ALONG THE RIVER LIVING Travel Guide: Michigan Right at Home: ArtPrize gears up for big crowds, C1 Cottage style’s cozy charms, D1 Hometown News for Gallia & Meigs counties Ohio Valley Publishing Co. Sunday, September 12, 2010 $1.50 • Vol. 44, No. 37 OBITUARIES 9/11: NEVER FORGET Page A5 EPA deems • Delta M. Phillips • Linda D. Burnett • Glennard F. Davis Middleport • Charlene Batey • Delbert D. Smith daycare safe Asbestos removed from Tiny Tech Daycare BY BRIAN J. REED [email protected] MIDDLEPORT — The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has deemed a Middleport child care center again safe for occupancy. In July, the EPA had deemed New Freedom Ministries and its Tiny Tech Daycare unsafe because of asbestos in the building, after a building inspector discovered the unsafe conditions during a FRIDAY NITE routine inspection. The Ohio EPA, in a letter dated Sept. 3, states the SCOREBOARD EPA has concluded that Tiny Tech had adequately completed corrective actions as outlined in July, and deemed it safe to allow people in the area. Gallia Academy 41 At the time of the initial advisory, the EPA said New Freedom Ministries and Tiny Tech Daycare Wellston 21 violated the law by failing to conduct an asbestos survey prior to renovation work at its South Third Meigs 41 Avenue church. It also set a seven-day deadline for River Valley 0 a safety inspection, cleaning the air ducts and prop- er disposal of asbestos and other materials. Mayor Michael Gerlach said the county health Southern 16 department also participated in the initial inspec- Belpre 0 tion, and the EPA was alerted after the village inspector conducted an inspection of the building for reconnection of water service, an inspection Wahama 41 Amber Gillenwater/photo required by village code. Eastern 14 University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College students and faculty Friable asbestos was disturbed by removal of the gathered at the base of the bell tower on Rio’s campus on Friday morning to honor ceiling, according to the EPA inspector. The com- those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The program included a pliance plan included an inspection for asbestos Trimble 54 tolling of the bells at the bell tower, a selection by the Grande Chorale and Military hazard, abatement and disposal of friable asbestos, South Gallia 22 Chaplain John Jackson as the event speaker. The military, Rio community firefight- cleaning the building’s air inspection, and air sam- ers, campus police, Rio Village Police, EMS and student veterans were also hon- pling. ored. After the memorial ceremony, students from Judith Thompson’s classes read the names of the victims, an annual and somber event on Rio’s campus. Bossard Library Gallia County trustees to meet Sternwheel Riverfest opens Thursday GALLIPOLIS — The JFS undertakes Bossard Memorial BY CHARLENE HOEFLICH seniors and guests at a special fare of Library Board of [email protected] $4. The four others will have the Ruble Trustees will meet at 5 leaving from the levy at 5 p.m., at 6:30 pm. on Tuesday, Sept. 14 POMEROY — Riverfest with it’s p.m., 8 p.m. and at 9:30 p.m. new project in the library. call to “Rally by the River” where Five cruises will also be held on sternwheelers dock, entertainers per- Saturday beginning at 2 p.m. and con- BY AMBER GILLENWATER OOMPD form, contests are held and everything cluding with the fun fireworks cruise [email protected] from a chili cookoff to a duck derby are from 8 to 10 p.m. on Saturday night. soccer clinic featured, will get under way Thursday. Tickets for all cruises can be purchased GALLIPOLIS — The Gallia County The Ruble Sternwheeler will be at the Riverfest tent on the parking lot. Commission received an update from two area GALLIPOLIS — The returning to Pomeroy for excursions up As usual there will be plenty of agencies during their regular meeting on Thursday. O.O. McIntyre Park and down the Ohio River with the first crafters and food vendors on the park- Gallia County Job and Family Services Director District will be sponsor- being on Wednesday sponsored by the ing lot to keep festival-goers happy Dana Glassburn recommended to the commission, ing a coaches and players Athens Shrine Club, and the second on while they wait from one event to the and the commission later approved, that a job skills soccer clinic from 10-11 Thursday sponsored by the Ladies of next. The food vendors will be open to training supportive services project be established. a.m. on Saturday, Sept. the Meigs County Republican Party. serve from 10 a.m.-10 p.m. on both This project will be made available under the 18. Both will be 7-9 p.m. cruises and are Friday and Saturday. Prevention, Retention and Contingency (PRC) pro- The Friday night kickoff for Riverfest gram and will allow eligible families under PRC open to the public. will be at 6 p.m. with an opening cere- On Friday there will be five cruises, with a child or children who are a junior or senior the first from 1-2 p.m. especially for Please see Riverfest, A2 in high school or vocational school to purchase job EATHER skills training supportive services that would W enable them to participate in and complete a job skills training program. Glassburn also presented the commission with a Bossard Library history lesson certificate from the U.S. Census Bureau thanking Gallia County Department of Job and Family Services for their support of the 2010 Census. offered at chamber gathering Gallia County 911 Director Sherry Daines reported that her agency is currently training three BY AMBER GILLENWATER This small library was made possible part-time employees all of whom will be great [email protected] due to fundraising efforts by the assets to her organization. Gallia County 911 cur- Thursday Club, a ladies literary club, rently employs 11 full-time staff members and 12 GALLIPOLIS — Bossard Memorial which raised money through the publi- Library Director Deborah Saunders part-time employees plus a maintenance staff. cation of a women’s edition of the Daines also reported that a 911 radio tower was High: 78 recently presented a history of the Gallipolis Journal on May 1, 1895. Low: 54 library as well as a discussion of ser- struck by lightning on the evening of Aug. 14. This Eight hundred dollars in proceeds from lightning strike damaged radio equipment that has vices, funding and library government the sale of this publication, as well as during the September Gallia County since been repaired and the agency is taking steps $100 from the auctioning of a hand- to further prevent another lightning strike. Chamber of Commerce’s First Friday painted taffeta copy of the woman’s event. The commission also approved a motion that will INDEX edition of the Journal, were donated to allow the county to bill Hannan Trace Elementary The chamber of commerce sponsors the library fund. 4 SECTIONS — 24 PAGES First Friday as a series of informative School for sewer services. The elementary school In 1903-04, the library reorganized is currently the only building connected to the presentations from different communi- and applied for an Andrew Carnegie Around Town A3 ty agencies and organizations. The Mercerville Sewer and the school has been con- grant which allowed the library to nected to the sewer for a few months at no charge. Celebrations C4 hour-long sessions begin at 8 a.m., gen- move to a more permanent location in erally on the first Friday of every the Carnegie Building on State Street in The school will have to pay $200 a month, the Classifieds D2-4 month, at the Ohio Valley Bank Annex Gallipolis. equivalent of five houses, and this charge is less building on Third Ave. in Gallipolis. In the 1940s, there was a need for than what the school had been paying in order to Comics D5 During her presentation on Sept. 3, expansion and steps were taken for the maintain its own sewer system. Saunders began with a brief history of County Administrator Karen Sprague also pre- Editorials A4 Gallipolis Public Library to become the the library. Gallia County District Library. At this sented the August financial reports to the commis- Sports B Section According to Saunders, the library time, the bookmobile services began sion. Sprague reported that the general fund has that would later be known as Bossard and the collection expanded. increased by $155,787 since Jan. 1 and is up $107,226 from the July report. © 2010 Ohio Valley Publishing Co. Memorial Library, opened its doors as In the 1960s, the community began to the Gallipolis Public Library in 1898 on focus upon finding a new library build- Sprague attributes this growth to an increase in the second floor of the Lupton Building ing and in 1978, a bequest from the the amount of sales tax that has recently been col- in the 300 block of Second Ave. in lected in the county and the recent collection of Gallipolis. Please see Bossard, A2 real estate settlements. Page A2 REGION Sunday, September 12, 2010 Power Force crusade rolls into Gallia Co. BY ANDREW CARTER [email protected] RIO GRANDE — Demonstrations of awesome power and speed and positive messages of hope will be presented this week when internationally known strongman and Christian minister John Jacobs brings his Next Generation Power Force to Gallia County. Jacobs is the founder of Strength Evangelism, which first unleashed the Power Team on the world in the late 1970s.