The document provides a summary of local news and events for Greensburg, Indiana. It includes an obituary notice, thank you to subscribers, information about an art gallery event, a grant application deadline, details about an upcoming golf tournament fundraiser, and a meeting of the Election Board to discuss voting centers. It also previews the filming of an independent movie in Greensburg and details about a new initiative by the local fire department to help find missing individuals.

1. AT A GLANCE...
Obituaries:
Noreen Nelson, 77
Thanks!
The Daily News thanks the fol-
lowing subscribers for their contin-
ued readership:
Judy Gerrian, Greensburg
John Riley, Greensburg
Meet local artists
The next “Second Friday at the
Gallery” is from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday,
Aug. 9, at the Art on the Square
Gallery. The gallery is located at
114 East Washington Street. Stop
by, meet the artists and enjoy
refreshments!
DCCF small grant
applications due soon
Small grant applications are due
to the Decatur County Community
Foundation (DCCF) by Saturday,
August 10. Since this date falls on
a Saturday, the DCCF will accept
applications that are turned in by 9
a.m. the following Monday morn-
ing (August 12).
If you have questions about the
application or how to apply, call
812-662-6364, or visit the DCCF
website at www.dccfound.org.
“Event ‘Fore’ Caring”
discount period ending
soon
Monday, Aug. 12 is the last day
to register under the “early bird”
discount for the Hospital Founda-
tion’s eighth annual golf outing to
benefit Decatur County Memorial
Hospital.
The “Event ‘fore’Caring” is
slated for Wednesday, Sept. 11 at
the Greensburg Country Club golf
course, but to receive a $50 dis-
count, foursomes must register by
Aug. 12. It’s carts, clubs greens
and good times - all for a good
cause.
For more information, visit www.
dcmh.net/golf or phone the Foun-
dation office at 812-663-1220.
County Election Board to
meet
The Decatur County Election
Board will meet Tuesday, August
13, in the courthouse meeting
room, to discuss options regarding
adopting vote centers for the 2014
elections.
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Accident closes N. Decatur schools
GREENSBURG – A single-vehi-
cle accident on State Road 3 ended
the school day early for students at
both North Decatur schools
Thursday morning.
It also wound up sending a Con-
nersville man to jail.
According to a report from
Sheriff Greg Allen, the accident
occurred at approximately 7:20
a.m.whena1994Chevyvandriven
by Christopher Malone, 23, left
State Road 3 just in front of North
Decatur Junior/ Senior High
School and crashed into a utility
pole in a ditch. The accident
caused significant damage to the
van and required the replacement
of a 70-foot power pole later in the
morning by crews from Duke
Energy.
Electricity was lost at both
schools, which led to an early dis-
missal of students and faculty.
Decatur County Schools Super-
intendent Johnny Budd said he
was notified both schools were
without electricity or water at 8:30
a.m. Parents were soon informed
and buses were mobilized to the
schools in order to pick up the
students. Budd said elementary
studentsweresenttotheirschool’s
playground, while junior and
senior high classes congregated
near their football field. Students
who drove themselves to school
were able to leave on their own,
Budd said.
The superintendent was notified
By Brent Brown
Daily News
Photo by Brent Brown
Crews from Duke Energy work to restore power following a sin-
gle-vehicle accident on State Road 3 Thursday morning.Traffic in the
vicinity of the accident was slowed to one lane for approximately
four hours during the repairs.
Driver arrested on
unrelated charges
Lights; camera; action
in the Tree City
GREENSBURG — The magic of the movies
rolls into Greensburg today, with principal photog-
raphy on the family-friendly independent film
“Dearest Jane” set to begin right here in the Tree
City.
The film and its crew of twenty will be here
shooting through Aug. 13, before hitting the road
for Indianapolis, where they’ll continue filming
through Aug. 31. A sixth day of filming in Greens-
burg will commence sometime before the final day
of principal photography.
The film’s writer/director and Indianapolis
native John Lerchen told the Daily News he chose
Greensburg because it has the right look and feel
to fit “Dearest Jane’s” story.
The town, he said, has a “very friendly vibe” and
is “very colorful,” with a very welcoming atmo-
sphere. The town’s character, he added, has been
especially apparent in casting extras.
“We have about 150 extras,” he said. “That’s
more than enough, so we’re not accepting any-
more. We’ll struggle to find places to put them all.
Originally, we only needed about 110. I’ve never
had so many to work with.”
“Dearest Jane” extras will be performing every-
day activities to serve as a backdrop against which
Lerchen will tell his story. Local filming locales
include a private residence, City Park at the Deca-
tur County Fairgrounds, Greensburg Elementary
School and the east side of the downtown square.
Lerchen and his crew will work about 12 hours
aday,withstartandendingtimesvaryingeachday.
“We’re scheduled to shoot until 4 in the morning
one day,” the director said. “We have lots of night
shoots on this film.”
“Dearest Jane” revolves around Jane, an 18-year-
old high school senior sent to live with an uncle by
her divorcing parents. In her new town, she meets
a boy in high school and falls in love.
The film stars Sydney Pierick in the title role, as
well as Bruce Spielbauer, Michael Chinn, Ann
Young filmmaker shooting independent movie in Greensburg
By Rob Cox
Daily News
DEAREST JANE
Artwork from “Dearest Jane” by Artist Alex Krofchak.
Fire Dept. eager
to start work
on ‘Project
Lifesaver’
GREENSBURG – The Greens-
burg Fire Department (GFD) has
long been in the business of saving
lives.
And a new initiative embarked
upon by Fire Chief Scott Chasteen
may be another way he and his
organization can do just that.
ChiefChasteenreceivedapproval
by the Greensburg Board of Works
Monday to use necessary funds –
up to $5,000 – in order to train his
department to be part of the Project
Lifesaver program.
Project Lifesaver International,
Chasteen said, is a global organiza-
tion dedicated to helping find miss-
ing individuals, most notably those
living with Alzheimer’s disease,
autism, different forms of dementia
or other cognitive conditions.
Being a part of the project entails
wearing a tracking device, similar to
a wrist watch, embedded with elec-
tronic components that allow first
responders to track the position of
thatindividualviatheuseofadevice
known as “PAL.”
“PAL” stands for “Protect and
Locate,” and is the name of the cell
phone-like tracking display first
responders or family members can
use to help find a missing loved one.
The PAL device, according to the
Project Lifesaver website, gives the
location of the missing individual to
the caregiver or first responder
using it, at the touch of a button.
The immediacy with which emer-
gency personnel and caregivers
alike can respond to cases of miss-
ing individuals is one of the biggest
draws of the device, and that ability
to potentially recover a lost person
in a short amount of time was a
motivating factor in Chasteen push-
ing to implement the program
locally.
“It’s really about saving lives,” the
fire chief told the Daily News.
“We’re trying to make the commu-
nity safer for Greensburg citizens.”
To that end, Chasteen and about
By Brent Brown
Daily News
Family Clothes Closet returns to Westport
WESTPORT – The Family
Clothes Closet will be returning
to Westport August 14, 15 and 16
from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. to provide
clothing to families in need, free
of charge.
Last year, more than 1,700 fam-
ilies received gently used cloth-
ing from the Family Clothes
Closet. The non-denominational
free clothing center is the com-
bined effort of 24 area churches,
five organizations, and many indi-
viduals. Since its inception in
2008, the Family Clothes Closet
has operated twice a year- in
March and August.
The Family Clothes Closet is
located in the Westport Baptist
Church Outreach Building, on
Main Street across from the
newly renovated church. Family
Clothes Closet volunteers will be
setting up on August 12 and 13.
Donations of new or gently used
clothing of all sizes will be
accepted then. Gerri Renfro, one
of the event’s organizers,
reported that there is usually an
abundance of adult clothing and a
need for children’s clothing.
No personal questions are
asked in regards to income or
identification and everything at
the Family Clothes Closet is com-
pletely free. The only question
attendees will be asked is how
many people they are shopping
for. Participation is open to all
area families. Clothing sizes
range from infant to adult and
everywhere in between.
A limit of five bags of clothes
per family will be imposed and it
will be an unwritten rule that no
one should take more than they
require so that other families will
be able to get what they need as
well.
While the Westport Baptist
Church donates the use of the
building and volunteers donate
their time, there are still costs
associated with the running of
the Family Clothes Closet and
monetary donations to offset
some of the expenses would be
greatly appreciated, but are not
required.
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2. by Duke Energy that power
had been restored shortly
after noon. School was antic-
ipated to return to its normal
schedule Friday morning.
Budd said sending the
Charger students home
early was “a pretty easy deci-
sion to make” given the cir-
cumstances.
“The building was very
muggy and warm and I knew
we wouldn’t be able to con-
tinue having school,” Budd
noted.
He also complimented the
way in which the children
and their teachers dealt with
Thursday’s surprising devel-
opments.
“I thought the staff and
students handled the situa-
tion very well,” the superin-
tendent said.
While the students were
making plans to head home
for the day, representatives
of Duke Energy arrived on
the scene to repair the dam-
age.
Six workers led by Duke
Energy Construction and
MaintenanceSpecialistMike
Smith finished the job over
the course of a few hours and
replaced the broken utility
pole. Traffic on the portion
of State Road 3 near both
schools was reduced to one
lane for the duration of the
repairs. Smith said residents
living near the scene of the
accident were without elec-
tricity during that time. Duke
Energy’s website indicated
approximately 140 resi-
dences were without power
as a result of the crash
Thursday morning.
Sheriff Allen told the Daily
News that Malone was taken
into police custody and incar-
cerated in the Decatur
County Jail not long after the
accident.
The driver was treated for
minor leg injuries received in
the crash at Decatur County
Memorial Hospital, and
while there, Sheriff’s depu-
ties discovered Malone was
wanted for a parole violation
in Monroe County.
He was subsequently
remanded to police custody
and will remain in jail until
law enforcement officials
from Monroe County trans-
port him to face charges in
that community.
Malone told police he fell
asleep while driving, leading
to the accident. Deputy Eric
Kramer is in charge of the
investigation.
The Sheriff’s Department
was assisted at the scene by
members of the Greensburg
Fire Department, Decatur
CountyEMSandtheGreens-
burg Police Department.
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EVENTS
Center bowling at Parkside
Lanes.
2 p.m. - Farmer’s Market
on the courthouse square.
4:30 to 8:30 p.m. -”Junk
in Your Trunk” garage sale
on Washington Street,
behind City Hall. Cost is
$10 and space is limited.
Fee will be donated to New
Directions.
Dusk - Second Friday
Movie Series on the Square
presents Breakfast at Tiffa-
ny’s.
6:30 p.m. - Bridge at
Greensburg Adult Center.
Aug. 10
7 to 10 a.m. - Greensburg
Masonic Lodge will host an
all-you-can-eat breakfast.
Cost is a donation of $5 for
adults and $3 for kids
under 12. Carry-outs are
available.
1 p.m. - Franklin County
Democratic Party will host
its third annual Sixth Dis-
trict Democratic Rally at
the Franklin County Hilltop
Shelter. Event is free and
includes a cookout, enter-
tainment, fun for kids and
several elected officials as
speakers. For questions,
call Tom Vohland at 513-
593-2345.
Aug. 12
1:30 p.m. - Scrabble at
Greensburg Adult Center.
4 p.m. - Monthly meeting
of the Alzheimer’s support
group at the Greensburg-
Decatur County Public
Library. Everyone is wel-
come to attend.
6:30 p.m. - Euchre at
Greensburg Adult Center.
Aug. 13
1 to 3 p.m. - Euchre at
Greensburg Adult Center.
7 p.m. - The VFW and
VFW Ladies’ Auxiliary Post
5584 will meet at 315 South
Ireland Street in the Veter-
ans Service office. The
group meets the second
Tuesday of every month.
Aug. 14
1 to 3 p.m. - Euchre at
Greensburg Adult Center.
1:30 p.m. - Canasta at
Greensburg Adult Center.
Aug. 15
Annual Greensburg
Power of the Past will fea-
ture tractor games, flea
market, food vendors, con-
signment auction, garden,
tractor and horse pull, fid-
dle contest and more.
Admission is $3 and up for
persons age 12 and over.
Children under age 12 are
admitted at no charge.
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Volume: 119
Number: 120
August 10, 2013
5:00 pm - 12:00 am
August 11, 2013
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Family-Style
Chicken Dinner
Cost For Dinners:
Adults - $12.00 • Children - $6.00
Come and enjoy the fun!
Other fun and exciting events
continue on Sunday as well
until 6:00 pm.
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Adults - $12.00
Children (10 & Under) - $6.00
Pork Tenderloin Dinner
All you can eat
Directions
Annual Church Festival.
The events include a beer garden,
games, food, live band and
Kiddie Land!
Delicious Dinners will be served
continuously throughout the day.
Activites include a lunch stand, country
store, beer garden, quilt and ham raffles,
adult games, kids games and prizes.
Rain or Shine!
From Ohio: Take I-74 to St. Leon -
Lawrenceburg exit and follow the markers.
From Kentucky: Take I-275 to I-74 to
St. Leon - Lawrenceburg exit and follow
the markers.
Saturday Sunday
License #130199
August 10, 2013
5:00 pm - 12:00 am
August 11, 2013
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Family-Style
Chicken Dinner
Cost For Dinners:
Adults - $12.00 • Children - $6.00
Come and enjoy the fun!
Other fun and exciting events
continue on Sunday as well
until 6:00 pm.
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Adults - $12.00
Children (10 & Under) - $6.00
Pork Tenderloin Dinner
All you can eat
Directions
Annual Church Festival.
The events include a beer garden,
games, food, live band and
Kiddie Land!
Delicious Dinners will be served
continuously throughout the day.
Activites include a lunch stand, country
store, beer garden, quilt and ham raffles,
adult games, kids games and prizes.
Rain or Shine!
From Ohio: Take I-74 to St. Leon -
Lawrenceburg exit and follow the markers.
From Kentucky: Take I-275 to I-74 to
St. Leon - Lawrenceburg exit and follow
the markers.
Saturday Sunday
License #130199
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3:40pm – 6:10pm
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American Legion Post 129 326 E. Main St., Greensburg
Saturday, August 10th 4:00pm to 7:00pm
$12 per person - in advance
$15 per person – at the door
Monarch Band
8:00pm to 12:00am
Swiss Maid
Country Market
On the square in Hope
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Arrest
Aug. 7
Crystal Slaton, 34, Greensburg,
arrested by DCSD on a bench
warrant for failure to appear. No
bond was set.
Incidents
Aug. 7
4:04 a.m. -Vehicle accident
resulting in property damage on
CR 200 North.
2:14 p.m. - Theft on CR 200
North.
2:47 p.m. - EMS call on CR 150
South.
6:17 p.m. - EMS call on CR 700
South.
10:06 p.m. - EMS call in St. Paul.
GPD
Aug. 7
3:45 p.m. -Vehicle accident
resulting in property damage in the
900 block of West Fourth Street.
4:56 p.m. - EMS call in the 1500
block of North Commerce West
Drive.
5:48 p.m. - Fire investigation in
the 300 block of West Shortridge.
6:18 p.m. - Domestic problem in
the 900 block of West Gaston.
6:59 p.m. - Theft in the 2200
block of North SR 3.
7:19 p.m. - Battery in the 200
block of North Jackson.
8:59 p.m. - EMS call in the 1100
block of North Carver Street.
9:12 p.m. - Domestic problem in
the 1000 block of North Carver
Street.
11:16 p.m. - Domestic problem
in the 900 block of West Briar-
wood.
Aug. 8
1:56 a.m. - EMS call in the 200
block of East Main.
7:31 a.m. -Vehicle accident
resulting in injury to a person on
SR 3.
9:16 a.m. - EMS call in the 800
block of West 10th Street.
9:36 a.m. - EMS call in the 300
block of East Fifth Street.
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POLICE BLOTTER
Hagemann, Sam Steveson
and Benjamin Meadows.
Colorservesasanintegral
story-telling device in the
script, Lerchen explained.
As “Jane” opens, Jane is a
deeply somber character –
unhappy, morose, always
dressed in black. As the
script progresses, however,
her demeanor and outlook
begin to transform. Her
transformation coincides
with her move into small-
town life and the change in
surroundings; that’s where
Greensburg’s importance to
Lerchen’s narrative factors
in.
As Jane’s character and
outlook changes, so too does
the way she dresses, with
black giving way to vibrant
color. In Greensburg, Ler-
chen found a backdrop
whose colors were in har-
mony with Jane’s transfor-
mation. “The town center
has very colorful buildings,”
he said.
Lerchen’s use of color is
also why extras can’t wear
black during filming; only
Jane will be allowed to wear
black, making her character
stand out, Lerchen said.
The young director hopes
to premiere “Dearest Jane”
at the 2015 South by South-
west Film Festival in Austen,
Texas. Lerchen has also spo-
ken with the owner of Wolf
Theaters about giving the
film a local premiere, but no
deal has yet been finalized.
Lerchen would like to
debut the film at the 2014
South by Southwest Festival,
but the October deadline for
the Festival’s entries pre-
clude next year’s event. “We
won’t to get it edited in time
[for a 2014 entry],” he said.
“So that will delay us a year.”
Film festivals are vital to
films like “Dearest Jane,”
because such venues are
where such low-budget,
independent productions
typically find a distributer.
“Jane’s” high profile cine-
matographer will doubt-
lessly help in that regard as
well. AJ Young was recently
honored at the 2013 Acad-
emy Awards. Oscars host
Seth MacFarlane and the
event’s producers selected
Young as a winner of the
2013 “Oscar Experience Col-
lege Search,” which is pre-
sented to promising young
aspiring filmmakers.
“He [Young] handed the
Oscar[for2013BestActress]
to Jennifer Lawrence,” Ler-
chen explained. “I hired him
on a previous film of mine
and knew him before he was
honored by the Academy. I
was very lucky and blessed
to bring him on.”
Young graduated this year
from Columbia College in
Chicago, where Lerchen is
about to begin his third year.
“We didn’t have any
classes together,” Lerchen
said, “but our times over-
lapped. He’s a brilliant, tal-
ented filmmaker. He has
designed a new camera with
multiple sensors and has
already shot two features
films and tons of short films.
He’s very highly sought
after.”
Lerchen described
Columbia as the largest arts
school in the country. The
21-year-old chose the school
because of its proximity to
Indianapolis.
To date, Lerchen has
made eight short films,
seven of which he did sepa-
rately from his student work.
“There’s not enough
hands-on work in film
school,” he said. “So I’ve
always strived to do stuff
outside of school, because it
improves my reel.”
Lerchen made his first
movie in the sixth grade. “I
shot a music video to the
Eric Prydz song ‘Call on
Me,’” he said. “It was kind of
a joke.”
The “joke” eventually
evolvedintosomethingquite
a bit more serious. Lerchen
would go on to make videos
of class trips to St. Louis,
Washington D.C. and Chi-
cago. In high school he was
known simply as “the video
guy.”
The young filmmaker’s
career highlight to date
might be his adaptation of
the 1993 Stephen King short
story “Popsy.”
Lerchen adapted the story
as part of King’s “Dollar
Baby” program, wherein
King allows film students
and other young filmmakers
to choose from a selection of
his short stories for adapta-
tion to film. The filmmakers
are not allowed to profit from
the adaptation, and King
himself retains all rights to
the source material.
Lerchen described
“Popsy” as his most widely
viewed work to date. “King is
such a good writer,” he said.
“And that’s probably why it
was so widely received.”
Lerchen made “Popsy”
despite the fact it doesn’t fall
into his normal, favored film-
making genre. “Horror’s not
really my genre,” he said. “I
made the story into more of
a thriller.”
Lerchen cites Peter Jack-
son as his favorite director,
and two of Jackson’s films –
“Heavenly Creatures” and
“The Lovely Bones” – as two
of his favorites. One of his
short films, in fact, was an
homage to Jackson’s work.
Lerchen has never met Jack-
son, but did send a copy of
his homage to Jackson him-
self in New Zealand.
Lerchen also cited Cam-
eron Crowe (“We Bought a
Zoo”), Wes Anderson
(“Moonrise Kingdom”) and
Martin Scorsese (“The
Departed”) as directors he
admires.
He is also a big fan of
actors, Nicholas Cage
(“National Treasure”), Stan-
ley Tucci (“The Hunger
Games”) and Saoirse Ronan
(“The Lovely Bones”). He
admirestheworkofmega-ac-
tion producer Jerry Bruck-
heimer, too.
Lerchen has already fin-
ished the script for another
feature-length movie, which
he hopes to film in the next
few years. “It’s a dry,
comedic, Wes Anderson-
styleromance,”heexplained.
“It’s a road trip movie.”
One project he hasn’t yet
worked on, but wants to pur-
sue is a biopic of basketball
legend Larry Bird.
“My mom went to school
with him,” he said, “and I
went to middle school with
his kids.”
Those projects, however,
are likely years in the future,
possibly after graduation
from film school and the
inevitable relocation to New
York or Los Angeles (Ler-
chen hasn’t decided yet, but
leans toward New York).
In the meantime, he’s got
the welcoming, colorful con-
fines of the Tree City, where
Decatur Countians are eager
to help him take yet another
step toward becoming an
accomplished filmmaker.
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a dozen fellow firefighters
are readying for training in
the Project Lifesaver pro-
gram. Chasteen said he
expects to be in training for
approximately three or
four days at some point in
the near future.
The fire chief’s enthusi-
asm for the project has
been mirrored by many of
his associates at the GFD,
allofwhomarealsoexcited
to get started on the pro-
gram.
“Most have been in favor
of the program and are
eager to get it going,”
Chasteen said.
The chief said he hopes
togettheproverbialwheels
of Project Lifesaver in
Greensburg moving soon.
“Within a month, we’re
hoping to be moving for-
ward fast,” Chasteen said.
“But we don’t want to go
too fast and not do some-
thing exactly right. The
biggest step was getting
the support of the city.”
That official support
came Monday courtesy of
the Board of Works leaving
the path to getting the proj-
ect started relatively open
for those involved.
Chasteen told the Board
of Works earlier this week
he would be “actively seek-
ing” donations and grants
to fund the program. In a
later conversation with the
Daily News, the fire chief
mentioned that no tax-
payer dollars would be
used to fund the project.
“We have enough
(money) in the Donation
Fund that’s enough to get
started,” the fire chief
noted. “Within the next
week or two, we will
aggressively pursue grants
and donations.”
In the end, however, and
regardless of where the
funding comes from, the
overarching goal of Project
Lifesaver seems to inter-
sect and dovetail nicely
with the day-to-day job of
the GFD and its many affil-
iated volunteer fire depart-
ments throughout Decatur
County.
“Themainthingisyou’re
able to recover or find that
(missing) individual
quickly. It can mean the
difference between life and
death,” Chasteen said.
“This will be a program,
I think, that’s going to be
an ongoing one.”
Contact: Brent Brown
812-663-3111 x7056
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“Dearest Jane” Director John Lerchen.