Stories from Saturday, September 17, 2016

The Indiana Bicentennial Torch Relay will pass through Putnam County from 5-8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 22. Featured in this edition of the Banner Graphic are three of 21 torchbearers for Putnam County: Mark Hammer, Dan Holmes and Clint Maddox.

Eight Putnam County students were among the 665 named to the Ivy Tech Community College Central Indiana dean’s list for the summer of 2016. Putnam County students included DARA EISMAN and PATE WALTER of Bainbridge; DANIEL GRUNDLOCK of Coatesville; WILLIAM CRUSE of Fillmore; MISTY DAVIS, LEWIS BAKER and TAYLOR VANSICKLE of Greencastle and NAKOA SUARTANA of Reelsville...

New Life Baptist Church is partnering in a national movement calling everyone “Back to Church.” The prayer is for people who have never attended church or who once attended church but don’t anymore to come to church on Sunday, Sept. 18. This week has an extra significance, as New Life began to meet together in Greencastle 23 years ago in the basement of the U.S. Department of Agriculture building on U.S. 231...

First Baptist Church will served as the host site for the Cry Out! simulcast from 7-10 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 23. Presented by Revive Our Hearts, Cry Out! is a free simulcast worship and prayer event for women, a part of the True Woman ‘16 conference taking place in Indianapolis...

Cornerstone Baptist Church invites the community to study “The Purpose Driven Life,” a book that has transformed millions of lives. Two basic questions everyone faces in life are “Why am I here?” and “What is my purpose?” Self-help books suggest that people should look within, at their own desires and dreams, to figure out their purpose. Author Rick Warren, in “The Purpose Driven Life,” states the starting place must be with God and His eternal purposes for each life...

Showing at the Indiana State Fair last month, Sarah and Seth (right) Fuhrman of Roachdale were big winners with their Tunis sheep. Sarah and Seth, shown here at the Putnam County Fair with Neal Knapp and Seth’s Putnam County Reserve Supreme Champion Ram, came home with plenty of honors. ...

Pat and Margaret Rady of Terre Haute marked 50 years of marriage on Aug. 13, 2016. The couple was married at the Cloverdale Methodist Church located on Main Street and celebrated afterward with family and friends at the Cloverdale Community Building...

With some 300 consumers, staff members, employees and board members in attendance, Putnam County Comprehensive Services celebrates its Association Dinner and Annual Meeting with food and fun at the PCCS facility in Greencastle. Executive Director Andrew Ranck, making good on a promise to his staff, conducts the meeting dressed utterly fashionably in a cow costume. ...

CLOVERDALE -- The Cloverdale School Board heard a curriculum update from Middle School Vice Principal and Curriculum Director Cathy Ames. “We’ve kind of set out this year looking at our test scores,” Ames said, “what we’re doing in our classrooms, and re-evaluating that. We’re not just going to rely on the fact that we’ve always taught it this way. We need to make some changes, and we’re going to change accordingly and do what’s best for our school.”...

ROACHDALE -- Although several problem properties have been dealt with in recent months, there are still two that are taking the attention of council members at public meetings in Roachdale. The area of 306-308 Central Avenue and 405 E. Washington St. in the northeastern Putnam community were again brought up during Tuesday’s public meeting...

The 2016 South Putnam Homecoming Queen is Kailee Hawkins, the daughter of Carol and Jim Hawkins. She is escorted by Johnathan Thibodeau, son of Pat and Kim Thibodeau. The underclass princesses named Friday were junior Savannah McIntosh, sophomore Witney Boswell and freshman MaKayla Payne. The Eagles topped Edgewood 45-13 in the game...

North Putnam’s 2016 Homecoming Queen, announced Friday at halftime of the Cougars’ 55-0 win over Cloverdale, is senior Emilee Henninger. Escorted by her father, Emilee is the daughter of David and Treva Henninger. Princesses for the junior, sophomore and freshman classes, respectively, were Abigail Spencer, Kayla Pace and Bailey Osburn...

By JOHNATHON GOODE For the Banner Graphic ROACHDALE — It had been since 2005 that the Cloverdale Clovers football team won three straight games and they had the chance to do it Friday night. On the other side the North Putnam Cougars were coming home for the first time since that dreadful 50-0 loss to Monrovia last year in the sectional championship. They had since come off of a 3-and-1 road trip...

The South Putnam Eagle football team had lost two games in a row heading into Friday night’s Western Indiana Conference inter-divisional matchup with the Edgewood Mustangs, but the Eagles celebrated their homecoming with a physically-dominating 45-13 win to improve their record to 3-2 on the season...

CLINTON — Greencastle improved to 8-1-1 in boys’ soccer on Thursday with a 3-1 win over South Vermillion. “The boys played well despite the condition of the pitch they played on,” Greencastle coach J.D. Sims said. “South Vermillion’s field is much smaller than most fields and this made it harder for our style of game because we like to get wide and pass the ball around.”...

CLOVERDALE — Putnam County girls’ golf coaches hope that today’s sectional tournaments are a continuation of Thursday’s county meet, in which all four coaches were happy with the performance of their teams. Greencastle, Cloverdale and South Putnam will travel to Brazil to compete in the Northview sectional at Forest Park, along with Rockville, South Vermillion, Terre Haute North, Terre Haute South and West Vigo...

CLAYTON — Greencastle’s coach and two of its top seniors were mostly happy with Friday night’s 31-13 win over Cascade, but not completely. “We had too many turnovers [two], too many penalties [nine] and gave up a couple of big plays on defense,” Greencastle coach Mike Meyer said...