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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, September 6, 2017 A-3 LOCAL Call: 812-354-8500 Email: news@pressdispatch.net or bring in a hard copy: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg NEWS BRIEFS Spurgeon still flushing hydrants until Sept. 8 Spurgeon Water Corporation is still flushing Hy- drants until September 8. Customers could experience water discoloration while the hydrants are flushed. You are recommend not to wash white clothes dur- ing this time. Friday night Community Revival at The Gathering Place Sept. 8 There will be a Friday night community revival on Friday, Sept. 8 at 7 p.m. at The Gathering Place, 207 Lafayette Street, Winslow. The speaker for the eve- ning will be John Hummer and praise and worship service will be lead by Charlie McCracken and Ricki Lynn Emmons. For more information, call 812-766 - 3003 or 812-789 -6396. NARFE meeting slated for Sept. 13 The National Active and Retired Federal Employ- ees (NARFE) Patoka Valley Chapter #1847 will meet at noon on Wednesday, September 13, at the Schnit- zelbank Restaurant in Jasper. The speaker will be Phillip Adkins. His topic will be the Haiku Tunnel Project in Hawaii. All active and re- tired federal employees and/or their spouses are en- couraged to attend. Call Rita at 812-604-5089 for more information. Main Street Bed Races deadline Sept. 14 You're not dreaming! Discover Downtown Peters- burg, Onyett Fabricators and Parsifal Corporation are hosting a Bed Race on Saturday, Sept. 16 as part of the Buffalo Trace Festival. Now's the time to start build- ing your beds and teams! No bed? No problem! Onyett Fabricators and Pike Central welding students have two beds ready to go! Just bring your team and decorations. Send the completed registration form, including the $25 entry fee per team, by Sept. 14 to: Petersburg City Hall, 704 Main Street, Petersburg, IN 47567. For more information, see buffalotracefestival.com/ bed-race. Pike-Gibson retired teachers to meet Sept. 14 The Pike-Gibson Retired Teachers will meet at the Village Inn, on Highway 57, between Oakland City and Petersburg, on Thursday, Sept. 14, at 11:30 a.m. (EDT) 10 :30 a.m. (CDT). New retirees will be wel- comed, lunch will be served, and jars of peanut butter will be collected for Somebody's Place and the Pike- Gibson Salvation Army. There will be a back-to-school adventure. (Don't for- get your pencils.) Newly elected State President, Jane Boltinghouse, will be in attendance to share the new benefits available through the retired teachers asso- ciation. Those who received free plants at the spring meet- ing will report on the success of their gardens. 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Cannon said South Korea has an elite squad of warriors, who are ex- tremely fit and trained to kill people with their hands. There are no weap- ons allowed in the area. "They are basically human weap- ons waiting to kill North Koreans. On- ly thing they do is guard and protect any visitor from the south. They don't speak or move. All they are waiting for is for the north to do something they aren't supposed to do." Cannon said they were warned not to touch or mess with these guys. A fter the guys who ran through the room and kicked the door open, oth- ers came out with "crappy cameras" taking pictures of them. He said they walked into a middle room between North and South Korea. "The North Koreans are looking in the windows taking our pictures." He said they were told if they wanted to get a pic- ture of the North Koreans they could. So Cannon went over to the window. "I was the first one to the window. I just got locked in this staring match with this guy for about 30 seconds. I just sat there and stared at him. Then out of nowhere he raised his camera up like I have to take a picture of this guy. . . So I just raised my camera up." He got a selfie of himself in front of the window and the North Koreans on the other side of the window taking a picture of him. Cannon said the concert was great, the military audience had great en- ergy. A fter the performance, he said the Base Commander brought Chase back onto the stage. Cannon said ev- eryone on the base had been put on heightened alert as they were getting ready to start their war games. Con- sequently, they weren't able to drink during that time. "He said, 'I want you to see this energy. Normally this en- ergy is hate focused north.' When he said, that the whole crowd start- ed cheering USA, USA immediate- ly. This was a total sober chant. They knew the risk they were facing. It was just them enjoying their time. They weren't worked up about the Confed- erate Flag or Black Lives Matter, they were in perfect unison. It was the most intense USA chant I have ever heard," said Cannon. Cannon also got to meet the Wolf or base commander. He said he was im- pressed with what the Wolf had to say about the base. Cannon said he has been to probably 15 different bases, but this was the best one. "He told me, 'Everyone here is family. If I said sad- dle up, we are going north right now. Everyone here would be out the door and we would be in the north bomb- ing them.'" "We have people like that, that is how we intimidate our enemies," said Cannon. "It gave me a new apprecia- tion of our people, our military and our country," said Cannon. (This is the first of a two-part story on Cannon. Next week's issue will deal with how Cannon went from a high school kid with a desire to be a vid- eographer to working for Chase Rice.) CANNON Continued from page 1 the DMZ, with military and civilian ca- sualties on both sides. Chase Rice was a runner-up on Sur- vivor, a pit crew member for Hendrick Motorsports and a former linebacker for North Carolina. He wrote Cruise, which was performed by Florida-Geor- gia line. Two of Rice's hits are Ready Set Roll and Gonna Wanna Tonight. "He (Rice) is a pretty conservative patriotic guy. He tries to play some shows for the military guys. Last year, we went to Japan. Even last year, we were a little nervous about going to Ja- pan because of all the rhetoric," said Cannon. North Korea was test firing missiles near Japan and making threats back then as well. "Honestly, it felt more intense last year in Japan than it did this year in South Korea," said Cannon. "In Korea, it was so calm it was almost shocking. . .They were a lot more at peace with it in Korea. They know where they are going to die if there is a nuclear war." Not because the threat was as great, but because the South Koreans just ap- pear more used to the tension. "They deal with it everyday," said Cannon of aggressive rhetoric from the north. Cannon said Rice loses money on the trips to perform for the military. "It isn't for money, it is for giving back," said Cannon. He said the organiza- tion they work through is similar to the USO. "We went there and played four or five military bases and got a special tour of the DMZ," said Cannon about how he ended up in the DMZ and North Korea. "We basically signed death waivers. They said anything can happen and it isn't the government's fault if it hap- pens," said Cannon. Cannon said they flew into Seoul, South Korea, and went to Camp Casey and stayed in a hotel about three or four miles from the DMZ. He said they were told when they went on the tour of the DMZ, they had a strict dress code. "They told us no hats, no denim and your shirt has to have a collar." He said when they asked why they had to dress nicely, their answer was, "When North Korea sees us, they think we are all well to do. Because the North Kore- ans don't have any clothes like that." "We had a veteran with us to watch over us and make sure we weren't do- ing anything stupid." "It was definitely weird," said Can- non of their trip into the DMZ. He said he had seen pictures of the DMZ but it was hard to describe, saying it just had a different look than most of the world. "If it was a color, it was over- cast. A very gray area that looks like it is about to rain." Along with getting to see the DMZ, they also got to go into a building that is built across the North and South Ko- rean line. He said part of it is in North Korea and part of the building is in South Korea. "As we walked out, one North Kore- an was staring us down, another was doing their high step goose march," said Cannon. He said two North Koreans ran as A selfie of Cody Cannon with North Korean soldiers taking photos and watching his every move in background. It's illegal in North Ko- rea to film or photograph soldiers and is punishable by life impris- onment or death. "Its pretty obvious these guys aren't used to hav- ing a camera pointed at them, as they struggled to make eye contact and seemed a bit put off by my camera as a whole," said Cannon. Above: The A10 warthog, ground attack airplane, thats been in service for many years. "A historic plane that the US mili- tary soldiers all have a special love for. On that day we got to climb inside the cockpit, watch crews perform routine maintenance to make sure the plane was safe to fly, and etc.," said Cannon. Left: Cody Cannon stands next to a South Korean guard at the blue door. His only job is to protect anyone visiting the DMZ from the South Korean side. Job re- quirements include: must be an 8th degree black belt, over 6' tall, and weight 170 lbs. or more. The door behind him is the door to North Korea, and while we were techni- cally standing on North Korea's side, who- ever has the building can do whatever they want with it. If the North Koreans were to attempt to come in, they would have a pretty serious and old fashioned fist fight on their hands. "We were instructed that while these soldiers were there to protect us, they do not speak, show no emotion, and if we touched or bumped them, they would 'neutralize' us," said Cannon. Below: A North Korean flag flies on the north side of the DMZ.