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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sens. Rob Portman and Joe Manchin teamed up to introduce bipartisan legislation for a commemorative coin benefiting the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.

Their proposed legislation would authorize the U.S. Mint to create the coin, with its proceeds benefiting the Hall of Fame.

Portman, R-Ohio, noted the Pro Football Hall of Fame brings more than 200,000 visitors a year to Canton and has a yearly estimated economic impact of at least $30 million on the Canton and Stark County areas - and nearly $56 million in Ohio.

"The 50th anniversary of the Hall of Fame is in 2013, and the Hall is currently in the middle of a large expansion and renovation project," he said. The coin program would "set the museum on course for the future and help make it an even more attractive destination.

"Proceeds from this coin will contribute to that effort as the Hall of Fame continues to honor the individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the sport, preserve the history of the game and promote the positive values of the sport."

The bill would honor the Hall and help it promote its mission at no cost to taxpayers, he added.

Ohio also has a rich football heritage, Portman said. It is considered the birthplace of professional football, as the American Football League - which later became the National Football League - was founded there in 1920.

There are 23 Ohioans in the Hall. Only Pennsylvania with 29 members and Texas with 28 members have more.

Members from local communities are Lou Groza of Martins Ferry and Clarke Hinkle of Toronto.

Other Ohio-born members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame are Cliff Battles of Akron; Bob "Boomer" Brown of Cleveland; Paul Brown of Norwalk; Joe Carr of Columbus; Larry Csonka of Stow; Len Dawson of Alliance; Dan Dierdorf of Canton; Benny Friedman of Cleveland; Wilbur "Pete" Henry of Mansfield; Jack Lambert of Mantua; Dante Lavelli of Hudson; Dick LeBeau of London; Tom Mack of Cleveland; Mike Michalske of Cleveland; Chuck Noll of Cleveland; Alan Page of Canton; Don Shula of Grand River; Roger Staubach of Cincinnati; Paul Warfield of Warren; Bill Willis of Columbus; and Ralph Wilson Jr., of Columbus.

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The NHL Playoff Recap gives you THN's take of what happened in each game of the night and what the consequences will be for the rest of the series.

We also provide our Three Stars of the night, which will be tabulated after each round. First Star is three points, Second Star is two points and Third Star is one point. Be sure to vote on who you think the first star was as well.

Of course there's the other side of the coin: The Black Hole is a piece of the lineup that just couldn't get it going on a given night and contributed to a difficult evening for the team.

THNs Take: The question is no longer whether or not the Los Angeles Kings will advance to the Stanley Cup final. The only thing to determine now is whether or not theyll actually break a sweat getting there.

With their seventh straight road victory of this years playoffs, the Kings are on the verge of becoming the team to play the fewest games to get to the final since the 1988 Edmonton Oilers. The fact they are doing it in such a dominant fashion is a testament to how incredibly well they are playing, combined with the realization that the feel-good Phoenix Coyotes have hit a brick wall.

And by all accounts Phoenix isnt the least bit happy about it. The Coyotes are simply becoming unglued playing against a superior opponent. Well give Shane Doan a mulligan on his hit from behind on Trevor Lewis, but Martin Hanzals hit from behind on Dustin Brown and Derek Morris kneeing infraction on Rob Scuderi were inexcusable. All three will undoubtedly be reviewed, as will the offsetting minors on Brown and Coyotes goalie Mike Smith when Smith whacked Brown on the back of the legs on what might have been the worst call of the playoffs.

Like the Kings needed it. They finally got some production from the missing Jeff Carter, who scored a hat trick and was a menace in front of the Phoenix net all night. This is the team that couldnt score goals during the regular season, right? In a season when the post-season has defied all sense of logic, the Kings have scored an average of 3.18 goals per game in 11 games. During the regular season, they were the second worst offensive team in the league with 2.29 per game.

But thats what happens when a team is too big and too strong and too good for its opponent and is able to put everything together. When the Kings play the way they did in Game 2, combined with the goaltending of Jonathan Quick, theyre all but impossible to beat. Particularly for a team that knows it is hopelessly overmatched.

The Kings best players, unlike for long stretches during the regular season, have emerged to play enormous roles. The Coyotes best players are either invisible or conspicuous by their errors in judgment.

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Meter mess also in NOTL. Parkers beware, one and two dollar coins from 2012 are not being accepted in parking meters and pay and display meters across Niagara-on-the-Lake. Stickers have been placed on the meters to notify those paying for parking. The new design of the coins, rolled out earlier this year by the Royal Canadian Mint, makes them lighter than previous versions and as a result parking meters are not recognizing the coins.

Finding change for the parking meter just became a little bit more difficult.

At a time when people are more likely to reach into their wallets and pull out plastic when paying for something, finding change to drop in a parking meter can sometimes be a hard feat to pull off.

Now, people putting that change into parking meters or pay and display machines in Niagara-on-the-Lake will have to look closely to ensure the loonies and toonies arent from 2012. The problem? New $1 and $2 coins do not work in parking meters or pay and display machines around town. In fact, its not just Niagara-on-the-Lake thats experiencing this problem. Other municipalities, like St. Catharines, and beyond, are facing a similar problem.

The new coins, dubbed as a new generation of one-dollar and two-dollar circulation coins by the Royal Canadian Mint, feature leading-edge security features combined with a multi-ply plated steel technology. The end result is meant to create a more resistant, long-lasting coin that will also increase cost-efficiencies for the federal government.

The new coins weigh less than previous years editions, whereas in the past one-dollar coins weighed 7.0 grams, they now weigh in at 6.27 grams. Two-dollar coins previously weighed 7.3 grams and now weigh 6.92 grams. On its website, the Mint said it has spent several years preparing vending equipment manufacturers and operators for the change and anticipated the great majority of vending equipment will accept the new coins by the time they enter circulation.

However, Niagara-on-the-Lake and other municipalities across the country are finding out thats simply not the case.

Stickers have been placed on parking meters and pay and display machines across town, notifying people not to use the new coins.

Dawn McInnis, Niagara-on-the-Lake communications and customer service project manager, said staff is working to address the problem. Replacing the machines isnt an option, she said noting it would cost an estimated $28,000 to do so. Meter manufacturers are being consulted, but in the meantime drivers are being reminded to avoid using the coins.

Aside from looking at the year on the coin, people will be able to recognize the coins by several visible changes. The one-dollar coin will still feature its iconic loon image, but now the loon will be joined by a maple leaf in a circle. The two-dollar coins will feature two laser marks of maple leaves, each within a circle, at the bottom of the side with the polar bear design. There will also be a virtual image of two maple leaves at the top of the coin, with a different image produced as the coin is turned from side to side. The words Canada and 2 dollars will be engraved along the coins outer edge.

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PLATTSBURGH Shelly Pitcher and her 12-year-old son, Chase, never pass up loose change.

"We have done it since Chase was real young," she said. "Anytime we saw a coin on the ground, we would pick it up."

Those nickels, dimes and pennies add up, especially around the holiday season. The two have enjoyed treating themselves with the free money they had collected.

"Eventually, we were finding quite a bit, so last year we came up with the idea to save it up for a whole year," Shelly said.

By the end of summer, Chase began thinking about the best way to spend the money. The Pitchers have always been animal lovers they have both cats and dogs as pets.

And since he has volunteered at local animal shelters, he thought it would be money well spent to donate everything they found to those places.

The pair called their effort Coins for Cats, Dollars for Dogs.

ACTIVE SEARCH

For the first time, they actively went out of their way to find coins. The two specifically went to the mall and other locations where people tend to drop money.

The goal was to reach $300, in order to split it evenly among the Adirondack Humane Society and St. John Feral Cat Fund, both in Plattsburgh, and the Elmore SPCA in Peru.

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My home state of West Virginia took a few shots on the national stage last week, after more than 40 percent of those voting in the Democratic primary voted for an incarcerated felon instead of the sitting President.

So heres an effort to turn that around. A little.

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, along with Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio), have proposed a bill that would create a commemorative coin honoring the Pro Football Hall of Fame, according to the Beckley Register-Herald.

The Hall of Fame is pretty special to West Virginians, Manchin said. We have six Hall of Famers from our little state, including two who came from my very own hometown of Farmington. Imagine this: were a little mining town of less than 500 people. Nearby, we have a coal mine, called the No. 9 coal mine, and at its peak, no more than 100 people lived in the community. And we have two men Frank Gatski and Sam Huff who came from coal mining families in the area and grew up just about a street apart.

Manchin said that the proposal ultimately will cost taxpayers nothing.

Sports have given so much back to our communities, and this coin will help us support the legacy that the Hall of Fame preserves, Manchin said. The Hall of Fame truly shows us that if you have a little bit of God-given talent and you have the determination to succeed, you can be anything that you want to be.

At a time when the anti-football crowd is seizing on the perceived concussion crisis and hoping for the greatest game in the world to either diminish or disappear, its a great effort, and we encourage every NFL fan to support it.

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