Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 135, Number 3, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 21 January 2016 — Page 8

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2016 APPRECIATION WNNER NAPPANEE The Nappanee Chamber of Commerce invites residents to join them on Monday, Feb. 29 for the chamber's annual Appreciation Dinner. Nappanee Mayor Phil Jenkins will be the guest speaker and share his vision for Nappanee. The event will be held at Dal-Mar Banquet Hall (159 E. Lincoln .St.). Social hour starts at 5:30 pan. with dinner served at 6 pan. Registration begins at 5:15 pan. AMERICA IN CONCERT AT THE LERNER THEATRE ELKHART—The rock band AMERICA will appear in concert Saturday, March 26 at 8 pan. at The Lemer Theatre in Elkhart. Tickets for America go on sale Friday, Jan. 22 at 10 aan. at The Lemer Box Office, charge by phone at 574-293-4469 or online www.thelemer.com. Tickets will also be available at Orbit Music in Mishawaka, Audio Specialists/ State Road 933 N in South Bend, and Karma Records in Plymouth and Warsaw. Ticket prices are $79.85, $59.85 and $39.85 each, and there is a limit of 10 tickets per person on the first day of ticket sales.

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Department of Agriculture (USDA), and agreed to a financial plan involving lower interest for the estimated sls million cost of this next phase of work on the project. Through further update board members learned a new 1.875 interest plan is now available. According to Commonwealth Engineers entering this loan agreement would accomplish the goal of covering CSO costs with a lower interest rate in the same number of payments previously acquired. Board members agreed to allow City Attorney Brian Hoffer to work with Commonwealth on establishing the loan under these new guidelines. The sls million load only covers one phase of the total plan which is estimated at $26 million dollars. However, the engineering firm pointed out, thanks to a 45% federal Rural Oiant recmed by • the* City of Napfranee) the $26 million dollar project win come at a lesser cost of $22 million—a $4 million savings. That total cost is divided into stages of development to help the city in budgeting the costs. The Board of Public Works and Safety meets 3:30 p.m.

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Photo/David M. Palmer Coach Adam Yoder lectures his varilty players in preparation for their game against Northridge High School. Yoder took over the head coaching position after head coach Steve Neff retired following the 2013-14 season.

By David M. Palmer Assistant Editor NAPPANEE —It has been two years since the North Wood girls basketball team had a change of coaches, but the girls and their coaching staff have nothing but success in their sights. Now in its second season after the retirement of former head coach Steve Neff, who announced his retirement from the program before the 2013-14 season, the North Wood girls basketball team is continuing to keep success on and off the court its primary focus. Former junior varsity coach Adam Yoder stepped into the head coach role after Neff's retirement, and the girls have seen growth and success in his two seasons at the helm. According to Yoder, the chance to follow Coach Neff comes with certain pressures but also with a challenge that he is more than willing to take on. "The outside expectations on our program are pretty high," Yoder said. "That has a lot to do with Coach Neff's success. He coached here for 37 years and won 653 games; that's pretty impressive." But, according to Yoder, living up to the legacy of Neff is not the focus of his program. While Neff left a lasting impression on the North Wood girls team, Yoder maintains that his program is dedicated to improving players’ level of play with every practice, regardless of the expectations. "Coach Neff was never worried about that kind of stuff," Yoder said. "He was worried about getting better every day and getting ready for the tournament at the end of the year,

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ketball team won the Northern Lakes Conference championship, only losing in double overtime in a sectional game against a Tippecanoe Valley team that went on to reach the 3A state championship game. After his firet season as head coach last year, Yoder has had several players go on to join Division I college programs, a testament to both his and Neff's coaching. But Yoder looks at his past and his time under coach Neff as one of the reasons he and his team have the success that they do. "I'd been with coach Neff long enough that I'd been around a lot of these players, and I had them when they were younger," Yoder said of his time as the freshman and JV coach under Neff. "It's been a nice transition in that sense." According to Yoder, the transition from one head coach to another was easy for the players and the staff to adapt to, with the bulk of changes only predicated by the type of players the team has rather than the switch in coaches. Speaking to the differences in the team from the time Neff coached to now, Yoder said that the primary differences come from the size and type of players he has versus the size and type that were successful for the program under Neff. "We've changed some of our strategy and the type of basketball vye play, bqt that's more dictated by the type of players mat we nave now compared to coach Neff," Yoder said. "Coach Neff, for the longest time, had a lot of really solid post players. We just don't have a lot of the girls right now, so that has kind of forced the change more than anything." Despite the changes to the program in the last two years, Yoder and his Panthers only aim to keep pushing themselves and raise the bar as high as they can. As of the time of this article, the North Wood Panthers girls basketball team is 12-7 in their season and ranked 74 overall in the state.

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