Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 136, Number 15, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 12 April 2018 — Page 4

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• Advance News • Thursday, April 12, 2018

Paperless and clueless It was time. My long suffering wife Jennie, who is also the Chancellor of the Exchequer (translation: she's in charge of the money) agreed with me that it was finally time for me to get a new laptop computer. My old one was just that. Old. Using the world laptop also tells you I'm old too. I still

call it a laptop. For any of you children out there, we called them laptops because you put the computer on your lap while you typed. Which was

always a bad idea because those things got really hot, and you'd get scorch marks on your upper thighs. I don't know what they call them nowadays. No matter. I needed a new one before this summer. Every year I volunteer with Newsline, the Brethren news agency. This summer I'll work at the Church of the Brethren Annual Conference in Cincinnati, the National Youth Conference in Fort Collins Colorado, and the Brethren World Assembly in Winona Lake, Indiana. Now Jennie likes to game things, so after we asked my oldest son Francisco to pick out a computer we insisted he order it through Amazon. That way we could pay for it with Amazon gift cards that we purchased through a grocery chain that gave gas points. Earn points, get up to a buck off a gallon, thirty-five gallons at a time. Sweet. Francisco came through. We ordered the computer, got the gas points, and two days later there was this big old box on our doorstep. Way bigger than it ought to be. So we opened the box and inside there was another box. Inside that box was more cardboard, and the computer was shrink wrapped around that. So like three boxes. Also, there were some cords. That was it. No paper. No instructions. No books. No booklets. No illustrations to give me a clue how to get this computer to work. Hasn't anyone ever told the folks at the computer company that it's not like we're bom knowing this stuff? Or maybe the young people are bom knowing this stuff and the rest of us should just keep our mitts off. I learned how to operate a computer in high school, using yellow tape with punched holes. Then I learned how to program a computer with a stack of punch cards. But computers got more sophisticated while I didn't. My first personal computer came with a shelf full of thick manuals for every piece of hardware and software. There were illustrations and charts and indexes. Some had extraordinarily tiny print. Some with spiral bound. Some were perfect bound. When that computer died it took me years to recycle all those outdated manuals, but they were useless when it came to the next generation of computers. I should have seen what was coming when I bought a Kindle Fire five years ago. I opened the box and there was the Kindle, wrapped in a strip of brown paper that told you how to turn it on. And that was it. You were supposed to figure out the rest on your own. I bought a copy of Kindle for Dummies. It must have been written for smart Dummies that sure didn't help me! Since Francisco ordered the dam thing, I asked him nicely to set it all up. Who am I kidding? I bribed him with a couple of old albums from my collection. He collects vinyl records now. Anyway, it works. I'm working. All is well with the world! Frank Ramirez is the Senior Pastor of the Union Center Church of the Brethren.

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Community

A change will do you good

As I write this pa*age today, it is the first day of resumed classes for the students of Wa-Nee following a leisurely spring break. And it's snowing. On April 9th. According to the calendar, springtime officially began three weeks ago. Yet you'd never know it today.

You can imagine how well the sight of flakes falling in the dimly lit skies went over for my own sluggish, sullen scholars as they opened the front door at 7:10 a.m., as I prepared to drive them to their respective schools. I kid you not. My children literally growled. All three of them. I seriously tried not to laugh. I reminded them that within the next couple of days, spring will surely be here to stay. And I told them we might hit 70 degrees by week's end, if we are so fortunate. Well, that helped. A little. My son yelled, "Finally! It'll feel like spring!" And the mood lightened considerably by the time I dropped off my daughters and one of their best friends at NortnWood. By then, everyone was chattering excitedly about the wonders of the season. A change is most definitely in the air, and it is everywhere I look. In realizing this, I become profoundly sentimental. Not necessarily sad, however. There's a difference. My eldest is just finishing up her junior year. We have stacks of letters, piled high, from colleges all across America that are clamoring for her commitment already, eager for her to continue her education at their institutions. And on this day, I learned that she's earned her way into the North Wood High School spring production. And the biggest change on the very near horizon? My baby is going to prom.

WYSONG EXCELS AT DEPAUW GREENCASTLE - Sydney Wysong, of Nappanee, a member of the DePauw tennis team, has been named to the Tiger Pride Honor Roll. Wysong is one of 205 student athletes named to the Tiger Pride Honor Roll for achieving at least a 3.40 grade point average for the 2017 fall semester. The Honor Roll, started in the 2012 fall semester by Stevie Baker-Watson, DePauw's Associate Vice President for Campus Wellness and Theodore Katula, Director of Athletics and Recreational Sports, recognizes DePauw's student athletes who are members of an NCAA varsity athletics team and have a semester grade point average of 3.40 or higher. Founded in 1837, DePauw University is a top-ranked, 100

100 YEARS AGO April 11,1918 For the first-time iff its tßstoiy xSWering a period of 25> years the Tribune was** liltle late listVveek;<owmg to our moving into new quarters and installing electric motors. It's going to be a week or two yet before we get our "second wind," and then we feel safe in saying that the Tribune will be newsier than ever with several new added features. When we worked the first side of the Tribune last week everything worked finer than silk, and we shook hands with ourselves and said "Nothing can put the old reliable on the blink." But Wednesday afternoon when we were ready to run, we pulled the switch and things began to hum, with an extra rattle here ?nd a rattle there and one of the paper guards flew off, scaring the young lady feeding the press into nine kinds of fits. We hope to have better luck this week, but if we don't, we'll either fix her or throw in the junk heap and buy a new one. A warning - To the people who have been talking about Charley Tobias - they will have to quit talking or prove what they say. Lewis Albin, Master of Mayville Grange 2234. 75 YEARS AGO April 15,1943 Roy Kellam, formerly operator of the Kellam Grocery in Nappanee and who sold Ids stock and interests here to Bob Lloyd in December, 1940, purchased the stock and fixtures of the closed store at the auction sale held on Tuesday morning by the State Bank of Nappanee. The bank held a mortgage on the stock and fixtures and the sale was held to satisfy that claim, the remaining sum over and above costs to be used to pay to the several creditors. The Nappanee office of the American security company will be closed on May Ist and remain closed for the duration of the war. Those doing business with this company will find the Nappanee business being carried on through the Goshen office. J.B. Brundage has been in charge of the Nappanee office, succeeding Fred Minard, who took charge at Goshen. Mr. Brundage has been connected with the

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All Those Years Ago

Wisdom & Whimsy By Amy Lant-Wenger, Assistant Editor

But not this year. She also snagged an acting gig in the spring showcase. During her audition, she literally bloomed like a rose onstage, demonstrating a gift of improvisational skills I didn't know she had. She was a veritable one-woman show, making up her dialogue right there on the fly. And her artistry continues to astound me. Her teacher wants very much to exhibit her drawing works at an upcoming art show. Where this incredible talent comes from is unfathomable to me. My art skills begin and end with stick people. And poorly drawn ones at that. Now let me tell you about my boy. My hilarious, goofy, smart as a whip son. He is a bom musician, but somehow he has developed this peculiar mindset that if he sings or dances in front of a crowd, "people will throw peaches at me." Not tomatoes. Peaches. Just this afternoon, he walked up to me, all serious in the face, and said, "Mom. I think I'm getting over my fear of the peaches thing." Now, he wants to sing. And dance. Perhaps take up the drums. I'm campaigning for guitar lessons. My little rock star in the making. And a fellow Beatles fan to boot. I've done something right in that department. So many changes. So much growing up, moving forward and soaring onward. And in the meantime, I've discovered that there is more than way to define April showers.

percent residential, private liberal arts university located in Greencastle, Indiana. Through its College of Liberal Arts and School of Music, DePauw provides highly personalized education in small classes, with 95 percent of its graduates employed or in graduate school witnin six months of graduation. DePauw is ranked fourth for study abroad, and 80 percent of students receive academic credit for off-campus study, including internships, independent projects, and service work. The university is ranked in the top 20 for both graduate salaries and second for Teach for America employees. DePauw graduates have a 90 percent acceptance rate for medical school and an 80 percent acceptance rate for law school, both well above the national average.

American Security for the past six years, but will sever his connection with the consolidation of the two offices. 50 YEARS AGO April 11, 1968 The Nappanee High School Concert Choir, under the direction of Miss Ruth Pancoast, will present a Good Friday Service of music on the program "By-Line" on channel 28 with Ken Guy tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. The music to be given is a twenty-minute Cantata entitled "On the Passion of Christ" by David H. Williams. The work is divided into three sections, The Last Supper, The Betrayal, and The Crucifixion, each of which will be preceded by a short reading done by Malcolm McDonald. Accompanying the choir at the piano will be Jan Eichenberger. The several short solos will be sun by Cheryl Crane, Mike Denniston, Kent Schwartz, and Kathy Townsend. Harold Peterson has announced that he purchased the building on Clark and W. Market formerly belonging to Kacy's. He expects to move Pete's Sinclair there about May 1, where he will sell Sinclair products, maintain U-Haul renting service, and give regular service for automobiles. In addition, Mr. Peterson plans to start a sporting goods store at that location which will feature athletic equipment as well as goods for hunting and fishing. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson live at 701 N. Jackson. He acquired the Sinclair station three years ago. 25 YEARS AGO April 14,1993 In a special press reception at Borkholder Dutch Village, Freemon Borkholder announced his purchase of the Roeder's Bakery building located in downtown Nappanee. His investment was made with one goal in mind - that former owners Ron and Glenne Telschow return to re-establish the colorful hometown atmosphere, hospitality, and superb baked goods that once made it a popular nesting ground for early birds as well as luncheon and dinner crowds. According to Mrs. Telschow, she and her husband are bringing the business back "full force." The Nappanee Board of Parks and Recreation announced their plan to cultivate still more public interest in an effort to find a solution to the controversial decision to either renovate the old West Park Pavilion or build a new structure. The board will be advertising a ballot in an upcoming AdvanceNews issue. Will the majority of public opinion sway the vote of board members?

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Then there is my other sweet and sassy girl. She's nearing the end of her freshman scholastic season. What a transformative year it has been for her, the one child of mine who always seemed rather shy and more willing to walk a few steps behind her more outgoing big sister.