Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 130, Number 46, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 15 November 2007 — Page 2

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Advance News* Thursday, November 15,2007

MIRACLES, ewifc«i»m<w.it in the Oct. 18 tornado. The parade will proceed down Main Street toward the depot plaza and will feature the North Wood High School Red Regiment, the Elkhart County 4-H llama dub, festive floats and walking groups from local churches, businesses and community service groups and, of course, a special appearance by the one and only Santa Claus. A party will follow the parade at the depot plaza, where Santa will be available to meet with children. There will also be a mini Christinas market, where the Nappanee Home and Garden Gub will sell special holiday luminaries. 'Golf View Drive has been setting out luminaries,' Thompson said. "This year we want to do it au through town.' The plaza will also feature trees decorated by local nursery school and kindergarten students. Residents will also be able to make donations for die annual Christinas Jubilee and for Open Door. "We wanted to get back to the true meaning of Christmas," Thompson said. "We wanted to get die churches in town involved, but we also wanted to showcase our town." The festivities will not end when die parade is over. Every Saturday until Christmas, Santa Claus will greet children at the depot plaza from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. He will stay until 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1 and there will be a raffle drawing for a quilt. "We wanted to provide everything here in Nappanee so parents did not have to take their children out of town to see Santa," Thompson said. The Nappanee Public Library also plans to host special kids' activities. "If parents want to do some shopping, they can drop their kids off at the library," Thompson said. Thompson encourages local businesses, organizations and so forth to sign up for the parade. There is no cost, but the last day to sign up is Nov. 16. Lineup will begin Nov. 30 at 6:30 p.m. FUNDS) continued from front fund naming $358,297.91 for 360 tornado damages and deanup under the category of other services and charges. The ordinance also names appropriations for the county economic development income tax fund naming SIOO,OOO for 400 tornado damages that fall under capital outlays and SIOO,OOO for 360 tornado damages and deanup that fall under other services and charges. A second ordinance was passed to establish a tornado assistance grand fund for the Elkhart County Community Foundation (ECCF). The ECCF will distribute the funds to a needs-based program for tornado victim assistance. The Northern Indiana Tornado Recovery Organization (NITRO) finandal committee will authorize the distribution of these funds to Nappanee tornado victims. The NITRO committee has formed to help tornado victims in various areas, including arranging for volunteers, funding and other related areas. Linda Yoder is director of he committee. The council passed a third resolution authorizing an excess levy appeal for 2008. This means that, due to many residents being displaced after he tornado, the city will not receive property tax money that hey had been counting on for 2008. Ingle is able to make an appeal based on his shortfall, which will allow he city to receive funds to make up for he loss. However, according to Ingle, he city may not know until next spring how much that will be.

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Nov. 2,2007 FORT WAYNE, Brian L. Wenger, 61, of Fort Wayne, formerly of Nappanee, died Friday, Nov. 2 at l(h30 ajn. at his residence. He is survived by his wife, Mardelle Wenger of Fort Wayne; son, Robin Wenger of Syracuse; daughter, Randi (Jorge) Gonzales of Fort Wayne; four grandchildren; parents: Robert and Dorothy Wenger Of Wakarusa; brother, Bruce (Sherry) Wenger of Wakarusa and sisters: Becky (Randy) Yeiter of Indianapolis, Nancy (Tom) Van Tilburg of Jeffersonville and Barbary (Steve) Stump of Wakarusa. Visitation was Sunday, Nov. 4 from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Thompson-Lengadier k Yoder Funeral Home in Nappanee and one hour prior to services. Funeral services were Monday, Nov. 5 at 11 a.m. at die funeral home. Burial was at South Union Cemetery. Memorials may be made to an organization of die donor's choice. Susie Yoder Nov. 8,2007 Susie Yoder, 79, of Nappanee died Thursday, Nov. 8 at 2:50 a.m. at LuAnn Nursing Home in Nappanee. She is survived by her sister, Laura (Bill) Kurtz of Mishawaka and brother, Sam Yoder of Elkhart. Visitation was Friday, Nov. 9 after 4 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 10 from 8 to 10 a.m. at the Floyd Helmuth residence, 3703 W. 1400 N. Funeral services were Saturday, Nov. 10 at 1 p.m. at the Roman Miller Jr. residence, C.R. 100. Burial was at Weldy Cemetery. Arrangements were with the Thompson-Lengacher k Yoder Funeral Home in Nappanee. Elizabeth IMlllor Nov. 7,2007 BREMEN, Elizabeth Miller, 93, of Bremen died Wednesday, Nov. 7 at 4:45 a.m. at her home. She is survived by her daughters: Rachel (Vem E.) Hershberger of Nappanee, Esther (Richard A.) Hochstetler of Hill Center, Texas, Naomi (Marvin) Schwartz of Sparta, Term., Mary (Lloyd) Schwartz of Etna Green and Laura Miller of Crossville, Tenn.; sons: Eli H. (Edith) Miller of Nappanee, Alvin H. (Edna Marie) Miller of Nicaragua, Central America, John Moses (Barbara)

FIFTH I continued from front Commission." The main purpose of the commission, Yoder said, is to look into statewide government reform. This has left some small town libraries concerned. "During the legislative session there will be so many issues to deal with that our concern is that something will be proposed hastily and that the long-term effects will be detrimental to our community," Yoder said. This thought does not sit well with die Wakarusa students. "The library means a lot," Zack BeMiller said. Luke Stump said, "If you want to find a good book that's really old, you go to one of the public libraries and find it" Morgan Resler believes consolidation would not help taxpayers because there would be other expenses. "People would be happier if they paid less taxes," she said, "but they'd still have to pay gas to travel more." Other students pointed out that the libraries are a good place to do homework. they can go to the library

to use them there," Hannan Rohrer said. Students also enjoy visiting their hometown library during summer break. "During the summer the kids like to hear stories," Spencer Cloud said. "For the fifth graders it's just a fun place to read." According to Hartman,

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Miller of Costa Rica, Central America and David H. (Linda Su9 Miller of Bremen; 75 grandchildren, 154 great-grandchildreii two great-great grandchildren; brothers: Omar (Sara) Lapp ofl Lancaster, Pena and John Henry (Floy) Lapp of Port Allegany! Pena; and sister, Lena (Aaron) Glide of Lancaster, Penn. 1 Visitation was Thursday, Nov. 8 after noon and all day Friday! at the family residence. Funeral services were Saturday, Nov. 10 at the Sam Kauffman residence, 1595 B Rd. Burial was at Weldy Cemetery. The Thompson-Lengacher 4c Yoder Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Claudia Menret Pate Nov. 6,2007 GOSHEN Gaudia Merrel Pate, 62, of Goshen, died Tuesday, Nov. 6 at 8:15 a.m. at the Courtyard Nursing Home 'in Goshen. She is survived by her son, Robert Malone of Orlando, Fla.; daughter, Becky (Bobby) Cavender of Nappanee; one granddaughter; sister, Sandra Meminger; and brothers: Robert Reneer and Elmer Schwartz. Visitation was Saturday, Nov. 10 from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Thompson-Lengacher 4c Yoder Funeral Home in Nappanee. Funeral services were Saturday, Nov. 10 at 5 p.m. at the funeral home. Cremation followed services. Memorials may be made to the Claudia M. Pate Memorial Fund. BMia Hona Anglemyer Nov. 7, 2007 NAPPANEE Elisha Fiona Anglemyer, 5 months, of Nappanee died Wednesday, Nov. 7 at 3:10 a.m. at Community Hospital of Bremen. Sne is survived by her parents: Jude and Elisha M. Anglemyer; grandparents: Dean and Elizabeth Anglemyer of Nappanee, Kathy Redinger of Mishawaka, grandfather, Tim Redinger of Mishawaka; great grandparents: La Vem and Norma Anglemyer of Wakarusa, Burt and Mary Gates of Lakeville, Elaine Tracey of Mishawaka and Annette Kline of Mentone. Visitation was Thursday, Nov. 8 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Thomson-Lengadier 4c Yoder Funeral Home in Nappanee. Funeral services were Friday, Nov. 9 at 3 p.m. at die funeral home. / Memorials may be made to New Life Church.

consolidation may mean no future for public libraries in small towns like Wakarusa. "Are they going to want to keep all these small libraries open?" she said. According to Hartman, the idea behind library consolidation is to make up for the governor's new tax plan, which will cap property taxes at one percent of a property's assessed value. However, she said, only about three percent of property tax money goes to local libraries. "I'm not sure how they think this will decrease your property taxes," she said, citing several major building projects that the Elkhart library is planning. "Someone is going to have to pay for that. Is it going to be us?" Hartman cites all of the services that the Wakarusa library offers the community, including story hour, after school activities, meeting rooms, die genealogy club, Pony Express, church groups, various classes and so forth. The libraries also supply materials for many area teachers. One teacher from Concord, who is a local resident, frequently borrows educational materials from the Wakarusa library. "Not only do we support the public schools, we support Harrison Christian and some of these private schools," she said. "If the county library program would be implemented, local libraries would be limited in their control over what materials we can offer." Hartman believes that the local public library is a staple of community life. "For a lot of small communities their libraries are a lifeline," she said. "In a lot of small communities there are a lot of older Amish who, if they want to go to the library they'd have to hire

someone to drive them." Yoder says that many libraries already collaborate through interlibrary loans, computer databases and so forth. Yoder also feels that if the commission decides to implement consolidation, the libraries will not be able to effectively serve individual communities. "Our message here is one size doesn't fit all," she said.

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