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ASK ABOUT $250 REBATE 5 p.m. Food Stands Open 6 p.m. Opening Ceremony 7 p.m. Country Music (Iron Mountain Band) AUGUST 4-5 Chicken Dinners Friday Night Only Homemade Pie Soft Drinks Lemonade Sandwiches Elephant Toes NO RAFFLES OR ALCOHOL ON GROUNDS FLOWER, PRODUCE & QUILT SHOW Southern Indiana WIFFLEBALL CLASSIC Begins Friday, after opening ceremony CONTINUES all day Saturday 45 TH ANNUAL on Old State Road 64 between Holland (Hwy 161) and Stendal GREAT FOOD! FRIDAY SATURDAY ZOAR MOSQUITO FEST All Day Food Stands Open 6:30 a.m. Breakfast in the Tent TBA Cornhole Tourney 1:00 p.m. Stationary Parade 2:00 p.m. Games 4:00 p.m. Kids' Pedal Tractor Pull 5:00 p.m. Hula Hoop Contest 6:30 p.m. Gospel Concert Judith Montgomery & Family Nail Print FLEA MARKET & COKE PITCH COUNTRY STORE ARTS & CRAFTS DEMONSTRATIONS HELD FRIDAY & SATURDAY IN THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE IN THE CHURCH BASEMENT ON SATURDAY THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND Homemade Ice Cream 14 Flavors 812-309-0146 A Decker teen was se- riously injured in an AT V crash near Union last Fri- day evening. Jody Schatz, 19, was rid- ing a Honda AT V on CR 825 W., attempting to cross State Road 65, when he was struck by a Honda passen- ger car traveling west on 65. Schatz was ejected from his AT V and thrown into the Honda passenger car's wind- shield. Jonathon Harper, 29, of Petersburg, was traveling west on State Road 65 with a juvenile in the front pas- senger seat. Harper was un- able to avoid a collision with Schatz's AT V. Schatz was taken by air ambulance to Deacon- ess Hospital in Evansville, where he was treated for multiple lacerations and head trauma. Harper's juvenile passen- ger was transported to Gib- son General Hospital with minor injuries. The accident occurred at about 5:50 p.m. Indiana Conservation Officer Ken- ny Tincher was the lead in- vestigator. He was assisted by the Pike County Sheriff's Department, Indiana State Police, Petersburg Police, Pike EMS, Union Fire and Deaconess Air-Evac. Schatz was not wearing a helmet or protective equip- ment, which conservation officers strongly encourage while operating ORVs. REGISTER Continued from page 1 purchase during registra- tion hours. Registration will be at Pike Central Middle School on Wednesday, Aug. 2, from 8 a.m. to noon; on Thursday, Aug. 3, from noon to 6 p.m.; and on Monday, Aug. 7, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Registration will be held at Petersburg and Win- slow elementary schools on Thursday, Aug. 3, from noon to 7 p.m.; on Friday, Aug. 4, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.; and on Monday, Aug. 7, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. By Andy Heuring The sentence of Bri- an Paquette may be decid- ed by the Indiana Supreme Court. Paquette, who killed three people in a crash on I-69 when he was high on methamphetamine and flee- ing police, was sentenced to 50.5 years after pleading guilty in Pike Circuit Court. He pleaded guilty to resist- ing law enforcement, operat- ing a vehicle while intoxicat- ed causing serious bodily in- jury and operating while in- toxicated causing death. He was sentenced to 16 years on each count of the resisting law enforcement charges. Paquette appealed the sentence claiming he should only have been sentenced to one count of resisting. The appellate court ruled resist- ing law enforcement result- ing in a death was a crime against law enforcement. Consequently, even though three people were killed in two collisions, it was one crime. The court cited that since the state legislature did not spell out a provision for multiple charges to be added in the case of multiple injuries or deaths, the court was not going to add them. However, the Indiana At- torney General has reviewed the ruling and decided to contest the appellate court finding and request that the Indiana Supreme Court take a look at it. "The way it has been ex- plained is, it could be a few weeks or it could be end of the year before we hear from the Indiana Supreme Court if they will hear it," said Pike County Prosecutor Darrin McDonald. "If they (Indiana Supreme Court) reject it, they will certify the appeals opinion to Pike Circuit Court," said McDonald. He said if that happened, then Pike Circuit Court will be ordered to set a hearing date and re-sen- tence Paquette. Indiana's Deputy Attor- ney General Tyler Banks ar- gued in a brief to the Indiana Supreme Court that the ap- pellate court erred by rely- ing on a similar case, titled Armstead, in their finding. Banks said Armstead dealt with a person fleeing police on foot and forcibly resisting law enforcement through an on-the-ground, physical fight with officers. Banks claimed, "Armstead's physi- cal struggle against officers was unlikely to reach mem- bers of the public, whereas Paquette's act of fleeing po- lice in a vehicle undoubted- ly increases the odds that an average citizen will un- wittingly become a victim. The legislature recognized this when making resisting law enforcement in a man- ner causing death an inde- pendent crime, rather than having death as a mere en- hancing circumstance." He continued, "There is no reason to believe that the legislature intended for only one conviction to re- sult when a potential offend- er leads an armada of police vehicles on a high-speed chase that causes harm to anyone, let alone the inno- cent people that Paquette killed here. The recusion of many convictions to one merely because the human beings resisted wore badges words a degradation of law enforcement and encourag- es suspects to resist." "In this instance, the lan- guage and structure of the resisting law enforcement statue shows that the leg- islature intended multiple convictions when multiple deaths result." Banks cited a second- case concluding, "The in- tent of the legislature is that when a person uses a vehi- cle to resist law enforcement and drives in a manner that causes death, each death constitutes its own crime and the statue is suscepti- ble to multiple applications based on a single act, killing multiple people." Banks also stated resist- ing law enforcement convic- tions are more than offens- es against lawful authority. Banks said in a similar case the court held that two con- victions were affirmed un- der the actual evidence test. This statement endorses the idea that resisting as a felony is a separate crime for each party injured. Jason Lowe, Stephanie Molinet and Autumn Kap- perman, and Kapperman's unborn child, were killed in the accident on February 12, 2016. Lowe's wife, Saman- tha, were seriously injured. Paquette told police he was high on meth and thought he was being chased by farmers. Decker teen injured when ATV collides with car Indiana Supreme Court may hear Paquette sentence FEST Continued from page 1 the homemade ice cream and elephant ear stand. SATURDAY Saturday begins early with a 6:30 a.m. breakfast. The flower, quilt and pro- duce shows will accept en- tries from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, with judging to follow. The Stationary Parade is set for 1 p.m., with the kids' games (sack races, balloon toss, egg toss, three-legged races) starting at 2 p.m. A kids' pedal tractor pull is set for 4 p.m., with the hu- la hoop contest at 5 p.m. A Gospel Sing featuring Judith Montgomery and family, from Shoals, and Nailprint, of Newburgh, be- gins at 6:30 p.m. By James Capozella Pike County Chief Depu- ty Kent Johnson, respond- ing to a request from Bren- da Hamm at the Probation Office in the Pike County Court House, arrested Jer- emy McCandless for Public Intoxication (IC 7.1-5 -13) af- ter determining he was un- der the influence of metham- phetamine and a danger to himself and others, accord- ing to the report. Johnson's investigation began after McCandless told Hamm, Kyler Henry and Pike Prosecutor Dar- rin McDonald that he had used drugs while in the Pike County Security Center. Johnson administered four field sobriety tests af- ter McCandless stated he had used Percocet and mar- ijuana while in the security center. McCandless failed three of the four tests and indica- tors suggested he was un- der the influence of metham- phetamine. A urine screen showed he was positive for methamphetamine and Mc- Candless then stated to Ky- ler Henry he had used meth "a while ago," according to the report. McCandless was asked who supplied the drugs he used in jail but he refused to provide a name, stating he "wasn't like that." By James Capozella Last Saturday afternoon, Pike County Central Dis- patch received a call from Richard A. Woolsey, of 3851 S. CR 50 E., that his grand- daughter, Natisha Brown, and her boyfriend, David Lee Nall, of the same ad- dress, had a physical fight. Pike County Sheriff Dep- uty Michael Willis respond- ed initially to the call and spoke with Mr. Woolsey and Brown. Nall had already left and was walking toward Winslow. Deputy Willis was told by Brown that Nall had kicked the T V, threw a milk jug through the front win- dow and struck her in the back of the head. She said it was painful to touch and the altercation was done while in the presence of a newborn and a 13-month-old, accord- ing to Deputy Willis. Petersburg Corporal Scott Wright was assisting Deputy Michael Willis and located Nall at Factory and Third streets in Winslow shortly after the call. Nall was then read his Miranda rights and agreed to speak to officers. He told Willis and Wright approximately the same sto- ry his girlfriend told them about the incident, accord- ing to the report. At approximately 1:59 p.m., Nall was taken into custody for domestic bat- tery with children present and was transported to the Pike County Sheriff's Of- fice. Child Protective Servic- es was also notified of the in- cident for follow-up. McCandless arrested at courthouse Nall arrested for domestic violence Emergency personnel work with Jody Schatz, 19, who suffered head and other injuries when he rode in front of an oncoming car Friday night. Otwell Miller Academy announced Tuesday they would be delaying the start of school until Monday, Au- gust 14. A news release from the Academy states: "In order to give our builders as much time as possible without im- pacting the school calen- dar too much, the first day of school for Otwell Miller Academy has been moved to Monday, August 14." It continues, "We have de- veloped two bus routes for OMA students who have completed their registration with the school. The school will email the parents of reg- istered students with teach- ers' and bus drivers' name by Friday. If you do not re- ceive an email by Monday, contact OtwellMillerAcade- my@gmail.com." Lunch will not be provid- ed by the school until Oct. 1. All students should bring a sack lunch until then. Otwell school delayed; bus routes developed