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news brieFs Final days of Press-Dispatch July Bargain Period Check your mailing label. If it is highlight- ed, your subscription has expired or will ex- pire very soon. A year's subscription is now $23 for Pike and surrounding counties, $26 for Indiana sub- scribers living outside the 475 or 476 zip codes and $43 for out-of-state subscribers during the July Savings Spectacu- lar. The savings won't last long, the sale has been extended through August 1, 2014. See page A-3 for form and more details. Farm City Tour set for Aug. 2 Pike County Farm Bureau Inc. will be hav- ing a Farm City Tour, Saturday, Aug. 2, at 2 p.m. EST at the Erich (Bud) Meyer Jr. Farm, 9491 S. Co. Rd. 800 E., Stendal. The tour is free and open to members and their families, and will feature Meyer's Farmall/IH Machin- ery dating from 1939 to 1979 and Nathan Jones' Longhorn Cattle. Dinner will follow at the Zoar United Meth- odist Church. Reser- vations required. The first 100 people to reg- ister will receive a meal at no cost. Reservations are re- quired and must be re- ceived by noon, July 25, by calling 812-354-8488 ext. 3930. Cornerstone Christian School accepting students Cornerstone Chris- tian School in Wash- ington is currently ac- cepting students. The school was established in 2008 as a Christian educational institution for the main purpose of training and preparing students to succeed in life from a Biblical point of view. For more informa- tion, call 812-254-2747. PCHS 2004 ClaSS Reunion September 6, 2014 Starts at 5pm, Dinner at 6pm Moose Lodge in Petersburg $ 25 PeR PeRSon Mail to: Brittany Houchin P.O. Box 105 Jasper, IN 47547 Deadline: August 1 Queen Pillowtop Mattresses $ 249 Starting at Twin Mattresses $ 99 Starting at I am finally retiring after many years with Harris Funeral Home. I want to thank the many families for putting their trust in me. Thanks to Bob and Sonnie Harris for their trust and continued friendship. May God bless all. Lowry and Jackie Cooper PHYSICIAN RETIREMENT Roy E. Cecchi, MD will retire from the medical practice of obstetrics and gynecology on August 31, 2014. My staff and I appreciate the opportunity of serving many members of our communities through the past years. Patients are encouraged to arrange future care with another medical provider. Medical record transfers done by August 29 will be free of charge. Send requests to: 613 Dorbett Street, Jasper, IN 47546. For questions call: 812-634-7123 Pike County Barn Quilt Trail seeking participants The Pike County Chamber of Commerce is still seeking residents from all over the county to join the new "Barn Quilt Trail." They have the "beginnings" but need ma- ny more to establish a full- fledged marketable trail. Information may be ob- tained from the "Barn Quilt Trail" link on the Chamber website at www.pikecounty- in.org or by contacting the of- fice at 714 E. Main St. in Pe- tersburg, by calling the office at 812-354-8155 or by email- ing chamber@frontier.com. Once residents have their barn quilt, there is no charge to be a part of the trail. By Ed Cahill The Pike County Library Board voted Tuesday, Ju- ly 29, to accept the second- highest bid of $17,500 for a house and lot it put up for auction earlier this month, after the highest bidder – who bid $20,000 – subse- quently decided not to com- plete the purchase due to health concerns. The motion by Robin Whaley, seconded by board vice-president Phil Elkins, to accept the $17,500 bid from Bobby Majors was ap- proved by a 3-2 vote, with Whaley, Elkins and Donna Poehlein voting yes while James Dickerson and Shir- ley Van Meter voted no. Board president Frank Ropp did not vote, while a seventh board member, San- dra Ficklin, was absent from the special-called meeting. Earlier in the 17-min- ute meeting, Elkins moved to return a $2,000 depos- it to the original high bid- der, which was seconded by Whaley, to Petersburg real estate agent Raymond Majino. The motion passed by a vote of 4-1, with Van Meter casting the lone no vote. Dickerson subsequently moved to put the house and lot – also known as the an- nex – up for auction a sec- ond time, which was second- ed by Van Meter. "The motion's made and seconded," Ropp said. "All those in favor vote aye." "We better have a little discussion," Dickerson said. "Okay, okay," Ropp re- plied. "Discuss then." "The reason I made that motion is because that house is worth more than $20,000, with the land it's sitting on and where it's at," Dickerson said. "And we had two bidders. I think we need to advertise it again and have another auction and get it out there." "Advertise it, you're say- ing, maybe a little bit more than it was the last time? " Ropp asked. "Absolutely," Dickerson replied. Poehlein suggested that it would have helped if the auction had been advertised on the marquee in front of the old Barrett Memorial Li- brary building on East Main Street. "Yeah," Dickerson said. "Put a picture in the paper, you know. We didn't do that. That's why I made the mo- tion. I know I've talked to dif- ferent people who have been in real estate that's looked at the house, and they said, 'You're giving it away.'" Elkins asked Majors, who was present during the meeting, if he would honor his bid of $17,500. "I will, but I won't come back to another auction," Majors replied. "I know the problems it's got. Other peo- ple don't. When they find out ...it ain't going to go much higher than the $20,000." Van Meter said that sever- al individuals she had talked to since the auction were not aware that it was being held. "I think with it coming out in the paper all this that has happened, it's piqued inter- est in it, and I really kind of think you'll maybe be able to get more than the $20,000," Van Meter said. Dickerson's motion failed by a vote of 2-2, with Dick- erson and Van Meter voting yes and Elkins and Poehlein voting no. Ropp and Whaley did not vote. "I've never seen anything in my life so hard that you couldn't give away and you couldn't sell it," Ropp said. "I didn't vote, because I have no idea as far as what the bids were," Whaley ex- plained. " $20,000's all I've heard." $17,500 is his last bid," Ropp said. "Would you take it for $20,000? " Whaley asked Majors. "No," Majors replied. "If I had, I would have bid it at the auction." "I'm just tired of messing with it," Poehlein said. Van Meter said that some individuals told her that they were waiting to see what the library board decided, and that they were interested in bidding $20,000 or more if the property was re-auc- tioned. "The right thing is to try to get as much money as we can," Van Meter said. "What's the highest you'll go on the house? " Whaley asked Majors. " $17,500," Majors replied. "I'll write you a check to- night. You'll be done with it." "I'd rather give it to the historical/genealogy soci- ety before I'd sell it for that, myself," Dickerson said. "Then that's what you should do," Majors replied. Whaley asked if anyone knew how much the library board had paid to purchase the property. "About $ 64,000, wasn't it? " Poehlein replied. " $ 60,000," Behme said. "So it's better to take a $40,000 loss? " Van Meter said, incredulously. "I don't understand that." After Whaley's motion to accept Majors' $17,500 bid was approved, Elkins asked Majors if he would honor it as Dickerson moved to ad- journ. "Did he say yes? " Behme asked. "He said he would write a check for it tonight," Ropp replied. Library board accepts second-highest bid for annex Fun on the swings Ava Fox has a moment of not being sure about the swings ride, while her friend Emily Mcgillem is having fun during the Pike County 4-H Fair. The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, July 30, 2014 A-5