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The Press-Dispatch Home Life Wednesday, April 8, 2020 B- 5 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 $25 gift certificate to Downtown Emporium, in Hunt- ingburg. THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS Theresa Blackburn Loveless ...... Petersburg ........ 4/8 Eva Willis.................................. Petersburg ........ 4/9 Carl Gibson ................................Loogootee ........ 4/9 Joshua Herrera .......................... Petersburg .......4/11 Conrad Stinson ..........................Evansville .......4/13 Daniel Cavins ............................ Petersburg .......4/13 THIS MONTH'S SPONSOR EMPORIUM DOWNTOWN 407 E. Fourth St, Huntingburg 812-683-0123 Sweet's Column by Barbara Sweet EAST GIBSON Hi stars and welcome to the big stage all lit up in colorful lights and decorated to help cele- brate with all our stars who will have a birth- day or anniversary in the week of April 9 - 15. Come up onto this stage and take a bow. April 9 – Arlene Merritt turns 66; Chipper Dixon turns 56; Dorothy Sutt turns 76; Eva Willis; Tony and Mary Russell celebrate anoth- er year. April 10 – Luke Messmer; Isaiah Roach turns 13; Janie Davis turns 73. April 11 – Brianna Kay Green turns 6. April 13 – Madyson Ann Hegedus turns 18; Roy Henderson; Delphia Howard; Benny and Lanora Kelley celebrate 29 years. April 15 – Courtney Tuell turns 17; Kelly Bailey Hamilton; Melvin De- cisto; Gary and Linda McCandless celebrate 52 years. May all our stars have a really great day and may all your wishes come true. Keep in your heart and in your prayers all our stars who need that card, visit from a distance, phone call and that daily thought of them: my brother-in-law, Joe, who is in the hospital with a light stroke, Angie, Sue Ellen, Pat and those with the vi- rus at home or in the hospital, suf- fering from allergies, and the aches and pains of everyday life. EVENTS Pike County schools are closed and the students will learn from home until the end of the school year. April 13 - Town Hall meeting at 7 p.m. at Winslow Town Hall. April 14 - Winslow Beautification may meet at 6:30 p.m. and Winslow Economic may meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Community Center. April 16 - Winslow Lions may meet at 7 p.m. at the Community Center. These events will probably not happen until Coronavirus is no lon- ger a threat to our community. Winslow and Petersburg seniors will not be meeting until the Coro- navirus is out of our area. We received no postcards or notes this week at Sweets Column, Winslow, IN 47598. Winslow Patoka River has gone down from the flooding we had and Riverside Park just has the wading puddles near the highway. The river is just below the rim, but the overflow of pud- dles in the parks and fields will take a bit longer to dry up. March came in like a lamb and went out like a lion a few days earlier with thunder- storms, straight line winds, lightening and tornadoes. The tornadoes were in Hen- derson, Ky., and Newburgh. These storms took out the T V7 sta- tion weather forecast for a short time and in Indiana, a few minutes later, it did damage to many houses. These two tornadoes were F-2 with winds of 115 -125 mph. In the Winslow ar- ea, we had winds, thunder and heavy rain, but Sunday morning at about 10 a.m., the power tried to come back on three times but failed. It didn't come back on until 11:07 a.m. Norm was fixing breakfast and we had bis- cuits in the oven when the power went out, but we were lucky that they were done. When the power was re- stored, the Sunday morning T V shows were few if you only get reg- ular channels. Channel 44 was not on, 7 only had infomercials, then 22 was our last channel to watch. When our channels don't come in, we have to sit down and play a game of back- gammon, and as of now, we are tied. Friday, March 27, we went to the bank after we dropped off the col- umn, and the doors to the inside were locked, so we walked to the drive-up window since there were no vehicles. I almost went to the window sound- ing like a truck, but I chickened out. That would have been a great laugh to do that. Our next stop was the gas station and then to CVS, where they have Xs to stand on while waiting your turn. We were almost the only ones in there. There are several oth- er places that have places Xs for your distance. The Quick Pick has put up plastic with only a place cut so the ca- shier can take your money and give back your change. We got to talk to Mom, Mildred, so she can hear how we are and how she is doing through this Coronovi- rus. I assured her that we are all fine and she is till taking rides with her caregiver, Tammy. If they get some- thing to eat, they eat it in the car as they enjoy the scenery around them. Sometimes, it's the view of Rend Lake. The mowers are being heard around our area and Norm was one of them who began the noise in the neighborhood. Since Norm has been home, he has found a lot to do around the yards, like burning most of the limbs as an area was spruced up. He is now back to work again for right now. Everyone seems to have stayed inside, but when the temps rise in- to the 70s with lots of sunshine, we all must get fresh air. Keep your dis- tance and it feels great. I got a phone call from my doctor's office and they wanted to know if the appointment that was coming up could be put off for another month. It was okay by me. I'm not too worried about this virus but am still concerned about getting it, so I was grateful for the change of date. I miss the Winslow Lions meet- ings as we all roar as Lions. We enjoy the company and plan our upcom- ing events. I hope we all can get to- gether real soon. There is one thing I still can do and that is to give our daughter, Laura, a big hug, and that will help me for a few days. We just heard last Thursday from Governor Holcomb that the Indiana schools will be closed for the rest of the school year. So, students, keep up those studies at home so you can graduate into another grade. Help out your parents in the house and in your yard. Family times are great. In our neighborhood, Janice has a tree with lots of Easter eggs hanging on it. The Christmas house has eggs and rabbits on the fence and trees. To all the kids on Easter Sunday, I hope your parents hide those eggs in your yard and see the fun you all will have as you find them. We used to place some eggs in plain sight, but it's fun to hide them in spots where you have to really search for them. If you decorate your real eggs, have a lot of fun however you decorate them. Lots of flowers are getting tall- er and my daffodils still don't have blooms, but they might by Easter. The trees that have the helicopters, they are on the trees now and pretty soon, the yards will be covered with the helicopters. My rose bushes look beautiful with the green leaves and the ground cover has the purple and white purple flowers that just popped up. Some fields have purple clover in the green grass. Oh, yes, the dande- lions are plentiful. Our sunrises and REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Joan Salmon conveys to Wayne Eugene Salmon Trustee, Joan Frances Salmon Trustee, and Wayne Eu- gene Salmon and Joan Frances Salmon Living Trust DTD 7/18/2019, real estate as recorded in Pike Coun- ty. Joan F. Salmon conveys to Wayne Eugene Salmon Trustee, Joan Frances Salmon Trustee, and Wayne Eu- gene Salmon and Joan Frances Salmon Living Trust DTD 7/18/2019, real estate as recorded in Pike Coun- ty. Brian C. Martin and Patricia N. Martin convey to Wayne S. Hall and Ellyn Marie Hall, real estate as re- corded in Pike County. Robert R. Claridge and Ruth Kathleen Claridge convey to Claridge Family Revocable Trust DTD 03/12/2020, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Robert N. Rhodes conveys to Casey Burgess and La- nisha Burgess, real estate as recorded in Pike County. LCG Group, LLC quitclaims to Sondra S. Harris Liv- ing Trust, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Roger F. Davis and Connie Davis POA convey to Her- man L. Voyles and Melody Anderson, real estate as re- corded in Pike County. Charles E. Barr conveys to Jared R. Tyring, real es- tate as recorded in Pike County. Community Foundation pledges $1M The Community Foundation Alliance announced today that it is making up to $1 million in emergency funding availa- ble to southwestern Indiana nonprofit or- ganizations at the forefront of helping local communities impacted by COVID-19. The funding will support a variety of response activities throughout the Alliance service region, comprised of nine affiliate Com- munity Foundations in Daviess, Gibson, Knox, Perry, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vander- burgh and Warrick counties. "The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupt- ed daily life in southwestern Indiana, and while we don't yet fully understand the ex- tent of the implications of this outbreak, we do know that it is proving particular- ly challenging for those who are already vulnerable," said Jill Carpenter, president and CEO of the Community Foundation Alliance. "A fter input from our charitable organ- izations, community leaders, elected offi- cials, school officials and others, we have developed a rapid response plan to provide critical funding and support for our commu- nities in the weeks and months to come." A portion of the funding provides for a $250,000 grant to the COVID-19 Crisis Re- sponse Fund of the Greater Evansville Re- gion, which will support human services in Gibson, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh and Warrick counties. The United Way of Southwestern Indiana is serving as the fis- cal sponsor for this fund. The remaining grant dollars will support similar collabo- rative COVID-19 funds in Daviess, Knox, Perry and Pike counties, and allow each of the nine Alliance Community Founda- tions to award rapid response grants to lo- cal charitable organizations impacted by the pandemic. To donate to the fund in our county, visit https://bit.ly/3aNgFA9. The rapid response grants are designed to quickly deploy flexible resources in the form of one-time grants to organizations that, in many cases, have been financial- ly strained by the outbreak. The grants have a simple application and quick turn- around time, including a 24-hour review, with grant dollars released directly to or- ganizations within four days of approval. Another component of the Alliance plan includes measures to ensure an appropri- ate reaction to unknown changes that may occur in communities during the months to come. Those include extending dead- lines for existing grant cycles and re-eval- uation of future Community Good grant- ing strategies. For more information, visit the Commu- nity Foundation Alliance website at www. CommunityFoundationAlliance.org. Above: Cars socially dis- tance dur- ing Palm Sun- day services at drive-in church at Mack- ey Church of the Nazarene, where worshi- pers stay in their cars and a honk translates to "Amen." Left: Pastor Jared Henry preaches a mes- sage to church- goers who are in their cars on Palm Sunday at Mackey Church of the Naza- rene's drive-in church. By Janice Barniak Pastor Jared Henry, of Mackey Church of the Nazarene, said the experience of preaching a message to a video camera in an empty sanctuary has changed how he looks at the church and the calling. While the church has adapted with drive- in church, and the number of vehicles grows each week, he said the new social distanc- ing has disrupted the cruise control on most people's lives, making everything, includ- ing worship, take more time and energy. On the other hand, good things have come from the challenge—the church ap- pointed community shepherds to call 10 families each and check in on them, and the church is considering continuing the ef- fort even after COVID-19 is disrupted. The church has been moved to meet food needs, make deliveries and even find help to roof a house. "It gives our people a sense of purpose and direction at this time," he said. He added that the virus has given the church the opportunity to think about what it means to be a Christian in this time. "Initially, it was the toilet paper thing, you know it's not Christian to horde," he said. Likewise, he said the church has looked at the sense of emergency and panic, and asked whether they should still do the mis- sionary support they do at Easter, even as the church's preschool is closed and the church is paying those employees without income to offset the cost. They decided to continue supporting mis- sionaries at their Easter event. "I don't think God was thrown off by this virus," Henry said. "I don't think God wants just our organization to survive." He said he's been discussing with his wife the work of Paul, when he was writing to the Philippians from prison, as he thinks of a church that may feel, in many ways, im- prisoned and isolated. None of the actual, literal churches Paul established 2,000 years ago and spoke to with his letters still exist today, but the mes- sage he sent them makes up much of the New Testament of the Bible. "For a lot of us quarantined, nothing is normal, we feel restricted, yet here was Paul in prison not complaining," he said. "I love to preach, but I will tell you, the Facebook and YouTube live, doing it in an empty sanc- tuary, looking at the camera, it's just awk- ward." He tries to remember that he does not know where the difficult, awkward ser- mons might lead, and the flock doesn't know where their ministry during quaran- tine might lead. "It might just be that the most beneficial thing we ever do is this, right now." FINDING NEW WAYS TO CONNECT Grow MORELMUSHROOMS CREATEAMORELGARDENINYOURBACKYARD Weprovidetheseedandeasytouseinstructionsfor preparinganoutdoorMorelHabitat. 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