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Committee begins work on bill to banannexation by minor boundary adjustment

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BY DAVID BEARDDBeard@DominionPost.com

Morg antown’s annexationconflict has rippled to the Capitol,where the Senate GovernmentOrganization Committee beganwork on Tuesday on a bill to banannexation by minor boundaryadjustment.

The committee took up a sub-stitute version of SB 209 that

changed the outright ban to arestricted approach to minorboundary adjustment.

As background, Morgantown’sannexation tug-of-war kicked offat the beginning of last year. Thecity received an annexation reportin January and released its plan inApril. City Council intended togrow the city by about a third viaminor boundary adjustment,adding 3.8 square miles, 12,380

new residents, 367 businesses and43 miles of roads.

Minor boundary adjustment isone of three means a city mayannex territory. The other two waysare via petition by 5% of the free-holders followed by a citywide voteor via petition by both a majority ofthe qualified voters and a majorityof the freeholders in the proposednew territory file petition.

In minor boundary adjustment,

the city bypasses the freeholdersand voters and applies to thecounty commission, whichdecides if the application meets thevarious threshold requirements,including whether the annexationcould be efficiently and cost effec-tively accomplished under eitherof the other two methods.

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WASHINGTON — The U.S.Senate plunged into PresidentDonald Trump’s impeachmenttrial on Tuesday with Republi-cans abruptly abandoning plansto cram opening arguments intotwo late-night sessions andDemocrats arguing for more wit-nesses to expose Trump’s “tri-fecta” of offenses.

Senate Majority Leader MitchMcConnell backed off with nowarning, also agreeing to theHouse Democrats’ demand thatthe evidence from their impeach-ment of Trump be included in thetrial. McConnell acted afterprotests from senators, includingfellow Republicans.

Chief Justice John Robertsgaveled open the session, withHouse prosecutors on one side,T r ump’s team on the other, in thewell of the Senate, as senators satsilently at their desks, under

oath to do “impartial justice.” Nocellphones or other electronicswere allowed.

McConnell stunned fellow sen-ators and delayed the start ofproceedings with his decision toback off some of his proposedrules. Republicans were said to beconcerned over the politicaloptics “dark of night” s e s s i o n s.

It was a dramatic setback forthe Republican leader and thep re s i d e n t ’s legal team, exposing acrack within the GOP ranks andthe political unease over the his-toric impeachment proceedingsunfolding amid a watchful publicin an election year.

Instead, 24 hours of openingarguments for each side will bespread over three days, givingDemocrats momentum as theypush to break the standoff overcalling new witnesses.

Without comment, the Repub-lican leader submitted anamended proposal after meeting

behind closed doors with his sen-ators as the trial opened. Thehandwritten changes would addan extra day for each side’s open-ing arguments and stipulate thatevidence from the DemocraticHouse’s impeachment hearingsbe included in the record.

There is still deep disagree-ment about calling additionalw i t n e s s e s.

“It’s time to start with thistrial,” said White House CounselPat Cipollone, the president’s leadlawyer in brief remarks as theproceedings opened in public.

Senate Democratic leaderChuck Schumer of New Yorkoffered the first of severalexpected amendments to therules — a proposal to issue asubpoena to the White House for“all documents, communicationsand other records” relating to theUkraine matter. It was rejected byRepublicans, tabled on a partyline vote 53-47.

Schumer then offered a secondamendment, seeking documentsfrom the State Department. It,too, was turned back on the same53-47 vote.

A spokeswoman for Republi-can Sen. Susan Collins said thatshe and others had raised con-cerns about the restrictive rulesMcConnell had proposed. TheMaine senator sees the changesas significant improvements,said spokeswoman Annie Clark.

Collins, Sen. Rob Portman ofOhio and a substantial number ofother Republicans from acrossthe party’s ideological spectrumwanted to make the changes,according to two people familiarwith the matter but unauthorizedto discuss it in public. Someargued that the two-day limita-tion would have helpedDemocrats cast Republicans assqueezing testimony through in

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Councilor swant infoon rentalfacilit y$300K-400K forriverfront building

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BY BEN CONLEYBConley@DominionPost.com

A majority of MorgantownCity Council balked at arequest from the city’sadministration on Tuesdaywhen asked to approve a$300,000 to $400,000 changeorder to build a two-storybike/kayak rental facility asa part of the ongoing river-front overhaul.

As the cost would fall out-side the scope of the original$4.1 million in grant fundingprovided by the Hazel RubyMcQuain Charitable Trust forthe riverfront project, thefunds would be pulled fromthe city’s capital escrow bud-get, then potentially recoupedthrough a lease agreementwith a public or privateve n d o r.

The opposition was not tothe facility itself — which allagreed would be a valuableasset at the new Walnut StreetLanding set to go under con-struction in the comingwe e k s.

The opposition arosearound the belief from somemembers that council wasbeing rushed into voting on amajor expense with littleadvanced notice and even lessinfor mation.

“If this has been in plan-ning for a long time why arewe just hearing about ittonight and being asked toapprove instantly a changeorder for $300,000 to$400,000,” Councilor RonDulaney asked, later adding“I’m very uncomfortablewith the way this isunfolding and being asked

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Sharon Summers (right) reads to a group of kids at the Star City Town Hall on Tuesday.

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House, Senate, honor WVU, pass lists ofbills for rape victims, roadwork and moreBY DAVID BEARDDBeard@DominionPost.com

The House and Senatehonored WVU on Tuesdayand passed bills to reducedrug costs, give the public alook at roadwork spendingand protect rape victims,among others.

The Senate markedWVU Day with are s o l u t i o n .

Sen. Ron Stollings, D-Boone, noted some high-lights form the resolution:WVU is the state’s first andlargest land grant univer-sity. It’s a major researchintuition but priced belowthe national average, offer-ing 370 majors.

He said, “It’s poised tohelp with our future econ-omy, certainly our healthsystem and our educationsystem.”

WVU leaders joined withsenators at the front of thechamber to receive the res-olution and pose for pictures.WVU leaders also gatheredwith delegates at the otherend of the Capitol to receive acitation for WVU Day.

Senate billSB 125 passed unani-

mously and goes to theHouse, Judiciary chair andlead sponsor Charles Trump,R-Morgan, said the billenhances the state’s rapeshield statute. In a sex offenseprosecution, it prohibits acourt to order a physical orgynecological exam of thevictim/accuser and says thatrefusal doesn’t serve as basisto exclude evidence other-wise obtained, except where

constitutionally required.Trump said the bill is a

response to a state SupremeCourt case from 10 yearsago, which allows a defen-dant to such an order. Thevictim is not a party in thecase, he said, it’s stateagainst defendant, andsuch an order is offensive.

These orders deter vic-tims from reporting rapes,he said, and the exams,months or years after thephysical trauma has healed,are useless.

Sen. Mike Woelfel, D-Cabell, a co-sponsor, praisedpassage. “Once again we seeWest Virginia moving to theforefront in the nation oftaking action to look out forour victims of rape.”

House billsn HB 4017 requires the

state auditor to establish asearchable website for thepublic to see and track statespending on road jobs. Itpassed 99-0.n HB 4062 requires drug

manufacturers to pass anycompensation such asrebates or discounts nowconveyed to middlemen, suchas pharmacy benefit man-agers, directly to the patientvia reduced copays or pre-mium cuts. It passed 99-0.n HB 4130 sets up an expe-

dited process for the state tobid out contracts arising outof states of emergency and toaccelerate the pace of rehab-bing and rebuilding affectedhomes. It passed 99-0.n HB 4108 stirred the

only debate of the day, asDelegate Pat McGeehan, R-Hancock, spent time crit-

icizing the bill and his ownpar ty’s leadership for run-ning it. McGeehan crossedleadership last year by crit-icizing Judiciary Commit-tee leadership and lost hisJudiciary post as a com-mittee chair in the process.He has only one committeeassignment this session.

The bill allows varioushealth care organizationsthat are exempt from cer-tificate of need approval toalso be free of the $1,000 feeto apply for the exemption.

Certificates of need (CONs)are a regulatory process forspecified proposed projectsand services designed to con-tain health care costs andavoid duplication of services,according to the state HealthCare Authority.

But McGeehan called thebill “l a u g h abl e ” because itpecks at the margins of thelongstanding GOP platformpoint to do away with CONs.“Certificates of need are thegreatest obstacle to health-care investment in thes t at e, ” he said, and essen-tially outlaw competition.

“If you really want to seethe healthcare industryimprove, invest and providea plethora of options to thecitizens of the state,” hesaid. “We are denyingoptions to the consumer.”

Undaunted, he added, “Ireally put this at the foot ofleadership. Sometimes realleadership is too hard.”

That prompted an angryresponse from MajorityLeader Amy Summers, R-Taylor. She’s lead sponsor of abill to end CONs, but sees thisbill as important. Exemp-

tions are automatic, shesaid, so it’s wrong for theHealth Care Authority tocharge $1,000 for a com-pany to apply to get thee xe m p t i o n .

“This is bureaucracyat its finest,” she said.“It’s a funding mecha-nism for the Health CareAu t h o r i t y. ”

McGeehan did joineveryone else from bothparties to pass HB 4108u n a n i m o u l s y.

All bills passed go tothe Senate.

Fire code billHB 4275, a bill to update

the Fire Commission’srules for state fire code,was on second reading andamendment. Delegate Bar-bara Evans Fleischauer D-Monongalia, and SteveWestfall, R-Jackson, haveco-sponsored an amend-ment to remove a provi-sion in the bill that wouldlimit the use of Arc FaultCircuit Interrupters innew construction.

That proposed limita-tion has stirred contro-versy, with testimony at aMonday public hearingtalking about the poten-tial fire hazards if the lim-itation is passed.

Based on prior conver-sations off the floor, Sum-mers, acting for leadership,moved to have consider-ation of the amendmentheld for a day. The sponsorsd i d n’t challenge it and thebill remains on secondreading on Wednesday.

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sub) for SB 209 would limitthe area to be annexed to nomore than 1% of the city’stotal area. (Morgantown’sproposal is closer to 33%).

The com sub says if thecounty commission deter-mines annexation could bemore efficient or costeffective via the othermethods, it must deny theap p l i c at i o n .

The com sub places atwo-year moratorium on areapplication for the samearea, except upon a courtorder issued via appeal bythe city.

If the commission grantsthe application, the citymust obtain consent fromthe voters in the proposednew territory.

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Cabell, proposed an amend-ment to the com sub onbehalf of the West VirginiaMunicipal League.

Susan Economou,league deputy executivedirector, explained theamendment. Along withthe two-year moratorium,it restricts annexation byminor boundary adjust-ment to commercial areasand bars annexation of res-idential properties.

The committee took noimmediate action on theamendment, but heardinstead from Morgantownresident Michael Callen.

Callen came to addressthe original version of thebill, but tried to tailor hisremarks to both versions,He said the bill isn’t aboutannexation. “It’s about pro-tecting the most preciousright of American citizen-ship, the right to vote.”

Cities can negotiateregarding annexation viathe other methods, he said.

If it can’t work out a sat-isfactory arrangement,should it have the powerto deny the residents theright to vote, he asked.

He cited the exampleof Morgantown, wherethe group FAIR, ForcedAnnexation Isn’t Right,has fought the city to astandstill, for now.

Business owners bor-row and invest based onprojected costs, Callensaid, and forced annex-ation injects instabilityand increases risk.

He hadn’t had thechance to digest theimplications of the comsub, but said he’s not surethe bill could be ade-quately reformed towhere it’s not abusive ofthe right to vote.

The issue isn’t con-fined to Morgantown, hesaid. It’s statewide.Anexation by minorboundary adjustmentgives cites, with well-funded legal representa-tion, leverage over res-idents with less moneyand fewer resources.

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the dead of night.The turnaround was a

swift lesson as White Housewishes run into the realityof the Senate. The WhiteHouse wanted a sessioncrammed into a shorterperiod to both expedite thetrial and shift more of theproceedings into late night,according to a person famil-iar with the matter butunauthorized to discuss itin public.

“READ THE TRAN-SCRIPTS!” the presidenttweeted from overseas as hereturned to his hotel at aglobal leaders conferencein Davos, Switzerland.

T hat’s the transcript ofhis phone call in which heasked new Ukrainian Pres-ident Volodymyr Zelenskiyfor “a favor.” A whistle-bl owe r ’s complaint led theHouse to impeach Trumpon a charge of abuse ofpower for pushing Ukraineto investigate Democraticrival Joe Biden and his sonHunter Biden as the WhiteHouse was withholdingmilitary aid from the U.S.ally at war with borderingRussia. The Democrats citethat transcript as solid evi-dence against Trump,though he repeatedlydescribes it as “perfect.”

Democrats had warnedthat the rules package fromT r ump’s ally, the SenateGOP leader, could forcemidnight sessions thatwould keep most Ameri-cans in the dark and createa sham proceeding.

“This is not a process for afair trial, this is the processfor a rigged trial,” Rep. AdamSchiff, D-Ca., the chairmanof the House IntelligenceCommittee leading the pros-ecution, told reporters. Hecalled it a “c ove r- u p. ”

Schiff opened his argu-ments before the Senateplaying a video of Trumpcalling for more witnessesto testify. Schiff noted thesudden change in proposedrules, made momentsbefore he rose to addressthe chamber.

“The facts will come outin the end,” Schiff told thes e n at o r s. ” The question is,will it come out in time?”

McConnell said, “T hep re s i d e n t ’s lawyers willfinally receive a level play-ing field,” contrasting itwith the House impeach-ment inquiry.

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BY SUZANNE ELLIOTTSElliott@DominionPost.com

Sheetz is expected to begin con-struction shortly on a 4,906-square-foot store at 1867 Mileground Road,the Altoona, Pa.-based conveniencestore confirmed.

Plans are to have the store openthis summer.

As part of those plans, EloquenceAntiques & Artisans, a consignment,gift store and art gallery now locatedat the site, will relocate to the newersection of Mountaineer Mall at the

former site of Rex TV and Appliance,according to a post on its Facebookpa g e.

The last day for EloquenceAntiques at its Mileground Roadlocation is Feb. 2. The store willreopen in the Mountaineer Mall onFeb. 15.

Nick Ruffner, a Sheetzspokesman, said plans are to build anew Sheetz on the site. The two-storybuilding on the site now will bedemolished.

In addition to being nearly 5,000square feet, the new MilegroundSheetz will have indoor and outdoorpatron seating. It will also have thecapability to fuel 12 vehicles at onet i m e.

“We are projecting constructionto start with a projected opening ofsummer 2020,” Ruffner said. “This is

a new store for Sheetz and is notreplacing any existing store in theMorgantown area.”

Sheetz closed its University Placelocation in Sunnyside in the fall afterannouncing in September it was notrenewing its lease on the first floor ofthe building. At 15,000 square feet,the store was bigger than mostSheetz standalone locations. It alsodid not offer fuel.

When the Mileground RoadSheetz opens later this year, Sheetzwill have seven locations in theGreater Morgantown area.

Overall, privately held Sheetzhas more than 500 stores in sixstates: West Virginia, Pennsylva-nia, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia andNorth Carolina.

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BY JIM BISSETTJBissett@DominionPost.com

The writing was on the wallTuesday night for the MonongaliaCounty Board of Education.

Wait — change “w a s, ” to “i s, ” ifyou don’t mind.

The word-tweaking relates toan 18-word vision statement,which is literally painted on thewall in the BOE meeting room atthe school district’s CentralOffice on South High Street.

“ … To provide the communitywith an exemplary educationalenvironment that promotes indi-vidual development, intellectualgrowth and responsible citizen-s h i p, ” the statement reads.

The BOE said Tuesday nightthe above is ready for am a ke ove r.

Its corresponding missionstatement and “belief state-ments” document are, too.

All three documents wereextensively worked on in 1998.The mission and belief state-ments were also amended in 2002and 2011, respectively.

T hat’s ancient history, asNancy Walker, who was on theboard in 1998, said.

“We had an 80% graduationrate then,” she said.

“We were talking about tryingto keep cellphones out of class-rooms, then. We were wantingkids to go to college then.”

Now, that graduation rate is95%.

Students do their work onGoogle Chromebooks.

And technical education isquickly becoming an alternativeto a four-year degree.

In the next couple of years, it isalso likely the district may facethe challenge of a charter schoolwithin its confines.

T here’s also the ongoing prob-lem of the “challenge child,”

Walker said — one dealing withdrug abuse and domestic violenceat home.

Mon Schools SuperintendentEddie Campbell Jr., who beganhis career as a teacher and coach,said things are simply differentn ow.

“Dif ferent” is the word, hesaid.

“Kids are dealing with stres-sors that just weren’t around21 years ago,” he said.

“At least not to the magnitudethey are now.”

T hat’s why the board willspend the next several of its meet-ings rewriting the documents forchanging times.

BOE begins amending mission statementMON COUNTY

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Gas station will replaceEloquence Antiqueson Mileground

Document needsupdates to reflectchanging community

Men under ATFsur veillancefound with drugs

Man caught withstolen firearm

Neals had alsobought firearmsat Mylan Parkgun show

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BY WILLIAM DEANWDean@DominionPost.com

Two men under surveil-lance by the Bureau of Alco-hol, Tobacco, Firearms andExplosives were arrestedby West Virginia StatePolice on Saturday.

Kareem M. Neal, 39, andCurtis K. Neal, 41, are eachcharged with possessionwith intent to distributecocaine, possession withintent to distribute heroin,persons prohibited frompossessing firearms andconspiracy to commit af e l o ny.

About 1 p.m., state policewere notified by the ATFthat the Neals — who wereunder surveillance — pur-chased two firearms viaprivate sale at the MylanPark Gun Show. They left,traveling east on ChaplinRoad in a black Dodge Cal-iber, according to a crim-inal complaint. The ATFsaid the two had criminalhistories that include rob-bery, drug sales and violentfelony convictions.

About 20 minutes later,several troopers stoppedthe Dodge, which wasdriven by Curtis, ordered

the two men out of the vehi-cle and handcuffed them,the complaint says.

Troopers noticed astrong marijuana odor andsearched the vehicle whilethe Neals were placed intoan ATF vehicle, accordingto the complaint.

A Ruger LCP .380 ACPhandgun and a 9 mm Hi-Point handgun were foundon the front passengerfloorboard, a glass jar withmarijuana was found in theglove box and two cellphones in the center con-sole, the complaint says.Troopers also found aburnt marijuana joint in acigarette pack in Kareem’spants, it says.

Curtis was searchedagain after a troopernoticed his pants wereunzipped and a plastic bagwith heroin and cocainewas found in his groin area,the complaint says. The bagcontained 40 folded“stamps” of suspectedheroin, worth about $800,and a large plastic bag withabout $600 in suspectedcocaine, according to thecomplaint. Three Viagratablets were also in theba g.

ATF agents said arecording device capturedthe Neals discussing thedrugs on Curtis while thetwo were being held in theATF vehicle. Kareem

BY WILLIAM DEANWDean@DominionPost.com

An Enterprise man wasfound with a stolen firearmin Westover early Sundaymorning, according top o l i c e.

Michael A. Rose, 25, ischarged with persons pro-hibited from possessingfirearms by the WestoverPolice Department.

Officer J. Carver spotteda suspicious car in an alleyoff Dunkard Avenue with aman in the driver’s seat anda woman in the back of thevehicle, the criminal com-plaint says.

As Carver approachedthe vehicle, the man repeat-edly reached towards hisright side, ignoring com-mands to stop and show hishands, the complaint says.

The man was removed fromthe vehicle and a loaded.22 caliber HGR revolver wasin a tan holster on his side.

He was identified asRose and a criminal checkshowed he had a convictionfor receiving or transfer-ring stolen property and isnot allowed by law to pos-sess firearms, according tothe complaint.

A check of the gunrevealed it to be stolen fromBridgeport, the complaints ay s.

Rose said he had the gunon him because “he did notknow what he was going tobe getting into tonight,” thecomplaint says.

He was being held in theNorth Central Regional JailTuesday in lieu of $5,000bond.

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Eloquence Antiques & Artisans on the Mileground will be torn down to make room for the future site of a Sheetz storeand gas station. The Altoona, Pa.-based chain bought the building and corner property. Eloquence Antiques will moveto the Mountaineer Mall.

Board President Ron Lytle,who made that suggestion along-side the superintendent, saidhe’ll happily wield the red pen.

“Our mission statement is toolong,” he said.

“It needs to be concise, and itshould inspire people to want toget better.”

Walker and Lytle, meanwhile,have been inspired to keep theirseats on the board current.

Both their terms expire thisyear, and both have filed forre - e l e c t i o n .

Lytle was first elected in 2012.Walker, a past BOE president, hasserved 22 years.

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Passed resolution makes PrestonSecond Amendment sanctuary countyBY KATHY PLUMKPlum@DominionPost.com

KINGWOOD — Preston Countycommissioners passed a resolutionTuesday, making the county a SecondAmendment sanctuary.

The motion passed 3-0. Commis-sioner Dave Price asked the com-mission to consider the action afterthe Putnam County Commissionbecame the first in West Virginia topass the resolution, last week.

He referred to neighboring Vir-ginia, where counties and townsstarted the sanctuary movementafter efforts were made to implementgun control laws.

“I know, I’m pretty sure, how peo-ple in West Virginia feel and whatPreston County feels,” Price said. “Iknow this is symbolic, but if the issueshould ever come to West Virginialike this, the counties that have indi-cated that they are sanctuary Second

Amendment counties, I think thatwould make them slow down.”

The resolution cites the U.S. Con-stitution, U.S. Supreme Court rul-ings affirming Second Amendmentrights and the state constitution. Itsays the commission “reco gnizesthat federal and state laws are pre-sumed constitutional until finallydeclared otherwise by a court ofappropriate jurisdiction.”

It goes on to say the commission “is

concerned about the passage of anylaw containing language that wouldunconstitutionally infringe upon therights of the citizens of PrestonCounty to keep and bear arms ...”

The commission also “is mindfulof the deep cultural and historicroots of hunting within PrestonCounty, as well as the many con-servation and wildlife managementbenefits to be derived from respon-sible game management throughhunting ...”

In naming Preston a SecondAmendment sanctuary, the commis-sion says it has a “deep commitmentto the rights of all law-abiding cit-iz ens” to keep and bear arms,opposes and discourages any lawsthat would unconstitutionallyrestrict those rights and wants nopublic funds be used to unconsti-tutionally restrict Second Amend-ment rights.

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“I KNOW THIS IS SYMBOLIC,BUT IF THE ISSUE SHOULD

EVER COME TO WEST VIRGINIALIKE THIS ... I THINK THATWOULD MAKE THEM SLOW

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attempted to remove thebag from Curtis’ p a n t s.

Both men have severalfelony convictions in NewJersey. On Tuesday, theywere in the North CentralRegional Jail in lieu of$65,000 bond each.

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Warrants issued forgrand jury no-shows

Of the 36 peopleindicted by the JanuaryMonongalia County grandjury scheduled to appearbefore Judge SusanTucker on Tuesday, sevend i d n’t show and had war-rants issued for theirar rests.

“This is a remarkablemor ning,” Tucker said.“I’ve never had so manyn o - s h ow s. ”

Warrants were issuedfor: Michael McDonald,Joshua McDevitt, EarlVillers, Kelly Scyoc, JefferyHoward, Mishawn Gordonand Louis Valentine.

MUB meets at noonThursday; agenda online

The Morgantown UtilityBoard meeting will be atnoon Thursday at the Mor-gantown Utility BoardOffice, 278 Green Bag Road.An agenda is available atCity Hall, MUB office andthe MUB website

Make-A-Wish hostsvolunteer open house

Make-A-Wish GreaterPennsylvania and WestVirginia will host a volun-teer open house from5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday inthe Morgantown office at913 Canyon Road.

Current and potentialvolunteers are encouragedto stop by to ask questionsand hear first-hand whatit’s like to be a wish-grant-ing volunteer for Make-A-Wish. Information aboutMake-A-Wish qualifica-tions and the applicationprocess will be provided.There will also be snacksand refreshments.

To become a wish vol-unteer, individuals mustbe at least 21, pass a crim-inal background checkand attend an in-persontraining session. There arevolunteer openings in sev-eral counties, includingMon and Preston.

Info: Regional Coordi-nator Vanessa Strickland,vstrickland@g reater-pawv.wish.org or call theMorgantown RegionalOffice at 304-292-5600.

Michael Sciciliano tohold discussion at UUF

Michael Sciciliano willlead a video and discus-sion, “Unnatural SelectionPart II” at 10:45 a.m Sun-day, at the Unitarian Uni-versalist Fellowship ofMorgantown. All are wel-come. A light lunch andmeeting to discuss pro-gramming will follow. Info:304-906-1014.

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to approve this in thisw ay. ”

Councilors Dave Harsh-barger, Barry Wendell andZack Cruze echoedDulaney’s sentiments.

Assistant City ManagerEmily Muzzarelli, sittingin for City Manager PaulBrake, explained that thecity has been working withWVU — s p e c i f i c a l lyAdventure West Virginia— about operating thefacility, but no commit-

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ments had been reached.According to informa-

tion provided at the meet-ing, BOPARC would staffthe rental facility if no sat-isfactory proposals ulti-mately materialize.

Muzzarelli said the needto get council’s approvalnow stemmed from theimpending overhaul of theWalnut Street Landing.She said additional infor-mation, including a pre-liminary design, could bepresented at next week’scommittee of the wholemeeting.

In other news fromT u e s d ay ’s meeting, JaysonNicewarner, president ofthe International Associ-ation of Firefighters Local313, asked the city toaddress the lawsuit filedby the IAFF over fire-fighter holiday payc o m p e n s at i o n .

Nicewarner said the cityhas been silent on the issuesince the suit was filed fivemonths ago.

He also pointed out thatthe city of Charlestonlooked into its firefighterholiday pay after learning

of the Morgantown lawsuit.He said Charleston CityCouncil was taking actionto address it during itsmeeting on Tuesday.

“Charleston is thebiggest city in the state andalso has the largest profes-sional fire department inthe state, yet they were ableto resolve this problemwithin six months, allbecause the city of Morgan-town has not been able toresolve it here,” Nice-warner said.

According to the suit,state code dictates compen-

sation for holiday shifts. If afirefighter works on a legalholiday, or if the holidayfalls on the firefighter’s dayoff, the firefighter is enti-tled to equivalent time offon another day or pay att i m e - a n d - a - h a l f.

Nicewarner previouslytold The Dominion Postfirefighters have been com-pensated with 12 hours oftime off per holiday shift,but this is inadequatebecause they work 24-hours h i f t s.

Also on Tuesday, the cityapproved a bid for the

removal of five old T-hangars at the MorgantownMunicipal Airport, whichpredate World War II.

A sixth hangar willremain to house salt andequipment.

Council approved thebid of Safeco Environmen-tal, Inc., out of Diliner, Pa.The firm will actually paythe city $500 for the scrapmetal in the buildings.

The city opened threenew T-hangars at the air-port in April at a cost ofnearly $4 million.

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RECIPE BOXSTEAMED FISHWITH SHIITAKEMUSHROOMS

Lean white fish is mild inflavor, so before steaming the fil-lets, we season them boldly withgarlic, ginger, oyster sauce andfiery-sweet sriracha. For a littlespice, drizzle the plated fish fil-lets with chile oil before sprin-kling with the scallions. Orsprinkle with toasted sesameseeds. Serve with steamed orstir-fried greens and jasminerice. Don’t uncover the potbefore 8 minutes of steaminghas elapsed. Opening the lidreleases steam and cools the pot.

Makes 4 servings3 tablespoons oyster sauce

1 tablespoon Sriracha

1 tablespoon grapeseed or otherneutral oil

8 medium garlic cloves, finely grated

1 tablespoon finely grated freshginger

3 tablespoons soy sauce, divided

Kosher salt and ground blackpepper

Four 6-ounce skinless cod, had-dock or halibut fillets (each about1-inch thick)

8 ounces shiitake mushrooms,stemmed and thinly sliced

2 tablespoons unseasoned ricevinegar

1 tablespoon packed light or darkbrown sugar

2 scallions, thinly sliced

In a shallow bowl or pieplate, whisk together the oystersauce, Sriracha sauce, oil, gar-lic, ginger, 2 tablespoons of soysauce and 1/2 teaspoon eachsalt and pepper. Add the filletsand turn to coat, gently rubbingin the sauce. Add the mush-rooms and toss until evenlycoated. Marinate at room tem-perature for about 10 minutes.

Place a steamer basket in alarge Dutch oven. Add enoughwater to fill the bottom of thepot without touching the bas-ket. Remove the basket. Coverthe pot and bring to a simmerover medium-high.

Meanwhile, mist thesteamer basket with cookingspray. Arrange the fish in aneven layer in the basket andtop the fillets with the mush-rooms, evenly arrangingthem. Return the basket to thepot, cover and steam overmedium until the fish flakeseasily, 8 to 12 minutes.

Meanwhile, in a small bowl,stir together the vinegar,sugar, the remaining 1 table-spoon soy sauce and 1/4 cupwater. When the fish is done,use a thin metal spatula totransfer the fillets and mush-rooms to a platter. Sprinklewith the scallions and servewith the sauce on the side.

— Excerpted from “Milk Street: The

New Rules” by Christopher Kimball.

Used with permission of Little, Brown

and Co., New York. All rights reserved.

Easy souffle cooks in 20 minutesBY LINDA GASSENHEIMERTribune News Service (TNS)

This unusual souffle onlytakes 20 minutes to make.

Using your food processor,you can prepare all of the veg-etables in 5 minutes. Use thechopping blade first for thezucchini and carrots. Transfervegetables to a bowl. Add thebasil and chop. Remove toanother bowl.

RICOTTA SOUFFLÉYield 2 servings

1 cup chopped zucchini

1 cup chopped carrots

2 1/2 cups sliced mushrooms

1/2 cup fresh diced onion

2 teaspoons olive oil

3/4 cup chopped fresh basil,divided use

1/2 cup plain bread crumbs

Salt and freshly ground black pepper

1 cup non-fat ricotta cheese

2 whole eggsPreheat oven to 400

degrees. Add zucchini, car-rots, mushrooms, and onionto an oven proof dish orlasagna dish about 8 by 10inches. Drizzle oil over veg-etables. Cover with plasticwrap and microwave on high3 minutes. Meanwhile, in asmall bowl, mix 1/2 cup basil

with bread crumbs and addsalt and pepper to taste.Remove vegetables frommicrowave. Mix the ricottacheese and eggs together andadd to the vegetables. Spreadthe vegetables evenlythroughout the dish. Sprinklebread crumb mixture on top.Bake 15 minutes. Sprinkleremaining 1/4 cup choppedbasil over the top and serve.

TOMATO BRUSCHETTA1/4 whole wheat baguette (2 slices)

1 medium clove garlic

1/4 cup cherry or grape tomatoescut in half and coarsely chop

2 teaspoons olive oil

Salt and freshly ground black pepperLine a baking tray with foil.

Place bread on tray and toastin toaster oven or under abroiler until golden, 3 to 4 min-utes. Remove from oven. Cutgarlic clove in half and rub cuthalves over bread. Toss dicedtomato and olive oil together.Spoon over bread and serve.Pour any excess oil left frommixing with tomatoes overbread. Sprinkle with salt andpepper to taste.

— From “Fast and Flavorful Great Dia-

betes Meals from Market to Table” by

Linda Gassenheimer, published by the

American Diabetes Association.

MEATLESS ON THE MENU

Meal TicketSATURDAYn 6 a.m.-2:30 p.m., biscuit andgravy breakfast, Reedsville FireHall, sponsored by the BoyScouts of America. Menu: Hand-rolled biscuits, homemade gravy,whole-hog sausage, shreddedhash browns, fruit, coffee, hottea and hot chocolate. Cost is byfree will offering.n 7 a.m.-5 p.m., buckwheatcakes and sausage meals,Masontown United MethodistChurch, Masontown, WV. Menu:Buckwheat cakes and sausage($9, adults; $5, children), bis-cuits and sausage gravy ($5);sausage burger ($2 each, $4with chips and soda); hot dog,chips and soda ($3).n 4-7 p.m., soup bean and cornbread dinner, Woodland UnitedMethodist Church, 1846 Mile-ground Road. Menu: Soup beans,corn bread, dessert and drink. Costis $8, adults; $6, children. Eat inor carry out. Info: 304-296-4029.

FEB. 8n 8 a.m.-noon, breakfast, New-burg VFD. Menu: Sausage gravyand biscuits, scrambled eggsand home fries, mixed fruit andjuice. Following the NewburgRotary Health Fair.

FUNDRAISERS

Chopped saladscan be boring,but not this oneBY ADDIE BROYLESAustin American-Statesman (TNS)

When it comes to salads, achopped salad is about as basicas it gets: a pile of greenstopped with chopped vegeta-bles, meats, cheeses, nuts, pick-les, whatever you have in thefridge. A hard-boiled egg andbacon usually take this saladinto the vaguely defined Cobbsalad realm, but it doesn’t mat-ter what you call it. Thesekinds of salads are typicallymore filling than a side or Cae-sar salad, and they can bepacked with flavor and good-for-you ingredients.

This version from Torie Bor-re l l i ’s “The Mexican Keto Cook-book” (Ten Speed Press, $24) isfull of healthy fats from thesalmon, avocado and cashews,and the apple cider vinegar inthe dressing gives it a kick. Youcould use any leftover proteinsin this salad, and using differentkinds of nuts, raw vegetablesand salad dressings will keep itinteresting if you want to eat itseveral times a week.

TORIE’S CHOPPEDSALAD2 cups leafy greens (arugula,romaine, spinach, chard, kale or amix)

2 eggs, medium-boiled, chopped orhalved

4 ounces smoked wild salmon, sep-arated into pieces (you can sub wildcanned fish, shredded chicken orcanned sardines)

1/2 avocado, cubed

Handful of raw cashews, pepitasseeds, sunflower seeds, walnuts

1/4 cucumber, thinly sliced

2 radishes, chopped or thinly sliced

2 tablespoons fermented or pickledveggie of choice

Handful of crumbled feta or goatcheese (optional)

For the salad dressing:

1/2 avocado (use the remaining halffrom your salad)

3 tablespoons olive oil

2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar

1 to 2 teaspoons cilantro or parsley

Sea saltTo make the salad: In a large

bowl, combine the greens, eggs,fish, and avocado with the nuts,seeds, cucumber, radish, and fer-mented veggie. Add cheese (ifusing) and mix together untilwell combined.

To make the quick dressing:Use a whisk or immersionblender to blend together theavocado, oil, apple cider vinegar,herbs, and salt until smooth andcreamy. Toss the salad with thedressing and serve.

— From “The Mexican Keto Cookbook:

Authentic, Big-Flavor Recipes for Health

and Longevity” by Torie Borrelli (Ten

Speed Press, $24)

LATE-NIGHT SNACK HACKSBY STACEY BALLISChicago Tribune (TNS)

Carbs are always a naturalwith munchies food. Whethersweet or savory, it seems to bethe first place we turn. So, oneof my favorite things to do is totake some basic plain house-hold favorite, like popovers,scones or pancakes, and usethem as a blank canvas, gettinginspired with new flavor com-binations. Because a lot of ourmost beloved snack foods havecomplex flavor profiles, it is funto experiment to see if you canmake something new, andmaybe a bit elevated, but stillhave it hit that sweet spot ofdelicious nostalgia.

So, the next time a cravinghits, think a little outside thebag or bucket, and give one ofthese a try.

DORITOS-STYLEPOPOVERS

Prep: 15 minutesRest: 1 hourBake: 65-70 minutesMakes: 6 large or 12 smallYou can make the popovers a

day or two ahead. To reheat,place them on a wire rack over abaking sheet and bake in a 400-degree oven for 6-8 minutes untilhot and crisp. The recipe alsodoubles fine if you are feeding acrowd. If you are a bigger fan ofCool Ranch Doritos than Orig-inal, you can brush the tops of thehot popovers with a light coatingof melted butter and sprinklewith ranch powder, or serve witha ranch butter made by mixing apacket of ranch dressing powderinto a stick of softened unsaltedbutter. Look for tomato powderand cheddar cheese powder atsome spice shops and online.3 large eggs

2 cups milk, 2% or whole milk (justnot skim)

3 tablespoons unsalted butter,melted, cooled slightly

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

2 tablespoons cheddar cheesepowder

1 tablespoon tomato powder

1 tablespoon chili powder

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1 teaspoon kosher salt

1/2 teaspoon onion powder

1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

Nonhydrogenated vegetable short-ening

1. Whisk eggs until light andfoamy in a medium bowl.Slowly whisk in milk and but-ter until incorporated.

2. Combine flour, cheese pow-der and seasonings in a largebowl. Whisk the milk mixtureinto the flour mixture until nolumps remain. Transfer batterto a large measuring cup, cover

with plastic and let rest at roomtemperature, 1 hour. (Alterna-tively, batter can be refrigeratedfor 1 day. Bring fully to roomtemperature before proceedingwith baking, at least 4 hours.)

3. Heat oven to 450 with therack in the lower-middle. Gen-erously smear shortening onthe inside of a 6-cups large or12-cups small popover pan;lightly dust the cups with flour,shaking and tapping to removeany excess. If you don’t have apopover pan, you can use a muf-fin tin; they just won’t “pop”quite as tall, but they will stillbe delicious.

4. Whisk the batter vigor-ously to make sure it is fullycombined; pour into popoverpan, filling each cup to about 1/2inch from the top. (Don’t over-fill; you might have a smallamount of batter left over.) Bakewithout opening the oven dooruntil fairly well popped and justbeginning to brown, 20-25 min-utes, but start checking at 15minutes. Decrease the oven tem-perature to 300 degrees withoutopening the oven door; bakeuntil popovers are golden brownall over, 35 to 40 minutes more.

5. Open the oven door; usinga small skewer or the tip of aparing knife, poke a small holein the top of each popover. Turnthe pan if they are not coloringevenly. Close the door; bakeuntil deep golden brown, 5-10minutes longer. Remove fromthe oven; rest the popover panon a wire rack. Poke eachpopover again with a skewer orknife; let cool, 2-3 minutes. Turnout popovers. Serve hot with thespread or filling of your choice.

FRIED CHICKEN SCONESPrep: 40 minutesBake: 12-15 minutesMakes: 8 scones

1 3/4 cups flour

3 tablespoons chicken bouillonpowder (or 9 bouillon cubes, finelyground)

1 tablespoon baking powder

1 teaspoon poultry seasoning

1 teaspoon minced fresh thymeleaves

1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1/2 cup chopped crispy chickenskin (optional, see note)

1 cup heavy cream

2 tablespoons rendered chickenfat, melted, cooled

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees;line a baking sheet with parch-ment paper. In a large mixingbowl, whisk flour, bouillon pow-der, baking powder, poultry sea-soning, thyme, black pepperand cayenne together. Stir inthe crispy chicken skin, ifusing. Make a well in the drymixture; pour in the cream andmelted chicken fat. Using yourfingers held in a stiff rake-likeshape, blend until barely com-bined. Knead just enough tohave a cohesive, soft dough.Overmixing will yield toughs c o n e s.

2. Place dough on a lightlyfloured surface; pat into a 7-inch round, about 1-inch thick.Cut into 8 wedges (triangles).Place them 1 inch apart on thebaking sheet.

3. Bake until golden, 12 to 15minutes. Transfer scones to acooling rack. Serve hot withhoney, butter and hot sauce. Orif you want to get meta, servewith fried chicken.

Note: To make crispychicken skin, spread pieces ofchicken skin out flat betweentwo sheets of parchment paper;place between two bakingsheets. Bake in a 400-degreeoven until deeply golden andcompletely crispy, 15-25 min-utes. Skin should shatter andbreak instead of bend. Cool

completely; chop into piecesand store covered in the fridgefor up to a week. If needed, re-crisp in a hot skillet. (Save thechicken fat to use in the sconesb at t e r. )

FRENCH ONIONPANCAKES

Prep: 15 minutesRest: 30 minutesCook: 3 to 4 minutes per batchMakes: 12 large or 24 small

pancak es2 packets (2 ounces each) Frenchonion soup mix

1 cup sour cream

3 tablespoons unsalted butter,melted, cooled slightly

2 cups flour

1 tablespoon sugar

2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

1 cup buttermilk

2 large eggs, beaten

Vegetable oil

Butter, maple syrup, hot sauce1. Mix the French onion soup

mix into the sour cream untilwell combined.

1. In a large bowl, whisk allthe dry ingredients togetheruntil well mixed. Whisk thesour cream mixture, buttermilkand eggs together in a smallbowl. Pour the wet mixture intothe dry ingredients; stir untilalmost combined, but there arestill some dry spots. Gently mixin the melted butter until justcombined; you should still havesome lumps, but not see anystreaks of dry flour. Set asidethe batter to rest at room tempfor at least 30 minutes. Heatoven to 200.

2. Heat a griddle or nonstickskillet over medium high heat.When hot enough for a drop ofwater to skitter across the sur-face and evaporate, brush a thinlayer of oil on the surface. Drop1/2-cup scoops for large cakesor 1/4-cup scoops for small onthe skillet, leaving plenty ofroom for them to spread. I usu-ally coax them along with theback of the scoop, since thethick batter will only spread sofar on its own. Cook untilplenty of bubbles appear on thetops of the pancakes and theedges look dry, about 2 minutes.Flip pancakes over. Don’t pressdown! (These are extra fluffycakes; if you press on them,they will get rubbery.) Cook onthe second side until goldenbrown and cooked through, 1 to2 minutes.

3. Transfer pancakes to arack over a baking sheet; holdin the warm oven while youmake the rest. Serve hot withbutter, maple syrup and/or hots a u c e.

HEALTHY EATING

TNS photo

By breaking down the seasoning ingredients in Doritos, you cancreate a popover that tastes like that craveable snack.

W E D N E S DAY 1.22.20A-6

IT NEEDS POINTING OUT THAT BERNIESANDERS’ MEDICARE FOR ALL planbears little resemblance to Medi-care. The Vermont senatorundoubtedly exploits the word“M e d i c a re ” to obscure the rad-icalness of his single-payer pro-posal. Medicare, after all, is veryp o p u l a r.

Those who admire single-payer systems — which do havetheir virtues — should own up toit and not hide their plans undermisleading labels. Medicare isn’ts i n g l e - p aye r.

Even Canada’s single-payersystem doesn’t offer the range offree services Sanders proposes.For example, it doesn’t covervision and dental. Sanders’ plandoes, and with no copayments forthem or anything else. Many sin-gle-payer systems also requirethat people fish a small bill out oftheir wallet for certain doctors’visits, a reminder that it’s costings o m e b o dy.

The cost of the Sanders planwould be a fantastical number oftrillions. He evidently thinks itbeneath him to talk about money.

(Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.,did and paid the political price.)

Before we go on, a few good wordsfor single-payer. It easily cuts costs, issimple to administer and guaranteesuniversal coverage. Canadians verymuch like their system.

But multipayer setups inFrance, the Netherlands and else-where — which, like Medicare,combine government and highlyregulated private coverage — domuch the same. And they deliverexcellent outcomes.

Politically, a single-payer sys-tem could not happen in today’sUnited States. Canada’s healthsystem forbids people from goingelsewhere and paying for a ser-

vice that’s covered by the gov-ernment. Americans would rebelagainst that prohibition. It’s truethat some Canadians go to theStates for certain medical ser-vices, but they’re very much theexce ption.

By contrast, some Americansare willing to pay full freight to goto fancy doctors who don’t acceptthe insurance they have, not evenM e d i c a re.

Medicare is a wonderful dealfor the elderly, but it is not free.Medicare beneficiaries pay onaverage over $5,000 a year onhealth care expenses. Forstarters, they must often paydeductibles, copays and extra forcertain products and services.

Medicare does pick up hospitalbills, but beneficiaries have to paya premium (for Part B) if theywant coverage for doctors’ v i s i t s.And Part B covers only 80 percentof the bill. So a patient with$100,000 in outpatient chargesmust come up with $20,000. Thatperson can buy more insurance,the Medigap policy, to cover that.And, of course, there are extra

charges for drug benefits.Over a third of Medicare ben-

eficiaries have signed up forMedicare Advantage plans soldby private insurers. MedicareAdvantage may offer more ser-vices and charge less than tra-ditional Medicare, but the insur-ers usually limit patients toproviders within their networks.

Three points in closing:First, rather than push a Medi-

care for All plan that bears littleresemblance to Medicare,wo u l d n’t it make more sense toadvocate letting Americans, say,ages 55 to 64, buy into the existing

Medicare program? This would bean uncomplicated and popularfirst step for expanding Medicare.

Second, it’s nuts to think thatany president could wave hismagic hands and radically trans-form America’s health care sys-tem. Recall that President Obamac o u l d n’t even get all Democratson board for a public option, agovernment-run plan competingwith the private insurers.

Thirdly, a public option advo-cated by other Democratic can-didates is the way to go. If it wereavailable to everyone, even foremployer-sponsored coverage, itcould become a basis for all nego-tiation. Translation: Boeingcould tell Blue Cross that it wouldgo to the public plan if Blue Crosswo u l d n’t offer a better deal.

In the meantime, everyone,kindly stop applying the nameMedicare to Sanders’ health pro-posal. It’s false advertising, and ithurts the Medicare brand.

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FOR MORE ON the United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counties2020 campaign go online to: unitedwaympc.org/

Truly, not too many of us could tolerate clones of ourselvesas neighbors, for long.

Which leads many to believe we cannot just live forourselves nor can we live as strangers with our neighbors.

Those thoughts about neighbors came up recently in lightof the United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counties 2020fundraising campaign.

After all, neighbors is the watch word for the United Way:Neighbors being there for neighbors, that is.

Many presume the concept of your neighbors only extendsto the nearest households to your own — those who live nextdoor or who share a property line.

Once upon a time that idea may have been accurate, but int o d ay ’s shrunken world, instant communications andenlightened sense of community our neighbors may liveacross town or in another county.

In that scope, many of our far-flung neighbors the 24 healthand human service agencies and 46 outreach programs thelocal United Way’s mission serves are people who can use ahelping hand.

It’s said, that we cannot build a future for them, but we canhelp ready them for the uncertainties that future may hold.

The future for many who are victims of neglect and abuse,who suffer mental illness or who may be facing hard timesmight be tough but simply letting them know they are notalone is a godsend.

They are also often our most vulnerable neighbors — theelderly and children. Be it simply ensuring their generalwelfare — they do not go hungry or are cold — is a priority forsome of these agencies under the United Way’s umbrella.

Currently, the United Way of Monongalia and PrestonCounties is about $100,000 short of meeting its $1.345 milliongoal by Jan. 31.

Including today, that means the local United Way needs toaccount for about $10,000 a day to hit that target.

The causes these 24 agencies represent and how yourdonations help should be enough for anyone to stand up andgive to this campaign.

But if you need more convincing, every cent of that $1.345million remains in Monongalia and Preston counties.

You might say, stays home or in the homes of thousands ofyour neighbors in this community who are well served bythese agencies and programs.

Let’s be clear. These agencies serve far more than thepeople down and out on their futures.

Though it may come as a surprise, they more than likelyserve someone you know or have served you or a member ofyour family in the past. We urge our readers to donate andsupport the United Way’s 2020 campaign.

And welcome to the neighborhood.

Investigate Bloom forcollusion with Longview

In a letter to the editor that Iwrote late last year (DP-Nov. 28),I asserted that Jeff Keffer, CEOof Longview Power, “will attackgrassroots citizen groups thatdisagree with his carbon corpo-rate model.” I was right, but Idid not expect that MonongaliaCounty Commissioner TomBloom would aid and abet Kefferby threatening the Sierra Club.

The Dominion Post justreported (Thursday) the SierraClub complained that negotia-tions on a payment in lieu oftaxes (PILOT) between theCounty Commission andLongview were being held in pri-vate. Let’s be clear, the PILOT isa tax subsidy for Longview, cost-ing the county taxpayers mil-lions in potential revenue. Somecall this corporate welfare.

Bloom’s response? A threat toforward an unsubstantiated alle-gation that the Sierra Club mis-handled money to the prosecut-ing attorney’s office.

Where did Bloom get the“infor mation”? None other thanCEO Jeff Keffer of Longview, thevery company whose proposedtax breaks the Sierra Club’sefforts challenge.

Wow! Bloom, who will vote ongiving a tax break to Longview,is colluding with Longview’sCEO to silence criticism.

The prosecuting attorneyshould actually investigateBloom and his collusion withL o n g v i ew ’s Keffer. Sounds likeMafia on the Mon.

John P. LambertsonMorgantown

Effort to get all handson deck is necessary

I believe The Dominion Post’scriticism over the MonongaliaCounty Commission hiring JoeStatler as an advocate for ourcounty is counter-productive.

What the newspaper failed tonote was how valuable a veteranadvocate would be to our county.An experienced lobbyist to workalongside legislators helpingmove bills through the legislativeprocess may mean the differencebetween success and failure.

Bills to improve our roadssuch as the one vetoed last yearby our governor that charges theDivision of Highways to create aformula to allocate money forroad improvements. Such a billcould help make sure counties

with growing populations andhigh traffic densities such asours gets the funding we need.

Perhaps legislation to speedthe hiring process for DOHemployees that was vetoed bythe governor before him. Yes,the time frame to hire employeesstill takes forever and ourcounty struggles to get enoughworkers to complete its projects.

As a former delegate, I under-stand how easy it is to get dis-tracted with the multitude ofbills you must read, constituentconcerns you must address, etc.Having a skilled advocate(unpaid at that) would help ourdelegates and senators stayfocused on issues like these andnot to mention sharing the time-consuming burden of educatingthe other members of the Leg-islature on their importance.

The severity of the roads prob-lems alone calls for all hands tobe on deck to try to get action onthem. Thank you to our CountyCommission for recognizing this.

Brian KurcabaMorgantown

Thanks to all for helpwith pet food drive

The Monongalia CountyHumane Society would like tothank everyone who contributedto our Holiday Needy Pet FoodDrive. The pet food is distributedat the local Armory when theChristmas toys and food aregiven out.

We want to thank the storeswho allowed us to put out ourpet food barrels: Kroger inSabraton, Suncrest Towne Cen-tre and on Patteson Drive; aswell as Giant Eagle on GreenBag Road and University TownCentre. We greatly appreciatetheir help with our holiday col-lection.

In addition to the above thankyo u ’s, we want to thank Air Ser-vice of West Virginia for trans-porting our food and to the Uni-versity High students whohelped load and unload the food.University High students areChase Edwards, Zeke Bailey andJacob Stevens. Thank you boys.You were a great help.

The men at Air Service andthe University High studentshelped us move 10,000 pounds ofcat and dog food. Since so muchfood was collected, we were ableto give out twice as much food asour previous years.

Thank you to everyone whosupported our efforts for the hol-iday season.

Ruth Ann ShinnMonongalia County

Humane SocietyMorgantown

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THOSE WHO ADMIRE SIN-GLE-PAYER SYSTEMS —WHICH DO HAVE THEIR

VIRTUES — SHOULD OWNUP TO IT AND NOT HIDE

THEIR PLANS UNDER MIS-LEADING LABELS. MEDICARE

ISN’T SINGLE-PAYER.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22, 2020 THE DOMINION POST A-7

O B I T UA R I E S

Ethel CurryEthel Mae DeBolt Curry,

“T i z z i e, ” 97, of Morgan-town, passed away on Sat-urday, Jan. 18, 2020, at her

h o m e.Ethel

Mae, thedaughter ofthe lateLewis Oscarand PearlMae (Pipes)DeBolt, wasborn inMiddle-bourne, on

June 27, 1922.Growing up, Ethel Mae

was active as a 4-H All-Starand was chief of the MarionCounty “4-H CherokeeT ribe.” In eighth grade, shereceived the WV GoldenHorseshoe Award as thehighest scoring female inMarion County on the WestVirginia state historyexam, an honor she wasdelighted to share decadeslater with her granddaugh-ter, Megan, when shebecame a Golden Horse-shoe Award recipient.

Ethel Mae was presidentof the WVU chapter ofAlpha Phi Sorority whereshe was known as Tizzie. Itwas there that she met herfuture husband as hewaited tables at the soror-ity house. She graduated in1944 with a degree in homeeconomics and a minor inscience. On June 18, 1944,she married her waiter,George Alexander Curry.

Tizzie taught science,biology and English atChesterfield County HighSchool in Virginia beforemoving to Morgantownwhere she became active inorganizations related toher husband’s medicalcareer. She was a memberand past president of theMonongalia Hospital Aux-iliary and the West Vir-ginia State Hospital Aux-iliary. She served as a boardmember and vice chair ofthe American HospitalAssociation Council of Vol-unteers. She was also amember of the Friends ofWVU Hospital, an elderand deacon of the FirstPresbyterian Church, asustaining member of theDelphian Book Club, alife member of Morgan-town Service League, a vol-unteer for her fourch i l d re n’s schools, UnitedWay and other communityorg anizations.

Tizzie and George builttheir family home on CheatLake in 1969. Tizzie hadmany special friends.Among them is HelenBasile, whom she hadknown since her eighthbirthday. To Tizzie, every-one was a friend.

Ethel Curry was pre-ceded in death by her hus-band of 70 years, GeorgeAlexander Curry, M.D., 94,in 2014. She is survived byher children: GeorgeAlexander Curry II, M.D.and his wife, Elisa, Cather-ine Curry Samuel and herhusband, David, CarolCurry Rushford and herhusband, Bradley, Christo-pher DeBolt Curry and hiswife, Diana; grandchildren:Jennifer Francis, AnnabelAlvarez and her husband,Rodolfo, Kimberly Jensen,Candace Thomas and herhusband, Simon, JustinRushford, Megan Rushford,Lauren Curry, MacKenzieCurry; and great-grand-daughter, Reese Alkire. Sheis also survived by manywonderful nieces andne phews.

In addition to her par-ents, she was preceded indeath by all of her siblings:Harold DeBolt, KathrynWoodburn, Hilda Lutonand Eloise O’Dell.

In accordance with herwishes, cremation serviceswill be provided by Hast-ings Funeral Home, OmegaC re m at o r y.

Visitation will be at theFirst Presbyterian Church,456 Spruce St., Morgan-town, at 1 p.m. Saturday,Jan. 25, until the 2 p.m.memorial service, with theRev. Zac Morton officiating.

In lieu of flowers, dona-tions may be made in EthelCur ry’s memory to theGeorge and Ethel CurryMedical Scholarship fundat WVU Foundation, P.O.Box 1650, Morgantown, WV26507-1650, the Foundationof Mon Health Medical Cen-ter, 1200 J.D. AndersonDrive, Morgantown, WV26506 and/or the First Pres-byterian Church of Mor-gantown, 456 Spruce St.,Morgantown, WV 26505.

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Kenneth WilliamsKenneth R. Williams, 92,

of Dilliner, Pa., died Sat-urday, Jan. 18, 2020, in theMon Health Medical Centerin Morgantown. BornMarch 12, 1927, in Silica,W.Va., he was a son of thelate Charles J. and Dora(Champ) Williams.

Ken was a U.S. Army vet-eran of WWII, serving atboth Camp Crowder in Mis-souri and Camp Polk inLouisiana. He was the firstcertified automobileinspection mechanic inMonongalia County andthen worked for nearly45 years in the coal mines,first at Rosedale, and retir-ing from Consol’sHumphrey #7. A member ofthe UMWA, he enjoyed theoutdoors, either workingon his farm or hunting andfishing.

Surviving are his threesons and their wives,Kenny R. “Doc” and SueWilliams, of Point Marion,Pa., James R. and MelindaWilliams, of Dilliner, Pa.,and Steven P. and JoanieWilliams, of Mount Jack-

son, Va.; grandchildren,Chad, Casey, AlisonWilliams-Klein, AshleyWilliams-Davis, Travis,Eric, Scott Smith and StuSmith; nine great-grand-children; and one great-g reat-g randchild.

His wife of 73 years,Kathleen (Simpson)Williams passed away onNov. 22, 2019. Also deceasedare two daughters, BrendaLee and Kelly Rae; and twobrothers, Charles “Jay ”Williams Jr. and LeonardWi l l i a m s.

Friends will be receivedin the Richard R. HerodFuneral Home, Point Mar-ion, Pa., from 5-8 p.m.Wednesday, and from10 a.m. Thursday until the11 a.m. hour of service,with Richard Nicoloff offi-ciating. Interment, withmilitary honors accordedby the Point Marion Vet-erans Posts, will follow inFort Martin Cemetery, FortMar tin.

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Harold ShawHarold Ray “B a n ny ”

Shaw, 88, a resident ofLocust Grove Road,Moatsville, passed away onSaturday, Jan. 18, 2020, athis residence. He was bornJuly 9, 1931, a son of the lateCharles Earl “Pe ck ” andOpal Rebecca (Dennison)S h aw.

He was united in mar-riage May 7, 1955, to PerlinaMay (Bolyard) Shaw whosurvives at home. Also sur-viving are one daughter,Teresa Sauter and husbandJohn, of Florida; one son,Mark Shaw and wifeTammy, of Moatsville; twograndchildren, Adam andRebecca Shaw, ofMoatsville; three brothers,Howard Shaw, of Belington;Lyle Shaw, of Detroit, andGeorge Shaw, of Grafton.

Mr. Shaw was precededin death by one sister,Kathryn Young, and fourbrothers: William Shaw,Kenneth Shaw, David Shawand Robert Shaw.

He retired with 38 yearsof service as a brake-man/conductor for B&Oand CSX Railroad. Heserved in the U.S. MarineCorp during the KoreanConflict. He was an avidfarmer, hunter, fishermanand member of the VFWPost #3081 in Grafton.

Mr. Shaw’s wishes forcremation will be honored.A memorial service will beheld at a later date at theconvenience of the family.

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Loretta LeeThe Rev. Loretta Mae

Kirkendall Lee, 85, of Mor-gantown, passed away Fri-day, Jan. 17, 2020, at her

home. Shewas bornDec. 25, 1934,in Morgan-town, adaughter ofthe lateE dw a rdLloyd andWa n d aPow l e yK i rke n d a l l .

The Rev. Lee was a mem-ber of the Star City Chris-tian Assembly Church. Shewas a minister and pas-tored in many of thechurches in the Morgan-town area. She was a mem-ber of the Isaac Walton Con-servation League.

She is survived by chil-dren, Eric Lee and his wifeRobin, and Linda Loyan andher husband Ron; siblings,Dan Kirkendall and his wifeNancy, and Betty Sue Pekarand her husband Andy; fourgrandsons, Reggie Joe Lee

II, Jeffrey Derick Lee, KevinAnthony Patterson andWesley Garett Lee; twogreat-grandsons and twog reat-g reat-g randsons.

In addition to her par-ents, she is preceded indeath by her husband,Arthur Joe Lee; sons,Arthur Todd Lee, CliffordLee, Reggie Lee and JeffreyLee; and brothers, PaulDonald Kirkendall, BobKirkendall, Don Kirkendalland James Kirkendall.

Friends and family willbe received at HastingsFuneral Home, 153 SpruceSt., from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m.Thursday, Jan. 23, and againfrom 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 24,until the time of the funeralservice at 11 a.m. with theRev. Bob Gidley and PastorGwen McKinley officiating.Interment will take place atOlive Cemetery.

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George ZinnGeorge Mertland Zinn,

75, of Fairmont, formerly ofMorgantown, husband ofKay Fleming Zinn, died

M o n d ay,Jan. 20,2020, atMon HealthMedicalCenter inMorg an-t ow n .

Bor nAug. 9, 1944,in King-wo o d ,George waspreceded indeath by hism o t h e r,K at h e r i n e

Higgs Zinn; his father andstepmother, Harold Hamil-ton Zinn and MaryLouZinn; and his nephew PaulC r aw fo rd .

In addition to his wife of54 years, he is survived byhis son and daughter-in-law, Robert Fleming Zinnand Tiffany Becilla Zinn,and their children, Ava andCooper, of Hillsborough,N.C.; his daughter, KarenZinn Stallman, and herdaughter, Sarah Stallman,of Fairmont, and formerson-in-law, Jason Stallman,of Bridgeport. He also issurvived by two sisters andtheir husbands, Madelineand Edward Crawford, ofMountain City, Ga., andJodie and Steve Laprade, ofWest Palm Beach, Fla.; sis-ter- and brother-in-law,Linda and Richard Kerr, ofMorgantown; and niecesand nephew, Trudy KerrLonegan, Amy Kerr Howat,Chemin Rivnyak, JosephBerry, Raven Clark andRachel Schattie.

George graduated in1962 from MorgantownHigh School, where he metKay Fleming during hissophomore year. They weremarried in 1966. Heattended West VirginiaUniversity before transfer-ring to the University ofFlorida. He was drafted andserved in the U.S. Army inKaiserslautern, Germany,before returning toGainesville to complete hisdegree. He worked inhuman resources for Con-sol Energy in Morgantown,and retired after 27 years.

George loved his family,which drove everything hedid, and appreciated spend-ing time with his threegrandchildren. He alsoenjoyed traveling, whetheraround Europe while sta-tioned in Germany, or onsummer beach vacations.

Friends may join thefamily to honor George’slife and legacy at SmithFuneral & Cremation Care,108 Holland Ave., West-over/Morgantown, from5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23,until the time of the memo-rial service at 7 p.m., offi-ciated by Pastor David Hall.

Inurnment will takeplace at 10 a.m. Friday,Jan. 24, at the West VirginiaNational Cemetery inPruntytown, where fullmilitary honors will beaccorded. Those wishing toattend the committal ser-vice are asked to gather atthe cemetery no later than9:50 a.m. Friday.

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Nancy SchrammNancy J. Schramm, 78, of

Morgantown, passed awayon Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, ather home, surrounded byher family.

Hastings Funeral Home

has been entrusted witharrangements, which areincomplete at this time. Acomplete obituary willappear in tomorrow’sedition.

Emory KempEmory Leland Kemp

passed away on Monday,Jan. 20, at Ruby MemorialHospital, from heart fail-ure. He was born on Oct. 1,

1931, inChicago, toAnita andEmoryLelandKe m p.

T heKe m p smoved toChampaign,Ill., when hewas a boy.

He was a proud graduate ofthe University of Illinois’sUniversity High School andthe University of Illinois,where he received the Ira O.Baker Award as the Out-standing Civil EngineeringGraduate in 1952, earning aBachelor of Science degreewith highest honors.

After graduation, heserved as an assistant engi-neer for the Illinois StateWater Survey and went toLondon in 1953 on a Ful-bright Fellowship, wherehe received a diploma fromthe Imperial College of Sci-ence and Technology in1955 and a Master of Sci-ence degree in engineeringfrom the University of Lon-don in 1958.

As a structural engineerfor leading engineeringfirms in London, he workedon projects such as the con-struction of the roof of theSydney Opera House. Hethen returned to the Uni-versity of Illinois to earnhis Ph.D. in theoretical andapplied mechanics in 1962.

With that new degree,Emory came to West Vir-ginia University as an asso-ciate professor of civil engi-neering, specializing instructures and concrete. Hethen served as chair of theDepartment of Civil Engi-neering, established theprogram in the history ofscience and technology and,in 1989, the Institute for theHistory of Technology andIndustrial Archaeology.

His professional activi-ties included service aspresident of the VandaliaHeritage Foundation, Pub-lic Works Historical Soci-ety and Society for Indus-trial Archeology; memberof the board of directors ofthe West Virginia Indepen-dence Hall Foundation andWest Virginia HumanitiesCouncil; and a founder ofthe Preservation Allianceof West Virginia.

He was also a certifiedlay speaker of the UnitedMethodist Church,preaching at manychurches in the area, andpresident of the Univer-sity Christian Council

that served WVU students.Emory lectured and pub-

lished widely in the areas ofcivil engineering, espe-cially focusing on the prop-erties of concrete and meth-ods to analyze historicstructures. As a pioneer inthe fields of industrialarchaeology and the his-tory of technology, hesupervised, documented orconsulted on many pro-jects, including the preser-vation of the Philippi Cov-ered Bridge, Wheeling Sus-pension Bridge, WheelingCustom House (West Vir-ginia Independence Hall)and the documentation ofthe Fairbank Oil Fields inLondon, Ontario, Canada.

Among his many hon-ors, three of the most sig-nificant were election tothe Order of Vandalia forDistinguished Service toWest Virginia University,as a Distinguished Memberof the American Society ofCivil Engineers and as aFellow of the Institution ofCivil Engineers in theUnited Kingdom.

He is survived by hiswife, Janet Kemp; his chil-dren, Mark Kemp, GeoffreyKemp and Alison (Edward)Anderson; his grandchil-dren, Paul Anderson,Colin, Mairwyn and Say-ward Kemp and Adrienne,Max and Josie Kemp-Rye;and a cousin John (Martha)Ke m p.

In addition to his par-ents, his brother Donald,sister-in-law, Janet, andniece, Sarah Kemp, havealso passed away.

Emory donated his bodyto the WVU School ofMedicine through theHuman Gift Registry. Amemorial service will beheld on Saturday, Feb. 1, at2 p.m. at Wesley UnitedMethodist Church, 503 NorthHigh St., Morgantown.

Emory donated hispapers to the WVU WestVirginia and Regional His-tory Center so that othersmay continue his workstudying historic engineer-ing structures.

In lieu of flowers, thefamily suggests donationsto the WVU Foundation,P.O. Box 1650, Morgantown,WV 26507-1650, for the Dr.Emory L. Kemp History ofTechnology EndowmentFund, which he and Janetestablished in conjunctionwith the donation of hispapers. Donations may alsobe made to that fund onlineat https://secure.give.wvu.edu/other. Please note thefund number of 3L526 aspart of your donation. Dona-tions to your favorite char-ity are also appreciated.

EmoryKemp

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PRESTON SHERIFF

Hall, Virgil Lee, 46, ofBruceton Mills, domestic bat-tery, Jan. 4; Deputy Martin.

Doman, Donald RichardJr., 58, of Tunnelton, viola-tion of protective order, Jan.15; Deputy T.E. Mitter.

Reckart, Brooks Robert,55, of Kingwood, third-offense domestic violence,burglary; Deputy McNair.

STATE POLICE ATK I N GWO O D

Valentine, Joshua Allen,28, of Albright, obstructingan officer, Jan. 17; TrooperBarnette.

Doman, Heather Leeann,20, of Tunnelton, two counts

of obstructing an officer,Jan. 17; Trooper Barnette.

Doman, Donald Richard,58, of Newburg, second-offense violation of protec-tive order, obstructing anofficer, Jan. 17; TrooperBarnette.

WORK FORCE WV

Warren, Robin L., 42, ofNewburg, three counts offailure to disclose income inorder to obtain benefits.

DUI-REL ATED

Reckart, Norman Gene,47, of Albright, second-offense DUI, driving onlicense revoked for DUI,expired sticker, Jan. 19;Deputy Knotts.

DAILY REPORT

A-8 THE DOMINION POST WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22, 2020

A L M A N AC TV LISTINGSAssociated Press

Today is Wednesday,Jan. 22, the 22nd day of2020. There are 344 daysleft in the year.Highlight:

In 1998, Theodore Kaczynskipleaded guilty in Sacramento,Calif., to being theUnabomber responsible forthree deaths and 29 injuriesin return for a sentence of lifein prison without parole.

On this date:

In 1973, the U.S. SupremeCourt, in its Roe v. Wade deci-sion, legalized abortionsusing a trimester approach.

In 1987, Pennsylvania trea-surer R. Budd Dwyer, con-victed of defrauding the state,proclaimed his innocence at anews conference beforepulling out a gun, placing thebarrel in his mouth and shoot-ing himself to death in frontof horrified onlookers.

In 2009, President BarackObama signed an executiveorder to close the GuantanamoBay prison camp within a year.(The facility remained in oper-ation as lawmakers blockedefforts to transfer terror sus-pects to the U.S.; PresidentDonald Trump later issued anorder to keep the jail open andallow the Pentagon to bringnew prisoners there.)

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My problem is, heknows I can’t leave himbecause I have no job,no skills, no money —nothing. I went rightfrom my parents’house to living withhim after our wedding.We have six kids andone on the way. He willcontinue to go to thesewebsites because heknows I am stuck.What should I do? —SOON-TO-BEMOTHER OF SEVEN

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I doubt your hus-band will have muchtime for philandering if

he has six kids to takecare of by himself inaddition to his job. Ialso doubt that few, ifany, women he might behooking up with wouldwelcome becoming theinstant mother of six.And one more thing,from now on, please usebirth control.

DEAR ABBY: I have anacquaintance I seeoccasionally. Herecently told me he isgetting married. WhenI congratulated him, Iwanted to ask who thelucky groom is becauseI have often thought hewas gay, but I found outhe’s marrying awoman. What’s theappropriate way to askthis question nowadayssince all of us canmarry, I am happy tosay. — PONDERING INN E VA DA

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Thunberg returns Trump’s climate jibeAssociated Press

DAVOS, Switzerland —Greta Thunberg isn’t easilyi n t i m i d at e d .

The 17-year-old Swedishactivist wasted little timeon Tuesday to push backagainst U.S. President Don-ald Trump’s description ofclimate campaigners as“the perennial prophets ofdoom” who predict the“ap o c a ly p s e. ”

Though Trump didn’tmention her directly in hisspeech at the World Eco-nomic Forum in the SwissAlpine resort of Davos, itwas clear he had his sightson Thunberg, who shot tofame a year ago by staging aregular strike at her schooland sparked a global envi-ronmental movement. Shethen beat the U.S. presidentto receive Time Magazine’saward as the 2019 Person ofthe Year.

“The facts are clear, butthey are still too uncom-fortable for you to address,”she told business and polit-ical leaders in Davos justafter Trump’s speech, alsowithout directly mention-ing the president. “You justleave it because you thinkit’s too depressing and peo-ple will give up, but peoplewill not give up. You are theones who are giving up.”

Thunberg brushed asideT r ump’s announcement

that the U.S. would join theeconomic forum’s initia-tive to plant 1 trillion treesacross the globe to help cap-ture carbon dioxide fromthe Earth’s atmosphere.

“Planting trees is good ofcourse but it’s nowhere nearenough,” Thunberg said. “Itcannot replace mitigation,”she added, referring toefforts to drastically cutemissions in the near term.

Thunberg accused lead-ers of “cheating and fiddlingaround with numbers” withtalk of cutting emissions to‘net zero’ — that is, emittingno more carbon than isabsorbed by the planet ortechnical means — by 2050.

She and Trump havebeen sparring for months,but Thunberg did not seekto upstage the U.S. leader bywalking out of his speech,which was largely focusedon trade and economicsinstead of the climateissues that the WEF hasmade a focus of at its meet-ing this year.

Last month, Trump toldThunberg in a tweet to“ch i l l ” and to “work on herAnger Management prob-lem.” It prompted a dry andhumorous response fromThunberg, who thenchanged her Twitter cap-tion to read: “A teenagerworking on her anger man-agement problem. Cur-rently chilling and watch-

ing a good old-fashionedmovie with a friend.”

Earth just finished itshottest decade on recordwith the five last years as thefive hottest years on record,according to U.S. and otherscience agencies. Scientistsrepeatedly point to moreextreme weather as a prob-lem worsened by human-caused climate change.There have been 44 weatherand climate disasters in theU.S. that caused at least $1billion in damage since 2017,killing 3,569 people, accord-ing to the National Oceanicand Atmospheric Adminis-t r at i o n .

Thunberg is not the onlyyoung activist to highlightthe climate emergency andwas joined on a keynotepanel by three others, all ofwhom said politicians andexecutives are not doingenough.

A survey of CEOsreleased this week by finan-cial firm PwC showed thatexecutives rank climateissues as only the 11th mostserious risk to their busi-nesses’ g rowth.

Natasha Wang Mwansa,an 18-year-old from Zambiawho campaigns for girls’and women’s rights, said“the older generation has alot of experience, but wehave ideas, we have energyand we have solutions.”

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HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

IN NEED OF A WINMEN’S HOOPS

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After losing its last two games by a combined 64 points, the West Virginia women’s basketball team will look to bounce back against anOklahoma State team that has struggled this season.

Sparrow, Ingram looking like top RB targetsBY KEENAN CUMMINGSSports@DominionPost.com

West Virginia still needs arunning back in the 2020 recruit-ing class but that picture is start-ing to become clearer withNational Signing Day approach-ing on Feb. 5.

The Mountaineers parted

ways with longtime top targetBrooklyn (N.Y.) tailback LamyConstant after only a few weeks,making the position a top pri-ority during the late period.

“Running back, we’ll defi-nitely sign one in February,”WVU coach Neal Brown said inD e c e m b e r.

It seems that the dust is start-ing to settle on prospects whocould fill that slot.

One of the primary targets isnow off the board after Ellisville(Miss.) Jones J.C. running backLa’Damian Webb committed toFlorida State over the weekend,putting the spotlight squarely on

two others.Orlando (Fla.) Jones running

back A’Varius Sparrow was oncampus over the weekend on anofficial visit and quicklyemerged as a prime target for theprogram. The 5-foot-9, 180-pounder has only played football

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WVUseniorsrise tochal lenge

BY JUSTIN JACKSONJJackson@DominionPost.com

It was, as expected, a quietplane ride back to Morgantownfrom Manhattan, Kan., when WestVi r g i n i a ’s senior leaders decidedto make their voices heard.

Just hours before, WVU coachBob Huggins had been critical ofJermaine Haley, Chase Harlerand Logan Routt for not helpingtheir younger teammates graspthe urgency that comes when thestakes keep trending up for ayoung team.

T hat’s where the Mountaineerswere prior to their 84-68 loss againstthe Wildcats last Saturday.

Talks of Big 12 titles, nationalrankings and a possible No. 2 seedin the NCAA tournament wereclosing in. All West Virginia hadto do was not lose games it wassupposed to win.

Kansas State’s upset took careof that. West Virginia’s seniorsseemingly took it from there.

“Jermaine, Chase and Loganare the guys we look to,” WVUsophomore guard Jordan McCabesaid. “Not only for their experiencehere at West Virginia, but Jer-maine, I feel like he’s been playingin college for 12 years now.

“It’s really important to have aguy like him grab all of us —returners and young guys — andsay, ‘This can’t happen in the Big12. They’re all talented teams inthis league.’ ”

To Haley’s credit, he didn’t seea WVU team that struggled tomake shots or run its offense.

He saw a team that failed to showtoughness and failed to guard.

“We had some mental lapses(against Kansas State) and wed i d n’t execute the game plan,” hesaid. “Everyone was disap-pointed. Even in losing, we shouldhave put up a better fight.”

In bouncing back on Monday,with a 97-59 victory against Texas,the 14th-ranked Mountaineers (15-3,4-2) took the fight to the Longhorns.

It’s the Mountaineers’ s c r ap -piness that is the key to theirs u c c e s s.

No matter how far WVU climbsup the national rankings, it is nota team blessed with superior tal-ent that is going to run opponentsout of the gym.

That much Bob Huggins made

Coming off bad loss,key leaders step upagainst Longhorns

Morgantown girls starting to pick up steamBY ANDREW SPELLMANASpellman@DominionPost.com

The Morgantown girls’ b a s-ketball team is picking upsteam in the midseason after aslow start. Although one cansay it’s because of young age —which is partially true — it’salso because the Mohigans (5-7)love to schedule tough oppo-nents early.

Morgantown started out witha solid season-opening win overShadyside (Ohio) but droppedthe following four games to Lin-coln, Fairmont Senior, Univer-

sity and Musselman.What could raise eyebrows

are the back-to-back losses to theClass AA teams to start thatskid, but both are top-10 squadscoming into the No. 5 and 6 spots,respectively, in the recent APpoll. University and Musselmanare self-explanatory.

Morgantown coach JasonWhite had an idea of how histeam could fare this seasonbeing senior-less, noting, “Yo ulook at the year and you’re play-ing with house money. Youd o n’t have any seniors, so it’s

no one’s banner year. As acoaching staff, we’re approach-ing this year as, ‘Whatever weget out of this year, we get out ofthis year.’ ”

But he also made it very clearthat he wants his young team toface tough opponents to betterprepare them for the playoffs.

“As a coach, my philosophyhas always been those are theteams you want to play,” he saidin that same preseason inter-view. “You want to know whereyou are when it comes to thestate, and we have the best-of-

the-best in our region.”Another point White hit on is

that his team “has the potentialto surprise some people,” andthat time could be approachingnow in the midseason. TheMohigans, after falling toWheeling Park 58-42 in anuncharacteristic loss, pickedup two straight wins over Mus-selman and Buckhannon-Upshur in blowout fashion,defeating the two teams 74-48and 51-36, respectively. Whatmay have set off the explosiveplay was that 16-point loss at the

hands of the No. 1 Patriots.Junior forward Kaitlyn

Ammons certainly wasn’thappy that night. Although aknown leader of the team, shemore so sounded more like oneof White’s assistant coaches.

“We said in practice we haveto be disciplined on defense andrebounding on both ends of thefloor, and we weren’t [againstWheeling Park],” Ammonssaid. “We let Shanley [Woods]get easy 3s, I myself let Bella[Abernathy] get by me to the

After rough back-to-back losses, WVU aims to bounce backBY JUSTIN JACKSONJJackson@DominionPost.com

Coming off two losses by acombined 64 points coupled witha struggling offense, West Vir-ginia coach Mike Carey hadanother way to begin his pressconference Tuesday.

“H ow ’s the weather?” heasked jokingly.

Yet, Carey knows the strug-gles that have hit the 25th-rankedMountaineers (13-3, 3-2) are nolaughing matter.

“We ’ve got to get out of thisfunk we’re in,” Carey said. “I’vehad teams do this before. It’snothing that a win won’t cure.We ’ve had two games where wed i d n’t play hard and didn’t makeshots and, quite frankly, doesn’tlook like the same team we hadbefore those two games.”

The Mountaineers will hostOklahoma State (11-6, 2-3) at7 p.m. today. The Cowgirls havelost three of their last four games,

including a 64-63 loss againstIowa State on Sunday, in whichthey went scoreless on their finalthree possessions.

“We can’t dwell on our set-b a ck s, ” Carey continued. “We ’vegot to be focused on the nextgame. That’s the good thing aboutbasketball: There is another gamein two or three days.”

West Virginia was never in thegame against No. 2 Baylor, a 91-51final. Outside of a low-scoringfirst quarter, Oklahoma domi-nated the Mountaineers over thefinal three quarters for a 24-pointvictory last week.

“This is definitely a game tobounce back from the two losseswe had,” WVU guard Tynice Mar-tin said. “It is what it is. Practicehas been going great. They’vebeen very intense. We can’t waitto get back on the court and provewhat we need to prove.”

Martin, too, has something William Wotring/The Dominion Post file photo

WVU will host the Cowgirls at 7 p.m. today.

SEE TARGET, B-4

SEE STEAM, B-4

SEE AIMS, B-4

SEE SENIORS, B-4

B-2 THE DOMINION POST WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22, 2020

ON TVCOLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)

6:30 p.m.: FS1 — Georgetown at Xavier7 p.m.: BTN — Penn State at MichiganCBSSN — St. Bonaventure at DaytonESPN2 — Syracuse at Notre DameESPNEWS — Cincinnati at TempleESPNU — South Carolina at AuburnSECN — Arkansas at Mississippi State8 p.m.: ACCN — North Carolina at Virginia Tech8:30 p.m.: FS1 — Providence at Seton Hall9 p.m.: BTN — Rutgers at IowaCBSSN — Creighton at DePaulESPNU — Memphis at TulsaSECN — Alabama at Vanderbilt11 p.m.: CBSSN — Nevada (Las Vegas) at Nevada (Reno)

COLLEGE FOOTBALL (MEN’S)1:30 p.m.: ESPNU — The Senior Bowl: Practice, Mobile, Ala.4 p.m.: ESPNU — The Senior Bowl: Practice, Mobile, Ala.

ECHL HOCKEY8 p.m.: NHLN — Warrior Hockey/All-Star Classic: East vs. West, Wichita,Kan.

FIGURE SKATING11:30 p.m.: NBCSN — European Championships: Men’s Short Program, Graz,Austria (taped)

GOLF1:30 p.m.: GOLF — Korn Ferry Tour: The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic,Final Round, Great Abaco, Bahamas11 p.m.: GOLF — EPGA Tour: The Omega Dubai Desert Classic, First Round,Dubai, United Arab Emirates

NBA BASKETBALL7 p.m.: ESPN — Philadelphia at Toronto9:30 p.m.: ESPN — San Antonio at New Orleans

NHL HOCKEY8 p.m.: NBCSN — Detroit at Minnesota

SOCCER (MEN’S)2:25 p.m.: NBCSN — Premier League: Burnley at Manchester United

TENNIS3 a.m.: ESPN2 — The Australian Open: Second Round, Melbourne, Australia2 p.m.: ESPN2 — The Australian Open: Second Round, Melbourne, Australia(taped)7 p.m.: TENNIS — The Australian Open: Second Round, Melbourne, Australia9 p.m.: ESPN2 — The Australian Open: Second Round, Melbourne, Australia3 a.m. (Thursday): ESPN2 — The Australian Open: Second Round, Melbourne,Australia

NHL ROUNDUP

HOCKEY

C ALENDAR

NHL

EASTERN CONFERENCEATLANTIC DIVISION

GP W L OT Pts GF GABoston 51 29 10 12 70 169 135Tampa Bay 48 29 15 4 62 175 137Florida 49 28 16 5 61 183 163To r o n t o 49 25 17 7 57 176 165B u ff a l o 49 22 20 7 51 145 152Montreal 50 22 21 7 51 155 157Ottawa 48 17 23 8 42 130 163Detroit 50 12 34 4 28 107 195

METROPOLITAN DIVISIONGP W L OT Pts GF GA

Wa s h i n g t o n 49 33 11 5 71 177 144Pittsburgh 50 31 14 5 67 168 136N.Y. Islanders 49 29 15 5 63 143 132Carolina 50 29 18 3 61 159 132Columbus 50 26 16 8 60 134 127Philadelphia 50 27 17 6 60 158 150N.Y. Rangers 48 23 21 4 50 158 159New Jersey 48 17 24 7 41 126 173

WESTERN CONFERENCECENTRAL DIVISION

GP W L OT Pts GF GASt. Louis 49 30 11 8 68 158 134Colorado 49 28 15 6 62 179 143Dallas 48 27 17 4 58 125 120Wi n n i p e g 50 25 21 4 54 149 156Chicago 51 24 21 6 54 155 161Nashville 47 22 18 7 51 156 154Minnesota 49 22 21 6 50 152 164

PACIFIC DIVISIONGP W L OT Pts GF GA

Va n c o u v e r 49 27 18 4 58 162 149Edmonton 49 26 18 5 57 155 153Calgary 50 26 19 5 57 135 147Arizona 51 26 20 5 57 146 138Ve g a s 52 25 20 7 57 161 159San Jose 50 21 25 4 46 130 167Anaheim 48 19 24 5 43 122 150Los Angeles 50 18 27 5 41 125 158NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for over-time loss. Top three teams in each division and twowild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

M O N D AY ’S GAMESColorado 6, Detroit 3Florida 5, Minnesota 4

T U E S D AY ’S GAMESBoston 3, Vegas 2Carolina 4, Winnipeg 1N.Y. Islanders 4, N.Y. Rangers 2Philadelphia 3, Pittsburgh 0Florida 4, Chicago 3

T O D AY ’S GAMESWinnipeg at Columbus, 7:30 p.m.Detroit at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

T H U R S D AY ’S GAMESNo games scheduled

F R I D AY ’S GAMESNo games scheduled

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PRO FOOTBALL2020 NFL PlayoffsscheduleAll Times ESTWild-card PlayoffsSaturday, Jan. 4Houston 22, Buffalo 19, OTTennessee 20, New England 13Sunday, Jan. 5Minnesota 26, New Orleans 20, OTSeattle 17, Philadelphia 9Divisional PlayoffsSaturday, Jan. 11San Francisco 27, Minnesota 10Tennessee 28, Baltimore 12Sunday, Jan. 12

Kansas City 51, Houston 31Green Bay 28, Seattle 23Conference ChampionshipsSunday, Jan. 19Kansas City 35, Tennessee 24San Francisco 37, Green Bay 20Pro BowlSunday, Jan. 26At Orlando, Fla.AFC vs. NFC, 3 p.m. (ESPN)Super BowlSunday, Feb. 2At Miami Gardens, Fla.Kansas City vs. San Francisco, 6:30 p.m. (FOX)

ON THIS DATEJan. 22 1920 — The New York Yankees announce theywill be the first team to wear uniform numbers,according to the player’s position in battingo r d e r. 1960 — Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinsonin a 15-round split decision to capture the worldmiddleweight boxing title. 1962 — Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson areelected into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Robinson,who had the distinction of becoming the first blackto play in the Major League, is also the first toenter the Hall. 1973 — George Foreman knocks out Joe Frazierin the second round in Kingston, Jamaica, to winthe world heavyweight title. 1983 — Houston becomes the first NBA team notto score a point in overtime as the Portland TrailBlazers outscore the Rockets 17-0 for a 113-96v i c t o r y. 1984 — Marcus Allen rushes for a Super Bowl-record 191 yards on 20 carries and scores twotouchdowns as the Los Angeles Raiders trouncethe Washington Redskins, 38-9. 1988 — Mike Tyson knocks out Larry Holmes inthe fourth round at Atlantic City to retain his worldheavyweight title. 1989 — Joe Montana caps an 11-play, 92-yarddrive with a 10-yard pass over middle to JohnTaylor with 34 seconds remaining to give the SanFrancisco 49ers a 20-16 win over the CincinnatiBengals in the Super Bowl. 1998 — New York’s Pat LaFontaine reaches the1,000-point mark, scoring his 19th goal in theRangers’ 4-3 loss to Philadelphia. 2003 — Andy Roddick wins one of the longestmatches of the Open era, beating Younes El

Aynaoui in a fifth set that ended 21-19 to reach theAustralian Open semifinals. The 20-year-oldAmerican won 4-6, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-4, 21-19 in a matchlasting 4 hours, 59 minutes — the longest men’ssingles match at the Australian Open sincetiebreaker sets were introduced into Grand Slamevents in 1971. 2006 — Kobe Bryant scores a staggering 81points — the second-highest total in NBA history —and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the TorontoRaptors 122-104. 2012 — The New England Patriots beat thestunned Ravens 23-20 in the AFC championshipgame after Baltimore’s Billy Cundiff misses a 32-yard field goal attempt with 11 seconds remainingthat would have tied the score. 2012 — Lawrence Tynes kicks a winning 31-yardfield goal in sudden-death overtime and New Yorkbeat the San Francisco 49ers 20-17 in the NFCchampionship game. 2017 — Atlanta’s Matt Ryan throws for 392 yardsand four touchdowns and runs for another score,leading the Falcons to a 44-21 blowout of Green Bayin the NFC championship game. 2017 — New England’s Tom Brady passes for aPatriots playoff-record 384 yards, going 32 of 42with three TD tosses to lead the Patriots to theSuper Bowl with a 36-17 win over Pittsburgh. 2019 — Mariano Rivera becomes baseball’s firstunanimous Hall of Fame selection, elected alongwith Roy Halladay, Edgar Martinez and MikeMussina. Rivera receives all 425 votes in ballotingby the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.

New Baylor coach Aranda hiresone of his mentors as Bears DC

New Baylor coach Dave Aranda hashired one of his former bosses as thenew defensive coordinator of theBears. Ron Roberts spent the past twoseasons as defensive coordinator atLouisiana-Lafayette, which ranked18th nationally this season allowingonly 19.7 points per game. That wasafter giving up more than 34 points agame in 2018. Aranda, who came toBaylor after four seasons as defensivecoordinator at national champion LSU,was co-defensive coordinator andlinebackers coach at Delta State in2007. That was the first of Roberts’ f iveseasons as head coach of the DivisionII school in Mississippi. Aranda saidTuesday that Roberts is a mentor andthat a lot of the defensive principlesand concepts he has used in his careerwere learned from Roberts. FormerBaylor defensive coordinator PhilSnow left to join Matt Rhule’s staff inthat same position for the NFL’s Car-olina Panthers. The Bears led the Big12 this season allowing only 19.8points a game and were third in totaldefense at 360 yards a game. But thatgroup had seven senior starters, andtwo juniors, including All-Americadefensive end James Lynch, have saidthey are bypassing their senior sea-sons for early entry in the NFL draft.“I look at the student-athletes thathave played and the playing time thatthey had last year, and the experiencethat is coming back I think it’s some-thing to build upon,” Aranda said dur-ing his formal introduction Monday,four days after being hired as a first-time head coach. Aranda had also saidthen that he didn’t plan to call thedefensive plays at Baylor. After time asDelta State’s head coach, Roberts wasdefensive coordinator at SoutheasternLouisiana for six years. He also spenta season as defensive coordinator atTexas State in 2003.

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QUICK HITS

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22HIGH SCHOOL BOYS’ BASKETBALL

Tucker County at Preston, 7:30 p.m.HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS’ BASKETBALL

Parkersburg South at Morgantown, 7:30 p.m.University at Wheeling Park 7:30 p.m.Trinity at Paden City, 7 p.m.

HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLINGWheeling Park at University, 6 p.m.Morgantown at Preston, 6 p.m.

COLLEGE WOMEN’S BASKETBALLOklahoma State at WVU, 7 p.m.

Elliott makes 19 saves to leadFlyers over Penguins 3-0Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — Brian Elliott made19 saves, Jakub Voracek and James vanRiemsdyk scored, and the PhiladelphiaFlyers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-0Tuesday night.

It was Elliott’s first shutout of theseason and 39th of his career. The 34-year-old is filling in for injured Carter Hart.

Justin Braun added an empty-netterfor the Flyers, playing their eighth gamein 15 days. They enter a nine-day breakhaving won five of seven.

Pittsburgh, one of three teams with atleast 30 wins entering Tuesday, was play-ing its seventh game in 12 days. ThePenguins had won two in a row and six ofseven. It is the second time they have beenshut out this season.

Both teams head into the All-Starbreak followed by a bye week. They’llresume action against each other Jan. 31in Pittsburgh.

Islanders 4, Rangers 2NEW YORK — Josh Bailey had a goal

and two assists, Thomas Greiss stopped 41shots, and the New York Islanders held onto beat the rival New York Rangers 4-2Tuesday night.

Anders Lee, Anthony Beauvillier andBrock Nelson also scored, and MathewBarzal had two assists to help theIslanders head into the All-Star breakwith their second win in eight games (2-4-2). The Islanders got their first winagainst the Rangers in the teams’ t h i rdmeeting in nine days.

Greiss improved to 5-0-1 in eight careergames against the Rangers.

Pavel Buchevich and Chris Kreiderscored power-play goals 1:47 apart late inthe third period for the short-handed

Rangers. Alexandar Georgiev, who camein 4-1-0 in five games against theIslanders, finished with 14 saves.

The Rangers were without All-Starforward Artemi Panarin, who sat outwith an upper body injury. BrendanLemieux took his spot on the top line tostart the game.

Bruins 3, Golden Knights 2BOSTON — David Krejci scored with

7:42 left to rally the Boston Bruins past theVegas Golden Knights 3-2 Tuesday night.

Jake DeBrusk had a tying goal forBoston early in the third period, and Krejcialso assisted on Jeremy Lauzon’s first goal

of the season. Jaroslav Halak stopped 27shots as Boston entered the All-Star breakwith a win following a 1-2-1 stretch.

Mark Stone scored 1:24 into the gamefor Vegas and Nicolas Hague added hisfirst career goal. Nate Schmidt had twoassists for the Golden Knights, who fell to1-1-1 under new coach Peter DeBoer. Marc-Andre Fleury made 34 saves.

The Bruins trailed 1-0 and 2-1, butDeBrusk tied it on a wrist shot 4:26 into thethird off a slick pass from Halak. Krejcithen scored on his own rebound aftertipping a point shot by Brandon Carlo.

Krejci returned after missing twogames with an upper-body injury.

Men’s AP top 25The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ collegebasketball poll, with first-place votes in paren-theses, records through Jan. 19, total points basedon 25 points for a first-place vote through one pointfor a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking:

Record Pts Prv1. Baylor (33) 15-1 1591 22. Gonzaga (31) 20-1 1588 13. Kansas (1) 14-3 1470 64. San Diego St. 19-0 1422 75. Florida St. 16-2 1335 96. Louisville 15-3 1303 117. Dayton 16-2 1139 138. Duke 15-3 1065 39. Villanova 14-3 1055 1410. Seton Hall 14-4 1034 1811. Michigan St. 14-4 1004 1512. Oregon 15-4 886 813. Butler 15-3 867 514. West Virginia 14-3 758 1215. Kentucky 13-4 755 1016. Auburn 15-2 637 417. Maryland 14-4 525 1718. Texas Tech 12-5 399 2319. Iowa 13-5 398 —20. Memphis 14-3 394 2221. Illinois 13-5 280 2422. Arizona 13-5 225 —23. Colorado 14-4 154 2024. Rutgers 14-4 152 —25. Houston 14-4 151 —Others receiving votes: Wichita St. 94, LSU 83,Michigan 73, N. Iowa 42, Ohio St. 36, Stanford 28,Wisconsin 28, Penn St. 24, Florida 21, Liberty 21,Arkansas 19, Creighton 13, Duquesne 13, Virginia13, Purdue 9, ETSU 6, Indiana 6, Southern Cal 4,BYU 2, Marquette 2, Harvard 1.

Women’s AP top 25The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’women’s college basketball poll, with first-placevotes in parentheses, records through Jan. 19,total points based on 25 points for a first-place votethrough one point for a 25th-place vote and lastweek’s ranking:

Record Pts Prv1. South Carolina (22) 17-1 741 12. Baylor (6) 15-1 725 23. UConn 16-1 665 44. Oregon 15-2 658 65. Louisville (2) 18-1 641 56. Stanford 16-2 599 37. Oregon St. 16-2 545 88. NC State 17-1 530 99. Mississippi St. 16-2 504 1010. UCLA 16-1 497 711. DePaul 17-2 425 1412. Kentucky 15-3 378 1113. Gonzaga 18-1 366 1614. Florida St. 15-3 358 1315. Texas A&M 15-3 345 1216. Arizona St. 15-4 297 1817. Indiana 14-4 221 1518. Arizona 15-3 214 2119. Iowa 15-3 186 2220. Maryland 13-4 184 2021. Arkansas 15-3 156 2322. Northwestern 16-2 118 -23. Tennessee 14-3 116 2424. South Dakota 17-2 110 2525. West Virginia 13-3 63 17Others receiving votes: Missouri St. 42, Rutgers31, Princeton 28, LSU 5, Florida Gulf Coast 2.

Men’s scoresTuesday, Jan. 21EASTBuffalo 90, W. Michigan 79Villanova 76, Butler 61SOUTHClemson 71, Wake Forest 68Kentucky 89, Georgia 79LSU 84, Florida 82Tennessee 73, Mississippi 48Wichita St. 56, South Florida 43MIDWESTAkron 81, Miami (Ohio) 60Bowling Green 62, E. Michigan 59Illinois 79, Purdue 62Iowa St. 89, Oklahoma St. 82

Kansas 81, Kansas St. 60Maryland 77, Northwestern 66N. Illinois 76, Kent St. 69Toledo 83, Ohio 74Wisconsin 82, Nebraska 68SOUTHWESTTCU 65, Texas Tech 54

Women’s scoresTuesday, Jan. 21SOUTHCampbell 61, Charleston Southern 36Gardner-Webb 65, UNC-Asheville 59High Point 60, Presbyterian 55Memphis 57, SMU 52Radford 57, SC-Upstate 41Winthrop 74, Longwood 63SOUTHWESTTulsa 58, East Carolina 56

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALLTuesday’s scoresBOYSBidwell River Valley, Ohio 50, Point Pleasant 38Braxton County 75, Doddridge County 51Cabell Midland 49, Huntington 47Clay County 58, Gilmer County 50Clay-Battelle 87, Paden City 59Crown City S. Gallia, Ohio 62, Wahama 43Greater Beckley Christian 60, Charleston Catholic49Greenbrier West 84, Midland Trail 59Hedgesville 56, Washington 36Herbert Hoover 74, Nicholas County 66Jefferson 60, Spring Mills 57, OTJohn Marshall 52, Belmont Union Local, Ohio 48John Marshall 52, Belmont Union Local, Ohio 48Keyser 78, Berkeley Springs 36Lincoln County 70, Wayne 63Linsly 58, Shadyside, Ohio 52Logan 66, Nitro 48Man 75, Cross Lanes Christian 46Mingo Central 61, Tug Valley 57Musselman 72, Hampshire 52Parkersburg 64, South Charleston 60PikeView 69, Independence 66Poca 70, Buffalo 60Ravenswood 57, Ritchie County 52Ripley 60, Vincent Warren, Ohio 53Roane County 50, Calhoun County 48, OTShady Spring 76, Westside 62

Spring Valley 79, Capital 77University 77, Parkersburg South 65Weir 57, Oak Glen 54Wheeling Central 70, Magnolia 58Wheeling Park 102, Brooke 48Woodrow Wilson 73, St. Albans 61POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONSRiverside vs. George Washington, ppd.GIRLSBerkeley Springs 43, Mt. View Christian 24Bridgeport 53, Lewis County 52Buckhannon-Upshur 58, East Fairmont 39Clay-Battelle 48, Harman 26Fairmont Senior 62, Preston 36Grafton 41, Elkins 29Greenbrier East 72, Princeton 37Lincoln 79, Liberty Harrison 22Midland Trail 51, Nicholas County 38Mingo Central 60, Tug Valley 57North Marion 76, Robert C. Byrd 48Pendleton County 59, Tygarts Valley 54Ritchie County 48, Tyler Consolidated 20River View 61, Mount View 10St. Marys 50, Williamstown 43Winfield 80, Scott 29POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONSLiberty Raleigh vs. Montcalm, ccd.Spring Mills vs. Jefferson, ccd.

AP photo

Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby (87) tries to get a shot past Philadelphia’s Brian Elliott(37) on Tuesday in Philadelphia.

Box scorePHILADELPHIA 3, PITTSBURGH 0

Pittsburgh 0 0 0 — 0Philadelphia 0 2 1 — 3

First Period—None. Penalties—Voracek, Phi(Tripping), 18:46.

Second Period—1, Philadelphia, Voracek 10(Farabee, Couturier), 5:26. 2, Philadelphia, vanRiemsdyk 14 (Konecny, Giroux), 18:40. Penal-ties—Riikola, Pit (Holding), 7:35; Letang, Pit(Roughing), 9:22; Farabee, Phi (Hooking), 13:55;Philadelphia bench, served by van Riemsdyk (TooMany Men on the Ice), 19:21.

Third Period—3, Philadelphia, Braun 3, 19:00(en). Penalties—Malkin, Pit (Hooking), 16:24.

Shots on Goal—Pittsburgh 8-8-3—19. Philadel-phia 12-10-8—30.

Power-play opportunities—Pittsburgh 0 of 3;Philadelphia 0 of 3.

Goalies—Pittsburgh, Jarry 16-7-1 (29 shots-27saves). Philadelphia, Elliott 11-5-3 (19-19).

A—19,120 (19,543). T—2:21.Referees—Dan O’Rourke, Ian Walsh. Lines-

men—David Brisebois, Kory Nagy.PRO BASKETBALLNBA

EASTERN CONFERENCEATLANTIC DIVISION

W L Pct GBTo r o n t o 29 14 .674 —Boston 28 14 .667 1/2

Philadelphia 29 16 .644 1Brooklyn 18 24 .429 101/2

New York 12 32 .273 171/2

SOUTHEAST DIVISIONW L Pct GB

Miami 30 13 .698 —Orlando 21 23 .477 91/2

Wa s h i n g t o n 14 28 .333 151/2

Charlotte 15 30 .333 16Atlanta 10 34 .227 201/2

CENTRAL DIVISIONW L Pct GB

Milwaukee 39 6 .867 —Indiana 28 16 .636 101/2

Detroit 16 28 .364 221/2

Chicago 16 29 .356 23Cleveland 12 32 .273 261/2

WESTERN CONFERENCESOUTHWEST DIVISION

W L Pct GBDallas 27 16 .628 —Houston 26 16 .619 1/2

Memphis 20 23 .465 7San Antonio 19 23 .452 71/2

New Orleans 17 27 .386 101/2

NORTHWEST DIVISIONW L Pct GB

Denver 30 13 .698 —Utah 30 13 .698 —Oklahoma City 25 19 .568 51/2

Portland 19 26 .422 12Minnesota 15 28 .349 15

PACIFIC DIVISION

W L Pct GBL.A. Lakers 34 9 .791 —L.A. Clippers 31 13 .705 31/2

Phoenix 18 25 .419 16Sacramento 15 28 .349 19Golden State 10 35 .222 25

M O N D AY ’S GAMESWashington 106, Detroit 100Toronto 122, Atlanta 117Philadelphia 117, Brooklyn 111Milwaukee 111, Chicago 98New Orleans 126, Memphis 116New York 106, Cleveland 86Oklahoma City 112, Houston 107Orlando 106, Charlotte 83Miami 118, Sacramento 113, OTBoston 139, L.A. Lakers 107Denver 107, Minnesota 100Utah 118, Indiana 88San Antonio 120, Phoenix 118Portland 129, Golden State 124, OT

T U E S D AY ’S GAMESL.A. Clippers 110, Dallas 107

T O D AY ’S GAMESOklahoma City at Orlando, 7 p.m.Philadelphia at Toronto, 7 p.m.Sacramento at Detroit, 7 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.L.A. Lakers at New York, 7:30 p.m.Memphis at Boston, 7:30 p.m.Washington at Miami, 7:30 p.m.Denver at Houston, 8 p.m.Minnesota at Chicago, 8 p.m.Indiana at Phoenix, 9 p.m.San Antonio at New Orleans, 9:30 p.m.Utah at Golden State, 10 p.m.

T H U R S D AY ’S GAMESWashington at Cleveland, 7 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Brooklyn, 8 p.m.Dallas at Portland, 10:30 p.m.

TR ANSACTIONSBASEBALLAmerican LeagueBOSTON RED SOX — Traded RHP Travis Lakinsto the Chicago Cubs for a player to be named orcash. Assigned LHP Bobby Poyner outright toPawtucket (IL).CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms withRHPs Drew Anderson, Ryan Burr, Brady Lail, AlexMcRae and Bryan Mitchell; LHPs Ross Detwiler,Caleb Frare, Jacob Lindgren, Adalberto Mejia andMatt Tomshaw; INFs Cheslor Cuthbert, AndrewRomine and Matt Skole; and OFs Jaycob Brugmanand Nicky Delmonico on minor-league contracts.SEATTLE MARINERS — Named Tony Arnerichminor league field coordinator; Mike Cameronminor league special assistant; Rob Marcellopitching coach of Tacoma (PCL); Dave Bergmanager, Alon Leichman pitching coach and JoeThurston hitting coach of Arkansas (TL); SeanMcGrath pitching coach and Shawn O’Malley hit-ting coach of Modesto (Cal); Eric Farris man-ager, Nathan Bannister pitching coach and RobBenjamin hitting coach of West Virginia (SAL);Louis Boyd manager and Michael Fransoso hit-ting coach of Everett (NWL); Jose Umbria hittingcoach of the AZL Mariners; Brett Schneider hit-ting coach and Guady Jabalera coach of the DSLMariners.TEXAS RANGERS — Named Brendan Sagaraspecial assistant/player development and pitchingcoach of Nashville (PCL), Greg Hibbard minorleague roving pitching instructor and Kevin Tor-res coach of Down East (Carolina).National LeagueATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with OFMarcell Ozuna on a one-year contract.SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Claimed RHP LuisMadero off waivers from the Los Angeles Angels.Designated RHP Jake Jewell for assignment.Agreed to terms with RHP Tyson Ross and C RobBrantly to minor league contracts.

BASKETBALLNational Basketball AssociationSACRAMENTO KINGS — Traded Fs TrevorAriza, Wenyen Gabriel and Caleb Swanigan toPortland for G Kent Bazemore, F Anthony Tolliverand two second-round draft picks.FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueGREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed TE EvanBaylis, T Cody Conway, RB Damarea Crockett,CB Kabion Ento, TE James Looney, LB RandyRamsey, WR Darrius Shepherd, WR Malik Taylor,QB Manny Wilkins and LB Tim Williams toreserve/future contracts.MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed WR BralonAddison and DE Stacy Keely to reserve/futurecontracts.TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed LB Josh Smith toa reserve/future contract.HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueNASHVILLE PREDATORS — Assigned F ColtonSissons to Milwaukee (AHL) for conditioning.COLLEGEEVANSVILLE — Fired Walter McCarty men’sbasketball coach. Named interim men’s basket-ball coach Bernie Seltzer.OHIO STATE — Named Kerry Coombs defensivec o o r d i n a t o r.OREGON — Named Joe Moorhead offensive coor-d i n a t o r.POST (CONN.) — Named Adam Schultz sprintfootball coach.PURDUE — Named Marty Biagi special teamscoordinator and defensive assistant.SMU — Named Garrett Riley co-offensive coor-dinator and quarterbacks coach. Promoted offen-sive line coach AJ Ricker to co-offensive coor-d i n a t o r.VANDERBILT — Named Kenechi Udezelinebackers coach.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22, 2020 THE DOMINION POST B-3

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Hurts eyes NFL, with ‘boulder’ not chip on shoulderAssociated Press

MOBILE, Ala. — Ja l e nHurts was presented a hel-met at the Senior Bowl pro-viding a snapshot of his col-lege career, an OU on theright side and his oldAlabama No. 2 on the left.

Now, the quarterbackwho led two elite pro-grams to the College Foot-ball Playoffs is trying toprove himself again, as anNFL prospect, back in thestate where he began hiscollege career.

Hurts, who wore an Okla-homa-only helmet in practiceTuesday, officially began hisaudition for NFL teams thisweek with practices andmeetings ahead of Saturday’sSenior Bowl. His biggest sell-ing point: “I win.”

Indeed, last season’sHeisman Trophy runner-up did a lot of winning forboth Oklahoma and theCrimson Tide, putting upbig numbers both passingand rushing. But questionsremain about his passingaccuracy and consistency,leading to an uncertaindraft status.

LSU Heisman winnerJoe Burrow is the likelyNo. 1 overall pick by theCincinnati Bengals,whose staff is coaching

Hurts and the South team.Tua Tagovailoa, whoreplaced Hurts as thestarter, is also regarded asa likely first-round draftpick despite recoveringfrom hip surgery.

Hur ts’ Senior Bowlteammate Justin Herbert ofOregon is projected as ahigh first-rounder.

Then there’s the 6-foot-1,218-pound Hurts, who has astellar resume but stillsome questions.

“I don’t want to get intoc o m p a r i s o n s, ” he saidTuesday before the teams’first practices. “T hat’s kindof like the kiss of death. I tryto be the best version ofmyself. Go out there and try

to win, try to lead my guys,build relationships withmy guys. Win ballgames.”

Hurts went 26-2 as astarter for the Tide and wasSoutheastern Conferenceplayer of the year as a fresh-man. Then he was benchedat halftime of the nationalchampionship gameagainst Georgia, with Tago-

vailoa leading the come-back victory and ultimatelywinning the starting job forthe 2018 season.

Hurts stuck it outinstead of leaving to pre-serve a second year of eli-gibility and ultimatelydeparted for Oklahomawhile ranking in the topthree among Alabamaquarterbacks for careerrushing yards, touch-downs, total offense andpassing TDs.

He led a comeback of hisown for the Crimson Tideafter Tagovailoa wasinjured in the SEC cham-pionship game, alsoagainst Georgia. Then hetransferred to play for Lin-coln Riley and the Soonersand delivered easily hisbest season.

Hurts got off to a blazingstart and passed for 3,851yards and 32 touchdownswhile rushing for 1,298yards and 20 scores.

“He’s been successfuleverywhere he’s been,”Bengals coach Zac Taylorsaid. “He really is a little bitlike an NFL quarterback inthe sense that he had to goquickly and pick up anoffense and really provehimself as a leader in a newprogram in a short periodof time, which he did. He

had a great year.”“Those are things that

we get a chance now to seein person. Get to know thekid a little bit more. ... Hecertainly had a great col-lege career. He’s put him-self in a good position.”

But also an uncertainone. Senior Bowl executivedirector Jim Nagy was ini-tially skeptical aboutHur ts’ ability to play quar-terback in the NFL.

“Ja l e n’s come a long,long way. He really has,” theformer scout said. “Pe o p l easked me about Jalen whenI took the job and I saidmaybe if he comes to theSenior Bowl in a couple ofyears it might be as anotherposition player. He’s blownthat out. He’s come so far.”

Hurts, meanwhile, stillconveys the same unflap-pable confidence as always.Determined to prove criticswrong, he’s sporting morethan a chip on his shoulder.It is, he said, “a boulder.”

“I don’t think there’s anyexperience that I’d go backand exchange or change,”Hurts said. “I think every-thing’s happened for a rea-son. It’s all happened howit’s supposed to. I think I’mstronger, wiser, better man,better player, leader, bettereve r y t h i n g . ”

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Former Oklahoma and Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts is hoping to improve his NFLdraft stock at the Senior Bowl.

NFL

Tua, Young amongjuniors grantedeligibility for draftAssociated Press

Alabama quarterbackTua Tagovailoa, Ohio Statedefensive end Chase Youngand Wisconsin running backJonathan Taylor were among99 juniors granted eligibilityby the NFL into the draft.

The NFL on Tuesdayreleased the official list of 120players who gave up collegeeligibility to enter the draft.Most, such as Tagovailoa,Young and Taylor, previouslymade their intentions public.

Players less than fouryears removed from highschool who have not com-pleted a degree need to begranted special entry to thedraft by the NFL.

Among the 120 are 16 play-ers with college eligibilityremaining who notified theNFL they had completeddegree requirements andwere therefore eligible to beselected in the April 23-25draft to be held in Las Vegas.

That group of 16 includesClemson All-Americalinebacker Isaiah Simmonsand Utah State quarterbackJordan Love. Five more play-ers with eligibility remain-ing inquired about draft sta-tus but did not need specialentry, including Michiganlinebacker Josh Uche.

The total of 120 playerswho left behind college eli-gibility to enter the draft is

down from the record 132 lastseason. The 99 juniorsgranted early entry by theleague is also down from 103last year. A record 106 juniorsentered the draft withoutcompleting degrees in 2018.That was the first year thatnumber reached triple digits.

Since 2014, at least 95underclassmen entered thedraft without completingtheir degrees in every sea-son but 2015, when the num-ber was 74.

Defending nationalchampion LSU had nine ofthe 120 players to leavebehind college eligibility,the most of any school,including safety Grant Del-pit, receiver Justin Jeffer-son and running backClyde Edwards-Helaire.

Alabama was next with sixplayers. Receiver Jerry Jeudyand tackle Jedrick Wills wereamong the Crimson Tideplayers joining Tagovailoa.

Taylor was one of 20 run-ning backs who decided toenter the draft with eligi-bility remaining, thoughthree star runners notablyreturned to school.

C l e m s o n’s Travis Etienne,A l ab a m a ’s Najee Harris andOklahoma State’s Chub Hub-bard, who led the nation inrushing last season, will beback in college 2020.

THE TOTAL OF 120 PLAYERS WHO LEFT BEHINDCOLLEGE ELIGIBILITY TO ENTER THE DRAFT ISDOWN FROM THE RECORD 132 LAST SEASON.

THE 99 JUNIORS GRANTED EARLY ENTRY BY THELEAGUE IS ALSO DOWN FROM 103 LAST YEAR. A

RECORD 106 JUNIORS ENTERED THE DRAFTWITHOUT COMPLETING DEGREES IN 2018.

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for two years and startedhis career as a linebackerbefore moving to offense.

T hat’s when things tookoff regarding his recruit-ment. Sparrow is coming off adominating senior seasonwhere he led Jones to thestate title game while rushingfor 2,135 yards and 26 scores.

The Mountaineers

extended a scholarshipoffer to Sparrow in mid-December and he has sinceadded offers from both Rut-gers and Central Florida.Others are sniffing around,as well. While he has some-what flown under the radar,one look at his highlighttape makes it apparent whymore Power 5 schools aregetting involved with thetalented senior prospect.

A home-run threat withthe ball in his hands, Spar-

row has little wasted motionand can separate fromdefenders at the secondlevel. He is a physical runnerwho hits the hole aggres-sively and breaks tackles.

The Mountaineers’efforts have been led by run-ning backs coach Chad Scott,and the two have developed astrong connection through-out the process.

If things don’t progressfar enough with Sparrow,the Mountaineers could

play host to Mobile (Ala.)running back JordonIngram, who also has beenin contact with Scott. Butwith Sparrow already vis-iting, he has the edge in therace to fill that vacant slotin the class.

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to prove.The star senior guard

combined to shoot 3 of 26in those two losses.

“The last two games, Ih ave n’t shot well,” Mar tinsaid. “Coach Carey and Ihad a talk. I have to do otherthings like get somerebounds or some steals andplaying better defense. Youcan score in a lot of differentways. We have to get backon the fast break and getthings going again.”

Carey said Martin hasrelied too much on herjump shot and would liketo see her become moreaggressive by driving tothe basket.

“She’s been forcing it,”Carey said. “She’s got tolet the game come to her.When you force stuff, it’susually not a good shotand it usually starts a fast

break at the other end.“If somebody is over-

crowding you on yourshot, why are you notgoing around them?T hat’s something we’vetalked about.”

Getting around Okla-homa State defenders isonly half the battle,because OSU junior for-ward Natasha Mack willbe waiting for drivers atthe rim.

Mack is second in theBig 12 with 58 blockedshots, while also averag-ing 16.6 points and 11.9rebounds per game.

“She’s one of the bestathletes in the Big 12,”Carey said. “When yourbigger teams have a greatshot blocker, you can over-play and make mistakesand let people go backdoorand you’re still not goingto score. She corrects a lotof mistakes.”

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basket and got some dumbfouls, and not everyoneboxed out and reboundedthe way we practiced.Honestly, we playedexactly like we practiced,which was the issue. Itw a s n’t disciplinedenough.”

Through the frustra-tion, Ammons noted thatthe team would likely takethat loss and force them-selves to be more disci-plined moving into thenext stretch of games.

“We ’re young,” shesaid. “We ’re startingthree juniors, a freshmanand a sophomore. Ourroom for mistakes israzor-thin. Our mainfocus going into the nextstretch of games is dis-cipline, focus on the taskat hand and execution.”

Following a loss to thesame No. 1 Patriots lastweek, the tune was muchdifferent among the Mohi-gans. They kept the Patri-

ots on their toes that night,coming within five pointsof them with 1:40 on theclock and with possessionof the ball.

“Since the calendaryear has turned over, we’re[4-2] with our only losses toNo. 1 Wheeling Park,”White said. “We had anopportunity [at WheelingPark]. We weren’t able tocapitalize on that oppor-tunity but our kids arecompeting and we’re get-ting better. We’ve preachedprocess over results. It’sabout continuing to getbetter. It’s a two-year pro-cess for us since we knowlong term that we’re notlosing anyone.”

Another key factor totake into consideration isthat when Ammons washaving an off night, fellowjuniors Cat Wassick andBerit Johnson would stepup. The first WheelingPark loss was an exampleof all three icing over fortoo long, then relying on abig second-half push to tryand complete the come-

back. In the last few games,all three have been hittingtheir stride. When thathappens, MHS is a hardteam to beat.

It’s not just the juniorswho contribute. White islucky to have a differentplayer each night step up toassist the older girls. Lind-say Bechtel, KerringtonPeasak, Alayjah Jones andMia Henkins all come toWhite’s mind immediately.

“It’s up and down theroster, every player hashelped us in games,” Whitesaid. “It’s different kids ondifferent nights. A teamc a n’t focus and try to shutdown one kid [when theyplay us]. This team isn’tnear its potential yet, andt h at ’s the scary part [for ouropponents]. This team has alot of room to grow and if wecontinue to grow, at the endof this thing, we’re going tobe a hard out for anotherteam. We can peak at theright time and this team isshowing signs [we can dothat] in [playoffs].

“Your juniors are going

to have to play well, andwe ’ve been lucky to havetwo of the three almostevery game to give us pro-duction. This team prac-tices and plays hard, andI’m proud of them.”

One reason the Mohi-gans have been successfulsince the new year beganis that, after trying tohide inconsistencies witha zone defense, they’vegone back to their roots:Tough, bruising man-to-man defense that takesaway the opponent’sstrength and turns intopoints off turnovers.

It’s been one of White’sstrong points in his sevenyears at the helm, and he’shappy with the results.

“We ’ve kept some zonein, but we’ve done a goodjob of going back to thatman defense,” he said.

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clear to his players head-ing into the Texas game.

“It all starts on defensewith us. A lot of teams liketo say that, but Huggs hashis way of getting you todo it,” McCabe said.“Huggs said it perfectbefore the game. He said,‘We ’re really crappy atbeing a finesse team or asoft team, but we’re reallygood at being a hard-play-ing ball club.’ When we dothat, like tonight, we’re atough team to beat, and Ithink we can go win a

national championship.”As far as that defense,

West Virginia forced 18turnovers and held theLonghorns to 35.8% shoot-ing from the field, whilealso grabbing a season-high 53 rebounds.

“We were quicker tothe ball. I think we set thetone with our defense,”Huggins said. “The ballwent in a little bit for us,but we set the tone withour defense, which is nor-mally what we do. Wed i d n’t do it (at KansasState). They just kickedour butts out there.”

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WVU’s seniors rose up to Bob Huggins’ challengeafter the loss to Kansas State.

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McClurg scores 1,000th pointas Hawks beat Patriots 77-65Sports@DominionPost.com

PARKERSBURG — K . J.McClurg scored his 1,000th-career point as the Univer-sity High boys’ b a s ke t b a l lteam defeated Class AAANo. 8 Parkersburg South,77-65, on Tuesday.

McClurg finished thegame with a double-double,scoring 18 points and col-lecting 10 rebounds. KadenMetheny scored 21 pointsand had seven assists forthe Hawks (10-3).

John Ross Mazza andAaron Forbes made theirfirst career starts andfilled in nicely. Mazzascored 21 points and madefive 3-pointers, and Forbesnetted 10 points. Univer-sity made 10 total 3-point-ers in the contest.

The Hawks went intohalftime with just a seven-point lead but managed topad to it in the second halfand pulled away for thev i c t o r y.

University will playagain at 7:30 p.m. Saturdayagainst John Marshall forSenior Night.

UNIVERSITY (10-3)Metheny 8 4-4 21; McClurg 7 0-1 18; Niceler 0 0-0

0; Maumbe 2 1-3 5; Smith 0 0-0 0; Mazza 6 4-4 21;Barkley 0 0-0 0; Reyes 0 0-0 0; Brooks 1 0-0 2;Forbes 5 0-0 10. Totals: 29 9-12 77.

PARKERSBURG SOUTH (6-4)Sylvia 12 2-7 27; Hogsett 1 0-0 2; Mooney 1 2-2 4;

Marks 3 0-0 8; Day 0 0-0 0; Currey 5 2-4 14; Seese 42-4 10. Totals: 26 8-17 65.

University 26 14 22 15 — 77Parkersburg South 23 10 19 13 — 653-pointers: University 10 (Mazza, McClurg 4,

Metheny). Parkersburg South 5 (Marks 2, Currey2, Sylvia).

Clay-Battelle 87,Paden City 59

BLACKSVILLE —Clay-Battelle had 10 dif-ferent players score, andfive scored at least eightpoints, in its win overPaden City.

Seth Casino led thecharge for the Cee-Bees (10-1) with 21 points. Casinoalso made three 3-pointers.Coltin Barr added 15 andLevi Carrico had 10.

Clay-Battelle will playagain at 7:30 p.m. Thursdayagainst Valley (Wetzel).

PADEN CITY (0-12)Joy 9 0-0 26; Anderson 1 0-0 2; Moore 3 0-0 7;

Clarke 2 0-0 4; Palmer 6 1-1 16; Pierce 2 0-0 4.Totals: 23 1-1 59.

CLAY-BATTELLE (10-1)Shriver 3 0-0 8; Statler 2 0-0 6; Ammons 3 0-0 6;

Carrico 3 4-4 10; Casino 8 2-2 21; Barr 7 0-0 15; Rose0 1-2 1; Moore 2 2-4 6; Hennen 3 0-0 6; Chisler 4 0-0 8.Totals: 35 9-12 87.

Paden City 4 21 10 24 — 59Clay-Battelle 27 20 26 14 — 873-pointers: Paden City 12 (Joy 8, Palmer 3,

Moore). Clay-Battelle 8 (Casino 3, Statler 2,Shriver 2, Barr).

Girls’ basketballClay-Battelle 48,Harman 26

HARMAN — C l ay - B at -telle’s defense was toomuch for Harman in the theHit Tournament.

Liv Ammons scored 13points for the Cee-Bees (7-4).

Clay-Battelle held Har-man to just nine field goalsin the entire game. Har-man scored just 15 pointsentering the final quarter

of the contest.The Cee-Bees will play

again at 7 p.m. Thursday atPaden City.

CLAY-BATTELLE (7-4)Wilson 1 3-3 5; Watson 4 0-0 8; Ammons 5 2-2 13;

Stewart 3 0-0 6; Sollars 2 2 3-3 8; Lapoe 0 2-2 2;Brewer 1 0-0 2; Darling 1 0-0 2; Wilson 1 0-2 2.Totals: 18 10-12 48.

HARMANTeter 2 5-9 9; Warner 2 0-0 5; Marple 1 1-2 3;

Propst 2 0-0 6; Nelson 1 0-0 2; Arbogast 0 1-2 1.Totals: 9 7-13 26.

Clay-Battelle 7 21 9 11 — 48Harman 5 7 3 11 — 263-pointers: Clay-Battelle 2 (Ammons, Sollars).

Harman 3 (Propst 2, Warner).

Fairmont Senior 62,Preston 36

KINGWOOD — P re s t o nheld a lead against Fair-mont Senior but let it slipin the second half, leadingto the Knights’ fourth lossthis season.

Preston (9-4) went intohalftime with a four-pointadvantage but wasoutscored in the secondhalf, 43-13.

Michelle Thomas led theKnights with 11 points andTori Garlits scored 10.

Preston will play againat 7:30 p.m. Thursday atGrafton.

FAIRMONT SENIOR (10-2)Washenitz 11 2-6 25; Starn 1 4-4 6; Beresford 1 0-

0 2; Jenkins 1 2-4 4; Ma. Lilley 1 3-4 5; Hilson 1 1-1 3;Crosby 2 1-4 5; Mo. Lilley 3 1-2 7; Harris 0 2-2 2;Aubrey 1 0-0 2; Hager 0 1-2 1. Totals: 22 17-29 62.

PRESTON (9-4)Felton 2 0-0 4; Thomas 5 1-2 11; Stahl 1 2-4 4;

Wiles 0 0-0 0; K. Manko 1 2-4 4; Cramer 0 0-0 0;Elliott 0 1-2 1; Garlits 2 6-6 10; C. Manko 0 0-0 0;Annon 1 0-0 2; Knotts 0 0-0 0. Totals: 12 12-16 36.

Fairmont Senior 8 11 20 23 — 62Preston 7 16 8 5 — 363-pointers: Fairmont Senior 1 (Washenitez).

JV boys’ basketballUniversity 70, Park-

ersburg South 66: ElijaJackson scored 20 pointsfor University (4-1). BrockPrice scored 15, Noah Bra-ham added 13 and JaedenHammack had 10.

JV girls’ basketballFairmont Senior 34,

Preston 15: D a l ay n i eMyers scored four pointsfor Preston (7-3).

Middle schoolboys’ basketball

Central Preston 8s 43,Bruceton 24: C h ayc eAdams scored 14 points andDillon Taylor scored 11 forCentral Preston (11-2). LeviWilson led Bruceton with10 points.

Middle schoolgirls’ basketball

Suncrest 8s 51, West-wood 19: Sadaya Pryorscored 18 points for Sun-crest (9-2). Tayla Sionsscored 12 for Westwood.

Mountaineer 8s 41,South 31: Ella Simpson ledMountaineer (10-1) in scor-ing with 12 points. KennadiBarnhart added 11 and Ash-lyn Weaver had 10.

South 7s 32, Moun-taineer 30: Lexi Simpsonscored 16 points for Moun-taineer (8-1).

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MLB

Jeter, Walker elected tobaseball Hall of FameAssociated Press

NEW YORK — D e re kJeter came within onevote of being a unanimouspick for the Hall of Famewhile Larry Walker alsoearned baseball’s highesthonor on Tuesday.

The longtime New YorkYankees captain appearedon 396 of 397 ballots cast bythe Baseball Writers’ Asso-ciation of America, fallingjust shy of the standard setwhen longtime Yankeesteammate Mariano Riverabecame the first unani-mous selection last year.Je t e r ’s 99.7% moved aboveKen Griffey Jr. (99.3%) forthe second-highest.

“I was speechless whenI got the call,” Jeter said.“Quite frankly, I waspretty nervous, and whenI got it I really didn’t knowwhat to say.”

It was not immediatelyknown which voter didn’tchoose Jeter, who was listedon all 219 ballots made pub-lic before the announce-ment. The BBWAA willrelease additional ballotson Feb. 4 of writers whochose a public listing.

“I don’t like to jinx any-thing,” Jeter said. “No oneassumes they’re going to goto the Hall of Fame.”

Walker appeared on 304ballots, six above the 75%needed, up from 54.6% lastyear. He was making his10th and final appearanceon the BBWAA ballot andtweeted earlier in the day “Ibelieve I’m going to comeup a little short today.”

Pitcher Curt Schillingwas third with 278 votes(70%) in his eighth ballotappearance, an increasefrom 60.9% but still 20 votesshy. The steroids-taintedpair of Roger Clemens(61%) and Barry Bonds(60.7%) both showed slightincreases. Bonds rose from

59.1% last year andClemens from 59.5%.

Jeter and Walker will beinducted on July 26 at theHall in Cooperstown alongwith catcher Ted Simmonsand former players’ asso-ciation head Marvin Miller,who were voted in lastmonth by the Hall’s Mod-ern Era Committee.

A five-time World Serieschampion, Jeter became aface of baseball as hestarred in the nation’slargest media market from1995-2014. He was the ALRookie of the Year in 1996 asthe Yankees won the WorldSeries for the first timesince 1978, then led NewYork to three straight titlesfrom 1998-2000, the onlyteam to accomplish the featsince the 1972-74 OaklandAthletics. The rebuilt Yan-kees added their 27th titlein 2009.

Jeter became a 14-timeAll-Star and five-time GoldGlove winner despitedefensive metrics thatwere maligned. He wasappointed captain byowner George Steinbren-ner in June 2003, filling aposition that had beenopen since Don Mattingly’sretirement after the 1995

season. He finished with3,465 hits, 260 homers, 358stolen bases and 1,311RBIs, earning $266 millionfrom the Yankees.

He was the ninth playerelected to the Hall afterplaying exclusively for theYankees, joining LouGehrig (1939), Bill Dickey(1954), Joe DiMaggio (1955),Earle Combs (1970), WhiteyFord and Mickey Mantle(1974), Phil Rizzuto (1994)and Rivera.

Jeter used some of hissavings to join the grouppurchasing the Miami Mar-lins in September 2017,becoming CEO. Jettisoningveterans and going withlow-priced youth in a waythe Yankees never did,Jeter endured a pair of last-place finishes and the low-est home attendance in themajor leagues.

Walker hit .313 with .383homers, 1,311 RBIs and 230stolen bases for Montreal(1989-94), Colorado (1995-2004) and St. Louis (2004-05),a five-time All-Star andseven-time Gold Glove win-ner. He led the majorleagues in batting averagein 1998, 1999 and 2001.

Evaluating his offensiveperformance gave some

baseball writers difficultybecause he spent 9 1/2 sea-sons hitting at home in thethin air of Denver’s CoorsField. Walker batted .381with an 1.172 OPS and 154home runs in 597 games atCoors and .282 with 229homers and an .873 OPS in1,391 games elsewhere,according to the EliasSports Bureau.

He received just 20.3% inhis first ballot appearancein 2011 and dropped as lowas 10.2% in 2014. He rose to21.9% in 2017 before jump-ing to 34.1% in 2018.

Walker became the sec-ond Canadian-born playerelected to the Hall after Fer-guson Jenkins in 1991.

“Being Canadian, you’reborn into this world with astick in your hand andskates on your feet,”Walker said. “So that’s howI was as a kid. You playedhockey and that’s all thatreally mattered. Whenhockey didn’t quite go theway I wanted, baseballmore or less found me.”

Ballot holdovers couldbenefit next year, when themost prominent players eli-gible for the first time areTorii Hunter and MarkBuehrle. The 2022 ballotwill include David Ortizand Alex Rodriguez, whoserved a season-long sus-pension in 2014 for viola-tions of the drug programand baseball’s collectivebargaining agreement.

Slick-fielding shortstopOmar Vizquel could be ariser after getting 52.6% inhis third year on the ballot.The 11-time Gold Glovewinner with 2,877 hits hasseven more years to earn75%. Other potentialmovers include third base-man Scott Rolen (35.5%),reliever Billy Wagner(31.7%) and slugger GarySheffield (30.5%).

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Former shortstop Derek Jeter and former outfielder LarryWalker were voted into the baseball Hall of Fame onTuesday. Jeter was one vote shy from a unanimous vote.

MLB

Former Philliesace Schilling fallsshort once again inHall of Fame votingSCOTT LAUBERThe Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)

PHILADELPHIA —Curt Schilling will have tokeep waiting.

Schilling fell tantaliz-ingly short of election tothe National BaseballHall of Fame in hiseighth — and third-to-last — year on the ballot.The former Phillies aceand three-time WorldSeries champion withthe Arizona Diamond-backs and BostonRed Sox received 70% ofthe vote (75% isrequired) by the BaseballWr i t e r s ’ Association ofAmerica in ballotingthat was completed onDec. 31 and announcedTuesday night.

Derek Jeter, the iconicNew York Yankees short-stop, was elected in hisfirst year on the ballotand came within onevote of being only the sec-ond player to ever beelected unanimously, fol-lowing longtime team-mate Mariano Riveralast year. Larry Walker,who hit 383 career homeruns in a 17-year careerwith Montreal, Col-orado, and St. Louis,received 76.6% of thevote in his 10th and finalyear of eligibility.

For the second year ina row, Schilling got themost votes among can-didates who weren’telected. He appeared on278 of the 397 ballots, 20fewer than he needed forelection. But he contin-ued to climb in the polls,going from 45% in 2017and 51.2% in 2018 to60.9% last year and nowthe doorstep of Cooper-

stown, N.Y.His time may finally

arrive next year.S ch i l l i n g ’s candidacy

has long been polarizingbecause of a list of offen-sive social and politicalcomments that he hasmade or endorsed onsocial media and else-where since his retire-ment from baseball in2007. His detractors alsopoint to an on-fieldresume that includes 216wins, tied for only 86th onthe all-time list, and no CyYoung Awards.

But Schilling wasamong the best postseasonpitchers of his generation,going 11-2 with a 2.23 ERAin 19 career starts.

Before Schillingjoined forces with RandyJohnson to lead thefledgling Diamondbacksto a World Series title intheir fourth season ofexistence in 2001, andbefore he achievedimmortality in New Eng-land by pitching on asutured ankle that blood-ied his sock for thecurse-busting 2004 RedSox, he established a big-game reputation withthe 1993 Phillies. His 147-pitch, five-hit shutout ofthe Toronto Blue Jays inGame 5 of the WorldSeries ranks with thebest games ever pitchedin franchise history.

Schilling spent 8 1/2years with the Phillies(1992-2000) and ranksfifth on the team’s all-time list in strikeouts(1,554), seventh in wins(101) and walks/hits perinning pitched (1.120),and ninth in innings(1,659 1/3).

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WV LEGISLATURE

Manufacturing inventory tax, vehicle property tax amendments top measures introduced TuesdayNewsroom@DominionPost.com

Here is a sampling ofbills introduced Tuesday.Local lead sponsors andco-sponsors, if any, arenoted.

Most controversialamong the measures arethe expected resolution toeliminate the personalproperty tax on manufac-turing equipment, machin-ery and inventory, and aresolution to reduce oreliminate the personalproperty tax on vehicles.n SJR 8, the inventory

tax resolution, called the

Manufacturing GrowthAmendment, and SJR 9,the vehicle tax resolution,would both lead to pro-posed constitutionalamendments that would gobefore the voters if passedby two-thirds of eachch a m b e r.

In not-unfamiliar floorspeeches, Democrats stoodto point out that with thesupermajority require-ment for approval, theRepublicans need Demo-crat cooperation, and theDemocrats need to seespecifics on how the lost

money will be made up tokeep counties and schoolsfully funded.

Republicans respondedthat they agree the coun-ties and schools must bekept whole, but the detailscan be worked out in theJudiciary and Financecommittees, since all sen-ators serve on one or theother and all will get alook.

Other billsn SB 550, to permit

leashed dogs to trackwounded deer or bear.

n SB 554, similar to HB4369, a revival of last year’sbill to allow mineral own-ers to obtain releases fromidle natural gas leases.Sen. Randy Smith, R-Pre-ston, lead sponsor; Sen.Charles Clements, R-Wet-zel, co-sponsor.n SB 557, to establish

vocational-technical pro-grams in middle schools.Sen. Roman Prezioso, D-Marion, lead sponsor; Sen.Bob Beach, D-Monongalia,c o - s p o n s o r.n SB 561, a Democrat

bill to protect insurance

POLITICS

Candidate filingsThese candidates filed

for federal and state officeon Jan. 18, 20 and 21.

U.S. SenateAllen Whitt, Republican,

Ke n n a

U.S House ofRepresentatives

1st District:

Natalie Cline, Democrat,Wheeling

GovernorJody Murphy, Democrat,

Pa rke r s bu r gStephen Smith, Demo-

crat, Charleston

AuditorMary Ann Roebuck

Claytor, Democrat, St.Albans

coverage of pre-existingconditions. Prezioso, leadsponsor; Beach, co-sponsor.n SB 565, to make it

optional for private schoolsto require vaccinations.n SB 567, the Wholesale

Prescription Drug Importa-tion Program, to importdrugs from Canada onbehalf of the state. Prezioso,lead sponsor; Beach, co-s p o n s o r.n HB 4440, to prohibit

home schooling of anychild in homes where thereis suspected or knownchild abuse or neglect, or

domestic violence by a par-ent or person instructingthe child.n HB 4441, to open party

caucus meetings to thep u bl i c.n HB 4445, the Eco-

nomic Diversification Act,to offer income tax relief,by state, county and munic-ipal governments to new orexisting businesses whoseproduct or service offeredis not currently offered inthe state. Delegates EvanHansen, D-Monongalia,Amy Summers, R-Taylor,c o - s p o n s o r s.

AgricultureCommissioner

Kent Leonhardt, Repub-lican, incumbent, Fairview

Attorney GeneralPatrick Morrisey,

Republican, incumbent,Harpers Ferry

Supreme Court justiceLaura Dyer, Division 3

State Senate13th District:John Provins, Republi-

can, Fairmont14h District:David Childrers, Demo-

crat, Wardensville

House of Delegates5th District:Phillip Wiley, Republi-

can, New Martinsville49th District:

Brandon Anton, Demo-crat, Grafton

50th District:Aryanna Islam, Demo-

crat, FairmontAndrew Mills, Demo-

crat, Carolina51st District:Cindy Frich, Republi-

can, former incumbent,Morg antown

Joe Statler, Republican,former incumbent, Core

52nd District:Terri Sypolt, Republi-

can, incumbent, KingwoodJuniior Wolfe, Demo-

crat, Bruceton Mills53rd District:Cory Chase, Democrat,

Dry ForkBuck Jennings, Republi-

can, incumbent, ThorntonCandi Sisler, Democrat,

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010153543 jan 15, 22IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF PRESTON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA

CINDY A. LIKENS, Plaintiff,v. Civil Action No.: 19-C-119

WILLIAM C. THORN, DORIS M. RECKART,WILMA K. THORN, MELINDA S. SHEETS,CHERYL A. MERCURE, SHAWN A. STREETS,MELINDA S. PENICK, Defendants.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

Plaintiff, Cindy A. Likens, filed with this Court, a civil action, requesting that the Court partition three parcels of real property in Kingwood Tax District, Preston County, West Virginia, being identified by the Preston County Sheriff as Tax Map 9, Parcels 6, 13 and 35.

TO: The above named Defendants, that being William C. Thorn, Doris M. Reckart, Wilma K. Thorn, Melinda S. Sheets, Cheryl A. Mercure, Shawn A. Streets, and Melinda S. Penick: It appearing that the some or all of the above-named Defendants have not been located by the Plaintifffor personal service, it is hereby Ordered that Defendants, named herein, serve upon John R. Funkhouser, Counsel for Cindy A. Likens, whose address is 103 Adams Street, Suite 200, Fairmont, West Virginia, and file with the Circuit Clerk for Preston County, West Virginia, an Answer, including any related counterclaim or defense you may have to the complaint filed in this civi l action on or before thirty days from the date of this publication. If you fail to do so, thereafter judgment, upon proper hearing and trial, may be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. A copy of said complaint can be obtained from the undersigned Clerk at her office.

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010153748 jan 15, 22Monongalia County Commission

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Case TA 001-2019: Request for a Text Amendment to the West Run Zoning Ordinance. Applicant requests to change the minimum lot required width from 175 feet to 125 feet for Article 1100.05(C)2 (Low Density Residential Bulk Requirements, Lot Width). The density and lot size requirements shall not change.

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010153840 jan 15, 22ORDER OF PUBLICATION

IN THE FAMILY COURT OF MONONgALIA COUNTY, WEST VIRgINIA

CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL ROBINSON, Petitioner,Vs. Civil Action: 20-D-15

jULIA DAWN ROBINSON,

THE OBJECT OF THIS SUIT IS TO OBTAIN A DIVORCE

To The Above Named Defendant:

It appearing by affidavit filed in this action that julia Robinson has been unable to be located by Christopher Robinson and that he has used due diligence to determine the address, Therefore, julia Robinson shall serve upon Christopher Robinson, plaintiff, 1374 Lot B5, Van Voorhis Road, Morgantown, WV 26505, an answer, including any related counterclaim or defense she may have to the Petition filed in this action on or before February 7, 2020. If you fail to do so, thereafter judgment, upon proper hearing and trial, may be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. A copy of said petition can be obtained from the undersigned Clerk at her office. Entered by the Clerk of said Court: january 9, 2020

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010153842 jan 15, 22ORDER OF PUBLICATION

IN THE FAMILY COURT OF MONONgALIA COUNTY, WEST VIRgINIA

DELORIS ANN MILLER, Petitioner,Vs. Civil Action: 20-D-16

CHARLES OTTO MILLER,

THE OBJECT OF THIS SUIT IS TO OBTAIN A DIVORCE

To The Above Named Defendant:

It appearing by affidavit filed in this action that Charles Miller has been unable to be located by Deloris Miller and that she has used due diligence to determine the address, Therefore, Charles Miller shall serve upon Deloris Miller, plaintiff, 1374 Lot B5, Van Voorhis Road, Morgantown, WV 26505, an answer, including any related counterclaim or defense she may have to the Petition filed in this action on or before February 7, 2020. If you fail to do so, thereafter judgment, upon proper hearing and trial, may be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. A copy of said petition can be obtained from the undersigned Clerk at her office. Entered by the Clerk of said Court: january 9, 2020

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PUBLIC NOTICE OF SEWER RATES OFTHE TOWN OF BLACKSVILLE

NOTICE is hereby given that the TOWN OF BLACKSVILLE (the “Town”) enacted an ordinance on January 14, 2020 containing increased rates and charges for furnishing sewer service to approximately 95 customers at Blacksville and vicinity, in Monongalia County, West Virginia.

The proposed rates and charges will become effective February 28, 2020 unless otherwise ordered by the Public Service Commission, and will produce approximately $19,006 annually in additional revenue, an increase 42.99%. The average monthly bill for the various classes of customers will be changed as follows:

Present Proposed ($) Rate (%) Rate Rates Rates Increase Increase

Residential $23.40 $33.46 $10.06 43%

Public Authority $240.50 $343.79 $103.29 43%

The Town has no resale customers.

The increases shown are based on averages of all customers in the indicated class. Individual customers may receive increases that are greater or less than average. Furthermore, the requested rates and charges are only a proposal and are subject to change (increases or decreases) by the Public Service Commission in its review of this filing. The Public Service Commission shall review and approve or modify the increased rates only upon the filing of a petition within thirty (30) days of the adoption of the ordinance changing said rates and charges by:

(1) Any customer aggrieved by the changed rates or charges who presents to the Public Service Commission a petition signed by not less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the customers served by the municipally operated electric or natural gas public utility or municipally owned water and/or sewer utility having less than four thousand five hundred (4,500) customers and $3 million dollars annual combined gross revenues or twenty-five percent (25%) of the membership of the electric, natural gas or telephone cooperative residing within the state;

(2) Any customer who is served by a municipally owned electric or natural gas public utility and who resides outside the corporate limits and who is affected by the change in the rates or charges and who presents to the Public Service Commission a petition alleging discrimination between customers within and without the municipal boundaries. The petition shall be accompanied by evidence of discrimination; or

(3) Any customer or group of customers of the municipally owned electric or natural gas public utility who is affected by the change in rates who reside within the municipal boundaries and who present a petition to the Public Service Commission alleging discrimination between a customer or group of customers and other customers of the municipal utility. The petition shall be accompanied by evidence of discrimination.

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A copy of the proposed rates is available for public inspection at the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Public Service Commission at 201 Brooks Street, Post Office Box 812, Charleston, West Virginia 25323.

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Cold, flu both viruses; can’tbe treated with antibioticsDEAR DOCTOR: W h at ’s thedifference between a coldand the flu, and how doyou know which oneyo u ’ve got? Why can’tantibiotics help?

Dear Reader: Whetherit’s a cold or the flu, thereason you are feelingawful is because you’vebeen infected by a virus.More than 200 differenttypes of viruses can causea cold, and the most com-mon is the rhinovirus.The flu, as its name sug-gests, is caused by theinfluenza virus. Of thefour known types ofinfluenza virus, labeled A,B, C and D, the seasonalepidemics we prepare foreach winter are caused byinfluenzas A or B.

The symptoms of acold and the flu are oftensimilar, but the potentialoutcomes are different. Acold is a milder illnessthat rarely leads to seri-ous health problems. Theflu, by contrast, is moresevere than a cold. It canalso lead to serious com-plications. These includeviral or bacterial pneu-monia, inflammation ofthe heart or the brain andsepsis, a response toinfection so extreme, itcan lead to death.

The only reliable wayto differentiate between a

cold and the flu is with aspecial test performed oncells and fluids swipedfrom the inside of the noseor the back of the throat.Two quick tests can beperformed in the doctor’soffice, but neither is infal-lible. More accurate testsmust be performed in spe-cialized labs.

Antibiotics don’t workagainst colds or the flubecause they kill bacte-ria, and both the flu and acold are caused byviruses. Your doctor mayoffer to treat you with aclass of drugs known asantivirals. Antiviralswo n’t cure you, but whentaken soon enough afterinfection, they may lessenthe severity of symptomsand shorten the durationof illness by a few days.

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PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — An emotionalsituation will give you a rea-son to make adjustments inyour life. Listen to others anddecipher who is in your corner.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Mistakes willhappen if you overreact. Goabout your business and showhow efficient you can be.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Don’t give up.Stay focused on what’simportant to you and ignoreanyone trying to entice you todo something non-beneficial.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You’ll have mixedemotions regarding what oth-ers want you to do. Offer uponly what you can afford.

EUGENIA LAST

DRS. ELIZABETH KO& EVE GLAZIER