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Eight days remain for October Bargain period By Andy Heuring There are several Halloween activities set for this weekend and next week. STENDAL HALLOWEEN SET FOR OCT. 26 Halloween fun set for the Lock- hart Township Community Cen- ter on Saturday, October 26. They will have costume judging, piña- tas, a haunted house, cake walk, door prizes and other fun. The doors open and food is served beginning at 4 p.m. They will have hamburgers, chili, pie and soft drinks. Costume judging starts at 6:30 p.m. with the categories being: Best Overall, Most Original, Best Makeup, Best Couple, Best Super- hero, Prettiest, Scariest, Funni- est, Movie/Cartoon Girl and Cut- est 2 years and younger. The cakewalk is 50c per turn and the Haunted House is $1. From 4 p.m. to dusk is a no-scare time and after sundown, the mon- sters and freaks will be in the haunted house. WINSLOW LIONS COSTUME CONTEST ON OCT. 31 The Winslow Lions Club is sponsoring a costume contest and trunk or treat. It starts at 5 p.m. on Thursday, October 31 at the Main St. and Center St. park- ing lot. Categories will be deter- mined by what costumes show up. A trunk or treat will follow the event. TRUNK OR TREATS Saturday, Oct. 26 • Immanuel Baptist Church, Petersburg will have a Trunk or Treat from 6 to 8 p.m. in their parking lot near tJayC Foodstore. • Petersburg VFW Post 3587 will have a Trunk or Treat on Sat- urday, October 26, from 3 p.m. un- til 6 p.m. in the Main Street park- ing lot. An adult costume party with snacks and karaoke begins at 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27 • First Church of God, Peters- burg will have a Trunk or Treat from 4 to 6 p.m. They are located at 2135 E. Main St. • Mackey Church of the Naz- arene will have a Trunk or Treat that includes games, snacks and hay rides. They are located at 9612 Main St., Mackey. Monday, Oct. 28 • Pike County Library, Cham- ber of Commerce and Purdue Ex- tension will sponsor a Trunk or Treat from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, October 28 at the 4-H Building in Hornady Park. Several business- es will hand out candy and infor- mation. Thursday, Oct. 31 • Trick or Treat at The Press- Dispatch from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. for children in costume. 'LIGHT HOUSE' SHOW EriCreations is presenting a free nightly, music-synchro- nized light show at the corner of 5th and Walnut streets in Peters- burg from dark to 10 p.m. The show is a eight-minute loop that includes three family friendly musical numbers. Halloween events begin Saturday By Andy Heuring Petersburg City Councilmen got to see their new fire truck, a $293,400 truck that hauls 3,000 gallons and can pump 1,000 gal- lons a minute. They also got up- dates on the status of several proj- ects the city is working on during the Monday night meeting. Petersburg Fire Chief Ross El- more, who is also the City Servic- es Manager, drove the truck to Monday night's meeting so coun- cilmen could see it. He said it will greatly enhance the fire department's water haul- ing and pumping capacities. "Yes- terday we could haul 2,000 gal- lons of water. Today we can haul 5,000," said Mayor R.C. Klipsch. Washington Township helped pay for the new truck that enhanc- es the fire department's ability to fight fires in rural areas because it increases the amount of wa- ter they can get to the fire on the initial run. It also increases the pumping capacity. Mayor Klipsch said all of the major demolition is done on 606 and 608 Main St. buildings. Pe- tersburg received a $400,000 blight elimination grant to take down the buildings and leave the front facade in place. David Henson, who is the archi- tect on the project, said he had the demolition crew take out the bot- tom half of the facade for safety purposes. He explained the large panes of glass were not tempered glass and posed a risk. "We are still going to spray a material on the back side. The structure guys will be here to- morrow to measure for the steel." "I think things went really well. A few little quirks we have to re- solve, but we should be able to do that pretty quick," said Henson. Mayoral Klipsch said they are still looking into what can be done with the properties and still stay within the guidelines of the grant. In other updates, Klipsch said he had hoped to bid the water treatment plant work this fall. However, he said now it looks like it will be spring before it goes out to bid. He said there is a chance the equalization basin and waste- water treatment plant improve- ments could be bid at nearly the same time. "It is possible the two projects are so closely located together, we have one contractor on both projects. . . This is practically un- heard of," said Klipsch about do- ing wastewater and water projects of this size at the same time. Klipsch said the more than $7 million grant Petersburg received on the wastewater expansion is the large grant awarded by Rural Development. He explained they only give grants to municipalities of less than 10,000 population. To explain the importance of the grant to Petersburg, he said they only have 900 sewer cus- tomers. "Divide out $7.5 million by 900 and you will see how im- portant this is. We were going to do these improvements at the sew- er plant without a grant. Because eventually the state was going to Petersburg council sees new fire truck, gets status updates By Andy Heuring (Part two of a series on three 1990 Pike Central graduates who came together in 2016 at the Indi- anapolis 500 and started work on creating their own company, rip- Kurrent). In 2016, the Indianapolis 500 was celebrating the 100th Indy 500. Pike native Jade Culbertson, at that time, was National Sales Manager for Panasonic's heating and cooling division. Panasonic was a sponsor at the Indy 500. He and Justin Dye had been friends since middle school. So he invited Justin and his father to the race. Interestingly enough, Jason Clark, also a 1990 graduate and childhood friend of Jade and Jus- tin, worked for the INDY CAR and the Indy 500. A fter Pike Central, Clark went to Indiana Universi- ty. While at IU, he did an intern- ship with the City of Indianapolis. From that internship, he learned what he wanted to do for a career. "I knew I wanted to work in sports and I wanted to work in Indianap- olis, and that everyone else want- ed to work there too," said Clark. Upon graduation, he got a job with the Utah Grizzlies, a lower level professional hockey team. He left the Midwest and went to Utah to work for the Grizzlies. He was working public relations and ticket sales. "A fter six weeks, I was promoted to director of the department. "I think I realized being out there by myself wasn't something I wanted to do the rest of my life," said Clark. "I had an opportunity through By Andy Heuring The Petersburg City election is two weeks away. Absentee voting has already begun and will run through Monday, November 4, the day before the election. As of Tuesday afternoon there had been 36 absentee ballots cast. This year there is one contest- ed race for the District 3 City Council position. Republican Tri- cia Claridge and Democrat Scott Jenkins are vying the for the open seat. Jenkins' father, Bertis, did not seek election after being on the city council for more than 20 years. Every registered voter in Pe- tersburg is eligible to vote in the District 3 race being contested in the four Petersburg precincts. The polls for all four precincts will be at the Gospel Center Church gymnasium on Illinois St. Polls open at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, November 5 and close at 6 p.m. The hours to vote absentee in the Clerk's office are every Tues- day in October from noon to 4 p.m., every Wednesday in Octo- ber from 8 a.m. to noon, Thurs- days, October 18 and Nov. 1 from noon to 4 p.m. and Saturdays, Oct. 26 and Nov. 2 from 8 a.m. to noon as well as Monday, Nov. 4 from 8 a.m. to noon. The other candidates on the ballot, who are not contested are: Mayor R. C. Klipsch (R); Clerk/ Treasurer Tamra Selby (D); Council at-large Jody Hoover (D); Council Dist. 1 Gary Leavitt (R); Council Dist. 2 John Melhiser (R); Council District 4 Brian Van Me- ter. Pike County natives start cutting-edge HVAC company Single council race in city election, Nov. 5 Hot kettle Jon Hemmer cooked chili in a 20-gallon iron kettle for those attending the Trail and Treat Halloween event at Cup Creek Church. Hemmer said cooking in the kettle was a tra- dition started by his father when family and friends camped at Lincoln Park, and used to make "mulligan stew." See ad- ditional photos on A-5. James Capozella photo Subscribe & Save $3! See page A-3 for full bargain period details. A-8 from PAWS Box culverts installed The Pike County Highway Department replaced two structures on County Roads on Wednes- day. Above, crew members help guide into place a nearly 40,000 lbs. concrete box culvert in- to place in the bottom of a creekbed on CR825W, about a mile north of Highway 65. Assistant Highway Superintendent Josh Byrd said the new concrete structure replaced an large pipe cul- vert that had deteriorated. Earlier Wednesday morning they installed a large set of box culverts on CR175N that re- placed a bridge structure.