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Heads up on concussion prevention and assessment
What is a concussion? A concussion is a brain injury which results in a temporary disruption of normal brain function. Approximately 140,000 high school athletes suffer a concussion in the US each year. Concussions occur most often in football but can occur in any sport and are also common in soccer, wrestling and basketball. The athlete may complain of headache, nausea, balance problems or dizziness, sensitivity to light, feel overly fatigu...
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Dear Editor...
The July 4 headline in the Charleston Gazette reads, “WV starts the new year (fiscal year) with a $330M Surplus”. Just as many Mason County residents including myself suspected and contended. There is money to finish the US 35 upgrade, the state has just been dead set on tolling our road for a revenue producing machine since way back in 2002 and is unwilling to use state funds to complete the project. Phil Kabler also notes in his column tha...
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Dear Editor...
I just read in the Tribune that the hospital in Pomeroy that is only 40 years old is scheduled to be torn down. The article said that it was owned by Meigs County. Why is it that when a government owns or takes control of a building, they let it go to waste then ruin such as the Pomeroy hospital and Davis Hall and the Gallipolis City Building? Today people are all up in arms about the federal governments wasteful spending. Why don’t people loo...
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Dear Editor...
We want to thank the Sutton Township Trustees for working so hard trying to keep the road in good condition in front of the Gatling coal mine entrance on Yellowbush Road. With all of the large trucks that go in and out of the mine, the road gets pretty bad. The trustees keep working on trying to keep in passable for the people that have to travel on it. It is a never ending job but thanks to them they keep trying. Lola J. Proffitt Albert P...
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Dear Editor...
This is a long over-due letter of thanks to the Gallia County Chamber of Commerce. What a wonderful thing you do for the area, by organizing the annual River Recreation Festival. I am well aware of the hours of planning required for this amazing event. In the weeks before the Festival, many of us have noticed lights burning in the Chamber offices late at night. These hours produce a good time for so many. It is also important to mention planni...
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Thanks, Mom!
My Mom was many things to me. Coach. Biggest fan. Toughest critic at times. Confidant. Mentor. Spiritual guide. Best friend to an awkward teenager. Best of all, she was my Mom. Mom — Josie Meredith Henry Carter — was born on May 19, 1932, in the Cayman Islands to a hardworking couple. I never had the privilege of knowing my maternal grandparents (or my paternal grandparents, for that matter), but Mom made them come alive for me with her won...
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No tears for bin Laden
I shed no tears when the news of Osama bin Laden’s death reached my ears early Monday morning. And I was definitely not alone. Many Americans rejoiced to hear the news, gathering at Ground Zero and Times Square in New York City, outside the White House and near a field in Shanksville, Pa., the crash site of one of the hijacked planes on that fateful Sept. 11, 2001. Those brave passengers lost their lives in that western Pennsylvania hamlet w...
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The difference between hearing and listening
When I was a kid, my Pop used to bust my chops about whether I was simply hearing what he was telling me to do or actually listening to him and doing what he said to do. Pop defined hearing as the basic physical function of noise hitting the ear and the ear doing what God created it to do; receiving the signal and passing it on to the brain. Pop said listening involved not just a biological function, but actually processing the information wi...
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Christmas wishes
My son’s Christmas wish list grows a bit longer each and every year. When he was ages 2 and 3, The List was practically non-existent. A couple of cars, a couple of dinosaurs, some Veggie Tales dudes, a video (sorry, DVD) and Joel was a happy camper. Age 4 brought with it a longer, more detailed version of The List. Age 5, longer List, many more details to which to attend. And now age 6, well, let’s just say that El Hacienda del Carter couldn’...
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This is a dumb idea
When my wife and I first moved to this area back in 1994, there was an organization known as the Regional Economic Development Association, aka REDA. Although it could’ve been “Authority,” my memory is a bit fuzzy. Anyway, local business leaders like Jack Fruth, Charles Lanham and Gerry Gust were just a few of the names that I remember being associated with that group. They were committed to promoting economic development. They had good ideas...
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Merry Excess
Christmas time in these United States of America usually represents the grandest display of excess on the planet. We spend millions (and millions) of greenbacks on all kinds of stuff: video games, radio-controlled this-n-that, baby dolls, basketballs, bikes, trikes, all manner of happy stuff that will most likely be discarded by Jan. 1, 2011. Then there’s the “big boy” and “big girl” toys, but that’s a whole other story. We went to the mall ...
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The practicality of ham
Back in the 1990s there was a “dust up” at my grandmother’s church. Actually, there were two — one over placement of a coin-operated Coca-Cola machine in the church’s basement and the other over an interim minister who was openly gay. As I recall Nannie’s version of events, one of the “dust ups" came down to a vote on whether the minister, also a lesbian, should stay or go. Nannie, who had at that time been a member of her church for over 40 y...
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Becoming a ‘Greatest Generation’
On Dec. 8, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt stood before the Congress and the American people and uttered the following words, “Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor hurled the United States headlong into World War II, with American troops engaging enemies in b...
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U.S. 35 tolls = future development
Dear Editor: We wholeheartedly support the effort to finish Route 35 with the imposition of tolls. In this time of fiscal austerity, what more fiscally responsible way can one find to complete a much-needed project? As frequent travelers on Route 35, we have witnessed too many close calls to oppose the completion of the highway with tolling. As schoolteachers, our students and their safety are paramount and $2 is a small price to pay to bette...
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Do you want U.S. 35 to become a toll road?
Dear Editor: Whether you travel U.S. Route 35 through Mason and Putnam counties to get to Interstate 64, you may have to pay tolls to go over several miles of it in the very near future. Recently, the West Virginia Parkways Authority voted to make U.S. Route 35 a toll road. The proposal by the West Virginia Parkways Authority includes a 25-cent increase every four years for at least the next 30 years. For example, the first increase is schedu...
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