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June 15, 2022

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$1.00 24 PAGES FOUR SECTIONS ONE INSERT PETERSBURG, IN 47567-0068 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2022 PIKE PUBLISHING VOLUME 152, NUMBER 24 Splash Park open at Hornady Park With hot days ahead, the Kiefer Splash Park at Hornady Park is up and running, waiting for smiles and giggles of those kids who come out to cool off on a hot summer day. The splash park is open from 10 a.m. daily, until sunset. All chil- dren under the age of 10 must be supervised at all times. No pets are allowed in the splash park area. Above: Cameron Moore, 8, of Petersburg, enjoys a hoday at Kief- er Splash Park in Hornady Park on Monday. By Andy Heuring Editor editor@pressdispatch.net More than 400 of the best ama- teur disc golfers in the world will descend on Pike and Gibson Coun- ties next week. The 2022 Professional Disc Golf Association's Amateur Disc Golf World Championships presented by Toyota will be contested from June21 -25. Between 100 and 168 disc golfers will be competing at the Prides Creek disc golf course on Wednesday, Thursday and Fri- day during pool play. Tournament Director Steven Waites said the Prides Creek Course is one of the big draws of the tournament. "It is considered one of the top fi ve courses in the state," said Waites. Course Designer and Pike Coun- ty resident Dane Prevo said it and one other course are considered the best two courses in the state. "This is a really big deal. There are going to be between 2,000 to 3,000 people coming to Pike Coun- ty," said Prevo. He said each competitor will bring a caddy and most will bring family with them. Waites said there will be compet- itors from 42 states and nine dif- ferent countries. Prides Creek has hosted a sanctioned PDGA event for the last eight or nine years, but this is the fi rst time to the have Worlds locally. It is an amateur competition, but it is being run by the Professional Disc Golf Association. Their two di- visions are Mixed Amateur, which is the men's division and any wom- en who want to compete in it. There is also a female division, no men allowed. Waites said the tournament will have pool play on Tuesday and Wednesday. "Then we have what we call the great shuffl e, and they will play Thursday and Friday." A f- ter Friday's scores are posted they will cut the fi eld to the top 25 per- cent. The top 25 percent will then play in the fi nals at the Princeton Coun- try Club. Other courses being used for the tournament will be the hybrid course in Mesker Park at Evans- ville, Haubstadt Park and Prides Creek. Best disc golfers in the world to descend on Pike County Winslow council questioned on policies By Sherri Sebella News Editor sherri@pressdispatch.net Winslow residents are not happy with the way the current Winslow town council board is running Winslow and handling the taxpay- ers money, and are making it known at every town council meeting held as of late. From how their taxpayer's dollars are being spent and handled, to the lack of policy and procedures for town employees, residents voiced their concerns and demanded changes be made by the town coun- cil board members. Residents were visibly upset when council members kept going back and forth over whether to give Town Marshall Steve Nelson a $ .14 cent raise per hour to cover his increase in insurance costs. Nelson's insur- ance costs have risen $ 972 and the town would have to add an addition- al $ 300 per year to Nelson's salary to meet the increase, with Nelson being responsible for 25 percent of the insurance costs. The increase the town would pay amounted to $11.50 every pay- check for Nelson and councilman Dick Brewster expressed his con- cern that it would be discriminato- ry against the other two town em- ployees, to give Nelson an increase to cover insurance costs, and not the other employees, but the mo- tion passed 3-0. Debra Lamb, Winslow Town Council President, gave a fi rst read- ing of a camper and off-road vehi- cle ordinance the council has been working on. Residents did not seem to have an issue with the ordinanc- es proposed. A discussion about increasing the number of Winslow Town Council members to fi ve (there are current- ly three), was held with Lamb sug- gesting putting the resolution to Phase I of sewer upgrades operational By Andy Heuring Editor editor@pressdispatch.net Phase I of a multi-million dollar upgrade to the Petersburg waste water treatment plant is up and run- ning. It includes an equalization ba- sin and headworks building. Every drop of sewer that comes into the Petersburg system fl ows into the Headworks building. Once there, it runs through a coarse fi l- tering system that separates debris out of the fl ow, compacts it and drops it into a dumpster. The headworks building also monitors the amount of fl ow and de- termines whether a portion or all of the fl ow needs to go to the equaliza- tion basin or to the treatment plant. The new equalization basin is nearly as large as a football fi eld and acts as a buffer for the treat- ment plant. Matt Robinette said typically the fl ow is between 400,000 to 500,000 gallons a day. But that can be multi- plied by two to three times if there is a big rain. Since the equalization basin is now operational that over- fl ow can be diverted to it. In the past it caused problems. "We can sleep a lot better," said Petersburg Waste Water Operator Todd Jenkins, who has worked for the city about 15 years. Prior to the equalization basin being operational, city workers on rainy nights would often get calls in the middle of the night about lift stations backing up. This would re- quire them to have to get up, get an emergency pump and take care of the problem. Now the system is monitored and automated so the backup and over- fl ows are alleviated. "It still needs some fi ne tuning," said City Services Manager Ross Elmore. "Can I make the statement that if we have a two-inch rain there will be no overfl ow? " asked Petersburg Mayor R. C. Klipsch at the last city council meeting. "Yes," answered Elmore. "I'm thrilled to be able to say that after all these years," said Klipsch. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2022 VOLUME 152, NUMBER 24 Tisdale's Corliss Safe collection largest in US By Andy Heuring Press-Dispatch Editor editor@pressdispatch.net Winslow entrepreneur and pres- ervationist Matt Tisdale has a new hobby. It is one of many. He started collecting antique safes about fi ve years ago. But two weeks ago he got into it in a big way. Three semis and a goose-neck trailer rolled into Winslow early June 2 carrying more than 100,000 lbs. of safes. They had driven all night from Ocala, Florida loaded with Tisdale's latest haul. He pur- chased 19 safes at an online auction in Florida. The safes ranged from about an 18" by 18" to a giant antique ball safe, more than 48 inches in diame- ter and weighing 22,000 lbs. At about 9 a.m. a crane and crew from Sterett began the process of unloading the massively heavy safes. Making matters more diffi - cult, besides being giant iron ob- jects, is that most were round or spherical. They loaded them into Tisdale's building he uses to rebuild vintage Power Wagons. It formerly was the Ford Garage. Then last Saturday another truck load of safes showed up, making Tisdale and Winslow the site of the largest collection of massive antique Corliss cannonball safes in the country. "I don't know of anywhere that has two Planets," said Tisdale. He said he has six of the Corliss safes in their various sizes ranging from See WINSLOW on page 2 See TISDALE on page 3 See DISC GOLF on page 3 Matt Tisdale exposes the interior door of a Corliss safe. A large crank is used to spin the interior globe to expose the combination locking device. It is one of more than 20 safes Tisdale recently purchased. This Corliss safe weighs 22,000 pounds. NEWS TIPS Phone: .....................812-354-8500 Email ..... editor@pressdispatch.net INSIDE Local ................. A1-6 Sports .................B1-3 East Gibson............B4 Home Life ............... C1 Opinion ............. C2-3 Classifi eds .......... C4-6 Legals ................ C5-6 Church .............. D1-3 History ................. D-5 Obituaries ............. D-6 USPS 604-34012

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