Medora Community School Corp. recently announced plans to participate in the Summer Food Service Program that provides free meals to all children 18 or younger.

Free meals also will be made available to anyone older than 18 who is enrolled in a state-approved educational program for the mentally or physically disabled.

The meals will be provided on a first-come, first-serve basis from June 6 to Aug. 5 at Medora Junior-Senior High School, 82 George St., and Rivervale Chapel, 10935 W. County Road 675S, Medora.

Information: Rebecca Starr, 812-966-2210

The Indiana State Police would like to remind citizens that the farm planting season is upon us and often requires large farm machinery to be on the road.

This requires drivers in rural areas to be alert to the possibility of encountering slow moving farm machines. Motorists should be prepared to slow or stop to avoid a collision with a farm machine turning into a field or driveway.

Tips for Farmers and Rural Drivers:

• Farm machinery can unexpectedly turn onto a public road from a field or driveway. It is important for everyone to have patience and share the road.
• Farm machinery travels slower than normal traffic, often at speeds of 25 miles per hour or less. Automobile drivers must quickly identify farm equipment and slow down immediately to avoid rear end crashes.
• Slow moving farm machinery, traveling at less than 25 miles per hour, are required to display a slow moving vehicle emblem on the back of the equipment. This is a quickly identifiable sign to other motorists. All lighting should be working properly and be highly visible.
• Slow moving vehicles are required to pull off to the right when three or more vehicles are blocked and cannot pass on the left.
• Machinery that is half on the road and half on the shoulder may suddenly move completely onto the road. Machinery may take up more than one lane to avoid obstacles such as road signs.

Before passing farm machinery:

• Check to be sure that machinery is not turning left. Look for left turn lights or hand signals. If the machinery slows and pulls toward the right side of the road, the operator is likely preparing to make a wide left turn. Likewise, sometimes to make a right turn with wide equipment, the driver must fade to the left.
• Determine if the road is wide enough for you and the machinery to safely share.
• Look for roadside obstacles such as mailboxes, bridges, or road signs that may cause the machinery to move to the center of the road.
• Be sure there is adequate distance for you to safely pass.

Extra patience, careful driving habits, and the use of highly visible markings, and lighting will help prevent crashes involving farm machines and automobiles.

Every spring the Indiana State Police Meth Suppression Section warns the public to watch for unattended backpacks and gym bags; piles of trash with drink bottles filled with liquid or white residue, used coffee filters, Sudafed blister packs and stripped batteries.

The Meth Suppression Team is responding to Meth labs and Meth trash being found every day in alleys, ditch lines, field pull offs, vacant lots and along streams and rivers.

Part of the reason is that Meth cooks know that making Meth can contaminate their houses, and that ISP now publishes a list of those houses contaminated by Meth at http://www.in.gov/meth/2371.htm

Indiana Police want to remind the public to be vigilant while participating in outdoor activities.

Residents out mushroom hunting or fishing, or if your civic group is out cleaning up a roadside, beware.

Troopers say things to look for are discarded backpacks or gym bags; liquid filled plastic drink bottles with white residue; a large amount of discarded coffee filters or discarded liquid drain opener bottles.

If you encounter any of these items, don’t disturb them call police.

Anyone with information about illegal drug use is encouraged to call the Indiana State Police Post in your area, or the Indiana State Police Drug Tip Line at 1-800-453-4756. Tips can be made and kept anonymous. The Indiana Meth Investigation System or IMIS, can also take tips on meth labs. Just go to www.meth.in.gov and click on the “Report Suspected Meth Activity” Link.