Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 133, Number 12, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 20 March 2014 — Page 1

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MONTH'S SECOND SATURDAYS' EVENT NAPPANEE - April's Second Saturdays in Nappanee will feature a craftsmanship day at Coppes Commons. Art displays from local artists and craftsmen will be located all throughout the facility and many other retail stores in Nappanee. Any type of artist is encouraged to come out, including quilters, woodsmiths, painters and culinary artists. All types will be considered. Local artists are encouraged to contact Liz Mullet of the Second Saturdays Committee at 574-536-0758 to help set up a free exhibit for their crafts in a local business for the day. NEW WORSHIP SERVICE IN BREMEN BREMEN The Bremen Church of the Brethren would like to invite everyone in the community to attend a new Sunday night worship celebration at 5:30 p.m. Sundays. This service will be informal and uDbeat featuring contemporary musiesmd exciting and encouraging preaching that deals with real life issues. Worship will be every Sunday night at 5:30 p.m. with a nursery available for young children and a mother's room for babies. Light snacks will be available for social time before or after the worship. KIWANIS SPAGHETTI DINNER BREMEN Kiwanis Club is holding a Spaghetti Dinner before the Swartzlander Benefit Basketball Game on Thursday, March 20. Dinner will be available from 4:30 Bremen Elementary School Cafeteria. Following, BHS Intramural "All-Stars" will compete against the six senior members of the BHS boys and girls basketball teams from 6:30 The Swartlander Benefit Game between police officers and local celebrities and boys and girls team basketball members will begin at 7 p.m. The cost of the dinner is $5 per person. Children under five eat free with parents. Tickets can be purchased in advance from any Kiwanis member. Tickets are also available at die door. All proceeds from the Spaghetti Dinner will benSea CALENDAR, Page 5

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NAPPANEE - The Northwood High School drama department will present Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat as their spring musical March 21 through March 23. Friday and Saturday shows begin at 7 p.m.; the Sunday performance will be at 2:30 p.m. The play tells the Biblical story of the "coat of many colors" worn by Joseph in the Book of Genesis. His father, Jacob, has 12 sons, but favors Joseph and offers him the coat of many colors, increasing the 11 brothers'

Student population drop causes concern

By Amy Wenger Advance Correspondent NAPPANEE Signs of economic recovery have become more visible in the embattled Wa-Nee region over the past few years. Even so, the school enrollment numbers are cm a slow

Funds needed to extend city utility lines

By Merrie Chapman Advance Corresondent NAPPANEE—During a March 3 Common Council meeting council members approved on first reading additional appropriations toward the dtywide TEF District. Approximately $1,650,000 will be used on engineering and construction fees to extend water and sewer lines three miles east of the city for connection to the city-owned

IN IMPORTANT MEDICAL UPDATE In the past two years there has been a significant and even alarming increase in the population of deer ticks, which makes the risk of Lyme Disease to your dog much higher than it was in the past. Lyme Disease is almost entirely preventable through vaccination and the use of tick preventatives. ? v Please feel free to elk one of our staff members about our lyme vaccination special offer. Nawianee Veterinary Hospital 151 «L Unceln St. Nappaaee• 888-7!!4i2rer 514-773-4121

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hated of Joseph. The hatred grows as Joseph explains this his brothers that he has had dreams saying he will one day rule over them and they plot to get rid of their beloved brother. A host of other calamities occur in. Joseph's life after he is sold into slavery in Egypt. General and reserve seating tickets are available for this performance. Tickets are five dollars for all seats. Lap children are free. General seating tickets will also be available at the door with limited reserved seating

downward slide, and the district is looking to counteract that trend. With that notion in mind, members of the Wa-Nee Community Schools Board of School Trustees are poised to welcome new students into the district, as was expressed during a somewhat abbre-

munidpal airport. Coundl members also approved a tax abatement measure for Ameritrans Bus which will promote the company's expansion usmg*a tax abatement plan. The first year collected property taxes will be paid in at a discounted rate which will gradually increases each year of the contract to ease Ameritrans Bus through costs of expansion. This is done to help promote the economic base of the City of Nappanee.

Students of North Wood High School rehearse scenes fn ■■ *L. -TtWJi uw upcuming tttust“ cal Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Performances will be held this weekend. (Photos by Danl Molnar)

options. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and at 2 p.m. Sunday. To reserve seats and make arrangements for purchase of tickets, call the North Wood High School Music Office at 574-773-4127 during the office hours of 8 a.m. Wednesday and Friday. North Wood High School is located 1.5 miles north of Nappanee on SR 19. For more information, contact the music office.

viated session held on Monday, March 10. The meeting was unusually short, in that a quorum was not present for the majority of the gathering, so no votes on official matters were conducted during that time. However, Business Manager Roger Zentz

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did provide the members in attendance with a brief overview about dedining numbers and the resulting loss of funding generated by those numbers. Zentz said that the current data reflecting the academic population as of Feb. 13 shows a total of 2,960.5

Nappanee Mayor Larry Thompson filed a disclosure of contracts concerning two properties to be purchased by the City of Nappanee in compliance with file setup of the state-mandated Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) plan. The first property houses both the mayor's business—Thompson Lengacher & Yoder Funeral Home, located at 950 N. Main Street, Nappanee. His home is located at the back of the same property.

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The second property, owned by the mayor's son, Patrick Thompson, is adjacent to the west side of the first property and accessible through the funeral home property. Right-of-ways for the CSO project will be purchased from the south side of both properties—along the Berlin Court Ditch. The area being purchased will be used in file construction process of the mandated pipelines to control sewage release

students. This is a drop of more than 138.5 students since 2008, when the district total stood at 3,099. Because the number of enrolled students is commensurate to the level of funding that the schools receive, this dedine has translated to a reduction School, cont. on page 5

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