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A-6 Wednesday, July 2, 2014 The Press-Dispatch 812-481-9511 OR 812-630-7659 3120 N 600 W JASPER 1 mile west of Ireland - turn north on 600 (John Deere Dealership) Monday-Friday 7am-5pm, Saturday 7am-3pm • OWNER: GENE WALLHAUSER JUNK IT JUNK IT RECYCLING RECYCLING COPPER Bare Bright ................. $2.26 #1 Copper ................. $2.22 #2 Copper ................. $2.08 #1 Ins Copper ........... $1.50 #2 Ins Copper ........... $0.92 Copper Rads ............. $1.34 BRASS Red Brass ................... $1.58 Yellow Brass .............. $1.46 STEEL Sheet Iron ................ $170T Autos ........................ $180T Unprepared 1/4"+ ... $190T Prepared 3' or less ... $220T Stainless ...................... $0.49 AUTO PARTS Semi Alum Wheels ... $0.44 A/C Compressor ..... $0.20 Alternators ................ $0.33 Heater Cores ............ $1.10 Starters ....................... $0.26 Wheel Weights ......... $0.21 ALUMINUM Sheet Alum ................. $0.40 Painted Siding ............ $0.48 Ext. 6061 Plate .......... $0.49 Ext. 6063 Window .... $0.56 Alum/Copper Rads ... $0.95 Alum Rads .................. $0.40 Alum Wire/EC ........... $0.53 ALUMINUM (cont.) Alum Turnings............ $0.37 Litho Alum ................. $0.49 Alum Wheels ............. $0.55 ALUM. CANS Under 100 lbs ........... $0.51 Over 100 lbs ............. $0.53 Over 1000 lbs ........... $0.55 Over 2000 lbs ...........CALL MISC. Batteries - Auto ........ $0.21 Electric Motors ......... $0.20 Sealed Units ............... $0.11 Ballasts ........................ $0.15 Lead ............................. $0.38 Cell Phone .............$1.38 lb We offer a digital weight display with a printed scale ticket. GET PAID FOR EVERY POUND CLOSED FRIDAY JULY 4 - OPEN SATURDAY JULY 5 like that. Dad always made sure that, that kid didn't feel like he was a bother in class or that he was unwanted in class." While Hewig's father re- tired from coaching football and wrestling when he was a freshman at Evansville Reitz, Hewig had him as a teacher. "He was not different," Hewig recalled. "He was the same with me as he was with every other kid. Dad had a knack for not caring who you were or what you were or anything. I was his son, but at that point, I was his student. "He was probably a little bit harder on me as far as being a goofball and such, but not much," Hewig add- ed. "I was a student in his classroom and I was ex- pected to follow the same rules the other kids did. I knew that I would or if I didn't, there'd be some con- sequences." Hewig described his mother as a very success- ful teacher, both in and out of the classroom. "She never stopped learn- ing," Hewig said. "Every summer, she got better at something. She worked harder at something. She strived to be the best every time she was going to be in that classroom. That's some- thing that I've learned from her, that you don't ever stop learning. I'm always reading books. I'm always watching film. I'm always trying to better myself because I saw her do that. "Dad was, I'd say, some- body I followed after in the athletic field, and my mom's professionalism in the class- room was just something I will never be able to reach," Hewig continued. "But if I could ever get close, that's what I'm aiming for. Just about every day, she gets a letter in the mail, just thank- ing her for how she had pre- pared them for the rest of their life. "I've got two great peo- ple in dealing with kids and dealing with academics. I don't know, it just comes nat- ural to me, doing the things I do, because that's all I've seen my entire life." Hewig said the secret to his success as a teacher is that he cares about his stu- dents, and he isn't afraid to show it. "If you approach a kid with a smile on your face and not a frown, it affects it," Hewig said. "If you really let a kid know that you care, I feel like that's a big thing for me. When these kids know you care about them, they're going to respond. "I feel like a lot of our teachers do that," Hewig added. "We're lucky here at Pike Central. I don't know if people understand how lucky we are, that we have teachers that care about the students here. That's been a great, positive thing for me at Pike Central. There's a lot of people who care about kids." Hewig said that coaching has not only allowed him to spend more time with stu- dents, but has taught him the true meaning of "team- work." "Coaching has helped me understand what team- work is, and when I talk about teamwork, I'm talk- ing about the administra- tion, myself and the other teachers," Hewig said. "It has taught me that there really is no 'I' in team, and me getting this award is just as much a reflection on how good our staff here is as how good I am at my job. Teamwork is the key, and I would not be near as good a teacher if it wasn't for the rest of the staff, the admin- istration. "I've always said I un- derstood what teamwork was but, being an athlete, you're always a little bit selfish," Hewig added. "Be- ing a coach has helped me see that it's never about one person; it's about ev- erybody. And if all I do is worry about myself, every- body around me is not going to get as good and I'm not going to get as good. If I'm helping other people, other teachers, then they're going to get better, and that's go- ing to help make me better. And that's going to make the kids better." Hays, in his nomina- tion letter, described the lengths that Hewig will go to help students. "If a student starts to let their grades slip or has been doing things outside of school that could jeopar- dize their future, he is im- mediately on them to im- prove, and he guides them on the right path, even to the point of engaging oth- er teachers to reinforce him in order to help those stu- dents," Hays wrote. "I know this because on more than one occasion he has recruit- ed me to help him put pres- sure on several students to bring their grades up, to be respectful to other students and teachers and basically to help them realize their own potential." Hewig said that being nominated for the Secondary Teacher of the Year Award by Hays was an honor. "When he started talking about how I cared so much about the things that's go- ing on their lives, it really meant a lot, because Vance is Mr. Pike County," Hewig said. "Vance is the bee's knees around this place. He's on top of everything. And for him to think of me the same way I think of him was really good. It made me feel good." Hewig lives in Evansville with his wife of eight years, Jessi, and their five-year-old son, Lane. "She is what keeps me sane," Hewig said of his wife. "She's my level head. I'm an emotional roller coaster. I'm worrying about something one second and I'm fired up when some- thing else happens, and she's my rock." Hewig said that he has no plans to teach anywhere else than Pike Central High School. "I've found a home at Pike Central," Hewig said. "I take everything so per- sonally here, that happens here, and it's because it's my home. It's my backyard now. "At Reitz, we always broke down everything as 'Panther Pride,'" Hewig added. "I've got 'Charger Pride' now. I love the area, and I feel like I have good support with the people I work with and the com- munity, even. I feel like we have a good connection, so I'm just really happy here. I don't see it ending anytime soon." H Role model Continued from page 4 Join us for an exciting week as "Agents of Truth"! Stories, Songs, Games, Crafts and Prizes!!! Transportation Available... Call Valerie Searls: (812) 354-9446 (Home) or (419) 340-3927 (Cell) Announcing at the Petersburg Holiness Church July 7-11 6-8pm Monday - Thursday 5:30- 8pm Friday (Special activities Friday night—picnic, water balloon fight...) By Andy Heuring A Winslow man was seri- ously injured in a Monday afternoon crash near Fran- cisco. Robert Brian Maxfield, 51, of 506 E. Lafayette St., suffered internal injuries and fractures from the crash. Gibson County Deputy Tim Coomer said Maxfield was driving a 1998 Mazda pickup on CR 550 E. when he ran the stop sign at 550 E.'s intersection with Highway 64, just west of Francisco. Maxfield's pickup slammed into the trailer of a Ryder rental semi-truck. Coom- er said the semi-truck was driving east on SR 64 and Maxfield's truck ran under the semi's trailer. Deputy Coomer's report stated Maxfield was par- tially ejected from the vehi- cle. He was transported by air ambulance to Deacon- ess Hospital in Evansville, where he was listed in crit- ical condition on Tuesday. Keith A. Sullivan, 53, of Princeton, was driving the Ryder semi-truck. He com- plained of neck pain, but re- fused medical treatment at the scene. The 2:10 p.m. accident caused an estimated $10,000 to $25,000 damage. Maxfield seriously injured in crash near Francisco to 20 years. McDonald said this is typ- ically the charge someone faces when they are caught with a meth lab. They would get the advi- sory sentence of 10 years and do half the sentence for five years or the maximum of 20 years and do 10 years. Now it is a level 5 offense, which carries a sentence of one to six years. So if they get the maximum sentence of six years, they do four. McDonald said under the new laws police have to find more than five grams of meth for it to be enhanced to a more serious level and stronger sentence. "A lot of times we catch them in the process before they have much of the completed prod- uct. So we can't get the en- hancement. "The worst part is going to be on the worst of them, not on the guys who it is their first time. It is going to be dealing with the ones we have dealt with multi- ple times. You wish you had some way to remove them from the community. Now the cap will be six years, which is really four. It used to be good to have the 20 year maximum," said Mc- Donald. McDonald also expressed concern about "bath salts." "The biggest problem we have now is bath salts, which is a synthetic drug. That is misdemeanor to possess. And selling it, you have to have more than a certain amount to make it a felony." Bath salts often cause people to have hallucina- tions. "It makes police offi- cers jobs more dangerous," said McDonald. "We are afraid we are los- ing ground," said McDon- ald. He said the habitual sub- stance offender enhance- ment has also become hard- er to use. Prior to July 1, McDonald said if a person was arrested on three separate drug of- fenses and two of them were class D felonies, an enhance- ment of three times the pre- sumptive sentence could be added. Now he said that has changed so it takes three prior convictions, and then on the fourth conviction the sentencing enhancement can be added. McDonald said the argu- ment is that taxpayers are paying too much to house drug offenders. "We don't see people being rehabbed unless they want to rehab. When we see people change, it is because they want to change. The idea people have come up with that we can just keep pushing people into rehab is flawed." One enhancement that was strengthened is an en- hancement for dealing with- in 1,000 feet of a school. That distance has been re- duced to 500 feet. The new sentencing rang- es are: • Level 1 felonies carry a sentence of 20 to 50 years, with an advisory sentence of 30 years. • Level 2 carries a sen- tence of 10 to 30 years, with an advisory sentence of 17.5 years. • Level 3 carries a sen- tence of three to 20 years, with an advisory of six years. • Level 4 carries a sen- tence of two to 12 years, with an advisory sentence of four years. • Level 5 carries a sen- tence of one to six years, with an advisory sentence of two years. • Level 6 carries a sen- tence of six months to 30 months, with an advisory sentence of one year. Some other changes in the new penalties include theft of less than $750 will now be a misdemeanor and between $750 to $50,000 would be a level six offense. Once the amount tops $50,000, it be- comes a level five offense. Continued from page 1 H New state laws, sentencing now in effect Cruising town ethan Roach, tyler Vachon and Dakota taylor were out cruising town on there skate boards and bike saturday morning.