The Mail-Journal, Volume 28, Number 42, Milford, Kosciusko County, 29 November 1989 — Page 5

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(Continued from page 4) D.A.R..E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) for fifth grade students; Crime Watch for adults and senior citizens; child molestation program for students in kindergarten through fourth grade; gun and safety program for businesses and citizens; bicycle safety and registration for all citizens; fingerprinting for kindergarten students; and the Officer Friendly program for pre-school children. THE MONTHLY report for the Syracuse Fire Department has been submitted to the Syracuse Town Council members. The report covers calls made by the fire department and emergency medical service from October 17 through November 21. During this time period there were 13 fire calls, nine in the township and four in the town limits. The fire chief made eight courtesy calls with the first assistant chief making one call. There were eight personal injury accidents during the month and one call where Syracuse personnel assisted North Webster. For the EMS there were 56 ambulance calls and eight transportation calls, with 27 calls being in the town limit and 29 in the township. The total number of runs by the fire department and EMS was 77. A SENIOR citizen called The Mail-Journal office wanting to express her appreciation to the Lakeland Eagles Aerie 3760, on Sycamore Street. That organization offered a Thanksgiving dinner free, or for a contribution, to senior citizens or

WHAT PERCENT OF YOUR SCHOOL GENERAL FUND MONEY GOES TO EDUCATE THE CHILDREN? According to school records planned budget expenditures in the general fund around the state vary from 63 to 46 percent to educate the children (K-12). The regular instruction account in the general fund deals directly with teaching of elementary and secondary pupils. This includes teachers’ pay, supplies and equipment. Listed below are the enrollment in 25 schools in the state and the percent of the general fund budget spent on teaching. In the last column is the percentage of increase between 1988-89 and 1987-88. School Enrollment %Os Budget % Increase Huntington 6,504 63 11 Goshen 4,093 59 16 Lake Central 6,386 58 25 DeKalb 3,751 58 9 WAWASEE 3,317 58 14 West Noble 2,114 57 13 TRITON 2,006 57 7 Tippecanoe Co. 7,099 56 11 East Noble 3,600 56 12 Middlebury 2,519 56 14 WHITKO 2,110 56 8 Rochester 1,719 56 16 LaPorte 6,210 55 6 WARSAW 5,878 55 13 MSD Wabash 2,174 55 7 TIPPE VALLEY 2,005 55 11 WANEE 2,859 54 14 Plymouth 2,873 54 14 Mishawaka 5,157 54 8 N Lawrence 5,481 54 9 - Concord 3,423 53 9 Manchester 1,859 51 10 Lafayette 7,134 51 6 Wabash 1,836 50 2 Marion 6,667 46 1 Above information was taken from School Statistical Report published by the Indiana Farm Bureau. The farm bureau has for years published school budgets and trends in education. The Farm Bureau is recognized as an authority in compiling and publishing state school records. Not taken into consideration in the above figures is total amount budgeted for transportation, debt service, and capital improvements. Payment for huge building programs underway at Warsaw and Wawasee will swell their budgets for debt service. How much this will reduce the general fund budgets is up for speculation. However, it stands to reason that there could be cuts in the number of teachers hired — if there is a budget pinch. —o— Z ' -K •„- X ' NEED A LONG RANGE PLAN - The Syracuse-Wawasee area needs some long range planning. So far the only group doing any planning is the park board. Plans must be made for public roads and public services for the area. Some thinking should go toward away to get to the industrial park on the southwest side of town. The only access is via Main to Huntington Street and vice versa. This route creates a number of hazardous traffic situations. The addition of any new industry in this site will compound an already unsurmountable problem. Consideration should be given to constructing a by-pass starting at the Elkhart-Kosciusko County Line on North Huntington Street. The road should go west of the present sewage plant, across Turkey Creek, along the west boundary of the industrial park and continue south across the railroad, then connecting with the Syracuse-Milford Road. All industrial development should then be confined to the west side of the by-pass to where it joins Allen Street extended. Residential development should be on the west side of this by-pass to the county line. All land east of the by-pass should be considered park area (joined on the south by the present middle school athletic field). The present middle school athletic field should be purchased by the park board. The field has all the facilities needed for a good recreation area. The football field could be converted into a soccer field. For future expansion this park could be extended across Turkey Creek. Any joint venture with the school system could mean disaster for Syracuse residents. Why would Tippecanoe, Van Buren, Jefferson, Turkey Creek Township taxpayers be willing to spend money to create a park for Syracuse? Don’t let a smooth-talking salesman sell you on how good it would be to have our park and the school corporation go together in developing the Kern site, which is outside Syracuse city limits. Why should the citizens of this community be expected to go along with a “pie in the sky” scheme, when they already have the pie? With the more than $20,000,000 middle school the Wawasee Community School Corp, is going to tax the shirt off your back. Why give the school authorities the pants too? DUST & SON DECORATORS ;• I PAINTING 1 "Since 1947" INSURED I 1 I INTERIOR • EXTERIOR I pnpp ( 1 I residential commercial! rßrt tall mA TES 457-2313 Quality Workmanship SYRACUSE <

anyone who did not have a place to go or people to be with. The woman lives far from her children, and commented that the Eagles were “the best cooks in town.” Members picked people up and took them home, as necessary, and also boxed meals and took them to shut-ins. Members of the organization deserve congratulations for having spent the day cooking for those who had no other way of getting a special turkey dinner. This is a yearly offering to the community that Eagles have been doing for about five years. Jerry Fesler said there were about 150 people fed at the lodge. THE RUMOR that Pizza Hut delivers is not true. Some people have apparently seen a van parked at the business location and thought they were delivering. Noble Romans Pizza, however, has been delivering to businesses and factories only from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. for about a month and a half. Their future goal is to have full-time night and day delivery to homes, etc., within a certain radius and with minimum order, at some point in the future, possibly by summer. TO SQUELCH another rumor — while it might be true that a Fort Wayne grocery bought out Big Wheel in Warsaw, there is nothing to the rumor that they have done so with Syracuse Big Wheel. Manager Mark Hubbs said that Big Wheel here is privately owned and is doing very well.

Three persons booked recently The following persons were booked in the Kosciusko County Jail recently: Paul Eugene Conley, 19, r 2 box 129, North Webster, was charged with battery and held on $250 bond. Joseph Jay Morris, 22, P.O. Box 38, North Webster, was charged with conversion and held on $250 bond. Elmer Vernon Foster, 26, r 1 box 331A, North Webster, was sentenced to six years in the Indiana Department of Corrections for dealing for cocaine.

I ' ik* a ——— w JR ANNOUNCING SILENT AUCTION — Thelma Sheets, Syracuse, at the age of 86 years old, still finds time to help at Miller’s Merry Manor on a regular basis. She is shown putting the final touches on an afghan which will be in a silent auction at Miller’s, Pickwick Drive, in Syracuse starting December 4 at 2:30 p.m. and ending December 5 at 3:30 p.m. Sheets stated the afghan took her about three weeks off and on in the evenings to complete. The auction is open to the public. ( Photo by Dale Tobias)

Driver uninjured A Goshen driver was not injured wherfee lost control of his vehicle on Hass Hill Road (CR 850E), and struck a tree. The accident occurred at 11:15 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 25; south of CR 900 N and south of the Tri-County Check-In Station. According to Indiana State Police': Ralph Elmore, 23. 430 Dewey, Goshen, was traveling north on the gravel portion of Hass Hill Road in his 1988 Ford Escort when he came over a hill to fast. He lost control of the car, due to the speed, causing it to go off the east side of the road into a tree Damage was estimated up to $2,500 to the car.

McCormick fined $1,400 for building violation

The Syracuse Board of Zoning Appeals has entered into a settlement with Gordon McCormick regarding an alleged violation of the Syracuse Zoning Ordinance. The violation occurred during the remodeling of McCormick’s property when a deck and fence were constructed on the lot line when an issued permit was for a setback of five feet. The board’s attorney, Michael

Farmers forum to be held in Silver Lake

Farmers with concerns about profession or about the state of Indiana in general are encouraged to attend a farmer’s forum to be held December 1 in Silver Lake. The forum, which will be hosted by state representatives Kent Adams (R-Bremen) and David Wolkins (R-Winona Lake) will act as a sounding board for persons involved in farming and other agriculture related fields. State representatives Phil Warner (R-Goshen) and Raymond Musselman (R-Peru), both farmers, will also be on hand to answer questions and hear concerns. “Farming is extremely important to the state and it is imperative that we allow those involved in the profession to express their feelings so we may relay their thoughts to the General Assembly,” Adams said. The forum will be held in the Lantern Case in Silver Lake Friday, Dec. 1, from 9-10:30 a.m. The case is located on South Jefferson Street (SR 15). “With the beginning of the 1990 session just around the corner,” Wolkins said, “this forum will allow us to take the concerns that

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Reed of Warsaw, and McCormick’s attorney, Stephen R. Snyder of Syracuse, discussed a provision of the ordinance which allowed the placement of a deck not to exceed six inches above grade level as it applied to this case. After discussion it was concluded that if McCormick filled underneath the deck it would be brought into compliance and no violation would exist.

are expressed to us and apply them directly to the laws we pass throughout the short 30-day session.”

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RECYCLING BINS — Victoria Perry, left, community relations coordinator for Recycling Works, Inc., Elkhart, and John Kroh, president of Thornburg Drugs, are shown in front of the recycling bins that are located on the south side of Thornburg Drugs in Syracuse. Everyone is asked to take all recyclable items and put them in the bins. Items that will be accepted are newspapers (no magazines), aluminum cans, aluminum foil, and glass bottles. Glass should be rinsed, lids and metal rings should be removed, should not be broken, and labels may remain on. For aluminum cans, rinse and place in separate bag or box, and crushingxans will save space. Not accepted with be plate glass because of thelead factor, and colored paper or cardboard.

Commissioners discuss recycling

(By KATE WOLFORD Staff Writer The commissioners also recently attended a state meeting on landfills and solid waste. Frantz and the commissioners compared notes on garbage and what to do with it. Don Frantz, a representative of Arrow Head Country Resource Conservation and Development, Inc., spoke to the Kosciusko County Commissioners at a November 21 meeting. RC and D is concerned with the environment and solid waste issues and recently had its annual meeting. Among the issues discussed at the commissioners meeting was mandatory recycling —a measure that seem to leave Commissioner Charles Lynch cold. He said when recycling is mandated, “then you talk about a free country.” Frantz responded that the country was not free enough to throw trash, “anywhere you choose.” He added that the notion of recycling could get strong support using the right people and having the right publicity. Commissioner Maurice Beer offered the opinion that “compulsory recycling” was something that would likely have to be done. Garbage is everyone's problem, said Frantz. “I’m convinced we can get more done than we do.” Different uses for newspaper, including animal bedding and recycling newspaper pellets for

Rather than force removal of the deck and require placement of fill and then replacement of the deck and fence, a settlement agreement was arrived at whereby McCormick paid a fine in the amount of SIOO for each day the violation continued without application to the board of zoning appeals for a variance. The violation occurred from December 13, 1988, through December 27, 1988, resulting in a total fine of $1,400. Because of technicalities in the adoption of the Kosciusko County Zoning Ordinance by the Syracuse Town Board as the Syracuse Zoning Ordinance, had the fine been paid to the board of zoning appeals, it would have ultimately been deposited in the county general fund. Rather than have this occur, the board of zoning appeals directed McCormick to make

fuel, were discussed, as well as the importance of recycling education, beginning in the elementary grades. RC and D is involved with recycling education. Frantz also said the Soil and Water Conservation District has provided a great

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payment of his fine to the Syracuse Park Board for use in the construction of the bandstand in Syracuse Lakeside Park. In addition to the fine. McCormick was required to pay to the Kosciusko County General Fund an amount equal to the out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the board of zoning appeals in enforcement of the provisions of the

Failure to yield

No one was injured in a twovehicle accident Tuesday, Nov. 28, at 9:45 a.m., at SR 13 and Maple Grove Street in Syracuse. Failure to yield the right of way" was the contributing circumstance in the accident. Glen R. Eubank, 54, Syracuse, was stopped at the intersection of

According to Perry, paper items recycled are made into cereal boxes or insulation; glass into more glass bottles; aluminum cans back to cans; and tin cans are de-tined and used for various things. Recycling saves energy: the energy required to produce one new aluminum can will recycle 20; natural resources: it takes 17 trees to produce one ton of newspaper; landfill space: to insure future available, everyone must reduce waste stream now. Be an educated consumer. Minimize packaging waste; buy recycled products, look for the symbol; ask for paper grocery bags; buy beverages in recyclable containers. According to Kroh, who is in charge of the recycling program locally, all proceeds will be used for community projects and the Fourth of July fireworks. (Photo by Linda Musselman)

deal of help and is key to a program. A recycling program was held in the county this summer, with a series of “R Days” throughout the area as a focal point. Sponsored by the Kosciusko County Lakes Preservation and Develop-

Syracuse Zoning Ordinance. The settlement was entered into with the intent of avoiding the costs of litigation and the risks involved for both parties. The board felt the imposition of the fine made a statement to property owners and contractors that the Syracuse Zoning Ordinance would be enforced and that persistent violations would result in a fine.

Maple Grove and SR 13 in his 1981 Chevrolet Caprice. He told Syracuse Police he looked both ways before entering SR 13 and was watching a vehicle that was across SR 13 on the west side of the road. He did not see a 1990 Ford van driven by Jeffery L. Plumer, 35, Syracuse, and pulled into its path.

ment Council and Recycling Committee, they proved very successful, several facts were unearthed during the program, including the need for recycling education. A high level of interest in recycling among residents was also affirmed.

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