The Independent-News, Volume 118, Number 40, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 18 February 1993 — Page 1

The Independent-News

VOLUME 118; NUMBER 40

STRONG SECOND HALF PACES FALCON VICTORY The John Glenn Falcons put together a good effort on both ends of the floor Friday night to take complete charge of the LaVille Lancers and ran away with an 81-52 victory in their last Northern State Conference game of the season. The win was the 16th for coach Gordon Mosson's Falcons against three defeats as the season is winding down to Sectional tourney time in another couple of weeks. Despite the fact that LaVille led 14-13 after one quarter, the Falcon defense was putting the pressure of the visiting Lancers to take them out of their game plan. After some slow shooting of their own in the first 16 minutes, the Falcons exploded for 52 points in the second half as they not only broke the game wide open, they ran completely away from the Lancers who so often control the tempo of the game and slow it down to a snail's pace. Despite the good effort of the Falcon defense, the Lancers managed to get points from all five starters in the first period and led by a single point, 14-13 after one. For Glenn Russell Burch had three first period baskets to lead the way and in the second period with the pressure of Glenn's defenders taking a lot away from the Lancers, the Falcons managed to move ahead to stay. They led 29-22 at the main intermission as the visiting LaVille team only managed eight points on four baskets in the second quarter. The second half was all Glenn. A big 28 point outburst simply blew the game wide open as the Falcons raced to a 57-33 lead after three quarters and coasted home for the final margin of 29 points, 81-52. Jayson Kincaid led the Falcons for the night with 21 points, getting 17 of these in the second half including 11 in the big third quarter. He had great balanced support as Jason Groves and Burch totaled 18 each and Toby Gardner added 14 more, with eight of his coming in the big third period. For the Lancers, Fish was the only double digit scorer with 14 on five baskets and four of five from the foul line. At Argo* Friday Night The Falcons will travel to Argos to play the Dragons, who are having a hard time winning this year. The game will start at 6:30 and is the last away regular season game of the year with only a home battle with Tippecanoe Valley following the next Friday night. It will then be the Plymouth Sectional for the Falcons who have certainly established themselves as at least a co-favorite with Bremen while you still have the host Plymouth team to consider as well at tourney time. BOX SCORE Glenn fg ft fta p tp Kincaid 8 5 6 2 21 Gardner 7 0 0 2 14 Burch 8 2 4 1 18 Groves 6 3 3 1 18 Casteel 10 0 2 3 Snell 10 13 2 Perry 112 2 3 Fisher 10 112 Cotton 0 0 0 0 0 Lichtenberger 0 0 2 0 0 TOTALS 33 11 19 14 81 LaVille Fish 5 4 5 2 14 Stump 1112 3

WPL AMBULANCE BOARD MEETS The Walkerton Polk Lincoln Ambulance Board met at 6:00 p.m. on February 8, 1993, with the following members present: Elsie Heimer, Gordon Hartsell, Richard Miller, Roland Lichtenbarger and Cheryl Rizek. Gerk-treasurer Judy Hiler was also present. Election of 1993 officers was held. Elsie Heimer made the motion to keep the same officers, Cheryl Rizek, president; and Richard Miller, vice-president. Seconded by Roland Lichtenbarger. Carried. Elsie Heimer reported that they have received 10 new radios. She also said that there is an Ambulance Service Meeting for ambulance personnel scheduled for February 16.1993. There are approximately 30 EMTs and drivers working on the service at the current time. They are planning on having a new EMT school and 11 people have signed up for the training. Cheryl Rizek said that although there is not enough money budgeted in the "school” line item of the ambulance budget, some appropriations can be transferred from other areas to make up any shortfall. Roland Lichtenbarger made the motion to adjom. Seconded by Richard Miller. Carried. Walkerton To Match Funds For Sidewalk Work The Walkerton Town Council is accepting sidewalk applications, for work to be done this spring and summer. Five thousand dollars of Local Road & Street money has been set aside for the installation of new sidewalks, on a matching funds basis. The Town will pay half the cost, and the individual must pay the other half. The matching funds program is strictly for residential sidewalks. New sidewalks, where there are none, and applications with the earliest date will be given first priority. Applications can be filled out at the Clerk-Treasurer’s office from now through March 31, 1993. All applications will be reviewed by and acted on by the Town Council. The Town Council also reserves the right to make all final decisions in choosing those sidewalks to be done. 6tm25 NORTH LIBERTY LIONS SEEKING NOMINEES FOR CITIZEN OF THE YEAR The North Liberty Lions Gub is looking for nominees for the Citizen of the Year 1993 award. If you know of anyone that you think would be deserving of this award, please contact Craig Parmley, president, 656-3930. Underwood 2 2 2 4 6 Norris 3 0 0 3 8 Berger 2 2 4 2 6 Heckman 10 0 0 2 Kitchen 0 12 0 1 Beach 11203 Dickson 2 0 0 2 5 Martin 0 0 0 2 0 Dill 10 0 12 TOTALS 19 11 16 18 52 3-point goals: LaVille 3, Norris 2, Dickson 1; Glenn 4, Groves 3, Casteel 1 Score By Quarters LaVille 14 22 33 52 Glenn 13 29 57 81

WALKERTON. INDIANA 46574 THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 18. 1993

JG Homecoming King And Queen Crowned Friday Ejenobo Oke and Pat Sheckhart were crowned the 1993 Basketball Homecoming Queen and King for John Glenn High School at the LaVille and Glenn basketball game Friday night. Ejenobo Oke is the daughter of Connie and Festus Oke. of Walkerton, and Pat is the son of Anne and Larry Speckhart, of Walkerton. N. L. Community Center Names Officers For 1993 The officers serving the North Liberty Community Center for the year 1993 are: Richard Sumpter, president; Martha Lambert, vice president; Ruth Finch, secretary; and Betty McCormick, treasurer. To make reservations for using the building, call 656-4134 and Les Stewart will contact you. New chairs and tables have been purchased for the conference room. Material has been purchased to make sound barrier panels to be placed on the walls in the large hall. These will help deaden the sound. We will have a work day in March for assembling and hanging the panels. A big "thanks” goes to anonymous lender, who is lending the money interest free to put tiling on the floors of the large room, hall, kitchen and restrooms. The color of the tile has been selected and the company to do the work has been contacted. You can have a loved one's name added to our memorial honorary plaque, which hangs in the entryway of the Community Building by making a $25.00 or more donation and requesting their name be added on the plaque. FAN BUS TO ARGOS GAME THIS FRIDAY NIGHT The boys basketball game with Argos on Friday, February 19 will be played at Argos and not at home as indicated on the pocket schedule. The fan bus for the game will leave North Liberty at 5:15 and John Glenn at 5:30. Game time is 6:30. The cost to ride the fan bus for adults and students is SI.OO. Folks who get up at night to raid the refrigerator soon find themselves wide awake . . . but mostly just wide.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18 4:30 p.m. — North Liberty 6th I Grade-A & B girls basketball teams to visit Plymouth. 4:30 p.m. — Urey girls basketball teams to host Culver. 4:30 p.m. — Oregon-Davis Jr. High girls basketball teams to host ' Argos. 5:30 p.m. — Oregon-Davis sth & 6th grade girls basketball teams to visit Westville. | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19 2:00 p.m. — Walkerton WoI man's Community Gub to play ' bingo with residents at Miller’s | Merry Manor. 6:30 p.m. — John Glenn Falcons । basketball teams to visit Argos. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 9:00 a.m. — Urey Bth grade girls basketball team to play in Bremen Tourney. 9:00 a.m. — Urey 7th grade girls basketball team to play in Plymouth Tourney. 10:00 a.m. — Oregon-Davis Sth and 6th grade girls to host basketball tourney. 7:00 p.m. — Oregon-Davis Bobcats basketball teams to visit Morgan Township. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22 5:00 p.m. — Urey girls Bth grade basketball teams to host LaPorte Boston. 5:00 p.m. — Urey Girls 7th grade basketball teams to visit LaPorte Boston. 8:00 p.m. — Walkerton Odd Fellows Lodge to meet. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23 4:00 p.m. — Walkerton Elementary 6th grade A & B girls basketball teams host LaVille. 4:00 p.m. — Walkerton Elementary Sth grade girls basketball teams to visit LaVille. 4:45 p.m. — Urey Wrestlers to host New Prairie. 6:00 p.m. — Oregon-Davis Jr. High girls basketball teams to visit North Judson. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24 4:30 p.m. — North Liberty Elementary Sth and 6th grade girls basketball teams to host Olive Township. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25 4:00 p.m. — North Liberty Elementary sth grade girls basketball teams to host St. Pat’s. 4:30 p.m. — Urey wrestlers to visit LaVille. 4:30 p.m. — Urey girls 6th grade basketball teams to visit Plymouth. 4:30 p.m. — Urey girls basketball teams to visit Oregon-Davis. TOO p.m. — Walkerton Business and Professional Women’s Gub to meet at the Walkerton American Legion. Jo Hershberger Promoted To Marketing Officer Maggie Kernan, vice president and director of Marketing, has announced that Jo Hershberger has I been promoted to Marketing Officer. Hershberger was previously with Farmers State Bank as marketing director and vice president of retail banking. She joined Ist Source in 1992 when Farmers State Bank merged with Ist Source Bank. Hershberger is a graduate of । DePauw University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. She is also a graduate of the School of Bank Marketing, Boulder, Colorado.

WALKERTON TOWN BOARD MINUTES February 1, 1993 The Walkerton Town Council met at 7.00 p.m. on February 1, 1993 with the following members present: Gene Reese. Gordon Hartsell, Cheryl Rizek, Walter Heil and Leonard Jaske. Attorney David Holmes and clerk-treasurer Judy Hiler were also present. The minutes were approved as read. MONTHLY REPORTS: Chief Gassensmith said that he had contacted Motorola for information on a service contract for our base radio. He found that the service contract will cost $2,472.00 a year. If the cost were shared by the four departments, it would cost each of them $618.00 a year. Gassensmith told the Council that if anything major happened to the radio it could cost as mush as $2,500.00 to have it repaired. Len Jaske said that he would like to see the actual service agreement before we make a final decision. Cheryl Rizek asked Gassensmith to discuss this with the other departments to see how they feel about the contract. The Humane Society contacted Gassensmith to let him know that only one pit bull, in Walkerton, has been licensed. Attorney Holmes suggested that a notice be put in the paper letting people know that their pets are supposed to be registered by this time. If they are not registered, they are subject to being ticketed and fined. He added that a warning ticket can be issued at first, until people get a little more used to the law. Gassensmith told the Council that the Police Department currently contracts out with South Bend for range shooting. They have regular shoots and a range officer, which we don’t have. In addition we have been shooting with them for a long time. South Bend has gone to 45 automatics and Gassensmith would like to trade in our 357 magnum type of revolvers to match what South Bend is using. If we don’t have the same type of guns. South Bend will have to spend a lot of time waiting for us to reload. Gassensmith would like to purchase the eight new guns out of the "car" line item in his budget, since we were able to pay the car off in 1992. He had three quotes for the purchase of the eight new 455. The quotes included an allowance for trading in the old weapons: Kiesler $2,925.00; Grainger $3,442.00 and O'Herron $3,646.40. These prices include holsters and clips. Holmes suggested that we check to see what the state bid is for guns. Len Jaske made the motion to purchase the guns from the lowest bidder. Seconded by Walt Heil Carried. Gassensmith is going to check on the state bid before accepting one of the quotes he has. No member of the Fire Department attended this meeting, and no report was submitted. President Rizek said a special thank you to Jeff and Janice Stoneburner for helping a couple of the EMTs to get recertified. Elsie Heimer read a report that stated the number of ambulance runs that were made in January, an in-service meeting was held on (continuted on Page 12)

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