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Top 25 North Wood HS Juniors honored by Nappanee Kiwanis 4 V ' i ' l * • NAPPANEE —At a recent Nappanee Kiwanis meeting the Top 25 Juniors of North Wood High School were honored with introductions and an award certificates. Each student identified their anticipated education goals after high school as well. Keynote speaker for the event was Mike Lightfoot, head men s basketball coach at Bethel College, who advised them to support one another, count their blessings daily, and to have a purpose that will outlast them. He also suggested that they "have a plan" and re-evaluate it often as they set their goals and "dream big."

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In alphabetical order fheiNatthWood juniors honored are: Natalie Beaumont-Christie (absent), Cooper Clark, Mallory Disher, Doftha Drepin, Michael Feller, Paige Hershberger, Stac Hershberger, Marisa Hochstetler, Monica Jones, Alison Kelly, Devyn Maugel, Nolan Mcßride, Abbey McNeill, Elizabeth Mikel, Vikki Miller, Kari Minnich, Evan Nix, Kennedy Reifei, Morgai Resler, Hannah Simms, Quinn Stillson, Sydney Stonger, Brianna Tuttle, Dane Wysong, and Kylie Yoder. (Photo provided

You deserve a factual look at... Why Should the lI.S. Fund the Palestinian Authority? The Palestinians spurn peace talks with Israel and new plan te align with Hamas terrtrists. Should we be sending them mere than hall a billion dollars a year? Despite all efforts by U.S. Secretary of Slate John Kerry, the Palestinian Authority tPAj has rejected US. diplomatic efforts and a negotiated peace with Israel by unilaterally signing on to 15 international agreement s. Em more alarming, the PA just announced a merger with the Islamic terror group Hamas. Currently the US. sends some $440 million dollars ammlly m direct aid to the PA, plus an additional $225 million in funding through the U.N. Is this the best use of American tax dollars?

What are the facts? Since 11)79, the United States has expended untold diplomatic capital to forge an Israeli-Paiestinian peace. Yet every time peace has seemed at hand—including the 0.5.brokered Oslo accords in 1993, and Israel’s historic Camp David offer in 2000 of a Palestinian state with a capital in East Jerusalem—the Palestinians have refused to make peace. In

2008, following the Annapolis summit, Israeli Prime Minister Olmert again offered the Palestinians a state based on 1967 borders and a capital in Jerusalem, but PA President Mahmoud Abbas walked away without a counter offer. In 2010, in order to bring the

parties together for new peace talks. President Obama convinced Israel to enforce a moratorium on building in the Jerusalem suburbs for ten months. For eight months, PA President Abbas refused to take part in talks, and eventually walked out. Now the Palestinians have again effectively ended peace talks with Israel unilaterally by seeking international recognition and a unity government with the Hamas terrorist faction. In addition to its diplomatic investment, the U.S. has over the decades given the Palestinian Authority more than five billion dollars in aid.Jotlay, the United States provides more than $665 million annually in direct aid and funding through the United Nations. Yet despite this generous diplomatic support and financial largesse, Mahmoud .Abbas and Palestinian Authority officials have verbally attacked the United States and snubbed U.S. aid. In 2011, the Palestinian Authority announced a “boycott of the 1 American consulate, its diplomats, and the American institutions in Jerusalem,” adding that Americans “cannot extort the Palestinian people and humiliate it with a bit of aid.” Referring to these huge U.S. financial grants, Abbas said. “This does not mean that they |the U.S.| dictate to us whatever they want.” The Palestinian Authority did indeed reject requests by the United States not to form an alliance with Hamas terrorists in

By allying with the terrorist group Hamas, abandoning peace talks with Israel, and taking its case for statehood unilaterally to international bodies, it's clear that the Palestinian Authority has no respect for the interests of the United States in the Middle East, including peace with Israel. With today’s ailing economy and soaring budget deficits, isn’t it time for Congress to stop spending more than half a billion American tax dollars annually supporting the ( rogue Palestinian Authority?

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2011: President Abbas proceeded to seal that agreement anyway—though the deal later fell apart—knowing full well that it is against U.S. law for Congress to fund any organization with terrorist ties. Now .Abbas has announced a new merger with Hamas, the faction that openly advocates the conquest of every inch of Palestine, cleansing it of Jews, and establishing a fundamentalist Islamic caliphate. Above all, Hamas refuses to

*lf a Palestinian state were declared today, it would be neither democratic, nor peaceful nor willing to negotiate with Israel. * U.S. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

refrain from making a bid for unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state at the U.N. Instead. Abbas proceeded to the U.N. and made his request. Now he has signed documents requesting additional recognition by 15 U.N. and other international organizations. Time to stop aid to U.S. enemies. In 2011. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that “We will not deal with nor in any way fund a Palestinian government that includes Hamas unless and until Hamas has renounced violence, recognized Israel and agreed to follow the previous obligations of the Palestinian Authority.” In fact, annual U.S. foreign appropriations bills expressly forbid funding for “assistance to Hamas or any entity effectively controlled by Hamas or any power-sharing government of which Hamas is a member.” Both houses of Congress have already overwhelming passed resolutions that threaten withdrawal of aid from the Palestinian Authority if it persists in efforts to circumvent direct negotiations with Israel by turning to the United Nations for recognition—which it has done— and if the Palestinian Authority shares power with a recalcitrant Hamas. According to the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, “Despite decades of assistance totaling billions of dollars, if a Palestinian state were declared today, it would be neither democratic, nor peaceful nor willing to negotiate with Israel.”

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, accept the state of Israel and condemns any efforts to negotiate peace. In 2011, President Abbas rejected pleas from the Obama administration and the European Union to return to negotiations with Israel and

Nappanee Elementary hosts States Fair

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is shown dressed up as the Statue of Liberty in celebration of her assigned state, New York, during last week's fifth grade States Fair. (Photo provided)

By Dani Molnar Editor NAPPANEE Each year, fifth graders at Nappanee , Elementary School have the opportunity to present a state to the rest of the school. Students create four projects related to their states, including an 500-word article, tri-fold and quiz for other students at Nappanee Elementary School to take. "One of the most popular

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projects to do was create a fashion show or sample a food from that state," Piper King, fifth grader, stated. On Friday, the fifth graders of Nappanee Elementary, then brought everything they’d learned to the gymnasium, where they held a massive States Fair displaying all they’d uncovered about the state of they’d been assigned. ,Adrienne Lehman, fifth

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grader, dressed up as the Statue of Liberty and presented New York with her partner Regina Schwartz. Through their research, they learned that the Statue of Liberty's pinky alone was eight feet long. i Whereas, King, who elected to research New Mexico due to such a large amount of family there, learned about the origins of Smoky the Bear, a red cub who was

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