Stories from Friday, October 6, 2006

The 37th annual Bloomfield Apple Festival kicked off bright and early at 6 a.m. this morning with the traditional pancake and sausage breakfast sponsored by Masonic Lodge No. 84. in the south shelter house at the town park. The Masons have been dishing up a delicious breakfast to officially begin the Apple Festival for at least the last decade...

WRV wins tournament The White River Valley seventh grade volleyball team won two matches to claim first place in a local tournament. WRV (7-4) defeated Bloomfield 25-15, 25-20 and Eastern Greene 25-16, 20-25, 15-12 Saturday. Against Bloomfield, Taylor Harkness (nine points and three aces) and Jaycie Gouckenour (eight points and two aces) teamed up to serve 17 points and five aces...

DUGGER -- The Linton Miners took back what they felt was rightfully theirs on Thursday with a four game win over Union in high school volleyball action at Dugger. In 2004, The Miners won both the Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference and Tri-River Conference titles, but last year, Union, knocked off Linton to claim the title for themselves...

SWITZ CITY -- Eastern Greene girls cross country coach Mike Caldwell is the dean of girls coaches in Greene County. He has been at every Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference meet since they began in 1990. He can remember when Kelley Strickler was the dominant distance runner in the area in the early 90s...

Richard W. Terhune, age 53, of Linton, passed away on Thurs., Oct. 5, 2006, at Health South in Terre Haute. He was born Feb. 6, 1953, in Greene County, the son of Harley Terhune and Annette (Souders) Terhune French. He worked at Boston Scientific in Spencer...

Charles D. Stark, 89, of Linton, passed away at 10:50 p.m. Tuesday., Oct. 3, 2006, at Linton Nursing & Rehab Center. He was born July 21, 1917, in Linton, the son of James Alonzo & Emma (Reed) Stark. He worked as a coal miner for 40 years, retiring from Peabody Coal Co. He attended the Methodist Church, was a member of Masonic Lodge 560, and was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II...

Jack L. Slater, 69, of Jasonville, passed away at 9:38 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006, at his residence. Born April 5, 1937 in Vincennes, he was the son of Jesse Conard Slater and Eunice Marie (St. John) Slater. He served on the Jasonville Police Department as chief of police and as an officer. ...

Esther I. Helderman, 77, of Washington, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006 at her residence. She was born March 9, 1929 at Elnora to William and Pearly Crouch Daffron. She had worked at RCA, General Electric and Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center. She attended Elnora Christian Church, was a past member of the Do Better Home Makers Club of Newberry...

Cecil W. Fowler, 86, of Linton passed away at 1 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006 at St. Mary's Mercy Hospital in Livonia, Mich. He was born April 2, 1920 in Chattanooga, Tenn., to William Jack and Delle (Barnhan) Fowler. A U.S. Navy veteran of U.S. Navy veteran serving from 1942 to 1944, he retired after 18 years as senior engineer of plant layout for Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Mich. ...

Walter H. Cooley, 83, Spencer, passed away at 3:31 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 6, 2006, at Bloomington Hospital. Arrangements are pending at Welch & Cornett Funeral Home Worthington Chapel. Final arrangements can be viewed later today at www.welchcornett.com...

A local music teacher recently completed work on "Crossroads," a movie that deals with the choice drinking and driving. Virgil Franklin, who teaches music at White River Valley-Lyons Elementary and White River Valley-Worthington Elementary, wrote the score to the movie...

SANDBORN -- Joyce Villwock from the Knox County Community Foundation presented an endowment check designated for the improvement of Sandborn's park to the Sandborn Town Council on Thursday evening.  The check in the amount of $472 is interest from an endowment of more than $10,000 that was donated in 2004 by the Don and June Gregg family...

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COALMONT -- To help kick off fire prevention week, which begins Sunday, Lewis Township Fire Department will host an open house from 2-7 p.m. on Saturday. Jack McFarland, fire safety specialist and safety officer, said the department used to have an open house each year; however, they've not had one for a while...

Quincey Murphy, President of the New Jerusalem Christian Center Corporation (NJCCC), has founded the Nehemiah House (NH), located in what was the GC Murphy building at the corner of Vincennes and Main Street, in Linton. NJCCC is currently purchasing the building on contract from Key of Linton, Inc. ...

The Greene County Department of Child Services and the Debra Corn Agency are teaming up with REMC to offer a Kid's Fair on Oct. 14 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Linton National Guard Armory. "The goal of the fair is to provide health information to parents who are raising their children and to make them more aware of what's available in the communities," said Renee Rottet, director of program development at the Debra Corn Agency and its sister agency Best Way Counseling...

Democrat Dave Keller has announced he's throwing his hat in the ring for mayor of Jasonville in the 2007 election. "I'll file in January or February," he said. The president of the Wright Township Democrats ran in the last mayoral election and lost the primary by 36 votes...

SWITZ CITY -- The Indiana History Train is coming to Greene County later this month with a new educational exhibition and activities on the Civil War in Indiana. Volunteers from the Greene County area are needed to help staff the exhibit. Visitors to the three-day stop at the Indiana Rail Road Company office in Switz City -- Oct. 19-21 -- will have the opportunity to see a Civil War soldier presentation -- Faces of the Civil War -- from a first-person interpreter...

White River Valley lost two of the first three games, but rallied to defeat North Daviess 16-25, 25-22, 24-26, 25-22, 15-8 in a Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference volleyball contest at Elnora Thursday night. "This was a very nice win," said WRV coach Becky Borter. "We had some problems with serve receive early, but got them corrected as the match progressed...