Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 134, Number 50, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 13 December 2012 — Page 4
* Advance News * Thursday, December 13,2012
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perspective on gift-giving, seasonal celebration" some information was included incorrect. The following corrected facts are as follows: • There are 230 bricks found inside the floor of the memorial walkway. • The bricks can be purchased for SSO. • The brides are to memorialize any serviceperson, alive or deceased, that served in any conflict or served in times of peace. • Personalization of each memorial bride is created by a local business. • An account in the name of "SSG Trims K. Hunsberger Memorial Fund" has been established at Interra Credit Union for the purpose of accepting donations toward the memorial's upkeep. • In front of Travis Hunsberger's memorial are brides personalized with the names of his Special Forces unit, Operational Detachment Alpha 7132 and indudes: SGM Robert Louden. The Advance News staff regrets any confusion the previ-ously-run information may have caused. Additionally, volunteers are needed to put together a fundraiser next year for the memorial's upkeep. To learn more, call Steve Hunsberger at 574-862-2472. Borkholder famly benefit auction Dec. 14 NAPPANEE An auction is being held Friday, Dec. 14 at Dutch Village Market, 700 C.R. 101 (Tomahawk Drive) as a fundraiser for the family of David Borkholder. Borkholder was in a farming a cadent July 3, is still in a coma, and his family (inducting five children) are in need of support. Food will be available beginning at noon; there will be a bake sale and the auction begins at 2 p.m. Items for auction indude farming equipment, household furniture, crafts, buggies, bicycles, outdoor furniture and more. To learn more contact Duane Chupp, 260-463-6898; Gerald Beechy, 574-773-2828; JB Auctions, 574-575-2364 or Chupp Auctions at 574-536-8005. Around, from front Dawning Generation will entertain as well as will individual and combined groups. Tickets are $5 per adult, $3 per student in grades K through 12 and children 5 years old and younger will be admitted free of charge. Tickets may be purchased and more information can be obtained by calling the NWHS music office at 574-773-4127. Tickets will also be available at the door. All seats are general seating and doors open at 2 p.m. North Wood High School is located one-and-a-half miles north of Nappanee on S.R. 19. OFFICES CLOSED FOR THE HOLIDAYS NAPPANEE The City of Nappanee and Chamber of Commerce offices will be closed Dec. 24 from 12 to 5 p.m. and Dec. 25 all day for Christmas; and Dec. 31 from 12 to 5 p.m. and all day Jan. 1 for New Years Day. Named, from front and guidelines. Approximately a quarter of Nappanee's sl.l million grant money renewed has already been used on the program to purchase theUve homesunder development. Planning Ts underway to revitalize three of them. Leadbased paint will be removed, and other measures taken to bring the homes up to code and habitable. Two are in need of total destruction due to irreparable conditions. Several council members questioned whether the new houses would blend in with the neighborhoods surrounding them. "Yes, they will," assured Scott Hughes. "These are not what you would traditionally think of as government housing homes. They will be nice two-story, two-garage homes that we expect to market between SIOO,OOO and $125,000." His brief description included average internal layout and external siding and roofing to match other homes in the local housing market. It is expected that when all five homes are finished and sold there will be enough money reentered into the local program for purchase and renovation of future homes. Already two additional homes are being considered for future purchase.
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With Christmas only 12 days away (gasp), the shoppers are hitting die streets, and each other; en route to find that perfect gift. Those that are smart (or lazy) will order their presents online and nope for the best that thieves won't destroy their fives by stealing their money (or their identity) and that the one perfect dang on that list is still available for purchase. If they am make it through those trials, they then must hurdle die delivery people and hope that what they purchased will actually arrive before Christmas morning and in die condition it said it would be on die website it was purchased from. I'm all about the "seeing is believing" and I hate to read die fine print so I'd rather risk my life and buy my gifts in person. And since it's all at the mall, or rather at A mall (be it contained or strip) life and limb ARE in danger. While I agree that some of the merchandise on sale is worth fighting for, is it really necessary to bloody one another for the latest Smart Phone Rhone or Lalaloopsy doll? I mean realj, is the gift recipient going to die or fall into a deep depression because they don't receive it? Being sparked to anger while shopping can do wicked things to one's imagination and the cutthroat attitude is honestly contagious. Growing up in Saint Joseph County, the world of Marshall County and die cities of Nappanee and Wakarusa are like foreign countries to me. The simpleness, the kindness, the overall politeness, is somewhat unsettling. I recently, with a fellow St. Joseph County native, discussed the similarities of one of the area small towns with the Stepford Wives, an interesting book
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manhandled one another and so many unhappy little people were literally drug by file hands it made me want to lose my composure on a mommy or two. Thankfully, with all the hostility weighing down the people and racks of merchandise, there were little dungs we experienced whilst within the shopping herds that if noticed, managed to bring us completely if only temporarily out of the angry haze. At one point, a Salvation Army volunteer readied into his pants pocket and shoved some money in the little red kettle he manned, apparently not impressed with the donations given that evening. Another time I found myself singing a holiday song droning from the store's personal address system and only realized I wasn't singing in my head or under my breath at the moment I heard another shopper mindlessly singing it with me from another aisle. And one time, a moment that brought my teenaged son out of a surly mood induced by the shopping madness. He caught sight of two little people, seemingly siblings, wearing their Sunday best and while their mommy was no doubt choosing which staged poses of them she wanted for their Christmas cards, they hand-in-hand skipped in a circle singing Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer cherubic smiles matching their voices. If you look for it, amidst the pall of the Christmas squall you truly can find fleeting and subtle glimpses of what the holiday is all about, tne existence of mankind forgiven for their natural ugliness, and goodwill toward one another despite who got to the prized present first.
Madison Sheline, Riley Smith, Jacob Snider, Alana Strycker, William Stueve, Ashley Stump, Austin Stutzman, Kaitlyn Swihart, Spencer Swihart, Neal Warstler, Lauren Wenger, Tanner White Sophomores: Elizabeth Balogh, Natalie Beaumont-Christy, Rachel Beebe, Zachary BeMiller, Mikayla Bley, Laura Castillo, Cheyanne Diamond, Mallory Disher, Donna Drepin, Kirk Eby, Haley Foster, Jordyn Frantz, Lyndon Gingerich, Paige Hershberger, lOuen Holmes, Mitchell Hunsberger, Mark Ingle, Monica Jones, Blakely Lengacher, Ashley Maust, Jamie Mcßride,Abbey McNeill, Dominic Miranda, Alicia Nead, Evan Nix, Devon Podlesak, Kennedy ReifeL Nancy Rice, Marie Robbins, Jordyn Romersberger, Dane Schmucker, Trent Sellers, Hannah Simms, Sydney Stonger, Mackenzie Swihart, Brianna Tuttle, Caleb Yoder Freshmen : Abigail Adams, Lacy Alderman, Brooke Anglemyer, Shirley Arteaga, Mikayla Bedward, Alexis Behl, Allison Borkholder, JaLynn Borkholder, Isaac Bowser, Dylan Carter, Obadiah Clemans, Tanner Cleveland, Katelyn Davis, Drew Delio, Brianna Ervin, David Eshelman, Zachary Ferreira, McKayla Fielstra, Caleb Geyer, Gabrielle Glass, Audra Graber, Alexa Grendys, Katherine Guadian, Bradley Lent, Katelyn Minder, Braxton Mitchell, Madalyn Moore, Collin Moorhead, Mykayla See Honor, Page 10