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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, September 13, 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 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. Golden Living Center's annual car show and picnic Sept. 14 The Golden Living Center will be hosting their an- nual car show and picnic Thursday, Sept. 14, at 5:30 p.m. Entertainment will be by DJ, Dustin Arnold. Hot Dogs, potato salad, baked beans, dessert and drinks will be served. 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. Good Shepherd community luncheon Sept. 19 The Good Shepherd UMC will have a community luncheon on Tuesday, September 19, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. CDT. The church is located at 210 W. Harrison Street, Oakland City. Donations are accepted and used for mission projects. READER GUIDE Subscriptions: Subscription rates: One year: $30 for Pike and surrounding counties and all 475 and 476 addresses; elsewhere in Indiana $33; out of state $50 Paid in advance. Change of address — subscribers changing addresses will please give their old address as well as new one along with phone number. We cannot guarantee prompt change unless this is done. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Press-Dis- patch, P.O. 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Haas representative Curtis Boggs, center, presents a check to Mark Scott, left, and Pike Central prin- cipal Gary Holland during the Precision Machining class. Scott is an Associate Professor at Vincennes University who teaches Precision Machining at Pike Central. both food inspections and sanitary inspections. Current Sanitarian Tom Dooley also is the Veterans Service Of- ficer and can not work any more hours or he would be considered a full-time employee and eligible for benefits such as health insurance and retirement. He doesn't have enough hours to keep up with the Sanitarian jobs, so the Health Department decided to create a position that would work both food in- spections and sanitarian position. Gladish said the position would pay $17,386.21 for the year at 21 hours a week. It was approved by a 7-0 vote. She also said Health Inspector Pam Cosby, who does food inspections, was getting paid about three dollars an hour less than the Environmental Health Specialist position. The Health Board suggested Cosby's hours be re- duced and continue to make the same overall amount, which would put her hourly rate the same as the rate as the other positions. She was told they would have to take that up at another meeting. "Do you perceive any problems with this? " asked Gladish. "No guarantees," replied Willis. In other business the council ap- proved an additional appropriation of $15,000 for the Coroner to pay for au- topsies. She said she started the year with $15,000, but had depleted that and had two more pending. Councilmen also approved a request of $ 32,900 from the Solid Waste Dis- trict to appropriate from their budget that amount to purchase new dump- sters. Cinda Abbott-Knight told council- men the dumpsters they are using were the ones the county originally purchased in 1991 and were badly de- teriorated. She said they are purchas- ing them through the Velpen landfill for $ 800. She said the other lowest bid was about $ 6,000 per dumpster. It was approved by a 7-0 vote. Sheriff Jeremy Britton requested a transfer of $2,000 for cooks. He said the jail population had spiked recent- ly, especially female inmates. He said as of Tuesday they had 91 and their ca- pacity was 76. The request was approved. Britton said he also wanted to thank IPL for supplying a contractor to help replace a broken video camera on the top of the courthouse. "It saved us a lot of money," said Britton. The camera was located on the side of the courthouse and the contractor had to be tied off when he went over the wall to work on a ledge at the top of the courthouse. A fter councilmen concluded their regularly monthly meeting, they went into their yearly budget session that was scheduled to last all day Tuesday and most of Wednesday. COUNCIL Continued from page 1 WINSLOW Continued from page 1 ter bill nearly doubled. Bennett said the billing period was two days longer than normal, but it shouldn't have made a big difference in customers' bills. She told Wright they have a system that checks water customers' bills to see if there is an unusually high reading. She said they will be doing another wa- ter meter reading on the 14th and 15th. Wright said if it is high again, he would try to find a leak. In other business, the council vot- ed to give local firemen a $25 bonus. Fire Chief Jason Bottoms requested the bonus for seven firemen because they had put in a lot of time getting their mandatory training this year. "It is an easy way to show your apprecia- tion to them," said Bottoms. Brewster asked why Bottoms wasn't requesting it for himself as well. "I told you when I started I wasn't going to ask for anymore than what you had of- fered me and I'm sticking to it," said Bottoms. Brewster moved to give the $25 to Bottoms as well and it was approved by a 3-0 vote. Councilmen tabled a decision on whether to offer AFL AC to their city employees. They asked for more time to look into the benefits and costs of it. They voted to play the claims of $ 37,486.24. The next Winslow meeting is 7 p.m. Monday, October 9. Two people from Michigan were ar- rested on marijuana charges after po- lice confiscated five pounds of mari- juana following a traffic stop. At about 12:45 a.m. Sunday, Troop- er C.J. Boeckman stopped the driv- er of a 2002 Chevrolet Malibu on I- 69 near the Petersburg exit for having a defective license plate light. When Trooper Boeckman approached the vehicle he detected an odor of burnt marijuana. The driver and passenger were identified as Robel N. Kidane, 40, and Rickelle L. Moubray, 23, both from Lansing, Michigan. During a search of the vehicle, Trooper Boeckman found a duffel bag in the trunk containing five packag- es of marijuana, each weighing one- pound. Kidane and Moubray were arrested on charges of dealing mar- ijuana and possession of marijuana. They were taken to the Pike County Jail where they are currently being held on bond. Traffic stop leads police to five pounds of marijuana