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The accident was report- ed at 1:48 p.m. on Septem- ber 4. Dennis R. Burgdorf, 59, of Birdseye, was located several feet off of Highway 56, about a mile east of Pike Central High School. He was taken by ambu- lance to the hospital and re- leased the next day. Indiana State Trooper Paul Bastin said Burgdorf was complain- ing of pelvic and abdominal pain. Trooper Bastin said Burg- dorf was driving east on Highway 56 when he no- ticed a vibration in his 2004 Dodge pickup truck. So he stopped on the side of the road and got out to check his front tires. He said his neph- ew was a passenger and got out of the truck as well. A fter checking the front tires, he said he walked to the driv- er's side door to get back in- to his pickup and was struck by a white semi-truck driv- ing east. Trooper Bastin said it was near the entrance of the Charger Mine. "There are a lot of trucks going in and out of that mine." Burgdorf said it was a white tractor cab with a trailer. "We checked a lot trucks for any signs of damage or evidence they might have been involved and weren't able to find anything," said Bastin. Trooper Bastin is ask- ing anyone who might have seen this or has information about it to contact him by calling the Evansville State Police Post at 800 -852-3970. Hit-and-run report being investigated "I was really concerned that the students would not like this idea at all and that a lot of them would quit," Ash- worth said. "I did lose a few, and although they never ac- tually have told me, I be- lieve it was because we are not competing." "But I've actually gained some who were able to de- vote the less amount of time and still participate in oth- er extracurricular activities such as soccer or football," Ashworth added. "I gained students and I lost students, so we ended up about the same." While the students who have stayed with the band would prefer to compete, Ashworth said that they have been very supportive of the decision. "Whenever we had that first meeting, the students were there and I gave them a detailed financial report of where we are, what we had spent, what we had in our ac- count, and this was what it was going to cost if we were to compete," Ashworth said. "They understand the only way it would work would be if I were to increase the fee for them to participate. Do- ing that, I would have lost a lot more students." Without having to put to- gether a show to play at com- petitions, Ashworth, along with assistant director Me- lissa Traylor and others, se- lected a show called "Fun Nights," featuring sever- al recently released pop songs such as "Party Rock Anthem," "We are Young," "Some Nights" and "Um- brella Beach." "They've always ex- pressed the idea of doing something more modern, something more entertain- ing for the crowd," Ashworth said. "That went into my de- cision of the show we actual- ly selected." "This music is upbeat," Ashworth added. "It's en- tertaining for the crowd. And we are able to have a marching band without hav- ing such a serious, competi- tive side to it. The whole goal is to just be crowd entertain- ers." In addition to marching at home football games, the Charger Brigade will also march in local parades and, on Saturday, Sept. 19, will perform at halftime of the Indiana University/West- ern Kentucky college foot- ball game in Bloomington with IU's Marching 100. Ashworth said he has al- so re-started the jazz band program and was hoping to schedule a performance at Amber Manor in the near future and was discussing the possibility of perform- ing during the Petersburg Kiwanis Club's Christmas for Kids in December. "If any business or organi- zation is having an event and they would like the band to perform, they can get ahold of me and we can try to work something out," Ashworth said. Meanwhile, Ashworth said the band booster pro- gram has been revived and will be conducting several fundraisers over the next few months, with the ulti- mate goal being to raise enough money to have a competitive season in 2016. "The goal is to purchase some new instrument, which we need, and to have enough money – whatever the school board decides, financially – so we can have the finances to be able to do all of those activities." The band boosters elect- ed officers in July: Kel- ly Potter as president; Re- nee Kroeger as vice-presi- dent; Sara Flint as treasur- er; and Somer Wallace as secretary. The band boost- ers are scheduled to meet on the first Monday of ev- ery month at 6:30 p.m. Ashworth said he was ex- tremely pleased with the as- sistance he has thus far re- ceived from Traylor, who had taught music the previ- ous five years at Petersburg Elementary School before being appointed to replace Ashworth as the middle school band director. "She has been such a huge help," Ashworth said. "I joked with her the other day that she's doing more than I ever did in the seven years that I was the assistant director." "She has come on full force and has been such an instrumental part of ev- erything we're doing, there would be no way we would be where we are right now," Ashworth added. DIRECTOR Continued from page 1 to help them and the county grow. It is just endless what we can do here. I think it is just a blank slate for growth. Just capitalizing on I-69 and new business and working with the businesses we al- ready have." Tegmeyer replaces Alycia Church, who retired earlier this year. "She paved the way for a lot of good things." Tegmeyer said her goal is to get every business in Pike County to join the Chamber of Commerce. "It is the Pike County Chamber of Com- merce. It isn't just Peters- burg. Each town has some- thing to offer. My focus is to get out everywhere in the county." She said she wants the visitors center housed in the Chamber of Commerce office to become a hub of in- formation for the county. "I would like for it to be a wel- coming center and for peo- ple to want to stop by and find out what is going on. If I don't know what is hap- pening, then I will call and find out." "I'm excited. I think we have a lot of good starts here. We just need to work together." By Andy Heuring A Winslow woman was arrested last week after she was found unconscious in a vehicle parked in the middle of Line Road and a Washing- ton woman was arrested af- ter she nearly hit a parked car. Kyle Leighann Hayhurst, 33, of 705 E. Morton St., Winslow, was arrested by Pike County Deputy Buck Seger at about 4 a.m. Sun- day. Deputy Seger said he was driving north on Line Road when he saw a black Buick parked in the road- way with no lights on. Seger said he stopped to check on the vehicle and found Hay- hurst passed out in the driv- er's seat with the keys still in the ignition. According to his report, Hayhurst told Deputy Seger she had been drinking at the Bob Inn and had driven her boyfriend home, but they got into an argument and he left the residence. She said she remembered stopping but passed out and didn't re- member anything after that. She failed field sobriety tests and was taken to the Pike County Jail, where she tested 0.81 percent for blood alcohol content. She was preliminarily charged with operating a vehicle while in- toxicated. A Winslow woman was arrested after Indiana State Police stopped her for driv- ing "all over the road way." Lisa M. Cooper, 41, of Washington, was arrest- ed by State Trooper Hunt- er Manning on a charge of operating a vehicle while in- toxicated. Trooper Manning said Petersburg Police stopped Cooper on Highway 57 af- ter they saw her vehicle weaving and almost hitting a parked vehicle. Trooper Hunter said further inves- tigation revealed she had a blood alcohol content of 0.18 percent. The legal lim- it in Indiana is 0.08 percent. She was taken into cus- tody and transported to the Pike County Jail. Two charged with OVWI in separate incidents Tiffany Nosset, Sue Shoultz and Sherri Tredway help sign in participants in the 5k Superhero run Sat- urday morning at Prides Creek. Travis Cochren pushes to stay in front of his father Dave during the Superhero 5K Saturday morning. LABOR DAY ACTIVITIES AT PRIDES CREEK