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'18 P ageants 2018 PIKE COUNTY 4-H FAIR DATES: JULY 22 – JULY 28, 2018 To download entry form, go to: www.extension.purdue.edu/pike For more information, call 812-354-6838 2018 MISS PIKE COUNTY AGES 18-21 • 8 P.M. • Applicants must be 18 years old by January 1, 2019 and may not reach their 22nd birthday by June 1, 2019, and be a current resident of Pike County. • Pageant Director – Tia Rogers Bailee Sutt 2017 Miss Pike County PIKE COUNTY 4-H FAIR All pageants are Saturday, July 21 at Pike Central High School 18 USC 707 18 USC 707 Keyla Martinez 2017 Little Miss Denver Hallet 2017 Little Mister Xavery Weisman 2017 Junior Miss Abigail Jo Sutt 2017 Teen Miss Application deadline for all pageants is April 20 at 4 P.M. PAGEANT SIGN-UP MEETING Saturday, April 7 • 10 A.M.-Noon at Cakes and Coffee Café on Main Street, Petersburg TEEN MISS PIKE CO. AGES 13-17 • 6:30 P.M. • Applicants must be 13 on or before July 1 and no older than 17 on July 1, and be a current resident of Pike County. Entry fee: $40 • Pageant Director – Summer Sorguis LITTLE MISTER PIKE CO. AGES 5-8 • 3 P.M. • Applicants must be 5 on or before July 1, and no older than 8 on July 1, and be a current resident of Pike County. Entry fee: $40 • Pageant Director – Erin Claridge JUNIOR MISS PIKE CO. AGES 9-12 • 5 P.M. • Applicants must be 9 on or before July 1, and no older than 12 on July 1, and be a current resident of Pike County. Entry fee: $40 • Pageant Director – Abigail Sutt LITTLE MISS PIKE CO. AGES 5-8 • 3 P.M. • Applicants must be 5 on or before July 1, and no older than 8 on July 1, and be a current resident of Pike County. Entry fee: $40 • Pageant Director – Kelly Cook new PICK UP ALL ORDERS 4-6 p.m. on Saturday, April 14 at Petersburg Hardware. Order forms are available at the Chamber Office or from any board member. ank you for supporting the Pike County Chamber of Commerce! All payments are due at the time of order. Please make checks out to Pike County Chamber of Commerce. Contact 812-354-8155 or chamber@pikecounty.in.gov with any questions! DEADLINE FOR ORDERS IS APRIL 1 Slab of Ribs $25 Each BBQ Sauce $7 Pint Jar DEADLINE FOR ORDERS IS APRIL 1 All orders made fresh by Greg and Emily Mullins! Chamber of Commerce Cultivating Growth & Progress Irish Tea tradition Marge Leavitt pours a glass of tea for Emily McGillem during the Marge's Hallmark's 25th Irish Tea. Leavitt said she began doing the Irish teas because her mother was Irish. "That side of my family always had teas and we celebrated St. Patrick's Day. So I do it in memory of my mother." Leavitt said she serves scones, which she described as between a biscuit and a cookie. Green recently awarded 'Admin. Professional of the Year' award Shannon Green, of- fice manager for Pike Gib- son Water, was presented with the "Administrative Professional of the Year" award from Alliance of In- diana Rural Water during their Spring Conference in French Lick, on March 14. Shannon has worked for Pike Gibson Water since 2008. She was nominated by Julie Berry. Julie says, "Shannon goes above and beyond the normal duties of a rural water Office Manag- er. Her staff and board rely upon her as a problem solv- er. She always delivers." The Alliance of Indiana Rural Water is a non-profit membership association of over 800 water and waste- water systems and relat- ed professionals. The Al- liance provides training and on-site technical assis- tance on Safe Drinking Wa- ter Act compliance issues, public health protection (as it relates to drinking wa- ter), managerial issues, fi- nancial issues and opera- tional issues to water and wastewater systems in In- diana that are under 10,000 in population. Training and on-site work is supported by Federal contracts and grants that promote safe water for our communities. Connie Stevens, executive director, Alliance of Indiana Rural Water; Shan- non Green, office manager, Pike Gibson Water; and Todd Gardner, board president, Alliance of Indiana Rural Water. Toyota awards $290k to support STEM in schools By Janice Barniak Southwest Indiana schools, including Peters- burg Elementary, Winslow Elementary and Pike Cen- tral, received seed money to launch pathways into the sciences this year, thanks to a Toyota grant for Proj- ect Lead the Way (PLT W ). Elliot Mork, VP of part- nerships for PLT W, said what's exciting about the grants are the way it can bring, for many schools, the elementary and middle school, science, biomedical and technology equipment that would be hard to fund without help. The $10,000 and $20,000 grants Toyota gave to 22 schools across 10 counties will get them on that path. At the early educa- tion level, the PLT W pro- gram, Launch, is more in- tegrated and general, but as students hit the middle school Gateway program, the paths start laying out to funnel interested students towards the computer sci- ence, engineering and bio- medical fields. The students start to understand those fields and become familiar with the tools as they enter high school, where many schools in the area already have PLT W programs.