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"I says, 'Jerry, Jerry, Tanya's gone.' His words were 'She better not be' and he goes back to ba href=/sleep/a/b," Jo-Ann Kach said.

And, said Mr.

Elias, Mr.

Hose himself had volunteered that Miss Kach liked older men.

"It was Tom Hose himself coming to me, telling me to be careful, she likes coming on to older men," Mr.

Elias said.

"He always pointed her out to me - that's Tanya Kach, she's got lots of problems, but she likes to come on to older men.

She was 13.

...

He said, 'One time, she even tried to get me into trouble by saying I tried to molest her or ask her out on a date.' " Tanya's stepmother said the teenager had run away several times, usually for a few days, before her final disappearance.

At the time, she said, Jerry Kach and Miss Kach's mother were splitting up.

Jo-Ann Kach, the step-mother, said Tanya resented her.

"It was adolescence, a lot of emotions," Jo-Ann Kach said.

"She felt that her father didn't love her - a new woman in the picture - and she was hoping that her mother and father would get back together." Wrong suspicions The night before Miss Kach disappeared, she baby-sat the daughter of Kevin J.

Churchfield on Cleveland Street in McKeesport, a few blocks from the Kach home at the time.

Mr.

Churchfield, 46, said yesterday that Miss Kach had watched his child a few times before.

That night, Mr.

Churchfield said, he dropped Miss Kach off at her hom...

...ba href=/sleep/a/b, go to the field the next day and really was miserable because I just wasn’t taking a step back and trying to enjoy it for what it is.“Taking things home with you every night and worrying about things way too much only adds to the pressure you put on yourself and then makes it more difficult to be consistent and to be a good teammate.” To the pen: Former K-Tribe righthander Brian Slocum moved to the bullpen for the first time last season at Akron after being a starter for the first three years of his pro career.

Slocum further refined his technique in the Arizona Fall League last October and now finds himself on the Triple-A roster for the first time.“It’s a totally different mindset because you go out there and you’re not really trying to pace yourself,” Slocum said.

“You have one, two innings tops and you just go out there and attack.

That’s the main thing on my mind.“I go out there and just try to pound the strike zone.

You don’t go out there trying to set hitters up, because that’s what the starters have done over the course of the game.

I’m really seeing and understanding how the second half of the game works and what my role is.” Repeat performance: Right-hander Sean Smith is heading back to Kinston after finishing up last season strong and giving arguably the best performance of his career during Game 3 of the Mills Cup series against Frederick, shutting down the Keys to get the K-Tribe back in the series.“I think what helped was the...

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Why does grass seed refuse to germinate on your lawn, despite aerating, seeding, liming and fertilizing, yet a single seed of chickweed, dandelion or 10,000 other vegetative pests will flourish and bear abundant fruit?

Moving on to other news: With migratory birds winging through East Tennessee by the multiplied droves right now, anything's possible.

Frank Kornegay of Kingston recorded an ornithological trifecta a few days ago while boating on Watts Bar Lake.

In the Paint Rock-Long Island area, he spotted three white pelicans, a flock of cormorants and a pair of loons.

And you thought it was a big deal to have robins in your back yard.

I have committed a sin of omission - and many readers have brought this to my attention.

I forgot to publish the dates of Ember Days in 2006.

Last year I wrote about Ember Days - the times that, according to legend, are best for cutting unwanted brush and trees.

Not realizing I'd opened a Pandora's box of botanic information, I let the matter slip.

Big mistake.

The first quarter's EDs are already history: March 8, 10 and 11.

But write down the others for future reference: June 7, 9, 10; Sept.

20, 22, 23; Dec.

20, 22, 23.

Happy brush cutting.

The East Tennessee arts and crafts community is mourning the death of talented basket maker Lonnie Taliaferro, 59, of Rogersville.

Lonnie was displaying his wares at a show in Florida last week but departed for home, complaining of illness.

Officials found him at a Georgia rest sto...