Monday, April 8, 2024

SHS Track to be Dedicated in Honor of Long-time Educator

PRESS RELEASE

Shelbyville High School will dedicate its newly constructed track in honor of former long-time teacher and coach Dennis Hearne at the season’s opening track meet on Tuesday, April 9. The dedication ceremony will begin at 5 p.m., prior to the meet’s 5:30 p.m. start.

Hearne served in a variety of capacities during his career with Shelbyville Central Schools, including teacher, coach, athletic director, counselor, dean and school board member.

“We are very pleased to recognize Dennis’ incredible positive impact on Shelbyville High School and generations of students and athletes,” SCS superintendent Dr. Matt Vance said. “He has invested his adult life in the betterment of Shelbyville schools and its students. This is a very deserving tribute.”

Hearne, a native of Columbus, Ind., taught social studies at SHS from 1973 through 2005. He was a member of the Golden Bears football coaching staffs for more than three decades and was an assistant coach for the 1984 and 2007 regular-season undefeated squads. He is a former Shelbyville High School athletic director and was a two-term member of the Shelbyville Central Schools board. 

He and his wife, Jan, also a former administrator and educator, are the parents of Pat, National Account Manager for DuPont in Spring, Texas, and Meagan, a teacher at Columbus North High School. The Hearnes have three grandchildren.

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Local Shop Provides Diverse Offerings

Tracy Feller takes a break from chatting with several regular customers in the shop at Three Crows, 26 W. Broadway, yesterday. | photo by KRISTIAAN RAWLINGS

Although local business owners have reported light traffic from tourists so far this weekend, eclipse t-shirts, keychains and art have been available throughout the downtown area. Retailer Three Crows, 26 W. Broadway, extended hours and even added an “Eclipse Meditation.” 

“This particular meditation is a little more personal, not as guided,” shop owner Tracy Feller said a few hours before the event. “We’re going to focus in on what you want to bring in or manifest, or even what you want to get rid of, such as negative habits.”

The meditation was led by Cindy Adkins and attended mostly by shop regulars, although Feller said a few out-of-towners had dropped in over the weekend. 

“People who are into crystals will oftentimes seek out crystal shops when they travel,” Feller said, and this weekend was no exception.

Crystals, which some believe promote the flow of positive energy and help eliminate negative energy, are a major offering at the shop. “You can utilize them as a tool, whether you’re meditating with them or setting intentions,” she said.

Other available items include Feller-created macramé, a form of textile produced using knotting; jewelry; art; moldavite; and mookaite, a decorative form of jasper. Feller is also a masseuse, and a back room is used for classes, such as yoga and meditation. The massage room includes a Vibroacoustic Therapy table, which is warm to the touch and has amethyst crystals embedded under the cushions.

“It’s like the benefits of a massage without getting a massage, as far as the effects on your muscles,” Feller said. 

Her regular massages can also include cupping and manual lymphatic drainage. “It’s very effective after surgery to get everything moving,” she said of the latter. This is in line with her standard therapeutic massages. “I especially like to work with athletes,” she said. “I like to get the knots out.” She also produces her own massage oil.

Feller moved Three Crows last June from a rented space to its current location, which was donated to Rupert’s Kids by Drew Soshnick in honor of his father, the late Harold Soshnick, an attorney. While looking for a place to provide massages, Feller also found the ideal location to combine her crystal offerings and occasional classes, such as last night’s meditation.

“Everything just lined up,” she said. Once she opened, she found there was even more local interest than predicted. “Many people have come in and said, ‘Thank you. We’re tired of driving out of town.’”

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NOTEBOOK:

• NATIONAL NEWS: Myanmar is a massive producer and exporter of methamphetamine all across of southeast Asia, from India to Australia, as a country roiled by war turns to illicit pharmaceuticals to drive their economy. The ample supply and crashing prices have led to a large mass market of hooked laborers, truckers, farmers and students, with couriers transporting meth all over in the form of yaba, a pill containing anywhere from 1 percent to 30 percent meth mixed with caffeine. A sack of 200,000 yaba pills fetches 10,000 baht ($280) for a courier at the border. The flood of meth has sent costs crashing; the per-pill street price dropped from $2 per tablet in Myanmar in 2020 to 20 cents as of 2023, down 93 percent. In Bangladesh, prices dropped from $14 to $18 in 2020 to $1 to $3 per pill in 2023. In some places, it’s cheaper than a cup of tea. (Nikkei Asia/Numlock)

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This Day in Shelby County History

2014: For the 16th year, those impacted by violence gathered at the Shelby County Courthouse to remember victims of crime during the annual Victims’ Rights Vigil. The event was part of the National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, and organized by Prosecutor Kent Aspley’s office. (Apsley was in his final year of office, and had filed to run for the Republican nomination for Superior Court I Judge.)

2004: Several vehicles were vandalized overnight at Lester’s Body Shop, 500 S. Noble St. Six vehicles were damaged or broken into, and fresh blood smears were located inside two of the vehicles.

1994: Western Supermarket was robbed by two men with scarves covering their faces at 2:21 a.m. Gary Henderson, chief of detectives, was working the case. Cashier Nicole Hayton provided descriptions of the men to police.

1984: Sandy Allen, the world’s tallest woman and former Shelbyville resident, was in Ontario, Canada to have surgery to remove a growth on her pituitary gland. She also had been suffering from low blood pressure, requiring a transfusion. Sandy had been working for the Guiness Book of World Records for several years.

1974: David Muth, 13, was named Optimist Club Boy of the Year at the Boys Club. The award was presented by Ray Zinser, Optimist Club president. Howard Hudson Jr., 17, was winner of the Donald Richmond Scholarship, presented by Richard Jester.

1964: Rose Amick, sixth grader at Triton South Elementary School, won the school spelling spee. Rosita Scott, fifth grader, was alternate. Mrs. Mildred Fuchs was pronouncer and John Tresser and Edith Kuhn were judges.

Robert Ball, who had escaped from the Shelby County jail earlier in the day, was apprehended on Boggstown Road and returned. He had “mysteriously acquired another pair of pants and a warm jacket sometime during the day,” The Shelbyville News reported. He also had shaved off his mustache.

1954: Shelbyville’s population was listed at 12,400, according to the Standard Rate & Data Service of Chicago. The city had grown by 500 people in the past year.

Jim Knopp won the Morristown Rouse-Wortman Athletic Award. Jill Arnold, granddaughter of Lawrence Wortman, pinned the award pin on Knopp’s lapel.

1944: Harry White, a member of the engineering staff of the National Farm Machinery Cooperative of Shelbyville, died unexpectedly in his room at the Bo-Be Inn. He was 61, and the death was attributed to heart failure. He was survived by his wife, two sons in the military, a daughter and two granddaughters.

1934: Ivan Warble, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Warble, left for Chicago with the A Capella choir of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music. Warble had recently won a violin scholarship to the school.

A roller polo contest was announced, to be held at the National Guard Armory. The local team was comprised of W. Leffler, W. Comstock, J. Campbell, S. Worell and Frank Ulrich.

1924: A woman filed for divorce after 40 years of marriage. She claimed she had received two pairs of shoes and $8 for clothing in the past four years.

Four large barrels of fermenting mash, 100 pounds of sugar, and two large bars of yeast were found by police officers on Russell Shutt’s farm south of Marietta. The items were found “in a small room, about 10 feet square, which had been constructed on the farm, and which had been cleverly concealed beneath a pile of fence rails stacked in the shape of an Indian tepee,” The Republican said.

1914: A new group of “Protectionists,” comprised of men who “believe in protection to American workmen and industries, American policies and principals in preference to those favored for our government by foreign workmen and governments,” met at council chambers, The Republican reported. The group was made up of “Progressives, Republicans, Prohibitionists, Democrats and Socialists,” the paper said.

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OBITUARIES

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