The Worthington Times

In the 80s and clear skies - that's the current weather forecast for Worthington on yard sale day.  In years past, it sprinkled one year but cleared off quickly.  Another year, it rained early in the day but had cleared off by mid-morning.  So yard sale day has never been rained out.  This year looks to be another perfect selling day.

I looked through the past Times to see when yard sale day started - 1992 was the first year.  It was sponsored under the auspices of the WJ Ruritan Club by Lessalee Pickard and Jean Ingersoll.  After all three of those had passed away, the Worthington Lions Club stepped up to the plate and is the current sponsor.  This will be the 16th yard sale day.

Maps will be out today or tomorrow around town, including the Town Hall in the Municipal Building if you want one early.  The Provos will be placing the porta-potties around and at least one, maybe more of those are to be handicap-accessible.  Don't know where those will be located but they should be indicated on the map.

The Lions Club was going to try to contact Goodwill about coming down to accept donations (from sellers, of things that didn't sell) later in the day but that was not confirmed as of Monday.

Connie & Crew will be accepting donations of your leftover clothing at her barn just west of town on Terre Haute Road.  Those will be cleaned and sorted and given to appropriate charities.

Throughout the day, the WJVFD firefighters, along with Lions Club members, will be making the rounds to request donations from sellers.   The money that is collected will  be used to pay for the Lions Club's expenses to promote this day - porta-potties, ink and paper for flyers, advertising, etc.  If there's a profit, it will be split between the Lions Club and the WJVFD.

Click here to read story about yard sale day in the Greene County Daily World.
 

Next Saturday, September 1 will be yard sale day in Worthington, Indiana.  As always, from early in the morning, there will be sales all over town, all day, rain or shine.  This year's event is sponsored by the Worthington Lions Club.  It's always held the Saturday before Labor Day.  So come one, come all - Worthington folks are planning another big day!  

The field behind the WRV Worthington Elementary School was dedicated to the memory of Larry J. Catron on Friday, August 24.  I covered for the Greene County Daily World and there's a couple of stories on their website.  The picture above of Larry with a few students appeared in the Times in the 1990s during the time Larry was principal at the school.  A few more pictures of this event have been added below.

Click here to read the story before the dedication.

Click here to read the story of the dedication on the GCDW website.

To Janet

So many things we enjoyed during the Catron years
would not have been possible without you.
You are an important part of all our memories.
Thank you for everything.

Everyone is invited to the sign unveiling and dedication ceremony of the Larry J. Catron Memorial Field to be held on the football field behind the WRV Worthington School at 2:00 p.m. this Friday, August 24.  It will be appropriate to bring a lawnchair.  In case of inclement weather, this event will be held in the WRV Worthington gym.   

I covered the last Worthington Town Council meeting for the GCDW and here's the link to the story.

I wrote a couple of short updates for the GCDW about the Jerry Need murder case.  Jerry was a Worthington native who was killed in Terre Haute about 14 years ago during the course of a robbery.  He was a cab driver and it was front page news at the time.  The case became an unsolved mystery and only in the last year, two men were finally charged with the murder.  Here are links to the articles on the GCDW website - Story One and Story Two.  The first arrest was made last August, and while waiting trial, this defendant (Allsup) was let out of jail on a technicality.  The other one (Perry) was in prison in California for six armed robberies, was extradited, made an plea agreement and testified against Allsup.  It got quite complicated, as many trials do. If you are interested in reading more details about the case, which will probably be in the news again as Allsup is expected to appeal, go to the Tribune Star (Terre Haute newspaper) website and do a search for articles about "Jerry Need" and also on "William Allsup" and "Lamar Perry."  (When I am searching there, I find I need to search on more than just Jerry's name to locate all of the stories.)  Stories on the tribstar.com site detail much of the testimony during the trial which I didn't cover in the articles for GCDW.  The Needs were a large family, the children attended Worthington-Jefferson and some may recall they lived in a big house at the top of Vinegar Hill.  Jerry's parents and one of his brothers have passed on but Jerry's wife and other family members attended the trial.

Remember his column "Bumps in the Road" in the Times?  He's still writing it and it's carried in the Greene County Daily World.  Click here to read a recent column about the Citadel in Bloomfield and the State Theatre in Worthington.

As always, the Worthington yard sale day will be held the Saturday before Labor Day which falls on September 1 this year.  And it's time to get your location on the map if you're plannng to have a sale.  The cut-off date is August 25 to be included.  If you don't get registered, you can still have a sale, but your location won't be on the map.  To get your name on the sale map, call Glen Cundiff at 875-3746. Yard sale day is sponsored by the Worthington Lions Club.

The Lions Club will also hold a breakfast at the municipal building from 6:30 until 10:00 a.m. on yard sale day.  The menu includes biscuits and gravy, pancakes and sausage, milk, juice and coffee.  Breakfast tickets will be $4 for adults and $2 for children.

One bad apple can ruin things for everyone.  The bad apple is not from Worthington.  I am actually quite proud of the way every one from Worthington has used this website.  And I was hoping to leave comments open to everyone - but today a bad apple posted something false and this can't happen again.  From now on, you will all be able to post, but all posts will have to be approved before they go live on the site.  This just means you post as usual, but you won't see your comment appear for awhile, until I've logged in and approved it. 

Floyd Freeman of Worthington, Indiana recently passed away, much too young at the age of 59, and a memorial service was held at Welch & Cornett Funeral Home in Worthington.  Floyd was the owner of Freeman Trucking based in Worthington, he was well-liked and well-known to area truckers and businesspeople.  And so to honor him in a special way, his casket was carried to its final resting place in Worthington Cemetery on top of Floyd's own rig, driven by his brother.  It seemed appropriate to take a few pictures and share these snapshots with others who could not be there.