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Katiedid Versus By Katiedid Langrock Freight fright 1453 E Lake Minnis Dr, Petersburg • 3 bedrooms, 2-½ baths on 0.77 acres • Newly fi nished walkout basement • Pool and hot tub $234,000 MLS#202041373 Real Estate Merchandisers ® Angela Barnard, Broker C: 812-698-8228 angelakbarnard@gmail.com RB18000386 OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY, NOV. 1 1-3 PM Hi stars and welcome to the big stage all lit up in bright au- tumn lights and dec- orated to help cel- ebrate with all our stars who will have a birthday or anniver- sary in the week of October 29 -Novem- ber 4. Come up onto this stage and take a bow. October 29 -Al- an Christopher Tu- ell turns 42; Mara Bolin; Jan Stephens turns 62; Mitch Ste- phens; Marcia Lynn Jarvis Ro- throck turns 66; Susie Miley turns 58. October 30 -Kat Fulcher; Josie Warner turns 10 ; Melis- sa Ann Epley turns 14; Rachel Epley Sanders turns 38; Jes- sica Lynn Maxfield turns 30 ; Fred Fiscus turns 61; Oaklee Joe Poehlein turns 1. October 31-Mildred Vird- en turns 94; Jordyn Simmons turns 25; Donna Meyer Shaw turns 41; Caysha Selby; T.J. Mai- er turns 40 ; Jeff Downey turns 50. November 1-Julia Dunn turns 94; Emily Wiesehan McA- tee turns 32; Paula Bota turns 41; Jeffery Davis. November 2-Samantha Meyer turns 43; James Capo- zella; Vernon and Ruby Ste- phens will celebrate 57 years. November 3-Vernon Arnold turns 76; Carrie Nelson; Ash- er Bryon McCann turns 6; Josh and Rachel Sanders cel- ebrate 2 years; Charles and Reta Copple celebrate 2 years. November 4-Dave McKin- ney turns 57. May all our stars have a re- ally great day and may all your wishes come true. Keep in your heart and in your prayers all our stars who have COVID-19, those with colds and allergies, those go- ing through surgery and re- covering; and those who suf- fer with the aches and pains of everyday life. EVENTS October 31-Halloween. Winslow American Legion and Winslow Lions will have a Halloween contest at 4 p.m. behind the American Legion; Sweets Column Halloween Yard Decoration in the city limits of Winslow. We will give out a small treat to those who decorate their yard to bring smiles to the faces of kids and adults. November 1-Daylight Sav- ing Time ends, set clocks back one hour. November 3-Election Day. Get out and vote for the right person for the job. November 5 -Winslow Lions Club will meet at 7 p.m. at the Gamble home. November 9 -Winslow Town Hall online. Hope we can have a regular meeting again, where everyone can attend. November 11-Veterans Day. Winslow and Petersburg se- niors will not meet again un- til Governor Holcomb gives the okay. Sweets Column, Winslow, IN 47598 received no post- cards this week. Nothing much to talk about this week, so as the lights will dim on this short column, keep an eye on family and friends. Slow down and enjoy your area. As always, smile, wave and say "hi" to everyone you see this week. "Does that freight train come through at 5 a.m. every morning? " an exhausted Vin- ny asks in "My Cousin Vinny." "No, sir. It's very unusual," the hotel clerk re- sponds. My dad is a storyteller — the very best one I've ever had the plea- sure of listening to, and I've had the pleasure of listening to some of the greats. His sto- ries are always hilarious and self-deprecating, starring him as the fool. The stories are al- so told as if on a loop. If you've heard the story once, you've heard it a thousand times. One of the classics comes from a time when he and my mom were dating. They'd gone camping and set up their tent near old abandoned train tracks. In the early hours of the morning, a train came roaring down the tracks. My dad, woken by the thundering noise and shaking ground but still half asleep, assumed they were camped on top of the tracks. He proceeded to jump up and run for his life. Unfor- tunately for him in the mo- ment, the tent was all zipped up. But in reality, it was a for- tunate thing. Because the tent was zipped up, he just ran against the nylon fabric, essentially running in place with all his might like a character in a Looney Tunes episode. Had the tent been open, he might have sleep-run right onto the tracks. Instead, my dad is around to reenact the scene every year in the living room, arms flailing and eyes closed as he runs against the side of the couch. This is where my mom typ- ically joins in the story to say that she tried to wake my dad as he ran but had a hard time doing so because she was laughing so hard. As a youngster, I loved the reenactment but always was confused by the story. How could you think you were asleep on the tracks? My mom would tell me that when you first wake up, especially in a startling way, your brain can be jumbled. Dad was just con- fused, she would say. But it never made sense to me. Two nights ago, my fam- ily finally arrived in South- ern California. We pulled in to the campground late, well after dark, and parked in the only available spot, next to the train tracks. At 2 in the morning, a loud train horn blared over and over. I jumped out of my bed in the back of the RV and head- ed toward the driver's seat. I had to drive us away before we were hit, completely con- vinced we had parked the RV on the tracks. About halfway to the front of my RV, I heard the small train pass, and I got my bearings. Oh, so that's how Dad felt. My heart didn't stop racing for a good hour, and it took about another hour after that to finally get back to sleep. In the morning, I asked a work- er at the campground wheth- er the little commuter train al- ways wakes everyone up in the middle of the night. "Nope" was all I got. OK, great. We decided to move a few spots away in the morning just to be extra sure and give some addition- al space between us and the tracks in case the train came again. Then, tired, we rented a car and went out for the day, running errands and seeing old friends in our old neigh- borhood. We didn't get back into the campground and our parked RV until after 10 p.m. and promptly hit the sack — all four of us sleeping soundly. In "My Cousin Vinny," Vin- ny is awoken by the freight train again the very next night. In the morning, ex- hausted, he approaches the hotel clerk again, annoyed. "Yesterday you told me that freight train hardly ever comes through here at 5 a.m. in the morning." "I know," the hotel clerk re- sponds. "She's supposed to come through at 10 after 4." I don't know what woke us up first, the ground shaking violently or the loud blasting horn from what must've been the world's longest and larg- est train plowing through our campground in the middle of the night. This time, I didn't have an instinct to run; I had an instinct to cower. When I saw the worker this morning, I asked incredulous- ly, "The train doesn't wake people up, huh? " "I said the commuter train doesn't," he said, laughing. "That beast of a freight train will get you every time." Follow Katiedid Langrock on Instagram, at instagram.com/ writeinthewild. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- tration and Na- tional Weather Service Central Region have re- leased their win- ter outlooks, with La Niña factoring heavi- ly into their pre- dictions. For In- diana, a La Niña winter has his- torically been associated with wetter than normal conditions, although the temperature probabilities are inconclusive for most of the state. Mid-October brought the first freeze for most of the state, with the southern Ohio River Valley being a notable exception having intermittent frost appear- ing even in this area. The freeze event was approxi- mately on par with clima- tological normal dates. A f- ter a record dry Septem- ber across central Indi- ana, rains in October have helped alleviate some of that long-term dryness. The National Weather Ser- vice in Indianapolis report- ed over 90 percent of the state fell into abnormally dry conditions, with over half the state in a moder- ate drought, according to the US Drought Monitor. While drought conditions have improved in many areas of the state over the last week, the season- al drought out- look calls for per- sistence of dry conditions in cen- tral Indiana. This informa- tion seems to con- flict, that drought is predicted to persist over the December through Feb- ruary time period while La Niña conditions tend to produce an above average chance of precipitation. The answer lies in break- ing down the winter sea- son by months. While areas of drought are predicted to persist into the winter time frame, the end of the sea- son (February and March) may provide enough rain- fall to bring the average over the time frame above the climatological normal. Climate change in Indiana, according to the Purdue Climate Change Research Center, includes more peri- ods of drought and more ex- treme precipitation events causing flooding. The win- ter outlook includes this probability by acknowledg- ing precipitation deficits to start the period with a shift- ing jet stream to increase precipitation by the end of February. Meanwhile, all forecasts and climate outlooks have a certain level of uncertain- ty. The last La Niña winter in our area, 2017-2018, fea- tured a rather dry and cold December and January, with a wet February. The temperature signal corre- sponded to a less active Arc- tic Oscillation allowing cold air to press further south. These smaller temporal os- cillations can influence, ex- acerbate, or block the tem- perature and precipitation trends we would expect from La Niña. "With our cli- mate changing at the pace it has been, it is difficult to look at La Niña events from the 1950s through 1970s and assume similar weath- er and climate conditions today", according to Indi- ana State Climatologist, Dr. Beth Hall. This leaves very few La Niña years in recent decades to draw a lot of confidence for what this season will bring. For more information on the seasonal outlook, contact Hans at the Purdue Exten- sion – Posey County office via hschmitz@purdue.edu or 812-838 -1331, or the In- diana State Climate Office at 765 -494-8060. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Jeremy W. Gibson and Christine B. Gibson convey to Ga- briel A. Horrom, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Gordon W. Curtis Co-Trustee and Gordon and Betty Cur- tis Revocable Living Trust convey to Eugene R. Hunton III, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Arthur E. Selby and Farreline Fay Selby convey to Ar- thur E. Selby TOD, Farreline Fay Selby TOD and Nicole Noel, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Shawn M. Wilson and Megan Wilson convey to Harley Wilson, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Genevieve J. Houtsch and Michael A. Houtsch Attorney in Fact, convey to Genevieve J. Houtsch Transfer on Death, Michael A. Houtsch and Doreatha Lintzenich, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Andrea M. Willis-Kemp conveys to Jeffrey T. Jochim and Mariah L. Loveless, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Pike County Auditor and Martha M. Schaffer convey to Mike Horrall, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Pike County Auditor and Kevin L. Turner convey to Mike Horrall, real estate as recorded in Pike County. 1st Franklin Group, LLC conveys to John Rotheker, re- al estate as recorded in Pike County. Pike County Auditor and Omer E. Mitchell convey to Da- vid Lee Camp and Judith E. Camp, real estate as record- ed in Pike County. Billy Matthew Harvey, Deborah K. Harvey, Lorrie L. Gray, Kelly A. Montgomery F/K/A Kelly A. Brames and Brian L. VanMeter convey to State of Indiana, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Mark A. Gasser conveys to Lucas J. Yaeger, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Patricia Ann Montgomery, Laura Jean Douglas and El- len Marie Fleig convey to Jordan T. Satterfield, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Stephen D. Heichelbech Estate, Lauren L. Heichelbech Guardian and Cole S. Heichelbech Guardian convey to Lau- ren L. Heichelbech, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Casey D. Nally conveys to Kaylyn D. Hooper, real estate as recorded in Pike County. POTTER Stev� SCHOOL BOARD DISTRICT 5 Paid for by candidate Paid for by candidate Paid for by candidate Paid for by candidate Paid for by candidate Seems like yesterday, yet it's been a lifetime. Quite a cast of characters graduated from PC in 1979. Some went off to college, some the mili- tary, some jumped right into the job market. Some moved away, some later returned, some never left. Some married and started families. This class had a varied list of life paths, actor, fi lmmaker, professional athlete, musician, health care worker, educator, US Military, construction, farm- er, mechanic, coal miner, business owner, newspaper editor, accountant, law enforcement, homemaker, politics, etc. I went to college one year, it wasn't for me. I went to work in the oil fi eld, then small coal mines. A classmate pointed me to IPL. I was hired in 1982. My wife, Kelly, and I were married in 1984. We've raised three kids who graduated from Pike Central. A nurse, a teacher and a worship team director. I am very proud of them, choosing to serve others. Through our kids' activities, I kept in touch with some classmates. One of them was Suzanne Blake, now Dr. Suzanne Blake, Superintendent of PCSC. In 1979, if you had asked our teachers if either of us would be involved in education, she would have been their obvious choice. I had thought about running for School Board for a few years and made the plunge in 2016. I had watched some of the tough decisions that were made and thought I should do my part to help. It's not that I thought the Board and Superintendent hadn't done a good job, they had, but there was going to be an open seat when Nathan Harker didn't run. Time to step up. The last four years have been quite an expe- rience. We, the Board, and Dr. Blake have had to work through things we all didn't agree on, but we worked it out. Dr. Blake and I haven't al- ways agreed, but we respect each other enough to have a discussion to fi gure things out. I feel like this Board, I as an individual member, and Dr. Blake have done a good job. With your support, I'd like to continue that job. When you see Dr. Blake, please thank my friend for all her hard work. Class of '79. Go Chargers! Class of 1979 D-6 Wednesday, October 28, 2020 The Press-Dispatch Work and By SG editor@sgstartimes.com Gibson sioners with to add and day The allow people 41 Commissioner in a "very "Toyota's he said. Lindauer ShaneM. Authorized "Responsible Elementary Mrs. Francisco would Honor the A-B Alessa Jackson A-B Miahnie Trinitee FOURTH ALL Damien Bryson FOURTH A-B Texas Everly Peyton Lillilan Down on the Farm By Hans Schmitz, Indiana winter climate outlook To enter the Birthday Club, email your name, ad- dress, phone number and birthdate to birthdayclub@ pressdispatch.net. Only the person's name, town and birth- day will appear in the paper. As an added bonus, one lucky person each month will receive a free three month Press-Dispatch subscription. This month's birthdays have a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to Sue's Flowers, Gifts and Country Gather- ings, in Oakland City. THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS Shandi Dawn Russell ................. 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