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Issue 18, Volume 71

Injunction hearing
delayed; temporary
orders remain in place
By Sarah Hawley
shawley@civitasmedia.com

POMEROY — A
decision on the fate of
the old bus garage next
to the Rutland Civic
Center will have to wait
a little while longer.
A hearing on the
injunction motion
ﬁled by Meigs County
Prosecutor James K.
Stanley on behalf of the
Meigs County Commissioners against the
Village of Rutland was
scheduled for a hearing
on Tuesday morning at
9:30 a.m.
More than a dozen
people were in the
court room waiting
for the hearing to take
place. Around 10:30
a.m., Stanley came into
the courtroom, brieﬂy
spoke with Commissioner Randy Smith,
and stated that the
hearing had been continued until Feb. 10 at
9 a.m.
Visiting Judge Dean
Evans is scheduled to
hear the case.
No reason was stated
for the continuance.

Stanley stated that
the temporary restraining order issued last
week by Judge I. Carson Crow will remain in
place through the hearing on the 10th.
The commissioners have challenged
the ownership of the
old bus garage property which Rutland
is attempting to sell
to Dollar General. As
previously reported, the
sale was scheduled to
be completed on Jan.
26, the day after the
ﬁling of the motions by
Stanley.
The commissioners claim that the bus
garage property was an
asset of the water and
sewer services which
the county took over
from the village. At the
time, the county was to
take on all of the debts
and assets of the water
and sewer department
from the village. The
county has been paying
the electric bill for the
facility since that time.
Despite that, the

Wednesday, February 1, 2017 s 50¢

Sale finalized for Gavin Plant

New owners reaching out to local officials
By Beth Sergent
bsergent@civitasmedia.com

File photo

This week, the sale of the Gen. James M.
Gavin Plant in Cheshire, along with three
other electric-generating facilities in Ohio and
Indiana, were finalized.

CHESHIRE, Ohio — This
week, the sale of the Gen. James
M. Gavin Plant in Cheshire,
along with three other electricgenerating facilities in Ohio and
Indiana, were ﬁnalized.
American Electric Power sold
the four plants to Lightstone
Generation LLC, a joint venture
of Blackstone (NYSE: BX) and
an afﬁliate of ArcLight Capital
Partners LLC (ArcLight), for
approximately $2.1 billion.
Not much is known about
Lightstone Generation, but that
is changing.
This week, letters were sent
to both the Gallia and Meigs
County Commissions, on behalf
of Lightstone Generation, to

“We are committed to
the safe and successful
operation of the newly
acquired power plants,
and to good corporate
citizenship.”
Steven Arabia,
Lightstone Generation

touch base with the ofﬁcials and
schedule meetings between the
Lightstone leadership team and
commissioners.
The letters, sent by Steven
Arabia, vice president, government affairs, for Lightstone Generation, also said: “Lightstone is
a 50-50 joint venture formed by
The Blackstone Group L.P. and
See PLANT | 5

See ORDERS | 5

Official Meigs Visitors
Guide being produced
Advertising deadline approaching
Staff Report

POMEROY — This deadline to advertise in
this year’s ofﬁcial Meigs County Visitors Guide is
approaching.
The guide will promote the county, its people,
its businesses and attractions. The deadline to
advertise in the guide is Feb 6.
The guide is produced via a partnership
between the Meigs County Chamber of Commerce
and The Daily Sentinel, to promote local tourism
to a wider audience.
This magazine will highlight Meigs County tourism options in color photos and advertisements,
as well as stories which reveal all the county has
to offer. From a complete calendar of tourism
events for 2017, to festivals, to outdoor activities,
to where to stay and eat when visiting the area - it
will all be in the ofﬁcial visitors guide.
A portion of the proceeds generated from this
project will be donated to the chamber by The
Daily Sentinel which wishes to give back and support local businesses.
Chamber Director Whitney Thoene has been
collecting photos and information for the guide’s
content, while Sentinel adverting representatives
have been selling space inside the magazine which
will hit the streets in early March.
See GUIDE | 5

INDEX
Obituary: 2
News: 3
Opinion: 4
Weather: 5
Sports: 6
Classifieds: 7
Comics: 9

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The Meigs County Historical Society hosted its annual open house on Friday evening, with dozens of visitors taking in the displays on
veterans and the 1937 flood.

Meigs Historical Society holds open house
Visitors take in historical displays, artifacts
Staff Report
TDSnews@civitasmedia.com

POMEROY — The
Meigs County Historical Society kicked off its
year with an open house
on Friday evening.
Vicki Hanson of the
Historical Society told
the Sentinel that there
were around 40 people
thought the museum on
Friday evening, viewing the displays, shopping the gift shop and
learning about Meigs
County’s past.
The museum’s displays during the open
house included a tribute
to veterans from Meigs
County, as well as a
photo display on the
80th anniversary of the
1937 ﬂood in the area.
Organized in 1876,

the Meigs County Pioneer and Historical Society was established to
preserve the history and
relics of Meigs County,
Ohio. Now also known
as the Meigs County
Historical Society, the
organization continues
to honor that early
vision of protecting and
sharing the region’s past
with future generations.
As a non-proﬁt
501(c)3, the Society
seeks to further historical education and
research through publications, symposia and
special events as well
as maintain the Meigs
County Museum, and
raises funds to carry
on its operations and
purposes. The Society is
also concerned with the
preservation of histori-

cal buildings and sites.
The Meigs County
Museum houses thousands of artifacts ranging from the prehistoric
period to the present
that give life and deeper
meaning to local, regional and even national history. Rotating exhibits
tell the story of city and
rural life; the founding
of the county; political
history; natural disasters; Meigs County’s
place in the nation,
world and even outer
space, plus much more.
The Society’s library
holds many early county
probate and census
records (a full list can be
found on our genealogy
page); family, local and
state histories; newspapers; cemetery records;
photographs; maps;

historical publications;
Ohio Civil War rosters
and other valuable information. Some of these
items, as well as others
of interest to genealogical research, are within
the Genealogy Library,
which is also housed in
the Museum.
The Meigs County
Historical Society and
Museum are located at
144 Butternut Avenue in
Pomeroy.
The Meigs County
Historical Society host a
lecture series presentation on Pomeroy’s First
Ward with guest speaker
Shannon Scott later this
month. The presentation will take place on
Feb. 17 at 7 p.m., at
Grace Episcopal Church.
Doors will open at 6
p.m.
More on the presentation will appear in an
upcoming edition of The
Daily Sentinel.

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OBITUARIES

Daily Sentinel

MEIGS BRIEFS

JESSE TYLER CARR
HARRISONVILLE —
Jesse Tyler Carr, 26 years
old, from Harrisonville,
Ohio. Born June 23,
1990, died Jan. 13, 2017,
at the scene of an automobile accident.
He is survived by his
mother, Rebecca Ward;
father, Brian David Carr;
brother, Corey Folmer;
sister, Ella Grace Rider;
grandparents, Margaret
Ann Ward, David and
Paula Carr, Mary Lou
and Roger Wells; and a
very special little girl,
Savannah Hemsley; many
aunts, uncles, cousins

that he loved and spent
time with.
Jesse’s cremation was
arranged by Anderson
McDaniel Funeral Home,
Pomeroy, Ohio.
Jesse loved hunting,
music, time with family
and friends, cookouts,
and special times with
sister Ella and Savannah.
Memorial service will
be at Birchﬁeld Funeral
Home, Rutland, Ohio, on
Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017,
from 2-4 p.m.
Online condolences
may be sent at birchﬁeldfuneralhome.com.

Editor’s Note: Meigs Briefs will only list event
information that is open to the public and will be
printed on a space-available basis.

ship Road 402 (Barr Hollow) for an emergency landslide repair. Temporary trafﬁc signals are in place.
The estimated completion date is June 30, 2017.

Family and Children First
Council meetings

Animal Bedding
Available

MIDDLEORT — The Meigs County Family and
Children First Council will hold regular business
meetings at 8:30 a.m. on the third Thursday of
March, May, July, September and November. The
meetings will be held at the Meigs County Department of Job and Family Services located at 175
Race Street in Middleport. For more information
contact Brooke Pauley, coordinator, at 740-992-2117
ext. 104.

MIDDLEPORT — The Meigs County Humane
Society will be providing straw for animal bedding
during the months of December, January and February. Vouchers may be picked up at the Humane Society Thrift Shop located at 253 N. Second Street in
Middleport. To receive a voucher you must provide
proof of income and pay a $2 fee for a bale of straw.
For more information contact the Humane Society
Thrift Shop at 740-992-6064 from 10 a.m to 4 p.m.,
Monday through Saturday.

CHENEY

RACO
Basket Games

GALLIPOLIS, Ohio — Carl S. Cheney, 85, of Gallipolis, Ohio, passed away on Monday, January 30,
2017 at Holzer Senior Care Center.
Services will 1 p.m., Friday, February 3, 2017 at the
Willis Funeral Home with Pastor Paul Voss ofﬁciating.
Burial will follow in Mound Hill Cemetery. Friends
may call at the funeral home on Thursday, February 2,
2017 from 6 to 8 p.m. There will be military services
by the VFW Honor Guard.

SYRACUSE — RACO will hold their annual basket and bags games on Feb. 9, at 6 p.m. at Syracuse
Community Center. Doors open at 5 p.m. $20 for
20 games. There will be advanced ticket drawing,
special games, 50/50 drawing, rafﬂes. Refreshments
by the center volunteers. Tickets available from Bev
Cummmins, Kim Romine, Alice Wolfe and Kathryn
Hart. For info, call Hart at 740-949-2656. All proceeds go for Star Mill Park maintenance.

ROSS

Road
Closure

GALLIPOLIS, Ohio — Carl S. Cheney, 85, of Gallipolis, Ohio, passed away on Monday, January 30,
2017 at Holzer Senior Care Center.
Services will 1 p.m., Friday, February 3, 2017 at the
Willis Funeral Home with Pastor Paul Voss ofﬁciating.
Burial will follow in Mound Hill Cemetery. Friends
may call at the funeral home on Thursday, February 2,
2017 from 6 to 8 p.m. There will be military services
by the VFW Honor Guard.

LONG BOTTOM — One lane of State Route 124
in Meigs County is closed 0.5 miles north of Town-

Staff Report

While Tax-Aide’s focus
is on low-to-moderate
POMEROY — AARP income senior citizens,
Fondation Tax-Aide
the service is available
volunteers are offering
to anyone, regardless of
free tax preparation at
income or age.
the Meigs County Senior
Volunteers, who are
Center, 112 E. Memorial certiﬁed and trained by
Drive, Pomeroy, from
the IRS, provide the folearly February through
lowing services:Prepare
mid-April.
and ﬁle U.S., Ohio and
The tax service will
(where applicable)
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school district tax
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Editor’s Note: The Daily Sentinel appreciates your
input to the community calendar. To make sure items
can receive proper attention, all information should
be received by the newspaper at least ﬁve business
days prior to an event. All coming events print on
a space-available basis and in chronological order.
Events can be emailed to: TDSnews@civitasmedia.
com.
Thursday, Feb. 2
CHILLICOTHE — The Southern Ohio Council of
Governments (SOCOG) will hold its next board meeting at 10 a.m. at 27 West Second Street, Suite 202,
Chillicothe, Ohio, 45601. Board meetings usually are
held the ﬁrst Thursday of the month. For more information, call 740-775-5030, ext. 103.
CHESTER — The board meeting of the Chester
Shade Historical Association will be held at 6:30 p.m.
in the Academy Dining Hall. If the weather is bad and
the meeting is cancelled, it will be held the following
Thursday at the same time and place.

Sunday, Feb. 5
RACINE — Racine American Legion is holding a
dinner from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. This month’s menu is
fried chicken, ﬁsh, homemade noodles, mashed potatoes, baked beans, cole slaw, roll, dessert and a drink.
Monday, Feb. 6
POMEROY — The Meigs County Cancer Initiative
Inc. (MCCI) will meet at noon in the conference room
of the Meigs County Health Department. New members are welcome.

Ongoing Events
PORTLAND — A Bible study will be held on
Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. at the Portland Community Center with Rev. Tom Curtis. Everyone
welcome.
MIDDLEPORT — Pastor Billy Zuspan of the
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Tuesday, Feb. 7
ROCKSPRINGS — Diabetes 101 will be held at
Hopewell Health Center from 3-4 p.m. The class is
held the ﬁrst Tuesday of each month.

POMEROY — The Meigs County Health
Department will conduct an Immunization Clinic
from 9-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. on Tuesdays at 112
E. Memorial Drive in Pomeroy. Please bring
child(ren)’s shot records. Children must be accompanied by a parent/legal guardian. A $15 donation
is appreciated for immunization administration;
however, no one will be denied services because of
an inability to pay an administration fee for statefunded childhood vaccines. Please bring medical
cards and/or commercial insurance cards, if applicable. Zostavax (shingles); pneumonia ; inﬂuenza
vaccines are also available. Call for eligibility
determination and availability or visit our website
at www.meigs-health.com to see a list of accepted
commercial insurances and Medicaid for adults.

Free tax prep services available

MEIGS CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Friday, Feb. 3
POMEROY — The regular meeting of the Meigs
County PERI Chapter 74 will be held at 1 p.m. at the
Mulberry Community Center, located at 156 Mulberry
Ave., Pomeroy. Guest speaker will be a representative
from the Ohio State Patrol. All retired Meigs County
Public Employees are urged to attend.

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Meigs 5th grade wins HVBL title

RACO discusses
upcoming events,
scholarships
Staff Report

Courtesy photo

The Meigs fifth grade team coached by Cass Cleland and Mike Bartrum defeated the Meigs fifth grade team coached by Clinton Stanley
on Sunday for the Hocking Valley Basketball League championship. Pictured are (front row, from left) Taylor Bartrum, Brycen Rowe,
Ashton Mitchell, Zach Caruthers, Dillion Howard; (back row) Coach Mike Bartrum, Johnathan Scott, Tucker Davis, Alex Hardwick, Griffin
Cleland, Garrett Roberts, Coach Cass Cleland. Not pictured is Xavier Wise.

Trump nominates Neil Gorsuch for Supreme Court
By Julie Pace
and Mark Sherman
Associated Press

WASHINGTON —
President Donald Trump
nominated Neil Gorsuch,
a fast-rising conservative judge with a writer’s
ﬂair, to the Supreme
Court on Tuesday, a
selection expected to
spark a ﬁerce ﬁght with
Democrats over a jurist
who could shape America’s legal landscape for
decades to come.
At 49, Gorsuch is
the youngest Supreme
Court nominee in a
quarter century. He’s
distinguished himself
on the Denver-based
10th Circuit Court of
Appeals with his clear,
colloquial writing, advo-

cacy for court review of
government regulations,
defense of religious
freedom and skepticism
toward law enforcement.
“Judge Gorsuch has
outstanding legal skills,
a brilliant mind, tremendous discipline and
has earned bipartisan
support,” Trump said,
announcing the nomination in his ﬁrst televised
address from the White
House.
Gorsuch’s nomination
was cheered by conservatives wary of Trump’s
own ﬂuid ideology. If
conﬁrmed by the Senate,
he will ﬁll the seat left
vacant by the death last
year of Antonin Scalia,
long the right’s most
powerful voice on the
high court.

Some Democrats, still
smarting over Trump’s
unexpected victory in
the presidential election,
have vowed to mount
a vigorous challenge to
nearly any nominee to
what they view as the
court’s “stolen seat.”
President Barack Obama
nominated U.S. Circuit
Court Judge Merrick
Garland for the vacancy
after Scalia’s death, but
Senate Republicans
refused to consider the
pick, saying the seat
should be ﬁlled only after
the November election.
Trump’s choice of Gorsuch marks perhaps the
most signiﬁcant decision
of his young presidency,
one with ramiﬁcations
that could last long after
he leaves ofﬁce. After

FAC opens latest art show

an uneven start to his
presidency, including the
chaotic rollout of a controversial refugee ban,
Trump’s selection of Gorsuch appeared to proceed
with little drama.
For some Republicans,
the prospect of ﬁlling
one or more Supreme
Court seats over the next
four years has helped
ease their concerns about
Trump’s experience and
temperament. Three
justices are in their late
70s and early 80s, and a
retirement would offer
Trump the opportunity
to cement conservative
dominance of the court
for many years.

RACINE — The
Racine Area Community Organization
(RACO) held its monthly meeting on Jan. 23, at
the Star Mill Park building. Tonja Hunter had
the prayer before the
potluck meal. The minutes from the previous
meeting held in October
2016 were presented by
Secretary Lillian Weese
and approved. Treasurer’s report, by Kim
Romine, was presented
and approved.
RACO will be holding their basket games
on Thursday, Feb. 9, at
Syracuse Community
Center. The doors will
open at 5 p.m. with
games starting at 6 p.m.
The prizes will include
Longaberger baskets,
Fiesta ware, and designer purses (Michael Kors,
Vera Bradley, etc.). Tickets are currently on sale
and can be purchased
from Kim Romine (740)
992-7079 or (740) 9922067, Kathryn Hart
(740) 949-2656, or
Sherry O’Brien (740)
416-1324. All proceeds
go toward improvements in Racine village
and Star Mill Park.
Also discussed in
other new business
were the scholarships
that will be provided
to 2017 Southern High
School graduates.
RACO members will
be taking the scholar-

ship applications to
Southern High School
on Thursday, March 2.
The current scholarships to be awarded will
include: RACO, Edison
and Mabel Brace Memorial, Jim Adams Memorial, Clarence and Ruth
Bradford Memorial,
Cruisin Saturday Night
Car Show Scholarship, Racine Enginuity
Scholarship, Vinas Lee
Memorial, Anderson
and Eleanor Owens
Educational Scholarship, and Carl B. Weese
Memorial.
Braxton Thorla
attended the meeting.
He is considering setting up his Christmas
lights/music show in
Star Mill Park for the
next Christmas season.
He presented several
ideas of different decorations that could be
done at the park. RACO
members thought this
was a wonderful idea.
A RACO member volunteered to discuss this
with Mayor Scott Hill
and council members
for their approval.
Dale Hart led in the
Pledge to the Flag to
close our meeting.
There were twelve members and three visitors
in attendance. The next
meeting will be held
on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at
6:30 p.m. at the Star
Mill Park building. New
members are always
welcome.

2017 Faith &amp; Family
Faith and Family is a project designed to reach out to
people in need and at the same time reach out to the
community with a message of hope. We want to form
a stronger alliance with the church community and do
more meaningful job of helping local churches spread
their message to people who are looking for answers and
inspiration. We need your help to do this.
We will publish an inspirational full color magazine that we have entitled Faith and Family. This publication,
with your help, will list all our churches and carry a message of hope. As your local newspaper we want
to use our resources to help get your message to those in need. The magazine will carry profiles of local
churches and testimonials from local readers who have experienced a change in life as the result of their
faith and beliefs. These stories can be a powerful influence in raising the consonances of the reader looking
for answers and in need of a church to help heal. This publication will also increase the strength and unity
among the local church community.

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Photos by Bud Hunt/OVP

Barbara Dellegatti, a native of
Youngstown, Ohio and now a
resident of Ona W.Va., is pictured
with her work. Dellegatti has
been an avid contributor to the
French Art Colony in Gallipolis,
Ohio where her “One Woman
Visitors attend the reception for the French Art Colony’s latest Watercolor Art Show” is on
show, “One Woman Watercolor Art Show,” by Barbara Dellegatti. display, now through Feb. 25 at
Not only is Dellegatti an award winning artist but she also teaches the FAC. An open reception was
painting classes and on Feb. 12 she will be teaching a watercolor held to open the exhibit this
past Sunday.
course at the French Art Colony.

STOCKS
AEP (NYSE) - 64.06
Akzo (NASDAQ) - 22.73
Big Lots (NYSE) - 50.00
Bob Evans (NASDAQ) 56.43
BorgWarner (NYSE) 40.83
Century Alum (NASDAQ)
- 15.40
City Holding (NASDAQ) 65.09
Collins (NYSE) - 90.76
DuPont (NYSE) - 75.50
US Bank (NYSE) - 52.65
Gen Electric (NYSE) 29.70

Harley-Davidson (NYSE)
- 57.04
JP Morgan (NYSE) - 84.63
Kroger (NYSE) - 33.96
Ltd Brands (NYSE) - 60.21
Norfolk So (NYSE) - 117.46
OVBC (NASDAQ) - 28.00
BBT (NYSE) - 46.19
Peoples (NASDAQ) - 31.05
Pepsico (NYSE) - 103.78
Premier (NASDAQ) - 18.32
Rockwell (NYSE) - 147.99
Rocky Brands (NASDAQ)
- 12.65
Royal Dutch Shell - 54.39
Sears Holding (NASDAQ)

- 6.98
Wal-Mart (NYSE) - 66.74
Wendy’s (NYSE) - 13.53
WesBanco (NYSE) - 41.50
Worthington (NYSE) 47.79
Daily stock reports are the
4 p.m. ET closing quotes
of transactions Jan. 31,
2017, provided by Edward
Jones financial advisors
Isaac Mills in Gallipolis at
(740) 441-9441 and Lesley
Marrero in Point Pleasant
at (304) 674-0174.
Member SIPC.

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THEIR VIEW

Consumer culture
and its consequences
By Sam Quinones
Contributing columnist

A few years ago, I met a kid whose mother
worked in a beef slaughtering plant in Garden
City, Kan.
The plant employees were Latino immigrants,
and many were in the country illegally. This kid
had to massage his mother’s hand after she came
home each night because it was frozen in the
shape of the knife handle she used all day. Her
hand, it occurred to me, was one reason why we
have such low meat prices.
I have followed the debate on illegal immigration for more than 20 years, during which time
I worked as a journalist in Mexico and the U.S.
The issue is dominated, I’ve come to believe, by
Americans’ desire to have it all. We want cheap
stuff and low prices. We also want to luxuriate
in complaints about strangers in our midst who
don’t assimilate as fast as we imagine our grandparents did.
That kid and his mother came to mind as
Donald Trump assumed the presidency. Trump
has backed away from his campaign promise
to deport 11 million immigrants in the country
illegally, referring instead to a goal of deporting
3 million people. Even if he follows through on
only this low-end ﬁgure, it will test the contradictory tendencies of American immigration
politics and our consumer culture.
I recognize the anger of citizens at the bottom
of the economy who must compete with those
in the U.S. without permission. That galls the
native born, who know that competition is not
trivial, and I don’t like to hear them characterized as racist simply for pointing it out. But they
alone didn’t elect Trump. A good measure of
the U.S. political culture that put him in ofﬁce is
shaped by people who want to eat their cake and
keep it, too.
Over the last 25 years, immigrants have let us
live like princes. Growing up in Southern California in the 1970s, I remember no middle-class
family who could afford a gardener. Now, so
many immigrants have entered the business, and
tools made outside our borders have become
so cheap, that landscaping fees have dropped
to where even working-class families have help
with their yards.
Immigrants were a key to the mid-2000s’ housing bubble. Their inexpensive labor allowed buyers to purchase and renovate houses, then turn
them quickly and for a proﬁt. In Mexico recently, I met a man who spent three years at a company near Austin that cuts stone for builders; he
slept on a warehouse ﬂoor, worked 12-hour days
and made $8 an hour so Texas houses could
have stone facades and walkways.
Few non-Latino workers know how to install
ﬂooring any more, or are willing to do it for
$10 to $15 an hour. Some ﬂooring workers are
here legally, but the trade is a magnet for those
without papers. They keep wages — and ﬂoor
installation costs — low. The same might be
said for carpentry, plumbing, painting, rooﬁng,
and building swimming pools.
The pallet industry is essential to American
commerce and the low price of goods. It supports bulk transportation from farms and factories, and it too depends on immigrant labor —
much of it, I suspect, illegal. The same is true of
warehousing and distribution in general. Wages
kept at $11 to $13 an hour in these businesses
go some way toward explaining how companies can provide free shipping for e-commerce
orders, which is labor intensive.
President Obama already set records for
deportations during his eight years in ofﬁce
— more than 2 million people. Continued or
increased large-scale deportation will surely
result in a loss of skill sets and willing workers,
particularly for certain regions of the country.
With fewer workers forced to take what they
can get, wages may have to rise. Slaughterhouses may have to dramatically improve their working conditions. These are good outcomes. Power
returns to unions as labor supply dwindles.
Again, that’s a good thing in a time when capital’s hegemony seems absolute.
Another logical result of increased deportation would be higher consumer prices, of course.
This would touch people in every economic
bracket, including many Trump voters, middleclass folks angered by illegal immigration. As
consumers, employers or both, they are beneﬁciaries of cheap landscaping, cheap ﬂooring,
cheap pallets and the cheap meat cut by that
woman in Kansas.
As simplistic as Trump’s campaign seemed
to me — proposing silver-bullet solutions to
complicated real-world problems — his presidency may ﬁnally force us Americans, including
legions of his supporters, to accept responsibility for our contradictory desires and consumer
choices.
Put another way, maybe we’ll see whether the
courage of our convictions can survive higherpriced meat, the doubling in cost of a new ﬂoor,
and the end of free shipping.
Los Angeles-based freelance journalist Sam Quinones’ latest book
is “Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic,” now
available in paperback. He wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.

THEIR VIEW

This is a mess; time to step in, GOP leaders
By Jonathan Bernstein
Contributing columnist

To begin with: This
was not the Saturday
Night Massacre.
Donald Trump ﬁred a
holdover acting attorney
general, who would have
been gone soon anyway
once Trump’s nominated
choice is conﬁrmed and
sworn in, because she
would not support a
Trump policy in court.
Richard Nixon, in October 1973, ordered his
own attorney general to
ﬁre a special prosecutor
who was investigating
the president, his White
House and campaign
staff; the attorney general resigned rather
than ﬁre the prosecutor,
and then Nixon ﬁred
the next-in-line, after
which the third-in-line
was sworn in as the new
acting attorney general
and carried out the president’s orders.
What Trump did was
orders of magnitude less
of a shocking assault on
constitutional government. This was a highly
unusual situation — usually, holdovers from the
previous administration
don’t actively undermine
the new administration
(in large part because
there are rarely similar
situations) and Trump
was well within his
rights to act.
Nevertheless.
Along with everything
else, it’s not wrong at
all to say that Trump’s
actions, including this

one, continue to add to
an atmosphere of chaos
and an air of disregard
for what Trump talked
about all through the
campaign: law and order.
Firing acting Attorney
General Sally Yates can
be justiﬁed. Doing it at
night, and issuing an
unprofessional statement
accusing her of having
“betrayed the Department of Justice” did not
reassure anyone that the
new president respects
the constitution.
“Everything else”
includes, just on Monday,
the White House press
secretary trashing State
Department ofﬁcials who
signed on to a dissent
memo; the news that
House Judiciary Committee staffers helped draft
the refugee/visa/travel
executive action while
keeping it secret from
their bosses and signing
non-disclosure agreements; and a report that
Steve Bannon is stiﬂing
national security dissent and proper recordkeeping within the White
House. And probably
two or three things I’ve
forgotten.
Meanwhile, factionalism within the White
House and more broadly
among the executive
branch (at least the few
positions that have been
ﬁlled so far) so far is at
fever pitch, with leaked
stories to match, so more
coals are constantly
being added to the ﬁre.
The president himself
seems to have no control

“I recommend against anyone guessing how
public opinion plays out on any of this. We’ll
know soon enough.”
over his White House at
all.
I recommend against
anyone guessing how
public opinion plays
out on any of this. We’ll
know soon enough.
Some are saying that
the Yates confrontation, and the refugee/
travel issue in general,
is exactly what Bannon
wants. But that doesn’t
mean he’ll get the reaction he expects. All we
know for now is that no
president has ever been
this unpopular this early
in his term, and it’s not
close.
What is supposed to
happen in these situations, when the White
House is ﬂailing, is for
senior members of the
party to step in and make
sure the president gets
his act together. That’s
what happened after the
Iran-Contra affair, when
Sen. Howard Baker was
brought in as Ronald
Reagan’s chief of staff.
It’s basically what happened after Bill Clinton’s
poorly organized ﬁrst
year and a half, when
Leon Panetta took on the
same job.
That pressure doesn’t
always have to be applied
publicly; after all, it’s in
the interest of all Republicans to have a functional administration. Or
if it’s public, it’s indirect,

with names (Mitch
Daniels? Rob Portman?)
suddenly starting to be
mentioned by loyal partisans.
Republicans have
plenty of leverage here. If
necessary, U.S. senators
could threaten to stop
conﬁrming Trump’s cabinet; Republican members of both houses of
Congress could threaten
to hold hearings on any
number of Trump scandals. They could even
threaten to force him to
turn over his tax returns.
And all they would
be asking for — should
be asking for — is for
Trump to allow a real
manager who knows how
the government works to
step in and help him, and
to get rid of some of the
people who are harming
his presidency.
Sure, they risk the possibility that the Tweeterin-Chief will lash out at
them. And it’s certainly
possible that Trump
can’t be made to see how
badly he needs help.
But there’s no reason
to think this gets better
by itself. A whole lot of
Republicans in Congress
(and Republican governors and more) absolutely know that.
Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg
View columnist. Readers may
email him at jbernstein62@
bloomberg.net.

TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Wednesday,
Feb. 1, the 32nd day of
2017. There are 333 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Feb. 1, 1942, during
World War II, the Voice of
America broadcast its ﬁrst
program to Europe, relaying it through the facilities
of the British Broadcasting Corp. in London.
On this date:
In 1790, the U.S.
Supreme Court convened
for the ﬁrst time in New
York. (However, since
only three of the six justices were present, the
court recessed until the
next day.)

In 1865, during the
Civil War, Union forces
led by Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman began
the Carolinas Campaign
as they invaded South
Carolina. Abolitionist
John S. Rock became the
ﬁrst black lawyer admitted to the bar of the U.S.
Supreme Court.
In 1922, in one of Hollywood’s most enduring
mysteries, movie director
William Desmond Taylor
was shot to death in his
Los Angeles home; the
killing has never been
solved.
In 1943, one of America’s most highly decorated
military units, the 442nd
Regimental Combat Team,
made up almost exclusive-

THOUGHT FOR TODAY
“Happiness is a by-product. You cannot
pursue it by itself.”
— Sam Levenson,
American humorist (1911-1980)

ly of Japanese-Americans,
was authorized.
In 1946, Norwegian
statesman Trygve Lie
(TRIHG’-vuh lee) was
chosen to be the ﬁrst
secretary-general of the
United Nations.
In 1959, men in Switzerland rejected giving
women the right to vote
by a more than 2-1 referendum margin. (Swiss
women gained the right to
vote in 1971.)

In 1960, four black
college students began a
sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in
Greensboro, North Carolina, where they’d been
refused service.
In 1968, during the
Vietnam War, South Vietnam’s police chief (Nguyen Ngoc Loan) executed
a Viet Cong ofﬁcer with a
pistol shot to the head in
a scene captured by news
photographers.

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Guide
From page 1

“The visitors guide
is great for tourism,”
Thoene said. “It helps
bring awareness to all
Meigs County has to

Military flailing in online fight against Islamic State

offer.”
Call the Sentinel at
740-992-2155 for advertising opportunities
and look for the guide
locally, as well as across
the state of Ohio, in an
effort to promote Meigs
County within and
beyond its borders.

By Desmond Butler
and Richard Lardner

Orders

property where the log
cabin sits next to the
civic center.
In accepting the offer,
From page 1
there is never a mention
property was never
of the village advertisdeeded over to the
ing the property for
county, meaning the
bids which is required
village is still listed on
by law for a public
the deed as the property entity to sell real estate.
owner.
A notice of bids must
As the Sentinel
run for ﬁve consecutive
reported previously,
weeks prior to the sale
Rutland Village Council of property.
accepted an offer from
The hearing is now
Dollar General in the
scheduled for 9 a.m.
spring of 2016 for the
on Feb. 10 in Meigs
purchase of the bus
County Common Pleas
garage property and the Court.

Plant

transaction,” Arabia said
on behalf of Lightstone.
“In the months since
the transaction was
From page 1
announced, we have been
ArcLight Capital Partners communicating with
LLC. Together the Lightemployees at the plants
stone team has extensive
and going over the typiexperience owning and
cal transition issues. And
operating power genwe are excited to ofﬁeration facilities. We are
cially welcome them to the
committed to the safe and Lightstone team.”
successful operation of
Also on Tuesday, local
the newly acquired power ofﬁcials chimed in on this
plants, and to good corpo- new chapter in the trirate citizenship.”
county region.
Arabia spoke to the GalHarold Montgomery,
lipolis Daily Tribune on
Gallia County Board of
Tuesday, saying around
Commissioners President,
400 employees total from said: “Something of this
the four power plants
magnitude in Gallia Counmade the transition to
ty is very concerning. Of
Lightstone. He added,
all the jobs that it encomthe goal of the upcoming
passes, plus the Gavin
introductory meetings
Plant being the largest
with local ofﬁcials was to
property taxpayer in the
begin to establish relation- county. Our understanding
ships.
is that this is a continued
“We are pleased to
operation retaining all the
be the new owners and
employees. We hope (the
operators of Gavin and
transfer) is all positive for
the other three plants
the employees concerned.
AEP has always been a
that were part of the

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WEATHER HISTORY
Brownsville, Texas, and Juneau,
Alaska, both had temperatures of
32 degrees on Feb. 1, 1985. On that
same day, 2 inches of snow accumulated in Dallas, Texas.

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A: Feb. 11-14, 1899. Subzero (F) to the
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Kyger Creek and John
Amos plants all meet an
important need in the area
and country - energy. And,
in an area where some
infrastructure is lacking,
the all-important power
generation component
is not. Musgrave added,
for generations, this area
has been one of the major
places for power generation in the United States.
“The power plants are
a tremendous asset for
the whole region,” Musgrave said. “Energy is an
extremely important part
of that regional economy.”
Musgrave added, he
hopes no jobs are lost as a
result of the sale and that
power generation continues.
According to a statement from AEP about
the sale this week, the
company will net approximately $1.2 billion in cash
after taxes, repayment of
debt associated with these
assets and transaction
fees. AEP is investing the

proceeds from the sale in
its regulated businesses,
including transmission
and contracted renewable
projects. AEP recorded
an after-tax gain, subject
to customary true-ups, of
approximately $130 million from the sale.
AEP announced Sept.
14, 2016, that it had
reached an agreement to
sell the plants to Lightstone Generation. The sale
includes 5,200 megawatts
of generation all located
in the region served by
the PJM Interconnection:
Lawrenceburg Generating Station, 1,186 MW
natural gas, Lawrenceburg, Indiana; Waterford
Energy Center, 840 MW
natural gas, Waterford,
Ohio; Darby Generating
Station, 507 MW natural
gas, Mount Sterling, Ohio;
Gen. James M. Gavin
Plant, 2,665 MW coal,
Cheshire, Ohio.

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Marietta
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Belleville
Racine
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Gallipolis
Huntington
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Lloyd Greenup
Portsmouth
Maysville
Meldahl Dam

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36
35
41
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19.10
22.67
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13.05
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13.02
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Lucasville
47/27
Portsmouth
47/28

500

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Chilly with more sun
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43/22
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45/26

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44/23

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43/25

Parkersburg
43/25

Coolville
44/24

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45/26

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47/28

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49/29
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49/29

St. Albans
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Huntington
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region, it contributes to
the economic landscape in
other ways.
“The Gavin plant has
been an economic engine
in this area for many
years through their direct
employment and their use
of local suppliers and contractors,” Perry Varnadoe,
Meigs County Economic
Development Director
said. “We look forward
to this continuing with
Lightstone Generation.
They are reaching out to
the community to build
relationships and that is a
positive step.”
In addition, this is an
opportunity for Lightstone
ofﬁcials to show how they
plan to participate in the
communities on “both
sides of the river.” AEP
still makes its home in
Mason County, W.Va. with
the Mountaineer Plant in
New Haven, W.Va. Mason
County Economic Development Authority Director John Musgrave, said
the Mountaineer, Gavin,

good neighbor to Gallia
County and we’re expecting the same from the
new holders. We haven’t
ofﬁcially had any contact
with them yet, but we’re
looking forward to hopefully doing that in the near
future and be able to sit
down and have discussions with them. We’re
very hopeful this works
out for everyone.”
Melissa Clark, Gallia
County Economic and
Community Development
Director said: “Gavin
Power Plant is a major
employer to our area and
large contributor to our
local economy. Gallia
County has always maintained a strong relationship with AEP and we
look forward to continuing
that relationship with
Lightstone Generation.”
Of course, the Gavin
Power Plant, and its economic impact, is not limited to its home in Gallia
County. Besides employing people from across the

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salad.”
Four current or former
workers told the AP
that they had witnessed
WebOps data being
manipulated to create
the appearance of success and that many other
employees were aware
of the problem. Yet the
companies carrying out
the program for Central
Command have dodged
attempts to implement
independent oversight
and assessment of the
data.
The information operations division that runs
WebOps is the command’s epicenter for
ﬁring back at the Islamic
State’s online propaganda machine, using the
internet to sway public
opinion in a swath of the
globe that stretches from
Central Asia to the Horn
of Africa.

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in counter-propaganda,
couldn’t speak Arabic
ﬂuently and had so little
understanding of Islam
that they were no match
for the Islamic State’s
online recruiters. The
program ran into problems at times when the
online targets noticed the
lack of linguistic skills,
the employees said.
“One of the things
about jihadis: they are
very good in Arabic,”
said an Arabic specialist
who previously worked
on WebOps.
It’s hard to establish
rapport with a potential
terror recruit when — as
one former worker told
the AP — translators
repeatedly mix up the
Arabic words for “salad”
and “authority.” That’s
led to open ridicule on
social media about references to the “Palestinian

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ing contractors than
thwarting terrorism. The
Associated Press
people interviewed by
AP requested anonymity
TAMPA, Fla. — A
because they are prohibcounter-propaganda
ited from speaking pubprogram aimed at
licly about WebOps due
thwarting Islamic State
to the sensitive nature of
recruiting over social
the work and they fear
media is plagued by
professional repercusincompetence, cronyism
sions.
and skewed data, an AP
WebOps relies on dozinvestigation has found.
ens
of Arabic-speaking
Known as “WebOps,”
analysts
who scour
the program was
Twitter
and
other social
launched several years
media
platforms
for
ago by a small group of
people whose postings
civilian contractors and
military ofﬁcers assigned suggest they are vulnerto the information opera- able to the Islamic State’s
siren call. Using ﬁctitious
tions division at U.S.
Central Command’s head- identities, the civilian
analysts then reach out to
quarters in Tampa.
these potential recruits
But internal docuand urge them not to join
ments and interviews
the extremists.
with more than a dozen
But current and former
people knowledgeable
WebOps
employees cite
about WebOps suggest
examples of analysts who
a program that appears
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aimed more at enrich-

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Wednesday, February 1, 2017 s 6

Lady Rebels fall

Waterford gets
victory against
Lady Eagles at
home, 37-33
By Bryan Walters
bwalters@civitasmedia.com

WATERFORD,
Ohio — Almost
reaching the ‘Big
5-0’ without passing
forty.
Host Waterford
picked up its 49th
consecutive league
victory Monday
night with a hardfought 37-33 decision over the Eastern girls basketball
team in a Tri-Valley
Conference Hocking
Division matchup at
the Cooper Annex
Building in Washington County.
The Lady Wildcats
(15-2, 13-0 TVC
Hocking) — the
reigning Division
IV champions in
The Buckeye State
— took control of
the game early with
a 15-3 first quarter
surge, but the visiting Lady Eagles (153, 12-2) did everything in their power
to make things interesting the rest of the
way.
EHS used a 10-3
charge to close the
halftime deficit
down to two possessions at 18-13,
then used a small
10-9 run in the third
canto to pull within
27-23 headed into
the finale. Both
teams netted 10
points apiece down
the stretch to wrap
up the four-point
outcome.
WHS — which
is now one win
away from at least
a share of its third
straight TVC Hocking crown — also
claimed a season
sweep after posting

a 55-48 decision in
Tuppers Plains back
on December 17.
Eastern was the
last team to defeat
WHS in league
play, doing so with
a 75-44 decision at
Waterford back on
February 6, 2014.
The Lady Eagles
went on to win the
Division IV state
championship that
season.
Eastern made four
of its 11 total field
goals from behind
the arc and also
went a perfect 7-of7 at the free throw
line.
Jess Parker and
Becca Pullins led
EHS with eight
points apiece, followed by Alyson
Bailey with seven
points and Laura
Pullins with six
markers. Elizabeth
Collins completed
the scoring with
four points.
Waterford made
only two of its 15
total field goals from
three-point range
and also netted half
of its 10 charity
tosses, which included a 2-of-6 effort
at the stripe in the
fourth quarter.
Megan Ball paced
the hosts with a
game-high 16 points,
half of which came
in the opening
canto. Alli Kern was
next with 14 markers, while Hayley
Duff and Rachel
Adams rounded out
the winning tally
with respective
efforts of four and
three points.
Bryan Walters can be
reached at 740-446-2342,
ext. 2101.

OVP SPORTS SCHEDULE
Wednesday, February 1
Girls Basketball
South Gallia at Wellston, 7:30
Hannan at Ironton St. Joseph, 6 p.m.
Wrestling
Point Pleasant at Parkersburg, TBA
Eastern at Federal Hocking
College Basketball
URG women at Salem International, 5:30
Thursday, February 2
Boys Basketball
Calvary Baptist Academy at Point Pleasant,
7:30
Girls Basketball
Meigs at River Valley, 7:30
Wahama at South Gallia, 7:30
Nitro at Point Pleasant, 7 p.m.
Waterford at Southern, 7:30
Belpre at Eastern, 7:15
Gallia Academy at South Point, 7:30
Friday, February 3
Boys Basketball
Southern at South Gallia, 7:30
Vinton County at Meigs, 7:30
Belpre at Eastern, 7:30
Coal Grove at Gallia Academy, 7:30
Covenant Christian at Ohio Valley Christian,
7:30
Wahama at Federal Hocking, 7:30
Girls Basketball
Covenant Christian at Ohio Valley Christian,
6 p.m.
College Baseball
URG at Bryan (TN), 3 p.m.

Fed Hock uses late run to beat SG, 52-38

By Bryan Walters
bwalters@civitasmedia.com

Bryan Walters/OVP Sports

South Gallia freshman Kylie Stapleton (4)
releases a shot attempt over a Federal Hocking
defender during the first half of Monday
night’s TVC Hocking girls basketball contest in
Mercerville, Ohio.

MERCERVILLE, Ohio —
The South Gallia girls basketball team put four quarters of
effort into three periods of play,
then ultimately ran out of gas
over the ﬁnal eight minutes of
regulation Monday night during a 52-38 setback to visiting
Federal Hocking in a Tri-Valley
Conference Hocking Division
matchup in Gallia County.
The host Lady Rebels (4-13,
1-12 TVC Hocking) executed a
near-perfect game plan over the
ﬁrst 24 minutes of play, which
led to a pair of four-point ﬁrst
half leads and a slim 29-26 deﬁ-

cit entering the ﬁnal canto.
The Lady Lancers (9-9, 5-7),
however, hit their ﬁrst ﬁve
shots of the fourth quarter and
also forced seven SGHS turnovers as part of 23-12 surge
down the stretch that allowed
the Maroon and Gold to sneak
away with the otherwise hardfought 14-point triumph.
The Lady Rebels owned the
largest leads of the ﬁrst half at
4-0 and again at 12-8, but never
managed to hold an edge after
either of the ﬁrst two periods
of play.
FHHS did make a 9-2 charge
out of the third quarter gate
See REBELS | 8

Paul Boggs/OVP Sports

Gallia Academy’s Kimberly Edelmann looks to shoot the ball as Coal Grove’s Kasey Murphy (left) and Emily Compliment defend during
Monday night’s Ohio Valley Conference girls basketball game at Gallia Academy High School.

Blue Angels sting Lady Hornets
By Paul Boggs
pboggs@civitasmedia.com

CENTENARY, Ohio
— As it turned out, Adrienne Jenkins’ pain was
only temporary.
That’s because, chances are, the Gallia Academy senior will remember her ﬁnal minute on
Monday night for a long
time to come.
After brieﬂy leaving the game due to an
injured left knee, Jenkins
checked back in to score
ﬁve ﬁnal-minute points
—and more importantly
lead the host Blue Angels
to a 50-42 Ohio Valley
Conference girls basketball victory over the Coal
Grove Lady Hornets.
In a contest which featured eight ties and four
lead changes, Jenkins
made sure she left the
court on Monday night
on her own terms.
In a battle for a loose
ball with Coal Grove’s
Lauren Crum with 1:14
remaining, she appeared
to be in serious pain in
grabbing for her left knee
— which dons a brace
from a once-torn ACL.
She left the ﬂoor on
her own power, however
— and returned a few
seconds later to make a
major impact.
With the Blue Angels
ahead 43-42, the Lady
Hornets missed a shot
and turned the ball over,
giving Gallia Academy

another possession.
From midcourt, fellow senior Carly Shriver
lobbed a long inbounds
pass to Jenkins near the
basket, as the ﬁve-foot,
nine-inches Jenkins
gained inside position on
Crum.
Jenkins caught the lob
from Shriver, squared
to the basket, and converted an old-fashioned
three-point play to make
it 46-42 with only 48 seconds remaining.
Then, just 16 seconds
later, after Coal Grove’s
Destiny Dolen missed
a three-point attempt,
Jenkins dropped in both
of the one-and-one free
throws — upping the
advantage to 48-42.
Indeed, it was a solid
ﬁnish from the Blue
Angel senior, who ﬁnished with four ﬁeld
goals for 11 points — in
addition to a team-high
seven rebounds.
“Adrienne Jenkins goes
down, she says she is
alright. She said ‘three
more possessions, I can
do this.’ She puts her
brace back on, goes back
in, and makes a huge
play then two more free
throws for us,” said Gallia Academy coach Joe
Justice.
Shriver then secured
the Blue Angel win
— with two more free
throws with 15-and-a-half
seconds left to play.
The 50-42 ﬁnal score,

of which GAHS held
Coal Grove to only ﬁve
fourth-quarter points and
none in the ﬁnal 1:47,
was either team’s largest
lead.
Justice added that Jenkins’ play highlighted the
Blue Angels’ ability to
ﬁnally “ﬁnish” a game.
The Blue Angels
improved to 7-10 — and
3-7 in the OVC, as they
split the season series
with Coal Grove.
“We started out well
each quarter, but we
struggled ﬁnishing
quarters. In the fourth
quarter, I thought we
did a good job of ﬁnishing. We held them to
ﬁve points in the fourth
quarter, where the ﬁrst
three quarters they were
getting six or seven
points in the last twoand-a-half minutes,” said
Justice. “We did a really
good job of defense the
last two minutes shutting
them out, ﬁnishing free
throws, rebounding the
ball, just ﬁnishing the
quarter strong and the
game strong.”
That the Blue Angels
did, leading for the ﬁnal
two minutes — after
Hunter Copley canned a
three-pointer to make it
43-41.
Emily Compliment,
the Hornets’ top player
whose two baskets made
it 41-40 Coal Grove with
3:20 remaining, scored
the ﬁnal Hornet point on

a free throw with 1:47
to go.
Hence, it was seven
unanswered to end the
game for Gallia Academy,
which dropped the Hornets to 10-8 — and 5-6 in
the OVC.
Copley, who made ﬁve
two-pointers prior to her
go-ahead three-ball, led
the Blue and White with
13 points.
Jenkins and Shriver,
who also had four ﬁeld
goals including her
second-quarter three that
made it 31-24 with 1:50
to play, added 11 points
apiece.
Abby Cremeans connected for a triple and a
technical-foul free throw
that made it 37-32, then
drained another trifecta
to break a 37-37 tie —
only 20 seconds into the
fourth period.
Alex Barnes and Jenelle Stevens, on a pair of
ﬁrst-half buckets, scored
four points apiece.
While Gallia Academy only made four of
a dozen three-pointers,
and only corralled 19
rebounds, the Blue
Angels only committed
13 turnovers —while collecting nine assists and
tallying 10 steals.
Copley chalked up ﬁve
assists, while Barnes
made off with four thefts.
The Blue Angels
scored six straight points
to break a 4-4 tie, then
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017 7

Belpre blasts Lady Falcons, 57-19

Flyers soar
past Defenders

By Alex Hawley
ahawley@civitasmedia.com

MASON, W.Va. — The
Wahama girls basketball
team claimed the ﬁrst two
points of the game, on Monday night on Gary Clark
Court, the rest of the night,
however, belonged to the
Lady Golden Eagles.
The Belpre girls basketball team held the Lady
Falcons without a ﬁeld goal
for the remainder of the
ﬁrst half, as BHS rolled to a
57-19 victory, in Tri-Valley
Conference Hocking Division play.
Wahama (2-15, 0-12 TVC
Hocking) took a 2-0 lead on
a Natalie Rickard ﬁeld goal
at the 7:41 mark of the ﬁrst
quarter, but Belpre (15-4,
12-2) took the lead, at 4-2,
with 5:18 left in the opening stanza and never trailed
again.
BHS led 13-2 at the conclusion of the ﬁrst period,
and extended its advantage
to 25-3 by halftime.
The Lady Eagles outscored Wahama 16-to-2 in
the third quarter, extending the advantage to 41-5,
headed into the ﬁnale.
The Lady Falcons put
forth their best effort in the
fourth quarter, scoring 14
points. However, Belpre
scored 16 over the ﬁnal
eight minutes, sealing the
57-19 victory.
The Orange and Black
have now won six straight
games, including four
straight in the league. The
loss is Wahama’s fourth
consecutive overall and 65th
straight in the TVC Hocking.
Belpre won the rebound-

By Paul Boggs
pboggs@civitasmedia.com

IRONTON, Ohio — The Defenders fell behind
early, and couldn’t keep the pace late.
As a result, the Ohio Valley Christian School
boys basketball team lost at Ironton Saint Joseph
on Monday night, falling 66-44 to the host Flyers
at Ironton High School.
The Defenders trailed 15-8 after the opening
quarter, and only outscored the Flyers 15-13 in the
second stanza to trail 28-23 at halftime.
But the Flyers amassed a 38-21 second-half
advantage, including a 20-8 outburst in the fourth
and ﬁnal frame.
With the loss, OVCS slipped to an even 8-8 — as
Ironton St. Joseph is another Ohio High School
Athletic Association School on its schedule.
The Flyers raised their record to 7-9, and doubled up the Defenders in two-point goals (17-9).
OVCS made more three-point goals, but St.
Joseph enjoyed a parade to the free-throw line —
attempting 25 and meshing 17.
While the Defenders sank seven three-pointers,
they only attempted six foul shots and made ﬁve.
For the Defenders, Elijah McDonald poured in a
team-high 22 points —half of the squad’s 44.
McDonald — with ﬁve ﬁrst-quarter points and
seven apiece in the middle two stanzas — managed four threes, four twos and 2-of-2 freebies.
Austin Ragan, on two baskets and 2-of-2 foul
shots, recorded eight points — while Nate Dub
drained two trifectas for six.
Justin Beaver, on two ﬁeld goals before fouling
out, and Hollis Morrison —on a trey and a charity
toss —each scored four.
The Defenders were whistled for 18 fouls compared to only 12 for the Flyers, which got seven of
their second-period points from the stripe.
Chase Walters, on seven buckets and 8-of-11 free
throws, tied McDonald for game-high honors with
22.
He also ripped down 14 of the Flyers’ 37
rebounds for a strong double-double.
Zac McGraw, on six deuces and 5-of-5 foul
shots, added 17 points —while Zach Roach — on
four ﬁeld goals and 4-of-5 free throws — ﬁnished
with 14.
Roach and Clay Willis dialed in for a pair of
three-pointers, while Issac Whaley — with ﬁve
points — was responsible for the other.
Andrew Lawson landed a single ﬁeld goal for
the Flyers.
McGraw and Walters combined for 10 of St.
Joseph’s 15 ﬁrst-period points, before Roach went
4-of-4 at the line in the second.
McGraw went 4-of-4 in the third frame, followed
by Walters with nine points and 3-of-3 at the stripe
in the fourth.

Alex Hawley/OVP Sports

Wahama freshman Gracie VanMeter (2) goes up for a layup over a Belpre defender, during the Lady
Falcons’ 57-19 loss, on Monday in Mason.

ing battle by a 34-to-26
count, including a 12-to-10
edge on the offensive glass.
Wahama committed 31
turnovers in the setback,
while the Lady Eagles gave
the ball away 17 times.
BHS also held advantages
in assists (11-to-6), steals
(24-to-8) and blocked shots
(3-to-2).
Wahama shot 8-of-44
(18.2 percent) from the
ﬁeld, including 1-of-11 (9.1
percent) from three-point
range. Meanwhile, BHS was
25-of-56 (44.6 percent) from
the ﬁeld, including 2-of-17
(11.8 percent) from deep.
Belpre was 5-of-7 (71.4
percent) from the free throw
line, while Wahama was
2-of-6 (33.3 percent) from
the stripe.
Wahama was led by
sophomore Maddy VanMatre, who posted team-highs

of nine points, 10 rebounds,
two assists and three steals.
Hannah Rose and Natalie
Rickard both scored four
points in the win, with Rose
coming up with three steals
and a blocked shot, and
Rickard rejecting a shot as
well. WHS freshman Gracie
VanMeter rounded out the
Lady Falcon scoring with
two points.
Cheyenne Barker led
Belpre with 16 points, followed by Kyalyn Waderker
with 10 and Sydney Spencer
with eight. Next was Kaitlin
Richards with six, followed
by Abbey LaFatch with
ﬁve and Daisy Cowdery
with four. Kyanna Ray and
Trinidy King both scored
three points, while Hannah
Deems chipped in with two.
Ray and Waderker led
Belpre on the glass with
seven rebounds each. Ray,

LaFatch, Waderker and
Spencer each dished out two
assists, while Ray, Deems
and Cowdery rejected one
shot apiece. Barker also led
BHS on defense, coming up
with seven steals.
Belpre also defeated the
Lady Falcons on December
17, by a 61-35 count, in
Washington County.
The Lady Eagles will
visit Eastern on Thursday,
looking to avenge a 61-41
loss from December 22, and
move into sole possession of
second place in the league.
Wahama is also back in
action on Thursday, as it visits South Gallia. The Lady
Rebels claimed a 45-29 victory over the Lady Falcons,
on December 22, in Mason.
Alex Hawley can be reached at 740446-2342, ext. 2100.

Flyers soar past Defenders
By Paul Boggs

two-pointer and threepointer, had all ﬁve of Ohio
Valley Christian’s thirdperiod points.
Laylla Hurlow hit the
Defenders’ other threepoint goal in the fourth.
Riley, with two of her
treys in the second stanza
and four more markers
in the third, racked up 15
points to pace all scorers.
Turner tallied two of her
triples in the ﬁrst frame.

basketball game at Ironton
High School.
The Flyers led 11-6 folIRONTON, Ohio — For lowing the opening quarter,
the Lady Defenders, the
but then pitched a 20-0
math simply didn’t do them shutout of OVCS in the secany favors.
ond stanza.
That’s because Ironton
St. Joseph then outSt. Joseph scored 20 points scored OVCS in the second
in the second quarter alone, half 22-14 —part of a 42-14
while Ohio Valley Christian tally for the ﬁnal three
School scored 20 points
quarters.
total.
With the win, the Female
As a result, the visiting
Flyers raised their record
Lady Defenders fell to the
to 9-10, while OVCS is now
Female Flyers 53-20 on
2-8.
Rachel Sargent, Katie
Monday night — in a girls

Bradley and Lauren Ragan
all scored four points apiece
for the Defenders, as Sargent — on a ﬁeld goal and
2-of-2 free throws — posted
all of hers in the ﬁrst frame.
Both Bradley and Ragan
made two baskets apiece,
as Ironton St. Joseph
amassed a 21-8 advantage
in total ﬁeld goals.
In fact, the Flyers ﬁnished with seven threes,
including three apiece by
Megan Riley and Morgan
Turner.
Cori Hutchison, on a

Paul Boggs can be reached at 740446-2342, ext. 2106

Angels

Justice said his young
squad is capable of Monday’s performance — each
and every time it takes the
ﬂoor.
“You saw what kind of
team we can have — once

we decide we want to play
instead of coming out and
doing whatever we want
to. Tonight we came out
and did a really good job
defensively, rebounded
the ball well, shot the ball

pboggs@civitasmedia.com

From page 6

led 14-9 with 1:11 left in
the opening canto.
But the Hornets hit for
seven straight points over
the next 1:46 to take their
ﬁrst lead (16-14), then
staked their largest lead
at 20-16 — with ﬁve-anda-half minutes left in the
ﬁrst half.
Over the next three
minutes and 20 seconds,
though, the Blue Angels
amassed a 15-4 run —
capped off by Shriver’s
triple for the largest lead
at that point.
Coal Grove trimmed the
halftime deﬁcit to 31-27,
and outscored Gallia Academy 14-9 over the next
12:40 — taking its ﬁnal
advantage of the night.
Compliment paced the
Lady Hornets and all scorers with 17 points, posting eight of their 17 ﬁeld
goals.
Crum converted two
twos and two threes in the
opening period, then split
a pair of free throws in the
third.
Dolen, on two buckets
and 3-of-4 foul shots,
scored all seven of her
points in the second
frame.
Kasey Murphy, on two
ﬁeld goals, and Bailee
McKnight —on a third-

quarter three-pointer
— rounded out the Lady
Hornets.
The Blue Angels return
to the road, and return to
OVC action, on Thursday
night at South Point.

Paul Boggs can be reached at 740-446-2342, ext. 2106

Phoenix Raceway
announces renovations
PHOENIX (AP) — Come November 2018, the
new ﬁnish line at Phoenix Raceway could produce
some of auto racing’s more dramatic moments.
The start and ﬁnish line will be relocated to the
oval track’s celebrated backstretch dogleg, a ﬂat
and wide corner where some of the sport’s wildest
maneuvers and strategies have occurred.

well, took better care of
the ball. We’re improving
every day. We’re ﬁnishing
the season where we need
to start the season,” he
said. “We’re getting more
conﬁdence and they (Blue

Angels) are starting to
believe that they can do
this. Our youth is stepping
up and our seniors have
led us.”
Paul Boggs can be reached at 740446-2342, ext. 2106

Rates of Taxation 2016
In pursuance of law, I, Peggy S. Yost, Treasurer of Meigs County, Ohio, in compliance with Revised Code No. 323.08 of State of Ohio, do hereby give notice of the Rates of Taxation
for the Tax Year of 2016. Rates expressed in dollars and cents of each thousand dollars tax valuation.

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Rebels
that resulted in a doubledigit cushion with ﬁve
minutes remaining,
but the Red and Gold
answered with a 9-2 run
of their own to again
pull to within a possession entering the fourth
stanza.
Federal Hocking’s ﬁnal
run allowed the guests to
secure a season sweep of
the series after posting a
50-21 decision in Stewart
back on December 17.
The Lady Lancers have
also now won ﬁve consecutive road contests.
SGHS coach Corey
Small was discouraged
by the ﬁnal outcome,
mainly because of the
determined effort that his
troops poured into this
game. Small, however,
was very encouraged
with almost every other
aspect of his squad’s performance.
“Honestly, I think we
learned a lot about ourselves in this loss. I think

we grew a lot tonight,”
Small said. “It hurts to
lose, but we are a young
group that continues to
show signs that we are
getting better. We got
smacked up there the ﬁrst
time we played Federal
Hocking, so I think we
showed ourselves how far
we have progressed after
coming out and battling
the way we did for three
quarters.
“Obviously, we need to
put four quarters together
… but I really think we
took a step in that direction tonight. With the
tournament coming, this
was a really good sign.
I’m very proud of the
effort tonight, but we still
have more work to do.”
South Gallia stormed
out to a 4-0 edge less than
three minutes into regulation and led all but 1:51
seconds of the opening
period as the Lady Lancers came up scoreless on
their ﬁrst 10 offensive
possessions.
Tamika Mayle, however, hit a basket with 33
seconds left in the quar-

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ﬁrst lead of the night at
7-6. That score also stood
after eight complete minutes of play.
The Lady Rebels countered with a 6-1 run to
start the second canto,
with Kiley Stapleton capping things with a baseline jumper at the 3:38
mark for a 12-8 edge.
Federal Hocking countered by tying things up
at 13 with 2:12 left, then
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a small 5-2 run with a
basket with 49 seconds
left that gave the guests a
small 18-15 cushion at the
break.
South Gallia’s slowdown, spread wide
offensive approach paid
its dividends in the ﬁrst
half as both teams shot
25 percent from the ﬁeld.
The Lady Rebels also
committed only eight of
the 17 turnovers through
16 minutes of action.
Amaya Howell hit two
free throws a minute into
the third quarter to close
the deﬁcit down to a
single point, but the Lady

Lancers answered with
nine consecutive points
from the duo of Dunfee
and Destiny Tabler —
which resulted in a 27-17
advantage with 5:03
remaining.
SGHS countered with
six straight points and
closed the ﬁnal 4:37 on a
9-2 charge that turned a
double-digit deﬁcit into
anyone’s contest at 29-26
headed into the fourth.
The Lady Rebels ultimately lost Erin Evans —
the team’s leading scorer
— to fouls with 5:50 left
in regulation, then three
other South Gallia players were disqualiﬁed with
ﬁve fouls throughout the
course of the ﬁnale.
Fed Hock’s lead grew
to as many as 18 points
as Tabler drilled two free
throws with 1:16 left for
a 51-33 cushion. South
Gallia closed the game on
a 5-1 run to wrap up the
14-point difference.
Federal Hocking outrebounded the hosts by
a 33-24 overall margin,
which included a 12-9
edge on the offensive

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19 percent. The guests
were also 17-of-34 at the
charity stripe for 50 percent.
Dunfee paced FHHS
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with 13 points and a
team-best nine rebounds.
Brittnie Jackson was next
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The State of Ohio, Meigs County
Nationstar Mortgage LLC Plaintiff
VS.
Frank O. Wells Defendant
Case No. 15-CV-063

LEGALS

SHERIFF'S SALE
United States of America, acting through the Rural Housing Service, United States Department of Agriculture vs. Timothy R.
Priddy, Jr., et al.
Meigs County Common Pleas Case No. 16-CV-005.
In pursuance of an order issued from Common Pleas Court,
within and for the County of Meigs, State of Ohio, and to me
directed, I will offer for sale at Public Auction, at on the
courthouse steps on February 3, 2017 at 10 a.m. of said day,
the following Real Estate, to-wit:
Situated in the Village of Middleport, County of Meigs, and State
of Ohio and described as follows: Beginning at the Northwest
corner of Lot No. 460; Thence West 76 1/2 feet; Thence Southwest parallel with Grant Street 29 feet to a 20 foot alley; Thence
South along the West line of Lot 461, 87 feet to the Northwest
corner of a Lot owned by Paul M. Swisher and Iva Mae Swisher;
Thence East 100 feet along Swisher's North line to the East line
of Lot No. 461; Thence North 100 feet to the place of beginning.
Subject to all legal highways and easements of record.
Parcel # 1500798000
Located at 637 Grant St., Middleport, OH 45760.
Current Owners: Timothy R. Priddy, Jr.
Said property has been appraised at $40,000 and cannot sell for
less than two-thirds of appraisement. If The property does not
sell on February 3, 2017 then a second sale is scheduled for
February 10, 2017 with no minimum bid.
The appraisal is based upon a visual inspection of that part of
the premises to which access was readily available. The appraisal did not include an examination of the interior of the property. The appraisers assume no responsibility for, and give no
weight to, unknown legal matters, including, but not limited to,
concealed or latent defects, and/or the presence of harmful or
toxic chemicals, pollutants, or gases.

Keith O. Wood, Sheriff of Meigs County, Ohio

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glass. SGHS committed
seven of its 19 turnovers
in the ﬁnal quarter, while
the Maroon and Gold
committed 16 turnovers.
South Gallia connected
on 10-of-37 ﬁeld goal
attempts for 27 percent,
including a 3-of-10 effort
from behind the arc for
30 percent. The Red and
Gold were also 15-of-36 at
the free throw line for 42
percent.
Amaya Howell paced
the hosts with 14 points,
followed by Aaliyah Howell with 11 points and
Evans with ﬁve markers.
Stapleton was next with
four points, while Olivia
Hornsby and Christine
Grifﬁth rounded things
out with two points
apiece.
Grifﬁth hauled in a
team-high seven rebounds
and Evans chipped in six
boards. Stapleton and
Aaliyah Howell also contributed four caroms each
in the setback.
The Lady Lancers netted 16-of-44 ﬁeld goal
attempts for 36 percent,
including a 3-of-16 effort

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Stephen D. Miles, Attorney
Vincent A. Lewis, Attorney
18 West Monument Avenue
Dayton, Ohio 45402
937-461-1900
1/18/17,1/25/17,2/1/17

In pursuance of an Order of Sale in the above entitled action, I
will offer for sale at public auction, inside the door of the County
Office Complex in the above named County, on FRIDAY, the
3RD Day of FEBRUARY , 2017, at 10 oҋclock A.M., the following described real estate:
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
BEING A LOT KNOWN AS THE J.W. HICKS LOT, BEING A PART OF
LOT NO.139, SECTION 24, TOWN 3, RANGE 11, OHIO COMPANY'S
PURCHASE BOUNDED AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: NORTH OF
THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF LOT NO.27 TO A STAKE AND FROM
THAT, NORTH 88 DEGREES EAST 11 RODS TO A SYCAMORE
STUMP, THE PLACE OF BEGINNING; THENCE NORTH 10 DEGREES
WEST 7 RODS AND 6 LINKS TO A STAKE; THENCE NORTH 59 DEGREES EAST 17 RODS AND 4 LINKS TO A POST; THENCE NORTH
43 DEGREES EAST 5 RODS AND l8 LINKS; THENCE SOUTH 39 DEGREES WEST 20 RODS TO THE PLACE BEGINNING, CONTAINING
1ACRE, MORE OR LESS.
ALSO, THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL ESTATE IN OLIVE
TOWNSHIP, MEIGSCOUNTY, OHIO: BEING A PART OF SECTION 24,
TOWN3, RANGE 11, O. C. P.,BEGINNING 2 RODS NORTH OF THE
NQRTHEAST CORNER OF A PIECE OF LAND DEEDED BY JOHN
ROBERTS TO S.A. TIDD; THENCE 3 RODS AND 8 LINKS; THENCE
SOUTH 59 DEGREES WEST 17 RODS AND 18 LINKS; THENCE
SOUTH 17 EAST 5 RODS AND 18 LINKS; THENCE NORTH 2 RODS,
THENCE NORTH 59 DEGREES EAST TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING, CONTAINING ONE-HALF ACRE, MORE OR LESS.
BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO FRANK O. WELLS
AND SHIRLEY L. WELLS, A JOINT LIFE ESTATE WITH REMAINDER
OVER IN FEE SIMPLE TO THE SURVIVOR OF THEM BY DEED FROM
JUANITA COZART WELLS AND STANLEY G. WELLS. HER HUSBAND
RECORDED 07/20/1979 IN DEED BOOK 275 PAGE 177, IN THE RECORDER'S OFFICE OF MEIGS COUNTY, OHIO.
TAX ID #09-01542

Said Premises Located at 52763 State Route 248, Long Bottom,
OH 45743
Said Premises Appraised at $40,000.00
And cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of that amount.
TERMS OF SALE: 5% of appraised value in cash or certified
check down at time of sale, remainder upon confirmation of sale.
In the event that the property remains unsold after the above
scheduled sale, this property shall be offered again at a second
sale and shall be sold to the highest bidder, without regard to
the minimum bid requirement in §2329.20, at the same place
and time on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10TH, 2017.
Sheriff of Meigs County
Matthew Murtland, Shapiro, Van Ess, Phillips &amp; Barragate LLP
1/18/17, 1/25/17, 2/1/17

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Super Bowl opening night more tame than usual
HOUSTON (AP) — A
man traipsing around
Monday’s Super Bowl
opening night in a fulllength gown declaring
himself “The Empress of
Austria, Elizabeth I” was
the most outrageous guest
at what was a rather tame
media night compared to
the circus this event has
been in the past.
The Empress, otherwise
known as Julian Kurzwernhart, who said he’d been
covering the Super Bowl
for a television station in
Austria for the past six
years, spent more time
being interviewed in his
crazy getup than actually
conducting interviews
with the players from the
Atlanta Falcons and New
England Patriots.
“Why outﬁts? Oh
yeah, that’s funny questions because we want
to spread some Austrian
ﬂavor every year here and
spread some Austrian
charm and you guys have
something to love,” he
said. “It’s a crazy event
and you have to dress up.”
The event, which is the
ﬁrst availability with the
teams during Super Bowl
week, was held at Minute
Maid Park, where the
Houston Astros play.
While media mingled
with players on the ﬁeld,
10,204 fans ﬁlled the
stands to get a glimpse of
their favorite players.
There were a handful
of other strange getups,
such as a man from a television station who wore
a long blonde wig and a
jersey which was half that
of Atlanta quarterback
Matt Ryan and half New
England tight end Rob
Gronkowski.
A reporter from a local
television station sported
an oversized red foam
cowboy hat and asked
everyone who spoke to
him if they’d like to try on
the matching blue one he

By Jim Litke
Associated Press

David Goldman | AP

Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan celebrates after the NFC championship game against the
Green Bay Packers on Jan. 22 in Atlanta, as the Falcons won 44-21 to advance to Super Bowl 51.
There’s one opponent who has escaped the fury of the fans in Foxborough, Mass., and even has a
considerable amount of goodwill in the heart of New England. In fact, it’s hard to find any kind of
animosity toward Ryan, who built his reputation at Boston College and will face the Patriots in the
Super Bowl.

held.
He handed the hat to
Atlanta receiver Julio
Jones who thanked him
and placed it beside him
on the podium next to his
seat.
When the reporter
informed him that he
wanted him to try it on
and not keep it and then
tried to ask another
question Jones jokingly
snapped at him.
“Next question, I ain’t
messing with you,” he
said before cracking up.
Jones embraced the
silliness of the night and
said he couldn’t think of
a question he wouldn’t
answer.
“We have a lot of fans
from everywhere, Australia, Mexico … and everyone wants answers and
I’m going to answer them
to the best of my ability,”
he said. “It hasn’t been
too crazy for me.”
Guillermo Rodriguez, a
talk show personality on
ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel

Live”, asked the players
sign what he called a football, which was actually a
soccer ball.
He asked questions like:
“Do you think Nick will
ﬁnd love on ‘The Bachelor’?,” to Atlanta coach
Dan Quinn and “What do
you like pizza or pineapple?,” to Falcons running
back Devonta Freeman.
His fun didn’t stop with
the Falcons and he was
even able to get a smile
out of notoriously gruff
New England coach Bill
Belichick.
Rodriguez pronounced
the coach’s name “belly
check” and told him: “You
know you are much prettier when you smile.”
He wasn’t able to get an
autograph from the coach
though.
“No,” Belichick told
him. “Because it’s not a
football.”
He eased up a second
later telling him he might
sign it later.
Rodriguez also had an

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worried about handling
of painkillers

extended exchange with
Patriots quarterback Tom
Brady where he told him
his teammates said he
smelled like ﬂowers and
asked him if his wife,
supermodel Gisele Bundchen had a sister he could
date.
“No,” Brady said simply.
Rodriguez followed up
with: “I thought she had
a twin.”
Brady then explained:
“She does but she’s married,” which drew boos
from Rodriguez. “I know.
Too bad.”
Working alongside
the traditional media on
Monday night were a
handful of people who are
normally the ones ﬁelding
questions from reporters.
Gymnast Simone Biles,
who won four gold medals at the Rio Olympics,
worked as a correspondent for “Inside Edition”,
Houston Rockets power
forward Kyle Wiltjer,
reported as what he
called an unpaid intern
for NFL Network. And
Houston Astros pitcher
Lance McCullers asked
questions recorded by
the team’s social media
department.
Biles said she would
not be asking any difﬁcult
questions about politics
or new President Donald
Trump.
“I’m all about the fun
questions,” she said.
She said she might
consider a career in media
after she’s done competing.
“We’ll see,” she said.
“It’s deﬁnitely different
for me to be behind the
camera on the other side.”
Wiltjer, who is a huge
NFL fan, had a little fun
with some of his questions. He opened with a
serious query to Quinn
about the importance
of special teams before
hitting him with a more
entertaining one.
“I’m 6-foot-10 with a
7-1 wingspan, you think I
can I block some kicks for
you?,” Wiltjer said raising one of his long arms
skyward.
That drew a big smile
from the coach.
“There’s no question
you could,” he said. “So
let’s talk afterward.”
Actor Kel Mitchell
entertained the players
dressed as his character
Ed from the 1997 movie
“Good Burger.”
He did an extended
interview with Patriots
tight end Martellus Bennett about why the black
unicorn is his spirit animal.
“Shout out to the black
unicorn,” Mitchell bellowed.
Bennett replied by leaning into his microphone
and neighing like a horse,
which drew a huge laugh
from Mitchell, who ﬁrst
gained fame from the
Nickelodeon show “Kenan
&amp; Kel.”

A string of emails that began in 2010 with
the Atlanta Falcons head trainer and reached
all the way to owner Arthur Blank showed a
franchise worried about its “excessive” reliance
on painkillers to treat players and the potential
embarrassment that could cause the team and
the NFL.
One topic raised in the email chain concerned
the review by an outside agency that found the
team spent $81,000 on prescriptions for medications for players in 2009 — nearly three times
the league average.
Nearly every recipient on the email chain —
from Blank, president Rich McKay and general
manager Thomas Dimitroff to then-head athletic trainer Marty Lauzon — is still with the
team, which plays New England in the Super
Bowl on Sunday.
“That’s being litigated now. That’s not something we’re going discuss right now,” Dimitroff
said Monday night when asked about the
emails. “When the time is right, we’ll readdress
that.”
The emails were entered into the court record
Thursday as part of a proposed class-action
lawsuit by more than 1,800 former NFL players
who claim they were encouraged by the medical
and training staffs of NFL teams to abuse painkillers and continue playing without regard for
their long-term health.
The case is being heard in the Northern District of California by U.S. District Court Judge
William Alsup. The same allegations were originally ﬁled in a 2014 class-action lawsuit that is
currently on appeal before the 9th Circuit Court
of Appeals.
The email chain was presented to the court as
an example of thousands of similar documents
gathered during discovery that the ex-players’
lawyers want entered into the record. It was
coincidental that the Falcons chain was released
before the Super Bowl.
Lauzon was not with the team at the time of
the critical review. He became the Falcons’ head
trainer in January, 2010, and currently serves
as the team’s director of sports medicine and
performance.
He ﬁrst wrote to Dimitroff in May, 2010, to
note the conclusions contained in the review by
SportPharm, an outside agency brought in by
the NFL to look at how teams purchased, dispensed and tracked medications, including powerful painkillers and prescription drugs. Among
the problems Lauzon highlighted from SportPharm’s review was the Falcons’ “excessive dispensation” of narcotics and other medications,
which risked creating a “culture of dependency.”
“Within the ﬁrst days on the job, I was
informed that we barely missed a DEA (Drug
Enforcement Agency) investigation because of
improper billing issues,” Lauzon also told Dimitroff.
One of the central contentions of the painkiller lawsuit is that teams did not properly keep
records about prescriptions and which players
were getting drugs.
Dimitroff forwarded the email to the owner
just hours later.
“I thought it quite important for you to be
aware of a rather sensitive subject and one we
need to discuss before we include others on this
topic matter,” Dimitroff wrote to Blank.
“Agree - we should talk about this together
with Rich (McKay, the Falcons’ president),”
Blank replied.
It’s not clear what practices were changed as
part of the discussion, and there is no evidence
the Falcons violated league rules. What’s clear is
that Lauzon was warning team executives that
practices uncovered during the review could
embarrass the team and raise compliance issues
with the league.
Lauzon’s ﬁrst email to Dimitroff also copied
in Jeff Fish, who was Atlanta’s strength coach
at the time and was released by the club in
Jan. 2013. The trainer also expressed concerns
that “players at the end of their careers going
through medical issues” would seek media
attention and “say they abused or are now
addicted” to drugs as a result of the club’s practices.
Dimitroff subsequently forwarded the emails
to McKay, who remains team president and also
serves as chairman of the NFL Competition
Committee, making him one of the more inﬂuential executives in the league.
McKay reached out the next day to Dr. Elliot
Pellman, a rheumatologist who controversially
led the NFL’s committee on brain injury at the
time and later became a league medical adviser.
He asked Pellman whether Mary Anne Fleming, who was then-director of player beneﬁts in
the league ofﬁce, had recommended the Falcons
replace their doctors in the wake of the same
critical review, and if she was aware who actually administered the club’s day-to-day medical
regimen.
“I need to know — is this really true and does
she realize the on-site trainer is really in control???” McKay wrote, then added. “I need to
keep this conﬁdential …”
Lauzon noted that Fleming had also seen
the SportPharm review and recommended the
Falcons “start clean on all levels” — a new team
doctor, head trainer and even a new pharmacy
account number.
The proposed class-action lawsuit alleges that
NFL trainers distributed drugs improperly, and
teams failed to properly store and keep accurate
records of the drugs, violating federal laws.

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