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PRINCETON Looking for a Great Deal On Your Next Vehicle? Shriners collect at Otwell junction Rick Ennis received donations for Hadi Shrine at the Otwell junction on Saturday along with Tony May, Ken- neth Willis, Mike Howard and Rob Bartlett. The donations will fund treatments and research for children's needs at area, national and international locations. The organization's efforts first started to help children who had contracted polio. The Shrine has grown in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, giving quality care to children for orthodonic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries and other childhood conditions. James Capozella photo Both pumps were having trouble in May and there were numerous water main breaks causing outages. One of the pumps was re- paired and operating at full ca- pacity for about a month. He said the second pump now just needs to have some fine tun- ing to be fully operational. "I feel a whole lot better now that we can run either pump and we aren't just running with one pump and no back- up," said Elmore. He said the new water main being installed on the north side of Main St. "Made pret- ty good progress last week." Mayor Klipsch said the Streetscape project, which will install new sidewalks, curbs and street lights along Main St. was supposed to start on Monday. Petersburg and Indiana De- partment of Transportation of- ficials have been carefully try- ing to coordinate those two projects. The new water line has to dig through the side- walks to connect to business- es and residences along both sides of Main Street. Conse- quently the water line needs to be completed before the new sidewalk work is started. Klipsch said he hoped the water line work would have progressed to the corner of Seventh St. before the side- walk work started. Elmore warned there may be some geysers pop up during the waterline proj- ect. He said there are sever- al old service lines that have been cut off from businesses or residences that were not disconnected from the wa- ter main. So while the new line is being installed, they may hit some of the old lines. "We have no record of them," said Elmore. In other construction up- dates, Elmore said the city's equalization lagoon and headworks building are now on line. The project was sup- posed to be completed by May, but it is now up and running. "Can we make the state- ment if there is a two-inch rain tonight we will have no over- flow? " asked Klipsch. "The new headworks build- ing is on line. It isn't dialed in yet, but yes, we have sent wa- ter out there and brought it back in," said Elmore. The equalization lagoon is a large area designed to hold overflow from the sewer system until the sewer plant can catch up to the peak flow times. Klipsch said on a typical day, the plant will process about 300,000 gallons. How- ever when there is a two-inch rain, that can jump to 1.3 mil- lion gallons. The equalization lagoon can hold the excess flow until the plant catches up. The equalization lagoon and headworks building are Phase I of a new sewer plant. Klipsch said they are get- ting close to being able to put Phase II out for bids. Elmore also said after ex- amining the recent street pav- ing, there are about eight man- holes that failed to have risers installed. The risers are used to bring manhole caps level with the pavement. He said he was going to ask the pav- ing contractor Calcar to install risers on those manholes. The 13 streets recently paved were: • Illinois St. from Main St to city limits, • 18th St. from Main to Alford Rd., • Walnut St. from 1th to deadend, • Sixth St. from Main to Cherry, • Cherry St. from Sixth to Seventh, • Eighth St. from Main to deadend, • Spruce St. from Fifth to Seventh, • Fourth St. from Main to Locust, • Locust St. from Ninth to Third, • Maple St. from Ninth to Third, • Sycamore St. from Sixth to First, • McCoy St. from Fifth to deadend, • 10th St. from Locust to SR 61. In other business, May- or Klipsch gave each coun- cil member a copy of a pro- posed ordinance to allow side by sides to operate on city streets. He said they decided to not reinvent the wheel, and use their ordinance for golf carts with minor changes to allow side by sides. Klipsch asked the councilmen to review the sample ordinance and then they would have it on the agen- da of the next meeting. The next meeting will be 6 p.m. on June 21, because Monday, June 20 is the new Juneteenth federal holiday and City Hall will be closed. An artist's rendition of a new playset geared toward two- to five year-olds that is being purchased with a grant from the Welborn Baptist Foundation. It is proposed to be located near the Peter Brent Cabin in Hornady Park. I69 crash ends in OVWI charges By James Capozella A rollover crash at the 51 mile marker on I69 Saturday ended in OV WI and posses- sion charges for a Michigan City man. Sheriff's Deputies Clint Bo- ger and Bryce Manning re- sponded to a dispatch regard- ing a roll over accident just after 2 am. Joshua W. Gib- son, 34, 714 E Barker Ave. #1, Michigan City, was outside the car with a minor injuries. Deputy Boger noticed Gibson was stumbling, had blood- shot eyes and slurred speech according to the report. Both Boger and Manning identified a plastic bag con- taining marijuana and Gib- son said he had used marijua- na about five hours earlier, ac- cording to the report. The late night crash oc- curred with deer crossing the roadway, according to Gib- son. He refused treatment by EMTs and refused to go to the hospital to be checked, according to the report. Blood and urine tests at Daviess Community Hospital were positive for Benzodiaze- pines, Amphetamines, Meth- amphetamine, Marijuana, Opiates and Oxycodone. Gib- son was medically cleared and transported to the Pike Coun- ty jail on charges of operating a vehicle with a schedule or controlled substance and pos- session of marijuana. Something newsworthy? Let us know at 812-354-8500! The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, June 8, 2022 A-3 LOCAL Call: 812-354-8500 Email: news@pressdispatch.net or bring in a hard copy: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg NEWS BRIEFS Blue Jean Center to host Sunday dinner this Sunday The Blue Jeans Community Center in Monroe City will host Sunday dinner, June 12, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dine in or carry out. The menu will include: Crazy meatballs, roast chicken with mushroom gravy, mashed potatoes, carrots, tossed salad, bread, dessert and drink. Carry-outs available. All proceeds benefit the center. Youth fishing tourney Saturday, June 18 4-H Free Youth Fishing tourney will be Saturday, June 18 at Prides Creek. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and tourney will be from 9 -11 a.m. Free for all youth ages 5 –18 yrs. Cost is totally free. Bait and lunch is included. Bring your own pole. For more information, call Becky at 812- 354-2230.