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Email: sherri@press- dispatch.net WINDOWS Continued from page 1 Monday 8-7 • Tuesday 8-noon • Wednesday 10-7 • Thursday & Friday 8-5 eye exams • dry eye solutions prescription lenses • eye disease treatment Call to book your appointment today for safe in-offi ce treatment. Don't Neglect Your Eye Health. We're Open to See You Now! Dr. Clint Shoultz 715 S. 9th St., Petersburg 812-354-9400 Locally Owned and Operated Soup dinner raises funds for Mason's General Store The Petersburg Healthcare Center residents recently had a soup dinner to raise funds to purchase items to donate to Mason's General Store at Pike Central Middle School. Pictured left to right are Tara Hollett, Greg Smith, Erica Thomas (activity coordinator), Pat Ice, Christine Waddell (accepted the donations) and Sharon Adker- son. PES and Winslow compete at Regional Math Bowl By Mendy Ross Correspondent news@pressdispatch.net Both petersburg elementa- ry and Winslow elementary competed in a regional Math Bowl competition on Tuesday, april 11, at Cedar Crest in- termediate school. pes won second place in their division and Wes won third in their division. The pes team consists of 10 Fifth graders including adessah ross, amelia Wil- son, Brayden Gilmore, Cheri Willis, drake parker, Konner Tindall, Korbin Trowbridge, Kyron piersma, Mariana seay and selene elenbaas. and four Fourth graders including angel Goodrich, Brice leeds, Brielle sweet and paisley Col- lins. Their sponsors are pes Fourth grade teacher Tonya Walton and Fifth grade teach- er annita Henson. The pes team practiced every Tuesday and Thursday beginning in January and working through april until their competition. during their practices the team would "go through past competition questions and work on specif- ic standards for this compe- tition," said Walton, 10 year Math Bowl sponsor; Henson has been a sponsor for seven years. One tip that the two spon- sors give their team is how to work together in a group to optimize their time during the competition. Walton and Hen- son teach them the secret of each participant working on a certain answer choice so they are splitting up the work. "The goal of this club is to allow students to work to- gether and build upon their own learning," said Winslow Coach Kayla Weyer. "When you have a team of students, it allows for different strategies to be implemented and for lots of growth to occur among peers. The students help each other out with authentic expla- nations and want each other to succeed." during the competition each school will have three students sit at a table with a proctor. a question will be shown on the screen set up at the front of the gymnasium. The announcer will say the math question on the screen and the students have a limited amount of time to write down their answer. The proctor will record whether the students have the correct answer and continue until the end of their round. during each round there is an opportunity to sub in another teammate, not in- cluding the captain of that par- ticular round. Once the round is finished, three more team members will have a turn. One of the purposes of par- ticipating in the team is to build on their problem solv- ing and teamwork skills. "We have had good feedback that these students feel very confi- dent during sixth grade math class," said Walton. each year there are around 25 to 30 Fourth and Fifth grad- ers try-out for the team. This year the team chose a dodo bird for their pes Math Bowl 2023 shirt to wear to the com- petition. Fifth grade team members add their thoughts about the Math Bowl and math as a sub- ject. Brayden Gilmore said, "Why i love math is because it's such an interesting subject and sometimes it's a challenge and i like that. i love to have a challenge. it is also my favorite subject." Korbin Trowbridge said, "i wanted to do Math Bowl because it was hard math questions. i just wanted a hard challenge." drake parker said, "i enjoyed Math Bowl because of the challenges it brings you, and the people you meet." and Konner Tindall added, "i loved Math Bowl because we got to work together as a team. i love math so i enjoyed learn- ing new stuff every practice and loved working with new people." Fifth grade Math Bowl member Cheri Willis said, "i loved Math Bowl because i got to work with my friends and make new ones. i also loved it because it made math more fun than it already was." adessah ross said, "i enjoy Math Bowl because i get to hang out with friends and learn new math, which are two of my favorite things." selene elenbaas said, "in Math Bowl we work in a team and get to learn about stuff that you did not know. and Math Bowl is fun and exciting." and amelia Wilson added, "in Math Bowl i add friends and subtract hate." "it is always fun to see the excitement of studying math and are proud of their hard work," said Walton. "The ques- tions seemed harder this year and we are very pleased with the results of placing second in the regional competition." PES Math Bowl Team won second place in their division during the Regional Math Bowl Competition on Tuesday, April 11, at Cedar Crest Intermediate School. Team members from left to right, Adessah Ross, Mariana Seay, Selene Elenbaas, Brielle Sweet, Cheri Willis (against wall), Korbin Trowbridge, Paisley Collins, Amelia Wil- son, Kyron Piersma (against wall), Brayden Gilmore, Drake Parker, Konner Tindall, Angel Goodrich and Brice Leeds. WES Math Bowl Team won third place in their di- vision during the Regional Math Bowl Competition on Tuesday, April 11, at Cedar Crest Intermediate School. Team members front, left to right, Carter Moss, Ryleigh Gard, Alexis Gayhart and Jax Hudson. Back row, left to right, Weston Russell, Coach Kayla Weyer, Ady Le- mond, Ebony Mason, Eli Woolsey, Zoey Lemond and Gemma Gonzalez. construction cost for the proj- ect was $718,697 minus city funds available to complete the project of $330,005.10, leaving the $388,691.90 shortage. Commissioners agreed unanimously to take the money for the shortfall out of the arpa Fund. left over COVid funds not spent by other counties were also discussed at Monday's meeting. pike County was awarded $250,000 in fund- ing as part of the OCr a's COVid-3 grant program. Through this funding, grants were awarded to 42 business- es with 204 employees that were facing hardships due to COVid-19. Grants to small businesses ranged from $1,000 to $10,000 and allowed them to remain open during uncertain times. still facing post-COVid issues of price increases, employee shortages and oth- er issues, the county would like to work with pike Coun- ty economic development to provide grants of up to $10,000 to pike County small businesses and micro-en- terprises to retain jobs held by low-moderate income employees. if awarded the $250,000 in supplement funding through OCr a, the county would work with pike County economic develop- ment to market the grants to small businesses, and Willis and staff are ready to receive applications and have funds drawn down and distribut- ed to businesses by June 2, 2023.Commissioners agreed unanimously to request the $250,000 in supplemental COVid-19 relief funding. pike County Highway su- perintendent Josh Byrd told Commissioners he is waiting on pavement money and they are ready to start blacktop- ping potholes in spurgeon, but inner local agreements are needed to do the work because spurgeon is their own entity. Byrd also stated that they have gotten the new excavator in and it's been be- ing put to use. pike County sheriff Ja- son McKinney stated that they jail is understaffed by state standards and there will be a presentation to the pike County Council at the next meeting. according to McKinney, for the month of March, there were 30 arrests, 46 book-ins, and 3,160 calls. The next pike County Commissioner's meeting will be held on Monday, May 1, beginning at 8:30 a.m. at the pike County Courthouse. The public is encouraged to attend these meetings. Where will you go Where will you go when the storm sirens sound? when the storm sirens sound? Integrity Storm Shelters 812-677-0010 www.integritystormshelters.com Open Monday - Saturday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. CDT STORM SHELTERS We have been selling and installing LIFESAVER™ brand berglass underground storm shelters to Tri-State families for over ve years. 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