The Greentown Grapevine – 2000-02, 07:02

              The Greentown
Volume 7, Issue 2 " a paper for the people" February 2000
Council Elects
Wolfe President
The Greentown Tpwn Council elected'
Roger Wolfe President for 2000 and
James Harris Vice President. Town
employees were confirmed as: Kevin
Moss, Water Supt.; Bill Ross,
Wastewater Supt.; David Longfellow,
Lead Laborer; Darrell Warner, Laborer;
Debbie Longfellow, Utility Clerk; Mary
Lou McCalment, Asst. Utility Clerk;
Jeff Bennett, Marshal; lohn Horton and
Rick Cranor, Deputy Marshals.
The Plan Commission elected Gary
Lacy Chairman and Ben Harris Vice
Chairman. Gene Kingery was elected
Chairman of the Board of Zoning
Appeals and Lou Blanco Vice
Chairman.
The firm of Lacey, O'Mahoney,
Mahoney, King & McCann was retained
as Town Attorney. Stoeppelwerth and
Associates and Foresight Engineering
were named as Town Engineers.
Officers of the Boat Club are Dick
Adams, President; Jeff Laming, Vice
President; and Menill Shrock,
Treasurer.
Elections to School Board n 1 1 a
Three of the five seats on thcBoard of
Trustees of Eastern Howard School
Corporation will be on the ballot during
the Primary, May 2,2000. Individuals
will be elected to four- year terms from
each of the three townships in the
district; Liberty Township excluding the
corporate limits of the Town of
Greentown, Jackson Township, and
Union Township.
Eligibility is limited to registered
voters who reside in one of the three
townships as described above. Board
members must have resided in the
school corporation for a period of one
year prior to taking office ( July 1,
2000). Employees of the School
Gorporation are not eligible.
All qualified voters of the school
& strict vote for all three- seats. School
Board elections are nonpartisan.
The three current board members from
the townships have filed for re- election.
orthcorning:. U
They are Philip Bogue, Liberty opportunities are top priorities. I am
Tomship; Dennis Maple, Ja~ kSon devoted to working for the patrons of
Township; and Bryan KirkPatrick, Eastern Howard School Corporation to
Union Township. secure continuity, quality, and
hgue says, " It has been an honor to excellence throughout the educational
serve on & e board. It takes time to . pro& s."
become an effective board member and As of publishing dedine, no other
I would like to build upon what I have petitions had been filed.
learned. 1 would like to serve for How to file to be put on the ballot:
another term to help the School Properly A petition, signed by ten registered
prepare for the next century.'' voters residing in the School
Maple stated that he is running again Corporation, shall be filed with the
because, " Education is a top priority Clerk of the Circuit Court of Howard
with me. The corporation has good County ( ground floor of Courthouse).
teachers, staff and administration The The petition shall contain an affidavit
school's record stands for itself. There by the candidate and an endorsement by
is a need to continually strive for the Clerk concerning the candidate's
improvement. I feel there is unfinished voter registration. Petitions can be
business in progress that I would like to obtained from the Clerk or from the
be a part of." School Corporation office, 2 2 1 W, Main
Kirkpatrick states, " We are fortunate St., Greentown.
to live in a carjng community where our The filing period ends at noon
children's safety and educational February 18,2000.
Greentown saw the invitaion and ceremony. They found it very
informed the comkttee that she is a impressive and enjoyed talking with the
descendant of the family of one of the members of various organizations who
signers, Johnson Watts, who were responsible for the project and
represented Dearborn County. She and with the other descendants who were
Year7 beginning December 3 the children Eric and Abby attended the obtain several autographs.
anniversarv of Indiana's admission to
Greentown Residents .
Attend Unveiling
Indiana h ah ad two constitutions and The d ~ ~ e nwitll sbe on display each her daughter, Sarah Cotton, and Sarah's present. The children took initiative to
they both can now be seen by the public
in a disdav case in the State House ~ ~ ~~~~~- ~-_ .__ I ,
Rotunda. Students of Indiana history
will remember that the constitution of
1816 was written in Corydon, being
drafted in the shade of a tree where the
delegates had gathered to escape the
heat of the building: That tree became
known as the Constitution Elm. It has
since Qed, but branches were cut off
and have been used . for special
purposes. A second ( and current)
constitution was adopted in 185 1.
Through the initiative of the Friends
of the Indiana State Archives, with
funding from the Indiana Bar
Foundation, both constitutions have
been carefully restored. Sen. James
Merritt, Indianapolis, suggested the idea
of publicly displaying the documents in
a secure environment. With the
continued financial generosity of the
Indiana Bar, a display case was
constructed, framed with original wood
from the Constitution elm. The case
will offer the aged documents an air
quality controlled climate.
the Union in 1816, until the
adjournment of the annual session of
the Indiana General Assembly. They
will go back to a vault at the State
Archives the remainder of the year.
During the time they are in the vault,
copies will be on display in the case.'
A dedication ceremony was held
January 19 in the Rotunda of the State
House. Participating in - the ceremony
were Governor Frank O'Bannon, Senate
President Pro Tempore Robert Garton,
House Speaker John Gregg, Chief
Justice Randall Shepard and the Indiana
State Bar Association President Thomas
P. Yoder.
Both constitutions were opened to the
Articles concerning education. State
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Suellen Reed, was present, as was the
First Lady, Judy O'Bannon.
An invitation was extended to any
descendants of signers of the
constitution of 1850- 51 to attend the
ceremony. Rachel Jenkins of
Gerald Handfield, DirectorIState Archivist; Senator James Memtt, Rachel
Jenkins, Sarah Cotton. In front are Abby. and Eric. The Greentown
contingent ate dressed in their mid- nineteenth century clothing which they'
made for Greentown's Sesquicentennial of 1998. Behind the group is the
new case dedicated to display Indiana's two original constitutions.