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news brieFs Backpack Give-away at Petersburg Methodist It is time to start thinking back-to-school. The Sal- vation Army wants every child to have an equal start on the first day of school. If gathering all the supplies is difficult or impossible, sign up at First United Meth- odist Church, 801 E. Walnut St., Petersburg, for a back- pack filled with necessities. We want every child pre- pared for that important first day of school. Sign-up begins August 6 from 10 :30 a.m. until noon and con- tinues through August 7 from 9 a.m. to noon while supplies last. This program is available for children in Kinder- garten thru 12th grade. Bring photo identification for the head of the household, last year's report card, or the child's birth certificate. For more information, call The Salvation Army at 812-386 -6577 or the First Unit- ed Methodist Church at 812-354-6658. Benefit car and bike show for Jared Coomes There will be a benefit car and bike show, August 8, at Grandy's, Hwy 57 and 64 Jct., from 6 to 8 p.m. All proceeds will benefit 11-year-old Jared Coomes, of Pe- tersburg, who has T-Cell lymphoma. There will be a 50/50 drawing, Chinese Auction and a donation jar. "4 His Praise Trio" will be in concert for this event. The public is invited. First day of school is Friday, Aug. 8 The first day of school for Pike County School Cor- poration students is Friday, Aug. 8. Otwell and Petersburg Elementary schools will open their doors to students at 7:45 a.m., with classes be- ginning at 8:15 a.m. Students will be dismissed at 3:30 p.m. Car riders, however, will be released 10 minutes earlier, at 3:20 p.m. Winslow Elementary School will open its doors to students at 8 a.m., with classes beginning at 8:15 a.m. Students will be dismissed at 3:30 p.m. Car riders, how- ever, will be released 15 minutes earlier, at 3:15 p.m. Pike Central Middle School and Pike Central High School will open their doors to students at 7:45 a.m., with classes beginning at 8:20 a.m. Students will be dismissed at 3:15 p.m. Buck Ashby Gazebo workday cancelled Workday at The Buck Ashby Gazebo in Winslow for next Saturday, Aug. 9 has been cancelled. Oakland City camp meeting Aug. 10-17 Oakland City Camp Meeting, located at Walnut and Tressler streets, one block SE of Buehler's IGA, will be Aug. 10 -17, 2014. Brian Arner will present a concert at 6 p.m. CDT, with a fellowship hour following the eve- ning service. Rev. Lane Loman, evangelist, will be the guest speaker each weeknight at 6:30 p.m. CDT, Sun- days at 6 p.m. CDT. Prayer time will be daily at 5:30 p.m. CDT in the Prayer Chapel, Monday through Saturday. S.I.H.A. President Roger Willis invites the public to attend. For more information, call 812-749 -3153 or log on to www.oaklandcitycampmeeting.org. ww.oaklandcitycampmeting.org. Blood drive set for Amber Manor on Aug. 14 An American Red Cross Blood Drive is scheduled for 2 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, August 14 at Amber Manor. All types of blood are needed. The Red Cross said each donation can help save three lives. Girl Scouts Night Out set for Friday, September 5 A summer night of fun, including waffle cone s'mores, a wiener roast, line dancing and manicures is scheduled for Friday, September 5 at the 4-H Build- ing in Hornady Park. The event, It's A Girl Thing! 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The Winslow United Methodist Church, at the corner of Lafayette and Cherry streets, has been around since 1832, just 16 years after Indiana became a state, will have its last ser- vice Sunday at 10 :15 a.m. A dinner will follow the last service. "It is going to be a sad day," said Devra Krause, who, at 69, has gone to the church all her life. "It is like losing a family member," said Frank Heu- ring. "It is really biting in," added Heuring. He start- ed attending the church as young boy with his grand- father A. J. Heuring, who taught the men's Sunday school class. Frank and his wife, Ra- chael, were married in the church in April 1950, and they joined the church in September of that year and have attended it ever since. Heuring eventually car- ried on the tradition of his grandfather, teaching the men's Sunday school class for more than a decade. Joy Nelson has attended Winslow United Methodist since the 1950s. She said she and her hus- band Glenn had moved to North St. about a block away from the church. Her neigh- bors, Myrtle Shaw and her son, Frank Shaw, invited them to the church, and she started attending and has ever since. "I remember we would walk to church and Frank would say 'girls you need to pick it up or we are going to have to sit on the front row.'" Nelson said Newt Jones was preaching at the time and she said the church was always full. "I worked with the kids and that is what I loved. I taught Bible school and Sunday School, and we had a junior choir. I watched my daughter grow up in the church. It has a lot of hap- py memories," said Nelson. "It is just a sad thing. It has really torn me up. . . They say all good things come to an end," said Nelson. Krause said she has been playing the piano since she was 16 years old. She start- ed playing when Howard Parker, who owned Parker's Drug Store in Winslow, was the choir director. "It was your family. You cared about each other. It was a wonderful congrega- tion," said Krause. She said her dad was a lay speaker and a delegate to General Conference. As a delegate to the National Conference, Devra said her family would travel to differ- ent areas of the country ev- ery three years for him to at- tend. Her ties to the church go all the way back to her birth. "When I was born, my moth- er had a hard time and the church had a special prayer meeting for mother and I. It was a close knit church fam- ily." She said both her moth- er's and father's funerals were in the church. "Back then, that is where you had funerals. It just seemed to give you some relief having it in the church." Krause said in Sunday's last service, they will be having church members, former and current, speak about their experiences and memories at the church. "We hope to keep it upbeat." "We knew it was coming, but you never get yourself ready for something like this," said Nelson. The following history was provided by William Krause. The church actually start- ed in 1932, meeting in the town's first school building on Center St. During a re- vival in 1859, enthusiasm for Methodism surfaced when more than 200 conversions were recorded. They built the first build- ing in 1866 on the corner of Walnut and Center streets. But in 1890, the church burned down. Then two years later, the building was built at the current location of the corner of Cherry and Lafayette streets. As the church grew, they began to raise money for a new building, proposed in 1921 by Rev. William R. Ashby. Fundraising efforts included the ladies' class- es number 5 and 6 baking goodies to sell. "We sold enough dough- nuts to pay for one wall of the church," said the late Eva El- lison. They also put on plays, such as "Aunt Harriet's First Night Out," at the Star The- atre. It was such a success, they did a second produc- tion, "Old Maids Conven- tion," which was performed at Otwell and Spurgeon as well. In 1924, they had raised enough money to pay for the $25,000 red brick church at this current location. It was dedicated on July 13, 1924, by the Rev. Winfield R. Thom, with an estimated crowd of 500 people. Closing of Winslow Methodist Church like losing a family member The Winslow united Methodist Church's mens Sunday school class taught by A.J. Heuring had as ma- ny as 100 people attend. Above is a photo of the class from 1947. Front row (l to r): E L. Stevens, John Ellison, Erwin Bell, A. T. Biggs, Teacher A. J. Heuring, Rev. new- ton Jones, Walter Risley, Fred Buechle and ? Deal. Row 2 (l to r): DeForest Hale, his granddaughter, Eli- jah McCord, Richard Dobbins, Harold McCord, William Erwin McCord, virgil McCord, H. J. Sims, Jes- se Finch, Adrian Shrode and virgil gray. Row 3 (l to r): Harry Woodford, Wallace Eads, Wrex Burns, C. E. McCord, Freddy McCord, Carl Chandler, Earsey Auten, F. o. Biggs, Howrd P. Parker, Paul Hill and k. B. Thompson. Row 4 (l to r): Clarence Buechele, Pearl Battles, Charles Tracer, Fred Smith, Al- fred Thompson and Luther Burch. Back row (l to r): neal Brown, Austin Ellison, ? Barnett, Farlan Mc- Qeen, Hulett Crecelius, Ben Lindsay, Russell Barr, William Auten, Jr., William Evans and Lyndon Sims. A-4 Wednesday, August 6, 2014 The Press-Dispatch