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A-2 Front Wednesday, March 2, 2016 The Press-Dispatch OTWELL Continued from page 1 Grand Opening for Cakes & Coffee Café Cakes & Coffee Cafe celebrated their Grand Opening on Saturday, Feb. 27 with a ribbon-cutting cer- emony at 10 a.m. The cafe, owned by Randy and Denise Harris, occupies the former Citizens State Bank building on Main Street in Petersburg. The renovated building is decorated with sports and local memorabilia from around the county. The location is also home to Harris' real estate brokerage business. Participating in the ribbon-cutting are, from left, Chamber of Commerce members Dr. Errin Weisman, Leslie Tegmeyer and Beth Bennett; owners and employees Randy Harris, Jayla Harris, Denise Harris, Jenna Harris, Emily Lee, Cheryl Wiscaver, Carla Martinez, Erica Gaines, Angela Baumgart and BreAnn Lane. WWW.ENGLERTSHOMECOMFORTCENTER.COM HOME COMFORT CENTER 12 MONTH FINANCING See store for details. All sales subject to credit approval. 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BUSINESS Recognition Banquet PIKE COUNTY When: ursday, April 7, 2016 Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Location: IP&L Event Center Cost: $10 per person (Includes meal catered by Log Ends Bed & Breakfast) 2016 BUSINESS RECOGNITION AWARDS • Pike County Footprint Award___ Most notable investment in their physical work envi- ronment • Why Didn't I ink of at… Award___ Business with the best local marketing strategy. • Pencil Sharpener Award___ Best creative, cost cutting, or improvement process. • inking Outside the X-Box Award___ Best youth business engagement. • February 29th Award___ For the business that made the biggest leap forward this year. • Golden Tractor Award___ Community focused farm or agribusiness of the year. • Most Totally Awesome Place to Work Award___ Nominated by employees of the best business to work for. is event is to celebrate the dedication and perseverance of businesses in Pike County! Nominate your favorite business to receive a Business Recognition Award. Get your ticket and nomination form today by contacting Ashley at pikegrowth@frontier.com or Leslie at chamber@frontier.com. ing? " asked Catt. She said there had already been in- stances of kids playing on basketball teams being told they weren't wanted. "We have not heard of that. It is going to happen, but bullying is not tolerat- ed," said Blake. She added school officials have to know about it before they can do anything about it. Amber McDonald asked if Otwell kids were going to be given an open house or similar opportunities to go to the new schools just to see the school and reduce their anxiety. Blake said the schools were planning open hous- es, probably in late July. She said at that time they would know to which class students would be assigned. McDonald asked if it could be done before the summer break. Blake said she thought that was a good idea and they would just need to work out the scheduling for it. Winslow and Petersburg Elementary School princi- pals Rich Luker and Rick King told those in atten- dance they were welcome to bring their kids to the school and take a tour. "I just ask you don't do it during ISTEP testing," requested Luker. Following a question about the number of stu- dents going to each school, Blake told the group there would be more students go- ing to Petersburg rather than Winslow. She said Pe- tersburg was larger, with three rooms in each grade, while Winslow had two classrooms in each grade. She explained Petersburg was larger and able to ab- sorb more students. Blake also said Otwell would be able to keep the Buffalo that is out in front of the school. She said for- mer Otwell principal Tina Weisman is looking for an appropriate place to put the Buffalo. In addition, Blake ad- dressed the staff reductions caused by closing Otwell. She said all of the reduc- tions are not going to come from the Otwell school. "The thought that teachers we would let go would all be from Otwell, that will not be the case." Blake explained the school corporation is re- quired by law to reduce the staff, starting with proba- tionary teachers. A proba- tionary teacher is a teach- er with less than two years of experience. Then they moved to the next catego- ry of professional, which is a teacher who had received three evaluations of effec- tive or better in the last five years. "We have a process we have to look at closely. We have to follow it to relay any staff members," said Blake. "I can't tell you who your child's teacher is going to be yet." She said they are required to notify teachers between May and July if they are going to released. Howev- er, she said they hope to be able to notify teachers earli- er than that so those teach- ers can start the process of finding other jobs earlier. Following the meeting, Burkhart and Catt both said they didn't feel much bet- ter about the school clos- ing and their children hav- ing to change schools. "I'm still pretty skeptical. It just seems like they aren't going to get the class size they are saying," said Burkhart. "I feel like we are being punished. They bought a school a bunch of Chrome- books and they can't keep this school open," said Catt. C-SECTION Continued from page 1 a specific church in the sev- eral pages of church notes. The deadline for church notes will remain 10 a.m. Tuesday morning. School news will also be located in C-Section. Each of the five schools in Pike County, Pike Central High School, Pike Central Mid- dle School, Otwell, Peters- burg and Winslow Elemen- tary Schools will have a sep- arate area in the C-Section for news about that school or its students and activities. "We hope these sections will make our readers' ex- periences more enjoyable," said Production Manager Eric Gogel, who designed the changes. Area civic organizations are starting to schedule their Easter Egg hunts for this year. The first one will be in Winslow on Saturday, March 12 at the Winslow Lit- tle League Park. The House of Mercy is sponsoring this community-wide event. It begins at 10 a.m. and will continue until noon. The following Saturday, March 19, the Union Com- munity Church will host an Easter Egg Hunt at 2 p.m. EDT for infants to age 12. It is located on Highway 65, about 10 miles west of Pe- tersburg. They will have a grand prize drawing follow- ing the hunt to give away a bicycle. There will also be free hot dogs, chips and drinks. The hunt will be rain or shine. If you have an Easter Egg Hunt open to the public, let us know about it at 812-354- 8500 or news@pressdis- patch.net. Area Easter egg hunts scheduled The Lenten Breakfast se- ries continues this week at St. Peter and Paul for the men and the Gospel Cen- ter for the women. The seg- regated breakfasts for men and women are each Sat- urday during Lent. They start at 8 a.m., with break- fast being served by the host church. Breakfast is followed by a 15 -minute devotional, usually led by a lay person from the host church. Proceeds from the breakfast go toward the Sam Taylor College fund to pro- vide grants to college-bound seniors of Petersburg Min- isterial Alliance member churches. The men's schedule is: March 5 at Sts. Peter and Paul; March 12 at First Bap- tist Church; and March 19 at First United Methodist Church. The women's schedule is: March 5 at Gospel Cen- ter; March 12 at Sts. Peter and Paul; March 19 at Free Methodist Church. Lenten breakfasts continue Saturday morning grams, a class 2 felony and possession of more than 10 grams, a class 3 felony. A class 2 felony is pun- ishable by 10 to 30 years in prison and a class 3 felony is punishable by three to 16 years in prison. "That is a lot of meth," said Pike County Sheriff Jer- emy Britton. "It seems we are starting to see a pick-up in meth and see larger amounts of meth recently," said Sheriff Brit- ton. McDonald said he doesn't remember seeing that much meth in one arrest. "The most I ever remember was 168 grams. I think that was back in 2003. A big amount here is five grams. The big- gest we might see is 20 to 30 grams and that would be a big cook," said McDonald. But McDonald said typi- cally in the past, police most- ly saw locally manufactured meth from "one pot" manu- facturing or "Nazi" meth. He said these large amounts of meth are crys- tal meth that is manufac- tured outside of this area and brought into the area. He said it is a concern that it is being brought into the area. Another worry about the crystal meth is local of- ficials fear it is being cut by bath salts, which is said to cause hallucinations. Typically people on meth don't have hallucinations, but McDonald said they are getting reports of people having hallucinations. NOWARK, HOBBS ARRESTED ON DEALING CHARGES Thomas Nowark, 39, of 4645 E. Private Road 490 S, Winslow was arrested on charges of dealing in meth- amphetamine; and posses- sion of methamphetamine, more than five grams, but less than 10 grams, both charges are level 5 felonies. Shelia Annette Hobbs, 38, of 2 W. 16th St., Vincennes was arrested on charges of possession of meth and con- spiracy to deal in metham- phetamine. Both were arrested by Pike County Deputy Sheriff Dallas Killian late Saturday night after Killian arranged for an undercover agent to make a purchase of meth from Nowark. Deputy Killian's report states the agent met Nowark who was in a vehicle being driven by Hobbs in a parking lot near the Winslow Eagles. The agent used $150 in bills with the serial numbers re- corded to purchase meth in two small corners of a plas- tic bag. Deputy Killian stated in his report the agent told him Nowark and Hobbs had more meth in their vehicle. Killian said Pike County Deputy Mike Willis stopped Hobbs and Nowark at the Winslow Liquor Store and during a search of their ve- hicle and found a digital scale behind the passenger seat and a black contain- er with about 1.9 grams of meth on Hobbs. Killian's re- port states they found the $150 of recorded serial num- bers used by the undercover agent and an additional $218 in cash. Both were taken into cus- tody. GREGORYS ARRESTED ON METH CHARGES A Winslow couple was arrested on meth and oth- er drug-related charges af- ter police stopped to check on them early Sunday morn- ing because their car was parked in the middle of Cen- ter St. in Winslow. James M Gregory, 46, of 113 E. Center St., Winslow was arrested on charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, possession of meth at least five grams, but less than 10 grams, pos- session of paraphernalia and possession of marijuana. Jessica Ann Gregory, 34, of the same address was ar- rested on charges of pos- session of meth at least five grams, but less than 10 grams; possession of mari- juana, and possession of par- aphernalia. According to the Indiana State Police, Trooper Hunt- er Manning found a 1999 Mercury parked in the mid- dle of Center St. near Wal- nut St. in Winslow at about 3 a.m. James Gregory was the driver of the vehicle and his wife was a passenger. During a search of the vehicle, Trooper Manning found methamphetamine, marijuana and parapherna- lia. Gregory refused to sub- mit to a chemical test, which is an automatic offense. SLAVEN ARRESTED ON METH CHARGE A Petersburg woman was arrested late Friday night for possession of meth and pos- session of paraphernalia af- ter police stopped her for not having a rear view mirror. Sarah Jeree Slaven, 20, of 609 N. Fifth St., Petersburg was arrested by Petersburg Police Cpl. Jared Simmons. He said he saw a Pontiac Grand Prix pull out of Ca- seys and go south on High- way 57 and it was missing a rear view mirror. Cpl. Sim- mons stopped the vehicle at Mi Patio parking lot. Slaven was driving the ve- hicle and had three passen- gers, Felicia Vickers, 24, Sarah Morton 24, and a fe- male juvenile. Deputy Sheriff Dallas Killian assisted Simmons. According to Simmons' re- port, while he was getting li- cense information over his police radio, Deputy Killian noticed rear seat passenger Felicia Vickers put some- thing in her pants. He said when he ran information on Vickers, he found she was wanted on a warrant from Dubois County. Killian was told by one of Slaven's passengers that Slaven had put meth into her bra while she was being pulled over. According to Simmons, when he asked Slaven about the meth she said she did have it in her bra, but she had flushed it earlier. A search of the vehicle located a glass pipe with a white powdery substance in it that field-tested posi- tive for meth. Slaven claimed it didn't belong to her. Simmons said after he transported Slaven to the Pike County Jail, he found a cigarette box in the seat of his patrol car. It contained two pieces of foil and a sub- stance that looked like crys- tal meth. He said when he confront- ed Slaven about it she said she put it in his seat, but it wasn't hers. METH BUST Continued from page 1