https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/e6d78fdd60d74b42fe94b4bf3da921a2.pdf c2346c06c95e819fae47d90b7fdca1d3 PDF Text Text Ohio Valley Business Mostly sunny. High, 89. Top sports stories BUSINESS s 3 WEATHER s 8 SPORTS s 9 C_ZZb[fehjšFec[heo"�E^_e Breaking news at mydailysentinel.com Issue 103, Volume 71 Thursday, June 29, 2017 s 50¢ Rio Community College seeks replacement levy Staff Report File photo Rio Grande Community College is seeking to send a replacement levy to voters in November. RIO GRANDE — Rio Grande Community College announced Wednesday that it will seek a replacement levy issue on the ballot for the Nov. 7 election. This is the first levy the school has had on the ballot in 43 years. Voters in Gallia, Meigs, Jackson, Vinton and a small portion of Hocking counties will vote on the levy. The proposal concerning the levy filed with the respective board of elections offices for Meigs and Gallia counties, states, the levy is “for a continuing period of time.” “This levy comes at a critical time for the residents Rio serves,” said Dr. Michelle Johnston, president of the University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College stated in a news release. “Rio helps the area economy by giving local students access to a highquality education at an affordable price. This levy will help us continue to provide students with the resources they need to succeed. With locations in Gallia, Jackson, Meigs and Vinton counties, Rio is critical for our communities.” The levy was established in 1974 to support Rio Grande Community College. Over the past 43 years, Rio has used local support to directly impact the quality of its academic programs and to support its commitment to an affordable educational option for citizens in the region. The replacement levy will continue to support Rio Grande Community College. The levy, which has been collected since the 1976 tax year generated $115,919.93 in Meigs County in 2016. In comparison, the replacement levy, should all taxes be paid, would generate an estimated $385,928.25 in Meigs County. Figures from Gallia County indicate that the levy could generate $794,218.31. Over the region in which the levy would be collected, a total of $2,021,517.05, would be generated according to the auditor’s certification figures. The replacement levy is a tax that is based on current property evaluations. If the levy passes, a homeowner owning property worth $100,000 will pay an See LEVY | 2 CLARIFICATION ON HEADLINE In Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Sentinel, a headline change made in the design process which is done in another office, incorrectly modified the headline on the Meigs County Commissioner story to indicate the board approved support for marijuana. This headline does not reflect the action of the board or the content of the article. The commissioners unanimously approved support for the application to be filed for a medical marijuana grow operation in the Racine area. This decision was based on the economic impact of the potential business, and did not imply support for marijuana itself. The correct headline, as intended by Sentinel staff, appeared with the online versions of the article. Local officials make final push on tax loss By Sarah Hawley shawley@aimmediamidwest.com POMEROY — Since finding out last fall that the county budget could be impacted by the medicaid managed care tax cut, the Meigs County Commissioners and others have been in communication with legislators working to find a way to offset the cuts to the counties and local governments. A public meeting was held in the county in February, including state representatives and neighboring counties to discuss the situation. Now, just days before a balanced budget must be approved by legislators in Ohio and signed by Gov. John Kasich, there is still no fix to permanently replace the approximately $574,000 that Meigs County will lose annually. While Meigs and other counties are losing the funding, the state, which has also received revenue from the same sales tax will not lose any money. The administration worked with the federal government to negotiate a fee which will make the state whole financially. The fee, however, does not trickle down to the counties. Asked for comment on the situation and the funding for the counties, Emmalee Kalmbach, Press Secretary for Gov. John Kasich’s office, stated that it is important to remember that the replacement plan is a result of a federal rule change. “To assist with the federal rule change the largest See TAX | 5 INDEX Obituaries: 2 Business: 3 Editorial: 4 Weather: 8 Sports: 9 Classifieds: 10 Comics: 11 File photo The Belle of Cincinnati will return to Riverfront Park July 24. Belle of Cincinnati to return to area By Morgan McKinniss mmckinniss@aimmediamidwest. com OHIO VALLEY — The tenth annual Point Pleasant River Museum and Learning Center River Boat Dinner Cruise will be held July 24 at 7 p.m. What started, and continues as a fundraiser for the museum, has grown substantially over the years and this year is expected to be no less promising. The Belle of Cincinnati will be the vessel on which the cruise will take place. It is the flagship of the BB Riverboats company, and offers three, climate-controlled decks, each covered in ornate Victorian styling. Multiple decks offer various options for dinning and drinks. The cruise is handicap accessible, with an elevator on board and a tram to the dock. This year the cruise will again launch from the Riverfront Park in downtown Point Pleasant, taking its passengers on a two-and-a-half hour ride along the Ohio River, returning to Riverfront Park at 9:30 p.m. that evening. The meal will be a buffet dinner prepared by the on-board chef, and is available immediately after boarding. Entertainment for the evening will be provided by local musician, Sam Stephens. Stephens, whose father was also a local performer, will be playing a variety of songs and instruments that can be danced to, or simply enjoyed through listening. Tickets are available by calling the museum at 304-674-0144 and asking for Martha Fout, or by visiting the museum during their business hours. Tickets run $50 per adult, $30 per child from 4-12 years old, and admission is free for children under four, although they will still need a ticket. Boarding will take place from 6:15-6:45 p.m. According to museum employee Ruth Fout: “Last year over 60 people wanted to go but couldn’t because we were sold out.” Ruth explained the need to purchase tickets as soon as possible to guarantee the ability to go, since the cruise is a sold out event perennially. The funds are used to benefit the museum. To learn more about the cruise and other events going on with the museum, visit www.pprivermuseum.com. Reach Morgan McKinniss at 740446-2342 ext 2108. Summer cooling crisis program to begin Community action releases information JOIN THE CONVERSATION What’s your take on today’s news? Go to mydailysentinel. com and visit us on facebook to share your thoughts. Staff Report OHIO VALLEY — Gallia Meigs Community Action Agency is reminding the community that the 2017 Emergency Summer Crisis Program for cooling assistance to low income eligible resi- dents will run from July 3, and continue through Aug. 31 or until the funds are depleted. There will be air conditioners this program year, however the first priority will be assisting with electric bill. (AEP and BREC). Those wishing to receive an air conditioner, must have an appointment and cannot have received one in the last three years. There is a limited quantity of air conditioners and they go very quickly. Income eligible persons may call to make an appointment for an air conditioner on Friday, June 23. Regular appointments will be made Friday, June 30 . Eligible applicants can be assisted in two (2) ways which are listed below: An income eligible household, under 60, where the individual has a current qualify medical condition/breathing disorder, (ex: Lung disease, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or asthma), verified within the last three months by a physician documentation from a medical professional (you will be required to have the medical statement on your appointment day, which can be picked up at our Cheshire and Middleport See SUMMER | 2 �OBITUARIES/NEWS 2 Thursday, June 29, 2017 Daily Sentinel DEATH NOTICES ROWE PROCTORVILLE — Connie L. Rowe, 69, of Proctorville, Ohio passed away Tuesday, June 27, 2017 at home. Hall Funeral Home and Crematory, Proctorville, Ohio is assisting the family with arrangements, which are incomplete. SOWARDS VINTON — Derald Brian Sowards, 54, of Vinton, passed away on Tuesday June 27, 2017 at Holzer Medical Center. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Saturday July 1, 2017 at the Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral Home. Burial will follow in the Centenary Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home on Saturday from 11 a.m. until the time of service. KAYSER WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — David Michael Kayser, 61, of West Hartford, Conn., formerly of Mason County, W.Va., passed away after a long battle with cancer on Sunday, June 18, 2017. David’s funeral service was held at Asylum Hill Congregational Church, 814 Asylum Ave, Hartford, Conn., on Friday, June 23. Summer From page 1 offices and taken to your medical office before your appointment). Or you may be eligible if you qualify with #2 below: An income eligible household where the applicant is 60 or older. The income eligible household may receive one payment for electric bill up to the current bill or be a first PIPP Plus customer, but not to exceed $300 (AEP) or $500 (BREC) or may repair the central air up to $300 (homeowner only) or a new window unit if there is no central air. If you are in disconnect status, you will be required to pay the difference before we can assist with our maximum payments. However, a PIPP Plus customer with AEP is not eligible for assistance with the electric bill, but may be eligible for a window unit or central air repair. Required medical forms (blank) may be picked up in our Chesire Office. Appointments can be made by calling the Cheshire Office at 740-367-7341 for Gallia and Meigs Counties. Walk-ins will be taken as time allows. Items needed for an appointment are as follows. Proof of gross Income for everyone in the household for the past three months, weekly - last 13 pay stubs, 81-weekly - last seven pay stubs. SS/ SSI/SSO - bank statement or award letter PERS/VA/SERS/ PENSION - copy of award letter. College Student: Financial Aid Documents. Child Support/O WF/TANF/ DA- print out of the last three months or bank statement. Social security cards, names and birth dates for everyone in the household. Current heating bill or statement (Columbia Gas, Propane, Fuel Oil, Coal or Wood). Current Electric Bill (AEP or Buckeye Rural). If you pay for health insurance, documented proof for three months spin down (DJFS), Aflac, AARP, Blue Cross Blue Shield, etc. Medical Card or Case Number (if applicable). Child support, ordered to pay or received. Print out (documented proof for the last 3 months, verification of whether receiving or not). Landlord’s name, address and phone number (i/renting). Under 60 needs medical statement dated within the last three months - chronic breathing disorder. Annual income eligibility for one person in the household is $21,105.00, 2 persons $28,420.00, 3 persons $35,735.00. 4 persons $43,050.00, S persons $50,365.00, 6 persons $57,680.00, 7 persons $64,995.50 and 8 persons $72,310.00. You must bring all documentation or you will not be assisted. Community action is located at: Cheshire office 8010 N. State Route 7, 740-3677341; Middleport office, 1359 Powell Street Middleport, 740-992-5266. Submitted by the Gallia Meigs Community Action Agency. Civitas Media, LLC (USPS 436-840) Telephone: 740-992-2155 Publishes every Sunday and Tuesday through Friday. Subscription rate is $131.61 per year. Dean Wright photos | Daily Tribune Miranda Wood addresses the assembled for the Love is Love gathering Monday evening. Pride in the park Love is Love event supports LGBT community By Dean Wright deanwright@aimmediamidwest. com GALLIPOLIS — Supporters of the Gallia lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community met in Gallipolis City Park Monday evening to celebrate pride in the identity of the community in what may well have been the first event of its kind ever in Gallia County. According to event organizer Miranda Wood, as an ally of the LGBT community, she had friends in the area who had announced their sexuality to family and received harsh rejection. She had also heard strong language against the LGBT community while traveling through City Park in the past and felt it was time for those of like mind to support and announce that the LGBT community did, in fact, also exist in Gallia County. A rough count of the area at one point revealed Participants of the Love is Love event took the opportunity to display support for the LGBT community by drawing on the Court Street sidewalk. around 70 individuals attended the event. The event was titled on social media “Love is Love.” “I just wanted the community to maybe know that there are people here with the mindset of love or equality,” said Wood. “Sometimes, I know as an ally, I feel separated from some of the friends that I grew up with…One day I woke up (mad) and I wanted to do something. I just wanted a simple thing and to see some kindness at heart and maybe we can grow this thing. I’m just glad you all came out and can show people walking by that we are showing support, to show that we’re thriving. And even if someone didn’t walk back here, at least, hopefully, they would get the idea of the rainbow tree (what we stand for).” Wood pointed out a nearby tree wrapped in a rainbow visage on the corner of Second Avenue and Court Street in City Park. “I have never had a problem in Gallia County or Meigs, ever,” said Randy Osborne, of Gallia. “I think this is a nice thing to get started. We have to let it grow. I say we have to work on it all year long.” Osborne confirmed he would like to see a nonprofit committee formed to the continuation of such an event in Gallia County. “The community, if you give them a chance to accept and you don’t give into the negativity (good things will happen), and that’s my motto,” said Osborne. “I’ve been out since I was 19 and I’m 54.” Dean Wright can be reached at 740446-2342, ext. 2103. Roush family reunion set The 89th annual reunion of the Roush/ Rausch family in America will be held on Friday, Aug. 4 and Saturday, Aug. 5 at Quincey, Illinois. The host hotel is the Holiday Inn at 4521 Oak Street, Quincey, Illinois. The Roush family arrived in America in 1736. Eight sons fought in the American Revolution and then migrated to the Meigs/Gallia/Mason county area. A first cousin followed to Mason County, West Virginia, about 20 years later. A banquet will be held on Aug. 4 at 6:30 p.m. (Central Daylight Savings Time). Special lower banquet costs for children 12 or younger are available. Children 3 and under are free. Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. The entertainment for the evening will be Keith Ashley of Pomeroy, Ohio. He is a double descendant of the Roush family. He is an award-winning classical pianist and will be performing. On Aug. 5, there will be an auction of items donated by those attending or sent by family members. Doors will open at 8 a.m. to allow bidders to inspect items. Proceeds go to the two annual Roush family scholarships. A group picture will be taken at 11 a.m. followed by a luncheon at noon. For meal reservations contact Sheldon Roush, treasurer, 5420 Vinings Lake View S.W., Mableton, Ga. 30126, 678-3987913. The deadline for meal reservation is July 28. No cancellations will be allowed after that date. There is no cost to attend the reunion, only to take part in the meals. Ashley is a national historian and will be present to assist in obtaining information on the Roush lineage. There will be dis- 2017. “We have worked hard over the past 43 years to use community tax dollars responsibly. And we will continue to do so,” said Dr. Johnston. “We have been able to better serve residents of Meigs, Jackson and Vinton counties by establishing local locations. This levy will allow us to stay in those locations.” “Rio is a critical part of the four-county area,” said Paul Reed, Chairman of the Rio Grande Community College Board. “Not only does Rio provide students with an affordable education, our school also helps support the local economy. Eighty percent of our full-time employees live in the four-county area. Rio helps our community keep local talent, local.” “(The college) is a vital institution in the plays of pictures of past reunions. Also, the five bound volumes published on the family will be available for purchase. The scholarship winners will be announced at the banquet, and an update on the progress of the next volume on the family will be given. If anyone has not submitted his Roush family updated information, in may still be accepted by sending it to Jerry Roush, 2853 Elm St., Quincey, Illinois 62301, 217-222-0093. For questions call 740992-7874. Submitted by Keith Ashley. Prices are subject to change at any time. 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Currently, the levy is based on property values at the time it was approved by voters, meaning that the value is assessed on what the properties were worth in the 1970s rather than community,” said James Bessette, University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College vice president of marketing and admissions. “It’s critical for Rio and it’s critical for the community.” Editor’s note: More on the replacement levy in upcoming editions. Ohio Valley Publishing journalists Sarah Hawley and Dean Wright contributed to this report. �BUSINESS Daily Sentinel Thursday, June 29, 2017 3 Fed approves dividend, buyback plans of all 34 biggest banks WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve has given the green light to all 34 of the biggest banks in the U.S. to raise their dividends and buy back shares, judging their financial foundations sturdy enough to withstand a major economic downturn. It was the first time in seven years of annual “stress tests” that every bank assessed by the Fed won approval for its capital plans. All have at least $50 billion in assets. The Fed on Wednesday announced the results of the second round of its annual stress tests. Those allowed to raise dividends or repurchase shares include the four biggest U.S. banks — JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo. Capital One’s plan only got conditional approval and it has six months to revise it. But the bank was still allowed to return profits to shareholders. After the results were made public, a number of banks quickly jumped in with announcements of dividend boosts and share buyback plans. They included Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and American Express. Capital One, because of its conditional status, opted to keep its dividend at the current level but is planning a share repurchase. The second part of the seventh yearly checkup tested the banks to determine if their current plans for paying out capital to shareholders would still allow them to keep lending of hit by another financial crisis and severe recession. With the 34 banks holding more than threequarters of total assets of all U.S. financial companies, the results showed strength in an industry that has recovered handily nearly nine years on from the 2008-09 crisis. Banks large and small across the U.S. received hundreds of billions in taxpayer funds to prop them up during the financial meltdown. Now the banks have a total of about $1.2 trillion in capital reserves as of the fourth quarter of last year, an increase of $750 billion over the beginning of 2009, in the depths of the crisis, according to the Fed. They are expected to pay out to shareholders 100 percent of their net revenue over the next four quarters, compared with 65 percent in the same period last year. Fed Gov. Jerome Powell said the Fed’s assessment of banks’ capital plans in light of their reserves “has motivated all of the largest banks to achieve healthy capital levels, and most to substantially improve their capital planning processes.” The financial industry has seized on the strong showing to buttress its assertion that regulations it sees as excessive should be rolled back. After the crisis that plunged the U.S. into the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression of the 1930s, banking industry profits have been steadily ris- ing and banks have been lending more freely. The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have taken major steps this year toward easing the financial rules that came in under the Dodd-Frank law enacted by Democrats and President Barack Obama in response to the crisis. Wednesday’s announcement on the second round of the tests followed last week’s initial results. There, the regulators determined that the 34 big banks are adequately fortified with capital buffers to withstand a severe U.S. and global recession and continue lending. The Fed’s most extreme hypothetical scenario in this year’s tests envisions the U.S. economy falling into a deep recession causing the stock market to plunge about 40 percent. Under that scenario, unemployment — now at a 16-year low of 4.3 percent — climbs to at least 10 percent, while home prices drop 25 percent and commercial real estate prices tumble 30 percent. The Fed said the 34 big banks would sustain $383 billion in loan losses under the most dire scenario. That’s down from $526 billion in losses for 33 banks last year. Even with $383 billion in losses, all the banks would still together hold a highquality capital ratio of 9.2 percent, far above the 4.5 percent minimum and showing improvement from last year’s 8.4 percent. Capital ratios are an industry measure of how strong a cushion a bank holds against unexpected losses. The dividend increases and share buyback plans are important to ordinary investors, and to banks. The banks know that their investors suffered big losses in the crisis, and they are eager to reward them. Some shareholders, especially retirees, rely on dividends for a portion of their income. For the banks, raising dividends can drive up their share prices and make their stock more valuable to investors. But raising dividends is costly, and regulators don’t want banks to run down their capital reserves, making them vulnerable in another recession. Buybacks also are aimed at helping shareholders. By reducing the number of a company’s outstanding shares, earnings per share can increase. CIT was added this year to the banks tested by the Fed. They are: Ally Financial, American Express, BancWest, Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, BB&T, BBVA Compass, BMO Financial, Capital One, Citigroup, Citizens Financial, Comerica, Deutsche Bank, Discover, Fifth Third, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Huntington Bancshares, JPMorgan, KeyCorp, M&T, Morgan Stanley, MUFG Americas Holdings, Northern Trust, PNC, Regions Financial, Santander Holdings, State Street, SunTrust, TD Group, U.S. Bancorp, Wells Fargo and Zions Bancorp. Mason, Gallia, Meigs Chambers team up Ohio Valley Job Fair Aug. 15 PVH Employee of the Month Pleasant Valley Hospital (PVH) announces the Customer Service Employee of the Month for May 2017 is Kristi Erner. Kristi has been employed since January 2005 as a physical therapist. The Employee of the Month at Pleasant Valley Hospital is nominated for taking extra steps to provide excellent customer service to patients and family members at Pleasant Valley Hospital. According to PVH: “Kristi was nominated because she has always been extremely profes- sional and both courteous and conscientious of her patients. When she treats someone once, they always request her when/if they ever have to return. In all the years that Kristi has worked at PVH, all feedback on her performance and care have been overwhelmingly positive.” According to PVH: “Erner is an excellent example of the PVH Employee of the Month, and we are very grateful to have her on our team.” In this recognition, she received a $50 check and a VIP parking space. She will also be eligible for the Customer Service Employee of the Year award with a chance for $250. Erner has lived in Point Pleasant for the past 12 years and lived previously in Findlay, Ohio. She truly loves being a physical therapist, and if given the option, would choose the same career path again, said a PVH spokesperson. When she’s not working, she enjoys outdoor activities and spending time with her family and friends. Companies, governments assess damage from latest malware By Raphael Satter and Frank Bajak those involved in protecting state security, are Associated Press working normally.” But that still left a large number of non-strategic PARIS — Companies and governments around assets — including dozthe world on Wednesday ens of banks and other institutions — fighting counted the cost of a to get back online. Cash software epidemic that has disrupted ports, hos- machines in Kiev seen by pitals and banks. Ukraine, an Associated Press photographer were still out which was hardest hit of order Wednesday, and and where the attack Ukrainian news reports likely originated, said it had secured critical state said that flight information at the city’s Boryspil assets — though everyairport was being proday life remained affectvided in manual mode. ed, with cash machines A local cybersecurity out of order and airport displays operating manu- expert discounted the Ukrainian government’s ally. assurances. As the impact of the “Obviously they don’t cyberattack that erupted control the situation,” Tuesday was still being Victor Zhora of Infosafe measured at offices, loading docks and board- in Kiev told the AP. Others outside Ukraine rooms, the Ukrainian were struggling, too. Cabinet said that “all strategic assets, including Logistics firm FedEx says deliveries by its TNT Express subsidiary have been “slowed” by the cyberattack, which had “significantly affected” its systems. At India’s largest container port, one of the terminals was idled by the malicious software. M.K. Sirkar, a manager at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust in Mumbai, said that no containers could be loaded or unloaded Wednesday at the terminal operated by A.P. Moller-Maersk, the Denmark-based shipping giant. In a statement, MollerMaersk acknowledged that its APM Terminals had been “impacted in a number of ports” and that an undisclosed number of systems were shut down “to contain the issue.” ing information on potential employment opportunities across various industries and education resources. Each of the employers will be provided with a table and two chairs. Job seekers are asked to bring credentials, resumes, and be prepared to interact with potential employers at the event. If interested contact your local chamber directors. Ohio Valley Banc Corp. Joins Russell 3000 Index GALLIPOLIS — Ohio Valley Banc Corp. (Nasdaq: OVBC) joined the broad-market Russell 3000® Index at the conclusion of the Russell indexes annual reconstitution, effective after the US market opened June 26. Annual reconstitution of Russell’s U.S. indexes captures the 4,000 largest U.S. stocks as of the end of May, ranking them by total market capitalization. Membership in the US all-cap Russell 3000® Index, which remains in place for one year, means Ohio Valley Banc Corp. is also included in the small-cap Russell 2000® Index as well as appropriate growth and value style indexes. Russell determines membership for its indexes primarily by objective, marketcapitalization rankings and style attributes. Russell indexes are widely used by investment managers and institutional investors for index funds and as benchmarks for active investment strategies. Approximately $8.4 trillion in assets are benchmarked against Russell’s US indexes. The annual Russell reconstitution is usually one of the most highlyanticipated and heaviest trading days in the U.S. equity market, as asset managers seek to reconfigure their portfolios to reflect the composition of Russell’s indexes. As such, the trading in Ohio Valley Banc Corp.’s shares has been volatile and heavy as many of these shares were purchased by or for Russell Index mutual funds, which are required to own the shares of the newly added companies when the Index is reconstituted. Ohio Valley Banc Corp. common stock is traded on The NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol OVBC. The holding company owns subsidiaries: Ohio Valley Bank, with 19 offices in Ohio and West Virginia; Loan Central, with six consumer finance offices in Ohio. Learn more about Ohio Valley Banc Corp. at www.ovbc.com. Information submitted by Ohio Valley Banc Corp. OHIO VALLEY BUSINESS BRIEFS Chamber luncheon set POINT PLEASANT — Mason County Area Chamber of Commerce luncheon, noon, July 25, Marshall University Mid-Ohio Valley Center. Speaker is Precision Signs/Graphics owner Caleb Duong who will give a presentation detailing the workings of his IT solutions company. Call Chamber Executive Director Hilda Austin at 304-675-1050 to for members and $10 for RSVP. Cost of lunch is $8 non-members. Middleport Community Association Lunch Along The River July 12th-August 2nd-September 6th Serving 11am -1pm at Dave Diles Park ~Delivery Available~ 740-591-6095 ~ 740-416-2247 We have these Middleport landmark Cat’s Meows High School-Pool-Post Office-Library & Meigs High School ~ $20 @ 740-992-5877 60725150 PVH/Courtesy Employee of the Month Kristi Erner, at center, is pictured with Amy Mullins, PVH Wellness and Rehabilitation Center director, and Glen Washington, FACHE, PVH CEO. Meigs County Chambers in hopes of being a productive tool for getting job information to prospective employees. OHIO VALLEY — Congressman Evan JenPlans are in the works kins (R-W.Va.) and Confor a job fair taking place on Tuesday, Aug. gressman Bill Johnson (R-Ohio) will be guests 15, 2017 at the Trinity U.M. Church Communi- at the event. Businesses/industy Building, 615 Viand tries are invited to Street, Point Pleasant, W.Va. from 11 a.m. to 3 participate; job seekers will have the opporp.m. tunity to meet with This event is being employers from the sponsored by the Ohio Valley area gainMason, Gallia and �E ditorial 4 Thursday, June 29, 2017 Daily Sentinel THEIR VIEW The Kentucky case that stoked Lincoln’s anti-slavery zeal A great revolution was required to bring Abraham Lincoln out of the political wilderness. But little noticed has been a decisive event in his life that gave him the cause that carried him to the presidency. After Lincoln’s one term in Congress, he returned in 1849 to his spare law office in Springfield, Ill. He was obscure, politically forlorn and despairing about the fate of democracy. Almost at once his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, sent him on an urgent mission to her hometown of Lexington, Ky., to serve as co-counsel to recover the Todd family fortune, which was considerable. For nearly a decade, Mary’s father, John S. Todd, who was Sidney Sen. Henry Clay’s business Blumenthal partner and political ally, had Contributing tried to pry the Todd estate from columnist Robert Wickliffe, the powerful and wealthy leader of the proslavery movement in Kentucky. Wickliffe had been married to Polly Todd, a Todd cousin who had held the estate but passed away. John Todd, running for the state senate against that pro-slavery movement, was demonized as an “abolitionist,” though he was a slaveholder himself. In the middle of the campaign, in July 1849, he died of cholera. Lincoln arrived in October, just in time to see the pro-slavery forces rewrite the Kentucky state constitution to eliminate the law prohibiting the slave trade within its borders. Lincoln lost the case and the Todd family lost the estate to Wickliffe at the same moment that the political legacy of Clay, Lincoln’s early “beau ideal of a statesman,” and that of Mary’s beloved father, was destroyed. If those events were not sufficiently embittering for Lincoln, there was another factor, a concealed one. The evidence from journals, pamphlets and court documents reveals a mystery underlying the Todd Heirs v. Wickliffe case. There was, in fact, a living and rightful heir. He was Polly Todd’s grandson, the only child of her son, who had died at a young age. But this heir was not legitimate or legally a person. He was, in fact, a slave, and he had been emancipated and shipped to Liberia. In 1878, this former slave, the invisible man of the story, Alfred Francis Russell, was elected vice president of Liberia, and in 1883 became its president. When Lincoln came back to Illinois, he spoke to friends about slavery as a political and social force. He was “naturally antislavery,” but after the Todd Heirs case his tone turned “emphatic.” “The slavery question can’t be compromised,” he told one friend. He described young “thoughtless and giddy headed” Kentucky slaveholders with slaves “trudging” behind them, “the most glittering ostentatious and displaying property in the world” “Lincoln would get excited on the question,” said another of his friends, “and believed that the tendency of the times was to make slavery universal.” He said, “In a few years we will be ready to accept the institution in Illinois and the whole country will adopt it.” Suddenly, five years later, in 1854, the old political order cracked apart. Lincoln’s longtime rival in Illinois, U.S. Sen. Stephen A. Douglas, ambitious for Southern support for the Democratic presidential nomination, sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise that had forbidden slavery north of a middle line of latitude and now made possible the extension of slavery to the west. The fear Lincoln had in Kentucky of the nationalization of slavery now “aroused him as never before.” New political alignments began a battle for the nation’s soul. Joining the resistance, leaving behind his sense of political impotence, Lincoln still simmered in anger over the Todd Heirs case. In 1855, he wrote a private letter to his former co-counsel, George Robertson, a Kentucky judge, framing for the first time the central issue of a “house divided”: “Our political problem now is ‘Can we, as a nation, continue together permanently — forever — half slave, and half free?’” A few months later, Lincoln founded the Illinois Republican Party. In one of his 1858 Senate debates with Douglas, Lincoln declared, “I would disdain to hold any political principles that I could not avow in the same terms in Kentucky that I declared in Illinois … our political faith ought to be as broad, liberal, and just as that Constitution itself.” Sidney Blumenthal is the author of “Wrestling With His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2, 1849-1856.” He wrote this for the Philadelphia Inquirer. THEIR VIEW Is there room in Arlington, in our memories for Confederate soldiers? WASHINGTON — Arlington National Cemetery, it seems, is running out of space. A bugler might need to play taps for the holiest and most visited of the nation’s military resting places sometime around mid-century if the burial ground isn’t further expanded. But oh yes, I forgot. Some space could be made in Section 16, where one can find buried Confederate dead and a memorial to those who fell trying to form a separate union. With today’s full-out mania to wipe away visible Civil War history, at least the tributes to the South’s heroes, perhaps some plots could be freed up by removing what some see as symbols of treason. It’s doubtful most Americans even know 482 Dixie bodies are taking up room in this hallowed ground, carved from the plantation of the most famous of all Confederates, Gen. Robert E. Lee, who last stayed in the farm’s mansion overlooking the U.S. Capitol the sleepless night before he that the aesthetic decided he loved Dan K. was chosen simVirginia more than the rest of Thomasson ply to set these graves apart from the nation. It was Contributing columnist those belonging just a matter of to the 400,000 state’s rights. other individuals But don’t tell buried under Arlington’s that to those leading manicured sod. the current campaign The cemetery began to obliterate the statues accepting these rebels and monuments studin 1901, years after the ding southern cities Spanish-American War, from Alexandria, Va., to during which public aniNew Orleans, an effort that has extended to dis- mosity against Confederates began to subside as crediting Lee’s motives Southern and Union vets and military genius. Those interred in Sec- fought together. A few years later, the tion 16 are an eclectic bunch including not only United Daughters of the Confederacy received soldiers who gave their lives for what they called permission to erect their memorial in Arlington, “the Cause,” but also which was created in wives and civilians and 1864 with the Civil War unknowns. Marking the was still raging. spot is a sizable memoA project to be finrial statue of a woman, ished in August will her hand stretched out add some 27 acres and to her beloved South. 28,000 burial sites, The memorial is the work of Moses Ezekiel, a which should suffice Confederate veteran who until around 2041, at which point our most is buried at the base. honored dead will have The headstones in this portion are pointed, to go elsewhere. That is, with a common explana- unless other solutions are found. tion being they were By fighting the Civil designed this way to War, America reafkeep Unionists from firmed one of the main sitting on them in disfoundational tenants: respect. The cemetery’s That all men are created official explanation is equal and endowed by the creator with certain unalienable rights like life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. But today, revisionists are moving to eliminate prominent reminders of the war, arguing there is nothing noble worth remembering about the battlefield sacrifices of Southern soldiers, most of whom weren’t slaveholders and fought mainly with the passionate belief they were defending their homes. Perhaps then, those Southerners buried in the sacred grounds of Arlington should be disinterred, their memorial removed. Would that finally heal the wounds of slavery? Or would it be better to continue to acknowledge that history is unchangeable and we need constant reminders that millions of Americans had to die on both sides to begin the drawn-out process of keeping the promise of our founders? Dan Thomasson is an op-ed columnist for Tribune News Service and a former vice president of Scripps Howard Newspapers. Readers may send him email at thomassondan@aol.com. TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Thursday, June 29, the 180th day of 2017. There are 185 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 29, 1767, Britain approved the Townshend Revenue Act, which imposed import duties on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper and tea shipped to the American colonies. (Colonists bitterly protested, prompting Parliament to repeal the duties — except for tea.) On this date: In 1613, London’s original Globe Theatre, where many of Shakespeare’s plays were performed, was destroyed by a fire sparked by a cannon shot during a performance of “Henry VIII.” In 1880, France annexed Tahiti, which became a French colony on December 30, 1880. In 1927, the first transPacific airplane flight was completed as Lt. Lester J. Maitland and Lt. Albert F. Hegenberger arrived at Wheeler Field in Hawaii aboard the Bird of Paradise, an Atlantic-Fokker C-2, after flying 2,400 miles from Oakland, California, in 25 hours, 50 minutes. In 1936, entertainer and songwriter George M. Cohan was presented with the Congressional Gold Medal by President Franklin D. Roosevelt for his contributions to building American morale during World War I. In 1941, Polish statesman, pianist and composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski (een-YAHS’ yahn pahdayr-EF’-skee) died in New York at age 80. In 1956, actress Marilyn Monroe married playwright Arthur Miller in a civil ceremony in White Plains, New York. (The couple also wed in a Jew- THOUGHT FOR TODAY “I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.” — Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003). ish ceremony on July 1; the marriage lasted 4 1/2 years). In 1967, actress Jayne Mansfield, 34, was killed along with her boyfriend, Sam Brody, and their driver, Ronnie Harrison, when their car slammed into the rear of a tractor-trailer on a highway in Slidell, Louisiana; three children riding in the back, including Mansfield’s 3-year-old daughter, Mariska Hargitay, survived. Jerusalem was re-unified as Israel removed barricades separating the Old City from the Israeli sector. In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a trio of death sentences, saying the way they had been imposed constituted cruel and unusual punishment. (The ruling prompted states to effectively impose a moratorium on executions until their capital punishment laws could be revised.) In 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Morrison v. Olson, upheld the independent counsel law in a 7-1 decision (the sole dissenter was Justice Antonin Scalia). In 1992, the remains of Polish statesman Ignacy Jan Paderewski (een-YAHS’ yahn pahdayr-EF’-skee), interred for five decades in the United States, were returned to his homeland in keeping with his wish to be buried only in a free Poland. �NEWS Daily Sentinel Thursday, June 29, 2017 5 MEIGS CALENDAR OF EVENTS Editor’s Note: The Daily Sentinel appreciates your input to the community calendar. To make sure items can receive proper attention, all information should be received by the newspaper at least five business days prior to an event. All coming events print on a space-available basis and in chronological order. Events can be emailed to: TDSnews@ civitasmedia.com. Tuesday, July 4 Monday, July 3 OLIVE TWP. — The Olive Township Trustees will hold regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the township garage on Joppa Road. From page 1 dollar increase in the governor’s proposed budget will go to help locals deal with this adjustment while maintaining fiscal stability, limiting negative impacts on Ohio’s non-Medicaid MCOs and providing assistance to counties and transit authorities,” Kalmbach stated in an email. Kasich’s budget, and those approved by the house and senate, provide for a one time payout to the counties and transit authorities, rather than a permanent annual fix. The payouts are based on “need” although no formula has been released for how the payouts were figured. Under the payout plan, Meigs County is to receive approximately $3.4 million as a one-time payment. A proposed budget amendment which Commissioner Randy Smith’s recent testimony supported from Senator Matt Dolan was not included in the final version of the senate budget which was approved last week. The Dolan amendment would have provided revenue to the counties and transit authorities impacted Sunday, July 9 Wednesday, July 5 Thursday, July 6 Monday, July 10 MIDDLEPORT — A public meeting will be held at Middleport CHESTER — Chester Shade by the cuts to make them whole once again, while also leaving the payouts to the counties that was in Kasich’s budget. Kasich’s budget provides two types of transition assistance to counties and transit authorities, a revenue replacement calculation and formula loss assistance. The revenue replacement calculation completely replaces the revenue from Oct. 1, 2017 to Dec. 31, 2017 as a result of the loss. All 88 counties and eight transit authorities will receive this funding. The formula loss assistance will go to 80 counties and all eight transit authorities and is based on the reliance on the tax among other factors. The eight counties which receive less than four percent of their sales tax revenue from the managed care tax do not receive this funding. Smith, who has been involved in numerous local and regional meetings on the matter, and submitted written testimony to the Senate finance committee a few weeks ago, spoke with the Sentinel about the status of the tax loss as the budget deadline approaches and what is being done to share the local position RACINE — The Theiss reunion will be held at 1 p.m. at the American Legion in Racine. Attendees are ased to bring a covered dish for the dinner. with those at the capital. Smith is not the only local official who has worked to make Meigs County’s voice heard throughout the budget negotiation process at the state level. Fellow commissioners Mike Bartrum and Tim Ihle, Clerk of Courts Sammi Mugrage and many other office holders, local organizations and individuals have been reaching out to legislators to share what the impact of this tax loss will mean to them, their offices and organizations. Newly elected State Rep. Jay Edwards (R-Nelsonville) has also been hands on, working with representatives from other areas and maintaining a line of communication with local officials, said Smith. In the last few days leading up to the June 30 budget deadline, the County Commissioners Association of Ohio (CCAO) has been encouraging its members to reach out not only to their legislators, as had been the case all along, but to the governor’s office as well. It was that call to action that led Smith to reach out to the Governor’s Office to issue an invitation for the governor to come to Meigs County for a meeting and to see how the county operates on a day to day basis. Smith stated that he has attempted to file the request through the website he was directed to by the Governor’s Office and has also emailed regarding the request. Smith said that should Kasich accept the invitation he would see a county where elected officials work 40 hour weeks alongside the employees in their offices; he would see a treasurer staffing the counter to take tax payments from customers; he would see a clerk completing the same duties as her deputy clerks; he would see commissioners in the office on a day to day basis conducting business on behalf of the county. In announcing the budget in early 2017 which did not include a fix for the loss to the counties, Kasich, Smith stated, has indicated that the counties were using the tax money to create a “surplus” or “pad salaries.” While Smith said he cannot assure that that is not the case in each and every county, he said it is far from Village Hall at 6 p.m. regarding the sewer flow project taking place in the village. There will not be a council meeting that evening. Saturday, July 15 SALEM TWP. — The Salem Township Volunteer Fire Department will hold its 39th Annual Ice Cream Social with serving from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the firehouse located on State Route 124 in Salem Center. The menu will consist of 10 flavors of homemade ice cream, pulled pork sandwiches, sloppy joes, hot dogs, pies and more. For more information, contact Linda Montgomery at 740-669-4245. the case in Meigs County. It is quite the opposite in Meigs County Smith indicated, stating that it was not until 2015 in which all county employees were brought up to making $10 per hour. Now, with the cut of nearly 22 percent of the county’s sales tax revenue, and 10 percent of the overall operating budget, the county will be set back to 2012 revenue levels. Smith said that many agencies, events and others which the county has been able to provide financial support for over the past couple years are concerned as well as to what the budget cuts may mean to them. Additionally, while revenue levels will go back to the 2012 levels, expenses continue to rise. Mandates and new laws approved at the state level also have an impact on the budget, increasing expenses placed on the counties. One such matter referenced by Smith is the switch to Next Gen 911 over the next few years. It would require the county to spend approximately $750,000 to follow the new guidelines in order for the county to continue to receive the approximately $100,000 annually from cell phone fees. There is no funding available from the state to complete the upgrade, but simply the loss of funding should the county, or other agencies, not comply. It is likely something that is not feasible for the county to spend the additional funding. So what does the cut mean to the county and the services it provides. That is not yet known specifically, as the payout could help for a short period of time. The tax loss could also be something addressed by whomever is elected as governor next year, although it has not been addressed by any of the candidates at this point. For the time being, Smith and the other remain hopeful that a fix will be put in place to make the counties whole from the tax loss and will continue to reach out to state and regional officials to make sure Meigs County’s voice is heard. Farmers Bank & Android/Apple/Samsung Pay Presents Customer Appreciation Day! June 30th @ Mason Branch 11:00 AM -1:00 PM Free Food Great Fun Chance to Win $100 Cold Hard Cash! 93.1 The Wolf Live Remote 60725686 Tax POMEROY — The Meigs County Health Department will be closed in observance of Independence Day. 60720791 TUPPERS PLAINS — The next regular meeting of Orange township will be held Monday, July 3 at 7 p.m. at the township building. All meeting are open to the public. Historical Association July board meeting will be held at the Chester Academy dining area at 6:30 p.m. One hour before the regular meeting we will have a planning meeting for the Meigs Heritage Festival. �6 Thursday, June 29, 2017 Daily Sentinel Daily Sentinel Thursday, June 29, 2017 7 Inspiring Leaders Meigs County Canine Rescue & Adoption Center Dogs come to us in many ways. Owners surrender them. People pick up strays. We pick up strays. Dogs left behind when people move. Neglected and abused, unwanted, and outgrown. They come here and we make a better life for them. 33133 Highland Road Pomeroy, Ohio 740-992-3779 When a dog comes to stay with us, they get their first shots, wormed, weighed, and their health and personality assessed. They get a new name because they are starting a new life. We take their pictures and try to make them famous on Facebook. They get a clean room, a good meal, and respect. For many of them, this is the best they’ve ever had and they show their appreciation with barks and licks. Visitors to our facility often ask how we can stand the noise of all the dogs barking. To us, it is just dog talk, and we love it! The first 24 – 48 hours here can be a bit daunting for some dogs. Their senses are much better than a human’s, so they are picking up so much more than we do. Our job is to help them settle in. Some may get a comfy blanket or a toy. Some get a little more personal attention. We do what we can to make them feel at home here. It is their home. Our facility has several play areas for the dogs to exercise and socialize in, which they do several times a day. During those times, we can determine more about their personality and social skills and correct some negative behaviors. Our goal for each one of them is a happy home with a great family, so we need to learn as much about them as we can in order to help them find just the right home. The shelter is operated through county funding & donations. We are here to serve the public. Volunteers are always welcome. Our primary goal is local adoption, but we also work with approved rescues when a dog is special needs, or is just not getting local adoption interest. Meigs County Canine Rescue & Adoption Center is a group effort. We have a regular staff of 2: Dog Warden (Coleen MurphySmith) and Assistant Dog Warden (Delani Cummins), but we could not do what we do without our summer workers, volunteers, and the tremendous support of our public. Our workers here do not have the most glamorous job in the world, but they do it without complaint. To put it plainly, there is a lot of poop in the job, and drool, and hair, and stink! Well, not so much stink, because they work so hard at keeping the facility and the dogs clean. They are priceless. Our main goal is to find our dogs their forever homes through rescue and adoption! Visit our fb page often to see who is waiting for you to love them! Not a day goes by that we don’t get a donation of some kind. We are able to do special diets, give them toys to play with, blankets, medicines, send them home with adoption bags full of goodies, because of the generosity of our local folks. Some people recently started a landscaping project at no cost to the Center. To say that our dogs are loved is an understatement. We moved into our new building in March of 2016. Since then over 1000 dogs have come through these doors. We do our best for each and every one of them. 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Clearing tonight. High 89° / Low 68° HEALTH TODAY AccuWeather.com Asthma Index™ Temperature The AccuWeather.com Asthma Index combines the effects of current air quality, pollen counts, wind, temperature, dew point, barometric pressure, and changes from past weather conditions to provide a scale showing the overall probability and severity of an asthma attack. 77° 51° 85° 64° 102° in 1934 47° in 1915 Precipitation (in inches) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. yest. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date 0.00 4.86 3.65 23.07 21.73 SUN & MOON Today 6:06 a.m. 8:58 p.m. 12:15 p.m. 12:32 a.m. Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Full Jul 8 Last Jul 16 New Jul 23 SOLUNAR TABLE The solunar period indicates peak feeding times for fish and game. Major 5:16a 6:06a 6:51a 7:33a 8:13a 8:52a 9:31a Minor 11:28a 12:17p 12:40a 1:22a 2:02a 2:41a 3:20a 0-2 Low; 3-4 Moderate; 5-6 High; 7-8 Very High; 9-10 Extreme POLLEN & MOLD Low Moderate High Lucasville 88/70 Moderate High Very High Major 5:40p 6:29p 7:13p 7:55p 8:35p 9:14p 9:54p Minor 11:52p ---1:02p 1:44p 2:24p 3:03p 3:43p WEATHER HISTORY Some gardens in the Reno, Nev., area ran out of luck on June 29, 1963, when temperatures dropped to 32 degrees -- the latest freeze on record there. Source: Hamilton County Department of Environmental Services AIR QUALITY 300 500 Primary pollutant: Particulates 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. Source: Hamilton County Department of Environmental Services OHIO RIVER Levels in feet as of 7 a.m. yesterday Location Willow Island Marietta Parkersburg Belleville Racine Point Pleasant Gallipolis Huntington Ashland Lloyd Greenup Portsmouth Maysville Meldahl Dam Flood Stage 37 34 36 35 41 40 50 50 52 54 50 50 51 Level 12.60 17.41 22.09 12.65 12.91 24.61 12.37 26.52 34.32 12.38 22.30 34.60 23.60 24-hr. 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The remaining tournaments, courses and dates of play are as follows: Wednesday, July 5 at Cliffside Golf Course in Gallipolis and Monday, July 10 at Meigs County Golf Course in Pomeroy. The fee for each tournament is $10 per player. A small lunch is included with the fee and will be served at the conclusion of play each week. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., with play starting at 9 a.m. Please contact Jeff Slone at 740-256-6160, Jan Haddox at 304-6753388, or Bob Blessing 304-675-6135 if you can contribute or have questions concerning the tour. Meigs football golf scramble MASON, W.Va. — The Meigs Marauder football team will host a golf scramble on Saturday, July 22, at Riverside Golf Course. The tournament will be a four-man, best-ball scramble that includes bringing your own team. The cost of the tournament is $240 per team. The team must have a combined handicap of over 40, and only one player can have a handicap less than eight. Registration will begin at 8 a.m., with a 9 a.m. shotgun start following. All checks should be made available to Meigs Football. Various prizes will be given out on selected holes and there will also be a double your money Par 3 hole, a skins game and a cash pot. Prizes will be awarded for first, second and third place finishers with club house credit. Also, new Meigs football shirts will be given out. Food and beverages will be available. This tournament is the rescheduled event from April 22, which was canceled due to inclement weather. Interested golfers should contact Tonya Cox at 740-645-4479 or Riverside Golf Course at 304-773-5354. GAHS football golf scramble GALLIPOLIS, Ohio — The annual Gallia Academy football golf scramble will be Saturday, July 22, at Cliffside Golf Course. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. and the scramble will start at 8:30 a.m. The format will be bring your own team, and the team will be four players with only one handicap under eight and a team handicap of 40 or greater. There will be two divisions to choose from. The blue division is a competitive division that will be playing for cash prizes. The white division is a fun division with no See BRIEFS | 10 Thursday, June 29, 2017 s 9 OVP Top 5 of 2016-17 Alex Hawley/OVP Sports EHS senior Laura Pullins clears 5 feet, 6 inches during the Division III high jump finals on Friday, June 2, at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. No. 3: A big weekend at Jesse Owens By Bryan Walters bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com A weekend full of achievements. The 2017 OHSAA track and field championships held at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium ended up being historic for the Ohio Valley Publishing area, mainly due to the fact that three different schools came away with podium finishes. The girls programs at Meigs, Gallia Academy and Eastern all scored points in their respective divisions, something that hadn’t happened on the Ohio side of the tri-county area in six years — dating back to when GAHS, EHS and River Valley last accomplished the feat during the 2010 and 2011 campaigns. In all, six different ladies amassed all-Ohio honors in four separate events. Nobody came away with a state title, but four seniors ended their prep careers standing atop the awards platform … and two underclassmen will have a chance to duplicate that feeling in a little under 12 months. It started on the opening day in Division III with Eastern senior Laura Pullins, who qualified for the state meet in each of her four years with the Lady Eagles. Pullins was appearing in her third career high jump final and took full advantage of that experience after tying a personal-best leap of 5 feet, 6 inches — which is an EHS school record. Pullins ultimately finished fifth overall, which netted four points for the Lady Eagles. Eastern ended up tying with seven other squads for 52nd place out of 82 scoring teams in Division III, but Pullins also gave the program its first state points in three years. Coincidentally, Pullins is linked to the Lady Eagles’ last podium efforts in 2014 after joining Keri Lawrence, Taylor Palmer and Maddie Rigsby on a pair of top-eight relay teams. As a freshman, Pullins was part of a fourth place finish in the 4x800m event and was also connected to a seventh place effort in the 4x400m relay. Lawrence also finished seventh in the 800m event during those 2014 finals, making her the last individual podium honoree before Pullins. Pullins also qualified for the Paul Boggs/OVP Sports Gallia Academy senior Madi Oiler finished fourth in the Division II girls 300m hurdles final held on Saturday, June 3, at the 2017 OHSAA track and field meet at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. cross country state meet as part of a team her sophomore year and was also a freshman on the 2014 Division IV championship squad in girls basketball. Pullins will be attending Marietta College for both women’s basketball and track. Meigs sophomore Kassidy Betzing started the second wave of history on Saturday, though it took all three of her qualifying jumps just to sneak into the back half of the Division II long jump final. Betzing — who placed seventh as a freshman in this same event — posted a school-record leap of 18 feet, 9 1/4 inches in the finale, which ultimately resulted in a runner-up finish … the highest of any OVP area athlete in the early June competition. Betzing — who already owns the TVC Ohio and D-2 Southeast District long jump records midway through her prep career — netted eight points for the Lady Marauders with that single leap, then played a part in another point later in the day. Seniors Devyn Oliver and Sky Brown, as well as sophomore Taylor Swartz, joined Betzing in guiding the 4x100m relay team to an eighth place time of 49.93 seconds — also a new MHS school record. Those nine points allowed Meigs to finish tied for 25th place out of 75 scoring teams in the Division II competition, the program’s best since 2000. Both Swartz and Betzing have two years to improve, while Oliver has signed to play softball at West Virginia Wesleyan. Brown ends her prep career with a state medal and the memory of a lifetime. Though it was the first state runner-up effort for Betzing at the OHSAA meet, the sophomore did join some pretty elite company from See TOP | 10 Kight named new Southern girls coach By Paul Boggs pboggs@aimmediamidwest.com RACINE, Ohio — Time wasn’t going to make David Kight’s coaching itch go away. In fact, the only remedy was returning to a basketball bench. Now, as of Monday evening, Kight is officially the new girls basketball head coach at Southern — as he ends a three-year hiatus away from the game. Kight replaces Kent Kight Wolfe, who led the Lady Tornadoes for three seasons — before accepting an offer to become boys basketball head coach at South Gallia. “To be afforded the opportunity to come here and coach the girls program at Southern, I am extremely thankful,” said Kight, in an interview at SHS on Tuesday. Kight continued by explaining that he missed coaching basketball — and was ready to re-enter the fray. “The first year you are out of coaching, you miss it. The second year, the itch to get back into it either goes away or it increases. Each year for me, it’s increased a little bit more and I would be around the gym a little bit more. Just got the itch to get back into it,” he said. “Don’t get me wrong. I’ve enjoyed my time away from the grind and the hours you put in and everything that goes into coaching. But I am ready to get back into that grind after three years.” In all, Kight’s coaching tenure spans almost two full decades. A 1994 graduate of Jackson High School, he spent 11 years in the boys program at his alma mater — either at the junior high or junior varsity level, before becoming a varsity assistant for four years to Dustin Ford. Kight then spent another four years with Western’s boys, including his final two as head coach. He then moved on to Meigs, coaching the Marauder men in the 2012-13 and 2013-14 campaigns — and winning a Division III sectional championship in his first year. He has coached girls in both softball and track and field, but Southern will be his initial stint for basketball —as he will continue to teach at Meigs. Kight discussed the primary differences between boys and girls basketball being speed and strength. Otherwise, players still have to defend, dribble, rebound, pass and make shots. “Speed and strength are different, but it’s boys against boys and girls against girls, so that equals itself out one way or the other. The game isn’t any different, though. Nothing is going to change in the game, and I’m still going to teach and coach things the same way,” said Kight. “I’ve never looked at it as here’s the boys workout and here’s the girls workout. It was ‘here’s the workout’. Instead of dividing it by boy or girl, you are coaching athletes. It’s still the game of basketball. That’s the approach I want to take with it and hopefully it pans out.” Kight wasn’t officially hired See KIGHT | 10 �CLASSIFIEDS/SPORTS Top her 300m hurdles career in style with a time of 44.05 seconds, which was good enough for From page 9 fourth place overall. Oiler — a University down the river. A pair of former Gallia of Rio Grande track signee — netted five points Academy state champions — Felicia Close and for the Blue Angels, which led to a nine-way Alexis Geiger — each tie for 41st place in the earned state runner-up honors in the long jump Division II field. Oiler became the new during their decorated record-holder in the careers. 300m hurdles at GAHS Geiger — who competed at Ohio University with her state finale, surpassing Close’s mark of and won 11 varsity let45.04 seconds as a freshters in three sports durman back in 2003. Close, ing her prep career — however, still owns the finished seventh in the long jump as a freshman, highest state finish in the 300m hurdles after then recorded back-toplacing third in 2004. back runner-up efforts Oiler was also a before winning her only multi-year starter on Division II long jump the GAHS soccer team, title in 2009. which won two sectional Close — a Division titles and a share of the II 100m hurdles champion in 2006 — finished OVC crown during her second in the long jump tenure. Gallia Academy’s girls that same season. Close program has scored at still owns the record least one point at the for most state podium state track and field finishes in a career for the storied Blue Angels’ meet in 20 of the last 21 years, with 2016 being program. the lone exception. There have been only With the 2017 tournathree OHSAA track and field championships won ment now in the books, the Ohio Valley Publishby the OVP area since the turn of the millenni- ing area has had at least um, with Gallia Academy one team earn a podium accounting for all three. finish in the last 25 OHSAA meets. The last Logan Allison also won time that Gallia or Meigs the D-2 long jump as a counties collectively senior in 2014. failed to score a point at GAHS senior Madi the state level was 1992. Oiler — a three-time state qualifier and Bryan Walters can be reached at sixth place finisher as a 740-446-2342, ext. 2101. sophomore — capped Briefs Daily Sentinel GAHS youth football camp GALLIPOLIS, Ohio — The Gallia Academy football staff will be conducting a youth football camp for students entering grades 1-8 from 6-8 p.m. on Monday, July 24, through Wednesday, July 26, at Memorial Field. Camp participants will be instructed by the Gallia Academy football staff and players. The cost of the camp is $35 per camper and $25 for each additional family member. Students can register the first day of camp or pre-register by Friday, July 14, to receive $10 off. All campers will receive a t-shirt and compete for prizes. It is requested to that campers bring cleats and a water bottle. Contact assistant coach Cody Call at 740-794-1951 or email cody_call23@ yahoo.com for more information or to preregister. the down period, we need to get them in the gym. If nothing else, just to get shots up so they can get used to me and my personality and how I want to run things. I need to see the different skill levels and athletic abilities to get a plan and a direction for the regular season. Coach (Kent) Wolfe has been a real big help, letting me know the returning roster and who is coming up and names of kids who I should get in contact with. That’s kids that played last year or potential kids that want to play. I plan to do that this week. Hopefully, by the end of the week, I can get some kids in the gym and get names and faces, and get to know each other. We have a small limited window now before the (OHSAA mandatory) down period hits.” That OHSAA “dead period” for basketball is in August, as the Lady Tornadoes begin mandatory volleyball and cross country practice on Aug. 1. Mandatory girls basketball practice commences at the end of October. Once it does, expect the smaller and guardoriented Lady Tornadoes to at least play “a grinding hard-nosed defense”. “We’re going to play 95-percent man-to-man defense. It’s a physical hard-nosed man-to-man, not something that’s laid back and real relaxed,” said the coach. “The ideal thing is to pressure half-court, and if we have the ability and quickness and depth to pressure full-court, we will. Offensively, I have to see them in the gym to get a direction as to whether we will play fast and create offense or play slow and methodical. In high school, you have to adapt your system around the personnel.” For Kight, though, making these plans has been three years in the making. Indeed, only a return to the bench was going to take away his coaching itch. “Being out of it three years, I’ve got those old chills back again now,” he said. “When you’re coaching and planning stuff for the summer and getting things ready for the season, those old feelings come back and your engine gets revved up again. I’m excited for the opportunity. I really am looking forward to it and we’re going to take advantage of it.” 740-645-1075 or 740645-5783. For continued updates, please check out Facebook.com/ GAHSBlueDevilsFootball From page 9 handicap requirements and winners will be drawn at random. Food and beverages will be provided at the event. The deadline for registering is Friday, July 14. To register or for questions, please call Kight From page 9 until Monday’s meeting of the Southern Local Schools Board of Education, so he was planning on meeting with some prospective players for next season by Friday. In addition, he intends to use most of — if not all of — the 10 Ohio High School Athletic Association-allotted summer practice days in July. Most programs have their summer workouts completed by June 30, but Kight was under the impression that the Lady Tornadoes had not been involved in any regular activity throughout June. “Not that I’m aware of,” he said. “To my knowledge, nobody has opened the gym up to let them in or anything like that. At least now until Notices Money To Lend Commercial RVs/Campers NOTICE OHIO VALLEY PUBLISHING CO. Recommends that you do Business with People you know, and NOT to send Money through the Mail until you have Investigated the Offering. NOTICE Borrow Smart. 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Ron Evans Jackson, OH 800-537-9528 Help Wanted General Program substitutes needed for the 2017 – 2018 program year to work at Carleton School and Meigs Industries with children and adults with developmental disabilities. Opportunities include substitute teachers, aides, cook, bus and van drivers, nurse. Qualifications depend on position. Submit application or resume by July 15 to MCBDD, P.O. Box 307, Syracuse, Ohio 45779. Commercial For Lease: office or commercial space, first floor, Court Street, approx. 1600 sq. ft., one bathroom, carpeted, storage area, street parking, $600 per mo, security deposit required, condition excellent. Call 740-441-7875 or 740-446-4425. Miscellaneous LEGALS Jet Aeration Motors repaired, new & rebuilt in stock. Call Ron Evans 1-800-537-9528 Apartments/Townhouses Want To Buy RENTALS AVAILABLE! 2 BR townhouse apartments, also renting 2 & 3BR houses. Call 441-1111. 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Must have current valid Ohio Department of Education Licensure and have or be eligible to obtain Early Childhood Intervention Specialist Validation. This Integrated Preschool Class is part of a Step Up to Quality 5 Star Rated Program. Send resume and a copy of teaching license by July 7th to: Carleton School 1310 Carleton Street P.O. Box 307 Syracuse, OH 45779 Paul Boggs can be reached at 740446-2342, ext. 2106 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE: is hereby given that on Friday, June 30, 2017 at 10:00 a.m., a public sale will be held at 640 E. Main St. Pomeroy, OH 45769. The Farmers Bank and Savings Company is selling for cash in hand or certified check the following collateral: 2003 CHEVY SILVERADO VIN# 1GCEK19T43Z292755 2009 YAMAHA GRIZZLY VIN# 5Y4AH30Y49A008573 2008 NISSAN ALTMA VIN# 1N4AL21E28N558504 2004 CHEVY AVALANCHE VIN# 3GNEK12T14G334026 2006 BUICK RENDEZVOUS VIN# 3G5DAO3L66S546783 2001 CHRYSLER PT CRUISER VIN# 3C4FY4BB11T251509 The Farmers Bank and Savings Company, Pomeroy, Ohio, reserves the right to bid at this sale, and to withdraw the above collateral prior to sale. Further, The Farmers Bank and Savings Company reserves the right to reject any or all bids submitted. The above described collateral will be sold “as is-where is”, with no expressed or implied warranty given. For further information, or for an appointment to inspect collateral, prior to sale date contract Kristi Mainville at 740-992-4048. 6/27/17,6/28/17,6/29/17 Special Notices REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS The Gallia County Children Services Board and the Meigs County Department of Job and Family Services have partnered together to implement Ohio START (Sobriety, Treatment, and Reducing Trauma). Ohio START is an intervention program that will provide specialized victim services, such as intensive trauma counseling, to children who have suffered victimization due to parental drug use. The program will also provide drug treatment for parents of children referred to the program. Created through the office of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, Ohio START requires the partnering of county Public Children Services Agencies (PCSAs), behavioral health providers, and juvenile/family courts. Casey Family Programs is joining with the Ohio Attorney General in investing in promising strategies for Ohio START in southern Ohio. The grant will be administered by the Public Children Services Association of Ohio (PCSAO). The Gallia County Children Services Board and the Meigs County Department of Job and Family Services are seeking an Agency to assist in the planning, coordination of services, case management and oversight of the program in the two counties. Request for Proposals may be pick up from Russ Moore, Executive Director, Gallia County Children Services Board, 83 Shawnee Lane, Gallipolis, Ohio 45631, russ.moore@jfs.ohio.gov or Christopher T. 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