Sunday, September 22, 2024
SHELBY SUNSET
The sun sets as the Shelbyville High School marching band prepares to play the national anthem at Friday night’s football game. The Golden Bears lost to Greenfield, 49-6. | photo by JACK BOYCE
READY TO RUN
Macey Robbins, Shelbyville High School freshman cross country runner, prepares for yesterday’s Golden Bear Invitational at the local course in Blue River Memorial Park. Robbins finished 24th, just a few seconds from an all-time Personal Record. (Avery Keller set her PR yesterday.) The boys’ team was led by Shia Veach, finishing seventh in his division for a podium placement. Logan Reinhart was second for the home team. The Invite welcomed over 20 teams, including a state championship team from Michigan. The Bears return to the same course next weekend to host the HHC Conference. | photo by KRISTIAAN RAWLINGS
County-wide Wrestling Club Offers All Local Youth a Chance to Learn the Sport
STAFF REPORT
The Shelbyville Wrestling Club is becoming the Shelby Wrestling Club, as county rivals join forces to promote the sport.
“It will look a lot different than what we’ve done in the past, but the idea is to help kids,” Eli Veach, a Shelbyville Central Schools teacher and wrestling coach, said.
Shelbyville and Triton Central are the only two Shelby County schools with high school wrestling programs right now, but some movement was made toward youth wrestling at Southwestern a few years ago, and the new club offers all county youth, boys and girls, pre-kindergarten through sixth graders, a chance to learn the sport and compete in a six-week wrestling season.
“Babe Ruth does the county-wide approach (with baseball), why can’t wrestling?” Veach said.
The new group recently held a camp in Shelbyville and another will be at Triton Central on Oct. 14, a week before the season begins. Season practices will give inexperienced wrestlers a chance to roll, run, tumble and learn basic moves. Those with three years’ experience and up will learn basic and advanced skills. The season will conclude around the end of the year, but those wanting to compete will have a chance to continue wrestling through March.
High school wrestlers are allowed to compete on both school and travel club teams. The new club plans to organize a Shelby County Elite travel team for the older students, which will be a mix of wrestlers from throughout the county.
“The idea behind it is that when we do travel, we’re more competitive,” Veach said. “Those same coaches who are competing against each other at the high school level will be coaching together in the club. Right now, everybody’s open to it.”
Those interested can contact shelbywrestlingclub@gmail.com or see the flier for more information.
NOTEBOOK:
Shelbyville High School golfer Riley Everette, a junior, advanced to regionals yesterday with a top score at sectionals in Greensburg. IHSAA regionals will be in Franklin next Saturday, Sept. 28, 8:30 a.m.
Free Fishing Day is today at the FOP, 1237 N. Knightstown Road. Only children under 16 years of age should fish. The pond is stocked with catfish.
St. Ann’s Rummage and Bake Sale will be held Friday, Oct. 4, and Saturday, Oct. 5, in the St. Vincent dePaul Catholic Church Hall, 4218 E. Michigan Rd., Shelbyville, from 7 a.m. - 2 p.m. each day.
NATIONAL NEWS: A new study has found that dung beetles are capable of effectively working in pairs, as long as it’s a male beetle and a female beetle working together to move a ball of dung. Same-sex beetle collaborations were found to end in fights. However, pairs of beetles could move their signature balls of animal droppings over obstacles that are up to 20 centimeters high in experiments, balls that were around 10 times their own body weight. (Lund University/Numlock)
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SHS Courier Archive Highlights:
October 31, 2005, Part II
Students shared thoughts about Halloween attire. Seth Hirschauer said he dressed up as Marshall Faulk when he was seven years old. Kevin Todd said he might go as Michael Jackson for Halloween. Stephanie Wallace had been a Hawaiian dancer the year before. “I want to be Zorro because he speaks Spanish and dresses in all black,” Pete Negron said. Sandy Tu was helping her cousins with their costumes. Brook Hastings needed to dress up for the Haunted Corn Maze at the library. Melissa Brouhard dressed up like a dancer on Olivia Newton John’s “Let’s Get Physical,” complete with tight pants and a huge sweater. Jordan Green had spotted someone dressed up as Yahtzee.
Some classes and even the library had been moved to the auxiliary gym during renovations. Mrs. Janelle Hart, librarian, said the changes were going well, but you couldn’t hear the bells, so she had to be “on the alert.”
Stanley Brewer, 45, had died September 28, 2005, from a heart attack. Stan was a member of the school staff, spending most of his time helping out in the athletics facilities. Stan had spent the prior summer putting logos on football team helmets. He also had painted extra bear paws on the football field. He mowed the grass around the school and the soccer field. He had worked as an EMT and in the National Guard prior to his time at the school.
Kiley Joplin interviewed lunch ladies for her article. Denise Musgrave said her funniest memory on the job had been when Tammy Ensminger put an ant in her hand. Ensminger’s favorite memory was when Musgrave hit Tammy’s head with a tray. Darlene Jackson said her most embarrassing moments were when she gave the wrong foord or tray to someone. Hope Pike said she enjoyed “cutting up” with the kids. Tammy Morgan (cashier) said macaroni and cheese was her least favorite item to serve. Linda Zinser said her favorite memory was being called Lunch Line Gestapo Lady after she dyed her hair green on a dare from a student.
New teachers on staff included Steve von Werder, Megan Broetzman, Nina Graue and A.J. Martzall.
BELOW: Courier staff, circa 2005, B photo.
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: A local woman was arrested at Morrison Park for selling drugs. Her grandsons were in the car at the time, one holding a bag of marijuana and a pipe at the time of the arrest.
2004: Two local men, Chad Adkins and Dan Foltz, won $1 million after spending $20 on a scratch-off lottery ticket. Since the Indiana Lottery started in 1989, Shelby County residents had won several times. Four people had won $1 million on the television show; five $100,000 Powerball tickets had been claimed; one other $1 million scratch-off ticket had been turned in and Lottery records showed additional big winners.
1994: Four former Shelbyville residents said they would be moving back here after Pelikan U.S.A. (Anthes) closed its North Carolina plant. The residents had been moved there when the company’s Shelbyville plant closed in 1993. The Anthes plant had been at 739 E. Franklin St., Shelbyville.
1984: Shops at the Belaire Center held special sales to commemorate the shopping center’s 20th anniversary.
Work was underway on a new building to house Walmart.
1974: The average wage of auto workers was $6 ($40 in today’s money), the “highest earning ever for blue collar workers,” The Shelbyville News reported. The figure did not include an average $3 an hour in fringe benefits.
1964: A fire demolished the Jay C Food Store. A front glass had shattered from the heat, letting in more oxygen and allowing the fire to rage throughout the building. The fire had started in the meat department. Fire Chief William Smith said the inside of the store was like a giant fireworks display. Canned foods had exploded and “shot around the inside of the store and through windows like rockets,” Smith said. Firefighter Worland Mummert had been nicked by a flying can but was not injured. The fire had been a threat to the Plymate Cleaners and Laundry building across Hendricks St. and the Higgins’ Gulf Service Station, only a few feet from the Jay C front. Firemen had been concerned about the large gasoline storage tank buried under the station. In February 1956, the Jay C building, then Kroger, had been virtually destroyed by a tornado. Jay-C had been in Shelbyville 35 years.
1954: Lowell Ash, president of Ash Petroleum, announced a contract had been awarded to Shelby Construction Co. to build a supermarket on the Ash company property on N. Harrison St. The building would face the street on the site of the former Ash elevator, which had burned to the ground several months prior. Standard Grocery would open a store at the site. The Ash Co. would also build a new multiple-pump gas station at the corner of Harrison and John streets.
1944: Mr. and Mrs. George McBride, former Shelbyville residents who had moved to Richmond, had five family members in the service. A daughter, Jean Ann, had recently enrolled in the Army Cadet Nurse Corps. Other were Lt. James McBride, in Burma; Cpl. Jack Tindall, in the southwest Pacific; Lt. Joseph McBride, in the 6th Ferrying Company, and Pvt. Don McBride, U.S. Marines. The locations of the last two were not released by military officials.
1934: The Shelbyville Republican reported that “Miller Street, we think, still remains the worst street in the city, so far as the pavement is concerned. A storm sewer, dug recently, was heaped with fresh dirt and gravel and left for the cars to smooth - which they haven’t, and won’t.”
Sunlit Motor Sales offered specials to have heaters installed in vehicles. Prices ranged from $9.95 to $14.50 ($240 to $350 in today’s money).
1924: Thieves robbed the Standard Oil Station on S. Harrison, but little of value was taken.
1914: D.C. Thurston, 35, owner of the Bengal General Store, accidentally shot himself with a revolver he had been carrying. The bullet entered above his knee, and Dr. Payne responded to dress the wound.
OBITUARIES
None today.