The South Gibson Star-Times serves the towns of Haubstadt, Owensville and Fort Branch.
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South Gibson Star-Times Front Tuesday, June 7, 2022 A-3 DEARING Continued from page 1 Do you have an upcoming community event? Send the details to editor@sgstartimes.com THIS WEEK 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. Activities will include: silent and live auctions, quail poop bingo, music by Rodney Watts and food. At 6 p.m. the post plans an award presentation ceremony. Doors open at 3 p.m. with various auctions and raffles. Social benefits Solutions An ice cream social with music and giveaways will ben- efit Addiction Solutions' fundraising to create a women's recovery house in Gibson County. The event, sponsored by R'z Cafe and Catering, will be at the Flora June's Scoop Shoppe courtyard from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. June 12 at 100 W. Locust, Fort Branch. Loehr to speak about mammals at Patoka River NWR On June 13, Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge will take a closer peek at a few mammals found living within Refuge boundaries. Guest speaker, Julie Loehr, will share information on current distribution and status of certain endangered or rare species, as well as, information on mammal dental formulas as a means of identification. We will have mammal skins on hand to identify and touch, and also a few mammal skulls to observe and study. Take-home handouts will be available, as well as hands-on mammal track identification fun. The program will begin at 5:30 p.m. central time at the outdoor classroom next to Boyd's Trail. It will last about an hour and a half. Insect repellent is suggested. To get to the Boyd's Trail parking lot, head east on SR 64 through Oak- land City. Just outside of the city, past the brown sign di- recting you to Snakey Point Marsh, turn left on CR 1275E. In a half mile, bear left on paved 1300E; it will become grav- el. Continue one mile to the parking lot located on the left side of the road. If you would like to attend, please RSVP by calling the Refuge office at 812-749 -3199. 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. 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. 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. Contest registration open Right to Life of Gibson County is sponsoring the Beauti- ful Baby Contest during the Haubstadt Sommerfest, June 16,17 and 18. Babies born on or after June 1, 2020 are eligi- ble. Pictures no larger than 5x7 inches are accepted with the following information on the back of the photo: ba- by's name, birth date, parents names, address and phone number. If the picture is to be returned after the contest, a self-addressed, stamped envelope must be included with the entry. An entry fee of $10 is also required. Registra- tion for the contest may be made by calling Linda Kissel at 812-677-0085. Information on where to send the entry will be given at that time. The 3 babies receiving the most votes (donations) during the contest will be awarded priz- es. Prizes are $100 first place, $75 second place, and $50 third place, and the winners pictures will be displayed in the newspaper the week of June 26. Market sign-ups ongoing The Owensville Farmers Market on the library lawn be- gins June 11th and will continue on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month through September. There will be crafts, boutique clothing, Thomas Family Acres farms, and home baked goods. If anyone wishes to be a part of the market they may call the Owensville Carnegie Library at 812-724-3335 or Angie 812-215 -9985. THIS MONTH Mount Carmel Roots'N'Que is June 18 Wabash Roots'N'Que Chairman Dennis Stroughmatt has announced that, through a partnership with First Na- tional Bank, Mel Tillis Jr. will headline the RNQ22 festi- val scheduled for Saturday, June 18, at Merchants Park, in Mt. Carmel, Ill. In addition to on stage performances, there will be a full schedule of events indoors, hosted by the Wabash Coun- ty Museum, just a few feet south of Merchants Park. Sev- eral Food Trucks and Craft Vendors will be on the street throughout the day. Also on tap, RNQ's Backyard BBQ Competition, "Smoke On The Wabash," providing the aro- mas for those attending, along with a chance for cash priz- es and trophies for the competitors. Applications for Ven- dors and BBQ Teams are available at rootsnque.com. Owensville to discuss repeal of URT Tax June 20 There will be a public hearing at the Owensville Town Hall on Monday, June 20 for any discussion on the repeal of the URT Tax effective July 1. GCAS to host Cruizin' for Critters June 26 Gibson County Animal Services plans a car, truck and motorcycle show June 26 with food, more than 40 trophies, door prizes, music and more. Registration begins at 8 a.m. and continues through 12:30 p.m. and costs $10 without a shirt and $15 with a shirt. DOWN THE ROAD Online registration for OCS students Online registration for new students attending Owens- ville Community School is available. Go to the South Gib- son webpage www.sgibson.k12.in.us and click on New Stu- dent Enrollment Form under links before Aug 2, 2022. There will also be in person registration for new stu- dents Tuesday, Aug 2 in the lobby of the school (Door #1). Hours of registration will be from 2– 6 p.m. Students who will be attending Owensville Community School for the first time should bring a certified birth certif- icate, updated immunization records, list of emergency con- tacts with phone numbers along with the name, proof of res- idency, address and phone number of their previous school. Bulletin Independent Insurance Agent 812-483-4670 • Haubstadt • bill.yarbor@twc.com CALL: Bill Yarbor Are You Adequately Covered? A new year means changes to Medicare premiums, deductibles, copays and benefi ts! Bill Yarbor, experienced insurance agent can help you make sure you are adequately covered. Medicare Supplement Insurance, Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part-D prescription drug plans. 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He was an un- derground coal miner and supervisor for more than 37 years. He most recently worked for Peabody Energy. He was a MSHA certified in- structor who taught mining health and safety to a great many young miners. He was an EMT in Illinois and Indiana for many years. He had a lot of patience which made him such a good teacher. He tru- ly loved teaching and would lead the field trips for the ele- mentary school kids into the underground mines in Illinois every year. He was a member of the Norris City, Ill. Masonic Lodge #718, a member of the Shrine, and a member of the Eastern Star #783. He is survived by his lov- ing wife of 37 years, Diana (Routte) Schwartze, of Fran- cisco; children, Beth Whalen, of Bowling Green, Ky. and Jon ( Wanda) Schwartze, of Lynn- ville; four grandchildren; sis- ter, Carol (Charles) Phillips, of The Villages, Fla.; and ma- ny nieces and nephews. Besides his parents, he is preceded in death by his sis- ter, Margaret Schwartze. A Celebration of Life ser- vice will be at 3 p.m. on Sun- day, June 5, 2022, at Stodghill Funeral Home. Burial will be at a later date. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. until service time. Donations in his honor can be made to the Gibson Coun- ty Animal Services. Expressions of sympathy can be made at stodghillfu- neralhome.com. Obituaries "I do everything either sit- ting in this or crawling, but what I'm doing now is crawl- ing," he said. "You'd be sur- prised how, if you can't do things the normal way, how you can figure out how to do it. I can't carry a straw bale, but I can push it in front of me crawling. I push it, I use off the back of it, and I push it a little further. That's how I straw my potatoes. It works well." He hadn't had the use of a tiller for most of this year, so he planted mainly with a long-handled hoe. Dearing lives in sight of the farm where he grew up, and like many area families, they farmed and gardened as a way of life. "You'd be surprised when I was growing up. The farmers didn't have $5 to go to town on, you know, but they had a big garden. Their town rela- tions would come out to get their produce thinking (the farmers) were rich. We used to laugh about that," he said. "We didn't have two nickels to rub together, but plenty to eat, because we had our own ani- mals." They'd go to town to do trading. He remembers his mother taking their cream and eggs, to the grocery to trade for sta- ple items like flour and beans, without money involved. "I've always liked to watch things grow and eat what they ended up as," he said. "When they retired me from farming my garden grew...I haven't found anything I can't do. I just do things a different way and a lot slower." Avid gardener, Stanley Dearing, finds a way to tend his plants regardless of his mobility. Food Truck Tuesday Above: Customers at the Sweet Dreams Ice Cream truck took away sundaes, floats and other treats at the Fairgrounds May 31. More events are set from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. June 28, Ju- ly 26, Aug. 30, and Sept. 27. Left: Scott Mason per- formed at Food Truck Tues- days May 31 at the Gibson County Fairgrounds.