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This year, we pulled an excerpt of his thoughts at Christmas in 1918, just weeks after the Armistice ending World War I was signed on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Winslow Dispatch, Dec 20, 1918 By A.J. Heuring Next Wednesday is Christmas. What holiday compares with Christ- mas! And at no other time in the world's history has it had as much cause for celebrating the birth- day of Him who brought peace and good will to all mankind as it has this year... A fter the world has been battled in blood through the efforts of a mil- itary party to control the world in opposition to the teachings of the Christ, to have that Christ spirit win, should make civilized world celebrate Christmas as it never cel- ebrated before. Not necessarily with noises, but with heartfelt feel- ing that nothing can bring to the hu- man soul like the Christ who gave his life that all mankind might live. This will truly be a great Christ- mas, for even those in darkness for the Christian nations, should so shine with the brightness of the Christmas spirit that will reflect to the uttermost parts of the earth, pro- claiming peace on earth, good will toward all mankind. Gray charged with arson By Andy Heuring An Evansville man charged with the shoot- ing of three people last week in Evansville was taken into custody by U.S. Federal Marshals at a Winslow residence on Tuesday, Decem- ber 14. U.S. Marshals took Daniel Alvey, 18, of 2562 Stringtown Rd., Evansville, into cus- today from a residence at 400 E. Patoka St., Winslow, which is listed as being owned by Rita and Ron Travis. Alvey is charged one count of murder, two counts of attempted murder and possession of a firearm with an altered serial number. The charges stem from a shooting at 809 Kirk- wood Dr., Evansville, at about 5:45 p.m. on December 14. Evansville police responded to a report of a person being shot in the head. When officers arrived, they found three peo- ple had been shot in the house. All three were taken to Deaconess Hospital. One of the vic- tims, Olivia Huggler, 18, died the next day. The other two victims have not been identi- fied. One remains hospitalized and one has been released from the hospital. Police said they talked with several people at the Kirkwood Drive home. According to a probable cause affidavit, Ami Huggler told po- lice she had just gotten home from the store and heard loud bangs she thought were gun- shots, and then heard her children scream- ing loudly. She said a young white male with a brown/red beard entered the home through the garage. She saw him fire his handgun and then saw her daughter bleeding from the head. She said the man walked up to her but didn't shoot her. She told police she thought the shooter was Danny Alvey. The affidavit also states police talked with Joseph Huggler. He said he and his sister were bringing groceries to the house from the ga- rage when a man wearing a hunting hoodie and camo ski mask approached him with a handgun and asked him to get his brother, John, outside. He said the man later began firing shots. Joseph told police he thought it was Alvey, because the man doing the shooting had a speech impediment and the man in the hood- ie had a speech impediment. I-69 wrong way crash A Honda Accord being driven north in the southbound lanes of I-69 by Gerardo Figueroa, 18, of West Chicago, Ill., collided head-on with another vehicle Sunday night at 10:23 p.m. near the 49-mile marker. Figueroa was suffering from chest pain after the crash. Abhipri Mishra, 24, of Evansville was driving south, and suffered leg and foot injuries in the crash. See related story on page 2. Santa listening carefully Santa listens carefully to Graci Boger's request for Christmas. Boger made her request while talking to Santa on Saturday morning at the Otwell Community Center's Breakfast with Santa. See SUSPECT on page 2 See ARSON on page 2 See PROJECTS on page 2 By Andy Heuring A rural Winslow man was arrest- ed on a charge of arson after his neighbors accused him of throw- ing gasoline on their house. David Gray, Jr., 33, of 4833 S. CR 100 E., Winslow, was arrested Sat- urday evening by Pike County Dep- uty Sheriff Kane Osgatharp. Police said they were notified about bizarre social media posts by Gray mentioning a hostage and "Da- vid will burn their house shortly." About 30 minutes after being no- tified of the posts, Raven Trabant called 911 and told police something had blown up outside her house and she had seen a person run from their house. Deputy Osgatharp and State Trooper John Davis responded to By Andy Heuring The Petersburg City Council voted 5 -0 to move ahead with all four divisions of their pro- posed water projects, despite the bid prices being nearly twice the price they had expect- ed. The estimated cost of the projects was $ 9.23 million; however, when Petersburg opened bids a week ago, the low bids added up to $17.3 million. Initially, Petersburg May- or R.C. Klipsch thought they would have to re- bid the project. But after a week of figuring and ciphering, Klipsch recommended they get started immediately. Klipsch said two factors caused him to change his mind. He said after talking with engineers and what they are seeing in the con- struction market, there is no reason to believe rebidding was going to reduce the cost. Klipsch relayed a story about a project that had high bids recently. They decided to rebid and remove a couple of items from the bid. Due to the volatile market, when it was rebid, even with two parts of the project removed, the bids came in higher than the original bid. The other factor is a lower interest rate. Pe- tersburg has already been guaranteed a max- imum interest rate of $2.375 percent. Howev- er, Klipsch said after talking with the Office of Rural Development, if they can get the project settled between January 1 and March, they can get a rate of 1.25 percent. Klipsch said the savings on that is about $2.6 million over the life of a 40 -year loan on the $ 9.23 million amount and much greater on the $17.3 mil- lion amount. "The need on these projects was there in 2013. It is still there," said Klipsch. He said they might be able to get by adding just one new water well instead of two, but he said the increase in the water bills for the second well would be 49 cents a month on an average 4,000 gallon user. Water Board member Jim Gaskins moved to recommend the city council approve the low bidder on all four divisions of the water proj- ects. Jon Welch seconded his motion. They and Mayor Klipsch voted 3-0 to make that rec- City opts to do all proposed water projects