The Mail-Journal, Volume 26, Number 44, Milford, Kosciusko County, 16 December 1987 — Page 2
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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., December 16,1987
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PAST ROTARY PRESIDENTS — Special recognition was given past presidents of the Syracuse-Wawasee Rotary Club at its 40th anniversary meeting held last Thursday evening. From the front row. left to right, are Robert Troutman. William
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Last Thursday evening. Dec. 10. 61 members and wives im eluding 13 past presidents of the Syracuse-Mawasee Rotary Club celebrated their 40th anniversary as a club in the local community Jim Evans, president, was in charge and introduced the current officers. He then introduced guests Dr and Mrs. Wendell
North Webster receives quote on new sewer line
(Continued from page 1) and less than one year service to town, $15,660: and non-academy trained deputy marshals, $14,175for a 90-day probationary period then can be raised tto $14,904. Reserve officers will receive a minimum of $4.80 per hour The street crossing guard, if other than a town employee, will be paid $3 for each time of duty Radio dispatchers, full time, will receive a starting salary of $4.60 per hour, after 90 probationary days, the pay will be raised to $5.04. Part-time dispatchers will receive $4.32 per hour. The sewage superintendent will have a salary of $19,391 per year plus an additional $1,021 per year for street maintenance work. The maintenance supervisor of the sewage department will receive $12,987 per week and will also be considered street commissioner and receive an additional $8,235 per year. The assistant sewage superintendent, if a licensed operator, will receive $13,370, plus $3,343 per year for street maintenance work. Hourly employees of the street and sewage department will be paid a minimum of $4 per hour. Employees in the clerktreasurer’s office will receive a minimum of $4 per hour. Paid holidays for hourly employees will be New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Paid holidays for full time dispatchers will be paid after 90 days of service. Wages 0(3, the hourly and salaried employees will be reviewed annually between the department head and town board. The board also adopted an ordinance establishing the salary of Rosalene Mort, sewage clerk and deputy clerk-treasurer, at $4 90 per hour, and Charles Hively, street and sewage department employee, at $4.68 per hour
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Shank t- Dr Shank was the second treasurer of the local club , and Mary Bushong, wife of Ernest Bushong, former US postmaster in Syracuse and a long-time member of the club Meet 'Dr. Stosh' During the program, everyone was reminded of safety practices which were familiar to all. but
Other Business Board members, upon Acting Marshal Craig's recommendation, waived the remainder of probation time for Linda Leslie, a dispatcher. Mrs. Leslie will become a full time dispatcher, effective January 1 The resignation of Lorraine
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I By GLEN LONG Staff Writer The Syracuse Town Board received a report from board member Carl Myrick at its December 15 meeting of progess which has been made by the committee that has been in contact with bass fishing clubs to reduce congested traffic at the Henry Ward Park boat ramp. This group has also held meetings with state department of natural resources officials and Senator John Augsburger and has written other congressmen with ideas for placement of a boat ramp at the south end of Lake Wawasee. Myrick said congestion at the ramp has been improved in recent months and ah idling speed regulation has been in force before 7 a m. on Syracuse Lake The board voted to join the Indiana Public Employee Deferred Compensation Plan. All town
Cable, Paul Schmucker. Jay Peffley, Bill Cutter and Lewis Immel. In the back row, l-r®are Jerry Ganshorn, James Plummer, Fr. David Hyndman, Al Tehan, Robert Westfall, current president James Evans, and James E. Caskey.
the presentation by “Dr. Stosh." purportedly well known Polish proctologist, was given in the most humorous way possible within the bounds of good taste Even so. his points were wellmade and appreciated by those present. “Dr Stosh" is the wellknown Mark Potuck who is employed by the Elkhart County
Mays, police dispatcher, was accepted The resignation was effective November 27 Amber Lautzenheiser. was hired as a full-time dispatcher and Sylvia Simmons, was hired as a part-time dispatcher. The location of the time capsule, buried at the close of the town’s, sesquicentennial celebra-
employees will thus, effective in January, 1988, have the option of saving a.portion of their earnings and deferring taxes on them until the money is actually received The plan, which is purely volun tary and is administered by the state auditor's office, allows saving as little as $lO per pay period or as much as 25 percent of each paycheck. Ordinance number 87-10 was adopted to have an all-way stop at the intersection of Palm Drive, Harkless Road and the entrance to Oakwood Park. Also adopted was an ordinance for a $40,000 additional appropriation which had been advertised. Town Marshal Bob Ziller and Myrick reported that the police garage is complete except for a little landscaping. Ziller reported that he has signed a radio maintenance contract with J & K Communications of Columbia City to replace Motorola Co. effective the first of January. The board approved the planned purchase of two portable CB radios for the Civil Defense group at a total cost under SBSO The need for a new cleaning
Health Department. After the program, president Evans was presented with the “40 Year" insignia which the local club can now display on its banner The club will also be recognized in “The Rotarian,’’ the maga dne of world wide circulation t isheri by Rotary Internationa
tiori. was entered as part of the board's minutes A letter indicating the location was written by the Tippecanoe Township Advisory Board A special meeting was called for Wednesday. Dec. 30, at 7 p.m., to take care of any year-end business and for the swearing in of new town board members;
company for the town hall was discussed. Board members agreed to study the situation to come up with recommendations on a cleaning schedule, James Hughes, president, publicly thanked town board members Joe Morganthaler and Steve Butt and Jenny Lewis, clerk-treasurer, for their service to the town of Syracuse as the’ board met at the town hall on Dec. 15. The three will leave office after a special year-end meeting on Dec 29 at which Carol F. Koble and Kenneth Johnson will be sworn in as town trustees and Mark L Tatman as the new clerk treasurer. Johnson and Tatman attended the meeting and were introduced by Hughes. Christmas Beginnings Since no date is given in the Bible as the time of Christ's birth. Christmas as we know it did not exist in the early days of Christianity Around the end of December the old Roman festival of Saturnalia was celebrated in gay revelry The days had been growing shorter, but now they began to be longer It was a time qf rejoicing because of spring's certain approach The church decided! 0 transform the pagan festival rather than try to abolish it. The ancient practices were incorporated into Christianity and given Christian significance Roman Christians were persecuted and even put to death for observing Christes Masse (Mass of Christ). The emperor Diocletian, in the year 303 ordered the burning of churches where Christmas was being celebrated. Later. Emperor Constantine allowed the festivals to be celebrated. The celebration of Christmas soon became an established custom.
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Guatemalan 24 emotional hours
To hold friendship as an end and not a means To hold that true friendship exists not on account of the service performed by one to another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is qiven.” — Lions Code of Ethics Editor JERI AND BI D SEELY Trying to put into words all that happened to us during a 24-hour period in Guatemala is next to impossible The friendships we made during that short time will ~be with us the rest of our lives. The unbelievable part of it all is we may never see any of these people again and we remember but a few of their names, yet we shall never forget their faces or their friendship. One 24-hour period was<a very emotional one for all of us We laughed. We cried. It had happy times. It tugged at our hearts. With some we shared a time of fellowship and developed a special friendship. With others, we shared in their plight and left hoping they will have a Feliz Navidao (Merry Christmas) because of our visit and that their lives may be a little better because of what the Lions of Indiana have done for them. We have related in previous articles the celebrations the people held in the various towns as the Lions delivered the vehicles. We have noted the expressions of both young and old as they received their eyeglasses and their world became clearer. Yes, we had had problems. They had been expected. They were takencare of one at a time. Now, our first two projects had been completed. Both had been successful. As the adventures came to a close and many in our group were getting ready for three days of fun in the country of Guatemala, we knew we had more work to do. We looked forward to it with a new anticipation. A Strong Bond There is a strong bond between members of the Lions Clubs from the various parts of the world. AU one has to do is attend an International Convention and this becomes obvious. Past District Governors have what might be called a special bond. They have each given a year of their lives to help the world’s largest service organization. Compared to the general membership, their number is few. Guatemala has one District Governor per year. Indiana has eight. The number adds up slowly with Indiana having less than 150 men who have served in that office during the last 20 years. At the thank you party held in Cuilapa on Wednesday evening, PDG Jose Zamora Corletto and his wife, Alecia, invited the PDGs from Indiana, their wives and the current Governor to their house for dinner on Thursday evening. We all accepted. Upon arriving at the home, located on a hill above Guatemala City, PDG Jim and Fran Cameron, PDG Jim and Norma Ross, PDG Bill and Vivian Blankenship, PDG Bud and Jeri Seely, PDG Jerry Martin and District Governor Glen and Doris Yoder, found a breathtak ing view of the city at night. The U. S. Embassy officials, who had failed to recognize the VOSH mission, sent a man (Jim) and a woman (Julie) out to spend a few minutes with us. We would meet them later in Antigua and would be delighted that they remembered us from our earlier visit. It proved to be a delightful and relaxing evening as the Lions from Indiana and the Lions from Guatemala engaged in friendly conversation. The Corlettos have three coffee trees in their yard. The trees yield one pound of coffee per harvest. Alecia honored us by serving the coffee which had grown on their trees. When we partad, they promised to meet us in Denver next June as we will all be there campaigning for the election of PDG Cameron to the post of director on the international board. During the first few hours of our emotional 24 hours, we had made more wonderful friendships with the Lions of Guatemala City. Dusty Roads And Little Hands Early the next morning, we found ourselves in the garage of a Guatemalan doctor, a PDG who is a friend of the Camerons, with the Camerons, Rosses, and Yoders. The garage was being us-
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A WHEELCHAIR IS DELIVERED — One of the things we did during our emotional 24 hours was to deliver a wheelchair to an Indian man who lives about 10 miles up in the mountains. He is shown in the photo on the left as we arrived at his humble home. On the right. Bud stands beside him as he posed for this photo after he had been given the chair and been told how to operate it. (Photos by Jeri Seely)
ed to store the boxes and bags of clothing which had been taken to the country on the vehicles which had been delivered earlier. We, would be taking some of it with us. Missionaries from the Nazarene Church would get the rest since a lot of the clothing came from Syracuse and the Nazarene Church there had donated the trailer fo’r the boat which was taken to Guatemala. How do you get boxes and bags of children’s clothing and shoes and peanut butter into the trunks of two small cars? You don't. That is, you don't unless you take the items out of the boxes and bags and then fill the trunks. It’s surprising how much more you can take when you do this. Shoes, we found, travel very well when stuffed all over the back seat, even when there are two people riding there, too. Soon we were on our way. Our first stop was at a hardware store in Chimaltenango for a guide. This allowed time for a purchase or two and then we were on our way up a dusty mountain road. Would our small vehicles be able to make it all the way up or not? It was the people of .Chimaltenango who had taken the Camerons to meet an Indian family with special problems during the Camerons’ visit to Guatemala in 1986 Yes, our vehicles did make it up the 10-miles of dirt road to the farmer’s house. The trip was a slow one but we arrived at long last. We found a man sitting on a board on the ground. He spoke no English but the smile on his face conveyed his feelings in a matter that pulled at our heart strings. An older couple was there. His mother and father 9 His wife was there. Their young children were there. The neighbors were there. All greeted us with warm, friendly smiles. The man on the board had fallen out of an avocado tree a few years ago. He can not walk. Each morning his wife had to pull his board outside where he tears up rags. She uses the strips of cloth and makes items to sell, thus providing at least in part for the needs of the family. In the evening, she had to pull him back inside their humble home. The process would then be repeated in like manner the next day, the day after and the day after... One year ago the people of the area had a request for the Camerons. Can you get him a wheelchair? Cameron took the plea to the Lions of Indiana and the Greene Township Club members of the South Bend area donated a wheelchair to this man they had never seen. All they knew was he was a man in need and they, too, wanted to help. They took the chair to a Hook’s Drug Store to have a part repaired and when the people at Hook’s returned it, the chair had been fitted with new tires. Cameron promised the Greene Township Lions photos. This was Bud’s job. The entire event was recorded for the club. Tears of joy flowed down the faces of the family members as the man was lifted from the board on the ground to his new wheelchair. Our eyes, too, were wet. He had been given the gift of mobility. His wife would no longer have to drag him out of the house in the morning and back in at night. He could now do many things for himself. And, to make things even better, the local people told us that because of the
wheelchair they could now take him to the hospital where he could seek additional help. How does one describe this event. It’s impossible. None of us had done anything to help this man, yet we felt a special bond at his new joy . . . his new mobility. His life had changed. So had ours. Merry Christmas We left the happy family. We left our guide. We headed for the town of Chichicastenango and the orphanage where we would tea ve the clothing and the peanut butter. We took the clothing into the front of the building, out of the view of the children. It would, we were told, be saved. It would make wonderful Christmas gifts for the youngsters. We were given a tour of the facilities and the children sang Christmas songs for us as a thank you. Bud tape recorded one of the songs and then played it back as the delighted youngsters gathered around him. The youngsters knew only a few limited words in English. Doris Yoder, a Goshen school teacher, spent a few minutes teaching them to count in English and they loved saying “OK.” Jim Cameron noted it was, “A joyous time.” While Jim Ross said, “It's quite impressive to see the kids and know they are all well fed and happy.” Glen Yoder described the visit with one word, “Fantastic!” His wife, Doris, added “Overwhelming!” then noted they were “healthy, happy and clean.” As we headed for the door to leave, two or three children grabbed each of our hands, adopting their USA friends. It was hard to let go. It was hard to say goodbye. Somehow, it was a little easier, however, knowing that because of the Lions of Indiana these youngsters would have a very Merry Christmas and, so would we. Our last stop of the day was back at the fire station in Chichicastenango where Jim Ross signed over the papers of a truck which he had donated to the firemen of the town. Here, too, we left many happy friends. Friends who would remember not the Camerons, the Rosses, the Yoders or the Seelys but the Lions of Indiana and what they had done for the town and its fire department. We had received many thank you’s during the week and many God bless you’s as the people showed their appreciation to us for the little that had been done by the Lions of Indiana for a people who need so much. Next year, •he Camerons will return again to Guatemala Jim has already US ed the money left from this year’s trip to purchase another EMS vehicle and a fire truck. Will the Seelys join the next mission? Maybe! Maybe not. One thing is certain, we will return at a point in the future. There is so much to do in this country, we only made a little dent and we received so much more out of the trip than we gave. Failed to appear for own trial Charles Browley failed to appear for his own trial Monday, Dec. 14, in Kosciusko County Superior Court. Browley was charged with theft —a class D felony, on Nov. 17. He allegedly took two pick-up loads of aluminum from Kinro Company on West Brooklyn Street in Syracuse. His last known address was r 8 Warsaw. A warrant for the arrest of the 33-year-old Kosciusko County man is presently being handled.
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CLOTHING, TOO - Bud is shown with a sack of clothing at the orphanage in Chichicastenango. The clothing will be used for Christmas gifts for the youngsters there. Three accidents in Milford An accident, involving two vehicles, occurred on Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 8, at 4:01 p.m. at the intersection of SR 15 and Fourth Street in Milford. Patricia D. Bartow, r 4 box 100A, Syracuse, driver of a 1987 Ford, stated she was stopped on the west side of SR 15 and when the way looked clear to her, she proceeded across SR 15 and collided with a car driven by Maria G. Pena, 503 Smith Street, Ligonier. Pena, who was driving a 1979 Mercury, was northbound on SR 15 and was unable to describe what took place. Steve Knispel of the Kosciusko County Sheriff Department was the investigating officer. On Thursday evening, Dec. 10, a two-vehicle accident occurred at 7:50 p.m. at the intersection of SR 15 and CR 1150 N. Larry D. Weaver, 218 E. Boston Street, Syracuse, driver of a 1980 Dodge truck, was northbound on SR 15 and was slowing to make a righthand turn onto CR 1150 N. Weaver was struck from behind by a 1986 Chevrolet, driven by Tracy L. Mealer, 308 N. Nappanee Street, Nappanee. Weaver stated he had turned on his turn indicator in plenty of time and was going very slowly. Mealer said she saw he was going to turn, but her brakes failed and her car struck the Weaver truck. No skid marks were found. A passenger in the Weaver truck, Carolyn Weaver, complained of pain to her neck. She requested the EMS not be called and said she would see a doctor the following morning if her neck still hurt. The investigating officer was Aaron Rovenstine of the Milford Police Department. A 1984 Mercury, registered to Denny Wuthrich/Dawn Ritcher, PO Box 454, Milford, was struck by another vehicle as it was parked at 200 South Main Street, just north of First Street in Milford. The accident occurred at 9:56 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 11. Brian L. Clouse, Northside Apt. 706, Nappanee, driver of a 1977 Chevrolet, was northbound on Main Street when he crossed the centerline and hit the parked vehicle. Clouse was arrested for driving while intoxicated. Tony Ciriello of the Milford Police Department investigated the accident.