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Officer Arnold wit- nessed a vehicle go off the side of the road, almost strik- ing a mailbox. Upon turning and stopping the vehicle, Ar- nold found Allen was driving. When Officer Arnold ad- vised Allen that he could smell the odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from him, Allen said he had been drink- ing and asked for a break, ac- cording to the report. Arnold asked him to step out of the vehicle and take a field sobri- ety test. Allen complied and when asked how much he had to drink, he said a few. He failed field sobriety tests, according to Arnold's report. Allen also tested .129 on a portable breath test. He was taken into custody and re- fused a blood draw or urine test when taken to the Pike County Jail. He submitted to a certified breath test con- ducted by Pike County Dep- uty Mike Willis, which re- turned a BAC of .119, which is over the legal limit of .08. Former resident dies in Birdseye house fire By Andy Heuring A former Pike County resi- dent died in a house fire Mon- day night in Birdseye. Aus- tin Walburn, 18, a former student at Pike Central, was found in a burning house in Birdseye. Birdseye Fire Chief Dave Smith said they were dis- patched to the fire at 8:43 p.m. Monday. When they arrived four minutes later, at 103 W. Second St., Birds- eye, they found the east side of the house was engulfed in flames. He said the fire was not dispatched as some- one still being in the house and it was at least five or six minutes before they learned someone was inside. "It is a tragedy," said Smith. The Indiana State Fire Marshal's office is investi- gating the fire. Walburn recently moved from Pike County. County's positivity rate drops to 1.6% By Andy Heuring Pike County's seven-day positivity rate has dropped to 1.6 percent as of Tuesday and only four new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the last seven days. The four new cases brings Pike County's total number of COVID cases to 1,368. The low positivity rates for the second week in a row will likely cause Pike Coun- ty to be moved to a blue lev- el, which is the lowest level. It has been yellow for four weeks. The line between blue and yellow for positivi- ty is five percent. Pike Coun- ty was below five percent last week and continues to be well below five percent. A county has to be below five percent for two weeks before its advisory level is lowered. Those levels are reassessed each Wednesday. The last death in Pike County from COVID was re- ported on March 10, 2021. Indiana's numbers are trending lower as well. In- diana's seven day positivity rate has dropped to 4.7 per- cent. Statewide, there were 371 new cases reported on Mon- day, May 31 and only 170 on Sunday, May 30. On May 18, there were 800 new cases and May 7, there were 1,035 new cases. Deaths and hospitaliza- tions are also trending down. In Indiana, there was one death reported on May 31, three on May 30 and six on May 29. On May 30, hospitaliza- tions had dropped below 700 in Indiana for the first time since July 8, 2020, when there were 695. On May 29, 2021, there were 695 people hospitalized in Indiana. That dropped to 679 on May 30 and jumped to 705 on Mon- day, May 31. In Pike County, there have been 5,144 people fully vacci- nated and 5,304 have gotten one of two shots. Statewide, there have been 2.517 million people fully vac- cinated. Timeless Classics Car Show Gerald Kuebler, of Jasper, wipes down the chrome bumper on his 1956 Plymouth Belvedere. He said it was a one-owner car he bought in North Carolina in 2011 with 49,000 miles on it. The classic Plymouth was one of at least 157 cars on display at the Timeless Classics Car Show in Hornady Park on Saturday. Below is Stephen White, of Owensboro, Ky., talking with friends about his 2013 C-6 Grand Sport Corvette. It is a Heritage version, of which only 136 were made. (See more related photos on page A-4.) winning about four or five games. Then it really started to turnaround, as they started to win seven or eight games a year in the Big 8." In his first season at Wash- ington, they won the next to last game over North Knox 32- 8 for a 1-9 record. In 2005, they won three consecutive games early in the season and fin- ished 3-7. They won five in 2006, including the first round of the sectional. In 2007, that improved to 6 -5, including the first of five consecutive wins over Vincennes. In 2008, they continued to improve to 8 -4 and advanced to the final game of the sectional before losing to Evansville Memori- al 35 -17. Memorial went on to be state runners-up in 3A foot- ball. The next three seasons, Washington would go 8 -3, 7- 5 and 6 -5. So far, he is off to a good start. Brashear said when they had team call outs a couple of weeks ago, 54 kids signed up. "Common sense tells us some of those kids will de- cide not to play, . . If we can start with 54, that would be ex- cellent. That probably isn't go- ing to happen. You will always have kids who will fall off, but if we start showing some suc- cess, it will have kids want- ing to play for a winning pro- gram." Pike Central's numbers were down to the teens last year by the end of the sea- son, in which they finished 0 - 8 on the heels of an 0 -10 sea- son prior. But the cupboard isn't bare. The Chargers has some tal- ent, it was just very young, as several players starting on of- fense were freshmen. "I have been watching a lot of film on games from this past season. I see so many things that are correctable. It isn't a matter of ability. It is a matter of having a desire to do things the right way," said Brashear. "I'm not taking away things from Stevens, but when you are dressing 14 kids for the sectional, it is tough. We want to build the numbers where we can build depth and give these kids a break. New kids aren't necessarily knowledgeable in football, so it will take time to teach them to do things the right way." He added, he will be push- ing hard work. "A lot of kids don't know how hard they can push themselves. You have to get out of your comfort zone. It starts in the weight room. Football players are made in the weight room," said Brashear. He said, on offense, it will be adapted to the play- ers and skills they have. "At Vincennes, we played a lot of smash mouth football. We ran dive iso, power fullback traps, cross traps, because we had the linemen who could get out on people and block, and open up holes for our running backs. A fter watching game files of us, we aren't there yet. It should be no surprise kids need to get bigger, stronger and faster." "We have to change this mind set of 'well I tried' to 'no, we are going to get the job do- ne. I'm going to play with good technique, and I'm going to be coachable and open minded, and do everything I can to open up holes for the running back,'" said Brashear. He said while the offense will be designed to fit the skills of his players, he expects to run a flexbone offense. "We will run some option, but we will utilize our skill position guys. We have some quality skill position guys we will uti- lize spreading the ball around. We are going to run jet sweep series, spread the ball around and run a lot of misdirection." On the other side of the ball, he said they will be a basic 4-4 defense and keep things sim- ple. "We are going to keep things pretty vanilla with two or three coverages. We want to keep it simplified and not teach five or six different cov- erages. All that is going to do is confuse people. We want to pay fast and attack defensive- ly. . . It will help us react in- stead of having to think. We want to play fast, hard and dis- ciplined." "We have a long way to go, but if kids are dedicated and show up all summer, we can make good strides this year." Brashear said he also likes how the Pocket Athletic Con- ference had moved to big school and small school divi- sions for football. "I like our schedule. There are many games we can really compete in and eventually start win- ning some of those games. Hopefully, it translates to this year." By having the big school and small school divisions, it keeps Pike Central from hav- ing to play yearly powerhouse teams like Gibson Southern and Heritage Hills. Brashear said because of the late hire, he is a little be- hind on getting started for this fall. "I will get a better idea of who is going to be here and where our strengths and weaknesses are, and try to uti- lize our strengths in the best way we can and work on our glaring weaknesses." Editor's note: Brashear has been recommended to the Pike County School Board to be hired. The recommendation was not made until after the May school board meeting. Su- perintendent of Schools Dr. Su- zanne Blake said it is expected he will be approved. COACH Continued from page 1 Speeding results in OVWI arrest Petersburg Officer Scott Arnold arrested Morgan Danyelle Ridge, 30, of 2465 N. CR 600 E., Winslow, for OV WI following a traffic stop for speeding around midnight Sunday evening. Arnold was conducting ra- dar in patrol mode on SR 61 north when he detected a white Suburban traveling south at 42 mph in a 30 mph zone. A stop was made on SR 57 north in the NAPA park- ing lot. Arnold noticed the driv- er, Morgan Ridge, had wa- tery, bloodshot eyes, slurred speech and the odor of an al- coholic beverage coming from her breath. Her pas- senger, Spencer Ridge, was also observed with slurred speech and could barely hold his head up. Arnold told Morgan, he was going to conduct stan- dardized field sobriety tests, which she submitted to and failed, according to the re- port. Her portable breath test was .112. A fter Morgan was read the Implied Consent, she was transported to the Pike County Jail by Pike Coun- ty Deputy Jared Simmons for the certified test, which came back .105 BAC. She had a prior conviction for OV WI in October 2014, ac- cording to the report.