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A-6 Local Wednesday, August 21, 2019 The Press-Dispatch Purdue Extension Pike County News Pike County August horticulture tips With This Ring... Area Reunions Student Spotlight STOP it takes 3 MINUTES to subscribe to 812-354-8500 50th wedding anniversary David and Jane (Markham) Reed will be celebrating their 50th wed- ding anniversary. They were married August 22, 1969, at the Petersburg First Unit- ed Methodist Church. The couple have one son, Jimmy Reed, of Petersburg, and three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. 40th wedding anniversary Robin and Tonya Wil- lis will celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary on Sunday, August 25, 2019. They were married on Au- gust 25, 1979, in Petersburg. They have three daugh- ters, Ashlee Willis, Krista Robinette and Cierra Young. They have three grandchil- dren, A zalin Vennard, Layn Young and Kreigh Robi- nette. Robin and Tonya re- side in Petersburg. A card shower is being planned. Cards may be sent to: 614 N. 7th Street, Peters- burg, IN 47567. BEADLES REUNION The Beadles Reunion will be Sunday, Aug. 25 at the Beadles Cemetery, with lunch served at noon. Tea and lemonade will be provid- ed. Bring your favorite cov- ered dish or dessert. Bingo will be played. All friends and family are invited to at- tend. ROYALTY REUNION The Royalty Reunion was hosted at Jordan Park in Spurgeon on Sunday, Au- gust 11, with 51 relatives and friends in attendance. Attending were: Bob and Doretta Royalty, Dennis and Donna Oldham, Rhon- da Enlow, Sandy Royalty and Kevonte Frye, Kalayah and Kaniyah Davis, Lind- sey Royalty and Tyler Mor- ris, Ronnie and Sharlet Sills, Brenda Hayes, Bill and Sa- mantha Robinson and Liam, Tiffany McCandless, Carly Robinson, Shayla Meny and Alex, Brian and Shelly Nor- rington, George Boost, Su- san Voegel, Greg and Kim Brace, Danielle Boost, Lou- ise Houchin, Donald and Beverly Gieselman, Auna Roe, Crickett McKinney, Bryan and Crickett Grubb and Zane, Logan and Janey McKinney and Chloe, Dar- rell and Thelda Woolsey, Bob and Mary Hume, Wan- da Russell, Shandi Russell and Joseph and Joey Coul- son, Kailee Russell and Brayden Angermeier, Ter- ry Strobel and Stacy Russell. It was a blessed day and another year has passed so quickly. Mark the date of Au- gust 9, 2020, for the next re- union. Bohnert named to ILCC Dean's List Jacob Bohnert, of Pe- tersburg, was named to the Spring 2019 Dean's List for Iowa Lakes Community Col- lege. Students (12 credits or more) who have demonstrat- ed academic excellence by earning a grade point aver- age of 3.25 (based on a 4.00) or higher are recognized by inclusion on the Dean's List. Perseverance: persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. This Technology Center project has been in the works for about eight years, which is long enough for some- one to graduate from high school and obtain a bache- lor's degree. Any project that is years in the making takes perseverance and vision. The Technology Center project, like many others, has faced its fair share of obstacles and challenges. But because of a committed, working group of individuals with a "teamwork" at- titude, this project will see a ground- breaking at the I-69 interchange in Pe- tersburg. Last week, Pike County EDC's sis- ter organization, the Pike County Progress Partners, Inc., received the green light to begin the bid process. Pike County Progress Partners has been working on bringing the Buch- ta Technology Center to fruition for a few years. In the Fall of 2017, we received a grant award from the US Economic Develop- ment Administra- tion (EDA) for new construction. A fter a year of planning and due diligence, unfor- tunately, we went to bid and the bids came back much higher than anticipated. Fast forward, our friends at EDA came through to support our project in a big way. EDA sees the importance in our project and for ru- ral Pike County in southwest Indiana to help bring a much-needed asset to our region. Today, we are thrilled to be bidding the project and hopeful for what the future will bring and support our economic development activities. Pike County is thrilled the Technol- ogy Center has been funded with an EDA grant and many private/public partners to foster start-up businesses, have a co-work, maker space, training facility for new and existing employ- ers, and office space. Pike County is a rural community that refuses to become a sleepy-eyed community. The elected officials, lo- cal business leaders, stakeholders and the Pike County Economic Devel- opment Board have taken an aggres- sive approach to diversify the local economy. The Technology Center is a symbol of us investing in the people, businesses and bringing innovation to our community to springboard our region into the technological advanc- es that are required for our workforce in business and manufacturing indus- tries. This example of persistence and teamwork attitude is the true spirit of Pike County. We roll up our sleeves to work diligently towards common goals that strengthen our communi- ty for a brighter tomorrow. For more information, visit our Facebook page at Pike County Eco- nomic Development Corporation or email Ashley Polen Willis at pikeg- rowth@pikeco.org. Pike County Economic Development By Ashley Polen Willis Down on the Farm By Hans Schmitz, Purdue Extension Educator Technology Center gets green light to bid Reports unleash myriad of questions Last week, the United States De- partment of Agriculture released a closely watched report. The Ameri- can Meteorological Society released a report of similar vision shortly thereafter. Both reports receive a healthy amount of scrutiny, and both are fairly alarming. The USDA report was for World Agricultural Supply, Demand, and Exports and Crop Production. The World data took a backseat to the Crop Production data, with the US predicted to produce corn and soy- beans at odds with market expecta- tions. The USDA report shocked the system on both markets, predicting more harvested corn acreage at high- er yields than expected, with small- er soybean acreage and no change in yields. As a result, they both lost price on the market to farmers' cha- grin. Since the USDA report is the most robust and publicly available esti- mate, the price for corn and beans were not the only factor brought to light. Farmers may not have switched to planting beans quite as early as ex- pected, which may put a significant amount of corn acres in the northern corn belt under danger of suffering from an early frost. An early frost is not predicted. Outside of North Dakota, pre- dictions of an early frost this far into the future rely on astrology and tarot methods and are not to be trusted. How- ever, late corn planting could put some acres into danger of suffer- ing from frost damage from an average frost date. In this neck of the woods, some July corn could struggle to make our early November average first frost date, but most acres should be in the clear from this worry. Prevented planting acres were al- so a shock, as over 19 million were reported to have been taken this year. Matthew Elliott at South Dako- ta State University did a little model- ing based on that number and broke those millions down to county level. Posey County reported 6,965 acres of land that were not able to be plant- ed and Gibson County 19,853 acres, with Vanderburgh County uncertain. The counties with the greatest num- ber of prevented planting acres were in South and North Dako- ta, where large counties exist and the rains that contributed to significant downstream flooding this spring occurred. The American Meteo- rological Society is more of an international soci- ety. Each year, you take a few hundred scientist members from four to five dozen countries around the world and they re- port on specific nation- al and regional concerns. They also take all the data available and deter- mine what the global average tem- perature might have been for that given year. The headline this week showed 2018 to be the fourth warm- est year on record, with the records beginning in the 1800s (1895 in most of Indiana). The warmest three were 2015, 2016, and 2017. Just to round out the top five, fifth goes to 2014. For more information, contact Hans at hschmitz@purdue.edu or 812-385 - 3491. By David Ackley 4-H Youth Development/ Ag and Natural Resources Educator The summer heat has been turned up the last few days, remember to al- ways stay hydrated when working out in the yard and garden. Plan your days' work around the cooler temper- atures of the day, early morning and evening times may be ideal. Even this late in the summer there is still plen- ty that can be done around the yard and garden. Rosie Lerner, Home/Consumer Horticulture with Purdue University has a monthly calendar that she puts out with sections related to Home, Yard, and Garden. She defines the Home section as houseplants and in- door activities. • Take cuttings from annual gar- den plants such as impatiens, coleus, geraniums and wax begonias to over- winter indoors. • Order spring-flowering bulbs for fall planting. • Cut garden flowers to bring some color indoors. The Yard section includes lawns, woody ornamentals, and fruits. • Don't fertilize woody plants now. It stimulates late growth that will not have time to harden off properly be- fore winter. • Prune out and destroy the rasp- berry and blackberry canes that bore fruits this year. They will not produce fruit again next year, but they may harbor insect and disease organisms. • Begin seeding new lawns or bare spots in established lawns in mid-Au- gust through mid-September. • Hand-prune and destroy bag- worms, fall webworms and tent cat- erpillars. Finally, the Garden sections con- sists of vegetables, small fruits, and flowers. • Complete fall garden planting by direct-seeding carrots, beets, kohlrabi, kale and snap beans early this month. Lettuce, spinach, radish- es and green onions can be planted later in August and early September. Don't forget to thin seedlings to ap- propriate spacing as needed. • Harvest onions after the tops yellow and fall, then cure them in a warm, dry, well-ventilated area. The necks should be free of moisture when fully cured in about a week's time. Harvest potatoes after the tops yellow and die. Potatoes also need to be cured before storage. • Pick beans, tomatoes, peppers and squash often to encourage fur- ther production. • Harvest sweet corn when ker- nels are plump and ooze a milky juice when punctured with your fingernail. If the liquid is watery, you're too ear- ly; if the kernels are doughy, you're too late. • Keep faded flowers pinched off bedding plants to promote further flowering and improve plant appear- ance. Rosie Lerner is just one of the ma- ny experts that Purdue Extension has to offer to Pike County, her informa- tion can be found by going to the Hor- ticulture and Landscape Architec- ture homepage at the following link https://ag.purdue.edu/hla/. The full calendar can be found at Purdue Con- sumer Horticulture webpage https:// www.purdue.edu/hla/sites/yardan- dgarden/. 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