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criMinaL docket Pike Circuit Court Donald Leroy Buzzard III, charged with two counts of child solicitation. Trena L. Anderson charged with count I maintaining a common nui- sance, a level 6 felony; count II posses- sion of marijuana, a level 6 felony; and count III possession of paraphernalia. Edward W. Fiore charged with count I maintaining a common nuisance, a level 6 felony; count II possession of marijuana, a level 6 felony; and count III possession of paraphernalia. Randy E. Anders charged with do- mestic battery, a level 6 felony. Edward F. Boudakian charged with count I criminal confinement; count II strangulation and two counts of do- mestic battery. Dameon R. Harmon charged with arson, a level 4 felony. In re: Search warrant. In re: Search warrant. In re: Search warrant. traFFic and MisdeMeanor Pike Circuit Court Trena L. Anderson charged with two counts of contributing to the de- linquency of a minor. Zachary J. Seger charged with op- erating a vehicle with a blood alco- hol content of 0.15 percent or more, a class A misdemeanor, count II operat- ing a vehicle while intoxicated, a class A misdemeanor; and count III illegal consumption of an alcoholic beverage. Kody A. Blakeman charged with count I possession of paraphernalia and count II furnishing alcohol to a minor. Jayson S. Roberts charged with count I possession of marijuana, class A misdemeanor; count II possession of paraphernalia; and count III visiting a common nuisance. Rachel J. Boarman charged with re- sisting law enforcement. Tony D. Camp charged with resist- ing law enforcement. Everett E. Sutt charged with count I operating a vehicle with a blood al- cohol content of 0.15 percent or more, a class A misdemeanor; and count II operating a vehicle while intoxicated, a class A misdemeanor. civiL docket Pike Circuit Court Vanessa A. Lough sues Joshua A. Lough for dissolution of marriage. James Foster sues Phyllis Foster for dissolution of marriage. sMaLL cLaiMs Pike Circuit Court Lake Helmerich Property Owner's Association Inc. sues Robert T. Rog- ers and Peggy S. Rogers on complaint. Lake Helmerich Property Owner's Association Inc. sues Charles F. Dief- endorf and Lillian Diefendorf on com- plaint. Lake Helmerich Property Owner's Association Inc. sues Roy Tuley on complaint. inFractions Pike Circuit Court Tonisha Bryant charged with speed- ing, 96 mph in a 70 zone. Jennifer Ray charged with speeding, 80 mph in a 70 zone. Christopher Britton charged with failure to use safety belt. Hunter Clifford charged with failure to register an off-road vehicle. David Gray, Jr. charged with seat belt violation. Frederick Jones charged with fail- ure to register an off-road vehicle. Tamarea Kramer charged with speeding, 99 mph in a 70 zone. Justin Orth charged with failure to register an off-road vehicle. Angela Schafer charged with speed- ing, 37 mph in a 20 zone. Natasha Woodall charged with speeding, 37 mph in a 20 zone. Heather Fruit charged with speed- ing, 87 mph in a 70 zone. Jessica George charged with speed- ing, 87 mph in a 70 zone. Adam Grubb charged with seat belt violation. Joshua Hill charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Courtney Jobe charged with speed- ing, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Tyler Onyett charged with speeding, 77 mph in a 55 zone and expired plates. Levi Sisson charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Patricia Sisson charged with speed- ing, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Jennifer VanWinkle charged with speeding, 73 mph in a 40 zone. Ryan Baker charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Brett Covington charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Joshua Fellure charged with speed- ing 84 mph in a 70 zone. Blaine Gress charged with unsafe start. Kory Hurles charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Edward Reising, Jr. charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Stephenie Schmidt charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Tony Sommerville charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Samantha Turner charged with ex- pired plates. Donald Villwock charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Chelsea Ward charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Wayne Ward charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Response: Current state of drug rehabilitation Court report Katiedid vs... by Katiedid Langrock Toddlers in tents Letter to the Editor Last weekend, my group of friends and I headed off to our annual camping trip. Over the years, we have solidified this event—the number of people invit- ed, the location, and the food. We've learned and adapted from mistakes of the past. A ghost sighting from two years prior resulted in our positioning the tent door so it faced a different direction. Last year's wind- storm resulted in splintered poles and the purchase of a new tent alto- gether. We've had footballs impaled on Joshua trees. We've had our foot- ball throwing arms impaled on Josh- ua trees. And we've experienced that terrifying feeling in your gut of being truly lost in the wilderness more than once. But this year, we encountered a new camping challenge—a force stron- ger than a windstorm, scarier than a ghost. This year, our camping trip in- cluded a toddler. Camping has always been my form of meditation, my yoga. It's how I un- wind. Turns out that it's hard to feel se- rene with your toddler teetering on the edge of a cliff while you scream, "Stop trying to kill yourself while Mommy is trying to harness her Zen! " I'm fairly confident I just quoted the Buddha. Foolishly, I expected cloud gazing and star counting. Instead, I got sweaty chasing my son around the rocky ter- rain, steering him away from snake holes, bees and sunburn. Suddenly, it's clear why all my children died from snakebites every time I played "Ore- gon Trail." The whole family could have made it out West if, instead of ex- ploring, the youngest digital settlers would have stayed in their wagon, play- ing Nintendo DS and singing songs from "Frozen" as their mother wanted. I'm guessing that's pretty historically accu- rate. My son broke my camp- ing calm with his dirt-dig- ging, valley-screaming, rock-climbing antics, but after a while, I decided to stop fighting it. This trip wouldn't be about tents and tranquility. This trip was meant to be about ex- periencing the great out- doors through the eyes of a toddler. And once I allowed myself to stop running after my son and instead run with him, I could see his little mind figuring out how the whole wilderness thing works. I could practically hear his inner monologue as he discovered all the wonderful things about camp- ing that I take for granted. It laced even the grossest parts of the weekend with a little bit of magic. Below are 10 things my son learned about camping, said in the voice I imag- ine his inner monologue to sound like: 1. Outhouses are amazing. They provide awesome echoes after your screams and have a super-cool hole you can climb down into. For some weird reason, my mama kept chasing after me every time I sneaked away to the outhouse, waving her arms, and stopped me before I could go spelunk- ing—this time. 2. Why sit on an anthill when you can sit on a red anthill? Just saying, we're in the woods; let's live danger- ously. 3. Nature is best explored naked. 4. Hammocks are so much fun but are impossible to get out of. You don't think my folks knew that when they put me in the hammock… and then kept putting me in. They wouldn't do that to me, right? Nah. 5. Food tastes better with mud on your hands. Even better with crushed bugs between your fingers. Try to bite me again, red ant. Just try it. 6. Chili causes some serious diaper rash. For reals, y'all. I couldn't sit or stand for a full 24 hours after that blasted bean-fest. What is chili pepper made of, pure fire? 7. Speaking of fire, the campfire calls to me. It whispers, "Touch me. Jump in me. Don't be afraid of the heat. I'll give you a warm hug." 8. Moms cannot hear the siren call of campfires. They pull you away ev- ery time you try to jump in. Moms are terrible campers. 9. Tents are so much fun to run around in but impossible to unzip. Do you think my folks knew that when they zipped up the door? They wouldn't do that to me, right? Nah. 10. If your lame parents hinder you from injuring yourself while camping, slam your fingers in the car door on your way home. Can't leave a trip with- out a battle wound. Like Katiedid Langrock on Facebook, at http://www.facebook.com/katiedid- humor. H Cease the cease-fires H Foreign policy H Banning trans fats Continued from page 4 Continued from page 4 Continued from page 2 "Cease-fire" and "negoti- ations" are magic words to "the international communi- ty." But just what do cease- fires actually accomplish? In the short run, they save some lives. But in the long run they cost far more lives, by lowering the cost of ag- gression. At one time, launching a military attack on anoth- er nation risked not only re- taliation but annihilation. When Carthage attacked Rome, that was the end of Carthage. But when Hamas or some other terrorist group launch- es an attack on Israel, they know in advance that what- ever Israel does in response will be limited by calls for a cease-fire, backed by politi- cal and economic pressures from the United States. It is not at all clear what Israel's critics can rational- ly expect the Israelis to do when they are attacked. Suf- fer in silence? Surrender? Flee the Middle East? Or - - most unrealistic of al - - fight a "nice" war, with no civilian casualties? General William T. Sherman said it all, 150 years ago: "War is hell." If you want to minimize ci- vilian casualties, then mini- mize the dangers of war, by no longer coming to the res- cue of those who start wars. Israel was attacked, not only by vast numbers of rockets but was also invad- ed - - underground - - by maz- es of tunnels. There is something gro- tesque about people living thousands of miles away, in safety and comfort, lofti- ly second-guessing and try- ing to micro-manage what the Israelis are doing in a matter of life and death. Such self-indulgences are a danger, not simply to Isra- el, but to the whole Western world, for it betrays a lack of realism that shows in every- thing from the current disas- trous consequences of our policies in Egypt, Libya and Iraq to future catastrophes from a nuclear-armed Iran. Those who say that we can contain a nuclear Iran, as we contained a nuclear Soviet Union, are acting as if they are discussing abstract people in an abstract world. Whatever the Soviets were, they were not suicidal fanat- ics, ready to see their own cities destroyed in order to destroy ours. As for the ever-elusive "solution" to the Arab-Is- raeli conflicts in the Middle East, there is nothing faint- ly resembling a solution any- where on the horizon. Nor is it hard to see why. Even if the Israelis were all saints - - and sainthood is not common in any branch of the human race - - the cold fact is that they are far more advanced than their neigh- bors, and groups that can- not tolerate even subordi- nate Christian minorities can hardly be expected to tolerate an independent, and more advanced, Jewish state that is a daily rebuke to their egos. Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institu- tion, Stanford University. that takes its place may well be worse. This isn't just about trans fats. It's about the FDA's powers under the Feder- al Food, Drug and Cosmet- ic Act. "While it is unlikely that the FDA would seek to ban caffeine, sugar and sodi- um that [are] added to food, these added ingredients are likely to be targets of fu- ture regulation," Mr. Bakst writes. "It may start through voluntary measures, but that would be the first step to- ward mandatory regulation." That's why Congress should amend the act to ensure that the FDA cannot act outside of its proper authority. In short, this is about gov- ernment control. Who de- termines your diet? You, or some unelected bureaucrat in Washington? Ed Feulner is founder of the Heritage Foundation (heri- tage.org). cal government in Iran in 2009, I suspect we would be looking at a very different situation in the Middle East today. The United States should always stand on the side of freedom-loving peo- ple. What has the Obama ad- ministration done to support those who long for liberty and freedom in Iran? More needs to be done. Our foreign policy is rud- derless. We are a ship lost at sea. We need a foreign pol- icy that is proactive in safe- guarding our interests and not reactive to events un- folding around the globe that affect our security. Our friends and allies need to know that we can be count- ed on when they are in jeop- ardy or when their security is threatened. We must have a foreign policy that is root- ed in those ideas that have made us the envy of all free- dom-loving people around the globe. Ben S. Carson is professor emeritus of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University. To The Editor: Upon reflection and after complet- ing some brief research, it seems ap- propriate to supplement the fleeting discussion concerning criminal reha- bilitation/reformation that appeared last month in this forum. In current Pike County prosecutor Darrin McDonald's letter printed Ju- ly 16 in this publication, it was gener- ous of him to take the time to intro- duce the drug rehabilitation services available in southwestern Indiana, and what some of said services entail. How- ever, if one is to substitute the current prosecutor's transparent words for his more clearly seen actions, and take a look into how many offenders have ac- tually been sentenced to intensive in- patient rehabilitation facilities thru the Pike Circuit Court this year (facilities such as New Life Recovery, Southwest- ern Indiana Mental Health's "Stepping Stone," Lighthouse Recover in Peters- burg), you could conceivably count these offenders that are afforded in- patient treatment on one hand. Why? Because just at it's been previously stated by other members of this com- munity, these alternative sentencing options are uncommon in this county's courtroom. Are the options available? Yes. Are these sentencing options cur- rently being offered or utilized? Very rarely. Mr. McDonald states that his July 16 letter, in which he speaks exclusively of drug/alcohol offenders, was in re- sponse to a letter that had appeared previously in this forum. What seems rather peculiar is that the July 9 letter he claims he was responding to doesn't mention anything about "drugs," "ad- dicts," or "addiction." The author of the July 9 letter was expressing concern for this county's current lack of effec- tive methodology regarding the refor- mation of criminal behavior in gener- al, and further asserted that the neigh- boring county of Daviess has statisti- cally proven thru their award-winning efforts that prison is not the answer to lowering the return offender rate. That being said, it makes one won- der if Mr. McDonald wasn't possibly using the letter printed July 9 as a plat- form from which he could put forth a sugar-coated rebuttal; an agenda de- signed perhaps in a vain attempt to save face as we approach the upcom- ing November election. After alleged- ly being denied endorsement by both major political parties, I fear Mr. Mc- Donald may potentially feel the need to seize every available such platform that becomes available. In closing, it's unfortunate that some local prosecutors disapprove of Indi- ana's new criminal code that came into effect July 1. If the new laws take some discretion away from local prosecu- tion, that may not be such a bad thing. I believe our state legislature might have a better view of the big picture. Hubert Barrett 303 Breckinridge Rd, MonRoe City Box 35 Phone: 743-2382 Fax: 743-2169 Email: perryshvac@gmail.com HEATING & AIR-CONDITIONING Perry ' s LLC Craig Perry Vance Perry Serving the area since 1950. 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