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The Press-Dispatch Home Life Wednesday, September 4, 2019 C- 5 SWEETS Continued from page 4 To enter the Birthday Club, email your name, ad- dress, phone number and birthdate to birthdayclub@ pressdispatch.net. Only the person's name, town and birthday will appear in the paper. As an added bonus, one lucky person each month will receive a free three month Press-Dispatch subscrip- tion. This month's birthdays have a chance to win a free $25 gift certificate from Petersburg Moose Lodge. AUGUST WINNER And the winner is... Linda McCandless from Winslow. Linda won a $25 gift certificate from Petersburg Do It Best Hardware, and a three-month subscription to The Press-Dispatch. Congratulations! THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS Frederick McClellan .................. Petersburg .........9/1 Mitchell Earles ........................... Princeton ..........9/5 Wayne Nelson ............................ Petersburg .........9/5 Debbie Chamness ......................... Otwell ............9/7 Larry Seymour .......................... Petersburg ........ 9/8 Peyton Ruppel ........................... Petersburg ........ 9/8 THIS MONTH'S SPONSOR 115 Pike Ave., Petersburg • 812-354-1996 Check out our lunch specials! COMMERCIAL AND INVESTMENT PROPERTIES Hardware store ready for new owners. Fully equipped with display shelving, key cutter, glass cutter, lots of inventory to get new owner started. Building has new roof, gutters with metal siding on east and west gable ends of building. Lots of extras! Oakland City. New Price $145,000. MLS# 201650829 Storage Building units for Rent. Located on 808 Collins Street, Winslow. 8X12 unit $60/Month. 31.98 acres prime field tilled farm ground. High in pot ash, nitrogen and phosphorus for good soil fertility. MLS#201912317. Looking for a wooded building site? One acre located just past I-69 on Shady Lane, off of State Hwy. 61. New Price $19,500. MLS#201908241. Fantastic 3 bedroom home with 2.5 bathrooms located at the edge of town. Extremely well maintained home. Eat-in kitchen with island bar. Very large living and family room area with cathedral ceiling. Located on .99 acres yard area with a gazebo to sit in and enjoy the lazy days of summer. Three car garage with 2 yard barns to store yard and garden equipment. A 35X16 pole barn to use as a storage area or a garage for automotive repairs,work shop,or many other projects. Priced Reduced to $210,500. MLS#201921149 Three bedroom country home with picturesque setting on 1 acre of property. Large living room with eat in kitchen. New two car garage with lots of storage area and lots of room for a work shop. Want a garden area? This is it. Playground area for the kids and family gatherings. Priced to sell at $119,800. MLS#201933693 Looking for a country property with 3.68 acres? This is it, a 3-bedroom home with nice size rooms. The property is partially fenced with a 40X60X14' horse barn with stalls. Great spot to have horses, cow, chickens with a nice area for a garden. It also has an insulated and heated studio building. Priced at $112,000. MLS#201920960 Looking for a country home? This is it. Owners started renovation work on the interior. Replaced the windows with new tilt down insulated units, painted and started renovation of the bathroom and kitchen. The home has the original hardwood floors, interior doors and casing. rooms are large. Eat-in kitchen like country folks enjoy. This home has a lot of country character. Lots to see. A little work and this home will be complete. The upper level has three rooms. Two of the rooms could be used as bedrooms and a bonus room with some additional work. Priced to sell at $99,000. MLS#201929337 WE HAVE CLIENTS LOOKING FOR HOMES! • LIST WITH US TODAY! Eddie Boyd, Principal Broker Kay Helfen Associate Broker 812-582-1145 Addey Boyd Associate Broker 812-354-5599 Keith Shoultz Associate Broker 812-664-6640 602 E. MAIN, PETERSBURG BOYD REALTY & DEVELOPMENT LLC 812-354-8893 SIAR CHOOSE BOYD FOR Personal SERVICE! SALE PENDING! NEW PRICE! NEW LISTING! SALE PENDING! WILL SELL ON CONTRACT! Great Winslow Main Street business location. Lot of updates and improvements. Separate upstairs apartment. Large area upstairs to add additional apartments. Owner had new roof installed and gutters in November 2017 with warranty. New Price $41,500. MLS#201801669 PRICE REDUCED! SALE PENDING! PRICE REDUCED! Down on the Farm By Hans Schmitz, Purdue Extension Educator Farming for ethanol Ethanol, farm policy, and the struggle between corn and oil for fuel has been all over the news in the past month. The Indiana Land Use Summit keynote speaker last week was Jeff Lautt of POET Biore- fining, who announced recently of the idling of their Cloverdale etha- nol facility. President Trump tweet- ed about a giant package for etha- nol coming soon, greater than the re- cent announcement of E15 availabil- ity. The Small Refinery Exemption from the Renewable Fuel Standard was semi-announced earlier in the month, with 31 refineries receiving exemptions. All of these announce- ments play into local economics. We have two ethanol plants in our area, both at the port in Mt. Vernon. Green Plains and Valero Renewables accept corn directly out of the fields and grain bins from local farmers. In Indiana, there are 14 plants. In a 2014 study of ethanol plants on corn prices by Informa Economics, the statewide corn price received by farmers increased by 10 cents per bushel, with farmers close to plants receiving 18 to 23 cents per bush- el higher payouts. Those increased returns did not incorporate the na- tion-wide increase from competition for corn in the market, which would also be substantial. Having ethanol in fuels is a great ben- efit to corn farmers in the price they receive for their grain, wheth- er it goes to E85 at the pump, E10 in many oth- er blends, or the E15 blending wall currently in effect. Refineries, mean- while, have to incorpo- rate corn into their fu- el blends in order to meet the Renewable Fu- els Standard. Most cur- rently have a 10 per cent require- ment in gasoline fuel blends, hence the designation E10. The reality of E15, or 15 per cent blends, is an op- portunity for more corn to enter the fuel system. However, there is a cost to the refineries for blending. A straight gasoline product is cheaper to make than a blend. Therefore, the Environmental Protection Agency has an opportunity to provide waiv- ers to small refineries, those pro- ducing less than 75,000 barrels per day, averaged over a year. This pro- tects those refineries from poten- tially shutting down due to costs of blending. The 31 announced exemp- tions, without naming the compa- nies that were exempted, is a relatively high num- ber. This means quite a few companies no longer have to take ethanol, re- ducing total demand to the market. The idling of the Cloverdale plant occurs when the profit of the plant no longer ex- ceeds the fixed costs of running the plant. POET reports that to occur be- cause of the reduction of sales due to the compa- nies being exempted from the Re- newable Fuels Standard. The news on ethanol will be im- portant to watch in coming months, because the give and take between gas and oil and the farm economy is on display. Federal policy is pur- ported to be in favor of both, but ex- emptions have contradicted expan- sion of fuel ethanol to this point. Ei- ther way, local farmers still rely on these facilities for local market com- petition pricing grain to haul from the farm to market. For more infor- mation, contact Hans at hschmitz@ purdue.edu or 812-385 -3491. PUBLIC AUCTION For more information and to consign your items, contact: Hill's Auction Center Wm. Keith Hill IN #AU01020879 (812) 789-6367 or Jason Keeker (812) 354-2419 Tractors - Trucks - Cars - Mowers Farm Equipment - 28' Camper We are now taking consignments for our annual fall live and on-line auction. ANNUAL FALL CONSIGNMENT AUCTION LIVE & ON-LINE Auction service email: hillsauctionservice2@gmail.com www.hillsauctionservice.com Saturday, Sept. 14 • 10 a.m. EDT 1/2 mile west of Otwell, IN on Hwy. 257 low this year. Hope you had enough to can. The grass is still growing and it will have to be mowed again in a few days. In the Brownstown part of Winslow there is a house that has been bought. The grass has been cut and the ga- rage has been taken down. Soon the house will be taken down also. Last Saturday, Aug. 24, Vernon, Norm and I took a road trip to Law- renceville, Ill. to the Mid-America Air Center to view all the planes and helicopters that was shown by many of the 17 plus pilots and their aircraft at the EA A 114 Chapter. George Field Illinois was the name of the field where the 1929 Ford Tri-Mo- tor passenger plane was parked and you could also take a ride in the sil- ver heavy bird. Here are some facts about the Ford Tri-Motor: All metal multi-engine passenger airlines out of the factory cost $55,000. A total of 199 was built from 1926 to 1933. This led to construction of the first airline terminal and first regular scheduled passenger airlines to operate. The first hotel, the Dearborn Inn, led to the creation of the first paved run- way. Then after the replacement as a passenger airlines it was used to car- ry heavy freight to mining operations in jungles and mountains. It was the first aircraft to mandate crew train- ing for its airline customers. Vermon seen all the planes and mentioned that if his dad was there, he would have rode the Tri-Engine plane. He loved to go to these type of events. Norm and I took the flight "experi- ence the golden age of aviation." A f- ter getting our tickets we met one of the pilots, who gave us the rules to follow while on this big bird. Then we boarded the big tri-motor 1929 plane. Through the entry you had to duck your head, find a seat and buckle up. You were seated by a win- dow of your own. There were 10 seat- ing spots and two pilots. We were on the second flight. The seats were comfortable with high backs, cur- tains on the windows, lights above every window and the covering in- side was wood panels, very luxuri- ous. We took lots of pictures as we left the runway and as we flew over Vincennes. The takeoff was smooth, after the bumpy taxi, but after we got into the air there was some turbu- lence that caused my stomach to get butterflies, like when you go over a hill real fast. It didn't last too long. One time the plane seemed to sit still in the sky and that was so cool to ex- perience. We flew over lots of fields and the marks the sprinklers leave when they water the fields was neat. We saw lots of ponds and the Wabash River could be seen as we crossed over into Vincennes. I could see the Social Security office and the Lewis and Clark Memorial building and the two bridges over the Wabash River. As we came back to the air center we saw the town of Lawrenceville and the landing was smooth. We also saw a fire truck at the landing strip. A fter we landed, Norm went to the cockpit and took pictures of the control panel and the two wooden steering wheels. The three of us had a great time on our road trip. I hope you had a great Labor Day celebration in Princeton or even if you stayed at home with family and friends. I hope it was a fun filled day. As the lights dim this week, keep an eye on family and friends, slow down and enjoy your area, and stop for school buses. Then, always smile, wave and say "hi" to everyone you see this week.