July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Eight seek three Salamonia seats (10/31/03)
Salamonia Election 2003
The past four years have seen significant changes in Jay County’s smallest town.
And an unusually large crop of candidates for the Salamonia Town Board — including three two-term incumbents — would like to continue that trend.
A total of eight candidates (four men, four women) will be on Tuesday’s ballot, competing for three town board seats. The eight candidates equal 10 percent of the Madison Township town’s 80 registered voters.
Also on Tuesday’s ballot, but unopposed, is Salamonia Clerk-Treasurer Connie Southworth.
Southworth, like incumbent councilwomen Donna Shreeve, Gloria Pfeifer and Emily Daugherty, is a member of the Peoples Party.
Those challenging the three incumbents, who comprise the only all-female town board or city council in the state of Indiana, include independents Bruce Smith and Charles (Stan) Keen, Republican Perry Jones, Democrat Gale Ann Ross, and Donald M. Shauver, also from the Peoples Party.
The candidates, in phone interviews this week, agreed there is no particular issue or issues that drew the big field of candidates. Most cited a desire to help clean up the town and help return it to its former condition as a thriving small community.
The incumbents point out several improvements made during their term — including the installation of a grant-funded community sewage system and the recent paving of town streets.
Voters in Salamonia will cast their ballots at the town’s fire station. The ballots will then be brought to the Jay County Courthouse for tabulation.
Here is a list of all the candidates for Salamonia Town Board, with some of the comments made in an recent interview:
•Emily Daugherty, 3982 S. West St., Peoples Party.
Daugherty, who works for a medical consultant company in Muncie, has lived in the town for 23 years. She says she is running to continue the work she and her fellow board members have done the past seven-plus years. “We’ve done a lot of improvements, and we want to continue to see that done,” says Daugherty, who has two daughters and a son.
“We’ve got a great little town out here. Everybody pulls together when we’ve got a problem out here,” Daugherty adds.
Among her goals for the next four years would be to add sidewalks along county road 400 South, the town’s main east-west street, and to finish off improvements to the playground at the town’s park.
•Perry Jones, 5968 East 400 South, Republican.
Jones says that his neighbor, the late Nadine Perry, talked him into running for town board after he had worked for several years with the Friends of the School organization, which was formed to help transform the old Madison Township school next to the fire station into a community center. Several other candidates have also been involved with the group.
“I’d like to see what goes on and maybe I could even go further,” says Jones, who is making his first bid for office.
He said that town residents have talked to him about junk car and trash issues, along with issues regarding the alleys in town. Jones said some of the town’s alleys are blocked off.
He and wife Mary are the parents of three, including a step-son, a step-daughter and a son.
•Charles (Stan) Keen, 5744 East 400 South, independent.
Keen, a self-employed contractor, says that several people in Salamonia asked him to run for the town board.
“I really wasn’t that interested in it,” says Keen, who said he was surprised when Daugherty, Pfeifer and Shreeve filed to run for re-election.
“They’ve done a good job the last eight years,” says Keen of the three incumbents.
He and wife Sue are the parents of three grown children.
•Gloria Pfeifer, 5755 E. North St., Peoples.
Pfeifer, like her fellow incumbents, says she is running again to finish work on several projects.
“We want to make the town look better. We have some plans doing the main street (400 South) of town,” says Pfeifer, who works at Hilfiker Farms.
“There’s just some things that I’d like to see done that I think, if we get elected again, that we can bring about in the next four years,” she adds.
Pfeifer touts the sewage system and the paving of the town’s streets as the board’s two biggest accomplishments.
She and husband Jim are the parents of five adult children and also have nine grandchildren.
•Gale Ann Ross, 5844 East 400 South, Democrat.
Ross says she thinks some changes — including creating more of a feeling of community — are in order.
“One of the goals is I’d like to see more things for the teenagers to do. We’ve got the playground at the park for the younger kids, now we need something for the older kids,” says Ross, who was also a candidate for town board in 1999.
“I just hope people would like to see a change and I hope people would put some new people on the town board. I will do my best,” she says.
Ross, who is married to Bruce Ross, has an adult son.
•Donald Shauver, 3972 South 500 East, Peoples.
Shauver, a founding member of the Friends of the School and an employee of Portland Forge, says he is hoping to follow in the footsteps of his father, who was a member of the town board for several years.
“I’d just like to see the town come back like it used to be,” says Shauver, who has lived in the town for 57 years.
He and wife Anita have three grown children and seven grandchildren.
Shauver attributes the large number of candidates to a desire for change.
“I think some of them just feel it’s time for a change on the town board, and they feel like it’s time for them to run,” he says.
•Donna Shreeve, 5977 E. North St., Peoples.
Shreeve says one of her goals during a potential third term in office would be attracting some small businesses to the community.
“Over the last eight years we’ve had a lot of growth and improvement and we’d just like to see that continue,” she says.
She said that the effort to develop the community center is ongoing, as are improvements to the playground at the park.
Shreeve, who is the manager at Jay-Portland Abstract Co., is married to Steven Shreeve. They have two sons.
•Bruce Smith, 5881 E. North St., independent.
Smith says running for town board is the next logical step following his involvement the last several years with the Friends of the School.
“I’ve been involved in the community for the past couple of years pretty heavy. I’m just taking it one step further,” Smith says.
“We’ve got a pretty nice small community here. We’re not taken very seriously about anything because we’re so small,” says Smith, who is self-employed.
He and wife Brooke have three daughters.[[In-content Ad]]
And an unusually large crop of candidates for the Salamonia Town Board — including three two-term incumbents — would like to continue that trend.
A total of eight candidates (four men, four women) will be on Tuesday’s ballot, competing for three town board seats. The eight candidates equal 10 percent of the Madison Township town’s 80 registered voters.
Also on Tuesday’s ballot, but unopposed, is Salamonia Clerk-Treasurer Connie Southworth.
Southworth, like incumbent councilwomen Donna Shreeve, Gloria Pfeifer and Emily Daugherty, is a member of the Peoples Party.
Those challenging the three incumbents, who comprise the only all-female town board or city council in the state of Indiana, include independents Bruce Smith and Charles (Stan) Keen, Republican Perry Jones, Democrat Gale Ann Ross, and Donald M. Shauver, also from the Peoples Party.
The candidates, in phone interviews this week, agreed there is no particular issue or issues that drew the big field of candidates. Most cited a desire to help clean up the town and help return it to its former condition as a thriving small community.
The incumbents point out several improvements made during their term — including the installation of a grant-funded community sewage system and the recent paving of town streets.
Voters in Salamonia will cast their ballots at the town’s fire station. The ballots will then be brought to the Jay County Courthouse for tabulation.
Here is a list of all the candidates for Salamonia Town Board, with some of the comments made in an recent interview:
•Emily Daugherty, 3982 S. West St., Peoples Party.
Daugherty, who works for a medical consultant company in Muncie, has lived in the town for 23 years. She says she is running to continue the work she and her fellow board members have done the past seven-plus years. “We’ve done a lot of improvements, and we want to continue to see that done,” says Daugherty, who has two daughters and a son.
“We’ve got a great little town out here. Everybody pulls together when we’ve got a problem out here,” Daugherty adds.
Among her goals for the next four years would be to add sidewalks along county road 400 South, the town’s main east-west street, and to finish off improvements to the playground at the town’s park.
•Perry Jones, 5968 East 400 South, Republican.
Jones says that his neighbor, the late Nadine Perry, talked him into running for town board after he had worked for several years with the Friends of the School organization, which was formed to help transform the old Madison Township school next to the fire station into a community center. Several other candidates have also been involved with the group.
“I’d like to see what goes on and maybe I could even go further,” says Jones, who is making his first bid for office.
He said that town residents have talked to him about junk car and trash issues, along with issues regarding the alleys in town. Jones said some of the town’s alleys are blocked off.
He and wife Mary are the parents of three, including a step-son, a step-daughter and a son.
•Charles (Stan) Keen, 5744 East 400 South, independent.
Keen, a self-employed contractor, says that several people in Salamonia asked him to run for the town board.
“I really wasn’t that interested in it,” says Keen, who said he was surprised when Daugherty, Pfeifer and Shreeve filed to run for re-election.
“They’ve done a good job the last eight years,” says Keen of the three incumbents.
He and wife Sue are the parents of three grown children.
•Gloria Pfeifer, 5755 E. North St., Peoples.
Pfeifer, like her fellow incumbents, says she is running again to finish work on several projects.
“We want to make the town look better. We have some plans doing the main street (400 South) of town,” says Pfeifer, who works at Hilfiker Farms.
“There’s just some things that I’d like to see done that I think, if we get elected again, that we can bring about in the next four years,” she adds.
Pfeifer touts the sewage system and the paving of the town’s streets as the board’s two biggest accomplishments.
She and husband Jim are the parents of five adult children and also have nine grandchildren.
•Gale Ann Ross, 5844 East 400 South, Democrat.
Ross says she thinks some changes — including creating more of a feeling of community — are in order.
“One of the goals is I’d like to see more things for the teenagers to do. We’ve got the playground at the park for the younger kids, now we need something for the older kids,” says Ross, who was also a candidate for town board in 1999.
“I just hope people would like to see a change and I hope people would put some new people on the town board. I will do my best,” she says.
Ross, who is married to Bruce Ross, has an adult son.
•Donald Shauver, 3972 South 500 East, Peoples.
Shauver, a founding member of the Friends of the School and an employee of Portland Forge, says he is hoping to follow in the footsteps of his father, who was a member of the town board for several years.
“I’d just like to see the town come back like it used to be,” says Shauver, who has lived in the town for 57 years.
He and wife Anita have three grown children and seven grandchildren.
Shauver attributes the large number of candidates to a desire for change.
“I think some of them just feel it’s time for a change on the town board, and they feel like it’s time for them to run,” he says.
•Donna Shreeve, 5977 E. North St., Peoples.
Shreeve says one of her goals during a potential third term in office would be attracting some small businesses to the community.
“Over the last eight years we’ve had a lot of growth and improvement and we’d just like to see that continue,” she says.
She said that the effort to develop the community center is ongoing, as are improvements to the playground at the park.
Shreeve, who is the manager at Jay-Portland Abstract Co., is married to Steven Shreeve. They have two sons.
•Bruce Smith, 5881 E. North St., independent.
Smith says running for town board is the next logical step following his involvement the last several years with the Friends of the School.
“I’ve been involved in the community for the past couple of years pretty heavy. I’m just taking it one step further,” Smith says.
“We’ve got a pretty nice small community here. We’re not taken very seriously about anything because we’re so small,” says Smith, who is self-employed.
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