The Press-Dispatch
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A-2 Front Wednesday, May 23, 2018 The Press-Dispatch ORDINANCE Continued from page 1 VETERAN Continued from page 1 The annual Pike Coun- ty Spring Clean-up has been scheduled for May 31 to June 2 at the Blackfoot Landfill on Highway 64, 2.3 miles east of Highway 61. The clean-up is put on by the Pike County Solid Waste District in conjunction with Advanced Disposal. The hours will be 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, May 31 and Friday, June 1, and from 8 a.m. to noon on Sat- urday, June 2. Pike County residents may dispose of applianc- es, computers, televisions, household paints, batter, flu- orescent bulbs, chemicals and other household haz- ardous wastes, and bulky items, such as furniture. They will also accept up to four tires for free and each additional tire will cost $1. The Solid Waste District asks people to have their items sorted so that scrap metal, computers, televi- sions, appliances and haz- ardous waste materials, which will be recycled, are separated from household trash. The services are only for residents of Pike County and personnel may request proof of residency. One man's trash is anoth- er's treasurer. Consequent- ly, a rummage section will be set up. If you have items that are still working, but you just don't want them around any more, those can be left in the rummage section. Residents can mill through that section and see if there is something they want. It is first-come, first- served. For more information, call the Solid Waste Man- agement District at 812- 354-2924. Spring Clean-up is May 31 By Andy Heuring The 40th Annual Time- less Classics of Pike Coun- ty Car and Truck show is set for Saturday in Horna- dy Park. They will present 80 awards at the show, with 60 awards going to vehi- cles with model years 1900 to 2008, and 15 for vehicles 2009 to 2018. They will also have five memorial awards and the first 100 will receive dash plaques. Registration begins at 8 a.m. and will run through 12:30 p.m. EDT. Awards will be at 3 p.m. Entry is $10 per vehi- cle, plus a non-perishable canned good or item. Trucks for Kids will be of- fering breakfast and lunch at the event. Gene Keepes, who is one of three charter members re- maining with the club, said the first show was at Scrap- ers Ford in Petersburg and had about 10 cars. "I think they were mostly club mem- bers' cars," said Keepes. The show is now in Hor- nady Park and fills with as many as 130 cars, depend- ing on the weather. "I think we draw as many nice cars as any show around," said Keepes. Dr. Howard Dunigan and Andy Osborn are the other two remaining charter mem- bers of the Timeless Clas- sics Club. 40th Timeless Classics Car & Truck Show is Saturday Pike County The Pike County Solid Waste Management District together with Advanced Disposal/ Blackfoot Landfill invite Pike County residents to participate in the annual Spring Cleanup. Hours for the week of will be: Thursday–Friday: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. • Saturday 6th: 8 a.m. – 12 p.m. • Pike County Residents Only! (Must show proof of residency at entrance) • No commercial, industrial or farm waste. (Commercial waste will be charged standard landfill rates.) FREE recycling of appliances, computers, and televisions. FREE disposal of up to 4 tires. $1 charge for each tire thereafter. FREE collection of household paints, batteries, fluorescent bulbs, chemicals and other household hazardous wastes. FREE disposal of furniture and other bulky items. Items that are still in good working condition will be set aside and Pike County resi- dents can go through items as they arrive FREE of Charge. For further information, contact the Pike County SWMD at 812-354-2924 By participating in this program the participant waives any and all claims of liability against Pike County Solid Waste Man- agement District and Advanced Disposal/Blackfoot Landfill which may arise in any manner out of the services provided pursuant to this program. Further, any participant hereby agrees to hold Pike County Solid Waste Management District and Advanced Disposal/Blackfoot Landfill free and harmless from any and all liability which may arise in any manner by participation in this program. SCRAP METAL, COMPUTERS, TELEVISIONS, APPLIANCES AND HAZARDOUS WASTE WILL BE RECYCLED!!! PLEASE HAVE SEPARATED IN LOAD FOR EASIER, FASTER DISPOSAL. (Located on State Road 64, 2.3 miles east of Arthur Junction) Thursday, May 31st – Saturday, June 2nd At the Blackfoot Landfill Rummage, Rummage!!!! AGAIN THIS YEAR!!! PAY FOR SUNDAY AND GET MEMORIAL DAY FREE! Rent any item after 12:30 p.m., Sat., May 26 Return by 9 a.m., Tues., May 29 and Monday is FREE! FREE RENTAL PETERSBURG HARDWARE 812.354.8350 4502 N. St. Rd. 61 Petersburg, IN www.petersburghardware.com Mon.-Fri.: 8am-7pm • Sat. 8am-5pm Skid Steer, Backhoe, Trencher, Tow Behind Log Splitter, Carpet Cleaners, Small Hand Tools, and More "If there's a violation, how is it going to be enforced? " Melhiser asked. "It's right here," Klipsch replied, reading from the proposed ordinance the fol- lowing passage: "'This pro- vision of this article shall be enforced by the police de- partment of the City of Pe- tersburg and/or its Code Enforcement Officer.' That's who enforces it." However, Mahoney said, enforcing the ordinance would be difficult. "Evidence would be a problem," Mahoney said. "There'll have to be a wit- ness." Police Chief Chuck Baumgart agreed. "We could use somebody as a witness to point out the dog, and the dog owner, and say that they defecated on their lawn," Baumgart said. "Most likely, it's going to be the property owner," Klipsch said. "And they saw it? " Lew- is asked. "Yes," Baumgart replied. "We can use them as a wit- ness. For us, it's not a prob- lem." Klipsch said that pet own- ers should already be pick- ing up after their pets with- out the need for a city ordi- nance. "You would think you wouldn't have to do this," Klipsch said. "I'm not pro- posing that we do or do not. I'm just saying we need to re- view it seriously." "Most responsible dog people who are walking their dogs will usually take their own bags with them," council member Brian Van- Meter said. A fter Melhiser an- nounced he wanted to ta- ble the matter so the coun- cil could examine how other communities are handling the issue, Mahoney told the council that the proposed ordinance that had been presented to them had ac- tually been written by a law school. "You're not going to find a lot of differences in the ordi- nances," Mahoney said. "It's really the policy you want to have. You're hoping that if this exists – and I'm not saying I'm for it or against it – then it would prompt peo- ple to do the right thing, be- cause they fear, 'I might face a $25 fine if somebody sees my dog pooping.'" "It wouldn't be a crime for the dog to poop," Ma- honey added. "It would be a crime not to pick it up. I mean, that's as simple as it is. You're just wanting the owner to follow up." Melhiser subsequently made a motion to table the proposed ordinance which – after being seconded by Lew- is – passed unanimously. "I don't want it to die, be- cause something needs to be done, eventually, down the road," Leavitt said. meet them at a port and sup- ply the manpower and parts to make the repairs. Since she was active from 1992 to 1996, most of their work was in the middle east. She also attended fire school. "Even though I was a store keeper, I was on the fire crew." She did her fire training in Cuba, a place she would later live for two years. Halbrader was on board when they went to Dubai during the liberation of Ku- wait. "My department had to do mine watches. I had bad eyes so I didn't do that." She said they would post crew members on the rails and watch for mines in the Su- ez Canal. She got a good ex- ample of why they did mine watches. They had to repair a ship with a hole in its side from a mine. "We were there about a month. God, it was hot there." One of the things she had to adopt to was local cus- toms. "When you are in oth- er countries, you have to fol- low their customs. As a wom- an, they didn't encourage you to wear shorts or short sleeves," said Halbrader of being in Dubai. "Their wom- en, all you would see was their eyes." She said they got to go out into the city. While she was there, the conflict was a country over in Kuwait. "Architecture there is out of this world," said Halbrader of Dubai. Along with her supply du- ties, she had mess duty. "Ev- eryone had to do mess du- ty." She said you either had to wash dishes or help with food preparation for 1,400 hungry crewmen. That was on the first of her two cruises in the Med- iterranean. They were out from April to October. Living on board with 1,400 other people meant keeping things neat and ti- dy in the close quarters. She described her bunk room as a small cubicle with two stacks of three high bunks. "They were coffin bunks." Meaning the lower two bunks had lockers under- neath the cots. However, the top bunks had vertical lock- ers in the small room. "I have been to Sicily, Greece, Italy and Spain. We were supposed to go to Tur- key, but we got pulled off that to go to Dubai." She also went to Israel. "I loved Israel. It was so differ- ent. You were able to walk around a little more free, which is kind of shocking," said Halbrader of Israel. The Shenandoah was based in Norfolk, Va. So between her two six- month long tours, she would be stationed in Virginia. Several of her friends were from California or places far enough away they couldn't go home. So a lot of week- ends, she said they would get off duty on Friday, sev- eral of them would jump in a car and drive all night back to Indiana, spend Saturday Above: Randy Hal- brader, Krista Halbrad- er and her dad Charlie Goebel on board the USS Shenandoah in the 1990s. Right: The USS Shenandoah AD 44 was a destroyer tender, 642 feet long and weighing more than 200,000 tons. at home and then drive back to Virginia on Sunday. "I made a lot friends I would call family now." She said the neatest thing she saw while at sea was an oil transfer while they were sailing. "They pulled up be- side us and threw ropes, and then latched the oil hoses over to the ship and hooked them up, and fueled it while we were cruising along." She also rode out hur- ricanes both at sea and on land during her time in the Navy. She said they would try to sail around them, but a few times, while they were able to avoid the main part of the storm, they experi- enced big surf with 10 to 15 feet waves. "Sea sickness was a real issue for me. . . I lived in my rack when we had to fight those." During her four years, Halbrader received a Navy Achievement Medal. "We had a big inspection for our inventory. I had the invento- ry to 99.7 percent accuracy. It was in total disarray pri- or to that." She said sometimes there were more than 8,000 items in the inventory and some of them had a value of more than $1 million each. Being away for six months at a time was also hard for Halbrader. She said they weren't allowed to tell their family where they were go- ing. Also, there were no cell- phones at the time. So she would try to call when they hit a port, which was about every two weeks. "My poor mother. I had no sense of what time zone I was in. I would just call when I could. It was often at two or three in the morning." She said one time she was talking to her mother and they got cut off and she wasn't able to call her back for about two weeks. "My mother had gone through every conceivable possible scenario for my death," said Halbrader. She also had a different experience than most sail- ors. She met her husband on ship and eventually mar- ried him. "No fraternizing! " She said it was frowned on and absolutely wasn't al- lowed between officer and enlisted. Both she and her husband, Randy, were en- listed. "Most people just got married and didn't tell their superiors, but I said 'no, we are going to tell them.' His department didn't want to al- low him to get married. The captain of the ship overrode them and allowed us to get married." She said Randy was due to be transferred in three months to another ship. She had started her en- listment two years ahead of him. So when she got out of the Navy, she was still married to it. He was later assigned to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they lived for two- and-a-half years. She said they lived on the American side of the fence. On the oth- er side was Cuba. "We had people on the fence line. For every one we had on the fence, there is one on the op- posite side for Cuba. They were watching what we were doing and we were watching what they were doing." Still, she said, they never felt threatened and she loved their time in Cuba. "Our biggest challeng- es in Cuba were the banana rats and land crabs. The ba- nana rats looked like opos- sums, only bigger. If you ran over a land crab in your, car you would have a flat tire." While in Cuba, she did daycare for a military fami- ly. "We went to the beach ev- eryday." She said while they had to stay on their side of the fence, there were three eateries available to them. "The Jerk House was run by Jamaicans and there was a McDonald's." Her daughter, Samantha, now a senior at Pike Central, was born in Cuba. They rode out Hurricane Andrew in Cuba. Following Cuba, they al- so spent time in Chicago before her husband got out and they returned to south- ern Indiana. "If we hadn't had a fami- ly, we probably would have made a career out of it. But with a family, it is real tough." "I'm glad I went through it. I would do it again. I would encourage kids to do it. A lot of people wouldn't, but it makes you grow up. It brings you into reality real- ly quick. I feel like the mili- tary would help a lot of these kids with discipline and they would have structure."