Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 135, Number 3, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 21 January 2016 — Page 2

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• Advance News • Thursday, January 21, 2016

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Photo submitted North Wood High School freshman Kyler Hauptli (sixth from left) was recently selected as a Gameday USA Junior All-American and was invited to play at Ed Smith Stadium, the spring training home of the Baltimore Orioles in Sarasota Fla., Nov. 27-29. Hauptili who plays baseball for the Indiana Eastlake Chargers program and was a leadoff hitter for the Panthers was selected as the MVP of a Gameday USA-hosted event in the Wisconsin Dells and was invited to various locations throughout the country, including an all-star weekend tournament. He was chosen from a field of more than 2,500 players for Junior All-American honors. Hauptli is pictured here with fellow Gameday USA Junior All-Americans. From left to right they are: Coach T. Draheim, B. Barlow, A. Poulton, R. McAuliffe, A. Cantelo, Hauptli, C. Borgan.T. Wilson, J. Draheim, T. Baker, C. Johnson, T. Horsey, P. Schofield, Coach I. Valdez, Coach P. McAuliffe.

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CSO project to eliminate park property, interlocal agreement to compensate cost

By Merrie Chapman Advance Correspondent NAPPANEECommonwealth Engineers presented an update on the Combined Sewer Overffew (GSO) project, Monday, Jan. 11, to the Nappanee Board of Public Works and Safety. The federally mandated plan will result in removal of the south fence at Little Paws Playground as the Berlin Court Ditch is widened for the project. In addition, a public restroom at the entrance to Stauffer Park also bordering the ditch will be removed. As a result the Nappanee Park Board has been alerted to these matters. Through talks with that board it was learned that a Master Plan for the parks already called for a new fence as the Little Paws Playground receives an update for both maintenance and cosmetic purposes. "We didn't want there to be two fences put up," said Mark Downey, Commonwealth Engineers, in reference to a new fence being erected through the CSO project which would only be tom down when the Park Board replaces it with their own Master Plan fence. The engineering firm recom-

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mended that the City of Nappanee which is responsible for CSO project costs pay cost of the fence replacement to the Nappanee Parks and Recreation Department—which is owned by the dtv jflit runs, and is budgeted, individually within dty guidelines and budget. The Park Board's previously established Master Plan calls for no longer using the restroom facility by the opening to Stauffer Park. Instead the plan is to build a concessions stand, complete with restrooms, near the north side of the baseball diamond. "We want to give them reasonable compensation," said Mark Downey, Commonwealth Engineers. Downey also stressed that the City of Nappanee should not absorb the total cost of a new concession stand/restroom facility but rather pay an amount reflecting replacement of the structure being tom down. The remaining cost for the new concessions/bathroom is already preplanned to come through the Nappanee Parks and Recreation budget according to the Master Plan. In reflection of the fence and restroom being tom down and plans to build a new concessions and restroom facility Nappanee Board of Works members agreed to offer the Parks and Recreations Department SIOO,OOO compensation through an interlocal agreement between the dty and parks department. That amount was based on the recommendation of Commonwealth Engineers after research into the costs of each area. PARK CLOSED Stauffer Park is dosed to the public, effective Jan. 11, due to coming work on the CSO project. FURTHER CSO UPDATE Board of Works members also voted to allow the dt/s plan for accomplishing the next phase of the federally mandated CSO projed be submitted to the United States See CSO, page A 8

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