The Vincennes Sun-Commercial from Vincennes, Indiana (2024)

June 6, 2015

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The Vincennes Sun-Commerciali

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Vincennes, Indiana

Issue Date:

Saturday, June 6, 2015

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3

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DEATHS Obituaries Charles rakes LANSING Ill Charles rakes age 84 of Lansing passed away on Wednesday June 3 2015 Mr rakes served his county in the US Army and was a veteran of the Korean War He was a member of the American Legion Post 697 and the VW in Vincennes He worked for 35 years as a conductor for Belt Railway Company of Chicago He is survived by his beloved wife Wanda' Jean (Mullins) rakes four children Danny A rakes and his wife Kathy of St John Indiana Bruce rakes and his wife Mary of Munster Indiana JanetS Lester and her husband Stephen of Griffith Indiana and Mark rakes and his companion Karen Ekdahl of Lansing five grandchildren Alexandra Kathryn Stephanie Kayli and Tom Martin three great grand children Madalyn Olivia and Mya and numerous nieces and nephews Mr rakes was preceded in death by his parents Walter and Irma rakes uneral services for Mr rakes will be 11 am CDT Monday at irst Baptist Church of Lansing with the Rev Michael Eberly officiating Interment will follow at Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens in Schererville Indiana riends are invited to visit with the rakes family from 3 8 pm CDT on Sunday at the Schroeder Lauer uneral Home Lansing In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made in Mr name to Hartland Hospice Online condolences may be made at schroederlauercom Jennifer Grove BRIDGEPORT Ill (Herrel) Grove 59 of Bridgeport died riday June 5 2015 Arrangements are pending at Emmons Macey Steffey uneral Home in Lawrenceville unerals Phillips Dorothy Jane died June 2 uneral: 10 am CDT today at Summers Kistler uneral Home in Olney Illinois with the Rev Phillip Richardson officiating Burial: Memorial Park Cemetery Visitation: 9 am CDT until the hour of services today at the funeral home Memorials: lawrenceville Illinois United Methodist Church Condolences: summers kistlercom Walters Randy died June 1 uneral: 11 am today at Ridgecrest Baptist Church with Walker Hatton officiating Burial: Memorial Park Cemetery Memorials: Police Benevolent und Condolences: goodwinfamilyfhcom GArd BOTTOMS A get well card shower is planned for Carl Bottoms Cards may be sent to: 2108 Jerry St Vincennes IN 47591 BUNTE A card shower is planned for Jannie Bunte who will celebrate her 38th birthday on June 15 Cards may be sent to: Garden Villa Unit 6 2111 Norton Lane Bedford IN 47421 GREEN A card shower is planned for Mary Agnes Green who will celebrate her 100th birthday on July 1 Cards may be sent to: One Park Place Apt 3301 2701 rederica St Owensboro KY 42301 LUNSORD A card shower is planned for Hide Lunsford who will celebrate her 34th birthday on June 10 Cards may be sent to: 405 Major Bowman Terrace Vincennes IN 47591' MOTLEY A card shower is planned for Sara Motley who will celebrate her 70th birthday on June 14 Cards may be sent to: 903 Buntin St Vincennes IN 47591 SIEVERS A card shower is planned for Dorothy Sievers who will celebrate her birthday on June 13 Cards may be sent to 2653 Main Street Road Vincennes IN 47591 SMITH A thinking of you card shower is planned for former resident Phyllis Smith Cards may be sent to: Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation Room 202 377 Westridge Blvd Greenwood IN 46142 PHILLIPPE The Phillippe family reunion will be held beginning at noon on Sunday on the back porch of the shelter house at Gregg Park The descendants of John Henderson and Ruphena Peck Phillippe are invited to attend Soft drinks ice and tableware will be provided or more information contact Rita Bowlin at 812 735 4098 or Judy Phillippe at 812 890 8427 PIEPER The annual Pieper family reunion will be held beginning at 12:30 pm Sunday at the Bethel Shelter House in reelandville All family and friends are invited Classified advertising gets the job done Sun Commercial 886 9955 SUN COMMERCIAL Saturday June 6 201 5 A3 Accident cracks facade BY JIMMY POTTS PRINCETON DAILY CLARION PRINCETON Less than 24 hours after a ribbon cutting celebrat ing the reopening of the Princeton Theatre and Community Center an accident left a softball size divot in the new facade Broadway Players president red Hadley said he originally thought the damage came from vandals tile comes from Italy and it was very Hadley said my knowledge (con tractors) did not have any left over that we could patch it The building recently underwent a $2 million renovation for five perfor mances and group gath erings After seeing the busted facade Hadley contacted the Princeton Police Department think ing a vandal caused the damage The PPD canvassed the area and viewed sur veillance footage from neighboring German American Bank Hadley said he consid ered contacting a home and business security system to install cameras should another incident occur But before Hadley or the police could take any action a worker with the contracting company still renovating the 70 year old building came forward and reported that he accidentally caused the damage while operating heavy machinery Hadley said the con tracting company pledged to restore the damaged tile to its original condi tion The planned June 13 open house will take place on schedule as well as its first play The open house will run from 4 8 pm The Broadway Players perform July 31 and Aug 1 2 and Aug 7 8 Tickets are available at the theatre or online at broadwayplayersorg HISTORY ROM THE RONT PAGE of the Merom Improve ment Association He stops the truck at Market and ifth streets where the Carnegie library sits Locals believe Merom is the smallest town in the US with a library financed by the 19th century steel tycoon according to the website A sign in front of the two story brick structure reads Are Seeds That Grow the The truck continues into a neighborhood of mostly unkempt houses a lot of these places nobody living in Buethe says either passed away they let the place go down horrible happening no indus try he continues you have down town is two competing restaurants a post office open part of the time now because they changed all the hours everywhere and my (busi ness and the nothing else here So all these people work somewhere else or vacant property let go back to the bank because they afford driving back and forth to some Buethe and the asso ciation are working to change that Proceeds from the festival along with gifts grants and donations are funding a series of improvement projects More than $360000 has been gener ated into the community over 20 years The truck comes to a stop next to the com munity center which the association built and fur nished Buethe points to a blue red and yellow play ground set the softball field and tennis courts the association also made possible Soon they plan to convert the tennis courts into an enclosed basketball court He turns the vehicle back onto Indiana 58 motioning toward a blank wall on a downtown build ing This year artists 1 from Indianapolis will Buethe dreams of the community taking con trol of the house turn ing it into a dinner the ater and shoring up the channel Guests could park in a nearby town be transported into Merom watch the show and take boats back to their cars does any thing like he says have the possibili Merom located about 14 miles southwest of Sullivan was founded in 1817 The one building became a court house but it cen trally located so the coun ty seat shifted to Sullivan or a time as Buethe describes it Merom was a little river with a population between 5000 and 7000 By the 2010 Census there were 228 William Henry Har troops came through Merom on the way to the Battle of Tippecanoe during the War of 1812 The town provided refuge for con scientious objectors to World War II who kept busy through the Works Progress Administration building Bluff entryway history here like you Buethe said' before giving the tour paging through booklets at his dining room table The Chautauqua began in 1905 based on a similar event in New York In the early days nota ble figures such as Dem ocratic politician William Jennings Bryan presi dents William Howard Taft and Warren Harding and athlete Billy Sunday lectured on the bluff wanted to raise the consciousness level of the people in this rural Buethe says about the first organizers The event grew to 47500 people by 1908 all camping with their horses buggies chickens and whatever else they brought along Bpethe opens a recent festival program that features a photo taken around that year showing 'a crowd in front of a huge revival style tent enough lodging he says mean they would stay in houses in their yards all over the bluff was absolute he continues you imagine that many people in a town that you can almost throw a rock The event continued strong until the late 1920s and stopped until 1966 when longtime resident Jack Gettinger reintro duced it as a nonprofit organization what drove this to make money and to do something to try to pull this town together and put it back in the Buethe says The Chautauqua has since expanded past the bluff incor porating other parts of town This fes tivities kicked off at noon riday with the 28th annual Little Miss Chautauqua Pageant that evening events include a' morning Asian carp netting con test on the Wabash River a midday parade downtown and an eve ning talent show After church ser vices Sunday morning a baby contest a pedal tractor pull and other and activi ties After driving through Bluff Park Buethe steers the truck toward perhaps most recog nized landmark: the former Union Christian College i Now a center bper ated by the Indiana Kentucky Conference of the United Church of Christ for camps and religious retreats the college was a liberal arts institution attract ing students nation wide from 1859 1924 The main building with its tall arched windows and in overlook is one of the features Buethe quickly came to appre ciate upon moving to Merom from northern Montgomery County in 2005 The town had invited him to help teach pottery tech niques to children was something out of a he says Greenfield grant will remake alley into arts venue BY MAR1BETH VAUGHN GREENIELD DAILY REPORTER The first visible sign of downtown revitalization will kick off next spring now that the city of Green field has been awarded a state grant to transform a downtown alley into an area for festivals gather ings and more Lt Gov Sue Ellsper mann announced Wednes day that Greenfield was among 11 Hoosier cities to receive a grant for commu nity improvement projects The $44000 grant will join with local dollars to create the North Street Living Alley which will add gardens and festival lighting to an alley on North Street just west State Street was something a lot of people worked hard for and pretty said Steve Vail a member of the Greenfield Coali tion which helped secure the grant The roughly $111000 project is the first of two phases The entire scope of the project which runs from North to Main streets is expected to cost about $270000 The first phase which is funded by the grant announced this week runs from North Street to the parking lot of the Lincoln Square Pancake House The city is contribut ing $50000 to the project while the Hanco*ck County Tourism Commission gave $11150 and the Hanco*ck County Visitors Bureau chipped in $5000 liie project is the first of the Greenfield Coali a community that formed to make the downtown revitaliza tion plan a reality A top priority of the group is building a Riley Literary Trail which is loosely based on the Indi anapolis Cultural Trail paint a large mural on the space as a way to welcome visitors driving into town As the truck approaches Bluff Park where the Chautauqua was originally held Buethe sees a blue house that residents are convinced was a stop on the Underground Rail road He points to a side door that likely led to an opening for a deep chan nel Longtime residents have told Buethe that slaves would use the channel to take flatboats into Terre Haute The Bible Bookstore Open Mondays until 7:30 pm Catholic Bibles 1 Books Crucifixes Rosaries Statues More 1116 Minn SL Villainies IX 47591 KI2 SX2 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