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B-4 Wednesday, May 27, 2020 The Press-Dispatch HOME LIFE TO ADVERTISE: Call: 812-354-8500 Email: ads@pressdispatch.net Visit: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg Deadline: 5 p.m. on Monday Down on the Farm Youth First Today Solutions to common garden problems Alcoholism during the Coronavirus Lockdown EVANSVILLE ESTATE AUCTION AND OTHERS 2667 E. CR. 400 S., Winslow, IN Questions? Contact Kaleb Claridge 812-789-6761 AUCTION BARN Saturday, May 30 • 10am EDT Antiques, collectibles, clocks, pocket knives, antique toys, quality furniture, glassware, vintage Pyrex, arrowheads and much more. Auctioneer's note: We are back! You won't want to miss this great auction. We will be practicing social distancing and taking extra precautions. We will be giving out free masks (not required to wear). View hundreds of photos on AuctionZip.com, ID# 46613 LOCATION: Completely updated 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath home with new appliances, new electrical, new tankless water heater, beautiful woodwork, new kitchen cabinets, new metal roof and extra side lot. $92,500 Call or Text 812-202-0118 HOUSE FOR SALE 405 S. 5th St., Petersburg Realty 6381 E. County Road 450 N., Otwell Beautiful 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath country home on 5 acres, 2 car attached garage. Full, partially finished basement. 30'x40' pole barn, 30'x74' heated/insulated shop with car lift, 36'x100' poultry barn and wood storage shed, 4 rented, cash-producing grain bins. MLS#202002522 $315,000 1022 E. Broadway, Princeton 1-812-386-6777 NEW PRICE! CAJUN BOIL ON THE GRILL MEALS IN Monica's MINUTES Share your favorite recipe! www.facebook.com/mealsinminutes Monica's Meals in Minutes PO Box 68, Petersburg, IN 47567 mealsinminutes@pressdispatch.net FACEBOOK MAIL EMAIL By Monica Sinclair Have you fired up the grill yet this year? I know the weather hasn't exactly cooperated and made it easy to do so. Hopefully, soon, we will be able to cook out quite a bit. Just in case you are able to grill this week, I wanted to get you excited about it with a new recipe. So how about a Cajun boil, on the grill? I'm ready, I hope you are too. Enjoy! INGREDIENTS • 1 package (20 ounces) refrigerated red potato wedges • 2 salmon fillets (6 ounces each), halved • 3/4 pound uncooked shrimp (31-40 per pound), peeled and deveined • 1/2 pound summer sausage, cubed • 2 medium ears sweet corn, halved • 2 tablespoons olive oil • 1 teaspoon seafood seasoning • 1/2 teaspoon salt • 1/4 teaspoon pepper • 1 medium lemon, cut into 4 wedges DIRECTIONS 1. Divide potatoes, salmon, shrimp, sausage and corn among four pieces of heavy-duty foil (about 18x12-in. rectangles). Drizzle with oil; sprin- kle with seasonings. Squeeze lemon juice over top; place squeezed wedges in packets. Fold foil around mixture, sealing tightly. 2. Grill, covered, over medium heat 12-15 minutes or until fish just begins to flake easily with a fork, shrimp turn pink and potatoes are tender. Open foil carefully to allow steam to escape. Source: tasteof home.com By Hans Schmitz Purdue Extension Educator hschmitz@purdue.edu For all the gardeners out there try- ing their hand at a green thumb for the first time while at home, this year presents its share of unusual weather issues, all of which can be mitigated for a good crop come harvest. Many of the issues can be resolved by get- ting the right plant in the right place, while others require acknowledgment of recurrent maintenance throughout the season. Plant placement makes a big differ- ence in the garden. Some plants are related and can share diseases or in- sect problems. Some plants can pick up flavors from nearby plants. Most plants do not enjoy a location near black walnut trees, whose roots ex- ude juglone, a chemical that prevents nearby plants from thriving. The num- ber one concern for a home garden is weeds. Plant placement where weed- ing can easily occur either by hand or machine is critical to success. Some gardeners lay plastic in the rows to pre- vent weeds. This approach can be suc- cessful with one caveat. Black plastic will raise soil temperatures very near the surface, causing vegetables whose edible portions are in the shallow soil profile to ripen and rot quickly. Onions, carrots, and potatoes are some exam- ples. Gardens with a history of weed problems may be better off abandoned or turned into raised beds for easier hand weeding. Weeding fully considered, disease and pest issues are the next biggest management concern. In a wet year like this one, fungal issues are likely to rise. Tomatoes being one of the most common garden plants, Septoria leaf spot and early blight are two leaf dis- eases to watch. Small dark spots on the leaves with some chlorotic yellowing around them are indicative of Septo- ria. Bullseye formations of concentric rings of death on the leaves are indic- ative of early blight. Both tend to form from the lower leaves upward on the plant. For control of most fungal diseases in the gar- den, preventative applica- tions of fungicides are war- ranted, wherein conditions stay wet and likelihood for disease development is high. For conventional gardeners, the active in- gredient chlorothalonil is the most common for fun- gus prevention. Repeated applications are often necessary according to label instructions. For organically inclined gardeners, a copper or copper sulfate solution is most often used. Copper being a metal, over-application can be detrimental. Insect issues are very common in gardens as well. As an example, cu- curbits like cucumbers, squash, and watermelons have three particular insects that are perennial nuisances. The easiest to find are cucumber bee- tles. Cucumber beetles are smallish beetles, usually striped in our area al- though spotted varieties exist. Feed- ing damage can occur almost any- where on the plant, although leaves and fruit are the most common. These beetles have an exhibited resistance to many common insecticides and can be difficult to kill without hand plucking to a bucket of soapy water. Squash bugs are the other common insect. These bugs resem- ble stink bugs as adults, but their entire life cycle can be observed on cucurbits. Egg masses are the most unique, as they are particularly uni- formly spaced sacs on the un- derside of leaves. Leaf feed- ing is the main source of dam- age by these insects. Control options are greater for squash bugs, but the right life cycle needs to be affected, and the undersides of leaves have to be thorough dowsed along with the upper leaf side. Squash vine borers can decimate plants in this family. Signs of damage are healthy plants that completely wilt and die over a few days. The best method of control for these insects is crop rota- tion as far from any previous issues as possible, along with removal of crop residue each year. For livestock and row crop farmers, the Coronavirus Food Assistance Pro- gram full details came out last week. The sign-up process begins May 26. Call the local Farm Service Agency office to set up a phone appointment to get signed up. For more informa- tion on these or other items, contact Hans at hschmitz@purdue.edu or 812- 838 -1331. By Valorie Dassel Youth First, Inc. All of our lives have changed with the pandemic, guidelines for social distanc- ing and stay-at-home orders. We have been challenged to find new routines and a new normal during these unprec- edented times. While many of us have met the challenge with pos- itive adjustments, some have also been challenged with bad habits easing their way into our routines. Drinking alcohol is defi- nitely one activity that has increased during the stay- at-home order. According to the University of South- ern California News, alco- hol sales have increased by 55 percent in late March 2020 in comparison to sales for the same time period in 2019. The challenges of staying at home during the pandem- ic include heightened fear of illness, increased stress and boredom. Some people may cope by drinking more alco- hol. When we look on social media it is evident that many have turned occasional so- cial drinking into an "every day is Saturday" mentality. Recognizing why we are drinking more and becom- ing aware of our increased use of alcohol will prompt many people to pull back to a healthier normal. Unfortu- nately, this realization is not the case for all. Individuals in recovery from alcoholism must meet each day as a new challenge. Dr. Stephen Wyatt, Med- ical Director of Addiction Medicine at Atrium Health, shares an analogy of how the disease of alcoholism caus- es neurobiological changes in the brain. He relates the normal brain's need for ox- ygen as something an indi- vidual doesn't process and think about, but rather just automatically fights for air to breathe. In a similar manner, the individual whose brain structure has been changed due to alcoholism fights for the alcohol automatically to provide what it senses the body needs. With ther- apy and medication, just as in many other diseases, this brain response can be changed to allow the person to move into recovery from alcoholism. We must all be sensitive to the challenges that face each person in recovery. In addition, their families have also suffered through the process or, in fact, are dealing with a family mem- ber in the middle of active al- coholism. For many of us not person- ally affected by alcoholism, someone who is drunk (or something they did while drinking) may be some- thing to joke about. Unfor- tunately, alcohol use is nev- er funny to the family mem- bers of the alcoholic; rath- er, it is often embarrassing or shameful. To the recov- ered alcoholic who nearly lost family or may have ac- tually lost a relationship due to their alcoholism, an inci- dent such as this may bring them back to those feelings of shame and embarrass- ment. Additionally, someone in recovery makes a choice every day to stay sober. A comment or social media post mean to poke fun at ourselves–making light of drinking excessively, day drinking, or any normaliz- ing of alcohol use during the pandemic–may poten- tially be a trigger to some- one in recovery. This is a time for us to sup- port our families and com- munity. Most of us know someone who has been af- fected by alcoholism, and we definitely celebrate those who have conquered and found themselves in recov- ery. Be mindful of how we can support them, and em- pathize with just how diffi- cult it may be to be exposed to unintentional comments that may trigger old habits. For information about Al- coholics Anonymous and to locate a meeting near you, please visit www.aa.org. This column is written by Valorie Dassel, LCSW, LCAC, school social worker for Youth First, Inc., a local nonprofit dedicated to strengthening youth and families. Youth First provides 59 Master's lev- el social workers to 81 schools in 10 Indiana counties. Over 39,500 youth and families per year have access to Youth First's school social work and afterschool programs that pre- vent substance abuse, promote healthy behaviors, and maxi- mize student success.

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