July 7, 2015 - The Posey County News

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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

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Briefly BBBS seeks mentors, volunteers Come join the fun and learn about helping others by volunteering with Big Brothers Big Sisters serving Posey County. Become a mentor or volunteer time with the fundraising and planning group. Either way, you can make a big difference in a child’s life. Visit our Facebook page, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Posey County, to see children on our waiting list. To learn more, come to Brittlebank Pool, Wednesday, July 22, 2015, 6:308:30 p.m. Meet some of our Big and Little matches and volunteers. Start something for kids in our community.

Elks hosts Relay For Life fundraier event

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Despite ‘fair’ price, land values correcting By Dave Pearce Most investors, farmers, and landowners know there are hundreds of factors that contribute to the value of land for sale. All know that the Posey County record of $17,200 per acre fetched recently from 69 acres of rich, fertile farm land at the edge of Poseyville is not the norm. However, on Wednesday, at Wilson’s Action and Realty, the same firm that auctioned the property in Poseyville. Bidders were not quite so generous for several reasons.

First, the quality of the soil was not up to the standard of the soil that was auctioned in Poseyville. The location was not as prime and quite frankly, land values have begun to correct themselves, beginning in the northern third of Indiana and spreading rapidly south. All interested parties agree that 2015 is a pivotal year for the prices of commodities which drives the price of land. Still, an excellent crowd was on hand, in excess of 100, to see if perhaps they could justify buying a

parcel of the land and others, perhaps, just to see what the inevitable value of the land would be. While current land values have generally trended lower this past year in comparison to the sharp increases of recent years, results of farm and ranch income at year’s end could shift land market dynamics, according to Farmers National Company, the nation’s leading farm and ranch real estate company. “Harvest results of 2015 will make it a pivotal year, which could

impact the land market for several years,” said Randy Dickhut, AFM, Vice President of Real Estate Operations of Farmers National Company. “Farm and ranch income will drive the direction. A great deal could happen between now and November.” According to auctioneer Andrew Wilson of Wilson Auction and Realty of New Harmony, the 386 acres of land which sold on Wednesday was pretty much in line

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Below, New Harmony resident Curt Schmitt eloquently delivers the reading of the Declaration of Independence.

Mount Vernon Elks Lodge 277 will be having a fundraiser Friday, July 17, 2015 and Saturday July 18, 2015 to benefit Relay for Life. Carry out lunches of fish fillet or grilled pork chop, potato salad, oven baked beans, pickle and onion are available for $7.50 per lunch. Canned drinks will be available. Call 812-838-3361 to pre-order your lunches. Pick up times are 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. both days. Delivery on large orders is available.

Early Learning Indiana recruits AmeriCorps members

Enjoying front row seats for the Independence Day Celebration at the Atheneum on Saturday Dorothy Urey, visiting from Dallas, Texas, Barb McConnell, Mic McConnell, Nancy Manchette, Ann Scarafia, and Karen Walker.

Early Learning Indiana is recruiting 15 AmeriCorps members to work on family engagement in pre-K settings. Members will work with organizations in Indianapolis, Evansville, and Fort Wayne. As an AmeriCorps member, you will be on-site at a high-quality pre-K program, where you will help to build the capacity of your program to engage families in their child’s education and you will lead and organize family engagement activities yourself. Members in Evansville will be supported by a site supervisor and an early childhood expert at 4C of Southern Indiana, Inc., - who will offer weekly trainings on Fridays. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who has an interest in early childhood education, pre-K, authentic family engagement and nonprofit management. Parents of young children are especially welcome to apply. Apply today: http://bit.ly/ engagepreK

Jonathan Scott and David Flanders celebrated the week’s event with their golf cart during the annual July Fourth Golf Cart Parade in New Harmony.

McNamara scheduled to visit MSDNP State Representative Wendy McNamara is scheduled to speak at the MSD of North Posey County School Board meeting held in Poseyville, Ind., July 13, 2015, 6:30 p.m. at the board office. Representative McNamara will be speaking at the beginning of the meeting on education related issues. She plans on a brief question and answer session to follow her presentation.

Posey 4-H Fashion Revue is July 7 The public is invited to attend the 2015 Posey County 4-H Fashion Revue and Extension Homemakers’ Style Show at no charge on Tuesday, July 7, starting at 7 p.m. in the Community Center of the Posey County 4-H Fairgrounds. 4-H youth members and Extension Homemaker adult members will show off their creations at this time, and awards will be presented to all participants. For more information on this or any other 4-H Fair or Extension activity, please contact the Posey County-Purdue Cooperative Extension Service by calling 812-838-1331 or emailing poseyces@purdue.edu.

Members of the New Harmony community choir under the direction of Paula Gooden and accompanied by Carolyn Stone and Rick Huffman thrilled the crowd.

Honor system important part of NHGC mulch program By Lois Mittino Gray On those scorching summer days, a thick layer of mulch can be the

Live animal show coming to APL If you like meeting strange animals and discovering new facts about animals you already know and love, you will want to attend the Alexandrian Public Library presentation of Silly Safaris featuring Amazon John on Wednesday, July 8 at 2 p.m. A Silly Safaris live interactive animal show is educational fun for all ages. Plus Silly Safaris offers select volunteers from the audience an opportunity to become directly involved. And most of all it is free and no registration is required. This event will take place at the Parks and Recreation gym at Hedges. Please enter through door 11 on Eighth Street.

University of Evansville Associate Professor of history Robin Sager gives the keynote address.

The yellow Garden Garage facing Church Street between the alley at East and Raintree, near the Johnson United Methodist Church, serves as the pick-up point for mulch offered by the NH Garden Club. Photo by Theresa Bratcher

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saving grace for your parched plants. Members of the New Harmony Garden Club know this and have made mulch available to the public in town at a low cost for the past six years. Home Depot has been very cooperative on cost and delivers it to town at no extra expense. The program works on the honor system and patrons can take as many bags as they like off the pallet and mail the check to the club. Barb McConnell, Club Mulchmaster, said that her last order from Home Depot was for 600 bags and they are about sold out. She is preparing to order new pallets, but wanted to stress the honor system to the public once more as bags are coming up missing. “Some people are taking them while doing landscape work and then they forget to send us a check. We have several this year who are not paying us,” she noted. Checks or cash may be sent to Barb at 534 East Granary or Box 244, New Harmony 47631. The cost is four dollars per bag. To pick them up, a person just goes to the yellow Garden Garage facing Church Street between the alley at East and Raintree, near the Johnson United Methodist Church. The bags are outdoors sitting on pallets. Some is used by the club for its many community projects and the rest members and citizens get for personal use. Barb is really pleased with the quality of the mulch Home Depot has sold the club in its program. “It is Scott’s Brown Mulch and is a better quality than last year’s. And it’s less expensive, too.”

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