February 14, 2012 - The Posey County News

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Trent Van Haaften to seek District 76 seat Meet the Demo Candidates The Posey County Democrat Women’s Club will sponsor Meet Your Candidates at Democrat Headquarters in Mount Vernon on February 23 at 7 p.m.

Everyone is invited to attend and meet local Democrat candidates.

Demos to replace Butler Members of the Democratic Central Committee will hold a meeting on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2010, at 7 p.m. at Democratic Headquarters to appoint a replacement for David Butler who is resigning the position.

By Dave Pearce Posey County attorney and former State Representative Trent Van Haaften announced this week that he will be back in the political arena.

“I enjoy the challenge of solving problems that public service gives you the opportunity to do,” Van Haaften said on Friday. “That’s the core of why I enjoy being a lawyer.

The jobs are essentially the same in that the client has a problem or an issue and you have to work within the law to try and come up with a solution.”

Election Board meets The Election Board will meet promptly at 8 am on Tuesday morning in the Election Room of the Courthouse. The Commissioners meeting will follow at 9 am.

Annual Chamber event set The Chamber of Commerce of Southwest Indiana will be hosting the annual, Report to the Posey County Business Community dinner. This event will be held at the New Harmony Conference Center on February 29, 2012, 5:30 p.m. The cost is $20 per Chamber member and $40 per non-member. Please contact Brittaney Johnson, Posey County Administrative Director, at 8383639 or at atbjohnson@ccswin. com for reservations.

Clinics are scheduled 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 appointment needed for this clinic.

RGRG dinner is Feb. 25 The 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 restoration of the Ribeyre Gym.

Indoor rummage sale set There will be an indoor rummage sale held at the Posey County Community Center on the Posey County Fairgrounds, March 3 from 8 a.m. to noon 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 set North Elementary “Groovy Dance” with a 70s theme is on Friday, February 24 from 6:30-9 p.m. All New Harmony fifth and sixth grade students are warmly invited to attend.

MVJHS meeting slated An eight grade studentparent informational meeting for MVJHS students has been scheduled for Tuesday, February 14, in the high school cafeteria beginning at 6:30 p.m. with the high school counselors and administrators. If you have questions, please feel free to call the junior high counseling office at 833-2077 or the high school’s counseling office at 838-43456.

NHS group formed The New Harmony School Board has formed a committee to plan celebrating and honoring New Harmony School, to give input to where/how memorabilia should be stored, and to explore the use of items. Committee members are Carolyn Stone, Fred Frayser, Becky Smyth, Dawn Worman, Mellissa Peerman, Larry Kahle, Gene Culliver, Rick Johnson, Alison Norfleet, Kendall Morris, Kendall Wilson, Andrew Wilson & Fran Thoele.

Van Haaften said that has always been his view of the entire legislative process. But despite the opportunity to help people, for this particular job, it involves returning to politics.

“It’s been nice being in the “socalled private life.” My wife Beverly and I have gotten the opportunity to do some things we were not able to do in the past because our time has been our time,” Van Haaften said. “But when you look around and see what is going on in Indianapolis and around here, it pulls you back into wanting to be

part of bringing positive effective change here locally.”

Van Haaften said the closing of New Harmony School and the work badly-needed on the New Harmony bridge are just a couple of examples of items he has noticed recently which perhaps should have had a louder local voice.

“Whether you believe the school should close or not and when a community asks for help in assuring a lifeline such as the bridge

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Posey Community rallies around family in need memory lane. A minimum $7 donation is requested for advance tickets. Any additional donations will be greatly appreciated. Due to limited seating, few, if any, tickets will be sold at the door. Tickets may be purchased for the event from Jerry and Susan Rutledge. They may be contacted at 838-4625 or in person weekday mornings from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church office.

The meal is funded through the First United Methodist Church missions’ budget along with help from Mount Vernon’s Welborn United Methodist Church. As a result, all proceeds will go to the Mac Yeida Kidney Transplant Benefit Fund.

The sweet, sweet boy is Mac The Rutledges look forward to Yeida. Photo submitted presenting special gifts to Mac, who lives with his parents, Gabe

By Pam Robinson and Sara Yeida, in Mount Vernon.

Area residents can say The first United Methodist Church “Aaaaaaaay!” to the Fonz and may family, including students at Sueven catch a glimpse of Elvis in the sanna Wesley Preschool, have filled building all while helping Mount a box decorated by Susan Rutledge Vernon four-year-old Mac Yeida with Valentines for Mac. In addidefray expenses associated with the tion, First United Methodist Church kidney transplant he awaits. Ev- women have hand sewn a prayer eryone is invited to wear their best shawl for Sara.

50’s attire, including hula hoops If you can’t attend the 50’s dinand roller skates, at “The Hot Rock ner, the Mount Vernon community 50’s Café” on Wednesday, February is uniting to provide several oppor29, 2012. The café will be located tunities for supporting Mac Yeida. inside Wesley Hall, part of the First Already, St. Matthew has donated United Methodist Church campus, proceeds from a pancake breakfast, 601 Main Street, Mount Vernon. and the Gathering restaurant has Beginning at 5:30 p.m., the juke- hosted a benefit Navajo taco lunch box will play oldies while a classic for the cause. Everyone is asked to diner menu will offer hamburger spread the word about these imporand cheeseburger, hot dog or chili tant events. dog, French fries and slaw and a drink, either Cherry Coke or milkContinued on Page A3 shake, to all those strolling down

Jerry and Susan Rutledge know how to dress for rockin' 'round the clock. The Rutledges will welcome everyone to "The Hot Rock 50's Cafe" at First United Methodist Church in Mount Vernon on Wed., Feb. 29, for hamburgers and coney dogs. Minimum donation is $7 in advance. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. All proceeds will go to the Mac Yeida Benefit Fund. Photo submitted

February is sweet month for Mount Vernon City Hall

By Pam Robinson.

Mount Vernon Mayor John Tucker has received good news about the Phase II riverfront development project. The bids have been let. Although both bids were above the engineers’ estimate, both were within 5 percent of that estimate. Deig Brothers bid $1,010,141 and Ragle bid just a few cents over $1,020,686. Both are Evansville contractors.

Tucker said the bids are now under review to ensure they meet legal criteria and engineering specifications. Within 90 days, the Indiana Department of Transportation, or INDOT, will make the final award.

“Then, we will see some dirt being turned,” Tucker said.

If he has anything to do with it, indeed we will see dirt being turned all over town. Mayor Tucker learned on Friday, February 3, of grant money available to towns with a population under 50,000 through the STELLAR Program, a new program begun last year and funded by the partnership of INDOT, Indiana Housing and the Office of Community and Rural Affairs, or OCRA. By the Friday, February 10 deadline, the City of Mount Vernon had submitted a letter of intent requesting grant monies totaling $11,350,000. The submission was hand-delivered to Indianapolis by representatives of

the Southwestern Economic Development Coalition.

“The grant can be used for anything. You can use it for roads.

You can use it for buildings. You can use it for the construction of water and sewer,” Tucker explains.

Future proposed accomplishments for Mount Vernon include 1) new police and fire station ($1,800,000); 2) new senior and community center next door to Posey County Council on Aging and needed roadways into the proposed new senior housing project ($650,000 for senior center and $500,000 for streets); 3) Brittlebank Park improvements, in particular new tennis courts, outdoor basketball and volleyball court and lighting as well as pool renovations ($1,500,000); 4) Main Street improvements ($2,500,000); 5) pedestrian and bike trail ($3,500,000); 6) Southwind Port Access Road ($400,000); and 7) street paving (500,000).

The short list of towns possibly receiving the grant will appear by the end of February or beginning of March. Tucker speculates around eight towns will make the list. Then, those towns will submit detailed plans of their envisioned projects. No more than four towns will be chosen finally to receive grants.

Towns completing the process

receive all or none of their requested funds. No partial grant awards are made. Tucker remains

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optimistic and determined.

“We’ve applied—and we’ll reapply if we need to,” he says.

North Posey High School senior Bryce Koester sings The National Anthem at Forest Park High School prior to the first game of the Sectional Tournament on Wednesday. Photo by Dave Pearce

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OPINION

Everything has a place but this place now has everything Solitude is such a rare and fleeting thing these days. But for me, I believe the last place of solitude has gone away for good.

There was a time when you could TRUTH... count on one place STRANGER for solitude. When THAN I was younger and FICTION growing up on the

BY DAVE farm, the place PEARCE where I could go to make sure I could be alone with just my thoughts was the wooden outhouse. The only interruption I ever got there was the occasional dirt clod that my dad would send flying at it when I had no idea there was anyone within 20 miles. It sounded like someone had dropped a bomb in my lap. Needless to say, when that happened, I was sitting in the right place because it saved mom from having to clean soiled underwear.

The restroom has always been a place of solitude. In my younger days in newspaper, I would head in the direction of the bathroom with my newspaper under my arm. Everyone knew where I was headed and knew that I would be a while.

While doing my business, I would always be reading the Sports section

or the Classified section. It seemed to take my mind off the stresses and strains of the moment and turned my attention to who won the games the night before or to someone who might have something “used” in the Classifieds that might interest me.

For those who are near my age, don’t even pretend that you never took a “break” that you really didn’t need by spending some quality time in the bathroom. It was a good place to take a short rest.

My how things have changed in the past few years. The bathroom is no longer a place of sanctity. Modern technology has turned the bathroom into a place of hustle and calamity, just like most of the rest of the world.

When I feel the urge is near at my workplace, I tend to watch and try to make sure there’s no one else in the bathroom before I go into our “place of the holy stalls.” But, the place can be empty for three hours and let me get up to go and BAM…half the other people in the dealership seem to have the urge at the same time.

So while I can’t see anyone else

outside my stall, immediately I begin to hear doors clinging and cell phones ringing. While I may still have the newspaper with me, the time when I could read it for a few minutes in uninterrupted silence are gone. There was a time when if you walked into the bathroom and heard people talking in the stalls, you might think they were crazy. Now it is the norm.

I get to hear people arguing with their spouses, people making plans to pay bills, and just talking to friends in general. It really creeps me out. The calm and uninterrupted feeling I once enjoyed while taking care of business is gone.

And unlike some of my readers, my crap still stinks. And with even more modern technology, a “courtesy flush” is now a thing of the past.

A little mechanism with a red light on it on the back of the commode now decides if and when you need to flush. Believe me, there are times when the sensor is bad because the need is there but the flush doesn’t come. I have found that about the only way to achieve such a flush is to either stand up in mid-business or lean so far forward that the little red light can no longer detect you sitting on the stool. Either one is capable of

creating a real mess.

Then there’s all the modern hand washing and hand drying equipment. You have to push down on a button (which has replaced a faucet) and the water comes out…until you take your finger off the button. But will someone please explain to me how you are supposed to rub your hands together with soap to help rid your hands of germs when you have to keep one hand or the other on the button that keeps the water flowing.

It may be designed to save water but taking out the faucet completely would accomplish the same purpose with very near the same result in sanitation.

Then there’s the paper towel dispenser. Once you have survived the hand washing and go to grab a towel, you push a button that 500 other people have pushed in the past few hours and get to enjoy five seconds of warm air rushing over your hands. In your mind, you think about the people who pushed the same button right before you and know they have just gone through the same hand-washing regiment that you have. Makes you feel real good about drying your hands. I have used my covered elbow to turn on the electronic blow dryer. It eases

my mind a little. But then I get to open the same door handle that everyone else has opened, again just after the same routine.

Sometimes you get lucky and someone still has the old paper towel machines. You feel like you can actually wash and dry your hands with some degree of sanitary satisfaction.

But by the time you have listened doors clink and clang and to four other people talking on their cell phones in your former place of solitude and then have made your way through the hand-washing and handdrying regiment, you feel relieved to return to the place you call “work.”

That, at least, gives you a degree of solitude and satisfaction, if nothing more than in your mind.

I know there are no real answers to this problem except going to your own home and your own bathroom and leaving the cell phone in another room or in the car. But when you get to the over 50 group, the urge can strike at any time and usually strikes with a vengeance. When nature calls, that’s one call you always have to answer.

You’ve heard it said there is a place for everything, but I’m really starting to wonder.

A simple tip: lose yourself in giving to find out who you really are Giving blesses, both the gift giver and the gift receiver. My sister Shirley reminded me of this truth recently in pointing me to a book titled “29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life.”

Author Cami Walker LIVING shares how her spiritual FOR THE mentor issued her the chalJ OURNEY lenge of giving 29 gifts, one each day for 29 days, BY PAM as a remedy to depression. ROBINSON Struggling with multiple sclerosis, Walker reluctantly accepted the challenge and chronicles how her choice freed her from a constant focus on herself and her pain. She encourages her readers to set out on their own 29-day giving journey and to record their experience at her website, www.29Gifts.org.

I took up the gauntlet and can already see (and feel) the benefit of giving with abandonment. My gifts are simple and heartfelt. As Walker learned, gifts of time and service count just as much as, if not more than, gifts of money. The most important thing to remember is the recipient and how you can bless that person without going broke.

As of this writing, I’ve given four gifts:

a cherished bracelet from my jewelry collection that a friend had admired, a ticket for a meal at the “Hot Rock 50’s Café” for another friend, doing household chores for my husband Jim and my daughter Jessica and sending Valentines enclosing a recent photo of Jessica to family and close friends.

I can see I need to “bump up” giving gifts of time and service. Giving unnecessary material things too often saves me the effort of reaching out and connecting with someone. It’s easier to pick up an iTunes card for my daughter, for example, than to pick her up after school.

As my own spiritual mentor stresses, intimacy develops from availability to those we love. Our spouses, our kids, and our extended family and friends would much rather “spend” an hour in an activity with us than pocket a $20 gift card, much as they are appreciated.

Especially on Valentine’s Day, we would all do well to take a close look at our family and friends and meet their needs, rather than our own, with our gift giving. To truly give of myself, I will prepare a spe-

cial meal for my husband and my daughter tonight in addition to handing them small traditional material gifts of love. The meal is necessary for my family’s happiness in the same way cash donations must come through for Mac Yeida’s medical expenses.

One of the saints has advised to give until it hurts—at least a little. Our blessings of joy and inner peace depend upon just how far we are willing to stretch ourselves and our resources to help all those around us.

Letter to the Editor With news breaking nearly every day, there has never been a greater need for clarity in our communications with the tri-state.

Rest assured the controversy inspired by actions at the National office of Susan G. Komen has in no way impacted the Evansville TriState Affiliate’s dedication to our core mission in the 28 counties we serve in Southern Indiana, Southern Illinois and Western Kentucky.

It is most unfortunate we have been distracted by the accusations and emotions on all sides of a hotly debated political issue. Politics has no place in the fight to end breast cancer. We must do

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everything we can to refocus our energies on the only thing that matters: breast cancer still devastates families and takes too many lives.

Our local affiliate will continue to fund worthy programs here at home to educate, screen and treat the women and men most at risk, and also help breast cancer patients navigate the complex health care system. We will continue to fund research that will save lives and help us eradicate breast cancer.

Our local grant-funding process is rigorous, and not subject to political pressures of any kind. In the last fourteen years, we’ve provided $5.7 million in grants to orga-

nizations that deliver breast health services. Locally, from April 2011 to December 2011, we provided more than 1,223 mammograms; 659 diagnostic procedures; found 21 new breast cancers; treated 98 women for breast cancer; and assisted 30 women with patient navigation.

These are vital breast health services for our community and are funded through our programs. Our only chance of building on this record of service is to continue raising funds to help more women.

Up to 75% of every dollar we raise is put back into our community to provide for these breast health programs.

Our Affiliate has never had

face so they can more easily sell their homegrown foods.

We also passed a bill stating that frivolous lawsuits against agricultural operations shall have court costs and reasonable attorney fees awarded to the defendant.

It allows restitution to property owners if an individual is convicted of manufacturing methamphetamine or marijuana on their property. The third part of the bill allows a more favorable choice of forum in a lawsuit with a multinational agriculture corporation. Due to the various legal issues, the bill has caused some controversy. I think the bill will help address legal problems that affect agricultural and rural areas.

Supporting legislative measures that help our local farmers will always be a top priority of mine. I take pride in our robust farming community and want to see it prosper and grow.

PUBLISHER/EDITOR/GMGR. DAVID PEARCE

OFFICE MANAGER MICHELLE GIBSON

Wendy McNamara will phase out the inheritance tax after ten years. The death tax has a very negative effect on small family businesses in Indiana. Families work a lifetime to build their business but are currently penalized if they want to pass the business on to their children or siblings.

The sale of poultry at farmers markets was also addressed by the House in a bill.

This legislation would expand the rights of an individual who sells items at a farmers’ market or roadside stand to be able to grow the food product not just from their home, but from other property they lease or own as well. The bill would also allow poultry to be sold at a farmer’s market or roadside stand if it was prepared following federal guidelines. Many local farmers at farmers’ markets are entrepreneurs, and the goal of this legislation is to eliminate unnecessary obstacles they

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world’s largest private funder of breast cancer research.

The National organization, along with the 120 Affiliates across the country are proud to have earned Charity Navigator’s prestigious four-star rating for the fifth year in a row, a feat accomplished by only 5% of the nation’s nonprofit organizations.

In the last week, the Evansville Tri-State Affiliate has been contacted by concerned supporters, many worried that the controversy

will harm our fundraising efforts. We do not think that will be the case and we are counting on our thousands of supporters, donors, partners and friends to join with us and stay laser-focused on the mission – save lives and end breast cancer forever.

Because lives and loved ones depend on it.

Sheila Seiler, Executive Director Carolyn Beck, Board President Evansville Tri-State Affiliate Susan G. Komen for the Cure®

Gavel Gamut’s “ What’s in a Name?”

Juliet asks this simple question when she is trying to figure out why she and Romeo are kept apart by their parents, the Capulets and the Montagues. Juliet analogizes their name dilemma to the scent from a rose: “Oh, be some other name!

What’s in a name?

That which we call a rose by Any other name would Smell as sweet.”

Act II, scene ii William Shakespeare (1564-1616) understood irony. He would have surely appreciated the name of the infernal exercise machine the Marquis de Peg has foisted upon me: The Nautilus. This device bears the same name as the celebrated mollusk written about

by Oliver Wendall Holmes (1809-1894) in his poem The Chambered Nautilus.

You probably had to digest your way through this work as I did in high school.

The mollusk and the poem are built in chambers

Legislation let to pasture Agriculture is critical to the economic health of not only rural areas but the entire state. Of course we in Posey County already know this, which is why I supported many House bills this session that help this vital industry continue to thrive. We are blessed in Posey County to have a rich farming tradition and I want to keep that history growing.

One bill that will impact our agricultural areas relates to the Corn Marketing Council. The bill not only affects corn producers, but seeks to directly influence the ethanol industry and how it impacts consumers. It is essential that this renewable resource be made available and affordable to consumers and this bill works to ensure that happens.

Another bill that does not directly deal with agriculture, but will help family owned farming operations. The bill

the need to fund a Planned Parenthood facility nor have they ever applied for grant funds. A history of every grant we have ever funded is on our website at the following link: http://www. komenevansville.org/assets/ grants-documents/history-ofgrants-as-of-april.pdf The remaining 25% of funds raised in our community are sent to our National office in Dallas, Texas to be used only for breast cancer research. Susan G. Komen for the Cure is the

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and stanzas as though one were progressing toward heaven: “Build thee more stately

GAVEL GAMUT

BY JUDGE JIM REDWINE mansions Oh, my soul, etc., etc.”

However, my memories of the joys of studying such esoteric writings and exercise remind me more of the trials and tribulations of those lost souls going the opposite direction as in Dante’s Inferno.

As I was in the clutches of The Nautilus Machine last night I kept having these recurring flashbacks to Dante’s description of the descending levels of Hades. Instead of the ascending salvation promised

by Holmes’s poem, my mind kept seeing the sixteen levels of The Nautilus Machine as ever increasing perdition.

FEATURES EDITOR PAM ROBINSON WRITER / REPORTER VALERIE WERKMEISTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS THE DAVE & TERRI KOCH FAMILY

It did not help that Peg oversaw each exercise and fiendishly raised the levels of resistance as I begged for mercy and cursed the misleading name of The Nautilus.

It appears to me that since our lawmakers seem to be able to write laws to regulate everything in our lives from getting on an airplane to the decibel level of television commercials, they could make it a capital offense to misname a product. An exercise machine camouflaged as a chambered nautilus is far more likely to kill us than a Bedouin tribesman.

So, here is my modest request about names of products: call a spade a spade!

If an exercise machine is in reality a torture device, make it illegal to name it after anything pleasant.

As an effort to encourage such a practice, I have a suggestion for The Nautilus Machine people, rename your contraption. My nomination is The Ayatollah of Pain.

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Poseyville Council prepares for new Town Hall building

By Valerie Werkmeister Members of the Poseyville Town Council got their first glimpse at what the new town hall will look like during their regular meeting last Wednesday.

Architect Bud Erny of Erny & Associates presented sketches and explained his ideas for the design.

Prior to the board’s approval of the plans, there was some discussion regarding the lack of windows facing the north or Main Street side of the building.

Some were concerned about the overall aesthetic appearance of the town hall as passersby would see it along Main Street.

Most of the windows as well as the building entrance will face the west side or Church Street side of the building.

The project will be going out for bids soon and will be published in the paper.

Three members have been chosen to serve on the Poseyville Building Corporation. The entity was created for the duration of the new town hall project. Ronald Patton, Randall Bechtel and Charles Baker were approved by the

council to serve.

Council member Ron Fallowfield stated he would like to revisit the idea of establishing a park board. The idea has been discussed in the past but has never garnered enough interest to become a full-fledged entity.

Fallowfield also expressed his hope that the community would support the current baseball field fundraising program by the North Posey Youth League.

Jim Reynolds of the Poseyville Kiwanis addressed the council about the need to construct a canopy or roof that extends over the front of the community center. The canopy would help during times of inclement weather when the community center is in use. During last year’s Autumnfest, rain made it difficult to keep sound equipment from getting wet on the open concrete area. Council members were not opposed to the idea and asked Erny to consider feasible options to present at a later time.

Jeff Droege of the Poseyville Fire Department informed council members that the new rescue truck was ready for ser-

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Boyer responded that the property purchase is also for the good of students in addressing those safety concerns regarding the line of sight for West traffic. He added that cleaning up property adjacent to the school will result in improved aesthetics, which might cause increased interest in the school and perhaps increased enrollment.

Board member Beth McFadin Higgins added that the money was from the capital projects fund earmarked for building and was being moved from one such project to another. School administration has pointed out that the purchase of the properties adjoining West has been recommended in lieu of remodeling the district offices.

In a separate action, the board adopted a resolution permitting the transfer of

‘Trent Van Haaften’ continued from A1 doesn’t close, I do not see any solutions coming from our state office holders,” Van Haaften said. “Then you look and see the manner in which business is being conducted in Indianapolis, you know there needs to be a change. Although the view all of us have of our government these days, and the nasty tone of politics continues, I know the only way to make a difference is to ask the voters to allow me back into the arena. My reputation has always been one who focuses more on policies than politics, and that is what I will continue to do.”

While in the State House Van Haaften earned a reputation as a bi-partisan legislator helping Gov. Mitch Daniels pass one of the country’s toughest anti-methamphetamine laws in 2005.

Van Haaften served as Chairman of the House Public Policy Committee and as deputy speaker pro tempore.

“I have had so many people over the past year-and-a-half, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, encouraging me to become involved again at the state level,” Van Haaften said.

“I’ve been surprised by and grateful for the encouragement and hope to once again be given the change to serve the people of this district.”

As a result of the redistricting process, District 76 no longer

‘Community rallies’ continued from A1 Until Sunday, February 26, orders may be placed with Jeff Schelhorn of Hawg ‘n Sauce, Danny Wilson and friends for a half smoked pork loin at $20 or a whole smoked pork loin at $40. Money is appreciated at the time of the order, and checks can be made payable to the Mac Yeida Benefit Fund. Orders may be placed between now and February 26 by calling Hawg ‘n Sauce at 812-838-5339. Orders may be picked up at Hawg ‘n Sauce, 1600 S. Leonard Road in Mount Vernon, on Saturday, March 3, after 3 p.m. although free delivery is available in Mount Vernon.

On Saturday March 10, Koodie-Hoo’s at 231 W. Second in Mount Vernon will be hosting an all-day event to help Mac. Raffle tickets are being sold 6 for $5 or 15 for $10. Drawings begin at 8 p.m. for prizes donated by local merchants and individuals. One such prize is a Donny Martin original wood carving on display now at Koodie-Hoo’s. A silent auction will feature more treasures donated by local merchants and individuals as well. If you have an item that you would like to donate to the auction, please call Sue Yeida or Kim Stewart at 812-838-5202. In addition, Koodie-Hoo’s will donate 25 percent of all food sales that day to the Mac Yeida Benefit Fund.

Benefit DJ for the event is Jason Mann.

A grand prize of a $250 Visa gift card will be awarded the adult 18 years or older who wins the ATV Poker Run coming up on Saturday, April 7, 2012 (rain date of Saturday, April 14). Registration starts at 10 a.m. in Bill Templeton’s Shop on Highway 69 S, Mt. Vernon. The winner will be determined by 4 p.m. Cost is $15 per rider, $25 per couple on the same ATV and $10 for an extra poker hand. Hawg –n Sauce will be selling barbecue and fixin’s. Preorders are being taken for sweatshirts that can be picked up the day of the event. In addition to the grand prize, drawings will be made for prizes donated by several area merchants. For more details, two phone numbers may be called: 812-455-7496 or 812-480-1915.

Finally, the Mount Vernon Moose Lodge will host a benefit pork chop dinner and dance on Saturday, April 21, 7 – 11 p.m. Guests may purchase tickets in advance or at the door.

Tickets run $15 per person for a great meal of pork chop, side dishes, dessert and drink, and great music provided by Darin Toler and Jason Mann. Tickets may be purchased in advance Monday through Saturday after 2 p.m. at the Moose Lodge, 711 W. Second Street.

For introverts, more options to help are available. Residents may collect their aluminum cans to benefit Mac and take them to a designated drop-off at Point Township Church of the Nazarene. In addition, checks may be made payable to the Mac Yeida Benefit Fund and dropped off or mailed to First Bank, 450 Southwind Plaza, Mount Vernon. The Mount Vernon branch of Old National Bank has a fund set up for Mac also. Checks may be made payable to the Mac Account and dropped off or mailed to Old National Bank, P.O. Box 746, Mount Vernon.

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Harold Alan Paul Harold Alan Paul, age 61, of Poseyville, Ind., passed away January 14, 2012 at the Shiloh River Camp.

Mr. Paul was born September 28, 1950. His loving granddaughter was born on the same day just six years ago.

His love was going to the river, fishing, four wheeler riding and just taking his granddaughter to the sand bar and watching her play.

He is survived by his wife of over 40 years, Katrina Paul; daughter, Jennifer Paul and son, John (Holly) Paul and a granddaughter, Madison Brianna Paul, all of Poseyville. Also surviving are two sisters, Sandra Elbrink and Cheryl Mayo, both of Evansville and a brother, Mike Paul of Princeton.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Harold C. and Alice (Westfall) Paul.

A small informal memorial service was held at the family’s residence on Wednesday, February 1, 2012.

Memorial contributions may be made to the family to help defray the cost of funeral expenses.

Pierre Funeral Home handled arrangements. Condolences may be made online at www.pierrefuneralhome.com. vice. Lettering and decals still need to be finished, but overall the truck was ready to run. The fire department intends to offer the old rescue truck for sale in the near future.

The fire department are also

making plans for a chili supper in March. Details will be forthcoming.

The next regular Poseyville Town Council meeting will be held on March 14, at 4:30 p.m. at the community center.

MSD Mount Vernon OKs purchase of property

By Pam Robinson As expected, the Mount Vernon School Board voted Monday, February 6, to purchase property at 1021 West Fourth Street adjacent to West Elementary School in the amount of $34,425. Board President Heather Allyn cast the sole no vote, consistent with her no vote in December 2011 to purchase 1024 West Fourth Street also adjacent to West.

Now as then, Allyn stated that the purchase of the property doesn’t directly affect students and support teachers by putting money into their classrooms.

“I don’t see how purchasing it is going to help our test scores or directly help our kids,” she said. “That’s my issue. I want to put the dollars to the kids and help them in the classroom.”

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funds within the capital projects fund, or CPF, and to adopt the CPF emergency resolution for the purchase of 1021 West Fourth Street for a total not to exceed $43,925. Superintendent Tom Kopatich explained that the total amount included the $34,425 purchase cost of 1021 West Fourth, closing costs of no more than $2,000 and site preparation (demolition) for both 1021 and 1024 West Fourth of no more than $7,500.

In other action: •The board approved the plans and specifications for the renovation of the library at Hedges Central along with permission to advertise. The district’s information systems department will be moving there.

•The board confirmed the employment of R. David Bell as high school girls’ softball coach and Angela Woolsey as

technology integration specialist.

•The board accepted resignations from high school cheer sponsors Tara Neth and Regina Russell effective April 1, 2012, and from Angela Woolsey as a teacher assistant effective February 6, 2012.

•The board voted to allow voiding of checks that have been outstanding for two years or more as of December 31, 2012. The two checks in question were issued to the athletic department for $15 each.

•The board voted to accept a donation of four iPads from Donnie Beste representing Bethany Cemetery and the Mount Vernon Junior High School Parent Advisory Council.

The Mount Vernon School Board will meet again Monday, February 20, 2012, at 5:45 p.m. in the junior high media center.

includes all of Posey County. Bethel, Robb, and Smith townships are no longer in the District 76 but are instead part of District 64. That, essentially, split Posey County. Van Haaften said that change was not a welcomed one, from his perspective.

Van Haaften recently opened a law firm in Mount Vernon in partnership with Adam Farrar. However, he does not see that as having an effect on his ability to serve. He indicated that Farrar has put his support in his partner’s corner and they will continue to help each other as they build their practice.

“Indiana has a citizen legislature. There are no full-time legislators which in my view is a good thing,” he explained. “Our legislature makes the law, and a legislature made up of diverse backgrounds helpts create better law. As an attorney with a general practice and as a small business owner, I see firsthand the direct impact of the law on all walks of life. It is a perspective I believe will serve the District well.

Van Haaften served as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives, representing the 76th District, from 2004 until 2010. He is a lifelong resident of Mount Vernon. He graduated from Lake Forest College and Drake University School of Law. Before his election to the state house, he was the prosecuting attorney for Posey County from 1995 to 2003.

“I just think it is important that Posey County and the west side of Evansville have a real influence in the legislature,” Van Haaften said. “I built that in my previous years there and I know I can step back in and be in a position to make things happen for our area.”

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Ivan V. Alsop, 83, of New Harmony passed away Saturday, February 11, 2012, at his Nw Harmony home, with his family at his side.

He retired from D.K.Parker Co., Inc., as General Manager and served as Harmony Township Trustee/Assessor and New Harmony School Board for 20 years. He was instrumental in the building of the new school in New Harmony and was deeply saddened with the decision to close the school at the end of this school year. He graduated from New Harmony High School and considered New Harmony as “The Garden Spot of the World.”

He was a member of the New Harmony Kiwanis, Arctic Masonic Lodge #394, New Harmony’s Workingmen’s Institute, Johnson United Methodist Church and a former member of the New Harmony Fire Dept.

He was preceded in death by his son, Gary, his parents, Cortland and Juna Mounts Alsop, sisters Beulah Wilkinson, Imogene Hallam, Margie Grabert, brother Glenn Alsop, daughter-in-law Caren Alsop and brother-in-law Lynn Cleveland.

He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Rosemary, daughters Pat (Bill) Wilson and Melissa (Donnie) Peerman, sons, Jim (Judy) Alsop and Steve Alsop, 12 grandchildren, four great grandchildren and a another great grandchild due February 27, 2012, brother Don (Virginia) Alsop, his faithful dog Huggles, many nieces and nephews and many great friends with whom he’s enjoyed great times and “danced a million miles.”

Funeral services will be Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, at Ribeyre Gymnasium at 10 a.m., with burial in Maple Hill Cemetery in New Harmony.

Friends may call at Werry Funeral Home-New Harmony Chapel on Tuesday, February 14, 2012, from 2 until 8 p.m. and Wednesday from 9 a.m. until service time at the Gymnasium.

In Lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to Ribeyre Gymnasium Restoration Group, P.O. Box 162, New Harmony, Indiana 47631 or to New Harmony Fire Department, P.O. Box 121, New Harmony, Indiana 47631.

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RETROSPECT Pages of the Past

Compilation by Haylee Moore

10 YEARS AGO,

25 YEARS AGO,

February 12, 2002 The New Harmony Lady Rappites captured the first basketball sectional in the schools history when they defeated Tecumseh 52-36 at wood Memorial.

Melody and Albert Bricker of Otwell, Indiana, are proud to announce the birth of their first child, a son, Jacob Abel. He was born November 28, 2001.

Jennifer Lynn Miller and Jeremy Ryan Stewart were united in marriage in Mary Marse, Wilma Joyce Bailey, Helen Murphy and Ruth Lupfer enjoy a good a ceremony at St. John’s UCC in Jonestown, Pennevening game of cards at The Ford Home last Wednesday Night. Photo submitted sylvania on September 1, 2001. The Rev. Winfield Engler officiated the ceremony.

February 14 - Jo Ann Fick, Greg Jones, Christine Robb and Dylan Harmes Nelson, Eldon Moody, Bil- Laughbaum and Journey February 19 - R. Brian lie Sue Sawyer, Ronald Pat- Logan Patterson, Emily Fortune terson and Dean Straw, DaFebruary 17 - Mary and Benton Frisse For everyone who has orvid McCord Cox, Lisa Smith, Jamie PeFebruary 20 - Andrew dered pork loins, they will be February 15 - Char- terson, Tori Sue Powers, Ramirez, Johnny Marchino, available for pickup on Sat., leen Layer, Suzanne Kohl- Megan Rene Munsterman, Joshua Stallings and Tim Feb. 18 between 9 a.m. and meyer, Donnie Mathews, Marionette Blood, Wilma Woolsey 1 p.m. The pick up location Brent Knight, Greg Cox, Joyce Bailey and Susie If you have a name to is PHS at 6500 Leonard Rd. Kyah Chaney, Rylee J. Sapp, Dougan be included in the birthday Mt Vernon, Ind. If you are Quentin Rutledge,Sean WelFebruary 18 - Erika calendar, please send to: not able to pick up your ordon and Kevin McGlamery Middendorf, Scott Moye, Posey County News, P.O. der during this time frame, February 16 - Haley Madeline Pfister, Beverly Box 397, New Harmony, please call 812-838-3211 Johnson, Carl D. Lindell, IN 47631, or email: news@ and make other arrangeJUST ASK US, WE MIGHT HAVE IT. Aaron P. Wilson, Joyce poseycountynews.com ments.

Happy Birthday Announcements

50 YEARS AGO, February 9, 1962

February 11, 1987 North Posey’s senior guards Dawn Warren and Kristie Talley were all smiles following the presentation of the Sectional Champion Trophy at Gibson Southern.

North Posey High School Basketball Homecoming Queen candidates are Eva Schmitz, Desiree Rogers and Becky Blaylock.

Terri Frantz, teacher of the week, who teaches art to the seventh and eighth graders at North Posey Hr. High, destroys the myth that states: “Those who can do and those who can’t teach.” For years, Terri has not only taught both young people and adults, but also devoted time to her own arts and crafts.

Dee Ann Benner, a senior in Mount Vernon High School and the daughter of of Mr. and Mrs. Burtis Benner, winner of the Good Citizens Contest sponsored by the two Posey Chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Benner eas the Mount Vernon winner of the contest in November and competed with the winners of other Posey County winners; Nancy Guffey from New Harmony, and Sarah Kingley from North Posey High School. To qualify for the county, state, and national contests, the school winners took an examination on American civics and history and wrote an essay.

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Keck Gonnerman February, March Newsletter: KG Smoke Signal

By Mike Blackburn We made it another year, 2012! The years fly by faster and faster the older we get. I know some of you younger members don’t believe this, but just wait and you’ll see what I ‘m saying will come true.

I first want to introduce you to the new Keck Gonnerman Officers. Your 2012 President is Brian Pierce,

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Vice President Bill Esche, Secretary Dennis Herrmann, and Treasure is Don Julian.

New officer faces bring new ideas, opportunities and new projects. Please give these folks a round of applause for stepping up and wanting to keep the club going strong into the future. I’m sure you’ll help them like you did me while I was President.

If you missed the Christmas Dinner and Auction you missed a good time as always. A big Thanks goes to Sally Julian for setting up and decorating the tables.

Alan Brenner coordinated the Chicken from Grandy’s.

Harmonie Health Care Cen-

ter for supplying the drink sodas and Doc. Blackburn for supplying the coffee.

Thanks to everyone for bring a dish and desert and something to auction off after the meal. John Pate was our Auctioneer again this year and everyone enjoys his ribbing of a few special members. Thanks John! Our total attendance was a down a little due to the North Posey VS Mount Vernon Basketball game, but we still enjoyed everyone’s company and still made some money for the Club.

2012 were payable starting at the 2011 show until Jan.1, 2012. If you received

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A big thank you goes out to everyone who purchased Paw Prints at McKim’s IGA. The program was a big success and PHS is very grateful for the help. If you missed your chance, please watch for new locations for the program later this spring.

PHS is in need of supplies.

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1 hard-boiled* egg (large), peeled and chopped 1-2 Tbsp mayonnaise (to taste) 2 Tbsp chopped celery 1 Tbsp chopped green onion Curry powder (to taste) Salt and pepper (to taste) 1 leaf of lettuce 2 slices dark rye bread, toasted

Lucy is a 4 year old pit bull terrier mix. She is very sweet but would do best in a single pet household.

Call The Posey Humane Society at 838-3211 to arrange DIRECTIONS a time to look at your future pet. General public hours are 1. Mash up the chopped egg a bit with a fork. Mix togeth- Friday noon - 6:00 pm and Saturday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm. er the chopped hard-boiled egg, mayonnaise, celery and onion. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and curry powder to taste. Mix with a spoon.

2. Toast your bread slices. Put a layer of lettuce on one slice of toasted bread, spread the egg mixture on top of the lettuce, put another slice of toasted bread on top Yield: Makes one sandwich.

this newsletter and it has a red dot, we have marked for non payment of dues and this will be your last newsletter you will receive until dues are paid. If you have a 2012 card and we’re wrong in our books please let know. The dues form is attached to the back of this newsletter and who to send it to for right now.

Bill Esche and Brad Parker attended the Fair Board meeting in January to see what the Fair Board wanted to do with the pulls. They reported the plan is just like last year with ATV/UTV on Monday night.

The Garden Tractors and the Tristate Pullers on Tuesday night, Sawmill demonstration on Thursday night with the Farm and Modified Tractor and Truck Pulls on Saturday night.

The 2012 Keck Gonnerman Tractor drive will be April 21 and a rain date April 28. Ride Chairman Dennis Herrmann is looking for help in Cooking and Set up.

Dave Morlock has been talking to Harmonie Health Care Center to incorporate the Tractor drive to be a part of their day by either stopping for an hour and have tractors throughout the day on the grounds and maybe having lunch at the center and then through the Harmonie state park. Dennis and Dave will have more information to come a little closer to the ride date. Let make this year’s the biggest and best Tractor ride we’ve had.

2012 Keck Gonnerman Show shirts will be purchased early this year to be able to have them for the Tractor ride, the Relay for

Life Pull, 4-H Fair Pulls to advertise the show. We will again have the X Large and XX Large shirts with pockets for extra cost. Get your shirt on order early as these can only be purchased in lots of 12 when we buy them.

Dave Morlock has spoke to the Posey County News and will be sending them a monthly a list of the upcoming club activity’s and maybe a short article about the activity. If you have something that Dave can write about please contact him. Thanks Dave.

Everett Hein is recovering from a stroke and is currently taking, rehab at Health South in Evansville, J.W. Cleveland is recovering from heart surgery and Don Temme's brother has passed away. Essie Williams is now home from the 4 River’s Care Center and doing a lot better.

Please keep these members in your thoughts and prayers.

I personally want to thank each and everyone of the membership I’ve had the pleasure of working with the last 3 years as your President.

I feel you have really accomplished a lot of projects in the years! You have built the Sawmill building, moved the mill from Charlie’s farm to the Fair Grounds, and operated the mill the same year at our Show and 4-H Fair.

Rebuilt the distance on pulling track to allow for modifies tractors to pull their distance they need at the Fair.

Received and retrieved an imitation Train and car for the show for the kids to ride on. Rebuilt the Craft and Flea market vendor base at the Keck Gonnerman show, You have rebuilt the working relationship with the Fair Board to again hold the pulls at the 4-H Fair. One of the biggest things is the 501. (C) (3) Status that was received after a lot of work from Don Julian. Thanks to you all!

I’m not leaving that easy but my wife health comes first then mine. I’ll see you at the meeting, work days, tractors rides, pulls, shows and Christmas party, just call I’ll be there and help if I can.

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New Evansville Fire Chief has strong Posey ties

By Dave Pearce It didn’t take Mike Connelly too long on the North Posey football field under Coach Carl Joe Gengelbach or in Elmer Will’s hay fields in St. Wendel to learn a strong work ethic.

Although he attended North Posey only his junior and senior years, he soon realized that he was going to have to have a good work ethic and a level head to make it in a tough world. His junior year the team went 3-6 and the next year, the team lost in the semi-state round.

“It sounds funny but back then, they called me Geritol Man,” Connelly explained with a smile. “I always had energy and was always fired up and excited about the games. I was actually even more excited about practice than the games. The game had a lot on the line and was a little more nerve-wracking but while in practice, if you made a mistake, you got up and did it again. I don’t want to make light of life-saving but you practice and then you play the game. How you practice is usually how you will play.”

So it was early in his adult life that he realized the importance of training for the big event, a trait he carries over to the fire department and his firefighters.

“I was in Tacoma, Washington, as a kid growing up in the inner city,” Connelly said. “My family moved from Tacoma to St. Wendel and that was a little bit of culture shock.”

The son of Cynthiana resident Mary Connelly, Mike recently, Connelly took advantage of years of both to become the new fire chief of Evansville.

“I graduated from North Posey and went to the Navy for four years. When I got out of the Navy, I came back and had a couple of jobs, most notably, working at a gas station,” Connelly said with a chuckle. “Then I got a job working at a machine shop and spent about seven years there and then had the opportunity to got on the fire department.”

But Connelly’s climb to the top definitely began at the bottom. He began his firefighting career in 1994 and it took 17 years and a lot of experience to make it to the chief’s office.

“I started as a firefighter and then was promoted to lieutenant and then to captain,” Connelly said. “I had taken the district chief’s test, which was next on that list. When the election was over, the mayor selected me to be the fire chief.”

Lloyd Winnecke defeated Rick Davis to become Evansville’s Republican mayor.

Connelly acknowledged that the job takes a lot of sacrifice from his wife, Angie, and his children. His youngest daughter is Megan while Ruth is the oldest. Son Chase is in the middle. He also has a young grandson.

The chief’s office is located upstairs in the front of the training facility and being a part of the training is one of the highlights of the job.

“I really enjoy the aspect of the job involving preparation,” he explained. “You go through the same practice and the same

drills to prepare yourself for the job but when you go out to an incident, no two incidents are the same.”

Connelly learned first-hand that some jobs can be ones not normally thought of in the line of a firefighter’s duty. However, a fireman learns to adapt and do what is necessary.

“One humorous event that sticks out is when I had to change a diaper on an emergency run,” Connelly explained. “We got a call that a grandfather was watching his two toddler-aged granddaughters and he passed away. The neighbors called because the kids were running around unattended. When we arrived on scene, we found grandpa was gone and the kids needed to be attended to. By then we had the fire department, the police and the ambulances all there. There were all these strangers running around.”

So Connelly said that he and a fellow firefighter picked up the two young girls to take them into the other room to get them away from all the commotion and it was his luck to pick up the one who needed a diaper change.

“Although I knew she needed to be changed, she wasn’t going to say a word to me so we asked the chatty little sister where the diaper bag was,” he said. “She told us where the diaper bag was and we got her fixed up.

She was a little skiddish and nervous before that but after that, she was very calm.”

Although Connelly has been involved in fighting some of Evansville’s larger fires over the past 17 years, he sees one of the city’s biggest needs as a need to be prepared for a disaster, particularly of the weather variety.

“I am under the illusion that I will be able to implement positive change in the city and the department,” Connelly said of his new appointment. “I want to implement improvement on the department. I have spent a lot of time trying to develop professional skills like leadership, management, strategy and tactics and incident command.”

Connelly said each of the 273 employees (mostly firefighters) has his or her own ideas as to what the fire chief should do.

He now realizes that he now has been placed into a position to

Historic New Harmony Happenings Special Valentine’s Day article written by Heather Baldus, Assistant Collections Manager In honor of Valentine’s Day, Historic New Harmony would like to tell you a story about courting couples and the memorable triple wedding of the Owen brothers that captured the excitement of New Harmony in the spring of 1837.

The tale is based on the recollections of Mrs. Caroline Neef Owen as recorded by her granddaughter, Caroline Dale Parke Snedeker, in her book The Town of the Fearless. The courtship and the triple wedding are discussed at length in Look to the Distaff by Caroline Dale Baldwin Allen.

Mr. David Dale Owen and Miss Caroline Neef David Dale Owen, or as family and friends referred to him, Dale, was friends with the Neef family and enjoyed coming over in the evenings to sing and talk with the family. He particularly enjoyed talking with Joseph Neef for hours, listening to his stories about living in Paris, his recollections of Napoleon, and his whimsical tirades against English grammar.

At this time, Caroline Neef was in her early teens and she

would often sit in one corner of the room watching and listening to Dale and her father talk. She had developed a crush on this young man who would sit in the parlor with her father all evening.

“He was so handsome – the handsomest of all the Owen brothers. His was a dark Highland face with blue eyes and a firm mouth and chin, which denoted unusual strength and perseverance.

His physique was that of a true athlete, tall and muscular. I can remember how graceful he was when he iceskated and so easily cut his initials in the icy surface.”

However, the Neef family moved to Ohio due to Joseph’s teaching job. Caroline and Dale did not see each other for a few years. During this time Caroline received proposals from three different men all of which she refused.

Her mother asked her why she refused one particular young man from Louisville who was desperately in love with her. She said, “Mother, I don’t love him. I don’t want to marry him.”

Her mother, concerned about her daughter said, “Caro, why? He is a good man and well-to-do. I will not command you…but you

are twenty years old now.

Surely you must see that you are already an old maid. And it is your own fault. You have had three chances, but you treated them so coldly. I don’t want you to be an old maid. Let me tell the young man that if he will wait a year…”

Caroline hesitantly agreed to the proposal on the condition that the young man would wait a year to see if she could learn to love him, but she still held out hope that she would meet Dale again.

Caroline was unhappy about her tentative engagement and one day she joined a party of her friends walking in the country and they came upon a gypsy camp.

They stopped to have their fortunes told. The old gypsy woman held Caroline’s hand and peered into her face and then looked at the young man beside her (her fiancé). She said, “You think you are going to marry this man…but you will not. You will marry someone who works out of doors.”

Later that year, in the autumn of 1835, Joseph received a teaching position in New Harmony and Caroline accompanied her family back.

In the spring of 1836, Car-

where he has the opportunity to implement all the grand ideas he has had as a firefighter.

There are anywhere between 60 and 80 firefighters on duty at any given time in 14 stations.

“It’s put up or shut up. It is time to go to work,” he said of himself. “We near clear communication. The hardest part is getting everyone on the same page. Every chief wants to leave morale better than you found it. But the most important and most difficult goals is to prepare the community for disaster. We are not ready for the “big one.”

We are not ready for another tornado. There is a time that lapses between the time the incident occurs to the time that we arrive on the scene.

There are actions and preparations that people can make to help them survive those few minutes or improve their survivability or maybe not need us altogether. People will feel more secure knowing that they are capable of taking care of themselves in the moments following a major emergency.”

The toughest part of that job is getting people, in general, to give thought to what they would do in the event of such an emergency.

“You got your cell hone and you’ve got fast food. What else does anybody need,” he said with a smirk. “That’s what everyone thinks is going to get them through in a hard time. Neither one of those things may be available at a time like that.”

While Connelly knows that change does not come over night, he respects his co-workers and knows their hearts are in the right place. He knows they want to help the residents of Evansville and will do whatever it takes to accomplish that. As a matter of fact, some of the toughest change has been for the new chief himself.

“It has been quite a change coming from a fire truck making emergency runs to coming up here where you have meeting after meeting after meeting,” Connelly said. “The change in work schedule has been a huge challenge. I was used to being on 24 hours and 24 hours off. Now, I am Monday through Friday with the weekends off, barring emergencies. Then there are meetings in the evenings and it is a complete change in my daily routine.”

But down the road, he would like to see more community participation and more programs to help people learn what they can do to help themselves when they most need it.

By Missy Parkison oline saw Dale for the first time since she had been an awkward chubby teen. She was now a slender, attractive 20 year old that David Dale did not recognize when he called on the family that spring.

When he first saw Caro in the parlor of the Neef house he did not think she was one of the family…

“How do you do, Miss – pardon me, did you come with the Neefs?”

“But I always come with

them. I am Caro Neef.”

“How could you change so – such a short time!”

“I didn’t know I had changed.”

“Yes, you have. Indeed you have,” he said, “No, I should have never have known you at all. I…I am glad you have come.”

Joseph soon heard David Dale and the two chatted the rest of the evening, talking about Dale’s summer plans working to classify William Maclure’s collection and then

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returning to finish medical school in the fall.

Caroline had retreated into the kitchen, disappointed that her reunion with Dale seemed forgotten instantly when her father arrived.

However, later that evening Dale approached Caroline and asked if he could escort her to the ball that evening.

“This is the night of the ball,” he said, “Would it be too much to ask, after so tiring a day for you, could you possibly come?”

By Stanley Campbell to your preschool child (ages birth to 5 years). That’s about 3.5 books a day! You may register at the youth desk or bookmobile.

Basic Knitting On February 22 at 10:00 a.m. Cheryl Carroll will be at the library to demonstrate how to stitch during our Basic Knitting Program. She will teach casting on, knit and purl, and biding off techniques. 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 gathering of crafters - we meet at 10 a.m. on February 22 at 10 a.m. - unless the library is closed. If you quilt, knit, do tatting, crochet, etc. come and join the fun!

Special Needs Storytime We 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 Show The Alexandrian Public 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 Honoring 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 local artists of all ages.

Participation in the exhibit will be limited to Posey county residents and the exhibitor must hold legal 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. Submissions from artists wishing to enter this show will be accepted be accepted until February 15.

The library is located at 115 West Fifth Street in Mount Vernon, Indiana.

Book Discussion This February 21 at 1 p.m., the LITerally Speaking book discussion group will discuss Labor Day by Joyce Maynard. A beautiful, poignant tale of love, sex, adolescence, and devastating treachery as seen through the eyes of a young teenager—and the man he later becomes.

APL Board Meeting The APL Board of Trustees will hold their monthly meeting on February 21 at 5:45 p.m. This meeting is open to the public.

Angry Birds On February 27 at 3:30 p.m. create your own Angry Bird and launcher and start racking up those game points! This program is for those in grades 6 – 12 only.

Family Storytime On February 28 at 6 p.m. we will be exploring sound.

We will listen to, and make so many different sounds you won’t believe your ears. No registration is needed to attend this program.

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State Sen. Jim Tomes (R-Wadesville) meets with local farmers and Indiana Farm Bureau District Nine members on Thursday, Feb. 9, to discuss agricultural issues facing Southwest Indiana. Tomes said he was delighted to have the farming leaders travel to the Statehouse to speak with him. “I enjoy having Hoosiers

from our corner of the state as visitors at the Statehouse,” Tomes said. “They keep me informed of top issues affecting our communities. My office is always open for visitors to stop by to express their ideas and opinions.” (Tomes pictured on far left.)

United Way campaign ends in success Keith Spurgeon, chairman of the 2011 United Way of Posey County campaign, announced today that the campaign drive has raised $664,375 of the $640,000 goal. He said “We have reached almost 104% of the goal because of the support of the Posey County community. This means many services available for our community when we need them. The United Way campaign in Posey County was a success because of the generosity of the people, businesses, and industry of Posey County. These contributions stay in our community to provide these services. It is really all about Local People Helping Local People. Thank you to everyone for your help.”

United Way of Posey County agencies that will receive funds in 2012 are: Albion Fellows Bacon Center, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Posey County, Boy Scouts of America Buffalo Trace Council, Catholic Charities, Children’s Learning Center, Christian Church Day Care Center, Community Emergency Assistance, ECHO Community Health Care, Homeless Shelter of Mt. Vernon, Indiana Legal Services, Lampion Center, New Harmony Ministry Association, Posey County Council on Aging, Posey County Red Cross, Posey County Rehabilitation Services, Rehabilitation Center, Salvation Army, Visiting Nurse As-

sociation of Southwestern Indiana, WNIN Radio Reading Program, and Willow Tree of Posey County. Contributions also help to fund United Way programs such as the Gifts In Kind local program and Information and Referral Assistance, and 2-1-1, a service in Posey County that provides the easy-to-remember telephone number for access to information about resources and assistance in Posey County.

Those helping the United Way towards its goal include: Jerry Prow, Hawthorne Veterinary Clinic, Mulzer Crushed Stone, Pizza Hut, David O. and Barbara G. Givens, J. Kirby Wilson, Paul and Wanda Wade, First Bank Employees, Beth McFadin Higgins, Warehouse Services Inc. Employees, Scott Moye, Katrina Mann, Linda Curtis, Mark Pharr, Darrell and Donna Creek, Valerie Seifert and Nae Rae’s.

You can contact the United Way of Posey County at 838-3637 or uwposey@sbcglobal.net for more information or to get involved. Contributions can be sent to P.O. Box 562, Mount Vernon, Indiana 47620.

St. Matthew Benefit Auction March 10

St. Matthew Catholic School in Mount Vernon is holding its 12th annual benefit auction on March 10 at the Posey County Community Center. The Vegas themed event will feature Casino games from 4-6 p.m., a silent auction beginning at 5 p.m., a prime rib dinner at 6 p.m., and end the evening with a live auction. Donations for the auction are being requested. To submit a donation or purchase tickets for the event, call the office at 838-2535 or email SM2012Auction@gmail.com.

PCPP Spring Craft Fair set for March 31 A third year veteran of craft fairs, Posey County Pound Puppies is having a Spring Craft Fair for the first time this year. It will be held on Saturday March 31, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Posey County 4-H Grounds Community Building between Mount Vernon and New Harmony.

In addition to the craft

fair, there will also be a car cruise in. There will be a selection of food, a silent auction, Kinderschule Preschoolers will be performing Easter songs, the Easter Bunny will be available for pictures and much more.

Vendors are still being accepted for this event. Please contact Cathy Powers at 812-963-3890.

Tales & Scales to host Jazz Brunch

Volunteers Celeste Wade (standing at left) and Amber Cuellar of Junior Achievement stopped by Mrs. Kelly Jones’ kindergarten classroom on Thursday. Students learned about finance through interactive activities with money. Photo by Zach Straw

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 promote and support Tales and Scales non-profit programs.

During the event, Tales and Scales troupe (Ashley Frary, Monte Skelton, Pat Ritsch and Brandon Hagen) will be performing their latest musictale “The Enchanted Horn”.

The brunch will be in “New Orleans Big Easy” style and food will be provided

by Chef Josh Armstrong of Riverview by Firefly.

For 26 years, Tales and Scales is an innovative ensemble that seeks to engage you people through musictelling, which is a blend of music, theater, story telling 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 include brunch and are $25 childen, $50 adult, and $75 VIP seating. Sponsor tables are also available. Please call 812-425-8741 to purchase tickets.

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North Elementary students were treated to a special afternoon this past Thursday. Members of the Evansville Icemen Hockey Team came to read a story in support of the program, Read to Succeed. Iceman, Jake Obermeyer, of Chanhassen, MN answered students' questions after the reading session. Members of the North Elementary Student Council coordinated the event. Photo by Valerie Werkmeister

Winter’s End Art Show begins February 17 The Alexandrian Public 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 Honoring Heroes of Posey County exhibit series on February 17, 18 and 19.

This show promises to be a distinctly artful experience of original paintings, photographs, jewelry, fabrics, prints and sculptures by local artists of all ages.

Students are welcome to enter their work and teachers are encouraged to consider this show as a possible field trip activity.

Participation in the exhibit is limited to Posey county residents. 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. Submissions from artists wishing to enter this show will be accepted be accepted until February 15. The library is located at 115 West Fifth Street in Mount Vernon, Indiana.

For additional information, interested artists should call Stan Campbell at 838-3286 during regular library hours.

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CHURCH St. Matthew to host Soup, Sandwiches and Scripture

Randy Juncker of Juncker Construction lays tile in the hallways at Susanna Wesley Nursery School at the First United Methodist Church in Mount Vernon as part of their updating project. Photo by Dave Pearce

Trinity UCC to hold pancake, sausage supper February 21 Trinity United Church of Christ at the corner of Mulberry and Fifth Streets in Mount Vernon invites the community to an All-YouCan-Eat Sausage and Pan-

cake supper on Tuesday, February 21 from 4:30 to 6:30.

This traditional pre-Lent meal is open to the public and partially finances the five-day Vacation Bible School that is

held each summer for children in the community. Tickets at the door cost $5.25 for adults and $3.25 for children age 10 and under. For more information, call 838-3805.

Free movie night at First Presbyterian Church Come and bring your family (not recommended for children under age 10) to see the drama “Courageous” on Friday, Feb. 17, at 7 p.m. in First Presbyterian Church, 120 E. 6th Street, in Mount Vernon (around the

corner from the police station).

It’s a movie for dads, sons and daughters, for husbands and wives. It is a valuable film to affirm the Godly principles for families to live by. You'll chuckle and

cry as you watch this film made by the same people who brought us “Fireproof.”

Respond to this event invitation, and we'll make sure we have enough popcorn.

Please call 838-2473 to leave your reservation.

St. Matthew in Mount Vernon is having Soup, Sandwiches, and Scripture on four dates. The meal will be between 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. with the speaker starting at 6:30 p.m. in the parish gymnasium.

2012 Lenten Presentations Feb. 28 “In every age the Spirit guides the Church”, Presenter: Sr. Donna Marie Herr, OSB Many of us grew up in a church where change rarely occurred until Vatican Council II. As a human institution, changes were always part of the life of the Church.

The only time people stop changing is when we die.

We will examine some major changes in Church history so when new changes occur we can breathe a little easier.

Jesus promised that His Spirit will be with us to guide the Church in all times.

March 6 “The Book of Revelation”, Presenter: Fr. James Koressel Did you know the world is going to end on December 13, 2012? TV preachers often take current events to predict the world’s end by

connecting them with the Book of Revelation. Many Catholics avoid this beautiful book of the Bible, written to give hope to Christians suffering from persecution.

Suffering and death is not the end of our lives, but a new heavens and a new earth.

March 13 “The Eucharist: the center of our lives”, Presenter: Bishop Charles Thompson The Sunday Eucharist is called the “source and summit” of our lives. When the Church gathers to hear God’s Word and eat the Body and Blood of the Risen Christ, we bring our labors from the previous week and

are strengthened to live for Christ in the new week.

March 20 “Lord, teach us to pray”, Presenter: Sr. Maria Tasto, OSB Personal prayer is necessary to deepen our relationship with God. Jesus spent entire nights in prayer.

Prayer is not always easy especially when they seem to fall on “deaf” ears. Prayer is a two-way street. Sometimes we do all the talking and forget that God may have something to tell us. Besides some input on prayer, we will also take some time to learn some practical ways of praying by using the bible.

Seeds of the Sower

By Michael Guido

Two men went hunting.

They had tramped through the fields all day. They had seen many rabbits, but they hadn’t hit any.

At dusk one said, “Let’s miss two more and call it a day.”

This they did, and they went home empty handed and tired. The same thing happens to many in their work and their worship.

It’s not enough to be active – accomplish something. Beware of the barrenness of a busy life.

Your work isn’t real if you don’t get results, and your worship isn’t worthwhile if you don’t witness and win others to the Lord.

He said, “Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My disciples.”

mor will help you treat teen behavior as something other than the end of the world."

Save your energy for important things by not taking the little things too seriously. Try to have fun with your stepchildren. Cerquone suggests: "Think about occasionally making your points with

your stepkids in light ways, for example. Write your concerns in a funny card or an amusing note. Or forget about making any points and just take your stepchildren out for some fun. See a comedy at the movies or spend the day at an amusement park..."

8. Be Persistent.

The process of becoming "family like" will not happen overnight. In fact, therapist Patricia Papernow cautions that it may take several years. But keep working at it, because the benefits of your relationships with your stepchildren will be worth it.

Phone: 812-838-3930

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Poseyville, Ind. 47633 Phone: 812-874-2220

Eight ways to build relationships with your stepchildren

By Family First Whether you are just beginning a blended family, or have been in one for awhile, you know that there are many difficult adjustments that both parents and children must go through.

Oftentimes stepparents have a hard time understanding their stepchildren and how to reach out to them. The may become frustrated when their expectations of a loving family aren't met. In the book, You're a Stepparent...

Now What?, author Joseph Cerquone gives practical pointers for stepparents on attempting to build a positive relationship with their stepchildren.

1. Watch Out for Unrealistic Expectations.

Many stepparents feel the pressure to make their new family into a perfect one.

However, with the stresses of the previous marriages, finances, custody battles and the adjustments to a new living situation, reality often presents a different scenario.

Take small steps in building a relationship with your stepchildren. Focus on building a respect from them before you expect them to have a loving relationship with you.

2. Encourage Openness.

One thing a stepparent can do is to let the members of the family know that they can express their emotions and discuss their fears and insecurities. But Cerquone warns not to expect the children to confide in you early on. They will most likely only confide in their parent at first.

3. Be Supportive.

Recognize the importance of your stepchildren's relationship with the "other" par-

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ent. Do not seek to replace them, but rather focus on creating a new relationship with your stepchildren. And be sure to be yourself.

4. Be Sure to Partner with.

Your Spouse. You and your spouse will need to be in constant, open communication about the family. Be mutually supportive of each other and make joint decisions regarding the family.

Make sure the children know you are united in your decisions.

5. Let the Parent Discipline.

Cerquone encourages that especially in the early days of the new family, the parent to do the disciplining, not the stepparent. He says that, "Before you can be an active disciplinarian, you have to earn something more than your stepchildren's perfunctory respect. Until they know you and trust you better, you can't expect them to listen to you simply because you are now the new dad or mom in the house." That doesn't mean you will never be the disciplinarian, but Cerquone

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Church of the Nazarene 531 E. Steammill Street New Harmony, Ind. 47631 Phone: 812-682-3288

First United Methodist Church 601 Main Street Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620 Phone: 812-838-2640

Covenant Reformed Presbyeterian Church (OPC) 4101 Caborn Rd. Mt. Vernon

Griffin Christian Church 319 N. Main Street Griffin, Ind. 47616 Phone: 812-851-3291

Fair Haven Christ Fellowship Church 10500 Hwy 68 Cynthiana, Ind. 47612 Phone: 812-568-8409 Agape Family Ministries 5529 Industrial Road Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620 Phone: 812-838-2232 Apostolic Bible Church 9808 New Harmony Road Poseyville, Ind. 47633 Phone: 812-851-5456

warns to start the process slowly. In the beginning, a stepparent should be actively involved in the rule-making, but not in the disciplining when the rules are broken.

And be sure to present the house rules as a joint decision, so that the stepparent is not seen as the villain.

6. Don't Turn Your Stepchildren into Scapegoats.

Cerquone warns that while stepchildren (particularly those in the pre-teen and teen years) can be frustrating, be sure not to blame them for all the problems in your family or relationship with your spouse. Ask yourself if their attitudes and actions are the true problem, or if you more frustrated with something else -- finances, your own feelings of being an outsider, or the way your spouse is ineffectively disciplining the children?

7. Maintain a Sense of Humor Particularly if you have teens in the house, it will be crucial to maintain a positive attitude. Cerquone says, "A sense of humor will... refresh you as a stepparent... Hu-

First Baptist Church 1205 N. Main Street Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620 Phone: 812-838-2187 First Baptist Church E. Tavern Street New Harmony, Ind. 47631

Bethesda General Baptist Church 1600 Savah Road Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620

First Christian Church 7226 Hwy 66 Wadesville, Ind. 47638 Phone: 812-673-4278

Black’s United Methodist Church 8012 Baldknob Road Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620 Phone: 812-838-0318

First Christian Church 1403 Country Club Road Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620 Phone: 812-838-2855

Calvary Baptist Church 618 Main Street Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620 Phone: 812-838-4777

First Church of the Nazarene 424 Vine Street Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620 Phone: 812-838-2743

Church of Christ 700 Mill Street Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620 Phone: 812-838-2635

First Presbyterian Church 120 E. Sixth Street Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620 Phone: 812-838-2473

Church of God Mission 627 W. 5th Street Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620 Phone: 812-838-2236

First United Church of Christ Corner of North & Walnut Cynthiana, Ind. 47612

Harvestime Temple 101 Roosevelt Drive Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620 Phone: 812-838-5447 Holy Angels Catholic Church 423 South Street New Harmony, Ind. 47631 Phone: 812-838-2535 Immanuel United Church of Christ 5812 N. Ford Road Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620 Phone: 812-985-3115 Independent Pentecostal Assembly 312 Mulberry Street Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620 Johnson United Methodist Church 403 Raintree New Harmony, Ind. 47631 Phone: 812-682-4648 Lighthouse Assembly of God Pastor Jason Farrar 1005 E. Tavern St. New Harmony, Ind. 47631 Messiah Lutheran Church 7700 Middle Mount Vernon Road Evansville, Ind. 47712 Phone: 812-985-2278 Mount Pleasant Church 3801 Blackford Road Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620

Mount Vernon General Baptist Church 1717 N. Main Street Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620 Phone: 812-838-4555 Mount Zion General Baptist Church 1425 Oliver Road Wadesville, Ind. 47638 Phone: 812-783-2337

St. Paul’s United Methodist Church 46 Cales Street, Ind. 47633 Phone: 812-874-2251 St. Peter’s United Church of Christ 10430 Hwy 66, Wadesville, Ind. 47638 Phone: 812-985-3416

New Beginnings Christian Fellowship Church 11420 Middle Mount Vernon Road Evansville, Ind. 47712 Phone: 812-985-5288

St. Peter’s United Methodist 2800 S. Saint Philips Road Evansville, Ind. 47712 Phone: 812-985-3751

New Harmony Christian Church 307 N. Brewery Street New Harmony, Ind. 47631 Phone: 812-682-3626

Saint Philip Catholic Church 3500 St. Philip Road South Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620 Phone: 812-985-2275

North Posey Community Church Poseyville, Ind. 47633 812-874-2028

Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church 318 Main Street New Harmony, Ind. 47631 Phone: 812-682-4604

Old Union Christian Church 10017 S. State Rd. 165 Poseyville, IN 47633 Phone: 812-874-3186 Point Church of the Nazarene, 12611 Bonebank Road Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620 Phone: 812-838-5182 Poseyville Christian Church 6 E. Main St. , Poseyville, Ind. 47633 Phone: 812-874-3411 Saint John’s Episcopal Church 602 Mulberry Street Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620 Phone: 812-838-5445

Saint Wendel Catholic Church 10542 W Boonville New Harmony Road Evansville, Ind. 47712 Phone: 812-963-3733

Stewartsville United Methodist RR 2 Poseyville, Ind. 47633 Phone: 812-851-5561 The House of Prayer COGIC 816 E. Third Street Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620 Phone: 812-985-3841 The Turning Point 9800 Middle Mount Vernon Road Evansville, Ind. 47712 Phone: 812-985-9800 Trinity United Church of Church 505 Mulberry Street Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620 Phone: 812-838-3805 United Church of Christ of Cynthiana University Heights Baptist Church 8800 Middle Mount Vernon Road Evansville, Ind. 47712 Phone: 812-985-5158 Wadesville General Baptist Church 3262 Princeton Street Wadesville, Ind. 47638 Phone: 812-673-4660

Salem Heusler United Church of Christ 11325 Lower Mount Vernon Road Evansville, Ind. 47712 Phone: 812-985-2542

Zion Lippe United Church of Christ 9000 Copperline Road East Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620 Phone: 812-985-2437

South Gibson Apostolic Chapel 6144 S. 1075 W. Owensville, Ind. 47665 Phone: 812-729-7231

Zoar United Church of Christ 4600 Church Road Evansville, Ind. 47712 Phone: 812-963-3749

St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church 10 N. St. Francis Avenue,

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SCHOOL Local schools rank high for graduation rate Eleven southern Indiana school corporations and eight schools are among those recognized by the Indiana Department of Education for having high nonwaiver graduation rates or dramatically increasing the number of students graduating from high school for the 2010-2011 school year without waivers.

Highest Graduation Rates Two southern Indiana schools, New Harmony Elementary and High School

(New Harmony Town and Township Consolidated Schools) and the Signature School in Evansville, achieved the highest 2011 non-waiver graduation rates statewide. Both schools graduated 100 percent of their seniors in 2011.

Most Improved Graduation Rates New Harmony Elementary and High School (New Harmony Town and Township Consolidated Schools) increased its non-waiver graduation rate by 27.3 per-

Local students make Butler Dean’s List Butler University is proud to announce the Dean’s List for the fall semester of the 2011-2012 academic year.

Recipients range from freshman to sixth-year pharmacy students.

Local students Sally Roeder of Mount Vernon, Ind. 47620, College/Major: College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences/Health Sciences and Adrienne Palmer of Wadesville, Ind. 47638 with a College/Major: Jordan College

of Fine Arts/Music Education appeared on the Dean’s list for the fall semester.

Degree-seeking undergraduate students at Butler who carry at least 12 academic hours in a given semester are eligible for the Dean’s List in the college in which they are enrolled. Students on the list are in the top 20 percent of their college, as determined by the semester grade point average of all eligible students in each college.

cent—moving from 72.7 percent in 2010 to 100 percent of students graduating without waivers in 2011.

Statewide, Indiana’s nonwaiver graduation rate improved to 78.9 percent in 2011—up from 78.1 percent in 2010. Indiana’s statutory graduation rate (includes waivers) increased to 85.7 percent in the 2010-2011 school year, increasing 1.6 percent over last year and 4.3 percent over the 2009 rate. This is the highest graduation rate Hoosier students have achieved since the state began measuring the four-year cohort graduation rate in 2005. A record-high 171 public schools reached 90 percent or more of their students graduating in four years—a principal goal Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Tony Bennett set for all Indiana students in 2009.

Approximately 45 percent of public high schools met or exceeded the 90-percent graduation mark, and 83 percent of public high schools graduated 80 percent or

Marrs Elementary Stem Academy 5th grade students recently participated in the SeaPerch Competition at the Mt. Vernon Jr. High Natatorium. These underwater robotics were built by the students with the help of three engineers from Sabic, Dave Miller, Scott Bilskie, and Brad Osborne. The engineers worked with the students several afternoons after school. Pictured are the students that built and competed in the competition. (front row - left to right) Zak Plouchard, Jake Mitchell, Quincy Irick and Justin Rietman (back row - left to right) Daniel Jones, Zoey Scates, Nina Bippus, Cora Epley and Zachary Batteiger. Photo submitted

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Stovall, Kaylen Lohman, Education (AGHE) at the ness and the Mid-America career opportunities for USI Dr. Coudret came to Students include: Ryan Deana Lindauer, and Megroup’s annual meeting and Institute on Aging, held an- graduates.”

USI from the University of Pritchett, Jace Gentil, Aus- gan Cumbee. conference, February 23, in nually at USI. A native of Vincennes, Evansville, where she served tin O’Risky, Wes Harness, State Leadership ConArlington, Virginia.

“I’m very honored to re- Indiana, Dr. Coudret earned as dean. She will retire from Scott Schapker, Tyler Ro- tests are March 18-20, 2012 Dr. Coudret will receive ceive this award,” said Cou- a diploma in nursing at St. her post at USI July 1, fol- edel, Ty Shemwell, Melissa in Indianapolis. the Administrative Leader- dret. “But the credit goes to Mary’s Hospital School of lowing a sabbatical. ship Award for her excep- our faculty and community Nursing in Evansville. Her Established in 1974, the tional efforts in support of partners who have encour- clinical nursing experience Association for Gerontolgerontology and geriatrics aged and supported the de- includes working in the ogy in Higher Education is a education. She has been dean velopment of the Center for operating room, medical- membership organization of Joseph Julian represents MVJHS in Spelling Bee Joseph Julian, a 6th grad- dividual school champions colleges and universities that er, traveled to Ivy Tech Col- down to approximately 30 offer education, training, and research programs in the field lege to represent MVJHS in students for the afternoon of aging. AGHE currently the Tri-State Spelling Bee. oral part of the Spelling Bee. The morning’s written has more than 280 institu- He was one of 168 champions from tri-state schools words were so difficult that tional members throughout the United States and abroad. who participated in a first only 22 students were seThe purpose of the associa- ever written test for this lected to participate in the tion is to foster the commit- particular competition. The oral Spelling Bee. Joseph ment of higher education to purpose of the test was to was one of those 22 elite the field of aging through ed- narrow the number of in- spellers. ucation, research, and public Abby Brenton named UE Orientation Leader service. In 1999, it became The University of EvansIn this volunteer position, an educational unit of The Gerontological Society of ville is proud to announce Brenton will guide new UE that Abby Brenton of Wades- students through the transiAmerica.

For more information, ville, IN, has been named an tion into college. OLs' chief contact Dr. Ann White in orientation leader (OL) for responsibility is to coorthe College of Nursing and the 2012-13 academic year. dinate Welcome Week, a Health Professions, 812/465- Brenton, a graduate of North program designed to make Susie Tooley was showered with gifts and appreciation last week in celebration of Na- 1173, or Dr. Katie Ehlman, Posey High School who is students' first week at the tional School Councilor Week. The North Posey Junior High councilor received a wide USI Center for Healthy Ag- majoring in Nursing, is one University exciting, fun, and array of items, including flowers, cards, cake and more. Susie began her career with the ing and Wellness, 812/465- of 13 new OLs selected from informative. a pool of 47 applicants.

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School District in 1987 and has been a mainstay ever since. Photo by Zach Straw each OL leads a small group of freshmen in games, teambuilding sessions, service Evansville Day School re- to enriching the learning very pleased to share that to and commons area operating budget cannot sup- projects, and other activities. cently announced plans for and teaching environment date, the EDS community • Expanded and updated port major facility enhance- OLs often maintain close remajor campus renovations that Day School has care- has stepped up and comeast facing Primary School ments and renovations. In lationships with the students that will have a significant fully created over the past 60 mitted over $1.9 million and south facing Middle order to fund the Phase 1 in their small groups and impact on the school and years, these renovations will thus far,” shared Campaign School classrooms, in- priorities at a cost of approx- continue to serve as mentors community. This will be the support the wide array of Development Committee cluding: modernized heat- imately $2.5 million, Day long after Welcome Week.

Day School’s first major fa- athletic and co-curricular ac- Co-Chair, Rob Bernardin. ing and cooling systems, School needs the support "Orientation Leaders are cility-related undertaking in tivities that the School offers “We are very proud to have new lighting, flooring, and of the entire school com- some of the most visible, 25 years. to round out the student’s reached this milestone not ceiling and wall finishes munity- past and present- to highly regarded student “This new project will academic experience”. only in the campaign, but for • Five on-site tennis courts fulfill this critically impor- leaders on the University truly be transformational for Day School also an- our School as it is the larg- • New walkways and land- tant project for Day School. of Evansville campus," said our school community and nounced the beginning of the est amount ever raised in the scape improvements Construction for Phase 1 Dana Clayton, vice presithe greater Evansville and public community phase of School’s history.”

• Relocated soccer field of the campaign is planned dent for student affairs and tri-state area,” added Lin the Invest • Expand • TransPhase 1 highlights inwith new turf to begin in May 2012 once dean of students. "OLs are Shannon, Board of Trust- form Capital Campaign to clude: Like most independent students leave for summer selected for their energy, enees President. “In addition fund the project. “We are • New dynamic entryway schools, Day School’s yearly break. thusiasm, campus involvement, and commitment to serving others. As an OL, Abby is sure to make a lasting impact on the lives of 4800 St. Wendel-Cynthiana Rd. 10351 Evansville St. 220 S Lockwood St. 11201 Upper Mt. Vernon Rd. many students."

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The Posey Grill offers updated menu, new management and hours

Kitchen Manager, Tammy McIntyre, at the Posey Grill prepares mouth-watering chicken breasts on the grill. Photo by Zach Straw

By Pam Robinson The Posey Grill at 225 Main in Mount Vernon proudly announces the recent employment of Kitchen Manager Tammy McIntyre.

In short order, McIntyre and her cooking staff have offered an updated menu, based on customer suggestions, during extended hours. Owner M. Christine Babcock thinks the community will be delighted with the “renovations” to the Posey Grill, a smokefree, non-alcohol family restaurant featuring home cooking.

“Tammy learned to cook by scratch from her mother and grandmother on a rural farm in Kentucky,” says Babcock. “She started her cooking profession in her teens as a prep cook and kitchen help at Gundi’s Restau-

rant in Mount Vernon, giving her over seven years experience on the internal operations of a busy kitchen. She later had management experience at several other restaurants. She strives to make good food for customers to enjoy. She is interested in customer feedback as it is crucial to fine tune the operation.”

This evening, customers may bring their Valentines, whether sweetheart, friend or relative, to dinner and receive the second dinner half price. Special desserts are being offered.

Typically, the highlights of the new menu are fiddlers, catfish fillets, prime rib and rib eye steaks on Friday during expanded hours.

New sandwiches and breakfast items also appear on the updated menu. In addition, Posey

Grill is changing the plate lunch specials weekly to give customers the variety they requested. Everything is cooked to order whenever possible.

“The cooking staff had many good ideas for the revised menu. Our staff enjoys looking at cook books, cooking websites, cooking magazines and food channel shows for ideas they think will please our customers,” Babcock states. “We have planned six weeks ahead, keeping the old favorites, adding and rotating other menu items. We are keeping fried chicken on Sunday and Wednesday, meatloaf on Monday, chicken livers on Thursday and fish on Friday.”

Babcock is committed to improving the skills of her cooks. She points out that the staff has more ServSafe food handling training than required. In addition, she provides opportunities for her cooks to learn new recipes and skills.

“Next week, we are bringing in a chef to teach our cooks about bread making,” she says. “We feel our customers would enjoy a variety of bread choices—many that are not available through a food supplier.”

Babcock wants to offer more seasonal fresh food on the menu as well, so she is hoping home gardeners will get in touch with her.

The Posey Grill continues to offer three sides per meal with the intent of providing diners a more balanced diet. Carryout is available along with catering for picnics, boating, family reunions, company meetings, parties and more. Advance arrangements are required for large carryout orders. Posey Grill makes Saturday evening available for wedding dinners, meetings or private parties.

Additional amenities include free highspeed Internet access, clean facilities and cheerful service. Babcock says she still remembers her dining adventures over 10 years of business travel, and she wants to ensure

her guests feel at home. Most important to her is cleanliness.

“Twice a year, we take everything apart in the kitchen and scrub in addition to daily and weekly cleaning,” Babcock comments. “If ever something is not clean, the problem will be corrected. I believe customers want cleanliness, service, and food—in that order.”

Babcock takes great pride in maintaining a drug-free environment as well. She requires drug testing of all new employees and conducts random testing of everyone once hired.

Likewise, Babcock says, she uses a conservative selection process in leasing the four efficiency apartments over Posey Grill.

“I almost gutted the upstairs, putting in new windows, doors, bathroom fixtures and carpet,” she explains. “It’s now a quiet place to live.

Following her “vision for downtown,” Babcock opened the Posey Grill five years ago. Located at 225 Main Street, once the location of Lucky Linda’s Bar & Grill, her restaurant fills a void for home cooked food, she says, for which Lucky Linda’s had gained a reputation and the necessary cooking equipment. She saw the Posey Grill as part of her ongoing proposal to help revitalize Mount Vernon’s downtown.

Babcock is a businesswoman familiar to many in Posey County at tax time. A certified public accountant, not only does she prepare individual taxes, but she provides accounting services to businesses as well. Her son Brian is getting tax experience this tax season at her office. He is graduating this May from the University of Southern Indiana.

Area residents are invited to try Posey Grill for themselves. Hours are 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday; and 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday and Sunday. For catering needs, anyone may call Posey Grill at 838-9660.

US Department of Agriculture announces CRP general signup beginning March 12 The Farm Service Agency (FSA) State Executive Director, Julia A. Wickard, today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will conduct a fourweek Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) general signup. This CRP signup will begin on March 12, 2012 and end on April 6, 2012. CRP has a 25-year legacy of successfully protecting the nation's natural resources, while providing significant economic and environmental benefits to rural communities across the

United States.

"Over the past 25 years, CRP's benefits have grown thanks to many improvements of our natural resources including cleaner water, improved air quality, more habitat for wildlife, and a huge reduction in soil erosion," said Wickard. "Today's announcement will help this administration continue its strong conservation legacy at the local level."

Currently in Indiana, 279,937 acres are enrolled in CRP; and contracts on an es-

timated 36,344 acres will expire on September 30, 2012.

CRP is a voluntary program available to agricultural producers to help them use environmentally sensitive land for conservation benefits. Producers enrolled in CRP plant long-term, resource-conserving covers to improve the quality of water, control soil erosion and develop wildlife habitat. In return, USDA provides participants with rental payments and cost-share assistance. Contract duration is between 10 and 15 years.

Producers with expiring contracts and producers with environmentally sensitive land are encouraged to evaluate their options under CRP. Producers also are encouraged to look into CRP’s other enrollment opportunities offered on a continuous, non-competitive, signup basis.

Offers for CRP contracts are ranked according to the Environmental Benefits Index (EBI). FSA collects data for each of the EBI factors based on the relative environmental benefits for the land offered.

Bamberger attorneys recognized in 2012 Super Lawyers Seven attorneys from Super Lawyers is an Evansville’s Bamberger, annual publication that Foreman, Oswald & Hahn, lists the top lawyers from LLP were honmore than 70 ored in the 2012 practice aredition of Super eas across the Lawyers for United States. their outstandNominated ing work in the by their peers, legal industry. the attorneys Honored in listed are honthis year’s ediored for their tion are “2012 high degree of Super Lawprofessional John Broadhead yers” Robert M. achievement.

Becker, R. Thomas Bodkin, More than 13,000 attorneys John P. Broadhead, Michele in the state of Indiana were S. Bryant, and Andrew C. asked to vote for the best Ozete and “2012 Rising lawyers they had personStars” D. Andrew Nestrick ally observed in action – and Chad M. Smith. whether as opposing coun-

sel, as co-counsel or from by the National Elder Law first-person observation in Foundation. He mainthe courtroom. The final list tained his own law office of Super Lawin Poseyville, yers repreIndiana for fifsents less than teen years befive percent fore merging his of the lawyers practice with licensed to Bamberger in practice in InDecember, 1999. diana.

D. Andrew John P. Nestrick conBroadhead centrates his practices pripractice on esD. Andrew Nestrick marily in the tate planning, areas of estate planning and small business and famadministration, elder law, ily business law, Medicaid agriculture, and counsel- planning, elder law, probate ing of family-owned busi- estate administration, agrinesses. John is certified culture and real estate law. as an Elder Law Attorney

Meet your Legislator on February 18 The Chamber of Commerce of Southwest Indiana will host its annual “Meet your Legislator” event on Saturday, February 18, 2012 in New Harmony, Ind. This event will allow residents to meet with area legislators, Senator Jim Tomes and Representative Wendy McNamara.

The event will take place at the following

Poseyville American Lelocation: 9 a.m. at Thrall’s Opera House, gion Post #278 will meet 612 Church Street, New Harmony. This Thursday, February 16 at 7:30 p.m. event is free and open to everyone.

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

Toyota announces plans, creates new jobs Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana, Inc. (TMMI) announced plans to expand its operations here, creating approximately 400 new jobs by 2013.

The company will invest $400 million total with $131 million going directly to its Princeton plant to consolidate its Highlander midsize SUV production to this location, including both hybrid and export versions.

Production is expected to begin in late-2013 with annual Highlander production volume expected to increase by approximately 50,000 units at TMMI. “The Hoosier State has made great strides towards providing the best possible business climate in the nation and having a multi-national company like Toyota consolidate operations to Indiana and produce one of our state’s first hybrid vehicles is evidence to the success we’ve achieved,” said Governor Mitch Daniels.

Established in Gibson County in 1996, Toyota’s

Legion to meet

Princeton plant was the second recognized wholly-owned Toyota plant in North America. TMMI currently employs 4,800 associates, of which 4,000 are Hoosiers, and builds the Highlander, Sequoia full-size SUV and Sienna minivan at its Princeton facility. The hiring of new manufacturing associates will coincide with facility and machinery upgrades.

“This project allows for better utilization of the Indiana plant, and will help Toyota capitalize on the improving North American and global auto market,” said Steve St. Angelo, executive vice president of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. “In addition to new jobs at the Indiana plant, this project will increase opportunities and jobs for our North American supply base.”

The Indiana Economic Development Corporation offered Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana,

Inc. up to $2.7 million in conditional tax credits and up to $200,000 in training grants based on the company’s job creation plans.

These tax credits are performance-based, meaning until Hoosiers are hired, the company is not eligible to claim incentives. Gibson County will consider additional incentives at the request of the Gibson County Economic Development Corporation.

“Toyota has been an integral part of the Princeton community, not only with the employment of our residents but also with the infusion of millions of dollars into the local community,” said Princeton Mayor Robert Hurst. “The company’s charitable donations have also been significant with more than $13 million given to local charities and schools and for that we are very grateful.”

For more information about Toyota, visit www. toyota.com or www.toyotanewsroom.com.

Each eligible offer is ranked in comparison to all other offers and selections made from that ranking. FSA uses the following EBI factors to assess the environmental benefits for the land offered: • Wildlife habitat benefits resulting from covers on contract acreage; • Water quality benefits from reduced erosion, runoff and leaching;

• On-farm benefits from reduced erosion; • Benefits that will likely endure beyond the contract period; • Air quality benefits from reduced wind erosion; and • Cost.

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Job Fair Success – Making the Opportunity Work For You

By Brent O’Bryan, SPHR Whether you have a job and are looking to make a change or are currently unemployed, job fairs can be a great way to meet with recruiters. But, they can also be quite intimidating to the uninitiated. With some job fairs attracting thousands of applicants, it’s important to arm yourself with a plan of action before you arrive.

Think of attending a job fair as analogous to a visit to Disney World®. Do you want to spend valuable time waiting in a line to get on a random ride you may or may not like, or do you want to do some advance research, get a “FASTPASS,” and spend time enjoying the park? You will get the most out of a job

fair when you put in the time to make it work for you.

As a veteran human resources professional who has been on point at many job fairs, I have witnessed the good, the bad and the ugly in job fair behavior. By reviewing the following tips and techniques for job fair navigation, you’ll be prepared for a successful experience before, during and after a job fair.

The Good • Knowledge is Power Smart candidates take the time to thoroughly research the job fairs they attend. They find out what companies will be on the premises and decide which companies are of interest to them. They then read as much as they can about

their favorite companies.

When they arrive at the job fair, they have a short list of companies they want to make a personal connection with. A recruiter who is meeting with dozens of people in one day is much more likely to remember the applicant who took the time to read the book from that company’s CEO, for example, or who had carefully reviewed the company’s job postings and website to see where they could offer the most value.

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Presentation Counts – If you are going to a job fair, you want to stand out from the crowd in a positive, professional manner. What does that mean? Even if you are applying for a position that will likely require a uniform or carpenter pants, wear a freshly pressed suit and comfortable yet professional shoes, and make sure that hair and nails are freshly groomed. Savvy recruiters look for long term potential. Can this maintenance worker become a supervisor? Can this receptionist become an account coordinator? Dress for the position you would ultimately like to have.

Manners Matter – Successful job fair applicants are generally conservative when interacting with hiring personnel. Never assume that Mr. Fred Johnson wants to be called Fred. Reference him as “Mr. Johnson” until he says otherwise Link Up for Best Results – Not all social media is created equal, but LinkedIn, which was created for the business community, is an ideal online network for job hunters. Many companies are using LinkedIn to research and find candidates. LinkedIn helps companies leverage the networks of their employees as well. Many successful job fair applicants connect with their recruiters on LinkedIn after their initial meeting.

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The Bad How Much Does this Job Pay? – Asking about salary and benefit immediately is a turn-off to recruiters.

Think of a job fair as a way to market yourself to employers to get an interview. Few recruiters will want to move forward with an applicant whose initial questions revolve around salary, benefits and vacation and personal day allotment.

Failure to Differentiate – An applicant who arrives at the job fair with no advance information on what companies will be on-site and who they want to impress, runs the risk of waiting in endless lines to talk to recruiters at companies that aren’t the right fit. By failing to do advance research, time is wasted for both the applicant and the recruiter.

Resume Has Typos – It is important to proofread a resume for typos and misspellings which undermine an applicant’s ability to get interviews and secure a job. The resume should be an error-free showcase of your experience, skills and capabilities.

Twittering Away to Irrelevance – Job hunters who are social media aficionados run the risk of information overload. While a professional, updated LinkedIn profile is always a plus to human resource professionals, a Facebook page “gone wild” with postings about raucous nights at the casino or a Twitter account detailing compromising personal information, can be a liability.

The Ugly Gum Chewing – While it seems incredulous than

anyone would chew gum and talk to a recruiter simultaneously, it happens more than I’d like to admit. Sometimes, the gum chewing applicant is a cigarette smoker who is trying to cover their tracks.

Whatever the reason, there is no place for gum chewing on the job search circuit! Likewise, munching on chips or engaging in any other manner of food consumption in front of a recruiter is strictly offlimits.

• Hygiene Matters – Meeting with recruiters is not the time to forget to brush your teeth, take a shower, or groom your nails. Being remembered due to body odor or bad breath is not a ticket to employment satisfaction.

• Employment Stalker – At every job fair, there are applicants who fail to recognize the social cues that their interview is over.

They linger at the booth, or return to the recruiter again and again during the fair.

Or they send daily emails to the recruiter asking for progress reports. While appropriate follow up is important, harassment will not land you your dream job.

Job fairs sometimes offer workshops on any variety of topics related to employment. Take the time to attend these free events to bone up on skills and information. Be sure to judiciously follow up with the recruiters you’ve made a good connection with at the job fair. Assemble the business cards you amassed from human resource professionals and fellow attendees and link up to them on LinkedIn. Recruiters appreciate receiving a follow up thank you email which signals your interest in contributing to the organization. Just as recruiters have to keep track of multiple applicants, applicants need to develop their own system for logging information on all potential job leads.

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Disqualification costs Lady Wet Cats their goal at state

The Mt. Vernon Lady Cats are bringing home the hardware after a hard-fought weekend in the Natatorium on the campus of IUPUI in Indianapolis. Six members of the Mt. Vernon girls swim team qualified in multiple events for the IHSAA State Swim Finals. Pictured are, seated: Senior Amy Steele, 200-meter Relay, 7th place; Freshman Samantha Gowdy, 400-meter Relay, 5th place, and 100-meter Backstroke, 9th place.

Standing: Freshman Clara Bagget, 50-meter Freestyle, 2nd place, 200-meter Relay, 7th place 400-meter Relay, 5th place, and 100-meter Freestyle, 10th place; Senior Mary Klueh, 200-meter Relay, 7th place, 400-meter Relay, 5th place, and 100-meter Breast stroke, 13th place; Junior Kelsey Turner, 400-yard Freestyle Relay, 5th place, and 200-yard freestyle, 9th place; and Senior Erika McCormick, 100-yard Breast Stroke, 2nd place, 200-yard Freestyle Relay, 7th place; and 200-yard Individual Medley, 9th place. Photo by Terri Koch

By Steve Joos The Chicago Cubs have the curse of the Billy goat. The Boston Red Sox had the curse of the Bambino. Now, the Mount Vernon girls’ swim team can’t be that snake-bitten, can they?

The Lady Wet Wildcats had a strong preliminary round at the Indiana High School Athletic Association state girls’ swim Friday in Indianapolis: they were in third place entering the finals and chal-

lenging for second, but then a false start in the 200-yard medley relay ended all that, knocking the Lady Wet Cats from third to seventh, scoring 124 points.

It might have been higher had not the exchange between the freestyle swimmer’s handoff from the butterfly swimmer in the medley relay been ruled a false start.

Lady Wet Wildcats’ coach Larry Zoller was disappointed that the team didn’t make the top three

despite the expectations, but he was more excited about how the team performed.

“We had some great swims,” Zoller said. “We had a great effort in the medley relay, we had a great swim in the 400-relay and we didn’t have that bad a swim from the 200-freestyle relay. The competition was good and we had some good swims.”

All three relay teams qualified for the finals Friday, as did Erica

McCormick and Clara Baggett, who made the finals in the 50-freestyle, while McCormick qualified by nearly breaking the one-minute mark in the 100-breaststroke.

But an apparent false start in Saturday’s 200-medley relay finals did end any chance of a thirdplace finish for the Lady Wet Cats.

“We were disqualified on an exchange,” Zoller said. “Our freestyler was coming in and the butterfly swimmer was getting ready to go out and she was called for a false start.”

The Lady Wet Wildcats were on a pace to finish among the top three when they were disqualified.

They recovered to finish seventh in the 200-freestyle relay as the quartet of McCormick, Baggett, Amy Steele and Mary Klueh posted a time of 1:37.13 and then Baggett and Klueh teamed with Kelsey Turner and Samantha Gowdy for a fifth place finish in the 400-freestyle relay (3:30.24).

Many of those girls performed well individually as well as collectively.

Baggett shook off a bad night in the preliminaries to finish second in the 50-freestyle (:23.26) wiping almost half a second off her preliminary time in the finals following a tough preliminary start that hurt her confidence, Zoller said.

McCormick threatened the oneminute mark in the 100-breaststroke even more in the finals, finishing second with a personalbest time of 1:01.63 .

Zoller was also pleased with the efforts of Turner in the 200-freestyle. She was one of a number of ninth-place finishes which helped Mount Vernon score points and earn a top-10 finish.

“We had a ton of ninth-place finishes,” the coach said. “In

some events, we were the best of the rest.”

But if only they weren’t called for a false start on the first relay.

Well, actually Mount Vernon had just three ninth-place finishes. In addition to Turner, McCormick was the best of the rest in the 200-IM, while Gowdy won the 100-backstroke consolation race.

Despite the seventh-place finish, Zoller was happy with the girls’ season and added that the Lady Wet Cats will have another strong group coming in next year.

The team will have to replace some major contributors, such as McCormick and Klueh, each of whom will be swimming in college next year, but Mount Vernon will have several returning letterwinners, led by Baggett (who was seeded highly in two events) and Gowdy.

There will also be a strong contingent of incoming freshman swimmers.

Now, if they can just watch out for false starts.

The finish was Mount Vernon’s best girls’ showing at state since 2001, when the Lady Wet Cats also came in seventh. This is their third seventh-place finish (the others were in 1995 and 2001).

The boys’ team finished third in the state in 1998.

The main question of the state meet was answered by Zionsville, which came in second behind perennial powerhouse Carmel (329) at 168 points for second place.

Penn was third with 138 points, one better than fourth-place Center Grove (137). Chesterton rounded out the top five with 133 points, while Homestead (132) came in sixth. Rounding out the top 10 were Columbus North (119), Munster (110) and Crown Point (103 and one-half).

Late free throws oust Lady Wildcats in Sectional match

By Steve Joos For about 30 minutes Friday night, the Mount Vernon girls’ basketball team had the upper hand in its Class 3A Sectional game at Boonville against Gibson Southern.

Then things came undone.

The Lady Wildcats led until Maggie Ritter hit an 19-footer from the top of the key with 1:43 to go in the fourth quarter and then knocked down a pair of charity tosses with 23.6 left for what proved to be the winning points as the Lady Titans ousted Mount Vernon 38-36, ending the Lady Wildcats’ most successful season ever.

“That kind of ripped my gut right out for these kids,” Coach Steve Mitchell said.

“Winning 11 in a row, setting the school record for wins—I’m proud of them. We had a couple of shots that we could have hit that didn’t go in for us, and they hit some big shots and some big threes when they needed them. I give Gibson Southern credit for stepping up and hitting their shots when they needed them.”

Mitchell wasn’t trying to take anything away from his team, but while he didn’t fault the team’s effort, he did feel that the Lady Cats may have hurried some of their shots, especially in the fourth quarter, when they saw a six-point lead get away in the last five minutes of the contest.

In a game where 10 pretty girls played ugly, particularly on the offensive end, the only thing uglier than Gibson Southern’s 18 turnovers may have been Mount Vernon’s three of 10 night at the charity stripe.

Not that the Lady Titans were taking advantage of their free throws, hitting just five of 11, but that may have been enough to tip the game in their favor.

“I think when it’s all said and done that they shot the ball better than we did,” Mitchell said. “It’s just something that we can work on over the summer.”

If the lack of production from the stripe

didn’t get the Lady Cats, perhaps the success of Gibson Southern’s Vailey Eberhard from beyond the three-point line didn’t help matters, either.

Eberhard scored a game-high 12 points to pace the Lady Titans, all of them on four three-point buckets, three of them in the second half and two in the fourth quarter as the Lady Titans were erasing a 36-29 Mount Vernon lead.

A Rachel Cash three-pointer had stretched a 28-24 Lady Wildcat lead at the end of the third quarter to 31-24 to open the fourth, but Eberhard buried a three and Rachel Sensmeier came back with two more points as the Lady Titans closed the gap to 31-29.

Jacey Ritzert answered Sensmeier and Megan Randall added another bucket to restore a six-point advantage, but that would be almost all the offense Mount Vernon would be able to muster for the rest of the evening, other than an Ellen Foster free with 3:47 to play.

That trip to the line followed another five-point run by the Lady Titans, where Sensmeier cut the lead to 35-34 after Eberhard struck again from long range.

“We knew she was a shooter,” Mitchell said. “We knew she was going to shoot the ball and it kind of makes it tough, because you’ve got Ritter going to the middle and kicking it out. Eberhard got open a couple of times on the half-court trap, we didn’t get on her quick enough and she’s a shooter. You get it to her and she’s going to knock it down.”

The game went back and fourth with Ritter tying the game with less than two minutes to go. After a battle under the basket with less than 30 seconds to go, Randall fouled Ritter and the Lady Titan guard put in a pair of charity tosses which turned out to be the winners.

Mount Vernon had one last chance, but Foster missed the front end of a one and

bonus and all the Lady Cats were left with was a desperation three-point try which hit the top of the backboard and went off.

It was a heartbreaking end to a game where Mount Vernon took an early lead and always seemed to come up with the right defensive stop, one that usually involved forcing Gibson Southern to give up the ball.

Ritzert scored the first bucket of the night, and then Randall added a threepointer as Mount Vernon scored the first five points of the contest as Mount Vernon took an 11-7 led at the first stop.

Mount Vernon held a six-point lead for most of the second quarter. Gibson Southern cut it to four, but Foster scored to five the Lady Wildcats a 19-14 halftime lead.

Eberhard’s firsts two threes cut the lead to two points twice, the second time at 2220. Lauren Stemple answered form long range to put Mount Vernon back up by five points and after that, the Lady Wildcats managed to maintain a 28-24 lead after three quarters.

They still had the edge until the last four minutes.

Ritzert led the Lady Cats with 11 points.

Randall added seven, but she was hampered with foul trouble while trying to guard Ritter.

Stemple added six points and Charlotte Roberts four, while Cash and Foster each chipped in three. Shelby Ritzert founded things out with two points.

The loss ended Mount Vernon’s season at 16-5, a school record for wins, but still a bitter pill to swallow.

“I’ve very proud of the girls,” Mitchell said. “I feel bad for the girls, especially the seniors. When you’re a coach, you wish you could have done a little more for these girls. You wish you could have called a different play. I’m not going to sleep for the next two days.”

Especially after the team came so close.

Mt. Vernon sophomore Shelby Ritzert takes the easiest path to the basket during Friday nights sectional game against Gibson Southern. Ritzert had been called into duty due to several late-season injuries on the Lady Cats’ squad. Photo by Dave Koch

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Tim and Jeanne Schmidt focus on the family

Mount Vernon natives Tim and Jeanne (Hinderliter) Schmidt give family priority. Not only have they knit a close circle with their two daughters, but they have joined with organizations that seek to strengthen ties in all families.

A General Electric professional for the past 20 years, Tim enjoys leadership roles with youth. He participates in the Junior Achievement program for the elementary schools about six weeks each spring. He’s a local volunteer for Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Ohio Valley: since this past December, he has shared his time, talent, and treasure several times each month as a Big Brother here in Posey County. He likes coaching, now in soccer, for the parks and recreation department.

An insurance representative for Eric May’s State Farm Insurance in Mount Vernon, Jeanne prefers to work behind the scenes, especially in the school district. In fall 2009, she and her boss attended the Indiana Dropout Prevention Leadership Summit in Indianapolis.

“It really opened my eyes,” she says. “It amazes me the challenges some children are dealing with in their lives preventing them from focusing on what is so important—their education.” educat o .

Not surprisingly, she loves to help out in educational and social events for local students. In 2010, for example, she

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helped with the junior high “Reality Store,” where students learn financial responsibility and budgeting. Indeed, she helps out any chance she gets—most recently at a party for West third graders meeting their accelerated reader, or AR, goal.

Through the dedication of teachers and third-grade parents, students enjoyed an awesome celebration of their first semester success. Another celebration is planned later this year for second semester success. It is hoped the tradition will continue with the next third grade class.

Jeanne believes in teaching children civic responsibility as well and is grateful for the “American privilege” of serving at the polls last fall.

1985 graduates of Mount Vernon High School, or MVHS, Jeanne and Tim were high school sweethearts. They celebrated 21 years of marriage on September 15, 2011, and have been blessed with two lovely daughters, Taylor, a sophomore at MVHS, and Emma, a third grader at West. Honored as both Posey County Princess and Duchess, Taylor is one of the MVHS DanceCats, awarded first place honors recently in invitationals at Terre Haute and Crawfordsville, Ind. She iss looking oo g forward o wa d also a so to state high g school sc oo competition co pet p t o with wt DECA. Emma stays busy with hip-hop at Achieve Academy of Dance located in the MAC Center, with soccer, and with Brownies. The family takes walks on the wild side with their

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Unfortunate ending for Lady Rappites’ hoop legacy

By Dave Pearce It wasn’t supposed to end this way. Each year, the basketball season ends but this season’s ending held a special one for the girls on the New Harmony basketball team. The team was supposed to win Friday night’s semi-final game against Cannelton and set up a showdown with either Tecumseh or Wood Memorial in the finale on Saturday night.

But the Lady Rappites felt the pressure of the “favorites” role, a rare role for a school with less than 100 students. And in the end, the pressure of favorite and the hype surrounding the game, along with perhaps Cannelton’s finest game of the year, was too much for the young Lady Rappites. The school’s last girls’ basketball game was won be Cannelton by a score of 50-44.

New Harmony Coach Jennifer Toopes compared the end of this season for the girls to a graduating class.

You work so long and hard to get there and once you ar-

rive, you realize that you are going to be saying so long to familiar surroundings and will be moving ahead to further horizons and joining other teams and activities.

But, Toopes pointed out, by the time you are actually a senior, you have time to mature to an age where you are supposed to be better able to handle such situations.

Toopes’ all-underclass team did not get that luxury and said the she felt perhaps, for lack of a better word, “cheated” that her underclass group did not get at least one more year to play together and attempt to earn the school’s second sectional title.

When asked if the pressure played a role in the team’s loss to the Bulldogs, Toopes gave no hesitancy.

“Absolutely,” she said. “I think we were expected to win this game. The pressure in the first half wasn’t as bad but the pressure in the second half, you could just see it taking its toll on the girls.”

Neither team started well.

The Rappites were able to

score just five points in the opening period. All from the free throw line. Morgan Mathews was fouled off a steal and hit two free throws.

Mathews hit one of two free throws just a minute late before two free throws by Kendall Morris at the 4:01 mark. In the meantime, the Bulldogs were slowly building a 9-5 lead at the end of the quarter.

But as the Lady Rappites have done in so many games this year, despite not shooting at the top of their game, they came out in the second quarter and fought. Two free throws by Madison Worman pulled the Rappites to within 11-7 before Cannelton hit a 3-pointer to double the score at 14-7.

Worman answered with a 3-pointer, a pair of free throws, and another field goal to pull the teams even with 4:23 still remaining in the second period.

Cannelton stormed back to take an 18-14 lead before Mathews hit again.

Cannelton led 20-16 before

back-to-back 3-pointers by Worman gave the Lady Rappites a 22-20 lead at the 1:04 mark, their first since 2-0.

Two more free throws by the 5-foot-8 sophomore Worman gave the Rappites a 24-20 half-time lead.

“Some of the players were crying at half-time because the pressure was just too much for them,” Toopes said. “They are 14- 15- and 16-year-old girls and no seniors. Had the school not been closing, there would not have been that much pressure on them and they would have beaten Cannelton just like they did a couple of weeks ago, by double digits.”

But unfortunately for the Lady Rappites, the school is closing and the pressure was New Harmony’s Kelci Owen gets bottled up inside afthere. But stll, they continter receiving a pass from No. 10 Madison Worman during ued to battle as much as the the Lady Rappite’s final season-ending loss to the Cencircumstances would allow. nelton Bulldogs on Friday night. Photo by Dave Pearce Cannelton scored the first four points of the second lead. Morris scored off a I think they were just all half before Mathews scored. drive before the Bulldogs standing watching each othMorris then found Kelsey buried a pair of free throws er hoping one of them would Owen wide open under the to give Cannelton a 32-30 step up and make the plays. basket and the Rappites built lead at the end of three quar- They were all scared to death a 28-24 lead. ters. and couldn’t get anything But the Bulldogs, who Toopes said she was wait- going.” have lived and died mostly ing to see her team play the But despite the eventual by the 3-point shot this sea- way they played all season outcome, it was obvious son, found new life from on their way to a 13-7 record that Toopes was incredibly beyond the arc. They found heading into the sectional. proud of the young Rappites a news scoring source as “We usually have really and what they had been able the guard who hit only one good ball movement. They to achieve in her three short point against them in the first were in a 3-2 and they kept seasons there. outing would up with game- it very, very wide,” Toopes “Madison Worman hit high honors, including six explained. “That kept our four 3-pointers and we hit points in a row at that point, guards from having to have to give Cannelton a 30-28 ball movement on the top. Continued on Page B6

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The North Posey Junior High Girls Basketball Team performed exceptionally, winning both the 2012 Mount Vernon Invitational and Pocket Athletic Conference (PAC) Eighth Grade Championship. Pictured, front row, left to right are Shelbi Newcomer, Loryn Willis, Abbi Voegel, Morgan Alvey and Maddy Pfister. Pictured back row, left to right are Jenny Scheller, Celeste Hill, Brooklynn Hammon, Kalina Carl and Kayla Sanford.

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North Posey claims M-PAC crown The North Posey Junior High School eighth grades girls’ basketball team recently won the Middle School Pocket Athletic Conference tournament, giving the school its first title in 19 years.

The eighth graders claimed the crown with a 32-27 victory over Southridge, as Kayla Sanford scored 10 points to lead the team. Celeste Hill added nine points, Abby Voegel seven and Brooklyn Hamman five. The eighth grade Lady Vikings reached the championship game with a 33-23 semifinal win over Tecumseh and a 33-2 firstround rout of Tell City.

Against Tecumseh, Hill put in 10 points, while Sanford added eight and Hamman five.

Sanford scored 12 points to lead the way against Tell City. Hamman tallied six and Shelby Newcomer put in four as the two teams played with a running clock in the second half, stopping only for free throws.

The eighth-graders wrapped up their season last week by splitting two games at the South Gibson tournament.

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County matmen stopped short at Semistate Championship

By STEVE JOOS Tyler Stock was the last North Posey Viking standing at the Ford Center Saturday.

Jon Hoehn was the last Mount Vernon Wildcat standing.

Both were voted off the island early.

In wrestling, the Evansville Sectional and Castle Regional are among the toughest in the state, if not the toughest, producing nonchampion qualifiers who can be very formidable due to the competition they face.

Unfortunately, strength of schedule can sometimes only take an athlete so far and then the competing talent level is just too formidable.

That may have been the story for Posey County’s six qualifiers for the Evansville Semistate.

None of the six won championships while advancing in the first two rounds, and that may have been their undoing as only two of the six reached the second round and neither one advanced past that point.

Stock and Jon Hoehn were dropped in the quarterfinals. Stock was blanked by the eventual champion at 113 pounds, Bailey LaHue of Corydon Central 7-0, while Jon Hoehn fell 5-2 at the hands of Danville’s Jordan Judy, who finished third at 138.

Both coaches acknowledged that the level of competition at the Ford Center may have

been the difference.

“This is the Semistate,” North Posey mentor John Spencer said. “There are no bad wrestlers left. Just getting this far, especially coming out of our Sectional and our Regional, that’s an accomplishment just getting here. There are some good wrestlers here, and there are some good wrestlers going home.”

For example, Stock’s match was preceded by a 106-pound quarterfinal between Floyd Central’s Terrance Kennedy and Jacob Brown of Castle, each one of whom entered the mat with just one loss on the season.

Brown won that match and went on to win the 106 title.

Wildcats’ coach Tim Alcorn agreed that the level of competition may have overwhelmed his grapplers.

“When you’re at the Semistate level, there’s no more flukes, no more good draws,” Alcorn said. “You have to show up and have your best day every day at Semistate and state. Our boys came out and gave a valiant effort, but when the chips fell, it fell a little short today.”

The Vikings and Wildcats came into the meet with a second, a third and four fourths at Castle and since none of them were champions, all of them were subject to the blind draw and uncertain completion.

John Hoehn worked well on top and came out and led 2-0 after a first-period takedown

in his opener against Cory Troutman of Floyd Central.

The Mount Vernon coaches would have liked to have seen more of a cushion for the senior middleweight, but he was still able to do what he does best in the third period and went from there to beat rout man.

In the quarterfinals, Hoehn didn’t wrestle as well as he could have, Alcorn said, but then again Judy came prepared and kept Hoehn from getting any offense started.

“He (Judy) didn’t do anything we didn’t expect,” Alcorn explained. “He just didn’t let us do what we wanted to do.”

North Posey’s Austin Little works to gain advantage One of the other Viking qualifiers, Austin Little ran over his Martinsville opponent in wrestling semi-state into Kaden Suter of Martins- heavyweight action this weekend. Photo by Dave Koch ville, the state’s top-ranked “The kid’s pretty good,” Spencer said of 285-pounder at 39-0 and the eventual heavy- Suter. “And we took him all the way to the weight champion. end of the match. He won 6-3. That’s the best Not even Little’s best effort of the year could Austin’s wrestled all year, but that Suter kid’s overcome Suter, but he went three rounds with pretty good.” him and that was more than runner-up Brian Continued on Page B6 Snyder of Avon (pinned in 1:55) could say.

Lady Vikings leave it all on the floor in sectional finale

Amy Brandenstein finally recovered from injury in time to return for the team’s final game of the season. The Lady Vikings fell to highly-regarded Southridge in Wednesday’s sectional at Forest Park. Photo by Dave Pearce

By Dave Pearce While the North Posey Vikings were unsuccessful in their bid to upset 18-2 Southridge in the first round of the Forest Park girls basketball sectional on Wednesday evening, North Posey Coach Tracy Stroud could not have been prouder. And with the young team he had on the floor, he is looking for brighter days ahead for the youthful North Posey Vikings.

But perhaps just as importantly or perhaps even moreso, he is looking for brighter days ahead for his lone senior, Caitlin Herrmann, who left it all on the floor and will now concentrate on her studies and prepare for the track season. But the senior leader was paid the highest compliment by Stroud regarding her future off the basketball court.

“She has been one of the best leaders I have ever had,” Stroud said of Herrmann. “I told her after the game that I have had girls that were seniors that were better basketball players but we haven’t had the leadership that she

Cats’ too much for Mount Carmel

By Steve Joos This time, the Mount Vernon boys’ basketball team didn’t get late baskets to pull out a win.

They didn’t need to.

The Wildcats made some defensive adjustments at halftime and then proceeded to outscore the visiting Mount Carmel Golden Aces 34-15 in the second half, including a 15-4 rampage in the third quarter, and pulled away for a 63-50 victory.

It only took a slight defensive adjustment in order to get the Golden Aces out of the middle, coach Marc Hostetter said.

“Mount Carmel was doing a great job of getting to the middle of the paint and finding guys on the interior passes,” Hostetter explained.

“Those passes are hard to make and hard to catch and not many teams do them.

We got our guys to get in the paint and provide a little more containment instead of what we’ve been doing over the last couple of months and that worked out well, especially in that third quarter.

Mount Vernon limited the Illinoisans to a pair of Reece Metcalf free throws and a bucket by Nathaniel Wagner as they turned a 35-29 halftime deficit into a 44-39 lead heading into the final eight minutes.

The Cats scored the first eight points of the second half and basically took control of the game after a rough first half where Mount Carmel took a 10-2 bulge two minutes into the contest and then closed out the half on a strong note.

Brian Koch opened the third chapter with a bucket, and then Tyler Ritzert knocked one down, cutting the Mount Carmel lead to 35-33. Austin Goebel put the ball back in after two missed shots to square the set at 3535, then it was Troy Paris with a layup, giving the Cats a 37-35 advantage out of a

Mount Carmel time out with just under five minutes to go.

Metcalf quickly tied the game after Goebel drew his third foul two seconds after Paris gave the Wildcats the lead, but Ritzert answered and River VanZant downed one of two free throws to make it 40-37 and put the Wildcats up for good.

The Cats led 44-39 after three periods and nursed that five-point advantage until a 10-2 run stretched the margin to 59-46 with 2:04 left in the game.

The game started out the way all too many contests had gone for the Cats this season, as the Aces took a 10-2 lead, then went on a 7-2 run after Mount Vernon had climbed back to within two on a bucket by Paris, pushing the gap to 17-10 at the first stop.

With the Golden Aces up 21-12 early in the second quarter, Collin Varner drained a three-pointer and Koch sunk a pair of charity tosses to pull Mount Vernon to within four at 21-17 before the Aces reeled off eight straight points to open a 29-18 bulge.

In a first half where the two teams seemed to trade runs (although Mount Carmel got the better of it), Mount Vernon finished the half with five straight tallies on a bucket by Ritzert and Varner’s trey.

“Sitting there, on the bench, watching that (the first half), it was like ‘here we go,’” Hostetter said. “We’ve been there, we’ve done that, it’s not a good thing, but the team did not come out sharp to start the ball game, but it’s not something new to us, it’s not something that we have to overcome for the first time.

We were confident in ourselves that we could come out after halftime and make a run.”

The Wildcats started defending under the basket and getting the rebound while limiting the Golden Aces to just one shot.

The Wildcats also got a

Mt. Vernon senior Troy Paris lines up for two points during this weeks conference action at Mt. Vernon. Photo by Dave Koch balanced effort offensively Thursday.

How balanced?

Well, Paris, Koch and Varner each put in 12 points to lead Mount Vernon, while Bryce Newman tallied 10 to give the Cats four in double figures. VanZant was close behind with nine, most of them coming on clutch shots.

“River played really well,” Hostetter said. “He’s finding what his strength is and he’s really using that in the course of the game. When we all get on the same page doing that, good things will happen for us.”

Ritzert added six points and Goebel two.

Like most of the teams they play, the Wildcats are struggling with minor injuries and illness and having nine players who can contribute will be helpful down the stretch, the coach added.

Metcalfe pumped in a game-high 16 points to lead Mount Carmel, while freshman Levi Laws added 13 and sophomore C.J. Diel put in 12.

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provided both on and off the court. To be the only senior on the team and keep a 5-15 team working hard, there were no spats all year. There was no back-stabbing and some of the things you sometimes have. They just came in and worked as hard as they could. They never griped about who was getting shots.

We were able to just concentrate on basketball. We didn’t have to concentrate on any of the other stuff.”

Stroud said that while Herrmann will be successful in whatever she chooses to do in her life, some of the younger players have learned a lot this year and are going to have an opportunity to enjoy some success on the basketball court in the next few years, thanks, in part, to the varsity experience they were able to gain this year as underclassmen.

“As hard as they work and as young as they are, there’s nothing but good things in

their future,” Stroud said of the younger players.

But the Raiders are in the midst of a good run, moving down this year to Class 2A as one of the largest Class 2A schools. They have a group of talented girls who have played together for a long time.

“Southridge is a good team,” Stroud said of the Raiders. “They are physical and they bump you on every cut. They are well-coached and there’s a reason they are 18-2. I felt like we bowed down a little in the first half and didn’t really really match their physical play and aggression but I felt like we stepped up and met that in the second half.”

The first half was somewhat of a disaster as the “non-contact” sport of basketball was a foreign term to the Lady Raiders.

Neither team shot the ball well in the early-going but the first basket of the game

came at the 5:43 mark of the first quarter. And in a way, it was a sign of things to come as the Raiders missed both ends of a two free throws but they were there to grab the rebound and ultimately scored from 3-point land to jump out to a 3-0 lead.

Senior Herrmann scored the first point of the game hitting the first of two free throws to pull the Lady Vikings to within 3-1. Southridge ran off the next six points to take a 9-1 lead before Hayley Harness finally got the Vikings’ first field goal at the 2:20 mark. Southridge answered with another 3-pointer before Amy Brandenstein, in her first game back from a two-month hiatus due to an injury, got a field goal to pull the Vikings to within 12-5.

But the remainder of the first quarter and most of the second, there was a lid on the

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Memorial slights victory from Viking boys’ basketball Early on, it looked like the Tigers may blow the Vikings out of the gym as they took an early 7-2 lead before the Vikings could get their offense on track.

Nick Neidig, who played his best all-Around game of the year, hit a pair of free throws following an offensive rebound put-back attempt.

But Memorial quickly answered with a 3-point basket. We Harness scored off a break and Baity answered inside to give Memorial a 12-6 lead.

But Jourdan Cox got loose and Neidig scored off another offensive rebound. Alec Werry scored to pull the Vikings to within 16-12 before Baity hit again, this time for a 3-point play inside to put Memorial ahead 1912. The Vikings scored the final five points of the period as Cox nailed a 3-pointer and Werry got a steal and a bucket as the first quarter ended with the Vikings trailing 19-17.

Memorial got the first four points of the second quarter before ox was fouled inside and converted the two free throws. Harness scored off a drive and the Vikings tied the score at 23.

Memorial quickly answered with a 3-pointer before the teams finished the first half with absolutely nothing decided, in a 29-all tie, with Neidig scoring his team’s final six points in the

half, the most notable a rebound tip-is off his own shot. He was also fouled on the play and hit the one-handed free throw.

On paper, the Tigers had a big advantage in size and quickness but the Vikings showed their fans there is a reason why the games are played.

“We have goals of finishing with a winning season and winning the sectional and nothing happened tonight to set us back in those two regards,” Wadsworth said. “If anything, it pushed us forward a little because Nick Neidig had a tremendous game on the glass and did a better job of posting up. We also did a better job of feeding him.”

Memorial began the second half on a tear, building a 40-31 lead with 2:36 remaining in North Posey’s Alec Werry takes the ball the third quarter. The Tigers went on, helped by a momentary loss of composure near the strong to the basket while Memorial’s Alend of the period, to post a 46-35 lead heading phonso Baity attempts to block the shot into the final period. That’s when things got from behind. Photo by Dave Pearce interesting. the arc to tie the game. Memorial immediately Neidig picked up his fourth foul less than called a time out but this time, the timekeeper a minute into the final period before Har- allowed the clock to move to three seconds. ness hit a rebound basket and Werry scored The officials put the accurate 4.8 seconds back off a steal. Baity answered with a pair of free on the clock but the Tigers could not score and throws before Werry nailed a long 3-pointer. the game went into overtime.

Kyle Swope then got into the action, nailing That’s when the Memorial early overtime a 3-pointer to pull the Vikings back to within lead and the North Posey fouls took over and ‘Lady Vikings leave it on the floor’ continued from B2 48-45 with 4:15 remaining. After a defensive Cox’s 2-pointer at the buzzer meant little as North Posey basket. win. No one has ever given and Amy Brandenstein with stop, Austin Bender’s 3-pointer tied the game the Vikings fell to 8-9 on the year.

“We have looked at the last two games as Southridge scored the final up.” two. The Vikings bowed out at 48 with 2:49 remaining.

Memorial took a 50-48 lead before Baity something we want to get better at,” Wadseven points of the first periNorth Posey’s 5-foot-4 with a record of 5-16. od and outscored the Vikings sophomore guard responded The Raiders, ranked eighth went coast to coast to put Memorial ahead 52- sworth said of subsequent losses to Memo10-5 in the second period to to the “hands-on” defensive and boasting a 19-2 record, 48. The Vikings took another time out, trailing rial and Southridge. “We are getting better as shot-faking inside. It’s getting late in the year take a 17-point lead into the tactics employed success- faced top-ranked Mater Dei, by four with 41 seconds remaining.

The Vikings could not find an opening but and we are still learning but I like what we are locker room. fully by the Lady Raiders, 21-2, in the semi-final match But the Vikings came out particularly in the second on Friday at Forest Park. The Swope again found the bottom of the net as he learning. This was our first overtime game of in the third quarter and ap- half. Despite her size, she winner was to face the win- went up and over Baity’s outstretched arms to the year and we had to battle to get it into overpeared to have adjusted to drive to the basket and ended ner of the Tell City-Perry pull the Vikes to within 52-51 at the 13.5 mark. time. We were down by 11 and it was just a North Posey immediately called time out but matter of talking to our kids at the beginning the rugged style of play. up as the team’s high scorer Central game.

The Lady Vikings actually with some of her points com- • The Vikings snapped a two- the timekeeper allowed the clock to run to run of the fourth quarter and telling them that it is outscored Southridge 12-9 ing on drives down deep into game losing streak Saturday down to 10.6 but the referees responded by not over yet…there’s still time to make a run.”

Wadsworth said his team believed and batin the third quarter as super the paint. night and picked up their moving the clock back to 12 seconds. The Visophomores Werry, Hannah “She’s a beast—a 5-foot-4, ninth win of the season, 72- kings were forced to foul and Memorial appar- tled all the way and he likes the character this ently nailed the game down, moving ahead by team is developing.

Harness, and Hayley Harness 50-pound beast,” Stroud said 69 at Forest Park. scored all the team’s points in of his point guard. “At half- • For more details on Satur- three with 10.6 seconds to go.

But Werry had other ideas the quarter. But the Vikings time we told them that we are day’s game, see next week’s as he pulled up from beyond still trailed 38-22 entering going to have to attack the Posey County News.

M.S.D of Mount Vernon to the Red Cross for books. the final period. basket and she has been stepAquatic program will have Minimum Enrollment for “I’m very proud of our sec- ping up and doing that.” open swimming on Tues- the class is 6. ond half because we didn’t The final period saw the day from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Register with the secrelay down,” Stroud said. “We Vikings forced to foul to try on Feb. 14, 21, 28, March tary in the Mt. Vernon Junior couldn’t get to the foul line at and stop the clock and the It is time to plan for the Elementary on Mon., Feb. 20 all and we had trouble hitting Raiders hit 10-of-12 free 2012 baseball season. We are and Wed., Feb. 22 from 5:30 - 6, 13, 20, April 3, 10, 17, High School Office between 24 and May 1, 8, 15. Open 7:30 a.m. and 3:45 p.m. on our shots, which has been a throws in that period to put having one sign up for all boys 7:30 p.m. both nights.

Swimming will not be held Monday through Friday. problem all season long. But the game completely out of who would like to particiBoys wanting to play must on days when school is not Fees should be paid at this this has been a great group to reach. pate in the North Posey Youth attend one of these nights and coach. They don’t complain Hayley Harness finished club’s baseball program for bring their Completed Form in session for vactions or in- time.

To register by mail, on and they don’t gripe. They with eight points for the Vi- 2012, everyone should sign and League Fee’s. Pick up a clement weather.

Adult Fitness swimming a sheet of paper write the just come in and work hard kings while Werry finished up, including those currently form at school, or a Form and will be held when school is name of the person enrollevery day and that shows a with seven, Hannah Harness on a major little league roster. complete information can be in session from 7:15 a.m. to ing in the class, the name lot of character. They went with six, Caitlin Herrmann, Sign-ups will be held at found on the Posey County of the class, first choice of into every game thinking Brianna Perry and Rachel the Poseyville Community News Website at www.posey- 8 a.m.

Life Guard classes will time and session along with they had a good chance to Ungetheim with three each, Center located next to North countynews.com. be offered from 6 p.m. to 9 your phone number. Enp.m. on Feb. 27, 29, March close a check for the proper 5, 7, 12, 14, 16, 21. The amount made out to Mt. VerTOBACCO HOURS: Mon-Sat 8am-8pm and Sun 9am-6pm fee will be $50 per session non High School. Send to 1827 Waterworks Rd. Beside the LST Memorial. 812-422-7665 plus a separate check of $35 Aquatic Director; Mt.Vernon made out to the Red Cross Junior High School; 701 Tile for books. Minimum Enroll- Factory Road; Mt. Vernon, ment for the class is 6.

IN47620. For more informaWater Safety Instructor tion call Mt. Vernon Junior class will be offered on April High school at 833-2077.

11, 16, 18, 23, 25, 30, May If interested in swim les2, and 16. The fee will be sons or swim call Coach $50 per session plus a sepa- Zoller at 453-2758 cell or rate check of $35 made out 833-2077.

By Dave Pearce Time is such a fleeting thing, especially when you find yourself in an overtime basketball game and visiting an Evansville School.

The North Posey Vikings Showed grittiness and determination throughout the entire game and even in the overtime but came up short, 66-63 at Memorial on Thursday night.

Memorial’s Alphonso Baity seemed to have an answer each time the Vikings appeared to be getting back into the game. Things began much like they ended for Baity and his teammates as the Henderson, Ky., resident scored his team’s first seven points and the first two in the overtime before the Vikings were forced to foul and were outscored the Vikings 10-7, including 8-of 12 from the free throw line to preserve the victory.

“The thing we were looking for out of our zone was the chance to trap when the opportunity presented itself,” North Posey mentor Matt Wadsworth said. “What played into our hands was the more they stretched the count, the more that allowed us to get into passing zones. We forced them to make long passes and we have athletes who can get to those passing lanes and come up with those plays and steals.”

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Wet Cats have some fun at double dual swim meet

By Steve Joos While the Mount Vernon girls’ swim team was packing for a trip to Indianapolis, the boys were just having a little fun in the Junior High pool Thursday night.

They also swam very well, as a number of freshmen stepped up and the Wet Wildcats swam as much against themselves as they did visiting Mater Dei and Tecumseh, beating the Evansville school 130-54 and the Braves 145-26.

“We had some really great swims,” coach Larry Zoller said. “Some of our freshmen did a great job. Basically in this meet, we just had fun.”

Austin Colson and Zach Allyn performed well, swimming well and posting personal best times in their events. Jacob Poole had a good time in the 200-freestyle, winning that event in 1:49.89, while the coaches mixed the lineup and Mt. Vernon’s Kurt Kissinger swims a fast lap of 200- Nicholas Loehr turned in a pair of peryard Freestyle during Thursday’s three-way home meet sonal bests with a :59.57 in the 100-yard with Tecumseh and Mater Dei as the girls prepared for butterfly and a 1:05.49 in the 100-breasttheir state completion. Photo by Dave Koch stroke.

“We’re starting to taper,” Zoller said.

‘Cats too much’ continued from B3

“Metcalfe and Laws, a freshman and a sophomore,” Hostetter said. “They’re going to be good for a while for them. That’s a wing and a guard for them and the lefthander’s hard to guard and Metcalfe’s a good shooter.”

The victory avenged a loss to the Golden Aces which the Cats suffered in the Carmi Invitational Tournament. In that contest, the Cats saw a nine-point lead get away and lost the game on a three-pointer by Metcalfe, who can not only shoot, but can also get the basketball to an open man.

Hostetter said that Thursday’s game was different that the CWIT contest as far as the atmosphere was concerned, but his team was sharper than they have been, especially in the second half and especially with a big lead.

“We played multiple defenses and in different ways,” Hostetter said. “And that’s going to come in handy playing on the road.”

The reserves came up short in the preliminary, losing 49-46.

Jacob Norman put in 16 points and Cody Irvin 14, but it wasn’t enough as Wildcat reserves battled to within a point late in the fourth quarter, but couldn’t close things out.

J.T. Doerflein added seven tallies, while Cody Mobley chipped in four, Hunter Brooks three and Levi Duckworth two.

“They’re starting to get a little more rest and I think they’ve got more energy.”

The coaches also cut out early morning practice as part of the tapering process and that may have been one of the things that may have helped the Wet Wildcats Thursday.

Poole and Loehr were double winners, with Poole adding the 500-freestyle to his list of achievements.

Reid Mobley and Wade Mobley went 1-2 in the 50-freestyle, while Reid Mobley, last week’s ESPN 106.7-Wow Internet “Athlete of the Week” posted a time of :23.02.

The Mobleys’ finish in the 50-freestyle was one of seven 1-2 finishes registered by the Wet Casts Thursday night. Colson and Allyn had another, as they came in 1-2 in the 200-individual medley.

Zoller also did some mixing and matching in the relays in order to even out the lineup.

And why not?

The Wet Cats were having fun Thursday night.

Mount Vernon boys’ double dual: 200-medley relay: 1) Mount Vernon (Travis Harris, Kevin Moore, W. Mobley, Colson) 1:53.42, 2) Mount Vernon (Loehr, Tyler Moll, Keith Turner, Danen Turpin) 2:00.60, 3) Mount Vernon (Allyn, Brayden Bourne, Aaron Duckworth, Layton Hopper) 2:00.91; 200-freestyle: Poole (first) 1:49.89, Sage Irons (second) 1:59.60, Kurt Kissinger (fifth) 2;12.51; 200-IM: Colson (first) 2;19.70, Allyn (second) 2:30.15, Harris (fourth) 2:36.79; 50-freestyle: R. Mobley (first) :23.02, W. Mobley (second) :23.41, Bourne (fifth) :27.44; Diving: Kyle Smith (first) 173.90; 100-butterfly: Loehr (first) :59.57, Moll (second) 1:03.29, Turner (sixth) 1:18.83; 100-freestyle: Duckworth (first) :54.03, Moore (second) :56.61, Kissinger (fifth) :59.49; 500–freestyle: Poole (first) 5:01.61, Colson (second) 5:28.17, Harris (fourth) 6:03.70; 200-freestyle relay: 1) Mount Vernon (Poole, Kissinger, Duckworth, Loehr) 1:39.13, 2) Mount Vernon (W. Mobley, Moll, Moore, Turpin) 1:40.87; 100-backstroke: Hopper (first) 1:06.13, Allyn (second) 1:07.68, Turner (fifth) 100-breaststroke: “They had a mountain of a guard (Turpin) 1:14.90; Loehr (fi rst) 1:05.49, Bourne who overpowered us,” Little said. “This kid (fourth) 1:18.34, Turpin (fifth) had 21 points. We didn’t attack their half 1:19.71; 400-freestyle relay: court trap as we had practiced and this led to 1) Mount Vernon (Kissinger, too many silly mistakes.”

Those mistakes came back to bite the Moll, Colson, W. Mobley) Rappites all night. They fell behind 17-12 3:45.23, 2) Mount Vernon after the first quarter and then the Jug Rox (Allyn, Hopper, Duckworth, started a rockslide, outscoring New Harmo- R. Mobley) 3:45.83.

• In the recent Mount Verny 17-7 in the second chapter to open a 34non boys’ Invitational, things 19 halftime lead and stretching it to 46-25 were going so well for the after three quarters.

Mount Vernon boys’ swim Once again, Kyle Whitmore provided team.

But they ran out of most of New Harmony’s offense, pouring steam down the stretch. in a game-high 25 points. Clint Matthews That enabled the Memorial added six, while Elliott Lange tallied three, Tigers to overtake them.

Caleb McDaniel two and A.J. Eaton one.

The Tigers took advantage Erwin added 15 points and Sherfick 13 as of a different meet format and the Jug Rox put three players in double fig-

Jug Rox overpower Rappites’ hoop team The New Harmony boys’ basketball team knew about the Shoals Jug Rox prior to Thursday’s game.

They knew that the Jug Rox had some big players that they would have trouble contending with.

But they still made their share of miscues and as a result, the fact that the visitors overwhelmed them wasn’t that much of a surprise.

Shoals outscored New Harmony 29-13 in the second and third quarters en route to a 62-37 victory in a game moved up from Saturday due to the girls’ Sectional tournament.

Rappites coach Jim Little said that Shoals had a quick guard (Dylan Ervin) and a sixfoot-nine inch center (John Sherfick) that the Rappites knew they couldn’t stop, but another player, strapping six-three guard Derek Turpin, also caused problems for New Harmony.

ures and that trio outscored New Harmony 49-37 by themselves.

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‘Wet Cats have some fun’ continued from B5 a low fuel tank on the part of the homestanding Wet Wildcats to score 423 points in the later events and finish ahead of Mount Vernon (393).

Terre Haute North was way in the back (like maybe somewhere around Sullivan) with 195 tallies.

The Wet Wildcats got off to a great start, but after the 500-freestyle, started running out of gas, coach Larry Zoller said.

“We started out great,” Zoller said. “But after the 500-freestyle, we went flat. We didn’t swim as well and Memorial took advantage of that.”

The Tigers have a very athletic-looking team, with five swimmers around six-foot, five inches tall. Zoller compared them to a basketball team, adding that the Tigers also took advantage of a meet format which allowed any number of swimmers to score rather than limiting each team to its top three places.

Up until the home stretch, the Wet Cats had some great performances.

Jacob Poole was a double winner, the only one of the day for Mount Vernon, until the Wet Cats ran out of steam, taking the 200-yard freestyle in 1:50.05 and the 500-freestyle in 4:53.73.

Aaron Duckworth registered a personal best in the 500-freestyle, while he and Austin Colson each broke the two-minute mark in the 200-freestyle. Zoller was also pleased with the efforts of Nicholas Loehr in the 500 and freshman Kurt Kissinger, who knocked four seconds off his time in the 100-freestyle.

‘County matmen stopped’ continued from B3

But the Wet Wildcats just ran out of gas at the end.

“We’re starting to taper,” Zoller said. “Right now, we’re working hard and getting ready for Sectionals.”

Jasper was fourth in the meet with 188 points, while Reitz came in fifth with 102. Rounding out the field were Harrison (34), Central (28), North (17) and Bosse (seven).

Mount Vernon Invitational: 200-medley relay: 1) Mount Vernon (Reid Mobley, Wade Mobley, Poole, Danen Turpin) 1:43.47, 5) Mount Vernon (Travis Harris, Kevin Moore, Tyler Moll, Sage Irons) 1:54.84; 200-freestyule: Poole (first) 1:50.05, Irons (third) 1:56.91, Colson (sixth) 1:59.41; 200-individual medley: R. Mobley (first) 2:05.73, Loehr (second) 2:07.79, Layton Hopper (ninth) 2:15.71; 50-freestyle: R. Mobley (second) :22.52, Turpin (eighth) :24.98, T. Harris (10) :25.37; Diving: Kyle Smith (third) 316.05, Jake Whaley (fourth) 278.75; 100-buterfly: R. Mobley (first) :55.77, Moore (seventh) 1:07.65, Turpin (eighth) 1:07.98; 500-freestyle: Poole (first) 4:53.73, Loehr (third) 5:05.99, Duckworth (seventh) 5:27.32; 200-freestykle relay: 1) Mount Vernon (Poole, Turpin, R. Mobley, W. Mobley) 1:32.70, 5) Mount Vernon (Hopper, Loehr, Colson, Duckworth) 1:40.77; 100-backstorke: Harris (sixth) 1:03.11; 100-breaststroke: W. Mobley (second) 1:03.31, Moll (fourth) 1:09.32, Moore (eighth) 1:11.10; 400-freestyle relay: 4) Mount Vernon (Hopper, Duckworth, Irons, Loehr) 3:41.31, 7) Mount Vernon (Kissinger, Moore, Harris, Moll) 3:58.83.

Little had a brief 3-2 lead before Suter turned in a pair of third-period takedowns to clinch the match.

As for Stock, the 113-pound senior went up against Payton Reese, a Franklin grappler that Stock had dispatched during Christmas break for the Mater Dei Classic title.

Stock came and pretty much controlled the rematch, winning 5-0 on a takedown and near fall. But then he faced LaHue, a freshman phenom who is considered one of the state’s rising stars.

“He (LaHue) is pretty good,” Spencer said. “He’s a freshman, he wrestles year-round and the kid’s pretty talented; he’s pretty Tuesday, Feb. 14 Allendale at New Harmo- strong. We don’t have anything BOYS’ BASKETBALL: ny. to be ashamed of. Not everyDay School at New HarFriday, Feb. 17 body gets to go to Semistate mony.

BOYS’ BASKETBALL: and we had three who wrestled Thursday, Feb. 16 Mount Vernon at Reitz, well and got there.”

SWIMMING: Mount Boonville at North Posey.

The Viking qualifier, Michel Vernon at the Castle SecSaturday, Feb. 18 Frymire, also drew a Regional tional preliminaries; JUBOYS’ BASKETBALL: champ, Leo Meza of WashNIOR HIGH WRES- Tell City at North Posey, ington. And had the Hatchet TLING: Castle South at Red Hill at New Harmony; 138-pounder beat, but things Mount Vernon, Southridge SWIMMING: Mount Ver- got away in the third period at North Posey; JUNIOR non at the Castle Sectional when Meza turned in a pair HIGH VOLLEYBALL: boys’ meet. of near falls and a reversal to

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Mt. Vernon senior Mary Klueh gets out fast on the 100-yard Breast Stroke during Saturday’s IHSAA finals competitions at IUPUI Natatorium. Klueh finished 13th in the state in this competition. Photo by Terri Koch

clinch the match.

Little continued a pattern of improvement that has gone on since the Pocket Athletic Conference meet and actually wrestled better in losing one match at the Semistate than he did in finishing third at the Regional, Spencer said.

“There are a lot of things we talked about in practice and for the most part, he didn’t do them.” the coach said. “Some bad habits, so he got tons better. Michael drew a Regional champion and he wrestled well. He could have won that match and he didn’t, but that’s why you go out and wrestle for six minutes. Ty (Stock) didn’t wrestle bad. He didn’t wrestle bad at all. It’s just that sometimes you come up against someone who’s better than you in wrestling and in life.”

It was an enjoyable year for Spencer, who returned to coaching after an extended absence from a career which took him to Wood Memorial and Eastern Pekin, among other stops.

The North Posey coach is looking forward to next season, when a new class format and a larger team may help the Vikings, but he also enjoyed the season.

Mount Vernon’s other two grapplers gave good efforts, but each ran into trouble.

At 126 pounds, Adam Hoehn made it as a sophomore, which was quite an accomplishment, while senior Jordan Dallas had never gotten out of the Regional before qualifying this season. Alcorn praised the efforts of both wrestlers.

“Adam Hoehn making it as a sophomore is a big accomplishment,” Alcorn said. “Jordan Dallas making it after not getting past the Sectional or Regional, that’s a huge accomplishment. And Jon Hoehn, who keeps coming back again and again the last three years just speaks to how great these kids are. Their heart is unmatched, their effort is unmatched. The depth of these young men is just unmatched. I’m proud of theses kids, no matter what the outcome was here today.”

Adam Hoehn was in a 4-2 match in the third period of his match against Jevin Broukal of Bloomington South when the sophomore Regional champion caught Hoehn on his back and put him in a cradle for a near fall.

Alcorn chalked Adam Hoehn’s loss to inexperience, adding that the Cats will be better prepared in the future.

As for Dallas, he went up against a solid grappler in Franklin’s Luke Kriech at 152 pounds.

“We knew that coming in, we had some uphill draws,” Alcorn said.

“We knew that if we give them an inch, they’d take a mile, so we tried to get some blows in, so we couldn’t back down. We didn’t back down, we didn’t run from them, we gave a great effort.”

Kriech got a takedown against Dallas and took over from there, pinning the Wildcat grappler 12 seconds into the second period.

Alcorn was strong in his praise of the team and the community during the course of the season, his first after coming to the school from Memorial.

“That’s why today hurts so much,” he said. “When you put this much heart and this much effort into the program, you’ve just got to be proud of them. I want to thank the boys for their effort and the parents and the community for their support.”

Like the Vikings, Mount Vernon had a run which ended when the Wildcats ran into stiffer competition.

Like Stock and Little, it took the best to beat Adam Hoehn, as Broukal went on to win the 126-pound championship. Kriech, like Judy finished in third place, this time at 152, while Meza was the only grappler to eliminate a Posey County madman, but not make the semifinals.

‘Unfortunate ending’ continued from B2 13-of-15 free throws,” Toopes said. “We got into double bonus early in the second quarter and I knew we had to get to the line if we were going to be successful. We didn’t drive but I think their guards put so much pressure on them they didn’t feel like they could drive.”

The Rappite success on the boards was key during the first outing but Owen, who had 23 rebounds in the first encounter, was blocked completely out of the lane as Cannelton obviously executed better on the blocks, keeping the Rappites off the boards.

“Everything they did tonight, we knew they were going to do,” Toopes said after the game. “We knew Sarah Powers was their main scorer and we held her to 12 points, five of those free throws in the fourth quarter.

But Hemmings, who had one point last time, had 20 tonight. And, they hit 13-of-16 free throws.”

The Bulldogs obviously took advantage of New Harmony’s situation and won the game. But it didn’t take away the pride the coach or the town has of its players.

“I have coached high school, this will be my 16th year,” Toopes said.

“This is the most unselfish group I have ever coached. They don’t care who shoots or who gets the basket, they all turn around and run down the floor like they all made it. They are good on the floor, they are all Straight A students, none of them ever miss practice.”

Toopes said the team has come such a long way as she hit them with a summer shooting schedule three years ago and the girls bought into the system and were rewarded with the successful season they had.

“Their record is amazing. A lot of people will say it is because we play smaller schools,” Toopes said. “But the truth of the matter is, every time we take the floor, we are playing a school that is much larger than ours. I am proud of them.”

Worman finished with 16 for the Rappites while Mathews had 15, Morris had 14, and Owen had two. The Lady Rappites bowed out at 13-8.

LEGALS Court News ARRESTS COMPLAINTS January 28 January 21 Timothy Whitfield— Mount Vernon—Domestic Battery—MVPD Victoria Dunn—Mount Vernon—Driving While Intoxicated—ISP January 30 Scott Reese—Wadesville—Domestic Battery— PCS Cory Waters—Mount Vernon—Warrant-Receiving Stolen Property (Petition to Revoke)—PCS Ryan Reynolds—Mount Vernon—Warrant-Operating a Vehicle After Forfeiture of License for Life, Resisting Law Enforcement x 2, Criminal Mischief x 2—PCS

9:41 a.m.—Agency Assist—Male subject wanted for narcotics and public intoxication. Officer safety alert, will meet officer with a shot gun if they come— New Harmony Road, Poseyville 4:51 p.m.—Reckless— White Grand A.m., Illinois plate, all over the roadway—Hwy 62, Mount Vernon 5:19 p.m.—Extra Patrol—When caller got up this morning, her garage door was open. Would like extra patrol during the night—Jackson Road, Mount Vernon 5:57 p.m.—Reckless— Red sedan, Kentucky plates,

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LEGALS Court News... continued from previous page all over the roadway from shoulder to shoulder—Hwy 62, Mount Vernon 10:07 p.m.—Motorist Assist—Out with a semi, Iowa plates—Hwy 69, New Harmony 10:32 p.m.—Suspicious—Caller has noticed some subjects on his property. Not sure what they are up to but it looks like someone might be there trying to pull them out. Caller would like a deputy to come to the area—S St. Philips Road, Mount Vernon

January 22 5:18 a.m.—Suspicious— Checked a vehicle parked at Hawg N Sauce. Plate doesn’t match the vehicle.

Talked to security at Expressway. Subject was out on foot, had flashlight, were on the railroad tracks.

Checking the area—Leonard Road, Mount Vernon 5:19 a.m.—Suspicious— Advised some juveniles are playing around the vehicles, opening cars and hoods of

cars—Expressway, Mount Vernon 6:36 a.m.—Alarm— Residence, front door and window—E Fletchall, Poseyville 6:56 a.m.—Suspicious— Gray pickup on its side.

No one around it. Between Kemmerling and next curve if you are heading west.

South side of the road— Matz Road, Griffin 11:36—Road Hazard— Debris all over the highway.

Christmas articles—Hwy 66, Wadesville

5:41 p.m.—CarDeer—94 Ford Taurus. Advised he has left eh scene and went home. Advised doesn’t have much damage to vehicle. Does not believe it over $1,000 worth of damage—Broadway, Evansville January 23 6:33 a.m.—Vandalism— Caller advised his neighbor’s keep driving in his yard. He’s asked them not to but they continue to do so.

Caller advised he now has

Legals 2012-029 GRIFFIN CIVIL TOWN, POSEY COUNTY, INDIANA CASH & INVESTMENTS COMBINED STATEMENTS - 2011

Governmental Activities

Local Fund Number

Local Fund Name

01 02 03 04 05 06

07

Beg Cash & Inv Bal Jan 1, 2011

Receipts

Disbursements

End Cash & Inv Bal Dec 31, 2011

General Fund

$24,306.64

$17,867.84

$19,818.28

$22,356.20

Motor Vehicle Highway Fund Local Road And Street Fund Rainy Day Fund Levy Excess Economic Development Improvement Cumulative Capital Improvement Fund Total All Funds

$24,443.99 $3,088.03 $3,443.40 $40.42 $2,165.13

$5,828.79 $767.65 $1,627.56 $0.00 $2,399.79

$2,472.23 $0.00 $0.00 $40.42 $124.00

$27,800.55 $3,855.68 $5,070.96 $0.00 $4,440.92

$1,063.07

$459.48

$872.10

$650.45

$58,550.68

$28,951.11

$23,327.03

$64,174.76

CERTIFICATION: This is to certify that the data contained in this report is accurate to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Jeanella Shelby Clerk-Treasurer P.O. Box 122, 205 S. Main St. Griffin, IN 47616 Telephone: (812) 851-3978 Published in the Posey County News on February 14, 2012

2012-026 SMITH TOWNSHIP ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2011 DISBURSEMENTS BY VENDOR 2011 Fund Name Cumulative Fire

Category Capital Outlays

Fire Fighting Fund

Other Disbursements

Paid To Smith Twp Volunteer Fire Dept Total Cumulative Fire Smith Twp Volunteer Fire Dept Total Fire Fighting Town of Cynthiana Water & Sewer Dept Duke Energy Total Rainy Day Steve Jarboe Terri Jarboe Leon Wilderman Joe Lupfer Jeff Lupfer US Dept of Treasury Indiana Dept of Revenue Boyce Forms USPS Arthur & Rosalie Scheller Janet Heldt Frank Bender Steve Jarboe - rent Mt. Vernon Democrat Posey County News Rosemeyer Insurance Agency Downey Insurance Co. Frontier Indiana Township Association Total Township Town of Cynthiana Water & Sewer Dept Duke Energy WIN Energy Vectren Community Natural Gas Wayne Schmitt Linda Anderson Hoiday Foods Total Township Assistance

Township Assistance Township Assistance Personal Services Personal Services Personal Services Personal Services Personal Services Personal Services Personal Services Supplies Supplies Services and Charges Services and Charges Services and Charges Services and Charges Services and Charges Services and Charges Services and Charges Services and Charges Services and Charges

Township Assistance Township Assistance Township Assistance Township Assistance Township Assistance Township Assistance Township Assistance Township Assistance

Township Assistnace

Amount $15,000.00 $15,000.00 $17,000.00 $17,000.00 $251.14 $155.02 $406.16 $5,296.07 $1,401.30 $350.00 $350.00 $350.00 $1,440.00 $277.65 $292.98 $88.00 $500.00 $500.00 $500.00 $1,680.00 $206.35 $300.63 $945.00 $145.00 $208.14 $150.00 $14,981.12 $1,383.23 $5,104.92 $275.31 $249.10 $1,293.51 $200.00 $450.00 $148.99 $9,105.06

SMITH TOWNSHIP/DETAILED RECEIPTS Governmental Activities

Cumulative Fire

Fire Fighting

Rainy Day Township

Township Assistance

General Property Taxes

$11,475.55

Financial Institution Tax distriubtion Vehicle/Aircraft Excise Tax Distribution Total Cumulative Fire General Property Taxes Financial Institution Tax distriubtion Vehicle/Aircraft Excise Tax Distribution Total Fire Fighting County Option Income Tax (COIT) Total Rainy Day General Property Taxes County Option Income Tax (COIT) Financial Institution Tax distriubtion Vehicle/Aircraft Excise Tax Distribution Earnings on Investments Total Township General Property Taxes County Option Income Tax (COIT) Financial Institution Tax distriubtion Vehicle/Aircraft Excise Tax Distribution Total Township Assistance

$30.00 $30.00 $11,535.55 $27,401.80 $72.00 $72.00 $27,545.80 $1,891.80 $1,891.80 $14,872.71 $3,276.24 $132.00 $132.00 $46.58 $18,459.53 $15,678.55 $1,024.01 $70.00 $200.00 $16,972.56

SMITH TOWNSHIP/CASH & INVESTMENTS COMBINED STATEMENTS Governmental Activities

Local Fund Number

Local Fund Name

1 2 3 4 5

Beg Cash & Inv Bal Jan 1, 2011

Receipts

Disbursements

End Cash & Inv Bal Dec 31, 2011

Cumulative Fire

$18,754.36

$11,535.55

$15,000.00

$15,289.91

Fire Fighting Rainy Day Township Township Assistance Total All Funds

$7,543.93 $4,290.47 $12,465.12 $3,943.37 $46,997.25

$27,545.80 $1,891.80 $18,459.53 $16,972.56 $76,405.24

$17,000.00 $406.16 $14,981.12 $9,105.06 $56,492.34

$18.089.73 $5,776.11 $15,943.53 $11,810.87 $66,910.15

PART 9 - CERTIFICATION State of Indiana SS: Posey County I, Steve Jarboe Trustee of Smith Township, Posey County, Indiana, do solemnly affirm 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 affirm 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 filed as required by law in the office 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.

Steve Jarboe Smith Township Trustee Telephone: (812) 845-2841 Date this report was to be published: Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed) to before me, the Chairman of the Township Board of Smith Township at its annual meeting, this 26th day of January, 2012.

Joe Lupfer Smith Township Board Chairman OPTION 1 This report was received, accepted, and approved by the Township Board at its annual meeting, this 26th day of January, 2012.

Smith Township Board: Joe Lupfer Leon Wilderman Jeff Lupfer Published in the Posey County News on Februrary 14, 2012

ruts in his yard and wants to know what can be done— Barter Road, Mount Vernon 9:24 a.m.—Citizen Dispute—Female subject pusher her medical alarm.

All she advised was that she needed the police. Alarm company advised it sounded like someone else was inside the residence—N Walnut, Poseyville 12:20 p.m.—Restraining Violation—Ex text caller and told her that he put the kids meds in the mailbox. He is not supposed to be anywhere near the residence. Caller requests to speak with an officer— Evansville St, Cynthiana 2:06 p.m.—Information—Has information on a theft that occurred during the summer. Requests to speak with a deputy— Poseyville 3:11 p.m.—Alarm—Residence, living room detector and door perimeter—Harmony Road, New Harmony 4:14 p.m.—Accident—2 vehicle, no injury—Hwy 69, Mount Vernon January 24 10:21 a.m.—Reckless— Maroon 4-door Cadillac.

Caller advised the vehicle tried to rear-end her twice and was giving her the finger and then passed her at a high rate of speed. Advised the vehicle is now trying to rear-end a vehicle in front of her—Hwy 62, Mount Vernon 10:27 a.m.—VIN Inspection—Dodge pickup—Big Pine Dr, Evansville 10:44 a.m.—Alarm— Audible—Church St, Cynthiana 3:39 p.m.—Theft—Advised subjects stole scrap metal and old parts for tractor—Hidbrader Road, New Harmony 4:09 p.m.—Suspicious— Caller advised about an hour ago caller was going southbound on Hwy 69. There was a dark colored truck going northbound. Advised the truck pulled off side of road. A white male subject, approximately 5’8” got out of truck and crossed the highway in front of caller and started walking northbound. Advised the subject was carrying some type of bag on his shoulder. Advised the truck left the area after the male subject got out. Caller advised he went to unload his truck and just went through the area again and the subject is now walking southbound, still carrying the bag. Just thought an officer should check the area—Hwy 69, New Harmony January 25 10:32 a.m.—Fraud— Someone used credit card online to make purchases— Stevens Road, Mount Vernon

January 26 8:29 a.m.—Welfare Check—Red vehicle off on the side of the road on the north side of Hwy 62.

Has flashers on—Hwy 62, Mount Vernon 9:19 a.m.—Harassment—Breeder from Michigan calling, telling the caller he is going to come and take her dog back after the papers have already been signed—Theodosis, Mount Vernon 4:53 p.m.—Road Hazard—Tree completely across the roadway. May have power line in it—Boberg and Stierley, Wadesville

9:26 p.m.—Harassment—Advised he is being threatened and harassed by some subjects. Requests to speak to an officer—Point Road, Mount Vernon January 27 3:37 p.m.—Harassment—Advised he spoke to an officer last night. Advised the same subjects are still harassing him—Point Road, Mount Vernon 4:09 p.m.—Reckless— Blue Kia Sedona, trimmed in gold/silver, has a child in the vehicle, all over the roadway, from guardrail to guardrail—Hwy 62, Mount Vernon 4:28 p.m.—Suspicious— Silver truck off in his field.

Advised no one around vehicle—Mackey Ferry Road, Mount Vernon January 28 10:50 a.m.—Theft— Advised someone stole extension cords, gas, and small hand tools—Hwy 66, Wadesville 2:05 p.m.—Vandalism— Caller advised taillight and mirror were busted out on his vehicle after exiting Silver Bell last night. Would like to file a report—Mt. Pleasant Road, Poseyville 2:22 p.m.—Harassment—Caller advised former landlord came to his house last evening threatening him. Does not want an officer at this time, would just like this on file—Elk Trail, Evansville 6:36 p.m.—CarDeer—2003 red Toyota Tacoma, over $1,000 worth of damage. Deer is still in the roadway—Upton Road, Mount Vernon 8:19 p.m.—911 Hangup—Called back, she advised everything is okay at the residence—S St. Philips Road, Mount Vernon 8:59 p.m.—Disturbance—Advised male subject banging on her door and yelling. Does not know who it is. Advised her dad is on the porch with him. Subject is still yelling—E 8th St, Mount Vernon 9:05 p.m.—Accident— Truck in a ditch. No one around the vehicle. Sitting on a curve. Subaru Forester—St. Wendel-Cynthiana Road, city not listed 10:16 p.m.—Reckless— Be-on-the-Look-Out for a white Chevy Impala, all over the roadway—Hwy 62, Evansville Traffic Violations for December 12, 2011 Jason E. Allen, 33, Mount Vernon, driving while suspended, failure to appear; Jason E. Allen, 31, Mount Vernon, 73/60, failure to appear; Ray G. Anthony, 51, Lancaster, Pa., unsafe lane movement, failure to appear; Rachel T. Bayer, 28, Ft. Mitchell, Ky., 87/70, $9.50 plus costs; Margaret S. Bolin, 30, Evansville, 95/70, $14.50 plus costs; Lawrence T. Bowman, 19, Mount Vernon, 72/55, failure to appear; David A. Briesacher, 53, Mount Vernon, no insurance, $4.50 plus costs; Justin A. Burris, 22, Evansville, 70/60, failure to appear; Reneeca M. Clark, 42, Mount Vernon, 75/55, $9.50 plus costs; Riley E. Cox, 20, Poseyville, 83/60, $14.50 plus costs; Zachary Cramer, 19, Avon, 90/55, $29.50 plus costs; Dustin J. Craney, 21, Poseyville, 72/55, $9.50 plus costs.

Jared M. DeLong, 23, Evansville, 92/70, $14.50 plus costs; Charles Z. Dick-

Legals 2012-027 NOTICE TO BIDDERS Posey County Solid Waste Management District is seeking bids for a tax anticipations warrant loan for $100,000.00. The purpose is to remove the current recycling center and construct a new building. A bid package is available at the District office located at 400 Brown Street, Mt. Vernon, IN 47620. The bid will be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. We reserve the right to reject any and all bids. Bids must be received at the District Office by 8:00 a.m. March 1, 2012.

Published in the Posey County News February 14 & 21, 2012

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LEGALS Court News... continued from previous page son, 40, Evansville, 71/60, $4.50 plus costs; Brittany K. Doy, 21, Mount Vernon, driving while suspended, $4.50 plus costs, driver’s license suspended 90 days; Linda A. Duncan, 69, Evansville, failure to yield to emergency vehicle, $4.50 plus costs; Allison L. Edwards, 28, Omaha, Ill., 71/55, $9.50 plus costs; Dennis W. Emery, 66, Mount Vernon, expired license plate,

$4.50 plus costs; Roy C. Fauquher, 24, Griffin, driving while suspended, $4.50 plus costs, driver’s license suspended 90 days; Timothy M. Fulton, 21, Evansville, failure to register atv, $4.50 plus costs; Jeanelle L. Gamble, 32, Kenner, La., 88/70, $9.50 plus costs; Timothy J. Glenn, 27, Evansville, 72/60, failure to appear.

Dallas E. Glover, 16,

Poseyville, operation inside an incorporated city limits, failure to appear; Jared W. Gray, 30, Mount Vernon, 47/30, $9.50 plus costs; Kenneth R. Greathouse, 43, West Salem, Ill., 66/55, $4.50 plus costs; Tina M. Griffith, 48, Louisville, Ky., 82/70, $4.50 plus costs; Ryan T. Hacker, 23, Evansville, littering, failure to appear; David R. Hagemann, JR., 47, Mount

Vernon, disregarding stop sign, $4.50 plus costs; Amanda M. Hamilton, 33, New Harmony, no registration, $4.50 plus costs; Amanda M. Hamilton, 33, New Harmony, no insurance, $4.50 plus costs, costs suspended; Robin Harris, 40, Carmi, Ill., expired license plates, $4.50 plus costs; Patricia A. Hedger, 58, Eldorado, Ill., 73/60, $4.50 plus costs; Brent D.

Legals 2012-028 NEW HARMONY CIVIL TOWN, POSEY COUNTY, INDIANA CASH & INVESTMENTS COMBINED STATEMENTS - 2011 Local Governmental Fund Number Activities

Electric Trash Wastewater

Water

Gas

Local Fund Name

Beg Cash & Inv Bal Jan 1, 2011

Receipts

Disbursements

End Cash & Inv Bal Dec 31, 2011

101

General Fund

$87,120.13

$439,285.26

$290,999.41

$235,405.98

103 201 202 204 205

County Option Income Tax Motor Vehicle Highway Local Road & Street Park Cemetery Posey Co. Community Foundation Riverfront Trail Mosquito Fire/EMS Station Grant Fund Local Law Enf Cont Ed Riverboart Wager Tax Revenue Recycling Fund Street Dept-Hwy 69 Proceeds Park Board Cum Cap Imp-Cig Tax Cum Cap Development Bicentennial Commission Fund Wabash River Erosion Control Economic Development Income Tax Veterans Memorial Fund Rainy Day Fund Cemetery-Improvement Fund Cemetery-Perpetual Care Cemetery Operating Payroll Murphy Park Endowment Levy Excess Fund Murphy Park Shelter House Endowment Electric Liquidating Interest Trash Collection Sewage Utility Operating Sewage Utl Bond & Interest Sewage Utliity Depreciation Sewage Debt Service Reserve Sewage Construction Fund Water Utility Operating & Cash Change Water Utl Bond & Interest Water Utl Depreciation Water Utl Meter Deposit Water Debt Service Reserve Water Utl Cash Reserve Gas Utility Operating Gas Utility Depreciation Gas Utility Meter Deposit Gas Cash Reserve Total All Funds

$35,141.50 $35,842.10 $6,079.31 $11,551.92 $1,271.00

$23,480.35 $77,075.25 $4,051.98 $4,365.40 $396.00

$24,910.82 $105,989.52 $0.00 $5,379.48 $0.00

$33,711.03 $6,927.83 $10,131.29 $10,537.84 $1,667.00

$9,168.86 $121.44 $0.00 $1,851.00 6,556.78 $832.05 $62,547.90 $4,341.09 $8,052.12 $35,640.77 $10,000.00 $11,308.97 $27,314.87 $2,729.223 $5,879.45 $9,663.85 $121,839.54 $16,323.42 $5,031.13 $10,541.19 $888.39 $1,759.89 $90,821.44 $11,076.99 $86,299.58 $48,418.74 $430,500.00 $129,337.91 $28,369.20 $206,391.86 $104,698.88 $275,027.00 $3,920.29 $80,524.35 $100,000.00 $355,644.19 $84,000.00 $9,181.70 $250,000.00 $2,823,610.03

$2,505.00 $0.00 $284,814.02 $448.00 $5,732.36 $0.00 $1,292.08 $8,971.02 $2,630.53 $9,767.36 $0.00 $0.00 $29,883.17 $315.00 $0.00 $400.00 $1,000.00 $20,835.12 $275,657.22 $143.04 $0.00 $14.90 $1,616.02 $43,039.08 $396,336.70 $113,364.00 $61,500.00 $320.30 $0.00 $289,113.31 $77,844.00 $43,200.00 $1,500.00 $199.42 $42,000.00 $482,176.32 $12,000.00 $2,500.00 $100,000.00 $2,859,772.21

$3,383.,70 $0.00 $252,037.62 $0.00 $5,405.92 $0.00 $1,800.00 $2,001.04 $2,824.00 $25,735.89 $1,288.98 $5,000.00 $1,661.00 $728.51 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $19,160.31 $275,898.94 $0.00 $471.00 $0.00 $0.00 $41,252.48 $399,315.36 $113,451.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $296,666.92 $76,800.00 $0.00 $1,000.00 $0.00 $42.000.00 $517,750.89 $0.00 $2,250.00 $150,000.00 $2,665,162.79

$8,290.16 $121.44 $32,776.40 $2,299.00 $6,883.22 $832.05 $62,039.98 $11,311.07 $7,858.65 $19,672.24 $8,711.02 $6,308.97 $55,537,04 $2,315.72 $5,879.45 $10,063.85 $122,839.54 $17,998.23 $4,789.41 $10,684.23 $417.39 $1,774.79 $92,437.46 $12,863.59 $83,320.92 $48,331.74 $492,000.00 $129,658.21 $28,369.20 $198,838.25 $105,742.88 $318,227.00 $4,420.29 $80,723.77 $100,000.00 $320,069.62 $96,000.00 $9,431.70 $200,000.00 $3,018,219.45

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