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8 Soon-To-Graduate CHS Seniors Get College Degrees

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Eight Crothersville High School seniors graduated from IVY Tech on Saturday with Associate’s Degrees…more than three weeks before they receive their high school diploma on June 2.

Getting a college degree before a high school degree is not something lost on their beaming with pride parents.

Last year, Ivy Tech Community College partnered with Crothersville and Austin High Schools to offer the Ivy Tech High School Academy, a program offering early college courses for juniors and seniors.

This year is the first year that graduating seniors also had an opportunity to earn associate’s degree from Ivy Tech.

The eight Crothersville High School students who earned associate’s degrees in general studies while in high school. They are Lauren Barnes, Kaitlyn Hoevener, Caleb Minton, Chandler Nehrt, Hailey Pasley, Olivia Robinett, Jessica Schmelzle, and Olivia Smedley.

Crothersville offers students the opportunity to take 33 credit hours in dual-credit classes, according to CHS principal David Schill.

Schill said he initially had this dream when he became Crothersville’s principal and the Indiana Department of Education mandated Indiana schools to provide students with the classes allowing them to earn dual credit.  Dual credit classes are classes where the curriculum combines high school and college requirements, thus adding rigor to the course.

“We thought it would be a positive achievement if students could get enough credits to get a degree,” Schill said.

Crothersville and Austin students in the program attend classes three days a week each semester, taking six classes a year.

Schill said this one is the only program that works between two districts.

“It’s been a project of firsts,” he said. “It’s worked out well.”

Tuition for the program is completely free for students. The only fees students pay are for book rental.

The program saves parents an estimated $30,000 in college costs, Schill said. Thus another reason for parents to beam with pride.

“Students who are involved in the program have the opportunity to get ahead of the (educational) game,” Schill said.

President of the Crothersville School Board Dale Schmelzle, father of Jessica Schmelzle, one of the dual credit students,said the dual credit program was rigorous but that students who stuck with it will have a better chance of success in college.

“They now have the confidence that they can successfully do college level work,” said the Schmelzle.

He said the seven Crothersville students maintained a college study program along with their high school studies and still competed in athletics, and took part in cheerleading and extracurricular activities.

All of the credits they received will transfer to a 4-year Indiana college.

“They will enter college as second semester sophomores,” said the board president.

Schill said the school plans to continue the program in the future, despite the state instituted budget cuts.

“We’re working out whatever we have to do to have it continue,” he said.

“It’s been a real pleasure to get it going. Just in the short term, we’ve seen it serve the students well and we expect it to continue to do so.”

Festival Banners To Welcome Visitors

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New light pole banners will soon grace US 31 in Crothersville welcoming visitors to the community’s Red, White & Blue Festival.

Festival committee member Chad Wilson displays one of the banners he designed for this year’s patriotic salute planned for June 13-15.

Who To Contact For Red, White & Blue Festival Events

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Talent Show, Donna Smallwood, 812-793-3701

Pet & Bike Parade, Jessica Graff, 812-216-7893

RWB Golf Scramble, Marc Bowman, 812-801-1594

Photography Contest, Sarah Freeman, 812-530-7093

Baby Contest, Pamela Guy, 812-707-9247

Corn Hole Tourney, Chris Lanning, 812-599-8487

Antique Farm Show, Kevin Hoevener, 812-524-0372

Jimmy Stewart Memorial 3/3 Tourney, Chad Wilson, 812-530-1181.

RWB Parade, Lions Club Gordon Butler, 812-793-2693

Prince & Princess Contest, Zabrina Nicholson, 812-793-2051

Fiddle Contest, Bobby Deal, 812-889-3710

5K Run/Walk, Tina Kilgore, 812-525-7351

Media Director, Brady Riley, 812-525-1399

Festival Information, Sherry Bridges, 812-569-0407

Carl & Lil Edwards Celebrate 60th Anniversary

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Carl & Lil Edwards of rural Crothersville are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary. The couple was married on May 15, 1953 by the Rev. Billie Shepherd.

Carl is retired from the America can company in Austin and Lil is a homemaker.

They are the parents of two children, Michele (Roger) Teipen of Crothersville and Andy Edwards of Crothersville; three grandchildren, Justin (Stacey) Teipen, Josh (Stacie) Teipen, and Levi Edwards; a great-grandson Nolan Matthew Teipen and a great-granddaughter due June 7.

Taking The Why In The Road

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by Curt Kovener     

Young children frequently ask “why”. Why is the sky blue? Why is the grass green? Why is water wet? Why does the newspaper editor have a funny moustache?

And then when they receive their answer, they follow up with another “Why?”

Adults have some questions about ‘how’s come is it?’… another way of asking “Why?”

•Why do supermarkets and pharmacies make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front?

•Why do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke?

•Why do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in our driveways and put our useless junk in the  garage?

•Why does the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

•Why can’t women put on mascara with their mouth  closed?

•Why don’t you ever see the headline ‘Psychic Wins  Lottery’?

•Why is ‘abbreviated’ such a long word?

•Why is it that doctors and attorneys call what they do ‘practice’?  But when they send you a bill it is for “professional services”?

•Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavoring, and dish washing liquid made with real lemons?

•Why is the man who invests all your money called a  broker?

•Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

•Why isn’t there mouse-flavored cat food?

•Now that it is warmer weather and we enjoy being outdoors, why didn’t Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

•Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal  injections?

•Why don’t sheep shrink when it rains?

•Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

•If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

 

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