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A-10 Local Wednesday, November 11, 2015 The Press-Dispatch The Resurgent Library by Bart Stinson The economics of minimum wage To enter the Birthday Club, email your name, ad- dress, phone number and birthdate to birthdayclub@ pressdispatch.net. Only the person's name, town and birthday will appear in the paper. As an added bonus, one lucky person each month will receive a free three month Press-Dispatch subscription. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO: Diana Barnes ................... Petersburg .................. 11/17 AREA HAPPENINGS Al-Anon meeting – Meetings are each Wednes- day at 11:30 a.m., located at 424 W. 7th St. in Jasper. For more information, call 812-887-0349. Celebrate Recovery Program – Meets every Sunday night from 5 to 7 p.m. at 207 Lafayette St. in Winslow. For more information, call Krystal Breed- ing 812-582-2562. Winslow Alcohol Anonymous – will meet ev- ery Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Call 812-789 -8535 for loca- tion of the meeting. Narcotics Anonymous – will meet on Monday nights at 7 p.m. at River of Life Fellowship, 342 E. Co. Rd. 300 N., Petersburg. For more information, call 812-734-6701 or 812-380 -1395. Odd Fellows Meeting – Pacific Lodge #175 regular stated meeting, the second Monday of each month at 7 p.m. All area Odd Fellows are invited to attend. Blood Pressure Screening – Free screening of- fered Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015, from 9 to 11 a.m. at Pe- tersburg Senior Center in Petersburg, sponsored by Goo Samaritan Community Health Services. Hazleton Soup Supper Fundraiser – Union Com- munity Church will be hosting its Annual Soup Supper Fundraiser Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015, from 5 -8 p.m. EST) in the Community Center. Meal will include choice of soups, sandwiches, desserts and drinks. Monies raised will go to support the volunteer fire department. For more infor- mation contact, Kevin Easton at 812-664-5454. Spiritual Health – Do you desire to be a compas- sionate person and spread vibrant joy to others? The perfect prescription for you is spontaneous humor. Me- morial Hospital and Health Care Center is offering a new class, Spiritual Health. The Spiritual Health class is Tuesday, Nov.10 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Southside Office, located at 1100 West 12th Avenue in Jasper. The cost of the class is $5. Pre-registration is re- quired. For more information or to register, visit www. mhhcc.org and click on "Classes & Events," or call 812-996 -2399 or toll-free at 800 -852-7279, ext. 2399. Getting Ready for Baby Brother or Sister – The class will be on Wednesday, Nov. 11 from 6 -7 p.m. in Memorial Hospital's Mary Potter Classroom, located at 800 West 9th Street, Jasper. The class is intended for children over the age of four and includes a tour of the nursery, and demonstrations in infant holding, burping, feeding, and changing a diaper. This class is free for the children of those who are delivering at Me- morial Hospital or $10. Pre-registration is necessary. For more information or to enroll, visit www.mhhcc. org and click on "Classes & Events". If you do not have online access or are having problems call 812-996 -2399 or toll-free at 800 -852-7279, ext. 2399. "Your Health and Diabetes" Education – The next meeting will be Monday, Nov. 16 from 7-8 p.m. in the Pavilion Classroom at 800 West 9th Street in Jas- per. For more information, contact Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center's Diabetes Education Depart- ment at 812-996 -0521. "Women's Support Group" – The Lange-Fuhs Cancer Center at Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center offers a support group for women who have had cancer of any type or who are currently undergo- ing cancer treatment. "Women's Support Group" helps women with the journey through cancer and beyond. Sessions are the third Tuesday of each month from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the Lange-Fuhs Cancer Center Con- ference Room located at Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center's Dorbett Street entrance. The next ses- sion will be on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015. For more in- formation www.mhhcc.org and click on "Classes & Events," or call 812-996 -0626. Pre-registration is not necessary. Medic First Aid® Refresher with AED – The Medic First Aid® Refresher with AED class will be of- fered on Tuesday, Nov. 17 from 8 -11 a.m. in the Health and Wellness Classroom at Memorial Southside Of- fice, 1100 West 12th Avenue in Jasper. Cost for the class is $45; class size is limited and pre-registration is required by visiting www.mhhcc.org and click on "Classes & Events," or call 812-996 -2399 or toll-free 800 -852-7279, ext. 2399. Please bring current certifi- cation card to this course. Medic First Aid® Refresher with AED – The class will be offered on Tuesday, Nov.17 from 8 -11 a.m. in the Health and Wellness Classroom at Memorial South- side Office, 1100 West 12th Avenue in Jasper. Cost for the class is $45; class size is limited and pre-registra- tion is required by visiting www.mhhcc.org and click on "Classes & Events," or call 812-996 -2399 or toll-free at 800 -852-7279, ext. 2399. Please bring current certi- fication card to this course. "Hearty Hearts" Cardiac Rehab Club – The next meeting will be Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 6:30 p.m. in the Medical Arts Conference Center located at 721 West 13th Street in Jasper. Cardiac Rehab is an outpa- tient, heart-monitored exercise program for patients who have had a recent heart attack, angina, coronary artery bypass surgery, heart valve replacement sur- gery, balloon angioplasty, or stent placement. Angi- na Heart Therapy uses enhanced external counter- pulsation (EECP®) to create new pathways around blocked arteries in the heart by expanding networks of tiny blood vessels. For more information about the "Hearty Hearts" Cardiac Rehab Club, call the Cardio- pulmonary Rehab Center at 812-996 -1551 or toll-free at 800 -852-7279, ext. 1551. Red Hatters meeting – Saturday, Nov. 21, will leave at 11 a.m. from the former Shopko parking lot to attend the Ferdinand Christkindlmarkt. If in need of a ride, call Theresa Loveless at 812-354-2283. FertilityCare Program – The FertilityCare pro- gram refers to a natural method to avoid or achieve pregnancy. The Creighton Model coordinates with a couple's fertility cycle without the use of drugs or con- traceptives. The program teaches the couple to iden- tify the woman's fertile and infertile days in order to achieve or avoid a pregnancy. This program is available through Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center. Introductory and follow-up sessions are private and scheduled to meet the needs of the couple. Sessions take place at Memorial Southgate Office, Southgate Plaza 213 US 231 South in Jasper. The cost of the Fertil- ityCare Program is $25 per couple. Materials are avail- able for the course for an additional fee of $20. For more information about the FertilityCare program, please contact Memorial Hospital's Health Ministry Office at 812-996 -5232 or toll-free at 800 -852-7279, ext. 5232. Inspections August 1 thru October 31, 2015 Concern inspections: McDonald's – 101 W. Pike Ave, Petersburg, IN 47567 1 Non-critical violation: Door to building storing single service supplies left open. McDonald's – 101 W. Pike Ave, Petersburg, IN 47567 7 Non-critical violations: Tables soiled; dining room trash receptacles over- flowing (corrected); floors soiled; trash receptacle in women's restroom overflow- ing; women's restroom in need of cleaning; baseboard tiles missing in men's rest- room; exterior door seals in need of repair/replacement. Pre-Operational inspec- tions: Eskimo Grocery & De- li – 305 N. Main, Winslow, IN 47598 9 Non-critical violations: No hot water at warewash- ing sink; no hot water at handwashing sinks; coolers in need of cleaning/mainte- nance; seals of back doors in need or maintenance/re- pair; ceiling tiles in need of replacement; vents in need of cleaning/maintenance; gaps in/under baseboards; restroom floor in need of repair/replacement; rest- room walls in need of main- tenance/repair. Caddy Shack – 2102 E. Main, Petersburg, IN 47567 3 Non-critical violations: Seal of front door in need of repair/replacement; rest- room light fixture/vent in need of maintenance; sani- tizer test strips not available. Dollar General Store #16327 – 1032 N. SR 61, Pe- tersburg, IN 47567 1 Non-critical violation: Seals of exterior doors in need of maintenance/re- pairs. Routine inspections: Pike County Farmers' Market – Petersburg, IN 47567 No violations observed. Eskimo Grocery & De- li – 305 N. Main, Winslow, IN 47598 1 Non-critical violation: Gaps in/around baseboards. (*All other violations cit- ed in pre-op inspection are corrected.) Fish Hut – 301 S. 9th, Pe- tersburg, IN 47567 6 Non-critical violations: Equipment in need of main- tenance; no paper towels available at handwashing sink (corrected); improp- er storage of food contact equipment (corrected); wip- ing cloths not stored in sani- tizing solution between use; no soap available in men's re- stroom (corrected); floors in prep rooms not easily clean- able. Petersburg Elementary – 1415 E. Alford, Petersburg, IN 47567 No violations observed. Sullivan Grocery – 8400 W. SR 65, Hazelton, IN 47640 2 Critical violations: Out- dated ready-to-eat foods (corrected/disposed); san- itizing solution at improper concentration (corrected). 3 Non-critical violations: Handle of ice scoop in con- tact with ice (corrected); incorrect test strips used for sanitizing solution (cor- rected); seal of front door in need of repair/replacement. Prides Creek Golf Course – 1045 E. CR 400, Peters- burg, IN 47567 No violations observed. PC-1 Stop – 999 N. SR 61, Petersburg, IN 47567 4 Non-critical violations: Incorrect type of test strips used for sanitizing solu- tion; seal of walk-in cooler in need of cleaning/mainte- nance; vents in need of main- tenance; front door seal in need of repair/replacement. No. 423 Smokehouse – 701 E. Illinois, Petersburg, IN 47567 1 Critical violation: Bio- film observed in ice machine 1 Non-critical violation: Seals of undercounter cool- ers in need of repair/re- placement. Pike Central MS/HS – 1810 E. SR 56, Petersburg, IN 47567 1 Non-critical violation: Seals of east side exterior doors in need of replace- ment (repeated violation). Winslow Elementary – 301 E. Porter St, Winslow, IN 47598 2 Non-critical violations: Wiping cloths not returned to sanitizing solution be- tween use; improper stor- age of mops. Temporary FE inspec- tions: Stacy Mosby/Mosby for Mayor – Main St., Peters- burg, IN 47567 No violations observed. Fundraiser Take-N-Bake Dressing Amber Manor will be selling dressing. Each pan costs only $6 All orders must be in by Friday, Nov. 20 Pick up Wednesday, Nov. 25 by 3 p.m. Make checks payable to Cindi Lents 812-354-3001 All proceeds benefit Kiwanis Children's Program! DR. RAMSEY'S VISION CENTER 601 Main Street, Petersburg (Downtown Terrace) 812-354-3331 We accept most insurances! We've Moved!! DOWNTOWN TERRACE 601 Main Street, Petersburg Corner of 6th and Main Streets In addition to our new office, we're adding the latest optical equipment and the latest in designer frames. We look forward to providing you with excellent eyecare. When I was 18, I was working out of state on a golf-course construction crew, and the legislature there raised the minimum wage to $2.50 an hour. I thought I was really in the tall clover. But I also got a little angry about being un- derpaid all that time before the law changed. What took them so long? I was in the first crop of 18 -year-old voters after the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. One of my top priorities was to vote for candidates who supported raising the mini- mum wage, early and often. It just made sense to me. Doesn't everybody like high wages? (Except for vile, stin- gy businessmen, I mean.) Those were the days. "When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child." Then the dismal science intruded: Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose" book and PBS se- ries. Econ 301 (macroeco- nomics) at the University of Washington in Seattle. And George Mason Univer- sity professor Walter Wil- liams' seminal 1982 book, The State Against Blacks, which debunked most of the well-intentioned reforms of the 20th Century, including minimum wage protections. And before you knew it, my economic innocence was gone. Now Keynesian and Liber- tarian think tanks duel over the likely outcomes of min- imum wage increases, and there is a middle ground of economists who say that it will be "a wash," that the under-skilled workers for whom minimum wage laws are a barrier to entry (to the wage market) will be approx- imately offset by the work- ing poor who will experience somewhat higher wages. One thing all economists can agree on, though, is that minimum wage legislation is not neutral. It creates win- ners and losers. If the in- crease is high enough and abrupt enough, one of the los- ers may be your Pike County Public Library system. We haven't crunched the numbers here, but a neigh- boring library director esti- mates an im- mediate 30 percent pay- roll increase if Indiana leg- islators pass a minimum- wage bill cur- rently working its way through committee. I do feel that my staff at the library is underpaid. I have long-term plans to es- tablish a performance eval- uation system that will lay a foundation for significant employee raises here when we're financially robust. But an overnight 30 -per- cent spike in payroll would not benefit library employ- ees in the long run. Indiana library standards currently require us to be open 40 hours per week, in- cluding 4 evening hours and one weekend day. Those are perfectly reasonable re- quirements, and in fact we exceed them voluntarily by quite a bit. But our budget increase for 2016 is capped at 2.6 percent. If our payroll shoots up 30 per- cent overnight, we don't have the luxury that Pres- ident Obama has of running a def- icit. We would have to cut hours. That means we would have to cut hours for our staff, and we would have to cut the hours that our branches are open. We might have to lay off one or more employees. If the minimum wage increase is extreme or abrupt enough, it's not out of the question that we might have to close a branch. There is a lot at stake here. Those are Board deci- sions, and I'm glad I don't have to make them. Wheth- er you're for or against in- creasing the minimum wage, I hope you'll urge your legislators to keep Indi- ana's small library districts in mind as they decide the details. AGENDA FOR NOV. 10 LIBRARY BOARD MEETING There will be a public meeting of the Public Library Board of Trustees at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015, at 1008 E. Maple Street in Petersburg Mission Statement: "The Pike County Public Library exists to provide information and services to people of all ages of Pike County for the purposes of: recreational reading; education and reference; and the collection and preservation of local history." Agenda Call to Order: • Recurring business • Approval of October minutes • Approval of October 2015 financial statement • Approval of October 2015 bills • Approval of travel, training and conferences • Old business • Clarification of Rainy Day budget process • New business • Purchase of Deep Freeze software • Letter to Commissioners regard- ing expiring appointment • Assigned work hours for full-time employees • Review of Personnel Policy and Employee Handbook • Assign committee to propose re- visions • Discuss a timeline • Pending minimum wage legislation • Potential impact on library payroll • Budgetary reallocation and cuts • Miscellaneous business • Adjournment. FOOD SANITARIAN REPORT yeah, it's that fast! net edition Z M www.PressDispatch.net/Subscribe The Press-Dispatch. No matter where you live.