Wednesday, March 27, 2024
High Profile Republicans Rally in Shelbyville
Donald Trump Jr. visited Shelbyville yesterday for an “America First Rally,” held at Fischer Food Grade, southeast of city limits. The son of former president and presidential candidate Donald Trump was joined by Senate candidate U.S. Rep. Jim Banks, gubernatorial candidate Sen. Mike Braun, Attorney General Todd Rokita and Secretary of State Diego Morales. | photos by ANNA TUNGATE
Golden Bears Ready for Baseball Season
Standing in line awaiting a team photo in the Shelbyville High School auxiliary gym, Dalton Jones sums up, without hesitation, his Golden Bears baseball team’s season goals.
“I’m looking forward to having fun, being as competitive as possible and trying to win a sectional championship,” Jones, a junior, said.
New Head Coach Jacob Shively, who stepped up from his role as assistant coach when Royce Carlton accepted a position with the Miami Marlins organization, agrees with Jones’s assessment.
“Fans should see we’ve worked hard and are intense, but are also having fun playing the game of baseball,” Shively, a former SHS baseball player himself, said.
His experience as both a player and coach have led to a process-driven over outcomes approach. “In other words, approach everything you do with an attainable goal instead of a result that is out of your control,” Shively said.
In practices leading up to today’s season opener at home against Hauser, he reminded his team to approach at-bats and the mound with an attainable goal in mind, be aggressive on first pitch strikes instead of trying to go 2 for 4 in the game and pitch with the goal of getting ahead early in the count rather than just trying to reach 10 strikeouts.
He emphasizes excellence in practice so the team can execute and enjoy the game, a result Shively calls, “Loose to produce.”
Although the Bears are a young team, their average grade point average is 3.8, and most are involved in other extracurricular activities such as National Honor Society and Champions Together.
“We are ambassadors for the school and the baseball program in Shelbyville,” Shively said. “This is an honor, and to whom much is given, much is expected.”
It’s a philosophy that has carried the coach from his days playing on local Babe Ruth, travel and Shelbyville Middle School and SHS teams.
“People put time, effort and energy into me,” he said. “They held me accountable to setting high goals and working hard to achieve them.”
Although Shively said baseball doesn’t garner the attention of some other sports, he noted the team has “a multitude of people who care about and know the game, including parents, fans, coaches, etc. It is with their help and support that we will move this program forward.”
Another way the program will move forward is to increase competition and urgency of the players, Shively said.
“It is my job to train each player to ultimately take another player’s position. It's been an annual struggle because we haven’t had the depth and numbers at each position to create that natural urgency and challenge and make them work and get better to keep their position.”
Sophomore Aiden Smith has spent the past year doing his part. His fastball has reached 91 miles per hour and he throws 98 mph from the outfield. He was a top performer at the recent Indianapolis Indoor Showcase in Westfield.
Now Smith is looking to parlay individual achievements to team success.
“I want to fulfill some of the goals we left behind last season,” he said.
Jones has taken the same approach, reaching 102 mph on his exit velocity, the measure of the baseball’s speed as it comes off the bat when making contact. He first reached 100 mph over the winter. “But I was like, ‘I’m not done yet. We’re going for more,’” Jones recalled. He succeeded in pushing it higher later that night.
It’s that type of drive that Shively, a veteran SHS Spanish teacher, likes to see, and the new job will take the same from him. He thanked his wife, Kristen, a teacher at Loper Elementary, for her continual support and sacrifice.
“I accepted this job knowing that it will demand more of my focus and attention on your kids than my own,” Shively said. “If I don’t plan something exceptional and demand their complete effort and attitude, it’s not worth it.”
Players on this year’s squad are seniors Luke Brinkman, Luke Jackson, Brock Kuhn and Kohen Myers; juniors Wes Bailey, Bryce Bohlen, Charlie Graham, Gavyn Fisher, Jones and Brayden Schultz; sophomores Brady Bryant, Aaron Coleman, Gavyn Fisher, Donovan Martin, Jayden McClane, Reece Prickett, Gavin Reed, Landon Seely and Smith; and freshmen Wyatt Armstrong, Luke Coomes, Grantland Fitzgerald, Trip Mulrooney, Jackson Myers, Carson Nance, Andrew Owens, Brayden Smith, Cooper Thoman and Adair Zermeño.
NOTEBOOK:
The Shelbyville Board of Public Works and Safety yesterday approved two additional easements for the bike and pedestrian trail extension in the southwest part of the city. The easements were for $8,000 to First Church of Pentecost on Miller Ave. and $660 to James Bruce Willard. The Southwest Connector trail, funded through an Indiana Department of Natural Resources Next Level Trails grant, will start on Hale Road, go through Shelbyville Central Schools’ property, down McKay Road and cross back near Meridian St., traveling the old railroad corridor, along the ditch, to its termination point by the city pool.
NATIONAL NEWS: The men’s March Madness tournament has seen its oldest batch of college players in years, with 296 players in their fifth or sixth seasons of playing college basketball playing in the tournament so far, the highest since such data first was collected in 2008. The North Carolina Tar Heels are averaging 22.2 years old as a team, which is nearly the average age of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder, which come in at 22.6 years old. Through the round of 32, nine out of the 10 top scorers are seniors. (Wall Street Journal/Numlock)
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This Day in Shelby County History
2014: Gov. Mike Pence signed a bill reforming Indiana’s business personal property tax, reducing or eliminating the tax that provided $1 billion a year for schools, libraries and other public services. Shelbyville Mayor Tom DeBaun said he was meeting with county officials to discuss a plan. Even though Pence had backed off his original plan to dispose of the tax entirely, DeBaun was nonplussed. “I think this is a move in the wrong direction,” he said. “There is no empirical data that this will create new jobs.” The signed bill created “super tax abatements” of up to 20 years and reduced the corporate tax rate to 4.9 percent by 2021.
2004: The Shelbyville Plan Commission approved a site plan for GasAmerica to build a new station at 1424 S. Harrison St., at the site of the former Compton Dairy Store.
Nine seventh-grade students at Shelbyville Middle School were caught with Dramamine during a field trip to the IMAX Theater in Indianapolis to see a NASCAR film in conjunction with physics lessons. Assistant Principal Maureen McCune said school officials were alerted to the issue by adults at the IMAX.
1994: The ABC news program “Good Morning America” was in Shelby County talking to Dan and Kathy Blackburn and asking local residents about their 30-member Haitian-American family.
1984: The State of Indiana pitched in one-third of the $150,000 cost to host the Bambino World Series in Shelbyville and renovate the local Babe Ruth field. Hardee’s Restaurants contributed $30,000 to the cause. Former Cincinnati Reds star Johnny Bench had been asked to serve as grand marshal of a parade for the occasion, but he had not yet confirmed. Hetty Sandman was lining up courtesy cars to be used by visiting officials during the Series. Mark Risley was selling ads for the official Series program, designed by a committee led by Vickie Hobbs. The local cable television station would videotape all tourney games and replay them a day later.
1974: Bethany Estates, described as the largest housing addition proposal ever to be presented before the Shelby County Plan Commission, was approved. The development consisted of 221 lots on 150 acres at 1200 N and 600 W in Moral Township. The Commission also approved Oakwood subdivision, to be located at 100 S and 500 W in Hendricks Township.
E.O. “Tod” Ashley, Shelbyville, won first place at the Toastmasters International Area 12 Speech Contest, hosted here at the Knights of Columbus hall.
1964: Triton Central starters won the county free throw season trophy at the county basketball banquet with a percentage of .685. The starters were Bob Rowe, Ron Drake, Mike Wells, Jim Gay and Mike Bowers.
State officials announced plans to test a “talking highway” proposed by Paul Golden, Denver, Ind. He explained that that he had nearly fallen asleep while driving but was awakened by a sound when his tires went over a corrugated place in the highway made when a caterpillar truck crossed the road. Golden wrote to Governor Walsh and proposed installing grooves or corrugated stripes in the center of each lane.
The Moonlight Drive-in Theatre re-opened for the season, weekends only.
1954: Local officials placed “Right turn on green arrow” and “Stop for pedestrian” signs at the corner of Harrison and Broadway to help clear up confusion about the new three-phase traffic lights.
Pat Gaughn, Shelbyville, won first heat in the Shelby County Sportsman’s League coon hunt.
Despite television taking the state high school basketball tournament into Indiana homes, paid attendance at IHSAA tourney games was 20,167 higher than the then-record 1953 turnout. Television officials had agreed to cover up to $10,000 in lost gate revenue.
1944: City Appliance Service opened at 207 South Harrison, servicing radios, stoves, irons and toasters. Yellow Cab Co. moved to 19 East Jackson St., behind Farmers National Bank.
1934: Four hundred and twenty people signed up for community relief gardens, which would be on 17 acres. Charles Sindlinger had donated five acres to the cause. Twenty-four tomato plants and about 50 cabbage plants were given to each family. Additional large packages of seeds were provided by the federal government.
1924: Waldron Baptist pastor Rev. Ulysses S. Johnson was released on bond after local residents put up the bond money. Johnson had been charged with setting fire to the church, but a trial had ended with the jury unable to reach a verdict. A re-trial was set for April 21.
The new high school gymnasium had turned a $5,400 profit after expenses were paid for the year, school officials said.
1914: The following eighth-grade valedictorians were named at township schools: Elbert Barrett, Addison; Leta Huber, Brandywine; Ruth White, Hanover; Lowel Yelton, Hendricks; Ruth Muck, Jackson; William Mullen, Liberty; Melville Shadley, Marion; Bessie Borden, Moral; Hazel Chesser, Noble; Loretta Leban, Shelby; Juanita Hoop, Sugar Creek; Edna Mohr, Union; Carl Stevenson, Van Buren; and Odetta Nading, Washington. There were 126 eighth-grade graduates throughout the county, out of 157 who took the graduation exam.
OBITUARIES
Nadine C. Goode, 88, of Shelbyville, passed away Monday, March 25, 2024, at Our Hospice of South Central Indiana in Columbus. She was born April 13, 1935, in Susie, Kentucky, the daughter of Thomas Bell and Ruth (Adair) Willis. On August 11, 1951, she married Avery Goode, and he preceded her in death on March 13, 1979.
Nadine is survived by her son, Bruce Goode of Shelbyville; daughters-in-law, Sherri Deaton and husband, Dennis, and Connie Fix and husband, Brad, both of Shelbyville; sister, Alma Phillips of Greenwood; step-daughters, Linda Goode of Texas, and Nancy Swazay of Shelbyville; step-son, Kenneth Goode and wife, Mary, of Indianapolis; 10 grandchildren; thirteen step-grandchildren; numerous great and great-great grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. In addition to Avery, Nadine was preceded in death by her parents; sons, Danny Goode, David Goode and Delbert Goode; step-daughter, Joyce Gardner; and siblings, Elsie Adkins, Ward Bell, Fred Bell, Nan Cross, Lizzie Stainbrook, Flonnie Bell, Christine Canfield and Thomas Bell.
Nadine graduated from Tech High School. She retired from Western Electric in 1986, with over 35 years of service. Later she worked in Home Health Care and Hospice for 10 years. Nadine enjoyed going bowling, riding motorcycles and traveling. She loved to spend time with her friends and family.
Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m., Thursday, March 28, 2024, at Freeman Family Funeral Homes and Crematory, Carmony-Ewing Chapel, 819 S. Harrison St. in Shelbyville. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m., Friday, March 29, 2024, at the funeral home. Interment will be at Forest Hill Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Wounded Warrior Project, PO Box 758516, Topeka, Kansas 66675-8516 or St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, PO Box 90, Memphis, Tennessee 38101-9929. Online condolences may be shared with Nadine’s family at www.freemanfamilyfuneralhomes.com.