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Sept. 27, 2017 UPSP 213-200 Vol. 153, No. 18
Serving Daviess County Since 1864 — Our Best To You Each Week!
Kickin’ Cancer fundraiser slated Oct. 7 The Kickin’ Cancer with Kindness Committee will be holding an event on Saturday, Oct. 7, to raise funds for the purchase of gas cards for cancer patients to use for fuel expenses when traveling to and from medical treatments. The Daviess County BBQ fundraiser block party will be held from 5-6:30 p.m. on Market Street, between Gallatin Methodist Church and the lumber yard. Many churches, clubs, businesses and individuals have joined together to provide the food for this event. Bring your family and enjoy a pork BBQ sandwich dinner with baked beans, slaw, dessert and drink, along with entertainment.
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Carry-outs will be available. The BBQ pork will be prepared by Greg Houghton. Money raised will be used to purchase cards is in the amount of $25 each. Last year, around 200 people attended, and donations from individuals, businesses and churches totaled $5,600, and the silent auction brought in over $1,900. Although the meal and entertainment are free; free-will donations will be accepted. Entertainment will be Mark and Keith Gay; Rick Tolen’s band (Hired Gun); and the Christian Church Praise Team. A silent auction will be held with over 60-plus baskets already
donated. Bidding will begin at 5 p.m. and stop at 6:15 p.m. A silent bid means you write down your bid on paper and place it by the basket. Those donating by check toward this worthy cause, should make them payable to Kickin’ Cancer with Kindness.
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Audition for Nana’s Naughty Knickers!
Gallatin Theater League will hold auditions for its fall 2017 production of Nana’s Naughty Knickers at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 8, at the Courter Theater in Gallatin. Nana’s Naughty Knickers is a comedy in two acts authored by Katherine deSavino. Performance dates for Nana’s Naughty Knickers are Nov. 16, 17, and 18 with a 7 p.m. curtain on all three dates. This play will be presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. It was originally produced at the Rainbow Dinner Theatre in Pennsylvania in the spring of 2010.
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Jail featured in new book, cover The Rotary Jail: Escape-Proof Cells on a Carousel, 1882-1966, includes the rotary jail at Gallatin, which is also featured on its cover. The book is by W.C. Madden and is available for check out at the Daviess County Library in Gallatin. The rotary jail was a very unusual architectural design, states the book’s overview. In response to a need for better control over prisoners, 18 of the revolving, escape-proof structures were erected in the United States from 1882 through 1889. There were problems. There were mechanical difficulties due to the extreme weight of the components. Unwary prisoners lost digits or limbs when carousels were rotated without warning—one lost his life. Because inmates could only be let out of their cells one at a time, some rotary jails were closed as fire hazards. This book describes in detail their construction, operation and eventual demise, as well as some of the colorful inmates that were held in them. W.C. Madden is a retired journalist, teacher and author. He has written 44 books. While much of his work is based on baseball, he has also written about the history of Indianapolis, Ind. The book is published by McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers.
Active Aging Resource Center Administrator Deanna Lewis and Shopko Store Mgr. Peggy Simons
Shopko presents $600 to senior center, buys 2 Yeti coolers for Meals on Wheels The Daviess County Multi-Purpose Senior Center, Inc. (Active Aging Resource Center) is the recipient of a $600 grant from Shopko Foundation’s Community Charitable Grant program. The grant program was established to support charitable non-profit organizations through limited funding of local programs in Shopko communities. The grant enabled the senior center to purchase two Yeti® coolers to use when delivering Meals on
Wheels. Meal delivery routes include Jamesport, Gallatin, Lake Viking, Altamont, and Winston. “The Yeti® coolers do an amazing job of keeping our hot food hot,” said Administrator Deanna Lewis. “We want to provide our clients with the absolute best meals we can, and the Yeti® coolers help keep quality high. “We are so fortunate to have our local ShopKo and the ShopKo Foundation’s support,” she said.
South Big Creek Ranch off to a good start Rodeo scheduled for Saturday at new ATV park located near Lake Viking South Big Creek Ranch LLC is a 101acre ATV park which began operation with a soft opening in May. The ranch is located at Lake Viking, near the dam, at 110 Sunfish Court. The ranch, owned and operated by Ben and Hope Becerra, is a family oriented offroad park with over 10 miles of trails. Trails are open to all ATVs, UTVs and dirt bikes and range in difficulty from novice to extreme. Horseback riding is another activity that may be available in the future. Ben said the idea of the park has been in the making for a few years. With the help Hope of Tim Carder and other friends, he’s been building the trails for a long time. Once he decided to go ahead with the plan, it took a good year to get the park ready for the public. The work was accomplished mostly during the winter months. There are additional projects underway, including a new Krazy 8 track currently under construction. There is abundant wildlife to see at the ranch, and there’s also South Big Creek for water play. The ranch offers outfitting and hunting packages with or without primitive lodging. Primitive camping is offered for tents, RVs and campers with no hookups at this time. Riders provide their own vehicles; no rentals are available.
and Ben Becerra welcome you to their new ATV park This Saturday, Sept. 30, the ranch will be hosting its second ATV-UTV rodeo, which will feature poles, barrels, thruthe-barrel, flag, pickup, down-and-back, and blind-folded races with separate classes for ATVs, UTVs and dirt bikes, with three age divisions. Broken Arrow BBQ will be serving pulled pork. Registration is at 9 a.m., with show time at 11 a.m. The rodeo will be staffed by about
20 volunteers and friends of the Becerras. So far, weekends at the ranch have been busy. The ranch kicked off in a big way with around 450 attending during the first four weekends after opening. Understandably, weather has and always will have a big impact on the park’s attendance. Ben and Hope have some spots designated in memory of special friends and family: Uncle Bob’s Point, the Darrell Wilson memorial parking lot, the Ray Carder crossing. There’s also a trail named for the KC RZR Riders from Road World, some of whom attended the soft opening of the park back in May (the KC RZR Riders club has over 3,200 members; the soft opening of the ranch was attended by the president and other members of the club). Ben and Hope have been married for 32 years and recently became grandparents. Their daughter, Taylor, and her husband, Lee Deutschman, had a (continued on page 3)