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15. Aric Almirola16. 17. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.18. David Ragan19. Kasey Kahne20. Tony Stewart21. David Gilliland 22. Jimmie Johnson23. Ryan Blaney24. Danica Patrick 25. Paul Menard26. Jamie McMurray27. 28. Cole Whitt43. J.J. Yeley

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29. Sam Hornish Jr. 30. Landon Cassill31. 32. 33. Brett Moffitt34. Clint Bowyer35. Matt DiBenedetto36. Michael Annett37. Eddie MacDonald38. Timmy Hill39. Derek White40. Justin Allgaier41. Jeb Burton42. Alex Bowman

Kyle LarsonTrevor Bayne

1. Kyle Busch 2. Brad Keselowski3. Kevin Harvick4. Joey Logano5. Dale Earnhardt Jr.6. Matt Kenseth7. Carl Edwards8. Austin Dillon9. Jeff Gordon10. Kurt Busch11. Ryan Newman12. Martin Truex Jr.13. AJ Allmendinger14. Denny Hamlin

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1. Matt Crafton 2. Erik Jones 3. Ryan Blaney 4. Daniel Suarez 5. Timothy Peters6. Tyler Reddick 7. David Gilliland 8. John Wes Townley 9. Cameron Hayley 10. Brandon Jones

TOP TEN XFINITY SERIES FINISHERS:

TOP TEN CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES FINISHERS:

1. Denny Hamlin 2. Austin Dillon 3. Brad Keselowski 4. Kyle Busch 5. Daniel Suarez6. Ty Dillon 7. Regan Smith 8. Darrell Wallace Jr. 9. Chase Elliott 10. Brennan Poole

The next race will be at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

The next race will be at Eldora Speedway

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Rosedale is booming this time of year with its bountiful gardens

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Bridgeton Chloe Vandivier

(765) 548-2130Well, I guess there is good news

and bad news. First, the rain has moved out of our area and temps are cooler with lower humidity. However, with all the moisture etc. the grass is growing by leaps and bounds. So we can give the AC’s a break but have to fire up the lawn mowers.

Don and Lynn Payne have re-turned from a ten day vacation cel-ebrating their 50th wedding anni-versary which was a couple of weeks ago.

If you have a student entering the seventh grade at Riverton Parke this year, there is orientation and Riverton Parke next Monday eve-ning at 6 p.m. (I believe).

Remember, the store uptown is closed until Saturday, July 25. The Mill is open every day so if you feel the urge for a sandwich or ice cream etc., check out the Mill and while there enjoy the sights and sounds of the Covered Bridge water flow-ing over the dam or just relax in the country air.

Have you seen the pics of the high water in Raccoon Lake shown on TV or perhaps seen it in person? That is definitely no place for me. Kind of interesting but extremely danger-ous. Wow!

This is Fair week so things are rather calm. I hope it doesn’t “rain on our parade” Thursday evening. It has a habit of doing so every year.

Thanks so much to all my friends and family for my birthday cards and birthday wishes via phone.

Thoughts to everyone. Enjoy the cooler weather. Wasn’t last Satur-day a scorcher?

springing up with fruits and veg-etables ripe for canning. “That will taste so good this winter when the snowballs fly” as my grandma used to say. If you find you have an abun-dance of the delicious vegetables, we will be having our Country Break-fast and Farmers Market the third Saturday of August at the Florida Township Civic Center. Contact Di-ana Robertson at (765) 548-0207 for additional information. We would like to thank everyone who turned out last weekend; it was a great day for all.

July brings hot days to Rose-dale and the Parke County Fair. Rosedale has many kids and their families involved with projects and animals. We pray for good weather as the heat is hard on animals and kids. We would like to be the first to thank and congratulate all of the winners. Best of luck to all of you as you move on.

A big congratulation goes out to Maddie Lawson for winning both the 2015 Strawberry Festival Queen in June and 2015 Parke County Fair Queen. We are proud of you and your hard work. Best of luck as you move on with your future. We also want to commend your family for raising a beautiful young lady on the inside and out.

Penny Mattingly is the voice heard this week over the intercom from the Fair office. She says there are many talented young people in Parke County and highly recom-mends that everyone stop by to take a look at their projects.

Rosedale is also proud of Rosedale Baptist Church “Growing in Grace” Youth Choir that includes Abby Hoggatt, Katlyn Steadman, Eliza-beth Robertson, Paige Blackburn and Debbie Adams. Members were winners at Rosedale Strawberry Festival and were asked to take part in the Parke County Fair Tal-ent Show. God be with you as you sing His praises.

If you would like to get involved in

some of the things done in Rosedale, we would love to have you. Just to name a couple activities:

• Rosedale Civic Center meets ev-ery third Monday, at 7 p.m.

• Stewards of Rosedale meet the first Wednesday, at 7 p.m.

Some friendly reminders:• Rosedale Methodist Church

holds Free Supper Sunday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

• Southwest Parke School regis-tration online began Friday, July 17. It will be at the schools Monday, July 28 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Tuesday, July 29 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. For seventh graders going to Riverton Parke Jr/Sr High School, orientation will be Monday, July 27. All students and their parents are welcome and encouraged to attend.

“Stuff a Bus” will be Monday, July 27 until Friday, July 31. Anyone who wants to purchase extra school supplies at Dollar General Stores in Rosedale and Montezuma may do so and place them on the school buses parked in the lots and provided by Paul Bartlow and Jim Howard. All supplies will go to Rosedale and Montezuma Elementary Schools to be given to students in need of them. Thank you Paul Bartlow, Jim Howard and Dollar General.

Thank you for all the news and dates provided. If anyone has in-formation they wish to put in my article, please let me know; birth-day, anniversary, or family event, church, school event. Email me at redsunflower@att.net or feel free to call me. Together, we will spread the word. Loving Rosedale, my hometown and God be with you.

By Brad BuchananLast week I waxed poetic on the

virtues of sailing. Letting the pro-verbial wind take you where it may. I spent two days writing the cathartic column and even turned it in well before the deadline to the surprise of the Sentinel staff. It felt good. It felt right.

Seven hours later I was in the ER with a gaping arm wound. The sail-boat named Naciente had Benedict Arnold’d me.

Wind gusting upwards of 9-10 knots. Rudders pulling hard in the water. My friend and I sailed from the boat rental to 36 Bridge. We made several passes by the bridge to elicit reactions from passerby, our sail eye level with tractor trail-ers crossing over the lake.

Tacking over to the dam, stand-ing on the hulls holding the lines, we felt that aforementioned free-dom again. We caught the wind just right, or wrong, actually, and the Naciente violently became un-balanced. The aft hulls submerged, we were capsizing. All sailors on deck abandoning ship. The massive 30 foot sail careening towards us, smacking the water in a great dis-play of Mother Nature once again showing us who’s boss.

We were fine. Just frustrated. After several moments of attempt-ing to correct our craft, a couple of ski boats came by and assisted us. Upright again, we sat on the tram-poline to catch our breath. The ex-perience was…breathtaking.

Casually, we began to piece our humpty dumpty boat back together again. The wind was still. Waves were resting beneath the glassy sur-face. The sun offering a comfortable

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warmth. I walked to the mast to help ad-

just the halyard rope. I slipped and reached for the mast to prevent me from falling. The mast cleat had other plans. Filet O’ Bradley was on the menu.

Immediately clenching my arm as I hit the deck I looked up at my sweet, sweet Naciente and thought to myself “Et tu, Brute?” My friend tied my arm with his shirt and waved down a bass boat passing by.

After getting back to The Tiki Hut, my sister, Shannon, patched me up a bit. She knows I have a stomach weaker than a newborn baby so she strongly suggested I shouldn’t look.

As Shannon was driving me to the hospital, I spoke with my dad on the phone. He asked how bad it was. I hadn’t looked so I asked Shannon. She said “it’s about an inch-ish.” I relayed to my dad that she said “inch-ish” but with a heavy empha-sis on “ish”

I walked into the ER, shirtless, flip flops, and a boat rental tank top wrapped around my arm. They still made me fill out paper work with my good arm.

The doctor and nurse were won-derful. Doc even told a story about a legend in the surgical field where an Australian surgeon was bit by a shark off the coast while sailing. He sewed himself up, sailed back to shore, crawled up the beach, and had a beer at the pub while waiting for the paramedics.

19 stitches later and here I am—there is no overarching moral to the story this week. Maybe just a les-son. Invest in a pair of no slip swim shoes.

ART DAY AT THE PARK. The Turkey Run eighth grade art class spent the day at Turkey Run State Park experiencing the lives of the plein air painters of the 19th century. The students studied the lives of 19th century painters, presented reports to the class, created costumes in the clothing style of the period, and experienced the joy of painting outside; something new to the artists of the late 1800s. The art department received funding from the Eddie and Louise Bumgardner Heritage Fund of the Parke Coun-ty Community Foundation. This grant covered the cost of portable easels and painting kits. Students in the class are Istari Lucas, Audra Patton, Jonah Norman, Tristan Monik, Jacob Brown, Keivan Clodfelter, Braden Hartman, and Dalton Vandivier. The class is taught by Mrs. Becky Loud-ermilk. Pictured is Dalton Vandivier using his easel to paint the scenery at Turkey Run State Park. (photo submitted)

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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced that eligible producers may now formally enroll in the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs for 2014 and 2015. The enrollment period begins June 17, and will end September 30.

“The extensive outreach cam-paign conducted by USDA since the 2014 Farm Bill was enacted, along with extending deadlines, is central to achieving an expected high level of participation,” said Vilsack. “We worked with univer-sities to simplify these complex programs by providing online tools so producers could explore how program election options would affect their operation in differ-ent market conditions; these tools were presented to almost 3,000 organizations across the country. The Farm Service Agency also sent more than five million edu-cational notices to producers na-tionwide and participated in over 4,880 educational events with more than 447,000 attendees. I am proud of the many commit-ted USDA employees who worked hard over the last several months to provide producers support to help them make these important decisions.”

The new programs, established by the 2014 Farm Bill, trigger fi-nancial protections for agricultur-al producers when market forces cause substantial drops in crop prices or revenues. More than 1.76 million farmers have elected ARC or PLC. Previously, 1.7 million producers had enrolled to receive direct payments (the program replaced with ARC and PLC by the 2014 Farm Bill). This means more farms have elected ARC or PLC than previously enrolled un-der previously administered pro-grams.

Nationwide, 96 percent of soy-bean farms, 91 percent of corn farms, and 66 percent of wheat farms elected ARC. 99 percent of long grain rice farms, 99 percent of peanut farms, and 94 percent of medium grain rice farms elected PLC. For data about other crops and state-by-state program elec-tion results go to www.fsa.usda.gov/arc-plc.

Covered commodities under ARC and PLC include barley,

canola, large and small chickpeas, corn, crambe, flaxseed, grain sor-ghum, lentils, mustard seed, oats, peanuts, dry peas, rapeseed, long grain rice, medium grain rice (which includes short grain and sweet rice), safflower seed, sesa-me, soybeans, sunflower seed and wheat. Upland cotton is no longer a covered commodity.

The 2014 Farm Bill builds on historic economic gains in rural America over the past six years, while achieving meaningful re-form and billions of dollars in savings for the taxpayer. Since enactment, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has made signifi-cant progress to implement each provision of this critical legisla-tion, including providing disaster relief to farmers and ranchers; strengthening risk management tools; expanding access to rural credit; funding critical research; establishing innovative public-pri-vate conservation partnerships; developing new markets for rural-made products; and investing in infrastructure, housing and com-munity facilities to help improve quality of life in rural America. For more information, visit www.usda.gov/farmbill.