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Retail food estab- lishments are allowed 10 days to respond and/or cor- rect violations, with rein- spections completed at the discretion of the Food San- itarian. Complaint inspections: McDonald's – 101 W Pike Ave, Petersburg, IN 47567 1 Critical violation: Un- dated ready-to-eat foods in undercounter cooler (cor- rected/disposed) 16 Non-critical violations: Trash receptacles full/bags on floor; trash containers heavily soiled; food debris & grease build-up on floor; warewashing sinks not used exclusively for washing food contact equipment; ware- washing sinks in need of cleaning/sanitizing; open containers of used grease in kitchen (corrected); im- proper storage of brooms and mops; improper stor- age of single serve supplies (corrected); single serve supplies not protected from pests; dumpsters lack lids; buckets of soiled wiping cloths in need of laundering (corrected); broken tiles throughout kitchen; seals of wall coolers in need of repair/replacement; seal of toilet in women's restroom in need of repair; latches of walk-in cooler and freezer in need of repair/replacement; floor of walk-in cooler heav- ily soiled Pre-Operational inspec- tion: Cakes & Coffee Café – 618 E Main, Petersburg, IN 47567 1 Non-critical violations: Thermometers not provid- ed in all coolers and freezer. Routine inspections: CVS – 200 W Main, Pe- tersburg, IN 47567 1 Non-critical violation: Improper storage of chem- icals (corrected) Dollar General – 245 W Main, Petersburg, IN 47567 1 Critical violation: Mop sink lacks check valve 2 Non-critical violations: Exterior door seals in need of maintenance/repair; bot- tom of cooler soiled Joe Mama's – 350 W Main, Petersburg, IN 47567 2 Critical violations: Un- dated foods in cooler (cor- rected/disposed); outdated ready-to-eat foods (correct- ed/disposed) 4 Non-critical violations: Gap in threshold of exteri- or door; improper storage of mops and brooms; freez- er in need of defrosting; un- labeled working containers (corrected) Country Junction – 1651 E SR 64, Winslow, IN 47598 2 Critical violations: Un- labeled chemical (correct- ed); handwashing sink not in service 5 Non-critical violations: Food handlers not wear- ing hair restraints; improp- er storage of brooms and mops; chest freezer in need of maintenance; exterior door seals in need of repair/ replacement; dumpster full/ unable to close Petersburg Elementary – 1415 E Alford, Petersburg, IN 47567 1 Critical violation: (1) outdated RTE food (correct- ed/disposed) Winslow Elementary – 301 E Porter, Winslow, IN 47598 1 Non-critical violation: Improper storage of first aid supplies (corrected) Follow-up inspections: Cakes & Coffee Café – 618 E Main, Petersburg, IN 47567 ( Violation cited at Pre-op inspection was corrected.) In a previous career, I used to drive out into the desert near the California- Nevada border to work. I was an EMT at a large ho- tel-casino complex along In- terstate 15. On the morning of May 25, 1997, I arrived to find crime-scene tape and a guard posted at the en- trance to the downstairs la- dies' room. Co-workers told me there was a dead body in- side, a murder victim. She was Sherrice "Sher- ry" Iverson, of Los Ange- les. Her killer was 18 -year- old Jeremy Strohmeyer, an adopted child in a prosper- ous, well-respected Long Beach family. At the time of the killing, Jeremy's biolog- ical father was in prison and his biological mother was in a mental hospital. He was a pornography ad- dict, and he wrote in an In- ternet chat room of his vi- olent sexual fantasies. His adoptive parents had no idea. Jeremy traveled to our ho- tel-casino from Long Beach with his friend, David Cash, 17. David's dad drove. You have to be 21 to gamble in Nevada, so Jeremy and Da- vid went downstairs to the arcade. When Sherry went in- to the downstairs ladies' room, Jeremy followed. He walked out 25 minutes later. We know that, because Ne- vada casinos are brimming with surveillance cameras. But most are unmonitored, so they're more useful for finding out what happened than preventing it. David entered the ladies room, too. He was there long enough to witness his friend forcing Sherry into a stall. When he looked in from an adjacent stall, he saw Jere- my holding one hand over her mouth, and fondling her with his other hand. Then David left the la- dies' room, without inter- vening and without report- ing it to anybody. Jeremy raped Sherry, and strangled her to stifle her screams. As he was leaving, he saw her move, so he returned to snap her neck. Twenty min- utes after David left the la- dies' room, Jeremy rejoined him and told him he'd killed Sherry. The housekeeper found her stuffed between the com- mode and the wall around 5 a.m. As an EMT, I treated the house- keeper sev- eral times over the next few years for panic at- tacks. The EMT they called to the scene was a tough guy, but the Sher- ry Iverson case landed him in psychotherapy. It took police three days to identify and arrest Jeremy in California. His friend David told police he didn't report it because it was "none of my business." During those three days, Jeremy and Da- vid boasted about the crime to young California friends, who also declined to assist the police investigation. Jeremy was eventually convicted of multiple charg- es and sentenced to four life terms. David was nev- er charged with anything. In fact, he was admitted to Berkeley as an engineering major and is probably hav- ing a very nice career right now. Much of the early media coverage focused on Sher- ry's 14-year-old brother, Harold. Their father, Leroy, who was preoccupied with slot machines upstairs, told Harold to watch after Sher- ry. But Harold didn't want to watch after his sister any more than his dad did. Sher- rice Iverson was no fun, you see, because she was a sec- ond-grader, just seven years old. And sometimes, boring your protectors can be fatal. Are we bored with pro- tecting girls and women in America? I remember when we in- tegrated men and women within Army units. Anybody who's served an enlistment knows that you have almost zero privacy, and that you're often at the mercy of your superiors. That's especially true in basic training, when my particular military ser- vice has a program of "total control." It was an obvious recipe for sexual disaster. And yet Senators were shocked – SHOCKED, I tell you! – at the ensuing epi- demic of sexual harassment and sexual assault in the sexually integrated units. Is anybody really that naive? It was entirely predictable. Now we're told with a straight face that it's narrow-mind- ed, even bigoted, to suggest that giving men free access to ladies' restrooms will pose a men- ace to the girls and women they follow, or for whom they wait inside. The re- al issue, we're ha- rangued, is the autonomy of so-called transgenders, not preventable sexual crimes against girls and women. Under the Target Store policy, and under the Char- lotte, N.C. municipal ordi- nance, we would have had no right to challenge Jeremy Strohmeyer or David Cash for entering the ladies' room in 1997. That would have been harassment. Do we think we've ex- hausted our supply of Jer- emy Strohmeyers? Do we think the coast is clear? When men with bad in- tentions can enter ladies' restrooms unchallenged and unrestrained by pro- tective men, when women are stripped of their right to object to male intrusion, women and girls will be menaced and subjected to voyeurism. Even if they're not physically assaulted, they'll be deprived of their peace of mind at their most private moments in what used to be the most private place. And some will be as- saulted. There's nothing noble about that. The U.S. Jus- tice Department's rampage against conventional sexu- al privacy is reckless and ty- rannical. The complicity of PayPal, Deutschebank, the The Resurgent Library Putting women in harm's way NBA, NFL and the NCA A should never be forgotten. But what about us? If we avert our eyes and shrink from this unpleasant show- down, what might Sherry Iverson recognize in us? Are we, like her dad, pater- nal fakes who have aban- doned our protective role? Or eternal adolescents like her brother, too preoccu- pied with socializing and en- tertainment to grow up and watch out for the vulnerable and the innocent? Or maybe we're like David Cash, utter- ly and rigorously indifferent to good and evil. Sherry would be 26 now. If she's looking down on the restroom controversy, what does she see? Unfortunate- ly, I think she might recog- nize a Jeremy Strohmeyer here and there. But David Cash? Thy name is legion.

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