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Cyan Magenta Yellow Black SERVING THE OHIO VALLEY SINCE 1852 www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2010 Vol. 159 • No. 30 • 50 cents daily/$1.25 Sunday McKinley Pool Opening Delayed BY FRANK LEWIS they’re hoping by next Workers put the PDT STAFF WRITER Wednesday (June 23) or finishing touches Thursday (June 24) now.” on the McKinley Portsmouth Mayor Jane According to Alan Barlow, Pool in anticipa- Murray feels positive that volunteer coordinator of the tion of next McKinley Pool will open next pool preparation project, a leak week’s opening. week. was discovered Thursday morn- Sean Garnett, Murray announced Thursday ing. Repairs appear to be work- pool manager, that repairs are being made ing and the area is being repaint- sweeps in the owing to a leak in the deep end. ed. It is anticipated that water background, “They had to start all over and and chemicals can be added in while from left, try to fix the leak. That holding, the next several days. The pool Lifeguards Wayne now they’re painting, and they was scheduled to open Johnson, Cory think that they can fill. Then Saturday. Reeves and they have to put the chemicals Forrest Donavon in, and it has to wait through the FRANK LEWIS can be reached at Johnson paint the process,” Murray said. “But (740) 353-3101, ext. 232 or lifeguard stand. Closing Up since we know definitively, [email protected] Frank Lewis ■ Daily Times DOW JONES Citizen Input 10,434.17 +25 21st Ohio River Sweep Needed To ■ STOCKS, A3 Plan City’s SPORTS Is On For Saturday Bicentennial BY G. SAM PIATT PDT STAFF WRITER School’s out and fishing’s in. Sixteen-year-olds Adam Greene and David Stanley, both of Portsmouth, tried their luck Tuesday on the Ohio Frank Lewis ■ Daily Times River at the Portsmouth water- A foundation pillar marks Portsmouth’s front. All they had caught by birthdate as you enter the city. 10 a.m. was a tiny frog, and they captured it by hand. “But we haven’t been here BY FRANK LEWIS long,” Greene said. “The fish PDT STAFF WRITER will start hitting, unless the Beanie To Visit water’s up a little too much The concrete pillar as you enter the city of Portsmouth is the one OSU standout to speak and its too muddy.” The river level was in the place in town that adequately in Jackson depicts the year Portsmouth ■ willows along the shore and SPORTS, B1 tributaries have poured lots of became a city — 1815. Now the debris into the Ohio from flash city is preparing for its bicentennial flooding in some communities celebration in 2015, and those Honor Roll in Ohio, Kentucky and West involved in getting the public to Green, New Boston Virginia during the past few organize for the event have been and Northwest release days. conducting meetings. honorees But sponsors of the 21st At Thursday’s meeting, the focus ■ EDUCATION, A4 annual Ohio River Sweep, set was on how to get the citizens of the for Saturday, say the cleanup will not be postponed. The Times Both Greene and Stanley See CELEBRATION, A3 said they plan to enlist for the E-edition Sweep once they find out how Everything to go about it. Obama To Tout cover to cover On the Scioto County water- for 25 cents daily front, volunteers can report to Stimulus on your computer. four different locations and the pickup will be conducted from www.portsmouth- 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., said Jeff Projects In Ohio dailytimes.com Crippen, who is director of Scioto County Litter Control THE ASSOCIATED PRESS for the county commission and G. Sam Piatt ■ Daily Times is one of many coordinators of Adam Greene, front, and David Stanley tried their luck in a muddy COLUMBUS — The Obama Weather the event along the river. Ohio River Tuesday on the Portsmouth waterfront. Both said they administration says a construction Volunteers for the plan to participate in Saturday’s Ohio River Sweep. project in Ohio is the 10,000th U.S. road project to get under way with Today M. SunnyHigh 89 Portsmouth area part of the dispersed to one of those o’clock,” Crippen said. sweep need to show up at the funding from the federal economic TonightM. Clear Low 65 points. Each participant will also stimulus package. Court Street Landing on the This will be Crippen’s ninth get a free official Ohio River High Low Outlook Ohio shore by 8 a.m. Saturday. President Barack Obama is year to coordinate the event. Sweep 2010 T-shirt. scheduled to be in Columbus today, SAT 91 69 T-storm They may also report to He usually doesn’t know how “As far as they last,” Crippen Shawnee Boat Marina, the the first stop in a six-week push by SUN 89 65 M. Clear many volunteers he’ll have said. the administration to promote its Earl Thomas Riverfront Park until time to go. Water in the Ohio River and MON 90 69 P. Cloudy in West Portsmouth, or economic recovery effort. Obama TUE 90 69 T-storm Crippen will have drinking its tributaries is used for drink- will visit the site of a $25 million Holliday Point and marina, water and ice on his pickup. ing water, industrial supplies, just upstream from the project adding turn lanes, bike “The weather is going to be and recreational purposes; and lanes and wider sidewalks in front Greenup Dam, or pick up their very hot. That’s why we decid- litter bags from Crippen and be ed to run the event only until 1 See SWEEP, A3 See STIMULUS, A3 Reigning Miss Portsmouth Outstanding Teen Wins State Pageant BY FRANK LEWIS America pageant, so I knew “What kid doesn’t want to PDT STAFF WRITER it was going to be a much go to Florida?” Weber said. bigger deal than the first “She will be spending 10 Obituaries It has been a whirlwind one.” days in Orlando,” Davis said. trip to the top for Cecili So what was it like to hear “Ten whole days in Orlando • James Bostick Jr. Weber of Ironton. The reign- her name called as Miss Ohio competing at the national • Mckenna Howard ing Miss Portsmouth Outstanding Teen? level, with August 28th the • Elizabeth Logan Outstanding Teen was “It was insane. It was final night of competition.” • Donna Shope crowned Miss Ohio mind-blowing, Honestly, I At only 15 years of age, • Rosemary Sponaugle Outstanding Teen at the Miss didn’t think they were going Weber hasn’t made up her • Garry Tully Ohio pageant in Mansfield to pick me, but, I guess mind about the future, but • Clara Wilds Tuesday night. everything was just right,” said she is leaning toward Weber, a 15-year-old Weber said. becoming a news broadcast- See Page A2 sophomore at Ironton St. So what’s ahead for the er. Joseph High School, won her reigning Miss Ohio Cecili is the daughter of Index first pageant in Ashland, Outstanding Teen? Laura and Phillip Weber of Kentucky. She was named “I will be competing with Ironton. Advice ......B5 LocalA2-8 Miss Flame. girls from all across “The Miss Portsmouth Calendar ..A2 Lotteries ....B2 “But Greg’s (Davis, Miss America, from every state for Outstanding Teen program Class ......B6-7 Puzzles ....B4 Portsmouth pageant director) the Miss America has been in existence for five Comics......B4 Sports ....B1-3 pageant was my first really Outstanding Teen title,” years, and our first year of Education..A4 TV ............B5 big one. I have only been in Weber said. “It’s August 28, existence, Ashley Miller three, so Miss Portsmouth at the Orange County won,” Davis said. “So this is was huge for me,” Weber Convention Center in our second winner in five said. “I had so much fun at Orlando, Florida.” years.” my first pageant, I thought, Weber was asked about Courtesy of the Mansfield News Journal why not do it again? I knew looking forward to the Miss FRANK LEWIS can be reached Cecili Weber, of Ironton, was crowned Miss Ohio this pageant was going to be America Outstanding Teen at (740) 353-3101, ext. 232 or Outstanding Teen at the Miss Ohio Pageant Wednesday bigger, and it was a Miss competition. [email protected] in Mansfield. Cyan Magenta Yellow Black Cyan Magenta Yellow Black A2 Friday, June 18, 2010 Portsmouth Daily Times LOCAL Obituaries Calendar For all of Your Donna Shope, 71 Today adventure, meet at nature center Silk Floral Needs for fun family foray, 3 p.m.; Critters Silk Floral Needs Donna Faye Boggs • Taking Angel Food orders for and Cream, make sundae ($2.50) Making Your House A Home 740-574-0777 Shope, 71, of Coal Grove, June, cash or food stamps, Pot- and visit with reptiles, Shawnee 7958 OHIO RIVER RD., WHEELERSBURG, OH (across from Lowes) ter’s House Ministries, 5409 Win- Lodge, Ohio 125, 6 p.m.; family died Wednesday, June 16, chester Ave., Sciotoville, 9 a.m.- 2010, at an Ashland, Ky., movie, campground amphitheater, 1301 Findlay St., 7 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Roosevelt Lake, Ohio 125, dusk. • Alcoholics Anonymous, Belle- Today, why not try ... care center. • Hours, Portsmouth Library, • Alcoholics Anonymous, As Bill fonte Behavioral Health Center, St. Service will be 1 p.m. 1220 Gallia St., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sees It, closed discussion, Findlay Christopher Drive, Russell, Ky., 7 Southern Ohio Museumʼs Friday at Phillips Funeral New Boston Library, 3850 Rhodes Street United Methodist Church, p.m. Blue Ribbon Reception, Home in Ironton, with Ave., New Boston, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; 13th and Findlay streets, noon.