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South Gibson Star-Times Tuesday, September 20, 2022 A-5 Cox graduates Baylor Audra Cox of Fort Branch graduated at Baylor University in Waco, Texas in May with a Master of Science degree in Communica- tion Sciences and Disorders. More than 3,000 Baylor University grad- uates – including nearly 90 graduates who completed their degree requirements in 2020 and 2021 – received their degrees during four commencement ceremonies May 13-14 in the Ferrell Center. Neighbors plan block party By Janice Barniak Star-Times Editor editor@sgstartimes.com Haubstadt Town Coun- cil approved shutting down traffic at 4 p.m. Sept. 24 for a block party on Elm between Race and Vine during their September meeting. Organizers didn't know ex- actly how long it would last, adding that would probably be for as long as the food last- ed. The council wondered if they should put an ending time on the party. "Neighbors might com- plain," said Board President Chad Wallis. "Only the ones who weren't invited," quipped Clerk Trea- surer Bonnie Wagner. The board also rescinded an early motion, backing out of an asphalt bid for the Haub- stadt Tennis Courts deciding to go with a cheaper option to use concrete instead of as- phalt for the tennis courts be- cause they'd avoid having to take down the fence to repair the courts. While high school tennis players prefer asphalt's soft- ness, for example, the board said the local courts aren't hosting meets, but are for lo- cal recreation. Even using concrete, with the savings for not bringing down the fence, the cost to resurface the tennis courts is still $45,000. In other news the board ap- proved $250 of winter work- wear for water department employees including boots and coveralls. The water department wants residents to be aware they will flush fire hydrants Oct. 16 in Haubstadt, which may affect customers' pres- sure and the clarity of the water. Clean, dry and devoted: Laundry ministry turns 12 By Janice Barniak Star-Times Editor editor@sgstartimes.com Anne Voyles' laundr y min- istr y turns 12 years old next month, and she said people who began as strangers have become family over the wash, dr y and rinse cycles. She'd heard about a church that did a laundr y ministr y in another state, and she said it stayed on her heart for months. Voyles can still remember collecting her courage for that first trip. That first time she only brought $25 and a bottle of soap. "I was scared to death," she said. "I'm an introvert. I was out of my comfort zone. I pre- fer to be behind the scenes." She didn't know the cost to wash a family's clothes av- erages $25 a week, and that's before soap and dr yer sheets, which Voyles now brings with her. "I knew I could do this. People are needy. They have food. They have clothes but they don't have the money to go to the laundromat. They don't have clean clothes to go to a job inter view, to go to a doctor." Gibson County has one just the one laundromat on Main Street in Princeton, which many families have to travel to bring their clothes to, and even then, they may have transportation problems, hiking across town with their bags of clothing. These days when Voyles an- nounces she's doing her once- a-month laundr y day, she'll bring $125, some supported by her church, some of her own money, and then she'll meet her regulars and pay for anyone already there when she arrives. She gives Chris- tian literature as she meets people. "I don't want to turn anyone down," she said. "I'm amazed how on months when there are more people I'm given more money. When there are fewer here I have less mon- ey." Someone now donates the soap she brings and at Christ- mas she brings cookies. "I still get excited ever y time I come. Isn't that funny?" People tell her that they're choosing between clean cloth- ing and medicine, for exam- ple. "I think ever yone has a call- ing and this is mine. I'm 70, and this is my calling." Jesse Weaver celebrates the Haubstadt Dump Day's first trashed Christmas tree, fairly certain it won't be their last. Cleaning up around Haubstadt Nic Weaver with helpers Devin Cain, and Quinn, Lucas, and Jesse Weaver helped unload vehicles in Haubstadt Saturday morning. Anne Voyles is friends with workers like Debbie An- schatz at Gibson County's only laundromat as she runs a laundromat ministr y to pay to help people get their clothes clean. Anne Voyles jokes with friend Micah as they wash his clothes during her monthly laundr y ministr y that pays for people to do their laundr y and provides soap. Petersburg man accused of theft A Petersburg man is ac- cused of felony theft with a prior conviction after police say he stole a phone from the Princeton Walmar t Sept. 12. According to the proba- ble cause affidavit, Jordan Gosciniak, 32, was charged after Asset Protection Officer Steven Parker obser ved him attempting to release the wire around the phone's packag- ing first by tr ying to break it, then by cutting it with a razor blade, which Parker said he used to open the phone pack- age and put the merchandise in his pocket. According to Parker, Gosciniak then left the Walmart, before being turned over to Princeton Po- lice Dept. His prior conviction is a felony theft conviction from May 2021 in Jennings County. you can learn a lot from the Newspaper! Encourage your children to make reading the newspaper a part of their everyday routine for lifelong learning. 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