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"To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish- til death do us part." 3 kids and 20 years later... I STILL LOVE YOU! Happy 20th Anniversary to Timothy & Barbara Walburn, Mom and Dad, to my loving spouse. Marriage licenses Brandon Mullen, 22, of 325 E. Kennedy Ave., Petersburg, son of Jef- fery Mullen and Tracy Ridener Mullen to Shal- ey Jenkins, 19, of 325 E. Kennedy Ave., Peters- burg, daughter of Sta- cy Jenkins and Mary Ann Griffith. Michael L. White, Jr., 29, of 800 Liberty St., Apt. 311, Petersburg, son of Michael Leroy White Sr., and Jamie Sue Ramsey White to Suzan M. Callahan, 24, of 1409 Cherry St., Pe- tersburg, daughter of Michael Dean Callahan Sr. and Penny Sue Rose. area happenings al-anon meeting—Meetings are each Wednes- day at 11:30 a.m., located at 424 W. 7th St. in Jasper. For more information, call 812-887-0349. celebrate recovery program—Meets every Sunday night from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Mt. Pisgah G.B. Church, Broadway St. in Augusta. For more infor- mation, call Krystal Breeding 812-582-2562. "pre-hospital care of the Stemi patient"— Guest speaker will be Dr. Joshua Leonard, Cardiol- ogist. This program is open to all First Responders, EMTs, Advanced EMTs, Intermediate EMTs, Para- medics and any other pre-hospital health care pro- viders. The in-service will be on Wednesday, April 9 at 6 to 7 p.m. in the Board Conference Room BC at Memorial Hospital located at 800 W. 9th Street in Jasper. This in-service is free, and no pre-registra- tion is required. For more information, contact (812) 996 -0354 or (812) 996 -2030. Spring cookout at Stendal community cen- ter—Saturday, April 12, 2014, from 4 to 8 p.m. to ben- efit Lockhart Township Fire Dept. Will be serving hamburgers, hotdogs, potato salad, coleslaw, and soft drinks. Free will donation. Jump into Spring With a nature Walk—Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge will sponsor a Nature Walk at Maxey Marsh on Sunday, April 13 at 2 p.m. For those looking for a little longer walk, Otter Run Trail is about a two mile loop of moderate difficulty that runs around the marsh and along the South Fork of Patoka River. Walkers should wear comfortable hik- ing shoes, long pants, a hat, insect repellent, and bring water and binoculars if possible. For more information, go to www.patokarefugefriends.org. Fertilitycare program—The FertilityCare pro- gram refers to a natural method to avoid or achieve pregnancy. The Creighton Model coordinates with a couple's fertility cycle without the use of drugs or contraceptives. This program is available at Memori- al Hospital and Health Care Center. Introductory and follow-up sessions are private and scheduled to meet the needs of the couple. Sessions take place in the Con- ference Room at Memorial Southside Office, 1100 West 12th Avenue. The cost of the introductory session is $25 per couple, and each follow-up session is also $25. Materials are available for the course for an addition- al fee of $20. For more information, contact 812-996 - 2399 or toll-free at 800 -852-7279, ext. 2399. Family nature Fest—Saturday, April 12, 2014, from 8 a.m. to noon EDT, Sycamore Shelter Houses, Ferdi- nand State Forest, located six miles east of Ferdinand at 6584 E. State Road 264. Pancake breakfast 8 -10 a.m. Make reservations by calling 812-367-1524 by April 9. next eVV area WhS alumni luncheon— will be April 18, 2014, at Wolf's Barbecue, 6600 First Ave, Evansville at noon CDT. Enter by front door as we will be set up on main floor near the buffet. You can chose from the buffet or menu. All WHS alumni and friends are invited to attend. RSVP by April 17 to: jd- dedman@gmail.com or phone: 812-455 -6998. diabetes classes— Memorial Hospital is offering Diabetes Classes. "Outsmarting Diabetes," a program that teaches participants how to control their diabetes using medication, self-monitoring, nutrition, and physi- cal activity, is offered as either a four-hour class on Fri- days from 8 a.m. until noon, or two, two-hour classes on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 5 -7 p.m. A physi- cian's referral is required. The "Outsmarting Pre-Diabetes" class focuses on helping participants who are at risk for diabetes make important lifestyle changes related to nutrition and exercise, and implement a diabetes prevention plan. Classes are on the first Thursday of the month from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., and on the second Wednesday of the month from 5:30 –7 p.m. Memorial Hospital also offers a "Diabetes Support Group," which is facilitated by a Certified Diabetes Ed- ucator, and is open to anyone interested in learning more about the disease. This support group meets on the third Monday of the month at 7 p.m. All classes are in the Pavilion Classroom at Memorial Hospital, 800 West 9th Street in Jasper. For more information about the cost of these programs or to pre-register, call the Diabetes Education staff at 812-996 -0521 or toll-free at 800 -852-7279, ext. 0521. heartsaver First aid with cpr and aed—Be prepared to respond to an emergency by taking the Heartsaver First Aid with CPR & AED course. Memori- al Hospital and Health Care Center is offering this one session class on Friday, April 25 from 7:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. in the Community Classroom located at Memori- al Southside Office, 1100 West 12th Avenue in Jasper. Pre-registration is required, as class size is limited. Cost is $ 60. For more information or to register, visit www.mhhcc.org and click on "Classes & Events" or call 812-996 -2399 or toll-free at (800) 852-7279, ext. 2399. ZumBa® toning Fitness program—a fitness pro- gram offered by Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center, combines body-sculpting exercise and high-en- ergy cardio work with Latin-infused Zumba® moves, to create a calorie-burning, strength-training dance fitness class. Participants will use hand weights to en- hance rhythm and tone target zones. "Zumba® Ton- ing" will be on Mondays during the month of April from 5:30 -6:30 p.m. in the Wellness Center at Memo- rial Southside Office, 1100 West 12th Avenue in Jas- per. The cost is $5 per class and pre-registration is not required. For more details, visit www.mhhcc.org and click "Classes & Events" or call 812-996 -2399 or toll- free at 800 -852-7279, ext. 2399. 217 Main Street, Downtown Vincennes Monday–Saturday 9:30am-5pm 812-882-7603 • Crosses • Crucifixes • Necklaces • Medals Show Your Faith Musical talent will be a featured part of the new Pike County Chamber of Commerce Azalea Blos- som Festival in downtown Petersburg on May 2 and 3. There should be something for everyone's taste. On Friday at 5 p.m., the Pike Central Jazz Band will begin the festivities. A local band, Fighting For A Chance, will begin playing at 8 p.m. The Alternative Rock band is made up of Tanner Brooks, Kyler Lee and Clayton Hill. Beginning at 4 p.m., Hometown Boy, a bluegrass band, will take the stage. Mike Sumner, along with his family, will entertain with his championship tal- ent. Sumner has won multi- ple national championships with his banjo skills, includ- ing being the Indiana State Picking and Fiddling Cham- pion on the banjo as a teen. He is also proficient on most stringed instruments and writes as well. Locals are familiar with his com- pact disc, Winds of Win- field. Living in Nashville keeps him in the center of the music world. Also performing will be Jim and Lynna Woolsey. They have been writing, playing and singing for nearly three decades. Both were a part of the Patoka Valley Boys in their early years. As a single act or in a band, Jim has shared the stage with acts like The Nit- ty Gritty Dirt Band, Andy Williams and Marty Rob- bins. Both Jim and Lynna have won various bluegrass awards for Old Time Vo- cals, Guitar, Mandolin, as lynna and Jim Woolsey three legged dog mike Sumner Fighting For a chance well as many band titles. In 2002 and 2003, their band, Fields of Home, won first place in the Indiana Pick- ling and Fiddling Contest. They recently fulfilled a lifelong dream to produce an album of their original material. On March 29, they released The Road That Brings You Home. Mike Sumner co-produced and played the banjo for the album. Three Legged Dog band will begin at 7 p.m. and fin- ish out the evening. Their venue is "pop + rock X coun- try = Americana." Three Legged Dog had its begin- nings in 2005 when three friends decided to get to- gether at the Vincennes Starbucks to occasionally play some of their favorite songs in a three-guitar, un- plugged format. Band members include Steve Gray (guitar, vocals, harmonica), who lives in Vincennes and is an ac- count executive with In- diana Forms and Labels in Washington; Toby Han- cock (drums, percussion), who owns and operates In- diana Forms and Labels in Washington; John Miller (bass guitar), who recent- ly retired from Indianapolis Power and Light in Peters- burg and lives in Monroe City; and Jonathan Feavel (guitars, percussion and sound), who has a private law practice, Feavel Law Of- fice, in Vincennes. Musical events are spon- sored by Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Indiana and The Phone Guyz. Azalea Blossom Fest to feature musical entertainment Mystery philanthropist revealed, donates total of $1,000 for children's books to Pike County Library By Ed Cahill When the Pike County Public Library began receiv- ing donations to purchase children's story hour books in memory of Kenneth Simp- son in late January, treasur- er Tom Behme sat down and wrote a note thanking each donor for their contribution. However, as the memori- al donations continued to ar- rive in the mail—some from as far away as Connecti- cut and Massachusetts— Behme became curious. "It was kind of like one came in and two more came in and another one came in and I thought, 'Who is this guy? '" Behme said. "That's when I went out to (head clerk) Katie (Hartley) and we tried to find out who it is. He does not have a library card with the Pike County Library." The mystery only deep- ened as the memorial do- nations—10 in total, rang- ing from as little as $25 to as much as $200 —stopped on Tuesday, March 12, after reaching a total of $1,000. "I think this is the largest total for one person, that I can remember," Behme said. "It's not weird that we get do- nations, but it was kind of weird we got one, then we got another one and another one and another one and anoth- er one. And then we couldn't find out who he was." Only one of the 10 dona- tion checks, from Marianne Curto in Springfield, Mass., had a telephone number on it. Curto, when contacted by The Press-Dispatch, said that Kenneth Simpson was her uncle. An engineer with Chica- go-based Sargent & Lundy LLC, a company that spe- cializes in professional ser- vices for electric power and energy intensive clients, Kenneth Simpson was on as- signment at the Indianapolis Power & Light plant in Pe- tersburg when he died sud- denly from a heart attack on Dec. 9. He was 69. "When he passed, my aunt thought it would be a really nice idea, because he really loved books, to try to do something with the lo- cal library there," Curto said. "That's where my aunt is from... and that's where they met." Kenneth Simpson's wife, Jean Murphy Simpson, was born and raised in Daviess County and was working for her sister, selling tickets for the Ruritan Club in Mont- gomery, when they first met. "Within two weeks, we had decided to get married, which sounds really silly and, perhaps, stupid to many people, but we were married for 44-1/2 years. It worked out very, very well." Jean Simpson said that her husband literally worked all over the world and that traveled with him for "many, many years." "He was from Massachu- setts originally and we lived, and have lived, in Connect- icut," she said. "He did a lot of traveling back and forth, but wherever he was in the world, he got home almost every month. "And then at the end of his career, we couldn't be- lieve that he was asked to go back to Petersburg, and ac- tually that's where he died," she added. "So it was almost full circle." After her husband passed away, Jean Simpson said that officials from Sargent & Lundy asked her if he had a favorite charity to which they could send memorial donations. "My husband was an avid reader," Jean Simpson said. "He read, possibly because he traveled and spent a lot of time alone. It was nothing for him to read a hardback book in a week." When Jean Simpson went to clean out his apartment in Jasper following his death, she found 36 books. "Now, he'd only been there since July," she said. "I just thought that he would be extremely happy if some- thing could be done to in- terest children into actually holding a book and reading a book, because it contributed so much to his happiness." Jean Simpson asked her sister, Denise Tuggle, to stop by the Pike County Pub- lic Library in Petersburg. "She said that they were wanting to set up a story- book session for children and needed the funds to help them do that," Jean Simpson said. Jean Simpson, who had her husband's remains cre- mated, held a luncheon on Feb. 1, which would have been Kenneth Simpson's 70th birthday, for his ex- tended family. "At the end of the lun- cheon, I asked that they contribute to the library in memory of my husband," Jean Simpson said. "So I guess that many of them have done so." Jean Simpson said that she was "very happy" to learn that $1,000 had been contributed to the Pike County Public Library in her husband's memory. "That'll be a good start for their storybook hour," she said. "And I'm sure it would have made my husband hap- py. Basically, that's what I do now. I just try to make him proud. In everything I do, he's an inspiration to me." The groundbreaking of Downtown Terrace in Pe- tersburg will be Friday, April 11 at 1 p.m. EDT, on Main St. Downtown Terrace is a development made up of 40 units of senior housing and approximately 10,500 square feet of retail/office space. Pike County Prog- ress Partners, Inc. is the sponsoring not-for-profit agency for this communi- ty development initiative. Good Samaritan Hospital will also be a major anchor- ing tenant. They will run an urgent care facility on the main floor, providing men- tal health service and a phy- sician's clinic. Flaherty and Collins Con- struction will build the de- velopment, which is sched- uled to open in December. For more information on the groundbreaking, con- tact Duane Miller at 317- 816 -9300. Groundbreaking of Downtown Terrace is Friday The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, April 9, 2014 A-7