WOOD COUNTY, W.Va (WTAP) - As many Wood County students prepare to head back to school, they will have to adjust to the virtual aspects of the new school year.
With that in mind, school officials began handing out the first of thousands of iPads to students as they ready for the start of classes next week.
Officials are following guidelines set up by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and prevention while handing out the devices. This includes social distancing and wearing of masks.
To receive an iPad, both a student and a parent/guardian must sign an Acceptable Use Policy which governs use of the technology. Students do not have to be present to pick up the iPad if their parent/guardian brings the policy signed by the student. The policy must also be signed by someone on the student’s emergency contact list before the iPad is provided.
The iPads can be picked up between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. daily from Monday through Thursday. Schools in Wood County can work with schedules for pickup times if these times do not work for a parent/guardian.
Students will be following a strict pickup schedule based on their last name. Students with last names A-K will be picking up their supplies on Mondays and Wednesdays, as those with last names going from L-Z will be picking up their iPads on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The tablets will be pre-configured for individual students and will come with a case for grades K-8 and a keyboard case for grades 9-12. The iPad will be bundled with a charger and a label with the individual student’s ID number, login information and passwords for Schoology, email, Apple ID and Clever.
For those with limited internet access, Wi-Fi connections are available using hot spots that are located near each school.
Each school has a hot spot and antenna that provides Wi-Fi up until seven at night. So when the students are on their remote learning day, then they can come to the school and be in the parking lot or a school near them. For example, we have a lot of students from outlying areas. If they live closer to Blennerhassett school or Lubeck instead of coming to the high school they could go to one of the grade schools in order to get on some Wi-Fi
Students return to classes Sept. 8 to a hybrid schedule where students will be switching from in-person classes (two days per week) to remote learning (three days per week).
For more information on Wood County Schools schedule or re-entry plan, visit www.woodcountyschoolswv.com or access the Wood County Schools app.
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The Ron Wood Family Resource Center has received a 2020 CARES Act COVID-19 Relief Act funding grant from Carson City. The purpose of this grant is to assist Carson City residents with COVID-19 related needs.
Ron Wood Family Resource Center is assisting victims of COVID-19 pandemic with their delinquent payments in the following categories:
— Housing assistance; rent, house payments
— Utilities assistance; electric, gas, water
— Telephone/Internet assistance
— Health Insurance premiums
— Child Care costs
Eligibility and documentation must be verified before payment can be executed. Carson City residents must provide documentation to be eligible for services.
These funds are limited and available on a first-come-first-serve basis. Appointments are required. Please call for information on eligibility and setting an appointment.
Ron Wood Family Resource Center can be reached at (775) 884-2269.
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“Luck of the Irish,” a wood sculpture by Bill Abendroth, is one of the pieces featured in Jacoby Arts Center’s current exhibit, Against the Grain: Wood, on display in the main gallery through Oct. 4 at 627 E. Broadway, Alton.
“Luck of the Irish,” a wood sculpture by Bill Abendroth, is one of the pieces featured in Jacoby Arts Center’s current exhibit, Against the Grain: Wood, on display in the main gallery through Oct. 4 at
“Luck of the Irish,” a wood sculpture by Bill Abendroth, is one of the pieces featured in Jacoby Arts Center’s current exhibit, Against the Grain: Wood, on display in the main gallery through Oct. 4 at 627 E. Broadway, Alton.
“Luck of the Irish,” a wood sculpture by Bill Abendroth, is one of the pieces featured in Jacoby Arts Center’s current exhibit, Against the Grain: Wood, on display in the main gallery through Oct. 4 at
ALTON — An opening reception of Jacoby Arts Center’s newest exhibit, “Against the Grain: Wood,” will be held 6-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4 inside the main gallery at 627 E. Broadway, Alton.
Juried by sculptor Jason Hoffman, the free exhibit is open to the public and features works by 11 different artists ranging from functional to abstract.
“Jason has participated as an artist in the wood show and is now a juror,” said Jacoby Executive Director Rachel Lappin. “He has selected a variety of talented wood artists from furniture and functional to surreal and abstract. His wood sculptures on display speak to the oddities of COVID-19 times.”
The exhibition celebrates the beauty of wood and its connection to the natural world, as seen in our surrounding landscape, the structure of our homes and businesses, transportation, furniture, cooking tools and sculpture.
“I am looking forward to the upcoming wood exhibition,” said Hoffman. “I would like to thank the Jacoby team for the opportunity to jury the exhibition, as well as the opportunity to display my current works that deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Wood is a vital resource in my art practice and I am honored to be a part of the wood show.”
Artists participating in the exhibition include Bill Abendroth, Jerry Cardwell, Bob Griffin, Mark Moritz, Adam Long, Jim Lynn, Rod Millard-Mendez, Jennifer Reida, Tom Sontag, Ric Taylor and Jason Wood.
During the Sept. 4 opening, art lovers will have a chance to meet and speak with the artists, learn about and discuss the art and celebrate the exhibition. Although no tickets will be required for admission, event capacity will be limited to 25 people at a time inside the gallery and masks will be required for entry.
Anyone not wanting to venture out for the event can also join a live stream for parts of the event, provided by Gesso Magazine. On display through Oct. 4, the exhibition is also viewable inside the main gallery during regular operating hours, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
For more information about the exhibit and Jacoby Arts Center, visit jacobyartscenter.org.
For the record, Tiger Woods finished 63rd in the FedEx Cup standings, his 2019-20 season coming to an end Sunday at the BMW Championship, where he failed to qualify for this week's Tour Championship.
That means he won't be able to play for the $45 million in FedEx bonus money that is at stake at East Lake, including the $15 million that goes to the winner.
His consolation prize is $150,000 -- $75,000 of which is deferred to a PGA Tour retirement account, a sum so paltry in his world as to barely cause a ripple. It is unlikely he is fretting over it.
He might, however, be wondering what it will take to put it all together in time for the U.S. Open in two weeks. Woods was never really able to do that in 16 tournament rounds over the past seven weeks.
He was never a final-round contender, playing dew-sweeping weekend rounds meant to try to find form that was fleeting.
"Just missing the ball in the wrong spots here and there,'' Woods said after his final round was completed long before the leaders teed off Sunday at Olympia Fields. "I certainly haven't putted as well as I would have liked, and with the scores being as low as they have been, I just haven't been able to shoot the low scores like I needed to.''
It's a bit more complicated than that, but you can boil Woods' issues down to one glaring aspect that occurred in suburban Chicago: his inability to birdie a single par-5 hole at Olympia Fields.
Playing those holes so well over the years is why that retirement account has swelled to a massive amount. He simply dominated those holes, often leading and usually finishing among the top 5 in par-5 scoring leaders, especially in his prime.
To not birdie a single par-5 hole encapsulates his troubles. Granted, the two par-5s at Olympia Fields measured more than 600 yards. Still, Woods either couldn't get a drive in the fairway, allowing him to go for the green in 2; or couldn't hit a long iron approach onto the green from 250-plus yards; or hit poor wedge shots when having to lay up; or hit poor shots from greenside putts; or, ultimately, couldn't make a putt.
He had not failed to birdie a single par-5 in a tournament since the 2014 Farmers Insurance Open, and that event was just three rounds for him as he missed the 54-hole cut.
Woods played them in 2 over for the week when he might have been expected to play them at least 4 under. A 6-shot swing is impossible to overcome, especially on a course that yielded so few birdie opportunities.
He made just nine birdies for the week, which speaks to those same issues of an overall game that would not come together. The last time Woods had fewer in a tournament was at the 2007 U.S. Open played at Oakmont, where the winning score was 5 over par and Woods tied for second.
At least Olympia Fields played like a U.S. Open and gave Woods some things to think about heading to Winged Foot in a few weeks.
"This was a great ramp-up for me for the U.S. Open,'' he said. "I wish I was playing next week, but I've got a couple of weeks off.''
Woods does have a few things he can try to build on. Even though his statistics don't necessarily show it, Woods drove the ball well at times during the BMW, hitting several 300-plus-yard drives and swinging smoothly.
His chipping improved, although it was not great overall. And for the most part, there were no injury concerns, although Woods said he is "always'' stiff and that living with back problems is part of the deal following a spinal fusion. "There are some good days and bad days,'' he said.
He can look at the bright side and say that getting to the BMW Championship is not a bad accomplishment having played just seven official events. One more solid week and he'd have been in the Tour Championship.
Then again, Woods seems a long way removed from the player who shot 64-64 to open the Zozo Championship in Japan last October and shot 19 under par to win his 82nd PGA Tour event, tying Sam Snead's record.
After contending at and then finishing fourth at the unofficial Hero World Challenge, Woods was the best player at the Presidents Cup, where as the U.S. playing captain he went 3-0 and plotted his way around the Royal Melbourne course brilliantly.
It led to extreme optimism heading into 2020, and a tie for ninth at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines certainly did not disappoint.
Nothing seemed to go right after that.
A last-place finish and back stiffness at the Genesis Open might have been considered a one-off had Woods not then skipped the WGC-Mexico event, as well as the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Players Championship.
The pandemic shutdown offered Woods a chance to heal his body and get his game in shape, and there were various signs of good play but never a complete effort. His putting, especially, has been poor -- he ranked 63rd out of 69 at the BMW in strokes gained, losing 3.5 strokes per round to the field.
In his four most recent starts, he tied for 40th at the Memorial, tied for 37th at the PGA, tied for 58th at the Northern Trust and was tied for 51st at the BMW. He was 28th in the FedEx standings heading into the shutdown and couldn't capitalize on an early-season victory.
"It's been a very awkward year for all of us, with the virus and not having to play,'' he said. "The majors moved around, question mark on if we were going to play the tour, when we're going to play the tour, guys testing positive. It's been a difficult year and difficult season for anyone involved in the sport of golf. But we're certainly coming out on the positive side.''
There have yet to be many positives for Woods, at least in terms of his golf.
It's not unlike how 2019 ended for Woods, who played poorly in six starts following his Masters win, with a stiff back and -- we learned later -- a bad knee playing a big role in his problems. Woods had arthroscopic surgery on the knee and nine weeks later won in Japan. The win was as shocking as it was invigorating.
But unlike a year ago, there is no long layoff before the next event. The U.S. Open looms. He's likely to play at least once prior to his Masters defense in November, and then again at his charity event in December.
He called Sunday "more indicative of how I want to play in a couple of weeks,'' a round that saw him shoot over par with a bogey and a double among his final four holes.
Whether that's wishful thinking or simply the best he can take from a tough week, only Woods knows.
But a new season awaits, with a major championship to kick it off -- and little time to figure things out.
Wood isn't what you’d call a popular material for building cars. It’s been used on occasion by mainstream automakers, notably with American companies in the late 1940s, and of course there’s Morgan. Thing is, wood is usually relegated to certain sections of the vehicle car. This crazy kit car creation takes the concept a bit further.
It’s called the Hustler, and yes, the entire body is made from marine plywood. We aren’t talking wood panels over a metal unibody either – everything from basically the wheels up is made of wood. That includes the dash, the pillars, floor, and even small items like the gear shift knob. The same goes for under the hood, where you’ll find wooden inner fenders, a wood core support, and a wood firewall. In the unfortunate event of a collision, this car doesn’t really have crumple zones, but rather, splinter zones.
It’s not entirely wood, however. The underside is fiberglass, and it uses front and rear subframes from a Mini. Actually, most of the mechanical components are sourced from a Mini, not to mention the steering wheel and instrument cluster. The headlights come from a Hillman Hunter, taillights from a Triumph Dolomite, but a few other components such as the external mirrors are unidentified.
Perusing the outside of this car, you might notice an odd resemblance to the Aston Martin Lagonda, especially at the front. That because both vehicles were designed by noted designer William Towns at around the same time. Towns created the Hustler as a concept in 1978, then started offering them for sale in 1979. Wood wasn’t the only option for buyers, but it’s clearly the most interesting of the bunch. It’s believed that 500 kits were ultimately sold through Towns’ Interstyl Design studio that he set up after leaving Aston Martin.
This is a 1982 model, and the person who built it was quite a skillful carpenter. According to the video from furiousdriving on YouTube, the wood kit was supplied not with pre-cut wood parts but with blueprints. The doors are actually just large sections of sliding glass that fit into the wood body, and this car even has wooden luggage rails for the roof. It seats two in the front, and two more jump seats are located in the back. It reportedly drives like a Mini – albeit with a bit more noise and vibration – and it attracts quite a lot of attention.
Of the 500 Hustler kits sold, we have no idea how many were destined for wood construction. Furthermore, with the wood body basically being bespoke for each Hustler kit sold with blueprints, this early-1980s relic is technically the only one of its kind.
Natural wetlands continue to disappear due to city and human development and are being replaced with humanmade swales, ponds and canals. This degradation and replacement of natural wetlands suggest that urban areas may be imperative to wetland species, especially when natural conditions are unpredictable. Wetland birds are often seen in and around cities; however, they have been largely ignored in urban wildlife studies. In their historic ranges, wetland birds inhabit dynamic marshes, traveling long distances to locate food. Yet, does their ability to forage for food in natural environments translate to their ability to do so in an urban environment?
Using the Wood Stork (Mycteria americana), a large American wading bird found throughout southeastern swamps and wetlands, scientists from Florida Atlantic University's Charles E. Schmidt College of Science compared city storks with natural wetland storks to gauge their success in urban environments based on their diet and food opportunities.
Results of the study, published in Scientific Reports, provide evidence and a systematic understanding of how a wetland species persists and even thrives in an urban environment, by switching to human foods like chicken wings and hot dogs when natural marshes are in bad shape.
For the study, researchers sampled 160 nests during the 2015-2017 nesting seasons. Of the 160 sampled nests, 106 nests were in three urban colonies and 54 nests were in two natural wetland colonies in South Florida where a vast freshwater wetland, the Everglades, is located adjacent to a large urban area. They compared urban and natural wetland storks' productivity, body condition, reproductive performance, breadth of diet, and tested whether stork diets changed during suboptimal natural wetland conditions.
They found that storks were able to exploit urban areas when natural food resources were scarce. This ability to switch between habitats and thus resources allowed for better reproductive performance during periods of low natural food availability. Furthermore, body condition did not differ significantly between urban and natural wetland nesting birds during either optimal or suboptimal conditions, suggesting that supplemental environmental resources do not negatively impact body condition. These findings indicate that urban areas can buffer a species from the unpredictability of natural food resources.
"During suboptimal conditions, urban birds expanded their diets to include more prey types, including anthropogenic food, suggesting that urban birds were able to exploit urban areas during low natural wetland prey availability," said Betsy A. Evans, Ph.D., a natural resources specialist with the United States Army Corps of Engineers and lead author, who conducted the study as a graduate student in FAU's Department of Biological Sciences with co-author Dale E. Gawlik, Ph.D., a professor in biology and FAU's Environmental Science Program. "The ability of urban birds to switch their diet to include different prey types such as human-provided food that included chicken wings and hot dogs likely allowed them to produce more chicks during poor natural wetland prey availability conditions than their non-urban counterparts."
Evans and Gawlik discovered that not only were urban storks able to access human-provided food such as trash, but they also increased the proportion of amphibians such as frogs in their diet when natural wetland conditions were suboptimal. Larval frogs (tadpoles) occur in a wide range of wetland types in the study region; however, they were 10 times more abundant in roadside created wetlands such as swales, ponds and canals than in natural wetlands during the time-period of this study. This suggests that storks may also have been accessing created wetlands along roadways during suboptimal natural wetland conditions.
"Behavioral flexibility and the ability to travel long distances and exploit resources in dynamic systems may give wetland birds an ecological advantage in urban environments," said Gawlik. "Our findings demonstrated that urban storks expanded their diets during times of low natural wetland prey availability to include resources commonly found in urban areas, partially dampening the natural wetland food limitation on wading bird populations. Natural wetland birds, however, paid a greater reproductive penalty during suboptimal conditions than their urban counterparts. Furthermore, this ability to switch diets between resource pulses may reduce population fluctuations and lower the risk of extinction."
The study demonstrates that urban environments may support biodiversity in a variety of ways. To mitigate potential threats from urbanization it will be important to understand how species exploit new resources as well as how they are affected by loss of resources from human activities.
For the study, the researchers visited two natural wetland colonies and three urban colonies one to two times per week during the 2015-2017 breeding seasons (approximately March through June). They selected these study colonies based on their range of hydrological conditions and history of repeated use by nesting storks. They describe colony landscape type broadly as either "urban" or "natural wetland" with natural wetland colonies occurring within Everglades National Park and urban colonies occurring within the urban east coast corridor of South Florida. At each colony location, they marked individual nests from which they collected productivity, body condition, and diet information.
This research was partially supported by the Florida Department of Transportation (BDV27-922-02).
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Brian Wood didn’t exactly set the world on fire after the first round of the 52nd annual Tennessee PGA Professional Championship.
The Memphis National golf pro’s 2-over 73 placed him in a tie for 19th at the tournament held Aug. 10-12 at Franklin’s Vanderbilt Legends Club.
“I didn’t play very well. I hit the ball all over the place,” Wood said. “I really hit the ball awful in the practice round, too.”
Still, the 41-year-old Lakeland resident choose not to hit the panic button.
“Sometimes when you have low expectations, you can perform — if you just focus on the basics,” said Wood. “It’s so cliché and you hear about it on TV all the time, ‘One shot at a time’ or ‘Stay in the moment.’ But I’ve learned over the years, mostly through failures, that that is 100 percent accurate. If you can focus just on what you’re doing — not everybody else — for me, it’s a lot easier to be successful.”
Wood finished fourth overall with a 68 and 69 in the final two rounds for a 3-under par 210, but his showing wasn’t complete without a little bit of extra drama.
The top four individuals qualify for the PGA Professional Championship next April in Florida — and Wood was tied with Cherokee Country Club’s Andrew Bateman. His Knoxville competitor, though, would settle for first alternate, as Wood birdied the first playoff hole.
Another defining moment for Wood was a third-round weather delay. The golfers temporarily departed the course on No. 15.
“I had no idea where I stood, but that’s kind of where it hit me,” Wood said. “I saw the scoreboard for the first time. I knew I couldn’t catch the leader, so that wasn’t a concern, but I was close to the top four. After the weather delay, here came the nerves, but I stuck to my plan. I tried to play smart — and it paid off.”
Nashville's Johan Kok won the tournament with an 11-under (202). Knoxville’s Braxton Hunter and Crossville’s Adam Forgey came in second (206) and third (208), respectively.
For Wood, it’s the fourth time he’ll participate at the national event having previously visited Oregon, California and his home state of South Carolina. There’s also familiarity with next spring’s destination, as he worked at the PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie after graduating from Clemson.
“In 2015, I played in the National Assistant Professional Championship,” said Wood, “and I actually did OK in that event. I’m not saying my course knowledge is going to get me a win or anything like that — you’ve still got to hit the ball — but it’s nice to go somewhere where you’ve played multiple times. You know something that could give you a little bit of an advantage.”
After about a year in Florida, Wood made his way to Memphis to work at Windyke Country Club in 2007. He’s now spent 4½ years at Memphis National.
“We have a great membership,” Wood said. “They’re very supportive. They’re very interested in how I perform, not just on the job, but in these golf tournaments. They love to follow me, and it’s great having that kind of support.”
Wood was one of four Memphis area golf professionals competing in Franklin. Colonial Country Club’s Bobby Cochran finished in a five-way tie for 10th, Spring Creek Ranch’s Matthew Brock came in tied for 16th and The Links at Audubon’s Rafe Corder was 54th.
Athletic odds and ends
Former DeSoto Central standout Grant Kimberlin has been named the wide receivers coach at Itawamba Community College in Fulton (Miss.). Kimberlin played two seasons for the Indians (2014-15) before transferring to Harding University. He was a graduate assistant at Murray State University (2018) and receivers coach at Millsaps College (2019). … Corey Beck, a basketball star at Fairley, will be inducted into the University of Arkansas Sports Hall of Honor. At the 1994 NCAA championship, Beck posted a double-double (15 points and 10 rebounds) in a 76-72 victory over Duke. He later played in the NBA with the Charlotte Hornets and Detroit Pistons. … Ben Moortgat has been hired as the strength and conditioning coach at Northwest Mississippi Community College. The Belgium native is set to bring NCAA Division I experience with him to Senatobia, having worked at Georgia (2018) and Oregon (2019).
Aces on the links
Bubba Clark aced the 125-yard No. 11 using an 8-iron at Orgill Park.
Michael Drake aced the 152-yard No. 7 using an 8-iron at Memphis Country Club.
Cooper Green aced the 181-yard No. 5 using an 8-iron at Mallard Pointe.
Bryan Miller aced the 134-yard No. 4 using a pitching wedge at Kirkwood National.
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For the second time in two days at the 2020 BMW Championship, Tiger Woods had a good round upended by the par-4 17th hole. For the first time in 10 years, Tiger shot all four rounds over par in a single tournament.
Woods, who came into Sunday's final round 10 over and 11 strokes back of the lead, played his first eight holes in 2 under, just like he did in Saturday's third round. After a bumpy run in the middle, he again drove his tee shot into the creek off to the right on No. 17 and turned something under par into a 1-over 71.
For the week, Woods shot rounds of 73-75-72-71, failing to crack par once. He finished 11 over for the event, though he's not the only one who struggled at Olympia Fields. At the time he finished, the average score in this field was around 7 over on the week.
It's not as if Woods was abysmal at nasty Olympia Fields over the last four days, but he failed to gain strokes with his driver in any of the four rounds and finished nearly last in this field of 69 in putting. When you're not opening or finishing holes well, it doesn't much matter what happens in between. Interestingly, Tiger wasn't too keen on that either.
"It's me missing the ball in the wrong spots," said Woods of his 11-over performance. "When I missed in the correct spots, I was able to advance in the correct spots, make putts; but if I missed them in bad spots, this golf course will certainly punish you."
Woods' season comes to a close as he'll finish well back of the necessary top 30 in the FedEx Cup standings to advance to the Tour Championship at East Lake. (He also missed last year after winning it in 2018.) Tiger only played seven times over the 2019-20 season, but for the third straight season, he notched a win. Big Cat took the Zozo Championship last fall, which was one of just two top 10s for him (he also finished in the top 10 at the Farmers Insurance Open).
There's not much time to rest either as the U.S. Open at Winged Foot starts in just 19 days. Tiger will be chasing his 16th major championship with a game that doesn't seem quite fit enough to accomplish the task.
"This golf course was basically a U.S. Open with the rough being as high as it is and fairways a little bit narrow," said Woods. "Look at the scores, and I don't think that we've seen scores like this in a non-major in a very long time. This was a great ramp-up for me for the U.S. Open. I wish I was playing next week, but I've got a couple weeks off."
(Much) stranger things have happened than Tiger winning a major, of course, but Olympia Fields was a nice facsimile for what that U.S. Open will play like, and Woods -- while he will only finish 10 or 12 strokes back of the winner of the BMW -- is not close to legitimately contending in fields like this.
There are a million reasons for this, but sometimes in sports (and especially in golf) the simplest one is also the most true: Tiger Woods is getting older (he'll be 45 in December), and you don't contend against the Dustin Johnsons and Justin Thomases of the world as you get closer to 50.
Not even Tiger Woods.
That doesn't mean he won't be competitive or that he won't win again, but it does mean that this year may not have been an anomaly. Though he won once, it was also his only chance to win, and giving himself fewer and fewer chances to win as he ages and tournaments get tougher to take might just be Tiger Woods' new reality.
WASHINGTON – The USDA Forest Service, in partnership with the Baltimore Wood Project, has created the Urban Wood Workbook designed for woodworkers, municipal managers and other potential users to “rethink the value of what many consider to be urban wood ‘waste.’”
The authors state that the workbook “is designed to be a practical reference for practitioners,” including municipal managers, tree care professionals, sawyers, woodworkers and other urban wood stakeholders.
Specific and real-world examples of how different types of stakeholders can approach planning and expect to benefit from using urban wood are included in the section, ‘Applying the Urban Wood Flows Model.’ The model examines the urban wood supply chain including identifying sources of salvageable urban wood materials through using them to produce value-added wood products. The workbook also includes tips for finding local sources of urban wood.
The workbook’s framework and strategies are largely based on the experiences of the Baltimore Urban Wood Project, which was initiated in 2012 to develop and support a diversified regional wood economy that promotes sustainability and creates jobs, especially for people with barriers to employment. The core strategy of the Baltimore Project is diverting wood that is often wasted and capturing its value. This includes wood from the deconstruction of abandoned rowhomes and “fresh cut” wood from urban tree operations.
“The value of most urban wood is based on characteristics not found in rural forests — species diversity, large diameter, or character (flaws),” notes the forward of the workbook. “Wood harvested in Baltimore is primarily valued for its story and aesthetic and is being used to create excellent furnishings and architectural enhancements. In this way, the wood captured in these efforts compliments the wood being produced in rural settings. In addition, wood harvested in Baltimore is sometimes shipped to rural communities in other states for secondary processing, generating economic value across state lines. A partnership with Room & Board, a sustainable furniture company, has yielded the Urban Wood Project furniture line. As of summer 2018, Room & Board has reused over 16,000 board feet from Baltimore rowhomes. Many of the products are manufactured in Vermont, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.”
WESTON TWP., Ohio (WTVG) - A Wood County woman died following a motorcycle accident Saturday in Weston Township.
The Wood County Sheriff’s Office said Stephanie Ach, 31, of Cygnet was riding a black 2013 Harley Davidson on Main Street, north of the intersection with Evon Lane, when she failed to stay in the lane while on a curve and drove off the right side of the road. The motorcycle struck and tree and then a utility pole shortly after 8pm Saturday, August 29.
Ach was located nearby the motorcycle and was transported to the Wood County Hospital by Weston Fire and EMS where she was pronounced dead, according to authorities.
The incident is still under investigation by the Wood County Sheriff’s Office.
Weston Fire and EMS and Frank’s Automotive assisted on scene.
Today at All About the Jersey, I will take a look at one more player and discuss whether or not he should stay with the New Jersey Devils in the short or long term, or whether the team should look to move on from him. Miles Wood is signed for two more seasons at an AAV of $2.75 million. However, given the fact that he is only 24 and initially signed his ELC at 21, he will actually still be a RFA when this contract expires. That makes a fairly big difference when discussing his long term prospects on the team. With the Devils being able to mostly control his rights after this current contract ends, it adds a level of value to Wood the player, regardless of anything else we are about to discuss. For now, however, let’s take a look at him and what his status might be moving forward.
Over the course of the regular season, he would spend most of his time playing on a line with Zacha and Simmonds, a third line role for the most part. When not there, he also had fairly significant time on the fourth line alongside John Hayden and Kevin Rooney. So as expected, he filled a left wing role on the bottom 6 for this team. Now, considering that he is currently tied for the 4th-highest paid forward on the team (was 6th before trading Taylor Hall and Simmonds, and will be 5th once Hischier’s extension kicks in), that is not ideal, but before we judge him too harshly for that, let’s check out some of his stats, thanks to Natural Stat Trick. Ranks for forwards only, with at least 200 minutes played. There were 14 forwards who qualified.
Considering there were only 14 forwards who qualified, I think it is pretty clear that among these forwards, Wood was the worst when it came to defensive play. He consistently ranked dead last in the Against categories, being 14th in Corsi Against per 60, Shots Against per 60, expected Goals Against per 60, and so forth. The only defensive stat he was not dead last in was actual Goals Against per 60, where he was 11th out of 14. Simply put, however, in an organization that has traditionally valued defensive play from all of its players, forwards as much as defenders, being the worst defender among forwards will not gain you more playing time and will not endear you to the coaching staff.
His offensive stats were somewhat better, but not eye popping either. His best stat was Shots For per 60, where he ranked 6th. This pairs well with his actual shots at 5 on 5 play, where he had 129, ranked 2nd behind only Blake Coleman. He also ranked 5th in actual goals and assists. But it is also worth noting that he ranked 3rd in total 5v5 time on ice among the 14 forwards on the list, behind only Kyle Palmieri and Travis Zajac. So that extra time will also help to add to his total goals, assists, and shots. And finally, Wood took far and away the most penalties, 6 more than Coleman, who was 2nd. However, he also drew the most, his 24 being nine more than 2nd place Nico Hischier’s 15. So I guess those two cancel each other out to a degree.
In the end, despite being only a bottom 6 forward, I have to conclude that these stats are underwhelming. For $2.75 AAV, being a dead liability defensively is not a net positive for the team. The Devils need any offense at all, and he helped in that regard, but the net overall was poor. Also, in 56 minutes of power play action, he did not record a single point. Of course, he did not play on the penalty kill given his lack of defensive abilities. Special teams play does not help his case any.
Finally, before we move on, here is the Devils’ forward shot chart from Sean Tierney. As you will see, Wood is the absolutely worst defensively, but at least comparatively, was OK offensively, perhaps mediocre when compared to the forward group at large.
What Do You Do With Wood Now?
The question for GM Tom Fitzgerald, then, is what to do with Wood. There are some positives about the 24 year old. He is a gritty player. He has top line speed. He seems to be a good locker room presence. He is young, and he is a RFA even after this contract expires. And, he produces some offense even while playing on the bottom 6.
However, do all of those things make his cap hit worth it? You have to take in the fact that he is an absolute anchor defensively, worse than any other Devils forward who played decent minutes this past year. In fact, his CA/60 was ranked 422 out of 428 among all NHL forwards who played 200 or more minutes at 5v5 during the regular season. That’s right. Of 428 forwards who played at least 200 minutes this season at 5v5, Wood ranked 422nd in Corsi Against per 60. He has no idea how to prevent shot attempts against. Plus, he cannot play on the PK, and he was very poor on the PP this year too. And given his age, that he will be 25 in only a few weeks, he might not have much more room for growth and seems locked into a bottom 6 role for his career moving forward.
Fitzgerald will have to decide what he wants to do with Wood. While I complain that he has the 4th highest cap hit among forwards currently, in reality, $2.75 AAV is not much, and is appropriate for a bottom 6 winger with some upside. And given that he will still be a RFA when his deal is done, that makes him easier to trade, and the Devils could get a decent price in return for him at some point. A young forward who the team can control and doesn’t have to pay a significant sum to has value. However, even if Fitz wants to move him, I doubt that happens before the trade deadline this upcoming season, if not next year. Remember, he has 2 years left on his deal. And if he becomes part of a trade deadline deal, that could gain more value in return than if he were dealt in the offseason this year or next.
So, what that means is that he most likely is on the team come the start of the new season. New head coach Lindy Ruff will most likely keep him on the bottom 6. You need your top 6 forwards to be able to handle better competition defensively. You cannot just let them get off shot attempts at will, and that seems like it is the case when Wood is out there. He has to play a bottom 6 role, where he can make use of his offensive value while minimizing his defensive liability. It would be awesome if he were surrounded by better teammates. Last season, he played most often alongside Pavel Zacha, Wayne Simmonds, John Hayden, and Kevin Rooney. Two of those guys are really nothing more than checking line guys, Zacha has underachieved offensively, providing less-than-great assistance to Miles’ offensive game, and Simmonds was dealt anyway.
If Fitzgerald can provide some much needed depth to the forward corps this offseason, Wood could receive a boost in his game simply by having better linemates on the third line, or even fourth line. He is not bad offensively, and that could help to grow his game by upping his scoring capabilities. The Devils could really use more scoring from their role players, and Wood can absolutely provide that, and does. Better teammates would improve that, which would be a big boost to the team. Until any potential trade, that is what Fitgerald and Ruff need to do to bring the most out of Wood and his game.
Will Wood See Out His Contract in New Jersey?
This is somewhat tough to forecast, but I think as you might be able to tell from my last section, I am leaning towards the answer being no. Given his age, and the fact that he will not be a UFA after this deal, and given that he has over 250 games of NHL experience already, he will command some value on the market. That will mean teams will be calling NJ at the trade deadline this year or next year, inquiring about Wood and his potential price. Any team who thinks they need to add some depth scoring to their roster to bolster their squad for a playoff run could use the likes of Miles Wood. Whatever you want to say about him defensively, he can score, and he does give it his all out there.
There are two scenarios that could realistically play out for the Devils. In scenario one, the easier scenario to forecast, they remain a bad team over the next two seasons. They bring in a lot of new talent, and the future looks promising, but they do not hit their stride yet on the ice. In this scenario, the answer is almost assuredly that he will be traded and will not see out his contract in New Jersey. Here, Fitz wants to stockpile more resources to perhaps trade for players or to draft more talent. This means he trades Wood for what he can, without a doubt.
Scenario two is a little tricker. In this one, the Devils get good quickly, and are a playoff-caliber team before Wood’s deal expires in 2022. Here, you can make the argument for keeping him through his current deal. If they are a playoff team in 2021-2022, they might want to keep Wood and his depth scoring on the bottom 6. That would mean he has better teammates surrounding him, and his output is rising as a result. It would be tough to trade that away at the 2022 trade deadline when trading him could hurt the offense, and therefore hurt the Devils’ chances at a playoff run.
However, even in this scenario, there is an argument for dealing him. If the Devils really are a playoff team by then, Fitzgerald might be in the market to trade for a rental player at the 2022 trade deadline. Wood could easily be a piece to give up in a trade like that. Trade Wood and get what you can for him, and leverage that into an even better player who could provide a bigger impact on a playoff team. It makes sense.
So there are your two scenarios moving forward. In one of them, he almost assuredly gets dealt. In the other, there still is a chance he gets dealt. And in my pessimistic mind, I also think that scenario one is more likely than scenario two. So just from the odds alone, I have to put my chips under the banner of Wood not seeing his contract through in New Jersey.
Conclusion
In the end, Wood is a good teammate, and someone easy to root for given his work ethic and gritty play. However, looking at it objectively, I think the odds are in favor of him not being on the team by the time his current contract expires. The odds just say it is so. If the Devils do not become a good team in the next two seasons, there really is no reason to keep him, and given his age and contract status, there will be value for him on the market, especially around the trade deadline in 2021 or especially 2022. And even if the Devils do get better, there are reasons to move him, in a quest to get better faster and compete sooner.
Now, given all of that, I do hope that while he is here, Fitzgerald can manage to put better players around him, and Ruff can manage to bring out more of his offensive game without exposing him too much defensively. In this past season, his offensive zone faceoff percentage at 5v5 was only at 38.56%. You know he is a liability defensively; give him more offensive zone starts. I know the bottom 6 tends to get worse zone starts, but I hope Ruff can figure it out better with Wood so as to try and minimize his defensive zone playtime. That would be a positive both in increasing his scoring chances, the area of the game he excels at, while also minimizing his exposure to playing defense, which is what he cannot do.
Your Take
That is my take, however. What is yours? Do you think he will be on the team still when his current contract expires in 2022? Why or why not? What do you like about Wood and his game, and what bothers you? If the Devils do look to deal him before his deal ends, do you think he will have value on the market? If so, how much? When would be the best time to move him? Please leave your comments below, and thanks for reading!
Matt Kuchar and John Wood at the 2020 Genesis Invitational.
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At this week’s BMW Championship at Olympia Fields, Matt Kuchar has a familiar face on the bag, but it’s not his caddie of nearly five years, John Wood. Instead, it’s Kuchar’s wife, Sybi, who stepped in as a temporary replacement when Wood and Kuchar split up after the Wyndham Championship.
According to a Golf Channel report, Wood initiated the breakup after he and Kuchar missed the cut at the PGA Championship.
“John Wood called me after the week of Greensboro and said he was going to be done caddying, at least for me,” Kuchar told Golf Channel. “Said that he was going to look into some options with TV. And so I kind of had to piece together a couple caddies in the interim.”
The nature of the TV opportunities Wood mentioned are currently unknown, but as a longtime contributor to GOLF.com’s Tour Confidential, Wood’s value as an insightful commentator on the game is obvious.
Wood played college golf at UC-Berkeley and has caddied professionally for 19 years. Prior to working for Kuchar, Wood had stints with Hunter Mahan, Kevin Sutherland, Chris Riley and Mark Calcavecchia. Wood and Kuchar first began working together in 2015 and enjoyed several highlights together, including a bronze medal at the Olympics and a win at the Ryder Cup in 2016, and Kuchar’s Sony Open victory in 2019.
Once the new season begins this fall, Kuchar plans to have veteran looper Brian Reed on the bag, who previously worked for Kyle Stanley.
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