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Michael Dennis - (812) 305-1766 President - (Insulators Local #37) Gary Wildt - (812) 202-0624 Vice President - (USW Local #104) Jarrod Skelton - (812) 760-9890 Treasurer - (Teamsters Local #710) Cheryl Dau - (812) 455-5545 Recording Secretary - (USW Local #104) FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 3:00 p.m. Demolition Derby - Gates Open * 5:00 p.m. Carnival Rides – Free Food Booths Vendor Displays Cutest Baby & Pet Contests Open Karaoke Night – Free Event Dollar Bil's LDA Rummage Sale 7:00 p.m. Queen Pageant Demolition Derby * Isaac Mathews Band * 21 & Up Entertainment Area * 8:30 p.m. Queen's Tea SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 8:00 a.m. Cutest Baby & Pet Contests Dollar Bil's LDA Rummage Sale 10:00 a.m. Talent Show Noon Kids' Games 1:00 p.m. Junior Miss Pageant 2:00 p.m. Carnival Rides – Free Red Dragon Laser Tag Cornhole 4:00 p.m. Little Mister Pageant (5 - 8 years) Little Miss Pageant (5 - 8 years) 5:00 p.m. Open Karaoke Night – Free Event 7:00 p.m. Refocused Wrestling * 21 & Up Entertainment Area * SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 8:00 a.m. Cutest Baby & Pet Contests Dollar Bil's LDA Rummage Sale 10:30 a.m. Poker Run Registration - Bikes Last bike out: noon, last bike in: 4 p.m. 11:00 a.m. Car Show 1:00 p.m. Gospel Sing 1:30 p.m. Demolition Derby Gates Open * 2:00 p.m. Carnival Rides – Free Red Dragon Laser Tag Horseshoe Pitch 5:00 p.m. Open Karaoke Night – Free Event Demolition Derby * MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 9:00 a.m. Parade Cutest Baby & Pet Contests 10:30 a.m. Carnival Rides – Free Red Dragon Laser Tag Dollar Bil's LDA Rummage Sale EVENT ADMISSION CHARGES: ENTERTAINMENT AREA - FRIDAY Featuring - Isaac Mathews Band $5 Must be 21 or older ENTERTAINMENT AREA - SATURDAY Featuring - Refocused Wrestling $10 Must be 21 or older REFOCUSED WRESTLING - SATURDAY $5 DEMOLITION DERBY - FRIDAY & SUNDAY Adults and Children (7 yrs. & older) $10 Pit Pass: You must be 14 and older $15 CARNIVAL RIDES Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday FREE PARKING/SHUTTLE RIDES for all events FREE Bus rides to parade line-up from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. from fairgrounds and after parade until midnight UNIONS: The He tbe of Am ica! Celebrati 135 TH SEPT. 3 - SEPT. 6 2021 GIBSON CO. FAIRGROUNDS PRINCETON, INDIANA FREE RIDES! New Carnival Ride Company FREE Admission & Shuttle! For more information, visit: www.LaborDayAssoc.com * Admission charged for event, refer to Event Admission box for prices. Happy Birthday! Molly Dolly will be 50 on September 3 Colby wins bike Shannon Colby, of Petersburg, was the Pike County CEDA bike winner at the Pike County 4-H Fair. Cybersecurity professor works to close the door on hackers Supply chain research seeks out the software openings oftentimes exploited By Brian Huchel, Purdue News Service A computer system's cy- bersecurity can be jeopar- dized by its own software as much as the questionable decisions made by comput- er users. A Purdue University professor is focused on halting those software at- tacks, which statistics in- dicate are on the rise. Santiago Torres Arias, an assistant professor of electrical and computer en- gineering at Purdue, said a cumula- tive increase of 500 % in the number of software supply chain compromis- es is giving hackers the weak link they need to attack a system. Torres Arias said that in supply chain security, hack- ers will search to find that one program in a chain of software that is vulnerable and hack it. "Supply chain security compromises are attacks where someone targets the left side of the equation and how a piece of software is produced," Torres Arias said. "They're not target- ing the people using the system, but rather the pro- ducers, so that when people then use the software them- selves, the system is com- promised." The attack on software developer SolarWinds in 2020 is among the more well-known of those. In that case, hackers broke into the company's system, adding code that went out to cus- tomers in software updates that created a backdoor to a number of systems. Torres Arias has a focus on computer engineering in software supply chain, bolstered with additional research in password stor- age mechanisms and soft- ware update systems, work- ing to ensure that the way people create software and hardware does not compro- mise the security and priva- cy of its eventual users. He is a member of Pur- due's Center for Education and Research in Informa- tion Assurance and Securi- ty (CERIAS) and core de- veloper or outright creator of many tools dedicated to software supply chain secu- rity under the Linux Foun- dation. Cybersecurity is a crit- ical topic under Purdue's Next Moves, the ongoing strategic initiatives that will advance the universi- ty's competitive advantage. Cybersecurity research is a key component of Purdue's National Security and Tech- nology enterprise. Purdue's cybersecurity research and educational initiatives are centered under CERIAS and its 135 affiliated fac- ulty members from 18 ac- ademic departments. With system compromis- es on the rise, Torres Arias expects changes in com- ing years that will tighten up the way software is pro- duced. "I expect that in 5 -10 years we'll start seeing more transparency and more expectations from market pressure, pushing the software producers to tighten their processes," Torres Arias said, compar- ing it to consumers using tamper-proof seals on med- ication. "The same thing would happen with software," he said. "If we know the soft- ware is not produced se- curely, we're not going to use it." Torres Arias predicts the intervention of govern- ment regulatory agencies to establish best practices for software security pro- ductions. He also sees ex- panded research to identify looming threats in the sup- ply chain to better prevent future compromises. Cybersecurity must be maintained from several angles. Hack- ers now are finding issues in software in order to pass along ma- licious code to computers. Photo by Rawpixel like you're going to school, but you're right there at home," said Whitehead. He said it wouldn't be the whole school population, just a small group on quarantine. Whitehead also said if the school board took a vote of the parents, they would find out the parents want the kids in class. He said he knows there are exceptions of kids who have health problems or live with their grandparents. But he said that is a small number. He said his kids had COVID and it wasn't that bad and it typically doesn't affect most kids worse than the flu. Eventually, the board came back to six feet of separation without masks or three feet of separation. Chris Satterfield, who teaches in the Southwest Du- bois Schools, said they are stressing hygiene and masks are optional. He said they are keeping people three feet apart by putting tape on the floor and staggering when kids are in the hallways. He said their numbers are much lower than Pike Coun- ty Schools numbers. McKinney said he wanted the board to look at changing their quarantine rules and come up with a plan for teach- ing when kids are on quaran- tine. Assistant Superintendent Dana Deffendoll said, "Our le- gal requirements as a school are we have two: we are to do contract tracing; however, it doesn't' say exactly how. And two, we have to work with our local health department." Satterfield and McKinney quickly jumped on the words "work with." Both said they didn't have to go along with everything. Later, Satterfield said, "My gut feeling from the get go is I think we go against our health board and do the three feet," said Satterfield. McKinney said, "I agree." "These kids have to be in school. It is the parent's de- cision. If the parent doesn't' agree with that, then they can keep them home," said Satter- field. "I agree with that. We can offer virtual learning," said McKinney. "Bottom line is cutting down on these quarantines, whether we get six feet in these classrooms or however we do it," said McKinney. "I don't know if we can get to that," said board member Steve Potter. "I think we spread the desks and then we spray the desks down, and put hand sanitizer out," said Satterfield. "The desks are being sprayed and we have hand sanitizer all over the place," said Blake. Eventually, McKinney said he wanted this put on the next meeting's agenda and he want- ed a plan they could review to accomplish less quarantines. He then said he would agree to mandating masks if it would reduce the distance to three feet for a person to be contract traced and placed on quaran- tine. Satterfield said he couldn't vote for mandated masks. "That is a parent's choice. We already had too many free- doms taken away." DAVE WALTZ APPOINTED TO SCHOOL BOARD Former school board mem- ber Dave Waltz was appoint- ed by a 3-1 vote to replace Forrest Manning on the school board. Manning de- feated Waltz in 2018, but re- signed, saying since he was starting law school, he didn't think he would be able to de- vote enough time to the school board position. "I reached out to Michael Adamson at the Indiana School Board Associations. It falls to us to fill it within 30 days," said Potter. He said if the board didn't fill it in 30 days, then the judge could ap- point someone. "I felt like myself personal- ly, with everything we have go- ing on, I felt like we had some- one recently on the board with experience. I reached out to him and he took a couple of days in prayer and with his family and agreed. I would like to make a motion to ap- point Dave Waltz to fill the re- mainder of Forrest Manning's term," said Potter. "I will make a second. I worked with Dave," said Sat- terfield. "Was this advertised what- soever? " asked McKinney. "Nope . . . we don't' have to," said Potter. "I know we don't have to, but pulling the votes of the last election of 2018. It was 65 (percent) to 35 on the vote. I think the county would have a little bit to say as to who we are going to appoint," said McKinney. He added, "I know it falls on us. But we still have to take the input from the county. The only input I got on this was a phone call from you saying you wanted to do this. There was not a discussion on this by the board whatsoever." "I felt like we needed some- one with experience," said Potter. "I agree with this," said Sat- terfield. "That is the move I made. We're looking at 16 months (left in term) is what it works out to. So that's all me. I made that call all alone. To me it made more sense to have somebody who had been there before. So that's why I did that," said Potter. He then asked for a vote and it was approved 3-1, with McK- inney voting against it. STOP it takes 3 MINUTES to subscribe to 812-354-8500 A-4 Wednesday, September 1, 2021 The Press-Dispatch Social Purdue Does PARP SCHOOL Continued from page 1