The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 38, Milford, Kosciusko County, 17 September 1986 — Page 13
• II „ |~ HOME DAMAGED — The home of William Roberson, Anderson, on Sechrist Lake sustained roof damage during the heavy wind and rain storm Thursday, Sept. 11. The strong tornado-like winds tore the metal canopy off the front of this home and carried it approximately 159 feet behind the home where it landed on the hood of a Ford Explore truck owned by Jim and Marilyn Brown and also tore down electrical w ires. Brown estimated the damage to his truck at S6OO. (Photo by Deb Patterson)
Storm hits county
The southern part of the Lakeland Community was hardest hit last Thursday, Sept. 11, by a storm which traveled through the area. Tree limbs downed by the high winds caused the most damage in this area. Trees were reported down in the Backwater Lake area of North Webster and several homes were damaged from fallen trees. Other areas receiving damage was Sechrist Lake and t Barbee Lake Marjorie McDaniel, John Lane, Lake Estates Mobile Home Park. Barbee Lake, was at home when the storm hit that area and commented she heard a whistle just before her mobile home was damaged by a fallen tree limb. Mrs. McDaniel and Bob Peoples, also a resident of the mobile home park, both agree a tornado went through the area, however, the report was unconfirmed. Mrs McDaniel’s home received damage to a metal canopy over her patio and the roof was damaged from the large fallen limb. She reported a beam in the kitchen was broken and hanging down. Peoples stated the high winds shoved a tree limb down through his roof, leaving a hole approximately three inches wide. In another area of the park, limbs fell onto roofs causing the seems
From the police log —
Subject on bridge shooting at trains
The following information was obtained from the log of the Syracuse Police and Fire Department: . 3:22 p.m. — Lock out reported at the high school 3:34 p m. — Property damage accident reported at the County Line Road 5:04 p.m. — Personal injury accident at Vega Field, vehicle/bike 6:42 p.m. — Subject advised his water heater is leaking SEPTEMBER 12 12:01a.m. — Subject reported a car in the ditch at Wawasee Airport 3:38 p.m — Property damage accident reported at Main and Huntington 5:10 p.m. — Man requested an accident report be mailed to him 6:31 p.m — Subject requested information reference bad checks 9:17 p.m. — Officer advised of a hit/skip accident in front of Auers* SEPTEMBER 13 . 5:53 a m. — Subject reported a hit/skip 9:17 a m. — B & 0 advised there is a subject on the railroad bridge shooting at the trains 4:55 p.m. — Officer advised of a possible intoxicated driver northbound out of Syracuse 6:33 p.m. — Subject called to report the theft at Lake Wawasee 7:31 p.m. — Subject requested assistance in locating a subject 8:36 p m. — Subject advised of a juvenile party SEPTEMBER 14 12:13 am. — Indianapolis hospital called to locate a subject on Dewart Lake 1:25 a m. — Subject on station for an officer reference a hit/skip accident 11:17 a m. — Party advised there are two men taking railroad ties 11:39 a m. — Party advised of a theft 3.12 p.m. — Complaint of extra loud music by the old post office building 4:25 p.m. — Subject advised reference vandalism to a vehicle, found plate and wiper 6:24 p.m. — Report of cruelty to animals SEPTEMBER 15 7:53 am. — Subject at the police department for an officer 8 32 a m. — Subject requested to speak to the police chief 9:05 am. — Woman reported she found a dog 12:42 p m. — Subject reported a property damage' accident at Thornburg’s Drug Store 3:36 p.m. — Subject at the
to break and tops were blown off of a couple pontoons, causing heavy damage to some of the boats. Peoples commented the rain was coming down so hard you could not see across the channel. . On the northeast side of Little Barbee a large tree was uprooted, but did not cause any damage. A resident near Barbee Marina lost a partially constructed upper floor addition when the winds toppled the wood work. Throughout the Barbee Lake area evidence of heavy winds was noticed as lawns and roads were littered with debris from fallen limbs. At Sechrist Lake a home owned by William Roberson, Anderson, suffered damage when a metal canopy was torn off and blown across the house approximately 150 feet onto the top of a Ford Explorer truck owned by Jim and Marilyn Brown. The canopy also took down electrical lines. Brown stated he was in South Bend at the time the storm hit, and that damage to his truck is estimated at S6OO. A pontoon boat in that area was also damaged when the winds took off the canopy tossing it into Sechrist Lake. Storm-Squirrel Power outage was widespread on Thursday in that area according to William Koch, NIPSCO
police department for an officer 6:44 p.m. — Subject on station reference a possible intoxicated driver, gave plate and vehicle description 7:01 p.m. — Subject advised his son is a possible runaway 8.19 p.m. — subject advised of a subject walking on SR 13, older black subject, disoriented « 10:50 p.m. — A business advised of a subject breaking a window and leaving
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operating superintendent, Warsaw. He stated downed trees caused short outages as well as a number of outages which lasted a fair amount of time that afternoon. Just when residents thought the worst was over, a squirrel jumped across the bushings of an Oil Circuit Breaker at the North Webster Substation on Friday morning causing the whole substation to short out. The substation for the North Webster area is located on Crystal Flash Road. Koch stated the whole town was effected from the outage which lasted approximately from 8:05 to 9:18 a.m. He commented sometimes when a squirrel gets into the substations there isn’t much damage, but in this instance the squirrel blew the bushings on the OCB which operated at 12,500 volts. The power outage also caused the United Telephone central office, in North Webster to operate on \ portable generator thus causing phone problems. Until the power was restored, residents were having problems calling in and out of the North Webster exchange. A spokeswoman for United Telephone stated the portable generator does not handle .the large volume of calls as the normal equipment does.
SEPTEMBER 16 8:15 a.m. — reported a dog in her yard 4:14 p.m. — Subject requested to speak to an officer 4:19 p.m. —.Officer enroute to a residence reference possible theft \ 4:57 p.m. — Subject on station reference lost '-dog, subject believes dog was taken 5:41 p.m. — Subject advised found a Siamese cat
It will not be known until next summer when the boat traffic begins if the problems between residents near The Other Side. Lake Wawasee, and residents of the area have been solved. Agreement was reached last Wednesday, Sept. 10, between the management of the Wawasee tavern. Alcoholic Beverage Commission and neighbors of the establishment, that a security guard to work on weekends would be hired and a privacy fence installed. The problems came to light at the August Board of Zoning Appeals meeting when a number of neighbors of the Other Side protested the rezoning of a strip of land, 15 feet by 765 feet, from residential to commercial. The management requested the rezoning so patrons could legally use the channel for access to the business. The request was denied and the area plan commission office is currently working with the, county attorney on filing a qpurt injunction to prohibit patrons from using the channel property as access to the bar. At the BZA meeting some of the problems stemming from the excess summer crowd was aired, which the BZA did not have control over and remonstrators were advised to appear before the Alcoholic Beverage Board’s next meeting. Approximately a dozen neighbors of the Other Side were present at the August Alcoholic Beverage Commission meeting to present a list of 134 names of nearby residents upset with activities coming from the tavern. A hearing was scheduled at that time for the commission’s September 10 meeting to address the complaints. Stephanie Szynal, one of the nearby residents, commented by phone, area residents had no problem with the new owners and the residents intentions were not to put the bar out of business but to get some answers to problems which arose between 10 p.m. and 3 a m. when entertainment was provided on weekends at The Other Side. “We wanted to reestablish peace and quite,’’ she remarked. The residents were asking for three items to be resolved, the strip of land purchased by the Other Side controlled so that it not be used for commercial purposes; a privacy fence; and a security guard to control the outside activities when entertainment is provided. Mrs. Szynal stated the agreement for a privacy fence and a security guard was reached without much coercion. “I believe most of the neighbors are happy with the outcome, but there are some who thought their
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license should have been pulled. ” She remarked the meeting was tapped and officials stated the complaints would be kept in The Other Side’s file for the future. Frank Zirille, state representative, stated the commission could hot revoke the establishment’s license due to it not being renewal time. Complaints heard included boat traffic, which gains access to the business from a channel that connects to a strip of land leased to the business; difficulty on Friday. Saturday and Sunday evenings, when the business is packed and parties carry over into the parking lot and last until 3:30 a m. Incidents were related in which abusive language was heard coming from bar patrons, customers running through the streets and woods, some urinating on front yards, and parking on other people’s property and drinking. It was also mentioned it was believed minors were being served alcohol as youngsters were checking different false identifications for one they could use. Gary Cappelli, Fort Wayne, attorney for The Other Side management, said the discussion by the residents was an indictment of the excise pole and since the excise police were not represented at the meeting to verify the complaints, he assumed the complaints were embellished. Cappelli pointed out the ownership of the business agreed they could put up a privacy fence, and also could hire a security guard for weekends. The guard would permit no one in the parking lots who are causing a disturbance. Discussion was made concerning the enforcement of the 200 limit capacity of the business. Cappelli said that Tom Jasper, manager, made certain that limit was enforced so as not to violate the fire code. A dispute also occurred at the meeting concerning the level of music. Jasper stated he and a county officer stood across the street and could barely hear the sound, which was turned up full blast. Nearby residents disagreed with that statement. Zirille suggested the establishment keep the noise down, doors closed and turning people away instead of having them wait outside until someone else leaves to open up a spot inside. Bill Beemer, board member, com-
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mented to the management that the issuance of a license becomes questionable if there is a problem and if there is a continuing problem when it comes up for renewal in May it will have an affect on the commission’s decision on issuing a permit. Other Permits Renewals for package store
BRIDGE WITH A PAST — This bridge; on Big Boulder Golf Course in Milford, has been restored with a new floor and a paint job. It also has a historic plaque which tells of its origin. Golfers at the bridge are. from the left, Marilyn Bray, Jane Haab and Kay Dimick. all of Milford, and Bettv Scott of Syracuse.
Milford bridge has link to Nappanee
Attention has been focused recently on the bridge spanning Ball Gobbler Lake at Big Boulder Golf Course in Milford. Area residents may be interested to learn that the 94-foot structure, plainly visible across the first fairway east of SR 15 north of Milford, was originally a part ot the rafters in the gymnasium of the old Nappanee Community Building once located where the parking lot is south of the First National Bank in Nappanee The erection of the building took place in 1932 and 1933 and it, was demolished in 1972. That same year. Stan Custer of Milford was building Big Boulder and learnedjhat he could salvage some of the iron sections. Being in the excavating business, Custer had the
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renewal permits were approved for Classic Development Corp., SR 13, North Webster, doing business as Webster House, for liquor, beer and wine retailers and Sunday sales. Barbee Hotel was granted a renewal for liquor, beer and wine resort hotel permit and Sunday sales permit. The renewal was
necessary equipment to cut the rafters into three pieces, transport them to a site and weld them together again to form the foot bridge used by Big Boulder golfers. John Weiss, current owner of Big Boulder, determined last spring that after 13 years of heavygolf cart and foot traffic the bridge was in great need of restoration. Weiss and MarcEvans of Milford replaced the entire floor of the bridge in a threeweek period of time and the bridge was painted by John Young and Associates of Goshen. To complete the restoration, a historic plaque, designed by-
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tabled from August while Bob Strong, food sanitarian for the health department, checked the establishment to make certain problems detected by the health department were corrected. Strong commented the business had made amazing differences and he had no problems in issuing a renewal.
Dave Butler of Syracuse, has been set in place beside the bridge to call attention to its Nappanee origin. It serves as a small link to the past for area golfers, particularly for The Papers Incorporated ad representive Dale Tobias of Nappanee. who recently commented to the Weisses that he had spent many hours as a youth playing basketball under those same rafters. John and Elaine Weiss invite interested Nappanee and Milford residents to visit Big Boulder to examine this interesting multifunctional structure and the new historic marker.
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