Stories from Monday, August 14, 2006

By CAREY FOX Redwood17257@yahoo.com PUTNAMVILLE -- Saturday night at Lincoln Park Speedway was dominated by the Carmichael family with Kenny Carmichael Sr. powering to wins in both the sprint car feature and super stock feature and his son taking the bomber feature...

Mary Helen Kibbe Blair Boyd, 87, of Brazil, passed away Aug. 10, 2006, at 11:55 p.m. at Clay County Health Center. She was born in Parke County, June 20, 1919, to Elijah and Clara Kibbe. Mary graduated from Bridgeton High School in 1937. She married Hubert Blair, Feb. 13, 1939; he passed away Sept. 19, 1971. On Nov. 7, 1975, she married Philip Boyd; he passed away Jan. 7, 1977. Mary was a member of the Bridgeton Baptist Church...

Elizabeth Ann (Harrison) Price Griggs Jaynes, 83, Attica and formerly of Theodosia, Mo., and Mountain Home, Ark., died in the Williamsport Health and Rehabilitation Center, on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006, at 2:10 a.m. Elizabeth was born in Newport, Ind., on April 6, 1923...

Kathy Ann Jesko, 54 of Clinton, Ind., died at 8:05 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 13, 2006, at Union Hospital in Terre Haute. She was born Sept. 21, 1951, in Brazil, the daughter of Kenneth and Bonnie Harris Herron. Following high school she was self-employed in car sales. She married Joseph Jesko Sept. 6, 1987, in Fort Wayne, Ind. She was a member of Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Clinton where she had been a Baptized Witness for 41 years...

Margaret L. Mason, 78 of Brazil, died at 6:30 a.m. Sunday, August 13, 2006, at Holly Hill Healthcare in Brazil. She was born April 19, 1928, in Reelsville, as the daughter of Joseph M. and Norena Conder Dalgarn. She graduated from Van Buren High School. She married Gerald W. Mason Aug. 16, 1958, in Brazil. She loved yard sales, bingo with friends and spending time with family and friends...

The Institute for Divorce Financial Analysis has announced that Irvin Wayne Brewer of Waddell & Reed, Inc. located in Rockville, Ind., recently completed a specialized educational program in professional divorce planning and is now a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst...

The Brazil Concert Band, under the direction of Matthew S. Huber, will present "Old Favorites" during the month-long observance of Director Huber's 25 years on the podium. The concert is set for Sunday Aug. 20, at 8 p.m., at the Forest Park Band Shell or Pavilion if rain...

By IVY HERRON missivy1964@yahoo.com Six adults and one juvenile were arrested for alleged drug activity Saturday evening at the Villa Motel, 2186 W. U.S. 40. Search warrants were obtained for two rooms at the motel because of information provided to Clay County Sheriff's Detective Sgt. Rob Gambill, Deputy Jerry Siddens and Brazil City Patrolman Kenny Hill...

Ivy Herron photo A main part of the Even Start Program is parents spending quality time with their children at the LEAAP Center. Recently, Autumn Stone and her daughter Zoie, 4 months; Nikki Ison and daughters Arliegh, 18 months, (in her lap) and Amelia, 4, (on the slide); Autumn Watler and sons Jeremiah, 6, and Kyle, 4, and her younger brother Daniel, 14 (in the center); and Katrina Sanchez holding her son Corey, 1, paused for a picture in the play area at the facility...

Frank Phillips photo Several birds took advantage of the delicacies that surfaced on lawns following Friday's rain. The birds may have been hungry after several days without much rain forced the edibles to go underground to avoid the heat and dry conditions...