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D-10 Opinion Wednesday, October 4, 2017 The Press-Dispatch Court Report CRIMINAL Pike Circuit court Michael James Davis charged with operating a vehicle as an habitual traf- fic violator, a level 6 felony. Robert W. Gunn charged with count I operating a mo- tor vehicle after forfeiture or license for life, a level 5 fel- ony, count II operating a ve- hicle with an ace of .15 or more, and count III oper- ating a vehicle while intox- icated. Giaana Reynolds charged with count I neglect of de- pendent, a level 6 felony, and count II neglect of a de- pendent. Jennifer Tharp charged with possession of a narcot- ic drug, a level 6 felony. Tyler D. McGee charged with count I intimidation, a level 6 felony, and count II in- timidation. Daniel Villalobos, Jr. charged with count I deal- ing in marijuana, a level 6 felony, and count II posses- sion of marijuana. Jordan Am Baker charged with count I dealing in mar- ijuana, a level 6 felony, and count II possession of mar- ijuana. TRAFFIC AND MISDEMEANOR Pike Circuit Court Jason D. Coulter charged with driving while suspend- ed. Elizabeth C. Cannon charged with count I driving while suspended and count II operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Jay Robb charged with count I operating a vehicle with an ACE of .08 or more and count II operating a ve- hicle while intoxicated. Rosa Rodriguez charged with operating a vehicle without ever receiving a li- cense. Christian T. Stepanek charged with count I driv- ing while suspended, count II carrying a handgun with- out a license, count III pos- session of marijuana, count IV operating a vehicle with a schedule I or II controlled substance or its metabolite in the body. Felix Exposito Chirinos charged with operating a motor vehicle without ever receiving a license. CIVIL DOCKET Pike Circuit Court Jefferson Capital Sys- tems sues Teresa F. Strom on complaint. Jefferson Capital Systems sues Jo Patton on complaint. Angel Marie Wetzel peti- tions for name change. Alyssa Young sues Timo- thy O. Young, Jr. for dissolu- tion of marriage. Misty McCandless sues Jeremy McCandless for dis- solution of marriage. SMALL CLAIMS Pike Circuit Court Winslow Elementary sues Jesse Hildebrand on com- plaint. Winslow Elementary sues Andrew Barrett on com- plaint. Citibank sues Nancy P. Cummings on complaint. Petersburg Waterworks sues Beth Sapp on com- plaint. INFRACTIONS Pike Circuit Court Ricardo Ariza Abarca charged with count I speed- ing, 74 mph in a 55 zone, and count II driving while sus- pended. Aaron Barrett charged with speeding, 81 mph in a 55 zone. Joseph Cobb, Jr. charged with speeding, 108 mph in a 70 zone. Stephen Ewing charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Maggie Glass charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Keaton Green charged with speeding, 102 mph in a 70 zone. Christine Griffiths charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. George Hays charged with speeding, 89 mph in a 70 zone. Eric Lai charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Michael Lamberson, Jr. charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Charles McLean charged with speeding, 95 mph in a 70 zone. William Nixon charged with speeding, 90 mph in a 70 zone. Marc Pagani charged with failure to yield right-of-way to emergency vehicle. Kyle Quigley charged with speeding, 93 mph in a 70 zone. Juan Ramos charged with no valid driver's license. Shane Ritchie charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Misael Roblero charged with no valid driver's license. Phillip Rosemann charged with speeding, 79 mph in a 70 zone. Lynn Auberry charged with speeding, 49 mph in a 35 zone. Richard Barton charged with count I failure to change lanes for stationary highway maintenance vehicle and count II speeding, 100 mph in a 70 zone. Heidi Blake charged with speeding, 49 mph in a 35 zone. Christie Bough charged with speeding, 39 mph in a 25 zone. Joseph Brown charged with speeding, 64 mph in a 55 zone. Kevin Carter charged with speeding, 39 mph in a 25 zone. Ricky Cox charged with seatbelt violation. Delores Dillon charged with seatbelt violation. Brian Eckert charged with speeding, 90 mph in a 70 zone. Ashley Gash charged with speeding, 89 mph in a 70 zone. Ryan Kasey charged with speeding, 43 mph in a 30 zone. Grant Keele charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Darrell Kennedy charged with speeding, 49 mph in a 35 zone. Jackson Knepp charged with speeding, 49 mph in a 35 zone. Chelsea Lee charged with seatbelt violation. Glen Lehmkuhler charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Bobby Lewis charged with seatbelt violation. Frieda Lewis charged with seatbelt violation. Kenneth Lindauer charged with speeding, 39 mph in a 25 zone. Jessica Leuken charged with speeding, 52 mph in a 25 zone. Terry May charged with speeding, 39 mph in a 25 zone. Douglas Polley charged with seatbelt violation. Lukas Powell charged with speeding, 49 mph in a 35 zone. Lowell Russell charged with seatbelt violation. Andrew Scott charged with seatbelt violation. Lori Sermersheim charged with seatbelt violation. Bobbie Simpson, Jr. charged with speeding, 64 mph in a 55 zone. Phillip W. Armstrong charged with seatbelt viola- tion. Kacy Arnold charged with no valid driver's license. Elisia Ceballos charged with speeding, 64 mph in a 55 zone. Kalby Deaton charged with speeding, 64 mph in a 55 zone. Mark Freels charged with count I driving while sus- pended and count II operat- ing with expired plates. Danny Gilbert charged with speeding, 39 mph in a 30 zone. Sheridan Glispie charged with count I no operator's license in possession and count II speeding, 39 mph in a 30 zone. Chad Jones charged with driving while suspended. Laura Lochmueller charged with speeding, 85 mph in a 70 zone. Joe Lumpkins, Jr. charged with speeding, 91 mph in a 55 zone. Holly May charged with speeding, 70 mph in a 55 zone. Jennifer Richard charged with speeding, 39 mph in a 30 zone. Justin Roth charged with speeding, 44 mph in a 30 zone. Kevin Silva charged with speeding, 97 mph in a 70 zone. Heather Stroud charged with speeding, 39 mph in a 30 zone. Justin Vaughn charged with speeding, 39 mph in a 30 zone. Cody Wallace charged with operating with expired plates. Dalton Williams charged with speeding, 93 mph in a 70 zone. Amanda Ashworth charged with speeding, 44 mph in a 30 zone. Dennis Bacon charged with speeding, 90 mph in a 70 zone. William Barrett charged with speeding, 96 mph in a 70 zone. Brittany Cloyd charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Justin Cox charged with no valid driver's license. Trent Hoffman charged with speeding, 90 mph in a 70 zone. Jada McKnight charged with speeding, 87 mph in a 70 zone. Jett Murray charged with operating with expired plates. Hani Yousef charged with speeding, 89 mph in a 70 zone. OBITUARY DEADLINE 5 P.M. EVERY MONDAY for our fallen and sinful na- ture to regenerate into a new way of life. The call of God to all of humanity can be found not just in John 3:16, but also Acts 17:22-31 in which the key point Paul made to the Greeks at Athens was "… so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might look for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;… but now commands all men ev- erywhere to repent." The process of healing our sinful nature comes through a willful act of God, through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. As Paul preached near Ephesus [Acts 19], he met the disciples of John the Baptist and asked, "Have you received the Holy Spir- it since you have believed? " This is where many in the Church have become weak by not relying upon the pow- er of the Holy Spirit! The Church embraces baptism as a regenerative act and the gift of the Holy Spirit as the power that makes holiness and sanctification possible. This is the antidote to sin- fulness, to repent and to be- lieve on Jesus whom God sent to testify of Him. That is where the healing and repair process begins. As a scorched or burned tree can repair itself, each of us can become a new creature through the power of Holy Spirit. As God provides for na- ture to repair itself, He also provides a way to repair our relationship with Him! Think about it, and enjoy fall. Continued from page 9 THOUGHT Continued from page 9 DAYCARE ers 73.5 million Americans, up from 47.7 million in 2008. Med- icaid together with Medicare now has almost 40 percent of all Americans on government single-payer health care. Graham-Cassidy is far from the ideal health care bill Re- publicans wanted to replace Obamacare. The problem is that once the nation gets put on welfare, once people get used to handouts, it is enormously difficult to change. At least Graham-Cassidy turns things around in a seri- ous way. Block granting Med- icaid, turning management of this program to local control at the state level, is a huge and important reform. The U.S. Government Ac- countability Office has esti- mated that Medicaid fraud is as high as 10 percent of total Medicaid expenditures. That puts Medicaid fraud at about $55 billion per year. That's about equal to the size of the whole state economy of Col- lins' Maine. Local manage- ment could vastly improve this horrific situation. Maybe what's really gnaw- ing at Collins is that the bill pulls taxpayer funds from Planned Parenthood, the na- tion's No. 1 abortion provider, which she loves so much. Graham-Cassidy is a noble effort to improve our health care system, given tough ex- isting political realities. Senator Collins, like Sena- tors John McCain and Rand Paul who said "no" before, is just leading us to socialism. Without a change of heart, she hurts her party, her state and her country. Star Parker is an author and president of CURE, Center for Urban Renewal and Education. Contact her at www.urbancure. org. Continued from page 9 REFORM Continued from page 9 TAX CUT Continued from page 9 TRIP sage our representatives in Washington are hearing as they consider ways to cut taxes. Government score- keepers such as the Joint Committee on Taxation, and the Congressional Bud- get Office, are telling them most of the benefits of cut- ting corporate taxes go to owners, not workers. At least 10 separate eco- nomic studies show this isn't true — that at least 75 per- cent of corporate taxes are passed on to workers in the form of higher wages. But the CBO and the Joint Com- mittee insist it's the other way around. Why? Because they're not really accounting for how a corporate tax cut would help lower-wage work- ers. According to Mr. Mi- chel, a 20 -point cut in the corporate income tax rate, from 35 percent to 15 per- cent, could boost the rela- tive market incomes of the poorest Americans by 2.4 percent. That would mean $ 365 for a household that earns $15,000 a year. And let's not forget what it would mean for the econ- omy as a whole if we make it financially attractive for businesses who have gone abroad to return to the U.S. Think of the jobs they could contribute, and the econom- ic boost that would result. The fact is, we all pay the corporate tax. And we all have a stake in seeing it cut. Let's ignore the naysay- ers — and get it done. Ed Feulner is president of The Heritage Foundation. Care" is a short but pow- erful book by a university president who is not afraid to maintain civility and com- mon sense, traits all too ra- re among today's university administrators. Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. 3980 S. State Road 257, Velpen 812-354-3280 www.VelpenDisposal.com V elpen R-S TRucking & DiSpoSal co. ReSiDenTial ToTeR SeRVice No Contracts. No Hidden Fees. ReaRloaD WaSTe conTaineRS 2 yd., 4 yd. and 6 yd. Containers No Contracts. No Hidden Fees. Call for Pricing. 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Ti- er T V programs are a mix of English and French news and shows. CNN, Fox, NBC,ABC,CBS had feeds from Boston and Chi- cago. Their CNN equiva- lent is called CBC (Canadi- an Broadcasting Corpora- tion). By the way the lady who assisted us at the Regi- na Airport was from Greece. There goes the song again. • • • Here's what I meant by it's gotten to be a small world af- ter all. The charter bus driv- er who drove us to the Toron- to International Airport was from A frica. The airport was filled with all sorts of nation- alities from every part of the world- from Asia, to Europe, to all the Americas, to Aus- tralia, etc, etc. It was quite intimidating to see the very long lines of people of different colors, shapes, languages trying to check in. One thing I admire about Canadian Airports is their super efficient stream- lined systems ranging from having free luggage carts, to airport employees who keep constantly directing people traffic, to the availability of wheelchairs, golf carts, etc. etc. Rose and I were the last three passengers checked in and as soon as an Air Can- ada employee assisted us, he said the plane doors are about to close but he would try his best to get us in. The next scheduled flight was in another four hours, whic would mess up our pick up from the Regina airport by Rose's relatives. As soon as we got settled in the plane, it was quite a great relief but still when you are in another coun- try, in an airport and know nobody, at our age I always wondered if I forgot we're not as nimble as we used to be. Since English is the language spoken predom- inantly, and French is al- ways spoken in announce- ments, I felt no sense of fear of misunderstanding com- munications. So off we go for the three hour flight to head to a place I've never vis- ited eventhough we used to live in Canada for a number of years. Next week I'll share some unique experiences we had in our visit. From meeting a recent immigrant from the Philippines who told me he used to walk the street where I lived and where his son was baptized in the same Catholic Church I at- tended for 25 years. And that's only one of the many weird things I encountered. So hang in there and let me share stories that made my head spin. It's indeed a small world after all.