Local Briefs

First Posted: September 19, 2012 - 7:51 pm Last Updated: September 19, 2012 - 7:53 pm

Docs join North Vernon gynecological services

Board certified gynecologists Adam Jablonski, MD, and Eric Fish, MD, recently joined St. Vincent Medical Group where they will provide gynecological medical services at St. Vincent Jennings Hospital in North Vernon.

Dr. Jablonski has a special interest in encouraging patients to be active participants in their treatment and health condition management, which leads to healthier outcomes. He earned his medical degree from the University of Toledo School of Medicine in Ohio and completed his obstetrics and gynecology residency at St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital. After residency, Dr. Jablonski joined the medical staff of Schneck Medical Center in Seymour, prior to joining St. Vincent Medical Group.

Dr. Fish has a special interest in educating women about wellness and preventive health at every stage of life. He earned his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis and completed his gynecology and obstetrics residency at St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital. After residency, he also joined the medical staff of Schneck Medical Center in Seymour prior to joining St. Vincent Medical Group.

Their office is located at 301 Henry St., North Vernon.

Historical society plans ghost walk, dinner

The Jennings County Historical Society is gearing up for Hector’s Haunted Happenings — Mysterious Dinner and Ghost Walk to be held Oct. 12-13 at the North American House Museum in Vernon.

The event includes a home-cooked meal. Courses are served in a mysterious manner, and the menu, as well as the dinner’s theme, are kept secret.

Dinners will be at 6 p.m. Oct. 12 and 5 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. Oct. 13.

Tickets are $15 per person for the dinner or $16 per person for dinner and Ghost Walk. Tickets must be purchased in advance for the dinners because seating is limited. Reservations and ticket purchases for the dinner must be confirmed by Oct. 9.

Reservations are not needed for the Ghost Walk, which features ghost stories and local folklore acted out by the Jennings County High School drama students. The stories told are based on local folklore and legends as well as haunted happenings throughout the Midwest.

Hector’s Haunts was named after a tale from the 1800s when a young boy fell into the town’s well. The hand-dug well is 30 feet deep with narrow walls. It still remains entombed in concrete beneath the historical society’s museum.

Tickets for the Ghost Walk may be purchased on the day of the event for $3 per adult and $2 per child younger than 10. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Tours leave the museum every 20 minutes with the first one beginning at 6:30 p.m. both evenings. The last Ghost Walk leaves the museum at 9:30 p.m.

Tickets are available now at the historical society’s museum in Vernon. For information and tickets, call Wanda at (812) 346-8989.

Annual Cruizin and Showin Car Show set

The fourth annual Cruizin and Showin Rockford Ridge Car Show will be held from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Oct. 13 at Rockford Ridge Restaurant, 2200 N. Ewing St., Seymour.

Registration will be from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., and antiques, muscle, street road, trucks, rat rods and other vehicles will be welcomed. The cost to enter is $15.

There will be dash plaques, goody bags, door prizes and trophies with lots of good music from DJ Harold K and the Tones. There also will be food. Alcohol will not be allowed.

For information, call Glenn or June East at (812) 522-5104.

All proceeds go to help a family in Jackson County and donations will be accepted. The $1,000 profit made from the 2011 car show was given to two families in the county.

Strong reunion held Aug. 26 at Shields Park

The Strong reunion recently was held at Shields Park in Seymour with 123 members and nine friends from throughout Indiana as well as Kentucky and Tennessee in attendance.

The oldest in attendance was Leroy Strong while the youngest was 2-month-old Hunter Strong of Winchester, great-grandson of Marvin and Patty Strong, Seymour.

Games including a scavenger hunt, pingpong maze, tug of war and a water balloon toss were played, and bingo also was played.

A white elephant auction was had. Marvin Strong was the auctioneer with helpers Max and Christopher Gambrel, Evelyn Strong and Dillon Mott.