The Press-Dispatch
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A-2 Front Wednesday, May 10, 2017 The Press-Dispatch WINSLOW Continued from page 1 COUNCIL Continued from page 1 Marge's Shop 716 Main St. 812-354-9372 Petersburg Mother's Day Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 9-5; Fri. 9-6; Sat. 9-6 Make Melt Mom's heart with New Arrivals from Other great gifts for Mom Precious Moments • Willow Tree • Lib's Candy • Key Finders • Stepping Stones • Music Boxes • Scarves • Jewelry • Mother's Day Gift Ideas • Woodwick Candles • Ty Plush • Jim Shore Collectibles DON'T FORGET YOUR GRADUATE! Gift Items, Party Goods, Guest Books and Invitations Mom's Day PCHS Graduation is Friday, May 26 Willow Tree • Patience STENDAL PARADE SESQUICENTENNIAL Saturday, June 10 3pm (EDT) CELEBRATING 150 YEARS Line up will be at the intersection of Hwy. 257 and county road 775 E. Everyone should be in line by 2:30 p.m. Organization/Individual Name: Contact Name: Phone Number: Brief Description of Entry: Float Antique Vehicle Marching Unit Horses or Mules Emergency & Fire Other Please return by June 1, 2017 to Max Carlisle: 7831 E. State Rd. 64, Velpen, IN 47590 Call/Text: Max 812-455-0345 or Beth Goeppner 812-631-1815 Entries will be taken the day of the parade but will be placed at the end, also please have respectful and well maintained entries. anks A waiver of Liability will need to be signed upon arrival the day of the parade. 201 S. 7th St., Petersburg HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 9am-5pm, Sat. 9am-Noon HOURS: Mon.-Sat. 10am-5pm or by appoinment 1853 N. SR 57, Willisville 812-354-8793 812-582-0905 Spoil Mom! New Jewelry Line We do custom orders! Show her you care this year with a gi from the Ole Flower Shoppe and Mary L&R Floral Design. Candleberry Candles, Mylar Balloons, Fresh Flower Arrangements and raise cain with Beth or Mara. It doesn't work that way. It is ridiculous the abuse Myra (Bolin) and Beth (Bennett) take." They are the Clerk-Treasurer and Deputy Clerk-Treasurer. Brewster continued, "We have $ 667,000 we still owe and $213,000 of it is on our water plant that is old and dysfunctional," and now of- ficially closed. He said even though they no longer will be using the water plant, they will still be paying on it for several years. "That gets hard to pay that and pay the payroll, when you have about 25 per- cent of delinquency." Brewster said it often is the same people every month who are delinquent. He said some people are on limited income and it is dif- ficult for them. "You aren't doing anyone any good, you are doing them an injustice by giving them another month," said Brewster. "The reason we are do- ing what we have done is we have come to a block wall. We could have passed it down the road to the next guys. I know I'm not going to be here the next time," said Brewster. Clerk-Treasurer Bennett said last month they had 23 delinquent water custom- ers and all of them were giv- en shutoff notices and their water was shutoff. She said all but one came in by the next day and paid the fees and bills to get water turned back on. Part of the equation of Winslow's water, now that they shutdown the plant, is to purchase water from Pike-Gibson Water Corpo- ration. "Well, we don't' really have a contract on that yet," said Councilman Simmons. "We are working on it," said Strobel. Simmons explained the price would be the same as Pike-Gibson charges all towns that use their water. "We haven't gotten to- gether and thrashed that out with the attorneys yet.. Spurgeon and any town that contract water with them has the same price." Simmons moved to ap- prove a contract with Pike- Gibson. Brewster said, "I will sec- ond it, but I really question whether or not to when have we don't have a contract in hand." He then added he would go ahead and vote on it. "If we are wrong, someone will tell us," said Brewster. Council tables ATV ordinance Councilmen decided to ta- ble an ordinance that would allow AT Vs to be operated on town streets. "It is my understanding whatever we come up with, state law overrides it. A state cop will come in and say it isn't state law," said Council- man Simmons. "I have talked to a state cop. Steve (English) and I read the AT V law and phamplets. Every time I get to where I think I under- stand it, someone throws us a curveball," said Brewster. Brewster said he wasn't against legalizing AT Vs in town. He just didn't want to pass an ordinance mak- ing people think they could ride them on city streets and then they get arrested for it. Town Marshal Steve Eng- lish urged the council to "Just leave it alone." English said he knew who was riding safely in town and who was acting up on their AT Vs. Councilmen eventually decided they needed to do more research on the mat- ter and tabled it. In other business, Street Supervisor David Gayhart told the council he, Steve Nelson and Randy Bolin had picked up about 20 loads of trash and hauled it to the landfill. Dee Warner complained the crews didn't pick up her trash. Gayhart said his crew went by her house three times and did not see it. He said the town had clearly told people they needed to put trash out on the street side. Warner complained she saw workers go into a town employee's yard and get trash for them. Gayhart said they worked two full days in the rain pick- ing up people's trash just a day after having to sandbag the sewer lift stations and other buildings near Collins and Walnut streets. "I'm sor- ry if we didn't get everyone's trash, but we worked two full days and hauled about 20 loads of trash." He told the council he was going to store the sandbags they have in a building in case they needed them in the future. Tony Williams warned Gayhart against doing that. "You don't want to do that." Williams said he tried to store sandbags after they had been used while he was in the National Guard. "A f- ter about four to six months, once they have been wet, the bags will deteriorate. You will have a big mess." Williams said if the bags are dry, it isn't a problem, but when they have been in water, they will eventually be a problem. "I'm glad you told me that. I don't want to shovel them all out of the building. That would be a lot of work," said Gayhart. It was suggested the sand used it if they have slick roads this winter. The next meeting is 7 p.m. Monday, June 12 in the Com- munity Center. The only town in Amer- ica named Stendal is cel- ebrating its 150 -year her- itage with a gathering of high school alumni, a Tin Fest car show, a flyover, a parade, musical performanc- es, a quilt raffle, a silent auc- tion and fireworks on June 9 and 10. Located in southeastern Pike County, along Old State Road 64 at the terminus of Hwy. 257, this little village once included several phy- sicians, a shoe shop, two blacksmith shops, a hard- ware and tin shop, a furni- ture store and hotel, a gro- cery and dry goods store, cream stations, canning fac- tories and a millinery store. Plotted in 1867 by Mr. Fred- erick Poetker and adjoining land donated by Reverend William Bauermeister to the German Lutherans for their church, it was named Sten- dal in honor of Bauermeis- ter's hometown in Saxony, Germany. Stendal's most famous son, Rupert Vance Hartke, went on to serve in the U.S. Senate. It also was the childhood home of NBA star Don Buse, who played for the Phoenix Suns and In- diana Pacers. Sponsored by Lockhart Township Community Club, the celebration begins with an opening ceremony Fri- day evening at 6 p.m. EDT, including a patriotic medley performed by Pike Central High School Swing Choir, John Kendall singing "Back Home Again in Indiana," and Cory Goeppner singing "I'm Proud to be an Amer- ican." The Iron Mountain band will perform on stage from 7 until 10 p.m. Food booths, St. Peter's Luther- an Church Women's Coun- try Store, quilt raffle, and silent auction will open at 5 p.m. Festivities continue at 9 a.m. Saturday with food booths and a Country Store, Tin Fest car show, children's games and a kiddie tractor pull sponsored by Pike Cen- tral FFA. The Stendal High School alumni reunion will include a cake and punch re- ception from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., during which histori- cal photos and artifacts will be on display in the Commu- nity Center. At noon, Jennifer Kline, of Huntingburg, will sing the National Anthem, and Lin- coln Hills Aero will conduct a flyover. The parade begins at 3 p.m. Pork chop dinners will be served in the Commu- nity Center beginning at 6 p.m., while Tony Rothrock performs a variety of coun- try, bluegrass and gospel music. Nashville record- ing artist Payton Lynn, 17, will perform country rock beginning at 7:30 p.m. un- til the celebration closes at 9 p.m. with a fireworks dis- play sponsored by Warex. For more information, call Ann and Leo Oxley at 812-489 -1228 or check out Stendal Sesquicentennial on Facebook and Instagram. Stendal sesquicentennial set for June 9-10 Dees escapes injury in Saturday crash Emergency personnel help Amos Dees, 72, up a steep embankment Saturday after- noon following a crash. Dees was driving west on Highway 64 about a half mile west of Highway 61, when he ran off the right side of the road, which was soft due to all the rain. He went down a steep embankment into a small wooded area covered with vines at about 12:30 p.m. Pike Dees was uninjured, but crews had to cut down a clump of trees to get his car door open. while bigger counties have a tech person. Commissioner Assistant Kristi Dischinger said she was talking to a technolo- gy company representative. She said he was taken aback that Pike County has de- partment heads doing their technology purchasing. She said he told her most coun- ties have a tech person do- ing the purchasing. "I'm wondering if you had a full-time person, if they would save enough on pur- chases that it wouldn't help pay for them. Councilmen approved the Sheriff's Department request for an additional ap- propriation of $ 9,220 to pur- chase a new water soften- er system in the jail. Sher- iff Britton said rebuilding their current one was more expensive than purchasing a new one. He also request- ed a $ 3,500 additional ap- propriation to help pay for medical expenses. Britton said some of their expenses will be reimbursed, but they had a couple of inmates who needed surgery. In other business, former county council member Kel- ly Atkins, a supervisor for the Pike County Soil and Water District, asked coun- cilmen to consider increas- ing the salary of their em- ployee Erica Burkemper to that of a courthouse deputy. Atkins said there was about a $5,000 difference between her salary and what a deputy in the courthouse makes. He said she does similar work, does a great job and has eight years experience, but still makes less than a first- year deputy. Council Presi- dent Greg Willis said in the last few years the council had increased what they pay to the Soil and Water Dis- trict by about 410 percent. Councilmen said they couldn't act on anything un- til it was sent to them by the county commissioners. At- kins said he was going to talk to the commissioners on Monday in their meeting. He asked if there was in- terest in his request. Councilman Max Elliott said he wasn't opposed to the increase, but thought it should be considered during their budget hearing for the 2018 budget. Councilmen also ap- proved transfers of $2,500 to campsite improvements and $7,500 to electrical ex- pansion and repairs. Both amounts were taken from Buildings and Structure Repair. Dave Elgin said both were to cover expenses in adding 22 new campsites to Prides Creek Park. The next county council meeting is scheduled for 8:30 a.m Tuesday, June 13 in the courthouse auditorium.