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Tuesday, October 18, 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. 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. Friends of WMI present final 2016 lecture Alice Ramsey: A Woman and Her Car, 1909 - The Friends of the Working Men’s Institute’s final lecture in their 2016 Lecture Series features Jenny Washburn. She will speak at the Working Men’s Institute (WMI) in New Harmony on Thursday, October 27 at 6:30 p.m. Ms. Washburn will present the diary of Alice Ramsey. In 1909 Alice and three other ladies drove across America in her Maxwell car. Alice did most of the driving and many of the mechanical repairs. She is considered to be the first woman to drive across the United States. In 2009, Ms. Washburn, along with her father, made the same trip in their very own Maxwell celebrating Alice’s centennial anniversary. Boy Scout Troop 387 holds annual food drive You can help fight hunger this holiday season. Boy Scout Troop 387, Poseyville, Ind., will be having their annual canned and non-perishable food drive a month earlier on Saturday, November 5, 2016 to help local families in need for the upcoming holiday season. Scouts from Troop 387 will be going door to door in Poseyville, Griffin and Stewartsville, 9 a.m. - Noon, asking for canned and non-perishable food donations. If you are unavailable and still wish to donate, just leave your donation on your porch and the Scouts will pick them up. If have any questions or would like to schedule a pick-up time, please call Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 387, Mitch Wagner, at 812-598- 2789. Christmas on Main Street sets meeting date The Christmas On Main Street committee will be having its first meeting on Wednesday, October 26. The meeting will be at 4:30 p.m. at the Police and Fire Station meeting room. Anyone interested in helping with the parade, Christmas events or children’s Christmas party, please join us that evening. We have new ideas for this year event, which will take place December 3. St. Philip Ladies Club to hold card party November 9 The St. Philip Ladies Club ‘Jolly Old St. Nicholas’ Card Party will be Wednesday, November 9, 2016 in the St. Philip Center/Gymnasium beginning at 6:30 p.m. The doors open at 6 p.m. The Card Party will feature a quilt raffle, special raffle, Chinese auction, half pot raffle, and theme basket raffle. There will be a tasting table with appetizers, entrees, and desserts. The kitchen fare will be ham salad and chicken salad sandwiches, breadsticks, fruit and dip, and veggies and dip. For tickets or information please call 812-9853213 or 812-985-9177. License No. 139526 Moose Lodge hosts Fish Supper Mount Vernon Moose Lodge 497 will have their monthly all you can eat fish supper Saturday night, October 22 starting at 5 p.m. location: 711 West Second Street, Mount Vernon, Ind. $10 per adult, children under 12 $5. Dinner includes fish, potatoes, hush puppies, baked beans, and slaw. Take out orders available 812-838-3664. Public is welcome.
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County’s schools agree to share clinics By Valerie Werkmeister Members of the MSD of North Posey approved an agreement that will allow MSD of Mount Vernon as well as Posey County employees the ability to share its healthcare clinic. They approved the agreement during their meeting last Tuesday, October 11. The first agreement with MSD of
Mount Vernon will allow employees to use either the North Posey or the Mount Vernon clinic beginning November 1. The district already has a similar agreement with Expressway Auto World. The agreement with the county allows for a one-year lease that will begin on January 1. Clinic hours will increase four hours each week for a
total of 16 hours. Superintendent Dr. Todd Camp explained the first 60 days will allow for the initial patient intake for county employees. The commissioners have agreed to pay the school corporation $50 per month for the use of the facility. Misty Hughes and Julie Mitchell addressed the board during patron’s concerns regarding the district’s
policy on bullying. Hughes stated an incident that occurred with her son at school made her question the bullying policy. She stated she was informed that to qualify as a bullying act, the event had to be a repeated offense. She requested the policy be changed.
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Council made aware of local store matters By Valerie Werkmeister Complaints about the condition of Poseyville’s Dollar General Store were brought before the Poseyville Town Council last Wednesday. Georgia Forzley and Angela Robinson asked the council if anything could be done. They complained about the numerous aisles blocked with boxes of stock that needed to be placed on the shelves and the overall cleanliness of the store. Council president Bruce Baker informed them he had already made calls to Dollar General’s corporate office. A district manager had supposedly been in to
visit the store recently and Baker stated he was informed, “improvements are coming.” “It’s a very bad situation,” Baker added. Forzley and Robinson asked if there was anything they could do to help alleviate the situation. Baker stated they could contact the corporate office through a phone number printed on most Dollar General receipts. Forzley stated she had taken pictures of the conditions inside the store and wanted to post them on social media sites such as Facebook. The council
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Posey’s Uebelhack Turkey Farm closes after 75 years By Pam Robinson Many area residents will have to find another source for fresh turkey this year for Thanksgiving. This past Wednesday, October 12, Dennis Uebelhack announced on Facebook the closing of Uebelhack’s Turkey Farm, located at 3200 Nation Road in rural Mount Vernon. Dennis and his wife, Diana, purchased the business from his parents, Oscar and Helen, 36 years ago in 1979. His mom had started the business in 1940. “We will not have turkeys for Thanksgiving and Christmas in 2016.We notified Old Fashioned Butcher Shoppe and Rivertown Butcher Shop back in early summer,” Dennis Uebelhack’s Facebook post begins. “After 36 years, I am retiring. With this being said, I will put the operation up for sale in early 2017. This includes two homes, the processing plant, a 50x100 foot pole barn, a 40x200 foot turkey building, three older barns and all processing equipment, recipes, tractors and equipment used for turkey production. All on 20 acres with city water, well water and natural gas. Thank you for your patronage
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Stan and Joberta Campbell sing during the celebration of 200 years at the St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Poseyville on Sunday. Photo courtesy of Laura Newman
Official Bicentennial Song Concert set here
The Hunter Smith Band will perform ‘Indiana Moon’ during their free concert on October 27, 2016 at Mount Vernon’s Riverfront Park. Photo submitted
By Lois Mittino Gray Mount Vernon is one of only two Hoosier towns featured in Indiana’s official Bicentennial Song, ‘Indiana Moon’ by the Hunter Smith Band. The band would like to play the special song for residents and will do a free live concert on Thursday, October 27 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Riverfront Park. It is a Bicentennial event for the state and the city. Mount Vernon Bicentennial Committee Chairman Becky Higgins was listening to the song, chosen on June 28 of this year as the official Bicentennial song, when her ears perked up during the second verse. “I couldn’t believe my ears. They sang ‘from old Mount Vernon to Nappanee’ in the lyrics. I knew I had to get a hold of them and ask them: why us?” She called Hunter Smith, the songwriter, and he said that he always loved the name Nappanee. “I looked at a map and Nappanee represented the far north, so I went down as far south as I could go and you were there.” After chatting awhile, Higgins invited the Zionsville country-rock band down to do a live performance and Smith was gung-ho on the idea. The song comes from the band’s second album, Story, released last year. A Texas na-
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‘GhostBusters’ make Halloween visit to MV By Lois Mittino Gray The Southern Indiana GhostBusters are coming to Mount Vernon to rock Halloween night for the locals, complete with state of the art proton packs to suck up spirits. Utilities Superintendent Chuck Gray announced the plans
for their special appearance during the Mount Vernon Board of Public Works meeting on October 13. They will be the featured guests at a haunted house put on by Gray and Fire Chief Wes Dixon and fellow funlovers on October 31. The free haunted house will
be held in the back bay of the public safety building at College and Fourth Streets. Three scenes will include a mad scientist lab, a haunted crypt and a haunted graveyard. “We’ll give candy out in the front part as usual starting at about 3 p.m. until the candy runs
out,” Dixon said. “Don’t worry, it will be kid-friendly,” Gray added. Gray also requested use of the city credit card to take the camera truck up to Indianapolis to repair a broken cable on the remote. It has
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Shopping Network Outlet store opens in MV By Pam Robinson Posey County native, 22-year-old Jeffrey Kingery, has opened the Shopping Network Outlet in Mount Vernon. His first day of business was October 8 in the building once housing Guilty Pleasures, located at 916 East Fourth Street. Store hours are Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The outlet is closed Sunday and Monday. Known as the ‘Christmas store’ on the street, the outlet will actually stay open for business year-round. A 2013 Mount Vernon High School graduate, Kingery promises much more merchandise in 2017 unrelated to Christmas: household items, clothing, shoes, cosmetics, to name a few categories. In other words, the Shopping Network Outlet stocks seasonally appropriate merchandise as well as items useful any time of year. It’s Mount Vernon’s new outlet department store. “Definitely in January, we’ll have a lot more merchandise,” Kingery states. “There’ll be a lot more merchandise besides just Christmas.” Kingery guarantees every item in his outlet sells for at least 50 percent off the advertised price. His merchandise comes from popular shopping
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Mount Vernon native Jeffrey Kingery stands among the stock of the new Shopping Network Outlet Store at 916 East Fourth Street in Mount Vernon. The store opened October 8. Photo by Pam Robinson