Stories from Wednesday, November 28, 2012

To the Editor: On Nov. 15, the Greencastle High School boys' basketball team scrimmaged the Turkey Run Warriors. On very short notice, we decided to also use this occasion as a philanthropic event by collecting non-perishable food items for the Putnam County Emergency Food Pantry...

County Jail Several people have been booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. On Wednesday, Nov. 21, Darrell Lee Goff, 34, Fillmore, was charged with failure to appear in court. On Saturday, Nov. 24 at 6:05 p.m. Kenzie Rhie Sailors, 45, Terre Haute, was booked in on a warrant...

DePauw Jazz at The Duck will present the Rob Dixon Quartet on Thursday, Nov. 29 from 8:30-10:30 p.m. at the Fluttering Duck in The Inn at DePauw. Jazz at The Duck is free and open to the public The group features Rob Dixon on sax, Sandy Williams on guitar, Frank Smith on bass and Colin Oakly on drums...

The Putnam County Public Library will welcome Jennifer Complo McNutt, curator at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, who will give a Brown Bag presentation at noon Thursday, Nov. 29. The program on issues surrounding contemporary Native American art was rescheduled from last summer...

CHICAGO -- When the Indiana Society of Chicago Foundation hosts the its 107th annual dinner Saturday, the spotlight will be shining on DePauw University. The society, founded more than 100 years ago by Hoosier notables George Ade and John McCutcheon and others attracted to the city at the peak of the industrial revolution, pays homage to its roots each year by recognizing outstanding Indiana institutions and leaders in a high-spirited holiday season celebration...

Football Cascade...

CLOVERDALE -- Cloverdale's girls' basketball squad moved to within a game of .500 after overcoming a sluggish start to defeat Turkey Run 40-24 Tuesday night. The Clovers were quick to pressure the Warriors, holding the visitors to three points in the opening frame...

CLOVERDALE -- The seventh and eighth grade boys' basketball teams of Greencastle proved to be too much for the Clovers as the Tiger Cubs came away with a two-game sweep recently. Dominic Brooks had 15 points for the seventh grade Clovers, but the Greencastle defense was too much and the Tiger Cubs won 43-22...

ROACHDALE -- The North Putnam girls' basketball team knew it had a tough test ahead when they prepared to face Riverton Parke. Even if they're graded on a curve, Tuesday's game against the No. 2 rated 1A team in the state proved to be nearly impossible to pass...

Fresh off a weekend in which it defeated a pair of top-10 teams, the DePauw women's basketball team now sits atop the D3hoops.com Top 25 poll. The Tigers collected 23 of a possible 25 first-place votes and totaled 621 points in the first regular season poll. Mount Union is second with 569 points, while Wisconsin-Stevens Point is third with 514...

Jane Goodall, who has been called "the Einstein of behavioral sciences," will deliver an Ubben Lecture at DePauw University on Wednesday, April 17. The world-renowned conservationist and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute will discuss "Making a Difference" in an 8 p.m. address in Neal Fieldhouse, located within DePauw's Lilly Physical Education and Recreation Center...

As part of the second annual "Wreathing of Greencastle" sponsored by Eitel's Florists, Jenny (left) and Kent Sullivan presented Steve Gaebes of Chief's one of the season's first wreaths. Eitel's Florists presented several Greencastle businesses with a fresh 22-inch pine wreath, accented with a red festive bow...

For a player his father once called "the Rodney Dangerfield of Indiana basketball," Chad Tucker of Cloverdale certainly has been getting his share of respect lately. In February 2007, Tucker was named to the Butler University Athletic Hall of Fame, and a few months later he was honored as a member of the state's 2007 Silver Anniversary Team, selected by the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame...

Terry L. "Radar" Branham, age 59, of Greencastle, passed away on Tuesday from a logging accident in Parke County. Arrangements are pending at the Hopkins-Rector Funeral Home, Greencastle. A complete obituary will run in Monday's edition of the Banner Graphic...

Walter L. Fisher, 67, Indianapolis, passed away Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012. He was born June 24, 1945 to the late Clyde and Mildred Fisher. He is survived by his wife of 28 years, Mary; children Brian (Valerie), Leanne, Susan and James (Deena) Fisher; siblings Clyde (Charlene), Victor (Selma), Nancy Fisher, and Anna Margaret Brock...