Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 135, Number 38, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 22 September 2016 — Page 4
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Advance News • Thursday, September 22, 2016
Triple play I hit the jackpot the other day. A real triple play. Driving north on County Road 7 towards Wakarusa I got slowed three different occasions for three different reasons. First, there was this buggy and this small hill just high enough I couldn't see if traffic was coining our way.
I slowed down and kept my distance behind the buggy until I could see clearly then passed and drove on. Next, a large harvester pulled
out ahead of me and proceeded to head down the road three-quarters of a mile until it turned left into another field. There was no chance of passing it, huge as it was, so I settled in and followed. Finally, there was this serious repaving taking place on S.R. 19 in Waky. We all came to a stop and waited a bit, and after that the top of the road had been peeled off so we had to go slow anyway. Now this time of year, what with harvesting going on everywhere, and the rush to finish construction before winter sets in, I'm not the only one who runs into this sort of Triple Play I've heard some people complain about getting slowed up for buggies, bicycles, farm equipment, and road construction. To all of those folks all I have to say is: Get over it. Or move. If I may be allowed to rant (gently), you don't know how good you've got it. Regarding farm vehicles: you may not have noticed, but this is Indiana. We grow com and soybeans here. It's a big part of the economy. Our farmers are, for the most part, polite and considerate, but they still sometimes have to take one of the county roads to move from one field to another. Before you get too frustrated, take a look at the labels on the food in your pantry. Com and soybeans are in everything. As long as you insist on eating food, we need farmers. Regarding construction: that's part of our economy too. Even if you're not in construction, those people buy things and they also eat food, and that benefits everyone. Plus, things are always wearing out and falling apart. We have to have people out there fixing things before we really have problems. And regarding our Amish cousins on bicycles or in buggies, they're part of the economy also. Tourists, people from outside the area, come here and spend good money because they're fascinated by the way tilings are here. I'm from the big city so I know. Folks outside our area can't believe that we have it so good and quiet and peaceful. You may not think it's so good and quiet and peaceful, but you haven't lived in a big city. Besides, this is America. People get to be different. There's no rule saying you have to act like everyone else. We can drive whatever we want, and live different lifestyles. There's no law that says we have to look or act the same. My wife Jennie and I are both native Californians who learned how to drive in the big city. Let me say simply: LA traffic is like a video game only its real. So we know what traffic is like. What we got here is not traffic. What we got here is heaven. Now if you want to live somewhere else besides heaven, that's up to you, but personally, I love it here! And if I need to get somewhere on time, I'm willing to leave ten minutes early just to make sure. Frank Ramirez is the Senior Pastor of the Union Center Church of the Brethren.
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County Road Seven 1 By Frank Ramirez
Community
More than enough
Truth be told, I really can't remember what I originally wanted to write about this week. The unpredictable rhythms of lifecame along and interrupted all those carefully orchestrated intentions, as it is wont to do. When I awoke on Thursday morn-
ing, I knew within a few moments that I was about to become dreadfully ill. And with me, because I have insufficiently functioning kidneys, I don't fall typically under the weather and bounce right back like the average person. I'm never just sick...l am siiiiiick. After a helladous bout of vomiting, I stumbled to the sink to splash cold water on my face, and I glanced up at my ghoulish reflection. My pallor was gray, my eyes were bleary, and blood was streaming from my nose. And I felt both a fever and an anger wash over me...feeling one and the same. "Really?" I wailed inwardly, gazing up toward the sky. In the span of less than one year, I had lost my beloved father, grappled with the struggle of an unrelenting kidney disease, and battled through a divorce. To make matters worse, just the day before the sickness overcame me, I received a terrible call informing me of the sudden death of a dear cousin. This seemed like the final straw, and I was livid. "When does it stop?" I prayed fervently. "When does all this heartache become more than enough?" I wanted to pout. I wanted to feel sorry for myself. I made my way to the sofa, curled up with a blanket, and fumed. In my stupor, I wallowed in physical misery, yet my mind was sharp, sharp enough to hurt. It was then that I remembered snippets of conversations that I've had with my children a time or two before. About how every day is different, and beautifully so, for wouldn't it indeed be an incredibly dull, colorless world if every single day, every single person, every single emotion, was just static and unchanging. About how we should embrace and celebrate what each day brings, because it is a chance to start again, to learn from whatever might have startled your spirit the day before, to be content and make peace with the change it has brought, and move ahead. About how the same could be said of people, that not everyone who comes into your life is meant to stay, and whether their time with you is a quicksilver moment or a lavish lifetime, there is surely a reason. And about how we would never truly learn to appreciate joy unless we first experience sadness.
100 Years Ago September 22,1916 Democrats of Nappanee and vicinity met Wednesday evening in their headquarters over the First National Bank and organized a Wilson-Marshall club. Albert Farrington was elected chairman of the meeting with W.F. Stone acting as temporary secretary, when the following officers were elected. M.D. Kizer, president; John Fisher, vice-president; W.F. Stone, secretary; and John Newcomer, treasurer. The following committees were appointed to perfect the organization; South Union, Albert Farrington and Curtis Hummel; East Union, Jacob Pippenger, Henry Mishler, and Leander Bigler; West Union, William Strycker, Clem Brown, Firm Troup, and Floyd Slabaugh; North Union, Dan Hartman, George Sheets, and Lewis Stouder; Locke North, John Fisher, Lewis Albin, and Walter Oster; Locke Center, Geo. Carl, C.W. Johnson, and A.K. Kaufman; Locke South, J.E. Emmons, Ray Smelfzer, Robert Lingofelter, and Miller Uline. 75 Years Ago 1 September 25,1941 One of the most beautiful displays of northern lights, or aurora borealis as properly called, to occur in this region in the past several years was visible Thursday evening between 8 and 9 o'clock. The electrical disturbance which often accompanies such brilliant displays is severe enough to induce on occasions as high as hundreds of volts on long distance telephones and telegraph lines. Although the electrical phenomenon at such times can bring about freakish conditions in a telephone office, it was not responsible for the chaos experienced at this time. The chief operator reports that all of a sudden, and for no apparent reason, the switchboard "lit
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of dollars worth. When my kidney issues took an ominous turn, people drove with me to appointments, prayed over me for positive news, and cheered with me when the dreaded "c" word was ruled out. And the day before I was due to complete this column, I was contacted by my daughter's best friend, letting me know that her father and her boyfriend were on the way to our house to drop off a cupboard that once served as an entertainment.center. When I returned home, I swung open the cupboard doors to reveal a brand new television set. The family asked for absolutely nothing in exchange. How do you thank friends and family members for these overwhelming, abundant acts of kindness? How often can you tell them how their gestures, whether they seem on sight to be great or small, are always meaningful, always significant? More so, never forgotten. The friends who jumped started my aging vehicle in the Martin's Supermarket parking lot. The cherished friends and family who helped my children and I move to Nappanee. The longtime Nappanee residents who offered to rent us their beautiful home, calling it "our way of blessing you." The people who cooked for us when I was too weary and sick to do it for myself and my children. The ones who prayed for us, called out to God to be with us in any and every time we needed protection and guidance. There is not time enough to fully show my everlasting gratitude to these precious souls. Yet I will find some way, more than one way, forever. And this, my friends, when my rays of hope cut through the festering fog of my ailing body, is how I realized something. The darkness is fleeting. It becomes illuminated with the sun. It gets better. Maybe not in a manner of timing that we might want, but happiness does come along. When the heartache is more than enough, it will one day be replaced by unbridled and unrestrained love, in all of its kaleidoscopic forms and ways. For as long as you have that love to light your life, then you will have more than enough.
up like a Christmas tree," just like would happen if someone were to saw through a main cable. After the "storm" was over and bits of information were pieced together, the answer was obvious. 50 Years Ago September 22,1966 The Wa-Nee School District Jjjifferpd an unexpected setback in its plans to build anew highsesKsol on Stafrßoad 19 a mile north of Nappane. On Thursday the Elkhart County Board of Zoning Appeals denied a request by Wa-Nee Community Schools to locate the new school there. The 62 acre site has already been purchased for that purpose. Ralph Bell, speaking for the Wa-Nee Citizens Committee, which is fighting for the maintaining of two high schools in the district, claimed Thursday that he was speaking for 300 members of his group. He gave six reasons for his opposition, including excessive traffic on 19, the cost of sewer and water facilities to the site, lack of police and fire protection, and the need for a high school in Wakarusa and in Nappanee. Privately, representatives of the Citizens Committee expressed themselves as being mostly concerned with higher tax rates. 25 Years Ago N September 25,1991 Nappanee Clerk-Treasurer Kim Ingle was honored at this week’s closing session of the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns Annual Conference, held in Merrillville. Michael Carroll, Vice-President, Community Development, The Lilly Endowment, presented Ingle with the Excellence in Financial Management Award. "As a part of our ongoing efforts to improve the association's awards program, this year, a special judges panel, assisted in the selection of the Excellence in Financial Management winner. Ingle has exhibited exceptional skills during 20 years of service to her Northern Indiana community." Connie Nine, 151 S. Williams, and a few of her neighbors presented a petition for a stop sign at the comer of Rosenberger and Williams streets at the Monday meeting of the Board of Works. The heavy traffic and unattentive drivers that travel through that area pose a danger to the children living and playing there. The board discussed the matter and found that Nine had already approached police chief Elliot about the matter. Elliot recommended the stop sign face east and west at the Rosenberger-Williams comer. A vote was taken and the stop sign approved to fit chief Ellidt's recommendations.
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In my heart, I knew this to be absolutely true. In the days following my father's passing, we were on the receiving end of more compassion, more generosity, and more benevolence than I ever believed possible. My homeschool co-op brought meals, and they raised a collection of cash and gift card donations, literally hundreds