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Only two weeks remain to save $4 Registration will be held at Pe- tersburg and Winslow elementary schools on Thursday, Aug. 3, from noon to 7 p.m.; on Friday, Aug. 4, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.; and on Mon- day, Aug. 7, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Registration will be held at Pike Central Middle School and Pike Central High School on Wednes- day, Aug. 2, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Thursday, Aug. 3, from noon to 6 p.m.; and on Monday, Aug. 7, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. School registration dates set State Road 56 between Peters- burg and Hazelton is closed for a bridge replacement. Depending upon weather condi- tions, crews with Blankenberger Brothers Inc. will close the bridge spanning the Harbin Creek about two miles west of Highway 65, ac- cording to the Indiana Depart- ment of Transportation. The road will be completely closed near the bridge. Local traffic has access up to the point of closure. Work is ex- pected to last until mid-August de- pending upon weather conditions. The closure will be in effect around the clock. The official de- tour for this closure uses U.S. 41, S.R. 64 and S.R. 65. INDOT urg- es drivers to slow down and stay alert near crews. Highway 56 near Hazleton closed Otwell Miller Academy open enroll- ment for students who have not filled out an updated registration form will be 6 to 8 p.m. on July 26 at the Otwell Community Center. Enrollment can also be submit- ted online from the link found on: www. FriendsofOtwell.org or by request to: OtwellMillerAcademy@gmail.com "OMA has limited enrollment and classes are filling up quickly," said Eliz- abeth Luff. A second open enrollment will be dur- ing OMA's Open House on July 29. De- tails for the Open House will be post- ed on the Facebook page and website. Parents may pick up grade level sup- ply lists or find the list on Friends of Ot- well Facebook page. Open enrollment set for July 26, 29 Demotte injured in I-69 crash An Otwell man was injured in a crash Sunday morning on I-69 when the van he was rid- ing in barrel rolled several times. Lloyd Demotte, 87, of 10135 E. CR200 N, Otwell, suffered multiple injuries in a crash at 9:49 a.m. near the 39 mile marker on I-69. Pike County Depu- ty Sheriff Jason McKinney said Donnie Demotte, 27, of the same address, was driving a 2005 Dodge Caravan south on I-69. McKinney said Demotte told him he fell asleep and ran off the road into the median. Deputy McKinney said Demotte then overcorrected, steering the van sharply back onto I- 69 and the van began rolling over. McKinney said it rolled at least five times in about 100 yards as it went across both southbound lanes and a ditch before coming to rest on its wheels on the side of an embankment. Donnie was uninjured, but his father, Lloyd, had to be extricated and was transported to the hospital by ambulance. Mud corral mania Billy Joel Like (left), Brenton Fryman (center) and Tyler DeCoursey (right) chase after a pig while competing in mud corral racing at the Pike County 4-H Fair on Thursday, July 13. See addtional mud corral coverage on page B3. Ed Cahill photo By Ed Cahill In the 1989 movie Field of Dreams, an Iowa farmer plows under his cornfield and erects a baseball diamond after hearing a mysterious voice telling him, "If you build it, they will come." Leaders of a group planning to open a charter school in Otwell next month may or may not be hearing voices. But they, like Kevin Costner's character, Ray Kinsella, are making a similar leap of faith – that if they build Otwell Miller Academy, the stu- dents will come. With the first day of school – which is scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 9 – loom- ing, a little more than half of the 90 -plus students who had been pre-registered by their parents earlier this year have actual- ly completed the enrollment process, ac- cording to Friends of Otwell Elementary vice-president Bob Rhodes. However, Rhodes said that he was not concerned. "Whatever the numbers are, they're go- ing to increase almost immediately, and as the year presents itself, they will con- tinue to increase," Rhodes said following the group's monthly public meeting held at Otwell Community Center on Monday, Ju- ly 17. "How do I know that? Well, because of the performance of other rural charter schools, and because of, well, faith in what we're doing." "I'm sorry to disappoint people who were just abjectly looking for us to fail," Rhodes added, "but I don't think that's going to hap- pen." During the meeting, Otwell Miller Acad- emy school director Rick Fears announced that open enrollment for the K-5 elementa- ry school will be held on Wednesday, July 26, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., at the Otwell Com- munity Center to provide an opportunity for those parents who had previously pre- registered their children to complete the enrollment process. "We need parents who haven't re-signed up for enrollment to come in, in the eve- ning," Fears said. "We need them to come in and get an updated registration. When we get our numbers, then that drives every- thing else that we're doing as far as staff- ing." Fears said that he was encouraged by the number of parents who had pre-registered their children, even though they had not yet completed the enrollment process. "I don't want people to take this wrong, but I've worked with parents for many years and I know that there's a wait-and-see atti- tude a lot of times," Fears said. "But our feeling is, once the school has a year under its belt, that number's going to grow. We don't have any doubt. I think that it's going to only grow as time goes along." Rhodes said that Fears had received "sev- eral" resumes for teaching and other po- sitions. "Interviews went extremely well," Otwell Miller Academy officials prepare for school opening By Ed Cahill During its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, July 11, the Pike County School Corporation's Board of Trustees tabled the sec- ond reading of a meal charging policy which would require that a cheese sandwich, fruit and milk be served to students with long- standing unpaid lunchroom bills. The proposed meal charging policy would allow elementary stu- dents to charge up to $15 to his/ her account and would allow high school students to charge up to $10 to his/her account. However, after the limit has been reached, the student would receive the al- ternative meal until the charged amount has been paid. According to Pike County Su- perintendent of Schools Suzanne Blake, the U.S. Department of Ag- riculture – which oversees the Na- tional School Lunch Program that provides cash subsidies and US - DA foods for each meal served – is requiring school officials to de- velop a written policy to address cases when students cannot pay for a hot meal at the time they are served. "The USDA has required that we have a policy going into effect July 1, 2017," Blake told the board. "This was noted during our cafe- teria audit last fall, and a failure to implement a policy that meets their guidelines would except us from the food program." "How much money would we be talking about if we lost that? " board member Chris Satterfield asked. "The food and nutrition pro- School meal charging policy discussion continues Petersburg to take action on people living in RVs By Andy Heuring Petersburg announced during their 30 -minute city council meet- ing Monday night they are going to take action against people liv- ing in RVs, campers or buses in- side the city limits. "You are not allowed to live in an RV in a residential zone. It seems there is some of that going on," said Petersburg Mayor R.C. Klipsch. "It is a direct violation of our zoning ordinance." Klipsch said he wanted to talk to Police Chief Chuck Baumgart about this. Police Cpl. Kyle Mills attended the meeting in Baumgart's place. "Chuck want- ed to be here but he has a base- ment full of water he is dealing with," said Mills. He also added, "Chief Baumgart said we were going to issue cita- tions by the end of the week to sev- eral people living in RVs, campers or buses." "There are three or four situ- ations we are concerned about," said Klipsch. "We have some we aren't sure on and others we are." Klipsch said the new fire sta- tion is about complete. He said there are just a couple of items

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