The Independent-News, Volume 121, Number 17, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 September 1995 — Page 2

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- INDEPENDENT NEWS - SEPTEMBER 7. 1995

EDITORIAL

THANK YOU I personally want to thank each and everyone of our advertisers, big or small, for your cooperation with me and my staff, Cheryl Hunsley, Myrna Daube and every now and then Virginia Markle, for having the faith in The Independent to get your message out to the area. You know as well as I do that it takes a joint effort on all of our parts to make a success of our businesses. Thanks again! Susan (Sue) Urbin LESSONS TO BE LEARNED (LESSON NO. 1) GLITCH A misfunction in machinery! Oh boy, did we ever have a glitch loose in the paper office last week. First it struck our chemicals — then a motor — then the staff. Total shut down! Well we never gave up! After a few phone calls we had the right chemicals coming our way. Chemicals arrived — motor goes out to move the chemicals through the processor to develop our style of typesetting. Into the dark room we go, rubber gloves on and ready to operate. Nothing, absolutely nothing! Thanks to a friend who has only been in the area for a few years, Frank Alan, publisher of “The Leader” at Knox, with so little time and so much to be done, we hit the road. Articles, menus, rulers, tools, etc., in tow. He was most gracious to let Cheryl and I use his computers to set our type for the paper. At this point we knew we would not meet our mailing deadline. But onward we went to complete another issue so we could at least get a paper out for our readers and generous advertisers. With many typo errors — you all received a paper. Time ran out when we were in the process of proof reading and some of the staff in Knox were not at all familiar with our layout and mistakes happened. The staff at “The Leader” must also be thanked as we could not put out a paper without their help. Thanks girls! Pump arrived on Friday. Now we need someone to install the pump, with phone book in hand we finally have one lined up, on the holiday weekend no less. Saturday afternoon the pump was installed — Bingo! VJe are back in business. (LESSON NO. 2) GOSSIP 1. Easy, fluent, trivial talk - an instance of this, she dropped in for a gossip-talk about people behind their backs. A person who indulges in gossip. 2. v.i. to talk idly, chatter, esp. about people! We understand that alot of talk has resulted in the delay of the past issue. Let me say this just once ... I will tell you all through the pages of the paper if and when I sell the Independent. Granted we are having a rough time of it at the present but in time all should work out. I have confidence . . . won’t you have a little confidence too, as well as patience, understanding and most of all cooperation and willingness to get us all, readers and advertisers, in a joint effort for the betterment of the communities. (LESSON NO. 3) APPEARANCE The appearance of the past issue drew again alot of comments — “Look what she has done with the paper” “Man alive this is different” “Oh-oh, this is to much for me, I’m not sure I like this” Well there will be changes in the appearance of YOUR local paper. I have some plans, to be worked out at this time, to do some changes not only in appearance but also in different aspects of the paper. They may appeal to you and then they many not, but one thing is for certain . . .one way or another I promise to get a paper out each week. Susan (Sue) Urbin Editor-Publisher Printer’s Devil

REAL SERVICES NEWS On Monday at the REAL Services site in Walkerton Harold Schweder started the day with a happy welcome to everyone as they arrived along with taking care of the book work. His wife, Hazel, told us some jokes to make us all laugh. Tues, and Thurs. were days of visiting and catching up with one another. Also as to what things were going on around town. On Wed. we were entertained by Violet Wolff, Maxine Worthington

and the other members of their group with singing and playing different musical instruments. We had a great day! On Fri., we had our regular sing-a-long with Verice Walz at the piano and Millie Daniels leading the singing. Upcoming dates to remember include the bake sale and white elephant on Sept. 11, at 10:30 a.m. at the Walkerton site. On Sept. 14 Maxine Worthington and friends will be here to entertain; Sept. 21 a clown will be here as well as Sam

Madonna and Florence Seeking and then on Sept. 27 at 12:30 p.m. Mary Kay Budak, State Representative, will be with us. SENIOR CARD CLUB NEWS The Walkerton Senior Card Club winners for August 29 and 31 are as follows for euchre: first, Milner Capes 73; second, Morris Searfoss 62; third, Kate Capes 60 and fourth, Ruth Ullery 59. Pinochle winners were first, Morris Searfoss 662; second, Kate Capes 657, third, Cheryl Rizek 644 and fourth, Orville Klinedinst 635. ENGAGED OF ■*- I * flHt * * , f Wk ' TK; * WB Together with their parents, Dawn Marie Hoffman and Brett Michael Mollenhauer announce their engagement. Dawn, the daughter of Al and Dianne DeMaegd, is a graduate of South Bend Riley High School. She attended Ball State University and is currently employed by Liberty Mutual Insurance. Brett, the son of Michael Mollenhauer and Ellen Mollenhauer, is a graduate of John Glenn High School. He is employed by Culligan Water Conditioning and is a volunteer for Centre Township Fire Department, in South Bend. The couple will be married on September 23, at Albright United Methodist Church, in Mishawaka. Couple United In Marriage I 41 I ' - I hHMR Making their home in South Bend are Tony Baughman and his bride, the former Mary Sue Fisher, who were united in marriage on May 27, during a 3 p.m. ceremony at the Calvary Temple. The bride is the daughter of Nancy A. Fisher, of Carmel and the late Leighton E. Fisher. The groom is the son of Vickie Burger, of Tyner and James L. Baughman, of Walkerton. He is also the stepson of Ben Burger. The bride is a graduate of John Adams High School and Ivy Tech State College North Central. She is employed by St. Joseph Medical Center. The groom is a graduate of John Glenn High School and he attended Acme Institute of Technology. He is employed by National Composite, Inc. Concrete was invented by the ancient Romans, who found it made a strong building material for walls and vaults.

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Karen Christensen and Fernando Araujo, children of Carl and Mary Ann Christensen and Pedro and Rosa Araujo, are happy to announce their marriage. The ceremony was held on June 24, 1995 at St. Patrick Church, in Walkerton. The bride’s gown was handmade by the bride and her mother of white Italian satin. The princess style gown featured a beaded bodice design and decorative flowers attached to the shoulder. The attendants wore long, off-the-shoulder silver shantung gowns that were accented with hand-held bouquets of white dendrobiums, white and purple iris and purple

LEOTHA STANLEY, ARTIST JOINS STAFF Walkerton Elementary School and North Liberty Elementary School would like to welcome Mr. Leotha Stanley to their schools. Leotha Stanley will be working as an artist in residence for three weeks starting September 11. He will be splitting his time between the two schools. Leotha Stanley comes to us from Madison, Wisconsin, where he currently works as a firefighterparamedic for the Madison Fire Department. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in physical education. He is a former substitute teacher in the Madison Public Schools which led to his residencies. Leotha has conducted choirs since the age of 13 and founded the University of Wisconsin Gospel Choir in 1975. He is currently the director of the Inspirational Choir at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church. His gospel music ability allowed him to easily grasp jazz chord progressions which provided him the opportunity to become the keyboard player with the American Jazz Express Band. During the three week residency Leotha, a talented musician/composer/performer takes a trip through time focusing on the history of African-American music. He highlights blues, jazz, gospel, rap and spirituals along with artists that make each style popular. Also during the residency Leotha will work with the music classes teaching original songs as well as

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and silver ribbon. The bridal bouquet featured white orchids with white bouvardi and white and purple iris. The maid of honor was Patricia Christensen and the best man was Edwin Araujo. Bridesmaids and groomsmen were Amelia Christensen, Tina Anderson, Julius Araujo and Todd Marconi. The ring bearer and junior bridesmaid were Keith and Heather Groshans. Ushers were Carl Christensen and Luis Araujo. The couple currently reside in the Chicago area. Fernando is an architect with Lohan Associates and Karen is an advertising executive with Williams-Labadie, Inc.

how to rock, clap and sing at the same time. Each song carries a message of friendship, anti-drug, stay in school, or other positive values. A core group of students and soloists will be selected from each school to work closely with Mr. Stanley to sing special songs for parents, friends, and relatives during a final performance. During the 3rd week Mr. Stanley and the music teachers will take the soloists to a recording studio to produce a professional cassette recording of the songs taught them as well as an original song specifically written for the host schools. We are very excited about Leotha Stanley coming to Walkerton and North Liberty. A final concert will be on Thursday evening, September 28, at John Glenn High School. More information will be announced later. The first artificial nuclear fission was produced in 1938 by German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Str assman. GET VOOR HAPPV AB’S IN RIGHT AWAV!