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South Gibson Star-Times Front Tuesday, April 26, 2022 A-3 Do you have an upcoming community event? Send the details to editor@sgstartimes.com THIS WEEK Aaron Fischer celebrated Locals will celebrate Lyles Station World War I military he- ro Aaron Fischer with a marker dedication at 1 p.m. April 30. Yarn Store Day celebrated Local Yarn Store Day will be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 30, at Little House of Yarn, and is designed to show support for small businesses while bringing together a unique commu- nity of knitters, crocheters, weavers and spinners to drive awareness and celebrate the craft. Three local dyers will display yarn, including Fiber Owl Yarn Company's Mickey Horton, who will do a meet and greet. There will be knit and crochet kits, door prizes and demonstrations of a yarn craft, with the opportunity to par- ticipate. Treasure hunt is back at VFW VFW Post 2714 will be hosting the Treasure Hunt on Mon- day, May 2 with drawing at 7 p.m. Kitchen will be open from 4 to 7 p.m. Fort Branch spring concert set for May 3 Everyone is cordially invited to attend the annual spring concert at Fort Branch Community School on Tuesday, May 3 at 6 p.m. in the school gymnasium. The theme this year is "Music Makes a Difference! " The concert will feature positive, uplifting songs. There will be performances by students in first, third and fifth grades as well as the Bells of Harmony English Handbell Choir and the middle school choir. The concert is under the direction of music teacher Mr. Derek K. Barton. Isaiah plans open house Join us for a special time to see how you are helping us make a difference for our fostering communities in South- west Indiana. Isaiah 1:17 plans an open house from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., with a 5:30 p.m. proclamation at the gazebo by Mayor Greg Wright to honor Foster Care Awareness Month. Tour the fa- cility, learn about the impacts of the non-profit, and how to can continue to partner with Isaiah 1:17. They will be serving light refreshments. RSVP is not nec- essary, but appreciated. MAY EVENTS Vine Street Makers Market returns Vine Street Makers Market in Fort Branch, returns to Fort Branch from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 7, and Sat- urday, Oct. 1. If you're interested in signing up to vend at the Spring Market indoor Spots are $45, with only six avail- able, and outdoor spots are $ 35. No multi-level marketing. This event is rain or shine with flexible spacing and no vendor map prior to show. As always, shows are held at Fort Branch Community Park, sponsored by the non-profit Fort Branch Community Pride. Contact the Vine Street Makers Market Fort Branch Facebook page for more details. Owensville Town Wide Yard Sale On Saturday, May 7, Owensville Community Planners will host the Owensville Town Wide Yard Sale. To partici- pate, call the town hall at 812-724-4151 to add your address to the map. Maps may be picked up on May 7, at the Boy Scout table. The Boy Scouts will be selling both breakfast and lunch that day. WWII event set The Indiana Military Museum (IMM) is gearing up for a Spring W WII event from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 7, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 8, at 715 S. 6th St., Vincennes. Daily battle re-enactments will be at 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Flyovers are anticipated, weather permitting. There will be living histo- ry encampments and weapon demonstrations. Outdoor ac- tivities are free to the public with regular admission fees to go inside the Museum and Annex. There will also be mili- tary and food vendors on the grounds. Please call 812-882-1941 with questions. Daughters of the American Revolution meeting May 7 The General John Gibson Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution will meet on Saturday, May 7, at 1 p.m. at the Hazleton Church, for their monthly meeting. Golf scramble set Gibson County Chamber of Commerce will host their An- nual Scholarship Golf Scramble Thursday, May 12, at Princ- eton Country Club, with morning and afternoon flights. A team of four costs $ 300, or individuals can register for $75. Title, lunch, station, hole and goody bag sponsors are sought. Trustees meet The Board of Trustees for the Oakland City-Columbia Township Public Library will meet at 4 p.m. on the second Wednesday of every month as the dates for their regular monthly board meetings. The meetings are held in the Li- brary Meeting Room. Merit board meets The 2022 meetings of the Gibson County Sheriff's Mer- it Board will be at 12:30 p.m., the second Tuesday of every month, in the Gibson County Community Corrections Con- ference Room, located at 112 E. Emerson Street, Princeton. Owensville hosts clean up day Owensville plans a town clean up day from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 14, where locals can throw away their larger trash or furniture. There will be a charge for tires, because Gibson County Solid Waste charges for tires. Saturday, May 14th Owensville Town Wide Clean Up Day. The dumpsters will be located on the north side of the Owensville Carnegie Li- brary lawn. VFW post meeting day change Beginning in May, VFW Post 2714 Meetings will be the third Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. Fugitives and Heroes premieres at museum Broadway Players and Lyles Station Museum will bring local history this May with "Fugitives and Heroes," a his- torical experience inviting locals to travel back in time on the Underground Railroad to meet Gibson County and na- tional figures, thanks to sponsorship from Gibson County Community Foundation and the Betty McCullough grant. Staged across the museum and grounds, ticket holders will meet national figures like Frederick Douglas and Har- riet Tubman, as well as, everyday people like the Grier, Stor- mont, Cockrum and Archer families. Audiences will meet Reube, a free man kidnapped into slavery as he left Princeton; and Charles Grier, a free black farmer who provided a haven in Gibson County for even the most-pursued enslaved people as they made their way north, as well as, many other local stories. The show will be 7 p.m. May 20 at a cost of $15, as well as, a dinner show at 6 p.m. May 21, at a cost of $ 35. Tickets will go on sale at BroadwayPlayers.org April 18, and will al- most certainly sell out. DOWN THE ROAD VFW 50th Anniversary Celebration VFW Post 2714, of Fort Branch, will be hosting their 50th Anniversary Celebration June 11, from 3 to 11 p.m. Activi- ties will include: silent and live auctions, bird bingo, music by Rodney Watts and great food. Mount Carmel Roots'N'Que is June 18 Wabash Roots'N'Que Chairman Dennis Stroughmatt has announced that, through a partnership with First National Bank, Mel Tillis Jr. will headline the RNQ22 festival sched- uled for Saturday, June 18 at Merchants Park in Mt. Carm- el, Ill. In addition to on stage performances, there will be a full schedule of events indoors, hosted by the Wabash County Museum, just a few feet south of Merchants Park. Several Food Trucks and Craft Vendors will be on the street through- out the day. Also on tap, RNQ's Backyard BBQ Competition, "Smoke On The Wabash", providing the aromas for those at- tending, along with a chance for cash prizes and trophies for the competitors. Applications for Vendors and BBQ Teams are available at rootsnque.com. Donnie Baker fundraiser planned A fundraiser to benefit Gibson County CASA will feature comedian Donnie Baker, Aug. 27, at the Toyota Events Cen- ter, in Princeton. Doors open at 5 p.m., with a meet and greet for those who buy special tickets; and the show starts at 6:30 p.m., for general admission. Fort Branch plans Halloween bash Fort Branch will host a two-day Halloween extravaganza that will kick off with a Zombie run Oct. 28; Sinister Cellar's Haunted Park attraction Oct. 28 -29; and the uptown Hal- loween Fest Oct. 28. To receive more information or volun- teer, contact Fort Branch Community Pride on Facebook. Santa Claus is coming Fort Branch Community Pride will host Christmas Eve with Santa Dec. 24. 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C o l l e c t o r s C a r n i v a l S h o w s . c o m • 812-471-9419 GIBSON CO. FAIRGROUNDS • 709 N. EMBREE ST. PRINCETON, IN COLLECTORS CARNIVAL ANTIQUE & FLEA MARKETS Sat 9am-4pm $2 • Sat Early Bird 7-9am $5 • Fri Setup Shopper 1-4pm $15 SINCE 1992 Saturday, April 30th 300 Booths in 8 Buildings & Outside 30th Year! Engineers suggest one-way at daycare By Janice Barniak SG Star-Times Editor editor@sgstartimes.com Engineers studied a re- quest to put concrete over a grassy area in the town's right of way in front of Holy Cross's daycare as a way to widen the road, but said because the concrete cannot go down six inches, deep enough to match the road, it's not a feasible way to address the issue. They al- so said it would create a safe- ty issue to have the street go straight into the sidewalk, and instead suggested making that area a one-way would im- prove traffic, though it would also affect the neighbors and involve relocation of signs. Without the one-way, peo- ple west and eastbound would likely pull up onto the area. The concrete would also cover up the water line that feeds the daycare building, but it was less of an issue if the church was willing to pay the damages to the concrete anytime the line had to be ac- cessed, for example, to ad- dress a leak. Councilman Scotty DeLong wondered if putting concrete over the area but not allowing anyone to drive on it would at least help with unloading the children. If the council went forward, it would require a public hear- ing to change the street. "I don't know if we want to spend all this money on sig- nage and one way streets," said DeLong. "I don't like the one-way op- tion for one block," said coun- cilman Sandy Birch. The matter is tabled until the next meeting. Obituaries CHARLES LEE "SONNY" STALLINGS Charles Lee "Sonny" Stall- ings died Feb. 20, 2022, at his home in Ruidoso, N.M., after a lengthy illness. He was born on Feb. 16, 1937, in Evansville, to Thom- as Claude and Mary Pauline Nix Stallings. He graduated from Fort Branch High School and the University of Denver, major- ing at the latter in Theater and English Literature. He worked in public rela- tions for the Deltona Corpo- ration in Florida from 1968 to 1975, during which time he promoted the opening of the Marco Beach Hotel and work- ing with world renown photog- raphers Arnold Newman and Ozzie Sweet. He also staged events at many of the corpo- ration's communities such as Spring Hill, Sunny Hills and Marion Oaks. One cele- bration, the World Champion Chicken Plucking Contest, re- ceived international attention and was featured in the 1977 book, "Playtime; America at Leisure" as the national's top event. It was celebrated for 30 years, ending in 1995. He took time off to create an amphitheater for the coun- ty of Hernando in Florida for the Bicentennial celebration in 1976. He returned to Delto- na in 1980, promoted Tierra Verde Resort and nightclub, later forming his own pub- lic relations-promotion firm. In 1989, he moved to Ruido- so, N.M., where he wrote a column, covered the village council for the Ruidoso News for several years and authored a true crime book "Death in a Red Desert." He is survived by his wife, Dianne de Leon Stallings, of Ruidoso, who he married in a civil ceremony in 1963 and in the Catholic Church in 1964; his sister, Jane ( John) Karg- es, of Haubstadt; his son, Aar- on Creighton (Kaye) Stall- ings, of Ellicott City, Md.; his daughters, Gabrielle Leandra (Bob) Oldfield, of Highland's Ranch, Colo. and Rachael de Leon Collins, of Monument, Colo.; 11 grandchildren; and five great-grandsons. Charles Stallings, right, greets President George Bush. PENNY S. GAINES Penny S. Gaines, 72, of Ow- ensville passed away April 22, 2022. She was born to the late Charles E. and Emogene "Ju- dy" Presnell, on March 15, 1950. She attended Owensville High School and graduated in 1968. She continued her edu- cation and graduated with an Associate's degree from Oak- land City College. She was a member of Dayspring Com- munity Church. She worked as a Department Manager for Wal-mart for more than 30 years. She enjoyed many things in life such as garden- ing, cooking, Sudoku puzzles, being outside, and being an animal lover. She was devot- ed to her family. She will be deeply missed. She is survived by her sons, Timothy (Tammy Camden) Gaines and Jonathan ( Jenni- fer) Gaines; brother Dan (Lin- da) Presnell; and grandsons, Zachary and Evan. She was preceded in death by her parents; and brother, Walt Presnell. A graveside service will be at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, at Owensville Cemetery. In lieu of flowers memori- al contributions can be made to the Gibson Co. Animal Ser- vices, PO Box 518 Owens- ville, IN. Holder's is honored and entrusted with the care of Ms. Gaines. He was preceded in death by his parents. No services are planned. Memorials may be sent to the Humane Society of Lincoln County or St. Jude's Hospital. SERVICE HOSTED TO CELEBR ATE MA X JACKSON A Celebration of Life ser- vice will be at 2 p.m. May 21, at the Central Presbyte- rian Church in Lafayette, 31 N. Seventh St. to remember Max Jackson. He lived in Fort Branch 32 years with wife Laura Belle, who is a Haubstadt High School graduate. He co-owned Rosemeyer Insur- ance agency for many years, while his wife taught at Gib- son Southern for 17 years. The couple moved to West Lafayette in 2015, and due a snow and ice event around his Feb. 4 service, many in the ar- ea could not attend. Friends of the family are invited to attend the May 21 service. Mia Smith, Director of Pas- toral Care at University Place, will be leading the service. Light refreshments will be served afterwards.