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netedition Have you checked out the NETedition? See exclusive video of a Monday night structure fire, the Petersburg water main exclusive Three sections 38 pages Seven inserts Volume 144 Number 16 Phone (812) 354-8500 Petersburg, IN 47567-0068 75ยข (USPS 604-340) Wednesday, April 18, 2012 Pick-Up week Petersburg to have Trash Spring Trash Pickup Week starting April 23 and lasting through April 30. The spring clean-up time from April 23 The City of Petersburg will be having flames when the Petersburg Fire Department arrived on the scene. Firemen were able to quickly knock down the flames, but ran out of water until the tanker trucks were able to keep them supplied with water. Petersburg Mayor Jon Craig, also a fire captain, said it appeared the fire destroyed the building and most of its A Monday night fire destroyed a pole barn near Alford. The barn owned by Daniel Onyett was fully engulfed in Fire destroys pole building contents. Onyett told the fire department his family was in their residence near the pole barn when they smelled smoke, and then saw the building on fire. The fire was dispatched at 9:30 p.m. Craig said the cause of the fire was undetermined, but started in the end that had an office-like area in it. The building previously was part of the Billy Joe Like saw mill. to two inches thick, in front of their homes and city staff will pick the debris up if they call in the location. They will have to con- tact city hall to get on the list providing their address to have it picked up at. The city will not pick up debris at other times except during the spring clean-up time and after severe storms. They will provide an announcement for any other times. Information is available at City Hall and through April 30 is for city residents on- ly. They can clean up their yards and pile the trash at the front of their yard on a city street to have it picked up. They should call the Petersburg City Hall at 354-8511 to schedule pickup by the city Special Ser- vices Department staff. They may also haul their own trash and debris to dump bins at Fourth and Cherry. This is for items cleaned up from the residents yards on- ly. This is not for regular household trash. Residents can pile brush and limbs, up break, the Stellar Grant presentation and picnic, Swing Choir, sports and more! Try it at www.pressdispatch.net/edition. Just click "Subscribe Now" to sign-up for FREE. residents may notify city hall for pickup of debris between April 23 and April 30. The staff may take a couple of days to pick up the items as they also have other work they must complete. Residents may also haul their debris to the containers the city will have April 23 to April 30 at their lot at Fourth and Cher- ry Streets and dump their debris in those containers. Commissioners hear plan for $40 million recycling plant to the Pike County Commissioners for building a $40 million recycling facility in Pike County that would create 250 perma- nent jobs ranging in pay from $12/hour to $100,000/year. The commissioners gave Don Willis a green light to continue pursuing the facili- ty in Pike County along with requesting an additional appropriation of $335,000 to pur- Winslow to have Mushroom Festival from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 21, at Riv- erside Park on the south edge of town. There will be kids' events, wood-carved day featuring one of Pike County's products, mushrooms. The Winslow Mushroom Festival will be There will be a special festival on Satur- mushrooms, concessions and a mushroom contest. Mushroom contestants should sub- mit their entries at the Winslow Market on Main Street in Winslow. Entries can be pho- tos with weights of the mushrooms, or actual mushrooms. The winners will be on display at the festival. Circus Monday in Winslow per and Merriweather Circus to be exact will be at the Winslow Little League park on Mon- day, April 23 for two shows 5 and 7:30 p.m. Ad- vanced ticket shows are available for $9 for adults and $6 for children from ages two to 12. At the door tickets will be $12 and $7. The circus is being sponsored by the Win- The circus is coming to town. The Culpep- By Andy Heuring two years ago. Vinnedge said they will have similar acts, which included clowns, tra- peze, numerous balancing feats, lions and ti- gers. "People really seemed to enjoy it," said Vinnedge of the circus two years ago. He said they have a brand new tent this year. Tickets may be purchased in advance at: slow Lions Club. Tom Vinnedge of the Lions Club said their goal is for all the elementary school children to be able to attend the cir- cus. He said area businesses and individuals have been pre-purchasing tickets and donat- ing them back to the Lions Club to give to children. It is the same circus that was in Winslow The Trading Post, Winslow Market Place, Cir- cle A Convenience Store in Otwell and Ger- man American Banks in Winslow, Otwell and Petersburg or from any Lions Club member in Winslow or Petersburg. People can also call 866-BIG-TOP6 Monday through Friday from 8 to 4 to purchase tickets with a credit card. WHAT'S INSIDE: PUBLISHING PIKE Local ........A1-12 Obituaries ......A3 Sports ........B1-4 and 16th St. Tuesday morning at about 10 a.m. The repairs were not completed until about 4 p.m. However, most customers were not affected by the break. Pike-Gibson also had a waterline break just north of Winslow on Tuesday. Petersburg city worker Darin Cook checks out a waterline break in Petersburg at the intersection of Highway 356 Water line breaks keep repair crews busy at the intersection of Highway 356 and 16th Sts. in Petersburg ruptured, caus- ing the highway to be closed to traffic un- til crews were able to make repairs. City Services Manager Gary McCandless said they were able to close valves in the area and limit the outage. He said repairs took Winslow area had repair crews busy, and left Winslow area water customers with little or no water pressure Tuesday after- noon. However, neither will have to under- go a boil order. At about 10 a.m. a six-inch water main Water line breaks in Petersburg and the By Andy Heuring until about 4 p.m. "It was a big hole in the line. We only had a 12-inch patch available to us today, so I ordered a two-foot patch just in case. I think it will be okay, but I left the hole open tonight. We will check it again tomorrow to see if it is okay, or if we need to put a bigger patch on it," said McCandless. He said they didn't need to impose a boil order. McCandless said the fire department was in the area Monday night turning a hydrant on and off to fill tanker trucks, while fighting a fire. He thought that prob- ably put stress on the line, causing a crack Classifi eds . B12-15 Church .......C1-6 Opinion ..........C2 History ...........C7 NEWS TIPS: Phone: ........................354-8500 Fax: ............................354-2014 E-Mail .editor@pressdispatch.net that broke loose on Tuesday morning. Pike-Gibson also had a water line break just south of Winslow. Kevin Stillwell with Pike-Gibson said the break was along the creek at the bottom of the Winslow Hill just north of Winslow, making it hard to locate. "We just started turning off valves until we were able to locate it," said Still- well. He said they started getting calls com- plaining about low pressure and it took about 30 minutes to find the leak. Once the leak was located they were able to isolate it by turning off valves and connecting with Continued on page 2 CONNECT WITH US: Facebook .... facebook.com/pressdispatch Twitter ......... twitter.com/pressdispatch E-Mail .......... news@pressdispatch.net A Pike County native presented his plans By Andy Heuring chase two ambulances and $750,000 from EDIT funds for paving during the 60-min- ute meeting Monday night. Don Willis, CEO of Green USA Recy- cling, said the 400,000 square foot facili- ty would all be indoors and would accept 750,000 tons of garbage a year, which trans- lates into 2,500 tons a day. He said most of it would come from a 30-mile radius unless there was a large-scale customer that might bring garbage by train to a transfer station. five other facilities around the country, but are now in the process of finding sites and building three. The other two are to be lo- cated in Lee County, Virginia and north- ana because it would recycle 100 percent of the waste stream or nearly 100 percent. He said there are other recycling centers in Indiana, but none that recycle the entire waste stream. Willis said his company plans to build Willis said the facility is unique in Indi- ern Indiana. He said while these facilities are unique to Indiana and much of the Unit- ed States, they are common in Europe and Asia, where there is much less open space available for landfills compared to the Unit- ed States. He said another feature of the recycling center is they can mine landfills that have problems, or need to increase their lifespan and capacity. Commissioner Mark Flint asked Wil- Continued on page 2