Stories from Friday, October 12, 2007

Safety Fair set for Saturday Jasonville Fire Department and Wright Township Fire Department will be hosting a safety fair today at the Jasonville Station. There will be free beans and cornbread and police, fire-rescue, EMS, K-9 and many other vendors will be set up distributing information and literature regarding safety issues. ...

The Linton Police Department activity log on Thursday included one forgery and counterfeiting, one juvenile/delinquent, one school/foot patrol, one accident with property damage, one funeral escort, one medical/illness, two animal complaints, one harassment complaint, one child abuse/neglect, one extra patrol, one lost or stolen license plate, one welfare check/concern, one missing person - adult, one open door/garage and six traffic stops...

Margaret (Sanders) Jones, 82, of Madisonville, Ky., and formerly of Linton, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007 in Madisonville with her family present. She was born Jan. 28, 1925, in Mitchell, the daughter of Loyd H. and Ada (Coyle) Sanders. She was a member of the Madisonville First Christian Church, a lifetime member of the National Thespian Society, a member of Psi Iota Xi & Que Vives of Linton, and Beta Sigma Phi of Madisonville, Ky...

JASONVILLE -- Leslie Dale "Peach" Goodman, 52, of Jasonville, passed away on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007 at Regional Hospital in Terre Haute at 8:50 a.m. He was born June 13, 1955 in Greene County to Leslie H. and Viola May Kimberling Goodman. He had worked for the Clay City Water Department...

COALMONT -- Gerald E. Bedwell, 71, of Coalmont, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007 at Regional Hospital in Terre Haute at 1:07 p.m. He was born March 2, 1936 in Sullivan County to Roy Earl and Beatrice Delores Marshall Bedwell. He work in Civil Service Transportation at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., and was a member of the Shakamak Church in Jasonville and the American Legion. He served in the U.S. Air Force...

Oct. 14-20 is National Homemaker Week. There are 12 active Extension Homemaker clubs in Greene County, consisting of approximately 173 members and 13 mailbox members. The Home Economics Extension Services is the homemaker's program of the Agriculture Extension Service. ...

Linton-Stockton Elementary School students recently collected 447,000 pop tabs in a school-wide contesting benefiting the Ronald McDonald House. Dan Thorlton's fifth-grade class came in first with 75 pounds worth of aluminum tabs, explained Elementary Principal Kent Brewer...

The Linton-Stockton Elementary School is now offering a language arts and math intervention class for fifth and sixth graders who did not reach expected ISTEP goals. Erin Raper, intervention teacher, explained that scores from Northwest and ISTEP tests as well as overall class performance were used in choosing the students...

Tourism is a key, untapped economic resource in Greene County and anyone interested in nurturing this industry to its potential is encouraged to attend an upcoming workshop. The Greene County Chamber Coalition, in cooperation with the Greene County Foundation, is sponsoring the session at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 1 at the Cooperative Extension Service office at the county fairgrounds near Switz City...

The Apple Festival is over and everyone is looking forward to a relaxing week or at least a few days of rest. It has been fun, but busy, if not exhilarating for most of us. Hearing the sounds of the laughter of the children and adults as well. Listening to the stories of the past and the present. Tales that perhaps we may have heard, but forgotten that were brought back to our memories. How wonderful seeing old friends and making new acquaintances...

Stand By Me Psalm 66:8-12 Bless our God, O peoples, let the sound of his praise be heard, Who has kept us among the living, and has not let our feet slip. For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried. You have brought us into the net;...

To the Editor: Every two minutes there is a new breast cancer diagnosis. Every 14 minutes, a life is lost to the disease. Over 40,000 people will die from breast cancer this year; about 400 of them will be men. Eighty-five percent of all diagnoses have no family history. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer...

To the Editor: I would like to take this time to thank everyone for another successful year at the Bloomfield Apple Festival.  There are too many volunteers that donate their time to list them individually so therefore I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone that helped out preparing for the festival before, during and after the events. ...

To the Editor: Mr. Johnson is starting to sound like a broken record. If he has a meeting, the Board of Health might give him the time of day. I've been there and done that. I paid $150-200 an hour for an attorney, $150-200 an hour for a licensed Civil Engineer. The merry-go-round never stops...

The chill came this week. After unseasonably warm weather ever since school started, it was a shock this week when the weather suddenly turned "brisk and breezy." Overnight, we knew fall had arrived. And without further ado, the leaves are turning too...

Besides apple cider and pumpkin pie, fall is also a time for persimmon pudding and the persimmon picking season is going strong. If you don't have a persimmon tree or don't want to go out hunting for persimmons but are longing for that old-fashioned taste treat, the Worthington Senior Citizens Center is offering persimmon pulp for sale...

* Oct. 12 -- Craig R. Burton, 33, Bloomington, was arrested on preliminary charges of two counts of intimidation. Greene County Sheriff's Department Deputy Jeremy Inman was the arresting officer.

For those of us who have not been around Greene County for the past couple of decades, it is easy to think the recent success of the Shakamak High School boys cross country team was the first of its kind. But 25 years ago, there was a group of runners at SHS that completed an incredible four-year run, no pun intended, of success...

DUGGER -- When Union needed a big play, they called on Logan Chesterfield. The 5-10 junior scored two touchdowns, including a much-needed 85-yard kickoff run in the third quarter, intercepted two passes and came up with a potential game-saving tackle on fourth down as the host Bulldogs concluded the regular season with a 27-19 victory over Wood Memorial in a Southwest Seven Conference football game Friday night in Dugger...

FARMERBURG -- The third time seems to be the charm this season for Linton-Stockton coach Steve Weber. All season long, the Miners have struggled to find their identity on offense, but on Friday for their regular season finale against North Central, Linton may have found the scheme that best suits them...

OK, I give up. The world is becoming way too technologically advanced and a little too personally intrusive for this good old country boy who was raised on the Ohio River bank in southern Indiana. I have learned there is now a cell phone that can among other things -- take my pulse, check my body fat, time my jogs -- if I engaged in jogs other than to the dinner table...