Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 127, Number 5, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 29 January 2004 — Page 4

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Advance News • Thursday. January 2g, 2004

New face, new name, still your newspaper Hello everyone! I am a new name and face around here. I realize this will be an adjustment for all of us as we get to know each other. I will be taking over the position of editor for Kylie Carter, a name and face that may already be familiar to many of you. Since you may not know me yet, let me tell you a little bit about myself. I am a senior at Indiana University in South Bend. I will graduate in May with my Bachelor’s in journalism

with a minor in psychology. I have lived the bulk of my years in Plymouth, which is just a hop, skip and a jump from here. I graduated with honors from Ancilla College with my Associates Degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences, so I am definitely someone involved in the local community.

In addition to being a student, a Marshall County resident, and your new editor, I am with child. I feel that it is of the utmost importance that I be forward with you and very honest. I will have to take maternity leave from this job, probably beginning in May, depending on when my little bundle of joy decides to enter this world. Until that time, 1 will do my best to pick up where Kylie left off and make improvements based on your feedback. I will do my best to do the same when I return from maternity leave as well. I look forward to working with all of you in the Nappanee-Wakarusa community. I plan to focus on events happening in Wa-Nee schools, including sports, plays, music and spelling bees. I will also do my best to maintain a local area focus on businesses and community events. I am eager to accept any other local news that you have to share. Since this is a weekly paper, my deadline is Friday at noon for any briefs or submitted news items of any kind. This deadline ensures the news item can be placed in the following Thursday’s edition. Aside from myself, do not anticipate changes in the newspaper’s staff. You can still look for the same correspondents and columnists to be writing for the Advance News. Stephanie Middaugh and Amy Wenger will stay with us, among others. Laurie Lechlitner and Mary Lienhart-Cross will still be columnists, along with Dr. Song Yu and Dr. Michael Borger and occasionally other contributors. Each of you are valuable to this paper and greatly appreciated. Thank you (in advance for some) for all of your hard work, dedication and contributions to the paper. Each of you brings a hometown perspective to the paper, which is an important quality that cannot be duplicated by wire stories or “canned news.” To all of you, please feel free to stop in the office when I’m open and introduce yourself. I look forward to meeting as many of you as I can and publishing as much of your news as possible. After all, even though I’m new, this is still your paper. If you have any questions, comments or news items of interest please contact me. by phone: 773-3127, fax: 773-3512, or e-mail: [email protected] Office hours Monday: 11 a.m.-l p.m. Tuesday: Closed Wednesday: 11 a.m.-l p.m. Thursday: 11 a.m.-l p.m. Friday: 11 a.m.-l p.m. Saturday: Closed , . Sunday: Closed What do you think? Share your opinion with a Letter to she Editor. knoll toe [email protected] i Continuous Publication Since 1879 Advance News Serving Nappanee & Wakarusa HOW TO REACH I S: If you do not receive your paper by 5 pm. Thursday, please call the circulation department at 936-3101 up to 6 pm. and we will deliver your newspaper that day. General Manager Jerry L. Bingle Managing Editor . Jim Hekel Advance News Editor Amanda Murray Sports Editor , Ron Haramia Production/IT Manager Greg Hildebrand Marketing & Circulation Manager Cindy Stockton www.thepilotnews.aim USPS 370960,158 W. Market St, P.O. Box 230, Nappanee, IN 46500 (574)773-5127 * Published weekly. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to 214 N. Michigan St, Plymouth, IN 46563 Periodical postage paid Nappanee, IN 46550 Mail Rates: Indiana, $20.00 for 52 issues; out-of-state $25.00 for 52 issues. Display Ad Deadlines: Pilot News - 2 Days Prior at sriX) pm. Bremen Enquirer, Nappanee Advance News, Culver Citizen, Bourbon News-Mirror, The leader - Thursday at 5:00 pm. The Review - Tuesday at SJY) p.m. TV Week - Friday (Week Prior) at 5:00 p.m. Classified Ad Deadlines: Pilot News - Day Prior at 11:30 a.m. Bremen Enquirer, Nappanee Advance News, Culver Citizen, Bourbon , Newv.Mirror, The leader Monday at 11:30 am The Review - Tuesday at 400 pm Legal Deadlines: Pilot News - Three Days Prior at 4.-00 pm Bremen Enquirer, Nappanee Advance News. Culver Citizen, Bourbon News-Mirror, The Leader - Wednesday (A Week Prior) at 44)0 pm All ads larger than 1/4 page need to be e-mailed, sent in a word document or dropped off on a floppy disk. To Place A Classified Ad call 1-8009350556 or 574-056-5101-To Order Your Subscription call 1-8009350556 or 5759305101.

I According ' TO Ml By Amanda Murray 1 Advance News I Editor

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I bid you a fond farewell

Well, how do you say good-bye to 8,000 people? While this is somewhat impersonal, I guess I'll write this editorial as you and I both do not have time to meet up at Teakwood for a farewell cup of coffee later this week. So yes, I’m leaving. I arrived at the Advance News office May 5,2003, wide-eyed and ready to get to know you. Well, in the past nine and half months I have. I’ve had the chance to see what a great community you have here in Wa-Nee. You have safe, lovely downtowns; one of the best school systems in Indiana; a great community spirit that I witnessed in abundance during the building of Little Paws Playground; a drive for excellence, that was made apparent as not one but two groups of hard-work-ing students from North Wood made their way to the RCA dome this past fall; and you also have a deep desire to have your communities’ events and accomplishments recorded in public archives. What better way to do that than through your local newspaper. Believe me, I know how important a weekly newspaper is to a small community. Having grown up in Etna Green, more a village than a community I guess, I know how much my family and I looked forward to receiving the Bourbon News-Mirror throughout the years. To see who made the police report, who was havinjja birthday, what was for lunch at Tritjon, who goE married, who passeef away, and to seq if any of us or our friends happened to be caught in a picture.

How do you know when you're expecting too much?

I remember how hard I worked for an editor of a magazine publication. I would concentrate on the story line and my photographs were not up to snuff. Then I'd give her marvelous pictures and my article was too long. I just couldn't please her. Delving into her personality, I discovered that nobody totally lived up to her expectations. As a matter of fact, she was often her own worst critic, even though she did not take outside criticism well. So I vowed I would never be overly critical of others. I would leant not to expect too much of them. Yet even with my firm resolve, often I’ve failed miserably. You see, I, too, am somewhat of a perfectionist and expect others to be committed to excellence in the same areas I am. My struggle with expecting too much of others has caused me to come up with some guidelines that will give those of us in supervisory positions handles. These guidelines will help us evaluate whether others are actually goofing off, or if they are simply not capable of living up to our expectations. These are what 1 call my "Ten Checkpoints." 1. Is the person truly doing their best to follow directions? I have found that often I will have a preconceived notion about how I want a chore carried out. Sometimes my proteges have no idea of my expectations.

Years Ago

120 YEARS AGO; JAN. 24, 1884

• Dr. Stonebumer’s house at Wakarusa was destroyed by fire on Sunday. There was no insurance on the building. • A little excitement was caused in D.C. Grover’s house last Friday by discovering a fire upstairs caused by clothing which had been thrown against the stove-pipe by children in their play. Little damage was done as it was discovered before it got much start. 100 YEARS AGO; JAN. 27, 1904 • David Weaver, 21 years old, son of Christian Weaver, 2 1/2 miles east of Wakarusa, was killed while chopping timber last Wednesday when a limb caught in another tree dislodged, striking him on the head.

The Years Ago segments have been researched and posted by Margaret England-Neff. They appear just as they did in archived issues, typos and all.

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The Opinion page of the Advance News is intended to serve as a public forum to address issues of concern to Nappanee and Wakamsa residents from various viewpoints. Readers are welcome to express their views by submitting letters or guest commentaries regarding community topics. To be considered for publication, letters to the editor mast be signed and include a

Opinion

Growing up, I really took that paper for granted. It came to our house, and I never really questioned how it came into being. I did not realize how much work went into a community newspaper, or how it came together. It was like magic like not really knowing how a microwave heats up food. It just happens. But however it came to my home, I just assumed that many people helped put

it together. Well, when I came here, I saw that actually, sometimes, newspapers are put together by just one person. Since May, 1 have learned a lot. I tried my best to give you a newspaper that covered your community Jn the amount you wanted, but I know that I did not do

enough. I wished that my body did not physically need sleep. I would have worked more than the 70 hours a week that I did if I could have, but I was not able to. I wish I could have been to every event, every meeting, every magical moment, but I missed a lot. That happens when you are only one person. I felt bad about it for a long time, but I just have to pass it off as being a victim of circumstance. "What I (lid not give you, I apologize. I 'hope that what I <ll4 sve,m6ugli, Was' appreciated by some, ifonly a few. I did my best.

2. Do other people have a problem with the person I am constantly riding? If I am the only person who sees a deficit in their performance, perhaps I should either reevaluate my opinion or change my standards. 3. Is my criticism constructive? Often we find

ourselves at odds with a person's style and not their performance. Personality conflicts are always subjective, never objective. When we lose our objectivity we cannot access an individual's performance ly4. Does this person do

too good a job? When we're afraid another will take our place of leadership, we can usually find something wrong with their performance, even if we have to cleverly invent it. Am I overly critical of myself? A low selfimage is the root of an overly critical personality. If we feel we are small, often we will cut others down to our own conceived level. 6. Was my authority figures overly critical of me when 1 was growing up? We often imitate behavior that was modeled in our home.

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75 YEARS AGO; JAN. 1929

• Many from Wakarusa attended the funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Madlem, age 90, which was heid at MBC Church Sunday afternoon. She is survived by 4 daughters and 3 sons. • At a party given by Miss Isabelle Widmoyer, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Wildmoyer, the approaching marriage of Ms. Widlmoyer and Royce Mishler was announced for Feb. 14. the guests found the message in small envelopes mounted on red hearts with Kewpees. 50 YEARS AGO; JAN. 28, 1954 • John Reed Newcomer collapsed and died at his home Wednesday evening. He was 39 years old. • Ray Hopewell was named Jaycee “Man of the Year.” > f

phone number in order to verify the author. . The Advance News reserves the right to edit all letters and commentaries for brevity, clarity and grammar. The views expressed on the Opinion page do not necessarily reflect those of the Advance News. v v

As I was cleaning out the office this week, I looked around and thought of the history that this place holds. While vacuuming the carpet I looked at the archives, the darkroom, the old machines that used to help put the paper together right here in this office, back before everything was electronically produced, and I thought of how great it must have been to work here even 20 years ago. To have had

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every area. That would have been really nice. In the meantime, I urge you to not be unkind to my replacement, Amanda Murray, who will be doing the best she can. Be patient, and help her out. Instead of offering harsh criticism, why not try offering friendly advice, instead. It will be much appreciated. Take care, Wa-Nee. I’m going back home. If IOM 'U«U JUO.V.IU uu «• <?. ° .. anyone ever wishes to. pontact me, my email address is [email protected]. (What can I sas','Tloveuavid {WleiP” : , .1: > . '•>■■■ i, O!

7. Am I an idealist? Those of us who expect others to live up to our inflated ideals of the "perfect world" will always be disillusioned. People are not perfect. We are not perfect. Enuff said. 8. Do I have an inflated view of my own importance? Those who think they are irreplaceable,

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ruthlessly. 10. Finally, am I quickly confronting those who are actually loafing? When 1 let misbehavior slide with a few favorites of mine, 1 can often become a cruel taskmaster to all others around me. Are you overly critical of others? Often we fall into these pitfalls unconsciously. So if you find yourself eating alone at lunch or notice that the conversation at the water cooler immediately stops when you come on the scene, examine your methods. It’s never too late to change.

coworkers— people to share duties, and share stories with. To laugh with, while we compiled a quality newspaper, put together by people who are all doing their best at one particular area, and not being spread so thin over

becoming critical of others they view as replaceable, are often replaced by them. 9. Am I trying to be "teacher's pet.” In other words, when I am trying to impress the boss, I will tend to upstage my coworkers rather