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B-2 Wednesday, December 1, 2021 The Press-Dispatch Want to share your news with others? The Press-Dispatch can help deliver it to Pike and the surrounding counties. NEWS! 812-354-8500 Designers: Angie Carter, Jane Reed, Sandy Tichenor Mon. - Fri. 9:30am-5:30pm • Sat 9:30am-3pm 816 E. Main St., Petersburg • 812-789-3046 GOOD SELECTION OF Decorative Lanterns and Candles Holiday Gift Ideas JEWELRY SALE HALLMARK Christmas 716 Main St. Petersburg • 812-354-9372 /margeshallmark HOLIDAY HOURS: Monday-Saturday 9-6 Snowville Frozen Fun Book $ 5 99 REG. PRICE $9.99 Possible Dream HALLMARK COLLECTIBLE SANTAS Jim Shore & Precious Moments COLLECTIBLES BUY ONE GET ONE 50% OFF BUY ONE GET ONE FREE Hallmark 3-Wick Candles Hallmark Seasonal Gi Wrap All Tangled Up for Christmas $ 24 99 with 3-card purchase. REG. PRICE $34.99 KEEPSAKE ORNAMENT 1971 Pontiac GTO Judge MADE with LOVE POLAR BEAR EXPRESS SNOW KISSES 3 available Fire destroys Woods pickup A quickly-spreading vehicle fire destroyed Ron Woods' pickup truck Sunday afternoon. Woods said he had driven down his daughter's driveway and noticed it had started smoking. So he got out of it when he got to the end of the driveway. Flames engulfed the truck before firemen could arrive. Once they were on scene, they quickly extinguished the blaze, but not before the truck was destroyed. A rural Petersburg man was arrested Saturday night for drunken driving after po- lice stopped him for having a headlight out. Jacob Duane Catt, 29, of 4747 N. County Road 575 E., Petersburg, was arrested by Pike County Deputy Sheriff Clint Boger at about 8 p.m. Deputy Boger said he no- ticed a Chevy pickup truck with its passenger side head- light out and stopped him on Highway 61, near Petersburg Hardware. Deputy Boger said while talking with Catt, he noticed the odor of alcohol and saw two open beer cans in the con- sole. He asked if the cans of beer had been opened recent- ly and was told they had not. Boger was assisted by Peters- burg Patrolman Eric Loveless and Sheriff's Sgt. Jared Love- less. Deputy Boger said he had Catt hand him the beer can, which was still cold and al- most full. He said he then no- ticed a case of beer on the pas- senger's floorboard. Catt failed field sobriety tests and was taken to the Pike County Jail, where he tested 0.126 percent for blood alcohol content. He was charged with oper- ating a vehicle while intoxi- cated. Catt arrested for OVWI Saturday SCOUTS Continued from page 1 have to travel far to get to them and they will cost two to three times more than Old Ben did. He said most of the Scouts in this area can't afford the other camps that can cost as much as $ 900 to attend. Haycraft said he never at- tended the camp as a Scout, but when he was 12 he signed up to help work on the camp as it was being built. Another former Scout lead- er who is still involved with the Scouts and Old Ben Scout Reservation is Chuck Froeh- le. He has been involved with Scouting for 33 years. "I start- ed when my son Andy was 11 years old," said Froehle. "I hate to see it go," said Froehle. He said he had a lot of great experiences at the camp and got to see Scouts grow up by having to learn and do things for themselves. Froehle said the local camp allowed Peters- burg Scouts to go to camp be- cause it was close enough they could get volunteers to be at camp with them. He said camp requires two adult lead- ers. "I could get the vacation time, but others couldn't do a week at a time. So they could come for a day or two and then another volunteer for a day or two, and then maybe come back later in the week. Otherwise their small troop couldn't have participated. One of the experiences he remembered was one night he got up at about 1:30 a.m. and heard some of the boys talking. He said he went over to check on them. They told him they had been using flash- lights to view nighttime wild- life in the area. That usually mean raccoons, foxes, opos- sums. But on this night they heard rustling and instead of finding one of those animals, they found a small mountain li- on cub playing. Then they re- alized there must be a moth- er mountain lion. When they searched the area with their flashlights they said they saw a mother watching her cub. Froehle said then they ran back to their tent and got qui- et. He said numerous Scouts learned to swim at camp, which was incentivised by having to know how to swim before they could do canoeing or rowing. "I would like to see it kept," said Froehle about the camp. If they can't, I can live with it being gone," said Froehle, who has as much invested in the camp as most people. For the last 15 years he has been part of a group call the Old Buzzards. It is a group that meets about once a month and works on the camp to maintain it. The camp no longer has any permanent staff on duty. He said they often remove fallen trees from the trails or roads and do whatever work needs to be done. Petersburg City Council- man Gary Leavitt has been in- volved with the Scouts for sev- eral years as well. He served on the Petersburg First Meth- odist Church Scout Commit- tee. The First Methodist Church has been the sponsor church of the Petersburg Boy Scouts for nearly 50 years. Leavitt volunteered for a couple of years at the camp, helping with the rifle range. Leavitt has strong feelings about the camp being sold. "I think it is a mistake and an insult to the people of Pike County and to Old Ben Coal Company who built it and do- nated it to the Boy Scouts," said Leavitt. He added, "If they want to sell something, let them sell their office building in Evans- ville," said Leavitt. Three injured in head-on collision Saturday By Andy Heuring Three people were injured in a head-on collision Satur- day afternoon on Highway 56. A Washington woman was in- jured in a crash the same day. Debbie Weisman, 38, of Robinson, Illinois was driv- ing east on Highway 56 near CR625E when she attempt- ed to turn into a driveway and was hit head-on by a James Rogers, 78, of Jasper driving a F-150 Ford pickup, according to Pike County Deputy Sher- iff Cody Jones. Weisman had two children riding with her Haley, 11 and Christopher, 16. Both along with Debbie were injured and taken to the hospital. Rogers was not injuries. The 1:32 p.m. accident caused an estimated $5,000 to $10,000 damage. A Washington woman was injured in a Saturday after- noon crash. Lidia Jea Craban- tes Hernandez, 28, of 811 E. Main St., Washington was driving north on State Road 257 when she lost control of her 2003 Mazda and ran off the right side of the road into a field just south of CR650N. She was taken to the hospital by ambulance complaining of pain over her entire body.