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Issue 23, Volume 51

Sunday, June 4, 2017 s $2

Commissioners updated on Meigs Museum
By Sarah Hawley
shawley@civitasmedia.com

POMEROY — The Meigs
County Commissioners heard
concerns from the Historical
Society, as well as a recap of
the recent county clean up day
during Thursday’s meeting.
Representatives from the
Meigs County Historical Society were in attendance at the
meeting to complete their latest
fundraiser rafﬂe, as well as talk
about problems with the current museum building and their
upcoming move to Middleport.
Museum co-director Vicki
Hanson explained that the

group had been cleaning out
the building in which the
museum was housed at one
time, and where items are still
stored. In the back room, there
were numerous copies of the
Meigs County history book,
volume II, which have been
destroyed by mold.
Mold has been found along
the back wall of the building,
where there has been water
damage from the hillside
behind the building.
The commissioners asked
if the historical society had
approached their insurance
about a claim, as it is approximately $20,000 in merchandise

which has been lost. They will
be looking into it.
The museum has been operating out of the annex building,
but will be moving in the future
to Third Avenue in Middleport.
The buildings which formerly housed Pat Hill Ford and
Thomas Do-It Rental Center, as
well as another building at the
site have been donated to the
historical society by the Hall
family for use as the museum.
There is renovation work
to take place on the buildings
before a move could take place.
The commissioners also discussed possible capital budget
funding and grant funding for

the project, with future meetings to be set up on the matter.
Commissioner Mike Bartrum
drew the name for the “Yak
Pack” which included two
kayaks, two Yeti tumblers and
other items. The pack was won
by Curtis Casto. Casto previously won the four-wheeler
rafﬂed off by the Historical
Society. The fundraiser brought
in around $700 for the historical society and museum.
In other business, the commissioners approved the acceptance, and partial rejection, of
a bid for a truck for the engineer’s ofﬁce as recommended
by Engineer Gene Triplett.

A recommendation to add a
representative from Integrated
Services as a voting member to
the Family and Children First
Council was accepted.
Grants Administrator Betsy
Entsminger told the commissioners that a total of 117.04
tons of material were collected
during the recent clean up day,
including approximately 1,644
tires.
The commissioners
expressed their thanks to all of
the volunteers who took time
to help out with the event, as
well as the residents of the
county who took time to wait
in line to drop off their items.

London Pool
could open as
early as Tuesday
By Sarah Hawley
shawley@civitasmedia.com

SYRACUSE —Meigs County’s lone public pool
could open as soon as Tuesday.
With repair and renovation work complete, the
pool in Syracuse is
expected to open as
After a few years
early as Tuesday.
of struggling with
Syracuse Councillow attendance
man Eber Pickens Jr.
explained that the
and losing money,
ﬁberglass patching
although not losing
on the pool was comas much as it had
pleted mid-week, and
years ago, those
must set for a period
of time before the
with the village, the
pool can be ﬁlled.
pool and a group
The plan is for the
of volunteers are
pool to be ﬁlled either
working to help keep Saturday evening or
the pool a float and
Sunday, weather perdrive up attendance. mitting.
Once the pool
is ﬁlled it must be
inspected by the
Meigs County Health Department before it can be
open to the public.
After a few years of struggling with low attendance and losing money, although not losing as
much as it had years ago, those with the village,
the pool and a group of volunteers are working to
help keep the pool a ﬂoat and drive up attendance.
One of the new things to take place this year is
the Wednesday night swim theme nights.
Pickens explained that Wednesday has traditionally been one of the slowest days for the week at
the pool.
Now, the hope is that weekly theme nights will
bring more attendance to the pool. The night
swims will take place from 7-10 p.m.
The theme nights are being sponsored by local
businesses and individuals, with the ﬁrst one to be
a luau theme sponsored by Roush’s Greenhouse.
Other new things for this year include the
See POOL | 4A

A NEWS
Obituaries: 2A
Editorial: 5A
Weather: 6A

Photos by Morgan McKinniss | OVP

During the day volunteers from Ohio Valley Bank and Holzer Health System prepare the Gallipolis City Park for the Relay.

Relay for a cure in Gallia County
Annual event
fills City Park,
raises funds
By Morgan McKinniss
mmckinniss@civitasmedia.com

GALLIPOLIS — On
Friday evening local
communities gathered
together to support Relay
for Life, a team sponsored fundraising event
determined to end cancer
through research and
awareness. This event
has been happening for
22 years in Gallia County
and was held in City
Park.
Local American Cancer
Society Representative
Hilary Nicholes said:

The event begins with a survivor walk, where cancer survivors lap the walking course passing
small luminaries with names on them. These bags have names either in memory of, or in honor of a
whomever a donor chooses. In the top right, “Cancer Crushers” pose in their tent ready to raise funds
for cancer research.

“Relay for Life has been
in this community for 22
years. It’s built around
communities, and geared

towards community
needs. This community
always put its heart and
soul into caring for survi-

vors.”
As of Friday at 5 p.m.
See RELAY | 4A

Local NRA banquet raises record funds
By Morgan McKinniss

B SPORTS
Classifieds: 4B-5B
TV listing: 5B

mmckinniss@civitasmedia.com

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OHIO VALLEY —
The local chapter of the
Nation Riﬂe Association
(NRA) has set another
benchmark at its annual
banquet.
At Courtside Bar and
Grill, members and families recently met for the
22nd annual banquet
which included a prime
rib dinner, awards, and
auction to raise money.
This year, the banquet
raised $100,000 - the
highest per capita in the

state of Ohio. That is a
title of honor held by the
Gallia Area Friends of
NRA chapter since 2009.
Along with that, they
have been top 10 in the
country consecutively as
well.
The Gallia Area Friends
of NRA chapter covers
Meigs, Gallia, Mason,
and some members from
Lawrence County as well.
All areas were represented well at the banquet,
according to event organizer Dave Tawney.
The auction included
numerous items. Many

Courtesy | Dave Tawney

Denny Coburn (left) was awarded for being the oldest veteran
present. He is pictured here with Josh Bodimer (right) at the NRA
banquet.

guns, ammunition, shoot- tools were auctioned off
ing accessories, and other
See BANQUET | 4A
miscellaneous power

�OBITUARIES/NEWS

2A Sunday, June 4, 2017

GALLIA, MEIGS CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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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: GDTnews@
civitasmedia.com or TDSnews@
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GALLIPOLIS — Holzer Clinic and Holzer
Medical Center retirees
will meet for lunch at
noon at McClure’s Restaurant.
GALLIPOLIS —
Lona Wamsley will
VFW Post 4464 will
be celebrating her 107
meet at the post home
birthday on June 9,
on Third Avenue. All
2017. Cards may be
members urged to
sent to 300 Briarwood
Drive, Apt. 114 Gallipo- attend.
POMEROY — The
lis, Oh 45631.
Hazel R. Coughenour Diabetes Academy
m Diabetes 101 will
will be celebrating her
be held 3-4 p.m. at
90th birthday June 13,
Hopewell Health Cen2017. Cards may be
ter.
sent to 1270 Georges
Creed Road Gallipolis,
OH 45631.

Card Shower

Wednesday,
June 7

Saturday,
June 3
GALLIPOLIS — A
vendor and market fair
will be held from 9 a.m.
to 2 p.m. at the Senior
Citizen Building. The
event is sponsored by
the South Gallia Band
Boosters.

Sunday,
June 4
RACINE — Racine
American Legion will
have a dinner from 11
a.m. to 1 p.m.
POMEROY — Free
country music ﬁrst
Sunday of every month
at Alligator Jack’s Flea
Market 41300 Laurel
Cliff Road Pomeroy,
Ohio.
RACINE — The
George Holter Jr. and
Neville T. Rose family
reunion will be held
at 1 p.m. at the Morning Star Church social
room. BBQ chicken
and baked ham will be
provided. Call Karen at
740-949-1055 for more
information.

Monday,
June 5
GALLIPOLIS —
Neighborhood Watch
will hold a meeting at
the Gallipolis Justice
Center at 1:30 p.m.
GALLIPOLIS — The
American Legion Post
27 will meet on McCormick Road. This meeting will be the installation of ofﬁcers for 201718. All members urged
to attend.
OLIVE TWP. — The
Olive Township Trustees will hold their regular meeting at 6:30 p.m.
at the township garage
on Joppa Road.
LETART TWP. —
The regular meeting
of the Letart Township
Trustees will be held

OBITUARIES
JOSHUA DANIEL WEAVER

at 5 p.m. at the Letart
Township Building.

Tuesday,
June 6

GALLIPOLIS — The
Intersystem Collaborative meeting of the Gallia County Family and
Children First Council
has been cancelled.
The next meeting will
be Aug. 2 at 9 a.m.
at the Gallia-JacksonMeigs Board of Alcohol, Drug Addiction
and Mental Health
Services.

Thursday,
June 8
GALLIPOLIS — The
next meeting of the
Gallia County Retired
Teachers will be held
on June 8 at noon, First
Baptist Church. Potluck
covered-dish meal.
Program will include
honoring retired teachers and scholarship
recipients.

Friday,
June 9
GALLIPOLIS —The
monthly board meeting
of the O.O. McIntyre
Park District will be
at 11 a.m. in the park
board ofﬁce.

Saturday,
June 10
GALLIPOLIS —
The American Legion
Post 27 will have their
monthly steak dinner from 5 to 7 p.m.
at the post home on
McCormick Road. All
members and the public
urged to attend.
POMEROY — Middleport Lodge #363 will
hold an outdoor EA
degree at 7 p.m. with
meal ($5) fellowship at
5:30p.m. Bring a lawn
chair. Located at 39059
State Route 143. For
more information call
Jordan Pickens at 740416-9667

Sunday Times-Sentinel

LEON — Joshua Daniel Weaver, 35, of Eagle
Ridge Road departed this
life on May 30, 2017.
Born August 18, 1981,
he was the son of M.
Suzanne (Teaford) Weaver Bentz of Eagle Ridge
Road and Tony Robert
Weaver of Broad Run
Road in New Haven.
Joshua and sister,
Sarah, and brother, Jarrod, were life-long hunting and ﬁshing buddies.
Joshua especially loved
sitting around a campﬁre
with his wife Carol and
family members in the
evenings. The West Virginia mountains held a
special spot in his heart.
Always being an avid
dog and cat lover, Joshua
accumulated and cared
for many dogs and cats

… many of which were
castaways. His favorite
buddy was Red, a dachshund whom he loved very
much.
He was a lifetime member of the Laborers Union
#543 in Huntington,
W.Va. and worked many
years as a heavy construction foreman for Ahern
and Associates until an
unfortunate job accident
caused him to be disabled
from back injuries. Never
being a couch potato and
in pain daily, he forced
himself to garden and
help neighbors and family
members in any way he
could. He was a National
Riﬂe Association member and a member of the
Bashan Volunteer Fire
Department.
Surviving are his wife,

Carol Lynn Brown (married Feb. 12, 2008); mother, Suzanne Bentz; father,
Tony Weaver; step-father,
John K. Bentz; sister,
Sarah Kay Bentz; beloved
maternal grandmother,
Margarete Teaford; special nephews, Colten John
and Zackariah Levi; loving niece, Ava Suzanne;
step-brother, Keith (Beckie) Bentz;, step-sister,
Brenda Woodrow; uncles,
Forrest (Launa) Teaford,
Cloist Eugene Teaford,
and Dave (Linda) Spencer; aunt, Kathy See;
future brother-in-law,
J.R. Hupp; mother-inlaw, Shelvie Jean Brown;
many cousins; several
sisters and brothers-inlaw; and many friends of
all ages.
He was preceded in

death by his beloved
brother, Jarrod Eugene
Bentz; maternal grandfather, Raymond C.
Teaford; fraternal grandparents, Robert S. Weaver
and Aleta Weaver; and
step-grandparents,
Michael A. and Ethel F.
Bentz.
Visitation is arranged
by Anderson McDaniel
Funeral Home in Pomeroy
for June 5 from 6 p.m.
to 8 p.m. with funeral
services on Tuesday, June
6 at 11 a.m. Reverend
Herschel White will ofﬁciate. Internment will be at
Meigs Memory Gardens
following services. In lieu
of ﬂowers, please send
donations for a bronze
memorial to: Suzanne
Bentz, 48401 Eagle Ridge
Road, Long Bottom, Ohio.

SOPHIA GRACE BOWMAN
GALLIPOLIS —
Sophia Grace Bowman,
5 days old, passed away
peacefully in the arms of
her parents surrounded
by loving family on May
31, 2017 at Nationwide
Children’s Hospital in
Columbus, Ohio.
Sophia was born on
May 26, 2017 at Ohio
Health O’bleness Hospital
in Athens, Ohio, weighing 7 lbs. 5oz and was 18

½ inches long. During
her short stay here, she
enjoyed listening to her
Daddy ready the Bible to
her, holding hands with
Mommy and Daddy and
cuddling with soft toys.
Sophia was the daughter of Christopher and
Erin Bowman of Gallipolis. She is also survived
by maternal grandparents, Elwood and Beverly
Lewis of Gallipolis, pater-

nal grandparents, Marcie
Plymale of Gallipolis and
Steve (Melinda) Bowman
of Erwin, Tennessee, an
Aunt Andrea Lewis, great
grandmothers Rita Wolfe
and Phyllis Plymale, and
a loving host of family
and friends.
A Celebration of life
will be held 7 p.m., Monday, June 5, 2017 at Willis
Funeral Home with Pastor Randy Patterson ofﬁ-

ciating. Friends may call
on Monday from 6 p.m.
until the time of the service. Burial will follow at
the family’s convenience.
Please consider a donation to the family to help
with expenses. Donations
can be made on Willis
Funeral Home’s website,
www.willisfuneralhome.com
Please visit www.willisfuneralhome.com to send
e-mail condolences.

DEATH NOTICES
MORRISON
HENDERSON, W.Va. — Betty L. Morrison, 80, of
Henderson, W.Va. passed away June 1, 2017. A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. at the Morrison
Family Cemetery in Point Pleasant, W.Va. Friends may
visit the family one hour prior to the service on Monday, June 5 at Deal funeral Home.
DALTON
IRONTON — Carolyn Lea Dalton, 58, of Ironton,
Ohio passed away Friday, June 2, 2017 at The Emogene Dolin Jones Hospice House, Huntington, W.Va.
A memorial service will be held 7 p.m. Wednesday,
June 7, 2017 at Hall Funeral Home and Crematory,
Proctorville, Ohio with Rev. Steve Wayne ofﬁciating.
Visitation will be held 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday,
June 7, 2017 at the funeral home.

WORKMAN
VINTON — Verna Workman, 81, Vinton Ohio
passed away in Holzer Senior Care Friday June 2,
2017.
Graveside services will be held 2:30 p.m., Monday
June 5, 2017 in Brush Cemetery near Vinton with Rev.
Heath Jenkins ofﬁciating. Friends and family may call
at the McCoy-Moore Funeral Home Vinton Chapel,
Monday noon to 2 p.m.
HOWERY
FLEMING — Julia J. Howery, age 77, of Fleming,
Ohio, passed away Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at the
Marietta Memorial Hospital in Marietta.
Cremation will be observed, with no additional
funeral services held at this time. Chandler Funeral
Home &amp; Cremation Service, 609 West Street,
Caldwell, Ohio 43724 has been entrusted to care for
the family.

Refund to AEP Ohio’s customers
GAHANNA — AEP
Ohio, an American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP)
company, and the Ofﬁce
of the Ohio Consumers’
Counsel, the state’s residential utility consumer
advocate, announced on
June 2, that $84 million
will be refunded to AEP
Ohio’s customers through
a credit on their June
2017 electric bills.
The refund to customers was agreed to as part
of a major settlement that
AEP Ohio, the Consumers’ Counsel and several
other parties negotiated
in December 2016. The
settlement resolved rate
issues in lawsuits and
legal challenges in 14
cases.

A one-time bill credit
will be issued to those
AEP Ohio customers
who purchased their generation service from AEP
Ohio through its Standard Service Offer any
time from August 2012
through May 2015. Credit
amounts are based on
a customer’s electricity
usage under the Standard
Service Offer during this
period. An average residential customer using
1,000 kilowatt-hours per
month during this time
will see an approximate
$60 credit. All AEP Ohio
customers, former and
current, are eligible to
receive this credit. Customers will not receive
a bill credit for any

purchases of generation
service that they made
from an energy marketer
during this time period.
“AEP Ohio strives to
provide safe and reliable
electric service to our
customers,” said Julie
Sloat, AEP Ohio president and chief operating
ofﬁcer. “Thanks to the
advocacy and combined
efforts of the Consumers’ Counsel and others
involved in the Global
Settlement, we were able
to reach an agreement
that allows us to focus on
providing an enhanced
customer experience
through new technologies, building a smarter
grid and improving reliability.”

“Many consumers
purchase their electric
service from AEP Ohio’s
‘standard service offer’
where they receive the
beneﬁt of low market
prices on their monthly
electric bills,” said Ohio
Consumers’ Counsel
Bruce Weston. “I am
pleased that we and AEP
Ohio settled our differences about electricity
charges, so that these
consumers could receive
a refund.”
Customer bills that
include the credit were
sent beginning May 30,
and will continue through
the end of June.
Submitted by AEP Corporate Media
Relations.

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RVMS HONOR ROLL
River Valley Middle School
has released its honor roll for
the fourth nine weeks as follows
(*denotes all A’s):
6A-Hatfield-Jacob Bennett,
Gage Brooks, Carmen
Gillenwater, Andray Howell,
Hailey Jackson, Robbie Keeton,
Seth Mitchell, Kyle Neal, Wesley
Perry, Alyssa Sargent-Holland,
Mackenzie Taylor, Ryan Thomas.
6B-McCaulla-Kade Alderman,
*Addison Burke, Jayla Chick,
Caunnor Clay, Shasta Craycraft,
Joseph Dawson, Bradley Ditty,
Troy Gardner, Sydney Gilbert,
Landon Goheen, Jance Lambert,
Carson Mares, Brianna Martin,
Josh McCoy, Carsyn Miller,
*Zaira Orale, Trae Russell.
6C-Klingaman-Carmin
Barcus, Michael Brown, *Hannah
Chapman, Ashtin Childress,
*Haley Clark, *Spencer Coldwell,
*Grace Coleman, *Carley
Crawford, Riley Evans, Garrett
Facemire, Bransyn Gilbert,
Allison Hess, *Hannah Johnson,
Krista Powell, Madison Pratt,

Aubra Smith, Carl Stumbo,
*Jacob Winters, *Jade Winters,
Paige Wright.
6D-Garaffa-Karina Barry,
Riley Bradley, Lauren Brown,
Katlyn Chapman, Michael Conkle,
*Abby Fife, Adam Green, *Kirsten
Groves, *Taylor Hopkins, Andrew
Huck, *Kaylieona Kemper, Shayla
Mullins, Kaylee Norman, Kadence
Petrie, *Ruth Rickett, *Dakota
Scarberry Cadence Shockey,
Jena Shriver, Markaela Simms,
Olivia Smith, *Skylan Wray.
6E-Jacks-*Owen Barrett,
Madison Hall, Jacquelyn
Harrison, *Lillian Hawks, Reid
Haynes, Makayla Johnson,
Jackson Justice, Emma Mullins,
Ayden Neville, Rhiannon Pelfrey,
*Emily Reynolds, Justin Stump,
*Kaden Thornton, Scott Yost.
7A-Walker-Allison Arrowood,
Chevy Barnes, *Andrew
Bentfeld, Aislynn Bostic, Austin
Campbell, Brooklin Clonch,
*Haleigh Conant, Landen
Dodrill, Annabel Greathouse,
Grace Hash, Will Hash, Shaelyn

Huffman, Makensey Lemley,
Braden McGuire, Mason Rhodes,
John Santos, Carly Sigman,
Olivia Simms, Alexia Taylor, Zoe
Taylor, Riley Wooldridge, *Cody
Wooten.
7B-Graham-Leigha Bays,
Christopher Goheen, Jordyn
Hoffman, James Lawson,
Cheyenne Louden, Sierra
McClure.
7C-Roderick-Izabellah
Ashworth, Morissa Barcuss,
Lacie Barnette, Grace Bays,
Nathaniel Cadle, Mercedeez
Cochran, Hunter Eblin, *Javan
Gardner, Mallory Gilbert, Grace
Gilmore, Lacee Jennings, Ryan
Jones, Jacob Mays, Sheyenne
Minshall, Conner Nibert,
*Kelsey Price, *Leah Roberts,
*Amanda Velazuqez, Trey
Walter..
7D-Holliday-Brianna
Bradbury, Jolene Braden, Haley
Brammer, Holiday Brown, Anna
Campbell, William Cole, Isabella
Dobbins, Levi Dodrill, *Austin
Donohue, Emma Gilbert, Allie

Holley, Montanna Jennings, Terri
Johnson, Erika Justus, Jaylyn
Lee, Dalton Mershon, Caden
Pennington, Preston Runyon,
Brooklyn Sizemore.
7E-Angel-Grace Block, Nathan
Brown, Eric Ferrell, Sophia Gee,
Cole Johnson, *Kate Nutter,
*James Orale, *Ethan Schultz,
*Ian Swisher, Lauren Twyman,
Cheyenne Warren, Baylee
Woodall.
8A-Shepherd-Clarissa
Gray, Alexis Hogan, Kennedey
Lambert, Zoe Mitchell, Emmary
Phoenix, Mikenzie Pope, Chloe
Swick, Breanna Taylor, Bailey
Young.
8B-Hysell-Chase Barber,
*Isaac Barrett, Justin Campbell,
*Kristen Clark, Alex Euton, Dylan
Fulks, Isiah Harkins, Jaylyn Hunt,
Hannah Jacks, Ryan Lollathin,
Regina Maynard, Zoe Milliron,
Libby North, *Rebecca Pearce,
Macy Purkey, *Alison Roush,
*Keyana Shortridge, Sierra
Somerville, Justus Williams,
*Bailey Wray.

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Sunday Times-Sentinel

Sunday, June 4, 2017 3A

Sexton named FAC Board Chair
GALLIPOLIS — The French
Art Colony, regional multi-arts
non-proﬁt recently announced
Cynthia Sexton as its new Board
Chair.
Owner of Mane Designers
Salon and Spa, Sexton is a long
time supporter of community
Sexton
arts programming, especially the
French Art Colony, according to
FAC Executive Director Joseph Wright.
As a board member for the French Art
Colony, she served as chair of the Holiday Tour Committee, and supported a
variety of FAC produced programs and
events; The Riverby Theatre Guild,
Gallery receptions, FAC Trivia events,

classes, and more.
Sexton will take over the
role of board chair, from Annie
Roach, who ﬁlled in temporarily
when Jan Thaler stepped down
from that role earlier in the year.
Additional executive committee members of the French Art
Colony’s Board of Trustees are:
Marianne Campbell, vice chair;
Bob Hood, secretary; and David Tope,
treasurer.
The French Art Colony hopes to soon
name the new executive director, the
position held by Wright.
Submitted by FAC.

Courtesy

From left: Briggs Shoemaker organization director, Joshua Winters, Gallia County Farm Bureau
President Jake Bodimer and Board Trustee Paul Shoemaker.

Winters receives scholarship
The 2017 Gallia County Farm Bureau attending The Ohio State University
Scholarship has been awarded to Joshua where he will be majoring in agribusiness and applied economics.
K. Winters, a graduating senior from
River Valley High School. He is the son
Submitted by the Gallia County Farm Bureau.
of Jason and Tracy Winters. He will be

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

Dust control
WALNUT TOWNSHIP — Walnut
Township will be performing dust control on Wednesday June 7. Rain date is
for June 8.

Scholarship
Applications Available
SYRACUSE — Applications for the
2017-18 Carleton College Scholarships
for Higher Education are available for
legal residents of the village of Syracuse. Residents may pick up an application from Gordon Fisher, 1402 Dusky
St., Syracuse. Applications must be
returned by June 28. Legal residents
of Syracuse can qualify for scholarship
awards for a maximum of two years.

Road Closure
MEIGS COUNTY — Beginning June
5, State Route 124 in Meigs County
will be closed between Township Road
29 (Wells Run Road) and Township
Road 144 (Dewitts Run Road) for a slip

repair project. The estimated completion date is September 1, 2017.

Hours change
POMEROY — The Meigs County
Board of Elections hours will be temporarily changing to 8am-4pm until June
13, the next regular monthly meeting set
for 8:30am, where changing the hours
will be voted on by Board Members.
POMEROY — The Meigs County
Courthouse is now open from 8 a.m. to
4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Foundation offers
development grants
OHIO VALLEY — The Southern
Ohio Agricultural and Community
Development Foundation will be offering competitive grants available July
1 for Adams, Athens, Brown, Clermont, Clinton, Fayette, Gallia, Greene,
Jackson, Highland, Lawrence, Meigs,
Monroe, Morgan, Montgomery, Noble,
Pike, Ross, Scioto, Vinton, Warren
and Washington Counties. Grants
offered in agricultural development,
Pat Raines Young Farmer, environmental and water quality and educational
assistance. Call the foundation ofﬁce at
937-393-2700.

GALLIA, MEIGS CHURCH CALENDAR

GALLIPOLIS — “First Light” Worship service in the Family Life Center,
9 a.m.; Morning Worship Service-Honoring graduates , 10:45 a.m., Revealing
Revelation series, 6 p.m., Youth Fellowship in FL, 6 p.m., First Church of the
Nazarene, 1110 First Ave. with Pastor
Douglas Downs.
ADDISON — Addison Freewill Baptist Church Sunday school starts at 10
a.m. and evening service 6 p.m.
JACKSON — Homecoming will be
held at End Time Harvest Church, 1215
Dixon Run Road, Worship service at 11
a.m. Covered dish dinner. All welcome.
740-645-3052.
HEMLOCK GROVE — The Hemlock Grove Christian Church (38387
Hemlock Grove Rd, Pomeroy) will
host a free community dinner and a
movie beginning at 6 p.m. The menu
will consist of lasagna, bread, salad,
dessert and beverages. The movie will
be announced. Contact Pastor Diana
Kinder at 740-591-5960 for more information.
SYRACUSE — Wendy Caldwell will
be speaking at Syracuse Community

Church, Second Street, Syracuse, at
6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, June 7
GALLIPOLIS — Children’s ministry,
6:45 p.m., Youth “Impact 127” in the
teen room, 7 p.m., prayer and praise in
the sanctuary, 7 p.m., choir practice 7
p.m., First Church of the Nazarene.
ADDISON — Addison Freewill Baptist Church, prayer meeting at 7 p.m.
GALLLIPOLIS — Naz Kidz Summer
Block Party, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Food,
crafts, games and bubble fun. 1110 First
Ave Gallipolis OH.

Friday, June 9
GALLIPOLIS — Gospel Singing in
City Park, Connors, Southern Harmony
and Sheltons at 7 p.m.

Sunday, June 11
MIDDLEPORT — Power in the
Blood drama ministry will present the
live drama “God Help Me” at 6 p.m.
at Ash Stret Church, 398 Ash Street,
Middleport.

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4A Sunday, June 4, 2017

Sunday Times-Sentinel

Pool
From page 1A

Courtesy | Dave Tawney

Top photo: from left. Larry Betz, Dan Edwards II, John W. Dixon, Jamie Dixon III, and John Dixon II. Bottom Left from left: Larry Betz, John Ohlinger, and David Duncan.
Bottom Right from left: Larry Betz and David Duncan. Each of these men contributed in some way at the banquet, promoting the NRA.

Banquet

Ron Toler. The Heritage
level ($600) included Dan
G. Edwards II and John
From page 1A
W. Dixon. Liberty sponsors, of which there are
by Lee Johnson.
Donations were broken 91, gave up to $250.
The money raised is
into four different levels.
Greg Hartley was the sole then sent to the state and
national levels, splitting
contributor in the Legthe proﬁts 50/50. Local
acy ($3,500) level. John
groups and organizations
Ohlinger was in the Pioneer ($2,500) level. In the can apply for NRA grant
money involving shootFreedom class ($1,250)
ing sports, and several
was Josh Bodimer, Tina
and Dean Sicliliano, John have done so. The Gallia
Gun Club received grant
Stevens, and Chris and

money from the NRA
to substantially improve
their facilities. Canter’s
Cave 4H camp’s shooting range was funded
with NRA grant money,
as have several local 4H
clubs beneﬁted from individual grants.
Groups looking to use
NRA grants can apply
online and contact a local
NRA member to learn
more.

Relay

lar reasons, giving back
to the community, honoring a loved one, or celebrating survivors. Team
Captain for the Crushers
was Joanna Adkins and
her husband James.
“We feel honored to
represent those we know
who have fought cancer,” said James.
Tuppers Plains Farmers Bank also had a team
present, the “Tuppers
Plains Loan Crusaders”
from Meigs County.
They spend all year long
fundraising through
selling candy bars and
candles for this event.
Why?
“There’s a lot of people I know that have can-

participated in raising
funds leading up to the
event.
From page 1A
The morning after
the Relay, a bike ride
before the event started, was held to raise funds
as was a ﬁshing tournaover $17,000 had
ment, adding to the total
already been raised.
funds raised for cancer
Nicholes and Karrie
Davison, Holzer Health research.
One of the volunteers,
System public relations
coordinator, both expect- Felicity Matthew, is
going to be a freshman
ed over $25,000 to be
raised by the end of the at Gallia Academy in
event. Over $30,000 was the fall, and helps out
raised last year through for a special reason. She
is a part of the “Cancer
Relay for Life.
Five teams were pres- Crushers” team.
“I’m here because I
ent for the night of the
care. My Aunt Carrol is
event, raising funds
a survivor,” she said.
through concessions,
Many other volunteers
rafﬂes, and donations.
are helping out for simiSix other teams have

Reach Morgan McKinniss at 740446-2342 ext. 2108.

Courtesy | Dave Tawney

Freedom sponsors from the NRA dinner, pictured from left: Larry
Betz, Chris Toler, Alexander Toler (Representing Ron Toler), John
Stevens, Josh Bodimer, and Dean and Tina Sicliliano.

cer, I’m here for them,”
explained Becky Grate,
team captain.
Other teams that set
up booths to help raise
funds include GKN/
UAW’s “Tacklin’ for a

Cure”and “Family Ties”
started as a relay team
in 2012 in honor of a
team captain’s mother
and mother in-law who
fought cancer.
Also included was the

option to rent lazy
river tubes (for use
in the pool), cabana
rentals, as well as the
option to purchase
beach towels and
t-shirts.
Pickens noted the
support of local resident Debbie Snyder
in helping the pool to
acquire the items to
rent and sale, as well
as fundraising efforts
for the pool in recent
times.
There will be incentives offered at the
pool concession stand
for those wearing the
pool t-shirts.
In addition to the
daily admission option,
there will be punch
cards and arm bands
available for multiple
visits to the pool. The
arm bands are purchased on a monthly
basis, while the punch
cards are for a set number of visits during the
season.
The concession
stand will be serving
new options at lower
prices this season as
well.
Pool manager for
this year it Trey Pickens with assistant
manager Jake Roush.
To book parties or
for more information
call 740-992-5418.

Electrocraft “Electroﬁed” team, which is captained by Terry McKinniss, a cancer survivor.
Reach Morgan McKinniss at 740446-2342 ext 2108.

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Sunday, June 4, 2017 5A

THEIR VIEW

Good entertainment, different delivery
News of the ﬁnal
performance of the Biggest Show on Earth in
New York on May 21
tells us once more that
entertainment, and how
we receive it, is part
of the ever-changing
culture we experience
thanks to advancing
technology. The focus of
coverage on the demise
of the Ringling Bros./
Barnum &amp; Bailey Circus, a part of American
history for something
like 146 years, was on
the circus’s running
battle with animal rights
groups. But of larger
signiﬁcance was that
this indelible part of our
experience was also a
victim of declining attendance as more people
ﬁnd options for diversion within their homes
and workplaces.
Like river showboats
whose traveling productions offered amusement to thousands of
people living near the
nation’s waterways, the
circus enjoyed a long
life due to fascination
with nature, magic and
spectacle. Ringling
Bros. made Charleston,

W.Va., a regular stop for
decades and it was there
in April 2001 my wife
and I reacquainted ourselves with the charm
and glamour provided
by the Big Top, even if
there was no real canvas
enclosure within the
conﬁnes of the Civic
Center. The memory
became even more poignant when Charleston
again hosted one of the
last shows earlier in
May.
The endurance of the
circus is not surprising
because some forms of
American entertainment lingered long after
they had supposedly
been replaced by newer
outlets like radio and
television, as Betty Bryant pointed out about
the particular venue
she intimately knew
in her memoir “Here
Comes the Showboat!”
(Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky,
1994): “The showboat
was originally intended
for the hinterland, and
the smaller ones, like
ours, would continue for
many more years, ﬂoating along at a leisurely

erence to needed
pace totally out
information and
of tempo with the
occasional trips
rest of the world.”
down memory
Today we must
lane with the varirecognize that
ety of music made
with access to
available to all
TV shows, music,
and sundry. That
news and social
Kevin
concept of “my
media crammed
Kelly
into a cell phone
Contributing music” becomes
even easier to
with all of the
columnist
achieve.
right applicaFor some of
tions, immediate
us, our music includes
gratiﬁcation has been
pop tunes of the 1950s
achieved. No longer do
you have to wait for the and ’60s that, a few
decades later prompted
circus, river playhouse
local fans to clear our
or certain movie you
Thursday nights to zero
want to see come to
your hometown theater. in to a certain Athens,
Ohio, radio station
Doesn’t matter where
you live, if you’ve got all and listen to the Boss
the online stuff going for Groover spin classics
along with shameless
you, all of that wonderplugs he made for the
ment is at your ﬁngersub shop he owned, The
tips.
Hole in the Wall. (Any
This is nothing new
Ohio University alums
as the web has made
of the late ’70s and early
all of these transforma’80s remember it?) Yes,
tions old hat within the
the Internet makes all
ﬁrst two decades of the
new century. And that’s of that possible. The
music, I mean, not the
not necessarily a bad
Boss’s fondly-recalled
thing. All of these concommentary that pepveniences have cleared
roadblocks to enjoyment pered his weekly playlof new and old ﬁlms and ist. (Fans of the Boss,
a.k.a. Ed Deutch, will be
TV shows not yet availpleased to know he still
able on DVD, quick ref-

News of the final performance of the Biggest
Show on Earth in New York on May 21 tells
us once more that entertainment, and how
we receive it, is part of the ever-changing
culture we experience thanks to advancing
technology.

operates a well-regarded
DJ service out of Athens. I learned that bit of
information through the
miracle of Google, too.
But I digress.)
Yet to some extent,
the ease of access to
entertainment has
replaced the shared
experience of absorbing
and appreciating plays,
concerts, pageants and
even lectures. Sure,
you can distribute your
thoughts and videos
of such events to your
friends, but that’s not
quite the same as being
there to enjoy and be
part of such summertime activities as those
staged in Pomeroy by
its Blues and Jazz Society, the river-themed
celebrations offered by

Gallipolis and Point
Pleasant, or even the
smaller venues like
McCoy’s One-Stop in
Vinton and Woodside
Stage LLC near Cadmus
that perk up weekend
evenings with live
entertainment.
Others may be satisﬁed with the more
solitary form of expression, and that’s ﬁne. But
one suspects there will
always be a need for
public events such as
ball games, shows, musical gatherings, outdoor
festivals — and circuses,
which despite the disappearance of the Ringling
Bros. brand, have not all
yet had their day.

ney presidency would
be “calamitous” for the
nation and the world.
Al-Qaida’s second-in-command, Abu Yahya al-Libi
(ah-BOO’ yah-HEE’-ah ahl
LIH’-bee), was killed in a
U.S. drone strike in North
Waziristan, Pakistan.

trophy.

Kevin Kelly, who was affiliated
with Ohio Valley Publishing for 21
years, resides in Vinton, Ohio.

TODAY IN HISTORY
marking the turning point
of the war in the Paciﬁc.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
The wartime drama “Mrs.
Miniver,” an MGM production starring Greer
Today’s Highlight in History: Garson and Walter Pidgeon, premiered in New
On June 4, 1917, the
ﬁrst Pulitzer Prizes were York.
In 1947, the Christawarded. Herbert Bayard
— Emma Carleton, American journalist (1850-1925).
mastime tale “Miracle
Swope of the New York
on 34th Street,” a 20th
World was recognized
Century Fox production,
for a series of articles,
opened in New York.
“Inside the German
Navy intelligence analyst, Insurgents linked to alIn 1954, French PreEmpire”; the New York
pleaded guilty in Washmier Joseph Laniel and
Qaida issued an online
Tribune for an editorial
Vietnamese Premier Buu ington to conspiring to
video in which they
on the one-year anniverdeliver information relat- claimed to have killed
Loc signed treaties in
sary of the sinking of
Paris according “complete ed to the national defense all three U.S. soldiers
the Lusitania; Jean Jules
to Israel. (Pollard, senindependence” to Vietcaptured in an ambush
Jusserand for his book
tenced to life in prison,
on May 12. (The bodies
“With Americans of Past nam.
was released on parole on of the soldiers were later
In 1967, in the second
and Present Days”; Laura
Nov. 20, 2015.)
air disaster to strike a
recovered.) A federal
E. Richards, Maude
In 1992, the U.S. Postal indictment accused Rep.
British carrier in as many
Howe Elliott and FlorService announced the
William Jefferson, D-La.,
ence Howe Hall for their days, a British Midland
results of a nationwide
Airways jetliner crashed
of receiving more than
biography about Julia
vote on the Elvis Presin Stockport, England,
$500,000 in bribes (JefferWard Howe.
killing 72 of the 84 people ley stamp, saying more
son was later convicted of
people preferred the
aboard. (A day earlier, a
bribery and racketeering
On this date:
British charter crashed in “younger Elvis” design.
and sentenced to 13 yers
In 1783, the Montgolin prison).
ﬁer brothers ﬁrst publicly France, killing 88.) “Mission: Impossible” won
demonstrated their hotTen years ago:
outstanding dramatic
air balloon, which did
President George W.
Five years ago:
not carry any passengers, series, “The Monkees”
Bush arrived in Prague
With President Barack
outstanding comedy
over Annonay, France.
at the start of an eightObama standing off to
In 1812, the Louisiana series at the 19th Primeday European trip that
the side, former President
time Emmy Awards.
Territory was renamed
included a Group of Eight Bill Clinton warned durIn 1977, the VHS home summit in Germany.
the Missouri Territory,
ing a fundraiser in New
videocassette recorder
to avoid confusion with
Military judges dismissed York that a Mitt Romwas introduced to North
the recently admitted
charges against a GuantaAmerica by JVC during a namo detainee accused of
state of Louisiana. The
U.S. House of Representa- press conference in Chichauffeuring Osama bin
cago.
tives approved, 79-49, a
Laden and another who
In 1986, Jonathan Jay
declaration of war against
allegedly killed a U.S.
Pollard, a former U.S.
Britain.
soldier in Afghanistan.
In 1937, one of the
ﬁrst, if not the ﬁrst, shopCelebrating over 25 Years in Meigs County
ping carts was introduced
by supermarket chain
owner Sylvan Goldman in
Oklahoma City.
In 1939, the German
ocean liner MS St. Louis,
carrying more than 900
Jewish refugees from Germany, was turned away
from the Florida coast by
U.S. ofﬁcials.
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War II, the Allied military evacuation of some
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Today’s Birthdays:
Sex therapist and
media personality Dr.
Ruth Westheimer is 89.
Actor Bruce Dern is 81.
Musician Roger Ball is 73.
Actress-singer Michelle
Phillips is 73. Jazz musician Anthony Braxton is
One year ago:
72. Rock musician Danny
A day after the death
of Muhammad Ali, Presi- Brown (The Fixx) is 66.
Actor Parker Stevenson
dent Barack Obama said
the boxing legend “shook is 65. Actor Keith David
is 61. Blues singerup the world and the
world is better for it,” and musician Tinsley Ellis is
60. Actress Julie Gholson
that Ali stood with Maris 59. Actor Eddie Velez
tin Luther King Jr. and
Nelson Mandela in ﬁght- is 59. Singer-musician El
DeBarge is 56. Actress
ing for what was right.
Julie White is 56. Actress
Hillary Clinton scored
Lindsay Frost is 55. Actor
a sweeping win in the
Sean Pertwee is 53. TenU.S. Virgin Islands, picknis player Andrea Jaeger
ing up all seven pledged
is 52. Opera singer Cecidelegates at stake as
lia Bartoli is 51. Rhythmshe inched tantalizingly
and-blues singer Al B.
close to the Democratic
Sure! is 49. Actor Scott
nomination. Garbine
Muguruza (GAHR’-been- Wolf is 49. Actor-comedian Rob Huebel is 48.
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won her ﬁrst Grand Slam Comedian Horatio Sanz
is 48. Actor Noah Wyle is
title by beating defend46. Rock musician Stefan
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4, the 155th day of 2017.
There are 210 days left in
the year.

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OHIO VALLEY HISTORY

A family of ‘rivermen’
Ingaby Greenlee. From
this second marriage
came another child: WilFor our purposes, the lie Ann Brown.
Major Brown and his
Brown family begins
with Major Brown. Born family moved to Hartford in 1857, when he
in New York around
1813, he married Selina bought a 356-acre farm
Matthews by 1832. From from Daniel Polsley. In
1874, he built a large,
this marriage came 10
children: Major J., Mar- brick home on the banks
tha, Matthew D., Melvin of the Ohio to replace
their old farmhouse. It
M., Marlon E., Miles,
Manley B., Mary, Selina, is said this house was
so large that riverboat
and Martin L. After his
wife’s death in 1858, he pilots used it as a landmark to avoid running
remarried, this time to

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High and low records were set on
June 4, 1985. Williston, N.D., had
a low of 31 that broke the record
from 1910. Macon and Augusta, Ga.,
reached 100 degrees or higher.

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Air Quality Index: 0-50, Good; 51-100,
Moderate; 101-150, Unhealthy for sensitive
groups; 151-200, Unhealthy; 201-300, Very
unhealthy; 301-500, Hazardous.

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OHIO RIVER
Levels in feet as of 7 a.m. Fri.

Flood
24-hr.
Location
Stage Level Chg.
Willow Island
37 12.36 -0.08
Marietta
34 18.09 +0.21
Parkersburg
36 22.26 +0.06
Belleville
35 12.85 +0.43
Racine
41 13.08 +0.21
Point Pleasant
40 24.68 -1.21
Gallipolis
50 12.11 -0.95
Huntington
50 27.74 -1.53
Ashland
52 35.29 -0.93
Lloyd Greenup 54 13.07 -0.13
Portsmouth
50 22.30 -2.80
Maysville
50 34.50 -0.90
Meldahl Dam
51 23.00 -2.90
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mayor and councilman
of Gallipolis, and a Justice of the Peace. Selina
married Dr. Wesley B.
Guthrie, also of Gallipolis.
As the State Gazette
noted of the Browns in
1899, “No better set of
men have ever lived in
the Ohio Valley.” Major,
Selina, 7 children/
in-laws, and at least 8
grandchildren/in-laws
are buried in the family
plot at Brown Cemetery.
Other descendants are
spread out across the
Ohio Valley.
Editor’s note: The next
meeting of the Mason
County Historical and
Preservation Society is
at 6:30 p.m., June 20,
Mason City Library,
Mason.

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Huntington. Marlon’s
wife was Elizabeth
Harper, daughter of
Hartford’s Methodist
minister and Civil War
veteran, William W.
Harper. Miles married a
woman from Gallipolis
The Brown family marker.
and had one son.
Manley, the last brother, married Rebecca
of Hartford, operated
Knight of West Columthe Klondike and Mary
Hatcher. Melvin married bia and had two daughJosephine Kennedy, but ters. He, like his brothhad no children. Instead, ers, worked on the river,
though it isn’t known
they helped raise the
exactly which boat.
daughter of niece of
As for the three
their housekeeper.
daughters, Martha never
Marlon and Miles,
married and stayed
twins, were the only
home to act as her
two brothers to leave
father’s housekeeper.
Hartford. They made
their home in Gallipolis, At one time, a Captain
McDaniel sought her
across the street from
one another. Marlon was hand in marriage, but
she refused. Mary marcaptain of the Louella,
ried Charles Bird, of
named after his only
Gallipolis, and had at
daughter. Miles was
least 3 children. He was
captain of the Carrie
the ﬁrst teacher in the
Brown, a packet boat
free schools of Mason
that delivered mail
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Marlon and Miles, twins, were the only two
brothers to leave Hartford. They made their
home in Gallipolis, across the street from one
another.

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ashore. Although Brown
was primarily a farmer,
he did have his hands in
various other businesses. In 1878, he bought
the steamer Hummingbird, which he put in
charge of Matthew and
Martin. He also offered
land to anyone who
would build an iron
furnace, though nobody
took him up on the generous offer. Major Brown
passed away in 1887 due
to heart disease.
The ﬁrst son, Major
J., was a riverman,
though he was killed by
typhoid fever in 1858,
just months before his
mother was killed by the
same disease.
Matthew D. Brown,
the eldest surviving
son, and Martin, the
youngest, seem to have
been inseparable. As I
mentioned, they were
both captains on the
Hummingbird from 1878
through the 1880s. In
1899, the State Gazette
reports, “Capt. Matt
D. Brown had his master and pilot license
renewed by the local
inspector here at Gallipolis. Captain Matt
has not steamboated for
about 20 years, yet his
knowledge is as good
as any steamboatman.”
This was so that he
and his brother could
take control of another
steamer, the Hattie
Brown. Matthew married Miriam Alexander
and had 8 kids. Martin
remained unmarried,
and was living in the
Brown family home
when it burned in 1898.
Melvin, the next in
line, was also a captain.
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SPORTS s 2B
Sunday, June 4, 2017 s Section B

Pullins places 5th in high jump

By Randy Payton
For Ohio Valley Publishing

RIO GRANDE, Ohio
— Four members of the
University of Rio Grande
softball team have been
named to the 2017 National Fastpitch Coaches’
Association (NFCA) AllGreat Lakes Region Team.
Freshman shortstop
Michaela Criner (Lancaster, OH) was among those
named to the First Team,
while sophomore pitcher/
outﬁelder Kelsey Conkey
(Minford, OH), senior
pitcher/outﬁelder Jenna
Jones (Lancaster, OH) and
senior second baseman
Alex Stevens (Oak Hill,
OH) were all named to the
Second Team.
Criner is Rio’s ﬁrst
freshman to ever be honored on the list and is just
the second RedStorm player to be named All-Region
ﬁrst team (Jenny Olding
was the ﬁrst in 2006).
Criner batted a teambest .477, while also leading the team in hits (74),
triples (4) and slugging
percentage (.652). She
also had 10 doubles, three
home runs and 32 runs
batted in.
Conkey, the RSC’s Player of the Year and Pitcher
of the Year, ﬁnished 22-2
(both losses were to Davenport) with two saves
and a 0.94 earned run
average. She ﬁnished with
18 complete games and 10
shutouts, while allowing
97 hits and 20 earned runs
over 148-1/3 innings in the
circle.
The right-hander also
walked just 25, struck out
See STANDOUTS | 2B

Ed Coon
wins G.O.
Roush
Memorial
Staff Report

MASON, W.Va. — Ed
Coon, of New Haven,
won the 2017 G.O. Roush
Memorial Golf Tournament, hosted by Riverside Golf Club in Mason
County.
The tournament is a
36-hole handicap event
with the winners being
decided by net scores. The
event is played in memory
of Grant O. Roush, father
of Riverside owner Gary
Roush.
Coon shot net rounds of
56 and 71 for a winning
total of 127. In second
place, three shots back,
was Mason native Nathan
Redman.
Jeremy Hudnall was in
third place with 131, Jon
McCauley placed fourth
with 132, while Jason
King, Carl King and Jeremy Tucker tied for ﬁfth
with 134 apiece. Tying for
eight place were Corey
Miller and James MacKnight, both of whom ﬁred
136.
A total of 30 players
participated in this year’s
event.

Photos by Alex Hawley | OVP Sports

Meigs senior Devyn Oliver starts the 4x100m relay for the Lady Marauders, in the Division II state semifinal on Friday at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium.

Meigs 4x100m relay, GA’s Madi Oiler qualify for Division II finals
By Alex Hawley

of six competitors to attempt
5-7. Pullins and Ottoville’s
Brooke Mangas — the 2015
and 2016 state champion in
COLUMBUS, Ohio — For
the high jump — both failed to
Ohio track and ﬁeld athletes,
there’s no better place for your clear 5-7, but Mangas needed
three attempts to clear 5-6,
high school career to end than
giving Pullins ﬁfth place on a
on the podium Jesse Owens
tie-breaker.
Memorial Stadium.
Pullins has competed at the
On Friday at the OHSAA
state championship meet, East- state meet in all four years of
ern senior Laura Pullins earned her high school career, but,
her spot on the podium, placing until this year, had only made
the podium as a part of two
ﬁfth in Division III high jump
relay teams in her freshman
with a leap of 5 feet, 6 inches.
year.
Meanwhile, Gallia Academy
“I went from getting there my
senior Madi Oliver and Meigs’
freshman year, then not doing
4x100m relay team of seniors
anything the last two years,
Devyn Oliver and Sky Brown,
and sophomores Taylor Swartz and ﬁnally getting back to the
podium this year,” Pullins said.
and Kassidy Betzing punched
“I told Coach (Josh) Fogle ‘we
their tickets into Saturday’s
started with a bang and we’re
Division II ﬁnals.
In the Division III high jump ending with a bang’. I was tied
for ninth-or-10th at 5-5, getting
Pullins cleared her ﬁrst two
jumps of the day, at 5-0 and 5-2 to 5-6 is what brought me all
the way up and I couldn’t be
respectively. She was one of
any more proud of myself for
14 jumpers to attempt 5-4, the
that.”
mark at which she ﬁnished in
Emma Daugherty, a junior
both the district and regional
from Maumee Valley County
tournaments. Pullins cleared
Day, won the 2017 Division III
both 5-4 and 5-5 on her third
attempts, and 10 jumpers were high jump championship as the
only jumper to clear 5-9.
left in the competition headed
Fellow Lady Eagles senior
into 5-6.
At 5-6, Pullins cleared the bar Alia Hayes placed 16th the shot
on her second try and was one put, with a distance of 36-5.50,

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Eastern senior Alia Hayes competes in the Division III shot put state semifinal,
on Saturday in Columbus.

which came on her ﬁrst attempt
of the day. Hayes needed a
throw of at least 39-10.5 to
reach the ﬁnal of the shot put.
Hayes, who has now competed in three state tournaments,
had her best ﬁnish coming in
the shot put last season, when
she was 10th in the state.

Hayes’ mark on Friday was 5.5
inches shorter than her regional
mark from a week ago.
McCombs’ Molly Leppelmeier won the 2017 shot put
championship with a Division
III state meet record of 49-0.
See PULLINS | 2B

Smith hired as new SGHS football coach
By Paul Boggs

coaching experience
which, prior to his hiring
at SGHS, was basically
book-ended by two stints at
MERCERVILLE, Ohio
Tolsia.
— From one band of RebThe second one, though,
els to another.
was his head coaching tenThat’s because Mike
ure, which spanned from
Smith, after six seasons
2011 — until he became
as head football coach at
Tolsia High School in West a victim of budget cuts
Virginia, has been ofﬁcially within the Wayne County
hired as the new head foot- Schools (W. Va.) district.
Smith said he was one
ball coach at South Gallia.
of 90 district employees
Interestingly, or coincidentally, both schools’ mas- which lost their jobs.
“I wasn’t really looking
cot is the “Rebels”.
for a position at all, but
Smith, who began his
I got caught up in all the
coaching duties this past
layoffs in Wayne County,
week with South Gallia,
replaces Jason Peck —who so that’s how I ended up
job hunting to begin with. I
resigned on May 9 after
found out about the South
seven seasons as head
Gallia job through Coach
coach, part of 17 years of
(Melvin) Cunningham
involvement overall.
at Fairland. He and I are
Smith has actually over
good friends, and our sons
two decades of football

pboggs@civitasmedia.com

Paul Boggs | OVP Sports

Mike Smith was hired as the new head football coach
at South Gallia High School.

played AAU basketball and
stuff like that together,”
said Smith, in an interview
on Tuesday. “He knew I
was looking for a job all of
the sudden, and he saw the
South Gallia position was
open.”
With both Smith and the
Gallia County Local School
District moving quickly
to ﬁll the vacancy, Smith
applied and interviewed —
and ultimately accepted the
position when offered.
Smith said he interviewed on May 19, and
ofﬁcially was hired by Gallia County Local Schools
three days later.
“It happened overnight
almost,” he said. “Now
we’re ready to get started.”
Unfortunately for the
See SMITH | 2B

�SPORTS

2B Sunday, June 4, 2017

Sunday Times-Sentinel

Pullins
From page 1B

Courtesy photo

Wahama baseball coach Tom Cullen, center, received a pair of honors from the NFHS on Thursday night during the 2017 Class A state semifinals being held at
Appalachian Power Park in Charleston, W.Va.

Cullen receives dual honors from NFHS
By Bryan Walters

“I am honored and I do think it’s a really neat thing
to receive each of them, but these awards are really
MASON, W.Va. — His team
about all of the great people within the Wahama
isn’t at the state tournament for
community that have been part of this baseball
the ﬁrst time in three postseasons, but Wahama skipper Tom program over the years. To me, it speaks more about
Cullen is still coming home
how far this program has come by working together
with some pretty impressive
and doing it the right way.”

bwalters@civitasmedia.com

hardware this weekend during
the 2017 WVSSAC baseball
championships being held at
Appalachian Power Park.
Cullen was presented with
two separate honors on behalf
of the National Federation of
State High School Associations
on Thursday as both the West
Virginia baseball coach of the
year and Mideast Sectional
baseball coach of the year from
the 2016 campaign.
Cullen — who just completed his 13th season as head
coach of the White Falcons
— received his dual accolades
during the Class A semiﬁnals
on Thursday, but the venerable
mentor spoke beforehand about
his feelings in being recognized
with either of these prestigious
awards … more-or-less both.
“Honestly, receiving an individual award is a little hard for
me because we do so much as a
staff to get kids to accomplish
things as a team in the game
of baseball. A lot of people
besides myself have had a lot
to do with what we’ve been
able to accomplish during my
time here, especially the last
few years,” Cullen said. “I am
honored and I do think it’s a

— Tom Cullen,
Wahama baseball coach

really neat thing to receive each
of them, but these awards are
really about all of the great people within the Wahama community that have been part of
this baseball program over the
years. To me, it speaks more
about how far this program has
come by working together and
doing it the right way.”
Cullen’s White Falcons won
the Class A baseball titles in
both 2015 and 2016, bridging
a gap of almost two decades
since the program’s last state
championships in 1996 and
1998. Cullen, coincidentally,
was an assistant coach on both
of those WHS squads as well.
The state award bestowed
upon Cullen by the NFHS honored him as the top baseball
coach in the Mountain State in
2016, which culminated with
Wahama’s ﬁrst-ever repeat
championship in any sport.
WHS was also one of three
repeat champions at the WVSSAC baseball tournament last
spring.
The Mideast Sectional

award, which is a bit more
notable, honored Cullen as the
top baseball skipper in this
region of the United States.
The Mideast Section includes
the states of West Virginia,
Ohio, Delaware, Kentucky,
Maryland, Pennsylvania and
Virginia — as well as the District of Columbia.
Wahama athletic director
Ron Bradley — who received
dual letters of notiﬁcation from
the NFHS in early January —
noted how much of a thrill it
was for him to inform Cullen of
the news … both personally and
professionally.
“He’s a very deserving individual for these honors after his
years of work at Wahama. He
was an assistant coach when
I played and it was a thrill to
work with him as an assistant
the last few seasons. He’s
always done things the right
way and he always gets the best
out of his people,” Bradley said.
“He’s a good coach, but he’s
an even better person because
he’s touched a lot of lives dur-

think they’ll catch on defensively a lot quicker than they
will offensively. Hopefully, with
these kids coming back and
From page 1B
getting a lot of experience last
year, it won’t be a big transition
timing, it isn’t the most ideal
for Smith and South Gallia, but for them.”
Smith’s football coaching
the Rebels are already underbackground extends back to
way with their summer work1990, when he served as an
out program.
Smith also explained that he assistant at Gilbert — before
is still formulating his coaching joining Tolsia’s staff as its
defensive coordinator for ﬁve
staff, as assistant Paul Polcyn
years from 1995 to 1999.
is conﬁrmed to be a holdover
After seven seasons in which
from Peck’s previous group.
he spent working within the
He said Tuesday was actuprivate sector, the Kermit (W.
ally his ﬁrst full day of “really
getting any interaction or any- Va.) High School graduate has
thing” with prospective players returned to coaching for the
past decade —having spent
for the upcoming season.
two years (2007 and 2008)
There should be plenty of
young Rebels returning, as only as head coach at Tug Valley
prior to two seasons (2009 and
seven seniors graduated from
2010) as offensive coordinator
last season’s 3-7 squad.
at Pike County Central in Ken“We’re already behind by
tucky.
about four or ﬁve weeks, but
Two years ago, he guided
we’re full-speed ahead,” said
Smith. “We’re not going to get Tolsia to a 12-2 overall record
completely caught up, because — and the Class AA state
championship tilt against
these kids are going to learn
Bridgeport.
all new everything. From the
When asked about speciﬁc
verbiage to the alignments and
football philosophies, Smith
assignments. It’s not new for
said “we’ll base everything
me, but it’s all new for them.
defensively out of a 4-3 (front),
Therefore, it’s going to take
and we’ll play some 3-4, just
them a little bit more time to
depending on our competition
pick up on things and ﬁnd out
and our personnel.”
the way we do things. I do

“Everybody is in this spread
stuff now, and teams like to
throw bubble screens and
things. When we play teams
like that, we’ll play a lot of
three-man fronts. If not, we’ll
most of the time be in a 4-3,”
said the coach.
Smith also plans to alter the
Rebels’ offense, which —for
last season —featured foot-tofoot line splits with a run-oriented double-wing double-tight
end formation.
“You probably won’t see
the double-wing double-tight
this year,” he said. “We’ll be
in a lot of 3-1, 2-1, 2-2, and
not only will we be in those
formations in the pistol or the
shotgun, but we’ll also be in
them under center. We’ll go
from one back to two backs,
we want to be diverse. But we
still have to ﬁnd out what our
capabilities are. We’ll make it
as simple as we can make it,
and we’ll probably have to be
very vanilla going into the season. We’ve got less than three
months, but that’s just not
enough time.”
Especially against the Rebels’
tough Tri-Valley Conference
Hocking Division schedule,
which featured three Division
VII, Region 27 playoff clubs
(Waterford, Trimble and South-

Smith

ing his time here at Wahama.
We’re very proud of him and
there is nobody more deserving
of these accolades than Tom
Cullen.”
Cullen — who also served
as the offensive coordinator on
the White Falcons’ 2012 Class
A championship football team
— has been part of plenty of
historic moments at Wahama
over his almost four decades
worth of coaching, which
includes spans of leaving the
Little Kanawha Conference and
joining the Tri-Valley Conference Hocking Division.
Through it all, however,
Cullen still acknowledges how
blessed he feels to have enough
community and professional
support to be able do his job in
a successful manner.
He also notes that he’s pretty
lucky to have that kind of support at home.
“I’ve been fortunate to have
quality people around as assistant coaches and good support
from both the school and the
community, and that has really
made a difference in how far
we’ve been able to get,” Cullen said. “As much as I need
to thank all of them for this, I
really need to take the time to
thank my wife Laura and my
family for allowing me to do
this all of these years. They,
too, have made a lot of sacriﬁces along the way.”
Bryan Walters can be reached at 740-4462342, ext. 2101.

ern) — and another which was
ninth in that region (Miller).
“I know absolutely nothing at
this point about their (Rebels)
league other than the teams
that are in it,” said Smith.
The Rebels open the season
on Aug. 25 —when they host
Sciotoville East, which went
undefeated in the regular season and captured the Southern
Ohio Conference Division I
championship.
Indeed, the season is rapidly
approaching — as Smith said
he is excited about being at
South Gallia and taking over
the reigns.
“It’s always good coming
into a situation where you have
some returning players. Hopefully, we can build some things
here. When I took over Tolsia
(in 2011), we started 0-10. But
the last three years we went
6-4, then were in the (West Virginia Class AA) state ﬁnals and
ﬁnished 12-2, then last year
were in the (Class AA) state
quarterﬁnals,” he said. “This
program (South Gallia) has
had some success in the past,
so hopefully we can make some
more memories and have some
more fun here.”
Paul Boggs can be reached at 740-4462342, ext. 2106

For the Blue Angels, Oiler
is headed back to the Division II 300m hurdles state
ﬁnal, where she ﬁnished
sixth as a sophomore. Oiler
was eliminated in the semiﬁnal heats last year, but
wasn’t about to suffer the
same fate as a senior.
Oiler’s time of 44.18 was
the second fastest in her
heat and overall, as she was
just .27 seconds behind
the pace set by Akron St.
Vincent-St. Mary’s Sara
Foster. The top-two runners
from each heat and the next
ﬁve fastest times qualiﬁed
for the ﬁnal in the 300m
hurdles.
In the Division II 4x100m
relay, the Meigs quartet
of Oliver, Betzing, Brown
and Swartz posted a time
of 49.99, matching the
relay team’s regional time.
Although the mark was tied
for the ninth fastest time
entering the meet, it was
good enough for the Lady
Marauders to take seventh
out of the two semiﬁnal
heats on Friday.
With just eight teams
advancing to the ﬁnal in
the 4x100m relay, the Lady
Marauders qualiﬁed just
.02 seconds ahead of eighth
place and were .06 ahead of
ninth place.
River Valley’s lone state
qualiﬁer, senior Isaiah
Beach, missed qualifying
for the Division II 110m
hurdles ﬁnal by just .12
seconds, posting time of
15.28. Beach, who had the
12th fastest mark headed
into the event, ﬁnished with
the 11th fastest time out
of the two semiﬁnal heats.
The top-two runners from
each heat and the next ﬁve
fastest times qualiﬁed for
the ﬁnal.
Complete results of the OHSAA track
and field championships can be found
on the web at www.baumspage.com
Alex Hawley can be reached at 740446-2342, ext. 2100.

Standouts
From page 1B

102 and allowed a miniscule .184 opponent’s batting
average.
At the plate, Conkey batted .331 with a team-high
14 home runs and 53 RBI.
She also had a .629 slugging percentage.
Jones posted a 13-5
record with three saves and
a 1.91 ERA in the circle.
She authored 12 complete
games and four shutouts,
while allowing the opposition to bat just .198 against
her.
In 139-1/3 innings,
Jones allowed 100 hits
and 38 earned runs while
walking 42 and striking
out 110.
Stevens batted .392 with
10 doubles, two triples, a
home run and 37 RBI. She
led the team in runs (47),
walks (26) and sacriﬁce
hits (25).
The quartet - all of whom
were also named to the
All-River States Conference
ﬁrst team - helped lead
the RedStorm to a schoolrecord 47 wins, a schoolrecord 26-game winning
streak, a second straight
regular season conference
title and a third consecutive conference tournament
championship.
Rio Grande, which also
enjoyed the highest ranking in school history at No.
17 entering post-season
play, got within one win of
a trip to the NAIA World
Series before falling to
eighth-ranked Davenport
(Mich.) University in the
championship game of the
Grand Rapids Bracket in
the NAIA Softball National
Tournament’s Opening
Round.
Randy Payton is the Sports
Information Director at the University
of Rio Grande.

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Sunday Times-Sentinel

Sunday, June 4, 2017 3B

Porter completes remarkable Marshall career
By Bryan Walters

bwalters@civitasmedia.com

HUNTINGTON,
W.Va. — Andrea Porter
has more than gone the
distance as an athlete …
and she’s still focused on
the prize at the end of
this race.
Porter — a 2013 graduate of Point Pleasant
High School — recently
completed a remarkable four-year run with
the Marshall University
cross country and track
and ﬁeld programs, a
career that included
school records, trips
throughout the country
and life experiences that
no ordinary 18-year-old
student-athlete can possibly dream of at the
time of a college signing.
Porter still has a year
of school left before
graduating with a Nursing degree in the spring
of 2018, but the former
Lady Knight standout
expended the last of her
four years of athletic
eligibility during the
2017 MU outdoor track
season.
Along the way, she’s
been quite an asset for
the Thundering Herd
programs as Porter has
four varsity letters apiece
in cross country, indoor
track and outdoor track.
Porter also ends her Marshall career as at least a
part-owner of ﬁve different school records from
the three sports.
In looking back at her
four-year body of work,
Porter acknowledged
that the experience itself
was far greater than any
amount of work that she
had to endure — especially for a young person
growing up in Appalachia.
“Running for Marshall has really made
me believe in myself
and have conﬁdence in
myself, which has led me
to some really incredible places as a person,”

As I said earlier, Marshall has really helped
me grow into something
more than I thought possible.”
And in reﬂecting a bit
about her time at Point
Pleasant, Porter noted
that basketball was her
biggest interest in high
school — which eventually led her to an avenue
of greater opportunity.
“Matt Cottrill was the
one that convinced me
to run cross country
during my sophomore
year at Point Pleasant,
mainly to help get me
in shape for basketball,”
Porter said. “That’s really where all of this starts
for me. That was where
my passion for running
started, right here at
Courtesy photo
Point Pleasant. Without
Former Point Pleasant standout Andrea Porter poses for a picture after receiving second-team AllConference USA honors during the 2016 cross country championships held at UNC-Charlotte. Porter that, none of this would
have been possible.”
recently completed her four-year athletic career at Marshall University.
Porter also spoke
fondly of her hometown
over the course of her
admit that she’s come a
Porter said. “I’ve had my the mile (5:01.89) and
share of ups and downs, is also part of the indoor long way … and Marshall four-year career, mainly
has had a lot to do with noting that the proximdistance medley relay
but I’m very grateful to
getting her where she is. ity of Huntington proved
record (12:05.97). Porhave had the opportuto be a real boost of con“It’s been a surreal
nity for the experiences ter also leaves the MU
ﬁdence.
experience, but none
I’ve been able to take in outdoor track program
“Rather it be social
of it would have been
over the last four years. as part of the recordmedia or being there in
possible if Marshall
holding 4x800m relay
“I guess I just never
person, Point Pleasant
hadn’t taken a chance
(9:11.10) and distance
really thought that a
has been very supportive
small-town girl could go medley relay (12:08.82) on me four years ago,”
throughout my Marshall
Porter said. “I feel that
to the places and accom- squads, as well as also
career,” Porter said. “To
I’ve really grown as a
holding the steeple
plish the things that I
person and as an athlete see how much the comchase mark (10:54.63).
have done over the last
munity cares about you
by being able to travel
All ﬁve records,
four years. That’s probaafter you leave, it just
all over the country for
bly the best part of all of coincidentally, were
accomplished in Porter’s competition. Getting to really warms your heart
it because Marshall got
and makes you grateful
senior season — as was see the places and take
more out of me than I
to come from a small
in the experiences that
had expected for myself. her career-best cross
town like this. All of it’s
I have has been a real
country time of 17:57
It’s been an incredible
experience since the day at the CUSA champion- blessing, and I owe it all been very humbling, but
I am thankful for what
to Marshall University.
ships held in Charlotte
I started … and I have
my hometown has meant
“I really thought that
last fall. Porter was
zero regrets.”
to me during the last
I had accomplished all
also a second-team allPorter competed in
four years at college.”
that I could when I left
conference selection
all 12 Conference USA
The tough part for
Point Pleasant, and
in cross country in her
championships held
Porter, at this point, is
Marshall managed to
ﬁnal season.
between the three prothat competing at the
Porter — a 1,000-point get even more out of
grams over four years
Division I level is over
me than I thought was
and also participated in scorer during her high
and she is just a student
possible. Honestly, I’m
school basketball career
eight different events
now. However, there are
amazed at how much
— still holds the girls
over the course of her
more they got out of me other things between
cross country record
track and ﬁeld career
over the last four years. now and graduation that
(20:08.60) at Point
— which is where her
ﬁve school records stem Pleasant, as well as the
800m, 1600m and 3200m
from.
records in girls track.
Porter owns the
Porter is the ﬁrst to
indoor track record in

MASON, W.Va. — Carl
Stone, of Spencer, has
extended his lead of the
2017 Senior Men’s Golf
League at Riverside Golf
Club, with four weeks
left in the ﬁrst half of the
season.
Through nine weeks,
Stone’s total of 138
points, leads current runner-up Charlie Hargraves,
who has a total of 123.
On Tuesday, a 67 players were divided into 16

four-man teams and one
trio.
The ﬁrst place score of
13-under par 57 was ﬁred
by the quartet of Dewey
Smith, Jim Francisco,
Bobby Watson and Russ
Holland.
Two shots back, in
second place, was the
quartet of Richard Mabe,
Cecil Gillette Jr. Gene
Thomas and Carl Stone.
There was a threeway tie for third place at
10-under par.
The closest to the

Bryan Walters can be reached at
740-446-2342, ext. 2101.

JACKSON GENERAL
HOSPITAL FOUNDATION

Stone increases lead of
Riverside senior league
Staff Report

should keep her occupied.
For starters, Andrea
is getting married in
late June to fellow MU
cross country athlete
Tony Hayes of Fairmont.
Hayes is starting medical school at Marshall in
the fall, so both will still
be on campus over the
next year for studies.
The wedding is also
being held in Morgantown.
Porter — a four-year
Commissioner’s Medal
of Honor recipient in
cross country for her
academic marks — currently has a grade-point
average hovering around
the 3.5 mark, and she
still has a year left to
improve those efforts
without having to worry
about practices.
As much as she’ll miss
doing what’s been the
norm over the last four
years, Porter acknowledges that there is still
one goal left to achieve in
her student-athlete career
… and she’s not stopping
until she reaches it.
“There is a part of me
that thinks the next year
will be horrible because
I love competing as a
member of those teams,
but there will always
be ﬁve-K runs and halfmarathons out there that
I can enter,” Porter said.
“Running will always be
there for me, but now is
all about ﬁnishing what
I started. I have one
more year to put in as
a student because I am
not leaving here without
that degree. That, more
than any competition or
record, is what I came
here for … and the ﬁnish
line is within sight.”
Andrea is the daughter
of Jeff and Jessica Porter
of Point Pleasant.

7th ANNUAL GOLF CLASSIC

pin winners were Don
Ramsey on the ninth hole
and Buddy Peaytt on No.
14.
The current top-10
standings are as follows:
Carl Stone (138.0),
Charlie Hargraves
(123.0), Mick Winebrenner (115.0), Dewey
Smith (105.5), Willis
Korb (101.0), Glenn
Long and Kenny Pridemore (100.5), Bill Yoho
(100.0), Dave Seamon
(98.5) and Jay Rees
(97.0).

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Sunday, June 4, 2017 5B

SEOAL indefinitely suspends operations
By Craig Dunn
For Ohio Valley Publishing

JACKSON, Ohio — If
someday the Southeastern Ohio Athletic League
is ever resurrected, it will
either have to include the
three members who were
left standing or will have
to be done with their permission.
As expected, the
SEOAL suspended its
historic 92-year run during a meeting Wednesday
morning at Jackson High
School, where building
principals — who, as
per the league constitution, comprise its Board
of Control — signed an
agreement in which the
three remaining schools
maintain the rights to all
names associated with
the conference.
While the league thus
indeﬁnitely suspends
operations, it will not ofﬁcially fold.
Logan, Jackson and
Warren high schools are
maintaining the rights to
the names “Southeastern
Ohio Athletic League”
and “Southeastern Ohio
League” as well as the
acronyms “SEOAL” and
“SEOL” as their intellectual property.
Those names are to
remain dormant and in
the possession of the
three schools “until such
a time when the league
is revived upon our own
accord,” the agreement
reads.
“Anyone wanting to use
any of the above names
in any capacity will not
be permitted to do so
without ﬁrst receiving the
written consent of representatives of all three
schools in order to waive
the above action,” the
agreement further states.
Each school will maintain a copy of the signed
agreement in their ofﬁcial
ﬁles and will have them at
the ready in case a legal
issue arises.
Another copy will be
forwarded to the Ohio
High School Athletic
Association.
With membership dwin-

dling with each passing
year — the league had 10
members a decade ago
but had lost (in order)
Athens, Zanesville, Ironton, Marietta, Chillicothe,
Portsmouth and Gallia
Academy — the three
remaining schools made
a pact to remain together
until at least one of them
found membership in a
new conference.
That school turned
out to be Jackson, which
has joined the newlyformed Frontier Athletic
Conference along with
former South Central
Ohio League members
Chillicothe, Greenﬁeld
McClain, Hillsboro,
Miami Trace and Washington Court House.
The league begins
operations this fall, with
each school making a
minimum commitment of
four years.
The last three SEOAL
schools — by agreement,
Jackson was included —
want to keep all rights to
the league names in case
there’s ever a chance of
once again starting up the
league and also to make
sure any schools wishing
to form their own conference don’t use them.
Formed in the spring of
1925, original members of
the SEOAL were Logan,
Athens, Gallia Academy,
Ironton, Jackson, Nelsonville, Portsmouth and
Wellston.
Pomeroy joined a few
months later but did not
play football during the
inaugural 1925 season.
Warren joined the conference in 1986.
With Jackson having
found a new league,
Logan High School is
thus the only remaining
charter member.
Logan has yet to ﬁnd
a new conference for its
teams and athletes to
participate, however, and
starting this fall will be
forced to play an independent schedule on an
indeﬁnite basis.
LHS administrators
have been in contact
with most area leagues
— including the Mid-

With membership dwindling with each
passing year — the league had 10 members
a decade ago but had lost (in order) Athens,
Zanesville, Ironton, Marietta, Chillicothe,
Portsmouth and Gallia Academy — the three
remaining schools made a pact to remain
together until at least one of them found
membership in a new conference.

State League, Licking
County League, Ohio
Capital Conference,
Frontier Athletic Conference, Muskingum
Valley League and the
Tri-Valley Conference —
seeking membership, but

distance, the size of the
school (Logan is Division
I in all sports except for
being Division II in football, which has more divisions than other sports),
or fear that Logan would
be dominant in football,
the primary sport in high
school athletics.
The SEOAL, which
was the longest-running
non-city conference in
the state, now begins its
indeﬁnite hiatus and LHS
begins an uncertain time
in its long and storied
athletic history.
Craig Dunn is the sports editor
of the Logan Daily News and also
serves as the media representative
for the SEOAL.

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it’s thus far proven to be
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with Gallia Academy,

Jackson and Warren)
when those four schools
applied for membership
as a group.
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LHS appeared to be on
the verge of joining the
Licking County League,
only to see that 10-school
conference decide not to
expand after only Logan
and Zanesville applied for
membership.
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least four schools in order
to expand.
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OVP SPORTS BRIEFS

Gallipolis Lions
golf scramble

hold a golf scramble on Saturday, June 10, at the Riverside
Golf Course in Mason County.
The format will be a four-man
GALLIPOLIS, Ohio — The
Gallipolis Lions Club will hold scramble, bring your own team.
Each squad must have a team
its 19th annual golf outing on
handicap of 40+ and only one
Saturday, June 10, at Cliffside
player can be under 10. Price
Golf Course in Gallia County.
The event will be held in a four- is $65 per person and includes
golf, mulligan, cart, lunch
man scramble format and will
and beverages. Prizes include
have a shotgun start time of
8:30 a.m. Individual golfers will club house credit for the top
three teams, among other cash
be paired together based on
prizes.
A-B-C-D handicap.
There will also be a skins
The individual cost of the
game at a cost of $20 per team.
event is $50 for a Cliffside
The tournament will begin
member and $60 for a nonwith a shotgun start at 8:30
member. Cost includes green
fees, cart, lunch and beverages. a.m. For more information,
There will be prizes of $1,000, contact Southern football coach
$600 and $400 for the top-three Mike Chancey at 740-591-8644.
ﬁnishing teams, as well as a
skills game or a $50,000 prize
for a hole-in-one.
Also, the top ﬁve players that
end up closest to the pin on a
CENTENARY, Ohio — The
designated hole will be eligible Gallia Academy basketball staff
for a shot at $1 million with a
will be conducting a youth
hole-in-one. There will also be
basketball camp for students
an auction at the conclusion of entering grades 3-8 from noon
the event.
until 2 p.m. on Monday, June 5,
For more information, conthrough Wednesday, June 7, at
tact Rick Howell at 740-446the GAHS gymnasium.
4624 or at 740-645-9036.
Camp participants will be
instructed by the Gallia Academy basketball staff and players, and the cost of the camp
is $45 per camper and $30 for
each additional student. StuMASON, W.Va. — The
dents can register the ﬁrst day
Southern football team will

GAHS youth
basketball camp

Southern football
golf scramble

of camp.
All campers will receive a
t-shirt. Water will be provided,
but a water bottle is recommended.
For questions or to register,
please contact GAHS coach
Gary Harrison at 740-441-7856.

GAHS Blue Angel
Volleyball Camp
CENTENARY, Ohio — The
Gallia Academy Blue Angels
volleyball teams will be holding a volleyball camp for girls
entering grades 3-8 this coming fall. The camp will run
from Monday, July 10, through
Wednesday, July 12, and be
from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. in the
Gallia Academy High School
gymnasium.
Players will practice volleyball skills, work on volleyball fundamentals, and play
volleyball games. The camp
will conclude on Wednesday
with athletes participating in
game play from 6:30-8 p.m.
Parents and spectators are
welcome.
The cost is $60 per athlete,
and each athlete will receive
a camp t-shirt. Registrations
may be picked up at the GAHS
Ofﬁce Monday through Friday,
8 a.m. until 3 p.m. and from
some local businesses. Players
may also register at 5:30 p.m.

Monday, July 10, outside of the
GAHS gymnasium.
Athletes who come without
a parent need to have the liability form signed by a parent in
order to participate. For more
information, contact varsity
head coach Janice Rosier at
Janice-rosier@att.net

at 740-645-7316.

Tri-County Junior
Golf Schedule

POINT PLEASANT, W.Va.
— The schedule for the 2017
Frank Capehart Tri-County
Junior Golf League has been
released.
The tour ofﬁcially begins on
Monday, June 12, at the Hidden Valley Golf Course in Point
Pleasant. Age groups for both
CENTENARY, Ohio — The
Gallia Academy track and ﬁeld young ladies and young men
program will be putting togeth- are 10 and under, 11-12, 13-14,
er a youth track and ﬁeld team 15-16, and 17-19.
The remaining tournaments,
for all Gallia County kids in
courses and dates of play are
grades 1-6 every Monday and
Thursday from June 12 through as follows: Monday, June 19,
at Meigs County Golf Course
July 13 at the GAHS track on
in Pomeroy; Monday, June 26,
the grounds of the Eastman
at Riverside Golf Course in
Athletic Complex.
The bi-weekly event will start Mason; Wednesday, July 5, at
at 6:30 p.m. and run through 8 Cliffside Golf Course in Gallipolis; and Monday, July 10, at
p.m. on Mondays and ThursMeigs County Golf Course in
days, with instruction being
provided by the current GAHS Pomeroy.
The fee for each tournament
track coach Paul Close.
is $10 per player. A small lunch
The cost will be $70 per
participant, which includes the is included with the fee and will
team and uniform fees. Signup be served at the conclusion of
form and fees are due by Mon- play each week. Registration
day, May 29. Make checks pay- begins at 8:30 a.m. with play
starting at 9 a.m. Please contact
able to Gallipolis Boosters.
Jeff Slone at 740-256-6160, Jan
To register, contact Paul
Haddox at 304-675-3388, or
Close by email at ff1023@
Bob Blessing 304-675-6135 if
att.net and he will send you
you can contribute or have quesa registration form. For more
information, contact Paul Close tions concerning the tour.

Gallia Co. youth
track and field

Kyle Busch wins pole for NASCAR Cup race at Dover
DOVER, Del. (AP)
— Kyle Busch may be
ornery and he may be
controversial, but there
is no debate he is one of
the best in NASCAR —
mic drop and all.
Busch turned a lap of
158.954 mph Friday to
win the pole at Dover
International Speedway

as he tries to drive the
No. 18 Toyota to victory
lane for the ﬁrst time
this season.
He has three straight
top-ﬁve ﬁnishes and
was runner-up to Austin
Dillon last week in the
Coca-Cola 600. But that
near miss has gnawed at
Busch, who won the All-

Star race and then lost
the spotlight at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Asked about Dillon’s win, Busch grufﬂy
replied, “I’m not surprised about anything .
Congratulations.” With
no more questions, he
dropped the microphone
and left, his conduct

Farmers Bank &amp; SecurLOCK Equip Presents

quickly parodied and
criticized .
Busch was angry. And
after years of trying
to convince the public
he had rehabbed his
tempestuous image,
the 32-year-old married father of one son
realized he may never
change.
“Certainly, different
people show their emotion in different ways
and unfortunately for
me, mine has never been
very gracious and I don’t

know that it ever will
be,” Busch said. “I’m
kind of learning that as
the days go on when my
son (Brexton) is 2 years
old; I see where it came
from. It’s genetic. I’m
sorry. That’s just who I
am. … That’s what I was
given. If there was anyone to blame it’s probably the guy upstairs. I
can probably get better
and go to training and
classes and everything
else, but I don’t know. It
is the way it is.”

Busch has a resume
NASCAR Hall of Famers
would envy, with a NASCAR championship, 173
wins over three series
and an elite ride for Joe
Gibbs Racing.
Just no wins this season, and he’s not alone
at JGR. Matt Kenseth,
Denny Hamlin and rookie Daniel Suarez are also
winless, a startling skid
for one of NASCAR’s
heavyweight organizations that could end at
Dover.

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Sunday, June 4, 2017 s Section C

Walk on the wild side

Photos by Beth Sergent | OVP

One of two ponds at the Letart Nature Park.

Letart Nature Park a hidden gem for nature lovers
By Beth Sergent
bsergent@civitasmedia.com

LETART, W.Va. — A
hidden gem for nature
lovers, and those who
would rather hike in the
woods than be on social
media, can be found at
the Letart Nature Park.
The park, as it exists
today, came about a few
years ago when residents
asked the Mason County
Commission not to sell
off over 200 acres behind
the Letart Community
Building. The commission agreed to halt the
attempt at a sale if residents could come up with
a viable option to use the
property for the public.
With a lot of elbow
grease and volunteer
labor, the Letart Nature
Park was developed to its
current state with more
to come. Like the property it sits in, this vision
will be years in the making but the park is off to a
good, solid start.
The park, which sits
directly behind the community building, currently has two major trails
on the property with
many others that branch
off from the beaten path,
according to Marilyn
Kearns, who is on the
Nature Park’s development committee. Kearns
said the major trails were
based off of old logging
trails from years ago. In
addition, the U.S. Army
National Guard has
assisted the committee
with doing drainage work
and helping to clear trails
as well, as have countless
volunteers. Volunteers
mow, weed eat and maintain the park, making it
truly a grassroots effort.
Though two major
trails are viable and visible with a map created by
a surveyor located at the
base of the park, the trails
have not yet been marked
with signage beyond the
entrances, though that
is coming in the future,

Walking on one of the two main trails at the Letart Nature Park.

The Letart Nature Park sits behind the Letart Community Building.

Kearns said.
Mason County Tourism
Director Denny Bellamy
said the nature park has
a lot of potential when it
comes to drawing in outside visitors to a state that
openly courts nature lovers to it. Bellamy has met
with the park board committee about his idea for
developing mountain bike
trails on the property.
“It would take some
nerve,” Bellamy said
about riders wanting to
take on the trails at the
park. “For those who like
the Hatﬁeld and McCoy
trail, we’ve got a smaller
version of it here.”
Bellamy said he’s heard
of some mountain bikers already utilizing the
existing trails at the park
to ride.
“We’ve accomplished a
lot and we’re not slacking
off, but we are trying to
set realistic goals for each
year,” Kearns explained.
“This is a project that will
last for many years we
hope, and we will keep
making improvements.”
Improvements will
also likely include better
access to two ponds on
the property.
Those who make up

Looking down through the trees at a mossy covered, concrete
water trough.

the park committee are
all volunteers. The group
meets once a month
to touch base and plan
events, like the upcoming Letart Homecoming
which will be held at
the community center
at 2 p.m., Saturday June
10. There will be music,
food, kiddie games and a
tractor show. The homecomings started around
the same time the park
committee formed about
three years ago.
“We decided to ofﬁcially have a homecoming event each year to
encourage everyone to
come and get to know

the area, spend the day,
A surveyor’s map of the two main trails at Letart Nature Park and
talk to people, get to
several small trails which branch off from them.
know people at the park,”
Kearns said, adding it
to see it stay. Even when
“Anything we need
was a great opportunity
it was privately owned,
somebody brings it and
for those in Letart and
everyone was welcome..
we work together,” she
those who have moved
it was almost like the
said.
away, to reconnect.
community owned it even
As for why those in
Kearns said when it
Letart had such a strong then.”
comes to those monthly
Find the Letart Nature
reaction to the possible
meetings, they have a
sale of the acreage behind Park Development Orga“really good turnout as
nization on Facebook for
the community building
far as people coming to
more information. The
a few years ago, Kearns
help and we’re happy
said she could only speak nature trail is free and
about it.” She said the
for herself but even prior open to the public to
group has never paid
anybody to help with the to the county getting the explore.
property: “The whole
upkeep of the park with
Beth Sergent is editor of Ohio Valley
community used it for
volunteers as stewards
Publishing, email her at bsergent@
who donate time, gas and hiking and hunting and I civitasmedia.com.
guess, everyone wanted
equipment to the cause.

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Rabies: What is it and what are the symptoms?
Rabies is a preventable
viral disease of mammals
most often transmitted
through the bite of a
rabid animal. The vast
majority of rabies cases
reported to the Centers
for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC)
each year occur in wild
animals like raccoons,
skunks, bats, and foxes.
Domestic mammals
can also acquire and
transmit rabies. Cats,
cattle, and dogs are the
most frequently reported
rabid domestic animals.
The Ohio Department
of Health’s Bureau of
Infectious Diseases Zoonotic Disease Program
reported 41 conﬁrmed
rabies cases in Ohio last
year (2016). Of these 41
cases, 36 were bats, and
5 were raccoons.
What are the Symp-

toms?
The ﬁrst symptoms
of rabies may be very
similar to those of the
ﬂu including general
weakness or discomfort, fever, or headache.
There may also be discomfort or a prickling or
itching sensation at the
site of bite, progressing
to symptoms of cerebral
dysfunction, anxiety,
confusion, agitation. As
the disease progresses,
the person may experience delirium, abnormal
behavior, hallucinations,
insomnia, excess saliva
production and difﬁculty
swallowing. Once clinical symptoms appear,
rabies is almost always
fatal.
How is it transmitted?
People are exposed to
rabies when they are bitten by an infected animal,

ENGAGEMENT

receives an animal
or less commonly,
bite report, we
when saliva from
contact the animal
an infected animal
owner to verify
gets into an open
that the animal
wound or onto
has had the rabies
a mucous memvaccine and order
brane. Any bite
the animal to be
wound should be
Meigs
thoroughly washed
Health quarantined for 10
with soap and
Matters days. This quarwater as soon as
Dawn Keller antine is generally
done in the home
possible. Animal
of the owner. If the
bite victims should
animal shows no signs of
also consult with their
rabies by the end of the
doctor as soon as posquarantine period, it can
sible.
be safely assumed there
What is being done to
is no need for prophylaxprotect public health?
Physicians are required is (rabies shots). If there
is an issue during the
to report all animal bite
quarantine or the animal
cases to the local health
dies before the period
department where the
is over, the local health
bite occurred. Ohio’s
local health departments department will send
a sample to the Ohio
investigate more than
Department of Health to
21,000 animal bite incihave the animal tested
dents annually. When
for the virus. This test
a health department

LOW-COST RABIES CLINIC
The Ohio Valley Animal Clinic and the Meigs County
Health Department are hosting a low-cost rabies clinic
for cats and dogs on June 17 from 9 a.m. to noon at the
health department. The cost is $5 per animal. Everyone
is welcome. For more information contact the health
department at 740-992-6626.

is done free of charge.
Ohio’s last human rabies
case was in 1970. Clearly
the program is working.
What can you do help
prevent this fatal disease?
Avoid – contact with
wild animals and animals
you do not know.
Call – your doctor if
you are bitten.
Call – your veterinarian
if your pet fought with a
wild animal.
Vaccinate – your dogs,
cats and ferrets for rabies
and keep them current.
Where can you get a

low-cost rabies vaccine?
The Ohio Valley
Animal Clinic and the
Meigs County Health
Department are hosting
a low-cost rabies clinic
for cats and dogs on June
17 from 9 a.m. to noon at
the health department.
The cost is $5 per animal.
Everyone is welcome. For
more information contact
the health department at
740-992-6626.
Dawn Keller specializes in
environmental health with the
Meigs County Health Department.

Raising awareness of elder abuse
Communities
encouraged to
learn more

Hills Aging Director Jennifer Westfall. “No community is immune from
the issue of abuse and
neglect of the elderly. We
remain concerned that
for every case that gets
reported, ﬁve others go
The Buckeye Hills
Regional Council’s Aging unreported.”
To ensure safety for
and Disability program
Ohio Seniors, we must
and other community
organizations are raising continue to keep protecawareness of an emerging tion of seniors a top priproblem this June — the ority Ohio must also provide sufﬁcient resources
problem of elder abuse.
to ensure that robust and
“On June 15, we are
responsive adult protecasking individuals to
tive services are availwear something purple
able in every county for
to help raise awareness
seniors in need.
of the need to protect
Elder abuse, neglect
our elders,” said Buckeye

and ﬁnancial exploitation
of the elderly are growing
problems.
A U.S. Administration
on Aging study found
that 2.5 million people
over the age of 60 are
abused or neglected each
year.
Abuse of elders takes
many different forms,
some involving intimidation or threats against
the elderly, some involving neglect, and others
involving ﬁnancial exploitation. Raising awareness
of elder abuse and neglect
is a challenge and no
effort is too small.
Communities and

municipalities are encouraged to raise awareness
of elder abuse issues and
concerns. The day recognizes the signiﬁcance
of elder abuse as a public
health and human rights
issue and promotes a better understanding of the
many cultural, social, economic and demographic
processes affecting elder
abuse and neglect.
Raising awareness of
elder abuse and neglect is
a challenge and no effort
is too small. Wear purple
and work to learn more,
for resources for caring
for elders call Buckeye
Hills at 1-800-331-2644.

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ﬁrst lady and the Secret
Service have all made
very clear their view on
those thoughts,”
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said.
By Frazier Moore
Grifﬁn, 56, repeated
and Joseph Longo
Associated Press
her claim that the video
was a parody, meant
as a pointed comeback
LOS ANGELES —
to Trump’s remark last
Embattled comedian
summer that former Fox
Kathy Grifﬁn says she’s
News Channel personalnot afraid of Donald
Trump and plans to keep ity Megyn Kelly had
“blood coming out of her
making fun of him but
eyes, blood coming out of
maintained that she’s
wherever.”
sorry for a video that
“I’m not laying down
depicted her holding
for this guy,” she said in
a likeness of the presione deﬁant moment. “I’m
dent’s severed, bloody
going to keep making
head.
jokes about this guy.”
At a rambling press
Republican Party
conference Friday, Grifﬁn
spokesman Mike Reed
tearfully predicted her
called the press concareer is over and said
Trump “broke me.” Since ference a “desperate
attempt” to change the
the video was posted
Tuesday, she has lost her conversation.
“Kathy Grifﬁn’s career
job co-hosting CNN’s
was over long before
New Year’s Eve special
she attempted to make
and had ﬁve comedy
a disgusting joke about
shows canceled. Trump,
ﬁrst lady Melania Trump decapitating the President,” Reed said. “What
and Donald Trump Jr.
she did was wrong and
have publicly criticized
President Trump and his
the video.
family have every right to
Grifﬁn, who asserted
condemn it.”
that she has been conGrifﬁn appeared surtacted by the Secret Service, said the Trumps are prised at the number of
“trying to ruin my rights cameras and reporters in
a packed conference room
forever.”
at her lawyer’s ofﬁce,
The Secret Service
declined comment Friday. her hands shaking at one
point when she took a sip
“The president, the

of water. She switched
between contriteness to
combativeness during the
press conference, during which she attempted
several nervous jokes that
drew laughs mostly from
her attorney, Lisa Bloom.
Bloom said the comedian has a First Amendment right to make fun of
the president.
“Whether or not you
get, or like, her artistic
expression, in America,
Kathy has the right to
parody the president,”
Bloom said. “She never
imagined it would be
misinterpreted as a
threat of violence against
Trump.”
Bloom, a former truTV
anchor and lawyer Gloria
Allred’s daughter, has represented Wendy Walsh,
who has accused former
Fox News Channel personality Bill O’Reilly of
hurting her career after
she spurned his advances.
O’Reilly has denied the
accusations
Backlash against Grifﬁn
has continued to grow.
Grifﬁn said ﬁve of her
performances have been
canceled this week.
Venues in New Jersey,
New York, New Mexico
and Pennsylvania canceled upcoming shows.
The Community Arts
Theater in Williamsport,
Pennsylvania, posted on

its website that the show
had been dropped “due
to the recent controversy
surrounding Kathy Grifﬁn
and the concern for the
safety and security of our
patrons and staff.”
Sen. Al Franken also
dis-invited Grifﬁn from
an event promoting his
new book, “Giant of the
Senate.”
“After hearing from
many Minnesotans who
were rightfully offended,
I’ve come to the conclusion that it would be best
for her not to participate
in the event we had previously scheduled,” the
Minnesota Democrat said
Thursday, a day after he
had said she was still welcome. “I understand why
Minnesotans were upset
by this, and I take that
very seriously.”
He said what Grifﬁn
did “was inappropriate
and not something that
should be anywhere in
our national discourse.”
An endorsement deal
with Squatty Potty also
ended.
Though Grifﬁn apologized within hours of the
images appearing online
Tuesday, they were met
with swift and widespread condemnation.
Trump later tweeted
that Grifﬁn “should be
ashamed of herself” for
posting the images.

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