The Press-Dispatch
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A-2 Wednesday, February 13, 2013������ The Press-Dispatch H��� School board cuts costs Larry Bass walks along Main St. Petersburg in front of the courthouse carrying a sign that reads: ���Registered Sex Offender Who Bought Alcohol for Kids��� as part of his plea agreement. Bass sentenced for probation violation A Petersburg man was ordered to walk in front of the Pike County Courthouse displaying a neon orange ���sandwich sign��� stating ���Registered Sex Offender Who Bought Alcohol for Kids.��� Larry T. Bass, 29, entered a guilty plea in Pike Circuit Court to the charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Part of the plea agreement called for him to walk back and forth on the sidewalk along Main St. on the block of the courthouse from noon until 1 p.m. on Friday, February 8. Pike County Prosecutor Darrin McDonald said Bass was convicted in May 2010 of child molesting, a class C felony. He was sentenced at that time by Pike Circuit Court to five years in the Department of Corrections. Following his release from prison on that charge, Bass was arrested for buying juveniles vodka in September 2012 during the Winslow Community Fest. At the time of his arrest, he was serving an additional two-year term of probation. McDonald���s news release states, ���the terms of Bass��� plea agreement call for him to serve 823 days in the Wabash Valley Work Release facility at Vincennes after his public demonstration.��� McDonald explained Bass will get one day of credit for every day of good behavior, making it possible for him to complete his sentence in half of the 823 days. McDonald added that inmates of Wabash Valley are required to pay for the cost of their incarceration Woman sentenced for solicitation scam A Daviess County woman has been sentenced to 10 years in a work release facility where she will be required to repay money that she and her husband stole from Pike County residents in a door-to-door solicitation scam. Rita Fraley, age 27, plead guilty to corrupt business influence, a class C felony, and two related counts of neglect of a dependent, a class D felony. Fraley appeared in Pike Circuit Court February 7, where she admitted that she and her husband Justin Fraley stole cash, medicine and jewelry from homes last July and August by pretending to solicit donations for charity. Fraley admitted to using her two children, ages 5 and 11, to gain entry into the homes as part of pleading guilty to two counts of neglect. She is ordered to repay $1,641.25 to the victims in restitution while she is in the Wabash Valley Regional Community Corrections program in Vincennes. Fraley���s scam tactic was to gain entry to homes with her husband by asking for charity donations. They would ask to use the bathroom, then steal medicine out of medicine cabinets. They would also ask to pray with homeowners, then go through purses or wallets while the other was praying. Fraley worked her scam mostly in Petersburg apartment complexes, such as Brookfield Apartments near McDonald���s and apartments on Nichols Avenue. USPS may end Saturday delivery A plan to end first class mail delivery on Saturdays was announced by the United States Postal Service last week. The USPS predicts it will save $2 billion a year. The plan could take affect on August 5. They will continue to deliver packages on Saturday and first class mail to post office boxes. Over the past several years, the Postal Service has advocated shifting to a fiveday delivery schedule for mail and packages. However, recent strong growth in package delivery led to the revised approach to maintain package delivery six days per week. ���Our customers see strong value in the national delivery platform we provide and maintaining a sixday delivery schedule for packages is an important part of that platform,��� said Donahoe. ���As consumers increasingly use and rely on delivery services ��� especially due to the rise of ecommerce ��� we can play an increasingly vital role as a delivery provider of choice, and as a driver of growth opportunities for America���s businesses.��� Once implemented during August of 2013, mail delivery to street addresses will occur Monday through Fri- day. Packages will continue to be delivered six days per week. Mail addressed to post office boxes would continue to be delivered on Saturdays. 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The board approved the recommendations that the coach be the bus driver of the small activity bus (an assistant or a parent could also drive the activity bus if they are approved by the school) and phasing in of health insurance costs for administrators with 10 percent of the cost added on May 1, with the determination on the remainder next year. The board also approved closing out accounts 700 and 710, which have not been used since 2003, and transferring their balances of $635,000 to the Rainy Day Fund. Randy Graham submitted his resignation as the boys and girls cross country coach for Pike Central High School. He has been the cross country coach at PCHS for many years. The board gave approval to that resignation and to the resignation of Allen Tegemeyer as a custodian. The board also passed a stricter policy on who can be issued passes to sports events. The policy contains a limit on the number of sports passes and to whom they are given. Anyone who works five or more events can receive one plus the school board members will receive two passes. The Pike County School March 7-9. ��� PCHS automotive stuCorporation Board of Edudents to attend a conference cation also approved: ��� The use of the Pike in Louisville Feb. 22. ��� A letter to the county Central pool for swim lessons sponsored by Tractors treasurer asking for monthfor Trenton. The lessons are ly tax draws instead of twice for younger kids and this is a year. ��� A request to bill Medthe second year for the proicaid for Special Education gram. ��� Fuel escalation costs of students. ��� The appointments of $5,681.76 for February. ��� Accepting a four cyl- middle school spring sports inder engine from Toyota, coaches including Ryne a donation valued at $4,000. Biesterveld for boys track; ��� Accepting a grant from Jeremy Howald as assistant the Evansville Audubon So- for boys track; Dustin Powciety of $497.86 for the Out- ell as baseball coach; John Miller and Nichole Miller door Lab. ��� A volunteer worker for for girls track; Terry Stone as a volunteer assistant softthe school corporation. ��� Appointed Chris Sat- ball coach. ��� Approved the high terfield to the Winslow Park school coaching posiBoard. ��� Appointed David Waltz tions of Eric Knight and and Chris Satterfield to the Stan Shoultz as assistant boys track coaches; Jarrod Board of Finance. ��� The recertification Gideon for boys golf coach; of seven employees for the Shawn Warner as assistant QPR suicide prevention pro- boys golf coach; Chris Hadley as girls head track coach gram. ��� Robotics Field trips and Randy Graham and to Xavier University in Cin- Bonnie Stone as assistant cinnati March 21-23 and girls track coaches. ��� Chris Kramer attendto Rose-Hulman University ing a track coaches clinic; April 4-6. ��� The BPA trip to India- Mike Hildebrand attendnapolis for a conference and ing a School Safety Academy April 21-23; and Lorice competition March 10-12. ��� The Swim Team Swing Chamberlain and cafeteria Choir members to attend managers attending a food the State Swim Meet Feb. seminar on March 14 in 8 and 9 to sing the National Evansville. ��� A donation of $600 to Anthem. ��� The FCCLA attending the Swing Choir from Cup a conference in Indianapolis Creek Baptist Church. H��� Machining champion Continued from page 1 VU for precision machining after he graduates from Pike Central. Morton said he first got involved in the trade because of his father and grandfather, but soon fell in love with it himself. ���Dad���s done it his whole life,��� he said. ���That���s what him and Grandpa always did. It interests me though���I really enjoy this stuff.��� Morton has already worked during his freshman and sophomore years at Onyett���s as a part-time machinist. He joined Pike Central���s machining program as a junior. ���I can sit in front of that lathe all day and just play around with it and learn new stuff every minute,��� he said. ���I want to see how far I can go on the CNC (machines), master them and learn all the computer software. Draw anything up you can imagine on the computer and put it on the machine, a five-axis mill can just make whatever you can fathom.��� He pointed to a table of parts made by students in the Pike Central machining lab. ���You see those parts up there, that rim, that steering wheel���anything you can think up you can pretty much build, and that���s just���I want to learn that.��� At the Machine Trades contest, Morton won first place in the advanced precision machining programming division of the CNC Lathe competition, earning himself a $2,500 scholarship to VU, a toolbox, some machinist���s tools and a suite of software valued together at about $1,000. At the Skills USA contest, Morton won first place in the Precision Machining division, winning another $2,500 scholarship to VU. His classmates Alex Englert, Sam Steiner and Shayn Knies also did well in the competitions. Englert got a first in the CNC Lathe division and third overall at Machine Trades, and a first in the CNC Mill at Skills USA. Steiner got a third place in CNC Mill both at Machine Trades and at Skills USA. Knies got third place in precision machining at Skills USA. Englert, Steiner and Knies attend other high schools���Forest Park and Wood Memorial���but come to Pike Central for machining classes, since Pike Central offers college credit at VU for machining. ���We���re basically doing the same thing in our first year here that VU does in their first semester,��� machining program teacher Mark Scott said. ���Kids take this a couple of years, then they can go straight to work. There���s opportunities for kids who might not want to go to a four-year college. They can either go to work or continue their education in machine trades.��� Scott said one of the important things about the contests his students attend is the employers that show up to look for young machinist talent, like Morton. ���We have a job fair at the Machine Trades contest. About 20 companies come to hire, and so there���s more companies looking than we have graduates.��� At this year���s Machine Trades job fair, 15 Indiana Follow ThrouGh on TANNING SpecIAl 1 Month ���Any Bed��� your nEw yEar���S rESoLutIon the GeT IN companies showed up, such as Prodigy Mold and Tool in Haubstadt, Loughmiller Machine Tool and Design in Loogootee and EBN Industrial Supply in Vincennes. Five companies from other states were talking to students about jobs as well. ���This is our third year (of the machine program at Pike Central),��� Scott said. ���I think we���ve put together in a short time a first-rate program. We have a good lab, good equipment, job opportunities and college credit. We just need kids to come in.��� Once he started up one of the CNC lathes in the Pike Central lab, Morton���s face lit up and he started talking faster. He punched in some codes on the machine that made it trim down the size of a part and went through every step of the program��� which he wrote himself��� like a commentator at a horse track as the lathe followed its orders. ���See, you can watch each handle (on the machine) as it moves,��� he said over the whir of the lathe. ���Right now it���s doing the radius, you can see that feed out, now it���s doing the chamfer.��� The machine stopped, and he pulled the finished part out to show it off. ���Boom. End of the program.��� Morton said he���d had that feeling ever since his first day in the Pike Central machining lab. ���Your first day in here, your junior year, you���re kind of nervous... 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