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Health screenings coming to TC...

TELL CITY – Residents living in and around Tell City can learn about their risk for cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, diabetes and other chronic, serious conditions, with affordable screenings by Life Line Screening.  First United Methodist Church will host this community event on Oct. 18. The site is located at 702 10th St. in Tell City.

Screenings can check for:

• The level of plaque buildup in your arteries, related to risk for heart disease, stroke and overall vascular health.

• HDL and LDL Cholesterol levels

Persimmons ripening early this...

Jeneen Wiche

Weekend Gardener

 

The pear and apple orchard has been picked clean for the season: some are now applesauce and others dried and sitting patiently on the shelf until the dead of winter (we are not allowed to eat them until all fresh are eaten!)

‘Draggin’ group to host car show

TELL CITY – Building on the success of past events, new for 2017 will be a Draggin’ Main Route 66 Auto Show – Saturday, Sept. 23, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. The Route 66 Series will be held in the Wal-Mart parking lot located at 730 Indiana 66 E., Tell City.

All makes and models of automobiles and bikes are welcome at this event. Awards will be given at 1.

Fun-filled fall break day camps...

PERRY COUNTY – Fall Break Day Camps are a great way for youth in grades 3-12 to have fun and learn new skills in a safe environment. Purdue Extension is offering two days camps during fall breaks for Perry Central and Tell City schools. The programs will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Daycare will be provided at 7:30 a.m. Youth must be picked by 5:30 p.m. Lunch, snacks, program materials, and enrollment in the 2018 4-H program are included in the fee.

Trump on DACA: Do your job,...

Well, so much for Hoosier common sense. A lot of Indiana officials are joining the preening, posturing hordes dumping on President Trump for his perfectly proper decision to rescind DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

On Medicare, Trump missing the...

Ron Klink

GUEST COLUMNIST

 

President Trump doesn’t understand or care about healthcare policy.

He recently suggested that health insurance costs just $12 a year. And he fervently supported the GOP’s Obamacare repeal plan, which would have increased deductibles from $800 to $13,000 for individuals making $26,500 a year. That’s hardly the “great health care” plan with “much lower deductibles” that the president repeatedly promised.

‘Little Women’ photos at...

ST. MEINRAD – The Archabbey Library Gallery in St. Meinrad, is hosting an exhibit of photographs called “Little Women” by Andrea Hoelscher.

The exhibit runs from Sept. 15 through Oct. 16.

Hoelscher lives in Ferdinand and teaches photography at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville. In 1994, she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has shown her work in many locations in the U.S. and Europe.

Perry County Beekeepers to meet...

PERRY COUNTY – The Perry County Beekeepers organization will meet on Thursday, Sept. 21, at 6 p.m. in the FFA building at Perry Central. The topic of this meeting will be fall mite control and constructing winter bee feeders.

The program will include looking at mites using a microscope with a camera to evaluate hives for mite-biting behavior. We needs community help collecting samples to evaluate.

Put sticky boards under your hives on Tuesday morning and remove them at the same time on Thursday morning.

A county full of chronicles

Stuart Cassidy

Staff Writer

news@perry countynews.com

 

Music, fun & games:10th...

TELL CITY – The 10th Street Fall Fair will return to Tell City this weekend, Saturday, Sept. 16. Family fun, live music, food booths, shopping, photo booth, petting zoo and games for all ages will fill the afternoon and evening.  This family friendly event will run from 3-7 p.m. in the 800 Block of 10th Street between Fulton and Jefferson Streets in Tell City.