The Independent-News, Volume 120, Number 17, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 8 September 1994 — Page 4

_ THE INDEPENDENT NEWS - SEPTEMBER 8, 1994

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HAPPY ADS (Happy Ads start at $2.00 with heavier copy or double size ads $4.00. A happy ad advertising any event or business, starts at $4.00; and Happy Ads with pictures start at $7.00. We do not take Happy Ads over the telephone, they must be brought in or mailed in and paid for. We reserve the right to accept, reject or edit any Happy Ad submitted. It is our desire to keep the Happy Ads to the intended use . . . sending a message of happiness to an individual or group.) CHARLES MCKESSON CD OF M. J. COLBURN WAS THE BEST PLAYED IT OVER & OVER THANKS FOR THINKING OF ME DON Happy 50th JOHN SEPTEMBER 6 Love, SUZIE, JOHN & JONNA Happiness Is KNOWING ST. JUDE GOOD JOB TO ALL THE WALKERTON BOYS WHOM PLAYED IN THE 3 ON 3 IN THE BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL IN PLYMOUTH Congratulations JASON PAUL CLEVELAND ON RECEIVING YOUR BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY AND THE ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARD FROM ITT, FT. WAYNE ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1994 WE ARE VERY PROUD OF YOU! Much Love From YOUR FAMILY

Happy 25th Birthday CHRISTY HEIM SEPTEMBER 13 Love, DAD, MOM, SARA, SHELLY & COLE GIRL Happy Anniversary GRANDMA AND GRANDPA KANE Love You CHAD, LEWIS, TIM, BOBBY & BRANDON Happy Anniversary MOM & DAD Love, HARRY & DIANE Come And Visit STUNTZ & HOCHSTETLER PINES CHRISTMAS SHOP 20451 N. COUNTY LINE/ TYLER ROAD WALKERTON 586 2663 MUSEUM UNIQUE CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS AND GIFTS COLLECTOR’S ITEMS HOURS: Mon.-Sat. 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Closed Sundays

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HOSPICE BEREAVEMENT GROUP ANNOUNCED Hospice of St. Joseph County, Inc. has scheduled two “Living With Loss’’ support groups for the fall. The Afternoon Group will meet on six consecutive Monday afternoons from 1:30 to 4:00 p.m., beginning September 12. The Evening Group will meet on six consecutive Tuesday evenings from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. beginning September 13. Both evening and afternoon groups will meet at the Leighton Center, 534 N. Michigan Street, South Bend. The focus of the sessions will be to recognize and understand the grief process while stimulating personal growth. Anyone in the community who has experienced the loss of a loved one through death is welcome to attend. A $20.00 donation to Hospice is suggested to cover all sessions. Advance registration is required. Please call Carolyn Pritchard, MS, at (219) 237-0340 before September 6, 1994 prior to attending. Hospice of St. Jsoeph County, Inc. is a home health agency providing physical, psycho-social, and spiritual support for terminally ill

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IS SOMETHING MISSING? As we celebrate Labor Day 1994, there seems to be something missing. Yes, school has started again. The high school athletic seasons are well underway, in fact football teams have already completed one-fourth of their regular schedule. The weather has given us early warning that summer is last passing by and oh yes, football has started again on the college and professional level. The fall patterns are unfolding. The clubs and organizations are going back to work. The vacation time for families is over for the summer and we are settling into the normal habits accompanied by the start of school and other fall activities. What then is missing. Oh! It’s baseball! Ironically as we celebrate Labor Day, a labor dispute is one of the major headlines of recent weeks, the baseball strike. But don’t look now, by this time there are a lot of people who all of a sudden don’t miss it as much as many thought they would. In fact, the longer the strike goes, the less interest as the strike is almost four weeks old and the world has gone on without major league baseball and it still will regardless of whether we have anymore baseball this fall including the playoffs and world series. One thing for sure, sympathy is not a big part of most of the public’s opinion on this issue. We are not saying the players are wrong in this case and we are not saying the owners are. But it is hard to understand from a financial standpoint, just how this can be justified. A player making more money for one game than a lot of fans make in a year is not just fiction. With Bobby Bonilla of the New York Mets the top paid at this point, he loses some $31,000 every game they do not play. And there are a bunch of others not too terribly far behind. The average pay for a major league baseball player is $1.2 million. Divide that by 162 games and you get a pretty handsome figure around $7,400 per game. Even the minimum salaried players, and there are supposedly only 51 at this rate, receive an annual salary of $109,000 which breaks down to about $672 per game. And on top of these salaries, there are other benefits also such as approximately $60.00 a day meal money when on the road, insurance and who knows just what all. These aren’t exactly poverty levels. It is true there is some hardship and sacrifice to playing major league competition in baseball and other sports as well. The travel, the time away from home and if a family man, the separation from family for so much of the year. The glamour of it all probably diminishes quite quickly for many. But still, this is their chosen profession at this time and all jobs have sacrifices and situations involved that must be contended with by the employee and employer alike. And don’t think the owners are destitute either. There are some teams that are having some financial problems. This is one thing the owners want to even out, the difference in the money involved in operation of the respective teams. At this time payrolls for teams range from around sl4 million for the lowest team around $43 million for the highest. In the battle for talent and top flight players in the market today, the lower income teams don’t stand a chance. And it is starting to show up more and more in the results. The high market area teams with lucrative TV and radio contracts, definitely have an advantage over the low market teams and that could be crucial in years to come if salaries and costs keep esculating. Right now there are a lot of people who don’t really care if baseball comes back this year or not. And regardless of what they might say, baseball will be scarred by this situation. Just what will happen remains to be seen. Will the owners or the players give in first and how much will each side give. At present there doesn’t seem to be much give on either side. We have always loved baseball and really enjoy the game. However, since August 12 things have continued without baseball and it is getting easier to do without all the time. Maybe, just maybe, the game is helping to destroy itself. It is no longer the game boys and men love to play ... it is just big business. The game boys and men love to play is still played on the sandlots, on high school fields, in the colleges and minors and yes, just about anyplace a few kids can gather and put objects down for bases and “play ball’’. That is really playing ball!

persons and their families, regardless of diagnosis or ability to pay for Hospice services. IVY TECH HOLDS PINNING CEREMONY FOR PRACTICAL NURSES Ivy Tech State College Practical Nursing program held a Pinning Ceremony for 35 students Friday, August 19, at the First Methodist Church, 333 N. Main St., South Bend, at 7:00 p.m. According to Program Chair Donna Keusch. the ceremony marks the culmination of the students’ formal nursing education program and their entrance into independent nursing practice. Among the nursing students

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