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154TH YEAR ISSUE NO. 36 $1
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Catch Boogie Bob on the flip side
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Longtime county health inspector retires By Erika Schmidt Russell Editor erussell@registerpublications.com
PHOTOS BY ERIKA SCHMIDT RUSSELL/The Journal-Press
By day Bruce Canfield works at Dearborn County Hospital, but in his spare time he creates beautiful hand-thrown pottery ranging from plates to bowls to vases sold under the name Earthworks Pottery. Canfield rings up a sale to Jared and Janie Tebben at the Phi Beta Psi Arts & Crafts in the Park Sunday, Sept. 7. The Lawrenceburg event in Newtown Park drew a large crowd of shoppers with fall-like temperatures and a gentle breeze.
Brenda Robinson, Bethlehem, Ky., has been selling personalized decorations at Arts & Crafts in the Park for at least 10 years. Sunday her booth featured Halloween and Christmas items.
I-74 bridge work continues The Indiana Department of Transportation will close single lanes at individual bridges on Interstate 74 in Dearborn County while contracted crews repair pavement and apply epoxy polymer deck overlays. RAM Construction Services, the state’s contractor, plans to begin operations late in the week—weather permitting—for this $563,481 INDOT Seymour District bridge preservation project. Nine I-74 bridges at five locations will be rehabilitated between the IndianaOhio state line and a structure site west of St. Leon. ■■Johnson Fork and Johnson Fork Road—I-74 eastbound and westbound bridges—1.23 miles east of U.S. 52 ■■White’s Hill Road—I-74 eastbound and westbound bridges—1.23 miles west of U.S. 52 ■■U.S. 52 and the Indiana & Ohio Railroad—I-74 eastbound and westbound bridges—5.44 miles east of Ind. 1 ■■East Fork of Tanners Creek
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Cathy Ward and Paula Daugherty, both of Lawrenceburg, check out jewelry. The annual event had a wide range of crafts including wood toys, quilts, crocheted scarves and more. Also on sale were paintings and photographs.
Rampage run benefits Red Wolf Sanctuary of wildlife native to this area, including black bears, gray wolves, coyotes, foxes and raptors including both hawks and owls. Many of its cmattingly@registerpublications.com residents are former “pets,” given up when their Folks who love to run and walk competi- owners realized wild animals do not make good tively and have a ken for wildlife may want to pets for a variety of reasons. Others lived wild check out the Red Wolf Rampage set for Satur- until injuries or illness made that impossible. day, Sept. 27. Participants The 5K and who pre-register 10K trail run and by Friday, Sept. walk will begin 12, will receive a at 9 a.m. at the commemorative Red Wolf Sanctushirt and be regisary near Rising tered to win extra Sun. Both trails door prizes. are very scenic, Those registersaid sanctuary coing after Sept. 12 owner Jane Straswill not be guaranser. teed a shirt. Regis“The 5K is tration is capped BOB MATTINGLY PHOTO pretty flat but the at 500. 10K has some These three young timber or gray wolves, shown at Rising Star Caquite challeng- about 6 weeks old, became Red Wolf Sanctuary resi- sino, a race sponing hills. Walkers dents this spring. sor, will provide can do either trail. parking and disProceeds from the race benefit Red Wolf Sanc- counted room rates for participants. Participants tuary,” she said. can pick up their packets between 6:30 p.m. The routes go through beautiful Indiana and 8:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, at the casino in landscapes, taking participants past the large Rising Sun. All participants will be shuttled to wildlife enclosures. The 10K is a challenging Red Wolf Sanctuary for the race itself from the course to hike and a serious challenge for even casino, beginning at 7 a.m. Sept. 27. the most seasoned trail runner, taking runners Early bird prices are $25 per person, with sigup 240-plus feet in elevation, then back down nificant price breaks for groups of over four. For in a stretch of less than a mile. the larger group prices, one must call to make The non-profit sanctuary cares for a variety See RUN, Page 8 By Chandra L. Mattingly Staff Reporter
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“You’re an Andy Griffithtype inspector.” The comment from a state health department official a few years ago may have been meant as a compliment or an insult, but as a compliment it is fitting. Bob Skidmore is a vestige of another era. That era is drawing to a close. After almost 30 years on the job, Bob, 65, is leaving the Dearborn County Health Department where he has been a food service inspector since the mid-1990s. As an Andy Griffith-type health inspector, Bob preferred to be friends with the owners and managers of the places he was inspecting. That wasn’t always possible, but for the most part it worked for him and for the health and safety of diners in Dearborn County. Sitting down for a chat in the Lawrenceburg Library on a Thursday afternoon, Bob is casual in shorts and a baseball hat. A restaurant cook greets him with a smile and the two chat. It’s Andy Griffith.
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Aurora man charged with confining, battering juvenile
Sheriff's Deputy Dee Smith. Smith said the girl said she had been picked up by a man cmattingly@registerpublications.com named Nick who took her to Aurora resident Dante N. the Childers residence, wrote Childers, 25, of 258 Lower Slack. She told Smith she was John St., has been charged drinking alcohol until Nick with criminal confinement and Dante got into a fight, then had a friend take her resulting in bodily home. injury, a level 5 Slack also interfelony; and battery viewed the juve(bodily injury) and nile and her father, furnishing alcohol and the girl gave to a minor, both Slack Nick's phone Class B misdenumber, said Slack. meanors, according Nick said Childers, to Dearborn Circuit a friend, asked him Court records. to pick up the juveIn his affidavit Dante Childers nile and come over, for probable cause, Aurora Police Sgt. Shane and he did so, wrote Slack. Slack said he went to the John At Childers' house, they all Street location looking for a begin drinking, then Childers runaway juvenile from Ohio got rough with the juvenile, County. Slack was assisted by getting on top of her, Nick Indiana State Trooper Cam- told Slack. Childers smacked her in eron McCreary. Childers, who had an in- the face and told her she was jury to his right eye and what going to have sex with both of appeared to be dried blood them, Nick said, wrote Slack. on his T-shirt, gave the two Nick, however, got Childers officers permission to search off the girl, punched him in the residence for the juvenile, the face and told the juvenile wrote Slack. They saw mul- to get out for her safety, said tiple open alcoholic beverage the affidavit. Nick also left. In a second interview with containers in the living room, but did not find the juvenile. the girl and her dad, she told When McCreary showed Slack Childers held her shoulChilders her photo, he said ders and arms down as well he knew who she is but de- as slapped her on the face, nied seeing her overnight, wrote Slack. As the two men said Slack. Shortly thereaf- began fighting, she got in beter, Ohio County dispatch tween them and told them to advised the juvenile had re- stop, but Childers pushed her turned home, where she was to the floor, telling her to shut interviewed by Ohio County up, said the affidavit. By Chandra L. Mattingly Staff Reporter
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Bob, whose last day on the job was Aug. 29, had stopped in the county health department office earlier Thursday, Sept. 4, to fill out some more retirementrelated paperwork. “They laughed and said I couldn’t even wait a week,” said Bob, admitting he is going to miss his daily interactions with people. “I’m a people person. I just love talking to people,” he says. That people person side will be difficult to suppress, but more on that later. Back when he started at the county health department on Nov. 3, 1986, he handled a variety of duties from septic complaints to indoor air quality to stream pollution reports. That changed when food service inspections were separated from environmental health in the mid-1990s, he said. Through those years, Bob has seen his fair share of changes. “Computers back then were just babies compared to where we are now,” said Bob. But computers’ role in his job has increased and evolved through the intervening years. Just as the number of restaurants inspected and the job itself has evolved. Continuing education was always a part of it, and that
Wed: High: 87 Low: 65
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