Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 120, Number 31, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 13 August 1997 — Page 1

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PHOTO CONTEST Those who plan to enter the Advance-News “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” photo contest are reminded that the deadline for entries is August 27. Another entry jblank, and complete information regarding the contest, appears in this week’s issue. The grand prize winner will receive paid trip accommodations, and winning entries will be published in the September 3 issue. BLOOD PRESSURES ” The Elkhart County Health Department will offer free blood pressure screening at the Nappanee Public Library, TUesday, August 19, from 12-1:30p.m. For more information, call the library, 219-773-7919. MANDATORY MEETING The mandatory athletic code meeting for all North Wood High School students who plan to participate in any boys’ or girls’ sport, will be held Monday, August 18, 7p.m., in the high school auditorium. All athletes and their parents must attend this meeting. Also mandatory is a physical examination form dated after May 1,1997, completed by a medical doctor, on file in the athletic office, before practicing with any NWHS team. All area doctors have copies of the form. Athletes who do not have this form completed will not be allowed to practice with teams. COMMON COUNCIL The City of Nappanee Common Council will meet in regular session Monday, August 18,7p.m., in the council chambers at the Nappanee Municipal Center, W. Lincoln St. Meetings are open to the public. PARK BOARD The Nappanee Board of Parks and Recreation will meet in regular session, Wednesday, August 13, 4:30p.m., in the Emergency Services Building, W. Lincoln St. Meetings are open to the public. SCHOOL BOARD The Wa-Nee Board of School Trustees will meet Monday, August 25,7:30p.m., in the administration building, 1300 N. Main Street, Nappanee. Meetings are open to the public. BOARD OF WORKS The City of Nappanee Board of Public Works and Safety will meet Monday, August 25, 3:30p.m., in the council chambers at the Nappanee Municipal Center, W. Lincoln St. Meetings are open to the public. RETAIL COMMITTEE The Retail Committee of the Nappanee Area Chamber of Commerce will meet Thursday, August 14 (note date change) at Borkholder Dutch Village. Breakfast will begin at 7a.m. (note time change), with the meeting following at 7:30a.m. All interested persons are invited to attend. TORNADO SHELTERS " The following sites have been designated as tornado shelters in the Nappanee area: First Mennonite Church—9oo W. Market St. - Church of the Brethren —Mack Drive. • St. John’s Lutheran Church — 651 S. Main St. Society Bank—l6l E. Market St. f. NBD Bank—3sl W. Market St. ‘. Nappanee Municipal Center — 300 W. Lincoln St. OFFICE HOURS . The office of the Nappanee Advance-News and Farm & Home News, 158 W. Market St, is open Monday through Friday, 9a.m.4:30p.m. The mailing address is P.O. Box 230, Nappanee, IN. .46550. The display advertising deadline is Friday noon (Wednesday 2p.m. far Farm & Home), with news and photos accepted for the Advance-News until Monday noon, for that week’s edition. All classified ads are due by noon on Thursday. The telephone number is 219-773-3127. FAX 773-3512.

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BEST OF SHOW—Don Payne, left, of Colorado Springs, and Jacqueline Gnott, South Bend, were named winners of the two and three dimensional SI,OOO Best of Show Purchase Prize awards at last week's Amish Acres Arts & Crafts Festival. Gnott, a five-time Best of Show winner, earned her prize for a painting entitled ‘White Magnolia,' and Payne earned his top prize with his hand-

City to help fund Nappanee Boys and Girls Club in 7 998

By Christina Hill Staff Reporter Kevin Deary, executive director of the Goshen Girls and Boys Club, and John Leavitt of Nappanee, who is a member of the board for the Elkhart County chapter of United Way, spoke to council members during the Nappanee Common Council meeting held Monday evening, August 4. Deary and Leavitt both attended a council meeting earlier this year, during which they outlined the possibilities for a local club for Nappanee area children and teenagers. Although Deary is helping to get the club started, he will not be in charge of running it; they hope to see the club open by the beginning of school in 1998. , At the last meeting, Leavitt presented a list of estimated operating expenses for the first year for a new Boys and Girls Club, based on Deary’s experience in Goshen, but Deary stated that the budget will be more accurate when a decision is made on the location of the club. In the proposed budget for 1998, the council set aside $70,000 for operating expenses, which may or may not drop each year as expenses change. The following estimated operating expenses were presented to the council: Salaries, $56,590; benefits, $7,100; payroll taxes, $4,330; audit, $1,100; office expense, $1,300; janitor supplies, $1,800; social, recreational and athletic supplies, $2,500; craft supplies, $750; telephone, $1,200; postage, $850; utilities, $5,600; homework help supplies, $500; staff training, $1,500; marketing, $1,000; printing, $1,000; insurance, $3,500; equipment, $3,000; dues, $1,250; fund raising expenses, $2,500; misc. expenses, $1,500. The total estimated operating expenses for the first year were set at $98,870. The Goshen Boys and Girls

‘Beanie Babies’ sold at library auction

Three adorable Beanie Babies will be auctioned during the Nappanee Public Library’s summer reading program, Sunday, August 17. The “Babies” include Velvet the Black Panther, Dotty the Dalmation and Baldy the Eagle. Summer readers who turn in a reading log at the library will be invited to a celebrity auction August 17, from 2-3p.m., at the library. An auctioneer will take bids, and readers will purchase items with the library bucks they earned from reading books checked out. Many celebrity contributions

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crafted hammer dulcimer. Approximately SI,OOO pieces were entered in the competition tent for the top prizes, which also included winning entries in 11 categories of arts and crafts, as judged by Coy Jankowski and Robert Smogor, both of South Bend, and honorary judge Ted Drake, Elkhart. (AN photo by Christina Hill)

Club, located at 306 Crescent St., has grown from about 200 to 700 young members over the past four years. Many children and teens who might otherwise be out on the streets of Goshen, are now receiving help with their school work, sharing in group activities such as sports, and learning how to interact better with adults and other children their age. Like the Goshen club, a local club would be open to children ages 6-18, regardless of family income. The annual fee per child, which would be about $5, could be waived if the family could not afford it. Staff members will interact with the kids, teaching them values and morals. The center would not be merely a recreation facility; it would be a guidance facility. All money raised in Nappanee would be used only for funding the local club. Deary stated that “a Boys and Girls Club that’s active in the community” usually doesn’t have any problems finding financial support. Although the city will be providing a large amount of the necessary financial support, the council will not be responsible for selecting staff or running the facility in any way. Other funding may come from local businesses, churches or service clubs, as well as agencies like United Way, with the city acting as a catalyst to get the ball rolling. Volunteers will also be welcome to donate their time at the facility. Deary says that there will be no limit set on the number of children and teens who will be welcomed at the club each day. He added that the Goshen club is now “bursting at the seems —that’s a nice problem to have.” The mission of the Nappanee Boys and Girls Club will be to service disadvantaged or disconnected kids, but it will be open to all

will be auctioned, including tshirts from David Letterman, Kurt Browning, Toby Keith, Sawyer Brown, Travis Tritt, A Tony the Tiger autographed baseball, several autographed and inscribed books from Dean Koontz, Far Side books from Gary Larsen, Garth Brooks posters, Cleveland Indians baseball caps, sports team photos from the Chicago Blackhawks, and much, much more. The Nappanee Public Library would like to thank Martin’s Super Market for their generous offer to provide refreshments at the auction, and the School Belfry for their help in securing the Beanie Babies.

local children, no matter what their family’s financial situation may be.

Wa-Nee School Board to advertise 7 998 budget

By Christina Hill Staff Reporter The Wa-Nee Board of School Trustees analyzed the proposed 1998 school budget a its regular meeting, held Monday evening, August 11, and authorized the legal advertisement of the proposed budgets. The total proposed budget will increase by 5.41 percent in 1998 over the 1997 budget. The difference between the total budget increase and the anticipated levy increase (the amount collected locally through taxes), which is 0.616 percent over the 1997 levy, will be made up by state funds and miscellaneous revenue. The proposed 1998 General Fund expenditure budget shows a total increase of $740,465, up from $12,682,187 in the 1997 budget to $13,442,652 for 1998. The increase over the 1997 budget is 5.84 percent. Additional money will be used to meet the increased costs of salary, social security and additional staffing. Most instructional supplies accounts have been kept at the 1997 level. According to the formula showing how much money Wa-Nee will receive for the General Fund, the levy may decrease by 1.5 percent. The 1998 Debt Service budget, which is used to budget and account for receipts and expendi-

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‘VISITOR FROM GERMANY—Martina Niedermeier, second from left, was a special guest at last Wednesday's meeting of the. Nappanee Rotary Club. Martina, 20. i$ from Englbergweg, Germany, and is visiting with

Board agrees to new R- / sewer ordinance

By Christina Hill Staff Reporter Changes in the city’s sewer connection application ordinance were discussed during the regular meeting of the Nappanee Board of Public Works and Safety held Monday afternoon, August 11. City Attorney Brian Hoffer and Clerk/Treasurer Kim Ingle will draw up anew ordinance regarding sewer connection applications for R-l (single family residential) properties. The new ordinance will state that if two out of three persons, including Zoning Administrator Don Lehman, Street Supt. Sam Adams and Waste Water Treatment Plant Supt. Phil Hochstetler, agree to accept the application, the property owner applying for the connection will not have to wait until the next meeting of the board. A consulting agreement with Archeological Consultants of Ossian (Ossian, Indiana) for an environmental study of the Pleasant Acres area was accepted by the board of works. An environmental study is required prior to submitting the application for the Community Focus Fund grant in September that will help fund the cost of running city services out to the area. Archeological Consultants, represented by Larry Stillwell, will receive a grant in the amount of $1,095 to study the land and declare it free of contaminants and safe to build on; another grant, in the amount of $1,750, will go to

tures necessary to meet annual long-term debt obligations of the school corporation, is $3,546,777. This represents an increase of $29,416, or 0.836 percent. The operational portion of the Transportation Fund budget has been increased by 2.57 percent. The levy for this budget can only be increased by five percent. The bus purchase portion of the Transportation Fund has been increased by 19.03 percent in order to purchase three buses and one van. The Special Ed Preschool Fund is required by the state, to be used for preschool children who have been identified as needing special help. The tax rate is set by the state at one cent, and the state will fund the difference up to an amount of $2,750 per student. The estimated cost for this program in 1998 is $101,750 for 37 students. The Capital Projects Fund budget, as proposed, has been increased from $685,729 to $834,262 over the previous year’s CPF budget, which represents a 21.7 percent increase. The following special service contracts were approved: North Wood Middle School seventh grade boys’ assistant football coach, Matt Hockert, Rob Henschen and Jody Lengacher; NWMS cross country coach, Todd Crist; NWMS cheerleading, Sam

the Rotary Exchange Program, for a shortterm stay in the United States. She is shown with John Moore, of the local club, and her host family, -Terry and Ezra Slabaugh, Nappanee.

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Bonar Group, which will do the environmental review. A traffic control agreement with Amish Acres for reimbursing the Nappanee Police Department for overtime hours worked during the annual Arts & Crafts Festival was accepted by the board. The city will be reimbursed for overtime pay up to the amount of $2,000 for police officers, and up to $2,400 (or sls per officer) will be paid directly to Nappanee Police Reserves for their work during the festival. The board approved a change order for the reroofing project at the Nappanee Municipal Center, in regard to work being done by Lawmasters, Inc., a roofing company based in Elkhart. TTie project specifications originally called for the removal of the existing skylight and replacement of the same skylight after the roof was redone. However, during the process, company employees discovered that the skylight is to old to justify reinstallment. Anew skylight will be installed in the roof, at a cost of $9,214; after subtracting the SI,OOO charge in the specifications for removing and replacing the original skylight, the change order states that the total cost for work done on the skylight will be $8,214. The next meeting of the Nappanee Board of Public Works and Safety will be held at 3:30p.m. Monday, Aug. 25 at the Nappanee Municipal Center on W. Lincoln Street. The public is welcome to attend.

BeMiller; North Wood High School boys’ cross country, Kirt Hunsberger; NWHS girls’ cross country, Kary Hunsberger; NWHS athletic supervision, Dick Campbell; NWHS ninth grade volleyball, Shelly Sanders; NWHS girls’ golf, Jay Taylor; NWHS varsity and JV cheerleading, Pam Slagle; NWHS ninth grade cheerleading, Tara Lengacher; and NWHS drama director and auditorium supervisor, Steve Phillips. Todd Crist has also been employed as an in-school suspension supervisor at NWMS. Instead of sending suspended students home, they will be separated from their regular classes, while still being required to do the same studies. Jeff Amstutz, a graduate of Taylor University who did student teaching at Snider High School and Blackhawk Middle School in Fort Wayne, has been hired as assistant band director at NWHS. Matthew Mawhorter, who is a Purdue University graduate who did student teaching at Klondike Middle School in W. Lafayette and taught U.S. Government in summer school at Concord High School, has been hired as half-time social studies instructor at NWHS. Once again, the board will allow NWHS students to participate in studies at the Elkhart Area Career Center this year.

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