DAILY NEWS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2010 PRINTED WITH RECYCLED NEWSPRINT VOLUME 98, NUMBER 254 NEWSSTAND PRICE IS 1 DOLLAR WilliamsonDailyNews.com “IN THE HEART OF THE TRILLION DOLLAR COALFIELDS” INSIDE Classifieds . . . . . . .9 Comics . . . . . . . .10 Editorial . . . . . . . . .4 Entertainment . . . .7 Obituaries . . . . . . .6 Sports . . . . . . . . . .5 WEATHER Today: Partly cloudy. Highs in the low 80s and lows in the upper 50s. Tomorrow: A few thunderstorms pos- sible. Highs in the mid 70s and lows in the upper 50s. Thomas Bowling - Belfry KY for subscribing to the Daily News THANK YOU … View the online www.williamsondailynews.com By JULIA ROBERTS GOAD STAFF WRITER Hospitality is no longer simply welcoming people into your home - it has be- come an industry. Combine our beautiful Appalachian Mountains with a burgeoning tourism industry and friendly wel- coming people, and the po- tential for the hospitality business in our area seems unlimited. From 2009 to 2019, the number of jobs in the restaurant and foodser- vice industry is projected to increase by 1.8 million na- tionally. Local training for food service, a major component of the hospitality industry, however, was virtually non- existent until Daniel Size- more joined the Mingo County Career Center to implement ProStart, a ca- reer-building program for high school students who are interested in culinary arts and restaurant and food- service management. The program has 15 stu- dents in two sessions, from all five Mingo County high schools. Sizemore is a Mingo na- tive, currently living in Del- barton with his wife Stacy and children Joey and Sarah. He said he wasn’t a born chef, but went to culi- nary school in Wheeling. “I didn't know how to cook anything at all, I just decided to go,” Sizemore said. He worked at high vol- ume establishments like Cracker Barrel, Red Lobster and Liberty Steakhouse and Brewery. But he wanted to return home, and in 2006 began the ProStart program at the Career Center. Since then, he has taken classes continually through WV Tech for teacher certi- fication. This summer, Size- more will become a Certified Foodservice Sec- ondary Educator through the National Restaurant As- sociation Education Foun- dation. Qualifications for certification include culi- nary work experience and attendance at three summer institutes. “I did level One at Le Cordon Bleu in Chicago and level Two at Mc- Cutchen House at USC in Columbia, S.C.,” he said, adding he has not decided where he will go for training this summer, but thinks it will be in New England. Currently, Sizemore teaches high school juniors and seniors all aspects of the food service industry, from hands-on training in the kitchen to the training needed to manage a restau- rant. “There have always been home economics and cook- ing classes,” Sizemore ex- plained as his students prepared ingredients for Ba- nanas Foster. “But this pro- gram prepares kids to run a restaurant, for a successful career in industrial food service. No matter where you eat, you want a whole- some meal, served by a qualified staff, and that’s what my students are learn- ing.” One of those students is Carie Montgomery, who travels from Gilbert to the Career Center, adjacent to Burch High School, for the classes. Carie spends three hours a day studying restau- rant management and learn- ing how to cook on a commercial basis. Although she has worked at a diner and a pizza restau- rant, she says a presentation at Gilbert High School by Sizemore about ProStart sparked her attention in a career in food. “I thought it looked inter- esting,” she told the Daily News. “I have always cooked, ever since I was lit- tle. Then, after I was here for less than a week, I knew this was what I wanted.” Sizemore says he tries to incorporate at least one “lab” each day into the classes, so that 50 percent of his students’ time is spent in the kitchen. But class- room work is also stressed, including the business side of food service. “The most difficult part for the kids is some of the business math, calculating food orders, food costs, and accounting that goes along with the program,” he said. “But it is one of the most important skills.” The students have al- ready gotten some real world experience, catering several local events, Size- more said. “We have catered for var- ious Board of Education functions, Child Abuse Pre- vention day, we have cooked in the state capital building under the rotunda for tourism day, at the Ca- reer Center we do open house, HOSA initiation din- ner. Occasionally we feed the student body healthy snacks,” Sizemore said. In addition he said his students have cooked at the King Coal Festival and the Har- less Center in Gilbert. “We feed the presenters at eighth grade career day at Southern West Virginia Community College. At Career day we made omelets and crepes to order and brought them to tables to accompany the buffet we had set up.” Students do all the set up, cooking and serving at these functions, learning the catering business inside and out. ProStart students also compete in a competition for the Culinary Cup. A business model is set up, and participants are re- quired to plan and execute all aspects of a restaurant, from planning the décor and menu to hiring staff and managing a restaurant. Winners can take home scholarship money, some enough to cover college ex- penses. Which is what Carie Montgomery plans to do. “People tell me I’m lucky to know at such a young age what I want to do with my life,” she said over the Bananas Foster she had pre- pared. “I always wanted to have a career with food.” High school students prepare for a future in food STAFF PHOTO/JULIA R GOAD FLAMBE CLASS – Carie Montgomery prepares Bananas Foster at the Mingo Career Center. The dessert’s dramatic presentation was executed flawlessly under the watchful eye of her teacher, Dan Sizemore. STAFF PHOTO/JULIA R GOAD Daniel Sizemore was a chef before he came home to Mingo County to teach the ProStart program at the Mingo Career Center in Delbarton. STAFF PHOTO/JULIA R GOAD Carie Montgomery, Tanja Jarviss and Lottie Vance pre- pare Bananas Foster as part of their classes in the ProStart program. BOE posts more than 14 job openings By CHARLOTTE SANDERS SENIOR WRITER The Mingo County Board of Education has posted 14 job vacancies in county schools and an unspeci- fied number of openings for substitute bus operators. Applicants for teaching and service positions are required to complete and submit a "Bid Sheet" to the Human Resources Office at Cinderella by 4 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010. Applicants for principal, Technology Systems Specialist, and extra-curricu- lar/extra-duty positions shall each submit a letter of application and resume to the Personnel Office by the same deadline. • The call for applications includes the principal- ship at Tug Valley High School (Principal 9-12 cer- tification), and two Technology Systems Specialists, one for the Gilbert area and the other for the Williamson area. t t Williamson Area LSIC reports By CHARLOTTE SANDERS SENIOR WRITER The joint meeting of the Mingo County Board of Education and the Williamson Area Local School Improvement Council representing three schools produced much interesting information Tuesday night on their activities and goals. Students from Williamson High, Williamson Mid- dle and Riverside Elementary schools each pre- sented videos and oral reports that gave board members and others at the meeting a good look at the area brand of education. ? Turn to BOE/6A ? Turn to LSIC/6A t
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Hospitality is no longersimply welcoming peopleinto your home - it has be-come an industry. Combine our beautiful
Appalachian Mountainswith a burgeoning tourismindustry and friendly wel-coming people, and the po-tential for the hospitalitybusiness in our area seemsunlimited. From 2009 to2019, the number of jobs inthe restaurant and foodser-vice industry is projected toincrease by 1.8 million na-tionally.Local training for food
service, a major componentof the hospitality industry,however, was virtually non-existent until Daniel Size-more joined the MingoCounty Career Center toimplement ProStart, a ca-reer-building program forhigh school students whoare interested in culinaryarts and restaurant and food-service management.The program has 15 stu-
dents in two sessions, fromall five Mingo County highschools.Sizemore is a Mingo na-
tive, currently living in Del-barton with his wife Stacyand children Joey andSarah. He said he wasn’t aborn chef, but went to culi-nary school in Wheeling. “I didn't know how to
cook anything at all, I justdecided to go,” Sizemoresaid. He worked at high vol-ume establishments likeCracker Barrel, Red Lobster
and Liberty Steakhouse andBrewery. But he wanted toreturn home, and in 2006began the ProStart programat the Career Center. Since then, he has taken
classes continually throughWV Tech for teacher certi-fication. This summer, Size-more will become aCertified Foodservice Sec-ondary Educator throughthe National Restaurant As-sociation Education Foun-dation. Qualifications forcertification include culi-nary work experience andattendance at three summerinstitutes. “I did level One at Le
Cordon Bleu in Chicagoand level Two at Mc-Cutchen House at USC inColumbia, S.C.,” he said,adding he has not decidedwhere he will go for trainingthis summer, but thinks itwill be in New England.Currently, Sizemore
teaches high school juniorsand seniors all aspects of thefood service industry, fromhands-on training in thekitchen to the trainingneeded to manage a restau-rant.“There have always been
home economics and cook-ing classes,” Sizemore ex-plained as his studentsprepared ingredients for Ba-nanas Foster. “But this pro-gram prepares kids to run arestaurant, for a successfulcareer in industrial foodservice. No matter whereyou eat, you want a whole-some meal, served by aqualified staff, and that’swhat my students are learn-
ing.”One of those students is
Carie Montgomery, whotravels from Gilbert to theCareer Center, adjacent toBurch High School, for theclasses. Carie spends threehours a day studying restau-rant management and learn-ing how to cook on acommercial basis. Although she has worked
at a diner and a pizza restau-rant, she says a presentationat Gilbert High School bySizemore about ProStartsparked her attention in acareer in food.“I thought it looked inter-
esting,” she told the DailyNews. “I have alwayscooked, ever since I was lit-tle. Then, after I was herefor less than a week, I knewthis was what I wanted.”Sizemore says he tries to
incorporate at least one“lab” each day into theclasses, so that 50 percentof his students’ time is spentin the kitchen. But class-room work is also stressed,including the business sideof food service.“The most difficult part
for the kids is some of thebusiness math, calculatingfood orders, food costs, andaccounting that goes alongwith the program,” he said.“But it is one of the mostimportant skills.”The students have al-
ready gotten some realworld experience, cateringseveral local events, Size-more said.“We have catered for var-
ious Board of Educationfunctions, Child Abuse Pre-
vention day, we havecooked in the state capitalbuilding under the rotundafor tourism day, at the Ca-reer Center we do openhouse, HOSA initiation din-ner. Occasionally we feedthe student body healthysnacks,” Sizemore said. Inaddition he said his studentshave cooked at the KingCoal Festival and the Har-less Center in Gilbert. “We feed the presenters
at eighth grade career day atSouthern West VirginiaCommunity College. AtCareer day we madeomelets and crepes to orderand brought them to tablesto accompany the buffet wehad set up.”Students do all the set up,
cooking and serving atthese functions, learning thecatering business inside andout.ProStart students also
compete in a competitionfor the Culinary Cup. Abusiness model is set up,and participants are re-quired to plan and executeall aspects of a restaurant,from planning the décorand menu to hiring staff andmanaging a restaurant.Winners can take homescholarship money, someenough to cover college ex-penses.Which is what Carie
Montgomery plans to do.“People tell me I’m lucky
to know at such a youngage what I want to do withmy life,” she said over theBananas Foster she had pre-pared. “I always wanted tohave a career with food.”
High school students prepare for a future in food
STAFF PHOTO/JULIA R GOADFLAMBE CLASS – Carie Montgomery prepares Bananas Foster at the Mingo Career Center. The dessert’s dramaticpresentation was executed flawlessly under the watchful eye of her teacher, Dan Sizemore.
STAFF PHOTO/JULIA R GOADDaniel Sizemore was a chef before he came home toMingo County to teach the ProStart program at theMingo Career Center in Delbarton.
STAFF PHOTO/JULIA R GOADCarie Montgomery, Tanja Jarviss and Lottie Vance pre-pare Bananas Foster as part of their classes in theProStart program.
BOE posts morethan 14 job openingsBy CHARLOTTE SANDERSSENIOR WRITER
The Mingo County Board of Education has posted14 job vacancies in county schools and an unspeci-fied number of openings for substitute bus operators.Applicants for teaching and service positions are
required to complete and submit a "Bid Sheet" to theHuman Resources Office at Cinderella by 4 p.m.,Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010. Applicants for principal,Technology Systems Specialist, and extra-curricu-lar/extra-duty positions shall each submit a letter ofapplication and resume to the Personnel Office bythe same deadline.• The call for applications includes the principal-
ship at Tug Valley High School (Principal 9-12 cer-tification), and two Technology Systems Specialists,one for the Gilbert area and the other for theWilliamson area.
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tWilliamson AreaLSIC reports
By CHARLOTTE SANDERSSENIOR WRITER
The joint meeting of the Mingo County Board ofEducation and the Williamson Area Local SchoolImprovement Council representing three schoolsproduced much interesting information Tuesdaynight on their activities and goals.Students from Williamson High, Williamson Mid-
dle and Riverside Elementary schools each pre-sented videos and oral reports that gave boardmembers and others at the meeting a good look atthe area brand of education.
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WASHINGTON (AP)— The Obama administra-tion on Friday laid out afive-year, $2 billion mili-tary aid package for Pak-istan as it pressed theIslamabad government tointensify its fight againstextremists there and inneighboring Afghanistan.Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clintonannounced the plan duringthe latest round of U.S.-Pakistani strategic dia-logue. The administrationwill ask Congress for $2billion for Pakistan to pur-chase U.S.-made arms,ammunition and acces-sories from 2012 to 2016,Clinton said.The aid comes even as
the administration is with-holding assistance to cer-tain individual Pakistanimilitary units suspected ofhuman rights abuses, in-cluding extrajudicialkillings and torture. And, itcomes amid ongoing con-cerns that Pakistan is notfully committed to fightingextremists along its borderwith Afghanistan.The new aid replaces a
similar but less valuablepackage that began in 2005and expired on Oct. 1. Itwill complement $7.5 bil-lion in civilian assistancethe administration has al-ready committed to Pak-istan over five years, someof which has been divertedto help the country dealwith devastating floods.The U.S. hopes the an-
nouncement, made byClinton with Pakistani For-eign Minister Shah Mah-mood Qureshi at her side,
will reassure Pakistan ofthe long-term U.S. com-mitment to Pakistan's mili-tary needs. The money alsoshould help Pakistan bol-ster its efforts to go afterTaliban and al-Qaida affil-iates on its territory.Clinton sought to down-
play U.S. worries aboutPakistan's commitment tothe war on terrorism. Sherecognized the sacrifices ofits soldiers and said that"the United States has nostronger partner when itcomes to counterterrorismefforts against the extrem-ists who threaten us boththan Pakistan."Qureshi said Pakistan
appreciated the assistance,but he expressed annoy-ance at the lingeringdoubts. He said nearly30,000 Pakistani civilianshave died in terrorist at-tacks and nearly 7,000 sol-diers and police have beenkilled fighting a foe that"that offers no quarter,obeys no law and holdsnothing sacred."Nonetheless, he said,
there are still comments"even in this capital, aboutPakistan's heart being notreally in this fight.""We do not know what
greater evidence to offerthan the blood of our peo-ple," he said."Madame Secretary, we
are determined to win thisfight," Qureshi said,adding that Pakistan would"not allow any space to ter-rorists on its territory."Friday's announcement
followed news that the ad-ministration has been with-holding assistance to ahandful of Pakistani mili-tary units accused ofhuman rights abuses under
1997 legislation. Clintonsaid those units would notbe eligible for the new aid."We will continue to en-
sure that all assistance(will) comply with U.S.laws and regulations," shesaid. "We take all allega-tions of human rightsabuses seriously and wediscuss them with the gov-ernment of Pakistan andwe follow the law and wework with our partners inPakistan to deal with anyissues that come to our at-tention."Qureshi said the Pak-
istani government wasaware of the situation butsaid steps were beingtaken to correct it."I can assure there will
be zero tolerance againsthuman right violations,"he said. "If there is actionrequired the governmentof Pakistan will take ac-tion."This week's talks in
Washington — the thirdround of the U.S.-PakistanStrategic Dialogue —came as the countries triedto ease tensions overAmerican military incur-sions across the borderfrom Afghanistan and alle-gations that Islamabad isnot doing enough to targetTaliban militants.During the last round in
Islamabad in July, Clintonannounced more than$500 million in aid for avariety of projects, includ-ing renovating hospitals,improving water distribu-tion and upgrading hydro-electric dams. The U.S.had to re-examine its plansafter the meeting, how-ever, after Pakistan was hitby the worst floods in thecountry's history.
US ups Pakistanimilitary aid by $2 billion
Oct. 24-31The Corner Stone Church
of Hatfield Bottom, Mate-wan, will hold revival serv-ices. with guest speaker willbe Bro. Ray Messer and spe-cial singing nightly at 7 p.m.Sunday services will beginat 1 p.m. with a dinner fol-lowing. For more informa-tion, call Pastor Jim EdWhitt at (304) 235-6534 orthe church at (304) 426-5540.
Oct. 24-27The Red Jacket Commu-
nity Church, across from theRed Jacket Post Office, willhold revival services nightlyat 7 p.m. The revival willfeature special preachingeach night with Pastor JerryRose preaching Sunday,Pastor Ralph Farley preach-ing Monday, Pastor MikeReprogel on Tuesday, andPastor Dallas Rife onWednesday. Pastor JerryRose invites the public to at-tend.
Oct. 24Matewan Missionary
Baptist Church, locatedacross from the MatewanPost Office, will hold home-coming services at 11 a.m.with guest speaker, formerpastor Don Matney. Dinnerwill follow the service. Pas-tor Carl Butler invites thepublic to attend.
Oct. 25The Kentucky Blood
Center will hold a blooddrive at the Big Sandy Com-munity and Technical Col-lege, 120 S. Riverfill Drive,Pikeville, Ky. from 9 a.m. to3 p.m. For more informa-tion, visitwww.kybloodcenter.org orcall 1-800-775-2522.The Mingo County
Health Department will beconducting a food school at1 p.m. at the River's Edge,formerly the Brass Tree inWilliamson. For more infor-mation, call (304) 235-3570.The Williamson Housing
Authority will hold its regu-lar meeting at 4:30 p.m. inthe conference room of themain office, Victoria CourtComplex, 1612 W. 6th Ave.,Williamson. The public isinvited to attend. For moreinformation, contact TinaMcCoy at (304) 235-3270ext. 14.The Housing Authority of
Mingo County Board ofCommissioners will holdtheir regular meeting at 12p.m. in their main office,5026 Helena Ave., Delbar-ton. The public is invited toattend.
Oct. 26-27GED Testing will be held
at the Mingo Career Centerfor those who have passed
the official practice test.Registration must be a weekprior to the test. For more in-formation, call John Webb at(304) 475-3347, ext. 13.
Oct. 26The Williamson Visitors
and Convention Bureau willmeet at 5 p.m. at WilliamsonCity Hall. The public is in-vited to attend.The Action in Mingo
(AIM) Group will meet inthe council chambers ofWilliamson City Hall at 4:30p.m. The group will beginmaking plans for the GreatWhite Way.The Mingo County Asso-
ciation of Retired SchoolEmployees (MCARSE) willmeet at the Conley Memo-rial Church in Delbarton10:30 a.m. All members areurged to attend.
Oct. 27The Elizabeth Chapter
No. 37, Order of the EasternStar will welcome theirGrand Chapter Officers,Worthy Grand Matron Deb-bie Dhayer and WorthyGrand Patron, ArnoldPersinger, at the MasonicTemple in Williamson at7:30 p.m.
Oct. 28The Williamson Utility
Board will hold its firstmeeting of the month at 3:30p.m. in the council chambersof city hall. The public is in-vited to attend.The Williamson Unsafe
Building Commission willhold its first meeting of themonth at 4:30 p.m. in thecouncil chambers of cityhall. The public is invited toattend.The Williamson City
Council will hold its firstmeeting of the month at 5:30p.m. in the council chambersof city hall. The public is in-vited to attend.World Finance Corpora-
tion will hold a Halloweengiveaway for children from6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at their of-fice in the AppalachianPlaza, South Williamson,Ky. Gift bags with candy,pencils and other items forchildren will be given away.For more information, call(606) 237-5115.Trick-or-treat for Pike and
Mingo Counties will be heldfrom 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.The Williamson Kiwanis
Club will hold its annualHalloween party from 6p.m. to 8 p.m. at theWilliamson Fieldhouse forchildren of the community.Games, prizes, costumejudging and other eventswill be held.
Sunset Boulevard in WestWilliamson will be closed tovehicular traffic from 6 p.m.to 8 p.m. for trick-or-treat-ing.The Kentucky Blood
Center will hold a blooddrive at the SouthWilliamson AppalachianRegional Hospital in themulti-purpose room of theSkilled Nursing Facilityfrom 11 a.m. until 4 p.m.Donors must be 17 yearsold, or 16 with parental con-sent, weigh at least 110pounds, in general goodhealth and meet other re-quirements. To make an ap-pointment, call (606)237-1700, ext. 4246.Mingo County Airport
Authority will meet inRoom 136 of the MingoCounty Courthouse,Williamson, at 5 p.m. Thepublic is invited to attend. Ifspecial accommodations arerequired call (304) 235-2217.Groundbreaking for the
Greasy Creek CommunityCenter in Pike County willbe held at 10 a.m. at the siteon Greasy Creek. Call (606)432-6247 for more informa-tion.
Oct. 29Matewan High School
will host their annualHomecoming Parade at 1p.m. Parade line-up willbegin at 12 p.m at the highschool football field aroundthe track. For more infor-mation or to participate, callthe school at (304) 426-6555.
Oct. 30Consuming Fire Min-
istries will hold an Arts andCrafts Fair from 11 a.m. to5 p.m. on Second Ave. indowntown Williamson.Limited spaces are avail-able. Booths cost $25. Pro-ceeds will towards feedingthe Widow's Ministry andpurchasing Christmas toysfor local children.The Capital City Gospel
Sing will be held at the Mu-nicipal Auditorium inCharleston featuring ThePrimitive Quartet, ArchieWatkins & the SmokyMountain Reunion, SetApart and The Humphreys.Tickets range from $16 to$20 and must be reserved.Tickets are available at tick-etmaster.com, by phone at1-800-745-3000 and at theCharleston Civic Centerbox office.Autumn Bend II, an
acoustic guitar revue, willbe held at the RighteousBrew Coffee House, 182 E.2nd Ave. Williamson, from7 p.m. to 10 p.m. The revuewill feature Glen Simpson,Tony Mullins, and Kevin
Harmon. Admissions is $5.For more information, call(304) 235-2823.
Oct. 31The Rawl Freewill Bap-
tist Church will hold PastorAppreciation and Home-coming services at 10:30a.m. Singing will be pro-vided by the congregationand visitors. A dinner willfollow the service. Therewill not be an evening serv-ice. The public is invited toattend.
Nov. 4MOPS will meet at the
5th Avenue Church ofChrist, 11 W. 5th Ave.,Williamson, at 6:15 p.m.All mothers with preschoolage children are invited toattend.
Nov. 6The Mingo County area
council for the UMWACOMPAC will meet at theUMWA building in Mate-wan at 11:30 a.m. For moreinformation, call ButchCollins at (304) 426-6534.
Nov. 6-7An ASEP coaching class
will be from 10 a.m. to 7p.m. Saturday and from 12p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at
Huntington High Schoolfor those interested incoaching a secondaryschool sport. To register,visit www.wvssac.org.
Nov 7St. Paul's Episcopal
Church, 411 Prichard St.,Williamson, will hold ahomecoming service anddinner beginning at 11:30a.m. with Holy Eucharist.The public is invited.
Nov. 14The Logan Street First
Baptist Church,Williamson, will celebratethe church's 115th anniver-sary with the theme "MyHelp" from Psalm 121. Theservice will begin at 3:30p.m. with guest ministerRev. Michael A. Poke, Sr.and the officers and mem-bers of the St. Paul BaptistChurch of St. Albans.Morning worship begins at11 a.m. with Sunday schoolstarting at 9:45 a.m. A fel-lowship dinner will beserved at 1 p.m. The publicis invited to attend.The Mingo Career &
Technical Center School ofPractical Nursing will light“candles of care” to remem-ber and honor individuals
with Alzheimer’s disease orrelated illnesses for No-vember's NationalAlzheimer's DiseaseAwareness Month. Theevent will be held at 5 p.m.at the Freedom Full GospelAssembly House of Prayerin Hampden.
Nov. 15The GFWC-Williamson
Women's Club will holdtheir regular monthly meet-ing at the River's EdgeRestaurant at 12 p.m.
Nov. 16-17GED Testing will be held
at the Mingo Career Centerfor those who have passedthe official practice test.Registration must be aweek prior to the test. Formore information, call JohnWebb at (304) 475-3347,ext. 13.
Nov. 16The Pike County Cham-
ber of Commerce, CEDAR,Inc., and EQT will hold En-ergy Summit '10 at the EastKy. Expo Center, Pikeville,Ky., from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.Pre-registration tickets are$40 each before Nov. 9and $50 afterwards. Formore information, call(606) 432-5504.
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According to results from a recent study, published in theArchives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine Journal, the risk ofinfants developing influenza is reduced when their mothers receiveinfluenza vaccination during pregnancy. Influenza vaccines aregenerally indicated for infants six months and older. Infantsyounger than six months of age who are often at high risk for in-fluenza complication are left without adequate coverage. Data fromthis study showed that babies had a remarkable 41% reduction inthe risk of developing influenza within the initial six months oflife, when their mothers had received influenza vaccination. Thevaccinated mothers were compared with mothers who did not re-ceive influenza vaccination during pregnancy.Researchers state that influenza vaccination is recommended for
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The last days of summer...What we've been seeing this past week ... leaves
turning somersaults, showing their underbellies ofred, orange, yellow and brown ... the appearance ofbig orange pumpkins waiting to be baked into pies orcarved into jack-o-lanterns ... the first kiss of frost andthe warmth of the sun hanging low in evening skies,tell us summer has come and gone another year.I love this time of year. The colors haven't been
quite as pretty as they usually are, but they're stillbeautiful. I don't know how you folks feel, but to methere always seems to be a kind of sadness in the fall.Maybe it's because I know winter is just around thecorner.Right now, though, I'd be feeling blue at any time of
year. I don't particularly enjoy writing about sadthings, but if I could speak to each of you individually,I'm sure everyone of you would have a burden, aheartache to tell me about. Whatever yours might be,I pray the Lord will lighten your load for you andgrace your life to make you strong and of goodcourage.Awhile back I shared with you about my sister,
Nancy, having surgery for breast cancer. Our oldestsister, Mary Elizabeth, will be having surgery Mon-day for the same thing. We also have three nieces whoare battling cancer.We are waiting upon and trusting the Lord for the
best possible outcome. And while our faith in God isstrong, we still live in this world for the time beingand we live with family and friends we love dearly.When one of our loved ones hurts, we hurt. When
a family member or a friend is in trouble, we're introuble, too.A lot of you know Nancy, I'm sure. She works in
the deli at Food City. Well, she did, but left work be-cause of her sickness. Nancy's the sibling I told you allabout putting waxed paper on Patricia's hair on anironing board and trying to iron out the curls in it.She's also the one who slapped the rump of Ol'
Buck, our mule, after Trish had climbed on his back.I think the expression, "wilder than a buck," musthave come from that incident. For a fact, that muleran wild until Patricia fell off his back.Mary Elizabeth is the oldest sibling. I'm the second.
She and I are really close to all our other siblings.However, there's a closeness between the sisters thatis very special. Sissy (Mary) and I have always beensort of connected at the hip.Being a year older than I, Sissy started school a year
earlier. I reckon I must have raised a ruckus. Daddysaid I cried so much that, after a few days, he went tothe Board of Education and they granted permissionfor me to go to first grade along with Sissy.I've been thinking even more these days about my
childhood days and those of my siblings. We have agood relationship, and we've had a lot of good timestogether. We've had some troubles and trials, too. ButI mostly remember the good times and the fun timeswe had.I was just five, but I can still remember some things
about those first days of school. Mother dressed us inour little flowered feed sack dresses she made; putham, biscuits and an apple in a little lard bucket andaway we went, barefoot, down a dusty road to thetwo-room school with its pot-bellied stove and out-door toilet. I don't remember this part: Sissy saidwhile I sat at the big desk with her that first day ofschool, I wet my pants. I always tell her when she tellsthat - I couldn't read the sign hanging on a nail besidethe door. On one side it said "toilet-in" and the otherside, "toilet-out." A young'en was supposed to turn thecard to the correct side when going in or coming out.One reason I feel sad these last days of summer is
because I'm unable to be with three of my sisters wholive a long way from here - Sissy especially. She livesnear the Mackinaw Bridge in Northern Michigan.And as the leaves of summer fade into the season of
autumn, I remember ... I remember all the seasons ofspring, summer, autumn and winter and as the leavesdance outside my window against the blue of the sky,I thank God for a family I've been blessed to live with,to share with, to laugh with, to work with and to praywith when I need to reach out and touch the hand ofGod.God bless!(c) Copyright 2010 Leona Baldwin
SideroadsBy Leona Baldwin
Williamson Daily Newswww.williamsondailynews.com
Rule #1603There I was, standing outside my front door in the
freezing cold, in bare feet, wearing nothing but abathrobe. Obviously, something was wrong withthe cosmos.Like many moms, I have rules for my household
that no other family member understands.I have rules about the dish cloth being rinsed out
and hung on the faucet after use. I have rules abouthow to stack towels after being washed and folded.I have mealtime rules intended to expedite the veg-etable eating.Anyone who makes the rules, has reasons for
those rules, even if they are not immediately appar-ent to the average human.I don’t like my dish cloth soaked in milk, coffee,
and soggy cereal when I retrieve it from the bowelsof my kitchen sink.My mealtime rules are: If one doesn’t clean ones
plate, he must clean the littler box. Well, he wouldif we had a litter box.The towel stacking rule was put into effect sim-
ply because I like the way my linen shelf looks withall the towels stacked fold-side out… So sue me.Rule #1603 has recently been enacted: The front
door is for guests only. Everyone else must gothrough the garage and use the back door.I have perfectly good reasons for this.1. Shoe Chaos. In order to comply with rule #857,
my family must take off their shoes when they enterthe house. The collection of shoes at my front doorlooked like a half-off sale at the Goodwill store.Thus, the back door rule.2. Drop-off Zone. Whenever anyone comes in my
house they are immediately and unexplainably hitwith the strange urge to eject their burdens. What-ever they are carrying at the time seems much tooheavy to carry further. I think there must be somesort of physics phenomenon having to do with asudden increase in gravity as you enter my house.You can’t fight physics, so I’d rather the phenome-non occur at my back door rather than my frontdoor.3. There is a crack in my wall near the front door
that gets wider every time the door is slammed. Mychildren don’t do anything halfway. The door is ei-ther slammed shut or they don’t close it at all.Nothing says trailer-trash like your front door leftwide open.The lock on my front door will allow one to leave
the house, but not enter. This isn’t ideal because Ican only control the comings of my family throughthe front door, but not the goings. At least, if a guestknocks on the door, I don’t have to unlock the doorto open it.
This morning before school, my eight-year old re-membered that he left his backpack in the car. Hewent out the back door to retrieve it. This boy is myyoungest and like many youngest children, he ex-udes an air of authority that is not backed up by hisshort stature. Instead of coming back through theback door, he came to the front door and poundedon it until he persuaded someone to come and openit. My fourteen-year old went to see who it was. Be-
cause he knew the rule, and because he relished achance to annoy his younger brother, he refused toopen the door and told him to go to the back door. The youngest was still in control mode and started
ordering the older one to open the door. I told theson inside the house that he needed to walk awayand ignore him, because I knew that if there was no-body to argue with, the little rule-breaker wouldeventually stop beating on the door and simply usethe back door.Five minutes later, my husband had to leave for
work. I remembered a last minute item I needed togive to him and I ran out the front door in mybathrobe and bare feet just as he was rolling out ofthe driveway. I caught him just in time. Relieved,I tiptoed through the cold, wet grass back to thefront door and realized I had locked myself out.I knocked, but I knew it was in vain. I had just
told the only one left in the house to ignore theknocking. I stood there, my bare toes frosting over,shivering in my bathrobe at my own front door.Rule #1603 might have to be revised.
Laura on LifeBy Laura Snyder
SportsWILLIAMSON DAILY NEWS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2010 PAGE 5A
By PAMELA SCOTT JOHNSONSPORTS EDITOR
Head Coach Doug Ward set a goal forhis squad after the Tug Valley defeat andthat was to finish the season 6-4. After the42-8 victory over homestanding Twin Val-ley, Va., the 5-4 Pack is well underway toachieving that goal.The first half belonged completely to the
Wolfpack as they held the Panthers score-less while they put 35 points on the board.Twin Valley scored their only points in thethird with a TD and a successful 2-pointconversion.But it was too little too late and when the
Pack scored their final TD and PAT in thefinal quarter, the game was over for thePanthers.Alex Lee got the scoring frenzy started
in the first when Chuck White found thefreshman for a 20 yard TD. The PAT failedbut the Pack led 6-0.It was the second quarter when
Williamson’s offense exploded. ChrisHatcher scored on an 11-yard run and thenbooted the XP to give his team a 13-0 leadover the Panthers.Lee was the target of QB White again
for a 70 yard TD pass. Hatcher added the2-point conversion and Williamson took a21-0 lead.Hatcher was everywhere and scored
again in the second quarter on a 35-yardrun. Hatchers PAT lifted WHS to a 28-0lead.Before the half ended, White once found
Lee for a 30-yard pass that resulted in yetanother Pack touchdown. Hatcher kicked
the PAT and Williamson took a 35-0 leadinto the locker room.Twin Valley finally got on the board dur-
ing the third when A. Johnson ran the ballin from 4 yards out. QB Singles tossed thepigskin to D. Johnson for the 2-point con-version and it was WHS 35, TWV 8.The Pack’s Matt Wellman added the
final points of the evening on a 6-yard run.Hatcher was perfect for kicking PATs andthe final score was Williamson 42, TwinValley 8.Once again Wellman led the Wolfpack
in rushing with 97 yards on 10 carries anda TD. Hatcher was right behind him with91 yards rushing on 12 carries with 2 TDsand a 2-point conversion.Israel Reynolds added 21 yards on 5 car-
ries and Lee had 3 yards on 1 carry.
As a team, Williamson had 207 rushingyards resulting in 3 TDs. QB White was 8for 10 through the air for 182 yards and 3TDsAlex Lee was the main target and with 3
receptions racked up 120 yards and 3 TDs.Chris Adkins caught 2 passes for 24 yards,Cameron Johnson received 2 pass for 17yards and a Nick Lee just getting over anillness, had 1 reception for 21 yards.On D, Williamson was led by Marcus
Thomas and Reynolds with 6 total tackles.Thomas also recovered a fumble. The de-fense held Twin Valley to 115 yards oftotal offense.Williamson will have an open date next
week to get everyone back to 100 percentbefore their final game of the regular sea-son at home with Valley (Fayette) Nov. 5.
Williamson 42, Twin Valley, Va. 8
Students turn out for ChiefLogan tennis tournament
PHOTO/MICHAEL BROWNINGLogan High School's Lauren Chambers smacks the ballduring the Charleston Area Tennis Association tourna-ment on Friday during a tennis match at the Chief LoganRec Center.
By MICHAEL BROWNINGEXECUTIVE EDITOR
CHIEF LOGAN STATEPARK -- Nearly 40 middleschool and high school ten-nis players were set to com-pete this weekend in a U.S.Tennis Association-sanc-tioned event at the ChiefLogan Rec Center in ChiefLogan State Park.The tennis tournament,
sponsored by theCharleston Area Tennis As-sociation (CATA), startedFriday evening at 5 p.m.and ran through the night.The tournament thenrestarted Saturday morningat 10 a.m. and ran until 7
p.m. last night and thenrestarts today at noon andruns through 5 p.m., ac-cording to CATA PresidentEric Jarrett."Logan is one of the
counties in our region, andwe wanted to help (ChiefLogan Rec Center Direc-tor) Terry Mullins andLogan grow tennis in thisfine facility," Jarrett said."The majority of the kids inthis event are from LoganCounty, but we've also gotkids from Charleston, Park-ersburg, Huntington andfrom Ohio."Jarrett said the CATA has
been running tennis clinicsat schools in the area, in-
cluding Chapmanville Re-gional High School and thegroup plans to start holdingregular Sunday clinics atthe Rec Center."We had such a good
turnout for the clinics atChapmanville that we de-cided to host the tourna-ment here at the RecCenter," Jarrett said. "Thisis such a nice facility andeverybody can come outand watch." Playing in the tourna-
ment is nationally-rankedCassier Mercer from Hunt-ington. Jarrett said Mercerwas set to play either JennaTurner or Lauren Cham-bers, both from Logan
High School, on Saturday.Jarrett said he really likesbringing the CATA tennistournament to the Rec Cen-ter."This place is fabulous,"
Jarrett said. "Terry gave usa tour and we were amazedat how nice it is. Of all theplaces I've seen, this is anextremely nice facility. Themanagement and staff aregreat to work with and thecourts are great. Tennis isreally growing here."Jarrett said the CATA
will be holding the tennisclinics at the Rec Centerthrough the fall on Sundaysfor middle school and highschool kids.
By JOHN RABYAP SPORTS WRITER
MORGANTOWN ,W.Va. (AP) — Ryan Nassibthrew a touchdown pass,Ross Krautman kicked fourfield goals and Syracusescored nine points offturnovers in shocking No.20 West Virginia 19-14 onSaturday.Syracuse (5-2, 2-1 Big
East) snapped an eight-game losing streak to WestVirginia (5-2, 1-1). The Or-ange made a remarkableturnaround on defense afterbeing throttled at home byPittsburgh 45-14 last week.West Virginia entered the
game with the nation'sfourth-best defense, but itwas opportunistic Syracusethat took advantage of itsopportunities.West Virginia quarterback
Geno Smith threw threefirst-half interceptions and
was sacked five times. Heentered the game complet-ing 68 percent of his passes,but looked confused bySyracuse's blitz.Syracuse failed to reach
the end zone four timesafter moving inside theWest Virginia 15 in the firsthalf. But those ensuing fieldgoals turned out to beenough.Neither team scored after
halftime.The Mountaineers had
one last shot to take thelead, driving to the Syracuse20. But linebacker DougHogue, who had two inter-ceptions, sacked Smith for a12-yard loss with 54 sec-onds left. Smith threw an in-completion on third downand was sacked on fourthdown.The stunned crowd of
58,122 ushered out of thestadium quietly after West
Virginia's 12-game homewinning streak ended.It wasn't pretty, but Syra-
cuse coach Doug Marronegot the statement win hewanted against a rankedteam.Noel Devine carried 24
times for 122 yards, butWest Virginia failed to scoreon its final 10 possessions.Syracuse held off the
Mountaineers without De-lone Carter, who left thegame in the second quarterwith a bruised hip and didn'treturn. Backup AntwonBailey took over and rushedfor a season-high 94 yardson 19 carries.This was the kind of
game that West Virginiacoach Bill Stewart had pre-dicted.After going 0 for 3 with
an interception on West Vir-ginia's first series, Smithcompleted five straight
passes on the next drive,finding Tavon Austin in theback of the end zone from 6yards for a 7-3 lead.West Virginia cornerback
Keith Tandy, last week's BigEast defensive player of theweek, was fooled by a fakehandoff on consecutiveplays and Nassib found VanChew on a 17-yard pass andall alone in the end zonefrom 29 yards to put the Or-ange up 10-7.Smith bounced back from
a sack with a 17-yard passon third down to J.D.Woods to the 1 and fullbackRyan Clarke finished off thedrive for a 14-10 lead late inthe first quarter.But West Virginia was
shut out after that, allowingthe Orange to regain mo-mentum.Krautman kicked first-
half field goals of 28, 19, 33and 22 yards.
Syracuse shocks No. 20 WVU 19-14
COLUMBUS, Ohio(AP) — Terrelle Pryorthrew for three scores,Dan Herron ran for twoand No. 11 Ohio Stateshowed it was over itsWisconsin hangover witha 49-0 victory over Purdueon Saturday.The beat-up Buckeyes
(7-1, 3-1 Big Ten) also gotredemption for a stunning26-18 upset a year ago atPurdue, along with lastweek's 31-18 defeat inMadison that toppledthem from No. 1.Purdue (4-3, 2-1), which
had won four of five de-spite losing its front-linequarterback, tailback andwide receiver, couldn'tmuster anything againstthe Buckeyes, who were
without leading tacklerRoss Homan (foot). TheBoilermakers didn't ex-ceed 100 yards in total of-fense until their finalpossession.Pryor, largely inefficient
outside of two third-quar-ter drives at Wisconsin,completed 16 of 22 passesfor 270 yards, although hedid throw two intercep-tions.The victory was Ohio
State's eighth in a rowagainst the Boilermakersin Ohio Stadium since itslast loss 22 years ago.About the only break withtradition came at halftimewhen an Elvis-themedOhio State band featuredThe King dotting the "I'' inhis name instead of Script
Ohio.Almost nothing went
right for Purdue — orwrong for Ohio State.The Boilermakers never
came close to scoring.Their only chance cameon Carson Wigg's 56-yardfield goal attempt in thefinal minute. They haddriven to the Ohio State 39— their deepest penetra-tion of the game. The kickwas short and wide right.Purdue, which came in
leading in rushing and de-fense against the run inconference play, could doneither. It totaled just 118yards, netting just 30 on27 attempts on the ground— 200 yards less than itwas averaging.The Buckeyes defense
forced them to punt theball away on their firstfive possessions. On thesixth, quarterback RobHenry (9 of 18 for 58yards with one intercep-tion) threw directly toOhio State safety OrhianJohnson.Meanwhile, the Buck-
eyes — with perhaps apoint to prove — ran andpassed at will. Receiverswere frequently lonesomein the secondary, andwhile Pryor took a coupleof hard hits, he also bene-fited from wide-open tar-gets.The Buckeyes out-
gained the Boilermakers415-47 in the first twoquarters before calling inthe subs.
No. 11 Buckeyes bop Boilermakers 49-0 at Horseshoe
Yanks' bid for No. 28 endswith Lone Star lossARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Brian Cashman
walked around the Yankees clubhouse wearing a hatemblazoned with the words, "spring training."As soon as the defense of their 27th World Series title
ended Friday night, the general manager already wassending the message that he's looking forward to goingafter No. 28 next season.Good thing, too, because there are many questions to
be answered — some that would've come up howeverthis season ended, some specifically stemming fromNew York going down meekly to a team it was sup-posed to clobber in the AL championship series. Texaswon in six games, taking the finale 6-1 with Alex Ro-driguez striking out looking for the final out."We thought we had a team that could win it," cap-
tain Derek Jeter said. "But they did, too. Obviously theywere better than we were. It's never a given to be in thisposition, any year."What makes this year so intriguing is that this could
be the last go-round for so many guys who've long beenassociated with pinstripes — starting with Jeter, theteam's captain.He is eligible for free agency, and so are Mariano
Rivera and Andy Pettitte. Manager Joe Girardi's dealis up, too, although Cashman said, "I would think thatit would be the first order of business."A close second might be pursuing Cliff Lee.Lee is the new ace of the Rangers, but the way he's
dominated the Yankees the last two postseasons makesthem want him even more. They almost got him in amidseason trade, but lost out. Texas may have given upbetter prospects to get him from Seattle, but if this ne-gotiation comes down to money, well, there's no equalto New York's willingness to spend.Jeter wasn't ready to talk about potential free agency
or anything else offseason-related."I haven't even thought about it," he said. "It's 15
minutes after we lost. I'm not thinking about what weneed next year. We just lost. I can't comment on that."Pettitte said he wishes he knew what's next for him."I'll talk to my wife and see what she's thinking, and
then see how I'm feeling about it, whether I want to doit again," he said.Winning title No. 28 this season would've been extra
special to the Yankees because of the special peoplecommemorated on jersey patches: owner George Stein-brenner and longtime public-address announcer BobSheppard. They died within days of each other thissummer.The Yankees came into this season with big stars and
a big payroll. The hallmark of their season was bigcomebacks — a league-best 48 in the regular season,then three more among their five postseason victories.It all makes for one big disappointment that the AL
pennant is flying over Rangers Ballpark for the firsttime.
The meeting was held inthe Rose G. Smith Theaterat Williamson High. Pres-ent from the school boardwere President Charles S.West, Vice PresidentJacqueline Branch, WilliamD. Duty, Stephen Marcumand Michael Duty. Eachboard member offeredcomments at the conclu-sion of the presentations,praising the students andfaculty of the three schoolsfor their encouraging re-ports and offering personalobservations.County School Superin-
tendent Randy Keathleythanked the students, prin-cipals and teachers of theparticipating schools fortheir excellent reports andprogress.Williamson High Princi-
pal Johnny Branch read hisschool's mission statementwhich is designed "to helpeach student develop andfind success in a pathwayof learning which will pre-pare them for productivelife in the competitive 21stCentury global commu-
nity."Branch pointed to the
fact that the current schoolyear will be the last forWilliamson High because itwill join high schools fromDelbarton, Matewan andGilbert in consolidation atthe Mingo Central Com-prehensive High School in2011.He pointed with pride to
the fact that WESTESTscores at WHS were abovecounty averages for all stu-dents on all tests adminis-tered at every grade level,and were above state aver-ages for all students on halfof all tests administered.The school has an 81 per-cent graduation rate and all12th graders have now ap-plied to at least one college.The attendance rate in-creased to 94.3 percentthrough January 2010.Branch noted that WHS
students earned more than640 college hours last year."And I am very proud ofour teachers," he said.Board President West
commented at the conclu-sion of the program that"we need to step up to thechallenges ahead." Otherboard members spoke pos-itively regarding the futureof education in this county
and made other observa-tions of progress in theschools. There was evi-dence of a positive outlookregarding the new highschool which is under con-struction on its mountain-top site between Red Jacketand Varney. It is scheduledto be ready for use by Au-gust 2011.A student, Wes Wilson,
provided the video andphotos for the high school'sreport, that included in-volvement of parents andthe business community;utilization of school facili-ties and grounds; curricu-lum and instruction;philosophy and goals a pos-itive school climate.Cited as needs for the
high school's facilities wereair-conditioning for thegymnasium; repair of orig-inal lighting; additionalparking for better averagedaily attendance compli-ance; replacement of win-dow blinds in allclassrooms, and resurfac-ing of the track and tenniscourt.• Riverside Elementary
made the first presentationwith comments from Prin-cipal Cindy Calfee who re-ported that Riverside is inneed of a full-time coun-
selor and other improve-ments to make Riversidebetter.The video presentation
showed activities in whichparents and the businesscommunity are involved;parent volunteer workshop;Read Aloud program; useof facilities; the KiwanisTerrific Kids program;music and West VirginiaMusic Hall of Fame; phi-losophy and goals, to namea few activities. Using bet-ter behavior in every situa-tion also is a goal.Calfee introduced one of
two girl students fromRiverside who made ex-ceptional scores on recenttests, but a delay in obtain-ing their photos and infor-mation occurred and aseparate story will run later.• Williamson Middle
School, of which HelenCurry is principal, gave animpressive video presenta-tion outlining its many ac-tivities and stressingparental involvement insuch activities as the FallCarnival, dances, recogni-tion for Teacher Apprecia-tion, bell-ringing for theSalvation Army's Christ-mas fund-raiser, openhouse, Book Fair, Edlinetraining to familiarize par-
ents and students with thenew grade book program.Parent Night is scheduledin early November.The community business
partners and their involve-ment in WMS was dis-cussed along with SEEDS(Student Educational andEconomic DevelopmentSuccess), a program inwhich WMS received aSEEDS grant in 2009 asone of five West Virginiaschools that were recipientsof such awards. It providedthe local school $25,000 ayear for two years to use inmeeting needs addressedby the school in its applica-tion.Under SEEDS, the local
school has received a voicesystem; rewards for bothacademics and behaviors;12 new laptops for studentuse; 10 IPODS were pur-chased for classroom im-plementation.After-school tutoring for
students is to be held Tues-days and Thursdays, com-pliments of the BOE.Curriculum and instructioncontribute much to theschool. The 21st CenturyCSO's-teachers are contin-ually being updated andimplementing new ideas.Spanish is taught not only
to 7th and 8th grade stu-dents by certified teachers,but also to 5th and 6thgrades.The school has many
other programs in progress.The WV Music Hall ofFame's mobile unit was atWMS this fall. Studentshave visited the Clay Cen-ter in Charleston to see pro-ductions such as "TheNutcracker Ballet", "Boyzin the Wood" and "Romeoand Juliet."WMS has several needs,
including major repairs tothe sidewalk and retainingwall on Wallace Street be-hind the school. Gov. JoeManchin recently touredthe area and agreed on theurgency for repairs. Lock-ers at the school are toonarrow and cause damageto students' books and otheritems. The building interioralso is in need of painting.The mission of WMS is
to provide opportunities forall students to become so-cially responsible, academ-ically competent andprepared to become life-long learners. Student con-cepts include pride inschool and self; achieve-ment of goals; compromisefor positive outcomes andknowledge.
LSIC?CONTINUED FROM 1A
Elsie GillespieElsie Hunt Gillespie, 92 of
Matewan, passed away Friday,October 22, 2010 at MarmetRehabilitation Center ofCharleston after a lingering ill-ness.Born Nov. 30, 1917 at Vul-
can, she was the daughter of thelate FieldenHunt and thelate FlorenceM o u n t sHunt. In ad-dition to herparents, Elsiewas pre-ceded indeath by herhusband, Ed-ward Gille-
spie; daughter Brenda GillespieHenry; sisters Ruby HuntSerean; Hazel Hunt Cisco;Beatrice Pauline Hunt andbrothers Carl Bryson andHenry Hurston Hunt.Elsie was a homemaker. She
was also a member of the NorthMatewan Church of Christ. Survivors include her daugh-
ter, Etta Faye (David) McCoyof North Matewan; brother:
Steve (Evelyn) Hunt of West-ville, Ind.; grandchildren:Tabetha Gillespie (whom sheraised as her own) ofCharleston; Jody (Chris) Ven-turino of Fayetteville; MarkEdward McCoy of NorthMatewan; Elizabeth AnneMcCoy of Milton; BrandiHenry of Milton; and great-grandchildren: Rachel Ven-turino; Abigail Prater. Elsie isalso survived by special nieceand nephew, Betty Cisco(Roger) Copley and DennisTerry (Rita) Cisco; and son-in-law Danny Henry ofWilliamson.The family would like to
thank the staff of Marmet Re-habilitation Center and HospiceCare of Charleston for theirboundless care, devotion andsupport.Funeral services will be held
Monday, Oct. 25 at 1 p.m. atthe Chambers Funeral ServicesChapel with Bro. GeneClemons officiating. Burial willfollow in the Mountain ViewMemory Gardens at Huddy,Ky. with family and friendsserving as pallbearers.The family will begin receiv-
ing friends on Sunday, Oct. 24from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.Expressions of sympathy
can be made online atwww.chambersfuneralservices.com.Arrangements are under the
direction of Chambers FuneralServices of Matewan.
RecordsWILLIAMSON DAILY NEWS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2010 PAGE 6A
Obituaries
The Specialist chosenfor the Gilbert area willwork 60 percent of thetime at the elementaryschool (HB) and 40 per-cent at Gilbert High. TheSpecialist in theWilliamson area will be onduty 40 percent of the timeat Riverside Elementary(HB) and 30 percent eachat Williamson HIgh andWilliamson Middleschools.Job description for Tech-
nology Systems Specialiststates that this person is as-signed to support andmaintain local area net-works, servers, computerworkstations, or othercomputer related systemsor technologies. The appli-
cant must be eligible forinitial temporary authori-zation for Technology Sys-tems Specialist, as definedin State Board Policy5202.The specialist reports to
the school principal andcounty central office tech-nology supervisor. The central office has a
list of other job descrip-tions for technologist, in-cluding certificationrenewal, duties, responsi-bilities, knowledge, skillsand abilities. The employ-ment term is 200 days withsalary based on experienceand degree level in accor-dance with the MingoCounty Board of Educa-tion Salary Schedule.• Other professional per-
sonnel vacancies includethe following with re-quired certification listedin parentheses:
Grade 1 teacher (Elemen-tary Education 1-6 orMulti-Subjects K-4);Matewan High – Mathteacher (Mathematics 9-12), and Business Educa-tion teacher (BusinessEducation 9-12 or Busi-ness Principles 9-12).Under the Extra-Curric-
ular/Extra-Duty program,a Zero-Compensation as-sistant football coach forGrade 6-8 and an athleticdirector are needed forGilbert High. A Zero-Compensation assistant
boys basketball coach isneeded for Matewan Mid-dle school.• Service personnel va-
cancies include the posi-tions of Custodian III forDingess Elementary; asecretary for MatewanHigh, and an unspecifiednumber of substitute busoperators for MingoCounty schools. TheDingess custodian wouldbe required to work from11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and fur-nish a required Water Cer-tification. (The custodialslot at Dingess for 11 a.m.to 7 p.m. was deleted froman earlier (No. 10) post-ing.)Inquiries concerning po-
sitions may be addressedto Nell Hatfield, Directorof Human Resources,Mingo County Schools,Route 2 Box 310,Williamson, WV 25661.Gillespie
BOE?CONTINUED FROM 1A
By BRIAN SKOLOFFASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
ON THE FLOOR OFTHE GULF OF MEXICO(AP) — Just 20 milesnorth of where BP'sblown-out well spewedmillions of gallons of oilinto the sea, life appearsbountiful despite initialfears that crude could havewiped out many of thesedelicate deepwater habi-tats.Plankton, tiny sus-
pended particles that formthe base of the ocean'sfood web, float en masse1,400 feet beneath the sur-face of the Gulf of Mex-ico, forming a snowy-likeunderwater scene as theymove with the currentsoutside the windows of atwo-man sub creeping afew feet off the seafloor.Crabs, starfish and other
deep sea creatures swarmsmall patches of corals,and tiny sea anemonessprout from the sand likeminiature forests across alunar-like landscape illu-
minated only by the lightsof the sub, otherwise liv-ing in a deep, dark envi-ronment far from the sun'sreach.Scientists are currently
in the early stages ofstudying what effects, ifany, BP PLC's April 20 oilwell blowout offLouisiana and the ensuingcrude gusher has had onthe delicate deep sea coralhabitats of the northernGulf.So far, it appears the
area dodged a bullet, butmore research is needed.Some of the deep seacorals near the spill sitewere only discovered justlast year."Originally, when we
saw the trajectory for theoil spill and where it wasgoing, we were very con-cerned that these habitatswould be impacted," saidresearcher Steve Ross ofthe Center for Marine Sci-ence at the University ofNorth Carolina at Wilm-ington.Ross and others are con-
ducting research from aGreenpeace ship in theGulf, using a two-man subas they work to determineif the corals have suffereddamage, or may take a hitfrom long-term impacts,such as stunted reproduc-tion rates."We thought certainly
that ... we would see signsof damage," Ross said."And we're very pleased tosay so far, that in these lo-cations, we haven't seen alarge scale damage to thecoral habitats. We're stilllooking, but so far, it'sgood."Ross was part of a team
of researchers that studieddeep sea corals in the At-lantic Ocean betweenNorth Carolina andFlorida. The researcheventually helped lead toadded federal protectionsfor a roughly 23,000square-mile network be-lieved to be among thelargest continuous distri-bution of deep watercorals in the world.Ross and others have
now turned their attentionto the Gulf.While fishermen have
for centuries dragged upcorals from the deep sea, itwasn't until the early1900s that scientists dis-covered these extensivecold-water reefs. And itwasn't until the 1970s thatresearchers were able touse subs and cameras toreach the sea floor to doc-ument them. It had longbeen thought coral reefsonly formed in shallow,warm waters.Deepwater reefs and
pinnacles are much moreslow-growing and cantake several million yearsto form. Science is onlynow beginning to under-stand these underwater"frontier zones." Re-searchers are looking tothese regions for the de-velopment of additionalpharmaceuticals sincethese cold-water crittershave adapted to live insuch unique environmentsvoid of sunlight, they pos-sess unusual qualities that
federal scientists say couldaid in creating new drugsfor cancer, heart diseaseand other ailments."We are very interested
in any potential damage todeep sea corals," saidSteve Murawski, chieffisheries scientist for theNational Oceanic and At-mospheric Administration,which is currently con-ducting research into oil inGulf sediments, amongother studies.The federal government
maintains much of the oilis now gone from the Gulf,but some studies indicateit remains in significantamounts on the sea floor.Microscopic particles havealso been found in thewater column.It is now a prime time
for coral spawning in theGulf, when the corals re-lease tiny larvae that even-tually form new corals."It could alter the repro-
duction of these animals,"Murawski said. "Eventhough the adults may sur-vive the event, did we lose
the opportunity to havemore juveniles produced?"Sandra Brooke, coral
conservation director atthe Marine ConservationBiology Institute, who isalso participating in the re-search, agreed. The corals'reproduction rates will bestudied over the comingweeks, she said."We have to be careful
with our conclusions aboutthis kind of data," Brookesaid, noting it will takemore than just a few divesto determine the extent ofthe damage. "We'll takefurther analysis but fromwhat we've seen so far, itseems like they've dodgeda bullet."Long-term impacts, for
instance, from 1989'smuch smaller ExxonValdez spill in Alaska tookyears, even decades to un-derstand."We're just going to
have to continue watch-ing," said Margot Stiles, amarine scientist with theconservation groupOceana.
Gulf of Mexico corals in oil spill zone appear healthy
WASHINGTON (AP) —President Barack Obamasays he's "shocked and sad-dened" by the recent sui-cides of young people whowere bullied and taunted
for being gay.In a video posted late
Thursday on YouTube andthe White House website,the president said that as thefather of two daughters, the
deaths are heartbreaking.Obama says he doesn't
know what it's like to bepicked on for being gay, buthe does know what it's liketo grow up feeling that
sometimes you don't be-long.Americans, he says, need
to dispel the myth that bul-lying is "just a normal riteof passage."
Obama shocked by youth suicides
RANTHAMBHORENATIONAL PARK, India(AP) — Russell Brand'sbodyguards assaulted fournews photographers, in-cluding one from The As-sociated Press, when theywere taking pictures ofthe British comedian Fri-day in an Indian tiger re-serve before his weddingto Katy Perry, the photog-raphers said.Brand watched the as-
sault, the photographers
said.The photographers were
following about 330 feet(100 meters) behind twojeeps — one carryingBrand, a woman who wasnot Perry, a man and twochildren, and the othercarrying two bodyguardswho spoke with Britishaccents.As the photographers
Dear Dr. Brothers: The person who is going to sit at the desk next to
mine has just become my responsibility -- I have totrain her and basically make her smoothly fit in to thecompany. She's very pretty, and I have a sneaking sus-picion after a week of working with her that she's a lit-tle lacking in ability, and may have made up for it byflirting with the personnel director to get the job. I amgetting more disgusted every day. What should I do orsay to make this better?
-- D.K.Dear D.K.: It sounds as though you have a very personal stake in
this new employee's success or failure -- and it's too badthat someone else wasn't chosen to beher mentor or train her in the new posi-tion. Whether or not she used her fem-inine wiles to help land the job, youreally need to try to keep your personalopinion of her tactics (or her looks) outof it. I'm sure it is very annoying to findthat she probably isn't as qualified orwell-suited to the job as you wouldhope a new employee should be. But inorder for this not to have an ill effect on
your own work and career path, you must somehow letit go.What should you do? One temptation I wouldn't give
in to would be to gossip about the new woman to yourold office pals. If her work is below standard or if shejust can't cut it, this will be obvious enough sooner thanyou may realize. It is hard to fake competence for long,once the flirting part is exhausted. Try the best you canto train her well, because unfortunately you may findsome of the blame coming your way if she fails -- es-pecially if you have been talking about how stupid sheis! All the more reason to try to keep your frustrationsto yourself and try to help the new employee learn herjob. These things have a way of working out.
Dear Dr. Brothers: My folks have just reached their 70s, and although
they both have been retired for almost five years, theredoesn't seem to be any way I can persuade them to slowdown and enjoy their golden years together. They bothwork in the yard from morning till night, and then theyeat supper and go to bed! I'd hoped they'd be travelingand taking it easy by now. I fear that the time they haveleft to do things may be slipping away. How can I getthem to change?
-- L.L.Dear L.L.: It's not easy to get one's parents to change when they
are in their 70s, nor is it necessarily the best approachfor you to take in order to see that they spend their re-maining years enjoying life and having fun. Yourwishes for your folks are admirable; I just don't thinkthat you have the power to make your parents spendtheir retirement years the way you want them to. Al-though you think you know what is best for them, is itpossible that they are actually living life the way theywant to? Perhaps they are not really interested in trav-eling, vacations or seeing new places. They might notfeel physically up to leaving the comfort of their ownhome.And maybe that is OK. Look around you at what
your parents actually spend their time doing all day. Arethey enjoying gardening and the fruits of their labor?People who love nature and gardening find it tremen-dously rewarding, though it may not be your idea ofexciting. Perhaps you can ask them to join you for din-ner at a nice restaurant, and you can have a more in-depth discussion about their retirement years and whatthey want to do going forward. You obviously meanwell, but you need to think about respecting your par-ents' choices. Don't confuse them with something you'dpick if you were in their position. Then do what youcan to help out.
DR. JOYCEBROTHERS
By OSKAR GARCIAASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
LAS VEGAS (AP) —The Nevada SupremeCourt refused Friday tooverturn O.J. Simpson'sarmed robbery and kidnap-ping convictions, rejectinga claim that prospective ju-rors were dismissed be-cause they were black.Simpson attorney Yale
Galanter planned to takeSimpson's appeal to federalcourt after his 2008 convic-tion in the gunpoint heist ina Las Vegas hotel room wasupheld."This is but the first step
in a very long line of ap-peals that Mr. Simpson hasbefore him," Galanter said.Galanter was trying to
reach Simpson in prisonbut had not yet spoken tothe former NFL hall-of-famer, actor and advertis-ing pitchman."I'm extremely disap-
pointed," added MalcolmLaVergne, another Simp-son lawyer. "I thought wehad a very strong appeal."The court said all eight
separate issues raised in theappeal were without merit.Clark County District At-
torney David Roger wasnot immediately availablefor comment on the ruling.
Separately, the court or-dered the conviction ofSimpson's co-defendantClarence "C.J." Stewart tobe reversed and a new trialheld. Stewart's lawyers suc-cessfully contended thatSimpson's notoriety hadhurt Stewart's ability to geta fair trial.Stewart's attorney Brent
Bryson said he and Stewartwere happy with the ruling."This is no disrespect to
O.J., but O.J. kind of madehis own bed over theyears," Bryson said. "Myguy was kind of takenalong for the ride."Bryson planned to meet
with Clark County prose-cutors to determine the nextlegal steps while trying toget Stewart released fromprison.Simpson, 63, is serving
nine to 33 years at a stateprison in Lovelock Correc-tional Center, 90 milesnortheast of Reno. Stewart,56, is serving 7 1/2 to 27years in Northern NevadaCorrectional Center, amedium-security prison inCarson City.Both men were con-
victed of kidnapping,armed robbery, conspiracyand other crimes for whatSimpson maintained wasan attempt to retrieve stolen
family photos and memen-toes from memorabiliadealers.The key issues in the for-
mer football star's appealwere the racial makeup ofthe jury and the conduct ofClark County DistrictCourt Judge Jackie Glass.Simpson's lawyers ar-
gued that prosecutors im-properly rejected two jurorsbecause they were AfricanAmerican. But the courtconcluded that except forproviding the race of theprospective jurors, thelawyers didn't offer any ev-idence of discrimination.Prosecutors gave race-neu-tral reasons for dismissingthe jurors, the court said.The court also said it re-
viewed 34 instances inwhich Simpson's lawyersalleged misconduct byGlass, then concluded mostof the allegations consistedof warnings by Glass forlawyers to stop talking andsit down.The court also noted both
sides in the case had beenadmonished during thetrial."Of the 23 volumes of
appendices, covering overfour weeks of trial, there ishardly a moment of the trialwhere numerous attorneyswere not trying to speak
over one another," the courtsaid in its order.A spokeswoman for the
Clark County Court did notimmediately return a callfrom the AP seeking com-ment from Glass.Prosecutor Roger has
called the trial contentiousbut fair, and the sentencesjust. He had urged the jus-tices to deny the appeals ofboth men.The Nevada Supreme
Court, however, said thelower court abused its dis-cretion when it denied amotion to separate the trialsof Stewart and Simpson.That ruling "prejudicedStewart by having a sub-stantial and injurious effecton the verdict," the courtsaid.Galanter has character-
ized Simpson's convictionas prejudicial "payback"for his 1994 double-murderacquittal involving the1994 slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simp-son, and her friend RonGoldman in Los Angeles.Stewart is a former
Simpson golfing partnerfrom North Las Vegas.Four other men took plea
deals in the Las Vegas rob-bery case and received pro-bation after testifying forthe prosecution.
OJ Simpson appeal denied by Nevada Supreme Court
Photographers sayBrand's guards assaulted
France-Presse and theHindustan Times newspa-per took photographs ofBrand, one of the guardscame up to their jeep,punched their driver in theface and grab the vehicle'skeys, AP photographerMustafa Quraishi said.Quraishi said he jumped
out of the jeep to try to re-trieve the keys, but thebodyguard punched himrepeatedly, breaking hisglasses, smashing andthen taking his cameraflash and opening up a cuton his arm.Two other photogra-
phers came to Quraishi'sassistance, he said, but theother guard began hittingthem, causing one to start
bleeding from the head.The guards then drove
away, leaving the photog-raphers stranded in thepark, which is home totigers, leopards, wildboars, hyenas and slothbears, Quraishi said.Park rangers later re-
trieved the keys from theguards' driver.Brand and American
pop singer Perry arescheduled to get marriedSaturday at a resort nearthe reserve in the Indianstate of Rajasthan.Private security has
been stationed at the ho-tels where guests and thecouple are staying.The couple have given
the exclusive coverage
rights to a London maga-zine, and no other pho-tographers or journalistswill be allowed into theresort.Brand, 35, was arrested
at a Los Angeles airportSept. 17 for allegedly as-saulting a paparazzi. Hewas booked for misde-meanor simple batteryand later released on$20,000 bail. The case ispending.TMZ first reported that
altercation and airedvideo.Perry's second album,
"Teenage Dream," wasone of this year's best-selling debuts.A segment she recently
taped for Sesame Street
wasn't aired because theshow deemed her oufittoo revealing for the kidsshow. The 26-year-oldpop singer of "CaliforniaGurls" wore a goldbustier top as she sang aversion of her hit "Hot NCold."In England, Brand has
built a reputation for hisdrug-addled past and he-donistic tendencies, andhe's sought treatment fordrug addiction and sexaddiction. He detailed hisstoried history in his 2007memoir "My BookyWook." Brand is next setto star as Trinculo in aversion of "The Tempest"and the title character in aremake of "Arthur."
By PAULINE JELINEK & RAPHAEL G. SATTERASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERS
LONDON (AP) — TheWikiLeaks website ispoised to release what thePentagon fears is the largestcache of secret U.S. docu-ments in history — hun-dreds of thousands ofintelligence reports thatcould amount to a classi-fied history of the war inIraq.U.S. officials condemned
the move and said Fridaythey were racing to containthe damage from the immi-nent release, while NATO'stop official told reporters hefeared that lives could beput at risk by the mammoth
disclosure.NATO chief Anders
Fogh Rasmussen said anyrelease would create "avery unfortunate situation.""I can't comment on the
details of the exact impacton security, but in general Ican tell you that such leaks... may have a very negativesecurity impact for peopleinvolved," he told reportersFriday in Berlin followinga meeting with GermanChancellor Angela Merkel.In a posting to Twitter,
the secret-spilling websitesaid there would be a"major WikiLeaks an-nouncement in Europe" at0900 GMT (5 a.m. EDT)Saturday. The group has re-vealed almost nothing pub-
licly about the nature of theannouncement.U.S. Defense Depart-
ment spokesman MarineCorps Col. Dave Lapanechoed Rasmussen'sstance, urging WikiLeaksto return the stolen mate-rial."We deplore WikiLeaks
for inducing individuals tobreak the law, leak classi-fied documents and thencavalierly share that secretinformation with the world,including our enemies,"Lapan said. "By disclosingsuch sensitive information,WikiLeaks continues to putat risk the lives of ourtroops, their coalition part-ners and those Iraqis andAfghans working with us."Meanwhile, a team of
more than a hundred ana-lysts from across the U.S.military, led by the DefenseIntelligence Agency, hasbeen combing through theIraq documents they thinkwill be released in anticipa-tion of the leak.Called the Information
Review Task Force, its an-alysts have pored over thedocuments and used wordsearches to try to pull outnames and other issues thatwould be particularly sen-sitive, officials have said.The task force has in-
formed U.S. Central Com-mand of some of the namesof Iraqis and allies andother information they be-lieve might be released thatcould present a danger, of-ficials have said. Theynoted that — unlike theWikiLeaks previous dis-closure of some 77,000
documents fromAfghanistan — in this casethey had advance noticethat names may be ex-posed.Once officials see what is
publicly released, the com-mand "can quickly push theinformation down" toforces in Iraq, Lapan saidFriday in Washington."Centcom can jump intoaction and take whatevermitigating steps" might beneeded, he said.Throughout the conflict,
the U.S. and its allies haverelied heavily on Iraqis astranslators and supportworkers, who were fre-quently targeted by insur-gents. The Iraqis often hidtheir identities to avoid re-vealing their links to theWestern forces and manyemigrated to other nationsto flee the threat of vio-lence.While the latest Wik-
iLeaks revelations may notchange public perceptionsof the Iraq war — it hasbeen extremely unpopularin Europe and divides opin-ion in the United States —they could provide new in-sight about a conflict thatseemed headed for successafter the invasion in 2003before descending into ayearslong, blood-soakedstruggle.The documents could
shed light on the rootcauses of the insurgency,for instance, or the growthof sectarian violence thatblighted Baghdad and otherIraqi cities. It may also givea behind-the-scenesglimpse at some of the
major episodes of the war— like the manhunt for in-surgent chief Abu Musabal-Zarqawi, or the killing ofU.S. security contractors onMarch 31, 2004, by a mobin Fallujah, an incident thatled to the U.S. assault onthe Iraqi city.The release of the docu-
ments would come at a piv-otal time for the U.S. inIraq as the military preparesto withdraw all 50,000 re-maining troops from thecountry by the end of nextyear, raising questionsabout the future of relationsbetween the two countries.The U.S. military had asmany as 170,000 troops inIraq in 2007.Violence has declined
sharply over the past twoyears, but near-daily bomb-ings and shootings con-tinue, casting doubt on theability of Iraqi forces toprotect the people.The situation has been
exacerbated by growingfrustration among the pub-lic over the failure of Iraqipoliticians to unite andform a new governmentmore than seven monthsafter inconclusive parlia-mentary elections.Prime Minister Nouri al-
Maliki is struggling to re-main in power since hisShiite alliance narrowlylost the March 7 vote to aSunni-backed bloc led byrival Ayad Allawi.Wikileaks' previous re-
lease in July of secret wardocuments from Iraq andAfghanistan outraged thePentagon, which accusedthe group of being irre-
sponsible. Fogh Ras-mussen said Friday thatleaks of this nature "mayput soldiers as well as civil-ians at risk."It appears that those fears
— which the military hasinvoked in its appeal toWikiLeaks and the medianot to publish the docu-ments — have yet to mate-rialize. A Pentagon letterobtained by The AssociatedPress reported that no U.S.intelligence sources orpractices were compro-mised by the Afghan warlogs' disclosure.Still, the military feels
any classified documentsrelease can harm nationalsecurity and raise fears forpeople who might considercooperating with the U.S.in the future, Lapan said.Ryan Crocker, U.S. am-
bassador to Iraq in 2007-08, said the disclosureswould be more worrisomeif the U.S. were still fullyengaged in combat in Iraq— but he still sees it as amajor problem."I'd really be worried if
— as looks to be the case— you have Iraqi politicalfigures named in a contextor a connection that canmake them politically andphysically vulnerable totheir adversaries," he told aconference Friday at theCenter for Strategic and In-ternational Studies inWashington."That has an utterly chill-
ing effect on the willing-ness of political figures totalk to us — not just in Iraqbut anywhere in the world,"he said.
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By DAISY NGUYENASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
LOS ANGELES (AP) —A California man who spentmore than two years in anIranian prison on allegationsof passing money to a rebelgroup has returned to hisCalifornia home.Reza Taghavi, 71, arrived
at Los Angeles InternationalAirport late Thursday wherehe was greeted by dozens offriends and relatives whochanted "We love you" asthey burst into tears.In halting English, he told
reporters: "My name isReza Taghavi, I've been inIran in jail for 29 months.Now I'm glad that I'm backto the United States in myhome now.""I'm glad that I'm here and
hope everything can be allright from now on," he said.Taghavi, a retired Orange
County businessman whoregularly visits his nativeIran, was jailed on allega-
tions that he passed $200 tosomeone suspected of linksto a rebel group called Ton-dar. Tondar is suspected of a2008 mosque bombing thatkilled 14 people in thesouthern city of Shiraz.Taghavi was never
charged and denies know-ingly supporting the faction.He said he was doing afavor for an acquaintance inLos Angeles who asked himto pass the money to some-one in Tehran.Former U.S. diplomat
Pierre Prosper, who workedfor Taghavi's release and ac-companied him on the flighthome from Tehran, told TheAssociated Press that al-though Iran allowedTaghavi to leave, it did notdismiss his case outright. Hesaid he will work to clearthe case so that Taghavi canbe allowed to return to Iranto visit his family.Iran appears hopeful it
can use Taghavi's release todraw attention to the threat
of violence and terrorism byopponents of the clericalregime.Taghavi agreed to discuss
the group Tondar and thewrong he claims the groupdid to him as a condition ofhis release.Prosper hinted that
Taghavi may sue someonefrom the group, but hewould not elaborate."Mr. Taghavi clearly feels
cheated, and feels essen-tially violated by thisgroup," Prosper said. "Hespent 2½ years years in jail,he lost 2½ years of his life."Exhausted from a long
journey home, Taghavi de-clined to immediately dis-cuss his ordeal in details.Prosper said Taghavi wasinitially put in solitary con-finement and prohibitedfrom communicating withhis family. He said his clientwas later placed with thegeneral inmate populationwhere he was "treatedwell."
SOPHIA (AP) —A demand for metallurgi-cal coal has prompted oneproducer to buy a southernWest Virginia mine that'sbeen closed since 1985with plans to reopen it.United Coal President
and Chief ExecutiveMichael Zervos said the re-opening of the Affinitymine near Sophia inRaleigh County would cre-ate 254 mining jobs, and asmany as 1,300 spinoffjobs. The company plansto spend $115 million torehabilitate the formerEastern Associated Coalmine.It's one of two projects
United Coal plans for WestVirginia. The Register-Herald reports that UnitedCoal plans to open a simi-lar sized mine in RandolphCounty in 2013. That oper-ation is expected to employup to 300 miners.The Affinity mine will
be operated by AffinityCoal Co., and should beopen next July. Eastern As-sociated closed the minefollowing a drop in the de-mand for met coal, whichis used to produce steel.Zervos said United
Coal's parent, Ukraine-based mining and steelproducer Metinvest, hasasked the producer to dou-ble its production. UnitedCoal, which recently re-en-tered the coal businessafter withdrawing from itin 1997, now has opera-tions in Whitesburg, Ky.,and Big Rock, Va.The company has about
165 million tons of re-serves and produces about7.5 million tons annually.About 80 percent is metcoal, according to the com-
pany's website."About a year ago when
our company United Coalwas sold to Metinvest, thatgave us a source of invest-ment and they were very,very anxious to acceleratethe opening of this mine,"Zervos told WSAZ-TV.The mine has about 40
million tons of reserves and
is expected to produce coalfor the next 25 years.Sophia Mayor Danny
Barr said the mine has ahistory of opening andclosing. The mine firstopened in 1937 and thenclosed during the 1950s. Itwas reopened in the late1960s before it was closedagain in 1985.
Drew Martin Tony Dardi Janet Rife John GoreExt. 22 Ext. 23 Ext. 24 Ext. 25
— Campaign contributorstied to Massey Energyhave helped Republicancongressional candidateElliott "Spike" Maynardoutraise Democratic in-cumbent Rep. Nick Ra-hall by 10-to-1 thismonth.Roughly half the
$250,000 collected by
Maynard during the first13 days of October camefrom sources related tothe Virginia-based coaloperator. Those includeofficials with the com-pany, its subsidiaries andvendors as well as theirfamily members.Rahall attracted just
around $270,000. Rahallhad a $425,780 campaignbalance as of Oct. 13,nearly twice as much asMaynard.The two are running in
West Virginia's 3rd HouseDistrict, which includesthe southern coalfields.
GOP's Maynard reaps Massey cash for House bid
W.Va. coal mine closed in 1985 to reopen
NITRO (AP) — Twoworkers at Mardi GrasCasino & Resort in Nitrohave lost their state-issued li-censes for abusing grey-hounds in their care.The Charleston Daily
Mail reported the license ter-
minations Friday, citing doc-uments it obtained from thestate Racing Commission.Judges at the Nitro track
terminated one worker's li-cense for grabbing a grey-hound by the neck and earand throwing it in a truck
after the dog slipped out ofits collar and ran. The judgeshad suspended the worker'slicense in 2009 for a sepa-rate incident.The newspaper said infor-
mation about the other casewasn't released.
2 W.Va. track workers lose licenses for dog abuse
SPECIAL TO THE DAILY NEWS
CHARLESTON – Pro-bation officers fromaround West Virginia arescheduled to donate$3,000 in toys to Moun-tain Mission at noon onThursday, Oct. 21, at theCharleston Marriott TownCenter. The toy donation is part
of the officers’ annualtraining meeting, whichthis year is being held inCharleston. The toys will
be given to the charity dur-ing an annual awardsluncheon that also will beattended by West VirginiaSupreme Court JusticesThomas McHugh andMenis Ketchum. About 230 probation of-
ficers from across WestVirginia are attending themandatory training ses-sion, which the SupremeCourt sponsors in a differ-ent location each year.This is the fourth year pro-bation officers have
brought toys to give to alocal charity, said KevinRunyon, a probation offi-cer in Cabell County whois president of the WestVirginia Association ofProbation Officers. “There is a need for it in
each area. We enforcerules on people in legaltrouble. When we meetonce a year, we decided tohold a toy drive to helpthose less fortunate and toshow a softer side,” Mr.Runyon said.
Probation officers from aroundstate donate $3K in toys
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