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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, May 26, 2021 A-3 LOCAL Call: 812-354-8500 Email: news@pressdispatch.net or bring in a hard copy: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg WINSLOW Continued from page 1 NEWS BRIEFS Story time with the Firefighters at Petersburg Library this Saturday The Petersburg Library will be hosting story time from 10 -11 a.m. on Saturday, May 29. The firefighters will be reading to the children and there will be a tour of the firetruck. A free smoke detector will be given out, while supplies last. Bring a blanket or lawnchair. Everyone is welcome. Petersburg Garden Club selecting most beautiful yard/garden of the month The Petersburg Garden Club will be accepting nomina- tions for the most beautiful yard or garden. To nominate, call 812-582-0564 or 812-568 -7676. Pike-Gibson Water spring flushing schedule begins May 27 May 27-June 11—Petersburg Hwy 57 to Glezen to Co. Rd. 1150 in Gibson Co. and all side roads. June 14-18 —Cart Road to Union to Bowman and all side roads. June 21-25 —Mt. Olympus to St. Rd. 56 and all Hazelton area and side roads. Remember these dates can be interrupted with any emergencies PGW may encounter. Customers may experience low pressure for short peri- ods of time during this process and discoloration in water. Check the water before processing any laundry. For ques- tions, contact PGW Office at 812-749 -4916. and Technical Cooperative. The cooperative involves 10 school corporations in five counties. Students enrolled in the program, located at the Otwell Learning Center, will earn credits related to fire safety from Vincennes Uni- versity. OTHER BUSINESS • Corbin Dixon, clerk/trea- surer, swore in Noah Onyett as the new deputy clerk/trea- surer. • The council approved 3-0 the bid requirements for the town's 2021 paving program. The goal is to award the bid in mid-July. The bid packet, now avail- able from town hall, lays out the requirements for the town's Community Cross- ing grant. Winslow received $104,170.48 in state match- ing funds for local road proj- ects from the Governor's Next Level Roads Program. To qualify for funding, lo- cal governments must provide local matching funds, 50 per- cent for larger communities or 25 percent for smaller commu- nities, from a funding source approved for road and bridge construction. They must also submit an INDOT-approved asset management plan for maintaining existing roads and bridges. State law re- quires annually that 50 per- cent of the available matching funds be awarded to commu- nities within counties with a population of 50,000 or fewer. The roads Winslow will pave with the funding are: Walnut St., from North to Lu- cas; Lucas St., from Walnut to Bluff; and Center St., from Main St. to West. • The council heard an up- dated from Lamb regarding the planned surplus auction slated for July. Lamb told council members they needed to finalize the list of items being auctioned. Some of the items included are a tractor and church pews. Popp said he'd like to have the auction in mid-to-late July. • They approved 3-0 a con- tract for the Community Cen- ter director, which states the director receives 10 percent of fees collected for each rental at the center. Councilman Richard Brew- ster said the center director now "has incentive" to find rentals and sustain activity at the center. The next town council meeting is set for 6 p.m. Mon- day, June 14. JUNE 12 Petersburg Elementary School Social hour begins at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 and will be available at the German American or Home Building banks May 17 – June 7. Tickets must be purchased in advance. SAME DAY SERVICE • Complete plastic lab on premises • Quality eyewear by Karen Memering, Optician • Professional eyecare by Dr. Steve Gregory • Most insurance plans accepted WE FILL ALL DOCTOR'S PRESCRIPTIONS Complete Contact Lens Care & Service *In most cases **Some restrictions apply. Call for details. 812-254-6594 Corner of Hwy. 50 & 57, Washington, IN VALLEY OPTICAL 812-254-6594 The Spurgeon High School Committee has decided to cancel the Alumni Banquet scheduled for May 29, 2021, due to the pandemic. Hopefully we will meet next year! Spurgeon High School ALUMNI BANQUET cancelled ALUMNI BANQUET cancelled ALUMNI BANQUET ALUMNI BANQUET Noah Onyett (l) took his oath of office Monday night as Deputy Clerk-Treasurer of the Town of Winslow. It was issued to him by Clerk-Treasurer Corbin Dixon. On- yett was recently appointed to the position by the Winslow Town Council. Keira Blaize quickly slides their robot from one side of the board back to Loralei Hoskins after the robot finished the first of three tasks they had programmed into it. Keira Blaize is also a member of the Hogwarts Espresso team. G.O.A.T. Brains team members Kade Benner (l) and Llinkyn Knust pay close attention to details as Joshua Smith drives their robot in practice prior to their competition on Monday. Jackson Burkhart (r) and Eli Keeker (l) are intense in the last seconds of one of their runs. Three Petersburg Elemen- tary School robotics teams were part of a new world re- cord as they competed in the VEX Robotics World Champi- onships on Monday. The com- petition had more than 1,600 teams competing in groups ranging from third grade to college. Petersburg's teams com- peted from the Elmer Buch- ta Technology and Entrepre- neur Center remotely via a Zoom connection. The teams each had three runs in the re- mote control driving competi- tion and three runs in the pro- grammed competition, where the robot was programmed to do certain tasks. During a set time slot, they would sign in and get into a queue. Then a judge would pop up on their Zoom connection and two cameras filmed each run while the judges watched and then scored their run. Each run was given one minute. "We had some issues to- day with our programming runs, and nerves got the best of one of our teams. Susannah Julian and I are very proud of the kids for participating in the Worlds Championship and making history for Pike County," said team sponsor and coach Terra Knust. Petersburg's three teams were in a 50 -team subdivision of the competition. Team Hog- warts Espresso placed 17th, Watermelon Squad was 18th and G.O.A.T. Brains placed 39th in their subdivision. She added, "A big thanks goes out to Elmer Buchta Technology Center, Scott Wil- lis, Collin Sallee, Mick Het- man and Ashley Polen Wil- lis for hosting us today, and to Subway of Petersburg for providing lunch. These indi- viduals made today very spe- cial for our robotics kids." Three PES robotics teams compete at worlds Pike County's weekly positivity rate drops to 4.2 percent By Andy Heuring Pike County's positivity rate for COVID cases dropped to 4.2 percent, as there were only seven new cases reported in last seven days. It brought the total number of cases to 1,264. While 4.2 percent pos- itivity is below the five per- cent rate that is the threshold between the advisory level of blue and yellow, Pike County will remain in the yellow lev- el for at least one more week. Pike County Health Nurse Amy Gladish explained a coun- ty has to be below five percent for two weeks before their ad- visory level is changed. Gladish said there are five active cases in Pike County. There have been 5,050 peo- ple fully vaccinated in Pike County and 5,249 have got- ten at least one dose. Last week, the Pfizer vac- cine was approved for ages 12 and over. "We have had some 12-17 year olds scheduling for the Pfizer vaccine, not as ma- ny as we had hoped for, but we are hoping to see that number increase," said Gladish. The last COVID death re- ported in Pike County was on March 10. There have been a total of 34 COVID deaths in Pike County so far. Statewide, those numbers are trending similarly. On May 23, there was one death recorded in Indiana and on May 24, there were three re- corded. On those same days, there were 410 and 525 new case reported statewide. On the same days in April, there were 1,110 and 816 new cases. Hospitalizations have also continued to drop. On May 24, there were 797 people hospi- talized, that is down from 1,019 on May 4.