The South Gibson Star-Times serves the towns of Haubstadt, Owensville and Fort Branch.
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Front Tuesday, October 11, 2022 South Gibson Star-Times A-2 Do you have a coming community event? Send the details to editor@sgstartimes.com BRIEFLY Community invited to Adopt-a-Plot Lyles Station Historic School and Museum has announced a new way for interested individuals to help beautify and maintain one of Gibson County's historic sites. The Adopt-A-Plot program offers individuals or groups the option to plant/maintain selected garden areas on the museum grounds. Small signs may be displayed alongside each area recognizing the "adopters" or a desig- nated family, business, church, club, or in-memoriam. A variety of spaces are available. The Lyles Station Historic School and Museum is located at 953 N 500 W, Princeton, Indiana. For more information, contact Neal Mustard at 812-664- 0649. VFW announces events South Gibson VFW will host Treasure Hunt every Monday with the drawing at 7 p.m. and the kitchen open from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.; the kitchen is open from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays in October, Oct 22 there will be a Halloween party sponsored by the Auxiliary. Every- one is invited. Veterans food bank accepts donations The Veterans Food Bank of America in Buckskin is a by-appointment-only food pantry for veterans and their widows. It's located on Ind. 57 near Ind. 68. To schedule a food pickup or to donate call 812-795 -2230. Merit board meets The 2022 meetings of the Gibson County Sheriff's Merit Board are at 12:30 p.m., the second Tuesday of every month, in the Gibson County Community Correc- tions Conference Room, located at 112 E. Emerson Street, Princeton. Trustees meet The Board of Trustees for 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 in the Library Meeting Room. Video contest seeks entries The 2022 CEDAR video contest for all Indiana middle school, high school, and college students is open. Students can create a short video, from 30 -120 seconds, that illus- trates the importance of coal as a reliable energy source in the US. The contest runs now through Oct. 24. Awards will be given to each age group. First place will be $500, second place is $250, and third place wins $100. Visit www.cedar-in.com for more information. THIS MONTH Lyles Station Corn Maze open Lyles Station's annual corn maze features 10 acres of Indiana corn, and a haunted maze Saturday, Oct. 29. Besides the maze, families can pick a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch to paint, take a hayride, meet the animals at the petting zoo, enjoy a campfire while roasting hot dogs, and taste fall favorites like hot apple cider, s'mo- res and more. The maze is open from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Fridays, 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays in October. Corn maze admission is $ 6 for those over 12, $5 for the 4 to 11 year old crowd, and children under 3 years old are free. Haunted maze admission is $1 more, except for the under 3 crowd. Volunteers can sign up at signup.com/go/ivzntWF. GCAS seeks vendors Gibson County Animal Services is in search of vendors for the GCAS Harley's Heart Medical Fund Open House for Oct. 22. No booth fee is required, however GCAS asks for an item to place in their silent auction. Questions or concerns can be handled on the Gibson County Animal Services Fundraising Facebook page or via telephone at 812-386 -8079. Honor Flight seeks mail On the evening of Oct. 29 local heroes will return to EV V after having just visited the memorials at our nation's capital. Part of this process is called operation mail call, when they will receive and open letters from home on their return flight to EV V. Mail call is a very touching, very personal way to let our veterans know that, even after all these years, their sacrifices for our freedoms have not been forgotten. Each veteran will receive a mail call envelope with dozens of cards and letters. We need your help to make this happen. Examples range from a simple card, a hand-written letter and coloring pages from children. Involve your kids, your church, your school, and be as creative as you'd like. Send a whole box of cards and we will distribute them evenly. Please leave the envelopes unsealed, as they are easier to open for the veterans. Deadline for EV V13 mail call is Oct. 22, the Saturday before the flight day. Send mail to operation mail call HFSI- EV V13, PO Box 8234 Evansville, IN 47716. Fort Branch plans Halloween bash Fort Branch will host a two-day Halloween extrava- ganza that will kick off with a Zombie run Oct. 28; Sinis- ter Cellar's Haunted Park attraction Oct. 28 -29; and the uptown Halloween Fest Oct. 28 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. To receive more information or volunteer, contact Fort Branch Community Pride on Facebook. Car show hosts trunk-or-treat Princeton's monthly car show, hosted on the courthouse square, will feature a trunk-or-treat from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 30. Hot rods should bring candy for the trunk-or- treat. A prize will be given for car with the best Hallow- een theme. Fall Bash planned Oct. 29, Owensville Community Planners will host the Family Fall Bash on the town square. Chili dinner will start at 5 p.m., and there will be free games, hayrides, and face painting, along with the famous cake walk, trunk-or-treat- ing and the Chili Cook-off. The first fall Prince, Princess, King and Queen contest will also be taking place. DOWN THE ROAD DAR lays wreaths General John Gibson of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution will have a Laying of the Wreath program at the DAR monument on the south side of the Gibson County Courthouse at 10 :30 a.m. Nov. 11. bulletin When SDIA members arrived in Fort Myers, Fla., they arrived at a church already housing disaster victims. They camped in the church parking lot — in MacKay's case, in a hammock—and that hospitality gave them a place to start. They worked first clearing the congregation's and pastor's homes, then they had a list of first responders who, since they'd been work- ing non-stop post-hurricane, had been unable to clear their own homes. The group handed out supplies like food that were coming in fast and plentifully from around the country. MacKay said one interest- ing case, they were helping a woman clear her yard, and they asked about her neigh- bor. She didn't really know the man, or show a lot of care, and MacKay said that can be typi- cal at first in a disaster. He said many times people are over- whelmed by their own loss and don't have the space to also grieve other people's losses. While the SDIA members were there, however, the man's daughter stopped by to check on him. Through the Sheep Dogs, the woman learned her neighbor was a disabled veteran, and she has disabled veterans in her family. "She broke down in tears. It was really cool to see that connection. We get so busy with our lives, but she connected with him," MacKay said. The woman decided she was going to do more to check in on the neighbor she had not known previously. While the members are home now, the local Sheep Dogs want to deploy for another week. What holds them back is pulling together the funding for gas to get to and from affected areas. "The price of fuel will kill you," MacKay said. "We'd love to go back for another week and help. We're collect- ing donations and any money donated, if we couldn't raise enough to go back again this time, would go toward the next one." SDIA also wants to have a place to store supplies before a storm, for example, chain- saws, removal equipment, bottled water, MRE's, tarps, nails, and shelf-stable food. "Storms are always going to be there. An excess is ok, it will go to the next one," MacKay said. MacKay hopes that one day someone will donate space to hold those supplies so the group can be deploy- ment-ready, responding to disasters more quickly instead of having to first raise supplies for the afflicted area. "We need a building to call home," he said. As tornado season nears in Indiana, he expects at least one deployment will be closer to home. Last year they deployed to Newburgh, for example, after a bad storm. Sheep Dog Impact Assis- tance is a group of primarily veterans and first responders who find helping others to be a meaningful part of their own healing. MacKay said those inter- ested in signing up or donating can contact him at cmackay@ sheepdogia.org. "You can't predict storms, but you can prepare for them," he said. with one farm-raised student teaching one student that had never done the work. The work is volunteer, and last year seven students were interested. Now it's grown to 11. FFA student Cooper France said no one in his family has farmed, so the work he did Saturday was new to him. He said he'd like to learn to be a livestock farmer as an adult. Student Logan Randall said he helps his grandfather farm a plot in Illinois. "It's what I'm interested in. I like spending time on the trac- tor," he said Saturday. Another recent develop- ment for the FFA will trans- form that same Toyota plot next year. Pioneer Seed has donated seed for a test plot at the loca- tion, and Channel Seed has invited students to do a test plot at the high school. "We'll partner with anyone. It's more of an educational opportunity for kids," Mraz said. "The crop is the biggest fundraiser the FFA has. This is what pays the bills and makes all the FFA magic happen all year." FFA Continued from page 1 HURRICANE Continued from page 1 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. Students took turns farming soybeans with the FFA on Saturday in Princeton. Local Sheep Dog Impact Assistance volunteers joined Wisconsin and Georgia chapters to deploy to Fort My- ers, Fla. last week, where they handed out supplies. Sheep Dog Impact Assistance volunteers from Gibson County deployed to Fort Myers, Fla. to assist victims of Hurricane Ian last week.