Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 135, Number 47, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 24 November 2016 — Page 4
Advance News • Thursday, November 24, 2016
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Thanksgiving leftover columns Thanksgiving is upon us! And while the rest of you
spend a sleepless night Black Fridaying, I intend to get a full night's sleep, then rise early for some delicious leftovers. That's what
Thanksgiving's really all about, isn't it? So here are some leftovers from this column. This is whats left over from all my note taking and planning for columns this year that I never actually wrote. The last three are from my vacation last summer. ONE)Tm finally the right age to qualify for the freebies seniors get at restaurants. Some people refuse free stuff because they don't want to admit how old they are. 1 knew one beautiful, graceful woman in her nineties who refused to admit it. I'm not at all ashamed of my age. I've earned it. My problem is remembering to ask for the free stuff! TWO) Folding underwear has got to be one of the biggest wastes of time ever. Who sees you in your underwear? And don't bring up that ambulance stuff. If I'm in an accident and the emergency team arrives and cuts away my clothes to save my life I"ll just tell them my underwear got wrinkled in the accident. THREE) My favorite mug was this big old thing my wife bought for me when she was in Houston working with Red Cross Child Care Disaster Relief. It quoted the famous words spoken during the Apollo 13 mission: "Failure Is Not An Option." Recently the mug fell and smashed itself to bits. I guess failure is an option after all. FOUR) I've been a pastor for thirty-seven years, from 1979 to 2016. I'm not stopping anytime soon, either. There's a reason I'm a pastor. It's because I can't stay awake in church unless I'm preaching. Whenever someone else is preaching I slump over in just a few minutes, while my patient wife Jennie jabs me in the ribs FIVE) Hoosiers resemble Hobbits because, in the words of J.R.R. Tolkien, they like "to have books filled with things they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions." SIX) Every state uses words differently. In Pennsylvania you would red up a room when it was dirty. The roads were slippy when it snowed. Eggs served Sunny Side Up were called dippy eggs. If you didn't wave at everyone who drove by you were High Hatting them. There are only two really weird things about speaking Hoosier. You say pop instead of soda and rolls instead of donuts. What's with that? SEVEN) What can I say? I admire the current fad for adult coloring books, Whoops. Maybe I'd better say coloring books for adults. Coloring books for grownups. They're great for stress. People post the results on Facebook. Forgive me if I don't follow suit. I'm a failure at coloring things. My first day at kindergarten, Mrs. Orsini, a Russian refugee, handed out pages for us to color. I tried to delicately shade the picture like I'd seen my sister do, and Mrs. Orsini flunked me for coloring outside the lines. EIGHT) The whole state of Wyoming looks like a movie set. Buttes and dry gullies, and high flying vultures. Dry as a bone. NINE) Everything here in Southern Oregon looks halfbaked. The people have been out in the sun so everyone looks like they sat in the oven a little too long. There's a wild turkey in the neighborhood all skin, bones, and gizzards. In the hundred degree temperatures he looked half-baked too. No one in their right mind would serve him for Thanksgiving. Frank Ramirez is the Senior Pastor of the Union Center Church of the Brethren.
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November: Focused on being thankful
November is a month focused on giving thanks for the many blessings in our lives, and reminds us to be grateful for everything in our lives. Subjects of our gratitude tend to range from having life itself to successful means in lifestyle and professional choices. The latter brings on more thanks to those blessed to own
a home —or property for commercial or industrial use —and not only call it theirs but also to enjoy the advantages of having city utilities accessible instead of relying on outhouses and carrying buckets of water from streams to our homes. Both of these modem conveniences are taken for granted after decades of existence. The simple fact is that the cost to each city or town necessary to provide these utilities is not only high in expense but also necessary to be funded usually through tax increases, sometimes partly through grants available. This year November brought a third means of collection to help the dty pay the phenomenal costs of the state mandated Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) project designed to separate rainwater runoff from waste in our dty sewage lines. The reason behind this is to prevent rainwater from flooding into dty sewage lines to create overflow onto the properties of area residents, businesses and industries which would then contaminate the scene with every germ in the disposable portion and could potentially make people sick at many different levels. The United States Department of Agriculture originally developed ideas for creating CSOs nationwide to help promote safety and clean living. Once it was found to be a sound goal with potential for good outcome the matter was passed on to each state for implementation. In turn state governments approached dties and towns saying it was federally mandated and monitored at the state level but plans to create it in each community, money for designing and construction to realize those plans, and long-term maintenance of it all was strictly left to our local governments. I can remember hearing former Nappanee Mayor Larry Thompson joke in his final year of office about the matter each time it came before Nappanee Common Council to approve yet another step needed to achieve these goals More than once I even heard him remark that these decisions were the result of federal requirements that had plagued the state and local governments the majority of his time in office. There was truth behind that statement and now current Mayor Phil Jenkins has the task of overseeing the actual development and payment of costs involved with reworking the city sewer lines, creating newer ones up to federal outlined requirements, and finding ways for the city to pay for it all. The first reaction from most people tends to be defeated remarks about coming tax rate increases. Others promote applying for federal grant money tb cover the costs. This month another source of contention has been the first increase in billing for water utilities. People throughout the city seem shocked and angry because they say there was no notice given to warn them, and feel the increase is too great
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the plans for implementing CSOs, to the point that states were faced with the challenge of creating them, and again when cities and towns were made to shoulder the burden, the Advance News and other media have written countless articles on the matter. In the six years since I returned to the Advance News I too have been a part of that local coverage alerting Nappanee residents to the phenomenal costs of the project, efforts being made to seek financial assistance, and likelihood of coming increases to consumers for use of water utilities. As recently as a year ago the matter of CSOs was mentioned even when I interviewed and featured incumbent Jacob Dermott who was running for reelection to the Nappanee Common Council. In his campaign Dermott expressed much respect in the way Nappanee leaders in recent decades had so tactfully handled the whole project, and stretched out plans to cover its costs while researching every possible avenue for financial resources available. He described that plans had gone from a three-phase project to a single job to complete the project start to finish as better financial arrangements were developed. Dermott reported with confidence that countless hours had been spent by both city employees and those in elected positions to research and seek all venues to obtain any possible resources for financial assistance with the project. He happily shared that all the hard work had paid off in an estimated sl2 million dollars made available through federal grants. The councilman reported with pride that meant Nappanee customers paying an average increase of $35 rather than the original proposal of sllß per household. In that article published in the summer of 2015 Dermott shared that increase was scheduled to begin that same year in late August to early September. Again city leaders took the bull by the horns and slowed down that pace to ensure no avenues had been missed in seeking financial resources. Customers did not see the rate increase which had been promoted for years as unavoidable until November 2016—after spending the year discussing it in city meetings, hosting public hearings on the matter and subjecting the measure to three readings. I am not downplaying the increased fiscal responsibility to residents, business owners and local industries. I am instead encouraging all to be thankful for local city leadership and employees that care so deeply for their hometown community, and are willing to make exhaustive efforts to save you money before even considering increases in taxes or billing. I also embolden each of you to stay on top of all these things by regularly reading your local newspaper. Amy Wenger and I will continue giving our best efforts to keep you informed of all things happening from projects to costs, and how it will affect you on all fronts. The key to it all is reading our accounts of vyfrat is happening and what to expect as a result of it. ;r ? • _ * Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! May we all find reasons to give thanks!
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to be implemented all at once. I am not here to argue the fact that it was a high rate of increase. Nor am I trying to downplay the effect of that additional financial burden. But I must respectfully disagree with claims that it was unreported, or that the public was not given prior notice. From the earliest days when the USDA mentioned
119 Nappanee Legate 20C01-1610-EU-000169 NOTICE OF UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION In the Elkhart Circuit Court of Elkhart County, Indiana Notice is hereby given that LISA M. NIXON was on the 2nd day of November, 2016, appointed Personal Representative of the estate of WILLIAM J. COULTAS, deceased, who died on the 25th day of September, 2016. The Personal Representitive is authorized to administer said estate without Court supervision. Alt persons who have claims against said estate, whether or not now due, must fule the same in the office of the clerk of this Court/within three (3) months from the date of the first publication or this notice, or/within nine (9) months after the decedent's death, whichever is earlier, or the claims will be forever barred. Dated at Goshen, Indiana, this 3nd day of November, 2016. Wendy Hudson Clerk of the Elkhart Circuit Court for Elkhart County, Indiana Chirstopher G. Walter, Attorney Estate No. 20C01 -1610-EU-00169 November 17,24,2016 PN5061 hspaxlp