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Today's Bible Verse And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. Hosea 7:2 Sports jMtf Weather Ik Mostly sunny with isolated jsZJj13 storms and a PV highof92A6 Bobby "Slick" Leonard shares views on state of Indiana PacersBI ViriCenneS Indiana's First Newspaper-Since 1804 oun-Commercial "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." II Cor. 3:17 Thursday, June 19, 2014 $1 Winter cold burns up aid for cooling Pace says some help available in special cases "It's not that we don't have anything to offer, we just have a different set of much smaller programs than we've ever had before," she said. "Unfortunately, though, that means we will have some households that are used to getting some sort of assistance not get any." Laughlin said a limited number SEE COOLINGPAGE A2 directly to utility companies for households that participated in the winter program. The authority says administrating agencies such as Pace with remaining funds may provide crisis assistance of $200 or less to eligible households who receive disconnection notices through August.

Laughlin said local qualifying households may be eligible for other programs. out of money after helping more than 130,000 families pay nearly $48 million worth of heating bills over the winter. Pace Community Action Agency's client services manager Susan Laughlin says that traditionally if a household were to receive assistance during the winter, it would automatically qualify for benefits during the summer to help with the expense of cooling their homes. In Knox County, 1,322 households qualified for winter assistance this heating season. The summer program has traditionally provided a $50 benefit The brutal winter has put a freeze on a statewide summer cooling assistance program for low-income Hoosiers.

Officials at the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority say they've run INTO THE TRENCHES Ivers, New Hope Center acquire deed to poor farm property Organization needs help paying for roof repairs What was once the county's old poor farm on South Hart Street Road is now officially in the hands of Sandy Ivers and the New Hope Center Inc. Four months ago, after nearly seven years of efforts, the down-on-its-heels Victorian-era building was donated to Ivers and the center by the county to create a shelter program for women. The plan was to get started reconstructing the roof right away, but because the not-for-profit's seven-member board couldn't meet until mid-May, the signing of documents legally transferring the properly was pushed off until now. This week, the commissioners were finally able to officially sign over the deed to the 2.8-acre properly. "It's such a blessing, I'm so thankful to be moving forward with this finally and to know this really is going to benefit the community," Ivers said.

"The project really is unending. It's for the moms, the children, but also the men will find benefit, too, so it'll be wonderful to see SEE IVERSPAGEA2 Sun-Commercial photos by Jenny Peter-McNeece Howard Lanam, left, and J.D. Strange, volunteers at the Indiana Military Museum, 71 5 S. Sixth work Wednesday morning to put the finishing touches on the re-creation of a World War I trench as fellow museum devotee Jim Smith looks on. The museum is hosting an event this weekend to commemorate the 1 00th anniversary of the beginning of World War I.

Indiana Military Museum to mark start of 'war to end all wars' this weekend Legion seeks donations for fireworks Post $4,000 short of goal this was so important. We don't have any World War I veterans still with us, but we have to remember what history taught us. "World War I laid the groundwork for World War II. The Treaty of Versailles ensured that, 20 years later, World War II would erupt from the same problems. There are lessons to be learned from that." America was late to join, but Osborne said by war's end, more than 4 million soldiers had either been drafted or had enlisted into the military, and about 116,000 of them died in the year that followed.

"Those people need to be remembered as well," Osborne said. Osborne said he will unveil five new pieces of restored WWI artillery for the event as well as a French field hospital truck that was just recently completed. There will also be "several hundred" new pieces of WWI memorabilia put on display inside the museum, including German emperor Kaiser Wilhelm's battle flag. "There will be a lot for people to see and appreciate for the very first time," Osborne said. 'We'll also have vendors.

The Evansville Military Club will be set up selling artifacts, and we'll have a food vendor. "There will be a lot of activity and things to see, well worth people's time." The event will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The outside exhibits are free.

A four-year effort to remember those who fought and gave their lives during World War I begins this weekend at the Indiana Military Museum, 715 S. Sixth St. Judge Jim Osborne, the museum's curator and founder, is planning an event Saturday and Sunday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the "war to end all wars," with new memorabilia, restored artillery never seen by museum visitors before and re-enactors who will give event-goers a taste of what trench warfare was like 100 years ago. 'We've re-created a World War I trench out on our battleground area," Osborne said. "It's pretty extensive.

We're working on it right now and will probably continue working on it until the event opens to get it all finished. 'We'll have living history people dressed up as both Allied and German soldiers," he said. "People can walk through, kids too, and see what it was like in the trenches, because that's basically what World War I turned into, trench warfare for four years. 'We've got all the equipment, things for people to see, and I think it will be really interesting," the judge said. 'The soldiers can talk to them about weapons, gas masks, barbed wire.

It will all be there." Osborne wants to host a WWI event each summer until 2018, which marks It takes a lot of green to light up the Fourth of July sky with the rockets' red glare, and American Legion Post 73 is once again seeking the community's help to meet its fundraising goal for this year's fireworks display. Ray Manning and Carl Bottoms, both longtime Legion members and co-chairmen of the annual event on the banks of the Wabash River, say they're about $4,000 away from collecting the nearly $13,000 it costs to put on the big show. The cost of the event goes up every year, and this year donations have been slow to come in. But Manning and Bottoms are hopeful the community, as it has in the past, will step up to help. SEE FIREWORKSPAGE A2 Howard Lanam works Wednesday morning on a re-creation of a World War I trench.

The museum's commemoration of the centennial of the war's beginning will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. the 100th anniversary of the end of the war. It began in 1914 and lasted for four years; the United States entered in 1917.

It's important, he said, to remember not only those who fought and died but also to remember the history surrounding the first World War. "We don't talk about it much anymore," Osborne said. "That's one of the reasons why I thought doing Inside AstrologyA4 DearAbbyB7 OpinionA5 ClassifiedB4-5 MarketB6 SportsBl ComicsB7 ObituariesA3 TelevisionA4 www.suncommercial.com Vol.82, No. 146 2 sections, 14 pages 6 53II0025.