Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 131, Number 38, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 17 September 2009 — Page 2

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Advance News • Thursday, September 17, 2009

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PHOTO PROVIDED The 2009 North Wood High School homecoming candidates include (Front, left to right) Hannah Stump, freshmen attendant; Devyn Simpson, sophomore attendant; MacKenzie Campbell, junior attendant; (center, left to right) Rachael Hall, senior queen candidate; Brittany Schmucker, senior queen candidate; Katie Lengacher, senior candidate; (back, left to right) Brant Nine, senior king candidate; Brent Ramer, senior king candidate: and Marc Disher, senior king candidate.

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not be able to do that anymore. So she and her husband built a store next to the house. "We just took a step of faith and decided we were going to do it," she said. She took the business's name, "Bread ... it's In The Bag, Inc.," from the nature of her product, bagged bread mixes. Soon the demand began to rise, and she soon.added soup mixes, instant meals, more bread mixes, scone mixes, muffin mixes, baked oatmeal and more, All are her own recipes. One unique product is her whole wheat brownie mix, which uses 1, 3 less, sugar, yet tastes like traditional brownies. While her son's allergy inspired her whey-free bread mixes, her daughter, a student at Bethany Christian, inspired a product Kehr calls breakfast cookies, which are nutritious yet busy students can eat them on the run. Kehr has also created her own pancake mixes. Single soup mixes came about when her son went away to college. "At night he wanted something to eat after the cafeteria closed and he didn't want granola bars or popcorn," she said, "So I created the single soup mixes for that." Kehr finds ways to make her recipes nutritious without sacrificing taste. None of her bread mixes contain preservatives, and she does not use

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anything artificial. She grinds three of her grains herself, and they are all unbleached, unbromated and completely organic. "They're all things I feed my family and 1 wanted them to be healthy," she said. "I didn't want them to be full of fat, full of sodium. I really, really like using whole wheat flour. It just gives things a much better taste." Her soups have proven to be in high demand, a pleasant surprise for Kehr. "They’ve been way more popular than I had anticipated," she said. Kehr's busiest time is October through December, when customers begin ordering her themed gift baskets. Kehr ships her baskets all over the country. Corporations nationwide order dozens of her baskets per year to give to employees, and parents of college students find them to be a much-appreciated care package during finals. "I had a mom from Kansas last vear ask me if I could put a basket together of single soups," Kehr said. The mom's son attended Goshen College and is a vegetarian, Kehr said. "It was the week and a half before finals, and she knew he was going to be up a lot to study, so she asked me to make a basket using vegetarian soup mixes." Kehr's mother also makes small hand-quilted gift pouches that Kehr

can sell as singlemeal themed gift items. Kehr can make gift baskets to order or the customer can give her a theme or a price range, and she can create a basket accordingly. At Christmastime she adds an ornament to each basket, and other times of year she always trims her baskets with some sort of decorative touch. She can create baskets for any occa-

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sion, from birthdays to weddings to Mother's Day and more. With all the demand for her mixes, Kehr often finds herself turning to family and friends for help, which they willinglv give. Kehr's mother, Shirley Wise, shops for ribbons, ornaments and whatever else she needs to make complete her gift baskets. Her father, Harold Wise, helps with mixes. Her husband, Steve; often volunteers, his services sticking labels to bags. Once at Christmastime, her son Andy brought his girlfriend, Jackie, home to meet nis family. Kehr had two separate orders for 10 and 12 Christmas baskets, and one day all three of them went out and volunteered their services to help her finish them. They soon had an assembly line going, and all 22 baskets were done that dav. "We were able to do about 20 in the time it would have taken me to do probablv about eight," she said. Kehr's friend Dawn Trover often helps around the store. In fact, several of Kehr's soup mixes are actually Troyer's own recipes. Kehr's sister and many others often come by to help when things get hectic. For Kehr, creating mixes is more than a business. While she especially enjoys being in her gardens, baking has become a passion. "(Gardening is) kind of my art," she said, "but this is probably the one thing that makes me feel fulfilled." For Kehr, one of the challenging aspects of owning a business is keeping up with the bookwork. "1 would rather be out here making stuff than sitting at my computer entering bills and printing out reports," she said. Marketing has also proven a challenge, and up until recently most of Kehr's advertising has been by word of mouth. She has also been able to sell manv of her mixes at the Essenhaus. Kehr hopes her recipes will continue to provide convenient, healthy and tasty meals for today's busy families. "Parents are just harried trying to fit everything into a day, especially if it's a two-income family," she said. "So if I can alleviate some of that stress by providing this sort of thing, I guess that's the most important."

Audiences entertained at 2009 festival This year's Apple Festival entertainment will take place on the Embarq Stage at Leadership Park and the NIPSCO Entertainment Tent in the Depot Plaza. The following is a complete schedule of entertainment broken down by date, time and location. See this week's special insert for a complete schedule of this year's Apple Festival activities, including contests, displays and more. Thursday, Sept. 17 5:30 to 7 p.m.: Bootleg Country Rock band, NIPSCO Entertanment Tent 6 p.m.: Great Lakes Lumberjack Show, Nappanee Public Library parking lot 6 to 7:30 p.m.: Guitar Hero contest, Embarq stage 7 p.m.: The Granpa Cratchet Kids Show & Tuppets, Clark Street 7 p.m.: Miss Apple Blossom Scholarship Pageant, NIPSCO Entertanment Tent 7:30 to 9 p.m.: Honky Jonk Karaoke, Embarq stage 8 p.m.: Great Lakes Lumberjack Show, library parking lot 9 to 10 p.m.: Bootleg, NIPSCO Entertainment Tent Friday, Sept. 18 Noon to 1 p.m.: Barbershop Quartet, Embarq stage 3 to 4 p.m.: Barbershop Quartet, Embarq stage 4:15 to 5:45 p.m.: Billv Dee Country music, Embarq stage 4:30 to 6 p.m.: Touch of Texas Variety band, NIPSCO Entertainment Tent 6 p.m.: Great Lakes Lumberjack Show, Nappanee Public Library parking lot 6 to 10 p.m.: Flint Lock Bluegrass band, Embarq stage 6:15 to 7:15 p.m.: Heartland Country Cloggers, NIPSCO Entertainment Tent 8 p.m.: Great Lakes Lumberjack Show, library parking lot 8 to 10 p.m.: Huckleberrv Blue country rock band, NIPSCO Entertainment Tent 10 p.m.: Laser Light Spectacular, NIPSCO Entertainment Tent Saturday, Sept. 19 Noon to 2:30 p.m.: Due Process variety band, NIPSCO Entertainment tent 12:45 to 1:45 p.m.: Charissa Tribute to Hannah Montana, Embarq stage 2:30 p.m.: Great Lakes Lumberjack Show, library parking lot 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.: Amarillo Star line dancing, NIPSCO Entertainment Tent 3:30 to 5 p.m.: Due Process varietv band, NIPSCO Entertainment Tent 5 p.m.: Great Lakes Lumberjack Show, librarv parking lot 5 to 6 p.m.: Amarillo Star line dancing, NIPSCO Entertainment Tent 6:15 to 7:30 p.m.: Music Citv Committee countrv band, NIPSCO Entertainment Tent 7:30 to 10 p.m.: Charissa and Auburn Skv country band, Embarq stage 8 p.m.: Great Lakes Lumberjack Sow, librarv parking lot 8 to 10 p.m.: Music City Committee countrv band, NIPSCO Entertainment Tent 10 p.m.: Laser Light Spectacular, view from downtown/Depot Plaza Sunday, Sept. 20 9 to 10:30 a.m.: Communitv church service, NIPSCO Entertainment Tent 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: Conlev-Schmidt Gospel bluegrass music, NIPSCO Entertainment Tent Noon to 3 p.m.: South Gate Praise Band, Embarq stage 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.: David P. Dean Christian comedian, NIPSCO Entertainment tent 1 p.iri.: Great Lakes Lumberjack Show, librarv parking lot 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.: Conlev-Schmidt Gospel Bluegrass music, NIPSCO Entertainment Tent 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.: David P. Dean Christian comedian, NIPSCO Entertainment Tent 3 p.m.: Great Lakes Lumberjack show, library 7 parking lot 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.: Talent show, Embarq stage 4 to 5:30 p.m.: North Wood High School Jazz Band and Dawning Generation, NIPSCO Entertainment Tent 5 p.m.: Great Lakes Lumberjack Show, librarv parking lot

Shuttle connections Shuttle busses for the 2009 Apple Festival will run according to the following schedule. Friday: Clark Street to Borkholder Dutch Village to Amish Acres to Clark Street, departs every- half hour noon to 9 p.m. Saturday: Clark Street to Borkholder Dutch Village to Amish Acres to Clark Street, departs every half hour 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Clark Street to Airport to Callander Sportsplex to Clark Street, departs every half hour (noon to 5 p.m. during Wings & Wheels)

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