https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/ebe132c4858786850ce1ce22d35cc80a.pdf 080e3a22f0220f3764db3f577a1291d5 PDF Text Text ' TUesday,Oecernber2a,2004 86 • The natlv Sentinel Rebels launch multiple attacks on Iraqi security forces, lawmakers appeal for unity, A7 - Gallia County father and son are headed for Iraq, A5 \.. at Middleport • Pomeroy, Ohio ."lOli,IS•\oJ.,-,.J. :\o . •)o FIRJT COME • PIRST JERVID BAJIJt .-.pU<A liONS ,A(( E~Tl])t • Late surge lifts Eastern past Vikings. See Page Bl NO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED! NO DEALIRS PL&AS&l $14,995 EOJ67 ,· 199ti STARTING AT RXl78 $16,995 Rll56 NEW 2005 ESCAPE 4X4 OBITUARIES STARTING AT $18,995 Page AS • Ray Brooks, 89 • Harry Junior Douglas, 72 Rlll2 RXl33 NEW SIGNATURE TOWN CAR I LINCOLN ·- 0 - INSIDE 1MERCURY STARTING AT UPTO $23,256 s10JIOOOFF MSRP NEW NAVIGATOR 4X4 NEWMONfER UPTO 10,000 8 OFF • Ohioans swept up in tsunami send a-mails, make calls; one couple killed. See Page A2 • Epidemics could kill as many as quake-tsunamis: World Health Organization. See Page A2 • Gas prices tall two cents in South Central Ohio. See Page AS WEATHER 2001 10RD I SCAPI J. REED BREED@MYDAI l YSEN TINEL. COM began work there. Prior to workin g in th e recorder's office. King was a sa les clerk at Elberfe ld 's Department Store, and worked fo r many years as a telephone operator for GTE. Kin g worked for 18 years as a deputy to Re corder Emmogene Hamilton , who joined Kin g's staff Monday in ·re cognizing her years of service. During her years in the re co rder's office. King ha s seen many changes. particularly the co mput eri zati o n of the office operati ons. Although she has enjoyed ) •. I ' ' . 0 i'' , . ·,, 1- • ' ~ 2001 j( . n Was$17,995 2004 FORD EXPLORER Eddie Bauer Just Arrived! ·~') ·,1~ k()t::) . - . . Jusr ARRtvEo NOW $16,805.,"''" ~u'st~'/!~9R.. 0, , , NO\N $9,705 NOW $18,805 vr/~~~~!~ . ,, 0 NOW $14 ,905 2000 GRAND MARQUIS 1 Jlist A"ived NOW $10,805 "'"'0 2 SEITIONS- 16 PAGES HJJY VW llffA VI' i\S .$1 1.888 NOW $9,705 -:::====== EkPIDITION rrf""'""r._,:':(J:':0:';4'"; FO:R:D;:"" - 2CJ01 CHRYSLER CONTINSNTAL __________________.___________ ,-. 2004 GRAND I'MitQUIS lA RANGER st 4X4 W A 'i SI<! <J<J<J oso11o NOW $17.701 B~an J. Reed/ photo Meigs County Recorder Judy King, second from left. is pictured with fo rmer Recorder · Emmogene Hamilton, Recorderelect Kay Hill , and De puty Recorder Wanda Shank. King w111 retire at the end· of her term in office on Friday. LEATHER WAS $27,995 NOW .$25,905 Calendars A3 Classifieds Bs-6 Comics wete missing. Grieving sur- B7 . Dear Abby A3 Editorials A4 Obituaries As Sports B1 Weather A6 © 2004 Ohio Valle)' Publishing Co . Brian J. Reed / photo Re-elected and newly-elected county officials took the oath of office from Judge Fred W. Crow Ill in a ceremony h.eld Tuesday morning at the Meigs County Courthouse. Pictured are, front, left-right. Clerk of Courts Marlene Harrison. Recorder-elect Kay Hill, Sheriff-e lect Rob ert Beegle, and Treasurer Howard Frank. Back. Engineer Eugene Triplett. Prosecuting Attorney Patrick Story, and County Commissioner Jim Sheets. All but Sheets assume duties on Jan. 1 . Sheets · second term begms on Jan. 3. vivor.\ buried the ir dead by hand. trying Ill ward off an epidemic that the U.N. health agency warned could double the tol l yet again. Acro:,s a doze n countries. millions of people whose hom~:-, were swept away or wrecked by raging walls· of water Sunday struggled to find shelter. · AP Photoj DigttatGtobe This 1s a natural color satellite image showing the coastline on the southwestern city of Kalutara, Sn Lanka taken Dec . 26, 2004 at 10:20 a.m. local time, slightly less than four hours after the 6:28 a.m. (local Sri Lanka time) earthquake and shortly after the moment of tsunam1 1mpact. "My mothe r. no. word.~ My >IStcrs. broth~ rs. aunt. unck. grandmother. nD v. ord ~·· yelled a woman at a makeshift jj:S0390 Actual vehicles may·vary in color and design. 195 Upper River Read GalliPOliS. 01 www.turnpikeflm.com 740•441•1100 . ~ , ·800•171•1 t ,. :MERCURY . LIN C 0 L' N ,I ·------- - ·- - REED Asia's death toll soars above 55,000; officials warn of disease Rates good WAC prices include rebates. Pictures for illustration only. -·----- J. BANDA ACEH. Indonesia - Desperate refugees foraged for coconuts or looted food on · batt ered Sumatra island Tue"lay. as the number kill ed in a mammoth earthquake and tsunami soared above 55.000 and· tens of thou sands stil l INDEX NOW $24,905 Only 24,000 Miles Please see Retiring. AS ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER Low Miles MUSTANG ~o n - · Bv LELY T. DJUHARI . Just Arrived ' 50 " Stationwagon • POMEROY - The Meigs BY CHARLENE HOEFLICH County Sheriff s. Department HOEFLICH@MYDAIl YSEN TINEL.COM is im estigating two breaking ~nd entering incidents and a RUTLAND - A six-weeks vandali sm case m the Chester project of II AmeriCorps memCo urthouse. bers to improve facilities at the Sheriff Ralph Trussell said Rural Action Research and deputies responded to an alarm &lucation Center or Rutlant.l call at the Ridgeview Carryout wtd Reuse Industries or Albw1y on Ohio ()8 1 iu Albany. Upon has now been completed. arrival. they determined that Steve Carriere. AmeriCorps someone attempted to back a representative, said that the vehicle into the store. Damage goal of the team which occurred to the exterior of the arrived in Meigs County in . business. and an ice cooler was early November was to protipped over inside the building. vide much needed assistance Submitted photo Deputie s determined that to the people of Southeast AmeriCorps team members put the fini s hing touches on a trail developed at the Rural Action the \C hicle involved had Ohio by st rengthening the Research and Education Center during their six weeks stay in Me1gs County. wrap-aro und tuill ights and a efforts of th~ two agencies to doughnut spare tire on the promote.economic , social and nmch needed site deve lop- Center's 68-acre researc h and said Carriere . rear. Trussel l a'b anyone environmental justice. 1 ment took place during the demonstration site . The te am '·Major aspects of this task with information about the The Rural Action Center weeks spent there. worked to improve the ex ist- included co n str~t cti n g steps in incident to contac·t his office was the ;najor focus 'area for 'The AmcriCorps members ing trai l system at the center steep terrain and building two at 992-337 1. the team. acc-ording to have worked to re1·i tali ze as well as constru ct some Carriere. who said some much of the Rural Act ion new trai ls on the property.'' Please see Team·; AS Please see Deputies, AS 2CJtJ4 LINt:OLN U FORD her son, Uaughlt!'r and BREE D@MYDAILYSENTIN EL. COM NOW $21,705 11;;;., ' ( her yea rs of publi c service, Kin g louh forwa rd tu her retirement. She said Monda y she soon will travel to th e warm climate or Arimna. to spe nd time with BY BRIAN MOONROOF WAS$22,995 I d \ .tldt~••l•.,ll• Deputies investigate B&E incidents - - Taking the oath - - LEATHER, . l\1\\\lln d •• AmeriCorps team gets things done in Meigs County NEW2005 NEW RANGER EOCE SC BY BRIAN POMEROY - After 23 years of servi ce to the county, Meigs County Recorder Judy King will leave office on Friday. ·s he was honored Monday with a reception hosted by her uflice staff. King was appointed re corder in August, 1999, and was elected to a full term in 2000, but her service in the recorder's office be gan in 1981, when she was hired by Recorder Eleanor Robson, who died in office shortly after Kin g 2005 F-SERIES STARTING AT l•l ·.tl . t\IBI •. It:..!4) ,:~ oUJ Retiring recorder honored for years of service SPORTS All \\ID:\11.'11)\\ ---,------- - - - - - - - -- - - - ----'--' 4 .. morgue rn Lhokseumawe. lndon~s t a . "Where are they? Please see Toll, Al �PageA2 WORLD The Daily Sentinel e-mails, make ; one couple killed Bv THE AssociATED PRESS The Sundaralingams had left several weeks ago to vacation in Sri Lanka with their daughter and son-in-law, Sharmini and Shiva Shanker, of Upper Arlington. The younger couple and their children weren't injured because they were visiting the capital city of Colombo, on the western coast of the island nation, when the giant waves hit ihe eastern coast, said the Sundaralingam's son, Rohan Sundaralingam. Elizabeth North, 34, foimerly of Chagrin Falls, a Cleveland suburb, was in a hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, with a severed hand and a broken leg, said Jim Voelkel, her brother-inlaw. Voelkel said doctors were going to reattach her hand. North's parents, Patricia and Robert, left from Chargin Falls to go to Thailand to be with her. Voelkel said. "She is one of the fortunate," he said. He said Elizabeth North had to use some ingenuity and personal networking to get a message home. "Libby was able to get information about her situation to a friend from Chicago in Thailand, who then e-mailed a woman in Chicago, who called the family in Ohio and spoke directly to Patty (North) at about 4:15 a.m. on Saturday," Voelkel said. Since then, he and his wife Maggie, the victim's sister, have spoken with her by telephone. "She described the scenario. She said there were two waves. She was pinned under first, then another came in pushing her deeper into debris. She's in extremely good spirits under the circumstances," Voelkel said. She was vacationing on the island Phi Phi with a friend, Ben Abels, who was still missing Tuesday, Voelkel said. Ted and Natalie Wilhelm were eating breakfast on a Sri Lankan beach wheii the waves hit. Wilhelm, 32, a Toledo native, and Natalie, told friends and family via e-mail Monday that they were safe. "Frankly, Natalie and ~had to fight for our lives, and many did not make it," Wilhelm wrote in his message. "Buildings, power lines, concrete walls, and more crashed about us. and cars, trucks, and cattle were floating in the massive tide." Scott Brindley, 25, Sandusky. a teacher at a private school in Seoul, Korea, was on vacation on one of the Phi Phi Islands with two co-workers when the tsunami occurred, said Donna Scalia, Brindley's mother in Sandusky. She spoke with her son by phone. She said Brindley explained that he and his friends clung to a roof, wearing only their bathing suits. They later helped Thai officials drag coqises onto a pier. If it weren't for a fisherman who rowed them to safety, they might not be alive, she said. Ohioans who were hurt or escaped injury in the massive earthquake and tidal waves that killed more than 55,000 people in southern Asia and Africa used e-mails and phone calls to inform relatives they were OK. A scientist who formerly was on the faculty at Ohio State University and his wife were among the dead in Sri Lanka, one of II countries devastated by tsunamis. Muttaiya Sundaralingam. 73. and his wife. lndirani. 63. of Upper Arlington, a suburb of Columbus. were vacationing in their native country. Muttaiya Sundaralingam was a scientist known for his work in X-ray crystallography. a study determining the structure of nucleic acids and proteins. He retired from Ohio State in 2001, after being named as an eminent scholar at the university. However, Sundaralingam continued his research in retirement and recently had a paper published. "He had a strong international status," said Prabir Dutta, chair of the chemistry department at Ohio State. "He had a very high profile. We' ll miss him." Libby North, 34, originally from Chagrin Falls, Ohio and a currrent resident of Portland, Oregon, is shown in this recent undated family photo. North was seriously injured by the tsunami 1n the Indian Ocean. She and traveling companion Ben Abels were staying in a bungalow on the island of Phi Phi off the coast of Thailand when the wave hit, causing the bungalow to collapse, crushing her leg and arm. North was evacuated to Phuket Island and on to Bangkok where she Is lr critical condition and undergoing surgery. Abels is still among the missing. ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER GENEVA - The World Health Organization warned on tuesday that disease in the aftermath of southern Asia's tsunami disaster could kill as many people as the deadly waves and earthquake have . Governments in 12 nations are still trying to determine how many were killed in the devastation wreaked by Sunday's quake and the tsunamis it caused. The death toll has surpassed 50,000 is expected to rise. But with relief officials warning of possible cholera epidemics and malaria, Dr. David Nabarro, head of crisis. operations for WHO, told reporters in Geneva that "there is certainly a chance that we could have as many dying from communicable diseases as from the tsunami." Nabarro said the main threat to life now is communicable diseases associated with alack of clean water and sanitation. "The initial terror associat- ed with the tsunamis and the earthquake itself may be dwarfed by the longer term suffering of the affected communities," Nabarro warned. Local ·hospitals and health services are already overwhelmed by the initial impact of the earthquake, and so are less able to cope with people who may fall ill, Nabarro said. "So our focus, with the governments and with civil society organizations throughout the region, will be on saving lives, preventing disease and promoting recovery of the essential infrastructure for public health and well-being," he explained. "The assessments are underway." Relief organiiatlons are distributing supplies over II countries in Asia and Africa, and the United Nations has said it will likely make its largest ever appeal for humanitarian funding in response to the disaster. The hardest-hit countries are Indonesia, whose Aceh region was closest to the epicenter of Sunday's earthquake, Sri · Lan)(a, Thailand and India. • AP Photo Rescue and clean-up crew survey a flooded lobby at the Seapearl Beach Hotel along Patong Beach on Phuket Island, Thailand, on Tuesday after massive tsunami waves smashed coastlines Sunday morning. The government said 1,516 people died. among them more than 700 tourists. Toll from Page A1 Where are they? I don't know where to start looking." Along India's southeastern coast, hospital teams stood by to help the injured, but three days after the disaster still spent most of their time tabulating the dead as ambulances hauled in more bodies. A French cultural center in Thailand's capital provided clothes and food for tourist families left with nothing when the sea battered southern beach resorts. One of the most dramatic illustrations of nature's force came to light Tuesday when reporters reached the scene of a Sri Lankan train carrying beachgoers that was swept into a marsh by a wall of water Sunday, killing at least 802. Eight rust-colored cars lay in deep pools of water in a ravaged palm grove, torn off wheels and baggage scattered among the twisted rails .. "Is this the fate that we had planned for? My darling, you were the only hope for me," a young man cried for one of the train victims - his uni versity sweetheart- as Buddhist monks prayed nearby. Indonesia's Health Ministry said in a statement that thousands more bodies .were found Tuesday, raising to more than 27,000 the number of confirmed deaths in parts of Sumatra island, the territory closest to the epicenter of "Some areas are still hard the quake that sent tsunami to get to, but we're now mov- waves rolling across the ing into Aceh and finding Indian Ocean. The count did early signs of a really terrible not include a report of 10,000 humanitarian tragedy in that more dead in the region part ot" Indonesia, and we're around one coastal city. Sri Lanka listed 21,700 peomuch more aware now of the needs in Sri Lanka, and ple dead, India 4,400 and Maldives and in the other Thailand I ,500, with the toll countries," Nabarro said. expected to rise. A total of more than 300 were killed in Malaysia. Myanmar. Bangladesh, the Maldive s. Somalia. Tanzania. Seychelles and Kenya. Officials had not yet counted the dead in two zones that suffered the brunt of both the earthquake and the tsunami that followed : the west coast of Sumatra and India's remote Andaman and Nicobar archipelagos just norlli of Sumatra. Purnomo Sidik, national disaster director at Indonesia's Social Affairs Ministry. said I0.000 people had been reported killed in and around Meulaboh, a poor Sumatran town where most people are fishermen or workers on palm oil plantations. In India, · police said 8,000 people were m1ssmg and feared dead on the two island chains. Television footage from overtlights of Meulaboh and other parts of Sumatra's west coast showed thousands of homes underwater. Refugees tleeing the coast described surviving on little more than coconuts before reaching Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province on Sumatra's northern tip, which itself was largely tlattened by the quake. "The sea was full of bodies," said one refugee , Sukardi Kasdi, who sailed a ·small boat to Banda Aceh to seek help for his family in Surang. He said his family had nothing to eat but coconuts. "I don't know how long everyone .else will survive," he said. With aid not arriving quick enough, desperate people in Meulaboh and other towns in Aceh were stealing whatever food they could find. officials said. ,;People are looting, but not because they are evil, but they are hungry," said Red Cross official lrman Rachmat in Banda Aceh. The nuoding uprooted land . mines in Sri Lanka - ·. torn for ycurs by a civil war threatening to kill or maim aid workers and survivors attempting to return to what's left of their homes. Aid groups struggled to mount what they described as the largest relid" operation the world has ever seen, and to head off the threat of cholera and malaria epidemics that could break out where water supplies are polluted with bodies and debris. Dr. David Nabarro. head of crisis operations for the World Health Organization. warned that disease could take as many lives as Sunday"s dev,!'tation . .. The Initial terror associated with the tsunamis and the earthquake ibelf may be dwarfed by the longer term suffering of the affected communities." he told reporters at the U.N. agency"s offices in Geneva. A government official in India said Sunday 's devastahad overwhelmed tion authorities. who were only now getting relief operations under control and starting to address health concerns. "It was all sudden and unexpected. There were just too many bodies to recover," Veera Shanmuga Moni said. "Now that we are close to finishing that job, we will now take care of sanitation and supply of clean water." The United States, Japan. Australia and other nations pledged million s of dollars to help the rel ief effort , and some sent military transport planes and helil·opters to carry medical teams . and emergency supplies. Urgent Care Holiday Hours Christmas Eve, December . . 24 Main Facility Jackson, Athens. Meigs Facilities Christmas Day, December 25 Main Facility ·Jackson ,Athens, Meigs Facilities HOLZER CLINIC PROUD TO BE APART OF YOUR UFE. New Year's Eve, December 31 Main Facility Meigs Facility Jackson and Athens Facilities New Years Day, January 1 Main Facility JacksonAthens. Meigs Facilities The Daily Sentinel 1pm-6 30pm 12pm-6 30pm 1pm-6:30pm 12pm-6•30pm 1pm-9pm 12pm-9pm . 9am-9pm 1pm-6:30pm 12pm-6 30prn Subscribe today • 99i·2155 • www.mydailysentinel.com _______ , __;, ________ __________ _,_ Sister's practical jokes are no laughing matter PORTLAND - Jerry and Cheryl Smith of Portland announce the birth of a son, Jerry Malachi Smith, born on Sept. 17. He weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces. The infant has two sisters, Stacy and Brittany Black. - Grandparents are Don and Mary Smith of Racine, Agnes Sellers of Portland and the Larry Sellers, and great-grandparents are Dan and Donna Jean Smith of Racine, Ruth Sellers of Portland and Betty Wilson of Belpre. Josephine Smith of . Racine i.s.a great-great-grandmother. DEAR ABBY: My husband ignored hi' queq ion' and wrote about other th1n gs comes from a family of practical jokers. When I firq marwmputer., and pet-. In h" third e-mail. he ll>iuntecrcJ ried ;'Vince," I tolerated it. that he onl y ""co-ex i,ted ·· However, after my sister-inwith his wife and ' aid the} law, "Vicki," sent a stripper Dear were probably headeu for to my office as a birthday surAbby divorce. prise, I asked her politely and At that point , red lla ~, went firmly to stop. All my request Jerry Smith up. I e-maile<.l him tlwt I JiLIdid was provoke her to conn 't think our corrc , pondence tinue hounding me and to standing firm thai Vicki is no was a good idea becau'e it escalate the jokes. Her last "joke" was the last longer welcome in our home. could cau>e pro blems for straw. Vi .nce and I had She has ne ver apologized and him. even if he wa ' looking Grossnickle and Sylvia Webb . planned a dream vacation to seems to enjoy showing up at only for fricnd,hip . I abo sa1d Each one attending decorated Europe. Vicki called our our house, forcing u' 10 deny I hoped he would C<m.sider a container with potpourri. travel agent and attempted to her entry. How can we get her marriage coun,e ling . red velvet ribbon, pine cone.,, cancel it over the phone. She to stop harassi ng us, and how He replied with an angry eholly berries and a candle. had our confirmation num- can we get the family to rec- mail saying I had otfcndcu Devotions were given by Marlene Putman and for roll ber and my credit ca rd infor- ognize the seriousness of him by suggesting that he his wife. and call members exchanged fin- mation. It's lucky that I'm this"' - TICKED OFF IN would cheat that I should refrain from close friends with the travel HOUSTON ger food recipes. agent, who knew il wasn't DEAR TICKED OFF: such arrogant a~ . . umptiun.., in me . Thinking we were vic- Your sister-in-law appears to the future . I'm not 'ure if I oveNepped tims of a credit card scam. have gone off the deep end. she ended the call and con- There is a differen'ce between my bounds )lnd owe him an a practical joke and malicious apology, or if he i' a Jeks II ill. A card was read from tacted me at work. Besides nearly costing us mischief. a fact that seems an<.l Hyde who shuuld he Charlotte Hern. Quarterly birthdays were thousands of dollars in unre- lost on the woman. Until she avoided altogether observed with the honorees fundable travel costs. we grows up and sobers up, you WANTS TO DO THE RIGHT being Charlotte Grant, realized that Vicki had are within your rights to dis, THING IN CAROLir\A Thelma White, Sandy White, DEAR WANTS TO DO tance yourselves from her. It Janet Depoy, Esther Smith, snooped through our personal lnzy Newell, Ruth Smith, and belongings. How else could may take a restraining order THE RIGHT TH ING : Th e she have obtained my credit to keep her away. but it might right thing to do is stop the cArden Depoy. Others attending were card numbers and the confir- be an effective way to mails: Delete him from Y<'ur Laura Nice, Julie Fleming, mation number for the trip? impre ss the seriousness of the computer and your life . You Erma Cleland, Gary Holter, We canceled all our credit problem upon the family. do not owe him an apolog) or Everett Grant, Mary Holter, cards, had new ones issued. DEAR ABBY: I am a any further contact. You and Opal Hollon. and warned Vicki that we're woman in mv 30s with an thou ght he was a harml: " thoroughly checking all of outgoing personality. A few old man. and you "ere nnil weeks ago I struck up a con- half right. our records. Dear Abby i.i written by This has caused a huge rift versation with an elderly man in the family. While my in - in a store. We shared a com- Abigail Van Buren, aim laws agree that what Vicki mon interest in computers, so known as )emme Phillips, and did was wrong. they insist in I gave him my e-mail was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write IJear .the next breath that we address. In his first two e-mails. he Abby at www.DearAbby.com shouldn't take it so seriously. VVednesday, Dec. 29 POMEROY -Enterprise and we need to have a sense suggested we have lunch and ur P.O. Box 69440, IA> .I United Methodist Church of humor. Vince and I are asked if I was married. I Angeles, CA 90069. Community Prayer Meeting. with prayer for community. nation and world, 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 31 RUTLAND -New Year's Eve Nightwatch Service and candlelight service, 8 p.m .. The Daily Sentinel • Subscribe today • 992-2155 Rutland Freewill Baptist Church. Preaching by Randy Parsons and Pastor Jamie Fortner. Sunday,Jan.2 RUTLAND - Rutland Freewill Baptist Church. 7 p.m .. special service with the Compton s from Mt. Gay, W.Va. ·Garden club celebrates holiday Epidemics could kill as many as quaketsunamis: World Health Organization Bv SAM CAGE Wednesday, December 29, 2004 Smiths announce birth . of AP Photo/The North Family BY THE BEND The Daily Sent~el Wednesday, December 29, 2004 Ohioans swep~~~ tsunami send PageA3 ·-·-·----- -- -·- -··-----------·· - . " --. REEDSVILLE -The annual Christmas meeting of the Riverview Garden Club was held at the Maxine Whitehead home with members taking mittens, gloves, socks, and underwear for children at the K-2 school. Members also exchanged gifts as a part of the meeting. Earlier the members had provided gifts for patients at Rock Springs Rehabilitation Center. At the November meeting, members enjoyed making a Christmas craft under the direction of Margaret on DofA members observe Christmas CHESTER - A Christmas program highlighted the recent meeting of Chester Council 323. Daughters of America, held at the hall. Esther Smith read the Christmas story, Janet Depoy gave the story of the candy cane, and Deloris Wolfe talked about the origin of the 12 days of Christmas. There were readings, "Robin Red Breast" by Thelma White, and "The Legend of the Camels" and "Footprints in the Snow" by Mary.Jo Barringer. Games were played and gifts exchanged. Followin~ the ritualistic opening with flag pledges, scripture reading, giving the Lord's Prayer and singing the National Anthem, members welcomed Shirley Beegle who has been ill and reported Everett Grant recuperating from eye surgery. Barbara Sargent hospitalized , Helen Wolf and Goldie Frederick, Community Calendar Public meetings VVednesday,~c.29 ALBANY -Columbia Township Trustees. year-end meeting, organizational meeting to follow, 7 · p.m., Columbia Township Firehouse. Thursday, Dec. 30 LANGSVILLE The Salem Township Trustees will meet at 6 p.m. at the Salem Fire House on Ohio 124. SYRACUSE ·Sutton Township Trustees year-end and organizational meeting, 5 p.m. at·Syracuse village hall. REEDSVILLE -Olive Township Trustees regular meeting, 6:30 p.m., Oliv~ Township Garage. Year-end processing and discussion of any business before the board. DARWIN - Bedford Township Trustees, year-end meeting, 5 p.m., town hall. Friday, Dec. 31 PORTLAND - Lebanon Township Trustees will meet at 8 a.m. at the township garage. LETART Letart Township Trustees year-end meeting. 5 p.m. at the office building. Organizational meeting to follow. · ~onday,Jan.3 POMEROY -Meigs County Board of Health, 5 p.m., conference room of health department office, 112 E. Memorial Dr., Pomeroy. Annual fiscal issues, regular monthly business meeting. Clubs and organizations Friday, Dec. 31 MIDDLEPORT - Meigs County Girl Scouts Polar Express Holiday Event, I to 3 p.m., Middleport Church of Christ, for girls 5-11. Activities · include craft, refreshments. music, story telling. Fee for registered Girl Scouts is $3, $13 for other girls, including membership application fee. Financial assistance is available. Information from Shirley Cogar at 992-2668, Steve Grady, 667-391 7, or Jerrena Ebersbach at 992-7747. Tuesday, Jan. 4 MIDDLEPORT Middleport Lodge 363, F&AM reglar business meeting 7:30p.m. at the temple. ---~ . FAMILY Church services Proud to be apart ofyour life: Birthdays Sunday, Jan. 2 SYRACUSE - The 90th birthday of Wilda Wiseman will be celebrated with an open reception tram 2 to 4 p.m. at the Pomeroy Library. The familv asks that those attending not bring gilts. Cards may be brought to the reception or sent to her at P.O. Box 755, Syracuse. Oho 457.79. Deluxe DYD Ploye. with ony 1900-11499 Len• ·~ Purchase . . ·. ~ r \:.::~J ~~·~ MEDICINE with each drink. regardless of period of socializing over cofhow accustomed the person is fee provides guests time to to drinking. So, when your sober up before heading home. Anybody. including your triend has violated the rule of thumb I gave earlier, don't problem friend, who is obviallow him to drive home ously drunk should not be regardless of how sober, or in allowed io drive under ANY control, he thinks he is. circumstances. Instead, insist Statistics from the National they stay overnight, go home Highway Transportation Safety with somebody else or tilke a Administration show that alco- taxi. This isn't just for their hol-related deaths among safety and that of other younger drivers have decreased motorists: but also for your significantly since 1993. That's protection . In some states you good news. Concerned people may now be held legally like you are part of the reason responsible for any injury the for this positive trend. Let's j ntoxicated person causes continue the trend and make after leaving your party drun~ . . On behalf.of all of us at the this New Year's Eve the safest ever. Here are a few tips that Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. I' d will help: • Suggest your guests c.ome like to wish all mv readers in groups and that each group and their families a yery happy, peaceful New Year. select a "designated driver." Family Medicine® is .a • Make non-alcoholic beverages available, preferably weekly column. To .mbmit served in the same type of questions, write to Martha A. glasses as the alcohol, for the Simpson, D.O., M.B.A., Ohi!J Cql/ege of designated driver and for University anyone else who chooses not Osteopathic Medicine, P.O Box IIO, Athens, Ohio 45701, to consume alcohol. • Guests should not be per- or vin e-mnil to readerquessuaded to drink, nor ridiculed tions@familymedicinenews.o if they choose not to. , rg. Medical information in this co/um11 is provided as a11 • Snacking should be educational serl'ice only. It encouraged. • Coffee should be served in does not replace the judgment the last hour or so of the party. of your persorwl physician, On the last point, let me who .~lwuld be relied 011 to make it clear that coffee does diagnose ami recommend not counteract the alcohol as treatment for a11y medical some people believe . conditio11s. Past colrumts are However. it does offset available online at wwwjamdrowsiness. and a lengthy ilymedicillellews.org. ;j,ji '• Portable DVD Player You're responsible for the results of drinking at your party Question: A friend says that when he drinks a pitcher of beer he's actually a better driver. The car "just glides down the highway" and he feels more in control. Could this possibly be true? Are regular drinkers more immune to the effects of • alcohol? How should I handle · him at my New Year's party? Answer: While moderate drinking is acceptable in our society, your friend's behavior . is not. Polishing off a pitcher of beer by yourself would , make you legally drunk. And, : when a person is drunk, there's absolutely no excuse for trying to drive a car. It takes lhe average person one to two hours to eliminate the alcohol from an · ounce of distilled liquor, a bottle of beer (not a pitcher!) or a : glass of wine. Each of these is · defined as one drink. Given these facts, a good "rule of thumb" is not to drive if you have had more than one drink for each two'. hours that you've . been at a party. Also, remem. ber that inebriation is general• ly brought on quicker if you drink on an empty stomach. Regular consumption of alcohol doesn 't change the effect of this drug; however, the frequent drinker does develop a · sense that he or she is less . . impaired by it. Numerous studies have shown that this "sense of control" is actually imaginary. The time required to make a decision imd then react : to a driving situation goes up }! ,.! , with any $1SOO or More lane~ · purchue "Hancock" Leather Rocker Recliner Now Only $79995 Includes Blodbuster Movie Bonus Includes Blockbuster Movie Bonus "Mossy Oak" Leaf Chair and a half Hurry Bonus Gifts Available Until "Athena" Double Reclining Sola January t Oth S74995 . QUALITY FURNITURE PLUS 42123 State Route 7 • Tuppers Plains, OH . 21 :i£ ·s.estoc• lor d ~tails. •11- 1:800-200-4005 or (740) 667-7388 Hours: Mondar- Thu 9-5; Fridav 9-6 ; Saturdav q-4: Closed ~und,l\ �' OPINION The Daily Sentinel (740) 992·2156 • FAX (740) 992·2157 www.mydallysentlnel.com Ohio Valley Publishing Co. Jim Freeland Publisher Charlene Hoeflich General Manager-News Editor Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. -The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution READER'S VIEW Council Questioning use if authority Dear Editor, As a citizen and taxpayer of Pomeroy, I would like to comment on the Council story in The Daily Sentinel on Dec . 16. The concern over the village workers working on private property as expressed by certain members of village council at that meeting was actually created by the following situation. My daughter's sewer line was backing up and overflowing into her bathroom, so I proceeded to dig several holes in the yard to check on the flow going down the hill from her house to the main sewer connection. After cracking the drain line in three different places, I discovered that her line was free of obstruction and figured the problem was at the main connection . The last place I dug up was just next to the sidewalk. After making this discovery, I called the Mayor and asked for his help in getting the village to check the situation out. · I later found out the Mayor called John Anderson and asked him to check out the problem. Anderson dispatched his crew of three unnamed village workers to the site to correct the situation. One of the unnamed village workers called his mom, who just happens to be a member of village council, and told her they were being sent on private property to do personal work. She in tum contacted several cooncil members and the order to correct the situation was rescinded and no work was done at this site . I ain told this is in direct violation of the Ohio Revised Code. Also that it is in violation of the Ohio Sunshine Law to contact other council members in private to aid or further benefit a member of her family or any other employee of the Village of Pomeroy. As a direct result of this council member's action, raw sewage was allowed to flow across a sidewalk and endanger the health of neighbors and people walking in this area. In my opinion this council member should never be allowed to make decisions concerning any situation created by the village water department or the village sewer department because of nepotism. It's a bad situation for the village and needs to stop immediately. Wednesday, December 29,2004 Do something good for others The Daily Sentinel 111 Court Sti'1Hit • Pomeroy, Ohio PageA4 Catherine Ryan Hyde tells the story of driving alone in a rough area of uowntown Los Angeles when, llll of a sudden, the engine died in her worn-out car. The lights went out, and the passenger compartment started to fill with smoke. Hyde got out of her car to see two men running toward her. One was carrying a blankel he had pulled from the trunk of their car. Hyde thought to herself. ''I'm dead." But one or the men pushed past her and popped open the hood of her car. "The-engine was on fire and flames were burning along the throttle line." Hyde remembers. 'The car cou ld have exploded at any moment. killing all of us." That is, but for the stranger who smothered the flames with the blanket. The Fire Department arrived soon; yet the tire was already out. And after the emergem;y was over. Hyue looked for the two Good Samaritans to thank them. But they had gone. In the months that followed. Hyde decided that if she couldn't find the men who helped her. if she cou ldn't in some way repay the kindness they showed her, she would return the kind- Joseph Perkins ness elsewhere. So one night she stopped to help a woman stranded by the side of the road. " It became clear to me as we talked," Hyde remembers . "that. in her mind, she hau been in a life-threatening situation.'' The woman asked Hyde how she could repay her, offering to give her money. But Hyde responded. "Don ' t pay it back to me. Pay it forward to someone else ." Twerlly years later, Hyde recounts on her ·-Web site, CRyanHyde.com . . why she authored the novel · "Pay it Forward." Its main character is a 12-year-old boy, Trevor McKinney. who takes to heart a homework assignment to think of a plan to change lhe world. The idealistic lad comes up with what could be considered a kindness multiplier. He decides to do something ni ce for three people without reqmnng anything in return. except that they "pay it forward" to three other people. Hyde' s novel was purchased by a Hollywood studio, which turned it into a film starring Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt, the Oscar winners. alongside Haley Joel Osment as young Trevor. · I confess that I was move<.! both by Hy.de 's book and the movie it inspired . It seems to me that the author came up wilh a simply beautiful concept. And I am not the only one who has been affected by Hyde's work. In fact, the response to both the book and movie so strong that a worldwide '"Pay it Forward" movement arose in its wake. Hyde is the mother of the movement , which is documented in a newsletter published six or seven times a year. The author also over'ees a Pay it Forward Foundation . Hyde isn ' t doing it for money or se lf-aggrandizement. The book and the movie already made her rich and famous. She is doing it because she truly believes in the pay it forward concept. And she has one more convert. I have decided this holiday season that I am going to pay it forward. I am going to find Letters to the editor are welcome. They should be less than 300 words. All letters are subject to editing and must be signed and include address and telephone number. No unsigned letters will be published. Letters should be in good taste, addressing issues, not personalities. The Daily Sentinel Reader Services Correction Polley (UsPs 213-960) Ohio Valley Publishing Co. Our main concern in all stories is to be Published every afternoon , Mond~y accurate. If you know of an error in a through Friday, t 11 Court Street story, call the newsroom al (740) 992· . ~mercy, Ohio. Second-class postage 2156. paid at Pomeroy. Member: The Assoc1ated PresS and the Ohio Newspaper Assoc1at1on. Our main number Is Poatmaeter: Send address corrections (740) 992-2156. 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'118.60 Outside Meigs County 13 Weeks . . . . . . . . .. '50.05 26 Weeks . . ... '100.10 52 Weeks ...'200.20 2004 three people to help in some way. And I am going to encourage them to do the . same for three others when and if they can. I am not promising to pay anyone's mortgage. I am not volunteering one of my vital organs. I am not suggesting . that I will gladly take a bullet or a shiv for someone. But paying it forward doesn't have to be some extraordinary act of selflessness. As Trevor explained, in Hyde 's book, "It doesn't even have to be a big thing . . It might just seem like a big thing . Depending on who you do it for." As America celebrates the holiday season, as we : pray for peace on Earth and good will toward all, wouldn't it be wonderful if all of us who feel a moral duty to help the least of those, our brothers and sis- : ters, committed to paying it · forward next year'! Such selflessness would transcend race, color, creed, gender. sexual orientation and religious affiliation. And our nation, our society, would be the better for it. Joseph Perkins IS a . columnist for The San Diego Union- Tribune and ca11 be reached at Joseph.Perkins@VnionTr . ib.com. . www.mydailysentinel.com • Obituaries The Daily Sentinel • Page As Gallia County father and son are headed for Iraq Hany Junior Douglas BY TiM MALONEY TMALONEY@MYDAILYTRiBUNE.COM EAST LETART -Harry Junior Douglas, 72. East Letart. died Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004, at his residence . Arrangements are under the direction of Cremeens Funeral Home in Racine, and will be announced upon completion. GALLIPOLIS - The lessons learned in military service are valued by the Gallia County family of Dr. Rick Boone. His father, Ray Boone, 86, ALBANY - Ray Brooks, 89, Albany, passed away of Gallipolis. served in the Monday, Dec. 27, 2004, at Jenkins Memorial Health Facility Navy during World War II. in Wellston. and was there when Pearl He was born March 5, 1915, in Soverign, W.Va., son of the Harbor was attacked. late Manuel Perry and Emily A Copas Brooks. He .was a Boone followeu hi s falher retired equipment operator for AEP. inlo the Navy. serv ing eight He is survived by his wife, Margaret Thompson Brooks: a and one-half years of active daughter, Nancy Thompson of Port Neches, Tex .; two sons, duty. As a psychologisl William Perry Brooks of JacksQnville, N.C. ; and David Ray treating battle-fatigued solBrooks of Johnsontown; nine grandchildren: 16 great grand- diers. Boone is now a major children and a great-great grandchild. in lhe Army re serves, and Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by two broth- was called up at ers and four sisters. Thanksgiving to return to Graveside services will be held at II a.m. on Friday, Dec. Iraq for the second time. He 31, 2004. at Montgomery Memorial Park Cemetery in leaves this Sunu~y for two London, W.Va. weeks of training in Texas. The family will receive friends from 4 to 8 p.m . on Boone"s son, Lance Cpl. Tim Maloney/ photo Thursday at Bigony-Jordan Funeral Home in Albany. Tyler Boone , 19. of lhe Dr. Rick Boone poses for a photo with his two sons, Ryan. lett, and. Tyler. right. Boone and Second Marine Expeditionary Tyler are both shipp1ng out for Iraq soon. Force, enlisted 18 months ago and also is headed to Iraq. One couldn't elame Tyler's Tyler." he said. ''They're been told he could spend as maue me feel every differmother, Maria , and her going to benefit from their many as 18 months in Iraq. as ent," he said . "Thi s time. I he transfers fmm a medical fee l no matter where you are daughter Olivia, 13, for military experience." Tyler Boone. like his father, company based in Boston to in that country. you arc vu lsavoring every moment of said he always knew he one based in Indianapolis . nerable ." this Christmas. "I really feel like my wife has would serve in the military. " I amicipate that we will As a p.sychologist. Boone " You never know what is not be in Iraq for the entire counsels so ldiers who are POMEROY - The Meigs County tuberculosis oftice per- · the hardest job in this,'" Boone going to happen, but I proba- time." he said. said. "She 'II have a husband sonnel will not be giving skin tests today (Wednesday). due to becoming battle fatigued. A bly won 't end up making it a Boone already has been in lot of times. all they need is the office being closed on Friday when the reading would nor- and son both leaving." Another son, Ryan, 22. career,'' he said. "I figured I Iraq once. in 2003. when the rest. a shower and a clean mally take place. The office will re-open on Monday at 8 a.m. could someday soon be going would at least serve my time. original U.S. forces invaded. uniform . on active duty, as well. as he I think it's something every"At thai time , both the Almost always. they want is a fourth-year ROTC stu- body should look into ." Marines and Army war fight- 10 return as soon as they can The younger Boone has been ers were doing a super job of to their fellow soldiers. dent at Wright State training at Camp LeJeune. rolling up the Iraq army." Boone sai.d. University in Dayton. Even as he and hi s son pre- N.C., and in the spring of this Boone said. "We were always "We try to support these pare to go to war, Boone is year served in Haili when the a few days behind , following people and keep them as healthy anti <:omfortable as steadfast in hi s belief in the government there underwent the war fighters. " of the military experianother upheaval. That experiBoone made it all the way possible." he sa id. " By and value POMEROY - Meigs County Sherif! Ralph Trussell reportence. He said he believes it ence gives him some confi- to Baghdad, to the famous air- large. they want to be with ed the following arrests: • Edward L. Mitchell. Langsville. on charges of driving teaches a a young person to dence heading to Iraq. where port which American soldiers lheir fellow soliders. They don ' t v.ant to be treated as under the influence. possession of marijuana . resi sting arrest develop personal value s and has has been told he will spend dubbed "Hotel California." between seven and mne discipline. The conditions are bound psychological cases. and fail ure to control. "My fat~er was in the Navy months. to be far different this time. "Most of the time. they're •Jeffrey Cundiff, Pomeroy, on a charge of domestic vio"That's not bad. I can go "It's ironic that during the going .10 be back out there lence. resisting arrest and possession of marijuana, after and it helped him. It's helped me, and in different ways , it's seven months," he said. war, I felt safe and there was doing their jobs as quickly as allegedly assaulting his live-in girlfriend. Dr. Boone, however, has nothing that would have possible." going to help Ryan and Ray Brooks Local Briefs No TB tests today For the Record Arrests ~AHLER. illllfE COLII!Il8VS OISP!Ii'CH · ?OOS l ,, r -.... , , ..... ~ II II II II II II ;n II 3RD Fined KID THROUGH COLLE&E 2ND KID THROU(;H ----tf--t- COLLE'Gf n We Young Ill Former mayor of Pomeroy LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Wednesday, December 29, Hes making a list, he's checking it twice... Magazines are full of "Ten Be st" li sts this time of year. 'The Ten Best Movie\ of the Year:· "The Ten Best Books of the Year." 'The Jim Ten Be >t TV Show\ of the Year. " I always wonder why Mullen I've only seen one of the Ten Be st Movies of the Year? Probably because I haven't even heard of six of Without Their Own CSI them. Two of the remaining Program (Coming Soon three haven ' t been released 'CSI : Chillicothe')." "The yet. and one is slill shooting Top Ten· Things You Must in Spain . 'But it\ an Buy Before Noon Today." Almodovar fi lm, so who "Ten Charities You Could needs to see it to put it on Have Given That Money To the Ten Best List" Instead ,'" "Top Ten Things I do even worse on the George Forman Hasn 't "Ten Best Books of the Endorsed Yct." Year." I'm still trying to ge t ··Ten Be st Nude Beaches." th rough the Ten Best Book s Is there such a thing as a bad of 1987. And it's ha rd. they nude hea ch 0 Nude pretty >cern so dated. It \ as if 1hey much works anywhere. "Ten were wrinen 17 .yea" ago. Boneheaus Pari s Hilton li' s hee n taking so long Hasn't Dated Yet." That is . because I've been watching as we go to press. It 's probthe "Ten Be't TV Shows of ably down to six by the time the Year·· instead of read ing. you read this. "Ten Ways to But people love to read Lose Ten Pound s Bv lists. thai's why each year Monday Afternoon." Wh y i,s there are more anu more of it so important to lose . them . If the trend keeps tip. weighl qui ck ly'' . If you 're the day may come whe n eloping or something. lru;t there wi ll be entire newspa - me. your spouse- to -he . pers and magaLine.s made up already knows what vnu of nothing but lists . look like . ·Top Ten Di\!;rcc "The Top Ten Cities Lawyers... "Top Ten Ce lebrity Rehab Clinics." would be number .eight on · '·Top Ten COs By Groups the list of "This Year's Ten You Never Heard Of," "Ten Best Oxymorons ." "The Best TV Shows That Come Ten Best-Dressed Women," on After Yo~ Go To Bed," who are, oddly enough, "Ten Best Countrie s You never on "The Ten Happiest Didn't Visit Last Year," Women of the Year." You · "Ten Countries You mean you can be happy · Wouldn't Visit If They Paid without being the bestYou.'· "Top Ten Airlines" dressed' Alert the media' (Are there 10 left'!), "Top "The Ten Sexiest Men Ten Re staurants That You Alive." Wbat? Dead men are Can't Afford To Eat At and not longer sexy? Now you Wouldn't Let You In. tell me! "This Year's Ten Anyway," "Top Ten Food 'Must Have' Pets." Let's Fads of the Year." Mmm. hope Fido's on next year's mmm. mmm. Turducken 1 list or he'll have to go. "Top Ten Diel Fads of the "The T-op Ten Most · Year... "Ten Best Tax Fashionable Diseases ami/or Shellers You Don ' t Make Allergies ," Ten · "Top Enough to Take Advantage Chi ldren's Names of the Of." ··Ten Best Places to Year," "The Top Ten Private ln ve>t T~al Extra Ten Kinuergartens" and last but Million Dollars, Now." not least, "Tite Top Ten Ten Somelhing lells me that Best· Lists." people with an extra $! 0 I made a list once of ·"The : million lying around didn't Top Ten Thing s I Want to Do . make it by laking advice Before I Die." I lhink if I from magati ncs . stopped reading 'Ten Best "Ten Best Ski-in Ski-out Lists" I might have enough Re \orts." where you might time lo do some of them. · need the "rvices of the "Ten With my Ten Best Friends. Beq Bone Doclors Who Jim Mulle11 is the author · Aren't Out Skiing When You of "It Takes a Village Idiot: Break Your Leg... Complicali11g the Simple "The Top Ten Numbers Ufe" and "Baby's First from One to Ten." "The Ten Tattoo." You can reach him · Beq Realit y Show<' whi ch atjim _mullen@myway.com : POMEROY - The following were fined recently by Pomeroy Magistrate Charles H. Knight: Saundra Grubb, Pomeroy. $100 and costs. no operator's license. $63 and costs. expired tags: Deborah Mullins, Long Bottom. $140 and costs. driving under suspension, $50 and costs, unsafe vehicle; Gary Reitmire, $150 and costs, driving under suspension:$50 and costs, no illumination of license plate: Jermiah Bentley, Pomeroy. $63 and costs, stop light violation: Stacy Friend. Pomeroy, $63 and costs. stop light violation. Roger Estep. Syracuse, $700 and costs, 180 days suspension, DUI. $63 and costs. open container in motor vehicle; Scott Frazier, Middleport. 5500 and costs. DUI. reduced 10 failure to maintain physical control, $60 and cost, open container in motor vehicle; Jared Kirker, West Columbia, W.Va .. $100 and costs, 30 days in jail, suspended. contributing to the delinquency of a minor. $100 and costs. possession of marijuana. Forfeiting bonds were: Sharon Green, Sheffield Lake. $45. speed; Kevin Wright, New Haven. W.Va .. $45, speed: Anthony Staley, Gallipolis Ferry, W.Va., $47 and costs, speed: Dolores Will. Pomeroy. $46. speed: Ja.mes Ready, Reynoldsburg, $44, speed; George Johnson. Mason. W.Va .. $63, expired tags. Dana Wears, Letart, W.Va. , $50, assured clear distance; Lourie Szlanfucht, Point Pleasant, W.Va .. $100. possession. $63, fictitious tags, $150. driving under suspension. $48. speed; Roy Brown, Jeffrey. W.Va., $63, open container; Mary Cowdery, Long Bottom, $45, speed; Hollie Dugan. Middleport. $44, speed. Kristina Kaniecki. Pomeroy. $63. expired lags: Steven Presley. Letart. W.Va., $63, expired tags: Joseph Jordan. Albany, $150, driving under suspension; Dianna Sargent. Middleport, $63. fictitious tags, $100, no operator's license; Lula Webb, Pomeroy, $50. defective exhaust : Michael Wamsley, Pomeroy. $50, squealing tires: Joyce Frye, Rutland, $63. failure to control. · Team Gas prices fall two cents in South Central Ohio GALLIPOLIS - South gallon lower than last month. Central Ohio motorists have .Unfortunately, 1he national a few extra coins in their average price of gasoline is pocket this week since gas also 29.9 cents highu than at prices have decreased by the end of 2003. two cents per gallon for regGasoline prices are moving ular se lf- serve gaso line. lower nationally as crude oil Currently the average is prices return to the $41 per barrel level ; about where they $1.734 per gallon. According to the AAA Fuel have been for most of thi s Gauge Report , as 2004 draws month. Oil prices increased to a close, the national aver- above $45 per barrel before age price of a gallon of self- the Christmas holiday, but serve regular gasoline is fell sharply over the last five $1.783 per gallon. This price days and are again trading is 2.4 cents lower than one near $41 per barrel. The up and down moveweek ago and 16.1 cents per Deputies from Page A1 Deputies are also investigating a breaking and entermg at Forked Run Sport>men 's Club on Curtis Hollow Road at Reedsville. Guns . a safe and a com machine were reported stolen. Tmssell said Nonnan Hysell reported vandalism of a monument dedicated 10 Veterans of Foreign Wars in from of the Chester Courthouse. The monument was spray painted. The department received the following complaints: • Alison Kreiss of Reedsville reported her Christmas lights had been cut. •John D. Stumbo. Pomeroy, reported prescription medication was taken from his uuck while it was parked in his driveway. Mary Davidson of Rutland reported she has recei l'ed o Average pnce week of Dec. 51.756. Average price week of Dec. s1.450. The following the average price harassing telephone calls. o Terry Ashburn, Vinton. reported her home was broken into and a dishwasher. wall-mount heater and other items stolen. • Joseph \1urphy. Jr.. Mason, W.Va., reported the theft of a registration plate from his Dodge truck while it was parked at the Park and Ride area on Ohio 7 at 12~ . • Rodney Hamilton report ed a gate at lhe former Mei gs Mine 2 had been damageu. • Cheryl Marnhour. Racine. reported the theft of a Play station game and four diamond rrng' from her home. There wa1 no sign of forced entr) . o Roger Stoban. Miudleport. reported someone had broken the window of the frnnr door of his home . o Ezra Dalton. Reed" ilk. reported the thd't of a nrdiato r from hi s 1993 Dodge Caravan while il v. as parked material that goes into land- the entire country with camfills. create jobs from the puse s in Charleston. S.C. ; waste stream. and provide Sacramento. Calif.: Denver. from Page A1 quality used goods to Ihe low ·Colo.: Perry Point, Md.: and income population of south- Washington , D.C. Teams bridges across the creek. The east Ohio by focusing on complete projects in five service areas: education. enviteam also worked to prepare reuse and recycling. Carriere said AmeriCorps ronment, public safety. and plant acres of research members worked at the unmet human needs and disbeds for growing ginseng. "Other major accomplish- ReUse main operation site aster relief. Corps Members, all aged ments included removal of near Albany to complete a I X to 24. must complete needed facility renovation . invasive and environmentally harmful plants (honey- The upstairs of the main I. 700 hours of service dursuckle and multiflora rose) thrift store barn was remod - ing their I0-month commitfrom the area and the trans- eled and stocked with per- men!. In exchange for their planting of 38 trees as part sonal computers and acces- >erv rce, Corps Members of a reforestation efforl.'' he sories that were don<lled to receive $4.715 to help pay and refurbished by ReUse. for college or repay student Peter Tomaszewski works on ha rvesting goldenseal from one continued. The completion of thi s pro- loans. The program rs of the resear.ch beds at Rutland's Rural Action Center. Another aspect of the by . the team's project included ject allowed ReUse 10 admi nislered working with ReUse receive a granl. which will Corporation for National and information can be nbta111ed profit organilation~~ f:'" L'rnby visiting www .amcn- mcnt ag~;m:ic\ and pubiH.: lnduslries to get their "PC"s allow them to fund and con- Community Service . Carriere sai d interested corps.org or calling 1-800- school' th<ll are interested in to the People" program off tinue the "PC's to the apr! ican ls are encouraged to 9~2-2677. receiving "~n· ice . . of a tl·arn . People.. progra m. the ground . He al'o nnt ed that More informat ion on that A ccording to Carriere. app ly now. He noted rhat ReUse Industries is a nonmany pnlgrams have no AmeriCmps*NCCC i' scc k- ,·an be o~tained by callrn~ members of Mcmhers of profit orga nization thai works It> reduce Ihe amount of . Am eriCorps *NCCC serve upper age lunil. Additional rn g applications from non - t2U2 I ~61- 17Y I . ' . durin~ ment of crude oil prices during December - and the higher energy uemand associated with holiday travel may have caused retail prices to fall and then rise brietly in some areas. The overall trend . for retail gasoline prices should remain lower during the next fe:w weeks. however. unless something dramatic sends crude oil prices back above $45 per barrel for an extended period. This week's average prices: South Central Ohio. average: $1.734. ~ the 21. ~004: during the 30. ~003: is a lrst of of unleaded self-~erve ga~oline in \ ariour.. areas: Chillicothe. 5 1 .77 ~: Gallipolis. S 1.767: Hill sboro. 51.712: Ironton. 5 1.685: Jack son. S 1.802: Logan. $1.659: Marietta. S 1.805: S 1.695: Steubenville. Washin2ton Court Hou>e. S1.605 : ~Waverl y. S 1.787. in his \'anJ. Retiring from Page A1 in-lav. and t11o ~r,an dchi l ­ dren . Then. she 11 ill rerurn to her hom.: near Enrcrpri'e to enjoy rctrrcment 11 itil l1cr hu,hand. Gene . One thin1! J.., fur ~llrl' : Kin £! ' ' \\ill uh\a\~ be '"'ekomc baL"k. at the office for 1 r>its . He r succe>snr. Ka y Hill. who was elected Ill lh e n llicc in N<11'embcr. has 11nr"cd in the otliL·e almn:-.t as l\'11~ as "hi.!" has. and 11 rll 11cknnw he r company - ~mJ her aJrice Proud to be apart of your life. I I Subscribe today o 991-2155 �' PageA6 OHIO The Daily Sentinel Wednesday, December 29, 2004 Ohio recount over, shows Bush, Kerry few hundred votes closer BY JOHN SEEWER totals to reflect the recount later this week. Kerry gained 734 more votes in the recount. and Bush picked up 449, mostly from disqualified ballots that were counted in the second tally because hanging chads had come loose when ballots were handled again or rerun through counting machines. That put Kerry 285 votes closer to Bush. The president's victory margin declined by about three dozen more votes when some counties adjusted their certified vote totals. The Lucas County elections board said that its recount found that Bush gai ned 14 votes while Kerry picked up 64. Board director Paula Hicks-Hudson said she hopes the recoun! will satisfy those who questioned the results. Witnesses from the parties who watched workers count ballots by hand and machine said th e effort provided ass urance that boards were accu rately counting ballots. ''They left understanding and appreciating what we did," Hicks-Hudson said. The Green and Libertarian party presidential ca nd idates asked for the recou nt ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER TOLEDO- The presidential recount in Ohio finished Tuesday, shaving a few hundred votes off President Bush's six-figure margin of victory in the state thill gave him the election. The recount shows Bush winning the election by 118,457 votes over John Kerry, according to unofficial results provided to The Associated Press by the 88 counties. Lucas County, where Toledo is located, was the last to finish counting, with its results reported Tuesday coming about two weeks after the recount started. The Kerry campaign supported the recount, sayi ng it did not expect the tally to change the election wi nner. Supporters of the recount requested by two minor party candidates said they wanted to make sure that every va lid vote was counted. Ohio and it s 20 electoral vo tes tipped the race to Bush when Kerry conceded the morning after th e v-o te. The state declared Bush the winner by 11 9,000 vo tes and planned to adjust its l-'Ote totals in the 2004 Ohio presidential election COLUMBUS lAP) - Tma ls from th e 1004 Ohio presidential mtc. wi1h coun ty-by-county results of the recount. lhe original certified totals and t h~ change for President Bu ~h and Sen. John Kerry. • Bl!~h County Recount Cert. Adams 7.653 32.580 16,209 21.038 !0,847 17.0 16 !5,589 12.647 109,872 7,695 tt .7 t8 34,941 62.949 12,938 25.753 9.830 13,885 221,600 18,306 I1,397 53,!43 18.597 42,715 7.376 237,253 13,640 8,576 30,370 48.388 9.962 222,616 25, 105 8,44t 4,274 7,653 32.585 16,171 21.039 !0.847 17.012 15,589 12.647 109.866 7,695 11.718 34,938 62,946 t2,938 25.754 9.839 13,885 221.606 18,307 tt.393 53,142 t8,60t 42,697 7,375 237,252 13,639 8,577 30,358 48,377 9,96t 222,404 25,101 8,436 4.274 9.901 12,212 6,935 8,464 14,834 8,585 17,184 17.081 62,193 15,454 49,014 14,471 61.196 87.146 t 1,120 48,712 t 7,17 t 48, !83 6,273 15,649 34,005 3,424 !38.361 3,757 10,475 Allen Ashland Ashtabula AI hen~ Aug laize Belmont Brown Butkr Carroll Champaign Clark Clennonl Cli nton Col um bian<.~ Coschocton Crawfnnl Cuyahoga Darke Defiance Delaware Eric Fairticld Fayette Franklin Fulton Galli a Gcauga Greene Guernsey Hami lton Hancock Hardin Harri ~o n Henry Highland 9,902 12.211 6,936 Holme s 8,468 14,8t7 Huron Jack son 8,585 Jefferson 17.185 Knox 17,068 Lake 62.193 Lawrcn.:e 15.455 Licking 49,016 14,471 Logan Lorai n 61.203 Lucas 87. 160 Madison tt .tl7 Mahonmg 48.761 Marion t7,t70 Medina 48.196 Meigs 6.272 15,650 Men:er Miami 33,992 Monroe 3.424 Montgomery !38,371 Morgan 3.758 Morrow 10,474 Muskingum 22,254 3,841 Noble Ottawa 12,073 Paulding 6,206 Perry 7,856 Pickaway 14,161 6,520 Pike Pnr1agc 35,583 Preble 13.734 Putnam 14,370 36,872 Ri chland Ros:-. 17,23 1 Sandusky 16,221 Scioto 18.259 Seneca 15,886 16,204 Shelhy Sttuk 92,215 I!8,558 Summit 40,977 Trumbul l Tu.;camwa\ 23,829 15,870 Union Van Wen 10,678 V1ntun 3,249 68,037 W~rrc n Washington 17.532 31,879 Wayne 12,040 W1 ll iam ~ 33,592 Wood Wya nclor 7,254 Hocking Total Z8,59,?55 22,~51 3,841 12,075 6,205 7,855 14.160 6.519 35,583 13,733 14,370 36,874 17,229 16,198 \8,257 15 ,885 16,204 92,21 t t 18,553' 40,976 23,825 15,869 10,678 3,25 1 68,035 17,480 31,879 ti,040 33,592 7,256 and raised the $113 ,600 required under state law for the process. Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell has estimated that the recount will end up costing taxpayers $1 .5 million. "The intention was always to verify whether there were anomalies in the voting process," said Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik. 'The puf1JOse of the recount was not to change the outcome." The completion of the recount does not signal an end to questions surrounding the vote in Ohio. A group of voters citing fraud have challenged the election results with the Ohio Supreme Court. The voters refer to irregularities including long line s, a shortage of voting machines in minority precincts and problems with computer equipment. Cliff Arnebeck, an attorney representing the voters, wasn' t taking much stock in the recount etlort. He said elections boards didn't random ly sample votes during the hand cou nts and that there was no independent investigation into the accuracy of counting machines to deter- mine whether the machines had been tampered with. " You' re allowing the original error to be repeated a second time, so it's not a meaningful recount,'' he said. The challenge, supported by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, is based partly on compari son of reports of exit polling data with the o fficial vot e. Lawyers on the case say they would like to see the supporting data that produced · the exit poll results. Attorney General Jim Petro has called the challenge frivolous and argued that the state Supreme Court does not have jurisdiction over a federal election . The Government Accountability Office. an arm of Congress , is investigating election problems. Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio and chairman of the House Administration Committee, will oversee an inquiry next year. The U.S. Election Assistance Commission, created in 2002. is also scrutini zing the outcome. It plans to publish in January the government's nrst report on the voting, whicl1 will serve as the basis for congress ional recommendations and reform>. PROUD TO BE APART OF YOUR LIFE. The Daily Sentinel Subscribe today • 992-2155 www.mydailysentinel.com Cert. 0 4.280 16.483 8.555 24.061 18.997 5.Y04 17.574 7. 140 56.234 6.299 6.967 33,534 25.885 5,417 -5 38 -t 0 4 0 () 6 0 0 3 3 0 -I -9 0 -6 -I 4 t -4 18 t t t -t 12 tI t 212 4 5 0 I -t I 4 -t 7 0 I -t 3 0 t 2 0 7 14 -3 49 -I t3 -t I - 13 0 10 t -t 3 0 -2 t t t t 0 t 0 -2 2 23' 2 I 0 4 5 t 4 t 0 -2 2 52 0 0 0 -2 2,859,301i 449 ' 4.281 16.470 8.575 24.060 18.998 5.Y03 17.576 7. 140 56.243 6JCKJ 6.968 13.535 25,887 5.417 23.429 7,414 7.773 448.50.1 7,848 6.975 27.048 :nA:!6 7,378 7.773 448.486 7.849 6.975 27.048 21.41 1 21.408 24,783 24.774 4.334 4.334 285 .801 285.800 8.224 H.224 5.)64 5.366 19.850 19.840 .1053 1 30.530 7.765 7. 7~5 199.679 199.499 10.352 10.343 4,891 4,889 ),780 3.780 5, t t t 5,1 to 6.!94 6. 194 6.175 6. 173 2.697 2.695 10,568 I0.585 .1.700 5.700 19.024 19.019 9.820 9.8"8 59.049 59.049 12. 120 12.11 8 30.053 30.051 6.825 6.825 78 ~97 0 132.7 15 7R~965 1.12.651 11200 83.194 83.0(19 11.928 11.930 36.272 36.2M 4,437 4.438 5. 11 8 5.1 17 17.606 17.6 1I 4,243 4.243 142.997 142.977 :! ,975 2,871 5.775 5.775 t6A2 t 16,421 2.654 2.654 11. 118 t 1,114 3.610 3.610 7.257 7.257 8.579 8,578 5,989 5.989 40.675 40.674 7.274 7.274 4,392 4.392 24.638 24.638 13.978 13,977 12.686 t 2.65) 16,827 16.823 10.957 10,958 6.535 6.534 95 ,337 95,336 156.587 156.578 66.673 66.673 18.851 18.854 6.665 6.665 4.ms ,4.(!94 2.651 2.65 1 2<i.044 26.1 >11 12.5.18 12.475 I<J.ns 1'!.786 6.481 6.48 1 2Y.40 I 29.4111 3.708 3.707 2,741,29K 2,740,564 ll.20J ~ NASA O•·ernightil -6am ) It !\hould continue to he cloudy. 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Jeffery · Hammond, assistant brigade com mander in the I st Cavalry Division that con. trois Baghdad, said attacks :by insurgents are expected to escalate further in the run-up to the ballot. "We anticipate that the :enemy will (continue with) :attacks, intimidation, assas. sination s and other mes sages designed to destroy life in Baghdad,'' Hammond said, adding that Iraqi security force s will bear the ·brunt of providing security :for the elections and that U.S. troops will back them :up only if needed. Iraqi leaders said the guerrill as - who are mostly Sunni Muslims and have been blamed for attacks aga inst Iraq's Shiites - are hent on triggeri ng ethnic strife before : next month's poll. ASSOCIATEDPRESS WRITER Assorted PRICES GOOD THRU SAT. JANUARY 1, 2005 .. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT Ol,IANTITIES. , lation could c:au'e the damis prepared for launch. Insulation, applied as a age that wa' fatal to foam , reduces the amount of Columbia. The te st' included ice. But investigators believe usmg an au canon to fire it was chunks of foam insu- foam insulation <:hunks at test la tion th at pee led off th e wing panels. external tank during launch To correct the probl em, which led to the destruction engineers from NASA and o.f Columbia . The debris , Lockheed Martin Space moving at a high relative Systems, manufacturer of the speed. ripped a hole in the fuel tanks, conducted exten left wing of the space shut- sive tests to lind out why the tle. On Feb. I, 2003. as the foam insulation broke loose spacecraft re -entered the during launch . This led to several changes Earth 's atmosphere , superheated gas penetrated the including new way s of applywing through the hole and ing the foam insulation. the melted metal strut s. The addition of heaters at key craft shattered, showering points to prevent the formaeast Texas with flaming tion of ice before launch. and debris. Seven astronauts adding cameras that can were killed . monitor the outside of the The Columbia Accident tank during launch . Investigation panel conduct"We can never c:ompletely ed tests to prove that chunks eliminate foam coming off of the light weight foam insu- the tank," Coleman said ney, which crosses the Gulf of Mexico, rounds the tip of Florida and then up the east coast, take s five to six days. NASA plans a May or June launch of space shuttle Discovery. The space shuttle fleet has been grounded since the Columbia accident as NASA scrambled to make changes in hardware. procedures and personnel to comply with recommendation s from the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. Fixing the external tank was a key part of the NASA's recovery. officials said. The tank holds the liquid hydrogen and oxygen which are the prope llants fo r the shuttle's main rocket engines during launch. The supercooled chemicals cause the formation of ice on the outside of the tank as the shuttle Tuesday. But she said tests suggest that any debris that does fly free will not cause damage like that which destroyed Columbia . Redesign of the external tank was cons idered to be a key and critical part of NASA's effort to return the shuttle to space, but is only one of a long list of recommendations from the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. NASA al so 1s de signing ways to check for launch damage to the space shuttle after the vehicle 1s 111 orbit . The agency ts also developing way s for spacewalking astro" nauts to fix damage to wing panel s li ke that which destroyed Colu mbia. On the Net: NASA: www.nasa.gov Rebels launch multiple attacks on Iraqi security forces, lawmakers appeal for unity BY SAM HANANEL Q.l ) 8 on the fuel tank "gives us confidence that problems like what happened on Columbia WASHINGTON - NASA will not happen again. : takes a major step toward "This is the safest, most returning astronauts to space reliable tank NASA has ever when engineers this week produced," Coleman said ship an improved rocket fuel Tuesday in a telephone news · tank that has been refitted to conference from the Marshall - avoid the falling debris that Space Flight Center 111 : caused the destruction of Huntsville. Ala. Columbia and the death of The changes in the external tank ;tdd less than 150 seven astronaut s. National Aeronautics and pounds in weight. The total Space Administration offi- cost of the new tank, includcials said that the redesigned ing tests and redesign. is still . fuel tank, a massive vessel being calculated. but it will · that supplies propellant for be more expensive than the the launch of the space shut- $40 million cost of the oldtle, will start a barge trip on style tank, said Coleman. Friday from a Mississippi Coleman said the tank was assembly plant to the launch expected to start on Friday a site on Florida's east coast. barge trip from the Michoud Sandy Coleman , NASA's Assembly Facility near New external tank project manag- Orleans to the Kennedy er, said improvements made Space Center. The barge jour- "The terrorists intend to destroy Iraq's national unity,'' a stateme nt issued by the Interim National Assembly said. ;'Thei r intentions are to harm this country which faces crucial challenges amid a very difficult period." Shiite Muslims. who make up around 60 percent of Iraq 's people, have been strong supporters of the elections. which they expect to reverse the longtime domination of Iraq's Sunni minority. The insurgency is believed to draw most of its support from Sunnis, who provided much of Saddam Hussein's former Baath Party membership. Near Saddam 's hometown of Tikrit, gunmen attacked a police station . overwhelmed 12 Iraqi policemen there , slit their throats and then blew up the building , said Lt. Col. Saad Hmoud , a local pGiice official. The deputy governor of the restive Anbar province, Moayyad Hardan al-lssawi, was assas sinated near Ramadi, east of Baghdad, police official Abdel Qader al-Kubeisy said. Gunmen who shot him left a statement next to his body : "This is the fate of everyone who deals with the American troops." The statement was signed by the group Mujahedeen ai-Anbar, or "holy warriors of An bar." · · Such flagrant attacks appear designed to cause panic among Iraqi officials and security forces and to provoke a sectarian conllict between Shiites and Sunnis. Militants released a videotape Tuesday, sayi ng they · AP photos Above: Iraqi National Guards inspect a living room after a ca r bomb targeted the home of a senior Iraq i National Guard officer in the Azimiyah neighborhood. Baghdad Tuesday injuring nine of his guards and passersby. Right : People inspect the damage In a destroyed pollee station 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Tikrit, Iraq, Tuesday. 12 policemen died when gunmen attacked the station. have executed eight and released two Iraqi s who were e mpl oyed by Sandi Group, an American security company. and had been held hostage since Dec. 13 . The claim co ul d not be independently veri fi ed. The insurgents claiming to represent three Iraqi militant group s - th e Mujahedeen Army, the Black Banner Brigade and the Mutassim Bellah Bri gade - said in the. tape obtained by APTN that ''the eight have been execu ted because it was proven that they were supporting the occupat io nal arm y." The other two will be released for the lack of evidence. a stateme nt read by one of the militants. In other strikes Tuesday, a car bomb killed five Iraqi National Guardsmen and injured 26 near Baqouba. a town 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, after the paramilitary troops cordoned off an area in order to disarm a roadside bomb, said U.S. Maj. Neal O' Brien. In Baqouba itself, unidentified gunmen assassinated Capt. Na'em Muhanai.l Abdullah. a local police commander. and wounded three other men, a spokesman said. Elsewhere Tuesday, a car bomb exploded in the village of Muradiya. abou t 20 miles northeast of Baghdad, killing five civilians and wounding dozens, said Ahmed Fouad. a doctor in the Baqouba General Hospital. In Mosul , 225 miles northwes t of Baghdad, a gunman attacked a police station in the northeastern Hadbaa district, ki lling one policeman. said police Capt. Ahmed Khalil. In the central city of Samarra a suicide attacker detonated his car in the city center wounding I0 people. including three children , police Maj. Saadoun Ahmed Matroud . Shortly after the explosion. 'people were told throu ~h mo sques loud speakers to stay indoor because of a curfew, and U.S. and Iraq troops set up roadblocks, witnesses said. In Babil province south of Baghdad, police said the y arrested I 0 armed men in a raid in the area of Jbila after intelligence indicated the suspe cts were allegedly plotting to attack a police station there. Capt. Hady Hat if said . At Samarra. U.S. troops killed three rebels when they attacked an American post with small-arms and rocket propelled grenades, the U.S. military said. There were no injurie s to U.S. soldiers or damage to equipment. .Poorly managed Homeland Security grants shortchange port security, inspector general says 1 125 2 Wednesday, December 29, 2004 rolls out improved rocket fuel tank in major step toward return to space Bv PAUL RECER AP SCIENCE WRITER GKNLY - 4. 750 Kerrx Changt Recount NATION The Daily Sentinel P,a geA7 WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security · Department has allowed fed:eral gra nt s for improving :securit y at America 's ports to be spent on low priority problem s rath er than the most serious vulnerabilit ies. the agency's out going : watchdog says. . In a draft report to he released mon th, Homeland : next Security Department Inspector General Clark Kent Ervin says port security spending should . be goveme~ by the most press: ing priorities rather than local · politics. Blaming inadequate staffing and poor c:oordination. Ervin said the department 's port . security grant program needs . better oversight 10 make sure : proje~ts that get money meet . · seCllrity goals. "The DHS does not have a strong grant evaluation · process in plac:e by which to · address post-award administra tion i"ue,. including mea- - ·- - - ·- ,uring progress in. accomplishing DHS ' grant objec tives," Ervi n said in a rece1~t summary of the report. The summar y was conta ined in ano th er report from Ervin ' s office, ;' Majo r Manage ment Challenges Facing the Department of Home land Securi ty," which was posted on the DHS web si te. The grant program has been criti cized ·in the past for be ing too cumbersome and fo r awarding money lo projects of questionable use. To make hi s point. Ervin cited the report of th e Sept . II Co mmi ssion. which said homeland securit y spendi ng should not be used as a "pork harrel" for .politicians to send money to their home districts . The report is one of the last submitted by Ervin. who earned a reputation as a blunt critic of. the department before leaving the job earlier this month . Ervi n won a recess appu int menl In the posit ion in December "00.'. --------·----·--"--·-- but the Senate fa iled to confirm him and the White House appeared unl ikely to nominate him again. DHS spokes man Brian Roehrkasse dec lined to comment until th e full report is completed . but said the department had streamlined its gra nt processes earli er Ihis year. rema ins to be done" and noted that department officials planned to increase staff to allow for more site visits and improved oversight of grant- funded proje<:ts . Erv in was una vailable Monday to comment on the ter preparcdnc"'· pn: ven tion. response and re<:m er~ . The agenc y has dist ri bu1cd abou t 5560 million for port security over the past few years. Despite con ., oliilation of the grant program offi n~ ~ l En in ' aid "nn1ch '"u rh. -----·- --- and state whether they agree to Jake corrective action." Ashbaugh 'aid . 011 the ;Vet: Security Hom eland Departme 111: http://www. dll.5.gov NOTICE FOR EARLY PUBLIC REVIEW OF A PROPOSAL TO SUPPORT ACTIVITIES IN A 100-YEAR FLOODPLAIN AND/OR WETLAND ··we have made progress in integmting all of the previous disparate grant program~ ffiom the agenc ies that neated DI-IS into one office in the department th at is ensuring all grant dollars ;;re maxi mized and ~pent atcnrJing a strategy outl ining the greatest needs,' ' Roehrkasse said . DHS manages several grant programs. t0taling ahout S 10 hi ll ion last year. that provide money for di s;tS- report. Robert Ashhaugh. spokesman for acti ng Inspector General Richard L. Skinner. said the report has been circulated to officials in the agency for comments . "They will have an oppor ~ tuni ty to provide a response ' To : All Interested Agencies, Groups, and Individuals: The Village of Racine has conducted an environmental review of the Village of Racine's Water Treatment Plant and Water Storage Tank Replacement Project, which involves the installation of water transmission lines between the Village of Raci~e 's existing waterline and the new Water Treatment Plant site located at 520 Pearl Street, (adjacent to the public library) with Community Development Block Grant fund s (Water & Sewer Fac.) Portions of the new waterline between the existing well field and the new Water Treatment Plant, will be within the I00-year floodplain. This notice required by Section 2(a)(4) of Executive Order 11988 for Floodplains, and Section (b) of Executive Order t 1990 for wetlands, and implemented by HUD Regulation found at 24 CFR 50.4(b) for any action that is within and/ or affects a floodplain and/ or wetland. As currently proposed, the project site will include areas designated as floodplain and/ or wetland . The Village of Racine's alternatives regarding sponsorship of the action would be either approval of project, with methods to reduce the impacts to the floodplain areas as proposed, approval with avoida nce of impact to floodplains, or disapproval. Additional information on the proposed project may be obtained by contacting the Village ol Racine, David Spencer, Village Clerk/Treasurer, at the follow ing address: P.O. Box 399. 405 Main Street, Racine, Ohio 45771 . Comments on the proposal may be submitted within I 5 days of the concurrent publication and dissemination of this notice. Comments can be received through January 13, 2005. --·-- �Zwick gets chance at redemption, Page 82 Redwomen loae first home game, Page 83 LeBron turns 20, Page BB Wednesday, December 29, 2004 ./... Prep Standings SEOAL ! Warren Logan Jackson Marietta Gallia Acad Athens 6-0 6-2 4-2 3-5 4-5 1-~ 4-0 4-0 1-2 1-2 1-3 0-4 7-2 6-2 5-2 3-4 3-5 1-5 3-0 3-0 1-2 1-2 1-2 0-3 TVC Ohio Vinton Co Belpre Alexander Nels-York Meigs Wellston ~ TVC Hocking ~ CQ ~ •• ll,.; ·~ :~~ 1'\ :z: SEOAL ... m8iJl o ... ·- 8-2 5-0 6-3 3-2 4-5 3-2 5-3 2-3 4-5 1-4 2-R 1-4 Marietta Warren Logan Galli a Acad Jackson Athens 0 ~...,z 3-0 2-1 2-1 1-2 1-2 0-3 Girls Basketball :!lllll ~ 8-1 7-1 6-3 3-5 2-7 1-6 Fed Hock Eastern Trimble Miller Southern Waterford ' TVC Ohio 6-4 5-0 5-3 4- 1 6-4 3-2 3-7 2-3 3-7 1-4 1-9 0-5 Nels- York Belpre Vinton Co Alexander Meigs Wellston TVC Hocking --. ... ·,. . Waterford Trimble Eastern Fed Hoc·k Miller Southern PREP BASKETBALL Wahama·s Ash ley Roush (14 ) defends Southern's Joanne Pickens dunng Tuesday 's semifinal action at . the Bob 's Market Holiday Tou rnament. Wahama defeat· ed the Tornadoes 43~ Wahama knocks off Southern Boys Basketball I Bl The Daily Sentinel INSIDE · 7-3 4-0 9-1 4-1 5-3 3-2 5-4 2-2 3-6 1-4 2-6 0-5 ~- Updated through Dec. 28 Prep Schedule Today 's games Girls Basketball Gallia Academy at Point Pleasant, 5 :45 p.m Southern at Wahama Tournament. TBA Jackson at River Valley. 6 p.m. Thursday's games Girls Basketball Meigs at Eastern. 6 p.m. South Gallia at Miller. 1 p.m. Bors Basket/xi// Gallia Academy vs. River Valley (at Rio Gra nde). 6 p.m. Judge rejects dismissal of DUI charge against Bengals player KETTERING (AP) - A judge has rejected a motion to dismi ss a charge that Cincinnati Bcngals defensive end Justin Smith was intoxicated when he was pulled over in October. But prosecutors leti open the possibility of a plea arrangement Judge Larry Moore ruled the case should go forward. but set no trial date. Smith, 25, was stopped Oct. 5 by a Montgomery County sheriff's deputy who said he saw Smith's truck weaving in a Dayton suburb. Smith told the deputy he had five beers, and he swayed while walking during a sobriety test, according to the arrest repon. A breath test found that Smith had a blood alcohol level of 0.152, the repon said. The legal limit for driving in Ohio is 0.08 . BY BRAD SHERMAN The Lady Tornadoes were bsherman@ mydailyregister.com as close as .four points inside the final two minutes, but MASON _ In four tries. managed only one field goal the stretch. down Wahama has never won its Meanwhile, Sayre made own Bob's Market Holiday enough charity shots to Basketball Tournament secure the win. but the fifth installment "We put the ball in couldn't have started much · (Sayre's) hand s. and went to better Tuesday. the spread offense ," Keith Ann Sayre scored all explained Wahama coach ofWahama's II points in the Tim Howard . "She's our best fourth quarter, seven coming ball handler right now, and from the free throw line, as we're going to keep it in her the Lady Falcons held on for hands in that kind of situaa 43-37 win over defending tion." champion Southern. The senior point guard made only half of her I 4 free throw attempts .in the final quarter, but was good on her final three in side the last 25 seconds . She finish ed with a game-high I 9 points. Teammate Ashley Rou,h added a double-double with I 0 point' anu 12 rebounds, while Amanda Cadle connected on four jump 'hot> for eight points. "She's a tough player and goc.s after it full->peeu the whole time she's on the floor.'' Howard said of . ' 37. Southern will play Guyan Valley today in the consolation game .. Brad Sherman/ photo Please see Southern, 83 Late surge lifts Eastern past Vikings Meigs fends off Raiders BY BRYAN WALTERS bwalters@ mydailytribune.com TUPPERS PLAINS A 23-9 run in the final period allowed the Eastern boys basketball team to turn a dosely-wntested 49-47 third quarter lead over Vinton County into a convincing 72-56 victory Tuesday at EHS. Eagles (7 - I ) The received a big game from Nathan Cozart. who netted seven trifectas on his w.ay to 37 points, and had substantial efforts from others en route to the hard-fought vic tory. Afterward, EHS coach Howi e Caldwell talked about his junior's · stellar production. . "Nathan's performance tonight has to be one of the best that · has ever happened in this gym. He was ready to play and was tlat nut not going tn let us lose," said Caldwell. Cozart had 16 points in the opening stanza and accumulated 22 by intermission. which compensated for the Joss of Cody Dill. who was saddled with foul trouble for a majority of the contest. The hot start by the guard gave Eastern a slim 33-32 advantage at the half. The Vikings (7-2) battled the hosts to five lead changes and one tie in the first quarter. but an 11 -4 run over the final four 'minutes allowed The Green and White to claim a 19-15 edge after eight minutes. The visitors rallied back to take the lead tive different times in the second canto. only to see the Please see Eastern, 83 BY BUTCH COOPER bcooper @mydailytribune.com Bryan Walters/photo Vinton County's Josh Ousley (23) tries to spl it Eastern defenders Cody Dill (44) and Robert Cross in the lane as Nathan Cozart (12) and Adam Dillard. left. look on. The Eagle~ won the game 72-56. ROCKSPRINGS - River Valle y took ih on ly secondhalf lead wi th less than two minutes in the game , but Meigs managed to hold off the Raiders in the end. A d a m Snowden and David Poole each scored I0 points as the Maruuder.s. which lost by 25 earlier this month at River Valle y, defeated the Raiders. 44-43. Snowden finished with a double-double for Meigs (35 I as he also ~rabbed . I 0 rebounds . Carl V.olfe lillci six boards. · River Valley's . Stephen Harder also recorded a double-double with 15 points and 12 rebounds. while Chris Roush scored 12 points. includmg two 3-point goals. and Derek Smith had six rebounds . Meigs Jed 42 -37 after Jared Casey conne~.Cted on a pair of tree throws with 2:33 left in · the game. Rnush then connected on a 3-pointer Jess than ~0 seconds later to cut the lead to twn A bad pa s.> resulted in River Valley (3-J 1gettiDg the ball back. which led to a trey by Harqer to give the Raiders a -13 --12 lead with I :35 left. "Our kids ' know. from the scouting report. that Chris Roush i, a good three-point shoote r... said Meigs head Please see Mel1s. 83 Chesapeake downs Southern,·89-35 BY ScoTT WoLFE Sports correspondent CHESAPEAKE - Going twelve men deep and placing them all in the scoring column. the Chesapeake Panthers lambasted the Southern Tornadoes 89-35 Tuesday night in a nonleague boys varsity basketball contest. Southern (2-6, 1-2) was led by senior guard Craig Randolph with 19 points, while the next leading scorer was Brad Crouch with six.Derek Teaford added four, and Jake Nease four. while Tyl er Rubens added two. Chesapeake was Jed by PJ . Rase with I6. Brennan Hall 15. Dustin O'Brien 12. Brent Ransbottom 12. and eight each from Matt Whitmore ai1d Trent Finley. Coach Norm Persin. winning, and Chesapeake b;bketball are synonomous. Persin's Panthers of 2004 tit the ·same mold as past CHS clubs. using a full COUll pressure and explosive run-and-gun offensive game. The Panthers set the early tempo and the collateral damage was just too much for the Tornadoes to sustain . Led by Hall's nine tirst guarter points. and seven by 0 Brien. the 'Peake blitzed to a ~-1--l tiN period lead. As the hosts st<Uled to str b more frequently. and Southem goals (391 than Southern did ~ot more into an offen sive total points (35 I rhvthym. the 'econd period Southem hit 12--l-+ Irom the turned imo an 18- lield O\'erall. hitting 7 of 29 1H dog tight. two\. 5- 155 three\. m1d 6-.10 Southem ke)JI at the line. CHS hit .\'l-55. hitpac:ed but sttll ting J-l--19 two's. 4-fl three's. trailed 42-22 at and 6-10 at the line . the half. Southern had just 15 Southern's reboun ds (!'\ease 6). six steals Randolph had 17 ]Xlints of his (Randolph -l ). three assists. 17 19 in the tirst half. Chesapeake did not relent in tumovers. and 9 foul'.. CHS the second hal f. widening the had 25 rebounds (O'Brien 7). score io 67-32 after three eight assists (Rase 3. Fniley 3l. rounds and 8\1-35 at the tinish . -.e\·en steals . fi\t~ t umo\'er~. Southern scored just three and II foul,. . droppeu the Southern points in a clisasterous fou11h resen·e game 54-2.1. l\1art\ quarter. In an interc. . ting t wi ~ t. Cia) kd ' chesapeake with 1'7 ChesaJ1<?ake su>recl more tidd and Tyler Shf,.,maker hau 12. For Southern. Jacob Hunter had se\·en and Butch Marnhout and Ryan Chapman four cac·h. Southern hosts Eastern Friday. January 7 in Racine Chesapeake 89, Southern 35 Soumern Chesapea~e 4 24 18 18 10 ·2s 3 ~ 35 22- 89 Southem: Derek Te8tord 2 o-o 4. Cra1g Randolph 6 4-4 19 Chns Tucker 0 0-0 0. Josn Pape 0 Q..O 0 Dust1n Brmager 0 0-0 0. Tyler Rot>erts 1 o-o 2. Brad Crol.ICtl 2 D-0 6, Darin Teaford 0 o-o 0. Jal(e Nease 1 2-6 4 Totals 12 6· 10 35 Three Point Goals: Aanoolph tnree Crouch two Chesapeake: Zacb Momson 1 ~ 2. Caleb McComas 1 O-o 3. Brennan Hall 7 1·3 1S.M11(e Stapleton 0 3-4 3 OusM 0'Bn91"1 5 2-3 12 Tyler Stroema11.er 2 4. Justrn Porter 1 0-0 2 PJ Rase 7 Q-() t6 Jeffery o-o Trent Frnley 3 o-o a. Mat\ Thornburg 2 D-0 4 Whrtmore 4 ()-() Brent Ransbottom 6 0-0 12 Totals 39 6-10 89 Rase two, F•nley rwo. McComas one a !Pfeasanl Valle_y .Jiospilaf ivefcomes ... ANTHONY J. ·M cELDOWNEY, MD· Orthopedic Surge•·y : Pleas:mt Valley Hospital Medical Office Building Suite 211 Point Pleasant, \X 'Y 25550 304-675-:S27" · .\e<-epting new patients. Call for an appointment. �Wednesday, December 29. Wednesday, December 29. www.mydailysentinel.com ' ) Page B2 • The Daily Sentinel www. mydailysentinel.com 2004 COLLEGE FOOTBALL Cleveland clips Hawks, 111-1 02 Ohio State quarterback gets chance at redemption SAN ANTONIO - Troy Smith helped Ohio State get into the Alamo Bowl. Justin Zwick will have to help the Buckeyes win it. No. 24 Ohio State (7-4) won four of its last five games after Smith took over as quarterback . But he was suspended by the team last week for a 'iolation of team rules and will miss Wednesday' s game against Oklahoma State. Ttiat puts the offense back into the hands of Zwick, who went 3-3 before hurting his shoulder and being replaced by Smith . "It's pretty exciting to be back on the field competing," said Zwick. who hasn't taken a snap in a game since mid-October. '· J've been preparing every week as if I would get this opportu nity." Zwick doesn't have the ga me -break ing talent of Smith , who ran for 145 yards and passed for another 241 in the Buckeyes' season-ending upset of rival Michigan. But Oklahoma State (7-4) is still giving him respect. "Zwick is definitely more efficient with the short passing game," said safety Jamie Thompson, who lead the Cowboys in tackles and forced fumbles . "Troy was always running around scrambling and didn't throw the ball as much. I'm going to focus more on short passes and trying to contain them as best I can." Oklahoma State coach Les Miles said his team has tweaked its defensive approach because Zwick is more of a pure pocket passer. ".We will blitz more to the inside instead of the outside," he said. Containing the Ohio State receiver corps could present a key challenge for Oklahoma State, which allowed an average of 263 yards passing in its final four games, three of them losses. Buckeyes receiver Santonio Holmes caught 50 passes for 722 yards and seven touchdowns during the season. and was complemented as the year went on by freshmen Ted Ginn Jr. and Anthony Gonzalez. In the final three games, Ginn, who also had an NCAA-leading four touchdowns on punt returns in 2004. caught 12 passes for 171 yards, while Gonzalez had four catches averaging 31.5 yards. "I'm sure (Ginn) is way far ahead of where he was when Justin last played with him." said Ohio State coach Jim Tressel, who added of Gonzalez, "I'm noi sure who's faster than him in the 40. He can really put some pressure on a defense." And in a tight game, the Buckeyes have the advantage in kicking with Mike Nugent, a first-team AllAmerican and winner of the Lou Groza Award, given to college football's top kicker. He went 20-for-23 on field goals, including live from 50 yards or more. Oklahoma State was ranked as high as 16th after winning their first five games, but the Cowboys finished 2-4 in the Big 12, capped by a 31-15 loss to Texas Tech that knocked them out of the national rankings. Their offense relies on tail back Vernand Morency, one of the nation's leading rushers with 145 yards a game and 13 touchdowns. Linebacker A.J. Hawk, Ohio State's leading tackler, compared Oklahoma State's offense to that of Michigan. "What is impressive is that they have been able to run on whoever they played this year," said Hawk, who averaged 12.4 tackles per game. "And whenever you play a running offense, it's always fun to play defense." Donovan Woods completed 82 of 153 passes for nearly I,500 yards and 13 touchdowns, and he rushed for another 364 yards. His brother D' Juan led the Cowboys COLUMBUS- Ohio State athletic officials will sanction a businessman who gave improper benefits to quarterback Troy Smith, leading to his suspension from playing in the Alamo Bowl, athletic director Andy Geiger said Tuesday. Robert Q. Baker, 46, gave Smith an unspecified benefit at the Columbus business he used to head, in violation of NCAA rules, Geiger told The Associated Press by telephone from San Antonio. where the Buckeyes are preparing for Wednesday's game against Oklahoma State. "We will take action, although we haven't met about that yet." Geiger said, adding a decision would be made in January after talking with university lawyers. Possible penalties include preventing Baker from buying tickets to Buckeyes' football games or not allowing him to buy into a luxury suite at Ohio Stadium, Geiger said. Geoffrey Webster, 56, an attorney for Baker's former company Poly-Care Services, a provider of health care products, said he called the university Dec. 9 after employees described an envelope being given to an Ohio State player who doesn't work for the company. It was not clear what was inside, Webster said Tuesday. "No matter what was in it, if you don't have· to do anything for it, it's wrong to Jay that in front of a 19-year-old man who's just stepping out on his own," said Webster, an Ohio State graduate and longtime booster. "It was wrong for Mr. Baker to do it; it's wrong for anybody else." • Baker, the former executive director of the Ohio Academy of Nursing Homes, helped found Poly-Care but left as chief executive officer for unrelated reasons about a month ago, Webster said. A Associated Press ATLANTA LeBron James was tired of losing on the road, so the 19-year-old superstar gave the Cleveland Cavaliers exactly what they needed - everything. "Whatever we needed, he provided tonight," coach . Paul Silas said. "He fuels us. : As LeBron goes, so we go. He just wouldn't let us Jose." James had 40 points, nine rebounds and seven assists to . help the Cavaliers defeat the · Atlanta Hawks 111-102 Tuesday night for their third -victory in four games. - Jeff Mcinnis and Zydrunas llgauskas each scored 20 points for Cleveland, which . won its fifth straight against _the struggling Hawks. The Ca vs ended a two-game road . losing streak and improved -to 6-9 away from Gund and taking Mcinnis' fast break pass, James fed Anderson Varejao with a bounce pass for a dunk that gave the Cavs their biggest lead, 94-82, with 5:38 left. That basket ended a 15-4 run that began after Tony Delk hit consecutive 3-pointers for Atlanta. "LeBron, that's what he's good at," Mcinnis said. "We all play behind LeBron. Like in the fourth quarter, L,.eBron told me to get going. I got on the pick-and-roll and got some baskets. He got Tractor Traylor into the game. We've got guys that can hurt you." James' most spectacular basket came on a fast-break dunk in the second quarter. He cradled the ball in his right arm before using his right hand to jam it through the rim and cut the Hawks ' lead to41-38. Antoine Walker hit a 3pointer to make it 106-100 with 57.3 seconds remaining, but it was too late as the Hawks lost for the seventh time in eight games. "We have to Jearn how to play for 48 minutes," Walker. who finished with ~ Arena. AP photo Ohio State coach Jim Tressel, left, and Oklahoma State coach Les Miles visit following a news conference in San Antonio on Tuesday. Ohio State and Oklah·oma State will meet in the Alamo Bowl Wednesday. right up there with Oklahoma and Texas and some of the best defense we have played." Company attorney tipped OSU about executive's gifts to QB BY CARRIE SPENCER Associated Press BY GEORGE HENRY j ' with 29 receptions for 650 a good idea of what to expect from Ohio State's defenders. yards and six TDs. "Their front seven is very Donovan Woods said watching film has given him strong," he said. "They rank message seeking comment was left Tuesday at Baker 's home in Springfield. Webster said he received an employee complaint regarding two football players who in the spring briefly visited the office of Baker's assist2nt, Benjamin Dutton . One player was later identified as Smith. Webster said. That employee later gave Dutton a ride and overheard a cell phone call from Baker, who spoke loudly enough that the driver could hear. The report said Dutton confirmed to Baker that Smith receil;;ed an envelope, then asked what work he had to do in exchange. "He wa·s iold: 'Nothing, just take it and leave,"' Webster said. "The remark was made by Mr. Baker: 'Good, now I own him."' Dutton was fired' before the incident was reported. Webster said. Dutton could not be reached for comment. The only telephone listing for a Benjamin Dutton in Ohio was a wrong number. Webster said no company re sources were involved. Smith's violation is considered minor and he's expected to play next year, Geiger said Tuesday. Smith has not commented on his suspension as part of an agreement with Ohio State. Questions were raised about Poly-Care when Chris Gamble, who played wide receiver and cornerback for the Buckeyes' 2002 national championship team , signed autographs for nursing home residents while delivering medical oxygen and other prodttcts for the company in 2003. "Chris Gamble worked." Webster said . Baker makes payments with two other people on a thirdlevel private sui te in Ohio Stadium on the 35-yard line. said the stadium's manager of suites and club scats. The 1981 Baldwin-Wallace graduate wa., a backup running back \vhose senior year was the final season for Yellow Jackets coach Lee Tre·sse I. the late father of Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel. Webster said he was pleased with Ohio State 's decision to .puni sh Baker. "How do you conform booster conduct if the player'' the only one who gets sanctioned'.'" Webster sa id . ' "There's not too many teams that plar well on the road anyway,' James said. : "We've just got to come in · with intensity like this every · time we're on the road.· It's : simple as that." - James, who entered with a 24.6 average ranked tifth in the NBA, finished three points shy of his career high · set Nov. 24 against Detroit. He went over 30 points for ·the seventh time this season. Running down the left side Sorenstam chosen AP Female Athlete of the Year She won early and often. and often by overwhelming margins. She won on four continents - in Australia. Sweden and Japan and in six of the 50 United States. She won a major: the most money and a remarkable I0 time s in just 20 starts worldwide. Small wonder then , that what was an average year for golfer Annika Sorenstam was more than good enough to earn her recognition as The As sociated Press Female Athlete of the Year for the second yea r running. Sorenstam received 40 first place votes and 263 total . points. Diana Taurasi, who Jed Connecticut to the NCAA women's basketball title and then captured the WNBA's Rookie of the Year award. finished seco nd . She had 15 first-place vo tes and 154 points. two more than Russian teen tennis se nsation Maria Sharapova. Consistency has been the hallmark of Sorenstam 's 11 -year career in . pro golf. Her performance this season wasn ' t nearly as eventful as 2003. when she won two majors and II times on the LPGA Tour, became the first woman since 1945 to play on the PGA Tour, did a star turn on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and entered the Hall of Fame. But incredibly, it was every bit as efficient. Sorenstam began it with a win in the ANZ Ladie s Masters on Australia's Gold Coast, making up a four-stroke deficit at the midway point by closing with a pair of scintillating 65s. She ended it by edging Cristie Kerr in a playoff in the ADT Championship, the final tournament on the LPGA calendar, with her only victory that didn't come by multiple shots. i In between, Sorenstam wrote a book , lifted her profile as an endorser and mixed it up with the boys a second time in the Skins Game. She also stayed comfortably atop the world rankings , locked up' a fourth consecutive LPGA money title - her seventh in the last I 0 years - tied her own scoring average record at 68.7 and led the tour in top-! 0 finishes, rounds under par and greens in regulation. "Naturally, I'm pleased with my season in many different ways," Sorenstam said, "and especially because I've played less tournaments and still won so much." Most important, perhaps, the 34year-old Swede proved again that she has to be included in any argument about the most dominant golfer- male or female- of this era. Over the last four seasons, Sorenstam has separated herself from her competition even more than either Tiger Woods or Vijay Singh, boosting her total LPGA wins to 56 and climbing within striking distance of the record 88 recorded by Kathy Whitworth in a 22-year career. "I'm still so far away from it but I've come so far ahead of what I ever thought I would," Sorenstam said earlier this year. "I always sai d I would continue to play this game while I enjoy it and feel motivated. I just wonder if I can continue on this pace." But no one should be surprised if she does. Go Ifing great Nancy Lopez saw something special in Sorenstam not long after she joined the pro circuit. "There's a calmness about her you don't normally see in young players," Lopez said at the time. and that's still evident watching Sorenstam play now, striding purposefully down the fairway in wraparound sunglasses. But then. as now, the cool, confi- dent exterior masks a competitive desire that burns every bit as brightly as it has in any of the game's greats. Soon after Australian Karrie Webb knocked Sorenstam off the throne of women's golf at the end of the 2000 season, the Swede rededicated herself to the sport with an intensity few believed she possessed. Sorenstam spent the next six weeks practicing nothing but putting and began a strengthtraining regimen that has made her the envy of not just her peers , but female athletes of every stripe. After a 2002 season that ranked as the most succe ssful by any golfer in four decades, the same impulse drove her to accept a sponsor's invitation to play against the men at the Colonial the following year. Sorenstam missed the cut there, but played in front of crowds nearly four times larger than she routinely encounters on the LPGA Tour. She put both her game and her personality under that microscop~ to learn more about her weaknesses than strengths, and those lessons have been paying dividends ever since. Sorenstam insists winning is not as easy as she make s it look. But whenever she gets in a tight spot now, Sorenstam draw s on the memories of playing in front of galleries lined eight deep behind the ropes, remembering how it felt to stand in the fairway and feel like there wasn't enough oxygen to go around. Then she draws the c)ub back calmly and pulls off the shot she needs. ''I'm nervous,'" she explained in August of 2003, right after winning the British Open to complete her career Grand Slam, "but I love it at the same time ." Those same emotions mixed once again coming down the stretch of this ·year's ADT Championship, where Sorenstam MIAMI (AP) - Jayce Lewis hit two free throws with 3.3 seconds left in overtime to lead Florida International to a 74-73 win over Ohio on Tuesday night in the championship game of the FlU Holiday Tournament. Regulation ended at 65-65, tied on a pair of free throws by Ohio's Leon Williams with I0.5 seconds left. Ivan Almonte led Florida International (7-5) with 25 points and lO rebounds. Is mae I N' Diaye added 14 .points and Sheldon Bailey 11 for the Golden Panthers. Lewis hit only one tield goal in the game, scoring just four points. Mychal Green led the Bobcats (5-3) with 15 points and 12 rebounds. Leon Williams and Jeff Halbert had 14 points each. The Bobcats had 17 offensive rebounds, compared to seven for the Golden Panthers. FlU shot 49.1 percent (27of-55) from the field. Ohio 67, Binghamton 63 Mychal Green scored a career-high 18 points and helped lead a second-half rally in Ohio's 67-63 win over Binghamton on Monday night in the opening round . of the FlU Holiday Tournament. Ohio (5-2) led 37-30 at halftime but Binghamton (27) took a one point lead with a 10-2 run to open the second half. The Bobcats pushed their lead back up to 12 with 3:14 to play, but Binghamton pulled within three at 66-63 with under a minute remaining on Schafer Jackson's 3pointer. Ohio's Jeremy Fears hit one of two foul shots, and Jackson missed a 3-pointer with 2 seconds left. Meigs never amounted to anything as Meigs got the ball back with one second left to secure the win. "We fought and scraped back (in the fourth quarter) and it shows that the kids had a lot of heart in their effort," sa id River Valley head coach Gene Layton. "I learned a lot about my kids," added Wolfe. "We didn't hang our heads. We had six-point lead and all of the sudden they catch us." With the game tied 26-all early in the third quarter, Meigs went on a 7-0 run, but only Jed by three going into the fourth. The Marauders· biggest lead of the fourth was six, but could not finish off the Raiders as Meigs went 5for-12 from the charity stripe in the final frame and only made two baskets from the field. "It's a tough one to Jose." said Layton. "Meigs is always a tough place to play." River Valley will face Gallia Academy Thursday at Rio Grande, while Mei gS' entertains Wellston Jan. 7. from Page B1 coach Carl Wolfe. "He got away from us there and his a three. And then Harder came outside and he sort of surprised me a little bit as he ·hits a three . A five -point lead vaporized there in just a matter of a minute." That lead was short-lived as Poole recorded a basket on a layup at the I :04 mark · to put the Marauders back on top. River Valley turned the ball over on its end of the floor, forcing the Raiders to foul Eric VanMeter with 19 seconds left. Va·nMeter missed both foul shots, giving the Raiders another chance. That chance, though, I Eastern from Page B1 AP photo Annlka Sorenstam of Sw~den smiles as she poses with the ADT Championship t'ophy at the Trump lnfernatlonal· Golf Club Nov. 21\n West Palm Beach. Fla. Sorenstam was named The Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year for the second year running on Tuesday. · missed a 12-foot birdie putt on the final hole of regulation 111 win the tournament outright, then had to cobble together a bogey on the first .extra hole for the victory. She dtdn t w.1n any style points. but the display of grit was us good a way " as any to wrap up another spectacular season. "You're u ~humpion whether you make a bogey or a birdie," Sorenstam said. "That's the way I look at it ." And 'he's not the only one. ' • 17 points. "We have to be able to maintain our defense in the third quarter. We're not putting it together for 48 minutes." AI Harrington Jed Atlanta with a season-high 31 points. Hawks coach Mike Woodson liked what he saw from Harrington. "He was steady," Woodson said. "I thought the team played well, but again I' m not looking at offense. I'm looking at defense. We didn't do enough of that." James, who turns 20 on Thursday, is the youngest player to reach 500 career assists and rebounds . He surpassed Philadelphia's Allen Iverson, who had 36 against the Hawks on Dec. 6, for the most points this season by an Atlanta opponent. llgauskas was pleased with how the Cavs turned a onepoint halftime deficit into a 79-7~ lead entering the fourth. Cleveland entered with a 2-7 road record when trailing after three. "In the last couple of weeks the third quarter has been a killer for us," llgauskas said. "We just come out flat and just shoot ourselv~s out of the game right out of the gates. Today that was the difference. We came out strong and took the lead ." Bobcats fall in overtime to FlU · 1 BY JtM LITKE Associated Press Daily Scntinel • Page B3 2004 NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION BY T.A. B.\DGER Associated Press The home team come back with two seconds left to lake a one-point Je'ad into the break. In all, the first half saw 10 . _lead changes and live ties :· between the TVC schools. A large r~ason for the Vikings' success was attributed to Chris Bethel, who also tallied 22' points in the tirst half. guests However, the demise in the second half could be accounted for by the EHS defense , which held Bethel without a point for the remainder of the game. That, along with a combined frontcourt effort of 19 points and 13 rebounds from Dill, Robert Cross and Chris Carroll in the second half. allowed EHS to gradually wear down the Vikes on the way to the win . ''1. thought conditioning really paid off tonight. especially 111 the fourth .quarter," commenteq Caldwell. 'The gy m was hot, the crowd was great and eventually we got over the top." The Eagles held VCHS to one field goal in the tirst six minutes of the tinal stanza and turned a one possession game into a 70-52 edge . Eastern outrebounded the Vikes 40-27 and shot just under 47 percent for the evening in the win. The hosts also made more free throws (-18) than VCHS attempted ( 17). Dill was the only other Eastern player in double figures with II markers, with Cross adding nine and Carroll and Derek Baum each chipping in five . Cross Jed the Eagles with 12 caroms. while Adam Dillard had three assists in the win. Jarrod Albright followed Bethel with I0 points, and Jordan Brooks contributed seven to the setback . VCHS had eight steals in the contest and committed just four turnovers. while EHS had just one takeawpy and gave the ball away 12 times. The Vikings salvaged a split on ihe · evening with a Melga 44, River Valley 43 RiverValley 16 Meigs 14 8 10 8 1'1 11 9 - 43 44 RIVER VALLEY (3·3) - Chris Roush 6 0-0 14, Darren Clark 3 0- 1 6 . Jon Casto 0 0-1 o, Derek Smith 0 3-3 3, Kyle Tipton 0 0-2 0 , Michael Cordell 2 0-0 4, Ryan Burger 0 1-2 1, Stephen Harder 5 4-7 15. TOTALS- 16 8·16 43. MEIGS (3-5) - Jared Casey 2 4-4 B. Jeremy Blackston 3 0-0 6. Carl Wolfe 2 1-9 5. Eric VanMeter 1 0-2 3. Josh Buzzard 1 0-0 2. Adam Snowden 4 2-4 10. David Poole 5 0·2 10 . TOTALS - 18 7·21 44 . Rio loses for first time at home: Allen eclipses 1,000 points STAFF REPORT sports@ mydailysentinel .com RIO GRANDE - The University of Rio Grande Redwomen basketball team, ranked No. 18 in the latest NAIA Division II Top 25 poll. lost .their second consecutive game and for the first time at home this season, 81-68. versus NCAA Division II Ashland Univer>ity on Tuesday evening at the Newt Oliver Arena. Rio Grande ( 12-4) could not hold up against a bigger and more physical Ash,lamJ (8-4) squad. It was a close game early but the E9gles gained control and pushed the lead to double digits in the waning moments · of the tirst half. . They took a 39-31 advantage to the locker room . Rio played well in spurts. turning up the heat defensively and trimming the deficit to 56-50 midway through the second half. .Rio, however, could not get over the hump and never got closer than six points the remainder of the way. Sophomore guard Carlesha Chambers played her best game as a collegian, leading the Redwomen with 15 points, six assists and four Southern from Page 81 Roush. "Amanda Cadle. right now. is probably our best shooter and we're got to find a way to keep her on the tloor as much as possible." Wahama (4-2) goes for its first-ever Bob's Market tourney title at 8 p.m. tonight agai nst Wirt County; the Lady Tigers punched their ticket with a 41-39 win over Guyan Valley in the other semifinal Tuesday. Southern, which fell to 2-o on the year following its fourth straight setback. will play for the consolation prize at 6 p.m. As has been the case for most of the season, Southern struggled shooting from the field . Coach Scott Wolfe's crew made only 14-of-56 floor shots in its latest loss. ··our shooting has just been poor this year." Wolfe adm itted. "I thought our shot se lection was pretty good, we had numerous shots inside, we just didn 't put it away." Wahama, which has also struggled from the field this year. 'conversly shot a very good 42 percent. Solid shooting helped the Lady Falcons jump. out to a 12-4 first quarter advamage. '>enior guard An~~\ /\)len '" 'he \cored h~r J.(JIJI)th career point. The Bed.Je; . lA Va native entered the lll"ill needing ju\t two poim' to reach the coveted plateau. Rio Grande Head Coach David Smalley""' h.tpp) for Allen after the game. "She had a fairh . decenl tloor game. she turned the ball over one time and had four or 'ix poinh. hut 'he got her. J.OOOth point and that ·, a tribute to her and d tnhutc to the team·, that ,J1c pla)eJ with over the !;1,1 fcv. ;car, ... he '>aid . "We· rc happ) and proud of Angel fur 'IL·com plishing thi ,, and if that v. a' an i\\Ue on her mind. 'he should be relie1cJ and we'll get her back to pia) ing "'well as she capable or playing... . Smalley summed up the defeat. "Their po'l pia) cr' were bigger. l:>cttcr. 'trunger. and faster than our plht players tonight." he ,aid. "It 11 a' a phy>ical game and that rrohably played wel l into Ashland·, han1.h. betler than what it did our,." Rio will venture back into American \1Jlka't Conference South Di1 i'ion play 7 p.m .. Thur,J_a) w 1th a road trip to Mount Vernon Nazarene . ~ steals. Senior forward Alkia Fountain tossed in 13 point; and junior guard Tuna Richey chipped in 10 off the bench . Sophomore post player Jam ie King led the Redwomen on the glass with seven. Ashland used a balanced attack and a hot shooting >econd half to subdu e 1he Redwomen . Beth Everman paced all ~corers with 19 points. She notched a doubledouble as she also ripped down 13 rebounds. AmberRalladded18poims and· Catherine Portvrata tossed in 13 off the bench. Jackie Mason chipped in II points, pulled down eight rebounds and blocked five shots as she was a force in the middle for the Eagles. Angle Heintz contributed I0 points and corralled seven rebounds . Ashland blistered the nets at a 62 percent (18-of-29) clip in the second half and for the game shot just under 54 percent (36-of-67). The Eagles also dominated the glass, 44-29. It was a milestone night for Southern was brietly on top 2-0, but Wahama countered with eight unanswered points. Brooke Kisor scored nine points for Southern in the second quarter. as her Lady Tornadoes fought their way back into the game. The visttors pulled as close at three on a pair of Kiser free throws with 51 seconds remaining the half. Kiser led Southern with 14 points followed by Joanne Pickens with eight points and nine rebounds. Ashley Roush, who shares the same name and n~mber as Wahama 's forward. chipped in six. A pair of Sayre Jayups. however, helped Wahama stretch the le ad back to six points at 24-1 ~by halftime. Southern's Ptckens and Wahama ·' Roush provided earl~ offense in the second halt for their respective teams. as they combmed to score the first 12 points (six apiece) of the third quarter. A 3-pointer by Pickens and a jumper from Southern' s Roush bridged the third and fourth quarters and pulled Southern to within 32-31. but the Meigs Countian> were unable t() make it all the way back. "O nce we got it down to one point. several times we had it down' to tiHee. it seemed like we either had a m1ssed 'hot and no rebound ... or we turned the ball mer." Wolfe 'aid. "It 'ecmcd like we needed 'omehod) 1o >~cr up and take control and lhat didn't happen at that JJI.>Inl 111 time." Howard gave much of thL' credit to his team \ defen'i11.· effort. After playing primari ly man -to-man defen'c through the early part of the schedule. a 1witch to t.one for Tuesday's conte't paid nil "The defen se real II stepped up tonight." HowarJ commented. "We tried our zone and kept them actiw. I think t~at defense really did it tor us. Wahama 43, Southern 37 Southern 4 14 11 8 37 Watlama 12 12 8 11 - 43 SOUTHERN (2-6) - Whllney Wolfe·Riftle 0 2·4 2. Brooke K1ser 5 2·2 14. Kas1e Sellers 1 1·2 3, Ashley Roush 3 0-4 6 Joanne Pickens 4 0·2 8. Knstuna Wi lliams 1 2-5 4. Jordan Neig\er 0 0-0 0 Ashle~· Robie 0 0-0 0. TOTAL S - 14 7-19 37 WAHA.MA (4-2) - Whllney Knrght 1 2·4 4. Jess1ca Holiman 0 0·0 0 Ashley Rousn 4 2-4 10 . Leslre Krtcher 0 0-0 D. Ken n Ann Sayre 6 7 -14 19 , Nancy Bri nker 0 0·0 D Mary Kabler 0 0·0 0 Ama nda Cadle 4 0·0 B. Beth Keyes 1 0-1 2 TOTALS - 16 11· , 22 43 3-point goals - S 2 (Brooke K 1se r 21 W (none) Team /Individual Leaders Total f1eld goals- S 14·56 1 250 ,. W 1638 1 421) : 3-pOint goals - S 2·1 3 1 153 W 0-3 1 000) Tma l RetlOunds - S Jll (Joanne F'rckens ), W 33 1Asn1ey Rousr 12) : Offensrve Aeoounds - S 15' ;Joa'1ne · Prckens 6) . W 10 (Ash ley RoJsh 5, ASSIStS- S 1 1Whltf10y Wolte-R1f{le 1 W 6 (Kerth An n Sayre 3\ Steals S 9 (Kns1ilna Williams 3) I Keith An n Sayre 2) : Blocks - S 1 (Ash ey Roush ! W 6 iAShley Roush 31 Turnovers- S 17 W we 22 E-mail your sports news to: sports@"'ydailysentinel.com 3-polnt goals RV 3 (Roush 2. Harder) . Meigs 1 {VanMeter} Rebounds RV 32 (Ha rder 12).· Mergs 25 (Snowden 10). JV - River Valley 73. Meigs 56. RV: MorrOw .20, Thompson 16 M Richardson 13 . 51-37 win in the junior varsity tilt. Gage Sowers paced the visitors with 12 points. while Matt Morris Jed Eastern with 12 markers. VCHS led at halftime 36-10. Eastern travels to Cheshire Tuesday to take on the River Valley Raiders in non-conference action. Tip-off is scheduled for 6 p.m. To You & Your Pet Purina Mills... America's Leader in Animal Nutrition ( _..r-,._.J Vinton Co 15 19 17 14 15 16 6 (Bethel 5. Brooks ) E - 8 (Cozart 7. Dillard) . Team statlstlcallndlvldualleatters VC : 22·63 FG (.349), 6·15 3PG ( 400)6· 17 FT ( .353). 27 reboundS (Ousley 9) , 8 oftensrve rebounds (Ousley 4) , 10 assists (Ousley 6). 8 steals (Eberts 2). 2 blocks (Ousley. Bethel ). 4 turnovers . 191ouls E: 23·49 FG ( 469). 8·16 3PG ( 500). 18· 29FT ( 621) . flO rebounds {Cross 12 1. 7 olfensrve rebounds (Myers 2). 10 aSSISts (0rllard 3) . 1 steal (Myers) 2 blocks. fD1:1 Di ll ard) . 12 turnovers . 16 fou ls · C_./ \ -- . r '-'""__J\.,.. BUY6 Get One VCHS (7-2) : Jordan Bro oks 3 0-0 7. Chns Bethel 8 1-2 22, Greg Covey, 0 0 ·2 D. Mal1 Eberts 0 3·6 3 . Chns Neal 1 0·0 2. Jar rod Albright 5 0-0 10 . Michael Markrn 1 0·1 2. Josh Ousley I 2·6 4, Tim Pettet 1 0·0 2. Greg Powell 2 0·0 4 . TOTALS : 22 6·17 56 3 -point goals: VC - \~ • 9 -56 23-72 EHS (7-1): Derek Baum 1 3-4 5. Nathan Cozart 12 6·9 37. Adam Dillard 1 0-0 3. Chris Carroll I 3-4 5. Chris Myers 0 2·6 2, Robert Cross 3 3·4 9. Cody Dill 5 1·2 11 TOTALS 23 18·29 72. 'I '· Eastern 72, VInton County 56 Eastern lXI DE'N'WILLER 'I'RUE VALUE LUMBER fREE ...,. ........ - -..... '18.48 wi\b lre~uent fl!rdlase card! Onl! anilable 011 Nl ,!\me, �Wednesday, December 29, 2004 Page 84 • The Daily Sentinel Wednesday, December 29, 2004 www.mydailysentinel.com m:rtbune - Sentinel - l\e tster FULL-COURT : Byftae CLASSI .FIED NUMBERS Pf 83.0 83.1 78.1 83.3 68.8 PA 61.7 69.9 61.4 63.1 57.1 Minnesota 0-0 7-3 0-1 72.1 64.2 Michigan Penn State Northwestern Purdue Indiana 0·0 0-0 0·0 0·0 0-0 6·5 5-5 5·5 3·5 1-6 0·1 0-1 0·1 0·1 0-3 65.4 70.7 58.9 59.9 60.1 64.1 68.1 59.1 66.6 64.1 "2004 longwing Publications Inc. GAME OF THE WEEK Illinois vs. Cincinnati (in Las Vegas) . .405 . .407 . .410 REBOUNDING MARGIN Michigan State . Wisconsin . +7.2 . . . • illinois . Penn State . Minnesota +5.6 •4.9 +4.5 +4.3 21.4 18.6 Michigan State. 18.3 Ohio State : Minnesota 16.7 15.6 BLOCKED SHOTS Iowa. . Minnesota . Michigan Illinois. . . Indiana . . 6.7 5. 9 4.8 4. 3 4.3 led to playing time for several walk-ons, including John Andrews, Danl Wohl and Ashtyn BelL Swingman Lester Abram will miss the rest of the season after shoulder surgery. Power forward Graham Brown will miss six weeks after hernia surgery and Daniel Horton will miss a month with a sprained knee. 75 °/c of his team's' games. POINTS Carl Landry, Purdue ... Alando Tucker. Wisconsin Terence Dials , Ohio State . .t ony Stockman, Ohio State !7.6 !1.1 Aaron Johnson, Penn State . Carl Landry, Purdue . Terence Dials, Ohio State . Greg Brunner. Iowa James Augustine, Illinois . Paul Davis, Michigan State Mike Wilkinson , Wisconsin Geary Claxton. Penn State. Brent Petway, Michigan . . Courtney Sims, Michigan . Alando Tucker, Wisconsin .. 11,0 7.9 .. 7.8 .. 7.1 .. 6.8 .. 6.8 ' ' 6.7 . 6.5 .. 6.1 . 6.1 . 5.1 ASSISTS Deron Williams , lllinois . . . . Jeff Horner, Iowa . Dee Brown, illinois . Luther Head. illinois Pierre Pierce, Iowa. . Brandon McKnigh t , Purdue . Chris Hill, Michigan State .. Brandon Fuss- Cheatham, Ohio State Marshall Strickland. lndiana . 5.7 6.6 5.3 5.1 . 4.1 . 4.1 4.1 3.5 3.4 STEALS Pierre Pierce, Iowa . • . . Rico Tucker, Minnesota . . . Jeff Horner,lowa . . . . Tony Stockman, Ohio State . Matt Kiefer, Purdue .. Luther Head, Illinoi s . Brent Lawson , Minnesota . Je Kel FosteJ, Ohio State . Aaron Robinson , Minnesota . Brandon McKnight, Purdue . Robert Vaden , Indiana .. 1.7 1.1 1.0 1.9 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.1 1.1 1.6 1.6 BLOCKS Erek Hansen , Iowa .. Jeff Hagen, Minnesota . D.J. White, Indiana . . . Brent Petway, Michigan, James Augustine , illinois . Courtney Sims. Michigan . Vedran Vukusic, illinois .. Mike Wilkinson, Wisconsin Greg Brunner, Iowa FIELD·COAL PCT. Roger Powell Jr .. fllinois . J.J. Sullinger. Ohio State. James Augustine, lltinois Terence Dials, Ohio State. Paul Davis, Michigan State . Jeff Hagen, Minnesota . Brent Petway, Michigan . Dee Brown, Tilinois . 1.. Carl Landry, Purdue .. . Alan Anderson, Michigan State . 4.0 . 3.4 . 1.1 1.9 1.7 1.5 1.4 1.1 1.1 . .694 ' .649 .639 .513 .600 .600 .600 .589 .556 .554 FREE-THROW PCT. Shannon Brown, Michigan State . Vedran Vukusic. Northwestern . Kelvin Torbert, Michigan State. Dion Harris. Michigan . . . . . Alan Anderson , Michigan State Chris Hunter, Michigan. D.J. Whit e, Indiana . Jeff Hornei, Iowa .. Adam Haluska. Iowa . lllotl.u:>HJGAN ST· .909 .881 .875 .857 .841 .816 .815 .805 ' .804 Junior center Paul Davis has been inconsistent this season, but against UCLA last Tuesday he was dominant. Davis scored 18 points with seven rebounds, two blocks and two steals. The Spartans used a 14-1 first~ half run and 10·0 second-half run to clinch the victory over UCLA, which started four freshman. lll"'ft' fllusttalion by Bmce Plante ~ 2004 · Showdown in the desert W hile New REBOUNDING Year' s Eve is reserved for b ig parties. none w ill be bigger in college basketball than the final game of the forCe tumover!> by pressuri n g g uard s Ton y S1ockm:.m and Brandon Fuss-C heatham . Las Vegas Holiday C lass ic . U ndefeated C incinnati and Illinois will square off in the desen for early narional supremacy. It will be a battle of the inside game versus the outside game. Illinois' Luther H ead . Dee Brown and Deron Will iam s make up Key for Ohio State: Cominuc to feed the ba ll inside to Terence Dia ls. H e scored a career-hig h 29 points lo:ast week. the top perimeter trio in the cou ntry. Cinci nnati depends on defense, the half-court game and the insiUe presence of Armein Kirkland and Jason Maxi ell to win. Both team s are blow ing • Records: Texa~ -Pan Am 7-:, (Independent) : North we~lern 5-5 (0 -0 Bi g T en }. • Coaches: Tcxa:-;-Pa n A rn \ Rnbe rt .Duvenport (7- through th e early competition. wi th Illinoi s' dost'st game comipg in a six-point victory over Missour i an d Cincinnati winn 1ng its past four game s by an avera~e margi n or 2l!.5 points baskets in tran sitio n. key for Cincinnati: Guard the perimeter . l l lin i shoot er s Luther H ead, Brown and Deron Williams can str ike from any Texas-Pan American at Northwestern 3i: Norrhwesrcm\ Bill Carmoli~' (!3~-79) • Tipoff: Friday, l p.m . CT. • TV: None. Key for Texas-Pan Am: Find a wa) to s!Op Non hwe~tern · !l range. With hands in their faces, shootin g percentages will go. down . The Bearcat s are No. 3 nationally in shoot in g percenta£e defense. Pan Americnn nm s1 not loS(.' track of the Croatian center . Key for Northwestern: Got TJ. Parker involved in the offense. When V uk u~ic is double-temned. Parke r needs t o get the offense. Coppin State at Minnesota • Records: Cnpp1 n State 2-8 (2-1 MEAC ): Minnelolli7-J (0-0 Big Ten). • Coaches: Coppin State'' Ronald Mitchell: The Buckeyes 1n1 topped the century mark and won their fourth straight since 'I'A'1'E • 1110 S a Tipoff: Sa turday. 1 p .m. CT. • TV: None. Key for Coppin State: Con tai n V incent Grier. Mi nnesota' s announcing their suspension n ew addition is lead ing the Big 10 in scoring . He i s one of several ne wcomers who h:l\:e made an im mediate impact at M innesota. The Rest of the Matchups Aaron St. Louis at Iowa Texas A&M at Penn State • Records: St. Louis 4-8 (0-0 C-USA): lowo l0- 1 (0-0 Big Ten) . • Coaches: St. Louis' Brad Soderberg ( 170- l08): Iowa s Steve Alford (255- 149). • Tipoff: Friday. 7 p.m. CT. • TV: ESPN Ph". key for St. Louis: Find the scorin g touch . The Bill ik in s have reached 50 points only t wo times in 1hc pas! five games. but have • Records: Tcxa' A&M 9-0 (Q.Q Big 121: Penn State 5-5 (0-0 Big Ten(. • Coaches: Texas A&M's Billy Gilli spie 139-.12): Penn State\ Ed DeChel is (lll -991• Tipoff: Sunlia~. l p.m. ET. a TV: None . Key for Texas A&M: Control Aaron Johnson . T he junior forward i ~ the cen ter of the Nittany Lion "· offen se. l f Juhn!\on is allowed thei r opponents more than encounters. · 60 poi nts i n fo ur of tho:.~ Key for Iowa: Keep the ball in the hands of the guard~ . Jeff H omer , Pierre Pi erce apd Adam H aluska have been dominant recentl y. If g ive n time 10 see the floor. th ey can rake over a contu ined. the Agg i e~ n 111 <.: ontinue their undefeated run . Key for Penn State: Continue to make the 3-point shot . Freshman guard Mike Walker and mmpan y 11ccd ea.~y points. Furman at Indiana game. Michigan at UNC-Asheville • Records: Michigan 6-5 (0-0 Big Ten ): UNC-Ashevi lle 3-fi (0-0 Big South). • Coaches: Michigan's Tommy Amaker ( 125-102): UNC-Asheville 's Eddie Biedenbach ( 114-127). • Tipoff: Friday. lp.m. ET. • TV: None. Key for Michigan: Bench contri~ut ions. The Wolverines have been thinned by early injuries and have suffered plenty of disappointment as a result. The younger playe r.-. anU wal k -ons must contribute for Michigan to have su ccess . Key for UNC·Aaheville: Keep the Wolverines away from the offensive boards. Forward B re nt Petway i s an explosive phy Sical presence and can do plentY of damage if allowed to find the offen sive glass. St. Joseph's at Ohio State • Recorda: St. Joseph's 3·4 (0-D Atlantic 10); Ohio State 9-2 to-O Big Ten). • Coa<heo: St. Joseph's Phil Marre lli (l82- l03) : Oh io State's Thad Matta ( lll -33). • Tipoff: Friday. 6 p.m. ET. • TV: ESPN Plu s. Key for St. Joseph's: Disrupt the ball on the perimeter. Try to fl)' • Records: Furman 6-4 (0-0 Southern Conference): Jnd ~ana 2-fi tO-O B1 g Ten). • Coaches: Funnan\ Larr) Davis 16·4): Indiana's Mike Davis (83-59). • Tipoff: Sunday. I p.m. ET. • TV: ESPN Plus. Key for Furman: Stop lnd .ana freshman D.J. White. White has made l3 of h is las t 19 sho ts and ha~ shot 50 percent early in the ~e:Json . Key for Indiana: Stop Furman sdphomore swingman Robby B ost ain. Bo sta in has scored more than 20 points the past two games and is com ing into his own as a scor ing force. Eastern Illinois at Purdue • Records: Eastern Ill inoi s 5-4 (0-0 Ohio Valley Conference); Purdue 3-5 (0-0 Big Ten). • Coaches: Eastern Illinois' Rick Samuels; Purdue' s Gene Keady (546-273). • Tipoff: Sunday, 3 p.m. ET. • TV: ESPN Plus. Key for Eastern Illinois: Break the trend. The Panthers have traded wim and Jo~ses the past seven ga me ~: they will lose thi s g ame if the pattern continues. Key tot Purdue: Break out of the slump. The Boilermakers have fallen o n hard times early i n Gene Keady 's final se ason . hom postseason play, defeating Mercer 102-77 last Wednesday. Center Teren<e Dials continued to move up the conference scoring charts, finishing with a seasonhigh 29 points. Last week's Big Ten player of the week, Dials has now averaged 22 points over the past four wins. Key fot Minnesota: Pound th..: ball in~ide. Senior JeiT Hagen i!\ a tough prt!!\em;e undern eath the hoop. as is team1'n ate Richard\nn III&RTHWESTERN ~~dcats beat Robert Morris 71·58 and were once again led by Croatian junior Vedran Vukusic, who shot 8-for-1 2 with 15 points and 10 rebounds. The Wildcats shot 57.5 percent from the field, compared to 31.7 percent shooting from the Colonials. open loob.. Minnc sot~ •s· Don Monson ( I }M-95). IIINNESOTA ~~;~;;~~~ok it easy during Christmas week, beating St. Francis (Pa.) 85·67 . Minnesota shot well (63.8 percent) and held the Red Flash to 40.4 percent shooting. Seniors Aaron Robinson and Jeff Hagen led the way for the Gophers, scoring 10 and 16, respectively. Robinson was 7-for-9 while Hagen shot 8- for ·9. Vednm Vuk usir. l nthe Wildcat .-.· Prim:e tnn --.tyle ~paci ng-ori ented • Records: Illinois 1!·0 (0·0 Big Ten): Cinci nn ati 9-0 (0-0 CUSA). • Coaches: Illinois' Bruce Weber ( 140-6 11: Cincinnati· s Bob Huggins (383- 119). • Tipoff: Friday. 7 p.m. CT. • TV: Fox Sports Net. Key for Illinois: Keep the game up-rempo . When the lll in i run , few teams can stay with the speed of point guard Dee Brown and his ability to see the court. Ill inois c;m lind plent y of easy TillS P\fa:· I'ROl /Jf.} S/'0.\'SORDJ • If1IN STATE The Nittany Lions contmue to struggle, losing to Buffalo 72·70 last Tuesday. Buffalo's Turner Battle hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer for the win. The Nittany Lions' best effort came from junior Travis Parker, who finished with 17 points on 7·for·10 shooting. Geary Claxton added 14 points while Marlon Smith and Aaron Johnson added 13. VRDUE • • - Newcomer Carl Landry has emerged as a leader for the Boilermakers. The junior transfer from Vincennes'University was a first· team juniorcollege All-American last season. The 6·foot·i, 235 pounder, who hasstarted all eight games, lead• Purdue with 15.3 points per game, shooting 53 percent, grabbing 8. 4 rebounds per game and blocking five shots. l!rttwu!CONSIN ..,......:~ With an 85·53 victory over North Carolina-Greensboro last Thursday, the Badgers broke a school record with their 33rd consecutive horne victory. Despite shooting 34 percent in the first half, Wisconsin carne back to win. Alando · Tucker scored 21 points and Mike Wilkinson scored 20. The Badgers got more good news when guard Boo Wade returned to the team after taking a leave of absence to deal with personal issues. 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Call (740 )388·0301. 3Bdr. 2Ba . on 6 acres w/26x48 barn , inground pool. t:Jot tub (304)576·2920 on SAVINGS dwellings 1dvet1lsed In thll newepeper are available an an equ&l appor1unhy bales. View photos/into onhne anch Style Home. 2 il es from Gallipolis. 3 edroom . 1 Ba th, N1ce arage. Very Clean . ,ode 129 or'call74046·3992. edwood Cape Cod ome. 9 .5 acres, 4 'ectroom. 2 Ba th. 2 Car arage Above ground ool. B1dwell. Oh Stocked nd. Code 914 or call 740)368-0410 Shop Classlfleds! fioud Ck;m Ht"IHJ 's 2001 doublew1de 261C52 Fairmont . $28.000 1997 16x80 F!eetwoocl. t996 14x70 Fleetwood. 58,500. Call (740)709·1166 New Oakwood mega store fea turing Homes by Oakwood, Fleetwood & Giles. One stop shopping only at Oakwood Homes of Barboursv111e WV (3 04)736- 3409. SAVE·SAVE·SAVE Stock models at old prices. 2005 models arr•ving Now. Cole's Mob1le Homes . 15266 U 5 50 East. Athens Oh10 45701, (740)592 ·1972. •where You Get Your Money's Worth " r ApproiC imatety 9 1l2 acres on Bob .McCormiCk Road No restnctions. $45.000 . iiiiii. HOilii:S www.orvb.cDm Home Listings. L1sl your home by ca!lmg (740)448-3620 (740)992-2167. Pleasant Val ley Apartment Are no w tak.ng Applicat ions lo r 2BR . 3BR & 4BR . ApplicatiOns are taken Monday thru Fnda~·. 1rom 9·00 A.M -4 PM 0111ce 1s Located at I 15t Evergreen RlR R£N1· Dr 1ve Po1n! Pleasant. WV PhOne No IS (304)675·5806 1 and 2 bedroom apartEHO moms, furn1shod ana unfur· n1s1'1ed , secur1ty depos1t Ta ra · Townhouse reqUired. no pets. 740-992- Apartments Very SpaCious. 2218 2 Bedrooms. 2 Floors. CA. 1 112 Balh Newly Carpeted 1 bedroom upsta1rs. untur- Adult Pool & Baby Pool nist1ed apt. Newly pa1nte~ . Pat1o. Slart $385 'Mo No no pels . Reference & Pets. Lease Plus Secunty depoSit required . Call Deposit Requ1 red. Days (740)446-2466 after 4pm. 740·446-3481 ; Even1ngs : For sale: ~4X70 Windsor. 3 Nice 2 bedroom mobile bedroom. sel up in Country home No pets. (740)446· Homes, $6,995.00. Move m 2003 or (740)446·1409. today! Ca ll (740)992-2167 or {7 40)385-4019 AI'Y<lMENTh 3409. dl•crlmlnaUon ." Accredited 2000 Oakwood 32x76 home lor sate. Will sale on land contract. Owner will finance with 20% down . Call tor details (740)446·3481 . Make 2 payments. move m 4 years on note (304 )736- Sl.'HOOLS IU \1 I " I \ t I t982 t 4x70 Oak Brook w1th 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. totally remodeled w1th appll· ances. $8 .500. Call alter 5pm (740)441·1711 dec~ . 511.995 TURNED DOWN ON SOCif<L SECURITY /SSt ? Gallipolis Career College (Careers Close To Home) Call Todayl 740-446-4367. 1-600·214-0452 French Town Apartments, JET 727 4th Ave .. Gall1polis. now AERATION MOTOR S accept1ng applications tor a Repa1red , New & Rebu1lt tn 1 bedroom . FMHA, Stock Catt Ro n Evans. 1· 3031 Subs1d1Zed apartment lor 800·537 ~9528 etder!y and handicapped 96 Doublewide - 3 bedroom , (740)446·4639 Equal 2 bath, Stale Route 681 . Hous1ng Opportun1ty. NEW AND USED STEEL Eastern Local Schools. Call Steel Beams P1pe Rebar 17401667·3982 Manor For Gallia Concrete Angle . A Aparrments . 138 Channe l. Fat Bar, Steel House- 3 bedroom , 1 b!;!lh , Buhl Morton Rd .. Grating For Drams . nice neighborhood. Green Gallipolis. now accepting Driveways & Walkways L&l SchOols. $600/mo. rent & appt1cat10 ns tor a 1 bed- Scrap Metals Open Monday. $600/sec. dep. You pay all room , HUD. Subsidized Tuesday. Wednesday & utilities. Call (7 40)446-3644. apartment fo r elderly and Friday, Bam-4 :30pm . Closed (740)446- Thursday. & Saturday One qedroom. 1 ba th, $275 handicapped. Equal Housing Sunday. (740 )446- 7300 month. Ca ll (740)446-3461 . 4639 Opportuniry. Racine. $500 deposit, $500 rent plus gas & electric Grac1ous liv1ng. t and 2 bed· (water. trash , sewer included room apartments at Village and Riverside 1n rent) . 4 bedroom & 2 full Manor Bloc~ bnck , sewer p1pes . bath. ca/heat. must have ref- Apartments 1n Middleport. Windows . lintels . etc Claude erences . (740)949-22 17 From $295-$444 Call 740- Winters . R1o Grande . OH 992-5064 . Equal Hous1ng 7am·10pm. Call 740·245·5121 Opportunit1es. Three bedroom house. f't.~t~ Route 2. near locks and Modern 1 bedroom apt H>RSALE Dam. $400/mon. Phone (7 40)446-0390 S400Jsecurity deposit. No N1ce 2 BR apt. Centenary 3 female AKC Golcen PI:!!S (304)576-3335 Ad walerltrash pa1d, lur- Retnevers . born 10/23104 nished kitchen . had t1rst snots. (740)992 MOBILE HOMili washer.ldryer hookup, no 7557 IUK RJ.~NT pets . deposiVrelere nces req w red . $375 month AKC reg 1stered Boston 141C70 traile r, garden tub. 2 Terrier male pup. $350 AKC F40 )446·9442 . bedroom . Very good cond1· registered Jack Russe1t1em· tiOn S400Jren1. North 3rd Ave .. Middleport , ers breed1ng pa1rs also Jack $400/deposit _Catl (740)367· I bedroom furnisl'1ed apart Russett temer pupp1es . pnce 7762 or (740)367·7272. ment . no pets. deposil & ref- on inqwy. (740)378·6610 erences, (740)992-ot65 Clean 3 bedroom, In the AKC St. Ber nard pupp1es counlry. Call (740)256-6574 One BR apt. near Sonng rea ay to go 5 females Valley $290 per month plus $300 Call (740)256·1 090. For rent: 2 and 3 bedroom dep. WID hook up (7 40)339- (740 '1645-6746. or 1740!2 45 mobile homes start ing at 0362. 0000 . $260.00 per month. Call r 110 Start the New Year with a new career! Make up to $8/hour by caU1ng on behalf of major Non-Prolil and Political organizations . Call today to start your new career! 1·877-463-6247 eKt. 2457 MJ);('EU .ANWUS MERCHAN!liSE nlR RJ.1.T 3 bedroom. t bath. gas furnace. 10 m~nutes from Pomeroy HUD approved $550 /month (740)594• Drive Paramedics & EMT's needed . Apply at 1354 Jackson Pike, Gallipolis. APAIITMlX!,; Housrs mHRurr 1 Equipment lor Ront. .................................... 480 Excavating ,.................................................. 830 Farm Equlpment .......................................... 610 Farms lor Rent. ............................................ 430 Farms lor SaJe ... .......................................... 330 For Lease ..................................................... 490 For Sale ........................................................ 585 For Sale or Trade ......................................... 590 Fruits & Vegetables ................ + ................. 5BO Furnished Rooma........................................450 General Haullng ........................................... B50 Glveaway ...................................................... 040 Happy Ads .................................................... 050 Hay & Graln ..................................................640 Help Wanted ................................................. 110 Homelmprovements ...................................810 Homes lor Sale ............................................ 310 Household Goods ....................................... 510 Houses lor Rent .......................................... 410 In Memorlam ................................................ 020 Now you can have borders and graphics ~ added to your classiHed ads _;. ~ 1m Borders$3.00/perad ~ Graphics SO¢ for small $1.00 for large KIT & CARLYLE 110 Absolute Top Dollar: U.S. Silver and Gold Coins. P.roofsets, Gold Rings , U.S. Currency.·M .T.S. Coin Shop, Call 800-652·2362 for more 15t Second Avenue , into. Gallipolis, 740·446·2642 . lmmediat~ Openings . U~TAND I \tl'l(l\\11 \ I Residential Treatment FOUND . '-I I U\ J( I -., Facility for boys, now hiring Youth Worker position. Paid Female Found : Medical Insurance Call Dachshund, brown nose , no . IJELPW'-IVml between 9:00'am·4:00pm collar. the end of Jericho Ad (740)379·9083 & R12(304)675-3600 An Excellen1 way to earn Independent. med1cally Lost Mt Alto area , Sliver- money. The New Avon. trained personnel needed to Grey, blued-eyed 3yr-old Call Marilyn 304-882-2645 complete insurance exams mal e-We 1m a r aner·dog. 1n the lleld_ Must be phlename on tag is Ollie. ifAVON! All Areas! To Buy or botomy certi fied and have fa u nd-call( 304 )6 75 -22 89transportation. Sell. Shirley Spears, 304 - reliable Reward FleiCible hours. We are 675-1429. WWN.comics.com ExamOne. a div1s10n of Lost REWARD 1 yr. old Inc Bilingual capaLabOne, male Chihuahua. answers to Car salesmen needed at Kunzsabo. Mostly black with local dealership. salary com- bllitieis a plus. Call Lisa MONEY a little white unc:ler ch1n, mission bases, send resume Cunningham al 666/366· TO LoAN 1020. FaiC resume to to : Daily Sentinel, PO Bm: belly. feet & tip of ta1l . Daughter named dog after a 729-2 1, Pomeroy, Oh 45769 866/ 366-1037 or e.mail resume to friend who passed away in ljsil C!JMingham@m:amone com an auto accident. It you have TELEMARKETERS NEED · seen him or have any 1nlor· ED· No Experience OK, $7· INSTRUCTOR NEEDED arrow Smart. Contact 1h mation please call (740)682- 9 Per Hour, Easy Work. 1- Ouatif1ed instructor needed h10 Div1sron ot F1nancM 9243. 888·974-JOBS for Tax Accounl1ng at ~stitution's Office o Gallipoli s Career College lor tonsumer Altair the w1nter quarter begmmng BEFORE you relman c Jan . 3. Please co ntact John our home or obta1n a loan. 4x4's For Sale .............................................. 725 Danicki at (740)446·4367 BEWARE at requests to Announcement ............................................ 030 ell!. 13. ny large advance pay Antiques ....................................................... 530 ents ot lees or insurance. Licensed Hair Stylists Apartments lor Rent ................................... 440 all the Ofl1ce o Don't m1ss this incredible Auction and Flea Market... .......................... 080 onsumer Affairs roll Ire opportunity With F1esta Hair Auto Parts & Accessories .......................... 760 1 1-866-276-0003 to lear Auto Repair .................................................. 770 · Salons1 We currently have ·r the mortgage broker o open1ngs tor full end partAutos lor Sale ... ........................................... 710 ender IS property liCensed time licensed Hair Stylists Boats & Motors lor Sale ............................. 750 This is a public servrc at our salon in Mason Building Supplies ........................................550 nnouncemen t !rom th Check out what we have to Business and Buildings ............................. 340 hio Valley Publish1n oHer - hourly wages. serv1ce Business Opportunity ................................. 210 commission up to 45%. Business Training ....................................... 140 retai l and tanning commiSCampers & Molor Homes ........................... 790 sions, lop-of.the-line oeneI'ROFFSSIONAL Camping Equipment ................................... 780 lits, advanced education . SER\1Cili Cards of Thanka .......................................... 010 and mucl'1 more. Call1 -800Child/Elderly Care ....................................... 190 625·6363 BICI. 3030 for more DIRECTV ElectrlcaVRelrlgeratlon ............................... B40 information. Free DVD Player Siberian Husky /Shepard mix. Aprox 1 year old. Call (740)388-8056 before 9pm wee~days & 11pm week· ends. All Display: 12 Noon 2 Business Days Prior To Publication Sunday Display: 1:00 p .m . Thuraday for Sundays Paper • All ads must be prepaid ' • Start Vour Ad l With A Keyword • Include Complete Items GET YOUR CLASSIFIED LINE AD NOTICED Display Ads · Word Ads Monday thru Friday 8:00a.m. to 5:00 p.m. lliMuoHJGAN A rash of injuries has INDIVIDUilL LEADERS 17.1 16.3 16.1 16.1 15.5 15.5 15.0 14.9 14.9 In One Week With Us REACH OVER 285,000 PROSPECTS YOUR AD NOW ONLINE lll"'ft' To be ranked, a player must appear in at least Vincent Grier, Minnesota. Bracey Wright. Indiana . Vedran Vukusic, Northwestern . Pierre Pierce, Iowa' . . Aaron Johnson, Penn State Luther Head, illinois . Jeff Homer, Iowa . . . . C•lli. County. OH -......rA ASSUTS Illinois . . Iowa . . . ..-aJ lead into halftime. the mini struggled to beat Missouri 70-64 in the Brag gin' Rights game. The filini shot a season-worst 42.3 percent and played their closest game of the season in the rivalry against the Tigers, but they made 11 of 12 free throws to close the game, including two by Ueron Williams in the final!O seconds, to secure the victory. lltti.&D. The Hoosiers played another close game last Wednesday and carne away with another close defeat, losing to Charlotte 74· 73 as the 4gers' Brendan Plavich heaved a halfcourt shot with 0. 7 seconds remaining for the unexpected victory. Officials reviewed the play, and the crowd booed when the basket stood. The Hoosiers were led by Bracey Wright's 1g points and D.J. White's nine rebounds. Hawkeyes coach Steve ...,...... Alford finally beat his mentor, Bobby ICnlght. Alford's team routed Knight's Texas Tech 83·53 last Tuesday. It was the Red Raiders' worst loss since March 2002. Alford played guard for Knight at Indiana and was part of the 1987 national championship team. . Sophomore guard Adam Halutka led the Hawkeyes with 11 points. .....,:::riANA Average per game nELD·GOAL DEFENSE Ohio State .386 illinois . . .403 . . M..Jp Covnty OH And MalOn Counties Uke NoOne I!IMC.nt ~NOIS After taking a IS· point TEJI.l\1 LEADERS Wisconsin Michigan . Michigan State. w.c:owr--.., MIJI... 8elllai, BIG TEN STANDINGS Big 10 AU Top 15 Tilinois 0-0 11-0 1-0 Iowa 0-0 10-1 1-1 Ohio State 0-0 9-1 0-0 Michigan St . 0-0 7-1 0-1 Wisconsm 0·0 7·1 1·0 www.mydailysentinel.com IUK RENT 2 bedroom home. Water & trash fu rniShed . $400 month. S200 deposi t. 1601 Graham SchOol Road (7 40)4460050 or l7 40l256-6702 2 bedroom house 1n Mason . West V1rg1n1a. Rece ntl}l remodeled . No an1mals Reterences reqUired $400 .00 per month w1t1'1 $400 00 depOSII (7 40)4 t6- 4000 2 or 3 bedroom hOLJSe 1n Pomeroy tor rent. no pets . (740)992 _5858 3 bedroom house m Pomeroy. deposit S. references reQu,red. no an1mals . (740)949 · 7004 3 b! m Ftatrock $550 a mon ... ut1l secur1ty-depos11 & rei requ1red 570-633· 29gq !Pave message • r 1&2br Apts . 1n P1 . Plea . 1br House m Gallipolis. OH , central·a1r/heat (740)446· 740·367-0502 2200 or (740)709·0062 r10 \ Ill(( II\ \PI" I HOUSFliOLJ) I 2 • 2 bedroom apartments 1n ~,---·GooffiiiiiiiiiiO.--". Middleport. Rent + deposit - Female G1eat Dane 6 months. AK C reg1stered shots current Even1ngs (740)206-8500-local I \I{\ I "tl 1'1'1 II' All\l,lllth. ~10 MF 35 Oelulle li11e power w1eqwpment e~ cond 304 )576·2920 Hey tor sale Square and bales De lano round Jac~son Farm. 304-6751743. II{\ '\"l't )I{ I \ 110.). j'O required . (7 40)367-7624 2 or 3 bedroom apartment in Middleport, no pets, Appliance (740)992·5858 238 First Avenue . 1BR , t Warehouse bath , kitchen furn isll ed . River v1ew New carpet and in Henderson. WV P•epaint. Easy walk downtown . owned appllcanes starling at No pets S350 month plus $75 & up all under wa rranty. ut1hlles Reference . deposit we do serv1ce work 01'1 all (740)446-4926. Ma~e and Models (30416753 room and bath, 7999 downstove/relr1ge rator. Mollollan Carpet. 202 Clark statrs, all ut11it1es paid 46 $450. Chapel Road Porter .Oh1o Ohve Street. (740 )446-7444 1·877·830· ~740 ) 446 -39 45 9t62 Free Est1ma1es. Ea sy BEAUTIFUL APART· tinanc1ng . 90 days same as MENTS AT BUDGET cash V1sai Master Card PRICES AT JACKSON Dr1ve · a· littl e sa'o'e atot ESTATES , 52 Westwood Dnve from $344 to $442 Thompsons Appl1an ce & Walk to shop & mov1es Call RepM-675· 7388 For sate automatiC 740-446·2568 Equal re·COnd1!10ned wast1ers & aryers. refrigera Housing Opportunlt~ tors . gas and e1ectr1c Clean 2 br was her/dryer ranges. 81! co nd1honers and hook -up, ret & dep req no wnnger v.ashe rs W tll d o. pets 304-675-5162 rep81rs on ma1or brands m shop' or a1 you r home Clean Stud1o Apartment turn1shed wate r, trash . SI'OR'~G sewer pa1d. $300 a mon th Goo1:.; plus secunty aeposlt (304)675·2970 call after Gold's Gym we1ght system 4pm 1 year old Mver used CONVENIENTLY LOCAT- Bought at D1ck's Spor ting Goods at $699 will sell tor EO & AFFORDABLE! Townhouse apartf1"ents . $499 (140)446·6754 and1or small houses FOR RENT Ca!t (7 40)4 41 · 11!1 .·\ \l1QUli lor appl1cahon & 1ntormat1on r Tw1n R1vers Tower !S accept· 1ng applications tor wa1t1ng list tor Hud-subs1zed . 1· br apartment. cal l 675·6679 EHO F.\N\1 F.QI11'\nsr AlTOS mRS.i ll: S5001 Honoa s. Chevy s. Po 11ce Jeep's. Ect lmpounas ' Cars from $500 for hst1n gs 800·391·5227 EXT 3901 15 TKL'C!;S mRS.U E 1993 Ford Ranger gooo cond1!10n 5 speed S3.600 oo Call (740 !992· 5094 2003 Ford F150 FIC4 V8 4x4 29.000 m1tes. loaded (304)576-2920 I'"' Sl'\'s Ft )H. SAl J·. 2001 Mazda Tr1bute SUV Leather. ITIOOn rool mu111 d1SC CD low m1leage, eiCcel · lent cond1t10n 1740)446 · 3108 r 01 FlSO V8 reg longbed 4x4 PS . PB FM -CD a11 tilt cru1se llfes 75 000m11es $1 0 (7 40)245·9529 cab AM · new 000 \ '·\X' FoR SALE 2000 Wmd star- passenge r Van LX 93 000 m•les am fm cassette a1r cru1se ask1ng $6 300 304-675-4014 Buy o· sell R ver1oe Antiques 1t24 East Mam on SR 124 E Pomeroy 740· 992 2526 Russ Moore owner - SHOP CLASSIFIEDS �r Wednesday, December 29, 2004 www.mydailysentinel.com Page 86 • The Daily Sentinel Wednesday, December 29, 2004 ALLEYOOP Anno u n c ements Chevy Expres$ Cargo Van 314 ton. 2500 selies ~ w1th side doors 373 Vortex engme, 44.000 au, cru1se, tilt. $16,500. miles. (740)446-9585 7724 01 (7401446- 2004 Chevy El'lpress Cargo SKATE AWAY New Years Eve Party ~!1f!~9 s~oo.uo vrw t!IOSJI persons doing damage ne "· memorial a t to t~ Van :Y4 ton 2500 series With Side dOors. A1r, cruise. 1111 Chester, O H r onhu.:t: 9,200 m1les. $2t .500 (7401446-9585 o< (74014467724. 992-3371 Post Adjutant 992-1527 Sher iff 's Office r ~~OBI I'--P-os_t99;,;c.;'l.~..;.; ~.;.~..;nd_·_r· 4 ...... 2003 Honda 450 S 4· wheel· er asking S4,000. has January 11 to March 17 Time: 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. on SAVINGS Where: 0870, Rogers Basement Shop Classlfleds! Waterproofing . Call for info Who: Open to ages 40+ The West Virgin ia State Farm Museum would like to Thank the following for their help with the Christmas Light Show Busy 4's, Beech Hill Warriors, Kountry Kritters, Cub Scout Pack 258, Advantage Youth Program , Lakin Correctional Facility for Women & all the Volunteers & Members of the Farm Museum, & Most of all the Public for their Turnout & Support. l...QQking Fo~ ANew Home? · TrY the Classifieds!! ·, ~~ "'>. .... ' .. : . - · -··-··-··-··-··-··--··-.. Reaeh 3 Counties • Q J 10 6 Welt Easl • J 84 • K 9 5 • 10 9 4 • 52 • 10 8 6 t KQJ532 ... 3 4o K7542 So ul h • Q 7 . AJ863 • A97 Home • Auto • Life • Retirement •IRA • 401 K Roll overs • Major Med • Medicare Sup. • Cancer • Accident -··-··~···1 ! • Do You Believe In 3. ••s• JONES' WELLNESS? Tree Service We promote Ya~ellness with a wide a my of nutritional products. Top • Removal • Trim • Stump Grinding Far Infrared Ta~e the PAIN out of PAINTING! BISSEll BUILDERS InC. Let me :Jo it for youl New Home!- • Vinyl liNDA'S PAINnNG Sidi ng • New Garages • Replaceme nt Windows • Roofing SHOTOKAN KARATE CLASSES Mond ay & Thur~ay Beginmng Monday, January 3rCI 6 :00 p.m. Cureton Sc hool Syracuse, Ohio For information Contact Kenny Toll iver 985 -3994 Steve Kem ton 667-3039 - .~ - -· BARNEY COMMERCIAL and . RESIDENTIAL 'SCUSE ME, MIST0FER, DON'T l KNOW YOU :' Leo"• ;;~~;!:-1 FREE ESTIMATES 740-992-7599 IN THAT CASE, NO, SIR . WE AIN ' T NEVER DO I YOU OWE MET!! MoNEY f l'! MANlEY'S SElF STORAGE • 97 Beech Street Middleport, OH ' 10x10x10x20 992-ll94 or 992-66l5 • "Middleport's only Self- Storage" Rocky,~'R,J!!;, Hupp IMPORTS Athens PUBLIC NOTICE Sheriff's Sale, Real Estate, Case Number 04CV046 . HSBC Bank, USA as Trustee PlalntiffVS Pamela Bentz , et al, Defendants. Court of . Common Pleas, Meigs Counly, Ohio In pursuance of an order of Sale to me directed from said Court In the above untilled a'c llon, I will expooe to sa!e al public aucllon on the Irani sleps of tha Meigs County Courthouse on Friday, January 21 , 2005 at 10:00 a.m., of said say, the fo llowIng described real estate: SITUATED IN THE STATE 'OF OHIO, COUNTY OF MEIGS AND VILLAGE OF RACINE : Sheriff's Sale, Real Estate Case Number 04CV069 Countrywide Home loans, Inc. Plaintiff VS Johnny Doucet, et al 1-\f>.. \ R I I Sec Brent or Brian Whaley CoME ON ! . COME ON. e.ABY 1 • • COME t>OMINATEI> T HE "RoLL TO SEE WHO 60ES FIRST" RO UND ~ ONI'JNI'J NIIIN! • i' ' PEANUTS ALREAD'r'? T!IANK 'fOU .. LET ME KNOW WI-lEN M'f TOAST POPS UP... Sat. R:JO-Noon Self-Storage Hill's Self Storage 29670 Bashan Road Rac1 ne, Ohio 4577 1 740-949-2217 Sizes 5'111Q'; 33795 HilandRd. Pomeroy, Ohio to 10'x30' · 740-992-5232 7:00AM · 8:00 PM • SUNSHINE CLUB Dl D 'TOJ fiVER 00 OUT W111-l'THAT Rf.TIRt.DMAGWAIJ. Hours fRAtV? ""ll-iE't' SAY THAT HI: HAD ll4E FASTEST HMJD; I~ 11-IE. fVSifJ~SS ' : GARFIELD GUE-SS IT'U.. ..lUSI BE. THE. ONE. OF US NORTHUP DODGE l ~ 252 Upper River Road • Gallipolis 740· 446- 0842 • 949-1155 Evenings 800-446-0842 ARE YOU SURE. YOU WANI lOGO OUT WIIH I.,IQU? ~~~==~ f~lf®\W®® d Locusl, Oak Ma ple $45 Delio•errd Bill Slack 740-992-2269 Advertise in this space for $50 per month ROBERT BISSEll CONSTRUCnON • New Hom es • Garages : GRIZZWELLS 'IOU MAI<IHGo '(oUR A~~Uf>.\. R.'1o\..IJnOI'I? t.9:li.IT (aCOF\1'-16 o~F ~Wv : DIETl~? • Compl'ete Remodeling 740-992-1611 Stop & Compare - I ~--..;...,- 1 Ausstan team was on a roll: In order, n beat Germany (world champions in 2001 ), the Netherlands (world winners in 2000) , and England (Europea n victors in 2001 ). In the f1nal. though, the Un1ted States waited . with live world champions play1ng . After 32 of the 96 Doards, the AmericAns were ahead by 47. In the third session, however, the Russians gained 51 points lo lead by· lour. Over the ne11.t two segments, lhe Russians won a l urther 31. But atrer eight of the final 16 deals, the U.S. players had scored 23 unanswered po1nts. Then came this deal. Both teams reac hed s1x hearts. Four dia· monds promised game values in hearts; five spades showed one ace and the trump king-queen. Both Wests found the k1lling club lead. The American declarer won on th e board, led a diamond to her ace, ruffed a dia· mond. and played the club six to her eight When West ruffed. South couldn 't recover. The Russian declarer, after winnmg with her club nine. led the heart three: four, queen, two. Then she called for the heart seven : five, ace, 10. Now South ran the spade queen to East's king. East. misled by her partner's trump plays, shitred to the diamond 10. South won with her ace. played a spade to dummy's ace, ruffed a spade. led a trump to dummy's king. and took 12 tncks. 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Public Notice '<OUR. ~ CA~f., ~L\Hi t-\G I 7-10-992-70 1.1 or 740-992-5553 High& Dry Public Notice I "' SP..Y, \t-1 : BIG NATE St. Rt.68l Darwin. OH Sun. Closed . !®allipolis llai.lp lribune The Daily Sentinel ~oint ~lrasant lrgister! 'Jtou; ~~ L . -.\ ~.~:.~~· -··-. - . -.\~.~:.~·-·· -··-·· -\~. ill.:J~.-. -;;;;·~1~==~~=:=.:: place of beginning, containing 2.637 acres, more or less , and SUBJECT to all legal highways and easements and reserves ol record. Parcel No. 08-00441 001 Description prepared September 23 , t985 by Ronald M. Sharron, Reg . Surveyor #5167 Current Owner : Johnny Doucet, el al Property at: 25075 Rowe Road Racine, OH 45771 PP# 08-0044t .OOt Prior Deed Referen ce: Volu iTJe 42, Page 377 App ra ised al $40,000.00 Term s of Sale: Cannot be sol d for les s tha n 213rds of the appraised value. 10% down on day of sale, cash or certified check, balance on confirmation of sale . Ralph E. Trusse ll Meigs County Sheriff Allorney for lha Plaintiff Shapiro & Fetty 1500 West Third St., Suite 400 Cleveland, OH 44tt3 Phone: 2t6-621 -1530 (12) 15, 22,29 i\\'-1'< W(:>.,'{ I Whaley's Auto Parts 992·2155 461 , Meigs County Recorder 's office ; thence with said South line, East a distance of t5.0 feet to the center of Township road No. 91 ; thence with tha center ofT. A. 97 and also being the Ea sl line of a 4.108 acre, tract of land and also being the place ol beginning lor the tract of land herein described ; thence continuing wllh said T.A. 97, South 1 dog. 55' 19" West 441 .95 feet lo the spike set In the intersection of T.R. 97 with lhe center of T.R. 98 and also said spike being in the South line of Lot 266 of said Letart Town ship ; thence with the center of said T.R. 98 and also the South line of said Lot 286, South 79 dog. 25' 19" West a d istance of 261.69 feet to a point; thence with a new line through the lract of which this is a part, North 0 Deg. 21 ' 58" East 434.30 leal to an iron pin and passing an Iron p in at 22 .65 leal ; thence North 78 deg . 21 ' 58" East a distance of 274.95 feet and with the South line of tho above said 4.108 acre tract of land to lhe 5\ 01' T~K\t-IG I\\ '--'"'--" u Rt:P--LL'{ JUS"[ SPL \HI NG 1-\1\\R.':'>, ~'"oR. sr\OULD t • M -Fri 8:30-5:00 Delendanls Court of Common Pleas, Meigs County, OH In pursuance of an Order of Sale to me directed from said Court In the above entllled action, Will expose to sale at public auction on the front steps of the Meigs County Courl House on Friday, Jan. 21. 2005 at10:00 a.m. of said day, lhe following described real estate: The following described real estate , situate in the Township of letart, in lhe county of Meigs and Slate of Ohio . Situate in th e Township or Letart, County of Meigs, Slate of Ohio, Township 2 North, Range 12 West, and being a part of Lot 266 or said Letart Township, and further being a pari ala 43.89 acre tract of land as desc ribed in Deed Volume 277 , page 243, Meigs County Recorder 's Office and being more particu · larly described as lol· lows: Commencing at an iron stake found o n the south line of a 1.0 ace tract of land located In Lot 267 as desc ribed In Deed. Volume 25 1, page ii..R(;,Ur-\C.t-IT see ' IS SUBJECT TO ALL LEASES , EASE· MENTS AND RIGHTS OF WAY OF RECORD. PROPERTY ADDRESS: 410 Filth Street, Racine, Ohio 45771 PROPERTY OWNER : Pamela Bentz and Timothy Bentz PRIOR DEED REFER· ENCE : Volume 154, Page 425 PP# : 19-00411 · 000 and 19-00412·000 Appraised al $33 ,500 Terms of Sale: Cannot be sold for less than 2/3rd s of lhe appraised value . 10°/a down on day of sale, ca~h or certified check , balance on confirmation of sale . Ralph E. Trussell , Meigs County Sheriff. Attorney lor plaintiff , Reimer, Lorber &: Arnovitz Co., l.P.A. P.O. Box 968 Twinsburg, Ohio 44087 (330) 425-4201 (12) 15, 22, 29 3T \H\~ p-'1T.S ... t ~PPO:£ WI: WE.R(. ~ ~ The ·Daily Sentinel BEING LOT NUM· BER SIXTEEN (16) AND SEVENTEEN (17) IN THE MYERS ADDITION TO THE INCORPORATED VIL· LAGE OF RACINE , MEIGS COUNTY, OHIO, RESERVING TO THE STATE OF OHIO, HOWEVER, ALL OIL, GAS , COAL AND OTHER MINERALS, WITH THE RIGHTS OF ENTRY FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROSPECTING , DEVELOPING, PRO· DUCING OR OPERAT· lNG FOR THE SAME AND THE RIGHT OF OCCUPANCY IN SO FAR AS IS ESSENTIAL TO SUCH PROSPECTING , DEVELOPING, OPER· ATING OR PRODUC· lNG , ALSO RESERV· lNG TO THE STATE OF OHIO THE USE OF STREAMS FLOWING THROUGH SAID LANDS OR ABUT· TING UPON THE SAME AND SO MUCH OF THE BANKS THEREOF, AS MAY BE NECESSARY FOR SUCH ENJOYING , AND THE PROTECTION OF SUCH STREAMS FROM EROSION , CONTAMINATION , OR DEPOSIT OF SEDI· MENT. THE REAL•ESTATE ABOVE DESCRIBED ~'"ct>.~\ WE r-.bfl..ff.. \0 ~C> ~ E •• PUBLIC NOTICE Sc ipio Township 't rustees regular monthly meeting , Thursday, December 30, 2004 at 6:30 p.m. Pagevllle Town Hall. The 2005 Organizational Meeting will immediately follow. (12) 29 1TC THE BORN LOSER ~ i. UBLIC ICES J'2.•29 ~ $25.00 per Ilion~! • rock 21 Hod ovor for dinner 22 Uoed a hatchet 23 - - speed 24 Before long 26 Lao Vegao rtval 27 Knighted - Gulnneaa 28 Prom rental 30 Sedition 32 Road-map org. 36 Couple 39 Morose to 16. In the knockout phase, there were WNW_\IISIOnfOIWellness COm I. 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If your attitude 1s positive, you 'll act out in a m anner lhat'l l increase your popular1ty with those who matter. PISCES (Feb. 20- M arch 20} Lady Luck tends to favor you today 1n ways tha.t will help you ach1eve your goals . Once you ltgure out exactly what you want . she 'll open doors lor you: the rest will be up to you . ARIES I March 21·April 19)- This is a be tter than average time to talk to an assoc1ate about an issue ot mu tual importance m order to come to some kmd at understanding th at needs to be reached . A good deal can be made TAURUS (April 20·May 20l - Don't be resistant regarding a ny cha nges tha t lake place today. even if they are not of your own making . The shift in condit1ons is being eng1neered by Lady L uck and wi ll tur n o ut great GE MIN I (May 21 -June 20) - Persona l be nefits can be easily reaped today by treating those with whom you spend your day more like good friends 1nstead of merely as acquaintances . A warm sm1te pays olt b1g . CANCER (June 21·July 22) - Be on your tt;oes today for opportune developments wt1ere your work or ca reer IS concerned . That b1g break tor whiCh you 've been hOping could present itsell and after you large d1vidends. LEO (July 23· Aug . 22 ) - Be1ng clear about what you want today ~111 he lp you greatly 1n your dealings w1th fr1ends and assoc1ates When they recognize what you want . a meeting of minds can l ake place VIRGO (Aug . 23· Sept. 22) - You could recogn~ze today tlutl you r immdd1ate world 1sn 't the o nly one . Armed with th1s unde1standmg, irll make you more toler· ant ot others and consequently d raw bless1ngs to you LIBRA (Sept . 23-0 ct. 23) - Plan s that you make today with tnends or bus1ness assoctates will worlo; out to your advan· tage , mo stly because you 'll be ready and w1lhng to work w 1th th~ir wants iiS well as your own SC ORPIO (O c t. 24 -Nov. 22) Any 11nanc 1a1 risks you may consider taktng 10day will be well c alculated and thought out. ConseQuently, your chances ot improv1ng your material base are excel· lent at th1s lime . SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 -0ec. 21) - Your leadership qualities witt be outstanding today. especially 1n situations where you see others fumbling to get out of th e starting blocMI . Help your sssocla.te l and you'll be rewarded lwolold . SO,UP TO NUTZ 0 Q~crr~ng P. l·e11~r: d tht iovr 1cromb ec w•:liC\ be1-:tw 10 lorm lovr ~~:"1~\e ""ord1 f , - - - -- ----, T A0 R U A borma conversa11on ai1 SI is never ~n te res ll ng un\tl he reache s the @ PRINT I; NUMSfiED LE1TEQ5 , ~ UN5CiAMSLE fOil 11::.1 ANIW!i . pom t of····· l 1 I' I' I' I' I' I' I IIIIIIIII 3 SCRAM-LETS ANSWERS 12- 2 6 • 0 " Pseudo- Above - Hasty- Lu>ury- YOU were BUSY One co lleague to another, "Wnle lots of memos It w1ll show th at YOU were BUSY' ARLO & JANIS �Page 88 • The Daily Sentinel Wednesday, December 29. 2004 www.mydailysentinel.com . . Aging nicely, LeBron leaves teens for 20s~: ToM WITHERS Associated Press BY CLEVELAND - LeBron James used to bring his binh certificate along to youth allstar games to prove his age. "They questioned me because of the level of my game," the Cleveland Cavaliers forward recalled la~t week. ''I've always played the game above my age." Then maybe he should keep documentation of hi s Dec. 30, 1984, arrival hand y. There remain a few NBA skeptics, who are sti ll having hard time accepting that a 19year-old kid who skipped college could possibly be this big, this strong, thi s fast. thi s unselfish or this good. "I don't believe that," Boston C:eltics coach Doc Rivers jolced recently when told James was still weeks away from his 20th birthday. 'T m going to check. The way he's playing, he's got to be 30." On Thursday, LeBron hits the big 2-0 and. hard to believe, he has already joined the NBA's elite . " I cton't call him King James." said Minnesota forward Kevin Garnett. the reigning league MVP. "I call him The Gift. A gift for Cleveland, and for the league:· In just his second season in the pros, James has raised his game to an All-Star level. Through 27 games. he's averaging 24.6 points, 7.0 rebounds. 7.3 assists and leading the league in steals (71) while carrying the surprising and soon-to-be-sold Cavaliers ( 16-11) into first place in the Central Division. "He's doing everything for us." Cleveland coach Paul Si las said . "We certainly making any shot. His defense has improved from a year ago when he ran into every piclc, and he rarely forces shots the way he did as a rookie. In the first third of the season, James has dropped a career-high 43 points on the world champiOn Detroit Pistons. become the youngest player to reach 500 career assists and rebounds and was named the Eastern Conference's top player for November. Lately, he has been flirting with an elusive first career triple-double. In a win over New Orleans on Sunday, James had 22 points, a careerhigh 14 assists and nine rebounds. He and Kobe Bryant are the only players averaging more than 24 points, seven rebounds and seven assists. "He might average a tripledouble someday," Silas said. wouldn't be where we are without him . To be this young and have the understanding of the game that he has is just unreal. I mar· James vel at him." So does the rest of the league. He has delivered jaw-dropping dunks, including a slam against Charlotte where the 6foot-8. 240-pounder caught a pass in full stride on the break, elevated to eye level with lhe rim and jackhammered the ball through. He's sharing both the spotlight and ball with his teammates, who sometimes aren't ready for one of the creative no-look passes that James seems to relish more than "In two or three years, when he learns the game better, he'll be unstoppable." James, who shares a birth· day with Tiger Woods, seems to improve each time he laces up his signature Nike Air Zoom LeBron ll 's. "A great basketball player can beat you different waysdefensively, offensively, rebounding the ball, passing and blocking shots," Garnett said last week after James posted 26 points, 12 assists and six rebounds in a win over the Tirnberwolves . "He totally illuminates all those qualities. He is a credit to the game." All of James' personal slats are significantly ahead of last year's pace when he finished as the just third rookie in league history to average at least 20 points. five rebounds and five assists. But Oscar Robertson and Michael Jordan were both in !heir early 20s when !hey di~ it. • Beyond the basketball, the~ is lhe business of LeBron. He has almost single-hand· edly resurrected the Cavaliei'S, whose market value has sky· rocketed since he bounced to !hem in lhe lottery. Things afe going so well for ownci Gordon 'Gund !hat he's on the verge of selling the club to Detroit businessman Dan. Gilbert for a reported $375: million. The deal is expected to be completed in 2005 when thl! Cavaliers, barring an unforeseen collapse, will return to lhe playoffs for the first time since 1998 - when James was a fresh-faced 14-year-old. ·He's a man now, an(l although he's got the ga)lle to prove it, James knows there will always be those who doubt his age. Southern downs Guyan Valley, Bt ne Middleport • Pomeroy, Ohio • Rio pulls away from Windsor: See Pa~ 81 BY BRIAN ' ~ "' . """ ·"''tl,,ih"·"l""' l.' " '" mental budget wi ll be based health insurance and workon anticipated revenue nf ers' compensation premiums, $3.62 million -compared to and a "good carryover" of revenue of $3.53 million this unspent funds from the 2004 year. Commissioner Mick budget. Davenport said earlier this Tuesday. commissioners week the county anticipates a .comp leted the process of sli ght increase in revenue for making appropriations into the county's ge nera l fund general fund departmental because of a tri-enn ial real budgets, some of which will estate reappraisal, savings in receive increases in funds for 2005 operations. Two departments county recorder and county treasurer - have received significant increases in appropriations for 2005. Recorder Kay Hill will receive approximately $8,500 more than her predecessor. Judy Kin g. received last year, while Treasurer Howard Franlc will receive an ., ;; BSERGENT@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM RACINE - During their recent meeting the Southern Local Board of Education voted to both develop and implement what Superintendent Bob Grueser deemed ''bold" academic policies. These policies are meant to enhance student performance and encourage parental participation. Beginning Jan . 19 students who fail to answer open-ended essuy-type questions will receive a ''double" Joss of points for !hat ponion of a te st. In a stateme·nt about this new academic policy Grueser said. "Exte nded written responses are an important part of the Ohio Graduation Test and students need to respond accordingly." The board also agreed to authorize the superintendent to develop a policy to require students to aHend summer school in order to be promoted if they have fai led the third grade reading or fourth grade math/reading achievement HOEFLICH@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM 304~2 73-5509. Washington. .Stre~t. OBITUARIES Ravenswood, WV Page AS • Harry Douglas, 72 • Sibyl MacKnight, 87 Working in collaboratidnwithi'LEASANT VALLEY HOSPITAL INSIDE - • Hern completes basic training. See Page A2 • Graham completes AIT training. See Page A2 • Ariel dancers to register. See Page AS • ABLE classes start. See Page AS WEATHER Please see Budgets, Al BY BETH SERGENT BY CHARLENE HoEFLICH '' apprnpriatimh increase of nearly $12,000. Meigs County Mick Commissioner Davenport said Tuesday those two departments have experienced difficulties in meeting ex pell\es since departmental budgets were first cut four Southern adds 'bold' academic policies tens the history of Cheshire patients being accepted -·.>~Walk-ins welcome ' 1>1 tT\11\1 R :1o . :.! 00-1 New book t/ New I REED POMEROY - Meigs Count y Comm issioners have completed 2005 general fund budget appopriations which include $84,693 more in anticipated revenue than last yeat's appropriations. Next year's county depan- ' ; J. BREED@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM Op_e ning Januarj;. 3, 2005 .! Jill I{ . Conunissioners approve dep'arbttental budgets SPORTS Family'·'M~dii:ine John Bechtold, .._J)" >-+· '" · •11 'i" ( I ' i" • \ 1t l. MEDI€ALEXPRESS Rich Blackburn, DO Vast devastation on Sumatra's west coast, few survivors scavenge forfood,A6 CHESHIRE - The story of the small Appalachian village of Cheshire from its settl eme nt in the early 1800s to the buy-out by American Electric Power in 2003 is told in a boolc being published by Shari LittleCreech, a descendant of early sett ler>. Creech. whose father Robert Little was born and raised in Cheshire during the depres sion, has titled her "Ohio book River Mile 257.7. Cheshire, Ohio: Memories of a Small Appalachian Village." In her book she writes about the village which at one time had several businesses. along with about 90 homes and a population of . over 200. She attributes the change from a bu stling community to toc!ay 's scene of little activity Please see Cheshire, AS Submitted photos Above: Through the years schools have been the center of activities in small commun ities. It was this building which in the 1800s provided a pace for gatherings in Cheshire. In 1918 it was torn down and a new schoo l built on the s ite. Many years ago th at building was abandoned by the school distr ict. Right: In her researc h fo r her new history book , this 1880s picture of Emmet and Esther Coughenour Lyle, descendants of some of Cheshire's early settle rs, was shared with Shar i Little-Creech to be included in her book . Please see Southern, AS Meigs Local approves appropriations for 2004-05 Desperation felt in Indonesia BY CHARLENE HOEFLICH HOEFLICH@MYDAILYSENTI NEL.COM Prko loddN Sill( floiiiCI llloWIIIO Cnioo &Ill, CD !1- IJII• 1-. Keylon !otry BUilD NEW 2005 CHM COBALT SEDAN ., ¥ Prkt lodo4N CMAC fl11110 AIOWIICI Dill lou Air C...filrinJ 4.3 llt• Eo;.., Orivlf lofo. c- Prkt todd" CMAC lloooco llonoco Cnioo & Tilt, 3400 H £.;., SSpood All-i lUND NEW 2005 CHEVY SILYEUDO SHORTBED 414 BUilD NEW 2005 CHEVY EQUINOX LS Details on Page A6 Prlco ........ sue ,............. Ooslar lyctocn. 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Rebecca Zurcher was hired as lhe school facilitator fur the School improvement Please see Mel1s, AS Contribution will make.funds available in Meigs, Gallia NELSONVILLE A · about accessi ng these funds in $150.000 contrib ution from the future for projects and serthe Corporation for Ohio vices that will meet the needs Appalachian .Development of our low income-families (COAD) has helped establish and the elderly." a new endowed fu nd at the The COAD Appaliichian Foundation for Appalachian Develop,ment Fund. a comOhio (FAO) to benefit ponent fund of FAO. will Community Action Age ncies. provide grants for charitable Tom Reed, Exec ut ive purposes , chiefly anti-poverDirector, Gallia-Meigs CAC ty projects. services and ini - a COAD member agency tiatives, among COAD's 17 - said "our agency is excited member Community Action Agencies lhat serve a 30county area. COAD is a private. nonprofit communitybased organization serving rural. mostly Appa lachian counties in eastern and southern Ohio. "The goal is to create and build a permanent asset for gn\ntniaking fo r Community Action Agencies wi thin the Please see Funds, AS as reliif ~ort bogs down; tsunami toll continues to climb BY CHRIS BRUMMITI ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER BANDA ACEH. lndone,ia - As the world scrambled to the rescue, survivors fought over packs of noodles in quake-stricken lndone; ian ·streets Wednesday while relief supplies piled up at the airpon for lack of cars, gas or passable roads to move them. The official death toll across 12 countries soared to near 77.000 and the Red Cross preqicted it could pass I00,000. Bodies were piled int o mass graves in the belief that burial would ward off disease. Paramedics in southern India began vaccinating thou- sands of survivors agaiilSI cholera. typhoid. hepatitis A and dv<entef\. - and authorities sprayed bleaching powder on beaches "here bodies have beeh re..:O\·ered. In Sri Lanka. report' of "·aterborne disease such ·a, diarrhea caused fears of an epidemic. President Bush anRounced the United States. Indi a. Australia and Japan have formed an international coalition to coordmate relief and re..:onstructinn of the 3,000 iniles of Ind ian Ocean rim walloped by Sunday' s eanhquake and the tsunami it ~1nleashed . Please see Tsunami, A& }'' • Taus, Tags, nrle Fees extra. GMAC finame allowama and rebate included in sale piu of new nfide lisled where all!liicabla. "GMAC Finance allowan<e on apprO'Ied credit On selected models. Not responsible far typographical errors. Prices good Da<ambar 28th through January 3rd. .::;r;:. ......... POMEROY - Permanent appropriations for the 2004-05 tiscal year of the Meigs Local School District totaling $23.75 million were approved at Tuesday night's meeting of the Meigs Board of Ed1,1cation . E. Treasurer Mark Rhonemus said that the figure represents all fu nds of the district including the balance of constru ction monies. but excl uding slu- Take 1·771o Ripley FAIRPLAIN Interchange (exH 132) Turn North on Rt. 21 , Dealership is 3 milei on left Is Giving Up Stt1C)ki ng Your New Year's Rc s<.1 lution? Holzer's Tobacco Prevention Center is here to help you accomplish your goal.. Call us for more information ... (740) 446-5940 r . � 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 12. December Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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