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Sweet's Column By Barb Sweet AREA HAPPENINGS Celebrate Recovery–Will meet every Monday at 6 p.m. at the River of Life Church, 342 E. CR 300 N., Petersburg. For more information, contact Pastor Jim at 812-354-8800. Pike County History Center—Will meet the fourth Monday of each month at the History Center, 1104 Main Street, Petersburg at 6:30 p.m. New members welcome. History Center hours Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. until further notice. DAR—Local chapter of the Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution meet the second Monday of each month September through June at 6 p.m. at the History Center in Petersburg. Free Clothing Bank–Oak Grove Church in Oakland City offers a free clothing bank each Tuesday 9 -11 a.m. (Oakland City time) for everyone. They carry new and used clothing. Location is on Morton Street, just past Chuckles. Come to the gymnasium door located at the back of the church. Winslow Alcoholics Anonymous – will meet every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Call 812-789 -8535 for location of the meeting. Odd Fellows IOOF Pacific Lodge #175 meeting–the second Monday of each month at 7 p.m. All area members are encouraged to attend. Otwell Ruritan–will have its monthly meetings the sec- ond Monday of each month at 7 p.m. Pike Lodge #121 F&AM regular stated meeting–the second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. All area Masons are invited to attend. Jefferson Township Community Center of Otwell– will have its monthly meetings the first Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. All members are urged to attend. Perinatal Loss Support – Expectant parents who sud- denly lose their child often experience a wide range of emo- tions and grief. Memorial Hospital and Health Care Cen- ter offers support to assist those who have experienced the loss of a child (conception to one month of age) through the grieving process, and provide an atmosphere of confiden- tiality and comfort. For more information about Perinatal Loss Support, con- tact Theresa O'Bryan, Pastoral Care, at 812-996 -0219 or to- bryan@mhhcc.org. Indiana 15 Regional Planning Commission-The Ex- ecutive Board will meet electronically on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, at 6 p.m. (local time). An electronic Full Board meet- ing will follow at 7 p.m. For additional information, call Indiana 15 RPC at 812- 367-8455. Grief Support Series – The death of a loved one, a child leaving home, overwhelming changes in one's personal life – each can cause profound grief and suffering. To offer reas- surance and comfort, Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center has developed a free support program called "Grief Support Series." Conducting the sessions will be Theresa O'Bryan, Hos - pital Chaplain, and Tom Holsworth, a clinical psychologist who has served as a co-facilitator of this program since its inception in 1991. The next five-week program will be April 27 at 6:30 p.m. in Memorial Hospital and Health Care Centers Chapel. This program is free and space is limited. Pre-registration is nec- essary, so call 812-996 -0219. My So Called Millennial Life By Stephanie Hayes Are we living the plot of Outbreak? REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Doretta Belle Royalty and Doretta B. Royalty Irrevoca- ble Trust quitclaim to Rhonda J. Enlow Trustee and Donna K. Oldham Trustee, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Cindy L. Alston conveys to Suzanne Blake, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Susan Sullivan PR, Chella Stenftenagel PR, Estate of Roger Willis and Roger D. Willis convey to Christopher Adam Smith and Lindsey Nicole Smith, real estate as re- corded in Pike County. Fred D. McCrary and Patsy Z. McCrary convey to Troy Property Group, LLC, real estate as recorded in Pike Coun- ty. Vesper L. Hill conveys to Vesper L. Hill Revocable Trust Agreement DTD 4/9/2021, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Vesper L. Hill conveys to Vesper L. Hill Revocable Trust Agreement DTD 4/9/2021, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Vesper L. Hill conveys to Vesper L. Hill TOD and Alex- ander Hill, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Hi stars and welcome to the big stage all lit up color- ful bright lights and decorated to help celebrate with all our stars who will have a birthday or anniversary in the week of April 22-28. Come up onto this stage and take a bow. CURRENT BIRTHDAYS April 22-Kaeda Boyles turns 32; Brian Kinman turns 58; T.J. Sharp turns 39. April 23-Brenda Burton Bossung turns 73. April 24-Kayla Willis turns 27; Daniel Grubb turns 29; Darrell Taylor turns 60 ; Li- sha Ketchum turns 58; Dan and Amy Carnahan celebrate 22 years. April 25 -Dustin Tuell turns 16. April 26 -Mick Aldridge; Chris Edrington turns 81. April 28 -William Theodore Nicholson turns 56; Maegan Tabor turns 31; Jim Gatwood turns 50 ; Ember Joelene Ride- nour turns 5. May all our stars have a re- ally great day and may all your wishes come true. Keep in your heart and in your prayers all our stars who have COVID-19 and those with symptoms from the shots, those with season- al allergies, and those with the aches and pains of every- day life. EVENTS April 21-Winslow Parks Board will meet at 7 p.m. at the Community Center. April 24-Cup Creek Car Show begins at 10 a.m. at the Cup Creek Church. Rain date is April 25 at 11:30 a.m.; Pe- tersburg Little League Parade at 10 a.m., then the opening ceremonies at the ball field. There will be no candy thrown at the parade. April 26 -Winslow Town Hall at 6 p.m. May 1-The 31st Poehlein Spring Bass Tourney from 5 a.m.-5 p.m. For more infor- mation, see the classified ad in this week's Press-Dispatch. Winslow and Petersburg se- niors will not meet again un- til Governor Holcomb gives the okay. There were no postcards at Sweets Column, Winslow, IN 47598, but there was a card that came through the mail. This card is painted by the Mouth and Foot Paint- ing Artists called "Joyful Gar- den," with a girl in a blue sun dress, wearing a yellow straw hat, with long blonde hair, holding a picked pink flower from a large bed of blue and pink Rhododendrons. We open the card and read, "Hi, Sweets. Have a nice day. Janie Tormohlen. Good to hear from you again and thank you for this lovely card. We hope your days are as nice as ours have been. Winslow Patoka River has gone down to half full and the little rain, drizzle, showers and frost we have had isn't enough to fill a juice glass full. Temps have been in the mid- dle to low 60s, with the middle 30's to 40's at night. Windows are closed again and the heat is on again. Our wind speed started off with 15 to 35 mph and gusts up to 40 mph, then the winds slowed down to 5 -10 mph. This is jacket or sweater weather. I saw a male Cardinal sit- ting on the fence in the yard, the Blue Jays have been here along with the Blackbirds. Then, the small spring birds with the loud chirp have ap- peared, soon the songbirds will be here when the win- dows are opened, so they can wake you up. The trees in the woods have more leaves to fill in the gaps that were open in the winter months. The big tree, Grandma's tree, has the clusters of helicopters all in green and some other trees have smaller leaves, then the Dogwood tree has buds right now, but I did hear that some Dogwoods are in bloom and to call this Dogwood winter. Lots of the apple and peach trees are in bloom, with many other trees and bushes in beautiful colors. Many different spring flowers are still blooming and rose bushes have leaves and the green leaf plants are grow- ing taller. The flower ground cover looks great in our back- yard that sur- rounds a tree that the swing is handing on. Town work- ers, Norm and Nathan, have made Winslow sec- tions around town look neat as they mowed and did the weedeating. Then, the water meters were read. Besides their daily work, they had to go to the county dump site, where they were told that in order to go beyond a certain point, they need a hard hat and safety vest. So when you need to go to the landfill, you may need these items also. Laura ordered a pair of shoes and they were to be de- livered on Friday, April 10, but when she looked at the track- ing route, they started in New Hampshire, then went to Con- necticut, Ohio, Kentucky and were in Georgia by Satur- day. However, from Monday through Thursday, they were in Mississippi and they are supposed to be at her house by Friday, April 16. They might get here, but if those shoes could talk, what a story they could tell. Our weekend breakfast of eggs have either bacon or fried polish sausage that Norm cooks for us, since I cook the meals all week. We both take care of the dish washing unless Norm gets to them first. I'm a slow eater. Tuesday night, Laura got to work, but she had a tire prob- lem. When air was put in it, the air came back out later, so the next morning, her Un- cle Ted stopped to help her get a new tire. When they saw what the tire looked like, she was lucky to get to work be- cause the tire had steel com- ing through and the rip was a big one. I'm glad she had her guardian angel with her. Greg stopped by as Norm spruced up Ava and wondered if he had bought new parts for Ava. Norm hadn't, but had used something to dark- en the gray areas. Anyway, Greg had said he has a front license plate to put on Ava because he need to get a new Cubs plate for his truck. Greg, that would be nice, but Ava really needs a Cardinals license plate, so she will look really spruced up going down the roadways. Sorry, Greg, no Cubs, only Cards, but it was a good gesture. There are more events com- ing up in Winslow that we heard at our Winslow Lions Club meeting, where we had a good amount of our Lions there to discuss the Cup Creek Car Show on April 24. We will serve food at this events. Then I heard the Winslow Ma- son have their pork chop din- ners on April 24 starting at 11 a.m. until they are sold out. Al- so, on April 25, the Winslow American Legion will hold a Fun in the Backyard event, with a cornhole contest at noon and music from 3-6 p.m. Our Lions have great news to hear that our Lion Benny Kel- ley came home Friday, April 16, from a stay in Evansville. Mom, Mildred, will be visit- ing Terri Ann and Ted for two weeks and we hope to see her soon. I had talked to Mom last week and she said the scen- ery is quite beautiful with the changing of trees, and she says hi to everyone in Winslow and Pike County. The Princeton Theater will be showing a play called "Four Old Broads," where Dixie will have a small part to play and we are hoping to see it on one of the dates of April 23-25 and May 1-2. I believe it's a com- edy. It's time to dim the lights for this week. Keep an eye on family and friends. Slow down and see all the wonders in your neck of the woods. Keep wearing your mask for others' safety and keep your distance. As always, smile, wave and say "hi" to everyone you see this week. The following contains spoilers for the 1995 movie "Outbreak," star- ring Dustin Hoff- man, Cuba Good- ing Jr. and other luminaries. If this has been on your watch list for 26 years, I don't know what to tell you. Maybe you in- cluded it in a binge of pandemic mov- ies, a solid genre. "Contagion" is the gold standard, but in that one, the government is ef- ficient and communicative, so it doesn't feel real. "Outbreak" is the most absurd and, there- fore, the best. It starts out OK and then devolves into actual bananas. The military decides to bomb a town to contain a deadly virus. There's a sub- plot about a biological weap- on, but, yawn. Hoffman and Gooding are kind of in the Ar- my, but not all the way? They need to find a vaccine fast, so they steal a helicopter. They land on a container ship that once carried a sick monkey and manage to find a photo of the animal. They fly to a news station and jump in front of the cameras — at gun- point! — like, "have you seen this specific monkey? " And that works! A lady is all, "Hey, my kid plays with that monkey." Parents, make sure your progeny aren't out back playing with diseased wildlife. Anyway, the monkey comes into the yard at the right mo- ment for Gooding to tranq the sucker. Back in the chopper, they are pursued by Bad Guys. There's some rocket stuff, and they survive to mix mon- key antibodies with a serum, like Kool-Aid and sugar. Kev- in Spacey dies, but that's not important. They rescue Rene Russo with the monkey juice, which apparent- ly does not need clinical trials. Morgan Freeman decides not to bomb the village, thanks to the new capuchin cocktail. The whole town is cured. This all happens in a matter of hours! Not only have I saved you $ 3.99 on Amazon Prime, but I will now make a point. It feels like the end of "Out- break" right now. Federal gov- ernment is saying one thing; state governments are saying another. In my state of Flori- da, local governments are just doing their own thing, report- ing back with: "Oh, didn't my text go through? Sry, phone acting weird." The more vaccinated, the better. So, like Dustin Hoff- man, eager young people have ignored Morgan Free- man's orders and started hunt- ing for leftover doses, stand- ing in lines for hours, creating information networks online and searching for monkeys in suburban backyards. It's incredibly frustrating to not have a vaccine yet. Any blush of waste is a tragedy. And it's maddening that we ha- ven't loaded up every Chick- fil-A drive-thru in America with medical workers. This is a feasible solution; I have run the numbers. But it can be soothing to pause, to drink in the sheer au- dacity of the timeline. We're getting inoculated in droves against something we'd nev- er even heard of in 2019. Sci- ence is amazing. Scientists are amazing. I can't even wrap my head around convincing cells to produce a protein that mim- ics the virus, the way Dustin Hoffman convinced those two bomber pilots to ignore direct orders from the president. The Plague of Justinian last- ed three centuries. Somehow, "Lost" went on for six seasons. We could be in for so much more suffering. Maybe it's not all happening in a few stagger- ing hours, like the plot of "Out- break." But relatively speak- ing, it's not that far off. Next, we will explore "12 Monkeys," which involves time travel. We still have much to learn. Stephanie Hayes is a colum- nist at the Tampa Bay Times in Florida. Follow her at @ stephhayes on Twitter or @ stephrhayes on Instagram. 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