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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, May 12, 2021 A-7 obituaries: 812-354-8500 obits@pressdispatch.net Petersburg Monday Cemetery Our cemetery is in need of donations for the upcoming mowing season. to keep our cemetery looking nice. Thank you to all who have donated in the past. PLEASE SEND YOUR DONATION TO: John Palmer, P.O. Box 295, Petersburg, IN 47567 Thank you, McClure Cemetery Association MIND INC. www.SchumMonuments.com WOODS NEW LIBERTY CEMETERY COE Donations needed for the upkeep and mowing of the cemetery. Donations may be sent to: Dave Nalley 2594 E. County Road 800 S. Oakland City, IN 47660 Make checks payable to: New Liberty Cemetery For more info, call 812-215-9592. great-grandchildren; and Traylor, of Memori- assist and messages www.lambbash- Social Security Matters By Rusty Gloor My card is incorrect—What should I do? Down on the Farm By Hans Schmitz, Purdue Extension Educator A case study in signs of plant distress AREA HAPPENINGS Farm to Families USDA Food Box Distribution-Tues- day, May 18, from 3-5 p.m. at Winslow Church of the Naz- arene, 106 W Washington St., Winslow. We will have 150 boxes to give away. 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. 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. Dear Rusty: My sister and I have the same first and last names but are distinguished by our "middle" names. Our last name consists of two fam- ily names, which gives us both four, with only our middle names unique. We received two Social Security cards with the same name (middle name excluded), each with a unique number, but with our last name misspelled. So, my questions are: • Which card is mine, and which is my sisters? • Is it okay that our last name is misspelled? I called Social Security and was told to make an appoint- ment online, which I tried but could not because it wouldn't accept my last name. I don't know what to do now and hope you can advise me. Signed: Confused Sister. Dear Confused Sister: You haven't shared your age, but unless you're ready to ap- ply for Social Security, you and your sister have time to cor- rect your last name in your Social Security records. In any case, your Social Securi- ty Number is what is used to record your earnings for the purpose of future SS benefits, so you aren't losing anything where your earnings credits are concerned. You should, however, get your correct last name reflected in your Social Security records to be sure that your future benefits will be properly paid. For Social Security purpos- es, only first names and last names (surnames) are con- sidered your legal name. You can include a middle name if it will help distinguish you from another, but your legal name for Social Security purposes will be your first and last name only. Thus, you should correct your Social Security profile to reflect your correct first and last name and include your unique middle name for per- sonal purposes to distinguish you from your sister. For ad- ditional awareness, SS last names are limited to 13 char- acters. Also, it's not uncom- mon for many people to share the same first and last name (e.g., John Smith) in Social Se- curity's records – it's the SS number associated with that name that counts. Other factors might apply too, such as whether the SS cards and numbers you and your sister now have are new, or if either or both of you have been using those SS numbers for past employment purpos- es. In any case, those numbers have been as- signed to you, so getting your profile to re- flect your cor- rect last name is important. It's also import- ant that each of you separate- ly use only one SS card/number (you use one; your sister the other). To correct your name with Social Security, you should fill out and submit form SSA-5, which you can download/print at this link: https://www.ssa. gov/forms/ss-5.pdf. Note that the form is used to apply for a new card, get a replacement card, or to change informa- tion for an existing SS num- ber. The form includes com- plete instructions on how to fill it out, and you can submit it via the US Post Office to your lo- cal Social Security office, the mailing address for which you can find at www.ssa.gov/loca- tor. Take note of the form's in- structions for including addi- tional documentation for iden- tification purposes. I suggest that you and your sister both do this separately, each of you taking ownership of one of the SS numbers. When Social Se- curity processes your name change, they will schedule an appointment to discuss any remain- ing questions they may have. They will notify you via U.S. mail of the date/ time of the appoint- ment and the next steps to be taken. Since all Social Security of- fices are temporarily closed to public access due to the pan- demic, you can do this transac- tion entirely over the phone if you wish, but you will need to first call for an appointment. If you choose the phone method over submitting form SSA-5, you should call 1.800.772.1213 and request an appointment to correct your name on Social Security's records. They will send you an appointment no- tice, at which you will be able initiate the name change pro- cess (you'll still need to pro- vide them with identification documents via the US mail). To submit a question, visit our website (amacfoundation. org/programs/social-securi- ty-advisory) or email us at ss- advisor@amacfoundation.org. By Hans Schmitz Purdue Extension Educator hschmitz@purdue.edu As we continue through the growing season, a lot of gar- den, field, and forest plants are developing unhealthy symp- toms, perhaps of disease, per- haps of natural decline or de- cay. As one attempts to diag- nose problems, laying ground rules helps to start out. Generally, when a plant is sick, what you see is not the reason for the sickness. These outward characteristics of oth- er problems are called symp- toms, similar to a fever in hu- mans. The actual bug, fungus, or other organism causing the sickness is a sign, similar to sneeze full of contagious bacte- ria in humans. Therefore, sick plants usually require a signifi- cant amount of wading through symptoms to reach the desired signs that will then point to the correct treatment method. For instance, assume that your tomato patch is just do- ing horribly this year. You are into the fruiting stage when the tomatoes are beginning to set, and suddenly you are seeing some chlorosis or yel- lowing of the plant and the to- matoes are rotting from bot- tom up. The yellowing is re- stricting itself to newer leaves, buds, and flowers. The rot on the tomato plant has myceli- um, or a whitish mold, char- acteristic of a fungal disease. The initial, and easy, diagnosis is that a fungicide is needed to contain the fungus, but there is more to consider. Lesions or spots on the leaves and stems are nonexistent and the myce- lium restricts itself to the rip- ening tomato fruit. Most fun- gal diseases will not restrict itself to the fruit and eventu- ally will envelop most of a de- veloping plant with a seem- ingly random pattern of spots. Most of the spots you see are not the fungus itself but the re- action of the plant to the fun- gus. Dark specks within these spots or gray to white mycelia, usually on the underside of a leaf or fruit, are the fungus. In the tomato case above, the fungus represents a sec- ondary infection. The initial cause must be something else, because the fungus restricts itself to unhealthy fruit. The yellowing of all new growth points directly to a problem with nutrient flow within the plant. There exist macro- and micro- nutrients that plants and animals need to survive. Some of these nutrients can move readily throughout the plant to where they are need- ed, while some are initially moved to an area and then be- come engaged in a process that does not allow for later movement. When nutrients become scarce, those nutri- ents that can be moved to new growth in the plant are moved there in order to sustain growth while allowing older leaves to die. Mature corn and soy- beans are an obvious case, where even in sufficient nutri- ent conditions, the lack of the plant to keep up with growth demands will force nutrients from the lowest leaves, resulting in the death of lower leaves. In the case where too few nutrients exist, and those nutrients are not mobile, the newer growth will discolor and die. In the case of the tomato plant earlier, we saw the symptoms consum- mate with a lack of some im- mobile nutrient. Because we can now suspect immobile nu- trient deficiency that results in a rot of the tomato fruit, we can diagnose blossom end rot, due to its common occurrence in this area. The nutrient the tomato plant lacks is calcium, a mobile nutrient, but only slightly so. However, in cases where tomatoes are planted in sandy, well-drained soils and watered sparingly, or in cas- es where nitrogen or potash are over-applied, the plant be- gins to have problems with the transport of calcium, resulting in a lack of calcium in the places where it is most needed, new growth and fruit. Most plant prob- lems are caused by the soil or environ- ment, not an actual disease or pest. Al- ways carefully con- sider surroundings and previous plant treatments before beginning to look towards a disease. When in doubt, contact Hans at hschmitz@purdue.edu or 812-838 -1331. United Way of Pike County Phase 3 COVID ERI Grants awarded to local organizations The Pike County United Way Phase 3 COVID ERI Grants were awarded to seven agencies. Pictured below are three of them. A total of $18,018 was awarded for this phase. Bread of Life Ministry received $2,000 to help with their Feeding the Hungry Program. Pictured are (l to r): Jim Webb, Krista Robinette and Lorrie Higgs. Jefferson Township Community Center received $1,000 to assist with their Senior Center during COVID. Pictured are (l to r): John Gray, Morton Seifrig, Marcia Seifrig, Rhonda Rob- inette and Krista Robinette. Senior and Family Services received $600 to help with their reopening of the Senior Centers. Pictured is Frieda Bolin. Look for the other four recipients in next week's edition. SOMETHING NEWSWORTHY? CALL 812-354-8500 OR EMAIL NEWS@PRESSDIPATCH.NET