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The Press-Dispatch Court report Criminal Docket Pike Circuit Court Paul Joseph Wininger charged with sex offender-failure to register, a class D felony. In re: search warrant. Traffic and misdemeanor Pike Circuit Court Britt D. Wicklein charged with count I, battery, a class A misdemeanor; count II, recklessly furnished alcohol to minor, a class B misdemeanor; and count III, resisting law enforcement, a class A misdemeanor. Lisa M. Bradley charged with battery, a class A misdemeanor. Britt D. Wicklein charged with false informing, a class B misdemeanor. Laura N. Bennett charged with false informing, a class B misdemeanor. Civil Docket Pike Circuit Court Melody Montgomery sues Johnnie Ray Montgomery, Jr., for dissolution Katiedid vs... of marriage. PHH Mortgage Corp. sues Cathleen M. Brock for complaint on note and to foreclosure. Jane Garrett sues Tony Garrett for dissolution of marriage. Stacy N. Holmes sues Roy Shane King for unpaid restitution. Rebecca Hill sues Tony Hill for dissolution of marriage. Infractions Pike Circuit Court Taylor R. Buschkoetter charged with speeding, 59 mph in a 35 zone. Natashia M. Furman charged with speeding, 49 mph in a 35 zone. John P. Kraft charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 35 zone. Lucas J. Melhiser charged with speeding, 49 mph in a 35 zone. Mitchel C. Merkley charged with speeding, 49 mph in a 35 zone. David A. O'Connor charged with seat belt violation. Kyle R. Stefan charged with speeding, 86 mph in a 70 zone. Laurence M. Vollmer charged with speeding, 49 mph in a 35 zone. Brooke M. Wininger charged with speeding, 87 mph in a 70 zone. Amy J. Zwissler charged with speeding, 86 mph in a 70 zone. Robbie L. Davis charged with seat belt violation. Douglas G. Dwayne charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Emily E. Engle charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Josphe F. Hager charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Jackson W. Henson charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 55 zone. George A. Hudson charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 55 zone. James E. Kuwal charged with speeding, 79 mph in a 70 zone. Dalewayne Stiles charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 55 zone. I hate trivia. I would rather carry on a conversation with some bro about perfecting the application of Axe body spray than publicly expose my idiocy all in the name of competitive camaraderie. But this time, trivia night was my idea. Recently, my high-school foursome of friends connected over Facebook. It had been years since we all had seen one another—or even spoken, really— and we were looking to rectify that. A few months and airplane trips later, two of my girls were within an hour's drive of my house, wondering where we could go for a mini reunion on a Tuesday night. In truth, trivia night sounded like a fun way to keep conversation going if our group banter lulled from lack of practice over the years. The trivia announcer asked the first question. Name the nightclub Zack Morris got a fake ID to sneak into. My friends and I looked at one another, stumped. If there is one thing we should know everything about, it's "Saved by the Bell." The night was off to a bad start. Before we knew it, we were negative points. `"Zoe should be here," my friend said as we clinked glasses. "She'd have known the answer." The final member of our foursome was missing. Zoe was across the country, getting acquainted with her newborn baby. When talk of a reunion began, Zoe had been oddly noncommittal. It was after another couple of months, when she announced that she was in her second trimester, that we understood why. Who was Peter Gabriel's song "In Your Eyes" written about? Negative 10 points. I looked around the table at the matured faces of my old friends. We were at such different places in our lives, our relationships, our education, our careers, our child rearing. In a way, it felt almost fitting Zoe was missing the reunion. Even back in high school, the four of us had seemed to exist on vastly different planes, somehow colliding in Zoe's basement. What is Clippers coach Doc Rivers' first name? Negative 40 points. "Do you remember the list we made at senior beach week of where we thought each of us would be in 10 years?" my friend asked, toasting us for the fourth time. "Oh, yeah," responded my other friend. "Wasn't one of us supposed to be dead in a ditch somewhere by now?" "That was me, you jerks," I reminded them. And they laughed. "I'm sure we had a good reason. Starving artist or something. Who kept the list?" It was Zoe, of course. What is the name of a baby turkey? We were down 60 points when we decided to text Zoe. It was past 2 a.m. on the East Coast, U.S. Agriculture by Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture but we told ourselves that she would be awake with her newborn, that she would be happy to hear from us. But when we looked her up in our contact lists, among the three of us, we had four different phone numbers for Zoe. "Text 'em all!" my friend said as we clinked our glasses for the seventh time. So we did. We texted her messages I imagine we would have sent one another at 16 if there were such a thing back then. We sent guilt texts. Profane texts. Silly texts. Perverted texts. We texted the four different numbers, knowing full well that we had lost sight of one another so drastically that we did not know which number was hers. We texted, knowing that perhaps none was still hers. It was midnight. I had work the next day and a sleeping baby to get home to. And two hours into the game, we hadn't gotten a single trivia question right. I considered calling it a night. But then... In which month do Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving? "October!" we all yelled out. Zoe was from Canada, and we had spent Canadian Thanksgivings at her house. For a moment, it felt as if Zoe were there with us. We were still down 50 points and one friend, but our trivia night reunion felt good—better than those on the receiving end of our mis-sent texts, I'm sure. There are a wide range of important reasons why rural America needs passage of a comprehensive, multiyear Food, Farm and Jobs Bill as soon as possible. One of the most pressing is to grow the rural economy in a way that creates new jobs and reverses the troubling decline in population that we've seen recently in America's small towns. This week, USDA's Economic Research Service released its annual report on the economic condition of rural America – the 2013 Rural America at a Glance report. The data in this report underscores the challenges of stagnant job growth and persistent poverty faced by many communities across rural America. Rural America shared in the economic recovery following the Great Recession. Unfortunately, job growth has leveled off in rural areas over the past 18 months and rural areas are creating jobs at a slower rate than our cities. Persistent poverty still plagues many rural areas. More than 570 of America's 703 high-poverty counties are in rural America, with many of these counties experiencing persistently high poverty that lasts several decades. And, rural America has continued to lose population in real terms. Between 2010 and 2012, rural communities saw a drop of more than 44,000 people, which is unprece- dented in recent decades. To reverse these trends, we need a renewed national commitment to economic growth in rural America. Since 2009, USDA has carried out a wide range of efforts to assist rural communities, grow the rural economy and save jobs. In addition to these investments we have worked across the Obama Administration to explore new pathways to growth. These include the StrikeForce for Rural Growth and Opportunity initiative that targets USDA technical assistance in areas of high poverty, and the White House Rural Council that has brought many different Federal agencies to bear in providing coordinated help for small towns and rural communities. But to continue providing assistance in rural America and creating a foundation for future economic growth, we need Congress to provide a new, long-term Food, Farm and Jobs Bill as soon as possible. A new Farm Bill would grow the economy, keep people in our small towns and attract new residents. It would invest to further increase agricultural exports, and strengthen new markets for agriculture – while reforming the farm safety net in a way that reduces the deficit and ensures needed assistance for our Need for a food, farm and jobs bill farmers and ranchers. It would pave the way for innovative new conservation opportunities that could create new wealth in rural areas while protecting our land and water for future generations. It would spur new opportunities to manufacture biobased products and energy from homegrown materials, which hold a very promising future for job creation in rural America. The Farm Bill would maintain critical nutrition assistance that helps millions of vulnerable Americans, including children, seniors, people with disabilities and returning veterans. And the Farm Bill would further invest in the future of Main Street businesses and communities, complementing the Administration's innovative efforts through the Rural Council and StrikeForce initiative. This week's economic report highlights the need to create new opportunity in rural America, grow the economy in our small towns and create new jobs. We can achieve these goals in partnership with communities across the nation – but it is critically important that Congress provide a Food, Farm and Jobs Bill that strengthens this important work. Continued from page 2 Your annual checkup does not cost any less because it is covered by insurance. In fact it costs more, because the person who is insured must pay premiums that cover not only the cost of the checkup itself, but also the costs of insurance company paperwork. If automobile insurance covered the cost of paying for your oil changes, would that make oil changes cheaper or more expensive? Obviously more expensive, since additional people would have to be paid to become involved in handling the transaction, instead of your simply paying directly out of your own pocket to the people who changed your oil. Different people have different risks and different willingness to take care of risks themselves, instead of paying to have them transferred to an insurance company. But politicians in state after state have mandated what must be covered by insurance, regardless of what policy-holders and insurance companies might agree on if left free to make their own choices. That has made it impossible to get less expensive insurance that covers only costly but rare medical problems. Politicians love to play Santa Claus by handing out favors to voters, while depicting insurance companies as Scrooge when they raise insurance premiums to cover the costs of government mandates. This kind of political game has been played for generations in other areas besides insurance. Municipal transit used to be privately owned and run, but politicians would not allow the fares to be raised to a level that would cover costs. The net result was that private companies were driven out of business and local governments took over, saddling the taxpayers with the costs that fares don't cover. That is what "single payer" means in any context — a government monopoly that virtually guarantees worse service. Why would anyone want that for something as crucial as medical care? One reason, of course, is the ever seductive illusion of something for nothing, an illusion spread by glib politicians, posing as saviors of the public against villains in the private sector. Yet another way in which ObamaCare is an old political story is that it began as supposedly a way to deal with the problem of a segment of the population— those without health insurance. But, instead of directly helping those particular people to get insurance, the "solution" was to expand the government's power over everybody, including people who already had health insurance that they wanted to keep. Since there has never been a society of human beings without at least some segment with some problem, this is a formula for a never-ending expansion of government power. Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are all on record as believing in a "single payer" system—that is, a government monopoly able to impose its own will on everybody. Even the current and future problems of ObamaCare can help them to reach that goal. H Thanking Veterans Continued from page 2 was necessary for our freedom and liberty to survive. Rightly called "the Greatest Generation," America's World War II soldiers fought the "axis of evil" of their day and won. When they came home, they were duly celebrated, then went back to their individual lives. The bond they formed was between individuals, brothers-in-arms. It was a bond only people who have been through something like war can experience. That sense of brotherhood was necessary for them to survive the horrors they encountered. When they returned, they were changed as individuals, but they did not seek to impose the conformity and discipline of military life onto their civilian communities. The war could not have been won without the sense of community and responsibility that emerges spontaneously whenever America is attacked. And we would not be honoring our WWII veterans properly today without individuals coming together as they do in volunteer projects such as the Honor Flight Network. With an estimated 640 WWII veterans dying each day, "our time to express our thanks to these brave men and women is running out," the HFN website notes. Let's hope that this Veterans' Day will prompt more Americans to emulate that spirit which has so nobly carried us through good times and bad. H Conservative Continued from page 2 is God's Disciples that have struck-out. But God's game plan has a different ending. God's Disciples have the best Home Run hitter of the league. His name is Jesus; He was the one who rallied the team and forced the series into a deciding game. Things temporal cannot coexist with things eternal. Almost forgotten, tucked away on the last page of the game book, is how the series Quick as a Click! Submit your classified advertising by e-mail C-3 H 'New' program by Katiedid Langrock Trivia night Wednesday, November 13, 2013 It's easy Submit your classied ad along with your name and phone number to: classieds@pressdispatch.net will play out. It reads, "The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone…tormented day and night forever and ever… And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire" [Revelation 20:10, 15]. Life is brutal. It is NOT a game. The winner will takes all. Joshua called his people to make that choice, "Choose you this day who you shall serve." Think about it!