Hometown Memories Parade

Springville Heritage Festival
Saturday, June 19, 2010
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Springville, Indiana

Hometown Memories Parade

Line up begins at Noon at Wellman Farm on Popcorn Road, follow the signs.

Contact:
Kim Baker: 812-279-0226/812-675-1457
Denny Godsey: 812-275-4683

Springville Alumni Banquet

2010 Springville Alumni Banquet
June 5th at 6:00 PM
Springville School

Anyone who has ever attended Springville School is welcome and encouraged to attend.

For more information contact Billie at 275-3979

Flaming Hot Cook-Off

Springville Heritage Festival ~ June 18 & 19

Springville’s First Annual Flaming Hot Cook-Off In The Park

This cook-off will be a fundraiser for the Perry Township Volunteer Fire Dept. We encourage all surrounding fire departments and citizens to join in this challenge to be “Springville’s Flaming Hot Chef!”

Contact Event Person:
Ken Phillips
Premier Remodeling
812-279-9136

Entry Fee:
$50.00 per team

Entry Form
Printable 2010 Cook-Off Entry Form

Prizes:
First Place: $400.00 cash
Second Place: $100.00
Third Place: Plaque
People’s Choice Award: Plaque

Grilling In the Park Cook-Off Meat Selections:
Beef
Chicken
Pork

Misc. Information:
*One meat entry from each selection per team

*Wood, Gas or Charcoal fuel grills are allowed

*All meat entries should be in their original package and will be inspected in an Inspection Meeting at your Grilling Area after the Chef’s Meeting. All entries must be cooked on the festival park grounds completely. Any partially cooked items prepared off the premises will be disqualified.

*Premier Remodeling will choose 3-5 impartial judges. Judges will be selected and will judge on the following criteria; taste, appearance and presentation. The Chefs will be told the # of judges at the Chefs Meeting, they will be expected to prepare small individual portions for each judge. This will be a point system which will be explained in the Chef’s meeting.

*All entries will need to be delivered to Cook-off Information Tent at 12:00 PM sharp. No late entries will be accepted. All entries will be officially gathered, secured and transported to the judging area by cook-off sponsors.

*As to not allow any type of distractions or unfair biases, the judging itself will take place in a secure location

*Minimum of six teams for the fundraiser to take place. If we do not get six participating teams all entry fees will be refunded in the event of cancellation by the sponsors

*A People’s Choice Award will be given to the Top Grilling Chef whom the public chooses. This will be a fundraiser where Cups and Spoons will be sold and each set and will be sold to the public. The public will taste Chef’s Grilled Samples at their individual Grilling Areas. Afterwards, the public will turn in ballots for the team in which they deserve the PCA. The Chef and Team with the most ballots will win the PCA plaque

*The will be some electricity available. Water is available if needed. All teams need to bring their own extension cords and buckets

*We encourage chefs and crews to bring your RV or tents and spend the night in the park. Security will be available

*All entry forms due by June 11, 2010

Schedule for Flaming Hot Cook-Off in the Park:

June 18:

4:00 – 7:00 p.m. Check-in at Sponsors Tent for Grilling Area Arrangement Chart & Set-Up for your Area
7:00 – 7:30 p.m. Crowd Awareness Fun Time
7:30 p.m. Chef’s Meeting at Sponsor’s Tent
8:00 p.m. Meat Inspection at each Chef’s Grilling Area
8:30 p.m. Cooking May Begin

June 19:

10:00 a.m. Chef’s Meeting at Sponsors Tent
12:00 p.m. All Entries are due at Sponsor’s Tent
1:30 p.m. Awards Ceremony on Grand Stage at the Park
2:00 p.m. Parade Starts
**All Chef and Team Members are encouraged to decorate an Entry for the parade and participate in the parade. **

Contact Sponsors:
Ken & Gayla Phillips
Premier Remodeling
812-279-9136

Kelly & Tammy Holland
Phillips Well Drilling & Pump Service
812-863-4843

Flaming Hot Cook-Off Rules

1. The purpose of this cook-off is a fund-raising event for the Perry Township Volunteer Fire Dept and Park Board. Any profits will be donated as such.
2. All chefs must sign a release on the entry form provided by the PTVFD for the purpose of operating under their volunteer umbrella in order to comply with the Health Dept. regulations.
3. Each chef may have up to an additional 2 team members. The Chef will be the contact person for all meetings, discussions and public awareness.
4. Each Chef and team will be assigned their own “Grilling Area.” This space is your area and all your grilling items, tents, tables and chairs must be kept in your area. You are responsible for the cleanliness and trash removal of your assigned area at all times. Grilling Areas will be monitored during this event. Failure to comply can result in disqualification. This rule is for health and safety assurance of our contestants and the general public.
5. Please be careful not to allow the public or children around your Grilling and Cooking apparatus.
6. Each team is responsible for their grills, fuel, utensils, spices and any other requirements needed to complete an entries preparation.
7. We want to encourage amateur contestants to become involved with the crowd. We would like to see funny costumes or just things that might make your group standout. This could also be helpful to you as a team when it comes to the “People’s Choice Award.”
8. The “PCA” is an award that will be designed to be given to the team whom the general public choose as the most outstanding.
9. Specific cook-off rules as to the judging and preparation are published separately.
10. This is a family friendly event. All Chefs and team members will be expected to keep this event as such.

2010 – 5K Run / Walk

2010 SPRINGVILLE HERITAGE FESTIVAL
5K RUN / WALK
Saturday June 19th
Race starts and ends in front of the “Springville Community Park”
(Follow signs from Hwy #54/58)
Springville is located on Hwy #54/58 approximately 5 miles west of
Hwy #37/Hwy #54/58 intersection

Race Course
This course has been USTAF Certified. Certification # IN 08006 MW.
The course is an out and back with a slight incline at the start and decline to the finish. A good course for a 5K PR. There will be Mile Markers and water at the turn-around.

After The Race
There will be refreshments for the racers in the Park area. Awards will be presented shortly after the completion of the 5K Walk
The 2010 Springville Heritage Festival will be held on June 17th, 18 th, and 19th.

REGISTRATION
6:30 – 7:30am Registration

START TIME
8:00am

ENTRY FEES
$12.00 entry fee if paid by May 31st 2010
$15.00 entry fee Day of the Race

Printable 5K Registration Form

Online 5K Registration Form
This online registration is sponsored by the MAG 7 Race Series and all
entries will be sent to the Race Director (Denny Godsey) for
accountability on Race Day.

After Race Events
Please attend and enjoy our parade, flea market, lawnmower race, children’s tractor pull, food booths and many more fun events.

For more information call:
Rand Hammel
(812) 279-3844

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AGE GROUP AWARDS

RUNNERS AND WALKERS

*13 AND UNDER

*14-19

*20-24

*25-29

*30-34

*35-39

*40-44

*45-49

*50-54

*55-59

*60-69

*70+

Awards will be presented to the Overall Winner Male and Female (Runner and Walker) and the first three finishers in each age group.

Printable 5K Entry Form

2010 Golf Scramble Entry Form

 
Click here if you have MS Word:   2010 Entry Form

If you do not have MS Word print from this page: 2010 Entry Form

 

Dr. Jack Hamilton Armstrong – Part 3

This is third in a series of excerpts from the book: Dad’s Memories: Growing Up Poor, But Rich, by Dr. Jack Hamilton Armstrong (written for his Grandchildren)

CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL

Long before I can remember I am sure I was bundled up and taken to Sunday School every Sunday and stayed for Church following. Then I was taken to Prayer meetings every Wednesday evening as well. This continued until I was old enough to begin remembering the people who were always there, the songs that were sung and the lessons being taught.

The two Sunday School Superintendents I particularly remember are Aldice Jackson and Becham Godsey. They would always ask if there were any birthdays and if it was your birthday you were supposed to go up to the altar and put in a penny for each of your years of age.

There were also the annual Christmas plays in which you were expected to participate. Also there were the annual revivals when a visiting minister would come and conduct meeting for one or heaven forbid two weeks at which you were expected to attend every night. Occasionally there would be all day Church dinners which were usually a lot of fun for us kids as well as having a lot of good food!

Dad would only occasionally go to Church services. However, he would always take Mom and I and then wait at the filling station until it was time for the service to end and pick us up. When Grandma Moore was in residence during the summer he would drop Mom and I off at the Methodist Church and drop Grandma Moore at the Christian Church and then pick us all up following services.

One of the ladies at Church was Mae Tucker. She only had an older son, but she loved children. One Sunday morning Mom was getting me ready to go to Sunday School and I was crying and not wanting to get ready and Mom asked what was the matter and I said I didn’t want to go because Mae Tucker would kiss me.

My least favorite Church song was the Old Rugged Cross. It had about 6 verses and was always sung near the close of services when I was tired and sleepy and it seemed to go on forever. When I was about 12 years old I joined the Church and was baptized in Spring Creek over the hill from the Methodist Cemetery on what was then Frank Cobb’s farm.

To be continued….

Help with the 2010 Heritage Festival

I am working on the Springville Heritage Festival GOLF SCRAMBLE: If you or someone you know own a business & would like to help SUPPORT the Volunteer Fire/EMS Dept & community…PLEASE call, email, facebook me for info on sponsoring events & getting your Business some advertising! 
Thanks! 
Melissa Sheeley Matson
(812)583-2033,
golf-info4shf@att.net 
or look me up on facebook: Melissa Sheeley Matson

If you would like to play in the scramble, please contact me also! We will have lots of exciting door prizes this year!
Scramble- June 5, Festival- June 17-19

Dr. Jack Hamilton Armstrong – Part 2

This is second in a series of excerpts from the book: Dad’s Memories: Growing Up Poor, But Rich, by Dr. Jack Hamilton Armstrong (written for his Grandchildren)

I would like to add some things I remember about Mom and Dad. I was not born until they were 37, so most of what I learned of their younger years was what I was told. When you think about it, you spend very little time with your parents. By the time I was 8, they were 45; when I started Purdue, they were 55; and when Alice and I were married at 22, they were almost 60. So I only spent about 10 meaningful years with them.

Dad’s father died when he was 16 and he was left to take care of his mother and younger brother, George, who was 6 years younger. His mother soon moved to Bedford and left him alone on the farm. I assume as a result he became a very good cook, especially of the things produced on the farm and especially in the big garden he always had.

He started working and managing the farm from then on until he died in 1968 at 74. Dad was a big man. He was 6-foot 4 and-a-half inches tall and weighed 240 pounds, which was very big in those days. It was said he could pick up a barrel of sugar, which weighed 320 pounds. He was very quiet and I never saw him lose his temper. He never whipped me but once, and I am sure I needed it, but when I was small he did thump me on the head, which did get my attention. It was always said that he had the patience of Job. I never saw him take a drink and the only time I ever saw him drink a beer was a warm one at a Cincinnati Reds baseball game. He never went past the 6th grade but always seemed to manage quite well. I never saw him read anything, but he was always sure Mom had the paper. He was one of my greatest supporters for going to school and wanted me to study veterinary medicine at Purdue, but of course Purdue did not have a veterinary school at that time. He liked kids and enjoyed driving the school bus, which he did for 22 years. He was pretty easy going and one of his favorite sayings was never run when you can walk, never stand when you can sit and never stay in the sun if you can get in the shade. That was kind of his philosophy.

Mom had a quite different personality from Dad. To say the least she was not quiet. She grew up on a small farm, 40 acres, across the road from where Dad lived from the time he was 16 years old. She had one sister, Beulah Pearson. She was 4 years older than Mom. I don’t think they ever got along too well, although the families were always close and visited almost every weekend. Dad and her son, Worth, farmed together and shared equipment.

Mom was always good in school and after finishing high school attended Indiana Central Normal for six weeks and obtained her teaching certificate. I am not sure how much she taught in her early years but later in life she renewed her teacher’s certificate and taught at the Springville School for many years. Kent Armstrong was always telling me he had her for a teacher the last year she taught.

She was a self-taught musician. She could play the piano and later self-taught herself to play the organ. She gave music lessons to almost everyone in the community, including me. As far as I know I am her only complete failure as a student. She was very active in community activities. She belonged to the ladies aid society at Church, taught Sunday School, played the piano for services, belonged to the county choir, and played the piano for the Day and Carter Funeral Home in Bedford for awhile. While she was a member of the County Choir they made a trip to Washington DC and sang on the capital steps. One of the original Capital Steps singers, get it?

During World War II she worked at an electronics plant in Bedford. This was all in addition to helping on the farm, raising chickens for egg money and canning hundreds of quarts of fruits and vegetables to put in the cellar for winter. The one thing she did not excel in was cooking and she made no bones about it. She readily admitted that Dad was a better cook. I have heard her say many times she would rather clean up afterwards than cook. When Robert was in the Army and asked if he didn’t miss good home-cooked meals he said, well not that much!

In later years, she and Hobert Powell were instrumental in getting the Springville Methodist cemetery enlarged and in keeping it mowed for many years. She was also a big proponent of me going to Purdue. However when I got homesick during the first semester she did tell me just to come home and we would do something, however she did not say what it would be. Thank goodness she never did have to say what it might be.

We of course, had no electricity until 1946, after WW II, when I was 15 years old. But that is another whole chapter. I spent most of my early years by myself, as Robert was 13 years older than me, so I had to entertain myself. But that was not trouble with all the animals, both tame and wild, that could be found on 250 acres. So I will begin by recalling some of my early memories of Church and Sunday School.

To be continued….

Dr. Jack Hamilton Armstrong

This is the first in a series of excerpts from the book: Dad’s Memories: Growing Up Poor, But Rich, by Dr. Jack Hamilton Armstrong (written for his Grandchildren)

I was born 1 mile north of Springville, Indiana at home, in the North bedroom, on a small general grain and livestock farm on April 14th 1931. It was in the throws of the Great Depression so no one had much ready cash and activities—both work and play—involved very little money, either earned or spent. For example, a fellow named Cookie Kirkman worked for Dad on the farm for many years for $1 a day. I remember riding to Springville on my bicycle, on a gravel road, and watching Cookie and other guys play pea pool on Saturday afternoons for 10 cents a pea and sometimes Cookie would win a whole day’s wages: $1! I also remember Dad and Mom telling of the time a show came to Springville and they and Jess and Ruth Noel, who were living with them at the time, wanted to go but did not have any money. So they caught some chickens and sold them to get enough money to go. As a result it must be said we were as well off as everyone else at the time. However, in terms of having a loving family, plenty of good food, and certainly enough interesting things to do, I was truly blessed.

The house I grew up in was built in 1860. It originally had 3 fireplaces, but two of them had been closed and were no longer being used by the time I entered the scene. The house was heated by a wood burning cook stove in the kitchen, a drum stove in the south bedroom, and a fireplace in the living room (until it got really cold and it was closed and a coal stove was put up to provide more heat). One winter a teacher by the name of Defoe lived with us and gave me a new dictionary for Christmas; I drew a picture of the stove on the flyleaf. I still have it.

The house was finally burned Sunday October 1st, 2006 by the Perry Township Fire Department. I watched and took pictures. Interestingly enough, they started the fire in the north bedroom where I was born.

To be continued….

2009 Christmas In The Park

• Homemade Cookies
• Hot Chocolate & Coffee
• Chili Cook-off
• Bonfire
• Caroling

Springville Elementary School students will decorate the park with lights and their own crafty decorations. Please bring Christmas cookies — we will enjoy some and then donate the remaining to elders in our community. Come and enjoy the beauty of our park and the warmth of the Christmas Spirit.