SINCE 1882 Successor to The Poseyville News & New Harmony Times POSEY COUNTY’S ONLY LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED NEWSPAPER
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Briefly New Harmony to Trick or Treat Trick or Treat at New Harmony businesses on Wednesday, October 26, 2016 from 3 - 5 p.m. Fall Property Tax deadline set for November 10 You can pay online at www. poseycountytax.com., at any Old National Banking Center in Posey or Vanderburgh County (tax coupon required), in person or by mail at Posey County Treasurer, 126 East Third Street, Room 211, Mount Vernon, IN 47620. There is also a drop box located at the corner of Third and Walnut Street. Early voting begins October 12 Early voting will begin Wednesday, October 12 at the Courthouse, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Early voting ends Monday, November 7, at 12 noon. Satellite voting will be held Saturday, October 29, at the following locations from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Posey County Courthouse, 300 Main Street, Mount Vernon; Working Man’s Institute, 407 Tavern Street, New Harmony; St. Peter United Church of Christ, 10430 Highway 66, Wadesville; North Elementary School, 63 West Fletchall Street, Poseyville. Satellite voting will be held Saturday, November 5, at the following locations from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Posey County Courthouse, 300 Main Street, Mount Vernon; Marrs Township Fire Dept., Station 2, 5960 Ford Road, Mount Vernon; St. Peter United Church of Christ, 10430 Highway 66, Wadesville; North Elementery School, 63 West Fletchall Street, Poseyville. BMV announces Columbus Day closure Kent Abernathy, Commissioner of the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV), announced today that all BMV license branches will be closed Saturday, October 8 through Monday, October 10 in observance of the Columbus Day Holiday. All license branches resume regularly scheduled business hours on Tuesday, October 11. For a complete list of branch locations and hours or to complete online transactions, visit myBMV.com. North Elementary to host Kona Ice, Fall Book Fair Kona Ice will be set up in the North Elementary Cafeteria on October 19 from 4:30-6 p.m. A portion of all Kona Ice purchases will go to North Elementary Student Council. The Fall Book Fair will also be open at this time. St. Paul’s celebrates 200 years St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Poseyville, Indiana cordially invites the public to its 200 year anniversary on Sunday, October 16, 2016 at 2 p.m. St. Paul’s church is located at 46 South Cale Street in Poseyville, Indiana. Their facebook page is located at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Poseyville, Indiana. Friends of the Working Men’s Institute to host Chili Cook-Off The Friends of the Working Men’s Institute will hold their Annual Chili Cook-Off on Saturday, October 15 on the lawn of the Working Men’s Institute. The Cook-Off will be start at 11:30 a.m. and will go to 2:30 p.m., when the winner will be announced. Come and cast your vote for the best chili. Tasting tickets are just 50¢ each, plus hot dogs and cookies will also be available to purchase. If you or your organization would like to be part of the Cook-Off, there is still time to register. You can pick up a registration form at the Working Men’s Institute.
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CGB to spend $31 on plant expansion Special to the News Consolidated Grain and Barge Co. (CGB),announced plans this week to expand its operations at the Port of Indiana-Mount Vernon, investing more than $31 million to increase its soybean processing capabilities in southwest Indiana. “Indiana is a state known around the world for building things and growing things, and because CGB plays a key role in both, this soybean processor is helping advance our economy,” said Governor Mike Pence. “After processing soybeans in southwest Indiana for nearly twenty years, CGB knows firsthand the benefits of operating in a state that works for business. This latest $31 million expansion is a testament to CGB’s confidence in Indiana and the Hoosiers who keep this company growing.” CGB’s processing plant was constructed in 1997, at that time processing 65,000 bushels of soybeans each day into soybean meal, soybean oil and soy hull pellets for
both food and industrial uses. Since its initial construction, the plant has continued to grow its capacity. With this expansion, the plant will have more than doubled its original size. Just one bushel of soybeans can produce 11 pounds of soy oil, which is commonly used for cooking, biodiesel and other industrial applications, and nearly 49 pounds of soymeal and soy hulls, which serve feed mills, poultry manufacturers and hog farmers. “CGB is excited to announce the growth of its Mount Vernon location,” said Steve O’Nan, senior vice president of CGB. “The soybean processing industry is very competitive, and this investment will allow us to remain competitive in the future. We are proud to be a part of Indiana agriculture and, with this expansion, will remain an important part of southwest Indiana’s agriculture community for many years to come.”
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Three-year-old Kaylee Shelton was all smiles while playing the bean bag toss at Susanna Wesley’s Annual Fall Carnival. Photo by Zach Straw
Posey workers to have local clinic option By Valerie Werkmeister Employees of Posey County will soon have another healthcare option. Posey County Commissioners approved an agreement with the MSD of Mount Vernon to lease space for a health clinic for
all county employees during their meeting last Tuesday, October 4. They also approved the agreement with Tri-State Community Clinics subject to attorney Jacob Weis’ review and a vote on Tuesday by members of the Posey County
Council. County officials hope the addition of the clinic will ultimately drive down the overall cost of the county’s healthcare insurance premiums. A similar agreement will be signed by the MSD of North
Posey during their next meeting. This will provide two locations within the county for employees’ convenience. Commissioner Jim Alsop ex-
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Cemetery event set By Lois Mittino Gray Posey County Historical Society President Becky Higgins invites you to ‘Dine With the Dead’ on Saturday, October 22 in the Parks and Rec Community Gym in the old Hedges School. The dinner will be a fundraiser for restoration work on the North Cemetery, located on the school grounds right outside the gym door. Higgins remembers playing ‘cemetery’ during recess at Hedges School when that area was the playground while the new addition was being constructed in the late 1960.s. “Every student from around that time period will remember playing around the stones. We’d lie down on the slabs and kids would boo-hoo and pretend to weep for us and throw flowers on us. Then we’d do it all over again the next day,” she reminisced with a smile. “I guess we were reborn.” North Cemetery is the oldest cemetery within Mount Vernon’s city limits and is named after Juliet North, a small child just a few years of age who died in 1834 of cholera. Many of the over 500 souls interred there died of the contagious disease and are buried in a mass grave on the 4.5 acre site. “The story goes that the town drunk was the only one brave enough to bury them all so he would get plastered and put the bodies on a blanket and take them up to the site and throw them into the big hole,” Higgins recounted.
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Becky Higgins stands next to the memorial marker and fence erected at the old North Cemetery by the Posey County Historical Society in 2010. Photo by Lois Mittino Gray
County’s schools to share health burden By Lois Mittino Gray The Mount Vernon School Board took measures at its October 3 meeting to ensure full use of its onsite health clinic. The school district entered into an agreement between Tri State Community Clinics and the North Posey School district to share each other’s health care facilities. The Mount Vernon Clinic is in the former Hedges School building and the North Posey Clinic is in Wadesville on Indiana 66. Employees may visit either location for exams, labwork, and medications. The sharing will allow a user more availability of times for
appointments. The agreement states that each district will pay for its own employee, no matter which clinic is visited. If either clinic adds durable equipment, such as an X-ray machine or exam table, it will be paid for by the school owning the clinic where the item is housed. Legal fees for the arrangement will be split between both schools. The agreement ends on December 31, 2017 with automatic one year renewal. The school district also entered into an agreement with the Posey County Board of Commissioners, to lease eight (8) hours per week in the Mount Vernon Clinic from January 1 through
December 31, 2017 with automatic one year renewal terms for the use of county employees. The county is working on saving money for health care costs. In other board action: • The meeting served as a public hearing for the 2017 budgets. Citizens were provided an opportunity to comment, but none were made. The board will consider the budgets for adoption at the next meeting on Monday, October 17. • In other budget matters, the board adopted a
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Posey Council on Aging celebrates 40th By Pam Robinson On Wednesday, October 19, the Posey County Council on Aging, or PCCA, will celebrate its 40th anniversary, the ruby anniversary, at 611 West Eighth Street, location of its Mount Vernon senior center. “The anniversary party will be a day of Clabber, free chili lunch at noon and hanging out,” states PCCA Executive Director, Monica Evans. Area residents are cordially invited to join regulars at the senior center and share in the food and fun. The promised day of Clabber may be just enough to entice 92-year-old Jessie Fetcher away from her usual Wednesday routine at Poseyville’s PCCA senior center. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Fetcher drives from her Griffin home to From top right: Bob Worman, Helen Wasson, Nancy York, and the Poseyville Community Center Irma Underwood enjoy a game of Clabber at St. Stephens Church in to eat lunch and to play Clabber New Harmony on Thursday morning. The center is open for cards and “if,’ she says, “enough people come bingo on Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays. Photo by Zach Straw to play.” Otherwise, the card-loving
lady looks forward to every second Tuesday for the Clabber tournament, always drawing at least two tables of dedicated players. “My mom taught me how to play cards when I was two or three years old—simple card games,” the southern Illinois native recalls. Once Fetcher and her husband learned to play Clabber from another young couple in Griffin, she was hooked. “I don’t want to play anything else now,” she insists. She estimates she’s been playing Clabber for about 60 years. She cautions when asked to explain how Clabber is played, “it’s not an easy game to learn.” As she writes down the basic rules, Fetcher comments, “You have to pay attention. And you really have to be a little card savvy. I’ve played cards for so long, I could play just about
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