The Mail-Journal, Volume 28, Number 19, Milford, Kosciusko County, 21 June 1989 — Page 5
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The next time you read a release from educators in the state of Indiana on how little Indiana is spending to educate each pupil, view it with suspicion. When you read these figures, they — in all likelihood — do not include the following: Facilities Acquisition & Capital Outlay, Food Service, Textbooks, Community Services & Adult Education, NonProgrammed, and Debt Service. In most cases the school corporation’s expense to educate your child is 19 to 66 percent more than the amount you are being told. Concord School Corporation in Elkhart County led (all those in this area) with expenditures of 66 percent more than average cost per pupil. Official school reports listed an expenditure of $2,852 for each of its 3,168 students. The actual expenditure was $4,737 for each student. Manchester School Corp, had the least difference between reported and actual school expenditures. The corporation reported an expenditure of $2,657 for each of its 1,715 students. The total reported was $3,167 —a difference of only $490. Os the 24 school corporations compared, the average difference was 30 percent above the official ADA (average daily attendance) report. The chart of the schools in this area (below) shows the average cost of each child in the public school system. This includes the ADA (average daily attendance) cost per child and the percentage difference between the figures you read and the actual expenditures. SCHOOL 1986-87 ADA TOTAL COST % DIFF ELKHART COUNTY Fairfield $2,866 $3,307 22% Baugo 3,071 4,095 33% Concord 2,852 4,737 66% Middlebury 2,616 3,723 42% Wa Nee 2,917 3,864 32% Elkhart 3,716 4,812 29% Goshen 2,911 3,513 21% FULTON Rochester 2,596 3,145 21% Caston 2,947 3,545 20% KOSCIUSKO Wawasee 2,738 3,714 36% Warsaw 3,046 4,323 42% Tippecanoe Valley 2,730 3,466 27% Whitko 2,673 3,235 21% MARSHALL Culver 3,348 4,226 26% Argos 3,063 3,973 30% Bremen 2,679 3,490 30% Plymouth 3,103 4,421 42% Triton 3,173 3,945 24% NOBLE Central 2,953 3,892 32% East 2,663 3,508 32% West 2,839 3,692 30% WABASH Manchester 2,657 3,167 19% Wabash MSD 3,133 3,892 24% Wabash 2,858 3,442 20% The average daily attendance costs include support services, which includes staff, general administration, business and other. Example: Wawasee — Staff, Administration, Business total $2,738 for each child. Add to this the following: Facilities and Debt $716; Food Services $178; Textbooks $36; Non-Program $23, and Community Services $23. Total $3,714. —o— VOTES AGAINST SCHOOL PRAYER: Fifth District Congressman Jim Jontz was one of the 135 congressman voting against a bill that would in essence permit volunteer prayer in the schoolrooms of the United States. The House passed an amendment to the Education Reauthorization Act by a vote of 269 to 135. This act would take away any federal funding to a school that did not permit volunteer prayers in the schools. Jontz has the southern portion of Kosciusko County. —o— HATS OFF TO MAYOR JEFF PLANK. Plank is taking a page from other cities' plan which requires the sorting of garbage. The plan requires that each user separate into categories of cans, glass, and paper. These items so arrangedcan be recycled. —o— NEED FUNDS — If the oldest commercial structure in the county is to be saved, it will take an influx of private funds. The Pound Store in Oswego, built in the 18<0s, is the oldest commercial building in the county. The store, which is badly in need of maintenance, was converted into a museum by the Kosciusko County Historical Society. The building needs new gutters, needs to be painted, and needs some reconstruction on the front side. The historical society is hoping that donations will cover the cost estimated at SB,OOO. —o—
Julia Ouwenga on dean's list
Julia A. Ouwenga, 730 Bethel Rd. #5, Bourbonnais, 111. 60914, is one of 340 students who were named to the dean’s list at Olivet Nazarene University during the recently completed spring semester. To qualify for inclusion on the dean’s list, each student must have been enrolled as a full-time student and must have attained a semester grade point average of 3.35 or higher on a 4.00 grading scale. Olivet Nazarene University is a liberal arts university of about 1,875 students located in Kankakee, 111. Majors are offered in 23 departments. Mrs. Ouwenga is majoring in English education at the university where she is a second semester junior. She has been on the dean’s 1 list in the fall of 1988 and spring of ( 1989 \ U.S. economy t The U.S. economy grew at a imoderate 4.3 percent annual rate yn the first three months of the r«ear. the government said in a Beport which economists and the siush administration saw as a pegn the country’s record infacetime expansion is continu-
She is a 1986 graduate of Wawasee High School and is the daughter of Dick and Meredith McDaniel, r 5 box 136, Syracuse.
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a •e I ♦ I 1 ’ > •> ' •- '■ TOWERS GOING UP — Northern Indiana Public Service Company workers have been busy putting in place the new H construction, towers that will provide electric power to the Topeka area. These towers, approximately 80 feet in height, are of a new design for NIPSCO and of a special steel construction to be maintenance free. The towers will carry a 345 KV electric circuit system between Leesburg and Topeka. The electric lines will be strung in the near future as the service is to be available by next spring. Workers began erection of the towers in Leesburg and by this week have reached the area northeast of Milford. This photo was taken between Beer Road and CR 175E. (Photo by Deb Patterson»
Accept Summers and Company's bid for tax anticipation warrant
I By DEB PATTERSON Staff Writer Summers and Company, Fort Wayne, was awarded the bid for the tax anticipation warrant Tuesday afternoon in a special meeting of the Wawasee Community School Corporation Board of Trustees. Bids were received from seven financial institutions on $1,600,000 in tax anticipation warrants. » The corporation is seeking the money for the general and transportation funds in advance of the tax money to be received. The money will be placed in the two funds for normal operations within the school corporation. Summers and Company submitted a bid of 6.6 percent with no premium required. Other bidders were: Bank One, Indianapolis, 6.74 percent with a $26 premium on the $1,300,000 for the general fund and sl3 premium for the $300,000 for the transportation fund; Merchants National Bank and Trust, Indianapolis, 6.78 percent with a S2B premium for the general fund; Indiana National Bank, Indianapolis, 6.875 percent with a $37 premium for both funds; First National Bank of Warsaw, Warsaw, 10.25 percent with a $25 premium for both funds; and State Bank of Syracuse and Trustcorp, Goshen, both submitted bids of 11 percent each with no premium. The bid of Indiana National Bank was disregarded upon the advise of school attorney Robert Reed, as the bank did not include a noncollusion affidavit as required. Personnel Matters Board members Curt Jordan, Bob Troup and Phil Payne approved the employment of three new teachers during the meeting.
John Blunk will teach physical education and aquatics at Wawasee High School, as well as be the assistant boys’ and girls’ swim coach. Dana Geist will be teaching second grade at Milford School, and J. Francis Denton will teach science at North Webster Middle School.
hJMTW i ■ >1 REPLOGLE SPEAKS TO KIWANIS CLL’B — John Replogle, Milford, presented a program to the Wawasee Kiwanis Club Saturday morning. June 17. at Gropps. Syracuse. The program featured a Vince Lombardi film entitled "Second Effort." Lombardi was coach of the Green Bay Packers, who won five world championships in eights years — three of them successive wins. In the film. Coach Lombardi emphasized the importance of giving a "second effort" to the success of a football team, success in selling, as well as success in any activity calling for any degree of effort. Pictured are John Replogle. left, receiving a Certificate of Appreciation from Larry Martindale, president of Wawasee Kiwanis Club.
The resignation of Kara Wenger Yaussy as language arts teacher at Milford was approved. Following the meeting the board members met in executive session to interview three prospective applicants for the new middle school principal position.
"CRUZIN AROUND CUSE"
(Continued from page 4) HOWARD "RED” Long, of Ace Pest Control. advises that several drivers were recently seen being ticketed on the County Line Road in an area past the Maxwelton Golf Course. Howard uses that road several times a day. and warns the speed limit is 45 mph., IMAGINE THE shock James Fry must have experienced to happen upon the body of a young man who had shot himself in the back yard of one of Todd Realty’s listed homes. Apparently, the 23-year-old Warsaw man had committed suicide after work the night before Jim arrived to take pictures of the home. . AN EIGHT-day bear-hunting trip into Ontario with friends was not a complete loss for
Plan approved for renumbering streets in town of Syracuse
By MARK HUFFMAN The Syracuse Town Board formally approved a plan to renumber streets within town at its regular monthly meeting last night. However, an accompanying plan to rename several streets was tabled until a later date after several residents voiced concern over the changes. Board member Carl Myrick urged other members to proceed with the plan to renumber streets, a measure taking place throughout the county to assure quicker emergency service response. The action is being taken in compliance with the enhanced 911 emergency system. Jerry Rumple of United Telephone and Ron Weaver, a Syracuse surveyor hired by the board to complete a name and numbering project that had been discussed several years earlier, presented the board with their plan, which was met with some dissension. Rumple, a member of the Syracuse Chamber of Commerce. became involved in the project after the chamber expressed its wishes to be a part of the 911 system. While Weaver noted, “These are recommendations. they are not cut in steel,” some audience members showed animosity toward the plan. The plan suggests that First through Sixth streets take the names of various trees, with South Main Street becoming Magnolia Street and Hiawatha Drive being changed to Miami Street because of a similar named street near Lake Wawasee. Syracuse resident Betty Dust expressed her disarray, noting. “I’ve lived at the corner of West North Street and South Main all my life and I don't want to die on Magnolia Street. ’’ She also noted that she and her son owned approximately one block of property on North Main Street, which would also be renamed. Ron Sharp of Syracuse stated, "From a historical standpoint I'd hate to see Main Street drop off at the bridge and become Magnolia.” Another resident of Main Street went one step further and presented a petition to the board, signed by other residents of the street who wanted to keep their current addresses. However. Syracuse Police
ST. ANDREW’S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH The Corner Os State Road 13 - County Line Road Syracuse, Indiana 46567 Phone: 457-4111 Richard E. Bunnell, Pastor EARLY SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE To Be Held EVERY THURSDAY EVENING Beginning JUNE Bth Thru SEPTEMBER 7th 7:00 To 7:45 P.M. CHILD CARE PROVIDED This service of worship Ts especially planned for those who will not be able to be in church on Sunday morning. This service of worship will include: Hymn Singing, Prayer, Scripture, Special Music, and a brief Sermon. If you are a summer resident, Sunday golfer, vacationer, boater, laker, swimmer and skier, attend Boat-In, or just like to sleep in on Sunday, this is an alternative opportunity for you to share in a worship experience. This is a relaxed, informal service, and we invite you to come in casual attire. Light refreshments will be served after each service. WE LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU! EVERYONE WELCOME!
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Henry Smith, assistant superintendent for instruction for the Wawasee Community School Corporation — he bagged no bear, but returned with a healthy beard. Accompanying Henry were his son, Kevin (who, by the way, used a bow to hunt): Pat Hare; Pat Money; Kent Hare; and several other friends from surrounding towns. The men said the best part of the trip was the beautiful scenery, especially when they saw the Northern Lights, which was breathtaking. NAVY SEAMAN Jeff Conder, son of Jim and Donna Conder of Syracuse, is currently serving aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt. The 1988 Wawasee High School graduate is expected to arrive back in the States at the end of this month. His mailing address is: Jeff Conder, USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN 71, FPO, New York, N.Y. 09599-2871.
Chief Robert Ziller offered, "I think we should all understand one thing — this is necessary for the enhanced 911 system. I realize that many have lived here 40 and 50 years, but things change. I think we’re looking toward the future and we have to put the past behind us.” The burden of changing individual addresses was also discussed, with one resident claiming that the new numbering would cause a monetary hardship
Sailing camps begin at YMCA Camp Crosley
Youth ages 11-15 are invited to participate in any of five oneweek sessions (June 25 through July 23) of YMCA Camp Crosley’s popular sailing camp. Campers will receive three hours of sailing experience daily on the Crosley fleet of 15 boats. Instruction on safety, nautical terms, boat types, boat parts and other aspects of sailing will be provided to beginning and intermediate sailors. Windsurfing instruction is also available. The camp will also be offering a special arts camp July 2-8 to youth ages 10-15. Participants in this camp will have four hours of class time daily, with studio time available each evening. Campers will enjoy classes in drawing, painting, printmaking, clay, sculpture and weaving. The arts camp is open to any child who has an interest in art; participants do
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for those on fixed incomes. Ziller countered, “I’ve changed addresses and it didn’t really cost me anything.” The residents agreed that renumbering may be necessary but asked that the renaming of streets be withheld. Weaver suggested that citizens concerned with the naming of streets band together to form a consensus on alternative names. The board hopes to review such names at its next regular meeting, July 18.
not need to be high-ability students of art. In addition to the arts classes, campers will have access to regular camp activities including swimming, fishing, hiking, boating, etc. Camp Crosley is located on Little Tippecanoe Lake near North Webster. For more information, registration forms or brochures, contact the YMCA, 500 S. Mulberry, Muncie, Ind. 47305, or call 317-288-4448. Tallest building CHICAGO - The latest claimant for the world’s tallest building would be only three blocks away from the current title-holder, the Sears Tower, under a proposal announced by a Chicago developer. The 125-story 1,914 feet skyscraper, must be approved by city planning.
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