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C-8 Home Life Wednesday, May 2, 2018 The Press-Dispatch Katiedid vs... by Katiedid Langrock Zoo chaperone To enter the Birthday Club, email your name, ad- dress, phone number and birthdate to birthdayclub@ pressdispatch.net. Only the person's name, town and birthday will appear in the paper. As an added bonus, one lucky person each month will receive a free three month Press-Dispatch subscrip- tion. This month's birthdays have a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to Route 56 Antiques and Treasures. APRIL WINNER And the winner is... Rose Cardinal from Wheatland. Rose won a $25 gift card from Marcia Hill, Rodan + Fields Independent Consultant and a three-month sub- scription to The Press-Dispatch. Congratulations! THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS Betty Decker ............................. Petersburg .........5/3 Margaret Henson .......................... Otwell ............5/3 Holly Young ............................... Petersburg .........5/4 Connie Graham ......................... Petersburg .........5/5 Kelly Farmer ............................... Winslow ...........5/6 Cathy Dearing .............................. Otwell ............5/7 Sandra Uppencamp ................. Oakland City .......5/7 THIS MONTH'S SPONSOR 3329 W. SR 56, Petersburg • 812-354-5645 (Near Bowman on State Road 56) www.facebook.com/antiquesaremybusiness Sweet's Column by Barbara Sweet Petersburg, Indiana 47567• Phone: (812) 354-7777 rogercraigauction@outlook.com see www.auctionzip.com, auctioneer #39502 1995 Ford Crown Victoria 4 door, power/ air, good tires, 125K miles, nice clean car; 8 N Ford tractor (needs work); IH Cub Cadet GT 1554 riding mower with grass catcher (nice clean mower); Murray riding mower, 14.45 hp, 40 inch cut; more riding mowers and push mowers; beautiful hand-stitched quilts (some old); misc furniture; costume jewelry; assortment of tools; small Honda generator; archery deer hunting bows; electric fence; air hose; garage door opener; fax machine; fishing rods; vise; dawn light; shop light; electric water pump; construction fence; cookbooks; VCR Gaither tapes; luggage; dry sink with pitcher and bowl; quilt rack; Jeff Gordon memorabilia, lamp, cars all sizes; Coca-Cola cabinets; bottles and glasses; clock with soda fountain theme; Dickens village scenes; Christmas village; miniature Boyd's Bears collection; other collectibles; large Christmas tree; Santa in sleigh with reindeer and Yorkies; lighted birdhouse; Yorkie Christmas ornaments; Bread machine; kitchen appliances; pots and pans; lots of box lots; Holy Land village collection; chicken and rooster collection; spinning wheel with flower arrangement; Mt. Pleasant Church pew; granite top table; glassware; old time school desk; wooden "tater" bins; stone jars; lots of estate items still being brought in. NOTES: Lots of good items, view photos at www.auctionzip.com auctioneer #39502. Due to the amount of merchandise, two rings will run most of the day. TERMS: Cash, personal check, Visa/Mastercard. Not responsible for accidents or items aer sold. PUBLIC AUCTION ree small estates and other consignments to be offered. ree miles east of Petersburg on Hwy. 356 through Alford, first road north 475 N, one mile to auction site, Craig Auction Bldg. watch for signs. SATURDAY, MAY 5 10 A.M. (FAST TIME) ROGER W. CRAIG, AUCTIONEER/BROKER (License #AU09000081) EARL WAGLER, AUCTIONEER (License #AU10000269) COREY BOUCHIE, AUCTIONEER (License #AU11300002) MAY 5, 2018 - 8:30 a.m. EDT Public Auto Auction with Lawn & Garden Items Please have all consignments in by ursday at 5 p.m. Expecting over 100 vehicles! Along with the Cars and Trucks we will have Trailers, Utility Tractors, Z-Turn Mowers, Finish Mowers, Implements, Golf Carts, ATVs, Tillers, Masonry Tools and more. See www.graberauctions.com for photos and info. Graber Auctions ~ 812-254-2220 1382 S. State Rd 257, Washington, IN Mark J. Graber - AU19400133 COLEMAN VOTE PIKE CO. SHERIFF "Always do the right thing." Paid for by Frank Coleman for Sheriff Push #47 Republican Ballot Hi stars and welcome to this big stage all lit up in colorful, bright lights and decorated to help cele- brate with all our stars who will have a birthday or anni- versary in the week of May 3-9. Come on up onto this big stage and take a bow. May 3 - Tasha Meyer turns 30 years; Jessica Catt; Arbu- tus Eversoll turns 96 years; Josh and Becky Popp will celebrate 10 years. May 4 - Alfred Brauneck- er turns 27 years; Alycia Church. May 5 - Jesse Meyer turns 20 years; Donald Hayes turns 68 years; Trey Cul- bertson turns 19 years; Amber Strobel turns 29 years; JoAnna Nowark; Feli- cia Hayes turns 38 years. May 6 - April Aldridge; Angela Hill turns 38 years; Daniel and Brittney Baker will celebrate 12 years. May 7 - Bradyn Kohl Ray Hartley turns 10 years; Khloe Dawn Hartley turns 10 years. May 8 - Becky Russell Pride; Deputy Mike Willis turns 52 years; Patton Joe King turns five years; Brian and Angie Schwengel will celebrate eight years. May 9 - Justin Meyer turns 39 years; Becky Lamb Popp turns 29 years; Syl- via Wheeler turns 87 years. May all our stars have a really great day and may all your wishes come true. Keep in your heart and in your prayers all our stars who need that card, visit, phone call and that daily thought to help them have a great day. EVENTS May 3 - Winslow Lions Club at 7 p.m. at the Winslow Community Center; Pike County Moms Group at 10 a.m. at the Otwell United Methodist Church. May 5 - Poehlein Spring Bass Tour- ney from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Poe- hlein Cabin. Have fun as you catch the biggest bass in your favorite fishing hole. For more information, call Greg at 812-789 -3778. May 7 - Winslow Girl Scouts meet at 6 p.m. at the House of Mercy Base- ment; Winslow Community Festival meeting for September 15 will meet at 6 p.m. at the Community Center; Spur- geon-Monroe Fire Dept. Meeting at 7 p.m. at the station house. May 8 - Primary Election Day. Vote for the person who is right for the job and for the citizens. May 12 - Petersburg City-Wide Yard Sale. Look in the Press-Dispatch sec- tion for locations so you can find what- ever you have been searching for. May 13 - Mothers' Day. Have you thought about how to make this say great and glorious? Say, "I love you, Mom." May 14 - Winslow Town Hall at 7 p.m. at the Comm. Center. Winslow seniors meet on Monday and Tues- day at the Snyder Comm. Center. Petersburg se- niors meet on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday in the Courthouse basement. There were no post- cards at Sweets Column, Winslow, Ind. 47598 this week. The Patoka River is below its banks, and the ponds at the Riverside Park are almost dry. The field across the road has some small ponds where we have seen a flock of geese grazing. That might not be the right word for what they do, but they were eating. We also saw a white crane in a field on Hwy 64 at the county lines of Pike and Gibson. Winslow has had rain off and on the first part of last week with chilly temps until Thursday, April 26, when the temps began to rise a bit to 67 de- grees with night temps around 45. The winds have been strong from 10 -20 for most of the week. Now the sun has come out and the rain has stopped for the weekend, but look out for that frost, maybe, on Sunday morning, April 29. The colors in the yards all over the counties are amazing to see. There are so many different colors of trees and bushes, like red, light purple, dark pur- ple, pink and a reddish purple. Then the trees themselves have green, yel- low, brown and reddish which makes the wooded areas look almost like it is fall again. The tulips are blooming their bright colors of red, white and pink. The dogwood trees are about to show off their beauty of white flowers. Saturday, April 21 was the Winslow Little League Parade. All 13 to 14 teams came down the street, and they were the happiest group of ballplay- ers as they threw out candy. I have seen the games have started, but you will have to check out what night your neighbor child is playing and check it out. To all the ball players, have loads of fun! Sunday, April 22 was Earth Day where you plant a tree. At our house, Tim and Jeanette came by and plowed up a spot for all the flower seeds I have received as gifts. Now I cannot wait for them to pop up and bloom in about two weeks. I really appreciate the plowed up flower garden, Tim, Jeanette and Norm. My I.D. has expired, and I needed to get a copy of my birth certificate in Princeton, so we were on our way to find out where they moved the records. We stopped at the Gibson Health De- partment, and low and behold, there it was. The vital records were in plain sight, so there was no more searching. Then is was onto the license branch, but it was closed on Monday. I came back on Tuesday with all the paper work, but I just showed her my I.D. and signed my name on many lines, and it was over after my picture was taken. Soon I will have my I.D. to vote and show who I am. Don't forget that the Primary Election is May 8. Norm and I also paid our property taxes ahead of the deadline, and it felt really great. Mom, we paid yours also. The morning that we had heavy fog, Wednesday, the town workers came by and flushed the hydrants in Brown- stown, but the next few days we saw them in Eastend and uptown. I'm hap- py to see this in town, because they ha- ven't been flushed in some time. Thursday, April 26, Norm and I took Mitsy, our dog, to get her rabies shot in a drive-through rabies clinic at the Ot- well Community Center parking lot for $12 a shot by Lucky Clovers 4-H Club. I am really pleased to have this group of 4-H members sponsor this. While we were there, several vehicles came out for their animals. Mitsy had nev- er been in the truck before, and put- ting her in a cage for her safety was not her cup of tea. When we got back home, she was very happy. Thank you to the Lucky Clovers for hosting this event for our dogs and cats. Winslow has a community garden just inside the entrance to the ball field where you can reserve your spot free of charge. All you have to do is call 812-789 -2366 and pick out your spot for planting your summer crop. If you need a garden spot and you don't have the room at your house, this could solve your worry. You can plant your vegetables in a sunny and well-drained spot. We did not have too much going on last week, but we got a lot done and saw more of the beauty in Southern Indi- ana. We met and spoke to some friends we hadn't seen in a while. At the Igloo, we talked to Annabel Head, who had to get a hamburger. We saw Vernon at his house while we took care of the gut- ters to see if that problem helped the situation out. I guess the ramblings are about to come to an end for this week. To close, keep an eye on family and friends, and slow down and see the beauty all around your area. Yard work is about to be a weekly thing, but don't overdo it and rest or take a small break. Al- ways smile, wave and say Hi to every- one you see this week. When my son was 2-1/2, we visited the zoo. I got distracted for just a mo- ment, and when I looked up, my son was climbing over a wall and into the lion's den. One foot was hanging over the king of the jungle's water hole. I ran to pull him back from his sui- cide mission as he wailed his discon- tent. The two teenagers who had been standing right next to him spoke as if they had just stepped out of an old Bill and Ted movie. "I was like, whoa, that baby is cat- nip." The other laughed. "Catnip." Yeah, I'm gonna guess catnip wasn't the grass they smoked before the zoo visit. Kids and zoos, though delightful in theory, always seemed like a death march. Here, young, impressionable child, who is much faster than I, can squeeze his body into any hole like a mouse and loves doing the exact opposite of everything I say, enjoy watching this massive man-eating tiger. And remem- ber, don't go in there. Yeah, right! We are practically dar- ing them to be dined upon. Once, at another zoo, orangutans were enraged by the crowd. There was a new crop of baby orangutans, and I believe that the mothers were feeling anxious. One mother, at the end of her rope, threw poop at the crowd. I didn't fault her; in fact, I felt her. I don't know that feces would have been my go-to choice, but heaven knows there were times in those new-mom- my months when I felt the urge to gr- ab nearly anything in reach and chuck it at irritating gawkers: a baby bottle, a breast pump, a small dog, my baby's diaper. (OK, so maybe feces were on the table, just not my own.) I pulled my kids away from the rail- ing. Sure, I didn't want to agitate the mama primate more, but also, I was ter- rifyingly aware of the fact that we did not have a change of clothes should my kids become the next victim of gravity-defying excrement. So did they back away? No! Of course not! My kids, who actually had not been part of the original problem, now joined a chorus of other kiddos (in a seemingly choreographed exercise of parental defiance) and be- gan taunting our distant cousins. And oh, how the poo rained down. I once heard a crotchety old neigh- bor say that kids don't belong at zoos; they belong in them. The children, he said, should be escorted into cages or rooms with windows while the animals walk freely around them. At the time, I thought this man a Scrooge. Now, in retrospect, Scrooge was actually a genius. How else could he have accumulated all that money and such delightful gravy puns? Today I had the pleasure(?) of chap- eroning my 5 -year-old's school class to the local zoo. I spent most of the morning maniacally counting the 22 children in tow. John Nash would have nothing on me. I learned each child's name and made mental groupings of gender, hair color, jacket color and shirt under the jacket color, ensuring that we kept an eye on every single Goldfish-breath tyke. You may find this responsible chap- eroning, but you haven't seen our zoo. To understand that my obsessiveness was unnecessary, you must first under- stand that our zoo is actually just a res- cue for animals that can- not be rereleased. It's... ti- ny. The No. 1 animal found at our zoo? The terrifying, fero- cious turtle. Look, I'm no scientist, and there is still a de- cent chance that with so many turtles at the zoo, one could very likely be a snapping turtle. Hello... danger! I don't want Felicity, the sweet little girl with braids in her hair, to be- come Four-Fingered Felicity on my watch! The zoo also has black bears (behind a fully fenced-in enclosure) and an alligator (that honestly has nev- er moved in all my many visits and I'm now thinking may be stuffed.) A fter petting a corn snake and vis- iting every exhibit in our small rescue zoo, the children huddled together for a picnic. We had survived. Not a single child had gone missing, been injured or tried to climb into a predator's den. A fter snack, we played tag. I chased after the children, pretending to be a monster. My kid and his friend smacked right into each other, bash- ing their heads together. "Your monster made me get hurt," my kid wailed. So much for this zoo's not being dan- gerous. 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