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es one, to us making a TikTok video together in the barn, I love to watch others do them too, there have been a lot of great ex- periences and memories made." When Schatz won her first horse and pony belt buckle, she actually won two, during the contesting show. "They were Senior Speed and Ac- tion, and the Senior Keyhole Shows," Schatz said. "Me and my little spotted horse ran a pretty fast time to beat some of the other powerhouse horses there, and I couldn't have been prouder of us, and all of them." The other group that Schatz belongs to is the 4-H Feathers and Fur Club. "Now this club is the definition of family for me," Schatz said. "We have pretty well been through it all together. They were there for the best experience of my 4-H career, which was when I won the 4-H Master Rabbit Show- man Award, both times. Even though we were doing a virtual fair for the second award, they were still there for me for it all." Being a 4-H member comes with responsibility. "Being a 4-H member not only shows you the respect and respon- sibility of taking care of your animals and your peers, but it also shows that you need to respect ever yone, four legs or two legs," Schatz said. "I learned from a young age that respect is not given, but it's earned. The discipline of learning how to care and re- spect your animal gives you the prime example for learn- ing how to take responsibility for yourself and your actions." Being a part of a family that you create from the people around you and the people in your community is what Schatz likes best about 4-H. "You real- ly do make friendships for a lifetime," Schatz said. Schatz will be going to col- lege for a major in Agri-Busi- ness. "I plan to one day open and run my o wn farm, with the dream to one day open my ver y own horse rescue," Schatz said. If there's one thing Schatz wants people to know about 4-H, it's that it is a lot of fun. "You make a really great family of friends who have the same interests you do," Schatz said. "You also learn to work really hard, learning responsibility for yourself and your animals. I would tell a future 4-H member not to hold themselves back. Step out of your comfor t zone and be willing to tr y new things. Another thing is to not take the years for granted, do fun things and hang out with new people. Make the memories and the mistakes because one day you're going to be a senior doing your final 4-H week. It's a bittersweet moment, when what you're going to have after you ten- ure out is the memories you made. The countless hours and the early mornings are all wor th it." BIG CHECKS FOR WATER PROJECT APPROVED The council voted to ap- prove several big bills that were going to be signed and issued Tuesday morning. Klipsch said they had a meeting with water project contractors to pay bills on Tuesday morning. He gave documents to each council member from Mid- western Engineers Inc. recom- mending the various stages of those four divisions of the wa- ter project be paid on Tuesday. Division I for the new water treatment plant to Debr-Kue- mple, Inc. was $408,141.85. Division II new water supply wells five and six $125,472.20. Division III for new raw water main and water distribution sys- tem improvement $247,830.84. Division IV new 750,000 gal- lon water tower $351,667.96. They also were going to be paying Love Excavation, LLC payments of $4,832 and $58,350.96 which completed their work on relocating a wa- ter main that was under High- way 61 to the right of way of Highway 61, which is being rehabbed by the Indiana De- partment of Transportation. INDOT said the rehab work for phase II and III is on track to be completed by early Sep- tember. Mayor Klipsch said the Streetscape project which is new sidewalks, curbs and light poles along Main St. and the in- stallation of a new water main in the same area with new wa- ter hook-ups to each water cus- tomer on both sides of Main St. seem to be coordinating well with each other. He said so far the water line project which is tearing out curbs and side- walks to put the water lines in is staying ahead of the installa- tion of new sidewalks. City Ser vices Manager Ross Elmore said the new wa- ter line has been pressurized and is in operation from south Main up to Seventh St. He and Klipsch said if the Streetscape project catches up to the waterline project in the 700 block of Main St. the Street- scape may move ahead to the 800 block and do work around the courthouse, where there is only going to be one service cut. PAVING BIDS ACCEPTED The board voted to accept paving bids from the low bidder Calcar, who bid $205,931.74. The other bidder was E&B Paving at $233,077.66 Calcar is expected to pave the following streets this sum- mer or early Fall: • Matilda from Seventh St. to City limits 940 ft; • Branch from Seventh to City limits 1,299 ft. • Cedar from dead end to Sixth St. 892 ft. • Cedar from Seventh to 12th St. 1,283 ft. • Cherr y from dead end to Fifth St. 523 ft., • Cherr y. from Sixth to Mulberr y St. 2,286 ft. • 13th St. from Main to Lo- cust 787 ft. • Center from Main St. to dead end 602 ft. • King from Fifth to 6th St. 190 ft., • Goodlet from Ninth St. to dead end. SIDE BY SIDE ORDINANCE APPROVED The council in their June meeting approved a new or- dinance that allows the oper- ation of side by side ATVs on city streets nearly identical to the operation of golf carts. The side by sides must have a permit from the city of Petersburg and be inspected. The next meeting is sched- uled for 6:30 p.m. Monday, August 1. A-2 Wednesday, July 20, 2022 The Press-Dispatch Gideon charged with suspended prior By James Capozella Press-Dispatch News news@pressdispatch.net Kenneth R. Gideon, 44, 420 N Geiger St. Hunt- ingburg, was stopped for speeding by Indiana State Trooper John Davis on SR 64 on July 6. Davis recog- nized Gideon and asked if he was still suspended and he said he thought it was taken care of. A return on a BMV check came back as driving while suspended prior with a re-el- igible date of 9/9/22. Gideon was issued a summons to appear on August 2 and was told to park the vehicle and not drive. Peach arrested for residential entry and criminal mischief By James Capozella Press-Dispatch news news@pressdispatch.net Pike County Deputy Sher- iff Briar Meadors responded to the dispatch of an attempt- ed break-in in Stendal that resulted in the arrest of Jar- ed Dean Peach, 33, 600 Nich- olas St. #201, Vincennes. Peach was arrested July 17 for residential entr y and criminal mischief. Meadors obser ved some- one standing in the driveway matching the description giv- en by dispatch and detained him. Jared's father, Gar y Peach, said Jared had bro- ken through both doors of his residence and was yelling for him. Gar y Peach said his son had just received mental health treatment in Missis- sippi and had returned to Vincennes and was attempt- ing to get accepted into a group home. Peach wanted to pursue charges for the damages in hopes that Jared could re- ceive further treatment. Jar- ed told officer Meadors he had not been able to contact his dad by phone and was concerned about him. Jared Peach was arrested for res- idential entr y and criminal mischief and transported to the Pike County Jail. NEW PLAY SET FOR WES The board also voted 4-0 to approve a new play set for Winslow Elementa- r y School. The cost of the actual Happy Go Lucky Play System, which weighs nearly 3,000 pounds was $15,437. However the total bid from AAA State of Play of Indianapolis was $46,139. Other items includ- ed a DuraDrain base for $2,137.50, 2,000 lbs of r ub- ber mulch for $3,493 and 32 48"x12" inch timbers for $832. Shipping was quoted as $4,117 and in- stallation was $20,087. Board member Chris McKinney asked if they had tried other playground equipment companies. Max Deputy ----- said he had contacted the company that recently did the Pe- tersburg installation and they never retur ned his call. He said he also con- tacted another company and they never responded. "Is this not something we could put up? I mean, it is $20,000 in labor. . . that is a huge bill," said McKinney. Board member Chris Satterfield said he was also on the Winslow Park and Recreation Board and they recently put together a play- set for the Winslow park. "We saved $5,000 putting it up. But after doing it I would have gladly paid to have it done," said Satter- field. "Yeah, but this is $20,000," said McKinney. Potter said he was con- cerned about liability if the school corporation did the assembly. Blake said there might be warranty issues as well. Satterfield also brought up the lead time as 16 to 20 weeks. "Unless it comes in at the right time we are going to be pulling our guys in to put that together. It would be different if it came in during Fall break or during the sum- mer." "I'll make the motion to approve and get this started, but I understand your con- cern," said Potter. In other facility projects they approved the low bid of Independence Contracting of Evansville to do repairs to sidewalks by the A and D wings and loading dock be- tween the two docks. Their bid was $45,776. The other bid was $73,346 from Jamni- czky of Huntingburg. In personnel matters: Network Technician Paul Br umfield resigned, Winslow Elementar y Ar t Educator and Math Bowl Coach Rebecca Ber- r y resigned and Rodney Fretwell resigned his po- sition as an aid at PES and assistant football coach. In new hires, the board hired Emily Hudson as the WES Art teacher and Kay- la Weyer as a kindergarten teacher at WES. Jason Roy was hired as a Special Education teacher at Pike Central High School. Vanessa Bye was hired as a high school math teacher for Algebra 2, Honors Algebra and Geometr y. Renee Childress was hired as a teacher at Pe- tersburg Elementar y School and Nici Key as a teaching assistant. Blake also said they still had four school bus driver vacancies, but "it is better than the five we had yester- day." The next school board meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, August 9 in the School Corporation Building. SCHOOL Continued from page 1 PIKE Continued from page 1 OFFICER Continued from page 1 Moyes pleads not guilty By Sherri Sebella News Editor @pressdispatch.net Dana Moyes, 40, of Velpen, also known as Dana or Daisy Benton, France, Chen, Old- ham, Williams, Gott, Gibson, and other aliases, is being held at Pike County Jail with a $200,000 bond; 10 percent per- mitted, and pleaded not guilty to multiple felony charges on Thursday, July 7. Moyes was charged on June 27 with Neglect of a Depen- dent Resulting in Bodily In- jur y, four charges of Neglect of a Dependent/Defendant places dependent in situation that endangers the dependent, which have various dates from March 6, 2019 to March 6, 2022. An additional charge of Ne- glect of a Depen- dent/Defendant deprives depen- dent of neces- sar y support, was also filed June 27. In addition to the original charges, Moy- es has seven other charges of Neglect of a Dependent, and abandonment or cruel con- finement/deprived a depen- dent, and seven additional charges of Ne- glect of a Depen- dent/Defendant places depen- dent in situation that endangers the dependent, that was filed on July 7, to which Moyes pleaded not guilty. The court has ordered Moyes to have no con- tact with the al- leged victims un- less further court ordered and Moyes has been appointed a public defender, out of Dubois County, by Judge Jeffrey Bi- ester veld, at Pike County's expense, after Moyes claimed she does not have the means to hire an attorney. An order granting a Mo- tion for Continuance was filed and accepted by Judge Biester veld on July 12, with a pre-trial conference sched- uled for August 17,, begin- ning at 1 p.m. Central Dispatch was no- tified that Moyes was tr y- ing to buy an inter national plane ticket on July 5. On July 6, Moyes tur ned her- self in at the Pike County Sherif f 's Of fice. Dana Moyes Logan Beau Dillon is a 10-year 4-H member from the Pike County Feathers & Fur 4-H Club. He is a recent graduate from Pike Central High School. Logan has participated in the Gar- den, Photography, Poultry, Swine, and Shooting Sports projects. He is also this year's Farm Bureau Tenure Award Winner. Kayla Cannon is a 10- year 4-H member from the Pike County Feathers & Fur 4-H Club. She is a re- cent graduate from North Daviess High School. Kayla has participated in the Poultr y, Goats, Sheep, Beef, Dair y Beef, Jr. Lead- ers, Swine, Horse & Pony, and Rabbit projects. Samuel Coleman is a 9-year 4-H member from the Pike County Friendly 4-H Club. He is a recent graduate from Pike Central High School. Samuel has participated in the Construction Toys, Gar- den, Poultr y, and Rabbit projects. Sophie Carnahan is a 10-year 4-H member from the Pike County Friendly 4-H Club. 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