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Celebrate Recovery Program – Meets every Sun- day night from 5 to 7 p.m. at 207 Lafayette St. in Win- slow. For more information, call Krystal Breeding 812- 582-2562. Winslow Alcohol Anonymous – will meet every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Call 812-789 -8535 for location of the meeting. Narcotic Anonymous – Every Monday at 7 p.m. at River of Life Fellowship Church. For more informa- tion, contact 812-380 -1395. Pike County Moms Group – Pike County Moms Group meets every first and third Thursday of the month at Otwell United Methodist Church. Children are welcome. For more information, visit their Face- book page at Pike County (Indiana) Moms Group. Online American Heart Association E-Learn- ing–Four out of five cardiac arrests happen at home. Are you prepared with CPR if a loved one suffers a cardiac emergency? The American Heart Association is making CPR training more accessible by offering blended learning, an online training tool! To get started, go to the website www.onlineAHA. org and select "Course Catalog" to find the appropriate course. Once the online portion is complete, print the certificate and call Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center's Health and Wellness staff at (812) 996 -2399, option 1, to schedule a skills session with an AHA In- structor and complete your certification. The skill ses- sions are scheduled for 30 to 60 minutes and are offered for BL S for Health Care Providers, Heartsaver® CPR with AED, and Heartsaver® First Aid CPR with AED. Cost for the skills session portion is $ 30 and will be located in the Health and Wellness Classroom at Memorial Southside Office, 1100 West 12th Avenue is Jasper. For more information, call Memorial Hospital's Health and Wellness department at (812) 996 -2399, option 1, or toll free at (800) 852-7273, ext. 2399. Indiana 15 Regional Planning Commission–The Executive Board of the Indiana 15 Regional Planning Commission will meet Tuesday, August 22, 2017, at 6:30 p.m. (local time) at the Commission's office lo- cated at 221 E. First Street in Ferdinand, Ind. In addition, the regular meeting of the Indiana 15 Regional Planning Commission's Board of Directors will meet at 7:30 p.m. (local time) at the same location. Heartland Half Marathon in need of volunteers– Are you looking for a fun service project the whole family can participate in? The Heartland Half Mara- thon committee is in need of volunteers for this year's Heartland Half Marathon. The event is scheduled to take place during Labor Day Weekend on Saturday, September 2 in Jasper. The events will include a half marathon, 5K, and team challenge. Volunteers are needed for registration in the morn- ing and afternoon on Friday, September 1 and during the race on Saturday, which will begin at 7:30 a.m. Vol- unteers generally work in pairs or small groups, and children/teens can also help when paired with an adult. Volunteers also receive a free T-shirt. For more information or to sign up to volunteer, call the Marketing Department at Memorial Hospital at (812) 996 -2333. History Comes Alive–Join us as we commemorate the 72nd Anniversary of the end of W WII. The event will be September 2-3, Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Museum admission is $5 for adults and $ 3 for children. Seniors and Veterans get a $1 discount. Parking is $2 per vehicle. Admission is free for the outdoor events. The Indiana Military Mu- seum is on 715 S. 6th Street, Vincennes, Ind. Historic first day for Otwell Miller Academy By James Capozella On Monday, Aug. 14, Otwell and the Jefferson Township Community en- joyed its first day of school since Ot- well Elementary School was closed by the Pike County School Corporation's board of school trustees at the end of the 2015 -2016 school year. Otwell Miller Academy (OMA) di- rector Rick Fears is "looking for a few more to enroll" at the school follow- ing the August 14 opening day, where classe sizes ranged from six students to 15 for grades kindergarten through fifth grade. Fears told both groups of students before going to their classrooms at the Otwell United Methodist Church and Otwell Wesleyan Church that "we should be moving into the new build- ing in a few days, but for now we" will have school in classrooms made avail- able by the two churches. He told students that they were en- rolled in Otwell Miller Academy and that the entire staff is "excited about the opening and the fact that an ele- mentary school is back at Otwell." "A lot of people have put forth a great effort over a year and a half" to make the school happen, he added. He said that he couldn't say enough for the friends, board and others that have spent a great deal of time and energy to get the school to the opening day. Opening day enrollment stood at 59 for kindergarten through fifth grade, according to Fears. Many students were dropped off at the two churches by their parents, Fears noted. "We are doing well with no transportation prob- lems," he said. Traffic was controlled by the Pike County Sheriff's Depart- ment at the Methodist Church, while staff members Bob Rhodes, Rose- mary Rhodes, Josh Byrd and Jenny Byrd helped parents and students en- ter the Wesleyan Church Fellowship Hall for the kindergarten through sec- ond grade classes. Fears said the OMA building is com- plete with plumbing and electrical, in- cluding drywall, and is awaiting the completion of a concrete sidewalk re- quired by the state fire marshal for fire drill use. All plumbing fixtures are in place now and Fears hopes the facility will be open in a week or so for kindergarten through fifth grades, plus a nursery. Otwell Miller Academy (OMA) kindergarten teacher Mrs. McCandless had her first day of class in the Otwell Wesleyan Church Fellowship Hall this past Monday. McCandless has 10 students in her class and will probably be moved to the new Otwell Miller Academy building within a week or so, according to OMA Director Rick Fears. James Capozella photo Otwell Miller Academy (OMA) staff members wait for their students to be dismissed to classrooms at the Otwell United Methodist Church. Twenty-eight students in grades three through five listened as OMA Director Rick Fears greeted them on their first day of school. He told them the school name and how it came about after the Otwell Elementary School closing at the end of the 2015-16 school year. James Capozella photo Petersburg Garden Club The Petersburg Garden Club met and Carol Sargeant, from Great Britain, showed the club how to brew a proper British tea with loose leaf tea and she also made English scones with clod- ded cream for the ladies. Deadline is Sept. 8 for Community Foundation grants The Pike County Commu- nity Foundation is now ac- cepting applications online for the 2018 Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Pro- gram. The scholarship is open to Indiana high school students who will be gradu- ating from an accredited In- diana high school by June 2018. To learn more about conditions for the award, eli- gibility requirements, selec- tion criteria and application code, visit communityfoun- dationalliance.org/scholar- ships/lilly-endowment-com- munity-scholarship-pike/. Deadline to apply is Septem- ber 8, 2017. The link to ap- ply can be found at the bot- tom of the Pike scholarship opportunities page: commu- nityfoundationalliance.org/ pike/scholarships/opportu- nities/. The 2018 Pike County Lil- ly Endowment Community Scholar will be named early in December 2017. ICI is a nonprofit corpo- ration that represents 31 re- gionally accredited degree granting, nonprofit, private colleges and universities in the state. The scholarships are the result of a statewide Lilly Endowment initiative to help Indiana students reach higher levels of educa- tion. The Lilly Endowment has remained steadfast in its belief that education at all levels is indispensable to the personal, civic, and eco- nomic well-being of Indiana residents and communities. ABOUT PCCF Established in 1998, the Pike County Community Foundation is a charitable resource devoted to the lo- cal community. A partner of the Community Foundation Alliance, with oversight by a local 17-member Adviso- ry Board, the Foundation is made up of a family of more than 50 charitable funds, es- tablished by caring people who give back to causes and organizations in the commu- nity. Gifts to the Founda- tion leave a permanent lega- cy through the power of en- dowment, where earnings are used to make grants and scholarships that benefit the community forever. The Pike County Com- munity Foundation helps people make a difference where it matters, invest in the future of the community they love, and create great- er good together. The Foun- dation's office is located at 714 Main St. in Petersburg. To learn more, call 812-354- 6797.