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Page 10A THE BEACON October 2023 Cumulative Fire Fund Tax Provides Bright with Much-Needed Fire Truck C HVL: Nice 3 bed tri level home on beautiful dbl lot, newer kitchen, and updated bath. $134,900 BRIGHT: 1400 sq ft ranch on 5 acres, 2 bath, 1 car garage plus outbuilding, 2 WBFP, front and rear covered porches. $124,900 CORNERSTONE REALTY INC. CORNERSTONE We’ve moved to 25980 Auction Lane, Guilford! We’re IN YOUr COrNer. REALTY INC. WE’RE IN YOUR CORNER. 812.637.2220 CSTONEREALTY.COM 812.637.2220 CSTONEREALTY.COM MILAN: Huge manufactured home on almost 7 ac, additional 2 story cabin, each level has kitchen, living room, bed, &bath; 28x40 barn with loft, concrete flr & electric; large lake; and green houses. $164,900 30x36x12 heated insulated pole building $369,900 YORKVILLE: Affordable living in a country setting. Beautiful views! 3 bed, 2 bath, home with 2 car attached garage on 2.5 acres. $114,900 BRIGHT: 2 story home with 4 LOGAN: Clean older 2 story home bd,3.5 baths, 1st flr laundry and with large wrap around covered master suite, open Thinking floor plan, full of porch, moving? city utilities, 28x44 3 car finished LL with wet bar and gas concrete block garage with loft, on FP, great Maybe for entertaining, settling large 1.25 acres. an estate? $159,900 rear deck $244,900 LAND How about both? BRIGHT: Nice 3 bed, 3 bath ranch LOGAN: 8.6 acre lot fairly secluded with eat-in kitchen, gas fireplace, on Sawdon Ridge, utilities at street LL family room, oversized garage with concrete driveway One and call add’t does $99,900 it all with concrete Cornerstone parking pad. $154,900 Realty and HARRISON: Lutz Auction Beautiful Service rolling 3.9 acre lot available on private drive ST. LEON: now Older conveniently 2 story home located all off Edgewood under Rd. one $75,000 roof city utilities, newer high efficiency furnace. Great location near to hwy Dover, and SUNMAN: Indiana. .87 building lot available in Whitetail Run subdivision. schools, summer kitchen, enclosed back Realtors porch, other and room Auctioneers upstairs $22,000 Dale & Randy Lutz have could been 3rd bed. serving $69,900 the community HARRISON: for over Beautiful 30 years. 2.093 acre BRIGHT: 3 bed, 2.5 bath home lot on private drive off Edgewood Their profession is turning your on nearly 38 acres with exceptional views nerstone of Tanner Realty Valley, and 1st Lutz LOGAN: Auction 2.89 acre Service wooded coun- Rd. $60,000 assets into cash. Cor- flr MRB, 1st flr ldry, pond, covered try lot with all utilities available. rear deck, wrap around where front we’re porch, in $59,900 your corner. We Need Listings! We Need Listings! Have buyers for farmland! Dale Lutz Randy Lutz lutzauctions.com 800-508-9811 Bright’s Pierce Velocity Rescue Pumper. By Bob Waples Who says only little boys love their fire trucks? The men and women of Bright Fire & EMS are loving their new fire truck. Welcome to SE Indiana to the 2010 Pierce Velocity Rescue Pumper with only 55,000 miles on it. The new addition was purchased from Grenley Mountain in July of this year at a cost of $250,000. While you may be thinking WOW, know that a new one of these trucks would run close to a million dollars. Our “new” Pierce is in mint condition and is already earning its keep. I sat down with Chief Kendall Eberhart to get all of the details on the new truck. The new pumper coming to fruition started by discussions between Bright Fire and Dearborn County/Miller Township Board members Robert Starks, President; Carl Andry; Deborah Bentle, and Miller Township Trustee Patricia Little. As a result of these discussions, Miller Township Board (after holding hearings) voted to enact a new Cumulative Fire Fund tax which allowed the township to provide funding for the new truck. Thanks to the Miller Township Trustees and all of our neighbors in Miller Township for bringing this new fire engine to serve our entire community. The Pierce is thirty-four feet long with a wheelbase of two hundred ten inches. The height is just shy of ten feet (9’11”). It seats six comfortably… two in front and four in the rear. Each seat is configured with airbags and auto lock/unlock securing the crew. The cab is airconditioned. The Pierce has a five-hundred-gallon tank and hydraulic ladder rack. It has a fifteen-hundred-gallon-perminute side mount pump. The sale price included four new tires (retail approximately $800/1000 each), Credibility • Advocacy • Education • Visibility What Can The Chamber Do For You? Just Ask! 812-537-0814 www.dearborncountychamber.org and all the Bright logos installed on the truck. One really awesome (non-technical) detail is the American flag painted into the grill of the truck. This is standard on all Pierce trucks. The truck also features a touching memorial on the cab to the victims of 9/11. I got to spend time at the firehouse with some of our amazing Bright Fire & EMS folks and got a firsthand showing and fact-telling session for the new Pierce. I also had the honor of sitting in the driver’s seat and was made Assistant Chief…..OK, so it was just for a minute. For this old guy, the evening was so awesome, one that I will always remember. In closing, I would like to thank each one of our Bright Fire & EMS folks for the amazing jobs they do and for putting their lives on the line with each call they make. Last year our Fire & EMS made approximately one thousand four hundred runs. They currently have about twenty-one volunteers and are always looking for more. In late summer/early fall, they are holding a volunteer recruit open house. If interested, watch for an announcement about the date coming soon. What a way to help serve our community through volunteering The BEACON - Great News for Great People. Firefighters Spencer Broughten, Chief Kendall Eberhart, Debra Jump, Kris Heitmeyer, and Kevin McKinney with the truck. Assistant Chief Bob Waples checks out the Pierce during his brief stint in office. or by considering a donation to our Bright Fire & EMS. Keep in mind, many volunteer opportunities are available to help our Fire &EMS that do not require training, just the desire to help like washing and caring for the trucks/ equipment and other ‘nontechnical’ jobs. It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year By Linda Hutchinson I can’t be the only parent who fondly remembers the 1996 back-to-school commercial that became famous overnight. The one where the dad is in the store buying his children’s school supplies while dancing to the tune of It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year. Back in 1996, that was me dancing in the aisles singing that same tune as both my boys AND my husband headed off back to school. You see my husband was the school counselor at our local elementary school, so when the kids were home for the summer-so was he. I was always sad to see summer end, but so thankful to get back into a routine and have some peace back in the house as everyone went off to school. Maybe you weren’t a parent back in 1996, but I was and still am a parent of two highschoolers. With five children ranging from ages 32 to 15 years old, I can relate to the sigh of relief many parents are having as they watch that yellow school bus come down the street again. As one overwhelmed parent recently told me, it was like she was saying to the child’s teachers at Open House, “Tag, you’re it!” Maybe, however, the beginning of a new school year elicits more anxiety than relief for you or your child, and you are dreading the beginning of another school year. You don’t want summer to end. You’ve enjoyed your time home with the kids and want more of it. Maybe you are projecting onto your child the insecurities and anxieties YOU used to have as a child. You worry they may have the same kind of issues you had growing up. Whatever the emotions you are having as we rev up this new school year, we are here to tell you- you are not alone! All across the country, parents have had the same wild and crazy range of emotions as you. Sometimes, that wide range of emotions happens right in your own home. As a mom, you may have anxiety and fear for your kids starting a new school year, while your husband is happy to see them go back. You as parents may be thrilled school is back in session, but your student is a ball of nerves. Give those emotions some time to settle down. It may be the fear of a new classroom or teacher or the pushback of a new bedtime or schedule. Usually when families get back into a routine, children begin to feel safe and secure in their new school environment. If another month rolls around and your family is still struggling, reach out for help from a teacher or counselor. Get some outside help from a therapist or coach. Regardless of how you or your child may be feeling right now, a new school year really can be the most wonderful time of the year! Linda Hutchinson is the Executive Director of Rock Solid Families, a faith-based coaching organization in St. Leon, IN. www. goBEACON news.com
October 2023 THE BEACON Page 11A FROM H ere By Ollie Roehm The summer has been rough in our yard down here on East Street. The deer pruned our tomato plants three times to the point where we have tomato sticks instead of tomato plants. Every time the leaves would start to grow back the deer would have themselves another feast. Now, all we have left is an emaciated part of one plant that has produced a whopping four cherry tomatoes. We tried pepper/garlic spray on the plants and tied the fishing line from cage to cage to no avail. One morning I saw a doe laughing like a hyena at the fishing line. We put a barricade of fivegallon buckets and gardening tools in front of our cucumber plants and that has kept the no-good SOBs away. I have a laugh at their expense every time I make a cucumber salad. The deer have had help in making our yard a big fat summer pain in the hiney. Ground hornets have decided to make several nests in our front and back yards and I can’t cut the grass. I’m pretty sure they’re in cahoots with the deer. Yeah, I know - just go out at dusk, put an insecticide or gasoline in the holes, and run like hell. I’d do that but I’m not ready to die just yet. I’ve always been highly allergic to bee stings. It’s the reason I flunked my draft physical. So tonight at dusk, my brave and wonderful wife is going to cover every inch of her beautiful and wonderful body and go hornet huntin’. Get ‘em, baby… ********** The Southeastern Indiana Musicians Association has announced the 2023 inductees into the SEIMA Hall of Fame. Yours Truly is on the list! I am honored and proud to be in the company of so many fine musicians and music educators. The SEIMA folks long ago realized that southeastern Indiana has been an important American musical breeding ground, and they did something about it. We are extremely lucky to have such a fine organization. Those inducted will be honored during an event on Saturday, Nov. 4. SEIMA Project Grand Prize winner Kamdyn Metcalf, of Bright, and Maggie Weberding, of Oldenberg, will also perform. This year’s inductees are: Angelina Lozier Busha Paul Elliott Tony Holt Leslie Huey Bryan Hutson Perry Ralenkotter Ollie Roehm Dale Wendelman For more about SEIMA, visit https://www.seimusic.org ********** A couple of months ago I told you about the area’s new theatre group, Harrison Center for the Arts, and about how they were having their first production, “Tuck Everlasting,” during the first weekend of August. I’m happy to report that the event was a rousing success with more than five hundred people attending during the two-night run. Those involved in the production worked their tails off and were well rewarded. The group will offer another play during the coming Christmas season that should be very interesting. It will be an updated version of the Charles Dickens classic, “A Christmas Carol,” written by HCA President Mary Klopfstein Lenning. ********** Last month I shamefully used this column to pitch my new book, “From Here, the Soul of a Town Newspaperman.” As the subtitle says, the book is “a compilation of columns and recollections that reveals a time, a town, and a man.” Well, here I go again. But this time I’m shamefully plugging my book discussion/ signing event. It is set for Friday, Sept. 22, at 11 A.M., at the Harrison Township Civic Center, 9940 New Haven Road. I will discuss the book, answer questions, and publicly embarrass myself. A limited number of copies will be available for sale, and tasty snacks and drinks will be provided. If you would like to order a paperback or e-book, you can go to this site, https://store. bookbaby.com/book/fromhere. Or you can go to book sites, put my name in the search, and have at it. 8 7 3 6 1 8 7 9 6 4 6 3 3 1 7 6 4 3 2 7 8 6 2 7 5 3 9 5 8 7 1 1 9 4 6 2 Sudoku Sudoku is a logical puzzle game that may seem difficult at first glance, but actually it is not as hard as it looks! Fill a number in to every cell in the grid, using the numbers 1 to 9. You can only use each number once in each row, each column, and in each of the 3×3 boxes. The solution can be found on our website www.goBEACONnews.com/print_edition. Click on the link for Print Edition / Sudoku and view the solution for this month and last. Good luck and have fun! Eric Cox (CFS), Katie Merk (CFS), Bailey Nicolaus (CFS), Steve Strom (CFS), Tricia, McEvilly (CFS), Eric Cox (CFS), Mark Phillips (CLH), Gaar Ertel (CFS), Austin Ford (CFS), Adam Maucher (CFS), MJ Neeley (CLH), Cindy Lea (CFS), Terrie Walker (CFS), Brandy Marksberry (CFS), Kim Bush (CFS), and Brody Lack (CFS). B Beacon USINESS NEWS ABOUT OUR ADVERTISERS Conservative Financial Solutions Helps Food Pantry Conservative Financial Solutions, LLC (CFS), recently hosted their thirteenth Annual Client Appreciation Event. This annual event is a way CFS gives back to the community while thanking its clients for their commitment. Over 1,800 individuals attended the evening which created lasting memories for CFS clients with their children and grandchildren. Again this year, CFS partnered with Christ’s Loving Hands, a local charity that partners with churches, businesses, and community agencies to make a difference in the Harrison community. By working with partner churches and their food pantries, Christ’s Loving Hands is able to provide help to families in need. CFS clients and their families were asked to consider those in need by filling trucks with non-perishable food and supplies and/or purchasing tickets to win a prize basket for this worthy organization, Christ’s Loving Hands. This year the ten unique gift baskets, put together by CFS, and ‘split the pot’ helped to raise more than $3,000 to contribute to the total amount donated. Within an hour of opening the park, multiple truck beds were overflowing with nonperishable items. Mark Phillips, Director, and MJ Neeley, Clearinghouse Coordinator of the Harrison Christ’s Loving Hands organization were overjoyed by the generosity of those in attendance. Between the donations received from the CFS clients and guests in combination with the company match, Christ’s Loving Hands was presented with a check for $14,472. The clients and their families enjoyed a delicious food buffet, rode thrilling rides, played games, and participated in miniature golf. For the kiddos there was a water tent, face painting, and balloon sculptures. Unlimited concessions of popcorn, cotton candy, and ice cream made everyone’s tummy smile. 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