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Local ........ A1-12 Sports .........B1-6 Classifi eds ....B7-8 Church ........C1-3 Home Life....C4-7 Obituaries....... C7 School.........C8-9 Opinion .. C10-11 E. Gibson ..... C12 WHAT'S INSIDE: CONNECT WITH US: NetEdition ...pressdispatch.net/edition Facebook.....facebook.com/pressdispatch E-Mail .........news@pressdispatch.net Phone:.................. 812-354-8500 Fax: ...................... 812-354-2014 E-Mail . editor@pressdispatch.net NEWS TIPS: PIKE PUBLISHING See PAR ADES on page 2 See DISEASE on page 8 Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Volume 148 Number 48 Phone (812) 354-8500 Petersburg, IN 47567-0068 (USPS 604-34012) $ 1 See CHARGES on page 8 Three sections 32 pages Three inserts By Andy Heuring The annual Christmas parades in Win- slow and Petersburg are set for Saturday, December 1. Santa will be in both parades and available in both towns after the pa- rade. The Winslow parade is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Saturday, December 1. Line-up is at 9 a.m. at the Winslow Fire Department on Union St. The parade will proceed from there to Main St., and then north to the Lit- tle League park. Other activities in conjunction with the parade include Santa and Mrs. Claus meet- ing children in the Nazarene Church Fel- lowship Hall following the parade. This will also be the location of the Mouse House, which allows kids to purchase inexpensive gifts for siblings and friends for between $1 and $5. Winslow will also have a Winter Wonder- land featuring numerous Christmas decora- tions and displays in the former Dime Store on Main St. from about 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the day of the parade. It will also be open from 3 to 6 p.m. on the next two Saturdays, December 8 and 15. PETERSBURG PARADE DEC. 1 The Petersburg Christmas parade will start at 3 p.m. on Saturday, December 1, with line-up on Walnut St. in front of the Old Petersburg Gym and next to the court- house. The parade will go one block on Highway 61 to Main St. and then proceed south to Second St. Entries are asked to fill out a entry form that can be picked up at City Hall by Friday, November 30. Entries will be accepted the day of the parade, but put at the back of the parade. Prizes of $100, $50 and $25 will be given for the top three entries. Each entry will be announced and judged at the review stand. Santa will be in the parade and then he will be available to see children at the cor- ner of Seventh and Main Sts. in the Santa House. The hours of the Santa House are Dec. 1 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.; then from 2 to 4 p.m. on Dec. 2, 8, 9 and 16. HOLLYWALK IS SET FOR DECEMBER 8 Petersburg Annual Hollywalk is set for A special meeting of the Pike County Council has been called to consider a res- olution on improving CR 300 N. The road connects Highways 57 and 61, just south of I-69. The Pike County Highway Department is applying for an Indiana Department of Transportation grant that would pay 80 per- cent of the cost to upgrade the road. Ashley Willis, Executive Director of Pike Economic Development Council, is work- ing with the Pike County Highway Depart- ment on the grant application. She said the plan is to upgrade the county road so it can handle heavy loads associated with an in- dustrial park. The road will provide access to mega sites along Indiana Southern Rail and the 340 -acre shovel ready site. She said the grant is for Phase I of the project which is from Highway 61 to Indiana Southern Railway. However, they hope to eventually do the second phase and improve from In- diana Southern Rail to Highway 57. Willis said the new bridge over I-69 is up to code, but the actual roadway needs to be widened and improved to handle in- dustrial traffic. The special meeting is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, December 4 in the Courthouse Auditorium. Council will be asked to consider the resolution that would support the project and commit to funding Pike County's 20 percent match. Special meeting to consider improving CR300N By Andy Heuring A woman was arrested on dealing meth charges after she pushed a jailer to the floor while being strip searched, grabbed a bag of drugs off a table and attempted to flush them down the toilet. Tera Jo Nalley, 31, of 302 W. Williams St., Fort Branch, was arrested on prelim- inary charges of dealing in meth, at least 10 grams, a level 2 felony; possession of meth, at least 28 grams, a level 3 felony; dealing scheduled I, II or III controlled sub- stance, a level 6 felony; dealing a sched- ule IV controlled substance; possession of a controlled substance; battery-no injury, victim is a public safety official, a level 6 felony; obstruction of justice, a level 6 felo- ny; resisting law enforcement; trafficking with an inmate, a level 5 felony; and posses- sion of marijuana. She was arrested by Petersburg Po- lice Cpl. Jared Simmons. He said he saw a pickup truck leave the Circle K conve- nience store in Petersburg at about 11:40 p.m. on Friday. The truck was "swerving all over its lane." Simmons said it crossed both the center line and fog line twice be- fore he stopped it near the Pike-Daviess County line. Cpl. Simmons said the driver, Jacob Harner, claimed he was having a hard time keeping the vehicle on the road because of the strong wind and his truck being low- ered. A free air sniff of his truck by Depu- ty Buck Seger and K9 Officer Bleck indi- cated illegal drugs. Harner, according Cpl. Simmons' re- port, said he and his passenger, Nalley, had smoked marijuana earlier in the vehi- cle. The report also stated Deputy Seger could smell the odor of raw marijuana com- ing from the open window on the passen- ger side of the vehicle. During a search of Nalley's purse, Sim- mons found four Oxycodone pills and one Woman arrested on multiple charges after tussle with jailer By Andy Heuring A Pike Central grad, now living in Pitts- burgh, is fighting the devastating flesh eat- ing disease called Necrotizing Fasciitis. Brian Arensman, 43, a 1991 graduate of Pike Central, was at the point of death repeatedly just hours after the disease at- tacked his body. Arensman, who, as a computer techni- cian, travels nationwide and international- ly on his job, was returning from a business trip on a Tuesday morning in late June as his first symptoms flared up. Arensman is the son of Bob and Barb Fischer, of Velpen, and the late Alan Arens- man. He had been having problems with a toenail and about four days earlier, the toenail came off. Arensman's wife, Shanon, said they don't know how the disease got into his body. "It could have been through the toenail or some other cut on his body." She said Arensman didn't have any pain on Monday, but on Tuesday morning, while he was flying back to Pittsburgh, he started having significant pain. She said he took a picture of his leg and sent it to her. It had begun to swell, but then it started turning pink and purple. She said he basically changed clothes from his travel and headed to the hospital. "He didn't realize it but he was already in septic shock," said Shanon. She said the doctors were able to diag- nose it as Necrotizing Fasciitis, more com- monly known as flesh-eating disease. It at- tacks and kills the body's soft tissues. A week earlier, his toenail has been diag- nosed as a strep infection. The doctors met with Arensman and Shanon and explained their various sce- narios. They were told if things went real- ly well, they might be able to just go in and clean out the infected areas. Other possibil- ities were worse depending on how much of his leg and body the infection had attacked. "They told us it depends on how bad it is, but there is a good chance he could lose his leg. So we knew going in a possibility was to have his leg amputated." They weren't prepared for how bad it was going to be. "When they took him back to surgery. He said, 'I guess I will be one lucky guy if I come back and have both legs.' I said 'don't be talking like that.'" It was early in the morning, about 1 a.m. "I waited in the waiting area pacing and calling my mom and his mom. . . I heard a code being called over the hospital PA. I thought, 'it is 1 a.m., who else is in there? ' I was thinking that is my husband. You know in your gut something is bad. They are tell- ing me 'just calm down.' I saw doctors run- ning by. I was trying to get them to talk to me." Shanon works at a hospital as a mon- itor tech, so she knew even before doctors Former resident fighting flesh-eating disease Christmas parades in Winslow and Petersburg on Saturday Helderman injured Thanksgiving morning Emergency personnel attend to Jonathan Helderman, 17, of 8313 S. SR 61, Monroe City, at about 11 a.m. Thanks- giving morning. Helderman was driving a 2010 Ford Fusion south on I-69, near the 47-mile marker, when he appar- ently fell asleep and ran off the road, hitting a guardrail head-on. When emergency personnel arrived, they found Helderman on the ground behind the vehicle. Pike County Depu- ty Sheriff Brad Jenkins' report said Helderman was conscious, but not responding well. He was taken to the hospital by Pike County EMS. Winslow Christmas decorations go up David Gayhart and Nathan Deweese put up Winslow's large Christmas wreaths along Main St. on Monday morning. The decorations are going up just in time for the Christmas parade on Saturday morning that starts at 10 a.m. Petersburg's parade is set for 3 p.m.