http://host69-005.meigs.lib.oh.us/files/original/f02063c1e5d1727cf3966e6fa6a03cb9.pdf a2fdced0e6fe726d525d193c86d1a342 PDF Text Text Holzer Wound Care recognized Brown focused on Super Bowl Financial planner inside NEWS s 5A SPORTS s 1B PLANNER s 3B C_ZZb[fehjFec[heo"�E^_e Breaking news at mydailysentinel.com Issue 35, Volume 71 Thursday, March 2, 2017 s 50¢ Severe storms cause flooding, damage Middleport council discusses animal waste on walking path By Sarah Hawley shawley@civitasmedia.com Braden Hawley/photo Flood waters covered State Route 143, as seen in this photo, as well as numerous other roadways throughout the county during Wednesday’s severe weather. March comes in ‘like a lion’ By Sarah Hawley shawley@civitasmedia.com MEIGS COUNTY — The old saying goes that March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb. Well if that holds true, the end of March should be a calm one as March 1 saw several hours of severe weather. At one point on Wednesday morning, Meigs County was under a severe thunderstorm warning, tornado warning and ﬂash ﬂood warning. Periods of high winds brought down trees and knocked out power, while heavy rain caused ﬂooding on area roads, as well as the closure of Meigs Local Schools early Wednesday morning. Meigs County Emergency Management Agency Director Jamie Jones said a National Weather Service survey team was to be in Meigs County on Wednesday afternoon to access the possible damage from the severe storms that moved through the area on Wednesday morning. Jones told the Sentinel that the team would be looking for potential damage on the east side of the county where the storm tracked among other damage. Jones said that speciﬁc reports had not been received on damage in the eastern portion of the county, but those Sarah Hawley/photo Some flood water on Bradbury Road could not stop the FedEx delivery truck. with damage to structures from wind or storms in that or any area of the county should contact the EMA ofﬁce. One of the alerts sent out just after 9 a.m. on Wednesday indicated a cell in the Salem Center area which produced up to 70 MPH winds. Jones stated that in speaking with the Salem Twp. Fire Chief he indicated that there was a dark cloud in the Montgomery Road area but it did not touch down in the area he was in, although there were gusty winds. There were reports of trees down in the Harrisonville area, as well as ﬂooding throughout the county. A NEWS Obituary: 2 Business: 3 Editorial: 4 Weather: 6 Nation: 7 Jones said that the schools (which were in session) followed steps that were put in place and that once the threat had passed the schools were notiﬁed and given the all clear. Power outages were also reported in the region with around 250 AEP customers in Langsville and Dexter areas without power on Wednesday, as well as approximately 1,223 customers in the Pomeroy and Syracuse area. The power outage led to the closure of the Meigs County Courthouse, as well as other area ofﬁces and businesses. Many areas had power restored by late Wednesday afternoon. A representative from AEP stated that the damage was due to trees falling on lines and damaging equipment, also causing wires to come down. Flooding was also causing access issues in portions of the region. As a way to stay up to date on all of the potential severe weather warnings, residents can sign up from the CodeRED system which sends out emergency alerts. The link to sign up can be found on the Meigs County Emergency Management Agency Facebook page or at https://public. coderedweb.com/cne/enUS/21CD35D316F2 Rutland to implement speed enforcement program Staff Report B SPORTS Financial Planner: 3-6 Classifieds: 7 Comics: 8 TDSnews@civitasmedia.com JOIN THE CONVERSATION What’s your take on today’s news? Go to mydailysentinel. com and visit us on facebook to share your thoughts. RUTLAND — The Village of Rutland will implement a new speed enforcement program throughout the village similar to the programs implemented in a number of nearby villages, according to a news release on Wednesday. According to the National Highway Trafﬁc Safety Administration, 918 people were killed in Ohio in vehicle crashes in 2014, over double the number of murders that occurred during the same time period, according to the Ohio Ofﬁce of Criminal Justice Services. The police department will begin using new LIDAR technology that includes a camera mounted to the handheld LIDAR device utilized by a police ofﬁcer. Pursuant to the Ohio Revised Code (ORC) 4511.093 (B), (1)&(2), a local authority has the ability to use trafﬁc law photo monitoring if an ofﬁcer is present and personally witnesses the violation. Since a fulltime police ofﬁcer will witness, capture, review, and issue the citations, the LIDAR program meets these requirements, as well as all other statutes of the Ohio Revised Code. See RUTLAND | 6A MIDDLEPORT — Middleport Village Council continued their discussion regarding animal waste along the walking path in the village during Monday’s meeting, but has yet to make a decision on the matter. Fiscal Ofﬁcer Sue Baker, Village Administrator Joe Woodall and Councilman Doug Dixon had looked into pricing of options to be placed on the path for dog owners to clean up after their pets. One option would be a clean-up station with a metal waste container and bags at a price of $249. Another option would be to purchase just the bag apparatus and place it near a trash can. The bag apparatus would cost $99 with a case of replacement bags also costing $99. Dixon stated that they did not need the station, just the dispenser and the bags. Mayor Sandy Iannarelli expressed concern over kids pulling the bags out, and therefore going through more bags then were actually being used. Iannarelli continued that adults should clean up the mess and then the village would not have to take the steps to put something like that in place. Councilman Shawn Rice stated that if people were not going to bring their own bags it was unlikely they would use the bags if they were placed on the path. Baker asked about the possibility of placing signs on the path as another alternative to the purchase of the bag system. Discussion among council was to place a bag apparatus on each end of the path and then one in the middle. No decision was made as council members asked that the village look into additional, and possibly less expensive options. In other business, Solicitor Richard Hedges stated that he had looked in to the matter of term limits as had been requested by council at a previous meeting. Hedges stated that he has sent letters to the Attorney General’s Ofﬁce as well as the Board of Elections on the matter, with the Board of Elections referring the question to the prosecutor’s ofﬁce. Hedges stated that as he understood the matter at this point, Middleport is a “home rule village” which would mean any action on term limits would likely need to be placed on the ballot for voters to decide on. In governments which have See COUNCIL | 6A �OBITUARIES/NEWS 2A Thursday, March 2, 2017 OBITUARIES Daily Sentinel MEIGS BRIEFS ROGER DAVID JOHNSON RACINE — Roger David Johnson, 71, of Racine, passed away, at 9:23 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in the Meigs Emergency Department, Pomeroy. Born Feb. 5, 1946, in Ravenswood, West Virginia, he was the son of the late Clinton and Ethel Ward Johnson. He retired from A.E.P River Operations, he was also an U.S. Marine Veteran, serving during the Vietnam War, and a member of the Stewart Johnson V.F.W. Post #9926, Mason, West Virginia. He is survived by his wife, Shirley Hill Johnson; his daughter, Dawn (John Chaney) Hill, of Pomeroy; his step-children, Kim (Larry) Snyder, of Racine, Richard (Dena) Dugan, of Pomeroy, Kevin (Joyce) Dugan, of Racine, and Erica (Jayson Circle) Dugan, of Racine; grandchildren, Marcus Hill, Haley Hill, Hannah Hill, Kassidy Chaney, Tori Chaney, and Christopher Chaney; his step-grandchildren, Devan Dugan, Monique Dugan, Dryden Dugan, Logan Drummer, Ava Stone, and Quinn Dugan. A brother, Clyde Johnson, of Ravenswood, W.Va.; sisters, Carol (Joe) Gillilan, of Canton, Ohio, Mary (Roy) Gillilan, of Chester, Betty Combs, of Arab, Ala., and Doris Sayre, of Racine; and numerous nieces and nephews also survive. In addition to his parents he is preceded in death by three brothers, Gary, Jim and Emerson Johnson. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 4, 2017, in the Cremeens-King Funeral Home, Racine with Pastor Lee Burnem ofﬁciating. Interment with full military honors will be provided by the V.F.W. Post #9926 in the Morris Chapel Cemetery. Friends may call three hours prior to the funeral service on Saturday. eﬁt Meigs Elementary School. For more information contact PTO secretary Shara Fields at 740-444-9013 or sharaweekley@yahoo.com. Lincoln Day Dinner Kindergarten Registration ROCKSPRINGS — The Meigs County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day Dinner will be held on Thursday, March 23 at 6 p.m. at Meigs High School. Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor will be the speaker for the dinner, other state and local ofﬁcials are expected to be in attendance. Tickets are available from Kay Hill or by calling Bill Spaun at 740-992-3992. REEDSVILLE — Children being enrolled for kindergarten in the Eastern Local School District must turn ﬁve years old on or before Aug. 1, 2017. Kindergarten screening and registration will be held on Thursday, March 16 and Friday, March 17 from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. All children to be enrolled should be screened and registered at this time. Please call to schedule an appointment at 985-3304 (starting February 14). On the day of screening and registration, the child must be present and accompanied by his or her parent/legal guardian. The parent/ legal guardian will need to produce veriﬁcation of residency, identiﬁcation, the child’s legal registered birth certiﬁcate (not the hospital birth record), up to date immunization record and, if applicable, custody documents. Acceptable documents for veriﬁcation of residency are: (In the name of the parent/ legal guardian) Utility receipt, property tax document, real estate contract, rental lease or driver’s license with current address. Fish Fry POMEROY — Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Pomeroy will host a ﬁsh fry on Fridays March 10, 17, 24, and 31 from noon-7 p.m. Carryout is available. The ﬁsh fry is sponsored by the Knights of Columbus Monsignor Jessing Council #1664 with the proceeds beneﬁting local charities. Basket/Bag Games BIDWELL — Eleanor Sue Porter, 79, of Bidwell, departed this life to her heavenly home on Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at her residence. Services will be 1 p.m., Saturday, March 4, 2017 at the Willis Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Gravel Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home on Saturday from noon – 1 p.m. prior to the funeral. CORDONE RACINE — Janice Cordone, 74, of Racine, Ohio, passed away at 2:38 p.m. on Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at her residence. Arrangements will be announced by the Cremeens-King Funeral Home, Racine. MIDDLEPORT — Meigs Elementary PTO will host its annual Craft and Vendor Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 4. 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THURSDAY EVENING BROADCAST AEP (NYSE) - 66.12 Akzo (NASDAQ) - 22.75 Big Lots (NYSE) - 51.98 Bob Evans (NASDAQ) - 56.60 BorgWarner (NYSE) 42.99 Century Alum (NASDAQ) - 15.39 City Holding (NASDAQ) - 67.93 Collins (NYSE) - 97.88 DuPont (NYSE) - 79.71 US Bank (NYSE) - 56.41 Gen Electric (NYSE) 30.19 Harley-Davidson (NYSE) - 58.40 JP Morgan (NYSE) 93.60 Kroger (NYSE) - 32.06 Ltd Brands (NYSE) 52.82 Norfolk So (NYSE) 123.35 OVBC (NASDAQ) 28.65 BBT (NYSE) - 49.70 POMEROY — The Meigs County Health Department will conduct an Immunization Clinic from 9-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. on Tuesdays at 112 E. Memorial Drive in Pomeroy. Please bring child(ren)’s shot records. Children must be accompanied by a parent/ legal guardian. A $15 donation is appreciated for immunization administration; however, no one will be denied services because of an inability to pay an administration fee for state-funded childhood vaccines. Please bring medical cards and/or commercial insurance cards, if applicable. Zostavax (shingles); pneumonia ; inﬂuenza vaccines are also available. Call for eligibility determination and availability or visit our website at www.meigs-health.com to see a list of accepted commercial insurances and Medicaid for adults. Road Closure Craft and Vendor Fair STARK STOCKS Immunization Clinic POMEROY — The Meigs County Council on Aging will kick off its 2017 March for Meals with basket and bag games on Thursday, March 2 at 6 p.m. The games will be held at the Senior Center, located at 112 E. Memorial Drive in Pomeroy. SYRACUSE — The annual Stop Hunger games hosted by Home National Bank will be held Thursday, March 9 at 6 p.m. at the Syracuse Community Center. Proceeds from the event beneﬁt the Meigs County Council on Aging. Advance tickets are available at the bank’s two locations until noon on the day of the games. MIDDLEPORT — Middleport Community Association’s spring games will be held on Tuesday, March 14 at 6 p.m. at Middleport Village Hall. Advance tickets are available beginning March 1 at Yellow Umbrella, Shear Illusions, Locker 219 and Hartwell House. PORTER CHESAPEAKE — James Marshall Stark, 90, of Chesapeake, passed away Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at home. Hall Funeral Home and Crematory, Proctorville, is in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete. Editor’s Note: Meigs Briefs will only list event information that is open to the public and will be printed on a space-available basis. 57 (OXY) 58 60 61 (WE) (E!) 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TV14 (5:30) �BUSINESS Daily Sentinel Thursday, March 2, 2017 3A PVH announces salary increases for employees Staff Report POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — For the second ﬁscal year in a row, Pleasant Valley Hospital (PVH) employees will receive an across-theboard salary increase. Glen Washington, FACHE, CEO at PVH, announced a two percent market increase, effective March 6. “Even though much of medicine today is technology driven, our people are our greatest asset. It is important to try to keep salaries and beneﬁts competitive with the region,” stated Glen Washington, FACHE, CEO. Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) and Cabell Huntington Hospital (CHH) approved two percent market increase for their employees this year. PVH employs 650 people. Last week, PVH also announced it upgraded “Even though much of medicine today is technology driven, our people are our greatest asset. It is important to try to keep salaries and benefits competitive with the region.” Staff Report —Glen Washington, FACHE, CEO both of its computed tomography (CT) scanners with high-deﬁnition systems and software technology that reduces the amount of radiation emitted during CT tests by up to 50 percent without compromising the quality of the images, which is the lowest radiation dose in the area. As previously reported, the new CT scanners also feature larger openings to add better patient comfort to ease patient anxiety by using a less conﬁning and intimidating design. PVH/Courtesy For the second fiscal year in a row, Pleasant Valley Hospital (PVH) employees will receive an across-the-board salary increase. PVH has kicked off a $3.25 million fundraising campaign through its PVH Foundation to bring the Children and Family Diagnostic Center to life. Washington spoke about the ambitious plans in January, explaining, this expansion of services was projected to take two years to fund and would include some remodeling of the existing hospital, primarily in the lobby, to create the diagnostic center. The $3.25 million includes funding MRI upgrades estimated at $1.3 million; CT upgrades estimated at $700,000; a digital radiology room estimated at $375,000; Picture Archiving and Communication System upgrades estimated at $125,000; 3D mammography suite estimated at $400,000; nuclear medicine upgrades estimated at $350,000. Deadline near to get $1B unclaimed 2013 refunds WASHINGTON (AP) — If you didn’t ﬁle a tax return for 2013, the IRS might have a refund waiting for you. But the deadline to claim it is only a few weeks away. The IRS says it has $1 billion in unclaimed refunds from the 2013 tax year. They are owed to about 1 million taxpayers. Under federal law, there is no ﬁne for failing to ﬁle a tax return — as long as you are owed a refund. But taxpayers have only three years to claim them. After that, they are forfeited to the U.S. Treasury. Tax returns for 2013 were due in April 2014, so the deadline for claiming the refunds is this year’s tax day, which falls on April 18. “People across the nation haven’t ﬁled tax returns to claim these refunds, and their window of opportunity is closing soon,” IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said in a statement. “Students and many others may not realize they’re due a tax refund. Remember, there’s no penalty for ﬁling a late return if you’re due a refund.” Also, many low- and-moderate income workers might have been eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit, which families can claim even if they owed no income tax. The IRS estimates that the median unclaimed refund is $763, meaning that half are larger and half are smaller. McDonald’s lays out plan to reverse drop in visits NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald’s acknowledged on Wednesday that it lost 500 million customer transactions in the U.S. since 2012 and laid out its plans to get more people back into its restaurants — including by letting them order and pay on their mobile phones by the end of the year. The world’s biggest burger chain said during its investor day in Chicago that it lost some of its loyal fans to other major fast-food chains, rather than to newer rivals. It also said it will more aggressively market items such as coffee and pastries to draw customers, and hinted that it is looking to expand delivery in major markets. McDonald’s outlined its plans after having recorded its fourth straight year of declining guest counts at established U.S. locations in 2016, despite the fanfare over the rollout of an all-day breakfast menu. The company also trimmed its domestic store base for the second year in a row. The chain has said it needs to do a better job of making ordering convenient, but hadn’t previously speciﬁed when it would make mobile order-and-pay and curbside pickup available. Starbucks Corp. already offers mobile order-andpay, an option the coffee chain has hailed as a success but also blamed for creating congestion at pickup counters. The Seattle-based company reported a decline in transactions for its las quarter. In addition to letting customers order on their phones, McDonald’s noted it is transforming restaurants so that they incorporate elements such as ordering kiosks and table service. CEO Steve Easterbrook, who took over in March 2015, also noted Wednesday the potential for delivery, with 75 percent of the population in the company’s top ﬁve markets — including the U.S. — living within three miles of a McDonald’s. Richard Adams, a restaurant industry consultant and former McDonald’s franchisee, noted that the company has been catching up on the digital front, but that it’s not yet known whether options like mobile order-and-pay can help reverse a trend of declining visits. “Nobody has proven that it’s a panacea,” he said. Adams also noted that the restaurant industry has never been more competitive, with more options for eating out than ever before. McDonald’s faces competition not just from other big fast-food players, but from newer rivals that largely emphasize freshness and taste, as well as the availability of food at convenience stores like 7-Eleven and supermarkets. The NPD Group has said it expects overall customer trafﬁc in the restaurant industry to remain “stalled” this year, as it was last year. McDonald’s, meanwhile, has touted the changes it is making to improve its core menu, such as cooking its Chicken McNuggets without artiﬁcial preservatives and testing fresh beef for some burgers. In April, a limited-time offer for $1 sodas of any size could also be quicker-ﬁx for driving customers into stores. For 2019 and beyond, McDonald’s said it expects to expand its operating margin from the high-20 percent range to the mid-40 percent range, as it sells more of its restaurants to franchisees and relies more heavily on royalty fees. By the end of this year, the company expects 93 percent of its restaurants to be franchised. Other chains such as Burger King and Dunkin’ Donuts are almost entirely franchised, while Starbucks and Chipotle own most their restaurants. After having been halted before the company’s announcements, shares in McDonald’s gained $1.72, or about 1.3 percent, to $129.37. US construction spending drops 1 percent WASHINGTON (AP) — Builders cut back on construction spending in January by the largest amount in nine months, with weakness stemming from the biggest reduction in government activity in nearly 15 years. Construction spending fell 1 percent in January, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. It was the ﬁrst decline since September and the biggest drop since a 2.9 percent dip in CLASSIFIEDS April. Spending on government projects tumbled 5 percent, the largest onemonth drop since March 2002. President Donald Trump wants to sharply increase spending on government infrastructure projects over the next decade. But his proposal is expected to face hurdles winning approval in Congress at a time of rising budget deﬁcits. For January, spending W.Va. bank agrees to forfeit $1.36 million by the federal government on construction projects was down 7.4 percent, while spending by state and local governments fell 4.8 percent. The overall decline in government spending pushed total activity in the category down to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $268.7 billion, the lowest level since last March. Residential construction showed a modest gain, while private non- residential activity was ﬂat. The 1 percent fall in total construction spending followed a tiny 0.1 percent rise in December and left total activity at an annual rate of $1.18 trillion, 3.1 percent higher than a year ago. Economists believe that construction activity should provide support for overall economic growth this year, driven by continued strength in housing construction. CHARLESTON, W.Va. – United States Attorney Carol Casto announced the ﬁling of a substantial forfeiture action this week involving First National Bank of Williamson for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act. The Bank Secrecy Act requires ﬁnancial institutions to maintain programs that detect and report suspicious activity to prevent money laundering. Under this law, banks must report all cash transactions over $10,000 in Currency Transaction Reports. The Bank Secrecy Act also helps prevent structuring, a federal crime that involves the breaking down of cash banking transactions in amounts of $10,000 or less to avoid triggering a bank’s reporting requirements. Whenever structuring is detected, banks are additionally required to ﬁle Suspicious Activity Reports. Between April 2006 and November 2008, Arthur White, Jr., and other individuals, structured $1.36 million in withdrawals of exactly $10,000 cash from First National Bank of Williamson in order to avoid the mandatory reports. In March 2013, Arthur White pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia to tax evasion and structuring. White admitted that he cashed checks made payable to his companies that held accounts at First National Bank of Williamson. According to the complaint, First National Bank permitted White to pay cash for cashier’s checks made payable to himself, without ﬁrst depositing the money into any account. White and other individuals would receive exactly $10,000 in cash each time they cashed a check. Then they would purchase a new cashier’s check without depositing any of the money, repeating the process until the entire check had been converted to cash. The cash obtained through this structuring was used to pay wages for some of White’s employees. White, and others at his direction, intentionally conducted these transactions to avoid the bank’s reporting requirements and to evade taxes. This pattern of structuring should have triggered First National Bank’s reporting requirements. As set forth in the complaint, despite First National Bank’s knowledge, it permitted this structuring and failed to report these transactions as required by law. As part of its settlement agreement, First National Bank has agreed not to contest the forfeiture of $1,360,000 to the United States. The investigation of First National Bank of Williamson was conducted by special agents and law enforcement ofﬁcers of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Ofﬁce of the Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the West Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation. Assistant United States Attorneys Eumi Choi and Eric Bacaj handled the forfeiture action. The Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section of the Department of Justice also provided valuable assistance during the course of the investigation. Article submitted by the office of United States Attorney Carol Casto. AG urges residents impacted by storm to verify contractors Staff Report CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey urged West Virginians forced to deal with damage from this week’s severe weather to be cautious when hiring others to assist with repair and cleanup. The advice comes in light of severe storms that produced strong winds and heavy rainfall across West Virginia. “The strength and early timing of Wednesday’s storm caught thousands off guard,” Morrisey said. “Scammers often prey upon those already facing hardships. That’s why it is important to cautiously research any contractor to make sure you don’t get ripped off.” Unlicensed persons often will canvas neighborhoods and offer to repair damaged property with deals that seem too good to be true. At times they will imply they are working on nearby homes or suggest they are with the bank or insurance company. All too often, the money is paid without completion of the work. Many times scammers fail to provide contact information, such as a contractor’s license, business card or other identiﬁcation, and use high-pressure sales tactics to force immediate purchases. The Attorney General’s Ofﬁce warns residents to take their time, research options and be very careful before hiring an unfamiliar contractor. Here are a few suggested tips: Evaluate the size and scope of their project. Obtain written estimates from multiple companies. Research companies that do those jobs. Ask for references to verify the contractor’s prior work. Look for reviews of the company on trusted websites. Check to see if the contractor has a valid license by contacting the West Virginia Contractor Licensing Board at 304-558-7890. Additionally, state law requires contractors to allow the consumer ﬁve days to cancel rooﬁng contracts, as opposed to the three-day period for door-to-door sales, without penalty for any portion of repairs not covered by the consumer’s insurance policy. The clock begins with the consumer’s receipt of the insurance notice. Anyone with questions or a potential storm-related home repair scam should call the Consumer Protection Division at 1-800-368-8808 or the Eastern Panhandle Consumer Protection Ofﬁce at 304-267-0239. To ﬁle a report online, visit www.wvago.gov. Submitted by the office of Attorney General Patrick Morrisey. �E ditorial 4A Thursday, March 2, 2017 Daily Sentinel THEIR VIEW Speech masked reality of Trump’s unrealistic agenda By Doyle McManus Contributing columnist President Trump boasted in his speech to Congress on Tuesday that he’s keeping the many campaign promises he made to voters, beginning with his pledges to boost economic growth and slash regulations on business. “A new chapter of American greatness is now beginning,” he said. “Dying industries will come roaring back to life. … Our neglected inner cities will see a rebirth of hope, safety and opportunity. Above all else, we will keep our promises to the American people.” But the president’s bravado masked a harsher reality: His agenda’s already in trouble, for the simple reason that it’s inconsistent and unrealistic. It’s true that the president has kept several of his promises — the easy ones. He’s signed, with a jagged ﬂourish, dozens of executive actions. He’s told federal agencies to cut regulations (although few have actually been eliminated; it’s a timeconsuming process). He’s ordered a wave of deportations of undocumented immigrants. He’s pulled out of a trans-Paciﬁc trade deal. He’s jawboned a handful of companies into preserving a handful of American jobs. That, plus hints of lower tax rates to come, has been enough to send the stock market soaring — one of the achievements Trump claimed Tuesday evening. But Trump’s most ambitious promises — a much longer list — are a long way from getting done. Beyond deep cuts in taxes, he’s proposed a wall on the border with Mexico, a trillion dollars’ worth of infrastructure and better health insurance at lower prices. Also a balanced budget, all without cutting Social Security or Medicare. Budgeteers from both parties say it’s impossible; the arithmetic simply doesn’t add up. Republican leaders in Congress see little sign of a workable plan from the White House. They’re worried that Trump — who won’t acknowledge he can’t balance the budget without touching entitlements — will ultimately opt for deﬁcit spending. (Trump neglected to mention balancing the budget Tuesday evening, as they must have noticed.) So they are reminding all comers that legislators are the ones who make decisions on tax cuts and spending bills. Wary of charging into disaster, they have ignored Trump’s demands for quick “But Trump’s most ambitious promises — a much longer list — are a long way from getting done.” action to replace President Obama’s healthcare law and are moving at their own predictably measured pace. Lawmakers are also pushing back on an idea that should have been a gimme: Trump’s announcement this week that he will seek an increase of roughly 10 percent in defense spending. The $54-billion jump the president proposed was only a little more than Obama had projected, and well below the numbers sought by defense hawks like Sen. John McCain of Arizona. But the White House immediately ran into trouble by suggesting it would pay for the defense hike by exacting deep cuts from the State Department and the Environmental Protection Agency. The arithmetic, again, doesn’t work: The combined budgets of State and EPA come to no more than $67 billion, so extracting $54 billion would be impractical. And when White House ofﬁcials said they’d target foreign aid, presumably ﬁguring that would be a politically popular target, some leading Republicans revolted. Sens. McCain, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Marco Rubio of Florida all said cutting foreign aid was a bad idea. “It would be a disaster,” Graham said. “It shows a lack of understanding of what it takes to win the war.” Retired Gen. David Petraeus and 120 other generals and admirals even signed a letter defending the State Department budget. The letter quoted Gen. James Mattis, now Trump’s secretary of defense: “If you don’t fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition.” When Trump was asked about the proposal before his speech, he didn’t bother to defend its details, suggesting either that he didn’t know the specifics, or that it wasn’t a serious idea to begin with. “I think the money is going to come from a revved up economy,” he said on Fox News. “If I can get (growth) up to 3 percent or maybe more, we have a whole different ball game.” In the end, that’s the whole of Trump’s plan: cut taxes, eliminate regulations, and pray for a boom. It would be nice if it happened, See AGENDA | 5A THEIR VIEW Trump reinvents himself By Cal Thomas Contributing columnist For Republicans who have been concerned that President Trump has not been speciﬁc about his policies and about where he wants to take the country, Tuesday night’s address to Congress and the nation was a welcome relief. For liberals, however, it was a problem precisely because he offered speciﬁcs. Before the speech, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) repeated the familiar and overused claim that Trump wants tax cuts for wealthy Americans at the expense of the middle class. Is that the best he and his aging fellow Democrats can do? Reruns should be limited to summer TV shows. While the Democrats remain frozen in a time warp of their own making, Trump’s speech was focused on solutions and full of optimism for a change. Finally gone were the dark utterances of the campaign about the sad shape of the country. This time the country heard positive solutions, even when Trump mentioned nagging problems, such as violent crime in our cities. To address that issue, he has named a Department of Homeland Security task force. To the probable surprise of the left, the president responded to criticism that he had not said much about recent attacks on Jewish cemeteries, saying “we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all of its very ugly forms.” He even referenced Black History Month, reminding his audience that while civil rights progress has been made “much remains to be done.” Democrats joined Republicans in applauding that line. Throughout the speech Trump asked for unity and for the parties to work together in the country’s interest, not their partisan interests. Good luck with that. He touched on familiar themes — removing immigrants with criminal backgrounds and not allowing what he called “a beachhead of terrorism” to form inside America, taking “strong measures to protect our nation from radical Islamic terrorism” and immigrant vetting. “It is not compassionate,” he said, “but reckless to allow uncontrolled entry from places where proper vetting cannot occur.” He pitched school “Throughout the speech Trump asked for unity and for the parties to work together in the country’s interest, not their partisan interests. Good luck with that.” es on the faces of congressional Democrats, especially the frozen visage of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, does not offer much hope this will happen. Having run out of ideas, opposition is all Democrats have. In an interview before the speech, presidential historian Jon Meacham told Fox News Channel’sBill O’Reilly: “Great presidents don’t govern from their base, but from their base plus.” President Trump may have added some plus to his base with that speech. Most Americans prefer optimism to pessimism and vision to uncertainty. Donald Trump promised to pivot from campaigner to president after he was inaugurated. It took him a little more than one month, but Tuesday night he made that pivot and it was pleasing to watch and soothing to the ear. Now the question is can he keep it up? choice as a civil rights issue and introduced Denisha Merriweather, an African-American woman in the gallery, who Trump said failed third grade twice before being given a tax voucher to attend a better school. She eventually became the ﬁrst in her family not only to graduate from high school, but from college. She will earn a master’s degree in social work later this year. Donald Trump reinvented himself with this speech. Instead of the harsh and condemning personae he projected during the campaign and his ﬁrst 100 days, the president displayed kindness, compassion and a love for America. Americans want their president to love the country and Trump gave them that. “My job is not to represent the world,” he said. “My job is to represent the United States of America.” At the end he said, “The time for small thinking is over” and he called for “trivial ﬁghts” to be left behind. Glimps- Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com. TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Thursday, March 2, the 61st day of 2017. There are 304 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On March 2, 1867, Howard University, a historically black school of higher learning in Washington, D.C., was founded as it received a congressional charter. Congress passed, over President Andrew Johnson’s veto, the ﬁrst of four Reconstruction Acts, providing for “the more efﬁcient Government of the Rebel States” by dividing the South into ﬁve militaryrun districts. On this date: In 1793, the ﬁrst president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, was born near Lexing- ton, Virginia. In 1836, the Republic of Texas formally declared its independence from Mexico. In 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote. In 1917, Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship as President Woodrow Wilson signed the Jones-Shafroth Act. Actor, producer, director and bandleader Desi Arnaz was born in Santiago de Cuba. In 1939, Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (puh-CHEL’-ee) was elected pope on his 63rd birthday; he took the name Pius XII. The Massachusetts legislature voted to ratify THOUGHT FOR TODAY “Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.” — Agnes Repplier, American essayist (1858-1950) the Bill of Rights, 147 years after the ﬁrst 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution had gone into effect. (Georgia and Connecticut soon followed.) In 1942, the original Stage Door Canteen, a wartime club for U.S. servicemen, ofﬁcially opened its doors in New York’s theater district. In 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ famous act of deﬁance, Claudette Colvin, a black high school student in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger. In 1965, the movie version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The Sound of Music,” starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, had its world premiere in New York. In 1977, the U.S. House of Representatives adopted a strict code of ethics. �NEWS Daily Sentinel Thursday, March 2, 2017 5A Concealed carry report shows record number of licenses issued COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine this week issued a report indicating that more than 158,000 concealed carry licenses were issued in Ohio in 2016, the largest number since licenses were ﬁrst issued in 2004. According to statistics reported to the Attorney General’s ofﬁce, county sheriffs in Ohio issued 117,953 new licenses and 40,982 renewal licenses in 2016, or 158,982 total licenses, the largest in a single year since licenses were ﬁrst issued in 2004. The previous record for new licenses issued and total licenses issued was in 2013, when 96,972 new licenses and 145,342 total DeWine licenses were issued. The record for renewal licenses was in 2014 when 52,146 licenses were renewed. The Attorney General’s Ofﬁce compiles an annual report as required by law about the number of licenses issued each year. Each sheriff must report concealed handgun license statistics quarterly to the Ohio Peace Ofﬁcer Training Commission within the Ohio Attorney General’s Ofﬁce. To learn more about Ohio’s concealed carry laws or to view this year’s report and other statistics, please visit www.OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov/ConcealedCarry. Submitted by the office of Attorney General Mike DeWine. NEWS FROM ACROSS OHIO Ohio court considers privacy rights in backpack search COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The state Supreme Court has heard arguments over the constitutionality of an Ohio student’s backpack search that authorities say led ﬁrst to the discovery of bullets and later a gun. At issue before the high court is whether a second search of the backpack violated the student’s privacy rights, which are generally weaker inside school walls. The court heard from attorneys for both sides Wednesday morning. Franklin County prosecutors appealed after two lower courts tossed out the evidence because of the second search. Ohio man pleads guilty in bomb plot on New York prison guard SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — An Ohio man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge stemming from an explosion that injured a New York state prison guard outside his home. Fifty-eight-year-old Keith Seppi pleaded guilty Wednesday on a charge related to using an explosive device to commit a violent crime. Holzer/Courtesy Pictured are Holzer Wound Care Center staff. Holzer Wound Care Center receives award Staff Report plasma into wounds. In the chamber, the GALLIPOLIS — Hol- patient is surrounded zer Wound Care Center with 100 percent oxygen physicians, leaders, and at higher than normal clinicians announce atmospheric pressure. that the Center has Throughout the treatreceived the Center ment, the patient is of Distinction Award supervised by a specialby Healogics, Inc., the ly-trained physician and nation’s largest provider monitored by a techniof advanced wound care cian. services. While a patient is The Center achieved located in the chamber, outstanding clinical there is the opportunity outcomes for 12 conto watch television or secutive months, includ- listen to music. In addiing patient satisfaction tion, the technician can higher than 92 percent, be available to speak to and a wound healing the patient through the rate of at least 91 perconveniently located cent in less than 31 phone available on the median days. Out of 630 chamber to answer any Centers eligible for the questions, or to provide Center of Distinction conversation during the award, 334 achieved this treatment. honor. Holzer Wound Care Hyperbaric Oxygen Center is staffed with a Therapy is an essential unique team of doctors, part of chronic wound nurses, and therapists, treatment plans. This all dedicated to healing type of medical treatchronic wounds. The ment increases the causes of wounds are amount of oxygen in complex, and our team the patient’s blood, offers expertise in all allowing oxygen to pass areas needed to handle more easily through the your wound circum- stances. The Wound Care Center® is a member of the Healogics network of nearly 800 Centers, with access to benchmarking data and proven experience treating approximately 2.5 million chronic wounds. The Wound Care Center offers highly specialized wound care to patients suffering from diabetic ulcers, pressure ulcers, infections and other chronic wounds, which have not healed in a reasonable amount of time. Some of the leadingedge treatments offered at the Wound Care Center include negative pressure wound therapy, debridement, application of cellular-based tissue or skin substitutes to the wound, ofﬂoading or total contact casts and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. “The Holzer Wound Care Center at Jackson has a wonderful program in place and receiving the Center of Distinction further Agenda its ﬁfth week. But without a budget plan or legislative strategy, much of his agenda could turn out to be what Silicon Valley calls “vaporware” — promises without a product. And his sonorous, un-Trumplike speech on Tuesday — with its call to both parties to abandon “small thinking (and) trivial ﬁghts” — will be remembered, alas, as empty words. From page 4A but economists think it’s unlikely. It’s not a knock on Trump that he hasn’t delivered on his biggest promises; his presidency is still only in demonstrates this fact,” stated Dina Grifﬁth, program director, Holzer Wound Care Center. “We are proud to offer an excellent panel of physicians and clinical staff who are dedicated to the needs of our patients who come to us with their non-healing wounds. In 2016, our median days to heal was 28 days. Holzer offers the latest wound care healing techniques from skin graphs and the use of hyperbaric chambers to help our patients heal quickly and completely.” Holzer Wound Care Center ® offers hyperbaric oxygen therapy, negative pressure wound therapy, bioengineered skin substitutes, biological and biosynthetic dressings and growth factor therapies. For more information on the Center, or any other services available through Holzer Health System, call 1-855-4-HOLZER. Submitted by Holzer Health System. CAPITOL CHATTER Bill Johnson Reacts to President Trump’s Address to Congress WASHINGTON - Congressman Bill Johnson (R-Marietta) released the following statement after President Donald Trump’s address to a Joint Session of Congress: “The most unconventional President in modern times gave the most uplifting and uniting speech Johnson that’s been heard in the House Chamber in at least a decade. Importantly, he didn’t divide us by group…the President spoke to us as one people - as Americans. “It was refreshing to hear the President speak so passionately, and so gratefully, in praise of those who risk their lives each day to protect us… America’s heroes – our law enforcement, our military, and our veterans. “I was particularly interested – and pleased – to hear about his infrastructure plans. There is no question that our roads and bridges – as well as our energy infrastructure and broadband infrastructure - need improvement. Nowhere is this clearer than in parts of Eastern and Southeastern Ohio, where so many infrastructure needs exist, and some residents don’t even have access to broadband service. “The President is right – ObamaCare is imploding; sitting by and doing nothing is not an option. Congress must repeal ObamaCare and replace it with a system that expands choices, increases access, and brings down costs – things the existing Affordable Care Act law doesn’t do. At the same time, we must enable a smooth transition for those Americans currently on Medicaid and the exchanges, while keeping such popular provisions as protecting coverage for those for pre-existing conditions. “I was encouraged to hear the President’s ongoing commitment to reigning in the Washington unelected regulators – a commitment that I’ve seen ﬁrsthand at the White House, where just two weeks ago he signed my resolution into law that gives coal miners and coal families a ﬁghting chance. “I look forward to continuing to work with President Trump and his team, and anyone from either party, willing to put forward solutions that move America forward. President Trump concluded his historic address by declaring, ‘The time for small thinking is over. The time for trivial ﬁghts is behind us.’ Along with the majority of the American people, I agree.” Submitted by the office of Congressman Bill Johnson. President Trump should focus on working with Congress to lower the Brown statement on cost of prescription drugs President Trump’s for working families. And address to Congress I will ﬁght against any WASHINGTON, D.C. – efforts to expand the forU.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown proﬁt education system (D-OH) issued the follow- which has failed our stuing statement in response dents and ripped off Ohio to President Donald taxpayers. Trump’s address to the “President Trump joint session of Congress: spoke about healing “We can all agree divisions and bringing that creating jobs and Americans together, and rebuilding our nation’s the best way to do that is infrastructure should by getting to work on the be top priorities, and it priorities where we all was promising to hear agree like putting AmeriPresident Trump renew cans to work rebuilding his commitments to overour roads, bridges and hauling our trade policy infrastructure.” and using American Submitted by the office of Senator Sherrod Brown. steel to rebuild Portman Introduces the our public works. But Pension Accountability Act now we WASHINGTON, D.C. need to Brown see action. – This week, U.S. SenaI’ve shared tor Rob Portman (R-OH) my ideas for fulﬁlling his introduced the Pension Accountability Act to promises on trade and help protect Ohioans infrastructure jobs and from having their penI’m ready to get to work sions cut with no say in with President Trump the process. Portman’s whenever he’s willing to bill aims to give workers do what’s right for Ohio. and retirees a seat at the “At the same time, I will ﬁght against policies table when a looming multi-employer pension that are wrong for Ohio. bankruptcy may require I agree with Governor major pension cuts. Kasich that it is danger“Ohio retirees facing ous and irresponsible to double down on efforts to potential pension cuts deserve to have a voice throw 900,000 Ohioans in the process, and this off their insurance withbill ﬁxes that,” Portman out a plan to replace it. Instead of taking healthstated. “Ohio workers care away from Ohioans, have worked long hours for years, played by the rules, and paid into their pensions for decades. As a matter of basic fairness, they deserve a role in determining how to bring these pensions to solvency.” “We, as active and retired participants in troubled multiemployer pension funds, appreciate Senator Portman and his staff’s commitment to give us a fair vote on any application for pension cuts,” said Mike Walden, Ohio teamster and chairman of the National United Committee to Protect Pensions, speaking on behalf of all retirees in troubled multiemployer plans. “Since the MPRA 2014 was enacted in DecemPortman ber 2014, Senator Portman has fought for the participants in these funds to ensure they have a voice and seat at the table, which will help lead to a more fair and equitable solution to all.” “I’m pleased Senator Rob Portman is reintroducing the Pension Accountability Act,” said Steven Sprague, a 44-year member of the Southwest Ohio Regional Council of Carpenters Pension Plan. “The MPRA’s treatment of unreturned ballots as automatic ‘yes’ votes for any cuts is unacceptable, and this important bill will allow pension participants of multiemployer pensions a fair vote on their earned pensions.” NOTE: The Pension Accountability Act has no taxpayer cost. Original cosponsors include Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) and Deb Fischer (R-NE). The bill improves the Multi-employer Pension Reform Act (MPRA) in two ways: First, for struggling pension plans seeking cuts, it will make the participant vote binding in all situations. This will give the workers and retirees a seat at the table to inﬂuence the solvency reforms. Their majority vote will be required for any pension cuts to occur. Second, it will make this vote fair by counting only the ballots that are returned. Unreturned ballots will no longer be counted as a “yes” vote. Portman praised the Department of the Treasury’s decision last year to reject the application from the Central States Pension Fund to reduce beneﬁts by up to 70 percent. He was vocal in urging the Treasury to reject Central States’ plan, calling instead on all involved parties to seek a better solution. Submitted by the office of Senator Rob Portman. �NEWS 6A Thursday, March 2, 2017 Daily Sentinel MEIGS CHURCH CALENDAR MEIGS CALENDAR OF EVENTS Community Lenten Services Each service begins at 7 p.m., with the host church to provide a light supper starting at 6 p.m. Any and all offerings will go towards the Meigs Ministerial Association in helping us with our various ministries. Thursday, March 9 — Riverside Nazarene to host with Brenda Barnhart speaking Thursday, March 16 — Mount Hermon to host with Walt Goble speaking. Thursday, March 23 — Restoration Fellowship to host with Daniel Fulton to speak. Thursday, March 30 — New Beginnings to host with Randy Smith to speak. Thursday, April 6 — St. Paul Lutheran (Pomeroy) to host with Adam Will to speak Editor’s Note: The Daily Sentinel appreciates your input to the community calendar. To make sure items can receive proper attention, all information should be received by the newspaper at least ﬁve business days prior to an event. All coming events print on a space-available basis and in chronological order. Events can be emailed to: TDSnews@civitasmedia.com. Thursday, March 2 CHESTER — The Chester Shade Historical Association March board meeting will be held at the Chester Academy dining area at 6:30 p.m. Anyone is welcome to attend. Agenda items to be addressed should be submitted by March 1. ROCKSPRINGS — Meigs High School will be holding Parent-Teacher Conferences from 3 p.m.-6 p.m. Students will be bringing home a letter describing the conference scheduling procedure along with information on the conferences. The school would like to encourage all parents and/or guardians to attend that they may keep you informed concerning the progress of your child. Please return the form attached to the letter to the school or call 740-992-2158 by Wednesday, March 1 to schedule conferences. CHILLICOTHE — The Southern Ohio Council of Governments (SOCOG) will hold its board meeting at 10 a.m. at 27 West Second Street, Suite 202, Chillicothe, Ohio, 45601. Board meetings usually are held the ﬁrst Thursday of the month. For more information, call 740-775-5030, underway. After the warning period, violators will have 30 days to pay the ﬁne by mail, interFrom page 1A net or phone. Failure to The police department pay the violation will will focus on speeding result in the citations to throughout the village. be sent to collections. Village Council voted to Registered owners of the approve the program on violating vehicles may Feb. 22, which will allow attend an administrative the police department hearing as authorized to utilize the technolORC 4511.099 to conogy. The unit allows test the charge. The law an ofﬁcer to capture a states that a person who photo of the violation, is issued the ticket may and after later approval contest the ticket by ﬁlby a supervisor, issue ing a written request for the violation by mail. an administrative hearThe ofﬁcer still has the ing to review the citaauthority to conduct a tion. Citations may be trafﬁc stop and issue a contested through due uniform citation, howprocess as approved by ever if the camera capthe Ohio Supreme Court tures the violation, the earlier last year. citation will be mailed to Programs of this the registered owner of kind are being implethe vehicle, with ﬁnes to mented in multiple start at $115. cities throughout the A major advantage nation. Studies from the to the civil violation is National Highway Safety that points will not be Administration and the accessed to the driver, Governor’s Highway nor will it be reported Safety Association to the driver’s insurance consistently show that as with a uniform trafﬁc programs of this nature citation. reduce the number of The village will begin crashes, injuries, fatalithe program on March ties, and crime. “It is 6, with a 30-day warning the goal of the village to period. Citations issued maintain a safe commuduring this period will nity both for our citizens not include a ﬁne, but and motorists,” accordrather serve as notice ing to the news release. that the program is 8 AM WEATHER Council a charter, term limits are often written into the charter, but that is not the case with Middleport. Village Administrator Joe Woodall discussed the possible purchase of a new mower for the use at the 41° 43° HEALTH TODAY Statistics through 3 p.m. yesterday AccuWeather.com Asthma Index™ Temperature The AccuWeather.com Asthma Index combines the effects of current air quality, pollen counts, wind, temperature, dew point, barometric pressure, and changes from past weather conditions to provide a scale showing the overall probability and severity of an asthma attack. High/low Normal high/low Record high Record low Precipitation 70°/54° 51°/31° 75° in 1976 0° in 2014 24 hours ending 3 p.m. yest. 0.63 Month to date/normal 0.52/0.12 Year to date/normal 7.32/6.16 Snowfall (in inches) The AccuWeather.com Cold Index combines the effects of local weather with a number of demographic factors to provide a scale showing the overall probability of transmission and symptom severity of the common cold. 2 24 hours ending 3 p.m. yest. 0.0 Month to date/normal 0.0/0.2 Season to date/normal 4.4/19.1 WEATHER TRIVIA™ SUN & MOON Q: A dramatic increase in tornadoes in the U.S. occurs in what month? Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset MOON PHASES First Full Last New Mar 5 Mar 12 Mar 20 Mar 27 SOLUNAR TABLE The solunar period indicates peak feeding times for ﬁsh and game. Major Today 2:34a Fri. 3:33a Sat. 4:32a Sun. 5:29a Mon. 6:25a Tue. 7:18a Wed. 8:09a Minor 8:47a 9:46a 10:46a 11:44a 12:12a 1:04a 1:55a Major 3:00p 4:00p 5:00p 5:58p 6:54p 7:47p 8:37p Minor 9:14p 10:14p 11:14p ---12:39p 1:33p 2:23p WEATHER HISTORY Record high temperatures were set across the East on March 2, 1991. Pittsburgh and Erie, Pa., rose to 74 and 70 degrees, respectively. Albany, N.Y., reached 65, and Charleston, W.Va., jumped to 81 degrees. Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. A.M. ﬂurries; otherwise, partly sunny Logan 44/28 Adelphi 44/28 Chillicothe 42/27 Lucasville 46/29 Portsmouth 47/30 AIR QUALITY 43 0 50 100 150 200 300 500 Primary pollutant: Particulates 58° 44° Air Quality Index: 0-50, Good; 51-100, Moderate; 101-150, Unhealthy for sensitive groups; 151-200, Unhealthy; 201-300, Very unhealthy; 301-500, Hazardous. Source: Hamilton County Department of Environmental Services OHIO RIVER Milder with some sun Levels in feet as of 7 a.m. yesterday Location Willow Island Marietta Parkersburg Belleville Racine Point Pleasant Gallipolis Huntington Ashland Lloyd Greenup Portsmouth Maysville Meldahl Dam Flood Stage 37 34 36 35 41 40 50 50 52 54 50 50 51 Level 12.66 21.43 22.19 12.50 13.02 25.53 12.41 27.46 35.05 12.25 26.60 35.80 26.30 24-hr. Chg. -0.05 +3.52 +0.07 -0.34 +0.19 +0.63 -0.06 +0.58 +0.05 -0.49 +6.40 +1.80 +6.30 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 Council member Richard Vaughan was not present for the meeting. Council members present were Doug Dixon, Emerson Heighton, George Hoffman, Sharon Older and Shawn Rice. The Board of Zoning Appeals will meet at 6 p.m. on March 7, with the next council meeting scheduled for March 13. TUESDAY WEDNESDAY 65° 39° Cloudy 57° 29° Cloudy and mild Marietta 44/29 Belpre 46/30 Athens 44/28 St. Marys 45/30 Parkersburg 44/30 Coolville 45/29 Elizabeth 46/31 Spencer 48/32 Buffalo 49/32 Milton 49/32 Clendenin 46/18 St. Albans 50/33 Huntington 48/29 NATIONAL FORECAST 110s 100s Seattle 48/44 90s 80s 70s 60s 50s 40s 30s 20s San Francisco 10s 62/44 0s Los Angeles -0s 80/52 -10s T-storms Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Cold Front Warm Front Stationary Front Saturday, March 11 TUPPERS PLAINS — A soup supper will be held at St. Paul United Methodist Church, Route 7, Tuppers Plains, Ohio, from 4-7 p.m. Donations only, with all money going to the Athens County American Cancer Society, Relay For Life Sponsored by the Tuppers Plains Tops Chapter. 63° 49° Murray City 44/28 Ironton 48/32 Ashland 48/32 Grayson 50/31 Thursday, March 9 OLIVE TWP. — The Olive Township Trustees will hold their regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the township garage on Joppa Road. POMEROY — AA Meeting open discussion, 7 p.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 162 Mulberry Ave. MONDAY Wilkesville 46/28 POMEROY Jackson 47/30 47/29 Ravenswood Rio Grande 47/32 48/29 Centerville POINT PLEASANT Ripley 42/26 GALLIPOLIS 48/30 48/32 48/30 South Shore Greenup 48/32 46/29 Wednesday, March 8 SCIPIO TWP. — Scipio Township Trustees regular monthly meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the Harrisonville Fire House. Mostly sunny NATIONAL CITIES McArthur 44/28 Waverly 43/27 SUNDAY 45° 31° Tuesday, March 7 GALLIPOLIS — Holzer Clinic and Holzer Medical Center Retirees will meet for lunch at noon on at Tuscany Restaurant. MIDDLEPORT — A meeting of the Middleport Zoning Appeals Committee members will be held at Middleport Village Hall in the Conference Room at 6 p.m. Hendrickson asked council to pay the $365 needed for his annual certiﬁcation, which was approved by council. The Mayor provided council members with a chart showing the chain of command for all village ofﬁces and departments, as well as any vacancies which could be ﬁlled at a later date. A: March. Today Fri. 6:59 a.m. 6:58 a.m. 6:22 p.m. 6:23 p.m. 9:33 a.m. 10:13 a.m. 11:04 p.m. none 0-2 Low; 3-4 Moderate; 5-6 High; 7-8 Very High; 9-10 Extreme Monday, March 6 SATURDAY Some sun with snow at times; cold 0 AccuWeather.com Cold Index™ (in inches) FRIDAY A rain or snow shower this afternoon; cooler. Snow showers tonight. High 48° / Low 30° ALMANAC Sunday, March 5 SALEM CENTER — Star Grange will sponsor a Soup Dinner with serving from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. The public is invited to attend. POMEROY — AA Meeting, 7 p.m., closed 12 and 12 study, Sacred Heart Catholic Church 162 Mulberry Ave. RACINE — Racine American Legion is having a dinner from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The menu is fried chicken and kielbasa, homemade noodles, mashed potatoes, green beans, sauer kraut, cole slaw, dinner roll and dessert. EXTENDED FORECAST 8 PM 39° 19° 36° Saturday, March 4 SALEM CENTER — Star Grange #778 and Star Junior Grange will meet with potluck supper at 6:30 p.m. followed by meeting at 7:30 p.m. Final Plans for Soup Dinner to be held on Sunday, March 5 will be made. POMEROY — AA Meeting closed big book study, 8 p.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church 162 Mulberry Ave. cemetery. Woodall stated that a 36-inch deck mower would be better at the cemetery as it would ﬁt between headstones. Woodall gave council a paper with information from Baum Lumber. Council asked that he check on pricing at other local locations as well before a decision is made. Building Inspector Mike From page 1A 2 PM Friday, March 3 SALEM CENTER — Meigs County Pomona Grange will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Star Grange Hall, located three miles north of Salem Center on County Road 1. Inspection will be held. Star Grange will serve refreshments following the meeting. RUTLAND — The Rutland Township Trustees will meet at 7:30 a.m. at the Rutland Township Garage. LETART TWP. — The regular meeting of the Letart Township Trustees will be held at 5 p.m. at the Letart Township Building. Charleston 49/33 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. Winnipeg 7/-7 Montreal 29/11 Billings 41/30 Minneapolis 31/14 Chicago 38/21 Denver 50/26 Kansas City 54/25 Detroit 39/24 Toronto 32/18 New York 48/32 Washington 54/35 Fri. 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Tornadoes were blamed in three deaths amid a large swath of destruction through the central U.S. before rumbling eastward. Forecasters said up to 95 million people are potentially in the storm’s path as it moves toward the mid-Atlantic states and southern New England. Forecasters said cities including New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Atlanta and Washington, D.C., could be at risk. Ofﬁcials in Arkansas, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Missouri were assessing damage after storms Tuesday night and early Wednesday. In northern Illinois, an uprooted tree killed 76-year-old Wayne Tuntland of Ottawa. More than a dozen others were injured. In the small community of Naplate, next to Ottawa, about a quar- ter of the roughly 200 homes were damaged, Fire Chief John Nevins said. Debbie Loughridge, 61, and her son were inside their Naplate home, riding out the storm in the bathtub. Fireﬁghters rescued them after the roof was torn off. “All I heard was the wind and the breaking glass. Like an explosion of glass,” Loughridge said. In southern Illinois, an apparent tornado near the town of Crossville killed a 71-year-old man and injured his wife, White County Coroner Chris Marsh said. In Missouri, a twister touched down Tuesday night, blowing several vehicles off of Interstate 55 near Perryville, 65 miles southeast of St. Louis. A 24-year-old man from Perryville was thrown from one of the vehicles and died, Missouri State Highway Patrol Cpl. Juston Wheetley said. The wind was so strong that it lifted crumpled cars from a nearby salvage yard and tossed them along the highway. Nearly 110 homes in the Perryville area were damaged or destroyed and 12 people suffered minor injuries, Perryville Fire Chief Jeremy Triller said. “I feel we’re very blessed and fortunate we didn’t have a higher fatality number with this terrible disaster,” Triller said. Meteorologist Rick Shanklin of the National Weather Service said the Missouri twister was a “strong tornado,” but the actual wind speed has not been estimated. Ofﬁcials believe it was on the ground for 13 to 15 miles, crossing the Mississippi River into Illinois. National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center meteorologist Patrick Marsh said crews are still determining how many twisters touched down across the central U.S. Marsh said a strong storm system moved from the Mountain West and collided with warm and humid air in the Midwest, which has enjoyed an unusually warm winter and where temperatures Tuesday were well into the 70s in many places. “That’s why we saw storms more representative of late March and April,” Marsh said. “The atmosphere doesn’t care what the calendar says.” Northeast of Little Rock, Arkansas, emergency managers said about 40 homes were damaged and 10 to 15 people were injured near Higginson, Robert Cohen | St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP Debris marks the spots Wednesday where Tuesday’s tornado destroyed homes in Perryville, Mo. while additional minor injuries were reported at a state prison near Newport. Hundreds of people, including schoolchildren, had to take shelter at Bald Knob High School, which was hosting a state basketball tournament. Games were delayed until the storm passed. Tornadoes may have touched down Wednesday in and near Nashville, Tennessee. Weather service meteorologist Sam Herron cited numerous reports of scattered damage across central Tennessee and a possible tornado near the Cool Springs mall south of Nashville. The city’s Emergency Operations Man emerges from stone Center tweeted that damage to power lines and trees indicated that another tornado may have touched down in the city. A tornado is suspected of damaging several homes and a church building in Ireland, Indiana. No injuries were reported but one woman had to be rescued from a partially collapsed home. White House spokesman Sean Spicer said President Donald Trump is monitoring the severe weather. He said the White House will stay in touch with state and local ofﬁcials to provide federal support as needed. Strong winds elsewhere in the Plains spread wildﬁres in Texas. Four homes were destroyed near Tulia, about 50 miles south of Amarillo, before ﬁreﬁghters beat back the ﬂames. Texas A&M Forest Service spokesman Phillip Truitt said the ﬁre prompted the evacuation of almost 1,200 homes. ___ Associated Press reporters Bob Eller, Herb McCann and Sophia Tareen in Chicago; Teresa Crawford in Naplate, Illinois; Kelly Kissel, Taﬁ Mukunyadzi and Jill Bleed in Little Rock, Arkansas; and David Runk in Detroit contributed to this report. Trump speech leaves GOP encouraged, but still divided By Erica Werner AP Congressional Correspondent Zacharie Scheurer | AP A woman looks at a stone in which French artist Abraham Poincheval has been been entombed in Paris on Wednesday. Poincheval emerged Wednesday from a 12-tonne limestone boulder at a Paris art gallery where he has been entombed since Feb. 22. Hershey expects to cut 15 percent of global workforce By Candice Choi Already, Hershey has been trying to transform its portfolio of products to better take advantage of that behavior, particularly as people look for snacks that promise some sort of nutritional beneﬁt. For instance, NEW YORK (AP) — Hershey says it expects to cut its global workforce by about 15 percent, with the the company recently introduced “snack mixes” that reductions coming mostly from hourly employees out- include its chocolates and ingredients like nuts and pretzel balls. It also acquired a meat jerky company in side the United States. response to the demand for snacks with protein, and The Pennsylvania-based maker of Reese’s, Kit Kat and Twizzlers also cut its long-term sales growth fore- said it will look for other acquisition opportunities. J.P. Morgan analyst Ken Goldman said he believes cast to between 2 percent and 4 percent, down from many of the job cuts announced by Hershey will come the previous 3 percent to 5 percent. Hershey, which from Shanghai Golden Monkey, a Chinese candy comgets the majority of its revenue from North America, pany Hershey acquired in 2014. Hershey has reported attributed the lowered expectations to “changes in declining chocolate sales at its China business in U.S. shopping habits” and challenges overseas. recent quarters, and Goldman called the acquisition The job cuts, which could come to about 2,700 “largely disappointing.” workers, are part of Hershey’s plan to improve its Hershey is expecting pretax charges of up to $425 operating proﬁt margin over the next three years, million over the next three years as a result of its plan and the company said it will share more details on to improve the operating margin, which includes the the measures in the future. Other major packaged costs of closing plants and ofﬁces and other expenses food makers including Coca-Cola Co., General Mills Inc. and Kellogg Co. have been slashing costs as sales related to job cuts. Hershey Co. operates eight factories and eight growth has slowed. distribution centers outside the United States. As of During a meeting with analysts in New York on December, it employed approximately 16,300 full-time Wednesday, Hershey CEO Michele Buck noted that and 1,680 part-time employees worldwide. A 15 perthe chocolate and candy category is nevertheless cent workforce reduction would therefore represent well positioned because it is “highly impulsive” with about 2,700 employees. “expandable consumption.” And she noted that the ___ company plans to beneﬁt from the snacking trend Follow Candice Choi at www.twitter.com/candiin the U.S. that has people eating more frequently cechoi throughout the day. Associated Press law. Most said Trump’s speech hadn’t changed that or brought them WASHINGTON much closer together. — President Donald “I don’t know that that Trump’s ﬁrst speech to was his intent,” said Sen. Congress left RepubliBob Corker, R-Tenn. “But cans encouraged and enthusiastic Wednesday, I mean he gave the kind of guidelines that I think yet still confronting most presidents give on thorny divisions on issues like this and it’s up health care, taxes and to us.” more. As Republicans Trump’s disciplined cheered and Democrats and optimistic tone was sat silently Tuesday what GOP lawmakers night, Trump declared: wanted to hear after a “We should help Amerirocky ﬁrst month that cans purchase their own provoked daily anxiety coverage, through the on Capitol Hill with use of tax credits and every new presidential expanded health savings tweet. Republicans welcomed Trump’s presenta- accounts — but it must be the plan they want, tion and his call for “a new chapter of American not the plan forced on them by the governgreatness.” ment.” Those were “It’s just one speech, comments House GOP but I think what we see is a guy who comes from leaders interpreted as an embrace of their plan to outside the political process now weaving his replace the Affordable way through into becom- Care Act with a new system built around refunding an effective leader,” able tax credits. said Sen. David Perdue, But conservatives R-Ga. who’ve been rebelVice President Mike ling against that plan, Pence said on MSNBC Wednesday morning that denouncing the credits Trump showed Congress as a costly new entitleand the nation his “broad ment, disagreed. And they showed no sign of shoulders, big heart, reaching out, focusing on backing down. GOP Sen. Ted Cruz the future.” of Texas, who has joined And House Speaker Sens. Mike Lee of Paul Ryan declared the Utah and Rand Paul of speech a “home run.” Kentucky in declaring Yet even though their opposition to the Trump offered some legislation emerging in speciﬁcs on health care and appeared to embrace the House, accused the media of “bending over a key element of a backwards” to interpret leadership-backed plan Trump’s remark as a speemerging in the House, ciﬁc legislative proposal. his comments did little Cruz insisted that Conto settle an extremely gress should begin by difﬁcult debate over Republicans’ top legisla- passing legislation that simply repeals Obamtive priority. acare like a bill Obama Indeed, a day after vetoed in early 2016. the president called for “That should be on the “unity and strength,” (Senate) ﬂoor. And from Republicans looked as there we should build up, divided as ever as they and we should focus on try to make good on areas of consensus,” Cruz seven years of promises said. “We should not to repeal and replace former President Barack focus on ideas that divide us and pull us apart.” Obama’s health care �NEWS 8A Thursday, March 2, 2017 Daily Sentinel Coming in like a lion Water covered the roadway on Bradbury Road Wednesday morning. Photos by Sarah Hawley/photo This photo from Kimberlee Fitzgerald shows the waters of the East Shade River at the Eastern football field. Normally farm land, this field in Chester was filled with water from Wednesday’s storms. This photo submitted by Rick Price shows the water across Kingsbury Road near Route 33. Photo by Braden Hawley The Wesleyan Bible Holiness Church on Pearl Street in Middleport was damaged by the storm on Wednesday morning. 2017 CutestContest Pet The field behind TNT Pit Stop in Chester was filled with water on Wednesday morning. Think your Pet has what it takes to be crowned the cutest pet around? Enter our Cutest Pet Contest & your pet could win the $100 grand prize. Runner Up $50 Submit your pet’s photo & contest entry form online now. To submit please visit: mydailytribune.com mydailyregister.com mydailysentinel.com Enter early, VOTING STARTS MARCH 12TH. This photo by Kimberlee Fitzgerald shows the flood waters on Locust Grove Road on Wednesday. 60707884 Firefighters from the Syracuse Volunteer Fire Department were called to a residence on College Road Wednesday morning for a large tree that had fallen. �Sports Daily Sentinel '/.8/=.+CM��+<-2� M� ��s�#/->398�� Contract signed, Steelers star Brown focused on Super Bowl PITTSBURGH (AP) — Art Rooney II began the groundwork on making Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown a part of the organization “for life” last summer. The team’s longtime president pulled his occasionally eccentric star aside and promised that rewarding Brown for his record-breaking work would be a top priority in 2017. “Once he gives you his word, he sticks to his word,” Brown said. And then some. The Steelers made Brown the highest-paid Keith Srakocic | AP wide receiver in the NFL Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown, left, smiles as he is introduced by Steelers when they signed him President Art Rooney II for a news conference about Brown’s contract extension at the NFL football to a ﬁve-year deal worth team’s headquarters Tuesday in Pittsburgh. more than $72 million on Monday night. It was an emphatic vote of conﬁdence that the 28-year-old can extend his prime well into his 30s for a team that believes the window to a championship remains open so long as Brown is out there chasing down passes from Ben Roethlisberger. “He’s one of the hardest-working players we’ve ever had on our team,” Rooney said on Tuesday. “He leads by example.” Yet for all of Brown’s gaudy numbers, including an NFL-high 632 receptions since breaking into the league as a rookie in 2010, his resume is lacking in one very speciﬁc category: Super Bowl titles. It’s that pursuit — and not the riches that come along with being the most well-compensated person at what you do in the world — that Brown insists will be his focus through 2021. And perhaps beyond. “All the Steeler greats, all those guys have (rings),” Brown said. Brown does not. There was a near-miss in 2010 when Pittsburgh fell to Green Bay in the Super Bowl, a team on which Brown was more developmental role player than unstoppable force. He played a far larger role in 2016, when the Steelers won the AFC See STEELERS | 2B Tate’s late layup lifts Ohio State past Penn State, 71-70 STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Ohio State players swarmed one of their own, offering hugs and handshakes before assembling the traditional postgame line to offer the same to their opponents on Tuesday. Jae’Sean Tate saved Ohio State with a late layup that lifted the Buckeyes to a 71-70 win over Penn State. Tate took a pass at midcourt, spun by two Penn State defenders in the lane and kissed the ball off the glass for the game-winner. It countered a deep 3-pointer from Penn State’s Tony Carr that gave the Nittany Lions a 70-69 lead with nine seconds to play. “Tremendous ﬁnish by J.T. there,” Ohio State coach Thad Matta said. Marc Loving added 14 points and Trevor Thompson chipped in 11 for the Buckeyes (17-13, 7-10 Big Ten) who won on the road for just the fourth time this season. Tate ﬁnished with 12 points and nine rebounds and also committed six turnovers, the most by any player. That fact elicited a long pause from Matta who’s watched his team stumble to a 4-7 road record in what’s been a disappointing season. “Obviously we felt comfortable with it and he had his reads,” Matta said. “He made the right read and we had plenty of time there to pass if he needed to.” Penn State was out of time and a desperation heave fell short. The Nittany Lions lost their fourth straight. Carr ﬁnished with 21, Shep Garner notched 20 points and Lamar Stevens added 16 for Penn State (14-16, 6-11). Penn State coach Patrick Chambers fought off emotions after the game. “The guys that competed really competed hard and they gave us a chance to win,” Chambers said. “This is our process. This is our journey. Can’t put my ﬁnger on why the ball is not bouncing our way. But this is our process and we’re going to learn from these and hopefully we’ll learn quick.” It appeared they did just that in-game. After the Buckeyes took a 40-36 lead into halftime, the Nittany Lions came out in the second half and took advantage of room on the outside. Garner, who hit three of his ﬁve 3-pointers in the ﬁrst half, made two in the ﬁrst two minutes of the second. Penn State took its ﬁrst lead on a pair of Stevens free throws with 18:22 to play before the Buckeyes used a 22-14 run to regain control with an Andre Wesson 3-pointer with 6:39 to play. Meanwhile, Penn State’s offense went cold. See OHIO | 2B OVP SPORTS SCHEDULE Thursday, March 2 Girls Basketball (2) Eastern vs. (1) Portsmouth Notre Dame at Jackson HS, 6:15 p.m. Friday, March 3 Wrestling Gallia Academy, Meigs in Division II district meet at Heath HS, 4 p.m. River Valley in Division III district meet at Coshocton HS, 4 p.m. Saturday, March 4 Wrestling Gallia Academy, Meigs in Division II district meet at Heath HS, 9 a.m. River Valley in Division III district meet at Coshocton HS, 9 a.m. Paul Boggs/OVP Sports Gallia Academy’s Hunter Jacks, seated second from left, announces his intention to wrestle collegiately at Lourdes University. Seated with Jacks are, from left, father Robbie Jacks, mother Terri Jacks and Lourdes University head wrestling coach Dock Kelly. Standing are, from left, Gallia Academy head wrestling coach Todd May, Gallia Academy assistant wrestling coach Brandon Taylor and Gallia Academy High School Athletic Director Adam Clark. GA’s Jacks signs with Lourdes By Paul Boggs ten, Tuesday’s signing was the culmination of falling in love with wresCENTENARY, Ohio tling —plus sticking to it — With a child-like love while working constantly for the sport of wrestling, to perfect his craft. young man Hunter Jacks “I wrestled in kinderwill now be competing in garten, and I think I only college. won one match. I didn’t That’s because Jacks, a come back until I was senior wrestler at Gallia in like sixth grade and Academy High School, then I fell in love with it. has ofﬁcially announced After my freshman year, his intention to continue I started taking it really his grappling career at serious. I started working Lourdes University in Syl- really hard in offseason vania, Ohio. tournaments and camps Lourdes — located and such,” said Jacks. near Toledo — is con“My four years here at cluding its ﬁrst season Gallia Academy, I’ve of wrestling with this gained a lot of friends, weekend’s NAIA National I’ve met a lot of people Tournament in Topeka, from other schools and Kansas. got to travel a lot. It’s Jacks, on Tuesday eve- been a good experience ning at Gallia Academy both in the offseason and High School, ofﬁcially put in the regular season. I’ve pen to paper and signed got a lot of good work in, with the Gray Wolves, had good drill partners which are coached by throughout and have Dock Kelly III. had some good assistant The senior 170-pound- coaches here that really er, a three-time Division push you.” II district qualiﬁer, was His time, year-round ﬂanked by his parents effort and diligence have Robbie and Terri Jacks, indeed paid dividends — Kelly, Gallia Academy partly because wrestling High School wrestling is the only sport in which coach Todd May and Gal- Jacks has competed in at lia Academy High School GAHS. Athletic Director Adam Jacks, entering this Clark. weekend’s Division II disFor Jacks, who has trict meet at Heath High wrestled since kindergar- School, has amassed 128 pboggs@civitasmedia.com career victories —with 83 of those coming via pinfall. Following his thirdplace ﬁnish at this past weekend’s Division II sectional meet, his record for this season is a careerbest 40-8. “Hunter has 40 wins this year. That’s a lot of wins in one year of high school wrestling. And I think he only lost one dual match and we wrestled a heavy dual schedule,” said May. “He was like 11-1 in dual matches this year and he didn’t lose at home. What’s not to like about that? College wrestling and Hunter will ﬁt well. I can’t imagine him going somewhere and just being a student. I think he has a child-like love for the sport of wrestling. He is not going to be doing it (wrestling) just because it’s a sport. He is going to be wrestling in college because he actually loves wrestling. I think he is going to be fun to follow, because I don’t think he has come close to reaching his potential yet.” May might know, since he has coached Jacks in the Gallia Academy youth and junior high programs —along with his ﬁnal two years of high school. Kelly, who was hired as Lourdes’ ﬁrst wrestling coach in December 2015, concurs. He moved to northern Ohio from North Carolina, and his statewide search in launching Lourdes’ program targeted Jacks. “We cast a wide net, and went through every region in Ohio is how we ﬁrst found out about Hunter,” said Kelly. “We reached out to him, and looked at his career accomplishments. We’re looking for guys that we feel are right on the cusp of becoming great. It’s always a risk, because if they blossom, chances are big-time programs come in and swoop them up. So we try to reach out to them early, before the season starts and during their season. We made some calls to schools in the area that wrestle Hunter. He got rave reviews. Everybody talked about what a great kid he was, how hard he worked on the mat.” Jacks actually said “until about a month ago, my heart was set on Otterbein”, but he still visited about “six or seven colleges, including Alderson-Broaddus, See JACKS | 2B �SPORTS 2B Thursday, March 2, 2017 Jacks determine his value. I see his projection and where he is headed. I don’t care if he goes 0-2 in the From page 1B state tournament or is Muskingum and Heidela state champion. I like berg.” Hunter’s skill set. We’re Kelly — who origiexcited to have him. He’s nally and accidentally not only going to do well contacted Jacks as a in the classroom and on junior — said Jacks the mat, but I think he’s visited Lourdes in Janugoing to be a beacon of ary, traveled through a light that allows us to snowstorm to do it, and recruit this area.” accepted the offer that Jacks advanced to the Gray Wolves made. the district meet at 160 “They (Lourdes) gave pounds as a sophomore me a good offer and I fell and junior, and is comin love with it. I kind of peting in the 170-pound like a smaller school, and postseason this year. the guys on the team are At Lourdes, he said he great and the coaches are wants to wrestle in the great. I got along with 184-pound weight class, everyone and had a lot of while still “squeezing fun while I was up there down” to 174 pounds if on my visit,” said Jacks. necessary. Kelly liked what he saw “I need to get my as well. technique down and my “The guys on the team strength up and get ready fell right in love with him. for college and get to the I mean he blended right next level,” said Jacks. in with the team. I had a But with his child-like heart-to-heart talk with love for wrestling, half of Hunter about where we the battle appears already were going as a program, won. and I want him (Jacks) to Jacks said he plans to help us get there. He said major in Business with a let’s try to make it work, possible minor in Marketand we got it all worked ing. out ﬁnancially,” said the coach. “I don’t need Paul Boggs can be reached at 740446-2342, ext. 2106 a state tournament to Steelers lades,” Rooney said. “But there’s really only one thing on his mind and our mind, and that’s From page 1B bringing another Super North and reached the Bowl here.” AFC championship game Brown shared the news before getting blown out of his deal with Roethlisby New England. berger on Monday night. Brown caught seven Asked if he told Roethpasses for 77 yards in the lisberger that he needs 36-17 defeat following a the quarterback around, bumpy week in which he Brown smiled and was forced to apologize replied “that’s always the for livestreaming from topic.” Pittsburgh’s victorious Brown hardly appears locker room a week earconcerned about Roethlier at Kansas City. lisberger’s vague hints at Rooney likened retirement. Brown’s behavior to “litAnd it’s unlikely Brown tle annoyances,” one that would have agreed to had no impact on the lock up his long-term team’s interest in keeping future with the underhim in the fold for the standing he’d have to rest of the decade. break in a new quarterback in the process. “He has a lot of acco- Ohio From page 1B The Nittany Lions went without a ﬁeld goal for 4:29 of the ﬁnal 5:11 before Carr cut Ohio State’s lead to 69-67 with a layup with 42 seconds left. BIG HURT Watkins hobbled to the locker room with cramps midway through the second half. He emerged minutes later and was able to return to the game. But Penn State’s big man wasn’t feeling well and kept stretching his legs as play went on. Watkins, who entered the game second in the Big Ten with 75 blocks, ﬁnished the game on the bench, not under the hoop when Tate scored the winning shot. Chambers said Watkins was cramping for much of the game. Watkins’ loss wasn’t the only one for Penn State. Guard Josh Reaves left the game in the second half and did not return. Forward Payton Banks didn’t play due to an illness and forward Julian Moore, nursing an injury sustained Saturday, played just 14 minutes. “These are facts, not excuses. No Payton Banks. We lost Josh Reaves with six minutes to go. We didn’t have Mike Watkins for long stretches. Julian Moore played on one leg.” BUCKEYE’S GOOD IN CLOSE Ohio State took advantage of Penn State’s banged up forward corps. The Buckeyes ﬁnished with 37 rebounds to Penn State’s 28 and outscored the Nittany Lions 34-16 in the paint. Tate, Loving and center Trevor Thompson combined for 22 rebounds. ANOTHER CLOSE LOSS The Nittany Lions have lost six conference games by a possession or in overtime. “You know what they’re not doing?” Chambers said. “They’re not planning a spring break. We’ve got winners in that locker room who are invested, who want to get better, who want to see this team turn.” THE BIG PICTURE Ohio State: The Buckeyes sometimes hopeful, often frustrating season can be summed up by looking at their last two games — a complete effort in a win over No. 22 Wisconsin and this back-and-forth tilt with middle-of-the-pack Penn State. Penn State: The Nittany Lions have often looked like a completely different — and much more competitive — team at home. With youth on their side, the Nittany Lions just need more consistency to take the next step. UP NEXT Ohio State hosts Indiana on Saturday. Penn State is at Iowa on Sunday. Daily Sentinel NFL prospects have been prepping for big week INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The 330 players arriving at the league’s annual combine have been preparing for this week’s “Underwear Olympics” like a prize ﬁghter gets ready for his big night, pumping iron and cutting carbs. They’ve been following strict programs designed to help them get stronger, run faster and jump higher in anticipation of getting poked and prodded, measured and treasured. “The hardest thing for these kids to really understand when they get to the combine and the pro day is they get one shot at all these drills,” said Loren Landow , who trained Stanford star Christian McCaffrey among more than two dozen NFL hopefuls at Landow Performance in suburban Denver over the last two months. “Whereas your strength coach in college used to let you do it over and over until you got your best time, now that’s not the case when you’re being evaluated in a time crunch,” Landow said. “They’re going to give you one opportunity and it’s all about how well you perform at that moment with high levels of stress and some fatigue on you.” That’s why they’ve been training with such single-minded focus since their bowl games. “It’s a lot of just trying to improve all the funky drills that they have you doing at the combine that you know aren’t necessarily things that we practice as a football player on a daily basis,” said Wyoming offensive lineman Chase Roullier, who trained with Landow. That’s been the formula ever since Mike Mamula absolutely killed it at the 1995 combine and rocketed into the ﬁrst round, where the Philadelphia Eagles traded the 12th overall pick and two second-round selections to Tampa Bay so they could move up ﬁve spots and get the Boston College defensive end at No. 7. Mamula was among the ﬁrst players to train speciﬁcally for the tests he’d face at the combine: the 40-yard dash, the three-cone drill that measures agility and the 225pound bench press. Now everybody targets this week in Indy like Mamula did all those years ago. Today’s prospects train six days a week for eight weeks or more all so they can impress NFL executives who will test their speed, strength, skills and brain power while also checking out their medical background and any off-ﬁeld history for any red ﬂags. “I feel like it’s deﬁnitely getting us ready for the combine as far as all the guys we’re competing against each other,” said Air Force receiver Jalen Robinette , who led the nation in yards per catch in 2016. “Because it’s a real big interview/ competition there at the combine. And being able to break down the drills and mentally be practicing everything, it’s awesome. Literally every day I hear new stuff about the combine that they teach me here. “Preparation is everything.” They pretty much follow the same basic program because they’ll be doing the same tests at the combine. But the training is also personalized by position. “I’ll talk to the agents and from the agents’ perspective, I’ll say, ‘What are the scouts telling you that they want to see from your player? Do they want to see them heavier, lighter?” Landow said. “At the end of the day, I don’t think you ever go wrong in providing a little bit more mobility, ﬂexibility to an athlete and getting them stronger. More explosive is always the key in this short window so they can really show their best in all their ‘measureables.’” These players have all undergone mock combines, too, where they put all their training together for dry runs to give them a taste of what this week will bring. “I think it makes the hugest difference,” Roullier said. “If I were to go in there and do this stuff cold, I mean, I’d have an idea of what I’d be doing because it’s all stuff that I’ve done in the past. But my technique would be just awful, you know, it’s just all these little things that you need to change and I’m able to get coached up on all of them. It’s just continuing to improve those little things and it makes a huge difference in the numbers.” This training isn’t cheap. It can cost tens of thousands of dollars, although the pricing structure changes for draft wannabes and sure bets. “If an athlete is an NFL combine invite, the agent will pay for everything,” Landow said. “If you have a kid who may be a bubble guy who didn’t get the combine invite but you know can play, the agents will typically foot the bill. Some guys if they’re a priority free agent maybe at best, sometimes it’s coming out of their own pocket.” For a combine invitee, the cost can run into the tens of thousands of dollars. “I know with housing and food and all that it ends up being like 10, 20 grand that my agent’s dropping just in these few months up to the combine. So, it’s a lot,” said Roullier, who’s out to ensure this week that the training pays big dividends. Agent: Andrew Bogut has chosen the Cavaliers By Jon Krawczynski tender, and he had several teams lining up to add the defensive-minded center. Andrew Bogut has choBoston, San Antonio sen to join the Cleveland and Houston were also Cavaliers, giving LeBron chasing Bogut hard, James and the defendhoping the 7-foot center ing champions another could bring his gritty accomplished veteran as defensive chops and slick they prepare to mount a passing to bolster their run to their third straight playoff hopes. NBA Finals. Bogut informed CavaBogut’s agent, David liers GM David Grifﬁn Bauman of ISE, told that he planned to join The Associated Press on the team on Tuesday Tuesday night that Bogut night, and Bogut also plans to sign with the took the time to reach out Cavaliers as soon as he to the Celtics, Spurs and clears waivers. Rockets to thank them for Bauman anticipates their interest. that Bogut will join the “The decision was a defending NBA champilot harder than he anticions by this weekend. pated just because of Bogut was traded at the the respect he had for deadline from Dallas to everyone he spoke with,” Philadelphia in a deal that Bauman said in a phone brought Nerlens Noel to interview with the AP. the Mavericks. One of the great characHe and the 76ers ters in the league, Bogut agreed to part ways so posted a video on his Bogut could join a conTwitter feed of UB40’s AP Basketball Writer “Red Red Wine,” a cheeky play on Cleveland’s wine and gold color scheme. In the end, Bauman said Bogut felt Cleveland offered him the best chance to get back to the ﬁnals, where he could face the team that let him go before the season started. He was an integral part of the Warriors’ back-toback runs to the ﬁnals the previous two years, which included a championship in 2015. But Golden State shipped him to Dallas last summer to help clear room for Kevin Durant, and now Bogut may get another crack at them. Bogut will give the Cavaliers a championshiptested, rim-protecting backup to starter Tristan Thompson, one of the ﬁnal elements Grifﬁn was chasing to try to fortify the roster before the play- offs begin. With Kevin Love and J.R. Smith currently injured, the Eastern Conference-leading Cavs are in need of some reinforcements as they try to hold off Boston and Toronto for the top seed. Bogut is the second signiﬁcant addition the Cavaliers have been able to add this week. Point guard Deron Williams, a teammate of Bogut’s in Dallas this season, landed in Cleveland after being waived by the Mavericks, giving the Cavaliers the playmaker and backup for Kyrie Irving that they sorely lacked. There were times that the bigger, more physical Bogut was rendered ineffective in the playoffs, particularly when Warriors opponents went small and spread the ﬂoor. OVP SPORTS BRIEFS Wahama baseball camp MASON, W.Va. — The ﬁrst annual Wahama Baseball Camp will be held for any boy in grades K-8 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 25, at the Wahama baseball ﬁeld. The price of the camp will be $30 per camper or $50 a family. Food and refreshments will also be sold at the camp. The camp will be conducted by the Wahama baseball staff and players. Every aspect and fundamentals of the game will be covered and discussed. If bad weather occurs, the camp will be held at Gary Clark Court within the basketball gymnasium at Wahama High School. Applications can be picked up at Wahama High School and New Haven Elementary. Campers can also register the day of the camp. For more information contact Coach Hoffman at 740-856-4077 or Coach Bumgardner at 304-593-4955. Route 141. The dinner will run from 5 until 7 p.m. and the auction begins at the conclusion of the dinner. PYL baseball-softball signups POMEROY, Ohio — The Pomeroy Youth League will be having baseball and softball signups for kids ages 4-16 at the Pomeroy Fire Department from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 4, and also on Saturday, March 11. There will also be a Thursday evening signup at the PFD from 5-8 p.m. on Thursday, March 9. For more information, contact Ken at 740-416-8901 or Clinton at 740-591-0428. MYL baseball-softball signups MIDDLEPORT, Ohio — The Middleport Youth League will be having baseball and softball signups for kids ages 5-16 at the Middleport Jail gymnasium from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 4, and also on Saturday, March 11. There will also be a Thursday evening signup at the Middleport Jail gymnasium from 6-8 p.m. on ThursGALLIPOLIS, Ohio — The Gallia Academy baseday, March 9. ball program will be holding its Blue Devil Double For more information, call Dave at 740-590-0438, Play Dinner/Sports Memorabilia Auction on Saturday, Jackie at 740-416-1261, or Pat at 740-590-4941. March 4, at the First Church of God located on State GAHS baseball fundraiser �Thursday, March 2, 2017 3B KEBLER FINANCIAL KARL KEBLER III, CPA Individual & Business Income Tax Preparation 111 West 2nd Street Pomeroy, Ohio 45769 740-992-7270 How college students can cut living expenses Beginner’s guide to real estate investments P urchasing a house or property is about more than setting up a home. Although quite a number of people buy real estate to establish their future, long-term abodes, many others recognize the potentially lucrative investment that lies within a real estate purchase. 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EOE: A/D/F/V 60707157 Email resumes: jovercash@pvalley.org EEOC/Drug Free Workplace The first choice for caring, compassionate, competent, safe and quality healthcare throughout the communities we serve. 60706492 Case Management RN Pleasant Valley Hospital is seeking a full-time Case Manager RN. This position plans, coordinates and monitors a multifaceted process which encompasses case management, social services and discharge planning of patients in order to facilitate achievement of quality outcomes. Must demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate with all patients. Requirements: Current WV RN License Must have the ability to work all shifts. Previous Case Management experience preferred In Print. Online. 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