Stories from Sunday, March 23, 2014

In 1984, the Greencastle Civic League Inc., a nonprofit organization, was founded with a mission to promote beautification, clean-up, cultural development, and general improvement of life in Greencastle. For the past 20 years, the Civic League has sponsored the ParkFest summer music series in order to promote the arts, support local musicians and give back to the community in the form of free, high-quality, family-friendly entertainment...

Acquisition of a half-block-wide parking lot on the east side of the Moose Lodge has positioned the City of Greencastle to apply for revised funding to solve its downtown parking issues under the Stellar Grant program. City Attorney Laurie Hardwick told Greencastle Redevelopment Commission members at their March meeting last Wednesday that she "just had them (Moose Lodge officials) sign the papers this afternoon."...

A report on the restoration efforts by DePauw University of the historic John Ireland home in Greencastle will be the highlight the 2014 annual meeting of the Heritage Preservation Society of Putnam County Wednesday evening. The HPS will meet at the Putnam County Museum, beginning at 6:30 p.m...

Wanda R. Kelley, 70, of Greencastle, passed away on Thursday, March 20, 2014. Wanda was born on Aug. 16, 1943 in Osage, W.V., to Ben Cooper and Sally Snowden Cooper. She had previously been employed as a lead person with Van Camp Hardware Distribution Center, now True Value...

Janet Carol Tillotson, 80, of Greencastle and formerly of Bainbridge, passed away on Saturday, March 22, 2014, with her family and friends by her side. Carol was born on May 10, 1933 in Lafayette to John Parker and Josephine Thompson Parker. She was a graduate of Lafayette Jeff High School and attended St. Mary of the Woods College. Carol was a 60-year resident of Bainbridge and was a member of the Bainbridge Christian Church and the Women of the Moose, Greencastle Lodge...

Rose Marie Miller, 81, of Roachdale, passed away at St Vincent Hospice in Indianapolis on Sunday, March 23, 2014. She was born on Oct. 1, 1932 to Landon and Ada Mae Hopkins Stewart. Rose graduated from Roachdale High School in 1950. She was a homemaker and a member of the Roachdale Christian Church and the Roachdale V.F. W. Auxiliary...

A celebration of a life well lived will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 29 at Deer Park Manor, 1501 E. Hillside Drive, Bloomington, Ind., for Robert Allen Brookshire. Friends and family will reflect on Bob's life with stories and remembrances followed by a pitch-in social...

By MARK EVANS 4-H Youth Educator "Oops, I forgot to enroll in 4-H!" The enrollment deadline assuring all projects being available was Monday, March 17. However, one can still enroll by downloading the form from the Purdue Extension Putnam County website...

RUSSELLVILLE -- Cash Concrete Products Inc. announced that is has recently opened a new facility in Russellville. The new plant will batch and deliver ready-mix concrete, as well as offer concrete accessories, concrete block, drainage material, aggregates, tools and other building materials to the public...

The Putnam County Public Library and the Greencastle Parks and Recreation Department have teamed up to create a family evening they are calling "Dinner and a Book." The Wednesday, April 2 event at the library will include food, drinks, fun, crafts and stories...

The West-Central Indiana Infant Mortality Reduction Task Force will conduct its first meeting Friday to begin developing ways to improve outcomes for babies in eight Wabash Valley counties. Indiana has the sixth-highest infant mortality rate in the country at 7.7 deaths per 1,000 live births and the rate in most west-central Indiana counties exceeds the state average...

A public hearing will be conduced at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 15 on the main floor of the Putnam County Courthouse to form the Putnam County Housing Authority. On March 18, the Putnam County Council voted unanimously to hold a public hearing to consider a resolution for the creation of the Putnam County Housing Authority. The hearing is open to the public, and comments are welcome at the hearing with regard to housing in the outlying areas of the Putnam County...

North Putnam Community School Corporation has announced Kindergarten Round-Up for both Bainbridge and Roachdale elementary schools is set for Tuesday, April 15. Both events are set for 6 p.m. Parents should enroll their children at Bainbridge Elementary or Roachdale Elementary depending on where they reside. Children should accompany their parents to Round-Up because they will be meeting the kindergarten teachers and learning about school...

Waiting for the North Putnam School Board meeting to start, one might have wondered how on earth all of the community members that had shown up could possibly squeeze into the meeting room. The seats filled up and soon there was standing room only, with people filling in all empty spaces with spillover standing in the hallway...

Men's Lacrosse HIRAM -- Grant Skipper's goal just seven seconds into Saturday's contest against Hiram set the tone for a record setting day for the Tigers who would smash the Terriers by a final score of 19-5. DePauw improved to 3-3 overall and picked up their first North Coast Athletic Conference win in program history. With the loss Hiram dropped to 1-3 on the year and 0-1 in NCAC play...

The Greencastle High School track and field team traveled to Indiana Wesleyan to compete in the Division 1A -3A championships Sunday. Sophomore Katerina King finished fifth in the 60 meter dash with a time of 8.10. Junior Jessica Lenihan placed fourth in the shot put. Her distance of 38- 10.5 set a new school record...

INDIANAPOLIS -- A school-record 400-yard freestyle relay capped off the Tigers' 15th-place finish at the NCAA Division III Men's Swimming and Diving Championships Saturday. Casey Hooker, Blake Lehmann, Alex Alfonso and Alex Grissom were fifth in the prelims in 3:01.18, but finished under the three-minute mark and in fourth place in 2:59.78. That mark broke the DePauw record of 3:00.41 set at last year's championships...

FILLMORE -- The Fillmore Community Volunteer Fire Department will be hosting a freewill offering fundraiser on Monday, March 31 in the Fillmore Elementary School gymnasium. The fundraiser will be held during a public meeting for the second reading of a competitive building grant.The dinner will begin at 6 p.m. with the public hearing to follow at 7. Biscuits and gravy along with sausage, pancakes, milk coffee and orange juice will be served...