Stories from Wednesday, December 7, 2005

Ladies at the First Baptist Church in Linton have been working hard to prepare for a fundraising cookie walk. The walk will be Dec. 10 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Interested persons can come to the church and purchase a wide variety of cookies. For seven weeks the ladies have gathered on Wednesday to bake all sorts of cookies -- chocolate chip, chocolate mint, date swirl, oatmeal, peanut butter, snickerdoodle, gingerbread, sugar and more...

SULLIVAN -- William T. "Bill" Tindall, 78, of Sullivan passed away at 1:14 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 2, 2005 at Sullivan County Community Hospital. Born March 28, 1927 in Emerson, he was the son of Herschel Tindall and Dorothy Huffman Tindall. He had been married to Audra June Hoesman Tindall...

James E. Todd, 66, of Bloomfield, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2005 at Greene County General Hospital in Linton. Arrangements are pending at Jenkins & Sons Funeral Home Bloomfield. The full obituary will be available at www.jenkinsfuneralhomes.com.

Merlin F. Wagoner, 81, of Sandborn, passed away 4:13 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005, at Greene County General Hospital in Linton. Funeral services are pending at Anderson-Poindexter Memory Chapel in Linton. Final arrangements will be posted on the Web site www.andersonpoindexter.com...

BLOOMFIELD -- Bloomfield won their third game in a row last night, as they downed the Lady Vikings of Barr-Reeve in convincing fashion. The Lady Cardinals won 49-32 in a game that was never even close. Bloomfield got 13 points off the bench from a returning Lacy Bowersock, who played in her first game of the season...

EASTERN HEIGHTS -- Eastern Greene dropped to 3-3 on the season last night with a 20-point loss to Brown County. The Lady Thunderbirds lost 70-50 at home last night, despite a stellar offensive performance from forward Whitney Sanders. Sanders scored half of the Lady T-Birds' points, dropping 25 on the Eagles on nine field goals and 7-of-9 shooting from the free throw stripe...

PATRICKSBURG -- Bloomfield's sixth grade basketball team picked up a victory in their first victory of the season Monday night when they traveled to Patricksburg. The Cardinals won 61-31. Bloomfield was led by Conner Wilke with 16 points, while Bryce McGlothin scored 15...

SWITZ CITY -- White River Valley girls coach Joe Pigg put it pretty simply. "We needed a win." His team had to overcome a first-half deficit to do it, but WRV snapped their four-game losing streak last night with a 36-33 win over Washington. WRV was outscored 10-2 in the first quarter and headed into halftime trailing 17-14. Both teams scored 11 points in the third, heading into the final period with the Lady Hatchets leading 28-25...

You just can't please some people. As an ISU alum, I was pulling heavily for my Sycamores last night, and to be perfectly honest, I didn't think they stood a snowball's chance in Phoenix. Yet they came out with a 72-67 win. But I'm not sure I can really call it upset because the Sycamores have a decent team this year...

Harvey F. "Harley" Manuel, 52, of Linton, passed away at 3 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 5, 2005 at his residence. Born Feb. 8, 1953 in Bloomington, he was the son of Harvey Manuel, Sr. and Mabel Steel Manuel. He was a retired truck driver, a Vietnam Army veteran, a member of the Whosoeverwill Full Gospel Church in Dugger, and an avid hunter and fisherman, and competed in Compound Archery...

Rex Richard Kinnaman, 73, of Apollo Beach, Fla., and formerly of Linton, passed away Monday, Dec. 5, 2005 at his residence. Born May 7, 1932 in Linton, he was the son of William Berl and Celia (Wools) Kinnaman. He had worked as a clerk for Peabody Coal Company and moved to Florida from Linton in 1996. ...

Anyone who is old enough to remember knows exactly where he or she was on Dec. 7, 1941, and on their minds the date is imprinted like a blueprint. The calendar simply reads each year in cold black and white, "Pearl Harbor Day, 1941 (USA)." No other explanation is needed...

Greene County Board of Commissioners President Bart Beard announced at the board's regular meeting Tuesday that County Highway Supervisor Mike Hennette will retire as of Jan. 1, 2006. "Mike, I hate to see you go," Beard said. "All kinds of things go around -- rumors. I certainly didn't ask Mike to retire."...

Greene County Clerk Tom Franklin has announced his intent to seek the Republican party's nomination for Greene County Coroner in 2006. Franklin, who will finish up his second term as county clerk at the end of 2006, served two terms -- eight years -- as Greene County sheriff. Before becoming sheriff, Franklin spent 18 years on the Bloomfield Police Department...

Margaret Cooper Public Library Director Shelley Williams, members of the library board, and others heard good news after meeting with the Department of Local Government Finance committee Tuesday. "The Department of Local Government Finance Committee voted to recommend the building project to the commissioner of the Department of Local Government Finance for approval," Williams said...

Greene County Recycling Center Supervisor Debbie Haseman informed the Greene County Solid Waste Management District Board of Directors on Tuesday that the center will begin staying open all day on Saturdays. "Saturdays have become just a nightmare for the guys for just four hours," Haseman said...

The Hoosier Trail Riders (HTR) recently donated $800 to the Greene County Sheriff's Reserve Unit. The Reserve deputies provide crowd control and gate security for the nonprofit, off-road motorcycle riders group when they have competitions in Greene County...

A one-vehicle crash occurred around 11:02 a.m. Tuesday on County Road 1150 East, west of Owensburg, when Evelyn Pineda, 34, of Owensburg, lost control of her vehicle on the slippery road. "The county roads were pretty slick today," said Indiana State Police Trooper Scott Allen, who investigated Pineda's accident...

Bert G. Chesterfield, Jr., 54, of Linton and formerly of Dugger, passed away at 3:48 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2005 at Union Hospital in Terre Haute. Born Oct. 17, 1951 in Dugger, he was the son of Bert G. and Eva Mae (Hickman) Chesterfield. He was a truck driver with Larno Trucking for 12 years and served as Worthington Town Marshal for 14 years. He retired in 2000...

I attended the Indiana-Indiana State basketball Tuesday and what a great game it was, especially if you were a Sycamore fan. Basically, the team that deserved to win, won. I know that sounds pretty simple, but it's true. Indiana State wanted that game more and Indiana let the have it. Not by choice, but because ISU took it from them...