South Gibson Star-Times

A-2 Front Tuesday, Februar y 18, 2020 South Gibson Star-Times PUP Continued from page 1 COUPLE Continued from page 1 Soup Supper Fundraiser For Beadle Bunch & Friends relay For liFe saturday, FeBruary 29, 3-7pm SOUPS: Chili, Vegetable and Potato SANDWICHES: Chicken Salad, Ham Salad, Cheese Spread, Peanut Butter and Hotdogs. Homemade Desserts! ALL YOU CAN EAT! PRICE Adult �����������������$7 Child 5-12 ���������$4 4 and under ���free PRINCETON COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL CAFETERIA CALL 812-779-6110 FOR MORE INFORMATION CARRY OUT AVAILABLE! Plus: Variety of Drinks H OEFLING TIRE AND SERVICE CENTER Locust & Hwy. 41, Fort Branch 812-753-3831 • hoeflingtireservicecenter@gmail.com WELCOME Hoefling would like to welcome Richard Deffendall to their team. He is a native of Princeton. He and his fiancee, Madison Coomer, have two children, Stella (2 years) and Briggs (1 month). Richard has been named a GM World Class Technician for his achievements at the GM Service Technical College. This is General Motors' highest level of professional development. He is one of only eight in the entire region to attain this skill level. Along with this, he is also Master ASE certified. of her own. She said she was glad he is now on the path to finding a home. "You could just tell he wasn't anyone's pet," she said. "I started feeding him. I hated talking to him with- out a name, so I called him Charlie." Charlie's life has been difficult; he'd been hiding in a drain, but the coun- ty did some work on the ditch, and afterwards, Leek stopped seeing him. She worried he was trapped in the drain since the opening was closed. He also could have just been hiding be- cause the opening to his cul- vert was closed. She called the county and had them dig the opening; she saw him again after that, but he didn't seem to want to go in his hiding place anymore, she said. When the temper- atures dropped again last week, she worried about the cold. Animal shelter director Mary Essary agreed. "The last two nights, I kept thinking about him. I couldn't sleep because it was so cold," she said. "I dreamed I would get over there and he would have froze to death." Frigid conditions weren't the only danger either; coy- otes are a problem in ru- ral Owensville. Someone has been hunting them and leaving the paws on Rock Road; however, she wor- ried he could be hurt by coyotes. Lastly, there was always the danger that he, like his brother, would be hit by a car. Leek wasn't the only neighbor leaving food, it was a community effort. The animal shelter workers had advised Leek that be- cause Charlie was malnour- ished and living outside, he would need any extra calo- ries he could get, so if she had table scraps she should give him those. "He ate pork chops, steak, hot dogs. Leftover meat from dinner," she said. "If he was bigger with long hair I wouldn't have worried, but he's fattened up now. When I first saw him, he was skin and bones; it just broke my heart. Now you can't see his ribs." The last meal she fed him was a little special, she add- ed. The night before, at Ha- cienda, her food was made wrong and they let her keep it. She brought Charlie the wet chicken burrito. "I knew they were going to try to pick him up and I'd been down there every day. He knew my car and would wait until I got back in the car." Charlie's story highlights, for Essary, the lie people who abandon puppies in the country tell themselves; that the dogs will find farms and be farm dogs. While Char- lie's story has a happy end- ing, she said it wasn't hap- py for his brother; and they don't actually know what happened to any others in that litter. "They think, 'oh well, there's a farm, let's drop them off there.'" Charlie will be looking for a family, though the shelter is working to socialize him now. Teen volunteers were talking to him Saturday, and every time a shelter worker passes him, they give him a treat. "Little Charlie hasn't made a noise since he got here," Essary said. She gives a lot of credit to the neighbors who fed the dog, which made him less afraid and allowed him to be caught after two months of trying to track him down. "We don't have a magic wand to catch this dog. If we had a way to get close enough with a pole, he could have killed himself twisting in it. He was a very scared dog. I'm just thrilled we got South Gibson music students take gold GSHS The following students re- ceived a Gold rating at So- lo and Ensemble this past weekend: Abigail Hicks, Ainsley Epperson, Avery Lemming, Claire Cox, Jus- tin Leary, Allison Hale, Dan- ielle Young, Emma Greene, Macy Beard, Aubree Mill- er, Chloe Coburn, Tristan Coburn, Alli Chamberlain, Mackenzie Estep, Zach Win- get, River Epperson, Chari- ty Baylor, Alexis Garris, Ev- an Schleter, Emilie Vanover, Lily Evetts, Anna Folsom, Caleb Douglas, Bronson Ivy, Hannah Hasselbrinck, Ken- nedy Beghtel, Bailey Wat- son, Kyle Stunkel, Brayden Pegram and Elias Morgan. HCS The following students were awarded gold status during their performance at the ISSMA Solo and En- semble contest on Saturday: Lydia Melchior, Ava Greene, Hadassah Hutchinson, Alys- sa Welte, Baker Calvert, Nicolas Pfeiffer, Max Walk- er, Aiden Loveless, Emmy Hale, Mark Stunkel, Mekin- leigh Davids, JC Taylor and Bobby Robinson. FBCS The following students re- ceived a Gold rating at the District Solo and Ensemble Contest on Saturday: Kassi- dy Campbell, Brayden Reyn- olds, Jenna Englehardt, Lil- lian Cardinal, Tylee Frie- de, Emily Stevenson, Bron- son Silvers, Glenn Mayer, Lily Beckham, Mykenna Frizzell, Keaton Richard- ville, Noah Ott, Jacob Dear- ing, Colton Childers, Selena McCoy, Sawyer McKimmy, Landon Phares, Max Wahl, Patience Hulen, Ava Bur- kett, Bryce Mitchell, Nathan Lamb and Trevor Archer. County Council approves replacing guardian ad litem By Janice Barniak SG Star-Times Editor editor@sgstartimes.com Circuit Court Judge Jef- frey Meade requested the Gibson County Council re- place Joy Jines, the coun- ty's guardian ad litem, as she was going to retire this year. The guardian ad litem is the person who helps evaluate children's liv- ing situations to hopefully place them under the right guardianship in legal mat- ters where guardianship might be disputed. Council member and po- lice officer Derek McGraw said the council would want to move quickly to approve the move. "I've been on that board and they can't do with- out that position," he said. "There are too many un- derserved kids already anyway. We can't have a gap at all." The position is paid part- ly by grant and partly by the county. The council voted unan- imously to fill the position when it becomes vacant. the new Mrs. Heldt. As for picking the most romantic day of the year for their marriage, the hus- band said the day is more than that to them. "It's also the beginning of NASCAR season," he quipped. MRI Continued from 1 of equipment you don't replace of- ten; the last one we had was refur- bished when they got it, and it lasted 15 years. This new model may last 25. Plus, they can up- grade the software and components." Moreover, it's leagues above the mobile MRI in the parking lot the team had to use during the renova- tion process. MRI worker Ja- mie Miller said be- ing able to do any patient procedure in any direction, head or feet first will reduce anxiety. "Claustropho- bia is a real thing. We've already imaged so ma- ny things in the last few weeks we couldn't have done before." Charlie has been quiet since his capture, but rescuers say that's preferable to frigid temps or being hit by a car. Norma Altmeyer writes her name as "Norma Altmeyer" for the last time on her marriage li- cense as she changes over to the married name of Heldt. Left: The Air Coil provides a roomier, more comfortable ex- perience for claustrophobic pa- tients, said Gibson General staff. Above: Chamber of Commerce members welcome the new in- vestment at Gibson General. Right: Angie Snodgrass shows Economic Development director Paul Waters and Princeton May- or Greg Wright the way the new mat can be wrapped around a patient where they need the best imaging.

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