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POINT PLEASANT —A cat or a dog can becomemore than just a pet —they can be part of thefamily.
However, many furrybundles of joy are withoutboth a family and a home.Currently, the MasonCounty Animal Shelterhas three cats and 28 dogsthat need a good home.
According to DerrickMeadows, dog warden,not nearly enough animalswere adopted in February.He encouraged residentsto take one of the loving,shelter dogs or cats intotheir own homes thismonth.
“There aren’t any badanimals here,” Meadowssaid.
It only costs $25 to adopta shelter animal. All shel-ter dogs have beenwormed and are up-to-date on their shots. Inaddition, those whochoose to adopt a dog willbe presented with aspay/neuter contract.According to shelter staff,the adopted dog’s ownersmust agree to the contractand have their vet sign andsend the contract back
after the dog has beenspayed or neutered.
Those who wish to dropdogs or cats off at the shel-ter can do so for a minimalfee. The shelter also willaccept donations of food,cleaning supplies andblankets. The Mason
County Animal Shelter isopen Monday-Friday from1-4:30 p.m.
Shelter staff alsoreminded residents thatMason County does havea leash law. If pets arefound wondering thestreets, they will be taken
to the shelter. For more information,
call the shelter at 304-675-6458 or e-mailm c a s n e v i l l e @ p e o -plepc.com. Additionalinformation regardingthe shelter is availableon www.petfinder.com.
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Kindergarten registration dates
POINT PLEASANT —Five dates remain to regis-ter children for kinder-garten in Mason CountySchools. Appointmentsmust be made at the schoolyour child is attending.
Those children who arefive years of age, on orbefore Sept. 1, 2011, areeligible for kindergarten.
• April 1 — RooseveltElementary• April 8 — BealeElementary• April 15 — LeonElementaryQuestions may be
directed to the schools. Allregistration times are from8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Hunter Educationclasses scheduled
HENDERSON — AHunter Education classwill take place April 4-6 atthe Henderson CommunityCenter. Classes will runfrom 6-9:30 p.m. each day.The 10-hour class isrequired by those born afterDec. 31, 1974, who wish topurchase a hunting licenseor stamps. The class isfree, however seating islimited. To attend, partici-pants must pre-register bycalling 304-675-0871. Formore information, call theDNR office at 304-759-0703. To locate additionalclasses, visit the Web sitewww.wvdnr.gov/LEnforce/Huntered/Classes.htm.
Seniors AgainstInvestment Fraudpresentation set
POINT PLEASANT —Dave Shelene, field repre-sentative for State AuditorGlen B. Gainer III, willhost a Seniors AgainstInvestment Fraud presen-tation on Tuesday, April 5at the Gene Salem SeniorCenter. The event willbegin at 10:30 a.m. Thepresentation is part ofGainer’s “SAIF” program.
Community Foundation to offer workshop for area educators, art groupsBY HOPE ROUSH
PARKERSBURG —The Parkersburg AreaCommunity Foundation(PACF) will host a learn-ing opportunity workshopfor both area educatorsand art groups nextmonth.
Mason County educa-tors and art groups areencouraged to attend asthe Mason CountyCommunity Foundation
is a regional affiliate ofthe PACF. The free work-shop is slated to run from9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Friday,April 15. The event willtake place at OurCommunity Foundation’sCenter for Philanthropy,located at 1620 Park Ave.in Parkersburg.
The workshop is opento public, parochial andprivate school teachersand other school staff aswell as arts organizations’representatives in the
foundation’s WestVirginia service region,which along with MasonCounty, includes Calhoun,Doddridge, Gilmer, Jackson,Pleasants, Ritchie, Roane,Wirt and Wood Counties.
According to JudySjostedt, communityfoundation executivedirector, the workshopwill explore innovativeways to integrate thearts within all educationdisciplines. Lou Karas, ofthe Appalachian Education
Initiative, and KathleenMcDermott of OglebayInstitute, will lead theworkshop. Both Karasand McDermott will pro-vide participants with anoverview of successfulmodels for effective useof the arts as teachingtools.
In addition, during theworkshop, the communityfoundation will announceits related Arts-in-Education Grants pro-gram, which offers grants
up to $5,000. Accordingto Sjostedt, starting Sept.1, both the workshop andgrant opportunity willhelp to integrate the artsas core content into class-room experiences in theregion during the 2011-2012 school year. Specialemphasis will be encour-aged through the grantopportunity to projectsand programs that employthe arts as teaching tools
W.Va. elevates veterans ̓office to Cabinet agencyBY LAWRENCE MESSINA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLESTON, —Count West Virginia’slast living Medal ofHonor recipient amongthose welcoming aCabinet-level officedevoted to the state’s vet-erans.
Woody Williams,awarded the nation’shighest military honorfor actions during WorldWar II’s Battle of Iwo
Jima, was on handTuesday when Gov. EarlRay Tomblin signed leg-islation creating theDepartment of Veterans’Assistance.
Tomblin approved thebill following a CultureCenter ceremony, attend-ed by hundreds of activeand retired armed ser-vices members, honoringWest Virginians whohave served.
The Cabinet office willsucceed the Division of
Veteran’s Affairs, part ofthe Department ofMilitary Affairs andPublic Safety. A retiredMarine, Williams saidveterans have lobbied foryears to elevate theagency’s status. He cred-ited Tomblin for includ-ing the issue in his leg-islative agenda during therecently completed regu-lar session.
West Virginia has thenation’s 9th-largest per-centage of veterans in its
population, according to2010 figures. The statehad an estimated 167,182veterans as of Septembercompared with more than201,700 counted in the2000 Census. Williamscited the aging ranks ofveterans from his andother 20th Century con-flicts.
“It gets more and moreimportant every day thatwe have somebody onthe governor’s Cabinetwho will be in a position
to see that the veterans ofWest Virginia receive thebenefits that they’re enti-tled to and have thestature that they deserve,”said Williams, 87.
The ceremony includeda moment of silence forFrank Buckles, theCharles Town residentwho was the last U.S.veteran of World War Iwhen he died last month.
Veterans of World War
BY HOPE [email protected]
POINT PLEASANT — TheMake-A-Wish Foundation hasmade its goal to grant “wishes” tochildren who are suffering fromlife-threatening diseases.
The organization strives toenhance these children’s lives bygiving them “hope, strength andjoy.” And to help raise funds forMake-A-Wish, Tudor’s BiscuitWorld is hosting the “Month ofChange.”
Month of Change is a month-long promotion that encouragesTudor’s customers to donate tothe Make-A-Wish Foundation.The event officially kicks off onFriday and runs through April 29.As part of the campaign,“Wishing Wells,” otherwiseknown as donation boxes, are
located at the front counter anddrive-thru location of nearlyevery Tudor’s location.
Ray Burke, Tudor’s BiscuitWorld president, said that hehopes the Month of Change cam-paign will show that every dona-tion can help impact someone’slife.
“The focus of this event is toremind our guests about theWishing Wells and the collectionpower of a handful of change,”Burke said in a news release. “It’seasy to drop that change back inyour pocket or purse just out ofhabit...It’s just as easy to drop itin a Wishing Well. We hope toremind our guests of the powerthat one simple action can have.”
Marisa Pedro, Make-A-WishFoundation regional manager,
MasonCounty BOE
approvestransfers,personnelpostings
BY DELYSSA [email protected]
POINT PLEASANT —Last week was regularbusiness for the MasonCounty Board ofEducation, as more agendaitems were up forapproval.
During the Tuesday,March 22 meeting held atWahama Jr/Sr HighSchool, both Wahama andNew Haven Elementarygave LSIC (Local SchoolImprovement Council)reports to the Board mem-bers present.
Professional personnel:• The Board approved
the following list of trans-fers, effective for the2011-2012 year, County isthe funding source:Meredith Moore, Teacher,Title I, Point PleasantIntermediate School toTeacher, Grade 2, LeonElementary School;Rebecca Haer, Teacher,Grade 3, Point PleasantIntermediate School; andSylvia Hendrickson,
See Foundation, A3
See BOE, A3
See Veterans, A3
See Make-A-Wish, A3
Submitted photoStarting in April,Tudorʼs Biscuit
World will host a“Month of Change”
benefit for theMake-A-Wish
Foundation.Restaurant guestsare encouraged to
donate to thecause by dropping
off their loosechange or extra
cash in the“Wishing Wells,”
which are locatedat nearly every
Tudorʼs drive-thruand inside counter.
Tudorʼs to host benefit campaign for Make-A-Wish Foundation
MARCH CLAWS AND PAWS:3 cats, 28 dogs need good homes
Delyssa Huffman/photosMeet Tyson: A beautiful Siamese malecat, that has been at the Mason CountyAnimal Shelter for about a week, and isnow waiting for the perfect family tocome and adopt him.
Meet Lexis: A 30-pound female AlaskanMalamute. This playful and friendly dogis about a year and a half old and is hop-ing to soon be a part of your family.
Japan: Not enough safeguards to protect nuke plantTOKYO (AP) —
Japan’s governmentadmitted Tuesday thatits safeguards wereinsufficient to protect anuclear plant against theearthquake and tsunamithat crippled the facilityand caused it to spewradiation, and it vowedto overhaul safety stan-dards.
The struggle to con-tain radiation at theFukushima Dai-ichicomplex has unfoldedwith near-constant mis-steps — the latestincluding two workersdrenched with radioac-tive water despite wear-ing supposedly water-proof suits.
The March 11 tsunamithat slammed intoJapan’s northeast, wip-ing out towns andkilling thousands ofpeople, knocked outpower and backup sys-tems at the coastalnuclear power plant.
More than 11,000bodies have been recov-ered, but officials saythe final death toll isexpected to exceed18,000. Hundreds ofthousands of peopleremain homeless, theirhomes and livelihoodsdestroyed. Damagecould amount to $310billion — the mostexpensive natural disas-ter on record.
The unfolding dramahas drawn increasingcriticism of the utilitythat owns the plant aswell as scrutiny ofJapan’s preparedness fornuclear crises.
“Our preparednesswas not sufficient,”Chief Cabinet secretaryYukio Edano toldreporters. “When thecurrent crisis is over, wemust examine the acci-dent closely and thor-oughly review” the safe-ty standards.
An Associated Pressinvestigation found thatTokyo Electric PowerCo. officials had dis-missed scientific evi-dence and geologicalhistory that indicatedthat a massive earth-quake — and subse-quent tsunami — wasfar more likely than theybelieved.
That left the complexwith nowhere nearenough protectionagainst the tsunami.
The mission to stabi-lize the power plant hasbeen fraught with set-backs, as emergencycrews have dealt with
fires, explosions andradiation scares in thefrantic bid to prevent acomplete meltdown.
The plant has beenleaking radiation thathas made its way intovegetables, raw milkand tap water as faraway as Tokyo.Residents within 12miles (20 kilometers) ofthe plant have beenordered to leave andsome nations havebanned the imports offood products from theFukushima region.
Highly toxic plutoni-um was the latest conta-minant found seepinginto the soil outside theplant, TEPCO saidMonday.
Safety officials saidthe amounts did notpose a risk to humans,but the finding supportssuspicions that danger-ously radioactive wateris leaking from damagednuclear fuel rods.
“The situation is verygrave,” Edano said.
Workers succeededlast week in reconnect-ing some parts of theplant to the power grid.But as they pumped inwater to cool the reac-tors and nuclear fuel,they discovered numer-ous pools of radioactivewater, including in thebasements of severalbuildings and in trench-es outside.
The contaminatedwater has been emittingfour times as much radi-ation as the governmentconsiders safe for work-ers. It must be pumpedout before electricitycan be restored and theregular cooling systemspowered up.
That has left officialsstruggling with two cru-cial but contradictoryefforts: pumping inwater to keep the fuelrods cool and pumpingout contaminated water.
Officials are hopingtanks at the complexwill be able to hold thewater, or that new tankscan be trucked in. OnTuesday, officials fromthe Nuclear SafetyCommission said otherpossibilities include dig-ging a storage pit for thecontaminated water,recycling it back into thereactors or even pump-ing it to an offshoretanker.
The latest problemcame Tuesday, whenthree workers trying toconnect a pump outsidethe Unit 3 reactor were
splashed by radioactivewater that gushed from apipe. Though they woresuits meant to be water-proof and protectagainst high levels ofradiation, nuclear safetyofficial HidehikoNishiyama said the menwere soaked to theirunderwear with the con-taminated water.
They quickly washedit off and were notinjured, officials said.
Last week, two work-ers were hospitalizedwith burns after theywere issued ankle-high
protective boots to walkinto highly radioactiveknee-high water.
Nikkei, Japan’s topbusiness newspaper,called it “outrageous”that TEPCO had beenslow to release informa-tion about trenches out-side the reactors filledwith contaminated water.
On Monday, Edanoblasted TEPCO for amajor miscalculationthat saw company offi-cials announce a wildlyhigh radiation level at theplant over the weekend,only to back away a half-
day later, saying it hadbeen an error. “This sortof mistake is not some-thing that can be forgiv-en,” he said.
Prime Minister NaotoKan reiterated in aspeech to parliament thatJapan was grapplingwith its worst problemssince World War II.
“This quake, tsunamiand the nuclear accidentare the biggest crises forJapan” in decades, saidKan, dressed in one ofthe blue work jacketsthat have become ubiqui-tous among bureaucrats
since the tsunami. Hesaid the crises remainedunpredictable, but added:“We will continue tohandle it in a state ofmaximum alert.”
Kan has faced increas-ing criticism from oppo-sition lawmakers overthe handling of a nucleardisaster stretching into athird week.
“We cannot let youhandle the crisis,” law-maker Yosuke Isozakisaid in parliament. “Wecannot let you be incharge of Japan’s crisismanagement.”
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1. You may be able to deduct some or all of yourcontributions to your IRA. You may also be eligible forthe Savers Credit formally known as the RetirementSavings Contributions Credit.
2. Contributions can be made to your traditional IRAat any time during the year or by the due date for filingyour return for that year, not including extensions. Formost people, this means contributions for 2010 mustbe made by April 18, 2011. Additionally, if you make acontribution between Jan. 1 and April 18, you shoulddesignate the year targeted for that contribution.
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Gunmen kill 56 in grisly Iraq hostage siegeBAGHDAD (AP) —
Wearing military uni-forms over explosivesbelts, gunmen held alocal Iraqi governmentcenter hostage Tuesday ina grisly siege that endedwith the deaths of at least56 people, includingthree councilmen whowere executed with gun-shots to the head.
The five-hour standoffin Tikrit, former dictatorSaddam Hussein’s hometown, ended only whenthe attackers blew them-selves up in one of thebloodiest days in Iraqithis year.
First they set fire to thebodies of the three slainSalahuddin provincecouncilmen in a brutal,defiant show of howinsurgents still renderIraq unstable — even if ithas so far escaped thepolitical unrest rollingacross the Arab world.
“Why did they shoothim and set fire to hispoor body?” saidSalahuddin governmentspokesman Mohammedal-Asi, trying not to weepwhen confirming the
killing of lawmakerMehdi al-Aaran, an elder-ly man who headed thecouncil’s religious affairscommittee.
Speaking in a mutedvoice, SalahuddinGovernor AhmedAbdullah called theattack “a tragic inci-dent carried out byruthless terrorists.”
Iraqi officials werequick to blame al-Qaidain Iraq for the slaughter,noting that executionsand suicide bombers arehallmarks of the extrem-ist group. A senior intelli-gence official in Baghdadlikened the attack to al-Qaida’s horrifyinghostage raid last fall on aCatholic church inBaghdad that left 68 deadand stunned the nation.
Tuesday’s attack left 56victims dead and 98wounded, including gov-ernment workers, securi-ty forces and bystanders,said Salahuddin healthdirector Dr. RaiedIbrahim. Many died inthe volleys of gunfire andexplosions.
Among the dead were
councilman AbdullahJebara, a vocal al-Qaidafoe; the council’s healthcommittee chairman,Wathiq al-Samaraie; andIraqi journalist Sabah al-Bazi, a correspondent forAl-Arabiya satellite TVchannel and a freelancerfor CNN and Reuters.
Members of Iraq’s par-liament immediatelycalled for an investiga-tion into how the band ofeight or nine insurgentscould pull off the attackand paralyze a mostly-Sunni Muslim city thatwas once a hotbed for al-Qaida in Iraq andSaddam sympathizers.Tikrit is the capital ofSalahuddin and is locat-ed 80 miles (130 kilome-ters) north of Baghdad.
Officials are particu-larly sensitive about theability of Iraqi securityforces to protect thecountry as U.S. troopsplan to leave at the endof the year.
“We denounce this sor-rowful act, where insur-gents with military uni-forms could break intothe council building,”
said parliamentarianSuhad al-Obedi, whorepresents Salahuddinprovince. “This is a secu-rity breach.”
It’s not hard to buyuniforms on Iraqi streets,and the ease and deadli-ness of the attackdemonstrated sophisti-cated planning by thegunmen.
A car bomb explodedoutside the Salahuddinprovincial council head-quarters around 1 p.m.,distracting security offi-cials who rushed to putout the resulting fire.That’s when the uni-formed gunmen —including one with coun-terfeit a high rank —identified themselves asIraqi soldiers at a securi-ty checkpoint outside thecompound. Told theywould have to besearched before entering,they opened fire onguards and stormed thebuilding.
“The gunmen werearmed with grenades andbegan their raid by firingat random at a receptionroom,” said Ali Abdul
Rihman, a spokesman forthe governor. “Then theyopened fire inside.”
The provincial councilmeets at the headquartersevery Tuesday, butRihman said local law-makers ended their dis-cussion early becausethere was little on theiragenda. As a result, hesaid, most of the lawmak-ers had already left theheadquarters when theassault began.
Al-Asi, the provincialspokesman, said 15 peo-ple were taken hostageon the headquarters’ sec-ond floor, where the gun-men hurled grenades andfired at security forcesbelow. The hostages,including the three law-makers, were each shotin the head, al-Asi said.
Parliament lawmakerQutayba al-Jabouri saidsecurity forces did not tryto negotiate with the gun-men since they wereunder assault. Gov.Abdullah described afierce shootout betweenthe gunmen and Iraqisecurity forces who sur-rounded the building.
American troops whowere nearby as part of anadvising mission withIraqi forces also respond-ed to the attack, andsome U.S. soldiersreceived minor wounds,said military spokesmanCol. Barry Johnson. TheU.S. troops dropped backafter Iraqi forces tookcontrol, Johnson said.
The looming deadlinefor the U.S. troops with-drawal, twinned with thepolitical unrest cascadingthroughout the Mideast,has spooked Americanand Iraqi leaders alikeabout whether the fledg-ling Iraqi democracy willfall back into violence.
Baghdad Universitypolitical analyst HassanKamil called Tuesday’sattacks “another indica-tion that the insurgentsare no way thinking ofgiving up the struggle inIraq.”
“It is a show of forceaiming at convincingpeople that despite thesetbacks, the insurgencyis still active,” Kamilsaid. “Security is stillfragile.”
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Home price declines deepenin major US markets
NEW YORK (AP) — Damage from the housing bust isspreading to areas once thought to be immune.
In at least 14 major U.S. metro areas, prices have fallento 2003 levels — when the housing bubble was just start-ing to inflate. Prices will likely drop further this year, mak-ing many people reluctant to buy or sell. That would pushdown sales and prices more.
The depressed housing industry is slowing an economythat has shown strength elsewhere. And it’s starting to hurtthose who bought years before the housing boom began. Insome cities, people who have paid their mortgages for adecade have little or no home equity.
Prices have tumbled in familiar troubled spots, such asLas Vegas, Cleveland and Detroit. But they’re also at ornear 10-year lows in Denver, Atlanta, Chicago andMinneapolis — cities that weren’t as swept up in the hous-ing boom and bust.
“It’s been tough on the lower class but it’s filtering up,”said Paul Dales, senior U.S. economist with CapitalEconomics. “It may be only a matter of time before it hitsthe wealthy.”
Just about the only major market weathering the secondwave of the housing down-turn is Washington. Homeprices there have risen 11percent in the past two years.
Prices fell from Decemberto January in all but one ofthe 20 cities tracked by theStandard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index.The index, a gauge ofnational home prices, dippedfor the sixth straight month.Prices in 11 of the cities areat their lowest point since thehousing bubble burst.
The report measuresprices relative to those inJanuary 2000. For each ofthe 20 metro areas it studies,it provides an updated three-month average price.
“The housing marketrecession is not yet over, andnone of the statistics are indi-cating any form of sustainedrecovery,” said David M.Blitzer, chairman of theIndex Committee atStandard & Poor’s.
Weak home sales andfalling prices are imposinga heavy burden on theeconomy, which hasgained strength from high-er consumer spending.Applications for unem-ployment benefits are atpre-recession lows.Manufacturing activity isgrowing at its fastest ratein seven years.
Teacher, Grade 6, Point Pleasant Intermediate School toTeacher, Grade 4, New Haven Elementary.
• The Board approved to post the following positions:English/Language Arts Teacher, Mason County CareerCenter, Jobs Dollars will be the funding source;Mathematics Teacher, Hannan Jr/Sr High School, JobsDollars will be the funding source; and MathematicsTeacher, Mason County Career Center, Jobs Dollars willbe the funding source.
• The Board approved the following for ProbationaryContract for the 2011-2012 school year: Gary Hendricks,Joseph Pemberton, Melissa VanMeter, Ryan Adkins,Marshall Barnhouse, Shayla Blackshire, JamieBonecutter, Amanda Cooper, Rita Cordell, StephanieDickens, Lesley Dvosis, Kelli Elliott, Jessie Farley, LydiaGordon, Amy Graham, Mary Hamm, Bryan Hoffman,Andrea Justus, Tirza Kay, John Lehew, Julie Lowe,Tebaliah Martindale, Jenna Meeks, Marjorie Moran,Richard Nease, Tiffany Newberry, Troy Oldaker, AshleyOrd, Beverly Pickens, Jessica Porter, David Rankin, TerryReed, Ashley Regan, Lindsay Ripley, Jessica Snider,Leslie Stepp, Kelly Smith-Vernon, Bridget Bush-Swisher,Kimberly Tawney, Anthony Toler, Loren Watterson, andValerie Wolford.
• The Board approved the following for ContinuingContracts for the 2011-2012 school year: RosannaAnthony, Vickie Bale, Patricia Bonecutter, Brian Booth,Debra Byus, Ashley Buckle, Helen Carry, OliviaDeWeese, Jodi Dowell, John Fields, Nathan Fordyce,Keith Goldsmith, Robert Grady, Penni Grubb, CeciliaHarris, Sylvia Hendrickson, Frankie Hudnall, MaryJohnson, Willis Korb, Charla Martin, Maria Miller,Rachel Miller, Julie Reed, Mary Richardson, AngelaRoach, Nikki Roush, Alyssia Russell, Phyllis Russell,Faith Smith, Joni Smith, Brianne Solomon, Erin Tolliver,Cynthia Tupes, Amanda Utterback, Alisha Warden, AdamWatson, Jeffery Wamsley, Cherry Weikle, and MichaelWolfe.
• The Board approved family medical leave for CindyL. Rawson, Teacher, Point Pleasant Jr/Sr High School,effective March 8-March 28.
• The Board accepted the resignation of MatthewThompson, Athletic Director, Wahama Jr/Sr High School,effective April 1.
Service personnel:• The Board approved the following for Probationary
Contract for the 2011-2012 school year: Thomas Byus,Custodian III-220, Point Pleasant Jr/Sr High School; JamiCochran, Bus Operator-200, Transportation; David Darst,Custodian III-200, Point Pleasant Jr/Sr High School; KeriDerenberger, Secretary II-210, New Haven Elementary;Danielle Gillispie, Accountant III-261, Central Office;Kenneth Hess, Bus Operator-200, Transportation;Gregory Jarvis, Custodian-200, Point Pleasant Jr/Sr HighSchool; Albert Kelly, Bus Operator-200, Transportation;James Long, Bus Operator-200, Transportation; DonaldMatheny, Bus Operator-200, Transportation; Lori Nutter,Bus Operator-200, Transportation; Goldie Patterson,Custodian III-215, Beale Elementary; Candy Robinson,Custodian III-200, Transportation/Maintenance/PPIS;Rebecca Turner, Secretary II-220, Hannan Jr/Sr HighSchool; Juli Wamsley, Secretary III-220, Central Office;and Nancy Warner, Secretary II-210, Point PleasantIntermediate School.
• The Board approved the following for ContinuingContract for the 2011-2012 school year: Clyde Connolly,Custodian III-240, Point Pleasant Jr/Sr High School; Vicki
Flora, Bus Operator-200, Transportation; Dustin Gibbs,Tech.-261, Central Office; Jean Gill, Secretary II-220,Hannan Jr/Sr High School .5/Ashton Elementary .5; MaryN. Harper, Custodian III-200, Beale Elementary; MichaelHopson, Custodian III-240, Point Pleasant Jr/Sr HighSchool; Richard Johnson, Tech.-261, Central Office;Stephen Keyser, Bus Operator-200, Transportation; LarryKing, Custodian III-200, Wahama Jr/Sr High School; andTimothy Thompson, Bus Operator-200, Transportation.
• The Board approved the transfer of Deloris Shepard,Aide, Kindergarten, New Haven Elementary, effective forthe 2011-2012 school year.
• The Board approved the resignation of SandiWears, Substitute Bus Operator, effective March 1.
• The Board approved family medical leave for BethGay, Cook, Point Pleasant Jr/Sr High School, effectiveMarch 1-May 8.
Extra Curricular personnel:• The Board approved David A. Rankin, Athletic
Assistant, Point Pleasant Jr/Sr High School, for the2010-2011 school year, effective march 24. This is anun-paid position.
• The Board approved the employment of BrendaBowman, Head Coach, Varsity Volleyball, HannanJr/Sr High School, for the 2011-2012 school year.
• The Board approved the employment of TerryBowman, Assistant Coach, Varsity Volleyball, HannanJr/Sr High School, for the 2011-2012 school year.
• The Board approved the employment of SandiMorgan, Teacher, ESL, Central Office Itinerant, on anas-needed basis, effective March 21. Jobs Dollars willbe the funding source.
Other approvals:• The Board approved the request from Amber Flynn,
Associate Director of the Foster Grandparent Program,to use a school bus to transport Mason County FosterGrandparents to the Ramada Inn in South Charlestonfor an AD/HD and Other Challenging BehaviorTraining on March 24.
• The Board approved the low submitted bid of$95,9000 from Par Roofing, Inc. for roof replacementat the Mason County School’s Central Office. Countymonies will be the funding source.
• The Board approved the lowest submitted bids of$12,430 from Luke’s Lawn Service (New HavenElementary, Hartford Ball Field, and Wahama Jr/SrHigh School); $10,516 from Tri-County Lawn Care(Point Pleasant Primary School, Beale Elementary,Ashton Elementary and Hannan Jr/Sr High School);$4,950 from Dickson’s Lawn Care (Point PleasantIntermediate School); and $33,300 from Bryant Farmand Lawn Care (Leon Elementary, RooseveltElementary, Mason County Career Center,Maintenance/Bus Garage, and Central Board Office)for mowing from March through October 2011.County monies will be the funding source.
Meeting — March 24• The Board voted to adjourn Special Statutory
Business/Regular Business Meeting, Agenda #40.The special session will stand adjourned until thethird Tuesday in April (April 19) when the levy rateswill be officially entered after approval from the stateauditor.
The Mason Co. BOE will next meet at 4 p.m., April5, at the Mason County Career Center (MCCC); 4p.m., April 19, MCCC; 4 p.m., April 21, MCCC; and6 p.m., April 26, MCCC.
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Betty Louise FaulkBetty Louise Faulk, 82, Pomeroy, Ohio, died
Monday, March 28, 2011, at her home. Friends maycall on Thursday, March 31 from 6-8 p.m. and from 9-10 a.m., Friday, April 1, at the Anderson McDanielFuneral Home in Pomeroy, Ohio. Graveside serviceswill be at Rocksprings Cemetery at 11 a.m., Friday,April 1, with Minister Robert Scott officiating.
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Wednesday: Rainand snow before 11a.m., then a chance ofrain. High near 45.North wind between 5and 9 mph. Chance ofprecipitation is 80 per-cent. New snow accu-mulation of less than ahalf inch possible.
Wednesday Night:Mostly cloudy, with alow around 32. Northwind between 5 and 7mph.
Thursday: A slightchance of showersafter noon. Mostlycloudy, with a highnear 47. North windbetween 6 and 8mph. Chance of pre-cipitation is 20 per-cent.
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Saturday: A chanceof showers. Partlysunny, with a highnear 52. Chance ofprecipitation is 30 per-cent.
Saturday Night:Partly cloudy, with alow around 35.
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Monday: Partlysunny, with a highnear 64.
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to further science, technology, engineering and math(STEM) content objectives — thus enhancing cur-riculum by expanding STEM to STEAM (science,technology, engineering, arts and math).
The upcoming April 15 workshop was made pos-sible through a Benedum Foundation partnershipaccompanied by a significant BenedumFoundation grant.
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II, Korea and Vietnam were also honored. ChristyMorris, deputy MAPS secretary, read an excerpt fromthe biography of Jessica Lynch, the Army privatecaptured and later rescued during the 2003 inva-sion of Iraq.
“There are no forgotten wars here,” author RickBragg had written of West Virginia.
Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Staff Sgt.Joanna Lee attended the ceremony and said shewas surprised to learn of the legislation.
“I think it’s a great idea,” said the 26-year-oldfrom Kanawha County.
The Cabinet office will have an $11.5 millionbudget when it launches July 1. At least 28 stateshave department-level agencies for veterans,according to the U.S. Department of VeteransAffairs.
The bill unanimously passed the state Senate,while 10 GOP delegates opposed it in the House.State Republican Party Chairman Mike Stuarthad questioned the need for elevating the agency,and expanding its spending, when the sessionbegan. But GOP lawmakers had also co-spon-sored a nearly identical bill. The version signedTuesday was among those that the Legislaturehad to correct and re-pass after technical errorsforced vetoes from Tomblin.
praised Tudor’s Month of Change campaign.According to Pedro, Tudor’s has consistently donatedto the foundation longer than any other donor in theregion. She also said that the restaurant’s commitmentto Make-A-Wish has led to countless wishes beinggranted in the 23 West Virginia counties that her officeserves.
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• POINT PLEASANT — Graham Cemetery alsois preparing for their mowing season. Anyone wish-ing to keep flower arrangements on graves musthave them removed by April 1. If not removed, theywill be discarded.
• LEON — Waterloo Smith CHurch Cemetery isasking for all flowers and other decorations on theground to be removed by April 15 due to the upcom-ing mowing season.
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Long blackouts pose risk to US reactorsBY DINA CAPPIELLO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
It’s a nightmarish sce-nario — a days-longblackout at a nuclearpower plant leading to aradioactive leak. Thoughthe odds of that happen-ing are extremely remote,an Associated Pressinvestigation has foundthat some U.S. plants aremore vulnerable than oth-ers.
Long before the nuclearemergency in Japan, U.S.regulators knew that apower failure lasting fordays at an Americannuclear plant, whateverthe cause, could lead to aradioactive leak. Even so,they have only requiredthe nation’s 104 nuclearreactors to develop plansfor dealing with muchshorter blackouts on theassumption that powerwould be restored quick-ly.
In one simulation pre-sented by the NuclearRegulatory Commissionin 2009, it would take lessthan a day for radiation toescape from a reactor at aPennsylvania nuclearpower plant after anearthquake, flood or fireknocked out all electricalpower and there was noway to keep the reactorscool after backup batterypower ran out. That plant,the Peach Bottom AtomicPower Station outsideLancaster, has reactors ofthe same older make andmodel as those releasingradiation at Japan’sFukushima Dai-ichi plant,which is using othermeans to try to cool thereactors.
And like FukushimaDai-ichi, the PeachBottom plant has enoughbattery power on site topower emergency coolingsystems for eight hours.In Japan, that wasn’tenough time for power tobe restored. According tothe International AtomicEnergy Agency and theNuclear Energy Institutetrade association, three ofthe six reactors at theplant still can’t get powerto operate the emergencycooling systems. Twowere shut down at thetime. In the sixth, the fuelwas removed completelyand put in the spent fuelpool when it was shutdown for maintenance atthe time of the disaster. Aweek after the March 11earthquake, diesel genera-tors started supplyingpower to two other tworeactors, Units 5 and 6,the groups said.
The risk of a blackoutleading to core damage,while extremely remote,exists at all U.S. nuclearpower plants, and someare more susceptible thanothers, according to anAssociated Press investi-gation. While regulatorssay they have confidence
that measures adopted inthe U.S. will prevent orsignificantly delay a corefrom melting and threat-ening a radioactiverelease, the events inJapan raise questionsabout whether U.S. powerplants are as prepared asthey could and should be.
As part of a reviewrequested by PresidentBarack Obama in thewake of the Japan crisis, atop Nuclear RegulatoryCommission official saidTuesday that the agencywill investigate whetherthe nation’s nuclear reac-tors are capable of copingwith station blackouts andwhether regulatoryrequirements need to bestrengthened.
Bill Borchardt, theagency’s executive direc-tor for operations, said anobvious question iswhether nuclear plantsneed enhanced batterysupplies, or ones that canlast longer.
“There is a robust capa-bility that exists already,but given what happenedin Japan there’s obviouslya question that presentsitself: Do we need tomake it even morerobust,” he said at a hear-ing before the SenateEnergy and NaturalResources Committee.
“We didn’t address atsunami and an earth-quake, but clearly wehave known for sometime that one of the weaklinks that makes accidentsa little more likely is los-ing power,” said AlanKolaczkowski, a retirednuclear engineer whoworked on a federal riskanalysis of Peach Bottomreleased in 1990 and isfamiliar with the updatedrisk analysis.
Risk analyses conduct-ed by the plants in 1991-94 and published by thecommission in 2003 showthat the chances of suchan event striking a U.S.power plant are remote,even at the plant wherethe risk is the highest, theBeaver Valley PowerStation in Pennsylvania.
These long odds areamong the reasons whythe United States sincethe late 1980s has onlyrequired nuclear powerplants to cope with black-outs for four or eighthours. That’s about howmuch time batterieswould last. After that, it isassumed that powerwould be restored. And sofar, that’s been the case.
Equipment put in placeafter the Sept. 11, 2001,terrorist attacks could buymore time. Otherwise, thereactor’s radioactive corecould begin to melt unlessalternative cooling meth-ods were employed. InJapan, the utility has triedusing portable generatorsand dumping tons of sea-water, among otherthings, on the reactors in
an attempt to keep themcool.
A 2003 federal analysislooking at how to esti-mate the risk of contain-ment failure said thatshould power be knockedout by an earthquake ortornado it “would beunlikely that power willbe recovered in the timeframe to prevent coremeltdown.”
In Japan, it was a one-two punch: first the earth-quake, then the tsunami.
Tokyo Electric PowerCo., the operator of thecrippled plant, foundother ways to cool thereactor core and, so far,avert a full-scale melt-down without electricity.
“Clearly the copingduration is an issue on thetable now,” said BiffBradley, director of riskassessment for theNuclear Energy Institute.“The industry and theNuclear RegulatoryCommission will have togo back in light of whatwe just observed andrethink station blackoutduration.”
David Lochbaum, a for-mer plant engineer andnuclear safety director atthe advocacy groupUnion of ConcernedScientists, put it anotherway: “Japan shows whathappens when you playbeat-the-clock and lose.”
At Tuesday’s Senatecommittee hearing, hesaid the government andthe nuclear power indus-try have to do more tocope with prolongedblackouts, such as havingtemporary generators onsite — or at nearby mili-tary bases — that canrecharge batteries.
A complete loss of elec-trical power, generallyspeaking, poses a majorproblem for a nuclearpower plant because thereactor core must be keptcool, and back-up coolingsystems — mostly pumpsthat replenish the corewith water— requiremassive amounts ofpower to work.
Without the electricalgrid, or diesel generators,batteries can be used for atime, but they will not lastlong with the powerdemands. And when thebatteries die, the systemsthat control and monitorthe plant can also go dark,making it difficult toascertain water levels andthe condition of the core.Eleven U.S. reactors aredesigned to cope with astation blackout lastingeight hours, while 93 aredesigned for four-hourblackouts.
One variable not con-sidered in the NRC riskassessments of severeblackouts was coolingwater in spent fuel pools,where rods once used inthe reactor are placed.With limited resources,the commission decided
to focus its analysis on thereactor fuel, which hasthe potential to releasemore radiation.
An analysis of individ-ual plant risks released in2003 by the NRC showsthat for 39 of the 104nuclear reactors, the riskof core damage from ablackout was greater than1 in 100,000. At 45 otherplants, the risk is greaterthan 1 in a million, thethreshold NRC is using todetermine which severeaccidents should be eval-uated in its latest analysis.
The Beaver ValleyPower Station, Unit 1, inPennsylvania had thegreatest risk of core melt— 6.5 in 100,000, accord-ing to the analysis. Butthat risk may have beenreduced in subsequentyears as NRC regulationsrequired plants to do moreto cope with blackouts.Todd Schneider, aspokesman forFirstEnergy NuclearOperating Co., whichruns Beaver Creek, toldthe AP that batteries onsite would last less than aweek.
In 1988, eight yearsafter labeling blackouts“an unresolved safetyissue,” the NRC requirednuclear power plants toimprove the reliability oftheir diesel generators,have more backup gener-ators on site, and bettertrain personnel to restorepower. These steps wouldallow them to keep thecore cool for four to eighthours if they lost all elec-trical power. By contrast,the newest generation ofnuclear power plant,which is still awaitingapproval, can last 72hours without taking anyaction, and a minimum ofseven days if water is sup-plied by other means tocooling pools.
Despite the added safe-
ty measures, a 1997report found that black-outs — the loss of on-siteand off-site electricalpower — remained “adominant contributor tothe risk of core melt atsome plants.” The eventsof Sept. 11, 2001, furthersolidified that nuclearreactors might have tokeep the core cool for alonger period withoutpower. After 9/11, thecommission issued regu-lations requiring thatplants have portablepower supplies for reliefvalves and be able tomanually operate anemergency reactor cool-ing system when batteriesgo out.
The NRC says thesesteps, and others, havereduced the risk of coremelt from station black-outs from the current fleetof nuclear plants.
For instance, prelimi-nary results of the latestanalysis of the risks to thePeach Bottom plant showthat any release caused bya blackout there would befar less rapid and wouldrelease less radiation thanpreviously thought, evenwithout any actions beingtaken. With more time,people can be evacuated.The NRC says improvedcomputer models, cou-pled with up-to-dateinformation about theplant, resulted in therosier outlook.
“When you simplify,you always err towardsthe worst possible cir-cumstance,” ScottBurnell, a spokesman forthe Nuclear RegulatoryCommission, said of theearlier studies. The latestwork shows that “even insituations where every-thing is broken and youcan’t do anything else,these events take a longtime to play out,” he said.“Even when you get to
releasing into environ-ment, much less of it isreleased than actuallythought.”
Exelon Corp., the oper-ator of the Peach Bottomplant, referred all detailedquestions about its pre-paredness and the riskanalysis back to the NRC.In a news release issuedearlier this month, thecompany, which operates10 nuclear power plants,said “all Exelon nuclearplants are able to safelyshut down and keep thefuel cooled even withoutelectricity from the grid.”
Others, looking at thecrisis unfolding in Japan,aren’t so sure.
In the worst-case sce-nario, the NRC’s 1990risk assessment predictedthat a core melt at PeachBottom could begin inone hour if electricalpower on- and off-sitewere lost, the diesel gen-erators — the main back-up source of power for thepumps that keep the corecool with water — failedto work and other mitigat-ing steps weren’t taken.
“It is not a question thatthose things are definitelyeffective in this kind ofscenario,” said RichardDenning, a professor ofnuclear engineering atOhio State University,referring to the steps NRChas taken to prevent inci-dents. Denning had donework as a contractor onsevere accident analysesfor the NRC since 1975.He retired from BattelleMemorial Institute in1995.
“They certainly couldhave made all the differ-ence in this particularcase,” he said, referring toJapan. “That’s assumingyou have stored thesethings in a place thatwould not have beenswept away by tsunami.”
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Calendar of Events
Wednesday, March30
POINT PLEASANT —Clothing give-away, 10a.m.-2 p.m., PointPleasant PresbyterianChurch.
POINT PLEASANT —Point Pleasant RotaryClub meeting, noon,McNeil Room atPleasant Valley Hospital.
GALLIPOLIS, Ohio —AA meeting, 8 p.m., St.Peterʼs EpiscopalChurch, located at 541Second Ave. Big bookstudy.
Thursday, March 31
NEW HAVEN —Outreach services, 9a.m.-5 p.m., JacobʼsWell Ministries. Servicesavailable include coun-seling, mission store andfood pantry. Questions?Call 304-882-3838.
GALLIPOLIS, Ohio —AA meeting, noon, St.Peterʼs Episcopal Church,located at 541 SecondAve. Open discussion.
POINT PLEASANT —Weight Watchers, weigh-ins, 4:30 p.m., meeting at5 p.m., Krodel ParkClubhouse.
POMEROY, Ohio —
AA meeting, 7 p.m.,Sacred Heart CatholicChurch, located at 161Mulberry Ave. Open dis-cussion.
POMEROY, Ohio —AA meeting, 7 p.m.,Sacred Heart CatholicChurch - annex building,located at 161 MulberryAve. Open discussion.
POINT PLEASANT —AA meeting, 7:30 p.m.,Point PleasantPresbyterian Church,located at 8th and MainStreets. Use sideentrance. Closed bookstudy.
March 28-April 1HARTFORD —
Revival, 7 p.m. nightly,Fatherʼs House Church.Featuring EvangelistJohnny Price and spe-cial singing nightly.Monday—Sonny andCarolyn Decker;Tuesday — TrulySaved; Wednesday —The Reynolds Family;Thursday — EvelynRoush, Delores Riggsand Linda Hickman;and Friday — LauraAlford. Pastor MikeFinnicum welcomes all.Questions? Call 304-882-3461.
Wednesday, March30
POINT PLEASANT —Service, 6 p.m.-?,
House of Praise andWorship. Everyone wel-come.
ASHTON — Biblestudy, 7 p.m., AshtonBaptist Church. PastorJustin Moran welcomeseveryone.
POINT PLEASANT —Bible study, 7 p.m.,Gospel TabernacleChurch. Pastor BertFlora welcomes every-one.
POINT PLEASANT —Bible study, 7 p.m.,Krebs Chapel UnitedMethodist Church.
ADDISON, Ohio —Prayer meeting withguest Gideon, 7 p.m.,Addison Freewill BaptistChurch. Featuringspeaker Dr. Jon
Sullivan.Thursday, March 31GALLIPOLIS FERRY
— Evening service, 6p.m., Mount CarmelChurch. Everyone wel-come.
POINT PLEASANT —Prayer meeting, 6 p.m.,Point Pleasant Seventh-day Adventist Church.
March 31 - April 3NEW HAVEN —
Special singing, 9:45a.m., New HavenUnited MethodistChurch. Featuring Dust& Ashes.
POINT PLEASANT —Spring Revival, 6:30p.m., First Church ofthe Nazarene.Featuring EvangelistNelson Purdue.
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Recycling Awareness Dayheld by Haer Bears
POINT PLEASANT — The Haer Bears 4-H Club welcomed the first day ofspring in by hosting a Recycling Awareness Day at City National Bank parking loton March 20.
The club welcomed area residents as they brought their recycled materials forthe club members to sort and either place in the recycling center located at thebank or were loaded up to be taken to another drop of spot. The plastic bags col-lected were passed on to a representative of New Hope Baptist Church where thebags are turned into sleeping mats for the homeless in Huntington.
The club had educational tables set up discussing how the bags are turned intomats, the dangers of plastic water bottles, and a craft table for visitors to make atreasure bottle game that was made from recycled 20 ounce bottles.
The totals of items collected during this two hour event was: 310 metal cans, 605plastic bottles, 295 aluminum cans, 28-2 liter bottles, 6 egg cartons, 5 licenseplates, 1944 pop tabs, 807 pounds of newspaper, 249 magazines, 4116 plasticbags, 755 cardboard boxes, and 144 glass items.
The club would like to thank everyone who participated and they remind every-one to keep up the good work.
Busy 4ʼs 4-H Club holdFebruary Meeting
Club members havingthe most creative recy-cled bird feeders were
members Charity King,first place; Faith King,
second place; andHaley Pierson, thirdplace winner in theyounger group. Not
pictured are youngerwinners Emily Parsons,
first place; and ColtonFridley, second place.
POINT PLEASANT — The Busy 4’s 4-H Club held their meeting Feb. 21. Themeeting was called to order by President Amanda King. The singing of “WV Boysand Girls” and the 4-H Pledge was lead by Hope King. Devotions were read byDakota Harmon and Mariah Harmon. The December and January Secretary’s min-utes and the January Treasurer’s report were all read and approved.
Adriane Sharp gave a report on bowling. Another date will be set for some timein April, possibly during spring break.
The winners of the bird feeders made out of recyclables were announced andmembers were reminded to continue feeding the birds.
Old business taken care of during the meeting was the collection of plastic bagreceipts. Everyone was reminded to collect and count their bags and return to theMarch meeting with a receipt. They are needed for the Youth EnvironmentalProgram scrapbook that is due in April. Donations of cleaning supplies were col-lected. They will be taken to the homeless shelter when collection is completed.The winners of the recycled bird feeders were announced. The winners in the oldergroup were Charity King, first place and Faith King, second place. In the youngergroup, first place went to Emily Parsons, second place Colton Fridley and in thirdplace was Haley Pierson.
Project books were handed out and everyone was reminded that they need toreview their books to make sure they intend to complete the project before writingin the books. Projects can be added or dropped until April 4. Members taking ananimal must turn in expense records each month and their completed projectbooks are now due the first day of the fair along with all other project books. Itwas announced that the weight of sheep and pigs has changed for this year.Everyone was asked to complete an environmental poster for the March meeting.Mariah Harmon gave the health report for the month.
Amanda Mullins made a motion to adjourn the meeting. It was seconded byKyle Kidwell. Meeting was adjourned, a game was played and refreshments wereserved.
Submitted by Emily Parsons, Reporter.
Submitted photosMembers of the Busy 4ʼs 4-H Club are shown with their bird feeders made out ofrecyclable materials.
Submitted photoPictured are club members who participated in the Recycling Awareness Day.They include: Amanda Roush, Ronnie Bonecutter, Kamille Bonecutter, Tra Bryan,Josie Hill, Alexis Thomas, Morgan Roush, Cinthia Arbogast, Jon Schultz, CoryRobinson, Dustin Spencer, and Jon Ramey.
Open House EventsOpen House set by City National Bank
NEW HAVEN — City National Bank of New Haven will be hosting an OpenHouse event on Friday, April 4 fromm 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be refreshmentsand door prizes.
Customer Appreciation DayPOINT PLEASANT — The Point Pleasant branch of City National Bank will
host a Customer Appreciation Day on Friday, April 1 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Theevent will feature food, drinks, games, prizes and more.
4-H Club Open House scheduledHARTFORD — The Sugar Maples 4-H Club will host an Open House even
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., April 9, at the Hartford Community Building. Refreshmentswill be sold and the club will be making chocolate Easter eggs to sell. A giantEaster basket also will be raffled off. The club currently has openings for vendors.For more information, please contact the club at 304-674-5888.
Cornerstone Academy Open HouseNEW HAVEN — Cornestone Academy will host an Open House on Tuesday,
April 19 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The public is invited to attend and observe classsessions.
JERUSALEM (AP) —Israel is consideringannexing major WestBank settlement blocs ifthe Palestinians unilater-ally seek world recogni-tion of a state, an Israeliofficial said Tuesday —moves that would deal agrave blow to prospectsfor negotiating a peacedeal between the twosides.
Israel has refrainedfrom taking such a diplo-matically explosive stepfor four decades. The factthat it is consideringdoing so reflects how seri-ously it is concerned bythe Palestinian campaignto win internationalrecognition of a state inthe absence of peacemak-ing.
The Palestinianslaunched that campaignafter peace talksfoundered over Israeliconstruction in WestBank settlements. OnTuesday, the IsraeliInterior Ministry said itwould decide next monthwhether to give finalapproval to build 1,500apartments in two Jewishenclaves in eastJerusalem. Israel cap-tured both east Jerusalemand the West Bank fromJordan in 1967.
Israel annexed eastJerusalem, home toshrines sacred to Judaism,Islam and Christianity,immediately after seizingit. But it carefully avoidedannexing the West Bank,where 300,000 settlersnow live among 2.5 mil-lion Palestinians.
Although it is widelyassumed that under anypeace deal, Israel wouldhold onto major settle-ments it has built in thepast 44 years, any deci-sion to formally annexWest Bank territorywould be a precedent-set-ting move that couldincrease Israel’s alreadyconsiderable internationalisolation. The Palestiniansclaim all of the West Bankand east Jerusalem, inaddition to the Gaza Strip,for a future state.
The government officialwho disclosed the possi-ble annexation said he didnot know how seriouslyauthorities were consider-ing the option. He saidthat “adopting unilateralmeasures is not a one-waystreet” and added thatother options were alsobeing considered.
These could includelimiting water suppliesbeyond agreed-uponamounts and restricting
Palestinian use of Israeliports for business purpos-es, he said. Israeli PrimeMinister BenjaminNetanyahu was aware ofthe moves being dis-cussed, he added, speak-ing on condition ofanonymity because nofinal decisions have beenmade.
Netanyahu’s office hadno comment. NimrHamad, an aide toPalestinian presidentMahmoud Abbas, said“these threats are not new.... But we are continuing(our campaign) and areconvinced our position isright.”
In a related develop-ment, the IsraeliTransportation Ministryis working on a planto build an island offthe coast of Gaza,where an Palestinian-run airport and seaportwould be located.Ministry spokesmanIlan Leizerovich saidthis would allow Israelto cut all ties withHamas-ruled Gaza.
At present most goodsand people enter andexit Gaza through Israeliland crossings.
Leizerovich said theisland would be builtabout three miles (4.5
kilometers) off the Gazacoast and would be con-nected by a bridge. Hesaid it would take aboutsix years and cost morethan $5 billion to build.The grandiose schemewould need additionalgovernment approval,Palestinian acceptanceand funding.
Although peace nego-tiations have taken placesince Netanyahu cameto power two years ago,they have been sporadicand largely mediated bythe U.S. Three weeks ofdirect talks broke downin September overPalestinian objections tocontinued Israeli settle-ment construction.
Palestinians say theywon’t talk peace withIsrael unless Israelfreezes all constructionin both the West Bankand east Jerusalem,lands they claim alongwith the Hamas-ruledGaza Strip for theirhoped-for state. Israeliofficials faultPalestinians for thepeacemaking impasse,saying a constructionmoratorium should notbe a condition for peace-making, because it neverwas in the past.
Israeli building in east
Jerusalem is especiallycontentious because thePalestinians want to cre-ate their future capitalthere. Because of theannexation, Israel doesnot consider the Jewishenclaves housing200,000 Jews there to besettlements, but the restof the international com-munity does.
Roi Lachmanovich, aspokesman for InteriorMinister Eli Yishai, saidofficials would decidethe fate of the 1,500 newapartments on April 14.The homes would bebuilt in two existingJewish enclaves in eastJerusalem.
Major Western powershave not given up on theconcept of a negotiatedsolution. But with talksdeadlocked, Palestinianleaders plan on seekinginternational recognitionof a state, with or with-out an agreement withIsrael, at the UnitedNations in September.
Their campaign hasreceived a boost fromLatin American coun-tries that have lined upin recent months tooffer recognition. It has-n’t received crucial U.S.or Western Europeansupport.
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Israel considering annexing West Bank settlementsInflation worries push
consumerconfidence
lowerNEW YORK (AP) —
Rising prices at the gaspump and in grocery aislesare starting to crimp shop-pers’ outlook.
The Conference Board’sConsumer ConfidenceIndex fell sharply from athree-year high inFebruary, reversing fivestraight months ofimprovement.
The decline raises ques-tions about Americans’ability and willingness tospend in coming months.
The index fell more thanexpected to 63.4 from arevised 72.0 in February.Economists expected 65.4,according to FactSet.
The drop was the steep-est since the 10.1-pointplunge from January 2010to February 2010, whenthe U.S. stock market washammered by worriesabout Greece’s nationaldebt.
“Rising food and gaso-line prices are starting totake their toll on the con-sumer psyche, and Japan’striple calamity — earth-quake, tsunami andnuclear disaster — hasbeen very unsettling,” saidChris Christopher Jr.,senior principal economistat HIS Global Insight.
The index measureshow Americans feel aboutbusiness conditions, thejob market and the next sixmonths.
It has hovered in a tightrange from the high 50s tolow 60s over the past year,far below the 90 that indi-cates a healthy economy.The index hasn’tapproached that levelsince the recession beganin December 2007.
A housing slump thatisn’t over and won’t be fora while isn’t helping.
Home prices are fallingin most major U.S. cities,and the average prices infour of them are at theirlowest in 11 years, accord-ing to Standard &Poor’s/Case-Shiller reportreleased Tuesday. OnFriday, the CommerceDepartment said new-home sales plunged inFebruary, the third monthin a row.
The falling ConsumerConfidence Index is in linewith Gallup Poll’s weeklysurveys, which have regis-tered a slide in confidencesince mid-February.
Economists monitorconfidence because con-sumer spending, includingbig-ticket items such ashousing and health care,accounts for about 70 per-cent of U.S. economicactivity and is critical for astrong rebound.
“Consumers’ inflationexpectations rose signifi-cantly in March and theirincome expectationssoured, a combinationthat will likely impactspending decisions,”Lynn Franco, director ofThe Conference BoardConsumer ResearchCenter, said in a statement.
Signs of financial strainemerged Monday inFebruary’s consumerspending report, whichshowed that most of the0.7 percent jump in spend-ing went to cover highergas prices.
The government’sFebruary jobs report,released this month,showed companies addedmore workers inFebruary than in anymonth in almost a year.Unemployment fell to 8.9percent, the lowest inalmost two years.
But higher oil prices,violence in the MiddleEast and North Africa andJapan’s nuclear crisiscould frighten U.S. com-panies out of taking anyrisks, says Mark Vitner, asenior economist withWells Fargo.
As for consumer spend-ing, analysts say Marchhas been uneven afterstrong holiday spendingcontinued into Januaryand February.
Rising prices are show-ing up in several notice-able ways.
SPORTSB1
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Wednesday, March 30Baseball
Meigs at Belpre, 5 p.m.Warren at Gallia Academy, 5 p.m.
SoftballWahama at Point Pleasant, 5 p.m.Meigs at Belpre, 5 p.m.Warren at Gallia Academy, 5 p.m.
TennisPoint Pleasant at Sissonville, 5:15 p.m.Chillicothe at Gallia Academy, 4:30p.m.
Thursday, March 31Baseball
River Valley at Point Pleasant, 5 p.m.Southern at Miller, 5 p.m.Meigs at Nelsonville-York, 5 p.m.Eastern at Federal Hocking, 5 p.m.Belpre at South Gallia, 5 p.m.
SoftballSouthern at Miller, 5 p.m.Meigs at Nelsonville-York, 5 p.m.Eastern at Federal Hocking, 5 p.m.Hannan at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.Belpre at South Gallia, 5 p.m.
TrackSouthern at Waterford, 4:30 p.m.
Friday, April 1Baseball
Southern at Wahama, 5 p.m.Scott at Point Pleasant, 6:30 p.m.Gallia Academy at Logan, 5 p.m.Miller at Eastern, 5 p.m.South Gallia at Waterford, 5 p.m.
SoftballSouthern at Wahama, 5 p.m.Miller at Eastern, 5 p.m.Gallia Academy at Logan, 5 p.m.South Gallia at Waterford, 5 p.m.
TennisSt. Marys at Point Pleasant, 5 p.m.
LOCAL SCHEDULEPOINT PLEASANT — A schedule of
upcoming high school varsity sportingevents involving teams from Mason, Galliaand Meigs counties.
153Wednesday’s Jackpot:
Point cruises past Lincoln County, 16-5BY SARAH HAWLEY
HAMLIN, W.Va. — Atotal of 13 hits and 16runs over six inningsgave the Point Pleasantbaseball team its fourthwin of the season.
The Big Blacks (4-1)defeated Lincoln Countyby a score of 16-5 in thenon-league contest onMonday evening.
Point Pleasant took a 1-0 lead in the top of thefirst inning when AlexPotter scored on a KodiStranahan single.Lincoln County tied thegame in the bottom of thefirst on a solo homerunby Austin Lucas. ThePanthers would not haveanother base runner untilthe fifth inning.
Eric Roberts hit a solohomerun in the top of thesecond inning to givePoint Pleasant the 2-1
lead. Jason Stouffer andStranahan hit a pair offsingles to start off thethird inning, with a walkto Justin Cavendar load-ing the bases. Robertswas hit by a pitch toscore one run, while anAusten Toler singlescored two more. Pointled 5-1 after threeinnings. Stouffer scoredagain in the second fol-lowing a single andstolen base.
Point Pleasant sent 12men to the plate in the
fifth inning, with sixcoming around to score.Potter hit a three-runhomerun to score three,while three bases loadedwalks scored the remain-ing three.
Lincoln County scoredfour runs in the bottom ofthe fifth inning on twodoubles and a fieldingerror.
A Brandon Toler triplescored two runs in the topof the sixth, whileStranahan and JacobGardener each drove inone.
Potter and Stranahaneach had three hits,Brandon Toler, Robertsand Stouffer each hadtwo, and Austen Tolerhad one. Roberts andPotter each hit a homerunand a double andBrandon Toler had atriple.
Potter had three RBIs,Brandon Toler, Austen
Toler and Roberts eachhad two, and Stranahanadded one.
For Lincoln County,Lucas had two hits, whileRyan Hill and ZachCartwright each had one.
Stranahan earned thevictory for PointPleasant, pitching fourinnings. Alex Somervillerelieved Stranahan in thefifth.
Brandon Miller tookthe loss for LincolnCounty.
POINT PLEASANT 16,LINCOLN CO. 5
Point 113 164 — 16 13 1Lincoln 100 040 — 5 6 2
POINT PLEASANT (4-1): KodiStranahan, Alex Somerville (5th)and Austen Toler.LINCOLN COUNTY (3-3): BrandonMiller, Colby Brogan (5th), ZachCartwright (6th) and Jamie Lucas.WP — Stranahan; LP — Miller.HR — (PP): Eric Roberts (2ndinning, zero on), Alex Potter (5thinning, two on); (LC) Austin Lucas(first inning, zero on).
Stranahan A. Potter
Bryan Walters/photoGallia Academy senior Caleb Warnimont (1) is congratulated by teammates after scoring the first run ofMonday night’s baseball contest against Eastern at Bob Eastman Ball Field in Centenary, Ohio.
Devils open stadium with 9-6 win over EasternBY BRYAN WALTERS
CENTENARY, Ohio— Gallia Academychristened its new base-ball facility in styleMonday night, as theBlue Devils opened the2011 season with a 9-6victory over visitingEastern in a non-confer-ence matchup at Robert‘Bob’ Eastman Ball Fieldin Gallia County.
The Blue Devils (1-0)never trailed in the con-test, but the Eagles (9-6)didn’t exactly makethings easy on the hosts
— as both teams tookturns scoring runs inthrees.
GAHS opened thegame with three runs inthe bottom of the first,only to have the guestsrally back with three runs
in the top of the secondfor a 3-all contest aftertwo complete.
That trend followedover the next threeinnings, as the Devilsplated three runs in the inthe bottom of the thirdfor a 6-3 edge — only tohave EHS retaliate withthree scores in the top ofthe fourth for a 6-all tie.
But Gallia Academywrapped things up in thebottom of the fifth, as thehosts rallied for threemore scores to wrap upthe 9-6 decision.
The Blue Devils man-aged 11 hits in the tri-
umph, led by TylerEastman with three hitsand Jimmy Clagg withtwo safeties. CalebWarnimont, DrewYoung, RussellDennison, CaseyDenbow, Ben Saundersand Tyler Davis eachadded one hit apiece tothe winning cause.
Eastman, Warnimont,Davis and BrandonTaylor also chipped in anRBI each for the hosts.
The Eagles musteredonly four hits in the set-back, as Tyler Hendrix,
Clagg R. Shook
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LadyFalconsavenge
Buffalo, 3-2BY SARAH HAWLEY
NEW HAVEN, W.Va.— The Wahama LadyFalcons handed Buffalo
its secondloss of theseason onM o n d a ye v e n i n gwith a 3-2victory inN e wH a v e n ,W.Va.
B u f f a l o( 7 - 2 )d e f e a t e dW a h a m aby a scoreof 6-0 justone weekbefore atB u f f a l o .The LadyB i s o n sonly previ-ous losswas to
Class AAA Winfield (3-2).
Wahama is now 2-2on the season, winningtwo straight after theseason opening lossesto Ripley and Buffalo.
Neither team scoredin the first threeinnings, with Buffaloputting the first run onthe board in the top ofthe fourth when HannahBoyer scored.
The Lady Falconsscored three runs in thebottom half of thefourth inning. MariahVanMatre led off theinning with a single,Alex Wood hit a triple,and Ashley Templetonhit an RBI single toscore Wood. KelseyBillups (courtesy run-ner for Templeton)scored on a passed ball.Kali Harris and MollyLarck added a pair ofsingles, with HayleeYoung (courtesy runnerfor Carmichael) scoringon the hit by Larck.
Buffalo scored onerun in the seventhinning to cut the deficitto one. Chelsey Parkinswas thrown out tryingto score from third —after hitting a triple —for the final out of thegame.
Templeton pitched acomplete game for theLady Falcons, strikingout 10, walking two andallowing four hits in thewin. Buffalo’s HannahJordan took the loss,striking out six andwalking four.
Templeton had twohits for the LadyFalcons, while Wood,
Templeton
Wood
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Maraudersopen seasonwith win atWarren, 7-5BY SARAH HAWLEY
VINCENT, Ohio —The Meigs baseball teamopened its 2011 season
on Mondaye v e n i n gwith a 7-5v i c t o r ya g a i n s tWarren inV i n c e n t ,Ohio.
The vic-tory camein the sea-son openerfor bothteams.
T r e a yMcKinneyand NathanRothgeb hita pair ofsingles tostart off thegame, withMcKinneyscoring on
a sacrifice by HeathDettwiller. A two-out,two-run homerun byZach Sayre scoredRothgeb and gave theMarauders a 3-0 leadafter half an inning.
Warren’s Jace Knostled off the bottom of thefirst inning with a solohomerun, and theWarriors added an addi-tional run after TylerProctor reached on anerror. Meigs led 3-2 afterthe first inning.
Dettwiller
Z. Sayre
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RedStorm softball loses a pair at LWCBY MARK WILLIAMS
SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE
COLUMBIA, Ky. —The University of RioGrande RedStorm softballteam went on the road tosquare off with NAIA No.19 Lindsey WilsonCollege on Saturday after-noon and lost both ends ofa doubleheader, 5-0 and 9-2. The second game waslimited to five inningsbecause of the weather.
Rio Grande (10-10, 5-3MSC E) was held to onlyone hit in the first game.The RedStorm batterscould not solve All-American candidateAnyibel Ramirez.Sophomore leftfielderKaylee Walk had the onlysafety of the game for theRedStorm.
Junior hurler AnnaSmith did all she could tokeep Rio Grande in thegame, but it was notenough to pull out a victo-ry. Smith (5-2) pitchedsix innings, scatteringeight hits and allowing fiveruns (four earned) with sixstrikeouts and one walk.
Ramirez (15-3) struckout 12 and walked three asshe kept the Rio bats silent.
Lauren Seibert swungthe big bat for the LindseyWilson (25-4, 6-0 MSCW). She was 2-for-3 witha home run and an RBI.Jamie Williams was also 2-
for-3 with one RBI andone run scored.
Rio also made two errorsin the first game.
In game two, LindseyWilson used the powergame, slugging three homeruns in the contest.
Rio would dent the platetwice in the fifth inning tocut the deficit to 5-2, butwould not be able to getany closer than that.
Sophomore third sackerJaymie Rector was 2-for-3with a run scored and anRBI. Smith was 2-for-3with an RBI double.Junior designated hitterStevie Sharp was 1-for-2with a double while seniorshortstop Amber Bowmanand sophomore secondbaseman Katie Fuller alsoadded base hits to the Rioattack.
Junior Allison Mills tookthe loss for the RedStorm.Mills (3-4) allowed ninehits and nine runs whilestriking out six and walk-ing two.
REDSTORM SOFTBALLDROPS TWO TODAVENPORT
RIO GRANDE, Ohio —The University of RioGrande RedStorm softballteam stepped out of con-ference on Friday after-noon for a doubleheaderversus DavenportUniversity at Stanley
Evans Field and lost bothgames of the twinbill, 8-2and 11-8.
Rio Grande (10-8) hasnow lost three games in arow. The Rio offense washeld in check in the open-ing game, managing onlysix hits againstDavenport’s Sam Cole.
Sophomore third base-man Jaymie Rector andjunior first baseman AnnaSmith led the Rio offense,both going 2-for-4 with anRBI. Smith’s RBI cameon a double. Sophomoreleftfielder Kaylee Walkwas 1-for-1 and juniorrightfielder MarissaLennox was 1-for-3.
Freshman Amber Myerstook the loss for theRedStorm. Myers (1-1)pitched four innings,allowing seven hits andfive runs (two earned) withone strikeout and fourwalks.
Davenport (11-12)cranked up their offense, tothe tune of 11 hits. AmberGetty led the way, going 2-for-5 with two RBI’s and arun scored. Katie Cornmanwent 3-for-3 with an RBIand scored two runs.Debra Burton was 2-for-4with a double, an RBI anda run scored.
Cole (7-6) went the dis-tance for the victory. Sheallowed six hits and tworuns (one earned) with fourstrikeouts and three walks.
Rio Grande head coachDawnjene DeLong wasdisappointed in how herclub played in the opener.“They’re a good hittingteam, but our defense justwasn’t solid at all today,”DeLong said. “Yeah, it’scold, but we’ve got to fightthrough it, we had way toomany errors and weweren’t on our toes.” Riocommitted three costlyerrors in the opening gameloss.
Davenport started quick-ly in the second game,scoring four runs in thefirst inning and four morein the third to take an 8-2lead.
Freshman ShellaZimmerman struggledwith her control as she waschased from the pitcher’scircle after three innings.Zimmerman (0-2) gave upeight hits and eight runswith five walks while fan-ning one batter.
Rector went 3-for-5 andscored two runs and Smithwas big again at the plate,going 2-for-3 with a dou-ble and three RBI’s. Myerswas 1-for-2 with threeRBI’s and freshman pitch-er Brittany Fernandez(Ross, OH) was 2-for-3with two RBI’s and a runscored as she came on torelieve Zimmerman. Walkalso had two hits in thesecond game for RioGrande.
RedStorm suffer sweep at hands of Georgetown CollegeBY MARK WILLIAMS
SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE
RIO GRANDE, Ohio— The University of RioGrande RedStorm base-ball team, ranked No. 25in the NAIA preseasonTop 25 rating, droppedboth games of a double-header on Saturday after-noon to visitingGeorgetown College, 5-0and 9-1. The Tigersswept the RedStorm inthe four-game weekendseries.
Rio Grande (19-16, 7-7MSC E) struggled tomuster any offense forthe second straight day asthe RedStorm had agrand total of six hits inthe doubleheader.
Georgetown College(20-15, 10-6 MSC W)scored two runs in thethird inning and thatwould be all it wouldneed in game one to col-lect the victory.
S o p h o m o r erighthander Eric Fordsuffered his second con-secutive loss. Ford (3-2)pitched 6 1/3 innings,scattering seven hits andallowing five runs (twoearned) with two strike-outs and two walks.
Ford was not helpedmuch by his defense asRio committed fourerrors in the first game.
Senior rightfielderMichael Lynch led theRio offense, going 2-for-4. Senior first basemanFrancisco Ramirez was1-for-2 with a double.Freshman leftfielderMichael Shroyer andsenior centerfielder RyanWeaver had the other hitsfor the RedStorm.
Randy Guite led theway for the Tigers, going2-for-2 with two RBI’s.Tyler Fisher and TylerBack also delivered RBIhits for Georgetown.
K.C. Massie went thedistance for the victoryfor Georgetown
Georgetown put thegame away early in gametwo, scoring four timesoff Rio starter JesseBrown in the openinginning. Brown (2-2) didnot retire a batter in thegame.
The Tigers would addthree unearned runs offfreshman David Steele in4 2/3 innings and twomore runs off juniorRichard Hernandez.
The Rio offense hadonly hit in the game, arun-scoring single off thebat of senior designatedhitter DominickMcAllister in the fourthinning. The run cut thedeficit to 5-1 at the time.
Chris Wood ledGeorgetown with a 3-for-4 effort at the plate andtwo RBI’s with a runscored. Guite was 2-for-4with a run scored and anRBI.
Back and Brian Smithalso notched RBI hits forthe Tigers.
Joe Devine picked upthe complete game victo-ry for Georgetown in thesecond game.
Rio Grande head coachBrad Warnimont was dis-appointed in how theseries turned out for hisball club. “When youhave nine hits in four ballgames you’re not goingto beat many people,”Warnimont said. “I con-tinue to emphasize with
our guys the importanceof the short game and Ithink (Georgetown) had10 hits in that secondgame and seven of themdidn’t get out of theinfield. We had no execu-tion; we had the sameamount of home runs inthe series, which waszero that we had buntsfor hits.”
“They came in and wecouldn’t shut downthey’re short game, wecouldn’t defend,”Warnimont added. “Inthree of the four games, Ithink we had more errorsthan hits and you’re notgoing to win many ballgames doing that.”
“They had a plan, theystuck with it and it paidoff for them,” saidWarnimont.
Rio Grande will stepout of conference for adoubleheader with SalemInternational at home onTuesday (March 29).First pitch is set for 1p.m.
REDSTORM DROPTWINBILL TO
GEORGETOWN
RIO GRANDE, Ohio— The University of RioGrande RedStorm base-ball team, ranked No. 25in the NAIA preseasonTop 25 poll, faced offwith GeorgetownCollege on Friday after-noon in a Mid-SouthConference doublehead-er at Bob Evans Field andlost both games of thedoubleheader by theidentical scores of 2-1.The first game went eightinnings.
Rio Grande (19-14, 7-5MSC E) could not musterany offense to speak of ineither contest as theRedStorm lost a pair ofclose encounters.
Senior DesmondSullivan deserved a bet-ter fate as he lost a pitch-er’s duel toGeorgetown’s JasonMcGinnis. McGinniswas on top of his game ashe carried a no-hitter intothe sixth inning.
Sullivan (5-3) scatteredonly four hits while giv-ing up two unearnedruns. Sullivan struck outthree batters in the game.
The RedStorm had achance in the bottom ofthe eighth inning, butsenior centerfielder RyanWeaver was picked off atsecond base as the tyingrun. The winning runwas on first base at thetime.
In game two, Rio post-ed only two hits.
Sophomore lefty RyanRobertson, like Sullivan,was the tough luck loserin the game. Robertson(4-6) gave up two runs,including a home run inthe sixth inning, six hitsand one walk while strik-ing out four Tiger hitters.
“Desmond and Robo(Ryan Robertson)pitched well enough towin,” said Rio Grandehead coach BradWarnimont. “We had 12strikeouts in a double-header, that isn’t going toget it done. Ourapproach wasn’t goodtoday.”
Georgetown improvesto 18-14 overall and 8-6in the MSC West.
Meigs picked up whereit left off in the secondinning, scoring threemore runs. McKinneyhit a one out single,Rothgeb reached on afielders choice, and RyanPayne hit a single.Rothgeb and Paynescored on a two RBIdouble by Dettwiller,with Dettwiller scoringon a Sayre single to takea 6-2 lead.
The Warriors senteight men to the plate inthe second inning, scor-ing three. Adams hit asingle, Knost drew atwo-out walk, Proctoradded a single andLandon Kern hit an RBIsingle. Adams, Knostand Proctor all camearound to score.
Taylor Rowe andColton Stewart eachsingled in the third, butneither scored. TheWarriors were set downin order in the thirdinning.
Sayre hit a single withone out in the fifthinning, followed by sin-gles by Rowe andStewart. Sayre scoredon the single byStewart.
Rowe and Stewartgave the Maraudersback-to-back singles inthe top of the seventh
inning, but could notscore.
Warren had one baserunner in each of thefinal three innings, onlyadvancing one past firstbase.
Dettwiller faced 32batters in seven inningsto earn the win.Dettwiller allowed fourhits, five runs (twoearned), three walks andstruckout 10.
For Warren, DakotaDouglas took the loss,pitching two innings.Douglas allowed sevenhits, six runs (fiveearned) and walked two.Pannell and Proctor bothpitched in relief.
Sayre led theMarauders with three hits— including a homerun— and three RBIs. Roweand Stewart each hadthree hits in the game,McKinney added twosingles, and Rothgeb,Payne and Dettwillereach had one hit.
Dettwiller and Sayreeach had three RBIs,while Stewart added one.
Meigs will play atBelpre on Wednesday at5 p.m.
MEIGS 7, WARREN 5Meigs 330 010 0 — 7 14 3Warren 230 000 0 — 5 6 2
MEIGS (1-0): Heath Dettwiller andZach Sayre.WARREN (0-1): Dakota Douglas,Pannell (3), Tyler Proctor (7) andKern.WP — Dettwiller; LP — Douglas.HR — (M) Zach Sayre (1st inning,one on, two out); (W): Knost (1stinning, zero on, zero out).
Meigsfrom Page B1
VanMatre, Harris andLarck each added one.Wood had a triple forthe lone extra base hit.
Leslie Harris had twohits for Buffalo, withTiffany Bailey and
Parkins each addingone hit. Harris andParkins each hit a triplefor the Lady Bisons.
WAHAMA 3, BUFFALO 2Buffalo 000 100 1 — 2 4 0Wahama 000 300 x — 3 6 5
BUFFALO (7-2): Hannah Jordanand Tiffany Bailey.WAHAMA (2-2): Ashley Templetonand Sierra Carmichael.WP — Templeton; LP — Jordan.
Avengefrom Page B1
Ethan Nottingham, RyanShook and ColinConnolly provided thesafeties.
Neither starter fac-tored into the final deci-sions, as Eastman(GAHS) and JohnTenoglia (EHS) bothwere replaced in thefourth inning. Eastman’sreplacement, BrandonTaylor, ended up beingthe winning pitcher ofrecord, while JoeyScowden took the loss inreplacing Tenoglia.
Things got shaky forthe Blue Devils in thetop of the seventh, as theEagles loaded the basesagainst Taylor with onlyone out in the inning.Warnimont came in andstruck out two consecu-tive EHS hitters to pre-
serve the win and pickup the save.
Gallia Academy com-mitted three errors in thecontest, while Easternhad only one miscue.
Tenoglia was the firstbatter to reach base safe-ly at the new facilityafter a first inning walk.Warnimont became thefirst GAHS baserunnerafter a leadoff walk inthe first and later scoredthe first-ever run after anRBI single fromEastman. Eastman’ssafety was the first-everat the new complex, aswell as the first run bat-ted in.
GALLIA ACADEMY 9,EASTERN 6
Eastern 030 300 0 — 6 4 1Gallipolis 303 030 x — 9 11 3
EHS (0-1): John Tenoglia, JoeyScowden (4) and Colin Connolly.GAHS (1-0): Tyler Eastman,Brandon Taylor (4), CalebWarnimont (7) and Ben Saunders.WP — Taylor; LP — Scowden; S —Warnimont.
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Bryan Walters/photoEastern baseball coach Brian Bowen, second fromleft, walks away from the mound after a discussionwith his defense during the first inning of Mondaynight’s baseball contest against Gallia Academy atBob Eastman Ball Field in Centenary, Ohio.
Calhoun: Legacy can waituntil after Final Four
HARTFORD, Conn.(AP) — Connecticutcoach Jim Calhoun com-pares himself to an old car— once shiny, new andwell-liked by everyone,he’s had his share of dingsto his reputation duringthe later part of his 39-year coaching career.
“The shine will wearoff the car...and you’ll getsome nicks and dents andbumps,” Calhoun saidMonday. “And hopefullywhen it’s all said anddone, they’ll look backand see what the heck youdid for your kids, for youruniversity, for your com-munity.”
This week, the Hall ofFame coach, who alreadyhas two national titles onhis resume, will take hisprogram to a fourth FinalFour, after a year that sawmany critics calling forhis job.
Those calls came afterthe Huskies failed tomake the tournament in2010, and the NCAAissued a report that foundseveral major recruitingviolations in the UConnprogram.
The criticism grew loudagain in February afterUConn finished this regu-lar season with losses infour of its last five games.The losing streak came asthe NCAA hit the teamwith sanctions thatincluded a three-gameconference suspension forCalhoun for failing to cre-ate an atmosphere ofcompliance in the pro-gram — a suspension hewill serve if he returnsnext season.
“I think that affectedhim,” said CentralConnecticut coach HowieDickenman, a longtimefriend, who coachedunder Calhoun for 10 sea-sons. “Up until that point— he’s been coaching for39 years— his reputationhad been sparkling. Tohave it tarnished a bit, thathurt him.”
But over the last threeweeks, Calhoun hassteered his Huskies on anamazing run — five winsin five days to secure aBig East championship,and four more wins toearn a trip to the FinalFour.
“I felt like I was in the
corner because the sweatequity that we all have —my players, my coaches,the university — has putinto UConn basketballover the past 25 years ispretty deep and rich. Andto have people over a cou-ple-of-months period dis-miss us, I took that per-sonally,” Calhoun saidafter the win over Arizonaon Sunday. “If I takesomething personally, I’mgoing to do everythinghumanly possible to makesure that your perceptionis wrong. These kidsallowed that to happen.”
Calhoun is 68 years oldand has survived severalbouts with cancer andother health issues. Thereare many who now won-der if this will be his lastseason, an opportunity togo out on top, no matterhow the team finishes inHouston.
“Any legacy stuff I canlook at later,” he saidMonday. “Right now, Ijust can’t wait to get thisteam to the Final Four tohave them see somethingthat they’ve never experi-enced in their life, eventhough they’ve beenthrough some greatthings.”
Dickenman said it’s thatdrive to teach and see hisplayers succeed that hebelieves will keep thecoach in Storrs next yearand beyond. AndKentucky coach JohnCalipari, who will faceUConn in the Final Fouron Saturday, said hewould be stunned ifCalhoun announces hisretirement.
“It’s what he does, hecoaches,” he said. “Hegets kids better. He wins.”
Calhoun says has cometo accept that there will bea public perception of himthat he doesn’t agree with,or even recognize, andhe’s come to terms withthe idea that he can’tplease everyone.
“If I please my God andmy family, then that’svery important to me,” hesaid. “And then please myplayers. Please my play-ers and my university —then I’m fine. You have todevelop that. If you don’t,it’s going to make coach-ing long-term wise, verydifficult.”
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Lost: 1 yr. old female calico cat.White, tan, black wearing flea col-lar. Goes by Orange, lost from K&Kmobile home 304-675-5451
Lost- Sammy male indoor cat, darkgray w/some striping, face is lighter,belly white, 15-20#, across fromMeigs Elementary School, Reward$100, 740-742-2524
Lost Brown & White Sm. JapaneseChin dog, State Street Area $300reward Ph. 645-4393
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AP Sports BriefsOhio hoops coach retires
with 598 wins, 1 title FINDLAY, Ohio (AP) — Findlay’s
Ron Niekamp, who led the Oilers to theNCAA Division II NationalChampionship in 2009, is retiring fromcoaching basketball.
Niekamp won 598 games in 26 sea-sons at the school in northwest Ohio.
Niekamp’s team in 2009 went 36-0and he won several coach of the yearhonors.
He never had a losing season atFindlay, and he had 20 seasons whenhis teams won at least 20 games.
He plans on staying at the schoolwhere he’ll teach and develop a newbusiness major in sports and eventmanagement.
Kent State makesSenderoff interim coach KENT, Ohio (AP) — Assistant Rob
Senderoff has been named Kent State’s
interim head coach after Geno Ford leftthe program after three seasons forBradley.
Senderoff could be the leading candi-date to take the job permanently. The37-year-old has been an associate headcoach under Ford for three years.
Tribe sends Nix to BlueJays for cash
GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) —Infielder Jayson Nix has been traded bythe Cleveland Indians to the TorontoBlue Jays.
The Indians got cash in Tuesday’sdeal.
Nix was claimed by Cleveland offwaivers from the Chicago White Soxon June 24. He hit .234 with 12 homeruns in 78 games for the Indians, split-ting time between second base andthird base.
The 28-year-old Nix has a careeraverage of .215 with 26 homers and 48RBIs in 218 career games for ColoradoRockies, White Sox and Indians.
Ochocinco earns reserve spot on MLS teamKANSAS CITY, Mo.
(AP) — After a five-daytryout proved that he wasa good teammate wholacked enough soccerskills, NFL star ChadOchocinco got what hewas hoping for Tuesday— a spot on the reserveteam for Sporting KansasCity.
Now, he’ll work out acouple of times a weekwith the MLS team’sreserve squad, which iswhat he was hoping for allalong.
“This is so awesomeI’m an honorary memberof SportingKC and cantrain with the reserve teamas long as I want,”Ochocinco said in a tweet.“Totally awesomeILuvKC.”
As an honorary memberof Sporting KC who playsfor the reserve team, thesix-time Pro Bowl widereceiver for the CincinnatiBengals will not be given
a contract or be paid. Butsoccer will be a great wayto stay in shape until own-ers and players work outtheir differences and theNFL lockout is lifted.
Coach Peter Vermessaid Ochocinco hadproven himself a hardworker and a good team-mate and was never a dis-traction.
“This is a positive out-come for everyoneinvolved,” said Vermes.“It’s been great to haveChad here and we’ll wel-come him back when he’sready to return. He’s beena true professionalthroughout his tryout, hehas fit right in with theother players and he hasbeen a great presence inthe locker room. He hasdefinitely earned the rightto be an honorary memberof the squad.”
The Ochocinco experi-ence has also been goodfor soccer, Vermes
believes.“For our sport, it’s great
because I think there’s alot of people out therewho question how hard itis to play this game andit’s very, very difficult.”
Ochocinco said hisgrandmother helped per-suade him to give up soc-cer and focus entirely onfootball after the 10thgrade. If he had stuck withsoccer, Vermes said, hewould have been a star inthat sport.
“There’s no doubt in mymind he would be a pro-fessional player today,”Vermes said. “No doubt inmy mind. We’ve had guysin here with lesser physi-cal tools than he has. Hebrings something to thefield, his attention to detailand he’s very conscien-tious about the game.When you bring thatevery day onto the prac-tice field you’re just goingto get better.”
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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALENOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thatby virtue of a certain credit linedeed of trust (the “Deed of Trust”),dated July 18, 2003, made by JohnA. Wilson, aka John A. Wilson, IIand Catherine E. Wilson, akaCatherine Wilson, as joint tenantswith right of survivorship, to ToddTaylor and Dan Kennedy, Trustees,of record in the Office of the Clerkof the County Commission ofMason County, West Virginia, inTrust Deed Book No. 276, at page1005, to secure City National Bankof West Virginia, in the payment ofthe sum of $14,500.00, evidencedby a negotiable promissory notebearing even date therewith, andCity National Bank of West Virginiabeing authorized and empoweredto designate and appoint one ormore substitute trustees in theplace and stead of the trusteesnamed in the Deed of Trust and theundersigned, Donald J. Epperly,having been so appointed by theterms of a Designation of SubstituteTrustee of record in said Clerk's of-fice, and default having been madein the payment of said indebted-ness and said Substitute Trusteehaving been requested in writing soto do by City National Bank of WestVirginia, owner and holder of saidnote, said Substitute Trustee, on-FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2011 AT 2:00P.M. EASTERN TIMEwill offer forsale and sell at public auction at thefront door of the Mason CountyCourthouse, 200 Sixth Street, PointPleasant, West Virginia, to the high-est bidder therefor, all of his right,title and interest, in and to the fol-lowing described real estate, situ-ate, lying and being in the City ofPoint Pleasant, Mason County,West Virginia, and more particularlybounded and described as fol-lows:Being that certain lot, known,numbered and designated upon theplat of North Point Pleasant,recorded in the Office of the Clerkof the County Commission ofMason County, West Virginia, inDeed Book No. 70, at page 168, asLot No. Ten (10), in Block “U”.Andbeing the same real estate con-veyed to Mabel C. Gibbs, by HarryT. Gibbs, single, by deed dated the21st day of February, 1941,recorded in the Office of the Clerkof the County Commission ofMason County, West Virginia, inDeed Book 118, at page 447.Thesale of said property will be madesubject to all exceptions, reserva-tions, rights of way, easements,conditions, covenants, restrictions,leases and other servitudes ofrecord, if any, pertaining to said realestate, and any and all unpaid taxesassessed against said property.The Trustee reserves the right to re-ject any or all bids. Conveyanceshall be by special warranty deed,and purchaser shall pay for alltransfer stamps, recording fees,and other closing costs.TERMS OFSALE: Ten percent (10%) of thesales price shall be paid by cash,cashier’s check, or check guaran-teed by bank letter of credit in ac-ceptable form, in hand on the day ofsale (the "Good Faith Deposit"),with the balance to be paid in cashat closing within 30 days after thedate of sale. Additional terms andconditions shall be announced atthe sale.At public sale any personor entity may bid and may purchaseany real estate sold if they be thehighest bidder. If the real estate issold for an amount in excess of theoutstanding balance of the mort-gage, together with all interest, un-paid real estate taxes and costs,said excess must be used to satisfyany other encumbrances on saidproperty and after all said encum-brances are satisfied together withall interest and costs, any excessthen remaining must be paid to theGrantor. If the Grantor or any per-son holding an encumbrance can-not be found after a diligent search,the money shall be paid into the Cir-cuit Court of the county for the ben-efit of the Grantor or the holder ofany such encumbrance.Dated:February 28,2011.____________________________________Donald J. Epperly,as Substitute TrusteeSteptoe &Johnson PLLC400 White OaksBoulevardBridgeport, WV 26330 (3)23, 30, 2011
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ORDER OF PUBLICATION IN THEFAMILY COURT OF MASONCOUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA IN RE:THE MARRIAGE/CHILDREN OF:JOEY WALKER Petitioner, andPAULA WALKER RespondentCIVIL ACTION NO. 10-D-369 (Theobject of this suit is to obtain a di-vorce from the bonds of matri-mony.) To the above namedRespondent: You are herebynotified that a hearing on Peti-tioner’s Petition for Divorce hasbeen scheduled for April, 26, 2011at 10:30 a.m., or as soon thereafteras the matter may be heard, beforethe Honorable Constance J.Thomas, of the Family Court ofMason County, West Virginia, 2006th Street, Point Pleasant, West Vir-ginia, you may be present to protectyour interest if you so desire. In theevent that you fail to respond to thisnotice or fail to appear at the hear-ing, thereafter judgment, uponproper hearing and trial, may betaken against you for relief de-manded in the Petition. Youare hereby notified that this matter
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POSITION AVAILABLE VICTIMADVOCATE MASON COUNTYPROSECUTOR'S OFFICE Grantfunded. Full-time position. Duties:Provide services, information sup-port, and advocacy for crime vic-tims consistent with grant.Requirements: associate degreewith experience, or attending col-lege, in related field. Submit resumeby March 25, 2011 to: MasonCounty Prosecuting Attorney's Of-fice, Mason County Courthouse,200 6th Street, Point Pleasant, WV25550 An equal opportunity em-ployer.
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