after Wingett's death and the ulti mate decision to move forward . "Bob was the nucleus and the rest of us are now trying to .:arry on hi s wishes ... Choosing to k~ep the door' open and then some is retlected in the ,·urrent activity at the center as well a~ what has been accomplished. Those accomplishments include Janitor 's room scrubbed, painted and organized: parking lot paved: front parking blocks installed and lines painted ; stage curtains purchased and hung: stage floor sanded and refinished: drain s cleaned; kitchen wiring co mpleted: new receptacles in fitness room: fitness room up and running:• out(loor volleyball court completed: chimney braced: Syracuse Community Center sign installed on Bob Byer's property: building inspected and ocrupancy permit obtained: kitchen inspected and food service permit obtained: 24 new tables and I 00 chairs purchased: Bob Wingett's Memorial Plaque received: two table storage nll'ks purchased: two election day dinners held: benefit PIMSe see Syr.c:use, AS . POMEROY Those planning for spring and summer trips abroad should be aware of delay s in process ing passport applications. Clerk of Courts Marlene Harrison , the local agent for passport applications, sa id she has been notified by the U.S. State Department of signficant delays in the delivery of passports . The state department has notifi ed her that passport applications requesting routine service will take up to I 0 weeks 10 process, instead of the normal six weeks . Pa"port applications with expedited sen ice are taking three two four weeks instead of two. "The best advice to those who plan on trips outside the U.S is to apply early, or even now... Harrison said. "If trav elers are now checking out deals for airfares and hotd s outside the country. the y should also check to see if they have a valid passport or apply for one if they don't." Passport fees are · $6 7 to the stm e department and $30 to the clerk of courts, lor regular service. and $ r27 to the state department l()r expedited service. $30 to the Lierk and $~8.80 to the 1 U.S. Postal Service. "Applicants who have applied but will not need Please see Passport. A5 - ....td'.f.a• . sYRACUSE coMMUNITY CENTER Beth Ser&ent/ phote The Syracu se Community Center IS 111 need of donated items for its upcoming action to he lp the center continue to meet the needs of the community. Upcoming projects include pavmg. the complet1on of a new roof and con~ ?!ruction of the Ernie Sisson Shelter House. �PageA2 NATION • WORLD The Daily·Sentinel Tuesday,Mareh 13, aoo7 Page A3 BY THE BEND The Daily Sentinel ., Tuesday, March 13, 2007 ' Tougher truck regulation sought as fatalities remain over too a week BY MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN ASSOCIATED PRE SS WRITER WASHINGTON - More than 100 people a week are killed in large truck crashes in this country. according to safety groups that called Monday- for reducing how long bi g-rig drivers can work without rest. Wyoming. Arkansas and Oklahoma are the deadliest states for big truck crashes; Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut are the safest, according to The Truck Safety Coalition. It released state rankings. based on the number of fatal- · ities per I00.000 residents during 2005, the most recent year with complete figures. Created by Congress · in 1999, the federal Motor Safety Carrier Administration "has failed miserably," said Joan Claybrook, chair of Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways. " It is shonchanging safety for the productivity and economic interests of the trucking industry.'.' In 1999. when the agency was created, 5,380 people died in crashes with big trucks. "That figure has barely budged," Claybrook said at a news conference by the coalition of truck safety groups. Deaths in crashes of large trucks numbered 5,212 in 2005 , plus 114,000 i~ured. Large trucks account for 3 percent of registered vehicles but 12- 13 percent of traftic fatalities. Over a longer time frame, the motor carrier agency cited more favorable results. "The truck fatality rate is 16 percent lower today than it was I0 years ago largely because we have invested millions of dollars working with the state and local law enforcement community to do more safety reviews and roadside inspections of trucks and buses than ever before." Administrator John Hill said. He noted traffic on U.S. highways had grown by more than 24 percent over the same period. Jacqueline Gillan, vice president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, told the news conference that the truck safety effort pales i ' I I liP photo Steve tzer. of Lisbon, Maine, holds a photo of his son Jeff, who was killed along with three friends by a tractor trailer driver who fell asleep at the wheel, Monday, during a news conference in Washington, to name the most deadly trucking states. and release a report card on federal leadership on trucking safety issues on Monday in Washington . by comparison with federal food safety regulation. "Nearly 61 people die from E.coli (infections) each year, which is equivalent to the four"day death toll from truck crashes," Gillan said. "Anytime there is an E.coli outbreak, the federal government uses every resource available to stor, this public health threat, ' she said. "Yet, unsafe big rigs kill and maim tens of thousands each year because truckers are pushed to drive long hours under unsafe conditions while the federal response has been silence and indifference.'' Gillan and Claybrook criticized the motor carrier administration for increasin~ the number of hours a drtver can o~rate a truck by 28 percent smce 2003, up to as much as 88 hours over an eight-day tour of duty. Motor carrier administration spokesman Ian Grossman said the agency did increase the permissible number of consecutive driving hours from ·10 to II. but it also increased the time off between shifts from 8 to I0 hours in the first revision to the rules since the 1930s. But critics say this mat- trucks would outweigh the safety benefit. "But we ters little. "Many (trucking compa- found benefit if we targeted nies) are already blatantly · those who have violated the breaking the already too hours of service rules lenient hours-of-service before," he added. laws," said Nikki Hensley, of "No load of frei~ht is wonh a human life, ' said Fostoria, Ohio, whose husband was killed in 1997 Da~hne Izer, of Lisbon, when a semitrailer ran a stop Mame. She founded Parents sign and broadsided his car. Against Tired Truckers after The driver said he had been her 17-year-old son, Jeff,, working 19 hours at the time. and three friends were killed Jane Mathis, of St. on the Maine Turnpike in Augustine, Fla., complained 1993 when a Wal-Mart truck that the motor carrier agency driver fell asleep at the is proposing to require on- wheel of his big rig and ran board electronic recorders over their car. Speakers at the event also that monitor hours of service called on the agency to on only about 465 of the more than 702.000 registered increase safety inspections of big trucks, require trucks interstate motor carriers. "This absurd pro~osal to have governors that limit shows that the admimstra- top speeds to 68 mph. and tion is not really interested train (:!rivers better. in reducing hours-of-service violations and stopping truck drivers from regularly falsifying their paper logbooks," said Mathis, whose son David, 23, and his bride of five days were killed in 2004 when a Winn-Dixie tractor trailer driver fell asleep at the wheel and rearended their car. Grossman said the agency concluded the cost of putting monitors in all Army forces surgeon general to retire - 3rd major dismissal in Walter Reed controversy BY PAULINE JELINEK ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER WASHINGTON Army Surgeon General Kevin C. Kile y abruptly stepped down under pressure from military superiors, the third top Armv otTicial forced out in the fallout from revelations of shabby treatment of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed 'Army Medical Center. The Army said Monday that Lt. Gen . Kiley had submitted a reque st to retire over the weekend . Acting Army Secretary Pete Geren had asked Kiley for his retirement. said a senior defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk about the events. Kiley 's removal underscored how the controversy, which began with repons of dilapidated outpatient housing and a nightmarish bureaucracy at the Army's flagship hospital, has snowballed into a far broader problem for the Bush administration. Congressional committees and a slew of investigative boards are scrutinizing the treatment of wounded troops and veterans by the military's entire medical system, a~ well as by the Department of Veterans Affairs, headed by Jim Nicholson. The probes come with the administration already struggling to defend its widel y unpopular war policies in Iraq, and the Democratic-led Congre's citing poor care for troop,; as the latest in stance of incompetent administration planning for the contlict. • BY DAVID ESPO AND MATIHEW LEE ASSOC IATED PRESS WRITERS ' Kiley, 56, who headed Walter Reed from 2002 to 2004, has been a lightning rod for criticism over conditions there and has been a frequent target of hostile questions at congressional hearings. "The events of late failures by some. failures in our system - have tarnished the reputation of us all," Geren told 280 Walter Reed workers Monday. "The American people expect us to fulfill our obligation to those who have borne the battle" and are angry and disappointed when they see failure. Geren has had his position for less than two weeks, having replaced Army Secretary Francis Harvey, who was dismissed March 2. Maj . Gen. George W. Weightman, who had been in charge of Walter Reed since August 2006, was ousted from his post the day before. In a statement released by the. Army. Kiley said, "I submitted my retirement because I think it is in the best interest of the Army." He said he wanted to allow officials to "focu,; com pletely on the way ahead ... ·•we have failed to meet our own standards at Walter Reed. For that , I'm both personally and professionally sorry," he said last week. He has said he had been aware of some issues, but he told the Senate Armed Services Committee he was not aware of >pecific problems including a backlog of maintenance .orders and a . lack of staff to conduct rl)om inspection s. A 'pecial 1st in obstetrics and gy necology. he has had numerous medical posts in his Army career including service in South Korea and then in Saudi Arabia during the 1991 war with Iraq. Soldiers and their families have complained that some outpatient living quarters at Walter Reed had mice, mold and other shoddy conditions and that there were bureaucratic delays at the hospital overwhelmed with wounded from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Maj. Gen. Gale Pollock, current deputy surgeon general, assumed Kiley's job while a permanent replacement is sought. Kiley remains on active duty during the retirement process, which could take up to two months. Some lawmakers welcomed Kiley's departure. Rep. Ike However. Skelton. D-Mo.. chairman of the Armed Services Committee. said Kiley's firing alone won't solve the problem. "With the installation of new leaders, the real test will be making sure that the work fixing problems actually gets done," he said. Rep. Tom · Davis of Virginia, top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said Kiley "did not seem to understand the scope of his job." And Sen. Patty Murray. D-Wash ., said Kiley s tenure had been "riddled with serious blunders.'' "We still lack a system that meets the needs of our troops from the battlefield to the local VA and everywhere in between," satd Murray. a member of the Senate Democratic leadership. Thursd ANNIE'S MAILBOX Community Calendar In-laws' dismissal is beyond insulting Community Coalition, 7 Democrats back off on effort to limit Bush's Iran options WASHINGTON - Top House Democrats retreated Monday from an attempt to limit President Bush 's authority for taking military action against Iran as the leadership concentrated on a looming confrontation with the White House over the Iraq war. Officials said Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of the leadership had decided to strip from a major military spending bill a requirement for Bush to gain approval from Congress before movmg against Iran. Conservative Democrats as well as lawmakers concerned about the possible impact on Israel had aFgued for the change in strategy. The developments ·occurred as Democrats pointed toward an initial test vote in the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday on the overall bill, which would require the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by Sept. I, 2008, if not earlier. The measure provides nearly $100 billion to pay for fighting in two wars, and includes more money than the president requested for operations in Afghanistan and what Democrats called training and equipment shortages. The White House has issued a veto threat against the bill. and Vice President Dick Cheney attacked its supporters m a speech, declaring they "are telling the enemy simply to watch the clock and wrut us out." House GOP Leader John Boehner of Ohio issued a statement that said Democrats shouldn't count on any help passing their BY KAntY MITCHEll legislation . "Republicans will continue to stand united in this debate, and will by oppose efforts Democrats to undermine the abil.ity of General Petraeus and our troops to achieve victory in the Global War on Terror," he said. Top Democrats had a different perspective. Pelosi issued a written statement that said the vice president's remarks prove that "the administration's answer to continuing violence in Iraq is more troops and more treasure from the American people." Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said in a statement that America was less safe today because of the war. The president " must change course, and it's time for the Senate to demand he do it," he added. The Iran-related proposal stemmed from a desire to mi\ke sure Bush did not launch an attack without going to Congress for approval, but drew opposition from numerous membe~ of the rank and file in a series of closed-door sessions last week. Rep. Shelley Berkley, DNev., said in an interview mere is widespread fear in Israel about Iran, which is believed to be seeking nuclear weapons and has expressed unremitting hostihty about the Jewish state. "It would take away perhaps the most important negotiating tool that the U.S. has when it comes to Iran," she said of the nowabandoned provision. "I didn't think it was a very wise idea to take things off the table if you're trying to get people to modify their behavior and normalize it in a civilized way," said Rep. Gary Ackerman of New York. AND MARCY SIICWI Dear Annie: I' ve been married to " Ed" for six years. We are not young. Ed is an only child and, according to his parents, can do no wrong. We live a few blocks from his mom and dad, and I am not allowed in their home, nor am I ever in vited to go out to lunch or dinner with the three of them. My mother-in-law says, "We don't want to share him, so you can ' t come." RING 'GUIDE in!! h 29.2007 • today! C·all Dave or Brenda at 992-215.5 I Some mornings. Ed gets up and says, ''I'm going to play golf with Dad," and away he goes. He always picks up Mom, too. I'm not allowed to come along. This is a small community. and most of our neighbors see them out together. I often get phone calls asking if r m OK since they never see me with the three of them. This really hurts. What can I do? - Lonely in Beaumont, Texas Dear Beaumont: What is wrong with your husband that he allows his parents to treat you so poorly? You don't have to be included in every golf outing. but for heaven \ sake, you should be welcome in your inlaws' home and certainly able to enjoy a dinner out with them on occasion. Their total dismi ssal of you is bolh odd and insulting. You are a member of the family now and should be treated accordingly. If Ed ·doesn · t realize his parents behavior is not acceptable. you ought to enlighten him. He should insist his parents include you. at least some of the time. Otherwis.e, decide what you are willing to tolerate. and the next step is counseling. Dear Annie: Over the last several t!JOnths. my hus. band has told me his well- · endowed secretary wears low-cut attire to work. He wonders why she would dress like that and why her husband doesn't object. I suggested that maybe he should impose an office dress policy, but he said it isn't up to him, because she rcpons to his boss. My husband joltes and laughs that it is good for customer relations. (I don 't think that's very funny. by the way.) Also, according to my husband. his boss wants to have a young , professiomil image. I think this type of clothing is inappropriate and tacky. and doesn't tit the image the boss intends to project. ' I guess I'm old-fashioned, but why do youn~ people today think exposmg their skin is OK anywhere? My husband says his secretary has a great work ethic. but isn't character just as important as do in~ your job? Wondering m Wisconsin Dear Wondering: Lowcut attire is inapproJ?riate in an office because u looks unprofessional. It's too bad your husband's boss doesn't realize that the eye candy could be bad for his business reputation . However. we strongly urge you to stay out of this. It's your husband's job, and the dress policr is up to the boss. If you mterfere, it' will only cause resentment at home. Dear Annie: I have noticed the rapid growth in the number of people who talk while chewing food . Now even my parents, as well as my wife's parents. speak while chewing, even after some not-so-gentle reminders. This trend doesn't seem to have boundaries . The young, middle-aged and elderly are all doing it. Poorly educated. college graduate, blue or white collar, there 's no difference. On television this is more and more prevalent. Has society forgotten about manners? Do people think what they have to say is so imponant, it can't wait until after they swallow? Maybe it's just me. Am I asking too much? - Grossed Out in Connecticut Dear Grossed Out: Some older people speak · with their mouths full because they have difficulty chewing and should see a . Local Weather Public meetings p.m.. Mulberry doctor and a dentist. Other,; Community Center, addre•.sing alcohol and may do it because they have drug abuse in Meigs Count y, guest speakers Tuesday, March 13 trouble breathing through PORTLAND - · Ponland Community Denise Martin, Gall ia-Jackson-Meigs their noses. But in general, Board meeting, 7 p.m ., regular Board of Alcohol, Drug Addition and yo11 are right that people Center Mental Health Services. Dr. James don't realize how unpleas- meeting and accepting letters of iuterest for Witherell, MD. ant it is to watch a mouthful board member positions. DARWIN - Bedford Township Trustees of semi-masticated food. It monthly meeting, 7 p.m., town hall . regular really puts a damper on the Wednesday, March 14 conversation. POMEROY - Meigs County Board of Tuesday, March 13 Annie's Mailbox is writ1-!ealth, 5 p.m., conference room, Meigs POMEROY Meigs. County ten by Kathy Mitchell and County Health Department. Genealogical society, 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Marcy Sugar, longtime ediThursday, March 15 Meigs County Museum. tors of the Ann Landers SYRACUSE Syracuse Village column. Please e-mail your questions to anniesmail- Council, special meeting, 7 p.m.. village box@comcast.net, or write hall. to: Annie:S Mailbox, P.O. Sunday, March 111 Box 118190, Chicago, lL TUPPERS PLAINS - Wilma Ginther 606ll. To find out more Seaman will celebrate her 90th birthday at Thursday, March 15 about Annie's Mailbox, an open house l]eing held in her honor from and read features by other CHESTER - Meigs County Ministerial I to 4 p.m. at the Tuppers Plains Firehou,;e Creators Syndicate writers Association Lenten worship service, 7 p.m., in Tuppers Plains. 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Created by Congress · in 1999, the federal Motor Safety Carrier Administration "has failed miserably," said Joan Claybrook, chair of Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways. " It is shonchanging safety for the productivity and economic interests of the trucking industry.'.' In 1999. when the agency was created, 5,380 people died in crashes with big trucks. "That figure has barely budged," Claybrook said at a news conference by the coalition of truck safety groups. Deaths in crashes of large trucks numbered 5,212 in 2005 , plus 114,000 i~ured. Large trucks account for 3 percent of registered vehicles but 12- 13 percent of traftic fatalities. Over a longer time frame, the motor carrier agency cited more favorable results. "The truck fatality rate is 16 percent lower today than it was I0 years ago largely because we have invested millions of dollars working with the state and local law enforcement community to do more safety reviews and roadside inspections of trucks and buses than ever before." Administrator John Hill said. He noted traffic on U.S. highways had grown by more than 24 percent over the same period. Jacqueline Gillan, vice president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, told the news conference that the truck safety effort pales i ' I I liP photo Steve tzer. of Lisbon, Maine, holds a photo of his son Jeff, who was killed along with three friends by a tractor trailer driver who fell asleep at the wheel, Monday, during a news conference in Washington, to name the most deadly trucking states. and release a report card on federal leadership on trucking safety issues on Monday in Washington . by comparison with federal food safety regulation. "Nearly 61 people die from E.coli (infections) each year, which is equivalent to the four"day death toll from truck crashes," Gillan said. "Anytime there is an E.coli outbreak, the federal government uses every resource available to stor, this public health threat, ' she said. "Yet, unsafe big rigs kill and maim tens of thousands each year because truckers are pushed to drive long hours under unsafe conditions while the federal response has been silence and indifference.'' Gillan and Claybrook criticized the motor carrier administration for increasin~ the number of hours a drtver can o~rate a truck by 28 percent smce 2003, up to as much as 88 hours over an eight-day tour of duty. Motor carrier administration spokesman Ian Grossman said the agency did increase the permissible number of consecutive driving hours from ·10 to II. but it also increased the time off between shifts from 8 to I0 hours in the first revision to the rules since the 1930s. But critics say this mat- trucks would outweigh the safety benefit. "But we ters little. "Many (trucking compa- found benefit if we targeted nies) are already blatantly · those who have violated the breaking the already too hours of service rules lenient hours-of-service before," he added. laws," said Nikki Hensley, of "No load of frei~ht is wonh a human life, ' said Fostoria, Ohio, whose husband was killed in 1997 Da~hne Izer, of Lisbon, when a semitrailer ran a stop Mame. She founded Parents sign and broadsided his car. Against Tired Truckers after The driver said he had been her 17-year-old son, Jeff,, working 19 hours at the time. and three friends were killed Jane Mathis, of St. on the Maine Turnpike in Augustine, Fla., complained 1993 when a Wal-Mart truck that the motor carrier agency driver fell asleep at the is proposing to require on- wheel of his big rig and ran board electronic recorders over their car. Speakers at the event also that monitor hours of service called on the agency to on only about 465 of the more than 702.000 registered increase safety inspections of big trucks, require trucks interstate motor carriers. "This absurd pro~osal to have governors that limit shows that the admimstra- top speeds to 68 mph. and tion is not really interested train (:!rivers better. in reducing hours-of-service violations and stopping truck drivers from regularly falsifying their paper logbooks," said Mathis, whose son David, 23, and his bride of five days were killed in 2004 when a Winn-Dixie tractor trailer driver fell asleep at the wheel and rearended their car. Grossman said the agency concluded the cost of putting monitors in all Army forces surgeon general to retire - 3rd major dismissal in Walter Reed controversy BY PAULINE JELINEK ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER WASHINGTON Army Surgeon General Kevin C. Kile y abruptly stepped down under pressure from military superiors, the third top Armv otTicial forced out in the fallout from revelations of shabby treatment of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed 'Army Medical Center. The Army said Monday that Lt. Gen . Kiley had submitted a reque st to retire over the weekend . Acting Army Secretary Pete Geren had asked Kiley for his retirement. said a senior defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk about the events. Kiley 's removal underscored how the controversy, which began with repons of dilapidated outpatient housing and a nightmarish bureaucracy at the Army's flagship hospital, has snowballed into a far broader problem for the Bush administration. Congressional committees and a slew of investigative boards are scrutinizing the treatment of wounded troops and veterans by the military's entire medical system, a~ well as by the Department of Veterans Affairs, headed by Jim Nicholson. The probes come with the administration already struggling to defend its widel y unpopular war policies in Iraq, and the Democratic-led Congre's citing poor care for troop,; as the latest in stance of incompetent administration planning for the contlict. • BY DAVID ESPO AND MATIHEW LEE ASSOC IATED PRESS WRITERS ' Kiley, 56, who headed Walter Reed from 2002 to 2004, has been a lightning rod for criticism over conditions there and has been a frequent target of hostile questions at congressional hearings. "The events of late failures by some. failures in our system - have tarnished the reputation of us all," Geren told 280 Walter Reed workers Monday. "The American people expect us to fulfill our obligation to those who have borne the battle" and are angry and disappointed when they see failure. Geren has had his position for less than two weeks, having replaced Army Secretary Francis Harvey, who was dismissed March 2. Maj . Gen. George W. Weightman, who had been in charge of Walter Reed since August 2006, was ousted from his post the day before. In a statement released by the. Army. Kiley said, "I submitted my retirement because I think it is in the best interest of the Army." He said he wanted to allow officials to "focu,; com pletely on the way ahead ... ·•we have failed to meet our own standards at Walter Reed. For that , I'm both personally and professionally sorry," he said last week. He has said he had been aware of some issues, but he told the Senate Armed Services Committee he was not aware of >pecific problems including a backlog of maintenance .orders and a . lack of staff to conduct rl)om inspection s. A 'pecial 1st in obstetrics and gy necology. he has had numerous medical posts in his Army career including service in South Korea and then in Saudi Arabia during the 1991 war with Iraq. Soldiers and their families have complained that some outpatient living quarters at Walter Reed had mice, mold and other shoddy conditions and that there were bureaucratic delays at the hospital overwhelmed with wounded from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Maj. Gen. Gale Pollock, current deputy surgeon general, assumed Kiley's job while a permanent replacement is sought. Kiley remains on active duty during the retirement process, which could take up to two months. Some lawmakers welcomed Kiley's departure. Rep. Ike However. Skelton. D-Mo.. chairman of the Armed Services Committee. said Kiley's firing alone won't solve the problem. "With the installation of new leaders, the real test will be making sure that the work fixing problems actually gets done," he said. Rep. Tom · Davis of Virginia, top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said Kiley "did not seem to understand the scope of his job." And Sen. Patty Murray. D-Wash ., said Kiley s tenure had been "riddled with serious blunders.'' "We still lack a system that meets the needs of our troops from the battlefield to the local VA and everywhere in between," satd Murray. a member of the Senate Democratic leadership. Thursd ANNIE'S MAILBOX Community Calendar In-laws' dismissal is beyond insulting Community Coalition, 7 Democrats back off on effort to limit Bush's Iran options WASHINGTON - Top House Democrats retreated Monday from an attempt to limit President Bush 's authority for taking military action against Iran as the leadership concentrated on a looming confrontation with the White House over the Iraq war. Officials said Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of the leadership had decided to strip from a major military spending bill a requirement for Bush to gain approval from Congress before movmg against Iran. Conservative Democrats as well as lawmakers concerned about the possible impact on Israel had aFgued for the change in strategy. The developments ·occurred as Democrats pointed toward an initial test vote in the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday on the overall bill, which would require the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by Sept. I, 2008, if not earlier. The measure provides nearly $100 billion to pay for fighting in two wars, and includes more money than the president requested for operations in Afghanistan and what Democrats called training and equipment shortages. The White House has issued a veto threat against the bill. and Vice President Dick Cheney attacked its supporters m a speech, declaring they "are telling the enemy simply to watch the clock and wrut us out." House GOP Leader John Boehner of Ohio issued a statement that said Democrats shouldn't count on any help passing their BY KAntY MITCHEll legislation . "Republicans will continue to stand united in this debate, and will by oppose efforts Democrats to undermine the abil.ity of General Petraeus and our troops to achieve victory in the Global War on Terror," he said. Top Democrats had a different perspective. Pelosi issued a written statement that said the vice president's remarks prove that "the administration's answer to continuing violence in Iraq is more troops and more treasure from the American people." Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said in a statement that America was less safe today because of the war. The president " must change course, and it's time for the Senate to demand he do it," he added. The Iran-related proposal stemmed from a desire to mi\ke sure Bush did not launch an attack without going to Congress for approval, but drew opposition from numerous membe~ of the rank and file in a series of closed-door sessions last week. Rep. Shelley Berkley, DNev., said in an interview mere is widespread fear in Israel about Iran, which is believed to be seeking nuclear weapons and has expressed unremitting hostihty about the Jewish state. "It would take away perhaps the most important negotiating tool that the U.S. has when it comes to Iran," she said of the nowabandoned provision. "I didn't think it was a very wise idea to take things off the table if you're trying to get people to modify their behavior and normalize it in a civilized way," said Rep. Gary Ackerman of New York. AND MARCY SIICWI Dear Annie: I' ve been married to " Ed" for six years. We are not young. Ed is an only child and, according to his parents, can do no wrong. We live a few blocks from his mom and dad, and I am not allowed in their home, nor am I ever in vited to go out to lunch or dinner with the three of them. My mother-in-law says, "We don't want to share him, so you can ' t come." RING 'GUIDE in!! h 29.2007 • today! C·all Dave or Brenda at 992-215.5 I Some mornings. Ed gets up and says, ''I'm going to play golf with Dad," and away he goes. He always picks up Mom, too. I'm not allowed to come along. This is a small community. and most of our neighbors see them out together. I often get phone calls asking if r m OK since they never see me with the three of them. This really hurts. What can I do? - Lonely in Beaumont, Texas Dear Beaumont: What is wrong with your husband that he allows his parents to treat you so poorly? You don't have to be included in every golf outing. but for heaven \ sake, you should be welcome in your inlaws' home and certainly able to enjoy a dinner out with them on occasion. Their total dismi ssal of you is bolh odd and insulting. You are a member of the family now and should be treated accordingly. If Ed ·doesn · t realize his parents behavior is not acceptable. you ought to enlighten him. He should insist his parents include you. at least some of the time. Otherwis.e, decide what you are willing to tolerate. and the next step is counseling. Dear Annie: Over the last several t!JOnths. my hus. band has told me his well- · endowed secretary wears low-cut attire to work. He wonders why she would dress like that and why her husband doesn't object. I suggested that maybe he should impose an office dress policy, but he said it isn't up to him, because she rcpons to his boss. My husband joltes and laughs that it is good for customer relations. (I don 't think that's very funny. by the way.) Also, according to my husband. his boss wants to have a young , professiomil image. I think this type of clothing is inappropriate and tacky. and doesn't tit the image the boss intends to project. ' I guess I'm old-fashioned, but why do youn~ people today think exposmg their skin is OK anywhere? My husband says his secretary has a great work ethic. but isn't character just as important as do in~ your job? Wondering m Wisconsin Dear Wondering: Lowcut attire is inapproJ?riate in an office because u looks unprofessional. It's too bad your husband's boss doesn't realize that the eye candy could be bad for his business reputation . However. we strongly urge you to stay out of this. It's your husband's job, and the dress policr is up to the boss. If you mterfere, it' will only cause resentment at home. Dear Annie: I have noticed the rapid growth in the number of people who talk while chewing food . Now even my parents, as well as my wife's parents. speak while chewing, even after some not-so-gentle reminders. This trend doesn't seem to have boundaries . The young, middle-aged and elderly are all doing it. Poorly educated. college graduate, blue or white collar, there 's no difference. On television this is more and more prevalent. Has society forgotten about manners? Do people think what they have to say is so imponant, it can't wait until after they swallow? Maybe it's just me. Am I asking too much? - Grossed Out in Connecticut Dear Grossed Out: Some older people speak · with their mouths full because they have difficulty chewing and should see a . Local Weather Public meetings p.m.. Mulberry doctor and a dentist. Other,; Community Center, addre•.sing alcohol and may do it because they have drug abuse in Meigs Count y, guest speakers Tuesday, March 13 trouble breathing through PORTLAND - · Ponland Community Denise Martin, Gall ia-Jackson-Meigs their noses. But in general, Board meeting, 7 p.m ., regular Board of Alcohol, Drug Addition and yo11 are right that people Center Mental Health Services. Dr. James don't realize how unpleas- meeting and accepting letters of iuterest for Witherell, MD. ant it is to watch a mouthful board member positions. DARWIN - Bedford Township Trustees of semi-masticated food. It monthly meeting, 7 p.m., town hall . regular really puts a damper on the Wednesday, March 14 conversation. POMEROY - Meigs County Board of Tuesday, March 13 Annie's Mailbox is writ1-!ealth, 5 p.m., conference room, Meigs POMEROY Meigs. County ten by Kathy Mitchell and County Health Department. Genealogical society, 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Marcy Sugar, longtime ediThursday, March 15 Meigs County Museum. tors of the Ann Landers SYRACUSE Syracuse Village column. Please e-mail your questions to anniesmail- Council, special meeting, 7 p.m.. village box@comcast.net, or write hall. to: Annie:S Mailbox, P.O. Sunday, March 111 Box 118190, Chicago, lL TUPPERS PLAINS - Wilma Ginther 606ll. To find out more Seaman will celebrate her 90th birthday at Thursday, March 15 about Annie's Mailbox, an open house l]eing held in her honor from and read features by other CHESTER - Meigs County Ministerial I to 4 p.m. at the Tuppers Plains Firehou,;e Creators Syndicate writers Association Lenten worship service, 7 p.m., in Tuppers Plains. 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On this date: In 17S I. the planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Hers, hel. In 1884. Congress adopted Eastern St;mdard Time for the District o f Columbia. In 1901 , the D rd president of the United States, Be njamin Harrison. died in Indianapo lis. In 1964, bar manager Catherine ··Kitty" Genovese. 28. was stabbed to death near her New York City home: the case generated controversy over charges that Genovese's neighbors had failed to respond to her cries for help. In 1980. Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II announced he was stepping down. In 1980. a jury in Winamac. Ind .. found Ford Motor Co. innocent of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three young women riding in a Ford Pinto. In 1996. a gunman burst into an dementary school in Dunblane. Scotland. and opened fire on a class of kindergartners, killing 16 children and one teac her before killing himse lf. Ten years ago: A Jordanian soldier fired on Israeli junior high school girls on a tield trip. killing seve n of them. (The soldier. Corp. Ahmed Daqamseh. was later sentenced by a military court to life in prison.) In a southern Egyptian village, four masked militants shot and killed 14 people before escaping. Five years ago: President Bu sh declared at a news conference that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was a menace "and we ' re going to deal with him:· and said Osama bin Laden had been reduced to a marginal figure in the war on terrorism. One year ago: Deadly tornadoes raked the Midwest while wildfires scorc hed the Texas Panhandle . Publisher McClatchy Co. agreed to buy Knight-Ridder. but planned to immediately sell 12 of its newspapers. Black Sabbath and Blondie c111ered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Actress Maureen Stapleton died in Lenox. Mass .. at age 80; game show host Peter Tomarken. 63. and his wife, · Kathleen . were killed when their small plane crashed into California's Santa Monica Bav. Tctday's Birthdays: Jaa n1u.sician Roy Haynes is 82. Actor William H. Macy is 57. Actress Deborah Raffin is 54. Comedian Robin Duke is 53. Rock music ian Adam Clayton (U2) is 47. Actress Annabeth Gish is 36. Actress Tracy Wells is 36. Rapper Common is 35. Singer Glenn Lewis is 32. Actor Danny Masterson is 31. Actor Emile Hirsch is 22. Thought for Today : "The history nf the world is the verdict of the world." - Friedrich von Schiller, German author ( 17 59-1805 ). · The Daily Sentinel (740) 992·2156. Department extensions are: News Editor: Chartene Hoeflich, EKt. 12 ·Reporter: Brian Reed. Ext 14 Reporter: Beth Sergent. E.:t. 13 ' · . Advertising tions ro The Daily Senti~ . 111 Court Street, Pomeroy, Oh10 45769. Sul;)scrlptlon Rat.. By carrter or motor routa One month '10.27 One yur '115.14 D•lly 50' Senior Cili..., One month One yur rat.. '10.27 '103.!JO &lbscribel's 9hotAd remit W1 acNanoe drect to the Daily Sentinel. No sub.Oullldo S.les: Dave Harris. Ext. 15 scription ~ mail penniCled In areas .Outside S.IH; Brenda Davis. Ext 16 whefe home carrier service is avail- C!MaJCirc.: Judy Clark. Ext. 10 General Manager Charlene Hoef1tch. Ext. 12 E-1111111: newsOm~dailysentinetcom ' Web: www.mydailysenttnel .com " able. Mall Sutlac:rlptlon lnskM 13 Weeks 26 Weeks 52 Weeks Melva County '32.26 '64.20 ' 127.11 OutskM Melg• County 13 Weeks '53.55 26 Weei<s ' 107.10 52 Weeks ' 214.21 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 NCLB school reform deserves renewal, and it's not enough There 's reason to hope that Congress will reauthorize. cJUend and improve the landmark 200 I No Child Left Behind Act school-accountabi.lity law. But. by itself. the fede.ral program is clearly not going to solve America's education crisis. The crisis, documented in one alarming report after evidence of progress in the another, is that American lower grades - 70 percent sc hools systematically are of schools meeting statefailing their students and set adequate yearly endangering the nation's progress marks, record-set,,bility to match global eco- ling reading and math nomic competition. scores for 9-year-olds a!'d Beyond NCLB. there has math scores for 13-yearto be" drastic action at the olds. plus some dosure of stale level, where responsi- disparities between whites bility for education primari- and minorities. · ly lies. And school reform And yet, the goal of needs the backing of 2008 NCLB is lhal all American presidential candidates, schoolchildren will be prowho so far have said little· ticient in reading and math about it. by 2014- not world-class, The newest di smal evi- just proficient, able to read dence came out from the with critical judgment and National Assessment of solve minimally complex Education Progress last math problems. Right now, month : American 12th five years into the NCLB graders in 2005 perfonned era, the United Stales is far worse in reading than 12th from there - far. graders did in 1992. Only Study results in 2005 35 percent of students about showed that in 1992. 29 to graduate could read at percent of 4th graders read grade level. Only 23 percent proficiently. By 2005. that were proficient in math. percentage was up to just And these numbers apply 31 percent. The same only to students finishing applied to 8th graders. math scores high school. Pully a quar- Average ter of youngsters entering increased significantly, but high school drop out, the percentages perform· tncluding 50 percent of ing proficiently in 2005 minority kids. were 36 percent for 4th The Bush administration · graders and 30 percent for once again is proposing to 8th graders. "Scores have increased, extend NCLB's regimen of state standards-setting, but they are really low," testing and accountability commented Phillip Lovell. to the nation's high education specialist at the schools. and, this year, youth advocacy group First Congress likely will go Focus. "At 30 percent proalong - in the process, ticiency, you'd have to say upping Bu sh's paltry that on a traditional grading request for just $1 .2 billion scale of A to F. as a country we are still way below the to finance the effort. In an interview, Education lowest F." Secretary Margaret Beyond proficiency levSpellings told me, "The 'els. Lovell noted, "the scarimajor focus of NCLB has est numbers" are a doubling been on our elementary and in the number of schools middle schools, grades 3 failing to meet adequate through 8. And that is where yearly progress levels for we have. seen the power of four or five years, requiring the improvement. proving either corrective action or the adage that 'what gets restructuring . Nearly 10 measured. gets done.... percent of schools serving Spellings can cite some low-income children are expected to need restructuring by 2008. As· part of his run-up to formal hearings on NCLB reauthorization, Sen . Edward Kennedy, D-Mass .. last week called for special e!Torts to attract top-quality teachers to high-needs schools. But he and other Democrats stoutly oppose the administnttion 's favorite remedy: vouchers to permit · ill-served pupils and parents to escape to private, parochial or out-of-district public schools. Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Health , Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has blessed the recommendations of a bipartisan commission assembled by the Aspen Institute that included a requirement that school teachers serving low- income students receive the sa me salaries as those teaching higherincome students. Democrats tend to resist. how ever, a proposal of the Bush administration that chronically poor-performance schools be freed from the strictures of union contracts so that they can be restaffed and more effectively managed by principals. To its credit, the administration is budgeting $500 million to help schools needing improvement . But it has no position, as of yet, on a Kennedy-sponsored measure, the Keeping Pace Act, to facilitate community support for low-income schools, or a forthcoming measure sponsored by Sens. Jeff Bingaman, D• N.M ., and Richard Burr. RN.C., to target $2.5 billion at "dropout factories," the 15 percent of schools accounting for more than half of the nation's dropouts. Welcome as federal action on the schools is, Spellings points out that the states account for 92 percent of national school funding and the bulk of education respon sibility. And half of the slmes failed to meet their planning responsibilities under NCLB until the last minute. A new report just issued jointly by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the liberal Center for American Progress and the American Enterprise Institute, "Leaders and Laggards," rates the slates on overall academic achievement, minority progress. return on investment, proficiency. truth-in-advertising and other measures. Its bottom line is that, " Despite decades of reform efforts and many trillions of dollars of public investment, U.S. schools are not equipping our children with the skills and knowledge they - and our nation - so badly need."' The state with the best academic achievement records of all Massachusetts could boast only that about half of its students scored proficiently on the National Assessment of Education Progress . At the bottom was Washington, D.C., with proficiency ratings barely above 10 percent. The chamber hopes to equip its stale affiliates and member businesses to confront state legislatures, local school boards and teachers unions to demand reform. It's a worthy purpose . And it could use some help from a presidential candidate who'll call, for a grand trade - professionallevel pay for teachers in return for professional accountability, pay-for-performance and an end to rigid union work rules. Also. equalization of funding between rich and poor school districts . a longer school day and a longer school year and more investment in early childhood education. Republicans resist spending more. Democrats chronically do the bidding of the teachers unions. America's kids and the country's future need a president who 'II break that rancid mold. (Monon Kondracke is executil'e edilor of Roll Call. the newspaper of Capiw/ Hill.) Tuesday, March 13, 2007 Obituaries www.mydailysentinel.com For the Record Earl Roush Marriage licenses POMEROY - Earl L. Roush. 83. Pomeroy. died on Sunday. March 12, 2007 al his residence afier an extended illness . He was born Aug . 7, 1923 in Ravenswood, W.Va., to the late Chester Dale and Frankie Forest Doherty Roush. Mr. Roush was an electrician and served in the Navy and Army. He was a member of the VFW Post 9926 in Mason, W.Va., and the American Legion of New Haven, W.Va. . Surviving are his daughters, Barbara J. (Robert) Burke. Reynold sburg. and Patricia A. (David) Hindy, Pomeroy; granddaughters : Amanda (Charlie) McKinney, Vinton. Stacey (Stephen) Scarberry, Pomeroy. Ian (Anthony) Carpter, Middleport : grandsons: Robert Christopher Burke , Columbus, Craig L. (Christine) Rou sh., Middleport, Michael Geophrey Burke, Reynoldsburg; six great grandchildren; a sister, Leah Ann Bibbee ; and several nteces and nephews. Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by hi s wife, Mildred Eloise Fox Roush; a son, Chester Roush ; a grandson; and brothers: Howard S., Marlin L., Robert W.• Galen W., and Ronald D. Roush ; and sisters. Rita J. Baker and Blanche E. Roush. Service will be held at I p.m. on Thursday, March 15, 2007 at the Pomeroy Chapel of Fisher Funeral Home with Pastor Bobby Dean Bibbee officiating. Burial will follow at the Rocksprtn~s Cemetery, Visitation wtll be held from 6-9 p.m. on Wednesday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Appalachian VNA Hospice, 30 Harrold Ave, Athens, Ohio 45701 or The American Diabetes Association. P.O. Box 1131, Pairfax, VA 22038-1131. Online Condolences may be sent to: www.fisherfuneralhomes.com. POMEROY - Marriage licenses were issued in Meigs County Probate Coun to Kevin Victor Wolfe, 51, and Sharon Elaine Matson, 46. Middleport; Ryan Alan Cozart, 26, Syracuse. aod Kathryn Lee Fuller, 19. Henderson, W.Va.; Robert William Amott, 27. arid Kristen Elizabeth Haley, 21. Thppers Plains; Ryan Eugene King, 22, and Shannon Rae Slisher, 20, Pomeroy ; Jonathan Ray Dailey, 27, and Ttna Dawn Radford, 31, Portland; Jeremy Christopher Bostic, 23, and Jillian Heather Matson, 23, Middleport. Harold Nelson Divorce POMEROY -An action for divorce was filed in Meigs County Common Pleas Court by Danny K. Harrison, Middleport, against Barbara E. Harrison, Columbus. Civil actions POMEROY - Actions for foreclosure were filed in Mei~s County Common Pleas Court by Investment Retnevers, Inc., Westerville, against Mildred Elkins, Portland; Wells Fargo Bank, Fort Mill. S.C., against Melissa D. Jofinson, Reedsville, and others; Chase Home Finance, Columbus, against Jackie P. Cremeans, Middleport, and others; and by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., against Rebecca Ward, Langsville. Highway Patrol CHESTER - Jeremy L. Stanley, 21, 36161 Allen St., Chester, was cited for failure to control by the Gallia-Meigs Post of the State Highway Patrol following a one-car accident Sunday on Ohio 7 at the intersection with Ohio 248. Troopers said Stanley was northbound at 12:50 a.m. when he failed to navigate a right tum onto 248. The car he drove went off the left side of the road, struck a guardrail and came to rest against the guardrail. Stanley was injured and taken to HMC by the EMS. Damage to the car was severe, troopers said. MASON. W.Va. - Harold R. Nelson. 70, of Mason. W.Va., died March II, 2007. at Pleasant Valley Hospital in Point Pleasant, W.Va. · He was a retired Coal Miner from Southern Ohio Coal. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, and a member of Stewart-Johnson VFW Post 9926, United Mine Workers, He was born Nov. 15, 1936, in Boone County, W.Va., son of the late George Preston and Orpha Kuhn Nelson. He was also preceded in death by his brother, Carl AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Nelson. A career prison administraSurviving are his wife . Nancy Holstein Nelson; a son tor apJ?Ointed to head Ohio's and daughter-in-law, Harold "Gene" (Jill) Nelson of juvemle prison system amid Mason; a daughter and son-in-law. Carol (Mike) Lewis of reports of inmate abuse is Rutland: grandchildren: Jimmy Rife and Cheyenna Lewis; visiting Texas this week to his mother-in-law, Grace Pack of Mason; sisters, Virginia advise lawmakers on stabiMestas of Buena Park, Calif., and Anna Lea While of lizing the emballled Texas Mason: sisters and brothers-in-law, Naoma (Boyd) Youth Commission. Burgess of Bob While, W.Va., and Quinnie (Lawrence) Thomas Stickrath look Richmond of Twilight, W.Va.; brother. Arlen Brown of over the Ohio Department Bidwell; and many nieces and nephews. of Youth Servtces in Funeral will be held at II a.m. on Wednesday, March 14, December 2004 after the 2007, at Fogelsong-Thcker Funeral Home in Mason, previous director was W.Va., with Pastor Mike Finnicum officiating. Burial will forced to resign. follow at Graham Cemetery. At the time, six guards Military graveside rites will be performed by VFW Post had been indicted over the 9926 and American Legion Post 140. previous 18 months for sexE-mail condolences to foglesongtucker@myway.com. ual battery and dereliction charges. The agency also faced two federal lawsuits charging that youths were denied legal counsel and that the depanment failed to stop sexual abuse and to provide adequate medical care at a prison for ~iris. Stickrath, 52, satd there LETART. W.Va. - Belinda Bush, 33, Letart. W.Va ., died are parallels between Ohio:s in Hartford , W.Va. on Saturday. March I 0. 2007. situation two years ago and Funeral services are at I p.m ., Thursday, March 15 at the troubles now facing Foglesong-Tucker Funeral Home, Mason, W.Va. with Texas' juvenile prison sysPastor Mike Finnicum officiating. Burial will be in Zerkle Cemetery. Friends may call from 6·9 p.m. on Wednesday tem. State leaders in Texas are scrambling to deal with at the funeral home. claims of sexual abuse of E-mail condolences to foglesongtucker@myway.com, inmates by employees and possible cover-ups within the agency's administration. Black, a Robert spokesman for Gov. Rick .Perry, cited Stickrath's experience "turning around a youth agency that's fallen into disarray." He said REEDSVILLE -John Rice, president of the Eastern Stickrath will be in Austin Local Board of Education, was named to the Ohio School for less than a week. and Boards . Association Southeast Region Executive Committee. The commiuee provides governance and leadership to board members in 18 Ohio counties. including Meigs County. Members are appointed in January. Ohioan to advise Texas lawmakers on improving youth prison system Deaths Belinda Bush . Still getting away with genocide On Feb. 17, the chief prosecutor of the Iniernational Criminal Court, Luis Moreno Ocampo, accused a leading member of the Sudanese government Ahmed Haroun, deputy minister of what Sudan calls humanitarian affairs - of "criminal responsibility" for mass murders, mass rapes and ul/ers to the ediwr are ~relcome. 71u: r should be less other "inhuman · acts" tha11 300 "·ord.,. All lellers are subject ro· ediring. mus/ be against black Muslims in signed, and include address and releplwne number. No Darfur. President Bush ijiJSigrled letters ~rill he p11blished. Letters should be in accurately calls these horgood ta,<te. addressing issues, 1101 persmwliiies. Leuers of rors acts of genocide. tha11ks to orga11izariom a/Ill individ11als wi/11101 be accept· Also charged with these ed for publica/ion. crimes by the International Criminal Court is Ali Kushayb, the primary leader of the Khartoum government's hired Arab militia (USPS 213-960) - the Ja,njaweed, which Reader Services Ohio Valley Publishing have been the frontline perCo. petrators of the mass murCorrection Polley Our main concern in all stories is to Publisheel e-yery attemoon, Monda~ ders and rapes, some of through Friday. 111 Coun Street, which have inclt~ded black be accurate. II you ~now of an error Pomeroy, OMio. Second-class African children. The other in e StOI)', call the newsroom at (140) postage paid at Pomeroy. named ICC target, Haroun, W2·2156. Member: The Associated Press and has been the chief supplier the Oh1o Newspaper AssociatiOn. and paymaster of the Postmeater: Send addr885 correcOur main number Is LETTERS TO THE EDITOR PageA4 Nat tlentoff Netherlands.) Moreover. on Feb, 22, Sudan's monster-in-chief, President Omar Hassan alBashir, was enthusiastically welcomed in Detroit at the national conference of The Nation of Islam - best known for its indisposed leader. Louis Farrak.han. Railing against his critics, Bashir charged them with " lies and imposing solutions that don't respect the dignity of our nation." (In the general's dignified nation, some 450.000 black Muslims in Darfur have thus far been killed or otherwise died as a resu II of the genocide. And Sudan's epidemic of official vioJanjawe~d. This issuance of the war- lence is such that the ICC rants and summonses for investigators gathered their these two heavily docu- evidence by interviewing mented suspects of geno- survivors of the genocide in cide will not end the accel- other countries because it erating pace . of what the was too dangerous for them impotent United Nations to go into Bashir 's bloodhas called the world' s worst soaked riation.) So now. who will bring humanitarian cnsts. Sudan's Minister of Justice troops into Sudan to deliver (as defined by this infa- the criminal court's summous government), monses lo the humanitarian Mohamed Ali at-Mardi, has mini ster and the head of the indignantly declared : Janjaweed, which has ter"The International minated so many lives and Criminal Court has no juris- forced 2.5 million black. diction to try any Sudanese. Muslims into becoming and the Sudanese govern- refugees who are still ment will not allow any attacked by the Janjaweed'' Sudanese to be tried and The -International punished outside of Sudan ... Criminal Court - whi\:h (The lntemation111 Criminal was given the authority to Court is in the Hague . conduct its investigation by the United Nations nity finds the courage to Security Council - has no confront Khartoum's genopolice or army of its own. cidaires for who they are ... Therefore. for a single life there will be no change in to be saved or a single rape Darfur. We will see death to be prevented, the United and suffering stretching out Nations in all its indefinitely before us." Another expert reaction majesty - must, by its rules. persuade Bashir to to the ICC's announcement allow U.N . troops into his was from Dr. Susan Rice, sovereign nation to serve the Stale Department's the warrants. It's like trying . Assistant Secretary of to cajole Hitler into allow- State for African Affairs ing Doctors Without during the Clinton administration (now at the Borders into Auschwitz. In January. the general, Brookings Institution). She who by all logic should told National Public Radio also be served with a sum- on Feb. 27 that since we mons, personally pledged have failed to end the to U.N. Secretary-General genocide, or " physically Ban Kim Moon that he protect those that are being would cooperate with the killed ... it's not sufficient United Nations' proposal to to negotiate. We need to at least send a human· protect the people who are rights team into his digni- dying every day even as fied nation. Since then, as we speak." is his custom, the general As a reporter on the bar-· has reneged on his pledge .. baric National Islamic The U.N. secretary-gener- Front government of Sudan al's reaction is "disappoint- for more than 14 years, I ment." He did not show a see no other end to this determination for the daily genocide, as we United Nations to, at long speak. than military force. last, actually do something But by whom? Is there no to restore some credibility such coalition of willing to that body after all the nations ? If there is not, Security Council's resolu- what does that tell us of the tions and postures of con- world in which we live cern about the!;e atrocities and what has become of us that will soon amass many as Americans'' We. too more corpses than ·have abandoned the Rwanda's genocide. which rema ining black men, the United Nations also did women and children of nothing to slop. Darfur. Has a single presiOn Feb. 27. I 0 days after dential candidate made the International Criminal thoir survival a "priority" Court declared that lY<O or even mentioned them? alleged perpetrators of the ( Na1 Hemoff is a nationgenocide would face trials. ell/\' renow11ed authorirv 011 Eric Reeves - the most lite First Anumdment · and authoritative historian and the Bill of Rights wrd author analyst of Sudan.'s holo- of manv books. includi11g caust wrote on the .. The War 011 the Bill of invaluably reliable daily Righrs and rhe Garhering Resista~ce .. (Seven Stories Sudan Tribune Web site: "U ntil the world commu- Press. 2003 ). Local Briefs Named to committee that Texas will pay only his expenses. He met Monday with Ed Owens, the acting executive director appointed to oversee the agency. "We knew we had to restructure the agency, and it's no secret that Ohio had similar problems," Black said. Stickrath ~::,Placed six of the ei~ht facihty superintendents m Ohio. He also adopted tougher hiring standards and a policy deftning rape and sexual abuse to employees and teaching them how to report misconduct. The department assessed youth prisons 10 figure out where assault could take place. "We looked at every nook and cranny, from a design, use and scheduling P?int of view," Stickralh sa1d. "We asked the question: Have we architecturally or sched· ule-wise designed failure? It doesn't result in a hugely e)(pensive fi)(. It doesn't result in closing down a dormitory. It's this door should be locked or not locked; we need a larger window in this area, maybe a camera. It doesn' l need huge capital investment." Reports from the Correctional ' Institution Inspection Committee show that the Ohio system still ~rapples with problems, mcluding instances of staff members assaulting youths and ftghts between youths. The Daily Sentinel • Page As Ohio governor will try to end certain tax breaks BY MATT LEINGANG ASSOC IATED PRESS WRITER COLUMBUS Gov. Ted Strickland said Monday h~ will propose eliminating some lax breaks and take his first steps toward fixing Ohio's school-funding problem in his upcoming budget. The Democratic gover· nor, whose tirst budget proposal will be released Thursday, said his two-year spending plan will reflect what he considers to be the state's priorities - education, health care and economic development. He was guarded about the speciftcs of his plan at a legislative .preview session for journaltsts organized by The Associated Press. He tried to dampen expectations on repairing Ohio's school funding, which has been deemed unco nstitutional, repeatedly by the Ohio Supreme Court for its heavy ~eliance on property taxes. Republican lawmakers who control the Legislature have been pushing him to propose a schoolfunding plan in his budget. Strickland, who became governor in January, said he hasn't had enough time in office to find a comprehensive solution that everyone can agree on, and money will be tight in the $50 billion-plus budget that helps pay for road projects, parks, · health care for the poor and public universities. Havin~ already p~mised not to ratse taxes or mcrease fees, Strickland said eliminating some tax breaks for businesses or individuals is one way to raise revenue . "We are going to invest in the things that truly matter. ... and in order to do that, we've got to ·have some resources," Strickland said. He will give more details about his plans in his State of the State speech Wednesday, and the ne)(t day he'll release his proposed budget. Strickland has said that overall tax revenues are down, leaving budget planners with $1 billion to $1.5 billion less than projected to spend on government programs, . Republicans will hold off commenting on Strickland's bid to eliminate some tax breaks until they see a specific proposal, said Karen Tabor, a spokeswoman for Speaker John House Husted. BecaUS¥ of budget restrictions, some stale agencies will see funding cuts, Strickland warned. But the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, which oversees the state's prison system, won't be touched, he said. · With an inmate population around 48.500, the state is close lo exceeding its record of 49,100 set in 1998. a troubling statistic that should give lawmakers reason to reevaluate how Ohio handles non~iolent offender>, Strickland said. Ohio aho has millions of tlollars in unspent federal ~rants that welfare Strickland sa td he intends to use to help the poor. "As I've said, we can't do everything in this budget we'd like to do. Now, now can we put some slakes in the ground and show a direction we· d like to move in? I think we can," he said. Strickland reiterated his opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment that would put the school fundin g issue on the November ballot. He said he instead wants the chance to work with the Legislature on a solution. A coalition that includes teachers unions, school boards and other education groups want the amendment to declare a high-quality public education a fundamental right of every Ohio child and gradually reduce the local share of expenses. for schools and increase the stale share. The Legislature's top leaders - House Speaker . Husted. House Democratic Leader Joyce Beatty, Senate President Bill Harris and Democrati c Leader Teresa Fedor - also said Monday that they oppose the amendment. sayi ng it 's too short on details on how to raise money to pay for it. Husted said the billions of dollars the state has S~~fnl on school construction smce 1997 and the academic reforms passed during that time have raised the quality of primary . and secondary education statewide . "We have worked hard to try to change the education outcomes for the children of Ohio," Husted said. "I think we have made ~real progress on that issue.' Beatty lamented that Nathan DeRolph, the plaintiff in the originaii99I lawsuit that led to the Supreme Court's ruling, is now an adult. "He's now 31 ~ears old, but we still haven t gotten it right," Beatty said. Associared Press writer John McCarthy in Columbus co11tributed to Ihis repoi-1. PROUDTOBEA ·• PART OF YOUR LDl Tile DQ!Iy Se~l ' . ~bscribe ro@y • 99Z·Z'1S,$· www.mydailyselllinel.«ll!!!< ' A!!~ March 17 at 8 pm "Remembrance" The Ohio Valley Symphony The band now has 83 says - "that Introducing a FoUowed by child to music is like open- members and the director lri•h Pub Night with ing the door to academic says he foresees growth " Blackbirds and Thrushes" success and providing a les- next year. Dingess credits from PageA1 son in life skills." support from the Board, the Classic Movie The Meigs Local admin- administration and the Band "Meet Me In St. Louis" "We work toward a com- istrative personnel and the Boosters as the reason that March 18 at 2 pm mon goal. learning to deal Board of Education recentthe Marauder Band has The Ariel-Dater Hall with our own inadequacies ly acknowledged that remained competitive over as well as the shortcom- importance with the pur42~~~'~,~:·.\~~~i~~~~?" ings of those around us . chase of $35,000 worth of the years. Band is so very different new instruments which than academic classes will be used for the first where student success is time in the annual spring dependent on the effort concen. and ability of the individPurchased were four ual. For us it is all or noth- tubas, four baritones, two ing . Band di(ectors have mellophones, a ban-saxobeen practicing ·no child phone and a new set of left behind' long before it chimes. Dingess said he became the battle cry for considers the support from educational reform. " the administration and H&R Block Tax Professionals Dingess agrees with the Board as a "vote of confiare ready to help. description of the National dence." Smaller instruAssociation of' Music ments and other needs of Education about music pro- the band are met by tbe With H&R Block, you have more than a company behind you. Band Boosters. grams in schools which You have a one-on-one relationship with one of H&R Block's 90,000 tax prolessionals working lor you. in person. by phone, or via e-mail . and are working overtime across the country." Stop into your nearby H&R Block location listed below. For Those requesting a passother locations call 1-800-HRBLOCK or visit hrblock.corn port should contact from PageA1 Harrison's ontce for an 618 East Main St. application. Once the appliPomeroy, OH 45769 the passport need not worry ~:ation has been completed, Mon-Fri 9 to 6 or contact Pa ssport it should be retumed to her H&RBLOCK Sat. 9-5 Services:· Harrison said. office with two passport 992-6674 "The agency is very busy. photographs. a certified Other Hours by Appointment but are doing their best to copy of the birth ce rtilicate. ensure that nobQdy misses a with a raised seal. and the C '2006 H&~ Slack ServiCeS . Inc trip. They have added staff appropriate application fees . Music Meeting changed · POMEROY - Meigs County Commissioners will meet at 3:30p.m. on Thursday. instead of I p.m. Witherell, Martin to speak POMEROY - Dr. James Witherell, MD and Denise Manin of the Gallia-Jackson-Meigs Board of Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services will be speaking at the Meigs County Community Coalition meeting, 7 p.m .. Thursday, Mulberry Community Center. Witherell will be speaking about opioid addition a~d ~uprenof[)h~ne maintenance treatment wh1le Manto wtll dtscuss sutctde prevention. The coalition is a local group that provides education to parents and students about alcohol and drug abuse in Meigs County. Syracuse from PageA1 chicken barbecue dinner for Larry Lavender: two basket games beld; money raised for London Pool by sponsoring drawings for a gun and Longaberger basket. and a spagheni dinner: public address sys tem purchased . As for the center's best kept secret. Bentley believes its the volunteers with an estimated 1.426 senior volunteer hours logged and what is described as "countless" volunteer hours by nonseniors. There are current· ly around 19 members or the center's board of directors · with an executive board conststmg of Bentley, Fisher as vicepresident, 'Kathy Crow as treasurer, Cathy Moore as secretary. "I hope when people say the 'Syracuse Community Center' they think of a good thing and a positive thing," Bentley said. Passport _.,.._. • �,O PINION The Daily Sentinel The Daily Sentinel 111 Court Street • Pomeroy, Ohio (740) 992-2156 • FAX (740) 992-2157 -w.mydallysentlnal.com Ohio Valley Publishing Co. Dan Goodrich Publisher Charlene Hoeflich General Manager-News Editor Congress shall make no lau' respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the rig Ill of the people peaceabl}' to assrmble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grirvances. - The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Tuesday. March 13, the 72nd day of 2007. There are 293 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 13. 1925 . a law wen! into effect in Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution. On this date: In 17S I. the planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Hers, hel. In 1884. Congress adopted Eastern St;mdard Time for the District o f Columbia. In 1901 , the D rd president of the United States, Be njamin Harrison. died in Indianapo lis. In 1964, bar manager Catherine ··Kitty" Genovese. 28. was stabbed to death near her New York City home: the case generated controversy over charges that Genovese's neighbors had failed to respond to her cries for help. In 1980. Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II announced he was stepping down. In 1980. a jury in Winamac. Ind .. found Ford Motor Co. innocent of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three young women riding in a Ford Pinto. In 1996. a gunman burst into an dementary school in Dunblane. Scotland. and opened fire on a class of kindergartners, killing 16 children and one teac her before killing himse lf. Ten years ago: A Jordanian soldier fired on Israeli junior high school girls on a tield trip. killing seve n of them. (The soldier. Corp. Ahmed Daqamseh. was later sentenced by a military court to life in prison.) In a southern Egyptian village, four masked militants shot and killed 14 people before escaping. Five years ago: President Bu sh declared at a news conference that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was a menace "and we ' re going to deal with him:· and said Osama bin Laden had been reduced to a marginal figure in the war on terrorism. One year ago: Deadly tornadoes raked the Midwest while wildfires scorc hed the Texas Panhandle . Publisher McClatchy Co. agreed to buy Knight-Ridder. but planned to immediately sell 12 of its newspapers. Black Sabbath and Blondie c111ered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Actress Maureen Stapleton died in Lenox. Mass .. at age 80; game show host Peter Tomarken. 63. and his wife, · Kathleen . were killed when their small plane crashed into California's Santa Monica Bav. Tctday's Birthdays: Jaa n1u.sician Roy Haynes is 82. Actor William H. Macy is 57. Actress Deborah Raffin is 54. Comedian Robin Duke is 53. Rock music ian Adam Clayton (U2) is 47. Actress Annabeth Gish is 36. Actress Tracy Wells is 36. Rapper Common is 35. Singer Glenn Lewis is 32. Actor Danny Masterson is 31. Actor Emile Hirsch is 22. Thought for Today : "The history nf the world is the verdict of the world." - Friedrich von Schiller, German author ( 17 59-1805 ). · The Daily Sentinel (740) 992·2156. Department extensions are: News Editor: Chartene Hoeflich, EKt. 12 ·Reporter: Brian Reed. Ext 14 Reporter: Beth Sergent. E.:t. 13 ' · . Advertising tions ro The Daily Senti~ . 111 Court Street, Pomeroy, Oh10 45769. Sul;)scrlptlon Rat.. 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The crisis, documented in one alarming report after evidence of progress in the another, is that American lower grades - 70 percent sc hools systematically are of schools meeting statefailing their students and set adequate yearly endangering the nation's progress marks, record-set,,bility to match global eco- ling reading and math nomic competition. scores for 9-year-olds a!'d Beyond NCLB. there has math scores for 13-yearto be" drastic action at the olds. plus some dosure of stale level, where responsi- disparities between whites bility for education primari- and minorities. · ly lies. And school reform And yet, the goal of needs the backing of 2008 NCLB is lhal all American presidential candidates, schoolchildren will be prowho so far have said little· ticient in reading and math about it. by 2014- not world-class, The newest di smal evi- just proficient, able to read dence came out from the with critical judgment and National Assessment of solve minimally complex Education Progress last math problems. Right now, month : American 12th five years into the NCLB graders in 2005 perfonned era, the United Stales is far worse in reading than 12th from there - far. graders did in 1992. Only Study results in 2005 35 percent of students about showed that in 1992. 29 to graduate could read at percent of 4th graders read grade level. Only 23 percent proficiently. By 2005. that were proficient in math. percentage was up to just And these numbers apply 31 percent. The same only to students finishing applied to 8th graders. math scores high school. Pully a quar- Average ter of youngsters entering increased significantly, but high school drop out, the percentages perform· tncluding 50 percent of ing proficiently in 2005 minority kids. were 36 percent for 4th The Bush administration · graders and 30 percent for once again is proposing to 8th graders. "Scores have increased, extend NCLB's regimen of state standards-setting, but they are really low," testing and accountability commented Phillip Lovell. to the nation's high education specialist at the schools. and, this year, youth advocacy group First Congress likely will go Focus. "At 30 percent proalong - in the process, ticiency, you'd have to say upping Bu sh's paltry that on a traditional grading request for just $1 .2 billion scale of A to F. as a country we are still way below the to finance the effort. In an interview, Education lowest F." Secretary Margaret Beyond proficiency levSpellings told me, "The 'els. Lovell noted, "the scarimajor focus of NCLB has est numbers" are a doubling been on our elementary and in the number of schools middle schools, grades 3 failing to meet adequate through 8. And that is where yearly progress levels for we have. seen the power of four or five years, requiring the improvement. proving either corrective action or the adage that 'what gets restructuring . Nearly 10 measured. gets done.... percent of schools serving Spellings can cite some low-income children are expected to need restructuring by 2008. As· part of his run-up to formal hearings on NCLB reauthorization, Sen . Edward Kennedy, D-Mass .. last week called for special e!Torts to attract top-quality teachers to high-needs schools. But he and other Democrats stoutly oppose the administnttion 's favorite remedy: vouchers to permit · ill-served pupils and parents to escape to private, parochial or out-of-district public schools. Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Health , Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has blessed the recommendations of a bipartisan commission assembled by the Aspen Institute that included a requirement that school teachers serving low- income students receive the sa me salaries as those teaching higherincome students. Democrats tend to resist. how ever, a proposal of the Bush administration that chronically poor-performance schools be freed from the strictures of union contracts so that they can be restaffed and more effectively managed by principals. To its credit, the administration is budgeting $500 million to help schools needing improvement . But it has no position, as of yet, on a Kennedy-sponsored measure, the Keeping Pace Act, to facilitate community support for low-income schools, or a forthcoming measure sponsored by Sens. Jeff Bingaman, D• N.M ., and Richard Burr. RN.C., to target $2.5 billion at "dropout factories," the 15 percent of schools accounting for more than half of the nation's dropouts. Welcome as federal action on the schools is, Spellings points out that the states account for 92 percent of national school funding and the bulk of education respon sibility. And half of the slmes failed to meet their planning responsibilities under NCLB until the last minute. A new report just issued jointly by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the liberal Center for American Progress and the American Enterprise Institute, "Leaders and Laggards," rates the slates on overall academic achievement, minority progress. return on investment, proficiency. truth-in-advertising and other measures. Its bottom line is that, " Despite decades of reform efforts and many trillions of dollars of public investment, U.S. schools are not equipping our children with the skills and knowledge they - and our nation - so badly need."' The state with the best academic achievement records of all Massachusetts could boast only that about half of its students scored proficiently on the National Assessment of Education Progress . At the bottom was Washington, D.C., with proficiency ratings barely above 10 percent. The chamber hopes to equip its stale affiliates and member businesses to confront state legislatures, local school boards and teachers unions to demand reform. It's a worthy purpose . And it could use some help from a presidential candidate who'll call, for a grand trade - professionallevel pay for teachers in return for professional accountability, pay-for-performance and an end to rigid union work rules. Also. equalization of funding between rich and poor school districts . a longer school day and a longer school year and more investment in early childhood education. Republicans resist spending more. Democrats chronically do the bidding of the teachers unions. America's kids and the country's future need a president who 'II break that rancid mold. (Monon Kondracke is executil'e edilor of Roll Call. the newspaper of Capiw/ Hill.) Tuesday, March 13, 2007 Obituaries www.mydailysentinel.com For the Record Earl Roush Marriage licenses POMEROY - Earl L. Roush. 83. Pomeroy. died on Sunday. March 12, 2007 al his residence afier an extended illness . He was born Aug . 7, 1923 in Ravenswood, W.Va., to the late Chester Dale and Frankie Forest Doherty Roush. Mr. Roush was an electrician and served in the Navy and Army. He was a member of the VFW Post 9926 in Mason, W.Va., and the American Legion of New Haven, W.Va. . Surviving are his daughters, Barbara J. (Robert) Burke. Reynold sburg. and Patricia A. (David) Hindy, Pomeroy; granddaughters : Amanda (Charlie) McKinney, Vinton. Stacey (Stephen) Scarberry, Pomeroy. Ian (Anthony) Carpter, Middleport : grandsons: Robert Christopher Burke , Columbus, Craig L. (Christine) Rou sh., Middleport, Michael Geophrey Burke, Reynoldsburg; six great grandchildren; a sister, Leah Ann Bibbee ; and several nteces and nephews. Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by hi s wife, Mildred Eloise Fox Roush; a son, Chester Roush ; a grandson; and brothers: Howard S., Marlin L., Robert W.• Galen W., and Ronald D. Roush ; and sisters. Rita J. Baker and Blanche E. Roush. Service will be held at I p.m. on Thursday, March 15, 2007 at the Pomeroy Chapel of Fisher Funeral Home with Pastor Bobby Dean Bibbee officiating. Burial will follow at the Rocksprtn~s Cemetery, Visitation wtll be held from 6-9 p.m. on Wednesday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Appalachian VNA Hospice, 30 Harrold Ave, Athens, Ohio 45701 or The American Diabetes Association. P.O. Box 1131, Pairfax, VA 22038-1131. Online Condolences may be sent to: www.fisherfuneralhomes.com. POMEROY - Marriage licenses were issued in Meigs County Probate Coun to Kevin Victor Wolfe, 51, and Sharon Elaine Matson, 46. Middleport; Ryan Alan Cozart, 26, Syracuse. aod Kathryn Lee Fuller, 19. Henderson, W.Va.; Robert William Amott, 27. arid Kristen Elizabeth Haley, 21. Thppers Plains; Ryan Eugene King, 22, and Shannon Rae Slisher, 20, Pomeroy ; Jonathan Ray Dailey, 27, and Ttna Dawn Radford, 31, Portland; Jeremy Christopher Bostic, 23, and Jillian Heather Matson, 23, Middleport. Harold Nelson Divorce POMEROY -An action for divorce was filed in Meigs County Common Pleas Court by Danny K. Harrison, Middleport, against Barbara E. Harrison, Columbus. Civil actions POMEROY - Actions for foreclosure were filed in Mei~s County Common Pleas Court by Investment Retnevers, Inc., Westerville, against Mildred Elkins, Portland; Wells Fargo Bank, Fort Mill. S.C., against Melissa D. Jofinson, Reedsville, and others; Chase Home Finance, Columbus, against Jackie P. Cremeans, Middleport, and others; and by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., against Rebecca Ward, Langsville. Highway Patrol CHESTER - Jeremy L. Stanley, 21, 36161 Allen St., Chester, was cited for failure to control by the Gallia-Meigs Post of the State Highway Patrol following a one-car accident Sunday on Ohio 7 at the intersection with Ohio 248. Troopers said Stanley was northbound at 12:50 a.m. when he failed to navigate a right tum onto 248. The car he drove went off the left side of the road, struck a guardrail and came to rest against the guardrail. Stanley was injured and taken to HMC by the EMS. Damage to the car was severe, troopers said. MASON. W.Va. - Harold R. Nelson. 70, of Mason. W.Va., died March II, 2007. at Pleasant Valley Hospital in Point Pleasant, W.Va. · He was a retired Coal Miner from Southern Ohio Coal. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, and a member of Stewart-Johnson VFW Post 9926, United Mine Workers, He was born Nov. 15, 1936, in Boone County, W.Va., son of the late George Preston and Orpha Kuhn Nelson. He was also preceded in death by his brother, Carl AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Nelson. A career prison administraSurviving are his wife . Nancy Holstein Nelson; a son tor apJ?Ointed to head Ohio's and daughter-in-law, Harold "Gene" (Jill) Nelson of juvemle prison system amid Mason; a daughter and son-in-law. Carol (Mike) Lewis of reports of inmate abuse is Rutland: grandchildren: Jimmy Rife and Cheyenna Lewis; visiting Texas this week to his mother-in-law, Grace Pack of Mason; sisters, Virginia advise lawmakers on stabiMestas of Buena Park, Calif., and Anna Lea While of lizing the emballled Texas Mason: sisters and brothers-in-law, Naoma (Boyd) Youth Commission. Burgess of Bob While, W.Va., and Quinnie (Lawrence) Thomas Stickrath look Richmond of Twilight, W.Va.; brother. Arlen Brown of over the Ohio Department Bidwell; and many nieces and nephews. of Youth Servtces in Funeral will be held at II a.m. on Wednesday, March 14, December 2004 after the 2007, at Fogelsong-Thcker Funeral Home in Mason, previous director was W.Va., with Pastor Mike Finnicum officiating. Burial will forced to resign. follow at Graham Cemetery. At the time, six guards Military graveside rites will be performed by VFW Post had been indicted over the 9926 and American Legion Post 140. previous 18 months for sexE-mail condolences to foglesongtucker@myway.com. ual battery and dereliction charges. The agency also faced two federal lawsuits charging that youths were denied legal counsel and that the depanment failed to stop sexual abuse and to provide adequate medical care at a prison for ~iris. Stickrath, 52, satd there LETART. W.Va. - Belinda Bush, 33, Letart. W.Va ., died are parallels between Ohio:s in Hartford , W.Va. on Saturday. March I 0. 2007. situation two years ago and Funeral services are at I p.m ., Thursday, March 15 at the troubles now facing Foglesong-Tucker Funeral Home, Mason, W.Va. with Texas' juvenile prison sysPastor Mike Finnicum officiating. Burial will be in Zerkle Cemetery. Friends may call from 6·9 p.m. on Wednesday tem. State leaders in Texas are scrambling to deal with at the funeral home. claims of sexual abuse of E-mail condolences to foglesongtucker@myway.com, inmates by employees and possible cover-ups within the agency's administration. Black, a Robert spokesman for Gov. Rick .Perry, cited Stickrath's experience "turning around a youth agency that's fallen into disarray." He said REEDSVILLE -John Rice, president of the Eastern Stickrath will be in Austin Local Board of Education, was named to the Ohio School for less than a week. and Boards . Association Southeast Region Executive Committee. The commiuee provides governance and leadership to board members in 18 Ohio counties. including Meigs County. Members are appointed in January. Ohioan to advise Texas lawmakers on improving youth prison system Deaths Belinda Bush . Still getting away with genocide On Feb. 17, the chief prosecutor of the Iniernational Criminal Court, Luis Moreno Ocampo, accused a leading member of the Sudanese government Ahmed Haroun, deputy minister of what Sudan calls humanitarian affairs - of "criminal responsibility" for mass murders, mass rapes and ul/ers to the ediwr are ~relcome. 71u: r should be less other "inhuman · acts" tha11 300 "·ord.,. All lellers are subject ro· ediring. mus/ be against black Muslims in signed, and include address and releplwne number. No Darfur. President Bush ijiJSigrled letters ~rill he p11blished. Letters should be in accurately calls these horgood ta,<te. addressing issues, 1101 persmwliiies. Leuers of rors acts of genocide. tha11ks to orga11izariom a/Ill individ11als wi/11101 be accept· Also charged with these ed for publica/ion. crimes by the International Criminal Court is Ali Kushayb, the primary leader of the Khartoum government's hired Arab militia (USPS 213-960) - the Ja,njaweed, which Reader Services Ohio Valley Publishing have been the frontline perCo. petrators of the mass murCorrection Polley Our main concern in all stories is to Publisheel e-yery attemoon, Monda~ ders and rapes, some of through Friday. 111 Coun Street, which have inclt~ded black be accurate. II you ~now of an error Pomeroy, OMio. Second-class African children. The other in e StOI)', call the newsroom at (140) postage paid at Pomeroy. named ICC target, Haroun, W2·2156. Member: The Associated Press and has been the chief supplier the Oh1o Newspaper AssociatiOn. and paymaster of the Postmeater: Send addr885 correcOur main number Is LETTERS TO THE EDITOR PageA4 Nat tlentoff Netherlands.) Moreover. on Feb, 22, Sudan's monster-in-chief, President Omar Hassan alBashir, was enthusiastically welcomed in Detroit at the national conference of The Nation of Islam - best known for its indisposed leader. Louis Farrak.han. Railing against his critics, Bashir charged them with " lies and imposing solutions that don't respect the dignity of our nation." (In the general's dignified nation, some 450.000 black Muslims in Darfur have thus far been killed or otherwise died as a resu II of the genocide. And Sudan's epidemic of official vioJanjawe~d. This issuance of the war- lence is such that the ICC rants and summonses for investigators gathered their these two heavily docu- evidence by interviewing mented suspects of geno- survivors of the genocide in cide will not end the accel- other countries because it erating pace . of what the was too dangerous for them impotent United Nations to go into Bashir 's bloodhas called the world' s worst soaked riation.) So now. who will bring humanitarian cnsts. Sudan's Minister of Justice troops into Sudan to deliver (as defined by this infa- the criminal court's summous government), monses lo the humanitarian Mohamed Ali at-Mardi, has mini ster and the head of the indignantly declared : Janjaweed, which has ter"The International minated so many lives and Criminal Court has no juris- forced 2.5 million black. diction to try any Sudanese. Muslims into becoming and the Sudanese govern- refugees who are still ment will not allow any attacked by the Janjaweed'' Sudanese to be tried and The -International punished outside of Sudan ... Criminal Court - whi\:h (The lntemation111 Criminal was given the authority to Court is in the Hague . conduct its investigation by the United Nations nity finds the courage to Security Council - has no confront Khartoum's genopolice or army of its own. cidaires for who they are ... Therefore. for a single life there will be no change in to be saved or a single rape Darfur. We will see death to be prevented, the United and suffering stretching out Nations in all its indefinitely before us." Another expert reaction majesty - must, by its rules. persuade Bashir to to the ICC's announcement allow U.N . troops into his was from Dr. Susan Rice, sovereign nation to serve the Stale Department's the warrants. It's like trying . Assistant Secretary of to cajole Hitler into allow- State for African Affairs ing Doctors Without during the Clinton administration (now at the Borders into Auschwitz. In January. the general, Brookings Institution). She who by all logic should told National Public Radio also be served with a sum- on Feb. 27 that since we mons, personally pledged have failed to end the to U.N. Secretary-General genocide, or " physically Ban Kim Moon that he protect those that are being would cooperate with the killed ... it's not sufficient United Nations' proposal to to negotiate. We need to at least send a human· protect the people who are rights team into his digni- dying every day even as fied nation. Since then, as we speak." is his custom, the general As a reporter on the bar-· has reneged on his pledge .. baric National Islamic The U.N. secretary-gener- Front government of Sudan al's reaction is "disappoint- for more than 14 years, I ment." He did not show a see no other end to this determination for the daily genocide, as we United Nations to, at long speak. than military force. last, actually do something But by whom? Is there no to restore some credibility such coalition of willing to that body after all the nations ? If there is not, Security Council's resolu- what does that tell us of the tions and postures of con- world in which we live cern about the!;e atrocities and what has become of us that will soon amass many as Americans'' We. too more corpses than ·have abandoned the Rwanda's genocide. which rema ining black men, the United Nations also did women and children of nothing to slop. Darfur. Has a single presiOn Feb. 27. I 0 days after dential candidate made the International Criminal thoir survival a "priority" Court declared that lY<O or even mentioned them? alleged perpetrators of the ( Na1 Hemoff is a nationgenocide would face trials. ell/\' renow11ed authorirv 011 Eric Reeves - the most lite First Anumdment · and authoritative historian and the Bill of Rights wrd author analyst of Sudan.'s holo- of manv books. includi11g caust wrote on the .. The War 011 the Bill of invaluably reliable daily Righrs and rhe Garhering Resista~ce .. (Seven Stories Sudan Tribune Web site: "U ntil the world commu- Press. 2003 ). Local Briefs Named to committee that Texas will pay only his expenses. He met Monday with Ed Owens, the acting executive director appointed to oversee the agency. "We knew we had to restructure the agency, and it's no secret that Ohio had similar problems," Black said. Stickrath ~::,Placed six of the ei~ht facihty superintendents m Ohio. He also adopted tougher hiring standards and a policy deftning rape and sexual abuse to employees and teaching them how to report misconduct. The department assessed youth prisons 10 figure out where assault could take place. "We looked at every nook and cranny, from a design, use and scheduling P?int of view," Stickralh sa1d. "We asked the question: Have we architecturally or sched· ule-wise designed failure? It doesn't result in a hugely e)(pensive fi)(. It doesn't result in closing down a dormitory. It's this door should be locked or not locked; we need a larger window in this area, maybe a camera. It doesn' l need huge capital investment." Reports from the Correctional ' Institution Inspection Committee show that the Ohio system still ~rapples with problems, mcluding instances of staff members assaulting youths and ftghts between youths. The Daily Sentinel • Page As Ohio governor will try to end certain tax breaks BY MATT LEINGANG ASSOC IATED PRESS WRITER COLUMBUS Gov. Ted Strickland said Monday h~ will propose eliminating some lax breaks and take his first steps toward fixing Ohio's school-funding problem in his upcoming budget. The Democratic gover· nor, whose tirst budget proposal will be released Thursday, said his two-year spending plan will reflect what he considers to be the state's priorities - education, health care and economic development. He was guarded about the speciftcs of his plan at a legislative .preview session for journaltsts organized by The Associated Press. He tried to dampen expectations on repairing Ohio's school funding, which has been deemed unco nstitutional, repeatedly by the Ohio Supreme Court for its heavy ~eliance on property taxes. Republican lawmakers who control the Legislature have been pushing him to propose a schoolfunding plan in his budget. Strickland, who became governor in January, said he hasn't had enough time in office to find a comprehensive solution that everyone can agree on, and money will be tight in the $50 billion-plus budget that helps pay for road projects, parks, · health care for the poor and public universities. Havin~ already p~mised not to ratse taxes or mcrease fees, Strickland said eliminating some tax breaks for businesses or individuals is one way to raise revenue . "We are going to invest in the things that truly matter. ... and in order to do that, we've got to ·have some resources," Strickland said. He will give more details about his plans in his State of the State speech Wednesday, and the ne)(t day he'll release his proposed budget. Strickland has said that overall tax revenues are down, leaving budget planners with $1 billion to $1.5 billion less than projected to spend on government programs, . Republicans will hold off commenting on Strickland's bid to eliminate some tax breaks until they see a specific proposal, said Karen Tabor, a spokeswoman for Speaker John House Husted. BecaUS¥ of budget restrictions, some stale agencies will see funding cuts, Strickland warned. But the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, which oversees the state's prison system, won't be touched, he said. · With an inmate population around 48.500, the state is close lo exceeding its record of 49,100 set in 1998. a troubling statistic that should give lawmakers reason to reevaluate how Ohio handles non~iolent offender>, Strickland said. Ohio aho has millions of tlollars in unspent federal ~rants that welfare Strickland sa td he intends to use to help the poor. "As I've said, we can't do everything in this budget we'd like to do. Now, now can we put some slakes in the ground and show a direction we· d like to move in? I think we can," he said. Strickland reiterated his opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment that would put the school fundin g issue on the November ballot. He said he instead wants the chance to work with the Legislature on a solution. A coalition that includes teachers unions, school boards and other education groups want the amendment to declare a high-quality public education a fundamental right of every Ohio child and gradually reduce the local share of expenses. for schools and increase the stale share. The Legislature's top leaders - House Speaker . Husted. House Democratic Leader Joyce Beatty, Senate President Bill Harris and Democrati c Leader Teresa Fedor - also said Monday that they oppose the amendment. sayi ng it 's too short on details on how to raise money to pay for it. Husted said the billions of dollars the state has S~~fnl on school construction smce 1997 and the academic reforms passed during that time have raised the quality of primary . and secondary education statewide . "We have worked hard to try to change the education outcomes for the children of Ohio," Husted said. "I think we have made ~real progress on that issue.' Beatty lamented that Nathan DeRolph, the plaintiff in the originaii99I lawsuit that led to the Supreme Court's ruling, is now an adult. "He's now 31 ~ears old, but we still haven t gotten it right," Beatty said. Associared Press writer John McCarthy in Columbus co11tributed to Ihis repoi-1. PROUDTOBEA ·• PART OF YOUR LDl Tile DQ!Iy Se~l ' . ~bscribe ro@y • 99Z·Z'1S,$· www.mydailyselllinel.«ll!!!< ' A!!~ March 17 at 8 pm "Remembrance" The Ohio Valley Symphony The band now has 83 says - "that Introducing a FoUowed by child to music is like open- members and the director lri•h Pub Night with ing the door to academic says he foresees growth " Blackbirds and Thrushes" success and providing a les- next year. Dingess credits from PageA1 son in life skills." support from the Board, the Classic Movie The Meigs Local admin- administration and the Band "Meet Me In St. Louis" "We work toward a com- istrative personnel and the Boosters as the reason that March 18 at 2 pm mon goal. learning to deal Board of Education recentthe Marauder Band has The Ariel-Dater Hall with our own inadequacies ly acknowledged that remained competitive over as well as the shortcom- importance with the pur42~~~'~,~:·.\~~~i~~~~?" ings of those around us . chase of $35,000 worth of the years. Band is so very different new instruments which than academic classes will be used for the first where student success is time in the annual spring dependent on the effort concen. and ability of the individPurchased were four ual. For us it is all or noth- tubas, four baritones, two ing . Band di(ectors have mellophones, a ban-saxobeen practicing ·no child phone and a new set of left behind' long before it chimes. Dingess said he became the battle cry for considers the support from educational reform. " the administration and H&R Block Tax Professionals Dingess agrees with the Board as a "vote of confiare ready to help. description of the National dence." Smaller instruAssociation of' Music ments and other needs of Education about music pro- the band are met by tbe With H&R Block, you have more than a company behind you. Band Boosters. grams in schools which You have a one-on-one relationship with one of H&R Block's 90,000 tax prolessionals working lor you. in person. by phone, or via e-mail . and are working overtime across the country." Stop into your nearby H&R Block location listed below. For Those requesting a passother locations call 1-800-HRBLOCK or visit hrblock.corn port should contact from PageA1 Harrison's ontce for an 618 East Main St. application. Once the appliPomeroy, OH 45769 the passport need not worry ~:ation has been completed, Mon-Fri 9 to 6 or contact Pa ssport it should be retumed to her H&RBLOCK Sat. 9-5 Services:· Harrison said. office with two passport 992-6674 "The agency is very busy. photographs. a certified Other Hours by Appointment but are doing their best to copy of the birth ce rtilicate. ensure that nobQdy misses a with a raised seal. and the C '2006 H&~ Slack ServiCeS . Inc trip. They have added staff appropriate application fees . Music Meeting changed · POMEROY - Meigs County Commissioners will meet at 3:30p.m. on Thursday. instead of I p.m. Witherell, Martin to speak POMEROY - Dr. James Witherell, MD and Denise Manin of the Gallia-Jackson-Meigs Board of Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services will be speaking at the Meigs County Community Coalition meeting, 7 p.m .. Thursday, Mulberry Community Center. Witherell will be speaking about opioid addition a~d ~uprenof[)h~ne maintenance treatment wh1le Manto wtll dtscuss sutctde prevention. The coalition is a local group that provides education to parents and students about alcohol and drug abuse in Meigs County. Syracuse from PageA1 chicken barbecue dinner for Larry Lavender: two basket games beld; money raised for London Pool by sponsoring drawings for a gun and Longaberger basket. and a spagheni dinner: public address sys tem purchased . As for the center's best kept secret. Bentley believes its the volunteers with an estimated 1.426 senior volunteer hours logged and what is described as "countless" volunteer hours by nonseniors. There are current· ly around 19 members or the center's board of directors · with an executive board conststmg of Bentley, Fisher as vicepresident, 'Kathy Crow as treasurer, Cathy Moore as secretary. "I hope when people say the 'Syracuse Community Center' they think of a good thing and a positive thing," Bentley said. Passport _.,.._. • �The Daily Sentinel LOCAL • STATE Tuesday, March 13,2007 3.6 earthquake recorded in northeast Ohio Ohio Va lley Chnstian School Elementary students recently completed a moAth-long reading contest directed by the school !1brarian. Ju li a Panss1. Any stude nt com pleting 1 20 minutes of reading time was e nte red into over 50 prize drawings. includ ing certi ficates from local bus inesses s uch as Dairy Quee n. Spring Va ll ey Cine ma . McClure 's Re staura nt , and Super 8 Motel. Among the winners were from the left, front . Katie Westfa ll . Trevor Blank. Natalie Wilcoxon: and back. Juli Pariss i (libranan). Madison Crank, Eric Blevins, Rachel Haddad . and T.G. Miller. Submitted photo Grange banquet plans made SALEM CENTER Final plans for the Meigs County Grange banquel were made when Meigs County Pomona Grange 46 met recent ly at Star Grange Hall. Master Ray Midkiff conducted the meeting. The banquet will be held on Friday April 27 at 7 p.m. at the Drew Webster Post of the American Legion building (former Salisbury PageA6 Elementary School) Tickets '. The subordinate baking are $10 for adults and $8.50 'contest was held with for children and must be Avanel Holliday of Star purchased l)y April 17. Grange receiving first Tickets are available from place and Helen Quivey of Grange Masters Rosalie Hemlock Grange winning Story, Charles Yost, Patty second place . In the junior Dyer and Ray Midkiff. division Olivia Yost of Star Tickets are also available Junior Grange received from Opal Dyer, James and first place. Inspection was held with Barb Fry. Entertainment will be by David Stiffler of Deputy Master Patty Dyer Wilkesville. conducting the inspection and two new members were welcomed into the order. The next meeting will be held on Friday May 4 at Racine Grange Hall. The youth, young adult and junior baking contests will be held. Members are reminded to bring all their pop tabs, eye glasses and Campbell Soup labels to be turned into the state. TWINSBURG (AP) - A small earthquake was felt in the Clevel and area on Monday nig ht and knocked at least one television off its stand - but caused no major damage. The quake was recorded at 7: 18 p.m. about fiv e miles east of Twinsburg . Preliminary data show it registered a magnitude of 3.6, said Michael Hansen, coordinator of the Ohio Seismic Network, a division of the Ohio Department of Natural Re sources that tracks earthquakes. Most reports of feeling the quake have come from Twinsburg, about 16 miles south of Cleveland, and nearby Stow and Aurora, · he said. "This isn't an area where we commonly have earthquakes," Hansen said. Other than the fallen TV, there were no reporls of damage, and Hansen did n't expect any from the minor quake. Hansen had not yet determined which of Ohio's many small fault lines was associated with the quake. The faults are buried deep underground from the formation 800 million years ago o.f a mountain range that has long since worn away. . When the Earth shifts the fault sometimes shifts, caus- ing an earthquake. Ohio' s largest earthquake regi stered 5.4 in 1937 in Shelby County. a rural area be tween To ledo and Dayton . The qu ake toppled chimney s, gravestones and a sc hool in lhe town of Anna. Hansen asked people who felt Monday 's earthquake - Ohio' s second this year - to report their experience on the network 's Web site at http://www.dnr.state .oh.us/ OhioSeis/. TAXES ARE NOT EASY. CHOOSING US IS. . I I • Every return we prepare comes with our Basic Guarantee • We find all the credits & deductions you deserve • FREE electronic filing with paid tax preparation RACINE - Officers acknowledged during the were elected and plans for meeting. spring activities were disAs for the !lower festival, cussed at a recent meeting it will be held at the Park of the Racine Area from I0 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Community Organization kickoff will be the I 0 a.m. held at Star Mi.ll Park. parade through town with The current officers were cash prizes of $50, $30, and retained for another year. $20 to be awarded to winThey are Kathryn Hart , ning entries decorated with president; Melanie Weese, flowers . There will be craft vice president; Ann Zirkle. and food booths as well as treasurer; and Lillian entertainment during the Weese, secretary. afternoon, The !lower festiActivities discussed were val queen will be crowned the RACO !lower festival to at noon at the park. be held on April 28 the Southern High School FAA spring yard sale to be held will be having games for the on May 8. 9 anu 10 at Slar kids , and selling !lowers Mill Park , and the project of and barbecue chicken. giving stuffed animals to There will also be a kiddie the sheriff's departmenl. tractor pull for kids under nursing homes and emer- 75 pounds. The Racine gency squads. Youth baseball league will It was 'noted that money be having opening day from the yard sale to be held activities the same day. at Star Mill Park is used tor It was reported that the scholarships tor Southern RACO scholarship applicaHigh School graduate>. tions were delivered to Money from Terri Shain to southern High School on purchase of stuffed animals Thursday. Hart and Melanie and bears contributed by Weese met with the students Abby Cummins were to hand applications to the seniors planing on furthering their education beyond the high school level. Extra applications were left at the school office. Applications are to be turned into the guidance counselor by April 27. There will be several RACO scholarships of $500 each, three Edison Brace Memorial Scholarships · of $500 each, one Jim Adams Memorial Scholarship of $500; one Frank Cleland · Memorial Scholarship of $500; a David B. Sayre Memorial · Scholarship of $500; three Cruisin' Saturday Night Car Show Scholarships of $600 each sponsored by Hill's Classic Cars and Racine Home National Bank. Officers' reports were given and thank you cards read from the Southern athletic Boosters and Jean Alkire. Libby Fisher gave the blessing before the potluck meal. David Zirkle led in the pledge to the !lag to close the meeting attended by 14 members. Call 1-IOO.:ZJ4.1040 •>t w.r....w.j«t~u.com YO:II ,yt_."' J "t ~.,...,,., ~NQI)lfJI'fll1 Grange plans participation in Relay ' SALEM CENTER Plans to participate in the Meigs County Relay for . Life walk June 8-9 at the Meigs County Fairgrounds wer,e made when Star Grange 778 met recently at the ball. ' Linda Montgomery is cfutrman of the team and ·announced that luminaries may be purchased for $10. She also noted that two names can be put on each one. She also had candy bars to distribute for sale. . ,t'tnat plans for a soup dinner to be held on Sunday March 25 were made during the meeting cond1,1cted by Patty Dyer, master. Serving will be from II a.m. until 2 p.m. at the hall. The public is invited to attend and there will be entertainment beginning at noon. . The 41 and over and any age opening and closing teams practiced for the state contest to be held on March 17 at Friendly Hills Grange Camp. All grangers are invited to attend and watch teams from all over the state participate. Youth Chairperson Janis Macomber announced the Sheriff says Norlolk Southern employee struck an~ killed by train PIKETON (AP) - A rail- nounced dead by d:te county road worker was struck and coroner, aod the body was killed by a irain Monday in taken to Hamilton County for PiKe County in southern an autopsy, Travis said Ohio, authorities said. The victim's name was l'he victim was an being withheld until relaemp~oyee of Norfolk tives could be notified. Soulhein Railway, Pike . A message seeking addiCounty Sheriff Larry Travis tiona( details was left said in a statement. The Monday night at the sher.Satavia man was struck by iff's office. a · ·northbolind Norfolk Rudy Husband, a Southern tfllin while he was spokesman for Norfolk working on a piece of Southern Corp., conflfllled equipment, Travis said. Monday night that a company Officers from .the sheriffs , employee was killed around department and the Piketon II am. when he was struck police department were called by a Norfolk Southern train in to the"' scene at about II a.m. Pike Coullly. Husband said he Monday. The victim was pro- had no additional comment. Eastern region workshop will be held Apnil 13-15 in f11aryland. will be here Friday, March 23, 2007 Supplement to:· Point Pleasant Register Gallipolis Daily Tribune The Daily Sentinel • Hardware • Paint • Construction • Banks • Furniture • Carpet • Wallpaper •Insurance Reds blank Blue Jays, Page B2 Women's NCAA bracket, Page 82 'l\Jesday, March 13, 2007 OHSAA ScHEDULE Girts Basketball Final Four • Appliances • Electrical • Plumbing • And More ... Ul (740) 446-1341 (740) 992-1155 (304) 675-1333 """"'m Office of Economic and Workforce Development DIVISION Ill Versailles (23-3} vs. Cle. Cent. Cath (24-1), Thursday. 1 p.m.: Delphos St. John's (2 4· 1) vs . Albany Alexander (24· DIVISION IV Bedford CMnel (18-7) vs. New Knoxville (21 ·4), Friday, 1 p.m.; Ottovil)e Three Ohio schools get their marching orders from NCAA COLUMBUS Ohio will be the epicenter of the women's basketball universe this spring. Not only is a NCAA tournament regional round at the University of Dayton and the Final Four at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, but three teams from the Buckeye state No. 8 Ohio State, No. 20 Bowling Green and Xavier - were invited to the tournament on Monday night. The Buckeyes , regularseason champs of the Big Ten, dropped from a possible I or 2 seed just a few days ago to a No. 4. They must travel across the country to play Mari't on Saturday night at 10 p.m . in Palo Alto, Calif. Impacting their placement was a season-ending Achilles' tendon injury to second-leading scorer Brandie Hoskins. and a tlat performance against Purdue m the Big Ten title game in which the~ fell behind 21-0 before losmg 64-52. The Buckeyes h<1d beaten the Boilermakers on their own home lloor, yel Purdue received a No. 2 seed. Other Ohio schools were happier with where they were going and who they were playing . Bowling Green (29-3) , regular-season and tournament champions of the MidAmerican Conference, drew a first -round game against Oklahoma State (20- 10) in East Lansing, Mich. The Falcons are making their eighth trip to the NCAAs while the Cowgirls haven't received an invitation in II years. Xavier (26- 7), which captured the Atlantic 10 tournament title, takes on West Virginia (20-10) in Austin. Texas, on Saturday. The Mountaineers are making only their second NCAA appearance in the last 15 years. The Musketeers are making their sixth appearance in the tournament. The Buckeyes came into the night thinking they would settle for a No. 3 seed and were hopeful they might be able to play close to nome. Neither of those wishes came tnoe. "I'm kind of shocked," ~-n\IIU - sportsOmydailysent1nel.com SoortJ Staff Brad Sherman, Sports Editor ~ ::' ing national c h a mpi o n , jump e d from sixth to third afte r b eat in g Arkansas 111 the Southeastern Conference championship game. North Carohna (28-6), which beat North Carolina State in the Atlantic Coast Conference title game, moved from eighth to fourth. Memphi s. Wisconsin. UCLA, Georgetown, Texas A&M and Orego n rounded o ut th e top I 0. · Texas moved up four spots to I I lh auu was followed by Pitt sburg h. Washington State. Southern Illinois. Nevada, Louisville, Notre Dame, Maryland, UNLV and M<~rque ue . The last fiv e tea ms were Butler, Winthrop. Southern California, BYU and Tennessee . Duke (22- 10), which was 2 1st last week, fell out of the rankings after losing to BY ToM WITHERS Fu -1 -740-446-3008 . first -place vole a nd 1.7lJlJ points from the 7 c-mcmber national medi a pc111cl. It is the third time Ohio S1me fi nished No. I in the linal poll. Both other time s, llJ6 1 anu 1962, the Buckeye' Jo,t to Cincinnati in the nat io nal championship game. Kansas (30-4 ), which beat · Texa~ in overtime Sunday to win the Big 12 tournament, received the other No. I vote and had 1,718 points in staying second. Florida (29-5), the defend- James soaring along with Cavaliers 6 p.m.; Warsaw River View (24-1) 'JS. Cols. Eastmoor (19-4 ), Thursday, 8 p.m. Championship Saturday at 2 p. m. 1-74Q-446·2342 ext. 33 HEALTH SY S T E M S O'CONNEU DIVISION I Stow-Munroe Falls (23-3) vs. Pk:kerington N. (22·3), Friday, 6 p.m.: Findlay (21 -4} vs. Cin. Mt. Notre Dame 121 -4) , Friday. 8 p.m. Championship Saturday at 8.30 p.m. DIVISION N Sandusky Perkms (2 1·3) vs. Shaker Hts. Hathawa~ Brown (21·4), Thursday, OVP Sco~lne ts p.m.·1 o.m.) Bank JtM Friday, 3 p.m Championship Saturday al 5:15 p.m. 2), Thursday, 3 p.m. Champtonsh ip Satu rday at 10.45 a.m. CoNrAcrUs HeLZER BY Ohio State , Kan sas, Florida and North Carolina - the No. I seeds in the NCAA tournament - held the top four spots in the final Associated Press college basketball poll Monday. The Buckeyes (30-3 ), who beat Wisconsin in the Big Ten championship game on Sunday, were No. I in the Top 25 for the third straight week, receiving all but one . P11ue ... Ohio. 11 Home National Ohio State No.1 in finalAPmen's poll ASSOCIATED PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS 2007 HOME IMPROVEMENT EDITION DON'T M-ISS OUT ON THIS.... Marshall Ores Jirsa, Page 82 Bv Rusn MILl.ER Of Bl The Daily Sentinel (21 -4) vs. Cots. Atricentric (25·1), HmH BIPRO\HIE\T RACO holds meeting Inside (740) 446-2342. ext. 33 bshermanOmydailytribune.com llll'fY Crum, Sports Writer 1740) 446-2342. ext. 23 lcrum@mydailyregister.com Bryan Walters, Sports Writer (740) 446-2342. ext. 33 bwallers O mydailytribune.com ASSOCIATED PRE SS CLEVELAND LeBron James has shifted into a higher gear - warp speed. Entering the stretch run of his fourth season as a pro, James has taken his splendid, all-around game to another level, and brought the Cleveland Cavaliers along with him. Criticized earlier this season for being lackadaisical, missing too many free throws, not coming through in the clutch and not owning an NBA championship ring like superstar pal Dwyane Wade, James .is playing perhaps the best basketball of his life. Since the All-Star break No. 23 has been unstoppable . "He played well last year too," Cavaliers coach Mike Brown said before Sunday's win over Indiana. "But in terms of putting it all together, in this last stretch of games, he's been playing very, very well." Lately, nobody has been better. Among his most memorable March moments: A 41-point. eightassist. seven-rebound effort in leading the Cavs to their ftrst win at Detreit in three years . - Scoring 16 of his 32 poinls in lhe fourth quarter on Saturday and setting up Anderson Varejao's gamewinning shot in the final seconds for a win in Milwaukee. - Recording 32 points. 12 rebounds and eight assists in a victory over Houston. - Making 15-of-17 free throws and scoring 36 points in 38 minutes to beat Toronto. Pleue see James, Bl North Caro lin a State in lhe ACC tourna men t. the Blue Devil s: 1h ird straight loss. Thi s i' the fiN time since 19lJ7 Duke was not in 1he li mo! poll . They fini , hed No. I -fi ve limes - 1999-2002 and last season. The Blue Dev ils al so fell oul of the rankings for one wee k last month ending a streak of 200 consecutive poll s. the second-longest streak ever behind UCLA's Niagara, Florida A&Mnot embracing play-in role Bv J..MES H..NNAH A. SSOCIATED PRESS AP photo Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James (23) Jumps high toward the basket against Indiana Pacers' Troy Murphy (3) in the second quarter in an NBA basketball game Sunday in Cleveland. DAYTON - It 's a game no NCAA lournament team believes it should be in the play-in game that tills out the field of 64. This year. Florida A&M and Niag<~ra are feeling insulted they have to play Tuesday night for a chance 10 take on Kansas, the top seeu in the West Regional. on Friday in Chicago. "If we 're the 65th best team in this tournament this year, I hat surprises me." Florida A&M coach Mike Gillespie saiu Monday of his Mid-Eastern Athlelic Conference tournament champions. "I don't think that's possible." Niagara. meanwhile, took ils cue from coach Joe Mihalich. who said Sunday night: "Let me be diplomatic here : I'm confused." "We feel disrespected. " Niagara fqrward Charron Fisher said. 'Tm sure you'll be able 10 see when we play on Tuesday how disrespected we feel." Florida A&M brings a 21- I 3 record inlo the game afler beating Delaware State in the MEAC title game. while Niagara <2211 ) beat Siena in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference title game for its II th straight victory. For the Rattlers, this is the second time they've been lossed inlu the play-in ganie . In 2004. Gillespie wached Florida A&M to win over Lehigh to earn a Please see Play-in, Bl NCAA Women's Tournament Duke, Tennessee, Connecticut, North Carolina earn No. 1 seeds 8v DoUG fEtiiBERG ASSOCI ATED PRES S Duke, Tennessee . Connecticut and North Carolina were selected Monday as the No. I seeds for the w.o men's NCAA tournament. The Blue Devils, who went 29-0 in the regular season and then lost to N.C. State in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament semifinals. will open up against No. 16 Holy Cross on Sunday in Raleigh. With a regional in Greensboro. Duke would stay in North Carolina until the Final Four in Cleveland. The 64-team tournament begins Saturday. "We ' re really excited . We' re playing all year long , hoping to get a chance to stay in Raleigh, and stay in Greensboro which is about an hour and IS minutes down the road," Duke coach Gail Goestenkors said. Duke. ranked atop the AP Poll for the final nine weeks, hopes for better re sults than the last time the Blue Devils linished No. I - the 200304 linal poll. They lost to Minnesota in the regional tinals that season. Others in the Greensboro regional are No. 8 Temple vs. No. 9 Nebraska. No. 4 Rutgers vs. No. 12 East Carolina, No. 5 Michigan State vs. No. 12 Delaware. No. 6 Louisville vs . No. II Brigham Young , No. 3 Arizona State vs . No. 14 UC Riverside. No. 7 Bowling Green vs. No. I 0 OklahomJI State, and No. 2 Vanderbilt vs. No. 15 Delaware State. In the West. LSU. which saw Pokey Chatman abrupt' ly resign last Wednesday. is seeded No. 3 in the Fresno region. Former wach Chatman was not allowed to be alone with her players after an assistant reported alleged improper conduct to the uni versity in February. a school official with direct knowl edge of the matter told The Associated " Press on Monday. The universitv reacted promptly and properly to assistant coach Carla Berry 's allegations. said the official. who asked to relnain anonymous because it was a personnel matter. The Tigers will play UNC Asheville on Friday night in Austin . Texas with acting head coach Bob Starkey at the helm. · "The kids have done a wonderfu I joh... Starkey said. 'They are a very resilient bunch . They have been throuoh difficult times with Sue Cfunter's death and Hurricane Katrina ... The defending champion Marylanu Terrapons woll face Ivy League champion Harvard on Sunday afternoon in Hartford. Marybmd, which returned all ftve starters from last season's team. was 0-5 against Duke and North Carolina this season . The Terps are looking t(' be<:ome the first repeat champions since Connecticut won three straight from 2002-04 . "The ()nl y team that 's Pluse see WOmen, 11 AP photo Duke's Abby Waner (4 ) drive s to the oasket as No rth Carol ina State 's Marque tta Dicke ns . left . and Shayla Fields defend during the f~rst half of an AC C Tourn a ment s emi-final college basketba·ll game 1n Greensboro. N.C. The Lady Blue Devil s. Connect 1c ut. No rth Caro lina and Tennessee were all named number one seeds 1n the women 's tournament. �The Daily Sentinel LOCAL • STATE Tuesday, March 13,2007 3.6 earthquake recorded in northeast Ohio Ohio Va lley Chnstian School Elementary students recently completed a moAth-long reading contest directed by the school !1brarian. Ju li a Panss1. Any stude nt com pleting 1 20 minutes of reading time was e nte red into over 50 prize drawings. includ ing certi ficates from local bus inesses s uch as Dairy Quee n. Spring Va ll ey Cine ma . McClure 's Re staura nt , and Super 8 Motel. Among the winners were from the left, front . Katie Westfa ll . Trevor Blank. Natalie Wilcoxon: and back. Juli Pariss i (libranan). Madison Crank, Eric Blevins, Rachel Haddad . and T.G. Miller. Submitted photo Grange banquet plans made SALEM CENTER Final plans for the Meigs County Grange banquel were made when Meigs County Pomona Grange 46 met recent ly at Star Grange Hall. Master Ray Midkiff conducted the meeting. The banquet will be held on Friday April 27 at 7 p.m. at the Drew Webster Post of the American Legion building (former Salisbury PageA6 Elementary School) Tickets '. The subordinate baking are $10 for adults and $8.50 'contest was held with for children and must be Avanel Holliday of Star purchased l)y April 17. Grange receiving first Tickets are available from place and Helen Quivey of Grange Masters Rosalie Hemlock Grange winning Story, Charles Yost, Patty second place . In the junior Dyer and Ray Midkiff. division Olivia Yost of Star Tickets are also available Junior Grange received from Opal Dyer, James and first place. Inspection was held with Barb Fry. Entertainment will be by David Stiffler of Deputy Master Patty Dyer Wilkesville. conducting the inspection and two new members were welcomed into the order. The next meeting will be held on Friday May 4 at Racine Grange Hall. The youth, young adult and junior baking contests will be held. Members are reminded to bring all their pop tabs, eye glasses and Campbell Soup labels to be turned into the state. TWINSBURG (AP) - A small earthquake was felt in the Clevel and area on Monday nig ht and knocked at least one television off its stand - but caused no major damage. The quake was recorded at 7: 18 p.m. about fiv e miles east of Twinsburg . Preliminary data show it registered a magnitude of 3.6, said Michael Hansen, coordinator of the Ohio Seismic Network, a division of the Ohio Department of Natural Re sources that tracks earthquakes. Most reports of feeling the quake have come from Twinsburg, about 16 miles south of Cleveland, and nearby Stow and Aurora, · he said. "This isn't an area where we commonly have earthquakes," Hansen said. Other than the fallen TV, there were no reporls of damage, and Hansen did n't expect any from the minor quake. Hansen had not yet determined which of Ohio's many small fault lines was associated with the quake. The faults are buried deep underground from the formation 800 million years ago o.f a mountain range that has long since worn away. . When the Earth shifts the fault sometimes shifts, caus- ing an earthquake. Ohio' s largest earthquake regi stered 5.4 in 1937 in Shelby County. a rural area be tween To ledo and Dayton . The qu ake toppled chimney s, gravestones and a sc hool in lhe town of Anna. Hansen asked people who felt Monday 's earthquake - Ohio' s second this year - to report their experience on the network 's Web site at http://www.dnr.state .oh.us/ OhioSeis/. TAXES ARE NOT EASY. CHOOSING US IS. . I I • Every return we prepare comes with our Basic Guarantee • We find all the credits & deductions you deserve • FREE electronic filing with paid tax preparation RACINE - Officers acknowledged during the were elected and plans for meeting. spring activities were disAs for the !lower festival, cussed at a recent meeting it will be held at the Park of the Racine Area from I0 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Community Organization kickoff will be the I 0 a.m. held at Star Mi.ll Park. parade through town with The current officers were cash prizes of $50, $30, and retained for another year. $20 to be awarded to winThey are Kathryn Hart , ning entries decorated with president; Melanie Weese, flowers . There will be craft vice president; Ann Zirkle. and food booths as well as treasurer; and Lillian entertainment during the Weese, secretary. afternoon, The !lower festiActivities discussed were val queen will be crowned the RACO !lower festival to at noon at the park. be held on April 28 the Southern High School FAA spring yard sale to be held will be having games for the on May 8. 9 anu 10 at Slar kids , and selling !lowers Mill Park , and the project of and barbecue chicken. giving stuffed animals to There will also be a kiddie the sheriff's departmenl. tractor pull for kids under nursing homes and emer- 75 pounds. The Racine gency squads. Youth baseball league will It was 'noted that money be having opening day from the yard sale to be held activities the same day. at Star Mill Park is used tor It was reported that the scholarships tor Southern RACO scholarship applicaHigh School graduate>. tions were delivered to Money from Terri Shain to southern High School on purchase of stuffed animals Thursday. Hart and Melanie and bears contributed by Weese met with the students Abby Cummins were to hand applications to the seniors planing on furthering their education beyond the high school level. Extra applications were left at the school office. Applications are to be turned into the guidance counselor by April 27. There will be several RACO scholarships of $500 each, three Edison Brace Memorial Scholarships · of $500 each, one Jim Adams Memorial Scholarship of $500; one Frank Cleland · Memorial Scholarship of $500; a David B. Sayre Memorial · Scholarship of $500; three Cruisin' Saturday Night Car Show Scholarships of $600 each sponsored by Hill's Classic Cars and Racine Home National Bank. Officers' reports were given and thank you cards read from the Southern athletic Boosters and Jean Alkire. Libby Fisher gave the blessing before the potluck meal. David Zirkle led in the pledge to the !lag to close the meeting attended by 14 members. Call 1-IOO.:ZJ4.1040 •>t w.r....w.j«t~u.com YO:II ,yt_."' J "t ~.,...,,., ~NQI)lfJI'fll1 Grange plans participation in Relay ' SALEM CENTER Plans to participate in the Meigs County Relay for . Life walk June 8-9 at the Meigs County Fairgrounds wer,e made when Star Grange 778 met recently at the ball. ' Linda Montgomery is cfutrman of the team and ·announced that luminaries may be purchased for $10. She also noted that two names can be put on each one. She also had candy bars to distribute for sale. . ,t'tnat plans for a soup dinner to be held on Sunday March 25 were made during the meeting cond1,1cted by Patty Dyer, master. Serving will be from II a.m. until 2 p.m. at the hall. The public is invited to attend and there will be entertainment beginning at noon. . The 41 and over and any age opening and closing teams practiced for the state contest to be held on March 17 at Friendly Hills Grange Camp. All grangers are invited to attend and watch teams from all over the state participate. Youth Chairperson Janis Macomber announced the Sheriff says Norlolk Southern employee struck an~ killed by train PIKETON (AP) - A rail- nounced dead by d:te county road worker was struck and coroner, aod the body was killed by a irain Monday in taken to Hamilton County for PiKe County in southern an autopsy, Travis said Ohio, authorities said. The victim's name was l'he victim was an being withheld until relaemp~oyee of Norfolk tives could be notified. Soulhein Railway, Pike . A message seeking addiCounty Sheriff Larry Travis tiona( details was left said in a statement. The Monday night at the sher.Satavia man was struck by iff's office. a · ·northbolind Norfolk Rudy Husband, a Southern tfllin while he was spokesman for Norfolk working on a piece of Southern Corp., conflfllled equipment, Travis said. Monday night that a company Officers from .the sheriffs , employee was killed around department and the Piketon II am. when he was struck police department were called by a Norfolk Southern train in to the"' scene at about II a.m. Pike Coullly. Husband said he Monday. The victim was pro- had no additional comment. Eastern region workshop will be held Apnil 13-15 in f11aryland. will be here Friday, March 23, 2007 Supplement to:· Point Pleasant Register Gallipolis Daily Tribune The Daily Sentinel • Hardware • Paint • Construction • Banks • Furniture • Carpet • Wallpaper •Insurance Reds blank Blue Jays, Page B2 Women's NCAA bracket, Page 82 'l\Jesday, March 13, 2007 OHSAA ScHEDULE Girts Basketball Final Four • Appliances • Electrical • Plumbing • And More ... Ul (740) 446-1341 (740) 992-1155 (304) 675-1333 """"'m Office of Economic and Workforce Development DIVISION Ill Versailles (23-3} vs. Cle. Cent. Cath (24-1), Thursday. 1 p.m.: Delphos St. John's (2 4· 1) vs . Albany Alexander (24· DIVISION IV Bedford CMnel (18-7) vs. New Knoxville (21 ·4), Friday, 1 p.m.; Ottovil)e Three Ohio schools get their marching orders from NCAA COLUMBUS Ohio will be the epicenter of the women's basketball universe this spring. Not only is a NCAA tournament regional round at the University of Dayton and the Final Four at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, but three teams from the Buckeye state No. 8 Ohio State, No. 20 Bowling Green and Xavier - were invited to the tournament on Monday night. The Buckeyes , regularseason champs of the Big Ten, dropped from a possible I or 2 seed just a few days ago to a No. 4. They must travel across the country to play Mari't on Saturday night at 10 p.m . in Palo Alto, Calif. Impacting their placement was a season-ending Achilles' tendon injury to second-leading scorer Brandie Hoskins. and a tlat performance against Purdue m the Big Ten title game in which the~ fell behind 21-0 before losmg 64-52. The Buckeyes h<1d beaten the Boilermakers on their own home lloor, yel Purdue received a No. 2 seed. Other Ohio schools were happier with where they were going and who they were playing . Bowling Green (29-3) , regular-season and tournament champions of the MidAmerican Conference, drew a first -round game against Oklahoma State (20- 10) in East Lansing, Mich. The Falcons are making their eighth trip to the NCAAs while the Cowgirls haven't received an invitation in II years. Xavier (26- 7), which captured the Atlantic 10 tournament title, takes on West Virginia (20-10) in Austin. Texas, on Saturday. The Mountaineers are making only their second NCAA appearance in the last 15 years. The Musketeers are making their sixth appearance in the tournament. The Buckeyes came into the night thinking they would settle for a No. 3 seed and were hopeful they might be able to play close to nome. Neither of those wishes came tnoe. "I'm kind of shocked," ~-n\IIU - sportsOmydailysent1nel.com SoortJ Staff Brad Sherman, Sports Editor ~ ::' ing national c h a mpi o n , jump e d from sixth to third afte r b eat in g Arkansas 111 the Southeastern Conference championship game. North Carohna (28-6), which beat North Carolina State in the Atlantic Coast Conference title game, moved from eighth to fourth. Memphi s. Wisconsin. UCLA, Georgetown, Texas A&M and Orego n rounded o ut th e top I 0. · Texas moved up four spots to I I lh auu was followed by Pitt sburg h. Washington State. Southern Illinois. Nevada, Louisville, Notre Dame, Maryland, UNLV and M<~rque ue . The last fiv e tea ms were Butler, Winthrop. Southern California, BYU and Tennessee . Duke (22- 10), which was 2 1st last week, fell out of the rankings after losing to BY ToM WITHERS Fu -1 -740-446-3008 . first -place vole a nd 1.7lJlJ points from the 7 c-mcmber national medi a pc111cl. It is the third time Ohio S1me fi nished No. I in the linal poll. Both other time s, llJ6 1 anu 1962, the Buckeye' Jo,t to Cincinnati in the nat io nal championship game. Kansas (30-4 ), which beat · Texa~ in overtime Sunday to win the Big 12 tournament, received the other No. I vote and had 1,718 points in staying second. Florida (29-5), the defend- James soaring along with Cavaliers 6 p.m.; Warsaw River View (24-1) 'JS. Cols. Eastmoor (19-4 ), Thursday, 8 p.m. Championship Saturday at 2 p. m. 1-74Q-446·2342 ext. 33 HEALTH SY S T E M S O'CONNEU DIVISION I Stow-Munroe Falls (23-3) vs. Pk:kerington N. (22·3), Friday, 6 p.m.: Findlay (21 -4} vs. Cin. Mt. Notre Dame 121 -4) , Friday. 8 p.m. Championship Saturday at 8.30 p.m. DIVISION N Sandusky Perkms (2 1·3) vs. Shaker Hts. Hathawa~ Brown (21·4), Thursday, OVP Sco~lne ts p.m.·1 o.m.) Bank JtM Friday, 3 p.m Championship Saturday al 5:15 p.m. 2), Thursday, 3 p.m. Champtonsh ip Satu rday at 10.45 a.m. CoNrAcrUs HeLZER BY Ohio State , Kan sas, Florida and North Carolina - the No. I seeds in the NCAA tournament - held the top four spots in the final Associated Press college basketball poll Monday. The Buckeyes (30-3 ), who beat Wisconsin in the Big Ten championship game on Sunday, were No. I in the Top 25 for the third straight week, receiving all but one . P11ue ... Ohio. 11 Home National Ohio State No.1 in finalAPmen's poll ASSOCIATED PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS 2007 HOME IMPROVEMENT EDITION DON'T M-ISS OUT ON THIS.... Marshall Ores Jirsa, Page 82 Bv Rusn MILl.ER Of Bl The Daily Sentinel (21 -4) vs. Cots. Atricentric (25·1), HmH BIPRO\HIE\T RACO holds meeting Inside (740) 446-2342. ext. 33 bshermanOmydailytribune.com llll'fY Crum, Sports Writer 1740) 446-2342. ext. 23 lcrum@mydailyregister.com Bryan Walters, Sports Writer (740) 446-2342. ext. 33 bwallers O mydailytribune.com ASSOCIATED PRE SS CLEVELAND LeBron James has shifted into a higher gear - warp speed. Entering the stretch run of his fourth season as a pro, James has taken his splendid, all-around game to another level, and brought the Cleveland Cavaliers along with him. Criticized earlier this season for being lackadaisical, missing too many free throws, not coming through in the clutch and not owning an NBA championship ring like superstar pal Dwyane Wade, James .is playing perhaps the best basketball of his life. Since the All-Star break No. 23 has been unstoppable . "He played well last year too," Cavaliers coach Mike Brown said before Sunday's win over Indiana. "But in terms of putting it all together, in this last stretch of games, he's been playing very, very well." Lately, nobody has been better. Among his most memorable March moments: A 41-point. eightassist. seven-rebound effort in leading the Cavs to their ftrst win at Detreit in three years . - Scoring 16 of his 32 poinls in lhe fourth quarter on Saturday and setting up Anderson Varejao's gamewinning shot in the final seconds for a win in Milwaukee. - Recording 32 points. 12 rebounds and eight assists in a victory over Houston. - Making 15-of-17 free throws and scoring 36 points in 38 minutes to beat Toronto. Pleue see James, Bl North Caro lin a State in lhe ACC tourna men t. the Blue Devil s: 1h ird straight loss. Thi s i' the fiN time since 19lJ7 Duke was not in 1he li mo! poll . They fini , hed No. I -fi ve limes - 1999-2002 and last season. The Blue Dev ils al so fell oul of the rankings for one wee k last month ending a streak of 200 consecutive poll s. the second-longest streak ever behind UCLA's Niagara, Florida A&Mnot embracing play-in role Bv J..MES H..NNAH A. SSOCIATED PRESS AP photo Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James (23) Jumps high toward the basket against Indiana Pacers' Troy Murphy (3) in the second quarter in an NBA basketball game Sunday in Cleveland. DAYTON - It 's a game no NCAA lournament team believes it should be in the play-in game that tills out the field of 64. This year. Florida A&M and Niag<~ra are feeling insulted they have to play Tuesday night for a chance 10 take on Kansas, the top seeu in the West Regional. on Friday in Chicago. "If we 're the 65th best team in this tournament this year, I hat surprises me." Florida A&M coach Mike Gillespie saiu Monday of his Mid-Eastern Athlelic Conference tournament champions. "I don't think that's possible." Niagara. meanwhile, took ils cue from coach Joe Mihalich. who said Sunday night: "Let me be diplomatic here : I'm confused." "We feel disrespected. " Niagara fqrward Charron Fisher said. 'Tm sure you'll be able 10 see when we play on Tuesday how disrespected we feel." Florida A&M brings a 21- I 3 record inlo the game afler beating Delaware State in the MEAC title game. while Niagara <2211 ) beat Siena in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference title game for its II th straight victory. For the Rattlers, this is the second time they've been lossed inlu the play-in ganie . In 2004. Gillespie wached Florida A&M to win over Lehigh to earn a Please see Play-in, Bl NCAA Women's Tournament Duke, Tennessee, Connecticut, North Carolina earn No. 1 seeds 8v DoUG fEtiiBERG ASSOCI ATED PRES S Duke, Tennessee . Connecticut and North Carolina were selected Monday as the No. I seeds for the w.o men's NCAA tournament. The Blue Devils, who went 29-0 in the regular season and then lost to N.C. State in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament semifinals. will open up against No. 16 Holy Cross on Sunday in Raleigh. With a regional in Greensboro. Duke would stay in North Carolina until the Final Four in Cleveland. The 64-team tournament begins Saturday. "We ' re really excited . We' re playing all year long , hoping to get a chance to stay in Raleigh, and stay in Greensboro which is about an hour and IS minutes down the road," Duke coach Gail Goestenkors said. Duke. ranked atop the AP Poll for the final nine weeks, hopes for better re sults than the last time the Blue Devils linished No. I - the 200304 linal poll. They lost to Minnesota in the regional tinals that season. Others in the Greensboro regional are No. 8 Temple vs. No. 9 Nebraska. No. 4 Rutgers vs. No. 12 East Carolina, No. 5 Michigan State vs. No. 12 Delaware. No. 6 Louisville vs . No. II Brigham Young , No. 3 Arizona State vs . No. 14 UC Riverside. No. 7 Bowling Green vs. No. I 0 OklahomJI State, and No. 2 Vanderbilt vs. No. 15 Delaware State. In the West. LSU. which saw Pokey Chatman abrupt' ly resign last Wednesday. is seeded No. 3 in the Fresno region. Former wach Chatman was not allowed to be alone with her players after an assistant reported alleged improper conduct to the uni versity in February. a school official with direct knowl edge of the matter told The Associated " Press on Monday. The universitv reacted promptly and properly to assistant coach Carla Berry 's allegations. said the official. who asked to relnain anonymous because it was a personnel matter. The Tigers will play UNC Asheville on Friday night in Austin . Texas with acting head coach Bob Starkey at the helm. · "The kids have done a wonderfu I joh... Starkey said. 'They are a very resilient bunch . They have been throuoh difficult times with Sue Cfunter's death and Hurricane Katrina ... The defending champion Marylanu Terrapons woll face Ivy League champion Harvard on Sunday afternoon in Hartford. Marybmd, which returned all ftve starters from last season's team. was 0-5 against Duke and North Carolina this season . The Terps are looking t(' be<:ome the first repeat champions since Connecticut won three straight from 2002-04 . "The ()nl y team that 's Pluse see WOmen, 11 AP photo Duke's Abby Waner (4 ) drive s to the oasket as No rth Carol ina State 's Marque tta Dicke ns . left . and Shayla Fields defend during the f~rst half of an AC C Tourn a ment s emi-final college basketba·ll game 1n Greensboro. N.C. The Lady Blue Devil s. Connect 1c ut. No rth Caro lina and Tennessee were all named number one seeds 1n the women 's tournament. �< Page B2 • The Daily Sentinel wWw.mydailysentinel.com , Tuesday, March 13.2007 I """"Caroina (:Il-3) - - 30 mins_ aftef 8 vs.. 9 Ptane VteN (19--13) 1 _::.1:!___ ~ .Tuesday, March 13, 2007 www.mydallysentinel.com ~ribune Comoctcul(2!>-3) nW'lS. after 8 vs. 9 t. UMBC (t6-t6) -Com f'l1ISbulltl - Sentinel - l\e CLASSIFIED New MexicO (24-8) Sun.. 7 p.m The Daily Sentinel • Page 83 w..-or- Bay (211-3) Raloogh, N.C. ooon:·.".·c. 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" We appreciate the contributions that Ron has made and we wish him the best," Marcum said in a prepared statement. A search committee is being formed, he said. Jirsa was an assistant to HOW HI WRUE AM AD M"nn' 'FP' (21-10) - .Com. e.&1 Lorolng, Micl1. ....,_K (27-5) Sun noon t···· · ··-··-········· ········-······· Delaware St. (20- t2) Janles fromPageBl Before being held to 26 points - he sat out a chunk of the founh quaner against the Pacers, Jame~ had scored at least 32 points in six straight games and not fewer than 29 in I 0 in a row. He's averaging a leaguebest 33.3 points on 53 percent shooting since Feb. 15 for the surging Cavaliers. who have won five straight to push their record to a season-best· 13 games over .500. *POLICIES* AP Women Play-in Ohio osu mates are putting me in a comfort level to help me succeed. "I've been able to go out there and do some things that I couldn't do early on." For much of the ftrst three months of the season, James was not James, and the Cavaliers did not play like the team that pushed Detroit to a Game 7 in the conference semitinals last year or one with NBA title aspirations. Earlier this season, James was settling for jump shots instead of attacking the rim, >omething he does as well as anyone. His usual firststep quickness wasn't there ' I and he didn't have the customary spring in his legs. He appeared worn out after spending pan of his summer playing for the U.S. team in the world championships in Japan. James denied being fatigued. But his statistics said otherwise. The 22-year-old also missed three games in late January with a sprained right big toe, an injury he feared would linger all season. He refused to use it as an excuse, but it was obvi-, ous that he wasn't right. His suspect free-throw shooting hasn't helped. It has improved some- he 's LadY Vols, who are a No. I seed for the 17th time in 20 against Prairie View. The Tar Heels are the top seed in the Dallas region. Other games in the region include No. 8 California vs. No. 9 Notre Dame, No. 5 George Washington vs. No. 12 Boise State, No. 4 Tex;as A&M vs. No. 13 Texas-Arlington, No. 6 Iowa State vs. No. II Washington, No. 3 Georgia vs. No. 14 Belmont, No. 7 Georgia Tech vs. No. I0 DePaul, and No. 2 Purdue vs. No. 15 Oral Robens. The Boilermakers won the Big Ten tournament championship.The Big East placed the most teams in the championship bracket with eight, followed by the Atlantic Coast and Big 12 with six each. Six;-time champion Tennessee is now the only team tnat has competed in every NCAA tournament after Louisiana Tech didn't make the field this year. The years, will open up Sunday a~ainst No. 16 Drake in Pittsburgh. The No. · 8 Panthers will host No. 9 James Madison in the other game in that subregional. Other games in ~e Dayton re~ional include: No. 5 M1ddle Tennessee, which has won 26 straight games, vs. No. 12 Gonzaga; No. 4 Ohio State vs. No. 13 Marist; No. 6 Marquette vs. No. J'l Louisiana-Lafayette; No. 3 Oklahoma vs. No. 14 Southeast Missouri State; No. 7 Mississippi vs. No. 10 TCU. Holy Cross and Drake became the tifth and sixth teams with losing records to make the touroament. The Crusaders won the Patriot League, and the Bulldogs were victorious in the Missouri Valley Conference. The women's Final Four is April 1-3 in Cleveland. had to scramble to find tapes of Niagara and didn't get a chance to look at it until Monday morning. · "I think they have better athletes than we do." he said. "They shoot the ball exceptionally well." Fisher, a 6-foot-3, 230pound junior, averages 21 points and 8.1 rebounds. He had 12 rebounds in the MAAC tournament final. Rome Sanders, a 6-foot-8. 240-pound senior, leads Florida A&M with 15.6 points and six rebounds. The transfer from Northern Illinois his 65 percent of his shots. Gillespie said his team is going to try to make the most of it. "But whichever team loses tomorrow," he said, "I think you feel cheated about the whole atmosphere of the tournament." leg in last year's secondround loss to Boston College in the NCAA tournament. "The committee had an interesting job," Foster said. "We're going to have to prove who we are. I kind of like the opportunity to do that." The Dayton Regional which will be played March 25 and 27 was considered by most experts to have the toughest field of the four NCAA regional sites. Tennessee was the No. I seed. Maryland was No. 2. Oklahoma No. 3 and Ohio State No. 4, with each team needing to win twice to advance to Dayton. Four teams - Florida, North Carolina, UCLA and Ohio State - were ranked in the top 10 all season, while six others- Kansas, Pittsburgh, Wisconsin, Texas A&M, Memphis and Nevada - were in the poll all season. · Two teams ranked in the preseason top 10 - No. 5 LSU and No. 10 Arizona- weren't ranked in the final poll. Xavier was the season's only one-week wonder, making an appearance ,at No. 24 for one poll. The Big East and ACC both had ei~ht teams ranked at some pomt in the season, while the Pac-1 0 had seven and the Southeastern Conference six. shooting 79 percent (34-of43) in his last seven 11ames - but it remains his b1ggest flaw. After he went 3-of-8 from the line in a nationally televised loss at Miami on Feb. I, the LeBron bashers came out in full force. The torment continued when he missed a pair of free throws, then two 3pointers, in the final 13.7 seconds of a loss at Dalla:;. Never mind that James, who would be a senior at Oliio State or some other powerhouse if be hadn ' t gone pro, had 39 points, five assists and three rebounds against the Mavericks. Nothing, though, is slowiog him now. James is focused, playing with energy and enthusiasm every night. The Cavaliers are following their leader. Brown acknowledged that difference in James. "One of the things that's tough 011 any player, whether you're a great player or not is to make sure you are foc.used every day no matter who you are playing," Brown said. ''That is something that he has been doing really well as of late. At shootarounds and games, it doesn 't matter who we are playing. you have to be locked in." Ohio V.llty Publishing reserv1s 1lle right 10 edi1, rejoel or CIIICOI ony ed II ony limo. EriOfl llull \"\.\.111 \,1 I \II \.1.., r I c M"'IOJNQJ\11NJ'S '** POUCtES: 0No ....., ~ ,....,.,.. ltle right to edit. ,... 01' OMCel MY MS .. MY lime. 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G....(29-3) ~mre. altor2vs. 15 OtclahomaSl (20- tO) TOll (21-10) Oliver Purnell at Dayton from 1999-2003 and was been fanher West than one of two candidates to Kansas City. replace Purnell, who left for The Hu$kies eventually Clemson in April._ When could face No. 2 Stanford, fromPageBl Dayton hired Brian which opens up at home Gregory, Jirsa followed against No. 15 Idaho State. Purnell to Clemson and was going into the tournament The sentimental choice in hired at Marshall in June knowing they can win it is Fresno might be North 2003. Maryland, cause they've Carolina State and coach He also was a head coach won it, and they've got a lot Kay Yow. The Wolfpack, at the University of of the players back from~ who have woo II of the 13 Georgia, where he went 35team that won 11, games since Yow returned 30 in two seasons. He was -Connecticut coach Geno after breast cancer treatfired in 1999. said. ments, are the No. 4 seed in At Marshall, Jirsa Auriemma "Everybody else is going in Fresno. They will play received a base salary of with the same mind-set, 'I Roben Morris on Sunday in $140,000, said Randy think we can win it,' and the first round in the Raleigh Burnside. the spons inforthat's how we're going into subregional. mation director. it., Also in the West blliCket, it Marcum was not available West No. I see.d will be: No. 5 Baylor vs. No. Monday for additional comConnecticut (29-3) wiU play 12 Chattanooga, No. 6 ment. Jirsa did not immediately No. 16 UMBC on Sunday in Xavier vs. No. II West Virginia, and No. 7 Old liartford. respond to a telephone call If they advance past the Dominion vs. No. 10 Florida seeking comment. first two rounds. the Huskies State. then must tn1vel to Fresno. Nonh Carolina, which Calif. for the regionals. won the ACC conference During its run of five nation- tournament, earned a No. I al championships since seed for the third straight 1995, Connecticut hasn't season and will open Sunday Gibbons likes it that Chacin has picked up the pace on the mound. p.m., and then got a 3:30 "It's something we mena.m. wakeup call Sunday tioned to him," Gibbons for the trip back to said. "But sometimes he's a Tallahassee. By 7 a.m. fromPageBl creature of habit. It's better Monday, the team was on a to work fast, it det1nitely plane bound for Dayton. helps the team get into a No. 16 seed before losing to "We didn't even nave a rhythm." chance to unpack and do Kentucky 96-76. Adam Dunn singled in a Florida A&M doesn't our laundry," Gillespie said. run and Norris Hopper, try- have much time to get ready "We didn't get a chance to ing to make the team as an for the game. After winning walk on campus today and extra outfielder, drove in to league title Saturday let those young men receive two for Cincinnati. night in Raleigh, N.C., the the accolades." Notes: Ryan Freel left the team arrive at the hotel at II The coach also said he game with a tight right hamstring. " He should be all right," Narron said. sion. "I'm not mad. But Toronto optioned RHPs we're 28-3 and we lost two Ryan Houston, Jean Maci games late in the season and Tracy Thorpe to Tripleagainst . good teams. Now from Page 81 A Syracuse, leaving the we've got something 'to Blue Jays with 55 players in prove." camp. Cincinnati Hoskins said while standing Foster said he felt the optioned LHP Phil on crutches in Ohio State selection committee put a Dumatrait to Triple-A coach Jim Foster's living lot of emphasis on Hoskins' Louisville, and optioned room after the brackets injury. She had torn the RHP Calvin Medlock and were announced on televi- Achilles' tendon in the other OF Chris Dickerson to Chattanooga. Double-A LHP Jason Kershner and game where the Trojans lost 81-57 to Oregon. RHP Tom Shearn were Fony-eight schools were assigned to minor league ranked at some point this camp.... Ken Griffey Jr. hit fromPageBl season tying the record set off Kyle Lohse, who pitched in 1992-93. three innings in a simulated Five teams were ranked game. Lohse is nursing a 221 from 1966 to 1980. Southern California (23light right hamstring, and No.I this season: Florida Griffey, recovering from a 11) moved back into the for eight weeks, UCLA for broken bone in his left hand, poll after a one-week six, Ohio State for three and Carolina and has yet to appear in an exhi- absence following its run to Nonh the Pac-10 championship Wisconsin for one each. bition game. James' scoring binge followed a I 0- game stretch in which he averaged 22.4 points on 44 percent shootmg. an extended slwnp that prompted whispers that he was tired, injured, distracted or unhappy m Cleveland. · So, what changed? ''I'm just mentally trying to prepare myself and mr, team for the playoffs, · James said~ taking a break from watching Sunday' s Kansas-Texas game on TV. "I'm trying to execute and find creases and cracks in the defense arid trying to read them. EverythJng has been falling for me, my 3s. my mid-range jwnp shot. my drives and my team- Daily In-Column: 1:00 p . m . Monday-Friday for ln-rtlon Jn Next Day•s Paper Sunday In-Column: 1:00 p.m. frll...,,y For Sundays Paper Monday thru Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Reds blank Blue Jays SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - Matt Belisle polished his bid for the last spot in Cincinnati· s starting rotation on Monday. allowing one hit in four scoreless innings and the Reds beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-0. Belisle (3-0) struck out three and walked one and has allowed just one run in nine innings. "Each outing I try to build on the one before:· Belisle said after his first start of the spring. "It doesn't matter whether I start these games or not because I've done both before." Belisle is competing with Kirk Saarloos, Bobbv Livingston and Paul Wilson for the last spot in the rotation, and all have had good outings recently. "Everybody is trying to win a spot," manager Jerry Narron said. "''m glad I don 'I have to decide today." Monday's win was the Reds' first shutout this spring. Gustavo Chacin (01) allowed two runs on five hits and struck out five in four innings. "I was just trying to throw the ball over the plate and they were swinging at the farst pitch," Chacin said. "I just tried to keep the ball down and keep the tempo faster." 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His firing comes four days after Marshall ended its season with a 92-71 loss to Memphis in the quarterfinals of the Conference USA Tournament. Jirsa, 47, had two years remaining on his contract and has coached the men's team the past four seasons. His overall record at Marshall was 43-74. " We appreciate the contributions that Ron has made and we wish him the best," Marcum said in a prepared statement. A search committee is being formed, he said. Jirsa was an assistant to HOW HI WRUE AM AD M"nn' 'FP' (21-10) - .Com. e.&1 Lorolng, Micl1. ....,_K (27-5) Sun noon t···· · ··-··-········· ········-······· Delaware St. (20- t2) Janles fromPageBl Before being held to 26 points - he sat out a chunk of the founh quaner against the Pacers, Jame~ had scored at least 32 points in six straight games and not fewer than 29 in I 0 in a row. He's averaging a leaguebest 33.3 points on 53 percent shooting since Feb. 15 for the surging Cavaliers. who have won five straight to push their record to a season-best· 13 games over .500. *POLICIES* AP Women Play-in Ohio osu mates are putting me in a comfort level to help me succeed. "I've been able to go out there and do some things that I couldn't do early on." For much of the ftrst three months of the season, James was not James, and the Cavaliers did not play like the team that pushed Detroit to a Game 7 in the conference semitinals last year or one with NBA title aspirations. Earlier this season, James was settling for jump shots instead of attacking the rim, >omething he does as well as anyone. His usual firststep quickness wasn't there ' I and he didn't have the customary spring in his legs. He appeared worn out after spending pan of his summer playing for the U.S. team in the world championships in Japan. James denied being fatigued. But his statistics said otherwise. The 22-year-old also missed three games in late January with a sprained right big toe, an injury he feared would linger all season. He refused to use it as an excuse, but it was obvi-, ous that he wasn't right. His suspect free-throw shooting hasn't helped. It has improved some- he 's LadY Vols, who are a No. I seed for the 17th time in 20 against Prairie View. The Tar Heels are the top seed in the Dallas region. Other games in the region include No. 8 California vs. No. 9 Notre Dame, No. 5 George Washington vs. No. 12 Boise State, No. 4 Tex;as A&M vs. No. 13 Texas-Arlington, No. 6 Iowa State vs. No. II Washington, No. 3 Georgia vs. No. 14 Belmont, No. 7 Georgia Tech vs. No. I0 DePaul, and No. 2 Purdue vs. No. 15 Oral Robens. The Boilermakers won the Big Ten tournament championship.The Big East placed the most teams in the championship bracket with eight, followed by the Atlantic Coast and Big 12 with six each. Six;-time champion Tennessee is now the only team tnat has competed in every NCAA tournament after Louisiana Tech didn't make the field this year. The years, will open up Sunday a~ainst No. 16 Drake in Pittsburgh. The No. · 8 Panthers will host No. 9 James Madison in the other game in that subregional. Other games in ~e Dayton re~ional include: No. 5 M1ddle Tennessee, which has won 26 straight games, vs. No. 12 Gonzaga; No. 4 Ohio State vs. No. 13 Marist; No. 6 Marquette vs. No. J'l Louisiana-Lafayette; No. 3 Oklahoma vs. No. 14 Southeast Missouri State; No. 7 Mississippi vs. No. 10 TCU. Holy Cross and Drake became the tifth and sixth teams with losing records to make the touroament. The Crusaders won the Patriot League, and the Bulldogs were victorious in the Missouri Valley Conference. The women's Final Four is April 1-3 in Cleveland. had to scramble to find tapes of Niagara and didn't get a chance to look at it until Monday morning. · "I think they have better athletes than we do." he said. "They shoot the ball exceptionally well." Fisher, a 6-foot-3, 230pound junior, averages 21 points and 8.1 rebounds. He had 12 rebounds in the MAAC tournament final. Rome Sanders, a 6-foot-8. 240-pound senior, leads Florida A&M with 15.6 points and six rebounds. The transfer from Northern Illinois his 65 percent of his shots. Gillespie said his team is going to try to make the most of it. "But whichever team loses tomorrow," he said, "I think you feel cheated about the whole atmosphere of the tournament." leg in last year's secondround loss to Boston College in the NCAA tournament. "The committee had an interesting job," Foster said. "We're going to have to prove who we are. I kind of like the opportunity to do that." The Dayton Regional which will be played March 25 and 27 was considered by most experts to have the toughest field of the four NCAA regional sites. Tennessee was the No. I seed. Maryland was No. 2. Oklahoma No. 3 and Ohio State No. 4, with each team needing to win twice to advance to Dayton. Four teams - Florida, North Carolina, UCLA and Ohio State - were ranked in the top 10 all season, while six others- Kansas, Pittsburgh, Wisconsin, Texas A&M, Memphis and Nevada - were in the poll all season. · Two teams ranked in the preseason top 10 - No. 5 LSU and No. 10 Arizona- weren't ranked in the final poll. Xavier was the season's only one-week wonder, making an appearance ,at No. 24 for one poll. The Big East and ACC both had ei~ht teams ranked at some pomt in the season, while the Pac-1 0 had seven and the Southeastern Conference six. shooting 79 percent (34-of43) in his last seven 11ames - but it remains his b1ggest flaw. After he went 3-of-8 from the line in a nationally televised loss at Miami on Feb. I, the LeBron bashers came out in full force. The torment continued when he missed a pair of free throws, then two 3pointers, in the final 13.7 seconds of a loss at Dalla:;. Never mind that James, who would be a senior at Oliio State or some other powerhouse if be hadn ' t gone pro, had 39 points, five assists and three rebounds against the Mavericks. Nothing, though, is slowiog him now. James is focused, playing with energy and enthusiasm every night. The Cavaliers are following their leader. Brown acknowledged that difference in James. "One of the things that's tough 011 any player, whether you're a great player or not is to make sure you are foc.used every day no matter who you are playing," Brown said. ''That is something that he has been doing really well as of late. At shootarounds and games, it doesn 't matter who we are playing. you have to be locked in." 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Cotn Shop, 151 Second Racine, Otlo and se•vice Avenue, GallipcMis, 740-446Meigs, Washington and 2842. Athens ooonties. We accept Passpon and private pay clieniS lot our in-home care Buy1ng Junk Cars.Trucks & Wrecks. Pay Cash. J D Salvage [304)773·5343 GIVFAWAY (304)674-t374 lj4e;"S1i' -rilltiC.S . WoUJ..O BEi 1!>1011"~ ~~t'>~ II= ftl~ WA'> 1. WAy "fo c;1"S'Iil;t. 1 ha" - - - - - - D Free 8 week old pups, Buying junk cars. Paying boxer, hait lab. (740)208· from $50 - $200. If no 0564 answer lea~ message.740388·0011 . 0 Free to a good home. White CASH Pa1d for Junk cars & male Spitz. 740-388-8662 trucks. $35-$ 130. Call Ce ll 1-304 -812· 1037. after 6pm FrH to good home. German (740)446-8955. Shepherd, 9 mo. old. Needs room to run. 740-379-2235 I \11 ' 111\ \II\. I "I 1\ \ II I " Free to good home. White, malo Groat Pyr.._. Great "'~~"_ _ _ _ _...., - -------~110 I HE:LPWAr.'lllD • , Free. 7 puppies. lab/Pit BuN mix. call740-446-2819. 100WOAKERS NEEDED 1..orr AND Assemble crafts. wood FotJND items.To $480/wk Materials . provid&d. Free 1nlormation pkg. 24Hr. 801-428-4649 Found black male dog with cottar in Sandhill area. Very An Excellent way to earn friendly. Cal! 304·675-3804 money. The New Avon. -Los-t-.-emal-e:. ,-.,-ow-L_ab_ Call Marilyn 304·882-2645 1 from the Watet"loo Rd. leon, · AVON! All Areas! To Buy or Wv area. Family l'l&arlbro- Sell. Shirley Spears, 304· ken. She has no COllar. If 675-1429. loond please call 304·4 t 5- i ~~~~~~~~;3t~2:2~or~304:-4:2~l~-2~3t~'-, CLASSIFIED INDEX 4x4.. For Site ......................................... ,.... 725 Announce"*'l ............................................ 030 Antlquel ......................... .... .......................... 530 Apartment. for Rent ................................... 440 Auction and FIH Market .............................080 Auto Partl & Accessories .......................... 760 Auto R=-~·· ··········· .................................... ~g ............... ~~~a Mo~·~·~·;::~:.:: ···· · ··· ..................... 7&!" .................................. BullcNng SUpPI. .......................................... S$0 ~ 340 - - Opporluntly...... , ..................... ..... 2t0 .......,.._ Tralnlng ....................................... 140 c.ntpere & Motor HomM. .. ......................... 790 C-"'!1 E~l ................................... 780 c.nta of T11anu .......................................... o1 o Child/Elderly · ·------rl -r-----...., dog. 441-9824 --·-··--and 3 ~ 13 ....,.. c......................................... 1eo · E-lcaUAelrlgoratlon ............................... 840 Equipment for Aonl .....................................480 ExcavaUng ................................................... 830 Farm Equl-1 .......................................... 810 Fart118 for Rent.............................................430 F.,.,.fors.te ............................................. 330 For L -..................................................... 490 For Sale ........................................................ 585 For s.te or Tr..-......................................... 590 Fruits & ~ ......................................580 Furnlahed Rooma........................................450 General Haultng...........................................1150 F==;:====;;=='l) Controller =~:;:';:o:~•r IIEL.PW.<\.'1l.D FEDERAL POSTAL JOBS "'a."' no h'r $ 16.·53$27 · .;.JQ{I,r.. w 1• ing. For application anQ tree governement job info, call American Assoc . ollabor 1· 913-599-8042 . 24/hrs. emp. serv_ We Otter : .J Up to $8.50/hour -J Personal time -J Paid Vacation ..J Paid training -J Full benefits package If ~oo would like to stop working a job and start building a career give . Darst Adult Group Home has an opening for a day position, must be able to do hea~ty lifting. Temporary possibly permarrent position. 740-992-5023. IIU.ol'" Mountllneer Gr..-ng Co Seeking qualified heavy Anuipmenl operators tor "'"" work in WV. OperatOfs for excavator, dozer. drill both rotary and hydraulic and rock truCk driver. Davis Bacon Pay scala. Fax resu mes to 304-543-6900. Ann: James Cooper. POST OFFICE NOW HIRING Avn. Pay $20/hr 01" ># $57K annually Including Federal Benefits and OT.Pa.id Training, Vacations-FTIPT 1-800-584-1775 Ert. 118923 USWA lntoCision a call today! 1-en-463-6247 ext 2311 www jofociSjoo com R&J TRUCKING MountllnMI' G...cllng Co. leading The Way Seeking applicants to filllhe R&J Trucking 110 w Hirirtg at our New Haven. WV Termiflal. For position ot field mechanic Aeg10na1 H&UIS... 0 ump 0tv. . 1 and shop mechanic .. two year OTR verifiable~- Call 1. positions available .. .Davis 800-462-0065 ask for Kant Bacon payscale tor the field r d ~OSI iOn an a . company Rockspr(.gs Rehabilitation •ssued mechamcs lfuck. id Is Shop pay will be dependent" ~nhter p rovt ~dis res e~ 15 ~f I' w1t ou an ng nurstng on quaF;~~:~s to care and rehabilitation serv· 304_548_6900 ices helping them return to a life of independence at Attn : Las Putillion hOme. we currently have ,..,...,....,..,nities for LPN'S at Ottice ~istanl for bus~ .....,......... nnn.ni"Ofi~ needed immedi· OUr facility in Pofn9fO!J', Qhio, .._.. ,... We offer a COIIPElfVITE ately PriOf office /experience SALARY SCALE, an excelrequireQ. Must be familiar with Microsoft office, organi- lent benti!lil package and a suppot""tive work environzational to ment. Interested candidates multi -task.skills& Submitability resume ·c with reterence& by March 16. to PO Box 472, GallipoNs, Ohio 45631 -------~ Domino's Pizza Now Hiring Sate Ofivers & Management Point Pleasant. GaMipolis & Pomeroy locations Appl~ in Ot1io Valley Home Health, Inc. Passport/Private Care Dept. is hiring CNA's, STNA's, CHHA's, Personal Polson '"- Aides. Competitive wages with benefits includ- Happy Ada.................................................... Provide e)(Jlertise in elec. ing health insurance and design, hardware specs, RSLogix & RSView, high speed data acquisition. electrJcal test equipment, automatfMI controj systems. Reg 8-t yrs related el(p; BSEE; US citizenship & eligibility for clearance; AutoCAD exp; strong verbal ~ written com· Supervisory mllnication. experience a plus. mi leage. Apfl'y at 1456 Immediate Openings Jackson Pike Suite 3, $?.48/hr Gallipolis. or phone 740- Wackenhut Corp. has 441·9263. immed. openinys in the Gallipolis area. Must have H.S. ~- or G.ED.. clean police record, and a valid D.L Interested applicants __ ._ call M·F. 74"925PI ~ v30t5. EOE MJF/ON Help WonWCI.............................:................... IIO -lrnp<ovornenw ...................................llO - - s.te ............................................ 310 Houoeltold Qoods ................................ ....... 510 ln-.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hou-1111' Renl .......................................... 410 021) ln......,.,. ..................................................... 130 Lawn & Garden Equ..,._.t ... ................... -810 . ~10Ck. .....................................................830 . LOat and Found ........................................... 060 Lola • Ac-................................:........... 350 Mlacellalleoua ..............................................170 Mlscel-.s Mercllancllaa.......................541l Repelr ....................................IIO -Horne - - f o r -............................... 420 -oonalo ..................................................... oos Pets for Sale ................................................ 5110 Plumbing & HHIIng .................................... 820 Prolwealonol Sanrlcft ................................. 230 "**lo, TV & CB lll!*r ............................... 160 Eabtbt Wlrlbtd•..............:...............:...... :.O SCIIoolslnalrucllon..................................... 1$0 Seed·, Pllillt & Flfl111oer .............................. 650 ~ Wantld ....................................... 120 Spece for Retit ............................................. 480 Sporllng Goodll ........................................... 520 SU11'a far Sale .............................................. 720 Trucu for Sale ............................................ 715 Upllol-.y .......- .......................................... 870 Y-Fors.te...............................................730 Wanbtd 1o Buy ............................................. 090 W-1&> Buy· Flt'm Supplles .................. 820 Wanlld To Do .............................................. 180 w..-toALont ............................................ 470 Ylt'd- G1111po11L ................................... 072 YW S1.. Pomeroy/Middle ......................... 074 Ylt'd Sale-Pl. ,........ ................................ 076 ==; UTAON. Inc. Wednesclly · wv FAX 866-231·2567 www.utroninc .com - · HQrnes 1ol' Sale ................................ J20 _ , . 1o Loen................................._.......... 220 -orcycles & 4 Wllaelers.......................... 740 Ml•lcllln-b ................................... 570 Care Ashton. ' ' ' • • ,, • \ I' j ' ; , local-loolling 1tLt 9 pll reps f • 15 hfs w~. $29-retundable start-Up C06l 740-441- I r:: ' Com m., bonuSeS. car borluses. No salary. Wk 5· • I 1) \982 • E~rienced Commercil¥ This new•peper will not knowingly eceept .tvertisements for real e1111e whict'l ie 6n violltion of the law. Our reeders .,. hereby Informed thltall dweltin;t; ad'olertiaed In this newspaper are opportunity blsea. I Cozy. briCk tn·levet 3-4bd. 2ba. 2 car attached garage on 1.3 wooded acres. 5769 SA 588. 1740)446-7t57 & , Residential Carpenters. ,Drug screening required, please send letter 01 interest to P.O. Boll 729 _27 , Pomeroy, OH 45769 . refer - Meigs lndustrie;S, Inc. is hlr· ing pari time crewleatM!rs for Janitorial and Lawn Maintenance positions. $6_85/hour. experience in eoces. - - - - - - -Expelu:tnced Operators & C to arpenters needed r commerCial construction . Short · distance travel reQUired. pay based on 9JII)elierx.."8, Mal resumes to : 13621 SA 554, Bidwell. OH 45614. No Calls Janitorial/custodial wo1k preferred. M9igs lnduslries · provides services lor adults March 14th 10:~2:00pm 242 Third Avenue Gallipolis. OH It unable to attend, please call 1.877-463-6247 ext. 4256 to schedule an interview. Bu""-_,.v HllI s Career Cen1er with dMiopmental disabilines. Must have a valid Otuo i6 now accepting applica· tions !of """rt·time substitute d11vers license and high custodians, . all ehifts. 1 d' 1om GED ~n sc h 00 •P a or · Contact the Send resume to: Meigs "··pe nte-"-nts ~. at ~ n 'IU'I:I" vun.. lnd st es Inc PO Box u II ' .. . . 740-245-5334. EOE 307. Syracuse, 01'110 45779. (740)446-7194, •c.J..·~• n Required, minimum 01 5 years dri,;ng exp. 2 yrs E xperience on CNerOeimensional loads. M st ha e ~ drivinn111 u v '1fVV" record · Ear n UIJ to $2 ·000 ~o~u F -~ t1011 Call wee... , . or ..,..,tea 1 ~4)722 2t84 MF ~ · · 30 .A....... : am~.. For Sale Newly remodeled House 3 bedroom. 2 bath. 3408 Mossman Avenue Point Pleasant S45,000 call tor an Appointment Pr1ce GAlliPOliS, Jbd Jba home. Must Sell Faal! More homes available. "for toea 4109 All Types Masonry, Briei:, Blod<, Stone. Free Estimate. (304)773-9550 - 304-5935421 . Georges . ruua ~· bl S e awm1.11 , dOn't haul yolK Logs 10 the . 1 Jl Cl1ickam<1uga Mill just call 304-675-1957 Will care riO Rental House Avatlable Next Door lor Income (Extra luded · e) II"'C In pnC . " House. 4.100 sq ''· Rental Home. 1.800 It Asking $360 000 (7.40 44 605 . ! 1-1 · ~m;.;;~:;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;., Bl"'"""l"I:'Cr OIJ .. I[~ CtrfoKniNITY --, Develop your 4X6 print tor .. :-;:rng:.:;;::==~ j MoNEY rol...oA.-.. ••NO'[I£1:** . Borrow Smart. Contact the Ohio Oiv tsian or Financial Institution's Office ot Consumer Affairs BEFORE you refinance ~our home or obtam a loan BEWARE of requests lor any large actwan<:e payments of tees Of insurance. Call ttle Office ot Consumer Atfa1rs toll free iii ~-866278-0003 to learn 11 the mortgage brolo".er or lender JS properly licensed. (This is a pub'ic service announcement from the Oh10 Valley a PkOf(SN(JN:\l So:\k.n DOWN PAYMENT" programs tor y01..1 to buy your home instead of rentmg. '100%tinancing ' Less than perfect credit accepted ' Payment could be the same as rent Mortgage locators. :..17_40::_136:..:.._7·_:_0000:..:..__ _ _ _ www.orvb.com Home listing& . I rvrv.r;;; .,.,.....,"""' ~,..,.... .... SECUIIITY ISSI•. ~No Fee un•·ss We ·1n•. It: 1-888-582·3345 w Ranch home near Meigs High School 3100+ sq.ft . inCluding tin1shed basement Hardwood floors. 2-car garage, 5 BR. 3.5 baths, 2.5+ ac res, f1replace $149,000. 740-416-4765 Bucktown Rd.. letart. 740· 949-2253 -------SR 7 Soulh. 4 BR. 3 BA. New Root. New heal sys· tem . hardwood floors. 2 car detached garage, no land COntractS. (740)709-0299 r $125,000 [\loBn.J.: HoMES fY- "'LIC ·uo:o.~ - I • 14x70 Clayton. 3 bedroom. 1 bath. stove. refrigerator. new carpet. excellent condt· t1on .$8SOO. (740)446·8955 t999 t6 76 A 1M b 11 oya anor y S' 1 edr 2b h ..y 1ne. 40 oom. at . CfA, '.'in"l Siding. shrnglea ,. roof. original owner. but lived m lesS than 3 yrs. call 740245-9418 or 740-339·0216 -------2003 16JC76 Fleetwood. 3BR. 2 Bath , Vtnyl Siding, Sh1ngle Roof. C; A, ve,..., Nice Home 1998 16x80 Atvers1de. 3BR. 2 Bath . V1ny1 Siding. Sh1ngle Root. C/A. New Carpet & Vtnyl Ask about our (31 14K70 homes. Da~hme (740)388-0000. Even,ngs. 1740\388-8017"' (740 )24s-s213 lEST IIY • ..,,~D ~ .-... ~~:F254 Cheaper than rent' Updated 3 Br. 1 bath home w1th - - - - - - - rieY~~er lurnace. water heater plumbmg and electnc $27.500. Call Sana, COihns. 'lEW 2007 4 Bid Sole & Bloom Realtors. at 740-59 1·9202 to v•ew No land contracts. :;w~ish;ing=~=:a:ny:)=~ i listings """ 800-559- Recently remodeled house. 2 Br., balh. WtAC. 22842 tor elderly. Male or Female. 16 yrs, experience. Will do light housework, laundry and cook. Will work 2n0'3rd shift, or 24·5's. 74Q. 388-9783 or 740-591·9034 The Village ot Rio Grande is taking applications for the posiDon of part time pojice officer. Two years expert· ence is required . Awlications can be pdl9d up at the R10 Grande MuniCipal Budding MondayFriday, 8:30AM until -4:30PM. Applications are due back to the Municipal Building by noon , on Monday, March 13, 2007 Truck Orivvrs COL Class A www.tntodalon.com Four Cemetery Lots for sale in Prime location in Memorial Gardens on Chester Ad in Meigs Co! Call 410-573-6885 or only $.09. Great gift ideas ~~~;::;,.==J should apply to: and m01e. Free to join. Visit , AS IS 2 bdrm renta1 proper DnN<<>.-.rings Rehabilitation, www.photomaxplus.net • .........,_,.. FA 36759 Rocksprings Road, ·--~~!!!"'ty-tixerMupper 2013 d' 19.500 A l I MPomeroy. Oh10 45769. •NOTICE• a •son ve . ol 1n Extendicare Health OHIO VALLEY PUBliSH- Hartford-11l1 acres-3 ,000 F AM 20 · W Services, Inc. is an equal lNG co. recommends I . 50x1 lot m est oPPortunity employer that that you do business with Columbia· I .000 FIRM . ted f encourages workplace people you know. and 1n1eres par res on 1y ca11 div"""'au. MIF ON 304-675-1911 after 7pm ........., NOT to send money through the mail unt~ you Aftlntion! Security Officers have investigaled the Local company offerinQ "NO Eleo ./Coo~ols EIJQO!eer, Ill oso H avaia.IM on .., equaJ Hn.PWAN1lD Glvea*ay .................. ....................................040 llay & Oraln ..................................................MO preference. limitation or discrimination based on race. color. religiOn, au familial stlitus or national oflgin, or eny intention lo make any such preference, llmitllion or discrimination. AccrlK".II1ed Membar N:cffldllillQ www.galli(IOIISCareercollege.oom Council b t~l CoiH:tg85 l't"IN...I!.I..I.ANI'.I.JU;, "''"".,•-=- Forget what you have heard about telemarketing. Difference! newspaper experience a definite plus. Submit resume and salary reqlurements to : resume@ heartlandpublicalions.com 3 Br.-1 112 bath, 2 car garage, central air. gas heal. $7t .500. All ru1 e1tat. Mlv.nitlf\V in this rww..-per is sUbject to the Federll Fair Housing Act of 1961 wntcn m~k.. it it~l to advem.. "any t.,._ _ _ _ _ _ _ . Professional special projects. Prior --~tiiiiiiOCilONiiiiiiiiio•• 11'111"'------,~~TMS::~. ··~·~ 1111'11111o~u..-. ..,·-.~-....,~~~10 lnfoCislon is lhe Controller to work out of Pllrtsmouth, OH. Responsible for multipe k>cations. including financial controls and statements, intE:!rnal reports. buelgeting and www.comlca.com ® 2007 by- NEA,Inc . llfiO · 1 "' r ~ --- GotUpolis CorMr College (Careers Close To Home) Call Today! 740-446-4367. 1 800- 214 0452 · · · ~ - --*I I"'r'iiro;;;~Ho.\~w;;;;·;;;~I ..r~.a_•.•:.~ ..-·- · ~- lli:LPWANrnl available to ass~st individuals with mental retardation 0 Down even with less than al a !Joup home in Bidwel; parted credit is available on 35 hrstwk: 12-9p Sun, 2· 10p ,this 3 bedroom , 1 bath M/Tu/W: 35hrslwk: 10a-9p home. Corner lot, fireplace. Sat. 3:30-11p WITh. 2-11p modern kitchen, 1acuzz1lub. F; 27.5hrs/wlo.: 4·1 0;30p F. Payment around $550 per 8,.5-6,451> Sat. 9a-6p Sun. month. 740-367·7\29. Must have high school diploTatum Dr. New matGED, valid dnvers 104 Haven.WV. 3bdl2ba. Ranch , license and three years good driving e~eper1ence . lg.sunroom. 2 car gar. great $7 .25/ht. Pre-emplo~ment area. D; 304·675-3637 E: drug testing. 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G....(29-3) ~mre. altor2vs. 15 OtclahomaSl (20- tO) TOll (21-10) Oliver Purnell at Dayton from 1999-2003 and was been fanher West than one of two candidates to Kansas City. replace Purnell, who left for The Hu$kies eventually Clemson in April._ When could face No. 2 Stanford, fromPageBl Dayton hired Brian which opens up at home Gregory, Jirsa followed against No. 15 Idaho State. Purnell to Clemson and was going into the tournament The sentimental choice in hired at Marshall in June knowing they can win it is Fresno might be North 2003. Maryland, cause they've Carolina State and coach He also was a head coach won it, and they've got a lot Kay Yow. The Wolfpack, at the University of of the players back from~ who have woo II of the 13 Georgia, where he went 35team that won 11, games since Yow returned 30 in two seasons. He was -Connecticut coach Geno after breast cancer treatfired in 1999. said. ments, are the No. 4 seed in At Marshall, Jirsa Auriemma "Everybody else is going in Fresno. They will play received a base salary of with the same mind-set, 'I Roben Morris on Sunday in $140,000, said Randy think we can win it,' and the first round in the Raleigh Burnside. the spons inforthat's how we're going into subregional. mation director. it., Also in the West blliCket, it Marcum was not available West No. I see.d will be: No. 5 Baylor vs. No. Monday for additional comConnecticut (29-3) wiU play 12 Chattanooga, No. 6 ment. Jirsa did not immediately No. 16 UMBC on Sunday in Xavier vs. No. II West Virginia, and No. 7 Old liartford. respond to a telephone call If they advance past the Dominion vs. No. 10 Florida seeking comment. first two rounds. the Huskies State. then must tn1vel to Fresno. Nonh Carolina, which Calif. for the regionals. won the ACC conference During its run of five nation- tournament, earned a No. I al championships since seed for the third straight 1995, Connecticut hasn't season and will open Sunday Gibbons likes it that Chacin has picked up the pace on the mound. p.m., and then got a 3:30 "It's something we mena.m. wakeup call Sunday tioned to him," Gibbons for the trip back to said. "But sometimes he's a Tallahassee. By 7 a.m. fromPageBl creature of habit. It's better Monday, the team was on a to work fast, it det1nitely plane bound for Dayton. helps the team get into a No. 16 seed before losing to "We didn't even nave a rhythm." chance to unpack and do Kentucky 96-76. Adam Dunn singled in a Florida A&M doesn't our laundry," Gillespie said. run and Norris Hopper, try- have much time to get ready "We didn't get a chance to ing to make the team as an for the game. After winning walk on campus today and extra outfielder, drove in to league title Saturday let those young men receive two for Cincinnati. night in Raleigh, N.C., the the accolades." Notes: Ryan Freel left the team arrive at the hotel at II The coach also said he game with a tight right hamstring. " He should be all right," Narron said. sion. "I'm not mad. But Toronto optioned RHPs we're 28-3 and we lost two Ryan Houston, Jean Maci games late in the season and Tracy Thorpe to Tripleagainst . good teams. Now from Page 81 A Syracuse, leaving the we've got something 'to Blue Jays with 55 players in prove." camp. Cincinnati Hoskins said while standing Foster said he felt the optioned LHP Phil on crutches in Ohio State selection committee put a Dumatrait to Triple-A coach Jim Foster's living lot of emphasis on Hoskins' Louisville, and optioned room after the brackets injury. She had torn the RHP Calvin Medlock and were announced on televi- Achilles' tendon in the other OF Chris Dickerson to Chattanooga. Double-A LHP Jason Kershner and game where the Trojans lost 81-57 to Oregon. RHP Tom Shearn were Fony-eight schools were assigned to minor league ranked at some point this camp.... Ken Griffey Jr. hit fromPageBl season tying the record set off Kyle Lohse, who pitched in 1992-93. three innings in a simulated Five teams were ranked game. Lohse is nursing a 221 from 1966 to 1980. Southern California (23light right hamstring, and No.I this season: Florida Griffey, recovering from a 11) moved back into the for eight weeks, UCLA for broken bone in his left hand, poll after a one-week six, Ohio State for three and Carolina and has yet to appear in an exhi- absence following its run to Nonh the Pac-10 championship Wisconsin for one each. bition game. James' scoring binge followed a I 0- game stretch in which he averaged 22.4 points on 44 percent shootmg. an extended slwnp that prompted whispers that he was tired, injured, distracted or unhappy m Cleveland. · So, what changed? ''I'm just mentally trying to prepare myself and mr, team for the playoffs, · James said~ taking a break from watching Sunday' s Kansas-Texas game on TV. "I'm trying to execute and find creases and cracks in the defense arid trying to read them. EverythJng has been falling for me, my 3s. my mid-range jwnp shot. my drives and my team- Daily In-Column: 1:00 p . m . Monday-Friday for ln-rtlon Jn Next Day•s Paper Sunday In-Column: 1:00 p.m. frll...,,y For Sundays Paper Monday thru Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Reds blank Blue Jays SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - Matt Belisle polished his bid for the last spot in Cincinnati· s starting rotation on Monday. allowing one hit in four scoreless innings and the Reds beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-0. Belisle (3-0) struck out three and walked one and has allowed just one run in nine innings. "Each outing I try to build on the one before:· Belisle said after his first start of the spring. "It doesn't matter whether I start these games or not because I've done both before." Belisle is competing with Kirk Saarloos, Bobbv Livingston and Paul Wilson for the last spot in the rotation, and all have had good outings recently. "Everybody is trying to win a spot," manager Jerry Narron said. "''m glad I don 'I have to decide today." Monday's win was the Reds' first shutout this spring. Gustavo Chacin (01) allowed two runs on five hits and struck out five in four innings. "I was just trying to throw the ball over the plate and they were swinging at the farst pitch," Chacin said. "I just tried to keep the ball down and keep the tempo faster." Toronto manager John Websjtes: www.mydailytribune.com www.mydailysentinel.com www. mydailyregister.com - - ----- �Page 84 • The Daily Sentinel www.mydallysentinel.com Help Wanted CI .ASSIFIEDS Tuesday, March 13, 2007 Help Wanted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 ALLEYOOP www.mydailysentlnel.com The Daily Sentinel • Page BS 0 ACROSS Phillip Alder NURSING HOUSE SUPERVISOl{ PIHasant Valley Hospital is currently accepting resumes for a Nursing House Supervisor. Experience in an acute care setting preferred. Critical care experience preferred, but not required. Current WV license. Flexible scheduling, excellent salary holidays, health-insurance single/family plan, dental plan, life insurance, vacation, long term disability and retirement. Send resumes to: P I - t Vlllley Hospitlll C/o Hu1111n Resources 1510 Vlllley Drive Point Pleuant, WV 15550 (S04) fi75-U40 Wise Concrete AU types COIKrtte 740-992·5929 740-416-1698 Stanley TreeTrimming & Removal •RENTALS •SALES •SERVICE •FREE DEUVERY •MONTHLY OXYGEN VISITS Work *Reaso nable Ratc:s ,r__IUitli i'F.rsi i·~i i.i o •• rw;n Rivers Tower is accept· Siamese Kitten Male ing apphcations lor waiting $150.00. 740-992·6762 ttst tor Hud-subsized, 1• br, I \ k. \ I .., I I' I 'I II .., apartment. call 675·6679 Equal Housing 0Wonunity \ I I\ I "l1 ~~ r.. 6 A6 I 740-446-00117 Toll Free 877-6611-0007 Tree Service 740- 742-2293 Top • Removal • Trim IIIII' F~RM 4:.=u.v I F41 Call Wayne (404;456-3802 02 H.D. Elect<a Glide CLassic. Suede green and black cruise control . k>wer fairing, 2 windshields, new tires . mustang seat. New 103 HD motor, HD racetuner. thunder header, ultra trunk , lites, 06 compact kamp traU, 1401bs, 19 sq.ft. of storage, 29.000 miles. Motorcycle & trailer $16.000. 446-7527 06 650 KawasakiBrut Force. real tree camo plastic, 2500 BARNEY H1 ll ~; :'E'If St,ll .tl]t' 29670 Bashan Road Racine, Ohio 45771 746-~t-2217 cres Call 304·675·249 Her 6:30 HE'S FIN& II 1111 BASEMENT WATERPROOFING Unconditional lifetiroo guarantee. l ocal references fur- Need to sell your home? Late on payments, divorce, Job transfer or a death? I nished. Established 1975. Call 24 Hrs. (740) 446- 0870. Rogers Basement can buy your home. All casl'l and qud. closing. 740-416· Waterproofing. 3130. 1\ I \ I \I ' A,Jl~ ,-~0/o\, !II;.'( l IIJ•IJE. bU~~ ~-WE. ""' r bOI>Ii 'f'OU GriiJE. ME. 'ffifo,\ "'' ,-1-\0W bO ft\Oft\~A.LWI\'(~ ""' j.lj..IJt 1'\,AA~ t>ll!."i'' LOOI(., 'I'OU~C:> ft\1>.1-1! 'IOOif.l.l."i! f\E.ll. A.T AAniE.'~? 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Apartments in Middleport - - - - - - - From $32 7-$592 _ Call ?40- Full blooded Norwegian 1991 lnle rnalional 425 Cal 15 Speed 46,000 rear Hendrickson Suspension wet line ..... &1986 East Dump Trailer 34 Ft. Flip Tarp&Uner. $21.000. Will Separate. (740)992-5617 81 O~e 992 ' 5064 · Equal Housing 304·895-3796 or 304·895· 86 Silverado Truck. S1.500 Opportunities. 8835 tirm 304-675·7235 HUD HOIIESI HAS SOMETHING FOR YOU!! YOUNG'S Ci\ RPENTER SERVICE 97 Beech Street I! ' '' . Middleport. OH IOxlOxiOxlO Hl-J194 orHl-66J5 I "yu'•pwt's only i I 0 Self.stor...• GARFIELD Must see to appreciate 30 Sanokrh dialec:l R~ 31 Pinblll 10 Exclamation no-no of dlaguat 38 Fanwell 50 52 53 54 isto ROOitt PC key Before Eotu.ry CELEBRITY CIPHER by Luis Campos C8ieb11Y CiP'* CfYI*lo'¥f!IS ate crsaled !rom qootllllort~ by larnclJs peol)le IU .-w:l rment EIC1ll«<a' tn me Ol)hef SUI'(IS tor MOitlel TOday"s due F equals V " HI>L HKSL I>CAJPKNHL NY HDL ALKPLNFL ONY JZL GDJ PLEYLY BLPLAHNJZ , GNHO HJ HDL JZL YNZPLKNHC " GOJ INLY • EZBKL ONBL PREVIOUS SOLUTION - 'I've got one advanl"9": When )'OU're as slow as I am, )'011 don't lOse any speed as you g1ow older. • NFL's Howard Twillej <lkthdrt': usual. ·V C YOUNG Ill 48 Troplcol cough · Graph CANCER (June 21-Juty 22)- Your atlll· ity to get along harmoniously with others IS one of your greatest as&ets - when you want to. Put your charm to work for you on lhOse who can do you the most 2bd Immaculate 2 bedroom apartment New carpet & caotnets. freshly painted & deCorated. WID hookup. Beautiful country sening. PEANUTS ...THE $121/mo, 3bd 2bo $1151mo. More homes available! 5% dn, 20yrs 0 8%. FOI' listings call 1·800·5594109 xF144 lhree spades.) Note that tour hearts can be made 11 East establishes the club suit quickly atways been of importance to your life and they Will be even more so in the year ahead. A number of beneficial circum· stances could develop tor you through those with whom you pal around. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - If there is a new unctenaking at stake that you've been anxious to initiate, proc94KI tvar· lessty with a positive frame ol mind. II you allow doubts to set in, they will cloud your path to progress. ARIES (March 21-April 19)· - Judge career or work matters as realistically as poaaib'e. but alSo give a lot ot credence to the way you instlnctiwly feel about things. 'ltlur iritultion could be your ace in the hole. TAURUS (Aprii20·May 20)- Some kind ot valuable tesson can always be gained through persooal experiences, and that which you learn will be exceptionally strong and to your ad\18ntage. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -You are always fortunate In being Invited to toln into the new wntures ol others, but your posslbiliUea tor fining into something that is already quite success are better than 446-0007 112 ton 4wOrive 4 spd, rebuilt 3 18 wf38~ Sprswampers $3,200. 740· puppies. No papers Call 256·6543. 0- 28 PoiHt 7 Harbor 8 Blue t Ricky ••day, Merch 14, 2007 By Bernice a.ca. Oeol Family, friends and con tacts have 70 Pine Street • GaiUpo& r1· tritnd 37 Topplod 1- 1001 1Mmbtnl 1 job 25 Blhrlin YIP 46 Gentnl 26 c-vicinity lqueur) Ku'oc 48 lltller 6 Wuodwc:lki., 28 Nell in line Ingredients 'Wed~ & MEDICAL EQUIPMENT Pole Barns 30)(4Qx10'· 740-388-3455 $6,495. 40x80x 12'=$12,995 " TRUCKS Free Delivery Call (937)71 8· IUit SUJ.: r.:.ly rfQI 45 Hold- overcaller's suit, here responding - tiOW WELL I REMEMBER WHEN WAS FIRST &IHEN BY THE SHUTTER BUC>' 'C'ES, ... t<IIC>l, , I IT F-Eatlmatn lfamil-tl•..l!'·)l'l6!'l'l11!!ri"i!ft:"• 5· 1O's. 93000 M~es $3250 F1rm. •All electric- a...er..ing $50·$60/month •Owner pays water, sSwer, floor. A/C. lull basement. - - - - - - - plenty of kitchen cabinets, t6x80 Mobile Home 3br, lots of closet space. nice 1/2 2ba. 3 miles \rom town. acre yard, 740-949-2303 or Caruthers Mobile Home 591-:!920. Park 304·675·3818 lor Oeliverad or (740)441-0941 , (740)6455946. CAA HEAP accepled. 99 Chrysler Concord LX. •Washer/dryer hookup 1 br Trailer in Letart fur· 3 Ek & 2 full baths. stone nished. all utilities paid. house in Pomeroy. newly $350 a month (304}882· refnodeled. nice hard wood 2858 firewood hearts, untess using cue-bid raises. West jumps to game. and with a Oame·fon::lng raise, he cue-bids the ~ 74~367-11544 • Home Oxygen • Portable Oxygen • Homefill System • Hellos System t 35 ...... slrip .Astro- BIG NATE We Deliver To You! $2100. (740)379-2748 All pass enough. AfteJ ruHing the second spade, he may draw one round of trumps. but he must then anack clubS to win 10 tricks. Far more points are lost with cautious passes than with aggressive calls. ' F-EIIIm IIIEIT I~NOW? 74!l-367-Q536 1989 CuUass Calais. 4 Or. V6, PL, Cassette, Garage Kept, New tires, 84K. Clean, t • calcll1l 34 Shogun's r:=r 43 Reidy to 23 Porcupine, 44Mtn:tdol 3 Excuw nw! 24 ~Ji.son 4 Tortlllo dip and on 33AUiurnn hearts. (With a normal limit raise in THE BORN LOSER lnou stop & Compare Pau iu"1> overcall. If South had passed. West woukl have raised one heart to two hearts, so now he may bid three I David Lewis 740-992-6971 Jtl-112·1111 2• Concr'ete Removal and Replacement I I 26 Years Experienre ,...,BISSEll ...... EISI The basK: rule is trial you may bid one level higher after an opponenl's weak " l hI , I "I I{' I I I ' near Vinton. Call (740)441- Nonh '\ , 1 I\~, $4500. 740.446-1327 Moblto Homo Lol for ront West 41 Fllllblock his hand, trumped a heart on the board, and ruffed another diamond, bringing down the ace. Back to dummy with a trump, South discarded his club k>ser on the diamond king and claimed. I I I\ I ... 1 I 1 '\. , C~te~~ 2005 Honda 500 Foreman. 4x4. green. new tires. new warn winch. great condition. 4br House in ciirton, $425/monlh + Deposit 304593-4819 after 5pm IN THAR, THEN l__J.24:59~St~·&R1t.&l60w~-~c-aiitll~poll;~·i..___j wench, serious calts only, $5800. 740-416-4992 I Point Pleasant over HE 740.446.9200 22 Landing 37 u-r~ve~ club ace, drew trumps ending in his hand, and led his diamond, playing low trom the board. East won with his jack and returned a club, but declarer won on the board, ruffed a diamond in ·HE FUSSES 'TIL 1 PUT EV'RY www.ttwt •• a a·Jcc•b!Drltl7·•• __, 14 Small bill 17 Rocks 18- two-spade weak jump OVEWCall. Should Wast pass, 01 raise 10 thr" hurts? When West paSsed, North happily raLaed to four spadea. He was not coofidant that the conttact WCM.Ud make, bu1 he wantec1 to lake bidding SpaG<I away from 1l1e opponenll. -'gainol four spades, Wool led the heart ~ng. conlinued wllh 111e hear1 queen, and shifted to 111e club lack. Soolh, conlldent lha1 Eut hold lhe diamond aoe, won in his hand with the F't..Ovf! Commercial building "For Aenr 1600 square feel. ott 18 Bridge oiNKIIon -Is 51 Copture 20 Cor-.cl 60 Prop 21 Kind ol rack 61 Mom's girt 23 -Dnn Chong DOWN 24 Hit~i~Uyan 1 Soften up 2 Ouelifltd 27=s First, 6ook at the West hand. Eut opens one heart and SOuth makea 1 F:Q%r:t00' street parking. Great toea· tion! 749 Third Avenue in Gallipolis. Rent $400/mo. ,., Soulh A cautious pass gives a bad result PASTA TALJC lako 58 K1nd 36 Brfgltte's Budcet Truck Repair 740.992-2432 Get reacty for spring also selling ATV Parts 321 t9 Welchtown Rd . Pomeroy, OH 45769 .) 51 11-. 55 Moo goopan 56 Nw builder 57 Ctovellnd's 29 ~lntnt 32 Cooldt man 5 -lllril Opening lead: • K FRANK & EARNEST j2 - ohout Dealer: East VuiDerable: Both Jim'• Small Engine _.l •• 6 8 I 'I K Q 10 t'AJ962 tl0876 3 t A Q J 6 J tO 9 • Q·n' South 6QI09781 70 Pine Street • Gallipolis 12 Vlfdi c:MIItngo 16 Serving lid Eosl 38 - Lankl 39 fill hole 40 Eacludt 41 Photo 42 Make an 4 llty 111ompt I Find the tllorl tum 44 Bl- tlrHI 11 Cinemu In Memphis rival 47 Things 13 LawOCOA 15 Ct1mbtr's .., a s a • Sfllllp 6rinding AA/EOE West 1 Way o1 Lloolzu princ.o 6 K8 I MONTY & MEDICAL EQUIPMENT *ln.-.urcd *Ell.pericn'"ed Refcrcn~o:es Available! Call Gary Stanley @ -pvalley.orw: ~ll-e7 Nort• 6 A K J ; ., 7 ' t K 95 2 r]ami/1} •·>MHM• *Prum(>t and Qualily ]04-675-6975 Or apply online at: ._ Ailumli FORi i i RENi l!'i i~'I'S-·' NEA Crossword Puzzle BRIDGE good. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - Being kind and of aer\llce to o1hera encourages reciproc· ity sometime in the future. Those yoo help w~! be partiCularly grateful and will be at your beck and call IIi often as you need them . VIAGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - You shOuld be able to find that your sell-interests will be more elfecliwly advanced by using one~-one tlelllings, with those pertinent 10 your plans. A.\IOid committee involve- KRYEJ I' I I HU 8 SY ... 0 I ~ •· I I I ..,. ~ • PRINT NUM6ER£D lfTTIRS IN THESE S9\!AI!$ • UNSCtAMelE IIBOVE lETTERS TO GfT ANSWER 11111,1 s~u-u Le&fi:Y - CroWD - KIIOI:k- Hyphen- WEAKLY "MillY ..... tbo modler of .. boys told blr tieDtl, ''will..-.to clela tbo.lr rooat11 WEAKLY." tC.iif.\uri ANSWIU ARLO&JANIS ments. liBRA {Sept. 23-0d. 23)- What makes you such a strong finisher I& your ability to gain continuous momentum as you move forward. Zero in on projects or fNans we.re there is something big 111 the finilh line. SCOAPtO (Oct 24·Nov. U) - You are likely to fare better in important dlacu$- aionl relating 10 your WOik. It you conduct 1hef'n at N end of the day whwt othert INn'tlnundated. HI...,. your ideM $400/mo. (614)595-7773 or _ _ ,_rly, 1-800- 796-468IL w- SAGITi'AAIUS (New. 23-Dec. 21) - Midd., N.4thA'IIe .. 2 room effiency. Dep.& prev1ous rental references. No pets Utilities paid. 740·992·0165. Mow in now and SENe $100 on the tirst monttl"s rent. 2BA Apts. 6 miles from Holzer. Wa.tet, sewer, trash paid. 740-682-9243 Of 988- .......... -IIZ='=&~R=lll•l•• II' I . . . . . . ~ ~ 0 6130 Somo1hing - materta.t ucurity, · could ad\W'ICe your • ltin1ng wftlln vour rwlm of operation~. ~ perton who 1\kM you may hll..,. • hllnd In jarring 1hlngo fo< yolj . CAPAICOA'I (Doc. 22-Jon. 18) - The tmart wilt alwaya outraoe the IWift when It COI'nM '-J tough oompetitJve lltuationa, 0 0 •- ~ New 2BA apartments. Washer/dryer hookup, Slo'Je/retrlgeraror induded. Also. units on SR 160. Pets Wekxlmel (740)441 -0194. · GRIZZWELLS I '«~ J\l'OT <*ICt ~ Oll.llt> ~ 1\1£' ~\.!) Taking applications tor Modern 1 BR, No pets. $275/mo includes water/sewer, $200 deposit. (740)446-361 7 eepectalty tnoM or ;rat \laJue. OUttNnk your oompetltott lnttad of trying to out- ' run tnem. AQUARIUS (Jwt . 20-F~ . 1S) -You will ,.,. much bettet 1t you allow ......,.. to run their nab.lral coureee lnetNd of attempting to Joroe, iNUM to advance. You COYid be ~Jty tudty In Sltua· tiona of chance. SOUPTONUTZ ~" ~me:. Yea>< . 8JT -~ a~ Tara Townhouse Spacious. 2 Bedrooms, CIA, 1 1/2 Apartments, Ver~ Balh. AduH Pool & Baby Pool, Patio, Start $425/Mo. No ........;....:.._ _ __.._.._._...4 L,io.,.;:.;.;...~"'--....;.-._..;;...= ' Pets. Lease Plus Security Deposit Required, (740)367-7086. • I Low In C411>R1tiS, "" \Tdll~OOT . • �Page 84 • The Daily Sentinel www.mydallysentinel.com Help Wanted CI .ASSIFIEDS Tuesday, March 13, 2007 Help Wanted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 ALLEYOOP www.mydailysentlnel.com The Daily Sentinel • Page BS 0 ACROSS Phillip Alder NURSING HOUSE SUPERVISOl{ PIHasant Valley Hospital is currently accepting resumes for a Nursing House Supervisor. Experience in an acute care setting preferred. Critical care experience preferred, but not required. Current WV license. Flexible scheduling, excellent salary holidays, health-insurance single/family plan, dental plan, life insurance, vacation, long term disability and retirement. Send resumes to: P I - t Vlllley Hospitlll C/o Hu1111n Resources 1510 Vlllley Drive Point Pleuant, WV 15550 (S04) fi75-U40 Wise Concrete AU types COIKrtte 740-992·5929 740-416-1698 Stanley TreeTrimming & Removal •RENTALS •SALES •SERVICE •FREE DEUVERY •MONTHLY OXYGEN VISITS Work *Reaso nable Ratc:s ,r__IUitli i'F.rsi i·~i i.i o •• rw;n Rivers Tower is accept· Siamese Kitten Male ing apphcations lor waiting $150.00. 740-992·6762 ttst tor Hud-subsized, 1• br, I \ k. \ I .., I I' I 'I II .., apartment. call 675·6679 Equal Housing 0Wonunity \ I I\ I "l1 ~~ r.. 6 A6 I 740-446-00117 Toll Free 877-6611-0007 Tree Service 740- 742-2293 Top • Removal • Trim IIIII' F~RM 4:.=u.v I F41 Call Wayne (404;456-3802 02 H.D. Elect<a Glide CLassic. Suede green and black cruise control . k>wer fairing, 2 windshields, new tires . mustang seat. New 103 HD motor, HD racetuner. thunder header, ultra trunk , lites, 06 compact kamp traU, 1401bs, 19 sq.ft. of storage, 29.000 miles. Motorcycle & trailer $16.000. 446-7527 06 650 KawasakiBrut Force. real tree camo plastic, 2500 BARNEY H1 ll ~; :'E'If St,ll .tl]t' 29670 Bashan Road Racine, Ohio 45771 746-~t-2217 cres Call 304·675·249 Her 6:30 HE'S FIN& II 1111 BASEMENT WATERPROOFING Unconditional lifetiroo guarantee. l ocal references fur- Need to sell your home? Late on payments, divorce, Job transfer or a death? I nished. Established 1975. Call 24 Hrs. (740) 446- 0870. Rogers Basement can buy your home. All casl'l and qud. closing. 740-416· Waterproofing. 3130. 1\ I \ I \I ' A,Jl~ ,-~0/o\, !II;.'( l IIJ•IJE. bU~~ ~-WE. ""' r bOI>Ii 'f'OU GriiJE. ME. 'ffifo,\ "'' ,-1-\0W bO ft\Oft\~A.LWI\'(~ ""' j.lj..IJt 1'\,AA~ t>ll!."i'' LOOI(., 'I'OU~C:> ft\1>.1-1! 'IOOif.l.l."i! f\E.ll. A.T AAniE.'~? CORNER STONE CONSTRUCTION • New Homes • Garages • Complete Remodeling Roofing, Siding, Soffit, Decks, Doors, Windows, Electric, Plumbing, Drywall, Remodeling, Room Additions LCICIII Contractor 3 Contours, 4 Vans, 3 Rangers. 3 4)(4"s, 3 Oak 2 BR. Nice Kitchen , LA, Professionally Painted. Clean, Ready to mo~~e in. Call (740)446-7425 trash (304)882-30l 7 e Beautiful 1 br/1 ba, available right away. must see to sale. Ca11aliers, & pickup. (740)388·8228 3 r 1471 www.nationwidepole- L..------· r bamscom ..._ P'EI~ FOR S\.U: CKC Reg. Toy Poodles, 1 Black, 1 Butt, I light appreciate. cable hookup, - - - - -- -Chocolate. All Male:s. $350 first. last. plus deposit, refer· Gracious living. 1 and 2 becl(740)446-1672 or encas, (740)992·3543 room apartments at Village each, Manor and Riverside (740)710-6471 . Apartments in Middleport - - - - - - - From $32 7-$592 _ Call ?40- Full blooded Norwegian 1991 lnle rnalional 425 Cal 15 Speed 46,000 rear Hendrickson Suspension wet line ..... &1986 East Dump Trailer 34 Ft. Flip Tarp&Uner. $21.000. Will Separate. (740)992-5617 81 O~e 992 ' 5064 · Equal Housing 304·895-3796 or 304·895· 86 Silverado Truck. S1.500 Opportunities. 8835 tirm 304-675·7235 HUD HOIIESI HAS SOMETHING FOR YOU!! YOUNG'S Ci\ RPENTER SERVICE 97 Beech Street I! ' '' . Middleport. OH IOxlOxiOxlO Hl-J194 orHl-66J5 I "yu'•pwt's only i I 0 Self.stor...• GARFIELD Must see to appreciate 30 Sanokrh dialec:l R~ 31 Pinblll 10 Exclamation no-no of dlaguat 38 Fanwell 50 52 53 54 isto ROOitt PC key Before Eotu.ry CELEBRITY CIPHER by Luis Campos C8ieb11Y CiP'* CfYI*lo'¥f!IS ate crsaled !rom qootllllort~ by larnclJs peol)le IU .-w:l rment EIC1ll«<a' tn me Ol)hef SUI'(IS tor MOitlel TOday"s due F equals V " HI>L HKSL I>CAJPKNHL NY HDL ALKPLNFL ONY JZL GDJ PLEYLY BLPLAHNJZ , GNHO HJ HDL JZL YNZPLKNHC " GOJ INLY • EZBKL ONBL PREVIOUS SOLUTION - 'I've got one advanl"9": When )'OU're as slow as I am, )'011 don't lOse any speed as you g1ow older. • NFL's Howard Twillej <lkthdrt': usual. ·V C YOUNG Ill 48 Troplcol cough · Graph CANCER (June 21-Juty 22)- Your atlll· ity to get along harmoniously with others IS one of your greatest as&ets - when you want to. Put your charm to work for you on lhOse who can do you the most 2bd Immaculate 2 bedroom apartment New carpet & caotnets. freshly painted & deCorated. WID hookup. Beautiful country sening. PEANUTS ...THE $121/mo, 3bd 2bo $1151mo. More homes available! 5% dn, 20yrs 0 8%. FOI' listings call 1·800·5594109 xF144 lhree spades.) Note that tour hearts can be made 11 East establishes the club suit quickly atways been of importance to your life and they Will be even more so in the year ahead. A number of beneficial circum· stances could develop tor you through those with whom you pal around. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - If there is a new unctenaking at stake that you've been anxious to initiate, proc94KI tvar· lessty with a positive frame ol mind. II you allow doubts to set in, they will cloud your path to progress. ARIES (March 21-April 19)· - Judge career or work matters as realistically as poaaib'e. but alSo give a lot ot credence to the way you instlnctiwly feel about things. 'ltlur iritultion could be your ace in the hole. TAURUS (Aprii20·May 20)- Some kind ot valuable tesson can always be gained through persooal experiences, and that which you learn will be exceptionally strong and to your ad\18ntage. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -You are always fortunate In being Invited to toln into the new wntures ol others, but your posslbiliUea tor fining into something that is already quite success are better than 446-0007 112 ton 4wOrive 4 spd, rebuilt 3 18 wf38~ Sprswampers $3,200. 740· puppies. No papers Call 256·6543. 0- 28 PoiHt 7 Harbor 8 Blue t Ricky ••day, Merch 14, 2007 By Bernice a.ca. 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REED BREEOOM'1DAILVSENTlNEl.COM MIDDLEPORT Middleport Council Member Jean Craig called on council to consider specific cuts in spending from. the villave's general fund at Monday s regular meeting and council voted unanimously to serve without compensation for calendar year 2007. The action to defer their salaries was approved by council member in light of a projected budget deficit for this year. According to Fiscal Offtl'er Susan Baker. council members are paid $30 per meeting, for up to 24 meetings per year. The cost to the village, including Social Security an(! payroll taxes, is approximately $4,700 per year. I Jol Q...lol I IIIWIT IE hi! I I loi (~Jol I I PI Gills IR INI t foi QJol I IYIG!MIU.IGI .I I tel (!Jol fRITtEtofHfrl I I fol (iJol IEJLIV fmJA.I I I lo1 I loi I to: r 141-l I loi I fol (!JoiN.! slwtor f WDIEialoi oc;.L...L..L!..Il ~~~..LJ.....c:JI Qclo I I I LfA. tFttl I I t lo: Craig urged council to consider a number of costsaving measures to address the projected shortfall, including an increase in efforts to collect old fines, pursuing collection of funds deemed stolen from the water department by a former employee, and using only pan-time police dispatchers to reduce payroll costs. Craig also urged support and passage of the village's proposed three-mill levy. which will appear on the May ballot. '.'The levy is vital to our continued e~istence," Craig said. ".Jf we're not willing to tighten our belts and make cuts where we can, we can't ask the tallpayers to support our shortcommgs." Councilman Ferman Moore said he felt council should further examine the possibility of contracting the operation of the income tax office. and estimated the savings of contracting with Regional Income Tall Administrators at at least $13,000. A RITA representative anended a meeting last year. but council decided not to gursue such a contract. • The proposal deserves consideration," Moore said. "We"re paying $50.000 in wages and other payroll expenses for a one-person operation." In addition to the loss of reveaue from a levy rejected by voters in November. the vtllage is also operating without proceeds from an estate tax settlement received for fiscal year 2006. In other business, Village Administrator Bradford Anderson said a "stop" pad· die and reflective apparel were ordered for crossing guards at Mid- Valley Christian School. but said flashing school zone signs could nul be provided unless grant funding was secured. due to their cost. Brenda Barnhart. school administrator, asked council to address a problem with traffic at the downtown sc hool. which she said poses a safety hazard for students at dismissal time. Craig noted a parking problem at the corner of Beech and Grant Streets. John Tillis asked council to address a parking problem in downtown Middleport. He said customers have complained to him that there are no parking places near his store on North Second Avenue . Council accepted the res- ..,nil 1m I ··un1 ignatinn nf Shannon Smith. an employee of the police department. Police Oflicer Ben Davidson asked that council consider instituting a wage 'cale for police offict:rs. Councilman Ferman Moore said the finance committee would dist·u" the issue . Council also: • Approved the mayor\ report of tines and fees collected in Februarv in the amount of $2 ,731.68. • Appmved paym.ent of bills 111 the amount of $31.186.58. • Approved reports from the income tax. refuse, pubwork~ lil: MIDDLEPORT Middleport Village Council will allow the Middleport Community Association to discharge July 4 fireworks from a location near General Hartinger Park the same site used last year. Fiscal Officer Susan Baker. representing the association, said the association will move part of the July 4 celebration back to Dave Diles Park, but would like to use the site near the Park Street water station as its fireworks site. The River City Players will s~nsor a free concert by Phtl Dirt and the Dozers. tentatively planned for the football stadium on July 4, and the fireworks will be the linale, Baker said. The theater group has collected private donations for the concert. and the association Subml"ed photos Members of the Meigs Middle School State Run ner Up Archery Team. first row. from left. McKenzie Whobrey, Devan Fahey, Oliv1a Cleek, Megan Dyer, Kassandra Mul lins , Samantha King. Thomas Cline; second row (from left) Coach Jeff Jones, Natalie Mic hael , Tiara Richmond. Taylor Jones. Paige Gusler. Olivia Bevin. Teirsa Kopczinsky; third row (from left ) Tyler Dunham. Robert Strohl. Charlie Barrett, Mac Sellers. Travis Mitchell. Eddie Hendricks. Absent. TimmyW1se. Pl111e IM July 4. AS REPORT HUNTINGTON, W.Va. A former Point Pleasant doctOI will be spending a month in jail following a plea agreement to federal drug charges. Breton Lee Morgan, 46. had been facing more than 140 years in a federal penitentiary after pleading guilty to illegally obtaining bydrocodone in December. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers 2 SECllONS - l6 PAGES sentenced Morgan to one month ia jail then three Annie's Mailbox months home confinement and a $5,000 fine. calendars • Last year, Morgan was indicte<l by a federal grand Classifieds 84-6 Jury on29 counts of disttibut· mg the drug and fraudulently Comics 87 obtaining codeine, hydrocodone and dihydrorodeine from four pharObituaries maceutical companies. He also was charged with making BSection Sports false statements to the DEA. According to coun docuWeather ments. Morgan had obtained INDEX Pl111e- Docllw, AS • finance The Meigs Intermediate School State Championship Archery Team , first row, from left, Austin Hennington. Derik H1ll. · Miranda Manley, Brandon Moodispaugh , Trenton Prater, Selena Reynolds , Cody Robinson. Keenan Goble, Joshua Thomas: second row (from lett) Taylor Rowe. Gage Gilkey. Megan Dyer, Bnttany Durst. Jarret Durst. Devin Dugan, Trevor Cundiff. Kimberly Casci. Cody Brockert. Summer Atkinson. Absent. Enc Smith. STAFF REPORT Fonner Point doctor faces one month in jail and departments. Also present were Mayor Sandy lannarelli and Council members Jell Peckham, Robert Robinson. and Sandra Brown. NEWS@MVOAILYSENTINE!...COM STAFF Q.,j'ol I IMIE IUIMfRISJ (!,lol I JwiNI lit IRl El (Vol I 11"1LIS,!HEI I <iM.J..JEI<>fNIRIEI I @.fo I I I INiflul I I (!)Jol I I lolL lold I "" '' . Ill\ d.11 h Middleport to host July4 celebration NEWSOMYOAILYSENTINEL.COM Unscramble the letters to form ordinary words. Then place them In the ff~M!! . E:!!!1!t:!!!!il . crossword grid. Then unscramble the circled ~ I "' ~ · letters to form todays coded message. ! f£! ! I: . I I ) \: I ~I) \\ . .\I \ I{{ II L.J.. :!00... SPORTS . ADVERTISERS VISIT: WINKY \\ WE ARE 'I'HE C Bv BEn! SERGENT BSERGENTOMYOAILYSENTINELCOM RUTLAND - The first state championship in the history of the Meigs Local School District is in the record books and belongs to the Meigs Intermediate School Archery Team with the Meigs Middle School Archery Team coming in second in the state. It was the fm;t offtcal archery toumment for both schools with the intermediate school beating out Maysville by 130 points in their division while the middle school was ed~ed out of the title. barely, also by Maysvtlle with a score of 3,600 to 3.608 which basically came down to the difference of one arrow. Receiving special recognition on the inlerme4iate school's team were Summer Atkinson. fust place female elementary division. Miranda Manley. second place female elementary division, Megan Dyer. third place female elementary division. Taylor Rowe took home the trophy for lirst place male elementary division. Receiving special recognition on the, middle school's team were Kassandra Mullins, second place female junior high division. Paige Gusler. third place female junior high di vision According to Meigs Intermediate School Principal Rusty Bookman Gusler also came in second overall against both boys and girls during a sh(/Ot off where she was beaten by a high school archer from Maysville. Both teams competed against archers of all ages from across the state at the inaugural National Archery in the Schools · Program (NASP) Archery Tournament sponsored by the Ohio Division of Wildlife. With the wins both teams earned a 'spot in the national archery competition on June 9 in Louisville. Ky .. a trip the schools are currentl y trying to raise money to attend. Anyone wishing to make a donation can call the schools for more infornmtion. Bookman also said the intermediate school:s team was honored at a school asse~bly attended by school district and division of wildlife ufl"lcials as well as parents. Individual scores were as follows: Meigs Middle School. Charlie Barrett. 225: Olivia Bevan. 181: Olivia Cleek. 215: Tyler Dunham. 183: Devan Fahey. ~ 10: Paige Gusler. 246: EJdie Hendricks. 198: Taylor Jones. 247: Samantha King. ~I I : Th .. mas Klein. 193: Teirsa Kopuinsky. 201: Brandon King. 234: Natalie Mi,·hael. 235: Travis Mitchell. 25:2: Ka"andra Mtlllins. 261: Tiaira Richmond. I70: Mac Selle". 234: . Robert Strohl. 223 . McKenzie Whobrey. 215: Timmy Wise. 135. Meigs lntenneJiate Sl'hool individual scores. Summer Atkinson. 252 : Cody Brockert. 207: Kimberly Cas.·i. 236: Trevor CunJtff. 228: Devan Dugan. 217: )arret Durst. 236: Brittany Durst. 195 : ~kgan Dyer. 2-10: Gage Gilkey. 209: Keenan Goble. 191 : Austin Hennington. I~:>: Derik Hill . 210: Miranda Mank\ . 24~ : Brandon Moodispaugh . 224 : ·Trenton Prater. 223: Selena Revnulds. 20-1 : Cody Robinson. 173 : Taylor Rowe. 258 . Eric Smith. 238: Josh Thomas. 20 I. Meigs Intermediate and Meigs Middle School coa<"hes induded Dan Thomas. Debbie anJ Tom Lowrey. Bill Prater. Jeff Jones . BraJiev Jones. Karen Walker. Ton)· Dugan·. Rusty Bookman. Four year~ ago Meigs Intermediate School was one of I c pilot schools in Ohio to participate 111 the Ohio Depart ment e~f '\ atu ral .Resource, NASP. targetmg fc•unh graJer,. •• � 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 03. March Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. 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