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Advance News • Thursday, October 12, 2017

Gracelessly giving in Giving up the things of youth is something that starts

early. I think I must have been twelve when I realized I would never play major league baseball. It was a blow. It was another three years before

I gave up on ever playing in the NFL. But in a lot of ways I've been pretty fortunate. I got a new lease on life and youth when, in my twenties, I dropped from 300 pounds to around 180. Meanwhile 1 began to run 5Ks, IOKs, and finally marathons which meant I could pretty much eat anything I wanted and still fit into my clothes. Oh, gradually I drifted up above 200. Then on 2001 I lost 10 pounds because there was a weight limit if you wanted to ride the mules to the floor of the Grand Canyon. There came a day my knees decided I couldn't run marathons anymore. IOKs and 5Ks took longer to finish. Still, for the most part I still fit in the same size jeans I wore in high school. Then I moved back to Indiana, where you pour chicken and noodles over your mashed potatoes. I like chicken and noodles. I like mashed potatoes. Oh, and everyone here knows how to make pie. So I'm 225 pounds. More or less. Mostly more. Even though I work out in the gym five or six days of the week, and eat modestly at breakfast and lunch, I have come to the realization that I am of the age where it gets harder and harder to take those few pounds off. It used to be all I had to do was work up a sweat and the fat would melt. Now, in the words of the Red Queen to Alice in the novel "Through the Looking Glass," it takes all the running I can do just to stay in one place. Even so, I kept insisting on wearing the same sized jeans I wore in high school. Of course when I went to high school they didn't put in that stretchy material in the waist band that allowed you to remain in denial for quite a long time. Recently, I gave up. My wife bought me a few pairs of pants that not only had stretchy material in the waistband, but the waist size was inches wider. Unfortunately, the new pants were comfortable. I didn't have to hold my breath and suck in my gut in order to get them buttoned. And I could sit down without worrying about poking my eyes out with all the buttons popping off. It meant I could no longer deny the truth. So I gracelessly gave in to the inevitable. I pulled all the dress pants out of the closet and tried them on one by one. The ones that wouldn't button I got rid of. The same with this one suit I really like that I used to call my "Easter Suit," not because I saved it for Easter Sunday, but because every year I put on a few pounds over the winter that I took off at the first hint of spring. Not until I rise for my own personal Easter Day at the Last Judgment will I fit into that suit, and I understand that robes and harps are standard gear for the hereafter. I give up. I give in. I move on. In comfort-fitting, stretch-waisting, fat-forgiving pants. Sigh. Frank Ramirez is the Senior Pastor of the Union Center Church of the Brethren.

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She’ll always be my baby

I was standing at the desk of the obstetrician's office, still somewhat dumbfounded by the assessment I'd just been given. As the secretary returned the phone to its console, that was when I heard a woman sobbing. "It's just like a Hallmark commercial," she wailed. » Evidently, she had heard enough of

my conversation to know that the past few moments were, indeed, quite worthy of a greeting card. I had just called my husband to ask him, "Are you ready to become a father?" Because according to the doctor, I was no longer just some gargantuan, teetering, hormonal beast. It was three weeks sooner than we'd planned, but this wee one didn't want to wait any longer. My little girl was on her way. The date was Tuesday, October 12,1999. Twenty-eight hours later, she was here. It was a stroke before 7 p.m. on October 13, 1999. Her arrival was not the stuff of Hollywood movies, where they're all bom pink, chubby, and feisty. She was sickly, this daughter of mine. She was blue and she was silent for many long seconds. Terrifyingly long seconds. We named this precious girl Hannah Gabrielle Wenger. Both of us spent eight days in the hospital, each recovering from our own battles of complications. Hannah was significantly jaundiced, which quickly prompted us to call her "Punkin." She spent more time in the nursery than we ever thought she would have. Every moment that I was able, I spent by her side. Yet I knew that this babe was a mighty fighter. Whenever I cradled her, she strained to reach her tiny hand down to the IV port in her foot, trying desperately to tear it out. It was as if she knew that because I was there, she would be okay. That my love would rescue her. My daughter became better than simply okay. All of those cliches about watching your children grow, remembering the moments because they fly by in a flash...they are all true. Now my little girl is turning 18 years old.

100 YEARS AGO October 13,1917 Friday will stand out as a red letter day in the history of Nappanee. It was the day set apart as Riley Day for the public schools and also the laying of the corner-stone of the high school building. The weather man did his best for the occasion and one of the most beautiful of October days gladdened the hearts of teachers and pupils. The town put on the appearance of a gala day and business was suspended from 1:30 until 4 o'clock. All citizens vied with each other in making the afternoon a memorable one. Word has been received by leaders in Nappanee that a radical change has been made in the schedule of the prohibition special, which will tour Indiana with Hardy and Landrith. The change has been necessary by an opportunity to hold a monster meeting on the night of October 16 in the tabernacle at Detroit, where Billy Sunday is conducting a revival meeting. The special will reach Goshen early Tuesday evening, where short rear-end addresses will be made. Elkhart will be at the next stop and a big night meeting at South Bend will end the day's schedule. Several automobile parties from Nappanee and vicinity will attend. 75 YEARS AGO October 15,1942 A meeting of the air raid wardens was called on Monday evening at the Community Building by Claude Coppes, chief air warden. About one hundred were in attendance and received some preliminary instructions as to their duties during the blackout. Mr. Coppes announced there would be meetings held in different sectors when final orders would be issued.

119 Nappanee Legals Notice of Filing of Petition for Third Party Custody On 10/02/2017, Osman Enrriquez Diaz Alvarado filed a Verified Petition for Third Party Custody In the Paternity of Maria Isabel Melgar Benitez (cause number 20D06-1710-JP-000336). Mr. Diaz Alvarado is requesting that the Court grant him custody of the minor child. After 30 days have past, the Court may enter a final judgment in this case. Victoria Benitez Cabrera and Jose Ramon Melgar are advised to contact Elkhart Superior Court 6 to inform them of his/her current address using the above-listed cause number or may contact Mr. Diaz Alvarado's attorney, Rose Rivera. Mr. Diaz Alvarado is represented by Rose Rivera at the Center for Legal Justice at 220 W. High St. Elkhart, Indiana, 46516 Ph (574)-333-2037. October 12,19. 26.2017AN272716 . hspaxlp 20C01-1709-EU-000134 NOTICE OF UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION In the Elkhart Circuit Court of Elkhart County, Indiana. Notice is hereby given that Tamara J. Riley and Kenneth Riley were on the 18th day of September, 2017,' appointed Personal Representatives of the estate of JOHN R. PFEIFFER, deceased, who. died on the 21st day of June, 2017. The Personal Representatives are authorized to administer said estate without Court supervision. All persons who have claims against said estate, whether or not now due, must file the same in the office of the clerk of this Court/within three (3) months from the date of the first publication of this notice or/within nine (9) months after the decedent's o

All Those Years Ago

119 Nappanee Legate death, whichever is earlier, or the claims will be forever barred. Dated at Goshen, Indiana, this 22nd day of September. 2017. Wendy Hudson Clerk of the Elkhart Circuit Court for Elkhart County, Indiana Christopher G. Walter, Attorney Estate No. 20C01-1709-EU-000134 October 5.12, 2017 AN272120 hspaxlp 20C01 -1709-ES-000050 STATE OF INDIANA COUNTY OF ELKHART IN THE ELKHART CIRCUIT COURT 2017 TERM CAUSE NO. 20C01-1709-ES-000050 IN RE: THE ESTATE OF JEAN A. MARTIN NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Notice is hereby given that on the 16th day of September, 2017, Jonathan R. Martin ana Kevin J. Martin were appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Jean A. Martin, deceased, who died on the Ist day of September, 2017. All persons having claims against this estate, whether or not now due, must file the claim in the office of the Clerk of this Court within three (3) months from the date of the first publication of 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 20th day of September, 2017. * Wendy Hudson Clerk, Elkhart Circuit Court Loren R. Stoat, #363-20 KINDIG & SLOAT. PC ° Attorney for the Estate P.O. Box 31 102 Heritage Parkway Nappanee, Indiana 465500031 (574) 773-7996 October 5.12.2017 AN272443 hspaxlp

Wisdom & Whimsy By Amy Lant-Wenger, Assistant Editor

the ways that matter. This is the girl who won a new bicycle at the Wakarusa bike rodeo several years ago, the one who turned down the prize so someone else could win. Her explanation? She had just been given a new bicycle a few days earlier and she wanted someone else to have one that needed it more. This is the girl who scraped together S6O, just as our family was emerging from the hardships of the economic downfall. She asked me to take her to the Dented Can, where I watched in silent astonishment as she filled her cart and paid for the food herself. We then donated the items to Open Door, all because, she said, she didn't want others to suffer as we had. This is the girl who, just weeks after my father passed away, presented me with a silver locket that first Christmas I had to spend without Dad. She told me to open it, and when I did, my father's face was smiling back at me. Fewer things in my life have ever touched me so deeply as that gesture of sweetness and innocence. There's a part of me that seems like I should feel a little melancholy that Hannah's childhood years are behind me. And yes, sometimes 1 do wish to relive a moment or two. But now, I am excited, hopeful, and anticipating a very prosperous future for this young woman. I have faith that whatever Hannah sets her wise mind to, she will accomplish it, even surpass it. And I am inspired. This child has, quite possibly, taught me every bit as much as I hope I have taught her. For the rest of her days, for whatever arbitrary number attaches itself to the label of age, for however many calendar pages rustle by and time moves forward, for all the seasons that come along and go gracefully, one thing will never, ever change. Hannah will forever be my baby girl.

Many residents currently under a doctor's care, including Jerry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Ganshom, who fell at his home on Tuesday and received a severe laceration on his forehead. Curtis Stump, employed at the Vitreous, was struck on the forehead Wednesday with a wrench. He was struck above the left eye, and the wound required several stitches to close. John Kuhn suffered the fracture of three ribs on Tuesday when he fell from a spreader behind the team of horses he was working with at the Kraut factory. 50 YEARS AGO OctoUef M, 1967 Nappanee High School's homecoming festivities will start on Thursday evening with 3 bonfire and pep rally scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. at Stauffer Park. The three candidates for queen will be introduced. Those competing for that tile are Mary Ann Best, daughter of Mrs. Wayne Best; Peg Dean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dean; and Helen Popowzak, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Popowzak. All three girls are members of the senior class. Because the general public happened to be at the School Board meeting for another reason, they also got a peek at the drawings for the new high school. Representatives from Chas. Cole, architects were present with the most recent drawings. They indicated that the new building may be ready for occupancy in May to July of 1969. / 25 YEARS AGO October 14,1992 During the regular Wa-Nee School Board session Monday evening, members scheduled a public hearing to gather public input on a third elementary school. Both the public and the board will have opportunity to voice their opinions on how to facilitate the increasing numbers of students within the system. President Laura Zell stressed that attendance and sharing are needed at this time to help the board find direction. She explained that with two new elementaries open it is necessary for the board to again look forward. Dr. Robert Abel also encouraged not only attendance but also for people to come with their own ideas to solve the facilitation problem. North Wood presented its annual "Panthers on Parade," a popular variety show, on Saturday evening in the high school auditorium. Students offered an outstanding array of talents to a full house, appreciative audience, entertaining for approximately two hours. Emcees for this year's show were Gretchen Hess, Aaron Nichols, Mike Clouse, Chad Hahn, Stess Templeton, and Rick Otis. StorG, from front on that promise is by carrying items from the "Love Your Melon" line. The company creates hats for children who are battling cancer, with 50 percent of the proceeds earned from the sale of each hat channeled to research to stop pediatric cancer forever. Only a few select clothing stores carry these beautiful hats, BeMiller notes. "Our customer base has been strong," she said of the reception from the community. She is hoping that in the very near future, they can add more to their evolving inventory. She would also like to begin offering a unique gathering, themed as a "girls night out," during which women of all ages can book a private shopping party. Local charities would receive 10 percent of the earnings from such gatherings, BeMiller said. Td like to use this opportunity as a Christian platform and to give back to the community," BeMiller says of their hopes for success. Currently, Chic and Fearless is open Tuesdays and Fridays from 10-5, Wednesdays 11-6, and Saturdays from 9-2. Beginning Nov. 1, the hours will extend to Thursdays as well, when they will be open from 11-5. The boutique is located at 101 1/2 West Market St. in historic downtown Nappanee. The store can also beTound on Facebook under Chic and Fearless Boutique. 6

Hannah embodies all that I could have ever asked for in a daughter, and so much more. She is kind, she is intelligent, compassionate, and fiercely protective of her family and friends. She is a gifted scholar, she is an artist, she is passionate for the rights of God's creatures, both human and otherwise. She is my "old soul," beautiful in all