Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 134, Number 36, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 6 September 2012 — Page 4
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1 Advance News • Thursday, September 6, 2012
"The Artful Quilters," a guild for those interested in new quilting techniques, meets the second Thursday of each month at the Nappanee Public Library. Members will meet at the library next Sept. 13 from 6:30 to 8:30 pjn. Membership for tire "Artful Quilters" is open to anyone. Join the fun and fellowship with other quilters while keeping up to date with new activities and techniques in the quilting world. Bring projects to share, check out planned programs for the coming year, and sign up for trips. Yearly dues are sls and are used for the benefit of the guild. Those interested may attend two meetings to get acquainted before becoming members. For more information, contact the Nappanee Public Library at 574-773-7919, or visit www.nappaneelibrary.org online. Tours offered New cardholders and those interested in learning more about Library services are invited to a guided tour of the Nappanee Public Library Monday, Sept. 17 at 7 pan. In addition to discovering where to find current bestsellers, a favorite cookbook, or the daily news, participants will be introduced to many special services. These include the library's newly-updated online catalog, computers and copiers for use in the library; art prints, CDs, DVDs and many other materials for loan such as a portable die-cut machine, an electricity use monitor, craft patterns, and jigsaw puzzles. The library, located at 157 N. Main St., holds the tour the third Monday of every month and by appointment. For more informatioa call 574-773-7919, or visit www.nappaneelibrary.org online. Learn about friendship "A Friend is a Friend is a Friend" is the theme for the AfterSchool Special to be held Sept. 11 at 3:30 p.m. Attendees can find out what friends are for and meet some new ones at the Wakarusa Public Library. Participants will enjoy the book, "39 Uses for a Friend" by Harriet Ziefert along with other books, games, and a yummy end of summer treat. Students in grade K - 5 are welcome to attend and registration is required. Trustees to meet The Wakarusa Library Board of Trustees will meet Sept .14 at 7:45 a.m. in the library meeting room. A public hearing on the proposed 2013 budget will be held.
4-H members awarded, top 10 named
By Amy Wenger Correspondent WAKARUSA The Elkhart County 4-H Fairgrounds would seem to be practically deserted these days, in comparison to the whirlwind of activity that was featured there a month or so ago. The honors and medals have since been distributed; the members have returned to school; the skillfully rendered crafts are now proudly displayed; and the animals have scattered among various locations around the county. So although the images from the fair have already been inscribed mto memories, the season wasn't quite over for those who belong to the Wakarusa chapter of 4-H, known as the "Knee Deep in 4-H" club. Tuesday, Aug. 14, leaders and students celebrated a year of triumphs and accolades as they gathered for their annual banquet at the Wakarusa Missionary Church. Of the 89 members who registered for membership at the beginning of the 4-H year, 73 went on to complete projects in fields of interest ranging from animals and farming to culinary arts, sewing, and countless other artistically themed talents. Two of the club's high school-age students were lauded for having achieved 10 years of membership. Brandon Hall and Alley Bailey were heralded for a decade of impressive achievements, including ten years of awards, scholarships, and other honors of distinction spanning local, regional, and state levels. Bailey was also at the top of a list of 10 members who demonstrated exceptional participation this year through regular attendance at meetings, becoming involved in club activities, and other principles of accomplishment. The additional honorees were Andrew Bailey, Amanda Byland, Noah Brown, Toni Papandrea, Madeline Bailey, Dillion Weldy,
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Well, it's that time again. No, I don't mean the time to start choosing seasonal items of clothing from your "closet" boxes or bins. No, not the time to get into foe swing erf school or not having foe kids at home. I don't even mean foe time for dosing up the beaches or to "fall bade" with our docks. It's time for foe politicians to get down and dirty. Why is that really? Of course they want to win. Of course they fed they are foe best choice. Of course they want to convince us of that. But personally, I'd feel much more comfortable voting for someone that didn't sell him/herself so much and didn't poke at their opponents. I would much rather vote for foe guy not standing in a suit at a podium but rather, foe guy that foe media is following because he's getting his hands dirty helping people that are facing flooding. I would rather vote for someone too busy for press visits but who is being promoted on Facebook by foe number of people sharing foe videos of him dishing out food at foe local food kitchen every Friday night. My perfect candidate would have come from nothing bom in a trunk and who put himself through high school washing dishes in a sleazy restaurant and who, after paying his way through business college working three jobs, paid for his parents to get whatever help they needed he was bom in a trunk remember? Gotta be something off there. He (or she), would be disgusted by S4OO suits, off-shore accounts, and even the mere suggestion of taking Air Force Once (of which's operating costs run from $56 to s6Bk an hour) for a trip to here or there. I want a president that has never gotten a shoe shine or cashed in a savings bond. One that never cheated on his spouse or hired
Malorie Weldy, Jenna Mikel, and Jason Weldy. The Bailey siblings were not foe only ones within their family receiving honors this year. Patriarch Paul Bailey was feted at the state level for having devoted 20 years of exemplary volunteerism. During the banquet, Bailey's wife, Patti, along with Tammy Martin, were both presentedwith flowers and gifts as a gesture of appreciation for their ongoing guidance and leadership for foe club. Three of foe "Knee Deep in 4-H" members were also congratulated for having contributed mightily to foe annual Geranium Sales promotion. Elesia Pruitt racked up foe top sales figures, followed by Braden Mikel and Noah Brown. Award pins were given to dozens of Wakarusa area youth, to commemorate their years of dedication and commitment to the 4-H club's mission and ideals. Those receiving recognition were: • One year Matthew Yoder, Christopher Weldy, Samuel Schlatter, Hunter Lechlitner, Cameron Iwema, Andre Freitas, Desirae Diamond, Cheyanne Diamond, Halle DeMien, Cameron Birk, Reese Barhydt, and Andrew Bailey • Two years Maggie Yoder, Ellie Yoder, Jason Weldy, Grace Richert, Kiana Piercy, Brett Maust, Elizabeth Jansen, Quinten Hunsberger, Khalan Hostetler, Serena Gerber, Tyler Cronkright, Collin Blosser, Ryan Miller, and Laura Eby • Three years Nathaniel Williams, Elizabeth Williams, Alise Whiteman, Victoria Troxel, Nicklas Sherk, Kenneth Schlatter, Amanda Peffley, Logan Nevenhoven, Braden Mikel, Jason McNeill, Liam Hammond, Amanda Byland, Noah Brown, Alaina Benjamin, Madeline Bailey, Gretchen Adams, Dillion Weldy, and Garrett Weldy • Four years Sarah McNeill, Abbey McNeill, Travis Brovont, Cody Brovont, and Courtney Lengacher • Five years Joshua Weldy, Nicole Smith, Benjamin Richert, Chaynie Belcher, Kate Adams, Abigail Adams, Megan Nunemaker, and Bradley Tierney • Six years Zachary Yoder, Malorie Weldy, Taylor Troxel, and Kayley Price • Seven years Elesia Pruitt, Toni Papandrea, Mariah Slabaugh, Ashley Maust, and Blakely Lengacher. • Eight years Becca Slabaugh, Tevin Pruitt, and Haley
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foe services of a woman-for-hire (take that any way you want to works for all of them). I want a president that has a grandma sitting in her leaky mobile home trying to decide if she should get her heart medication or pay her electric bill. Of course, I would expect once he was in foe presidency he would move her somewhere more acceptable. And he wouldn't live in foe White House. He would instead make it foe biggest orphanage in foe planet, taking every child in the United States off foe streets and it wold be run by professional: educators, medical staff, guards, kitchen crews, and etc. He wouldn't drive around with a caravan of bodyguards but would use foe money spent each year on them (think of foe magnitude heck, even Newt spends $40,000 a day on security guards) to pay back everyone our nation owes so we can stop being known as foe planet's moocher. My president would make changes, good changes, and would require his staff and supporters take lie-detector tests to make sure they were on the up-and-up. He would also require drug tests for anyone working for foe government as well as those living off of it. My president would pledge allegiance to foe flag, pray openly, and kiss his wife because he loved her, not because foe cameras happened to be looking. My president ..wouldn't be antiSemitic, racist or homophobic. He would treat his fellow man, whether
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Photo provided These young men, members of the “Knee Deep in 4-H” club of Wakarusa, represent two of the three best sellers during the Geranium Sales event held annually to benefit area 4-H organizations. Noah Brown, at left, was the third highest in sales, while Braden Mikel, right, finished second. The top seller, who is not shown, was Elesia Pruitt.
in a fancy restaurant or picking out of the trash can behind it, with exactly the same respect and would agree or agree to disagree most graciously. Did you know that of all foe living creatures, mankind is the only one that will just attack another of our kind for no reason at all? Animals attack to protect or preserve (as in their children, food or territory) but people are just plain scary. My perfect president would pay foe Chinese to build a wall across our borders so people would have to be honest when coming over. We have to go through rigmarole to visit another country fair is fair and that's what this country was based on. Why foe Chinese? Hello. The wall they built over there is pretty impressive and undeniable durable. My president would make every governmental entity buy their supplies at Sam's Gub or Staples (so as to curb unnecessary spending) and instead of sending spaceships to other planets, spend that time and money on ways to grow food in foe desert or better yet, to farm a garden large enough to feed foe hungry in our own country. My president would be all about honesty, kindness, fairness, hard work and dedication. He (again, or she) would be faithful, generous and ridiculously intelligent. He would use common sense and logic to solve problems and to have these qualities, my president would have to be entirely fictitious. And if there had been such a person alive in any of foe more respectable of decades, he will likely never be seen on this Earth again as each generation grows further and further from those standards. So, as with every year, it's that time, time to trust and believe no one and choose whom I think is foe lesser of two evils.