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ZOAR MOSQUITO FEST IS AUGUST 2 AND 3 The 47th Annual Zoar Mosquito Fest is set for Friday and Saturday, August 2 and 3, located at the Pike-Dubois county line, about three miles east of Stendal. It will feature many activities that make it one of the funnest rural festivals in Indiana. It is the home of the Southern Indiana Wiffleball Classic, stationary parade and old-fashioned games. It starts on Friday with the food stands opening at 4 p.m. The chicken dinners, fried or BBQ, will be available at 5 p.m. Opening ceremonies are at 6 p.m., fol- lowed by a Kirby Stailey concert at 7 p.m. The food stands will be offering home- made pie, sandwiches, elephant toes, soft drinks and 16 flavors of homemade ice cream. Saturday starts early with breakfast in the tent at 6:30 a.m. The family color fun run is at 8 a.m., with registration start- ing at 7 a.m. The stationary parade is set for 1 p.m. This parade is in the parking lot, with the parade participants lined up. Unlike a tra- ditional parade, the participants are sta- tionary and the viewers walk around the parade. They will have old-fashioned games at 2 p.m., featuring sack races, three-legged races, balloon toss and egg toss. The flower produce and quilt shows will accept entries from 10 a.m. to noon, with judging beginning at noon. A kids' pedal tractor pull is set for 4 p.m. Grilled pork chop dinners are available at 5 p.m. on Saturday. A gospel concert starts at 6:30 p.m. by Eternal Vision. The Wiffleball Classic starts on Friday night and will run all day on Saturday. A flea market, country store and Coke pitch will run through the festival. Mosquito Fest, Sweet Corn Fest this weekend Bargain Period extended to Saturday Your last days may be upon you – to renew or subscribe and save $4 on your subscription to The Press-Dispatch. The July Bargain Peri- od has been extend- ed to noon Saturday, August 3. Until then, new subscriptions or renewals are just $27 a year in 475 and 476 zip codes, which is $4 off the normal rate. The rate outside 475 and 476 but in Indi- ana is $ 30 for one year. Outside of Indi- ana the rate is $47. Seniors age 65 and older get another $ 3 off those rates. The online-only version is just $ 31 a year. Call 812-354- 8500 to subscribe by phone or turn to page B-10 to subscribe by mail. ***************SCH 5-DIGIT 47567 0001 7-31-19 NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIBER PO BOX 68 PETERSBURG, IN 47567-0068 If your address label is highlighted in orange, you're about to expire! As families get ready for heading back to school, they will be faced with a new registra- tion system this year in Pike County schools. The Pike County School Corporation is transitioning to a new Student Information System (Harmony). A letter to parents states: "As part of this transition, we are using the online registra- tion feature of Harmony. This first year, par- ents/guardians are asked to come into the schools during the scheduled registration days and times. We will have computers and staff available to help anyone that has ques- tions or needs help. This is a new process for all schools at PCSC. We ask for everyone's pa- tience as we go through this process." This year's registration will be much like in the past, there will be many documents that parents are expected to read and sign off that they have read and agree with the doc- ument. The letter states, "Some of these are longer and we want parents to have time to read these beforehand." Those documents are listed below and can be found online at the individual schools' web- sites, so parents can view them ahead of time. They will be located under the For Parents section and under the For Parents–Policies- Forms. • PCHS Handbook • PCMS Handbook • PES Handbook New school registration system in use this year See NICHOLS on page 2 By Andy Heuring Winslow native Terry Nich- ols has been an elementary school teacher for the last 26 years; however, his career has been anything but typi- cal. Nichols has traveled and taught in countries most peo- ple haven't even heard of. "My father (Udell Nichols) was in the military so I had a desire to travel," said Nich- ols, who just returned to Pike County in June. When he was 38 years old, he decided to go back to college and get a degree in teaching. Despite being married and having children, Nichols took the plunge, re- turned to school and complet- ed his degrees. "I thought it would be easy to get a teach- ing job. It wasn't." He taught in Arizona on an Indian reservation, but be- cause of restrictions on his di- vorce settlement, he couldn't take his kids that far away. He took a position in Porter County, Ind., which is near Chicago. He didn't like that ei- ther. He found a job teaching in Kentucky. It was an area he enjoyed. But while teach- ing there, his high school-age children decided they wanted move back to Indiana and live with their mother. Nichols decided he didn't want to stay in Kentucky. He heard about a job fair for teachers. He said they were looking for experienced teachers. "A lot of times when they hired new teachers, they would get homesick and leave." While he was experi- enced teaching in the states, he was not experienced over- seas. "So I took what I could get, and Kuwait was what I could get." "I didn't like it. Nobody likes it. Well, I guess a few people do," said Nichols. He said it was just so strict. He said no alcohol was al- lowed. "No alcohol didn't bother me." But other things did. He said he heard a per- son was arrested on the street for chewing gum during Ra- madan. "I just taught there a year. I got out of there as quick as I could." After career of teaching in seven countries, Nichols returns to area By Andy Heuring A Campbelltown family lost their dog to a fire in the garage on Thursday morning. Phyllis Arnold said she had been asleep and went out to the garage to let her dog out and when she opened the door, black smoke billowed out of garage to their house. She said their dog of 12 years was in the garage. "She is an outside dog and she stayed in the garage. She wouldn't come out, so I had to go get her," said Arnold. EMTs who went to the fire gave the dog oxygen and Arnold took her to the veter- inarian. Arnold said the dog was getting better, but the next day she regressed and was struggling to breath, so the veterinar- ian recommended having her put down. "That is the worst thing. We had her for 12 years. She was (her husband) Kevin's dog. We can replace all the other stuff, but we can't replace her." Petersburg Fire Chief Ross Elmore said the fire was started by the electrical sys- tem on a bass boat in the garage. He said it shorted out and caught fire. He said it ap- peared the fire put itself out when it burned out all the oxygen. "They were lucky. I have never seen a garage that tight do that Arnolds lose dog in garage fire 4-H horse & pony show winner Kylie Jenkins and her horse were named the winners in the Halter Mares Class during the horse show at the Pike County 4-H Fair on Friday, July 26 at Hornady Park. See additional photos on A-7. Winslow native Terry Nichols reclines on the front porch of his cabin in the woods. Nichols retired from teaching after spending more than 20 years teaching in elementary schools in Asia and the Middle East. JULY BARGAIN PERIOD SEE DETAILS ON PAGE B-10