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sweet's column By Barbara Sweet Hi stars and welcome to the big stage all lit up in color- ful bright lights and decorated to help celebrate with all our stars who will have a birthday or an- niversary in the week of Sept. 11-17, so come on up to the big stage and take a bow. Sept. 11—Bill Miller, Su- san Wood will be 45, C. L. will be 76, Marie Lemond will be 68, Xander Mad- is McAtee will be 6, Stella Melhiser, Alyse Carr will be 24, George and Pamela Mey- er will celebrate their 43rd wedding anniversary. Sept. 12—Edwin McDon- ald, Jr. will be 80. Sept. 13—Gary Smith will be 29, Lucy Gamble will be 65, Butch and Rita Rogers will celebrate their 46th wed- ding anniversary. Sept. 14—Halle Black- grave will be 9, Mark Whit- ney, Tony Russell, Michael Hill be 22. Sept. 15 —Mike and Ro- berta Meyer will celebrate their 35th wedding anniver- sary, Mitch and Leann Ste- phens will celebrate their 24th wedding anniversary, Ollie and Susie Doublemont will celebrate their 31st wed- ding anniversary. Sept. 16 —Brooke Schrief- er will be 37, Silas Kincaid Brown will be 5. Sept. 17—Carlie Mae Per- ry will be 8, Steve Schriefer will be 47. May all our stars have a very great day and all your wishes come true through- out the year to come. Keep in your heart and prayers all our stars who are ill from various symptoms, our stars who are still in re- covery, those who are in dif- ferent types of therapy, ma- ny suffer with allergies of the season and the aches and pain of everyday life. Tim Wheeler is doing great after surgery, Cary Young is do- ing well at home, and Lydia Millard fell the other day and suffered from a broken nose. She is doing well. Events coming up in Win- slow and the surrounding ar- eas: Sept. 11—Patriot Day. Sept. 11—Petersburg City Wide Yard Sale, Main Street Car Fest and Antique Trac- tor Show. Sept. 13—Winslow Lions Pageant at 6 p.m. at the Com- munity Center gym, admis- sion is $ 3. Check with Lin- da Daugherty for more in- formation. Sept. 14—40th Meyer re- union at Pike State Forest shelter house with a carry- in meal to start around noon. Hope to see all the families and friends of descendants of George and Laura Mey- er. Including memories of each other as we watch the younger generation play and taking the traditional walks to the river and fire tower. Bring that great smile for pictures to be taken. Sept. 18 —Winslow Lions Club meeting at The Trading Post at 7 p.m. Sept. 20 —Winslow Com- munity Festival at Riverside Park and Main and Center Streets. Winslow Lions will be serving breakfast and lunch and pork chop din- ners. There will also be a cornhole tourney, log split- ting, games for kids of kiddy train, tug of war, hay scram- ble, egg toss, bobbing for apples, also Antique Tractor Show. A shuttle from River- side Park to Main and Cen- ter Streets will be provided. A new event is the Heritage Handcrafters with sever- al displays of crafts—come see what a 12-year-old girl has made, including other numerous events. Special music by the Wagners and Gadabouts from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Beautification Commit- tee will sponsor a flea mar- ket with spaces still avail- able. bake off contest of pies, cakes and cookies, in- flatables for the kids. Pay- ton Lynn will be performing and Winslow Girl Scouts will paint hair and beards. House of Mercy will provide a kid- dy train and Winslow Chris- tian Church will sponsor a car show. I believe the Buck Ashby Gazebo will be dedi- cated on this day. There will be a public auction of Mildred Poehlein Ashby's paintings at 1 p.m. of attractions around and in the Winslow area. Winslow Light-Up Parade will begin after dark from Union Street to Little League Park. Sept. 27—7th annual Pike County Tractor Drive leav- ing at The Trading Post. Lunch will be provided to Pike Co. Young Farmers at Cool Springs plus music and entertainment. There are new rules and regulations for the tractors. Winslow Senior Citizens meet at Community Cen- ter Monday, and Tuesday. Petersburg Senior Citizens meet in courthouse base- ment Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. No postcards nor notes this week. Hot and humid weath- er has gone for awhile with comfortable temperatures of 70 to 80 degrees. Our friend, James McFarland took three of our mowers and brought back two work so Norm started mowing the field of grass and now the yard looks like a yard again. We really appreciate James. This also got me out to get more ex- ercise by picking up limbs. Had a small bonfire but no marshmallows. I got a feedback from the foggy nights and win- ter snow. The T V station re- ported that after many fog- gy nights we will have snow appear the same amount of days next winter. We should have 20 or more days where snow will come down. Have you got your snow shoes ready or your sleigh? Greg Poehlein left the re- sults of the Poehlein Fall Bass Tourney from Satur- day. There were 12 teams that entered. Biggest fish was caught by Rod Kend- le, 5 lbs. 11 ozs.; first place was Don Oakley and Greg Poehlein; second place was Cody Kendle and Keith Mc- Gee; third place was Rod Kendle and Jeff Kendle. Con- gratulations to the 12 teams. The next tourney will be May 2, 2015. The Spurgeon Monroe Township Volunteer Fire Dept. Festival with the George Roy Car Show and Open Poker Run was a bit hit Saturday with break- fast, lunch and the Method- ist Church fish dinner. The food was so good that they ran out of food. Music was provided by DeWayne Spaw, Swamp Billy Band who collect for Wounded Warriors, a trio of three men, and a girl who sang to open the musi- cal program, including Ka- raoke. Clowns were mixing with people among the park making balloon animals like an octopus. I got my picture taken with one of the hap- py clowns. Flea market ven- dors were busy and the Win- slow Masons sold ice cream. I had a scoop of strawberry but should have seen the gi- ant banana split they made and I thought I made big ba- nana splits at The Igloo. De- Wayne Spaw said he enjoyed his ride through Pike Coun- ty. I'll try to get the result of winners in a later issue of The Press-Dispatch. We express our appreci- ation to those who worked tireless days and nights for a day of family fun at the Festival. Also our apprecia- tion from the Swamp Billy Band for donations for the Wounded Warriors and for the grand welcome that was given the band. There were several peo- ple there I haven't seen in awhile. One star I hadn't see in awhile was Lydia Mil- lard who lives in Lynnville where her sons reside. She looks great even though she had fallen a few days before and suffered a broken nose. You may see her at the Win- slow Senior Citizens once in a while. Some stars asked me where Norm was—Norm spent the day with Vernon Arnold at the Dale parade, where they met up with Mark Messmer and several more stars to throw or hand out candy along the parade route. Mark says hi Winslow, see you soon. He may come to the Light-Up Parade. It seems like I'm forget- ting something else to say, and I'll remember what it is after I drop the column off, so I guess we will have to check out next week's rambling to see if I remem- bered or still forgot. Be sure to check in on family and friends, slow down and see your surroundings and al- ways smile, wave and say hi to everyone this week. 2001 E. 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Below: Lori Mattingly of Petersburg participates in the cornhole games during the Free Methodist annual ice cream social on Sunday evening, Sept. 7. Other activities during the evening included washers, ping pong, croquet and basketball. D-8 Wednesday, September 10, 2014 The Press-Dispatch