Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 135, Number 32, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 11 August 2016 — Page 4
Advance News • Thursday, August 11, 2016
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What I read % over the summer If s hard to believe that all across the county schools are going back into session. Summer vacation is over! That
means ifs time for kids to prepare to write tirat perennial essay, "What I Did Over The Summer." So what did I do over the summer? Well, for me
What I Did Over The Summer equals What I Read Over the Summer. And since we have a reading program for folks of all ages at the Nappanee Public Library I am glad to report I read 4899 pages between June 1 and July 30. So what did I read? I should start by asking, "What did I hear?" You see, part of what I read included audio books I listened to in the car. Just looking over my list I see that I heard "Leonard" by William Shatner (about his friend Leonard Nimoy), "Midnight in Broad Daylighf' about a JapaneseAmerican family from Hiroshima and California separated by an ocean during World War n, "The Professor and the Madman" by Simon Winchester, about a convicted murderer who helped with the production of the Oxford English Dictionary (and which I just discovered is being made into a move), "Hamilton: The Revolution" about the creation of that incredible musical, "Revenge" which concerns a father's difficulties with his son, and "Into The Black," about the first flight of the Space Shuttle. I also read six of the seven Harry Potter books while getting ready for the new one that just came out. (I read the seventh one too, but that was after July 31). I also read "Beedle the Bard," which is a book that's mentioned in the Harry Potter series and was written afterwards. There was a book about Jesse Owens, and "The Booke of Sir Thomas More," a play written by at least six people including William Shakespeare. I enjoyed the script of the musical "The Book of Mormon," and the newly published "The Story of Kullervo" by J.R.R. Tolkien, There were four three issues of The New Yorker on my list, Let's see. I read one book on my Kindle: "The Millionaire and the Bard," about Henry Folger's obsession with buying copies of Shakespeare's First Folio. I read one book for children titled "My Grandfather's Journey" by Allan Say, along with the Iliad by Homer, this year's issue of the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, and there were also two articles about ancient papyri, one about an ancient comedy and the other about an ancient mixed martial arts sport called Pammachon. Along the way I read pages and pages of the Bible along with a stack of commentaries preparing for Bible Studies and sermons, but I didn't keep track of any of that. Oh. I almost forgot. I read the proofs of my new book "Ten Reasons to Love Leviticus, co-authored with my friend Bob Neff, so it could be published before our denomination's Annual Conference in July: And I read the musical I coauthored with my friend Steve Engle over and over and over again while we rehearsed it, but I only counted it once. Good grief! Four Thousand, Nine Hundred, and Thirteen pages. Hmm. I think I"ll take a week off and watch cartoons. I'll start with Zootopia! Frank Ramirez is the Senior Pastor of the Union Center Church of the Brethren.
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Hie lessons that define us
Two Panthers and a Wildcat. It sounds a bit like the catchy title of a children's book, but
alas, it is not. It represents what my children will become as they return to school this week, on Wednesday, Aug. 10 to be more precise.
As I become somewhat dazed at the rapidity of how this summer has vanished, it is also a season of change and triumph for my daughters and my son. There is a fair amount of chaos thrown in for good measure as well. For you see, this is the first time that an entire school year is starting with all three of my children commencing scholastics in public school. My eldest, Hannah, is headed to North Wood High School, my Rebekah is joining North Wood Middle School, and my Josiah is moving along at Wakarusa Elementary. For nearly three years, my girls spent their weekdays with me in a homeschool environment. We also joined the Mint City Home Educators co-op, during which time we made some incredible, lifelong friendships. I taught a creative writing class for junior high and high school aged students, and loved every moment of it. During challenging family times, such as my chronic illness and my father's passing, those classmates, friends, and teachers came through for us in remarkable ways, and for that, we are eternally grateful. My young ladies stayed busy with studies and other pursuits, ranging from art to animals, sewing to drama, history to bicycling, and politics to poetry. We embraced experiences that broadened their perception of the vast world that they were growing up far too quickly in. Yet I knew that one day, they would want to return to the familiarity of the classrooms they remembered, the friends they missed terribly, and the rigors of a more challenging curriculum better suited to their ever evolving, inquisitive minds. And when they both came to me and told me that they wanted to return to the Wa-Nee school system, it was quite bittersweet. I had given them the tools to build their set of wings, and now it was time to let them fly. And so, in the days leading up to their return, I was feel-
100 YEARS AGO AUGUST 11, 1916 The school board held a meeting at Secretary H.E. Zook's office Friday and reorganized for the ensuing year. The same officers who served so efficiently for the past year were reelected as follows: Dr. W.A. Price, president; H.E. Zook, secretary; and C.R. Stoops, treasurer. Plans for the building of the new school house are progressing as rapidly as possible. The architect has the plans drawn and Contractor Berner of South Bend is getting estimatea on the cost of the material. As soon as the pleted the building will be pushed as rapidly as possible and it is hoped to have it enclosed by the time winter sets in. The board wants sealed bids for digging a sewer from the school buildings as well. Daniel A. Young, aged 62, died Sunday afternoon at his home on North Main Street after an illness of over a year. Mr. Young was an old resident of Nappanee having been engaged in the meat business here for over 35 years, being last interested in the Widmoyer market, retiring from there about two years ago on account of ill health. He was an upright, charitable, and honorable business man. He was bom in Ashland County, Ohio on December 11, 1853 and has been a resident of this area for the past 58 years. On May 20, 1873, he was united in marriage to Miss Lucy Landis, who survives him. To this union three daughters were bom - Miss Laura at home, Mrs. Joseph Dick and Mrs. Burt Love of Elkhart. 75 YEARS AGO AUGUST 14,1941 Robert Yarian, 18 year old son of Mrs. Jacob Yarian of Nappanee, suffered five broken ribs and fractured vertebrae of tire spine when the car in which he was riding with Miss Mary Jane Kehr of Wakarusa, fell thirty feet at the Milford Fair Friday evening. The car, part of a whirl-a-plane ride at the fair, came apart in the middle and plunged the young couple to the pavement, leaving three young men in the other half of the cage uninjured, but badly scared. Miss Kehr suffered a severe cut on the forehead and bruises and shock. Numerous spectators were endangered by the crash but all of them fortunately escaped injury. Acording to town marshal William Bushong of Milford, Yarian and Miss Kehr had been on the ride for several minutes and the operator was preparing to stop the car and let them off when the accident
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Wisdom and Whimsy By Amy Wenger
ing superhumanly organized, feeling like we could perfectly coordinate our shopping trips for three eager students, a sea of school supplies shiny and new for us to grab and gather like hunters in the wilderness. Because life is just that predictable, right? Then we landed in the school supply section of Target, the unforeseen puddle of quicksand swallowing me where I stood, while my daughters ran gleefully through the aisles of neon-tinged locker accessories, speckled composition notebooks, and ink pens that wrote in colors not found in nature. Meanwhile I lingered there bewildered, looking over the list with a slack-jawed expression. Rubber cement? A spiral bound drawing sketchpad? Graph paper? Egads... Several hundred dollars later, with a trunk full of backpacks, water bottles, gym clothes, and enough supplies to launch our very own Office Depot, I was absolutely spent. Our haughty hubris had been replaced by an overwhelming sense of being haggard and hungry. Maybe lam not ready for this...in more ways than 0ne...1 lamented with a mopey sense of defeat. Feeling more than sorry for myself, I whipped into the drive-through of a Dunlap fast food establishment, numbly rattled off the favorite items for all of my littles, and pulled forward. I counted the coins searching for the absolute last of my exact change. That was when the sliding door opened, and the young man craned his neck to say to me, "So, I guess the lady right in front of you...she has paid for your meal tonight. She said she wanted to pay it forward..." I reached out and 1 gave him my last ten dollar bill, pressed it into his hand with a broad smile and said, "That is so sweet. I'd like to keep it going, okay?" Still wearing that Cheshire cat grin, I drove away, and my girls looked at me, but not with the astonishment I was rather expecting. Instead, they said, "That was really nice, Mom. We would have done the same thing." And that's when it hit me. There are lessons to be learned well beyond the classroom walls. You just have to know where and how to look. We had lived, grown, thrived, and changed for the better in the best of both worlds, and we did it splendidly and well. My children will get along just fine out there in the academic jungle. And so will I.
occurred. As it neared the top of its spin, one half of the cage broke loose, plunging the young couple to the ground. Fire completely destroyed the home of Mr. and mrs. William Pfeiffer a mile west of Nappanee Sunday evening. Several of the Pfeiffer children were home at the time but none of them knew the cause of it. Before it was discovered the entire second floor of the house was burning and although the Nappanee fire department was on the job in record time after tne alarm sounded, nothing could be done to, hppe. The company was handicapped by the Tack* ofvvater at the scene of the blaze but solved this problem when Fred Lopp, escorted by the police car, drove his milk truck to Nappanee and filled his milk cans at the downtown hydrant. He was able to keep the tank on the truck supplied with water but it was impossible to save the house. 50 YEARS AGO AUGUST 1L 1966 Northern Indiana Public Service Company now owns the electric portion of Nappanee Utilities Company. We wish to welcome NIPSCO's expanded operation here. We still believe that nothing but eventual good can come out of this sale. We think the Nappanee voters did the right thing in favoring the sale. NIPSCO has promised better service for this area, and the electric rates of many of us should be lower. From all our dealings with NIPSCO, we see no reason why they won't fulfill their promises. So, we welcome Northern Indiana Public Service as a part of our community. Apparently they saw that vast potential of the Nappanee area, and we believe they won't be disappointed. The Nappanee firemen had a call Thursday evening and two on Friday. The one Thursday was when trash in the truck of Manass Miller caught fire west of town. Then Friday early after noon, Nappanee firemen were called to the farm of Adlai Miller west of Hastings on which the bam burned. Milford firemen were called first. This was believed started by small boys. On Friday afternoon a little later, there was a grass fire along the railroad track caused by a passing train. 25 YEARS AGO AUGUST 14, 1991 Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Stoops have presented Nappanee's first fire bell to the Nappanee Public Library Heritage Center, for display to the public. Accepting the donation was Library Director Linda Yoder, Chet McCuen, who created the bell's frame, and Evelyn Culp, local historian. The bell's original home was atop the Cowan's Comer Hardware Store, which was located at the comer of Main and Market streets, now the home of the Anglemeyer Clinic.
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