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Ohio Secretary of State tours Cadiz Board of Elections By JD LONG
jim@harrisonnewsherald.com CADIZ – Thursday morning the Harrison County Board of Elections (BOE) was treated with a special visit from Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) who gave a rundown on election security and its various phases of operations. The main purpose of his visit was to explain his security directive, which BOE Director Ruby Foutz called “severe security,” at least when compared to what they have had. LaRose addressed the board members where Sen. Frank Hoagland-R (30th District) and Chairman of the Harrison County Republican Central
Committee, John Jones, were also present, that the voting machines are never connected to the Internet. “And is by law it would be a felony actually to connect a voting machine to the Internet, a lot of people don’t realize that,” LaRose explained. He touched on the basic rules and laws of the election process where he then touched on the fact that the machines and ballots are always under lock and key, with a key given each to member of the Republican and Democratic Parties. “And so when you hear these stories that unfortunately pop up from time to time, which say some hacker at some conference was able to hack a voting machine, well, the rest of the story that
often doesn’t get reported and should, is that this individual was allowed to have access to this machine…” LaRose explained. He continued by stating that that person had access to the machine in the first place, which is the only way to tamper with a voting machine. “It’s important that people realize that the only way that somebody can tamper with a voting machine in Ohio, is by putting their hands on it,” he told the small audience. He added that Ohio is very strict on accountability with the machines. Counter to that issue is the vulnerability when connected to the Internet, not the machines themselves but email service, for example, registration databases or any board of
election’s website. “Anything that’s connected to the Internet there’s a vulnerability there so we need to have our guard up,” he explained. He did proceed with some good news while acknowledging his security directive was “a lot of work.” What he called a “pre-flight checklist” leading up to the 2020 election, was being recognized by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a directive that other states should follow, according to LaRose. According to Directive 2019-08 (www.ohiosos.gov) and included within a summary by LaRose, it states that DHS proclaimed America’s “election
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MWCD reviews shoreline stabilization projects
HHBOE hears bus scheduling, routes, students increasing
By JD LONG
By JD LONG
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NEW PHILADELPHIA – The shoreline work county residents may have noticed over the years by the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) has totaled 121 projects up to now, which includes 8.5 miles of shoreline. And Chief Engineer Boris Slogar called the program “very successful” at last month’s MWCD meeting. He also talked about five upcoming projects, three of which he said would be publicly bid. Three are at Leesville and one at Piedmont and the fifth would take place at Seneca Lake. Slogar said they were waiting on grant money from Clean Ohio and if they get the grant the project would proceed as listed; if not some changes to the project are more likely to take place based on budgeting. He said they did not want to wait on the grant so he came forward to request the board approve the advertising of the bid so they can be ready in case the grant money is awarded, which they approved. Board member Gordon Maupin asked how the projects were prioritized, and Slogar said there was a scoring system, for which he said location is one account. But not only the size of the project being one aspect but also how it impacts structures or roads as an example. Also, he said they look at access, in terms of how difficult it is to get to some of their reservoir sites, which he said some can be difficult. “We’ve done the worst of the worst, definitely over the last, say, seven or eight years but the program will continue…” Slogar touched on the Seneca project, where he said it was “essentially it’s just the purchase of materials, we’ve got already labor costs included and unless the materials cross the $50,000 threshold, in which case we’ll come back to you…” he added that he does not anticipate that, though. “So as dredging took off years ago the shoreline program was running,” he said. “It’s $83,000 but a lot of that comes out of that Leesville Lake, 75 percent of which would be covered by grants so we’re actually closer to about three to four hundred thousand and
CADIZ – Director of Operations Mike Saffell reported some numbers to the board at the Harrison Hills Board of Education (HHBOE) meeting last Thursday, and stated later that they have had to add two bus drivers because of the new school. Saffell gave a rundown on the new school season and bus routes running to 21, including 19 busses. He said for one morning and one route they scheduled to transport roughly 1,368 students. “Does that mean that’s how many is running? No, but that’s what we have scheduled on the books for transportation…” Saffell explained, adding that the number should rise to around 1,380. He also said not all of the scheduled 1,368 students are riding but there were 600 bus stops involved, both in the morning and evening for a total of 1,200. Saffell said they were still working on getting hours down to a better number. He told the board they trimmed 30 minutes off in one day and another 10 minutes the next. “So, we’re getting there,” he said. The last bus stated dropped the last of the students off at around 4:45 p.m. “So, you’re looking at an hour and a half, an hour and forty minutes.” Saffell said he’d also like to rename some of the routes for next year in order to better organize the student pickups. He said sometimes the GPS doesn’t show exactly where a stop should be and needs to rename some streets to “what people understand.” Saffell said the completion of the bridge on U.S. 22 would probably not affect times as they only have one bus traveling that route. He also named other destinations they transported students, including Harrison Career Center, Belmont Career Center, Steubenville and Catholic Central, as well as the School of Bright Promise. “You can’t be there too early [and] another one, you can’t be there too late…” Saffell told the board wondering how some of drivers can keep up with their times. Superintendent Dana Snider added that since the school sits at the top of a slight hill, it’s not really conducive to walkers, as the reason for picking up
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From left, Samantha Glenn, Gabriel Glenn and Maddie Granitir have their horses and a pony ready for competition. Since graduation, she has a 10 stall stable for boarding horses, called Mansa Stables. This is a name her younger brother called her when he couldn't pronounce Samantha.
4-H youth realizes dream of becoming a horse trainer By ESTHER MCCOY NH CONTRIBUTOR
IRONDALE - 4-H has been known to build character through the four words starting with “H.” These are words that all members know from the very start of a journey in their chosen club: Head, heart, hands and health. It can help to overcome a fear of public speaking, to take an interest in younger members at 4-H Camp, learn to stick with a project until it is completed, do clean-up in the community, visit care facilities to talk with residents and so many more things. Samantha Glenn, 18, member of the Country Rangers 4-H Club, learned that her many horse projects, participation in Ohio State Fair competition and how to care for and train a horse has brought on a new career now that she has been graduated from Edison High School for more than a year. Samantha knows ponies and horses well. She grew up around her grandparents’ (Curt and Virginia Glenn), farm in Irondale, where they have the large, gentle, giant horses; and at her own home, where her dad, Carl, has horses as well. As a matter of fact,
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she was riding a miniature horse named Minnie when she was only 3-years-old and competing in horse shows before she was old enough to show horses at the Jefferson County Fair, according to her dad. In younger 4-H years, she would tell her parents she was going to be a horse trainer someday. That dream has come true for her as she picked up knowledge along the way in 4-H and from people who know horses and about taking care of them. Her dad, family members and friends built a 64-foot stable with eight stalls and an arena for training. This was Samantha’s dream and it is coming true. Her dad helped her pick a name for the stable, “Mansa Stables”. This is what her brother, Gabe, called her in his very young days, as he could not put all the letters to her name of Samantha. She has been coaching 10 youth interested in riding for Robin Wedlake, a well-known lady of the horse kingdom, and has many trophies from Ohio State Fair competition and placed second and third in very recent competition there. At the Jefferson County Fair this year, she had first place honors in western horse horsemanship; trail class; and ranch pleasure. All are in the 14-19 year categories and placed in many other
competitions. She was also a member of the Jefferson County Junior Fair queen’s court and rode a pony cart in the parade as a court representative. Her dad, Carol, tells that she is a natural with horses from many years of caring for, riding and grooming horses. There was a horse owner in another state who had not been able to ride his horse and Samantha broke it for him. She just has a way with the animals. Now, her younger brother, Gabe, 12, who was riding with a lead line and dad walking by his side when he was 1year-old is gaining honors at Ohio state Fair competition and placed in the beginner walk/trot western horse or pony group and placed in others as well. Some of his time will be taken up with playing football with the Edison junior high team but he will still have to take care of his horse when he gets home. There is the oldest brother, C.J., who took horse projects through 4-H and knows much in working around the animals, but he has graduated and is busy with work and living away from home. August, the second son, is not into horses. Their mother, Aimee, is not into horses either, and that is okay. All the children have been members of 4-H over the years. It got Samantha on her way to a career she loves.
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