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A-2 Wednesday, September 7, 2022 The Press-Dispatch FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL 812–743–2393 or Jerry Coonrod at 812–887–4182 Parade: call Gene Williams at 812–639–8117 Pageant: call Jenn Candler at 812–677–1217 Vendors: call Marlis Day at 812–890–1736 Check our Facebook page for further information Blue Jeans Center 1242 MAIN STREET • MONROE CITY Family Fun & Entertainment THURSDAY, SEPT. 15 5:00pm Food Trucks 7:00pm King and Queen Pageant in the Gym FRIDAY, SEPT. 16 5:00pm Delicious Food* Vendors and Inflatables South Knox PTO Chicken Noodle or Beef Manhattan Dinner 7–8pm Half Pot Drawing 7–11pm Music in the Pavilion by Ricochet SATURDAY, SEPT. 17 9:30am Beech Hills Bar–B–Que by Cow Muck Cookers 10:00am Pet Show and K9 Demo by Knox County Sheriff 's Dept. 11:00am Delicious Food* Noon Inflatables and Vendors 1:00pm Garden Tractor Pull 1–3pm Kids' Games 5:00pm Tacos by Church of God 7–8pm Half Pot Drawing 7–11pm South Knox High School Reunion SUNDAY, SEPT. 18 10:00 am Church Service in the Gym 11–1pm Fish Fry by Jeff Black and Crew Noon Delicious Food* Noon–5pm Inflatables and Vendors 2:00pm Parade 3:00pm Half Pot Drawing South Knox High School Band Concert All proceeds to benefit the Blue Jeans Community Center *DELICIOUS FOOD ALL WEEKEND Hamburgers, Brat and Homemade Ice Cream by Walnut Grove Methodist Church Coneys, Hot Dogs and Funnel Cakes by the Reed Family PLUS: SEE SPECIAL EVENTS IN SCHEDULE ABOVE. net edition yeah, it's that fast! Z M www.PressDispatch.net/Subscribe It's The Press-Dispatch. No matter where you live. Delivered every Wednesday morning! Add it for $5 to your current print subscription or stand-alone for $35/year. FALL FESTIVAL Continued from page 1 TRACTOR Continued from page 1 NEW ERA Continued from page 1 WOODS Continued from page 1 BUST Continued from page 1 Kids games and inflatables will be available throughout the days of the Monroe City Fall Festival, from Fri- day, September 16, through Sunday, September 18. Prizes will be given during the children's games. Grace Keller does judging during a former pet show at the Monroe City Fall Festival. This year's pet show will take place on Saturday, September 17, and everyone from the surrounding areas are also welcome to partic- ipate. Cash prizes are awarded during the show. CORRECTION In reference to the article regarding the United Way Day of Caring Volunteer Event, published Wednesday, August 31, the incorrect date was given. The 2022 Day of Caring will take place on Wednesday, September 21. liability insurance required for the Drive. We couldn't do it without them. There's not enough money raised to cover the cost of the liability insurance." The Pike County Young Farmers will be preparing a pulled pork lunch with sides, served Dutch Treat at $10 per lunch. "They always do lunch for us, which is a nice thing to have them in- volved in," Elmore said. Those who do not pre-reg- ister can still participate the day of the Tractor Drive. "Just show up that morning," Elmore said. "I'll probably be driving my 48 John Deere A. There's usually anywhere between 20 -30 people." For more information, contact Elmore at 812-582- 2628, Dave Yager at 812- 483-9532, Matt Perry at 812-629 -0242, Mike Wha- ley at 812-582-0270, or Jim Hughes at 812-789 -6308. Clark told police he was hit on the head with a baseball bat, and also kicked in the eye. Clark also told police the two individuals who attacked him were Bradley Woods, 42, and David Padgett, 28. According to Clark, Padgett had come to his res- idence and said he and his girlfriend were "getting into it," and asked if she could stay at Clark's residence until she found a ride. Clark said she was able to find a ride to Evansville and ran into Padgett earlier in the eve- ning. Clark told police that Padgett asked him where she was and he told Padgett he did not know. Clark said Padgett then came back to the residence with Woods and insisted they go through his house and said they want- ed answers. When Clark told Padgett that he did not have any answers, according to the probable cause affidavit and testimony during the trial, Padgett and Woods kicked his door in and then beat him. Clark said Padgett and Woods threw all of his potted plants all over the place and threw him into a wall. Clark said he was absolute- ly certain that it was Padgett and Woods who attacked him. Clark told police Woods had the bat and Padgett kicked him in the face. When police entered Clark's home, they found blood on the floor, blood on the steps leading into the liv- ing room and bathroom, and multiple potted plants were broken on the floor. The door jamb on his back porch was also broken. Pike County Prosecu- tor Darrin McDonald was pleased with the way things went during the trial of Woods last week. "We anticipated that the case would turn on wheth- er the jury believed David Padgett's testimony or not, (and) who we believed was Mr. Woods co-conspirator," McDonald said. "We had a case of everything based on that and a month or two into jail, we started getting letters stating that Woods was out on the porch the whole time and took off when things got violent." According to Padgett's testimony, he said Woods left when the fight got start- ed but when trial started, Padgett had no reason as to why Clark would have a grudge with Woods. Clark identified Woods and Padgett as having attacked him, and Padgett had testi- fied that he forced his way through the door and began physically beating on Clark and that the fight went on throughout the house. Clark testified that whenev- er he was getting the better of the fight, Padgett would call Woods in. During the fight, Clark tried to get ahold of a gun and Padgett and Clark were wres- tling back and forth and when Clark had backed Padgett against the wall, then Padgett shouted for Woods. Clark testified that Woods then came in with a base- ball bat and starting hitting him with a bat on the top of his head and his knees went weak. The next thing Clark remembered was Padgett smashing a planted pot on his head and kicking him in the eye with his boots. "Padgett said Woods left when the fight got started. But when the trial started, he couldn't make up a rea- son why Clark would have a grudge with Woods and ac- cuse him of participating in the beating," said McDonald. During trial Padgett said he kicked Clark in the head which was never brought up in the deposition. "There was no reason Clark would falsely accuse Woods," Mc- Donald said. "There was a lot of what was said in Padgett's deposition that didn't make sense. It very much appears they (the jury) did not believe Padgett's testimony. He has three different versions of what happened in the letters, the deposition, and testimo- ny. Dennis (Clark) had been very consistent throughout the entire ordeal." Sentencing for Bradley Woods is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, September 27, beginning at 2 p.m. Any future hearings for Padgett have been canceled at this time. "Andy and I are the fourth generation of Heurings to operate The Press-Dispatch, which was started by our great-grandfather, A. J. Heu- ring in 1898 in Winslow," said John Heuring, co-pub- lisher and advertising man- ager. "I began full-time at the publication in May 1978, and have been involved ever since. The newspapers are a part of who we are and they have been our life's work." Our papers have won mul- tiple awards for both news coverage and advertising, and we believe Don and his family of newspapers will be a great fit here and he will continue to be an asset to our communities." "We have some big shoes to fill. The Heurings did a wonderful job covering Pike and Gibson Counties, said Hurd. It's our mission to pro- vide our readers with infor- mation they can use in their daily lives and help make them be better citizens." "We plan to be very engaged in the community. To me it's important that a local news- paper be a big part of the community," stated Hurd. Hurd proudly boasts, "All of our newspapers are hy- per-local. We will be featur- ing stories about the people and places of Pike and Gib- son Counties that our read- ers will love. I call it refriger- ator journalism because my parents would always cut out articles about their children and post them proudly on their refrigerator for all to see," Hurd commented. Hurd is a 42-year pub- lishing veteran in Indiana, Michigan and Illinois. His career in print media started when he was 11-years old as a paperboy for the Warsaw Times Union. He grew up in the Warsaw area. Hurd went to Mentone High School and was in the first graduating class at Tippecanoe Valley. Hurd was also the first Vi- king mascot at Valley. At one point in his long career, Hurd was president of more than 30 newspapers in Indiana and Illinois. He is a graduate of Ball State Uni- versity with degrees in tele- communications, marketing and journalism. Hurd has been the recipi- ent of more than 80 national and state advertising, edito- rial, graphic design and pho- tography awards from sever- al industry organizations. He was also an 18 -year Hoosier State Press Associ- ation Board member where he served as President and Vice-President. Addition- ally, Hurd served on the Illinois Press Board of Di- rectors and was President of the Indiana Advertising Executives Association. Hurd's staff members have more than 170 years of combined local commu- nity newspaper experience. Each staff member is total- ly focused on keeping local journalism alive and vibrant. "We look forward to work- ing with the residents of Pike and Gibson Counties to provide them with an all-lo- cal community newspaper. We want our readers to be proud of their hometown newspaper," said Hurd. "We encourage all local residents to let us know what they want to see in their local newspaper." Hurd encourages reader engagement with the news- paper. You can contact Hurd by emailing him at: presi- dent@hoosiermediagroup. com. ment patrol truck. "All but two of the plants were taken to be destroyed and disposed of, due to not having enough space to place them for evidence," Mills said. "The two plants that were kept were placed in ev- idence." Pictures were taken of the entire process of pulling the plants, and destroying them. Criminal charges have been filed and the investigation is ongoing. ing to Day, big smokers will be going un- til they run out, beginning at 9:30 a.m. A pet show and K9 demonstration by Knox County Sheriff's Department will take place at 10 a.m. with cash prizes for Best of Show, Best Tricks, and more. The pet show will take place in the pa- vilion. Day asks that all animals be on a leash and controlled and everyone from Knox and surrounding counties is invit- ed to participate in the pet show. "Last year we had a llama and there will be a hedgehog this year," Day said. Some other events happening on Saturday at the Blue Jeans Community Center include a Garden Tractor Pull at 1 p.m. behind the Center, by the old ball field. Anyone interested in participating in the garden tractor pull should contact Gene Williams at 812-639 -8117. Kids games will take place from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. and include sack races, tug-of-war, obstacle courses and more. Prizes for children will also be given during the games. At 5 p.m. the Church of God will sell tacos, which is also something new this year. Saturday evening from 7 p.m. until 11 p.m. South Knox High School will have a reunion event. "This is a joint reunion for anyone who went to South Knox High School," Day said. "It is a Home- coming type of event and we're hoping a lot of people show up to catch up on old times and visit with one another. We've never done this before, so we hope there is a good turnout. Sunday, the last day of the festival, hopes to be a spectacular day for ev- eryone who attends. "We will have a community church service at 10 a.m. in the gymnasium," Day said. "Five local churches put the service together and it fills up the gymnasium. There is also children's church available outside at the pavilion. It's a really good service." Following the church service, there will be a fish fry from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. "Last year we sold 350 dinners," Day said. "This is a big fish fry that Jeff Black and his crew put on each year. A parade will take place at 2 p.m. starting by the grain bins on State Road 241 and head- ing down Main Street. "We have golf carts, fire trucks, floats and all kinds of things," Day said. "If anyone wants to be in the parade, they should contact Gene ( Williams) at 812-639 -8117. Following the parade on Sunday, the South Knox High School Band will have a concert on the front lawn of the Com- munity Center at 3 p.m. Throughout the weekend festivities, Day wants to remind people that inside the Community Center there is a library with books checked out on the honor system and also free books set out for people to enjoy, along with a thrift store that offers all 25 cent clothing for wom- en, men, and children. "We get so many donations of food that if we don't sell it cheaply, we wouldn't have a place to store it all," Day said. "There's also a country store with flea market-type items available for very cheap prices." "This is our main fund raiser for the year, to pay for the huge heating bills, cooling bills and upkeep of the build- ing. We took over the building in 2000 and it's been the Blue Jeans Community Center since then. When we have to fix something it is very expensive, so we hope to have a good turnout this year for the festival." "Last year, because of COVID, many people were scared to come out. Hope- fully this year will be better. For more information about the Mon- roe City Fall Festival, call Jerry Coonrod at 812-887-4182, Marlis Day at 812-890 - 1736 to be a vendor, and to be in the pag- eant, call Jenn Candler at 812-677-1217. "Some of the plants were fully grown and reached 8 to 10 feet tall," Mills said. Mills and Seger cut down and pulled all of the plants and loaded them into the back of a Pike County Sheriff's Department patrol truck. "All but two of the plants were taken to be destroyed and disposed of, due to not having enough space to place them for evidence," Mills said. "The two plants that were kept were placed in evidence."