South Gibson Star-Times

Front Tuesday, November 29, 2022 South Gibson Star-Times A-2 READER GUIDE Subscriptions: Change of address: subscribers changing addresses will please give old address as well as new one along with phone number. We cannot guarantee prompt change unless this is done. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Heartland Media Group, LLC, P.O. Box 275, Fowler, 47944-0275 or email hmgcirculation@ gmail.com or call 765-884-1902. Subscription rates as of Nov. 1, 2022: One year: $37 for Gibson County; $42 elsewhere in Indiana; out-of-state: $57. Paid in advance. Subscriptions taken after noon on Friday will not receive a paper until the second edition after their subscription date. About us: Published every Tuesday by Heartland Media Group, LLC Phone: 812-753-3553 203 S. McCreary St., P.O. Box 70, Fort Branch 47648-0070 Entered in the Post Office in Fort Branch, Indiana for transmission through the mails as Periodical Mail, postage paid at Fort Branch, Indiana – published weekly. (USPS 205-620) Contact us: General Phone: ........................................................... 812-753-3553 Circulation Phone: ......................................................765-884-1902 Janice Barniak, Editor .............................. editor@sgstartimes.com Advertising ................................................... ads@sgstartimes.com General News .............................................news@sgstartimes.com Sports ........................................................ sports@sgstartimes.com Do you have a coming community event? Send the details to editor@sgstartimes.com BRIEFLY Christmas packages planned for troops VFW 2714 Auxiliary plans to send troop packages for Christmas. Names and addresses of Gibson County mili- tary personnel stationed overseas are needed. Please send a message to Jenny Wright, call the post, or email to w_ jenlynn@yahoo.com. VFW 2714 is also collecting items to help Homeless Veterans. Please take new items to the post. Items requested as follows: Hats, gloves, socks, tshirts, underwear, long underwear, sweat pants, sweatshirts siz- es large and up. Community invited to Adopt-a-Plot Lyles Station Historic School and Museum announced a new way to help beautify and maintain one of Gibson Coun- ty's historic sites. The Adopt-A-Plot program offers individ- uals or groups the option to plant/maintain selected gar- den areas on the museum grounds. Small signs may be displayed alongside each area recognizing the "adopters" or a designated family, business, church, club, or in-me- moriam. A variety of spaces are available. The Lyles Sta- tion Historic School and Museum is located at 953 N 500 W, Princeton. For information, contact Neal Mustard at 812-664-0649. THIS WEEK VFW announces events The VFW Auxiliary will serve breakfast on the second Saturday of the month until March. Treasure Hunt every Monday with the drawing at 7 p.m. with jackpot over $18,000 and kitchen is open from 4-7 p.m. Kitchen is open Thursdays and Fridays 4-7 p.m. with weekly specials. Everyone welcome and carryouts avail- able. VFW member's Christmas party Dec. 3, catered meal and band $10 a person. Stop by or call the post for reser- vations and info. VFW Auxiliary sponsors a community Christmas par- ty with Toys for Tots toy drive with the Salvation Army on Dec. 10. DPI Gingerbread contest set Downtown Princeton Inc. will host a Christmas Street Market with a gingerbread house competition from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 26. Community planners host Christmas Owensville Community Planners will host Christmas on the Square on Nov. 27, featuring pictures with San- ta, cookies, hot chocolate, the lighting of the Christmas tree, and a parade. DECEMBER EVENTS Merit board meets The 2022 meetings of the Gibson County Sheriff's Mer- it Board are at 12:30 p.m., the second Tuesday of every month the Gibson County Community Corrections Confer- ence 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 sec- ond Wednesday of every month as the dates for their reg- ular monthly board meetings. The meetings are in the Li- brary Meeting Room. Vertical Church hosts Christmas Vertical Church is planing a Hometown Christmas event from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Dec. 2 at their church, at 415 W. 800 S. in Fort Branch. They plan a tree lighting, games for chil- dren, free hot chocolate, 19 vendors, food trucks, Christ- mas music and a tree lighting. Haubstadt Holiday Expo Haubstadt's Holiday Expo will be 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 3 at Haubstadt Old Gym at 115 S. West St. Broadway Players plan Polar Express Broadway Players will present Polar Express and brunch with Santa on Dec. 4. The brunch and movie is $15 and the movie only is $8. Christmas Market Dec. 10 Owensville Community Planners will host a Christmas Market on Dec. 10. Come shop with local vendors. Con- tact Angie Williams 812-215 -9985 to sign up. Santa Claus is coming Fort Branch Community Pride will host Christmas Eve with Santa Dec. 24. For more information check out their Facebook page. bulletin Major Marques said there has been a considerable flux in the services they have pro- vided since COVID. He said when COVID first hit there was a big influx of people in need of services. Then last year it waned, but this year with inflation they are seeing another big influx in services needed. "We have 175 households so far this year who have never been here before and in those households there are 503 peo- ple who have never been here before. Just because there is in- creased need does not mean there is increased giving to meet the demand. Marques said he only has the numbers of collections made for the first four days of the red kettle campaign. But they are not good. So far the campaign in Gibson and Pike Counties has brought in about $2,811, which is off about $500 from last year's totals over those same four days. "I'm not surprised. We have not had the amount of ring- ers we need. I need people to help stand at the doors," said Marques. People can volunteer to ring bells for an hour or a morn- ing, afternoon or evening by going to www.registertor- ing.com. Marques said once at the website people can put their zip code into the website and it will display sites where bell ringers are needed in that community and open times slots. If there is not a bell ringing site in your particular town, put in the zip code of an area town. He added, the sites that col- lect the most money and it a priority to keep someone at is the Princeton Walmart site. But they also want and need people ringing at all their sites. The Simon family start- ed ringing bells about three years ago and now looks for- ward to it each weekend. Corey and Leah Simon and their son Keith were out ring- ing bells at Holiday Foods in Haubstadt on Saturday. Leah said in 2019 they saw a note in their church bulletin at Sts. Peter and Paul one Sun- day. "We just thought it would be a good family activity," said Corey. They have grown to love ringing bells together and now do it every weekend during the holiday season. "We used to do it every Friday, but we always saw all the same peo- ple." So they started changing times when they ring so they see different people. They said it bothers them to see the kettle sitting out and no one ringing because they know it will get many fewer contributions if no one is there ringing bells. The Salvation Army along with helping people with ma- terial and financial needs also is there to help people in need of spiritual help. They have Sunday school and discussion hour at 10 a.m. each Sunday morning and then chapel services at 11 a.m. at their 202 S. Gibson St., Princeton location. They can be reached by call- ing 812-386 -6577 or going to their Facebook page. RINGING Continued from page 1 Putting up Christmas lights Peyton Gries and Alex Holmes were out Saturday afternoon in Fort Branch putting up Christmas lights. Gries said they have put out lights for about the last 10 years.

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