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A-4 Wednesday, May 2, 2018 The Press-Dispatch LOCAL Call: 812-354-8500 Email: news@pressdispatch.net or bring in a hard copy: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg READER GUIDE Subscriptions: Subscription rates: One year: $30 for Pike and surrounding counties and all 475 and 476 ad- dresses; 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-Dispatch, P.O. 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Manager Cindy Petty, Advertising Sales Pam Lemond, Advertising Sales Matt Haycraft, Advertising Sales Ed Cahill, Sports Editor Eric Gogel, Production Manager Monica Sinclair, Office Manager • • • • • • Published every Wednesday by the Pike County Publishing Co. Telephone 812-354-8500 820 Poplar Street, P.O. Box 68, Petersburg, Indiana 47567 • • • • • • Entered at the Post Office in Petersburg, Indiana for transmis- sion through the mails as Periodical Mail, postage paid at Petersburg, Indiana. Published weekly. (USPS 604-340) NEWS BRIEFS Petersburg City-Wide Yard Sale set for May 12 The Petersburg City-Wide Yard Sale is set for Sat- urday, May 12. For those having yard sales, The Press-Dispatch will once again offer yard signs that correspond with their location on the map printed in the May 9 edition. The cost of line ads start at $4 for 20 words. See D-4 for more details. Lockhart Township Mother's Day Dinner Lockhart Township Community Center will have a Mother's Day Dinner. It is scheduled for 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday, May 13. Tickets are $10 each (under 5 free) and the dinner will include chicken, ham, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn, salad, roll, dessert and drink. Tickets are available by calling Teresa at 812-617-3020 or Mike at 812-486 -8680. Credit for Efficiencies Credit for efficiencies in the ambulance ser vice should be taken, if it actually hap- pened. However, credit must also be tak- en for the $10,120,000 wasted over 8 years and the two new employees and one new ¾ ton truck, wage increases, incentive raises, PERF, social security taxes, and in- surance costs added to the spending. This is partially covered by the new "Safety Tax" imposed on the taxpayer. Vote for Jim Johns for Council. PAID FOR BY JIM JOHNS FOR COUNCIL AREA HAPPENINGS Petersburg Senior Citizens Center - The senior citizens center is open from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday in the Pike County Courthouse basement. Breakfast is served on the first Wednesday of the month, donations accepted to help with the cost. Everyone is welcome. Genealogy Club - Want to know your family his- tory? Do you have relatives that were in the Civil War or the Revolution? Genealogy Club will be at the His- tory Center Saturday mornings in April to help you at no charge from 9 -11 a.m. Al-Anon meeting – Meetings are each Wednesday at 11:30 a.m., located at 424 W. 7th St. in Jasper. For more information, call 812-887-0349. Celebrate Recovery Program – Meets every Sun- day night from 5 to 7 p.m. at 207 Lafayette St. in Win- slow. For more information, call Krystal Breeding 812- 582-2562. Winslow Alcohol Anonymous – will meet every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Call 812-789 -8535 for location of the meeting. Narcotic Anonymous – Every Monday at 7 p.m. at River of Life Fellowship Church. For more informa- tion, contact 812-380 -1395. Women's Cancer Support Group - The Lange- Fuhs Cancer Center at Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center offers a support group for women who have had cancer of any type or are currently undergo- ing cancer treatment. Sessions are the third Tuesday of each month from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the Lange-Fuhs Cancer Center Confer- ence Room, located at Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center's Dorbett Street entrance. For more information about the "Women's Support Group," visit www.mhhcc.org and click on "Classes & Events," or call The Lange-Fuhs Cancer Center at 812- 996 -7488. Pre-registration is not necessary. CO U N T Y C O UNC I L I would like to continue my term on county council. I'm a lifelong Pike County resident. After graduation from Pike Central, I attained a finance degree from Indiana University Kelly School of Business. I had a 40-year career in banking, in which I was the youngest bank president in the state, along with sitting on the board of directors at eight different banks. I feel I'm qualified for the job. In the eight years I've been on council, we have made great strides in the community. We have, while keeping a good budget, accomplished the following: Shovel-ready site at I-69, with utilities, for development. Improved equipment at highway garage. Increased collection rates with EMS to reduce costs, while adding paramedics and a second location, reducing average response times by more than half to eight minutes. Improved communication with cities and towns. Pike County is the 87th lowest tax county of the 92 counties. Kept tax rates low. I will make it a priority for Pike County to thrive and be prepared for any opportunities for growth. We need to create a community in which our kids and grandkids will have opportunities for employment where they live. 1 2 3 4 5 FOR Paid for by Max Elliott Committee for Council AMELIA FRANCES HEURING Amelia Frances Heuring was born to Alden and Jill Heuring, of Fort Branch, on Tuesday, April 24. She was 19 inches long and weighed 7 lbs. 2 oz. She is the grand- daughter of Mike and Mary Sorg, of Haubstadt, and An- dy and Phyllis Heuring, of Petersburg. Area Birth Two arrested after report of unconscious men in Brenton Chapel parking lot By Andy Heuring A Petersburg man and his passen- ger were arrested after police received a report of two men unconscious in a car on the Brenton Chapel parking lot last Thursday afternoon. Logan Grannan, 21, of 1707 E. Wal- nut St., Petersburg, was arrested on a charge of operating a vehicle while in- toxicated (refusal). Pike County Sheriff's Sgt. Dallas Killian said while responding to the re- port on CR 400 N., he topped a hill and saw a man stumbling along the side of the road, attempting to get into a white Dodge Charger driving slowly with the door open. Sgt. Killian said when he turned on his emergency flashing lights, the Dodge didn't stop. It still didn't stop when he activated his air horn twice, but eventually after turn- ing on his siren twice, the car stopped. Sgt. Killian said when Grannan rolled down the driver's side window, he immediately smelled the odor of burnt marijuana. Sgt. Killian also said both Grannan and his passenger, Bret M. Allen, 21, of 504 E. Maple St., Wash- ington, had badly slurred speech. Grannan failed field sobriety tests and refused a chemical test. He was preliminarily charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Killian said he also found Grannan had previously been convicted of OV WI in June 2017. Sgt. Killian said Allen was display- ing signs of extreme intoxication. A f- ter he told police he wanted to talk to his attorney, he was taken into custo- dy on preliminary charges of public in- toxication and possession of synthet- ic marijuana. A Petersburg woman was arrested Friday night after police stopped a van for having a headlight out. Candace Marie Riger, 27, of 204 Sec- ond St., Petersburg, was arrested by Pike County Deputy Sheriff Paul Col- lier. Deputy Collier said he saw a blue Pontiac driving north on Highway 57, south of Petersburg, and stopped it. Riger was driving. He said her eyes were droopy, her pupils were fixed and unresponsive to light, and she had a hard time keeping her eyes open. She failed field sobriety tests and re- fused a chemical test. She was trans- ported to the Pike County Jail, where she was preliminarily charged with op- erating a vehicle while intoxicated, (re- fusal). A Petersburg woman was arrest- ed Thursday evening after police saw her drive left of center and then off the right side of the road. Kelly R. May, 51, of 1811 E. Alford St., Petersburg, was arrested by Pe- tersburg Cpl. Jared Simmons. He said he saw a blue Chevy Impala going west on Pike Ave., near McDonald's, and it went left of center. Then as the vehi- cle passed Hornady Park, he saw it run off the right side of the road and veer sharply back onto the road. Cpl. Simmons said as he parked be- hind the vehicle, after pulling it over to call into central dispatch, the vehicle started backing up towards his patrol car until he yelled at it to stop. He said when he talked with May, who was driving, he noticed rapid and muttering speech, poor dexterity and she was "extremely fidgety." May failed filed sobriety tests. Dep- uty Buck Seger and K-9 officer Bleck conducted a sniff test of the vehicle and Bleck indicated illegal drugs were present. May denied any drugs were present in the car. During a search of the vehicle, po- lice found a purse in the backseat with medications prescribed to May, and a glasses case that contained a burnt spoon with a crystal-like substance, razor blade and hypodermic needle, according to Cpl. Simmons. He said the crystal-like substance field tested positive for meth. May refused a chemical test and was transported to the Pike County Jail, where she was preliminarily charged with operating a vehicle while intox- icated (refusal), possession of meth, possession of paraphernalia, unlawful possession of a syringe and maintain- ing a common nuisance. Two Pike County roads schedule for chip and seal Two highways in Pike County are scheduled to be chip and sealed in the coming weeks and will be done under full road closure conditions to prevent damage to vehicles and the road, ac- cording to the Indiana Department of Transportation. On Friday, May 4, there will be two locations on Highway 65 that will be chip and sealed. Crews will be working from the Patoka River Bridge in Gib- son County to the Pike County line and from the Pike-Gibson line to the intersection of Highway 56, about sev- en miles west of Petersburg. Then on Monday, May 14, crews will be chip and sealing Highway 56 on three locations. They will start at Highway 41 and go to the Pike-Gibson line, from the Pike-Gibson line to High- way 65 and then from the intersection of Highways 56 and 65 to the city lim- its of Petersburg. On Tuesday, May 22 they will chip and seal Highway 364 (Pike State For- est Rd.) from Highway 61 to the Pike State Forest entrance. INDOT said the work is weather de- pendent, but each project should take about four days to complete. INDOT added that having the roads closed while the work is being done increas- es the quality of the finished road work. It added, "A fter chip and seal oper- ations are complete, any loose aggre- gate will be swept away from the road." "Chip and seal operations, on av- erage, extend the life of pavement by three to five years. For every $1 spent on chip and seal, taxpayers save $ 6 -14 in future road rehabilitation and con- struction costs. Motorists should re- member to slow down, increase follow- ing distance, obey all work zone signs and flaggers, and plan for extra time to get to your destination," said Jason Til- ler of INDOT. Pavement repair and replace work on Highway 57 from Petersburg to Oak- land City began on Monday. It is ex- pected to continue until August. net edition yeah, it's that fast! Z M www.PressDispatch.net/Subscribe It's The Press-Dispatch. No matter where you live. Delivered every Wednesday morning! Add it for $5 to your current print subscription or stand-alone for $35/year.