Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 127, Number 20, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 13 May 2004 — Page 2

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Advance News • Thursday, May 13, 2004

Death Notices Wayne E. Lehman Wayne E. Lehman, 71, 702 E. Marion St., Nappanee, died Wednesday, May 5, following a short illness. He is survived by a daughter Debra (Jon) Haab; sons Don (Jill) Lehman, Dale (Cathy) Lehman and Dean (Mary) Lehman; brothers Russell (Mary) Lehman, Harold (June) Lehman, Vem (Yvonne) Lehman; sisters Mary (Herman) Baumgartner, Shirley (John) Cain, Annetta Rodkey and Marjean (Lou) Lonteen and 10 grandchildren. Funeral services were Apostolic Christian Church of South Bend Monday, May 10, at 10:30 a.m. Burial was at the Bremen Cemetery. Memorials may be given to the Apostolic Christian Church of South Bend. Willis Ray Lehman Willis Ray Lehman, 16, of 24510 CR 54,Nappanee, died Wednesday, May 5, of injuries suffered from a Moped accident at CR 54 and 11 He is survived by his parents David W. and Rhoda Fern Lehman; brothers Myron Wayne Lehman and Larry Lee Lehman; sisters Tina Rose Lehman, Marla Renee Lehman and Emma Dorene Lehman; maternal grandparents Ray and Ester (Slabaugh) Schwartz and patenal grandpaemts Willis A. and Frieda (Helmuth) Lehman. Funeral services were Saturday, May 8, at 9:30 a.m. at the Merlin Yoder residence, 25115 CR 54, Nappanee. Burial was at West Union Cemetery in Nappanee. Came Mochel Carrie Mochel, 96, of Miller’s Merry Manor. Wakarusa, died Tuesday, May 4. She is survived by a son James A. (Onalee) Mochel, three grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren. Funeral services were held at St. John’s United Church of Christ on Friday, May 7, at 10:30 a.m. Burial was at the St. John’s United Church of Christ cemetery. Memorials may be left to St. John’s United Church of Christ.

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PHOTO BY STEPHANIE MIDDAUGH The Vactor 2100 vacuums and cleans Nappanee's sewers and catch basins.

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• Facility helpful IN MANY WAYS By Stephanie Middaugh Correspondent NAPPANEE The Nappanee Department of Streets and Sanitation has come a long way since it was established in 1960. As the city has grown, the street department has grown right along with it - now employing five fulltime employees. According to Superintendent Sam Adams, in the beginning most of the equipment was housed outside and the lot was all gravel. Even the salt for winter was kept outside uncovered. “If there was ice in the salt when we needed to spread it, that’s just the way it was,” Adams recalled during an open house on May 3. Now the majority of the equipment is housed in paved buildings. The salt has its own shed, too. “Each year less and less equipment is kept outside,” the superintendent said. “And we have three times the pavement we had 10 years ago. We continue to expand the pavement each year.” Adams has been with the street

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department for 20 years, and in that time he seen the need for not only more equipment, but bigger equipment, as well. The city now owns three snowplow/dump trucks, two front loadDid you know? The City of Nappanee allows semi-trailers to park at the street department lot on weekends? Several citizens drive the large trucks, so to eliminate the need to plow around them and to the reduce noise from refrigerated trucks at night, the city provides parking for free. The trucks are enclosed within a fence and drivers retain their own keys. ers, and a street sweeper. The department also owns two pullbehind leaf vacuums that are used in the fall. Each vacuum holds 25 cubic yards of waste and also shreds and compacts the leaves. According to Adams the shredded leafs are applied to area farmers’ fields. “This process is great for the city because we recycle our waste. Plus the farmers get a great mulch for their fields,” he said. But, the pride of the fleet may

be the Vactor 2100, a large truck that can vacuum and clean Nappanee's sewers and catch basins. The truck was purchased new in 1994 for $160,000. “With the purchase of the Vactor 2100, we were able to replace two trucks with one,” Adams said. The track was recently used to help the water department with an underground line repair, and also is currently being used to clean over 300 catch basins and manholes throughout the city. Although, the street department is located on almost three acres of land, covered space is still a commodity. The Elder Haus van is stored at the facility. And the city council continues to discuss the possibility of placing a fire track in the lot to serve citizens south of the train tracks. "The street department is not looking to be another fire department,” Mayor Larry Thompson said. “We would just need one bay.” The council has preliminary budgeted $50,000 through the city’s 2005-2007 EDIT fund for an additional structure at the lot. The council will approve the EDIT plan in June.

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Housing Continued From Front essary to pay our expenses.” According to Mayor Thompson, the fees were also calculated to possibly generate funds for a full-time inspection position for the city. Nappanee currently pays $15,500 for electrical and building inspections performed by the county. Plus, the inspection fees from the minimum housing ordinance are expected to generate $16,000 a year. Combined, the fees could pay for a full-time inspector. Mayor Thompson stated that it would be more efficient and better to perform all inspections locally, rather than farm them out to the county. “If we’re going to spend the funds to have someone trained to do the housing inspections, we can have them do the other inspections, too,” he said The mayor concluded the discussion by reminding everyone that the city had one meeting with landlords almost two year ago, and another meeting a couple of months ago. “We had a lot of homework to do and we worked on this ordinance for almost two years,” he said. “We discussed with landlords how the inspection process would go. We did not rash through the process.” “This is ultimately the city council’s decision,” he said. “If the city council chooses that we are infringing on your rights and they choose not to pass this I will go on the record and say, don’t’ ever come back to me, because we put it before you, here it is, we worked hard on it and we want to maintain the property values we have.” Birth Announcement GORALCZYK Kevin and Lynn Goralczyk of Bremen announce the birth of a son bom at 8:43 a.m. May 1,2004 at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in South Bend. Joseph Francis Goralczyk weighed 7 pounds and 15 ounces and was 21 inches long. He was welcomed home by a sister, Anne, age 22 months. Maternal grandparents are Richard and Sharon Besinger of Mishawaka. Paternal grandparents are Kenneth and Sue Goralczyk of South Bend.

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