Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 134, Number 12, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 22 March 2012 — Page 2
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Circling the state with song
Ten fifth grade students from Nappanee Elementary joined 15 schools at Goshen College Saturday, Feb. 24 for the Circle the State with Song Music Festival, more than 200 students participated in a day-long, rigorous rehearsal that culminated in an afternoon concert for family and friends.
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nomic uncertainty. The Children's Resale is a meticulously coordinated affair that appears twice a year, once in the spring and again in the fall. More than 200 locally-based committee members and volunteers spend countless hours each season preparing for the weekend. More than 300 sellers bring their gently used, high quality items to the planning committee to be tagged and displayed, with each seller receiving a 90-percent share of the profits on what is sold. Another five percent of the proceeds and a portion of unsold items is distributed among various local agencies that specialize in assisting families facing personal, spiritual, and professional crises. Reason Enough to Act (RETA), Family Christian Development Center, Mothers of Tots to Teens (MOTTTS) of Wakarusa Missionary Church, The Compass, and the Women's Care Center/BABE Store of Elkhart have all been worthy beneficiaries of this endeavor. The remaining five percent of the profits remain with the resale committee, to help defray organizational costs. Since the resale's inception in 2007, families in challenging circumstances have been granted a special invitation to shop the preview sale held the previous Friday evening. Those families were presented with monetary coupons that flowed in from mostly private donations, helping to further lessen the financial burden of providing clothing and other essentials for their children.
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Photo provided NES students involved included (from left): Front row Wesley Middaugh, Sydney Kuhn, Sierra Eggers, and Nolan Chupp; and back row Karina Bauer, Camryn Cook, Brieanna McCormick, Terri Perrin, and Preya Patel. Amanda Fike, also involved and from NES is not pictured.
to lend their support as well. Through the creation of what is deemed the Partnership Program, entities from the corporate sector pledge to offer gifts of money to a fund which in turn goes directly to families facing hardship. During the resale held in the fall of 2011, the donations amounted to more than $6,000, which gave 185 area families a beacon of hope and a gesture of benevolence that intertwines with the Christian principles the resale committee strongly abides by. One local teacher, who was recovering from serious illness, was given a check for SI,OOO to help offset her family's expenses. Thus far, in planning for the approaching resale, the committee has received more than S6OOO to once again benefit families in the Wa-Nee community. Several nearby cities and towns have become inspired by the work ethic and the goodwill sentiment of what occurs in Wakarusa, and have since launched successful resale efforts of their own, including Bourbon, Mishawaka, Angola, and Ligonier, as well as Grace Community Church. "Businesses, childcare facilities, and churches have joined together to invest in our community by providing cash donations that are allocated through the resale for families in need throughout the community," says Resale coordinator Sarah Freitas. "We are so excited to see so many local community members investing in the lives of hurting families in an effort to reach out and do what they can. If we all do a little bit, it adds up to being able to help families that might not have been able to provide needed summer items for their families." For more information on the upcoming Children’s Resale, including how to register as a seller for the fall sale, Freitas can be reached at 574-862-1628 or via e-mail at [email protected]. Advertising Coordinator Donna Love is available at 574-875-3947 or 574-612-1976. Love's e-mail address is capturedbylovephotography® Eo.com. The phone number for Wakarusa ionary Church is 574-862-2102, and the Resale's website can be viewed at www. freewebs.com/wakarusaresale.
And now the spirit of generosity extends well into and beyond the Wakarusa region, as a recently implemented program allows area entrepreneurs and businesses
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