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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, June 10, 2020 A-3 LOCAL Call: 812-354-8500 Email: news@pressdispatch.net or bring in a hard copy: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg READER GUIDE Subscriptions: Change of address: subscribers changing addresses will please give old address as well as new one along with phone number. We cannot guarantee prompt change unless this is done. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Press-Dispatch., P.O. Box 68, Petersburg, IN 47567-0068 or e-mail to subscribe@ pressdispatch.net. Subscription rates: One year: $31 for Pike County and all 475/476 zip codes; $34 in the state of Indiana; $51 elsewhere in the USA. Paid in advance. Subscriptions taken after noon on Friday will not receive a paper until the second edition after their subscription date. About us: Andy Heuring and John B. Heuring, Publishers Andy Heuring, Editor John B. Heuring, Adv. Mgr. Eric Gogel, Production Mgr. Monica Sinclair, Office Mgr. Cindy Petty, Adv. Sales Pam Lemond, Adv. Sales Kate Jones, Adv. Designer • • • Published every Wednesday by the Pike County Publishing Co. Phone: 812-354-8500 820 E. Poplar St., P.O. Box 68, Petersburg, IN 47567-0068 • • • Entered in the Post Office in Petersburg, Indiana for transmission through the mails as Periodical Mail, postage paid at Petersburg, Indiana – published weekly. (USPS 205-620) Contact us: Phone: ...................................................................812-354-8500 Fax: ....................................................................... 812-354-2014 E-mail: NEWS BRIEFS Sweet Corn Festival canceled this year The Oakland City Lions Club has canceled the 2020 Sweet Corn Festival due to the pandemic, to help keep the community healthy and safe. TRI-CAP Healthcare Navigation program If you need help to obtain health insurance, TRI- CAP can help. TRI-CAP has six certified healthcare Navigators who provide free, local and unbiased enroll- ment assistance for Medicaid and Marketplace health insurance. Judy Richardson serves the Pike County ar- ea and is based in Petersburg at the TRI-CAP office located at 809 East Illinois Street. To schedule an ap- pointment with Judy, phone 812-354-8721, or email her at judy@tri-cap.net. Due to COVID-19, she's current- ly assisting clients via phone. Pike Co. Library to host blood drive June 26 Pike County Public Library will host a community blood drive with the American Red Cross on June 26, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Petersburg Fire Dept., 624 E. Illinois Street. For more information or to make an appointment to donate, call 812-354-6257 or sign up online at red- crossblood.org.. 5K Life walk on Saturday, June 27 The Pregnancy Care Center of Washington will be having a 5K Life walk on Saturday, June 27. The walk begins at 9 a.m., with registration opening at 8:15 a.m. The walk starts and ends at the Eastside Park Ki- wanis Cabin in Washington. Cost to benefit the cen- ter is $20 per adult and $10 for children 12 and under. Registration forms are available online at Facebook. com/washpcc, and at the Pregnancy Care Center, 705 Troy Road, Washington. Call 812-257-1041 if you have any questions. If you are unable to walk, you can sponsor someone else who would like to walk. Walkers are encouraged to seek out sponsors. Walkers can have multiple spon- sors. Sponsors can donate any amount they desire to help the center. Forms are available to list sponsors and their donation amount. 1 APR= Annual Percentage Rate. Loan subject to approval. Term must be at least 24 months to qualify. Minimum rate applies. Promotion applies to new and existing members who refinance an existing auto loan from another financial institution. 2 New purchases are eligible for 1% cash back. Maximum cash back of $300. Cash back will be paid to your Energy Plus CU savings account on the first of the month after the loan has been disbursed for 120 days. Loan must not be delinquent during this time period. 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They were part of a large con- tingent of club members working in the heat with chainsaws, mowers and tractors with bush hogs, shap- ing up the gated areas and fields on the club property. James Capozella photos Pike County Bird Hunter Club president Steve Boyer, along with several other members, was busy Saturday clearing and shaping fields on the bird hunters property with brush cutters and chainsaws. A larger number of members turned out for the work day despite the 90 degree weath- er and high humidity. The Pike County Bird Hunters Club had a work day at their new clubhouse on Saturday and bush hogged, cut saplings, cleared gates and opened lanes on several acres of club ground. Long-time club member and former treasurer Donna Wat- kins mowed the grounds around the clubhouse, the outside shelter house and trap range. BIRD HUNTERS CLUB WORK DAY By Andy Heuring Winslow Town Council ap- proved the bid of JH Rudolph at $114,500 to pave several streets. It is part of their Community Crossroads grant received by Winslow from the Indiana Depart- ment of Transportation. The streets to be paved by the grant that pays 75 per- cent of the paving for Win- slow are: • Lafayette St., from Main St. to N. Collins Ave.; • Beardsley St., from Oak St. to Mariah St.; •Oak St., from Union to corporate line: Hickory St., from Lafay- ette St. to corporate line; • Third St., from Factory Ave. to corporate line; • Mill St., from Jefferson St. to Lafayette St. JH Rudolph's bid includes both milling the street be- fore it is paved and installing risers around the manholes. Originally, a bid was less, but didn't include installing the risers. A fter some cal- culations, the council de- termined the Rudolph bid was actually less by about $ 3,000. The council also sched- uled meetings each day this week with individual depart- ment heads from 4 to 5 p.m. Vice-president of the council Debra Lamb said they are all new in their jobs, including the council and the department heads. She said they just need to go over each department's needs and process, and work on communication better. Councilmen voted 3-0 to have town workers picked up limbs in town. Josh Popp said it would cost $10 to get a permit to have limbs picked up. He suggested crews pick up the limbs and take them out of the area near their sewer lagoons to store them until they can be chipped. He said once they are chipped, Advanced Dis- posal would accept them. Councilman Dick Brew- ster asked why they were talking about collecting limbs in town. Popp and Lamb said they had always allowed people to drop off their limbs, but now that site is gone and they had trouble with peo- ple from out of town dump- ing limbs there. "We have three cops now. Why don't we have them watch it and catch who is do- ing it? " said Brewster. Popp and Lamb said that would be a lot of time spent on dumping limbs. Brewster said he thought it would be expensive to haul limbs out of the lagoon. Popp suggested they have town employees do it about one day a month. Brewster said most home- owners' insurance policies covered this service. "It might work, but I have night- mares looking at this." Lamb said she has had nu- merous people talk to her about being able to do some- thing about limbs in town. Eventually, they decided to try it until August and see how it works. "Then we will find out if it is doable for long term," said Popp. "Until the end of August? " asked Brewster. "We will make it until the August meeting," said Popp. "I think it is a heck of a mistake, but I will second it. You argued me out of it," said Brewster. In other business, the council voted to use fire de- partment training funds to pay tuition for EMT training for a fireman. Zach Williams, who has been a member of the fire department for eight years, said he wanted to take the EMT training class. Popps said it would be good for the town to have an EMT avail- able on fire runs. He said he just finished an EMT class, but still had to take the test. He said there have been several times someone with EMT training was needed. Brewster asked Williams where he lived. Williams said he lived in Petersburg, but was still active on the Winslow department and shows up on calls. "I can vouch for him, he shows up for calls," said Popp. Brewster thought it was a good idea. He said they had $1,500 in the fire training fund. He asked Fire Chief Rick Mathias if they were going to need those funds for other training. Mathias said he was good with using $1,000 of their $1,500 for his tuition. "I don't want to be Debbie Downer. I think it is admira- ble and I appreciate that. But we aren't a scholarship pro- gram. How do we turn down the other people who ask for this? " asked Lamb. Williams assured the council if he didn't pass the course, he would reimburse them the full amount. Lamb asked what happens if when he gets the EMT certifica- tion, he takes a job as an EMT elsewhere. Lamb eventually agreed to vote for it. She and Brew- ster passed it by a 2-0 vote. Popp abstained for voting since he was involved in the program. In other business, the council voted to sell a trac- tor with a cracked block, a bucket truck and an old fire truck. Popp said he wanted to get legal advice on selling the vehicles. The next meeting is scheduled for July 14. They have not decided if the meet- ing will be limited access by phone or an open meeting. Winslow Town Council approves paving bids