Richard D. “Rick” Graves, age 65 of Salem, passed away Sunday, August 7, 2016 at 10:17 am, in his residence.
Born December 13, 1950 in Salem, Indiana, he was the son of the late Richard Ray and Ethel Mae (Housel) Graves.
He was a self-employed contractor and retired in 2012 as Supervisor of the Washington County Highway Department.
He was a member of the Big Springs Church Of Christ, had been a life resident of Washington County and was a 1968 graduate of Eastern High School. Rick married November 30, 1968 to Phyllis (Miller) Graves, who survives.
Also surviving are: Son: Derek (Leah) Graves, Starlight; Daughter: Ashley (Shane) Miller, Salem; 2 Sisters: Janet (Dick) Waggoner, Ft. Myers, Florida and Phyllis Hopkins, Paol; 3 Grandchildren: Kraegan Graves, Saydi (Anthony) Scifres & Boone Miller and 3 Great Grandchildren: Skyler Durham, Huxley Scifres and soon to be Dahlia Scifres.
He was preceded in death by 1 son, Micah Graves and 2 sisters, Marsha and Mindy Graves.
Funeral Service: 11:00 amThursday at Dawalt Funeral Home
Visitation: 4 to 8 pmWednesday and after 9 amThursday.
Interment at Big Springs Cemetery.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Boilermakers were back on the practice field Friday for their second practice of fall camp. The team was a little better than it was Thursday, according to head coach Darrell Hazell who spoke to the media after practice.
“I thought we made some good decisions with the ball today from the quarterback position,” Hazell said. “We’re starting to learn a little bit. We have a lot of guys who have shown some flash through the first two days of practice.”
The offense is working under new offensive coordinator Terry Malone, who was promoted prior to spring practice. Malone still works with the tight ends, who he coached last year in his first season with the Boilermakers. He’s been excited about the play from the quarterbacks and wide receivers, as well as the potential to utilize the tight ends in the offense.
“I’m really happy with the quarterbacks. They’re doing a great job,” Malone said. “They’re very attentive and showing great leadership and that’s really where it starts. If you look at our offense, the strength is the wide receiver position because of the maturity and playing experience and numbers. We have six senior receivers that all can play and that’s a position we certainly have to start out with. The tight ends are going to play a vital role in the offense. They’ll catch passes, run block and pass protection. Tight end is going to be a very important position in this offense.”
The offense returns guys with playing experience at every position, though no starters are set, and that excites the Purdue staff.
Fans have extensive access to the Purdue football program all fall. Practices during camp are open to the public, though no pictures or videos are permitted. The full schedule is below. Fans who can’t make it to practices have the opportunity for live look-ins on Facebook with the Purdue Football and Purdue Athletics pages. Post-practice interviews are also interactive via live broadcast on Facebook and Twitter @BoilerFootball.
2016 Purdue Football Fall Camp Schedule
Aug. 6, 10:15 a.m. – Bimel or Mollenkopf
Aug. 7, 2-4 p.m. – Bimel or Mollenkopf
Aug. 8, 10:15 a.m. – Bimel or Mollenkopf
Aug. 9, 10:15 a.m. – Bimel or Mollenkopf
Aug. 10, 10:15 a.m. – Bimel or Mollenkopf
Aug. 11, 9:30 a.m. & 3:30 p.m. – Bimel or Mollenkopf
Aug. 12, 10:15 a.m. – Bimel or Mollenkopf
Aug. 13, 9:30 a.m. – Kick Scrimmage in Ross-Ade & 3:30 p.m. — Bimel or Mollenkopf
Aug. 14, No Practice
Aug. 15, 9:30 a.m. & 3:30 p.m. – Bimel or Mollenkopf
Aug. 16, 10:15 a.m. – Bimel or Mollenkopf
Aug. 17, 9:30 a.m. & 3:30 p.m. – Bimel or Mollenkopf
Aug. 18, 10:15 a.m. – Bimel or Mollenkopf
Aug. 19, 2 p.m. – Bimel or Mollenkopf
Aug. 20, 11:15 a.m. – Jersey Scrimmage in Ross-Ade
IU Head Football Coach Kevin Wilson at fall camp will be ready for the first game against FIA on Thursday, Sept. 1 — catch the Kevin Wilson Show on WSLM beginning Monday, August. 28 at 7:05p on 97.9 FM
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana head football coach Kevin Wilson is pleased by what he sees from his Hoosiers early in fall camp. Just four practices in the team is already practicing at a high level.
“Our team is big and strong and I think we have battled the elements,” Wilson said. “We have worked hard. I am very encouraged by today’s practice. Our best practice to date. I love what the coaches are doing and the kids are buying in. We have some great senior leaders, and I like what is happening.”
One of the positive signs Wilson has seen so far is the play of the defense. Defensive coordinator Tom Allen has earned high praise early in his IU tenure.
“He has got a lot of confidence and positive energy,” Wilson said. “Tom has done a great job of having a standard and he is pushing those guys harder than they have ever been pushed.”
On the offensive side of the ball, an identity has already been established.
“Our deal is to be a physical offense, to take care of the ball and score points,” Wilson said.
With full-padded practices and two-a-days looming, the main goal for camp is to foster great practice habits and to work productively.
“We are trying to build,” Wilson said. “We have a progression, not only of teaching the plays, but the progression of our contact and hitting. We are using our threes a lot to not over-hit some of our starters. We are getting great special teams work. We are taking this first week to build through the scrimmage on Tuesday then taking a day off. The next week we will really start dialing up the hitting and the volume of work that we do.”
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Here are some highlights at the Indiana State Fair today!
ALL DAY
9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
WFYI PBS Kids Playdate
Join WFYI for “Back to School” day at the State Fair. Meet one of our favorite PBS KIDS characters, Nature Cat, and learn about nature, while you also enjoy family-friendly entertainment, and make fun crafts. Fair admission required.
ALL DAY
9 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Livestock Nursery
Stop by to see mom & baby calves. You may even catch a new baby calf being born!
11 a.m.
“Celebrating Indiana’s Bicentennial” Cupcake Bake-Off presented by Domino Sugar
Indiana Arts Building
11-1 p.m.
Gene Stratton Porter: Author, Naturalist, and Conservationist
DNR Building
11 a.m. and
4 p.m.
36th Annual Youth Talent Contest
Farm Bureau Building
12:30 p.m.
3 p.m.
5:30 p.m.
Timberworks Lumberjack Show
Timberwork’s Lumberjack Show offers spectators a unique blend of logging history, world class competition, and plenty of hilarious comedy!
1 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Freestyle Moto X presented by Ride Safe Indiana
Coming back to the Hoosier Lottery Grandstand this year is the Freestyle Moto X presented by Ride Safe Indiana. This event is free and also runs August 8th at 2pm & 7pm.
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Make it with Wool Fashion Show
Come watch this fashion show featuring wool on the Indiana Arts Main Stage!
3 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Hispanic/Latino Music Festival
Presented by Honda, this festive and cultural affair returns once again to the Indiana State. Featuring Graciela Beltran, this is one Free Stage party you won’t want to miss.
7 p.m.
4-H Market Animal Grand Champion Drive
Watch the top-of-the-line 4-H dairy steers, market lambs, meat goat wethers, barrows, beef steers and their handlers show off their accomplishments in the Grand Champion Drive in the Indiana Farmer’s Coliseum.
8-9:30 p.m.
Blue Soul Band
This band makes music from the soul to touch the soul. Every time you hear them perform… it’s going to be a new experience at the WGU Main Street Stage.
Featured Farmer
Who: TK Hattery Farms; Troy and Janie Hattery; Kendel and Kandy Hattery
Where: Peru, Indiana (Miami County)
Hoosier Homestead Award: Centennial – 1904
Fun Fact: Troy has dedicated his time serving on the Miami County Soil and Water Conservation District Board of directors for more than two decades.
After a long, hot summer full of rehearsals, band camps, and performances, the Central Indiana Track Show Association summer contest circuit ended with a bang at the 2016 Indiana State Fair on August 6th.
The Force of Winchester Community High School out-marched 48 other bands at Music for All Indiana State Fair Band Day presented by Music Travel Consultants and earned their sixth first place award in 22 appearances at the Indiana State Fair.
This is a fairytale ending for Winchester Community marching band director Douglas Fletcher, who will be retiring from high school directing this year. This win marks Fletcher’s 13th champion title at the Indiana State Fair, with 8 previous small band championships and 3 Class AAA championships. Fletcher led the Force to a score of 92.025 with their performance titled “Colors of Character”. The band pulled out all the stops with illuminated cowboy hats, rainbow flags, and a summer full of hard work.
“We’ve been working really hard this season and it paid off,” says a senior band member. Their dedication did pay off—they went home with a 1st place trophy and a $3,700 cash prize.
Here are last night’s “Sweet 16” final placings:
Winchester Community High School
Kokomo High School
Jay County High School
Anderson High School
Northeastern High School
Noblesville High School
Richmond High School
Muncie Central High School
Centerville High School
Hagerstown Jr/Sr High School
Monroe Central Jr/Sr High School
Blue River Valley Jr/Sr High School
Decatur County High School
West Lafayette Jr/Sr High School
Mooresville High School
Lebanon High School
For more information on the results of this year’s Music for All Indiana State Fair Band Day presented by Music Travel Consultants, please visit our website or IndianaTrackMarchingBands.com.
Tony Blevins, Jr., age 60 of Louisville, Kentucky passed away Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 1:10 pm, in his residence. Born March 8, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois, he was the son of the late Toney and Nina (Heninger) Blevins. He was a minister and served during the Vietnam War in the U.S. Navy. He was a resident of Louisville and was formerly of Washington County. Survivors include: Mother Nina Blevins, Cincinnati, Ohio; Daughter: Toni A. Scott, North Carolina; 3 Sisters: Virginia Owens, Campbellsburg, Brenda Pulvere, Cincinnati and Anita Harris, Florida; 2 grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his father.
Funeral Service: 1:00 pmWednesday at Dawalt Funeral Home
Visitation: 10:00 am until the time of the service on Wednesday
Interment at Crown Hill Cemetery with full military honors.
Memorial Contributions: Disabled American Veterans P.O. Box 14301 Cincinnati, Ohio 45250.
Mrs. Sarah P. Hughes age 90 of Salem passed away Friday, August 5 at her home.
Mrs. Hughes was born May 17, 1926 in Borden, Indiana the daughter of Cecil and Daisy Baker Russel. She was retired from the Housekeeping Department at Washington County Hospital. She was a member of Little Mission Church in Hardinsburg.
Sarah was preceded in death by her husband: Ellis Hughes, a daughter: Leona Hughes, three brothers: Ralph “Tub” Russel, Elmer Russel and Vivian Russel, a sister: Vera Worrel and her parents. She is survived by a son: Eugene Hughes of Salem, a daughter: Nancy Klein of Interlochen, Michigan, 3 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 11:00AM at Weathers Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Martinsburg Cemetery. Visitation will be Sunday from 4-8PM and Monday form 9AM-time of service.
Designs Unveiled Today at Indiana State Fair. Visit myBMV.com to vote.
Indiana residents now have the chance to decide what our next state license plate will look like as they vote on a final design to replace the outgoing Bicentennial plate. Three plate designs were unveiled this morning at the Indiana State Fair by Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) Commissioner Kent Abernathy.
“This is going to be a fun process for Hoosiers during the next four weeks,” said Abernathy. “We have three interesting designs and I hope all state residents will vote and let us know which one they like the best,” he added. “The winning design will appear on vehicles all over Indiana.”
The three designs for the public vote are; a blue, red and green plate depicting a covered bridge (link to image) over a creek; a white, blue and yellow choice with a torch and stars over the silhouette of Indiana and the slogan “The Hoosier State” and a plate with a white background, blue numbers and a yellow, bottom border with the slogan, “Crossroads of America.”
Fort Wayne, Indiana’s Intellectual Technology Inc., a firm that designs and manufactures license plates for states all over the country, did the artwork.
Residents can vote for the plate at myBMV.com and at the BMV State Fair display in Exposition Hall through the end of the fair. Voting ends at midnight on September 5, 2016.
Hoosiers will begin to see the winning plate design on vehicles in January of next year as older plates are replaced at the end of the normal seven-year life cycle. The new design plate can also be purchased before the end of the life cycle for $10.25.
That’s how the Publisher’s Clearing House Prize Patrol presents their awards — in person.
However, at least three from Washington County have been scammed out of tens of thousands of dollars in the past few weeks by someone presenting himself as a representative of the PCH Prize Patrol.
According to Washington County Deputy Sheriff Brent Miller at least three local residents have been stung by this scam.
“It’s sad, but these people are very good at what they do and very convincing,” said Miller. “And they’re going for elderly residents.”
He pointed to a blog from the actual Publisher’s Clearing House site — http://blog.pch.com/blog/2014/02/25/beware-of-publishers-clearing-house-scams/
How to Spot Publishers Clearing House Scam
1. If someone contacts you claiming to be from PCH, and tells you that you’ve won a prize award – then asks you to send a payment or money card in order to claim the prize – STOP! You have not heard from the real PCH. IT’S A SCAM! At Publishers Clearing House the winning is always free and you NEVER have to pay to claim a prize award.
2. If you receive an email notifying you that you have won a major prize in the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes, DON’T BE FOOLED: IT’S A SCAM!Publishers Clearing House does NOT send e-mails notifying consumers that they have won a major prize. If you win a major prize in our sweepstakes (like our February 28th SuperPrize), you’ll know when the Prize Patrol shows up at your door with the Big Check.
3. If you receive a phone call from someone claiming to be from Publishers Clearing House and are asked to send money, pay a fee or pre-pay taxes to enter, collect or claim a sweepstakes prize, DON’T BE FOOLED: IT’S A SCAM! You have not heard from the “real” Publishers Clearing House. The call you received was most likely from a fraudulent sweepstakes scam operation. Again, at Publishers Clearing House the winning is always free.
4. If someone from Publishers Clearing House sends you a friend request on Facebook, DON’T BE FOOLED: IT’S A SCAM! The Prize Patrol will NEVER send friend requests to you on Facebook. Moreover, the PCH Prize Patrol members (Danielle Lam, Dave Sayer, and Todd Sloane) never send private messages on Facebook. In addition, PCH does not notify its winners through Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or any other social media website.
“This gives people some tips on how to tell the scam,” he said. “First, if someone calls and says they are from PCH, that’s a big clue. They never call. Second, if they email you and ask you to send money — another big clue…they never email. They always show up in person with a big check. Also, if they ask you to pay an amount of money that should be a red flag because PCH prizes never have any fees associated with them.”
Miller said one person who had been scammed over a series of calls and money payments in a period of five weeks lost a “significant amount” of money.
“This is similar to the IRS scam a few weeks ago,” said Miller. “Most of these agencies do not call you up and ask for money. Notification is either in person or by mail.”
“If someone has a question if something is legitimate, then please call us at 812.883.2834 and ask us,” Miller said. “We’d be glad to research it and save you
Janet Marie (Daugherty) Eisenback, age 53 of Pekin Indiana, passed away August 4, 2016 at Clark Memorial Hospital in Jeffersonville.
Born on August 26, 1962 in Lebanon, Kentucky, she was the daughter of Louis Daugherty and Lena (Spalding) Daugherty, both deceased.
Survivors include her husband, George Eisenback; son, Andrew Eisenback; daughter, Emily Eisenback; siblings, Terry “Joe” Daugherty (Pat), Phyllis Blandford (Joe), Donna Brabandt (Tom), Paulette Tucker (Phil), Blaine Daugherty (Mary), Pam
Murrer (Dave), Tracy Daugherty (Sharon), Patty Cambron (Danny), Fran Downs (Jack), and Christa Hall (Eric).
Visitation will be from 2-8 PM Sunday at Hughes-Taylor Funeral Home, 323 East State Road 60, Pekin, Indiana. The funeral mass will be at 1:00 PM at the St. John Paul II Catholic Church, St. Paul Chapel, 218 Schellers Avenue, Sellersburg, Indiana,
with visitation from 12:00 pm until time of service at the church. Burial will follow in St. Patrick’s Catholic Cemetery in Salem, Indiana.
In Lieu of Flowers, please make donations to the family to help with funeral expense, or they may be made to the Scleroderma Foundation at www.scleroderma.org.
Indiana residents now have the chance to decide what our next state license plate will look like as they vote on a final design to replace the outgoing Bicentennial plate. Three plate designs were unveiled this morning at the Indiana State Fair by Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) Commissioner Kent Abernathy.
