The Press-Dispatch
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A-2 Front Wednesday, October 4, 2017 The Press-Dispatch Your pain is real, and so is help. If you are having thoughts of suicide, please know that help is just a phone call away. Suicide Prevention Coalition National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-TALK Local Mental Health Helpline: (812) 827-6222 COUNCIL Continued from page 1 JOIN 4-H NOW! Youth: Want to be part of a national youth organization that helps you to become the best that you can be and have a great time doing it? Parents: 4-H has something that will catch your child's interest: STEM Training, Robots, Shooting Sports, Livestock, Photography, Wildlife, Child- care, Fine Arts, Culinary Arts, Pageantry, Horse and Pony, Pets, Leadership... just to name a few. Attend: See Sample Project Exhibits, Watch Horse and Pony Demonstrations, Pet Rabbits, Goats and Chickens, Complete a Cra, Meet Some Leaders and more. Remember both new and current 4-H members must enroll annually. is is the day to get registered! PIKE COUNTY 4-H ENROLLMENT EVENT FOR 2018 Paint a Pumpkin "Pet Rock" Make an Ornament Go on a Hayride Enjoy a Snack Enroll and Receive a Real Pumpkin! Limited supply. Only $20 per youth in 4-H and $5 per youth in Mini 4-H Maximum $60 per family! Sunday, Oct. 15 from 2-5 p.m. Pike County 4-H Building at Hornady Park 907 Walnut St. | Petersburg, IN 47567 Old Petersburg Gymnasium & Health EXPO SHOW CASING THE AREA'S BUSINESSES & ORGANIZATIONS Come and see what area businesses and organizations have to offer. THURSDAY October 5, 2017 4:30pm-6:30pm EDT If you have any questions regarding this event or would like to set up a booth at this event, please contact the Chamber at 812-354-8155 or chamber@frontier.com PIKE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 6TH ANNUAL Business Many Prizes & Give-A-Ways! Concessions Available! FREE FLU SHOTS BY WALGREENS & UNITED WAY By Andy Heuring Pike County Commis- sioners agreed to advertise for supply bids at the high- way department, approved leasing to purchase a patch- and-sealer machine and re- quested a series of transfers to repair their paver during a Monday morning meeting. Commissioners vot- ed 3-0 to enter a lease pur- chase agreement for a Dura Patcher with one payment of $17,500 and receive credit of $ 855.75 for a previous rent- al payment. Highway Superintendent Roger Ham said the Dura Patcher is a machine used to patch and seal cracks and potholes. It has an oil tank and mix- es rock chips with the oil and sprays it out of a hose. "It is basically a two-man opera- tion to seal cracks and pot- holes," said Commissioner President Brian Davis. He said most of the county's around have one. Davis said it only requires a dump truck driver and an operator for the patcher. The commissioners also requested a series of trans- fers totaling $22,500 to make repairs to their paver. Ham said they lost an engine on the paver Thursday eve- ning while they were pav- ing. He said a replacement engine is supposed to arrive in the next day or two. Pike County received a grant from the Indiana De- partment of Transporta- tion through the Commu- nity Crossroad program of $566,318. The county had to put up a 25 percent match of $188,772 to make a total of $755,090 for paving. Ham said they are hop- ing to get the paver running as soon as possible so they can get paving work done before winter sets in. "We don't know if we will be able to get all of the paving do- ne before the weather sets in or not. But we have until June 30, 2018, to get it done," said Ham. The Community Crossroad grant requires the work be completed by June 30 of the next year. The road paving projects approved by the Crossroad grant are: • CR 550 N. in Jefferson Twp. from Highway 257 to- ward CR 700 E. 12,722 feet; • CR 600 E. from SR 356 to CR 450 N. 1,060 feet; • CR 575 E. from Highway 356 to CR 600 N. 8,656 feet; • Blackburn Road 4,154 feet from Highway 57; • CR 275 E. from CR 475 N. 6,270 feet to deadend; • CR 75 E. from Highway 61 to CR 300 N. 980 feet; • CR 700 E. from High- way 56 for 8,840 feet; • CR 50 S. from rock por- tion 4,712 feet to CR 625 E.; • CR 625 E. and CR 600 E. from Highway 56 to CR 50 S. 11,758 feet; • CR 650 E. from CR 50 S. to CR 200 S. 8,523 feet; • CR 300 S. from CR 900 E. to CR 775 E. 6,500 feet. The commissioners also voted to advertise for supply bids at the County Highway Department. Commissioner Assistant Kristi Dischinger said the bids are identical to last year's specifications. The deadline to receive the bids is 4 p.m. Friday, Novem- ber 3, 2017. The bids will be opened and read in the com- missioners' meeting at 9:30 a.m. Monday, November 6. The commissioners ta- bled a request by Extension Agent Sarah Hopkins to hire a part-time worker to replace one who resigned. Hopkins said they had three appli- cants for a position they did not advertise. She said they had selected Samantha Hal- brader, who is a 2016 Pike Central graduate and USI student. "Do we need to do this hire this time of the year or can we wait until next year to do this? " asked Commis- sioner president Brian Da- vis. Hopkins said they had several events coming up be- fore the end of the year and it would be a big help. Commissioner Ryan Cole- man said he had reserva- tions about hiring another young girl. Hopkins said the new hire would replace a girl who had a conflict with another em- ployee during the fair, but she had just entered nursing school and could only work one day a week and decid- ed it was not worth it with a busy school schedule. The commissioners voted to table the request. Their next meeting is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Monday, October 16 in the Courthouse Auditorium. Commissioners purchase sealer, rush to repair paver FESTIVALS Continued from page 1 SUBSCRIBE Continued from page 1 Thursday will receive the next week's Press-Dispatch. NET/EDITION ENHANCES YOUR NEWS AND INFORMATION NETedition can now be added to your print edition for $5 a year, or stand-alone for $ 32. NETedition offers the same look and feel as the print edition, but with add- ed video, more color pho- tos and interactive content. Subscribers get the add- ed benefit of getting it at 6 a.m. on Wednesday morn- ing at www.pressdispatch. net/edition. You may use the subscrip- tion form on page A-3 to sign up for NETedition. Please in- clude your e-mail address and a password. Once your registration is complete, you will receive an e-mail with your sign-on information. There will be a haunted woods trail with hayrides on Saturday evening begin- ning at 8 p.m. and running until about 10 p.m. Volunteers are needed to work the Prides Creek Park Halloween haunted trail. Call Brandon Schultheis at 812-789 -3099 for more in- formation. LOCKHART TWP. HALLOWEEN PARTY OCT. 28 It will feature costume judging, piñatas, a haunted house, cake walk and door prizes. The party is set to start at 4 p.m. at the Lock- hart Township Community Center in Stendal. They will have hamburgers, chili, pie and soft drinks available. Costume judging begins at 6:30 p.m. with the cos- tume categories being: best overall, most original, best makeup, best couple, pretti- est, scariest, funniest, mov- ie/cartoon girls, movie/car- toon boys, cutest two years and under. been an issue in Peters- burg." Klipsch said that any golf cart being operated within the city limits must follow the same rules and regula- tions as a motor vehicle, in- cluding a prohibition against crossing a state highway at any place other than at an in- tersection. Klipsch noted that Wash- ington's ordinance also list- ed fines and penalties rang- ing from $25 for a first of- fense up to $2,500 for a third offense as well as seizure of the golf cart. In addition, the golf carts ordinance states: "An individual violating this chapter on more than 3 occasions or an owner whose golf cart has been operated in violation of this chapter on more than three occasions shall be subject to: (a) A fine of up to $2,500 ; (b) Forfeiture of registra- tion and permit privileges of the owner of the golf cart: (c) The golf cart may be immediately seized by law enforcement and held in im- pound, all at the owner's ex- pense." Baumgart told the council that he did not think that the fines listed in Washington's golf cart ordinance were high enough. "And then the inspection portion, I don't think that's high enough, mainly be- cause we're going to have to buy stickers and keep records," Baumgart said. "There's going to be a lot of bookkeeping to go along with it, including the inspec- tions." During the course of the discussion, Klipsch, Baumgart and council mem- bers discussed various is- sues that would have to be addressed if the city were to adopt a golf carts ordinance. However, Klipsch said: "As much as we would try to guess what's going to happen, we're not going to guess everything. And peo- ple are going to push it as far as they possibly can." Leavitt said that he had discussed the issue with a "retired state policeman." "(He) said you're going to get people driving golf carts that now ride motor scoot- ers that can't get a driver's license," Leavitt said. "Of course, they can't get on the highway with golf carts." "This requires them to be licensed," city attorney Bri- an Mahoney said. "I can guarantee they're going to sneak," Baumgart said. "They're going to sneak down the highway." "It's pretty hard to car- ry a case of beer on a motor scooter, but they can get it on a golf cart," Leavitt said. "You've got to be blunt about it. That's something that's going to happen." "Anything you can imag- ine is probably going to hap- pen," Klipsch repled. However, Klipsch told the council that he was not ex- pecting them to take imme- diate action on the issue. "This is a little more than, 'All in favor, say aye,'" Klipsch said. "That's what I wanted to bring this to your attention. It was brought to my attention, I said I will get them all the information I possibly can. We'll have these discussions and see what comes from it." "I still think we have a lot of unanswered questions," Melhiser said. "We do," Klipsch replied. Klipsch said that he had explained the process to Slaven, adding that it may take several meetings be- fore the city council even brought the issue to a vote. "This is going to take some time," Klipsch said. "This might take a couple of months before we ever bring this to a vote. And that's up to you." On a motion by Melhis- er, seconded by Leavitt, the council voted unanimously to table further discussion of the issue. In other business, Klipsch announced that the city had received approximately half of the $ 350,000 it had requested in its application – which was prepared and submitted by the Southern Indiana Economic Develop- ment Commission based in Loogootee – for an owner occupied housing rehabili- tation grant from the Indi- ana Housing and Commu- nity Development Authority. "There were 28 appli- cants; 14 were awarded," Klipsch said. "If you remem- ber, we asked for $ 350,000. We got $178,004, that will as- sist in seven housing units." Klipsch also announced that the city's fall cleanup will take place on Friday, Oct. 27, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., and on Saturday, Oct. 28, from 8 a.m. to noon, at the city garage on Cherry Street. Interim Fire Chief Ross Elmore told the council that an open house will be held from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 11, at the fire department's new building on Illinois Street "for folks that didn't make it to the dedication ceremony." "That's during Fire Pre- vention Week," Elmore said. "So we're going to have a few guys down there. If some- body missed the dedication and wants to see the fire house, we're going to have it open that night." In response to a question from Elmore, Baumgart and City Clerk Tammy Selby an- nounced that trick-or-treat hours will be on Tuesday, Oct. 31 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. "You've got to remem- ber, they can trick-or-treat when they want," Baumgart told the council. "These are recommended times that we'll have extra patrols out there." Elmore said that the fire house will be staffed during those hours. "If anybody wants to come down there trick-or-treating, we're going to be open," El- more said. Pike County's paving crew was laying blacktop on CR 275 E. last Thursday. Pike County recently re- ceived a grant of $566,000 for paving. The paver's engine failed last Thursday evening and needs to be replaced. A replacement engine has been ordered and they hope to get it installed this week. Commission- ers requested $22,500 in transfers to pay for the replacement engine in their Monday morning meeting.