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The Press-Dispatch Home Life Wednesday, June 6, 2018 C- 9 1951, at Saint Lucas United Church of Christ in Evans- ville. He graduated from Jas- per High School in 1945, where he enjoyed playing sports and was a member of the basketball and base- ball teams. In March 1945, he enlisted in the United States Navy at the age of 17; and served two years as a Medical Corpsman during World War II. He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Billie J. Sakel; two sons and one daughter- in-law, Steven Sakel, of Co- lumbia, S.C., and Tully (Kar- en) Sakel, of Huntingburg; two grandsons; and five great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his mother and father; and one sister, Marjorie Hecker. Funeral services were at 10 a.m. EDT., on Monday, June 4, 2018, at the Nass & Son Funeral Home in Hunt- ingburg, with Rev. Mark West, Rev. Mike Thomp- son and Rev. Gerald Frye officiating. Burial followed at Fairmount Cemetery, Huntingburg. The Holland American Legion Memori- al Detail conducted military graveside rites. Visitation was from 3-7 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. A Masonic memori- al service was at 6:30 p.m., Sunday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions can be made to the University of Evansville Athletic De- partment or Salem United Church of Christ. Condo- lences may be shared online at: www.nassandson.com. TRAUMA Continued from page 4 SAKEL Continued from page 8 Brighter Side by Janice Barniak Looking cool in a new town 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 Rough-N-Cut Designs. MAY WINNER And the winner is... Cindy Ridao from Otwell. Cindy won a $25 gift card from Route 56 Antiques and Trea- sures and a three-month subscription to The Press-Dis- patch. Congratulations! THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS Hunter Scalf-Moyes ..................... Winslow .......... 6/9 Barbara Mitchell ......................... Winslow .........6/11 THIS MONTH'S SPONSOR ROUGH-N-CUT Designs 607 N. S.R. 257, Otwell 812-582-3881 Hours: Monday-Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Home Décor, Flowers, Cabinets, Shelves, Signs, Flower Boxes, • Holiday Decorations Sweet's Column by Barbara Sweet to being given the lesson; I require them to engage their actual listening skills during class. (OK, more like beg them to.) I have not set up a voice recognition soft- ware so that everything I say automatically gets typed up on the screens before them and uploaded into their com- puters. But is tech really all there is to teaching? My dad was an amazing teacher. The most irritating occurrence in my teen angst years was when classmates would come up to me and tell me how much they loved my dad when he had been their teacher. Kids of all walks of life would glow as they sang his praises. "Mr. Langrock was the bomb. I never cared about learning before Mr. Langro- ck. He's your dad for real? Aw, man, you're so lucky! " I would get all huffy and scream back, "Oh, yeah, well, he's kinda lame, too, ya know. Like, I'm totally grounded right now just be- cause I got detention every day last week and sneaked out of the house at 3 a.m. So clearly, he's, like, actually the worst." My dad used to do wild science experiments in the classroom. He'd crack goofy jokes and wear mismatched clothes. The kids were most certainly laughing at him, but only because he was in on the joke and permitting it. And they learned. I thought I would be good at teaching because my dad was good at teaching. I thought I'd be able to com- mand a small audience the way he could. Instead, I'm heading into teaching trauma No. 7. This time, I decided to su- per-duper prepare. When the faculty member setting up the classroom asked me whether I need any audiovi- sual hookups for the class, I excitedly told him, "No, I created a 20 -page workbook instead." This is gonna stink. It's not just the absence of gun shots and all-night pancake outlets that says I don't live in Evansville anymore. This week, the refrigerator at my Princeton house went out, and so I found myself on the square peering into Schoogie's, the place where my mom said she bought her last refrig- erator. She said she felt some loyalty there because when the used refrigerator she bought clunked out on day 46 and she had a 45 -day warranty, they went ahead and replaced it. This was great, I thought, because I had no such luck several years ago when I bought goldfish for a class of third graders, and they all died on the fourth day of their three-day warranty from Walmart. At the time, I was a substitute teach- er in Springfield, Ill., and thought I needed a gimmick to be the cool sub- stitute—I'd be the one that brought the goldfish to class. Of course I had no choice but to endlessly keep buying goldfish to re- place the dying ones until that substi- tute teaching assignment was over. A f- ter that, I became the substitute with the Goldfish crackers, which, frankly, were more popular anyway. So I was outside Schoogies, eyeing the closed sign when I see Princeton town-coun- cil member Greg Wright planting flowers in a con- crete urn along the walk. I say hi, and mention I'd just come around to check out a fridge, and he's like, "I know where the person eats break- fast, wait here." Despite my protests that I didn't want to both- er anyone, he did flag down the per- son who opens the store while she was having breakfast next door at The Pal- ace. So yes, that's a small town for you, when you can't even eat your eggs without people popping in to ask to see your refrigerators. Really, though, she was very nice about it. It's too bad that the refrigerator didn't go out a few weeks ago, because while I was in the Petersburg office, where we lay out the paper, a Monday or two back, a refrigerator fell out of a truck and onto a highway. It came across their scanner, and I'm sitting there in the office think- ing, "if they say it fell on- to the shoulder of the road, I'm running out there to get a picture. I want to be able to make that 'cold shoulder' pun in a headline." Well, they didn't say one way or another, but now, I'm thinking that could have been my chance to get the equivalent of a dent- ed-can discount on a fridge. Growing up in Cynthi- ana, Princeton was always the "big city" for me, but as an adult, I see it the opposite way, as a small town that's grown out, because in Evansville, no one knows where anyone eats break- fast, for example, and the bigger differ- ence is that no one would care enough to remember. Unless, of course, that breakfast is at midnight, then you're probably at In- ternational House of Pancakes, and if you're there, let me know, I'll join you and I promise not to bug anyone about my faulty appliances. Although if you have a lead on a good fencing person... REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Roger F. Small and Craig C. Small quitclaim to Lee Cole, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Clifton Hagemeyer conveys to Eric E. Hill and Karla R. Hill, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Beverly Weitkamp conveys to Eric E. Hill and Karla R. Hill, real estate as recorded in Pike County. CREATIVITY. OUR SPECIALTY. When you place an ad in The Press-Dispatch, your ad is designed by Indiana's top designers. Eric and Matt have nearly 20 years of combined experience and a long list of awards including the HSPA's Indiana's Top Ad Designer, Think Outside The Box and Innovation Award. The Press Dispatch PIKE COUNTY'S NEWS NETWORK Ready to Start? Call Today! 812-354-8500 OR EMAIL ADS@PRESSDISPATCH.NET Hi stars and welcome to this big stage all lit up in bright colorful lights and decorated to help cel- ebrate with all our stars who will have a birth- day or anniversary in the week of June 7-13. So come on up onto this big stage and take a bow. June 7- Jenn Deffen- dol turns 38 years; Josh- ua Braunecker turns 31 years; Blayze Timothy Reavis turns nine years; Matthew and Donna Shaw will cele- brate 15 years; Jeff and Lisa Jones will celebrate 11 years. June 9 - Crystal Smith turns 35 years. June 10 - Kevin Boyles, Jr., turns 34 years; Peggy Sue Ennis; Marcia Rel- ler Burgdorf turns 63 years; Jim Ko- zlowski. June 11- Tiffany Meyer turns 34 years; Baylyn Tuell turns 12 years; Barbara Mitchell. June 12- Brian Dillman turns 38 years; Heather Dreesman turns 29 years; Bobby Peters turns 33 years; Dale Northerner turns 85 years; Bri- an Warner turns 51 years. June 13- Elizabeth King turns 28 years; Tammy Glosser turns 52 years; Tom Vinnedge turns 29 years; Ayona Harrison turns 13 years. May all of 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 of them to have a beautiful week. Winslow is saddened from the pass- ing of Art Culver, who, at the age of 90, died on May 23, 2018. We remem- bered Art at our Winslow Memorial Day Parades and he spoke at the ser- vice one year. To Vada and the girls, and many others who knew Art, please remember all the great times and share the memories with others and more memories will come your way. Winslow will miss this fine star who brought joy to everyone he met. EVENTS June 7- Blood drive at the Winslow Community Center from 2-6 p.m., do- nate if you can to help someone in the future; Winslow Lions Club at 7 p.m. at the Community Center where the Lions help our community together. Pike Co. Moms Group at 10 a.m. at the Otwell United Methodist Church. June 9 - Petersburg Lions Club will hold a six-mile Walk-Run at Hornady Park. Teams of three or a single will start at the cabin in the park. June 11- Winslow Town Hall at 7 p.m. at the Community Center. June 12- Winslow Community Fes- tival meeting for September 15 begins at 6 p.m., Winslow Beautifi- cation at 6:30, Winslow Eco- nomic at 7:30 at the Commu- nity Center. June 14- Flag Day, fly your flag proudly as an Ameri- can. June 16 - Winslow River- side Flea Market, where you come and enjoy the compa- ny of others who may need what you have. The Winslow Lions will be serving breakfast and lunch, with proceeds going to help La- nora and Benny Kelley with expens- es on their stays in the hospital and nursing home. The times are from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 16 - Winslow, Campbelltown and Arthur City-Wide Yard Sale. Call the Press-Dispatch at 812-354-8500 if you want to advertise your sale. June 17- Father's Day. Make a pres- ent for Dad, take him out to eat and tell him you love him. June 21- Summer begins. June 22- Petersburg Lions and the Pike County Chamber of Commerce will have the Piranha Mobile Shred- ding from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Pe- tersburg Hardware Parking lot. You can shred for free. June 23- Benefit for Steve Nelson to help out with expenses from his wife, Becky, passing. This will be at Millers Field in Winslow from noon to 6 p.m. with a fish dinner, silent auction and live music. Sponsored by Winslow Li- ons Club, Winslow American Legion Post 115 and community groups. Winslow seniors meet on Monday and Tuesday at the Snyder Comm. Center. Petersburg seniors meet on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Fri- day in the Courthouse basement. There were no postcards at Sweets Column, Winslow, Ind. 47598, but the ol' mailbox is waiting. Winslow Patoka River should be up a bit with all the storms that blew in- to our area Sunday, June 27, Wednes- day the 30th and Thursday the 31st. Through all the storms, we had lots of rain. Some even blew sideways. Then there was wind that took out trees in several yards. Sherry Willis' roof had to be repaired. Some houses on the east end lost electricity, along with parts of Campbelltown. Thunder, lightning, rain, wind and hail and now the clean up has started and the de- bris will be taken away in the Town of Winslow. Thanks goes to our town workers for their assistance. Monday was the Winslow Memo- rial Day Parade where Norm and I took off two truck loads of debris from the school's parking lot for the line- up of stars. We also picked up debris at Oak Hill cemetery and along the Main St. route. The parade day was in the 90s and the humidity was quite high, but those who were in the 11th Memorial Day parade were Winslow Color Guard, Winslow Fire Dept., Patoka Township Fire Dept., Spur- geon-Monroe Fire Debt., Union Fire Dept., Road Riders for Jesus, Winslow Lions Club, Bill Knight, Mark, Kim and Ellie Messmer, and Norm and I; with Steve Nelson and Steve English to block the rods. The service was given by Alan Brock, who spoke on "What is Memorial Day." There was a great group to hear this message. All along the route were lots of the Winslow stars to also honor our fall- en veterans of all wars. Oh, yes, Sena- tor Mark Messmer played Taps at the service. Sunday, June 27, was the Indy 500 race where Australian Will Powers won the 102nd running. Norm and I started watching the race on the com- puter and then tried to watch on T V, but we live in a valley and the leaves are on the trees so no watching it on T V. We turned on the radio to finish watching or I should say listen to the race. Then after the news finally came back on the T V, we saw some of the race actions. Hot and humid with high temps is what we have to look forward to in the coming months, and it still isn't sum- mer yet until June 21. What a spring we have. The mowers are getting a workout cutting that tall grass from all the rain. Flowers are blooming like the day lilies, the tree rose bushes and more lilies are in bud. In our yard, my black eye Susan was beat down from all the heavy rain and wind, but I hope they come back again. Have you ever seen a rose bud that has daisy flowers on it? It's like the tea rose bush but dif- ferent flowers. Sunday and Monday was like a homecoming with Mom here for two weeks so Terri Ann, Ted, Chase, Thomas and Kyana visited. Terri and I took flowers to Francisco Cemetery and Norm and I took flowers to Sunset Cemetery, where we saw Greg, and he looks great with a beard. Norm took off a truck load of stuff to the land- fill on Friday with the Pike Co. Spring Cleanup, where he said there were a lot of Pike Co. Stars there sitting in line to dump their stuff. I also talk- ed to Aunt Jean on her birthday last week, and then saw Tom and Happy. As the lights begin to dim on this week's ramblings, keep an eye on family and friends, slow down and see all the wonders in your neck of the woods. Always smile, wave and say Hi to everyone you see this week. Stay as cool as you can.