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lowing subscribers for their contin-ued readership:

Judy Gerrian, GreensburgJohn Riley, Greensburg

Meet local artistsThe 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

soonMonday, 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. when a 1994 Chevy van driven 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 students were sent to their school’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 BrownDaily 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 a day, with start and ending times varying each day.

“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 GreensburgBy Rob Cox

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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.

Chief Chasteen received approval 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 that individual via the use of a device 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 BrownDaily News

Family Clothes Closet returns to WestportWESTPORT – 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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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 Maintenance Specialist Mike 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 County EMS and the Greens-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. 107 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. 121:30 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. 131 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. 141 to 3 p.m. - Euchre at

Greensburg Adult Center.1:30 p.m. - Canasta at

Greensburg Adult Center.Aug. 15Annual 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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August 10, 2013

5:00 pm - 12:00 am

August 11, 2013

11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Family-StyleChicken 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 pmAdults - $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 raffl es,

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

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Saturday Sunday

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August 10, 2013

5:00 pm - 12:00 am

August 11, 2013

11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Family-StyleChicken 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 pmAdults - $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 raffl es,

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

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Monarch Band8:00pm to 12:00am

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ArrestAug. 7Crystal Slaton, 34, Greensburg,

arrested by DCSD on a bench warrant for failure to appear. No bond was set.

IncidentsAug. 74:04 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.

GPDAug. 73:45 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. 81:56 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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Hagemann, Sam Steveson and Benjamin Meadows.

Color serves as an integral 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 [for 2013 Best Actress] 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 evolved into something quite 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 admires the work of mega-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-style romance,” he explained. “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, all of whom are also excited 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 to get the proverbial wheels 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.

“The main thing is you’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.”

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