Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 136, Number 29, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 19 July 2018 — Page 4

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• Advance News • Thursday, July 19, 2018

Greek Yogurt

My parents brought yogurt home from the grocery store when I was around 11 or 12. It came in brightly colored fruit flavored cups. I asked them what it was and what it was for. I was told that yogurt was diet food that made you lose weight. I ate around ten of them right off the bat. I figured I figured I'd lose seven or eight pounds before lunch time. As it turns out, yogurt only works as a diet food when you eat just one and nothing else.

Honestly, the yogurt we bought in the sixties a substitute for ice cream. It was sweetened with sugar, com syrup, dextrose, maltose, and any other sweetener

that made you comatose. Even worse, it often came with a syrupy fruit concoction on the bottom you were supposed to stir, but nobody I know ever stirred that stuff. The syrupy stuff was dessert. It wasn't until I was in my thirties, back in the 1980's, that I finally had kind of yogurt you could lose weight with. I was serving a church in Los Angeles and a Lebanese family moved in down the street. The mom was there with her three adult sons, all real gentlemen who displayed extraordinary politeness around all women. The dad was in Lebanon and sent the family to America for safekeeping. It was during their civil war, when people were always getting kidnapped. Mom came by the church, speaking very broken English, and invited me to come over for a visit and a small snack. That snack was a large plate filled with baklava, which consists of thin layers of flaky pastry held together by a glue of thick honey, sugar, and nuts. It sets your fillings on fire. There were also grape leaves stuffed with lamb and rice, and all sorts of other delights. I hadn't learned yet that when it comes to Middle Eastern hospitality, cleaning your plate means you want more. I manfully cleaned my plate to be polite even though I was still stuffed from dinner. My plate was filled again. And again. After that I figured it out and left a small amount of food in the comer. The snack included white substance that looked like sour cream, but was real homemade yogurt. Real yogurt isn't sweet. It's a sauce that goes with food. The Lebanese version had garlic in it. Once I got it out of my head that yogurt is a sweet dessert substitute it was pretty good. Every time I visited that family I got some of that yogurt to eat. Recently Greek Yogurt came on the market and it's a lot like Lebanese yogurt. Occasionally I stir in fresh fruit but for themost part, I just eat it because 1 like it that way. It reminds me of my Lebanese friends. I wonder what happened to them. Did they get to go home? Did they stay in the U.S.? The young men were hard workers and if they stayed I've got a feeling they started a jewelry business and did well for themselves. Yogurt, like the Lebanese family, is something of an immigrant, and like it says in the musical Hamilton, "Immigrants, we get the job done." One thing's for sure. I've learned my lesson. Never fully clean your plate or it gets filled up again. And even if you're eating yogurt, that's is a sure way to gain weight. Frank Ramirez is the Senior Pastor of the Union Center Church of the Brethren.

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County Road Seven By Frank Ramirez, Pastor

Community

living like soldiers of another time

by Amy Lant-Wenger Editor ELKHART COUNTY - To some, the phrase "living history" might seem like a contradiction. Yet there is a group of folks who have well succeeded in exemplifying that seemingly diffioilt mission. The 7th Indiana Light Artillery is a band of Union Civil War re-enactors, based primarily in the sector of Northern Indiana, with members from both Wakarusa and Nappanee. And there is always room for another soldier or two. These individuals have discovered a unique passion in reconstructing pivotal moments and chapters from American history, from cannon fire to skirmishes to primitive campsites. They study various battles and assemble themselves along similar terrain, where they exchange dialogue, use weaponry, and bear clothing as closely to authentic as possible. From heavy woolen uniforms to exquisitely lavish gowns on the women, every detail is rendered powerfully accurate. The re-enactors have been keeping busy with a number of public spectacles and presentations, most recently at such places as the Pla-Mor Campgrounds in Bremen, and at the Wakarusa Historical Museum during the Maple Syrup Festival. In just a few weeks, the company will be traveling to Jackson, Michigan for one of the Midwest's premier events in historic recreation. And for those who would like to learn more about what exactly it takes to become a Union soldier or spouse,

100 YEARS AGO P* ■ ~ JULY 23, 1918 County Food Commissioner H.H. Gortner met the Nappanee grocers, bakers, and millers at the director's room of the Farmer's and Trader's bank on Thursday afternoon. The meeting was for the purpose of talking over the food regulations and come to a mutual understanding in regard to their enforcement. Mr. Gortner said that the Nappanee dealers obeyed the law more closely and gave him ever better support than some of the other towns in the county, but there seemed to be more unrest among the citizens in and around Nappanee, and more complaints reaching his office from this vicinity than from any other section of the county. Mr. Gortner thought that if the dealers would explain the situation to their customers why it was necessary for the government to make these stringent regulations, they would make patriotic citizens of them instead of fault finders. The Nappanee boy scouts left this morning for a ten day vacation at James Lake. Rev. A.H. Doescher accompanied the boys as scout master, and will remain until Friday. He will be relieved by Jesse Neher and Thomas Walters. The following scouts made up the party: Wade Ringenberg, Harry Neher, Victor Calbeck, Fred Neher, Paul Rosburgh, Carlisle Mutschler, George Burbach, Lyle Wilt, Kenneth Wilson, Wilbur Hartman, John Walters, Jesse Best, Lotus Slabaugh, and Stanley Lehman. 75 YEARS AGO JULY 22, 1943 Ralph Metzler, of the Metzler Shoe Company, states he has a large number of odd lot shoes and shoes of makes no longer available, that he can sell without purchasers using a ration stamp. An advertisement is being carried in this issue on these shoes and those in the market for an extra pair of footwear, or one having used their shoe stamp, can now get a pair of shoes or oxfords, ties or pumps, from the group released by orders of the OPA, not only without a stamp but at a decided reduction in price. The release orders carries only until the end of the month, so if you do need footwear from this lot now is the time to buy. Information just received from the State Highway Commission indicates Market street, from the west edge of the city to the comer of Clark street and from Elm street eastward, extending beyond the city limits to the first cross road,

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Photo courtesy of Dennis Mishler This undated photo represents some of the membership of the 7th Indiana Light Artillery, nobly dressed and ready for battle. In the front row are Dave Noel, Dennis Mishler, Brandon Kemp, and Jason Kemp. In back are Mel Kempt, David Mishler, Jason Mishler, Ted Kuhn, Paul Miller, and Larry Andrews.

there is an organizational meeting being planned for prospective members. The meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, July 25 at 6:30 p.m. on the grounds of the Wakarusa Historical Museum, which is located at 403 East Wabash Avenue near downtown Wakarusa. For anyone who wishes to gather more information, but is unable to attend the meeting, check out the 7th Indiana Light Artillery Facebook page and post messages there, or contact Ted Kuhn, 574-354-0288. Photo by Amy LantWenger Life at a Civil War campsite, where simplicity reigns, but is no less patriotic.

All Those Years Ago

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tWfr be-tebttf It yet -Al#^m s, providing pet mission' of the! federal government is Several years ago when an’ agreement had been entered into between the city officials and the State Highway commission whereby the city would keep the street in repair providing the state would replace the present coating of blacktop upon the old brick the federal public roads administration officials at South Chicago acknowledged to your editor the people of Nappanee did not know what they were getting into and after several meetings had been held the State Highway commission was kind enough to take over the cost of repair. 50 YEARS AGO JULY 25, 1968 Nappanee's American Legion post installed new officers on Saturday. They are Kenton B. Stouder, first Vice Commander; Fred Jensen; Dave Hockert, commander; Edward Zentz, second Vice Commander; Fred Speicher, historian; Bill Muntz, chaplain; Karl Knobel, service officers; Ken Culp, finance officer; and Mel Hahn, Sgt. of Arms. A crazy quilt of fascinating art, entertainment, food, color, and intrigue will be handy in the coming days, when the Pletcher Furniture Village of Nappanee presents its Bth annual Village Art Festival. The four day weekend's atmosphere revolves around the folk art and culture of the Nappanee area. The festival grounds surrounding the Pletcher Furniture Village and The House Across the Street, will be outlined with a gaily painted Dutch picket fence, topped with legendary hex signs and fluttering flags. 25 YEARS AGO JULY 21, 1993 , The Nappanee Public Library has been awarded the top public library award in the nation for a year-long public relations campaign. The prestigious John Cotton Dana award, the second to be received by the library within the past two years, was presented by the American Library Association and the H.W. Wilson Company at an annual conference held in New Orleans. Awards are given to honor a total library PR program that is ongoing, sustained, and well-rounded, and promotes the complete range of library services utilizing all recognized promotional outlets. The status of Wa-Nee's Prime Time program was a major concern at an early morning meeting held on Monday. Jerry Lelle reported that while the program had been included in the state legislature’s hasty, last minute budget, the wording providing funds for the program was inadvertently omitted. Board members authorized the administration to apply for waivers for teaching assistants in order to participate in the Prime Time program during the 1993-94 school year.

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