The Mail-Journal, Volume 14, Number 28, Milford, Kosciusko County, 3 August 1977 — Page 2
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THE MAIL-JOURNAL— August 3,1977
YOUTHS AT WORK — Tim Kaafman, left, and Mike Manfay are spending their summer months working for the Syracuse street department, shown here painting the yellow safety zones on the curbing at the corner of Main and Harrison Streets in Syracuse. /
Fair—- — from page 1) Day.” The 4-H dairy show will begin at 9 am. and continue throughout the day. The demonstrations in the women’s building at 12 noon, 4 and 8 p.m. will be entitled ‘‘Bits and Pieces: Crafts,” and will be given by Mary Ann Leinhart of Elkhart County. Friday has been set aside as the second kiddies day of the fair. The 4-H horses at halter will be shown at 9 a m and the open halter classes will be shown at 1 p.m. The dairy show will take place all day with Guernsey, Aryshire, Jersey and Brown Swiss being shown Demonstrations in the women's building at 12 noon, 4 and 8 p.m. will be on blender basics and will be given by Patricia Braman The open sheep show is set for 4 p.m. Friday is race night in the grandstand with time trials set for 6:80 p.m. and the auto races a beginning at 8 p.m. Saturday is the final day of the fair. It is the last chance, until next August, for youngsters to ride on the ferris wheel and other rides which go round and round and up and down offering thrilling rides for all. It’s the last chance to view the items made by the 4-H club members and county residents
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Airing the past year. It's the last chance to have that special treat of cotton candy or an elephant ’s ear. It’s the la*t chance ts view the animals. The Holstein dairy show and the horse show will run the entire day. The evening's grandstand attraction will be the auto races with time trails at 6:90 p m. and the auto races at 8 p.m. The queen will be crowned following the races and the fair will come to its official close To name — (Continued from pag| 1) Controversy Considerable controversy arose after the board made its decision to go with the area plan commission. Several members jof_ the Syracuse commission called the town board members “Judases” and felt they should resign. Others felt the boai-d was betraying the town and township and not giving the lo<al commission a chance. ■ The Syracuse-Wsawasee Chamber of Commerce publicly stated it was; opposed to the action, as did numerous residents and businessmen of the Syracuse-Turkey Creek area. At the last meeting of the town board, July 19, approximately 50 citizens were on hand to try and make the board change its decision to join with the area
plan. Many felt the area plan isn’t too secure because it doesn’t have an attorney (one has since been appointed) and others felt the control should remain local. Martha Stoeling commented at the meeting, “I feel the town board isn’t taking into consideration people who have dected them.” Patricia Bitner also said at the meeting that the board should wait and let the taxpayers decide the matter with a referendum vote. Darrell Grisamer, board member, and Robert Reed, town attorney, said at the July 19 meeting that a referendum would mean 18 more months of confusion and the pending lawsuits would have to be litigated. It was also asked if the board members present what it would take to change their mind on the joining and if a special meeting will be called before the August 1 deadline. 4 David Nine, board member, said he isn’t sure what per cent of the citizen’s opinion it would take to make the board members change their minds and that he wasn’t sure if a special meeting would be called More Attempts Made The Mail-Journal learned last week that the board was not planning on holding a special meeting and so the joining did become effective Monday. It was also learned that numerous meetings were held between members of the board and interested residents to see if an alternative could be reached. Tranter concluded by saying since the joining became effective August 1, he hasn’t received any calls opposing the action. He did say he received a few favorable responses. The board will hold a special meeting to make the necessary appointments to the area plan commission in the near future, said Tranter. Petitions — (Continued from page 1) Os the 82,050,000 estimated to build the facility, "This is only the front money,” Beer says. “By
the time it is equipped, staffed and maintained, who knows what it’s going to be.” Beer admits the opposition movement has been negligent in not taking any action sooner. “I think the taxpayers are starting to become aroused a little bit,” Beer says. Fisher says people who have signed the petitions in Van Buren and Jefferson Townships have told him it’s time for a thorough “housecleaning' ‘ of school administrators in the corporation. “The main reason is we can’t afford those administrators,” Fisher adds. Only six persons in the Milford area refused to sign the petitions, three due to their doing business with the school corporation. The funding of the new facility will hurt the large acreage farmers in the area, Fisher says, who pay large amounts of taxes. And the health education and welfare funds given to the schools presently is also taxpayers money, he continued. Fisher said the new facility will be built in Syracuse, while the people in other communities pay for it. He added that the communities surrounding Syracuse who do contribute to the school system are “drying up.” “I’m doing it just when I have the time,” says Mrs. Harry Minnick, Jr., Syracuse, who is circulating a petition in that area. She estimated she had obtained 75 signatures byTuesday, and has found only one person she has talked with agrees with the actions of the school board. Those who have signed her petition, she commented, “They are wholeheartedly against this kind of program.” She added, the signers say they feel “total disgust” with the way the matter has been handled by the school board. The reaction received by Donald E. Mort, North Webster, has been 30 signers for each person who would not sign the petition. He says he didn’t believe there were that many people against the building of the physical education facility, until he began the petition. Mort says 75 per cent of those individuals who do not sign the petition have some kind of connection with the school. The signers. Mort added, feel the school is a good one, but the system is top-heavy at the administrative level. And with the matter of the new building, “They just feel that they haven’t had a say in it.” . X Appointments To be made All of the new appointees to the Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission should be seated on the board by the September meeting. At that time, the commission will be comprised of 10 members. Three new appointees are expected to add to the present seven member board. Two appointments will be made by the Syracuse Town Board, one for the town with the largest population which participates and another appointment for being a town with a population over 1,200. The remaining additional member will be an individual from the county appointed by the Council of Small Towns, comprised of Milford, Syracuse, Claypool. Mentone, Pierceton and Silva- Lake. ... • ■ Rex Yentes of Gulliver* Travel Agent* 109 Picfcwscfc Place m Syracuse recently served as tour coordinator for 130 sales people of the Migro Hybrids Seed Com Company on their annual sales incentive travel program. This year's program which was planned by Gulliver s Travel Agents took the group for five days and four nights to the world-famous Choteau Frontenac Hotel tn Quebec City. Canada Sales incentive travel is just another aspect of Gulliver * personalized travel service. If you are sales manager of your company and want to find out more about Gulliver s complete travel incentive program* to help boost your soles colt Rex at 457-3197 in Syracuse Warsaw customers can use Gulliver s toll-free number Enterprise 3197 ask your operator. GULLIVER'S TRAVEL AGENTS Pickwick Ploce Syracuse "Gulliver * Travel Agents Have The People Who Know About The Places To Go*
Village AH Festival at Nappanee Aug. 11-14
and craftsmen are expected to converge on Nappanee, Indiana, as Historic Amish Acres presents the 15th annual Pletcher Village Art Festival. The four day week end, Thursday through Sunday, will feature everything from a magic show to Punch and Judy each day from 9 till twilight. Amish Acres, an 80 acre Amish farm restoration, is located one mile west of Nappanee on US Highway 6. Participants will compete for over SI,BOO in cash prizes during the colorful, musical, and unusual four day event. Two SSOO Best of Show Awards will be presented by the judges to individual pieces in each of the two-dimensional and threedimensional categories. In addition. a SIOO award will be given for the best overall booth, taking On Jan. 1, 1776, the American troops beseiging Boston were reorganized according to Congressional guidelines and became "Continental in every respect.” Far more people in this country die from overeating than from undereating, say medical experts. SiorsteVA .. SMART CHART by Stansbury (c 11 I I I \ “SAM,THE MARKET CAN’T SUPPORT TERM INSURANCE COSTS- BETTER CONVERT THAT POLICY NOW. 1 * Contact nearest VA office [check your phone bookJ or e local veterene group.
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into account the total quality of the work displayed, background, presentation, costume, salesmanship, and compatibility with the festival mood. Additional popular awards are voted on by the visitors. The two-dimensional category will include entries in oil, acrylic, watercolor, paintings, drawings, etc.; three-dimensional pieces will be selected from all crafts. An exciting week end is planned this August 11-14 when more than 150 midwest artists including, sculpture, metal, leather, jewelry, ceramics, etc. All booths are committed; however, last minute inquiries are still being accepted for a waiting list. To encourage interaction between winners and visitors, large banners will fly above the winners’ booths. Dr. Dean Porter and John Surovek will be judging this year’s art show. Dr. Porter is director of the art gallery at Notre Dame. Dr. Porter received his PhD in art history at the University of SUNY, Binghampton, N. Y. He has held approximately 22 one man shows with his medium being wood cuts and watercolors. Mr. Surovek is the executive director of the Arts Center Inc. in South Bend. He has judged many art shows across the country including the Ball State Art Gallery show, CoCo Beach Art Festival and the DeLand Museum show in Florida. He organized Norman Rockwell’s American show that has been shown across the country. The colorful marketplace is bordered by a placid farm pond, restored buildings, and candy striped tents filled with festival facilities. Amid awnings dotting Amish Acres tree lined orchard, potters will spin their wheels while silversmiths and weavers work to the gentle twang of dulcimers and banjos. Silhouette cutters, portrait artists, wood carvers and doll makers will ply their trade and sell their wares.
ITd (£’ LAST YEAR’S WINNER — Dick Pletcher is shown above as he presents the $560 Best of Show purchase prize to Jim Pearson, 1976 two-dimensional winner. Over 158 artists participate in the Pletcher Village Art Festival each year. This year's festival is slated for August 11-14 at Nappanee.
A crazy quilt of entertainment, attractions and festive foods will fill the farm’s fields and orchard. The common in front of Amish Acres New Restaurant will be dotted with carts, wagons, and small stands serving iced sassafras tea, lemonade, apple cider, funnel cakes, ice cream, carrot dogs and popcorn, plus as many packages of bread, cookies, and pies as the bakery can produce. Roast pig, sausage and sauerkraut, and the seven sweets and sours of the traditional Pennsylvania Dutch table will be in abundance. Music will flow from outdoor stages and decks where other entertainment will also be featured. The four day festival will witness a sports car rally. Punch and Judy Puppet shows, Marionettes, a magician, Bel Cantg Singers, and an amalgam of fiddlers and players of banjos, guitars, and dulcimers, plus square dancers and strolling ladies' fashion shows. In the midst of all the festival activities Amish Acres will be close at hand. The historic restoration provides a living example of the simple farm life of the Old Order Amish family. The Amish are descendants of a sect of Swiss Brethem founded by Jacob Amman in the 17th century. Invited to America by
William Penn to escape religious persecution, the Amish have prospered in their new land. Religious beliefs and customs prevent them from using automobiles, television . sets, electricity, central heat, and plumbing. Today the Amish way of life, their picturesque dress, folk customs, and religious beliefs make them a source at historical and social interest. For a separate admission, festival visitors will have the opportunity to visit this authentic 12 room Amish house and farm. Tour guides describe and demonstrate the pioneer skills of food drying, brick oven baking, meat smoking, apple ] butter cooking, and grain grinding.
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