The South Gibson Star-Times serves the towns of Haubstadt, Owensville and Fort Branch.
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NEWS TIPS Phone: ������������� 812-753-3553 Email ����editor@sgstartimes�com INSIDE Local ����������A1-10 Scholarships �� A6 Home Life �����A8-9 Sports ���������� B1-5 Opinion ���������� B4 School ����������� B5 Church ��������B6-7 History ������������ B8 Classifieds �� B9-10 Legals ������������ B10 Two Sections • No Inserts Fort Branch, IN 47648-0070 (USPS #205-620) See SCOUTS on page 2 See DEARING on page 3 $1.00 20 PAGES TuESDay, JuNE 7, 2022 VOLUME 67, NUMBER 50 GOLFERS ARE SECTIONAL CHAMPIONS SPORTS B1 South Gibson LOCAL A6 Area scouts improving community By Janice Barniak SG Star-Times Editor editor@sgstartimes.com The air is warm and area Scouts are springing into action improving the com- munity. Wolf and Cub Scout Pack 246 painted Fort Branch Park, June 3, a project origi- nally scheduled for weeks before, but re- scheduled because the morning they were set to improve Fort Branch Park was the morning after a storm closed the park due to damage. The troop was also out in force Satur- day fundraising at the Haubstadt Town- wide Yard Sale, selling breakfasts to early morning shoppers outside the Haubstadt Library where they also sold a few items, adding to the library's donation-only sale. Meanwhile, on May 7, Gage Schoenheit, an 11-year scout, will take the Mary E. Ju- lian Boy Scout Scholarship for Commu- nity Service with him to Purdue this fall. Schoenheit, who started as a tiger cub in the now-closed Fort Branch pack, complet- ed all his Cub Scout then moved up to Boy Scouts in 2016. He has most recently been in Pack 222 in Princeton. Schoenheit designed and executed im- provements to the Southside Park in Princ- eton for his Eagle Scout project. "On the actual work day his troop really came together to help and support Gage in a big way, and they put in a lot of hard work on this project also," said mother Sara. He was awarded Eagle Scout March 26. Finally, out at Haubstadt Community School last week, Ian Kyle returned from Notre Dame and checked in on his 2019 Ea- gle project with Haubstadt Troop 246, a ga- ga pit the students have been using. He was awarded the Eagle for the proj- ect in 2021. "I was really happy to see the rules have stayed on, but it's going to need a touch-up on the paint," Kyle said as he tightened a few bolts Thursday. The cedar wood has re- sisted weather, one reason they chose the wood. Kyle remembers he chose the project after his first Scout campout, where they had a gaga ball pit, which wasn't something seen often locally at the time. "We stayed the whole day playing there," he said. By the time he went to do his Eagle proj- ect, he'd decided to bring the same to his former middle school at Haubstadt Com- munity School, where his sister was going to school. He said the project taught him leadership, and he'd used that to organize the approximately 14 volunteers who came By Janice Barniak SG Star-Times Editor editor@sgstartimes.com Stanley Dearing, 90, does not walk but that hasn't stopped him from continuing the large annual garden now blooming at his home be- tween Fort Branch and Owensville. He eats, gives to family and donates to the Fort Branch and Owensville Food Pan- try the lettuce, green onions, radishes, cab- bage, broccoli, cauliflower, tomatoes, onions, beets, potatoes, carrots, cucumbers, zucchi- ni, peas and more. "Whatever you can raise, I raise it. I start in the greenhouse," he said. He does three waves of planting so the plants will come up at different times, spread out across the sum- mer. Dearing continues a gardening tradition that was passed on by his grandpa when he was 8 -9 years old, and that he's done almost every year except the years he served in Ko- rea. He uses a rollator transport chair to get around normally, and while it won't get him down all the rows, he can army crawl down with his tools to do weeding, strawing and the like. EN-DEARING Nothing stops 90-year-old from providing for family, neighbors Dearing, in his garden, watches a robin with a worm. Stanley Dearing, at 90, still plants an extensive garden and doesn't let mobility issues stop him from doing anything he wants to do. Haubstadt bustles with deal-seekers at town-wide yard sale By Janice Barniak SG Star-Times Editor editor@sgstartimes.com Neighbors flooded the streets for the Haub- stadt Townwide Yard Sale Saturday, although many shoppers got an early jump. Even though Kristi Hubbard didn't open shop until Saturday morning, she still had lurk- ers who wanted to shop her items as she put them out Friday night. "We were setting up last night and people wanted to shop. That's okay," she said. It's her third year participating in the town- wide, and while last year may have had more people, she moved a lot of items Saturday, even surprisingly out-of-season ones. "The most interesting thing we sold was a stand-up heater. Eighty-five degrees and we sold a heater." She hopes next year she'll have gotten rid of all of her sales items and will be able to shop. Christine Cavins and daughter Kat Kim- brough were also selling seasonal. They didn't think their fire pit and slow sled would go, but they sold early. Another surprise sale? "A chandelier," said Cavins. The last five years it hasn't sold in her yard sales. "It sold today. It's from a remodel I did six years ago. It's been out every year since." Cavins put the sale together with little effort the day before. "But I do it every year," she said. "So a lot of my stuff is marked already." She added the townwide sale is a definite boost to traffic. While she does see neighbors, it brings ma- ny out-of-town customers to the sale. First-timer Felicia Bowden didn't have a lot of stuff out but it was neighbors' reminders to participate, just in time, that prompted her sale. "I was reminded in time, kind of, yesterday," she said, adding she'd done well with selling her leather Stone Mountain purses. She'd hoped to get rid of appliances and a wine cabinet, but mid-day there was still no bite on those items. Bowden said most of her own attendance at yard sales was back when her kids were young. "I haven't done it a lot in recent years," she said. The yard sales in Haubstadt's subdivisions were hopping Saturday morning. Gibson Southern Scholarships