The Mail-Journal, Volume 22, Number 50, Milford, Kosciusko County, 11 December 1985 — Page 20
THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., December 11,1985
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DON’T FORGET the bake sale being planned for Saturday, Dec. 21, at Campbell’s. The sale will begin at B*3o a.m. and last until sold out. Area residents are asked to furnish baked goods. They should be delivered to the store between 8 and 8:30. Monies learned from the sale being spearheaded by two area clubs under the direction of Sally Wise and Linda Replogle will go towards the sesquicentennial celebration next summer. The Milford Jaycees are sponsoring their Toys for Tots program again this year. They are urging everyone to participate by donating a good, clean used toy or a new one for a boy or girl in the community this Christmas. Area residents will find drop boxes at Campbell’s, Doll’s Decorating, Walter Drugs and the community building. Persons with large items may call 658-9843 or 658-4197. Deadline for donations is December 20. COACH DALE Brannock, of the Wawasee Lady Warriors, has a dough act to follow with his team last year winning 23 out of 25 games, and being state
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runners-up. But he’s in there trying. One ace in the hole might be Kelly Brooks, a six-foot junior who plays center. If Kelly proves out as expected, 1 we can say it all runs in the family. Her grandfather, the late Clayton CCy”) Hollar of Milford, was center on the wellremembered 1925 Milford Trojan team that went to the “Sweet Sixteen’’ at Indianapolis. That was big time in those days. The team won all of its regular season games that yea r. - Milford townsman Roy Schultz remembers that game against Vincennes, which was the first match in that year’s state tourney. Vincennes won handily. “We couldn’t get our fast break through those fellows from Vincennes,” Schultz remembers today. Other members of that team were Roy’s brother, Harry, Eldon Miller and Royal Sechler. An aside: Referee of the game between Milford and Vincennes was Birch Bayh, Sr. WINNERS DURING the Christmas Open House at Smith’s
Flower and Gift Shop, Nov. 22-24, were Annie Bender, a gift certificate; and Kay Andrews and Margie Brooks each received a poinsettia. , BECKY DOLL didn’t know she had so many friends. But it seems they all showed up at her uptown Milford decorating center Saturday night for a big surprise party marking her 50th (that’s right—soth!) birthday. Lights were out, the room was packed with well wishers, and when she and hubby Pete dropped off en route to a dinner out, Becky was totally surprised by the screams of “Happy Birthday” when the lights came on. Faithful employee Julie Eldridge and niece Sue Losee planned the affair and Pete was in on it. Most invitations were hand-delivered, while the entire community knew of the party, it remained a secret to Becky. Fifty black balloons hugged the ceiling, black cake and candles were in evidence and dead flowers served as centerpieces while a corsage of dead flowers was pinned on the guest of honor. It was mourning all around. They came from Syracuse, North Webster, Kokomo, Nappanee, Fort Wayne, Goshen and of course, Milford, to help join in the celebration. When Pete and Becky finally decided to go out to dinner, every place they called was closed. Ten p.m. Saturday found Becky in her
own kitchen on Old Highway 15 fixing a late dinner for herself - and Pete. DON ARNOLD is learning all about the insurance business at Little & Clark on SR 15 in Milford. He was working late Saturday afternoon when a customer, who is also an area waitress, showed up, announced the bank was closed, and that she wanted to renew her Insurance. OK so far. Then she came up with sllO in quarters and other small denomination coins to pay her premium. Arnold waited until Monday morning, then turned the sack full of money over to the bank for counting! THE WEATHER man is mixed up again. Fog and rain in December? JERRY AUER, former Milford resident, continues his “winning ways” by placing first overall in the men’s 5-K at the Floyd Recreation Center-sponsored “Run for Mickey” (Mouse that is) race last week in Montgomery, Ala., where he resides with his family while stationed there in the Air Force. This was his second first place win in five weeks and he is most proud of beating his own earlier record of 16:22 by running this race in 16:05. SIGN AT JW’s: “Good job Warriors — No. 2.’’ THE LIVING Christmas Tree with a 40-voice choir and minimusical by the youth choir will be presented at 7 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Christian Church of Milford. Tickets are free but are required. Persons wanting to see this Christmas spectacular should contact the church office. The church is located at the corner of Fourth and Henry Streets. WEVU-TV channel 16 of Naples, Fla., on Friday evening, Nov. 29, aired a special during the 6 p.m. evening news, weather and sports on water skiing as a family activity. The Don Bucher family of Cindonway Shores and winter residents of Bonita Springs, Fla., was featured on a one minute-20 second special. During the special, sportscaster Chris Barnes interviewed Don while sons Shane, age 12, and Brandon, age 8, successfully skied the competition slalom course on camera. The Buchers are training in Florida during the winter months
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for the 1986 skiing season. They will be returning to Cindonway Shores in the spring to prepare to host, along with the Water Ski, Inc., Ski Team, a number of tournaments and clinics next summer. The highlight of the summer season will be hosting the 1986 Indiana State Championships in late July. MAPLE LEAF Farms, the world’s leading producer of duckling, is announcing the- formation of a holding company. The holding company will be Maple Leaf Farms, Inc. The growth of the Maple Leaf organization, which includes its subsidiary, C and D. Foods and its affiliate, Serenade Foods, has precipitated the need to unify its operation under one corporate image. This will enable Maple Leaf Farms to present to its employees, suppliers and customers one identity. All of the locations throughout the corporation will be identified by the Maple Leaf logo. The effective date of this change was December 1. —o— OBSERVATION: IT always happens to the other guy... Grounded airplanes! An accident! Lost luggage! Winds and rain! That is it always happens to the other guy until this year’s vacation. Bud and I loved Hawaii the last time we were there and decided to return to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. However, things didn’t workout the way we had planned. We were scheduled to fly from South Bend to Denver, Colo., Tuesday morning. In Denver we would change planes and fly to Honolulu. We would land in Hawaii mid-afternoon Tuesday. Bud’s nephew, Jim Shaner, who now resides in Honolulu, planned to meet us at the airport. Shortly after leaving South Bend we found ourselves in Peoria, 111., where we were told we would have a 45-minute delay because of the weather in Denver. No big deal. We would still have plenty of time to catch our plane. In the air once again, the captain said we were going in a holding pattern. They still had a problem in Denver. A holding pattern can soon become boaring when you want to catch another plane. We were soon told we were running low on fuel and would have
to go to Casper, Wyo., to refuel and return to our holding pattern. Soon there were 9 planes on the ground in Casper. We were later told that United Airlines along had over 190 planes that could not land in Denver on that Tuesday afternoon. After 10 hours on the ground in cold, lonely, Casper, Wyo., we were told they had decided to fly our plane to San Francisco where connections could be made. Ok we would be late but we were at least going somewhere. Wrong. CRASH! A bus hit the wing of the plane. It was not going to fly us anywhere. At 1 a.m. Indiana time we finally arrived in San Francisco. We were given a room at a hotel near the airport and a number to call to confirm flight time to Hawaii. The next day we arrived in Honolulu. Our luggage was still on the plane in Casper, Wyo. We had been told it would be flown to Hawaii later that same day. The luggage did not catch up with us until late Friday night. As we traveled about the islands we found many people who had had problems on their flights and with their luggage. One man said, “Some vacations work, some don’t. This one didn’t.” Another said his vacation started to go downhill in Chicago and just never started up the hill.” We had been told to expect some rain during November and Wednesday afternoon and Thursday’s showers did not bother us. They were warm and the blue ski soon returned. We spent Thanksgiving with Jim and his soon to be bride and enjoyed the turkey dinner they fixed for us. We had planned a vacation of island hopping so were up early Friday a m. t catch a plane for Kauai, the garden isle. It’s Hawaii’s oldest island and we remembered the fern grotto from our last visit. Because it is also the home of the Grand Canyon of the Pacific, at Waimea, and we had not been there we decided to drive up to the canyon. It was beautiful even though the clouds hung low and made it impossible to see very far. Rainbows were everywhere. We returned to our hotel for dinner and the traditional torch lighting ceremony. Here time stands still as a drum beat and the torches are lit while hotel guests view the ancient Hawaiian pageantry. It made us forget, at least for awhile that our luggage still hadn’t caught up with us. A Polynesian show after dinner added to the delight of the evening. Returning to our room after the show we found our luggage had at long last been delivered. Saturday morning we were on our way to the airport once again for a weekend on Maui, the friendly isle. We found the people friendly, the rains and winds were not. Bud laughed as the wind played tricks with my umbrella. Our Saturday evening luau was called off because of the weather so we took advantage of the dinner-show at the hotel. Sunday the rain slowed but the winds did not. We decided to take a drive up the slopes of Haleakala. On the way we stopped at the Hawaii Tropical Plantation. We were taken on a tour of the plantation via a Tropical Express train. It was interesting to see acres of sugar cane, bananas, guava, mango, avocado, pineapple, papaya, macadamia nuts,
passion fruit, ginger and coffee growing. The sun tried to shine as we drove up the volcano. However, near the top clouds hung low and the view was impossible to see. We can tell you we were there but we can not tell you what it looks like to view Maui from Haleakala. We had booked a dinner cruise that evening and were concerned because of the wind and the rain which had been so prominent during the day. We left our cameras behind, boarded the bus and were delighted to find the sun was out when we arrived in Lahaina and our ride along the coast was beautiful. We even managed to see a sunset, our first because of the heavy clouds on earlier evenings. Monday we were off to Hawaii, the Big Island. We would be staying in Kona and had planned to spend the day on the beach. Wrong! They told us there was no beach. Our hotel sat high on the cliffs and the surf was beautiful. Tuesday morning on our way to the airport and our return trip to Indiana we would find not one, but two beaches a short distance from the hotel. Since we had been told there was no beach we decided to drive up to the active volcanos, not knowing if we would have time to make it or not before the sun went
EWWI BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS —Jan Day, chairman of Kosciusko County Big Brothers/Big Sisters was the guest speaker at the Tuesday luncheon meeting of the Syracuse-Wawasee Rotary Club. Jan Day spoke to the Rotarians about the program which was started in the Kosciusko Qounty area in May 1985 and is a satellite of the Fort Wayne group. Shown in the photo are Robert Westfall, program chairman; Jan Day; and Robert Troutman,, president of the Syracuse-Wawasee Rotary Club. (Photo by Col. Joe Gray)
Big Brothers/Big Sisters program for Rotary Club
Robert Westfall, program chairman for the Tuesday meeting of the SyracuseWawasee Rotary, introduced Jan Day as guest speaker. Day is the director of the Kosciusko County Big Brothers/Big Sisters program. This program was introduced to the Kosciusko County area in May 1985 and is,'at present, a satellite of the Fort Wayne group. It is estimated there are 2,500 children in the county from single parent families. The object of the organization is to math these children up with volunteers who will spend three to five hours weekly with the child. The commitment is made for a one-year period of time. At present the group has matched nine children with a Big Brother or a Big Sister and there are 30 more on the waiting list with more coming. There is an immediate need for Big Brothers for three boys. Day said the relationship is not that of a social worker nor a surrogate parent, nor is it someone appointed by the courts. It is, rattier, someone who can just be a friend. A Big Brother or Sister works with the child in three primary ways, scholastic improvement, better relationship with peers, and to reduce necessary contact with law enforcement. She stated the process to match up the* adult with the child is a rather long process. First she contacts the child and gets to know him, to find out likes and dislikes and to find out his needs. The goal is to provide those who do not have a father or a mother with something special.
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down. We stopped to tour a macadamia nut factory and at various points along the way, including the 1950 lava flow. We never made it to the national park but were not that concerned since we had been there before. We enjoyed our ride and it was dry inside the car. The next morning we drove along the coast to the Lapakahi State Historical Park and followed the trail into the past and the lifestyle of the Hawaiians of years ago. The coast drive was breathtaking and all too soon it was time to head for the airport and home. It was 3:40 in Hawaii. It was 8:40 p.m. in Indiana. In a little over 12 hours we would be back in South Bend. That is, we thought we would be back in South Bend by then. Our flight to Chicago was beautiful. No problems. Then, we switched planes for the final trip and believe it or not the plane would not start! We had to get off that plane and wait again for another plane. Like the man said, some vacations work, some don’t. This one didn’t. We don’t blame Hawaii though and someday we plan to start over ... we know from our first visit there that Hawaii is a great state. Maybe the next time, however, the sun will shine JRS
The process for screening the volunteer is also detailed. After the application, the volunteer must undergo a police check, must provide four references, must be interviewed for case history, and be interviewed at home with their spouse or roommate. Upon completion of this process she makes a recommendation to a screening board who makes the final decision. This lengthy process is needed to protect the child and the volunteer and assure a good match between them. Day stated it is the goal of Big Brothers/Big Sisters to make 25 matches in the county by this coming spring. After the match is made, further work is conducted. During the first three months, constant contact is maintained with the parent, the child and the volunteer. At this time goals are set for the child and contact is maintained for the remainder of the commitment. This arrangement may be terminated at any time during the year if it is deemed necessary. The group plans to have a Bowl for Kids in late February, 1986 for fund raising purposes. IT receives provisional support from the United Way of Kosciusko County. Day’s primary purpose in talking to the Syracuse-Wawasee Rotary is to encourage men and women from this part of the county to volunteer their time to help be a friend for some deserving girl or boy between the ages of seven to 17. If anyone is interested, contact her at the Big Brothers/Big Sisters Office, P.O. Box 651, Warsaw.