The Press-Dispatch
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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, June 15, 2022 A-3 LOCAL Call: 812-354-8500 Email: news@pressdispatch.net or bring in a hard copy: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg Sunday, June 26 11:00 am Community Wide Church Service – Otwell Community Center – Presented by the South Eastern Pike County Ministerial Association Noon Free Will Offering Lunch following church service – Otwell Community Center Dining Room – Hosted by the Otwell Community Center 5:00 pm Little Miss & Junior Miss Firecracker Contest – Otwell Community Center Gym – A Beauty and Talent Pageant for the Smaller Ones ages 5 to 8 & 9 to 12 years of age. Held in the air-conditioned gym. Admission is $3. Ages 6 and under are FREE. Friday, July 1 5:00 pm Grounds, Midway, Rides Open – Amusement ride food trucks open, Young Farmers food stand at the track open. 7:00 pm 2nd Annual Cornhole Tournament – Ruritan shelter house – Test your skills on the cornhole boards, cost is $10 per player to enter the tournament. Teams need to be present at 6:30 pm to register and develop the tourney bracket. 7:00 pm T.T.P.A.I. – Garden Tractor Pull – on the track – FREE Admission – ey will show their show their stuff at pulling just like the big ones. Saturday, July 2 Noon 5th Annual Firecracker Volleyball Tournament (teams present at 11:30 am) – is year will feature a 6 vs 6 coed tournament. Cost to register a team is $10 per player; takes place on the Ruritan grounds at the grass parking lot on the west side of the property. Come watch these teams battle it out and enjoy some fun, old-fashioned backyard volleyball. Pre-register by calling or texting (812) 789-3705. 5:00 pm Grounds, Midway, Ice Cream Stand, Rides Open 7:00 pm Firecracker Truck Pulls – on the track ITPA 4x4 Pro Stock Truck Class ITPA 3.0 Diesel Truck Class ITPA 4x4 Super Stock Truck/4x4 Altered Stock Truck Class 8,000 LB. Open Diesel Truck Class (Includes 2.5, 2.6, and 3.0) 6,000 LB. 2 Wheel Drive Truck Class Sunday, July 3 Noon 2nd Annual Flag Football Tournament (teams present at 11:30 am) – is is a very competitive tourney between teams playing the game of flag football. is was a new event last year and has become a can't miss option. Cost to register a team is $10 per player; takes place on the Ruritan grounds at the grass parking lot on the west side of the property. Pre-register by calling or texting (812) 789-3705. Sunday, July 3 (continued) 5:00 pm Grounds, Midway, Ice Cream Stand, Rides Open 7:00 pm Firecracker Tractor Pulls – on the track 12,000 LB. 10 mph Tractor Class OVTPA 9500 LB. Limited Pro/Hot Farm Tractors 12,000 LB. 14 mph Tractor Class 12,000 LB. Non-Aspirated Tractor Class 11,500 LB. Pro Farm Tractor Class Monday, July 4 10:00 am Parade – Bring a lawn chair and come early to get a viewpoint so you can enjoy the sights and sounds of an old fashioned Fourth of July parade, and there's always plenty of candy for the kids. Parade Grand Marshalls for this year are Vi Leehe, Tom Leehe, and Amber Leehe. 11:00 am Grounds, Midway, Ice Cream Stand, Rides Open 11:00 am Jefferson Township Ruritan's Famous BBQ Chicken and Rib Dinners Begin – ese will be available for LUNCH ONLY. Take out or dine in the air-conditioned dining room. Two serving lines and a separate take-out line shortens waiting time to a minimum. 11:30 am Supercross Triple Crown Racing Registration – Registration for the bike and quad classes will begin at 11:30 am and end at 1:00 pm. is will take place on the north side of the track using the north entrance. 1:00 pm Firecracker Baby Contest – Otwell Community Center Gym – Multiple contests for the little ones ages newborn to 5 years old in the air-conditioned gym. Admission is $2.00. Ages 6 and under are FREE. 1:30 pm Supercross Triple Crown Racing Practice – Practice for the bike and quad classes will begin at 1:30 pm and end at 2:30 pm. is will take place on the north side of the track. 2:00 pm Children's Pedal Pull – Just to prove the adults aren't the only people that can enjoy the spirit of a good pull, the little ones put their pedal tractors and strength to the test. Takes place on the track, weather permitting. 3:00 pm Supercross Triple Crown Racing – Come watch riders of all ages put their skills to the test during this new event this year. Offering a variety of classes for the bike and quad riders. Takes place on the north end of the track. DARK FIREWORKS!!! 4th of July 4th of July Jefferson Township Ruritan Club Jefferson Township Ruritan Club Celebration 4th of July 4th of July 4th of July Jefferson Township Ruritan Club Jefferson Township Ruritan Club Jefferson Township Ruritan Club 4th of July 4th of July 4th of July Jefferson Township Ruritan Club Jefferson Township Ruritan Club Jefferson Township Ruritan Club Celebration Celebration June 26 – July 4, 2022 • Otwell For information, registrations or schedules, go to our Facebook: Otwell 4th of July Celebration Dr. Renee Ramsey would like to inform her patients that her long standing optometry practice in Petersburg is coming to an end. Since 1995, Dr. Ramsey has enjoyed serving the Pike, Knox, Daviess, and Gibson County community's optometric needs. In order to continue the quality of care that Dr. Ramsey's Vision Center has pro- vided over the years, your eye care is being transferred to Oakland City Eyecare. Oakland City Eyecare is prepared to provide excellent optometric care close to home. Dr. Ramsey thanks you for a great twenty-seven years of practice and appreciates the confidence you have afforded her for your vision care needs. Oakland City Eyecare can be reached at 812-749-3700 or at oaklandcityeyecare.com 13,000 to 22,000 pounds. The safes are a history lesson in engineering and innovation. Some are large balls with an exterior of sever- al-inch-thick iron with another ball inside the exterior that would spin 180 degrees to al- low access to a series of locks to open the interior. Another safe that is about 42 inches tall and 30 inches wide, used large amounts of iron in layers with only about 18" of storage space inside it. Some operated off combina- tions and one had redundant timer devices that would open the safe only once a day. Tisdale started slowly with safe collecting. He had been at it for about fi ve years and had four safes. But this spring he ran across a large on-line auction. A 94-year-old man in Ocala, Florida with a giant col- lection decided it was time to liquidate much of it. So he put 419 of the antique safes up for sale on an online auction site. Tisdale found it and started bidding. He admitted he might have gone a little nuts on it and pur- chased 19 of them. "Some of them might be as early as the 1700s," said Tisdale. "You can blame the Old Man for that," said Tisdale about how he got into collect- ing safes. His father, Dave Tisdale, is known for collecting things, as was his grandmother, Alma. Dave had collected safes on a much smaller scale for decades. "I have been turning dials on safes since I was seven or eight years old," said Tisdale. Matt said the precision of the massive iron safes has al- ways intrigued him. "You have to be very precise. If you turn it just little bit too much or too little they won't open." He said the engineering and innovation involved in the designs is amazing as well as how they were built with crude tools available in the 1800s. "They had to build the fi rst machine before they could build the second," said Tisdale of the safes. The beauty of the locking mechanisms, often rivaling fi ne watches, also caught Tis- dales eye. He said the round and speri- cal shape came from protect- ing them from an explosion. "Everyone and their brother could get their hands on dyna- mite back then," said Tisdale. The shape doesn't have a fl at surface or edge, making more resistant to explosion. Tisdale thought he was probably fi nished buying safes at least for a little while after the fi rst three-semi loads of safes from Florida arrived. But a professoinal resto- ration specialist, who had pur- chased two of the large Corliss safes, got down to Florida and just decided it wasn't worth it to try and ship the safes. "He was overwhelmed by what it takes to transport these bad boys." The Corliss safes are Tis- dale's favorites. They were manufactured by what was originally a steam engine man- ufacturer, The Corliss Steam Engine Co. in Providence, Rhode Island. Tisdale seized the opportu- nity and made a second trip to Florida to bring them back to Winslow. He said the shipping bill for the trucks and cranes necessary to get all the safes to Winslow was well into fi ve fi gures. He said Winslow area res- ident Brian McClain, who works with Sterett, deserved a lot of credit for fi guring out how to load and unload the sperical shaped safes. Matt said he is more about preserving things rather than just acquiring them for their value. "We really don't own any- thing. We are just caretakers for the next generation," said Tisdale. His plans are to leave the safes with a nice patina alone. But some he may try to polish to a mirror fi nish. In time, he hopes to be able to have them set up in a display in Winslow where people can visit to view and appreciate the safes. It's a collection of items designed to be impervious to pretty much everything, and should last well into the next generation or two.t The tournament is by in- vitation only. Those compet- ing had to qualify through points system on their play in tournaments last year. Waites said this is the fi rst time Toyota as a corporation has sponsored the event. He said local dealerships had sponsored it in the past, but this is the fi rst time to get that sponsorship at the cor- porate level. "It just shows how the sport of disc golf is growing," said Waites. He said it took 40 years for the membership of the PDGA to reach 111,000 and only another four years for that to double. Prides Creek Manager Brandon Schultheis said he had people calling last week trying to reserve camping sites, but had to tell them it is fi rst come fi rst serve only. Schultheis said they are expecting the park to be re- ally busy next week. Prevo said competitors and their friends will start showing up this week. "Most of them will have friends who play disc golf and want to be a part of it. Even though they didn't qualify to compete, they will take a week or two off and travel with their friends to play the courses and see the tournament," said Prevo. DISC GOLF Continued from page 1 TISDALE Continued from page 1 Matt Tisdale shows off one of his favorite safes, commonly known as a cannonball safe. Tisdale has the largest collection of these safes in the nation. Petersburg's new equalization basin is just smaller than a football fi eld. It holds overfl ow in peak times such as heavy rains until the sewer plant can catch up with the fl ow. On a typical day the sewer plant treats 400,000 to 500,000 gallons, but when there is a big rain that can jump to 1.5 million gallons. Matt Robinette holds up a fl oor grid that is over the main sewer line into the new headworks building. Once there the fl ow can be diverted out to the equalization basin or to the sewer treatment plant. See related story on page 1.