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KAHLE Continued from page 1 for his daughters' successes to the work of his wife, Glen- da, who put in the time with his daughters. "Without Glenda's sup- port, very little would have been possible for me. I spent a lot of time away from home, and she did a lot raising the girls. She's been with me through all this stuff. We de- cided she'd be a stay-at-home mom raising the girls, some- times taking on odd jobs. Sometimes she had to give up things," he said. His wife always put the family first, he said. When she had a cancer scare in the 1990s and didn't know if she would survive, the family was living in Dubois County, and Glenda decided they needed to move back to South Gib- son, because if she died, the commute would be unten- able, and she didn't want the girls to lose their moth- er and their school friends at the same time. Fortunately, his wife has survived cancer for 20 years. "I feel so blessed. Some- times I consider us the luck- iest unlucky people I know. Unlucky she had cancer, but lucky she recovered each time." When his daughters were in high school, he coached discus to help his daugh- ter, Kasey, which kicked off 12 years of coaching track. He went to camps to learn more about throwing, bor- rowed videos, studied, prac- ticed and experimented with discus, an experience that helped him coach other throwers. "In that time, we've had multiple state representa- tives in track...It's been a fun run. My expertise is in throwing, and we've sent five athletes to throw in college," he said. "Jeremy (Aydt) has taught me a lot about track. I've always been learning. If you're going to be good at something, you better keep learning about it. I'm always looking for the next best way to do stuff." He said it was also a priv- ilege to be a band and choir dad when his daughter, Kel- ly, was involved with Gibson Southern's music programs. "Kelly thinks, 'oh, I'm not an athlete,' but she's a tre- mendous individual. I can't have been more happy as a dad," he said. While he won't miss the ri- gidity of the teaching sched- ule and reporting require- ments, he'll miss the people, which is why he's decided to keep coaching. He said his wife offered to share some of the grandparenting duties of what will soon be four grand- children, but he thinks he'll keep busy regardless. "If I'm coaching some- thing, I'll be the best coach I can be. If there was a tid- dlywinks team, and I had the chance to coach it, I'd be the best tiddlywinks coach I could be. I plan to coach as long as I can contribute." He stressed repeatedly how much he learned from other coaches, like Mark Monroe, Chris May, Alan Hopewell and so many more. "In 1983, when I got the job, it couldn't have been a better community. They've been absolutely amazing people, and I've loved ev- ery moment of my time in coaching, in teaching. I con- sider this home now. I visit Dubois, but South Gibson is my home," he said. "Now and again, kids come up later, and say, 'you survived me,' but I loved them all." He said after cleaning out his room, with the accumu- lated 38 years of items, it was odd to realize he was turn- ing off the light, shutting the door and locking it for the last time. "You're walking out the door wondering what the next great adventure is in your life. It felt like the last 'Friends' episode," he said. "It's been some of the best years anyone could hope for." YMCA Continued from page 1 on it," Allen said, in reference to the Toyota Events Center. According to a YMCA rep- resentative, no one had antic- ipated the $13 million sup- port from the TIF funding, which was larger than they had hoped. Jail project looks at construction management firm, locations By Janice Barniak SG Star-Times Editor editor@sgstartimes.com Jail consultant Byron Sanders said he expects to bring six configurations and site options to Gibson Coun- ty Commissioners in July af- ter receiving Gibson County Sheriff's Office input. He also recommended a construction management firm, and said he'd solicited input from 10 companies, and three firms have come to the top based on their ability to take on this type of project. He said the jail steering committee would start se- lection the next week, but currently he expects the jail to still be on budget and on time. Solar project economic dev. agreement passed By Janice Barniak SG Star-Times Editor editor@sgstartimes.com Gibson County Commis- sioners signed an economic development agreement with Tenaska June 15 in their reg- ular meeting with two com- missioners in favor and com- missioners' president War- ren Fleetwood abstaining. According to attorney Ja- son Spindler, Fleetwood has family potentially being of- fered an incentive from Te- naska, so even though it's not legally a conflict of inter- est, he asked Fleetwood to abstain to keep an appear- ance of propriety and to be consistent with a precedent by county council member Craig Pflug, who abstained from a similar vote when the EDA came before the coun- cil. Rick Reed, local represen- tative for Tenaska, said the company had worked with the council and commis- sioners. "It came out really good for the county," he said, adding that the company has a buy- er lined up for the electricity the project creates. In a meeting May 11 with the council, the coun- cil passed the version 10 of the agreement, in which the county receives an economic development payment upped from $1 million to $2 mil- lion over the first five years, during their 100 percent tax abatement, with an addition- al $2.1 million potential eco- nomic development payment that could happen in years six through 10, based on how low the tax rate is during those years — if the tax rate is lower, the payment by the company will be higher. The company has also agreed to provide $200,000 in solar work for any build- ing the county owns where the county would decide to install solar panels. Spindler said the company had been cooperative and he was satisfied with the docu- ments provided. Lyles Station celebrates first federal Juneteenth The Rev. Daryl Arnold, of the Evansville NA ACP, spoke about what having a holiday to celebrate the end of slavery meant to him at Lyles Station Historic School and Museum Saturday, after earlier in the week Juneteenth was signed into law as a federal holiday. "I'm 77 years old. I've lived on the other side of the track. I've been chased by dogs. I've been spit on, and I've been knocked off sidewalks, in the name of Jesus, and I've lived long enough to see the signing of a national holiday that re- flects back on where we have come from as slaves, unable to live where we want to live," he said. He remembered back on sitting at the back door of a do- nut shop, where he wasn't al- lowed to sit inside, and on wa- ter fountains he couldn't drink from because of his skin color. "This is one of the most ap- propriate settings for a day like today," he said. "The hol- iday celebrates the emancipa- tion of slaves in America...It is a reminder to us that freedom is an ongoing fight." Juneteenth celebrates June 19, 1865 when, riding into Galveston, Texas, it was an- nounced that with the end of the war, all slaves were offi- cially free. "When that news came, it reached different parts of the country at different times," Ar- nold said. He said to those of a different ethnicity or a differ- ent gender, or who were walk- ing a different path in life, that Juneteenth is also for them. "A fter the holiday, after the celebration, let's get back to work. There's a lot of work that still needs to be done," he said. The Indiana State Teacher's Association recognized Lyles Station Museum for its pro- motion of education with the Friend of Education Award. The event also recognized the work of volunteers Gary and Terra Schmidt. "Gary and Terra have ded- icated so much time, and re- sources and encouragement to this museum over the years. We're so grateful. There's not a program or a project these two haven't touched in some way or another," said Vin- cennes University Professor Tyson Sims. The event recognized Joyce Granger, whom he called the memory of the organization, and who has since passed. "I experienced a living ex- ample of what it means to live for something greater than yourself," Sims said. Gary and Terra Schmidt accepted awards acknowledging their volunteerism with Lyles Station — VU Associate Professor Tyson Sims prefaced the award by call- ing the Schmidts a dynamic duo that had touched every program and fundraiser at the museum. Fireworks festival planned for Princeton The Gibson County Visitors and Tourism Commission ap- proved $500 for the Princeton Freedom Festival Fireworks during its regular month- ly meeting on June 17 at the Princeton Train Depot. Mayor Greg Wright ab- stained from the vote as he's on the Downtown Princeton board. The Downtown Princeton, Inc. Freedom Festival will be- gin with a car show at 4 p.m. on the courthouse square, hosted by the Southern In- diana Car Club. The band Blackstone will play classic rock, and then at sundown, fireworks will be set off at the Princeton Fairgrounds. The board also voted to pay $ 631 for the hotel rooms for the artist and crew of the Blank Slate Monument, which visited Lyles Station the week- end before. Eric Heidenreich report- ed that John Kennard had ap- proached him with plans to organize a Blues, Brews and BBQ festival and hoped that GCV T would be willing to pro- vide sponsorship for the band. The board was interested, but requested additional de- tails before making an offi- cial sponsorship. Stanley Madison report- ed that Lyles Station will be hosting a program for the Gibson County Soil and Wa- ter Conservation District from 5 -7 p.m. July 1. The New Be- ginnings Celebration will be Sept. 4, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Lyles Station and the Farm to Table Dinner will be hosted on Sept. 11. The next meeting of the Gibson County Visitors and Tourism, Inc. is July 22, di- rectly following the GCV T Commission meeting at the Princeton Train Depot. Stanley Madison accepted the Friend of Education Award on behalf of Lyles Station Historic School and Mu- seum from the Indiana State Teachers Association Saturday afternoon. The Rev. Daryl Arnold, of the NA ACP Evansville chapter, discussed the national importance of the new federal holiday Juneteenth. Nurse Mary Abell Munford spoke on the Civil War nursing work of Harriet Tubman.

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