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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. fish fry—Spurgeon United Methodist Church will spsonsor a fish fry Saturday, May 17, starting at 4 p.m. EST at Spurgeon Jordan Memorial Park on Highway 61. Pike County 4-h Cloverbuds organization- al Meeting—Saturday, May 17, 2014, at 10:30 am in the 4-H Building for an organizational meeting. Cloverbuds is for children ages 3 to 5 years and ev- eryone is welcome to join. Registration forms will be available at the meeting. Cloverbuds will meet through June and the Cloverbuds and Future 4-Hers will have their own judging and awards day. Their projects will also be on display at the 4-H Fair in July. If your child would like to be a Cloverbud or if you would like to help with the Cloverbuds pro- gram, try to attend this meeting. If you cannot at- tend, or would like additional information, call the Extension Office at 812-354-6838. Pike Co. health Department—will conduct a test of its ability to dispense medication efficiently after a disaster or other public health threat. This POD (Point of Dispensing) exercise will be at 1 p.m. EST on Tuesday, May 20, 2014, at Gospel Center Church's gym on Illinois Street in Petersburg. For more information contact 812-354-8797. free Diabetic Clinic—Tuesday, May 20 at 6 p.m. at the South Gibson Medical Clinic in Ft. Branch. Refreshments and free blood sugar screenings. No RSVP's necessary. Call 812-753-4181. "hearty hearts" Cardiac rehab Club —The meetings are quarterly and conducted by the nurses of the Cardiac Rehab Department of Memorial Hos- pital and Health Care Center. The next meeting will be Tuesday, May 20 at 7 p.m. in the Medical Arts Con- ference Center located at 721 West 13th Street in Jas- per. For more information, call 812-996 -0551 or toll- free at 800 -852-7279, ext. 0551. "Women's support Group"—The Lange-Fuhs Cancer Center at Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center offers a support group for women who have had cancer of any type or who are currently under- going cancer treatment. Sessions will be on the third Tuesday of every month from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the Lange-Fuhs Cancer Center Conference Room located at Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center's Dor- bett Street entrance. The next session will be on Tues- day, May 20, 2014. For more information, visit www. mhhcc.org and click on "Classes & Events" or call 812- 996 -0626. Pre-registration is not necessary. bariatric Public forum—Tuesday, May 20 at 6:30 p.m. in the Medical Arts Building Conference Cen- ter, located at 721 West 13th Street in Jasper. Memo- rial Hospital and Health Care Center offers bariatric (weight loss) surgery as an option for clinically severe obesity when less invasive methods of weight loss have failed. For more information, call Memorial Hospital's Bariatric Surgery staff at 812-996 -0185. Parkinson's Disease support Group—Parkin- son's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. Symptoms include tremors or trem- bling in the hands, arms, legs, jaw or head; rigidity or stiffness of the limbs and trunk; slowness of move- ment; and postural instability or impaired balance. The next support group meeting will be Wednesday, May 21 from 6:30 -8 p.m. in Memorial Hospital's Med- ical Arts Building Conference Center, located at 721 West 13th Street in Jasper. For more information, vis- it www.mhhcc.org and click on "Classes & Events" or call 812-996 -8478. Pre-registration is not necessary. agriculture incidents Community Prepared- ness Course—at the Gibson County Purdue Exten- sion Office on May 21 and 22 from 6 -9 p.m. This course enhances community-wide preparedness and response to incidents involving animals, plants and food. Par- ticipants examine the extent to which accidental, in- tentional and naturally occurring incidents can affect daily operations in the food and agriculture industry. Participants will be able to recognize threats and vul- nerabilities related to animal, plant and food opera- tions. Using case studies, the course demonstrates how an incident can alter the lives of people locally and thousands of miles away. Pre-registration for this event is required to Hans Schmitz at 812-385 -3491 or hschmitz@purdue.edu by May 16. indiana farm bureau young farmers—is hav- ing a summer outing Saturday, June 21 at Holiday World and Splashin' Safari, $20 deposit required per adult/child (includes admission and meal). Deposit refunded providing you attend and complete a reim- bursement form. Must be a Farm Bureau member age 18 -35. Space is limited, must sign-up/more info by June 1. Contact Derika Spaetti at derika.lynam-spaetti@ henderson.kyschools.us. Mudbog—Swamp fever racing with Winslow Vol- unteer Fire Department will be hosting a MudBog in Winslow on June 7, 2014, at 1 p.m. For more informa- tion, contact Aaron Bolin at 812-582-1366 email abo- lin1@live.com. ank you to the Taxpayers of Pike County. e Pike County Treasurer, Marta Query, Deputies, Sue Cook, Nyla Dooley and Becky Richardson, would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their patience during our current collec- tion process. Many people believe the tax bills were sent out late, however, they went out before the deadline. From the time our bills are received in the homes, until our first due date (May 12 this year) we do nothing but wait on the people in front of us at our counters. e morning aer our collection date is when we start to tackle the mail. is year we have had a huge amount of returned mail marked "undeliverable as addressed" or with a forwarding address. is is causing a strain on our normal payment processing. If you mailed us your payment and it had a postmark of May 12 or prior, you probably will not see your check cleared until the latter part of May or even the first of June. Our staff is working very hard to get payments processed as quickly as possible, but we must ask for your continued patience. Tax PaymenTs Being Processed Is it time for your next eye exam? 8–7 . Mon. 8–noon . Tues. 10–7 . Wed. 8–5 . Thur. 8–5 . Fri. Now Locally Owned and Operated Dr. Clint Shoultz 715 S. 9th St., Petersburg 354-9400 Bird Hunters hold annual auction terry Grimes (on the right) was the auctioneer for the annual Pike County bird hunters Club auction this past saturday evening. Donna Watkins, club treasurer, assisted (not pictured), as did club president Chris kinman. the auction is normally a Christmas function, but due to several winter weather cancel- lations, it became a spring event for members and friends. Dinner at the club house just off sr 57 near Division road included bbQ, fried chicken, ham and all the trimmings. County Attorney Val Flieg said Property Assess- ment Solutions had submit- ted a proposed contract or a performance retainer. Al- so, he said the bid called for $550 a day for appeals af- ter the first 10 consecutive days versus Reller's bid which was for $500 a day after 10 days of appeals. Commissioner President Brian Davis said the ap- peals board doesn't usually meet on consecutive days. "They might meet one day and then not again for a cou- ple of weeks." HeAring on closing cr 200 s. continued County commissioners continued a hearing on clos- ing CR 200 S., from CR 375 W. to CR 500 W., after Jim Shoultz filed an objection to the closing. In a letter Shoultz submit- ted to the commissioners on Monday, Shoultz said "I en- joy traveling this road from time to time to view the mul- titude of wildlife in this ar- ea. I realize this is an un- improved roadway, but still it is a county road. I travel this road on foot, bicycle, 4-wheeler, tractors etc." The petitioners request- ing the road be closed go by the name of the Patoka Val- ley Conservation Partners and said it was important for their "long term project" to limit access to the area. They also claimed most of the road is impassible all year long in any type of vehicle and all the road floods at least part of the year. They also presented pictures of the road show- ing it was completely closed by growth. A spokesman for the group said there are nu- merous other roads and foot paths in the area for Shoultz from which he can view wildlife. Commissioner Brian Da- vis said he was concerned about them not having re- turned mail receipts from property owners to whom they had mailed notices of their request. Even though they had receipts where they had mailed it, they didn't have the return re- ceipts showing the mailing had been received. "Mr. Shoultz was not able to attend this meeting. But out of respect to him, I would like to continue this hear- ing to the next meeting so we can hear from him," said Commissioner Jeff Nelson. Patoka Valley Conserva- tion Partners did not im- mediately return our phone messages. In other business, the commissioners voted 3-0 to hire Nick Grubb as a me- chanic at the highway ga- rage. "I don't know if this is a good time to be hiring people," said Commission- er Jeff Nelson. Last week, the county council requested an ear- ly property tax distribution because the county can't meet payroll until the nor- mal tax distribution in mid- to-late June. He asked Superintendent Roger Ham how many peo- ple they used to have at the highway department and how many they have now. Ham said they used to have 23 and now are down to 17 people. "I'm not against this, I'm just asking questions," said Nelson. Grubb was approved by a 3-0 vote. In other business, the commissioners: • Approved making a change at the Otwell trash collection site. Ham told the commissioners when the site gets congested, people are having to back out onto the county road. "We are going to get some- one killed, people fly up and down that road," said Ham. He said the county leases it from Dr. Marlin Gray and he is willing to let them put a drive through loop that will keep people from hav- ing to back out. Ham said they now lease it for $ 350 and for $400 they can ex- pand it. It was approved by a 3- 0 vote. • EMS Director Chris Young told the commission- ers the county is expected to get about $49,000 back from Medicaid. He said the county had contract- ed with a firm to seek re- imbursement from Medic- aid. He said in 2013 they had billed $ 92,998 to Med- icaid but were only paid $26,192. The contracted firm sought reimbursement from Medicaid and got a to- tal of $59,374.17. However, their fee was $ 9,500. "So we got $49,874.17. I feel like that is a pretty good return," said Young. He warned there is not a time frame on when Med- icaid will actually make the payments. The next commission- ers meeting is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Monday, June 2 in the courthouse audito- rium. A prominent Indiana busi- nessman, civic leader and IU alumnus has committed more than $1.3 million to the Indiana University School of Medicine to fuel advanc- es in research, education and care related to urolog- ic diseases and to honor the IU physician he credits with saving his life. Donald C. "Danny" Dan- ielson's gift establishes the Michael O. Koch Chair in Urology, named for the chairman of the school's Department of Urology who successfully treated Daniel- son for bladder cancer. Dan- ielson has also encouraged other patients, trainees and friends of Dr. Koch to sup- port the initiative, bring- ing the total value of the en- dowed fund to more than $1.5 million. "Think of the lives he's saving every day because of what he's doing," said Dan- ielson, vice chair of City Se- curities Corp. in Indianapo- lis. "I want to recognize him and help him attract the very best staff to IU." An endowed chair enables the IU School of Medicine to attract or retain a highly ac- complished faculty member who will be named holder of the chair. Earnings from the endowed fund are used to support the individual's work, giving the physician or scientist the flexibility to devote significant time and resources to research and physician training, two ar- eas that are critical to the future of medicine. Danielson said he and his wife, Patty, who passed away in December after 66 years of marriage, could think of no more appropriate way to pay tribute to his physician. "I am incredibly honored," said Koch, the John P. Dono- hue Professor of Urology. "Danny has been a friend for many years, and I'm grate- ful for all he has done to sup- port the Department of Urol- ogy. My vision is to use this gift to propel us even further in our understanding of the complexities and manage- ment of genitourinary can- cers." Danielson donates 1.3 million to IU School of Medicine Donald C. "Danny" Danielson Continued from page 1 H Reassessment contract let by commissioners The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, May 21, 2014 A-7