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Flower, blanketremoval atGravel Hill

CHESHIRE — TheGravel Hill Cemeterytrustees advise the publicthat all flowers and blan-kets that are on theground need to beremoved by Tuesday,March 15.

Revival atPromisedLand Church

GALLIPOLIS — Rev.Rick Barcus and Rev.Bob Thompson willpreach during revivalservices March 15-19 atPromised Land Church.Services will begin at 7p.m. daily. Following isthe lineup of singers foreach service: Tuesday,Rick Towe; Wednesday,Promised Land Group;Thursday, Victory River;Friday, Forever Blessed;Saturday, Carl PayneFamily. The church islocated on Clay ChapelRoad off Ohio 218.

Citizens ̓Academy

GALLIPOLIS — TheGallia County Sheriff’sOffice will be holding itscitizens’ academy March15-April 26. This freeservice is open to allGallia County residents.Meetings will be heldfrom 6:30-9 p.m. onTuesdays in the secondfloor meeting roomof the Gallia CountyCourthouse. Those wish-ing to apply can obtain anapplication at the sher-iff’s office and applica-tions must be dropped offat or mailed to the sher-rif’s office at 18 LocustStreet, Gallipolis, Ohio46531. For further infor-mation contact DeputyJim Spears at 446-4612,ext. 290 or visit the sher-iff’s office website atwww.galliasheriff.org.

Funds to bring economic growth, jobsBY CHARLENE HOEFLICHHOEFLICH@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM

COLUMBUS — Twogrants totaling almost $3million to expand a tech-nology-based initiative inSoutheastern Ohio havebeen announced by StateRep. Debbie Phillips, D-Athens.

Phillips said that bothgrants will be funneledthrough TechGrowth Ohio(TGO), a nonprofit associ-

ated with OU that directsfunds to promising entre-preneurs to assist them inturning ideas into realityand to break financial bar-riers that sometimes pre-vent new technologiesfrom ever reaching themarket.

TGO is part of the larg-er EntrepreneurialSignature ProgramContinuity Initiative fund-ed by the Ohio ThirdFrontier, which has

helped entrepreneurs gettheir start all across Ohio.

The money will helpsupport entrepreneurswith innovative ideas,bringing valuable jobswithin rapidly growingindustries, she said inmaking the announce-ment.

“This grant willenhance our region’s abil-ity to compete, and helpbring jobs to the area,”Rep. Phillips said. “Our

region has people withgreat ideas, and hopefullythese funds can help turnsome of those ideas intothriving businesses.”

In the next 24 months,OU expects to create orretain 18-27 full-time jobswith average salaries of$40,000, bring six orseven new projects tomarket, form or launchthree to four new compa-nies, and leverage a 4:1ratio of state funds to co-

investments and othernon-state funds.

OU’s TGO connectsearly-stage, technological-ly-innovative companieswith valuable tools forgrowth and sources ofcapital within the 19-county region of southeastOhio. The program focus-es on four technologyindustries: digital interac-tive media, bio-sciences,bio-agriculture andadvanced energy.

Commissioners, congressman discuss ER needsBY BRIAN J. REED

BREED@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM

POMEROY — MeigsCounty Commissionershope new representation inthe U.S. Congress mightopen roads to a new 24-hour emergency room forthe county.

Commissioners past andpresident and other leadersin the community havenamed a 24-hour ER as thecounty’s top health carepriority, and a near mustfor any significant eco-nomic development here.

Commissioners TimIhle, Michael Bartrum andTom Anderson met Fridaywith U.S. Rep. BillJohnson, R-Poland, whotook office in January rep-resenting Ohio’s SixthCongressional District.

They met Johnson in hisMarietta office to discussregulations relating toMedicare reimbursementfor emergency depart-ments in rural communi-ties, and how MeigsCounty might meet quali-fications as a new criticalcare access point.

Commissioners hopeexplaining some of theobstacles preventingdevelopment of a 24-houremergency room in thecounty, and working withnewly-elected officialswill help shed light on thecounty’s health care needsand possibly provide ameans to proceed.

Bartrum said the countyhas experienced difficul-ties achieving the federalgovernment’s critical careaccess status, which would

allow a higher Medicarereimbursement rate forpatients. Bartrum saidcommunities must be atleast 35 miles from anemergency room facility toachieve the designation.

Bartrum said there is anexemption, for communi-ties separated from anemergency room by 15miles of moutainous ter-rain — but the hills ofsoutheastern Ohio do notqualify as such.

Bartrum said Ihlearranged the meeting,which covered mattersaside from health care.However, Bartrum saidJohnson was cooperativeand expressed interest infinding possible avenuesfor such a critical accesspoint designation.

Family Health Care,

Inc., a federally-qualifiedhealth center, plans to belocated in a new $1 millionclinic facility outside ofPomeroy by the end of thisyear. The firm’s locationhere was not possible untila special round of FQHCfunding for applicationsqualified but not approvedfor funding allowed MeigsCounty to finally receivethe money needed.

FQHC operations havebegun to operate emer-gency room facilities insome parts of the country,and commissioners hopeany new emergency roomwould be located on thesame Rocksprings campusas the new Family HealthCare office. However,there has been no commit-

Karate/Jujutsu seminar set for March 19-20 at GAHSSTAFF REPORT

GALLIPOLIS — TheGallipolis Rotary Club, incooperation with HolzerHealth Systems and HolzerClinic, will offer a martialarts seminar with GrandMaster Roy Hobbs of theSekai Dentokan BugeiRenmei of O’Fallon, Ill., tobe held March 19-20 atGallia Academy HighSchool.

Col. (Ret) Roy Hobbsserves as Shidoin, NipponSeibukan Academy(NSA), U.S.A. Branch,

and Fuku Shibucho forNSA English SpeakingCountries like the ZenNihon Sogo Budo Renmei,the Hombu Dojo of theNippon SeibukanAcademy located inKyoto, Japan.

Additionally, Hobbs isthe branch director in theState of Illinois for theOkinawa Goju-RyuKarate-Do Kyokai, U.S.A.Branch, and serves as anAdvisor to theInternational Goju-RyuKarate Association, PanAmerica Branch. The

Dentokan Hombu Dojo isa Life Member Dojo with-in the International Goju-Ryu Karate Association,Pan America Branch.

The Gallipolis RotaryClub will be holding theseevents at the new GalliaAcademy High School,2855 Centenary Road.

Following is the sched-ule of events:

• Saturday, March 19, 10a.m.-1 p.m., Karate(Children 8 & above).

• Saturday, March 19, 2-5 p.m., Jujutsu.

• Sunday, March 20, 1-4

p.m., Karate and Jujutsu(Brown Belts and above).

This unique opportunityto work with a GrandMaster is open to studentson a first come, first servedbasis and the class size islimited to a maximum of40 students. Reserve a spotand make payment onlineat www.gallipolisrotary.org or on Facebook.

For information, e-mailthe Gallipolis RotaryClub at gallipolisrotary@live.com or call club sec-retary Chuck Clark at(740) 446-7943.

Ohio River begins to recedeCleanup continues in Meigs County

BY BETH SERGENTBSERGENT@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM

POMEROY — TheOhio River rose and fellthis weekend, leavingbehind debris, sightseersand mud.

The Ohio crested aboveflood stage at Racine,Pomeroy and PointPleasant, W.Va. onSunday. At the RacineLocks and Dam, aspokesperson said theOhio River crested at 46.1feet at 7 a.m. Sundaymorning — five feetabove flood stage. As of 3p.m., Monday, March 14,the locks and dam had alower pool reading of 42.6feet with only one boathaving locked throughsince morning.

In Pomeroy, the watercrested at 49 feet onSunday as well — threefeet above flood stage.The river rested at 46.32feet at 9 a.m. on Monday,March 14 in downtown —barely above flood stagebut enough to keep the vil-lage parking lot underwa-ter. On Sunday, firefight-ers with the Pomeroy FireDepartment were cleaningMain Street with officials

from the county and statepitching in to clean upwhere possible. ByMonday afternoon severalbusiness owners had theirshops open and ready forbusiness.

Weaving Stitches onWest Main Street took on

about six inches of waterwhile further up at TheFabric Shop, around fourinches of water made itinside — both stores wereopen for business onMonday.

Ed Zatta, owner ofSwisher & Lohse

Pharmacy on East MainStreet, said the store tookon about six inches ofwater. Zatta, his employ-ees and volunteers beganputting the store backtogether on Sunday,

Historic river crestsin Pomeroy,

RacineBY BETH SERGENT

BSERGENT@MYDAILYSENTINEL.COM

POMEROY — Thoughthe Ohio River crestedabove flood stage at 49feet in Pomeroy and at 46feet in Racine, these crestswere by no means historicfloods in the river frontvillages.

Even though the OhioRiver crept onto MainStreet and inside down-town businesses inPomeroy, it still paled incomparison to historicfloods in Pomeroy’s past.

According to archivesfrom the National WeatherService, the flood of 1913holds the record for thehighest the Ohio River hasever crested in the villageat 68.80 feet on April 1 ofthat same year. To put thisflood into perspective,when the river reaches 58feet in Pomeroy, theMeigs County CourtHouse begins to flood,Court and Lynn Streetsand Second Avenue areflooded as well as most ofthe village.

The remaining nine ofthe “top 10 historic rivercrests” in Pomeroy,according to the NWSare: 67.8 feet, Jan. 26,1937; 64.6 feet, Feb. 11,1884; 61.5 feet, March 7,1907; 57.6 feet, Jan. 2,1943; 57.6 feet, Dec. 31,1942; 57 feet, Dec. 1,1847; 57 feet, Feb. 8,1883; 57 feet, March 9,1901; 56.8 feet, April 23,1852.

The Ohio River hascrested at 49 feet inPomeroy (like it did thisweekend) on the follow-ing dates, according tothe NWS: Jan. 10, 1874and Dec. 10, 1978.

Flood crests recordedsince 2000 are: 52.2 feet,Sept. 19, 2004; 50.4 feet,Jan. 9, 2005; 46.5 feet,Feb. 21, 2000. As for alow water record atPomeroy, the NWSreports 7.5 feet on Feb.14, 1881.

Racine’s “top historicriver crest,” according tothe NWS was 50.23 feet,Sept. 20, 2004. This floodcaused residents to tra-verse downtown Racinein boats and flooded partsof Star Mill Park. Theremaining nine of the“top 10 historic rivercrests” for Racine are:48.87 feet, Jan. 9, 2005;48.20 feet, Feb. 27, 1979;47.7 feet, Jan. 22, 1996;47 feet, March 4, 1997;46.9 feet, Jan. 30, 1994;46.5 feet, Jan. 2, 1991;45.40 feet, Dec. 10, 1978;43.30 feet, Dec. 20, 1990;42.70 feet, June 30, 1998.

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Charlene Hoeflich/photoEddie Fife, firefighter with the Pomeroy Fire Department, cleans debris from EastMain Street after the Ohio River flooded downtown Pomeroy over the weekend.

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Obama asks Congress to rewrite main education lawWASHINGTON (AP)

— President BarackObama asked Congresson Monday to rewrite thenation’s main educationlaw before the new schoolyear starts in September,setting an ambitioustimetable for lawmakerswhose primary focus nowis on budget cuts and thedeficit.

He also issued his mostdetailed outline yet forchanges to the No ChildLeft Behind law.

Obama said the law,enacted in 2002 underGeorge W. Bush, gotsome things right but thatit also got some thingswrong.

“The goals of NCLBwere the right goals,”Obama said, mentioningthe law’s promises of

putting quality teachers inevery classroom, estab-lishing higher standardsfor learning, requiringaccountability and high-lighting achievement gapsamong students.

“That’s the right thing todo,” he said at anArlington, Va., middleschool. “But what hasn’tworked is denying teach-ers, schools and stateswhat they need to meetthese goals.”

That’s why the lawneeds to be rewritten, hesaid.

“In the 21st century, it’snot enough to leave nochild behind. We need tohelp every child getahead,” Obama said.

The president has metseveral times in recentweeks with a bipartisan

group of House andSenate lawmakers leadingefforts to rewrite the bill.In Monday’s remarks, heset the start of the newschool year as a deadlinefor Congress to send hima bill.

“I want every child inthis country to head backto school in the fall know-ing that their education isAmerica’s priority,”Obama said.

Both Republicans andDemocrats agree that thelaw needs to be rewritten;they disagree on the feder-al government’s role ineducation as well as onhow best to turn aroundfailing schools.

The bipartisan group,led in the Senate led bySen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa,chairman of the Senate

Education and LaborCommittee, is working todraft a comprehensive bill.Harkin has said he hopesto have the bill ready byEaster. House SpeakerJohn Boehner, whochaired the HouseEducation and WorkforceCommittee whenCongress passed thelaw, has not indicatedwhether he’ll make theissue a priority this year. Anew group of freshmanlawmakers also is skepti-cal of any federal role ineducation.

Education SecretaryArne Duncan said lastweek that the percentageof schools labeled as “fail-ing” under the law and notmeeting yearly targets forstudent proficiency inmath and reading could

skyrocket dramaticallythis year, jumping from 37percent to 82 percent asstates raise standards totry to satisfy the law’smandates, according toDepartment of Educationestimates.

The law requires statesto aim to have all studentsproficient in math and sci-ence by 2014, a standardnow viewed as unrealistic.

Schools that do notmeet yearly targets overtime are labeled as in needof improvement. Manyparents consider the labelan unfair stigma. Schoolslabeled as such are oftendescribed as failingalthough the law itselfdoes not use that term.Obama suggested it did,however, by repeatedlysaying schools are labeled

as “failing” under the law.In his remarks at

Kenmore Middle School,Obama said he wants anupdated education law toempower principals andteachers, support innova-tion at the state and locallevels, and targetresources to schools withconsistent records of poorperformance.

Instead of labelingmore and more schools as“failing” under the law, hewants a more flexible sys-tem that focuses onpreparing graduating stu-dents for college andcareer and he wants betterassessments to under-stand whether kids aremeeting that goal.Proficiency in math andscience will continue tobe emphasized,

Clinton in Paris for talks on Libya crisis with French presidentPARIS (AP) — U.S.

Secretary of State HillaryRodham Clinton dis-cussed the widening Libyacrisis with FrenchPresident Nicolas Sarkozyon Monday and plannedan unusual meeting withLibyan opposition figures.

The meeting laterMonday would be theObama administration’sfirst high-level contactwith foes of Libyanstrongman MoammarGadhafi, who is pushingback a rebellion inspiredby the “Arab spring” ofpolitical unrest.

Sarkozy has taken thelead in recognizing aninterim council as Libya’slegitimate government.The U.S. has yet to decideon such recognition buthas severed ties with the

Libyan embassy inWashington and boostedits outreach to the opposi-tion while maintainingcaution on a no-fly zonethe rebels want.

In the meantime, U.S.concerns were growingthat the unrest roiling thebroader Arab world maynot produce the changesdemanded by increasinglyvocal and emboldenedanti-government protest-ers. Recent violent crack-downs on demonstratorsin Yemen and Bahrainhave fueled those fears andClinton will travel fromFrance to post-revoltEgypt and Tunisia to presstransitional leaders thereto make good on pledgesfor democratic reform.

Details on Clinton’smeeting with the Libyan

opposition in Parisremained in flux, under-scoring the administra-tion’s lack of clarity as towho is who in the move-ment that has sprung up totopple Gadhafi from theperch he has held for 42years. The StateDepartment has notannounced whom Clintonwould see, but the sessionas expected late Monday.

It comes as rebels stepup calls for a no-fly zoneto deter Gadhafi loyalistsfrom air strikes that havehelped the regime retakekey opposition-held areas.Those appeals got a boostover the weekend whenthe 22-nation Arab Leagueasked the United Nationsto authorize the step.France and Britain aredrafting a U.N. Security

Council resolution thatwould do that but the U.S.and some others haveexpressed reservationsabout the utility of a no-flyzone, its cost and potentialimplications.

The debate has turnedincreasingly heated in theU.S. with demands fromsome in Congress to sup-port the rebels with aircover and weapons.President Barack Obamaand his top national securi-ty aides have so fardemurred, fearing it wouldfurther strain America’salready stretched militaryand entangle the U.S. in anexpensive and messy con-flict that could be per-ceived as meddling. In hislast public comment on thematter, on Friday, Obamasaid all the risks and con-

sequences had to beweighed before interven-ing.

The sparring has tran-scended traditional politi-cal divisions inWashington with lawmak-ers from both parties onthe each side. Even fami-lies have been split.Clinton herself has beenvery cautious on the sub-ject while her husband,former President BillClinton, has endorsed themove.

On Monday, one ofHillary Clinton’s closestconfidantes, Anne MarieSlaughter, who until lastmonth was the StateDepartment’s director ofpolicy planning, wrote anopinion piece in The NewYork Times entitled“Fiddling While Libya

Burns” that implored theadministration to act. Nowa professor at Princeton,Slaughter argued that theU.S. has an obligation tointervene to preventwholesale slaughter andembrace the potentialemergence of democracyin Libya.

Meanwhile, contin-gency planning contin-ues. The Pentagon hasordered warships into theMediterranean in casethey are needed forLibya-related operationsranging from humanitar-ian assistance to possiblemilitary action. There arenow at least five majorU.S. warships in theMediterranean, includ-ing the USS Kearsargewith a contingent of U.S.Marines on board.

Bahrain ʻarena ̓for Gulf forces and wider fears through Gulf statesBY BRIAN MURPHYAND REEM KHALIFA

ASSOCIATED PRESS

MANAMA, Bahrain —A Saudi-led military forcecrossed into BahrainMonday to prop up themonarchy against widen-ing demonstrations thathave sent waves of fearthrough Gulf states overthe potential for enemyIran to take new footholdson their doorsteps.

The Bahrain conflict issectarian as much as pro-democracy, as the strategicGulf island nation’s major-ity Shiite Muslims see anopportunity to rid them-selves of two centuries ofrule by a Sunni monarchy.

But Gulf Sunni leadersworry that might giveShiite Iran a steppingstone to its arch-rivalSaudi Arabia, connected toBahrain by a wide cause-way.

Instead, the Saudis and

the other members of theGulf Cooperation Councilsent forces the other way,deploying about 1,000troops by land and air andcementing the entire six-nation alliance to the fateof Bahrain’s rulers, keyU.S. allies as hosts of theU.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet.

The first cross-borderoffensive against one ofthe rebellions sweepingthe Mideast was not greet-ed with celebrations.

Shortly after word of theforeign military reinforce-ments began to spreadthrough the island nation,protesters blocked roads inthe capital Manama.Thousands of othersswarmed into PearlSquare, the symbolic cen-ter of the monthlongrevolt.

Shiite-led oppositiongroups denounced theGulf military task force asan occupation that pushesthe tiny island kingdom

dangerously close to astate of “undeclared war.”

“No to occupation,”demonstrators cried inManama’s packed PearlSquare.

Gulf leaders see it com-pletely differently.

The Sunni kings andsheiks fear any cracks inBahrain’s ruling systemcould threaten their ownfoundations. Protests arealready flaring in Oman,Kuwait and even tightlyruled Saudi Arabia. Theleaders also perceive polit-ical gains by Bahrain’sShiites as potentialavenues of entry for Iran’sShiite regime — eventhough there are no appar-ent links between Tehranand Bahrain’s Shiite oppo-sition.

“The Gulf leaders havetried to legitimize this.They portray it not asintervention in an internalBahrain dispute, but ratheras an action against an

external threat,” said SamiAlfaraj, director of theKuwait Center forStrategic Studies.“Bahrain is the arena forthe worries about Iran.”

In Tehran, authoritieshad no comment on theGulf force moving intoBahrain. Iranian ForeignMinister Ali Akbar Salehicalled on Bahrain to avoidusing “violence andforce,” according to thesemiofficial Fars NewsAgency.

In Washington, WhiteHouse spokesman JayCarney pointedly did notcall on the Saudi-led forceto withdraw. Asked aboutthat, he said, “We are call-ing on the countries in theregion to show restraint,and pointing to the factthat the dialogue that canbring about politicalreform is essential for thestability of the countries inthe region and their contin-ued economic prosperity.”

It’s not clear when thetipping point arrived forBahrain to seek outsidehelp. The rulers have faceda month of nonstop unrestthat has left seven peopledead and the country drift-ing toward open sectarianconflict.

There have been scenesof defiance and disobedi-ence so unsettling that pro-government parliamentmembers appealed toBahrain’s king to imposemartial law. On Sunday,protesters paralyzedBahrain’s finance districtwith roadblocks and thenstood their ground — andin some cases pressed for-ward — against riot policefiring tear gas in PearlSquare.

A statement on the state-run Bahrain News Agencysaid troops from theGCC’s Peninsula ShieldForce have been deployed“in line with the principleof common destiny bond-

ing” the bloc, made up ofSaudi Arabia, Oman,Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatarand the United ArabEmirates.

The statement said thereason for the mission was“the common responsibili-ty of the GCC countries inmaintaining security andstability. “

The Shield Force wascreated in the 1980s.Military units under aGCC command have beensent to Kuwait, includingduring the 1991 U.S.-ledcampaign to oust SaddamHussein’s force and in2003 before the invasionof Iraq. The current actionmarks a significant shift tohelp a government quellinternal unrest.

“It changes the role ofthe GCC actually,” saidJane Kinninmont, a seniorresearch fellow andBahrain expert at theLondon-based think tankChatham House.

Hundreds of bodies wash ashore in quake-hit JapanBY JAY ALABASTERAND TODD PITTMAN

ASSOCIATED PRESS

TAGAJO, Japan —There are just too manybodies.

Hundreds of dead havewashed ashore on Japan’sdevastated northeast coastsince last week’s earth-quake and tsunami. Otherswere dug out of the debrisMonday by firefightersusing pickaxes and chainsaws.

Funeral homes and cre-matoriums are over-whelmed, and officialshave run out of body bagsand coffins.

Compounding the disas-ter, water levels droppedprecipitously inside aJapanese nuclear reactor,twice leaving the uraniumfuel rods completelyexposed and raising thethreat of a meltdown,hours after a hydrogenexplosion tore through thebuilding housing a differ-ent reactor.

On the economic front,Japan’s stock marketplunged over the likeli-hood of huge losses byJapanese industries includ-ing big names such asToyota and Honda.

While the official death

toll rose to nearly 1,900,the discovery of thewashed-up bodies andother reports of deathssuggest the true number ismuch higher. In Miyagi,the police chief has esti-mated 10,000 deaths in hisprovince alone.

Miyagi prefecture borethe full force of Friday’stsunami, and police said1,000 bodies were foundscattered across its coast.The Kyodo news agencyreported that 2,000 bodieswashed up on two shore-lines in Miyagi.

Most Japanese opt tocremate their dead, andwith so many bodies, thegovernment on Mondaywaived a rule requiringpermission first from localauthorities before crema-tion or burial to speed upfunerals, said HealthMinistry official YukioOkuda.

“The current situation isso extraordinary, and it isvery likely that crematori-ums are running beyondcapacity,” said Okuda.“This is an emergencymeasure. We want to helpquake-hit people as muchas we can.”

The town of Soma hasonly one crematorium thatcan handle 18 bodies a

day, said an official,Katsuhiko Abe.

“We are overwhelmedand are asking other citesto help us deal with bod-ies,” Abe told TheAssociated Press.

Millions of people spenta fourth night with littlefood, water or heating innear-freezing tempera-tures as they dealt with theloss of homes and lovedones. Asia’s richest coun-try hasn’t seen such hard-ship since World War II.

Hajime Sato, a govern-ment official in Iwate pre-fecture, one of the hardesthit, said deliveries of sup-plies were just 10 percentof what is needed. Bodybags and coffins were run-ning so short that the gov-ernment may turn to for-eign funeral homes forhelp, he said.

The pulverized coast hasbeen hit by hundreds ofaftershocks, the latest onea 6.2 magnitude quake thatwas followed by a newtsunami scare Monday.

As sirens wailed inSoma, the worst hit townin Fukushima prefecture,soldiers abandoned theirsearch operations andyelled to residents: “Findhigh ground! Get out ofhere!”

The warning turned outto be a false alarm andinterrupted the efforts ofsearch parties clearing ajumble of broken timber,plastic sheets, roofs,sludge, twisted cars, tan-gled power lines andhousehold goods.

Ships were flipped overnear roads, a half-mile (akilometer) inland.Officials said one-third ofthe city of 38,000 peoplewas flooded and thou-sands were missing.

Though Japanese offi-cials have refused to spec-ulate on the death toll,Indonesian geologist HeryHarjono, who dealt withthe 2004 Asian tsunami,said it would be “a miraclereally if it turns out to beless than 10,000” dead.

The 2004 disaster killed230,000 people — ofwhich only 184,000 bod-ies were found.

Harjono noted thatmany bodies in Japan mayhave been sucked out tosea or remain trappedbeneath rubble as they didin Indonesia’s hardest-hitAceh province. But healso stressed that Japan’sinfrastructure, high-levelof preparedness and cityplanning to keep housesaway from the shore could

mitigate its human losses.According to public

broadcaster NHK, some430,000 people are inemergency shelters orwith relatives, whileanother 24,000 are strand-ed.

One reason for the lossof power is the damage toseveral nuclear reactors inthe area. At one plant,Fukushima Dai-ichi, threereactors have lost the abil-ity to cool down. A build-ing holding one of themexploded Monday, thesecond such blast at theplant in three days.

A top Japanese officialsaid the fuel rods in allthree of the most troubledreactors appeared to bemelting. Unit 2 caused themost worry.

Technicians struggled toraise water levels in thereactor, but the rodsremained partiallyexposed late Mondaynight, increasing the riskof the spread of radiationand the potential for aneventual meltdown.

“Units 1 and 3 are atleast somewhat stabilizedfor the time being,” saidNuclear and IndustrialAgency official RyoheiShiomi. “Unit 2 nowrequires all our effort and

attention.”Though people living

within a 12-mile (20-kilo-meter) radius wereordered to leave over theweekend, authorities toldanyone remaining there orin nearby areas to stayinside their homes follow-ing Monday’s blast.

Military personnel onhelicopters returning toships with the U.S. 7thFleet registered low-levelof radioactive contamina-tion Monday, but werecleared after a scrub-down. As a precaution, theships shifted to a differentarea off the coast.

So far, Tokyo ElectricPower, the nuclearplant’s operator, is hold-ing off on imposingrolling blackouts, but theutility urged people tolimit electricity use.Many regional train lineswere suspended or oper-ated a limited schedule.

The impact of the earth-quake and tsunami on theworld’s third-largest econ-omy helped drag down theshare markets Monday,the first business day sincethe disasters. The bench-mark Nikkei 225 stockaverage fell 6.2 percentwhile the broader Topixindex lost 7.5 percent.

Dear Dr. Brothers: Ifeel like I’m in a Catch-22, an impossible situa-tion. I know I have togive up smoking. I’vebeen doing it for morethan 20 years, and nowthat I’m around the agewhen my father died oflung cancer, I think Ishould stop temptingfate. I just worry that I’mgoing to be so miserable— I’m currently unem-ployed, and already feelstrung out — that I’ll justlight right back up. But ifI don’t quit, I’ll still feelmiserable. I need to getoff the merry-go-round.— A.R.

Dear A.R.: It is verydifficult to give up smok-ing anytime, but whenyou are in a particularlystressful situation andyou really want to fallback on your old, com-fortable friends (that areactually your enemies), itfeels like a very bad timeto try. It seems like thereis always a better timejust around the bend, upthe road. “Now” neverseems quite right! Sinceyou use cigarettes tohandle stress, why notstart learning some newtechniques so they’ll bein the loop already whenyou decide to quit?Mindful meditation,breathing exercises, evenrelaxing in a hot tub canshow you that there are

other ways to relax.When you do decide to

go forward, you alsoshould avail yourself ofall the wonderful supportgroups that are out there— down the street or incyberspace. They reallycan help get you throughthe rough patches. And Iguarantee that you willbe glad you did quit.Since it is so difficult,it feels like — and is —a tremendous accom-plishment that shouldgive a lift to your sag-ging self-image. Allowyourself to have set-backs without giving up— if you slip and have acigarette, vow not to let itlead to another, and keepon quitting. Who knows,the withdrawal phasemay lead you to somebursts of energy younever knew you had, andyou can use them toyour benefit when job-hunting.

BY THE BENDBY THE BEND Page A3Tuesday, March 15, 2011The Daily Sentinel

Community CalendarPublic meetings

Tuesday, March 15CHESTER — Special

meeting of the ChesterTownship Trustees to beheld to 6 p.m. at thetown hall to discusscemetery bids andunfinished business.

Clubs and organizations

Thursday, March 17MIDDLEPORT —

American CancerSociety Meigs CountyAdvisoryBoard/SurvivorshipTaskforce, regularmeeting, noon, home ofPresident Rae Moore,725 Page St.

POMEROY — TheMeigs County RetiredTeachers Associaton,noon luncheon, at theWild Horse Cafe,Pomeroy. Mary Powelland Dixie Sayre to pre-sent da program on theOhio Chautauqua usinga Civil war theme to beheld at Chester in July.Guests are welcome.

Saturday March 19MIDDLEPORT —

Special meeting for thepurpose of annualinspection of MiddleportMasonic Lodge 363 inthe Fellow Craft Degree.Dinner served at 6:30P.M. with the meeting tofollow.

Church eventsTuesday March 15SYRACUSE —

Syracuse MissionChurch, BridgemanStreet, revival 7 p.m.each night throughSaturday, March 19, fea-turing Rev. MikeFinnicum, Rev. MikeThompson, Rev. TheronDurham, singing, etc.

BirthdaysTuesday, March 15MIDDLEPORT —

Yvonne DamewoodStover will celebrate her70th birthday on March15. Cards may be sentto her at 1504 PowellSt., Middleport, Ohio45760.

A S K D R . B ROT H E R S

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Doesnʼt want to besmoke-free and sad

Rio Grande offeringUnderground Railroad study

RIO GRANDE — A new summer program at theUniversity of Rio Grande/Rio Grande CommunityCollege will allow teachers from around Ohio to learnmore about the Underground Railroad and its signifi-cance in Ohio.

Teachers can earn college credit hours through theprogram, which will give them the tools they need toprovide new learning experiences for their studentsrelating to the Underground Railroad.

The “River of Slavery, River of Freedom: PersonalDignity and the Underground Railroad in the OhioRiver Valley” institute for teachers is being fundedthrough a grant from the Ohio Humanities Council.The program is designed for social studies andAmerican history teachers in grades K-12 in Ohio.

The program will be taught in June, and a continu-ing online component of the class will also be avail-able for those who are interested. Students in the Juneprogram will earn three graduate credits will have anopportunity to earn an additional three credits if theytake part in the continuation of the online course.

The teachers who enroll in the program will learnfrom several presenters in the classroom, as well astake trips to locations along the Ohio River thatplayed a significant role in the Underground Railroad.

Elaine Armstrong, M.Ed., will teach the program.Armstrong has led numerous presentations about thisperiod of history for colleges, schools, churches andother organizations and she has collected various arti-facts related to slavery in America.

Guest instructors will include Cathy Nelson,Annette Jefferson, Herbert W. Martin, and RicSheffield, Corliss Miller, and Michael E. Crutcher Sr.from colleges and organizations around Ohio will alsovisit the class and share their knowledge with the stu-dents. In addition, historical re-enactors will helpbring to life the stories of some of the important peo-ple of the time.

“We hope to take a more in-depth look at theUnderground Railroad and the role it played in thecommerce and commodity of slavery and freedom, aswell as the effects that slavery had on both the blackand white community,“ Armstrong said.

“We’ll also be examining how it affected families,government, laws, living, and working practices, andof course, the dangers involved as a conductor or apassenger on the so-called Underground Railroad.The more I research the subject, the more I realize justhow difficult the process was in the attempt to be‘free.’” The trips to places along the Ohio River thatwere stops on the Underground Railroad will be animportant part of the learning process, she added.

“By visiting and seeing actual sites, by touchingand feeling actual artifacts of that time period, and byscholarly research and discussion, I hope to inspireexcitement and a desire to know more about thisimportant period in our nation’s history,” Armstrongsaid. “Hopefully, the teachers’ inspiration and excite-ment will be passed on to each teacher’s classroomstudents in the future.”

The hands-on learning opportunities will make thisteaching institute unique, Armstrong explained. “Insome aspects, we will see, feel, hear, and touch someof the same things that the slaves and the conductorson the Underground Railroad did,” Armstrong said.

Teachers enrolled in the program will be able to liveon campus during the class if they choose, and schol-arships are available.

For more information on the “River of Slavery,River of Freedom” teaching institute, call DreamaHudson at 1-800-282-7201 or send her an e-mail atdhudson@rio.edu.

USDA Forest Service isholding a public meeting

NELSONVILLE — The USDA Forest Serviceis holding a public meeting to explain both thedetails and intent of the recently proposed draftPlanning Rule that, if put into law, will serve asa national blueprint for how hundreds of indi-vidual plans will chart national forest manage-ment in the coming years.

The meeting will not be a platform to acceptpublic comment, rather an opportunity viavideo-teleconference for interested stakeholdersto ask questions to better inform the formalcomments they submit during the public com-ment period, which closes May 16, 2011.

The proposed planning rule provides a collab-orative and science-based framework for creat-ing land management plans that would supportecological sustainability and contribute to ruraljob opportunities. Forest Service land manage-ment plans guide management activities on the155 National Forests and 20 Grasslands in theNational Forest System.

The meeting will be held on Wednesday,March 23 from 2-5 p.m. and 7-10 p.m. at theWayne National Forest Headquarters, 13700 USHwy 33, Nelsonville

Full text of the proposed rule, instructions toprovide comment and the planning rule blog andmore can be found at: www.fs.usda.gov/plan-ningrule

For more information, contact a local WayneNational Forest office, Nelsonville (740) 753-0101; Pedro, (740) 534-6500; Marietta, (740)373-9055; For more Wayne National Forestinformation, visit the Forest Web site athttp://www.fs.usda.gov/wayne.

NRAC Assistance Councilnominations wanted

MARIETTA — Nominations to serve on theDistrict 18 Natural Resources Assistance Council(NRAC), will be accepted until 5: p.m. April 1, 2011.District 18 includes Athens, Belmont, Hocking,Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Perryand Washington Counties in Ohio. There is one (1)vacant position to be filled on the NRAC committee.

The NRAC consists of 11 members, and the onevacant position shall be appointed from the followingcategories or organizations, units of government, oragencies:

1. A county, municipal corporation, township,conservancy district, regional or joint district or unitof local government, or regional or joint politicalsubdivision that is located within the geographicaljurisdiction of the appointing integrating committee;

2. A cons-atiori organization, an environmentaladvocacy organization, and organization with a pri-mary interest in watershed protection and restora-tion, the department of natural resources, the envi-ronmental protection agency, or the United Statesnatural resources conservation service:

3. A city park system or metropolitan system or aboard of park commissioner’s from a county that is1isted within the geographical jurisdiction of theappointing integrating committee, a statewide parksand recreation organization, or the United Statesnational park service.

4. A statewide organization representing agricul-ture, and organization representing forestry inter-ests, the department of agriculture, or the UnitedStates Department of Agriculture;

5. An organizaticn representing business, localRealtors, or a planning agency, including a Port.authority, located within the geographical jurisdic-tion of the appointing integrating committee.

Nomination forms can be requested by callingMichelle Hyer at (740) 374-9436. A letter from a rec-ognized entity in group 1 through 5 and a statement ofthe nominees background or qualifications must beattached to the nomination form.

Society hears commentary on booksPOMEROY — Gay Perrin shared history and bio-

graphical books with members of the Delta KappaGamma Teachers Honorary Society at a recent meet-ing held at the Meigs County Public Library inPomeroy.

She also included on her program information on abook written by her niece, Laura Bell, which is nowavailable at the Pomeroy Library.

Plans for a joint meeting of the Gallia, Jackson, andMeigs Chapters were discussed. It will be held onMarch 19 at McArthur Senior Citizens Center withthe Meigs Chapter as primary host. State PresidentBeth Archer of Zanesville will be the guest speaker.

Supplies for Gallia and Vinton counties women’sshelters were collected. Members enjoyed a bookexchange.

Meigs County members attending were MargeFetty, Jo Ann Hays, Donna Jenkins, Gay Perrin,Rosalie Story, and Beckie Zurcher.

Grange plans for inspectionPOMEROY — Plans for inspection to be held in

April were made when members of HemlockGrange met recently at the hall.

It was noted that practice for inspection will bheld on April 5 at 6:30 p.m. and all members wereencouraged to attend. Members were reminded theannual Grange banquet will be held April 15 at theLegion hall that that tickets are available now fromany Grange Master. Also for sale are tickets on ahandmade wooden bowl made by Roy Grueser.Barbara Fry and Rosalie Story have those tickets.

Story conducted the meeting with Adelle Whitereporting on family activities. She reminded mem-bers that the baking contest will be held in May,and encouraged everyone to continue working onthe contests. Members collecting pop tabs, souplabels, eye glasses and hearing aid batteries wereasked to turn them in at the April meeting.

Kim Romine, lecturer, used Mardi Gras-FatTuesday as her program topic. She said the firstparade was held in New Orleans in the 1830s andnoted that many cities around the word celebrateMardi Gras. Beads and other trinkets are thrownduring the parades. Colors for the observance arepurple for justice, green for faith, and gold forpower.

The April meeting will be preceded by a hamdinner at 6:30 p.m.

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Two years into its pledge to improvegovernment transparency, the Obamaadministration took action on fewerrequests for federal records from citi-zens, journalists, companies and otherslast year even as significantly more peo-ple asked for information. The adminis-tration disclosed at least some of whatpeople wanted at about the same rate asthe previous year.

People requested information 544,360times last year under the U.S. Freedomof Information Act from the 35 largestagencies, up nearly 41,000 more thanthe previous year, according to ananalysis by The Associated Press of newfederal data. But the governmentresponded to nearly 12,400 fewerrequests.

The administration refused to releaseany sought-after materials in more than1-in-3 information requests, includingcases when it couldn’t find records, aperson refused to pay for copies or therequest was determined to be improperunder the law. It refused more often toquickly consider information requestsabout subjects described as urgent orespecially newsworthy. And nearly halfthe agencies that AP examined tooklonger — weeks more, in some cases —to give out records last year than duringthe previous year.

The government’s responsivenessunder the Freedom of Information Act iswidely considered a barometer of howtransparent federal offices are. The AP’sanalysis comes a day before a SenateJudiciary Committee hearing examiningthe Obama administration’s progress.

There were some improvements. Theadministration less frequently invokedthe “deliberative process” exemptionunder the law to withhold recordsdescribing decision-making behind thescenes. President Barack Obama haddirected agencies to use it less often, butthe number of such cases had surgedafter his first year in office to more than71,000. It fell last year to 53,360. Theexemption was still commonly invokedlast year at the Homeland SecurityDepartment, which accounted for nearly80 percent of cases across the wholegovernment.

Overall, the decidedly mixed perfor-mance shows the federal governmentstruggling to match the promisesObama made early in his term toimprove transparency and disclose moreinformation rapidly. “Transparency pro-motes accountability and provides

information for citizens about what theirgovernment is doing,” Obama saidwhen he took office.”

The White House said it was volun-tarily disclosing more information, fore-stalling a need to formally makerequests under the law, and said thatagencies released information in nearly93 percent of cases, excluding instanceswhen it couldn’t find records, a personrefused to pay for copies or the requestwas determined to be improper.

“A lot of the statistics need to be takenwith a grain of salt, but they may under-state our successes,” said Steven Croley,a special assistant to the president forjustice and regulatory policy.

At an event on Monday celebratingSunshine Week, when news organiza-tions promote open government andfreedom of information, AssociateAttorney General Tom Perrelliannounced the unveiling of a website,foia.gov, to provide the public with acentralized resource that details how tofile requests for government records.

The Obama administration censored194 pages of internal e-mails about itsOpen Government Directive that the APrequested more than one year ago. TheDecember 2009 directive requires everyagency to take immediate, specific stepsto open their operations up to the public.But the White House Office ofManagement and Budget blacked-outentire pages of some e-mails betweenfederal employees discussing how toapply the new openness rules, and itblacked-out one e-mail discussing howto respond to AP’s request for informa-tion about the transparency directive.

The OMB invoked the “deliberativeprocess” exemption — the one thatObama said to use more sparingly — atleast 192 separate times in turning overthe censored e-mails to the AP. Someblacked-out sections involved officialsdiscussing changes the White Housewanted and sections of the opennessrules that were never made official.

This year, after Republicans won con-trol in the House and with the presiden-tial election looming, the fight overtransparency could turn political. Thenew Republican chairman of the HouseOversight and Government ReformCommittee, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.,is conducting a broad inquiry intoObama’s openness promises. The inves-tigation was at least partly prompted byreports from the AP last year that theHomeland Security Department hadsidetracked hundreds of requests forfederal records to top political advisers,

who wanted information about thoserequesting the materials.

Organizations that routinely ask forgovernment records are fighting manyof the same battles for informationwaged during the Bush administration.Federal offices lack enough employeesand money to respond to requests quick-ly and thoroughly, said Anne Weismann,chief counsel at Citizens forResponsibility and Ethics inWashington, a watchdog group. Withfederal spending expected to tighten,the problem will likely get worse.

“They’re going to be asked to do morewith less,” Weismann said.

AP’s analysis showed that the odds agovernment agency would search its fil-ing cabinets and turn over copies ofdocuments, e-mails, videos or otherrequested materials depended mostly onwhich agency produced them — and ona person’s patience. Willingness to wait— and then wait some more — was avirtue. Agencies refused more routinelylast year to quickly consider informa-tion requests deemed especially urgentor newsworthy, agreeing to conduct aspeedy review about 1-in-5 times theywere asked. The State Departmentgranted only 1 out of 98 such reviews;the Homeland Security Departmentgranted 27 out of 1,476. The previousyear the government overall grantedmore than 1-in-4 such speedy reviews.

The parts of the government that dealwith sensitive matters like espionage orstock market swindles, including theCIA or Securities and ExchangeCommission, entirely rejected informa-tion requests more than half the timeduring fiscal 2010. And they took theirtime to decide: The SEC averaged 553days to reply to each request it consid-ered complicated, and the CIA tookmore than three months.

Less-sensitive agencies, such as theSocial Security Administration orDepartment of Agriculture, turned overat least some records nearly every timesomeone asked for them, often in justweeks.

Some federal agencies showedmarked improvements, but sometimesit came at a cost elsewhere in the gov-ernment. The Homeland SecurityDepartment cut its number of back-logged information requests by 40 per-cent last year, thanks mostly to workunder a $7.6 million federal contractwith TDB Communications of Lenexa,Kan., which was approved during theBush administration. The companyaccomplished its work partly by for-

warding to the State Department tensof thousands of requests for immigra-tion records from Homeland Security’sCitizenship and Immigration Servicesbecause the State Department makesvisa determinations in immigrationcases. At one point, as the HomelandSecurity Department was reducing itsbacklog, it was sending as many as3,800 cases each month to the StateDepartment, said Janice DeGarmo, aState Department spokeswoman.

The State Department received andhandled three times as many requestsin 2010 than the previous year. Itended up with a backlog of more than20,500 overdue cases, more than twiceas many as the previous year.

Also, the Veterans AffairsDepartment said it received 40,000fewer information requests last year.Spokeswoman Jo Schuda said thedepartment incorrectly labeled somerequests in 2009 as being filed underthe Freedom of Information Act butactually were made under the U.S.Privacy Act, a different law.

The 35 agencies that AP examinedwere: Agency for InternationalDevelopment, CIA, Consumer ProductSafety Commission, Council onEnvironmental Quality, AgricultureDepartment, Commerce Department,Defense Department, EducationDepartment, Energy Department,Department of Health and HumanServices, Department of HomelandSecurity, Department of Housing andUrban Development, InteriorDepartment, Justice Department,Labor Department, State Department,Transportation Department, TreasuryDepartment, Department of VeteransAffairs, Environmental ProtectionAgency, Federal CommunicationsCommission, Federal DepositInsurance Corporation, Federal TradeCommission, NASA, National ScienceFoundation, National TransportationSafety Board, Nuclear RegulatoryCommission, Office of Managementand Budget, Office of National DrugControl Policy, Office of PersonnelManagement, Office of Science andTechnology Policy, Office of theDirector of National Intelligence,Securities and Exchange Commission,Small Business Administration and theSocial Security Administration.

(Online: FOIA.gov,www.foia.gov/index.html; SunshineWeek, www.sunshineweek.org)

Promises, Promises: Little transparency progress

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Obituaries Law You Can Use

Deaths

For the Record

Helen M. DavisHelen M. Davis, 84, of Pomeroy passed away

March 12, 2011, at Holzer Medical Center.She was born on March 21, 1926, daughter of the

late Robert A. and Elizabeth Stiles Davis. She retiredin 1988 after working nearly 40 years for the OhioValley Publishing Co. Helen was a member of theEnterprise U.M. Church (now New Beginnings U.M.Church) for over 65 years.

She was preceded in death by brothers, Dick,Russell and David; and sisters, Elizabeth and EmmaLou Davis and Alice M. Canary.

She is survived by a brother, Dale (Karyn) Davis; asister, Joyce Davis; a sister-in-law, Shelby Davis; fivenephews, Robert (Wanda) Davis, Sam (April) Davis,Chris (Sally) Davis, Russell (Rosemary) Davis, andGene Davis; four nieces, Cathie Canary, Barbara(Elwood) Kegley, Virginia Freeman, and MichelleAdkins; and several great and great-great nieces andnephews.

A memorial service will be held Monday, March21, 2011, at noon at New Beginnings U.M. Church,Pomeroy. Pastor Brian Dunham will officiate. Callinghours will be from 11 a.m. to the time of service.

Paul PattersonPaul L. “Pat” Patterson 79, Rutland, Ohio, died

Monday, March 14, 2011, at his residence.Arrangements are being handled by BirchfieldFuneral Home, Rutland.

Juanita L. NidayJuanita L. Niday, 77, Gallipolis, died Saturday,

March 12, 2011, at Riverside Methodist Hospital,Columbus, Ohio. Services will be at 1 p.m., Saturday,March 19, 2011, at Willis Funeral Home with PastorBill Thomas officiating. Friends may call from 11a.m.-1 p.m. prior to the service. Please visitwww.willisfuneralhome.com to send e-mail condo-lences.

Milford Franklin JordanMilford Franklin Jordan, 80, Mt. Alto, W.Va., died

Sunday March 13, 2011. The funeral service will beheld at 11 a.m., Wednesday, March 16, 2011, at DealFuneral Home in Point Pleasant, W.Va. Burial willfollow at Blaine Memorial Gardens in Cottageville,W.Va.

Mary Katherine (Smith) GibbsMary Katherine (Smith) Gibbs, 66, Point Pleasant,

W.Va., died Sunday, March 13, 2011 at Holzer SeniorCare. There will be no service or visitation at thefuneral home. A private graveside service and burialwill be held at the Forest Hills Cemetery with Rev.Annetta Durst officiating. Arrangements are under thedirection of the Wilcoxen Funeral Home. Online con-dolences may be made at www.wilcoxenfuneral-home.com.

Virginia M. AdrianVirginia M. Adrian, 84, Gallipolis, died Monday,

March 14, 2011, at her residence. Funeral arrange-ments will be announced by Cremeens FuneralChapel.

Meigs County Forecast

Local Stocks

Flood WarningTuesday: Rain before

4 p.m., then rain likelyand possibly a thunder-storm between 4-5 p.m.,then rain likely after 5p.m. High near 51. Eastwind between 5 and 11mph. Chance of precipi-tation is 90 percent.New rainfall amountsbetween a tenth andquarter of an inch,except higher amountspossible in thunder-storms.

Tuesday Night:Showers and possibly athunderstorm beforemidnight, then showerslikely. Low around 44.South wind around 6mph. Chance of precipi-tation is 80 percent. Newrainfall amounts betweena tenth and quarter of aninch, except higheramounts possible inthunderstorms.

Wednesday: A chanceof showers, mainlybefore 1 p.m. Mostlycloudy, with a high near

54. West wind around 9mph. Chance of precipi-tation is 30 percent. Newrainfall amounts betweena tenth and quarter of aninch possible.

Wednesday Night:Partly cloudy, with alow around 39.

Thursday: Mostlysunny, with a highnear 67.

Thursday Night:Partly cloudy, with alow around 47.

Friday: Partlysunny, with a highnear 72.

Friday Night: Achance of showers.Mostly cloudy, with alow around 45. Chanceof precipitation is 40percent.

Saturday: Mostlysunny, with a highnear 63.

Saturday Night:Partly cloudy, with alow around 41.

Sunday: Mostlysunny, with a highnear 66.

AEP (NYSE) — 35.34Akzo (NASDAQ) — 66.35Ashland Inc. (NYSE) — 57.25Big Lots (NYSE) — 42.75Bob Evans (NASDAQ) — 30.87BorgWarner (NYSE) — 74.61Century Alum (NASDAQ) — 17.19Champion (NASDAQ) — 1.97Charming Shops (NASDAQ) — 3.05City Holding (NASDAQ) — 34.23Collins (NYSE) — 63.07DuPont (NYSE) — 53.02US Bank (NYSE) — 26.87Gen Electric (NYSE) — 19.92Harley-Davidson (NYSE) — 40.83JP Morgan (NYSE) — 45.30Kroger (NYSE) — 23.86Ltd Brands (NYSE) — 31.07Norfolk So (NYSE) — 65.93OVBC (NASDAQ) — 21.27

BBT (NYSE) — 26.83Peoples (NASDAQ) — 12.14Pepsico (NYSE) — 64.14Premier (NASDAQ) — 7.38Rockwell (NYSE) — 87.05Rocky Boots (NASDAQ) — 13.02Royal Dutch Shell — 69.11Sears Holding (NASDAQ) — 82.86Wal-Mart (NYSE) — 52.32Wendy’s (NYSE) — 5.09WesBanco (NYSE) — 20.33Worthington (NYSE) — 18.75

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ment from the family practice to take a role in operatingany ER.

An artist’s rendering of a 24-hour emergency room hasbeen completed, but no funding for construction hasbeen sought. Bartrum said Monday commissioners havebeen in contact with at least one out-of-state firm whichhas expressed an interest in assisting with constructionplans.

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deciding to rearrange the merchandise for a fresh lookand making lemonade out of lemons from the situation.Unfortunately, the only hitch, according to Zatta,was when a truck driver allegedly drove through aclosed section of Main Street during the cleanup andliterally splashed the water back into the store afterit had been cleaned. Zatta said it took two hours ofcleanup to undo the mess the truck driver allegedlycaused.

Pomeroy Chief of Police Mark E. Proffitt said thetruck driver was charged with driving on a closedroad and could possibly face other charges depend-ing on any further damage caused by allegedly dri-ving through high water. Other than this incident,Proffitt said there were no other problems. Proffittdid say the traffic in Pomeroy over the weekend was“terrible” due to sightseers of course but also peoplechecking on neighbors and friends and those offer-ing to help.

“The community knew what they needed to do,they knew what was expected and they stuck togeth-er and that’s what separates us from other people,”Proffitt said.

Further south, Point Pleasant, W.Va., saw its shareof sightseers, especially at the river front park withthe outdoor amphitheatre engulfed by the OhioRiver. The National Weather Service reports theOhio River crested in the city at 46.15 feet onSunday — flood stage is at 40 feet. As of 2 p.m. onMonday, March 14, the river rested at 42.8 feet,keeping the Ohio River at flood stage.

According to the NWS, the Ohio River crested at51.3 feet Sunday night into Monday morning at theRC Byrd Locks and Dam — 1.3 feet above floodstage which is at 50 feet. As of 1 p.m. Monday thewater level was at 48.7 feet, two feet below floodstage. Also, the Belleville Locks and Dam inReedsville had a river crest of 40 feet on Saturday,three feet below flood stage.

Know your repossession rights

Repossession is a process where a creditor (gen-erally, someone who sells goods) takes possessionof specific property after the debtor (usually thebuyer or consumer) defaults on a contract. Theright of repossession is created by contract andcan exist in many different types of transactions.This article will focus on car repossessions.

Q: If I fail to make my car payments, how quick-ly can the creditor repossess my car?

A: Most agreements will specify that a “default”occurs as soon as the payment is late, although thecreditor may give you a grace period to make upyour payments.

Q: Must the creditor take me to court beforerepossessing my car?

A: Not always. Secured creditors can repossess(or have a “repo man” repossess) your car withouta court order as long as there is no “breach of thepeace.”

However, the creditor may take you to court inorder to repossess your cu. In such a case (calleda “replevin” case), the court can immediatelyorder you to return your car to the creditor. Youmust follow the court’s “replevin” order even ifyou had no advance warning about the case. Tochallenge the replevin order, you must file a hew-ing request with the court within five days of thedate you receive the paperwork. You will alsohave to file an answer within 28 days if the credi-tor sues you to recover money you owe.

Q: Is there anything the creditor cannot do dur-ing the repossession?

A: The creditor cannot do something outside ofcourt that is “likely to produce violence” or “rea-sonably tends to provoke or excite others to breakthe peace.” If the creditor “breaches the peace” insuch a way, you can ask the creditor to leave andstop trying to repossess your cu. If the creditorrefuses,

you should contact the police, explain the situa-tion, and ask for an officer to come out to “keepthe peace.” You must not, however, use or threatento use force to stop the repossession.

Q: Must the creditor tell me that my car will berepossessed?

A. Generally, no, unless your contract requiresit.

Q: What can I do to keep my car if I am behindin my payments?

A: If you cannot become current in your pay-ments or make mother arrangement with yourcreditor, you may be able to prevent the reposses-sion by filing bankruptcy.

Q : What happens after the repossession?A: Within five business days after the reposses-

sion, the creditor usually will send you at leasttwo “default” notices explaining why your car wasrepossessed and what you must do to get it back.In order to get the car back, you can be required topay the past due amount along with the costs ofthe repossession (up to $25) and a deposit of up totwo of your car payments.

If you cannot pay to get the car back, you willbe notified that the car will be sold. This noticeusually is sent at least 10 days before the sale andcan be combined with the default notice describedabove. You must keep all notices sent to youbecause any -ors in the notices may give you adefense if you are sued for the balance due on theloan.

In most cases, the creditor will try to sell the carand apply the money from the sale to the balanceyou owed on the loan and any repossessionexpenses. If the car’s sale price does not fullycover the money owed, you still may be sued forthe balance due.

Q: If l voluntarily return my car to the creditoram I still responsible for anything I still owe?

A: Generally, yes, unless the creditor agrees notto hold you responsible. Such an agreementshould be put in writing and signed before youreturn the customer.

If you have questions about your legal rights orduties, you should contact an attorney. If you can-not afford an attorney, you should contact OhioState Legal Services Association at ohiolegalser-vices.oriz or 1-866-LAW-OHIO for informationabout your local legal aid office.

(This “Law You Can Use “ column was provid-ed by the Ohio State Bar Association [OSBA]. Itwas prepared by Patrick Skilliter, staff attorneyfor Southeastern Ohio Legal Services inZanesville. The column offers general informationabout the law. Seek an attorney’s advice beforeapplying this information to a legalproblem. Formore information on a variety of legal topics, visitthe OSBA’s Web site at www.ohiobar. org.)

Athens County SheriffATHENS — Athens County Sheriff Patrick Kelly

reported the discovery of the body of Denzle StanleyFriday morning. The body was discovered in thewoods on Baker Road, near the intersection ofFactory Road in Lee Township.

An autopsy was ordered. Foul play is not suspect-ed, Kelly said.

Common PleasDomestic relations

• Action for divorce filed by Julia Cross againstZachary Young. • Action for divorce filed by Floyd McClellanagainst Tammy McClellan.• Action for divorce filed by Tina Merinaragainst Eddie Merinar.• Action for divorce filed by Mark AD. Wolfeagainst Eula M. Wolfe.• Action for dissolution of marriage filed byBruce Bissell, Melodie Bissell.• Action for divorce filed by Valerie Kay Gilkeyagainst Christopher Scott Gilkey.• Dissolution granted Angela N. Stanley, KevinO. Stanley.• Dissolution granted Tonya Hardwick, DavidHardwick.• Dissolution granted Tonya Watson, JeremyWatson.• Dissolution granted Erin Lynn Causey, RickieLee Causey.• Divorce granted Alicia D. and David R. Carper.• Divorce granted Jeffrey Lewis from MaryHelen Lewis.

Civil• Foreclosure granted Century National Bankagainst Glen Ray Goins, Jr.• Foreclosure granted Beneficial Ohio, Inc.,against Larry D. Gibbs, and others.• Foreclosure granted Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.,against Bryan Wolfe, and others.Criminal• Robert Knaggs sentenced to five years commu-nity control, six months in jail, non-support ofdependents.• Brandon Chandler sentenced to five years com-munity control, six months in jail, non-support.• Michael Lee Neal sentenced to five years com-munity control, unauthorized use of property.• Terry L. Bell sentenced to five years communitycontrol, receiving stolen property.• David Easter sentenced to five years communi-ty control, receiving stolen property.

Other• Janice L. Young, Reedsville, Christopher T.

Wolfe, Racine, appointed jury commissioners for2011.

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Fears of a slowdown inJapan push stocks lower

NEW YORK (AP) — Concerns over the economicimpact of the massive earthquake and tsunami inJapan, the world’s third-largest economy, led to abroad sell-off in the stock market on Monday.

Nine out of the 10 sectors that make up the Standardand Poor’s 500 index lost ground. Utilities companiesfell 1.4 percent, the most of any group, as explosionsat Japanese nuclear reactors in the wake of the disas-ter dimmed prospects for the nuclear energy industry.

The S&P index, the basis for most U.S. mutualfunds, fell 7.89 points, or 0.6 percent, to 1,296.39.

The Dow Jones industrial average lost 51.24, or 0.4percent, to 11,993.16. The Nasdaq composite dipped14.64, or 0.5 percent, to 2,700.97.

“Everything is linked now,” said David Katz, seniorportfolio strategist at Weiser Capital Management.“There is no such thing as a catastrophe happening inany major country and it not affecting the globaleconomy.”

Japan’s central bank pumped a record $184 billioninto money market accounts to encourage bank lend-ing. Financial analysts said the move could put pres-sure on Japan to raise interest rates, particularly sincethe country is saddled with massive debt that, at 200percent of gross domestic product, is the biggestamong developed nations.

“The fiscal position is deteriorating in Japan,” saidChanning Smith, managing director of equity strate-gies at Capital Advisors Inc.

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Flood of 2011 in Meigs County

Brenda Davis/photoStar Mill Park (pictured) also took on water during the weekend flooding as didsome portions of downtown Racine.

Brenda Davis/photoThis view from behind Sugar Run Mill shows backwater flooding in sections ofPomeroy, creating a temporary pond for some residents on Butternut Avenue andelsewhere.

Brenda Davis/photoBackwater flooding can be a good thing — if you prefer a pond in your backyard.Pictured are boaters cruising Butternut Avenue in Pomeroy.

Ramond M. Johnson, Sr./photoThis photo taken from Mason, W.Va. on Saturday afternoon shows the familiar site of downtown Pomeroy under water.

Charlene Hoeflich/photoLittle Crockett and Bryce Dennis were fascinated with the water on the sidewalkin downtown Pomeroy. Their parents had brought them down from Lancaster toget a look at the flooding Ohio.

Charlene Hoeflich/photoDowntown Pomeroy wasnʼt the only place where high water signs were in placeall weekend. Backup water is always a problem causing many streets to be flood-ed. One of those areas is between Butternut and Mechanic Streets.

Charlene Hoeflich/photoSaturday evening wearing his blue wading boots Mick Williams wades out into theflood water in front of the Swisher-Lohse building in downtown Pomeroy as thewater splashes up against the building.

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Request for Proposal The MeigsCounty Board of Commissionersare seeking proposals to provide acomprehensive year-round youthprogram to eligible youth ages 14-21 consistent with Meigs County’sWorkforce Development Plan, pro-visions of the federal Workforce In-vestment Act (WIA), and relatedfederal and state regulations. In es-tablishing youth activities underWIA, service providers are ex-pected to link programs with locallabor needs, provide a strong con-nection between academic and oc-cupational learning, and establishprograms which prepare youth forpost secondary education or un-subsidized employment as appro-priate. Services should include:determining eligibility for WIA pro-grams, providing a comprehensivearray of services to eligible youthand incorporating the ten programelements under WIA. The Boardhas allocated a total of $140,000(subject to available funds) for theolder and younger youth program.The Board has a strong preferencetoward a single contract incorporat-ing both youth programs and com-ponents. Contract period will be forthe period of July 1, 2011 to June30, 2012. Administrative cost maynot exceed 10% of the total contractaward. In addition, 30% of the totalcontract award must be used toserve out-of-school youth. Propos-als must demonstrate the capabilityto meet performance standards andto quantify program outcomes. Acopy of the Request for Proposalmay be picked up from MeigsCounty Board of Commissioners,100 East Second Street, Pomeroy,Ohio 45769. Proposals should besubmitted to the Meigs CountyBoard of Commissioners, 100 EastSecond Street, Pomeroy, Ohio nolater than Friday, March 18, 2011 at12:00 noon. All submissions mustbe received by mail or hand deliv-ery by the above date and time. Nomaterials received after the date willbe included in previous submis-sions nor be considered. TheBoard reserves the right to rejectany or all proposals. In accordancewith 29 CFR part 31, 32, MeigsCounty Board of Commissioners isprohibited from discrimination onthe basis of race, color, national ori-gin, sex, age, religion, political be-liefs, or disability. (3) 1, 8, 15, 2011

Labor Standards Provisions andDavis-Bacon Wages, various insur-ance requirements, various equalopportunity provisions, and the re-quirement for a payment bondwithin thirty (30) days after the ac-tual date of the opening thereof.The Meigs County Commissionersreserve the right to reject any or allbids.Mike Bartrum, PresidentMeigsCounty Commissioners (3) 2, 9,15, 2011

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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORSSealed proposals for the installationof the Racine Village Water MeterPurchase Project in Meigs County,Ohio, will be received by the MeigsCounty Commissioners at theCourthouse, Second Street,Pomeroy, Ohio 45769 until 1:00P.M., Thursday, March 24, 2011and then at 1:15 P.M., at said officeopened and read aloud for the fol-lowing:Racine Village Water MeterPurchase Project , Meigs County,Ohio- Specifications are provided inbid packet.Specifications, and bidforms may be secured at the officeof the Meigs County Commission-ers , Courthouse, Pomeroy, Ohio45769- Phone # 740-992-2895. Adeposit of O dollars will be requiredfor each set of plans and specifica-tions, check made payable to_______-_____________. The fullamount will be returned within thirty( 30 ) days after receipts ofbids.Each bid must be accompa-nied by either a bid bond in anamount of 100% of the bid amountwith a surety satisfactory to theaforesaid Meigs County Commis-sioners or by certified check,cashiers check, or letter of creditupon a solvent in the amount of notless 10% of the bid amount in favorof the Meigs County Commission-ers. Bid Bonds shall be accompa-nied by Proof of Authority of theofficial or agent signing thebond.Bids shall be sealed andmarked as Bid for Racine VillageWater Meter Purchase Project andmailed or delivered to:Meigs County CommissionersCourthouse, Second StreetPomeroy, Ohio 45769Attention ofbidders is called to all of the re-quirements contained in this bidpacket, particularly to the Federal

Community Center located at theNoble County Fairgrounds, Cald-well, Ohio; Thursday, April 7, 2011from 3 PM to 7 PM at the PomeroyLibrary 216 W. Main StreetPomeroy, Ohio. The MPO servingthe Washington County, Ohio areais the Wood-Washington-Wirt Inter-state Planning Commission (304-422-4993) located at 531 MarketStreet, Parkersburg, West Virgini-aAny comments concerning theStatewide Transportation Improve-ment Program may be submitted byemail to: STIP@dot.state.oh.us ormail to: Mrs. Jennifer Town-ley, Acting Deputy DirectorOffice of Planning Attn:Shyna Gawell Ohio Depart-ment of Transportation1980 West Broad StreetColumbus, Ohio 43223Writtencomments must be received by theclose of business on April 18, 2011.JERRY WRAYDEPARTMENT OF TRANS-PORTATION (3) 15, 2011

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NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY TOTHE PUBLIC STATE OF OHIO DE-PARTMENT OF TRANSPORTA-TION Columbus, Ohio You areinvited to be a part of Ohio’s up-coming Statewide TransportationImprovement Program (STIP). TheSTIP identifies the statewide pro-gram of highway and transit main-tenance and new capacity; andbicycle and other transportation re-lated projects that will be imple-mented throughout the State overthe next 4 years. The Draft docu-ments will be available for public re-view and comment at 30 locationsstatewide during the review periodof April 4, 2011 thru April 15, 2011,during normal business hours.These locations consist of the Plan-ning and Programming Administra-tor's Office in each of the twelveODOT District Offices, the ODOTCentral-Office Division of Planninglocated in Columbus, Ohio andeach of the seventeen Ohio Metro-politan Planning Organization(MPO) Offices. The ODOT DistrictOffice serving your area is locatedat 338 Muskingum Drive, Marietta,Ohio (740-568-3900). To facilitatethe STIP review, the District and theWood-Washington-Wirt InterstatePlanning Commission will jointlysponsor an open house on Tues-day, April 5, 2011 from 10 AM to 2PM at the Belpre Library, 2012Washington Blvd. in Belpre, Ohio.The District Office will hold severalother open houses: Monday, April4, 2011 from 3 PM to 7 PM at theWayne Forest National Headquar-ters, 13700 US 33 in Nelsonville,Ohio; Wednesday, April 6, 2011from 3 PM to 7 PM at the Caldwell

room.com, 5787 Linworth Road,Worthington, Ohio 43085. Phone(614) 781-9760 extension 226, Fax614-781-9759, e-maiI:cannell@cannellgraphics.biz at thenon-refundable cost of $ 125.00 perset payable by check only toKramer Engineers, plus a separatecheck made out to Cannell Graph-ics for shipping, if requested.Biddocuments can also be reviewed atthe office of Kramer Engineers,Monday through Friday from 8:00a.m. until 4:30 p.m. They can alsobe viewed at the Meigs CountyGrants Office located at 117 EastMemorial Drive, Pomeroy, Ohio45769, Monday through Fridayfrom 8:30 a.m. unit 4:00 p.m..PRE-BID MEETING:A pre-bid meetinghas been set for 3-16-2011, at 9:30a.m. at the site. The pre-bid meet-ing will start at the Meigs Annexbuilding, main lobby, located at 117East Memorial Drive, Pomeroy,Ohio 45769. Attendance is not re-quired, but contractors are stronglyencouraged to visit the site anytimeduring the owner normal workinghours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.,Monday through Friday.Bids for theabove described work must be ac-companied by a Bid Guaranty,meeting the requirements of Sec-tion 153.54 of the Ohio RevisedCode. No bidder may withdraw hisbid within sixty days after the actualdate of the bid opening.Biddersshall also note that the Rules andRegulations on Equal EmploymentOpportunity ( Executive Order11246) shall be made a part of thiscontract.This project is being exe-cuted in accordance with theEECDBG Ohio Development De-partment grant program under theARRA of 2009. All major equipmentmust be American made in accor-dance with the AARA of 2009. Thisrequirement is the responsibility ofthe bidder to adhere to at alltimes.This project is a prevailingwage project in accordance with theFederal Davis Bacon Act. Prevail-ing wages rates for this projecthave been included in the docu-ments , but the contractor can ob-tain current wage rates athttp://www.gpo.gov/davisbacon/.DOMESTIC STEEL USE REQUIRE-MENTS AS SPECIFIED IN SEC-TION153.011 OF THE REVISEDCODE APPLIES TO THIS PRO-JECT. COPIES OF SECTION153.11 OF THE REVISED CODECAN BE OBTAINED FROM ANYOF THE OFFICES OF THE DE-PARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVESERVICES.The project shall becompleted within 150 consecutivecalendar days. There shall not beany off hours work required. Thisproject shall be completed duringnormal business hours, Mondaythrough Friday. Exact work timesand days can be arranged duringthe pre-construction meeting.Theright is reserved by the MeigsCounty Commissioners to rejectany or all bids, to waive informali-ties or to accept any bid, which isdeemed most favorable to theMeigs County Commissioners.Mike Bartrum, President MeigsCounty Commissioners (3) 9, 15,22, 2011

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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORSOwner:Meigs County Commission-ers HVAC RenovationsCountyAnnex Building and Health Depart-ment Building 100 East SecondStreet Pomeroy, Ohio 45769 Pro-ject Engineer: Kramer Engineers394 Oak Street Columbus, Ohio43215 (614) 233-6911 Contact: PhilGriffith he Meigs County Commis-sioners will receive sealed bids onthe following Contracts: RENOVA-TION OF HVAC FOR THECOUNTY ANNEX BUILDING: $ 72,950.00RENOVATION OF HVACFOR THE HEALTH DEPARTMENTBUILDING: $ 153,750.00Add. Alt:M1 ( Replace existing RTU1 on thebuilding as shown)Add. Alt: M2 (Replace Pneum, 3-way heating &cooling control valves on AHU1 &AHU2) RENOVATIONS OF ELEC-TRICAL WORK FOR ANNEXBUILDING: $ 13, 950.00 RENOVA-TIONS OF ELECTRICAL WORKFOR HEALTH DEPARTMENTBUILDING: $ 29,850.00 Add. Alt: (Provide power renovations for Alt.M1-RTU1 replacement Bids shallbe on a lump sum basis with alter-nates for additional work to basebid(s). The Meigs County Commis-sioners will receive bids untilThursday, March 31, 2011 at 1:30P.M. local time at the office of theMeigs County Commissioners at100 East Second Street, Court-house, Pomeroy, Ohio 45769. Bidsreceived later that this time will notbe considered. Bids will be openedand publicly read aloud immedi-ately after the specified bid closingtime. The Contract Documents areavailable for purchase from Can-nell Graphics, www.cannellplan-

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