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PAGE 6 - MADISON MESSENGER - April 21, 2019 letters to the editor www.madisonmessengernews.com Youth organization changes its name Go ahead! Ask me anything Master Gardeners welcome challenging questions The board of directors for the West Jefferson Youth Athletic Association (WJYAA) voted unanimously to change the name of the organization to West Jefferson Youth Inc., effective immediately. Led by John Koehler, a group made up of members of our operations crew and volunteers from the community came up with the transition over a 45- day period. The mission statement is to educate and develop every child with the desire to participate and compete, while simultaneously affording equal opportunity to compete without regard to experience or athletic ability. We are committed to instilling our core values of attitude, effort and teamwork in the youth of our community through sport and other community activities. We believe these values are important to their overall long-term athletic development and their ability to become active and productive members of our community and society. These values are emphasized by the entire organization, from the board members to the coaches, and from the coaches to the youth and their parents. I am excited for the changes. We are revitalizing everything we are doing to make it easier, and folks will see a change in responsiveness, information and operations as we move forward. We have a new website, owned by Dick’s Sporting Goods. It will help with management of participants and will streamline enrollment. We still own the “WJYAA” name. We will take some time and rebrand. We also will come up with better choices of travel or elite teams for basketball, softball, baseball, soccer, lacrosse and volleyball. John Stanley Jr., president/CEO West Jefferson Youth Inc. John Stanley Jr., president/CEO of West Jefferson Youth Athletic Association, signs documents to change the organization’s name to West Jefferson Youth Inc. madison Messenger D Published every Sunday Distribution: 14,984 Philip F. Daubel ................................................................Publisher Jim Durban ............................................................Office Manager Grant Zerkle ...................................................Advertising Manager Kristy Zurbrick ........................................................Madison Editor Becky Barker..........................................................Office Assistant Brittany Zerkle .....................................................Graphic Designer 78 S. Main St., London, Ohio 43140 (740) 852-0809 • madison@columbusmessenger.com www.madisonmessengernews.com Newspaper Subscription Rates The subscription rate for those living outside the circulation area is $78 per year. Columbus Messenger Co. reserves the right to edit, reject or cancel any advertisement or editorial copy at any time. The company is not responsible for checking accuracy of items submitted for publication. Errors in advertising copy must be called to the attention of the company after first insertion and prior to a second insertion of the same advertising copy. Did you know? The Madison County Extension Office and the Ohio State Extension offer a service called “Ask a Master Gardener?” You can call the local Extension office or submit your query by e-mail to the state’s Ask an Expert address. Questions are distributed to Master Gardeners around the state who have volunteered to do the research necessary to find answers. Master Gardener volunteers have identified hundreds of trees, shrubs, flowers and weeds from pictures submitted on-line. We suggest the best time to plant, ways to increase yields, prolong bloom time and when to harvest. We identify bugs, butterflies, birds and animals. We suggest ways to discourage some insects and birds, encourage others, and attract butterflies and hummingbirds. We identify deer damage to trees and gardens, as well as racoon, rabbit and pet damage to plants and lawns. Every question is handled with the intent of providing the best possible answer and to provide practical, proven, science-based solutions to problems. It turns out that sometimes, much to our chagrin, the only answer is, “That’s a really good question. We just don’t know the answer.” Once, someone submitted a photo of a shrub with red berries. I thought that would be an easy one and researched it diligently. For hours. I took the picture to a Master Gardener meeting and passed it around. I took it to two big-name nurseries in Columbus. I asked every gardener I knew. I ended up with several distinct possibilities. The final answer: “I’m sorry, I just don’t know.” There have been pictures of fungi with requests for identification. There are literally thousands of kinds of fungi in our environment. Fungi questions always Coming to an agreement E A B T E L G G A H C T Y Y Y T I V I T C E J B O B F G F B A R G A I N L M M Y S L B I D R O C C A H E P R I Z A T C E T G T O O D R M T E G U T A A I A I N E O Q A E R L Q C P L B N G C M F S X E L F E O B M R F N I U N D E R S T A N D E A O S L V V M S Y X C T S T D C E P I L E T A I T O G E N I B A L A N C E E E Z N N N S A C Q D T M L R P L T C R S G T R A D E O F F P D T U U U I E P C B Y F I L A U Q R A S Y come with this disclaimer, “No matter what I say it is, don’t ever eat a mushroom picked from the wild.” Only a few highly educated experts are knowledgeable enough to do that. Many people want names for their local spiders, and it always comes with an explanation: “I’m worried that it can hurt my child/dog/cat.” Often the spider in the picture is teeny tiny as the person holding the camera is reluctant to get too close. The only harmful spiders in Ohio are the brown recluse and the black widow. Both are shy, secretive and shun your company. They do not spin large webs or pose for pictures. Tree questions are common. Most of the evergreens we like to grow are not native to Ohio and often struggle with our summer heat, humidity, and heavy clay soils. When all else fails, we suggest a certified arborist for tree examination. A homeowner often wants suggestions for a good tree, shrub or flower for a specific site, and it is very gratifying to do the research and be able to offer several choices well suited for the spot. So go ahead, Ask a Master Gardener. We will research your problem and offer solid, scientific answers, often accompanied by useful ways to use the information. Here is how to contact us: For the Madison County Ask a Master Gardener Program, call the Madison County OSU Extension Office at (740) 852-0975 and follow the prompts. To submit a question by e-mail to the Ohio State Ask a Master Gardener Program, go to https://extension.osu.edu/ask-an-expert and follow the directions. Jane Kutzley Madison County Master Gardener T R E A T Y E R A Z L B J O A Messenger Word Search ACCORD ADAPT AGREEMENT APPEASE ARBITRATE BALANCE BARGAIN COMPROMISE CONCEDE CONCILIATE CONCUR CONSENSUS DEAL DEBATE EQUAL FLEX Solution on page 8 Created by Sue Bender GIVE HAGGLE MEDIATE NEGOTIATE OBJECTIVITY PACIFY PACT PROMISE QUALIFY RELENT SATISFY SETTLEMENT TRADEOFF TREATY UNDERSTAND YIELD
www.madisonmessengernews.com April 21, 2019 - MADISON MESSENGER - Page 7 columns Fatality review board meets for your health Chris Cook The death of a child is one of the most painful experiences in life. Parents and community leaders want to see the children in Madison County experience healthy, happy, and long lives. Unfortunately, children die across Ohio every year. Recognizing the need to better understand why children die, the Ohio General Assembly mandated Child Fatality Review (CFR) boards in each of Ohio’s counties in order to review the deaths of children under 18 years of age. CFR boards have been meeting across Ohio since 2000. Each year, approximately 1,600 children die in Ohio. About 300 of these deaths are likely preventable. Ohio established a CFR program to better understand how and why our children die and to take action to prevent other child deaths. By law, the health commissioner must convene the CFR board annually. The board is made up of representatives from the county coroner, law enforcement, children services, public health, board of alcohol, drug addiction and mental health services, and a pediatric or family physician. In Madison County, the CFR board meets in March and compiles nearly 24 pages of data on each child death in the county. The Board met on March 1 this year to review the deaths of three Madison County children under the age of 18. Ages of the children who died ranged from five days to two months. Based on the review of the deaths, the CFR board made the following recommendations to expectant mothers, parents, grandparents, and caregivers of children: 1. Create a safe sleep environment for babies to greatly reduce the chance of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). You should not co-sleep with your infant. Babies should sleep on their back, in a crib, with nothing in the crib with them except a tightfitting mattress sheet (no bumpers, toys, stuffed animals, blankets, or pillows). 2. There is no acceptable amount of smoking during pregnancy. Pregnant women should stop using all types of tobacco and nicotine including cigarettes, e- cigarettes and vaping products to avoid adverse health outcomes for their unborn baby. 3. Second-hand smoke is dangerous to an unborn baby and to a new infant. Pregnant women should avoid people who smoke, and infants should not be in a home where smoking or vaping is occurring indoors. 4. Pregnant women should stop using all types of illegal drugs. Nearly all drugs can be absorbed by an unborn child. When a pregnant woman uses drugs, her unborn baby uses drugs, too. 5. Women and their partners should develop a reproductive life plan and decide when the right time is to have children. If this isn’t this right time for children, talk to your doctor or Madison County Public Health about the different types of birth control that you can use. 6. Early and consistent prenatal care from an obstetrician is critical to positive health outcomes. This holds true for first pregnancies and all subsequent pregnancies. You can get a free pregnancy test at Madison County Public Health. If you are pregnant, your first visit to an OB/GYN doctor should be within the first eight to 12 weeks of your last missed period. Most pregnant women should see their OB/GYN monthly after the first visit. Chris Cook is Madison County’s health commissioner. He can be reached at Madison County Public Health, (740) 852-3065. The health department is located at 306 Lafayette St., Suite B, London. A ‘little’ bit of charm There are not too many movies that feature magical age-related transformations and the handful that there are primarily focus on preteens who turn into adults. While the subplots in this small group of films may be different, the shared lesson is that adulthood sucks the life out of you and you shouldn’t be so quick to want to grow up. With the latest film in this genre, however, the tables are turned and there is a focus on an adult who turns back into her preteen self. In doing so, the film poses an interesting contrast to its magical age-related transformative cousin since the lead couldn’t wait to escape the horror that was childhood. “Little” begins with the introduction of Jordan Sanders (Marsai Martin), an inquisitive young girl with an aptitude for science. Wanting to showcase her passion with her peers, she puts on a demonstration of the laws of physics at a talent show but is brutally rebuffed for her efforts. In the aftermath with a bruised ego and a few broken bones, Jordan vows that she will work hard to become the bully rather than the bullied. The film then flashes forward to the present day where as an adult, Jordan (Regina Hall) has become the owner of a multi-million dollar tech company. To celebrate her success, she has pictures of herself all over her fancy high-rise apartment, slips bills to the barista in order to cut in the long morning coffee line, and basks in the tears of the underlings who quiver in her wake. One of the employees who incur the wrath of her verbal lashing the most is her assistant April (Issa Rae), who is trying to gather the courage to pitch an app to her fierce boss. After a particularly heated exchange one day, a budding magician comes to April’s defense and makes a wish that Jordan would be “little again.” Knowing that is not physically possible, Jordan laughs in the girl’s face and later has her father’s carb-laden food truck banned from the premises. the reel deal Upon waking up the following morning, however, Jordan discovers that the wish worked and she has been transformed back into her middle school self. Remembering the horror of that time where she was picked on constantly and had no friends, she begs for April’s help, who is just delighted by this strange turn of events. In the process of her re-lived childhood, Jordan has to discover what changes she has to make in order to become her adult self again and maybe even learn how to become a nicer person along the way. While “Little” doesn’t reinvent the magical age-related transformation wheel, it is quite a charming movie that features a great cast with a tremendous amount of chemistry. The primary relationships are between April and the adult Jordan and April and the young Jordan and all of the actresses made the generational transitions seamless. They each get their chance to shine, and they each make the most out of the material they are given, which is sometimes not as great as it could have been verbally or emotionally. “Little” isn’t a movie that you need to rush out and see but it is a sweet slice of entertainment should you require a pickme-up. Alternatively, it wouldn’t be a bad option should the showings of a certain upcoming comic book movie be sold out. I guarantee it might be just as funny and it will a whole lot shorter too. Grade: B- Dedra Cordle Dedra Cordle is a Messenger staff writer and columnist. Letters to the Editor Policy The Madison Messenger welcomes letters to the editor. Letters can be of any topic, as long as they are not libelous or slanderous. Letters that do not have a signature, address and telephone number, or that are signed with a pseudonym, will be rejected. Only the author’s name and town of residence will be printed with the letter. Telephone numbers will not be published. The Madison Messenger reserves the right to edit or refuse publication of any letter for any reason. Direct any questions regarding the submission of letters to Kristy Zurbrick, editor, at (740) 852-0809. Send letters to: 78 S. Main St., London OH 43140, email them to madison@columbusmessenger.com, or fax them to (740) 852-0814. Messenger ham contest winners Each year, the Madison Messenger hosts an Easter ham giveaway contest. The public was invited to enter at participating merchant locations. Winners, listed below, each received a $30 Kroger gift card. • State Farm Insurance—Mae Chase, London; • Phat Daddy’s Pizza—Karl Groezinger, London; • Madison County Senior Center—Bill Duncan, London; • Buckeye Realty Group—Gina Spangler; • Chaney & Thomas Insurance—George Johnson, London; • Kronk & Scaggs Insurance—C.A. Jackson, London; • Wilson Printing and Graphics—Roger Gordon, London; • Ernie’s Pharmacy—Sandra Duncan, London; • Yoder Hardware—Abe Miller, Plain City; • Re/Max Leading Edge—Pam Tyree, London; • Lifetime Vision Center—Grace Byerly—West Jefferson; • Dwyer’s Hardware—Lou Robinson Baker, London; • Merchants Bank—Ellis Tackett; and • Quick Lane—Debbie Anderson, London. Congratulations to all of the winners.
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