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A-2 Front Wednesday, August 1, 2018 The Press-Dispatch TEXTBOOKS Continued from page 1 4-H FAIR Continued from page 1 AUGUST 3-4 Chicken Dinners Friday Night Only Homemade Pie Soft Drinks Lemonade Sandwiches Elephant Toes NO RAFFLES OR ALCOHOL ON GROUNDS FLOWER, PRODUCE & QUILT SHOW Southern Indiana WIFFLEBALL CLASSIC Begins Friday EVENING, CONTINUES all day Saturday 46 TH ANNUAL on Old State Road 64 between Holland (Hwy 161) and Stendal GREAT FOOD! FRIDAY SATURDAY ZOAR MOSQUITO FEST All Day Food Stands Open 6:30 a.m. Breakfast in the Tent 7:00 a.m. Registration for Color Family Fun Run 8:00 a.m. Color Family Fun Run Start 1:00 p.m. Stationary Parade 2:00 p.m. Games 4:00 p.m. Kids' Pedal Tractor Pull 5:00 p.m. Grilled Pork Chop Dinner Fun with Jim & Maggie Balloon Art 6:30 p.m. Gospel Concert FLEA MARKET & COKE PITCH COUNTRY STORE ARTS & CRAFTS DEMONSTRATIONS HELD FRIDAY & SATURDAY IN THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE IN THE CHURCH BASEMENT ON SATURDAY ENTRIES 10AM-NOON • JUDGING AT NOON THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND Homemade Ice Cream 15 Flavors HOME RUN DERBY WILL START DIRECTLY AFTER! 4 p.m. Food Stands Open 5 p.m. Chicken Dinner (Fried & BBQ Chicken) 6 p.m. Opening Ceremony 7 p.m. Country Music (Iron Mountain Band) 8–7 . Mon. 8–noon . Tues. 10–7 . Wed. 8–5 . Thur. 8–5 . Fri. DON'T FORGET YOUR BACK TO SCHOOL EYE EXAMS Now Locally Owned and Operated Dr. Clint Shoultz 715 S. 9th St., Petersburg 812-354-9400 "I don't see a problem." Fears said that the amount of the textbook rental fees are based on a formula pro- vided by the Indiana Depart- ment of Education. "Your consumables and technology fees are sepa- rate, but textbooks, it's a formula that the state has on those," Fears explained. The textbook rental fees, according to Fears, will help OMA "immensely." "It will help recoup the expenses of the materials, which, they're exorbitant," Fears said. "It'll take a few years to build up, but at least there will be a fund available to go to, to find money for something. Your textbook rental fund is not an enor- mous money-making fund. You hope to cover the ma- terials you need and maybe have a little left over for re- placements and so forth." A motion by Byrd to ap- prove the textbook rental fees as presented – which was seconded by teacher representative Kim Elliott – was approved by a 6 -0 vote, with Byrd, Elliott, Friends of Otwell representatives Steve Schoppenhorst and Jordan Hill, teacher representative Heather McCandless and parent representative Lou Fort – who participated in the meeting by cell phone – voting in the affirmative. In other action, the OMA board voted 5 -0 – with Elliott abstaining – to hire Star Rik- er as the school's speech pa- thologist to replace Jamie Jenkins, who, according to Fears, "has resigned her position at OMA as speech pathologist for this coming year." "We think she'll be a good addition to Otwell Mill- er Academy," Fears said of Riker. Fears told the school board that Riker would work 15 hours per week at a rate of $ 30 per hour. "Is that similar to the pay that Jamie was getting? " Schoppenhorst asked. "That's less pay than this year," Fears replied. "The hours are the same." Fears told the school board that Riker was cur- rently working two part- time jobs, one with the In- diana Department of Fam- ily and Social Services Ad- ministration's First Steps program and the other at Harvest Health and Rehab in Loogootee. "Right now, we don't know her exact days, but she said she's flexible on which days she could come to OMA," Fears said. "We're proba- bly looking at three days at five hours a day, versus ev- ery day ... because she still wants to retain one of these jobs plus our job since it's part-time. We feel very for- tunate to get her, because speech pathologists are hard to find." The OMA School Board also voted 5 -0 – with Elliott abstaining – to hire Jean Marcum as bus driver, re- placing Misty Sullivan, who resigned last month. "It's going to be very simi- lar to what Misty had, at the same rate of pay as Misty, and it would also be approx- imately the same amount of time," Fears said. "I think it was, give or take, a three- hour route." Marcum, Fears noted, had been a bus driver for the Pike County School Corpo- ration for approximately 12 to 13 years. "She indicated that she has grandchildren here at OMA and she just wanted to be able to do more for us if she could," Fears said. "She supports the school whole- heartedly and would like to be our bus driver. And she said she would help out in other ways if we needed it as well." In addition, the OMA board voted 6 -0 to change the dates for its regular monthly meetings from the first non-holiday Monday of each month to the third Monday of each month be- ginning in August. The meeting's starting time will remain 6 p.m. "I was at a Friends of Ot- well board meeting the oth- er day and some of the do- nors and a few of the oth- er people said that, on the first Monday of the month, the Ruritan meets, and on the second Monday of the month, the community cen- ter meets," Schoppenhorst said. "So they were hoping that we could change our date, because the Ruritans have had it a lot longer than we've had it." Fears also informed the school board that the school's application to IDOE to launch a school lunch pro- gram has been approved. "I think we're on a pret- ty good path to having the DOE satisfied with the apps we sent in and today the lo- cal health department came in and looked at the two rooms where we're looking at for the cafeteria," Fears said. "I'm pretty sure that we're going to get a positive response from her as well." "Awesome," Byrd said. According to Fears, the school's next step will be to advertise for bids from ven- dors. "It looks like it's all com- ing together," Fears said. "I'm more optimistic now we would have it toward the first of school than I was a month ago. The DOE has helped us immensely by get- ting to the application quick- ly. By the end of next week, we should know everything that we need to have ap- proved and, hopefully be- fore then, we'll get approval and can get bids in. So that part looks good." "It's not going to be a long delayed thing, even if it's not the first day," Fears added. "It's going to be pret- ty close to the first week or so of school it looks like. I don't have any control over vendors, but I'm assuming there's some out there that are interested." Fears also informed the board that he had arranged for pest control services to be conducted at OMA. "It's the same compa- ny we had during the 17- 18 school year," Fears said. "They're supposed to come and do some treatment in the morning." Fears concluded the meeting by noting that it would be his last meeting as the school's director. "I just want to say I've en- joyed working with all of you," Fears said. "Some of you I haven't had a chance to work with yet, but I have as parents or in another capaci- ty. But I've enjoyed all of you, what you did this year as far as helping OMA. Even the board members who are no longer with us, I want them to know they did a great job and, for the first year of this process, going through it, learning." "If I can help you in any way down the road, I don't live too far away, I'll be hap- py to do so," Fears added. "But I know Rich will be able to lead the board and im- prove upon what we've done this first year at Otwell Mill- er Academy. So, good luck to all of you." "Thank you for every- thing you've done for us and the school and the stu- dents," Byrd said. nal figures at next week's 4-H Council meeting, but they anticipate hearing good things. "Nobody I have talked with remembers not on- ly having cars filling park- ing lot area, but overflowing across the road and also up towards the shelter house near the Splash Park," said Gumbel. The Council was pleased with the rodeo on Thursday and the crowd it drew. "It was phenomenal entertain- ment. I only talked with one person who said it wasn't the best rodeo they had ev- er seen," said Gumbel. They were also pleased with the supercross racing on Saturday night. Cook said they had 50 partici- pants and about a 10 percent increase in attendance over last year. She added the su- percross is put on by local volunteers. As good as both those nights were, the demolition derby on Friday was even better. With more than 30 cars participating it drew the largest crowds of the week. Gumbel said the sanction- ing group, which has been involved in numerous demos around Indiana and in other states, said this was the best attended event they have been at this year in Indiana. Gumbel said this year's 4-H Coucnil has been great to work with. "We are 22 strong. I had lots of volun- teers to call on to be able to get done what we needed to." "We were positioned to have a financial success due to last year we were in the black," said Gumbel. She said the year prior to that they didn't have the funds to be able to host the achieve- ment dinner for 4-H mem- bers. She said the Farm Bu- reau donated enough to res- cue the event. Farm Bureau and IPL both donated $5,000, so the fair could have free rides. However, she said the 4- H Council still had raise $5,000 of their own to pay the $15,000 required by the ride company. She said the 4-H Council did that by numerous fund- raisers to come up with that $5,000. "I think one of the most exciting things I saw was Petersburg Hardware hav- ing their mowers out here at the fair like it used to be." She recalled how in the hey- day of the fair many of the lo- cal businesses brought their wares to the fair grounds and put them on display. She said she hopes with the bigger crowds now at- tending the fair that more businesses will join in that trend. She said they aren't go- ing to rest on their laurels of this year. Instead they will be meeting next week to go over this year's fair and start working to make improve- ments on next year. By Andy Heuring A Wadesville man was arrested for driving while intoxicated after police stopped him for speeding on Illinois St. in Petersburg ear- ly last Tuesday. He was one of two people arrested for drunken driv- ing in Pike County recently. Rick McCormick, 57, of 11100 George Ln., Wadesville was ar- rested at about 2 a.m. last Tues- day after Pike County Deputy Ja- son McKinney stopped him for driving 47 mph in a 30 mph zone on Illinois St. Deputy McKinney said when he asked McCormick to step out of his vehicle, McCormick had a hard time keeping his balance. According to Deputy McKinney's report McCormick said he was coming from a friend's house, but couldn't remember the friend's name. He said he was on his way home to Grayville, Illinois. McCormick failed all field so- briety tests. According to an af- fidavit, McCormick admitted he had smoked marijuana, but said he was okay to drive, despite failing all the tests. He also didn't have a driver's license. Deputy McKinney said when he asked McCormick if he would submit to a blood test at the hospital he replied, "there was no sense going to the hospital be- cause he knew he had marijuana and meth in his system." He was taken into custody and preliminarily charged with oper- ating a vehicle while intoxicated (refusal). A Winslow man was arrested at about 5:30 p.m. last Thursday af- ter police stopped him for not hav- ing a driver's license. Terry Jay Bogar, 59, of 4181 SR61, Winslow, was arrested by In- diana State Trooper Chase Eaton. Bogar failed field sobriety tests and agreed to submit to a chemical test. He was taken to Pike County Jail, where he tested 0.10 percent for blood alcohol content. He was preliminarily charged with oper- ating a vehicle while intoxicated. Two charged with OVWI Football car wash Pike Central football players Mario Fields and Ethan Rembe wash down a truck during the football team's car wash Saturday morning. The team washed cars at O'Reilly's Auto Parts in Petersburg from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.