Monday, July 22, 2024
WAITING IN THE WINGS
ABOVE: Alex Paddock, of Brownsburg, helps fellow “Rocky Horror Picture Show” shadow cast member Peyton Rader, of Fountaintown, backstage at The Strand Theatre prior to the midnight Saturday show. The shadow cast performed simultaneously with movie on the big screen above them.
photos by KRISTIAAN RAWLINGS
BELOW: Beth Bridgford, Ashley Goode, Tisha Sullivan and Connor Holland, along with cast member Cher Guevara, prepare to enjoy the cult classic.
NOTEBOOK:
There will be no Shelby County Commissioners or Shelby County Planning Commission meetings this week. The Shelbyville Plan Commission meets tonight at 7 p.m.
NATIONAL NEWS: Dead & Company is coming to the end of its 2024 run of shows at the Las Vegas Sphere, a massive venue that puts on an immersive and all-encompassing spectacle on a 160,000-square-foot wraparound screen during shows. Those visuals need to be made by someone, and in Dead & Company’s case that was Treatment Studio. While the show itself is a clean three hours in length, they produced 5.5 hours of visual in the end, allowing them to change up the visual display night to night. It’s a massive effort, especially given that Sphere is 273 million pixels per frame. (Variety/Numlock)
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Courier Archives Reviewed
Editor’s note: The Shelbyville High School Courier is going digital this year, with student-led coverage of student activities and athletics to be published on the newly created Instagram page when the academic year begins. Over the next week, we will dive into the Courier archives to publish highlights from a selected edition. Today’s featured edition is from May 25, 1971.
The edition came on the heels of the winter and spring sports award program in Breck Auditorium. Jeff Lowe was most valuable player on the basketball team. Dave Clevenger was tapped as most valuable wrestler, and the top swimming recognitions went to Steve Green and Mac Thurston. Bob Zerr and Rick Frank were honored as co-captains of the track team with Randy Dalton named outstanding golfer. Cliff Zabriskie was most valuable player on the tennis squad. Basketball coach Carl Hughes also recognized Larry Browning and Mike Sipes with awards. Wrestling coach Marty Rohrman also recognized Ted Everhart and Mike Goble. In other awards, Valynnda Fairchild (see photo below), daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Willis Fairchild, was named fifth runner-up in the Annual Miss America Teen Contest held in Indianapolis.
Members of the Squib staff were named for 1971-72. They were Lynn Wolsiefer, D’Lisa Sipe, Laura Lummis, Sally Grigsby, Val Fairchild, Susie Young, Pete Worland, Bill Young, Vicki Edmonds, Micki Brunning, Sherrill Kellam, Lisa Gardner, Pat Wilde, Caryl Wamsley, Ann Warble, Diane Muth, Dean Freese, Jeanine Huggins, Joy Campbell, Kent Koester, Tony Carpenter, Commodore Bradford, Scott Brunner and Bill Zabriskie. There had been 90 applicants.
The track season came to a close. Commodore Bradford finished first in the Conference 400. Overall, Coach John Luck said it was a disappointing season due to injuries and other factors.
Tom Snyder, Bruce Rogers and Mike Underwood had all hit homeruns so far during the baseball season. Larry Browning, Jeff Phares, Snyder and Underwood had the top batting averages.
A guest speaker in Mr. Arthur Barnett’s health class said if teenagers “continue drinking like the adults are currently doing, one of every five people will be an alcoholic while seven of 33 will have a problem with their drinking.”
This Day in Shelby County History
News around Shelbyville and the surrounding area as reported on or about this date in history. Selections are curated from the Shelby County Public Library Genealogy Department.
2014: Blue River Memorial Park continued to attract strong participation to weekend softball tournaments. There had been 17,822 players, spectators and coaches visit the park for weekend organized games in 2013, the Parks Department reported.
2004: David Benefiel and Deputy Chief Bill Elliott finished a major update to the Shelbyville Police Department’s website. The site provided pictures of most officers, with the exception of some who worked undercover.
1994: Tom Rosenfeld was elected president of the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce. Rosenfeld, of State Farm Insurance, succeeded Richard Kellogg. Brian Meeke was elected vice president and Rodney Meyerholtz remained treasurer.
1984: Indiana Bell’s first digital electronic call-switching system in the state went into effect, serving some 8,000 customers in Shelbyville. The new switching system replaced the electro-mechanical switching system installed in the Bell office at 105 W. Broadway in 1955.
1974: Fountaintown parachutist Army Staff Sgt. Chuck Collingwood and his wife, Cathy, were named participants in the U.S. team at the upcoming World Parachuting Championships.
1964: A parking area was created in front of City Hall. The space would be used for police car parking.
1954: Free x-rays would once again be offered at the Shelby County Fair, County Tuberculosis Association secretary Gladys McCartney said.
1944: Two large grass fires in the county caused crop damage. They were on the farms of Lewis Wilkins and Maurice Rafferty, near Fountaintown.
1934: “One of the strangest processions in existence was called upon by Standard Oil Company to furnish the animals for the Live Power circus parades,” The Republican reported. The “animals” were actually life-sized mechanical replicas, which 50 trucks brought through Shelbyville, attracting a large crowd. Each animal had “a continuous grin,” the paper said.
1924: The new Little Blue River Baptist church building was completed. The new church occupied the site of the old frame church that had been a landmark for many years.
1914: The Masonic lodge purchased property on E. Washington St. owned by George Hearn. The lot was 58 feet wide and ran back to Jackson St. There were two residences on the Jackson St. end of the lot. It would be some time before the Masons built there, the paper said. The Masons had an 11-year lease, and would likely wait until it was nearly over.
OBITUARIES
None today