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Demos to replace ButlerMembers of the Democratic

Central Committee will hold a meeting on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2010, at 7 p.m. at Democratic Headquarters to appoint a re-placement for David Butler who is resigning the position.

Anyone desiring to be consid-ered foe election to the vacancy should indicate that desire by fi ling notice of candidacy with Posey County Democratic Secre-tary Jackson Higgins at least 10 days prior to the meeting.

Annual Chamber event setThe Chamber of Commerce

of Southwest Indiana will be hosting the annual, Report to the Posey County Business Com-munity dinner. This event will be held at the New Harmony Conference Center on February 29, 2012, 5:30 p.m. The cost $20 per Chamber member and $40 per non-member.

Seating is limited. Please contact Brittaney Johnson, Posey County Administrative Director, at 812.838.3639 or via e-mail atbjohnson@ccswin.com for reservations.

Clinics are scheduledPosey County Preschool

Screening Clinics to assess devel-opmental skills, speech/language skills, vision and hearing is of-fered to children ages 3, 4, and 5 at no cost to the parent. The next clinic is scheduled for Monday, Feb. 9 at Posey County Special Services (located in Hedges Central). Please call the Posey County Special Services Offi ce to schedule an appointment at 812-838-5516 or 800-779-6927.

Posey County Immunization Clinics: February 22, 2012 at the Coliseum in Mount Vernon from 2 until 4 p.m. Please bring shots records with you. No appoint-ment needed for immunization clinic.

RGRG dinner is Feb. 25The RGRG Steak Dinner and

Auction is Saturday, February 25th at the Ribeyre Gym from 5 until 7 p.m. Be sure and make plans to attend this important money raising event for the resto-ration of the Ribeyre Gym.

New Harmony Book Fair setBook Fair at New Harmony

School will begin at the Science Night on Monday, February 6 and run through the rest of the week. Mickey Grimm will be available to autograph any Guin-ness World Record Books that are purchased that night. He is listed in the book for his longest drum roll. Volunteers are needed to help during the week. Please call Edith Brown at 812-575-9614 if you would be available to help with this event.

Indoor rummage sale setThere will be an indoor rum-

mage sale held at the Posey County Community Center on the Posey County Fairgrounds, March 3rd from 8 am to noon. There is still vendor booth space available for $25 for two, eight foot tables (provided). For more information or to sign up as a vendor, contact the Posey County Community Center at: 682-3716 or by e-mail at: poseyccc@gmail.com.

North Elementary Dance setNorth Elementary “Groovy

Dance” with a 70s theme is on Friday, February 24 from 6:30-9 p.m. All New Harmony fi fth and sixth grade students are warmly invited to attend. This is a good opportunity to get to know some of your new upcoming class-mates in an “out of the class-room” setting.

By Dave PearceA two-vehicle accident on Highway 66 just

west of St. Phillips Road at Parker’s Settle-ment has left two people hospitalized.

The accident, which shut down highway 66 for over an hour, occurred when a Ford Taurus, being driven by 23-year-old Lauren Womack, of Middle Mount Vernon Road of Evansville, collided head-on with a Chevy Trailblazer, being driven by 50-year-old Lyn-don Amos of Fairfi eld, Ill.

Amos’ mother, Margaret Amos, 80, of Grayville, Ill., had to be extricated from the vehicle and was in critical condition on Sun-day at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville. She suffered multiple fractures. She was in sur-gery on Sunday afternoon. The Amos family

was reportedly on their way to visit the father of the man driving the vehicle. The father was in Deaconess hospital and had been a surgery patient.

According to bystanders, the accident hap-pened so quickly that no one could say ex-actly what happened to cause it.

In a preliminary report, it appears that the vehicle being driven by Womack was west-bound on Highway 66 and the Amos vehicle was east-bound. It appears that both vehicles had crossed the center-line as the impact was on the passenger side of both the vehicles.

According to an offi cer at the scene, Wom-ack was apparently distracted by a seven-month-old child in the back seat of her ve-hicle and her vehicle crossed over the center

line. The driver of the Amos vehicle report-edly thought the Womack vehicle was pre-paring to turn into a driveway and swerved the opposite direction to try and get around the vehicle.

The Womack child was properly restrained in a child seat in the back seat of the vehicle and escaped with only a small scratch on his chin, which was believed to have been caused by a pacifi er.

“The child seat did exactly what it was supposed to do,” an offi cer on the scene said.

Womack was taken to the hospital by her husband, once he arrived at the scene.

Responders from Marrs Township, Wades-ville, and New Harmony fi re departments were called to the scene.

Wreck shuts down SR66 for an hourThis two-vehicle accident on Highway 66 near Parker’s Settle-

ment on Saturday morning sent three people to the hospital. An 80-year-old Grayville woman had to be extricated from the black

Chevy Trailblazer. Margaret Amos was riding with her son on their way to see Margaret’s husband at Deaconess Hospital when the 9:30 a.m. accident occurred. Photo by Dave Pearce

The County Line Deer Processing building, located at 931 N Posey County Line Road, Evansville, Ind., burned to the ground during the night Saturday. The cause of the fi re, which also burned an adjacent home, was still under investigation on Sunday. Photo submitted

Special to the NewsThere are probably few

people who do so much with so little as the Posey County Narcotics Unit.

According to informa-tion released by Posey County Sheriff Greg Oeth,

two Mount Vernon resi-dents were arrested Friday afternoon, charged with fel-ony crimes stemming from involvements in a drug-re-lated enterprise.

According to informa-tion from Oeth, surveil-lance operations were conducted at a residence lo-cated on West Third Street, in Mount Vernon.

Investigative leads de-veloped through surveil-lance activities allowed investigators to have the information needed to seek and obtain a search warrant for the premises.

On February 3, at ap-proximately 2:53 p.m., of-fi cers executed a search

warrant and encountered Thomas Nicholas Phillips age 25, at his 418 West Third Street address. Jes-sica L. Kolb age 23, who shares the residence with Phillips, arrived shortly af-ter offi cers began their in-vestigation at the residence.

According to informa-tion provided by Kenny Rose, Supervisor of the Posey County Drug Task Force, once investigators arrived, they discovered marijuana, ledgers, scales, money and a stolen hand-gun.

According to Oeth, this investigation resulted in the arrest of Phillips who was charged with Dealing

Marijuana, Possession of a Stolen Firearm, Neglect of a Dependent Child, and Maintaining a Common Nuisance, all Class D Felo-nies.

Kolb was arrested and charged with Possession of Marijuana (Class A Misde-meanor) and Maintaining a Common Nuisance (Class D Felony). Both were transported and lodged in the Posey County Jail.

Oeth stated, “This case began from community complaints which will con-tinue to be investigated.”

“Each case requires time and manpower, we move toward every drug compli-ant as expeditiously as we

can,” Oeth said. “We want to successfully use our re-sources in every investiga-tion.”

Assisting in this case were Special Agents of the ATF, Posey County Nar-cotics Unit, and the Mount Vernon Police Department.

Phillips Kolb

Mount Vernon pair faces myriad of drug charges

Evansville Police recently arrest-ed 19-year-old Cody B. Schmitt of Posey County on Meth and Weap-ons charges during a theft investi-gation at the west side Wal-Mart.

Schmitt was driving the car used to leave the scene a theft at the Wal-Mart. The theft suspect was a pas-senger in the car. Loss prevention offi cers gave a description of the suspect, the vehicle, and the direc-tion of travel. An EPD K-9 offi cer stopped the car on the lot of AMC

theaters and detained the occupants. The occupants were told why they were being stopped. When asked if an offi cer could search the car for the stolen items, Schmitt refused to consent to a search of his car.

The offi cer then used his K-9 to do a walk around of the vehicle. The dog alerted to the presence of narcotics inside the vehicle. The alert gave the offi cer probable cause to search the vehicle for narcotics.

During the search, the offi cer found 2.6 grams of Meth and a loaded .357 handgun. Schmitt was charged with possession of Meth and Possession of a handgun with-out a license.

According to information from the Evansville Police Department, while being taken into custody, Schmitt stated “you win some, you lose some. I’ll just call my dad and I’ll be out tomorrow. Cause money buys everything.”

The theft suspect, 20-year-old Nicolas Forsee, also of Posey County, was arrested shoplifting. The stolen items were returned to the store.

Cody Schmitt

Two face charges in Evansville

Pair of benefi t events set for Mac Yeida and familyEveryone is invited to the “Hot Rock 50’s Café” Wed., Feb. 29, at 5:30

p.m. at First United Methodist Church, Wesley Hall, 601 Main St., Mount Vernon for a benefi t dinner for Mac Yeida. Burgers, dogs and chili dogs, fries, malts and shakes will be served. Call 838-4625 to purchase ticket early or fi rst come fi rst served at the door. A $7 minimum donation with all profi ts going to the MacYeida Kidney Transplant Benefi t Fund.

•This Sunday’s St. Matthew Men’s Club Pancake and Sausage Break-fast proceeds will benefi t the Mac Yeida Kidney Benefi t Fund. Eveyojne is invited to ome on over to St. Matthew from 7-11 a.m. for Sausage and Pancakes and your chance to help Mac and his family.

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THEWAYI SEEIT...BY CONNIEPEARCE

Guest Column: Wendy McNamara

Valentine's Day can ei-ther be a pleasurable oc-casion or stress fi lled with high expectations and dis-appointment. If you have that special relationship, Valentine's Day can be a time to show love and af-fection. For singles, the day can be a reminder of loneliness or a missing re-lationship.

Even people who do have signifi cant others can wind up hating Valen-tine's Day. The problem is that Valentine's Day often comes with a predeter-mined set of expectations. Someone may expect a certain gift, a special night out, or some other gesture.

Disappointment results whenever expectations are not met.

Surviving For CouplesValentine's Day isn't a

day of amnesty or a single opportunity to fi x prob-lems in a relationship. Issues don't pop up over-night nor can they be fi xed that way. If you anticipate repairing a relationship in one day, you will be disap-pointed.

Don't get caught up in the commercialization. Relationships portrayed in advertisements don't necessarily refl ect real-ity. You can show you care with the use of your heart and imagination. Do

simple things that say, "I'm thinking of you."

Don't rely on your part-ner to read your mind. If you have specifi c desires, share them. Give with-out expecting anything in return. Small, thoughtful gestures mean a lot, don't overlook them.

Not everyone gets en-thusiastic about Valentine's Day. If your partner isn't that excited, don't read too much into it. Do whatever feels comfortable and be ok with it. You don't have to do anything you are un-comfortable with. Simply saying, "Happy Valentine's Day. I love you." sends the message that you are

thinking of your partner.Surviving For SinglesAccept your emotions.

If you are sad and lonely, it's ok. You feel what you feel. Just because you may not happen to be in a relationship for Valentine's Day does not mean there is anything wrong with you.

Be social. Organize a group of other singles for dinner out or some other social activity. You may not be involved romanti-cally, but you have more people in your life who care about you than you realize.

Treat yourself. Buy or do something special. Splurge a little. Rather than fi xating on not be-ing in a relationship at the

moment, be thankful for what's good in your life. Ironically, singles spend a lot of time hoping for a relationship, while many in a relationship lament the freedom of their single days.

Valentine's Day is as commercialized as Christ-mas. Look at all the mon-ey and stress you save by not being caught up in the frenzy. Immerse yourself in other activities. If you are busy, you won't even notice Valentine's Day. Help others in need. When you do, you will also feel better.

If you want a relation-ship, be proactive. Don't wait for a relationship to fi nd you, go out and

look for one. Stay up-beat. A happy person is much more attractive than someone with a perpetual frown. No one wants to spend time with a person who is bitter or resentful.

If there is someone you are interested in, take the initiative. Invite them to get together with you. Stay sociable. Get out and about. Involve yourself in a variety of activities. There are many opportuni-ties to meet people. Join a gym, take a class, volun-teer, join a singles group, and pursue your hobbies.

Regardless of your situ-ation, keep in mind that Valentine's Day is only one day. Good or bad, it goes by quickly.

Guest Column: Bryan Golden Surviving Valentine’s Day

It’s hard to believe my second session in the Indi-ana General Assembly is al-ready halfway done. That’s right, lawmakers have reached the halftime mark — when the Senate passes its bills to the House of Rep-resentatives for further con-sideration and, likewise, the House passes its legislation to the Senate.

But many important pieces of legislation carried by the state Senate haven’t gotten the attention they de-serve this year, and I’d like to highlight what my col-leagues and I are doing to help Hoosiers:

Perhaps the most impor-tant piece of legislation in 2012 is Senate Bill 4 — aimed at strengthening In-diana’s human traffi cking laws. SB 4 makes it unlaw-ful to arrange for a person to participate in any forced sexual act. (Currently, In-diana law only prohibits

forced marriage and pros-titution.) Leaders statewide have recognized the im-portance of this bill — es-pecially due to an infl ux of visitors during the Super Bowl — and it was the fi rst bill to be signed into law by the governor this session. I’m happy to say Hoosier lawmakers have loudly and clearly made it known that human traffi cking is a se-rious issue and it will not be overlooked in our great state.

I’m also very pleased to have supported two initia-tives that would help Hoo-sier service men and women — Senate Bill 31 and Senate Bill 253. SB 31 would help provide basic needs — like food, shelter and transporta-tion — to Hoosier military families by extending the eligibility period for them to receive monetary assistance from the Military Family Relief Fund. It would also

allow our National Guard members activated for state duty to receive this emer-gency fi nancial assistance. SB 253 would waive train-ing required for certain pro-fessions if the needed skills were learned and performed by the veteran applicant dur-ing their military service. This bill will also allow our service men and women to easily translate their time served into credits at state colleges and universities, helping provide them with needed jobs.

Another key piece of leg-islation I’m happy to have supported is Senate Bill 97 regarding public intoxica-tion. Currently, Indiana is one of only fi ve states that require no more than con-suming alcohol in a public place to constitute this of-fense. SB 97 would narrow the scope of this vague law, only allowing individuals to be convicted of public

intoxication if they endan-ger their own life, someone else’s life, disturb the peace or are likely to create dis-turbances. This has the po-tential to protect Hoosiers with good intentions who are walking or riding home after consuming alcohol.

Just as we need to pro-tect Hoosiers from being charged with unnecessary offenses, we should also ensure true criminals are receiving just punishment. Legislation I’ve authored this session — Senate Bill 322 — would do just that by encouraging greater super-vision of violent sex offend-ers. My bill would provide tort immunity for Depart-ment of Corrections (DOC) employees and contractors, restricting damage lawsuits for those who monitor or treat violent sex offenders on parole. Currently, con-tractors who create GPS devices for parolees can be

sued if individuals wearing them wrongfully remove the monitoring devices. By eliminating the threat of lawsuits like these, we can redirect money that would normally be used for insur-ance purposes to monitor more sex offenders. This plan is estimated to help provide a few hundred more monitoring devices.

Of course, lawmakers don’t always see eye-to-eye on legislation because dif-ferences in districts some-times mean differences in what’s best for their constit-uents. A bill introduced — with good intentions — by one of my colleagues would allow telephone companies to stop providing services in unprofi table areas where other carriers (i.e. cell phone services) exist. I believe this would hurt our rural areas, which are known for hav-ing inadequate cell phone and Internet services, espe-

cially during emergencies. Although this bill gained enough support to move to the House, I opposed it.

Similarly, I opposed a provision in Senate Bill 398 that would have made distri-bution of raw milk without a “Not for Human Consump-tion” label a Class C misde-meanor. In Indiana, such an offense would be a criminal charge punishable by up to $500 and 60 days in jail. If passed, this would have im-posed unneeded regulations on Indiana farmers, and I’m happy to say the provision was removed from the bill.

As always, you can con-tact me with your ideas by emailing Senator.Tomes@iga.in.gov or calling 1-800-382-9467. If you're inter-ested in reading about more bills I've authored and sup-ported this legislative ses-sion, visit www.in.gov/Senator.Tomes. Let’s keep in touch!

Guest Column: Jim Tomes It’s Halftime at the State House

Last week signifi ed the halfway point for the 2012 legislative session. All bills have now switched chambers and we will turn our focus to the discussion of Senate bills. We spent many hours vetting legisla-tion to ensure we were able to send our bills to the Sen-ate by the deadline.

One bill which received much debate and discus-sion was House Bill 1007, which sets up a pilot pro-gram in three counties to test for the use of controlled substances by an individual who receives public assis-tance. The other key provi-sion of this bill sets up an identical program to drug test members of the Gen-eral Assembly. The drug testing of legislators was added in by an amendment to ensure that we hold our-selves to the same account-ability standards as we hold

to those that elect us. This bill passed out of the House with bipartisan support of 73 to 23.

House Bill 1005 was sent over to the Senate and had bipartisan support with a vote of 70 to 26. This leg-islation is aimed at reducing nepotism and confl ict of in-terest among local govern-ment employees, which has been increasingly problem-atic at the local level, par-ticularly within township government. The bill affects who can be in a direct line of supervision and specifi es that local government em-ployees may not be elected into a legislative or fi scal body overseeing the unit for which they work. Currently there are no laws in place that address these issues.

Another piece of legisla-tion, House Bill 1197, will update our laws to keep up with new and emerging

technologies. The bill will improve the safety of roads across the state of Indiana by establishing guidelines and requirements for those who operate mopeds. This bill will resolve many is-sues that have arisen due to moped accidents. The bill passed by a vote of 77 to 29 and requires that a moped operated on a highway must be titled, registered and that the operator have an iden-tifi cation card or driver's license in their immediate possession.

These are just 3 of the 108 bills that we have sent over to the Senate. The Senate has sent 140 bills over to us, so we will begin hear-ing their bills in committees and on the House fl oor. Thus far, we have had two bills signed into law by the Gov-ernor. Both chambers have much work to accomplish in the remaining weeks of the

House bills move to the Sen-

I will have to confess that doing a story about the “Redman Brothers” was my idea. With Valentines Day ap-proaching it occurred to me that this fall will complete the celebrations of 50th wedding anniversaries for my dad and his three brothers. I think that is quite an accomplishment for a family. In this world with so many divorces and sicknesses there are so many things that get in the way of this milestone.

After sharing my idea with Dave he agreed it would be good for our Valentine edition and asked Pam, our feature writer, to begin doing the interviews and stories. I thought it would be fun to add my spin on the family.

My grandparents, Carl and Faye Redman were married in 1934. They had their sons within six years so to say they were all very close is an understatement. As the four boys graduated from high school they each took

different paths but they all married and all now reside in Posey County again. Dave

refers to it as the Redman Commune.

When I think of Valen-tines Day, like most people I think of romance. To put romance and the Redman boys in the same sentence may seem a little crazy for those of you who know them as I do. I guess it depends on

how you defi ne romance. Webster Dictionary defi nes it as a love story or love affair. My initial thoughts of romance are in the movies or in the fairy tales I learned when growing up. Those romances always seemed so per-fect with no problems and always a “Happily Ever After.”

Unfortunately my grandparents didn’t make it to their 50th anniversary with both of them passing away way before they reached that milestone. I was the oldest grandchild.

My dad farmed with my grandpa so I was at their house probably the most of any of the grandkids. I would spend every possible weekend at their house and as much of my summer as they would allow.

Grandma and Grandpa Redman’s love sto-ry to me was how they spent all of their time working together on the farm. Grandma did not have her drivers’ license until late in life. She didn’t need one. She went everywhere Grandpa did, they were inseparable. I still re-member our trips to Evansville. The three of us would get into the pickup and drive to the farm store. We may stop at the bank or the store but before we got back home we always stopped at the gas station in Wadesville to get a Pepsi from Pete.

When my Grandpa died unexpectedly af-ter a routine surgery it left my grandmother heartbroken, which is what I think eventually was the real cause of her death. As a fam-ily we did everything to make her happy but to no avail. A heart attack took her one

cold December night but I am sure it was a very warm reunion when she was reunited in Heaven with her true love.

My dad and his brothers all have their own love stories that I am sure Pam did excellent job writing. I have not read those stories yet but I can tell you that all of them have had their challenges and disappoint-ments through the years but all have perse-vered. I am guessing that any of them would tell you there were times when they could have called it quits as so many couples do these days.

As their daughter and niece I can tell you that I am proud of all of them for being great examples in their own unique way. Because of each one of them I am a better person and I think my brothers and cousins would agree that if you got to pick your family they would keep the one God gave them.

They say you can’t choosey your family but if you could, I would choose the one I have.

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Gerald “Jerry” Marvel, Jr. passed away Tuesday Janu-ary 31, 2012 at Golden Liv-ing Center in Tell City. He was born in New Harmony, Ind. on August 13, 1926 to Gerald Sr. and Mary (Cox) Marvel, who precede him in death along with a son, Larry, a grandchild, Joshua Marvel and a brother, Billy Marvel.

Jerry was a graduate of New Harmony High School and a WWII Army veteran. He was married on Novem-ber 25, 1948 to Betty Freeman. He retired from the Chrysler Corporation after 40 years. He enjoyed RV traveling and boating.

Surviving is daughter, Peggy Martin and husband Tim of Tell City, Ind.; sister, Bettye Sue Marvel of Mount Vernon, Ind.; grandchildren, Jason, Jeff (Windy) and Justin (Kristen) Martin and fi ve great-grandchil-dren.

Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. CST Thursday, February 2, 2012 at Zoercher-Gillick Funeral Home. Brother Lloyd Ward will offi ciate.

Visitation will be Wednesday from 3 - 8 p.m. and Thursday 11 a.m. until service time at the funeral home. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial in Pacifi c, Mo.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Ameri-can Diabetes Association.

Gerald Marvel, Jr.

Betty J. Trout, 85, passed away on Monday, Janu-ary 30, 2012, at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville. She was born on December 15, 1926, in Kansas, Ill., to Wil-liam Neal and Velva (Mezo) Tweedy.

Betty was a member of First Baptist Church. She re-tired as a Custodian from the MSD of Mount Vernon after 20 years. Betty enjoyed bowling, yard work, and family gatherings.

Betty was preceded in death by her parents; husband of 56 years, Benjamin Trout; brother, William Tweedy, and her sister, Louise Porter.

Betty is survived by her sons, David Trout (Judy), Gary Trout (Kathy); daughter, Judy Slygh (Mac) all of Mount Vernon; sister, Pearl Todd of McLeansboro, Ill.; grandchildren, Kristie Kuder (Tony), David Trout (Jacque), Dustin Trout, Shannon Slygh, Sally Slygh, Cyndi Slygh, Lori Carr and Jenni Trout; 12 great grand-children; and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, February 2, 2012, at Schneider Funeral Home, 512 Main St. in Mount Vernon with the Rev. Derrick Ousley Offi ciating. Burial followed in Bellefontaine Cemetery.

Visitation was from 4 until 7 p.m. on Wednesday, February 1, 2012, at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to First Bap-tist Church.

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Lola Raye Blake was born January 4, 1930 in Mount Vernon, Ind., and went to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ on January 6, 2012 at 82 years and 2 days old. She was born to William and Pearl (Burlison) Yeida of Mount Vernon, Indiana and was a

twin with six siblings.Her survivors are Harry O. Blake, Jr., husband of 61-

1/2 years; daughter Patricia (Blake) and Allen Sparks; son Harry O. Blake, III and wife Teresa. She greatly loved all of her family and her six grandchildren (one serving in the US Navy) and four great-grandchildren.

Lola was a member of the Plainfi eld, Indiana Chris-tian Church and a member of the ABC class. In addition to being a great mother and grandmother, her legacy will always be remembered in the hearts of all those who knew her as an avid cook and a lady who dressed to perfection. At Christmas and for years she prepared and delivered special candies that she made for her many friends who loved her cooking — this she en-joyed greatly.

Her loyal display and support as a great American patriot is unsurpassed. She wore the Marine Corps col-ors and emblems with great pride and attended many annual Marine Corps reunions with her husband who was a retired First Sergeant.

She was the sister of Jeanette Marie (Yeida) Robin-son, William G. “Bud” Yeida, Henry Lincoln Yeida, Zola Faye (Yeida) Stevens, Juanita J. (Yeida) Overton and Tillie T. (Yeida) Walters. All of her birth family has preceded her in death.

Lola’s funeral was held at the Plainfi eld Christian Church. Visitors called from 1 to 3 p.m. and services were held from 3 to 4 p.m. with burial in West Ridge Park Cemetery, West 21st St., Indianapolis.

Her pall Bearers were: Son, Harry O. Blake III, Wilk-erson, Ind. and his two sons, youngest is Gabriel Blake and Grant Blake of Dallas, Texas; Allen Sparks, India-napolis; Kent Carson, Chicago, Ill.; Andy Chastain, In-dianapolis; Glenn Yeida, Mount Vernon, Ind.; and Lar-ry Moore, Knoxville, Tenn. Online condolences may be shared with the family at conklefi ineralhome.com.

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Beverley Jean Taylor, 75, of Poseyville, Ind., born to Lionel E. and Mary Ruth (Hurlbert) Miller on October 13, 1936, in Hardinville, Ill., passed away Saturday, Febru-ary 4, 2012, at Deaconess Hospice Care Center in

Evansville, Ind.Beverley was a member of the Poseyville Chris-

tian Church, past Sunday School Superintendent and Teacher, Superintendent of Christian Education, and held positions on several other church committees. She was also a member of Christian Women’s Fellowship, had worked as the Custodian for the Church and for the Postal Service in Poseyville.

Beverley is survived by her husband: Gerald Taylor Sr. of New Harmony, Ind.; a daughter: Joan Kimberly Taylor of Poseyville, Ind.; two sons and a daughter-in-law: Gerald and Dris Taylor, Jr., of Poseyville, Ind. and Jeff Taylor of New Albany, Miss. One sister, Lucritia (Dolly) Brennan of Wisconsin, also survives.

Beverley was preceded in by her parents and a broth-er, Robert Miller, Sr.

Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Wednesday, Febru-ary 8, 2012, at Poseyville Christian Church, with the Reverends Bob Hicks and John Matsel offi ciating with burial in Poseyville Cemetery.

Visitation will be 3 until 8 p.m. Tuesday, February 7, 2012, at Werry Funeral Home, Poseyville Chapel and from 9 a.m. Wednesday until service time at the church.

Memorial contributions may be made to Poseyville Christian Church, 6 E. Main Street, Poseyville, Ind. 47633.

Helen E. Mattingly, 95 of Mount Vernon, Ind., went to be with our Lord on Thursday morning, February 3, 2012. She was born on December 20, 1916, in Posey County, the daughter of William S. “Bump” and Barbara

(Keitel) Lueder. She married William S. Mattingly and he preceded her in death.

Mrs. Mattingly worked at Excon before here retire-ment. She enjoyed bingo and crafting and especially loved fl ower gardening.

She is survived by one son, William S. Mattingly, Jr. of Mount Vernon; eight grandchildren, Angie (Butch) McGrew, Stephanie (Scott) Crumbacher, Mike Mat-tingly, Chuck Mattingly, Steve Mattingly, Margaret Mattingly, Heather (Joe) Stinson and Misty (James) Glover; thirteen great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by one son, Milburn “Shorty” Mattingly, an infant son; one granddaughter, Melanie Mattingly; and three brothers, Arthur, Herb and John Lueder.

An infant son preceding her in death was Gary Wayne Mattingly

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Thursday, February 9, 2012, at the Stendeback Family Funeral Home in Mount Vernon. Visitation will be from 4 until 7 p.m. on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at the funeral home. Burial will be in Bellefontaine Cemetery. On-line condolences may be left atwww.austinfuneral-home.com.

Brenda R. Russell age 63, passed away Friday Feb-ruary 3, 2012, at Deaconess Hospice Care Center in Evansville. She was born in Mount Vernon, Ind., the daughter of Samuel and Thelma (Goldman) Farmer.

Brenda owned and operated her own beauty shop from 1968 until 1999.

She is survived by her husband of 43 years, Larry A. Russell; son, Ryan Russell; daughter, Sami Kessler; granddaughters, Cydney Russell and Presley Kessler.

Services will be held at 11:30 a.m. Saturday Febru-ary 11, 2012, at First Christian Church 1403 Country Club Road in Mount Vernon. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until service time on Saturday at the church.

In lieu of fl owers memorial contributions may be made to the Mount Vernon Food Bank.

Online condolences can be made at www.schneider-funeralhome.com

Robert S. Wilson, 79, of Berkeley, Calif., born to Robert and Alice (Stevens) Wilson on July 14, 1932, in Evansville, Ind., passed away 3 p.m., Friday, February 3, 2012, in Berkeley, Calif.

He was a 1951 graduate of Broad Ripple High School in Indianapolis and received his Bachelors Degree in Zoology and Chemistry from Butler University.

Robert was preceded in death by his wife, Dr. Emilee J. (Manning) Wilson, in 2004.

He is survived by his daughter: Laura J. Wilson, and son-in-law, Jeffrey G. Pelton of Albany, Calif.; son Ste-ven G. Wilson, and daughter-in-law, Bronwyn Wilson of Poseyville, Ind.; and grandchildren: Abigail, Olivia and Stephanie Wilson and Emily Pelton.

Friends and family are respectfully invited to attend a memorial service for Robert which will be held 10:30 a.m. Saturday, February 11, 2012, at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Poseyville, Ind., with Pastor Paul Huntsman offi ciating. Robert’s ashes will be interred in the Poseyville Cemetery.

In lieu of fl owers, donations in his memory may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association atwww.alz.org or to the donor’s favorite charity.

Werry Funeral Home, Poseyville Chapel, is handling local arrangements.

Foster “Bud” Tolliver, 90, formerly of New Har-mony, Ind., died February 3, 2012, at the Mount Ver-non Nursing and Rehabili-tation Center.

Bud was born in New Harmony, Ind., on No-vember 30, 1921, to Fos-

ter H. and Ophia Owens Tolliver. He graduated from Poseyville High School in 1939. He was a Navy veteran serving in WW II, with the 44th U.S. Naval Construc-tion Battalion, stationed one year in the New Hebrides and one year in the Admiralty Islands. He was honor-ably discharged and awarded a Pacifi c ribbon with on star, and a rating of EM1C. (Electricians Mate First Class).

He married his wife, Virginia Moore Tolliver, on February 14, 1942. The two owned and operated an Electrical service in New Harmony, which evolved into an Appliance, TV and eventually a Hardware store. They retired after 44 years in 1986.

Foster was the President of the New Harmony Town Council from 1972 through 1975. He was a mem-ber of Johnson United Methodist Church, serving on several boards and was a Sunday School Teacher. He was a charter member and a past president of the New Harmony Kiwanis Club, a Past Master of Arctic Ma-sonic Lodge #394, and a 50-year member of the New Harmony Workingmen’s Institute. During his term as President of the Economic Development Commission, New Harmonie Healthcare was established. He was an original member of the Wabash River Commission, a past president of the New Harmony Parks board, a pas-sionate lover of trees, he was involved in the planting and care of many of New Harmony’s trees along the streets and in the parks, he acquired the fi rst of the New Harmony Elms (2001) and Yellowwood trees (1987).

Bud and Virginia moved to the retirement village of Solarbron on March 1, 2006. Shortly after joining the Solarbron Community, Foster was elected President of the Resident’s Council.

Bud is survived by his wife, Virginia, a son and daughter-in-law, Robert and Candice Tolliver of Mount Vernon, grandchildren, Christy and Cody Korb of Evansville, Andrew Tolliver and Hayley Tolliver of Mount Vernon, and Tricia Tolliver Sandoval of the U.S. Air Force, and a Great Grandson Wyatt Korb.

Funeral services were held on Monday, February 6, 2012, at Werry Funeral Home-New Harmony Chapel at 10 a.m. with burial in Maple Hill Cemetery, where New Harmony American Legion Post 370 will have military graveside services.

Friends called at the funeral home 9 a.m. until ser-vices time Monday.

Memorial contributions may be made to Johnson United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 515, New Harmo-ny, Indiana 47631.

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Joe Barnett, 80, of Mount Carmel, Ill., passed away on Jan.28, 2012, at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, Ind.

Joe was Born on Nov.3, 1931, in the little town of Griffi n, Ind. He was the son of Carl and Iva “Mul-

len” Barnett.Joe married Shirley (Singer) Barnett on Jan.16, 1954,

in Shawneetown, Ill., and she survives.He served his country in the United States Army dur-

ing the Korean Confl ict from 1951-1953. After his dis-charge from the Army, he enlisted in the United States Air Force. Joe retired from the Air force in October of 1972.

He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Shirley; two sons, James David (Cherry) Barnett of Murrieta, Calif,, and Michael Wayne (Christina) Barnett of Appleton, Wisc,; one daughter, Rebecca Ann Thornton of Mount Carmel, Ill, one sister, Norma Mudd of Louisville, Ky.; one brother William “Bud” and wife Betty Barnett of New Harmony, Ind.; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Cousin Kenny Barnett of New Harmony and many neices and nephews from all around the area.

He was preceded in death by his parents; four sisters, Ina Mae, Mable, Mary, and Wanda; one great-grand-child, Jamie Lea Miller; a son-in-law, Lonnie Thornton.

There was a visitation for the family at the Short Fu-neral Home in Mount Carmel, Ill., on Jan, 31., at 9 a.m.

Memorials may be made to the National Kidney Foundation. Online condolences may be made to www.short-cunninghamfh.com

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The Posey County Health Department will hold an immunization clin-ic Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at the Coliseum in Mount Vernon from 2 - 4 p.m. An appointment is not needed for this clinic.

Immunization clin-ics will also be held at St. Francis School in Poseyville on March 7, 2012 from 2 - 4 p.m. and at the Coliseum in Mount Vernon on March 28, 2012 from 2 - 4 p.m.

Required immunization additions for the 2011-2012 school year are as follows:• All KINDERGARTEN

students will be required to have 2 doses of vari-cella vaccine, given on or after the fi rst birth-day and separated by 3 months, or a history of chickenpox disease doc-umented by a physician.

• All KINDERGARTEN students will be required to have one of the re-quired doses of polio vaccine given on or after the fourth birthday, and

at least 6 months after the previous dose.

• All 6th-12th grade stu-dents will be required to have 2 doses of varicella vaccine, given on or after the fi rst birthday, and separated by age-appropriate intervals as defi ned by the CDC, or a history of chickenpox disease documented by the parent/guardian

• All 6th-12th grade stu-

dents will be required to have I dose of tetanus-diphtheria-acellular per-tussis vaccine (Tdap) given on or after the 10th birthday.

• All 6th-12th grade stu-dents will be required to have I dose of menin-gococcal conjugate vac-cine (MCV4).Please bring shot re-

cords for each child re-ceiving immunizations.

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Posey Humane Society News

Pages of the Past Compilation by Haylee Moore

Happy Birthdays

Featured Animals of The Posey County Humane Society

Bashful is a white tabby female, short hair, and is approx 8 months old.

Call The Posey Humane Society at 838-3211 to arrange a time to look at your future pet. General public hours are Friday noon - 6:00 pm and Saturday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm.

Bullet is a black male, has short hair, and is a little over 1 year old.

the American Red Cross will be having their second "Ivan" blood drive, it will be held on Saturday, March 3, 2012, at the Ribeyre Gymnasium. The blood drive will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

At the previous blood drive there were more than 16 people who had to be turned away due to short-age of collection bags. This will be a perfect opprotuni-ty for those individuals to come again.

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February 7 - Cindy Al-len, Luke Conyers, Mike Deshields, Bryan Paul Wil-derman, Megan Counts, Jessica Goebel and Jeremy Moore, Derek McCord, Scott Schroeder

February 8 - Karen Wil-son, Wendy Wilson

February 9 - Essie Wil-liams, Derrick Garrett, Jeff Hempfl ing, Dan Creek, Tonia

Meeker, John David Lyke and Adam Mobley

February 10 - Brad Park-er, Doris Spanner, Jason Lyke

February 11 - Rob Un-getheim, Alex Thompson, Brian Cardin, Susie Sheph-ard, Parker Sturgell, Charles “Choppy” Johnson and Alta Eagan

February 12 - Paula Gooden, Deborah Burdick,

Paul Becker and Keaven Moutray, Andrea Johnson

February 13 - Henry Means and Emily Kissel, Betty Postletheweight

If you have a name to be included in the birthday cal-endar, please send to: Posey County News, P.O. Box 397, New Harmony, IN 47631 or email: news1@poseycoun-tynews.com

Tuesday, February 7, Ha-cienda Restaurant on Pearl Drive in Evansville will be hosting a Give Back Event for Posey Humane Society.

For all Westside Hacienda customers presenting a Give Back Coupon on February 7, Posey Humane Society will receive a percentage of your purchase. This ap-plies to dine in or carry out orders. Coupons are avail-able at Posey Humane So-ciety, 6500 Leonard Rd in Mount Vernon or by calling

the shelter at 812-838-3211. Coupons can also be down-loaded from the PHS web site at www.poseyhumane.org.

Posey Humane Society is now taking orders for pork loins. The price is $25 per half pork loin and they will be available for pick up at the shelter on Saturday, Feb-ruary 18. Deadline to place orders will be February 10. Orders can be placed with any PHS Board Member, at the Leonard Rd Shelter or by

calling 455-7357 and leav-ing your name and phone number. Be sure to call to-day and place your order.

Mark you calendars for the Valentine’s Adopt-a-thon at Petsmart in Evansville. On February 10, 11 and 12, Petsmart on Evansville’s east side, will be hosting an adopt-a-thon. Come see great animals from Posey Humane Society as well as many other area shelters and rescue groups. Animals will be available for viewing during normal store hours. Just look for the big heated tent in the parking lot off the Lloyd Expressway. Posey Humane Society will be there Saturday and Sunday starting at 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Please don’t miss this chance to meet your new best friend.

Celebrating Bryan Bittner’s 28th Birthday on January 28, 2012 at the Red Wagon From Left Going Around the Table are John Spindler, Bryan Bittner, Megan Bittner, Matthew Nix, Lindsey Nix, Megan Tenbarge, Shyla Adler, Josh Adler, Aaron Scott, Noelle Scott, Kristy Scherer, Mandy Sefton, Clint Sefton, Nathan Schmitt, Jarred Schmitt, Kim Jines, Amber Schnautz, Allison Spindler, Michelle Mulvaney, and Kevin Mulvaney.

Saturday, May 5, 2012 The Centre Ballroom will be swinging with dances like the Waltz, Tango, Foxtrot, & Cha Cha. The 4th Annual Dancing With Our Stars, Evansville-Style competition will pair trained ballroom dancers with business and commu-nity leaders to benefi t St. Vincent Center for Chil-dren and Families, which provides care for hundreds

of Evansville's children. The “Stars” this year will

be Claire, Chuck Byrnes, Chase Coslett, Pat Coslett, Jeff Feyen, Gina Moore, Stephanie Roland, Chris Slade, Julie Stucki and Debra Talley. They will be accompanied by their pro-fessional partners, David Bell, Scott Bishop, Sadia Brimm, Heidi Garza, Isa-iah Mattas, Sarah Nellis, Jaime Reininga, Mike San Angelo, Brandon Sears and Teresa Sheets.

Dancing “Star” win-ners will be determined by your votes. Come out for a great evening of din-ing and dancing to benefi t this great charity. Cock-tails will be served at 6 p.m.; dinner and the dance competition will begin at 7 p.m. with an all-dance af-ter the winners have been announced.

Single tickets are $100, pairs are $190, and a

table of ten is $950. For pre-event voting or ticket information, please call Stephanie at 812-424-4780 or visit http://www.stvin-centsdaycarecenter.com/home/events /dancing-with-our-stars-evansville-style/. Dancing With Our Stars, Evansville-Style is presented by Accuride Corporation and South Central Media.

Dancing with our Stars to benefi t St. Vincent Center

Jonathan Sivier has been leading dances since 1992; Sivier received a 2010 ACE Award for leadership in the Champaign County, Illinois, dance community. Photo submitted by the Historic New Harmony Happenings

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New Harmony High School senior Whitney Butman was selected fi rst runner-up in the Miss Out-doors pageant Sunday at Robert Stadium. Crowned Queen was Karen Scheller of Mater Dei.

Libby Rynkiewich is the South Terrace Academic student of the week. Lib-by’s academic excellence has won her this honor. She is also the Student Coun-cil president. Libby plays softball for the Rural Girls’ League and the Diamond Chix. Libby is the daugh-ter of Paul and Melissa Rynkiewich.

The Mount Vernon Lady Wet Cats celebrate their sectional win with the score of 373.

North Posey High School wrestling coach Larry Cline participated in the Jump Rope for Heart Thursday at the high school. One hun-dred and fi fty students par-ticipated raising over $1,400.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Herrmann, Sr., of Parker Settlement, Ind., announce the approaching marriage of their daughter Phyllis Ann, to Michael Dean Rogers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rogers of Cynthiana, Ind.

Student Spotlight, Cindy Embrey, 18, daughter of Carol and Tom Embrey of Wadesville played volley-ball the fi rst three years of high school and has partici-pated in baskeball all four years. Cindy plans to attend USI.

Mr. and Mrs. Manford Mor-row of Champaign, Ill., an-nounce the birth of a daughter, Ann, born January 17. She weighed six pounds eleven and a half ounces, and joins three brothers in the Morrow house-hold.

Pupils in all three Posey Count school systems won Divi-son 1 ratings in District solo and ensemble contest in, vocal piano and string instrument categories staged at Evansville College under the sponsorship of the Central Southern District of the Indiana School Music. Assn.

Miss Nancy Ellen Heim, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al-fred C. Heim, of Poseyville, was married at 2:30 p.m. Sunday to James Knowles, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Knowles, of Poseyville.

Bestselling culinary ex-pert Bob Warden’s latest book Great Food Fast con-tains a dazzling assortment of easy and affordable pres-sure cooker recipes that are certain to impress at any occasion, from a weeknight family dinner to a lively Su-per Bowl party. This book is a true kitchen staple with a multitude of helpful hints that ease and inspire, making pressure cooking a fearless endeavor.

The greatest advantage of pressure cooking is the abil-ity to quickly produce a va-riety of succulent dishes that taste as if they took hours to complete. In the past, pres-sure cookers carried the stigma of being dangerous

and burdensome kitchen tools. However, thanks to the modern development of the pressure cooker, these instru-ments have become safe and easy to use for cooks at any level of culinary skill. War-den himself has developed a wide array of pressure cook-ing devices that have success-fully demystifi ed this unique cooking process, helping to make the home kitchen a fun, worry-free environment.

Great Food Fast provides over 120 recipes certain to Family favorites are in ample supply, including Per-fected Pot Roast and Best Ever Macaroni and Cheese. Dishes such as the decadent Butternut Squash Risotto and lush Winter Vegetable Ra-

tatouille will enthrall even the most elite culinary con-noisseurs. Dessert-lovers are sure to be delighted by the S’mores Bread Pudding and many other treats to satisfy any sweet tooth. For those watching their waistlines in the new year, Warden in-troduces a range of healthy temptations, like the sweet and savory Rubbed Pork Tenderloin with Peach Salsa. Many recipes also include eye-catching, colorful pho-tographs sure to make your mouth water.

Perhaps the best aspect of these enticing delicacies is how amazingly quick and simple they are to create. Most of their ingredients are basic kitchen essentials,

eliminating the need for cost-ly visits to exotic specialty food shops. Also, because of the pressure cooking process, these dishes can be made in a remarkably short amount of time. Warden’s Perfected Cheesecake achieves its di-vine perfection in only 25 minutes of cooking, while his French Onion Soup needs only 8 minutes to transform everyday ingredients into a restaurant classic.

Great Food Fast is also chock-full of information on pressure cooking. Each recipe is accompanied by a helpful tip, and Warden pro-vides insightful material on the cooking process as well as cook time reference tables for various ingredients.

Great Food Fast, latest book from culinary expert Bob Warden

The Posey County Big-gest Loser Challenge be-gins Tuesday, February 7, 2012, with a weigh-in and orientation at the Posey County Community Cen-ter at 5:30 p.m., on the

Posey County 4-H Fair Grounds. Get details and registration on our web-site: www.poseycounty-families.org or call Beth at 812-838-6875 for more in-formation. The Challenge

will end on Saturday, April 21, 2012 with a Health Fair in Poseyville, Ind. Lots of fun, information and in-centives. Get your team together so you can Do Well in 2012.

Biggest Loser Challenge to start tonight

COMMUNITYCOMMUNITYPAGE A5 • FEBRUARY 7, 2012 THE POSEY COUNTY NEWS • SERVING THE COUNTY SINCE 1882 • WWW.POSEYCOUNTYNEWS.COM

APL News By Stanley Campbell

Historic New Harmony Happenings By Missy Parkison

We hope everyone has saved the date for this year’s Harmoniefest, Fri-day, February 17, 6-8 pm. Join us at Thrall’s Opera House for this annual com-munity gathering in the tradition of the original Harmonie Society.

The evening will fea-ture a pitch-in dessert bar and musical entertainment. Reconstructed dances from New Harmony circa 1820 will be led by Jona-than Sivier. Music will be performed by the Bloom-ington, Indiana, duo Ent-wyned.

Bring a dessert to share – bring a guest. Think about any new residents who might not know what Harmoniefest is all about, and invite them! We invite you to come to dance or

just to enjoy the music and good company.

Harmoniefest is co-sponsored by Harmonie Associates and Histor-ic New Harmony. Call 812.682.4488 with any

questions.Historic New Harmony

is a unifi ed program of the University of Southern In-diana and the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites.

John Paolillo and Twy Bethard are Entwyned. Photo submitted by Historic New Harmony Happenings

The Marilyn J. Klenck Fund for Education and Lit-eracy is designated to sup-port programs and initiatives in the fi elds of education and literacy throughout south-western Indiana. The Alli-ance has focused the fund’s proceeds on the advance-ment of early childhood lit-eracy and literacy interven-tion strategies for struggling readers.

The Education and Lit-eracy Grant Program will support projects and pro-grams that encourage and develop early literacy skills of children ages 0-5 and/or

programs that provide lit-eracy intervention for strug-gling readers in kindergarten through fi fth grade.

Programs should include strategies that promote: • Alphabet recognition and

sound/symbol relation-ships

• Phonological awareness (rhyming, blending, seg-menting)

• Reading fl uency • Reading comprehension • Parental/family involve-

mentNonprofi t organizations

serving the nine counties that comprise the Alliance’s ser-

vice area—Daviess, Gibson, Knox, Perry, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties—are in-vited to submit funding re-quests detailing the merits of their literacy programs.

Grant applications are due February 27, 2012. Grants from the fund will be awarded in May 2012. For more information about the Marilyn J. Klenck Fund for Education and Literacy, visit www.alliance9.org/edlit-fund or contact Melinda Wal-droup, program director for the Community Foundation Alliance, at 812.434.4923.

PCCF Grant applications due Feb. 27

Carol Schmidt, chair of the Grants and Distri-bution Committee of the Posey County Commu-nity Foundation (PCCF), a fund of the Community Foundation Alliance in Evansville, announced that the Foundation is ac-cepting applications for grants to community or-ganizations. Proposals are

sought for charitable proj-ects and activities that ad-dress needs and opportuni-ties in the county in health, human services, arts and culture, education, com-munity development, and other areas that would im-prove Posey County.

The Posey County Community Foundation has raised the maximum amount for funding to $5000 per program or proj-ect this year. During these extraordinary economic times, the Foundation is committed to creating pos-itive impact and partnering

with other nonprofi ts to improve our community. Only those agencies or or-ganizations which are tax exempt under 501(c)(3) and 509(a) are eligible to apply for the over $71,000 available for granting. Proposals must be post-marked and supporting documents delivered to the PCCF offi ce in the Old National Bank Building at 402 Main Street in Mt. Vernon by 4:00 p.m. on March 6, 2012. Grant ap-plications may be obtained by logging on to the Foun-dation website at www.

poseycommunityfounda-tion.org.

In lieu of a group ori-entation session, prospec-tive grant applicants are invited to schedule a meet-ing with the Foundation's director, Johnna Denning, to receive an overview of the funding opportunity and to ask specifi c ques-tions. Contact Johnna at 812.838.0288 or johnna@poseycommunityfounda-tion.org to schedule an ori-entation meeting.

Grants will be awarded at the Foundation’s An-nual Meeting in June.

PCCF accepting grant proposals for over $71,000

Adult Winter Reading Program

Our Adult Winter reading Program continues through February 29. For each APL book read or audio-book lis-tened to; you may enter your name in a drawing for priz-es. You must be 18 or older to participate.

Preschool Winter Reading Program

This program will con-tinue until March 2. This winter, cuddle up with your little one and join our winter read-to-me program. This

program challenges you to read 100 picture books or board books to your pre-school child (ages birth to 5 years). That’s about 3.5 books a day. You may reg-ister at the youth desk or bookmobile.

Basic KnittingOn February 8 and 22 at 10

a.m. Cheryl Carroll will be at the library to demonstrate how to stitch during our Ba-sic Knitting Program. She will teach casting on, knit and purl, and biding off tech-niques. Yarn will be provided and a limited number of size 8 needles will be available to borrow from the library. No registration is necessary but space is limited.

Busy Hands“Busy Hands” is a gather-

ing of crafters - we meet at 10 a.m. on February 8 and 22 at 10 a.m. - unless the li-brary is closed. If you quilt, knit, do tatting, crochet, etc. come and join the fun.

Valentine’s Day Beaded Wire Ornament

On February 9 at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. come and join Monica Emerson and Ma-rissa Priddis as they reveal the simple techniques of handcrafting wrapped wire and bead heart ornament. They will then assist you in creating your own. You must be 18 or older.

T-Shirt NecklaceFebruary 13 at 3:30 p.m.

teens can turn an old shirt into a piece of wearable art! This program is for those in grades 6 – 12 only.

Lego ClubThis is a monthly club for

anyone age 6 and older who

loves working with Legos. Each meeting we will be building things from Legos on February 14 at 3:30 p.m. Registration is required.

Special Needs StorytimeWe would love for you to

come to this storytime on February 14 at 6 p.m. There will be interactive stories, games, rhymes, music and a craft. May activities to celebrate Valentine’s Day. This is a monthly event for children ages 3 and up with autism and their caregivers.

Art ShowThe Alexandrian Pub-

lic Library Presents: 2012 Posey County Winter’s End Art Show. Celebrate the end of winter with a visit to the Alexandrian Public Library for the next in their Honor-ing Heroes of Posey County exhibit series on February 17, 18 and 19.

This show promises to be a distinctly artful experience of original paintings, photo-graphs, jewelry, prints and sculptures by dozens of lo-cal artists of all ages.

Participation in the ex-hibit will be limited to Posey county residents and the exhibitor must hold le-gal residence in the county at time of exhibit. Artists must provide a 3”x5” card for each item containing the following information: Title, Artist, Medium, and Price. Only two items per artist will be accepted. Sub-missions from artists wish-ing to enter this show will be accepted beginning on February 6 and no submis-sions will be accepted after February 15.

The New Harmony Gal-lery of Contemporary Art presents Indiana Days/Kentucky Nights, an exhi-bition of prints by Andrew Kosten, USI assistant pro-fessor of art. The exhibi-tion opened Saturday and runs through February 11, when a reception for the artist will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. during the New Harmony Art and Antiques Stroll.

Kosten’s seemingly whimsical, yet often cyni-cal color lithographs and etchings leave none spared, mocking the hilarity of the human psyche and the al-truism of our forefathers to illuminate the compla-cency found in our society. He uses allegorical sym-bolism, such as the litho-graphs “Babel” and “Do it Father,” with the frankness of a child, critiquing hu-man behavior and cultural expectations with a touch

of light-heartedness.Kosten spent his child-

hood in Memphis, Tennes-see, and received a Bach-elor of Fine Arts degree in painting from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. His love of print-making drove him to com-plete a Master of Fine Arts degree in printmaking from the University of South Dakota in 2005. He has ex-hibited work in a number of juried and group shows both nationally and inter-nationally.

The New Harmony Gal-lery of Contemporary Art is located at 506 Main Street in New Harmony, Indiana and is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon until 4 p.m. Sunday.

The exhibition is free and open to the public. For more information, call 812/682-3156 or visit www.nhgallery.com.

Andrew Kosten’s workon display at NH Gallery

Lindsey Schmitt with Bamberger, Foreman, Oswald and Hahn gives an Estate Planning Seminar at the Red Wagon Restaurant in Poseyville. Some in attendance were Don Villwock, Indiana Farm Bureau President, John Broadhead, Terry Farmer and Andy Nestrick.

At Left: Karlee Rodg-ers enjoys spending time with her Grandma Jane Rodgers at the St. Wen-del School Grandparents Day event. Photo by Dave Pearce

Below: Kalah Schu has fun square dancing with her Grandpa, Terry Vin-cent during Grandparents Day at St. Wendel School. Photo by Dave Pearce

By Valerie WerkmeisterPosey County is look-

ing for a few good men and women to serve. The Posey County Commissioners dis-cussed the need for a few interested and qualifi ed peo-ple to serve on county com-mittees including the ADA Compliance Committee and the Wadesville-Blairsville Regional Sewer District (WBRSD). A representative from the Robinson Township area is needed to replace Vic Grisham on the WBRSD. Grisham has asked not to serve again. The position is

for a three-year term. Mike Tenbarge was ap-

proved to serve a four-year term on the Wadesville Fire Department board. A num-ber of individuals were ap-proved to serve on the Com-munity Corrections board including: Sheriff Greg Oeth, Prosecutor Travis Clowers, Superior Court Judge Jim Al-mon, probation offi cer Mark Funkhouser, circuit court judge James Redwine, circuit court probation offi cer Rod-ney Fetcher, county council member Marvin Redman, lay person Robert Stevens, lay

person Clarence Nelson, Mt. Vernon Police Chief Grant Beloat, Mount Vernon Met-ropolitan School District Su-perintendent Tom Kopatich, lay person Johnna Denning, and public defender Jean Hadley.

Nurse practitioner Melody Oeth was approved to serve on the EMS Committee. In addition, Donna Nix will fi ll the need of a licensed reg-istered nurse, Jake Warrum will serve as an attorney and Countrymark will fi ll the role as an tax paying industry. They have agreed to provide

a representative for the com-mittee. Commissioners are working with CPAs from Clem Dassel to determine a representative from their company.

The county is going to try to recoup some lost rev-enue as they plan to place 53 abandoned properties up for tax sale. These properties have been abandoned for so long and the back taxes are so high, most people would not be interested in purchas-ing them at the current cost. The taxes may be reduced or even forgiven in order to attract potential buyers and get the properties back on the tax rolls. The commission-ers agreed to contact, SRI, a company that will manage the tax sale on their behalf.

Building Commissioner Ed Battieger delivered a re-port to the commissioners stating there was a total of $88,582,000 subject to per-mits in the county last year. There were 23 new home permits, 51 permits for pole barns, 14 swimming pool permits, 26 permits issued for mobile or modular homes, 25 for commercial projects, 93 permits issued for remodels and 253 mechanical permits.

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The Annual Ribeye Steak Dinner and auction is taking place on Saturday, February 25 from 5 - 7 p.m. at the Ri-beyre Gymnasium in New Harmony.

The auction begins at 6:30 p.m and the money will go towards interior gym proj-

ects. You can buy a steak dinner for $15 or a ham-burger or hot dog dinner for $8. Sides include a baked potato, salad, drink, dessert and roll.

Come not only to eat good food but to see the beautiful-ly restored gymnasium.

Steak dinner, auction Feb. 25

St. Matthew’s Men’s Club breakfast to benefi t Yeidas

Posey County Pound Pup-pies is having a Spring Craft Fair for the fi rst time this year, Saturday March 31, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Posey County 4-H Grounds Community Bldg (between

Mt Vernon and New Har-mony).

Craft fair and car show We will have great selection of food, a silent auction, the Easter Bunny for pictures and much more.

PCPP Spring Craft Fair set for March 31

Post 5 American Legion in Mount Vernon will host a “Sweetheart Dinner and Dance” on Saturday, Feb-ruary 11. The event will be

open to the public and fea-ture a Prime Rib dinner fol-lowed by a dance. Please watch your newspaper as details develop.

Legion Dance, Dinner set

Jeff and Tracy Williams of Poseyville and Kevin Hob-good of Evansville are pleased to announce the engagement of their son, Tanner Hobgood to Jessie Crumbacher, daugh-ter of Tracey and Steve Wyatt of Hoover Alabama and Jeff Crumbacher of Evansville.

Tanner is a 2011 graduate of North Posey High School and is currently employed by the USAF as an Air Traffi c Controller. Jessie is a 2010 graduate of North Posey High School and iscurrently employed at Little Crazy Daisy fl ow-er shop. A late summer wedding is planned. The couple will reside in White Sands, New Mexico.

Tanner Hobgood and Jessie Crumbacher

The Good Housewife Exhibit, by New Harmony artist, Mary Ann Michna, opens at the Women's In-stitute and Gallery, 916 E. Granary St., New Harmony, Ind. on Friday, February 10 and will continue through May 6, 2012. The mixed media artwork was created between 1997 and 2001 when Michna's studio was located in the historic Stutz Building in downtown In-dianapolis.

Michna studied at Pratt Institute in New York and received an MFA in 1978. She has exhibited her art-work both regionally and nationally. She currently works out of her studio in New Harmony, Indiana. The Artist Reception will be Saturday, February 11, 4 - 7 p.m. during the New Harmony Winter Gallery Stroll, when galleries and some shops are open with refreshments.

Artist Mary Ann Michna exhibit on display

Gordon and Patti Green of Mount Vernon are proud to announce the birth of their son, Samuel Joseph. Samuel was born on November 3, 2011. He weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces and was 20 and 3/4 inches long.

He was proudly welcomed home by his brother Colton. Grandparents include Dick and Jackie Green and Frank and Peggy Liberti, all of Mount Vernon.

Samuel Joseph Green

Mount Vernon Relay for Life will host the an-nual, “Lace Up Against Cancer 5K” run/walk at 9 a.m. on March 10, 2012. Registration Cost is $20 until March 1 and $25 after March 1 until race time on

March 10.All proceeds benefi t

Relay for Life. For more information contact Brit-taney Johnson via email bjohnson@ccwin.com or phone 812-319-9027 or 812-838-4175.

MV Relay for Life 5K Run, Walk

St. Matthews Men’s Club is having a pancake sau-sage breakfast on February 12, 2012 in the all purpose room. A donation from this breakfast will go to Mac Yeida, the four- year old little boy of Sara and Gabe Yeida who is on dialysis daily and

waiting for a kidney trans-plant..

The breakfast can be served as early as 7 a.m. and be served as late as 11 a.m. The price is $8 for adults and $5 for children K-8th Grade. Car-

ry-outs available. Tickets may be purchased at the door.

Mac Yeida

On Sunday February 19, 2012, from 11a-2p Tales and Scales will present their second annual New Orleans Jazz brunch at Old National Bank’s Wayne Henning Atrium on Evansville’s Riverfront. This Marti Gras themed event will pro-

mote and support Tales and Scales non-profi t programs.

During the event, Tales and Scales troupe (Ashley Frary, Monte Skelton, Pat Ritsch and Brandon Hagen) will be performing their latest musictale “The En-chanted Horn”. The brunch will be in “New Orleans Big Easy” style and food will be provided by Chef Josh Armstrong of Riverview by Firefl y.

For 26 years, Tales and Scales is an innovative en-semble that seeks to engage you people through mu-sictelling, which is a blend of music, theater, story tell-ing and creative movement. Annually, Tales and Scales reaches over 25,000 young people through workshops in schools throughout Southwestern Indiana and tri state region.

Tickets for the event in-clude brunch and are $25 childen, $50 adult, and $75 VIP seating. Sponsor tables are also available. Please call 812-425-8741 to pur-chase tickets.

Tales & Scales to host Jazz Brunch

Cordale Straub and Lauren Zirkelbach enjoy the Grandparent Day Celebration at St. Wendel School. Photo by Dave Pearce

St. Wendel School Principal Ron Pittman talks to the crowd at the St. Wendel School Grandparent’s Day event. Photo by Dave Pearce

By Valerie WerkmeisterAs Spring nears, so does the March 1, deadline the North

Posey Youth Club (NPYC) has set to raise $25,000 to build a third baseball fi eld at the Poseyville youth baseball park. Recently a fundraising letter was mailed out to 4,400 house-holds and in the fi rst week, donations totaling nearly $4,500 have been tallied. The youth club is a 503c organization that qualifi es donations to be tax deductible.

“We’re hoping to get a good community response. We’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback about the letter. We want to offer the community the opportunity to help out if they want to,” Jason Hoehn, NPYC President said.

Hoehn stated the program depends on the generosity of the community to help sustain it. Volunteers dedicate their time and resources for the betterment of the program.

Currently, there are only two fi elds at the ball park along with the fi elds at North Elementary School that provide an area for over 500 youth to play. Completing construction on a third fi eld is a necessity and youth club offi cers hope to have it ready for spring play. The club hopes to bring T-ball play from the North Elementary fi elds up to the youth park this spring. Lights still need to be purchased and fencing, as well as a dugout, must also be constructed. Volunteers have already stepped up to provide the labor at no cost.

The youth club, which also includes Kevin Wassmer as vice president, Jay Pearison as secretary and Greg Newman as treasurer, must focus on sustainability for the program. The youth club not only oversees boys’ baseball, it also in-cludes girls’ softball, football and baseketball for youth ages fi ve to 12.

A youth league night has been planned at the Red Wagon

Restaurant in Poseyville for Tuesday, February 28, from 4 p.m. – 9 p.m. Customers can provide coupons to their server and the Red Wagon has agreed to donate 10 percent of the bill to the youth league. Coupons are available at many busi-nesses in Poseyville, from any youth club offi cer and also appears in this newspaper. Hoehn also stated that clipping this story to present to the Red Wagon server will also suf-fi ce.

One sign-up for all boys, ages fi ve to 12 as of May 1, who would like to play baseball this year has been planned for February 20 and February 22. It will be held from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. both nights at the Poseyville Community Center. T-ball fees are set at $25, rookie and minor league fees are $35 and the fee for major little league is $40. All fees are due at sign-ups.

Boys who are ages fi ve –six will play T-ball. The sea-son begins in late May and will be played on Monday and Wednesday evenings. Rookie league serves boys who are ages seven and eight. Minor league is for boys ages nine to 12. Everyone is eligible in these programs regardless of skill level.

The major little league program requires try-outs and players will be chosen until each team’s rosters are full.

Individuals who are unable to make a donation but would like to help out in some way will have an opportunity during work days on March 3 and 10. Each work day will begin at 8 a.m. and continue until the work is done.

Anyone who did not receive a fundraising mailer and would like to make a donation can mail a check to the North Posey Youth Club, P.O. Box 78, Poseyville, IN 47633. Any questions can be directed to one of the club offi cers.

Poseyville seeks help with ball fi eld funds

During some renovation this week, some of the original art was uncovered on the side of the Fifth Third Bank Building in Poseyville.

There’s a place for you in county government

State Sen. Jim Tomes (R-Wadesville) welcomed Mt. Vernon Junior-Senior High School students Ethan and Gwen Raibley as Senate pages in January.

During the 2012 session of the Indiana General As-sembly, students throughout the state are invited to par-ticipate in the page program, making the Statehouse their classroom for the day. This experience includes a tour of the Capitol and an oppor-tunity to be on the fl oor of the Senate chamber, where pages can meet, have their picture taken and deliver messages to their senators.

“This is an incredible op-portunity for young Hoo-siers of Southwest Indiana,” Tomes said. “The page program offers a top-notch learning experience, where students visit their State-house, meet with legislators and have a front-row seat to see how state government operates.”

Students in grades six through 12 are invited to serve as pages on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays

throughout session, Tomes said.

For more information on how your student can serve

as an Indiana Senate page for a day, visit http://www.in.gov/legislative/senate_republicans/2340.htm.

CHURCH & GENERAL

Seeds of the Sower By Michael Guido

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Sermon of the Week: Transfi guration of Jesus

Loves Prioritiesby Lowell Tison

Rev. Sean Esterline, Mes-siah Lutheran Church

The text for this sermon is Mark 9:2-9 Transfi guration of Jesus.

Big things often happen on high mountains in the Bible: Noah’s ark landed on Mt. Ararat, and God prom-ised never again to fl ood the entire earth. Abraham climbed a hill to sacrifi ce Isaac before God provided a lamb instead. Moses climbed Mt. Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments, that Old Testament of Law. The Transfi guration of our Lord is no exception: Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and led them up on a high mountain apart by them-selves; and He was transfi g-ured before them.

Jesus is transfi gured, shin-ing like lightning; in other words, He demonstrates that He’s not just another man. He’s fully human, yes—but He’s also fully God. What’s more, Moses and Elijah are there—but not to dispense advice. We know from Luke’s account that they’re talking about Jesus and His work. These greatest of prophets from the Old Testament are there to point again to Jesus. Pe-ter, James and John witness that Jesus is more than just another prophet: He’s the Messiah the prophets fore-told. That’s not all: God the Father overshadows them in a cloud and speaks: “This is My beloved Son. Listen to Him!” God declares that Jesus is the Father’s beloved Son. He’s God’s beloved Son, sent by the Father to do the Father’s will of sal-vation. Then God the Father recedes and the prophets disappear, leaving only the very ordinary-looking hu-man Jesus standing in front of three bewildered dis-ciples.

We know the story, so now we need to ask the question, “So what?” Why is Jesus transformed? Why then, in front of Peter, James and John? Well, we need to remember something very important: the disciples had the joy of witnessing Jesus’ glory at the Transfi guration before proclaiming it. You weren’t on the mountain that day, and you don’t get to see Jesus’ dazzling glory on this side of heaven un-less He returns soon. But you have something better: you have the Word of God. Although you haven’t seen the Transfi guration with your eyes, you’ve heard the Transfi guration with your

ears. Jesus was Transfi g-ured back then in front of them so that you would be strengthened here and now. Or, to put this truth in the language of the text, you don’t see God’s beloved Son standing there in front of you on Sunday morning; but if your understanding of God’s Word is correct, then you understand that you do listen to Him, you do hear Him all the same.

What I mean is this: there are two basic ways to run theology—either you teach and follow what’s called a theology of glory or you teach and follow a theology of the cross.

If you’re a theologian of glory, then you go by what you see. You go by what you experience. You go by what you feel. You look for God in the glorious things on earth—beautiful sunsets, vibrant health and exciting experiences. That means that your relationship with God—your worship—is about having experiences, about good songs, powerful

sermons, it’s about excite-ment and motivation and emotions. (These are all things that tend to fl uctuate over time.)

If you’re a theologian of the cross, you operate differ-ently though. At the cross, you know that the Lord won salvation even though it didn’t look glorious: His power and glory were hid-den under bloody suffering and death. You trust that Jesus’ death is your salva-tion not because it looked good, but because you hear His Word of promise that there is where Christ saved you. That means that ac-cording to His Word, you don’t expect God to always act in glorious ways; but like the cross, you look for God to work in ways where His glory is hidden. (This means that God is always acting in your life, even if it’s not obvious to you at the time.)

What complicates things is the sad truth is that no matter who you are, you live in a sinful world. And while

you obviously want to see heavenly glory, there’s just not much heavenly glory to be seen in a sinful world—instead there’s plenty of worldly glory, to distract you and lead you away from the faith you’ve been given. But please listen and hear the Word of God that tells you to repent of your sins—and rejoice that you are nev-er forsaken by your loving Father in heaven. We know this to be true because the glorious Son of God became fl esh in this world in order to bring you to heaven. Sure, you don’t see His glory now, but you do hear His Word of grace and truth—and that means that right now, you live by faith on earth, but some day He promises that you will see heaven. This is most certainly true be-cause by the grace of God, through the work and person of Jesus Christ, and accord-ing to His Word, you are for-given for all of your sins in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

A boy refused to take his sister fi shing. “But,” said the mother, “she promised not to make any noise.”

“Mom,” answered the boy, “it’s not the noise that bothers me. She eats all the bait.”

Often it’s in our closest relationships that we eat each other’s bait and douse the fi re of love that once burned in each other’s heart.

But the Living Bible says, “Be like one happy family, full of sympathy to-ward each other, loving one another with tender hearts and humble minds. Don’t repay evil for evil. Don’t snap back at those who say unkind things about you. Instead, pray for God’s help for them, for we are to be kind to others, and God will bless us for it.”

Local students serve as Pages for Sen. Tomes

Senator Jim Tomes and Ethan Raibley.

Senator Jim Tomes and Gwen Raibley.

Kyle Foster of Poseyville was recently recognized for achieving the rank of Eagle Scout, the Boy Scouts' highest award. Foster chose to erect three new fl agpoles at the baseball park in Poseyville with the help of Layne Motz construction and a generous donation by Chuck Pearison. Kyle is pictured with his parents, Christy and Greg Fos-ter. Photo by Valerie Werkmeister

Cone one, come all to the Hot Rock 50’s Cafe on February 29 at 5:30 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church - Wesley Hall, 601 Main St., Mount Vernon.

Dress up in your 50’s best and be ready to “Hot Rock Around the Clock”.

Buy your tickets now for a stroll down memory lane. Tickets can be purchased by

calling Jerry or Susan Rut-ledge at 838-4625. Donation of $7 minimum per person. All profi t goes to The Mac Yeida Kidney Transplant Benefi t Fund.

Hot Rock 50’s Cafe event to benefi t Mac Yeida

The Chamber of Commerce of South-west Indiana will host its annual “Meet your Legislator” event on Saturday, Febru-ary 18, 2012 in New Harmony, Ind. This event will allow residents to meet with area legislators, Senator Jim Tomes and Repre-sentative Wendy McNamara.

The event will take place at the following

location: 9 a.m. at Thrall’s Opera House, 612 Church Street, New Harmony. This event is free and open to everyone.

If you have any questions, please contact Brittaney Johnson, The Chamber of Com-merce of Southwest Indiana’s Posey County Administrative Director of, at bjohnson@ccswin.com or call 812-838-3639.

Meet your Legislator on February 18

Olivia Effi nger & Tanner Schickel have fun during Grandparent’s Day at St. Wen-del School. Photo by Dave Pearce At Left: Michaela Weiss

and Kurtis Wilderman square dance at the Grand-parent’s Day event at St. Wendel School. Photo by Dave Pearce

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Rylan Kozinski, a Sophomore History Education major, from Mount Vernon, Ind., was named to the Trevecca Nazarene Uni-versity Fall 2011 Dean's List. This honor is given to students who have achieved a minimum 3.5 grade point average for the se-mester, and it recognizes the hard work and dedication of those students.

Trevecca Nazarene University (www.trevecca.edu), founded in 1901, is located in

Nashville, Tenn. To its enrollment of 2400+, Trevecca offers the following: 85 bacca-laureate and three associate degree majors; master's degrees in religion, education, management, physician assistant, library and information science, organizational leadership, and counseling; and doctorates in education and clinical counseling. Trev-ecca now offers a new degree-completion program in health information technology.

Ryan Kozinski named to Trevecca Nazarene Dean’s List

St. Wendel CatholicHigh Honors

Lauren JarboeJarrod Koester

Valerie MuenstermanErin Will

Kevin BlankenbergerAubrey Dyson

Luke GriesJoel Kelley

Travis KoesterAli Spahn

Claire Muensterman

Syl FolzLindsey Koester

Mitch HallJack Heldt

Kathryn MuenstermanJaylyn Sweeney

Noah BlankenbergerOlivia Effi ngerTanner SchickelGrant Schneider

Alaina SpahnCasey Straub

Kaitlin WrightJenna Zirkelbach

HonorsSerena Wilderman

Jonathan WildermanJacob SchmittAllison Reker Travis Koester Allison Graff Bailey Bender

Stephen Barnett

Brandey Bender Tyler Effi nger

Rachael Goedde Kyle Luigs

Emily Schmitt Michaela Weiss

Kurtis Wilderman Hannah Adler

Jenna Fehrenbacher Alex Gries

Jared Wilderman

ALL GRADES

West ElementaryBlue Ribbon AwardBrooke JacksonLogan Mayes

Berkeley NeikirkElizabeth RiesGrace White

Bryce Alldredge Halle Bailey Sydney Deno Emily Hueftle

Virginia Jeffries

Joshua McHargue Maria SantoroEmma Schmidt

Kaitlyn McDaniels

Red Ribbon Award Xavier AngelEmma ClarkCaleb DotyLenyx Roe

Dalton Schmidt

Emma ThompsonWhitney Young

Caitlin Abel Amber CollierMadison Cox

Kirsten DeMoss Grant Fox

Kayden HamiltonTyler McDurmon

Gabe OwensZachary Pence

Madisyn Meredith Baylee BoernerAutumn Collier

Haley DavisTrevor Frisby

Isabella KelleyAaron MarshallCassidy ReylingGrace Thompson

Gavin VarnerDamon White

3RD GRADE

Blue Ribbon Award Sean Brock

Johnathon Chaffi nDylan ClarkDemi CollinsMaggie Jones

Zack JonesGavin PadgettLauren Valier

Alena AndersonPake Davis

Wade DixonGary Esche

Brent RickettsNicholas Schaefer

Gabe ThomasJudy Yang

Red Ribbon Award Ethan CordleLucas CrissupParker Groves

Emma HazlettJoni Henderson

Bronson QuinzerMyra SchutzT. Lee Barton

Aaron BaumanJasmine EmersonKayanna FrenchTommy KelleyBrock RickettsZach Rutledge

Lindsey RyeBrock Schmidt

Isaac BlankenshipElizabeth GreenJacob JohnsonHannah LaraBailey MillerKyle Stewart

Trevor SucharitakulChase Thomas

4TH GRADE

Blue Ribbon Logan CulleyMegan GhristClara Hawley

Jonathan HueftleNicole Tucker

Mitchell Wilson

Rachel PriceEmma Weilbrenner

Red Ribbon Award Avion Collins

Jason HamiltonLogan Sitzman

Asa SpindlerTory Thompson

Ben VarnerTobi Clark

Jake ClaxtonBlake EmersonHaley Russell

Clara SpicklerAdam Blunt

Elisabeth KershawBailie KimmelTim Santoro

5TH GRADE

North Elementary “Groovy Dance” with a 70s theme is on Friday, Febru-ary 24 from 6:30-9 p.m. All New Harmony fi fth and sixth grade students are warmly in-vited to attend. This is a good opportunity to get to know some of your new upcoming classmates in an “out of the classroom” setting.

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The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Inc. has notifi ed Mount Vernon High School that four students have earned awards in the Indiana region for their art works in the annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. The works were chosen from over 1,000 works from schools in 52 counties. In the Design Category, Olivia Mader won a Silver Key for her story illustration entitled “Chococarapeanoughatmel Dis-ease”. Brittany Brooks, Audrey Summers, and Mary Klueh won Honorable Men-tions for their portfolios. The Scholastic Art Awards are the oldest and most presti-gious of competitions held for high school art students.

The Mount Vernon High School Art Guild is hosting an art camp for students to explore art techniques and mediums. Students will be given opportunities to ex-press themselves through three different projects. We will learn while having fun.

Any student in grades 3rd

through 8th are welcomed to attend. The art camp will be held at the MVHS Art Rooms and Cafeteria. Please enter at the circle-drive foyer, entrance #2. The art camp will be held Saturday, February 25, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Registra-tion will begin at 7:45 a.m.

Cost will be $25 per stu-dent, and $20 per additional siblings. Fee includes all art supplies, t-shirt activity, and a snack.

Registration forms are available at MSD Mount Vernon school offi ces or on the high school web site at Mrs. Glaser’s Art Guild page. Please return forms and fees by Friday February 17, 2012. Space is limited.

For more information contact Kendra Glaser at 812-838-4356 or glaserkj@msdmv.k12.in.us

MVHS Art Camp registration deadline February 17

New Harmony High School students will be tap-ing another Academic Chal-lenge on Saturday, February 11 at Oakland City Univer-sity. The match is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. at the Corn-well-Reed Center on the OCU campus.

Students will be compet-ing against Edwards County High School. Community and family members are wel-come to attend.

New Harmony Academic Challenge February 11

Saint Philip School held its Religion Bowl last Wednesday. 12 teams comprised of third through eighth graders competed to see who was the most knowledgeable and win a pizza party. Seen here discussing: (l-r) Stasha Glaser (grade 5), Alyssa Goebel (grade 4) and Brooke Berry (grade 6). Photo by Zach Straw

The Religion Bowl used an electronic voting system to tally the competitors’ answers. Participation was high, with 96 children taking part in the event while classmates cheered them on. Celebrating a correct answer are (l-r): Aaron Thompson (grade 5), Brenton Fulton (Grade 6), Brennan Epley (Grade 3), Robbie Helfrich (Grade 6), Ben Halter (Grade 7 - not visible) and Drew Folz (Grade 8). Photo by Zach Straw

North to host dance

Any student planning to attend college must submit a Free Application for Fed-eral Student Aid (FAFSA) in order to be eligible for federal and state aid in-cluding grants, work study, and loans as well as some scholarships, inlcuding the Twenty-fi rst Century Schol-ars Award.

Financial aid profession-als will be volunteering at Ivy Tech Community Col-lege in Evansville, located at 3501 N. First Ave., and 39 other Indiana sites to help college-bound students and their families open the door to fi nancial aid during Col-lege Goal Sunday, set for 2 p.m. (local time), February 12, 2012.

The free program is de-

signed to assist Indiana stu-dents seeking undergradu-ate admission to a college or technical school in 2012 in fi ling the Free Applica-tion for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The FAFSA is required for students to be considered for federal and state grants, loans and scholarships at most col-leges, universities and vo-cational/technical schools nationwide and must be fi led by March 10 to be eli-gible for state aid. Complet-ing this required form cor-rectly and by the deadline is sometimes perceived to be complicated and time con-suming. In one afternoon at College Goal Sunday, students and their families can get free help and fi le the

form online.Students should attend

College Goal Sunday with their parent(s) or guardian(s) and bring their parents’ completed 2011 IRS 1040 tax returns, W-2 Forms and other 2011 income and benefi ts information. Stu-dents who worked last year, should bring their income information. Students 24 years of age or older may attend alone and bring their own completed 2011 IRS 1040 tax return, W-2 Form or other 2011 income and benefi ts information. Stu-dents and parents may apply for their U.S. Department of Education Personal Iden-tifi cation Numbers (PINs) at www.pin.ed.gov before coming to the event.

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Renea Kerchief with her Grandparents, Jon Kerchief & Rita Gries at the Grandpar-ents Day event at St. Wendel. Photo by Dave Pearce

BUSINESSPAGE A9 • FERAURY 7, 2012 THE POSEY COUNTY NEWS • SERVING THE COUNTY SINCE 1882 • WWW.POSEYCOUNTYNEWS.COM

By Pam RobinsonYes” echoed through-

out the room regarding the fi rst reading of an ordinance that allows one-time addi-tional appropriations totaling $293,000 from the City of Mount Vernon’s economic development income tax, or EDIT, budget. The roll call vote followed discussion generated when Councilman Andy Hoehn stated the mo-tion for the one-time appro-priations, and Councilman Bill Curtis seconded.

All city council members except the absent Steve Fu-elling affi rmed their desire at the Monday, January 23, meeting to see taxpayer mon-ey applied to the following concerns as outlined by City Attorney Beth McFadin Hig-gins : 1) $100,000 to supple-ment approximately $5,000 already budgeted for building code enforcement in the de-molition of unsafe buildings, 2) $3,000 in addition to ap-proximately $2,000 already budgeted for asbestos inspec-tion required for building code enforcement, 3) $30,000 for the city’s approved 2011 contribution to the Posey County Economic Develop-ment Partnership (2012 con-tribution covered in regular city budget), 4) $125,000 for matching grant funds for riv-erfront development, and 5) $35,000 to the city parks and recreation department.

Information about the ad-ditional appropriations will now be published and a pub-lic hearing will be held during the next council meeting on Monday, February 13.

At Mayor John Tucker’s request, Parks Director John Tate appeared before council and presented an itemized list of how his department could use newly appropriated funds: phone system relocat-ed from Armory to Hedges; new parks and recreation signage for Hedges building; relocation of disco ball from

Armory to Hedges; installa-tion of electrical outlets; in-crease in payroll (current and future); youth mini basketball goals; industrial fl oor cleaner; additional recreational equip-ment; new doors for entrance #12; conference table and chairs for room #9; and snack bar for concession area.

“There’s some struggles with the [regular budget] appropriation each year. It keeps going down each year compared to what our actual budget is. This will defi nitely help us to do some things that we won’t be able to do out of our existing budget,” he said.

In particular, Tate noted that the Hedges building, un-like the Armory, features air conditioning, so the parks and recreation community center may stay open year-round. Also, the new location allows for activities in mul-tiple rooms, so supervision is needed in a greater area. As a result, hiring additional staff is a priority.

A bit later, City Attorney Beth McFadin Higgins spoke to the need for funding to support the work of mayoral assistant Sherry Willis to en-force safe building codes. Higgins emphasized that the public should take the op-portunity to give input at the hearings for the disposal of unsafe buildings, but should recognize Willis’s efforts to improve building conditions.

“This will certainly give Sherry the ability to really put some teeth in that. She’s been working tirelessly for about four years,” Higgins stated.

Likewise, at the mayor’s invitation, Attorney Trent Van Haaften left his seat in the audience to speak concerning private property owners’ and government’s responsibilities in keeping the city’s build-ings safe for citizens. Open-ing his new practice with Attorney Adam Farrar at 201 Main Street in December, Van Haaften pointed to the disre-

pair of a nearby downtown property that had resulted in debris on the sidewalk.

“If you can’t take care of your own property and it’s impacting the general public, then the government has to step in,” the former District 76 Indiana state representa-tive said, having prefaced his remarks by stating the value of limited government.

At the close of the meet-ing, Mayor John Tucker com-mended council for taking the fi rst step to approve addi-tional appropriations from the EDIT budget.

“It’s a tough decision, but I think it’s the right decision,” he said.

In other business:•When the council met as

Water Utility Board, City At-torney Beth McFadin Higgins followed up with the bond parameters for the proposed Waterworks improvement project. Council members received copies of the fol-lowing timeline: February 13, 2012, common council has introduction and fi rst read-ing of the bond ordinance; February 27, 2012, common council has second reading of bond ordinance; March 12, 2012, common council has third reading and adopts bond ordinance with notices to ap-pear in two subsequent edi-tions of the local newspaper; March 29, 2012, bond sale (not to exceed 15.3 million dollars); April 12, 2012, or mid-April, closing. Higgins said thcouncil might combine the second and third readings although the timeline allows for three separate readings. She added that after the or-dinance is adopted, council could then look at fi nalizing the construction agreement with Johnson Controls Inc., or JCI. After the meeting, Higgins noted this particular improvement project would be completed without a water rate increase.

•Water Superintendent

Chuck Gray reported that his department had been deal-ing with a few electrical is-sues causing, for example, random closing and opening of pumps. In addition, he noted that another user was interrupting communication on the current radio trans-mission frequency, and the department is checking into transmitting from a different frequency. Finally, he stated that three big leaks had been repaired on the West side of town.

Mount Vernon moves money to handle budget

By Pam RobinsonThe Mount Vernon Board

of Public Works and Safety managed routine business in less than 30 minutes on Thursday, January 26, 2012. With board member Bill Curtis away, Mayor John Tucker and board member Steve Fuelling ad-dressed all concerns.

The board offi cially awarded the contract to Blankenberger, the low bidder, for the West El-ementary School storm drainage project at a cost of $304,052.95.

Upon the recommenda-tion of Wastewater Super-intendent Rodney Givens, the board approved the low quote (out of two) from Ar-chitectural Sales for three

(3) doors for the control room at a price of $3,435 with permission to allow adjustments on locksets, closers and possibly adding galvanized doors at $70 ex-tra per door.

The board gave permis-sion for city fi refi ghter Matt Johnson to proceed with Firefi ghter 1 & 2 classes being offered at German Township at no charge two nights per week from Janu-ary 30 through June 30 and to use a city vehicle.

The board accepted the only bid for chemicals from Brenntag.

The Mount Vernon Board of Public Works and Safety will meet again on Thurs-day, February 9, at 4 p.m. in the City Hall Annex.

Board of Works handles routine utility business

The Hoosier Boosters 4-H Club will hold their fi rst meet-ing of the 2012 year on Wednesday, February 15. We will meet from 7 - 8:30 p.m. in the NPHS Ag Room. All current members, any potential new members, and parents are in-vited to attend.

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Wade offers anti-aging acne treatments, facial and body waxing, and medical microdermabrasion, among others. Microdermabrasion is a mechanical exfoliation that Wade recommends for those with superfi cial scar-ring, dry skin and fi ne lines and wrinkles. “For fi rst time clients, I would suggest the Signature Facelift; this gentle four-layer facelift uses Vita-min C for brightening, and exfoliating scrub, and an en-zyme mask to remove dead skin cells,” said Wade. For those who wish to reduce the appearance of adult acne, dis-coloration, sun spots or age spots, Wade recommends the

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Ellen Wade applying make-up for Megan Cullum at the Uptopia Salon in New Harmony. Photo by Rhys Mathew

Michelle Rowland, owner of Michelle’s Icing on the Cake, takes time to arrange a Cake Ball Bouquet on Wednesday morning. One of her best sellers, cake balls have helped transform her business from a bakery to a restaurant serving breakfast and lunch. Photo by Zach Straw

Well 2011 has come to a close and 2012 has be-gun. With the close of a year the Keck Gonner-man club could not exist

without a lot of hands on help from a lot of people. We would like to thank all those who help in so many ways. BIB BIG

THANKSWith the start of the

new year we had our of-fi cer elections to staff our Board with offi cers for 2012. Mike Blackburn has been our President for the past 3 years and has done a great job. Mike had asked to step down for family reasons, so our Vice President Brian Pierce will take over the Presidents role. Bill Es-che was elected the new Vice President. Dennis Herrmann will stay as our Secretary and Don Julian will remain the Treasurer.

Before we look at 2012 let’s look back at 2011. We got the sawmill up and running, helped the Fair Board to work the tractor pull during the

fair. The club participated in the Mt. Vernon River Days, New Harmony Christmas Parade, tractor ride in the spring (around fl ood waters), Poseyville Fall Parade, our Aug. show and several other events. We had a very good year.

For 2012 our fi rst event will be a tractor drive on April 21st with April the 28th as a rain date. Our plans will be to meet at Harmony State Park, drive to the Harmony Health Care Center for a rest break and time to share with the residents.

We will be writing and sharing more with you at a later date. If you see us at an event, please come talk with us.

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By Steve JoosThe Mount Vernon girls’ swim team

looked very good Saturday. How good were they?They were so good, they even scared their

coach.“We were scary fast,” Lady Wet Cats’

coach Larry Zoller said. “We not only broke records, we demolished records, by four or fi ve second in the relays. We broke records we didn’t expect, like in the backstroke (where Samantha Gowdy bettered the old mark by fi ve-hundredths of a second). Our kids are just ready.”

After swimming the fastest of any Sec-tional in the state in Thursday’s preliminary round, the Lady Wet Wildcats rewrote the Sectional record book while capturing their Sectional crown, scoring 520 points, 53 bet-ter than second-place Castle (467) at the Lady Knights’ pool.

“This was just an unbelievable meet,” Zoller said. “This was a magical moment. You just don’t have meets like this where ev-eryone takes taper just the way it’s supposed to, but we’re only at a stop for our destina-tion. This year, our destination isn’t Section-al; our destination is the state meet.”

The coach said that the team set itself up well as far as state seedings were concerned and that should put them in a good position to back up the third-place ranking Mount Ver-non has received over much of the season.

It may have been just a fi rst stop, oh, but what a fi rst stop it was.

After Mount Vernon won its seventh straight Sectional crown and 19th meet in the last 20 years, the Lady Wet Cats linked arms across the diving pool at Castle and took the victory plunge as a group, which was appro-

priate, since it was a total team effort, Zoller added.

Usual suspects Ericka McCormick and Clara Baggett were double winners, with

record-breaking performance in all four in-dividual events (Baggett’s :50.75 in the 100-yard freestyle shattered a 15-year old mark in that event, while McCormick bettered

her own 2011 record with a 1:01.88 in the 100-breaststroke), but any other swimmers

Members of the Mount Vernon girls’ sectional swim team celebrate “the perfect meet.” Photo by Dave Koch

Lady ‘Cats demolish sectional fi eld, record books

By Steve JoosThree matmen from each school are going

to the Ford Center. Posey County had a good day at Castle Saturday.

Six of the eight wrestlers who qualifi ed for the Castle Regional meet from the county broke into the semifi nals and advanced to this weekend’s Indiana High School Athletic Association Semistate at the Ford Center in Evansville.

And once again, a county grappler pulled off the biggest upset of the day.

Mount Vernon’s Jon Hoehn became the fi rst grappler from either Mount Vernon or North Posey to wrestle for a championship during the postseason and do it; he knocked off Mater Dei’s Jake Lannert 9-4 in the 138-pound semifi nals.

At the Sectional, North Posey’s Seth Elderkin upset the state’s eighth-ranked 145-pounder, Isaac Kempner of Central in the second round.

A 2011 state meet qualifi er and currently ranked second in the state, Lannert came back to fi nish third by registering an 18-4 major decision over North Posey’s Michael Friymire, one of three Vikings who are still wrestling.

All three Wildcats (Jon Hoehn, Adam Hoehn and Jordan Dallas) moved on, as did Frymire, Tyler Stock (113) and heavyweight Austin Little from North Posey’s contingent.

Mount Vernon coach Tim Alcorn was very pleased with the way his team wrestled Satur-day, even though Adam Hoehn (126 pounds) and Dallas (152) each fi nished fourth in their weight classes, while Jon Hoehn dropped a 10-4 decision to Central’s Brandon Kelly for the 138-pound championship.

Two Mater Dei grapplers put away Adam Hoehn and Dallas in their respective third-place matches. At 126, Josh Pierre blanked Adam Hoehn 9-0, while Logan Folz topped Dallas 6-1 at 152.

Stock blanked Matthew Mastison of Har-rison 5-0 to claim third place at 113, while the other Semistate bound North Posey grap-plers had to settle for fourth. In addition to Frymire, Little was nipped 5-4 by Steve Breen of Princeton in the 285 consolation bout.

All those decisions, however, took a back seat to the highlight of the day in the 138 semifi nals.

“Jon just came ready to go,” Alcorn said. “He wrestled the perfect match.”

Hoehn fell behind early, but came back to tie the match at 2-2 on a pair of escapes be-fore taking Lannert down four times in the next two periods.

Alcorn was amazed with the early perfor-mances of all three of his Regional grapplers,

especially after a lackluster week at the Cen-tral Sectional.

Adam Hoehn was leading Tyler Conner of Boonville 7-4 in his fi rst match of the day when the contest was called in the third peri-od due to an injury default, while Jon Hoehn dominated Castle’s Patrick Schnell, building a 12-0 lead before putting Schell out of his misery with a pin at the 3:02 mark of their contest.

Then Dallas showed what Alcorn called “the biggest heart in the gym” to nip Ben Hawkins of Heritage Hills 4-2.

Things didn’t go as well for the lighter-weight Hoehn and Dallas in the semifi nals, where they ran into some of the same com-petition they saw a week earlier at Central.

Adam Hoehn was pinned in 1:54 by Gide-on Vanhook of Reitz, while Dallas was out-pointed by Memorial’s Cody Renshaw 4-0 in the 152-pound semis.

“I’m very, very proud of these kids,” the Mount Vernon coach said. “They’re wres-tling their tails off today.”

Alcorn was very proud of the way the Cats wrestled in the fi rst round, noting their heart and effort in reaching the Semistate.

“Everything from here on out is bonus wrestling,” he said. “We’re going on next week. Jon’s win (over Lannert) is icing on the cake, but we need that cherry.”

Elderkin wasn’t as fortunate this week-end, as he was pinned by Chase Singleton of Gibson Southern in 1:03 of their fi rst-round match.

After Chris O‘Risky (195) was stuck in 1:48 by Dalton Halbig of Princeton, one had to wonder if Posey County would only be represented by light and middle weights at the Semistate, but then Little pinned Heritage Hills junior Jake Allen in 3:07 to punch his ticket to the Ford Center.

Kelly earned his match with Hoehn by out pointing Frymire 19-11 in the semifi nals. Like their Mount Vernon counterparts, Stock and Little were also victims of that parochial school on the West Side of Evansville.

Mater Dei freshman Alex Johnson con-trolled Stock 10-3 in the semifi nals while Nathan Wright got a pair of second period escape points and a third-period takedown to hold off Little 4-2.

Dallas tweaked his shoulder in the semi-fi nals, which is something that has bothered him all season, Alcorn said, but he wasn’t making any excuses.

After all, grapplers with all the heart in the world don’t make excuses, but they some-times go on to the next level.

Kelly wasn’t the only champion to stop a county wrestler Saturday, as Johnson, Van-hook and Wright all captured Regional titles.

Above, Mount Vernon senior Jon Hoehn maintains advantage over his fi rst round Castle opponent during Saturday’s regional competition. Hoehn and Tyler Stock, be-low, of North Posey both fi nished third on for the day.

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wiped out the record in the 200-freestyle (1:51.39), which had also stood since 1997, and then there were the relays.

The 200-medley relay squad beat the old record by over two seconds (from 1:48.94 to 1:46.47), the 200-freestyle relay team broke the mark of 2009 Lady Wet Cats by a second (1:36.49, compared to 1:37.49) and the 400-freestyle squad obliter-ated Memorial’s 2000 mark of 3:39.18 by nearly seven seconds (3:32.38).

Actually, this was the way the Lady Wet Cats had it planned, Zoller said.

“We were doing what we had planned,” the coach ex-plained. “We were doing what we needed to do to swim fast and hang tough at the end.”

The meet was basically a two-team race, with Memo-rial (308) a distant third. Ma-ter Dei (251 and one-half) and Reitz (200) rounded out the top fi ve. Six non-blue ribbon swimmers made the cut for the state meet, in-cluding one individual from Castle and two Lady Knight relays.

And did we mention that two of the others were Lady Wet Cats?

Kelsey Turner’s 5:06.64 in the 500-freestyle was three seconds below the state cut (and almost four better than the old Sectional record) even though she fi nished second to Olivia Treski of Castle, who of course, broke the old meet record.

In the breaststroke, Mark

Klueh (1:05.12) made the state cut with two seconds to spare while fi nishing third behind McCormick and Lilia King of Reitz.

Even a relentless effort by the hosts helped the Lady Wet Cats, Zoller said.

“Castle swam well too,” the coach said. “And that helped us, because we knew that if we weren’t on top of our game, we were going to get beat.”

While Zoller felt the Sec-tional was a magic moment, he reiterated the fact that it wasn’t the team’s objective, adding that the team has thought of state as a bit of an afterthought in the past, but this year, he wants them go-ing to Indianapolis focused on being a factor at the fi nals.

As for the fi rst stop, it wasn’t too bad, though, even if the Lady Wet Cats were scary fast.

Central was sixth in the meet with 104 points.

Rounding out the fi eld were North (98), Boonville (87), Bosse (86 and one-half), Gibson Southern (67) and Harrison (19).

Castle Sectional swim meet

200-medley relay: 1) Mount Vernon 1:46.47*; 200-frredstiyle: Turner (fi rst) 1:51.39*, Rachel Burke (fi fth) 2:03.61, Emily Har-ris (sixth) 2:08.69; 200-IM: McCormick (fi rst) 2:03.84*, Klueh (second) 2:12.34, Kendyl Bourne (seventh) 2:24.20; 50-freestyle: Baggett (fi rst):23.25*, Amy Steele (second):24.90.

Lady Wet Cat freshman Clara Baggett swims her way into the record book as she takes two individual blue rib-bons and helps two relay teams break additional records. Baggett has set a new bar for the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle races. Photo by Terri Koch

Near-perfect entry into the pool helped the Mount Vernon Lady Wet Cats crush the 400-yard freestyle Relay re-cord during Saturday’s Sectional win at the Castle Pool. Relay team members are freshmen Samantha Gowdy and Clara Baggett, with junior Kelsey Turner and senior Mary Klueh. Photo by Dave Koch

Wildcats, from Page B1

Austin Little of North Posey maintains advantage over his Princeton opponent in round three of the wrestling regional on Saturday at Castle. Photo by Dave Koch

Being recognized on Senior Night at Mount Vernon High School are Amy Seifert, Charlotte Roberts, and Megan Randall. Photo by Terri Koch.

Mount Vernon’s Jordan Dallas stands his Heritage Hills counterpart on his head during Saturday’s region-al competition at Castle. Dallas and fellow teammates, Adam and Jon Hoehn, and North Posey grapplers Tyler Stock, Michael Frymire and Austin Little will participate in next week’s semi-state competition in Evansville. Pho-to by Dave Koch

Tuesday, Feb. 7 GIRLS’ BASKETBALL: Class 2A Sectional at Forest

Park, Class 3A Sectional at Boonville. Wednesday, Feb. 8GIRLS’ BASKETBALL: North Posey vs. Southridge at

the Class 2A Forest Park Sectional. Thursday, Feb. 9BOYS’ BASKETBALL: North Posey at Memorial, Mount

Carmel at Mount Vernon; SWIMMING: Mater Dei and Te-cumseh at Mount Vernon (boys); JUNIOR HIGH WRES-TLING: Central at North Posey.

Friday, Feb. 10GIRLS’ BASKETBALL: New Harmony vs. Cannelton at

the Wood Memorial Class 1A Sectional, Mount Vernon vs. Gibson Southern or Princeton at the Boonville Class 3A Sec-tional, Class 2A Forest Park Sectional Semifi nals; SWIM-MING: Mount Vernon in the IHSAA state girls’ meet at In-dianapolis.

Saturday, Feb. 11BOYS’ BASKETBALL: Mount Vernon at Jasper,

Shoals at New Harmony, North Posey at Perry Central; GIRLS‘BASKETBALL: Sectional championship games at Boonville, Forest Park and Wood Memorial WRESTLING: Mount Vernon and North Posey in the Evansville Semi-state at the Ford Center; SWIMMING: Mount Vernon in the IH-SAA state girls’ meet at Indianapolis.

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By Dave PearceIt was the best of times. It was the worst

of times.North Posey High School boys’ basket-

ball coach got a small taste of what Charles Dickens was talking about in his 1859 novel called “A Tale of Two Cities.”

The best of times for the homestanding North Posey Vikings came in the fi rst half when Wadsworth’s troops had everything going their way, jumping out to an early large 17-8 lead over Southridge and then having to hold on for a narrow two-point half-time lead.

But the worst of times came in the third quarter as the Vikings rebuilt their early lead to 33-25 on another Swope three-pointer. Nick Neidig had missed two free throws on

the previous tip upcourt that could have put the Vikings up by 10. But this is where it got ugly.

Following the 3-pointer, Swope came up with a steal but the Vikings were unable to convert and the Raiders got inside and con-verted an old-fashioned 3-point play to pull to within 33-28.

Apparently the Raiders learned something going inside as their inside assault continued as they again went inside to pull to within 33-30.

On the next trip inside against the Vikings, the Raiders came away with a foul, a techni-cal foul, two more free throws and the ball. The run ignited Southridge’s outside shoot-ers who had not been much of a factor up until that point.

After pulling to within 33-32 at the line, the Raiders burned the Viking zone for back-to-back 3-point baskets to move out to a 38-33 lead before Wadsworth could get a time out.

“Three-point shots are game-changers and we had some 3-point shots early that created some momentum for us,” Wadsworth said of the game’s turning point. “We had an oppor-tunity to increase our lead in the fi rst half and we missed four or fi ve lay-up opportunities that we should have converted. Then, in that stretch there, we lost our composure. Last week we benefi tted from a team losing their composure. In this game, we lost our compo-sure and got rattled just enough to come up short tonight.”

For the fi rst few minutes of the game, it appeared that neither team was going to miss from the fi eld as the Raiders scored fi rst be-fore Jourdan Cox nailed a 3-pointer from the corner.

Southridge answered back only to have Wes Harness fi nd Cox again for two more and the Vikings took a lead they would not relinquish until mid-way through the third quarter. After a Southridge miss, Kyle Swope got two of his game-high 22 points to expand the lead to 7-4 before the Raiders could an-swer.

Southridge’s 6-foot-6 sophomore Cam-eron O’Brien played beyond his years as he stuck back an offensive rebound to pull his team to within 7-6 before Harness scored off the break and on the next possession, found Swope wide open for a 3-pointer as the Vi-kings opened up a 12-6 lead.

When Swope struck again from the corner after a North Posey stop, it appeared the Vi-kings might run the Raiders out of the build-ing. And according to Wadsworth, perhaps that is what should have happened as the Vi-kings had several chances to put the dagger in the Raiders and simply didn’t get it done, especially early.

“I felt like we had good fl ow early in the game and that we had good contributions from different individuals but Kyle had an exceptional game,” Wadsworth said of Swope. “He had been shooting the ball well in practice and I wasn’t surprised to see it carry over.”

Following the 20-10 debacle known as the third quarter, the Vikings were facing an uphill battle as the Raiders had gained con-fi dence and momentum. They maintained a double-digit lead until seniors Jourdan Cox and Kyle Swope tried to put the team on their shoulders and carry them back.

Trailing 54-41, Swope nailed a 3-pointer but the Raiders answered. Cox then hit from long range to pull back to within 10. Cox came up with a steal and threw the ball ahead to Harness who converted to pull the Vikings back to within 57-49. A defensive stop and a move to the basket landed Cox at the line again, where his two free throws pulled the Vikes to within 57-51 with 3:18 showing.

After Cox picked up his fourth foul and following a pair of missed free throws by the Raiders, Cox pulled the Vikings back to within fi ve but they would get no closer, fall-ing 68-62.

“We gave ourselves a fi ghting chance to come back but we couldn’t do it,” Wadsworth said. “The game had already been decided.”

The fi nal two minutes did offer some ex-citement as the Raiders missed the front end of a pair of double bonus situations and Swope hit another 3-pointer to pull back to within 64-59 with 19.5 seconds remaining and the Vikings took a time out.

But in the fi nal 19.5 seconds, the Raiders were 4-for-4 from the line to seal the victory.

“I felt like we had a good defensive game-plan but when we got behind, we had to amp up the pressure and that really changed the tempo of the game that allowed them to get a lot of points,” the defensive-minded Wadsworth said. “We had to see if we could get two or three shut-outs in a row but we couldn’t do it.”

The Vikings will take an 8-8 record into a rare Thursday evening game at Evansville Memorial. They will face Perry Central in a Saturday daytime game at 1 p.m., also on the road.

North Posey sharpshooter Kyle Swope gets loose from his Southridge defender to score two of his game-high 22 points. Photo by Dave Pearce

North Posey’s Michael Bender is seeing some varsity playing time as tourney time comes around. Photo by Dave Pearce

By Steve Joos‘’Freshman basketball

players always fi nd a way to surprise you, whether it’s for the good or the bad. You should always expect the un-expected.’’

That’s how North Posey freshman boys’ hoop coach Jeremy Shipp summed up his team’s season so far.

The Viking frosh went on a 6-0 run early in the third quarter of last week’s game at Mount Vernon, and went from there to pull away from the freshman Wildcats 42-35.

“To their credit they found another way to win tonight,” Shipp said. “In the second half, they brought the inten-sity a bit more and started moving their feet When they bring that effort and that fi re, good things always seem to happen for them. They’ve just got to remember to bring that sort of fi re all the time.”

Shipp felt that his team has played better games, com-paring the effort to that of the fi rst half of the freshman team‘s recent overtime win at South Spencer.

On the other hand, Shipp added, North Posey followed that fi rst half up with their best basketball of the season and continued it on into an overtime to pull out a win.

“The kids are doing pret-ty well as knowing their roles as a team,” Shipp said. “They’ve just got to be more patient at moving the ball and doing it more crisply with their passing. They should be able to defeat most any team with their play.”

Shipp hopes this team will continue to work together and stay together, adding that each member of the squad works on their game and is capable in different aspects of the game.

Mount Vernon coach Doug Blair saw more than just one stretch as the difference in the game.

“We battled, we played hard, but North Posey just out-executed us,” Blair said. “All the 50-50 balls, North Posey got, they were diving all over the place, we were about a step too slow. They get eight points off their free throws because we don’t block out and we missed all eight of our free throws. That

was the game right there. We allowed them to hit eight put-backs off their missed free throws and we didn’t hit any. That’s the ball game right there.”

Damon Cardin pumped in 21 points to lead the North Posey frosh, while James Marshall added 11. Jason Cumbee put in fi ve tallies, while Aaron Droste and Bryce Martin each chipped in two.

Blair was impressed with Cardin and the rest of the frosh Vikings.

Cardin is a physical player who sees the fl oor well and is a good passer, the frosh Wildcats’ coach said, adding that he is capable of carrying a team.

“In the fi rst half, we did a better job of cutting off some of those passes,” Blair said. “But he (Cardin) is so strong that when they got it inside to him in that third quarter, he did what he does best and that’s fi nish. We just couldn’t answer.”

The season hasn’t been a very successful one for Mount Vernon, which has won just one game heading

into last week.“It’s been a bumpy road,”

Blair said. “We’re not go-ing to lie. We lost our top four players (to the Wild-cat reserve team), so we’ve got a group of guys who have played a season where they’re adjusting to roles that they just haven’t played before and this is the high-est competition they’ve ever played.”

That competition in-cludes the likes of Jasper, Reitz, Bosse, Harrison and Vincennes, all of which are stronger teams than Mount Vernon, according to Blair.

“We’ve ve just got to try to improve,” he said. “Did we improve tonight? Yes. We did better than in our fi rst game with North Posey. We just made too many of those mistakes which we can’t make if we want to win many games.”

As he did in December, Hunter Brooks paced the frosh with 16 points, while Austin Krizan added seven and Noah Roberts six. Vince Stevens scored four tallies and Mitchell Jackson put in two.

Vikings lose composure in third quarter, fall to Southridge

Vikings have edge in county freshman

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By Steve JoosThings started out well for

the Mount Vernon girls’ bas-ketball team Thursday night, but then they let the visiting Memorial Lady Tigers got back into the game in the second quarter. The Tigers scored the fi rst four points of the third chapter to forge a tie. The Lady Wildcats changed defenses and the Lady Tigers were trapped.

A shift to the Lady Cats’ trademark 1-3-1 trapping zone enabled Mount Vernon to pull away late in the third quarter and go from there to close out their regular season with a 49-36 senior night vic-tory.

“In the second half, we came out with our 1-3-1 half court trap,” coach Steve Mitchell said. “The kids have a lot of confi dence in it, they

love to play it, and it created some turnovers and maybe some quick shots by Memo-rial. We’re happy with that.”

Mitchell was happy that the adjustment worked, but he wasn’t very pleased that the man-to-man defense didn’t work in the second quarter, adding that the Lady Cats gave up too many bas-kets on the dribble drive.

A lot of those defensive

breakdowns were due in part to the absence of junior point guard Jade Dixon, who is out for the season with an ACL injury, Mitchell added.

“We miss Jade out there,” Mitchell said. “We’re used to having three guards out there, but now we have just two. But the kids adjusted, they’ve adjusted real well and that’s good.”

That lack of backcourt depth hampered Mount Ver-non throughout the fi rst half, as the Lady Wildcats fi rst saw an 8-2 fi rst quarter lead disappear and then watched Memorial hang around in the second chapter and forge another deadlock early in the third.

Three-pointers by Amy Seifert and Megan Randall put the Lady Cats back in the driver’s seat at the end of the fi rst quarter, as Mount Ver-non took a 14-8 advantage.

The lead stayed around four or six points through-out the second quarter with the Lady Tigers closing the gap to 23-19 at halftime, and then Memorial struck again in the third period, hitting the fi rst two baskets of the third quarter to knots things up at 23-23.

Things turned around after the Lady Cats got the ball on alternating possession under their basket.

A foul on the next play sent Randall to the free throw line and she put Mount Ver-non in front to stay with a pair of free throws.

Randall added a bucket and Charlotte Roberts came back with a driving layup to make the score 29-23. Jace Ritzert added two more char-ity tosses and stretched the lead to 31-23 before Memo-rial cut the lead to fi ve on a trey by Stephanie Sherwood.

Ellen Foster pushed the lead back to seven points with a pair of free throws and Jacey Ritzert answered another Lady Tigers bucket to put Mount Vernon in front 35-28 entering the fourth quarter.

Memorial would close to within four points twice dur-ing the fi nal chapter, but the Lady Cats outscored them

10-4 over the last four-and-one-half minutes to put the game away.

“We started off kind of slow,” Mitchell said. “We weren’t getting any baskets to fall and we couldn’t get into our trap. Once we got our baskets to fall, we were able to get into our trap and I think that helped us and loos-ened us up a little.”

But once the shots started falling, the Lady Wildcats had Memorial trapped.

Jacey Ritzert scored 16 points to pace the Lady Cats, while Randall dropped in 14. Foster tallied eight points, Roberts six, Seifert three and Lauren Stemple two.

Sherwood led Memo-rial with 10 points, while the Lady Wildcats limited Divi-sion I-bound (Belmont Uni-versity) Natalie Cohlmeyer in check.

“That’s one of the things we were talking about,” Mitchell said. “Stopping Cohlmeyer on the outside, (Emily) Nesbitt on the inside and Sherwood’s a good play-er who’s just a kid. Sherwood shot us out of that half-court trap at the end and forced us to go back to man, but they’re a good team. I know they’re record is around .500, but they’ve lost to some good teams.”

While the game may have

been closer than the score indicated, Mitchell also felt that the Lady Wildcats missed some easy shots that could have given them con-trol of the game earlier.

The win sent Mount Ver-non into the postseason with a school-record 16 wins and capped the school’s most successful four-year run in girls’ basketball.

Working with this group of seniors (Randall, Seif-ert and Roberts played their last home games Thursday) has been fun, Mitchell said, praising their work ethic and the improvement they’ve shown over the last four years.

“I’m so happy for our se-niors,” he said. “They were part of my fi rst group four years ago. They stuck it out and I can’t say enough about them.”

Mitchell also hoped the would give his team confi -dence going into the post-season and that it shows the Lady Cats can play with teams of Memorial’s caliber.

Mount Vernon also took the reserve contest 40-22.

Abby Randall and Chey-enne Strobel each scored 10 points to lead the reserves, while Stefanie Bulla and Erin Wolf each added four points. Kaysie Collins and Andrea Dick tallied two points each.

Lady Wildcats celebrate senior night with win over Memorial

Wildcat sophomore Shelby Ritzert quickly gets off the jump shot outside the lane as Memorial tries to get to her shot. The Lady Wildcats took a sweet victory over the visiting Tigers to celebrate senior night. Photo by Dave Koch

Posey Lanes Recap League: Expressway FordHigh Game High Series1. Michelle Sollman 212 1. Michelle Sollman 5862. Linda Strup 206 2. Linda Strup 5303. Dorothy Rueger 195 3. Dorothy Rueger 5264. Helena Linck 194 4. Mary Phillips 5205. Becky Evans 188 5. Pete Rohlman 512League: Access Storage High Game High Series1. Marcia Lange 203 1. Marcia Lange 5312. Sandy Wilson 182 2. Sandy Wilson 5153. Valerie Stratton 171 3. Valerie Stratton 4704. Gaylynn Reese 171 4. Martha Phillips 4525. Martha Phillips 169 5. Gaylynn Reese 450League: Men’s Major High Game High Series1. Dirk Danks 287 1. Dennis Marshall 6782. Chris Oeth 256 2. Dirk Danks 6703. Dennis Marshall 246 3. Ray Boerner 6474. Jim Gruber 243 4. Shawn Ricketts 6455. Jim Key 237 5. Cory Kohlmeyer 644League: First BankHigh Game High Series1. Sandy Seitz 208 1. Naomi Overton 5162. Nancy Renschler 204 2. Donna Anderson 4983. Naomi Overton 195 3. Judy Troxell 4974. Judy Goodwin 194 4. Nancy Renschler 4935. Donna Anderson 181 5. Judy Goodwin 474League: T.M.I HotshotsHigh Game High Series1. Darlene Risher 209 1. Mary Phillips 5682. Barb Smith 206 2. Elaine Griffi n 5393. Mary Phillips 201 3. Darlene Risher 4944. Elaine Griffi n 200 4. Donna Delong 4825. Jaina Paciorkowsk 197 5. Jaina Paciorkowsk 479League: Men’s Commercial1. Dile Wilson 258 1. Dile Wilson 7422. Nathan Pearce 257 2. Nathan Pearce 6973. Shawn Goodwin 253 3. Greg Brown 6734. Jamey Thomas 251 4. Jamey Thomas 6505. Pat Riordan 246 5. Nata Turner 636Jr-Sr. High Elementary1. Dane Wilson 240 1. Justin Reitman 1612. Logan Cox 243 2. Tera Wilson 1373. Jake Robinson 214 3. Jordan Carr 1374. Eli Goford 193 4. Ben Varner 1345. Jovan Gant 186 5. Lauren Carr 123Bumpers 1. Derek McCord 119

Eighth grade Bobcats fi nish strong seasonThe Mount Vernon Junior High eighth grade boys’ basket-

ball team recently fi nished a strong 2011-12 season, posting an 18-2 record while taking second in the Big Eight confer-ence tournament and winning the regular season title.

The Bobcats dropped a 48-32 decision to Jasper in the title game, as Luke Steinhart scored eight points go lead the team. Damon Collins and Zac French each added seven tallies.

Mount Vernon reached the title game with wins over Wash-ington 38-32, and Castle South 40-35.

Against Washington, French tallied 17 points to pace Mount Vernon, while Steinhart, Collins and Bryce Krizan each put in six.

Krizan led the way against Castle South with nine points. French and Steinhardt each chipped in eight.

Eighth graders wrap up season The North posey Junior High eighth grade boys’ basketball

team fi nished its season Tuesday night with a 44-32 loss to Owensville at the Gibson County tournament.

Jacob McLain scored eight points to lead North Posey, while Austin Groves tallied seven. Tyler Hensley added six points, Preston Reese fi ve, Josh Cooke four and Conner Voe-gel two.

The eighth graders ended their season with a 1-16 record, going 1-1 in the recent Middle School Pocket Athletic Confer-ence tournament.

Graves scored 14 points as the eighth graders won their fi rst game of the season 37-33 over Tecumseh in the tourney opener. Reese tallied seven points, while Hensley added fi ve, Voegel four and McLain three.

Cooke and Grant Scheller each put in two points. Owensville then eliminated North Posey 43-22 in the semi-

fi nals. Graves led the eighth graders with eight points, while Hens-

ley and Reese each tallied fi ve. Scheller and McLain each put in two points.

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By Steve JoosThe New Harmony boys’ basketball team took another long

trip Saturday, this one into Illinois.And the trip home felt like it was even longer.The Rappites had trouble shooting in the fi rst half Saturday

and that proved to be fatal as they were routed 59-33 at Hutson-ville.

“It was the same old, same old,” Coach Jim Little said. “They were bigger and faster than we were.”

In fact, Little rated the Tigers as one of the best team his squad has faced this season, with a pair of tall people (six-foot-fi ve and six-four. respectively), one of whom is considered an all-state candidate among schools Hustonville’s size.

Little was pleased with the Rappites’ effort in the second half, as they outscored the Tigers 24-23, including 17-9 in the fourth quarter.

That was the good news. The bad news?Hutsonville had things well under control by halftime, with a

36-9 bulge.“We were not able to hit our shots in the fi rst half,” Little said.

“We made some adjustment in the second half and we outscored them. We never quit, we never gave up.”

But they were still down by a big margin that didn’t really improve (it was 50-16 after three quarters) until the fi nal chapter.

Kyle Whitmore scored 18 points to lead the Rappites. Clint Matthews tallied six, Elliott Lange fi ve and A.J. Eaton two.

Eaton led the team with eight rebounds, while Lange cleared six and Whitmore fi ve.

Whitmore scored 24 points, dished out six assists and cleared a season-high 18 rebounds as the Rappites upset Cannelton 63-52 in a recent home game.

Lange had his best half of the year in the second half, scor-ing 12 points and grabbing 14 caroms, while Matthews added 14 tallies and Eaton added nine points to go with a season-high 10 boards.

Little was also pleased with the defensive efforts of Thomas Steagall and Caleb McDaniel, who helped stifl e some of Can-nelton’s bigger offensive threats.

The Rappites trailed 49-39 with six minutes left in the game when Little put Steagall on Cannelton’s point guard. That move rattled the Bulldog fi eld general, which allowed New Harmony to go on a 24-3 run and take control of the game.

“This was a great game for our team, great game for our alum-ni and lots of fun for all around,” Little said. “It was fun to see how much they have improved individually over last year.”

Little was surprised by the way Lange has improved his of-fense as well as his ability to go up against the inside players in practice.

The backcourt is also getting better, with Whitmore, Mat-thews, Tyler Wright, Ryan Blackwell and Nathan Spahn all doing better defensively. A late addition to the team, Dakota Wasson, is also trying to catch up.

Clint Mathews shows intense concentration as he prepares to put up a shot during a recent Rappite game. Photo by Dave Pearce

Long trip ends in longgame for New Harmony

They may have come up short in their regular season fi nale, but the New Harmony Lady Rappites showed that they can play with anybody.

The McLean County girls’ basketball team needed a 21-6 rampage in the fourth quarter to overtake the vis-iting Lady Rappites 53-47 Saturday in Kentucky.

Despite the loss, Coach Jennifer Toopes felt that the game would give New Har-mony a boost heading into Sectional action this week-end.

“McLean County was a good team,” Toopes said. “They were 13-9 going into the game and have over 500 kids in the high school. It gives the girls some confi -dence to compete with this size of school.”

The boost in confi dence came even though New Har-mony let a 41-32 third quar-ter lead get away.

Morgan Matthews and Kelsey Owen each had double doubles once again. Matthews led the team in scoring with 17 points and cleared 15 rebounds, while Owen pumped in 12 points and grabbed a team-high 16 caroms.

“Morgan and Kelsey did a great job on the boards and shooting the ball,” Toopes said. “That is what makes this team so much fun. If someone isn’t having a good shooting game, we have four others who can and will score.”

New Harmony outscored McLean County 14-7 in the second quarter, turning a 14-12 fi rst quarter defi cit into a 26-21 halftime lead. They stretched it to nine points in the third quarter before the Kentuckians took over in the fi nal chapter.

Madison Worman added eight points, while Kendall Morris put in six and Alyssa Scherzinger four. Jordan Lyke played a few minutes in her fi rst game back from a knee injury and cleared two rebounds.

Toopes was pleased with Lyke’s efforts and is glad to have her back for the post-season.

Scherzinger also pulled down a pair of boards, while Worman cleared nine caroms and Morris fi ve. In addition to shooting ball well, Mat-thews also pulled off three steals, while Owen had two.

The free throw line was a bit of a problem, even though New Harmony converted 17 of 26 charity tosses. This was below the 70 percent the Lady Rappites have been av-eraging this season.

The Lady Rappites take a 13-7 record into Sectional action this weekend at Wood Memorial. Toopes praised the team’s work ethic and added that they have earned this winning season.

Lady Rappitesenter tourneyplay on heelsof stellar year

Softball opengyms are set

The Mount Vernon Rural Girls’ Softball Association will be holding open gyms at Mount Vernon Junior High School for girls interested in playing softball this spring.

The open gyms will be-gin on Feb. 14, and be di-vided according to age groups, with 7-8-year-pds going from 6-7:15 p.m., and 9-10-year-olds from 7:15-8:30 p.m.

Open gyms for 11-12-year-olds will begin on Feb. 23, from 6-7:15 p.m., and 13-14-year-olds from 7:15-8:30 p.m.

Participants are asked to bring tennis shoes, a softball glove and bat.

For further information, contact Tina McCloud, Mount Vernon RGSL presi-dent, at 783-2231.

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PART 9 - CERTIFICATIONState of IndianaSS: Posey County

I, Lindsay Suits Trustee of Black Township, Posey County, Indiana, do solemnly affi rm under the penalty of perjury that the preceding report is complete, true and correct, that the sum with which I am charged in this report are all of the sums received by me: and that the various items of expenditures credited have been fully paid in the sums stated: that such payments were made without express or implied agreement that any portion thereof shall be retained by or repaid to me or to any other person. I further affi rm that a complete and detailed annual report, together with all accompanying vouchers showing the names of persons having been paid money by the township, have been fi led as required by law in the offi ce of the County Auditor, and that copies of such annual report are in custody of the Township Board and the State Board Accounts. Said report is subject to inspection by any taxpayer of the township.Lindsay SuitsBlack Township TrusteeTelephone: (812) 838-3851Date this report was to be published: Subscribed and sworn (or affi rmed) to before me, the Chairman of the Township Board of Robinson Township at its annual meeting, this 31st day of Janu-ary, 2012.Ann FischerBlack Township Board Chairman

Published in the Posey County News on February 7, 2012

Governmental Activities

Township Fund

Fire Fighting Fund

Cumulative Fire

Township Assistance Fund

Payroll Deduction Fund

General Property TaxesFinancial Institution Tax distributionVehicle/Aircraft Excise Tax Distribution Total Taxes and IntergovernmentalEarnings on InvestmentsOther Receipts/01 - Township Fund Total Other Receipts Total Township FundGeneral Property TaxesVehicle/Aircraft Excise Tax Distribution Total Taxes and Intergovernmental Total Fire Fighting FundGeneral Property TaxesVehicle/Aircraft Excise Tax Distrubion Total Taxes and IntergovernmentalEarnings on Investments Total Other Receipts Total Cumulative FireGeneral Property TaxesCounty Option Income Tax (COIT)Financial Institution Tax distributionVehicle/Aircraft Excise Tax Distribution Total Taxes and IntergovernmentalRefunds and Reimbursements Total Other Receipts Total Township Assistance FundPayroll Fund and Clearing Account Receipts Total Other Receipts Total Payroll Deduction Fund Total Governmental Activities

$95,244.27$30.00

$2,142.84$97,417.11

$25.60$940.69$966.29

$98,383.40$438,129.59

$4,581.35$442,710.94$442,710.94

$494,6888.68$3,140.34

$497,829.02$344.04$344.04

$498,173.06$153,821.13$111.628.87

$69.00$1,388.68

$266,907.68$65.00$65.00

$266,972.68$12,451.74$12,451.74$12,451.74

$1,318,691.82

Governmental Activities

Local Fund Number

1

23456

Beg Cash & Inv Bal

Jan 1, 2011

$173,406.04

$37,414.04$492.56

$2,893.14$24,889.99$13,994.18

$253,089.95

End Cash& Inv Bal

Dec 31, 2011

$10,133.71

$23,185.91$0.00

$2,972.18$25,872.42$9,664.54

$71,828.76

Local FundName

Cumulative Fire

Fire FightingLevy ExcessRainy DayTownshipTownship Assistance Total All Funds

Receipts

$40,386.60

$100,771.87$0.00

$2,850.00$30,440.18$30,609.85

$205,058.50

Disbursements

$203,658.93

$115,000.00$492.56

$2,770.96$29,457.75$34,939.49

$386,319.69

BLACK TOWNSHIP/DETAILED RECEIPTS

BLACK TOWNSHIP/CASH & INVESTMENTS COMBINED STATEMENTS

BLACK TOWNSHIP ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORTFOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2011

DISBURSEMENTS BY VENDOR 2011

By Steve JoosA week before the Super

Bowl, Mount Vernon boys’ basketball coach Marc Hostetter saw similari-ties between what a losing football team can do and what his team’s options were in Tuesday’s game at Central.

“We can’t use every-thing we’ve got when we’re playing from be-hind all the time,” Hostet-ter said. “It’s like passing yards when you’re down. We couldn’t switch over to a zone and make them be more patient. I have to do a better job of teaching how to attack the zone. We just have to put this one behind us.”

The Wildcats may want to put Tuesday’s er, ah, contest behind them quickly, after the Bears outscored them 23-8 in the fi rst quarter and then hung a 26-8 third quarter rout on the Cats en route to an 80-52 romp.

Bryce Newman matched Brienne Miles’ three-pointer with a trey of his own, tying the game at 3-3 with less than a minute gone in the game. After that, it was all Bears.

First, Central scored seven unanswered points to open a 10-3 lead. New-man hit a layup to make it 10-5, but then the Bears ticked off another nine in a row before River VanZ-ant’s driving layup broke that drought.

Austin Goebel downed one of two free throws at the end of the fi rst quar-ter, leaving Mount Vernon down by 15 points.

“There was a point in the game where they were nine of 14 from (three-point range),” Hostetter said. “Teams shoot the ball like that, it becomes very challenging to guard and we had a diffi cult time guarding them. They had good team speed and I tell you what, you have to give tem a lot of credit on of-fense, Central did a good job of executing on offen-sive. We were slightly pas-sive and we weren’t sure where they were coming

from.”The Cats hadn’t faced

much zone defense this season and had trouble adjusting to Central’s, the coach added.

And did Central ever fi ll it up from long range.

The Bears did have nine treys, fi ve of them by Beau Dedmond (who fi nished the night with a game-high 19 points). Central didn’t score from inside the arc until Trevor Ferguson con-verted a steal with just un-der 90 seconds gone in the game.

The Cats tried to hang around in the second quarter, but trailed 36-21 at halftime. Central then stormed out in the third quarter, opening the sec-ond half with a 10-2 run for a 46-23 advantage. The Bears went into the fourth quarter leading 62-29.

Dedmond was one of four Central players to hit double fi gures. Miles add-ed 17 points, Ferguson 14 and Eric Osterman 10.

“If one or two kids are killing you, you can make adjustments and make the other kids score,” Hostet-ter said. “Tonight, it just felt like we couldn’t.”

Hostetter credited Cen-tral point guard Kourtlandt Martin for controlling the tempo of the game and disrupting the Cats offen-sively and defensively.

The Casts also seemed to lack energy, Hostet-ter said, adding that the midweek game followed Mount Vernon’s emotional overtime homecoming vic-tory over Gibson Southern and that may have caused a letdown.

“I’m disappointed, but in the grand scheme of things, this is the fi rst game where I didn’t feel like we were playing for some-thing,” the coach said. “Quite honestly, I think we should just put this game in our back pocket, throw it away and learn that we need to come to the game with more intensity at the beginning.”

Newman paced the Wildcats with 11 points, while Troy Paris put in 10

and Collin Varner seven. Brian Koch was limited to six tallies, while Geobel and VanZant each put in fi ve. Tyler Ritzert added four points, Drake McNa-mara three and Jacob Nor-man one.

Norman scored 16 points to pace the reserve Cats in the preliminary, but it wasn’t enough as Mount Vernon dropped a 40-30 decision.

Levi Duckworth tallied 10 points, while Cody Mo-bley and Colton Irvin each chipped in two.

•A week after saving their own homecoming with some last-minute he-roics, the Cats played par-ty-poopers at Princeton’s basketball homecoming, beating the Tigers 53-52 in overtime, of course.

“We’re on the home-coming trail here,” Hostet-ter said. We’re going to be playing in a few of them down the stretch. I think tonight I’m just happy for our guys, they still showed a growth process and a maturity. It wasn’t a pretty game for either team, but we won an ugly game and that’s the fi rst time we’ve done that as a team.”

Newman led the team with 17 points and provid-ed a spark offensively and defensively, but this time it was Paris who turned in the biggest play, down-ing a pair of free throws with 48.4 seconds left in the extra period to give the Cats their fi rst Big Eight Conference victory under Hostetter and his fi rst (and only) win in the Princeton Middle School gym, which is closing after this season as a new Princeton High School prepares to open.

Earlier in the overtime, Paris connected on one free throw, but missed a potential game-tying char-ity toss after the Tigers had gone up 52-50.

The Tigers had two other chances to win the game, but Newman reject-ed one shot and two tries in the last fi ve seconds were unsuccessful, sealing the win.

Hostetter felt that his

team played tough and stepped up under diffi cult circumstances to get the win.

In some respects, the game was a reversal of the Cats’ homecoming win over Gibson Southern, as Mount Vernon jumped out to a 10-point fi rst quarter lead at 18-8, held a 29-21 advantage at halftime and stretched things to 41-27 midway through the third quarter before Princeton reeled off nine unanswered

points to pull to within fi ve at the break, 41-36.

Mount Vernon hung on to that fi ve-point lead un-til an 10-2 Tiger run gave Princeton a 50-47 lead with 2:04 left in the fourth quar-ter. Princeton appeared to catch a break when Paris made just one of two free throws with 1:27 to go, but the Tigers missed a pair from the stripe and Paris scored with 45 ticks left on the clock to square the set at 50-50. A missed shot and a Koch rebound sent the game into overtime.

“With four minutes to go in the third quarter, we did have a 14-point lead and that’s the time when a more experienced group of guys would have hinged the game,” Hostetter said. “We’ve only won fi ve games and that’s only the second time we’ve up by that much in the third quar-ter. But we‘re still learning and we haven’t been in that situation often. We’re still learning how to be aggressive without turn-ing the ball over, how to be aggressive on defense

without fouling. All those things it takes to control a lead and add to it and real-ly put a team away, we’re still learning to do.”

And how did the Cats put Princeton away in the extra period?

The guys made the plays, from Paris pulling down rebounds or Ritzert blocking shots.

Koch and VanZant each scored six points, while Geobel and Ritzert each put in four. McNamara tal-lied two.

Other teams are starting to key on Koch defensive-ly, which means that the rest of the team will have to fi nd ways to open things up for him, the coach said.

Will Neiderhaus and Justin Kermode each scored eight points to pace Princeton.

The reserves lost 37-27, despite eight points from Colton Irvin. Jacob Nor-man and J.T. Doerfl ein each tallied fi ve points, while Hunter Brooks put in four points, Cody Mo-bley three and Levi Duck-worth two.

Mount Vernon’s Austin Goebel looks for an open passing lane during a recent game. The Wildcats spoiled Princeton’s homecoming this week, beating the Tigers 53-52. Photo by Dave Pearce

Mount Vernon guard Drake McNamara fi nds an open passing lane during last week’s win over Gibson South-ern. The Wildcats have defeated both Gibson County teams by a total of two points in the past two weeks.

Wildcats rebound well from Central loss, dampen Tiger homecoming

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Fund NameTownship

Fire Fighting Fund

Cumulative Fire

Township Assistance Fund

Payroll Deduction Fund

CategoryPersonal ServicesPersonal ServicesPersonal ServicesPersonal ServicesPersonal ServicesPersonal ServicesPersonal ServicesPersonal ServicesPersonal ServicesPersonal Services

SuppliesSuppliesSuppliesSuppliesSuppliesSuppliesSuppliesSuppliesSuppliesSuppliesSuppliesSuppliesSuppliesSuppliesSuppliesSuppliesSuppliesSuppliesSuppliesSuppliesSupplies

Services and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and Charges

Services and Charges

Capital OutlaysCapital OutlaysCapital OutlaysCapital OutlaysCapital Outlays

Personal ServicesPersonal Services

SuppliesSuppliesSuppliesSuppliesSupplies

Services and ChargesServices and Charges

Township AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship Assistance

Other DisbursementsOther Disbursements

Paid ToShelton, MildredEFTPSEickhoff, JaimeMohr, BrandynSandra BenderSuits, LinsayFunkhouser, DempseyFischer, AnnIRSSchultheis Total Personal ServicesDollar General StorePrintcraftersBoyceHarland ClarkeOffi ce DepotBusiness EquipmentSandra BenderUSPS Double J GraphicsLinsay SuitsWilcox Copier Sales & ServiceArrowMt. Vernon DemocratPosey County NewsSurface with a SmilePosey County TreasurerGM Telecom INCMidwest Mechanical ServicesPC Support GroupData SystemsBud’s Hardware Total SuppliesPC Support GroupBrett NewmanVectren Energy DeliveryMt. Vernon DemocratPosey County NewsOffi ce DepotVectrenBaier & BaierBlack Township Fire and RescueAT & TIndiana Township AssociationOld National BankLegislative Services AgencyBusiness EquipmentJunker BrothersRonald CoxMichael SchneiderDennis ClarkWright StemlePaula AlldredgeSINEDyna-Kleen Services, INCLindsay SuitsDouble J GraphicsSchultheis Insurance Total Services and Charges Total Township FundBlack Township Fire and Rescue Total Services and Charges Total Fire Fighting FundBlack Township Trustee Offi ceSteven HahnLowesJ&S Communications LLCRussell’s Excavating Total Capital Outlays Total Cumulative FireEFTPSShelton, Mildred Total Personal ServicesOffi ce DepotPostmasterBoyceMt. Vernon DemocratData Systems Total SuppliesOffi ce DepotSheraton Indianapolis Total Services and ChargesWalmartAllen TopperSarah Appel ODIGAAustin Funeral HomeGERMAN TWSP WATER DISTRICTVectrenMt. vErnon WaterworksSynergyJack MinickOrthopedic ClinicCHESTER ZOPHAndrei SharyginPECAN HILL APTS/RICK DAVISEcho Community HealthDR SISSAYGASTROENTEROLOGY ASSOCIATESDominoesRiverview ApartmentsTROY RUTLEDGECurtis E. Shinabarger, M.D., FACSTri-State OrthopaedicJEFF YATESAUDUBON DENTAL CLINICMACO MANAGEMENTNICHOLAS J VOLZ DDSVectren Energy DeliveryGordo VogelWalnut Grove/Jeremy GarrettTowers ConstructionFifth Third BankLarry HortonDAVID SCHROEDERAUDUBON DENTAL CLINICVectren Energy DeliveryBrett NewmanCabit PropertiesHOME SWEET HOME PROPERTIESO. & P. LabRussell’s Mobile HomesSchneider Funeral HomeEye ConsultantsMt. Vernon PharmacyFour Seasons MotelDeaconess Clinic Mt. VernonJOHN ROHLMANCMS Utilities ServicesKYLE RAPPCVS PharmacyMcKim’s IGAAlexander WestGreg Knowles Lorelei BarnesMt. Vernon WaterworksVectrenKim RieckenSouthwind Dental Care Total Township Assistance Total Township Assistance FundIndiana Department of RevenueEFTPS Total Other Disbursements Total Payroll Deduction Fund Grand Total

Amount$18,499.92$4,436.59$9,725.21

$529.92$2,160.00

$27,999.96$529.92$529,92$14.43

$1,114.00$65,539.87

$155.40$509.10

$1,235.93$20.03

$1,918.18$285.80$12.84$49.54$35.00

$130.87$420.00$100.00$132.77$57.76

$150.00$25.00

$220.00$118.00$213.75

$1,595.00$29.12

$7,414.09$257.49

$8,390.00$185.72$288.16$301.90

$1,037.79$1,105.97

$500.00$870.72

$2,080.88$1,115.00

$44.00$26.71

$110.42$279.99

$1,000.00$350.00$374.50

$1,447.07$500.00$90.00

$295.00$389.99$30.00

$1,371.00$22,442.31$95,396.27

$200,000.00$200,000.00$200,000.00

$419.21$511.00$195.52

$11,919.00$173,261.45$186,306.18$186,306.18

$1,109.80$14,499.96$15,609.76

$904.00$132.00$356.95$31.53

$1,495.00$2,919.48

$164.85$129.00$293.85$20.00

$100.00$714.50$15.00

$3,300.00$150.00

$4,975.18$4,174.39

$945.74$100.00$150.00$200.00$195.00$165.00$42.00$75.00

$250.00$50.00

$150.00$200.00$155.00$333.00$150.00

$1,486.00$264.00$577.00

$28,611.86$123.00$100.00$179.00

$1,011.52$150.00$400.00$302.00

$14,646.50$100.00$697.00

$1,652.00$65.00

$480.00$7,000.00

$455.54$358.53$208.65$47.25

$100.00$90.00$50.00

$2,322.77$414.93

$1,500.00$100.00$100.00

$2,423.84$7,793.90

$750.00$1,877.00

$93,047.10$111,870.19

$3,152.52$9,299.22

$12,451.74$12,451.74

$606,024.38

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NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF LAND OCCUPIERS TO BE HELD FOR THE POSEY COUNTY SOIL AND WATER

CONSERVATION DISTRICT

To all occupiers of lands lying within the boundaries of the Posey County Soil and Water Conservation District, notice is hereby given that on the 21st day of February, 2012, beginning at 6:00 p.m., an annual meeting will be held for the purpose of making a full and due report of activities and fi nancial affairs since the last annual meeting and to elect a supervisor for the Posey County Soil and Water Conservation District of the State of Indiana.

All land occupiers and other interested parties are entitled to attend.

The meeting will be held at the Posey County Community Center, 4-H Fair-grounds, in New Harmony, Indiana.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Jim Droege, Chairman Brent Knight, Vice Chairman Priscilla Kelly, Member Chuck Ries, Member Larry Burkhart, MemberDated this 2nd day of February, 2012

Published in the Posey County News on February 7, 2012

Indiana residents can fi ght back against cancer and share hope for those facing the disease by supporting the American Cancer Society

Daffodil Days®. This is an opportunity to share hope for a world with less cancer and more birthdays, where can-cer never steals another year

from anyone’s life. For a donation of $10, any-

one can enjoy a bouquet of fresh-cut daffodils while sup-porting the fi ght against can-cer. In addition to a bunch of daffodils for $10, a bunch and a vase is available for $15, or two bunches and a vase for $25.

Another important part of Daffodil Days is the Gift of Hope – a bouquet of daffodils in a vase, delivered anony-mously to cancer patients within the community. The Gift of Hope helps brighten a patient’s day and serves as an introduction to the American Cancer Society’s free servic-es and information available to help them get well. Mul-tiple donation levels are of-fered (beginning at $25), to enable donors to support as many Gift of Hope deliveries as they choose.

The last day to place an advanced order is March 9. Flowers will be delivered March 19 – 23. This year, FedEx is partnering with the

American Cancer Society to deliver orders of $100 or more for free, to nearly the entire state. For those that miss the pre-order deadline, once the fl owers arrive they will also be available at select Kroger locations throughout the state.

Funds raised through Daf-fodil Days enable the Society to offer free programs and services that save lives by helping people stay well by preventing cancer or detect-ing it early; helping people get well by being there for them during and after a can-cer diagnosis; by fi nding cures through investment in groundbreaking discovery; and by fi ghting back by rally-ing lawmakers to pass laws to defeat cancer and by rallying communities worldwide to join the fi ght.

To order daffodils or to get involved with collecting orders at your workplace or organization, visit cancer.org/daffodils or call 1-800-227-2345.

Fighting cancer with fl owers Daffodil DaysThere will be an indoor rummage sale held at the Posey County Community Center on the Posey County Fair-grounds, March 3 from 8 a.m. to noon. There is still ven-dor booth space available for $25 for two, eight foot tables (provided). For more information or to sign up as a vendor, contact the Posey County Community Center at: 682-3716 or by e-mail at: poseyccc@gmail.composeyccc@gmail.com

Indoor Rummage sale March 3

From the NWI TimesA former New Harmony

High School student is a candidate for the position of Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court. Michael Pa-gano is seeking the seat which came open when Evansville native Randall Shepard retired.

At age 41, Lake County Magistrate Michael Pagano is the youngest of 15 candidates seeking to replace Shepard on the Indi-ana Supreme Court.

If history is a guide, the Crown Point man’s age won’t affect his chances of being selected for the state’s highest court — Shepard was appointed at age 38.

On Wednesday, Pagano will sit before Shepard and the six other members of the Indiana Judicial Nomi-nating Commission and ex-plain why they should rec-ommend him to Gov. Mitch Daniels for Shepard’s seat on the bench.

The Republican gover-nor will appoint the state’s 107th justice from among three candidates recom-mended by the commission later this month.

Based on his 19-page ap-plication, Pagano is likely to tell the commission that despite his age there is no harder worker among the Supreme Court applicants.

As magistrate of Lake Superior Court Division 3, Pagano regularly adju-dicates civil, criminal and traffi c cases in a courtroom that in 2010 processed 13,546 infractions, 4,241 ordinance violations, 1,438 misdemeanors, 416 Class D felonies, 3,783 small claims cases and 1,498 other cases.

Working under Senior Judge Julie Cantrell, Paga-no directly manages a staff of six and oversees a total of 27 court employees.

Pagano, who was born in White Plains, N.Y., but has lived in Lake County since 1998, said his willingness

to work hard stems from a 1992 summer job selling educational books door to

door in upstate New York for 80 hours a week over 10 weeks.

“Up to that point in my life, it was the hardest and most challeng-ing job I had ever taken. It

was also a thor-oughly character-building experience,” Pagano said. “To this day, I attribute my work ethic to what I learned as a book salesman: Success is 90 percent perspiration and 10 percent inspiration.”

Pagano earned a bach-elor’s degree in history in 1992 from DePauw Uni-versity in Greencastle, Ind., and earned his law degree at New York Law School in 1995.

According to his tran-scripts Pagano was a solid “B” student, graduating with a 3.04 GPA at DePauw and a 3.0 GPA in law school. His law school GPA ranks sixth among the Supreme Court applicants.

He worked as an associ-ate and later junior partner at Hammond’s Funk and Foster law fi rm until be-ing appointed magistrate in 2003.

Pagano lists among his greatest accomplishments writing legislation enacted last year that put the County Division courts under the same merit-appointment system used for judicial openings on other Lake County Superior Courts.

While Pagano is the only current Lake County resident to apply for the Su-preme Court opening, two other candidates who now live in Indianapolis previ-ously lived in Hammond: Rory O’Bryan, 64, a private practice attorney, was born and grew up in Hammond; and Jane Seigel, 57, execu-tive director of the Indiana Judicial Center, lived in Hammond as a child for six years.

Michael Pagano

Former New Harmony student candidate for Chief Justice

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PART 9 - CERTIFICATIONState of IndianaSS: Posey County

I, Ruth Redman Trustee of Center Township, Posey County, Indiana, do solemnly affi rm under the penalty of perjury that the preceding report is complete, true and correct, that the sum with which I am charged in this report are all of the sums received by me: and that the various items of expenditures credited have been fully paid in the sums stated: that such payments were made without express or implied agreement that any portion thereof shall be retained by or repaid to me or to any other person. I further affi rm that a complete and detailed annual report, together with all accompanying vouchers showing the names of persons having been paid money by the township, have been fi led as required by law in the offi ce of the County Auditor, and that copies of such annual report are in custody of the Township Board and the State Board Accounts. Said report is subject to inspection by any taxpayer of the township.Ruth RedmanCenter Township TrusteeTelephone: (812) 673-4627Date this report was to be published: Subscribed and sworn (or affi rmed) to before me, the Chairman of the Township Board of Center Township at its annual meeting, this 17th day of January, 2012.Barbara EyerCenter Township Board Chairman

OPTION 1This report was received, accepted, and approved by the Township Board at its annual meeting, this 17th day of January, 2012.Center Township Board:Barbara EyerAnn TepoolRuth Morlock

Published in the Posey County News on February 7, 2012

CENTER TOWNSHIP ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORTFOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2011

DISBURSEMENTS BY VENDOR 2011

2012-021

Fund Name

Township

Township Assistance

Category

Personal ServicesPersonal ServicesPersonal ServicesPersonal ServicesPersonal ServicesPersonal Services

SuppliesSupplies

Services and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and ChargesServices and Charges

Township AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship AssistanceTownship Assistance

Paid To

Ruth RedmanMarvin RedmanBarbara EyerRuth MorlockAnn TepoolUnited States Treasury Total Personal ServicesPostmasterBryce Forms Total SuppliesMaurice Donner - mowing cemeteryTim Butler - mowing Ball CemeteryOlivia Eisterhold - mowing Wade CemeteryMt. Zion CemeteryPosey County NewsMt. Vernon DemocratRuth Redman, rentIndiana Township Assn. - DuesIndiana Twp. Assn. conference registrationRuth Redman, Conference & mileageCNA Surety - bondRuth Redman, Phone expenseOlivia Eisterhold - reissue check lost for 2010 Total Services and Charges Total TownshipSynenergy Partner’sVectren Energy DeliveryVirginia WenderothWesselmansSarah Harrison Appel, ODMcKim’s IGA Total Township Assistance Grand Total

Amount

$5,460.00$1,300.00

$360.25$393.00$393.00$315.52

$8,221.77$35.20$93.68

$128.88$960.00$240.00$150.00$400.00$293.46$207.57

$1,500.00$150.00$165.00$483.00$120.00$249.85$150.00

$5,068.88$13,419.53

$150.00$4,903.17

$800.00$50.00

$194.50$49.07

$6,146.74$19,566.27

Governmental Activities

Township

Township Assistance

General Property TaxesCounty Option Income Tax (COIT)Financial Institution Tax distributionVehicle/Aircraft Excise Tax Distribution Total Taxes and IntergovernmentalEarnings on InvestmentsRefunds and Reimbursements Total Other Receipts Total TownshipGeneral Property TaxesFinancial Institution Tax distributionVehicle/Aircraft Excise Tax Distribution Total Taxes and IntergovernmentalEarnings on Investments Total Other Receipts Total Township Assistance Total Governmental Activities

$13,748.35$2,398.69

$124.00$2,048.73

$18,319.77$92.01

$150.00$242.01

$18,561.78$3,979.78

$39.00$592.61

$4,611.39$73.61$73.61

$4,685.00$23,246.78

Governmental Activities

Local Fund Number1234

Beg Cash & Inv Bal

Jan 1, 2011$56.46

$684.42$65,331.44$29,596.07$95,668.39

End Cash& Inv Bal

Dec 31, 2011$56.46

$684.42$70,473.69$28,134.33$99,348.90

Local FundNameLevy ExcessRainy DayTownshipTownship Assistance

Receipts$0.00$0.00

$18,561.78$4,685.00

$23,246.78

Disbursements$0.00$0.00

$13,419.53$6,146.74

$19,566.27

CENTER TOWNSHIP/DETAILED RECEIPTS

CENTER TOWNSHIP/CASH & INVESTMENTS COMBINED STATEMENTS

CYNTHIANA ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORTFOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2011

2012-023

Funds

General FundLocal Road and StreetMotor Vehicle HighwayRainy Day/Home Grant FunPayroll FundCumulative Capital DevelopmentCumulative Capl Imprv Cigarette Tax

Subtotal All Funds:

Funds

Wastewater Utility - OperatingWater Utility - Operating

Subtotals All Funds:

Part 1-Statement of Receipts, Disbursements, Cash Balance and Investment Balances (Coty/Town Governmental) for the Year Ending 2011

Beginning Cash Fund Balances

01/01/2011$100,712.07

44,402.5172,119.1925,405.99(9,146.60)44,121.7535,218.02

$314,832.93

2011Receipts

$137,350.173,053.55

39,613.760.00

106,623.573,019.891,990.13

$291,651.07

2011Disbursements

$85,561.2522,180.7766,549.21

0.00104,252.33

0.000.00

$278,543.56

Ending Cash Fund Balances

12/31/2011$152,500.99

25,275.2945,183.7425,405.99(6,775.36)47,141.6437,208.15

$327,940.44

Investments at 12/31/2011

$0.000.00

2,000.000.000.000.000.00

$2,000.00

Total Cash and Investments

at 12/31/2011$152,500.99

25,275.2947,183.7425,405.99(6,775.36)47,141.6437,208.15

$329,940.44

CERTIFICATION: This is to certify that the data contained in this report is accurate to the best of my knowledge and belief.Greta MountsClerk-TreasurerDate Signed: February 1, 2012P.O. Box 95Cynthiana, IN 47612Telephone: (812) 845-2924

Published in the Posey County News on February 7, 2012

Beginning Cash Fund Balances

01/01/2011$130,596.73

69,886.91

$513,316.57

2011Receipts

$151,443.81115,244.27

$558,339.15

2011Disbursements

$134,020.5783,977.21

$496,541.34

Ending Cash Fund Balances

12/31/2011$148,019.97101,153.97

$575,114.38

Investments at 12/31/2011

$6,615.1010,000.00

$18,615.10

Total Cash and Investments

at 12/31/2011$154,635.07

111,153.97

$593,729.48

Legals

Local Girl Scouts will begin delivering Girl Scout Cookie orders next week, after the cook-ies arrive by truck from the baker, according to the following schedule: Feb. 6, North Posey (Poseyville) - Wades-ville VFW, 8 a.m. Local Contact: Karen Egbert, (812) 673-4310 or Valen-tine4310@yahoo.com

Feb. 6, South Posey (Mt. Vernon) – General Baptist Church, 10 a.m.

Feb. 6, South Posey (Marrs) –Marrs School, after 12 p.m. Local Con-tact: Melinda Garman, (812) 568-7879 or mfgar-

man@vectren.comCustomers who want

to purchase cookies can Call the council offi ce, (812) 421-4970, or 1-800-757-9348. Order online at www.girlscouts-gssi.org.

“Girl Scouts of South-west Indiana (GSSI) sin-cerely appreciates the generosity of the many area businesses and orga-nizations who support our girls’ participation in this important entrepreneur-ship program by allow-ing them to conduct booth sales on their premises,” said Cheryl Voight, Prod-uct Sales Manager for the council.

“For 100 years, Girl Scouts has provided a unique, all-girl environ-ment that fosters girls’ de-velopment of the courage, confi dence, and character they need to grow into confi dent, caring, adults who make a positive im-pact on the world,” Davies remarked. “A purchase of Girl Scout Cookies truly is an investment in girls’ future, because it helps ensure that Girl Scout leadership development programs continue to be available to all girls who want to participate.

How Girl Scout Cookie Sale

Revenues are Used * Each Girl Scout

council in the United States sells Girl Scout Cookies as a way to raise funds, while, at the same time, providing valuable learning and developmen-tal activities for girls. Girl Scouts can earn offi cial age-appropriate recogni-tions, including the Girl Scout Cookie Activity Pin, for participation in Girl Scout Cookie Pro-gram activities.

* All of the revenue—every penny after paying the baker—remains in the area where the cook-ies are sold and benefi ts

Girl Scouts in those local communities. Girl Scout Cookie proceeds are used to provide leadership de-velopment for adults who represent underserved population groups, travel scholarships for girls, support for special mem-bership initiatives such as Girl Scout troops in homeless shelters and mi-grant communities, and to purchase and maintain equipment and property.

* Each Girl Scout coun-cil’s volunteer board of directors chooses one of the two licensed Girl Scout Cookie bakers (Girl Scouts of Southwest In-diana’s supplier is ABC Interbake.), determines the price per box, sets the dates for their local cook-ie activities, decides how Girl Scout Cookie rev-enue will be used to pro-vide vital services (leader recruitment and training, operation of camps and service centers, and other indirect expenses), and decides how much money will be retained by, or re-turned to, troops/groups selling cookies for their proj ects and activities.

* Girls are the ultimate benefi ciaries of all Girl Scout Cookie Sale Pro-gram proceeds—either di-rectly or indirectly. Girls benefi t directly by earning discretionary proceeds for their troop treasuries and in individual awards. In last year’s Cookie Sale Program, Girl Scouts in GSSI earned an average of $714.60 per troop. The rest of the money benefi ts

all of the girls in GSSI by providing essential services such as program resources and leader train-ing materials, and offering trips, and special events for girls throughout the year. The council’s share of Cookie Program pro-ceeds is also used to un-derwrite Girl Scout ac-tivities so that all girls, regardless of their fam-ily’s fi nancial situation, can participate.

Did You Know?At ABC/Interbake,

3,208 Girl Scout Peanut Butter Sandwich coolies are made per minute. This means that every sixty seconds, 292 “sleeves” are wrapped, 146 packag-es are formed, fi lled, and sealed, and 12.2 cases are packed and sealed.

Girl Scout Shortbread cookies, made from a rec-ipe that was hand-carried across the Atlantic from a bakery in England, are rel-atively low in sugar, con-taining only four grams of sugar per serving. The only modifi cation to the Shortbread cookie over the years was a “face lift” in 1979, when the cook-ie’s traditional Girl Scout service mark was replaced by the contemporary logo.

The number of cookies sold by girls in Girl Scouts of Southwest Indiana in one year fi lls more than fi ve large semi-trucks.

Every year, ABC/In-terbake, Girl Scouts of Southwest Indiana’s sup-plier, bakes Girl Scout Cookies, round-th-clock, from October to February.

Girl Scouts to begin delivering cookies February 6

2012-022The following County Operating Claims have been fi led with the Auditor's Of-fi ce and will be presented to the Board of Commissioners, POSEY COUNTY, IN at the regular session on February 7, 2012.

3,385.037,497.202,272.532,945.20

235.008,227.30

79.702,032.50

136.32376.24641.73

3,220.502,555.50

50.0025.00

211.17488.0025.00

355.80239.60110.0035.00

35,444.32

Baier & Baier, Attorneys at LawWilliam GoodenFarris Reporting Jean HadleyAmy BoernerMcFadin Higgins & FolzJohn H EmuffAllyn & GivensSmith & Butterfi eldYouth Care CenterVan Haaften & FarrarJake WarrumWest Pymt CenterAmerican ProbationPOPAIRedwood BiotechBecky RutledgeWOWTri-State ReportingMatthew Bender & CoEvansville Bar AssocIndiana LawyerGrand Total:

Nicholas WildemanPosey County Auditor

Published in the Posey County News on February 7, 2012

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725 W Hwy 62OPEN 2:30-4: SUNROOM! Brick

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Long-time Mount Vernon resi-dent Allen Robinson demonstrates that single parents, in particular single dads, can provide security and lavish love and attention on their children in a nontraditional family setting. The 39-year-old Robinson focuses clearly on his family—his two young daughters, Addie (11) and Paige (9). Their ac-tivities and welfare direct his time outside his work at the Princeton Toyota, where he’s worked as a team leader since the plant opened.

As a single dad, he is proving that he wants to be closely involved in his daughters’ lives. Not only has Robinson run the local and travel

circuit of soft-ball and bas-ketball games with his girls,

but he has supported them as a vol-unteer softball coach for the parks and recreation department also. Attending his daughters’ Farm-ersville Elementary School func-tions and going with his daughters to Point Township Church of the Nazarene are priorities as well. He places great importance on his daughters’ recognition of extended family members—both on the side of his late mother, Joyce Ayers of Boonville, and of his father, Jim Robinson of Mount Vernon.

He sets a good example for his daughters by helping those in need. He has on any number of occa-sions, for example, put his muscle into moving friends or family from one home to another. He’s also generous with charitable dona-tions, and recently he has begun

participating in 3K and 5K walks and runs to benefi t local helping organizations.

A 1990 Mount Vernon High School graduate, Robinson may be remembered for playing offensive wide receiver for the varsity foot-ball team. He enjoys adult league sports now and has participated on basketball, softball, and volleyball teams. Occasional golf outings, camping and morel hunting appeal to him as well.

He likes such television and movie classics as the Andy Griffi th Show and John Wayne westerns as well as programs on World War II. He prefers the oldies over any other music.

Above all, though, his daughters Addie and Paige keep him whis-tling while he works.

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By Pam RobinsonShe was 17. He was 23.

She was already engaged as a junior in high school. He was a Navy ensign docked in California.

Then Robert Red-man fi rst spotted Sandee (Woods) racing across the yard of the Chula Vista First Baptist Church. As he watched Sandee’s blonde hair stream behind her in the wind, he pointed to her and declared to one of Sandee’s friends: “I’m go-ing to marry her.”

“Two years, two months, fi ve days later,” Sandee re-

cites, Robert put on his na-val uniform, and the couple wed under crossed swords on December 9, 1961.

Thus started a lifetime’s adventure for the Red-mans. Robert teases that Sandee is a “seagull,” fol-lowing his ship from port to port. They have been everywhere in the United States except the Plains and all over Asia and Eu-rope.

Likewise, their family of eight children (in birth order)—Bill, Cassandra, Cliff, Robin, Jameson, Rebecca, Kimberlee and

Timothy—refl ects the couple’s expansive heart for children ‘round the world. Rebecca is Viet-namese American, and Timothy is African Ameri-can. To their credit, the family reached out in love and compassion to over 100 American and foreign-born children, including 10 exchange students. Twelve grandchildren sweeten the mixture now.

“We’re the United Na-tions of Posey County,” Sandee quips.

Their union of opposites, she believes, has resulted

in a healthy, heartfelt mar-riage for her and Robert. She is also fi rmly con-vinced that their different personalities complement, rather than clash with, one another because God has blessed their unique mari-tal blend.

“I’m feisty, and Robert’s laid back,” Sandee states. “We both love children and discipline the same way. We share the same belief in God and church. With-out our faith, our marriage wouldn’t be as strong.”

A 30-year career naval offi cer, Robert retired with the rank of Captain (06). His remarkable career in-cluded a tour in Vietnam fl ying Huey gun ships in support of the river forces in the delta. He was in three anti-submarine heli-copter squadrons accumu-lating over four thousand hours. He had command of a helicopter squadron in San Diego for a year. After attending Monterey Post graduate school, he was as-signed to the Navy’s larg-est computer center as the second in command pro-viding computer services to the Pentagon and other agencies in Washington, D.C.

He served as the Presi-dent of the Navy’s Dis-ability Board at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Mary-land. He was president of his Naval War College class of 167 senior execu-tives of the government. Beloved during his career, Robert still displays gifts from crew members – a he-licopter tail rotor from his command tour and plaques from each of his units with which he served.

Ever since he retired 22 years ago, Robert has served as a school bus driver for North Posey. He especially enjoys driv-

ing athletic teams to their sporting events. His grand-son Tanner, a fi rst grader, keeps him company on some of these trips.

For several years after he retired from the Navy, Robert served in Posey County Circuit Court un-der Judge James Redwine. He earned respect as the county’s computer consul-tant and as part-time bai-liff. Using their 7,000 sq.ft. home to its advantage, he and Sandee ran The Green Onion restaurant for three years as well.

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Couples listed from left to right: Robert and Sandee Redman, Martin and Wan-da Redman, Carl J and Judy Redman and Marvin and Ruth Redman. Photo by Dave Pearce.

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By Pam RobinsonBlushing, Marvin Redman

admits that his wife Ruth of-ten received farm machin-ery—a tractor, disk, etc—as a present to honor her birth-day or their November 17, 1962, wedding.

“It seems like we’d al-ways need something around then,” Marvin explains.

Ruth smiles. “I enjoy farming,” she says without a trace of regret in her voice.

“We’ve had a partner-ship,” Marvin adds about the high school sweethearts. “She drove tractors and planted right alongside me. We’ve farmed together.”

Indeed, farming is the only way of life the couple has ever known. Marvin gained the confi dence to farm from his dad and working for Kenny Eisterhold, right out of high school. He set out on his own in 1962, the same

year he and Ruth wed.Just a few years later, the

couple became school bus partners. For over 40 years, Marvin has driven a regu-lar North Posey route with Bus #30. Ruth has fi lled in as a substitute school bus driver—not only for her hus-band, but for her bus driver colleagues. She stays in demand as a sub and drives at least a couple of times a week.

During their 49 years of farming and marriage, Ruth says she and Marvin have counted their blessings every day in prayer.

“We’re thankful for fam-ily, friends, and neighbors. We couldn’t have made it without them,” she says. “We say thank you for each day.”

Marvin and Ruth’s grati-tude for their own blessings spills over into helping oth-ers. Ruth teaches adult Sun-day school at the couple’s church home, Zion-Lippe United Church of Christ, and she serves there as one of the Sunbeams to plan din-ners and outings fi ve times a year for senior citizens. Her kind and compassion-ate heart leads her to visit the sick and homebound as part of her work on the church’s

sick and shut-in committee. For the larger community, she serves as Center Town-ship Trustee.

In addition, Marvin and Ruth participate, along with over 60 more Posey Coun-ty farmers, in Partners for Food. Farmers donate the profi t from one acre of corn or soybeans to purchase beef, pork and potatoes to stock the Mount Vernon Food Pantry, New Harmony Food Pantry, God’s Store-house (Wadesville food pan-try), Salem United Church of Christ Food Pantry and At the Cross Mission in Mount Vernon. Marvin serves on the Partners for Food steer-ing committee along with Carl and Albert Schmitz and Jim Droege.

Not surprisingly, Marvin has also lent his support to 4-H. He still serves on the livestock committee to help set up the 4-H livestock auc-tion and to fi nd businesses and people to bid on 4-H livestock projects.

Still today, Marvin and Ruth stay involved as loyal sports fans. They can thank their three children—Jerry, Diana and Julie—and now their two teenage grand-daughters, Jordan and Me-gan, and grandson Drake,

a third grader. Marvin’s worked on the “chain gang” at North Posey, helping to drag the fi rst down markers in football, for over 40 years. In the past, he has also kept score for North Posey’s bas-ketball and baseball teams.

Even when Marvin is se-rious, his eyes still twinkle

a bit with the same boyish mischief that launched paper wads at the back of Ruth’s head when they attended school together.

“We feel like we’ve been blessed,” Marvin says about life on the farm.

He knows Ruth still thinks his green tractor is sexy.

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By Pam RobinsonMartin Redman fi rst noticed Wanda MIncey at the roll-

er skating rink in Mount Vernon and was delighted when her family moved to Oliver nearby his own family home. At 16 years old, however, Wanda left her native Posey County along with her brother and parents en route to the oil fi elds of Louisi-ana. Within a few months, Martin brought his young bride-to-be back home to Indiana.

Wanda lived with her grandma for three months until she turned 17 on July 23, 1957. Martin was 20. Less than a month later, on August 17, the two gained the distinction of holding the fi rst wedding ceremony inside their little country church, Mount Zion General Baptist, established in 1876.

Nearly 55 years later, Martin and Wanda still place Mount Zion General Baptist Church at the center of their lives. Martin start-ed there when he was fi ve years old, and Wanda knew she had to start attending at age 15 in order to see Mar-tin. As a couple, they’ve acted as Sunday school teachers and youth leaders and greeters. Separately, Martin has served as trustee and deacon while Wanda has served as secretary.

“It’s just like home,” Wanda says.“We have awful good friends in church,” Martin adds.The couple has made hundreds of friends in their lifetime

through their dedication to the larger community outside the church as well. Receiving his commercial driver’s li-cense at 21, Martin began a lifelong career as a school bus driver for the Metropolitan School District of Mount Ver-non. For a few years, he subbed for his dad, then for anyone in the bus driver pool. By 1968, he bought his own new bus, Bus #7, and got a contract for a bus route.

In 1972, Wanda got her license and subbed for Mar-tin several years. Then, she accepted her own route from Posey County to Evansville for students with disabilities. In 1987, Wanda started driving Bus #62 to take students with disabilities to schools in Mount Vernon instead of schools in Evansville.

“I enjoy the kids,” she says.Both Martin and Wanda continue to drive for the school

district although Wanda has been on medical leave since this past September 26. Working double time, Martin drives athletes in basketball, swimming, soccer – you name it – and band members to their events in addition to manag-ing his regular bus route. From time to time, he’s the chauf-feur for student fi eld trips also.

His interest in sports comes as no surprise to anyone who knows him. Martin played high school basketball and later independent basketball. Now, he and Wanda are season ticket holders for USI basketball games. He played base-ball until he was 33 and then church softball until he was 60.

Likewise, Wanda has enjoyed bowling since 1960 in both summer and winter leagues. She is dedicated to her Monday evening and Wednesday morning games. Once she and Martin played together in a league, but Martin lost interest after the two of them won fi rst place in couples.

“I want to do things as long as I feel good,” Martin says.Judging from the number of activities that still occupy

his time, Martin is feeling great. A successful farmer, he was planting up to 1,000 acres of crops in the 1980’s and 1990’s. He confesses unabashed love for hogs and cattle. He stopped raising hogs just three years ago and still pas-tures beef cattle. To his farming, he has added the gainful

employment of tending the oil wells for Donnie Mercer one day a week and during Mercer’s vacations.

Going where angels fear to tread, Martin has played a substantial role in local and state politics. He was the

only Democrat elected to the Center Township Ad-visory Board in 1960, and later when he moved out of Center Township, he served two terms on the Lynn Township Advisory Board and as Lynn Town-ship Trustee. After being elected as a Posey County Commissioner in 1982, he served in this position for 20 years. Now, he’s starting his fourth year on the Posey County Council. Like his dad, he is a precinct com-mitteeman, again for Lynn Township.

His most visible political service came under former Governor Evan Bayh, who presented him with the prestigious Sagamore of the Wabash award in October, 1993. A couple of years ear-lier, he was acting as presi-dent of the State of Indiana Commissioners Association and traveled to almost ev-ery county in the state.

“There are a lot of good people in this state, Repub-lican and Democrat,” he maintains. “I still keep in

touch with many of them.”Above all else, though, Martin will tell anyone, “The

most important things for me have been church, family and 4-H.”

Standing on the solid foundation of the church, Martin and Wanda will both tell you they are proud of their three children and seven grandchildren. When they set up house-keeping one mile east of Oliver, their daughter Connie came into existence a little later. They moved to Wadesville in 1960, and afterward their son Tom was born. In 1963, they headed back to the Mount Vernon area and settled at their current State Highway 69 location, where their son Greg was born. By 1972, they had built their new home, where they live today,

“We moved three times and had three kids. The last time we moved, I said, ‘We can’t move any more,’” Wanda comments.

While their children were growing up, Martin was deep-ly involved with 4-H—“another one of my loves,” he says. He was a 4-H leader for 18 years and a member of the 4-H Fair Board and 4-H Council. He’s proud to tell that each of his children earned their 10-year pins in 4-H.

The children, and now the grandchildren, attest to their upbringing with their regular visits and phone calls to talk with Martin and Wanda. After all, Martin and Wanda have set the example for supporting and loving family, no matter how near or far.

“We still love each other,” Wanda comments. “It’s not always been easy, but we’ve stuck it out.”

The course of true love may never run smooth, but it always runs deep—at least for this couple.

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Meeting at the skating rink in Mount Vernon, Carl and Judy went on their fi rst date April 26, 1959, to the Real Youth Bowling Tour-nament in Oakland City, Ind. From then on, typical outings included a movie at the Victory Theatre, a cruise down Main Street and dinner in each other’s homes.

They both joke that Carl’s 1958 Plymouth Savoy, a sleek white and teal ride, kept Judy interested in him. She loved “THE CAR,” they say and laugh.

Perhaps that attraction ex-plains why Carl got cold feet after their engagement until one day Judy put her foot down and said he needed to declare his intentions “or else.” They were married shortly afterward at Mount Vernon’s First Christian Church on October 15, 1960.

“That’s what she said—‘or else’—and she meant it. She’s regretted those words ever since,” Carl teases.

As Judy turns the pages in the scrapbook and the three children appear, their facial expressions tell of a parents’ devotion. A 1979 gradu-

ate of Mount Vernon High School, or MVHS, daugh-ter Leah holds a bachelor’s degree in history. She lives with her husband E.J. Meier in Denver and teaches fi rst and second graders In near-by Englewood, Colo. Their two daughters, Kelsey and Kayla, have settled close to their grandparents. Indeed, Kelsey and her husband Ryan Seessengood visit fre-quently with Carl and Judy’s fi rst great grandchild, Peyton Rae, born December 19.

Leah’s two brothers, Kevin and Jason, still live in Mount Vernon. Kevin is well-known for his success with the varsity golf team. In fact, the 1985 MVHS gradu-ate is proud of his induc-tion in to the MVHS Hall of Fame. He and his wife Shan-non Wilson are also proud of their two daughters, Randi and Harli.

Starting golf at age 7, Ja-son was named Golfer of the Year by the Junior Golf Association when he was 8 years old. The 1990 MVHS graduate has blessed Carl and Judy with two more grandchildren, Bradleigh and Carlton, bringing the to-tal up to six aged 7 to 24.

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“I remember meeting him and thinking, this is the man I’m going to be with for the rest of my life,” she said.

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“We were sitting outside together and we could hear a band playing off in the distance. I just said to him, ‘let’s just get married’,” Kim said. “Jerry said he fi g-ured we would have accu-mulated a few things before we got married but I told him that if we waited until that happened, we would never get married.”

Eager to start their life together, they planned their wedding for the fol-lowing month. Kim states there were some people who thought they were getting married so quickly

because she was pregnant at the time. There was no other reasons other than the couple was in love and

they simply wanted to be-gin their life together. Their fi rst son, Tanner was born six years later. They also have a son, Drake, who is 13.

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love,” she explained. While they were

still dating, Jerry moved in with her grandparents so

they could be close to one another. He became close with them and watched how their love for one another fl ourished throughout the years.

“My grandmother loved sweets and for every Valen-tine’s Day, my grandfather would buy her a heart with chocolates in it. She kept every single one he ever gave her,” Kim said.

When he passed away several years ago, Kim con-

tinued her grandfather’s tra-dition in his honor.

“I still do it to this day,” she added.

Kim and Jerry’s love for one another is special to them as they know how precious life is. Jerry lives with a liver disease called congenital hepatic fi brosis. Kim explained it’s a disease he was born with.

“Basically, he’s missing the vein that pumps blood through the liver.”

The condition was found when Jerry was preparing to have his tonsils taken out when he was young. Blood work showed something odd and at fi rst, they feared he had leukemia. The dis-ease they found is much more rare. At the time he was diagnosed, they were told Jerry was only one of 10 kids in the United States with the same disease.

Up until that time, his spleen performed the work of his liver proving the body’s amazing ways to function when medical books say it shouldn’t be so. A shunt was placed inside and has continued to func-tion all of these years. The doctors claim the shunt’s longevity is another rarity.

Every year, the pair make their annual trek to Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis where the head of the endocrinology department treats Jerry. In 2004, they discovered le-sions growing on Jerry’s liver. His doctor explained that they would monitor their growth and if it con-tinued, they would have to be removed due to the prob-

ability of cancer. They would face that

cancer scare in 2010. “One of the lesions grew

and the doctors thought it was cancer,” Kim said.

As the doctors prepared for surgery, the Poseyville couple were making plans for what they thought would be the last few months of his life. They knew the odds against fi ghting liver cancer are bleak at best. But, to their surprise, the removed growth was not cancerous.

As if cancer isn’t enough to worry about, they also face the possibility of Jerry needing a liver transplant one day. His legs show signs of water retention and his liver has become en-larged.

“We just keep hoping that every year that comes, we will get by without Jerry needing a liver transplant,” Kim said.

They have been blessed with their strong love for one another that grows deeper each year. Someday, they hope to take the hon-eymoon they never had to Hawaii. They had hoped to be able to do that this year to celebrate their 25th wed-ding anniversary. Kim jests that medical bills will make that dream rather diffi cult but quickly states they will do something special for their 25th.

“Throughout all that we’ve been through, with the fi nancial struggles and the medical scares, we have been through strug-gles that would tear most people apart. But, we have always gotten through it to-gether and we are still hap-

pily married. It has made us stronger,” she said.

Doing adversity together strengthens Williams’ marriage

Jerry and Kim Williams

Carl J and Judy Redman

Continued on Page C6

VALENTINE’S 2011VALENTINE’S 2011PAGE C6 • FEBRUARY 7, 2012 THE POSEY COUNTY NEWS • SERVING THE COUNTY SINCE 1882 • WWW.POSEYCOUNTYNEWS.COM

By Pam RobinsonSeldom will anyone encounter four broth-

ers all living within a few miles of each other and their birthplace. The sons of Carl and Lucretia Faye (Green) Redman all express humble gratitude that they’re not only still speaking, but also still enjoying regular vis-its together in relatively good health.

Every single one of the boys—Robert, Martin, Carl and Marvin (in birth order)—will have celebrated 50 years or more of mar-riage by the end of this year. As Robert and

Sandee, Martin and Wanda, Carl and Judy, Marvin and Ruth have so graciously (and a bit nervously) shared their stories, they

have taught the importance of patience and perseverance in their lives certainly. Yet, above all, they have dem-onstrated the value of their prayers in their laughter and love, the greatest of all these.

Every single one of the boys highlights their annual reunion here in Posey County with their cousins and all the generations of young people as a blessed time. They don’t just pay lip service to

keeping in touch with one another. In fact, each brother knew the interview time for all the brothers as we prepared for the Valentine issue. It’d take a clever person indeed to ever spring any kind of surprise on this fam-ily. They just don’t keep secrets.

Every single one of the boys along with his wife has also made community a priority. Whether serving God or country, they’ve all helped to shape Posey County into a place of generosity for friends and neighbors. They love all God’s children, not just their own.

Every single one of the boys looks forward to more good years of marriage with his life-

long bride. They might look no farther than to Posey County natives Charles and Lillian (Schutz) Stevens. They will celebrate 70 years of marriage this July 3. A tragic auto accident has them recovering in Mount Ver-non Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, but it hasn’t prevented them from keeping close watch on one another from their adjoining rooms. Their love light still burns bright in spite of the passing of years.

From everything I’ve seen, the Redman brothers and their wives all hold such a steady fl ame, but it never hurts to set candles alongside one another and enjoy the warmth

of their far-reaching glow.

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‘By the numbers’ Continued from Page C3

‘Love at fi rst sight’ Continued from Page C2Just recently, Robert received the cov-

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Both Robert and Sandee believe a fam-ily isn’t complete without indoor animals and adore Ebony the cat and Angus, the Great Dane. After all, as even the casual observer would agree, this couple always has room in their hearts for just one more.

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‘No place like home’ Continued from Page C5

His travels with Judy mean just as much to him. As a top salesman for Posey County Farm Bu-reau Co-op over 35 years, he earned a number of paid vacation trips. He and Judy have enjoyed three cruises and three stays in Hawaii in addition to time in Germany. The photos of their trips feature them all smiles.

Carl and Judy appreci-ate the lasting friendships

developed through Carl’s employment with Farm Bureau Co-op. Their 4-H connection made them friends as well. Ten year members of 4-H, they saw all three children receive their 10-year pins. They still support 4-H to this day. Carl even served on the committee for fund-raising that held an auction for three years to build the current 4-H Community Center.

Now in retirement, Carl and Judy travel to their getaway in Florida as of-ten as they like, especial-ly in winter. While Carl practices his golf swing, Judy sews and quilts and shops—her favorite pas-time according to her hus-band.

As Judy closes the fam-ily scrapbook, she points out, nonetheless, that their home has always been on Upper Upton Road.

We’ve enjoyed our trav-els, but we’ve also enjoyed our kids and grandkids,” Carl says in agreement. “We’ve had 51 good years. We hope to see more.”

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