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‘Mingo’s Most Wanted:’ Arson, homicide caseRachel Dove-Baldwinstaff writer

GILBERT — A case that has remained unsolved for 1 1/2 years is the Daily News’ most recent “Min-go’s Most Wanted” profile, in hopes that someone with knowledge and informa-tion about a homicide and arson case that occurred on Gilbert Creek on Aug. 3, 2011, will come forward and share what they know with law enforcement.

Mingo County Sheriff’s Department (MCSD) Sgt. Joe Smith and Sgt. James Muncy are being assisted

in their investigation by WV Asst. State Fire Mar-shal Brad Hartley, as they search for the truth as to who beat Rue Cline Mor-gan, 54, of Hanover, so severally that she suffered a skull fracture, multiple broken ribs, a broken arm and shoulder, and then took her to a rental proper-ty located at Gilbert Creek that was owned by her husband. Once there, the unknown assailant poured gasoline on the body and around the property and set it afire. If the attacker believed Morgan to be de-

ceased when he dumped her inside the unoccupied mobile home – he was mis-taken.

A coal miner on his way home from work passed the location at approxi-mately 3:30 a.m., and told law enforcement that he seen flames shooting from the structure and then observed a woman who was on fire screaming for help as she tried to climb through a window. The Good Samaritan managed to free Morgan from the window, got her on the ground and extinguished

the flames that consumed a large portion of her body. The victim was transport-ed to the burn unit of Ca-bell Huntington Hospital where she passed away one week later, on Aug. 10.

The autopsy report from the WV State Medi-cal Examiner’s office list the cause of death as blunt impact injuries and mul-tiple injuries she suffered

as the result of a set fire.The investigating of-

ficers are hoping that someone will provide the answers they are seeking to solve this horrible crime and also give a sense of clo-sure to the victim’s family. The State Fire Marshal’s Office is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and

submitted photoRue Cline Morgan, 54, of Hanover, was a victim in a homicide/arson case that oc-curred 1 1/2 years ago that remains unsolved.

“The victim was severely beaten and then set on fire.”

— MCSD Sgt. Joe Smith

photos by Julia r goad | daily newsMs. Keene’s headstart class releases balloons to pay tribute to their teacher who passed away this week.

Southside pays tribute to Carmen KeeneJulia Roberts Goadstaff writer

TOLER, Ky. — Southside Elementary gathered to pay tribute to one of their own, Carmen Keene, a headstart teacher who passed away this week.

A program of music and prayer was high-lighted by a balloon release, with each grade at the school sharing a word they felt de-scribed Ms. Keene: devoted, compassionate, unique, loving, caring and funny. Her head-start class used the word ‘purple’ as they re-leased purple balloons into the air.

A tree was planted in her honor at the school, accompanied by a memorial bench built by the Belfry High Vocational School. Members of Ms. Keene’s family took part in a ceremony dedicating the tree to Ms. Keene.

Carolyn Hylton, a former teacher at South-side, wrote a tribute that was read at the cer-emony, part of which follows:

“For all of us who worked with her, the children who loved her and all whose lives were happier because of her, there is a huge emptiness now. Her gift to us will remain through the faces of the hundreds that she taught and loved unconditionally.”

Ky. Senate adopts resolution to establish VA med centerChad Abshirestaff writer

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky State Sen-ate recently adopted Sen-ate Resolution 193, which urges the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to consider estab-lishing a VA Medical Cen-ter in southeastern Ken-tucky.

The resolution was proposed by Sen. Ray S. Jones, (D-Pikeville).

“It would be very easy to establish a VA Medical Center in southeastern Kentucky by contract-ing with a local hospital to provide the services

for our veterans,” Jones said.

Kentucky currently has only two full-service veter-ans hospitals, the Lexing-ton VA Medical Center and the Robley Rex VA Medical Center in Louisville.

This, according to Jones, leaves veterans who are residents of southeastern Kentucky with no other option than driving to Lex-ington, Louisville, or one of the surrounding states to utilize the services of a veterans hospital.

“Southeastern Kentucky is home to more than 34,000 veterans who have courageously served our country, many of whom

sacrificed their own safe-ty for the freedom of all Americans,” Jones said. “The courage and sacri-fices exemplified by our veterans require no less than our unwavering de-termination to ensure that they are able to easily uti-lize the benefits they have so bravely earned.”

Sen. Johnny Ray Turner, (D-Prestonsburg), is the primary co-sponsor of the resolution.

“If the United States Department of Veterans Affairs would establish a VA Medical Center in southeastern Kentucky, it would greatly ease travel burdens of many

veterans residing in Southeastern Kentucky who turn to VA Medical Centers for their health-care needs,” Jones said.

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Guilty pleas continue in Mingo circuit courtRachel Dove-Baldwinstaff writer

WILLIAMSON — Mingo County Circuit Court Judge Michael Thornsbury has experienced a very busy week, conducting additional plea hearings for defendants who had been indicted and arrested on a variety of felony drug charges during Operation Zero Tolerance.

Nicholas Aaron Bland, Indictment J13-F17; pleaded guilty to delivery of a Schedule I controlled substance (Marijuana), a lesser included offense of distribution of Schedule I con-trolled substance (Marijuana) within 1,000 Feet of a School by person 18 Years of Age or Older. Bland is exposed to a sentence of confinement in a state correctional facility for an indefinite term of not less than 1 year nor more than 5 years. The defendant was represented by Attorney Diana Carter Wiedel. Mingo County Drug Task Force Commander C. D. Rockel and Mingo County Sheriff’s Dept. (MCSD) Corporal C. Endicott were the primary investigating officers.

Charles Ray Hubbard, Indictments J13-F32 and J13-F33; entered a guilty plea to charges of possession of a Schedule II controlled substance (Oxycodone) with intent to deliver as charged. Hubbard faces a possible sentence of 1-15 years. Cline was represented by Attorney Kathryn Cisco-Sturgell. Williamson Police Department (WPD) Chief C. D. Rockel was the officer that investigated the case.

Marvin Vance, Indictments J13-F51 and J13-F72; pled guilty to delivery of a Schedule II controlled substance (Oxy-codone) as charged, and possession of Schedule II controlled substance (Oxycodone) with intent to deliver. Vance is ex-posed to an aggregate sentence of confinement in a state prison facility for an indefinite term of not less than 2 years, or more than 30 years. Attorney Charles Stanford West served as legal counsel for the defendant. MCSD Deputy E. L. Sherrill was the primary investigating officer.

Victor Randolph Webb, Indictment J13-F58; pleaded guilty to attempt (Delivery of Schedule II controlled sub-stance; Oxycodone), a lesser included offense of the origi-nal charge of delivery of a Schedule II controlled substance (Oxycodone). The defendant faces a sentence of confine-ment in a state correctional facility for an indefinite term of 1-3 years. Webb was represented during the hearing by Attorney Kathryn Cisco-Sturgell. MCSD Corporal N. Mines was the primary investigating officer.

Bobby Young, Indictment J13-F61; entered a guilty plea of delivery of Schedule IV controlled substance (Diazepam) as charged. Young faces a possible prison sentence of 1-3 years. Webb is represented by Attorney Marsha Webb-Rumora. WPD Chief C. D. Rockel was officer who investigated this case.

The sentences will be imposed on April 24 at 9:30 a.m.in the Circuit Courtroom.

“Operation Zero Tolerance continues to be very produc-tive with multiple new cases every week,” stated C. Michael Sparks, Prosecuting Attorney. “We are on the cusp of yet an-other very busy term of court in April 2012.”

Groups uniting to help address childhood povertyJulia Roberts Goadstaff writer

WILLIAMSON — A campaign to address the issue of child poverty in Mingo County will kick off with a meeting next week in Williamson.

According the West Virginia Healthy Kids, 30 per-cent of West Virginia children under age six live in pov-erty, meaning a family of three earns less than $20,000 a year.

Local agencies are partnering for “Our Children, Our Future:.Mingo County Childhood Poverty Forum.”

Groups involved in the effort include the Mingo County Diabetes Coalition, the Williamson Hous-ing Authority; Logan-Mingo Area Mental Health, the Strong Through Our Plan (STOP) Coalition; the Chris-tian Appalachian Project; and Sr. Brendan Conlon, vol-unteer with Christian Help of Mingo County.

The campaign will kick off with a community meet-ing at 4 p.m. March 22 on the fourth floor of Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College’s Wil-liamson Campus.

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The USDA Rural Housing Service has received an application for federal assistance from the City of Williamson Fire Department. The proposed project consists of a narrowband radio repeater to be used by members of said department in the performance of their duties in and around the City of Williamson area. This notice is also to inform the public of a public meeting to be held on Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 5:45 pm in the Council Chambers at Williamson City Hall, Williamson, West Virginia. The purpose of this meeting is to provide an opportunity to become acquainted with the proposed project and to comment on economic and environmental impacts, service area, or alternatives to the project.

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March 16The Lyrick Talent

Quest will be held at the Mountain Arts Center in Prestonsburg, Ky. Regis-tration is from 5:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. and perfor-mances are from 7 p.m. until 11 p.m. Guest ad-mission is $11 and artist registration is $20.

The Disabled American Veterans Chapter #141, Belfry, Ky., and its aux-iliary, will have its regu-lar meeting at the Belfry Courthouse starting at 2 p.m. All members, and honorably discharged vet-erans, and their spouses, are invited to attend.

March 17The Rose of Sharon

Missionary Society of the Logan Street First Baptist Church will sponsor its an-nual “Women in White,” at 3 p.m. Ladies are asked to wear white and a purple ribbon will be given out. A reception will follow.

March 19The Mingo County

Democrat Women will conduct their first meet-ing at 6 p.m. at the Thor-oughbred Steak House. Our speaker will be Susan Hubbard, State President of the Democrat Women.

Janet Artrip, Third Dis-trict Manager will also be attending. Come and hear the plans for we women to be involved in at the state and county level. Bring a friend with you. Member-ship information has been mailed and the 2013 meet-ing calendar will be sent upon paid membership. If you have not received your membership packet please call 235-0099 or 235-0737 and one will be sent to you.

The Pike County Retired Teachers Association will meet at 11 a.m. at the top of the Landmark in Pikev-ille. All retired teachers are invited to attend.

The Town of Matewan will have a budget meeting 6 p.m.

Bevins Elementary School will hold a regu-larly-scheduled SBDM meeting at 3:45 p.m. in the school’s library.

March 21Stone Hertiage will

holds its regular monthly Social Meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the Conference Room of Appalachian 1st Response. Everyone is wel-come to attend.

The Tug Valley Shrine Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Williamson Masonic Lodge. All members are in-

vited to attend.

March 20Williamson Public Li-

brary begins its weekly preschool story hour at 11 a.m.. The program will run for six weeks. For more information call 304 235-6029.

March 23The 8th Annual Pond

Creek Community Easter Egg Hunt will be held at the home of Bill and Dar-lene Ball at 1 p.m. Every-one is invited.

March 25The Mingo County

Health Department will conduct a food school at 1 p.m. at Los Amigos Dos (formerly the Brass Tree) in Williamson. For more information or to register, call 304-235-3570.

March 26 - 27

The Mingo Career Center will be holding GED testing for candi-dates who have pased the Official Practice Test. For more informa-tion, contact John Webb at 304-475-3347 ext. 13. To register for Adult Ba-sic Education to take the Official Practice Test, contact Mary Oliver at 304-475-2022 or email mingoabe@gmail.com.

March 28The Williamson City

Council will hold its sec-ond monthly meeting at 6 p.m. in the council cham-bers of city hall. The public is invited to attend.

April 4Pianafiddle, consisting

of Adam Degraff and Ran-dy Morris, will perform at

7 p.m. at the Mingo Cen-tral High School Theater as part of the Tug Valley Arts Council 2012-2013 program series. The duo’s performance will range from bluegrass to Bach. For more information, call 606-237-9800 or 304-235-3000.

April 4 - 5The Belfry United Meth-

odist Church Women’s Society will have a hot dog and rummage sle in the church’s basement from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. The church is located be-side R.E. Rogers Funeral Home, in Belfry, Ky.

April 11The Williamson City

Council will hold its first monthly meeting at 6 p.m. in the council chambers of city hall. The public is in-vited to attend.

April 19 - 20Metro Valley Gabriel

Project and Williamson Church of God will spon-sor a crib drive from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. Contributions can be made locally at Wil-liamson Church of God, with pickup service avail-able. For more informa-tion, call 304-414-4MOM or 304-235-2026.

April 23 - 24The Mingo Career

Center will be holding GED testing for candi-dates who have pased the Official Practice Test. For more informa-tion, contact John Webb at 304-475-3347 ext. 13. To register for Adult Ba-sic Education to take the Official Practice Test, contact Mary Oliver at 304-475-2022 or email mingoabe@gmail.com.

April 25The Williamson City

Council will hold its sec-ond monthly meeting at 6 p.m. in the council cham-bers of city hall. The public is invited to attend.

May 28 - 29The Mingo Career

Center will be holding GED testing for candi-dates who have pased the Official Practice Test. For more informa-tion, contact John Webb at 304-475-3347 ext. 13. To register for Adult Ba-sic Education to take the Official Practice Test, contact Mary Oliver at 304-475-2022 or email mingoabe@gmail.com

OngoingWilliamson Public Li-

brary preschool story hour is held every Wednesday at 11 a.m. For more informa-tion call the library at 304 235-6029.

Starters Sports Restau-rant and Lyrick Promo-tions, LTD., presents The Acoustic Guitar Revue, featuring live music each monday from 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Starters.

A Circle of Parents meeting will be held on the third Thursday of each month at 1 p.m. at Logan Street First Bap-tist Church. Meetings offer anyone in a parent-ing role to participate in a group meeting to exchange ideas, share information, develop and practice new skills and more. Contact David Bell for more information at 304-443-3041.

Mingo Extended Learning Center is ac-cepting applications for our Practical Nursing Program for the Class of 2013-2014. Applicants must take and pass a pre-entrance exam to be con-sidered for the program. Testing dates are March 5, April 9, and May 7. There is a $35 testing fee. For additional infor-maiton call 304 475-3347 ext. 16 or 29.

Mingo Extended Learning Center is ac-cepting applicaitons for the Medical Office/Ac-counting Program for the fall program. For additional information contact Alichia Marsico at 304 475-3347, ext. 25.

The Pike County Health Department is of-fering free diabetes man-agement classes. There are various dates and times available includ-ing one Saturday during January 2013 at the Pike County Health Depart-ment. For more informa-tion, call Paula Compton at 606-509-5503. Free di-abetes self management classes are also offered to business and worksite wellness programs.

Southside Elementary School will conduct a pre-school story hour program for children between 2 and 4-years-old and not cur-rently enrolled in school. For more information, call the school at 606-353-1284.

Narcotics Anonymous meets Sunday at 3 p.m. and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Harry L. Joyce Community Center.

The West Virginia Army National Guard is taking applications for qualified applicants only. Appli-

cants must be between the ages of 17 - 35 unless they have prior military ser-vice. No drug violations of felonies, meet height and weight requirements, be a high school gradu-ate, or have completed the ninth-grade. We of-fer up to $50,000 student loan repayment, state and federal tuition assistance, medical, dental and life insurance and a part-time career with the opportu-nity to become full-time. For more information, call recruiter SSG Donna Smith at 3047 201-3196 or email her at donna.smith24@us.army.mil.

Workforce West Vir-ginia will take all new unemployment claims at its office at 300 Prosper-ity Lane, Logan, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Please arrive 30 minutes prior to complete an applica-tion. This does not affect the intenerate office in Williamson DHHR office on Wednesdays from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m.

The Parsley Freewill Baptist Food Panty will continue to provide USDA commodities. The pantry gives out the commodi-ties once, monthly, on the fourth Thursday.

Mingo Extended Learn-ing Center (formerly Mingo Career and Tech-nical Center) is currently accepting applications for the Medical Office Tech-nology and Legal Office Technology programs for the 2012-2013 school term. For more informa-tion, call (304) 475-3347 ext. 25.

Hatfield and McCoy Feud descendants are be-ing sought for a special project by Leah Hatfield and Kim McCoy. Specifi-cally, only direct descen-dants of the feud still carrying the last names of Hatfield or McCoy. Hat-fields may contact Leah Hatfield at 843-575-0594 or by email theonenurse@yahoo.com. McCoys may contact Kim McCoy at 502-751-5200 or by email derby130@insightbb.com.

Operation Charity food pantry will distribute free USDA food from noon un-til 2 p.m. the last Friday of each month at the New Vision Assembly Church in Hatfield Bottom.

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Obituaries

LawrenceEdward Stacy

Lawrence Edward Stacy, 83 of Toler, Ky., passed away Wednesday March 13, 2013, at the Appala-chin Regional Hospital in South Williamson, Ky.

He was born on Septem-ber 25, 1929, at Panther. He was the son of the late Walter and Berchie Bailey Stacy. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brothers, Elbert, Luther, Hobert, Fred, Jay, Vexter, Walter Jr., Cecil, Don Stacy; and

a granddaughter, Melanie Lynn Stacy.

Lawrence was a retired N&S Railroad conductor with 42 years of service. He ws chairman of the UTU Lodge #0655 and a member of the Fifth Av-enue Church of Christ, Williamson. He was a U.S. Navy veteran serving on the USS Santee Aircraft Carrier in the Pacific The-ater of Operation during WWII. He was awarded several medals including the Presidential Unit Ci-tation (CVE-29) and the WWII Victory Medal.

Survivors include his loving wife of 65 years, Vivian R. Hopkins Stacy; and sons, David Law-rence (Linda) Stacy of Hendersonville, Tenn., and Dwight Edward (Rhonda) Stacy of Toler, Ky.; grandsons, Andrew (Laura) Stacy of Nashville, Tenn., and Dustin Edward Stacy of Toler, Ky.; great-granddaughters, Evelyn Jane and Emma Katherine Stacy of Nashville, Tenn. He will be missed by his family, friends and railroad buddies.

Visitation will be at R. E. Rogers Funeral Home at Belfry, Ky., from 6 p.m.

until 9 p.m. on Friday, March 15. The funeral will be at R. E. Rogers Funeral Home on Saturday, March 16, at 1 p.m. with Ed Lock-ard officiating. Burial will follow at the Mountain View Memory Gardens at Huddy, Ky., with family and friends serving as pall-bearers.

R. E. Rogers Funeral Home of Belfry, Ky., is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences at re-rogersfuneralhome.com

AndreauChapman MorganAndreau Chapman

Morgan, 25, of Gilbert, died March 13, 2013.

He was born January 2, 1988.

Visitation will be held Saturday, March 16, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Mounts Funeral Home Chapel in Gilbert. Funer-al services will be con-ducted Sunday, March 17, at 2 p.m. at Mounts

Funeral Home Chapel in Gilbert.

Mounts Funeral Home in Gilbert is in charge of arrangements.

Jack E. PhillipsJack E. Phillips, 84, of

Richmond, Ky.,, formerly of Burnwell, passed away suddenly on Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at Bap-tist Health in Richmond, Ky.

Born February 5, 1929, at Burnwell, Ky., he was the son of the late Earl Phillips and Opal Pigman Phillips.

In addition to his par-ents he is preceded in death by a brother, James Philips; and a sister, Bil-lie Cammack.

Jack was a retired educator. He was well respected by fellow edu-cators and beloved by his science students.

During his years of employment with the Mingo County Board of Education he taught sci-

ence at Matewan High School and Williamson High School. He was the supervisor of the county science department at the time of his retire-ment.

Jack was a Lieuten-ant Commander in the United State Navy and served in the Pacific The-ater during the Korean War. He was stationed in Honolulu, Hawaii for a period of time and it was there that his daughter Ann V. Phillips was born.

Jack is survived by his loving wife of 60 years, Valerie Ruzie Phillips; and a beloved daughter, Ann V. Phillips, of Rich-mond, Ky. He is also sur-vived by a sister, Mary Martha Hackney of Ard-more, Ala.

The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday evening, March 15, at Weaver Mor-tuary in West Williamson. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Satur-day, March 16, at the mor-tuary. The Rev. Ron Sanger will officiate. Interment is in the Phillips Cemetery at Burnwell, Ky. Family mem-bers and friends will serve as pallbearers.

Express online condo-lences at www.weaver-mortuaryinc.com. Weaver Mortuary of West William-son is serving the Phillips family.

Wendell Keith “Pork” Morgan

Wendell Keith “Pork” Morgan, 53 of Bruno, died Wednesday, March 13, 2013.

Born February 19, 1960 at Man, he was the son of Daisy Toler Morgan and the late Wirt Morgan, Jr.

Friends may gather with the family at the Sandlick Freewill Baptist Church at Bruno on Friday, March 15, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 16, at the Sandlick Freewill Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the Browning Grimmett Cem-etery at Bruno.

Mounts Funeral Home of Gilbert is in charge of arrangements.

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conviction of the person (persons) respon-sible for the death and arson.

“This victim died a terrible death,” stat-ed Sgt. Smith. “It’s chilling to think of all the suffering she went through before she died. First, she was severely beaten; had multiple fractures, breaks and contusions, and then she was set on fire.”

“No one deserves to die like that.”If you have knowledge of these crimes

and who committed them, you are asked to contact Sgt. Joe Smith or Sgt. James Muncy at the MCSD; 304-235-0300, ext. 371. It is not necessary to provide your

name if you wish to remain anonymous, they are only interested in the information that will help solve this case and bring those responsible to justice.

“We have reviewed all of the informa-tion we have gathered so far and spoke with several people, but we are at a stand-still with the investigation at this time,” said Sgt. Muncy. “We’re remaining opti-mistic that someone will step forward and do the right thing and provide the parts of the puzzle we’re missing.”

With a $5,000 reward now in place for the person who provides the information to solve this case, the officers are hoping the tips will start rolling in.

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hensively by focusing on primary and secondary issues, such as Medicaid expansion, family violence prevention, stopping cuts in child-care, healthy food initiatives and bi-partisan prison reform.

Sister Janet Peterworth of the Chris-tian Appalachian Project expressed con-cerns about health care for children liv-ing in poverty and Medicaid expansion.

“Medicaid expansion of the affordable care act would add 120,000 West Virgin-ians to health insurance,” Sister Janet said. “With the federal government pay-ing virtually all of the cost for the first 3 years of life and 90 percent afterwards, we can’t afford not to do this.”

Children living below the poverty level are three times as likely to have se-vere health problems, than kids not liv-ing near the poverty line. Locally, child-hood obesity is an issue being tackled by the Mingo County Diabetes Coalition (MCDC).

“With such high obesity rates in West Virginia, it’s important to provide access to healthy foods and to teach healthy eating habits at an early age.” Maria Ar-not of the MCDC.

Prison reform is another issue that affects children living in poverty. Often times, parents who have served time in

the prison system, the majority of those sentences can be traced by to drug abuse and dependency. Those who have a felo-ny conviction on their record can be de-nied services from government agencies when they try to rebuild their lives.

“Families are the ones that are suf-fering from discriminatory practices against people who have paid their debt to society,” said Sr. Brendan Conlon, a volunteer with Christian Help. “Chil-dren especially are suffering from denial of food stamps, denial of places to live.”

With the loss of that social safety net, many people fall prey to the problem of cyclical poverty.

“No one changes by themselves,” said Robin Weiner, Children’s Liaison, Lo-gan-Mingo Area Mental Health. “With lifelong punishment and limited assis-tance, many give up we take away the hope and belief that positive change is possible and worthwhile.”

Alexis Batausa of the MCDC said it is important the community work together toward addressing issues involving Min-go County children living in poverty.

“In this day and age, we need to speak our minds towards issues that affect each and everyone in Mingo County,” Batausa said. “If we don’t do this, the livelihood of each citizen will be at-risk.”

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Ex-boss: Rampage suspect was ‘spooky’ recentlyJohn KekisMichael HillThe Associated Press

HERKIMER, N.Y. — Police SWAT teams navigated a cluttered, aban-doned bar to find the suspect in four fatal shootings holed up in a small room, killing him in a shootout early Thursday with officers after a nearly 19-hour standoff that paralyzed an upstate New York village.

Why Kurt Myers, described as a loner, went on the shooting rampage the day before remained a mystery.

A man who worked for 20 years with Myers said that he was intelli-gent, quiet and a good worker who got along well with colleagues, but that he was “spooky” recently.

Steve Copperwheat, who hired My-ers as a machine operator in the early 1980s at Waterbury Felt, a manufac-turer of industrial textiles, said he en-countered him in a Wal-Mart parking lot three months ago after not seeing him in about 10 years.

“I yelled over to him and he looked at me, said my name, said he was re-tired, and just went booking away,” Copperwheat said. “It was almost like he didn’t want anybody to know where he was. He was trying to be very distant, which surprised me. The whole conversation was really spooky.”

Myers was killed Thursday morn-ing by police in a building where he had hidden since Wednesday morn-ing’s rampage.

State police Superintendent Joseph D’Amico said state police and FBI tac-tical teams entered the first floor of a building in Herkimer around 8 a.m. to end the standoff with Myers, 64, of neighboring Mohawk. Myers opened fire through a door at officers, killing an FBI dog, D’Amico said.

Police returned fire, killing Myers, he said. No officers were injured.

Myers’ death ended a nearly 24-hour ordeal that engulfed the Mo-hawk Valley villages, where police say Myers killed four men and two wounded two others at a barbershop in Mohawk and a car care business in Herkimer.

D’Amico said police still don’t know why Myers went to the two small businesses and opened fire with a shotgun. He called the attacks

“unprovoked and random.”“He’s apparently a loner,” D’Amico

said. “He didn’t have a lot of contact with his family. The few people we did find that were relatives — we in-terviewed some neighbors — nobody could offer any explanation.”

Authorities said Myers opened fire on police at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday along a block in Herkimer as they searched for him. They surrounded an abandoned bar called Glory Days where they believed he was holed up. Police had said earlier they were willing to wait out Myers. But Thurs-day morning, they sent in the SWAT teams.

“It just seemed like the appropriate time,” D’Amico said.

Police said Myers’ rampage started with a fire in his apartment in the nearby village of Mohawk at about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.

He then drove to John’s Barber Shop around the corner and used a shotgun to kill two customers, D’Amico said, identifying them as Harry Montgomery, 68, and Michael Ransear, 57, a retired corrections officer. In addition to Seymour, the shop’s owner, another customer, Dan Haslauer, also was listed in critical condition at a Utica hospital.

The gunman then drove to Gaffey’s Fast Lube in nearby Herkimer and used the shotgun to kill Michael Renshaw and Thomas Stefka. Ren-shaw was a 23-year employee of the state corrections department who worked at Mid-State Correctional Facility near Utica. Stefka worked at Gaffey’s and attended Mohawk Re-form Church, where he played guitar during services.

John Seymour, one of the men wounded in the attacks told his sister, Mary Hornett, the barbershop attack came out of nowhere.

“He just said that the guys were in the barbershop and this guy comes in and he says, ‘Hi John, do you remem-ber me?’ and my brother said, ‘Yes, Kurt, how are you?’ and then he just started shooting,” Hornett said.

Hornett said her brother, who was hospitalized in critical condition, was doing well after being shot in the left hand and right hip.

“My brother couldn’t think of any reason why he would do such a thing,” she said of Myers, a former customer who hadn’t been in the shop for a couple of years.

Radiation for breast cancer can harm heartsMarilynn MarchioneAP Chief Medical Writer

Women treated with ra-diation for breast cancer are more likely to develop heart problems later, even with the lower doses used today, troubling new re-search suggests. The risk comes from any amount of radiation, starts five years after treatment and lasts for decades, doctors found.

Patients shouldn’t panic — radiation has improved cancer survival, and that is the top priority, doctors say. The chance of suffer-ing a radiation-induced heart problem is fairly small.

For example, 4 to 5 of ev-ery 100 women who are 50 years old and free of heart risks will develop a major cardiac problem by age 80, and radiation treatment would add one more case, the research suggests.

Women also can do a lot to cut their risk by keep-ing weight, cholesterol and blood pressure under control.

Still, the study reveals that the potential harm from radiation runs deeper than many medical ex-perts may have realized, especially for women who already have cardiac risk factors such as diabetes.

And it comes amid greater awareness of over-treatment — that many women are being treated for cancers that would never prove fatal, leading to trouble down the road such as heart disease.

Some chemotherapy drugs are known to harm the heart muscle, but the new study shows radiation can hurt arteries, making them prone to harden and clog and cause a heart at-tack. Women who receive both treatments have both types of risk.

The study “will raise the antenna” about the need to do more to prevent this, said Dr. David Slosky, a car-diologist at Vanderbilt Uni-

versity, one of the growing number of medical centers with special “cardio-oncol-ogy” programs for cancer survivors.

With today’s lower ra-diation doses, “it is less of a problem, but it is not going away,” he said.

The artery-related prob-lems that the study tracked may be just the most vis-ible of many risks because radiation also can cause valve, rhythm and other heart troubles, said Dr. Ja-vid Moslehi. He is co-direc-tor of the cardio-oncology program at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

Like cancer, heart disease develops after “a number of strikes that go against you,” such as high cholesterol, he said. “The radiation is just another hit.”

He wrote in an editorial that appears with the study in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine. British government agencies and private foundations paid for the research.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women — more than a million cases are diagnosed each year worldwide. When it’s confined to the breast, most women get surgery to re-move the lump, followed by several weeks of radiation to kill any lingering cancer cells and sometimes hor-mone or chemotherapy.

What heart disease risks come from what specific doses isn’t known. The new study, led by Dr. Sarah Darby of the University of Oxford in England, sought to measure that.

It involved 2,168 breast cancer patients from Swe-den and Denmark diagnosed between 1958 and 2001 and treated with radiation. They included 963 women who suffered a heart attack, needed an artery-opening procedure or died of heart artery-related causes in the years after their radiation treatment. The other 1,205 were similar patients who did not develop these heart

problems.Researchers compared

the women’s radiation ex-posures using gray units, a measure of how much is absorbed by the body. They used hospital records and treatment plans to figure how many gray units actu-ally reached each woman’s heart and one artery often involved in heart attacks.

Most women treated to-day get doses that result in 1 to 5 gray units reaching the heart — more if the cancer is in the left breast. Patients in the study got an average of five gray units; the doses ranged from 1 to 28.

The risk of a heart attack, need for an artery-opening procedure or dying of heart disease rose about 7 percent per gray unit and no “safe” level was seen. The risk started to rise within five years of treatment and con-tinued for at least 20 years.

What to do?Don’t forgo radiation if

it’s recommended because it is lifesaving and doctors increasingly have ways to shield the heart from expo-sure, said Dr. Bruce Haffty, associate director of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and president-elect of ASTRO, the American Society for Radiation On-cology.

“Whatever cardiac risks may be there, they are out-weighed by the cancer ben-efit,” he said.

Some centers have spe-cial tables that women lie on face-down with holes for the breast to hang through. That allows radiation to be delivered just to that tissue rather than the wider chest area that gets irradiated when a woman lies face-up on a table.

Women need to tell any doctor treating them about radiation they have received in the past. It may mean they should avoid diagnostic tests that use radiation and instead have ultrasounds and MRI, or magnetic reso-nance imaging, whenever possible, Slosky said.

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Editorial

New York City May-or Michael Bloomberg ’s ban on large-size sodas at certain es-tablishments, c o l l o q u i a l l y known as the soda ban, is a lesson in how to make your cause look ri-diculous.

Bloomberg hoped the ban would spark a nationwide crackdown on sugary beverages. Instead, it became the subject of widespread mockery, in-spired an instant-classic New York Post headline (“Soda Jerk”) and got struck down by a New York judge this week as “arbitrary and capri-cious.”

You could say that Bloomberg jumped the shark, except shark-jump-ing is associated with un-due health risks that may burden public hospitals in the vicinities where it takes place and therefore should be banned in all coastal areas of the Unit-ed States.

If the makers of “School-house Rock!” were to illus-trate the process whereby New York almost got its soda ban, it would be very easy. Mayor Bloomberg tells the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene what to do, and it does it. No fuss or muss with the City Council, the elected body accountable to the people of New York that is sup-posed to write laws.

Bloomberg managed to craft a measure with the least possible bang for the diktat. It forbids drinks over 16 ounces at restaurants and delis, movie theaters and food carts. It doesn’t ban them at supermarkets or con-venience stores, where people buy most of their soda. It leaves 7-Eleven and its unapologetically gut-busting Big Gulp un-molested.

In other words, the soda ban is like prohibit-ing cigarette advertising — except for Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man. Or like forcing top-shelf New York restaurants such as Per Se and La Grenouille to no longer serve bottles of wine as a way to fight alcoholism.

Bloomberg is a true believer in the lifesav-ing consequences of his health agenda, and his smoking ban did indeed sweep the country. Yet his soda measure is so obvi-ously ineffectual symbol-ism that it has a whiff of imposing his will for the sheer sake of it.

The city’s lawyers ar-gued in court that the Board of Health could hand down the new soda rule because it has broad powers to fight disease. But there is a difference between an outbreak of a deadly com-municable dis-

ease that has people drop-ping in the streets and excessive soda consump-tion. If someone drinks a 32-ounce Cherry Coke next to you at a movie theater, it doesn’t make you sick.

In his decision striking down the ban — which the city is appealing — Judge Milton Tingling mentioned that, in the 19th century, the Board of Health was given the pow-er to put contagious pa-tients out to sea in float-ing hospitals. If a health expert from some univer-sity somewhere suggested floating obese people out to sea as a weight-loss measure, Bloomberg might be sorely tempted.

A mere partial ban on large serving sizes is un-likely to have any effect, though. In a piece for The Daily Beast, Trevor Butterworth noted a study that found the top-consuming 20 percent of adolescent boys drank an ungodly 193.6 ounces, or more than a gallon, a day. Does Bloomberg think anything he does short of an outright ban on all soda will stop these kids? Even in that event, they would undoubtedly visit Mountain Dew speak-easies and imbibe home-brewed Dr Pepper.

If the mayor somehow succeeded in reducing the calories people get through soda, they could always get them another way. In a study called “From Coke to Coors,” Cornell University re-searchers conducted an experiment “in a small American city where half of the households faced a 10 percent [soda] tax and half did not.” They report that “in beer-purchasing households, this tax led to increased purchases of beer.”

The New York Times related that the mayor’s office is particularly anx-ious over the fate of the soda ban because the mayor is more and more concerned about his leg-acy. He shouldn’t worry. His reputation as the na-tion’s foremost highhand-ed scold is already well-established.

Bloomberg’s soda folly

For the people had a mind to work“So built we the wall; and

all the wall was joined togeth-er unto the half theerof; for the people had a mind to work.” Nehemiah 4:6

Nehemiah led the last group of Jews back to Jerusa-lem after the Babylonian cap-tivity. They found the walls of that great city broken down, and the prophet encouraged God’s people to rebuild it.

Although enemies with and without the city did all the could to prevent the walls from being rebuilt, the Isra-elites did a job that was con-

sidered impossible. In just 52 days the buildign of the wall was complete. This was pos-sible because the people had a mind to work, and God helped them.

Would it not be wonder-ful today if Christians could come together to do God’s work? When we have a mind to work, He will bless our efforts and we will see many people saved. We have been able to see won-derful result from our min-istry and God will continue to that ministry as long as

the people work together.Poem: God’s people had a

mind to workAnd so the wall was com-

pletedBecause the Israelites trust-

ed HimAnd refused to be defeatedWe will also see resultsWhen we do God’s willAnd as we work togetherWith His spirit He will fillDear God, May we be busy

about the Father’s business, as was his son, Jesus Christ. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Rich Lowry

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EditorialFredric RolandoSyndicated Columnist

Rooted in the Constitu-tion and older than the country itself, the U.S. Postal Service supports 7.5 million private-sector jobs in the mailing industry. The Postal Service is es-sential to the fast-growing Internet sales industry. And the USPS is navigat-ing this struggling econ-omy relatively well, even making an operating profit in the most recent quarter.

Yes, making a profit. When you count how much money the Postal Service earned on postage, and subtract how much it spent delivering the mail and paying related bills, the Postal Service earned a $100 million profit in the last three months of 2012. And remember, the USPS uses no taxpayer money.

So why all this talk about the Postal Service losing money? And why is Post-master General Patrick Donahoe planning to end Saturday mail delivery?

There’s no question the Postal Service faces big challenges. Both email and a struggling economy are dragging down mail volume. But the Postal Service’s financial prob-lem is actually driven by Congress’s decision to “pre-fund” retiree health care costs. Beginning in 2007, the USPS has been required to pay 75 years of those costs in advance, and to do so within just ten years.

This pre-funding ac-counts for about 80 percent of the “losses” sustained by the Postal Service over the last six years that you’ve heard so much about. In-deed, that last quarterly profit was wiped out by a $1.4 billion pre-funding payment.

No other government agency or private company is required to pre-fund re-tiree healthcare. This isn’t the same thing as postal pensions, which should be, and are, pre-funded. Most businesses just pay retiree health care bills when they’re due, but the pre-funding law forces the USPS to pay these bills all at once, far in advance.

Any other company would use its available funds to modernize so it

can stay healthy. The Post-al Service should be taking advantage of the enormous growth in package delivery driven by Internet sales. In-stead, because it must put every spare penny into pre-funding retiree healthcare, it’s stuck in crisis mode.

What’s more, the savings from dropping Saturday de-livery would be much small-er than they appear. Cut-ting Saturday service will drive away some Monday-through-Friday customers too, such as magazine and newspaper publishers that may just switch to other delivery services for the entire week. A study by the Postal Regulatory Commis-sion found that ending Sat-urday delivery would hurt the public and save signifi-cantly less than previous claims suggest.

Saturday delivery is par-ticularly vital for the elder-ly, disabled, people in rural areas, and those who need medicine or equipment de-livered to their doors. No other company provides universal delivery service to every address in the country, six days a week. Even private shippers such as FedEx and UPS use the U.S. Mail for up to a third of their final deliveries to customers’ doors because they can’t match the ef-ficiency of the postal net-work.

Congress has required Saturday delivery by law for three decades. Instead of trying to defy Congress, Postmaster General Do-nahoe should urge lawmak-ers to fix the pre-funding problem and give the Post-al Service room to adapt for the future.

Letter carriers aren’t waiting for Donahoe to figure this out. We’ll be out in full force across America on Sunday, March 24. At rallies in Mobile, Alabama, Bismarck, North Dakota, San Diego, California, and more than 100 other cit-ies and towns, we’ll have a clear message for Congress — keep Saturday delivery, end the unnecessary pre-funding, and develop a real reform plan that gives the Postal Service the freedom to grow and innovate in the digital era.

For more information or to find a rally near you, please visit deliveringfora-merica.com.

Return to sender

Choose you this day“Choose you this day whom

ye will serve, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15

Making choices is a natu-ral part of our lives. We are continually having to choose what we will not do. Then, we must live with the conse-quences of our choices. When we make the wrong decisions, we sometimes suffer terrible results.

Deciding what we will do with Jesus Christ is the most important decision we will make in this life. When we say yes to him, we have the hope

of eternal life. Saying no will result in eternal suffering.

After the Israelites con-quered the Promised Land, Joshua told them they had an important choice to make. They could either serve God or they could choose to serve idols. He and his family would serve God.

We have the opportunity today to choose Jesus Christ. If you do not know Him, to-day would be a good day to choose Him as your saviour. It will change your life.

Poem: Joshua did not hesi-tate

To make an important choice

He and his family would serve the Lord

Giving them cause to re-joice

We also had the opportu-nity

To choose Christ as our Lord

And when we do, we have His promise

Of a heavenly rewardDear Lord, Help me to

make choices that will honor and glorify your holy name. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Standing up to a theoretical threatDonald KaulSyndicated Columnist

Strange things are happening in Washington.

In the Senate, Rand Paul, the son of presidential candidate Ron Paul, recently proved himself a chip off the old blockhead by conducting a one-man filibuster.

I’m not talking about the namby-pamby sign-a-piece-of-paper-and-for-get-about-it filibuster in the modern style. I mean a real, old-fashioned, “Mr. Smith goes to Washington” Jimmy Stewart filibuster — the kind where a senator takes the floor and talks for hour upon hour to block a bill until he or she collapses or has to go to the bathroom, whichever comes first.

The gentleman from Kentucky gave up after nearly 13 hours. He didn’t collapse so I guess…well, I don’t want to overload you with information.

The issue in question was whether the president of the United States has the right to order a drone-bombing of a U.S. citizen on American soil.

It seems that a few days earlier At-torney General Eric Holder, when

asked about the legality of such bomb-ing, said it was potentially feasible, given “an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate” such as the 9/11 terror-ist attacks. Following Paul’s filibuster, Holder responded again, simplifying his answer to “no.”

It’s good to know the Senate isn’t squandering its time on banal issues like health care and immigration. It’s busy keeping us safe from the domes-tic use of drone strikes.

By the way, in the three months since the Newtown massacre, ap-proximately 2,600 U.S. citizens have been killed on American soil by gun violence. None by drones.

And neither the full Senate or House has taken any action on guns.

Meanwhile, back at the White House, President Barack Obama is waging a blistering charm offensive to win over Republicans. (There’s been a good deal of criticism of Obama over the years regarding his failure to bud-dy up to Republicans and get them to stop filibustering everything.)

Well, he’s out there at last, court-ing Congress, inviting GOP members over for dinner, playing golf with

them (or trying to).And how do the conservative com-

mentators who were so critical of his prior aloofness react? By criticizing him for faking fellowship.

All the while, the only organization less liberal than Congress’s Republi-can caucus, the Vatican, is trying to choose a new leader. Its task is simi-lar to that of the Republican Party — choose someone who will look like the face of change but won’t actually change anything.

Like the Republican Party, the Col-lege of Cardinals contains virtually no liberals. All the Popes since John XXIII have resolutely chosen con-servatives as Cardinals and the few leftover liberals that the Pope chose are older than 80 and can’t vote. (I thought the Church had run out of groups to discriminate against, and now I find it practices age discrimina-tion too.)

A two-thirds majority of cardinals is required to elect a Pope, not unlike our Senate where you need a 60-per-cent majority to break a filibuster. It’s a race to see which institution has be-come more out-of-date, out-of-touch, and out-to-lunch.

■ An Upward Look

Mae Stallard

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EditorialThe elusive soul

of the nationThese are not easy times for

America. Gun violence plagues the land. The sequester now promises budgetary havoc. Public education is a mess. Women do not get equal pay. The list goes on. Such is the life of a democracy, where people must pay attention. This is not necessary in paradise, which is far from what this country is.

And yet America still remains the last best hope on Earth, because the finest representatives of every category of human enterprise are working overtime to make the facts evident. Facts have trouble in poli-tics, but they eventually bring about monumental notice.

I was reminded of that recently by my good friend of 30 years, the musician Wynton Marsalis and the playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, who were at The Public Theater in Greenwich Village, N.Y., Feb. 28. They were there to talk about “music and American iden-tity — the way that the songs we sing have been part of our nation and our character,” as the event was billed.

Born poor in Louisiana, Marsalis has, like Parks, experi-enced great success both here and abroad. He has brought jazz to millions of people, after conquering the classical trumpet and becoming one of the world’s best before turning 25.

Now he uses the power of jazz to inspire individuals in a cynical age where making money has become the dominant concern of art forms, all largely conquered in some way by advertising, where great success is becoming known.

In fact, vulgar, denigrating trash is considered all right, if it sells. The dictates of trash have crossed all lines, infecting the entire society. But Marsalis understands that vital integra-tion is central to American music, the blending of things once thought innately apart.

Parks, meanwhile, is a black American but grew up in Ger-many, and hence brings a fresh perspective to the eternally net-tling issue of race relations in America. Back in 2002, she won a Pulitzer Prize for “Topdog/Underdog,” a hit play that is about color — but, like Marsalis’ music, is about much more than that.

That’s the real issue, then: to get beyond the old divisions of right and left, black and white, rich and poor. Any major creator knows it is possible to express an American identity that is common to us all; with vitality as opposed to pompos-ity, it touches a worldwide audience. That audience is always intrigued and inspired by the unsentimental but compelling commonality great art always produces.

Some on the national stage really are trying. Accurately seri-ous, Marsalis spoke of a troubling confederate narrative that has survived many a dousing. At the same time, to counter that thrust, there was New York City Mayor Michael Bloom-berg pouring millions of dollars into a Chicago congressional primary race to help a gun-control candidate, Robin Kelly, de-feat Deb Halvorson, a conservative Democrat beloved by the National Rifle Association for her pro-gun position. We now know that the support of background checks ranges from 72 percent to more than 90 percent among Republican voters.

Then there is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is emerging as one of the few Republicans unafraid of the red-neck base forever pulling the party to the right. Last week, he decided to accept the Medicaid expansion funding that’s part of Obamacare, going against a Republican grain that says, for now, helping the poor will lead the country to ruin.

Christie, who toured the destroyed coast of New Jersey with President Barack Obama after Superstorm Sandy and right before the presidential election, knows better than that.

What extremists did not see was how pierced Christie was by the anguish of people who had lost so much to the danger-ous indifference of nature. It was clear to him that they needed help from the federal government. They had become much more real than cliched talking points.

Too bad most other elephants don’t yet understand. They will, however. Human identification with others underlies American democracy, expanding on the basis of facts.

All of this is better understood if one takes a look at Yale his-tory professor David Blight’s lecture on YouTube about John Brown and the embittering coming Civil War, which was much like our November election that riled Republicans because Barack Obama won again, and big money lost again. The 19th-century iceberg has yet to melt down to an ice cube.

Things are still so different from what they used to be, be-cause seeing Geoffrey Canada, the CEO of the Harlem Chil-dren’s Zone, on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” proved that smart black people are involved more than ever before, and are as-serting their Americanness and their concerns about national issues that we all should notice. He, along with the Harlem Educational Activities Fund and Eva Moskowitz of the Harlem Success Academy network, is part of the necessary self-protec-tion for the country and the individual student.

One of the country’s internationally recognized superstars of compassion, Helene Gayle, says it all when observing, “Few things symbolize progress in the fight against poverty better than the face of an educated girl.”

That will solve so many of our problems, which can be handled, as always, with faith in specific things. Those things are knowledge, activism, patience and the willingness to stand up to temporary failure. Standing up to the facts of failure is necessary to the morale of our nation. Looking at the mistakes and failures of policy in the face maintains our down-to-earth facts of the matter. No doubt about it, ours is the last best hope for humanity, and we seemingly cannot help proving it, over and over, no matter how deeply we are wounded. We continue to rise.

This is what I was thinking about as Parks and Marsalis spoke at The Public Theater last week. Our challenges are many, enshrouded as we are by polluting factoids. But be con-fident that the American character will always prevail, no mat-ter how much trouble stands in the path before us — and that the whole world knows it.

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Stanley CrouchSyndicatedColumnist ■ An Upward Look

Herein is my Father glorified“Herein is my Father

glorified, that ye bear much fruit, so shall ye be my disciples.” (John 15:8)

Jesus shared with His disciples the importance of bearing fruit for the Lord. He made known that He is the true vine, and His Father is the gardener. He cuts off ev-ery branch that does not bear fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit He prunes so that it will be even more fruit-ful. It is important that they under-stand that no branch can bear fruit by itself: it must remain in the vine. Neither can anyone bear fruit unless they remain in Him.

Jesus further told them that if a man abides in Him, he will bear much fruit: apart from Him, they can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in Him, he is like a branch

that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. He also promised them that if they would abide in Him, and His words remained in them, they could ask for what-ever they wished, and it would be given to them. This was to the Father’s glory, that they bear much fruit, show-ing themselves to be His disciples.

Jesus revealed to His disciples as He taught them on the mount that they should beware of false prophets who would come to them is sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. Good trees bring forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree brings forth the evil fruit a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a bad tree bring forth good fruit. By their fruit we shall

know this (Matthew 7: 17,18,20).What a good lesson this is for us to

know. By the words and actions of oth-ers, we should be able to determine if they produce good fruit or bad fruit. The writer of Proverbs gives us some words that are food for thought. He said, “The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation to the wicked is wrath (11:23), and the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.” (11:30) By their fruit w e shall know them.

Poem: When we bear much fruit,Our Father is glorified,So we should strive to be fruitful

Christians,For that is so important must be

realized.The Lord called us to be His wit-

ness,To everyone we know,So we can be soul-winners,And also spiritually grow.Dear Father, please help us to be

the fruitful witness you have called us to be. For Christ’s sake. Amen.

Mae Stallard

The littlest perpsThe na-

tion’s elemen-tary schools are overrun by small -minded and unreason-able people, prone to hyster-ics, who can’t d i s t i n g u i s h between make-believe and re-ality. They are called school administrators.

In the wake of the New-town, Conn., massacre, they have been punishing little children for making gunlike ges-tures with their fingers and other harmless horseplay. The people who run our schools must have been too busy brushing up on their “zero tolerance” policies to notice that Newtown was perpetrated with an AR-15, not with a toy or with a finger. We expect 5-year-olds to be childish. What’s the excuse for the people running our schools?

Five-year-old Joseph Cruz brandished a gun made out of Legos in his day-care program while, in the words of the Barn-stable Public School Dis-trict in Hyannis, Mass., “simulating the sound of gunfire.” For a layman, that’s called saying “pow.” Cruz got a stiff warning for “using daycare toys inap-

propriately.”A 5-year-old

girl was sus-pended from kindergarten at Mount Carmel Area Elemen-tary School in Nor thumber-land County, Pa., after “threatening ” to shoot class-mates with her pink Hello Kit-ty gun that fires soapy bubbles. A mandatory

psychological evaluation found, according to a news report, “that the girl did not represent any threat to others.” Whew.

White Marsh Elementa-ry in Maryland suspended two first-graders for play-ing cops and robbers on the playground. In true 21st-century fashion, the school board said it was forbidden from giving out more information “due to confidentially require-ments under the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).”

Melody Valentin, a fifth-grader, was reprimanded for accidentally bringing a paper gun to her school in Philadelphia. When anoth-er kid saw her throwing it away, she was reported to the authorities. Perhaps she should have sought out a paper-gun buyback pro-

gram rather than disposing of it so carelessly in a trash can, where it could have been found and used by someone else? “He yelled at me,” Melody said of an administrator, “and I kept telling him it was a paper gun.” Melody’s argument would seem utterly unas-sailable, “but he wouldn’t listen.”

An 8-year-old in Prince William County, Va., was suspended for firing back with an imaginary gun af-ter a friend shot him with an imaginary bow and ar-row. Evidently, nothing happened to the other kid. This points to a disturbing “bow and arrow” loophole that could conceivably ac-commodate everything from imaginary poison darts to make-believe me-dieval siege weapons.

The Al Capone of the zero-tolerance offend-ers is the daring second-grader in Anne Arundel County, Md., who chewed his strawberry breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun and then brazenly pointed it at a classmate. Park Elementary school suspended him for two days. The child’s father says he really pointed it at the ceiling, but appar-ently hasn’t stopped to consider the mayhem that would ensue in a room full of children if ceiling tiles were shot out with

a gun-shaped strawberry pastry.

Who defends this fool-ish lack of proportion? The American Association of School Administrators. Its executive director, Dan Domenech, told USA Today: “Parents have to be aware that talking about guns or using your fingers to point like a gun is no longer toler-able or prudent.” Why, pray tell? School shooters tend to be disturbed young men. In no case has a shooter ever been an adorable 5-year-old child.

In the grips of a strange mania, school adminis-trators believe that any symbolic representation of a gun, no matter how in-nocent, is all but indistin-guishable from a real gun. This is not a mistake that gun owners make. I have never known the National Rifle Association maga-zine to feature an article on how to form your finger into the shape of a fire-arm. The fake-finger gun doesn’t do much for the average sportsman. It can’t bring down a deer, and doesn’t exactly light up the gun range.

No matter. We don’t have common sense; we have rules. We don’t have judgment; we have bureau-cratic procedure. Too of-ten, our grown-ups are the ones desperately in need of adult supervision.

Rich Lowry

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West Virginia’s time to get fitJake SteinfeldChairman, National Foundation for Governors’ Fitness Councils

When the New Year rolled around many of us vowed to make 2013 better by losing weight and getting healthier. This commitment not only helps us, but it also sets a good example for our children – an example that is desperate-ly needed. Sadly, more than 23 million of our nation’s children and teenagers are considered overweight or obese. Experts fear that this generation of kids may be the first to live shorter lives than their parent’s because of the obesity epidemic.

By resolving to eat healthier and become more physically active, our children will benefit by reversing the childhood obesity epidemic that is plaguing this country. Right now, in West Virginia alone, childhood obe-sity affects more than 18.9 percent of children (tenth highest in the nation) and the direct health costs to fight this disease nationwide is close to $14 bil-lion. Yet we can change this. We have the opportunity and ability to influence the future of obesity. We simply need to become more cognizant of our health and the health of our children.

To help combat the problem, we are bringing the National Foundation for Governors’ Fitness Councils Na-tional Champion Schools program to the state. This program will award a total of three schools (elementary or

middle) with new state-of-the-art Live PositivelyTM Fitness Centers. The winning schools will be required to show how they promote student physi-cal activity and wellness in innovative and inspiring ways. The best part? The National Champion Schools program is fully funded through the public/private sector with companies like Coca-Cola. Not one taxpayer dime goes into the program!

We know programs like this work. Seven years ago in California, I launched an annual, month-long fit-ness challenge and by 2011, more than 1.4 million students were participating. Over the course of that time, the state witnessed a decrease in childhood obe-sity rates. And, as an added benefit, state test scores went up! Today, the Foundation is building upon that suc-cess by bringing its National Champion Schools program to states around the country and we’re challenging schools to come up with unique and innovative ideas to promote physical activity. It’s a challenge that’s gaining momentum! Last year alone, schools in the states of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts as well as the District of Columbia dem-onstrated their commitment to fitness, were awarded the title of National Champion Schools and for their ef-forts, received a brand new Live Posi-tively Fitness Center for their students.

Now it’s West Virginia’s turn. By supporting this program, West Virginia can expect to see similar results. While

fighting obesity is not easy, it can be done. And, because the Foundation is providing West Virginia schools with the tools, we can make great strides in battling childhood obesity and the serious risks associated with it such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes and oth-er problems that usually affect adults.

We know that physical activity and exercise can help prevent and treat more than 40 chronic diseases, en-hance individual health and quality of life and reduce health care costs.

By applying a “Don’t Quit” attitude to fighting childhood obesity, we can help create the fittest and healthi-est kids in the nation. If we can help children become passionate about be-ing physically fit and eating healthier, it will pay off substantially in the long run; not only are we building stronger bodies but also boosting confidence and self-esteem. not only are we build-ing stronger bodies but also boosting confidence and self-esteem. Our chil-dren are most precious resource and it’s incumbent upon all of us to help keep them healthy and strong while growing up so they can lead this great nation into a bright and prosperous fu-ture.

The Foundation invites every ele-mentary and middle school in the state to visit www.nationalgovcouncil.org and click on “nominate a school” for more information on how to vie for a Live Positively Fitness Center and be deemed a National Champion School!

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Love in any language!Ed LockardMinister, Hardy Church of Christ

Years ago this song came out to become very popular.

For us the title will represent the fact of a love that is actually indescribable. The love that one person in general shares with an-other is because of the relation we have simply as human beings. It enables us to understand the generic plan that any human has an automatic love for another. But love holds a few different boundaries for folks in that they have been specified through par-ticular relationships.

For instance, the love a parent has for a child is bound by their physical relationship of personal birth. They grow in that rela-tionship as a bond that has great power in their ties. This love is mandated by the relationship of the parents to each other.

They fall in love, get married, have children, and wait for them to grow and give grandchildren and so on.

The relationship of friends on the other hand is completely dif-ferent. There are no physical ties per say but the communication becomes so close they share al-most everything. Then there are relationships that are simply ac-quaintance bound. These people share a common bond such as jobs or schools or just neighbors. We usually have many acquain-tances in our life because we share life in existence with them.

But the very simple yet pow-erful concept of love in any lan-guage is much more than any human relationship could ever bring. When God created man, He established a relationship like no other. He familiarized Himself with us in such a way as to com-pletely know us. The scripture says that the very hairs of your head are numbered. Now in my case that’s no great feat but none the less God knows me better than 1 know my-self And you my friend need not fool yourself into thinking that He doesn’t know you because He does!

This is not a bad thing. When

God made man He made Him in His or I should say Their image. When He said let Us make man in Our image His intent was to convey in a manner as we were looking out and seeing the world through the eye of the Godhead. It’s as if we were looking strait over the shoulder of God and see-ing what He wants us to see. He knows us so well He is willing to share His greatest treasure with us, His Son. He gave Him for us and now sustains our lives through that sacrifice. His Son died so we could live.

We will never have a relationship that is filled with more love than that of our Creator loving us!

When you begin to think about that special someone, just stop and ponder. If it wasn’t for God’s Son showing us love we wouldn’t even know how to love. You can’t really show love until you know God’s love. We are definitely nov-ice when it comes to love. God is the real pro. Remember, God loved you first!

America United Baptist Church of Del-barton, W.Va., holds on Wednesdays Bible Study at 7 p.m., and singing prac-tice at 8 p.m. Sunday services include Sunday school at 10 a.m. and church service at 11 a.m.Apostolic Lighthouse at Lando W.Va., meets Wednesdays at 7 p.m. for church and on Sunday from 1 to 2 p.m. for Sunday school, which church ser-vices following. The pastor is Jimmy Copley.Bethel Temple Assembly of God con-ducts the following services: Sunday Morning Worship at 11 a.m.; Sunday Night Service at 6 p.m.; Wednesday Night Church at 7 p.m.Christian Fellowship Church of God in Delbarton conducts the following services: Sunday school and morning worship service at 10:30 a.m., Sunday evening service at 6 p.m., Wednesday evening service and YPE at 7 p.m., and Saturday evening service at 7 p.m. The pastor is the Rev. Glen Meritt.Elk Creek Freewill Baptist Church an-nounces services each Sunday eve-ning at 6 p.m. The Rev. Gary Hunt, se-nior pastor, invites everyone to attend.Fifth Avenue Church of Christ has the following services: Sunday School - 9:45 a.m.; Morning Worship - 11 a.m.; Evening Worship - 6 p.m.; and Wednes-day night Bible Study - 7 p.m.First Presbyterian Church on 29 West 6th Ave. in Williamson meets on Sun-day at 10 a.m., children and adult Sunday school, at 11 a.m. for worship service, at 12 p.m. for coffee hour, and at 12:45 p.m. for choir practice. On Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. there is prayer service and Bible study at 7 p.m. On second Thursday of each month at 1 p.m. Circle 2 meets, 5:30 p.m., Circles 3 and 4 meet.First United Methodist Church, cor-ner of Second Avenue and Dickinson Street, has Sunday school at 10 a.m., Sunday morning worship service at 11 a.m. The first Tuesday of each month at 3 p.m. is Communion and worship services at Goodman Manor on 4th Av-enue. On Wednesdays, Bible study is at 6:45 p.m., alternating each month with Memorial United Methodist Church. The United Methodist men’s dinner meeting is the first Thursday each month and the women’s is the second Tuesday each month.Full Gospel Assembly of God, at Hatfield Bottom, Matewan, has Wednesday ser-vices at 7 p.m., Sunday school services at 10:30 a.m. and Sunday evening ser-vices at 7 p.m. Pastor Ron Pruitt and Debbie Pruitt invites everyone.God’s Lighthouse Freewill Baptist Church of Sidney, Ky. (beside William-son’s Grocery) conducts the following services: Sunday School, 10:15 a.m., Worship services, Sunday 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. and Thursday at 6 p.m. Pastor Gary Hackney invites everyone.Grace and Truth Bible Centers, located in Boy Scout Hollow at Ragland, has worshipping services Sunday evening at 6 p.m. Bible study and C.T.S. is at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays, while a prayer meet-ing is held on Wednesdays at 7 p.m.Freedom Church, at Lee Dempsey Jr. Lane in Delbarton, has services Sundays at 11 a.m. and Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Pastor Brent Belcher invites everyone. For more information, call (304) 235-2533.The Hardy Church of Christ conducts the following services: Sunday school at 10 a.m., Sunday worship at 11 a.m., Sunday evening service at 6 p.m., and Bible study Wednesdays at 7 p.m.House of Prayer at Puritan Mines holds worship services on Friday and Satur-day at 7 p.m.. Call Joe Dempsey at 475-4838 or Jimmy Meade at 426-4030 for more information.Jesus Name Church, located at 152 E. 2nd Avenue in Williamson is an-nouncing they will be conducting services on Tues., Fri., and Sat. eve-

nings at 7:30 p.m.Kermit Freewill Baptist Church con-ducts the following services: Sunday school at 10 a.m. and morning worship at 11:15 a.m.; and prayer service at 7 p.m. Thursdays.Kermit Methodist Church announces the following schedule of services: Sunday school at 10 a.m., morning worship at 11 a.m.; Wednesday Bible study at 7 p.m.; and youth service on Saturday from 2-4 p.m.Kermit United Baptist Church con-ducts the following services: Sunday school at 10 a.m. and morning service at 11 a.m.; and Wednesday Prayer ser-vice at 7 p.m.Kingdom Harvest Church, Lenore, an-nounces the following services: Sun-day school at 10:30 a.m. and evening service at 6 p.m.; youth meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesdays; and mid week service at 7 p.m. on Thursdays.Laurel Creek Freewill Baptist Church announces the following services: Sunday school at 10 a.m. and worship service at 11:30 a.m.; and Wednesday prayer meeting at 7 p.m.Leckieville Freewill Baptist Church, Goody, Ky., announces the following services: Sunday school, 9:50 a.m.; Sunday morning worship, 11 a.m.; Sun-day evening worship, 6 p.m.; fourth Sunday, Mingo Manor Nursing Home, 3:30 p.m.; Monday evening, Goodman Manor, 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday morn-ing Bible study, 11 a.m.; Wednesday evening Bible study and youth group, 7 p.m. Ladies Circle, second Thursday each month.Little Dove Church of Christ, William-son, announces Bible school is on Sunday for all ages at 9:30 a.m., and morning worship is at 10:30 a.m. Bible study is on Wednesdays at 7 p.m., and children’s youth choir practice is 7 p.m. on Wednesdays.Living Stone Church of God services are Sunday school at 10 a.m., morning wor-ship at 11 a.m., and evening worship at 6 p.m. and Wednesday evening services are at 7 p.m., with pastor Ken Toler.Logan Street First Baptist Church, Williamson, announces the following services: Sunday School, 9:45 a.m., Sunday Morning Worship, 11 a.m. Prayer meeting and Bible Study each Wednesday at 7 p.m.Lynn Freewill Baptist Church, Lynn, announces the following services: Church on Saturdays at 7 p.m.; Sun-day school at 10 a.m.; Sunday morning worship at 11 a.m. No Sunday evening services.Marrowbone Freewill Baptist Church announces the following services: Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Sunday morn-ing worship, 11:30 a.m.; Tuesday eve-ning prayer meeting, 7 p.m..Matewan Church of God, Hatfield Bottom, announces services: Sunday school at 10:30 a.m.; Sunday family night at 7 p.m.; Wednesday service at 7 p.m.Matewan Missionary Baptist Church conducts the following services: Sun-day school at 10 a.m., morning worship at 11 a.m. and evening worship at 7 p.m.; and Wednesday Bible Study at 7 p.m.Matewan United Methodist Church conducts the following services: Sunday school at 9:50 a.m., morning worship at 11 a.m. and evening wor-ship at 7 p.m.; church altar prayer at 7 p.m. Tuesdays; Bible study at 6 p.m. Wednesdays; Sunday evening youth fellowship at 5 p.m.McAndrews Church of Christ conducts morning worship services at 11 a.m. and evening worship services at 6 p.m. on Sundays. Bible studies are held at 10 a.m. Sunday and at 7 p.m. Wednes-day night.McAndrews Wesleyan Church con-ducts the following services: Sunday school at 10 a.m., morning worship at 11 a.m. and evening worship at 6 p.m.; and Wednesdays at 7 p.m.

McVeigh United Pentecostal Church announces services: Sunday school at 10:30 a.m., morning worship at 11 a.m. and evening worship at 6 p.m.; Wednesday prayer meeting at 7 p.m.; and young peoples at 7 p.m. on Fridays.Memorial Church of Christ at Alley’s Branch, Borderland, announces ser-vices: Sunday school 10 a.m., morn-ing worship 11 a.m., evening worship 6 p.m.; and Wednesday night Bible study at 6 p.m.Memorial United Methodist Church, 504 Gum St., West Williamson an-nounces services: Sunday school 9 a.m., Sunday worship, 10 a.m.; Wednesday Bible study, 7 p.m. rotat-ing with First United Methodist Church every other month.Monahill Memorial Freewill Baptist Church, Wilkinson, announces the following services: Sunday school at 10:30 a.m. and evening worship at 6 p.m.; and Wednesday Bible study at 6 p.m.Mt. Hope Freewill Baptist Church of Dingess announces services on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Sunday School is at 10:30 a.m. and worship service is at noon.Mt. Zion Freewill Baptist Church, Rock-house Road, Hatfield, Ky., announces the following services: Sunday school at 10 a.m., Sunday worship service 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday Bible Study and Prayer Service, 6 p.m. Youth Group meets Wednesdays at 7 p.m.Mountain Springs Freewill Baptist Church announces its services: Sun-day school at 10:30 a.m.; Sunday church services at noon and Wednes-day prayer meeting at 7 p.m.Muncy Valley Baptist Church has servic-es according to the following schedule: every Sunday morning service at 11 a.m.Naugatuck Church of God, located beside the water plant, holds worship and youth services every Sunday at 1 p.m. and Wednesday at 7 p.m. Pastor Etsel Rose invites everyone to come and worship.New Beginning Church of God located at Roadfork, Ky. conducts their Sunday Worship service at 12:00 p.m., follow-ing Sunday School at 11. Wednesday night services start at 7 p.m., and includes prayer meeting and youth group for the kids. Pastor John McCoy welcomes everyone to come and join them in service. For more information, call 606-353-7409.North Matewan Church of Christ meets for the following services: Sun-day school at 10 a.m.; Sunday worship service at 11 a.m. Sunday evening service 6 p.m.; and Wednesday Bible study at 6 p.m.New Beginnings Church conducts services at the Williamson Community Center at West End: Children’s Church at 10 a.m., on Sunday, and Adult Ser-vices at 11 a.m., on Sunday.Octavia Freewill Baptist Church, McAndrews, Ky., conducts the fol-lowing services: Sunday school at 10 a.m., morning worship at 11 a.m. and evening service at 6 p.m. (except 2nd Sunday); every second Saturday at 7 p.m. and a month with five Saturdays services at 7 p.m. on the fifth Saturday. Wednesday services: Adult Bible study at 6:30 p.m.; youth group at 6:30 p.m. and special youth group services every other Friday at 6 p.m. (ages 10 and up).Old Pond Primitive Baptist Church an-nounces the following services each month: second Saturday at 10:30 a.m. and Sunday at 10 a.m.; first Wednes-day at 6:30 p.m.; and fourth Sunday at 6:30 p.mOpen Bible Free Will Baptist Church, Slaters Branch, Ky., Service hours are: Bible Study 7 p.m. Thursday and Wor-ship 6 p.m. Sunday.Omar Community Church, Omar, conducts the following services: Sunday school at 10 a.m. and eve-ning worship at 11 a.m.; and Wednes-

day worship at 6 p.m.Omar First Baptist Church, Omar, con-ducts service at 11 a.m. the second and forth Sunday of every month.Oneness Pentecostal Lighthouse, Red Jacket, conducts the following ser-vices: Sunday School at 11:30 a.m., Sunday service at 12:15 p.m., Tuesday Bible Study at 7 p.m. and Tuesday Youth Service at 7 p.m.Open Bible Free Will Baptist Church, Slaters Branch, Ky., Service hours are: Bible Study 7 p.m. Thursday and Wor-ship 6 p.m. Sunday.Parsley Bottom Free Will Baptist Church, Lenore, announces its sched-ule of services: Sunday school at 10 a.m., morning service at 11:15 a.m. and evening service at 7 p.m.; Youth night at 6 p.m. on Mondays; and Wednesday prayer service at 7 p.m.Phelps Church of Christ announces the following services: Sunday school at 10 a.m. and morning worship at 11 a.m.; Wednesday night Bible study at 7 p.m.Phelps First Baptist Church announc-es the following services: Sunday school at 10 a.m. and morning worship at 11 a.m.; and Wednesday youth Bible study at 6:30 p.m. and adult Bible study at 7 p.m.Philadelphia United Baptist Church has Sunday school at 10 a.m., and regular services at 11 a.m. Prayer night is on Tuesdays at 7 p.m.The Pie Church of God has Sunday school beginning at 10 a.m. with morning worship beginning at 11 a.m.; Sunday evening services begin at 6:30 p.m., and Wednesday night family training hour begins at 6:30 p.m.Ragland Free Will Baptist Church Sun-day school meets at 11 a.m., with ser-vices at 2 p.m. on Sunday and prayer meeting and services at 7 p.m. on Wednesday.Rawl Freewill Baptist Church meets every Sunday at 10 a.m. for Sunday School, 11 a.m. for Sunday morning services and 6 p.m. for Sunday night services. Every Wednesday night there will be a meeting at 7 p.m.Rockhouse Free Will Baptist Church of Ragland meets for Sunday school at 10:30 a.m., and for evening worship at 7 p.m. On Wednesdays, prayer service & C.T.S. begins at 7 p.m. A business meeting is held the second Wednes-day of each month at 7 p.m. Everyone invited. For more information, contact Rev. Lewis Hall at 475-2829.Sprigg Freewill Baptist Church has Sunday School at 10:30 a.m., and Sun-day morning worship is at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday services are at 7 p.m.Tabernacle of Praise at Ragland has services on Thursday and Sunday at 7 p.m. For more information, call Pastor Nathaniel Gibson at 426-4681.Turkey Creek Freewill Baptist Church has Bible Study and youth services on Wednesdays at 7 p.m., and Sunday school at 10 a.m. and worshiping ser-vices at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Sundays. Pastor Mike Smith invites all to attend.Williamson Area Church of Christ, at Turkey Creek, Ky., meets Sunday at 10 a.m. for Bible study and 11 a.m. for wor-shipping services, and on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. for services.Williamson Church of God meets Sunday at 10 a.m. for Sunday school, Sunday at 11 a.m. for worship services, Wednesday at 7 p.m. for Bible study, and Saturday at 7 p.m. for an hour of prayer.The Youth Works Kids Club for ages 5 to 10-years-old, will meet Monday through Thursday from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m beginning June 14 and ending Aug. 5 at the Memorial United Methodist Church.(EDITOR’S NOTE: Church Notes is a service of the Williamson Daily News to announce upcoming religious ser-vices and gospel programs held at churches.)

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MARCH 15, 2013 SportSTV Panthers to play Tucker County in semi-finals Kyle LovernSports Editor

CHARLESTON — The No. 1 ranked Tug Valley Panthers will take on No. 4 seed Tucker County in the semi-finals Friday at 1 p.m. in the Class A division of the 100th annual West Vir-ginia State High School basketball tournament.

Tug Valley (23-3), the defending Class AA state champs, is playing in Class A this year. On Wednes-day night they rolled over Clarksburg Notre Dame 87-62 at the Charleston Civic Center.

The Panthers received the No. 1 seed after fin-ishing the regular season ranked No. 1 in the state.

Tucker County defeated Greater Beckley Christian 68-61 in the opening round in the last game of the ses-sion on Wednesday night.

Charleston Catholic, the

No. 3 seed and defending Class A state champion, defeated Buffalo, while No. 7 seed Wheeling Central Catholic defeated No. 2 seed Magnolia in the quar-ter finals.

Tucker County is coached by Tom Gutshall. The Mountain Lions have a record of 21-3. They fin-ished the regular season ranked No. 4 in the state.

Tug Valley coach Gar-land “Rabbit” Thompson knows his team will have a much rougher game against Tucker County.

“Sometimes that semi-final game on Friday is tougher,” Thompson said. “You have to survive that to advance to the champi-onship game.”

Thompson got some sol-id bench play from sopho-mores Hayden Sturgell and Austin Baisden in the win over Notre Dame. Sturgell scored 12 and Baisden 7

to help out when Aaron Muncy and Corey Dillon got into foul trouble.

Junior Thomas Baisden, who came in averaging 12 points, scored 10 in the first round game.

Senior all-state candi-dates Mikey Newsome and Austin Brewer had 25 and 19 points respectively. Brewer also dished out 10 assists.

“I think he is the best player in the state,” Thompson said of Brewer. “He passes the ball well. He has great vision and gets his teammates in-volved.”

State Tourney Notes:Tug Valley went on an

exceptional 21-0 run in the third quarter against Notre Dame.… The Pan-thers had 52 points in the paint for a number of high percentage shots in that first round game….TVHS

had 29 points off the bench in the game …. Tug Valley had 20 fast break points in the game.

The Charleston Catholic Irish come in as the No. 3 seed. Tug Valley defeated CCHS rather handedly during a regular season game played at the Civic Center. This is the ninth straight year Charleston Catholic has been in the state tourney.

Some were surprised that Wheeling Central Catholic upset second seed Magnolia. The Maroon Knights come in with a record of 13-12, and upset St. Marys in the regional to make it to Charleston.

Notre Dame of Clarks-burg is coached by former WVU guard Jarrod West.

Logan’s Speedy Bevins, from WVOW radio, is once again providing color com-

Kyle Lovern | Daily NewsTug Valley coach Garland “Rabbit” Thompson is shown talk-ing to some of his players during a timeout in first round ac-tion of the state tournament. The Panthers will take on Tucker County at 1 p.m. Friday in the semi-finals. The Class A champi-onship game is Saturday at 12 noon.

Bob Huggins is a good coach

Bob Huggins is a good coach.

So many fans are fair-weather.

It pains me to read some of the com-ments posted on the message boards. People who can hide behind a key-board.

If a team has a bad season, those fans are ready to fire the coach. Huggins won a Big East Tourney - the only one WVU won while in the conference. That same year, just three seasons ago, he took the team to the Final Four.

He has four good re-cruits coming in for next season. Two of them, Elijah Macon and Devin Williams are 4-star recruits. The other two are considered 3-start recruits, according to Rivals.com. One a cen-ter and the other a power forward. They should play right away.

The other two are Na-than Adrian and Brandon Watkins, who should be solid players.

Adrian, a kid from Mor-gantown, will likely be red-shirted. He is a hometown boy, so you need to recruit a couple of in-state players if they have some talent.

Look for WVU to offer Donte’ Grantham, the 6-7 guard-wing from Martins-burg. WVU needs to keep the best players with D-1 talent in the state.

But, before they offer Grantham, they will need to free up scholarships. The rumor out of Morgan-town is that a couple of players will transfer. This would open up a scholar-ship or two.

Huggins is also recruit-ing a JUCO guard who can come in right away and help. With promising fresh-men Eron Harris and Terry Henderson for their sopho-more seasons, along with Jabarie Hinds, those three are set at guards. Hinds had a sophomore slump, but most think he will be fine and improve for his last two seasons.

On the other hand, Gary Browne and Aaron Brown, may be on the outside look-ing in. The same with Ke-aton Miles, unless he wants to be a role player. Kevin Noreen is steady. He needs to improve on offense, but does the things that are un-selfish. You need a player like Noreen.

Moving to the Big 12 was a tough adjustment for

the Mountain-eers. The travel (31,000 miles), and the style of officiating that was definitely different, made it a rough year for WVU.

Give Hug-gins a break. For many fans it is “what have you done for me lately.” Let’s face it, WVU is not a school that can get to

the Final Four every year. Not many college pro-grams can do that.

College basketball is so balanced these days – that on a given year, you have teams such as Butler, George Mason and oth-ers who do well in the Big Dance.

And don’t forget, some of the last recruits didn’t work out. That happens.

Dalton Pepper trans-ferred to be closer home to his ailing parent. Noah Cottrill had the drug prob-lems, the kid from Houston had the heart issue and the 7-1 center, David Nyar-suk could not get a high enough ACT score in Eng-lish, because he was from Sudan (Africa) and didn’t speak or read English. (He went to Mountain State in Beckley for two years. When that program folded, he transferred to Cincin-nati and somehow got eli-gible.)

But, that is another sto-ry. Some recruits just don’t work out.

Heck, Paul Williamson, the invited walk-on who played at Logan and who hails from Harts Creek, had a good freshman sea-son. He decided to leave after just one season.

Loyal fans won’t jump off the blue and gold band-wagon. Just as soon as they start winning again and make it back to the NCAA tournament, those fair weather fans will want to hop back on for the ride.

True fans stick with their teams through thick and thin – the good, the bad and the ugly. Unfortunately this year was the ugly.

But Cinderella will soon return – wearing a gold and blue slipper. I really believe that Huggins can lead WVU back to the Fi-nal Four and maybe even a national championship.

Give him and his staff time to adjust to the Big 12. Give the Big 12 time to work on the schedule so the travel won’t be so dif-

Kyle LovernSports Editor

■ Kyle’s Korner

Fairmont Seniorbeats Scott 55-48

CHARLESTON (AP) — Tra-von Horton and Jarin Hilson scored 15 points apiece, leading Fairmont Senior to a 55-48 win over Scott in the Class AA quar-terfinals Thursday.

Second-seeded Fairmont Se-nior (20-6) moves into the tour-nament semifinals for the first time since 1998.

Shaquille Washington had 10 rebounds for Fairmont Senior.

Matt Dolan led seventh-seed-ed Scott (15-11) with 18 points and Cody Brown scored 14.

Fairmont Senior led 32-25 af-ter the third quarter and by as many as 12 points in the fourth quarter.

Scott made just 26 percent of its field goals but outscored Fairmont Senior 26-17 at the free-throw line.

Bridgeport beatsWestside 79-71

CHARLESTON(AP) — Jor-dan Haywood scored 28 points and sixth-seeded Bridgeport up-set No. 3 Westside 79-71 in the Class AA quarterfinals Thurs-day.

Chase Robey added 13 points, Ryan Sprouse had 11 points and 10 rebounds, and Tyler Sprouse scored 10 for Bridgeport. The Indians (19-7) advanced to the quarterfinals for the first time since 2007.

Justin Cogar scored 19 points, Corey Bowles had 14, Jason Scarlett had 12 points and 11 rebounds, and Levi Lambert scored 11 for Westside (19-7).

Westside was making its first tournament appearance since losing in the 2005 championship game to Logan.

The teams combined for 68 free throws.

A Lambert 3-pointer brought Westside within 57-55 with 7:15 left in the game, but that’s as close as the Renegades got. Bridgeport extended the lead to 74-63 with 1:45 left.

Washington beats Parkersburg South

CHARLESTON (AP) — Kel-don Bell had 16 points and 17 rebounds, and Washington made its Class AAA tournament debut a success with a 60-56 win over Parkersburg South in the quarterfinals Thursday.

Fifth-seeded Parkersburg South had taken its final lead, 51-48, on a layup by Logan Cox with 3:27 left.

Dominique Newman finished with 17 points, including a la-yup with 15 seconds left that put Washington ahead to stay, 58-56. Kendell Smith made two free throws with 5 seconds left to secure the win.

Smith finished with 11 points and 11 rebounds.

Fourth-seeded Washington

(21-5) had a 49-34 rebounding advantage.

Wes Mitchem scored 20 points and Doug Dennis had 10 points for Parkersburg South (21-5).

Ky. Girls Sweet 16

Shelby Valleytops Corbin 45-38

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — Shelby Valley’s Lakyn Mul-lins and Brianna Fraley scored 15 points apiece in leading the Lady Cats to a 45-38 win against Corbin Wednesday night in the first round of the KHSAA Sweet 16 in Diddle Arena.

The win was the first ever for Shelby Valley (29-4) in the Sweet 16 and secured a quarter-final matchup Friday afternoon against Anderson County.

The Region 16 champion Lady Cats led Region 13 champ Corbin (27-9) by as many as 10 points in the third quarter be-fore the Lady Redhounds made a late run.

Corbin’s Kayla Wilson ap-peared to make a layup with 1:41 left that would’ve given the Lady Redhounds a 40-39 advan-tage, their first lead of the game. However she was called for trav-eling and Corbin didn’t score again.

Sarah Ashley was the Lady Redhounds’ leading scorer, fin-ishing with 10 points.

W.Va. boys tournament glanceResults from the West Virginia boys high school basketball tournament at the Charleston Civic Center:CLASS AAAQuarterfinalsWednesdayWoodrow Wilson 63, Hurricane 54Martinsburg 60, Huntington 50ThursdayWashington 60, Parkersburg South 56No. 3 South Charleston (23-2) vs. No. 6 Morgan-town (19-6), 7:15 p.m.SemifinalsFridayNo. 1 Martinsburg (24-2) vs. No. 4 Washington (21-5), 5:30 p.m.No. 2 Woodrow Wilson (22-4) vs. South Charleston-Morgantown winner, 9 p.m.Championship

SaturdaySemifinal winners, 7:15 p.m.CLASS AAQuarterfinalsThursdayBridgeport 79, Westside 71Fairmont Senior 55, Scott 48No. 1 Bluefield (22-3) vs. No. 8 North Marion (16-8), 5:30 p.m.No. 4 Robert C. Byrd (19-6) vs. No. 5 Tolsia (17-8), 9 p.m.SemifinalsFridayNo. 3 Westside (20-6) vs. No. 2 Fairmont Senior (20-6), 11:15 a.m.Bluefield-North Marion winner vs. Robert C. Byrd-Tolsia winner, 7:15 p.m.ChampionshipSaturday

Semifinal winners, 2:30 p.m.CLASS AQuarterfinalsWednesdayCharleston Catholic 61, Buffalo 48Wheeling Central 58, Magnolia 35Tug Valley 87, Notre Dame 62Tucker County 68, Greater Beckley Christian 61SemifinalsFridayNo. 3 Charleston Catholic (23-3) vs. No. 7 Wheeling Central (14-12), 9:30 a.m.No. 1 Tug Valley (23-3) vs. No. 4 Tucker County (21-3), 1 p.m.ChampionshipSaturdaySemifinal winners, 12 p.m.

Twin Rivers ClassicThe annual Pepsi Twin Rivers

Classic basketball game featuring seniors from southern West Virginia will be held at the Harless Center in Gilbert on Saturday, March 23. The girls game starts at 6 p.m., while the boys team will tipoff at 8 p.m. Sev-eral all-state players are scheduled to suit up for both squads.

Relay for Life Golf TourneyWilliamson Memorial Hospital

will hold its 1st annual Relay for Life golf tournament on Saturday, May 11 at the Elk Run Golf Course

located at Johns Creek. The cost is $200 for a team of four. All proceeds go toward Relay for Life. For more information contact Debra Harvey at 304-235-2500 ext. 6158 of Larry Damron at ext. 6183.

Cal RipkenBaseball registration

Sign-ups for the Cal Ripken and Babe Ruth Baseball League will be held at Brother Reid Park on Satur-day and Sunday from now through the month of March. Saturday will be from 12 noon to 5 pm and Sun-days from 1-5 pm. Ages are from 4

to 15 years of age. Anyone interest-ed in coaching or umpiring should attend one of these signups. Chil-dren can play up a division based on parent’s discretion. Registration fees are $40 for the first child & $30 for any additional child. $50 for chil-dren playing in the 13 to 15 year old age group.

Tug Valley LittleLeague sign-ups

Tug Valley Little League sign-ups continue today on Sunday, March 17 at the Kermit Gym 1- 5 pm. Sign-up

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ORDER OF PUBLICATIONIN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFMINGO COUNTY, WEST VIR-GINIA

State of West Virginia,

Petitioner,

Vs. Juvenile Case No. 13JA-17, 18, 19

Linda Gail CopleyOdell Isaac Hall,

Respondents,

IN THE INTEREST OF THISMINOR CHILDREN:

Nathaniel Hall DOB: 10-24-12James Hall DOB: 03-24-11Mary Hall DOB: 05-10-10

The object of the above en-titled action is to terminate theparental and custodial rights ofthe parents or other custodi-ans of the above named chil-dren and to place permanentcustody of said children withthe West Virginia Departmentof Health and Human Services.

To: Odell Isaac HallYawkey, West Virginia

It appearing that Odell IsaacHall may or may not be a res-ident of Mingo County, WestVirginia, and it is herebyOrdered that the said OdellIsaac Hall is hereby notifiedand advised by this Publica-tion to appear in the CircuitCourt of Mingo County, in Willi-amson, West Virginia, on April8, 2013, at 1:15 oʼclock p.m.,for a preliminary/adjudicatoryhearing on matters which couldresult in the termination of hisparental/custodial rights in andto the above mentioned chil-dren.

Marsha Webb Rumora, Attor-ney at Law, whose address isP.O. Box 2118, Williamson,WV, 25661, Telephone Num-ber (304) 235-2290, has beenappointed to represent OdellIsaac Hall and may be contac-ted at the address or tele-phone number listed.

Should the said Odell IsaacHall fail to appear on April 8,2013, upon proper hearing andtrial they are hereby notifiedand advised that hisparental/custodial rights maybe terminated.

A copy of the petition givingrise to the aforesaid court pro-ceedings can be obtained fromthe undersigned Clerk at hisoffice.

Entered by the Clerk of saidCourt on this the 12th day ofMarch, 2013.

GRANT PREECE,CLERK OF CIRCUIT COURT

BY:CHERYL DANIELS, DEPUTYCLERK

3:15,22

Request for Proposals for En-gineering ServicesThe Mingo County Public Ser-vice District, Mingo County,West Virginia, is in the pro-cess of selecting a Project En-gineer to provide engineeringservices for construction of theJustice Water System Water-line Upgrade Project. Profes-sional services will include thefollowing items: proper prepar-ation of plan, design facility,preparation of bidding and con-tract documents; participationin the solicitation and evalu-ation of bids; assistance in ob-taining easements and otherproperty if necessary; survey-ing and mapping; preparationof all necessary permit applica-tions; construction administra-tion and construction inspec-tion. Procurement of said ser-vices shall be made in accord-ance with 24 CFR Part 85.34(d)(3) and section 5G of theWest Virginia State Code.Contracts are to be awardedon a lump sum/fixed fee basis.All engineering firms inter-ested in being considered forthis project must submit fivecopies of their proposal detail-ing technical expertise, quali-fications, and related prior ex-perience. Proposals must besubmitted by 4:00 p.m. onMarch 29, 2013 to the follow-ing address: Mingo CountyPublic Service District, PO Box98, Naugatuck, WV 25685. Ifforwarded by mail, the sealedenvelope containing the pro-posal must be enclosed in an-other envelope with the projectname and Engineering Ser-vices Proposal highlighted onthe outside of the outer envel-ope and must allow for suffi-cient time for mailing to reachthe above referenced addressprior to the scheduled closingtime for the receipt of propos-als. Should there be any ques-tions, please contact J.B.Heflin (Telephone number (304-235-2244). Interviews will beheld during the month of, April2013.The objective of the competit-ive process is to objectively se-lect the firm which will providethe highest quality of service ata realistic fee. Accordingly,technical qualifications and ex-perience will be weighed heav-ily. The board members of theMingo County Public ServiceDistrict shall evaluate thestatements of qualification andperformance data and othermaterial submitted by inter-ested firms and select a minim-um of three firms which, intheir opinion, are best quali-fied to perform the desired ser-vice. Interviews with each firmselected shall be conductedand the board shall conductdiscussions to evaluatepresented information. Theboard shall then rank in orderof preference no less thanthree professional firmsdeemed to be the most highlyqualified to provide the ser-vices required, and shall com-mence scope of services andprice negotiations with thehighest qualified professionalfirm for said services. Shouldthe Mingo County Public Ser-vice District be unable to nego-tiate a satisfactory contractwith the professional firm con-sidered to be the most quali-fied, at a fee determined to befair and reasonable, price ne-gotiations with the firm ofsecond choice shall com-mence. Failing accord with thesecond most qualified profes-sional firm, the board shall un-dertake, negotiations with thethird most qualified profession-al firm. Should the MingoCounty Public Service Districtbe unable to negotiate a satis-factory contract with any of theprofessional firms in order oftheir competence and qualific-ations, the Mingo County Pub-lic Service District shall contin-ue negotiations in accordancewith these procedures until anagreement is reached.Attention is directed to the factthat the proposed project willbe undertaken using variousfunding sources, examples ofwhich are AML, USDA-RUS,Infrastructure Council, and loc-al funds. All work shall be per-formed in accordance with theregulations issued by the fed-eral funding source and theState of West Virginia pertain-ing thereto. The selected firmwill be required to comply withTitle VI of Civil Rights Act of1964, Executive Order 11245,Section 109 of the Housingand Urban Development Act of1968, conflict of Interest State-ment, Access to Records, pro-visions, and the Uniform Relo-cation Assistance and RealProperty Acquisitions PoliciesAct of 1970.The Mingo County Public Ser-vice District will afford full op-portunity for minority businessenterprise to respond to this in-vitation and will not discrimin-ate against any firm or indi-vidual on the grounds of race,creed, color, sex, age, handi-cap, or national origin in theawarding of a contract.Mingo County Public ServiceDistrict reserves the right to ac-cept or reject any and all pro-posals.Robert Adams, ChairmanMingo County PSD

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Request for Proposals for En-gineering ServicesThe Mingo County Public Ser-vice District, Mingo County,West Virginia, is in the pro-cess of selecting a Project En-gineer to provide engineeringservices for construction of theJustice Water System Water-line Upgrade Project. Profes-sional services will include thefollowing items: proper prepar-ation of plan, design facility,preparation of bidding and con-tract documents; participationin the solicitation and evalu-ation of bids; assistance in ob-taining easements and otherproperty if necessary; survey-ing and mapping; preparationof all necessary permit applica-tions; construction administra-tion and construction inspec-tion. Procurement of said ser-vices shall be made in accord-ance with 24 CFR Part 85.34(d)(3) and section 5G of theWest Virginia State Code.Contracts are to be awardedon a lump sum/fixed fee basis.All engineering firms inter-ested in being considered forthis project must submit fivecopies of their proposal detail-ing technical expertise, quali-fications, and related prior ex-perience. Proposals must besubmitted by 4:00 p.m. onMarch 29, 2013 to the follow-ing address: Mingo CountyPublic Service District, PO Box98, Naugatuck, WV 25685. Ifforwarded by mail, the sealedenvelope containing the pro-posal must be enclosed in an-other envelope with the projectname and Engineering Ser-vices Proposal highlighted onthe outside of the outer envel-ope and must allow for suffi-cient time for mailing to reachthe above referenced addressprior to the scheduled closingtime for the receipt of propos-als. Should there be any ques-tions, please contact J.B.Heflin (Telephone number (304-235-2244). Interviews will beheld during the month of, April2013.The objective of the competit-ive process is to objectively se-lect the firm which will providethe highest quality of service ata realistic fee. Accordingly,technical qualifications and ex-perience will be weighed heav-ily. The board members of theMingo County Public ServiceDistrict shall evaluate thestatements of qualification andperformance data and othermaterial submitted by inter-ested firms and select a minim-um of three firms which, intheir opinion, are best quali-fied to perform the desired ser-vice. Interviews with each firmselected shall be conductedand the board shall conductdiscussions to evaluatepresented information. Theboard shall then rank in orderof preference no less thanthree professional firmsdeemed to be the most highlyqualified to provide the ser-vices required, and shall com-mence scope of services andprice negotiations with thehighest qualified professionalfirm for said services. Shouldthe Mingo County Public Ser-vice District be unable to nego-tiate a satisfactory contractwith the professional firm con-sidered to be the most quali-fied, at a fee determined to befair and reasonable, price ne-gotiations with the firm ofsecond choice shall com-mence. Failing accord with thesecond most qualified profes-sional firm, the board shall un-dertake, negotiations with thethird most qualified profession-al firm. Should the MingoCounty Public Service Districtbe unable to negotiate a satis-factory contract with any of theprofessional firms in order oftheir competence and qualific-ations, the Mingo County Pub-lic Service District shall contin-ue negotiations in accordancewith these procedures until anagreement is reached.Attention is directed to the factthat the proposed project willbe undertaken using variousfunding sources, examples ofwhich are AML, USDA-RUS,Infrastructure Council, and loc-al funds. All work shall be per-formed in accordance with theregulations issued by the fed-eral funding source and theState of West Virginia pertain-ing thereto. The selected firmwill be required to comply withTitle VI of Civil Rights Act of1964, Executive Order 11245,Section 109 of the Housingand Urban Development Act of1968, conflict of Interest State-ment, Access to Records, pro-visions, and the Uniform Relo-cation Assistance and RealProperty Acquisitions PoliciesAct of 1970.The Mingo County Public Ser-vice District will afford full op-portunity for minority businessenterprise to respond to this in-vitation and will not discrimin-ate against any firm or indi-vidual on the grounds of race,creed, color, sex, age, handi-cap, or national origin in theawarding of a contract.Mingo County Public ServiceDistrict reserves the right to ac-cept or reject any and all pro-posals.Robert Adams, ChairmanMingo County PSD

FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2013 ■ 7WILLIAMSON DAILY NEWS

mentary for the Metro News radio network.Joe Kinzer of WXCC radio is in Charleston doing inter-

views from the state tournament.Former Woodrow Wilson coach Dave Barksdale, who

won five Class AAA titles, is an assistant for Greater Beckley Christian. Barksdale had been coaching at Moun-tain State University before that program was folded be-cause of financial difficulties at the Beckley area college.

This is the 100th anniversary of one of the state’s pre-mier sporting events. Teams from the past 100 years are being honored during the four-day tournament.

Kyle Lovern is the sports editor for the Williamson Daily News. Comments or story ideas can be sent to klovern@williamsondailynews.com or klovern@civtasmedia.com

ficult on the team and the staff.

Let them get in some new recruits and blend them together.

WVU will be back on the winning track in the near future. With Bob Huggins leading the way. Huggy

Bear has over 715 career wins. I’m sure he is going to add to that total.

You can count on it.

Kyle Lovern is the sports editor for

the Williamson Daily News. Com-

ments or story ideas can be sent to

klovern@williamsondailynews.com.

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fees are $25 for the 1st child and $15 for each additional child. You must bring three proofs of residency (dated be-tween Feb 1, 2012-Feb 1, 2013) along with an offi-cial birth certificate with a raised seal.

Tug Valley Road Runners 5k

The Tug Valley Road Runners Club (TVRRC) is sponsoring another 5k race on Friday, March 22. “Put Spring in your Step 5K” is the theme for this race. Registration is from 5:00 - 6:45 pm. The race starts at 7 pm. For more informa-tion on the race contact David Hatfield at 606-625-5092 or Alexis Batausa at 304-542-5311. The TVRRC also has a Facebook page with information on up-coming races.

Tug Valley Baseball Board Umpiring ClassThe Tug Valley Baseball

Board will soon be con-ducting a baseball umpir-ing class for the upcoming season. Call Ray Ellis at 304-946-8103 for more in-formation.

Logan Madness Basketball Tournament

The ninth-annual tour-ney is set for April 19-21 at Logan. There will be di-visions for boys and girls teams. For more informa-tion contact Mike Tothe at 304-239-2565.

ASEP Coaching ClassAn ASEP coaching class

will be held April 4, 5 & 7 at South Charleston High School for those interest-ed in coaching a secondary school sport. Pre-register at www.wvssac.org.

Sports Calendar is a service of the Williamson Daily News. If you have submission for the calendar send it to klovern@williamsondailynews.com

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SportsGreen Wave covers Thundering Herd

TULSA, Okla. — No. 8 seed Tulane Green Wave banked in a three-pointer from the top of the key with 6.9 seconds left to spoil a game that No. 9 seed Mar-shall controlled, up 13 midway through the second half, in a sea-son ending 66-64 loss in the first round of the Conference USA Championships Wednesday at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla.

A last-second three-point attempt from Elijah Pittman missed wide as the Thundering Herd ended the season with a 13-19 record.

“Obviously it was a frustrat-ing end to a season,” head coach Tom Herrion remarked after the game. “A dagger through our heart here at the end. Three-ball ended up killing us in the second half and we didn’t guard it well enough. We did a great job in the

first half, but not in the second and then they bank one in to win it.”

The Green Wave improved to 19-14 and moved on to the sec-ond round to take on top-seeded Memphis at 7 p.m. ET Thursday on CBS Sports Network.

DeAndre Kane led Marshall with 22 points, going 7-of-10 from the field, 2-of-3 in three-pointers and making 6-of-9 free throws. Dennis Tinnon finished his collegiate career with one final double-double, giving him 22 in his two years. He totaled 16 points, going 8-of-9 from the field, and had 11 rebounds. Pit-tman was next with 12 points, while Nigel Spikes anchored the effort on the boards with nine re-bounds and accounted for three of the game’s four total blocks.

The Herd finished 24-of-51

from the field for a 47.1 percent mark, but struggled behind the three-point line, going 3-of-16 (18.8 %). Tulane on the other hand had eight made three-pointers, seven of which came in the second half.

Tulane’s Ricky Tarrant com-bined for a team-leading 21 points, accounting for five of Tu-lane’s eight three-pointers. Josh Davis finished with a double-double, earning 18 points and a team-high 12 rebounds. He went 8-for-13 from the free throw stripe.

Power in the post helped Mar-shall control the tempo of the game for a majority of the con-test. The Herd recorded 40 of its 64 points in the paint, compared to Tulane’s 24. The post perfor-mance allowed Marshall a 29-20 lead at halftime and showcased a

52.2 shooting percentage in the opening 20 minutes.

Marshall held that lead for close to 30 minutes of the game and went up by as much as 13 with 12:15 left, but an eight-point run with nine minutes left in the contest sparked the Tulane comeback that featured 30 points by the Green Wave in the last 10 minutes.

“They’ve got really great shooters,” Herrion said on Tu-lane’s offense in the second half. “I think we were surprised at times by how deep they were shooting it especially down the stretch. We had our hands down and we weren’t playing aggres-sive enough contesting the shot.”

Trading the lead back and forth eight times in the final seven minutes of the game, Tu-lane’s Kendall Timmons finally

heaved a shot from the top of the key and banked it in to put the Green Wave up 66-63 with 6.9 seconds left. Kane then drew a flagrant foul and made one of his two free throws. Given the ball back with one final opportunity, Kane drove the ball in and dished it to Pittman, but the three-point attempt glanced off the glass and fell short, giving the Herd the 66-64 loss in the final game of the season.

“I had an option to get the layup, but the defender caught me off a little bit on my way to the basket,” Kane said. “I saw Elijah (Pittman) open and he’s a great shooter, he’s been knocking down shots all year, so I got him the ball. He got a good look at it, it just didn’t sink.”

Kentucky enters SEC tourney with sense of urgencyGary GravesAP Sports Writer

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky hopes its must-win approach results in a lengthy run through the Southeastern Conference tournament.

The Wildcats will likely need one to lock up an NCAA tournament berth.

Seeing how that “one-and-done” urgency worked their upset of No. 11 Florida last Saturday, the defending national cham-pions (21-10, 12-6) aim to carry it over and win at least twice more this week-end in Nashville, Tenn. Second-seeded Kentucky opens play in Friday’s quar-terfinal against Thursday night’s winner between Ar-kansas and Vanderbilt.

The Wildcats believe that reaching Sunday’s championship will bolster their case for an at-large berth, a shaky scenario

before they beat the Ga-tors. Still, with noth-ing assured, K e n t u c k y p l a y e r s enter the w e e k e n d with the mindset of playing each game like it will be their last.

“ W e ’ r e just going into the tournament with the mindset like we’re not trying to get beat,” Wild-cats 7-footer Willie Cauley-Stein said. “We want to win it, obviously, and keep it rolling.”

Kentucky players are confident after finishing second to Florida in the conference. A year after losing in the championship to Vanderbilt as the top seed, the Wildcats return

as the No. 2 seed thanks to Satur-day’s victo-ry over the Gators that earned a bye and left them pos-sibly play-ing three s t r a i g h t days instead of four.

That’s no small mat-ter for Wild-

cats coach John Calipari, who welcomes the shorter path to the final.

“Obviously, any tourna-ment you’re in the higher your seed is, the better your chances are of win-ning the tournament,” Calipari said this week. “It doesn’t mean we’re going to win it, it doesn’t mean you get to the finals. There are upsets every year in every tournament, but the

percentages are in your favor if you’re the higher seed. … The seed matters.”

At the same time, win-ning three games in three days is asking a lot from a young Kentucky team that has struggled all season with inconsistency. Such was the case before the Wildcats lost star center Nerlens Noel to a season-ending knee injury on Feb. 12, and their 4-3 record without him symbolizes their difficulty in finding rhythm and cohesion.

The Wildcats rebounded from a 30-point drubbing at Tennessee in their first game without Noel to win three in row before losing consecutive road games at Arkansas and Georgia. That quick slide created a must-win situation against Florida, where Kentucky responded with a gutsy 61-57 victory by outscoring the Gators 11-0 over the final 7:36.

While the victory showed the Wildcats’ re-solve under “do or die” circumstances, they must prove they won’t relapse into bad habits. Calipari has been reminding his team through intense prac-tices that they can’t let up now.

“It’s great that he’s not

taking back the reins,” forward Kyle Wiltjer said. “We’re just working hard and had a great practice on Monday. … We’re just bringing it every day in practice, not letting up and holding guys accountable. That’s the main thing, and hopefully translating it to the game.”

John Calipari

Pilots fly past Bears in national tournamentKANSAS CITY — Unseeded LSU-

Shreveport answered No. 8 Universi-ty of Pikeville at every turn and held on for a 91-87 win Wednesday night in the 2013 Buffalo Funds-NAIA Di-vision I Men’s Basketball National Championship.

With the loss, UPike’s season end-ed at 26-7, tying for the fifth-most wins in a season since becoming a four-year school with the 1955-56 season. The Bears also fell to 8-6 in seven trips to the national tourna-ment, a record highlighted by their 2011 run when they became the first school to beat five seeded teams en route to the championship.

Pikeville shot 50.7 percent from the field, thanks to 20-of-36 (55.6 per-cent) in the second half. The Bears were 26-of-40 (65 percent) inside the three-point stripe, but were only 9-of-

29 (31 percent) from outside it. That figure was further complicated by an 8-of-18 (44.4 percent) performance from the free throw line.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, it happened on a night when the op-ponent went 29-of-38 (76.3 percent) from the stripe.

Pikeville led twice early, including at 7-5 when senior Terrance Sain-til scored in the paint with 18:22 to play. But the Pilots took control of the game by scoring the next 13 points. They give five from junior guard Tevin Hall, and when he hit a jumper with 14:36 to play, the lead was 18-7.

UPike had an extended run late in the half. Senior Jamar Briscoe kicked it off with eight points and junior P.J. Jenkins added eight more, and when he nailed the second of consecutive

three-point shots with 1:51 to play, Pikeville had used an 18-7 run to pull within a basket at 37-35 with 1:51 to play.

Shreveport (25-6), however, scored the last seven points and took a 44-35 lead to the half.

The lead was 10, 72-62, with 6:26 to play before the Bears made anoth-er run. They scored 11 of the next 12 points, and when junior Josh Whita-ker hit a jumper with 2:58 to play, the game was tied at 73.

But only 11 seconds later, senior Rodney Milum made his seventh three-point shot to put the Pilots in front to stay.

Jenkins, who had a high of 10 points since joining the Bears at mid-season, nailed 6-of-7 from the arc to finish with 26 points. He added five rebounds in the loss.

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Request for Proposals for En-gineering ServicesThe Mingo County Public Ser-vice District, Mingo County,West Virginia, is in the pro-cess of selecting a Project En-gineer to provide engineeringservices for construction of theJustice Water System Water-line Upgrade Project. Profes-sional services will include thefollowing items: proper prepar-ation of plan, design facility,preparation of bidding and con-tract documents; participationin the solicitation and evalu-ation of bids; assistance in ob-taining easements and otherproperty if necessary; survey-ing and mapping; preparationof all necessary permit applica-tions; construction administra-tion and construction inspec-tion. Procurement of said ser-vices shall be made in accord-ance with 24 CFR Part 85.34(d)(3) and section 5G of theWest Virginia State Code.Contracts are to be awardedon a lump sum/fixed fee basis.All engineering firms inter-ested in being considered forthis project must submit fivecopies of their proposal detail-ing technical expertise, quali-fications, and related prior ex-perience. Proposals must besubmitted by 4:00 p.m. onMarch 29, 2013 to the follow-ing address: Mingo CountyPublic Service District, PO Box98, Naugatuck, WV 25685. Ifforwarded by mail, the sealedenvelope containing the pro-posal must be enclosed in an-other envelope with the projectname and Engineering Ser-vices Proposal highlighted onthe outside of the outer envel-ope and must allow for suffi-cient time for mailing to reachthe above referenced addressprior to the scheduled closingtime for the receipt of propos-als. Should there be any ques-tions, please contact J.B.Heflin (Telephone number (304-235-2244). Interviews will beheld during the month of, April2013.The objective of the competit-ive process is to objectively se-lect the firm which will providethe highest quality of service ata realistic fee. Accordingly,technical qualifications and ex-perience will be weighed heav-ily. The board members of theMingo County Public ServiceDistrict shall evaluate thestatements of qualification andperformance data and othermaterial submitted by inter-ested firms and select a minim-um of three firms which, intheir opinion, are best quali-fied to perform the desired ser-vice. Interviews with each firmselected shall be conductedand the board shall conductdiscussions to evaluatepresented information. Theboard shall then rank in orderof preference no less thanthree professional firmsdeemed to be the most highlyqualified to provide the ser-vices required, and shall com-mence scope of services andprice negotiations with thehighest qualified professionalfirm for said services. Shouldthe Mingo County Public Ser-vice District be unable to nego-tiate a satisfactory contractwith the professional firm con-sidered to be the most quali-fied, at a fee determined to befair and reasonable, price ne-gotiations with the firm ofsecond choice shall com-mence. Failing accord with thesecond most qualified profes-sional firm, the board shall un-dertake, negotiations with thethird most qualified profession-al firm. Should the MingoCounty Public Service Districtbe unable to negotiate a satis-factory contract with any of theprofessional firms in order oftheir competence and qualific-ations, the Mingo County Pub-lic Service District shall contin-ue negotiations in accordancewith these procedures until anagreement is reached.Attention is directed to the factthat the proposed project willbe undertaken using variousfunding sources, examples ofwhich are AML, USDA-RUS,Infrastructure Council, and loc-al funds. All work shall be per-formed in accordance with theregulations issued by the fed-eral funding source and theState of West Virginia pertain-ing thereto. The selected firmwill be required to comply withTitle VI of Civil Rights Act of1964, Executive Order 11245,Section 109 of the Housingand Urban Development Act of1968, conflict of Interest State-ment, Access to Records, pro-visions, and the Uniform Relo-cation Assistance and RealProperty Acquisitions PoliciesAct of 1970.The Mingo County Public Ser-vice District will afford full op-portunity for minority businessenterprise to respond to this in-vitation and will not discrimin-ate against any firm or indi-vidual on the grounds of race,creed, color, sex, age, handi-cap, or national origin in theawarding of a contract.Mingo County Public ServiceDistrict reserves the right to ac-cept or reject any and all pro-posals.Robert Adams, ChairmanMingo County PSD

ORDER OF PUBLICATIONIN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFMINGO COUNTY, WEST VIR-GINIAState of West Virginia,Petitioner,Vs. Juvenile Case No. 13JA-10Stella Gearles“Unknown Father”,Respondents,IN THE INTEREST OF THISMINOR CHILDREN:Jackie Ray Gearles DOB: 01-10-13The object of the above en-titled action is to terminate theparental and custodial rights ofthe parents or other custodi-ans of the above named childand to place permanent cus-tody of said child with the WestVirginia Department of Healthand Human Services.To: Unknown Father

It appearing that an UnknownFather may or may not be aresident of Mingo County,West Virginia, and it is herebyOrdered that the said Un-known Father is hereby noti-fied and advised by this Public-ation to appear in the CircuitCourt of Mingo County, in Willi-amson, West Virginia, on April23, 2013, at 2:15 oʼclock p.m.,for apreliminary/adjudicatory/dis-positional hearing on matterswhich could result in the ter-mination of his parental/cus-todial rights in and to theabove mentioned child.Ashley Cochran, Attorney atLaw, whose address is P.O.Box 221, Williamson, WV,25661, Telephone Number(304) 235-3509, has been ap-pointed to represent the Un-known Father and may be con-tacted at the address or tele-phone number listed.Should the said UnknownFather fail to appear on April23, 2013, upon proper hearingand trial they are hereby noti-fied and advised that his par-ental/custodial rights may beterminated.A copy of the petition givingrise to the aforesaid court pro-ceedings can be obtained fromthe undersigned Clerk at hisoffice.Entered by the Clerk of saidCourt on this the 13th day ofMarch, 2013.GRANT PREECE,CLERK OF CIRCUIT COURT

BY:_______________________________CHERYL DANIELS, DEPUTYCLERK

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TO THE CREDITORS ANDBENEFICIARIESOF THE ESTATE OF BON-NIE SUE GOBLE, DECEASEDAll persons having claimsagainst the estate of said Bon-nie Sue Goble, deceased,whether due or not, are noti-fied to exhibit the same, withvoucher thereof, legally veri-fied, to the Mingo CountyClerk, P.O. Box 1197, William-son, West Virginia 25661, onor before June 10, 2013; other-wise, they may by law be ex-cluded from all benefits of saidestate. All beneficiaries of saidestate may appear on or be-fore said date to examine saidclaims and otherwise protecttheir interests.Given under my hand this 27thday of February, 2013.JIM HATFIELD, ClerkCounty Commission ofMingo CountyWest Virginia

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Notice to Creditors and Benefi-ciaries

Notice is hereby given thatsettlement of the estate of thefollowing named decedents willproceed without reference to afiduciary commissioner unlesswithin ninety days from the firstpublication of this notice suchreference is requested by aparty in interest or an unpaidcreditor files a claim and goodcause is shown to support ref-erence to a fiduciary commis-sioner.

Douglas M. PerkinsDated this 11th day of March.,2013

Jim HatfieldClerk of CountyCommission of Mingo County

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Notice to Creditors and Benefi-ciaries

Notice is hereby given thatsettlement of the estate of thefollowing named decedents willproceed without reference to afiduciary commissioner unlesswithin ninety days from the firstpublication of this notice suchreference is requested by aparty in interest or an unpaidcreditor files a claim and goodcause is shown to support ref-erence to a fiduciary commis-sioner.

Elizabeth I. SmithDated this 4th day of March.,2013

Jim HatfieldClerk of CountyCommission of Mingo County

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Notice of Administration

The administration of the Es-tate of Woodrow Hampton, Jr.,deceased, is pending in the Of-fice of the Clerk of the CountyCommission of Mingo County,West Virginia, whose addressis Post Office Box 1197, Willi-amson, West Virginia 25661.

Name and Address of Person-al Representative:Betty Jo Hampton196 Howard HollowWilliamson, West Virginia25661

Name and Address of AttorneyRepresenting Personal Rep-resentative:Paul E. PinsonAttorney at LawPost Office Box 440Williamson, West Virginia25661.

Name and Address of Fidu-ciary Commissioner: None Re-quired

The date of the first publica-tion of this notice is March 8,2013.

The date of the second public-ation of this notice is March 15,2013.

Claims against this estate maybe barred unless filed in ac-cordance with provisions ofWest Virginia Code, 44-2-1, etseq or 44-3A-1,et seq.

Any person seeking to im-peach or establish a will mustmake a complaint in accord-ance with the provisions ofWest Virginia Code, 41-5-11,12 or 13.

A statement of any interestedperson objecting to the qualific-ation of the above-named per-sonal representative or thevenue or jurisdiction of theCourt must be field within thisCounty Commission withinTHREE (3) MONTHS AFTERTHE DATE OF THE FIRSTPUBLICATION OF THIS NO-TICE OR WITHIN THIRTY (30)DAYS OF SERVICE OF ACOPY OF THIS NOTICE ONTHEM BY THE ESTATE'SPERSONAL REPRESENTAT-IVE WHICHEVER IS LATER.

Settlement of the estate of theabove-named decedent willproceed without reference to afiduciary commissioner unlesswithin ninety (90) days fromthe fist publication of this no-tice a reference is requestedby a party in interest or an un-paid creditor files a claim andgood cause is shown to sup-port reference to a fiduciarycommissioner.

Jim Hatfield, ClerkCounty Commission of MingoCounty,West Virginia

3:8,15NOTICE OF ADMINISTRA-TIONThe administration of the ES-TATE OF BONNIE SUEGOBLE, deceased, is pendingin the Office of the Clerk of theCounty Commission of MingoCounty, WV, whose address isP.O. Box 1197, Williamson,WV 25661.NAME AND ADDRESS OFPERSONAL REPRESENTAT-IVEClifford Lee GobleP.O. Box 338Delbarton, WV 25670NAME AND ADDRESS OFATTORNEY REPRESENT-ING PERSONAL REPRES-ENTATIVESJoshua S. Ferrell, Esq.P.O. Box 401Williamson, WV 25661NAME AND ADDRESS OF FI-DUCIARY COMMISSIONERMark H. Mitchell, Esq.31 East Second AvenueWilliamson, WV 25661The date of this first publica-tion of notice is March 08,2013. The date of the secondpublication of this notice isMarch 15, 2013.Claims against this estate maybe barred unless filed in ac-cordance with the provisions ofWest Virginia Code 44-2-1, etseq.All interested persons object-ing to the validity of the above-named decedentʼs Will, thequalification of the above-named personal representat-ive or the venue of the jurisdic-tion of the County Commis-sion shall file objection withthis County Commission with-in NINETY (90) DAYS AFTERTHE DATE OF THE FIRSTPUBLICATION OF THIS NO-TICE OR WITHIN THIRTY (30)DAYS OF SERVICE OF ACOPY OF THIS NOTICE ONTHEM BY THE ESTATEʼSPERSONAL REPRESENTAT-IVE, WHICHEVER IS LATER.JIM HATFIELD, ClerkCounty Commission ofMingo CountyWest Virginia

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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRA-TIONThe administration of the ES-TATE OF BONNIE SUEGOBLE, deceased, is pendingin the Office of the Clerk of theCounty Commission of MingoCounty, WV, whose address isP.O. Box 1197, Williamson,WV 25661.NAME AND ADDRESS OFPERSONAL REPRESENTAT-IVEClifford Lee GobleP.O. Box 338Delbarton, WV 25670NAME AND ADDRESS OFATTORNEY REPRESENT-ING PERSONAL REPRES-ENTATIVESJoshua S. Ferrell, Esq.P.O. Box 401Williamson, WV 25661NAME AND ADDRESS OF FI-DUCIARY COMMISSIONERMark H. Mitchell, Esq.31 East Second AvenueWilliamson, WV 25661The date of this first publica-tion of notice is March 08,2013. The date of the secondpublication of this notice isMarch 15, 2013.Claims against this estate maybe barred unless filed in ac-cordance with the provisions ofWest Virginia Code 44-2-1, etseq.All interested persons object-ing to the validity of the above-named decedentʼs Will, thequalification of the above-named personal representat-ive or the venue of the jurisdic-tion of the County Commis-sion shall file objection withthis County Commission with-in NINETY (90) DAYS AFTERTHE DATE OF THE FIRSTPUBLICATION OF THIS NO-TICE OR WITHIN THIRTY (30)DAYS OF SERVICE OF ACOPY OF THIS NOTICE ONTHEM BY THE ESTATEʼSPERSONAL REPRESENTAT-IVE, WHICHEVER IS LATER.JIM HATFIELD, ClerkCounty Commission ofMingo CountyWest Virginia

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IN THE FAMILY COURT OFMINGO COUNTY, WEST VIR-GINIA,DEBORAH K. STANLEY, Peti-tioner.

Case no.: 13-D-106

ORDER

On this day came PetitonerDeborah K. Stanley, otherwiseknown as Deborah, pro, se,and moved the court to allowher to file her Petition for NameChange pursuant to West Vir-ginia Code 48-25-101, et seq.,

It appearing proper to do sothe Court GRANTSPetitioner's petition and OR-DERS said petition to be filedwith the Circuit Clerk of MingoCounty, West Virignia.

Further, it is ORDERED that ahearing on the matter andthings set forth in said Petitionshall be heard in open Courton the 1th day of April, 2013 at1:30 p.m. before the Honor-able Miki Thompson, Judge ofthe Circuit Court of MingoCounty, West Virginia.Entered this 4th day of March,2013.

The Honorable MikiThompson, Judge.

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CONCEPTIS SUDOKUby Dave Green

Friday, March 15, 2013 ComiCs/EntErtainmEnt

Today’s Answers

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, March 15, 2013:

This year you communicate with precision because you want others to receive your message. Unfortunately, you can’t control others’ responses; however, you can clarify and confirm that they understand you. If you are single, you might meet someone in a class or by participating in some other mind-opening experience. If you are attached, a conversation will reveal that the two of you need to revive a goal. Enjoy manifesting more of your life wishes together. TAURUS not only is stubborn, but he or she also can be rigid.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-DifficultARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH You might be concerned

about an associate’s comment that could affect your security. Try not to worry so much. You will work better with someone on a one-on-one level. Your thoughts are subject to change if you remain more open. Touch base with a friend. Tonight: Your treat.TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH Work with someone’s

ideas regarding a problem. You can’t change this person’s mood, but you can affect his or her thinking in a dis-cussion. This individual tends to see the negative side of things. Open his or her eyes if you can. Tonight: Follow someone else’s lead.GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH Sometimes you push too

hard, which results in fatigue or even a low-level depression. One of the best decisions you could make is to take a day or two off. You might be surprised at how a change of routine could turn your energy and attitude around. Tonight: Be a bit less findable.CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Zero in on a long-term goal.

Do that, and a slip-up in your daily life might be less aggravating or disap-pointing. A child or new love interest seems closed down. Do not respond to any negativity, and stay centered ... everything will work out. Tonight: Follow the gang.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Accept your responsibilities,

and you will get a lot accomplished. Others naturally observe what you do. A loved one might feel dejected, as this person seems to think that you don’t have time to help him or her deal with a problem. Tonight: Out and about to the wee hours.VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

HHHH Your ability to stay out of problems and detach from heated situ-ations proves remarkable once more. You come up with solutions with ease. Someone might be taken aback at how authoritarian your style might be. Tonight: Make a call to or email some-one at distance.LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Discuss a key issue with

a partner. Your caring is evident, but the other party might not be very responsive. Fatigue could be a factor. Change the conversation, and try to find a more effective approach. Both of you will express more enthusiasm as a result. Tonight: Let someone else treat.SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Curb your cynicism; other-

wise, you could ruin the best of times. You seem determined to express your feelings. If you are going to rain on someone’s parade, why not just go home? Wouldn’t that be the best solu-tion for everyone involved? Tonight: The only answer is “yes.”SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH You are willing to pitch in to

help others out. You might feel as if someone assumes too much, or that he or she might be too confident in your abilities. Act on your feelings, but take a moment before giving this per-son a reaction. Tonight: Meet up with friends. TGIF!CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH While others seem to be

hitting a wall, you are able to bypass them because of an unusual creative bent. In fact, you’ll see solutions right and left. It’s OK to share them, as oth-ers will appreciate your thoughts and feedback. Tonight: Enjoy a romantic evening at home.AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH You won’t be able to avoid

certain priorities, no matter what you do. Even if you’re at work, your mind might tend to wander to a recent deci-sion involving your domestic life. Don’t take action just yet, as there are other possibilities. Tonight: You can’t control everyone’s behavior.PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Stay more sensitive to the

moment. Note what others might not be saying, and ask questions about vague information. Provide comfort by allowing others to feel safe. News from a distance could be distressing, but know that it is not the whole story. Tonight: Join work friends.

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Notice is hereby given that HAMPDEN COAL COMPANY LLC, PO BOX 1389, GILBERT, WV 25621 has a permit on fi le with the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for the surface mining of approximately 189.56 acres and has submitted an application to the DEP, 1101 George Kostas Drive, Logan, WV, 25601, for renewal of Article 3 Permit Number O501388 to Other - Preparation Plant in the N/A seam of coal.

The operation is discharging into Donaldson Branch of Horsepen Creek of Gilbert of the Guyandotte River and is located 5 miles Northwest of Gilbert, West Virginia in STAFFORD District of Mingo County, Longitude 81º 56ʼ 20.0000” and Latitude 37° 39ʼ 33.0000” (Coordinates from USGS Topographic Map).

Surface of the area associated herewith is owned by:NAME ADDRESSPocahontas Land Corporation P.O. Box 1517 Bluefi eld, WV 24701

*and the mineral associated herewith is owned by:NAME ADDRESSPocahontas Land Corporation P.O. Box 1517 Bluefi eld, WV 24701

*and the mineral within 100 feet of the permit area is owned by:NAME ADDRESSPocahontas Land Corporation P.O. Box 1517 Bluefi eld, WV 24701

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Written comments and/or requests for an informal conference of the permit renewal application shall identify the applicant and application number and will be received by the Permit Supervisor at the DEP address above until April 27, 2013, or thirty (30) days from date of fi nal publication. A copy of the application will be available for review until April 27, 2013, or ten (10) days from date of fi nal publication in the DEP Regional Offi ce located at the address above AND in the Mingo County Clerkʼs Offi ce during normal business hours.

DEP Telephone No. 304-792-7250 Permit No. O501388*These items are to be completed only for operations involving mineral removal.

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NationObama, GOP in ‘great conversation’ on Capitol HillAndrew TaylorThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said he had “a great conversation” with Senate Republicans on Thursday, the third stop in his ice-breaking tour of the Capitol this week on the budget and other conten-tious topics.

The 90-minute meeting with GOP rivals, senators said, fea-tured exchanges on the budget, the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, tax reform and the reg-ulatory burden on businesses.

“He was very candid. He cer-tainly understands that you can’t fix the country without adjusting entitlements to fit the demo-graphics of our country,” said Minority Leader Mitch McCon-nell, R-Ky., referring to benefit programs like Social Security and Medicare. “We’ll see where we go from here, but it was a great meeting.”

Obama then walked across the Capitol to meet with his House Democratic allies, capping visits this week to the Democratic and GOP conferences of both House and Senate.

Thursday’s meetings came as a key Senate panel moved toward party-line approval of a fiscal blueprint that would only modestly trim the budget defi-cit while protecting safety net programs from slashing cuts pro-posed by Republicans.

The Senate budget plan, drafted by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., blends about $1 tril-lion in modest cuts to health care providers, the Pentagon, domes-tic agencies and interest pay-ments on the debt with an equal amount in new revenue claimed by ending some tax breaks.

But because Democrats want to restore $1.2 trillion in auto-matic spending cuts over the same period — cuts imposed by Washington’s failure to strike

a broader budget pact — Mur-ray’s blueprint increases spend-ing slightly when compared with current policies. And after realistic assumptions about war spending are factored in, Mur-ray’s proposal would curb the deficit by only a few hundred billion dollars over 10 years. Murray’s plan allocates just $50 billion for overseas military oper-ations next year and assumes no war spending whatsoever start-ing in 2016.

In the House, Budget Commit-tee Republicans approved a 2014 budget plan late Wednesday with an entirely opposite approach. It whacks spending by $4.6 tril-lion over the coming decade and promises sweeping cuts to Medicaid and domestic agencies while setting a path to balancing the government’s books within 10 years. The party-line vote sent the measure to the full House for a vote next week.

The partisan activity in the

rival Budget panels contrasts with Obama’s charm offensive, which is aimed at exploring the possibility of bipartisan agree-ment over politically challeng-ing budget issues that have long gridlocked Washington.

Obama is signaling a willing-ness to adopt some modest steps on Medicare and Social Security, even as many of his Democratic allies wince at the idea. He told House Democrats that he could support a less generous inflation adjustment for Social Security but only as part of a larger bud-get bargain that includes new taxes.

He told senators to expect a decision on the keystone pipeline sometime this year though he didn’t signal whether to expect his administration to approve it, said Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D.

“This will be hard, and it will have to go against his own party to some extent as will some of us on the other side, but that we

need to fix the debt for the coun-try,” said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. “He was candid and open and direct and he didn’t sugar coat it. He recognizes that we have some pretty big differ-ences and we ought to keep ex-pectations under control, but he said he believes — and I think all of us believe — this is the way we should be doing business to-gether.”

Separately, debate continues in the Senate on a bipartisan spending measure wrapping up unfinished work on this year’s budget — the annual spending bills funding the day-to-day oper-ating budgets of federal agencies. Leaders hope to finish that mea-sure, which is required to prevent a government shutdown at the end of the month, on Thursday. Hopes were fading, however.

Senate passage would send the measure, with numerous chang-es, back to the House, which ini-tially approved it last week.

New pope’s views bind simplicity with ‘complexity’Brian MurphyThe Associated Press

VATICAN CITY — At gatherings of Latin Ameri-can bishops, then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was of-ten a star speaker about economic inequities in a profit-driven world. He also has used the forums to warn fellow church leaders about drifting from core Catholic values and teach-ings.

The twin messages are now expected to frame the beginning of the papacy of Pope Francis: Reinforc-ing the Vatican’s views on issues such as birth con-trol and women’s ordina-tion that will disappoint reform-minded followers, yet showing an activist streak that could hearten others pushing for greater attention to problems that include poverty and inter-national debt.

These broad ideological strokes — drawn clearly over decades in the Argen-tine church — will likely be accompanied by grow-ing nuances and initiatives demanded by the modern papacy that requires dip-lomatic skill, managerial acumen and a degree of pastoral flair.

His emphasis on clerical simplicity and populism, including efforts to keep divorced Catholics and unmarried mothers in the church’s fold, could raise alarms among staunch con-

servatives about a reorien-tation of Vatican priorities after eight years of strict guidance under Benedict XVI, who spent most of his Vatican career as the main doctrinal enforcer.

Through lesser-known gestures and comments in the past, the first Latin American pontiff also has shown an inclination to expand interfaith outreach to Islam and Judaism, and efforts to further close the nearly 1,000-year estrange-ment with the Orthodox churches. The pope’s his-torical namesake, St. Fran-cis of Assisi, is described in church lore as walking unarmed to meet an Is-lamic ruler during the 13th century Crusades in a ges-ture of respect and shared humanity.

In his first Mass on Thursday as pope, Francis reinforced his pastoral pri-orities and service during a brief homily in the Sistine Chapel that was simple and inclusive, calling on all Catholics to help “build” the church and “walk” with the faith. Without such col-lective spirit, he said the underpinnings grow weak.

“What happens when children build sand castles on the beach?” he told the congregation that included the cardinals who elected him. “It all comes down.”

The pope then showed a sterner side by citing the words of French writer Leon Bloy, an agnostic

who experienced a strong religious conversion before his death in 1917: “He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.”

“To focus on the new pope only as a traditional-ist is wrong, as is only to focus on him as a cham-pion for economic justice,” said Ambrogio Piazzoni, a church historian and vice-prefect of the Vatican library. “He is both and much more. This will be a papacy of complexity.”

A Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Thomas Rosica, described the initial period of any papacy as “days of surprise.”

But core elements of Pope Francis’ pontificate are already informed by his Jesuit order. Its nearly 600-year history has been marked by hostility from the Vatican over perceived disobedience and indepen-dent-minded theological interpretations, although in recent decades, there has been a growing sense of cooperation and com-mon purpose.

The Jesuit ethos is built strongly around academic rigor and missionary ser-vice — and since the 1960s an association with so-called liberation theology, a Latin American-inspired view that Jesus’ teachings imbue followers with a duty to fight for social and economic justice.

Computer expert testifies at Ohio rape trialAndrew Welsh-HugginsAP Legal Affairs Writer

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — A com-puter expert began testifying Thurs-day about her analysis of cellphones seized in the investigation of two Ohio high school football players charged with raping a 16-year-old West Vir-ginia girl.

The evidence about 17 cellphones to be presented by computer forensic specialist Joann Gibb is considered crucial to prosecutors’ case against the boys because of photos taken the evening of the alleged attack in Au-gust.

Gibb was expected to be on the stand for several hours at the trial in

Steubenville in eastern Ohio.Earlier Thursday, police officers

and witnesses from phone service pro-viders testified about how the phones were gathered through search war-rants and the types of records subpoe-naed from the phone companies.

The football players’ trial began Wednesday as a contest between prosecutors insisting the girl was too drunk to consent to sex and defense attorneys portraying her as someone who was intoxicated but still in con-trol of her actions.

The two players, Trent Mays and Ma’Lik Richmond, maintain their in-nocence.

Special Judge Thomas Lipps is hearing the case without a jury.

Obama says Iran a year away from nuclear weaponAron HellerThe Associated Press

JERUSALEM — Iran is about a year away from developing a nuclear weapon and the United States remains committed to doing everything in its power to prevent that from happening, President Barack Obama said in an exclusive interview aired Thursday on Israeli TV.

Just days before he is to arrive in Israel for his first presidential visit, Obama told Israel’s Channel 2 TV that while he still prefers diplomacy over force, but that a nuclear Iran is a “red line” and all options remain on the table to stop it.

“Right now, we think it would take over a year or so for Iran to actually develop a nu-clear weapon, but obviously we don’t want to cut it too close,” he said. “So when I’m consulting with Bibi (Israeli Prime Minis-ter Benjamin Netanyahu) as I have over the last several years on this issue, my message to him will be the same as before: ‘If we can resolve it diplomatically that is a more last-ing solution. But if not I continue to keep all options on the table.’”

The timeline for action against Iran has been one of the most fraught disputes in an already tense relationship between Obama and Netanyahu. Israel has repeatedly threat-ened to act militarily should Iran appear to be on the verge of obtaining a bomb, while the U.S. has pushed for more time to allow

diplomacy and economic sanctions to run their course.

Obama’s forecast gives more time than that of Netanyahu, who has signaled that the coming months present a point of no return in dealing with Iran.

The American president nonetheless took a stern tone toward Iran in the half-hour long interview.

“What I have also said is that there is a window, not an infinite period of time, but a window of time where we can resolve this diplomatically and it is in all of our inter-ests” to do this, he said. “They (Iran) are not yet at the point, I think, where they have made a fundamental decision to get right with the international community … I do think they are recognizing that there is a severe cost to continue on the path they are on and that there is another door open.”

Israel considers a nuclear-armed Iran to be an existential threat, citing Iranian de-nials of the Holocaust, its calls for Israel’s destruction, its development of missiles capable of striking the Jewish state and its support for hostile Arab militant groups. Tehran says its nuclear program is peaceful and designed to produce energy and medi-cal isotopes, a claim that Israel and many Western countries reject.

Obama said that a nuclear Iran would also be “dangerous for the world. It would be dangerous for U.S. national security in-terests.”