Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 129, Number 17, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 27 April 2006 — Page 2

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• Advance News • Thursday, April 27, 2006

Seoth Notices Jasen Steinke ~ April 19, 2006 —4A/AKARUSA Jasen Steinke, 24, of Wakarusa, died at 5:22 p.m. Tuesday, April 18 at Goshen General Hospital. X'He is survived by his mother and step-father, Diane and Bruce Sfilliams of Wakarusa; brothers, Ben O'Grady and Ryan O'Grady at 3BJme; maternal grandmother, Dorothy Steinke of Plymouth; and SBht, Cindy Wolfe of North Liberty. SSiyisitation was held from 1 to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 22 at 3E& Thompson-Lengacher & Yoder Funeral Home, Nappanee. were conducted at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 22 at the ■EBieral home. followed the service. contributions may be made to the Jasen Steinke «£lemorial Fund. i Dale Stair Ward = April 24, 2006 HJIMTOWN Dale Stair Ward, 84, of Jimtown, died on Monday, 3&ril 24 at Elkhart General Hospital. SSrfie is survived by his wife, Jeanne; son, Lynn (Lori) Ward; daugh3Ses, Linda (Denny) Miller, Nancy (Mark) Lewinski and Anita Ward Sfrof Elkhart; and eight grandchildren. -■-Visitation was held from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, •Spril 26 at the Thompson-Lengacher & Yoder Funeral Home, ; Wakarusa. L Services were conducted at 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 27 at the 1 funeral home, with Rev. Jack McGlassen officiating. Military graveside services followed at the Noffsinger Cemetery in Jimtown. ; in Memorial contributions may be made to the Jamestown United .Methodist Church, The Elkhart County- Humane Society or to The Juvenile Diabetic Society. AROUND, Continued from Front

CONCERT The North Wood Middle School sixth grade choir will present a spring concert on Tuesday, May 2 in the North Wood High School auditorium. The choirs are under the -direction of Tonya Anglp. The concert will being at 7 pun. and will highlight a variety of choral literature, including pieces they performed at the ISSMA contests this year, where they earned a Gold Division award. Admission is $2 for a single ticket and $3 for a family ticket of three or more people. ORGANIZATION DAY The Wakarusa Baseball Softball Organization Day will be held on Saturday, May 6 at the new gym in North Wood, Middle School. Shirts, hats, schedules, rules and pictures will be taken care trf on this day, and 100 percent attendance by players and apaches is greatly appreciated. Please be approximately 10 minutes earlier than your scheduled time. If you are interred in purchasing pictures, Iky must be paid for that day. XThe schedule is as follows: 8 a.m.: Pee-Wee League #“• 9: 30 a.m.: Minor League

Real Estate

Ruction Location: 2 miles east of Wakarusa, Ind. (1 mile East of SR 19) to CR 7, then 2/3 mile north at 335311 CR 7. * .Monday, May 22, 2006 • 6:00 p.m: Open House: Monday, May 1, 2006 North Wood Schools i' Wakarusa Area Location, Location,Location » 40 Acres 5 Tracts Z 3 Acres to 25 Acres P* "Parcel #l—General ripw .■ I Info: This parcel contains Parcel 12 3 acres (209' frontage by *" ““ ■627') with a very large 2- ■ ■■ 11 j," ■ ■ story 5-bedroom house ! and nice pole barn. The 9=, R 4 A . & \ house has a 25x15 living ————— r00m,1212x14 dining »«»r u>« f room, 14x1012 kitchen, Parcel >3 j 1 12x14utility room, Parcel *4 1 1512x14 bedroom, plus • 1 12x14 breezeway to J 1 22x24 attached garage. The upstairs has 4 bed- r " rooms (13x912, d ~ 1512x14,1512x812 and |L . 4? 11x912). There is a full ’ )\ C Part# * I basement with gas hot V~- ■ ■■ water heat. The pole barn —• i is 32x56 with cement ; floor and 2 sliding doors. The house is extremely well built but needs i some redecorating, but the total square footage is over 2,000 sq. ft., so | there are great possibilities! Inspect... arrange financing ... and bid last on this very well located piece of property. | PARCELS #2 & #3 —3-acre potential building lots. PARCEL #4—Approx. 25.5 acres, all tillable land with approx. 270' frontage on CR 7, and bordered to the south by an open ditch. PARCEL #5—A “fantastic" 5.3-acre tract bordered by an open ditch. Terms and Conditions DOWN PAYMENT: 5% non-refundable down payment on the day of the aucWfrdhth the balance in cash at closing. The down payment may be made in the form of cash, cashief s check, personal check or corporate check. Your bidding is not conditional upon financing, so be sure you have arranged financing, if needed, and are capable of paying cash at ckwog. Sale is subject to the seders confirmation. HAHN AUCTIONEERS, INC. Visit us at: www.hahnrsaltyandauction.cofn Office: (574) 773-4184 • AC39800021 Phil Hahn • 535-3783 • IN Lie. 4AU01012967 Usnnsnss Iki |A nlappßn©6, IN

• 10 a.m.: Girls Softball (Junior and Senior League) • 10:30 a.m.: Major League UTTLEPAWS • Show your support for the upkeep of Little Paws Playground by eating pizza! The Nappanee Pizza Hut will donate 20 percent of its sales from coupons on May 1,2, 3 and 4 to the Little Paws Playground maintenance fund. You can pick up coupons at the Nappanee Public Library and the Nappanee Area Chamber of Commerce. Then, show the coupon to your server on May 1, 2,3, and/or 4. Thank you for your support! • The Little Paws Playground will be closed to the general public on the following dates on May 12, 13 and 14 as the park will be closed for park upkeep. Community Work Day will be Saturday, May 13. TRACK CLINIC A girls only track clinic will be held for students between the first artd eighth grades from 9 to 11 a.m. on May 13 at the North Wood High School track. The clinic is free, and is sponsored by North Wood High School Track and Field.

Community

Team takes ‘Studies’ to state

By Anthony Godson Editor As North Wood senior Kris Yoder surfed the Internet last week, there was but one reason for it did his academic team qualify for the state tournament? The answer he found was "Yes." Following the Area competition for local high school academic teams, held on April 18 at Northridge High School, North Wood team members then had to wait an entire day to see if their score was going to be good enough to compete at the state level. Of North Wood's six academic teams, the Social Studies and Interdisciplinary teams made the cut. For Yoder, it wasn't until approximately 2:50 p.m. on Wednesday, April 19, that he received the good news that his social studies team had made it. "Kris was busy on the computer," North Wood Social Studies co-coach Sue Freymiller said. "He kept pushing the refresh button over and over." After refreshing the page numerous times, Yoder finally saw that North Wood's score of 17 points out of 25 at the Area competition was not only good enough to qualify for state, but was the second highest score in Class 2 in the state. The two qualifying North Wood teams will compete for a Class 2 state title on May 6 at Purdue University's Loeb Playhouse. The Social Studies team will compete at 10:30 a.m., while the Interdisciplinary team will compete at 3:30 p.m. Currently, the Social Studies team of Yoder, senior Jordan Evans, juniors Kayla Smith and Kelsey Sitek and sophomore Amanda Korsmo are studying alongside junior varsity members, freshmen Shawn Kronk and Elysia Smith. "They do the questions in the audience, while the varsity competes," Freymiller said about the junior varsity members' role on the team. "That gets them to

Andrews named to advisory board

Family Christian Development Center Executive Director Joan Andrews has taken yet another service role by agreeing to sit on Governor Daniel's advisory board for the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. This office ensures that the faith-based institutions of Indiana, seeking to make Indiana a better place to live for all citizens, are provided equal access to state and federal resources and services. "To ask to be on Gov. Daniel's advisory board honored me," Andrews said. "I didn't know

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ADVANCE NEWS PHOTO/A.W. GADSON Members of the North Wood Social Studies academic team will participate in the state tournament on May 6 at Purdue University. Front: (l-r) Kayla Smith, Kelsey Sitek and Shawn Kronk. Back: Co-coach Sue Freymiller, Amanda Korsmo, Elysia Smith, Kris Yoder and Jordan Evans.

know what the competitions are like." For the varsity members, they are just trying to cram as much material into their heads as they can about the Progressive Era in America, between 1880 and 1920. "We meet together once or twice a week, but we study, individually, all the time," team captain Kayla Smith said. Studying is a necessity for academic team members, but no matter how much they study, questions will always pop up in which they must guess at. One such question popped up at the team's Area competition. "There was a question like, 'P.T. Bamum said all of the following, except?" Kelsey Sitek said about a multiple question posed to the students at the Area competition. While the team members do admit that luck is involved in the academic competitions, they still hit the books pretty hard, in

what that might mean to begin with, but after the first meeting last year I saw a window of opportunity for faith-based and community initiatives to have a voice." The board will meet quarterly with the second meeting taking place in Indianapolis this month, and Andrews' hoping to host the July meeting in Nappanee at Amish Acres. On Jan. 31, Andrews received an e-mail from The White House, which was an invitation to attend the March 9 National Conference on Faith-Based and

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case they do receive that out-of-the-blue question. "They can pull anything out of 1,400 pages of text," Freymiller said. Because of that, team members have been hitting the books hard. "The questions at state will be on the same topics, only they will be more specific," Smith said. As the captain tries to study everything, she realizes that's not really possible. "You can't know it all, but you can try to study it all," she said. In order to better target specific areas of the Progressive Era, the Social Studies team, which is also coached by Scott Whetstone, has divided the

Community Initiatives. That conference highlighted the important role corporations and foundations play in funding social service groups as well as empowering faith-based community organizations. to compete more effectively for funds. The FCDC volunteer board of directors, "an innovative, attuned, and open minded group," as complimented by Andrews, urged her to attend. President George W. Bush told the 1,200-plus religious leaders, representing 47 states, that compassion is one of this country's deepest values, and money should be awarded to the groups that get the best results. He reinforced, "The ultimate beneficiaries are America's

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workload up. "You have five members competing at one time, so we've planned ahead to have Kelsey and Kayla know one area, while Kris and Jordan know another about American History," Freymiller said. In doing that, the team hopes to get past such schools as Madison Consolidated, West Lafayette, Bishop Dwenger, Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory and Princeton Community. "They're all really smart kids," Freymiller said about the competition at state. They may all be smart kids at the state level, but it is a level that North Wood belongs in. Just last year, North Wood won Class 2 academic titles in Fine Arts and Science. This, year, North Wood is sending two of its six academic teams to the competition. "Two out of six isn't bad," Freymiller said.

poor." All of this has been a culmination of Indiana Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman's visit to the FCDC last fall. She wanted to see first hand the work of this rural pilot program that was founded a decade ago this year by the churches and schools in the WaNee District. The FCDC's mission is to see lives transformed and the life of the community enhanced by bringing together the resources of the caring community as a demonstration of the good news of Christ. Check out what OFBCI does by logging onto www.ofbci.in.gov.

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