The Mail-Journal, Volume 26, Number 26, Milford, Kosciusko County, 12 August 1987 — Page 22

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed.. August 12,1987

Milford's Main street

IT’S BEEN termed an annual picnic for residents of the Lakeland Loving Care Center at Milford Every year, in August. Opal Miller, a beautician at the health care facility, opens her home on Pickwick Road at Syracuse to any and all of the residents of the center who can

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travel The outing, which includes a picnic lunch, is her way of saying thanks to these people. This year was no different. Last Wednesday. Mrs. Miller was hostess to 15 residents of the home and six staff members of the facility for the third annual

picnic. The weather was great and the residents enjoyed the afternoon feeding the ducks and fishing in the Wawasee Lake channel behind the Miller home. Mrs.- Miller provides everything for the picnic, allowing the staff and residents of the

home an afternoon away from the facility. Duane Cook, activities director at the home, stated the residents spent about four hours at the Miller home before heading back to Milford. After pinner many of the residents were caught under the shade trees, taking naps, chatting and nibbling on vegetables In one of the photos with this column, Mrs. Miller is shown behind a number of the residents. In the other photo Leonard Nork is shown with fish pole in hand. When asked what he was going to do if he caught a fish, he replied. “I don’t know.” RICH RHODES, dark room man at The Mail-Journal took over the third shift responsibilities for a week so his days were free to serve as a volunteer at the International Special Olympics at Notre Dame University last week. He served as a “hugger,” the person at the end of the line who caught and hugged

the runner as a moment of personal triumph for those eager participants. The MJ published 17.M0 Special Olympic issues of The Observer. Notre Dame’s student paper, each day for seven days for early morning distribution at the event. For each edition, paste-up pages arrived at the Milford plant at 1 a.m., was printed by 3 a.m., and was back on campus for early distribution. ARE YOU registered to vote in the fall election? Milford ClerkTreasurer Monica Bice has material in her office to register voters. AS THE Open Dairy Show was in progress on Saturday morning, Aug. 8, during the Kosciusko County Fair, show superintendent Charles Smoker announced there was a special guest among the spectators — his mother-in-law. Hazel Kline, who was celebrating her 91st birthday that day.

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Mrs. Kline, it will be remembered, resided at one time in Milford where she served as housekeeper for the late Gerald Grove. Also brought to everyone's attention was the fact Hazel was sitting in a “distinguished” section —a five-generation group consisting of her daughter, Mrs. Charles (Mary) Smoker, Warsaw; granddaughter. Mrs. Perry (Linda) Hathaway, Burkett great-granddaughter, Mrs. John (Darlene) Lash, Mentone; and great-great-granddaughter, Laura Lash (a little, curly-haired miss who is already becoming familiar with the ways of showing dairy cattle as she was attending

David Dotson is enthusiastic

I By DEEJAYNES Staff Writer One of the first things you notice about David (“Dave”) Dotson is his enthusiasm for the programs and policies of today’s Navy. A Signalman Chief with a prestigious E7 cheerfully answers the phone in his Warsaw recruiting office — — morning, the best Navy in the world!” Dave first joined the Navy at the age of 17 on October 3, 1974. The terminal illness of his stepfather and the need to help support his family at such a young age led Dave to the enlistment. He received his basic training at Orlando, Fla., and served sea duty as a fireman recruit. “When I joined the Navy,” he said, “the only guarantee I got from the recruiter was that I would be in the Navy.” He served aboard a number of ships during his first enlistment and also spent two and a half years with the military police at Great Lakes Naval Training Station, working closely with the North Chicago Police Department. This duty, according to Dave, was one of the reasons he decided to leave the service at the end of his second tour of duty in October, 1982. “Military police duty took its toll on me,” Dave explained. “I had entered the service at such an early age that I decided I wanted to see what else was out there for me.” During his first enlistment, Dave served eight years and four days and left the Navy as a Signalman First Class and an E6 ranking. When Dave left the Navy, he returned to Kosciusko County with his wife and two sons. Although he was born in West Virginia and raised inVirginia, Dave’s wife had beeiVa resident of the Mentone and Palestine communities since she was a small child. The couple had been married here in 1980 by Rev. Don Poyser of the Burket United Methodist Church and Dave says he had always liked the area. “I really fell in love with Indiana when I first came here,” he said “I wanted a secure area to raise my family and I think Kosciusko County is one of the finest places for that. There are really good people here — down home, down to earth people.” After working in a Mentone manufacturing plant for a very short time, Dave decided to return to the service. “My wife and I reassessed our situation and decided that we missed the security and the benefits we had had while I was in the Navy. Also,” he said, “I had gone from being a professional in my field, in charge of other people, to doing the same thing every day. There was nothing new, nothing changed.” Dave went on to say that he always felt he would return to the

her second county fair). Milford residents will remember the Smoker family as area Holstein dairy farmers before they moved to their home on SR 15, north of Warsaw. An added note: Dan and Deb Beer and family, r 5, Syracuse, received the Premier Breeder Award during this year’s dairy show. REV. KERRY L. Scott, former Milford grade school student and graduate of Warsaw Community High School, was recently selected for the position of senior pastor at Jefferson Brethren Church in Goshen. Rev. Scott has

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Navy. “I left to find out if I had missed anything by enlisting so young,” he said, “but I always had every intention of going back some day. I just didn’t realize it would be that soon.” Dave reenlisted 77 days after his discharge. After re-enlisting, Dave was assigned to the USS LaSalle, a miscellaneous command ship homeported out of Philadelphia. Dave says he is not at liberty to say where the ship was located, but did say that the LaSalle was attached to the Commander of Middle East Forces in the Indian Ocean. An injury to his knee saw Dave’s transfer to the USS Coronado, homebased in Virginia. When the condition of his knee took a turn for the worse, Dave was transferred to duty at COMNAVMILPERSCOM - Navy English for Commander Naval Military Personnel Command. The command is responsible for manning assignments for all Naval personnel and Dave was assigned there for eight months. Just as Dave was due to be discharged last December, he received the news that he had been chosen by the selection committee in Washington, D.C., for the rank of E7 Chief Signalman — a distinct honor for the 30-year-old who was selected to fill one of only 48 such openings. “It really was an honor,” Dave said. “The E7 permanent appointment means you are an expert in your field.” 7 Although the appointment helped influence his decision to stay in the Navy, Dave says he also considered the added incentive of the Navy’s 20-year retirement. "Where else can you retire at 37?” he said; “I decided to stay

served this church as associate pastor since 1982 and co-pastor since 1985. He was minister of music at a church in Wooster, Ohio, prior to accepting a position at the Goshen church. Rev. Scott is the son of Frank and Lois Scott, Warsaw, and the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kizer of Florida. The Scotts and Kizers are all former Milford residents. (Paul Kizer is a former long-time Milford postmaster.) The pastor graduated from Ashland Theological Seminary in Ashland, Ohio, and was ordained in the Brethren Church in 1982 He and his wife, Denise, and son. Kyle, reside in Goshen.

and haven’t regretted my decision.” Dave volunteered for recruitment duty and was given the choice of three duty sites — Pittsburgh, Seattle and Indianapolis. “I asked how far Indianapolis was from Warsaw and here I am! ’ ’ The Warsaw recruiting station worts’out of the Indianapolis office through the office in Ft. Wayne. Dave lives and works full-time in the Warsaw area and will remain here until December of 1989. - His main goal as a Navy Recruiter is to give the public an honest impression of today’s Navy. “Too many people jump to conclusions and really don’t investigate the way it is,” he said When he eventually retires from the service, Dave says he thinks he would like to teach one < of the “boring” subjects to high school students. “I think I’d like to teach economics or government,” he said. “I think I’d be able to relate well to the students and maybe present the subject in away that could get their attention.” Dave has been working toward his degree through the Navy Campus and has taken courses through the City College of Chicago. Dave says recruitment is up in Kosciusko County. “Ever since the movie ’Top Gun’ came out,” he laughed, “everyone wants to be in aviation!” Dave says that as a Navy Recruiter his primary duty is to “present the Navy as an option to < the community and to help recruits and potential recruits in any way 1 can. The Navy has been very good to me and I would like to show other young people the benefits that might be available to them. ”