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October 9, 2019

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The Press-Dispatch Opinion Wednesday, October 9, 2019 A- 11 ER."" (end of letter). As this young woman's letter attests, she would love to stop, but her brain screams for just "one more fix." She is conscious of her downward spiral; yet she still craves one more high, one more time of feeling no pain. If it were as simple as "just stop" doing drugs, they would have stopped a long time ago. Try to "cold- turkey" your fix on coffee or chocolate. If you practice the Lenten Discipline, you have a small idea how hard breaking an addiction is. If Stephanie's words touch one person's life, her life will not have been in vain. Some will say addicts need "Tough Love." I agree, but tough love also unintentionally kills. Many people who died last weekend would have loved to stop doing drugs or alcohol, but did not have the strength to cry out for help and were probably re- cipients of "Tough Love," but still would do anything for a "fix." Jesus was asked by a man overwrought with pain as he struggled with a sick child, "Can you have com- passion on us? " If you know of some- one suffering from drug abuse have compassion on them. They know they are trapped. Pray for them, and ask God to help. As Chris- tians, we believe "nothing is impossible with God." Jesus dispensed "Tough Love," but He had the phy- sician's touch. We don't! Think about it! Court Report Continued from page 10 HEADACHE Continued from page 10 CARES FELONY Pike County Circuit Court Patricia Coffey charged with count I neglect of a dependent, a level 6 felony, and count II operating a vehicle with an ACE of .15 or more. Justin Evans charged with count I residential breaking and entering, a level 6 felony, and count II theft. TRAFFIC AND MISDEMEANOR Pike County Circuit Court John Ruble charged with count I car- rying handgun without a license and count II possession of marijuana. Randall K. Rainey charged with count I operating a vehicle with and ACE of at least .08 but less than .15 and count II operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Jamie S. Robinson charged with count I possession of marijuana, count II operating a vehicle with a schedule I or II controlled substance or its me- tabolite in person's body and count III operating a motor vehicle without ev- er receiving a license. CIVIL Pike County Circuit Court Midland Funding LLC sues Peggy Newton on complaint. LVNV Funding, LLC sues Rick Shepard on complaint. Discover Bank sues Janet Powers on complaint. Cavalry SPV I, LLC sues Jesseka Tolbert on complaint. Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC sues Christina Rogers on complaint. Cavalry SPV I, LLC sues Rodney Fretwell II on complaint. Jesseka Frederick sues Jonathan P. Frederick for dissolution of marriage. SMALL CLAIMS Pike County Circuit Court Nancy L. Roy sues Patricia McClel- land on complaint. Pike County Development Corp. sues Sherry Stewart on complaint. Tower Construction sues Kelsey Ed- wards on complaint. Pike County School Corporation sues Sara Flint on complaint. Keith Eric Perkins and Marie Lucen- te-Perkins sues Eric Michael Perkins on complaint. INFRACTIONS Pike County Circuit Court Delino C. Bowe charged with speed- ing, exceeding 70 mph. Robert P. Rockstrom charged with seatbelt violation. Steven C. Volanski charged with seatbelt violation. Joseph A. Garcia charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Dylan R. Veale charged with seat- belt violation. Virginia A. Goodmon charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Brittany E. Hulsman charged with speeding. Tiffany V. Nicholson charged with speeding. Larry G. Werner charged with speeding, exceeding 55 mph. Gerald R. Stroud, Jr. charged with speeding. Jenna L. McLain charged with speeding. Brandon J. Griggs charged with driving left of center. Douglas M. Green charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Mitchell J. Miller charged with ve- hicle with contents escaping; prohibi- tion of operation. Cayla R. Wright charged with speed- ing, exceeding 55 mph. Victoria Lee charged with failure to obey signs and markings while driv- ing a vehicle. Jarod A. Potts charged with failure to wear helmet. Keith Henry charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Continued from page 10 TOUGH LOVE Continued from page 10 ALASKA 15. Frederico Bartels is a policy analyst for defense budgeting at The Heritage Foundation's Davis Insti- tute. This column original- ly appeared on heritage.org. tried it, many a times the dispenser would miss the glasses. I think the robots became inebriated after sometime. • • • Land excursions were al- so one of my favorites. Be- cause now my feet are on land. Our tour consisted of visiting parts of Alaska and also parts of Canada via railway and buses. We failed to see the glaciers because of the fog and the ship captain announced it was too risky to go through the areas where they were located. Or maybe he just did not want to tell us the glaciers were already melt- ed due to global warming? I got to see some whales and sea lions and bears and mountain goats and Alaska Huskies that pulled sleds when we did the various land and sea tours that we joined . We were brought to a section of the Yukon ter- ritories which is a huge ar- ea and if I heard right it's as big as Texas but with a pop- ulation of 38,000 only. We also had a chance to do a brief tour of the City of Vancouver British Co- lumbia. I enjoyed seeing a program on lumberjacks showing their skills and humorous skits. It was an impressive metropolis but shockingly a very expen- sive place to live in. We went to a restaurant where the suspension bridge was located and the sticker shock for a bottled water was almost $4 Canadian, and French fries were $ 8. The City had rather heavy traffic during rush hour, and I was impressed seeing so many luxury and exot- ic cars everywhere. I often wondered who could afford these million dollar condo- miniums and multimillion dollar homes. That's anoth- er day of storytelling. • • • I could go on and on, but one thing for sure, our trip was quite delightful be- cause of our great compa- ny. We all looked out for each other and endured the endless barrage of security checks, the fear something could go wrong, or lost, or whatever. Again let me re- peat what I had said over and over, it was good to get away for a short while but there is no place like home and sleeping on your own bed. And living in Pike County. Have a great week. • • • Humor of the week: Signs seen in restaurants: "No, we don't have WiFi. Talk to each other." "Push. If it does not work, Pull. If it does not work, then we must be closed." Service ended during a wedding. The pastor said: "I now pronounce you hus- band and wife. You many now update your Facebook status." And lastly…..Kids don't know how easy they have it. When I was young, I had to walk 9 feet to change the T V channel. Have a great week. ple who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Ne- gro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs." In an 1865 speech to the Anti-Slav- ery Society in Boston, ab- olitionist Frederick Doug- lass said that people ask: "'What shall we do with the Negro? ' I have had but one answer from the begin- ning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has al- ready played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! " Or as Patrick Moyni- han urged a century later in a 1970 memo to Presi- dent Richard Nixon, "The time may have come when the issue of race could ben- efit from a period of 'benign neglect.'" Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Karen F. Bruce FK A Karen F. Earles conveys to Tonya Brackney, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Todd Flinn and Kristie Davis convey to Morales Gon- zalo, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Carl Benner conveys to City of Petersburg, Indiana, real estate as recorded in Pike County. City of Petersburg, Indiana conveys to Petersburg Redevelopment Commission, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Randall K. Hickman and Sue E. Hickman convey to Weber Investments, LLC, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Steve R. Whitehead Revocable Living Trust, Judith L. Whitehead Revocable Living Trust and Steve R. White- head Successor Trustee convey to Steve R. Whitehead, real estate as recorded in Pike County. William J. Arnold quitclaims to Deann Woods, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Wells Fargo Bank, NA conveys to Alejandra Cazares Herrera, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Greg Burke and Laura Burke convey to Steven Wayne Hale and Tanner John Hale, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Scott D. Reed conveys to Scott D. Reed and Vivian Reed, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Janell L. Lee conveys to Billy J. Lee, real estate as re- corded in Pike County. Eydie M. Dillon conveys to Kyle R. Query and Shan- na K. Query, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Braden G. Henson conveys to Aaron S. Hadley, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Sharon Ann Proctor conveys to Alan Kern, real es- tate as recorded in Pike County. Katiedid vs... by Katiedid Langrock DNA results I am American. I know where my grandparents were from, given that they either immigrated to America or were first-generation Americans. There is nothing exotic in my appear- ance to uncover, given that I'm most often referred to as having girl-next- door looks. Thus, the popular DNA tests never held much interest for me. What could I learn that I didn't already know? When my mom told me she had re- ceived her DNA results, my interest piqued just a little. Mom is Jewish. We are a displaced people. I expect- ed the results to read "just Jew" and come accompanied with a knish and some mustard. Instead, she received this exciting waltz through unknown history and was gifting nearly equal percentag- es of Ethiopian, Roma, Middle East- ern and eastern European Jew, with Turkish and Finnish roots popping up just to add a little flair and explain why we love baklava and pickled her- ring. Not together, mind you. My mom studied her features with new clarity. Her eyes, her hair, her lips. It makes sense to me that my mom wanted to receive her ge- netic profile. For her whole life, she has been asked the same question: "What are you? " There was always something about her appearance that couldn't quite be defined. Now she feels she has answers — which made me want answers. Could I be harbor- ing something exquisite and distant inside me? What faraway sounds would come to my ear, what spices to my tongue after hearing the results? My mom is my biological mother, so one might assume I already had at least 50 % of my answer through her, but those results didn't belong to me. I wanted my own genetic passport to the world. Three weeks after spit- ting into a test tube, the re- sults came in. I'm 53% Euro- pean Jewish, nearly 30 % Eng- lish/Welsh, a tad German, a tad eastern European and 3% Irish/Scottish. Oh. Well, that sounds like... me. But it also doesn't. It's... blander. When my paternal grand- mother was alive, she carried on telling stories of her Scottish roots for six decades to her children and grandchildren. She emigrated from England after World War II to mar- ry my American-war-hero grandfa- ther. But her eyes lit up when she talked about her true origins in the Highlands. There were Scottish folk- tales and songs and stories. I was in college when my grandmother (af- ter being confronted by a worker in the traveling Highland Games) ad- mitted that we were not from Scot- land after all. She'd always wished she were. Sixty years of lies down the drain. I knew I wasn't going to show up as Scottish in my DNA. But what about Irish? My paternal grand- father was supposedly an Irish Cath- olic boy. There were Irish songs and Irish dancing and, most of all, Irish drinking. He never came for a vis- it without locating the Irish pubs. A proud, strapping Irish boy, my blue- eyed grandfather was! Only 3% Irish/Scottish? We laughed at my grandmother when we discovered her heritage had been a long, elaborate lie. Had her husband's been, as well? My husband has always been told he has some Native American an- cestry. His results showed zero trac- es to support that fami- ly mythology. They did, however, indicate that 1% of his origins are un- known. Could that mean he's part extraterrestri- al? Now that would be interesting! Are we always striv- ing to see ourselves as more interesting than we are? What is interest- ing? Surely, it varies intensely from person to person, culture to culture, experience to experience. Is "inter- esting" boiled down to just "not me"? And what can this DNA truly speak to anyway? My "European Jewish" side entails a people who had no home and lived a thousand lives and stories that cannot be captured in a DNA test. On the other side, somewhere, perhaps, my ancestors of German or English descent lived in Ireland. Do my Kelly cousins no longer get to claim those songs, that heritage, because of a mea- ger percentage? We are made of the stories that come to us, by the culture our fam- ily provides. Then we move forward and choose how to keep the trail pro- gressing. We don't all get to know where we came from, but we can each pick where we're going. What cultures and worlds can I come to know? To learn about? To adopt? To support? And I don't care what percentage you are, a Guinness with a potato knish would make a mighty fine meal. Like Katiedid Langrock on Face- book, at http://www.facebook.com/ka- tiedidhumor.

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