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Mayor compares cost of city managerFrank Lewispdt staff writer

Last year, voters in Ports-mouth chose to change the city’s form of government from the strong mayor form to a Council/City Manager form of govern-ment, which most likely will mean bringing in a person with a background in the professional field of city management.

While that creates a new dynamic for the city, some officials believe there are some issues that need to be addressed. One of those issues could be the stark difference in payroll, from what the city pays now for the operation of the mayor’s office compared to what the cost of opera-tion of the city manager’s office, and one council-

man has already voiced his opinion that he believes voters were not completely informed of those differ-ences when they went to the polls.

Sixth Ward Portsmouth City Councilman Steve Sturgill even at one point tossed around the idea of asking for a re-vote on the issue of returning to the Council/City Manager

form of government.“We voted twice dur-

ing 2011 on the income tax,” Sturgill said at a City Council meeting. “The first vote lost by two. The second one passed by 22 votes. Some of us, not only at this table, say that was a mandate for the income tax. I would disagree with that. The city manager vote won by a total of 64

votes. I would like to see us re-vote on that.”

Portsmouth Mayor Da-vid Malone has assembled the cost comparisons be-tween what the salaries are for a city manager in a somewhat comparable-sized community to the salaries paid to him and his office staff. Malone said he contacted Tom Carroll, city manager of Loveland,

OH, and explained to him why he wanted the figures, and he received them from Carroll, who at times has been a defacto advisor as the city goes through the changeover process.

Loveland has a popu-lation of 12,081, while Portsmouth’s population is 20,200. Portsmouth cur-rently pays Malone a salary

Is Santa Claus coming to town?Frank Lewispdt staff writer

Will Santa Claus come to town … before Christmas? Right now it’s anyone’s guess.

Last year, the Portsmouth Daily Times brought Santa Claus to town at the Paul E. Johnson Memorial Emporium, to a rousing reception. Children and their parents, who themselves had whispered in San-ta’s ear, came out to enjoy a visit and music by area choirs. This year it’s all up in the air. That’s because Santa is looking for a place to meet with the local boys and girls.

“We’re in a critical situation with Santa Claus, and we’re afraid Santa Claus will not come to town, except on Christmas day,” Portsmouth Daily Times General Manager Mi-chael Messerly said. “All indica-tions are that the Paul E. Johnson Memorial Emporium will not be available this year for the event, which is disappointing because it

was such a great place to have the event last year. But it’s not an op-tion this year.”

Messerly said the Times is des-perately looking for a place to have it this year.

“If we can’t find a place, we sim-ply can’t have the event,” Messerly said. “We want to have the event. Santa wants to come to town to do the event. We want to do every-thing that we did last year and do it bigger, but we can’t do it unless we have a place to do it in.”

Messerly said it is his hope the community will come together and donate the solution to the problem, a facility where children can come in and see Santa over several week-ends. Unlike last year, Messerly said this year’s appearances would most likely be just on Fridays and Saturdays, but over possibly three weekends instead of two weekends.

“This isn’t something the Daily Times looks to make money off of,”

Messerly said. “It’s just something we’d like to do for the community, because every kid should get his or her opportunity, and every family should get its opportunity to have pictures with Santa. And it’s best done when it’s local.”

Messerly said the Times is look-ing for a place where a Santa set can be set up and where there is room for people to stand in line.

“Ideally, like last year, we would like to have room for church and school choirs to perform,” Messer-ly said. “That added so wonderfully to the atmosphere of the event. We would love to have space for local vendors to sell different items they have for sale at Christmas time. However, we understand, beggars can’t be choosers.”

Messerly said right now it is dif-ficult to ask choirs to commit, since plans are still on hold.

“I would hate for anybody to

Village: ‘We have passed our certification’Ryan Scott Ottneypdt staff writer

New Boston Village Ad-ministrator Steve Hamilton met with AMEC engineers last week to discuss their progress to certify the vil-lage flood defense systems. Hamilton said engineers report that work is nearly complete, and he expects to deliver the certification to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) before the end of the year. Local residents can now breath a sigh of relief, hoping now to avoid higher flood insurance rates.

“We’re all done, except I can’t finish my operations manual until I get all my stuff back from them — all their reports on their drill-ing and stuff. But I was talk-ing to Wade Turner from AMEC, and they said we have passed our certifica-tion,” Hamilton said.

FEMA announced the new certification require-ment in 2010 to cities and communities across the United States. The agency warned that while this was not a mandate, FEMA would de-accredit any com-munity’s floodwall that has not met the requirements before the deadline of April 2011. The result of de-accreditation would have meant that citizens in those communities would have to have purchases their own flood insurance for much higher rates.

Initially, because the vil-lage of New Boston and the city of Portsmouth flood-walls are connected, both communities were warned that if either one failed to pass FEMA inspection, both will be de-accredited. That has since changed, Hamilton said, and now either community can be accredited or de-accredited

ASB receives approval to acquire Cottage SavingsWayne Allenpdt staff writer

In June, American Savings Bank (ASB) an-nounced its intention to acquire Cincinnati-based Cottage Savings. ASB re-cently received regulatory approval for the acquisi-tion. According to bank officials. the acquisition becomes effective at the end of business on Nov. 16. When the locations in Madeira and Montgomery, Oh open on Monday, Nov. 19, they will operate as branches of American Sav-ings Bank.

“This is an opportunity for us to grow outside the Portsmouth market. We’re excited to go down to Cin-cinnati with a new market and a new opportunity to grow,” American Sav-ings Bank President Mike Gampp said during the an-nouncement of the acqui-sition. “They have a great staff and a great team of people, that will now join us.”

Gampp said all Cottage Savings employees will become American Savings Employees.

“There will be no loss in staff, there will be no jobs lost. Over the long-term, we are looking to grow, so if anything, we will be add-ing positions, not cutting them,” Gampp said.

In a released state-ment, Cottage Savings Bank Chair and President Barbara Farris said, “our board recognized Ameri-can Savings Bank’s capital strength and array of bank-ing services would result in a continuation of exem-plary customer service our depositors and borrow-ers have come to expect, would provide additional banking services for such customers which are neces-sary in today’s competitive banking environment and will deliver an attractive price for our shareholders.”

Following the closing of the transaction, American

Portsmouth writer publishes new bookFrank Lewispdt staff writer

When Dick Burdette was a Portsmouth boy in the forties and early fif-ties, he would ride with his dad who delivered for the Old Portsmouth Cake and Cookie Company to the old Civilian Conservation Camp (CCC) at Haverhill.

“Every time we went up there, someone would say, ‘hey cake man, you got any

samples,’ and my dad would always laugh and say, ‘no, not today,’” Burdette said. “Finally, I asked him, ‘why don’t we have any samples, we could sell a bunch of them up there.’ I didn’t know what a sample was.” Burdette’s father went on to drive a Borden’s Milk truck and an Adams Baking Com-pany truck.

Inspired by those memo-ries, “Samples,” is Bur-dette’s latest offering in a

long line of books about Portsmouth, mostly about things such as unsolved murders. “Willa Ramey is Missing,” available on Amazon.com and through Barnes&Noble, was Bur-dette’s last book about a Portsmouth girl who re-portedly left her home on a cold, rainy morning March 19, 1943, and never made it to Portsmouth High

wayne allen | daily timesBraxton McNutt gets his picture taken with Santa and Mrs. Claus during last year’s ‘Daily Times Presents Santa’. Without a new venue this year, Santa may not be able to return to the area until he delivers presents prior to Christmas morning.

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LOCAL & STATE2 Thursday, November 1, 2012 Portsmouth Daily Times

ObituariesElmer Henderson, 67

Elmer Henderson, 67, of Lorain, a former Ports-mouth resident, passed

a w a y S u n -d a y , O c t . 2 8 , 2 0 1 2 ,

at Mercy Regional Medical Center in Lorain. He was born in Portsmouth, Oct. 8, 1945, to the late Wylie and Althea James Hender-son.

Elmer retired from the U.S. Steel Corporation in Lorain after 35 years of service. He was an Army Vietnam era veteran and a 1965 graduate of P.H.S. Elmer enjoyed playing horseshoes, fishing, camp-ing, karaoke, and was a fan of Elvis.

Surviving Elmer is his wife of 47 years, Lena Louise “Sissy” Riley Hen-derson, whom he married July 26, 1966 in New Bos-ton; his son, Elmer (Judy) Henderson Jr. of Colum-bus; his daughter, Geneva “Jenny” McCoy of Lorain; his brother, Jack Crosby of Florida; his sister, Shirley (Rodger) Robbins of Lo-rain; 14 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Also preceding Elmer in death were three sisters, Rosemary Dyer, Ethel Fan-nin and Ruth Ann Conley.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012, at 11 a.m. at the Ralph F. Scott Funeral Home in Portsmouth with Pastor Howard Pruitt of-ficiating. Interment will follow in Siloam Cemetery in South Shore, Ky. with military graveside rites by the James Dickey Post 23 Honors Detail.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home Friday from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. until the funeral hour.

In honor of Mr. Hender-son’s service to our coun-try, the flag of the US Army will fly at the funeral home.

Phyllis Adkins, 62Phyllis Sue (Cornwell)

Adkins, 62, of Minford, began her eternal life with her Heavenly Father, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012.

Phyllis was born Dec. 28, 1949, in Portsmouth, to parents Charles and Jean (Bower) Cornwell. She was a 1967 graduate of Minford High School and a member of Grace Baptist Church. She married Wil-liam Adkins in May 1968.

Phyllis was a devoted mother and her grandchil-dren were her life. Phyllis loved attending her grand-children’s sporting events, loved gardening, sewing and cooking.

Phyllis is reunited in her heavenly home with her mother, father, husband and in-laws, Ethan and Ha-zel Adkins.

Phyllis is survived by three daughters; Sherry ( Scott) Lawson of Minford, Brandy (Jeff) Mullins of Portsmouth, Misty (Shan-non) Holbrook of Min-ford; seven grandchildren, Ethan, Charlee and Annie Lawson, Levi and Luke Holbrook, Sawyer and Laney Mullins; two broth-ers, Ralph (Patsy) Corn-well of Citrus Heights, California, Brian (Becky) Cornwell of Hilliard; a sis-ter, Vicki (Roy) Blevins of Minford; special cousin, Carol Leive; special aunt, Barb Morman and many nieces and nephews.

A special thank you to DCI, SOMC Homecare, SOMC Hospice, Dr. Hill, Dr. Variath and Dr. Bana-lagay.

Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Sat-urday, Nov. 3, 2012, at Er-win-Dodson-Allen Funeral Home in Minford with Pas-tor Rob McKinney officiat-ing. Burial will be at Mt. Zion Cemetery in South Shore, Ky. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. Friday and one hour prior to the service on Saturday. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Grace Baptist Church Youth Ministry, 8186 State Route 139, Min-ford, Ohio 45653.

Online condolences may be sent to www.edafh.com.

John Pertuset, 90 John H. Pertuset, 90, of

Springfield, Ohio died Oct. 30, 2012. Funeral services will be held on Friday, Nov. 2 at 11 a.m. at Jackson Ly-tle & Lewis Funeral Home, Springfield with burial at 3 p.m. at Scioto Burial Park, McDermott, Ohio.

Jean Faulkner, 89Jean Faulkner, 89, of

Ironton, died Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, at the Hospice Care Center in Ashland, Ky. Graveside services will be 1:30 p.m. Thurs-day, Nov. 1, 2012, in Aid Cemetery. Friends may call from noon until 1 p.m. at Phillips Funeral Home in Ironton.

• Larry Willis — Service Thursday at Lewis-Gillum Funeral Home in Oak Hill. Interment in South Webster Cemetery.

• Gail Neal — 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Boyer Funeral Home in Waverly, with visita-tion 9-10:30 a.m. Thursday. In-terment in Waverly Evergreen Union Cemetery.

• Nora Eagle — 11 a.m. Thursday at McKinley Funeral Home in Lucasville, with visi-tation 10-11 a.m. Thursday. In-terment in Scioto Burial Park.

• Winona Evans — 1 p.m. Thursday at Lafferty Funeral Home in West Union. Inter-

ment in East Liberty Cem-etery.

• Paul Cassidy — 1 p.m. Friday at Schoedinger Grove City Chapel, 3920 Broadway, Grove City, with visitation noon-1 p.m. Friday. Interment in Concord Cemetery.

• Geneva Dickson — 1 p.m. Friday at Thompson-Meeker Funeral Home in West Union, with visitation 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday. Interment in West Union Cemetery.

• Roy Huff — 11 a.m. Saturday at Phillips Funeral Home in Ironton, with visita-tion 6-9 p.m. Friday. Interment in Sugar Creek Cemetery.

James 2:19You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the de-

mons believe that—and shudder.

Service Schedule

Bible Verse

Portsmouth City Council meeting

rescheduledThe City of Portsmouth

will observe Veterans day on Nov. 12, 2012, and will be closed. In observance of this day and respect for ac-tive and veteran members of our Armed Forces, the Portsmouth City Council will hold their meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012, at 6 p.m. in the Municipal Building, second floor City Council Chambers.

Ohio University Southern to Host Open

HouseOhio University South-

ern in Ironton is holding an Open House for stu-

dents interested in trans-ferring to the university. The event takes place on Nov. 13, 2012, in the Ohio Room, Collins Building. Students may choose to attend one of the following time slots. from 2 pm-4 pm or 5 p.m. -7 pm. A campus tour will begin at 4 p.m.

The Transfer Student Open House is for any student who has attended or is currently attending another college and would like to finish or start a de-gree at Ohio University Southern.

Attendees will learn about the transfer admis-sions process and the many opportunities at Southern’s Ironton and

Proctorville locations.Interested students are

encouraged to RSVP to Nina Queen, Transfer Ad-visor at queenn@ohio.edu or call

740.533.4548.

Ohio University Souther to Conduct

Horse Day CampOhio University South-

ern is conducting an Horse Day Camp at the Ohio Horse Park in Franklin Furnace on November 30th from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. for children ages 6 – 12. Children who attend will participate in various equine-related activities such as grooming, riding, and crafts. This is an excel-lent opportunity for chil-

dren to learn more about horses in a fun and friendly atmosphere. $50 per child all costs and activities in-cluded. To register for the Day Camp, please contact Molly Hutchinson at 740-354-9347.

Jefferson Twp., Scioto County Trustees

MeetingsUntil further notice,

Jefferson Twp., Scioto County Trustees will have their meetings on the sec-ond and last Monday of each month at 6 p.m. at the Glendale Sr. Center. For more information contact Trustees Charles Harris at 740-456-6319, or Earl Can-ter at 740-355-9188.

Local Briefs

Boston Marathon fundraiser rescheduledRyan Scott OttneyPDT Staff Writer

The “Boston Marathon” fundraiser originally scheduled for Nov. 1, has now been rescheduled for Nov. 4, or-ganizers said on Wednesday.

The fundraiser is a benefit for the family of Boston Schwamberger, the 3-year-old son of Ashley and Joe Schwamberger. Boston has been di-agnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and the group has organized an event they are calling “The Bos-

ton Marathon.” Scott Caudill, one of the organizers, said while the Boston Marathon is 26.2 miles, this event will be a 2.62 miles walk/run, “it’s more what people want to do.”

Originally scheduled for tonight at the Minford High School track, Caudill said the fundraiser has been rescheduled to Nov. 4, at 2 p.m., at the high school track.

“We apologize for the inconve-nience but the weather looks like it will be one of the nicest that we have left and we didn’t want to have it on

the same day as another fundraiser for the Schwamberger’s,” he said.

There is no entry fee, and of the money goes to support the family - medical costs, family costs, or any-thing else they can use the money for. Caudill said there will be a vari-ety of vendors, cash for gold, T-shirts for sale, and raffles, and they are ac-cepting donations all the time.

Ryan Scott Ottney can be reached at 740-353-3101, ext. 235, or rottney@heartlandpublica-tions.com.

Diabetes fundraiser at NB StadiumRyan Scott OttneyPDT Staff Writer

Fifteen-year-old Erica Thomas of Wheelersburg knows the difficulty of liv-ing with juvenile diabetes. She was diagnosed more than 7 years ago. Now the New Boston student wants to raise public awareness and help col-lect money for the Juve-nile Diabetes Research Fund (JDRF) with a fund-raiser at New Boston Sta-dium this weekend.

“It’s pretty hard having to check my sugar up to six times a day, and my

pulse, and if my (insulin) pump breaks sometimes I have to take regular shots when my pump isn’t working. And there are multiple hospital stays, because if I get the flu or something my sugar goes out of control and I end up in the ICU with diabetic keytoacidosis,” Erica said.

She has been thinking about ways she can raise awareness and help oth-ers like herself, and it all came together with “Er-ica’s Walk for a Cure” at the New Boston Stadium, Saturday from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m.

“People pay five dollars to walk individually, but if you’re in a group it’s $25, and there will be other things like games for chil-dren, face-painting, a chili cook-off, and possibly a battle of the bands,” she said”Every bit of the mon-ey is going to the JDRF.”

Even if you don’t want to walk, Erica said, donations will be accepted and appre-ciated.

New Boston Schools are also helping out by asking students to help collect money for the JRDF. Erica said New Boston students also can have free admis-

sion to the fundraiser on Saturday, if they are spon-sored by a local business.

After she graduates, Eri-ca said she wants to study to become an pediatric en-docrinologist to help other children with juvenile dia-betes.

For more information about the fundraiser, find them on Facebook under the title, “Erica’s Walk for a Cure.”

Ryan Scott Ottney can be reached at 740-353-3101, ext. 235, or rottney@heartlandpublications.com.

50th anniversary choir reunion, this weekendPortia WilliamsPDT Staff Writer

Living Faith Temple church, for-merly, Greater Emmanuel, will hold the 50th Anniversary Choir Reunion Concert on Sunday.

Present and former members of the Greater Emmanuel choirs, which are now called, Living Faith Temple, have been preparing for a 50th Anni-versary Choir Reunion and Concert, at Living Faith Temple, located at 1329 Kinney Street in Portsmouth. The idea to host to the choir reunion was that of Elder Randall Lewis, a former Greater Emmanuel choir di-rector and Deacon Jerald Gordon, who is the current choir director at Living Faith Temple.

Minister Mary Alice Tanner, a former choir director of Greater Em-manuel, and one of the event coor-dinators, said they are expecting a

great turnout for the choir reunion and concert.

“We have contacted former choir members all over the country, (and) as far as Nova Scotia. Our goal was to get every choir member who sang in the choirs from the 1960’s to the present to be a part of the choir re-union,” Tanner said.

She said a tremendous amount of preparation has transpired to ensure success of the celebration.

“We are also going to honor our oldest, living Greater Emmanuel/Living Faith Temple choir member, who is mother Geneva Lewis, and the oldest living Greater Emmanuel/Living Faith Temple member, who is Mother Frances Rutherford.

Tanner said they will also honor Bishop Edward E. Shouse, Sr., who is the first Greater Emmanuel choir director.

“Here in Portsmouth, we have held

choir rehearsals every Thursday, and practice for at least two hours each practice,” Tanner said.

Tanner said that other rehearsals have been going on in other cities among the former choir members in conjunction with the local rehearsals.

In addition to the choir rehearsals, Tanner said they have regular meet-ings among the former choir direc-tors, which include Bishop Edward Shouse, Elder Ralph Clay, Minister Mary Alice Tanner, Elder Randall Lewis and Deacon Jerald Gordon, who is the current choir and praise team director, and worship leader.

Tanner said that 50th Anniversary Choir Concert and Reunion will be wonderful celebration of a 50 year legacy of singing, fellowship, and worship.

Portia Williams may be reached at 740-353-3101, ext. 234 or portiawilliams@heartlandpub-lications.com.

President Obama, Bill Clinton set Ohio stopsDan SewellAssociated Press

CINCINNATI — Presi-dent Barack Obama is resum-ing his storm-delayed chase to win Ohio with help from former President Bill Clinton,

while Republicans are put-ting together a huge rally for Friday evening in suburban Cincinnati.

The Obama campaign said the Democratic president on Friday will campaign at the Franklin County Fairgrounds

in central Ohio, followed by a previously announced rally in Springfield and an afternoon rally in Lima. The western Ohio stops are both at high schools.

Obama had canceled two Ohio campaign visits, in-cluding a Wednesday rally in Cincinnati, and rescheduled the Springfield rally while he dealt with the needs and federal response after Super-storm Sandy pounded the East Coast. Clinton will work

Ohio for Obama on Thursday, with rallies in Toledo, Akron and Chillicothe. Details will be announced later.

The latest Quinnipiac Uni-versity/New York Times/CBS News poll released Wednes-day indicated Obama was hanging on to a lead over Republican Mitt Romney in Ohio, considered likely to be pivotal in deciding their race. The 5-point lead, 50-45, was unchanged from the school’s Oct. 22 poll.

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of $58,000, while Carroll is paid $112,000. His assis-tant city manager received $86,000, while Malone’s administrative assistant receives $22,000. The city pays it’s human resources director $20,000, while Loveland’s HR director receives $78,000. Carroll’s executive assistant is paid $60,000, while Malone’s mayor’s assistant is paid $28,000. The total salaries for operating Malone’s of-fice is $224,000, while the cost of operating Carroll’s office is $336,000, a differ-ence of $112,000.

One of the people who has fought the idea of hav-ing a re-vote on the issue is First Ward Councilman Kevin Johnson, who has supported the changeover long before it went on the ballot. Johnson said the city manager Portsmouth hires may not require a sal-ary as high as Carroll’s.

“Tom has been there for a while,” Johnson said. “He didn’t start off at that. That’s what it is now. Let’s face it, I don’t think that we can attract someone who is currently a city manager. I do think we have sufficient remuneration that we can

attract a strong assistant manager who has had a strong background, who has been taught by a se-nior staffer who is ready to move up in a small town.”

Johnson said one of the reasons he has pushed hard for the search process to begin is that it takes a while to narrow down the field of candidates, and that the city needs to make it clear to applicants that a fiscal caution exists within the city.

“Whoever we interview, they have to understand, this is our situation. We do have a deficit. We’re work-ing on it real well, and I’m delighted with (City Au-ditor) Trent’s (Williams) latest figures that he’s pro-vided that we’re better off than we thought we were,” Johnson said. “So that in-dividual that we interview and that we hire is going to have to understand what our situation is.”

Can the city handle the increased cost should there be one?

“I think it’s something the city can handle,” John-son said. “Quite honestly, a qualified city manager is going to more than earn whatever they get from us, and, in fact, more than pay

for what we will pay them.”One of the questions

that has arisen with the issue of the city manager has been whether a city manager will need more of a community development department than currently exists in the City of Ports-mouth.

“I think that’s some-thing a city manager would look at, because I think we’re losing out on so many opportunities that we may not even be aware of. When I moved here, we had four people constantly working on grants,” John-son said. “And right now, for all practical purposes, we’re down to a half per-son (part time employee). Even though she (Tracy Shearer) works full time, she doesn’t have the back-ground. She has had to spend a lot of time learn-ing. So yes, any qualified city manager, one of the things they always look at is a development depart-ment, and the staffing, and the quality of that staffing.”

The Council/City Man-ager form is to begin on Jan. 1, 2014.

Frank Lewis may be reached at 740-353-3101, ext. 252, or at flewis@heartlandpublications.com.

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individually.Neither New Boston nor

Portsmouth completed their repairs before the FEMA deadline in April 2011. The de-accreditation process was started for the village in February of this year. Some mortgage-lenders immediately be-gan requiring homeown-ers to purchase increased policies to protect their investments.

“When FEMA did their re-mapping on April 18, 2011, they changed some of the zoning up through Lakeshore Drive and Lakeview Avenue, up to York Street — they changed some of that to floodways instead of flood-plains. I talked to a lot of banks that had mortgages on these houses, and I told them we were getting cer-tified, but it was mostly these out-of-state mort-gage companies that hit some of the people with raising their flood insur-ance because the maps changed,” Hamilton said.

He pointed to one situa-tion where a New Boston resident, Ruth Bowling on York Street, was paying more for insurance than her neighbor, because some mortgage-lenders had already required in-creased rates. Bowling, who is a widow living on a tightly fixed-income, said her rates have already gone up $100.

“I had like 50-some-thousand on the house, which is more than what I owed on it, then I had 150 on homeowners. And then I had to bring my flood in-surance up to about what my homeowner’s (insur-ance) was,” she said. “It is hard. Ten dollars is $10, and $100 is $100. Lower-ing it really would help.”

Bowling lives near the new school site, and like many in those neighbor-hoods — which have his-torically been prone to flooding — she worries that the new school will displace floodwater and cause increased flooding in the area. The school has installed retention and detention ponds around the building to collect dis-placed water so it should not flood. But many local residents are concerned it might not work as well as expected.

Bowling said the insur-ance rate dropping again will help her a lot, but she’s more satisfied know-ing that the village has a certified flood defense sys-tem that will protect the community from flooding to begin with.

Hamilton said overall, FEMA was pleased with the condition of their floodwall — which is about 60 years old.

“The Flood Defense Su-pervisor, Mr. Don Winters,

and the guys before him, they did a real good job of the upkeep and stuff. For the walls being that old, they was going in think-ing there might be some under-seepage, but when they sound tested the walls, ours was one of the strongest,” Hamilton said.

Because FEMA insisted the new regulations were not a mandate, there was no state or federal fund-ing to support the project. However, if the communi-ties didn’t follow through, it would be the citizens that paid the price with increased flood insur-ance rates. To protect its residents from that out-come, the village secured a $400,000 line of credit at U.S. Bank, and awarded the job to AMEC Engi-neering, from Cincinnati. The village finished the project for only $300,000.

Now engineers are nearly complete, Hamilton said. He expects they will deliver their final report soon and then Hamilton will complete the revised

flood station operations manual. After that, Ham-ilton can deliver AMEC’s certification to FEMA and avoid de-accreditation.

“AMEC will put their seal on it, and FEMA will put it in their records that, yes, we have a certified levee system in New Bos-ton,” Hamilton said.

Hamilton said he ex-pects to have the certifi-cation delivered to FEMA before the end of the year.

Portsmouth Wastewater Director Richard Duncan said he expected the city would also avoid de-ac-creditation, and said the city had a second-opinion study by AMEC that pro-duced significantly better results than the first study commissioned by Hower-ton Engineering. He said the city does expect to meet with both AMEC and How-erton before the end of the year to have their certifica-tion complete as well.

Ryan Scott Ottney can be reached at 740-353-3101, ext. 235, or rottney@heartlandpublications.com.

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Savings will have assets of about $265 million and deposits of about $220 million, with locations in Hamilton, Pike and Scioto

counties in Ohio and Gree-nup County in Kentucky.

According to Gampp there is no intention of moving American Savings Bank’s corporate head-quarters from Portsmouth,

and with the acquisition, ASB will now have 64 em-ployees.

Wayne Allen may be reached at 740-353-3101, ext. 208, or wallen@heartlandpublications.com.

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put off an opportunity to perform, waiting on us,” Messerly said. “We don’t want to leave anybody in limbo. If we know we have a venue in which we can do the event, we’ll be furi-ously trying to find people to come and perform. We have a lot of talented kids, outside of athletics, who

deserve to show off their talents as well, and this is a great opportunity to do so”

Messerly said anyone who wishes to donate a venue for the Santa visits, may contact him at 740-353-3101 or at mmesser-ly@heartlandpublications.com.

“We hate to disappoint all the girls and boys in

the area by not being able to bring Santa to town,” Messerly said. “We want to again show why the Portsmouth Daily Times is the official sponsor for bringing Santa Claus to southern Ohio.”

Frank Lewis may be reached at 740-353-3101, ext. 252, or at flewis@heartlandpublications.com.

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School. She has never been seen since. His “Pockets Full Awry,” concerns the murder of a local physi-cian, Dr. George Obrist. Burdette has also written the definitive book on The Waterloo Wonders basket-ball team.

His latest book, “Sam-ples,” is about people who attended the 10 contigu-ous schools in the city back then.

“I interviewed nearly a hundred people who live in Portsmouth or were former residents,” Burdette said. “Portsmouth was made up of 10 school districts and we have a picture of each of the 10. I tried to get 10 people who lived in each of the 10 districts and said, ‘what was it like growing up. Tell me your favorite story,’ so 90 percent of it is not my recollections, but people who grew up in the Wilson district, or the Gar-field district, or Roosevelt, or whatever.”

One of the questions he asked has been asked for decades.

“Where was the elusive ‘hilltop’ everyone always thought existed, and I don’t think it did,” Burdette said. He received a lot of answers

to the question.“”Dick Grimm, who grew

up on Coles Boulevard, told me, ’ I grew up on the hill-top and I had never heard of it,’” Burdette said. “One woman at our 50th reunion said, ‘I lived on the hilltop.’ I asked, ‘where was that’ and she said on Vinton Ave-nue, which is about a block off Robinson Avenue. Some said anything north of Grant Street is the hilltop. I define it as above Robin-son Avenue, the flood plain. Anything above that, you were safe from the flood waters.”

Burdette said he grew up in the Highland School Dis-trict and he said his family never thought about being poor until they got to high school.

“All of a sudden, we saw kids wearing their finer clothes. Some of them had cars. They always seemed to be in all the activities, except for athletics because it was pretty competitive,” Burdette said. “I think most people, when they got to high school, discovered they were looked down on. They thought they were anyway. I found out this was going on clear back in the 1930’s, people thought they were being kind of dis-criminated against.”

Burdette said he looked to find out where the wealth of the city was located. He said the early settlers were poor, but Portsmouth be-came a middle class city in the 50’s. “So this book is stories of people growing up in every part of town, since people back then didn’t have cars, so they didn’t know what it was like in other parts of the town. This is just a great group of stories and everyone agreed, Portsmouth was a great town to grow up in, and that was a great time to grow up there.”

Burdette graduated from Portsmouth High School in 1953 and went off to col-lege. He returned to write for the Portsmouth Daily Times from 1957 to 1959, and the book is dedicated to legendary Times writer Pete Minego.

“He is the one who was responsible for whatever I’ve accomplished,” Bur-dette said.

Burdette will be in town for a book signing, Nov. 9 & 10 at Market Street Cafe from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day. Copies of his new book are available there.

Frank Lewis may be reached at 740-353-3101, ext. 252, or at flewis@heartlandpublications.com

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Northwest Branch of PPL to move, expandWayne AllenPDT Staff Writer

The Northwest branch of the Portsmouth Public Library is in the process of moving into an expanded space within the same building it’s currently located in.

“It’s moving, just down the hallway. That building used to be called the Northwest Resource Center and owned by the North-west Board of Education. Dur-ing the summer, the building was sold to the Union Township Trustees,” said Paige Williams, Director of the Portsmouth Pub-lic Library. “When that building

first opened in 2000, there were several different groups occupy-ing the building. At the time, the library had one classroom in the building. Now, everything is gone except for the library.”

She said when Union Town-ship took ownership of the build-ing, they wanted the library to stay and offered an expanded space.

“There is a classroom at the very front of the building that is basically a double classroom. They told us we could move into that space. So, this week we closed the branch and are physi-cally moving from the small room

to the larger room,” Williams said, “In the next two to three weeks, we are planing a grand re-opening for the branch.”

She said the move should be completed by Monday, Nov. 5 with new hours of operation.

“We’ve changed our hours to be more consumer friendly. We will again offer evening hours. Previously, we were open two full days and two half days. Now we are going to be open three full days,” Williams said.

The hours will be, Mondays Noon – 8 p.m., Wednesdays 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Fridays 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

“That is the most underused branch of all of our locations in-cluding the bookmobile. We are planing to add new materials to that collection within the next four weeks. We’re hoping with the new hours and the expanded room, more people will begin to take notice of what it has to of-fer,” Williams said. “One of the features of the branch includes high speed Internet. It’s at a speed that a lot of families can’t get out there because we are on fiber.”

The location of the Northwest branch is 13056 State Route 73, in McDermott.

“We look forward to serving the community at a more ex-panded location,” Williams said.

Other branches of the Ports-mouth Public Library are lo-cated in Lucasville, New Bos-ton, Northwest, South Webster, Wheelersburg with the main branch located in Portsmouth.

For more information call the Northwest branch of the Ports-mouth Public Library at 740-372-8314.

Wayne Allen can be reached at 740-353-3101, ext. 208, or wallen@heartlandpubli-cations.com.

WeatherToday High: 48 | Low: 32

Thursday: A slight chance of snow showers, mixing with rain after 9am, then gradually ending. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 48. West wind 10 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 32. West wind 9 to 13 mph.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 52. West wind 6 to 11 mph.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 32.Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 54.Saturday Night: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy,

with a low around 38. Chance of precipitation is 40%.Sunday: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a

high near 59. Chance of precipitation is 30%.Sunday Night: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy,

with a low around 41. Chance of precipitation is 30%.Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 53.Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 38.Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 57.

Ohio River LevelsWednesday: 27.6 / Thursday: 35.1 / Friday: 38.5

Source: National Weather Service

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OPINION4 Thursday, November 1, 2012 Portsmouth Daily Times

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The (Youngstown) Vindicator, Oct. 27Here’s a sobering reality about public edu-

cation in Ohio that should open the eyes of voters in the Nov. 6 election: There will be 194 school levies on the ballot, including 123 seeking additional funding. The rest are re-newals or continuations of taxes now on the books.

But that’s only part of the bad news con-fronting local school districts. According to the Columbus Dispatch, the 194 levies repre-sent the highest percentage of new taxes in at least the past decade.

The Dispatch also notes that less than a third of the levies requesting new money have been approved since 2003. Renewal lev-ies have a pass rate of 90 percent.

It doesn’t take a doctorate to figure out what’s going on in communities around the state: Taxpayers are in no mood to give schools or other public entities more money to operate.

It doesn’t matter to them that state fund-ing has been slashed by about $800 million in the current biennium budget passed by the Republican controlled General Assembly and signed into law by Republican Gov. John Kasich.

It also makes no difference to most taxpay-ers that schools districts have imposed deep cuts in spending. They just don’t want to pay any more for schools….

(We) urge passage of all the school tax re-newals because depriving the districts of the money they now receive will affect the educa-tion of the students.

The Ironton Tribune, Oct. 25As the Ohio Environmental Protection

Agency celebrates 40 years this month, it is important that citizens don’t overlook the positive impact the agency has had on lives of millions of Ohioans.

The agency has unfairly received some-what of a negative image for initiatives driven by the federal EPA and for some of its own unfunded mandates handed down over the years, which is certainly a legitimate criti-cism.

The Ohio EPA recently touted some of its legitimate examples of success over the past four decades:

— In the 1980s, 21 percent of big rivers met aquatic life standards. Now, 89 percent meet.

— Since the 1970s, carbon monoxide in the air is down 80 percent; sulfur dioxide is down 71 percent and lead is down 95 percent.

— Today, Ohio has 40 licensed, protective landfills instead of 1,300 open dumps.

— 99 percent of community public water systems now meet health-based standards, up from 85 percent in 1993.

The ideas that the state can remain “busi-ness friendly” but still insisting on protecting the environment are not mutually exclusive to one another. Both can be accomplished through commonsense initiatives.

That should be the agency’s driving focus for the next four decades.

The Lima News, Oct. 25Duty. Honor. Country.Those values were forgotten by Boy Scout

leaders in Wapakoneta, Kalida and Bellefon-taine.

They also were ignored by a judge and po-lice chief.

The Lima News learned this week that the Boy Scouts, a judge and a police chief in Wapakoneta thought it was better to keep quiet about the information regarding a child molestation rather than prosecute the case in the 1970s. Apparently, they were more worried about protecting the good name of the Boy Scouts rather than letting parents of Scouts know their children may have been endangered.

The case slaps you with the markings of a Joe Paterno, Penn State and Jerry Sandusky fiasco. Only this one happened in our back-yard.

It’s also a classic example of the impor-tance of open record laws.

The revelations became public after sourc-es raised the interest of the Los Angeles Times. The newspaper found that for more than two decades, the Boy Scouts failed to report hundreds of alleged child molesters to police and often hid the allegations from parents and the public. The information was kept in confidential files, aptly named “per-version files,” which the Scouts would use to warn other troops about the problems. The Times reviewed 1,600 of those files, dat-ing from 1970 to 1991. A lawsuit filed later resulted in 1,200 more instances becoming public last week, which allowed The Lima News to research the information for local oc-currences…

Limited information was available for a 1988 case in Kalida and one in 2002 in Belle-fontaine. However, the Wapakoneta case provided an exchange of letters that showed court and police officials had no intention of sharing information back in the 1970s…

So much for doing one’s duty at all times and being loyal to the truth.

Akron Beacon-Journal, Oct. 27(D)isputes over how Ohio counts provi-

sional ballots aren’t over, a reflection of a close race in what could be the decisive state in the presidential election. When questions arise at the polling place, such ballots are held, then checked to determine their valid-ity. Ohio’s voting history indicates there could be enough disputed provisional ballots to de-cide the outcome.

Earlier this month, a federal appeals court rightly ruled that provisional ballots cast in the correct polling location but wrong pre-cinct due to poll worker error must be count-ed. Voter advocates then sought to expand the protection to include provisional ballots cast in the same circumstances in entirely wrong polling locations.

Algenon Marbley, the federal district court judge whose right-place/wrong-precinct rul-ing was unsuccessfully appealed by the state, held last week that the principle applied broadly: Voters who arrive at the wrong loca-tion due to poll worker error deserve to have their ballots counted, too.

Ideally, such questions would have been settled long ago, avoiding last-minute compli-cations. In correctly protecting voters, Marb-ley’s ruling would test poll workers, although Republican claims that it would encourage a “vote anywhere” mentality seem overblown. Voters always could be directed to the local board of elections.

Republicans have tried repeatedly to tinker with election laws. They shouldn’t be sur-prised when Democratic-leaning groups push back.

November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 60 days remaining until the end of the year.

996 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High Ger-man).

1179 – Philip II is crowned King of France.

1348 – The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro on the pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus “royalists.”

1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.

1520 – The Strait of Ma-gellan, the passage imme-diately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by by Europe-an explorer Ferdinand Magel-lan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage.

1555 – French Huguenots establish the France Antarc-tique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1570 – The All Saints’ Flood devastates the Dutch coast.

1604 – William Shake-speare’s tragedy Othello is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.

1611 – William Shake-speare’s romantic comedy The Tempest is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.

1612 – (22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Rus-sia: Moscow, Kitai-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky

1683 – The British crown colony of New York is subdi-vided into 12 counties.

1688 – William III of Or-ange sets out a second time from Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands to invade Eng-land, Scotland and Ireland from King James II of Eng-land during the Glorious Revolution.

1755 – Lisbon earthquake: In Portugal, Lisbon is de-stroyed by a massive earth-quake and tsunami, killing between sixty thousand and ninety thousand people.

1765 – The British Parlia-ment enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.

1790 – Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in

which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.

1800 – US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).

1805 – Napoleon Bonapar-te invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.

1814 – Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the Euro-pean political map after the defeat of France, in the Napo-leonic Wars.

1848 – In Boston, Mas-sachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Bos-ton Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.

1859 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.

1861 – American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.

1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.

1876 – New Zealand’s pro-vincial government system is dissolved.

1884 – The Gaelic Ath-letic Association is set up in Hayes’s Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.

1886 – Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka is established with 37 students.

1894 – Nicholas II be-comes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.

1896 – A picture showing the unclad (bare) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.

1897 – The first Library of Congress building opened its doors to the public. The Library had been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.

1901 – Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male col-legiate fraternity is estab-lished at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.

1911 – The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.

1914 – World War I: the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off

of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.

1915 – Parris Island is offi-cially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.

1916 – Paul Miliukov de-livers in the State Duma the famous “stupidity or treason” speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.

1918 – Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid tran-sit accident in US history oc-curs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 deaths.

1918 – Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Em-pire.

1918 – Banat Republic is founded.

1920 – American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schoo-ner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schoo-ner Championship Races in Halifax.

1922 – The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehm-ed VI, abdicates.

1928 – The Law on the Adoption and Implementa-tion of the Turkish Alphabet, replacing the version of the Arabic alphabet previously used, comes into force in Tur-key.

1937 – Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbai-jan’s Lutheran community.

1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed “the match of the century” in horse racing.

1939 – The first rabbit born after artificial insemina-tion is exhibited to the world.

1941 – American photog-rapher Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous im-ages in the history of photog-raphy.

1942 – Matanikau Offen-sive begins during the Gua-dalcanal Campaign and ends on November 4.

1943 – World War II: Bat-tle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.

1943 – World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.

1944 – World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Nether-lands.

OHIOU.S. Sen. Rob Portman (R)Washington, D.C., OfficeB40D Dirksen Senate Office BldgWashington, D.C. 20510(202) 224-3353Cincinnati OfficePhone: (513) 684-3265Fax: (513) 684-3269http://portman.senate.govU.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D)713 Hart Senate Office Bldg.Washington, DC 20510Phone: (202) 224-2315Fax: (202) 228-6321

Cincinnati OfficePhone: (513) 684-1021Fax: (513) 684-1029http://brown.senate.govU.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-2nd)Washington D.C. Office2464 Rayburn House Off. Bldg.Washington, D.C. 20515Phone: (202) 225-3164Toll Free: (800) 784-6366Fax: (202) 225-1992Portsmouth Office602 Chillicothe St., #304Portsmouth, OH 45662Phone: (740) 354-1440

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Dear An-nie: I’m dat-ing a guy who works out of town and is home every four weeks. “Jake” calls and texts of-ten and says he misses me all the time. Here’s what bothers me: Jake always asks me how I feel about him. He says, “Do you even like me?” I think it’s because I don’t drop everything when he calls like the other women he has dated.

I recently found out via Facebook that Jake went on a cruise with a woman he used to live with. She has been post-ing pictures of the cruise and saying how much she loves Jake. There is nothing about the cruise posted on Jake’s page. I told him about her com-ments. He replied that he didn’t know anything about it, and she was obviously just thanking all of the people on the cruise for their love and support. But he added that she’s a wonderful woman and they’d be in a relationship if she lived closer.

I said he is being un-fair to both of us, but he claims he’s not mar-ried and will continue to call me until I tell him to stop. Since then, he’s phoned a couple of times, and I refuse to take his calls. Is this a case of wanting to have your cake and eat it, too? — Daisy Mae

Dear Daisy: It sounds like it, although as a sin-gle man, he can date as

many women as he likes un-til he makes a commitment . You thought he had made one to you, but he believed o t h e r w i s e . It’s possible he was at-tracted to you because you didn’t fawn all over him. But that results in a stable rela-tionship only in the movies.

In real life, such men

thrive on the attention, and since they rarely get enough of it from one partner, they look for it in many others. Right now, he thinks you’ll cave. If you want him to stop calling, you will have to tell him point blank.

Dear Annie: I am the youngest of 10 siblings. Every summer, we share a lake house for a won-derful family reunion that extends over several days.

Every year, my older brother invites an obnox-ious friend to join us for the last evening’s family grill. How can I convince him that just because we are part owners doesn’t mean we can invite un-wanted guests? He says it is his home and he can invite whomever he wishes. I say if he is not cooking the meal, it is not proper. The chef dislikes this guy as much as I do. Who is right? — The Baby of the Family

Dear Baby: As joint owners, you should each be able to invite guests. However, since you are all staying in the house together, it is both considerate and

proper to first ask the other residents whether they object to additional company. So while your brother can invite his friend when he uses the lake house on his own, he should ask the rest of you about inviting him when you are sharing the house and the meals.

Dear Annie: I am concerned about your response to “Trying” which said it was OK to tell Mom that some of the grandchildren are hurt because they aren’t receiving as much gift money as others.

I think this encourages a sense of entitlement. Instead of trying to cor-rect Mom’s behavior, I would encourage “Try-ing” to stop comparing gifts and value Mom’s intention to add joy to the lives of all of her fam-ily members. — Mike in Schenectady, N.Y.

Dear Mike: We dis-agree. The only entitle-ment it encourages is that Grandma should treat her grandchildren equally. If all the kids received a lesser gift, it would be fair, and the kids wouldn’t get the im-pression that Grandma loves some of them more than others. And we think Grandma should know this.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sug-ar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmail-box@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Her-mosa Beach, CA 90254. To find out more about Annie’s Mail-box and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.cre-ators.com.

Dear Dr. Brothers: I am very up-set about the behavior of my 8- and 1 0 - y e a r - o l d boys. We go to a local gas sta-tion, and they are allowed to go in and buy themselves a treat while I fill the tank, or sometimes I go with them. I found out when do-ing the wash that they both had pockets full of candies that they didn’t pay for. The people there know us, and I can’t decide whether to make the kids go back and pay, or just lecture and punish them. What would be the best ap-proach? — P.W.

Dear P.W.: If you haven’t yet said anything to the boys, I expect that you would want to cur-tail their trips inside the gas station’s store until you figure out what to do. Since you are a regu-lar customer known to the people there, it is unlikely that this epi-sode would have you or your boys running afoul of the law if you do haul them back in to pay, but if you don’t know what the company policy is, that would be something to consider before you choose that course of action. It undoubtedly would have the great-est impact on the kids if they were made to pay for the candy and apolo-gize to the clerk. But there are other steps you can take instead of or in addition to this.

A talk and some conse-quences defi-nitely are in order. Cer-tainly their treat privileg-es should be curtailed for a while. You could have them pay the equivalent to any charity that the gas station may be featuring in a collection jar. Asking them

to explain themselves would spark a discus-sion about honesty and stealing. Although this is very common behav-ior in young children, just letting it slide would not send them any help-ful message. While kids often get away with pil-fering candy, they would face quite a different outcome if they decided to embark on a path of stealing as they get into middle school and high school. Let them know how disappointed you are — that alone might be enough to make this a one-time incident.

* * *Dear Dr. Brothers:

I recently had my first baby, and instead of bringing my husband and me closer togeth-er, it made me mad at him. He was supposed to be there with me, holding my hand and taking video. Instead, he freaked and almost passed out and sat in the waiting room the whole time. I am so hurt and disappointed in him; I just can’t seem to for-give him. He feels bad, but I feel worse. I keep

wondering what kind of father he’s going to be. How can he make this up to me? — K.S.

Dear K.S.: It’s very unfortunate that your husband was overcome — I’m sure he was very disappointed in him-self as well, and in the missed opportunity to see and record the birth of your child. Even though you may think you are the more upset parent, it is very likely that your husband is asking himself the very same question: What kind of father am I going to be? When something like this happens, it is frightening for both par-ents as they start their long journey into the un-known. If you can focus on the fact that he in-tended to be there with you and had no control over what happened, you may begin to forgive him. Holding a grudge under these circum-stances is pretty unfair, and it won’t do anything to help your baby.

Why not focus on the ways you can bond with the baby and become a real family? You need to come to terms with your disappointment and try to move on. Most wom-en are more volatile fol-lowing the baby’s birth, until their hormone lev-els return to normal, so try to keep your emo-tions in check and build up your relationship. If you don’t, you will run the risk of your hus-band feeling excluded, not good enough and not like a full partner in raising your child. That would be a cruel and de-structive byproduct of an unfortunate incident.

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LOS ANGELES — A decade after George Lu-cas said “Star Wars” was finished on the big screen, a new trilogy is destined for theaters as The Walt Disney Co. announced Tuesday that it was buying Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4.05 billion.

The seventh movie, with a working title of “Epi-sode 7,” is set for release in 2015. Episodes 8 and 9 will follow. The new tril-ogy will carry the story of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia beyond “Return of the Jedi,” the third film released and the sixth in the saga. After that, Disney plans a new “Star Wars” movie every two or three years. Lucas will serve as creative con-sultant in the new movies.

“For the past 35 years, one of my greatest plea-sures has been to see Star Wars passed from one gen-eration to the next,” said Lucas, chairman and CEO of Lucasfilm Ltd. “It’s now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new genera-tion of filmmakers. I’ve al-ways believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was impor-tant to set up the transition during my lifetime.”

Disney CEO Bob Iger said Lucusfilm had already developed an extensive story line on the next tril-ogy, and Episode 7 was now in early-stage develop-ment.

The Walt Disney Co. an-nounced the blockbuster agreement to buy Lucas-film in cash and stock Tues-day. The deal includes Lu-casfilm’s prized high-tech production companies, Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound, as

well as rights to the “Indi-ana Jones” franchise.

Lucas was hailed as a cinematic visionary when the original “Star Wars” came out in 1977. But he had become an object of often-vicious ridicule by the time he released 3-D versions of all six films in the Star Wars franchise earlier this year. The criti-cism grated on Lucas, who vowed never to make an-other Star Wars movie dur-ing an interview with The New York Times earlier this year.

“Why would I make any more when everybody yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?” Lucas told the Times.

Kathleen Kennedy, the current co-chairman of Lucasfilm, will become the division’s president and report to Walt Disney Stu-dios Chairman Alan Horn. She will serve as executive producer for the new mov-ies. In a video posted on YouTube, Lucas said the decision to continue with

the saga wasn’t inconsis-tent with past statements.

“I always said I wasn’t going to do any more and that’s true, because I’m not going to do any more, but that doesn’t mean I’m unwilling to turn it over to Kathy to do more,” Lucas said.

He said he has given Kennedy his story lines and other ideas, “and I have complete confidence that she’s going to take them and make great mov-ies.”

The deal brings Lucas-film under the Disney banner with other brands including Pixar, Marvel, ESPN and ABC, all com-panies that Disney has acquired over the years. A former weatherman who rose through the ranks of ABC, Iger has orchestrated some of the company’s big-gest acquisitions, including the $7.4 billion purchase of animated movie studio Pixar in 2006 and the $4.2 billion acquisition of comic book giant Marvel in 2009.

Disney to make new ‘Star Wars’ films, buys Lucasfilm

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2012 SportSContact Sports Editor Bob Strickley at

740-353-3101 ext. 203 or bstrickley@heartlandpublications.com

Eastern weathers Green Wave, advances to finalCody LeistPDT Sports Writer

LANCASTER — Beaver Eastern has yet to drop a set all year, but the streak came close Wednesday night to disappearing.

Newark Catholic gave Eastern all it could handle in the second set of a Divi-sion IV Regional Volleyball Semifinal at Lancaster High School before the Eagles (26-0) claimed the set, and eventually their second regional match in as many years over the Green Wave (25-2), 25-15, 31-29, 25-21.

Eastern moves on to Saturday’s regional final against Plain City Sheki-nah Christian, which de-

feated Reedsville Eastern 25-21, 25-17, 15-16 in the second semifinal of the night. It’s the fourth time for the Eagles senior class has advanced to the Elite Eight and they are still looking for the first trip to the state tournament in school history.

“My seniors have a lot of tournament experi-ence, they’ve been here every year and have been to the regional finals,” Eastern coach Janet Day said. “I don’t think that at any point they didn’t think they were going to lose this match. I think they knew they were going to be pushed though.”

The Green Wave de-

fense had a hard time with the serve of senior Brittany Mounts in the first set as she turned an 11-8 lead into an 18-8 ad-vantage before Newark Catholic could break her serve. Mounts finished with a team-high 37 as-sists on the night.

“I think I have a well-balanced team,” Day said. “I’ve got the small, quick girls in the back court, I’ve got the tall girls in the front court and all-around an athlet-ic team. You have to have that combination, (and) there are years where we’ve had a little bit of this and that, but this year we have the combi-nation.”

Despite being down 24-21 late in the second set, the Green Wave ral-lied with four-straight points and pushed the Eagles to the brink of los-ing their first set since be-ing swept in last year’s re-gional final by Reedsville Eastern. That’s when the Brown and White would trade a total of seven points with Newark Cath-olic to set up a serve by junior Bailey Helton.

When asked, Day chuckled and agreed that at one point she didn’t know when this set would end.

“They kept playing just for the point,” Day said. “They weren’t thinking back about how close

it was. We really talked to them about playing that point that’s going on right now and don’t worry about the last mis-take.”

Eastern would finally take control of the set and give Helton—who finished with 14 kills, five blocks and an ace—a second-straight serve and a chance to claim the set. The Green Wave would give itself an-other chance to serve but Mounts’ serve eventually finished off the set.

Newark Catholic did take an 8-5 lead in the third set but the Eagles went on to score five out of the set’s next six points to take the lead and never trail again. The Green Wave did tie

the set at 19-19 but East-ern would hold them to a pair of points to close out the contest.

Miranda Clark finished with 16 kills and two aces and Rhyanna Day recorded 13 digs as team leaders for each statistic. Coach Day has been impressed with Clark’s improvement from last year to this year.

“She’s just jumping high-er,” Days said. “Her verti-cal increased and Bailey’s been a major factor this year. She wasn’t even in our rotation last year.”

Cody Leist can be reached at 740-353-3101, ext. 242, or cleist@heart-landpublications.com.

Reedsville Eastern 25 31 25Newark Catholic 15 29 21

Bengals coach challenges Dalton, MaualugaJoe KayAP Sports Writer

CINCINNATI — Bengals coach Marvin Lewis publicly challenged quarterback Andy Dalton and mid-dle linebacker Rey Maualuga on Wednesday to become more force-ful leaders on their 3-4 team.

The move was out of character for Lewis, who prefers to handle things quietly and internally. It underscored the Bengals’ predica-ment approaching the season’s midpoint — it’s time to start win-ning or else.

“We’ve wallowed around here in mediocrity,” Lewis said. “Let’s go. That’s the thing we’ve got to do.”

Cincinnati has lost three in a row heading into home games against the Denver Broncos (4-3) and the

Super Bowl champion New York Giants (6-2). The Bengals went 9-7 and got a wild card berth last sea-son, when Dalton was a rookie and Maualuga was in his first season at middle linebacker.

With this season starting to slip away, Lewis challenged the two young players — Maualuga is in his fourth season overall — to step up.

“We’re looking for our quarter-back and our middle linebacker to take hold of our football team, and I think that’s important for us,” Lewis said. “I think both guys are such good people, that you’ve got to be a little bit of a (jerk). You do.

“Andy has a great deal of con-fidence, self-confidence, internal confidence, confidence in the guys around him. But at some point you step out of your skin and you go.

And it’s time to go.”Lewis’ comments weren’t off-

the-cuff. He said essentially the same things during a conference call with writers in Denver, making a point to challenge the quarter-back and the linebacker.

Lewis has defended Maualuga as the defense struggled this season. The linebacker said he feels he has the support of Lewis and defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer. He ac-cepted Lewis’ comments as a chal-lenge to become a more vocal.

“So I guess it is my opportunity — not like it was never given to me but at the same time, time to be a jerk, time to get in the middle of that defense and start spicing things up and get everybody run-ning around and be on the same

Team-by-team outlook in Division V, Region 19Cody LeistPDT Sports Writer

In preparation of the first weekend of the OHSAA football playoffs, the Daily Times releases playoff cap-sules of the three regions involving area teams.

In Thursday’ edition, the playoff history of the eight teams vying for the title in Division V, Region 19 is analyzed. All games in Division V are all slated for Saturday starts with the higher seeds getting first round home games and all games starting in the re-gional semifinals at neutral sites.

The Division V State Championship game will be held 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1 at Massillon Paul Brown Tiger Stadium.

Division V, Region

19—Saturday NightCoal Grove Dawson-Bry-

ant (8) at Lucasville Valley (1)

Jeromesville Hillsdale (7) at Oak Hill (2)

Baltimore Liberty Union (6) at Wheelersburg (6)

Loudonville (5) at Bucyrus Wynford (4)

Valley (10-0)Nickname: IndiansHead Coach: Darren

CrabtreeConference Affiliation:

Southern Ohio ConferencePlayoff Appearance

(Last Appearance): Sev-enth (2011)

Playoff Record: 5-6State Championships:

NoneState Runner-Up: NoneState Semifinal Appear-

ances: NoneOak Hill (8-2)

NFL players talk politics, look ahead to electionJoseph WhiteAP Sports Writer

WASHINGTON — In a rare show of unity, President Barack Obama and chal-lenger Mitt Romney took turns praising Washington Redskins rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III a couple of weeks ago for a video that aired on the Fox network’s NFL pregame show. They uttered polished, rote lines such as Romney’s “RG3 hasn’t been in Washington

very long, but he’s already created change” and Obama’s “You’re welcome at my house for a pickup game anytime.”

Politics injecting itself into sports, a ploy as old as the forward pass. Whether the sportsmen are actually paying attention is another matter.

Four years ago, it was hard to avoid political talk in some NFL locker rooms during the buildup to the Obama-

Meyer fine with more severe NCAA sanctionsAssociated Press

COLUMBUS — What’s brewing with the 2012 Ohio State Buckeyes …

BUCKEYES BUZZ: It might seem incongruous that a coach in charge of an NCAA-penalized program welcomes even more puni-tive sanctions to schools. But that’s precisely where Ohio State coach Urban Meyer stands on the new NCAA guidelines on penal-ties.

The NCAA announced this week that it will levy more severe punishment to schools and coaches who break the rules. The asso-ciation’s board of directors passed a package of changes which hold coaches more ac-countable for rule-breaking and offers longer postseason bans and heftier fines for those who violate its bylaws.

The NCAA also increased

the number of voting mem-bers of the infractions com-mittee from 10 to 24 to ex-pedite rulings.

“I’m fully supportive of it. I appreciate the NCAA revis-iting the discipline and pen-alty structure because it was antiquated and it was time to make a change,” Meyer said on the Big Ten coaches call on Tuesday. “I am in full support of very stringent penalties and keeping — or even restoring — the integ-rity of college football.”

Asked why he thought the new legislation would work, Meyer said, “Throughout history, the only way to keep civilization (in order), and to keep things in order, is to have very strong rules and enforce them. There’s no other way. Very strong rules. Clear rules with very firm and swift — it has to be a little bit more swift — pun-ishment.”

Ohio State had to vacate the 2010 season’s records, repay bowl revenue, go on NCAA probation, revise its enforcement procedures, re-duce scholarships and face a bowl ban after this season as a result of violations which occurred on the watch of for-mer coach Jim Tressel.

THE LINE: The latest bet-ting line on the Illinois-Ohio State game has the Buckeyes favored by 27.5 points.

NOTE THIS: Illinois has turned the ball over 20 times, resulting in 12 touch-downs and 2 field goals. … Ohio State QB Braxton Miller has run or passed for at least 20 yards on 33 plays; Illinois QB Nathan Scheel-haase, who did miss a couple games to injury, has 14 such gains. … The Illini are dead last in Big Ten games in scoring, total offense, kickoff returns, punt returns, field goals, sacks against and first

downs. … During Saturday’s game (3:30 p.m. start), Ohio State will observe military appreciation day.

FEWER FANS: Illinois is drawing an average of 46,013 fans over its first five home games, roughly 25 per-cent under Memorial Stadi-um’s capacity of 60,670.

The Illini are 2-3 at home, including a 31-17 drubbing at the hands of lowly Indiana in their homecoming game on Saturday.

With upcoming dates re-maining against less-than-marquee opponents Min-nesota and Purdue on Nov. 10 and 17, and the weather worsening, the average turn-out will undoubtedly plum-met.

Coach Tim Beckman said it’s all comes down to suc-cess on the field.

“Of course we’d love to have Memorial Stadium sold out each and every

week,” he said. “But I can’t help but think that has a lot to do with the winning and the losing. We have to right now concentrate on how we can win football games

and how we can improve ourselves and how we can do those things as a football family first. Of course, that will all end up building with the attendance.”

Mark Gail | MCTCincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton (14) passes while being pressured by Washington Redskins linebacker Chris Wilson (51) during the first half at FedEx Field in Landover, MD, Sunday, Sept. 23. Cincinnati defeated Washington 38-31.

Abby Drey | MCTOhio State head football coach Urban Meyer watches his team run a play against Ohio State at Beaver Stadium in State College, Pennsylvania, Saturday, October 27, 2012. Ohio State defeated Penn State, 35-23.

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Until further notice, JeffersonTwp, Scioto County, Trust-ees, will have their meetingson the 2nd and last Monday ofeach month at 6:00 PM at theGlendale Sr Ctr.For more information pleasecontact TrusteesCharles Harris, 740-259-5181,Don Buckle 740-456-6319, orEarl Canter 740-355-9188.AD: November 1, 2012NOTICE OF ELECTION ONTAX LEVY IN EXCESS OFTHE TEN MILL LIMITATIONR.C. 3501.11(G), 5705.19,5705.25

NOTICE is hereby given that inpursuance of a Resolution ofthe Board of Trustees of theClay Township Scioto County,Ohio passed on the 6th day ofAugust, 2012, there will besubmitted to a vote of thepeople of said subdivision as aGeneral ELECTION to be heldin the Township of Clay Ohio,at the regular places of votingtherein, on the 6th day ofNovember, 2012, the questionof levying a tax, in excess ofthe ten mill limitation, for thebenefit of Clay Township forthe purpose of Fire ProtectionSaid tax being: A replacementof tax of 1.25 mills at a rate notexceeding 1.25 mills for eachone dollar of valuation, whichamounts to $0.125 for eachone hundred dollars of valu-ation, for five years.The polls for the election willbe open at 6:30 a.m. and re-main open until 7:30 p.m. onelection day.

By order of the Board ofElections, of Scioto County,

Ohio.Randy Basham, Chair

Julia Gearheart, DirectorAD: October 25, November 1,2012

NOTICE OF ELECTION ONTAX LEVY IN EXCESS OFTHE TEN MILL LIMITATIONR.C. 3501.11 (G) 5705.19,5705.25

NOTICE is hereby given that inpursuance of a Resolution ofthe Board of Trustees of theClay Township Scioto County,Ohio passed on the 6th day ofAugust, 2012, there will besubmitted to a vote of thepeople of said subdivision as aGeneral ELECTION to be heldin the Township of Clay Ohio,at the regular places of votingtherein, on the 6th day ofNovember, 2012, the questionof levying a tax, in excess ofthe ten mill limitation, for thebenefit of Clay Township forthe purpose of providing forconstruction, paving and re-paving of roads and bridgesSaid tax being: A replacementof tax of 1.5 mills at a rate notexceeding 1.5 mills for eachone dollar of valuation, whichamounts to $0.15 for each onehundred dollars of valuation,for five years.The polls for the election willbe open at 6:30 a.m. and re-main open until 7:30 p.m. onelection day.

By order of the Board ofElections, of Scioto County,

Ohio.Randy Basham, Chair

Julia Gearheart, DirectorAD: October 25, November 1,2012NOTICE OF ELECTION ONTAX LEVY IN EXCESS OFTHE TEN MILL LIMITATIONR.C. 3501.11 (G), 5705.195705.25

NOTICE is hereby given that inpursuance of a Resolution ofthe Board of Trustees of theGreen Township SciotoCounty, Ohio passed on the2nd day of August, 2012, therewill be submitted to a vote ofthe people of said subdivisionas a General ELECTION to beheld in the Township of GreenOhio, at the regular places ofvoting therein, on the 6th dayof November, 2012, the ques-tion of levying a tax, in excessof the ten mill limitation, for thebenefit of Green Township forthe purpose of maintaining andoperating cemeteries.Said tax being: An additionaltax of 0.5 mills at a rate not ex-ceeding 0.5 mills for each onedollar of valuation, whichamounts to $0.05 for each onehundred dollars of valuation,for five years.The polls for the election willbe open at 6:30 a.m. and re-main open until 7:30 p.m. onelection day.

By order of the Board ofElections, of Scioto County,

Ohio.Randy Basham, Chair

Julia Gearheart, DirectorAD: October 25, November 1,2012

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NOTICE OF ELECTION ONTAX LEVY IN EXCESS OFTHE TEN MILL LIMITATIONR.C. 3501.11(G), 5705.19,5705.25

NOTICE is hereby given that inpursuance of a Resolution ofthe Board of Education of theGreen Local School DistrictScioto County, Ohio passed onthe 8th day of August, 2012,there will be submitted to avote of the people of said sub-division as a General ELEC-TION to be held in the Districtof Green Local School DistrictOhio, at the regular places ofvoting therein, on the 6th dayof November, 2012, the ques-tion of levying a tax, in excessof the ten mill limitation, for thebenefit of Green Local SchoolDistrict for the purpose ofproviding for the emergencyrequirements of the school dis-trict.Said tax being: An additionaltax of 7 mills at a rate not ex-ceeding 7 mills for each onedollar of valuation, whichamounts to $0.70 for each onehundred dollars of valuation,for five years.The polls for the election willbe open at 6:30 a.m. and re-main open until 7:30 p.m. onelection day.

By order of the Board ofElections, of Scioto County,

Ohio.Randy Basham, Chair

Julia Gearheart, DirectorAD: October 25, November 1,2012NOTICE OF ELECTION ONTAX LEVY IN EXCESS OFTHE TEN MILL LIMITATIONR.C. 3501.11(G), 5705.19,5705.25

NOTICE is hereby given that inpursuance of a Resolution ofthe Board of Trustees of theHarrison Township SciotoCounty, Ohio passed on the20th day of June, 2012, therewill be submitted to a vote ofthe people of said subdivisionas a General ELECTION to beheld in the Township of Harris-on Ohio, at the regular placesof voting therein, on the 6thday of November, 2012, thequestion of levying a tax, in ex-cess of the ten mill limitation,for the benefit of HarrisonTownship for the purpose ofResurfacing roadsSaid tax being: A replacementof a tax of 2 mills at a rate notexceeding 2 mills for each onedollar of valuation, whichamounts to $0.20 for each onehundred dollars of valuation,for five years.The polls for the election willbe open at 6:30 a.m. and re-main open until 7:30 p.m. onelection day.

By order of the Board ofElections, of Scioto County,

Ohio.Randy Basham, Chair

Julia Gearheart, DirectorAD: October 25, November 1,2012

NOTICE OF ELECTION ONTAX LEVY IN EXCESS OFTHE TEN MILL LIMITATIONR.C. 3501.11 (G) 5705.19,5705.25

NOTICE is hereby given that inpursuance of a Resolution ofthe Board of Trustees of theMorgan Township SciotoCounty, Ohio passed on the25th day of June, 2012, therewill be submitted to a vote ofthe people of said subdivisionas a General ELECTION to beheld in the Township of Mor-gan Ohio, at the regular placesof voting therein, on the 6thday of November, 2012, thequestion of levying a tax, in ex-cess of the ten mill limitation,for the benefit of MorganTownship for the purpose ofFire ProtectionSaid tax being: A renewal of anexisting tax of 1 mill at a ratenot exceeding 1 mill for eachone dollar of valuation, whichamounts to $0.10 for each onehundred dollars of valuation,for five years.The polls for the election willbe open at 6:30 a.m. and re-main open until 7:30 p.m. onelection day.

By order of the Board ofElections, of Scioto County,

Ohio.Randy Basham, Chair

Julia Gearheart, DirectorAD: October 25, November 1,2012

Legals

NOTICE OF ELECTION ONTAX LEVY IN EXCESS OFTHE TEN MILL LIMITATIONR.C. 3501.11 (G) 5705.19,5705.25

NOTICE is hereby given that inpursuance of a Resolution ofthe Board of Trustees of theMorgan Township SciotoCounty, Ohio passed on the25th day of June, 2012, therewill be submitted to a vote ofthe people of said subdivisionas a General ELECTION to beheld in the Township of Mor-gan Ohio, at the regular placesof voting therein, on the 6thday of November, 2012, thequestion of levying a tax, in ex-cess of the ten mill limitation,for the benefit of MorganTownship for the purpose ofFire ProtectionSaid tax being: A renewal of anexisting tax of 1 mill at a ratenot exceeding 1 mill for eachone dollar of valuation, whichamounts to $0.10 for each onehundred dollars of valuation,for five years.The polls for the election willbe open at 6:30 a.m. and re-main open until 7:30 p.m. onelection day.

By order of the Board ofElections, of Scioto County,

Ohio.Randy Basham, Chair

Julia Gearheart, DirectorAD: October 25, November 1,2012NOTICE OF ELECTION ONTAX LEVY IN EXCESS OFTHE TEN MILL LIMITATIONR.C. 3501.11(G), 5705.19,5705.25

NOTICE is hereby given that inpursuance of a Resolution ofthe Council of the Village ofNew Boston Scioto County,Ohio passed on the 17th dayof April, 2012, there will besubmitted to a vote of thepeople of said subdivision as aGeneral ELECTION to be heldin the Village of New BostonOhio, at the regular places ofvoting therein, on the 6th dayof November, 2012, the ques-tion of levying a tax, in excessof the ten mill limitation, for thebenefit of New Boston Villagefor the purpose of flood de-fense operationsSaid tax being: A renewal of anexisting tax of one mill at a ratenot exceeding 1 mill for eachone dollar of valuation, whichamounts to $0.10 for each onehundred dollars of valuation,for five years.The polls for the election willbe open at 6:30 a.m. and re-main open until 7:30 p.m. onelection day.

By order of the Board ofElections, of Scioto County,

Ohio.Randy Basham, Chair

Julia Gearheart, DirectorAD: October 25, November 1,2012The Scioto County Familyand Children First Council isannouncing a Request forProposals for Hourly Res-pite/Mentoring/Coaching and/ or Overnight Respite Pro-viders. The SCFCFC has alimited amount of funding($20,000.00) available toprovide supports to familieswith children Birth to age 21 in-cluding respite. Hourly respiteincludes having appropriatestaff-trained to work with chil-dren 0-21 who have a range ofspecial needs including beha-vioral needs. The agency mustensure the staff, working withchildren, have been drugscreened and passed aBCI/FBI background check andare legal to work with children.Overnight respite providersmust have licensed fosterhomes available to provideovernight respite from 1 to 7days. Interested parties maysubmit proposals outlining theirhourly and overnight rates, cre-dentials/licenses and a narrat-ive of no more than 7 pages oftheir history of providing ser-vices, ability to provide ser-vices to children of Scioto Co.Examples of how they haveworked collaboratively withcommunity services and re-sources and a Plan for provid-ing hourly respite activities(staff availability, expertise,).Must include proof of Liabilityinsurance for their agency,staff, board ect. DEADLINEFOR PROPOSALS ISNOVEMBER 14, 2012 4PM.Submit Proposals to theSCFCFC 411 Court Street,Room 109, Portsmouth, Ohio45662. Contact RebeccaWheelersburg 740-354-0250for more information.ADV. Oct. 28, Nov. 1, 2012

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ON THE AIRThursday, Nov. 1CFL FOOTBALL7:30 p.m.NBCSN — Hamilton at TorontoCOLLEGE FOOTBALL7:30 p.m.ESPN — Virginia Tech at MiamiGOLF4:30 p.m.TGC — Champions Tour, Charles Schwab Cup Championship, first round, at Scott-sdale, Ariz.11 p.m.TGC — PGA Tour-WGC, HSBC Champi-ons, second round, at Guangdong, ChinaMAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL7:30 p.m.FOX — World Series, game 7, Detroit at San Francisco (if necessary)NBA BASKETBALL7 p.m.TNT — New York at Brooklyn9:30 p.m.TNT — Oklahoma City at San AntonioNFL FOOTBALL8 p.m.NFL — Kansas City at San DiegoSOCCER10:30 p.m.NBCSN — MLS, playoffs, single elimina-tion round, Vancouver at Los AngelesTRANSACTIONSBASEBALLAmerican LeagueBALTIMORE ORIOLES_Exercised their 2013 contract option on RHP Luis Ayala. Declined their 2013 contract option on INF Mark Reynolds, who remains arbitra-tion eligible.CLEVELAND INDIANS_Named Sandy Alomar bench coach, Mickey Callaway pitching coach, Kevin Cash bullpen

coach, Brad Mills third base coach, Mike Sarbaugh first base coach and Ty Van Burkleo hitting coach. Exercised their 2013 contract option on RHP Ubaldo Jimenez. Declined their 2013 contract options on DH Travis Hafner and RHP Roberto Hernandez. Sent C/OF Vinny Rottino and RHP Kevin Slowey outright to Columbus (IL).DETROIT TIGERS_Sent INF/OF Don Kelly outright to Toledo (IL).KANSAS CITY ROYALS_Declined their 2013 contract option on RHP Joakim Soria.NEW YORK YANKEES_Announced RHP Rafael Soriano opted out of the final year of a three-year contract. Announced INF Casey McGehee refused a minor league assignment to become a free agent. Re-turned RHP Brad Meyers, a Rule 5 draft pick, to Washington.TAMPA BAY RAYS_Exercised their 2013 contract options on RHP James Shields, RHP Fernando Rodney and C Jose Mo-lina. Declined their 2013 contact option for DH Luke Scott.TORONTO BLUE JAYS_Claimed LHP Scott Maine off waivers from Cleveland. Reinstated RHP Kyle Drabek, LHP J.A. Happ, RHP Drew Hutchison, RHP Dustin McGowan, LHP Luis Perez and RHP Ser-gio Santos from the 60-day DL. Desig-nated OF Scott Cousins and RHP David Herndon for assignment.National LeaguePITTSBURGH PIRATES_Named Jay Bell hitting coach, Rick Sofield first base coach and Dave Jauss major league coach. Exercised their 2013 contract op-tion on 3B Pedro Alvarez. Declined their 2013 contract option on C Rod Barajas. Released LHP Hisanori Takahashi.American Association

LINCOLN SALTDOGS_Released INF Nate Wilder.Can-Am LeagueNEW JERSEY JACKALS_Released OF Ed-gard Clemente.BASKETBALLNational Basketball AssociationGOLDEN STATE WARRIORS_Agreed to terms with G Stephen Curry on a four-year contract extension.OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER_Signed C Daniel Orton.FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueCLEVELAND BROWNS_Signed DL Hall Davis to the practice squad.TENNESSEE TITANS_Signed G/C Kyle DeVan. Waived S Tracy Wilson.HOCKEYAmerican Hockey LeaguePEORIA RIVERMEN_Announced F Brett Sonne was reassigned to the team from Evansville (ECHL).ECHLECHL_Suspended Evansville’s Dan Gen-dur three games and fined him an undis-closed amount for his actions in an Oct. 27 game at Kalamazoo.SOCCERMajor Indoor Soccer LeagueBALTIMORE BLAST_Signed G Troy Hernandez, G William Vanzela, F Lucas Roque, F Jamie Darvill and MF Marco Mangione.COLLEGELIMESTONE_Announced the addition of football beginning in the fall of 2014.MICHIGAN_Suspended men’s sopho-more basketball G Trey Burke for Thurs-day’s exhibition game for violating team standards.

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Nickname: OaksHead Coach: Nathan Du-

ganConference Affiliation:

Southern Ohio ConferencePlayoff Appearance

(Last Appearance): Third (2010)

Playoff Record: 3-2State Championships:

NoneState Runner-Up: NoneState Semifinal Appear-

ances: NoneWheelersburg (8-2)Nickname: PiratesHead Coach: Rob Wood-

wardConference Affiliation:

Southern Ohio ConferencePlayoff Appearance

(Last Appearance): Twen-ty-Fourth (2010)

Playoff Record: 21-22State Championships:

One (1989)State Runner-Up: NoneState Semifinal Appear-

ances: Five (1981, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1998)

Wynford (8-2)Nickname: RoyalsHead Coach: Gabe

Helbert

Conference Affiliation: North Central Conference

Playoff Appearance (Last Appearance): Twelfth (2011)

Playoff Record: 8-11State Championships:

NoneState Runner-Up: NoneState Semifinal Appear-

ances: One (2011)Loudonville (8-2)Nickname: RedbirdsHead Coach: Justin ToddConference Affiliation:

Mid-Buckeye ConferencePlayoff Appearance

(Last Appearance): Sixth (2000)

Playoff Record: 6-5State Championships:

NoneState Runner-Up: One

(1990)State Semifinal Appear-

ances: Three (1983, 1988, 1990)

Liberty Union (8-2)Nickname: LionsHead Coach: Dan John-

sonConference Affiliation:

Mid-State LeaguePlayoff Appearance

(Last Appearance): Fourth (2008)

Playoff Record: 6-3State Championships:

NoneState Runner-Up: NoneState Semifinal Appear-

ances: One (2008)Hillsdale (7-3)Nickname: FalconsHead Coach: Tom Wil-

liamsConference Affiliation:

Wayne County Athletic League

Playoff Appearance (Last Appearance): Third (2010)

Playoff Record: 3-2State Championships:

NoneState Runner-Up: NoneState Semifinal Appear-

ances: NoneCoal Grove (6-3)Nickname: HornetsHead Coach: Dave LucasConference Affiliation:

Ohio Valley ConferencePlayoff Appearance

(Last Appearance): Tenth (2010)

Playoff Record: 5-9State Championships:

NoneState Runner-Up: NoneState Semifinal Appear-

ances: Two (1983, 1990)

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page,” Maualuga said. “A quote that coach (Lewis) gave me before I came to the facility: ‘The rate of the pack is determined by the speed of the leader.’

“So I think the quicker I get things going, the quick-er I get things riled up, the more people will buy into it and the more we can get things started and get go-ing. I love the opportunity and the challenge, so I’ll give it everything I’ve got.”

Dalton was reluctant to assume a leadership role last season, when he was a rookie learning the offense as he went along. He left it up to other veterans to take charge, concentrating on what he had to do to learn the position.

Lewis wants Dalton to start taking a bigger role in

making sure everyone on the offense is doing things correctly.

“The natural progres-sion of it,” Dalton said. “As a rookie, you come in and you are meeting new people. Now, second year, it is your offense. It is your team. That is how I’ve got to treat it.

“He just wants some fire out there, making sure we are perfect in practice in everything we are doing. I am not too worried about what he said. It’s just he ex-pects a lot out of us.”

The coaching staff talk-ed to him during the bye week about taking on a more prominent role.

“We’re looking for Andy to take the next step of be-ing the leader of this foot-ball team,” Lewis said. “A confident, vocal (leader) if

it needs to be, but grab this football team by the back of its neck and let’s go. Let’s move forward.”

Notes: DT Pat Sims re-turned to practice Wednes-day on a three-week roster exemption. Sims hasn’t played because of a ham-string injury on July 26th. He can practice for three weeks before the Bengals have to decide whether to add him to the 53-man ac-tive roster. … C Kyle Cook will have a pin removed from his right ankle with-in the next week, giving the Bengals a better idea of whether he’ll be able to return this season. He hurt the ankle in the final preseason game. He went on the injured reserve list with the option of return-ing during the season if he’s healthy.

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McCain election. Players were leading voter registra-tion drives. Teammates with adjacent lockers debated taxes. It got to the point that Cleveland Browns coach Ro-meo Crennel declared any discussion about the election at the team facility off-limits because he feared it would interfere with game prepara-tions.

In 2012, it’s just not the same.

“This year is more quiet,” said Denver Broncos line-backer Wesley Woodyard. “Not to say that we weren’t more focused on football back then, but we are re-ally focused on football. But politics, it’s kind of quiet. No-body’s said anything about it. You pretty much can tell how guys feel about the elec-

tion, but nobody’s really talk-ing about it.”

And, of course, it doesn’t take a political science major to figure out why 2008 was a hotter topic.

“That was the first time an African-American had made it that far — and then a fe-male vice-presidential can-didate,” Redskins defensive tackle Barry Cofield said. “There were a lot more bul-let points to talk about.”

That’s not to say that the NFL players are living in a political vacuum this time around. Cofield said there’s been some election talk in the Redskins weight room after every Obama-Romney debate, and teammates Ste-phen Bowen, Santana Moss and Trent Williams recently talked politics while sitting on the sofa outside the locker room.

“Everybody’s tuned in to see what points Barack and Romney are making on dif-ferent topics,” Bowen said. “I’m very interested.”

It’s the political die-hards who are hooked by this elec-tion, players said, not the ca-sual player-voter.

“Last time it seemed to be a little bit more popular in the mainstream,” said Miami Dolphins tight end Anthony Fasano, who sup-ported McCain in 2008 and plans to vote for Romney on Tuesday. “And people with public images were speaking out a little more than I think they have this election. Our profession — and through-out the sports world and the entertainment world — I think everyone came togeth-er and put more effort into their support for whoever in 2008.”

ElectionFrom Page 6

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The Scioto County Familyand Children First Council isannouncing a Request forProposals for Hourly Res-pite/Mentoring/Coaching and/ or Overnight Respite Pro-viders. The SCFCFC has alimited amount of funding($20,000.00) available toprovide supports to familieswith children Birth to age 21 in-cluding respite. Hourly respiteincludes having appropriatestaff-trained to work with chil-dren 0-21 who have a range ofspecial needs including beha-vioral needs. The agency mustensure the staff, working withchildren, have been drugscreened and passed aBCI/FBI background check andare legal to work with children.Overnight respite providersmust have licensed fosterhomes available to provideovernight respite from 1 to 7days. Interested parties maysubmit proposals outlining theirhourly and overnight rates, cre-dentials/licenses and a narrat-ive of no more than 7 pages oftheir history of providing ser-vices, ability to provide ser-vices to children of Scioto Co.Examples of how they haveworked collaboratively withcommunity services and re-sources and a Plan for provid-ing hourly respite activities(staff availability, expertise,).Must include proof of Liabilityinsurance for their agency,staff, board ect. DEADLINEFOR PROPOSALS ISNOVEMBER 14, 2012 4PM.Submit Proposals to theSCFCFC 411 Court Street,Room 109, Portsmouth, Ohio45662. Contact RebeccaWheelersburg 740-354-0250for more information.ADV. Oct. 28, Nov. 1, 2012NOTICE OF ELECTION ONTAX LEVY IN EXCESS OFTHE TEN MILL LIMITATIONR.C. 3501.11 (G), 5705.19,5705.25

NOTICE is hereby given that inpursuance of a Resolution ofthe Board of Trustees of theRush Township Scioto County,Ohio passed on the 27th dayof July, 2012, there will be sub-mitted to a vote of the peopleof said subdivision as a Gener-al ELECTION to be held in theTownship of Rush Ohio, at theregular places of votingtherein, on the 6th day ofNovember, 2012, the questionof levying a tax, in excess ofthe ten mill limitation, for thebenefit of Rush Township forthe purpose of Police Protec-tionSaid tax being: A replacementof 2.5 mills and an increase of0.75 mill to constitute a tax of3.25 mills at a rate not exceed-ing 3.25 mills for each one dol-lar of valuation, which amountsto $0.325 for each one hun-dred dollars of valuation, forfive years.The polls for the election willbe open at 6:30 a.m. and re-main open until 7:30 p.m. onelection day.

By order of the Board ofElections, of Scioto County,

Ohio.Randy Basham, Chair

Julia Gearheart, DirectorAD: October 25, November 1,2012NOTICE OF ELECTION ONTAX LEVY IN EXCESS OFTHE TEN MILL LIMITATIONR.C. 3501.11(G), 5705.19,5705.25

NOTICE is hereby given that inpursuance of a Resolution ofthe council of the Village ofSouth Webster Scioto County,Ohio passed on the 9th day ofJuly, 2012, there will be sub-mitted to a vote of the peopleof said subdivision as a Gener-al ELECTION to be held in theVillage of South Webster Ohio,at the regular places of votingtherein, on the 6th day ofNovember, 2012, the questionof levying a tax, in excess ofthe ten mill limitation, for thebenefit of South Webster Vil-lage for the purpose of currentexpensesSaid tax being: A renewal of anexisting tax of 1 mill at a ratenot exceeding 1 mill for eachone dollar of valuation, whichamounts to $0.10 for each onehundred dollars of valuation,for five years.The polls for the election willbe open at 6:30 a.m. and re-main open until 7:30 p.m. onelection day.

By order of the Board ofElections, of Scioto County,

Ohio.Randy Basham, Chair

Julia Gearheart, DirectorAD: October 25, November 1,2012NOTICE OF ELECTION ONTAX LEVY IN EXCESS OFTHE TEN MILL LIMITATIONR.C. 3501.11 (G), 5705.19,5705.25

NOTICE is hereby given that inpursuance of a Resolution ofthe Board of Trustees of theValley Township SciotoCounty, Ohio passed on the31st day of May, 2012, therewill be submitted to a vote ofthe people of said subdivisionas a General ELECTION to beheld in the Township of ValleyOhio, at the regular places ofvoting therein, on the 6th dayof November, 2012, the ques-tion of levying a tax, in excessof the ten mill limitation, for thebenefit of Valley Township forthe purpose of Providing Emer-gency Medical Service.Said tax being: A replacementof an existing levy of 1.50 millsat a rate not exceeding 1.5mills for each one dollar ofvaluation, which amounts to$0.15 for each one hundreddollars of valuation, for fiveyears.The polls for the election willbe open at 6:30 a.m. and re-main open until 7:30 p.m. onelection day.

By order of the Board ofElections, of Scioto County,

Ohio.Randy Basham, Chair

Julia Gearheart, DirectorAD: October 25, November 1,2012

Legals

NOTICE OF ELECTION ONTAX LEVY IN EXCESS OFTHE TEN MILL LIMITATIONR.C. 3501.11 (G), 5705.19,5705.25

NOTICE is hereby given that inpursuance of a Resolution ofthe Board of Trustees of theValley Township SciotoCounty, Ohio passed on the31st day of May, 2012, therewill be submitted to a vote ofthe people of said subdivisionas a General ELECTION to beheld in the Township of ValleyOhio, at the regular places ofvoting therein, on the 6th dayof November, 2012, the ques-tion of levying a tax, in excessof the ten mill limitation, for thebenefit of Valley Township forthe purpose of Providing Emer-gency Medical Service.Said tax being: A replacementof an existing levy of 1.50 millsat a rate not exceeding 1.5mills for each one dollar ofvaluation, which amounts to$0.15 for each one hundreddollars of valuation, for fiveyears.The polls for the election willbe open at 6:30 a.m. and re-main open until 7:30 p.m. onelection day.

By order of the Board ofElections, of Scioto County,

Ohio.Randy Basham, Chair

Julia Gearheart, DirectorAD: October 25, November 1,2012

NOTICE OF ELECTION ONTAX LEVY IN EXCESS OFTHE TEN MILL LIMITATIONR.C. 3501.11(G), 5705.19,5705.25

NOTICE is hereby given that inpursuance of a Resolution ofthe Board of Trustees of theValley Township SciotoCounty, Ohio passed on the14th day of June, 2012, therewill be submitted to a vote ofthe people of said subdivisionas a General ELECTION to beheld in the Township of ValleyOhio, at the regular places ofvoting therein, on the 6th dayof November, 2012, the ques-tion of levying a tax, in excessof the ten mill limitation, for thebenefit of Valley Township forthe purpose of payment of thecosts incurred by the townshipas a result of contract madewith the Scioto County Sheriff'sOffice, in order to obtain policeprotection for Valley TownshipSaid tax being: An additionaltax of 2.75 mills at a rate notexceeding 2.75 mills for eachone dollar of valuation, whichamounts to $0.275 for eachone hundred dollars of valu-ation, for three years.The polls for the election willbe open at 6:30 a.m. and re-main open until 7:30 p.m. onelection day.

By order of the Board ofElections, of Scioto County,

Ohio.Randy Basham, Chair

Julia Gearheart, DirectorAD: October 25, November 1,2012

NOTICE OF ELECTION ONTAX LEVY IN EXCESS OFTHE TEN MILL LIMITATIONR.C. 3501.11(G), 5705.19,5705.25

NOTICE is hereby given that inpursuance of a Resolution ofthe Board of Trustees of theWashington Township SciotoCounty, Ohio passed on the7th day of August, 2012, therewill be submitted to a vote ofthe people of said subdivisionas a General ELECTION to beheld in the Township of Wash-ington Ohio, at the regularplaces of voting therein, on the6th day of November, 2012,the question of levying a tax, inexcess of the ten mill limitation,for the benefit of WashingtonTownship for the purpose ofGeneral construction, recon-struction, resurfacing, and re-pair of streets, roads andbridgeSaid tax being: A replacementof tax of 2 mills at a rate notexceeding 2 mills for each onedollar of valuation, whichamounts to $0.20 for each onehundred dollars of valuation,for five years.The polls for the election willbe open at 6:30 a.m. and re-main open until 7:30 p.m. onelection day.

By order of the Board ofElections, of Scioto County,

Ohio.Randy Basham, Chair

Julia Gearheart, DirectorAD: October 25, November 1,2012

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Thursday, November 1, 2012 ComiCs/EntErtainmEnt

Today’s Answers

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012:

This year you are very strong-willed about what you want, and you do not take “no” easily. You will tap into your intellectual side in order to display your determination. You are sensitive to what is not being said; you can read between the lines. Detach when you are triggered, and you’ll become a more effective communicator. If you are single, your sensuality and wit emerge. Enjoy deciding who, what and where! If you are attached, you will relate more effectively. Your sensitivity to your sweetie will draw you closer together. GEMINI’s energy can bowl you over sometimes.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-DifficultARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You have the right words

to make an impression. You have a tendency to renew yourself and your thoughts. Encourage others to do the same. You could act in an unpredict-able matter. Opportunities knock on your door; it is your choice whether or not to respond. Tonight: A force to be dealt with.TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Be aware of a tendency to go

overboard, especially today. Someone or something might be so tempting that you might not be able to say “no.” You don’t need to spend any money in order to impress others — you are impressive anyway. Tonight: Treat a friend to dinner.GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You blossom, and someone

responds. You could feel as if a child or a new friend is being manipulative. A loved one also might not be reliable, as you will see soon. Use your strong personality to draw in more of what you want. Tonight: All smiles.CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Know what is going on behind

the scenes, and deal with it as best as you can. A problem could occur in which someone you know might want to reveal his or her true feelings. You will land on your feet, no matter what. Use your intuition. Tonight: Get some extra Z’s.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Zero in on what works.

You could be taken aback by a new perspective. Lie low and watch a situa-tion evolve, as you might not be up for taking any huge risks right now. You will move when you feel more secure. A friend lets you know that he or she supports you. Tonight: In the whirlwind

of the moment.VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Keep pushing to achieve

what you want. You might have a last-minute show of support or energy. You will accomplish much more than you thought possible and feel pleased with the results. Demonstrate your caring through a card or a token of affection. Tonight: A force to be dealt with.LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You might be overwhelmed

by everything that is going on around you. Listen to your instincts when deal-ing with someone at a distance. This person opens you up to a lot of new opportunities. Tonight: Read between the lines.SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Relate to a loved one direct-

ly, as he or she has an unusual sense of merriment and often can be rather whimsical. You enjoy being around this person, so make plans to visit in the near future. Your attitude could be affected greatly if you don’t get to spend quality time with him or her. Tonight: Dinner for two.SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Others are quite dominant

and lively. You could get into the quirki-ness of the day. A meeting reminds you how much a friendship means to you. Others could elevate your stress level. Throw your rigidity away, and everyone will have a good time. Tonight: Accept an invitation.CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HH Pace yourself, and don’t allow

someone to upset you. Separating your personal life from your profession-al or outside life will only make your day-to-day routine simpler and easier. Try not to share so much private news. Tonight: Off to the gym, or take a walk.AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You might not be able to

greet the weekend yet, but you will act as if you are. You spontaneously could decide to throw out a project that has become rather complicated. A child or loved one gives you a reason to give in to a more self-indulgent day. Tonight: Act as if there is no tomorrow.PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Stay close to home, or work

from home, if possible. Others find you performing on a high level right now, even in this more relaxed situation. You might want to check out an invest-ment that could involve your finances or a real-estate matter. Tonight: Happy at home.

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To place an item in the calendar please email pdt-sports@portsmouth-daily-times.com or call 740-353-3101 ext. 242.

Football playoff tickets at Minford,

Valley, Wheelersburg and Oak Hill

Presale tickets for this weekend’s high school football playoff action will take place at various times throughout the week.

The Ohio High School Athletic Association has set ticket presale tickets for anyone ages six and up for $7 a ticket and $9 at the gate. A portion of the pre-sale tickets go towards the school.

Tickets for Minford’s home game Friday with Piketon are now available until Friday at the High School office. Tickets for Valley’s home game Satur-day with Coal Grove go on sale Wednesday at the High School office and will run until 2 p.m. Friday.

Wheelersburg will have ticket sales at the high school and junior high leading up to Saturday’s contest with Baltimore Lib-erty Union. Now through Thursday, tickets may be purchased during regular school hours as well as from 3-7:30 p.m. Thursday night as well as from 8-10 a.m. Friday and Saturday.

For people who bought reserved seats during the regular season can get tickets for their exact seats starting Wednesday. If reserved tickets have not been picked up by Saturday, they will become available for the general public dur-ing Saturday’s sales.

Presale tickets for Oak Hill’s playoff game against Jeromesville Hillsdale will be available during school hours Wednesday through Friday and also 6 to 8 p.m. at the school. Gates open at 5 p.m.

For more information about the tickets, contact each school’s respective athletic department.

First Tri-State Peewee Football Bowl

The First Tri-State Pee-wee Football Bowl will be hosted by the Portsmouth Rough Riders and the Scio-toville East Tartans on Sat-urday Nov. 10 and Sunday Nov. 11. There is limited availability and the regis-tration fee is $50.

For more info please call Joe Collins at 740-352-8235, Michelle Deemer at 750-727-2065 or Jean Basye at 740-821-5344.

Northwest Little League Elections

Elections for the 2013 Northwest Little League board will take place at 7 p.m. Nov. 13 at the North-west Elementary School cafeteria.

For more information, contact Brenda Campbell at 259-2598.

Portsmouth boys youth basketball league

Signups for the 2012-2013 Portsmouth Boys Youth Basketball League will take place through Thursday at Newberry Sporting Goods for boys in grades 1-6.

Times to sign up will be from 8:30a.m.-4:30 p.m. weekdays and 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saturdays. Reg-istration is $40 and a free reversible jersey will be included.

Coaches are needed and all interested in coaching will need to contact Jon Webster at 357-6922 or jc-webs2@gmail.com.

PeeWee Basketball Tournament Turkey

BowlThere will be a PeeWee

basketball tournament at the West Portsmouth Sports Complex Nov. 23,

24 and 25 costing $100 per team.

The tournament will fea-ture third and and fourth grade boys and girls teams as well as fifth and sixth grade boys and girls teams.

For more information contact Steve at 740-352-1822.

Sider Bowl Football Tournament

There will be a PeeWee football tournament at the West Portsmouth Sports Complex Nov. 17 and 18.

The cost will be $150 per team with divisions of third, fourth, fifth and sixth grade teams.

For more information contact Steve at 740-352-1822.

Holiday Basketball Tournament

There will be a Holiday Basketball Tournament held at the Portsmouth West Elementary School, Middle School and the West Portsmouth Sports Complex Dec. 26 through Dec. 30.

The tournament will fea-ture boys and girls teams from the third and fourth grade as well as grades five and six.

The cost will be $100 per team.

For more information con-tact Steve at 740-352-1822.

New Boston Basketball League

There will be signups for boys and girls in kindergar-ten through sixth grade for the New Boston Basketball League at the New Boston Community Center.

Signups will be held from 5-7 p.m. this Friday as well as Nov. 9 and from 2-4 p.m. Sunday as well as Nov. 11. Any teams want-ing to join the league or if there are any questions related towards the league, contact Steve Hamilton at 352-7342 or 456-3021.

Sports Briefs San Francisco goes orange and black for SF GiantsJason DearenAssociated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — Orange-and-black clad hordes flooded the streets of San Francisco on Wednesday for a ticker-tape parade celebrating the 2012 World Series champion Giants — a Halloween treat made all the more sweet as a repeat per-formance.

Tens of thousands of people decked out in the team’s holiday-appropriate colors stood 20 deep behind barriers along the city’s main commercial street to watch their favorite players wave from atop indi-vidual convertibles.

Standing next to a gold Rolls Royce that served as his ride, Giants manager Bruce Bochy credited the fans with helping lift San Francisco to its second World Series victory in three years, an improbable dou-ble play for a team that before 2010 had not won a World Series title since 1954.

“The support they gave us was unwav-ering,” Bochy said. “Even when we were six to seven games back, they kept filling the park. They never gave up on us. They are like part of the club.”

As with the 2010 parade, this year’s edi-tion drew a cross-section of the region’s di-versity, from children who were allowed to skip school to older couples who had been Giants fans since the team arrived in San Francisco from New York in 1958.

Spectators watched San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex Smith drive a car carry-ing Giants pitcher Matt Cain, while 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh did the honors for Gi-ant Brandon Belt.

With the victory parade coinciding with Halloween, , costumed masses brought an even more festive feel to what city officials stressed will be a family friendly, alcohol-free event.

Richmond resident Kevin Yarbrough wore a giant white panda costume in tribute to Giants slugger Pablo Sandoval, whose nickname is the “Panda.”

Yarbough had gotten up early to put in some time at work before getting to the parade route around 7:30 a.m.

“You’ve got to come out and celebrate

like this. You meet a whole new family, make new friends, and it really lets the community celebrate in a positive way,” he said.

Vendors got an early start as well, hawk-ing everything from pennants to lawn chairs from makeshift sidewalk stands amid the crush of the morning commute.

The convertibles were intended to give fans better views along the parade route that began at the foot of Market Street near San Francisco Bay and covered about 1 1/2 miles to Civic Center Plaza, the scene of a rally.

Many camped overnight at the site to ensure a good vantage point, erecting tents and crawling into sleeping bags for a few hours of uncomfortable sleep amid the chill and drizzle of a foggy night.

By 9 a.m., bottles of whiskey and wine were being passed around, and the pun-gent scent of marijuana floated through the air.

James Darden, 42, dubbed the tent city “Occupy San Francisco Giants” and said the wait was worth it.

“I’m front and center,” the Yountville resident said. “There’s no other place I’d rather be right now.”

Alex Warlen and Kelly Simms, both 17, also spent the night in the park. Warlen is a pitcher and Simms a catcher for San Francisco’s Mercy High School’s softball team, the co-champions of its division.

“Buster is the reason I’m a catcher,” read a sign Simms was carrying that referred to the Giants’ Buster Posey. The high school seniors said Mercy administrators gave students the day off, so they weren’t cut-ting school.

“We would have skipped anyway,” Simms said.

The 2010 World Series victory parade occurred with little incident, and offi-cials said they expected a peaceful encore Wednesday.

The city spent Monday cleaning up after a rowdy celebration Sunday night turned violent in some neighborhoods and police arrested three dozen people. Bonfires of trash were lit in several intersections, and a $700,000 public transit bus was torched.

9 charged in Fla. youth football gambling ringKelli KennedyAssociated Press

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — Authorities said Tuesday they uncovered a massive gambling opera-tion targeting youth foot-ball games in South Flori-da, leading them to arrest nine men, including sever-al coaches with extensive criminal backgrounds who they say exploited kids to turn a profit.

The 18-month long in-vestigation started when ESPN journalists brought Broward County Sheriff’s officials surveillance video showing parents openly exchanging money in the stands while watching their kids’ tackle football games. Authorities later uncovered the stakes on pee wee games were high, with more than $100,000 wagered on the youth foot-ball championship.

Coaches routinely met before games and set point spreads, investigators said, but they do not believe the games were thrown or that coaches encouraged players not to complete a touchdown in order to control the outcome. Au-thorities said they had no evidence that the players were aware of the bets.

“It’s about kids being exploited unfortunately by greedy parents and greedy grown-ups and coaches who were basically noth-ing more than criminals,” Sheriff Al Lamberti said.

After months of surveil-lance, digging through trash cans and raiding two gambling houses, authori-ties arrested alleged ring-leader Brandon Bivins, known as ‘Coach B’ in the community, charging him with felony bookmaking and keeping a gambling house. Eight others were also charged Monday with bookmaking and some were charged with keeping a gambling house.

It’s unclear if Bivins has an attorney. A phone mes-sage and email sent to one of the other suspect’s attor-neys was not immediately returned Tuesday.

Authorities said the sus-pects have direct ties to the South Florida Youth Foot-ball League and several have extensive criminal histories. Bivins has been convicted of cocaine pos-session, grand theft auto, and marijuana possession with intent to sell.

According to the league’s website, it has 22 clubs and 6,000 players, ranging from pee wee to teens, in three counties. Many of the children come from impoverished neighbor-hoods.

Emails and phone calls to several officers in the league were not immedi-ately returned Tuesday.

The website says the sole purpose of the league “is to benefit children” and instill wholesome values.

Bold print on the league’s website warns that anyone taking bets on games will be asked to leave. “The SFYFL is taking a hard stand on gambling, recruit-ing, paying kids to play and big hits on players.”

Perhaps more disturb-ing than the gambling op-eration was the extensive criminal background of six coaches, authorities said.

An affidavit claims Bivins ran a fake barber-shop, complete with bar-ber stations and vending machines, as a front for a gambling house. But be-hind what appeared to be a closet door was a narrow hallway leading to a seedy gambling room where Bivins and others took bets on professional, college and youth games behind conspicuously dark tinted windows.

An informant placed numerous bets at Red Car-pet Kutz Barbershop and another gambling front,

Showtime Sports, during the investigation, accord-ing to the affidavit.

Authorities said they seized nearly $40,000 from a drop safe at one of the storefronts and took an-other $20,000 from Bivins’ home. They believe ‘Coach B’ was skimming off the top of the bets.

“(Bivins has) been to Florida state prison. He’s out and he’s coaching youth football,” Lt. Frank Ballante said.

Bivins was the president of the Fort Lauderdale Hurricanes, one of the most successful teams, and oversaw the coaches. He also interacted with the players, Ballante said.

Deerfield Beach City officials ramped up their background screening process for youth coach-es about 18-months ago when authorities told them about the investigation, but each city is in charge of setting its own ordinances and they vary widely on the issue.

Authorities worry that betting on games can lead to violence and other crimes. The gambling bust comes after a Miami youth football coach was arrested earlier this month for punching a referee in the face during a game. In another South Florida city, a coach followed another coach home and killed his dog in front of him, Bal-lante said.

Those incidents were not related to the gambling busts, but authorities said it’s a lesson for cities to ramp up their background check ordinances.

Ballante warned gam-bling could end “up with a human being being shot over a football game and it’s not because their team lost a game or their kid didn’t score the touch-down it’s because they lost $40,000 on that play.”

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