The Independent-News, Volume 121, Number 8, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 July 1995 — Page 1

The Independent-News

/OLUME 121; NUMBER 8

: irefly Festival Triple Header luly 7th, Bth, 9th The Firefly Festival for the Perorming arts offers a veritable cornicopia of arts at St. Patrick’s 'ounty Park this weekend. On 7 riday, July 7, Festival-goers will pend an Evening with Tom Jones, lie two-hour concert with Jones, lis band, and his backup singers, nil be one of the biggest shows ver presented on the Firefly Festival stage at St. Patrick’s County ’ark. Saturday, July 8, offers a change if pace and a trip to the British sles. The Irish and English songs md impish wit of the spirited trio daidin will introduce the National ihakespeare Company’s rollicking lomedy, A Midsummer Night’s )ream. Finally, on Sunday, July 9, Firely’s Kidfest offers over an hour of irts adventures (crafts, puppet hows, story-telling and juggling essons), followed by a performince by the zany jugglers The Jizmo Guys. Years ago, Jones launched his .pectacular success with such hits is “Delilah”, “It’s Not Unusual”, md “What’s New Pussycat?”. These days, his concerts mix his ‘to-die-for” mellow melodies with he up-tempo sytle that won over he MTV Generation and produced lis new album, The Lead And How To Swing It. Jones sings with mergy and passion, and clearly mjoys a style of dress and delivery vhich sets hearts throbbing in tudiences everywhere. Whatever lis recipe for success, it works. Firefly’s Evening with Tom lones begins at 8:00 p.m. EST. Tickets for adults are S2O in advance and $25 at the gate. Young,ters age 6-16 pay $5; under six ?ome free. WSBT-TV and Sunny 101.5 are the evening’s sponsor for his special 15th anniversary event. You don’t have to be a Shakesxare scholar to enjoy the shenanigans at Firefly on Saturday night, July 8. In fact, you don’t even nave to have read the play. When Sew York’s National Shakespeare Company takes the stage, the energetic troupe performs with an unrestricted, highly physical, actionariented style that makes the story spring to life. The story — A Midsummer Night’s Dream — is one of Shakespeare’s most popular, involving star-crossed lovers and jomic buffoons, misunderstandngs and the magical mischief of iprites and fairies. Folk trip Maidin performs and 7:00 p.m. and the play begins at 8:00. Tickets for adults are $9 in advance and sll at the gate. Youngsters 6-16 pay $3; under six come free. Actors from the National Shakespeare Company will conduct an acting workshop, "From Page to Stage”, at the park at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 8. Actors, aspiring •ctors, and the just-plain-curious will have an opportunity to explore the way in which the text becomes action on-stage. There is a $5.00 fee for the workshop, call Firefly at (219) 288-3472 to register. Sunday’s Kidfest is a two-part treat for the whole family. From 5:00 p.m. to 6:15, there is a wide array of arts to choose from at different sites around the amphitheater. Hands-on crafts will include sand sculpture and musical instruments, as well as an opportunity to create self-portraits which

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J.G.S.C. Lists Dates Os Upcoming Board Meetings The John Gelnn Board of School Trustees will hold meetings on the following dates. Meetings are regular session unless noted otherwise. July 11, 7:30 p.m., John Glenn High School. July 13, 7:30 p.m., Budget Work Session, John Glenn High School. July 18, 7:30 p.m., Budget Work Session, John Glenn High School. July 25, 7:30 p.m., John Glenn High School. August 8, 7:30 p.m., John Glenn High School. August 15, 7:30 p.m., Special Meeting for Public Hearing on Budget, John Glenn High School. August 29, 7:30 p.m., John Glenn High School. Earthquakes, Vocanoes and Dinosaurs If your children love earthquakes, volcanoes and especially dinosaurs, you’ll want to visit the Walkerton Library on Friday, July 7th at 2:00 p.m. The Library will be showing The Land Before Time, a magical journey into the past. Littlefoot, Cera, Spike, Petrie and Ducky are searching for their families, after they are separated from them during an earthquake. Along the way they must face many adventures, including a Sharptooth who would like them for dinner! The movie is 70 minutes and is free. Everyone is welcome, but children under age six should bring an adult I There are people who are so much their own enemies that they prefer a misfortune they have foreseen (because) they have forseen it, to good luck they did not expect. —Prince de Ligne can be displayed on the stage, to create a second “audience”. Mul-ti-talented storyteller/musician Andrew Knapp will be weaving old tales and new, ancient legends, and stories that listeners help to tell. Dan and Zan Raynor are the hands and voices behind the Stevens Puppets, featuring the irrepressible Punch and Judy and even a crocodile! The Gizmo Guys will warm up their mainstage show by teaching everyone (and they say “everyone”) how to juggle. At 6:30, the curtain will open on the Gizmo Guys themselves. Since 1978, comic jugglers Allan Jacobs and Barret Felker have been entertaining around the world. Kidfest promises to be a unique opportunity for the child in all of us to celebrate the arts at Firefly. Tickets for anyone over age two are $3. Kidfest ’95 enjoys the assistance of Corporate Co-Sponsor Target Stores and Media Co-Spon-sor WNIT Television. Advance individual tickets for all three concerts may be purchased by phone from the Firefly office (219) 288-3472 or at 9 box-office locations in South Bend, Notre Dame, Mishawaka, Lakeville, Elkhart, LaPorte, New Buffalo and Niles. Around-the-clock information about Firefly is available on 1 City Line at 674-0900 or 1-800 830-2489. Firefly’s category num--1 ber is 5678.

J.G. Music Dept. To Take It On The Road On Wednesday night at 8:00 p.m., the John Glenn High School parking lot will be jammed with cars, luggage, parents, instruments, uniforms and smiling faces. The Music Department will hit the road for three days with a fun filled performance trip to Toronto, Canada. The Falcon Pride Marching Band looks forward to their biannual trip, however, for the first time the Rhythm Express Show Choir will join them. The trip to Canada will begin with an entorage of three charter buses, a van and trailer, 120 students and 17 chaperones and directors. They will depart at 10:00 p.m. and ride all night. The first stop will be Niagra Falls where they will have their morning shower on the Maid of the Mist tour boat and then a short jaunt to Toronto. The evening holds in store an exciting night of theater where the Falcon Pride and Rhythm Express will take in a production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera. Also on the agenda will be a performance by the Falcon Pride at Paramount’s Canada’s Wonderland Amusement Park and a performance by the Rhythm Express at the Casa Loma Castle. Students raised the money for the trip themselves by selling raffle tickets for the Band Booster Raffle and participating in a student sponsored car wash this spring. Donations were also received fromi the Falcon 500 Club, the North Liberty Chamber of Commerce, the UAW of Nrth Liberty, Radiator Engineering and Fuller Brush Products. The Music Department wishes to thank these supporters for their generous donations. The trip will conclude during the tickets for the Band Booster Raffle and participating in a student sponsored car wash this spring. Donations were also received from the Falcon 500 Club, the North Liberty Chamber of Commerce, the UAW of North Liberty, Radiator Engineering and Fuller Brush Products. The Music Department wishes to thank these supporters for their generous donations. The trip will conclude during the very early morning hours of Sunday, July 9 where there will be a lot of tired but happy faces. PAPIER MACHE AT THE LIBRARY Learn the fun art of papier mache at the Walkerton Library on July 12th and July 19th from 11:00 to 12:00. Everyone will get a chance to make their own papier mache bowl. Children can register for the craft beginning July Sth through the 11th. This is a two week program, so please be able to attend both sessions. Anyone entering grades one through six is welcome to come. Registration is limited to ten children, so sign up early! For more information call the Library at 586-2933. CHALK ART AT NORTH LIBERTY LIBRARY Come to the North Liberty Library on Thursday, July 6 at 11:00 a.m. and decorate the sidewalks with your own artistic skills! Be । sure to wear old clothes. All ages welcome. For more information, call the Library at 656-3664.

J.G.E.A. Facing Impasse With J.G. School Board The John Glenn Education Association (JGEA), the bargaining agent for all of the certified staff in the John Glenn School Corporation announced on June 26 that it is facing impasse with the Board's bargaining team. Impasse is an inability of either party to make proposals in order to continue the bargaining progress. “Since the John Glenn School Corporation has a considerable cash balance, JGEA thought this was a good year for making an early settlement,’’ according to JGEA president Jan Hayes. “With a large cash balance and at least 5% new money from the state formula for educational funding, according to figures from superintendent Dave McKee, the corporation does not have money problems,” says Hayes, “and with this in mind, the JGEA team was willing to bargain money issues with less emphasis on language.” The major problem, according to the local president, is that the Board’s team made additional proposals to delete language from the current contract pertaining to teacher terminations, teacher rights, teacher evaluation, and due process which have been longstanding contract provisions. Said Hayes, "The Board indicated that we had to give up part of the current agreement in order to get any agreement with the Board. No new offers were made, and bargaining came to a halt after only one hour at the table on June 17.” Meetings will resume in August, and the JGEA has contacted IEERB (Indiana Education Employment Relations Board) to ask that a mediator be available when negotiations resume. New International Mail Rates To Start July 9th The new rates for International Mail become effective at 12:01 a.m., Sunday, July 9, 1995. Description Old New */> Oz. Canada 0.40 0.46 */j Oz. Mexico 0.35 0.40 1 Oz. Mexico 0.45 0.46 Vi Oz. All Other 0.50 0.60 lOz. All Other 0.95 1.00 1 Oz. Additional 0.39 0.40 Postal Cards Canada 0.30 0.40 Mexico 0.30 0.35 All Other 0.40 0.50 Aerogram 0.45 0.50 Free TV Listing Now Available At Local Store A free TV listing publication called T.V. Index is now being made available through Ray & Kenny’s Super Valu. This compact publication includes listings for major network and cable channels and has a TV crossword puzzle. It contains a full month's listings and new issues are available by the first of each month. So stop in at Ray & Kenny’s Super Valu and get your free copy of T.V. Index today. The bird of wisdom flies low, and seeks her food under hedges. —Walter Savage Landor

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NORTH LIBERTY TOWN COUNCIL MINUTES The monthly Town Council meeting was held at the town hall on July 7, 1995 and called to order at 7:06 p.m. by Richard Warner, president. Other Council members present were Ronald Kinas, Gerry Brown and Eric Morris. David Sheaks arrived at 8:29 p.m. The press was represented by Betty Benson from South Bend Tribune. Others present per attendance register, attached. Minutes from March 8 and May 3, 1995 were presented for approval. Motion to approve the March Bth minutes by Eric Morris, seconded by Gerry Brown with unanimous aye vote. Ronald Kinas made motion to approve the May 3rd minutes with second by Eric Morris with a unanimous aye vote. Sara Williams gave report on the Park Board as follows: 1. Requesting the closing of Mill and Jefferson Streets for 4th of July. Will have kiddie rides and craft booths. Sara would notify all residents on Mill and Jefferson. After discussion, Gerry Brown made the motion to close Mill and Jefferson Streets on the 4th of J uly second by Eric Morris with a vote of 4 aye, 0 nay vote. Richard Warner stated on July 4th at 11:00 a.m. a tree will be dedicated in memory of Thomas Daugherty at the Town Park. Then immediately following the dedication. Mill and Jefferson Streets will be closed. John Gouker reported trying to keep wastewater plant in compliance and that equipment is wearing out, it is 21 years old. Presented list of equipment needed at plant from Hach Co. dissolved oxygen meter $895.00; Probe Assembly BOD $495.00; P.H. Meter $495.00; electrode holder $49.00 and from Curtin-Matheson distiller SI2OO. After discussion, motion to issue purchase orders for the equipment, I total of $3,233.00, made by Eric Morris second by Ronald Kinas with a 4 aye, 0 nay vote. Eric Morris discussed vacation time for personnel. Council was made aware in November of 1994 that there was still vacation needed । to be taken in 1994, but was no । action taken at the time. Quest- । ioned if everybody had copies of the ordinance regarding vacations, i Gerk advised all were given copies , when ordinance became effective. Attorney Peddycord advised Gerk ( check with State Board of Accounts as to what you can and cannot do. Council President Warner stated at this time lets take our vacations as of this year and see if we can do something for Jerry. Eric Morris wants Jerry’s input if willing to have last years vacation paid at last years wages. John Gouker to let Paul know and try to resolve this at next months meeting. Discussion on rotating shifts for overtime with plant closings. Now only two employees, will have to discuss further after getting another employee. Richard Warner questioned who mowed weeds at wastewater plant and advised have several people in mind. Ronald Kinas stated if it can be mowed for $30.00, lets get it done. Terry Baugher presented pro(continued on Page 12)