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B-2 Wednesday, November 3, 2021 The Press-Dispatch FUNDING Continued from page 1 PressDispatch.net/ Subscribe net edition • Exclusive Video • All color photos • Search current and back issues with Add NETedtion to your paper subscription for just $5 Trespasser arrested on drug charges By James Capozella A Thursday morning call to dispatch from Paul W. Per- ry in Hazelton about a tres- passing vehicle resulted in Daniel B. Robbins, 41, of 500 W. Warnock, Princeton, be- ing charged with possession of methamphetamine, mari- juana, paraphernalia, unlaw- ful syringe and criminal tres- pass. Sgt. Buck A. Seger and Pike County Sheriff Kent Johnson investigated a strange vehicle was that parked, hidden be- hind the 6342 W. SR 56 res- idence, with the back door kicked. Perry had told central dis- patch that he had property sto- len in the past, that no one was to be there and he would hold anyone at gun point if locat- ed. Seger retrieved K9 Bleck to conduct a search of the resi- dence, along with Johnson. K9 Bleck was called off twice af- ter voices were heard inside the residence. Seger report- ed seeing a male walking from the other side of the residence with his hands up. The male was later identified as Daniel Robbins. Olivia Robbins, who stated she was eight months pregnant and was high risk, was also placed under arrest. Robbins told officers that they had run out of gas and were looking for a gas can, but officers decided the sto- ry made no sense and asked to start the vehicle, which did run. Johnson also observed two marijuana roaches. Rob- bins' vehicle was towed from the posted property due to lack of insurance and the tres- pass charges. An inventory of the vehicle revealed syringes and an ink pen that contained methamphetamine. Olivia Robbins was transported to her father's residence due to her high risk and Daniel was booked into the Pike Coun- ty jail. A Washington woman was arrested last Wednesday for possessing a bottle of urine. Stacey Donaldson, 46, of 405 Sunset Dr., Washington, was arrested on a charge of possession of a device/sub- stance to alter screening test. Petersburg Police Chief Kyle Mills said he was called to go to the Pike County Court- house to check on a woman with an outstanding warrant. He located Donaldson sitting on a bench on the third floor of the courthouse. He confirmed her identity and that she was wanted on a warrant. He said during a check of her coat that was on a chair, he located a bottle in her pocket. Donaldson eventually told him it was urine. According to Chief Mills' report, she was scheduled for a drug screen after a court hearing. Mills said he allowed Don- aldson to lock her vehicle, smoke a cigarette and then placed her in handcuffs and took her to the Pike County Jail. 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COOL CASH $1,650 REBATES UP TO ON A QUALIFIED HOME COMFORT SYSTEM BY CARRIER DOOLEY Continued from page 1 He added, whatever they decided, he would work with them. "Thank you for your ser- vice. Thank you for your time you have been our Veteran's Officer. Sorry it is ending this way. We will take it under con- sideration," said Flint. No action was taken on the matter by the commissioners. Commissioners' Assistant Kristi Dischinger asked the commissioners to make two changes to the county's travel policy. She said the two chang- es were to require an itemized receipt, not just a credit card bill, but that a credit card bill should be included. The oth- er change is for mileage to be paid from the person's work station or their home, which- ever is the least amount of mileage. She said it will also approve a maps application mileage rather than just odom- eter readings. The voted 3-0 to approve it. EMS Director Chris Young said he is still in discussions with the insurance company about the county's ambulance that was wrecked back in July in Dubois County. Young asked to be autho- rized to request bids on a re- placement ambulance. He said the build time on a new ambu- lance is 10 months after they complete the bidding process. He said they also had some interest in the wrecked am- bulance. "I had someone of- fer me a fair amount of mon- ey," said Young. County Attorney Val Fleig said it would have to be ap- praised before he requested bids for it. County Recorder Jeff Hart- ing informed the commission- ers of what appears to be bill- ing errors on a service the Re- corder's office offers. He said in 2017, the Recorder's office started offering a title search program. Harting said the Recorder's office subscribes to the service, then local title searchers can use it. They pay the Recorder's office a fee to use it. Harding said when he first took office, he and his depu- ty Angie Davis were work- ing with it and noticed what appeared to be an error in the subscription fees being charged by the Recorder's of- fice to those using the service. He said the best he can tell, about $7,000 was under- billed. "I'm sure it was just a mistake in how it was being billed. It appears they were just using a billing summary instead of the actual invoices." Commissioner Mark Flint asked if he had talked to the State Board of Accounts about it. "Yes, at some length." He said the State Board of Accounts suggested they make note of it, notify the com- missioners and write it off. Harting said because of COVID, the SBA couldn't au- dit it and now it had been so long, they said just set it aside. In the last 20 months, they have collected more than $53,000 from local users of the service. Harting explained that in the first two years of the service, there were only five subscribers, but now they have 16 subscribers. The commissioners also approved the official non-bar- gaining unit county employee holidays for 2022. They are: New Year's Day, Monday, Jan- uary 3; Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, January 17; President's Day, Monday, Feb- ruary 21; Good Friday, Fri- day, April 15; Memorial Day, Monday, May 30 ; Indepen- dence Day, Monday, July 4; Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 5; Columbus Day, Monday, Oct. 10 ; Veterans Day, Friday, Nov. 11; Thanksgiving, Thursday and Friday, Nov. 24 and 25; Christmas Eve, Friday, Dec. 23; Christmas Day, Monday, Dec. 26; and New Year's Eve, Friday, Dec. 30. In other business, the com- missioners voted to release a road bond of $16,500, held by Horvath Communication, on CR 575 E. back to Horvath. County Highway Superinten- dent Josh Byrd said he had in- spected the road and approved the bond being released. Hor- vath had used the road to ac- cess a location where the built a tower. The next commissioners' meeting is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 15 in the courthouse auditorium. By Andy Heuring The owner of an internation- al company, who is also a Pike County native, has opened an office for his engineering com- pany, HBW Solutions, in Pe- tersburg. Brian Weathers graduated from Pike Central in 1994 and went off to Purdue University, where he graduated as a food processing engineer. He explained a food pro- cessing engineer is similar to a chemical engineer, except he works with food. He has long ties to Pike County as his parents Dave and Bonnie Weathers both are Pike County natives. Dave taught chemistry at Pike Cen- tral for decades before retiring in recent years. It was those ties that actually brought Bri- an back to Pike County. It was a several year journey, but his office at the corner of Eighth and Main Sts, in the former Adams Drugs building, has been completely renovated by Michael Wilson. Weathers was hired right after school by a family busi- ness that worked mainly in the dairy industry. He said Dan Si- berling, then owner of Siber- ling, invented Clean In Place technology for the dairy in- dustry. He explained it basi- cally has a cleaning and sani- tizing system built-in. The ad- vantages it provides is a dairy operation doesn't have to tear apart its pasteurizing system and clean it by hand. Instead, they can run the cleaning pro- cess and it cleans itself. Weathers said Siberling sold his company internally to some of his employees just before Weathers started with them. He worked for them, helping design and install the systems around the country and world for 15 years. Then in 2013, he decided to start up his own company. Weathers said he had gone through a divorce a few years earlier and he decided to be- come a consultant, so he could have more flexibility to spend time with his children. He now designs Clean In Place systems for both dairy and pharmaceutical systems. He said the first job he worked on as a private consultant, "I sold twice. Once for Sieberling and once for myself." At first, his company basi- cally operated out of his home. Even tough it has grown to more than 30 employees, some full-time and some part- time, they still work remote- ly. He said they have employ- ees from Minnesota, Wiscon- sin and throughout the Unit- ed States, as well as some in England and some in Switzer- land. Weathers said they work with clients in the agricultur- al and pharmaceutical fields to design and spec systems for them. This involves helping them select equipment that is available and then designing a system to do the tasks that person wants. He said they work out the automation of the system, including numer- ous lines from various tanks, the pumps and valves, and sys- tem to control those pumps and valves. HBW is currently working with a pharmaceutical compa- ny in Korea that used Chinese Hamster Ovaries to grow dif- ferent pharmaceutical prod- ucts. That project has about 20 people working on it. Weathers said his love of Pike County caused him to open an office locally. He said the area has a lot of pharma- ceutical companies that are potential clients. "It is more that I love Pike County and there is a certain fondness I have for southwestern Indi - ana." He currently has two em- ployees at the Petersburg of- fice, Barbara Baumgart, who is Operations Manager, and Project Manager Mandy Sny- der. One of his goals is to help local middle and high school students to realize they have lots of options for careers. He said even though they are working on projects in Korea and Puerto Rico, he can have his base wherever he wants because of technology. "One of the things I love about this work is I can go anywhere and do design work, and still live at home." Weathers opens engineering office in Petersburg Assistant Fire Chief Jon Craig said, "Don't think of these as holidays, think of them as premium shifts, where it is harder to get guys working." He added they were tradi- tional holidays, not election day, Columbus Day or Presi- dent's Day. Both ordinances were passed by 4-0 votes. Council member Jody Hoover was not present at the meeting. Mayor R.C. Klipsch said bids were going to be opened for the new water plant and Phase II of the sewer plant im- provements on December 6. The Streetscape project is scheduled to be bid in March of 2022. In another update, Mayor Klipsch said he expects more problems with Phase II of the Highway 61. It is expected to start sometime after Thanks- giving. Klipsch said the lo- cal detour will be White Riv- er Ave. to Harvest Lane. He said it will work for local car traffic. What he is worried about is semi-trucks. "Once they cross the ( White River) bridge, there is no place for them to turn around." He said if a semi-truck gets into the Meadowbrook ar- ea, they won't be able to get turned around. He stressed how important it was to keep the trucks from getting in there. Police Chief Kyle Mills said they are not having trouble with local truck drivers. It is the long haul truckers not fa- miliar with the area. Klipsch suggested getting signs that read "Your GPS is wrong," like the county has and putting them place. The next city council meet- ing is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Monday, November 15. Stendal flea market is Saturday A flea market is sched- uled for Saturday, No- vember 6 at the Lock- hart Township Communi- ty Center from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. There are 55 vendor ta- bles booked for the event, ranging from baseball cards, handmade items and antiques to home- baked goods. Breakfast will be served from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. and lunch from 9:30 to 3 p.m. Brian Weathers stands near the sign inside his newly remodeled office building on the corner of 8th and Main Streets in Petersburg, that houses his company, HBW Solutions. A Petersburg native, Weathers is a 1994 Pike Central graduate, is a food processing engineer who has em- ployees throughout the U.S. and operates internationally.