Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 113, Number 15, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 24 April 1996 — Page 2

Nappanee Advance News Wednesday, April 24,1996

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Shop and Save on the Latest Fashions at the House Across the Street Unique Ladies Apparel Shop in Nappanee Top Brand hi antes. WhiU ***« 7714 f7ot « e * House Gift h ‘ Gerties SS Oosed Sunday gifts, cards Phone (219) 773-3722 and ideas! US. Highway 6. Downtown Nappanee. Two stores in one!

Farmland Discussions Get RESULTS

When Farm Bureau leaders approached the County Commissioners about the dwindling farm land issue, Commissioner Paul Carlson asked the planning staff to start studying the subject. Land use issues are very complex. There is no easy solution that will address the concerns of Elkhart County’s diverse population while preserving our traditional concept of property rights.

Paul Carlson

The ultimate solution is a strong productive and profitable agricultural economy. BECAUSE CHARACTER COUNTS RE-ELECT COMMISSIONER CARLSON Paid for by the Carlson for Commissioner Committee Cynthia A. Dunlop, Treasurer <i

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Mayor proclaims April 26 Arbor Day observance

Mayor Larry Thompson has declared April 26 as Arbor Day in Nappanee. His proclamation follows: WHEREAS: In 1872 J. Sterling Morton proposed to the Nebraska Board of Agriculture that a special day be set aside for the planting of trees, and WHEREAS: This holiday, called Arbor Day, was first observed with the planting of more than a million trees in Nebraska, ■^nd WHEREAS: Arbor Day is now observed throughout the nation and the world, and WHEREAS: Trees can reduce the erosion of our precious topsoil by wind and water, cut heating and cooling costs, moderate the temperature, clean the air, produce oxygen and provide habitat for wildlife, and WHEREAS: trees are a renewable resource giving us paper, wood for our homes, fuel for our fires and countless other wood products, and WHEREAS: trees in our City increase property values, enhance the economic vitality of business areas, and beautify our community, and WHEREAS: Nappanee has been recognized as a Tree City U.S.A. by the National Arbor Day Foundation and desires to continue its tree-planting ways, NOW, THEREFORE, I, Larry L. Thompson, Mayor of the City of Nappanee, do hereby proclaim April 26, 1996, as Arbor Day in

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the City of Nappanee, and I urge all citizens to support efforts to cdfe for our trees and woodlands and to support our City’s community forestry program, and FURTHER, I urge all citizens to plant trees to gladden the hearts and promote the well-being of present and future generations. DATED this nineteenth day of April, 1996. Larry L. Mayor B&B group invites public to open house The Four Seasons Bed & Breakfast Group will sponsor an open house, Sunday, April 28, 1- ' 5p.m., providing an opportunity for the public to tour area homes belonging to this B&B group. There are over 40 bed and breakfasts in the Elkhart and LaGrange County area which belong to this group, and all adhere to a state inspection. Included in the open house festivities, in Nappanee, are Market Street Guest House, 253 E. Market St., hosted by Sharon Bontrager; Victorian Guest House, 302 E. Market St., hosted by Bruce and Vickie Hunsberger, and the Olde Buffalo Inn, 1061 Parkwood Drive, hosted by Larry and Ann Lakins. You are invited to tour these homes, and to secure information and have questions answered by the hosts.

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KICK OFF READ FOR THE GOLD—Mayor Larry Thompson, pictured at top next to a large Olympic-style torch, helped kick off “Olympic Week: Read for the Gold' at Nappanee Elementary School Monday, April 15, explaining to the assembled students about how reading affects his job. He also spoke about reading for .recreation. Members of each class made flags for individual countries (at bottom), and at the end, several students passed a “lit" torch in the darkened gymnasium to light the larger torch. Students will read for a certain number of minutes each evening, and drawings will be held. (AN photo by Christina Hill)

Local academic teams advance to state finals

The Ameritech Hoosier AcadehTifc Super' Bo\M fifclcf "has been narrowed to 147 teams, and several local high schools are among the state finalists, including a science team from North Wood High School. The state Finalist schools advanced from regional competitions at 18 sites throughout the state recently, and will vie for state championships in the state finals Saturday, April 27 in Indianapolis. Sponsored by Ameritech in cooperation with the Indiana Association of School Principals, the Hoosier Academic Super Bowl is the state’s top academic competition for high school students. At the state finals, three to five student teams will race the clock to answer brain-teasing questions in math, English, science, social studies, fine arts and “interdisciplinary” knowledge. State champions will be crowned in each of six subject areas and four school enrollment categories—24 champions in all. Champions will receive Olympictype medals in special awards ceremonies. “This year marks the tenth .anniversary of the Hoosier Academic Super Bowl, and Ameritech couldn’t be more pleased to have been associated with this top-notch competition for nine of those ten years,” said Kent Lebherz, president of Amerilech Indiana. He went on to say, “We’re proud to sponsor this statewide celebra-

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tion of academic excellence, and help hopor. high . school students who excel scholastically. 1 ’ The state finals will take place at Warren Central High School’s Performing Arts Center, 9301 E. 18th Street. The competition is open to the public, and admission is free. Opening ceremonies will begin at 10:35a.m., with competition beginning at 11a.m. Dial-A-Story A Dutch lad saves his community by plugging a hole in the dike with his finger in “The Little Hero,” this week’s featured Dial-A-Story on the Nappanee Public Library Information Line, 219-773-7920. The free storytelling-service is available on a 24-hour basis, and is just one of the options on the line. The story changes each Monday, WATCH TRASH Due to new landfill regulations, bagged leaves and bulk brush can no longer be picked up with the weekly trash collection. The City of Nappanee Street Department will collect these items. To request this collection, call the street department, 773-4322, or the city clerk-treasurer’s office, 773-2112. The weekly trash collection will continue to pick up bagged grass clippings (not to. exceed 60 pounds), and bagged tree twigs (not to exceed four feet in length).