Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 134, Number 18, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 3 May 2012 — Page 2

Advance News* Thursday, May 3,2012

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Open Class Exhibits set for Home and Family Arts Department

GOSHEN Mkhiana residents are encouraged to participate in die Home and Family Arts Department at die Elkhart County 4-H Fair. The departments to enter are: Baking, Cake Decorating, Children's Comer, Clothing Construction, Creative Arts, Ball & Kerr<BAdult Food Preservation Award, Food Preservation-Canning, Food PreservationMiscellaneous, Handicrafts, Needlework, Photography, Quilts Machine Quilted, and Quilts Hand Quilted. Entry fee is $1 per entry, and must be paid at the time of check-in. To receive five daily fair passes, enter a minimum of five entries (and up to 20) and pay a S3O entry fee. Entrants may enter more than 20 entries for an additional $1 per entry. All entries, with the exception of baking, cake decorat-

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‘One Day ’ a makeover day

Photo provided What takes one front-end loader, 24 pairs of hands, nine wheelbarrows, assorted rakes and shovels, and a huge mountain of wood chips? A fresh, thickly-mulched Little Paws playground, that’s whatl In two hours, about a dozen members of the Nappanee Kiwanis Club, their families, and helpers from the Nappanee Boys & Girls Club completed that awesome task. April 21 was Kiwanis One Day, an international community service event celebrated in more than 80 countries and in every state in the nation. The Nappanee Kiwanis Club chose to give a popular community playground a mulch makeover. Nappanee City employees Wayne Scheumann, Kim Nine, and

United Cancer Services’ events schedule planned

ELKHART - United Cancer Services of Elkhart County Inc., a 53-year-old non-profit agency committed exclusively to Elkhart County cancer patients, offers assistance to those not in hospice care with financial aid (even for those that have insurance), education and emotional support. This year more than 1,100 Elkhart County supporters

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raised more than $32,000 during the Leprechaun Leap in March. Registrations are now being taken for the Compassion Walk. May 19 Cocktails for Cancer will be held at 523 Grill and Harrison Landing. Appetizers are offered at 6:30 p.m. and music at 9 p.m. Cost is S2O for the appetizer and cocktail. That fundraiser will be

sells. 'The easiest to carve is Walnut," he said. "You get crisper edges with hardwoods. With cottonwood you have to use the most power tools to create the

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mg, and special contests, must be brought to the Home and Family Arts Building on die fairgrounds between 1 and 7 pm., Monday, July 16. Baking and cake decorating entries are due Thursday, July 19 between 7:30 ajn. and 11 ajn. Special contest entries are due die day of die contest and do not require pre-entry. The entry fee indudes admission at the gate. All exhibits must stay in place in the Home k Family Arts Building until Monday, July 30 where they must be removed between 2 and 6 p.m. For a complete copy of the rules and regulations, visit die website www.extension.purdue.edu/elkhart or one can be emailed by contacting [email protected]. Copies are also available from the Elkhart County Extension Office in Goshen located mi the 4-H Fairgrounds.

Mark Ingle provided the wood chips and much-appre-ciated technical assistance. Nappanee Kiwanians, their family members, and helpers from the Boys & Girls Club of Nappanee that were involved included (from left): Front row Toni Bonacorsi, Daniel Keller, Kyle Cripe, Max Parciak (in hat), Shawn Johnson; middle row Randy and Andrea Cripe, Bonnie Hochstetler, Tom Parciak, Bev Fales, Emily Alexander, David, Dana, and Darrin Keller; and back row David Tompos, Mike Sheetz, Wayne Scheumann, Mark Ingle, Jon Stepp, Carrie Keller, and Pat Miller. Not pictured are helpers Noah Alexander, .Peggy Tompos, Kim Nine, and Bill Fales (the photographer).

foffowed by the NAIDA Golf Scramble for United Cancer June 11 at Christiana Creek Country Qub. Teams play for S2BO, individuals for S7O with sponsorships from $l5O to SI,OOO. There will be a silent auction for items including a Ryder Cup flag signed by the U.S. and European coaches, a hat signed by Tom Watson and a book penned by Arnold

details." Blosser has been creating all sorts of pieces, faces, totems, trees, fish and more which are shown in a photo album for interested buyers, but he says his favorite

Palmer autographed by the author. Those that want to be involved in any of the fundraising and awareness events can raise pledges and get started by calling 574-875-5158, emailing info# elkhartcancer.org or online at www.elkhartcancer.org. All proceeds go directly to cancer patients in Elkhart County.

creation is an Elk that took him more than three hours to find "hiding" within the wood. "It all depends on what it is, what wood I use, and how many breaks 1 take," he explained when asked the time it takes to bring a piece to fruition. "My biggest is a 35-foot mermaid," ne said, "1 had to use a scaffolding for that one." Blosser explained that people most often ask him to carve bears, eagles or Indian sculptures but that the Ash log centered on a stage at the Wakarusa Maple Syrup Festival this weekend had a wolf waiting to emerge. "It might take me three or four hours, but I'll get it out of there," he said with a smile. I AS YOUR COUNTY I I COUNCILMAN | WILL KEEP WORKING FOR: • Good money management -aSaasF

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NAPPANEE Dresses such as this one are being sold at Antiques on the Square in Nappanee to benefit young women in Cambodia. The "Daughters' Project" is a faith-based initiative under the umbrella of Center For Global Impact which rescues girls from poverty and abusive situations and provides a safe place for the girls to live and learn. They have a twoyear vocational program designed to teach die girls to be professional seamstresses. Hie girls (some of diem as young as five years old ) have been rescued from the human trafficking industry in Phnom Penn

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A minute to win it Photos by Angel Perkins Above: Sierra Wright, 9, Miamisburg, Ohio, took her chances during the Minute to Win It contest for children 14 and younger, during which contestants had a minute to perform each of a series of tasks. This was her second time attending the annual festival held in Wakarusa, but for her mother, Heather Wright, it was an event she attended many times as a child. The former Heather Boger said, “I grew up here so I went every year; I’ve probably been to ... at least 25.” Below: John Shrock of Middlebury said this was his first time at the Wakarusa Maple Syrup Festival and the first time taking on Minute to Win It challenges. Contestants were challenged to master six tasks involving coordination and luck to win. Here Shrock attempts (successfully) to transfer two 2-liter bottles of gum balls into two 2-liters attached to them by shaking and swirling them. More on page 5

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