The Mail-Journal, Volume 28, Number 38, Milford, Kosciusko County, 1 November 1989 — Page 2

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., November 1, 1989

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Brooks Kuhl captures grand prize at Milford's Halloween festivities

By SCOTT DAVIDSON Staff Writer The wide array of clowns, witches, cartoon characters and other assorted ghouls and goblins all seemed to have a good time but in the end it was the Joker who had the last laugh at the annual Milford Halloween party, sponsored by the Milford Lions Club, on Saturday in the Milford School gymnasium Seven-year-old Brooks Kuhl of North Webster walked away with the grand prize of SlO as he was selected by the . judges as the grand prize winner. Kuhl, the son of Vickie Kuhl, took off bn the recent overwhelming popularity of the movie "Batman" as he was

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FIRST PLACE WINNERS —The annual Milford Halloween party Seated in front, from left, are Katie Piew, Heidi Haines. Kuhl, was held on Saturday in the Milford School gvmnasium with approx- Wesley Kern and Sami Rogers. innately 75-85 children competing in nine different categories of In back ar<? Adam Arasden - Am - V ' d > a «”'«»S- Happy the Hobo costume competition. Pictured above are the first place winners from <emc ‘‘ e for the P art ' >• Cod -' Champion. Sue \ illalovos. Steve Whetten. the partv along with Brooks Kuhl, the grand prize winner for the Jr - and Tanva Whe “ en <with Stephanie Whetten in her arms). (Photo bv Scott Davidson) event.

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made up to be the perfect likeness of the Joker, one of the main characters in the , "Batman" saga. The weather outside was anything but‘-typical of late October in Indiana on Saturday but walking into the gymnasium it here as evidenced by the peals of here as evidenced by the peels of laughter from the young children as they sat in their costumes while Happy the Hobo provided the entertainment. Happy, the Fort Wayne Channel 55 clown, served as the emcee for the event while providing plenty of laughs for young and old alike with his antics and his brand of humor. "I was happy with the turnout < about 75-85 kids) and I thought

that Happy did a great job as the emcee," commented Kent Doty, Milford Lions member, who served as chairman for the party. In addition to Kuhl capturing top honors on the day, first, second and third place awards of $5, $3 an<Ksl were awarded to the top costumes in the following categories': Cartoon character, clown, hobo, storybook character, movie character, animal, witch, miscellaneous one and miscellaneous two. Sue Villalovos took first inlhe cartoon character category while Austin Miller was second and Kimberly Bohnstedt was third. In the clown category, Heidi Haines was first while Bonnie Linville captured second. Adam

Amsden was the first place winner in the hobo category with Brent Berkeypile taking second and Alex Plew taking third. In the storybook character category. Sami Rogers was first while Susan Stokes took second. Wesley Kern was the winner in the movie character category with Scott Armey finishing second and Abby Bultemeier taking third place. / Amy Villalovos was the first place winner iry the animal category while Mandie Sawyer took second and Melanie Archer captured third. In the witches category, Katie Plew was the winner with Jennifer Gunder taking second place and Tiffany Villalovos capturing third. In the miscellaneous one

category of judging, Cody Champion was the winner while Travis Blackburn took second and Brent Doty captured third place. Stephanie Whetten was the first place winner in the miscellaneous two category with Gina Bray taking second and Barry Hartman capturing third place. The judges for the event were John Lehman, Mary Brooks and Margaret Ostendorf. Members of the Milford American Legion Auxiliary assisted with the event while each of the children received a candy bar for dressing in a costume for the party. Milford youth arrested for forgery/theft Richard A. Powell. 18. Milford, was arrested yesterday, Tuesday, t>y Kosciusko County Sheriffs Department for forgery, a class C felony, and theft, a class D felony. He is being held in the county jail. Sometime after August 7 of this year. Milford Deputy Marshal Aaron Rovenstine found a purse belonging to Judy Heckaman, 112 E. Fourth St.. Milford. Missing were personal items plus checks. Powell cashed one check on October 11 at a bank in Warsaw and attempted to cash another one in Milford. The teller at the Milford bank became suspicious and held the-,check. She then notified the bank manager and they got the license number of the car that Powell was driving. Marshal Dave Hobbs then checked the license number ;yid found it to be a rental from Warsaw which had been rented by the youth. He netted S3O.

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TALKING WITH FELLOW HOBOS — Happy the Hobo, holding the microphone, talks with a couple of smaller hobos during the Milford Halloween party on Saturday at Milford School. Happy entertained the crowd of about 125 kids and adults with a variety of humorous antics throughout the program. (Photo by Scott Davidson)

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YOUNGEST WINNERS — The first category for costume judging at the Syracuse PTO Halloween Carnival, held on Oct. 25 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., was from zero to three years of age. The winners pictured, from left to right; are Wesley Kern, first place; Lance Kolb, second place; and Taylor Patton, third place. —

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COSTUME WINNERS — The Syracuse PTO Halloween Carnival was held on Wednesday evening. Oct. 25,'in the Syracuse School. Prizes for the costume contest were donated by area merchants. Judging w as done by Jeanne Gardiner, John Caskey and Mike Tallon. Shown are some of the winners in the contest. From left to right, they are Philip Kuhn, second place, 11 and older; Lisa Hewitt, third place, 11 and older; Paul Dodds, second place, seven to ten years of age; Joe Long, first place. 11 and older; and Shauna Rector, five months old. (Photos by Mary Jane Lorton)

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SEVEN TO TEN — Shown are two winners of the costume contest in the seven to ten years of age category at the Syracuse PTO Halloween Carnival. Pictured, from left to right, are Brooks Kuhl, first place; and David Long, third place.

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