The Press-Dispatch
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A-2 Front Wednesday, May 29, 2019 The Press-Dispatch TABLETS Continued from page 1 1st annual Patoka Township V.F.D. Special Kids Day For local kids with physical and mental limitations and their families. We will have a variety of sensory stimulating activities, along with seeing the fire trucks, wearing gear, using a hose and more! Children can interact with firefighters and local law enforcement in a fun atmosphere! 2898 E. Co. Rd. 150 S., Winslow JUNE 1 • 2pm - 5pm Pike County The Pike County Solid Waste Management District together with Advanced Disposal/ Blackfoot Landfill invite Pike County residents to participate in the annual Spring Cleanup. Hours for the week of will be: Thursday–Friday: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. • Saturday: 8 a.m. – 12 p.m. • Pike County Residents Only! (Must show proof of residency at entrance) • No commercial, industrial or farm waste. (Commercial waste will be charged standard landfill rates.) FREE recycling of appliances, computers, and televisions. FREE disposal of up to 4 tires. $1 charge for each tire thereafter. FREE collection of household paints, batteries, fluorescent bulbs, chemicals and other household hazardous wastes. FREE disposal of furniture and other bulky items. Items that are still in good working condition will be set aside and Pike County resi- dents can go through items as they arrive FREE of Charge. For further information, contact the Pike County SWMD at 812-354-2924 By participating in this program the participant waives any and all claims of liability against Pike County Solid Waste Man- agement District and Advanced Disposal/Blackfoot Landfill which may arise in any manner out of the services provided pursuant to this program. Further, any participant hereby agrees to hold Pike County Solid Waste Management District and Advanced Disposal/Blackfoot Landfill free and harmless from any and all liability which may arise in any manner by participation in this program. SCRAP METAL, COMPUTERS, TELEVISIONS, APPLIANCES AND HAZARDOUS WASTE WILL BE RECYCLED!!! PLEASE HAVE SEPARATED IN LOAD FOR EASIER, FASTER DISPOSAL. (Located on State Road 64, 2.3 miles east of Arthur Junction) Thursday, May 30th – Saturday, June 1st At the Blackfoot Landfill Rummage, Rummage!!!! AGAIN THIS YEAR!!! CAHILL Continued from page 1 sports staff of The Courier- Journal in Louisville. He won numerous jour- nalism awards for news, feature and sports cover- age, including Best Spot News, Best News Cover- age, Investigative Report- ing, Headline Writing, Best Education Reporting, Best News Photograph, Sports Writing, Makeup and Ap- pearance, Best News Story, Best Sports Story, Editori- als, Public Service, Best Sin- gle Editorial, Best Personal Column from the Tennessee Press Association. He was honored to win three Freedom of Informa- tion awards from the Ken- tucky Press Association, in addition to Best On-Go- ing Coverage, Best Spe- cial Section/Edition, Best Front Page, Best Sports Pic- ture Essay, Best Sports Sto- ry, Best Feature Story and Best Local News Pictures. He won two Worrell En- terprises Editorial Con- tests. He also won a Nation- al Newspaper Association award for writing. He was a 1981 graduate of Fairdale High School in Fair- dale, Ky., and a 1985 gradu- ate of Bellarmine College in Louisville, where he re- ceived his Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and The Bellarmine College Concord Journalism Award. He was an avid Civil War historian and researcher. He was the owner of Cahill Communica- tions, which published the Kentucky Civil War Journal. He was also honored to be a Kentucky Colonel. He loved everything sports, especially high school football and basket- ball, and major league base- ball, and New York Mets. He was very proud of all of Sar- ah's accomplishments and thrilled that she followed in his footsteps as a photogra- pher, owning her own busi- ness, Ky Cahill Photogra- phy. He is survived by his daughter, Sarah Abigail Hope Cahill, of Lexington, Ky., and her brother, Er- ic Lawson, also of Lexing- ton; his mother, Mary Ali- cia Cahill, of Brooks, Ky.; four siblings, Tom (Sara) Cahill, of Brooks, Ky., Stephen(Cheryl) Cahill, of Fairdale, Ky., Darlene (Dan- ny T.) Bolin, of Bardstown, Ky., and Brian (Sara) Cahill, of Louisville, Ky.; his former wife, Michelle Russell Barg- er, of Somerset, Ky.; neph- ews and nieces, Austin, Chandler, Luke, Matthew, Stephen, Alex, Jasmine, Brently, Susan, Ashley, Bri- anna, Wyatt and Braden; and a host of aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. He was preceded in death by his father, George Cahill. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. CDT on Thursday, May 30, 2019, at Bernard Fu- neral Home, 367 N. Main St. in Russell Springs, Ky., with Willie Sawyers and John Cook officiating. Interment will follow in the Lucenda Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 - 8 p.m. CDT on Wednesday and again from 8 a.m. CDT until service time on Thurs- day at the funeral home. Bernard Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. it when they get back to school. BOARD DEFENDS TRANSPORTATION DIRECTOR A parent complained about transportation direc- tor Todd Harker's handling of her child's assault. But the school board defended Harker. Emily Benefiel told the school board she didn't like the way her complaint was originally handled. "My stepdaughter was on bus six, she was sexu- ally assaulted on the bus. No one could get a hold of Todd Harker, this happened at about 3:40 p.m. No one could get a hold of this man until about 5:30 p.m. He said he was out sick. Why didn't he have someone in there to take his place and han- dle this? They say he is out sick all the time. Why can't they get someone in there that can do the job and take care of these kids and wor- ry about their safety? " said Benefiel. She added, "The state po- lice took care of it. Resource officer was upset because no one said anything to him about it. State police got ahold of him (resource offi- cer) after they went to the boy's house and confronted him. The state police han- dled it. Everything worked out because the boy admit- ted it." Benefiel said, "He (Hark- er) told the bus driver he just wanted the boy to be writ- ten up. What good is that going to do? (It is) just go- ing to give the boy a slap on the wrist. He is just going to keep doing it. The cops took care of it. I was very satis- fied with them. They kept us informed with what was go- ing on. My husband called up here and left a voicemail for Harker. Asked him to call him back. He never got a call back. I just wish there was something we could do. I don't know if there is any- thing a parent can do or if you guys can do something. You guys need to get some- one in there," said Benefield. Board president Chris Satterfield said, "Thank you for coming in. We will look into this." Board member Chris McKinney said, "I under- stand your concerns on this, but you are portraying that he doesn't care for the kids and I can assure you he does. I want to make that clear." "I wish he would show it. He isn't showing it," said Benefiel. "Some of the things that have been addressed, I can't discuss in public. I can tell you if you call me. First of all, some of the things you are bringing up were ad- dressed, were reported, they were handled proper- ly. You are making assump- tion they weren't, because it didn't hit the newspapers and say this is what we did," said Blake. "I do know what hap- pened with my daughter," said Benefiel. "I have seen the videos, so, so do I," said Blake. Blake added, "I would al- so say if you have a prob- lem with an employee of the school corporation, you should go through the proper chain of command. Before you bring it up at a school board meeting." "I was told there was a board meeting, so I came here," said Benefiel. "You are also always wel- come to come here and speak up. But personnel matters will not be reviewed in public," said Blake "We will discuss this as a board and try to get all the facts in line and come up with something on this," said Satterfield. Following the meeting, Blake said, "I'm not trying to minimize the things she is feeling, but there are ways to bring those to our atten- tion." "The father called and left a message for Todd, but didn't leave a phone number. Emily called back later, but neither called me about the concern," said Blake. Blake said, the day af- ter the situation involved a number of grade level ad- ministrators, who followed up and the school resource officer followed up. "To say we didn't do anything, isn't accurate. It was a situation and it has been addressed." The school corporation received several donations. They included $500 from Walmart to Pike Central Middle School; Sisson Steel $250 to Pike Central Mid- dle School; First Baptist Church in Petersburg $ 307 and Muren Church of God $500 for the Swing Choir performances. The board also approved the following hires for sum- mer school: Stephanie Richardson to teach IREAD3 summer school at PES, with Lori Loveless as her assistant; Amanda Gonzales to teach IREAD3 summer school at WES, with Mi- chelle Sloan as her assistant; Cassi Craig and Mark Giesler to teach summer school at High School, with Joe Chamberlain and Marva Bradfield as assistants. Other summer appoint- ments are: Daryl Kluemper for summer Ag, Chris Ash- worth for summer band, Amber Riesenbeck and Mary Wethington for Title 1 preschool jumpstart PES, and Vanetta McConnell and Michelle Sloane for WES; IREAD3 jumpstart at WES will be Brittany Scherer and Jenn Deffendoll. In other personnel mat- ters, the board accepted Debra Smith's notice of re- tirement as a kindergarten teacher at Winslow Elemen- tary School, Kathy Tisdale's retirement from Petersburg Elementary School and Bea- triz Cobo-Becerra's resigna- tion from Pike Central Mid- dle School. Cherlyn Meece retired from the staff at the Winslow cafeteria. In coaching positions, Mi- chael Bohnert resigned as varsity head swim coach and Melissa Sparks resigned as diving coach for both the high school and middle school swim teams. Jenni- fer Ficklin resigned as cheer coach and Bridget Butcher resigned as middle school cross country coach. Other staff hires include Jacob Robinette for an eight hour a day for 260 days head custodial position at Peters- burg Elementary School. Stephanie Sallee was hired as the reading special- ist at WES. Abbi Foster was hired as the Winslow special education teacher. Jenna Knepp was hired as a kindergarten teacher at Winslow and Leah Robin- son for the computer science position at Winslow. A Winslow woman swerved to miss a deer and hit a tree last Thursday. Jaimie L. Hulfachor, 26, of 1475 W. CR475S, Winslow was driving west on CR525 near CR100W when she rounded a sharp curve on the rock road and swerved to miss a deer. Her 2017 Chevrolet Sonic went off the road and crashed into a tree at about 11 p.m., according to Pike County Deputy Sher- iff Jared Simmons. She was uninjured, but it caused an estimated $10,000 to $25,000. Hulfachor crashes to avoid deer The annual Pike Coun- ty Spring Clean-up starts Thursday, May 30 and runs through Saturday, June 1 at the Blackfoot Landfill on Highway 64 2.3 miles east of Highway 61. The clean-up is put on by the Pike County Solid Waste District in conjunction with Advanced Disposal. The hours will be 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on both Thursday, May 30 and Friday, May 31 and from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, June 1. Pike County residents may dispose of applianc- es, computers, televisions, household paints, batteries, fluorescent bulbs, chemicals and other household hazard- ous wastes and bulky items, such as furniture. They will also accept up to four tires for free and each addition tire will cost $1. People are asked to sort items so that scrap met- al, computers, televisions, appliances and hazardous waste materials, which will be recycled, are separated from household trash. The services are only for residents of Pike County and personnel may request proof of residency. A rummage section will be set up. If you have items that are still working, but you just don't want around any more, those can be left in the rummage section. Residents can mill through that section and see if there is something they want. It is first-come, first-served. For information, call the Solid Waste Management District at 812-354-2924. Spring Clean-Up begins Thursday Graduation celebration Kyle Dawson, Alyssa Jenkins and Lexee Dent are among those firing off confetti guns, celebrating af- ter the Pike Central Class of 2019 is pronounced graduated. See additional photos on page A-4. Photos by Harting Studio Photography