A win for veterans

I would like to give The Tribune a thumbs-up for the article you ran on the front page of the newspaper Dec. 8-9 by Zach Spicer regarding Indiana Podiatry Group’s annual sock drive for homeless veterans. The article resulted in a significant increase in the number of socks people brought in to our Seymour office, which collected 1,000 pair of socks. In addition to this, we had afghans, blankets, shirts, hats and gloves. No, we did not win our company challenge. We came in second, which is a huge improvement, but the real winners are our homeless veterans. Thank you, Seymour and The Tribune.

Dr. Walt Warren, Seymour

Guilded

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Thumbs-up to the volunteers with the Schneck Guild who gave more than 20,000 hours of service to the Seymour hospital in 2018. The number of hours was the most given in the 60-year history of the guild, which serves in many areas of the hospital, including the gift shop, admitting and information desks, driving the parking lot shuttles, the emergency department, chaplaincy, hospice and various other hospital departments. The guild also is very active in fundraising and donated $153,779.19 in 2018 to many programs.

Mavericks

Thumbs-up to Brownstown Central senior Katie Rohlfing who took the top spot — and won $3,000 — for The Blue Rose Project in the eighth annual Jackson County Maverick Challenge high school business planning competition Jan. 16 at the Community Foundation of Jackson County in Seymour. She advances to regional Feb. 23 at Holiday Inn Express in Seymour. A related thumbs-up to the Brownstown Central team of Clayton Barger and Trey Hackman and the team of Heidi Booher and Madisen Polly, who tied for second. Each received $1,000.

Leading the way

Thumbs-up to Crothersville junior Josh Thomas who secured third place on the school’s all-time scoring list for boys basketball. Thomas had a game-high 19 points in leading the Tigers to an 84-54 win Saturday night against Columbus Christian. He now has 1,001 career points.

Moving on

Thumbs-up to Seymour’s three champions in Saturday’s wrestling sectional at Jennings County High School: Junior Jake Rotert at 160 pounds, senior Alejandro Sachinas at 195 and senior Gabe Ramirez at 285. The three along with Owls Colt Hensley, who finished second at 138; Ben Kriete (126) and Nate Banister (132), who each took third; and Brody Shipley, who was fourth at 220, will compete in the regional Saturday at Jeffersonville.

Wildcard winners

Thumbs-up to the Seymour High School boys bowling team for earning a wildcard spot in the state finals Saturday at Championship Lanes in Anderson.