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Sweet's Column By Barb Sweet My So Called Millennial Life By Stephanie Hayes How 9/11 turned Millennials into adults SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 • 10am EDT 2667 E. CR. 400 S. , Winslow Auction pick-up available! KALEB CLARIDGE AU11700062 Follow on Auctionzip.com • ID# 46613 • Call Today to schedule your auction! No Buyer's Premium. WASHIINGTON & HUNTINGBURG ESTATE AUCTION This auction is featuring like-new tools, outdoor items, antiques collectibles, vintage clocks, furniture, glassware, pink and green depression, household items and much more! • One level, easy to maintain • Nice open floor plan • Large walk-in closet for the master bedroom • Large eat-at-counter and a unique dining table to hold 8 available for purchase • 11 acres, including 9 ± acres of woods • 36'x64'x16' pole barn with a concrete floor and 2-10' doors • All appliances stay as well as washer/dryer which were purchased May, 2021 • Seller providing a Premium 2-10 Home Warranty ANITA WALDROUP BROKER ASSC. 812.664.7202 FC TUCKER EMGE REALTORS ® INDEPENDENTLY OWNED AND OPERATED SALE PENDING! Directions: From Oakland City: Hwy 57 going N turn LT onto CR 200 S, aer going over I-69 turn RT onto 300 W, turn LF onto CR 125 S, turn LF onto 325 W to house on the LF. 1287 S. CO. RD. 325 W., PETERSBURG • $239,900 MLS#202136631 Online Real Estate Auction 3 bedroom, 2 bath Brick Home Bidding closes on Mon, Sept 27, at 7:30pm LOOKING FOR A HOME? DON'T OVERLOOK THIS ONE! 8844 E. State Road 356, OTWELL, IN 1682 sq.ft. Brick Ranch Style Home w/ attached garage has 3 bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms, Fireplace, Family Room, and a detached garage on a Beautiful 1.31 Acre lot. Great Location! CALL TODAY TO SCHEDULE A PRIVATE SHOWING! All bidding will take place online. Register to bid online today at graberauctions.com Owner: Estate of Mary Davis Graber Auctions ~ 812-254-2220 Call for more info or if you need help to register to bid. Mark J. Graber, Auctioneer/Broker AU19400133 180 N Whitelock, Petersburg: 3 bed- room, 2 bath home on over an acre, large pole barn and newer central air, furnace and roof. $145,000 8313 SR 61, Monroe City: 4 bedroom, 2 bath with 2,170 sq. feet on over 5 acres just outside of Petersburg. This home has 2 large pole barns in a quiet setting. $375,000 Melody Faulk, REALTOR ® Call/Text 812-380-1133 mfaulk.remax.net • mfaulk@remax.net LOCAL ® Each Office Independently Owned And Operated. PRICE REDUCED! NEW LISTING! Hi stars and welcome to the big stage all lit up in colorful, bright lights and decorated to help celebrate with all our stars who will have a birthday or anniversary in the week of September 23-29. Come up on- to this stage and take a bow. BIRTHDAYS September 23-Sweets Col- umn turns 18; Dale and Karen McKinney celebrate 60 years; Tommy and Kendra Woolsey celebrate 4 years. September 24-Maverick Pancake turns 20 ; Dee Fis- cus turns 60 ; Dan Carnahan turns 53; Bill Chesser; Daniel Shelton turns 37. September 25 -Adam Hud- dleston turns 29; Rosemary Brewster turns 80 ; David Flint; Erika Vinnedge turns 18. September 26 -Birttany Saileau Gayhart turns 32. September 27-Rita Faith turns 64; Jaci-Ann Rhoderick turns 27; Lee McCandless turns 84. September 28 -Brian Green; Norma Smolek; Jayden Bolin turns 15. September 29 -Angie Ste- phens Schwengel turns 41; Eddie Tisdale, Jr. turns 58; Ashley Hale Clark; Tyler and McKenna Divine celebrate 2 years. 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 are recovering from COVID and the long road to follow, those who are having surger- ies, treatments, testing and more, and those with aller- gies, and the aches and pains of everyday life. EVENTS September 22-Autumn be- gins. September 24-25 -6th Spur- geon Monroe Festival, movie in the park. September 25 -14th Pike County Tractor Drive. September 27-Winslow Town Hall at 6 p.m. October 2-Extreme Cowboy Challenge at noon at Rockin' G Saddle Club on SR 257, south of Otwell Jct. Contact Matt at 812-789 -6430 or Dallas at 812- 582-9661. Concession stand will be open. October 7-Winslow Lions Club at 6 p.m. at the Gamble house, where we will have our monthly meal, plus our special guest speaker will be Lions Governor Lee Cuba; Cham- ber of commerce Business Expo will be located outside the courthouse on 8th Street. Call 812-354-8155 for more in- formation. Winslow senior citizens are meeting on Monday and Tues- day at the Community Cen- ter. Petersburg seniors meet in the courthouse basement. Pike County's Farmers Market will set up every Sat- urday from 9 a.m.-noon on 8th St. by the courthouse in Pe- tersburg through September. There were no postcards this week at Sweets Column, Winslow, IN 47598. Winslow Pa- toka River was low, but with the inch and a half of rain we got, the river rose to about half full for Clog the Pa- toka. The humidity came to stay for awhile again, as well as the 90 degree temps. Some nights were cool, but felt good. Our squirrels, three of them, are busy taking the walnuts off the tree. Their hiding place must be huge. The last time we saw the buck and doe was when they were eating apples on the corner. We have seen the does in several wooded ar- eas in town. It's really neat, so slow down. Gardens in sever- al yards are wildflowers of the season and mums of many col- ors to also have some fall dec- orations. We have seen Hal- loween for almost three weeks in Princeton. The 57 Bones family is wav- ing to all who wear a different type of hat. Saturday, Sept. 11 was the 32nd Poehlein Fall Bass Tourney, where there were 10 teams. The biggest bass of the day was 6 lbs., 2 oz. and was caught by Keith Brock. First place was Ryan Nalley and Chris Nowark with 26 lbs even. Second place was Keith Brock and Allen Woodford with 26 lbs., 1 oz. Third place was T.J. Aylward and Tom- my Oakley with 25 lbs., 1 oz. The tie between second and third had to be broken by the biggest bass out of those two teams. Sunday, Sept. 12 was Grand- parents' Day and as a grand- parent, my day was splendid, as it was also the 46th Laura Meyer Family Reunion. Six- teen cousins met to eat a deli- cious bring-in meal and tasty desserts. We laughed, talked and shared memories of our family who have passed in the last two years: Lisa, Tammy, Darrell, Wayne, Claudette and Aunt Jean Meyer. Our crowd of the Meyer cousins and their children were not there, but we hope to get togeth- er next year. We missed you all. There was a silent auction and Mom had never bid be- fore, so she viewed her family of brothers, Great Aunt Mildred Ash- by, Grandma Laura Meyer as a teenag- er, Uncle Lawrence Meyer's clipping from the paper of his passing and pins Grandma Laura wore. We all met at Temple Hills and we were the first ones to arrive this year. Then, in about half an hour, more cousins and Mom arrived. Mom is in the area, but will come to Winslow for the day. We hope all our cous- ins can get together again. The fresh air in a setting in the woods was relaxing and great to share it with family at Temple Hills. Roberta was our spokesperson this year. We also talked to Tina and David, who take care of the ar- ea. The grounds were mowed and areas had flowers or deco- rations, like a big rooster pull- ing a cart. I love the rooster ev- ery time I see it. We went to the park to help the Lions set up the stage and I got to help hold up one end of the stage, but the guys did a great job putting the floor to- gether and putting up the tent. The festival hadn't started by the time I had to turn in my column, but we all hope you had a great day with friends. I was hoping to get in the fro- zen T-shirt contest, otherwise I was with the Winslow Lions at Riverside Park, where the food and drinks were at. We decided to see if we could light up Ava with solar and or bat- tery-operated lights. We hope the lights we picked up did the job for the Light-Up Winslow Parade. Roads were closed to fix or resurface the bridges and Highway 61 right around the festival day. However, the last bridge was done on Wednes- day and Thursday, and should have reopened on Friday. If you know how to get around the side roads, you don't have to make the trip by way of I-69 and Francisco has the detour the long way. All the bridg- es look like they will last for some years to come. Winslow town workers have been busy mowing Riverside Park and cleaning up the curbs, and some sidewalks, of dirt and grass. The curbs have been painted yellow and the workers all do a great job. It's time to dim the lights for this week, but keep an eye on family and friends. Slow down and see all the wonders in your area. Stop for school buses. Wear your mask in- side the safety of others. As al- ways, smile, wave and say "hi" to everyone you see this week. Teenagers have stumbled toward independence in ev- ery generation, a hallmark of American pluck. One min- ute, they're kids. Then a clock ticks, and they're free to open credit cards, get married, stay out past midnight or not come home at all. Most of us remember that cocktail of freedom and cour- age. But what happens when it coincides with the sky fall- ing? In 2001, no person could have been mature enough to turn 18. I was one of them. I graduat- ed high school and celebrated my birthday in June. I worked in the mall and hoped to be a writer. I didn't know what friends thought of politics; it was not something that sta- pled us together. It's difficult to explain to today's youth, a cavalry with power to create movements on TikTok, how different things were on the heels of the 1990s. On Sept. 11, I went to a freshman class at my Florida community college and found people rapidly clearing out of the lecture hall. "Someone bombed the World Trade Center," a class- mate said. "Again? " I said, with a vague recollection of an old incident. The rest of the day was like wet strokes on wet paint: waiting for my boyfriend to pick me up; learning the mall had closed; try- ing to grasp what on earth was hap- pening. A younger colleague re- cently pointed out how many 9/11 memories revolve around the television. It was what we had. Online news was an in- fant; there were no Twitter threads or group texts. We flanked boxes and watched with ghoulish expressions. The immediate aftermath was cartoonishly patriotic. I painted my nails red, white and blue and bought a Fire Department of New York City shirt, though I had nev- er been to New York. The CD store where I worked sold Lee Greenwood "God Bless the U.S.A." singles for 99 cents. Customers gobbled them up. When the bombast mel- lowed, we were left to assem- ble adult lives in a world up- ended. A rash of young peo- ple joined the military, and too many died. Others plunged into school or trades, paci- fism or prejudice. American Mus- lims coming of age, who knows how, found a way forward in a hos- tile, suspicious world. Suddenly, opin- ions on complex topics were cur- rency. I remember muddling through a half-baked take on the war and realizing friends were rolling their eyes. It was an awakening that would de- fine the decades ahead. De- spite our flag shirts, we would forever pick sides. We would wade through disinformation and twitching rage, and might not recognize one another 20 years later. Other generations say mil- lennials are entitled, spendy and slow. Something lost in the cliches, though, is how we've always known the world could crumble. If people who hated us could drop airplanes, what else? We traded anthrax for mass shootings, the T V on the wall for the phone in our hands, the frenzied start of the war for its clumsy, trag- ic end. Maybe you cried right away back then. It took me a while. I couldn't stop thinking about those who died, obsessed with the ones who jumped out of the towers, their bodies in the sky, that calculus they made. When the tears finally came, they were the kind of wild, throaty sobs I can count ever having on one hand. I imagine how the families of the dead must still weep. The group born between 1981 and 1996 is the largest generation in history. While we remain wary of terrorism, research shows we are di- verse, inclusive, politically en- gaged and filled with energy to explore the world. We care about making things better at home. What does that mean 20 years later? Despite the worst start, maybe we never lost the sloppy optimism of 18. It fades, and it hardens, but it's always there, pushing us ahead one day at a time. Stephanie Hayes is a colum- nist at the Tampa Bay Times in Florida. Follow her at @ stephhayeswrites on Face- book, @ stephhayes on Twitter or @ stephrhayes on Instagram. 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